David Lynch died in 2025 at seventy-eight, and his own obituary somehow never mentioned Twin Peaks or Mulholland Drive. Michael Osborne and longtime Famous & Gravy editor Jacob Weiss spend this episode on the gap between David Lynch the public weirdo, the mind behind Blue Velvet and Eraserhead, and David Lynch the strikingly normal man underneath: a lifelong devotee of transcendental meditation who loved coffee, cigarettes, and burgers more than he loved being understood. The strangest thread they pull on: a filmmaker whose work returned again and again to smoke and fire died as the Los Angeles wildfires burned around him, at the same age David Lynch always seemed to defy.

Famous & Gravy is a celebrity biography podcast that asks,  "Would you want that life?"

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NYT obituary, David Lynch

"David Lynch Keeps His Head," David Foster Wallace's 1996 profile referenced in this episode

KCRW's David Lynch daily weather forecast archive

Naomi Watts, Laura Dern & Patricia Arquette Tell David Lynch Stories

Documentary on the midnight movie circuit and Eraserhead's cult run

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