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In which this episode is way more topical than it was when we recorded it; Apocalypse makes a terrible Statue of Liberty; there are no reliable narrators; Robbie Robertson and Carmen Sandiego are your new OTP; Emplate is creepy in any universe; lawful evil is still evil; and partial universe reboots come with some fairly silly problems.

X-PLAINED:

• Awkward intersections of fiction and reality
• Pandemic (Dr. Richard Palance)
• Tales from the Age of Apocalypse: Sinister Bloodlines
• Tales from the Age of Apocalypse: By the Light
• Brooding in multiple ways at once.
• Corsair (Christopher Summers) (Earth-295)
• Reconciling cross-universe timelines
• The Shi’ar (Earth-295)
• Comparative Summers Backstory
• Robbie Robertson (Earth-295)
• Northstar and Aurora (Earth-295)
• Emplate and the Monets (Earth-295)
• The Bedlam Brothers (Earth-295)
• Brood problems
• The most awkward Summers family reunion to date
• The Absorbing Man (Earth-295)
• Diablo (Earth-295)
• Senator Robert Kelly (Earth-295)
• The fall of the Guthrie family
• An early era of Magneto’s X-Men
• A trip to the moon
• Death (Maximus Boltagon)
• Whether the Beyonder of Earth-295 knows how to poop
• Listening to this podcast with kids

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