WEBVTT - Episode 60: The X-Files 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:13.720 Hello, and welcome to another edition of a nerd Afficent. 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:16.919 I'm one half of your host, Danny Fernandez. I am back. 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:19.960 I am here. If he was holding it down very much, 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:22.279 holding it down while I was gone and off on 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:26.600 magical adventures, if he thank you? No, you know I'm 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:32.400 always down to clown. Yes, thank you. Now, I'm just stalling. 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:36.040 Want to eat this chocolate. Your boy's back on ket Keto. Watch, 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:38.080 I'm back on Keto. I was off for a bit, 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:40.640 but your boys back. Yes. Actually, if you and I 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:43.479 went to a party this weekend and he texted me 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:46.320 and said, I'm going to drink, but I'm going on 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:48.960 to cleanse tomorrow, And I thought it was so funny 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.839 that you had to You had a validate with me. 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:54.080 Why you Because I was definitely going to be drinking. 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:56.240 I didn't care. It was just funny that you had 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:57.959 to let me know. Hey, by the way, like I'm 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.520 going back on my cleanse tomorrow. Well, because you know 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:04.560 certain friends, um more specifically Ronnie Adrian likes to tease 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:07.160 me about how like keyto online, but like when I'm 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:09.920 having my cheap moments, that's never online. So you know, 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:14.360 I'm just saying thank you okay, thanks, thank you. Um 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:20.399 we're joined today by writer podcaster Aaron Mallory Long. Hi. Yeah, 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.560 how are you doing. I mean I'm doing great. Look 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:25.800 to be quite honest, I just got back from Japan, 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:27.720 and I'm a little confused about what day it is. 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:30.280 I know, I'm so sorry. I like texted you to 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:32.360 come on, and like she got all my text at 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.160 once because she was on the airplane, and I'm like, listen, 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:38.280 we're doing spoiler. We're talking about X files, and you 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:40.280 have to be on because you're the person that I 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:44.240 know knows the most about X files. I mean, it's 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:46.480 just it's one of those things that has been such 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:48.960 a part of my life. Yeah, that's files and then 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:54.240 also being sleep deprived. Both of those things those interchangeably. Um. Well, 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:56.520 we have been starting out our show by asking people 0:01:56.520 --> 0:02:00.080 what they're speaking out about. I have been thinking about 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.280 this and I'm going to keep mentioning it because I 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:05.440 was just on a trip. Um No, I watched um 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:09.000 the whole season of Dead to Me on Netflix, like 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:11.880 on my flight over to Japan, and so it's like 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:15.000 one of those things where it's like the altitude and 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.919 then also like watching something in one sitting and stuff 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.200 where I felt like I got so like cued into 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:24.200 it and was like so emotionally invested in everything that 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.640 was happening. So that's the first thing that came to 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:28.760 my mind, what I'm getting out of what is the 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:31.480 show about. It's like, you can't even describe what the 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:34.320 show is about, but it's Christine Applegate and Linda Cardlini, 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:37.320 who I love both of them. And then I just 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:40.600 feel like Linda Cardlini doesn't get enough like roles like this, 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:42.880 Like she's always like the wife in a movie that 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:44.880 gets nominated for an oscar and I'm like, and she 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.840 has like three lines and specifically about green Book specifically, 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:50.680 but it's happened a lot of times. She's also the 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:55.640 wife in you know, like where she's just like hey hawki, 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.080 like it's just like and then she disappears, you know. 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:01.240 Like so I just was sort of like, oh, it's 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:03.600 so nice that she's like back on this thing. Like 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:06.120 I've loved her. I love her because of freaks and geeks, 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.720 so it's like nice that she's like around is a 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:12.560 thing James Marsden, isn't it? I love um? But it 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:14.440 was really it's really good It's like one of those 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:20.760 like you know, twist grief, right, they like Christine Applegate's 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:23.280 husband has just died at the start of the start 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.040 of the series. Um, but it just goes a million 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:29.400 places I wasn't expecting and I really liked it. It's 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:32.480 like adult search party kind of, if that makes sense. 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:34.760 I've seen a ton of people tweeting about it. Yeah, 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:38.280 I really really, really really enjoyed it. But if you 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.680 what are you speaking out about. Oh man, I'm still 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:44.000 on my funal Fantasy fourteen grind. You know, they had 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:45.800 a huge event. I think I might have talked about 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:47.920 this last episode, but they had a huge event where 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.240 you can win the regalia, just the car they drive 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.680 in Final Fantasy fifteen, but you can only get it 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:57.320 through winning uh like fake money within the game because 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:01.680 there's a gold saucer in the which is like a 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.680 prominent Final Fantasy casino, and so you had to like 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:08.800 grind up to like two hundred thousand um M g P, 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.960 which is the fake currency. And uh yeah, I spent 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.680 all Sunday going in and I did get my car. 