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, Constant Reader Scott Daly, and I'm joined, as always, by my co-host.

He's hanging from a ladder waiting for me to tell him to let go.

It's Matt Freeman.

How's it going today, Matt?

Is it ready yet? You know, when I wrote this intro, it didn't occur to me how fucking dark that story is.

And maybe I shouldn't make a funny intro joke to start the show off with the right energy.

I mean, that's our whole thing, though, is we're covering this incredibly dark material all often.

You got to make a totally inappropriate and, you know, tone-breaking joke about it.

Totally fair.

Totally fair.

This week on the show, we are reaching the end of our coverage of Stephen King's night shift.

We have four more stories we're going to be talking about this week.

Children of the Corn, the last rung on the ladder, the man who loved flowers, and the woman in the room.

Man, a lot of the preposition

going on here. Yeah, you're right. Good point. Interesting. Man, what a what a fascinating

collection of stories to end this whole thing on, Matt. This episode, I think, is going to be a little

bit different from our normal ones. And I think that's okay because I think us doing short stories was us kind of exploring

the format of our show a little bit and exploring what we do a little bit here.

And honestly, the final three stories we cover, those last three, we're not going to, like,

do a beat-by-beat analysis of it.

I think we're going to have just a much more free-flowing loose conversation about them for many reasons. And I think we'll get into those reasons as we

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