Who Are These Podcasts? - Ep60 - Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Episode Date: June 4, 2017

WATP is back people. We begin the next era of the show, the era that will one day be known as the one without the funny guy. This week we listen to two people who don't like X-Men comic books... they LOVE them! Karl is joined by guest co-host Andy who manages to offend everyone within earshot. Also, we use a brand new mic that's a little hot so apologies that it sounds like you're inside our mouths from time to time. By the way, Kevin used to write these descriptions and he was much better at it. Enjoy the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's show time. Andy W-A-T-E W-A-T-E Who are these partners? W-A-T-P Who likes these partners? Not W-A-T-P Who makes these partners?

That one's beyond me Who are these partners? W-A-T-P W-A-T-P W-A-T-P W-A-T-P W-A-T-P Andy, that's how you do that. Hello and welcome to another episode of Who Are These Podcasts.

We listen to podcasts so that you don't have to. I'm your host, Cara, with me today is Andy. Hey! I'd like to remind our listeners that you can visit us on whoarethese.com, our Facebook page, or Twitter at whoarethese.com. If you like what you hear, don't forget to give us a positive 5-star review on iTunes or Google or wherever you do that sort of thing. Today we'll be reviewing Jay and Miles Explained the X-Men. Andy and I have a listen to episode number 157. We both listen to the show separately. We have not discussed it with each other beforehand.

So let's get into it. Andy, thank you for joining us. Oh, it's my pleasure to be here. We have a very different format today. Yeah, very different. This is the first time we're recording the show without Skype. We're both in Rochester, New York.

Yeah. We're next to each other recording into a single microphone. Yep. This is probably obvious from the audio quality, but at least you don't have that Skype thing going. Yeah, it's just super weird. It's a relief to me as a listener of the podcast. Well, that's a good thing that you're a listener to the podcast or else this would be difficult

to explain to you how I'm doing this. Well, I don't know what you say. I'm a super fan. Right. But I have been like, how much use you'd be a super fan? No, I don't know your middle name, or even like you that much right but I have been like no one's I much used you being a super fan No, I don't know your middle name or even like you that much, but I am like a day one listener I'm kind of like a senior contributor. I've you know brought such ear aches to the table is we're alive Oh right that was your story. You know, I put the ammo in the gun for all sort of yes

We could shit all over Kevin. But nice, yeah, that was the Lego podcast. And Kevin's very big into Legos. When does Kevin get here? Yeah, so it's funny. There was a suggestion on Twitter of how our show would go without Kevin being here. And I thought it was pretty funny,

so I'm going to act it out for you. I want to start with the clip that best sums up the show. Kevin, can you play track 13 for me? So that was what somebody thought would happen to the show, but no we actually will continue on with the show I have the the effects now I don't tell people what track to play and that's gonna lead to Likely a lot of chaos. Yeah, I thought you would just dub in like a lot of a cover commander or star screen clips. Oh hey Kevin. Yes, cover commander is still on the show. As you can tell by the

the intro music. So anyway, let's get into it. Andy, the reason why you're guessing on today is because you suggested this podcast. This is Jay and Miles explain the X-Men. They talk about X-Men comic books and this is episode number 157. They did 157 episodes. This was an hour and 16 minutes long. Yeah, it was a long show. I know I regretted it as soon as I suggested it. Well, the reason why you suggested it is because you've heard every episode. Yeah, yeah, I was waiting to reveal that. Sorry, I didn't want to talk to that. I didn't want people to know that. I wouldn't want people to know that either. I'm a comics fan, so... Right.

And I'm a podcast fan. So I went looking for podcasts, like especially when the movies started coming out. Right. I was just like, you know, I want to know the history. And so I found this, and I started listening to it as sort of from an interest level, and then I just grew to hate it, and then I grew to hate listen to it. Oh, you hate listen to the show. I do. Okay. There's only just getting to the 90s now, which is when I started reading X-Men. Oh my gosh.

