EP 133: A Very X-Men Thanksgiving: A Wedding Proposal, Gambit's Tight Bike Shorts, and Football Feuds

It’s turkey time with the X-Men! This week, we’re carving into Uncanny X-Men #308—a Thanksgiving classic where the team sets aside the danger to enjoy some much-needed downtime… or at least try to. We’re talking raking leaves, chaotic football games, and Gambit rocking impossibly tight yellow bike shorts (you’re welcome). As Scott and Jean take a romantic stroll down memory lane, complete with flashbacks and emotional revelations, we debate who’d make the ultimate Thanksgiving dinner guest list, which mutant would burn the stuffing, and who’s guaranteed to bring the drama. Plus, we break down how Jean and Scott steal the spotlight during Xavier’s heartfelt speech with their big engagement announcement—cue the mutant mayhem and awkward congratulations.So grab your leftovers and join us for this fun-filled holiday special, where X-Men antics meet Thanksgiving traditions!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, everybody. This is Chandler, and this is Chris and
you're listening to.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
The podcast.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
We are here with episode one thirty three. Hooray, we've
made it this far. All the borah, the landmark one
hundred and thirty third episode. It's what everyone's been waiting for.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Have they? Have? They?

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Really?

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Well? You know what, I just want to give a
massive thanks to Comic Asylum in Palm Desert, California, because
they host it the one and only Leonor's Am the
Voice of Rogue from x min E, anvated series, and
X Men ninety seven for a special in store signing
appearance that I was able to help out at. And
they also hooked us up with this Thanksgiving issue that
we're covering today and the tagline for the store is

(00:59):
we have have issues kind of perfect right Comic Asylum.
Oh yeah yeah. So for more information about Comic Asylum,
visit Comic Asylum Palm Desert dot com and tell them.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
I said, hello, yeah, well you heard it. We are
going to be doing a Thanksgiving issue, which is pretty exciting.
I like that.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, it's always good to, you know, cover a holiday
issue when the holiday comes around.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Absolutely, yes, Well, and you know, Thanksgiving is a great
reflective time. I mean, we'll get into it in the
storytelling of the comic as well. But it's a wonderful
holiday for me. I like it. I think it's a
It is going to soon in the history books be
known as the kickoff to Christmas dinner, It's Christmas Season dinner,

(01:50):
or whatever we want to call it. It's going to
just completely fade away and just be part of the
Christmas holiday. But for now, it is a time to
be thankful for things.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Are there any Thanksgiving movies coming out this year? Did
they just skip right past that? I mean, we've got
Wicked and Gladiator.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah. I don't think we have any Thanksgiving specific movies.
I mean, the only ones I can think of off hand.
For some reason, I recall a movie about a Saint
Bernard dog named Beethoven that has to do with Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yes, I know Beethoven very well, I don't.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
I just kind of vaguely remember this movie.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
In this dog and he slobbered everywhere, Yes, And then
there was a Beethoven second, and then, like you know,
I think they went up to five movies.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Really, I remember there was Beethoven. It was all about
the puppies, Like, yes, it's not. It wasn't so much
about Beethoven the Dog anymore. It was about the full pack.
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
One of a Thanksgiving movie that I want to revisit
is the one that there's a Pilgrim that it's a
horror slasher movie. It's all about this like pilgrim ghost
type figure that is terrorizing everybody and having all these
wacky murder deaths.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
But yeah, you know, there's an amazing Thanksgiving movie. Oh
gosh it, I can't remember the name of it. It's stars.
Oh my gosh, I'm blinking. I've been sick everybody, so
I'm like on cold medicine and I'm not thinking straight today.
But there is a girl who was married to Tom

(03:30):
Cruise and she was in Dawson's Creek.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Oh, Katie Holmes.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Katie Holmes stars in this Thanksgiving movie and her name
is April. And I can't remember the name of this
movie now, but she lives in New York City.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
I got it Pieces of April.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Pieces of April. Yes, So she lives in New York
City and she's having her family over for Thanksgiving and
she's a poor, broke artist type character. And it's all
about the high jinks of getting Thanksgiving dinner ready done
in that edgy nineties grunge style. And that's a great movie.

(04:05):
So if you guys want a good Thanksgiving movie and
you don't want to watch Beethoven, we can watch Pieces
of April.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Okay, I'm going to be ditching my Eli Roth Thanksgiving
slasher film for Pieces of April for sure. Katie Holmes.
Back in the day Dawson's Creek, I had a poster
of her on my wall, believe it or not. So yeah,
I would like to see this Katie Holmes film. But
let's talk about when this issue came out back in

(04:36):
nineteen ninety four. Ooh yes, we're going to be covering
on Keunny x Men number three oh eight and it
was published January first, nineteenventy four. The top song this
is one that you love. I think it's called Hero
by Mariah Carey.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
I'm familiar with it.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yes, yes, are you?

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (04:59):
And then he zero comes along with the strength to
carry on and you cast your fears. I'm not even
getting it right, and you know you can't serve that yes, yes, yeah, yeah,
it definitely is a classic. It's one of her most

(05:21):
popular songs. I would say, And since we're talking about
Mariah Carey, how much do you love the fact that
she comes out every year in a new way to
present the fact that she is the start of Christmas season?

Speaker 1 (05:38):
You know? I love it. I love that she has
just owned one song of her career and she's like,
this is my brand now. Literally, this is all I
am is this one song. And it's crazy because I've
read some statistics and I don't know the numbers off
the top of my head, but it is like her
number one earner and it's like the number one Royalty
Christmas song every year, like it cannot be beat. It's

(06:02):
the most streamed, you know, Christmas song of the season.
It's crazy, but I love how she's owned it. And
I'll never forget when she did that whole transition from
Halloween to when she was like on the exercise bike
as the Witch, but she turned into the Christmas version
of herself. Oh, I loved it. It was so good.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Well, she does a new one of those every year.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
I didn't see the transition this year. I know one
was like she was in bed or something and then
she just woke up like maybe that was the first one.
It's just the really simple transition of going to sleep
in her Halloween costume and then waking up in Christmas.
I don't know, I have to I'm curious how many
transitions she's done over the years.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
Oh my gosh, oh wow, oh gosh. So this year
I think is probably the best. And I know you
like the exercise bike one that was great, but this
year she was more Titia dancing with the Gomez Adams,
a whole Adams Family take on the tango. There's an

(07:13):
iconic moment of Mortitia where you know, she always has
the light across her face, just on her eyes, you know,
and they pay homage to that. And then there's a
chest of wardrobe that opens and it's a clock, and
then she screams it's and then it's all turns into
color and it's Christmas y and Gomez turns into a

(07:35):
freaky snowman, so scary, just like I am a terrified
of the snowman. But you know, it's fun, it's great.
I love the Adams family, I love Mortitia, and I
think that this year's is probably the best.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, it was. It was definitely fun. The production value
was high, for sure. I think Maria Carrey has a
great sense of humor about herself. And one of the
things that I love is that she used to do
this Mariah Carey Can't Cook video series with I don't
know if you're friends with him as well, this guy,

(08:13):
this guy named Kit and uh, it just was hilarious.
He would come over to her house and they would
attempt to bake cookies and it would just be really ridiculous,
like just her her attempt at cookies. She's like, do
we add dish soap? Is this what we do? Now?

