window.__IS_SSR__=true
window.__INITIAL_STATE__={
"attachmentsReducer": {
"audio_0": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_0",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background0.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_1": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_1",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background1.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_2": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_2",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background2.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_3": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_3",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background3.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_4": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_4",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background4.jpg"
}
}
},
"placeholder": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "placeholder",
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-768x512.jpg",
"width": 768,
"height": 512,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xxsmall": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xsmall": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"small": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xlarge": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 32,
"height": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-50": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 50,
"height": 50,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 64,
"height": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 96,
"height": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 128,
"height": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
}
}
},
"pop_112471": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "pop_112471",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "112471",
"found": true
},
"parent": 112467,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/maxresdefault-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/maxresdefault-160x90.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 90
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/maxresdefault-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/maxresdefault.jpg",
"width": 1280,
"height": 720
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/maxresdefault-1020x574.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 574
},
"complete_open_graph": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/maxresdefault-1200x675.jpg",
"width": 1200,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 675
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/maxresdefault-800x450.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 450
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/06/maxresdefault-768x432.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 432
}
},
"publishDate": 1560987938,
"modified": 1560988031,
"caption": "Fruit Gushers: A Violet Beauregardean nightmare unfurled.",
"description": "Fruit Gushers: A Violet Beauregardean nightmare unfurled.",
"title": "Fruit Gushers: A Violet Beauregardean nightmare unfurled.",
"credit": "YouTube/ @FunnyCommercials",
"status": "inherit",
"fetchFailed": false,
"isLoading": false
},
"pop_112621": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "pop_112621",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "112621",
"found": true
},
"parent": 112213,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/07/L2V5SXJ2T5DRBOUCQ7WLHRX6HM-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/07/L2V5SXJ2T5DRBOUCQ7WLHRX6HM-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 107
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/07/L2V5SXJ2T5DRBOUCQ7WLHRX6HM-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/07/L2V5SXJ2T5DRBOUCQ7WLHRX6HM.jpg",
"width": 1400,
"height": 932
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/07/L2V5SXJ2T5DRBOUCQ7WLHRX6HM-1020x679.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 679
},
"complete_open_graph": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/07/L2V5SXJ2T5DRBOUCQ7WLHRX6HM-1200x799.jpg",
"width": 1200,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 799
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/07/L2V5SXJ2T5DRBOUCQ7WLHRX6HM-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 533
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/07/L2V5SXJ2T5DRBOUCQ7WLHRX6HM-768x511.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 511
}
},
"publishDate": 1562096301,
"modified": 1562096329,
"caption": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Midsommar",
"credit": "Gabor Kotschy / A24",
"status": "inherit",
"fetchFailed": false,
"isLoading": false
},
"pop_110715": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "pop_110715",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "110715",
"found": true
},
"parent": 110691,
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/pet-sematary-2019-160x90.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 90
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/pet-sematary-2019-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/pet-sematary-2019.jpg",
"width": 1000,
"height": 563
},
"guest-author-50": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/pet-sematary-2019-50x50.jpg",
"width": 50,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 50
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/pet-sematary-2019-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/pet-sematary-2019-800x450.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 450
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/pet-sematary-2019-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/pet-sematary-2019-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/pet-sematary-2019-768x432.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 432
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/pet-sematary-2019-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1554316802,
"modified": 1554316838,
"caption": "A still from 2019's 'Pet Sematary.'",
"description": "A still from 2019's 'Pet Sematary.'",
"title": "A still from 2019's 'Pet Sematary.'",
"credit": "Paramount Pictures",
"status": "inherit",
"fetchFailed": false,
"isLoading": false
},
"pop_105588": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "pop_105588",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "105588",
"found": true
},
"parent": 105585,
"imgSizes": {
"small": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/castle-rock-release-date-trailer-cast-news-520x347.jpg",
"width": 520,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 347
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/castle-rock-release-date-trailer-cast-news-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/castle-rock-release-date-trailer-cast-news-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 107
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/castle-rock-release-date-trailer-cast-news-960x640.jpg",
"width": 960,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 640
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/castle-rock-release-date-trailer-cast-news-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"xsmall": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/castle-rock-release-date-trailer-cast-news-375x250.jpg",
"width": 375,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 250
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/castle-rock-release-date-trailer-cast-news.jpg",
"width": 1200,
"height": 800
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/castle-rock-release-date-trailer-cast-news-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 680
},
"xlarge": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/castle-rock-release-date-trailer-cast-news-1180x787.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 787
},
"complete_open_graph": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/castle-rock-release-date-trailer-cast-news-1200x800.jpg",
"width": 1200,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 800
},
"guest-author-50": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/castle-rock-release-date-trailer-cast-news-50x50.jpg",
"width": 50,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 50
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/castle-rock-release-date-trailer-cast-news-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/castle-rock-release-date-trailer-cast-news-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 533
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/castle-rock-release-date-trailer-cast-news-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/castle-rock-release-date-trailer-cast-news-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/castle-rock-release-date-trailer-cast-news-1180x787.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 787
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/castle-rock-release-date-trailer-cast-news-150x150.jpg",
"width": 150,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 150
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/castle-rock-release-date-trailer-cast-news-768x512.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 512
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/castle-rock-release-date-trailer-cast-news-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
},
"xxsmall": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/castle-rock-release-date-trailer-cast-news-240x160.jpg",
"width": 240,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 160
}
},
"publishDate": 1536180826,
"modified": 1536180843,
"caption": "'Castle Rock' (Hulu)",
"description": null,
"title": "castle-rock-release-date-trailer-cast-news",
"credit": null,
"status": "inherit",
"fetchFailed": false,
"isLoading": false
}
},
"audioPlayerReducer": {
"postId": "stream_live",
"isPaused": true,
"isPlaying": false,
"pfsActive": false,
"pledgeModalIsOpen": true,
"playerDrawerIsOpen": false
},
"authorsReducer": {
"ralexandra": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11242",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11242",
"found": true
},
"name": "Rae Alexandra",
"firstName": "Rae",
"lastName": "Alexandra",
"slug": "ralexandra",
"email": "ralexandra@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": true,
"staff_mastheads": [
"arts"
],
"title": "Reporter/Producer",
"bio": "Rae Alexandra is a Reporter/Producer for KQED Arts & Culture, and the creator/author of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/program/rebel-girls-from-bay-area-history\">Rebel Girls From Bay Area History\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bizarrebayarea\">Bizarre Bay Area\u003c/a> series. Her debut book, \u003ca href=\"https://citylights.com/politics-current-events-history/unsung-heroines35-women-who-changed/\">Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area\u003c/a> will be published by City Lights in Spring 2026. In 2023, Rae was awarded an SPJ Excellence in Journalism Award for Arts & Culture. Rae was born and raised in Wales and subsequently — even after two decades in Northern California — still uses phrases that regularly baffle her coworkers.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d5ef3d663d9adae1345d06932a3951de?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "pop",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "bayareabites",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Rae Alexandra | KQED",
"description": "Reporter/Producer",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d5ef3d663d9adae1345d06932a3951de?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d5ef3d663d9adae1345d06932a3951de?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/ralexandra"
}
},
"breakingNewsReducer": {},
"pagesReducer": {},
"postsReducer": {
"stream_live": {
"type": "live",
"id": "stream_live",
"audioUrl": "https://streams.kqed.org/kqedradio",
"title": "Live Stream",
"excerpt": "Live Stream information currently unavailable.",
"link": "/radio",
"featImg": "",
"label": {
"name": "KQED Live",
"link": "/"
}
},
"stream_kqedNewscast": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "stream_kqedNewscast",
"audioUrl": "https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/newscast.mp3?_=1",
"title": "KQED Newscast",
"featImg": "",
"label": {
"name": "88.5 FM",
"link": "/"
}
},
"pop_112467": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "pop_112467",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "112467",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1562762801000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "pop"
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1562762801,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "The Most Unintentionally Terrifying Commercials From Your Childhood",
"title": "The Most Unintentionally Terrifying Commercials From Your Childhood",
"headTitle": "KQED Pop | KQED Arts",
"content": "\u003cp>Recently, for reasons that remain unclear, that weird Quizno's Subs commercial from 2004 started trending on Twitter. If you were alive and awake that year, you definitely remember this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZrks-BPeLQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some hailed the singing \u003ca href=\"https://slate.com/business/2004/02/the-singing-quiznos-rodents-explained.html\">Spongmonkeys\u003c/a> (I didn't make that up; that's honestly what the floating tooth monsters were called) as trend-setters for future surreal ad campaigns. Others relived the confusion they felt the first time they saw the ad. And a surprisingly high number of people expressed abject fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/hoofscout/status/1140466088452349952\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/baby_ajumma/status/1140487826359902209\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not the only time a commercial has unintentionally scared the bejesus out of kids. When I was a child, Tefal—a British range of household electrical items—insisted on putting men with oversized heads in all of their commercials. Their large craniums were supposed to imply a greater degree of intelligence, but all they achieved in my house was giving me and my sister nightmares for years. Was it the grotesquely long skulls that scared us? The creepy multi-tasking? Or the glaring lack of female egg-heads? It doesn't really matter. This advert will never not be horrifying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r7XfhTKRMw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kids in the '90s were subjected to similarly horrific head aberrations via Fruit Gushers commercials. The entire series (and it really feels like there were about fifty) evoked a \u003ca href=\"https://roalddahl.fandom.com/wiki/Violet_Beauregarde\">Violet Beauregardean\u003c/a> nightmare—children eating the wrong kind of candy and paying the price, suffering immediate physical \u003cem>and\u003c/em> vocal transformations. This plays out more like a PSA than an ad. Frankly, the banana alone is more terrifying than the entire \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostel_(2005_film)\">\u003cem>Hostel\u003c/em> franchise\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyzt3Q05Ris\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is clearly something unfathomably difficult about conveying the taste of fruit that drives advertisers to bizarre lengths. The Sprite commercial below portrays a blindfolded human being subjected to physical experiments, something akin to water torture and, apparently, hallucinogens. Its tagline? \"Don't worry. It will only affect your brain.\" Pity the parents who had to explain every bedtime that actually, no, a sexy tennis player wasn't going to come and immobilize them with saran wrap at 4 am.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrv8-wsf8qo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remarkably, making fruit freaky has been a staple of American advertising for decades. The California Raisins might have sparked an \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_California_Raisin_Show\">entire TV show\u003c/a> and a giant pile of merch, but when you get down to it, there was always something rather unsettling about them. In the clip below, are they worshipping at the feet of a Sun-Maid overlord? Or harassing a woman who's locked in an attic, her smile frozen into a \u003cem>Stepford Wives\u003c/em> grimace to placate them? It's impossible to tell because everyone involved has hollow dead eyes. I am definitely no closer to wanting to eat grapes of sadness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hnLVmgfAZA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to find unchecked, definitely occurring harassment in commercial-land though, look no further than Mr. Six. The old man's long-term reign of Six Flags-related terror began back in 2004, when he rolled his child-catcher bus into a quiet neighborhood and danced maniacally until he had successfully stolen multiple kids. The whole thing ends up looking a lot like what would happen if \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnxgYYfIooc\">\u003cem>The Shining'\u003c/em>s Delbert Grady\u003c/a> escaped the Overlook Hotel and headed straight for suburbia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0bvgpg7yig\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, it's not even the mascot that's scary, it's the physical product. After she stopped being Crystal on \u003cem>Dynasty\u003c/em>, Linda Evans got roped into endorsing a beauty product called \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Rejuvenique-RJV10KIT-Facial-Toning-Mask/dp/B00005JHWB\">Rejuvenique\u003c/a>, which sends \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">electric shocks\u003c/span> \"pulses\" into the face of the wearer, in the pursuit of tighter skin. Not only does it sound like a torture device, but aesthetically it also resembles a combination of Jason Voorhees and one of the stabby intruders from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482606/\">\u003cem>The Strangers\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. (Sidenote: If your family has angered you recently and you fancy getting back at them, you can still find \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebay.com/i/264150847259?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=264150847259&targetid=483914779430&device=c&adtype=pla&googleloc=9031945&poi=&campaignid=1497326117&adgroupid=60666402627&rlsatarget=pla-483914779430&abcId=1139446&merchantid=114729115&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIx8CVqeaU4wIVSh6tBh0Z0w3UEAQYAyABEgIjm_D_BwE\">these on eBay\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXcYVh-W14E\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the surface, this all suggests that nightmare-inducing commercials are a relatively recent invention, but sheer terror has been a part of the TV realm since the medium was invented. Take a look at this 1953 ad for Sugar Rice Krinkles, consider the fact that Stephen King was around six when this was in rotation, then wonder no more about where the inspiration for \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_(novel)\">\u003cem>It\u003c/em>\u003c/a> came from. (In case you've forgotten, the character of Georgie Denbrough is also six when he's killed by the evil clown in that novel. Coincidence?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3094hyz-K9Y\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazingly—and as much as I'm sure we'd all like to give these advertisers the benefit of the doubt—it's possible that the horror influence can also work the other way around. A full two years AFTER \u003cem>The Twilight Zone\u003c/em> aired its legendary \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/109055/the-10-best-twilight-zone-episodes-to-watch-before-jordan-peeles-reboot\">\"Living Doll\"\u003c/a> episode (in which a doll named Talky Tina exacts murderous revenge), Mattel released Baby Secret—a doll that speaks exclusively in whispers, wants to hang out when everyone else is asleep and sounds like it's saying \"I want to kill you.\" Take it away, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annabelle_(film)\">Annabelle\u003c/a> the First!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY1xtnnMr2c\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In case all of this has left you feeling disturbed and on edge, this last clip is intended to make you feel better. Because, sure, while massive heads and animated fruit and strange old men doing the running man are bad, pray for the children of Japan who had to watch on in horror for years as this dog did strange things with human ears, doll heads, other animals and what appear to be ping pong paddles, in a series of commercials that culminate in the dog becoming a red-eyed flying half-alien.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU6ax9nhHUE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See? It could be worse!\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "112467 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=112467",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2019/07/10/the-most-unintentionally-terrifying-commercials-from-your-childhood/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": true,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 1015,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 14
