Ben: What is a good drug PSA?

What, what say if I, some my left
go like, oh shit, I was thinking

about doing drugs, but I saw that
and I'm like, not for me anymore.

Emily: Uh, the ninja turtles
told me not to smoke pot.

Katy: Did it work?

Emily: Uh, well, I didn't for a
while, but I was also in third grade.

So like, if anybody was trying to
sell me pot when I was in third

grade, I'd be like, that smells.

Get away from me.

Katy: Yeah.

Ben: The sheer gall of them trying to
claim that Michaelangelo says no to pot.

Emily: Oh yeah, no.

Ben: Get the fuck outta here.

Emily: Yeah.

Jeremy: Especially now.

Ben: I don't think Donatello's on
anything hard, but I feel like he's

just downing a like five hour energies.

Like way too many.

Emily: Oh yeah.

He's got the tureen.

Katy: He probably, he probably
did Adderall in college though.

Emily: Yeah.

Ben: Donatello going for the speed.

Yeah.

That checks out.

Katy: But it was just during finals week.

Jeremy: Yeah.

Ben: Raphael.

We know he's got the 'roid rage.

We know what Raphael's about.

Jeremy: Donatello's got some very like,
you know, after school special experiences

with Adderall, I think, you know?

He just took it once and
just freaked out and-

Katy: Yeah.

Ben: He went full that one episode of
saved by the bell with uh, caffeine pills.

Emily: Very special, yeah,
very special episode.

Oh my God.

Ben: This is now this is
Digressively Horrified.

What drugs do the teenage mut- mu- nyah!

How did I forget how to say a franchise
I've known since I was like two?

Katy: Words are really hard.

Jeremy: I mean, Leonardo
definitely doesn't do drugs, but

that's because he's Leonardo.

Ben: Yeah, no, Leo's a fucking square.

Jeremy: Leo.

Leo is absolutely like, you know,
he he's into he's into emo and

he's straight edge and all that.

Emily: Oh yeah.

But he does bring his guitar to parties.

Ben: Except for rise of the
TMNT Leo who is down to clown.

Emily: Yeah, I can't remember.

I don't remember much
dating in, uh, in college.

Um, But most of it, a lot of my, most
of my successful first dates involves

the, My Neighbor Totoro Drinking Game.

I will not elaborate.

Katy: That's rude.

Emily: Right now.

Jeremy: That may be the most Emily
thing you've ever said, Emily.

Emily: Um, subscribe to our Patreon
if you wanna know more about the

magic of the, uh, My Neighbor
Totoro Drinking Game, because I

mean, I sealed a deal with Brett.

I sealed a deal with the
boyfriend before that.

Jeremy: If that worked out you
moved to Castle in the Sky, right?

Emily: Oh, no.

Straight to Princess Mononoke.

Ben: Mm.

Senior year, uh, I didn't
wanna work on my final project.

So instead I made the X-Men history
drinking game with rules, like

drink every time Xavier is un-
or re-paralyzed and every time

Cyclops is a huge fucking dickhead.

Emily: Okay.

So I don't know how many times
that Professor Xavier- I know

it's happens multiple times.

Ben: It's a lot.

Emily: But like, I know-

Jeremy: He's also faked his
own death multiple times.

So.

Ben and Emily: Yeah.

Ben: Drink every time
Magneto switches sides.

Emily: Drink every time Cyclops
is a Dick just sounds like

liver failure immediately.

Ben: Yeah.

This was the, this was
we're talking early 2010.

So this was the height of like,
Cyclops in his, like, I am all

about child soldiers phase.

Emily: I don't remember that.

Ben: That's why him
and Wolverine broke up.

That Wolverine was like, I don't think
we should be using child soldiers

and Cyclops was like, don't you
tell me we can't use child soldiers.

Emily: I was a child soldier!

Ben: And I turned out fine!

And then everyone's like, Cyclops,
you did not turn out fine.

Yeah.

Emily: Just like case in point.

Ben: Anyway, that's pretty much
the recap of that storyline.

Emily: Yeah.

Ben: No further questions needed.

Emily: Did everyone, did
anyone ever call him Psych?

Jeremy: Yes.

Wolverine infrequently called him Psych.

Ben: Yeah.

I wanna say that at least
in like X-Men Evolution.

Jeremy: Okay.

So, okay.

Um.

Ben: It's, it's never, it never
feels totally great when a

character is- when a character
doesn't come out, another character

comes reverse, comes out to them.

Jeremy: Yeah.

Katy: Is this about Ice Man?

Ben: Yeah.

Yeah.

That's your words.

I didn't say anything about who?

Emily: Sorry, everyone.

Ben was just covered in bees for a second

Um.

Jeremy: We're talking about a nineties
X-Men writer, not a 2010, writer.

Yeah, I don't, I do wonder if the
way that is handled it is maybe left

over from Scott Lobdell's version.

A man who was also known for not having
the most tact when talking, when people

were coming out for anybody who has read
North Star coming out in Alpha Flight, he

does come out by blasting somebody with
power from his body and yelling: I am gay.

Ben: Can we talk about the
storyline of that issue?

Cause it's insane?

About the insane AIDS activist,
who is upset that North Star's

adopted daughter is getting more
media attention than his dead son.

So decides to murder a baby on television?

Katy: I mean.

Emily: You just said like a word salad.

Jeremy: It's not the weirdest
thing that's happened in X-Men.

Ben: That's a real storyline
that actually happened.

Emily: I-

Ben: This is why I made
the X-Men Drinking Game.

I brought it full circle.

Jeremy: Yeah.

I, I don't think it's out and out.

The weirdest thing that's ever happened
in X-Men because I still think that's

the time that the X-Men went to actual
biblical Judeo-Christian Heaven to

rescue Nightcrawler and then fought his
dad who was a demon on a pirate ship.

Ben: That storyline
fucking slaps, by the way!

Jeremy: It does.

It's fantastic!

When you try to put it into words,
it's like, wait, what did I read?

Emily: I think I have a friend with a
blog devoted to this kind of thing, but-

Katy: That's beautiful.

Emily: I I'm sure there's a lot
of people out there with that.

Jeremy: We've had Jay on here, Jay and
Miles X-plain the X-Men is, is, uh,

possibly the, the preeminent source on
this uh, the weirdness that is X-Men

and it's convoluted plot threads.

Ben: Definitely our
resident Cyclops expert.

Jeremy: Mm-hmm.