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Kingslingers | A Dark Tower Podcast

2.45: The Talisman (Part 7)

Kingslingers | A Dark Tower Podcast

Doof! Media

Darktower, Stephenking, Books, Arts

4.9680 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Summary

This week, we spend some time at Thayer School and get to know our new friend Richard a little better. We're wrapping up Part 3 of The Talisman with chapters 30-33 + an interlude. 

Discussion Question: What is your favorite scene of Surrealist Horror in storytelling?

Next week, Part 4: The Talisman begins as we discuss chapters 34-36. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Long days, pleasant nights, and welcome to Kingslingers, a dof media podcast journeying through Stephen King's Dark Tower series and to the weird and creepy schools beyond.

0:26.0

I am her host, Constrator Scott Daly, and I'm joined, as always, by King Newby and weird green scaled suction cup hand.

0:31.9

Grabbing you in the closet.

0:33.2

It's Matt Freeman.

0:34.4

How's it going, Matt?

0:35.3

I'm doing great, Scott.

0:36.2

Hey, say, come over here. I'm a little hungry.

0:39.9

What do you think that thing was? That's the big question.

0:42.5

I love not knowing. That's kind of the, maybe the overarching idea for this whole week's reading is,

0:48.8

is what is that with no answer? And then the book says, Yeah, yeah.

0:55.5

This week on the show, we spend a few chapters at the Thayer School, an American

1:00.5

institution, and or a creepy school from hell, whichever is up to you to decide.

1:07.1

Matt, what did you think of this week's reading?

1:10.4

Really different stuff this week.

1:12.6

Yeah.

1:12.9

In a couple of different ways.

1:14.6

I mean, we have this weird descent into psychedelic madness in Thayer's school, which I loved for a variety of reasons.

1:22.5

And then the other thing I really loved about it is we do this deep dive on Richard's psychology, which is just some of my

1:29.2

favorite stuff in the book so far, honestly. So yeah, overall, I really enjoy this week's reading.

1:34.9

Yeah, and then we finish everything up with an interlude back with Morgan Slote. And this time,

1:40.1

we also get to see Morgan Ovoris as well, which will serve kind of as a, here, let me help you

1:47.0

understand what's going on before we move into our third act of our book.

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