5.22.02: The Gift Part 2

Buffering the Vampire Slayer

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🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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We have your thoughts on the Season 5 Finale, "The Gift"! We have a conversation from the brilliant Jen Malkowski on death as Buffy's gift! We have Mack MacDade telling us about who really treats Spike like a man and not a monster! We have LaToya Ferguson explaining why she thinks this would have been the perfect series finale!! Join us, perfect scoobies, for our bonus episode on S5E22's The Gift. 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 instagram Also hey, here's our website with schedules, resources, events and such: bufferingthevampireslayer.com SPECIAL GUESTS Jen Malkowski is an assistant professor of Film and Media Studies at Smith College with a specialization in death and dying in media and you can read more about them at smith.edu/academics/faculty/jennifer-malkowski! Jen is also the author of Dying in Full Detail which can be accessed for free here. Mackenzie MacDade is a 31 year old, queer woman of color, teaching artist, feminist, part time poet and general rabble rouser. She got her start in feminism from a book of feminist nursery rhymes, and her start in pop culture analysis from 9 years of homeschooling (translation: 9 years of TV and movie watching). A firm believer in queering the collective consciousness, she strives to inspire people to redesign their idea of normal and step out their comfort zone. She takes inspiration from Gertrude Stein, Buffy, Angela Davis, Faith and bell hooks. Someone once described her as “The love child of Angela Davis and Ru-Paul” and she thinks that just about sums it up. LaToya Ferguson is our new host for Season 3's Angel On Top HELL YEAH! She also writes for The AV Club and Paste Magazine as well as The Guardian, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, IndieWire, and more. You can follow LaToya at @lafergs on Twitter and you should also *immediately* tune into her podcast about The Vampire Diaries (YEAH THAT’S RIGHT) called The AMPire Diaries over at theampirediariespod.com +++ Produced by: Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs +++ Learn about our commitments to creating + maintaining an anti-racist base here at Buffering the Vampire Slayer at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting +++ JOIN OUR PATREON FAMILY!! Advance Music, Bonus Episodes, Live Concerts, Book Clubs, wheeeee!! patreon.com/bufferingcast PRE-ORDER OUR SEASON 5 CD NOW! PLUS: WHY ARE MEN HOODIES, TANKS, & CROP TOPS: HOORAY! bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop Logo: Kristine Thune Edited by: Kristin Russo

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0:00.0	Wow! Hello! And welcome to a very special episode of buffering the vampire slayer
0:29.8	podcast where we're watching discussing every episode of buffy one at a time sometimes more than once
0:34.2	in this case here we are to discuss more about the gift more more more more. Jen the listen I
0:42.6	want to preface this by saying that I love you all so much and I'm so happy to be here in this
0:46.0	episode but Jenny can attest to the fact that over the last week I've been like why did I do this
0:51.2	to myself? Why did I add another episode to myself? I mean it's worth it in the end always it is
0:59.2	worth it but um you know let's make a bonus episode she said it'll be so fun she said oh but it is
1:10.0	it is very fun and here's why because in this conversation we have four things to offer to you
1:17.0	one is a conversation that I had with Jen Malkowski who you may remember from the body
1:22.9	we will give Jen a proper introduction before we go into my conversation with them but it's
1:27.8	pretty fucking great and it focuses on death as her gift and um the moment that buffy jumps
1:34.3	off of that tower we have a conversation with Mack McDade for the first time Mack is in our ears
1:42.2	as I'm bringing us all sorts of feelings about buffy herself and also spike
2:01.3	and uh last but certainly nowhere near to least uh we have a conversation with Latoya Ferguson
2:09.5	who you well know by now is going to be coming into our podcast feed bringing with her season three
2:17.3	of angel on top oh hell yes yes Kristen I don't mean to nip it but you said we had four things to
2:25.3	offer them and that was only three you're right the fourth thing is you we have you to offer to you
2:31.2	oh yes we have emails that you sent in we have questions that you sent in specific to the gift
2:37.4	we will have a uh longer more expansive season five malback for you in a few weeks
2:42.9	but this is specific to the gift we have a few of you who wrote in with your experiences of
2:47.2	watching the episode for the first time we have a few of you who wrote in with questions so
2:50.8	we're that's what you're gonna get from Jenny and I right now and in between those conversations so
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