Speaker 2 (08:27):
Like, my god, that sounds like it's me I know,
just you know.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
Absurdity, And it was. It was so fine that she,
you know, would filmed this video series in her own
house just to show that she can't cook.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
Well. The top movie was a classic, This is Missus Doubtfire.
After a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a
female housekeeper to spend time with his children held in
custody by his former wife, starring Robin william Sally Field
and Pierce Bras named mister James Bond himself.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Wow, well, okay, so clearly this is a killer time
of pop culture because I mean not only Hero by
Mariah Carey, which is huge, but miss Doubtfire is like,
you know, it's a run by fruiting. It's like there's
so many there's so many lines.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yes, and you know it's still is popular today, Like
I see cosplayers at cons do this all the time,
and it's such a fun character to coseplay as Chandler,
I challenge you, you need to do Missus Doubtfire one year.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
You know, I'm not against it the whole wearing the costume.
I just hate shaving, I hate. But maybe one of
these days I will I will appear as Missus Doubtfire
Hubaj and I a doubt Fire exactly, or maybe I'll

(09:55):
do it that way. I'll just have the pie on
my face and you wouldn't even know because it's all free.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Perfect. I think there's like a musical about it now too.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Oh yeah, it's coming gone already, but yes, a Tony
nominated musical in fact. But yes, I've heard that is
it's a fun show for sure, and that the lead
actor who played Misdoubtfire, Robin Williams character was fantastic.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah, so chammer, tell me, let's just imagine that there
are four or five X men that are coming to
your Thanksgiving dinner, and you get to invite certain people.
Tell me four Tell me who are your four x
men or coming to your Thanksgiving dinner?

Speaker 1 (10:44):
Okay, I am going to bring This is so basic.
I'm bringing Wolverine, Gambit, Rogue and Nightcrawler. Really, why one
Wolverine because he is my fictional husband and then he
needs to be there. But I also, you know, somebody
needs to carve the turkey. Nightcrawler because you know, someone

(11:08):
needs to say something inspirational or you know, satisfying to
unite us altogether. And Rogan Gambit because they'll probably bring
the best dishes of food.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Oh my god, you're right. Well I can't copy you, no,
so I have to pick all new four x men.
So I'm going to go one multiple man. I'm a cheater. Well,
I get in the kitchen, multiple man, you're making all
the dishes. Oh, we're going to play football. I want

(11:38):
multiple man on my team, you know. And then I
have a whole lineup against everybody except that they call
Han no powers. Yeah, and then I think I would
also I would not invite Beast.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
He's a trouble maker.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
Well, he's a little trouble maker. A but I'm just
thinking about it, and he's sitting at the table, and
I don't want hair in my food.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Fair, Okay, that's fair, you know.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
I think you know, I don't know why Sabertooth comes
to mind. I just feel like saber Tooth would come.
He'd be a little grumpy and stuff, but he'd eat
all the leftovers. That's true, you know, because like I
am a leftover fiend. You give me that that turkey
stuffing and load me up in my fridge and I
will eat it, not stop, and then turn it to

(12:33):
a you know, a very big person.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
So you want at your dinner to eat your leftovers,
or you don't want him because you want the leftovers
for yourself.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
I want him to eat my leftovers so that I
am not eating, you know, all the desserts and everything.
Take the temptation away from me.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yes, okay, so you've got to.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
I would say, Cyclops. I think you would give a
nice little, you know, Thanksgiving speech for everybody, very professional,
you know, and Iceman because he's a homosexual and I
like to be with my gaze.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
It's an all male party. Sausage Thanksgiving sausage party.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Oh man, Oh no, no, I go, I gotta have
some lady. But the thing is that I don't want
to telepath. No, I do not want Gene. I don't
want Silock. Get out of here. Ladies like I don't
want you reading my mind. Not professor X. Don't even
come near my house because there could be drama Thanksgiving. Ye,

(13:46):
I don't. I don't want. I don't want Gene to
come mess up the cooking and then we go, this
is gross, and then.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
She would know and she'd be like, stopped, he thinks
my cooking is gross.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Speaking of which, all right, pick the actual cook. Who's
going to be the actual cook. It can't be you,
even though Chandler, you cook delicious.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
I'm gonna say, if I'm hosting Thanksgiving, I have to cook.
There's no way it.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Has to be an X. Men, it's not you.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
Well, I mean, I picked Rubin Gimmick because I thought
they'd bring good dishes. But you need If I need
somebody that is in the kitchen making the food, I'm
going to do glob Herman.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Really that's a good one.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Yeah, because he is an amazing cook.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yeah, all right, Okay, so you know there's the Thanksgiving parade,
there's playing football and stuff. What are you going to
be doing with the X men? I know in the
comic book, you know, we'll get into it, but they
have a whole football scene. But what would your activity be?

Speaker 1 (14:54):
Well, I love a group activity I love is playing
the game celebrity, and so I would like to play
h celebrity And I would also like maybe an autumn
walk along the river or something like that.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
I'm one hundred percent of Thanksgiving parade guy, because not
even for the parade part of it with the balloons,
that's fine. I just loved the Broadway numbers at the start,
you know what I mean. I got to get those
those musical numbers in so either that, Oh my gosh,
you know what else came to mind? This is so dorky,
but you remember doing arts and crafts and putting your

(15:35):
hand on the paper and then tracing it and making turkeys. Yes,
you did that as a young kid, and they came
out like crap and they got on the refrigerator. But
what if we brought that back for adults so that
they can make their turkeys like super ornate and intricate
and like artistic masterpieces.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yes, that's what I want to do with the X
Men beautiful right? Which x Men is going to cause
the scene and storm out the drama? Who drama?

Speaker 1 (16:08):
I mean Wolverine is always the drama, I feel, But
I mean Roe can be pretty dramatic. Gambit can totally
be dramatic. I mean there's there's there's there's a recipe
you know, percolating in that room where it could be dramatic.
But if if it's an additional character that like comes
uninvited and causes drama.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
Let's see, it's Mystique.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
Mistique is always drama which she shows up?

Speaker 2 (16:37):
How about Mistique disguising herself as Jubilee?

Speaker 1 (16:40):
Even better? But you would be excited to see her though,
That's the thing. I feel like, if Jubilee showed up,
everyone would be happy.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
I just don't think she probably has the worst table manners, probably,
but yeah, but that's why me and her are so like. Yes,
can you imagine Mystique, though, disguising herself as Jubilee and
having to put on the act? Mm hmm, hello, does
a mall babe eat chili fry? Well?

Speaker 1 (17:11):
I think she could play it a little bit up.
But yes, I don't think Misstique really has the bubblegum
in her to make it all full on jubilee. I
think you can see right through the disguise.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
All right, well, you know what, let's get into this issue.
It's very interesting. There's some fun scenes that we can cover,
some interesting fashion.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
Indeed, yeah, we are doing Uncanny X Men threeh eight
titled Mixed Blessings, written by Scott Lobdell and art by
John Romita Junior.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yes, and on the cover we see Jean Gray and Cyclops.
They are coming towards us blasted, but the cool thing
is behind them is kind of like a vision of
the past. Yeah, you past them and present them, and
it says Mixed Blessings, a turning point in the lies

(18:08):
of the X Men.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
I remember seeing this cover when I was young. I
actually have never read this issue until now. Like I
know the issue. I've seen the issue, but I've never
read it word for word, all the way through all
of the thought bubbles and everything. But I remember this
cover particularly was misleading because you think it's like a
big they're going into battle, but now they're just hanging
out the mansion. And I remember my young brain being like,
I don't want to read this one. There's no action,

(18:30):
there's no superpowers.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
And this is definitely in my childhood long box. And
I am just like you. I was too young to
like read through all the words. I was like word.
I was all about, you know, looking at the art
and making up my own story about what was going on. Yeah,
So reading it through, actually reading it word for word

