Condensed Truth

Hello to our lovely listeners! Laura and Shelby wrap up Condensed Truth by offering our final thoughts on our quest to find the essential X Files episodes. We chat about our findings, talk a lot about sports for some reason, and chat about what we're doing with our time now.

A huge THANK YOU to everyone listened to our ramblings or came on the pod to chat, we appreciate all y'all!

New guest Mary joins us on our FINAL recap episode, S11E04 "The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat". We talk about the revival seasons, conspiracies during the Trump presidency, and the show's legacy.

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Tune in next time when we bring you a wrap up and any final thoughts on the show and the podcast!

Nick (@NickRichWrites) returns to bring us a bad omen: The X Files: I Want to Believe. We talk about the second movie in all its late Bush era X Files glory? We try to piece together this scattered plot, discuss break up MSR, and whether the crew had one left in them.

Some background on the second movie: https://thexfileswebarchive.neocities.org/secondmovie

Tune in next time with our FINAL episode recap with S11E04 "The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat".

We are joined by our close, personal friends who are real and alive, the Lone Gunmen, in S09E15 "Jump the Shark". We chat about this send off for The Lone Gunmen (the show) and the Lone Gunmen (the trio), our personal last meals, and post-9/11 The X Files.

Apologies for the weird sounds in the part when Shelby's cat got on her desk, he doesn't behave.

Tune in next time when we watch I Want to Believe and follow us on Twitter @condensedtruth!

Vincent (@scullygirl96) joined us to examine the numerology of S09E13 "Improbable". We meet the lovely Reyes as she solves a serial killer case using numerology and owning those psychologist bozos at the FBI. We talk Reyes as new Mulder, Burt Reynolds as God, and Scully as perpetually annoyed by 9 years of this.

Check out Vincent's X Files archive! https://thexfileswebarchive.neocities.org/

Tune in next time when we watch S09E15 "Jump the Shark" and follow us on Twitter @condensedtruth!

Join us as we talk about the William plot! We focus on S08E13 "Per Manum" as well as a number of later season episodes involving William Scully-Mulder. We talk Scully's struggles, the puppy dog that is John Doggett, and the unkillable nature of CSM's sons.

Tune in next time when we watch S09E13 "Improbable" and follow us on Twitter @condensedtruth!

We briefly pop in to wrap up season 7 as we near the end of our journey. We talk about the season 7 finale, discuss what we have left, and just chat about the show generally.

Tune in next time when we talk S08E13 "Per Manum" and the William story line generally and follow us on Twitter @condensedtruth!

New guest Sam joins us to mull over our three wishes we got from S07E21 "Je Souhaite". We discussed genies, dead invisible bodies, and Mulder's attempt to stop 9/11 with his "Peace on Earth" wish. Also, are we sure Barbara Eden never killed anybody?

Tune in next time when we wrap up season 7 and follow us on Twitter @condensedtruth!

Super guest Tori (@torlinnea) joined us in Tinseltown where we talked S07E19 "Hollywood AD". We talk David Duchovny's second directed episode, him casting his then wife Téa Leoni as movie Scully, and baby counterculture Mulder. We try to make sense of the plot and talk the memorable bubble bath scene.

Tune in next time when we watch S07E21 "Je Souhaite" and follow us on Twitter @condensedtruth!

We are joined by Abriana (@abriana) to talk about the girlboss episode S07E17 "all things". We get crunchy with Gillian Anderson's writing and directorial debut, talk Moby, and Scully's terrible taste in men. Join our white woman Buddhist journey towards answering important questions like "does time pass in moments?"

Check out Abriana's vintage shop at https://www.instagram.com/ambrosiavintage_/

Tune in next time when we watch S07E19 "Hollywood AD" and follow us on Twitter @condensedtruth!