The Autobiography of FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes
Blue Rose Task Force returns with this gigantic look at The Autobiography of Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes. Your host John explores what we can learn from the material Dale recorded between ages 13 and 35, while sifting through the parts of the out-of-print book that prove troublesome or enlightening.
[4:46 AM]
0:00:50 Intro
0:07:10 How the book came to be
0:10:17 The book as an in-universe object
0:13:50 The book as a book
0:22:10 Author Scott Frost
0:26:10 Goals of the book
0:36:30 Public reaction
0:39:15 The Cooper in the show & the Cooper in this book
COOPER’S INTUITION & EMPATHY
0:50:30 Lacking intuition
0:54:48 How much is unreliable narrator?
0:59:10 Lack of maturity
1:04:10 Lack of empathy
1:08:40 DoppelCooper origin?
DALE’S PATH TO THE FBI
1:10:12 His first cases
1:15:00 Connections to the FBI
1:23:10 One bright pearl
1:29:00 Good vs Evil
DALE’S RELATIONSHIP TO AUTHORITY
1:34:10 When he’s for it
1:41:45 When he’s against it
1:46:50 Role models
1:50:05 His dad
DALE’S ROMANTIC MISADVENTURES
2:06:25 White knight syndrome?
2:15:00 Marie
2:27:15 College exploits
HOW DEATH CIRCLES COOPER
2:41:25 Early connections
2:49:40 His mom
2:56:10 Marie
3:01:30 While in college
3:05:30 While in the FBI
3:07:50 Teresa Banks
COOPER & THE SUPERNATURAL
3:12:00 Numbers, electricity & insanity
3:18:55 His mom’s dreams
3:22:58 The gold ring
3:36:40 Marie in dreams
3:41:05 The gifted & the damned
3:51:38 The evil presence
3:59:42 Is Cooper already under BOB’s influence?
COOPER & THE EARLES
4:03:45 The Windom we were promised & the Windom we got
4:12:35 Windom’s ‘abduction’
4:24:58 The old man in the Caribbean
4:34:45 The Caroline we were promised & the Caroline we got
4:38:30 Caroline’s abduction
4:49:25 Windom’s hypnosis
4:53:18 Caroline’s return
5:05:20 Caroline’s hypnosis
5:10:30 Cooper & Caroline
5:24:23 The murder
5:33:42 The Windom Did It explanation
CYCLES BEGIN REPEATING
5:39:16 FBI cases & Windom messages
5:47:12 Diane
5:50:10 Back to Pittsburgh
Discussed this episode:
The Damsels of His Distress: Examining the Loves of Dale Cooper from My Life, My Tapes, by Brien Allen
https://25yearslatersite.com/2022/02/28/the-damsels-of-his-distress-examining-the-loves-of-dale-cooper-from-my-life-my-tapes/ (edited)
Production by Mitch Proctor and Area 42 Studios and Sound
[4:46 AM]
0:00:50 Intro
0:07:10 How the book came to be
0:10:17 The book as an in-universe object
0:13:50 The book as a book
0:22:10 Author Scott Frost
0:26:10 Goals of the book
0:36:30 Public reaction
0:39:15 The Cooper in the show & the Cooper in this book
COOPER’S INTUITION & EMPATHY
0:50:30 Lacking intuition
0:54:48 How much is unreliable narrator?
0:59:10 Lack of maturity
1:04:10 Lack of empathy
1:08:40 DoppelCooper origin?
DALE’S PATH TO THE FBI
1:10:12 His first cases
1:15:00 Connections to the FBI
1:23:10 One bright pearl
1:29:00 Good vs Evil
DALE’S RELATIONSHIP TO AUTHORITY
1:34:10 When he’s for it
1:41:45 When he’s against it
1:46:50 Role models
1:50:05 His dad
DALE’S ROMANTIC MISADVENTURES
2:06:25 White knight syndrome?
2:15:00 Marie
2:27:15 College exploits
HOW DEATH CIRCLES COOPER
2:41:25 Early connections
2:49:40 His mom
2:56:10 Marie
3:01:30 While in college
3:05:30 While in the FBI
3:07:50 Teresa Banks
COOPER & THE SUPERNATURAL
3:12:00 Numbers, electricity & insanity
3:18:55 His mom’s dreams
3:22:58 The gold ring
3:36:40 Marie in dreams
3:41:05 The gifted & the damned
3:51:38 The evil presence
3:59:42 Is Cooper already under BOB’s influence?
COOPER & THE EARLES
4:03:45 The Windom we were promised & the Windom we got
4:12:35 Windom’s ‘abduction’
4:24:58 The old man in the Caribbean
4:34:45 The Caroline we were promised & the Caroline we got
4:38:30 Caroline’s abduction
4:49:25 Windom’s hypnosis
4:53:18 Caroline’s return
5:05:20 Caroline’s hypnosis
5:10:30 Cooper & Caroline
5:24:23 The murder
5:33:42 The Windom Did It explanation
CYCLES BEGIN REPEATING
5:39:16 FBI cases & Windom messages
5:47:12 Diane
5:50:10 Back to Pittsburgh
Discussed this episode:
The Damsels of His Distress: Examining the Loves of Dale Cooper from My Life, My Tapes, by Brien Allen
https://25yearslatersite.com/2022/02/28/the-damsels-of-his-distress-examining-the-loves-of-dale-cooper-from-my-life-my-tapes/ (edited)
Production by Mitch Proctor and Area 42 Studios and Sound
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