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Dark Copers Podcast

Dark Copers Podcast

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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
  • Episode 18 - Did we lose our way or did the way lose us?

    Episode 18 - Did we lose our way or did the way lose us?
    Mar 16 2025

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    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 from your life. Take a breath. Then, redownload your 412th favorite podcast, The Dark Copers podcast.
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    41 mins
  • Season 2 Premiere: Instant Gratification is not Scrolling. It's also not Instant.

    Season 2 Premiere: Instant Gratification is not Scrolling. It's also not Instant.
    Sep 15 2024

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    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-head VCR, book wordie words from HP, and standing your ground on REBOOT/MAKEs.
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    1 hr and 47 mins
  • Episode 16: What Koalifies as self-control?

    Episode 16: What Koalifies as self-control?
    Aug 7 2024

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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.

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    1 hr and 27 mins
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