We Want To Believe: An X-Files Podcast
Sisters, scientists, and lifelong X-Files fans. Join bioarcheologist Helen and physicist Liz each week as they discuss the science and culture behind each X-Files episode. Come for the science and 90s nostalgia, stay for the detours into absurdity.
116 - Too Much Hokey Pokey ("Chinga") Featuring Mallory Marlowe!
Helen and Liz talk with author Mallory Marlowe about the X-Files episode "Chinga," about Mallory's new paranormal rom-com, Entities to Lovers, plus shadow figures, Helen's microwave problems, and great 90s hair.
Learn more about Mallory at mallorymarlowe.com
Follow Mallory on Instagram at @mallorymarlowewrites
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115 - The Orchard Man ("Schizogeny")
Liz and Helen discuss "Schizogeny," along with digging up graves, Liz's haunted house theory, and the non-existent Tooms prequel. Hey, go buy our merch! The link to our Teepublic shop is below.
Recommendations:
TV: Widow's Bay
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114 - Suck It, Tooms! ("Kitsunegari")
Helen does not recommend "Kitsunegari." She and Liz also discuss hemodynamics, hypothetically angering Keith Ranieri, and the minotaur inside Liz's computer. Also, we have merch! Go buy it! You can find the shop on our website and at the link in our Instagram bio.
Recommendations:
Book: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Podcast: We Want to Believe Episode 87: "Celebratory Fluke Noises"
(for Helen's excellent assessment of a Flukeman vs. Pusher match-up)
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113 - And Then We See the Herring ("Emily")
Liz and Helen discuss "Emily," along with the Barbuda Triangle, clones of Gillian Anderson, and the importance of college friends. Plus, Liz sends Helen an email attachment. It's surprising the two of them are so normal looking!
Recommendations
Book: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Movie: The Mummy (1999)
App: Stay Focused
Clothes for the Hypermobile: Jelly Bend
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BONUS - The Search for the Chicken
Want something less serious than Episode 112 about "Christmas Carol"? Enjoy 17 minutes of Liz searching her house for the green glass chicken that Helen hid there. There IS a resolution at the end!
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112 - Not Making it Palatable ("Christmas Carol")
Helen and Liz discuss "Christmas Carol," a serious, high-quality episode of the X-Files. Other than tangents about the green glass chicken and Liz's hatred of dream sequences, they keep it pretty focused! You'll also enjoy hearing Helen's two voices!
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111 - Where do the eggs go? ("Post-Modern Prometheus")
Liz and Helen talk about "The Post-Modern Prometheus," along with Lord Byron, surprise casting decisions, and the line they draw for listener emails. Plus, Liz frightens Helen with her lack of knowledge of her own biology.
Recommendations
Song: "Lovers Forever" by Cher (it's about vampires!)
TV: Interview with the Vampire (2022)
Documentary: How to Survive a Plague
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110 - Columbus Had a Tail! ("Detour")
Helen and Liz talk about "Detour," along with rumors we want spread, office furniture, and glow ups. Also, Helen is learning geography!
Listener Survey: https://forms.gle/e6QGYw6TtqLuBYBD6
Recommendations:
Movie: Basic Instinct
Book: London Falling by Patrick Raddan Keefe
TV: Not Just Bikes (on YouTube)
Websites: Geoguessr, Wikipedia
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109 - Blackjack for Children ("Unusual Suspects")
Helen and Liz are back! They're talking about "Unusual Suspects," along with elves, twin beds, an X-Files/Arrested Development crossover, and Liz's similarity to opossums.
Take our listener survey here and be entered to win a book! https://forms.gle/e6QGYw6TtqLuBYBD6
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Summer Rerun - Birthday Bogs ("Paper Hearts")
Now with bonus content!
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Summer Rerun - Liz Repeatedly Screams ("Fearful Symmetry/Agent of Chaos")
Now with bonus content!
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Summer Rerun - Wondering When the Spiders Come In ("Unruhe")
Now with bonus content!
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Summer Rerun - Have you learned NOTHING?? ("Home")
Now with bonus content!
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Summer Rerun - The Crown Prince of Russia ("Irresistible")
Now with bonus content!
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Summer Rerun - The Cheese Man is Bumming Me Out ("Tooms")
Now with bonus content!
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Summer Rerun - Worms: Fact or Fiction? ("Beyond the Sea")
Now with bonus content!
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Summer Rerun - Santa for Bad Kids ("Squeeze")
Now with bonus content!
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Summer Rerun - Oh Crap, It's Happening Again ("Wetwired")
Now with bonus content!
