Buffering the Vampire Slayer | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast

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."

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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

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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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With support from consultant Mackenzie MacDade

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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
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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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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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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!
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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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With support from consultant Mackenzie MacDade
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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
Edited by: John Mark Nelson & Kristin Russo
Logo: Kristine Thune

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MUSIC

"Sleeper" was written, produced, and performed by 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. Alba occupies Tiohtià:ke of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation. Mack, LaToya, Morgan, and John Mark occupy the lands of the Kizh Peoples.

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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
Edited by: John Mark Nelson & Kristin Russo
Logo: Kristine Thune

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MUSIC

"Him" was written by Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo and performed and produced by 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. Alba occupies Tiohtià:ke of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation. Mack, LaToya, Morgan, and John Mark occupy the lands of the Kizh Peoples.

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