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Pop DNA traces the roots of your favorite pop culture works. We're Erin and Rhonda, and we are big old nerds. We love dissecting our favorite movies, TV shows, and more, and we're really into how literature, history, and culture have impacted the works we consume.

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  1. Episode · Jul 5, 2026

    The Mount Rushmore of Public Domain Halloween Monsters | Vampire Summer (opens the original)

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    We're getting further down the vampire funnel into allegory and metaphor--what do vampires MEEEEEAAANN??? We start with some historical medical cases that give insight into what people in the past thought of vampires, with the case of Mercy Brown, and an explainer on the vampire-adjacent Chinese mythological creature the Jiangshi. We also look at a few of our favorite (or at least most foundational) examples of vampires in literary or cultural works that are used to explore social and political

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