What secrets are still hiding in Stanley Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut? More than 25 years after its release, the movie continues to generate fascinating questions, unusual discoveries, and competing theories about its symbolism, characters, and hidden meanings. In this episode of Divulgence, Sean McCann, host of Wake the Dead and creator of Occult Kubrick, returns for another deep exploration of Kubrick's mysterious 1999 masterpiece. Together, we examine overlooked background details,...

What if your dreams weren't entirely your own? What if scientists, advertisers, and technology companies could influence what you see, remember, feel, and experience while you're sleeping? In this episode of Divulgence, returning guest Nick of The Occult Rejects joins us for another fascinating discussion, this time exploring the emerging science of dream manipulation, sleep engineering, memory reactivation, and the possibility of hacking the human subconscious. Drawing from scientific studi...

In this fascinating episode of Divulgence, filmmaker, researcher, and Kubrick expert Jay Weidner joins the show for an extensive conversation exploring the extraordinary symbolism, hidden meanings, and controversial theories surrounding one of cinema's most mysterious directors. Weidner, creator of the Kubrick's Odyssey documentary series and a contributor to Room 237, shares how watching 2001: A Space Odyssey as a teenager changed his life and eventually led him to investigate the deeper lay...

In this episode of Divulgence, investigative journalist and author Ken Silva joins us for a fascinating examination of the two 2024 assassination attempts against Donald Trump, the extraordinary security failures surrounding both incidents, and the troubling questions that remain unanswered. Ken is the author of The Trump Assassination Plots: What the Investigations Missed and Why It Matters, a book built on nearly two years of research, government records, congressional testimony, firsthand ...

What if everything you thought you knew about witches, witchcraft, and their history was shaped by centuries of religious persecution, mistranslations, propaganda, and modern reinvention? In this special Halloween-season episode of Divulgence, Nick of The Occult Rejects returns for a fascinating deep dive into the origins of the witch, tracing the word and its meaning through more than a thousand years of history. From Anglo-Saxon England and ancient biblical translations to medieval witch hu...

What is Wicca, where did it actually come from, and how much of the religion can really be traced back to Gerald Gardner? For the first installment of our Halloween series, Nick of The Occult Rejects returns to Divulgence for a deep dive into the origins of modern Wicca and the complicated story of the man most closely associated with its creation, Gerald Gardner. We begin by separating Wicca from the much broader history of witchcraft, folk magic, paganism and ceremonial magic before examini...

Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut continues to generate questions, theories, and interpretations more than 25 years after its release—and in this episode, Sean McCann returns to Divulgence to tackle some of the strangest and most debated mysteries surrounding Kubrick’s final film. We begin with the controversial “letter theory”: could the warning Bill receives have originally contained a much darker message, or does his behavior afterward make that interpretation unlikely? From there, we exami...

Alex Fulton of Project Crypto King returns to Divulgence for another deep dive into the hidden architecture of Stanley Kubrick’s films—this time focusing on what may be one of the strangest tools yet for examining The Shining: the mysterious 19-minute mechanism. Alex traces the discovery back to the work of his late friend, whose obsessive analysis of The Shining uncovered unusual audio markers, recurring numerical patterns, and events separated by precise intervals of 19 minutes. From there,...

A terrifying incident aboard a FlyDubai flight bound for Tel Aviv raises major questions after an alleged attack inside the cockpit, a violent midair descent, and passengers and crew reportedly helping regain control of the aircraft. We break down what is known so far, the extraordinary actions aboard the plane, claims about the alleged pilot’s intentions, and why investigators still have major questions to answer about what actually happened. Then we turn to the Iran War and the growing stra...

The Russia-Ukraine war is rapidly evolving into something that looks very different from traditional warfare. In this episode of Divulgence, we examine how Ukraine is increasingly turning to drones, robots, automation, and a massive defense-tech ecosystem to compensate for Russia’s advantage in manpower — while Moscow prepares to expand its military even further. We begin with Ukraine’s Operation Vivaldi, where unmanned ground vehicles are being used to clear minefields, transport supplies, e...