May 23, 2025

Mimosas & Mayhem at the Stanley Hotel

Mimosas & Mayhem at the Stanley Hotel
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Summertime is upon us! We’ve penciled in some time to sip rosé and soak up the sunshine so we’ll be sprinkling in some periodic breaks from our own content creations. Of course, we’d never leave you high and dry. This week, our friends Shea & Jody of theRainy Day Rabbit Holes podcastare taking us down a previouslyPatreon-Onlyrabbit hole of haunted history and horror movies!

In this bonus episode, Shea recounts her own spine-tingling visit to the legendary Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado—the very place that inspired Stephen King's The Shining. From the hotel's origins in the early 1900s to its brush with horror fame in the 1970s, you'll hear all about its ghostly reputation and eerie vibes. But things get even wilder when Shea and Jody, fueled by Mad Dog Mimosas, dive into their favorite horror flicks. As the champagne flows, so do the laughs—and Shea's voice gets a little, uh, spirited too! This one's a fun, fizzy ride through history and horror.

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Welcome to the Rainy Day rabbit Holes Podcast. Your escape

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from the mundane.

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Dive into the rich history of the Pacific Northwest with us,

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and let your mind wander down the rabbit hole.

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Because in the Northwest it's always raining something weird.

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I'm Shay and I'm Jody. Let's fall down the rabbit hole.

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Let's take a journey. I want you to imagine that

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you are perched on the back of a giant golden eagle.

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It's smooth feathers gleaming in the sunlight as you soar

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high above the majestic rocky mountains. The rugged peaks stretch

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out beneath you. There's snow capped summits glistening in the sunlight.

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Oh my goodness.

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The dense forests and pristine lakes create a breath taking

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tapestry of natural beauty. A serene wilderness that seems untouched

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by time, the ancestral home of the ute and a

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rapa hoe peoples. Amidst this stunning landscape, nestled in a

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lush valley, you spot a gleaming white building standing sentinel

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above the small town of Estes Park, Colorado.

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I forgot to mention we're in Colorado.

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I actually don't think I said the word Colorado and

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this entire story, you guess were as far because we

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are not going to tell you.

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I love that view you gave me, because you know

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what's funny is I often think what would it be

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like to be an eagle and have that view? So

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when you took me on the journey, I was like

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I was there with you, because I do it all

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the time anyway.

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It's grand colonial architecture, with its red roof and white facade,

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contrasts strikingly against the backdrop of the towering mountains. As

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your majestic ride sets you down gently on the pristine

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emerald green lawns that rolled gently down from the grand

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front porch, you stand in awe of this phenomenal structure.

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You begin to walk up the wide walkway, past the

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waist high hedge maze, up the front porch stairs, framed

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by austere white columns, and into the grand lobby. There

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you were greeted by rich, warm woodwork, a lavish carpet, and.

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Strangely, a car. A car.

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This nineteen ten Stanley steam car was at one time

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the fastest automobile in the world. With a mind blowing

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for the time top speed of one hundred and twenty

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seven miles per hour.

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Whoa steam car like out of like a train kind

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of technology? Right? That? What did it look like? Was

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it a Sedayan? Was it?

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So? It was very similar to what you would see

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like a model te oh okay, but it had a

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steam powered engine and so it burnt gasoline that basically

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like fired a boiler.

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That was the ending. Okay, so you did still need gasoline?

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Yeah yeah? And walk yeah? Okay, very interesting.

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This gleaming remnant of the progressive era was the brainchild

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of American inventor and entrepreneur Freelan Oscar Stanley, known as f. O. Stanley,

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who spent the end of the eighteen hundreds putting his

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name on multiple inventions like photographic plates and one of

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the first steam powered motor cars in eighteen ninety seven.

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What about Stanley steamers? Is that where this comes from? Yes?

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The cleaners for real? Yes, I jumped ahead, look at me.

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This is what put FO Stanley on the map. And

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he even at one time gave President McKinley a tour

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of Washington, DC in one of his Stanley steam cars,

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the first time a sitting US President had ridden in

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a car. What yep, for real? It was in a

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steam car.

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Yep, so cool. Stanley steamcar. Stanley steamcar.

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Stanley was respected and rich, with an adventurous and supportive wife, Flora.

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He was on top of the world. However, because life

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is an all candy and rides in a steam car, No,

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it's not. Their life took a terrible turn in nineteen

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oh three. Stanley, who had struggled with symptoms of tuberculosis

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for years, had a terrible resurgence of the disease. Sick

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and dying, he decided to die in paradise. He and

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Flora packed up some belongings and headed out to spend

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his last days in Esses Park, Colorado, surrounded by the

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vast and mysterious rocky mountains.

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It's gorgeous. Oh, it's gorgeous. It's breathtaking. Heartbreakings, it makes

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you small. Yeah.

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Flora went ahead of her husband by train and stagecoach

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to make sure that the summer cabin was ready for

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her sick love, and when Stanley arrived, he weighed only

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one hundred and eighteen pounds. His doctors gave him three

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to six months to live. His doctor promised to visit

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him in September, in all likelihood to take his lifeless

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corpse back to Massachusetts. But to the doctor's great surprise,

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when he came for the corpse, he found it happy,

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healthy and hiking five miles per day.

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Oh wow, So Estes Park is the cure to tuberculos.

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Absolutely apparently. F O.

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Stanley decided that summers and the Rockies were the best

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thing for his health, so he and Flora set out

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to build a home worthy of their status. First they

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built a grand home, and then they decided they wanted

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to entertain their friends, so they purchased a plot of land.

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This is my favorite part from the fourth Earl of

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Dunraven and Mount Earl, an Irish nobleman who had you'll

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love this claimed fifteen thousand acres of the Estes Valley

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under the Homestead Act of eighteen sixty two.

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Oh my goodness. Wait, he wasn't the railroad. He was

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an Irish nobleman, right, I thought the railroad had to

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do that. He'd be part of this. But no, you

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can land fraud anywhere. He had intended to turn.

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It into a private hunting reserve, but it was pretty

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unpopular with the local settlers.

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Can you imagine just taking yourself from today where it's

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almost impossible to buy yourself just a rambler on a dhhortenome, Yeah,

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a lot. No, those are expensive, like I mean, you know,

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and back in that day, you're like, here's fifteen hinder

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eggers of the most prestigious beautiful well he was the

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fourth Earl of Dunraven and Mount Earle. I mean he's

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special exactly.

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So, after two years of construction, the Stanley Hotel opened

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its glittering yellow doors to adventure seekers in nineteen oh nine.

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The first guests to arrive in the Mountain Wilderness in

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their Stanley steam cars were astonished at what they found.

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Expecting a rustic log lodge, they instead found a gleaming

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colonial revival gem painted in yellow ochre with white trim,

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with Tuscan columns, oval ochre, yellow ochre yeap oval oxye

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windows and elaborately turned balusters. Upon opening in nineteen oh nine,

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the hotel was alleged to be one of the first

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in the country to be fully electrified, although many of

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the pictures were dual powered with electricity or gas in

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case of a power outage, To power the hotel, Stanley

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built the Fall River hydroplant, which brought electricity to the

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town of Estes Park for the first time. Every room

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had a telephone, and each pair of rooms shared a

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bathroom with running water. WHOA, this is luxury absolutely. I

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mean even today.

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Going in a remote areas you can have to often

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share a bathroom or whatever.

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You know, all the mcminimons you still share a bathroom

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like this place was high and to start. The hotel

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was reported to have cost five hundred thousand dollars to

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construct a little over seventeen millions a day. Okay, that's

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huge h nineteen oh nine. That's a ton of money.

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As the nearest train depot was around twenty miles away

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in Lions, Stanley had his company produce a fleet of

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specially designed steam powered automobiles called Mountain wagons that could

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seat twelve passengers at a time to bring his guests

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to the hotel. He also built the road from Lyons

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to estes Park.

