Buffering the Vampire Slayer | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast

Welcome 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!

Today we are joined by extra special guest Hrishikesh Hirway as we confront our many subconscious fears: public performance, MURDER CLOWNS, bad hair days, and more! Now if it were us, we'd simply never start collecting live spiders, thus removing the threat they might one day accidentally perish under a left-on-too-long heat lamp and eventually seek their spidery vengeance... but to each their own, right Wendell? This episode has something for everyone: There's camp! There's laughs! There's a father’s — I mean Watcher’s — love for his daughter — I mean Slayer!

So meet us (and the rest of the Chess Club) for Season 1 Episode 10: “Nightmares.”

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Hrishikesh Hirway | hrishikesh.co

Companion Soundtrack | lnk.to/CompanionSDTK

Song Exploder | songexploder.net

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Buffering the Vampire Slayer | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast

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The eX-Files | Covering The X-Files

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Angel on Top | An Angel Podcast

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Doomcoming | A Yellowjackets Podcast

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The Boiler Room | A My So-Called Life Podcast

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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

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Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson

Edited by: John Mark Nelson

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

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Welcome 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 are currently conducting a survey to determine what, definitively, IS the greatest love of all… Is it our collective love for the hilarity and chaos of campy season one Monster-of-the-Week episodes? Is it Principal Snyder’s love of hating the children he is charged with educating? Is it our love for the fact that this is the only episode of Buffy that features a ventriloquist’s dummy, or perhaps our love for the peerless Shakespearean performance we get during the credits? Or are all of these tied for second place, and is the GREATEST love of all our love for Cordelia???

Lay back, relax, and let us strap you in to our guillotine for Season 1, Episode 9, “The Puppet Show.”

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ALL THE SHOWS WE COVER

Buffering the Vampire Slayer | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast

SPOTIFY • APPLE • AMAZON • YOUTUBE

The eX-Files | Covering The X-Files

SPOTIFY • APPLE • AMAZON • YOUTUBE

Angel on Top | An Angel Podcast

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Doomcoming | A Yellowjackets Podcast

SPOTIFY • APPLE • AMAZON • YOUTUBE

The Boiler Room | A My So-Called Life Podcast

SPOTIFY • APPLE • AMAZON • YOUTUBE

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: John Mark Nelson

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

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Welcome 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!

Online dating can be MURDER, am I right?! Moloch has entered the chat (literally), Jenny Calendar has entered the chat (figuratively… and also literally), Buffy goes undercover, Willow engages in the type of romance that’s swiftly becoming the Scooby standard (brief, violent, supernatural), and we’re all left wondering if that’s not where it dangles… where EXACTLY does it dangle???

Thanks for logging on to Season 1, Episode 8, “I, Robot... You, Jane.” If you’re not jacked in, you’re not alive.

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Buffering the Vampire Slayer | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast

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The eX-Files | Covering The X-Files

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Angel on Top | An Angel Podcast

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Doomcoming | A Yellowjackets Podcast

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The Boiler Room | A My So-Called Life Podcast

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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: John Mark Nelson

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

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Welcome to our very first Watcher's Diary!! In this very sacred space we will read and chat about some of our very favorite listener emails, and sometimes also tackle our world-renowned segment, What Was Dawn Doing. 

In this first installment, we will dig into What Dawn Was Doing during the episode "Angel" (and along the way ponder on what kind of cologne Angel wears...) and hear about hyenas (and their clitorises), wild painted dogs, brothers kissing sisters in 7th Heaven, and the "Malleus Maleficarum," also known as "The Hammer of Witches" (super chill, nothing to worry about).

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Produced by: Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs

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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

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Welcome 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!

It is TIME for BUFFY and ANGEL to KISS!! TWICE!!! Which means it is *also* time for Joanna Robinson to guest host with us! We will discuss the first kiss, which ends in Angel throwing himself out the bedroom window. We will discuss the drama that ensues, which ends in Angel being thrown out of the living room window. And we will discuss the final kiss, which ends in Angel feeling that kind of pain that can only come from being a vampire in love with a giant-cross wearing vampire Slayer — that burning, searing, sizzling kind of D E S I R E and P A S S I O N.

Yes, it is Season 1, Episode 7, "Angel."

So happy to be here with you all.