},
"modified": 1562719619,
"excerpt": "The most sadistic moments in advertising history, brought together to bring back your childhood nightmares.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "The most sadistic moments in advertising history, brought together to bring back your childhood nightmares.",
"title": "The Most Unintentionally Terrifying Commercials From Your Childhood | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
"headline": "The Most Unintentionally Terrifying Commercials From Your Childhood",
"datePublished": "2019-07-10T05:46:41-07:00",
"dateModified": "2019-07-09T17:46:59-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "the-most-unintentionally-terrifying-commercials-from-your-childhood",
"status": "publish",
"path": "/pop/112467/the-most-unintentionally-terrifying-commercials-from-your-childhood",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Recently, for reasons that remain unclear, that weird Quizno's Subs commercial from 2004 started trending on Twitter. If you were alive and awake that year, you definitely remember this:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/aZrks-BPeLQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/aZrks-BPeLQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Some hailed the singing \u003ca href=\"https://slate.com/business/2004/02/the-singing-quiznos-rodents-explained.html\">Spongmonkeys\u003c/a> (I didn't make that up; that's honestly what the floating tooth monsters were called) as trend-setters for future surreal ad campaigns. Others relived the confusion they felt the first time they saw the ad. And a surprisingly high number of people expressed abject fear.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "singleTwitterStatus",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"id": "1140466088452349952"
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "singleTwitterStatus",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"id": "1140487826359902209"
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not the only time a commercial has unintentionally scared the bejesus out of kids. When I was a child, Tefal—a British range of household electrical items—insisted on putting men with oversized heads in all of their commercials. Their large craniums were supposed to imply a greater degree of intelligence, but all they achieved in my house was giving me and my sister nightmares for years. Was it the grotesquely long skulls that scared us? The creepy multi-tasking? Or the glaring lack of female egg-heads? It doesn't really matter. This advert will never not be horrifying.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/2r7XfhTKRMw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/2r7XfhTKRMw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Kids in the '90s were subjected to similarly horrific head aberrations via Fruit Gushers commercials. The entire series (and it really feels like there were about fifty) evoked a \u003ca href=\"https://roalddahl.fandom.com/wiki/Violet_Beauregarde\">Violet Beauregardean\u003c/a> nightmare—children eating the wrong kind of candy and paying the price, suffering immediate physical \u003cem>and\u003c/em> vocal transformations. This plays out more like a PSA than an ad. Frankly, the banana alone is more terrifying than the entire \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostel_(2005_film)\">\u003cem>Hostel\u003c/em> franchise\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Gyzt3Q05Ris'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Gyzt3Q05Ris'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>There is clearly something unfathomably difficult about conveying the taste of fruit that drives advertisers to bizarre lengths. The Sprite commercial below portrays a blindfolded human being subjected to physical experiments, something akin to water torture and, apparently, hallucinogens. Its tagline? \"Don't worry. It will only affect your brain.\" Pity the parents who had to explain every bedtime that actually, no, a sexy tennis player wasn't going to come and immobilize them with saran wrap at 4 am.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/xrv8-wsf8qo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/xrv8-wsf8qo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Remarkably, making fruit freaky has been a staple of American advertising for decades. The California Raisins might have sparked an \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_California_Raisin_Show\">entire TV show\u003c/a> and a giant pile of merch, but when you get down to it, there was always something rather unsettling about them. In the clip below, are they worshipping at the feet of a Sun-Maid overlord? Or harassing a woman who's locked in an attic, her smile frozen into a \u003cem>Stepford Wives\u003c/em> grimace to placate them? It's impossible to tell because everyone involved has hollow dead eyes. I am definitely no closer to wanting to eat grapes of sadness.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/9hnLVmgfAZA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/9hnLVmgfAZA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>If you want to find unchecked, definitely occurring harassment in commercial-land though, look no further than Mr. Six. The old man's long-term reign of Six Flags-related terror began back in 2004, when he rolled his child-catcher bus into a quiet neighborhood and danced maniacally until he had successfully stolen multiple kids. The whole thing ends up looking a lot like what would happen if \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnxgYYfIooc\">\u003cem>The Shining'\u003c/em>s Delbert Grady\u003c/a> escaped the Overlook Hotel and headed straight for suburbia.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/l0bvgpg7yig'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/l0bvgpg7yig'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Sometimes, it's not even the mascot that's scary, it's the physical product. After she stopped being Crystal on \u003cem>Dynasty\u003c/em>, Linda Evans got roped into endorsing a beauty product called \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Rejuvenique-RJV10KIT-Facial-Toning-Mask/dp/B00005JHWB\">Rejuvenique\u003c/a>, which sends \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">electric shocks\u003c/span> \"pulses\" into the face of the wearer, in the pursuit of tighter skin. Not only does it sound like a torture device, but aesthetically it also resembles a combination of Jason Voorhees and one of the stabby intruders from \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482606/\">\u003cem>The Strangers\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. (Sidenote: If your family has angered you recently and you fancy getting back at them, you can still find \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebay.com/i/264150847259?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=264150847259&targetid=483914779430&device=c&adtype=pla&googleloc=9031945&poi=&campaignid=1497326117&adgroupid=60666402627&rlsatarget=pla-483914779430&abcId=1139446&merchantid=114729115&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIx8CVqeaU4wIVSh6tBh0Z0w3UEAQYAyABEgIjm_D_BwE\">these on eBay\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/SXcYVh-W14E'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/SXcYVh-W14E'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>On the surface, this all suggests that nightmare-inducing commercials are a relatively recent invention, but sheer terror has been a part of the TV realm since the medium was invented. Take a look at this 1953 ad for Sugar Rice Krinkles, consider the fact that Stephen King was around six when this was in rotation, then wonder no more about where the inspiration for \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_(novel)\">\u003cem>It\u003c/em>\u003c/a> came from. (In case you've forgotten, the character of Georgie Denbrough is also six when he's killed by the evil clown in that novel. Coincidence?)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/3094hyz-K9Y'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/3094hyz-K9Y'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Amazingly—and as much as I'm sure we'd all like to give these advertisers the benefit of the doubt—it's possible that the horror influence can also work the other way around. A full two years AFTER \u003cem>The Twilight Zone\u003c/em> aired its legendary \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/109055/the-10-best-twilight-zone-episodes-to-watch-before-jordan-peeles-reboot\">\"Living Doll\"\u003c/a> episode (in which a doll named Talky Tina exacts murderous revenge), Mattel released Baby Secret—a doll that speaks exclusively in whispers, wants to hang out when everyone else is asleep and sounds like it's saying \"I want to kill you.\" Take it away, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annabelle_(film)\">Annabelle\u003c/a> the First!\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/zY1xtnnMr2c'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/zY1xtnnMr2c'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In case all of this has left you feeling disturbed and on edge, this last clip is intended to make you feel better. Because, sure, while massive heads and animated fruit and strange old men doing the running man are bad, pray for the children of Japan who had to watch on in horror for years as this dog did strange things with human ears, doll heads, other animals and what appear to be ping pong paddles, in a series of commercials that culminate in the dog becoming a red-eyed flying half-alien.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/IU6ax9nhHUE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/IU6ax9nhHUE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See? It could be worse!\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/pop/112467/the-most-unintentionally-terrifying-commercials-from-your-childhood",
"authors": [
"11242"
],
"categories": [
"pop_3"
],
"tags": [
"pop_1145",
"pop_646",
"pop_3728",
"pop_100",
"pop_3538",
"pop_3087",
"pop_3341",
"pop_3727",
"pop_3726",
"pop_3289",
"pop_3439"
],
"featImg": "pop_112471",
"label": "pop"
},
"pop_112213": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "pop_112213",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "112213",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1562096348000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "pop"
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1562096348,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "How Religious Sect Movies Like 'Midsommar' Get So Far Under Our Skin",
"title": "How Religious Sect Movies Like 'Midsommar' Get So Far Under Our Skin",
"headTitle": "KQED Pop | KQED Arts",
"content": "\u003cp>A horror sub-category all of their own, religious sect movies use our most primeval instincts against us, playing on subconscious human fears about the mystical and what lurks beyond the veil. And the newest one, \u003cem>Midsommar\u003c/em>, is out this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vnghdsjmd0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the reasons this disturbing little genre is so enduring is because it plays on beliefs that are hardwired within us. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/belief-and-the-brains-god-spot-1641022.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2009, scientists discovered\u003c/a> several areas in our brains that process all things religion and spirituality. \"When we have incomplete knowledge of the world around us, it offers us the opportunities to believe in God,\" says Professor Jordan Grafman, from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. \"When we don't have a scientific explanation for something, we tend to rely on supernatural explanations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike most horror films, movies that focus on religious groups don't ask us to suspend our disbelief. Instead, they play on our brains' innate willingness to believe in the metaphysical, while also reminding us of what we already know: humans will do horrendous things to themselves and others if they think it will get them closer to God. Even a cursory glance at real-life cults like \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXIVM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nxivm\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_International\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Children of God \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The People's Temple\u003c/a> demonstrate that. \"Cults, in all their endless variations and representations, point toward a profound human desire,\" KQED Pop's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/4982/why-are-we-still-obsessed-with-cult-stories-source-family-martha-marcy-may-marlene\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Laura Schadler wrote in 2013\u003c/a>. \"One complicated, dark and endless.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That combination makes for a genre that can creep under our skin in a particularly efficient way. For example, reviews for 2018's \u003cem>Hereditary—\u003c/em>which was about a family slowly becoming overwhelmed by a Satanic cult—were downright visceral. \u003ca href=\"https://www.vulture.com/2018/06/toni-collette-in-hereditary-movie-review.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Vulture\u003c/em>\u003c/a> called it \"cruel to the point of invasiveness\"; \u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em>'s \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jun/17/hereditary-review-mark-kermode-horror-toni-collette-gabriel-byrne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Kermode described\u003c/a> \"a breathtaking jolt that made me gasp and recoil\" and used terms like \"shell-shocked\" and \"spine-tingling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This tapping into our subconscious selves can quietly have another unintended consequence. Because of the way these movies juxtapose the familiar and the freaky, they can leave behind a residue that suggests it's wise to fear all religions that are not our own. 1973's \u003cem>The Wickerman\u003c/em> is a great example of this. In it, we see stern policeman Sergeant Howie leave the British mainland in pursuit of a missing girl. He lands on Summerisle, an isolated island off the coast of Scotland, where he is greeted by a community of pagans, who revel in mocking him at every turn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-tDnavDCwI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Wickerman\u003c/em> plays on old ideas about Paganism that were spread by Christian settlers when they first arrived in Great Britain. Signs of the struggle between the religions remain in the UK today. Most notably in Avebury, England, where you can see the largest stone circle in the world—believed to have been built by druids for religious and ceremonial purposes—with a Christian church sitting jarringly in the middle of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sergeant Howie then, represents good, civilized Christianity, while the occupants of Summerisle represent the hedonism and heathenism of Paganism. He is order; they are chaos. He is virginal; they are overtly sexual. He is sober; they drink 'til they literally fall down. The Sergeant clings faithfully to his uniform and procedures but ultimately finds that both are meaningless in a community that does not share his values. In the end, Howie's rule book is no match for the islanders' ancient ceremonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://ew.com/movies/2019/06/06/fangoria-jordan-peele-ari-aster-midsommar/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_term=217D14EC-885B-11E9-8A9C-618D4744363C&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly_ew&utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent conversation\u003c/a> with writer/director Ari Aster, Jordan Peele said he believes that \u003cem>Midsommar\u003c/em> \"usurps \u003cem>The Wicker Man\u003c/em> as the most iconic Pagan movie.\" Peele notes that \"the final act ... was some of the most atrociously disturbing imagery I’ve ever seen on film, and yet I experienced it with this open-mouthed, wild-eyed gape. I think that part of how we get there is never reducing the villains to any kind of snarling monsters with an evil agenda.\" They are merely \"Other.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as a line was drawn in \u003cem>The Wicker Man\u003c/em> between the civilized mainland and the barbarism of Summerisle, \u003cem>Children of the Corn\u003c/em> asks us to recognize a gulf between the religious and the educated; the backwards country yokel versus the sophisticated city dweller. It is a movie that asks us to embrace intellect, instead of faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before a cult of fundamentalist children has tried to murder them, Vicky and her doctor boyfriend, Burt, make fun of a radio preacher as they drive the backroads of Nebraska. As the holy man enthusiastically lists the sinners that heaven has no room for, Burt shouts along sarcastically: \"No room for the college graduate! No room for people who watch public television!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs6z1D4gVp4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this world, the city folk are educated, principled and free, while small town people are uneducated, insular and easily controlled—all because of religion. The children can be commanded by their leader, Isaac, to go and kill, and before they do, they chant \"Praise God! Praise the Lord!\" It is left to Burt to attempt to reason with the brainwashed children. \"Any religion without love and compassion is false,\" he tells them. (How many of us would like to say the same to the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Westboro Baptist Church\u003c/a>?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Religious sect horror movies don't just tell us to fear the belief systems of outsiders, they tell us that other people's religions can be so pernicious, they can take hold of those closest to us before we've even had a chance to notice. This is the fate that befalls Rosemary Woodhouse in \u003cem>Rosemary's Baby\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffw1u0aXn0o\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosemary's husband sacrifices her eternal life and provides their firstborn son as a human vessel for the devil after he is bribed and influenced by the couple's neighbors, the Satan-worshipping Castavets. The Castavets' advanced age and doddering ways represent the fact that one of the powers of corrupting religions is their ability to look perfectly harmless at the outset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar message is put forth by \u003cem>Hereditary.\u003c/em> In it, ordinary family life is invaded by unseen forces of darkness, wrought by a religious sect too power-hungry and spiritually powerful to fight against. In this family's battle for peace and normality, traditional symbols of comfort—a hearth, a bed, a tree house—all become traps in which Annie Graham's family are at their most vulnerable. Visually, the brightest light is invaded by opaque darkness. In the end, the biggest evil-doer of all turns out to be grandma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much has been made of \u003cem>Hereditary\u003c/em> being a metaphor for inherited mental illness and disease, but it also plays on ideas around religious radicalization and the eternal tolls suffered by the families left behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6wWKNij_1M\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The age we live in is such that most feel foolish expressing any belief in superstitions, but have to fight against humanity's basest instincts to dismiss them. We pride ourselves on our multicultural communities, while frequently understanding little about our neighbors' religions. These movies, then, play on our spiritual uncertainties and potentially could act as a catalyst to shoring up our own faiths. The challenge is making sure we don't dismiss other people's in the process.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "112213 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=112213",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2019/07/02/how-religious-sect-movies-like-midsommar-get-so-far-under-our-skin/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": true,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 1240,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 18