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Wow.

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The Stanley Hotel was only open during summer months, with

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a caretaker in residence during the harsh winter months. In

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nineteen eleven, a gas explosion did about ten thousand dollars

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worth of damage to the dining room and the rooms above.

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A chambermaid who was in the room directly above the

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dining room, was in the act of lighting a gas

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lamp when the match she held ignited gas that had

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escaped from a leaky pipe. The resulting explosion tore a

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massive hole on the floor, and plaster and timbers rained

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into the dining room below. The chambermaid, Lizzie Lettenberger, was

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thrown into the hole and had both ankles broken, but

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she didn't fall all the way to the floor, but

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instead was caught up by the ruined timbers and was

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held there until rescued.

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Whoa.

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At least ten glass plate windows were shattered, as well

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as several doors which were blown from their hinges.

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I can't believe she survives this, Yeah, Litttenberg. By the way, lighton.

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Well quick aside. Many modern sources claim the woman's name

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was elizabeon Well Elizabeth Wilson, but the name Lizzie Lettenberger

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comes directly from the Fort Collins Express article about the

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explosion on June twenty ninth, nineteen eleven. Wow, so I'm

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going with Lizzie Lettenberger. Yeah, I mean Lizzie is just

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short for Elizabeth. Maybe Wilson was a married name. Oh right, true,

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so maybe Lizzie could be Yeah, I mean Lettenberger may

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have been her maiden name and Wilson, but she survived.

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Stanley eventually sold the hotel to a private company who

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ran it into the ground, and then he repurchased it

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out of foreclosure and sold it again. Nice job, buddy,

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That's amazing to me.

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This guy's got some sort of good karma going on,

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Like I'm gonna dive tuberculosis. Oh wait, I'm just gonna

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be a.

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He didn't die till nineteen forty, that's crazy. And he

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is responsible for for ESS's Park being what it is today.

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Not only did he build a hydroplant, but he also

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helped fund banks and all sorts of different public work.

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That's insane because he was kind of dived tuberculos.

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He had a vision of turning this into a resort town,

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like that's what he wanted.

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I mean, it's Estes Park is one of those places

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where you think about it and you know you better

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show up with some don't know. It doesn't feel it's

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not your low class place.

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No, it's pretty, it's pretty expensive to stay there, but

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it's gorgious, oh man, so gorgeous. So by the nineteen seventies,

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long after Stanley's death, the hotel had fallen on hard times.

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There was even talk of demolishing it, and it might

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have eventually succumbed to the wrecking ball if not for

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fortuitous visit by someone special. In nineteen seventy four, American

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horror writer Stephen King and his wife Tabitha were summering

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and Boulder. While King Stephen King, oh my god, dding

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you're being a Jersey in this movie. I've not read

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the book, though it's huge. Whilst King worked on a

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new book with the working title Dark Shine, which was

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set in an amusement park, he just wasn't satisfied with

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the setting, and locals in Boulder suggested that the couple

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visit as this park for inspiration. And I also suspect

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that he was suffering from writer's block at the time.

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He's written about it. Yeah, struggles with writer.

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It feels like some one of those like extremes, like

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a writer's block, can't do anything. Here is a seventy

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five thousand page in novel. Right, I'm never it doesn't

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seem to ever have an in between plays. I don't know.

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As Stephen and Tabitha were checking into the Stanley Hotel,

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the rest of the guests were checking out, and the

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Kings were the only guests at the hotel as the

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next day they were closing up for the winter. They

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stayed in Room two seventeen, which many stars to say

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was the room that was damaged by the nineteen eleven

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gas explosion, and Stephen wondered the lonely corridor with their

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peeling paint and flickering lights. He felt inspiration creeping back

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in and thought it was the perfect setting for a

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ghost story. That night, he dreamed that his three year

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old son was running through the corridors, looking back over

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his shoulder, eyes wide, screaming he was being chased by

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a fire hose. King jerked awake in terror, lit a

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cigarette and looked out the windows at the Rockies, and

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by the time the cigarette was finished, he had the

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bones of the book The Shining firmly set in his mind.

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Oh, that's insane.

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In this story, Jack Torrence, who was looking for a

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fresh start after a series of events caused by his

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alcohol abuse had left him jobless and he brought his

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family to the Overlook Hotel in the vast Rocky Mountains

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to work as the winter caretaker and work on his play.

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As he had been suffering from writer's block. He thought

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that the isolation of the job and location would help

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him find inspiration. As the Tail unfolds, ghosts and an

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evil power in the hotel drive Jack to madness and

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amplify his young son Danny's burgeoning psychic power. If you're

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a fan of Stanley Kubrick's version of the movie, you

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won't recognize the exterior of the Stanley Hotel as it

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wasn't used.

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For the movie. And here's how we tie.

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The Grand Colinal Revival architecture was deemed by Kubrick to

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be too pretty and light for the dark atmosphere he wanted. Instead,

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interior shots were on a sound stage built in London,

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and exterior shots were the Timberline Lodge at Mount Hood, Oregon,

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which I spent a summer exploring because my dad did

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redid all the plumbing. What one, you're well, Well, we

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didn't spend the summer at Timberline Lodge. We spent the

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summer in Government Camp, which is the little town he

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redid all the plumbing.

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Yeah, that's amazing. Timberline is so cool. It is like

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I've seen pictures. I No, I'd almost rather go there

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than the Stanley Hotel, just because of it's closer the well, yeah,

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there's that, but like I don't know, I feel the Yeah, anyway,

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it's very looking at the pictures. I feel it more

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than Stanley.

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I sense a couple's road trip happening this winter.

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Oh, I feel like we're going to have to shay

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do a competition between the Stanley and the It's just

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go stay at both. But yeah, that's what I'm saying,

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and then we can do a comparative review. I love it.

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I think this is a work project and we'll write

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it off. Yeah.

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So you might recognize some themes in King's book from

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the history of the hotel, like the gas explosion, the

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hotel being shut down for the winter with just a caretaker,

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as well as actual events from King's own life. He

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has been frank about his struggles with writer's block and alcoholism,

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as well as violence towards his family when drunk and high.

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King yes, oh wow, I didn't know that part. He

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claims that he barely remembers writing much of the book.

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Ten years after the publication of the book, Tabitha dumped

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all of King's drug and alcohol paraphernalia in front of him,

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and King started the journey towards sobriety and it's been

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sober ever since. Holy How, But Stephen King's personal demons

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weren't the only ghosts to haunt the place ever since

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the gas explosion of nineteen eleven, guests have reported spooky phenomena.

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Some guests and staff claim that they see the ghosts

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of Lizzie in Room two seventeen, and that she sometimes

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helpfully tidies up the room as they sleep, with their

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clothes mysteriously folded and suitcases organized. I would like that

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ghost to come home, I was singing, when a handy ghost.

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I love this ghost? Does it walk around going?

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One couple told a staff member that their bed was

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made around them in the night. What unmarried couples have

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reported a chili presence in bed with them as they slept,

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specifically unmarried couples.

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We was in this is a known We were.

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There in twenty fourteen and we were not yet married,

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but I didn't we that was before rig got a

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seapap and so I had to have them bring in

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a rollaway bed that I could sleep on in the

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other room. So the ghost was like, no, I was

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in the same room, but I was on a rollaway

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bed because I couldn't sleep in the same bed as

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my husband because the snoring was so bad. So the

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ghost was like, this is fine, this is We're in

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separate beds. Yes, I am, well, this is fine. I'm proof,

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I approve. So the ghost of fo Stanley has been

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spotted at the bar in Billiard's room, and sometimes mysterious

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piano music will drift through the halls, as if Flora

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is at.

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The keys of the grand Piano. Wow.

