2.62: The Stand (Part 2)

Kingslingers | A Dark Tower Podcast

Doof! Media

Darktower, Stephenking, Books, Arts

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 165 minutes

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Summary

This week, we continue our coverage of The Stand with chapters 10-20! It's a long one because we love this freaking book!

**ANNOUNCING THE SECOND ANNUAL DO THE KING THING SHORT FICTION WRITING CONTEST*** Get the details here: https://www.doofmedia.com/2022/07/27/do-the-king-thing-2-short-fiction-contest/

Discussion Question: The beginning of The Stand is filled with some pretty complicated familial relationships. What is your favorite complex family in storytelling?

Next week, our coverage of The Stand continues with chapters 21-28. Lots of people are gonna die.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Long days, pleasant nights, and welcome to Kingslingers, a doof media podcast journing through Stephen King's Dark Tower series and beyond.
0:24.4	I am your host, Constable, Scott Dilley, and I'm joined, as always, by King Newby Matt Freeman.
0:29.1	Just a nice, a nice guy.
0:32.2	Hey, thanks, man.
0:33.5	Yeah, whatever.
0:34.7	This week, the stand continues with chapters 10 through 20. Captain Trips
0:40.5	continues to make its way across the United States as Larry, Frannie, and Nick, Nick's lives
0:46.5	get tossed into the superflu tornado. Also, we meet, we meet Lloyd. I mean, he's just a great guy, right? Like, he's real swell. Yeah, everybody, we meet Loy. Lloyd. I mean, he's just a great guy, right?
0:55.3	Like, he's real swell.
0:56.6	Yeah.
0:57.0	Everybody we meet lately has just been a swell, just solid.
1:02.1	Yeah.
1:02.8	We'll talk about Lloyd.
1:04.5	Matt, what did you think overall of this week's reading?
1:07.7	You know, once again, continues to be, you know, King at his best really, uh, in terms
1:14.1	of character work specifically, in terms of getting to know these interesting, complex,
1:20.0	very human, very real feeling characters.
1:22.9	Um, we have a lot of really interesting beats that, that we're just going to talk about endlessly today.
1:31.3	It's kind of daunting, actually, how many sequential chapters there are where you're like,
1:36.6	oh man, we've got to talk about this forever.
1:38.3	Yeah.
1:38.8	It just happens over and over.
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