},
"modified": 1634585805,
"excerpt": "On the eve of the release of 'Midsommar,' we revisit horror movies featuring religious sects and explore why they still resonate so deeply. ",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "On the eve of the release of 'Midsommar,' we revisit horror movies featuring religious sects and explore why they still resonate so deeply. ",
"title": "How Religious Sect Movies Like 'Midsommar' Get So Far Under Our Skin - KQED Pop",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
"headline": "How Religious Sect Movies Like 'Midsommar' Get So Far Under Our Skin",
"datePublished": "2019-07-02T12:39:08-07:00",
"dateModified": "2021-10-18T12:36:45-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "how-religious-sect-movies-like-midsommar-get-so-far-under-our-skin",
"status": "publish",
"templateType": "standard",
"featuredImageType": "standard",
"path": "/pop/112213/how-religious-sect-movies-like-midsommar-get-so-far-under-our-skin",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A horror sub-category all of their own, religious sect movies use our most primeval instincts against us, playing on subconscious human fears about the mystical and what lurks beyond the veil. And the newest one, \u003cem>Midsommar\u003c/em>, is out this week.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/1Vnghdsjmd0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/1Vnghdsjmd0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>One of the reasons this disturbing little genre is so enduring is because it plays on beliefs that are hardwired within us. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/belief-and-the-brains-god-spot-1641022.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2009, scientists discovered\u003c/a> several areas in our brains that process all things religion and spirituality. \"When we have incomplete knowledge of the world around us, it offers us the opportunities to believe in God,\" says Professor Jordan Grafman, from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. \"When we don't have a scientific explanation for something, we tend to rely on supernatural explanations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike most horror films, movies that focus on religious groups don't ask us to suspend our disbelief. Instead, they play on our brains' innate willingness to believe in the metaphysical, while also reminding us of what we already know: humans will do horrendous things to themselves and others if they think it will get them closer to God. Even a cursory glance at real-life cults like \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXIVM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nxivm\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_International\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Children of God \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The People's Temple\u003c/a> demonstrate that. \"Cults, in all their endless variations and representations, point toward a profound human desire,\" KQED Pop's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/4982/why-are-we-still-obsessed-with-cult-stories-source-family-martha-marcy-may-marlene\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Laura Schadler wrote in 2013\u003c/a>. \"One complicated, dark and endless.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That combination makes for a genre that can creep under our skin in a particularly efficient way. For example, reviews for 2018's \u003cem>Hereditary—\u003c/em>which was about a family slowly becoming overwhelmed by a Satanic cult—were downright visceral. \u003ca href=\"https://www.vulture.com/2018/06/toni-collette-in-hereditary-movie-review.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Vulture\u003c/em>\u003c/a> called it \"cruel to the point of invasiveness\"; \u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em>'s \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jun/17/hereditary-review-mark-kermode-horror-toni-collette-gabriel-byrne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Kermode described\u003c/a> \"a breathtaking jolt that made me gasp and recoil\" and used terms like \"shell-shocked\" and \"spine-tingling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This tapping into our subconscious selves can quietly have another unintended consequence. Because of the way these movies juxtapose the familiar and the freaky, they can leave behind a residue that suggests it's wise to fear all religions that are not our own. 1973's \u003cem>The Wickerman\u003c/em> is a great example of this. In it, we see stern policeman Sergeant Howie leave the British mainland in pursuit of a missing girl. He lands on Summerisle, an isolated island off the coast of Scotland, where he is greeted by a community of pagans, who revel in mocking him at every turn.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/a-tDnavDCwI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/a-tDnavDCwI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>The Wickerman\u003c/em> plays on old ideas about Paganism that were spread by Christian settlers when they first arrived in Great Britain. Signs of the struggle between the religions remain in the UK today. Most notably in Avebury, England, where you can see the largest stone circle in the world—believed to have been built by druids for religious and ceremonial purposes—with a Christian church sitting jarringly in the middle of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sergeant Howie then, represents good, civilized Christianity, while the occupants of Summerisle represent the hedonism and heathenism of Paganism. He is order; they are chaos. He is virginal; they are overtly sexual. He is sober; they drink 'til they literally fall down. The Sergeant clings faithfully to his uniform and procedures but ultimately finds that both are meaningless in a community that does not share his values. In the end, Howie's rule book is no match for the islanders' ancient ceremonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://ew.com/movies/2019/06/06/fangoria-jordan-peele-ari-aster-midsommar/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_term=217D14EC-885B-11E9-8A9C-618D4744363C&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly_ew&utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent conversation\u003c/a> with writer/director Ari Aster, Jordan Peele said he believes that \u003cem>Midsommar\u003c/em> \"usurps \u003cem>The Wicker Man\u003c/em> as the most iconic Pagan movie.\" Peele notes that \"the final act ... was some of the most atrociously disturbing imagery I’ve ever seen on film, and yet I experienced it with this open-mouthed, wild-eyed gape. I think that part of how we get there is never reducing the villains to any kind of snarling monsters with an evil agenda.\" They are merely \"Other.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as a line was drawn in \u003cem>The Wicker Man\u003c/em> between the civilized mainland and the barbarism of Summerisle, \u003cem>Children of the Corn\u003c/em> asks us to recognize a gulf between the religious and the educated; the backwards country yokel versus the sophisticated city dweller. It is a movie that asks us to embrace intellect, instead of faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before a cult of fundamentalist children has tried to murder them, Vicky and her doctor boyfriend, Burt, make fun of a radio preacher as they drive the backroads of Nebraska. As the holy man enthusiastically lists the sinners that heaven has no room for, Burt shouts along sarcastically: \"No room for the college graduate! No room for people who watch public television!\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Qs6z1D4gVp4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Qs6z1D4gVp4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In this world, the city folk are educated, principled and free, while small town people are uneducated, insular and easily controlled—all because of religion. The children can be commanded by their leader, Isaac, to go and kill, and before they do, they chant \"Praise God! Praise the Lord!\" It is left to Burt to attempt to reason with the brainwashed children. \"Any religion without love and compassion is false,\" he tells them. (How many of us would like to say the same to the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Westboro Baptist Church\u003c/a>?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Religious sect horror movies don't just tell us to fear the belief systems of outsiders, they tell us that other people's religions can be so pernicious, they can take hold of those closest to us before we've even had a chance to notice. This is the fate that befalls Rosemary Woodhouse in \u003cem>Rosemary's Baby\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Ffw1u0aXn0o'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Ffw1u0aXn0o'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Rosemary's husband sacrifices her eternal life and provides their firstborn son as a human vessel for the devil after he is bribed and influenced by the couple's neighbors, the Satan-worshipping Castavets. The Castavets' advanced age and doddering ways represent the fact that one of the powers of corrupting religions is their ability to look perfectly harmless at the outset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar message is put forth by \u003cem>Hereditary.\u003c/em> In it, ordinary family life is invaded by unseen forces of darkness, wrought by a religious sect too power-hungry and spiritually powerful to fight against. In this family's battle for peace and normality, traditional symbols of comfort—a hearth, a bed, a tree house—all become traps in which Annie Graham's family are at their most vulnerable. Visually, the brightest light is invaded by opaque darkness. In the end, the biggest evil-doer of all turns out to be grandma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much has been made of \u003cem>Hereditary\u003c/em> being a metaphor for inherited mental illness and disease, but it also plays on ideas around religious radicalization and the eternal tolls suffered by the families left behind.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/V6wWKNij_1M'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/V6wWKNij_1M'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The age we live in is such that most feel foolish expressing any belief in superstitions, but have to fight against humanity's basest instincts to dismiss them. We pride ourselves on our multicultural communities, while frequently understanding little about our neighbors' religions. These movies, then, play on our spiritual uncertainties and potentially could act as a catalyst to shoring up our own faiths. The challenge is making sure we don't dismiss other people's in the process.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/pop/112213/how-religious-sect-movies-like-midsommar-get-so-far-under-our-skin",
"authors": [
"11242"
],
"categories": [
"pop_51"
],
"tags": [
"pop_3695",
"pop_3696",
"pop_3699",
"pop_3341",
"pop_3694",
"pop_3440",
"pop_3700",
"pop_340",
"pop_3698",
"pop_3289",
"pop_3697"
],
"featImg": "pop_112621",
"label": "pop"
},
"pop_110691": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "pop_110691",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "110691",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1554316871000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "pop"
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1554316871,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "'Pet Sematary' is the Best Horror Story That Almost Never Happened",
"title": "'Pet Sematary' is the Best Horror Story That Almost Never Happened",
"headTitle": "KQED Pop | KQED Arts",
"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Warning: The following contains minor spoilers for Stephen King's \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>'\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Pet Sematary'\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>and its 1989 film adaptation.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a tale that was never supposed to see the light of day; one so unrelentingly horrible, even author Stephen King considered it too dark to put out into the world. The only reason \u003cem>Pet Sematary\u003c/em> ever got released was to settle a contract dispute between King and publishing company, Doubleday. \"Otherwise,\" \u003ca href=\"https://ew.com/movies/2019/03/29/pet-sematary-stephen-king-interview/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">King recently told \u003cem>Entertainment Weekly\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \"it would still be in a drawer somewhere ... I was thinking, 'Well, Doubleday can go fuck themselves.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-110694 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-02-at-8.28.15-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-02-at-8.28.15-PM.png 239w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-02-at-8.28.15-PM-160x234.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\">The story concerns Louis Creed, a doctor who moves his wife, young daughter and two-year-old son out of Chicago to a small town in Maine. When their pet cat, Church, is killed on the busy road by their house, rather than burying him in the nearby \"Pet Sematary\" built (and misspelled) by local children, a misguided neighbor takes the doctor to an ancient site beyond the cemetery and instructs him to bury the animal there instead. The next day, Church returns home, alive but changed for the worse. Some time later, when the Creeds' toddler, Gage, runs afoul of the same busy road, a grief-stricken Louis Creed moves his son's body to that same mysterious burial ground—with disastrous results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remarkably, the story was \u003ca href=\"https://www.stephenking.com/library/novel/pet_sematary_inspiration.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">inspired very closely by events\u003c/a> in King's own life. In 1979, he had moved his young family to a house in rural Maine that faced a busy road frequented by speeding trucks and backed by woods containing a pet cemetery built by local children. (The \"Sematary\" spelling was lifted directly from that location.) While living there, King's daughter lost her beloved cat Smucky to the traffic outside, and, utterly bereft, buried him in the pet cemetery. Horrifyingly, King's son Owen had a near-miss with a truck there, saved only when his father caught his arm and pulled him back from the road. Even \u003cem>Pet Sematary\u003c/em>'s well-meaning neighbor was based on the person that found Smucky's lifeless body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Entire sections of dialogue in the novel—including things King's daughter said while mourning the loss of her cat—are lifted from family conversations. \"And I read it over,\" King told \u003cem>EW\u003c/em>, \"and I said to myself, 'This is awful. This is really fucking terrible.' Not that it was badly written ... But all that stuff about the death of kids. It was close to me because my kids lived on that road.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the novel came out and became a \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> bestseller, Lindsay Doran, a studio executive and producer, was presented with the movie script for \u003cem>Pet Sematary, \u003c/em>also penned by King. Doran loved it. \"I thought it was one of the best scripts I had ever read,\" she says in documentary, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3109830/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Unearthed & Untold: The Path to Pet Sematary\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. When she presented it to both Embassy and Paramount Pictures though, the production companies passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I kept trying,\" she continues, \"but nothing happened until the [Writers Guild of America] strike in 1988 when suddenly we couldn't hire any writers. Paramount ... began to worry that there would be big holes in their release schedules the following year because there wouldn't be any movies in the pipeline, [so they] had to agree [to make it].\" That WGA strike, then, is the only reason the original \u003cem>Pet Sematary\u003c/em> movie got made at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMao8sg4DPA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the director of photography Peter Stein was approached to work on \u003cem>Pet Sematary\u003c/em>, he too said no, not wishing to get pigeonholed after having just made \u003cem>Friday the 13th Part 2\u003c/em>. Fred \"Herman Munster\" Gwynne (the actor who would play the neighbor) approached Stein, explaining that he signed on to the project because he had lost a child himself and that the movie was not strictly horror, but simply about life and death. Amazingly, the chat worked; Stein agreed to come aboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pet Sematary\u003c/em> ended up being a surprise hit, taking in $57.5 million in theaters and $26.4 million in video rentals—not bad for an $11.5 million budget. Now, exactly 30 years to the month after the first one came out, we're getting a new adaptation of the now-classic horror film. This too feels like a minor miracle; Paramount announced this remake all the way back in 2010, but it took until 2017 to get greenlit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRCplJFlQMM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, reviews are positive and fan hopes are high. \"\u003cem>Pet Sematary\u003c/em> is really a timeless story,\" Mary Lambert, the director of the 1989 version, says. \"All the reasons people thought it wouldn't work as a film are what has made it into such a timeless piece. It's about ... the dynamic within a family, and the love that parents have for their small children, and the fear that people have of death. The desire through the ages that people have to confound death; to get around it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just like its subjects, \u003cem>Pet Sematary\u003c/em> lives again.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "110691 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=110691",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2019/04/03/pet-sematary-is-the-best-horror-story-that-almost-never-happened/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": true,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 860,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 13
},
"modified": 1659739205,
"excerpt": "Stephen King never wanted his 1983 novel released and its original movie adaptation only happened because of a fluke incident. But, like its subjects, 'Pet Sematary' was hard to kill.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Stephen King never wanted his 1983 novel released and its original movie adaptation only happened because of a fluke incident. But, like its subjects, 'Pet Sematary' was hard to kill.",
"title": "'Pet Sematary' is the Best Horror Story That Almost Never Happened - KQED Pop",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
"headline": "'Pet Sematary' is the Best Horror Story That Almost Never Happened",
"datePublished": "2019-04-03T11:41:11-07:00",
"dateModified": "2022-08-05T15:40:05-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "pet-sematary-is-the-best-horror-story-that-almost-never-happened",
"status": "publish",
"templateType": "standard",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"featuredImageType": "standard",
