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

King's Dark Tower series and to beyond.

I am her host, Constit Reader Scott Daly, and while I did hear the death clock ticking for a bit there,

I am back and at full health.

And I'm Matt Freeman and I've just started to hear it tick, actually.

Oh no, cancel this week's show.

Yes, I'm sorry, everyone.

I apparently made it seem like Scott was on Death's Door with my little intro.

I listened to it when the day of the episode came out.

And I can't remember exactly what you said, but some of the effect of Scott is very, very unwell. It was just like,

oh my God, he made it sound like I'm dying. I thought what I said was that you were feeling poorly,

but maybe that, maybe I don't remember what I said. You might have said poorly, but you did,

you did the double vary, like the double very and your

tone of voice was very grim and i was like oh my god they're going to think i'm i'm dead i'm

dead no i was doing fine it's just the the type of chest cold i had like just ripped apart my

my lungs and my neck and my throat and everything that is needed for talking, turns out.

And I was just in no position to sit in front of a microphone and talk for a couple hours.

So took the week off.

I probably like honestly, I probably could have pushed it, but then I just would have ruined my voice for the next month because I did that early in the year.

And I was just like had

vocal problems for like a month after that and it was terrible. So just thought it made more sense

to take the week off and we did it and I'm back and my voice isn't 100% but it's like 97%. So I think

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