Long days, pleasant nights, and welcome to Kinglingers, a doof media podcast journing through Stephen King's Dark Tower series and beyond.

I am your host, Constant Reader Scott Daly.

And joining me, as always, is Matt God damn Freeman.

Pardon my French, if you're a religious man.

How's it going today, Matt?

Beep, beep. I stepped on your line there. I'm sorry. That's the most beep-beep-beapable beep-beep.

It's exactly. I don't have to say anything else. That's all I have to say. I don't quite know what it means yet. What do you mean? You don't know what it means. They just they just say beep, beep every time he starts. Technically, if you, if you were paying close attention, Bev already did that to him once. I think she just said beep, Richie, earlier. I guess I wasn't paying close attention.

Yeah, I guess you're not doing close reading.

See, I was waiting for the book to explain it to me.

You mean I was supposed to be picking stuff up from context?

Yeah.

Oh, shit.

This week on the show, our 19 part coverage of Stephen King's It continues with part seven.

We're already seven parts in, Matt, I can't believe it.

We're going to be covering chapter 10 with the June of 1958 in the rearview.

We head back to 1985 as the adult losers club gathers for their very special reunion.

Matt, what did you think of this week's reading?

This is fun.

This is different from a lot of the recent weeks.

This is one of the rare times.

We haven't had any kids, although, you know, there's a sort of metaphysical presence of the kids, you could say.

And I always love this scene, which is the characters finally come together.

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