Dark Tower Palaver

In the latest Round Table Tadd and Peter talk the news including remembering two King Alum who have passed away, King revealing the title of his next novel, The Institute and The Long Walk both add cast to their adaptations, The Monkey, and Welcome to Derry bits. Then they discuss if King is done with the Dark Tower since it has been 12 years since the last story, and they talk building a King Cin...

In the latest Book Club Tadd and Peter they join Roland and the boys as they go an investigate and "count" one Thinny as well as get the lay of the land of Eyebolt Canyon. Susan is "gifted" a horse she used to own from the Mayor, and she trades clandestine notes with Alain and Cuthbert about meeting with Roland at Citgo for an important matter, but she says no. And the distrust and resentments abo...

In the latest Book Club Tadd and Peter follow up with Susan and Roland in their meeting as they begin to kiss and Susan says they must keep it secret and not see each other anymore. Avery and his deputies discuss their thoughts on the boys. Roland returns to camp and Alain doubts his strategy and finds a distinctive hair on him, and finally we see Depape finding out the truth about the boys in Rit...

In the latest Round Table Tadd and Peter first remember Scott Wampler, as well as dive into some news including a bunch of Flanagan news, speculation, and hopes. As well as some Bill Skarsgård news, The Long Walk is filming, The Monkey, and Shawshank preps to celebrate its 30th Anniversary.    Engage with the show by Email or Social Media! Check the website at DarkTowerPalaver.com or Patreon at pa...

In the latest Book Club Tadd and Peter find Sheemie delivering flowers to Susan's door and getting close to Cordelia's suspicions but is more clever than we may have given him credit for. Then we see Susan read the note that came with the flowers and ponders over how to respond and finally decided no and passes a note to Sheemie in town to tell Will Dearborn that. Then while she is on the drop thi...

In the latest Round Table some maybe discouraging news on Flanagan, Edgar Wright has his Running Man, a fire at The Overlook, and Keifer Sutherland talks bullying on Stand By Me. Then Tadd and Peter have a fun Palaver topic, build your own Ka-Tet from the entire King Universe for your own journey to The Dark Tower.    Engage with the show by Email or Social Media! Check the website at DarkTowerPal...

In the latest Book Club Tadd and Peter deal with the fallout of the Showdown. First Avery brings the two groups together and forces them to make peace, then we see Eldred dealing with Depape on the road back to their camp, and on the other side we see our Boys talk about how they see the so-called truce, then we get into the aftermath of the biggest fight we have seen between Susan and Cordelia an...

In the latest Round Table Tadd and Peter talk about various news including Maturin now being a real turtle, Life of Chuck, The Monkey, Carrie (and King's career) hitting its 50th Anniversary, a Netflix show that seems like a modern take on Misery but is a true story, and talk about the March Insanity that was and looking ahead at 2025!     Engage with the show by Email or Social Media! Check the w...

Finally the Book Club has reached the DTP Voted Best Dark Tower Moment THE SHOWDOWN AT THE TRAVELLER'S REST!!! What more needs to be said, this section goes from the beginning of the Sheemie accident to Sheemie running out into the arms of Sheriff Avery who was coming in.    Engage with the show by Email or Social Media! Subscribe on YouTube to join in for live streams of the shows. Check the webs...

In the latest Round Table Tadd looks at the latest comments by Mike Flanagan regarding The Dark Tower, also speculates on a cryptic tweet from King, Nikolaj Arcel finally breaks his silence on The Dark Tower movie, a potential third Dead Zone Adaptation, David Dastmalchian talks vaguely about his next King project with Rob Savage, and few other news bits. Then in the Palaver Section Tadd goes thro...

In the latest Round Table Tadd talks about Holly getting an adaptation, Blumhouse making The Stanley even more scary, King castings that could have been, King and Spielberg almost working together multiple times, and in the Palaver section talks a bit about who needs who in Roland's Tet, and of course the reveal of the 2024 March Insanity Fan Vote Bracket! Voting Starts March 1st!   Engage with th...

In the latest Book Club Tadd follows Roland and his young friends into the party at Mayor's house, meet some of the ranchers, Roland meets Susan for the first time again, later he talks to some ranchers to get an idea of how many horses they have and he finds out Susan's situation. Also the Mayor and his inner circle talk after the meeting about their read on the boys.    Engage with the show by E...

In the first Book Club of 2024 Tadd dives into the aftermath of the enchanted meeting on the road as Susan returns home and is questioned by her Aunt and later when she goes to bed and has trouble sleeping. Also Jonas and the Big Coffin Hunters have spies who saw Roland and his Tet coming into town, and Roland and his Tet meet Sheriff Avery and later Olive Thorin outside the doors of a Welcome Din...

