Grab your favorite playlist and get ready to have a song stuck in your head because today we’re getting a broader understanding of the music of Fire Walk With Me and Twin Peaks

Tessa and Daniela get some big help from Lori Eschler and Scott Ryan to explore the music of the show, the movie, the history and most of all the music



Sources & Further Reading:

More on Lori-

Dean Hurley about the approach to music sound. 

https://www.instagram.com/lorieschleragain 

https://bsky.app/profile/lorie...

https://lxdmusic1.bandcamp.com...

(2) The Soundtrack of the Movie of Your Relationship

https://bluerosetaskforce.tran...

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/...

An Editor’s Dream: Lori Eschler and Scott Ryan on “Always Music in the Air: The Sounds of Twin Peaks” - Cinema Femme

https://www.thewire.co.uk/audi...

Lori Eschler Frystak (credited as: Lori L. Eschler) – Det røde rum

More on Scott-


Books - https://www.bluerosemag.com/

Instagram
@90s_movies_the_last_decade

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Grab your camcorder & your belief that people deserve to be weird in peace,  because today we’re getting a broader understanding of “Britney & Kevin: Chaotic” the five part 2005 reality series that was less of a show and more of a fever dream with a UPN budget and the plot of a scrapbook.

Britney is constantly being criticized for her Instagram but I’m here to tell you, she’s always been documenting her life.

The good, the bad, the music & the memories.

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Grab a box of tissues and your voodoo doll of Justin Timberlake because in this episode we’re time traveling back to the 90’s and 2000’s by way of The Woman in Me, the new memoir by Britney Spears. Using quotes from the book as well as news clips and interviews we’ll try to gain a broader understanding of the life of Britney Spears— how everything was taken from her and how she’s using her own voice to finally set the record straight.

Sources:
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears Gallery Books (October 24, 2023)
The New York Times Presents Framing Britney Spears, Hulu
Britney Spears - Ed McMahons Star Search 1992
Britney Spears Matt Laurer Interview, Dateline NBC, 2006
Britney Spears Interview with Diane Sawyer, ABC Primetime News, 2003
Justin Timberlake Interview with Barbara Walters, ABC News, 2003

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Grab the angel above your bed and get ready for some psychic warnings, as we go further into the world of the Twin Peaks prequel (with help of honorary co-host Tessa) and get a broader understanding of poems as prophecy, nightmares as warnings, men with missing limbs, and what happens when the horror isn’t just in your home but instead directly in your bed. 

CW: spoilers, SA, violence 

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Hide your secret diary and compartmentalize your life, because today we’re joined by Tessa W. to gain a broader understanding of the Twin Peaks prequel film Fire Walk With Me. In Part 1, we’ll get an introduction to the film and how it was made before diving deeper and pulling back the layers of Lynch.


CW: spoilers, SA, violence 



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Get a slice of cherry pie & hide your secret diary, in this episode we take a light look at Twin Peaks! The inspiration behind some of the stories and characters, how actors and creators felt making the show, the iconic filming locations, mingling studio execs, the cancellation, the return and why it’s still such a cult classic today.

Sources available in show notes


When Bob Iger Ruined Season 2 of ‘Twin Peaks’

Collider

The Timeless Allure of Twin Peaks

Nevada Sagebrush, Emily Hess

Laura Palmer is Based on not 1, but 2 Real Life Crimes

Screenrant, Laura Kelly

‘Twin Peaks’ Co-Creator Mark Frost Still Believes Laura Palmer’s Murder Was Solved Too Quickly: ‘This Should Go on Forever’

Variety, Todd Gilchrist

How David Lynch and Mark Frost Pitched Twin Peaks to ABC Television

Twin Peaks Blog, Steven Miller

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Put on a pair of dark glasses and try to remember that the heart is deceitful above all things as we explore the broader story behind the infamous literary phenomena that was J.T LeRoy

Was it all a hoax or merely a work of fiction?

