89 – Giant-Size Special #3 (feat. Kyle Yount, Logan Bonner, Elle Collins, and Chris Sims)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2015
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
In which Jay and Miles finally X-Plain some Excalibur; Kyle interviews the X-Perts; Logan gets up-close and personal with the X-Men; Elle casts Excalibur; Chris X-Plains Santa Claus; and you are still the best listeners of any podcast, ever.
X-PLAINED:
- Excalibur: The Sword Is Drawn
- Christmas at the X-Mansion
- The best hair in the Marvel Universe
- The not particularly secret origins of Excalibur
- Mojoverse anxiety dreams
- Warwolves
- Meggan
- Captain Britain (Brian Braddock)
- Sexiest Nightcrawler
- Technet (and several of its members)
- Gatecrasher
- Yap
- Omniversal Majestrix Opal Luna Saturnine
- The Special Executive
- Mutant intersectionality
- Why we chose the X-Men
- Favorite X-Spinoffs
- Our podcast-guest wish list
- The theoretical cast of an Excalibur movie
- Our ideal X-lineups
- Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
- The Second Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence in X-Cellence
- Marvel Holiday Special 1991
- Santa Claus
- The true meaning of Christmas
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| 0:00.0 | Most Wonderful Book of the... Whoa, what's with all the cookies? |
| 0:05.0 | You know, just in case. |
| 0:06.0 | In case of what? Dude, we have an episode to record. |
| 0:09.0 | Well, yeah, that's kind of the point. |
| 0:11.0 | How, so? |
| 0:12.0 | Last episode in December. |
| 0:14.0 | Right, uh. |
| 0:15.0 | So we have to do the giant size winter special. |
| 0:18.0 | Uh, gee, we are not remotely prepared for a winter special. |
| 0:21.4 | You know, I was thinking about that but actually why not like we've had the |
| 0:24.5 | Corboe's done for weeks. Right I guess. And Kyle said he'd interview us. I mean I |
| 0:29.1 | guess that's kind of a tradition at this point and I emailed a bunch of our |
| 0:31.6 | previous guest hosts to come in and help. |
| 0:33.6 | Oh, really? That seems like a lot to coordinate. |
| 0:35.8 | Coordinate? What? No, no, no. I just told them when we were recording, instead if they were free, they should drop by. |
| 0:41.1 | What? I am J Rachel Eddagen. |
| 0:44.0 | I am J Rachel Eddagen. I am J Rachel Eddagenagen and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men |
| 0:56.8 | because it's a bad time someone did. Welcome to episode 89 of Rachel and Miles |
| 1:00.5 | explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the |
| 1:03.0 | ret comes of our very favorite superhero soap opera. |
| 1:05.8 | And welcome to our second annual Winter Giant-sized special, which is going to be full of us saying |
| 1:10.8 | a lot of things into microphones and also |
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