Long days, pleasant nights, and welcome to Kingslingers, a Doof Media podcast journeying through Stephen King's Dark Tower series.

My name, as always, is Scott Daley, and I hope everyone is secure and comfortable in their cells, ready to receive this transmission from the beam.

And I'm Matt Freeman, and I just want you to know, telemetry doesn't lie.

Never. It never lies. Never. This week on the show,

we learn a bit more about both the prisoners and the prison guards of Al-Gul Siento and the

plan to take it down. We're discussing chapters five, six, and seven of part two,

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

I mean, this is, this is so fun, right?

Like, we've taken this quite sudden feeling swerve into almost a whole different genre.

We find this little Ray Bradbury town nestled into Thunder clap, completely not what I was expecting at all.

Yeah.

And, you know, we meet, we come across some characters I would not have expected to meet.

I mean, basically it's just a whole, a whole section of like delightful surprises, I would say.

Sure, sure. Yeah. I mean, that was the biggest question I had for you going into this

episode was how shocking was this to you? Because it is just, it is like, I think at any point in

this book, I would have said, imagine the prison, quote unquote, where the breakers are being held.

And I don't think in a million years you would have said it looks like this place.

No, I think we'll talk about that more in detail later.

But yeah, like I either would have imagined it as like a castle dungeon or I would have

imagined it as like a high tech sort of, you know, old ones tech prison with, you know, with maybe some magical

tech sort of built into it for security purposes. But I would not, I would never have chosen

this option. Yeah. And that's going to, I'm going to enjoy talking about why he might have done

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