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Buffering the Vampire Slayer | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast

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The eX-Files | Covering The X-Files

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Angel on Top | An Angel Podcast

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Doomcoming | A Yellowjackets Podcast

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The Boiler Room | A My So-Called Life Podcast

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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: John Mark Nelson

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

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Welcome 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!

You know that feeling where you're possessed by the spirit of a hyena and your hunger cannot be satiated by hot dogs alone?! Your sense of smell heightened, your need to be MEAN skyrocketing, and your cackle enhanced beyond recognition??!! A traditional high school rite of passage! Let's get into Buffy's S1E6, "The Pack." Hide your piglets and your principals.

IN-EPISODE LINKS

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ALL THE SHOWS WE COVER

Buffering the Vampire Slayer | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast

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The eX-Files | Covering The X-Files

SPOTIFY • APPLE • AMAZON • YOUTUBE

Angel on Top | An Angel Podcast

SPOTIFY • APPLE • AMAZON • YOUTUBE

Doomcoming | A Yellowjackets Podcast

SPOTIFY • APPLE • AMAZON • YOUTUBE

The Boiler Room | A My So-Called Life Podcast

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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 | 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 Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at

bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting

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Welcome 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!

Sure, FINE, maybe we need to deal with some Anointed One rising from the ashes of five or whatever, but have you SEEN WHAT A HUNK OWEN IS?!?! Surely seems like he should be allowed some of our focus despite any pending apocalypses.

We are here this week to discuss Buffy's "Never Kill A Boy on the First Date," and also to implore the residents of Sunnydale to do a better job blockading their doors when vampires or demons descend (leave the floor lamps and the couch pillows out of this!!).

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ALL THE SHOWS WE COVER

Buffering the Vampire Slayer | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast

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The eX-Files | Covering The X-Files

SPOTIFY • APPLE • AMAZON • YOUTUBE

Angel on Top | An Angel Podcast

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Doomcoming | A Yellowjackets Podcast

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The Boiler Room | A My So-Called Life Podcast

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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 | 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 Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at

bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting

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Welcome 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!

You CLEARLY know that feeling when you develop a crush on your new substitute teacher who then turns out to be a giant praying mantis, right?!?! A high school rite of passage. Today we get to revel in all of the glory that is Ms. French aka the She-Mantis as we cover Buffy's S1E4 "Teacher's Pet" for the second time... this time with spoilers. *The* episode that spawned the legacy of Buffering's praying mantis mask. What a day.

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ALL THE SHOWS WE COVER

Buffering the Vampire Slayer | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast

SPOTIFY • APPLE • AMAZON • YOUTUBE

The eX-Files | Covering The X-Files

SPOTIFY • APPLE • AMAZON • YOUTUBE

Angel on Top | An Angel Podcast

SPOTIFY • APPLE • AMAZON • YOUTUBE

Doomcoming | A Yellowjackets Podcast

SPOTIFY • APPLE • AMAZON • YOUTUBE

The Boiler Room | A My So-Called Life Podcast

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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 | 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 Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at

bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting

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Welcome 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!

Buffy wants to be a cheerleader! Cordelia wants to be a cheerleader! Amy's mom, who has swapped bodies with Amy, wants to be a cheerleader AGAIN! Hands are aflame, mouths are being witchily erased, Cordelia loses her sight, and there's a CAULDRON of GREEN BUBBLING LIQUID. So beginneth monster-of-the-week episodes in the Buffyverse, and we could not be more thrilled. Join us — once more, with spoilers — for S1E3 "Witch"

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ALL THE SHOWS WE COVER

Buffering the Vampire Slayer | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast

SPOTIFY • APPLE • AMAZON • YOUTUBE

The eX-Files | Covering The X-Files

SPOTIFY • APPLE • AMAZON • YOUTUBE

Angel on Top | An Angel Podcast

SPOTIFY • APPLE • AMAZON • YOUTUBE

Doomcoming | A Yellowjackets Podcast

SPOTIFY • APPLE • AMAZON • YOUTUBE

The Boiler Room | A My So-Called Life Podcast

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MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music

PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast

MERCH | bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop

PODCAST SCHEDULE | 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 Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at

bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting

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Welcome 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!

Buffy is grounded, we’ve got a cymbal decapitation, Giles is taking his glasses off, and Luke — may his precious biceps rest in peace — is giving us the gayest shit we have ever seen. We love it *almost* as much as Darla. It’s S1E2 “The Harvest”… once more with spoilers!!!