(18:54):
today has been very interesting, indeed, and I am so great,
like I said, thank you Comic Asylums, because I have
a physical copy of the book in my hand, which
you know, we haven't really done it a while.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
No, it's been a while.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
We are all over Marvel Unlimited, which I love and
highly recommend. But every now and again it's nice to
pick up that physical issue and open it up and
smell it and go smells like nineteen ninety four.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yes, yeah, I feel like we might have done physical
issues of modern books, but the ads are never exciting,
so we just are like, forget it.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah, and back in nineteen ninety four, you know, I
feel like everything was a video game or a trading card. Correct,
and the first ad alert, Oh wait, oh Chanler, we
get to do it all right, This is a couple

(19:55):
of video games here that I'm seeing. It's time for
some real mortal common flying kicks, super punches, fireballs, death blows.
Some people call this type of fighting combat, but there
are others who call it kid stuff. Like anyone who
sat in the cockpit of an M one two Abram's
battle tank ears ringing with each blast of it's one

(20:18):
hundred and twenty two millimeter cannon. Are someone who thirty
thousand feet above the Mediterranean banked their F fourteen Tomcat
at Mock two to shake an MiG off their tail.
Now talking Mortal Kombat.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
And you can too with our spectacular new sixteen meg
military simulators Super Battle Tank two and Turn and Burn
and No Fly Zone. They're not real life, of course,
but they're mind blowing graphics since shattering sixteen bit sound
and lifelike animation make for combat action that sure feels

(20:55):
that way. Forearm jabs, roundhouses. Come on, forget the kid stuff,
try fighting like the big boys do.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
Yeah, and it basically looks like a flight simulator and
also a battle tank simulator.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yes, I've never played these games. This is definitely not
of my interest. I've never heard of absolute games either
the game company that made these, but I'm sure people
did play them.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
But I did love that Super Nintendo.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
Oh yeah. In fact, I've got one behind me right now.
You can't see it, but there's one right behind me.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
That's awesome. Give me that Super Mario World. I don't
want to like, I don't want to do Battle Tank.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
No.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah, I am looking, audience, I am looking at Chandler
on zoom right now, and I see the original Super
Nintendo in the background. There's a game he's holding up
to the screen and it says x Men muton apocalypsecalyps.
Do you like that one? Oh?

Speaker 1 (21:57):
Yeah, I like that game?

Speaker 2 (21:59):
Did you beat it?

Speaker 1 (22:01):
When I was a kid? Yes? Now as an adult,
I am awful at video games, and I was playing
that and I was mad at myself, Like I could.
I can picture my young self yelling at Me'd be like,
oh my god, give me the controller. Why can't you
do it? You know, like.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
It's I'm the same. What happened?

Speaker 1 (22:20):
I know?

Speaker 2 (22:21):
I used to be like such a whiz at Mario,
Donkey Kong, everything you could. Possibly those X Men games
would be no problem for me. It's just like I guess,
as humans we get to a certain age where our
minds degrade, and.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
I know we're slowed down. We questioned our choices. We
perish the lives that our video game characters have, and
like we're not just throwing them away at chance.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
Mm hmmm. Video games. Wow, you know I'm playing a
video game right now that you gifted to me, Chandler,
and I'm loving it so far. The New Dragon Age
Veil Guard.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Yeah, me too. I love playing that game. I was
playing it right before we recorded.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Yeah, how do you like your rook?

Speaker 1 (23:08):
I love my rook. He's so handsome.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
Nine too. Did I which class did you pick?

Speaker 1 (23:14):
I picked Human Mage, veil Jumper.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Oh really, I did Human Mage, the treasure Hunter.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
One oh, lords of Fortune.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yes, Lords of Fortune, and I literally picked it because
he had a sexy outfit. Oh yes, there's literally no
other reason except for the sexy outfit. I was just like,
if I'm going to play this game, I want that
hot outfit.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
Yes. I realized though as I played the game. I
love the Antivan Crows, which are like the Thieves Guild,
the people, the TeVeS, the thieves. Yes, anyways, that game
is great. Who are what character? Are you going to romance.
I don't know how far are you in if you've
met all your champions yet.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
I'm at the very beginning, and I know that in
the beginning of the game you can kind of remind
the system of what you did in the last game,
you know. And so I said, Hey, in the last game,
Dorian was my lover, and I'm just like, oh, please,

(24:19):
please please bring Dorian back, because like Dorian, oh melt.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
It didn't give me that option to I would have
said that in the Heartbea because I romance Dorian hard
ten years ago. When playing this game, I loved Dorian. Well,
no spoilers, I won't say anything about Dorian in this game, but.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
Okay, but well, I do hope I get to meet him.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
I loved Dorian. He's a character I really want to cosplay. Actually,
I would love to cosplay as Dorian. He's super cool.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
That's a good one. You would do a good mustache.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yes, I could. I could grow it out and make
it all, you know, make it work.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah, all right, let's get into this issue Mixed Blessings.
On the first page, we have Scott and Jean and
they are walking through the leaves in his Fall and
they are bundled up in big coats. Yeah, what are

(25:23):
they wearing?

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Chandler Well, Cyclops is wearing a brown leather pilot jacket.
First of all, I'm gonna say the artist by John
Remita Junr. It takes me a while to warm up
to John Remita Junr. His art style is so specific
and so distinct that you can either love it or
hate it. So at the poem, at the moment, I'm
not loving it. So he his attention to detail as

(25:46):
little minor. But yes, this is a brown leather pilot's
jacket with the furry collar flipped up, and he's got
what looks like baggy slacks, and of course his ruby
red shades on. And Jeane is wearing a green fuzzy
coat with green gloves and leggings. And I don't know

(26:08):
what her shoes are because they're stepped in leaves. I
guess he doesn't like to draw feet. But I will
say this autumnal scene that they're walking in is very
much Minnesota right now. It is all about the leaves falling.
Everything is you know, all the colors are done, so
it's all just kind of you know, settling, and it's beautiful.
I love this time of year.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Oh, I wish I were able to experience fall.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
No, I know, Well, you're in Palm Springs where there's
like no seasons. It's just the same. Yeah, all year round.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Well, you know what, it's sixty eight degrees and that's
how you know it's fall in Palm Springs. Yes, And
then also like you know where I actually live in
Los Angeles. Yeah, we don't get fall there either.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
No, No, I love fall though.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Well Jean and Scott. Jeane has an expression on her
face and Scott's noticing it and she's like, oh, it's nothing.
But then she kind of says that she's reminiscing about
when she first met him.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah. Their little banter is really cute. You know, while
we don't really talk about Scott Lovedell too much, he
did write some good X Men stories back in the day.
What is happening is she's reminiscing about the first time
she realized not the first time I met, but the
first time she realized that Scott Summers was the one.

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And we get a flashback Do Do Do Doo back
to the sixties when they're in their original five training
outfits and the Professor's mansion, and she remembers being in
the danger room and seeing Scott fixing a spike ball
and realizing that he was the one. And I actually

(27:53):
liked this dialogue. I'm gonna I'm gonna read her in
her thoughts, She's realized that you were the one. Every
teenage girl is assigned one guy with a capital O.
Scott the guy to pine away for the guy that
to get weak need and tongue tied over. At least
that's what my mother told me. I used to laugh
at her, telling her times had changed. Then I joined

(28:15):
the X Men. And you ever wonder why mothers are
always right? Because she was right. Jean saw Scott knew
he was the one in this moment.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
Mm hmmm, that's cute. Something I want to mention about
the physical copy, yes of this issue is the fact
that it's laid out, Oh yeah. Instead of instead of
a splash page that is from left to right horizontal,
we get two vertical pages. So you have to physically

(28:52):
maneuver this comic book in your hand to be vertical
to read these.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
And I don't remember seeing this in other issues.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
Sometimes it happens, Yeah, sometimes, usually it's not this. It's
because it's a it's a long splash page rather than
like regular panels. So I don't I think it's a
bit unnecessary to do it that way. To me, that's
a cop out because they're like, oh, shoot, I need
this many pages, so let's just flip this one and
make it too instead of one because of the lack

(29:24):
of story. But anyways, uh, Cyclops is fixing the danger room.
He looks deep into her ocean of green eyes, realizes
that she is the one for him to and he
gets flummoxed and falls off the ladder.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah. I like how she's all like, Slim, Can I
ask you a personal question? What's your real name?

Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah? For a long time.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Yeah, yeah, so she legit thought his name was Slim.
This is what I get in the cosplay world. Yes,
you know what I mean, because everybody has a play
name or like Instagram handle, and it's like I know
them as their Instagram handle, and I have to be like, hey,
you have like a real name.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah, I know. I have a friend named Edwin, but
his Instagram handle is Milltown cosplay and everyone thinks his
name is Milton. And he said, he said, people constantly
call him Milton, as if that's his name. He's like, no, Milltown.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
Yeah, I have one too, a friend of mine. His
name is Joseph, but he goes by Stitchett. Felix.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
Oh right, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
So everybody calls him Felix, and I call him Felix too,
me too, Like, yeah, right, you know, I think he's
good with it, though. I need to call him Joseph
one day. See if he does a double take.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
Do it when you're angry, Joseph. Jof No, he's using
my real name.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
By the way. Shout out to Joseph and Angel. They
went to the Fallout convention experience thing. There was an
immersive experience out in the Vegas area. Oh cool, I know. So,
oh my god, we need to put that on our list.
I you saw Fallout because you were working on it. Yeah,

(31:13):
the TV show, yes, and you liked it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
I like the show very much.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Yeah, and I love the series. So let's put that
on our calendar next year.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
Absolutely, that sounds like fun.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah. I can play that video game all day. So
back to the X Men.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Scott is fullmix and he falls off a ladder and
he says, Marvel girl, get clear. If I lose my
ruby chortz glasses, I could accidentally destroy the mansion. She
stops him from falling using her telekinetic powers.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Scott's all like, what a smoothie I was back then?
And subtle too. Are you sure you're not embellishing these memories.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
Not even a little though. You have to realize you're
getting this all filtered through the eyes of the young
girls first love. That's what Jeane says.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
I really shout at get clear, she.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
Says, really, really, and then bounce into the frame.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
Oh my lord. We have Beast carrying Jubilee on his
back and they are bouncing around, bouncing right in front
of Jean and Scott, and Jubilee is all like, clear
the aisle, everybody way cool, people coming through.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Our preferred path. Cleared is Thermo molecularly enhanced haaffeine extract
meaning beast hot coffee. Sure, yeah, but this is great.
This is so much fun because Beast then dives into

(32:48):
a big pile of leaves because we see that bansheet.
Forge and Storm are raking and I don't know what
Forge has concocted. His rake looks all, you know, super
high tech. She are whatever.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
Oh my gosh, it does.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yes, I don't know what that does, but you know,
and why they're not using more technology. But then I
learned later on in the in the page because Beasts
has jumped into the leaves. Their leaves are flying everywhere.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yeah, and Storms is really upset because they insisted that
doing this would be a therapeutic and in less than
three seconds, Beast, did you believe, totally undermined their efforts.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
Oh yes, I love it. She's screaming in the background
like a Peanuts character.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
So funny. And the next panel is like hilarious too,
because you see Beast's feet just poking out of the
pile of leaves. A thousand pardons, Oh mighty, lidris a
million pardons. Google pardons.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
Google pardons made me pause because I was like, wait,
what is the agic to Google? Because I looked and
Google was founded in nineteen ninety eight and we are
in nineteen ninety four, right now, what.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
In the Mendela effect? No, no, no, no, no, no, Google
is it? To Google is a verb that we know
to search on the Internet. But I think at Google
is a number, right?

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (34:21):
I tried.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
I tried googling this and I could not. I couldnot
find the uh the answer Google as noun I it
always refers back to Google, the search engine.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
Oh wait a minute, I have it good. The term
Google is derived from the mathematical term Google, which refers
to the number one followed by one hundred zeros. The
name was chosen to reflect the company's mission to organize
and asked, wait the company? But then again it talks
about nineteen ninety eight.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
What yeah, the this is? There were I'm sure the
word Google as the number existed before the company was
called Google.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
Oh you know what it is? It Google is spelled differently,
so if you the original Google, like the number that
I described is goo G O L. But wait a minute,
why is it spelled yes, Google like the search engine
in this comic book from nineteen ninety four.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
Do do do do? What is happening? This is a.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
Mystery, isn't it?

Speaker 1 (35:36):
Anyways? It made me pause because I was like, wait,
is beast referring to Google the company? And I said,
I think this issue came up before the company. M
pretty interesting.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
Yep, well I am not going to investigate further.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
Moving on, so anyways, he's causing a ruckus. He throwing
leaves everywhere. It's it's causing chaos and destruction and everyone's
having a hoot and holler and a good time because
it is Thanksgiving, and cyclop says, ha, Hank, is there
any way in particular, you'd like the body scent because
he throws leaves right into Storm's face.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
With the woosh. She's a beast. You don't do that
to a Storm. I know he's as good as dead.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
And then this line is beautiful. It says, can you
remember the last time we were all together like this, relaxing, laughing,
just enjoying each other's company, because that these downtime issues
are always so fun with the X Men, like whether
they're playing baseball or whatever they're doing, but these come
together moments after big epic battles are some of my favorites.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
I will say I will never play in the leaves
like that because, like one of the X Mens says,
they're allergic. There's allergens and oh yeah, I do not
want to see a spider. I don't want to touch
a spider. I want a spider fighting into my hair.

(37:07):
I did. I did the whole leaf dive one time.
I've got entire oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
Yes, growing up many many, many times jumped in leaf piles.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
Well, I'm glad you're still alive and you weren't bitten
by a radioactive spider and turned into spider Man. So
side cops. He reaches to the ground and he's picking
up a football and he says, but hey, Geene, who
has time to play games when there's an entire world
out there that needs saving?

Speaker 1 (37:40):
Yes, And then Jeane gets to talking about their future.
But then we hear off the side of the panel,
there ain't no reason, you big gumbo head. It's Gambit,
Gambit wearing the little slutty bike shorts and his like
leg warmers and his giant oversized jacket and back. I

(38:00):
just I love it.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
I love it too. There's a number twelve on the
side of his leg, which I don't know if that
represents anything. Yeah, but I mean, like, who wears this?
Did they even wear this back then? Well?

Speaker 1 (38:13):
I don't know, No, I don't know, but I mean
I can kind of see this oversized starter jacket, you know,
sports jacket vibe with the bike shorts. But I love
how Rogue is wearing basically a light green body suit
with cut off jeans over it. And then she's got
her boots and a crop top and a jacket.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
Yeah, and Bishop just seems the most sensible. He's got that,
you know, big thick blue jacket in some like dark jeans.
It looks like with the white undershirt. But I'll be honest,
I'm not going to be sensible. If I had to
choose one of these outfits. I'm so going for gambits.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
Yeah, it's fun.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
I need those bike shorts in my life.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
And I guess they're making a scarecrow. This is not
a tradition of Thanksgiving that I've ever partakeed in, but
I do know. I'm sure maybe in farmers kind of
family that they have these lands and they could use
the scarecrow making. It is a tradition. But Bobby takes
a short cut and he makes an ice crow and
then puts leaves all over it, and he says it's

(39:16):
like a mimic of Doctor Doom.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
Do you think it looks like Doctor Doom?

