Podcast Episodes

Live from the Library

Season 1 Episode 491

In which we record live from the Library of Congress; time travel complicates everything; X-Men is a fundamentally queer narrative; we attempt to su…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

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Chekhov's Angel Dust

Season 1 Episode 490

In which Chris Claremont tries to make the Neo happen; Cecilia Reyes continues to have no time for this bullshit; Rogue gets some action; Shadowcat …

9 months, 4 weeks ago

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The Eyepatch of Love

Season 1 Episode 489

In which Pete Wisdom does his best Charles Xavier; Alastair Stuart has not aged well; San Francisco has monster problems; and there’s probably an al…

10 months ago

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XplaintheXmen Live in Washington DC!

Season 1

Join us for an X-beginner-friendly, mutant-metaphor-focused, live episode of Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men: presented by LC-GLOBE, the LGBTQ+ organi…

10 months, 1 week ago

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There Goes the Moon (Mutant X May, Part 3)

Season 1 Episode 488

In which we reap the consequences of our choices; possession is 18/10 of the law; Sinister dresses for the occasion; Hank gets his groove back; Havo…

10 months, 2 weeks ago

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The Only Well-Adjusted Cyclops in the Multiverse (Mutant X May, Part 2)

Season 1 Episode 487

In which Mutant X May continues; the X-Men return from space; it’s okay not to fill in every detail of a world; Havok leans into parenthood; we meet…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

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Welcome to Earth-1298 (Mutant X May, Part 1)

Season 1 Episode 486

In which we embark on a Great Work; it remains hard to be Alex Summers; and it’s also always Inferno on Earth-1298.

X-PLAINED:

Mutant X May Mutant …

11 months ago

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The House of Correction

Season 1 Episode 485

In which we go back to the future of Generation X; Jay once again gets pedantic about lettering; Generation X takes on the carceral state; we take a…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

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Hell Tuba

Season 1 Episode 484

In which the 2000 Magik miniseries is not a good comics series but is an excellent heavy metal concept album; Nightmare has a nightmare; and tubas w…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

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Piotr Lovely Locks

Season 1 Episode 483

In which a lot has happened in the Six Month Gap (and we even get to learn about some of it); we’d missed Claremontian narration; Miles has question…

1 year ago

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