We're BACK with our first Watcher's Diary of Season 2!! We've got information on bones and wrestling and barbecues and knowing your chickens — plus some discussion on Buffy reboot rumors AND excitement about the return of Fallout. And of course, we find out what Dawn was doing during "When She Was Bad"... OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HERE-ORDER NOW! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | ...
May 14, 2025•35 min
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! Jenny and Kristin are back after a summer spent shopping in Los Angeles! Who will they smugly dance with at The Bronze? Who will look on sulkily (and undoubtedly also silkily) from the shadows, near the hanging egg chair, while Cibo Matto performs their sultriest song?! Tune in to fi...
May 07, 2025•1 hr 48 min
Producer, Special Agent, and Very Special Guest LaToya Ferguson joins us for our Watcher's Diary this week!! We discuss all of her thoughts on Season 1 (it is GOOD, actually ...and Marcie was in love with CORDELIA, actually), we finally uncover What Dawn Was Doing while the events of "Prophecy Girl" unfolded, and we learn that LaToya's favorite episode of the entire series falls in Season 2! We also spend copious amounts of time trying to decode how to match up Buffy characters with Friends char...
May 05, 2025•49 min
BONUS: Feels Like the First Time, Fast and Furious Edition (originally aired as two separate episodes on Patreon, presented together here with a new intro by Jenny) Feels Like the First Time is a podcast in which the experienced (usually - but not always! - Joanna) guide the uninitiated (usually - but not always! - Kristin) through important films. Can't get enough FLTFT? This limited series began in 2020, and you can hear ALL of the episodes now in the Patron-only feed! Journey through Lord of ...
Apr 30, 2025•2 hr
In our third Watcher's Diary we are talking about vampires and CPR, continuing to investigate what instrument Angel plays, and reminiscing about that time Jenny was on a plane with Kenny G. Plus, Kristin learns about the band Celtic Woman and we find out what Dawn was doing in "Out of Sight, Out of Mind." We will be back with our coverage of Buffy Season 2 (for the second time, *with* spoilers) on May 7th!! Join us in Boston (and virtually!!) on Tuesday, April 29th: https://www.wbur.org/events/9...
Apr 23, 2025•39 min
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! The end is pretty seriously nigh, prophecies are prophesying, the Master is at peak drama (giving Angel a run for his money), Cordelia drives her car through the hallways of Sunnydale High, the Hellmouth cracks open, and Buffy just keeps fighting. We couldn’t be more excited to share...
Apr 08, 2025•2 hr 1 min
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! Clea Duvall is here (though mostly invisible), there's a sepia filter on the camera lens, and HARMONY FALLS DOWN THE STAIRS (she's okay, don't worry). LOOK LISTEN AND LEARN as we discuss Buffy S1E11: "Out of Mind, Out of Sight." JOIN US IN LA & BOSTON FOR UPCOMING LIVE EVENTS: buffer...
Apr 02, 2025•1 hr 50 min
It is time for our second Watcher's Diary — and this entry has it *all*! We've got emails about Xena, Painted Dogs (the saga continues!), the ongoing mystery of Where Jenny Calendar Dangles It, and also the succulent topic of eating spiders. We opine on What Dawn Was Doing in the episode "Nightmares," and we have a special segment where we share some of the most wonderful Buffy Prom stories of all time from our listeners. Enjoy! See some of you this weekend at PROM! JOIN US IN LA & BOSTON FOR UP...
Mar 31, 2025•56 min
BONUS: Feels Like the First Time, Alien Edition (originally aired as two separate episodes on Patreon, presented together here with a new intro by Jenny) Join Kristin Russo and Joanna Robinson as Kristin boards Nostromo for the first time to ask important questions like "Where can I find a jumpsuit like Ripley's?" and "Where can I find a *Ripley* like Ripley?" and also "What happens to the cat?!?!?!" All these answers and more await. As you hurtle through the infinite darkness of this encore bro...
Mar 28, 2025•1 hr 28 min
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 acciden...
Mar 19, 2025•2 hr 1 min
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?...
Mar 05, 2025•1 hr 38 min
BONUS: Feels Like the First Time, Indiana Jones Edition (originally aired as two separate episodes on Patreon, presented together here with a new intro by Jenny Owen Youngs) Join Kristin Russo and Joanna Robinson for Kristin's maiden voyage through the original Indiana Jones trilogy! Ride sidecar as she meets the whip, the hat, AND the leather jacket (not to mention Marion) and learns the difference between a blimp and a zeppelin. When you finish listening to this episode, you definitely WON'T b...
Feb 28, 2025•1 hr 32 min
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, superna...
