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, Constra Reader Scott Daly, and I'm

joined as always by the man who holds a butcher knife over you while you sleep. It's the one,

the only. Matt Freeman. How's it going today, Matt? Can I kill him, Scott? Can I? Yeah, of course.

Nice. Why would I say no to that? Can I? Yeah, of course.

Nice.

Why would I say no to that?

Awesome.

Every child must learn at some point to stand over someone with a butcher knife until they kill them, right?

That's part of growing up.

Scott, did I ever tell you that my son sleepwalks?

Like legit?

Does he have access to sharp knives? because you should probably check on that i mean

it's a good point it's a good question let me let me deal with that hold on this week on the

podcast book two of the stand begins as we discuss chapters 43 and 44 it's a week of meetings

as nick runs across tom cullen la Lau is yes, and Larry runs into

Joe and Nadine, and everyone starts heading to some random cornfield in Nebraska. Matt, what did you

think of this week's reading? So as you said, we begin book two, and there is a, I think a pretty

pronounced shift in terms of the way the story feels

I think I feel like the sorts of things we're doing with the story you know we've ended the

beginning of the beginning and now we're in the middle of the middle I don't know it's it's a very

I I feel like I have less idea of what exactly we're doing and where exactly we're going.

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