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August 14, 2025 82 mins
On today's episode of the Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture with Isaac Weishaupt podcast we continue our decoding of Kubrick's The Shining! In Part 2 we’ll walk through the second half of the film- we’ll talk about symbolism found in the German Adler typewriter, eagles, phoenix, labyrinths, Heretic, Grady twins, Room 217 vs Room 237, Faustian bargains, Kabbalah bathtubs, Eraserhead, who is Delbert Grady, 42, REDRUM, Horace Derwent’s Epstein parties, Roger the Dogman, Bears and Baphomet! 

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In part two of our deep dive into the shining, we unravel the second half of Kubrick's

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Haunted Masterpiece in the rabbit hole only gets deeper.
We'll decode the Adler typewriter, the Phoenix and Eagle symbolism and the transformation
of room 217 to room 237 from Falstein bargains to capitalistic bath dubs from a racer
head to the Grady twins and Roger the Dogman.
We're digging into Horace Durwin's Epstein coated parties, Baffa Met, Bears, Red Rum,

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and Kubrick's ritual laden overlook maize, the vellus thinning.
That's right, if you're here listening to part two, that means you've already listened
to part one.
And if you didn't, I don't know what you're doing here, go back and listen to part
one.
It was the episode right before this, because in part one, we gave a critical look at

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the cast and crew and the background of the shining.
And then we walked through the first half of the movie, now today in part two, we're going
to finish the movie itself.
And then I'll come back for the next episode of part three, where we're going to decode
everything and try to make sense of what the conspiracies are and what the real occult
symbolism is behind this film.
Alright, now same deal as the last time, right?

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You want to watch the video version?
Just go sign up for tier two, patreon.com/luminatiwatcher or the VIP section.
Tier two gets you the early access ad for your version of the video.
Although as you're on that free feed loser status with the video, which you got to wait,
and then there's pesky ads, oh my god, what a nightmare.
You don't want to do that.
And same as last time, explicit language.
Trigger warnings, right?

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For sexual abuse type discussions.
Same thing as last time, as part one.
So, with all that out of the way, let's continue where we left off at the end of part
one.
Then we saw Dick Halleran talking to Danny about the shiny and he gives him a final warning.
He says, "Do not go to room two, three, seven, Danny."

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Alright?
So, in today's analysis in part two, we resume the film.
We're told it's now a month later.
And Danny is riding his big wheel around the hotel.
This is a thing that happens a few times in the movie.
And these big wheel clips are what some of the sort of crypto-cubrologists used to map

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out the actual hotel.
A lot of people before me have spent a lot of painstaking time trying to recreate this hotel
and what they found was nothing lines up.
There's floors where there shouldn't be floors.
There's hallways where there shouldn't be hallways.
And the implication is that Kubrick made this a maze.
He made it very surreal.

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It doesn't make sense.
So Danny riding the big wheel around the hotel is the way of sort of forcing us to take
a look at that.
So Wendy, she's sort of doing room service here and Jackie's sleeping in till freaking
noon.

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And you'll notice the usage of the mirror again.
And same as last time, I've got images.
I'll put them on the Instagram.
But also the video version, I'm going to play the images while I speak and play the movie
clips and so on.
So we have the usage of the mirror again, the portal.
And you notice in Kubrick movies, he uses the mirror prominently featured in eyes wide

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shut when Alice is looking into the mirror.
It's in the movie poster.
And Wendy asks if Jack will go and walk with her.
And he's like, no, I got a key right in this book.
And though he's sleeping until noon.

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And we see the Colorado room where he, you know, it's where he's doing all his great writing.
And Jack has his typewriter set up and typewriter is an Adler typewriter.
And we're going to talk about that in a sec, but he's aggressively throwing a ball against
the wall still not writing.
He's throwing a ball against the wall against Native American artwork.

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And another reference to the Native Americans, this tension between America and Native Americans.
And we talked about this in my book, Kubrick's Code.
The typewriter that Jack is using in the film is a German Adler, an Adler in German means
Eagle.
Because in Stephen King's novel, Jack is using a typewriter called an Underwood.

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And this is one of the main arguments for the shining being actually a film about the
holocaust.
And then, he was a supercomsself was Jewish.
There's arguments that he had maybe some anti-Semitic views at times.
But he was married to Christian Harlan.

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And she was the niece of the German filmmaker, Viet Harlan.
And Viet Harlan was recruited by the Nazi minister of propaganda himself, Joseph Gables.
To be the leading director of propaganda.
So Kubrick probably had many discussions about this, right?
He's a filmmaker himself.

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He's very knowledgeable in symbolism of propaganda himself.
It seems all too perfect.
Now the eagle is interesting in terms of symbolism.
If we refer to the secret teachings of all ages, a book by 33 degree, Freemason, Manley
Peehall, he talks about the zodiac and how it's connected into all this.

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And because the reason why that's important is because they believe in this idea of ritual
magic, hermetic principles as above so be low, right?
It's the idea that the cosmos are the things happening in the cosmos are linked to the things
happening here on earth.
A magician can use his or her will to cause changes in the universe and so on.

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When I read you from secret teachings, it says, "Skorpio being the sign of a cult
initiation, the flying eagle, the king of birds represents the highest and most spiritual
type of Scorpio, in which it transcends the venomous insects of the earth."
As Scorpio and Taurus are opposite each other in the zodiac, their symbolism is often closely

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intermingled.
In ancient calendars and constellations it says, "The Scorpion, the constellation Scorpio
of the zodiac, joins with Mithra's in his attack upon the bull and always the genie of
the spring and autumn equinoxes are present in joyous and mournful attitudes."

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Now the book goes further into this idea of the symbolism of eagle as the ruler of the
mundane, of the masses, the mouth-breather's, you and I, okay?
Because they have this very elitist worldview that only the elites deserve the best.
Kind of like how Stuart Alman says, "Only the finest people come here," right?
They look with disdain upon the middle and lower class.

