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Buffering the Vampire Slayer | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
Hosted by Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure · EN
Hosts Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs are heading back into the Buffyverse for Buffering the Vampire Slayer: Once More, With Spoilers! After a critically-acclaimed, spoiler-free watch of the series from 2016-2022, your hosts are returning to the Hellmouth to discuss all 144 episodes of Buffy for a second time, but this go-round *with* spoilers — a never-before-attempted feat of love and chaos!
Buffering the Vampire Slayer is part of the Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure network of podcasts.
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Encore Episode: Enemies with Hrishikesh Hirway | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
1w ago01:42:11Tap to summarizeOur first ever hangout with Hrishikesh Hirway from back in 2018!! We've got erotic novels, warm milk left out on countertops, the birth of JENNY AND THE TWO PENNIES (!!), discussions on Angel's preferred candle scent, and so much more. A real humdinger of an episode. This month we're sharing some of our favorite "special guest" episodes from the Buffering archives. This encore episode originally aired on February 7, 2018. CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF BUFFERING Join us at Brooklyn's Littlefield for our first-ever Homecoming Weekend on October 16th & 17th. Tickets are on sale now — all information: bufferingcast.com/live READ (OR LISTEN TO!) SLAYERS, EVERY ONE OF US bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast MERCH | bufferingcast.com/shop PODCAST SCHEDULE & EVENTS | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar Produced by: Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs Edited by: Kristin Russo Logo: Kristine Thune We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Watcher's Diary #24: The Sausage Link You Didn't Order
1w ago00:31:31Tap to summarizeA little unexpected Watcher's Diary because we do what we want!!! Including discussions on Survivor, Love Island, Widow's Bay, and our children's summer plans (to see each other). CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF BUFFERING Join us at Brooklyn's Littlefield for our first-ever Homecoming Weekend on October 16th & 17th. Tickets are on sale now — all information: bufferingcast.com/live READ (OR LISTEN TO!) SLAYERS, EVERY ONE OF US bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast MERCH | bufferingcast.com/shop PODCAST SCHEDULE & EVENTS | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar Produced by: Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs Edited by: Kristin Russo Logo: Kristine Thune We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Encore Episode: Innocence with Joanna Robinson | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
2w ago01:36:18Tap to summarizeThis month we're sharing some of our favorite "special guest" episodes from the Buffering archives, and there's no better way we could think of to kick things off than with our very first Buffy chat with BFF of the pod Joanna Robinson! Up for discussion: claddagh rings, Angelus's foundation, what exactly IS "one moment of true happiness" and is there a corresponding equation by chance?! This encore episode originally aired on April 26th 2017. CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF BUFFERING Join us at Brooklyn's Littlefield for our first-ever Homecoming Weekend on October 16th & 17th. Tickets are on sale now — all information: bufferingcast.com/live READ (OR LISTEN TO!) SLAYERS, EVERY ONE OF US bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast MERCH | bufferingcast.com/shop PODCAST SCHEDULE & EVENTS | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar Produced by: Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs Edited by: Kristin Russo Logo: Kristine Thune We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Watcher's Diary #23: Joanna Robinson is Here to Talk to Us
May 2701:30:34Tap to summarizeJoanna Robinson helps us close out Season 2 of Buffy and also helps Jenny explain Morning Glory Milking Farm to Kristin. Plus Euphoria, The X-Files, and a new theme song for Joanna's perfect cat Bug! Learn more about Joanna and her work here: https://www.jowrotethis.com/ In Episode Links MST3K&J&J: Tori Amos' "A Sorta Fairytale" CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF BUFFERING Join us at Brooklyn's Littlefield for our first-ever Homecoming Weekend on October 16th & 17th. Tickets are on sale now — all information: bufferingcast.com/live READ (OR LISTEN TO!) SLAYERS, EVERY ONE OF US bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast MERCH | bufferingcast.com/shop PODCAST SCHEDULE & EVENTS | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar Produced by: Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs Edited by: Kristin Russo Logo: Kristine Thune We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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2.22 Becoming (Part 2) | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
May 1301:46:43Tap to summarizeWelcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! The winter here is cold* and bitter and even your best overalls will not keep you warm. Swords are gonna clang, orbs are gonna orb, and hearts are gonna break. We have arrived (again) at one of the best episodes of the series, and all we can say is… ouchhhhh. *for proof pls see S3E10 Our original coverage of "Becoming (Part 2)" — with no spoilers! — aired on July 5, 2017 and you can find it here: https://podcasts.apple.com/kh/podcast/2-22-becoming-part-2-a-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-podcast/id1150241800?i=1000389540386 For a limited time get 15% off of One Skin using code BUFFERING. CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF BUFFERING Join us at Brooklyn's Littlefield for our first-ever Homecoming Weekend on October 16th & 17th. Tickets go on pre-sale Thursday, May 7th at 10AM ET and will be live for the public at 10AM ET on Friday, May 8th — all information: bufferingcast.com/live READ (OR LISTEN TO!) SLAYERS, EVERY ONE OF US bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast MERCH | bufferingcast.com/shop PODCAST SCHEDULE & EVENTS | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson Edited by: Kristin Russo Logo: Kristine Thune We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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“It’s THE SHOW”: Passion of the Nerd’s Ian Martin on Season 2 of Buffy
