511 – Night Science
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In which we unapologetically ship Gambit and Bishop; pelicans are deeply alarming birds; Charles Xavier watches your sex dreams; the Witness is a Whole Continuity Thing; and the T’ieves Guild is really just here to steal your stuff.
X-PLAINED:
- Destiny’s frequently retconned diaries
- Midi series
- Gambit (more) (again)
- Bishop (more) (again)
- Gambit and Bishop: Sons of the Atom Alpha
- Gambit and Bishop: Sons of the Atom #1-2
- When Gambit and Bishop: Sons of the Atom takes place relative to The Search for Cyclops
- Some things pelicans get up to
- An upsetting dream
- Ethics of telepathy (more) (again)
- Night science
- Some of what Stryfe has been up to
- French nouns
- A theoretical Orphan Black video game
- The Witness (LeBeau) (more) (again)
- The Witness Cave
- How to make Bishop a more central X-character
- The relative importance of T’ieves Guild continuity
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| 0:00.0 | So, Jay, Destiny's Diaries, big deal? |
| 0:04.0 | Oh, yeah, Miles. |
| 0:05.2 | They're going to be driving at least one branch of the plot for years. |
| 0:09.0 | Do the X-Men ever find them? |
| 0:11.4 | They do, but they're not the only ones. |
| 0:14.4 | How so? |
| 0:15.7 | Well, after M-Day, Sinister sends the marauders after them. |
| 0:18.6 | They also find this set of diaries, but those turn out to be forgeries. |
| 0:22.3 | What happened to the real ones? |
| 0:24.0 | Oh, Gambit finds and burns them to keep them from falling into the wrong hands. |
| 0:27.7 | Tragic, but makes sense. |
| 0:30.5 | Kind of. |
| 0:31.7 | Because by this point, the future had already changed in ways that should have rendered them useless. |
| 0:35.4 | Plus... |
| 0:36.2 | They were kind of unintelligible? |
| 0:38.9 | Uh, that match were also forgeries. |
| 0:41.1 | What? |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Jay Editedon. |
| 0:54.7 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:56.2 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 0:58.8 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 1:00.6 | Welcome to episode 511 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men, |
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