All right, folks, hope you enjoy the show.

Like we said, we probably won't be interacting too much during the meat of it, but we'll chat with you all afterwards.

Let's do it.

Let's go in five, four, three, two, one.

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 the man who just

keeps on walking, despite the fact that the book has been over for like a week now.

It's Matt Freeman.

How's it going today, Matt?

How's your walk?

The walk never ends, Scott.

I'll be chasing that shadowy figure for the rest of my days.

This week on the show, we are taking one final look at Stephen King's Richard Bachman's The

Long Walk and one, I guess not final, but one for a good while last look at Richard Bachman, because

we are going to be talking about Bachman one more time during the season. But this is our

overview episode. If you're, if this is the first book of ours you've covered, we do this at

the very end of our chapter by chapter beat by beat episodes where we just want to step back,

look at the book as a whole,

and talk about it holistically one more time before we move on to other books.

So that's what we're going to be doing today with The Long Walk.

And then, of course, we have some mailback questions from our audience that we're going to answer some questions about this book,

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