Things Are Getting Strange

This week we're discussing  episodes 6 & 7 of Season 1; Shadows and Ghost in the Machine. The former is the tale of the kindly boss of a weapons manufacturer and apparent nepotism for one of the secretaries. Will seat-belts plague Scully forever more and prevent her from ever directly seeing anything supernatural?

The latter episode has Nick going off on numerous computing tangents and Kim contributing some philosophical aspects. While its nice to see returning character of Deep Throat, the episode is definitely not one of the best so far.

Kim's Conspiracy Corner attempts to fit AIs into the tangle of red yarn...

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This week we take on episodes 4 and 5 of Season 1. That would be Conduit and Jersey Devil. We ponder how alien spacecraft can be swift, silent things that hang in the air in Deep Throat but will cook an RV in Conduit.

Also Mulder is really into the not very Jersey Devil-like woman he encounters in Jersey Devil who we have dubbed 'Boobfoot'.

Kim's Conspiracy Corner tries to make sense of a very different alien abduction from Pilot to round things off.

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This week we're talking about episodes 2 and 3 of season 1 of The X-Files - Deep Throat and Squeeze. We also touch on our Halloween decorations, Kim's current headwear and her success with Muldle.app - The X-Files wordle-a-like.

Kim's Conspiracy Corner can only draw on Deep Throat this week, but we'll retroactively include Squeeze if this does somehow factor into the series' grand conspiracies.

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Nick and Kim chat about The X-Files' origins and inspirations. We then take a dive into the various elements of the first episode - Pilot.

Finally we have Kim's Conspiracy Corner where she attempts to make sense of what the aliens - or unseen force in the woods - is up to based on this episode's events.

Note: we apologise for any audio issues with the start of this podcast. This was very much our first try at any of this. We have things working much better by the time we get to The Colder Deader Eyes of a Killer.

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