The Long days and pleasant nights.

Hello and welcome to King Slingers, a Doof Media podcast, experiencing, exploring, and analyzing Stephen King's Dark Tower series.

My name is Scott Daly, and I am a constant

reader and King officiantado. And I'm Matt Freeman, and I've only read two Stephen King books

in my life. Which ones, Matt? Carrie and needful things. That's two very unique sets of

books there, Matt. I doubt anyone in this entire world has read

those two and only those two books. Well, it's the kind of unique perspective that you get here on

Doof Media. That is right. For the next year or so, Matt and I will be diving into the work of Kings

the Dark Tower, me for the third or fourth time. And Matt, as he said, for the very

first one, each and every week we'll go over a collection of chapters as we make our way through

the books. We'll only be discussing things through those chapters read. So the podcast will be safe

for people like Matt, new readers, and old readers like me alike. It's for both of us, it's for all of us.

Yeah, and as we make our way through, we'll analyze, interpret, and discuss the writing style and storyline,

and I might even make some predictions. And if you've been following our Doof Media podcast for any

amount of time, you know that that is a table turned moment for us. I'm used to being

the one of making predictions. I get to lead Matt through this thing. We've never done that before.

It's very exciting. Just a general note for those of you that have read the books before, we will be

going in publishing order, which means win through the keyhole, the eighth book in the series, but

chronologically different, will be covered last. So I had to make a decision there. It technically

slots in the middle of two of the other books, but we're going to cover it last. We're going to

go through the story. It was written and published and then talk about that book at the very end.

Whatever all that means. So we're shooting for anywhere between 20,000 and 40,000 words covered per week,

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