Speaker 1 (39:21):
No, and neither does Bishop. Bishop says, Doom. Is this
construct supposed to be Doctor Doom? I've studied your files
and seen no resemblance to the Lord of Latveria.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
And Gambit says, guess imagination was no prerequisite for joining
the Excess as a me.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
No lebo. But I assure you I was first in
my class when I came to founding smart mouth caguns.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
Oh you have a good bishop, boys, where did that
come from?

Speaker 1 (39:52):
It's cold?

Speaker 2 (39:56):
Okay, note it like when you have a cold, we'll
cover it. Shoes where the guys have a deep boobig
boys got it? So they start playing football and Psyclops
tosses it over to Bishop or over to Bobby actually
mm hmmm, and bishops are like, oh, yeah, what does

(40:17):
Bishop say next?

Speaker 1 (40:18):
Well, you know there's a we're going to play football
and goes hmm, I see neither a foot nor a ball.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
I send's like, by, don't let the details bog you down.
But of course, you know, Gene and Scott they just
have to be off camera or you know, in the
background of the panel, having their own conversation, their own melodrama,
because it's always about the relationship. Mm hmmm.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
And then we get a nice big flashback to Jean's
kind of first stays in the mansion and she's talking
with the professor about how to control the telepathic urges
of every all the voices coming into her head and
and how to develop that side of her powers. And
we learn about how her powers manifested when her childhood

(41:09):
friend Annie died in a car crash and she was
mentally linked with her, and because of the trauma of
experiencing the death of being run over through her friend,
Jane was in a catatonic state for three years.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
That's pretty intense. So of course Professor X is going
to like kind of manipulate her mind and put up
some psychic safeguards to help her develop her power at
a natural pace. Otherwise it's going to go way out
of control, you know, so out of control, probably like
that last issue that we covered with Storm and the

(41:48):
kid that came to his powers and caused like a
nuclear disasters. Yes, you know, if you want to hear
about that, go back to episode y'all.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
Mm hm. So, what Professor learns is that he's put
up psychic blockers to help her focus on her telekinetic
abilities and not let the telepathic abilities hinto her. But
they're starting to crumble, and she's like, you're the most
powerful mind on the planet, and he goes, indeed, I am,
but clearly they're falling apart, and it's because she is

(42:18):
obsessing over Cyclops. She's you know, gaggling over him and
thinking about him all the time and wanting to mentally
connect with him, and that is causing her telepathic powers
to reach out to him and breaking down Professor's barriers.
And that is all due to the fact that they're
in love. Lirve.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
Now, what's interesting is, so, what is this power that
Professor X has to create this construct of Cyclops in
his hand.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
He's just mentally astral projecting kind of the image, you know,
so that they both see it together. He looks like
a hollow disc kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
But no, it's yeah, it's the psychic power. And then like,
I just love how she's like doing it on her own.
She's like, yeah, oh I want to do that.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
Yeah, I want to, Like.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
I want to look at Psyclops. Yeah, oh my god.
If I had that power, I would just you know,
create theater plays in my hand with all the different people.

Speaker 1 (43:23):
Okay, so there is an amazing TikTok account. I don't
remember this guy's name, but he's a little kid. He's
maybe seventeen, I don't know, he could be older. And
he has barbiees and all he does is have to argue.
Barbies argue back and forth with each other, and the
stories that he tells between these barbies arguing is so

(43:43):
engaging and like to the point of where you're like,
I can't wait to see what happens next, Like you
just have to know what happens with these two barbies lives.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
My favorite of that style of genre of storytelling is
the ja'afar one was this there's ja'far as a drag queen. No, yeah,
and she's basically a mean girl. Oh perfect, So it's
like the ja'far doll. But like Regina.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
George perfect, I love it.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
It's so good, it's so good. Oh please look it up. Actually,
you know what, I'm gonna find it and send you
the link. Chandler, You're gonna love it.

Speaker 1 (44:19):
Good.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
So then what happens next, Well, I.

Speaker 1 (44:24):
Mean they're playing football. Beast is being the most and
like playing like a crazy person, and Bobby is just
like Hankster. This was before you weighed three hundred pounds,
as he's like tackling people and everything because he used
to be the star football player of course when he
was a human.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
Yeah, he says, ah, does this bring back memories Henry
that beast McCoy, the star of the high school grid
iroon the legendary starting pullback, the fame, the glory, the
adulation of the masses.

Speaker 1 (44:54):
Yes, he's like leaping as if he's gonna crush ice man.
So this this is just a little cutaway as we
then go back to Cyclops and Gene and they're talking
about the memory of how they were forging their bonds
during the whole Dark Phoenix saga and when she had
the Phoenix force kind of inside of her.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
Yeah, and I do love that Dark Phoenix Saga moment
where psyclops shirt is all ripped and its muscles are
poking out everywhere. Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (45:25):
And yeah, So it was Jean's love of Scott that
attracted the Phoenix apparently, and their bond is what made
her able to control the Phoenix for as long as
she could until she did her self sacrifice. And he
said that you know they were mentally linked, you know
that they had their psychic bond when she died, So
he also has experienced the trauma of death psychically like her,

(45:49):
So it brings them even closer. And then we get
a foreshadowing series of panels in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
Yeah, at a pleasant home on a right street. You know,
this guy is walking up or this guy is making
out with his wife, and he has his hand on
his child's face, and I don't know about that hand.
Is he gonna slap him, is he gonna choke him?

Speaker 1 (46:13):
What's going I know it's a bit aggressive.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
Yeah, tell me who is the artist again, John Remita junior.
All right, Well, his name is unimportant. This guy could
be anybody, anyone who has given up the notion that
the government will protect him and his family from a
world gone suddenly rife with menace. We see him walking
away to a car that in the car is marked Fealinx.

(46:36):
But unlike all those other Anniones, this man intends to
do something about it. And a briefcase that he was
holding he throws out of the car and it lands
on the ground and we see on the thing it saysmorrowmorrow. Yeah, yeah,
And he totally discarded his briefcase. The handle is broken.

(46:58):
He does not want his briefcase in his life.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
No, because he I mean, because because we are from
the future and we know what's happening. He's going off
to volunteer to become a FAILINGX which, you know, you
forfeit your life to become part of the machine, so
to speak. So he's like, I don't need this briefcase.
I'm literally part of the system of failings, you know, soldiers,

(47:21):
so to speak.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
So I didn't know they had cars that were march failing,
you know, right, so conspicuous, I know, I know. Okay,
And now we're at my favorite panel of the issue.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
Yeah, let's go for it.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
Why because I it is this like you know view
where they're X men or at a huddle, and it's
almost as if I can imagine Gambit standing over me
about to give a huktua with that bubble gum in
those shorty short biker shorts that looks like it's riding

(47:55):
up on the sad and we see some bare midriff
on Gambit. Wait a minute, there's other X men there too, Yes,
there are no, but all as I could see is
Gambit Forge, you know, looking like Tom of Finland. I'm
okay with him, he's great, but man, that Gambit.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
It's the whole he's look at. He's got a crop
top even in this era.

Speaker 2 (48:19):
Mm hmmm hm.

