Long days, pleasant nights, and welcome to Kingslingers, a doof media podcast journeying through Stephen King's Dark Tower series and beyond. I'm your host, Constant Reader Scott Daly, and yeah, I think we should just do it right here. And I'm your co-host, relative king newbie Matt Freeman. And do the podcast right here on the grass in the open?

Sure.

Well, why not?

But people can see.

Doesn't that just kind of make it more exciting?

All right, whatever.

Let's do this.

This week on the show, children start dying, and Ben and Susan's relationship heats up.

As we discussed, Chapter 4, Danny Glick and others and chapter five Ben two Matt what did you think of this week's

reading um this is some great stuff um the uh the the Danny Glick and others part I think

was a real kind of tone shift real real kind of like velocity shift of the story.

I feel like things have really like the up until now, there's been kind of a feeling of of setting the table.

And I don't know if we're quite.

I wouldn't say we're out of the setting the table part of the story yet, but definitely there was like an escalation and acceleration feeling to things. And then getting back to Ben

was good. It was kind of neat to like pick up those threads again and real. And I guess I wasn't

sure whether Ben was going to be kind of de-emphasized as like the protagonist.

And then when getting back to Ben, I was like, okay, so like, no, we're just pick,

where Ben is still the protagonist.

We're basically going to be switching between Ben and like town intervals or interludes.

It's sort of how I'm seeing it at this point.

Sure.

Yeah.

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