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Peasants.
Alistar Crowley said, "The slave shall serve."
That's how they view us, okay?
Among the Greeks and Romans, the eagle was the appointed bird of Jupiter and consequently
signified the swiftly moving forces of the Demiurgis.
Hence it was looked upon as the mundane Lord of the birds in contra distinction to the

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phoenix, which was symbolic of the celestial ruler.
The eagle typified the sun in its material phase and also the immutable Demiurgic law beneath
which all mortal creatures must bend.
The eagle was also the hermetic symbol of the sulfur and signified the mysterious fire
of Scorpio, the most profoundly significant sign of the zodiac and the gate of the great

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mystery.
Being one of the three symbols of the Scorpio, the eagle, like the go to Mendis, that's
go with the bobs, right?
That's the baffamette, which plots boiler at the end of the shining.
That's what Jack is doing, the stance of the baffamette.
He's goatting with the bobbins.
Being one of the three symbols of Scorpio, the eagle, like the go to Mendis, aka the baffamette,

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was an emblem of the Theergic Art and the secret processes by which the infernal fire of
the Scorpion was transmuted into spiritual light fire of the gods.
Now, the eagle is very important to all of the mystery religions because it is the spirit
of the phoenix.
It's a symbol that represents the alchemical transformation of mankind.

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The initiate is reborn into the new understanding of this world and rises from the ashes like
a phoenix, right?
That's why it's represented as the final stage of alchemy.
Kruberk knowledgeable about the concepts of alchemy as is evident from 2001's Space Odyssey.
But should my dear listener not believe me yet, let's keep reading, Manly Peahaw.

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He connects the phoenix to the actual American eagle.
That's where we're going with this, right?
We're talking about America, oftentimes, all the colors in the film, the red, white, and
blue and such.
European mysticism was not dead at the time the United States of America was founded.
The hand of the mysteries controlled in the establishment of the new government for the

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signature of the mysteries may still be seen on the great sale of the United States.
Careful, which by the way was at the Republican National Convention in 2024, yeah, they had
the great sale.
Remember that with the Pyramid of the All-Seeing Eye, New World Order stuff.
Careful analysis of the seal discloses a mass of occult and masonic symbols, chief among

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them the so-called American eagle, a bird which Benjamin Franklin declared unworthy to
be chosen as the emblem of a great powerful and progressive people.
Here again, only a student of symbolism can see through the subterfuge and realize that
the American eagle upon the great seal is not, is, but a conventionalized phoenix, a fact
plainly discernible from an examination of the original seal.

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In his sketch of the history of the seal of the United States, Gellierd Hunt unwittingly
brings forward much material to substantiate the belief that the original seal carried the
phoenix bird on its obverse surface and the great pyramid of Giza upon its reverse surface.
So there you go, America, a lumineconfermos.

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The eagle holds great significance in terms of the secret destiny of America, also written
by Manlope Holtz, about basically this new, new Atlantis, neoplatonist fantasy, Plato's
republic, this idea that the scientific elites should or AI should be the new governing body,

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because people are just too dumb left to their own devices.
And that's why you see the symbolism of all these occult concepts in the NASA, you know,
pagan system on the patches and so on.
And that's the main idea of occult symbolism in the world of conspiracy is that they're
trying to do alchemical transformations of the entire country on some level.

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So Wendy and Danny, they're running into the labyrinth and Danny says, or Wendy says,
is it Danny?
Danny says loser has to keep America clean.
I'll play the clip for you.
What are they talking about now?
I think the reason they say that is because back in that time there was a keep America beautiful

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public service announcement, at least 1971 with this Native American crying.
And to me, it seems kind of like, I don't know, it's drawing attention to Native America,
Native Americans and USA.
Okay.
Now what's more interesting is that they're running into a labyrinth and the labyrinth

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is not in the book at all, which is kind of crazy.
labyrinth is an idea loaded with symbolism.
It's a journey for the initiate.
And it's like the original Greek mythology of the labyrinth of the Minotaur, which was
all about imprisoning the Minotaur and the C.S. has to conquer this maze to confront

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the shadow, right?
That's always like the individuation process of Carl Jung.
Or you could argue, like I will in part three, that Jack Nicholson's character, Jack Torrance,
confronting his own shadow.
But in the Minotaur mythology, it's about confronting the shadow that's all the way in
the center of the maze.

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It's deeply seated.
You got to work towards it.
And it's a bit of a play on what Alistair Crowley and Jack Parsons were doing with crossing
the abyss or confronting Karon's own, the shadow.
They wanted to destroy the eagle fully so they could cross the abyss and become masters
of the temple.
In the labrothus symbolic of the great work, right, this is what all these cultists are

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always talking about.
It's becoming reborn with this occult noses.
Carl Jung had the symbolize the personal unconscious mind as a labyrinth.
And a person would need to navigate the labyrinth and go deep into the center to find the shadow,

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to find their true self.
Because as you grow, you are programmed from social norms and constructs and church and
politics and parents and family and friends and all this stuff.
Your brain is just soaking all this stuff up and you don't really have a true self in
there.
It's buried in there, right?
Now, it's very interesting.

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Cooper could add these elements to the story that, again, it wasn't in the book.
And it's kind of like how the interior shots of the hotel are not really possible and it
doesn't make any sense.
It's like an MC Escher artwork with different worlds folding on top of one another, multiple
dimensions of reality existing in one space.

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And it creates a liminal realm or what they call it in a back rooms.
And it's a sort of ports into this world where we're not really sure what's real, what's
a hallucination, are they dreaming, are they awake?
Why, why, why did some of these things not make any sense?
This is kind of like the world of Twin Peaks, right?
Very David Lynch.
And in the book, there's no labyrinth, but there's these hedge animals that come to life.

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It's pretty creepy.
Jack is like, when he's outside work and he senses them looking at him and he senses them
moving, it's pretty unnerving.
And I haven't seen the TV version of the shining.
I mean, just on principle, it can't be as good as Kubrick, right?
But I think that the, I think the hedge monsters are possibly in the TV version.

