Long days, pleasant nights, and welcome to Kingslingers, a doof media podcast journeying

through Stephen King's Dark Tower series.

As always, I am your host, Constant Reader Scott Daly, and this cute little baby spider

telepathically threatening me right now is my co-host, Matt Freeman.

Hey, Spider, Matt.

How's it going?

I told you Mia was she lobbed, Scott.

You did.

You did tell me that and let me tell you Matt how crazy

everyone following along went when you said that see I'm just proving the Lord of the Rings method

this it's the tried and true method of analyzing stories you can apply it to any story any story

where the author has said,

this is my Lord of the Rings. We'll get there, though. We'll get there. This week on the show,

it's the beginning of the end, Matt. We're here to talk about the first four chapters of the

final novel in the Dark Tower series aptly titled The Dark Tower. We're here already. It's crazy.

Yeah. Yeah. It's it's it's kind of weird. Honestly, seriously, it feels like everything is flown by up till this point. So I agree. I agree. It has been it has been 11 months since we started the show and it doesn't feel like it at all. And we're here. And it's weird because like we're not close to the end of the show because this this book is going to take a while, but it still feels like we're approaching the end.

And that's partially because the book itself has that tone of that we're rushing to the ending.

This is a book that I think you saw in the first four chapters here and you will continue to see this is a book that is like is like careening to the finish line. It's it feels like

things are moving very, very fast. Yeah. There's certain stuff that happens today that I'm going to

have like it's going to sound like I'm criticizing and I'm just, all I'm doing is pointing out things he's doing

for us to talk about.

Yeah, yeah, that's fair.

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