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

Stephen King's Dark Tower series. My name is Scott Daly, and I am your host, and I'm joined as

always by my co-host, Matt Freeman. The body was far smaller than the heart it had contained.

Jesus, Jesus Christ, man, pull it together.

We got a podcast to do.

Oi, vei.

Oi.

Oi!

I feel so bad laughing about this because I'm very sad too, but that was very good.

That was very good.

This week on the show, we begin the final part of the dark tower, part five, the scarlet field of

Kan Kha, No Ray.

We're discussing chapters one and two of this section.

And in this week's reading, Roland says goodbye to the

last two members of his old Katte. But for a nice change of pace, only one of them dies tragically.

Thanks, Stephen. Matt, what did you think of this week's reading? What a relief.

You know, yes, like you said, it was sad. It was very sad. I think bittersweet is the emotion that was predominant throughout most of it. I mean, the sadness, the sadness hits you in specific poignant beats here and there. But mostly, mostly I was not sad. Mostly it was more like a wistful,

um, looking back over our journey and, and, you know, also a degree of sort of excitement about

what's to come because I know that we only really have one more week of reading left. Yep. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I mean, I think, especially in the Susanna chapter,

there is this real feeling of joy at the fact that she's getting out, that she's getting to go home,

or not home, but she's getting to leave and she's getting to leave with her

life, which is something that no one else in her group has ever gotten to do. And so that makes you

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