Author: Miles
HAWK TALK – What A Long, Strange Hawk It’s Been
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | RSS
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, Jay and Miles talked about Hawk Talk.
HAWK TALK – Bugs
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | RSS
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, Jay and Miles talked about bugs (and Tea Fougner taught us about bees)!
As mentioned in the episode: bee cute furry face
HAWK TALK – School
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | RSS
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, we talked about school.
HAWK TALK – The Big Stuff
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | RSS
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, we talked about large things.
342 – Angry Birds
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | RSS
In which Miles does his best, birds are weird, some of the most dangerous villains are pink, and we are in the Onslaught Zone.
X-PLAINED:
-
-
- Malibu Comics and Marvel Comics, sitting in a (multiversal) tree, KILLING
- Archangel: Phantom Wings
- Unorthodox artistic decisions
- Archangel (Warren Kenneth Worthington III)
- Angst, renewed
- Bird ichor
- Tuesday Bird and her Mad Max outfit
- How (not?) to flirt
- Uncanny X-Men #333
- Various Roberts Kelly
- Graydon Creed, doin’ Mom proud
- Bastion, Nimrod, & Master Mold
- Operation Zero Tolerance
- X-Teams and their lanes
- A naked murder-uncle
- Pink villains
- Obscure callbacks
- Event synergy
- X-Men #53
- Day to-day challenges of telepathy
- Super-Saiyan Magneto
- Phoenix (Jean Grey), actual adult
- Onslaught
- That scene from 1964’s X-Men #3
- A surprisingly insightful look at Professor X’s dark side
- Logan’s assorted friendships with teen girls
- XMEN Disease
-
NEXT EPISODE: X-Force gets, predictably, x-treme.
Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog.
Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!
Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here!
Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!
HAWK TALK – What We Blew Up On Our Summer Vacation
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | RSS
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, Miles and guest hawk Anna Sheffey talked about playing too much Resident Evil during lockdown.
HAWK TALK – Pirates
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | RSS
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, Jay and guest hawk Tea Fougner talked about pirates.
You can find Tea at @teaberryblue on pretty much all of the social medias!
HAWK TALK – Wizards
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | RSS
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, we talked about wizards.
Topics, roughly:
- Fantasy wizards
- Space wizards
- Beards and wizards and gender
- Vancian spellcasting
- Wizard taxonomy
- The Baal Shem
- Book learnin’
- Towers and Discworld wizards
- Dragonlance wizards
- Tolkien wizards
- Iceman with a wizard beard
- Which animals make the best wizards
- Magic: the Gathering
- Our wizardy D&D characters
HAWK TALK – Hack the Planet
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | RSS
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, in honor of the 1995 film’s 1337-week anniversary, we talked about the finest movie about technology ever made, Hackers.
Topics, roughly:
- Hackers
- Mister The Plague
- What David Bowie and Angelina Jolie have in common
- Razor & Blade
- The glory of Matthew Lillard
- Counterculture
- Queer (sub)text
- Focal characters
- Jay’s sequel pitch
In retrospect, we should have talked way more about Phreak, played amazingly by Renoly Santiago. Sorry, Renoly! That’s what we get for doing Hawk Talk without our usual outlines.