And we have another 157 episodes to go. I see. I'm sure when we get into it, you'll realize that all the the When they're describing the issues sounds like a foreign language, but that's the stuff that I want to know about But all the stuff that they talk about in between is the stuff that you want to you know put a bullet in it Before we get too far into it I want to play some clips so people know what it was Yes, I do that. I have an example here that I think sums up the show pretty nicely The way this show is formatted is it's very, it's two hosts, J and Miles,

and they go in rapid succession back and forth, back and forth. It almost sounds scripted, it's gotta be scripted, right? It's edited to within an inch of its life. It's provided it, yeah. And it reminds me of one order. There's nobody has dialogue like this in the real world. It's not natural conversation. So let me play an example of that. A track I call very fast back and forth. Which certainly is the way you could handle that. I assume Cyclops just went,

whatever. Cyclops is elsewhere. You know, it's fine. He's over there somewhere. He's someone else where he's in the same room. Yeah, but Cameron Hodge forgot about it because he now has the option to rip off Forge's cybernetic leg in hand. Which he does enthusiastically. And as cable and gabbit who have not yet been restrained, attack, he does the same thing to cable in a really gruesome if off panel fashion. So a couple of things to note there. First of all, they're explaining the comic book. Right. They're practically reading a comic book to you. I think they're looking at it. Well, they have it memorized somehow or they've scripted this whole thing out.

Yeah. There's not one second of dead air. It's all. No. Whoever's editing it is just cutting out all of the dead air. Okay, so that's something that I wanted to it is just cutting out all of the dead air. Okay, so that's that's something that I wanted to bring up on a lot of the shows we've done on WATP. One of my biggest complaints is the lack of effort. Yeah. We hear these shows where these guys just turn a microphone in, a conversation, the upload, the thing. Like what are you doing? That's not a show. Who was? These guys put way too much effort into the show. Yeah. It's it's almost frustrating to me because you have this

every week they're putting on a show that's an hour long that sounds like it's scripted. They even do all these things where there's production in it and I want to give that away. It's pretty cheesy production, but they do some production where they're reading quotes coming straight out of the comic book. Right. And while I found the show off-put putting, it made me upset that these people are smarter than I am. They're definitely smarter people than I am. They just chose it to use all their intelligence to understand ice mad. I disagree. I think a lot of people make this same mistake. You're mistaken budget for intelligence. It's just like a lot of money and they have a producer.

And they do have a producer. Yeah. So they're just like a lot of time and they have a producer. And they do have a producer. Yeah, so they're just like, well, a lot of time and effort and money goes into this, whereas. You think so? We're just fly by night. They do have a Patreon account. Right. Do you do that to that?

Because you don't even know what Patreon is. I don't know what Patreon is. And I'm not getting these jerk offs any money. Well, Andy, you picked some clips out from the show and I figure, well, let's you play something that you wanted to share with our listeners. Yeah. The first one is a good example of what, you know, drives me crazy about. It's just like how geeky these kids are.

I don't know if they're kids, but they're not kids. They're adults. They're from Portland. I mean, they sound like kids. So they're like the thing is Portland dorks. And it's just like the, it's just, all right, I'm gonna play this clip for a whole second, Andy. We started this conversation by you talking about how excited

you are to learn about the X-Men comics. Are you calling these guys, Doran? You'll play the clip. Okay. Vanilla ice in that movie and what's his face from Twilight are like the same dude. Dude, that's my argument. Well, it's my theory.

Yeah, no, but cool is ice effectively predicts a good deal of Twilight. You heard it here first, folks, and possibly also second and third. But with better pants. With better pants. Yeah. All right, so I'm with you on that.

I'm assuming you're not like comparing these to Twilight. How can I care about anything after that? It's a good point. I put a list of like things that I couldn't care less about that they talk about. They go from cool is ice, which is terrible, Twilight terrible. Right.

Then they talk about final fantasy 4 through 9 silent hills I thought find a fantasy or was where it ended I didn't know there's a final About more about final fantasy than I do I don't give a fuck about anything fair enough I thought you were in on all of this stuff all these different references they had Resputing Moby Dick is just like I don't know any of this shit and to drop it in like everybody's supposed to know what you're talking about is Well, we're not the audience that well you are the audience now That's what's He's not the audience is I don't know what they're talking about but there was one point in the show where Jay

Says something that I didn't realize that these were x-rated comics. Did you hear this part Pernandy? And the X-Men at this point are just sort of blowing a lot of people. I don't remember that being in the comic book, but not I'm interested. Well, hey, whatever you get to do to buy the issue, I guess. Right. Well, okay. So you're focusing in on the fact that these guys have very nerdy references and it's difficult to follow. I suppose it's to be expected. What they're saying.