IN EPISODE LINKS

Steven Smith Interview (at 24:00 into "The Pack")

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/buffering-the-vampire-slayer-a-buffy-rewatch-podcast/id1711251247?i=1000630860934

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ALL THE SHOWS WE COVER

Buffering the Vampire Slayer | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast

SPOTIFY • APPLE • AMAZON • YOUTUBE

The eX-Files | Covering The X-Files

SPOTIFY • APPLE • AMAZON • YOUTUBE

Angel on Top | An Angel Podcast

SPOTIFY • APPLE • AMAZON • YOUTUBE

Doomcoming | A Yellowjackets Podcast

SPOTIFY • APPLE • AMAZON • YOUTUBE

The Boiler Room | A My So-Called Life Podcast

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MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music

PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast

MERCH | bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop

PODCAST SCHEDULE | 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 Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at

bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting

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Welcome 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!

November 6, 2024 seems like a fitting day to say "Welcome to the Hellmouth," so let us get right to it. Darla is using her combination princess-voice and killer fangs to upend expectations, Cordelia is Cordelia-ing out, Giles has ALREADY CIRCLED A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE IN RED MARKER, Buffy takes her first trip to the Bronze after encountering a dark and brooding stranger in a nearby alley, Joyce's hair is so short, and Luke is BIG.

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ALL THE SHOWS WE COVER

Buffering the Vampire Slayer | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast

SPOTIFY • APPLE • AMAZON • YOUTUBE

The eX-Files | Covering The X-Files

SPOTIFY • APPLE • AMAZON • YOUTUBE

Angel on Top | An Angel Podcast

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Doomcoming | A Yellowjackets Podcast

SPOTIFY • APPLE • AMAZON • YOUTUBE

The Boiler Room | A My So-Called Life Podcast

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MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music

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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 Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at

bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting

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Join us — Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs — this November as we head back into the Buffyverse for Buffering the Vampire Slayer: Once More, With Spoilers! We’ll be discussing all 144 episodes of Buffy for a second time (!!!), but this go-round *with* spoilers — a never-before-attempted feat of love and chaos!

In the meantime...

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Here, as a special treat, is our first episode covering the Buffy Season 9 comics as released by Dark Horse — specifically the first 5 issues of Angel and Faith: "Live Through This."

This episode went up for all of our $5+ patrons last month, but we wanted to share it here in the main feed so that those of you who might be curious can hear what we get up to over in the patron pod feed! If you like what you hear, our next Season 9 comics episode is live over there *right now.*

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Laya DeLeon Hayes sat down to talk with Kristin all about playing our badass new slayer Indira in Slayers: A Buffyverse Story. We talk about how she has just started watching Buffy for the first time (they had her start with THE BODY?!), how her in-studio relationship with Charisma mirrored many of the ways that Indira and Cordelia relate to each other, her beginnings in the industry as the voice of Doc McStuffins, and our shared interest in getting the answer to the question: is Queen Latifah a Buffy fan?!

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James C. Leary aka CLEM is here with us today to talk about Clem's incredible return to the Buffyverse in SLAYERS: A BUFFYVERSE STORY plus his time on the set of Buffy the Vampire Slayer! Clem is one of our most beloved characters in the universe, and we chat about everything from how long he sat in the makeup chair to the connection between comedy and sadness to that one time in Paris with Danny Strong...

Thank you, James. What an absolute delight.

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We sat down to talk about the making of Slayers with the brilliant Christopher Golden and Amber Benson!! We learn about the casting, communally attempt to manifest a second season, and dig into the new lore together. Plus we learn about that time Seth Green popped into the studio...

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Our final episode covering Slayers: A Buffyverse story is HERE! We discuss vampire Giles, “slurp play,” and our dreams of LaToya Ferguson being cast in season two to play the role of Angelus. 

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The penultimate episode of Slayers: A Buffyverse Story is here! Did Indira's sunlight spell work? Will Anya and Anyanka have to rent a U-Haul to assist them in a merger? Is Spike evil again? Is a jar of sperm an appropriate gift for your office mate? We cover all this and more...

'Tis the season!

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The episode in which LaToya Ferguson says we were "really on one."

Spike and Dru are hot and heavy, we've named Anya/Anyanka/Jasper "Janyaska," and Indira does a fake sunlight spell that maybe is fake but is it fake?!?!

It is Slayers: Episode 7, and we have - as always - a lot to say.

