Podcasts by Chopping Wood Inside: The Twin Peaks Podcast for Conspiracy Theorists
The definitive and prolific Twin Peaks: The Return podcast that's brewed strong and poured deep for our fellow Twin Peaks conspiracy theorists and aficionados around this beautiful and horrific spinning world. Join two Twin Peaks, David Lynch fanatics (Murph and Hawk) as they attempt a feat few other Peaks re-cappers dare: try to understand what in the f*ck is going on. *Spoilers *Explicit Language *Some Nudity *Extreme Violence
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Series Rewind: Part 18 from 2020-07-22T09:55:31
What year is this? Our final podcast on Twin Peaks: The Return is a black as midnight on a moonless night in Odessa discussion of Part 18 -- a Lynchian masterpiece of mystery & mood that still conf...
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Twin Peaks Pilot (1990) from 2020-02-25T11:11:22
The past dictates the future. We return to where it all began, discussing (for the first time) Lynch & Frost's iconic opening chapter. A moody & mysterious masterpiece with a soundtrack that is too...
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Series Rewind: Part 17 from 2020-01-15T09:09:22
"We're going home." Our Series Rewind nears completion as Murphy and I revisit the penultimate episode, The Past Dictates The Future or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Cockney Kid with a...
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me from 2019-10-26T13:22:02
Through the darkness of future past, we have descended from pure air to discuss Teresa Banks and the last seven days of Laura Palmer + The Missing Pieces and anecdotes from 1992 when David Lynch's ...
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Series Rewind: Part 16 from 2019-09-19T10:39:28
'You are awake... finally!' Cooper returns in one of the most satisfying parts of Season 3, but it's Laura Dern who steals the show as Diane reveals the details of 'that night' then utters one fina...
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Mulholland Dr. from 2019-08-11T10:58:59
This is the film! David Lynch's dreamy Hollywood blue puzzle box with a star-making performance from Naomi Watts as the doomed ingénue from Deep River, Ontario. A genuine Masterpiece & the best fil...
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Series Rewind: Part 15 from 2019-06-14T08:03:30
We cry tears of gold as we say goodbye to Peggy Lipton & The Log Lady in our series rewind of Part 15... then it gets dark as we descend into the mysterious Convenience Store with Mr. C & Phillip ...
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Lost Highway from 2019-04-29T01:47:16
It's a Möbius strip pod as we try to unlock the mystery of David Lynch's brilliant Lost Highway; remembering things our own way in discussing the endless nightmare of a fractured identity within th...
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Series Rewind: Part 14 from 2019-03-24T17:46:13
It's a Blue Rose podcast, most definitely! We have quite a little theory to tell you about Mr. C, Janey-E, and Diane, then we embark on our own journey to Jack Rabbit's Palace, sipping Bloody Mary'...
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Wild at Heart from 2019-02-24T14:49:45
We're making our lunch and taking a little detour down the yellow brick road as we find ourselves in Big Tuna discussing Wild at Heart, a film we've seen about 50,000 times, the first 49,000 on VHS...
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Series Rewind Part 13 from 2019-01-28T10:13:10
Murphy & Tom take a cosmic journey through Anthony Sinclair's dandruff and discuss the Sonny Jim / Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? connection, Coop using the invisible doorknob at Lucky 7, Dirty Be...
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Blue Velvet from 2018-12-24T03:48:05
It's a Frank Booth Xmas replete with nitrous oxide & Heinekin as the final Chopping Wood Inside podcast of 2018 explores the strange world of David Lynch's Blue Velvet & the many connections to Twi...
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Series Rewind: Part 12 from 2018-12-02T09:39:28
Let's Rock! as we discuss Part 12 and how this episode could be considered a mini-FWWM: Chet Desmond is name dropped during Albert's brief history of The Blue Rose Task Force; Cooper's cameo; Warde...
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The Unofficial Version from 2018-10-28T09:36:56
We're back with new thoughts on the ending of Part 18, the cycle of life/death of Laura and Cooper, Audrey's dilemma, and what the new timeline would look like in a Season 4 + Lucy's mysterious nec...
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Series Rewind: Part 11 from 2018-10-01T09:27:12
Murph & Hawk revisit the brilliant Part 11 - There's fire where you are going, and chaos outside the RR Diner. Cole nearly enters The Zone & a heartbreaking but brilliant ending with Coop, Lady Jac...
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One Year Later: Is it future or is it past? from 2018-09-03T06:29:50
It's the unofficial version of Chopping Wood Inside - replete with hazy memories and a shifting podcast timeline - as Murph & Tom discuss new Twin Peaks mysteries one year after the Season 3 finale.