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Some of the hotel's tour guides believe there is a

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child haunting the property who plays with guests hair. On

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the fourth floor, sometimes children's laughter can be heard. There

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is an on site pet cemetery where some of the

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past owner's pets have been laid to rest. A friendly

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golden retriever named Cassie is said to still deliver newspapers

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and scratch it doors to be let in se There

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is also a network of underground caves that staff used

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to use to travel around the hotel out of sight

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of the guests. The ghost of a pastry chef is

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said to haunt these caves, and sometimes you can smell

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baked goods down there. Room four oh one is said

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to be the most haunted in the hotel, and some

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women have claimed they were inappropriately touched while standing in

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the closet. So now other women make reservations. I was like,

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I'll go stay there. Come, hey, gus, I'm in the

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closet under the bed.

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This time. Hey, I'm in the bathtub. Come inappropriately touch me.

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I'm here for you.

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Is it inappropriate if you're asking for Yes, it's just consensual.

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It's consensual. Oh wait, maybe that's not fun for the ghost.

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Maybe that's the point.

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Yeah, or sche goes there just begging for it and

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there's no action because they're down there torturing. Somebody wants

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none of it. You're coming in with the wrong the

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wrong perspective and expectations to shoot their Oh she's too eager.

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You just made ghost raight funny. Oh God, we're terrible.

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We're gonna be canceled. I'm gonna cancel me. That's wrong. Okay, back, Okay,

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I'm this I'm only on one and a half issue. Oh,

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my god. Okay.

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There have also been many reports of So the thing

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I'm thinking about while doing this is like, I have

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all this spooky music to play under this.

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But then when we're going talking about that to you,

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when I'm writing my stories, and I should put notes

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like shape put this kind of music here, because I

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hear it in the background while he's telling it.

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There have also been many reports of strange sounds coming

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from the ceiling of Room four twenty eight, like furniture

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being moved in the night, despite the fact that there

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are no rooms above it. Oh ever, right, like yeah,

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so how's that? Okay, she's an empty attic cup there

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play more. I was lucky enough that my dear husband

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indulged me to fulfill a lifelong dream of staying at

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the Stanley Hotel. I have been a Stephen King fan

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since I was about eleven, when I found a copy

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of Kujo in my mom's closet, which I hid in

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my room to read when my parents weren't paying attention.

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This is hilarious, Like Kujo was your like porn? Like

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you had that that? Did you put it between your mattress? Dirty? Well?

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I remember there was like a some very dirty scene.

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Oh for sure, for sure like the guy yeah I

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read Cujo is a yeah as well.

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Sorry you guys didn't see the hand movement I was making.

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I was trying not to.

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The guy was doing something with his hand waist high. Yes.

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In twenty fourteen, since we were in Colorado for the

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Great American Beer Festival, I convinced my hubby to make

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the drive up to ESS's Park. The hotel was everything

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I dreamed of, rich, sumptuous interiors, gorgeous views, and even

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a hedge maze, although at the time it was only

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me high, but it was still charming.

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I'm terrified of that head. Well, when it's only me high, right,

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I can take that. I won't even go. So I

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won't go to corn Maze. And last couple of years

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ago I went and corn Maze No, heck no, I'm

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I'm in there and I'm ready to rip out every

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corn Stock. So remember the day that we were talking

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about paddleboarding on the Sound and the outer kept going.

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She's like, no, it's fine, it's fine. I'm like getting

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angrier and angrier, and she's like, I think we had

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our just had our first fight. And I'm like, no,

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this is this is fight or flight. I'm a fighter,

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and so like I'm like, I want to rip those

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corn stocks out. I want to throw them. I want

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to get the heck out of there, and yeah, I

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want to destroy the corn.

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I love a corn maze, but I have a weird

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thing where I actually if I don't have somewhere to be,

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I don't mind being lost because I like exploration.

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So like when i'm I have to be able to

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see though I can't see out of there, and then

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I get real anxious and I'm ready to I'm ready

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to pull stocks and run, and I have to literally

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talk myself like, don't be crazy. They going to calm

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ambulance for you if you really pull these cornstocks and

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run out in the middle of the fall festival. Well

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now I'm a little sad because I was hoping we

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could go to corn maze together. I'm sorry. I promised

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myself I would never do it again, because I literally

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have to talk myself down to not, okay, rid those up.

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I don't want to cause you more stress, so I'll

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just take my mom.

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I'm literally the most sane person until I'm not, and

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the then the most insane person.

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Well, the hedge maze at the Stanley Hotel. I think

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now is about to hear so you'll be fine.

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Oh really, it's only made of that far. Damn Well,

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the last pictures I saw it looked yeah, it looked

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like it. So now, okay, so you're telling me that

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what year was it? Twenty fourteen? These were like knee

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high because the maze hedges in the movie, but it

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wasn't at the Stanley No, No, I know so that

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so are they like trying to recreate that a little bit?

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Is that what they're doing? And they didn't start till yeah,

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twenty ten. It's going to take till twenty seventy two

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for these things too over your head where you can

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write last to actually reflect the movie version.

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Here's the thing too, When you go through a hedge

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maze that's only me high, you feel pretty dumb, right

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because you're just like walking around and patterning.

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I can see everything.

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I'm like, it's like I could see that this next

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place is not the way out, because.

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Maybe this is what I need to train myself through

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to stop panicking.

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Well, just start, let's let's build a hedge maze in

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my yard.

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I need to do sense. There's only a few things

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that I'm like, absolutely not. Everything else i'm braved with.

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These are a couple of things, and when i'm absolutely not,

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I'm absolutely not.

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There's probably some places that have like kitty hedge mazes

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where you could have your head over the entire noise.

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Maybe if they put arrows of which way to go. Well,

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you know now they do app maps. Okay, now that's

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might show you exactly where you are.

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That might help me. As long as I have somebody

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with me that reads maps, that might help me.

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Well, because it'll show you where you are in the shape.

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Remember they're always say shay, yeah, yeah, and it has

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your location.

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That would probably help me. I as soon as I

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don't know where I'm at, I'm ready to pull corn.

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I won't do.

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I won't do to you what I do to my

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mother and my other friends, which just not let them

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look at the map until we are well and lost.

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Because I like the challenge. It's all about the challenge.

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Back to the story, Yes, so that's my favorite favorite

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line for us.

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So the Hedge Park, even though only the high was

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still charming. So I decided to do my favorite thing,

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and that's to take a beer for a walk.

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Oh, yes, this is actually that, or a high noon

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or a margarita, or you gotta take your drink for

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a while. This squirrel is naughty.

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Look, no, I'm adventurous with alcohol.

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Yeah. So she tried to do that with me once,

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but to give me good training. And then I walked

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around with my Pina coladas showing to everyone, and she's shamy.

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She's like, oh my god, I can't believe you did that.

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I'm like, I'm not an expert at breaking all the rules.

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That was San Francisco, and look, there were people shooting

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up the alley the g I cared about where my

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cam was facing, Like, if you can shoot up in

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the alley, I could have into the Vibrator Museum with

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your Pina Klada showing.

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But I could park a box on the side of

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the street on the sidewalk and shoot up Heroin and

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take it dumb. Yeah, okay, yeah, those all those things

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are acceptable. When I took my beer for a walk

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to explore the hallways, because of the busy carpet and wallpaper,

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combined with the somewhat dim lighting and length of the hallways,

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the halls on the upper floor appeared to move and

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undulate as you watched, like this is your experience. We

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were there during the middle of the week, so there

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weren't a ton of guests, and the upper floor in

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the middle of the day was there was like nobody around,

468
00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:51.599
and so I took my beer for a walk up there.

