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    Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

    Because It’s About Time Someone Did

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    532 – No Regrets (feat. Matt Hunter) Jul 19, 2026
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    Illustration by David Wynne

    In which we wrap things up.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Krakoa (mostly)
    • The True Secret History of Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
    • The True Secret History of Matt Hunter
    • Live shows
    • The “WHAT”s
    • Audio production through transition
    • Adapting to long-distance recording
    • Proximity
    • Our retirement plans
    • The means of production
    • Our favorite voice effects
    • Sound design considerations for Dazzler’s shows
    • What we’ve learned from making Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
    • Regrets
    • Where to find Matt online
    • Our evolving feelings about the X-Men
    • Stories we would’ve liked to have covered
    • The evolving podcasting landscape
    • X-Men analogues
    • Our theoretical Magic: The Gathering mechanics
    • What X-Men is really about
    • How to read like Jay and Miles

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    531 – Here Comes Tomorrow Jul 13, 2026
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    Illustration by David Wynne

    In which we wrap up the continuity portion of the podcast along with our coverage of Grant Morrison’s New X-Men; Wolverine poses dramatically; Cyclops breaks the timeline; Wolverine poses dramatically; we are deeply intrigued by Brian and his magic car; Wolverine poses dramatically; Sublime extends his reach; Phoenix heals the timeline; Wolverine poses dramatically; change is important; and somewhere Wolverine is probably still posing dramatically.

    X-PLAINED:

    • X of Swords (somewhat)
    • Endings
    • Varying opinions on the same art
    • Earth-15104
    • ‘Crawlers
    • Tom Skylark
    • Rover (in several media)
    • The Beast (Hank McCoy) (sort of)
    • The evolution of EVA
    • An evocative quotation
    • Several recognizable oracles
    • Where the timeline broke
    • The Proud People
    • Apollyon the Destroyer
    • Mer-Max
    • A somewhat robotic love triangle
    • Tito Bohusk
    • How to hatch a Phoenix egg
    • The White Hot Room
    • The Termids
    • Several atrocities
    • An unfortunate costume choice
    • John Sublime (for real this time)
    • Yet another origin of life on Earth
    • Evil science
    • Kick (more) (again)
    • Weapon XIV
    • The X-Men’s last stand
    • An unlikely Phoenix host
    • Breaking cycles
    • Aspects of Earth-15104 we’d like to see explored further
    • Where we’d conclude the X-Men

    NEXT EPISODE: The end.

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    530 – Not for Beginners Jul 06, 2026
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    Illustration by David Wynne

    In which we remain frustrated with Morrison’s Magneto; Esme Cuckoo’s hat game is lacking; and the status quo dies with Jean Grey.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Dubious X-relationships
    • Some excellent songs from an excellent show
    • New X-Men #149-150
    • Various atrocities and catastrophes
    • The resistance, such as it is
    • Magneto’s limits
    • A rebirth
    • Neutron warheads
    • The cavalry
    • Yet another death of Magneto
    • Yet another death of Jean Grey
    • A peculiar epilogue
    • A legacy of retcons
    • A miasma of bleakness and futility
    • The Xorn retcon
    • Disability in “Planet X”
    • Miracles of Magnetism

    NEXT EPISODE: The future!

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    529 – Magneto Was Wrong Jun 29, 2026
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    Illustration by David Wynne

    In which many plot threads come together; Charles Xavier is a catastrophically bad listener; you should probably not live in the Marvel Universe; bridges are really important; there’s nothing sexy about dying of heat exhaustion; and we judge Morrison’s Magneto and find him wanting.

    X-PLAINED:

    • What Xorn did after dying
    • The story so far
    • New X-Men #146-148
    • Beast’s typing gloves
    • Several innovative ways to type loudly
    • Doomed plans
    • A manufactured confrontation
    • A trap
    • Magneto reimagined
    • Visual depictions of sweat
    • “New Genosha”
    • Death and rebirth
    • Whether Magneto has a place in New X-Men; and if so, what
    • A name for an era

    NEXT EPISODE: Yet another death of Magneto

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    528 – Welcome to the Slippery Slope Jun 22, 2026
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    Illustration by David Wynne

    In which friends don’t let friends drink sparkling wine at the Hellfire Club; Cyclops is a Silent Hill protagonist; Fantomex is a cool dude; John Sublime has his grubby little fingers in everything; and three men do a lot of things to avoid going to therapy.

    X-PLAINED:

    • What happened to the World
    • Weapon XVI
    • New X-Men #142-145
    • Fantomex (more) (again)
    • The Weapon Plus program
    • A large number of things men will do instead of going to therapy
    • How to murder a nice, romantic mood
    • The Hellfire Club, the rest of the time
    • Jake Danials Whisky
    • A drinking contest
    • The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
    • The World
    • Weapon XV
    • A series of B&Es
    • Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.)
    • Car cops
    • Weapon XV’s feelings
    • Weapon Plus’s secret space headquarters
    • Education at the Xavier School
    • Gender-swapped superheroes and heirs to superheroes

    NEXT EPISODE: Magneto, unmasked!

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    527 – Whodunnit? Jun 08, 2026
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    Illustration by David Wynne

    In which Jean Grey crosses several lines; Emma Frost is killed; Bishop and Sage visit from X-Treme X-Men; mutants are weird; the plot thickens; Emma Frost is resurrected; and we learn several secrets of fly reproduction.

