Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

By Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

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How many episodes does Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men have?

The podcast currently has 541 episodes available.

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men episodes:

September 08, 2025498 – Home Depot Ossuary
In which the Twisted Sisters are vanquished by water; there is no way to make Stryfe cool; and the X-Men fight a hurricane.
X-PLAINED:
Ego the Living Planet and his dysfunctional family
X-Men #105-106
Uncanny X-Men #386
The Neo (more) (again)
The state of Psylocke and Archangel’s relationship
The Twisted Sisters
Helix
Coil
Gyre
Ringlet
Torque
Pelicans
Bad decisions of past Jay and Miles
A mysterious stranger
Unrealized plans
Mystique and Wolverine’s forgotten friendship
Neo infrastructure
Big Casino’s name
An unlikely hybrid
A surprisingly large femur
The new Brotherhood
Lee Forrester (again)
Weather
Fan history
NEXT EPISODE: X-Force vs. Warborgs
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54min
August 25, 2025497 – Stranger Things
In which Prosh’s plans sort of come to fruition; we do not know very much about movies; Iceman dies (but is fine); The Stranger gets around; and Toad learns nothing.
X-PLAINED:
The Stranger
X-Men Forever #4-6
Prosh (more) (again)
The story so far
Astra (again)
The Black Womb Project
Toad’s secret origins, possibly
Fashion
Hazard
Amanda Mueller (a bit)
Anguirus
The end of human civilization
Foreshadowing
A dramatic reveal
Several makeovers
Darth Toad
Fighting arenas / community theaters
NEXT EPISODE: Mystique reassembles the Brotherhood!
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48min
August 18, 2025496 – Time After Time
In which Prosh assembles a peculiar team; the cosmic forces are somewhat paranoid; Mystique gets shit done; and we are very into the concept of Toadland.
X-PLAINED:
The Black Womb Project
X-Men Forever #1-3
Prosh
Several custom-grown people
A motley crew of mutants (and one human)
Cataclysm keys
The assassination of Graydon Creed
Several poignant reunions
The cosmic construction worker (Death)
Why the Phoenix Force chose Jean Grey
How much continuity is too much continuity
Pyro’s romance novels
NEXT EPISODE: The rest of the series!
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1h 1min
August 04, 2025495 – The Goth
In which Rogue is beset with leadership; Psylocke’s telekinetic sword is narratively inconsistent; the Crimson Pirates are bad at their job; and you should not look to Frank Punisher as a role model.
X-PLAINED:
Whether Dani Moonstar is still a Valkyrie
X-Men #103-104
Uncanny X-Men #384-385
A crossover
Tessa (somewhat)
A test
The Goth (group)
Skulls
The Crimson Pirates
The mind of Tullamore Voge
Something “rough trade” does not mean
Visual representation of telepathy
Kymri (again)
The Goth (individual)
Skycycles
A ruse
How to get the X-Perts at a convention near you
What happened to the Massachusetts Academy
NEXT EPISODE: X-Men Forever
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52min
July 21, 2025494 – You’ve Got Evil Mail
In which the X-Men zealously protect their trademarks; Cable can have as many moms as he wants to; not everyone should have to be a superhero; Lady Deathstrike knows how to handle unauthorized emails; and somehow there are still more gun arms.
X-PLAINED:
Lady Deathstrike
X-Men Unlimited #27-28
X-Men Annual 2000
One reason to recycle code names
Thunderbird III (Neal Shaara)
Sanjit Shaara and his electronic diary
Karima Shapandar
Bastion and the Prime Sentinels (again) (briefly)
Omega Prime Sentinels
Rebirth Island and what lurks there
Darkstar (Laynia Petrovna)
Unusual disturbances
Whether Gambit sleeps
The Black Death
Internet security training with Bastion
The genealogy of Nora Ephron romantic comedy You’ve Got Mail
Fashion
Stryfe (again) (briefly)
Psylocke’s telekinetic katana
Interactions between Madelyne Pryor and her large adult son
Spiral’s Body Shop
NEXT EPISODE: The Brotherhood targets Senator Kelly… again.
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1h
July 14, 2025493 – Now a Major Motion Picture
In which the first X-Men film turns 25 (and holds up remarkably well).
X-PLAINED:
A startling absence
The X-Men’s big-screen debut
An X-film that might have been