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Indira is busy "resurrecting" Spike while Clem coughs up some lion fur-balls, we busy ourselves opining that perhaps Ms. Bang and Drusilla (miss)banged back in the day, and Anyanka licks Anya's face but actually it is Jasper so nothing to worry about! It is SLAYERS: Episode 6. Let's GO.

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Jonathan is a GHOST. Anyanka is in a PUPPY. Giles and Clem are in a ZOO. Listen, we have fully entered into Alternate Universe Sunnydale and in addition to the standard chaos, Indira also wants Spike to pretend he has risen from the dead. The Spike-Jesus we've all been waiting for? It is Episode 5 of SLAYERS: A BUFFYVERSE STORY, babies.

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We sat down with Kc Wayland, Producer and Co-Director of SLAYERS: A BUFFYVERSE STORY to chat about the making of the series! Join us to hear some behind-the-scenes stories, *very* fun facts about Kc's dog Nacho, and also to learn if Kc is Team Bangel or Team Spuffy...

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Amy Madison is back and she is not a rat (but she is in a cage), Cordelia and Giles have a conversation that makes us cry, Clem cannot stop chomping on heads, and Olivia gets the delicious donut she deserves. Please join us as we unpack all that went down in Slayers: Episode 4!

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Giles is back and he is in love with OLIVIA and they are having EARLY MORNING DALLIANCES inside of their QUAINT BOOKSHOP. This is not a drill, people. Giles! And! Olivia! Are! Back! Also, Anyanka is freed from being a statue and is on her way to wreak havoc, Anya and Indira used a Magic Shop passageway to get to England, it only took Spike three episodes to overtly flirt with Slayer Cordy, and Clem... bit off Miranda's head. It is Episode 3 of Slayers: A Buffyverse story!

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Well, kids, if you had Drusilla and Tara on your bingo card then you really scored big this week, and Mr. Pickles can plunk out a celebratory tune for you on his little monkey piano. Anya and Anyanka have come face to face and we can’t tell if it will lead to murder or make outs, Spike’s insides are on the outside (anyone need new garters?), and we are all on high alert for the continued safety of Jasper. Here we go into the second episode of Slayers: A Buffyverse story!

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As though we dreamt it up and then it became reality, the Buffyverse is back, baby. All nine episodes of "Slayers: A Buffyverse Story," written by Christopher Golden and Amber Benson (!!) and performed by an iconic list of Buffy alum (CORDELIA! GILES! SPIKE! ANYA! DRU! TARA! CLEM!!!!!) alongside the debut of our newest slayer, Indira, were released today on Audible. We will be covering all nine episodes, one week at a time, spoiler-free.

Today, in our premiere episode, we are endlessly excited as we journey back to the Hellmouth!! Spike is undercover in LA with his best friend Clem, Indira becomes a slayer at breakfast and stumbles immediately into the underground resistance against slayers, and Cordelia is... alive... and a Slayer... from a different dimension??!??!?!!!!

Buckle up, scoobies. We might just drive right through the Sunnydale welcome sign on our way in.

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As a "special gifty" we now bestow upon you our very first episode covering Season 8 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as written in comic form and published by Dark Horse Comics! We are two episodes into the journey over on Patreon, so if you'd like more you can use the links below to join us!

This episode we are talking about "The Long Way Home" (Season 8, Issues 1-4) and "The Chain" (Season 8, Issue 5), and we've got a giant Dawn, intense Slayer hellmath, Kristin's opinions on what a Thricewise demon is (three Pennywises, of course), Jenny's yearning for the return of her butterscotch hunk, and so much more.

It's f*cking good to be back in... Scotland?

We also have a new #buffy-comics channel in the Discord, and you can also find Scooby-shared links to these first issues (Season 8 is near-impossible to find in print these days) that are downloadable to use on most comic-reader apps!

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One last one for the road, scoobs — in this very special Curtain Call episode we journey through Jenny's "Supernaturalatives," discussing some of our favorite arcs (and favorite hunks) in the series, read through some of your beautiful letters, talk about our music writing process over the course of 161 songs, and also share some feelings about each other and our future together in the pod space.

WE LOVE YOU, OKAY?!

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Anything we say is gonna sound like goodbye.
It's Season 7 Episode 22, "Chosen," live from Brooklyn's Bell House.
We love you oh-so-much.