"path": "/pop/110691/pet-sematary-is-the-best-horror-story-that-almost-never-happened",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Warning: The following contains minor spoilers for Stephen King's \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>'\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Pet Sematary'\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>and its 1989 film adaptation.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a tale that was never supposed to see the light of day; one so unrelentingly horrible, even author Stephen King considered it too dark to put out into the world. The only reason \u003cem>Pet Sematary\u003c/em> ever got released was to settle a contract dispute between King and publishing company, Doubleday. \"Otherwise,\" \u003ca href=\"https://ew.com/movies/2019/03/29/pet-sematary-stephen-king-interview/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">King recently told \u003cem>Entertainment Weekly\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \"it would still be in a drawer somewhere ... I was thinking, 'Well, Doubleday can go fuck themselves.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-110694 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-02-at-8.28.15-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-02-at-8.28.15-PM.png 239w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-02-at-8.28.15-PM-160x234.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\">The story concerns Louis Creed, a doctor who moves his wife, young daughter and two-year-old son out of Chicago to a small town in Maine. When their pet cat, Church, is killed on the busy road by their house, rather than burying him in the nearby \"Pet Sematary\" built (and misspelled) by local children, a misguided neighbor takes the doctor to an ancient site beyond the cemetery and instructs him to bury the animal there instead. The next day, Church returns home, alive but changed for the worse. Some time later, when the Creeds' toddler, Gage, runs afoul of the same busy road, a grief-stricken Louis Creed moves his son's body to that same mysterious burial ground—with disastrous results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remarkably, the story was \u003ca href=\"https://www.stephenking.com/library/novel/pet_sematary_inspiration.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">inspired very closely by events\u003c/a> in King's own life. In 1979, he had moved his young family to a house in rural Maine that faced a busy road frequented by speeding trucks and backed by woods containing a pet cemetery built by local children. (The \"Sematary\" spelling was lifted directly from that location.) While living there, King's daughter lost her beloved cat Smucky to the traffic outside, and, utterly bereft, buried him in the pet cemetery. Horrifyingly, King's son Owen had a near-miss with a truck there, saved only when his father caught his arm and pulled him back from the road. Even \u003cem>Pet Sematary\u003c/em>'s well-meaning neighbor was based on the person that found Smucky's lifeless body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Entire sections of dialogue in the novel—including things King's daughter said while mourning the loss of her cat—are lifted from family conversations. \"And I read it over,\" King told \u003cem>EW\u003c/em>, \"and I said to myself, 'This is awful. This is really fucking terrible.' Not that it was badly written ... But all that stuff about the death of kids. It was close to me because my kids lived on that road.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the novel came out and became a \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> bestseller, Lindsay Doran, a studio executive and producer, was presented with the movie script for \u003cem>Pet Sematary, \u003c/em>also penned by King. Doran loved it. \"I thought it was one of the best scripts I had ever read,\" she says in documentary, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3109830/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Unearthed & Untold: The Path to Pet Sematary\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. When she presented it to both Embassy and Paramount Pictures though, the production companies passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I kept trying,\" she continues, \"but nothing happened until the [Writers Guild of America] strike in 1988 when suddenly we couldn't hire any writers. Paramount ... began to worry that there would be big holes in their release schedules the following year because there wouldn't be any movies in the pipeline, [so they] had to agree [to make it].\" That WGA strike, then, is the only reason the original \u003cem>Pet Sematary\u003c/em> movie got made at all.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/JMao8sg4DPA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/JMao8sg4DPA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>When the director of photography Peter Stein was approached to work on \u003cem>Pet Sematary\u003c/em>, he too said no, not wishing to get pigeonholed after having just made \u003cem>Friday the 13th Part 2\u003c/em>. Fred \"Herman Munster\" Gwynne (the actor who would play the neighbor) approached Stein, explaining that he signed on to the project because he had lost a child himself and that the movie was not strictly horror, but simply about life and death. Amazingly, the chat worked; Stein agreed to come aboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pet Sematary\u003c/em> ended up being a surprise hit, taking in $57.5 million in theaters and $26.4 million in video rentals—not bad for an $11.5 million budget. Now, exactly 30 years to the month after the first one came out, we're getting a new adaptation of the now-classic horror film. This too feels like a minor miracle; Paramount announced this remake all the way back in 2010, but it took until 2017 to get greenlit.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/hRCplJFlQMM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/hRCplJFlQMM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>So far, reviews are positive and fan hopes are high. \"\u003cem>Pet Sematary\u003c/em> is really a timeless story,\" Mary Lambert, the director of the 1989 version, says. \"All the reasons people thought it wouldn't work as a film are what has made it into such a timeless piece. It's about ... the dynamic within a family, and the love that parents have for their small children, and the fear that people have of death. The desire through the ages that people have to confound death; to get around it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just like its subjects, \u003cem>Pet Sematary\u003c/em> lives again.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/pop/110691/pet-sematary-is-the-best-horror-story-that-almost-never-happened",
"authors": [
"11242"
],
"categories": [
"pop_1548",
"pop_51"
],
"tags": [
"pop_3341",
"pop_947",
"pop_865",
"pop_3534",
"pop_3289"
],
"featImg": "pop_110715",
"label": "pop"
},
"pop_105585": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "pop_105585",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "105585",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1536695125000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "pop"
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1536695125,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "The 'Castle Rock' Finale is (Probably) Going to Disappoint Us All",
"title": "The 'Castle Rock' Finale is (Probably) Going to Disappoint Us All",
"headTitle": "KQED Pop | KQED Arts",
"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>The following contains major spoilers for \u003c/em>Castle Rock\u003cem>, Season 1.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It started with so much promise: a mysterious young man, secretly imprisoned in the basement of Shawshank Prison for 27 years; the violent suicide of the corrupt warden that held him there without charge; whispers that the strange man is — \u003cem>gasp \u003c/em>— the devil!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first half of its initial season, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6548228/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">\u003cem>Castle Rock\u003c/em>\u003c/a> was one of the most intriguing and entertaining things on television. And then, like so many mystery shows, it tied us up in knots, threw pointless curveballs at us and then introduced a parallel universe/alternate reality storyline. In Castle Rock, they call that a schism, but it's such a well-worn trope, we all know perfectly well what it means (the show got desperate). Unfortunately, the introduction of this second timeline contradicted everything we've learned so far about the mystery prisoner, previously known only as \"The Kid.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/FreddyInSpace/status/1035001484071583744\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In episode 9, we learned that The Kid is, in fact, Henry Deaver. Yes, folks, there is a parallel timeline when Henry isn't the adopted African American lawyer we've come to know these last couple of months, but rather the bug-eyed creepy dude who we thought might be Satan, but who, in another reality, is actually a very nice doctor and soon-to-be family man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In white Henry's timeline, Ruth Deaver left her abusive husband Matthew when Henry was still a child and moved to Florida, followed by her Sheriff love, Alan Pangborn. When this Henry goes back to Castle Rock, as an adult, to deal with Matthew's suicide, he discovers young, original Henry in a cage in the basement of his childhood home and frees him. Young black Henry leads adult white Henry to the woods, where the schism moves white Henry to the past where he gets imprisoned by the warden, thereby becoming The Kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clear as mud, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ayahstyles/status/1037154387532161025\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Episode 9 basically asked us to forget everything we have so far learned about The Kid. If he started life with a relatively normal childhood and a loving family and went on to be a successful adult, how exactly have 27 years in a cage granted him all of those dark powers we've seen? How did this man end up with the ability to prompt perfectly nice prison guards to go on killing sprees, and hospital patients to set fire to their own beds? And, more importantly, why does he want to do those things? Also, crucially: Why hasn't he aged at all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further, where does all this new information leave our original Henry Deaver? Is \u003cem>he\u003c/em> the real devil? A lady police officer did suggest as much in episode 8, telling him that chaos and devastation have always followed him. It would also explain why childhood Molly felt propelled by her psychic connection to Henry to kill his father in the original timeline. This twist, however, would contradict everything we know about original Henry so far, not least of which his empathetic work with death row prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, for most of us, this isn't our first split-timeline rodeo. Eight years after its finale, \u003ca href=\"https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/lost-was-the-best-before-it-was-the-worst-1635804502\">people are still furious\u003c/a> about how many questions \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411008/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">\u003cem>Lost\u003c/em>\u003c/a> left unanswered, not to mention that whole \"flash-sideways\" (yes, another parallel universe) storyline. The third season of \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4093826/?ref_=nv_sr_2\">\u003cem>Twin Peaks\u003c/em>\u003c/a> surprised viewers by providing a truly satisfying close to all of the town's mysteries... only to muddy everything up again in the finale by introducing — you've guessed it! — a parallel universe in which Laura Palmer never even died! (Laura screaming in the street in the show's final moments was all of us.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23p8RbnlRn4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trick to getting parallel universes to work on television seems to be either to have them be darker, more surreal versions of reality (like the Upside Down in \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4574334/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">\u003cem>Stranger Things\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, or the Black Lodge in \u003cem>Twin Peaks\u003c/em>), have them be a perfectly reasonable extension of a sci-fi universe (see: \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112167/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">\u003cem>Sliders\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436992/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">\u003cem>Doctor Who\u003c/em>\u003c/a>) or to employ them purely for comedy, as animated shows like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0UkdFskwes\">\u003cem>Futurama\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmPN7jZvMHc\">Rick and Morty\u003c/a> \u003c/em>have done. Comedy-wise, \u003cem>Community\u003c/em> proved the potential of alternate-timeline greatness in an episode titled \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-jVbjtTKVM\">\"Remedial Chaos Theory.\"\u003c/a> In it, we saw the gang play out the exact same evening in six slightly different, increasingly entertaining ways. Perhaps if \u003cem>Castle Rock \u003c/em>had also split its attention evenly between its differing timelines, the second one would feel less tacked on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In terms of how \u003cem>Castle Rock\u003c/em> is going to end tonight, it's worth noting that\u003cem> Lost\u003c/em> creator, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0009190/?ref_=tt_ov_wr\">JJ Abrams\u003c/a>, is an executive producer on the show. Abrams is \u003ca href=\"https://io9.gizmodo.com/5827048/jj-abrams-wants-your-ideas-for-how-lost-should-have-ended\">acutely aware\u003c/a> that people didn't like the ending of \u003cem>Lost\u003c/em>, so would he really be willing to leave viewers with a bunch of unanswered questions again?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly for Abrams, \u003cem>Castle Rock\u003c/em> has made it almost impossible to finish out the series in a satisfying way. There are just too many unanswered questions to handle in one hour. Such as: What did the warden know about the schism? Why did he think The Kid was the devil? Is the voice of God, heard in the woods, really the voice of God? Why did alternate universe Matthew Deaver keep original Henry locked up in his basement? Is the warden's suicide related to Matthew's suicide? What does the schism have to do with all of the misfortune that repeatedly befalls Castle Rock residents? Why is Molly more psychic in one timeline than the other? What will happen to Ruth Deaver, now that she has accidentally killed Alan? What happened to white Henry's fiancé and baby after he disappeared into the schism? Is Ruth Deaver a time-traveler? Why was she so terrified of The Kid if, on some level, she recognized him as her alternate son? What the hell was the point of that side plot about the bed and breakfast owners?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Truthfully, if the show had kept things a little more simple, it would be infinitely easier to leave us with a more satisfying ending. An explanation for The Kid's evil deeds, preferably discovered by Henry Deaver, would be great. So would a detailed explanation about the warden's suicide. Some sort of answer as to why so much tragedy befalls this tiny town in Maine would be magnificent, not just for the show, but for the wider Stephen King universe that has been referenced throughout. An ending in which The Kid is sent back from whence he came would be nice too, especially if a risk is posed that he could come back and wreak havoc in subsequent seasons again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it stands, what we have, going into the finale, is a complicated mess with no hero, no villain, two dead characters we wish were still alive (Alan and prison guard, Dennis) and a schism in the woods to fruitlessly point at every time something doesn't make any sense. One can only hope that the Season 1 finale restores \u003cem>Castle Rock\u003c/em> to its former glory, but looking at the evidence of the last few weeks? Probably only in a parallel universe.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "105585 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=105585",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2018/09/11/the-castle-rock-finale-is-probably-going-to-disappoint-us-all/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": true,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 1226,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 16
},
"modified": 1536695125,
"excerpt": "Can the 'Castle Rock' season finale restore the show to its former glory? Probably only in a parallel universe.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Can the 'Castle Rock' season finale restore the show to its former glory? Probably only in a parallel universe.",
"title": "The 'Castle Rock' Finale is (Probably) Going to Disappoint Us All | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
"headline": "The 'Castle Rock' Finale is (Probably) Going to Disappoint Us All",
"datePublished": "2018-09-11T12:45:25-07:00",
"dateModified": "2018-09-11T12:45:25-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "the-castle-rock-finale-is-probably-going-to-disappoint-us-all",
"status": "publish",
"path": "/pop/105585/the-castle-rock-finale-is-probably-going-to-disappoint-us-all",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>The following contains major spoilers for \u003c/em>Castle Rock\u003cem>, Season 1.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It started with so much promise: a mysterious young man, secretly imprisoned in the basement of Shawshank Prison for 27 years; the violent suicide of the corrupt warden that held him there without charge; whispers that the strange man is — \u003cem>gasp \u003c/em>— the devil!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first half of its initial season, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6548228/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">\u003cem>Castle Rock\u003c/em>\u003c/a> was one of the most intriguing and entertaining things on television. And then, like so many mystery shows, it tied us up in knots, threw pointless curveballs at us and then introduced a parallel universe/alternate reality storyline. In Castle Rock, they call that a schism, but it's such a well-worn trope, we all know perfectly well what it means (the show got desperate). Unfortunately, the introduction of this second timeline contradicted everything we've learned so far about the mystery prisoner, previously known only as \"The Kid.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "singleTwitterStatus",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"id": "1035001484071583744"
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>In episode 9, we learned that The Kid is, in fact, Henry Deaver. Yes, folks, there is a parallel timeline when Henry isn't the adopted African American lawyer we've come to know these last couple of months, but rather the bug-eyed creepy dude who we thought might be Satan, but who, in another reality, is actually a very nice doctor and soon-to-be family man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In white Henry's timeline, Ruth Deaver left her abusive husband Matthew when Henry was still a child and moved to Florida, followed by her Sheriff love, Alan Pangborn. When this Henry goes back to Castle Rock, as an adult, to deal with Matthew's suicide, he discovers young, original Henry in a cage in the basement of his childhood home and frees him. Young black Henry leads adult white Henry to the woods, where the schism moves white Henry to the past where he gets imprisoned by the warden, thereby becoming The Kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clear as mud, right?\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "singleTwitterStatus",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"id": "1037154387532161025"
