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Watcher's Diary #11: Five by Five by Five & LARPing LARPers Oct 01, 2025

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Alan Cumming’s incredible outfits, wooden boxes that are 5x5(x5), Spike’s unwavering honesty, another gutting reveal on what Dawn was doing, and a theory on LARPing LARPers — here is our Watcher’s Diary for “Lie to Me”!

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2.07 Lie to Me | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast Sep 24, 2025

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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! Lying liars are lying their lies all over Sunnydale this week, and most of them are doing it while lit from below with a full face of makeup! Buffy’s best LA pal Ford (have you heard of him? because we sure haven’t!) has come to town to die young in an attempt to stay pretty, Drusilla is hanging around the blackb’ry patch, and Willow and Angel are forging their forbidden love! Today we’re talking about Season 2, Episode 7: Lie To Me.

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Watcher's Diary #10: A New Buffy Pilot & The (un)Sterility of Urine Sep 17, 2025

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Jenny's battle to have us pod about Xena continues and we also get into the very rich topics of: sitting on bathroom floors, the Buffy reboot pilot, Nancy Botwin selling weed, the myth of sterile urine, and what Dawn was doing for Halloween...

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Shoes

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2.06 Halloween | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast Sep 10, 2025

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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! Ethan has come to Sunnydale to get scolded by his card-cataloging boyfriend, Oz is wondering who that girl is, Cordelia is a great big cat, Buffy doesn’t know what a Slayer is (my stars!), Jenny is thinking about applying for Survivor, and Kristin has officially proven that our Ripper/Rayne pairing have dabbled in some S S S and M M M. It’s S2E6 “Halloween”!!!!

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Sweetums

You Must Remember This: Montgomery Clift & Liz Taylor

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Watcher's Diary #9: The Backstreet Boys & No New Friends (Except for Jenny) Aug 27, 2025

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Today we are thinking about shadow selves, Xena Warrior Princess, Dawn's love of the Backstreet Boys, and Cordelia's dad's tax evasion. Plus, Jenny made new friends?! It's our Watcher's Diary for "Reptile Boy"!

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Passion of the Nerd

The Insect Reflection⁠

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Penis, Demon, Money, Snake: Lani Diane Rich on "Reptile Boy" Aug 20, 2025

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The wonderful, brilliant Lani Diane Rich is with us today in defense of Buffy's "Reptile Boy"!! We go deep into what makes a good episode of Buffy (can you hear us, new Buffy writers room?!), consider various snakes-as-penis-demons throughout the show, and discuss what may be at the core of the series — a little sentiment called "to the pain"!!!

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The Year of Writing Magically
Still Pretty + Still Dead

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2.05 Reptile Boy | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast Aug 13, 2025

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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's so nice to look back to the 90s and be reminded of what the patriarchy was like now that we live in a world so free of its presence! We've got a snake (who's not the mayor), silk AND chiffon (in this economy?!), Willow *dragging* Angel and Giles (YOU LOVE TO SEE IT), and girls chained up in the basement (must be a Tuesday!). It's S2E5 "Reptile Boy"!!

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Pehla Nasha Clip

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Watcher's Diary #8: Love Island Has Entered the Chat Jul 23, 2025

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So many *incredible* Inca Mummy Girl emails, plus Jenny gives us a stunning rundown of everything important that has ever happened on Love Island?! Plus, stratovolcanoes, what Dawn was doing in Inca Mummy Girl, and our very first recording for Pet Sounds, "Toe Bean."

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cindi altrive's keynote

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Cultural Exchange, Fetishization, and Indigeneity: Alba Daza on "Inca Mummy Girl" Jul 02, 2025

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When Sunnydale has a cultural exchange dance and brings an Incan Mummy to town, you know we are going to have a lot to unpack. Here is our full conversation with the one and only Alba Daza where we discuss the concept of “cultural exchange,” dig more into the history of the Incan people, bring some much-needed correction to the terminology and the dress of Inuit people, and so much more.

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2.04 Inca Mummy Girl | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast Jul 02, 2025

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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! Everyone’s favorite episode of Buffy is upon us, where cultures are exchanged in respectful ways and indigenous folks are humanized! Just KIDDING, but wouldn’t that be so great?! Today, in addition to 90s-flavored racism, we do at least have the introduction of Devon (!), Jonathan(!!!), and OZ (!!!!!!!!) *plus* a segment with our beloved Alba Daza!!! It’s Season 2, Episode 4 “Inca Mummy Girl” — so please open your desiccated eye sockets and join us as we discuss.

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