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I could be wrong.
So Kubrick, we get the classic Kubrick cross fate of Jack Torrance and Wendy and Danny
running around the labyrinth.
And he's kind of just sulking around the hotel and he throws this tennis ball against the
wall and it basically disappears.

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You don't really see it go anywhere.
It makes the noise like a bounces off the wall, but you don't see it.
Now, same ball is going to come back later.
We're going to find out where it went mysteriously.
And at this point, he leans over this giant diorama on a table of the exact labyrinth that's
outside.
And it zooms in to the labyrinth on the table inside the house and it shows Wendy and

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Danny in the center of the labyrinth running around.
What are we even talking about?
Doesn't even make sense.
It doesn't even make sense.
This was just like the film Heretic.
If you haven't listened to my Heretic analysis, boy, if I get a treat for you, I didn't
even realize it.
I'd seen the shining many, many times.
And when I did the Heretic film analysis, which has a similar situation where Mr. Reed

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is using ritual magic in a way.
And he's controlling this reality that he can kind of lean over his own diorama and see
the characters moving around.
He's controlling reality through magic in this diorama as above so below.
I'll put a link at the show notes.
If you haven't listened to the Heretic film analysis, oh boy, that's a good one.

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It's a real doozy.
All right.
Now we are shown on the screen that it's now Tuesday.
And those, you know, those Kubrick changes it will be like a month later, Tuesday, 4 p.m.
It's like, what?
You can't get your bearings.
And that's the point.

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Danny Big Wheeling again down on the new floor.
And this time we've got this carpet pattern that you, the iconic shining carpet pattern.
He stops at room 2, 3, 7, but the door is locked.
And he's wearing red, white and blue as usual.
What's Jack Torrance doing?
Well, he's finally typing.
Oh, thank goodness.

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Thank goodness he broke his writer's block.
And Wendy comes by to check on him.
She's also wearing red, white and blue.
And Jack's being a total jerk.
He's like, you know, these interruptions are distracting me and slowing me down so he
implements a new rule.
If I mean here typing or if I'm not typing, whatever the fuck I'm in this room, it means he's

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working.
So don't come in.
Do not bother him.
And then he drops the abusive line.
Why don't you start right now and get the fuck out of here with the ultra villain mega Jack
Nicholson eyebrow arch.

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Now you'll see echoes of this in Twin Peaks as well because Leo Johnson, he also loved to
make roles.
He was also abusive to his wife, Shelley Johnson.
He was big on telling her the roles like she can only smoke a certain brand of cigarettes
and he showed her how to clean the floor and so on.
So we finally got the first dreaded snow storm.

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And Wendy and Danny are playing in it, wearing red, white and blue yet again.
We got the classic meme of Jack Torrance staring off into space like a total maniac.
And you'll notice behind him is a fire like a giant fireplace and this is very much the
same symbolism that Lynch used in Twin Peaks with Ben Horn being an evil character and showing

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the fireplace.
But what's real creepy about this scene is that the end of it, Jack Nicholson or Jack Torrance,
he looks up like he's looking at a spirit or something.
What's my man looking at?
It's very clear.
I'm playing if you're watching the video version in the show, you can see the clip.

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When out Saturday, we skipped some days.
Jack's typing though, still working.
Wendy's in the control room, trying to figure out the radio system.
She gets it figured out.
She calls KDK1, which is the Forest Service from her radio, which is KDK12.
We hear about the storm is the worst they've ever seen, naturally.

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Fun fact, there's an homage to the shining and breaking bad where there's a police officer
who uses the KDK12 call sign.
Right before he catches an axe to the dome piece.
Good one breaking bad.
That was a great show too.
Wendy is big wheeling around and sees the Grady twins again.
They say come and play with us, Danny, forever and ever and ever.

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Super creepy.
He also has the vision, the shining vision of them butchered with the axe.
He's still wearing red, white and blue in case you were wondering.
He tells his invisible friend Tony, his alter associated alter that he's scared.
Tony says it's just like pictures in a book.
It isn't real.

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Oh, if you want more on that in Cooper's code, my book, I talked about the photographer,
Diane Arvis, who Cooper had studied and she took photos of a bunch of freaks.
I think you freaky and I like you a lot.
So if you want more, check out Cooper's code.
Monday.
Now it's Monday.

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And it's time for what could be the creepiest scene in the whole film in a way?
Jack, he's the buggin' out, right?
He's losing it.
He calls Danny into the room to sit on his lap.
And what makes it creepy is how Jack is behaving and how Danny is acting pretty dissociated.
He's still wearing red, white and blue, by the way.

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Danny asks if he's feeling all right.
Jack says he's just tired and he's got too much to do to sleep.
And it's kind of a long clip.
So my folks with ADD hang in there.
It's going to be a minute.
So let's check out this dialogue of these two talking and I'll come back.
How's it going, Dad?

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Okay.
It's having a good time.
Yes, Dad.
Good.
Once you have a good time.
I am, Dad.
Dad?

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Yes?
He's still bad.
No.
So tired.
Tomorrow you go to sleep.

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I can't.
You have too much to do.
Dad?
Yes.
You like this hotel?

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Yes.
I do.
I love it.
You want to?
I guess so.
Yes.
I want you to like it here.

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I wish we could stay here forever.
Dad?
What?
You would have never hurt mommy, would you?
What do you mean?

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Did your mother ever say that to you?
That I would hurt you.
No, Dad.
You sure?
Yes, Dad.
I love you, Danny.

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I love you more than anything else in the whole world.
I'll never do anything to hurt you.
Never.
You know that, don't you?
Yes, Dad.
Good.
Good.
So Danny asks Jacks if he likes the hotel.

