Chapter Brothers

S3 - E1 - TW - Susannah's Gunslinger Lesson

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:51:53 GMT

Kevin and Nick try a new theme song. We go through the argument and the beginning of Book One: Jake. Fear in a Handful of Dust. Section I. Bear and Bone.

S2 - E30 - TDOTT - Final Shuffle - Oh!! Susannah

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 07:52:57 GMT

Kevin and Nick reach the end of "The Drawing of the Three". We meet a "new" character who has been with us all along. Roland starts to feel better and realizes he isn't the last gunslinger anymore. Kevin and Nick also discuss the Afterword and make some predictions for the next book "The Waste Lands".

S2E29 - TDOTT - The Pusher - Quickly getting bullets and rexes

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 10:00:30 GMT

Roland uses the Mortcypedia to get exactly what he needs. We learn a lot of details about incidental characters. Some pants are peed, some prescriptions are filled. But how is Eddie doing on the beach.

S2E28 - TDOTT - The Pusher - Mortcypedia

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:49:09 GMT

Kevin and Nick (and Roland) continue on into the mind of Jack Mort and travel through the streets of Manhattan. We discuss cab safety and they reach a spot that will hopefully be helpful for Roland.

S2E27 - TDOTT - The Pusher - Honeypot - Snake in the grass

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 05:27:41 GMT

Nick and Kevin talk about the Tommyknockers for a little while. Then get back into the text. Detta is lying in wait like an ambush predator until the time is right to spring on Eddie. Then we find out what a 'honeypot' is and we discover how strong she is both physically and emotionally. We also mention the D and D alignment chart at the end.

S2E26 - TDOTT - The Pusher - Bitter Medicine - Meet Jack

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 02:01:06 GMT

Roland goes through the third door. We meet Jack Mort and boy is he terrible. But we also get to see our favorite boy again, Jake! What's going on here? Kevin and Nick go off on tangents as usual. Time works differently here. Timeline confusion is discussed.

S2E25 - TDOTT - Reshuffle - The Third Door

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 07:04:41 GMT

Nick rambles a bit about things that happened in 1987 in the SK trivia because he didn't want to spoil the end of The Drawing of the Three, which with we are nearly finished!

It's Episode 50 of Chapter Brothers!!!

They finally make it to the third door. Eddie does a lot of running. Is it the Lady or the wildcat? Or is it a puma? Tension mounts as Eddie screams for ODETTA! Roland tells Eddie to be on guard.. it's been a long and winding road to the third door.

S2E24 - TDOTT - Reshuffle - Starlight Star Bright

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 06:46:47 GMT

Eddie and Odetta quickly make there way down the beach, leaving the ailing Roland behind. They share a romantic night under the stars together and finally spot the third door. The end of the book is slowly approaching. Disclaimer: Nick was recording in a dim basement and misplaced his glasses, apologies for the poor reading, thank goodness for Kevin's professionalism.

S2E23 - TDOTT - The Lady of Shadows - Detta On The Other Side - Begrudgingly Trudging Through Sand

Sun, 09 Mar 2025 08:01:47 GMT

Eddie and Roland continue pushing the wheelchair through sand traps and spinning their wheels. Detta is wary of these two honky mahfahs. Kevin and Nick (two honky mahfahs themselves) attempt to go quickly but end up going long as they discuss consent and racial stereotypes in film and literature. Kevin defends his stance on wearing shoes and socks at the beach.

S2E22 - TDOTT - The Lady of Shadows - Detta on the Other Side - How Eddie Met Detta

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:40:20 GMT

Eddie gets a rude awakening from Detta. Luckily Roland knows this gunslinger in the making is always slightly dangerous. While he sleeps with one eye open, he waits for Eddie to learn a painful lesson before the mongoose subdues the snake.

S2E21 - TDOTT - The Lady of Shadows - Odetta on the Other Side - Philosophy and Debate

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 07:15:50 GMT

As Roland goes off to find water, Eddie and Odetta get to know each other better. Odetta questions if any of this is real and Eddie, the great debater, makes a strong philosophical argument. Nick has flashbacks to Philosophy 101 and his brain breaks. Thankfully, Kevin is able to hold the show together.