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All the love in the entire universe to our special guests: LaToya Ferguson, Morgan Lutich, Mack MacDade, Alba Daza, Joanna Robinson, and Emily "Brackets" McLongstreet

Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and Alba Daza
With support from consultant Mackenzie MacDade
Edited by: John Mark Nelson & Kristin Russo
Logo: Kristine Thune

MUSIC

"Chosen" was written by Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo, and is produced and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs

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It's a scythe, it's an axe, it's a great big .... one handed weapon, okay?! Buffy is BACK, the team is back together, the sword has been pulled from the stone, there's an old lady (she looks great for her age) in a tiny temple who has been there for so long, Spike has feelings, Faith has feelings, WE have feelings, and... Angel is back?!?!?! A doozy indeed. It's Season 7 Episode 21: End of Days.

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September 17 & 18 on Moment House
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"End of Days" was written, produced and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs

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The First is blippin' in and out all over Sunnydale and our scoobies are doing a lot of their own blippin' on many surfaces of 1630 Revello Drive. It's Season 7 Episode 20: Touched and the end is fast approaching (of the world, of the series, of the podcast) so get out your ice cream, find someone to hold you, and — OH NO NOT A BOMB?!?! 

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September 17 & 18 on Moment House
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Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and Alba Daza
With support from consultant Mackenzie MacDade
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"Touched" was written by Jenny Owen Youngs & Kristin Russo, and was produced, and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs

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LaToya Ferguson, pod-nemesis, joins us in conversation about S7E19: Empty Places! There are hot pockets, sexual tension on the Revello porch that might make your head set aflame, a proper recipe for a bloomin' onion, and a power struggle for the ages that results in Buffy being ousted from her own home...

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With support from consultant Mackenzie MacDade
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Logo: Kristine Thune

MUSIC

"Empty Places" was written, produced, and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs

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Kristin is talking with with Rabbi Leah Jordan and Pam Grossman — writer, curator, and teacher of magical practice and history — to dig deep into Willow's Jewishness, her witchy-ness, and how those two identities are in conversation with each other (or how we *wish* they would have been!) across seven seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

This episode contains spoilers through the end of Season 7 of Buffy!

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MORE ON OUR GUESTS

Leah Jordan is Rabbi of Kehillah North London

Pam Grossman is the creator and host of internationally beloved podcast, The Witch Wave ("The Terry Gross of witches" - Vulture), the author of the critically acclaimed books, Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power  (Gallery Books) and What is a Witch (Tin Can Forest Press), and the co-editor of the WITCHCRAFT volume of Taschen's Library of Esoterica series.

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Links from Leah:

how Antisemitism and white supremacy are intertwined

Scholar Matthew Pateman on Willow's "disappearing Jewishness"

great summary of representations of anti-Jewish archetypes in media, with scholar Jonathan Branfman

Concepts in Jewish Tradition: Demons & Demonology, Is There a Jewish Afterlife?, Teshuva, or Repentance, Kabbalah and Mysticism 101, Tikkun Olam: Repairing the World, Maimonides (Rambam) and His Texts, Lilith: Lady Flying in the Darkness

Genesis, chapter 4, verse 7: "Surely, if you try to do right, There is uplift. But if you do not do right Sin crouches at the door; Its urge is toward you, Yet you can be overcome it.”

SVARA: a traditionally radical yeshiva, a queer yeshiva

Nonbinary Hebrew Project

AND kids now are doing Willow Rosenberg-themed b'nei mitzvah!

Links from Pam:

Ezra Rose

Key of Solomon

The Lesser Key of Solomon (Goetia)

Incantation bowls

Hamsa

Mezuzah

Dori Midnight

Rebekah Erev

Kohonet Hebrew Priestess Institute

Ashkenazi Herbalism by Adam Siegel and Deatra Cohen

Margaret Murray

Witch-cult hypothesis

Gerald Gardner

Wicca

Starhawk

Zsuzsanna Budapest

Margot Adler

Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

Aleister Crowley

Dion Fortune

Tree of Life/Sefirot (Kabbalah)

Kabbalah v. Cabala v. Qabalah

Shedim (or sheydim)

Golem

opshprekherin

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Faith is back in Sunnydale and we are feeling dirtier than ever, Nathan Fillion's bangs are the most evil part about Caleb, Spike remembers the entire galloping, warm champagne monologue (vampires, they're just like us!), and a lot of other really hard, really bad shit happens because this is Season 7!  We are LIVE from Chicago's Lincoln Hall this week discussing S7E18: Dirty Girls, with special guests Jess Abbott, Rosemary Maybe, Morgan Lutich, and Alba Daza! 

