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Kingslingers | A Dark Tower Podcast

3.11: Revisiting Kubrick's The Shining (and The Shinning)

Kingslingers | A Dark Tower Podcast

Doof! Media

Darktower, Stephenking, Books, Arts

4.9680 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

This week, we take another look at Kubrick's classic and controversial adaptation of King's novel! 

Also, we review The Simpsons episode The Shinning, cause why not?

Next week, Night Shift begins! We'll be discussing "Graveyard Shift," "Night Surf," "I am the Doorway," "The Mangler," and "The Boogeyman"

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

Cover artwork created by Cyrix: https://www.reddit.com/user/CyrixDrawsStuff 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Long days, pleasant nights, and welcome to Kingslingers, a doof media podcast journeying through

0:21.2

Stephen King's Dark Tower series and beyond. I am your host, conservator Scott Daly, and I'm

0:25.5

joined as always by the little boy that lives in my mouth. It's Matt Freeman. How's it going,

0:30.9

Matt? It's going well. I think I made the same joke last time. How about this?

0:38.6

Here's Maddie.

0:44.9

You know, it occurs to me that the whole little boy that lives in my mouth thing.

0:49.2

It sounded okay when I wrote it in the script.

0:52.4

Less good when I said it out loud.

0:56.7

You know, I didn't notice, but now that you've drawn attention to it, you know, okay.

1:03.5

So maybe if we were professional, we would just do another take and do something different, but we're not.

1:05.8

So we're just going to carry on with the show.

1:06.8

Yeah.

1:15.3

Everything about that was a poor adaptation of our normal intro process. Wow. Yeah. Everything about that was a poor adaptation of our normal intro process. Wow. Look at you. Just rein it back to brilliance, to podcasting brilliance. That's incredible. Now, does that imply that we have any

1:22.9

specific feelings about this film? You got to keep listening to to find out no matter how much you want to

1:28.9

switch off based on how this is going so far matt you are the fucking stanley kubrick of

1:33.3

podcasting right now you're you're killing it thank you thank you're giving them hooks and ladders

1:39.0

and that's it that's all i got foreshadowing there you go all right folks this week on the show

1:49.1

after finishing at King's novel we decided that we wanted to do an episode where we revisit

1:53.9

Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of the Shining so that's what we're going to do we're going to talk

1:58.0

about the Kubrick movie both of us watched it again last, and we just thought we talked about it as an adaptation.

2:04.2

And I think I want to say this up front here, Matt.

2:07.1

We have both talked about The Shining multiple times via the audio podcasting format.

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