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.280 I have the regalia, and I'm geeking out about how 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.960 cool I look driving around town. So when you're because 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:23.480 were you streaming during that time? Some everyone got to 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:25.960 watch you do it? Oh no, this was it was 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:29.480 like private, intimate, private because it was so mind numbingly 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:33.520 like I was just bouncing from one thing. Because the 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.360 way the casino works is there's these group events every 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.880 twenty minutes, and that that gives you the opportunity to 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:43.960 win about four thousand mg P. Then I would do 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.200 choke a boat racing in between, which would only give 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:48.440 me about three hundred. But there was challenges that if 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.400 you did X amount of chokea Boat racings you would 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:53.960 get like a bonus eight thousand. So it was like 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.880 very just mind numbing, like grinding. Now. I was like, 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:01.719 this isn't gonna be entertaining. Check. I bet somebody still would. 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:03.400 I bet he'll get a tweet like I still would 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:07.159 have been there and watched you. You know. Um the 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:10.120 thing I'm geeking out. I'm geeking out about two movies, 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:15.320 UM Book Smart and Aladdin. UM one. I was gone 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:18.240 for two weeks because I was hosting with Disney. If 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.520 he went to the premiere with me, which I got 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:22.960 to host at. I want to just say, if you 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:26.120 haven't been following me on Twitter. Will Smith is the kindest, 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.279 nicest man, like just he has every It was so 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:31.560 crazy because I was sitting there and he was like 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:33.320 giving a pep talk to everyone. He's like such a 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:38.560 hype man, like he just is. He exudes positivity. He's 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:41.440 the same person on camera z is off camera. He's 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:44.440 just such a nice, nice guy, which you know, being 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.479 in Hollywood, we don't always run into that, and he 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.800 has every reason to act egotistical or whatever because he 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.080 is such a huge star and he's not. Like he 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.800 was just such a dream to work with. Um. But 0:05:55.880 --> 0:06:00.960 what I wanted to say is book Smart is um hilarious. 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:05.760 It's a female lead, female directed film that everyone should 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.719 go out and see. It's coming of age story, just 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:10.760 really funny. I know if he and I both loved it, 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:12.800 Oh yeah, that was gonna be my pick, and then 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.760 I backed out at the last second. The way I've 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:17.880 been pigeon it to people is is just super bad 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:20.159 with girls, and I think it's I'm really I'm more 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:23.880 excited for the like teens of this generation like watch 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.839 that and be like charged up on that. Yeah. Yeah, 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:30.160 I had great queer representation in it as well. Um 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:33.159 so that and then also Aladdin was number one in 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:36.520 the box office and it has to POC lead, I 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:40.200 mean three POC leads. I mean it was super awesome. 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.520 I know our friend Malcolm Barrett, who is on Our 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:46.840 Shark our Street Sharks episode, was talking about how, you know, 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:50.920 another director a couple of decades ago said oh, I can't, Um, 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.840 I can't have someone whose name is Mohammed as my 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:57.159 lead character. You know whatever, Yeah, you can go and 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.880 I know, uh, and now we have something that made 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:02.840 like a hundred what hundred million like opening that has 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:07.159 Minima sud who plays Aladdin, who's relatively you know, um, 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:08.919 he's been in a couple of things, but this was 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:13.680 definitely a breakout for him. And Naly Scott who plays Jasmine, who, um, 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:17.040 they really updated her character I think for this for nineteen. 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:19.080 So those are my thoughts. Those are the things that 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.120 I'm geeking out about. It was really cool to see, um, 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:24.280 a POC lead film do so well. And then I 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:28.200 hope that everyone goes out and go see this female directed, uh, 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:31.640 female led film in book smart am I too. I 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:33.600 can't wait to see both of the Lost Man So 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:39.200 excited too. Um. So we are talking about X Files. Yes, 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:42.920 I guess I remember. The first thing I think of 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:48.440 is is the theme song, Yeah, yeah, and the nineties. 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:50.880 I mean that's what I think of, is like staying 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.920 it is it's so nineties, and like also like something 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:58.440 about like aliens is so nineties to me. I mean 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:02.000 obviously just like alien iconography, like that little face. I 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:04.280 feel like it was everywhere when we were kids and stuff, 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.760 but like something, I feel like we were all collectively 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:10.880 obsessed with aliens in the nineties. Like I remember Fox 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:14.280 having that like Alien Autopsy show too, which I love. 