Feb 19, 2025•1 hr 41 min
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 Malef...
Feb 12, 2025•22 min
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 thr...
Feb 05, 2025•2 hr 12 min
Hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Yellowjackets one episode at a time, spoiler free. Find all of our Season 2 coverage in the Doomcoming Feed! Lend us your EARS, kids, because we are baaaaack with our coverage ofYellowjackets Season 2! Triangle Buddy is here, a man is being buried naked in the woods, Natalie is weaponizing forks, Steve-watch has COMMENCED, Misty may get to harmonize in the woods, and we are having a cheerful dinner of slightly-charred-with-murder-evidence franks an...
Jan 29, 2025•2 hr 5 min
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! L...
Jan 22, 2025•1 hr 49 min
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...
Jan 08, 2025•1 hr 44 min
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 "Te...
Dec 18, 2024•1 hr 47 min
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 beginnet...
Dec 11, 2024•1 hr 45 min
Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs cover The X-Files one episode at a time. It’s the FINALE of Season 2 of the X-Files and Mulder is taking LSD to celebrate. Scully cannot believe she didn’t get an autopsy *or* a bath, but she did get to sit at Mulder’s bedside and get yelled at by several different men!! We have conspiracies aplenty, a full adult size alien (just add water!) and Mulder in his teeeeny little undies. It’s S2E25 “Anasazi”! Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking...
Nov 27, 2024•1 hr 58 min
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...
Nov 20, 2024•2 hr 1 min
Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs cover The X-Files one episode at a time. Though we are discussing "Our Town" today, it is decidedly NOT the play by Thornton Wilder but rather an episode of The X-Files in which the townsfolk are dining on... other townsfolk! Cannibalism: the other red meat?? Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 1/5 Outsiders We Have To Deal With IN EPISODE LINKS https://indianpueblo.org/what-does-anasazi-mean-and-why-is-it-controversial/ SCOOP THE NEW ...
Nov 13, 2024•1 hr 27 min
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, Buf...
Nov 06, 2024•2 hr 11 min
Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs cover The X-Files one episode at a time. This Halloween, we urge you to up the horror — forget ghosts, goblins, and demons and please reflect on that spoooooooky feeling where your shadow is NOT YOUR OWN!!!!! It's Season 2, Episode 23: "Soft Light" and the train station is your only safety... mwahahahahaha Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 1/5 Shadows Cast SCOOP THE NEW MERCH!!! bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! ...
Oct 31, 2024•1 hr 31 min
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... JOIN US FOR OUR FIRST EVER HALLOWEEN HOOTENANNY October 27th at The Miracle Theater in Washington, DC bufferingcast.com/live OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS UP FOR PRE O...
Oct 23, 2024•1 min
Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs cover The X-Files one episode at a time. The first television episode in history that Kristin refused to watch a second time!! We've got some bugs, we've got some escaped prisoners, we've got some pustules (which we nearly exclusively refer to as rainbows so that we could survive the conversation), and we've got Chris Carter saying that the "look of this episode is wonderful." Ahhh, yes, 'tis The X-Files S2E22: "F. Emasculata." Producer LaToya Ferguson gives thi...
Oct 18, 2024•1 hr 24 min
Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs cover The X-Files one episode at a time. WHY ARE TWINS ALWAYS EVIL!?!?! Did you learn about *wind* in kindergarten?? Why would you ever throw away three good ice cream cones?! Do old women have names???? We dig into these questions and more this week in our coverage of The X-Files S2E21: "The Calusari." Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 2.2/5 Problems with the Wiring SCOOP THE NEW MERCH!!! bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop JOIN US F...
Oct 02, 2024•1 hr 35 min
Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs cover The X-Files one episode at a time. Darin! Morgan! Is! Here!! We are going to Florida! We are burying potatoes! We are inverting stereotypes! We are blasting Screamin' Jay Hawkins! WE ARE HAVING A GREAT TIME. It's Season 2, Episode 20 Humbug, and we are absolutely thrilled to be here. Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 3/5 Tabernacles of Terror IN EPISODE LINKS Welcome to 'Gibtown,' the last 'freakshow' town in America Alvin Law:...
Sep 18, 2024•1 hr 39 min
Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs podcast their way through Amazon's "Fallout," one episode at a time, spoiler free. Okey Dokey is exclusive to $5+ patrons of Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure, and you can listen to the complete full season on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/collection/591648 This episode originally aired in our Patreon-Exclusive feed on June 28, 2024 +++ If the apocalypse comes, please don't wipe your dick on the curtains! Okey Dokey! +++ LISTEN TO ALL 8 EPISODES OF OKEY DOKE...
Sep 11, 2024•2 hr 3 min