Speaker 1 (48:22):
We just love him. We love him and his you know,
his ever slut era. Well, anyways, they're doing a huddle
Forges the quarterback, giving orders, Bishop cannot follow. Bobby reminds
Forge that this is a huddle and not a physics class,

(48:42):
and they're trying to basically go along so that Forge
can throw the pass and they can get their their touchdown.
What I love in this little moment is that as
they are kind of big talking to each other, Be says,
just so we're clear, padres the losers or you, oh,

(49:03):
the winners or us? The first round at Harry's and
that's Harry's Hideaway, which we had a little easter egg
at the Uncanny Experience. So I just I love that
we got to give honor to Harry's Hideaway.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
The un Kenny Experience the Immersive x Men Van Convention
happening this July twelve and thirteen. Oh, I got it right. Yeah.
I was actually surprised that you put that in there
because I wasn't expecting it. I was like, why is
Harry's Hideaway on the mat? Oh my god, what a
cool easter egg. Yes, you gotta like definitely check out

(49:38):
what we have coming to next year. Go to the
Unkenny Experience dot com.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
Mm hmm. Bishop follows up. He says that sounds Fairrison's
drinking your meals through a straw will be the only
option open after we're done with you all the big talk. No,
actually gonna win. I'm just like, look at this team.
So we've got Bishop, Forge, Iceman, gambita Rogue versus Jubilee, Storm,

(50:05):
Revanche aka Cannon, and Beast.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
Oh I'm gonna go with the Gambit Rogue, Orge Bishop
Iceman team.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
Yeah. I mean it's a good team, but I feel
like Storm's cutthroat jubileese you know, she's she's the weakest
link in this team. But Revenge is a super trained
assassin hand ninja person, you know, and Beast is the
only experienced football player probably in the whole group. So

(50:36):
I'm just like interesting, interesting.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
Okay, Well, Borge hikes the ball, rows it and they
go along, and then Gambit and Storm are going after it.

Speaker 3 (50:47):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
And but guess what happens wosh through the air through Storm, uh, Storm,
and Gambit comes Archangel. He grabs the ball. Yes, and
then everybody's all like warre and cheeter hay, no fair,
we call no powers.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
No powers.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
It did not do too it was implied do over,
do over hat Stuard, he's on our team. And then
we see from the distance, you know, Jean and Scott
they are talking to each other again, not participating in
the games. No, they literally can only think about their relationship.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
Yees, I know all about themselves.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
And from a distance, Scott says, they almost sound like
a family.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
Almost, and then they start talking about making their own
family and they're like, well, don't we actually already have
a family. And Jean's like, oh, screw that woman for
the future, Rachel Summers. Right, She's like, I don't want,
you know, to be told that I'm going to have
a girl and that her name needs to be Rachel.

(51:59):
I wanted you was, yeah, ever since I saw her.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
It's like destiny is like happening, and I don't have
to say it. I want to have to say it.
But if she has a say in it, that means
no Rachel. She really hates Rachel, No.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
She does. She's so better at her. But anyways, so
she's just like, we're gonna start our own future, you know,
like this is not laid out that that future that
she's from is not guaranteed. And then they talk about
Cable or Nathan Christopher Summers.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
Yeah, it's like, what about the sun I gonna had
with the you know Madeline.

Speaker 1 (52:36):
Yeah, he's like, we actually actually have a baby, like
an actual baby. That was boring. But anyways, they of
course steal the baby from Madeline during Inferno and then
do the Acts of Inferno. They decided to send the
baby to the future. We all know the story. We've
watched X Men ninety seven. We got the cliff notes.

(52:57):
But if you guys want to read this actual maybe
we can X you this sometime. It's X Factor number
sixty seven is when baby Cable gets sent to the future.

Speaker 2 (53:07):
Hmm, yes, let's put that on the list. Yes, And
they are so engaged in their football game it is
bouncing everywhere. They don't even listen to Professor Xavier, and
Gambit says, kind to pop a little BALLI.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
Be says, casting aspersions upon its heritage is no way
to endear oneself to the pigskin in question.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
Jubilee is all like, can the catchy comebacks gumbo and
snag the ball?

Speaker 1 (53:35):
And Warren says, Jubilee is right. This is for the.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
Game, and then the ball lands in Professor Xavier's hands.
He is in his wheelchair and he says, oh, no,
as I was saying, dinner is served, and he's wide
hyed and he's realizing, oh, they are all coming out

(54:01):
of him. Pull force whole speed with a bump, wack,
damn flood woodlop, claps, ooh ouch a grimace.

Speaker 1 (54:14):
And then we hear in the background, sorry, it's okay,
look at his nose.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
I'll go pack. I'll go pack because like he's gonna
get kicked out of it. Save your institute. Now, look,
my shoe is a how did your spoke? We see
Cyclops looking on and he says, I'll be right back
to the professor is marry me?

Speaker 1 (54:40):
What did you say, I'm tired of waiting Scott.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
Now, this is something that's interesting because I have the
physical copy of this issue and if you look, you
can see that the bubble is blank. Oh there was
a misprint back in nineteen ninety four where they did
not include the word it's in that bubble.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
Well, the words are I'm tired of waiting.

Speaker 2 (55:02):
Scott, waiting. I asked you to marry me almost.

Speaker 1 (55:07):
I wasn't ready then. I was afraid, afraid of what
our life would be like, what our future would be
like if we were together. And now now I'm afraid
of what my life would be like without.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
You married or not. That would never happen.

Speaker 1 (55:25):
Oh Scott. Through it all, our love has been one
constant in my life.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
Oh gosh, I mean swell the music.

Speaker 1 (55:36):
Yes, I know, drama, you know, PUSHI mushy, mushy, panel
after panel of them expressing their love to each other,
which is great.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Oh, now we have our very next. Yes, that is
a gun in our package and we are happy to
see you.

Speaker 1 (55:58):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (55:59):
So yeah, I know we see a video game called
Lethal Enforcers. This is the Sega CD, and it is
scary because you open the package and there is a
blue gun. Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
Sega CD. Now, I don't remember I remember the system existing,
I don't remember what it looked like or if any
of my friends had SEGACD. But this was like early
you know, before PlayStation DVD ROM kind of games.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
Yeah, and I think you know they had the arcade
version of this out first, of course. Yeah, yeah, and
that the whole gimmick on that is like you're shooting
guns at the screen. It says, bring all the big guns.
Lethal enforcers has shot point blank from the arcade hit
to two home formats, Sega CD and Sega Genesis. The
Chicago PD needs you to go up against a slew

(56:49):
of terrorists like you've never even seen. Every deadly move
is digitized from actual human movement. It's so lethal. We
needed to load your side iron the justifier into every
package for a total arcade experience. Onlike anything you've played
at home before.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
Mine is weird sideways, Hold on, come on, Just like
at the arcades, You've got to time your quick reload
features exactly right so you don't run out of AMMO.
Upgrade your firepower along the way to magnum twelve round
automatic assault rifle or grenade gun six levels including target training. Well,

(57:37):
put your skills to the test in the parts of
the Windy City the tourists never see.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
I'm a lookout for a big job in progress, high
speed chase ninjas in Chinatown, helicopter pursuit, and volatile heat
of the night vision during a chemical plant sabotage. See
and hear it all in intense digitized graphics, really stick
settings and painful sound effects. But watch out for the

(58:03):
innocent bystanders. Or you may go home in a zip
up package for one or two cops one or two
Top Cops, Pop Cops, what about Bottom Cops?

Speaker 1 (58:17):
A I do like this. Note that a Super Nintendo
version may be released, so please check with Konami for availability.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
This is a lot of information to give to a kid, yeah,
I know, you know what I mean, a lot of
text and it's also a gun that you're giving to
a kid. Yes, I mean, I don't know how I
feel about that in this day and age.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
Like I you know, to me, I feel like if
it was because there's lots of gun type things you
can buy for kids, like squirt guns and whatever. If
it was more of a futuristic looking laser gun thing,
I think it would be acceptable. But this is just
a replica of a Revolver.

