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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Due to the passing of my grandfather, we will not be uploading a regular episode this week. Please bear with us while my family and I take some time to grieve and be together. We’ll be back soon. Thank you, Friends. ❤️

One brother is frozen in a tube. The other is having a very bad week at work.

This week, we’re covering The X-Files season 1, episode 23, “Roland,” as Mulder and Scully investigate an aerospace lab where professional jealousy has turned deadly. Join longtime fans Dash and Melz and Dash’s mom Angel, our resident first-time watcher, for killer wind tunnels, stolen research, and one dead (?) scientist with some extremely unresolved issues.

We talk about Željko Ivanek’s performance, Mulder’s gentler side, and why Roland and Tracy give this strange little murder mystery its heart. There’s also that final look in the mirror to debate, some excellent wordless acting to appreciate, and the question of whether “solved” means anything when you have to put it in an official report. Along the way, True Blood meets Blue Bloods, a Lexus receives a threat, and our cryogenics discussion somehow leads to Sinbad’s Shazaam and a man named Walter Grieselbeef.

No X-Files homework required. We recap the episode as we go, so pull up a chair and get into it with us.

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Can a murdered cop reincarnate through conception and come back as a deeply unsettling eight-year-old girl?

Dash and Melz (longtime fans and couple) and Angel (first-time watcher and Dash’s mom) are digging into “Born Again,” the episode that sends Mulder and Scully to Buffalo for a creepy kid, a murdered police officer, some very suspicious former partners, and what may be the most complicated case of Ghost Jacking yet.

Meanwhile, Angel is immediately onboard with creepy-kid X-Files, we try to figure out exactly how reincarnation-by-conception is supposed to work, and everybody involved in making this episode apparently likes it a whole lot less than we do.

Also: Pillsbury Alibi Dust, Mulder and Langly’s 4/20 plans, the question of just how solved this case actually is, and a surprisingly serious conversation about whether a dead man’s soul can hitch a sperm ride at the exact moment of climax. Basically, way more paranormal reproductive science than anyone asked for.

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Eugene Victor Tooms is back, he’s hungry for liver, and somehow he’s not even the weirdest thing we talk about this week.

Dash and Melz (longtime fans and couple) and Angel (first-time watcher and Dash’s mom) are digging into “Tooms,” the episode that gives us the return of our favorite stretchy yellow-eyed sewer freak, the arrival of Assistant Director Walter Skinner, and the Cigarette Smoking Man lurking silently in the corner like tobacco-scented bad news.

Meanwhile, Angel predicts “alien pimples that have men hiding in them,” Mulder finds a genuine secret mall apartment, Scully likes Mulder enough to make him a sandwich, and we try to figure out how a man who should be approximately 900 years old was still working as a sheriff.

Also: a childhood encounter with a horrifyingly flat rat, the Roto-Rooter Tooms Trapper, Skinner sex logistics, whether Tooms goos when he goons, and the important realization that nothing makes sense and Scully writes it down.

Plus, Angel gives Cigarette Smoking Man a prognosis that’s hard to argue with.

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The X-Files Season 1, Episode 20: Darkness Falls. This week on the podcast, Dash & Melz, long-time fans and couple, and Angel, first-time watcher and Dash’s mom, head into the Washington forest, where Mulder and Scully investigate a missing logging crew and discover something ancient, glowing, and very hungry.

Along the way, we question the episode’s increasingly confusing rules about light and shadow, discover Mulder’s weakness for loggers, investigate a suspiciously rubber tree, and gaze at an aura farming environmentalist. Angel, meanwhile, is still trying to determine whether FOX sold her an episode about gigantic spiders from space.

Never seen The X-Files? You’re good. Angel is watching for the first time.

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