Hello and welcome to a conversation on buffering the vampire slayer with me, Alda.

I'm going to talk about a lot of different things, but we're going to focus on how we came to the podcast and our experiences in the podcast so far.

And what we hope to accomplish in the podcast, mixed in with a lot of other things.

I'm sure there's going to be some buffy tangents as well, because hi there. That's why we got our jobs in partial in partiality.

And mostly is why we got this job is because we were both obsessed with buffy.

I think it would be really fun if we talked about how we both came to the show, like how we discovered the show and the impact on our lives.

I've talked a little bit about this from the podcast before, but I discovered buffy when I was 12, because my mom had a boyfriend who was a really big buffy fan, him and his son were both buffy fans.

And me and my mom were like, really like buffy, like, are you sure? I don't know, because that's the rep that the show had.

You know, still some people think it's like not a good show, but they don't know what they're missing.

So we started watching it and immediately became obsessed.

I used to rent the DVDs from like this, kind of like progressive video store in our neighborhood.

It was basically like my first love. It's like how I explained it to people like buffy the vampires are not like buffy herself, but like the show was my first like true obsession and dedication and like love affair.

And because of buffy, I realized that you know screenwriter was a job because of Jane Estinson and like Marty Nox and I was like, wait a second, people like write for TV, like that's a job that people do.

I want to do that. So I have been, you know, since I don't know 13, I've always wanted to be a writer and I ended up studying film production.

And you know, that's my that's my jam. I like right on the side and working film production and like pretty much because of buffy.

For me, it was like a bit similar. So I was very precostious kid and my favorite movie, the year that buffy came out, it's actually a movie from the previous year, the craft.

And I could talk ad nausea about that movie, but it was like very formative for my identity, right?

And so when buffy rolled through, it was also like the gap between I want to say the glass or second to last season of Zina warrior princess, which is also something my mom and I watched together.

And so my mom and I actually watched, I think the first maybe season or two seasons of buffy vampires layer together, actually, for the most part, looking back that first season was a little rough, but I can see why eight year old me was like really into it, right?

But yeah, I watched it in real time every week. There was a monster of the week, you know, we were on edge about graduation, you know, that whole whole roller coaster, my age group, millennialized.

We had a lot of strong badass female characters, weirdly enough, some of them, thanks to Joss Whitten, right? And I really enjoyed those characters.

I enjoyed Zina and Gabrielle, I enjoyed buffy, I enjoyed faith when she rolled into town, I mean, even moving into angels, some of the like not so loved female characters that came through even angel, I liked that they were like tough and strong.

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