‘Eyes’ Yourself A Very ‘Wide Shut’ Christmas 12.12.25

In episode 1979, Jack and guest co-host Blake Wexler are joined by comedian and host of Pod Yourself A Gun and Bad Hasbara, Matt Lieb, to discuss… Time Magazine’s 2025 Person Of The Year Is… The “Architects Of AI”, Tim Pool Is Circling The Drain, Eyes Wide Shut Is The Weirdest Christmas Movie To Watch In 2025 and more!

1. Time Magazine Skewered Over ‘Person of the Year’ Reveal
2. Time Magazine’s 2025 Person Of The Year Is… The “Architects Of AI”
3. Time picked a rough day to announce its ‘Person of the Year’
4. Behind the Photo: Lunch Atop a Skyscraper
5. The Story Behind ‘Lunch Atop A Skyscraper,’ The Photo That Inspired Great Depression-Era America
6. MAGA Star Refuses to Give Cops Footage of Alleged Shooting
7. Eyes Wide Shut is the ultimate Christmas film
8. ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ DP Larry Smith on the New Criterion Transfer, Filming the Orgy, and Nicole Kidman’s Commitment to More Takes
9. How Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ Predicted the Jeffrey Epstein Saga
10. Roger Avary: Warner Bros Changed Kubrick's Original Ending of ‘Eyes Wide Shut'
11. Gen Z are obsessed with Eyes Wide Shut – and it’s got a lot to do with Jeffrey Epstein
12. Establishing the connection between Eyes Wide Shut and Epstein/Weinstein (REDDIT)
13. Larry Celona
14. Jeffrey Epstein timeline: How the Palm Beach County case led to 15 more years of sex abuse
15. Steve Martin Discusses Being Pitched ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ By Stanley Kubrick
16. Kubrick Dreamed of Casting Bill Murray, Woody Allen for ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ Before Tom Cruise
17. Cinema: All Eyes On Them
18. Scholars Discover Alternate Ending to Schnitzler's Dream Story

19. Research Was Key When It Came To Creating Eyes Wide Shut's Most Famous Scene

20. Matt Lieb's Piece of Media

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