Fresh Air · 2026-09-28 · 50 min · 8,211 words

Kyle MacLachlan was David Lynch’s ‘submersible’ into dark places

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I'm Terry Gross. Diane, eleven thirty AM, February twenty fourth. Entering the town of Twin Peaks. Five miles south of the Canadian border, twelve miles west of the state line.

Never seen so many trees in my life. WC Fields would say it'd rather be here than Philadelphia. Fifty-four degrees on a slightly overcast day. Weatherman said rain. We get paid that kind of money for being wrong sixty percent of the time.

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