Fix Your Heart Or Die!

HEY FOLKS, SHY FOX HERE! We are currently hard at work on our next batch of Twin Peaks recaps, a new Lynch's Log, and the next mainline FYHOD. In the meantime, we present to you a special BONUS episode from our alternate-universe archives. In this other universe, I hosted a show called "The Dead Pixels Podcast" with a friend I met in the Sterling/Jonathan "Shattered" community. This show aimed to...

The main series of Fix Your Heart Or Die! returns to cover a recent release, and the most Lyncian zombie flick in history: 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple . This sequel--released perhaps too hot on the heels of hit legacy revival 28 Years Later --covers thematic ground hitherto unexplored by its genre. And so much of that ground just happens to connect to the moon (and by proxy David Lynch)! So fo...

A super sweaty Chet sends Fox, Laura, and Marcy an "Invitation to Love" in this all-too-dreamy entry of our Twin Peaks recap series! We then give Little Elvis a bath, right before Dr. Jacoby's sleaziness gives us a cold shower. Is Shy Fox a strong enough psychic sender to help Audrey Horne sweep our episode MVP picks?! Brew a fresh pot of fishy coffee and tune in to find out!! FIND LAURA KATE DALE...

It's another entry of our freeform news and miscellaneous thoughts podcast: Under The Sycamore Trees! In this episode, Shy Fox is joined by Danielo Sanfordalamenti to talk about Mark Frost's shocking teases about the possibility of more Twin Peaks in the future, before delivering a galaxy-brained take on why critics are all wrong about The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. SOURCES: https://youtu.be/bmxCRN...

The spirit of springtime foolery has possessed the FYHOD friends once again! So Fox and Laura have recruited Danielo Sanfordalamenti and Jane Aerith Magnet-Dale to conduct a VERY SERIOUS investigation into the top-secret connections between the Twin Peaks Season 2 finale, and the shockingly-Lynchian 1994 family film The Flintstones. Will Evil Dale Cooper--disguised as villainous businessman "Cliff...

Our Twin Peaks recap series takes a good old-fashioned dirt nap, in the 4th entry "Episode 3" AKA "Rest In Pain"! Shy Fox, Laura Kate Dale, and Marcy O'Daniels become basic bitches for Bobby Briggs, before the whole town is turned upside down by the funeral of Laura Palmer. These fishy friends then speak some French to the Bookhouse Boys, and express their hearts that yearn for a cushy government-...

What's the opposite of Lynch's Log? GOL S'CHNYL! In this subseries, the FYHOD! gang goes back in time, to look at works that influenced David Lynch, before he transformed pop-culture with Twin Peaks. It's back to the unfathomable depths of the Ingmar Bergman well, with his follow-up to Persona (1968) known as Hour of the Wolf . This soul-searingly semiautobiographical, misunderstood masterpiece ch...

Our Twin Peaks recap series finally reaches the beyond-iconic Red Room, in the 3rd entry "Episode 2" AKA "Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer"! Shy Fox, Laura Kate Dale, and Marcy O'Daniels walk like proverbial magicians astride the thin line separating the real from the surreal, as Dale Cooper leads the the way. Along the way they contemplate the plight of Tibet, the true shape of birds, and the...

HEY FOLKS, SHY FOX HERE! We are currently hard at work on our next batch of Twin Peaks recaps, a new Lynch's Log, and the next mainline FYHOD. In the meantime, we present to you a special BONUS episode from our alternate-universe archives. In this other universe, I hosted a show called "The Dead Pixels Podcast" with a friend I met in the Sterling/Jonathan "Shattered" community. This show aimed to...

David Keith Lynch departed this earthly theater of the absurd a year ago today. Fox and Laura celebrate his profound influence on their lives by doing one of his favorite things: reporting on the local weather. The FYHOD friends then talk at length about how connecting with Lynch's work has kept them insanely sane despite the awfulness of 2025, and how they feel more connected to him--and by proxy...

Our Twin Peaks recap series continues with the second episode, confusingly titled "Episode 1" AKA "Traces to Nowhere"! Shy Fox, Laura Kate Dale, and Marcy O'Daniels discuss several incredibly iconic coffee-based moments, the rich thematic depth of color theory, and the importance of Lynch taking baby-steps while onboarding viewers to his particular brand of bizarreness. The fishy friends also nomi...

It's the end-of-year installment for our intermittent community podcast! Shy Fox and Marcy O'Daniels dissect some shocking developments in the realm of David Lynch news, before treating themselves to a long, freeform chat about their favorite media of the year. Is Quentin Tarantino fit to judge whether Lynch disappeared up his own ass, when he can't even see the obvious acting talents of Paul Dano...

On this sprawling installment of Lynch's Log, Shy "Hulud" Fox finally imbibes the spice so nice they remade it twice, via the 1984 cult-classic Dune ! Fox's Fremen friends Laura Kate Dale and Marcy O'Daniels pick apart every piece of this fascinating pop-culture curio, as special guest Danielo Sanfordalamenti plays his sultry Semuta Music in the corner to help them along. Is there still value to b...