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Series Rewind: Part 10 from 2018-08-12T08:15:15
Murph and Hawk are back from the goddamn trees wearing Maj. Briggs' S:2 retro fighter pilot headgear to give Part 10 another look, hitting on some of the fuzzy areas in their Vegas dreamer theory, ...
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What Year IS This? from 2018-07-08T10:24:54
Murph and Hawk keep the lodge fires burning as we patiently wait for Season 4, conspiring on topics like Lynch vs. Trump, Lynch's Netflix flirtation, anecdotes from 'Room to Dream,' and the curious...
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Series Rewind: Part 9 from 2018-06-10T07:23:34
Around the dinner table the conversation is still lively AF: Maj. Briggs delivers another message; I am Jerry's foot and I sound just like David Lynch on helium; Bill Hastings enters The Zone, and ...
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Above The Convenience Store from 2018-05-27T08:13:13
Murph & Hawk celebrate the one-year anniversary of The Return by filling up on garmonbozia and examining the mysterious Convenience Store.
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Series Rewind: Part 8 from 2018-04-30T01:43:19
Your favorite dirty bearded men (Murph and Hawk) put on their red Dugpa hats to review The Smithsonian bound, seminal head crusher of an episode that changed all our lives forever: Part 8.
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Unified Dream Theory from 2018-04-15T11:22:04
Lil' Dickie Murph and Linda Hawk fly over the #6 electricity pole to penetrate the Mobius strip madness of Part 18.
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Series Rewind: Part 7 from 2018-03-25T09:38:39
Murph and Hawk are back like two cobra Coopers in a humming rewind of Part 7.
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The Black Lodge from 2018-03-04T13:23:45
Murph and Hawk get lost in the curtains again to celebrate the evolution of the Black Lodge from the Original Series Finale, to FWWM, to Part 8, to the Judy, Judy, Judy retcon.
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Series Rewind: Part 6 from 2018-02-18T09:46:51
Murph and Hawk 'just have fun with it' in a comedy savant rewind of Part 6 - just like Dougie Jones does his case files.
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"Cooper Cooper Cooper" from 2018-02-04T10:52:48
Murph and Hawk become whole again (sort of) while putting everyone's favorite Special Agent with a white knight syndrome under their obsessive microscope to ask "Cooper: Who. Are. You?"
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Unsolved Mysteries of Season 3 from 2018-01-21T11:33:16
Putting their minds to the #3 electrical socket, Murph and Hawk discuss the mysteries that are probably best left unsolved in Twin Peaks: The Return. The questions that, to quote Leo Johnson, "You ...
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Series Rewind: Part 5 from 2018-01-07T10:06:03
Murph, Hawk jump over the moon with Mr. Strawberry in a Part 5 rewind that'll kill ya.
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This Is Where You'll Find Judy from 2017-12-27T11:33:01
Murph and Hawk venture inside the sewn eyelids of the mysterious Naido to discuss the synchronized time nuggets hidden in Parts 3, 8 & 18, and whether our cosmic heroine-martyr from another dimensi...
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Blu-ray Review: Twin Peaks Season 3 from 2017-12-17T10:21:42
Murph and Hawk drink full and descend into the new Twin Peaks Blu-ray, reveling in the mystery of Lynch's creative process, and throwing their conspiratorial minds to finding clues hidden in the 8 ...
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The Dream Layer from 2017-12-03T10:41:38
Back from their sojourn in the Fireman's Mansion, Murph and Hawk burn the midnight scorched engine oil to discuss the crazy "dreamer" subplot in Part 17, and the series finale.
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Between Two Worlds from 2017-11-11T20:14:23
Murph and Hawk spend a rousing hour unstuck in time between two worlds of our Twin Peaks Gods (Lord Lynch and St. Frost) to discuss where we go from here now that Frost has muddied the theoretical ...
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The Final Dossier from 2017-11-06T03:37:01
Murph and Hawk spray two coats on a sprawling review of Mark Frost's new book The Final Dossier. Is this thing TP canon, or more like the ultimate fan fiction? Did Laura really not die now, for rea...
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Series Rewind: Part 4 from 2017-10-28T20:20:40
Your two favorite clown comics posit some yrev interesting new theories about the finale during a re-watch of Part 4: Did the Fireman send Laura to Peaks (in Part 8) to take out Judy? Did Coop foil...
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Series Rewind: Part 3 from 2017-10-21T19:34:01
Murph and Hawk plummet through the astral plane to search for more clues in a rewatch of Part 3: Did Laura really blow out the lights in the season finale? Is Sarah trapped in the Lodge now? Was Na...
