493 – Now a Major Motion Picture

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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In which the first X-Men film turns 25 (and holds up remarkably well).

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0:00.0	You know, Jay, there are startlingly few cameos in the first X-Men movie.
0:04.9	What do you mean? There's David Hader who wrote it.
0:07.8	And played Solid Snake.
0:09.4	And played Solid Snake.
0:10.7	And there's Gary Goddard, who directed Masters of the Universe, and Cal Dodd and George Boussa from the animated series.
0:16.3	And, of course, contractually, Stan Lee.
0:19.3	It's just I keep looking, and I can't find Chris Claremont anywhere.
0:23.5	He's got to be somewhere.
0:25.6	He is not in it.
0:27.6	What? I'm Jay Editing.
0:41.6	And I'm Miles Stokes.
0:43.1	And we are here to Explain the X-Men.
0:45.9	Because it's about time someone did.
0:47.7	Welcome to episode 493 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men,
0:51.7	where we walk you through the in's outside ret cons of comics,
0:54.6	and today, movies, greatest superhero soap opera.
0:57.8	And welcome to a very special day, Jay, why is this day unlike other days?
1:04.1	Because today we're going to talk about drugs.
1:07.1	By which you mean?
1:09.0	By which I mean the 2000 X-Men movie, which turns 25 this week.
1:16.0	Yeah, yeah, this episode will be going up the night of July 13th, 2025, and the movie came out
1:21.0	July 14th, 2000.
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