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Episode 9 basically asked us to forget everything we have so far learned about The Kid. If he started life with a relatively normal childhood and a loving family and went on to be a successful adult, how exactly have 27 years in a cage granted him all of those dark powers we've seen? How did this man end up with the ability to prompt perfectly nice prison guards to go on killing sprees, and hospital patients to set fire to their own beds? And, more importantly, why does he want to do those things? Also, crucially: Why hasn't he aged at all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further, where does all this new information leave our original Henry Deaver? Is \u003cem>he\u003c/em> the real devil? A lady police officer did suggest as much in episode 8, telling him that chaos and devastation have always followed him. It would also explain why childhood Molly felt propelled by her psychic connection to Henry to kill his father in the original timeline. This twist, however, would contradict everything we know about original Henry so far, not least of which his empathetic work with death row prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, for most of us, this isn't our first split-timeline rodeo. Eight years after its finale, \u003ca href=\"https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/lost-was-the-best-before-it-was-the-worst-1635804502\">people are still furious\u003c/a> about how many questions \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411008/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">\u003cem>Lost\u003c/em>\u003c/a> left unanswered, not to mention that whole \"flash-sideways\" (yes, another parallel universe) storyline. The third season of \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4093826/?ref_=nv_sr_2\">\u003cem>Twin Peaks\u003c/em>\u003c/a> surprised viewers by providing a truly satisfying close to all of the town's mysteries... only to muddy everything up again in the finale by introducing — you've guessed it! — a parallel universe in which Laura Palmer never even died! (Laura screaming in the street in the show's final moments was all of us.)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/23p8RbnlRn4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/23p8RbnlRn4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The trick to getting parallel universes to work on television seems to be either to have them be darker, more surreal versions of reality (like the Upside Down in \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4574334/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">\u003cem>Stranger Things\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, or the Black Lodge in \u003cem>Twin Peaks\u003c/em>), have them be a perfectly reasonable extension of a sci-fi universe (see: \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112167/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">\u003cem>Sliders\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436992/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">\u003cem>Doctor Who\u003c/em>\u003c/a>) or to employ them purely for comedy, as animated shows like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0UkdFskwes\">\u003cem>Futurama\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmPN7jZvMHc\">Rick and Morty\u003c/a> \u003c/em>have done. Comedy-wise, \u003cem>Community\u003c/em> proved the potential of alternate-timeline greatness in an episode titled \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-jVbjtTKVM\">\"Remedial Chaos Theory.\"\u003c/a> In it, we saw the gang play out the exact same evening in six slightly different, increasingly entertaining ways. Perhaps if \u003cem>Castle Rock \u003c/em>had also split its attention evenly between its differing timelines, the second one would feel less tacked on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In terms of how \u003cem>Castle Rock\u003c/em> is going to end tonight, it's worth noting that\u003cem> Lost\u003c/em> creator, \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0009190/?ref_=tt_ov_wr\">JJ Abrams\u003c/a>, is an executive producer on the show. Abrams is \u003ca href=\"https://io9.gizmodo.com/5827048/jj-abrams-wants-your-ideas-for-how-lost-should-have-ended\">acutely aware\u003c/a> that people didn't like the ending of \u003cem>Lost\u003c/em>, so would he really be willing to leave viewers with a bunch of unanswered questions again?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly for Abrams, \u003cem>Castle Rock\u003c/em> has made it almost impossible to finish out the series in a satisfying way. There are just too many unanswered questions to handle in one hour. Such as: What did the warden know about the schism? Why did he think The Kid was the devil? Is the voice of God, heard in the woods, really the voice of God? Why did alternate universe Matthew Deaver keep original Henry locked up in his basement? Is the warden's suicide related to Matthew's suicide? What does the schism have to do with all of the misfortune that repeatedly befalls Castle Rock residents? Why is Molly more psychic in one timeline than the other? What will happen to Ruth Deaver, now that she has accidentally killed Alan? What happened to white Henry's fiancé and baby after he disappeared into the schism? Is Ruth Deaver a time-traveler? Why was she so terrified of The Kid if, on some level, she recognized him as her alternate son? What the hell was the point of that side plot about the bed and breakfast owners?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Truthfully, if the show had kept things a little more simple, it would be infinitely easier to leave us with a more satisfying ending. An explanation for The Kid's evil deeds, preferably discovered by Henry Deaver, would be great. So would a detailed explanation about the warden's suicide. Some sort of answer as to why so much tragedy befalls this tiny town in Maine would be magnificent, not just for the show, but for the wider Stephen King universe that has been referenced throughout. An ending in which The Kid is sent back from whence he came would be nice too, especially if a risk is posed that he could come back and wreak havoc in subsequent seasons again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it stands, what we have, going into the finale, is a complicated mess with no hero, no villain, two dead characters we wish were still alive (Alan and prison guard, Dennis) and a schism in the woods to fruitlessly point at every time something doesn't make any sense. One can only hope that the Season 1 finale restores \u003cem>Castle Rock\u003c/em> to its former glory, but looking at the evidence of the last few weeks? Probably only in a parallel universe.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/pop/105585/the-castle-rock-finale-is-probably-going-to-disappoint-us-all",
"authors": [
"11242"
],
"categories": [
"pop_3"
],
"tags": [
"pop_533",
"pop_3289"
],
"featImg": "pop_105588",
"label": "pop"
}
},
"programsReducer": {
"possible": {
"id": "possible",
"title": "Possible",
"info": "Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. The show features interviews with visionary guests like Trevor Noah, Sam Altman and Janette Sadik-Khan. Possible paints an optimistic portrait of the world we can create through science, policy, business, art and our shared humanity. It asks: What if everything goes right for once? How can we get there? Each episode also includes a short fiction story generated by advanced AI GPT-4, serving as a thought-provoking springboard to speculate how humanity could leverage technology for good.",
"airtime": "SUN 2pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Possible-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.possible.fm/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "Possible"
},
"link": "/radio/program/possible",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/possible/id1677184070",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/730YpdUSNlMyPQwNnyjp4k"
}
},
"1a": {
"id": "1a",
"title": "1A",
"info": "1A is home to the national conversation. 1A brings on great guests and frames the best debate in ways that make you think, share and engage.",
"airtime": "MON-THU 11pm-12am",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/1a.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://the1a.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/1a",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/RBrW",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=1188724250&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/1A-p947376/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510316/podcast.xml"
}
},
"all-things-considered": {
"id": "all-things-considered",
"title": "All Things Considered",
"info": "Every weekday, \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> hosts Robert Siegel, Audie Cornish, Ari Shapiro, and Kelly McEvers present the program's trademark mix of news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features. Michel Martin hosts on the weekends.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 1pm-2pm, 4:30pm-6:30pm\u003cbr />SAT-SUN 5pm-6pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/All-Things-Considered-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/all-things-considered"
},
"american-suburb-podcast": {
"id": "american-suburb-podcast",
"title": "American Suburb: The Podcast",
"tagline": "The flip side of gentrification, told through one town",
"info": "Gentrification is changing cities across America, forcing people from neighborhoods they have long called home. Call them the displaced. Now those priced out of the Bay Area are looking for a better life in an unlikely place. American Suburb follows this migration to one California town along the Delta, 45 miles from San Francisco. But is this once sleepy suburb ready for them?",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/American-Suburb-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/news/series/american-suburb-podcast",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 19
},
"link": "/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/RBrW",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=1287748328",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/American-Suburb-p1086805/",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/feed/podcast",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMzMDExODgxNjA5"
}
},
"baycurious": {
"id": "baycurious",
"title": "Bay Curious",
"tagline": "Exploring the Bay Area, one question at a time",
"info": "KQED’s new podcast, Bay Curious, gets to the bottom of the mysteries — both profound and peculiar — that give the Bay Area its unique identity. And we’ll do it with your help! You ask the questions. You decide what Bay Curious investigates. And you join us on the journey to find the answers.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Bay-Curious-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "\"KQED Bay Curious",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/news/series/baycurious",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 4
},
"link": "/podcasts/baycurious",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/category/bay-curious-podcast/feed/podcast",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvbmV3cy9jYXRlZ29yeS9iYXktY3VyaW91cy1wb2RjYXN0L2ZlZWQvcG9kY2FzdA",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/bay-curious",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/6O76IdmhixfijmhTZLIJ8k"
}
},
"bbc-world-service": {
"id": "bbc-world-service",
"title": "BBC World Service",
"info": "The day's top stories from BBC News compiled twice daily in the week, once at weekends.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 9pm-10pm, TUE-FRI 1am-2am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BBC-World-Service-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_world_service",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "BBC World Service"
},
"link": "/radio/program/bbc-world-service",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/global-news-podcast/id135067274?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/BBC-World-Service-p455581/",
"rss": "https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p02nq0gn.rss"
}
},
"code-switch-life-kit": {
"id": "code-switch-life-kit",
"title": "Code Switch / Life Kit",
"info": "\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em>, which listeners will hear in the first part of the hour, has fearless and much-needed conversations about race. Hosted by journalists of color, the show tackles the subject of race head-on, exploring how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and more.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em>, which will be in the second part of the hour, guides you through spaces and feelings no one prepares you for — from finances to mental health, from workplace microaggressions to imposter syndrome, from relationships to parenting. The show features experts with real world experience and shares their knowledge. Because everyone needs a little help being human.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch\">\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/lifekit\">\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />",
"airtime": "SUN 9pm-10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Code-Switch-Life-Kit-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/code-switch-life-kit",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/1112190608?mt=2&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnByLm9yZy9yc3MvcG9kY2FzdC5waHA_aWQ9NTEwMzEy",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3bExJ9JQpkwNhoHvaIIuyV",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510312/podcast.xml"
}
},
"commonwealth-club": {
"id": "commonwealth-club",
"title": "Commonwealth Club of California Podcast",
"info": "The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum. As a non-partisan forum, The Club brings to the public airwaves diverse viewpoints on important topics. The Club's weekly radio broadcast - the oldest in the U.S., dating back to 1924 - is carried across the nation on public radio stations and is now podcasting. Our website archive features audio of our recent programs, as well as selected speeches from our long and distinguished history. This podcast feed is usually updated twice a week and is always un-edited.",
"airtime": "THU 10pm, FRI 1am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Commonwealth-Club-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.commonwealthclub.org/podcasts",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "Commonwealth Club of California"
},
"link": "/radio/program/commonwealth-club",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/commonwealth-club-of-california-podcast/id976334034?mt=2",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jb21tb253ZWFsdGhjbHViLm9yZy9hdWRpby9wb2RjYXN0L3dlZWtseS54bWw",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Commonwealth-Club-of-California-p1060/"
}
},
"forum": {
"id": "forum",
"title": "Forum",
"tagline": "The conversation starts here",
"info": "KQED’s live call-in program discussing local, state, national and international issues, as well as in-depth interviews.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 9am-11am, 10pm-11pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Forum-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Forum with Mina Kim and Alexis Madrigal",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/forum",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 10
},
"link": "/forum",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-forum/id73329719",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM5NTU3MzgxNjMz",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432307980/forum",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-forum-podcast",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC9557381633"
}
},
"freakonomics-radio": {
"id": "freakonomics-radio",
"title": "Freakonomics Radio",
"info": "Freakonomics Radio is a one-hour award-winning podcast and public-radio project hosted by Stephen Dubner, with co-author Steve Levitt as a regular guest. It is produced in partnership with WNYC.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/freakonomicsRadio.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://freakonomics.com/",
"airtime": "SUN 1am-2am, SAT 3pm-4pm",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/freakonomics-radio",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/freakonomics-radio/id354668519",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/Freakonomics-Radio-p272293/",
"rss": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio"
}
},
"fresh-air": {
"id": "fresh-air",
"title": "Fresh Air",
"info": "Hosted by Terry Gross, \u003cem>Fresh Air from WHYY\u003c/em> is the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues. One of public radio's most popular programs, Fresh Air features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 7pm-8pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Fresh-Air-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/fresh-air",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=214089682&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Fresh-Air-p17/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/381444908/podcast.xml"
}
},
"here-and-now": {
"id": "here-and-now",
"title": "Here & Now",
"info": "A live production of NPR and WBUR Boston, in collaboration with stations across the country, Here & Now reflects the fluid world of news as it's happening in the middle of the day, with timely, in-depth news, interviews and conversation. Hosted by Robin Young, Jeremy Hobson and Tonya Mosley.",
"airtime": "MON-THU 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Here-And-Now-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/here-and-now",
"subsdcribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=426698661",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Here--Now-p211/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510051/podcast.xml"
}
},
"how-i-built-this": {
"id": "how-i-built-this",
"title": "How I Built This with Guy Raz",
"info": "Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world's best known companies. How I Built This weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists—and the movements they built.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/howIBuiltThis.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this",
"airtime": "SUN 7:30pm-8pm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/how-i-built-this",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/3zxy",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-built-this-with-guy-raz/id1150510297?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/How-I-Built-This-p910896/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510313/podcast.xml"
}
},
"inside-europe": {
"id": "inside-europe",
"title": "Inside Europe",
"info": "Inside Europe, a one-hour weekly news magazine hosted by Helen Seeney and Keith Walker, explores the topical issues shaping the continent. No other part of the globe has experienced such dynamic political and social change in recent years.",
"airtime": "SAT 3am-4am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Inside-Europe-Podcast-Tile-300x300-1.jpg",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "Deutsche Welle"
},
"link": "/radio/program/inside-europe",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-europe/id80106806?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Inside-Europe-p731/",
"rss": "https://partner.dw.com/xml/podcast_inside-europe"
}
},
"latino-usa": {
"id": "latino-usa",
"title": "Latino USA",
"airtime": "MON 1am-2am, SUN 6pm-7pm",
"info": "Latino USA, the radio journal of news and culture, is the only national, English-language radio program produced from a Latino perspective.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/latinoUsa.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://latinousa.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/latino-usa",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/xtTd",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=79681317&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Latino-USA-p621/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510016/podcast.xml"
}
},
"live-from-here-highlights": {
"id": "live-from-here-highlights",
"title": "Live from Here Highlights",
"info": "Chris Thile steps to the mic as the host of Live from Here (formerly A Prairie Home Companion), a live public radio variety show. Download Chris’s Song of the Week plus other highlights from the broadcast. Produced by American Public Media.",
"airtime": "SAT 6pm-8pm, SUN 11am-1pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Live-From-Here-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.livefromhere.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "american public media"
},
"link": "/radio/program/live-from-here-highlights",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1167173941",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Live-from-Here-Highlights-p921744/",
"rss": "https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/a-prairie-home-companion-highlights/rss/rss"
}
},
"marketplace": {
"id": "marketplace",
"title": "Marketplace",
"info": "Our flagship program, helmed by Kai Ryssdal, examines what the day in money delivered, through stories, conversations, newsworthy numbers and more. Updated Monday through Friday at about 3:30 p.m. PT.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 4pm-4:30pm, MON-WED 6:30pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Marketplace-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.marketplace.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "American Public Media"
},
"link": "/radio/program/marketplace",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201853034&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/APM-Marketplace-p88/",
"rss": "https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/marketplace-pm/rss/rss"
}
},
