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PODCAST

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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All Episodes

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

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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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47:00

Episode 58: Uranus Unlimited

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2024/10/25

Helen and Liz discuss X-Files season 3 episode 4, "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose." They also talk about ways psychics have lied to them, people who are ghost-adjacent, and what your Zodiac sign says about your investment strategy.

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72:07

Episode 57: Lightning Boy

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2024/10/18

Liz and Helen are back! Today they discuss X-Files Season 3 Episode 3, "DPO," along with the threat of coprnices, fly eyes, Helen's foray into Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and people they don't care for.

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67:46

Episode 56: Bottom Thirties

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2024/05/10

Our season finale! Liz and Helen discuss "Paper Clip," plus they consider 'man vs bear' question, have fun with statistics in the Monty Hall problem, and recall a classic story of an old friend, a random family, and a tree that did not serve as a good hiding spot.

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58:55

Episode 55: Chicago!

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2024/05/03

Helen and Liz hit the road! A trip to the famously haunted Drake Hotel in Chicago involves the typical nonsense, including blocking the closet door with a chair-ironing-board-shelf-cushion combo, deciding who we'd most like to be haunted by, and Liz swearing at Chicago traffic.

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56:22

REVIEW DAY: Listener Questions

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2024/04/19

It's a review day, class! We're taking a two-week break, so enjoy this "review day," and hear our answers to listener questions from two years ago. (This is the origin of the idea of Liz hoping she could learn to dunk a basketball.) Also, submit your questions for us, for a future episode!

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44:36

Annoying White Women

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2024/04/12

Helen and Liz discuss "The Blessing Way," plus the Peewee Herman hypnosis experiment, inspirational posters, and the name Turtle.

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49:17

The Haunted Piano

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2024/04/05

Liz and Helen discuss "Anasazi." Plus, some linguistics update, Louie the raccoon, the question Helen won't ask a friend's brother, and the reason Liz got married.

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64:01

Spongy Brain Bad

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2024/03/29

Helen and Liz discuss the X-Files episode "Our Town," along with talking yourself into fatal insomnia, sinister rock tumblers, and determining when it's safe to eat your friends. Plus, Helen's haunted hotel experience.

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63:11

The Brain Suck

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2024/03/22

Helen and Liz discuss "Soft Light," plus unicorns made of dark matter, coatimundis ruining the vibe, and two separate occasions of drunk science education.

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70:00

Mars! 50th episode special

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2024/03/15

All about Mars, with our guest Dr. Matt Siegler. Plus, space cocktails, the best type of fake dirt, and Vegemite.

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40:26

Armadillo Advice

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2024/03/08

Liz and Helen discuss "F. Emasculata," an episode perfect for someone who studied parasitologyand epidemiology. Alas, Liz did not study those things.

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66:04

Name Helen's Dog

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2024/03/01

Helen and Liz discuss "The Calusari," and Helen is filled with righteous anger. Plus, the search for gluten-free samosas, why the TSA stops Helen and not Liz, and the Fluke Man's identity.

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62:32

I wish it was the Fiji Mermaid

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2024/02/23

Liz and Helen discuss "Humbug," along with Sweatin' to the Oldies, geeks, when a bookshelf is a pantry, and the correct number of people to know who want to hang from hooks. Plus, Liz tries to sell you something. You should listen to her.

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63:10

Follow the Rats

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2024/02/16

Helen and Liz discuss "Død Kalm," along with time-traveling bison, black holes, Malaysia Flight 370, and Liz's theory regarding who, exactly, is chewing through their friend's car's wiring.

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55:54

Liz Repeatedly Screams

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2024/02/10

Liz and Helen very briefly discuss "Fearful Symmetry," but mostly it's time to talk about "Agent of Chaos," the young adult novel about a teenage Mulder, which came out in 2017. Also, recommendations for shorts, bone arrows, and a video game Liz is NOT okay with.

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55:02

An Increasing Number of Killer Clowns

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2024/02/02

Helen and Liz discuss "End Game," along with Florida alien sightings, clone science, snitching, and Liz's habit of cutting up little pieces of paper. Plus, Helen fails to understand Amazon's on-screen options.

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61:36

The House With No Corners

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2024/01/26

Liz and Helen discuss "Colony," spiritualists, anime, being confused about geography (as usual), and that it does, indeed, hurt to be hit by a car. Plus, an eerie woodland listener story!

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68:32

Graverobbing is Uncool!

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2024/01/19

Helen and Liz discuss the episode "Fresh Bones," along with Haitian history, puffer fish, the Highgate Vampire, somersault lessons, and Liz's lack of household maintenance. Also, Dolls! Dolls! Dolls!

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