469
00:24:51.960 --> 00:24:56.200
It's is long, and the upper floor was servants rooms before,

470
00:24:56.759 --> 00:25:01.720
and so it's a much more narrow, unadorned hallway, but

471
00:25:01.759 --> 00:25:04.960
it's really long. It runs the length of the building,

472
00:25:05.119 --> 00:25:07.000
and so when you go up and you look down

473
00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:11.359
the hallway, the carpet is that crazy patterned carpet, and

474
00:25:11.359 --> 00:25:14.519
there was crazy pattern wallpaper, and the lights on that

475
00:25:14.599 --> 00:25:19.039
floor were really dim, and as you look down this

476
00:25:19.240 --> 00:25:22.559
long hallway, it's just like a trick of light and

477
00:25:22.599 --> 00:25:28.880
perception and straight. Yes, it almost appeared to expand and

478
00:25:28.920 --> 00:25:31.920
contract as I watched. Oh that's so crazy. This happened

479
00:25:31.960 --> 00:25:34.240
to me once in Friday Harbor. And the reason I

480
00:25:34.279 --> 00:25:36.079
asked if it was straight is it kind of did

481
00:25:36.119 --> 00:25:38.359
like the zigzag thing, and then the way that the

482
00:25:38.400 --> 00:25:42.559
carpet shapes on the car it was just really weird

483
00:25:42.640 --> 00:25:45.599
to walk through. So that's what I was thinking. Yeah,

484
00:25:45.799 --> 00:25:48.400
you from just basing off my experience, how weird that

485
00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:50.039
is that? Yeah, it was weird.

486
00:25:50.079 --> 00:25:52.839
I just was looking down the hallway and it almost

487
00:25:52.920 --> 00:25:54.319
appeared to expand because.

488
00:25:54.839 --> 00:25:58.200
Especially knowing that like story behind the shopping right so

489
00:25:58.240 --> 00:26:01.960
that you're standing there, Yeah, feeling that knowing the story

490
00:26:01.960 --> 00:26:05.799
behind the shining house scared. I was just feeling good, oh,

491
00:26:05.839 --> 00:26:08.839
because I had had a beer before, just one. So

492
00:26:08.880 --> 00:26:10.599
I was a couple of beers in and taking my

493
00:26:10.640 --> 00:26:12.680
beer for a walk, and I was like, I told,

494
00:26:12.759 --> 00:26:14.319
take your beer for a walk. We're doing that from

495
00:26:14.400 --> 00:26:16.440
now on. We're taking our beers for walks. We're not

496
00:26:16.519 --> 00:26:19.359
just going We're doing it for the beer. It's because

497
00:26:19.359 --> 00:26:21.680
we're kind. He not knows that that's what I normally do. No,

498
00:26:21.920 --> 00:26:23.359
Like I just thought I was going for a walk

499
00:26:23.359 --> 00:26:25.519
with a beer. Now I'm being kind to my beer

500
00:26:25.519 --> 00:26:27.160
and showing it the world before I drink it.

501
00:26:27.480 --> 00:26:30.079
Well, that poor beer has only known the place it

502
00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:32.359
was brewed and then canned, and then the grocery store

503
00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:34.079
and probably like a in.

504
00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:38.279
A keg somewhere else. I know, dark hasn't seen the world. No,

505
00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:40.359
I take it for walk. I had no idea you

506
00:26:40.400 --> 00:26:42.799
were so was that called altruistic? Yeah?

507
00:26:42.799 --> 00:26:45.279
Thank you so rich had decided he wanted to take

508
00:26:45.279 --> 00:26:48.119
a nap, and I was like, first off, he will

509
00:26:48.119 --> 00:26:51.000
take naps when I'm like, we have such a limited

510
00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:53.119
time in this place, I can sleep later.

511
00:26:53.079 --> 00:26:56.759
Right, I'm not. There's vacations where you go to rest, relax, nap,

512
00:26:56.880 --> 00:26:58.759
and there's vacations where you go to see things and

513
00:26:58.839 --> 00:26:59.759
naps are not allowed.

514
00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:02.720
We were in this room for one night, and it's

515
00:27:02.759 --> 00:27:03.359
not cheap.

516
00:27:03.559 --> 00:27:05.880
See this riots probably three hundred and fifty.

517
00:27:06.519 --> 00:27:08.799
I think it was only around two hundred at the time,

518
00:27:09.160 --> 00:27:11.960
but still that was a lot of money. And I

519
00:27:12.039 --> 00:27:13.720
was like, we only have one night here. I am

520
00:27:13.960 --> 00:27:16.240
taking full advantage of each of it. So he napped,

521
00:27:16.240 --> 00:27:18.319
I took my beer for a walk, and I was like,

522
00:27:18.359 --> 00:27:20.640
I got to explore this. I'm like, this is where

523
00:27:20.720 --> 00:27:24.200
the shining started. Like right, this is where it was.

524
00:27:24.559 --> 00:27:27.039
This is the way I gotta go. This has special

525
00:27:27.039 --> 00:27:29.480
significance for anybody who's a fan of Stephens.

526
00:27:29.519 --> 00:27:30.880
This is on my nomad plan.

527
00:27:31.319 --> 00:27:33.519
I am such a fan of Stephen King. I will

528
00:27:33.519 --> 00:27:36.519
read every single one of his books, even if they're terrible,

529
00:27:36.759 --> 00:27:39.480
because sometimes they are. He's put out some piles of

530
00:27:39.480 --> 00:27:42.000
dog poop, but I still read them and I still

531
00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:42.799
love most of them.

532
00:27:42.880 --> 00:27:45.519
I wonder if Keith thinks that way and doesn't say

533
00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:48.160
anything because I don't. Is he also a huge Stephen

534
00:27:48.200 --> 00:27:51.119
king Ham? Oh? Everything he has not read knocked about that?

535
00:27:51.240 --> 00:27:53.000
Now you guys have talked about it. We talked about

536
00:27:53.039 --> 00:27:55.680
it on the way home from Oregon when we went

537
00:27:55.720 --> 00:27:58.799
to the Davidian, and I was so tired. I think, yeah,

538
00:27:58.839 --> 00:28:01.119
you guys talked about the your love and the fact

539
00:28:01.119 --> 00:28:03.599
that you started at ten or eleven reading this. Keith

540
00:28:03.640 --> 00:28:05.799
and I need to start a Stephen king podcast together.

541
00:28:05.880 --> 00:28:10.799
Oh yeah, that's a good one. That's a good idea.

542
00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:12.759
All the King tapes. So yeah.

543
00:28:12.759 --> 00:28:14.880
So I took my beer for a walk, so wandered

544
00:28:14.960 --> 00:28:18.880
up and then in the stairwells. This was really interesting.

545
00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:22.799
They would sometimes hold these like unexpected cold spots and

546
00:28:22.799 --> 00:28:26.160
it was like eighty five outside because Colorado is hot

547
00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:31.799
until it's not. It's like it's like, well, Colorado is

548
00:28:31.799 --> 00:28:34.319
the place. I love those videos where they're like a

549
00:28:34.359 --> 00:28:38.319
typical Colorado fall day. You wake up and there's snow

550
00:28:38.359 --> 00:28:40.400
on the ground because it's snow all night, and then

551
00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:42.960
it's eighty five degrees. It's sunny and beautiful in your

552
00:28:43.079 --> 00:28:47.279
white snow, or you go outside and there's snow out

553
00:28:47.319 --> 00:28:49.119
and you go grab your ski gear and by the

554
00:28:49.119 --> 00:28:51.279
time you get in it's eighty Back outside it's eighty

555
00:28:51.319 --> 00:28:51.880
five degrees.

556
00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:57.079
You start at the top and it's powdery. By the

557
00:28:57.119 --> 00:29:00.839
time you get to the blot, you're water skiing. You'd

558
00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:03.920
need a power boat to get you to the lawn.

559
00:29:04.240 --> 00:29:05.079
That's Colorado.

560
00:29:05.240 --> 00:29:08.160
Yes, So it was like eighty five degrees outside, and

561
00:29:08.200 --> 00:29:11.119
I don't think that the hotel had air conditioning, so.

562
00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:13.119
I'm sure it wasn't built with it for sure.

563
00:29:13.319 --> 00:29:16.680
Right, so there was these unexplained cold spots in the stairwells.

564
00:29:17.240 --> 00:29:21.039
But the spookiest adventure was the ghost tour. So there's oh,

565
00:29:21.079 --> 00:29:24.640
they do a tour. They do so there's several accessory

566
00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:27.559
buildings to the main lodge. So they had built smaller

567
00:29:27.599 --> 00:29:30.960
buildings and this one the lodge. So there's the main

568
00:29:31.000 --> 00:29:33.119
hotel and there's the lodge, and the lodge had some

569
00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:35.839
extra rooms and then also had the theater, so that's

570
00:29:35.839 --> 00:29:38.160
where they would hold events. So that's where this ghost

571
00:29:38.160 --> 00:29:41.799
tour was. So after the sun had sunk below the rockies,

572
00:29:41.880 --> 00:29:44.119
we made our way over to the smaller building to

573
00:29:44.160 --> 00:29:46.559
the side of the main hotel, which holds the theater

574
00:29:46.680 --> 00:29:49.519
in the event space. The tour guide told us that

575
00:29:49.559 --> 00:29:53.880
the spirits of several children are said to haunt this building.

576
00:29:54.160 --> 00:29:56.759
She handed out dumb dumbs lollipops you know those are

577
00:29:56.759 --> 00:29:59.519
those little tiny ones to all of the guests and

578
00:29:59.599 --> 00:30:03.000
command added them to balance the candy on their palm

579
00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:04.519
with the stick pointing up.

580
00:30:05.039 --> 00:30:08.759
Oh, then like to balance it like up, yeah, okay,

581
00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:11.599
It wasn't hard because they have the wrapper right, so

582
00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:13.759
you make it flat on the bottom, so it was fine,

583
00:30:13.799 --> 00:30:16.640
like if you just are still, it'll stay up. Then

584
00:30:16.720 --> 00:30:17.839
she spoke to the children.

585
00:30:18.839 --> 00:30:21.359
My husband got a weird look in his eye and

586
00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:23.680
said that all of the hairs on the arm holding

587
00:30:23.720 --> 00:30:25.720
the candy were now standing up. And I looked and

588
00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:29.039
they were, but not the other arm. Then the candy

589
00:30:29.119 --> 00:30:32.000
was knocked over, even though he was perfectly still like

590
00:30:32.119 --> 00:30:36.559
fasters though it just fell over. He was slowly just no,

591
00:30:36.680 --> 00:30:39.599
it just got knocked over. So he was definitely spooked.

592
00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:42.480
We were taken through the building, most of it dark,

593
00:30:42.519 --> 00:30:45.680
and into the cave like tunnels below. Here it was

594
00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:48.400
suggested that we take some pictures. Sure enough, my camera

595
00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:52.359
screen was full of orbs. Now, that could have just

596
00:30:52.359 --> 00:30:54.799
been light balancing off of particles and dust in the air,

597
00:30:54.920 --> 00:30:58.920
but it certainly added to the spooky atmosphere. Those dusted

598
00:30:58.960 --> 00:31:04.920
particles in your eyeballs. Yes, dusts of particles? What particles

599
00:31:04.920 --> 00:31:05.240
of dust?

600
00:31:05.319 --> 00:31:10.079
Say? I'm on my one and a half mad dog mimosa,

601
00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:12.400
So I didn't even notice you said.

602
00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:17.920
Sorry, I think I'm slightly dyslexic. The next morning, Rich

603
00:31:17.960 --> 00:31:22.039
and I sat at the hotel's gorgeous bar enjoying a

604
00:31:22.119 --> 00:31:23.039
morning bloody Mary.

605
00:31:23.119 --> 00:31:25.920
Okay, so, now in the movie The Shining and he's

606
00:31:25.920 --> 00:31:28.599
sitting at that bar, do they replicate that? Well no, no,

607
00:31:28.640 --> 00:31:32.359
So does the inside of that actual facility look anything

608
00:31:32.440 --> 00:31:35.000
like them? Okay, not a thing, got it? So this

609
00:31:35.160 --> 00:31:36.720
bar was very cool.

610
00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:39.440
So the Stanley Hotel, if you look at pictures of it,

611
00:31:39.440 --> 00:31:43.680
it is set into the into the mountain. So it's

612
00:31:43.759 --> 00:31:46.559
like the backdrop of the hotel is just rocks, but

613
00:31:46.599 --> 00:31:49.240
it is literally set into Oh. Okay, so the bar

614
00:31:49.400 --> 00:31:52.400
is set into the rock. So part of the bar's

615
00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:54.119
wall is just granite stone.

616
00:31:54.119 --> 00:31:57.359
So that's the outside, yeah, is on the inside, there's

617
00:31:57.359 --> 00:32:00.759
actually no wall there, It's just built into this. Yeah.

618
00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:02.640
So that's part of the part of the bar, and

619
00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:05.480
then the other one opens up to like that a courtyard.

620
00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:09.240
Fantastic, it's gorgeous. Oh my god. So we're sitting there

621
00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:09.720
at the bar.

622
00:32:09.880 --> 00:32:13.480
I'm enjoying this very elaborate, expensive bloody mary that's got

623
00:32:13.559 --> 00:32:17.079
bacon and pickled green beans and like all that stuff.

624
00:32:17.240 --> 00:32:19.039
I just have cheddar And.

625
00:32:19.200 --> 00:32:23.720
No it didn't have that. No, but the bacon was amazing.

626
00:32:24.119 --> 00:32:27.000
And was it dipped into the bloody Oh that's the best. Yes,

627
00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:29.599
it was so good. And so he's in milk or

628
00:32:29.720 --> 00:32:33.240
bacon in your right, but you're merry either way.

629
00:32:33.599 --> 00:32:36.480
My husband's phone was sitting face down on the bar,

630
00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:41.000
and this was before all of the AI Google Assistant

631
00:32:41.079 --> 00:32:42.279
Voice stuff.

632
00:32:42.400 --> 00:32:44.720
Twice it's a flip phone or was this an app phone?

633
00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:47.359
No, this was a this was a smartphone smartphone, but

634
00:32:47.400 --> 00:32:50.400
this was before that. You did like the Hey Google

635
00:32:51.039 --> 00:32:54.319
stuff twenty fourteen, Hey Siri. Yeah, all of a sudden,

636
00:32:54.400 --> 00:32:57.960
without being touched, his camera and flash just started going off.

637
00:32:58.240 --> 00:33:00.519
The bartender was right there and he's like, oh, that

638
00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:02.319
sort of thing happens all the time here.

639
00:33:02.920 --> 00:33:06.680
Oh my gosh, So did Rich run like I'm picturing

640
00:33:06.720 --> 00:33:10.599
at this point this very like we were like and

641
00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:12.960
so of course me being like the grand skeptic, and

642
00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:15.240
I was wondering how this is gonna say out, Well.

643
00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:19.119
We're in the bedrock, so there's probably some sort of

644
00:33:19.160 --> 00:33:22.920
like magnetic forces or something like that that's just causing

645
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:27.359
electronics to misbehave. And like the orbs on the camera,

646
00:33:27.519 --> 00:33:30.680
that's particles of destiny air. I mean, that's what most

647
00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:31.559
of the time it is.

648
00:33:31.599 --> 00:33:34.599
But the I mean I've looked and I've seen no

649
00:33:34.640 --> 00:33:37.640
particles of justin the air with my eyes and then

650
00:33:37.960 --> 00:33:42.279
also on my camera. Okay, this is again why we

651
00:33:42.359 --> 00:33:48.079
need to be over record our sessions. Shade just like

652
00:33:48.759 --> 00:33:50.720
you are so ridiculous looked at me.

653
00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:55.799
Everyone missed that look on her face, Like my head

654
00:33:55.960 --> 00:34:03.920
was be reil right now. So although pricey at the time,

655
00:34:03.960 --> 00:34:05.880
it was about two hundred dollars a night and now

656
00:34:05.960 --> 00:34:07.960
can range from two hundred and fifty to four hundred

657
00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:08.400
and fifty.