"mindshift": {
"id": "mindshift",
"title": "MindShift",
"tagline": "A podcast about the future of learning and how we raise our kids",
"info": "The MindShift podcast explores the innovations in education that are shaping how kids learn. Hosts Ki Sung and Katrina Schwartz introduce listeners to educators, researchers, parents and students who are developing effective ways to improve how kids learn. We cover topics like how fed-up administrators are developing surprising tactics to deal with classroom disruptions; how listening to podcasts are helping kids develop reading skills; the consequences of overparenting; and why interdisciplinary learning can engage students on all ends of the traditional achievement spectrum. This podcast is part of the MindShift education site, a division of KQED News. KQED is an NPR/PBS member station based in San Francisco. You can also visit the MindShift website for episodes and supplemental blog posts or tweet us \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MindShiftKQED\">@MindShiftKQED\u003c/a> or visit us at \u003ca href=\"/mindshift\">MindShift.KQED.org\u003c/a>",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Mindshift-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED MindShift: How We Will Learn",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/mindshift/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 13
},
"link": "/podcasts/mindshift",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mindshift-podcast/id1078765985",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM1NzY0NjAwNDI5",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/464615685/mind-shift-podcast",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/stories-teachers-share",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/0MxSpNYZKNprFLCl7eEtyx"
}
},
"morning-edition": {
"id": "morning-edition",
"title": "Morning Edition",
"info": "\u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> takes listeners around the country and the world with multi-faceted stories and commentaries every weekday. Hosts Steve Inskeep, David Greene and Rachel Martin bring you the latest breaking news and features to prepare you for the day.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 3am-9am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Morning-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/morning-edition"
},
"onourwatch": {
"id": "onourwatch",
"title": "On Our Watch",
"tagline": "Deeply-reported investigative journalism",
"info": "For decades, the process for how police police themselves has been inconsistent – if not opaque. In some states, like California, these proceedings were completely hidden. After a new police transparency law unsealed scores of internal affairs files, our reporters set out to examine these cases and the shadow world of police discipline. On Our Watch brings listeners into the rooms where officers are questioned and witnesses are interrogated to find out who this system is really protecting. Is it the officers, or the public they've sworn to serve?",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/On-Our-Watch-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "On Our Watch from NPR and KQED",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/onourwatch",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 12
},
"link": "/podcasts/onourwatch",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1567098962",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ucHIub3JnLzUxMDM2MC9wb2RjYXN0LnhtbD9zYz1nb29nbGVwb2RjYXN0cw",
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/onourwatch",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/0OLWoyizopu6tY1XiuX70x",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/On-Our-Watch-p1436229/",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/show/on-our-watch",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510360/podcast.xml"
}
},
"on-the-media": {
"id": "on-the-media",
"title": "On The Media",
"info": "Our weekly podcast explores how the media 'sausage' is made, casts an incisive eye on fluctuations in the marketplace of ideas, and examines threats to the freedom of information and expression in America and abroad. For one hour a week, the show tries to lift the veil from the process of \"making media,\" especially news media, because it's through that lens that we see the world and the world sees us",
"airtime": "SUN 2pm-3pm, MON 12am-1am",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/onTheMedia.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/otm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "wnyc"
},
"link": "/radio/program/on-the-media",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id73330715?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/On-the-Media-p69/",
"rss": "http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia"
}
},
"our-body-politic": {
"id": "our-body-politic",
"title": "Our Body Politic",
"info": "Presented by KQED, KCRW and KPCC, and created and hosted by award-winning journalist Farai Chideya, Our Body Politic is unapologetically centered on reporting on not just how women of color experience the major political events of today, but how they’re impacting those very issues.",
"airtime": "SAT 6pm-7pm, SUN 1am-2am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Our-Body-Politic-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://our-body-politic.simplecast.com/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kcrw"
},
"link": "/radio/program/our-body-politic",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/our-body-politic/id1533069868",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9feGFQaHMxcw",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/4ApAiLT1kV153TttWAmqmc",
"rss": "https://feeds.simplecast.com/_xaPhs1s",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/News--Politics-Podcasts/Our-Body-Politic-p1369211/"
}
},
"pbs-newshour": {
"id": "pbs-newshour",
"title": "PBS NewsHour",
"info": "Analysis, background reports and updates from the PBS NewsHour putting today's news in context.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 3pm-4pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PBS-News-Hour-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "pbs"
},
"link": "/radio/program/pbs-newshour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pbs-newshour-full-show/id394432287?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/PBS-NewsHour---Full-Show-p425698/",
"rss": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/feeds/rss/podcasts/show"
}
},
"perspectives": {
"id": "perspectives",
"title": "Perspectives",
"tagline": "KQED's series of daily listener commentaries since 1991",
"info": "KQED's series of daily listener commentaries since 1991.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Perspectives_Tile_Final.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/perspectives/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 15
},
"link": "/perspectives",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id73801135",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432309616/perspectives",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/perspectives/category/perspectives/feed/",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvcGVyc3BlY3RpdmVzL2NhdGVnb3J5L3BlcnNwZWN0aXZlcy9mZWVkLw"
}
},
"planet-money": {
"id": "planet-money",
"title": "Planet Money",
"info": "The economy explained. Imagine you could call up a friend and say, Meet me at the bar and tell me what's going on with the economy. Now imagine that's actually a fun evening.",
"airtime": "SUN 3pm-4pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/planetmoney.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/sections/money/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/planet-money",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/M4f5",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id290783428?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Business--Economics-Podcasts/Planet-Money-p164680/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510289/podcast.xml"
}
},
"politicalbreakdown": {
"id": "politicalbreakdown",
"title": "Political Breakdown",
"tagline": "Politics from a personal perspective",
"info": "Political Breakdown is a new series that explores the political intersection of California and the nation. Each week hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos are joined with a new special guest to unpack politics -- with personality — and offer an insider’s glimpse at how politics happens.",
"airtime": "THU 6:30pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Political-Breakdown-2024-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Political Breakdown",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/politicalbreakdown",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 6
},
"link": "/podcasts/politicalbreakdown",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/political-breakdown/id1327641087",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM5Nzk2MzI2MTEx",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/572155894/political-breakdown",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/political-breakdown",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/07RVyIjIdk2WDuVehvBMoN",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/political-breakdown/feed/podcast"
}
},
"pri-the-world": {
"id": "pri-the-world",
"title": "PRI's The World: Latest Edition",
"info": "Each weekday, host Marco Werman and his team of producers bring you the world's most interesting stories in an hour of radio that reminds us just how small our planet really is.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 2pm-3pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-World-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.pri.org/programs/the-world",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "PRI"
},
"link": "/radio/program/pri-the-world",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pris-the-world-latest-edition/id278196007?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/News--Politics-Podcasts/PRIs-The-World-p24/",
"rss": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/pri/theworld"
}
},
"radiolab": {
"id": "radiolab",
"title": "Radiolab",
"info": "A two-time Peabody Award-winner, Radiolab is an investigation told through sounds and stories, and centered around one big idea. In the Radiolab world, information sounds like music and science and culture collide. Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, the show is designed for listeners who demand skepticism, but appreciate wonder. WNYC Studios is the producer of other leading podcasts including Freakonomics Radio, Death, Sex & Money, On the Media and many more.",
"airtime": "SUN 12am-1am, SAT 2pm-3pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/radiolab1400.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/radiolab/",
"meta": {
"site": "science",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/radiolab",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/RadioLab-p68032/",
"rss": "https://feeds.wnyc.org/radiolab"
}
},
"reveal": {
"id": "reveal",
"title": "Reveal",
"info": "Created by The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, Reveal is public radios first one-hour weekly radio show and podcast dedicated to investigative reporting. Credible, fact based and without a partisan agenda, Reveal combines the power and artistry of driveway moment storytelling with data-rich reporting on critically important issues. The result is stories that inform and inspire, arming our listeners with information to right injustices, hold the powerful accountable and improve lives.Reveal is hosted by Al Letson and showcases the award-winning work of CIR and newsrooms large and small across the nation. In a radio and podcast market crowded with choices, Reveal focuses on important and often surprising stories that illuminate the world for our listeners.",
"airtime": "SAT 4pm-5pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/reveal300px.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/reveal",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/reveal/id886009669",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Reveal-p679597/",
"rss": "http://feeds.revealradio.org/revealpodcast"
}
},
"says-you": {
"id": "says-you",
"title": "Says You!",
"info": "Public radio's game show of bluff and bluster, words and whimsy. The warmest, wittiest cocktail party - it's spirited and civil, brainy and boisterous, peppered with musical interludes. Fast paced and playful, it's the most fun you can have with language without getting your mouth washed out with soap. Our motto: It's not important to know the answers, it's important to like the answers!",
"airtime": "SUN 4pm-5pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Says-You-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://www.saysyouradio.com/",
"meta": {
"site": "comedy",
"source": "Pipit and Finch"
},
"link": "/radio/program/says-you",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/says-you!/id1050199826",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Says-You-p480/",
"rss": "https://saysyou.libsyn.com/rss"
}
},
"science-friday": {
"id": "science-friday",
"title": "Science Friday",
"info": "Science Friday is a weekly science talk show, broadcast live over public radio stations nationwide. Each week, the show focuses on science topics that are in the news and tries to bring an educated, balanced discussion to bear on the scientific issues at hand. Panels of expert guests join host Ira Flatow, a veteran science journalist, to discuss science and to take questions from listeners during the call-in portion of the program.",
"airtime": "FRI 11am-1pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Science-Friday-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/science-friday",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/science-friday",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=73329284&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Science-Friday-p394/",
"rss": "http://feeds.wnyc.org/science-friday"
}
},
"selected-shorts": {
"id": "selected-shorts",
"title": "Selected Shorts",
"info": "Spellbinding short stories by established and emerging writers take on a new life when they are performed by stars of the stage and screen.",
"airtime": "SAT 8pm-9pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Selected-Shorts-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.pri.org/programs/selected-shorts",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "pri"
},
"link": "/radio/program/selected-shorts",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=253191824&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Selected-Shorts-p31792/",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/selectedshorts"
}
},
"snap-judgment": {
"id": "snap-judgment",
"title": "Snap Judgment",
"tagline": "Real stories with killer beats",
"info": "The Snap Judgment radio show and podcast mixes real stories with killer beats to produce cinematic, dramatic radio. Snap's musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see the world through the eyes of another. This is storytelling... with a BEAT!! Snap first aired on public radio stations nationwide in July 2010. Today, Snap Judgment airs on over 450 public radio stations and is brought to the airwaves by KQED & PRX.",
"airtime": "SAT 1pm-2pm, 9pm-10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Snap-Judgment-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://snapjudgment.org",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 5
},
"link": "https://snapjudgment.org",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/snap-judgment/id283657561",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/449018144/snap-judgment",
"stitcher": "https://www.pandora.com/podcast/snap-judgment/PC:241?source=stitcher-sunset",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3Cct7ZWmxHNAtLgBTqjC5v",
"rss": "https://snap.feed.snapjudgment.org/"
}
},
"soldout": {
"id": "soldout",
"title": "SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America",
"tagline": "A new future for housing",
"info": "Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Sold-Out-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/soldout",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 14
},
"link": "/podcasts/soldout",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/911586047/s-o-l-d-o-u-t-a-new-future-for-housing",
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/introducing-sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america/id1531354937",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/soldout",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/38dTBSk2ISFoPiyYNoKn1X",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america",
"tunein": "https://tunein.com/radio/SOLD-OUT-Rethinking-Housing-in-America-p1365871/",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vc29sZG91dA"
}
},
"spooked": {
"id": "spooked",
"title": "Spooked",
"tagline": "True-life supernatural stories",
"info": "",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Spooked-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://spookedpodcast.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 8
},
"link": "https://spookedpodcast.org/",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spooked/id1279361017",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/549547848/snap-judgment-presents-spooked",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/76571Rfl3m7PLJQZKQIGCT",
"rss": "https://feeds.simplecast.com/TBotaapn"
}
},
"ted-radio-hour": {
"id": "ted-radio-hour",
"title": "TED Radio Hour",
"info": "The TED Radio Hour is a journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, fresh approaches to old problems, and new ways to think and create.",
"airtime": "SUN 3pm-4pm, SAT 10pm-11pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/tedRadioHour.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/?showDate=2018-06-22",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/ted-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/8vsS",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=523121474&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/TED-Radio-Hour-p418021/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510298/podcast.xml"
}
},
"tech-nation": {
"id": "tech-nation",
"title": "Tech Nation Radio Podcast",
"info": "Tech Nation is a weekly public radio program, hosted by Dr. Moira Gunn. Founded in 1993, it has grown from a simple interview show to a multi-faceted production, featuring conversations with noted technology and science leaders, and a weekly science and technology-related commentary.",
"airtime": "FRI 10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Tech-Nation-Radio-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://technation.podomatic.com/",
"meta": {
"site": "science",
"source": "Tech Nation Media"
},
"link": "/radio/program/tech-nation",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://technation.podomatic.com/rss2.xml"
}
},
"thebay": {
"id": "thebay",
"title": "The Bay",
"tagline": "Local news to keep you rooted",
"info": "Host Devin Katayama walks you through the biggest story of the day with reporters and newsmakers.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Bay-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Bay",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/thebay",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 3
},
"link": "/podcasts/thebay",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM4MjU5Nzg2MzI3",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/586725995/the-bay",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC8259786327"
}
},
"californiareport": {
"id": "californiareport",
"title": "The California Report",
"tagline": "California, day by day",
"info": "KQED’s statewide radio news program providing daily coverage of issues, trends and public policy decisions.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The California Report",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/californiareport",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 9
},
"link": "/californiareport",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-the-california-report/id79681292",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM1MDAyODE4NTgz",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432285393/the-california-report",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-the-california-report-podcast-8838",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcram/feed/podcast"
}
},
"californiareportmagazine": {
"id": "californiareportmagazine",
"title": "The California Report Magazine",
"tagline": "Your state, your stories",
"info": "Every week, The California Report Magazine takes you on a road trip for the ears: to visit the places and meet the people who make California unique. The in-depth storytelling podcast from the California Report.",
