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 ran...
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! 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,...
Nov 20, 2024•2 hr 14 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 ...
Nov 13, 2024•1 hr 27 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 BO...
Oct 31, 2024•1 hr 31 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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 DOK...
Sep 11, 2024•2 hr 3 min
Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs cover The X-Files one episode at a time. Time to go into the middle of the ocean where both a military ship and its inhabitants have aged so fast that they have literally turned to salt! Oh no, Mulder and Scully are getting older by the minute as they try to crack the case!! The only way to survive? DRINK THE TOILET WATER!!! It's Season 2, Episode 19: Dod Kalm. Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 1/5 Wrinkle in Times (Wrinkles in T...
Sep 04, 2024•1 hr 23 min
Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs cover The X-Files one episode at a time. We have taken a turn out of the X-Files myth arc and traded a Mulder of Samanthas for invisible elephants and alien-abducted gorillas! It’s S2E18: Fearful Symmetry. Let’s GO. Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 1/5 Very Big, Very Willful Animals SCOOP THE NEW X-FILE TANK! bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop JOIN US FOR OUR FIRST EVER HALLOWEEN HOOTENANNY October 27th at The Miracle Theater in...
Aug 21, 2024•1 hr 20 min
Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs cover The X-Files one episode at a time. Oh dear, it seems Samantha Mulder also bleeds Baja (read:green goo) and isn’t Samantha Mulder at all. We will have to wait on that game of Stratego. :( In better news, Daddy Skinner and Daddy X trade head butts in the elevator — the closest you can *get* to smooching without using your lips! It’s S2E17: End Game, and we encourage you to bring your parka and your little mittens. Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this epis...
Aug 14, 2024•1 hr 20 min
Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs cover The X-Files one episode at a time. Mulder and Skinner have their butts in a sling and… is that SAMANTHA MULDER they see from their perch?! We are back with the first in a two-part X-Files arc and the green goo is a-flowing!! Join us for S2E16: “Colony”. Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 1.3/5 Forces That I Came To Believe Were Extraterrestrial JOIN US FOR OUR FIRST EVER HALLOWEEN HOOTENANNY October 27th at The Miracle Theat...
Aug 07, 2024•1 hr 46 min
This episode has a cat named Chester Bonaparte that Mulder says hello to on the end of a pier, which is something — if perhaps the only thing? — to celebrate. Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 2.3/5 Trace Levels of Tetrodotoxin IN EPISODE LINKS The Tragic, Forgotten History of Zombies Haiti & The Truth About Zombies 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 ...
Jul 17, 2024•1 hr 35 min
Teenagers in the woods! Dark magic in the classrooms! If not witches, then WHAT?!?! We are talking about S2E14 "Die Hand Die Verletzt," and we'd ask you to speak neither German nor Latin in front of the books, thank you very much. Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 3/5 Crap That's On Geraldo IN-SHOW LINKS A Snake Climbs A Tree OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS UP FOR PRE ORDER! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoun...
Jul 10, 2024•1 hr 19 min
Is it our favorite episode? No. Does it inspire us to compare Dana Scully to Tony Soprano? Yes. Please also join us for Jenny's telling of a scary story about a woman with no face (not to be confused with a woman with two pennies), and Kristin's guess on what MUFON stands for. It's S2E13 "Irresistible" and for once we are immensely happy to report that Scully does *not* get a bath. Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 3.475/5 Devils In A Buttoned Down Shirt IN-SHOW LINK...
Jul 03, 2024•1 hr 36 min
This week on The X-Files, Aubrey is a town not a person, John Locke is using the pseudonym “Brian” to be a real dickbag around town, Mulder debates nurture vs nature using the hard-to-argue-with cronch of a sunflower seed, we learn that even women named BJ can be treated poorly, and we witness a stunningly accurate doodle of the Trylon and Perisphere. It’s S2E12, “Aubrey.” Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 2.375/5 Mutator Genes That Have Activated Previously Dormant ...
Jun 19, 2024•1 hr 32 min
We would prefer to take this week's episode — S2E11 "Excelcis Dei" — and stuff it down a volcano with Bradley Whitford, so that it would either combust from the heat of the lava or the heat of Volcano Bradley's sexiness...but alas, it is our JOB to talk about EACH AND EVERY EPISODE. So, come with us now as we get very, very mad at Fox Mulder. Producer LaToya Ferguson gives "Excelcis Dei" 1.15/5 Mushrooms We Take To Speak To The Dead CW: Sexual Assault OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS UP FOR PRE O...
Jun 12, 2024•1 hr 16 min
This week we have a special appearance by special guest LaToya Ferguson who is here to help us discuss one of the most wild(ly bad) episodes of The X-Files to date: S2E10 "Red Museum"! Luckily, this episode was ALSO intended as a crossover with Picket Fences, so we get to talk about Tom Skerritt's mustache! We also get a true gift from the heavens: Scully eating ribs in a white suite and OOPS getting some BBQ sauce on her face... however will she get it off?!?!?! Producer LaToya Ferguson gives "...
Jun 05, 2024•1 hr 43 min
It's not a space bug frozen in ice or an LED bug that only comes out at night, but it IS a fungus that looks like a stalk of asparagus and it WILL use you as its host!!!!!! We are in our casual clothes on remote location in the Pacific Northwest where volcanologist BRADLEY WHITFORD has discovered a new life form and a way to remain looking hot despite (because of??) being covered in volcanic ash! Mulder still finds time to caress Scully's shoulder while dodging mushroom spores! We find LaToya in...
