Episode 10: Re-Closing the X-Files

The X-Files have been closed once again, and Glenn & Scott welcome Andy Halleen back to The Glenn Butler Podcast Hour Spectacular to follow up on their discussion at the beginning of season ten now that the miniseries has fully taken shape. They discuss the return of various styles of X-Files episodes, whether the limited six-episode run hurt or helped the show, the value and quality of cliffhangers, the launch of The X-Files: The Next Generation with Agents Einstein and M-Something, a drug trip to remember, X-Files as viewed through the lens of sports announcers, terrorism, and much more. Also, Scott lists all (and we mean ALL) of the people who could possibly be on the ship.

Spoilers abound in the latest episode of The Glenn Butler Podcast Hour Spectacular!

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Musical Selections:

• “X-Files (Variation on a Theme)” from The X-Files: I Want to Believe by Mark Snow (remixed by UNKLE)
• “Crater Hug” from The X-Files: Fight the Future by Mark Snow
• “I Need You” from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire by James Newton Howard
• The PCR Song

Purchase the scores excerpted in this episode:

• The X-Files: Fight the Future, original score by Mark Snow
• The X-Files: I Want to Believe, original score by Mark Snow
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, original score by James Newton Howard

Episode 6: Re-Opening the X-Files

The truth is still out there, and The Glenn Butler Podcast Hour Spectacular is all over the return of The X-Files in pursuit of it. Glenn & Scott welcome special guest Andy Halleen to the podcast to talk about some of their favorite episodes & moments over the course of The X-Files‘ long run, the way that the first two episodes of the new miniseries reintroduce both the larger mythology and case-of-the-week styles of the series, Gillian Anderson having to hold out for equal pay, the relationship between real-world conspiracy theories and TV conspiracy theories, and AD Skinner’s stalled career.

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Musical selections:

• “Threnody in X” from The X-Files: Fight the Future by Mark Snow
• “Crossroads” from The X-Files: Fight the Future by Mark Snow
• “Big Happening” from The X-Files, “This Is Not Happening” by Mark Snow
• The X-Files Theme in a Major Key

Buy the music excerpted in this episode:

• The X-Files: Fight the Future, original score by Mark Snow
• The X-Files, Volume 1, original score by Mark Snow

(Special thanks to Andy for the radio-style intro.)