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🗓️ 13 April 2023
⏱️ 136 minutes
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This week our coverage of King's Short Story collection Night Shift continues with 5 more stories! We're discussing "Gray Matter," "Battleground," "Trucks," "Sometimes They Come Back," and "Strawberry Spring."
Discussion Question: What is your favorite killer machine?
Next week, Night Shift continues with four more stories: "The Ledge" "The Lawnmower Man," "Quitter's Inc.," and "I Know What You Need."
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0:00.0 | Long days, pleasant nights, and welcome to Kingslingers, a doof media podcast journeying |
0:21.4 | through Stephen King's Dark Tower series and beyond. |
0:23.9 | I am your host, Constant Reader Scott Daly, and I'm joined as always by the frequently |
0:27.6 | dividing slime monster. |
0:28.7 | His name is Matt Freeman. |
0:29.7 | How's it going today, Matt? |
0:31.1 | Oh, pretty good. |
0:32.1 | Scott, I've got my case of beer here that I'm going to slurp down over the course of this podcast. |
0:39.6 | Did you ever think about not drinking the beer? |
0:43.0 | Never occurred to me. |
0:47.6 | This week on the show, our coverage of Stephen King's night shift continues with five more short stories. This week we'll be chatting |
0:55.4 | about gray matter, battleground, trucks. Sometimes they come back. And lastly, strawberry spring. |
1:02.7 | Matt, this is a very interesting project we've set ourselves up on because this collection of |
1:10.0 | stories in particular is such an odd one in that I think the first |
1:14.6 | three are kind of just silly fun joke stories. |
1:19.4 | And then the fourth one is like super serious dealing with trauma, horrifying and depressing. |
1:25.8 | And we have to cover all of this in the course of one episode. |
1:29.7 | Yeah, it is really, it is really, really hard for me because normally for years, what |
1:36.3 | we've practiced doing is taking one little piece of a really big story and really, really |
1:41.0 | digging into it. |
1:42.3 | And this is, this is like a torture device invented by Satan because it's, you have to go |
1:47.9 | through several whole stories and somehow do justice to all of them in the same amount of |
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