May 22, 2024•1 hr 29 min
Mrs Scully and Papa Scully and Sister Scully are all here this week because DANA HATH BEEN RETURNED! Mulder spends the entire episode sprinting and screaming in search of the truth, Nurse Owens is actually perhaps AN ANGEL, Cigarette Smoking Man gets an actual cigarette slapped out of his actual mouth, and Skinner looks hot, is hot, remains hot. This is a doozy of an episode!! It is Season 2, Episode 8: "One Breath," and we hope you have some tissues to handle the strength of Mulder's beliefs!!!...
May 15, 2024•1 hr 44 min
VAMPIRES?! Scully is gone ONE WEEK and we have VAMPIRES!?!?! With veterinary needles!??! Join us as we discuss how normal the name Kristen is when spelled with an "E," our outrage at John The Son's inability to wipe his mouth off after feeding or clean under his fingernails, the proper way of shaving someone else when you do not own any mirrors, and how deeply Mulder enjoyed being yanked out of a sunroof by none other than the Unholy Spirit herself. It's time for Season 2, Episode 7, "Blood" SOR...
May 08, 2024•1 hr 27 min
THE X-FILES ARE RE-OPENED, SMUG BITCHES! Daddy Skinner said let's goooooooo!! Also: Scully is somewhere in the sky, Mulder's hair has one fleeting non-duckling moment while drenched in rain, and Duane Barry answers the question on all of our minds — "Who took Scully?" — very clearly: THEMMMMMMM! Producer LaToya Ferguson gives "Ascension" 1/5 Turning One Man’s Religion Into A Crusades LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kr...
Apr 26, 2024•1 hr 26 min
The FBI needs someone who can act like aliens are all a bunch of hooey to help get some hostages freed, so they call in the best candidate for the job: Famous Non-Believer Fox Mulder! Also, Scully writes a check for $11.14, the perfect dog from "Ice" is back and no one tells us if he is okay, and C.C.H. Pounder as Agent Kazdin is the best Smug Bitch that we've ever met. Producer LaToya Ferguson gives "Duane Barry" 1.5/5 Psychopaths Who Took a Bullet in the Head STROBE LIGHT TIMESTAMPS FROM "DUAN...
Apr 17, 2024•1 hr 23 min
We are BACK! Mr. X has a scandalous meeting with Mulder and an envelope, Scully is BURNING with jealousy over Mulder's new partner, The Smoking Man smokes, and the incredible Tony Todd is here to grace us with his talents. Producer LaToya Ferguson gives "Sleepless" 1.5/5 Different Dyssomnias & Parasomnias JOIN US IN BROOKLYN AT BUFFY PROM Tickets & Information: bufferingcast.com/prom LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Rus...
Apr 10, 2024•1 hr 17 min
To mark the 25th Anniversary of Buffy's Season 3, Episode 19: "Enemies," we are rebroadcasting our Buffering episode from back in 2018 — with special, beloved guest (and velvet choker owner), Hrishikesh Hirway. In re-listening to this episode we also learned that our conversation on "Enemies" also marks the very first time that Jenny told us the now-infamous tale of The Woman Who Had Two Pennies. Please enjoy, and take this opportunity to kiss your best gal pal on the forehead. JOIN US AT BUFFY ...
Mar 20, 2024•1 hr 37 min
Beware of your electronics and take special caution if you find any of their screens shortening the word "them" to "'em"!!! We are digging into Season 2, Episode 3 "Blood" in today's episode where Mulder is learning about apple farming, Scully is hiding the lower half of her body behind corpses, and Jenny is attempting to teach Kristin about cryptids... Producer LaToya Ferguson gives "Blood" 2.75/5 Experimental Pesticides Responsible For Violent Behavior JOIN US IN BROOKLYN AT BUFFY PROM Tickets...
Feb 28, 2024•1 hr 25 min
It's a worm, it's a worm, it's a GREAT BIG WORM. Please check your toilets and put out your cigarettes, kids, because a giant flukeworm is on the loose. Flukey was last seen in New Jersey where it reportedly grabbed a slice and then headed south. It's Season 2 Episode 2 "The Host" and we apologize, deeply, in advance. Producer LaToya Ferguson gives "The Host" 5 (but really more than 5)/5 I Hate This, I Hate This, I Quit The Podcasts JOIN US IN BROOKLYN AT BUFFY PROM Tickets & Information: bu...
Feb 21, 2024•1 hr 32 min
WE ARE BACK! In S2E1 "Little Green Men," Mulder is doubting everything he has ever known (when all he should be doubting is how his hair is being styled), Scully is looking like a smitten Angela Chase as she walks through the hallways of the J. Edgar Hoover Building, Jorge is giving us an endlessly epic drawing of a Little Green Man, Kristin becomes obsessed with The Golden Record, and Jenny practices saying her new favorite verb: "roast beefed." Producer LaToya Ferguson gives "Little Green Men"...
Feb 14, 2024•1 hr 39 min
We're baaa-aaaack! This Valentine’s Day, February 14th, join us as we return to cover the second season of The X-Files, one at a time, spoiler free. That means more monsters of the week, more mythological arc developments, more sunflower seeds, and inevitably more smug bitches. 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 All music,...
Feb 07, 2024•1 min
Producer LaToya Ferguson joins us in a special wrap-up episode for our first season of The eX-Files! We discuss our favorite episodes, our hopes and dreams for The Mothership, and our predictions for what might unfold in Season 2. We also find out how many predictions from Kristin's Crystal Ball were accurate (spoiler: basically all of them)(spoiler: not really), and go deep on our love (Kristin's love) for QUEEQUEG the beloved NASA robot. We will be back with Season 2 of The eX-Files in early 2...
Dec 13, 2023•1 hr
