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Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free.

CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF BUFFERING

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Edited by: Mak Kellerman

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Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free.

We have returned to the filing cabinet labeled “X” to discuss a Season 3 two parter: Episode 9, “Nisei,” and Episode 10, “731”! Myth arcs return, Mulder’s hair is reaching peak form, Scully needs PROOF and also is ONE OF THEM, and Skinner’s head shines like the beacon of light he is! Oh and Mr X is back even tho he sweaaaars he cannot get involved, Cigarette Smoking Man smokes, and the train conductor wins the the award for best FBI agent in the series despite not being one. 

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Edited by: Mak Kellerman

Logo: Devan Power

We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples.

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Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free.

An episode we didn’t like at all and episode we kinda liked, actually!! Together in one pod we’ve got thoughts on “death by boiling” (sorry), child kidnapping (WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS, X-FILES), and perhaps most importantly why Kristin has started to like (some of) this show despite how often she has to yell at it?!

It’s Season 3, Episodes 7 “The Walk,” and Episode 8 “Oubliette.”

PS: A Correction! When Kristin said that Emily St. James wrote X-Files Confidential what she ACTUALLY MEANT was Monsters of the Week. 

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Edited by: Mak Kellerman

Logo: Devan Power

We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples.

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Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free.

Just another fat-sucking, misogynist vampire on the internet for your Thursday! It's Season 3, Episode 6, "2Shy" and all we really have to say is... f*ck off, Virgil!

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Edited by: Mak Kellerman

Logo: Devan Power

We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples.

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Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free.

Apart from Kristin learning more about flies and maggots, nearly everything else that we have to wade through in this episode is wildly problematic! In between racist wardens and horrible prison systems we find a tale of reincarnation (or, transmigration, perhaps?) that is confusing enough to leave even Mulder and Scully confused by the end of the episode. At least Bokeem Woodbine is here! Wheeeeee! It's Season 3, Episode 5, "The List."

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We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples.

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Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free.

A veritable smorgasbord of both psychics and Buffering jingles converge for one of The X-Files most beloved episodes, S3E4 "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose." We've got Peter Boyle, questions about the meaning of life, Jenny feeling all kinds of feelings, and Kristin returning to her crystal ball (adding to the veritable smorgasbord of psychics) to find out more about Scully's NEW DOG.

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Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson

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Logo: Devan Power

We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples.

Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at

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Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free.

Giovanni Ribisi and Jack Black love to play video games and one of them also likes to BE LIGHTENING AND MURDER PEOPLE?! We have incel vibes a-plenty, a sheriff who is the patriarchy jingle embodied, beer bottles all over the front lawn, and Scully finally (finally!) getting her autopsy groove back. It's Season 3, Episode 3: "DPO".

Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 2.75/5 Jelly Donuts (They’re From Yesterday, But They’re Still Good)

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Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson

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Logo: Devan Power

We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples.

Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at

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Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free.

MULDER IS ALIVE! SKINNER IS F*CKING OVER CIGARETTE SMOKING MAN! BIRDMAN IS HIDING IN THE ORCHIDS! We have finally reached the end of the three part episode arc that we began covering one hundred and forty years ago! Thank you for your patience, and also ...Mulder? Stop waking up your poor mother in the middle of the damn night. Here we go into Season 3, Episode 2, "Paper Clip"!

Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 1.15/5 Elaborate Conspiracies Against the American Public

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Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson

Edited by: Mak Kellerman

Logo: Devan Power

We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples.

Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at

⁠⁠bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting

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Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free.

At long last, we have returned to blow off the dust that has gathered atop our filing cabinet!! Once that’s done, we’re headed to a boxcar to dig up Mulder, to Martha's Vineyard to demand answers from Mrs. Mulder, to hypnotherapy with Scully, and to Skinner's office where his shiny little head is looking better than ever. 'Tis Season 3, Episode 1: "The Blessing Way."

Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 1.15/5 Homicide Victims’ Bodies Discovered at City Dump

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Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson

Edited by: Mak Kellerman

Logo: Devan Power

We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples.

Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at

⁠bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting

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