    X-PLAINED:

    • The brothers Xorn
    • A question of reading order
    • New X-Men #139-141
    • Cosmic force problems
    • A showdown
    • A brief tour through the mind of Emma Frost
    • A murder most foul
    • Bishop (briefly) (again)
    • Sage (briefly) (again)
    • Many suspects
    • One way to get drugs, I guess?
    • A mysterious shack and its mysterious contents
    • Perils and advantages of being a living computer
    • A murder weapon
    • Angel and Beak’s excellent babies
    • A resurrection
    • A subtly remarkable taxicab
    • The advent of mixed-case lettering in Marvel comics
    • How Angel and Beak’s reproductive cycle corresponds to actual fly reproduction

    NEXT EPISODE: Assault on Weapon Plus

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    526 – Vengeful Mutants on Drugs Jun 01, 2026
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    Illustration by David Wynne

    In which you should use drugs only with caution; a famous shirt makes its debut; Wolverine is the new Mary Worth; and you were never Quentin Quire’s age (unless you were).

    X-PLAINED:

    • What Quentin Quire’s been up to since discorporating
    • New X-Men #135-138
    • The Special Class
    • Basilisk
    • Ernst
    • Dummy
    • No Girl
    • Whether the Xavier School should admit human students
    • Quentin’s new look
    • Kick (more) (again)
    • The Omega Gang
    • That one t-shirt
    • How to punch up your Power Point presentation
    • A somewhat fraught camping trip
    • The Special Class vs. U-Men
    • A secret
    • Some kind of weird affair
    • A riot, of sorts
    • Wolverine’s unfortunate soul patch
    • What actually happened to Jumbo Carnation
    • Telepathic deconstruction
    • The Cuckoos vs. Emma Frost
    • A somewhat mysterious secondary mutation
    • Denouement
    • The subsequent evolution of Quentin Quire
    • What’s happening to xplainthexmen.com when the show ends
    • The telepathy-telekinesis overlap

    NEXT EPISODE: Murder!

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    525 – Beyond This Death May 25, 2026
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    Illustration by David Wynne

    In which Warren Kenneth Worthington III is a terrible teacher; we are all Magneto’s children; Sooraya Qadir deserves a better origin story; teenagers have a lot of feelings; and we meet one of the modern age’s most controversial mutants.

    X-PLAINED:

    • The destiny of Quentin Quire
    • New X-Men #131-134
    • An underattended funeral
    • How to fly? Kinda? I guess?
    • A kiss
    • A friendship
    • Another bit of ruby quartz marginalia that will never be mentioned again
    • A somewhat ill-founded psychic metaphor
    • Emma Frost’s Dark Phoenix costume
    • Some kind of weird affair
    • Echoes of 9/11/2001
    • Genosha, a year later
    • Ghosts
    • Polaris’s paternity
    • Shocker (the mutant one)
    • The last words of Genosha
    • Islamophobia post 9/11
    • Sooraya Qadir (Dust)
    • An attempted hijacking and the aftermath thereof
    • Some Shi’ar nonsense
    • X-Corporation Mumbai
    • Jumbo Carnation
    • Telepathy class
    • An artist’s interpretation of the fate of mankind if mutants are not driven out, as predicted by Bolivar Trask
    • Accountability
    • Professor X’s weird little paintings
    • X-adjectives
    • Best and worst X-Men with whom to share a psychic rapport

    NEXT EPISODE: Quentin Quire’s teen angst bullshit gets a body count!

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    524 – House in a House May 11, 2026
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    Illustration by David Wynne

    In which Xorn goes out on the town; silverware is morally neutral; Cyclops pursues dubious counsel; the X means ten; and Fantomex is eminently enjoyable.

    X-PLAINED:

    • The parentage of Hope Summers
    • New X-Men #127-130
    • Mutant Town
    • A monster who is not a monster but is, perhaps, a metaphor
    • X-Corporation Paris
    • The whole Phoenix situation
    • Fantomex
    • Weapon XII
    • A gene-hazard
    • Corporal Animal
    • E.V.A.
    • The Weapon Plus program (somewhat)
    • The World (somewhat)
    • The Shi’ar Empire vs. Earth
    • Xorn variations

    NEXT EPISODE: A Memorial of Magnetism

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    523 – This World of Liars May 04, 2026
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    In which Wolverine learns to fly; pants are a basic human right; we decide to cherry-pick our Xorn retcons; Xavier’s eyebrows follow his mind; and the first year of New X-Men ends with a bang.

    X-PLAINED:

    • The origin of the Shi’ar Imperial Guard
    • New X-Men #124-126
    • The current state of Charles Xavier’s body
    • G-Type
    • Neosaurus
    • Plutonia
    • Schism
    • Oracle
    • Stuf
    • Gladiator (more) (again)
    • Angel disambiguation
    • Several plans
    • Mutant justice
    • Several miracles of magnetism
    • Mummudrai
    • Horror movie shit
    • Subtle visual foreshadowing
    • A ruse
    • Education
    • Long-lost family members
    • What may or may not come after this

    NEXT EPISODE: Fantomex!

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