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Grab your matches & your uneasy premonitions because today we’re getting a broader understanding of the haunting last days of Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes. From the life she lived, to the visions she had, and the trip that changed everything. 

Sources:

The Last Days of Left Eye
VH1

The Terrible Secret Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes Took to Her GraveThe Terrible Secret Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes Took to Her Grave
Golden Roots, YouTube

Tyler Henry Connects T-Boz to TLC's Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes: FULL READING | Hollywood Medium | E!

Aaliyah & Left-Eye Death Mystery | Their Death Doesn't Make Sense
Culture Spill, YouTube

TLC E! True Hollywood Story
E!

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Put on your flotation devices and keep an eye on the catering table, because today, we’re getting a broader understanding of what happened on the set of Titanic when around 80 cast and crew members were drugged with PCP on the last night of filming in Nova Scotia 

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Grab a book for your flight delay, turn off Lifetime, and cling to any sliver of hope because today we’re getting a broader understanding of the government shutdown and flight delays, the distasteful Lifetime movie on the murders of Kaylee, Maddie, Xana and Ethan, and then finishing on a positive note with the Mamdani victory for NYC mayor

Sources available in show notes

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Hide your chicken & get ready to roll with the homies, today we’re taking a look at The Life and Death of Brittany Murphy. We will celebrate Brittany’s life & career, and examine the tragic circumstances surrounding her death. In this episode, we take a look at Brittany’s early life, and career achievements, as well as, her family dynamics and interpersonal relationships. We will also explore the impact of negative media attention, the pressures that surround women in Hollywood, and body image standards of the early 2000s. Lastly, we will unpack Brittany and her husband Simons death, and the factors that may have contributed to their demise. Please share, subscribe to our patreon, and become a monthly $upporter so we can keep making episodes for you!! Episode originally

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Sources:

HBO Max’s What Happened, Brittany Murphy

The Smithosnian, The Curious Life and Death of Brittany Murphy

Ebert, Roger. Uptown Girls, Rogerebert.com, 2003.

Logan, Elizabeth. Melanie Lynsky Rnemebers
Brittany Murphys Self-Image Issues. Glamour, 2022.

June, Sophia.
Clueless Director Reveals What Made Her Cast Brittany Murphy, Nylon, 2021.

Brittany Murphy Biography, Biography.com, 2014.
https://www.biography.com/acto... Johnson, Christen

Everything to Know about Brittany Murpy’s Husabnd, Simon Monjack. Cosmopolitan, 2021.
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/e... Kranc,

Lauren, Esquire Magazine, 2021. https://www.esquire.com/entert... --

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Phone home and don't ignore those lights in the sky, because today we're getting a broader understanding of aliens and UFOs.

In this episode we get a brief history of alien encounters and UFO sightings. We'll listen to the different theories on what they may be before getting into the whistleblower UAP hearings that recently happened in Congress and what this could mean for our intergalactic future 

(originally aired in October 2023)


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Put on your trench coat and and get ready to call the tip line, because today we’re getting a broader understanding of one of the eeriest, mesmerizing and most iconic shows to ever hit television: Unsolved Mysteries. 

We'll hear from people who worked on the series, revisit some memorable cases,

 And maybe you too can help solve a mystery

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Grab your consent forms (but don’t sign them yet) and your government-issued fetal monitoring bracelet, because today we’re getting a broader understanding of what happens when people aren’t treated like people but like data, vessels, and experiments. The body keeps the score- even when it’s for medical horror stories.

From Adriana Smith, kept alive against her will to serve as a human incubator under Georgia’s abortion laws, to Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were stolen, immortalized, and monetized without her knowledge or family’s consent, this episode unpacks the long, horrifying legacy of unethical medical research in America.

