Blue Rose Task Force: A Twin Peaks Obsessive Podcast

This week, your host John focuses his look into Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me on Dale Cooper, the FBI and the supernatural in-betweens they investigate. While piecing together Cooper’s story from his moments in the margins, you’ll get a deep look into the dream logic that plays throughout the film. On the agenda: The Philip Jeffries scenes, Carl Rodd, Chet Desmond’s MO, observer effect, the right...

Your host John is all ears as he continues looking into Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, starting with the soundtrack and music releases, and how the tracks are used in the film. Then it’s onto what sound effects, filters and frequencies may represent, before a look into Lodge-adjacent use of words, lyrics to songs, and what happens when sounds can’t be said aloud. Production by Mitch Proctor and Ar...

Agent Elle returns to have a conversation with your host John about the codes and symbols found in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. They look for meanings within the TV set in the credits, the name Teresa Banks, Lil’s presentation, and iconography of the Jade Ring, utility pole, and the Jumping Man.  What could it mean that the director of the FBI is the director of the film? Is Deer Meadow the shad...

In this first installment of episodes exploring Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, your host John sits down with author Scott Ryan to discuss the film and Ryan’s book Fire Walk With Me: Your Laura Disappeared. They look into the timeline of the film’s production, from script to editing and everything in between. You get the origin of the Blue Rose, details on the Grandson, whether the film is a sequel...

Your host John returns with our wayward field agent Elle to field questions and comments from listeners, and to discuss their upcoming plans for discussing Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Production by Mitch Proctor and Area 42 Studios and Sound Additional audio editing John Bernardy www. RuminationsRadioNetwork.com www.instagram.com/RuminationsRadioNetwork www.25yearslatersite.com Instagram: BlueR...

Twin Peaks Influences show up in the strangest places, but few have been stranger (or more unexpected) than seeing it in last week’s new PAW Patrol special event, Jungle Gems. Your host John looks into the connections when the pups travel to the Argentina from Twin Peaks, how Ryder’s origins are Cooper-based, and whether Nickelodeon had any idea this was happening. Production by Mitch Proctor and...

Blue Rose Task Force Podcast is officially two years old, which means it’s about time you meet its producer (and head of Ruminations Radio Network) Mitch Proctor. He brings his Ruminations From the Red Room formula to your host John, and they go behind the curtains for a Twin Peaks-centric conversation about the show, David Lynch, podcasting, the greater fandom, and upcoming plans. Production by M...

Your host John takes the music of Twin Peaks on its own to look at how it was made and how it was used in the original series. Get a look at the various music releases over the years, and how Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch and Julee Cruise began working together. Then explore the circular nature of the music, how motifs and instruments associate with characters and themes, and what the Lynchian l...

In the second half of our coverage of the Twin Peaks original series finale, your host John looks into the original script to discern Windom Earle’s plan, explores the roles of each Lodge Denizen, and ponders whether Cooper failed or if he’s at the beginning of something much bigger. 0:00:40  Intro 0:02:35  What we already knew about Earle’s plan 0:04:25  The original script and Earle’s plan 0:08:...

So we’ve made it to an ending for the original series of Twin Peaks. In this first half of our coverage of Episode 29,  your host John walks you through how the episode was written —and then rewritten by David Lynch— before parsing through the final Log Lady Introduction. Then he takes you through the endings of all the storylines anchored to the town of Twin Peaks, including supernatural connecti...

It’s time for Miss Twin Peaks to anoint its next Queen in Twin Peaks Episode 28, and your host John looks into director Tim Hunter and writer Barry Pullman’s style choices before analyzing the episode’s time wonkiness, Cooper’s intuition, and all the keys—physical or metaphorical. Find out what they unlock, and stick around for artifacts of Audrey being the Queen, and elements of Laura Palmer rein...

Your host John looks into Welcome to Twin Peaks: Access Guide to the Town— a collaboration between Lynch/Frost Productions and Access Press. This tongue-in-cheek travel guide does wonders for worldbuilding and is filled with just as many hints of lore as there are fun details about the town we all love.  Come for the pie and coffee, and stay for the owls.  0:00:48  Intro 0:03:50  The book as an in...

Blue Rose Task Force returns with this gigantic look at The Autobiography of Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes. Your host John explores what we can learn from the material Dale recorded between ages 13 and 35, while sifting through the parts of the out-of-print book that prove troublesome or enlightening. [4:46 AM] 0:00:50  Intro 0:07:10  How the book came to be 0:10:17  The book as an...

