Really Weird Stuff Special: A Tribute to David Lynch 1946-2025

A note from Baxter, co-host, producer, and editor of Really Weird Stuff: A Twin Peaks Podcast.

I had to pause working on Part 4 of The Return because, as I’m sure you know, David Lynch died today, the 16th of January. 2025.

David felt that numbers were always significant, so I looked up 16 and found this:

“16 is a powerful number that holds spiritual information about you and your destiny. While having 16 in your chart speaks to independence, service to other people, and leading others, it most truly speaks to one thing: wisdom. It points to old souls that have the wisdom to teach and lead others.”

Since he (along with Laura) is the reason for the season, I had to pay direct tribute to him and I had to do it today. If you’re hurting from this loss, you’re not alone. And if you feel alone, watch something David made. It always helps me.

Love, 
Baxter

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Really Weird Stuff: A Twin Peaks Podcast – The Return Part Two – “The stars turn and a time presents itself.”

On episode 33 of Really Weird Stuff, we’re discussing Twin Peaks: The Return, Part Two – “The stars turn and a time presents itself.” This episode was written by David Lynch and Mark Frost, and directed by David Lynch. It originally aired May 21, 2017 on Showtime, along with Part One. This episode is best known for the return of Laura Palmer. 25 years later, she is still dead (yet she lives). Also, she’s got a new brooch and a crazy detachable face.

Special guest, Michael Hayes joins us to explore such mysteries as:

WHY doesn’t Mr. C want to get pulled back into the Lodge?

WHAT does Laura whisper to Coop?

WHO is pretending to be Philip Jeffries?

WHEN exactly CAN Coop go out?

PLUS: Some Really Weird Stuff Firsts, including awards mayhem and our guest watching the episode cold. 

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Really Weird Stuff: A Twin Peaks Podcast – Fire Walk With Me

On episode 31 of Really Weird Stuff: A Twin Peaks Podcast, we’re diving headlong into the 1992 cinematic prequel, “Fire Walk With Me”, written by Robert Engels and David Lynch, and directed by David Lynch. It was released to theaters August 28th, 1992 and flopped HARD. It had premiered at Cannes earlier that year, to the bafflement of audiences and most critics. A handful of European critics were pioneers of understanding the film for the masterpiece it is. Sheryl Lee and Ray Wise give everything they have to tell the story of Laura’s final days. We also learn a little about Theresa Banks and the agents who mysteriously disappeared whilst investigating cases with the top secret designation: Blue Rose. 

We did a tremendous amount of prep for this episode, including studying the lore of the Lodge Entities,  providing foot notes from The Secret Diary of Laura Palmerand doing our best to understand The Coop Loop 

Predictably, the discussion gets fairly heavy at times. 
TRIGGER WARNINGS: for discussing Sexual Assault, Drug Abuse, and Incest.

But we also manage to have a little fun mining the moments of levity, heaping love onto some favorite characters (including Bobby and Carl), and reminiscing about when we first got to know Laura Palmer. As Amy overheard from some teenage girls in the bathroom of the Westfield New Jersey Mall Cinema in 1992, “there are some movies you just have to be an adult to understand”. And even then, it takes some leg work. 

Gobble… Gobble. Gobble. 

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