658
00:34:08.679 --> 00:34:11.360
Yeah, that's so I figured it was a memorable experience.

659
00:34:11.880 --> 00:34:14.800
F O. Stanley created a masterpiece and made the town

660
00:34:14.840 --> 00:34:18.079
of Estes Park the amazing place it is today.

661
00:34:18.400 --> 00:34:21.960
It's not somewhere you're gonna go find that anywhere in America. Yeah,

662
00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:26.159
a gorgeous town. It's popular year round, whether you believe

663
00:34:26.199 --> 00:34:29.360
in the paranormal or not. It will charm and enchant

664
00:34:29.519 --> 00:34:32.719
even the most skeptical of guests, even you, even me.

665
00:34:33.480 --> 00:34:36.840
I mean I felt some spookiness there. I can't lie

666
00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:41.119
like you're gonna always look for the answer that isn't paranormal.

667
00:34:41.159 --> 00:34:42.440
But you also felt it.

668
00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:47.639
Yeah, the weird undulating hallway, even though it's probably just

669
00:34:48.119 --> 00:34:52.519
you know, your brain processing and visual stuff, that was creepy.

670
00:34:52.960 --> 00:34:56.000
It was really creepy. Yeah. Well I've seen it in

671
00:34:56.360 --> 00:34:59.480
you know, just the geometrical stuff, and not in a

672
00:34:59.559 --> 00:35:02.920
haunted scary place. I imagine putting that all together in

673
00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:06.400
one place would Yeah. Yeah, And I mean I know

674
00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:08.039
I'm a skeptic, but I still.

675
00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:11.679
Enjoy, Right, that's obvious like exploring it. Like even last night,

676
00:35:11.760 --> 00:35:14.679
When have we gone through this entire thing without me

677
00:35:14.679 --> 00:35:16.159
mentioning pretty gritty tours?

678
00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:21.920
Not on this episode? Did we miss it on this episode?

679
00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:26.199
So we do record multiple on one day. I know

680
00:35:26.320 --> 00:35:28.599
we've mentioned him in Knocking, but I think we missed

681
00:35:28.599 --> 00:35:30.039
in this episode. That would be a shame.

682
00:35:30.199 --> 00:35:37.079
Well, hey, Chris, Chris, he's not a patron but I'll

683
00:35:37.079 --> 00:35:40.280
just send in this episode straight. Yeah, I should just

684
00:35:40.280 --> 00:35:43.760
give a Patreon membership for free because he is my boss.

685
00:35:44.840 --> 00:35:47.800
That sounds weird. Are you looking for a bonus ray?

686
00:35:49.480 --> 00:35:51.320
So he took us.

687
00:35:51.599 --> 00:35:54.400
Last night, I was helping lead tours of Stadium High

688
00:35:54.400 --> 00:35:57.280
School for their twenty fifth anniversary of the Ten Things

689
00:35:57.280 --> 00:36:00.199
I Hate About You movie, which was filmed there. And

690
00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:03.199
after we help the tours, me and another one of

691
00:36:03.239 --> 00:36:06.519
the helpers was with Chris and he's like, hey, you

692
00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:09.599
guys want to see something cool because neither of us

693
00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:12.280
ladies had been all the way down the steam tunnel,

694
00:36:12.519 --> 00:36:14.599
because whenever we'd been on a tour, we were always

695
00:36:14.599 --> 00:36:16.920
at the caboose. And you're like, okay, well I'm in

696
00:36:16.960 --> 00:36:17.360
a tunnel.

697
00:36:17.400 --> 00:36:17.599
Great.

698
00:36:18.039 --> 00:36:21.519
And when I give the tours, because I've only ever

699
00:36:21.559 --> 00:36:23.159
been in charge of the basement in the attic, I

700
00:36:23.159 --> 00:36:26.000
haven't done the full tour yet, but you're supposed to

701
00:36:26.039 --> 00:36:27.880
tell them that when they hit the ducting.

702
00:36:27.960 --> 00:36:31.039
Wait did you say basement in the attic? Basement and attic?

703
00:36:31.119 --> 00:36:34.280
Oh okay, sorry, I was like wait, I got stuck there,

704
00:36:34.280 --> 00:36:35.119
like how does that work?

705
00:36:35.360 --> 00:36:40.079
And sorry? So there's a piece of ducting that to

706
00:36:40.199 --> 00:36:43.039
continue down the tunnel, you would have to basically crawl

707
00:36:43.159 --> 00:36:45.639
under it. Like it is low enough that I was

708
00:36:45.719 --> 00:36:49.679
able to crab walk like like duck walk. Claustrophobic.

709
00:36:49.719 --> 00:36:51.079
Are you going in here? No?

710
00:36:51.360 --> 00:36:54.400
Yeah, no, I thought, But we had never been down there,

711
00:36:54.440 --> 00:36:58.199
so he's like, let's go. So we head down this

712
00:36:58.280 --> 00:37:01.360
tunnel and it's just the three of us and crawl

713
00:37:01.559 --> 00:37:07.000
underneath this duct work and then it dead ends where

714
00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:08.920
there used to be a fresh air exchange but it's

715
00:37:08.960 --> 00:37:12.559
been concreted up and sitting on top of a piece

716
00:37:12.599 --> 00:37:16.639
of pipe is you know, the teeth model, like chattery

717
00:37:16.679 --> 00:37:20.079
teeth but like plaster, but all the teeth are pointy.

718
00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:21.960
Oh it's up there.

719
00:37:22.199 --> 00:37:24.320
Uh huh oh, it's so creepy.

720
00:37:24.679 --> 00:37:25.480
Oh my gosh.

721
00:37:25.719 --> 00:37:29.679
So then we have to turn around and there's a

722
00:37:29.679 --> 00:37:33.880
little ladder to go up to a utility room. But Emily,

723
00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:36.159
the other guide, she's like, can I be in the middle.

724
00:37:36.239 --> 00:37:39.199
So I'm at the back and there's no light back there.

725
00:37:39.320 --> 00:37:41.559
So Chris had had his flashlight out, but then he

726
00:37:41.639 --> 00:37:44.039
goes up the ladder first, so I am back here.

727
00:37:44.159 --> 00:37:45.880
It's filtered out by the time it gets to you.

728
00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:50.079
Bought in the pitch black and I joked, Sure, I'll

729
00:37:50.079 --> 00:37:52.280
go last. I'll be the person that gets pulled back

730
00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:55.440
into the darkness. And I freaked myself out so bad

731
00:37:55.800 --> 00:38:00.079
that it ran. That's my thing, Like, I can I

732
00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:03.440
freak myself out so much I don't believe, but part

733
00:38:03.440 --> 00:38:06.559
of my reptile brain believes, yeah, right, So that's where

734
00:38:06.599 --> 00:38:09.000
I'm like, that's the part of me that gets that

735
00:38:09.159 --> 00:38:14.199
like adrenaline thrill because my reptile brain is like, oh, yes,

736
00:38:14.199 --> 00:38:16.639
it's all true, but my logical brain is like, no,

737
00:38:16.719 --> 00:38:18.920
there's an explanation for all of it. And then they

738
00:38:19.400 --> 00:38:22.280
they wore And when I'm in the dark, I can

739
00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:24.480
freak myself out if I watch a really scary movie

740
00:38:24.559 --> 00:38:26.639
by myself at night, and then I will be freaked

741
00:38:26.639 --> 00:38:29.000
out the rest of the night and see figures in

742
00:38:29.039 --> 00:38:32.679
the doorways and windows and especially UFO stuff.

743
00:38:33.199 --> 00:38:36.119
I use. I just have made a rule to stop

744
00:38:36.159 --> 00:38:38.880
watching those things when I'm by myself, because then, like

745
00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:41.480
you start seeing yeah, I don't, and there's a problem.

