434 – Return to Cape Citadel

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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In which the X-Men turn 35; we pause to celebrate the death of Henry Kissinger; Jay is a space nerd; Marrow hang-dries her delicates; space shuttles are not rockets; the band gets back together; and the Danger Room isn’t the first piece of X-tech to get sentience and a robot body. X-PLAINED How Excalibur got a Blackbird Uncanny X-Men #360 X-Men #80 Many callbacks The Benassi Rocket The Cassini Probe The All-New, Slightly Off X-Men The Grey King (Addison Falk) Chaos and/or Xhaos (Dan Dash) Mercury Rapture (Sister Joy) Crux (Cristal Lemiuex) Landslide (Lee Broder) The Founder Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau (again) The Mutant Defense Net Heroic narration Lack of spacefaring continuity Friendship Technology Costumes All-New All-Different Dungeons & Dragons NEXT EPISODE: GIANT-SIZE WINTER SPECIAL #10 The visual companion to this episode will be up later this week! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!

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0:00.0	So Jay, between Shee,
0:02.0	between Sheer Technology and Forges inventions,
0:05.0	do the X-Men own any technology that isn't potentially sentient?
0:09.0	You know, thinking about it, it is kind of surprising that more of their appliances don't turn on them.
0:14.8	What about the Blackbird? Has it ever gone rogue?
0:18.8	Blackbirds, plural, you mean. They go through a lot of those.
0:23.2	Which raises another question those things are expensive. Where do they get the money?
0:29.2	Mostly from Charles Xavier or Warren Kenneth Worthington III's vast and
0:33.2	convenient fortunes. That still doesn't really explain how civilians, let alone a
0:39.8	usually illegal paramilitary group, got a hold of military technology.
0:44.1	Nor does it explain the technological impossibility of modifying an
0:47.8	SR 71 to carry passengers? Ultimately, it's a comic book, man.
0:53.0	The X-Men got blackbirds because they're cool and because Chris Claremont likes describing airplanes.
0:58.0	Point, plus I guess with the telepath, things like proprietary technology and state secrets are mostly academic
1:05.7	true that still telepathic manhandlings more graceful than what Excalibur did
1:11.6	built their own straight up stole it. What? I'm Jay Eddin and I'm Miles Stokes. And we are here to explain the X-Men.
1:32.0	Because it's about time someone did. are here to explain the X-Men.
1:32.8	Because it's about time someone did.
1:34.9	Welcome to episode number 434 of J and Miles
1:37.9	explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins,
1:39.9	the outs, and the ret cons of comics greatest superhero soap opera.
1:44.0	And welcome to a milestone.
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