Speaker 2 (59:00):
Yeah, conal Muster in the ballroom.

Speaker 1 (59:05):
In the book with the Revolver the revolver. But shout
out to Konami because you know, they make the X
Men game, which we know and love, the X Men
ar Kid game, so we do love.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
You know what. I got to take my clue reference
back because the gun is blue. So I'm going to say,
missus Peacock in the conservatory with the revolver.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
You got it. The only thing I want to reminisce
about Sega CD is that I now I'm remembering. I
had one friend, an obscure friend, so not a good friend,
that had this system, and they played a game called
The Adventures of Willie Beamish on SEGACD and I was
astounded at the graphics. I was wowed by the gameplay.

(59:49):
I just was so into it. So now I want
to go back and find it. I see it listed
on eBay for eighty dollars to buy the game, which
to me is defensive for a retro game. But oh,
it must be rare and people must still, you know,
think about it enough to that they want to play it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
Say yeah, all right, now cue the music. We've got
the soap opera music coming back, all right, Jane says.

Speaker 1 (01:00:17):
When I was young, withdrawn, frightened, your love challenged me
to be more than I was, to become all I
was capable of becoming. You gave me the strength to
open my mind, my heart.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
Our love was enough to stop the phoenix.

Speaker 1 (01:00:32):
Scott oh sorry, sorry, sir. Our love was enough to
stop the Phoenix, Scott, enough to save an entire universe.
I have to believe it is strong enough that we
can change the future that seems to have been planned
for us, Rachel's suffering at the hands of the Sentinels,
Bishop and his paramilitary XSSE everything we've learned about Nathan Christopher.

(01:00:56):
Our love is stronger than destiny, Scott. It has to be.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
What about the X Men.

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
This is our home, Scott. We belong here, We belong together.
I no sooner asked you to leave than i'd ask
you to grow another arm. This isn't about change for
change's sake. It's about spending the rest of our lives
together as husband and wife. So what do you say,
mister Summers.

Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
I say, I love you, miss Gray, today, tomorrow and
every day the rest of my life. All music swells
and it's like this beautiful like gone with the wind,
sunset moment, Yes with a silhouette.

Speaker 1 (01:01:42):
It is lovely. I do not like the comparison to
Maddie because Maddie and Cyclops I believe we're also married,
and they you know, he left the X Men to
go live in Alaska with her. But I feel like
they use this moment to make Geene be like I'm
not like her. I would never make you leave the

(01:02:03):
X Men, but it was his idea to leave the
X Men to begin with. Don't throw this on Natty anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
Well, in the physical issue, I now have to turn
my com book sideways yet again. They are making me
do aerobics over here trying to read and physical form.
And we are around the Thanksgiving table. There is a
turkey in the foreground. And what else do They have
a bunch of plates with a bunch of goop on it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:30):
Let's see, I'm gonna guess mashed potatoes. I'm gonna guess yams.
I'm gonna guess rolls.

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
Uh hmm. Oh, I'm so hungry right now.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
Oh, there's there's little cubes of butter here. There's something
that looks like a salad in the background.

Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
Just put all those cubes of butter on top of
everything and I will eat it all. And I'm sitting
Just do it. Professor X is at the head of
the table and Maira is standing above him. We also
have what looks to be banshee right who else is there?

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
I believe this is Jubilee mm hmmm. And then it's Beast.
This is he'll be his date? Oh, tris Tilby the reporter, Yes, Revenge.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
Rogan dam Bit. And then on the side over here
is a beautiful woman. She looks like she has a
flowered hair. Okay, so I thought this might be Stevie Hunter.
Do you remember the dance Instructor?

Speaker 1 (01:03:39):
Yes, of course, but you know.

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
Upon investigation, I actually think this is Charlotte. Charlotte Jones.
She was She was a New York police officer. She's
like a single mother, and she was in The X Factor.
Oh do you remember jud you read the X Factor?

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
Is? No, I don't know this character or these issues
that she appears in.

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
Well, she works alongside X Factor and other mutant public
figures and fights crime and handles mutant related issues.

Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
Got it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
Yeah, So she's a she's a strong ally to the team,
and I think we should X read some X Factor
and learn more about her. Who's on the left. We
have Storm and Forge and arch Angel and Bishop and
that's siloc yep. Okay, Now who are these other three?
Is that maybe Bobby.

Speaker 1 (01:04:33):
And Bobby and his parents?

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
Oh, his parents get to come to Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
I know they have kind of like a testy relationship,
so I'm surprised to see them there.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
Who else has parents? Are they all orphans?

Speaker 1 (01:04:51):
Uh? Siloc no parents? Bishop, no parents, Forge, I don't
know Warren I think has his father is still alive? Storm,
no parents, Jubilee has adoptive parents, Beast, I don't know.
Revanche is complicated, Rogue no parents, Gambit no parents, And
I don't know Charlotte's story.

Speaker 2 (01:05:12):
I am having a memory blank about Revenge.

Speaker 1 (01:05:17):
Okay, So Revenge is Cannon? Okay? So Silock Yes, Betsy Braddock, Yes,
did the body switch and she and Cannon switched bodies.
So Revanche is Betsy Braddock's original body, but with Cannon's

(01:05:38):
psyche inside of it. And then Betsy is in Cannon's
body across the across the table, in Cannon's body.

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
Comics, you guys, comics. So yeah, So tink ting tink,
we have a toast, y'all. This is Professor Xavier and
or Professor Xavier. He has bandages on his face. He
got beat up in that football game. And he says,
if I might have everyone's attention for those of you
who have joined us before, you know that for me.

(01:06:12):
Thanksgiving has always been my personal New Year's Day. It
is the day of the year when we are given
to reflecting upon all that has gone on before us
throughout the season, and they all kind of start holding hands.
A day when instead of recalling the multitude of deeds
which we have yet to accomplish, instead of dwelling upon

(01:06:33):
the opportunities we may have missed, we're encouraged to be
grateful for all the good in our lives, in ourselves.

Speaker 1 (01:06:47):
Do you believe, Oh yeah, we've had a real banner
year visus.

Speaker 2 (01:06:52):
Like shush, the reverence has its time and its place. Child,
this is neither. Oh my god, And you know what,
we have an adlert. We are interrupting Thanksgiving dinner, y'all.
We are turning on the television because there is a
new advertisement. Are you ready, Chandler, I'm ready.

Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
I'm ready for the add.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
Oh this one is great. We have X men mutant
gear oo. It says I mutant. One day it just happened.
You were in the middle of a crossroads and it
flashed in your brain. The others would go one way,
but your path was different. Transformation complete.

Speaker 1 (01:07:34):
And yet I have no fear you said, because then
it hits you you had powers beyond your wildness imagination.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
X Men mutant gear for Marvel Comics coming soon to
all kinds of stores near you.

Speaker 1 (01:07:46):
Okay, that text is so heavy for this ad.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
It really is that these children are like ChIL Drey children, Like.

Speaker 1 (01:07:54):
Why can't they just be like where this awesome cool gear? Now,
looking at this ad, you would think, oh my god,
this is a vintagead. But I swear to god, people
just wear the same clothes. Now. I was just at
the Billie Eilish concert and she literally wore clothes just
like this one.

Speaker 2 (01:08:12):
And every single item it looks like is X Men related,
Like you know this the prison pants on this boy
in the left, Yeah, it has a really cool it
has an X logo on it and his uh his,
I guess it's a sweater, says Xavier Institute for Higher Learning.
And there's kind of like an atom.

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
I've never seen that before.