746
00:38:41.559 --> 00:38:44.440
I really don't anymore. I used to love horror movies.

747
00:38:44.519 --> 00:38:46.960
Oh yes, I'm at twelve thirty. I mean, we were

748
00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:49.719
sneaking into these things. That was our thing. Scary movies,

749
00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:52.679
and then my husband raised our daughters on it, like

750
00:38:52.760 --> 00:38:56.000
they would go to these I don't care remember what

751
00:38:56.079 --> 00:38:58.719
they're called anyway, I mean it was their thing. I

752
00:38:58.760 --> 00:39:01.039
started college while my kids were in school, and so

753
00:39:01.079 --> 00:39:03.039
what would happen is I would be like I got

754
00:39:03.039 --> 00:39:04.800
a paper to write or I got to study for

755
00:39:04.840 --> 00:39:07.079
this test, and keep be like, okay, girls, we're going

756
00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:08.960
to the drive in and watch all these gary movies.

757
00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:11.239
And they would like and it's funny because they're not

758
00:39:11.280 --> 00:39:13.679
coming home and having nightmares. They're like, okay, so this

759
00:39:13.800 --> 00:39:16.840
seat they're like totally critiquing, like like they could have

760
00:39:16.960 --> 00:39:19.719
used better blood product, that didn't look so fake and

761
00:39:20.280 --> 00:39:23.039
I mean her scream was and this is too campy

762
00:39:23.159 --> 00:39:26.719
and like total breakdown stuff. My small children and my

763
00:39:26.840 --> 00:39:29.559
husband running around watching scary movies and breaking it down

764
00:39:29.639 --> 00:39:34.119
like their movie critics. No one, No. I never had

765
00:39:34.119 --> 00:39:36.119
a problem with my kids not sleeping at night, never

766
00:39:36.159 --> 00:39:38.159
had a problem with them not wanting to be home

767
00:39:38.199 --> 00:39:41.760
alone whatever, Like they funny love that stuff. Now they're

768
00:39:41.840 --> 00:39:46.480
kids not so much. They accidentally watch like two minutes

769
00:39:47.039 --> 00:39:50.679
of Chucky. Uh, what's that child play? Is that called

770
00:39:50.760 --> 00:39:51.440
child child play?

771
00:39:51.480 --> 00:39:51.960
Yeah?

772
00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:55.280
And because we turned the TV on, and that's what

773
00:39:55.480 --> 00:39:57.440
show was on when we turned it on so quickly

774
00:39:57.480 --> 00:39:58.880
trying to like get out of there, and they're all

775
00:39:58.920 --> 00:40:01.199
like wait what w shit, and I'm like no, no, no.

776
00:40:01.599 --> 00:40:04.920
Eventually I turned on the Making of Chucky because I'm thinking, Okay,

777
00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:07.440
they can watch it without being scared, because it's not

778
00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:09.480
real and it's you're answering all those questions. Oh no,

779
00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:13.679
they go home. I'm gonna be banned as a sleepover grandma.

780
00:40:13.800 --> 00:40:16.599
At some point I could not sleep a night like

781
00:40:16.639 --> 00:40:21.840
it literally show the robot, like, come on, try to

782
00:40:21.840 --> 00:40:23.760
give you the experience without the experience. But yet my

783
00:40:23.880 --> 00:40:26.280
kids were all like yeah, anyway, I think they could

784
00:40:26.280 --> 00:40:29.440
have done it better with maybe a different actor. That

785
00:40:29.599 --> 00:40:34.880
blood was obviously her that scene to that scene instead

786
00:40:34.920 --> 00:40:36.920
swap the scenes in order. Then maybe it would made

787
00:40:36.920 --> 00:40:40.599
more sins and been we're scary, like that's too many.

788
00:40:41.119 --> 00:40:44.639
Well, even if you're not a believer in the paranormal,

789
00:40:45.159 --> 00:40:48.119
the Stanley Hotel is still a fantastic experience, as is

790
00:40:48.320 --> 00:40:48.880
Este Park.

791
00:40:48.960 --> 00:40:50.719
So I'm excited to go. I have one more question

792
00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:53.800
for you. Yes, have you watched The Shining the movie

793
00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:54.719
and the.

794
00:40:54.639 --> 00:40:57.000
Series, So I haven't watched the series, but I need

795
00:40:57.039 --> 00:40:59.840
to because if you're a fan of The Shining and

796
00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:02.920
Stephen King, you know that Stephen King hated the Stanley

797
00:41:03.000 --> 00:41:08.039
Kubrick version. Okay, like it it warped his idea. So

798
00:41:08.119 --> 00:41:10.800
then he actually appeared in.

799
00:41:10.760 --> 00:41:14.880
The Yes series serious. Yeah, I had watched the movie,

800
00:41:14.920 --> 00:41:16.639
and then when the series came out, I was like, okay,

801
00:41:16.679 --> 00:41:19.360
can we do that as a super serious It was like,

802
00:41:19.480 --> 00:41:22.320
you know, serieses are like dumb, right, and so I'm like,

803
00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:24.000
but I'm gonna watch it anyway because I'm a I'm

804
00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:27.239
a fan of The Shining and I was like, oh

805
00:41:27.280 --> 00:41:29.800
my gosh, this is so much better than the movie.

806
00:41:30.079 --> 00:41:32.400
Is it? Oh it's so they'll tell you the same thing.

807
00:41:32.440 --> 00:41:35.159
Can we do a movie night and just watch the

808
00:41:35.199 --> 00:41:36.079
series all in one night?

809
00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:38.760
Is it too long? It might be like six hours,

810
00:41:38.920 --> 00:41:41.199
but you could look it up. Maybe it's not with commercials.

811
00:41:41.239 --> 00:41:44.280
Maybe without the commercials ice, yeah, taken out, maybe it's less.

812
00:41:44.320 --> 00:41:47.280
Let's look it up. Yeah, I'm in. I want to

813
00:41:47.320 --> 00:41:50.280
see your reaction to it, because I think it's it's different,

814
00:41:50.320 --> 00:41:52.400
it's better. I think anybody who is a fan who's

815
00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:55.400
seen both would say the series is actually better than this.

816
00:41:55.480 --> 00:41:58.239
Okay, Well, I mean I'm a cubric fan. I love

817
00:41:58.280 --> 00:42:02.400
the clockwork orange, a clockwork orange. What about Rosemary's Baby

818
00:42:02.519 --> 00:42:05.239
Love Rosemary? And what was the one? Is it called silver?

819
00:42:05.480 --> 00:42:09.400
Silver Sliver? Sliver? Did you ever see that? I think so.

820
00:42:09.480 --> 00:42:12.039
It's been a while though, but I love the visual

821
00:42:12.079 --> 00:42:15.000
style and the atmosphere that he builds. I mean, I

822
00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:18.360
appreciate that about the shining, like, the atmosphere is incredible.

823
00:42:18.920 --> 00:42:21.599
He terrifies me. It's one of the people that I

824
00:42:21.639 --> 00:42:24.239
think of in real life I'd never really want to meet.

825
00:42:24.639 --> 00:42:25.719
I think he's that creepy.

826
00:42:25.760 --> 00:42:29.480
Yeah yeah, but people I really want to meet in

827
00:42:29.480 --> 00:42:29.960
real life.

828
00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:34.559
Stephen King is is top five. I follow him on Twitter.

829
00:42:34.920 --> 00:42:40.480
I do too. He's a Hilaire. Oh god. The haters

830
00:42:40.480 --> 00:42:43.719
of Stephen King are like, well, they're special people. Yes,

831
00:42:43.840 --> 00:42:44.519
they know they are.

832
00:42:44.840 --> 00:42:47.760
It's Stephen King and weird al are my two weird

833
00:42:48.039 --> 00:42:51.519
like I want to meet him in real life. Weird

834
00:42:51.559 --> 00:42:55.920
Al Oh, which I've sat at a restaurant table next

835
00:42:56.000 --> 00:42:56.880
to Weird Now.

