Episode 39 - Behind The Concierge Desk

Checking in to the universe's most exclusive hotel, it's time to unpack, explore, and maybe play a little chess. Is that a Louis XVI throne pod?

Dave and Frank's relationship, and humans' innate need for each other. Long-term isolation: is it tao, torment, or vacation?

Gilded cage or petrie dish, this surreal environment evokes the most basic questions of life:
What is time?  When is a ceiling a floor? Are we in the bathroom?

So many hidden meanings, so little much time. 

Plus: Homesteading Space by David Hitt and the Skylab gravitational belly pull factor.

Homesteading Space by David Hitt, with Joe Kerwin, Owen Garriott, Alan Bean

2001: A Space Odyssey DVD Commentary by Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, p. Gary Leva (2007). Leva Film Works, Warner Bros. Entertainment.

Benson, Michael. Space Odyssey. Simon & Schuster, 2019.

Making Of A Myth. d. Paul Joyce (1998). ACF Productions/Lucida Productions.

Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick. d. Gary Leva (2007). Warner Bros. Entertainment.

Deodato. "Also Sprach Zarathustra" - Prelude, CTI Records, 1973.