Fire Talk With Me

Comedian Brock Wilbur details his Twin Peaks Comedy Tour, which took him to original shooting locations for the iconic show. Look for more Specials posting on Thursdays throughout the rest of Fire Talk With Me's run.

If you are in Denver, Colorado on September 20th, 2014, don't miss Brock's comedy special taping at the Voodoo Comedy Lounge.

• Brock is now 30.
• Brock is on Twitter. See above for an example of his work there. He's also on Instagram and YouTube at the same @BrockWilbur username.
• Sweet mother of god, he's a .com and a .net. The man is out of control, someone stop him before he hurts himself.
• Again: Voodoo Comedy Lounge. September 20th 2014. Comedy special taping.

James Urbaniak has played a host of memorable characters including Dr. Venture, Robert Crumb, Dick Cavett...and even Dale Cooper. He joins Jeremy and Allison to discuss the deep weirdness of a show about "simple pleasures and small towns", as well as Twin Peaks' first season finale, Episode 7 (8 including The Pilot). No spoilers, but: it's a cliffhanger deluxe.

We hope this episode really lights your F-I-R-E.

• James Urbaniak is on Twitter.
• Subscribe to his podcast Getting On with James Urbaniak over on Feral Audio. It's magnificent.
• If not already aware of the amazing work of Laika (Coraline, ParaNorman), The Boxtrolls (which features James among its cast) might just be a great introduction. Watch the trailer and go see it in U.S. theaters starting in September 2014.
• Having not seen the final installment, rest assured that the Henry Fool Trilogy is the greatest trilogy to be told over 20 years spread across three decades in cinematic history (1997-2006-2014). Its completion alone is a reason not to hate Kickstarter.
• James Urbaniak can be seen in all three movies: Henry Fool, Fay Grim, and the coming-soon Ned Rifle, which just premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
• Hal Hartley posted a teaser for Ned Rifle in July.
• On the same thread: if not already intimately familiar with the filmography of Hal Hartley, I'm not sure what you're doing with your life.
• If not also obsessed with Review, in which James plays the show-within-the-show's producer...you have time to catch up before the season 2 premiere.
• Get caught up on America's hardest-hitting, three-episode web series, Topic A with James Urbaniak: "Jumping the Shark", "Going Viral", and "Millenials"
• Below, a bonus, spoiler-free still frame of Coop and a lady.

Amber Benson (filmmaker, author, actress, and heartbreaker) joins Jeremy and Allison to discuss what makes a series like Twin Peaks or Buffy The Vampire Slayer create its own subculture, as well as Episode 6 (7 including The Pilot) of Twin Peaks.

• Amber Benson is on Twitter and Tumblr. Be nice and not creepy, for once in your life.
• At the time of this recording, Amber's newest novel, The Witches of Echo Park, is available for pre-order. Get it from Amazon...or maybe try an actual store with books in it where humans go.
• Amber has written five Calliope Reaper-Jones novels since 2009: Death's Daughter, Cat's Claw, Serpent's Storm, How to be Death, and The Golden Age of Death. See above. Buy them and read them.
• Amber co-directed Drones (2010). There are a bunch of talented people in it, Thrilling Adventure Hour "Bens" Acker and Blacker wrote it, and it's a workplace comedy mixed with Close Encounters of the Third Kind. You have time. You saw a Transformers movie at some point, right? Ok then.

Eva Anderson (writer from You're the Worst on FX, Comedy Bang! Bang! on IFC) spent part of her time growing up in the area where Twin Peaks was shot. She joins Jeremy and Allison to crush their illusions about the town and discuss Episode 5 (6 including the pilot) of Twin Peaks.

• Follow Eva on Twitter. She gets the best Uber drivers.
• If not already watching You're The Worst...need we complete the hacky joke, or...?
• Comedy Bang! Bang! is a great show starring Scott Aukerman and Reggie Watts, inspired by the podcast Comedy Bing! Bong! (formerly known as Comedy Bang! Bang!)