This week the podcast detours into the set of StarPics trading cards that was released during the hiatus between Episode 27 and the Season 2 finale event of Twin Peaks.  Your host John looks into the mix of characters, iconography, locations, famous dialogue, trivia, and staff cards to weigh how seriously we should take these cards, Find out what makes this set fun, worthwhile, and even learn some...

The Lodgespace gets real in Twin Peaks Episode 27 and your host John sorts through all the ramifications of when Jupiter and Saturn align. From Earle’s old Bluebook recording to Bobby realizing he’s been a jerk, there’s a lot of understanding coming to light here, but can Cooper see the Giant’s warning? Love can take you places—just ask Audrey—but what about the possibility that love may not be en...

Twin Peaks Episode 24 brings us the petroglyph that solidifies the Lodge lore more than ever, and we see Windom Earle’s modus operandi in full effect relating to Heavy Metal Youth. Your host John looks into all of that, as well as tracking how secrets are wreaking havoc, how Miss Twin Peaks is more than just a beauty pageant, and the number of possibilities grown from Love. Production by Mitch Pro...

With Wisteria on its way back into production, it’s a good time to look back on the often-forgotten Twin Peaks spin-off sitcom, Twin Peaks: Las Vegas.  This episode collects every episode of Rumination Radio Network’s Dougie Love Podcast, for the audience of Blue Rose Task Force Podcast.  00:00 Intro 03:46 Episode 1 finds its top gear 13:51 Dougie needs a good night’s sleep in Episode 2 23:42 Epis...

Twin Peaks Episode 25 brings us a good dose of romance, hangover cures, and Owl Cave. This week’s Blue Rose Task Force looks into what happens when the mythology gets a little more solid. Also discussed: Earle’s infiltration of the Haywards, Ben’s genuine(?) quest to being good, Gordon’s hearing irregularities, and the supernatural leanings of Annie Blackburn.  Get your own “bonsai!” pillow here:...

Twin Peaks returned from a hiatus with Episode 24, thanks in part to the fan-made organization known as COOP (Citizens Opposed to the Offing of Peaks), which your host John looks into. Much of the episode itself focuses on the depths Harry goes to when the extent of Josie’s crimes are revealed, And BRTF looks into his stages of grief and hypothesizes how Josie was only 65 lbs after dying from fear...

Twin Peaks Episode 23 says goodbye to a number of original cast members, and your host John looks into the causes and the ramifications,  both on the production side and in-universe with characters and lore.  Your host looks at all the relationships ending—and beginning— and weighs in on John Justice Wheeler’s first appearance. But the big focus is on Josie, so the microscope comes out for how she...

Twin Peaks Episode 22 is either a breath of fresh air or an abomination to fans, and your host John sees both sides of the debate. He looks into the effects of it being directed by popular star Diane Keaton, and all her conspicuous camera tricks and internal points of view that won’t be seen again in the series (at least not until 2017). Windom Earle’s early shifting characterization goes under th...

Blue Rose Task Force Podcast celebrates its first birthday by singing a different kind of song: your host John Bernardy, Elle Holgate, and Joe Coyne tell the story of how an unused song idea grew into the theme music for the podcast. Production by Mitch Proctor and Area 42 Studios and Sound www.25yearslatersite.com www. RuminationsRadioNetwork.com www.instagram.com/RuminationsRadioNetwork Instagra...

Twin Peaks Episode 21 seems to manifest everyone’s strongest fears, most notably with Shelly Johnson’s life taking on all the tropes of a slasher movie, and not even Cooper’s intuition can avoid being clouded by his tragic past.  Your host John looks into all of that, as well as Eckhardt and Earle’s arrivals, how empathy can turn devils into children, and help can come in the form of doctors, shri...

Thank you for making 2021 a giant success for Blue Rose Task Force Podcast! Here’s a little something for under the tree: an audio version of the 25YL article Navigating Between Worlds: Understanding Twin Peaks Season 3. It contains—all in one place—you host John’s thoughts for how he sees layered reality being portrayed in Twin Peaks, and gives his evidence to make sense of it. We know this is ju...

What makes a great Twin Peaks podcast?  It’s a good time of year to shine a light on the wide variety of Twin Peaks podcasts, and there’s no one better to help John in this task than fellow Peaks pod fanatic Agent Ivy. Find out which podcasts—from the early days to today—have noteworthy host chemistry, do their research, are completists, and/or have different formats than recapping. We bet you’ll...