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
Latest 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...
