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 and honored representative

of the podcast Free Zone Ad Hoc Committee, and I'm joined as always by my friend and co-committee

member. President. What? I'm president of the committee. You can't just...

Well, I did.

Okay, joined by the president of the committee, Matt Freeman.

How's it going today, Mr. President?

It's going great, buddy.

Did we vote on this?

This is not a democracy sky this week on the show the stand

continues with chapters 49 through 51 all of our heroes make their way to the boulder free zone

where they begin to contemplate both what kind of society to build and what to do about this whole

dark man problem matt what did you do about this whole dark man problem.

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

Well, this is going to be a lot to talk about.

Yeah, a little bit, a little bit.

There's, we're definitely moving into a part of the book that I, I don't know, mildly surprised.

Like, it's, we saw the collapse of civilization and King got to make a lot of interesting,

nuanced, thematic points about the nature of society.

And now we're seeing the reconstruction of civilization.

And as we do that, he makes a whole different, you know, equally interesting set of

points about society.

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