I do have to admit that this conversation is one that I've had probably many times with friends at the bar. Because we complained a little bit about John Bogdanova's work on these issues of the extinction agenda, the X-Factor ones that he draws. And right now, starting with this panel, this is good John Bogdano. He is back and his work, as it can often be, is freaking awesome again. I mean, he's no Neil Adams and he's no John James, but it's a pastoral representation of having his powers.

You're that nerd. A bunch of goddamn nerds. NOOOOOO! This is why I thought the show was going gonna be talking about the artists and the writers and getting into that stuff because that's what I think about comic book culture I think about the people who are way into I only buy comic books at the guy you know her trippy to the cover You know all these like ridiculous things I've never heard of yeah, but these guys actually they do a little bit of that But it's mostly just explaining the story what It's writing what they're looking at. Of three different comic books, and I had a question for you on that,

because it doesn't make any sense to me. There's three different comics that they're referencing. Right. And they're all over the map. They're from totally different comic book worlds. Yeah, the way that it would not, all right, now I'm gonna show my X X men is a is a comic and new mutants is a comic okay, and X factor is a comic and anybody that's kind of familiar with Comics is knows that they sort of do crossover storylines to drag readers into other

titles so they'll have the beginning of a thing in X-Men, the middle of it in X-Factor, and the end of it in New Mutants, and then you've got to buy off, it's a money grab. I see. So they have to cover all these things. That's why they go from, this is kind of book 217, and then you've got to pull out New Mutants 67,

and I'm like, how would you- How would you- Well, that you know. And that's what, you know, I hate to admit it, but that's where I like about the pod, is that if you want to know what happens in these storylines, they're telling you what happened in all these issues that I never bought.

Like I bought X-Men regular. But I'm not buying- I just have a question for you though. Let's just make you a, why does it matter what happens in these comic books? Because we believe nonsense nonsense because if you read X-Men 98 and then you go to X-Men 100 all of a sudden a bunch of shit happened and you know idea why because I didn't because I don't because I'm a fucking 11-year-old that didn't buy 10

comic books and read all this shit because I don't have time. Oh, is that this is the these are the buttons Yeah, yeah, these are the oh I'm just trying to come I just want to press the car I'm fine. Oh you press the button and the show has reached a new low Yeah, so I was trying to be far away from Andy, but unfortunately we're crowded around a microphone So he's trying to touch my soundboard and that will not be happening today. This is the first time I get the soundboard. Geez, I'm gonna take full advantage. All right I referenced the fact that there is this post-production work they do. I assume it's post-production where they read excerpts from the comic though they'll read quotes that are coming from the comic and they'll put some cheesy effect on the voice.

Here's a good example of that. And also I should point out the acting here is, uh, Deuce chilling. Yeah, yeah, and Hudge will have none of this. Even now my circuits are repairing the damage you have done, soon I will be good as new and then I shall reach such revenge upon Eugene jokes and wipe your kind off the face of this planet. All right I just want to point out Andy's listen to all 100 and 7 episodes of this podcast. He's lost all credibility when you hear that clip. Oh it gets worse. It does get worse. Yeah some clips I mean we have a bunch of clips here to get through. And I have a feeling our listeners will be checking out any minute now.

So I kind of want to do this early on because it's sort of like frames the podcast. You mentioned that you're like, why did you clip all this stuff? Because it's not very funny. But there's as somebody that's listened to the whole thing, if you were to say like, I wonder what happened in issue one, you know, and you wanted to hear it from the beginning and you went looking for this podcast, it used to be called Rachel and Miles explaining the ex-men. Yes.