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And Jack says, "I wish we could stay here forever and ever and ever, just like the Grady
twins," right?
Danny asks if he would hurt mommy because he sees in the future that with the shining
and he thinks that he's going to hurt her.
Now it's Wednesday.
And Danny's playing on that same carpet, the iconic shining carpet, and a ball comes
rolling in.
And this is what I propose to be the same ball that Jack Torrance throws against the wall

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that disappears earlier.
So it tells weird.
And he stands up.
He's playing with these toys and a ball comes rolling down to where he's playing.
And he stands up and he's wearing a sweater that says Apollo 11.
Again, red, white and blue.
And he walks down the carpet towards room 237, which is where the ball came from.

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And then also the key in the lock at room two, three, seven says room, NO, two, three, seven.
And J-Winer says you move those letters around and it says moon room.
Actually, moon rom, technically.

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And then also the numerology of this is interesting.
If you do the numerology stuff two by three by seven equals 42, which is the same number
you see on Danny's shirt.
42 shows of a bunch, we'll talk about in part three.
Also the Grady twins could represent the Gemini astrology sign, the Gemini twins, the Gemini

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program was the predecessor to Apollo.
And again, the twins are not in the book.
So Cooper threw that in there.
So Wendy, she had some high voltage switches in the basement.
She hears Jack yell when she hits these high voltage switches and she walks as slow as
humanly possible towards the Colorado room to check on them.

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Good news.
Jack's just having a violent bad dream and he's screaming and she wakes him up and he's
shook and he's, I had the worst dream ever.
I jumped, I killed, killed you and Danny and cut you up in a little pieces.
Well, then Danny walks in right on cue and his shirt is torn, his neck is bruised.
What the heck happened?
He went into room two, three, seven like Dick told him not to.

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And Wendy assumes Jack abused him because he had this past of doing that.
And Jack, he's like in a catatonic state, he's bugging out while Wendy's accusing him of
using Danny, you know, she's mom of a bar style right now.
Jack's getting upset so he stumbles over to the gold room.

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And in the book, they actually go back and forth between Jack and Wendy.
Jack, in fact, Jack blames Wendy at one point, but they actually talk about like adults
in the book because in the book again, Jack's not a total monster.
He's just, he's trying to be a good father, trying to be a good husband.
Anyways, when Jack's walking down the hallway to the gold room, you'll notice that there's

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these mirrors and every time he passes a mirror, he sort of like punches in the air, strange
timing.
It's like his reflection is causing some kind of issue.
He's confronting the shadow basically.
He knows the colors, Emerald, Green, Gold and Red, there's all highly charged Wizard of
Oz colors.

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So Jack goes in this empty, you know, gold room and he says he'd give his goddamn soul for
a glass of beer around a queue of bartender in a red tuxedo appears with a full bar of
booze.
Stranger, yeah, Jack knows his name.
He says, hi, Lloyd.
How does he know his name?

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As he's always been there, he's always been the caretaker.
Anyway, I want you to listen to this full dialogue because Jack confesses his feelings about
Wendy and Danny.
My man is full of excuses.
The whole time Lloyd is just listening stone faced because, you know, he reads through
all of Jack's bullshit too.
Take a listen.
God, I can't get anything for a drink.

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Oh my god damn soul, just a glass of beer.
Hi Lloyd.
Who's slowed a night, isn't it?

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Yes, it is Mr. Tonis.
What lit the?
I'm awfully glad you asked me that Lloyd because I just happen to have two twenties and two
tins right here in my wallet.

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I was afraid they were going to be there next April.
So here's what?
You slip me a bottle of bourbon, a little glass and some ice.
You can do that, can't you Lloyd?
You're not too busy, are you?
No sir, not busy at all.

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Good man.
You set him up and I'll knock him back Lloyd.
One, but one.
White man's burden, Lloyd my man.
White man's burden.
Say, Lord it seems I'm temporarily light.

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How's my credit in this joint anyway?
You're credit is fine Mr. Tonis.
That's swell.
I like you Lloyd.
I always like you.
You were always the best of them.
Best God damn bartender from Timbuck 2 to Portland main.

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I'm a Portland organ for that matter.
Thank you for saying so.
I never laid a hand on him God damn it.
I hid.

(37:08):
I wouldn't touch one hair on his God damn real head.
I loved the little son of a bitch.
I'd do anything for him.
Any fucking thing for him.
Not that bitch.

(37:32):
Long as I live, she'll never let me forget what happened.
I didn't hurt him once okay.
It was an accident.

(37:52):
Completely unintentional.
Couldn't happen anybody.
And it was three goddamn years ago.
A little fucker had thrown all my papers all over the floor all I tried to do was pull them
up.
The moment I re-loss of muscular coordination, you sprigth the pounds of energy per second.

(38:32):
After Jack sells his soul for a bottle of beer, he ironically orders a bottle of bourbon.
In the book he's ordering martinis.
He calls them Martians because his friend Al thinks it's funny to call them Martians.
Anyhow, at this point in the dialogue Jack talks about white man's burden.

(38:53):
This happens in the book also.
I believe what he's actually referencing is the idea of white man's burden is this concept
that the white man needs to expand colonized, build empires because the elite whites need
to civilize the whole world into their superior way of being.

(39:18):
So my thought reading the book was that, okay, I think he says that because it's Jack's
way of imperializing the drinks, which is why he says it.
It's a plan words.
It's colonizing Mars or Martians.
Which could be kind of weird because that ties into Elon Musk and stuff, right?
Or maybe it's a reference to the hotel being built on Native American burial grounds as

(39:42):
they're the white man's duty to dominate other cultures.
But in this dialogue, Jack says he's got 220's and 210's.
He's worried it'll be there till April because that's when the family leaves as a neighbor.
And Jack, he claims that he's never laid a hand on Danny.
He would never do anything.
That goddamn bitch will never let him forget what happened because he accidentally heard

(40:05):
him years ago.
And right when he gets done doing all this, here comes Wendy with a baseball bat to the
gold room and she's freaking out because Danny tells her, hey, there's a strange woman
in room 237 that tried to kill me.
Would you think in a way Jack would be like, oh, good.
Like I'm not suspect number one anymore.

