The 2024 Spooky Roundup
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🗓️ 31 October 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Maybe it's the dark, or the end of the world, or, even worse, a bad report card.
We all have things that scare us. And movies are good at making us experiencing those things in a safe way. But why do we even want to do it in the first place? We discuss what we like about being scared.
And later...
Vampires have been a pop culture staple for decades — as movie monsters and as metaphors for our deepest desires. And whether your favorite vampires are Nosferatu and Dracula, or Louis and Lestat, they all have a few bloody things in common.
We get into why the vampire myth prevails and how the vampire genre is changing, during our Spooky Roundup.
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| 0:00.0 | We've finally made it, election week. It's what this whole never-ending election cycle has been |
| 0:04.9 | building up to, and what happens now will dictate the future of the country. Keep up with election |
| 0:10.1 | news when it matters most with NPR's Consider This Podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | All this week we are taking major stories from the election to help you make sense of them |
| 0:17.9 | and what they mean for you in under 15 minutes. |
| 0:21.0 | Listen now to the Consider This Podcast from NPR. What scares you the most? Is it something creepy and crawly? |
| 0:37.0 | Something that slithers? |
| 0:44.1 | Is it the dark? |
| 0:44.8 | Here's what some of you shared. |
| 0:49.2 | About watching horror movies. |
| 0:51.4 | I can't even watch the ads for them. As soon as they come on I just turn it off and yeah |
| 0:57.8 | There's enough horror in the news as it is so I don't need any extras. I typically do not like scary movies at all. |
| 1:05.0 | However, recently I went to see Halle Berry's movie, |
| 1:10.0 | don't let go, and the reason I wanted to see it |
| 1:12.0 | because I thought that it would be a |
| 1:14.8 | psychological thriller and it was and it still scared me but it was fantastic. |
| 1:21.2 | I love scary movies and TV shows and I think the ones that |
| 1:25.4 | scare me most are the ones that maybe possibly could happen like anything |
| 1:30.6 | involving aliens or hauntings, poltergeist, anything paranormal. like anything |
| 1:34.1 | paranormal |
| 1:34.9 | paranormal. We all have things that scare us |
| 1:37.8 | and movies are good at evoking that fear. |
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