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, Constate Reader Scott Daly, and I'm joined, as always, by the recently

squatted Matt Freeman.

How's it going, Matt?

Okay, I'm good.

This introduction brought to you by the fact that Matt doesn't know what squatting me

well so I was assuming that I was either in a suitcase or perhaps in a shroud or like having a

ski mask pull over my head with the mouth sewn shut um a la mission impossible um but you

know I have no idea what squatting.

I thought, I mean, one interpretation of that noise you just made was that squatting is getting your tongue cut out.

That's possible. That's possible.

This week on the show, there's more walking, Matt, as we continue with chapters 7 through 9 of Stephen King's

Richard Bachman's The Long Walk.

I don't know how to do these summaries at the very beginning of the episode anymore because

it's like, well, they walk a lot.

Yeah.

And also some of them die.

More of them die.

I mean, that is, we talked about this last time.

I mean, that's why the discussion question was what it was is that this book, I mean,

it's not that it doesn't have a plot, but it really is more about this organic unfolding

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