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Stewart Strauss Interview (Woodsman #1) from 2017-10-12T19:25:17
Murph and Hawk welcome actor Stewart Strauss (our favorite Woodsman #1) to the pod to talk about how it felt to suddenly be the scariest dude on TV, his terrifying scene in the jail cell in Part 2,...
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Unified Lodge Theory 2 from 2017-10-09T02:06:01
Murph and Hawk are back from shock treatments with new nuggets of lodge speculation: Who's winning the war between Judy and the fireman now that the series is over? Did we ever see the real Diane? ...
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Unified Lodge Theory from 2017-09-24T07:32:20
Murph and Hawk keep the theory train rocking with some new revelations on the series finale: Are we all living in a Black Lodge world? Is it Lodge realities "all the way down" for Cooper? Is everyo...
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Series Rewind: Part 2 from 2017-09-20T04:58:37
Murph and Hawk rewind the time loop to offer their live commentary on Part 2: Were Phyllis and Mr. C doing the tulpa dance? Did Mr. C have Phyllis stage the creepy Ruth-Briggs crime scene? Why wer...
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Series Rewind: Part 1 from 2017-09-16T09:46:59
Murph and Hawk do their first live commentary of The Return, starting with Part 1, to see if they can make sense of this multi-verse: Did Lynch throw the script out the window with Episode 18? Shou...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Series Finale Deep Dive from 2017-09-10T07:28:57
Murph and Hawk remove their splattered minds from the ceiling of the Twin Peaks Sheriff's Station to posit more theories on the series finale: Did this season even happen? Did the original series??...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Parts 17/18 from 2017-09-04T20:48:24
Murph and Hawk try to put their doppel-minds back to together after a existentially slippery, mind-blowing Season Finale: How spine-tingling was that cliffhanger?? What year is it again? Is Bob rea...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Parts 17/18 Preview from 2017-09-02T07:23:06
Doppel-Murph and Tulpa-Hawk "deliver the message" during their season finale preview extravaganza: Did Tammy really disappear? Will we see Andy break-dancing over the end credits? Did Mr C give hi...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Part 16 Deep Dive from 2017-08-31T05:51:21
Murph and Hawk go full Black Lodge deep dive on an epic Part 16: Has Mr. C been knocking out tulpas for 25 years? Will we ever find out how "The Major" got Dougie's ring in his stomach? Have we eve...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Part 16 from 2017-08-28T07:19:40
Murph and Hawk bust out their Jerry Horne Dugpa dance for a thumbs up Part 16: Is Audrey "the dreamer " trapped in Convenience Store hell? Is every demon converging on the Sheriff Station now? Is N...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Part 16 Preview from 2017-08-26T06:03:03
Murph and Hawk take a pleasant steam in the Phillip Jeffries' teapot to preview Part 16: Who the hell is Judy?? Who the hell is mother? What the fuck is inhabiting Sarah? What does the Jumping Man ...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Part 15 from 2017-08-21T06:40:38
Murph and Hawk go peeping in the Convenience Store to drop their hot takes on an emotion-packed Part 15: Did everyone see Sarah's face in the Jumping Man? Does "The Ballad of Norma and Ed" give us ...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Part 15 Preview from 2017-08-19T08:57:39
Murph and Hawk take a mind-blowing trip inside Sarah Palmer's face to preview Part 15: Is Janie-E the tulpah-doppel of Diane? Is Dougie destined to die now? Will Laura guide Coop back to the White ...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Part 14 from 2017-08-14T09:45:20
Dr. Hawk flies solo and gives his hot take on Part 14 while Murph hibernates in 'The Zone'. Is Sarah Palmer host to 'The Experiment' & does the Truck You t-shirt perv taste like warmed over garmonb...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Part 14 Preview from 2017-08-12T23:08:33
Murph and Hawk take the Karl Rod-mobile out for a joy ride into the future to preview Part 14: Is Bob still in Mr. C? Will Major Briggs floating head "turn up" at Jack Rabbit's Palace? Why do peopl...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Part 13 from 2017-08-07T05:33:37
Murph and Hawk return from a lost weekend in the Mitchum Brothers conga line to give their hot takes on Part 13: Are we in the middle of a Lodge Civil War? Was the One Armed Man the mystery guard w...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Part 13 Preview from 2017-08-05T07:40:38
Channeling their inner Mr. Monkeywrenches, Murph and Hawk get under the hood of this "goddamn bad story we're in" to preview Part 13: Who, or what, is in Sarah Palmer's kitchen? Did Major Briggs sw...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Part 12 from 2017-07-31T05:34:02
Murph and Hawk clash swords over their sky high expectations for Part 12: Why the hell is the FBI still in Buckhorn? Will the Room 315 key get back to Harry? How creepy was it to see the Palmer hou...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Part 12 Preview from 2017-07-28T05:23:55
