The Secret History Of The Redroom Podcast (2011 - 2022)
Scott Ryan and I built the Red Room Podcast on eleven years of disagreeing in good faith as two nobodies from Ohio with no credentials, arguing about television because we loved it enough to take it seriously. Then Twin Peaks: The Return arrived and did something neither of us expected: it broke the show. This is the story of what a podcast can survive, and what it can't.
Everyone Gets To Live in Twin Peaks
Someone once told JB Minton that Twin Peaks fans worship at the altar of child abuse. This essay takes that accusation seriously enough to answer it: rewatching Laura Palmer's suffering every year isn't worship of the crime, any more than the Stations of the Cross is worship of the crucifixion. The ritual isn't reverence for the wound — it's compassion, practiced on a loop, for the person who carried it.