Joe Rogan Talks About “The Shining” Moon Landing Conspiracy Theory

I remember that the first one I ever saw as a kid was The Shining and that's still... Oh, that still holds up. ...terrifying moments. Still holds up. That's an interesting one, right? Because Stephen King didn't like it. Yeah, that makes sense because it is wildly different from... it's a huge departure from the novel. So I can imagine if you're an artist and then someone takes your artwork and they completely change it in many different ways. They changed it a bunch of ways but they kept it a bunch of ways too. It became like a collaboration between him and Kubrick because it was clearly his original idea but he wanted, I believe, Stephen King wanted that character to go crazy. He didn't want him to have this fucking edge like right from the beginning. Jack Nicholson had an edge like right from the beginning and then became insane and then you know, became... I know what it's like to be an alcoholic who just stopped drinking and I think you have that edge almost from the get go. Yeah. A little bit. But I mean, Jack's Jack. That movie was so good. It was top 10 all time favor. That's what's crazy. It's like someone needed to tell Stephen King, like, I know it won't be the same thing but goddamn it was good. It was so good. Dude, when those little girls are in the hallway and the fucking blood's coming out of the elevator. Holy shit. That's a good movie. So many great moments. I love it. And back then when it came out, like people don't understand. Like the Shining is like, what is that? 82 or something like that? 1980 I think. Is it? I think so. Is that what it is? Yeah. So 1980 people you've got to understand. We're talking about a whole different world. Yeah. There's no special effects. If they're there, they're not very good. They're all like clunky like an Empire Strikes Back. Yeah, but it's clunky. The special effects are clunky. I guess Empire Strikes Back is pretty fucking dope. And then Alien was 79. That's right. But that's it. My argument's falling apart. Blade Runner was 82. So there's really not much else though. But there is a lot of clunky. So they did this movie with just, just, I mean, just all of the different crazy moments like that bathroom moment with the axe coming through the door. There was so many of those moments. The moment with the old lady. Because Kubrick was a fucking master at creating suspense and using the sets and the color contrast like just the color patterns are unsettling. And the fact that he used those twins weren't exactly, they weren't twins. There were just little differences that makes it unsettling. There's so many different ways. Do you know he used to do complex mathematics for fun? That's how he unwind. What a genius. He was a trippy dude. He was by far, I think, the greatest director of all time. Well, he definitely is one of them and one of the most unique ones. You know, there's a crazy conspiracy theory connected to the Shining and the Moon Landing. Yeah, I heard about the Moon Wing. Yeah. It's all about the number on the doors, exact same amount of thousands of miles, 237 and it's 237,000 miles away. I heard that. By the way, it varies. See, that's the problem with that argument. Is it like the distance between the Earth and the Moon is not constant? I think it moves a little bit. So I think it goes as far as 265,000 feet out, if I'm... Interesting. ...or miles round, rather, 265,000 miles out and it goes to 237. But I think it varies. I think it goes like this. I think it has like an elliptical orbit around the Earth a little bit. I heard... Maybe I made that up. Is that true? It sounds, yes. I think it... Yeah, it sounds accurate. So I was in the middle of reading the 237 stuff. Yeah, I heard it was also possibly about Native Americans, how the hotel is built on an ancient Indian burial ground and even Shelley Duvall sort of looked Native American. You can hear Native American music playing in the opening credits. I wouldn't be surprised if there was many layers to it. Yeah, he's just brilliant. He was a brilliant, brilliant man. The little kid did have an Apollo 11 sweatshirt on there. Yeah, that's true. He did have an Apollo 11... I mean, that's pretty on the nose. I just remember in the back room, in the stock room, there was like a can of a product with a giant... It was like Geronimo's head on there. I'm sure they were fucking nose. Dude, there's so much to that. There's probably many layers. It is deep. Kubrick is not going to operate on one layer. No, never. He's probably going to have a bunch of weird shit in there. I mean, look at 2001. What a mind fuck. Oh my God. What a mind fuck. Well, there was so much of his work. You know, and he's the guy that the conspiracy theorists, when they get the most crazy, when they really want to dive into who did it, they think it was all Kubrick. The Kubrick literally filmed the fake moon landing, uploaded it to the American TV satellites. If anyone could do it, it'd be him. He'd be the guy I would get to do it. Can you imagine if that was really what happened all these years? I remember hearing all the fucking conspiracy theorists about the Illuminati killing him because he made a... Yeah. Well, they were worried he was going to open his fucking mouth. Tell him about the moon landing. Oh no. That's what it was. No, because he made fucking eyes wide shut. That too. That was his last one. They're like, enough. This guy's getting too close. Because I think he died like a week after that movie. Of course he did. That's fucked up. That's how they roll. That's how they roll. That's how they roll. That's how they roll. That's how they roll. That's how they roll. That's how they roll. That's how they roll. That's how they roll. That's how they roll. That's how they roll. That's how they roll. That's how they roll. That's how they roll. That's how they roll. That's how they roll. That's how they roll. That's how they roll. 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