S2E20 - TDOTT - The Lady of Shadows - Odetta on the Other Side - How Eddie Met Odetta

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 23:11:20 GMT

Kevin and Nick discuss their greatest fears in the SK trivia. Odetta comes through the door. Roland calls Eddies bluff and needs a minute a minute to process what's next. Eddie seems to be smitten by Odetta.

S2E19 - TDOTT - The Lady Of Shadows - Ringing The Changes - Many Things Happened At Once

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 09:11:12 GMT

We meet two new characters who tell us Odetta/Detta's story. Nick and Kevin discuss the circulatory system, racist stereotypes, some more talk of dissociative identity disorder, and the question of consent.

S2E18 - TDOTT - The Lady of Shadows - Odetta and Detta - Decisions at the second door

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 05:00:05 GMT

We learn more about Odetta's past and her dentist dad Dan. Eddie and Roland have long palaver at the precipice of the second door. We see the door open and see New York City at a different date... and Detta. Kevin and Nick discuss steadicams and Mexican standoffs.

S2E17 - TDOTT - The Lady of Shadows - Odetta and Detta - A Veritable Janus

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 07:45:41 GMT

We meet a new character (characters?) Kevin and Nick pontificate aimlessly as usual.

S2E16 - TDOTT - Shuffle - Roland: The Reluctant Therapist

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 05:44:43 GMT

Eddie needs to do some venting. Roland listens reluctantly. Nick tries to figure out what's going to happen next, while Kevin knows who's behind door #2. She comes on wheels.

S2E15 - TDOTT - Shuffle - Right Hand Man

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 05:17:42 GMT

Eddie needs some tasks while he's in withdrawal. Roland is feverish and in need of help from his new found Gunslinger. Kevin and Nick have fun shuffling back and forth.

S2E14 - TDOTT - The Prisoner - Showdown and Shootout - Eddie's Got a Gun

Sun, 07 Jul 2024 22:18:24 GMT

Kevin and Nick get right into the action and skip the Stephen King trivia. Such an exciting section of the book. We discuss our lack of gun knowledge and the horrible realities of makeshift decapitation.

S2E13 -TDOTT - The Prisoner - Showdown and Shootout - A Lobstrosity Dinner

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 19:38:03 GMT

Eddie goes into the bathroom with Jack Andolini. Jack is in for quite the surprise. Kevin and Nick decide to go one extra section and read the last part live. Nick needed to know what happened next.

S2E12 - TDOTT - The Prisoner - Showdown and Shootout - One More Rocket Gonna Be Your Last

Wed, 01 May 2024 23:17:29 GMT

Eddie gets brought to Balazar and Henry meets his inevitable fate. Eddie gets a thorough examination. Kevin and Nick talk about music, baseball, and Nick makes some predictions about what he thinks going to happen next.

S2E11 - TDOTT - The Prisoner - The Tower - Johnny Cash is everything

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 07:09:21 GMT

Kevin and Nick pontificate more. Balazar and his crew are introduced. The house of cards gets built. Eddie and Roland find themselves in a predicament.

S2E10 - TDOTT - The Prisoner: The Tower - Sweet and Sour

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 22:45:29 GMT

Roland realizes he loves that sweet sweet soda and Eddie runs into two dangerous henchmen. Nick and Kevin try some new voices as we're introduced to Jack Andolini and Col Vincent.

S2E9 - TDOTT - The Prisoner: The Tower - Questioning and Following

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 04:55:14 GMT

Eddie finds himself in quite the predicament but he's got Roland in his corner. Kevin and Nick discuss sweepstakes legality and their favorite hot dogs.

S2E8 - TDOTT - The Prisoner: Contact and Landing - The Knife and the Flight Crew

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 22:51:00 GMT

Things aren't looking good for Eddie but Roland is there to help, thankfully. Nick and Kevin think of a good spin off, Dorning and Douglas, CIA. Deere and McDonald deal with a surprisingly strong bathroom door . A brief cameo by the angry passenger was a fun chance for terrible voice work from Nick.

S2E7 - TDOTT - The Prisoner: Contact and Landing - We can't hold on the threshold

Tue, 16 Jan 2024 04:44:24 GMT

Kevin and Nick decide to go one section further than planned. Jane is noticed by the Gunslinger. Eddie meets Roland in the flesh.

S2E6 - TDOTT - The Prisoner: Contact and Landing - Rashomon

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 08:30:58 GMT

Kevin and Nick continue into the next section. Roland works to understand the rules of the door. We meet a new character, Jane, a gunslinger in her own way. The steel wire tightens. We get our first guest for a moment, Cinthya.

