The eX-Files: 1.24 The Erlenmeyer Flask | An X-Files Podcast

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🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 102 minutes

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You know that feeling when the genetic material you found in an erlenmeyer flask has an extra pair of nucleotides and it simply MUST be extraterrestrial?! This week Mulder is ogling floating alien-man-hybrids suspended in tanks of fluid and working through some of his biggest daddy issues to date while Scully finally gets to believing after the one-two punch of a hot lady scientist at Georgetown and an actual, literal, holy-actual-shit ALIEN FETUS preserved in dry ice. *deep breath* Also, The Smoking Man's filing system has returned, late night phone calls run rampant, there is an ominous man in a crew cut, and The X-Files may be no more.... Please join us for the season finale of The X-Files: The Erlenmeyer Flask! Producer LaToya Ferguson gives "The Erlenmeyer Flask" 1/5 Trust... Trust... No One IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE • bufferingcast.com/justkeepfighting • Gift of the Givers • IFRC LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on twitter, facebook, and instagram MUSIC Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs. PATREON patreon.com/bufferingcast MERCH bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop +++ Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson Edited & Mixed by: John Mark Nelson and Kristin Russo 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Jennifer, a founder of Go Kid Go and a mom to two kids.
0:07.0	Join my family on the story train, with Comconductor Bertie each night as we travel through the
0:12.1	Magic Rainbow Tunnel to everywhere and
0:14.3	anywhere to find the best bedtime stories. Search for Story Train on Spotify,
0:20.1	Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:23.0	Hey everyone, we pushed up bringing you this finale episode of our X-files season one for a couple of reasons.
0:36.0	First it's a holiday week here in the United States and we know that for a lot of you in our
0:41.8	listenership
0:42.9	that can come with a particular heaviness.
0:45.3	Conversations had or time spent with family
0:48.0	or, you know, in the alternate version,
0:50.0	conversations not had or times not spent with family can be heavier on weeks like this one.
0:55.1	The work that we do here is primarily a place of respite, of escape, of levity.
0:59.1	The reason we do what we do is because the world can be an incredibly dark place and often finding laughter and community is the only way we're able to keep putting a foot in front of the other.
1:10.0	Second, because in addition to working to bring you that light, we've also made commitments to create our work using an anti-racist and anti-colonialist lens.
1:19.0	For us, this primarily means looking at the TV shows we talk about, the X-files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, more responsibly,
1:27.0	noting places where we see patriarchal and white supremacist structures woven into characters or storylines.
1:32.0	We don't do the work perfectly. You can't really... structures woven into characters or storylines.
1:32.9	We don't do the work perfectly.
1:34.2	You can't really do work like this perfectly,
1:36.4	but we do our best to do the work,
1:38.6	to listen to your feedback, to be in conversation.
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