(40:25):
But anyway.
Then we cut to Dick Haller and he's watching the news from Miami because he's worried about
Danny and the overlook.
He's the big storm coming into Colorado and he has like this severe case of the shining.
He kind of locks up.
Same time Danny is seizing up the fuck in the book.

(40:49):
There's this whole thing about him needing to go down to the side wider town and and Wendy
and Jack try to figure out how to get down there because he needs some medical attention.
I think it's from getting stung by bees.
Anyway.
Cooper made his way creepier for what it's worth.
So now Jack goes investigating.

(41:10):
He goes inside a room 237 and you see the purple and green carpets.
You see the golden yellow bathroom kind of like the gold room and and shit gets crazy.
Take a listen.
[Music]

(41:30):
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]

(42:00):
[Music]
[Music]

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So Jack goes in there and he sees a sexually woman in the bathtub and she opens up the curtain
for Jack to check her out.
Now the bathtub of course is a very curious decision here to put in there for Cooper.
It's the the capitalistic cleansing ritual called the mikfa and we've talked about this countless
times on the show.

(42:51):
The passage of the moon goddess you see a lot of celebrity dying in the bathtub.
Wendy Houston and Bobby Christina being the most mysterious of all of them and when you
get into the realm of seeing how the music industry works with Diddy you start thinking
well maybe these people are into some weird stuff.
Anyway Jack sees this real hot chick nude and he gets a big old creepy grin.

(43:16):
The woman walks towards him and turns out she's super into Jack.
Jack's hot right so they start smooching down and he looks in the mirror and it's actually
an old decaying woman.
So Jack's out of there right.
Jack's all horned up and reading that play girl I guess.
Now fun fact this scene was actually inspired by David Lynch's eraser head because as you

(43:39):
recall part one we talked about how Kubrick screened eraser head for the cast and crew of
the shining to say like this is the vibe we're going for.
Because in a racer head Henry he has this sort of strange infatuation with his neighbor
in room 27.
And again the book doesn't have this scene right.

(44:02):
The similar scenes but not the same scene it has Danny going to the room he sees the spirit
and that's why his shirt gets ripped in the film but in the book Jack goes into the room
he gets the he be jebys he dips.
And again it's on it's room 217 so it's quite different in the book as well.
So big big collar on he's like calling up collar out of the phone lines are down okay he

(44:24):
starts tripping down a little bit.
Meanwhile back at the overlook Jack he gets back to his hotel room completely unfazed by
the way.
Let's put it let's make sure we get that out of the way completely unfazed that he was just
trying to make love with a dead woman in the hotel that's completely empty.

(44:45):
And he just tells Wendy he didn't see anything at all.
And he's very tender with Wendy right now.
And you'll notice when you watch this film listen to the background noises you hear the
wind howling like there's some real spiritual activity drumming up in the hotel.
And Jack thinks maybe Danny heard himself now since there's no boogie man in room 237.

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And Jack wouldn't do this.
But Wendy still wants to get Danny out of there.
Jack hates this idea.
He tells her that she's fucked his life up so far and she's not about to fuck up his big
book deal.
Meanwhile poor Danny he's tripping balls and he sees red rum on the door he sees blood
gushing out the elevator things are getting bad.

(45:31):
So then Jack he's throwing the halls again and there's a party going down in the gold room.
He got balloons and music.
The works.
And he heads in.
It's not decorated with lots of red before had green and gold now it's red and gold right.
Like red rum.
I don't know just an idea.
And he gets some more bourbon.

(45:51):
And he's got cash in his wallet wallet but hey no charges from the house orders from
the house.
The whole reference the house is the overlook because the hotel the overlook is actually like
a giant spirit machine of some kind.
Jack says he wants to know who's buying his drinks Lloyd says it's no matter this is the
fastie in bargain.

(46:11):
Remember he said he would sell his soul.
Well you just did dummy.
A waiter spills drinks on Jack and offers to clean it in the bathroom.
And this is where things get nefarious.
Here goes in the bathroom with the waiter.
The waiter says his name is Delbert Grady.
Remember Charles Grady was the guy that acts as kids who's Delbert Grady.

(46:32):
We don't know.
Delbert Grady's in there and Jack says hey I know you that's the you're the previous caretaker
who acts as family.
And Jack tells Grady that he knows what he did.
But Grady seems confused and he's like I didn't do that.

(46:53):
And Grady tells Jack you are the caretaker.
You always been the caretaker.
And earlier he did say that in the scene he says that Jack is the most important person
here.
I'm going to play the clip.
Another long one hang in there.
You know I personally love the the the Kubrick dialogue scenes.

(47:14):
Some people get very impatient.
I think that's the best part of the Kubrick film.
Take a listen.
I should say of course I intend to change my jacket this evening before the fish and
goots swarray.
Very wise here.
Very wise.
Here I'll just hold this for you there.
Oh.
Do you think?

(47:34):
Thank you.
Now let's see if we can improve this with a little water.
All right.
I'll just set my bourbon and adve cut down right there.
Don't keep your moments, huh?
Mine.
Well they call you around here, Gigi.

(47:54):
Grady's a Delbert Grady.
Grady?
Yes, sir.
Delbert Grady.
That's right, sir.
It's Grady.

(48:17):
Haven't I seen you somewhere before?
What is it?
I didn't believe, sir.
It's coming off now, sir.
Grady.
Aren't you, Grady?

(48:41):
Aren't you once the caretaker here?
Fine, sir.
I didn't believe, sir.
You married man, are you?
It's Grady.
Yes, sir.
I have a wife and two daughters, sir.
And where are they now?

(49:02):
Oh, there.
Somewhere around.
I'm not quite sure of them, sir.
Mr. Grady, you were the caretaker here.
I recognize you.

(49:25):
I saw your picture in the newspapers.
You chopped your wife and daughter up in little bits.
And you blew your brains out.
Let's try and tell.

(49:51):
I don't have any recollection of that at all.
Mr. Grady, you were the caretaker here.
I'm sorry to differ with you, sir.

(50:16):
But you are the caretaker.
You've always been the caretaker.
I should know, sir.
I've always been here.