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:18.760 Also unsolved mysteries and unsolved mysteries in general, scariest thing 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.600 I've ever seen, you know. So it's like X Files 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:26.200 was kind of like this culmination of like everything that 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.680 was happening, and like when when I started falling in 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.600 love with it, it was like from coming out of 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:34.839 like me being like, oh, this is a show my 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:38.320 dad really likes. Therefore it's an adult show. Therefore I'm 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.720 smart if I like it, Like, I'm like smart, I 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.400 can handle scary, Like even though at the time, like 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:46.480 are You Afraid of the Dark used to terrify me, 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:48.800 Like I was like I'm going to watch the X Files, 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.720 like this is going to be this is like my thing. Yeah, 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.560 it was just a little too smart for me. That's 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:58.000 so funny to say. It was just a little bit 0:08:58.120 --> 0:08:59.840 like yeah I was. I mean at that time that 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:03.079 you watching, I was watching, Um, are you Afraid of 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:05.920 the Dark? Goose Bumps? Like those were more on my level. 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:09.360 And I always thought that that X Files was creepy, 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.240 but it was just a little too old for me 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.960 where I didn't always know what was going on. Yeah, um, 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:15.440 if you do, you remember the first time that you 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:19.240 watched X Files, Yeah, I remember. You did, like watch 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.960 it a lot, mostly because my like auntsome mom really 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:25.040 into it, so I had no choice but to sit 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:27.920 there and watch it with him, but I did. I'll 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:32.200 never The episode that I'll never forget is the crossover 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:39.200 they had what Cops Cops, because it was like this 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:43.080 great level because like it was almost like like you, 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.440 even though it was a narrative show, there was almost 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:48.360 this like light suspension of like this could be real 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.640 because it's like the truth is out there. So when 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.400 they did that, it was like oh wait, what yes, 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.319 like is this all real? What's going on? Well? And 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.360 I'm coming at it from like being like I think 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:00.320 I probably started watching it when I was eight, which 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.800 I would say is too young, but that is when 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.640 I started watching and it was like coming off of me, 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.120 like being an elementary school kid who had a notebook 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:11.960 entitled Strange Things that Have Happened to Me. Oh wow, 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:15.120 and so I was like, oh my god, there's a 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:18.560 show where adults are talking about this. I'm in wait, 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:21.280 what was in your book? It was everything. It was 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:24.520 like I would be like on the playground, like at 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:27.560 my elementary school, and I like saw someone like walking 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:29.360 over a hill and I would like jot it down 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:33.480 and be like like stranger spotted like three PM, like 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:37.320 what's happening? Oh my gosh, you were Oh shoot, what's 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:41.679 her name? Michelle Trakenberg's Harry At another favorite of mine. 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:45.160 I think I think that came from me loving the 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:47.040 book Harry at the Spy and then the movie Harry 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.480 at the Spy, and then it like merged into me 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.040 loving the XP like it was just for people that 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.160 don't know you, this is so on brand for you 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:59.199 as a person. It was just like I was just like, yep, 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.719 this is like suspicious activity, Like was basically what I 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:04.480 would write down or like even if I saw like 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.280 a mirage like on the street, you know, like it 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:09.520 like looks like water, I'd be like, I saw a mirage. 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:16.280 I don't know why, like investigate later. I just think 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:20.520 that a notebook with that title would alarm any adult, 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.680 your daughter having like some oh my gosh. I don't 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:28.480 think I told my parents about it, Like, I don't 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:30.560 think it was something that I actively like, because it 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:32.680 was it was meant for me to have a log 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:35.000 of weird things so that I could track what was 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:39.280 going on. So I think it was in my understanding. 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:41.320 I didn't show it to them. I don't think. I don't. 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.720 I think they would be surprised to know about that. Well. 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:49.400 So the X Files was inspired by earlier series that 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.200 were similar to it, like the Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:56.000 Tales from the Dark Side, Twin Peaks, um And it 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.120 is interesting because I used to watch We were talking 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:00.679 about Twin Peaks before we started recording, and I used 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:06.240 to watch that and also Dark Shadows. Dark Shadows. I 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.640 did used to watch Dark Shadows. The thing about the 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.760 thing that I loved about that was that because it 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:15.560 was it's known as an American Gothic soap opera because 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:17.439 they of the way that they recorded it. If they 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:20.199 messed up, they just left it in there because it's 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.320 kind of like Days of Our Lives. Yeah, like and 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:24.040 so just be you can like watch like if they 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:25.839 would flobb a line, they just had to keep going. 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:29.120 That's amazing. Um. But it's fascinating to me that I 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.120 loved Dark Shadows and Night Gallery and Twilight Zone and 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:36.440 didn't think that those were like two adults. But I 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:38.720 think it's because there are elements of X Files were 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.240 it seemed like nothing I don't wanna say nothing happened, 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.680 but it was more do you know what I'm talking about? 