Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen Kingcast, One Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King.

Each week I will review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King and the chronological order of publication.

And this particular episode is a bonus episode to the review of the Dark Tower Part 4, Wizard and Glass.

So if you are listening to this, please note that this is an in-depth dive into the world of the dark tower.

There are spoilers galore, so if you have had any interest in completing the Dark Tower and you want to get into the Dark Tower without any spoilers,

I would not listen to this particular episode as I spoil the events of the last few books

of the Dark Tower series. But before I get into it, I want to share a listener email. This is

from David, who writes, Hi, old pod slinger. Sorry for the long

email, dude, but you stirred me right the hell up. Technologically, I am a fossil. That being said,

I have newly discovered podcasts as a source of entertainment slash information slash et cetera,

and discovered your kingcast quite by accident. I've been working my way through your

episodes. That sounds vile, doesn't it? And have enjoyed the ones I've listened to immensely.

I find your analysis to be intelligent, well thought out, sincerely original, and funny as hell.

There have been so far many incidences of, oh yeah, that's right, or cool point of view.

Never thought of that listening to your thought-provoking podcast.

And I mean that literally, as in your review of The Shining.

Geez, dude, seriously, the check-off boiler?

I missed the next eight minutes of the podcast I was laughing so hard.

And yet, yes, exactly, the Chuck Off Boiler.

Perfectly logical, never saw it coming, never thought of it that way before, very familiar

with the gun on the mantelpiece in Act 1, and realized what a perfectly placed plot point.

I never saw it before, and you just came out with it during the podcast, and I almost did

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