(50:52):
Did you know, Mr. Torrance, that your son is attempting to bring an outside party into
this situation?
Did you know that?
No.

(51:12):
He is Mr. Torrance.
Who?
A nigger.
A nigger.
A nigger, cook.

(51:34):
Now, your son has a very great talent.
I don't think you are aware how great it is.
But he is attempting to use that very talent against your will.

(52:02):
He is a very wonderful boy.
Indeed he is, Mr. Torrance, a very wonderful boy.
A rather naughty boy, if I may be so boastful.

(52:33):
It's his mother.
She interferes.
Perhaps they need a good talking to him.
If you don't mind my saying, sir, perhaps a bit more.

(53:04):
My girls, they didn't care for the hovel look at first.
One of them actually stole a pack of matches and tried to burn it down.
But I corrected them, sir.
And when my wife tried to prevent me from doing my duty, I corrected her.

(53:30):
So, Jack's confused.
Grady snits in on Danny saying he is trying to call for help for this situation.
Oh yeah, then it was a hard r.
Drops a hard r in the conversation.

(53:54):
Grady says that Danny has a talent he is using against Jack's will and that pisses Jack off.
He is a naughty boy.
And Jack says it's because of his mother.
Grady says perhaps they need a bit more than just a talking to.
Try to get him to kill his family.

(54:15):
And Grady says that his girls didn't care for the hotel either.
They tried to burn it down.
And his wife also tried to stop him.
So he had to correct all of them.
So this Grady did kill his family.
Why is he acting all suspicious?
So Delward Grady, who everyone said was named Charles, was the caretaker who acts as family.

(54:39):
Now he's telling Jack that Jack is the caretaker.
Jack somehow knows Grady.
He says, "Have I seen you before?
How would he have seen him before?"
Unless he was always at the hotel somehow.
And we're getting this, I mean it's like spiritual finger cuffs of some kind.
Because by the end we feel like these two are locked into this weird reincarnation type

(55:02):
environment.
When you see the photo at the end of the film, you'll see it.
Or maybe Jack's just getting drunk, you know.
And his shadow is coming out and confusing things.
Or maybe Delward Grady is Jack's shadow.
Because we know that, and this is in the book, we know that Charles Grady was also an alcoholic

(55:23):
and he got drunk and murdered his family.
So Jack heads out on the mission, right?
And the first step is to cut off that radio.
So, you know, and he doesn't just unplug, he pops out the relays.
And Big Dick, Holler on, he's flying out to Colorado.
He's like, "I gotta get out there."
Danny's in trouble, he drives a car up the past through the snow.

(55:45):
This is where you get a shot of the crushed Volkswagen, the crushed red Volkswagen, a dis
against Stephen King, apparently.
Come on, fellas, I love both of you.
What are you doing?
We don't have to fight.
In the book in this scene, it just says there's an overturned semi.
It doesn't mention any Volkswagen at all.
So, 100% Kubrick on that.
Wendy is in the Colorado room and she's got a baseball bat.

(56:08):
Because she's looking for Jack.
She wants the smoke.
And she goes over to the typewriter to find his typing that he's been doing for all this
time.
It just says the same things over in Oregon.
It just says, "All working no play makes Jack a doll boy."
Stacks and stacks of pages.
He's really lost his mind.

(56:31):
Jay Widener also points out that the all, you know, typewriter looks like A11, Apollo 11.
And then right on cue, here comes Jack Nicholson around the corner while she's snooping
through his beautiful book that he's typing.
And he shuts it all down.
You know, that damn Wendy so nosy.
It is, "How do you like it?"

(56:53):
Classic Jack Nicholson scene.
Again, another long scene.
Just enjoy it.
This is Pete Jack Nicholson and Shelley DeVal.
It's same scene, we'll come back.

(57:30):
(engine rumbling)
(engine rumbling)
(engine rumbling)
(engine rumbling)
(engine rumbling)
(engine rumbling)
How do you like it?

(58:10):
(screaming)
(engine rumbling)
(engine rumbling)
How do you like it?
(engine rumbling)
What are you doing down here?

(58:31):
(engine rumbling)
(engine rumbling)
I just want to...
to talk to you.
To talk to you.
(engine rumbling)
Okay, let's talk.
(engine rumbling)
(engine rumbling)

(58:52):
(engine rumbling)
(dramatic music)
What do you want to talk about?
(dramatic music)
(dramatic music)
I can't really remember.
I can't remember.

(59:14):
(dramatic music)
No, I can't.
(dramatic music)
Maybe it was about Danny and me.
(dramatic music)
Maybe it was about Danny and me.
(dramatic music)

(59:35):
I think we should discuss Danny.
I think we should discuss what should be done.
(dramatic music)
What should be done with him?
(crying)

(59:58):
I don't know.
I don't think that's true.
I think you have some very definite ideas about what should be done with Danny.
And I'd like to know what they are.
(crying)
I think Danny should be taken to a doctor.

(01:00:20):
You think maybe he should be taken to a doctor.
(crying)
Wendy, you think maybe he should be taken to a doctor.
(crying)
As soon as possible, as soon as possible.
(crying)
You believe his health might be at stake.

(01:00:42):
Yes.
You are concerned about him.
(crying)
And are you concerned about me?
Of course I am.
Of course you are.
I've never thought about my responsibilities.
I was like, what are you talking about?

(01:01:04):
Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities?
Have you ever thought for a single solitary moment about my responsibilities to my employers?
Has it ever occurred to you that I have agreed to look after the Overlook Hotel until May the first?
Does it matter to you at all that the owners have placed their complete confidence in trusting me

(01:01:26):
and that I have signed a letter of agreement, a contract, in which I have accepted that responsibility?
Do you have the slightest idea what a moral and ethical principle is?
Do you?
Has it ever occurred to you that would happen to my future if I were to fail to live up to my responsibilities?
Has it ever occurred to you?
How did that?