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Summer Rerun - Helen Doesn't Feel Special ("Hell Money")
Now with bonus content!
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Summer Rerun - The House with No Corners ("Colony")
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Summer Rerun - Big Cesar Chavez Vibes ("Apocrypha")
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Summer Rerun - The Hypnotizer ("Pusher")
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Summer Rerun - The Autopser ("The List")
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Summer Rerun - Where's Nebraska? ("Aubrey")
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Summer Rerun - Aristocracy ("Fire")
With new bonus content! (And trust me, you really need to hear this bonus content.)
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Summer Rerun - Archipelago ("Ice")
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108 - An Interview with Susan Blommaert
Liz and Helen talk with Susan Blommaert, the incredible actor who portrayed Mrs. Paddock in the terrifying X-Files episode "Die Hand Die Verletzt." We particularly love her take on Mrs. Paddock's nature, plus, listen for a great story about a note she sent to Dan Butler when they were in Vancouver to film. Thank you again, Susan!
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107 - An Extra-Fuzzy Australian ("Redux II")
Helen and Liz discuss "Redux II," along with cool slang for water, the legit jaguar spirits, and an important new arrival.
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106 - Get Down, Giardia Poodle ("Redux I")
Liz and Helen discuss "Redux I," along with the best water-skiing video ever, new fluke worm discoveries, and what to do when you're hiding in the dark in someone's house. Also, Little Rock listeners, drink some beer and help us out!
And here's the water-skiing video you all need to see:
https://youtu.be/8Zgys8Vn-4Y?si=h8bkV1KtBbn_oRri
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REVIEW DAY - Things That Die in the Woods ("Syzygy")
We're doing a review day, class! Enjoy this episode from Season 3, in which Liz and Helen discuss "Syzygy," along with dog skeletons, Helen's lingering Elijah Wood issue, and a terrible combination of the Monty Hall problem and the trolley problem.
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105 - G is for Snowman (The Simpsons "Springfield Files")
Helen and Liz discuss the Simpsons episode "The Springfield Files," along with perfect names, glowing stuff, and more on bee assassins.
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104 - Juicy ("Gethsemane")
Helen and Liz discuss "Gethsemane," along with digging as a superpower, launching Helen into space, Seventh Saga, and scrunching out the crunch.
P.S. Sorry for the weird metal noises that are sometimes in the background in this episode! Liz was recording from a different table than usual and kept shifting around in place, and the metal bits of the table kept creaking.
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103 - It's Always Head Day ("Demons")
Liz and Helen discuss "Demons," along with Helen's appearance in someone elseβs X-File, interpretive dance with a knife, and Monty Hall (again). Plus, Helen might look at the goblin men, but she will not be taking ketamine.
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102 - Making Fetch Happen ("Elegy")
Helen and Liz discuss "Elegy," along with the plague hag and the Yule lads, Helen's bowling number, and further details on Scully's medical education. Plus, we have a VERY EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT!
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101 - Floating Tackle Box of Sex Stuff ("Zero Sum")
Liz and Helen discuss "Zero Sum," along with the championship of our X-Files Villains Bracket: Mrs. Paddock versus the Eve Clones! Plus intubation updates, stripy insect parody songs, and the challenges of carrying people around.
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100 - Popcorn ("Synchrony")
It's our hundredth episode! Liz and Helen are joined by Dr. Katie Lupo, a chemist and good friend, to discuss "Synchrony," along with science scandals, imaginary mass, and the outcome of the battle between the Eve Clones and Terri & Margi. Remember, Helen does not falsify data!
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99 - Boats of the Sky ("Max")
Helen and Liz discuss "Max," along with uncovering the answers to what Scully must be hiding, what makes Catholicism so scary, and where you put the tube. Also, "what is the real story anyway?"
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98 - In the q ("Tempus Fugit")
Liz and Helen discuss "Tempus Fugit," along with penny flipping, little Roman ghost boys, and accidentally stealing accents. Plus, Terri and Margi take on Eddie van Blundht in our Villains bracket!
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97 - Three Teeth ("Unrequited")
Helen and Liz discuss "Unrequited," along with orc facts, Liz's cell phone bathroom incident, and the electromagnetic phenomenon that would make Helen "expire on the spot." Plus, an insightful listener comment solves another listener's mysteryβwith physics!
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96 - Clayboy ("Kaddish")
Liz and Helen discuss "Kaddish," along with a sexy magazine for historic monsters, a clever goat, and a Gargoyle vs Tooms penalty shoot-out.
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