Speaker 1 (01:08:38):
I have never in my life seen that. And they
all have hats on too, so except one kid, but
they all have a variety of X Men hats. One
has Wolverine on the cover and on the front, one
has just the X Men logo. That's white. And then
this next kid has a kind of an oversized jacket.
This is Xavier's School for Higher Learning, and there's like

(01:08:59):
a shield with swords crossed, you know, behind it. It's
very collegiate.

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
Yeah. And the kid in the middle, he's wearing kind
of like a blue jean shirt with patches on it,
with X Men patches, and he's got an x Men
belt buckle and an x Men fannie pack.

Speaker 1 (01:09:19):
Yeah, looking super cool.

Speaker 2 (01:09:21):
Oh yeah, that wolverine hat. You know you want that
wolverine hat.

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
I want it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:26):
And he's cool because he's obviously carrying trading cards.

Speaker 1 (01:09:29):
Yeah right, Oh yeah, yeah, fanny pack.

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
That's right, that's where that's where he gets all the
does all the trades, you know, the deal playground. Mm hmm.
And then who are these like teenagers?

Speaker 1 (01:09:45):
Yeah, much older kids, but yeah they're wearing one is
wearing cyclops Jim Lee art kind of bursting through uh
gray hoodie, and over the hoodie he is wearing another
kind of oversized jacket with an X symbol on the chest. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
And then there's another kid that's wearing our teenager rather
that's wearing a white hat with the X Men logo.
And you know, a shirt with X Men characters on it.
And in the background of all this we see the
artwork of the X Men. Now this items, of these

(01:10:25):
items of clothing, I wonder how much they're going for
it today.

Speaker 1 (01:10:30):
Okay, I'm looking it up right now. By the way,
I don't see it on eBay, but I will say
there is a vintage nineties X Men mutant gear shirt
of Cyclops which looks like it's from this line. It's
ninety dollars for the shirt.

Speaker 2 (01:10:44):
Whoa, and is it just a T shirt?

Speaker 1 (01:10:46):
Just a T shirt?

Speaker 2 (01:10:48):
Wow? Well, these are the coolest kids on the playground
for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:10:53):
Oh my gosh. Okay, so yeah, by the way, if
you guys Google search or eBay search vintage nineteen ninety
four X Men Mutant Gear, you get to see all
of this cool stuff. So not only do they have
the T shirt, but they also have hats that say
X Men Mutant Gear. They've got that are not an ad.
They've got all sorts of characters on them. They have

(01:11:14):
a alarm clock and watch combination, a backpack of Wolverine
T shirts. Oh my gosh, some of these shirts are
really cool. That there's an Archangel shirt for one hundred
and twenty five dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:11:32):
Oh my lord.

Speaker 1 (01:11:34):
Wow, and there's a Wolverine one for fifty This is
cool stuff. Whoa the shoes? Three hundred dollars for these
youth Wolverine shoes from nineteen ninety four, unbelieved?

Speaker 2 (01:11:47):
Oh wow? Should I be like saving all of my
X Men shirts some target?

Speaker 1 (01:11:52):
Yeah? Basically, you never know when you're eaty.

Speaker 3 (01:11:58):
Oh my gosh, kids, I'm going to open the storage
shed and reveal to you my massive collection of X
Men T shirts from targets have at the go on
to eBay, y'all get us money.

Speaker 1 (01:12:14):
Wow, this is crazy just to see all this stuff.
So yeah, I highly encourage everyone to look up xpon
Mutant Gear, Vintage where and you see all sorts of
really cool stuff. I have never seen this ever.

Speaker 2 (01:12:28):
Well back to Professor Xavier's speech, ting ting ting ting
on the glass. Yes, actually, Jubilee makes a valid point.
Since the day I gathered the first among you to
my side and asked each and every one of you
to make it the decision to build a better world
for everyone, I am hard pressed to recall a year

(01:12:49):
when we've been called on to face such bitter tragedies,
the death of Illiana, Peter's departure, Logan's injuries, and one
of these experience could have proved devastating to our united goal,
our collective spirit. But we have survived much more than that. However,

(01:13:09):
I believe, as I feel you all do, that we
have grown stronger because of what we've endured. Perhaps we
want to honor those who fall in and body and spirit.
Perhaps these darker moments act as a sign post along
our journey towards hopefully a better place. Whatever the reasons,
I am thankful for our sense of family, which grows,

(01:13:30):
which strengthens every year, for our friends both here and abroad. Finally,
although we strive for the day when we are no
longer needed, I am thankful that for today, at least,
there are those of you willing to call yourselves x
men and then Gene yes exactly because they always have

(01:13:54):
to make it about themselves at the relationship. You know
what I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:13:58):
All these other people were respectful and silent. We see
Beast storm Iceman, archangel, Bishop Rogue, Gamba and Bansheek contemplating
thinking on Xavier's words, and the whole time Sideclops is
waiting oh, he.

Speaker 2 (01:14:11):
Says, exactly, I have something to say, he says, if
I'm any sir, Ginea and I have something we'd like
to add.

Speaker 1 (01:14:22):
Jubilee shouts from the side. Don't tell me she finally
got a code name.

Speaker 2 (01:14:28):
No Jubilee, nothing that exciting, Scott, says Gene, and Scott says, well, folks,
After much consideration and a heck of a lot of
soul searching, Gine and I decided there was only one
thing we could do. We're getting married, hooray, and all

(01:14:49):
the hands about time, sugar, you have a dated. Yeah,
we knew you could have hold out forever, Scott. And
then we get some narration bubbles as everybody is, you know,
crowding around Scott and Jean, leaving poor Professor Xavier by himself.

(01:15:10):
I know, the table, just like I was saying something, y'all.

Speaker 1 (01:15:16):
Literally slave that making all this food, having them over,
and then Scott and Jean steal everyone's attention.

Speaker 2 (01:15:24):
Excuse me, we didn't even clink the glass at the
end of the toast. Here up, find bucket. I'm just
gonna sit here and watch this.

Speaker 1 (01:15:32):
I'll have pie by myself.

Speaker 2 (01:15:37):
Well, the narration bubble goes on Over the past few years,
this house has been host to many sites and sounds.
The roaring din of battle, the morning whisper of death's kiss.
Imagine then the joy that swells within the heart of
Charles Xavier at seeing the smiles upon his students' faces,
at the sound of their laughter echoing off the mansions walls.

(01:15:58):
And while he has summersations about the decision made here
this day, he chooses to cape them to himself, for
these are a few moments. His children are happy.

Speaker 4 (01:16:11):
For that above all else. He is grateful the end,
But look at the bitch face that he has. Oh yes,
his drink because he didn't get to finish his damn
toast and he has reservations. He does not want gen
it's got to get married. But he's gonna hold his tongue.

Speaker 2 (01:16:32):
Wow the end.

Speaker 1 (01:16:36):
They end, well, I'm thankful that we had this Thanksgiving
issue together.

Speaker 2 (01:16:42):
Yeah, I'm thankful. I have a physical copy in my hand. Yeah,
you know, there's actually x mail in here. Remember x mail?

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
Oh yeah, I remember xmail.

Speaker 2 (01:16:54):
Yeah. And uh there's another ad for Dracula video game
and some weird add on a back where it's burnt toast,
burnt toast soldiers are fortune and this game it's either
them or you. And you don't want to be the
burnt toast. No, and you don't want to burn the
toast on Thanksgiving dinner either. No, no, no, what a

(01:17:17):
what a fun issue. Yeah, well, Chandler, I am super
thankful for you, my friend, for X reads podcast. I
am thankful for all of you listeners that are tuning
in to hear us rant and go on these weirdo tangents.

Speaker 1 (01:17:35):
Yes, thankful for all of that.

Speaker 2 (01:17:40):
Yes, Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:17:42):
Happy Thanksgiving.

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