Eyes Wide Shut: Evil Hiding in Plain Sight

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Drawing from Stanley Kubrick’s controversial film and real-life scandals, this reflection explores the hidden depravity that exists behind wealth, power, and prestige. From Hollywood predators to high-flying financiers, “Eyes Wide Shut: Evil Hiding in Plain Sight” warns of a world where exploitation is protected, truth is buried, and vigilance is essential. It’s a call to recognize that the darkness portrayed on screen is not just fiction—it’s real, and often much closer than we think.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Eyes Wide Shut was a documentary. You know, listen, I
am a big fan Stanley Kubrick's film Eyes Wide Shut.
Pretty disturbing to say the least. I know Clockwork Orange.
But and again, you know, there's some stories in regards
to Eyes Wide Shut and the fact that it was

(00:37):
changed a lot after he died before it was released
because it pointed to a lot of pedophilia and they
took it out. I'm often asked by young people, my interns,
you know, they knew that. I you know, spent a
lot of time working in New York, and I warn

(00:59):
them these ones that are going there that beyond your guard,
beyond your guard, there is uh an extraordinary, a stort
amount of depravity and evil that exists there. It's again

(01:21):
the things that scene sort of saw, things that took place. Yeah,
it's just evil. You know. Story popped ups came out?
Was it on Friday? Former former financier Howard Rubin, high
flying money manager and generous philanthropists with ties to George Soros,

(01:45):
whose high stake dealings saw him featured in Liar's Poker
and The Big Short. The Power Couple, he and his
wife donating all sorts of money to good causes, all
junior league hope for a cure. Yeah. Well, things started
falling Apower from about ten years ago where it started

(02:06):
coming out about some of the really depraved stuff he
was doing to women at a Manhattan They called it
penthouse dungeon. Well, he was arrested in Fairfield, Connecticut, where
he you know, he recruited and coerced former Playboy models

(02:28):
and others to do It's just awful things, I mean,
electrocuting them. They had signed all sorts of documents that
they couldn't say anything. It's just it's pretty ugly stuff.
And again people most of the country, oh, it's only

(02:49):
in movies. No, no, no, this type of evil is real,
it exists, and it's protected. It's protected, you know the
same way that you know, we can't even you know,

(03:11):
we can't figure out, you know, all the Epstein information
not allowed to find that out. Who that's going to
expose it's gonna come out again. It's it's a really
depraved club that if you don't think it exactly, there's
it's no conspiracy. It's there. It's there, and you know,

(03:31):
from time to time, you know, you get a story
from Howard Rubin or you know, Harvey Einstein, you know,
hiding in playing sight. Everybody knew. Everybody knew what a
what a dirt bag that guy. Well, every every single
person of the day do anything, no, no, no, no.

(03:52):
I guess you know. They wanted to be in his movies,
made good movies. I didn't want to upset the apple
cart whatever it may be. Again, I don't quite understand it,
but you might want to. You might want to keep
that in mind when you're deciding who you want to

(04:13):
work with, who's managing your money, just saying do you
want to I don't know, Like I said, I might
want to do a little homework. Okay, the depravity exists.
It's disgusting that I've seen it. I say I've seen

(04:36):
it firsthand. That wouldn't be accurate. I've because I haven't
didn't actually see it, but knew it was going on.
I knew it was going on, Like I said, an
evil that's there. It's it is what it is again,
it's it's I'm still beside myself, still beside myself that

(04:59):
we're not getting disinformation out, and they go, we can't
you know, football's names are going to be out there
in the media that shouldn't be. I mean, are you
kidding me? Children abuse kids. These people shouldn't see justice anyway.
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