189 How Do You Solve a Problem Like Nate Summers?

Published: March 21, 2018, 8:30 p.m.

In which Jay's mom broke the Internet; correct credits are important; everyone has a Danger Room; no one needs that many teeth; there are so many reasons to laugh at Stryfe; the Watcher is probably affiliated with Pepperidge Farm; Boom Boom is the Rogue of X-Force; and Cable's pouches are definitely full of menstrual products.\n\nX-PLAINED:\n\n \tThe Franklin Richards of Earth X\n \tThe One True Cable\n \tX-Force #5-7\n \tPocket-Size Juggernaut\n \tA novel approach to trauma surgery\n \tA moment of intersectionality\n \tTeeth of the early '90s\n \tSoft pink bags of rice-paper flesh\n \tA villain speech\n \tX-Force's bathtub\n \tSeveral Shel Silverstein poems that may or may not be about superheroes\n \tCooking with Boom Boom\n \tWhy the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants keeps the "Evil" in their name\n \tThornn (Lucia Callasantos)\n \tPhantazia\n \tWriters vs. Scripters\n \tSex Ed at the Xavier School\n \tThe Worst Twitter Thread\n\nNEXT EPISODE: BLOODLUST! (But not inquiry.)\n\n\n\nCheck out the visual companion to this episode\xa0on our blog!\n\nFind us on\xa0iTunes\xa0or\xa0Stitcher!\n\nJay\xa0and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to\xa0help support the podcast\u2013and unlock more cool stuff\u2013you can do that\xa0right here!\n\nWe\u2019re in the process of migrating our\xa0official shop to TeePublic!\xa0Click over to check it out!\xa0(You can still find the designs we haven\u2019t moved yet\xa0at Redbubble.)