Long days, pleasant nights, and welcome to Kingslingers, a doof Media podcast journeying through Stephen King's Dark Tower series and beyond.

I am your host, Constant Reader Scott Daly, crawling out of a morgue drawer to feast upon the living.

And I'm King Newby, Matt Freeman, and praise the Lord Jesus Christ.

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This week on the show, it is another episode covering only one chapter of Salem's Lot.

We are back with the citizens of the lot as we discuss chapter 10, The Lot, three.

With both Ben and Matt stuck in the hospital, Barlow's grip on the town of Salem's Lot Titans.

There's fucking vampires everywhere, Matt. What did you think of this week's reading? Well Salem's lot titans there's fucking vampires everywhere matt what did

you think of this week's reading well like you said there's vampires everywhere but it's kind of

i don't know what word to use fascinating how we start out this section in this lengthy

extremely artistic diversion into uh kind of soulful analysis of living in small town America.

And I don't know.

I think this is one of the sections where, you know, the themes of what King is trying to do with this story are most prominent, I would say.

Yeah, I think you're right.

Especially like between that opening four pages and then

Barlow's monologue as to why he chose Salem's lot, I think it really kind of starts to

crystallize exactly what King is trying to say with this story. Absolutely. And so we're going to

have a lot to say about both of those sections. I think the hardest thing for me is going to be

not just reading all six both of those sections. I think the hardest thing for me is going to be not

just reading all six pages of the opening because I pulled like six different giant

paragraphs. I swear to God, I'm not going to read them all. But I don't know how to talk about this

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