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 in-universe object
0:13:50  The book as a book
0:22:10  Author Scott Frost
0:26:10  Goals of the book
0:36:30  Public reaction
0:39:15  The Cooper in the show & the Cooper in this book
COOPER’S INTUITION & EMPATHY
0:50:30   Lacking intuition
0:54:48  How much is unreliable narrator?
0:59:10  Lack of maturity
1:04:10  Lack of empathy
1:08:40  DoppelCooper origin?
DALE’S PATH TO THE FBI
1:10:12  His first cases
1:15:00  Connections to the FBI
1:23:10  One bright pearl
1:29:00  Good vs Evil
DALE’S RELATIONSHIP TO AUTHORITY
1:34:10  When he’s for it
1:41:45  When he’s against it
1:46:50  Role models
1:50:05  His dad
DALE’S ROMANTIC MISADVENTURES
2:06:25  White knight syndrome?
2:15:00  Marie
2:27:15  College exploits
HOW DEATH CIRCLES COOPER
2:41:25  Early connections
2:49:40  His mom
2:56:10  Marie
3:01:30  While in college
3:05:30  While in the FBI
3:07:50  Teresa Banks
COOPER & THE SUPERNATURAL
3:12:00  Numbers, electricity & insanity
3:18:55  His mom’s dreams
3:22:58  The gold ring
3:36:40  Marie in dreams
3:41:05  The gifted & the damned
3:51:38  The evil presence
3:59:42  Is Cooper already under BOB’s influence?
COOPER & THE EARLES
4:03:45  The Windom we were promised & the Windom we got
4:12:35  Windom’s ‘abduction’
4:24:58  The old man in the Caribbean
4:34:45  The Caroline we were promised & the Caroline we got
4:38:30  Caroline’s abduction
4:49:25  Windom’s hypnosis
4:53:18  Caroline’s return
5:05:20  Caroline’s hypnosis
5:10:30  Cooper & Caroline
5:24:23  The murder
5:33:42  The Windom Did It explanation
CYCLES BEGIN REPEATING
5:39:16  FBI cases & Windom messages
5:47:12  Diane
5:50:10  Back to Pittsburgh

Discussed this episode:

The Damsels of His Distress: Examining the Loves of Dale Cooper from My Life, My Tapes, by Brien Allen

https://25yearslatersite.com/2022/02/28/the-damsels-of-his-distress-examining-the-loves-of-dale-cooper-from-my-life-my-tapes/ (edited)

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