And they were married couple that, oh, I didn't know they were married in the ex-men. Oh, okay. And then I can't remember exactly how long ago, like at about episode 100 or so, they decided that they were gonna get divorced. And they started introducing the show as Rachel J. and Miles. And then it became J and Miles. And they got divorced because Rachel transitioned into J. I saw that.

I did some research. I was wondering how much home it was. She writes a cop. I do homework. I know you do. I know you do homework. She writes a column about being a man. And I guess what I just said is probably a microaggression

because it's a right to tell. How is it going to say, when you talk to me, Carl, he, him, and his. You know, I don't know what your pronouns are, but we're gonna start doing a lot of tap dancing. Right. Because it's gonna be a blizzard of snowflakes shitting on us in the comments after the video.

Yeah, I'm sure. Because would you consider yourself a woke person? No, I am not woke. I'm fast asleep on that one. We're gonna sleep woking through this next section. Exactly. Because because she's trans. Whoa. Whoa. Wow. They are so offended. Okay. So am I. But you know, Z. Z is that because she is transitioned. Yeah. Well, there's an agenda to this. Yes. So why don't you play, I call it, Jaze Agenda.

And we'll start with like two. And then all right. This change for Wolfsbane really fits. I mean, I always enjoy mutant powers used as metaphors for the characters, not just mutancy used as metaphors for larger social things. And we talked a little bit to see an grace about this in the context of Iceman. OK, so what they're talking about there, which comes up a lot, is the fact that they're talking about there.

They made Iceman gay now. Okay. So they are, they're so excited that Iceman is gay. I see. And they try, they're trying to drag 2017 politics into 1990 era comic books. So when they're reading these they start I did I did hear a couple times when they were talking about oh if you go back to this issue It's I came up with a word they use but they were offended by some of these older comics. Yeah I didn't understand what was offensive about yeah, yeah, maybe you understand that Because guys and girls were together Okay, but let's just do like, let's keep going.

Let's keep going. Real quick. Here you go. I love how monstrous she is here. There is a tendency in comics and in visual media in general to have the central and unchanging characteristic of any female character, especially female characters who are good guys being conventional attractiveness. At worst and to most baffling, this gives you werewolves like the ones from tarot, which of the

black rose, who are literally just naked ladies with courage wolves head. That was so weird. I don't know, Carl, that sounds like a comic I want to read naked ladies with werewolves. Well, they do talk about that for a while, you know, you can't have these female characters that don't look hot in comic books. Well, that's their problem. That's the problem. Yeah, play the fourth one, right? Because it's just like the time to end.

Yeah, before I start shitting on that, I'll just... The interesting initially here is that Wolf's Bayon's hybrid form, it's less of a Wolfy girl, the way that was drawn by Guangyap, and more of a gigantic werewolf wearing like a rag bikini instead of from you take outfit. I like the more monstrous version of her not so into the raggedy bikini. And that's and that's what I'm talking about. It's like when I was a kid reading comics, right? You know, that's the closest thing to pouring that 13-year-old Andy can get, you know? Right. What is 13-year-old Andy supposed to jerk off, Tidda? It's a JC Petty catalog, but I know that you need some variety. I understand. How to jerk off to the JC Petty catalog but I know that

you need some variety I understand I wanted jerk off to sexy wear wolves Carl I understand and that's why I never touch your comic book watching my phone over to your house it's worth listening yeah um the the thing that I find perplexing about this is you have to know your audience and if it's all these comic books are made by guys for young boys. Yeah. Then we want to see big tits and not awful looking, you know, non-chick. It doesn't make any sense that you would put in something that's politically correct in 2017 into these comics. Exactly. It's not fulfilling any purpose. But they can't they can't read a comic from 25 years ago

And not say oh, that's not you know, that's not the way I think and they're getting triggered right they're getting triggered by it And the fight the final one we can start moving away from it. Okay, this one, but this is like the last thing I'll probably cut all this out and post it I'm just gonna put making it over myself when Andy's talking. We'll just cut that out. He's a fanny, everyone. Check my view on me to play. Yeah. Jean is pretty much done with both of their bullshit. Hold it. Logan's right. I'm not going to hold back when my actions can make a difference any more than you would. And she turns to Logan to say, and I'm perfectly able to speak for myself and make my own choices. Is that understood?

