Thu. 10/14 - Do Spoilers Actually Make Movies Better?

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Should you read the spoilers for horror movies before you watch them? Plus, a butterfly species in Finland with parasitic wasps in its belly… and even more wasps inside of that one. And, what if instead of lamps we one day use glowing plants to light our homes? Sponsors: Raycon, Get 15% off at buyraycon.com/kottke Indeed, Get a free $75 credit at Indeed.com/goodnews Links: Read Spoilers First So You Can Watch a Horror Movie Without Feeling Terrible (Lifehacker) Spoiler alert: spoilers make you enjoy stories more (UC San Diego) 17 Unscary 'Horror' Movies For Halloween Wimps (Lifehacker) Butterflies released in Finland contained parasitic wasps – with more wasps inside (The Guardian) ‘Russian doll' set of stomach-bursting parasites released inside butterfly on remote Finnish island (LiveScience) The next generation of glowing plants (MIT News) Engineers create plants that glow (MIT News, 2017) Does the platform matter? Social media and COVID-19 conspiracy theory beliefs in 17 countries (New Media & Society) via Today In Tabs Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.7	Welcome to the Kotky Ride Home for Thursday, October 14th, 2021.
0:40.3	I'm Jackson Bird today.
0:42.3	Should you read the spoilers for horror movies before you watch them?
0:48.3	Plus a butterfly species in Finland with parasitic wasps in its belly and even more wasps inside of that
0:57.4	one. And what if instead of lamps we one day use glowing plants to light our homes? Here are some
1:05.3	of the cool things from the news today. So tomorrow, October 15th, Michael Myers is back in Halloween Kills.
1:16.3	The 12th installment of the franchise that kick-started the Golden Age of Slasher
1:20.8	films will be playing in theaters across the U.S. and streaming on Peacock.
1:25.9	This one is a sequel to 2018's Halloween,
1:29.0	which functioned as a sequel to the very first Halloween
1:31.6	and basically retconned every other installment.
1:34.8	So if you've never seen any of the Halloween movies
1:37.5	but are interested in checking out this latest one,
1:40.0	you only have to watch two movies to catch up, not 11.
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