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.319 It was like, here's a monster. It was like a 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:51.640 lot of adult dialogue, and it's a lot of sexual tension. Well, 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:54.920 so the show I was thinking about was the Outer Limits, 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:57.960 the Outer Limits, to the Outer Limits as well, maybe 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:00.920 I'm getting yeah, all of those essentially, Yeah, the outer 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:04.080 Limits too. Well that's the X Files is basically broken 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.640 into Monster of the Week episodes, which are my personal 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.200 favorite and I love, and then like the episodes that 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:13.640 actually followed the story plot line, which get dry. I 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:17.760 mean they just do like they get kind of hetty 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:21.160 and like weird, and especially as a kid, Like I 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.439 was like, well, I don't really care about these, but like, 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:25.600 let me get back to monsters, let me get to 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:28.160 the sexual attention. Like The X Files is where I 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.240 learned about sexual attention, and I was like, oh, I'm 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:33.199 into this. Like I was like, I'm in love with 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:36.320 everyone on the show. I'm in love with David Duchovney 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:39.040 even though I'm a child, Like I was like, this 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:41.720 is everything I mean still to this day, Like if 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.439 you ask me my favorite X Files episodes, it's like 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.200 Arcadia where they have to pretend to be a husband 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:51.240 wife and they keep making jokes about like he keeps 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:54.240 making jokes to her about like like making a porn 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.880 video or like being like playing house, and I was like, yep, 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:00.480 I'm into this way before you up into all of 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:02.959 your favorites, because we will get into those. Um, we 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:07.200 should probably tell people that have never watched it a 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:10.440 little bit about, um, you know how it came to be, 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.600 so you know the basics are this. The X Files 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.800 is an American science fiction drama TV series created by 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:21.040 Chris Carter, and the original television series was airing from 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:25.720 September tenth to May nineteenth of two thousand two on Fox, 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:28.200 and the program went for nine seasons with two hundred 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:35.120 two episodes. A short tenth season consisting of six episodes. Yeah, 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:38.280 A short tenth season consisting of six episodes, premiered on 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.680 the January twenty four of two thousand sixteen and concluded 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.800 on the twenty two of February, and following the ratings 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.640 success of this revival, Fox announced that in April of 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.600 two thousand seventeen that The X Files would be returning 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.400 for an eleventh season of ten episodes, and that season 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:56.680 premiered on January three of two thousand eighteen and ended 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.560 in March twenty one of two thousand eighteen. In addition 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.120 to the Tell Division series, two feature films came out. 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.400 There was film The X Files and I remember that one, 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:08.120 which took place as part of the TV series continuity. 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:10.520 And then they had a stand alone film called The 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:12.560 X Files I Want to Believe that was released in 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.440 two thousand and eight, six years after the original television 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:17.440 and I think that was the one No one liked. Yeah, 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:22.840 no one liked it. Did that one have? Yeah? They 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.080 were both in it. My personal problem with I want 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:29.120 to Believe was that they skipped over like Moldern Scully, 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:32.600 like getting together, making a life together, like they all 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.240 of that happened off screen. So you just like, so 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.240 the thing that all the fans wanted to see you 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:41.120 were like, you turn on the movie and you're like what, No, 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:45.200 Like it was just it existed in this crazy place 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:49.240 where it's like sexual attention is gone, and like everything 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.920 that you wanted to happen presumably has happened. Like it's 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.480 just like whereas the first movie which I made my 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:58.360 parents take me to a midnight screening of Um, they 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:01.640 were like, we're not okay. Luckily they both like The 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:02.960 X Files, but I was like, we have to go 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:04.880 immediately when it comes out. I don't know what to 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.520 tell you. I'm like thirteen. I'm like, sorry, you really 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:13.000 like Book Smart because you are literally those girls. That 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:16.280 makes me so nervous. Um. But it's like in that 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.600 one they had that you know, the big moment for 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.040 me in that movie is like when they go to 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.360 almost kiss in the hallway and then like they don't 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.320 kiss because Scully gets stung by the bee and then 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:29.840 she goes down and you know that is the original 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:34.280 Jim and Pam yes, truly though, Like that's what I'm like, 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:38.280 they are Molder and Scully are my whatever, Sam and Diane, 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:42.040 Jim and Pam, like that's well. I remember the twenty 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:44.680 I remember when it came back in because if you 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:48.160 remember Luke Crate, like Luke Crate boxes and stuff, they 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:52.400 did like a big X Files push, and I remember 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:54.640 I was like, oh, I have these shirts Aaron like 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:56.960 that they that they had given me. I'm like, I 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.160 don't I know someone that's going to really care about 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:01.640 this a ton, but that was a really big deal. 