SPOILERS FOR THE ENTIRETY OF TWIN PEAKS WITHIN! FYHOD goes European in this special installment of Fish In The Percolator, wherein the crew follows up their discussion of the Pilot with a look into the enormously-enigmatic "international Pilot". This bizarre alternate cut of the first Twin Peaks entry may exist outside of the series canon, BUT it somehow winds up spoiling key elements of the serie...

Until now, FYHOD has carried the odd distinction of being a Twin Peaks podcast with no direct discussion of Twin Peaks . But no more! Introducing "Fish In The Percolator", our new sub-series in which the FYHOD crew of Shy Fox, Laura Kate Dale, and Marcy O'Daniels journeys episode-by-episode through the show properly, all while offering cutting-edge 2025 insights! This inaugural entry of FitP cover...

Shy Fox here with a special report: the official soundtrack to our podcast now has 5 extra tracks AND is available on all major streaming platforms including the reprehensible Spotify ! We hope you decide to check it out, especially on Bandcamp where they treat creators right. As a special treat, the album's composer (AKA our beloved super-producer) has recorded this special message all about his...

Just in time for Halloween, the FYHOD gang goes for a deep dive into the modern horror masterpiece "I Saw the TV Glow"! This 2024 movie explores themes of televisual nostalgia and transgender tribulations in a lovingly-Lynchian way that only a true "Twin Peaks" acolyte like Jane Schoenbrun could muster. The result is an instantly-iconic piece of media that shows even the most stalwart allies whole...

FYHOD returns for Season 2, with our first investigation into the realm of Lynchian anime! Hosts Shy Fox and Marcy O'Daniels are joined by old-school anime aficionados Allen Ortega and Conrad Zimmerman to take a weird, wired dive into the sullenly sinister cyber-scapes of 1998's Serial Experiments Lain . This bizarrely prescient cult-classic may be nearly 30 years old, but feels more relevant than...

Season 2 of FYHOD continues with a new Lynch's Log! Hosts Shy Fox, Laura Kate Dale, and Marcy O'Daniels take an in-depth look at the incredibly "freakish" normalcy of Lynch's 1980 film The Elephant Man . What makes this disturbingly straightforward semi-biopic uniquely captivating among the works of David Lynch? And might this movie still be the most uniquely, captivatingly beautiful film in his e...

HEY FOLKS, SHY FOX HERE! The next season of Fix Your Heart Or Die! is coming next week, with our deep-dive on the fascinatingly-Lynchian anime Serial Experiments Lain ! In the meantime, spooky season is coming up, so we thought we would share another perfectly-themed BONUS EPISODE from our archives. In another life, I hosted a show called "the Dead Pixels Podcast" with a friend I met in the Sterli...

"The Twin Peaks of the quarantine era" CONCLUDES its sophomore season with more mind-bending, self-splitting antics! How can the two Marks throuple-up so thoroughly, when they don't even love themselves? Does the show's sparing use of physical violence give every punch or gunshot a reality-warping impact? And can Burt G really go to heaven, as Burt Goodman rots rightfully in hell? MEANWHILE: Beani...

IT'S A SUMMER SUPERSTAR SLEUTH SHOWDOWN! Filmmaker and games writer Graham Reznick contacts Laura Kate Dale with an EXCLUSIVE LOOK at how Columbo episode "Last Salute to the Commodore" inspired Twin Peaks ! Can rookie agent Marcy O'Daniels help Laura keep the investigation on-track, even as the mysterious local Lieutenant Vespucci shows up to shove her nose (and pens) into Shy Fox's ironclad case?...

HEY FOLKS, SHY FOX HERE! Super Producer Danielo Sanfordalamenti and I are hard at work on next week's SUPER-SIZED GUEST FEATURE, while also wrapping up the loose story ends of our Severance coverage. HOWEVER: I hate to skip weeks, especially after taking a holiday break, even though our pace has been INCREDIBLE for a new podcast. That's why I wanted to share a special podcast I made in 2018 that b...

HEY FOLKS, SHY FOX HERE! Super Producer Danielo Sanfordalamenti and I are hard at work on next week's SUPER-SIZED GUEST FEATURE, while also wrapping up the loose story ends of our Severance coverage. HOWEVER: I hate to skip weeks, especially after taking a holiday break, even though our pace has been INCREDIBLE for a new podcast. That's why I wanted to share a special podcast I made in 2018 that b...

"The Twin Peaks of the quarantine era" continues its sophomore season with more mind-bending, self-splitting antics! Is Helly's outie one of the most despicable villains in the history of the medium? Why can shows like Severance and Twin Peaks tackle controversial material that would seem tasteless in less-skilled hands? MEANWHILE: The mysterious "Mr. Tuesday" consults the even-more-enigmatic mast...