We showed Dash’s 70-year-old grandma a movie about a shirtless taekwondo rock band and cocaine ninjas. By the end, Mawmaw knew what a bussy was and had some questions about what we’re allowed to say on the air.

On this Side File, Dash, Melz, Dad (Steve), and Mawmaw watch Miami Connection for the first time and learn a few things. Miami is apparently inside Orlando. You can grab a man’s nose with your toes. Friendship is magical. And for a movie about orphans, there sure are a lot of sons of bitches.

We also make up a few deleted scenes, because this movie desperately needed a shirtless Pat Benatar dance break.

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He can become anybody. The one person he can’t stand being is himself.

For our Halloween special sidefile, Dash, Melz, and Dash’s dad Steve, get into a spoiler-filled discussion about Clayface (2026), DC’s body horror movie starring Tom Rhys Harries. The celebrity, the vanity, and all the messed up stuff in between. Also, holy shit, Gotham actually feels like Gotham.

We talk about the mostly fantastic effects, the little performance details that sold them, and a few moments where we had to look away in the theater. When does Matt Hagen stop being a victim and become a villain? How much sympathy does this guy get before we have to say, okay, bro, you could’ve done literally anything else? We get into the tragedy underneath the transformations, his fractured identity, and whether this Batman villain needs Batman anywhere near his movie. There’s plenty to love, a few things to argue about, and some deeply unpleasant shit happening around the eyes.

We also need to know whether Clayface works without Wi-Fi. His nanobots are masturbating, he's getting hugged by his own feet, and Melz' favorite deleted scene has him performing every role in Annie down in the sewer. Honestly, let him have that.

No X-Files homework required. Full Clayface spoilers, though. We’re getting into the whole fucking thing.

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Deep Throat would like you to trust him. Scully would like everyone to stop fucking around.

We’ve reached The X-Files season one finale, “The Erlenmeyer Flask”! Join Dash and Melz (longtime fans and a couple) and Angel (first-time watcher and Dash’s mom) for toxic green blood, disappearing evidence, and a government conspiracy that’s about to get very personal.

We get into Mulder’s increasingly questionable relationship with America’s least reassuring stepdad, Scully taking charge when everything goes sideways, and what happens when her own science starts backing up the impossible. How much can these two uncover and still walk away unable to prove a damn thing? Angel, meanwhile, has some very firm feelings about Deep Throat’s fate and would appreciate everyone taking them seriously.

Along the way, a fugitive becomes Steven Sedan, a possibly haunted cardboard man joins the family, and Deep Throat turns up beneath a Walmart pizza. We also discover an energy drink with alarming migratory side effects and consider whether the laboratory monkeys should be interviewed as witnesses.

It’s a big finish for the show and for us. Twenty-four episodes later, we’re celebrating our first full season of podcasting together and wondering how anyone survived having to wait all summer after THAT ending.

Never seen The X-Files? We recap as we go, so grab a seat and experience the finale with Angel. Already know what’s coming? You know why we needed to talk about it.

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