(01:01:47):
Believe me.
Why?
I just want to go back to my room.
Why?
I'm very confused.
I just need to turn this thing over.
You've had your whole fucking life to think things over.

(01:02:09):
What good's it for you and it's more going to do you now?
Stay away from me.
Please!
Don't hurt me.
I'm not going to hurt you.
Stay away from me.
Wendy.
Stay away!
I'm not going to hurt you.
You didn't let me finish my sentence.
I said, "I'm not going to hurt you.

(01:02:32):
I'm just going to bash your brains in.
I'm going to bash them right the fuck in."
Stay away from me.
Don't hurt me.
I'm not going to hurt you.
Stay away from me.
Stay away.
Please!
Stop swinging the bat.

(01:02:53):
Stay away from me.
Put the bat down, Wendy.
Stop it!
Wendy, give me the bat.
Leave!
Stay away!
Give me the bat.
Stop it!
Give me the bat.
Stop swinging the bat.
Give me the bat, Wendy.
Wendy!

(01:03:14):
Die!
Give me the bat.
Give me the bat.
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
So Wendy's like, "Oh, I just want to talk."
Jack says, "What do you want to talk about?"
He closes his in honor.
And Danny hears the whole conversation in his head.
And he sees blood, right?
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Links in the show notes.
Jack being a total abusive jerk off.
He's harassing her about his responsibilities to his employers.
You also notice when he's talking to her, he does the 666 hand.
Talks about his contract with the overlook because remember, he made the founcing and bargain.
Said he'd sell us over a beer.

(01:05:46):
Jack tells her that he's going to bash her brains in.
Does some tongue wagging as she backs up the stairs.
She's fending them off with the badge.
She's swinging the bad at him.
She actually swings the bad at him 42 times.
Kind of strange.
There's that 42 again.
She makes contact on the 42nd swing.
We talked about this in Cooper's code.

(01:06:07):
Danny also says red rum 42 times before his mother wakes up.
That's a scene coming up here soon.
And they're also watching a Wendy and Danny were on the TV.
We're watching a film called Summer of 42.
The Nazi final solution began in 1942.
The answer to everything in the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.

(01:06:30):
Then there's also the 42 negative confessions of Matt.
So you know, as Kubrick and Dr. and any of these esoteric ideas, I mean, he was interested
in him.
I know that much because of that bookie bot.
So she drags him.
She hits him with the bad drags into the pantry room closes him in there.

(01:06:52):
He grabs a big old Michael Meyer size knife.
She locks him in this pantry room where he's got, you know, cool, laid and Calumet.
Tries to get it over the door.
Tries to manipulate her saying he's hurt real bad and needs a doctor.
Wendy's too smart for that.
She's going to leave him in there.
Go take Danny down to the side, Wandertown, bring a doctor back with her.

(01:07:14):
Jack says you've got a big surprise coming to you.
You're not going anywhere because he already disabled the snow cat in the radio.
He heads out in the snow to check it out.
Sure enough, he cut the distributor cap spark plug wires on the the snow cat.
Then Kubrick shows us that it's 4 p.m.

(01:07:35):
No idea what day.
Anyway, Jackson the pantry room and he hears a knocking and it's Delbert Grady and Grady's
shaming him.
He's like, bro, your son and your wife are handling you.
Right?
So it's kind of jazzing them up.

(01:07:56):
And he's like, look, me and the boys, we don't think you got the balls of doing any of this.
So he's talking match it and he pops the lock and now Jack's able to get out.
Meanwhile, they're coloring still in the snow cat.
He's heading up the road.
Boom.
Good.
Meanwhile, Wendy decides to get a little, little shut eye.

(01:08:17):
Great timing for that, Wendy.
Danny's holding the knife and he's repeating red rum, red rum, red rum over and over and
over all creepy, creepy person style grabs a lipstick.
He heads over to the door, draws red rum on the door.
Wendy wakes up, looks in the mirror, sees the reflection, big reveal for everyone.
It says it's murder.

(01:08:37):
So red rum means murder because that's what he sees, right?
There's murder about to happen.
So Jack, he's out now, he grabs the axe, starts axing down the door.
Wendy and Danny are locking themselves in the bathroom, trying to escape through the world's
tiniest window.
Only Danny can get out.
So she tells Danny run, hide, whatever.

(01:09:00):
Jack gets to the bathroom door and doing big speech about little pigs and he acts as a
whole in the door, big enough to fit his head through.
Danny says here's Johnny, right?
Then she slices his hand with that big old knife.
Now fun fact, Nicholson improvised that hole, here's Johnny bit.

(01:09:21):
So classic, probably the most classic line of the film.
They are, then they both hear Dick Haller and the snow cat coming up, so like who the heck
is that?
So Danny, he comes back into the house, he hides in the kitchen, Jack is stalking around
with his axe.
Dick shows up yelling like a fool, so Jack hones in on his location and Jack hits Dick with

(01:09:48):
the axe and the chest and this is in the same location of where he threw that ball earlier
that disappeared.
So it's almost like a blood sacrifice for the hotel, I think.
In the book version, there's hedge animals that attack Dick on the snowmobile and it's
a part of a, I would criticize the section of the book and Stephen King's book just goes

(01:10:10):
on and on about Dick trying to get to the overlook.
It's like, bro, I get it way too long.
Cooper was totally right to condense that down and furthermore, Plot spoiler for the book,
Dick doesn't even die in the book.
In fact, he helps Danny and Wendy escape.
So it should start spiraling, right?

(01:10:31):
And Wendy's walking around and she sees all kinds of crazy stuff.
She sees the elites, the man bear getting home for the summer.
Home for the summer.
The classic scene in the bedroom where the guy in the bear costume is on his knees with
a dude and a lead in a tuxedo.

(01:10:52):
In the book, Stephen King says that it's a party guy who dresses in a dog costume because
he's the gay lover for the wealthy owner of the hotel named Horace Durant.
Horace Durant was throwing hella to prayed parties which made me think of eyes, my shirt,
made me think of Epstein, made me think of Diddy, right?

