I fear that presenting any context before listening will spoil everything that is in store for you in this episode, so I will not. Here is my first David Lynch episode, and I will ensure it is not my last. 

SOURCES/INFORMATION

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074486/#:~:text=Henry%20Spencer%20tries%20to%20survive,of%20his%20newborn%20mutant%20child. 

Spermatozoon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spermatozoon 

Straight Stories: Class, Exploitation and Americana in the FIlms of David Lynch: https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/33547/1/Roberts_LR_Film_MbR_2023.pdf

Between Self and Other: Abjection and Unheimlichkeit in the Films of David Lynch by Adam Dianiel Jones: https://theses.ncl.ac.uk/jspui/bitstream/10443/1230/1/Jones%2c%20A.%2011.pdf 

Powers of Horror by Julia Kristeva: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_of_Horror