51 – The X-Istentialists, Featuring Kris Anka, Marguerite Bennett, Kieron Gillen, and Peter Nguyen
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2015
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In which Rachel and Miles go to Emerald City Comicon; six people try to share one microphone with varying success; you will never love anything as much as Kris loves Broo; Marguerite may or may not be a time-traveling supervillain; Peter is Laser Guy; Kieron joins an X-team; Hell is other X-Men; everyone lies egregiously; and it all comes back to Namor’s abs.
Special thanks to Jean, who let us borrow her mic and pop filter at the very last second when we realized we’d left ours in Portland! <3
X-PLAINED:
- Namor’s last name
- Several Secret Wars titles
- Wiz Kid
- Favorite characters
- Lady Deathstrike’s new look
- Seanan McGuire’s cats
- Machetes of Future Past
- Emily Aster
- Asteroid P
- Secret origins
- Points of entry
- Headcanon
- The Wolverine and the X-Men Season 2 that might have been
- The pros and cons of an isolated X-universe
- The X-Istentialists
- Hela’s Angels
- Namor’s abs
- What defines the X-Men
- Mr. Sinister
- Our X-movie wish lists
- Wes Anderson’s X-Men (both of them)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel, what's the status with the Emerald City Special? |
| 0:02.0 | Were you able to line of guests? |
| 0:03.4 | Okay, so, um, yeah, about that. |
| 0:05.8 | What's up? |
| 0:06.5 | Well, you know how I usually invite a whole bunch of people, because it's a convention, |
| 0:10.0 | so people end up having evening plans or someone always ends up cancelling. |
| 0:13.2 | So what happened? Did everyone cancel? |
| 0:15.0 | Well, no, we've got Chris Anka again. |
| 0:17.0 | Hey awesome, he was great in New York, so it's just him and us. |
| 0:20.0 | Nope, Peter Wynne, too. |
| 0:21.0 | From Wolverines? Sweet, I was hoping we could get at least one writer this time, but... |
| 0:24.8 | Oh, we did, we did, we got Marguerite Bennett. |
| 0:26.5 | Hey, that makes what, five of us on one mic? |
| 0:28.6 | That's gonna be rough, but as long as it... |
| 0:30.1 | And Kiran Gillen. |
| 0:30.8 | What? What? Hi, I'm Rachel Eddidin. |
| 0:34.0 | And we are here. |
| 0:36.0 | Hi, I'm Rachel Eddidden. |
| 0:42.0 | And I'm Rachel Eddin. |
| 0:43.4 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:44.4 | And we are here to explain the X-Men. |
| 0:46.3 | Because it's about time someone did. |
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