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**Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men**

Because It’s About Time Someone Did

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**332 – Gideon Falls** May 10, 2021
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Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

In which Swimsuit Catalog is not an actual style of martial arts; Onslaught dabbles in vandalism; Crule is a special guy; we identify briefly with X-Force; and Charles Xavier is the Keyser Soze of Onslaught.

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Externals on Krakoa

Relative levels of violence in X-books

*X-Force* #52-54

Camp Hayden, KY

Onslaught-facilitated power-ups

Gideon (again)

At least one apparent death

How it feels to be us

Businesswear

Whether Cannonball is an external

Nazis in the Captain Britain Corps

Doop

NEXT EPISODE: Sinister vs. Public Transit

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**HAWK TALK – Hack the Planet** May 02, 2021
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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.

**331 – Surprised by Brood** Apr 26, 2021
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Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

In which we take a break from the lead-up to Onslaught; Hannah Conover is the queen of dangling plot threads (and also of the Brood); Wolverine is the strangest angel; William Conover is the chillest minister in the Marvel Universe; and *Excalibur* writer Tini Howard gives us the inside scoop on Gambit’s trench coat.

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Mutant Brood

The Brood vs. Brood X cicadas

*X-Men vs. Brood: Day of Wrath* #1-2

Theological origins of John Ostrander

Hair

An unspoken motif in pin-up art

Reverend William Conover (more)(again)

Hannah Conover (more)(again)

The Brood (more)(again)

The Brood Empress

The Firstborn

Atypical Queen-Broodling power dynamics

Brood of the future

A strange angel

What Gambit’s trench coat is made of

NEXT WEEK: Hawk Talk

NEXT EPISODE: The end of the Externals!

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**330 – Suddenly, Ninjas** Apr 19, 2021
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In which the podcast turns seven; Matt has officially edited half the podcast; a lot of things are made by metal; Doctor Strange is a big weirdo; Gambit is a scoundrel, not a villain; Wolverine goes goth; Onslaught could probably use a better herald; Bishop fires two guns whilst going aaaaaaa; and we commit to making what sense we can of Onslaught.

X-PLAINED:

How Betsy got her body back

Several simultaneous anniversaries

*Uncanny X-Men* #329-330

*X-Men* #50

Some ninja bullshit

A lot of less-benign-than-it-looks racism

Excellent use of a neon sign

An odd couple

The evolution of art tools

Steam vs. metal

Gomurr the Ancient

The Ebon Vein

Catastrophic magic

Our favorite iterations of Doctor Strange

The Crimson Dawn

How one becomes Gomurr the Ancient

Tar (Proctor of the Crimson Dawn)

Post (Herald of Onslaught)

An entity who may or may not be Onslaught

Continuity party tricks

Survivors of the Age of Apocalypse

NEXT EPISODE: Brood X!

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**329 – Scheming and Argument** Apr 12, 2021
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In which Nate Grey has the soul of a man in a mesh shirt; Black Air is somehow even worse than you thought it was; Hulk does not want to be x-treme teen from alternate dimension; we are excited as hell for the upcoming Frasier/Ewing *Gamma Flight*; and Moira MacTaggert is (sometimes) the adult we need.

X-PLAINED:

Nate Grey’s (possible) demon zombie baby

What Excalibur’s been up to lately

*Excalibur* #94-95

*X-Man* #12

Yet another take on roughly the same dark future

Dark-future disambiguation

Bangs

The Black Wall

Leather vs. vinyl

Sentinels pooping sentinels

Nate Grey (more) (again)

*Gamma Flight*

Excessively silly diagnostic technology

Squeezits(TM)

A minor intervention

X-characters most likely to lead a successful book club

Warlock on Krakoa

NEXT EPISODE: The Herald of Onslaught (for real, this time, we promise)!

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**HAWK TALK – Doctor Internet** Apr 04, 2021
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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 the Internet.

Topics, roughly:

Blazing fast 28.8 Kbps dial-up

AOL CDs

Final Fantasy, MIDI-style

Angelfire vs. Carrd

The Gaming Intelligence Agency

The Brunching Shuttlecocks

The finest memes of the early 2000s

Chaos

Social media, as explained by Jay

Social media, as baffles Miles

Podcasts vs. the Internet

**328 – Single Blue Male** Mar 29, 2021
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Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

In which Sam Guthrie will take all your money; Gambit has exceptionally poor judgment; having friends who are couples means getting to be the big spoon AND the little spoon; Hank McCoy is the agrarian Rube Goldberg; and there are a lot of ways to appreciate a comic.

X-PLAINED:

Several colors of Beast

*X-Men* #48-49

*X-Men Unlimited* #10

The Floating Super Hero Poker Game

Large hands

Various refugees from the Age of Apocalypse

Surge(TM)

Pam Greenwood (Fatale)

Many gratuitous murders

Iconic runs we’re not into

Generations of teen X-Men

NEXT WEEK: Hawk talk!

NEXT EPISODE: Nate Grey vs. Excalibur!

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326 – Son of a Gun Mar 15, 2021

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In which it’s hard to be a hologram; the Internet is terrible and you should probably avoid it; we have no idea how Naze is still alive; this is not your mom’s Adversary (if your mom is Fall of the Mutants); Forge is an order muppet; and Sabretooth is not a great addition to most teams.