Hey, everybody, Vespi here.

I know it's been a while since you've heard my voice, unless you're signed up over the Patreon

or listening to The Spiel, the other show.

But yes, the Kingcast went on hiatus after our December 25th episode, our Christmas Day episode,

with Bill Scarsguard and Willem Defoe.

But the time is almost nigh for Kingcast 2.0.

The new era of the show begins next Wednesday, January 29th, right here, same place

that you've gotten the Kingcast up to this point.

You don't got to change nothing, and you're going to get a hell of an episode.

Matter of fact, I'm feeling a little saucy.

I might tell you a little bit more about that

in a second. So to get ready for the new era of the show, I wanted to make sure everybody in the

main feed got to know my new co-host, Anthony Bresnickin. He is a writer at Vanity Fair. He's been

a fixture in the geek reporting community. So he's been at Entertainment Weekly.

He's interviewed all your favorite celebrities, actors, directors, writers.

He knows all of his Stephen King stuff.

He's been on the show multiple times.

But if you needed a little bit more of an introduction,

I have an episode for you that previously was only available on our Patreon,

which is patreon.com slash the Kingcast, by the way, if you want to sign up and get the jump on stuff like this in the future.

I figured it would be a good idea for you to get to know, Bres, through his own words, and kind of hear our dynamic a little bit together.

And the next time you're going to hear us, guess what is going to be with our big debut episode of this new era of the show dropping next Wednesday, January 29th. And normally we like to, I've been a little

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