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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

preview: Contemplations #149 | The Psychology of Horror

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

lotuseaters.com

Politics, News, Daily News

4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Josh, Harry and Connor are joined by special guest Proper Horror Show to discuss the nature of horror.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to contemplations and I'm very pleased to have here free guests for my

0:06.5

Halloween special and of course we have Harry who is come as himself who's already scary enough so he felt like he didn't need a costume and definitely not those too lazy

0:20.5

I'm a delinquent youth brove please don't talk like that for the rest of this

0:25.1

otherwise I'm not for myself and we have Connor here who is also myself yeah he's just come in on his day off and he's

0:36.3

been working very hard a bit better yeah we caught him on an off day he forgot

0:40.4

it was going on and so he had to come in in a hurry and he still got a bit of red on him I presume.

0:45.2

You're redecorating the house?

0:46.4

You caught me listening to Puy Lewis in the news.

0:49.0

Of course it was.

0:49.8

And my very first guest on contemplations and that is of course proper horror show

0:55.0

I'm very pleased to have you we've all been on your show before and so it's a

1:00.0

pleasure to have you here on mine. I'm delighted to return the favour. I actually just

1:04.7

came in because this guy needs to return some videotapes and the fine's pretty big now

1:09.7

given that we went bankrupt in 2013. I don't think we can read out the titles because it is a family-friendly show.

1:15.1

Yes, but what we're going to be talking about today are various things to do with horror.

1:20.7

And one of the things I wanted to point out is that horror movies if it's a

1:24.9

particularly good one may elicit things like fear, sorrow, terror, anxiety

1:30.3

but that is the purpose of the genre.

1:33.0

Yes.

1:34.0

Not only is that the emotions you feel watching on news segments, but also it brings up the question of

1:42.0

these are all negative emotions.

1:43.6

People don't like feeling negative emotions.

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