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Buffering the Vampire Slayer | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast

5.16 The Body | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast

Buffering the Vampire Slayer | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast

Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure

Tv & Film, After Shows, Tv Reviews

4.8 β€’ 2.9K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 29 April 2020

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

Today we journey together into one of the most impactful episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and β€” in our opinion β€” one of the most impactful episodes of television across time and genre, S5E16: The Body. We dig deep into the show's four acts, share in conversation with Professor Jen Malkowski from Smith University who studies representations of death and dying in media, hear selected poems as read by author & poet Alyse Knorr, and end with music composed together by Jenny Owen Youngs and Saul Simon MacWilliams. We couldn't be more thankful to share this journey alongside you, beautiful scoobies. LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs: @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo: @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering the Vampire Slayer: @bufferingcast on twitter, facebook, and instagramAlso hey, here's our website with events and such: bufferingthevampireslayer.com SPECIAL GUESTS Jen Malkowski; smith.edu/academics/faculty/jennifer-malkowski Jen is an assistant professor of Film and Media Studies at Smith College with a specialization in death and dying in media and the author of Dying in Full Detail which can also be accessed for free here. Alyse Knorr; alysejoy.wixsite.com/alyseknorr Alyse is an assistant professor of English at Regis University and, since 2017, co-editor of Switchback Books. Her most recent book of poems, Mega-City Redux, won the 2016 Green Mountains Review Poetry Prize, selected by Olena Kalytiak Davis. Saul Simon MacWilliams; saulsimonmacwilliams.com/ Saul has worked closely and extensively with composer and producer Dan Romer on films including his Oscar nominated feature 'Beasts of the Southern Wild', 'Digging for Fire', 'Finders Keepers', 'Mediterrania', 'Beasts of No Nation' and ABC's The Good Doctor. In 2018 MacWilliams scored HBO's Martin Luther King Jr. biopic, 'King In The Wilderness', directed by Peter Kunhardt and Co-Scored Clay Tweel's award winning documentary 'Out of Omaha'. MacWilliams scored the Anton Yelchin biopic, 'Love, Antosha', which premiered at Sundance '19 followed by a theatrical release.JOIN OUR PATREON FAMILY!! Advance Music, Bonus Episodes, Live Concerts, Book Clubs, wheeeee!! patreon.com/bufferingcast Logo: Kristine Thune (kristinethune.com) Edited by: Lauren "Karen" Klein & Kristin Russo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, it's Kristen and Jenny.

0:03.1

And we're here to tell you that nobody, and we mean nobody, messes with our boyfriends.

0:07.5

That's canonically true.

0:11.0

We're going on tour.

0:13.0

What are we doing, Jenny? Where are we going?

0:15.0

The Nobody Messes with My Boyfriend Tour is stopping in New York on October 18th, Philadelphia on October 19th, and

0:23.5

Burlington, Vermont for the first time ever on October 29th. We are doing live tapings of

0:29.6

In Order, What's My Line Part 1? What's My Line Part 2? And Ted. Everyone's favorite episode, Ted.

0:36.5

I'm so excited to talk about Ted in front of a live audience.

0:39.5

It cannot even begin to express it.

0:41.4

It's going to be great.

0:42.4

You can find out all of the information you need to know at bufferingcast.com slash live or check out our calendar where our events always live.

0:51.5

Tickets go on sale for our patrons only tomorrow Thursday, August 28th. And then on

0:59.7

sale to the general public Friday, August 29th. So come on out. Join us for some live tapings that

1:07.2

will be a hoot and possibly a nanny. And, uh, you know, we'd love to see you try to mess

1:14.4

with our boyfriends. Bufferingcast.com slash live.

1:23.0

Content note, gentle scoobies. Buffi the Vampire Slayer contains heavy themes, and this episode deals with loss and grief.

1:32.3

Hey there. So today we are journeying into one of the most impactful episodes of television ever made.

1:39.3

Season 5, episode 16 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Body.

1:43.3

We've worked really hard to honor this episode with our discussion and with the incredible

1:48.1

contributions of many others.

1:50.1

In today's episode, you will hear a small segment of our conversation with Jen Malkowski,

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