Murph and Dr. Hawk veer into the unknown to heap Dougie-sized portions of praise on Part 11 while previewing Part 12: Is Monica Belluci the infamous Judy? Is a Twin Peaks zombie apocalypse imminent...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Part 11 from 2017-07-24T05:58:29
Murph and Hawk break out the cherry pie and champagne to offer their hot takes on Part 11: Is the entire town going insane now? Is Stephen screwing Donna Hayward's tiara-wearing sister? Is the zomb...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Part 11 Preview from 2017-07-22T06:43:52
Minds still wrapped in plastic from the first 10, Murph and Hawk break out their tinfoil hats to preview Part 11: Is Season 3 a puzzle Lynch/Frost never intended us to solve? How shitty is the poli...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Part 10 from 2017-07-17T05:25:28
There is always distorted music in the air when Murph and Dr. Hawk offer their hot take reactions to Part 10.: How insane are the Hornes? Why Does Dougie look like Ned Flanders shirtless? How big w...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Part 10 Preview from 2017-07-15T07:45:36
Murph and Hawk burn the midnight scorched engine oil to celebrate Harry Dean Stanton's birthday and preview Part 10: Is Bob still with Mr. C? Is Laura really the one? Are all these Black Lodge rule...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Part 9 Deep Dive from 2017-07-13T06:07:38
Murph and Hawk can't stop foraging for plot truffles from a exposition-filled Part 9: Is "The Major" an Ascending Master? Will Jerry Horne ever change his clothes? Will Bill Hastings take a field t...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Part 9 from 2017-07-10T06:19:11
Still zombified from Part 8, Murph and Hawk offer their hot take reactions to the bombshell reveal Bill Hastings garmonboziad up in Part 9: Is The Major a time traveling head now? Is Jerry's foot t...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Part 9 Preview from 2017-07-08T07:23:58
Murph and Hawk forage into Jack Parson's "black box of sex magic" to posit a plethora of theories for Part 9: Is the Audrey emergency room bombshell really a red herring? Will Hawk roust Sarah out...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Part 8 Theories & Speculation from 2017-07-02T05:47:17
Murph and Hawk, minds still fully blown, dive even deeper into the epic Part 8. Where the hell are we midway through season 3?? Why does the universe love the Laura Palmer homecoming picture so da...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Part 8 Deep Dive from 2017-06-27T06:10:51
Murph and Hawk continue to go full deep dive conspiracy theory on the epic mind fuck that is Part 8. Did Blue Rose start in New Mexico with the Trinity Bomb? What's up with the foreshadowing in Col...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Part 8 from 2017-06-26T05:07:40
Murph and Hawk give their hot takes on an insanely delightful Episode 8, the most hallucinatory episode yet. So many question: Is the immortal Evil Coop pregnant with a fully grown Bob baby? What a...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Parts 1-2 from 2017-06-23T05:58:23
Murph and Hawk revisit Parts 1 and 2 of Twin Peaks: The Return to suck down a second pot of steaming hot Lodgian weirdness.. Full of Bob French Roast, they dissect the strange goings on in the Blac...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Part 7 from 2017-06-21T06:03:33
Murph and Hawk put the pieces together in a fanboy dreamland reverie for a picture perfect Part 7. They wonder what the hell is Mr. Balloon Head (aka Sutty from Ep. 2) doing stalking Major Briggs' ...
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Original Series & Fire Walk With Me from 2017-06-18T07:11:20
Murph, Hawk, and the ghost of Chet Desmond teleport back to the 1990s to discuss how it felt to first experience the original Peaks series, as well as Fire Walk With Me, when they debuted, and its ...
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Blue Rose Cases from 2017-06-18T01:50:38
Murph and Hawk go spelunking into the Black Lodge to ferret out and make sense of the many supernatural elements in Episodes 1 through 6, and where we go from here. Phillip Jeffries, Blue Roses, Pr...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Part 5 from 2017-06-18T01:43:07
Murph and Hawk bask in the splendor of Episode 5, the ring in the belly, Becky's Sparkle reverie, and speculate on who would win in a Roadhouse fight between Snake, Bobby and Caleb Landry Jones & L...
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Overview of Parts 1-4 from 2017-06-18T00:21:16
Murph and Hawk continue their deep dive into the first 6 episodes of Twin Peaks: The Return.
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Twin Peaks Season 3: Overview of Parts 1-6 from 2017-06-18T00:04:03
Peaks maniacs, Murph and Hawk, break down even more from Parts 1 through 6, and look forward to what's coming next: Harry Truman? Annie? Laura? Ghost of David Bowie?
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