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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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51:33

Episode 75: Smashing Watermelons

We Want To Believe ·

2025/03/21

Helen and Liz discuss "Jose Chung's From Outer Space," along with hitting each other with sticks, eating avocados recreationally, and the Feynman-Frey connection. Plus, Helen learns the truth about Communion. My meter just jumped two points!

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50:34

Episode 74: Helen doesn't feel special

We Want To Believe ·

2025/03/14

Liz and Helen discuss "Hell Money," along with blood types, the link between James Hong and Buster Bluth, and the point at which being burned alive in a crematorium becomes a public health crisis. Plus, Liz screws up a name in a way she'll never live down.

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43:50

Episode 73: The Gravel Potluck

We Want To Believe ·

2025/03/07

Helen and Liz discuss "Teso dos Bichos," along with SimCity, Helen's ideal rave, and being primed for capybaras.

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10:57

Episode 72: Liz's Shameless Cash Grab

We Want To Believe ·

2025/02/28

Liz talks about her debut novel, Mighty Millie Novak. Have you bought it yet? Go on, buy it.

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51:39

Episode 71: The Hypnotizer

We Want To Believe ·

2025/02/21

Liz and Helen discuss "Pusher," along with unicorn haircuts, dog slumber parties, samurai, and a fascinating study involving psychics and schizophrenics.

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43:34

Episode 70: Big Cesar Chavez Vibes

We Want To Believe ·

2025/02/14

Helen and Liz discuss "Apocrypha," along with boy archeologists, glowing people to death, filling Mulder and Scully with concrete, and the build-up to talking about MRI machines.

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37:38

Episode 69: Salvage Brokers Broker Salvage

We Want To Believe ·

2025/02/08

Liz and Helen discuss "Piper Maru," along with goblin mode, flashlight tag, and the return of the series' most punchable character.

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38:38

Episode 68: Very Dimly Lit

We Want To Believe ·

2025/01/31

Helen and Liz discuss "Grotesque," along with the hole in Helen's floor, the reason for gargoyles, and the art class medium their mother would never allow.

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56:43

Episode 67: Things That Die in the Woods

We Want To Believe ·

2025/01/24

Liz and Helen discuss "Syzygy," along with dog skeletons, Helen's lingering Elijah Wood issue, and a terrible combination of the Monty Hall and the trolley problems.

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37:11

REVIEW DAY: Helen Werner, Slightly Psychic

We Want To Believe ·

2025/01/10

Review Day! We're still taking a break for the holidays, so today you can listen to our old episode about X-Files season 1 episode 23, "Roland." Plus you can enjoy some brand-new audio of Liz mangling the very few sentences she has to read during the intro.

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40:48

REVIEW DAY: Is Robert Smith the Jersey Devil?

We Want To Believe ·

2025/01/03

Liz is sick, and it's the week of New Year's Day, so we're taking a break from recording this week, and instead sharing one of our first episodes. In this one, Helen talks Liz through X-Files season 1 episode 5, "The Jersey Devil," and Liz is nearly destroyed by laughter when shown a key drawing from the episode.

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59:28

Episode 66: A Violent Suitcase-throwing Machine

We Want To Believe ·

2024/12/28

Helen and Liz talk with author Mallory Marlowe about her 2024 paranormal romance, Love and Other Conspiracies, along with "War of the Coprophages," a demonic horse statue, unsettling candy bar analogies, and jazz hands. And, yes, Liz continues talking about "Muskrat Love."

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59:35

Episode 65: God Doesn't Square Numbers

We Want To Believe ·

2024/12/21

Liz and Helen discuss "Revelations," along with Helen's childhood fear of stigmata, Liz's obsession with Jason Mantzoukas, the Crunchers, science history, and vending-machine egg salad sandwiches.

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55:06

Stupid Little Ears

We Want To Believe ·

2024/12/13

Helen and Liz discuss "731," along with the Rolling Stones, turquoise bacteria, Liz's shin, and Mr. Hansen and his disease research facility. Plus, of course, sea lions.

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61:34

Episode 63: Venmo Helen

We Want To Believe ·

2024/12/06

Liz and Helen discuss "Nisei," along with objet d'arts, the chicken dance, and our upcoming episode with guest star Mallory Marlowe (author of Love and Other Conspiracies)! Plus, more about Muskrat Love. Helen's Venmo is @Helen-Werner88. (The 88 is solely because she was born in 1988.)

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52:29

Episode 62: Big, Cold Bucket of Urine

We Want To Believe ·

2024/11/29

Helen and Liz discuss "Oubliette," along with physics riddles, terrible presentations, the disappearing kayaker, and, obviously, the aforementioned bucket.

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75:03

REVIEW DAY: The Worst Capri-Sun

We Want To Believe ·

2024/11/22

It’s a review day, class! We're taking a one-week break, so enjoy this "review day," and hear our discussion of the Season Two episode "Three." (This is the terrible, terrible vampire episode. It's basically Liz ranting for an hour straight.)

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65:10

Episode 61: "Is it not possible...?"

We Want To Believe ·

2024/11/15

Liz and Helen discuss "The Walk," along with our favorite horror movies, haunted televisions Part Two, and Liz's attempt to astrally project.

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72:22

Episode 60: Muskrat Love

We Want To Believe ·

2024/11/08

Helen and Liz discuss "2Shy." Plus, bad dates, bad screen names, and bad songs. And: snuggles?

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45:06

Episode 59: The Autopser

We Want To Believe ·

2024/11/01

Liz and Helen discuss "The List," along with their proposed "Jesus: The Revenge" action movie, the X-Files fake maggot budget, and the cutest dog in the world. Plus, find out if Liz can count to five!

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