Hello, my name's Justin the Clue and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.

And today we're talking about David Lynch.

And we have a special guest.

It's my good friend going back to when we were both editors of the varsity newspaper together at UFT.

He's also written for Jackman magazine and he's a grad student. good friend going back to when we were both editors of the varsity newspaper together at UFT.

He's also written for Jacobin magazine, and he's a grad student. His name is Alex Ross. Hey, everyone. Glad to be here. And the reason that he's on this podcast is that when we started, he said, if you're going to do a David Lynch episode, please bring me on. And we're doing one. Yeah. And, you know, we're kind of like the Make a Wish, uh, fanishing.

Oh my God, Alex.

Are you sick? Well, you know uh we're kind of like the make a wish

uh fetish oh my god Alex well you know I thought I don't know actually I thought it was

I thought it was negative because I actually thought I was brought on because I have one of your

few Patreon subscribers that's true as a backer reward being brought on to talk about David Lynch

one of my all-time favorite directors. Oh man we should throw that out to

like Patreon subscribers. You could you might be invited who knows

probably not make a good impression you know you play it close to your chest

if you're a patron subscriber and I've known you for a decade then sure

I've been well vetted by Will.

So David Lynch, he's very well loved by hipsters.

He's spooky.

He is... His movies are a little weird, I think I would say.

They're kind of cult movies.

They don't always make sense.

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