69 – Weird Science, with Elle Collins and Graeme McMillan
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2015
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
In which Elle and Graeme save the day; Hank McCoy joins the real world (sort of) (briefly); Carl Maddicks may or may not be undead; academic discourse in the Marvel Universe leaves a few things to be desired; Steve Englehart is an unsung hero of X-Men; Mastermind lives up to his name; Warren Worthington has a good attitude about mutation; and Avengers Beast is the best Beast; and Graeme has strong feelings about Moira MacTaggert.
X-PLAINED:
- The complex romantic life of Patsy Walker
- The increasingly terrible life choices of Hank McCoy
- Amazing Adventures #11-17
- Incredible Hulk #161
- Captain America #173-175
- Avengers #137, 144, & 178
- Marvel Team-Up #124
- Life after the X-Men
- The Brand Corporation
- Carl Maddicks (again)
- Vampire Secret Agent Linda Donaldson
- The dubious chemical cause of mutation
- Beast as proto-Wolverine
- Steve Englehart
- The high price of passing
- Several unusually realistic latex masks
- Norman Mailer’s Handbook for Unliberated Women
- Sad clowns
- Buzz Baxter
- Hellcat (Patsy Walker)
- Someone who might be Carole King, Indira Gandhi, or your sister (but isn’t)
- Questionable corporate practices
- Quasimodo (but not that one)
- Semantics of fur color
- The Griffin
- The Secret Empire
- Actual supervillain Richard Nixon
- Mimic (Cal Rankin)
- Avengers Auditions
- Best Beast stories
- Scotland
Special thanks to guest hosts Elle Collins & Graeme McMillan!
NEXT WEEK: Everything is terrible.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I am Rachel Eddenden. |
| 0:02.0 | And ordinarily we would be getting ready to host an episode of Rachel and Miles |
| 0:06.4 | Explain the X-Men. |
| 0:08.1 | But as we are moving into our new home at Castle Sexy Dracula, we are not. |
| 0:12.8 | Fortunately, we have two very good friends |
| 0:14.6 | and noted experts who have agreed to take over |
| 0:17.4 | and guest host this week's episode. |
| 0:20.0 | So please lend your ears to El Collins and Graham McMillan. |
| 0:23.2 | Take it away, El and Graham. |
| 0:25.2 | Hey Al, what's up Graham? |
| 0:26.8 | You know where the beasts first started at gray and then it turned blue? |
| 0:29.7 | Of course, unlike Dark Beast from the age of apocalypse who's first stayed gray because it's a much more evil-looking color. |
| 0:36.0 | Sure, sure, but where did 616 Beast's color change happen? |
| 0:39.0 | I mean, was it when he was with the Avengers? |
| 0:41.0 | No, it was actually before that. It happened on Patsy Walker's couch. |
| 0:44.6 | Patsy Walker, you mean Hellcat? She Hulk's friend? |
| 0:47.4 | Yes, but this was before she was a superhero. She was just a grown-up former star of |
| 0:52.4 | teen humor comics. She was just a grown-up former star of teen humor comics. She was basically |
| 0:54.6 | Marvel's answer to Archie back in the Golden Age and then she grew up and married her |
| 0:59.1 | childhood sweetheart, Buzz Baxter and they both got involved in the Beast's solo stories. |
| 1:03.7 | Wait, Buzz Baxter, wasn't he the supervillain Mad Dog? |
| 1:07.0 | Well, not at the time. |
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