836
00:42:56.880 --> 00:42:59.199
Tell me, Okay, I want people to think about this

837
00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:02.960
shade as head. The two people I really want to

838
00:43:03.000 --> 00:43:06.480
meet our Stephen King and Weird Hell. And I'm thinking,

839
00:43:07.239 --> 00:43:09.920
are they ever in the same space? Like that's they

840
00:43:09.960 --> 00:43:13.039
are way different people, right, I should tell me about

841
00:43:14.360 --> 00:43:16.119
tell me about word out. Why would you want to

842
00:43:16.159 --> 00:43:19.159
meet word What is it about that? That's the second person.

843
00:43:19.440 --> 00:43:21.679
I grew up on weird Al's music, all of his

844
00:43:21.800 --> 00:43:24.800
parodies of all the songs, especially I was. I was

845
00:43:24.880 --> 00:43:26.000
raised on Michael Jackson.

846
00:43:26.159 --> 00:43:29.440
Okay, for those that have not met Shane in real life,

847
00:43:29.800 --> 00:43:34.400
she's talking. I'm like, she is his, his spirit animal,

848
00:43:34.599 --> 00:43:38.559
she's or he's hers. I don't know those parodies. This

849
00:43:38.679 --> 00:43:41.760
is like talking to Shaye on a daily basis. She's

850
00:43:41.760 --> 00:43:47.079
taking life, he's making parodies. He's nerdy. Yes, he's smart.

851
00:43:46.679 --> 00:43:49.960
See yeah, just like you. Well, I don't know about

852
00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:51.960
that part nerdy.

853
00:43:51.480 --> 00:43:54.000
Is I know I'm not as smart as that. Oh,

854
00:43:54.039 --> 00:43:57.719
thank you? Also like the nerdy and the good nerdy

855
00:43:57.760 --> 00:44:01.480
way like the kindie like that, Oh my god, stop

856
00:44:01.559 --> 00:44:03.639
talking to me kind of nerdy, like I keep talking

857
00:44:03.639 --> 00:44:07.000
to thank you. I love you. I said, nerdy not dirty?

858
00:44:07.719 --> 00:44:09.920
Also dirty? Oh probably both?

859
00:44:11.320 --> 00:44:17.559
But yeah, he's he's interesting, he's smart. He's just he's witty,

860
00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:21.400
very witty, and I just appreciate that and what he

861
00:44:21.440 --> 00:44:25.039
does with these parodies. He makes fun of himself, He

862
00:44:25.119 --> 00:44:26.360
makes fun of culture.

863
00:44:26.559 --> 00:44:27.000
Culture.

864
00:44:27.079 --> 00:44:30.480
Yeah, it's smart when you think, when you read, when

865
00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:33.960
you listen to the lyrics, if you stop from it

866
00:44:34.079 --> 00:44:38.360
just being funny, it is a cultural commentary.

867
00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:43.119
Right right, it's like, oh my gosh, that's that's crazy, funny, ironic, whatever.

868
00:44:43.199 --> 00:44:46.039
Every single time, How did I not put that together? Yeah?

869
00:44:46.079 --> 00:44:51.079
He does put together and positive. I mean right, it's

870
00:44:51.119 --> 00:44:54.199
not mean and no hateful, No, it's not.

871
00:44:54.360 --> 00:44:58.400
I think if your song gets parodied by weird Al,

872
00:44:58.480 --> 00:45:01.440
you should feel like the most honored person.

873
00:45:01.559 --> 00:45:03.679
Right now. You have two versions in the world.

874
00:45:03.599 --> 00:45:10.320
Like uh, Farrell's Happy got parodied into TACKI and that

875
00:45:10.480 --> 00:45:13.480
video is just the most beautiful thing because it is

876
00:45:13.599 --> 00:45:18.880
every amazing comedian of today dancing and singing in the

877
00:45:18.920 --> 00:45:22.920
worst outfits you have ever seen. It's beautiful. I love

878
00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:25.400
Weirdel so much, so, yes, I would love. I've sat

879
00:45:25.480 --> 00:45:29.519
next to him at a restaurant in Hollywood.

880
00:45:29.079 --> 00:45:29.760
Got that close.

881
00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:33.480
He was at the next table, but I was so starstruck.

882
00:45:33.639 --> 00:45:35.719
Okay, here's the thing. We're going to have to just

883
00:45:35.760 --> 00:45:39.519
take this this podcast, get uber famous so that they

884
00:45:39.559 --> 00:45:41.079
want to see us well.

885
00:45:41.119 --> 00:45:43.599
And then Stephen King, like Stephen King. We need to

886
00:45:43.639 --> 00:45:46.400
be on the same guest list. Used to be Neil Gamon,

887
00:45:46.480 --> 00:45:50.119
but apparently he's a sexual predator, so I can't like

888
00:45:50.199 --> 00:45:50.760
him anymore.

889
00:45:51.320 --> 00:45:53.679
I can't any hate guys who Neil What?

890
00:45:53.880 --> 00:45:56.440
Neil Gamon? He's another author, He's my other favorite author.

891
00:45:57.920 --> 00:46:00.719
Turns out you can't let him I know. Oh god,

892
00:46:01.519 --> 00:46:05.360
he'd put down again. He put puppies in a sack

893
00:46:05.440 --> 00:46:06.079
in the dryer.

894
00:46:07.239 --> 00:46:10.639
But why why the drawer? What? So that was Chris's thing.

895
00:46:10.679 --> 00:46:13.159
He's like, I like somebody and then all of a sudden,

896
00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:17.119
sacks of puppies in the dryer.

897
00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:21.159
Right right, right? Gotcha? Okay, Well, we're gonna end this.

898
00:46:21.159 --> 00:46:23.599
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899
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904
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906
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907
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908
00:46:48.239 --> 00:46:52.199
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909
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913
00:47:04.559 --> 00:47:06.519
out in my tale of the Stanley Hotel. Let's go,

914
00:47:06.639 --> 00:47:09.800
love it, Let's go, let's go out. Oh, I forgot

915
00:47:09.840 --> 00:47:11.880
to tell you this. As I'm looking up the research

916
00:47:11.880 --> 00:47:13.960
for this episode. I see the events on the Stanley

917
00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:21.519
Hotels page. This October is the fiftieth anniversary of Stephen

918
00:47:21.599 --> 00:47:23.840
King's stay at.

919
00:47:23.719 --> 00:47:25.920
Ser I was only two years old.

920
00:47:25.760 --> 00:47:30.280
Nineteen seventy four. So they are holding a special when

921
00:47:31.199 --> 00:47:35.599
October twenty six, they are holding a special Stanley ball.

922
00:47:35.719 --> 00:47:38.880
It's sold out. I was gonna ask, but it is.

923
00:47:39.280 --> 00:47:42.079
They want you to come dressed either as characters from

924
00:47:42.119 --> 00:47:46.360
The Shining or any of Stephen King's casing he would

925
00:47:46.360 --> 00:47:48.719
love to go. I think this is something you would

926
00:47:48.760 --> 00:47:52.880
have to plan years in advance for dang, because Halloween

927
00:47:52.920 --> 00:47:56.320
there is booked years in advance, insane.

928
00:47:56.360 --> 00:47:59.199
So maybe I'm when I become a nomad and I'm

929
00:47:59.239 --> 00:48:03.039
just driving around to things to do. I need to

930
00:48:03.039 --> 00:48:05.320
put that my lid for my lid, my list for

931
00:48:05.400 --> 00:48:06.800
the future, things to plan for.

932
00:48:07.199 --> 00:48:09.119
Yes, I would love to go to something like that.

933
00:48:09.239 --> 00:48:12.360
Well anyways, alright, guys, we'll see you next time.

934
00:48:12.440 --> 00:48:14.880
Thank you, See you down the rabbit hole.