Fuck yeah, Jean Gray. Did those losers and go hook up with storm or something? They see. It says like, I gotta be honest with you. I'm not following. I believe that what you're saying is likely true, but they're just talking about all these characters and all this nonsense. Yeah, it's a lot of nonsense, but they just like, because they want to point out all the case subtext in the context and do it all the time. I see. But she's her J is just not going to be happy until like cyclops is a guy with a boob job,

you know, like not even like sexy titties, like a bad B-cup, you know. Yeah, maybe 62-year-old woman's tits on me, please. I'm sorry to all the people that are, you know, trans out there. It's really not, you know, it all comes from my place of ignorance as far, you know, I think about that stuff, the way I think about the way they put cheese into cheese it's with where they put like a wedge of cheese on a ritz and hit it with a sledgehammer. Right. For all I know, that's how it comes in your role.

That's probably how that works. Yes. But I'm sorry if I'm offending everybody. It's something they shoehorn into a lot of the episodes. Oh, that makes me, my eyes get tired from rolling. Right. And it's just like, just tell me about the comics. It gets old.

Oh, anyway, until you hear the teaser for the podcast, we're doing an actual shit. We'll get rid of the roll those eyes. All right, I have a track out here that I want to play. This is just funny to me. It's again, really fast talking. And their complaint is priceless. What we haven't set to introduce us to our characters are all of them in chains, in court,

because remember, except for a few, they were all kidnapped by the Genocean government and they're now being put on trial for crimes against Genocha. All of their costumes have miraculously repaired themselves except for Wolverines, which has maintained a single artfully placed boob window. They're complaining about continuity issues in a fucking comic book. I know. I love that.

It's like, guys, you're gonna have to make believe that this is a pretend world of make believe. Yeah, okay. Right. This is not an autobiography. There were not, this didn't actually really happen. Yeah, they'll launch into like real like somber like A lot of times they get real quiet like and then

You I can't believe this happened, but this character you got killed and they get like real serious It's a kid who gives a fuck Yeah, I know it's it's really Incredible to me how they are connected to these Non things that don't really exist at all. It's just drawings that people made for 13-year-olds. For 13-year-olds that they are not the target audience. I'm pretty sure a transition mail 38-year-old, whatever Jay is now, is not the target audience for

this shit. This is is a great example what you were just talking about. J is seriously affected by this part of the comic book. And then boom-boom's line is what wrecks me here because you know boom-boom she's glib even at the worst of times and she's wearing an amazing amazing outfit but what she says is goodbye self-friend. We're going to miss you. And Richter adds, you and Doug, rest in peace. But man, she calls himself friend. Oh, that's so terrible. Not only are they both doing the back and forth reading with the reverb on them, it feels like you're, wow, I'm like in a movie.

There's a reverb. I'm crying about it. It racks me. Does it? Yeah. All right, you know, change gears. One of the things that I noticed about Miles is his laugh. Yeah, he's kind of like me in the sense that he loves everything.

And with the exception of this podcast, I'm pretty, like, I'll find the good that he loves everything. And with the exception of this podcast, I'm pretty like, I'll find the good in just about everything. And he does not shit on things. That's what I do. So this is a compilation I put together, just of Miles Laughing. And see if you can pick up on the similarity

to another famous character here. There is. Is this not familiar to you at all? Yeah. I can't please. You can't place it. All right. So I put it into clown. Oh, I can do this now. So here's a clip that I put together that is super cut.

Oh, it's so. You almost can't tell which is which. And I started laughing at the end. I think you still could have told. Right. Yeah, you laugh like a douchebag as well Here's a clip. I just have a question for you about this one. They talk about Backup stories

Wolverine and Angel have a history of rivalry that was recently retconned in one of the classic X-Men backup stories Yeah, I think it was a backup story in classic X-Men number one. Are they talking about subplots? What the fuck's a backup story? I don't... I never heard that terrible. I know what they're talking about. I know that retcon means a correction like to like continuity if something didn't make sense. They make it make sense. Okay. So there there might have been an issue where they're like, oh, it's like that because of this. And then they'll have an independent backstory thing.