S2E5 - TDOTT - The Prisoner: Eddie Dean - Manipulation

Fri, 22 Dec 2023 07:51:39 GMT

Kevin and Nick learn a bit about Eddie Dean's background and his task at hand. Roland learns more about the rules of traveling between worlds..

S2E4 - TDOTT - The Prisoner: Eddie Dean - Being Eddie Dean

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:13:51 GMT

Roland steps through the door. We meet a new character, Eddie Dean.

S2E3 - TDOTT - The Prisoner: The Door - The Scientific Method

Sun, 19 Nov 2023 22:16:51 GMT

Roland continues walking up the beach until he encounters a door and examines it carefully. Nick takes far too long to understand what is going on at the end, while the always patient Kevin waits for the aha moment.

S2E2 - TDOTT - Prologue: The Sailor - Triage

Sun, 12 Nov 2023 18:50:13 GMT

Kevin and Nick reach the end of the Prologue while going on the usual amount of tangents. Roland quickly takes stock of where he is and what he needs to deal with now.

S2E1 - TDOTT - Rock Lobster! Serious Problems Ahead

Sat, 04 Nov 2023 19:35:24 GMT

Kevin and Nick begin "The Drawing of the Three" by discussing the Argument and Prologue: The Sailor. Roland comes to grips with some of his past choices but then losing his grip on an important part of his identity..

S1E25 - The Gunslinger - Afterword

Sun, 01 Oct 2023 15:31:19 GMT

Kevin and Nick finish out season 1 by reading the afterword of The Gunslinger. Stephen King discusses the origins of the story and gets us excited for The Drawing of the Three. The brothers wax poetic about an important Robert Browning poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came".

S1E24 - The Gunslinger and The Man in Black - The End of the Beginning

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 19:33:30 GMT

Kevin and Nick reach the end of the Gunslinger. Roland and The Man in Black finish their long plaver. The MIB's true identity is revealed. A lot of time passes.

S1 E23 - The Gunslinger and The Man in Black - Macrocosm and Microcosm

Sun, 10 Sep 2023 22:38:44 GMT

The Man in Black pontificates to Roland about how Size is the greatest mystery the universe offers, and does his best to show the Gunslinger how smart he is while the Gunslinger remains unimpressed.

S1E22 - The Gunslinger and The Man In Black - Purple Blade of Grass

Tue, 05 Sep 2023 00:02:41 GMT

Roland and the Man in Black travel through geologic time and space, exploring things on the macro and micro scale. Kevin and Nick have their minds blown.

S1E21 - The Gunslinger And The Man In Black - The Long Palaver Begins

Sun, 27 Aug 2023 07:51:01 GMT

Roland and the man in black begin their long discussion. Nick is still clearly upset about what happened at the end of the last episode. Luckily Kevin is here to keep us on track.

S1E20 - The Slow Mutants - Go then...

Mon, 21 Aug 2023 06:03:21 GMT

Kevin and Nick reach the exciting and heart-wrenching culmination of the Slow Mutants. I have no words. The Man in Black is seen again.

S1E19 - The Slow Mutants - Hold on to my belt

Wed, 16 Aug 2023 23:00:26 GMT

A terrific action scene unfolds as the slow mutants come out in full force. Kevin and Nick go on scientific tangents.. Roland and Jake bond some more.

S1E18 - The Slow Mutants - A Shot in the Dark

Sun, 30 Jul 2023 18:04:39 GMT

Roland and Jake finally get a glimpse of the eponymous Slow Mutants. Kevin and Nick discuss the uncanny valley and make analogies to the id, ego, and superego.

S1E17 - The Slow Mutants - My Weapon is David

Sun, 09 Jul 2023 23:59:23 GMT

Kevin and Nick continue with the flashback in the Slow Mutants. An exciting action scene, with a good amount of tangents (as usual). Our longest episode to date. We thought of splitting it in two but kept it as one. Roland meets Cort for battle and uses clever tactics. Achievement unlocked!

S1E16 - The Slow Mutants - Horrible Smile

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 00:08:19 GMT

Kevin and Nick move on with the flashback. Roland challenges Cort and we see David again.