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MUSIC

"Dirty Girls" was written, produced, and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs and Jess Abbott

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We've got mommy issues, we've got daddy issues, and we've got A LOT OF BULLSHIT! In flashbacks, Spike wants to bring his mom on vacation with Drusilla (lol) and tiny, adorable Robin knocks over a trash can to assist his slayer-mom Nikki. In present day, the power of iTunes 1.0 triggers Spike inside of Robin's cross-laden garage and they FIGHT, while elsewhere Giles behaves like a f*cking asshole. Yes, yes, it is time for Season 7 Episode 17: Lies My Parents Told Me!

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• July 23: Dirty Girls Weekend: The History of #Fuffy | CHICAGO IRL TICKETS
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"Lies My Parents Told Me" was written, produced, and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs

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Welcome, gentle viewers, to our taping of S7E16's "Storyteller" LIVE from Philadelphia!!! We have shirtless cereal pours, many mispronunciations of the word VamPYRE, two oven mitts and a smoking jacket, a history of mirrors, and many Andrew-feelings from special guests Jeremy Rodriguez, Caroline Orejuela, and our very own nemesis LaToya Ferguson!! Massive thanks to World Cafe Live for a wonderful evening and to all of the beautiful folks of Philly for making the night so special!!

UPCOMING LIVE EVENTS
• July 23: "Dirty Girls" | CHICAGO IRL TICKETS | A Night of Music & Sexy Hellmath
• July 24: "Dirty Girls" | VIRTUAL TICKETS | Live Recording of S7E18
• September 17 & 18: "Slayers, Every One Of Us" - The Two Night Finale • Sign up for virtual ticket notifications

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Jeremy Rodriguez: @rodriguezjeremy; https://linktr.ee/rodriguezjeremy
Caroline Orejuela: @caroineorjells; https://www.carolineorejuela.com/
LaToya Ferguson: @lafergs; https://la-fergs.tumblr.com/

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Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and Alba Daza
With support from consultant Mackenzie MacDade
Edited by: John Mark Nelson & Kristin Russo
Logo: Kristine Thune

MUSIC

"Storyteller" was written by Jenny Owen Youngs, produced by Jenny Owen Youngs and John Mark Nelson, and performed by John Mark Nelson

More on John Mark Nelson: https://ffm.bio/johnmarknelson

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We've got a heaping scoop of racism and colonialist bullshit this week, including but not limited to a very troubling (and problematic af!) origin story of the Slayer line! We also have a damn fine performance by Lalaine, a deep dive into the difference between puppets and muppets (unclear), and Buffy being REALLY OUT OF LINE. Yes, that's right, it is Season 7 Episode 15: Get It Done.

UPCOMING LIVE EVENTS
• July 23 & 24: A "Dirty Girls" Weekend at Lincoln Hall in Chicago
• September 17 & 18: "Slayers, Every One Of Us" - The Two Night Finale • Sign up for virtual ticket notifications

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Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and Alba Daza
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"Get It Done" was written, produced and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs

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Robin Wood is taking Buffy on a date to a hidden restaurant in the alleys of Sunnydale (that makes brandied pears?!), Xander is helping Ashanti pick out the right rope to help tie him up over the Seal of Danzalthar, and the gang has really outdone themselves at home by trying to us a WIRE on Andrew to record The First. Wow. Here we are with Season 7, Episode 14: "First Date."

UPCOMING LIVE EVENTS
• June 11: "Storyteller" at World Cafe Live in Philly
• July 23 & 24: A "Dirty Girls" Weekend at Lincoln Hall in Chicago
• September 17 & 18: "Slayers, Every One Of Us" - The Two Night Finale • Sign up for virtual ticket notifications

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Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and Alba Daza
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Logo: Kristine Thune

MUSIC

"First Date" was written, produced and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs

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You know that feeling when you kiss a girl and it hits you so hard that you turn into the dude you killed last season?! And then you run into the girl who you kept as a rat in a cage for years?!?!?! It is a wild time in Sunnydale this week, folks, and to top everything off Riley Finn flirts with Spike from miles and miles away by lovingly calling him "assface." It is Season 7, Episode 13: "The Killer In Me."

