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 16: What Koalifies as self-control?
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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 scary because Uncle Bob's recorded over video tapes could be moans with OR without the horror.
Parker hits us with the perspective of a young adult growing up in the "Google around and find out" age. He shares his personal beliefs on how to push your Rapture awareness, and warns Freddy Krueger about jumping into his ADHD dreamworld.
