{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6668a3bca033650012adeb34/697f93a67461b4b0b2b5dbbc?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Real Housewives of the Overlook Hotel","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6668a3bca033650012adeb34/1769968407131-1527fd89-baa7-4dad-bd79-831db4f379ee.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>What happens when reality TV becomes a haunted house?</p><p><br></p><p>This episode looks at <em>The Shining</em> and <em>The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City</em> as the same structure repeating itself: endless luxury, frozen time, and personalities trapped inside a building that remembers everything.</p><p><br></p><p>Using Mark Fisher’s hauntology, this episode explores how reality TV functions as a cultural ghost — a looped performance of wealth, identity, and breakdown that can never resolve, only repeat.</p><p><br></p><p>Not horror.</p><p>Not satire.</p><p><br></p><p>A system that won’t stop replaying itself.</p><p><br></p><p>🎙 Park Bench Ontology — existential comedy for the end of the world.</p><p><br></p><p>🔗 Follow &amp; Support:</p><p>🌐 Website: http://gavinstephens.ca</p><p>🎧 Podcast: https://pod.link/uncolonized</p><p>📷 Instagram: @countgavin</p><p>🐦 Bluesky: gavinstephens.substack.com</p><p>🎵 TikTok: @ParkBenchOntology</p><p>📼 YouTube: http://youtube.com/@parkbenchontology</p><p><br></p><p>Also, Check out the Substack: Dispatch From The Simulation</p><p><br></p><p>Subscribe and leave a review!</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Gavin Stephens "}