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, Constable Reader Scott Daly, and I'm joined, as always, by town safety officer Matt Freeman.

Matt, how's it going today?

Remember to hang yourself up on your hard hat when you come out of the mine.

This week, our 11-part coverage of Stephen King's desperation continues as we cover

chapters 1 and 2 of Part 2.

King does the annoying thing here, Matt, where he resets chapter numbers in each of the

different parts, which I haven't figured out how it's going to work for our show art yet.

It's going to be a mess.

Chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 2. Chapter 1.

This week, Steve and Cynthia make it to desperation and find that the mining crew is a bit hung up.

Then, David follows the not often discussed 11th commandment.

Thou shalt undress and soak thyself up and slip througheth cell bars.

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

One of my favorite Bible stories, the soping of Jehoshaphat.

I continue to love this book.

Everything about it, I guess.

It's very, it's very fun and also like awful and mean and cruel and makes me feel ill and then makes me really into things and excited and tense and like um there are a

lot of emotions that i have that i don't think i've had before relating to like specific reasons

why i'm mad that i have to stop reading um because i'm certainly not new to the idea of being mad that I have to stop reading.

But this time it's like, oh my God, you can't leave me in this situation.

You can't leave me with her in the car with Intrasian for a week, me not knowing what he's going to do to her.

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