So it's an industry that backs up continuity issue. I have to go beat myself up now, Carol. For God's sake. Is that what it is? I'm learning here. I really don't know. OK, because I have that kind of story. I'm thinking it's the sum plot of a comic book.

But I guess it's something different. It's more like a history of continuity history Okay, okay. I guess I really don't know I haven't bought an x-men comic in like 30 years. All right. Well Speaking of my lack of knowledge of anything they're talking about, here's more things that I have no idea what's going on. So yeah, we're gonna be talking about Bader Ray Bill and about the executioners last stand and about Ragnarok and about Frog Thor. And I think it's gonna be really great. Maybe I'm talking about... That's fascinating. Please go on.

I thought Chuzi D was gonna be all over this fuck. Yes, honestly. Yeah, that's from Satch that we've been over episode of WATP and yeah, Chusidee, what's y'all talking about? I have no idea what these people are talking about. And I, I don't either. I mean, oh, snap. I don't.

Don't even try that. I'm not buying it. I, I don't, that's, they're talking about Sorshit there. That's Sorshit. That's Sorshit. All right. I like, I like that you Totally just discredited your own comment by saying I'm no idea what the time about that. That's Thor

So how would I even know what's for I know it's that they told me in the podcast Yeah, yeah, oh, it is like so The thing I had a hard time with this podcast I listened to it last night almost all of it I know you texted me that you were being tortured. I did. And then we, and then I listened to it this morning and put my clips together. Not only is it an hour 16 minutes long, I mentioned that, right? Hour 6th? Yeah. Not only is it an hour 16 minutes long, they talk so fast that it's almost two hours worth of a podcast. It's exhausting. that it's almost two hours worth of a podcast, it's exhausting. And the fact that they go through the entire story arcs of three comic books while acting it out and putting in their bullshit, politically corrected gender and shoving that in.

You imagine how long it took them to record it? That's what I'm saying. They put these out every week. And Jay was complaining over and over again about how much work this is. Yeah. Because they're going on this three-month hiatus that Z can't wait for. You just try to speed on it to try so hard. Yeah, seriously, don't try so hard.

It's only four hours. Four hours worth of recording for this. Yeah, I got to imagine, because the fact that, like you said, it's highly edited. And there's no downtime. There's nothing that's awkward like this conversation is now It's just wrapping back and forth. I talk you talk. I talk you talk. Yeah, and that's impossible to pull off in a real-life scenario Yeah, if you I you know a best the best description of this show is for something that I clipped if you wanted to play like. Yeah. Like, uh, what do you got? Clip 6 is a good description of this.

Yeah, every second of that movie is a beautiful crystal snowflake of baffling awfulness. I thought they were talking about their show. Yeah. It's, that is a perfect description of their show. Every second of that movie is a beautiful crystal snowflake of baffling awfulness. Yeah so I agree with you. I don't remember what she was talking about or her or it was talking about there. I feel bad that I can't get on board with that and if somebody wants to be a dude then I think that's fine

too but you have to forgive me if I don't know exactly what to say. I'm a 40, I'm a crutchy old man. Right. I can't catch up. And you have one more clip on here. I'm going to play it and then we're going to try to crank through the rest of this and move on with our lives. Yeah, this one was just, you know, Miles already, you know, got one divorce and then he was

talking about this and... Okay. Yeah. Actually, no, a couple people who don't like the Beatles. I know. My girlfriend isn't a big fan of the Beatles. It's my biggest complaint about her relationship. Yeah, what the hell, man?

I don't know. Maybe I'll convince her one of these days. Strike two. That was shocking to me. Because if I had to choose which of these two were gay, I definitely would have put my body on my nose. Jay is definitely, where's the pants? Well, right.