"airtime": "FRI 4:30pm-5pm, 6:30pm-7pm, 11pm-11:30pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Magazine-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The California Report Magazine",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/californiareportmagazine",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 11
},
"link": "/californiareportmagazine",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM3NjkwNjk1OTAz",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/564733126/the-california-report-magazine",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-california-report-magazine",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcrmag/feed/podcast"
}
},
"closealltabs": {
"id": "closealltabs",
"title": "Close All Tabs",
"tagline": "Your irreverent guide to the trends redefining our world",
"info": "Close All Tabs breaks down how digital culture shapes our world through thoughtful insights and irreverent humor.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CAT_2_Tile-scaled.jpg",
"imageAlt": "\"KQED Close All Tabs",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/closealltabs",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 2
},
"link": "/podcasts/closealltabs",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/close-all-tabs/id214663465",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC6993880386",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/92d9d4ac-67a3-4eed-b10a-fb45d45b1ef2/close-all-tabs",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/6LAJFHnGK1pYXYzv6SIol6?si=deb0cae19813417c"
}
},
"thelatest": {
"id": "thelatest",
"title": "The Latest",
"tagline": "Trusted local news in real time",
"info": "",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-Latest-2025-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Latest",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/thelatest",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 7
},
"link": "/thelatest",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-latest-from-kqed/id1197721799",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1257949365/the-latest-from-k-q-e-d",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/5KIIXMgM9GTi5AepwOYvIZ?si=bd3053fec7244dba",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC9137121918"
}
},
"theleap": {
"id": "theleap",
"title": "The Leap",
"tagline": "What if you closed your eyes, and jumped?",
"info": "Stories about people making dramatic, risky changes, told by award-winning public radio reporter Judy Campbell.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Leap-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Leap",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/theleap",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 17
},
"link": "/podcasts/theleap",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-leap/id1046668171",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM0NTcwODQ2MjY2",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/447248267/the-leap",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-leap",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3sSlVHHzU0ytLwuGs1SD1U",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/programs/the-leap/feed/podcast"
}
},
"masters-of-scale": {
"id": "masters-of-scale",
"title": "Masters of Scale",
"info": "Masters of Scale is an original podcast in which LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock Partner Reid Hoffman sets out to describe and prove theories that explain how great entrepreneurs take their companies from zero to a gazillion in ingenious fashion.",
"airtime": "Every other Wednesday June 12 through October 16 at 8pm (repeats Thursdays at 2am)",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Masters-of-Scale-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://mastersofscale.com/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "WaitWhat"
},
"link": "/radio/program/masters-of-scale",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "http://mastersofscale.app.link/",
"rss": "https://rss.art19.com/masters-of-scale"
}
},
"the-moth-radio-hour": {
"id": "the-moth-radio-hour",
"title": "The Moth Radio Hour",
"info": "Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of true stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth storytellers stand alone, under a spotlight, with only a microphone and a roomful of strangers. The storyteller and the audience embark on a high-wire act of shared experience which is both terrifying and exhilarating. Since 2008, The Moth podcast has featured many of our favorite stories told live on Moth stages around the country. For information on all of our programs and live events, visit themoth.org.",
"airtime": "SAT 8pm-9pm and SUN 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/theMoth.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://themoth.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "prx"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-moth-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-moth-podcast/id275699983?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/The-Moth-p273888/",
"rss": "http://feeds.themoth.org/themothpodcast"
}
},
"the-new-yorker-radio-hour": {
"id": "the-new-yorker-radio-hour",
"title": "The New Yorker Radio Hour",
"info": "The New Yorker Radio Hour is a weekly program presented by the magazine's editor, David Remnick, and produced by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. Each episode features a diverse mix of interviews, profiles, storytelling, and an occasional burst of humor inspired by the magazine, and shaped by its writers, artists, and editors. This isn't a radio version of a magazine, but something all its own, reflecting the rich possibilities of audio storytelling and conversation. Theme music for the show was composed and performed by Merrill Garbus of tUnE-YArDs.",
"airtime": "SAT 10am-11am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-New-Yorker-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/tnyradiohour",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-new-yorker-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1050430296",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/New-Yorker-Radio-Hour-p803804/",
"rss": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/newyorkerradiohour"
}
},
"the-takeaway": {
"id": "the-takeaway",
"title": "The Takeaway",
"info": "The Takeaway is produced in partnership with its national audience. It delivers perspective and analysis to help us better understand the day’s news. Be a part of the American conversation on-air and online.",
"airtime": "MON-THU 12pm-1pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Takeaway-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/takeaway",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-takeaway",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-takeaway/id363143310?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "http://tunein.com/radio/The-Takeaway-p150731/",
"rss": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/takeawaypodcast"
}
},
"this-american-life": {
"id": "this-american-life",
"title": "This American Life",
"info": "This American Life is a weekly public radio show, heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. Another 2.5 million people download the weekly podcast. It is hosted by Ira Glass, produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards.",
"airtime": "SAT 12pm-1pm, 7pm-8pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/thisAmericanLife.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "wbez"
},
"link": "/radio/program/this-american-life",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201671138&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"rss": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast/rss.xml"
}
},
"truthbetold": {
"id": "truthbetold",
"title": "Truth Be Told",
"tagline": "Advice by and for people of color",
"info": "We’re the friend you call after a long day, the one who gets it. Through wisdom from some of the greatest thinkers of our time, host Tonya Mosley explores what it means to grow and thrive as a Black person in America, while discovering new ways of being that serve as a portal to more love, more healing, and more joy.",
"airtime": "",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Truth-Be-Told-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Truth Be Told with Tonya Mosley",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.kqed.ord/podcasts/truthbetold",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/podcasts/truthbetold",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/truth-be-told/id1462216572",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvbmV3cy9jYXRlZ29yeS90cnV0aC1iZS10b2xkLXBvZGNhc3QvZmVlZA",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/719210818/truth-be-told",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=398170&refid=stpr",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/587DhwTBxke6uvfwDfaV5N"
}
},
"wait-wait-dont-tell-me": {
"id": "wait-wait-dont-tell-me",
"title": "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!",
"info": "Peter Sagal and Bill Kurtis host the weekly NPR News quiz show alongside some of the best and brightest news and entertainment personalities.",
"airtime": "SUN 10am-11am, SAT 11am-12pm, SAT 6pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Wait-Wait-Podcast-Tile-300x300-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/wait-wait-dont-tell-me",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/Xogv",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=121493804&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Wait-Wait-Dont-Tell-Me-p46/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/344098539/podcast.xml"
}
},
"washington-week": {
"id": "washington-week",
"title": "Washington Week",
"info": "For 50 years, Washington Week has been the most intelligent and up to date conversation about the most important news stories of the week. Washington Week is the longest-running news and public affairs program on PBS and features journalists -- not pundits -- lending insight and perspective to the week's important news stories.",
"airtime": "SAT 1:30am-2am",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/washington-week.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "pbs"
},
"link": "/radio/program/washington-week",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/washington-week-audio-pbs/id83324702?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Current-Affairs/Washington-Week-p693/",
"rss": "http://feeds.pbs.org/pbs/weta/washingtonweek-audio"
}
},
"weekend-edition-saturday": {
"id": "weekend-edition-saturday",
"title": "Weekend Edition Saturday",
"info": "Weekend Edition Saturday wraps up the week's news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories. The two-hour program is hosted by NPR's Peabody Award-winning Scott Simon.",
"airtime": "SAT 5am-10am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-saturday/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/weekend-edition-saturday"
},
"weekend-edition-sunday": {
"id": "weekend-edition-sunday",
"title": "Weekend Edition Sunday",
"info": "Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians. The program has covered news events from Nelson Mandela's 1990 release from a South African prison to the capture of Saddam Hussein.",
"airtime": "SUN 5am-10am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-sunday/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/weekend-edition-sunday"
},
"world-affairs": {
"id": "world-affairs",
"title": "World Affairs",
"info": "The world as we knew it is undergoing a rapid transformation…so what's next? Welcome to WorldAffairs, your guide to a changing world. We give you the context you need to navigate across borders and ideologies. Through sound-rich stories and in-depth interviews, we break down what it means to be a global citizen on a hot, crowded planet. Our hosts, Ray Suarez, Teresa Cotsirilos and Philip Yun help you make sense of an uncertain world, one story at a time.",
"airtime": "MON 10pm, TUE 1am, SAT 3am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/World-Affairs-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.worldaffairs.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "World Affairs"
},
"link": "/radio/program/world-affairs",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/world-affairs/id101215657?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/WorldAffairs-p1665/",
"rss": "https://worldaffairs.libsyn.com/rss"
}
},
"on-shifting-ground": {
"id": "on-shifting-ground",
"title": "On Shifting Ground with Ray Suarez",
"info": "Geopolitical turmoil. A warming planet. Authoritarians on the rise. We live in a chaotic world that’s rapidly shifting around us. “On Shifting Ground with Ray Suarez” explores international fault lines and how they impact us all. Each week, NPR veteran Ray Suarez hosts conversations with journalists, leaders and policy experts to help us read between the headlines – and give us hope for human resilience.",
"airtime": "MON 10pm, TUE 1am, SAT 3am",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2022/12/onshiftingground-600x600-1.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://worldaffairs.org/radio-podcast/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "On Shifting Ground"
},
"link": "/radio/program/on-shifting-ground",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/on-shifting-ground/id101215657",
"rss": "https://feeds.libsyn.com/36668/rss"
}
},
"hidden-brain": {
"id": "hidden-brain",
"title": "Hidden Brain",
"info": "Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/hiddenbrain.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/series/423302056/hidden-brain",
"airtime": "SUN 7pm-8pm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "NPR"
},
"link": "/radio/program/hidden-brain",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hidden-brain/id1028908750?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Science-Podcasts/Hidden-Brain-p787503/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510308/podcast.xml"
}
},
"hyphenacion": {
"id": "hyphenacion",
"title": "Hyphenación",
"tagline": "Where conversation and cultura meet",
"info": "What kind of no sabo word is Hyphenación? For us, it’s about living within a hyphenation. Like being a third-gen Mexican-American from the Texas border now living that Bay Area Chicano life. Like Xorje! Each week we bring together a couple of hyphenated Latinos to talk all about personal life choices: family, careers, relationships, belonging … everything is on the table. ",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Hyphenacion_FinalAssets_PodcastTile.png",
"imageAlt": "KQED Hyphenación",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/hyphenacion",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 1
},
"link": "/podcasts/hyphenacion",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hyphenaci%C3%B3n/id1191591838",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/2p3Fifq96nw9BPcmFdIq0o?si=39209f7b25774f38",
"youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/c/kqedarts",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/6c3dd23c-93fb-4aab-97ba-1725fa6315f1/hyphenaci%C3%B3n",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC2275451163"
}
},
"city-arts": {
"id": "city-arts",
"title": "City Arts & Lectures",
"info": "A one-hour radio program to hear celebrated writers, artists and thinkers address contemporary ideas and values, often discussing the creative process. Please note: tapes or transcripts are not available",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/cityartsandlecture-300x300.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.cityarts.net/",
"airtime": "SUN 1pm-2pm, TUE 10pm, WED 1am",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "City Arts & Lectures"
},
"link": "https://www.cityarts.net",
"subscribe": {
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/City-Arts-and-Lectures-p692/",
"rss": "https://www.cityarts.net/feed/"
}
},
"white-lies": {
"id": "white-lies",
"title": "White Lies",
"info": "In 1965, Rev. James Reeb was murdered in Selma, Alabama. Three men were tried and acquitted, but no one was ever held to account. Fifty years later, two journalists from Alabama return to the city where it happened, expose the lies that kept the murder from being solved and uncover a story about guilt and memory that says as much about America today as it does about the past.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/White-Lies-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510343/white-lies",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/white-lies",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/whitelies",
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1462650519?mt=2&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ucHIub3JnLzUxMDM0My9wb2RjYXN0LnhtbA",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/12yZ2j8vxqhc0QZyRES3ft?si=LfWYEK6URA63hueKVxRLAw",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510343/podcast.xml"
}
},
"rightnowish": {
"id": "rightnowish",
"title": "Rightnowish",
"tagline": "Art is where you find it",
"info": "Rightnowish digs into life in the Bay Area right now… ish. Journalist Pendarvis Harshaw takes us to galleries painted on the sides of liquor stores in West Oakland. We'll dance in warehouses in the Bayview, make smoothies with kids in South Berkeley, and listen to classical music in a 1984 Cutlass Supreme in Richmond. Every week, Pen talks to movers and shakers about how the Bay Area shapes what they create, and how they shape the place we call home.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rightnowish-Podcast-Tile-500x500-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Rightnowish with Pendarvis Harshaw",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/rightnowish",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 16
},
"link": "/podcasts/rightnowish",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/721590300/rightnowish",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/rightnowish/feed/podcast",
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rightnowish/id1482187648",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/rightnowish",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMxMjU5MTY3NDc4",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/7kEJuafTzTVan7B78ttz1I"
}
},
"jerrybrown": {
"id": "jerrybrown",
"title": "The Political Mind of Jerry Brown",
"tagline": "Lessons from a lifetime in politics",
"info": "The Political Mind of Jerry Brown brings listeners the wisdom of the former Governor, Mayor, and presidential candidate. Scott Shafer interviewed Brown for more than 40 hours, covering the former governor's life and half-century in the political game – and Brown has some lessons he'd like to share. ",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Political-Mind-of-Jerry-Brown-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Political Mind of Jerry Brown",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/jerrybrown",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 18
},
"link": "/podcasts/jerrybrown",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/790253322/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1492194549",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/jerrybrown/feed/podcast/",
"tuneIn": "http://tun.in/pjGcK",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/54C1dmuyFyKMFttY6X2j6r?si=K8SgRCoISNK6ZbjpXrX5-w",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvbmV3cy9zZXJpZXMvamVycnlicm93bi9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv"
}
},
"tinydeskradio": {
"id": "tinydeskradio",
"title": "Tiny Desk Radio",
"info": "We're bringing the best of Tiny Desk to the airwaves, only on public radio.",
"airtime": "SUN 8pm and SAT 9pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/300x300-For-Member-Station-Logo-Tiny-Desk-Radio-@2x.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/series/g-s1-52030/tiny-desk-radio",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/tinydeskradio",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/g-s1-52030/rss.xml"
}
},
"the-splendid-table": {
"id": "the-splendid-table",
"title": "The Splendid Table",
"info": "\u003cem>The Splendid Table\u003c/em> hosts our nation's conversations about cooking, sustainability and food culture.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Splendid-Table-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.splendidtable.org/",
"airtime": "SUN 10-11 pm",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-splendid-table"
}
},
"racesReducer": {},
"racesGenElectionReducer": {},
"radioSchedulesReducer": {},
"listsReducer": {
"posts/pop?tag=stephen-king": {
"isFetching": false,
"latestQuery": {