X-Men (2000), in general; and related publications
Some very casting
What makes a good adaptation
Wolverine’s hair
Those costumes
The cinematic X-Men
The cinematic Brotherhood
Sabretooth’s eyebrows
Condensed backstories
The movie magic of magnetism
The worst toy of all time
Going to school with superheroes
Things we’d like to have seen in the movie
NEXT EPISODE: The origin of Thunderbird! (Not that one.) (Or that one.)
The visual companion to this episode is the film X-Men (2000).
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1h 1min
July 07, 2025492 – Brain Sharks
In which the Shockwave Riders are exceptionally silly; we are deeply impressed by brain sharks; and chrome plating and gun arms are among the lesser explored recurring Claremont motifs.
X-PLAINED:
The fate of Sara Grey
Revolution Claremont X-book disambiguation
Uncanny X-Men #381-383
The Neo (again)
An unmarked anniversary
A secret treasure trove
Vagaries of telekinesis and telepathy
The Shockwave Riders
Brain sharks that eat memories
The stuff of legend
The Lost Souls
Dirges and non-dirges
One way to start a conversation
Simyon Kurasov
Colonel Alexi Vazhin (again)
The Slash
How to dress to go clubbing
Blinkers, somewhat
Ransom Sole
Big Casino
Sketch
Revenant
Major Debra Levin
Bludgeon, Cudgel, and Manacle
Houndification
The best 21st century X-characters
NEXT EPISODE: The first X-Men movie turns 25!
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56min
June 23, 2025491 – Live from the Library
In which we record live from the Library of Congress; time travel complicates everything; X-Men is a fundamentally queer narrative; we attempt to summarize a lot of history very fast; and when identities are politicized, claiming them becomes a political act.
X-PLAINED:
LC-GLOBE
The first openly queer X-Man
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Why we do what we do
Why the X-Men are worth studying
Returning nuance to critical discussion of media
A brief(ish) history of X-Men and queerness in X-Men
Iceman Watch
Retroactive foreshadowing
The mutant metaphor
Found family
Subtext
Text
Facets of mutant activism
Coming-out stories
Various vectors of diversity
Some comics Jay wrote
Comics in libraries
Where to start with Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
X-Men for horror fans
Our favorite X-Men lineups
Identity politics
The T-O virus vs. the Legacy Virus
NEXT EPISODE: Brain Sharks!
This episode doesn’t exactly have a traditional visual companion, but you can click through the entire slide deck from the live show–and find links to the essays we mentioned–on our blog.
Jay has some additional thoughts on identity politics, which you can read here.
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1h 28min
June 16, 2025490 – Chekhov’s Angel Dust
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 flees the comic; and Tessa returns.
X-PLAINED:
The Evolutionaries
X-Men #100-102
The current X-Men rosters
Thunderbird (Neal Shaara)
Claremont vs. continuity
Dove crimes
The Neo
Domina
Jaeger
Rax
Fancy space suits
What to do with someone else’s bone claws
Some guy named Seth
The High Evolutionary’s love nest
A Phoenix-saga callback
Rave
Warren Kenneth Worthington III’s weird fantasies
Whether unstable molecules are self-cleaning
Seventeen deaths of Mister Sinister
Salvo the Living Gun
How to keep track of X-Men
Time travel problems
X-Men LEGO sets we’d like to see
NEXT EPISODE: Live from Washington, D.C.!
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57min
June 09, 2025489 – The Eyepatch of Love
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 alternate universe where Dr. Niles Roman fronts a metal band for toddlers.
X-PLAINED:
The value of Pete Wisdom
X-Force #102-105
Revolution (more) (again)
Counter X (more) (again)
Flight
Elf stuff
Alastair Stuart (again)
The eyepatch of love
Science City 53
Meatspore stormtroopers
Project Cuckoo
Dr. Niles Roman
Tactics vs. Strategy
Monster problems
The Violence Machine
The apparent death of Pete Wisdom
What a good X-Force HQ needs
The most X-treme possible lineup
NEXT EPISODE: X-Men!
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49min

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How many episodes does Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men have?

The podcast currently has 541 episodes available.

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