And Miles is really into comic books for a straight guy. He really is really into comic books. Yeah, there he is too. I mean, so did you know that Jay is single and that she has an issue about that? I don't know if he picked up on this listen to this clip so I have a lot of single issues Maybe she was talking about power but what ever I don't know it seems like she's has issues either way That's true

Definitely at the beginning of the show they tease what they're gonna talk about At the beginning of the show, they tease what they're going to talk about at the end of the show. And this couldn't be a worse tease. But anyway, we're going to talk more about the hiatus and kind of what that's going to look like and what we're going to be doing in the meantime at the end of the episode. So please stick around for that. That's going to be some useful information to have. News you can use. Yeah. So they're going to go on the stream with hiatus and

Miles sets it up as stick around to the end of the episode, which is by the way an hour and 14 minutes away. Yeah. And we're gonna talk about what we're gonna be doing while we're on hiatus, news you can use. That I couldn't have less of a purpose for that information in my life. There's no reason why anyone wanna stick around. But I know you hate talking about your personal life and... Yeah, I hate it. People don't wanna talking about your personal life and yeah, I hate it.

People don't want to hear about your personal life. We're not celebrities. We're shitty podcasters. And then he does talk about this Thor podcast that he's going to start. That he's very excited about. I think that's why he was wanted people to stick around. Correct. Correct.

And I'm sure you already subscribed to this podcast. He's even started yet. And I'm already like sitting next to my phone waiting. Right. Yeah. Keep refreshing the app. What's going on? He's even started yet and I'm already like sitting next to my phone waiting right yeah Refreshing the app. What's going on? He starts talking about it and he does this thing that I do that I hate when I do it Starting sentences with the word so he does this three sentences are all he's in an extended one like so

And then there's a little short micro blast give us this so this has been announced for a couple weeks But we've barely talked about it on the show. So I'm gonna talk about it a little right now So I'm gonna be doing a show called the lightning in the storm. Yeah, yeah, I didn't even pick up on that I know you I know you find out those little Crutches that people use and people use and uh it's time to go fuck yourself. Oh the jingles department is back. Yeah I get really annoyed by the verbal crutches that people have. It's okay if you're talking to someone although I do get really irritated with people saying

like a lot. Even in my normal life if someone says like over and over again I automatically think they're an idiot. Probably not a good thing. Yeah, I'm looking forward to listening to this back and realizing what my horrible bad habits are. Oh yeah, you become very self-conscious. Would you listen to yourself back on a podcast

and realize that, oh, I was making fun of that guy, and I love what people tell me this too. Yeah, you know, you made fun of these guys for doing this. You guys do that, I'll tell you like, I know. I get it. Yeah, I get a feeling mine is gonna be that I I hate trans people so it's like you're gonna have some problems here so yeah and yet who are these that kind of is not a devile I'm not on Facebook it's all on you okay. I have one more clip that I want to play and I don't remember what it is.

My notes on it are, oh, so this is going back to how they're clipping in things in post and it's very obvious, the production level of here. Give a listen to this and see if you can hear what does not flow with this conversation. Welcome to episode 157 of J&Miles, explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins, the out-send, the retconns of comics, great superhero soap opera. And welcome to the third and final part of the extinction agenda, but also welcome to our last episode for a little while. How many people are going to hear last episode and not catch for a little while? As I think we mentioned a couple episodes ago, we're going to be... How many people are going to hear last episode and not catch the for a little while? As I think we mentioned a couple episodes ago, we're going to be how many people are going to hear the last episode? They decided to put that in in post to make

sure that you understood that they're coming back again and you can tell because everything changes about her reflection. You can hear that. That's right. You can hear the talent. All the hard editing that's going on with this podcast right there. It's so unnecessary. It is. It didn't enhance the show in any single way. And it is one of the things I want to address about this show and I guess about comic with people specifically. They talk about, they have a problem with these things that are brought up that are off

panel. They talk about they have a problem with these things that are brought up that are off panel They say that they hate each other, but that's off panel because they've never really demonstrated that I've never heard that term before. Yeah. Is that a thing off panel off panel? Is that is that some people talk about? I think it's like It's people that some it's things that somebody that reads kind of books talks to people that read kind of books about where they imply Something that happened that that you never saw. I wish it was a death panel instead This off panel the the whole conversation where they were going on and on about things They didn't like yeah, they make shit up. It's all made up. What is it matter? Yeah, but they never established it so and so it doesn't look like this dude. You're like, who cares?

