2.20: Insomnia (Part 6)

Kingslingers | A Dark Tower Podcast

Doof! Media

Darktower, Stephenking, Books, Arts

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2021

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

This week, Ralph and Lois find themselves young again, and all they had to do was eat some auras! We're chatting about chapters 14-16 of Insomnia... with... a lot of tangents.

Discussion Question: What is your favorite Fountain of Youth plot device?

Next week our Insomnia continues as we conclude part 2 of the book by discussing chapters 17-19.

The final lines of chapter 19:

"Below that, Triggers' big brother had printed a single word in black capital letters. KAMIKAZE"

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Long days, pleasant nights, and welcome to Kingslingers, a Doof Media podcast journeying
0:21.8	through Stephen King's Dark Tower series and beyond.
0:24.7	I'm your host, Constant Reader Scott Daly, and I'm going to eat you like ice cream.
0:29.6	And I'm King Newby Matt Freeman, and I'm the emperor of eating you like ice cream.
0:35.1	This week on the show, Ralph and Lois
0:37.6	begin casually sucking the aura
0:39.2	out of their neighbors in order to get younger,
0:41.0	which cool.
0:42.7	Then Ralph finally pieces some stuff together
0:44.8	and heads to the dairy ICU
0:46.2	to meet up with a few little bald men.
0:49.6	Matt, what did you think of this week's reading?
0:51.5	Well, a lot happens.
0:53.1	I guess a lot has happened the last two
0:54.7	weeks, right? Yeah, we really moved into part two and just the plot went into overdrive, for sure.
1:02.2	Yeah, right. There's just a lot. There's a lot to talk about in terms of what's going on with Ralph
1:10.1	as a human being, as he kind of changes in various ways as he
1:14.9	well you could say that the the horrible crippling loneliness that has kind of typified
1:20.6	the entire first half of this book has finally broken as he has found this connection with Lois.
1:28.5	And we're seeing a lot of rapid sort of internal shifts.
1:32.5	So yes, a lot is happening in the plot, but just as much I think is happening internal to
1:37.2	Ralph.
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