We Want To Believe
Helen Werner and Liz Holden
Join us each week while we re-watch the X-Files and discuss the science and culture behind each episode and how much we still love Mulder and Scully (spoiler: a lot).
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Episodes (141)
Summer Rerun - Liz Repeatedly Screams ("Fearful Symmetry/Agent of Chaos")
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Summer Rerun - Wondering When the Spiders Come In ("Unruhe")
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Summer Rerun - Have you learned NOTHING?? ("Home")
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Summer Rerun - The Crown Prince of Russia ("Irresistible")
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Summer Rerun - The Cheese Man is Bumming Me Out ("Tooms")
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Summer Rerun - Worms: Fact or Fiction? ("Beyond the Sea")
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Summer Rerun - Santa for Bad Kids ("Squeeze")
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Summer Rerun - Oh Crap, It's Happening Again ("Wetwired")
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Summer Rerun - Helen Doesn't Feel Special ("Hell Money")
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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")
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Summer Rerun - Archipelago ("Ice")
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108 - An Interview with Susan Blommaert
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107 - An Extra-Fuzzy Australian ("Redux II")
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106 - Get Down, Giardia Poodle ("Redux I")
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REVIEW DAY - Things That Die in the Woods ("Syzygy")
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105 - G is for Snowman (The Simpsons "Springfield Files")
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104 - Juicy ("Gethsemane")
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103 - It's Always Head Day ("Demons")
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102 - Making Fetch Happen ("Elegy")
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101 - Floating Tackle Box of Sex Stuff ("Zero Sum")
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100 - Popcorn ("Synchrony")
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99 - Boats of the Sky ("Max")
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98 - In the q ("Tempus Fugit")
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97 - Three Teeth ("Unrequited")
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96 - Clayboy ("Kaddish")
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95 - West Virginia Tourism Strategy ("Memento Mori")
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94 - LeBron for a Day ("Small Potatoes")
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REVIEW DAY - The Crown Prince of Russia ("Irresistible")
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REVIEW DAY - Muskrat Love ("2Shy")
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REVIEW DAY - Bagpipes Can Mean Anything ("Duane Barry")
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93 - Talking Dinner Rolls ("Never Again")
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92 - Jet Fuel Super Soaker ("Leonard Betts")
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91 - Why Fungus? ("El Mundo Gira")
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90 - Birthday Bogs ("Paper Hearts")
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89 - Your Finest Shiv, Please ("Terma")
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88 - Brian's Wrong! ("Tunguska")
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REVIEW DAY - It's All Coming Back to Me ("Eve")
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87 - Celebratory Fluke Noises ("Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man")
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86 - Fish Pay Attention to the Moon? ("Sanguinarium")
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85 - Actually, Blame Paul McCartney Himself ("The Field Where I Died")
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84 - Wondering When the Spiders Come In ("Unruhe")
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83 - Squeeze, with Pan Flutes ("Teliko")
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82 - Have you learned NOTHING?? ("Home")
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81 - Green Glass Chicken ("Herrenvolk")
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Summer Rerun: The Brain Suck ("Soft Light")
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