S1E15 - The Slow Mutants - Fall From Innocence

Mon, 26 Jun 2023 21:59:29 GMT

Kevin and Nick continue pushcarting through the Slow Mutants. Jake asks Roland about his coming of age. Roland begins the story with how Marten revealed his affair with Roland's mother.

S1E14 - The Slow Mutants - Farther Down the Rabbit Hole

Sun, 18 Jun 2023 16:58:13 GMT

Kevin and Nick continue through the Slow Mutants. Roland and Jake struggle through the dark and encounter a railroad track and a talking push car.

S1E13 - The Slow Mutants - Gilead's Got Big Balls

Sun, 11 Jun 2023 17:05:19 GMT

Kevin and Nick begin The Slow Mutants. Quick spoiler warning: Nick asks questions about Carrie in the SK trivia. Skip to about 10 mins if your don't know that book/movie. Roland and Jake begin their walk in the dark. Roland recalls some of his past.

S1E12 - The Oracle and the Mountains - The Man In Black... At Last

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 04:27:35 GMT

Kevin and Nick have long palaver, as always. Roland and Jake finally encounter the man in black.

S1E11 - The Oracle and the Mountains - Spark a Dark, Where's My Sire?

Sun, 21 May 2023 15:30:13 GMT

After a quick Stephen King trivia and discussion. Kevin and Nick continue on with The Oracle and the Mountains. Roland and Jake continue their long climb in pursuit of the Man in Black. Roland gets more introspective and The Dark Tower is mentioned.

S1E10 - The Oracle and the Mountains - Sex, Drugs, and Prophecy

Sun, 14 May 2023 22:00:41 GMT

Roland has a nice trip, smells some smells, and has some fun but also gets some prophecies

S1E9 - The Oracle and the Mountains - Worst Babysitter Ever

Sun, 07 May 2023 15:56:02 GMT

Kevin and Nick move on through the Oracle and the Mountains. They discuss oracles and succubi. And question some of Roland's babysitting methods.

S1E8 - The Oracle and the Mountains - Her name is Rhea and she dances by the flames

Mon, 01 May 2023 01:57:35 GMT

Kevin and Nick begin The Oracle and the Mountains. They spend a lot of time with tangents until Nick remembers there's a podcast going on. Nick starts his Stephen King trivia segment. And Kevin and Nick decide that Nick will read the old version and Kevin reads the 2003 version

S1E7 - The Way Station - Always Slightly Dangerous

Mon, 24 Apr 2023 14:19:26 GMT

Kevin and Nick continue on with 'The Way Station'. Roland and Jake set off on their journey together. We get a little of Roland's backstory, we meet his friend Cuthbert, the hawk David, and the iron-fisted Cort. And then we head to the gallows.

S1E6 - The Way Station - Hypnotism and Exposition.

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 07:24:40 GMT

Kevin and Nick learn Jake's back story and how he made it here. First mention of the Tower, and lots of planning for the journey. Nick forgets to speak again, thank goodness for Kevin.

S1E5 - The Way Station - Meet Jake

Mon, 10 Apr 2023 05:52:34 GMT

Kevin and Nick begin reading The Way Station. We are introduced to Jake Chambers.. Kevin also explains his color system for highlighting changes to the new edition (red=deletions, yellow=additions, orange=significant word/grammatical changes that change the meaning of the sentence, and blue=minor word/grammatical changes that don't change the meaning of e sentence. Also, Nick forgets to speak up until the very end

S1E4 - The Gunslinger - Interloper

Mon, 03 Apr 2023 05:47:44 GMT

Kevin and Nick continue on through the gunslinger.. Sheb's poor wrists, poor Allie, and some hellfire from Silvia Pittston.. Then things escalate quickly.

S1E3 - The Gunslinger - King-ception

Sun, 26 Mar 2023 20:36:29 GMT

Kevin and Nick continue reading and move on to a story within a story within a story within a story as we're introduced to Tull, Allie, and the Man in Black.

S1E2 - The Gunslinger - Long Days and Pleasant Nights

Mon, 20 Mar 2023 06:23:14 GMT

We had some audio difficulties in episode 2, Stick with us, It gets better. In this episode we get up to section V of the Gunslinger.

S1E1 - The Gunslinger Part 1

Wed, 15 Mar 2023 06:20:32 GMT

Our first episode, we discuss Stephen King's writings, in general, then begin our disucssion of The Gunslinger