Kingslingers | A Dark Tower Podcast

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3.74: Mr. Mercedes (Part 1) Jul 25, 2024

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It's new book week! We're setting our sights on Stephen King's Crime obsession by taking a look at the 2014 novel Mr. Mercedes. This week we read and discuss the first two chapters: Grey Mercedes and Det.-Ret.

Discussion Question: Which type of mystery story do you prefer? The one where you discover the killer's identity when the detective does? or the cat and mouse type where we learn their identity early on and watch as our detective gets closer and closer to finding them? Why?

Next week, Mr. Mercedes continues with the third chapter: Under Debbie's Blue Umbrella

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3.73: 11.22.63 Jul 18, 2024

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This week we're taking a look at the Hulu adaptation 11.22.63. It's a show! With James Franco! It's....not great. But also not bad? I dunno. .I probably wouldn't go back in time to prevent it from being made. Probably

Next week, it's new book time. We'll be reading the first two chapters of Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes.

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3.72: 11/22/63 (Overview) Jul 11, 2024

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This week we take one final look at 11/22/63! We chat about our problems with the novel and if we were perhaps just focusing on the wrong things. Then... mailbag time!

Next week, we're taking a look at the 2016 Hulu adaptation 11.22.63

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3.71: 11/22/63 (Part 11) Jul 04, 2024

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This week we finally reach the end of Stephen King's 11/22/63. Jake heads back to the future and finds out that saving Kennedy didn't work out the way he thought it would and has to make a difficult choice.

Discussion Question: Mailbag time! Send us your questions!

Next week, it's our overview episode as we take one last look at 11/22/63

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3.70: 11/22/63 (Part 10) Jun 27, 2024

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This week we finally reach the titular 11/22/63 as Jake and Sadie scramble to make it to Dealey Plaza with time to prevent the JFK assassination. We're chatting about chapters 26-28!

Discussion Question: Would you sacrifice your life to go back in time and save JFK?

Next week, 11/22/63 concludes as we finish the novel!

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Kingslingers Live - The Recap Jun 22, 2024

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It's been one week since Matt, Scott, and 150 listeners all headed up to Bangor for the first Kingslingers Live! We thought we'd sit down and chat about the experience for a bit!

Next week we'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming as 11/22/63 continues with chapters 26-28

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Kingslingers Live in Bangor w/ Robin Furth Jun 21, 2024

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Alright folks... here's the deal. This audio sucks. I mean it super sucks. Things went wrong with the recording of the live episode and what you are essentially listening to is an iPhone that was slammed down on a table near the stage. It's not great, but it's all we have. We thought for a while about just not releasing this but at the end of the day we figured....screw it. Robin was so great to talk to and even if they can barely understand it sometimes it's a conversation worth sharing.

Our weekend in Bangor was an incredible event that we will never forget. Thank you to everyone who came! Thank you to The Bangor Public Library, The Bangor Grand Hotel, SK Tours, the Oriental Jade, Sharon Kitchens, Robin Furth, and of course Jody and Samantha who made this entire thing happen!

We'll be releasing an hour-long chat about this experience a bit later and then be back to our regularly scheduled programming next week.

Until then... Long days and pleasant nights!

Castle Talk - 1.01 & 1.02 Jun 13, 2024

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Hey folks! Matt and I are on our way to Bangor right now and as such we couldn't prep, record, and edit an episode this week. We wanted to leave you with something anyway, so here's our episode recorded in January where we watched and discussed the first two episodes of Hulu's Castle Rock TV series. It's pretty good!

Next week you'll hopefully get to hear the live recording of the weekend's festivities and then on June 27th we'll be back at it with 11/22/63

Hope you all have a good one and can't wait to meet a bunch of you in Maine!

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3.69: 11/22/63 (Part 9) Jun 06, 2024

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This week: Jake finally comes clean with Sadie and resolves to take out Oswald. But unfortunately, our hero's gambling finally catches up with him. We're chatting about chapters 23-25 of Stephen King's 11/22/63!

Discussion Question: Was Jake overly harsh to George De Morenschildt & Jennifer Caltrop? Why?

Next week, 11/22/63 continues with chapters 26-28

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3.68: 11/22/63 (Part 8) May 30, 2024

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Things are moving faster now as Jake finally gets to 1963 and the job that awaits him there. Unfortuantely the Obdurant past has something else in mind as Sadie gets a visit from an old friend. We're chatting about chapters 19-22 of Stephen King's 11/22/63!

Discussion Question: What is your favorite Rear Window-esque moment where you observe a character observe details about the lives of others?

Next week, 11/22/63 continues with chapters 23-25

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