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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Dark Copers Podcast
Episode 4: "I don't know, go axe your father!"
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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 might uproot some emotions that dark coping can't mend. Reach out to us, thedarkcopers@gmail.com or call/text 988.
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