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368 – Six Teenagers in a Van
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In which we return to Rutland, Vermont; Emma Frost faces her salad demons; Banshee is not even supposed to be here today; no one should ever have to drive in New York City; Fenris is both evil and obnoxious; and we’re still not over that one Senator Kelly action figure.
X-PLAINED:
- How to help us help queer and trans youth
- Generation X #22
- Generation X Annual 1996
- Halloween with Generation X
- Stag Beetle Magazine
- X-casting Nicholas Cage
- Neurotica
- William Castle
- Roger Corman’s Poe adaptations
- Saturday morning cartoons
- Weird gardening
- Some very clever lettering tricks
- Several humans
- Train delays
- Fenris
- Mutagen Wave Generator
- The Worst Action Figure (more) (again)
- Robert the Ship
- Our favorite Beast iterations
- Abbreviations
NEXT EPISODE: Wolverine and some other guys!
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X-TRA – Fighting the Fight
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Sometimes when the world’s a trash fire, it’s hard to figure out where to start. We talk activism, figuring out how you can help, and what we’re doing to fight back against anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in Florida.
Click through here to find out more about our campaign to raise funds for Equality Florida!
Help Us Support Queer and Trans Youth!

On Monday, March 28, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed HB1557–the notorious “don’t say gay” bill–into law. This bill is part of an unprecedented wave of legislation targeting queer and trans youth, with potentially deadly consequences.
Florida may be America’s favorite trash fire, but we’re not willing to give up on our home state; and we’re DEFINITELY not willing to give up on the queer and trans kids who live there.
So we’re fighting back.
All April, we’ll be raising money for Equality Florida. Between our own contributions and the generous support of anonymous donors, we’re in a position to match up to $6000 of your contributions AND offer some very cool prizes.
HERE’S WHAT WE NEED YOU TO DO:
- Make a donation to Equality Florida and email the receipt to [email protected] with the subject line EQUALITY or tweet it to @xplainthexmen.
AND HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL GET:
- IF YOU DONATE UNDER $25 – You’ll have our eternal love and gratitude, as well as the warm, fuzzy feeling of making a difference.
- IF YOU DONATE $25 OR MORE – We’ll thank you on the podcast. (Note: these’ll be straightforward thanks, not the silly kind we do for patrons.)
- IF YOU DONATE $50 OR MORE – Miles, who is adamantly Not an Artist, will draw you an earnest and possibly terrible social media X-avatar.
- IF YOU DONATE $100 OR MORE – We’ll record a custom voicemail greeting for you.
- IF YOU DONATE $200 OR MORE – Jay will knit you a hat.
- IF YOU DONATE $500 OR MORE – We’ll record a Hawk Talk on a subject of your choice.
Thank you, so much, for fighting with us. <3
-J&M
As Mentioned in Episode 367 – Jay and Connor X-Plain X-Casting
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LINKS & FURTHER READING:
- Follow Connor on Twitter
- Cerebro
- The essay Connor referenced, which introduces the idea of reading like a prosecutor.
367 – Jay and Connor X-Plain X-Casting
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In which Jay and guest X-Pert Connor Goldsmith explore approaches to podcasting about X-Men; difficult characters; costume preferences; our mutual mistrust of horses; owning our perspectives; and good on-ramps.
X-PLAINED:
- The ghost of Madelyne Pryor
- Cerebro (podcast)
- Good Selene stories
- Potential vs. payoff
- Costume opinions
- Fashion in comics
- Horse problems
- The Maple Hill Farm books
- Science vs. magic
- Learning to love X-Force
- Speaking ~as~ vs. speaking ~for~
- The (fairly uncomplicated) ethics of liking things
- Reading as a prosecutor
- Catching up to the modern X-Men
- Critical perspective
NEXT EPISODE: Generation X
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As Mentioned in Episode 366 – Nine-Tenths of the Law
366 – Nine-Tenths of the Law
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In which the Beast miniseries is actually a cleverly disguised Karma miniseries; Gateway’s moral alignment remains a mystery; Cannonball rocks some sideburns; there are many reasons to dislike Viper; and every #1 is somebody’s first.
X-PLAINED:
- An off-panel death
- X-Force #62
- Beast #1-3
- Karma’s family and backstory (again)
- Twin absorption
- MacGuffins and/or children
- Clearcut and Mindmeld
- Unconsciousness
- Spiral (again)
- Marios
- What to do (visually) with six arms
- Spiral’s mutates
- Some very impressive body horror
- MId-fight stalling
- Misplaced revenge
- Hank McCoy’s multiversal offspring
- The history of Karma’s sexual orientation
NEXT EPISODE: Jay and Connor Goldsmith X-Plain X-Plaining!
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As Mentioned in Episode 365 – A Whole Year of This Nonsense
365 – A Whole Year of This Nonsense
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In which you can now listen to a unique episode of Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men every day for a year; Shi’ar tech support leaves something to be desired; Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau does not appear in a story; it’s Deathbird, not Dueprocessbird; Zenn-La gets destroyed a lot; and we shall never speak of this incident again.
X-PLAINED:
- Where babies come from
- The Shi’ar (again)
- Cable/X-Force Annual 1996
- X-Men Unlimited #13
- Organs
- Shi’ar ship names
- Pulse
- Unconventional use of the Danger Room
- Butt-first framing
- Interplanetary extradition
- The word “contemplative”
- Binary (again)
- More Shi’ar ship names
- Zenn-La
- Silver Surfer (Norrin Radd)
- The Inciters
- A giant metal space skull
- Junction, NY
- A metaphor for America
- Marie Cavendish
- Mutants with synthetics-based powers
- Literary intersections
NEXT EPISODE: Beast!
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