Why do they need to establish anything? These guys, do they do a podcast about the young and the rustless, too? Probably. Because that would make sense. Again, I just want to reiterate, I thought that these guys are smart people. They put a lot of time into their show. A lot more production than we're used to I thought the show was Terrible. It was very difficult to listen to but of course, I don't care what the subject matter

But I thought what was really funny is that Andy suggested this podcast to us and what he put in his suggestion was Hey, I figured since you guys did S town that you could do this show and I'm not a huge fan of S-town But it's one of the biggest podcasts ever and obviously very different production wise and Just as far as the popularity goes. What about S-town? But you think, well, they should be doing it. I'm not explaining that because S-town is popular Yeah, this is show is popular People all mugs too. I don't know anyone who knows this show they do some live Episodes where a lot of people like comic book conventions show up. Okay. I have like a big right

So I can only assume those are the people that are listening to this So I have Business meetings with people where they say did you hear hear us town? And I say yes, and we talk about it. Never once in my life have I stumbled upon a conversation where they're like, how many episodes of explain X-Men have you listened to? Because I'm at 138 and I'm riveted with this new, anyway, I thought it was.

I assume it's more popular than it is. Uh, hello exactly. I love this thing. I am this thing. I am very excited. I do podcast about shitty podcast. I brought you a shitty podcast. I don't know.

Shoo! Yeah. Now you're just pressing the buttons. I'm just excited to have control of the board. I knew this would happen too. All right. Well, is there anything else that you wanted to talk about? Fuck no.

I mean, I think we talked about it. Do we talked about it. Do we cover everything? Yeah, well we definitely talked about it for too long That is for sure. All right, well listen, I have some good news. We're gonna do this again next week. Yeah I mean we're not going to but I'm going to I'll be listening and you'll be listening and So I want to play a little teaser clip from the podcast that we'll be reviewing next week. Not so much. Hi, I'm Chris and I am hard as fuck. All the time. I can't seem to catch romantic break and it's trying to be intergrinders. Number one customer, a pessimistic hoe. I've never been in love. I've only been an ass.

And hi, I'm Josh. I'm soft. I'm a hopeless romantic. I have a list of date night ideas on my phone right now as we speak, and I cried to him figures five times last week, it's fine, this is fine. Oh my god. Alright, so I suddenly feel a lot better. You are walking into a fucking grenade. Next, we have another guest co-host. Yeah, next week, we have another guest co-host, Vinny Paulino will be on the show. And we'll be talking about Hard and Soft.

This is from episode number one, Love and the Club. This was actually a suggestion from one of our loyal listeners, Emily. Thanks for turning us on to this. Let me read you the description. The Hard and Soft is a podcast about love, sex, and relationships for college students in the Bay Area, brought to you by UC Berkeley's

independent student newspaper, The Daily California. So you wanna talk about, I do not wanna know how the sausage gets made. I just have to say, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm just kidding made. Yeah. It's the actual Carl Alexander. Oh, great. This pity you. Yeah, this one's going to be brutal. And you want to talk about political correctness.

I mean, this is the epicenter of that. Yeah. I still have to once again qualify that I don't have anything against the LBT-2X. I saw you stopping at a gay gentleman in my driveway. I'm hurting everyone. I'm hurting everyone. I'm a gay gentleman in my driveway. I'm hurting every way. I'm a cute Carl questioning. Do I love titties or am I just like a lot? Oh boy.

So I'm not no. You think it went good though, don't you? What the show? Yeah. I probably won't upload it. But I can email it to you. You can always delete it, but I think it'll be a mistake. I can email it to you.

I always can't. You can listen to, but I think it would be a mistake. I can email it to you I always can't listen to it show your friends I feel like it's my first podcast that ever did and I feel like I'm already better than you This is probably true I'm so kind of good This could be true. This could be true And you have the right attitude about it because on this show we're better than all other podcasts as everybody knows? I feel that way. Oh boy. Well, this is this has been fun Andy and seriously. Thank you for joining me. I'm probably the punny That's my life. Thanks for stopping by San Diego of Morning Radio. And now to show these clothes right now. I You know, who are these?

Podcasts. I don't know. I don't get it. Makes no sense.