May 1200:26:01Tap to summarizeAfter ten years of creating Buffy content in our own little corners of the universe, we are beyond delighted to have FINALLY spoken with Passion of the Nerd's Ian Martin! We chat about Season 2, the reboot, depression, and the recipe that makes Buffy the beating heart of television for oh-so-many of us. PASSION OF THE NERD on YouTube PASSION OF THE NERD'S "Lie To Me" Learn more about our guest, IAN MARTIN CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF BUFFERING Join us at Brooklyn's Littlefield for our first-ever Homecoming Weekend on October 16th & 17th. bufferingcast.com/live READ (OR LISTEN TO!) SLAYERS, EVERY ONE OF US bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast MERCH | bufferingcast.com/shop PODCAST SCHEDULE & EVENTS | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar Produced by: Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs Edited by: Kristin Russo Logo: Kristine Thune We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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2.21 Becoming (Part 1) | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
May 601:53:14Tap to summarizeWelcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! The one and only Hrishikesh Hirway joins us for our conversation on S2E21 "Becoming Part 1" (we hope you don't mind his Irish accent)!! We discuss very important things such as covalent bonds, the shape of an obelisk, the green ribbon tied around Darla's neck, and disks that are either hard or floppy! Also also: the Kendra jingle has now been masterfully recorded and a new eyeliner jingle is in the mix!! Who says you can't have your big rock and eat it, too?! Our original coverage of "Becoming (Part 1)" — with no spoilers! — aired on June 28, 2017 and you can find it here: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/2-21-becoming-part-1-a-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-podcast/id1150241800?i=1000389272193 ABOUT OUR GUEST Hrishikesh Hirway's stunning new album In the Last Hour of Light is out now; you can listen to it wherever you stream music. For tickets to his album release tour (and for all things Hrishi) visit hrishikesh.co. CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF BUFFERING Join us at Brooklyn's Littlefield for our first-ever Homecoming Weekend on October 16th & 17th. Tickets go on pre-sale Thursday, May 7th at 10AM ET and will be live for the public at 10AM ET on Friday, May 8th — all information: bufferingcast.com/live READ (OR LISTEN TO!) SLAYERS, EVERY ONE OF US bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast MERCH | bufferingcast.com/shop PODCAST SCHEDULE & EVENTS | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson Edited by: Kristin Russo Logo: Kristine Thune We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Watcher's Diary #22: If You Want To Hear Drusilla Say "Moo"
Apr 2901:04:11Tap to summarizePondering big questions like if Lilah Morgan and Faith Lehane would maybe make out (and why it wouldn’t be good for either of them?!) as well as limiting Jenny to five minutes of survivor talk (she somehow did manage to keep it under six). Plus Kids in the Hall, Bleak Midwinters, and Pet Sounds! In Episode Links Kids In The Hall: He's 45 In the Bleak Midwinter MST3K&J "Hero" READ (OR LISTEN TO!) SLAYERS, EVERY ONE OF US bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast MERCH | bufferingcast.com/shop PODCAST SCHEDULE & EVENTS | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar Produced by: Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs Edited by: Kristin Russo Logo: Kristine Thune We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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2.20 Go Fish | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
Apr 1901:26:56Tap to summarizeWelcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! We've got speedos and kickboards in close proximity, fish monsters slip 'n sliding in the boys' locker room, and heaping piles of the patriarchy ...plus it REALLY smells like low tide in here?! It's S2E20 "Go Fish," and yes that IS Shane West in the steam room. Our original coverage of "Go Fish" — with no spoilers! — aired on June 14, 2017 and you can find it here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2-20-go-fish-a-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-podcast/id1150241800?i=1000386529248 READ (OR LISTEN TO!) SLAYERS, EVERY ONE OF US bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast MERCH | bufferingcast.com/shop PODCAST SCHEDULE & EVENTS | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson Edited by: Kristin Russo Logo: Kristine Thune We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Bonus from Beyond Buffering | The eX Files: The X-Files 3.04 Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
Apr 1502:02:18Tap to summarizeWelcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! ***This is a cross-posted episode from The eX Files where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free.*** A veritable smorgasbord of both psychics and Buffering jingles converge for one of The X-Files most beloved episodes, S3E4 "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose." We've got Peter Boyle, questions about the meaning of life, Jenny feeling all kinds of feelings, and Kristin returning to her crystal ball (adding to the veritable smorgasbord of psychics) to find out more about Scully's NEW DOG. READ (OR LISTEN TO!) SLAYERS, EVERY ONE OF US bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast MERCH | bufferingcast.com/shop PODCAST SCHEDULE & EVENTS | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson Edited by: Kristin Russo Logo: Kristine Thune We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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