We’ll walk through the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the Holmesburg Prison experiments, the HIV-tainted blood scandal that infected kids like Ryan White, while the government spent more money on the Tylenol murders than AIDS research. And this isn’t ancient history, it’s happening today- not just with Adriana Smith, or Terri Schiavo as a human prop before her but with forced sterilizations, CRISPR babies, and what happens when “the greater good” doesn’t include you.
This isn’t an anti-science episode. I’m pro-science, but not when the most marganilzed among us have to die for it.

And in a world where women, people of color, and the poor are still being used, sometimes even after death- it’s more important than ever to ask:

Who gets to be a patient? And who’s just a test subject?

(Originally released May 2025)

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Grab your neighborhood watch pamphlet and a flashlight with dying batteries because today we’re getting a broader understanding of Horror in the Suburbs.. and no, not the kind where you can’t take a five minute walk to grab a coffee but instead the insidious underbelly hiding behind perfect lawns and closed doors. Why are the suburbs so scary? Urban planning gone wrong or have we just watched Halloween too many times?

Sources:

Why do the Suburbs Exist? (This House, YouTube)

https://youtu.be/JAR7R_tecFc?s...

Horror in The Suburbs Trope (SyFy)

https://youtu.be/AWzSpjOsMb8?s...

How The Suburbs Became the Perfect Setting for Horror (Nylon)

https://www.nylon.com/articles...

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Don’t answer the phone when you’re babysitting, know that noise was not just the wind, and never say “I’ll be right back” because today, we’re getting a broader understanding of urban legends: the stories that may not be true but spread so much it seems like they should be. Why do we love them? And why do they linger?

sources: 
https://www.rd.com/list/scary-urban-legends/

https://youtu.be/S4Qq1htzd_0?si=W5YkFOYPdqXosKf0

https://crimereads.com/why-our-fascination-with-urban-legends-will-never-die/

https://youtu.be/9ofcLGx5VQA?si=nFe9GwKGIgePAagv

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Find a shaman and call your clairvoyant grandmother because today we’re getting a broader understanding of the tragedy that plagued the poltergeist sequels, both on and off screen, as we ask once again- can anything really be cursed or is it just our realities (and greedy studios) that haunt us?

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Turn off the movie and get ready to go behind the scenes, because today we’re getting a broader understanding of the murder of Poltergeist star Dominique Dunne. This episode contains graphic descriptions of domestic violence, failures of the justice system, and the fact that sometimes the things that haunt us our deeply human. My main sources for this episode our the writings of Dominique’s father Dominic Dunne for Vanity Fair, the writings of her brother Griffin Dunne, the E! true Hollywood story on her life and court testimony of those involved. This is a heavy one for me, I really struggled to record this but I think what happened to Dominique is important to talk about, it’s something that happens every day.


CW: Domestic Violence

Sources:

Justice, Dominick Dunne for Vanity Fair

The E! True Hollywood Story: Dominique Dunne



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Grab your ouija board and your teenage rage because today, we’re getting a broader understanding of poltergeists

What if they aren’t ghosts at all? Not even a haunting but a manifestation? What if it’s all just the raw, unfiltered energy of adolescence, the force of pure, unspoken rage and heartbreak? A panic attack attack at a pivotal time, an attempt to be seen so strong it bends the astral realm itself- What if the scariest part of poltergeist activity is not that it’s real but that it’s us?

We’re going through the history of poltergeists, the science, the scares and the teenage angst to try and figure out what it means when your house is haunted not just by ghosts but by puberty.

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Grab a strong sense of spiritual boundaries, hide your clown dolls, and be prepared to feel enraged and also terrified because today, we’re getting a Broader Understanding of the curse of Poltergeist: the classic horror film that used real skeletons, haunted its cast and made America question whether some movies really are cursed.


This is Part 1

Sources:

Poltergeist Theatrical Trailer

https://youtu.be/q0p4JUlKJYI?si=K4J2V9Mz3qKSq6O7

E! True Hollywood Story: Poltergeist 

The True Story That Inspired Poltergeist (Nerdist)

https://nerdist.com/article/poltergeist-true-story-inspired-movie/?amp





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