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 I'm joined as always by a man whose death clock is ticking louder and louder with each passing week.

It's Matt Freeman.

Hey, every...

Wait, what?

Don't worry about it.

Oh, okay. This week on the show, we are reaching the end of Stephen King's insomnia as we discussed

Chapter 30 and the epilogue of the book.

After saving all of existence, Ralph and Lois get some much-deserved sleep, but then Ralph

here's the ticking of a death clock.

But this time, it's his.

Matt, what did you think of the end of this book?

Well, honestly, after last week, where we kind of, you know, ended the book, I didn't expect

there to be this much emotion happening to me personally.

This is a very impactful, remarkable ending to a book.

Very, very, like out of all of the weeks, I feel like this is the one that I'm like the most

simultaneously like excited and worried about how our conversation's going to go because like

it's very, it's very heavy. There's a lot that's hard to talk about.

Yeah, for sure. I mean, I was a wreck reading it.

I was a wreck rereading it. I was a wreck putting the notes into our script for it. So who knows

what it's going to be like talking about it. Oh, my God. Yeah, as I was going on my walk,

listening to the audiobook. And man, it was really dusty and windy and sunny. There's just all sorts of

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