3.79: Mr. Mercedes (Overview)

Kingslingers | A Dark Tower Podcast

Doof! Media

Darktower, Stephenking, Books, Arts

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

This week it's time for our overview episode as we take one last look at Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes. We chat about Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney and what the book was ultimately talking about.

Then we read and answer some of your questions before finally revealing what's next for us after Kingslingers comes to an end.

Next week we'll be chatting about the first season of the Mr. Mercedes TV show!

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0:00.0	Long days, pleasant nights, and welcome to Kingslingers, a Doof Media podcast journeying through Stephen King's Dark Tower series and beyond.
0:24.6	I am your host, Concerator Scott Daly, and joining me, as always, he likes his detectives like he likes his eggs.
0:31.9	Poached. It's Matt Freeman.
0:34.3	Yep. I get it.
0:37.4	What, how do you like your eggs? I like my eggs. Yep. I get it. What?
0:38.5	How do you like your eggs?
0:40.7	I like my eggs sunny side up, just like Bill Hodges.
0:44.8	No, because it was hard-boiled is what I was going for there.
0:49.9	But Bill Hodges is such a sunny and happy, smiley character.
0:54.4	Not in the TV show, but that's a conversation for another day.
0:59.2	Because this week on the show, we are taking one final look at Mr. Mercedes, Stephen
1:05.6	King's hard-boiled detective novel.
1:07.8	This is the thing we like to do at the end of our long series on these books.
1:11.2	Take one last holistic view on the book. And so that's what we're going to do today, Matt.
1:15.7	I'm pretty excited about it, actually. Me too. Yeah, this is a great book. And I think there are several
1:21.6	points during our discussions week to week where I would be like, you know, I'm going to need to
1:26.3	step back from this and look at it
1:27.9	holistically. So now we're doing that. Yeah. And we said at that time that we were going to put
1:33.0	pins in those things and remember them all distinctly. And I have to say here today, we definitely
1:38.9	did that for sure. Yeah. we're really good at that.
1:50.1	Then we do have some mailbag questions that you folks sent into us that we have to read and answer.
1:51.7	Got a lot of questions today.
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