500 – People Who Stick Together
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 130 minutes
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Summary
In which we sure did that.
X-PLAINED:
- Miracles of magnetism
- Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
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Special thanks to:
- Producer, fellow musketeer, and all-around mensch Matt Hunter
- Episode 500 guests David Maybury and Josephine Riesman
- David’s blog and upcoming Vegas trivia tournament
- Josie’s website and Morrison run-focused podcast
- Illustrator David Wynne
- Producers Emeritus Bobby Roberts, Kyle Yount, and Kurt Lloyd
- Parental-leave pinch hitters Al Kennedy and Dylan Higgins
- Everyone who’s made the X-comics what they are
- Our families, friends, and enablers
- Our kickass patrons, who make this podcast possible
- All of our listeners, who make this podcast worthwhile
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So, episode 500. |
| 0:04.8 | Episode 500. |
| 0:06.8 | That's a lot. |
| 0:08.4 | That's a whole lot. |
| 0:10.9 | We've... |
| 0:11.8 | Okay, Jay, we've got to do something really special for this one. |
| 0:15.5 | Something groundbreaking. |
| 0:17.9 | Something phenomenal. |
| 0:20.2 | Something we've been putting off since our very first episode. |
| 0:24.6 | You don't mean... |
| 0:26.4 | Oh yes. We are, at long last, going to explain... |
| 0:32.1 | Magnetism. |
| 0:33.0 | What! |
| 0:33.6 | What! What? |
| 0:46.5 | I'm Jay Edidon. |
| 0:48.4 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:51.0 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 0:53.1 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:57.9 | Welcome to episode 500 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men. Because it's about time, someone did. Welcome to episode 500 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men, |
| 0:59.0 | where we walk you through the ins, |
| 1:02.6 | the outs, and the retcons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 1:04.6 | But seriously? |
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