Long days, pleasant nights, and welcome to Kingslingers, a Doof Media podcast series journeying

through Stephen King's Dark Tower.

I am your host, guide, and constant reader Scott Daly, and I am joined, as always,

by my co-host and constant reader in training, Matt Freeman.

How's it going, Matt?

You made me wait a whole week to start reading this next book, Scott.

I haven't...

It's been seven days since I was able to read any

Stephen King. I'm Joneson. I'm starting to lose it. I'm so sorry you had to wait a whole week

between Dark Tower books. You know, I just, like I said, the last book ended perfectly. No complaints,

but I just, you know, just need to know what happens next.

That's all.

Yeah.

So this week on the show, we are taking one final look at book three of the wastelands before heading on down to Topeka and the road to the tower.

This is something we do at the end of every single one of the books that we cover.

We take some time to look back on the book as a whole, discuss its overall themes.

And in our case, we're going to talk a little bit about a poem.

And Matt, this week, we're actually joined by a very special guest on this episode.

We'll be joined very shortly on the episode by Scott Wompler managing editor of birth,

movie's death, and a constant reader in his own right to talk about the Dark Tower,

talk about his history with it, talk about this book specifically, and the series as a whole,

and talk a little bit about Stephen King.

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