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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

450 – Live at the Clinton Street Theater

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

In which we celebrate our tenth anniversary by X-Plaining what may be the most reviled X-arc; you should not try this at home; Mystique is so much better than this story; Azazel is a really boring devil; Nightcrawler should probably be missing a hand; the Xavier School definitely does not have an HR department; and we would prefer that you not pee on Iceman.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello friends and enemies.

0:02.0

As this episode goes live, Jay and Miles explained the X-Men is about five weeks into its 11th year.

0:07.0

But on April 13th of 2024, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of our first episode's release. 10 years

0:14.8

years madness and what was also madness was what we did to celebrate

0:19.8

Jay flew across the country and we had a party at Portland's comic shop books with pictures

0:25.2

and we recorded a live episode at the Clinton Street Theater.

0:28.6

Fuck yeah we did and we couldn't resist attaching a milestone episode number to a milestone anniversary.

0:35.9

Alas doing it live occasionally means things get quirky so you may notice a short segment

0:41.5

near the beginning of this episode that we had to record after the fact to replace a little audio we lost.

0:46.0

But first, and in general, thank you. If you're listening to this, you are a part of what's brought us this far.

0:53.0

And with that.

0:55.0

So we're sitting here on the 10th anniversary of Jay and Miles explain the X-Men.

0:58.0

And I have been thinking a lot about questions.

1:01.0

How so, Jay? Well, you know, we've been through so much continuity at this point, and I'm wondering, is there

1:07.4

anything that still like keeps you up at night, just sort of going through back issues in your

1:11.1

brain trying to hack through?

1:14.1

Well, I still don't understand what happened

1:15.7

with Betsy Braddock and Kwanin.

1:17.8

That's OK, no one does.

1:20.0

But what about you?

1:20.8

What wakes you up at 3, I'm J? Yeah, sometimes I worry about the brood clones of the X-Men.

1:25.0

The ones out in space who showed up for like a single issue and then were universally forgotten.

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