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, and joining me, as always, is the weird old man

that lives upstairs.

It's Mr. Matt Bradigan.

How's it going, Matt?

It's doing well.

Yep, that's my name.

Braddgan, Bradigan? Bradigan. Bradigan.

Yeah, like the villain in the Great Mouse Detective.

Wow. That's a throwback. That's a good movie. Yeah. We should do an episode on that.

Sure. Why not? But this week on this show, we are beginning our third story of season two, low men in yellow coats.

That's the novella that takes place in the Hearts and Atlantis series of short stories and novellas.

This week, we're going to be discussing chapters one through four of the novella.

We meet our protagonist, Bobby Garfield, who develops a friendship with his upstairs neighbor,

a nervous and strange fellow that we might recognize as Mr. Ted Brodagan, facilitator, extraordinary.

Matt, what did you think of the first four chapters of low men in yellow coats?

I think that this book might be my favorite of any of the

season two books, and we've only just started it. I think it's the best written by a country

mile. I'm just like totally engrossed in this, you know, more or less mundane story of this

boy and his and his mundane struggles

i mean obviously there's a tinge of the supernatural here and there but we we're that's not

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