Hey, y'all, so due to confusion, unexpected illness, and general entropy, this episode

unfortunately does not have a cold open, but we think you'll really like it anyway.

And thus…

I'm Jay Edidan, and I'm Miles Stokes.

And we are here to explain the X-Men, because it's about time someone did.

Welcome to episode 385 of Jay and Miles, explain the X-Men where we walk you through the

ins, the outs, and the retcons of comics greatest superhero soap opera.

And welcome back to more X-Factor, which I feel like we just did.

I don't know.

I mean, time has stopped working in the last few years.

That is obvious to all, but I feel like it's especially stopped working in the last few

weeks.

I'm not sure why.

Well, it's a combination of time-stopping working and the X-Line just expanding exponentially,

so that it compounds the sense of time dilation and confusion.

And also in this case, X-Factor feeling like it takes forever because it's just not

so good.

Yeah, that's very true.

We try to be very positive with comics, I especially try to be very positive with comics.

And the last time we did an X-Factor episode, I was so excited, X-Factor was going underground,

things were finally happening, and then they didn't anymore.

We're nearing the end of X-Factor.

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