Wherein Beth and Matt discuss why we watch horror, choke holds, psychic driving experiments and the CIA, St. Sebastian, and asking why Netflix or someone won't just pick up season 4 already.

Some things we cover:

• Saint Sebastian: History’s first gay icon? by Kittredge Cherry
• The Manchurian Candidate
• 25 Years of Nightmares (David Remnick on psychic driving)
• The Birth of Soft Torture (Rebecca Lemov on psychic driving)
• Errol Morris' Wormwood on Netflix
• The Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan