Long days, pleasant nights, and welcome to Kingslingers, a doof media podcast journey through

Stephen King's Dark Tower series and beyond.

I am your host, Constrator Scott Daly, and I'm joined, as always by my good friend,

everyone's favorite demon, the Monday man himself.

It's Matt Munchin Freeman.

How's it going today, Matt?

Oh, it's going well, Scott.

I'm looking forward to talking about this book with you today. You know,

if I had to pinpoint your accent, I would say it sounds like a French man trying to do a German

accent. No, I just have a cold. Oh, okay. Ironically, I actually do have a cold.

Ah, there's the joke.

This week on our penultimate episode covering Stephen King and Peter Straub's Black House,

we are discussing chapters 22 through 25 of the novel as we wrap up part three.

Jack flips back into our world and heads to see the dying mouse.

Meanwhile, the fisherman has come for Henry Layton.

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

Oh, it was great.

It was very sad because of the loss of a character who very quickly became one of my favorite Stephen King characters, despite the fact that Henry Layiden is not a central main character.

You know, he's sort of a, I guess he'd call him a secondary character.

But he's an important character.

I loved Henry Leiden.

I thought he was great.

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