Dark Copers Podcast
Your hosts Angie and Dominic discuss the unsettling, obscure, and darker themes surrounding our films, society, arts and literature. Specifically, the mechanisms in which we us these themes to "deal with it".
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks "Why do we like horror?"
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/30/1132658607/why-do-we-like-horror
".....The lab identifies a category of fear-seeker it calls “dark copers”: people who report that “watching scary movies helps them control negative emotions of anxiety and depression that might arise from thinking about the more difficult aspects of life......"
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Episodes
18 episodes
Episode 18 - Did we lose our way or did the way lose us?
Buzzword! Rhy'din RPG Chats! Coping is now mainstream!Angie and Dominic discuss the technological change from dial up modems to ChatGPT. Why does this matter? Because we are stuck on screen time.Normalize deleting tech ...
Season 2 Premiere: Instant Gratification is not Scrolling. It's also not Instant.
Pardon our dust! It's Season 2 in the October-flesh! *dad pun*On tonight's Premiere, Dominic mixes up Fede Álvarez and H.G. Wells. Angie explains that your tailor-made dopamine hit is not on your phone. We also cover tracking your 4-hea...
Episode 16: What Koalifies as self-control?
Dark Copers! We have a special guest speaking this evening! Coming at you from Australia, Parker sits down with Dominic and they debate the age old question...Pineapple on pizza?Dominic rants and raves back in his day about VHS being sc...
Episode 15: I am removing your ban on this room, Hanuš. For soothing purposes.
Copers, We are discussing Netflix's Spaceman staring Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan. Angie breaks up the cosmic isolation themes and Dominic obsesses over the therapy that these types of movies carve out. The fi...
Episode 14: Imperial Drones and Spotless Minds
Hello Copers! It's episode 14! We are talking UFOs, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but mostly I'm Thinking of Ending Things. Were you upset, happy, emotional, and just downright tired of Elijah Wood? So are we! Join us as w...
Episode 13: Living with vampires for 30 days
Staying warm, Dark Copers??The Holidays are over. It is a New Year and we are talking cold weather horror!Let us know what you enjoy about Winter! Is it the early sunset? Perhaps your favorite book by the fireplace? Live near th...
Episode 12: The Fall of the House Of Usher
Hello Copers, welcome to episode 12!Tonight we are paging through the Netflix show by Poe.Dominic explains his purrfect seating arrangement in strangely precise detail, Angie encourages you to disconnect to reconnect, and we bri...
Episode 11: Annihilating The Thing
Good Day, Copies!This episode Dominic internally struggles with the dethrone of his comfort movie, Angie draws conclusion on Aliens from Mexico, and we argue over meters vs miles while using a royal with cheese as a control group.
Episode 10: A Ghost Story
Episode 10 is out!Angie shares with us a personal experience starting with a knock at the door, Dominic circles back to folklore, and are shadow people stealing your wifi password?
Episode 9: Hold on tight, spider monkeys. It's vampire talk.
Episode 9 has us talking and hating on vampires, specifically Edward. We're moving along with musical influences, Dominic appreciates a new-to-him Australian horror in the United States, and Angie strokes Bram's style of blood suckers.
Episode 8: "The Cherry on Top"
Good Evening Dark Copers!Tonight we are discussing "Mandy" and what was that giant bug she gets stung by? Angie reopens the case for Gilgo Beach and Stranger Things. Dominic asks the question: "How old should a kid be to watch a b...
Episode 7: Parodist of Poe. The Cosmic Horror Tea.
Evening Copers!Tonight we are (re)visiting another angle of HP Lovecraft. Dominic promotes Cthulhu manicures, Angie reveals her crush of James Webb, and we ask the question "Are your night terrors just the fart jokes of the ghost realm?...
Episode 6: Rex Heuermann
Welcome back Dark Copers!This evening we are spotlighting The Gilgo Beach Serial Killer, Dominic is connecting the dots with HBO's The Outsider, and Angela is begging for season 3 of Netflix's Mind Hunters!
Episode 5: Aye Eye!
Hi Copers! Today we are chatting about Artificial Intelligence and all the buzzwords that follow! No, your Roomba and smart fridge are not -trying- to kill you...
Episode 4: "I don't know, go axe your father!"
Happy Father's Day Copers!Today we go over the fictional DADites of our horror films, take a swing at the non-fictional scumbags, and compare our social media society of today with the "Blue Plate Special" diner of yesterday!We ...
Episode 3: Paranormal; The Walking Dread
Hello Dark Copers!In this episode we skim the vast landscape of the paranormal, Angie talks Spanish folklore, and Dominic explores electricity and why your ghosts aren't paying for it!