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:04.439 And then it seemed like when they brought it back in, 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:07.359 I don't know if I heard about it or if 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:09.399 it was marketed like as much, and maybe I'm just 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.760 like not in the community, I think it wasn't. It 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:14.840 wasn't brought up as much. And I think even my friends, 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:16.920 I know a lot of people who are really into 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.640 the X Files as well, and I think even us, 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:24.639 like we kind of weren't necessarily there for it. I 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:26.560 think a lot of people are a lot harder on 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:30.320 the first reboot season than I think it deserves. I 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:33.800 think it's six episodes and basically two of them are 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:36.520 really good. Two of them are kind of terrible, and 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.679 two were like kind of mediocre, boring like plot ones, 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:43.480 and that's like how the series sort of is percentage 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:46.199 wise overall. So I felt good about it. I was like, 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:51.360 this is okay, Like this this is what we used 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.560 to I remember being fourteen and watching it week to week, 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:56.600 and you know, there'd be an episode that I'd be like, no, 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:58.640 I didn't really care about that. That's fine, Let's get 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:02.160 to some sexual tens and then everything will be okay. 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:04.800 X Files basically for me as a pre teen and 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:07.879 teen was the closest I got to watching porn. Like 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:11.879 it was just like this is this is porn. This 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:16.080 was on Fox, I know, because it's all about tension. 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:19.000 I mean, I guess it's like I was basically watching Cinemax, like, 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:21.679 but you were watching It was like my equivalent of 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:25.520 like fan fiction, like it's just so like you know, well, 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:29.720 it gets your little heart pitter pattered, very pitter pattered. 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:32.920 And it's where I learned about fan fiction, Like I 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:36.120 was sure, I'm like on aim, like into the night 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:38.879 with my friend who was also obsessed with the X 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:41.680 Files in high school, who otherwise we didn't really talk, 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:44.160 and then it's like she's sending me like fan fix, 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:45.679 like did you read this one? Did you read this one? 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:47.800 And I was like, Okay, I'm like up until six 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:49.520 am when I have to be up for school at 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:51.639 six thirty because I'm just like I can't stop like 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:55.640 reading fan fix of the X Files. Yeah, I mean 0:18:55.680 --> 0:19:01.200 it's just porn. Yeah me, it was seat because they 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:09.280 always had a hot tub scene them up every every 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:12.200 day and they you know, and I will say Buscano 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.560 More was more diverse than Blind Date because Bustano More 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:20.600 was just the hum Telemundo's Blind Date and but like 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:24.520 it wouldn't just be like twentysomethings, Like they had straight 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:28.639 up like episodes with like sixty year olds and still 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:31.280 had them do the hot tub scene. I watched, I 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:34.240 mean myself and Hector Navaro, who's been on I've watched. 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:37.240 I watched anime on Telemundo because one it was like 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:40.080 not as edited and also they got stuff that like 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:43.679 we didn't get onto Namie Interesting or four Kids or whatever, 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:47.360 like it was, yeah, they got stuff before we did. 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:50.320 I didn't go to Telemundo with any good intentions. I 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:52.760 don't know what the Saturday one, there was a Saturday 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:55.800 party one where like it was obviously like their soul train, 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:58.639 but it always had like bikini ladies dance and I 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:01.440 was like, bet like this, I'm here every Saturday. I 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:03.520 forget the name of it. I was going to say, 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:16.480 um uh, I definitely saw Goku's bare ass though there's 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:20.120 a scene where he bends over in his butt ass naked. Okay, Eric, 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:24.199 can you tell people about so we have um, we 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:28.960 have Scully and Molder talk me through Fox Molder played 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:32.119 by David Company. What is he? What is his role in? 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:35.040 What is he? How would you describe his personality and 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:40.480 his story arc? He is a believer, so like he's 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:43.280 I mean the whole I think the whole. The whole 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:45.840 setup to the show is basically what I like as well, 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:48.919 which is just this idea of opposites and stuff. And 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:52.960 it's like Scully, who is a doctor who is always 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:54.760 like her line that she always goes to was like 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:58.240 I was brought into debunk your work, like she was 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:00.840 teamed up with Mulder because Mulder was like, I need 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:03.919 to open the X files and investigate all these crazy things. 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:06.880 And the FBI is basically like, Okay, Scully is an 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:10.239 actual smart normal person, like here you go be with 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:12.760