Matt Robinson (writer, director, and podcaster extraordinaire) discusses his following Twin Peaks since original airing, including his admiration for fanzine Wrapped In Plastic. Examined here: episode 5 (the 4 after The Pilot) of Twin Peaks.

• Matt Robinson (twitter) wrote and directed The Invention of Lying. He co-hosts Get Up ON This and hosts Get Up OFF This, both of which live in the same feed at SMODcast.
• Jeremy's original writeup of The Other Side of the Truth, which would become The Invention of Lying.
• From 1992-2005, Wrapped In Plastic was one of the most finely-produced and beloved fanzines in fanzine history.
• SPOILERS FOR NEW VIEWERS: Produced in Arlington, Texas by Craig Miller and John Thorne, back issues are extremely hard to come by online. Texas Monthly wrote about it back in 1999.
• SPOILERS FOR NEW VIEWERS: In 2007, Twin Peaks Archive got an interview with John Thorne.

Drew McWeeny (chief film critic at HitFix) discusses his first-person experience with David Lynch (and, in a shocking twist, Mädchen Amick!), as well as his hunger to return for Fire Walk With Me. Examined here: episode 4 (3rd after The Pilot) of Twin Peaks.

• Drew is chief film critic at HitFix
• Sleepwalkers means something more to Drew than it does to anyone else on the planet.
• Are you Jake Destree? Send Jeremy an email as he mentions in the show.

Devin Faraci (Badass-in-Chief at Badass Digest) discusses his distant and less-distant memories of watching Twin Peaks in first-run, as well as its legacy. Then, they examine Episode 2 (3 including The Pilot) of Twin Peaks, which features your new best friend here.

• Devin is Badass-In-Chief at Badass Digest
• We will be giving away a copy of the Blu-ray set very soon. I would recommend writing a review for the show on iTunes and emailing us a copy by way of the Contact page. That way, we know how to contact you.

Jake Fogelnest (writer, comedian, and our first-ever, second-ever guest) discusses "episode 1" of Twin Peaks, which is actually the second episode of Twin Peaks.

• Jake Fogelnest can be found on Twitter and making mischief at Funny or Die and, (not as often of late) Earwolf, home of world-changing podcasts that will either stave off or cause the actual end of days.
• Though the episode discussed here is the second episode of Twin Peaks aired, it has always been classified as "Episode 1", with the pilot simply called "The Pilot", since the episodes were only officially titled with episode numbers. Numbers like "Pilot" when they mean "1", and "1", when they really mean "2".
• Completely unintentionally and yet appropriate, considering the above, Jake is technically both the first and at once not actually the first guest on the show, since Charlie de Lauzirika is the "Pilot" to Jake's "Episode 1".
• David Lynch "himself" shows off some "amazing deleted scenes" "from" the new Twin Peaks Blu-ray set.
• We will be giving away a copy of the Blu-ray set very soon. I would recommend writing a review for the show on iTunes and emailing us a copy by way of the Contact page.
• Just look at Cooper up there. Try a refreshing "Leland Palmer" to cool off from all that heat.

Jeremy and Allison discuss the feature-length pilot for Twin Peaks.

• The Complete Mystery (including The Missing Pieces and other brand-new extra features) is now available, with remastered picture and sound direct from the 16mm negative. Kimmy Robertson (Lucy Moran) unboxes it here.
• This is what the remastering looks like.
• Listen to "episode zero" for more about the home video history of Twin Peaks, direct from the mouth of Blu-ray producer and filmmaker Charles de Lauzirika.

Charles de Lauzirika (Twin Peaks Blu-ray producer) joins Jeremy and Allie to talk about The Complete Mystery, The Missing Pieces, and the history of Twin Peaks on home video.

Spoiler warning at 40:18. Spoiler-free again at 49:50.

De Lauzirika is considered one of the greats in home video thanks to his work on comprehensive Special Editions of Blade Runner, the Alien series, and countless other landmark DVD and Blu-ray releases.