(01:11:15):
And towards the end of the book, you hear more about the dog man because in the book, it's
a dog, a guy dressed up as a dog in Kubrick's film.
It's a guy dressed up in a bear costume.
All right.
So in the book, you hear more about the dog man, they call him Roger.
I'm going to read you from the book.
He says Durant upended the bottle of champagne and it fell in a foamy Niagara onto the upturn

(01:11:37):
mask.
Roger made frantic slurping sounds and everyone applauded again.
Some of the women screamed with laughter, laughter.
Isn't Harry a card?
His partner asked him pressing close again.
Everyone says so.
He's ACDC, you know.
That means he goes both ways.
For you young people out there.

(01:11:57):
Poor Roger is only DC.
He spent a weekend with Harry and Cuba once, months ago.
Now he follows Harry everywhere, wagging his little tail behind him.
She giggled.
The shy scent of lilies drifted up.
But of course, Harry never goes back for seconds, not on his DC side anyway.
And Roger is just wild.

(01:12:18):
Harry told him if he came to the masked ball as a doggy, a cute little doggy, he might
reconsider and Roger is such a silly that he did.
And it goes on.
Horst Durant is publicly humiliating Roger for laughs.
He's abusing him and everyone's laughing at him.
Traumatizing him MK Ultra style.

(01:12:40):
So in the movie, we were called.
We saw Danny with the giant teddy bear at his apartment in Boulder and he's hiding from
Jack. But I think the stuff teddy bear is a reference to peto abuse, abuse of children,
the elites that roll like Epstein.
I think it's all tied in there, especially given the ending of eyes wide shut.

(01:13:01):
We're going to discuss all this in part three.
And also you go back to Nicholson's friendship with Plansky.
Obviously Plansky assaulted a 13 year old girl.
And Jack and Jack Nicholson said this about Plansky.
He said Roman has never been one to let anything limit what he does.
He's a genius.
That's what he said in response to the critiques about his friendship with Plansky and his

(01:13:26):
raping of a 13 year old.
So Danny's outside and well, he escapes the kitchen, runs into the labyrinth to hide from
Jack.
Outsmarts him though, he covers up his tracks, goes backwards through the snow.
And now Wendy's getting all these weird visuals.
She sees Grady with his head blown up.
She sees Dick Haller and Butchered.

(01:13:48):
She sees the elevators with the blood flood.
There's a scene where she sees a bunch of skeletons everywhere.
And in the book, she has all these same visions of these party goers, but she also hears Glen
Miller band playing, which it was interesting because that's reference.
That's also in Twin Peaks when Sarah Palmer wants to lead her way up because they're going

(01:14:11):
to miss Glen Miller night season two episode eight.
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So Wendy goes outside.
She finds Danny.
They get into Dick's snow cat and head out while Jack is still traipsing around the labyrinth,

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looking for Danny.
He gets a little sleepy.
Takes a little break and whoopsie ends up frozen.
Takes up dead the next morning.
So that's how it ends.
Jack basically dies trying to confront his shadow in the labyrinth.
His dark side wins.
Now he's dead.

(01:14:55):
There's danger in crossing the Abyss, Alistair Crowley says.
You must destroy the ego fully.
So then we get the day in the wall.
And the camera zooms in on photos on the wall and you see Jack Torrance in the front of
this crowd of party goers and it says it's July 4th, 1921.

(01:15:19):
What?
Now officially Kubrick told Michael Seement back when the film was released that it suggested
there was a reincarnation of Jack, which makes sense, right?
It's a great he told him he's been the caretaker before.
Jack apparently keeps getting reincarnated and keeps on murdering, I guess, failing to confront

(01:15:40):
his shadow or integrate it, which means Charles Grady is also reincarnating in the hotel
as well.
They're both trapped forever in this portal, just like the red room in Twin Peaks.
Oh my God.
Also in the book, Jack goes to room 217 and in the bathtub, he sees not a sexy woman,
but George Hatfield, the boy that him and Al hit when they were drunk driving and they described

(01:16:03):
George Hatfield being dead with silver eyes, just like you see the dead people in the red
room of Twin Peaks with silver eyes.
Now what's curious about this final shot of the movie is that Jack is standing with one
arm pointing up, one pointing down.
This is the Baffa May.
This is the go with the bobs.
The as above so be low is symbolized by one arm pointing up, one arm pointing down.

(01:16:25):
And this was just like when Jack was standing over the labyrinth looking down on Wendy
and Danny.
That's a bit more of as above so be low.
He is the master magician.
Fun fact, this photo was actually real.
I've always seen how Jack Nicholson's face on it.
And it was only recently revealed that the original photo was from a 1921s Valentine's Day

(01:16:45):
ball in London at the Royal Palace Hotel in Kensington and Kubrick had an airbrush
to show Jack's face over that of Santos Cassani, a ballroom dance instructor.
So there you go, the film is complete.
But we're not done yet.

(01:17:06):
We're not done yet because I'm coming back and I hope I can get it all done in one part.
Hopefully part three will be the last part of this.
It might be a long one, but we're going to do an in conclusion.
And we're going to discuss about all the things that you found in this movie.
We're going to talk about the Stephen King drama.

(01:17:26):
We're going to talk about America.
We're talking about eyes wide shut, the elites accessing hidden realms.
A cult symbolism, portals.
What else do I got on here?
Saturn.
Oh, I got some good stuff on Saturn.
You're not going to believe that you got to come.
The Saturn stuff is worth the price of admission.
Wait till we come back for that.
That one's going to blow your mind.
MK Ultra.

(01:17:46):
What else do I got to wait?
I've got lots of stuff.
Jack Shadow and then the big one.
Blood sacrifices to the gods.
Blood thirsty gods.
I'm going to definitely illuminate confirmed the story.
So you do not want to miss it.
So stay subscribed to this show.
Coming back in the next episode is going to be part three.
We're going to wrap it all up.
Make sense out of everything you've seen today.

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I started blogging and writing books in 2011 and I started podcasting and creative video
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