"from": 0,
"postsToRender": 9
},
"tag": null,
"vitalsOnly": true,
"totalRequested": 4,
"isLoading": false,
"isLoadingMore": true,
"total": {
"value": 4,
"relation": "eq"
},
"items": [
"pop_112467",
"pop_112213",
"pop_110691",
"pop_105585"
]
}
},
"recallGuideReducer": {
"intros": {},
"policy": {},
"candidates": {}
},
"savedArticleReducer": {
"articles": [],
"status": {}
},
"pfsSessionReducer": {},
"subscriptionsReducer": {},
"termsReducer": {
"about": {
"name": "About",
"type": "terms",
"id": "about",
"slug": "about",
"link": "/about",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"arts": {
"name": "Arts & Culture",
"grouping": [
"arts",
"pop",
"trulyca"
],
"description": "KQED Arts provides daily in-depth coverage of the Bay Area's music, art, film, performing arts, literature and arts news, as well as cultural commentary and criticism.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts",
"slug": "arts",
"link": "/arts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"artschool": {
"name": "Art School",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "artschool",
"slug": "artschool",
"link": "/artschool",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"bayareabites": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "bayareabites",
"slug": "bayareabites",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"bayareahiphop": {
"name": "Bay Area Hiphop",
"type": "terms",
"id": "bayareahiphop",
"slug": "bayareahiphop",
"link": "/bayareahiphop",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"campaign21": {
"name": "Campaign 21",
"type": "terms",
"id": "campaign21",
"slug": "campaign21",
"link": "/campaign21",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"checkplease": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "checkplease",
"slug": "checkplease",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"education": {
"name": "Education",
"grouping": [
"education"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "education",
"slug": "education",
"link": "/education",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"elections": {
"name": "Elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "elections",
"slug": "elections",
"link": "/elections",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"events": {
"name": "Events",
"type": "terms",
"id": "events",
"slug": "events",
"link": "/events",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"event": {
"name": "Event",
"alias": "events",
"type": "terms",
"id": "event",
"slug": "event",
"link": "/event",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"filmschoolshorts": {
"name": "Film School Shorts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "filmschoolshorts",
"slug": "filmschoolshorts",
"link": "/filmschoolshorts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"food": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "food",
"slug": "food",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"forum": {
"name": "Forum",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/forum?",
"parent": "news",
"type": "terms",
"id": "forum",
"slug": "forum",
"link": "/forum",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"futureofyou": {
"name": "Future of You",
"grouping": [
"science",
"futureofyou"
],
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "futureofyou",
"slug": "futureofyou",
"link": "/futureofyou",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"jpepinheart": {
"name": "KQED food",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/food,bayareabites,checkplease",
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "jpepinheart",
"slug": "jpepinheart",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"liveblog": {
"name": "Live Blog",
"type": "terms",
"id": "liveblog",
"slug": "liveblog",
"link": "/liveblog",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"livetv": {
"name": "Live TV",
"parent": "tv",
"type": "terms",
"id": "livetv",
"slug": "livetv",
"link": "/livetv",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"lowdown": {
"name": "The Lowdown",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/lowdown?",
"parent": "news",
"type": "terms",
"id": "lowdown",
"slug": "lowdown",
"link": "/lowdown",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"mindshift": {
"name": "Mindshift",
"parent": "news",
"description": "MindShift explores the future of education by highlighting the innovative – and sometimes counterintuitive – ways educators and parents are helping all children succeed.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "mindshift",
"slug": "mindshift",
"link": "/mindshift",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"news": {
"name": "News",
"grouping": [
"news",
"forum"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "news",
"slug": "news",
"link": "/news",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"perspectives": {
"name": "Perspectives",
"parent": "radio",
"type": "terms",
"id": "perspectives",
"slug": "perspectives",
"link": "/perspectives",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"podcasts": {
"name": "Podcasts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "podcasts",
"slug": "podcasts",
"link": "/podcasts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"pop": {
"name": "Pop",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop",
"slug": "pop",
"link": "/pop",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"pressroom": {
"name": "Pressroom",
"type": "terms",
"id": "pressroom",
"slug": "pressroom",
"link": "/pressroom",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"quest": {
"name": "Quest",
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "quest",
"slug": "quest",
"link": "/quest",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"radio": {
"name": "Radio",
"grouping": [
"forum",
"perspectives"
],
"description": "Listen to KQED Public Radio – home of Forum and The California Report – on 88.5 FM in San Francisco, 89.3 FM in Sacramento, 88.3 FM in Santa Rosa and 88.1 FM in Martinez.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "radio",
"slug": "radio",
"link": "/radio",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"root": {
"name": "KQED",
"image": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"imageWidth": 1200,
"imageHeight": 630,
"headData": {
"title": "KQED | News, Radio, Podcasts, TV | Public Media for Northern California",
"description": "KQED provides public radio, television, and independent reporting on issues that matter to the Bay Area. We’re the NPR and PBS member station for Northern California."
},
"type": "terms",
"id": "root",
"slug": "root",
"link": "/root",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"science": {
"name": "Science",
"grouping": [
"science",
"futureofyou"
],
"description": "KQED Science brings you award-winning science and environment coverage from the Bay Area and beyond.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "science",
"slug": "science",
"link": "/science",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"stateofhealth": {
"name": "State of Health",
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "stateofhealth",
"slug": "stateofhealth",
"link": "/stateofhealth",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"support": {
"name": "Support",
"type": "terms",
"id": "support",
"slug": "support",
"link": "/support",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"thedolist": {
"name": "The Do List",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "thedolist",
"slug": "thedolist",
"link": "/thedolist",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"trulyca": {
"name": "Truly CA",
"grouping": [
"arts",
"pop",
"trulyca"
],
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "trulyca",
"slug": "trulyca",
"link": "/trulyca",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"tv": {
"name": "TV",
"type": "terms",
"id": "tv",
"slug": "tv",
"link": "/tv",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"voterguide": {
"name": "Voter Guide",
"parent": "elections",
"alias": "elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "voterguide",
"slug": "voterguide",
"link": "/voterguide",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"guiaelectoral": {
"name": "Guia Electoral",
"parent": "elections",
"alias": "elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "guiaelectoral",
"slug": "guiaelectoral",
"link": "/guiaelectoral",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"pop_3289": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop_3289",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "3289",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Stephen King",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Stephen King Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null,
"imageData": {
"ogImageSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"width": 1200,
"height": 630
},
"twImageSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"
},
"twitterCard": "summary_large_image"
}
},
"ttid": 3289,
"slug": "stephen-king",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/pop/tag/stephen-king"
},
"pop_3": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop_3",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "3",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "TV",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "TV Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3,
"slug": "tv",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/pop/category/tv"
},
"pop_1145": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop_1145",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "1145",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "1980s",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "1980s Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1146,
"slug": "1980s",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/pop/tag/1980s"
},
"pop_646": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop_646",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "646",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "1990s",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "1990s Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 647,
"slug": "1990s",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/pop/tag/1990s"
},
"pop_3728": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop_3728",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "3728",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "clowns",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "clowns Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3728,
"slug": "clowns",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/pop/tag/clowns"
},
"pop_100": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop_100",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "100",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Commercials",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Commercials Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 100,
"slug": "commercials",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/pop/tag/commercials"
},
"pop_3538": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop_3538",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "3538",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "dolls",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "dolls Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3538,
"slug": "dolls",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/pop/tag/dolls"
},
"pop_3087": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop_3087",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "3087",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "dynasty",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "dynasty Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3087,
"slug": "dynasty",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/pop/tag/dynasty"
},
"pop_3341": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop_3341",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "3341",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "featured",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "featured Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3341,
"slug": "featured",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/pop/tag/featured"
},
"pop_3727": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop_3727",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "3727",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "It",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "It Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3727,
"slug": "it",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/pop/tag/it"
},
"pop_3726": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop_3726",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "3726",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "six flags",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "six flags Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3726,
"slug": "six-flags",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/pop/tag/six-flags"
},
"pop_3439": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop_3439",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "3439",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "the twilight zone",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "the twilight zone Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3439,
"slug": "the-twilight-zone",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/pop/tag/the-twilight-zone"
},
"pop_51": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop_51",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "51",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Movies",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Movies Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 51,
"slug": "movies",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/pop/category/movies"
},
"pop_3695": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop_3695",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "3695",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "A24 Films",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "A24 Films Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3695,
"slug": "a24-films",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/pop/tag/a24-films"
},
"pop_3696": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop_3696",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "3696",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Ari Aster",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Ari Aster Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3696,
"slug": "ari-aster",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/pop/tag/ari-aster"
},
"pop_3699": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop_3699",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "3699",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Children of the Corn",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Children of the Corn Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3699,
"slug": "children-of-the-corn",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/pop/tag/children-of-the-corn"
},
"pop_3694": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop_3694",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "3694",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Hereditary",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Hereditary Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3694,
"slug": "hereditary",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/pop/tag/hereditary"
},
"pop_3440": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop_3440",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "3440",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "jordan peele",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "jordan peele Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3440,
"slug": "jordan-peele",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/pop/tag/jordan-peele"
},
"pop_3700": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop_3700",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "3700",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Midsommar",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Midsommar Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3700,
"slug": "midsommar",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/pop/tag/midsommar"
},
"pop_340": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop_340",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "340",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "religion",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "religion Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 340,
"slug": "religion",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/pop/tag/religion"
},
"pop_3698": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop_3698",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "3698",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Rosemary's Baby",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Rosemary's Baby Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3698,
"slug": "rosemarys-baby",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/pop/tag/rosemarys-baby"
},
"pop_3697": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop_3697",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "3697",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "The Wicker Man",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "The Wicker Man Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3697,
"slug": "the-wicker-man",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/pop/tag/the-wicker-man"
},
"pop_1548": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop_1548",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "1548",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Books",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Books Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1552,
"slug": "books-2",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/pop/category/books-2"
},
"pop_947": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop_947",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "947",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "horror",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "horror Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 948,
"slug": "horror",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/pop/tag/horror"
},
"pop_865": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop_865",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "865",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "horror movies",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "horror movies Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 866,
"slug": "horror-movies",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/pop/tag/horror-movies"
},
"pop_3534": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop_3534",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "3534",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Pet Sematary",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Pet Sematary Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3534,
"slug": "pet-sematary",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/pop/tag/pet-sematary"
},
"pop_533": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop_533",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "pop",
"id": "533",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Hulu",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Hulu Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 533,
"slug": "hulu",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/pop/tag/hulu"
}
},
"userAgentReducer": {
"userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)",
"isBot": true
},
"userPermissionsReducer": {
"wpLoggedIn": false
},
"localStorageReducer": {},
"browserHistoryReducer": [],
"eventsReducer": {},
"fssReducer": {},
"tvDailyScheduleReducer": {},
"tvWeeklyScheduleReducer": {},
"tvPrimetimeScheduleReducer": {},
"tvMonthlyScheduleReducer": {},
"userAccountReducer": {
"user": {
"email": null,
"emailStatus": "EMAIL_UNVALIDATED",
"loggedStatus": "LOGGED_OUT",
"loggingChecked": false,
"articles": [],
"firstName": null,
"lastName": null,
"phoneNumber": null,
"fetchingMembership": false,
"membershipError": false,
"memberships": [
{
"id": null,
"startDate": null,
"firstName": null,
"lastName": null,
"familyNumber": null,
"memberNumber": null,
"memberSince": null,
"expirationDate": null,
"pfsEligible": false,
"isSustaining": false,
"membershipLevel": "Prospect",
"membershipStatus": "Non Member",
"lastGiftDate": null,
"renewalDate": null
}
]
},
"authModal": {
"isOpen": false,
"view": "LANDING_VIEW"
},
"error": null
},
"youthMediaReducer": {},
"checkPleaseReducer": {
"filterData": {},
"restaurantData": []
},
"location": {
"pathname": "/pop/tag/stephen-king",
"previousPathname": "/"
}
}
