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 7: Parodist of Poe. The Cosmic Horror Tea.
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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?"
So pull up your favorite chaise, pour a glass of Ecto Cooler, and listen to Dominic butcher famous experiment facts while Angie throat punches Midsomer.
