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Jay & Miles
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A weekly podcast featuring the ins, outs, clones, and retcons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera!

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Happiest of birthdays to my fellow X-pert, best X-ex, and X-cellently dear friend @edidin.bsky.social! -M
X-Men member beast smiles while saying "It's a matter of continuity, really."
October 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Looking back at the podcast after 500(!) episodes.
Two comic-book panels. In the first, an adult Iceman and his teen self stare intently at each other. In the second, both yell, "aaaaagghhh!!"
September 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Reading some comics at the #LoC
Miles and Jay read a copy of X-Men #150
June 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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The People’s Palace #LoC
The foyer of the Jefferson building of the Library of Congress The main reading room at the Library of Congress
June 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Tech check! We’ve never done images for a live show before.
June 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Arlington parking meters go hard.
A yellow sign on a black parking meter. It reads, “all may park. All must pay.”
June 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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IN THE SAME CITY. IN OUR LANE. MOISTURIZED. UNSTOPPABLE.
June 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Some more notable superhero collection items:
Fantastic Four #48 Batman #1 Captain America #2
May 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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I’m here learning more about the collection in anticipation of our live show at LoC on June 6, as part of World Pride! Here’s my host, Megan, who’s head of the Physical Collections Services Section
Serial & Government Publications Division.
May 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Taking a whirlwind trip behind the scenes of the Library of Congress comics collection! -J
An original copy of X-Men #1
May 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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More details as we get them, but we are VERY pleased to announce that we'll be X-Plaining the X-Men live at the Library of Congress on the evening of June 6, 2025, as part of World Pride!

It'll be a free show, but ticketed due to limited seating; we'll post the link as soon as it's up!
A comic book panel. Cyclops fires an optic blast as a topless Governor General James Howlett slices through the energy with his adamantine claws and says, "Welcome to the multiverse."
April 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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BIG NEWS COMING -- watch this space!
A comic-book panel. The New Mutants pose like a superhero team.
April 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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... not really, no.
A direct message from a deleted account, who asks, "Do I intimidate you?"
March 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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TFW it's time for Sexy Shinobi Shaw thanks
A recording room from riverside.fm, split horizontally between two screens. On the top screen, a short-haired white man in headphones covers his eyes, laughing. On the bottom screen, a long-haired white man speaks earnestly into a microphone.
November 26, 2024 at 3:59 AM
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You've got questions, and we've got strong opinions and x-cellent research skills! As 'em here or via xplainthexmen.tumblr.com/ask, or email xplainthexmen(at)gmail(dot)com!
A comic-book panel. A teenage Quentin Quire says, "Sooooo many questions." An adult Quentin Quire replies, "I got time for one."
November 20, 2024 at 2:22 AM
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A very happy birthday to x-cellent X-Pert, great dad, awesome friend, and real-life hero Jay Edidin (@edidin.bsky.social)!

Thanks for being the best, Jay!

-Miles
The teenage X-Men from All-New X-Men volume 2 have a dance party while Angel eats a taco. Kid Apocalypse is yelling "Impromptu X-Men dance party!"
October 13, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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Our beloved producer Matt (pictured) is currently accepting new podcast clients! Matt is a phenomenal producer and a lovely human; we could not recommend him more emphatically! Interested? Drop him a line at Thehuntsman@gmail.com!
A comic-book page. Noh-varr stands dramatically, saying, “Come with me if you want to be awesome.”
June 29, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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We'll be recording an episode about X-Men '97 Thursday evening! Got questions? Reply here or message us on Tumblr!
The famous image of cartoon Wolverine lying in bed looking at a framed picture, but in this image, the picture is of Gambit in his Rock X crop-top.
June 4, 2024 at 11:29 PM
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If you missed @colleencoover.bsky.social’s 10th anniversary print at our party and still want one, you can get ‘em (while supplies last) from @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social!
A very intricate print celebrating the 10th anniversary of the podcast Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
April 15, 2024 at 5:53 AM
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Prepping for tomorrow’s festivities!
A photograph of two white men in their early 40s, both wearing conical party hats. A fucking enormous sheet cake. A word balloon with two pointers says, “WHAT?!” Text in the margin reads “10 years of J+M X-P t X-M” the cake is spangled with blue and yellow sprinkles shaped like the X-Men logo.
April 13, 2024 at 3:11 AM
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Got X-questions, especially about the stuff we're currently covering? Or about any ol' X-topics? Ask 'em here, on Tumblr, or email us at xplainthexmen (at) gmail (dot) com and we might answer them on the show!
An image of Cyclops and Storm walking away from the viewer. Cyclops is placing his hand on Storm's shoulder and saying "I doubt we'll ever know."
March 29, 2024 at 2:34 AM
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*whistles innocently*
a screenshot of a website that allows one to design custom promotional sunglasses, should one choose to do so
March 15, 2024 at 3:57 AM
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A comic book panel. Cyclolps, flying a plane, says, to no discernible other person, "Yeah, I love you, too."
March 3, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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Miles will be talking to Katie Pryde, owner of Portland’s Eisner-award winning comic shop @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social, on an upcoming episode! Got questions about the X-retail world or anything related?
Comics on a store rack, including the connecting cover's of 1991's X-Men #1
February 24, 2024 at 8:49 PM
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WHAT?! It’s a tenth birthday party—and our first live show in five years—coming this April!
A poster. The text at the top reads, “Somehow it’s been ten friggin’ years of Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men” Below is a comic-book panel in which Bernard the Poet recites a poem about birthdays. Below is information about two events, both in Portland, Oregon on April 13: a live show from 10 AM to 12 PM at the Clinton Street Theater, and a birthday party from 2 to 5 PM at Books With Pictures.
February 21, 2024 at 12:32 AM