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 find the best qualities of bad and underrated games, and find out what made them special even if the end-result was less-than-ideal. In this decade-old episode, we covered one of my favorite overlooked gems: Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon for the Nintendo 64.This bizarre Japanese period piece featured very early Mario/Zelda hybrid gameplay, along with an incredible soundtrack, served alongside a heaping helping of wacky, borderline-surreal humor. It's truly a peculiar feast for particular senses, and I encourage all of you to check it out, or at least load up that soundtrack on YouTube.We'll see you next week for a new "Fish in the Percolator" but in the meantime, as always: FIX YOUR HEART OR DIE!

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 the moon--than ever.Other topics include: Laura's undying fixation on the band My Chemical Romance, as well as Fox's lengthy journey into the sublimely-cryptic video game secrets of Angeline Era!FIND LAURA KATE DALE ON BLUESKY AND TWITTER (@LAURAKBUZZ)FIND MARCY O'DANIELS ON BLUESKY (@oshinai)FIND THE SHOW ON BLUESKY AND TWITTER (@FixYourHeartPod)FIND DANIELO SANFORDALAMENTI ON BLUESKY, TWITTER, BANDCAMP (@douibyorthst)STREAM "FIX YOUR HEART OR DIE: SONGS FROM THE PODCAST" ON SPOTIFY OR PURCHASE IT ON BANDCAMP!

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 nominate 3 new character MVPs for this episode, including the most shocking pick you can imagine in the form of a mysterious letter J.Come hop into the piping-hot coffee pot of contemplation with us, as we steep ourselves in the atmosphere and deeper themes of Twin Peaks!FIND LAURA KATE DALE ON BLUESKY AND TWITTER (@LAURAKBUZZ)FIND MARCY O'DANIELS ON BLUESKY (@oshinai)FIND THE SHOW ON BLUESKY AND TWITTER (@FixYourHeartPod)FIND DANIELO SANFORDALAMENTI ON BLUESKY, TWITTER, BANDCAMP (@douibyorthst)STREAM "FIX YOUR HEART OR DIE: SONGS FROM THE PODCAST" ON SPOTIFY OR PURCHASE IT ON BANDCAMP!

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 and Matthew Lillard? Has Kyle MacLachlen become David's avatar on this earthly realm ever since his passing? And is Metroid Prime 4: Beyond worthy of a deeper look despite (or perhaps even because of) its strangest choices?Answers to these and many more mysteries lie Under The Sycamore Trees!Over the course of 30 years, Z-list podcaster Shy Fox heard his favorite video games, movies, and television shows constantly compared to Twin Peaks, and was always intrigued. Then in 2024 he finally watched the show for the first time, finishing its final season just in time to join the world in mourning Lynch's January 2025 passing.Now he is on a quest to both discover and revisit the HUNDREDS of pieces of pop-culture that have been unfathomably changed by the far-reaching influence of Twin Peaks and its creators, so he can help other newcomers discover what makes it special. FIND MARCY ON BLUESKY (@oshinai)FIND LAURA KATE DALE ON BLUESKY AND TWITTER (@LAURAKBUZZ)FIND THE SHOW ON BLUESKY AND TWITTER (@FixYourHeartPod)FIND DANIELO SANFORDALAMENTI ON BLUESKY, TWITTER, BANDCAMP (@douibyorthst)

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 be had in a movie that David Lynch disavows, even after 41 years and 2 more faithful adaptations of the book? Did the spectacular shield special effects predict the mind-boggling graphics of Nintendo 64? And is Thufir Hawat still milking space cats to this very day?Keep your ears tuned to the mouse shadow of the second moon, as we choose the name of our manhood: Fix Your Heart Or Die!FIND LAURA KATE DALE ON BLUESKY AND TWITTER (@LAURAKBUZZ)FIND MARCY O'DANIELS ON BLUESKY (@oshinai)FIND THE SHOW ON BLUESKY AND TWITTER (@FixYourHeartPod)FIND DANIELO SANFORDALAMENTI ON BLUESKY, TWITTER, BANDCAMP (@douibyorthst)STREAM "FIX YOUR HEART OR DIE: SONGS FROM THE PODCAST" ON SPOTIFY OR PURCHASE IT ON BANDCAMP!

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 series as a whole.If you're watching along with the show for the first time, you may want to avoid this one for obvious reasons. However, if you want a goofy little peek into the future plot OR would like to hear us discuss the infinite nature of "Ms. Jackson" by Outkast, tune on in!FIND LAURA KATE DALE ON BLUESKY AND TWITTER (@LAURAKBUZZ)FIND MARCY O'DANIELS ON BLUESKY (@oshinai)FIND DANIELO SANFORDALAMENTI ON BLUESKY, TWITTER, BANDCAMP (@douibyorthst)FIND THE SHOW ON BLUESKY AND TWITTER (@FixYourHeartPod)STREAM "FIX YOUR HEART OR DIE: SONGS FROM THE PODCAST" ON SPOTIFY OR PURCHASE IT ON BANDCAMP!