UPCOMING LIVE EVENTS
• June 11: "Storyteller" at World Cafe Live in Philly
• July 23 & 24: A "Dirty Girls" Weekend at Lincoln Hall in Chicago
• September 17 & 18: "Slayers, Every One Of Us" - The Two Night Finale • Sign up for virtual ticket notifications

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Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and Alba Daza
With support from consultant Mackenzie MacDade
Edited by: John Mark Nelson & Kristin Russo
Logo: Kristine Thune

MUSIC

"The Killer In Me" was written by Jenny Owen Youngs, produced by Jenny Owen Youngs and John Mark Nelson, and mixed by John Mark Nelson.

Vocals by Bess Rogers (as Willow)

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Listen. We love Dawn, okay? She f*cking rules!! Join us and special guest Jessie Blount as we praise Dawn's virtues, question some of Buffy's choices as head counselor at Camp Potential, welcome Amanda into the fold and dig deep into the history of Snausages. It is Season 7 Episode 12, "Potential."

SLAYERS, EVERY ONE OF US: THE EPIC TWO-NIGHT FINALE OF BUFFERING THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

September 17 & 18, 2022 at Brooklyn's Bell House

• Pre-Sale: Thursday, May 5th at 10am ET for Buffering Patrons

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Special Guest Jessie Blount is one half of Hashtag Ruthless Productions, the creators of the podcasts The Gayly Prophet and EsGAYpe From Reality, which are about Harry Potter and the Simon Snow series, respectively. She also hosts a Patreon-only Buffy podcast called We Are The Gayers. Connect with her on instagram @livefromdetroit or on twitter @jessie_detroit

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Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and Alba Daza

With support from consultant Mackenzie MacDade

Edited by: John Mark Nelson & Kristin Russo

Logo: Kristine Thune

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You know that feeling when you're a centuries-old vampyric ancestor named Turok-Han and you just want to kill a bunch of potential slayers so that you can keep the world's oldest evil happy, but then you wind up at a half-built library and the Slayer herself turns on the spotlights, dons a top hat, and promptly beheads you in front of all of your adoring fans?! It's Showtime, baby...

TWO SLAYERS, NO WAITING: A "DIRTY GIRLS WEEKEND" at Lincoln Hall in Chicago
July 23 & 24, 2022 — tickets at lh-st.com
Pre-Sale: Thursday, April 21st at 10am ET / 9am CT for Buffering Patrons
On-Sale: Friday, April 22nd at 1pm ET / 12pm CT

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Giles is back in corduroy with some new potential slayer step-sisters, Drusilla as The First is wriggling and giggling about, Xander and Andrew *cannot* stop flirting, and Turok-Han is really, really strong. So strong, in fact, that he almost undoes Buffy... but, battered and bruised, she explains to the potentials and the Scooby gang that if the Hellmouth is gonna f*cking swallow them?? It is gonna CHOKE. ON. HER. It is Season 7 Episode 10: Bring On The Night, and we are ready to rock.

GET TICKETS TO "STORYTELLER" AT WORLD CAFE LIVE IN PHILLY
June 11, 2022 

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Dear friend of the pod Helen Zalztman (The Allusionist, Answer Me This!) joins us today for a deep dive into linguistics in Buffy the Vampire Slayer! Why does Giles' leatherbound book use a "Y" in Vampyre? Why does television rely so heavily on Latin to convey magic spells? Where does the word "coven" originate? Did Buffy coin the term "wiggins"?! In the words of one Jenny Owen Youngs, wow wow wow Wow WOW. 

PHILADELPHIA: "STORYTELLER" AT WORLD CAFE LIVE on JUNE 11TH

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Produced by: Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs

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We celebrated the 25th Anniversary of Buffy the Vampire Slayer from Torrance High School, aka Sunnydale High, with hundreds of your beautiful nerdy faces — and it was one of the best nights of our damn lives. We are going through some of our favorite high-school moments from Buffy, including the infamous Oedipus Rex performance at the end of "The Puppet Show," (17:22) the meeting of The Mayor, Faith, Buffy, Angel and everyone else in "Choices," (33:12) and that romantically terrifying lovers-to-ghosts possession in "I Only Have Eyes For You" (55:14). Oh, and then we prove that Buffy and Faith absolutely totally entirely had sex with each other (1:10:20). It was truly a night for the books.

