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Kingslingers | A Dark Tower Podcast

59: The Dark Tower Series Overview w/ Joe Rechtman

Kingslingers | A Dark Tower Podcast

Doof! Media

Darktower, Stephenking, Books, Arts

4.9680 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Summary

This week Scott and Matt are joined by Joe Rechtman of The Church of the Cosmic Turtle to chat all about the Dark Tower series as a whole. We talk about what Joe loves most about the series and what King is trying to say about storytelling, twinning, and redemption. 

Check out Joe's Blog: https://churchofthecosmicturtle.com/

Then, we open the mailbag again to answer your last few questions. 

Next week, The Wind Through the Keyhole begins as we cover Starkblast and The Skin Man (Part 1)

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Original music created by Matt Freeman: https://soundcloud.com/the-daly-planet/kingslingers-intro-ka-tet

Cover artwork created by Cyrix: https://www.reddit.com/user/CyrixDrawsStuff  

Transcript

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0:00.0

Long days, pleasant nights, and welcome to Kingslingers, a Doof Media podcast journeying

0:21.3

through Stephen King's Dark Tower series.

0:23.3

My name is Constant Reader, Scott Daly.

0:25.2

And I'm nearly constant reader, Matt Freeman.

0:27.6

And this week on the show, we're going to take a look back at the entire series,

0:32.3

the whole Dark Tower series.

0:33.8

We're going to spend some time chatting about the whole thing. And we're joined by a special

0:37.9

guest, Joe Rectman from the blog, Church of the Cosmic Turtle, to chat a little bit about his

0:42.3

journey to the tower. So in a few minutes, you'll hear that conversation begin. We've already

0:47.3

recorded that, Matt. So we're from the future. That's right. It was a very good conversation we had with Joe. He was a lot of fun to talk to, and we're so glad we got to kind of have him on to kind of help structure our conversation about this entire book.

1:00.5

Then, after that conversation is over, we are going to wrap this episode up by answering the last few mailbag questions left over from last week and including some that you guys sent us this week.

1:10.3

And I think that'll

1:11.0

be also a good way to just kind of structure our, just talking about the series as a whole fun,

1:15.9

funness, right? I agree. I think it's going to be, it's going to be a good episode. I mean, I already

1:21.0

know half of it is because it's already happened. Yeah, yeah, that's, uh, that's really convenient, actually. It is. It's very comforting. No, sitting here at the beginning of the episode, knowing for sure that the conversation

1:31.4

that follows this, it's going to be good.

1:33.4

Mm-hmm.

1:33.8

Mm-hmm.

1:34.3

Before we get into that, though, we did have some quick announcements.

1:37.2

Um, the first one, now we got to talk about some madness.

1:41.0

I could have done a better job saying that word.

1:45.2

Explain what that is, Scott.

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