We Want To Believe: An X-Files Podcast

We Want To Believe is an X-Files rewatch show with a roomy, conversational shape. Helen Werner and Liz Holden guide it as sisters, scientists, and lifelong fans. The premise is simple, but the path is rarely straight. An episode may begin with listener mail, travel trouble, a production note, fan art, a medical correction, or a stray question about a word before the recap fully arrives. That detouring is part of its identity. Recent installments move from The Simpsons crossover "Springfield Files" to Gethsemane, Demons, Elegy, Zero Sum, Synchrony, Max, and Tempus Fugit with a steady affection for the series. The show likes Mulder and Scully a lot. It also likes checking the work. When The X-Files raises a science question, the conversation may pause for EMT scopes of practice, punctured-lung mechanics, microscopy, vitrification, freezing damage, electric charge, or the difference between ordinary glass and a technical glass. The explanations stay accessible because the speakers keep revising themselves out loud. Certainty is not the point. The pleasure is hearing smart fans build an answer in real time, then admit when memory, wording, or expertise has limits. The fandom side is just as active, with listener spooky stories, Instagram art, villain matchups, episode scheduling notes, and anticipation around an interview with Susan Blomert, who played Mrs. Paddock. The show also has a domestic, ongoing-room quality. Conferences, snowstorms, Mexico work trips, Denver Airport, British vocabulary drift, and odd emails all become part of the atmosphere. Guests fit into that pattern rather than taking over, as with Katie Lupo bringing chemistry knowledge to Synchrony. The tone is warm, dry, and occasionally affectionately exasperated. It works best for viewers who want recap, context, science, and fan friendship in the same messy notebook.