Gen X-Files: a Rewatch Podcast

An X-Files rewatch podcast that’s part episode breakdown, part family hangout.Join Dash and Melz (couple, long time fans) and Angel (Dash's mom, first time watcher) for inside jokes, running bits, and unfiltered thoughts on everything from flukemen to all encompassing government conspiracies.Trust no one, but remember: if you’re here, you’re a friend.Questions, suggestions, hypnoregressions? Email us at GenXFilesPod@Gmail.com

Gen X-Files: a Rewatch Podcast is a tv podcast hosted by Gen X-Files, with 24 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Gen X-Files hosts Gen X-Files: a Rewatch Podcast, a tv show with 24 episodes published.

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  Episode #19

  S1E19 - Shapes; or, Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Manitou

  Sep 8, 20261h 34mS1

  The X Files Season 1, Episode 19: Shapes. This week, Dash & Melz, long time fans and couple, and Angel, first time watcher and Dash’s mom, head to Montana, where a rancher shoots a man he swears was a wild animal. Mulder finds shed skin, changing footprints, mysterious fangs, and an old X File pointing to something that has been happening here for a very long time. Whatever it is, everyone seems extremely committed to it not being a werewolf. Along the way, Lyle Parker shows us his deeply emotional poetry, Scully takes repeated psychic damage, Discount Sam Elliott makes his wrestling debut, and Mulder is especially smelly. We also encounter the origin of scrapbooking, a rodeo poetry reading, vegetarian vampires, cows containing multiple seas, and one mountain lion who keeps getting blamed for absolutely everything. Somewhere in all of this, we start wondering how much weird shit Scully is expected to look directly at before she is allowed to admit something strange might be happening. Angel, meanwhile, cuts through the entire debate with the definitive review of Shapes: “It ain’t a werewolf, but it was a good werewolf story.” Never seen The X Files? You’re good. Angel is watching for the first time. If you’re reading this, you’re a friend. Questions, suggestions, hypnoregressions? Drop us a line at GenXFilesPod@Gmail.com

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  Gen X-Files: a Rewatch Podcast

  Familiar Film Title Fight: The Evil Dead vs. Spookies

  Sep 1, 202659 min

  The bell has rung, the gloves are off, and two sort of similar supernatural nightmares are stepping into the ring. In our first Familiar Film Title Fight sidefile, 1981’s The Evil Dead goes head-to-head with 1986’s Spookies , a movie originally called Twisted Souls and starring, as far as we’re concerned, Who the Fuck Knows. Dash, Melz, and Steve compare the movies’ isolated locations, monsters, occult weirdness, effects, questionable decision-making, and very different relationships with coherent storytelling. Along the way, we dig into The Evil Dead ’s famously scrappy production, Bruce Campbell’s baby-faced beginnings, and whether Sam Raimi’s horror classic still holds up. Meanwhile, Spookies traps its victims inside a sprawling mansion and gives us farting zombies, an absolutely deranged Ouija board, a scrotum-headed spider lady, Dick Vein Dracula, and one zombie chase that may actually be longer than Titanic . We deepen our understanding of semen demons, reverse pregnancy, why haunted forests apparently require a refractory period, and exactly where Steve would take Spookies if given the opportunity. Only one movie can leave with the championship belt. Will it be the horror classic, or whatever the hell Spookies is? You'll have to listen to find out. If you're reading this, you're a friend. Questions, suggestions, hypnoregressions? Drop us a line at GenXFilesPod@gmail.com

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  Maximum Overdrive Side File; or, 2 Steve 2 Cocaine

  Aug 28, 202650 min

  Stephen King wanted to prove he was the one guy who really knew how to adapt Stephen King. So in 1986, extremely high on cocaine, he directed Maximum Overdrive . He never directed another movie. For this Side File, Dash, Melz, and Dash’s dad Steve revisit the movie where a comet makes machines turn on humanity... or aliens do it, maybe... and a bunch of people get trapped at a truck stop while sentient semis circle them for reasons nobody seems interested in explaining. Somewhere along the way, we discover that in 1986, there were at least two Steves on cocaine. We get Stephen King’s sardine breath, a lawnmower accident that cost a cinematographer his eye, the inexplicable Green Goblin truck, the lost X-rated gore cut, Emilio Estevez licking sweat off a woman’s forehead, Dash’s dad confessing his past as one of the Mailbox Bandits, and a deleted scene where Optimus Prime finally deals with Yeardley Smith. Also: can the trucks hear? Seriously. We need to know. It’s Maximum Overdrive . We watched it so you don’t have to overdrive yourself up a wall. If you’re reading this, you’re a friend. Questions, suggestions, hypnoregressions? Drop us a line at GenXFilesPod@gmail.com

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  Episode #18

  S1E18 - Miracle Man; or, Why My Mom Hates Leroy Jenkins

  Aug 25, 20261h 57mS1

  The X-Files Season 1, Episode 18: Miracle Man. This week, Dash & Melz (long-time fans and couple) and Angel (first-time watcher and Dash’s mom) head to Tennessee for teenage faith healers, suspicious deaths, a Mulder mic-drop moment, and the discovery that Scully learned some strange stuff in med school. Samuel Hartley has been performing miracles since he was a kid, but when people start dying and Samuel tells Mulder things about Samantha he should not know, things get weird fast. Along the way, a courtroom fills with insects, Sheriff Daniels gets repeatedly lip-cucked, Samuel looks like Justin Bieber became a youth pastor, and we get into chicken-tender theology, air-vent potato chunks, hideous religion-themed '90s computer software, and wonder if we have listeners in Heaven. Angel’s memory of her grandmother being taken to a real faith healer sends us down a rabbit hole that ends with the incredible discovery: It was Leroy Jenkins the whole time. Miracle Man is extremely goofy, surprisingly sad, and somehow both make the other better. Never seen The X-Files ? You’re good. Angel is watching for the first time. If you’re reading this, you’re a friend. Questions, suggestions, hypnoregressions ? GenXFilesPod@gmail.com

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  Episode #17

  S1E17 - E.B.E.; or, Matt Anderson Wants More Deep Throat

  Aug 18, 20262h 33mS1

  Matt Anderson wanted Deep Throat. Unfortunately, the only thing being swallowed this week is the truth. Matt, host of Does This Come in Chromium? and co-host of Bloody Bits , joins Dash, Melz and first-time watcher Angel for “E.B.E.” A UFO goes down, a suspicious truck rolls through Tennessee, and Mulder becomes convinced an extraterrestrial biological entity is being buried inside a military cover-up. Scully has doubts, Deep Throat keeps making everything murkier, and the government seems determined to make sure nobody knows which conspiracy is the real one. It’s also the first appearance of the Lone Gunmen, three paranoid weirdos who were supposed to be a one-off and immediately became essential. We dig into how early X-Files fans helped push the show toward more UFO mythology, more conspiracy and, apparently, a whole lot more Deep Throat. Meanwhile, Matt introduces Shark Ears Surveillance , we investigate radioactive bird poop, wait for the blue light special on Deep Throat, question whether an alien can be heavy enough to wreck a truck, and uncover more from the roughly 900 hours of deleted footage filmed for every episode. Never seen The X-Files ? You’re good. Angel hasn’t either. We take you through the whole episode from beginning to end, so longtime fans can revisit the conspiracy and newcomers can walk straight into it with us. If you’re reading this, you’re a friend. Questions, suggestions, hypnoregressions ? Shoot us an email at GenXFilesPod@gmail.com .

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