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Jun 20, 2020 1 hr 3 min

Apocalypse Now

from The Whole Rabbit Hosted by Luke Madrid

Send us comments, suggestions and ideas here! Visit https://www.patreon.com/thewholerabbit to get access to the full, three-hour show. Your mission is to proceed up the whole river and terminate the rabbit and his command. Terminate with extreme prejudice. Here is your dossier on the Colonel. He used to have it all, the best in his class, but then something broke in him because there's a conflict in all of us, between the rational and the irrational, the light and the dark, between good and evil. But good does not always win... sometimes the dark side of human nature prevails. That is why it is your mission to to proceed up the river and destroy the rabbit by means necessary. *clears thought* This week's episode has two guests. The end of the show is a bit of a decompression with boatman "West" where we lighten up a little bit and discuss the drugs used in the film, evil, madness and some of the psychological mechanisms functioning in the film. On this week's episode we discuss: -John Millius' adaptation from Conrad's "The Heart of Darkness" -Jupiter and Venus The Lord of Hosts -The Sacred Grove of Diana Nemorensis -Explaining the Ending -The Kabbalistic Associations within the film -Original Sin -Racism, Imperialism, Sexism, Privelage -The Diamond Bullet -Hideo Kojima's "Metal Gear Solid" -Behind the scenes of the movie and how it was made -The Golden Bough by Fraser -The Black Flame -The Serpent, Lucifer, Apep and Choronzon -666 vs. 444 -Who was Jim Morrison's father? -The Madness Dance Sources: The Golden Bough, Fraser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_effect https://www.dictionary.com/browse/blue--shift https://www.ancient.eu/jupiter/ https://thescriptlab.com/screenplay/five-plot-point-breakdowns/1371-apocalypse-now-1979/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manson#Illness_and_death http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/apocalypsenowredux.html https://www.britannica.com/topic/Valkyrie-Norse-mythology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milius Where to find The Whole Rabbit: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcmocfH13BzwsAb62xmp-LA iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-whole-rabbit/id1457163771 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0AnJZhmPzaby04afmEWOAV GooglePlay: https://play.google.com/music/podcasts/portal/u/0#p:id=playpodcast/series&a=1274929319 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/buzzsprout-158/the-whole-rabbit?refid=stpr Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_whole_rabbit_/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/h4ckrabbit Support the show

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