11 – Who Would Win in a Fight
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2014
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In which we answer 45 straight minutes of your questions and alienate everyone with our answer to Jean vs. Emma, Miles is probably too nice to win in a fight, we are really into The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Rachel is the Vega to Miles’s Shepard, Excalibur is awesome, you should stop punching the DNA, Wolverine is Rogue, Longshot is the prettiest man, and Professor X is a pufferfish.
X-Plained:
- Who would win in a fight
- The Rachel & Miles Fastball Special
- Cycloptometry
- Backissues, collections, and where to find them
- Podcaster ‘shipping
- Spinoffs
- Rachel Summers (more) (again)
- Five tattoos
- Non-X stuff we’re into
- X-Force versus the Comics Code Authority
- Ultimate X-Men
- How to keep track of crossovers
- Textual queerness
- The Siege Perilous
- Jean vs. Emma
- Some good Nightcrawler and Iceman stories
- Dream teams
- The Glammest Timeline
- Best and worst code names
- Bendis’s X-books
- X-animals
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel, what are you doing? Oh, hey Miles, I was just sorting through our backlog of listener questions. |
| 0:04.0 | Oh, man, there are a ton of those. There are literally hundreds. People are really confused about the X-Men. I don't know how we're going to get through all of these. |
| 0:11.7 | What if we did an episode that was nothing but Q&A? |
| 0:14.0 | We couldn't hit them all, but we could at least make a dent in the backlog. |
| 0:16.6 | Okay, I'm game. |
| 0:17.6 | Sweet, let's do this. |
| 0:18.6 | What have we got first? |
| 0:19.6 | Okay, let's see, let me scroll back to the top. |
| 0:21.6 | Okay, so Sean on Twitter asks, |
| 0:23.7 | what's the deal with the X-Men? |
| 0:25.1 | What? I'm Rachel Eddidin and I'm Miles Stokes. And we are here to explain the X-Men. |
| 0:40.0 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:41.6 | Welcome to the 11th episode of Rachel and Miles explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins, outs, and ret cons of our favorite superhero soap opera. |
| 0:48.8 | Over the last 10 episodes, you've been sending us your questions. |
| 0:51.0 | And oh man, do you have a lot of them? So this week we're |
| 0:53.8 | going to take a break from Early Claremont to dive head first into the question jar. |
| 0:56.9 | I wish we had a real question jar. Welcome to the first Rachel and Miles |
| 1:00.1 | explain the X-Men all questions spectacular listeners. |
| 1:03.3 | Hope you survive the experience. |
| 1:05.1 | So the first question is the classic with a twist. |
| 1:08.6 | An anonymous Tumblr user wants to know who would win in a fight between Rachel and Miles, who would give a better |
| 1:14.0 | clar montying explanation of how they fight and what they are doing while fighting. |
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