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TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO WATCH US LIVE: 25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF BUFFY AT SUNNYDALE HIGH
An epic evening of live music, conversation, special guests, and oh-so-much laughter broadcast live from Torrance High School!
momenthouse.com/bufferingthevampireslayer

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Special Guests: LaToya Ferguson, Morgan Lutich, Evan Ross Katz, and Joanna Robinson
Scoop up Evan's new book "Into Every Generation A Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts"

Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and Zoe Regan
Edited by: John Mark Nelson & Kristin Russo
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Andrew is cosplaying as Spike and being interrogated by Xander and Anya while Actual Spike is drinking blood out of bags and shattering chairs to bits (at the behest of another More Evil Spike). The scoobies would do well to remember that there are manacles in the basement, and everyone else would do well to remember that they could USE THE DOOR instead of BREAKING THE F*CKING WINDOWS AGAIN. It is Season 7 Episode 9: Never Leave Me! 

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March 11, 2022 at 7pm Pacific / 10pm Eastern
An epic evening of live music, conversation, special guests, and oh-so-much laughter broadcast live from Torrance High School!
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Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and Alba Daza
With support from consultant Mackenzie MacDade
Edited by: John Mark Nelson & Kristin Russo
Logo: Kristine Thune

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Time to repair all of the broken windows at the Summers' house, see Aimee Mann at The Bronze, and get a little kinky with Spike in the name of detective work! The thing beneath us is also getting PARTICULARLY hot and bothered as we near the mid-point of the season and, perhaps relatedly, several women in Sunnydale seem to only be able to speak in breathy porn voices when they meet attractive vampires who want to bite them. It is Season 7 Episode 8: Sleeper!

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 momenthouse.com/bufferingthevampireslayer

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Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and Alba Daza
With support from consultant Mackenzie MacDade
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"Sleeper" was written, produced, and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs

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Special Guest Hrishi Hirway joins us to discuss S7E7: Conversations with Dead People! Cassie is back in the library making Willow cry (which makes us cry), Dawn is microwaving marshmallows with poltergeists, Spike is on a date, Holden Webster is EXACTLY the kind of guy who would rise from the dead just to tell you about how your womanly mind works, and Andrew is doing very very bad things at the spooky seal underneath the high school. Also, Cassie swallows herself? It's a real journey, folks.

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Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and Alba Daza
With support from consultant Mackenzie MacDade
Edited by: John Mark Nelson & Kristin Russo
Logo: Kristine Thune

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MUSIC

"Conversations with Dead People" was written & produced by Jenny Owen Youngs and Hrishikesh Hirway
Vocals by Jenny Owen Youngs

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Alba Daza in Conversation with Shaunga Tagore: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-episode-in-62332906

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You know that feeling when something from beneath you is devouring and you're like, really trying to sort what the hell that is so you can save the world for like the billionth time, but then some high school student puts on a mystical letterman jacket and then instead of working on saving the world you have to try to bazooka the principal to win over the love of this letterman jacket wearing hottie? Life is hard!!

It is S7E6: Him and honestly, scoobies, shit is getting W I L D.

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Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and Alba Daza
With support from consultant Mackenzie MacDade
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"Him" was written by Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo and performed and produced by Jenny Owen Youngs

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We are BACK, the year is 2022, and everything is coming up Anya. We go deeper into understanding Anya's origins and past then ever before, we get a brilliantly horrible CGI spider, Kristin dubs the frat house "Murdercrombie" (did she miss the perfect opportunity to say "Murdercrombie and Witch" — yes, she did) and Jenny expounds on what it means when you call someone "Lemon Drop." We hope that someday we get a spin-off show at the Vengeance Demon Offices, but until that time we will revel in one of our favorite episodes: Selfless!

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Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and Alba Daza
With support from consultant Mackenzie MacDade
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Logo: Kristine Thune

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MUSIC

"Selfless" was written by Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo and produced by Jenny Owen Youngs

Vocals by Sam Barbera (as Anya) and Bess Rogers (as Willow)

• More on Sam Barbera
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Buffy is using all of her slayer know-how to be a guidance counselor at the new Sunnydale High and it seems that, as many might have anticipated, those two skill sets do not have significant overlap — though she is great at sharpening pencils. Spike is still feeling very very sad in the basement, Zachary Ty Bryan is here to remind us that boys (in robes) will be boys (in robes), and Cassie's death hits the Scooby gang hard because... what do you do if you know you can't help?

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Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and Alba Daza
With support from consultant Mackenzie MacDade
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Logo: Kristine Thune

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Want to read more about the history of "Land of the Free"? Here you go:
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