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Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure

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🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Dear friend of the pod Helen Zalztman (The Allusionist, Answer Me This!) joins us today for a deep dive into linguistics in Buffy the Vampire Slayer! Why does Giles' leatherbound book use a "Y" in Vampyre? Why does television rely so heavily on Latin to convey magic spells? Where does the word "coven" originate? Did Buffy coin the term "wiggins"?! In the words of one Jenny Owen Youngs, wow wow wow Wow WOW. PHILADELPHIA: "STORYTELLER" AT WORLD CAFE LIVE on JUNE 11TH + https://wl.seetickets.us/event/Buffering-the-Vampire-Slayer-Live-Recording-Storyteller/473902?afflky=WorldCafeLive LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs: @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo: @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com With special guest Helen Zalztman: helenzaltzman.com Buffering the Vampire Slayer: @bufferingcast on twitter, facebook, and instagram Learn more about our team at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/our-team Produced by: Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs Edited by: John Mark Nelson & Kristin Russo Logo: Kristine Thune +++ SUPPORT US ON PATREON! Advance Music, Bonus Episodes, Live Concerts, Book Clubs, wheeeee!! patreon.com/bufferingcast SCOOP SOME MERCH! Smash the Patriarchy with Buffering T-Shirts, Hoodies, Sweatpants, Pins! bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop +++ We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Alba occupies Tiohtià:ke of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation. Mack, LaToya, Morgan, and John Mark occupy the lands of the Kizh Peoples. Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting Just Keep Fighting - Community Events Calendar: https://www.bufferingthevampireslayer.com/just-keep-fighting-spotlight-on-community-anti-racism 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.
1:21.9	Hey, everybody. Oh, hi. Another intro, another show. Do do, do do do do do. We have a special episode this week, don't we?
1:33.6	We have arguably the most special episode. That's pretty exciting. We have Helen Zaltzman, friend of Jenny's, but also mine. We argue about it in the episode.
1:44.4	The jewel of my heart.
1:47.4	Hey, what am I?
1:50.2	Something else.
1:51.2	Okay, I'll let you think on that for a minute.
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