In the first Round Table of 2024 Tadd dives through the news including Carla Gugino saying she has talked to Flanagan about The Dark Tower, as well as an article with an interesting dreamcasting of Flanagan Family memebers, bad news for From a Buick 8, leaked set footage from the Salem's Lot film, heartwarming King moments, and a reminder for March Insanity nominations, Tadd also finshed some Bach...

In the 2023 Year End Bash Tadd covers some news including the end of the Dollar Babies program, Henry Thomas wanting a part in Flanagan's Dark Tower, Frank Darabont possibly returning  to directing, how the late Norman Lear saved Stand By Me, The Overlook....er Stanley Hotel has been sold, Holly wins an Award, and 10 fan theories about King films. Also plenty of tangents and a few calls from liste...

In the final Book Club of 2023 Tadd joins Susan on her walk back from Rhea's hut where she encounters a young man named Will Dearborn and it is an electric meeting. We then follow Will back to his camp and he discusses a bit with Cuthbert... or Arthur.   Engage with the show by Email or Social Media! Subscribe on YouTube to join in for live streams of the shows. Check the website at DarkTowerPalav...

In the latest Round Table Tadd covers a bunch of news including the title of the 12 shorts for King's next book You Like it Darker. Life of Chuck wrapped filming, The Long Walk gets a new studio and director, Edgar Wright's The Running Man, among other things.    Engage with the show by Email or Social Media! Check the website at DarkTowerPalaver.com or Patreon at patreon.com/darktowerpalaver

In the latest Book Club Tadd finds Rhea hearing Susan coming and running into her hut, also sees Susan's side of it and noticing Rhea running into the hut. Then Susan gets there and things do not go well and we learn a lot about the situation, Susan is sent to get more wood and sees Rhea looking at the Ball. Then Rhea "inspects" Susan for her purity both physically and spiritually. Then before she...

In the latest Round Table Tadd and Peter talk some news including the unreleased Salem's Lot movie, The Boogeyman Director wanting to do more King, the whole Life of Chuck cast revealed, and new stories from the world of The Stand! They also take an email talking about what King stories can and cannot be taught in high school, and they look at Flanagan Regulars and where they fit in a Dark Tower s...

In the latest Book Club Tadd and Peter join the Ka-Tet on the Turnpike looking at the building in the distance. Roland is quiet the last day before telling his tale and the whole camp is quiet as they set up that night and Roland begins his story. We also meet a woman on a hill with a new toy delivered to her.   Engage with the show by Email or Social Media! Subscribe on YouTube to join in for liv...

This one is changing back to Round Table first and Book Club second for a very special reason! 🎈🎈   Tadd and Peter trekked to Las Vegas (Randy-Land) to check out the Escape IT Escape Room. In this episode they come from their hotel room right after the Escape Room to talk about it. In this episode we all FLOAT down here.    Engage with the show by Email or Social Media! Check the website at Dark...

In the latest Round Table Tadd and Peter cover the various news including Graphic Novel Omnibus releases, Pet Sematary: Bloodlines, John Carpenter, and.... Taylor Swift?! Also they palaver about the Oracle in Book 1 and what her words might mean to the end of the cycle and Roland's salvation/damnation.    Engage with the show by Email or Social Media! Subscribe on YouTube to join in for live strea...

In this latest Book Club Tadd and Peter follow the Ka-Tet through the Captain Trips ravaged Gage Park, Zoo, Aviary, and Snack Bar including one scary surprise for Jake. Then then find the Highway and Eddie says he is Turnpikin' again. They see all manner of graffiti as they move down the thinny surrounded highway. At Camp Roland promises his story the next night and that night Eddie has a nightmar...

In the latest Round Table Tadd and Peter palaver about some updates from Mike Flanagan on his Dark Tower Adaptation as well as 2 new Book announcements from King and a Tease for Talisman 3! Then they put everything else aside to hit a 10k foot view of The Wind Through the Keyhole which somehow they have gone nearly 8 years as a Dark Tower Podcast without discussing in any meaningful way. Also an a...

In this section Tadd and Peter cover more strange things coming from Roland in the light of the Thinny. Then getting off Blaine's carcass and look around at the station on Topeka side. There they discover bodies and a newspaper talking about Captain Trips. Then as they move on Eddie grabs a 1986 era wheelchair for Susannah and they look at the many cars and bumperstickers on the turnpike.    Engag...