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Buffering the Vampire Slayer | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast

Willow, Magic, and Addiction | 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

4.82.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode we have a more in-depth conversation with Natalie Muskin-Press, taking a deeper look at Willow’s arc with her use of magic in this season. Natalie is a Licensed Clinical Addictions Counselor who has been working in Higher Education for the last 10 years. Prior to that she spent 3 years working in the community providing Intensive OutPatient Treatment to adults and adolescents and running a residential Recovery Home for women. Her work centers on harm reduction with a focus on prevention, intervention, and education. This episode will contain spoilers through the end of Season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and will also include conversations on themes of substance use, the prison industrial complex, sex work, and mental health. DONATEIf you are able, please send donations to Project Neighbors, and specifically their Solar Conversion Project at projectneighbors.org! If you donate, let us know at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/projectneighbors & you can also enter to win some very fun Buffy prize-bundles. TODAY'S GUEST Natalie Muskin-Press: @mzbitcaIf you are looking into finding treatment options for yourself or a loved one, you can use the SAMHSA Treatment locator: https://www.samhsa.gov/find-treatment+++ LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNETJenny Owen Youngs: @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.comKristin Russo: @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.comBuffering the Vampire Slayer: @bufferingcast on twitter, facebook, and instagramLearn more about our team at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/our-team +++ ADDITIONAL RESOURCES National Harm Reduction Coalition: https://harmreduction.org/ Drug Policy Alliance: https://drugpolicy.org/ Unbroken Brain by Maia Szalavitz: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25663669-unbroken-brain?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=dJ1PyVy1xN&rank=1 North America Syringe Exchange Network: https://www.nasen.org/map/ The Chicago Recovery Alliance: https://anypositivechange.org/ Self-Management and Recovery Training: https://www.smartrecovery.org/community/ 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.

1:22.1

Hey there. Hello. We are here with an extra episode for you this week, and please be warned,

1:29.1

sirens going off in the distance.

1:30.6

This episode contains spoilers, spoilers, through the end of season seven of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

1:39.5

In this episode, we sit down to have a more in-depth conversation with Natalie Muskin Press, who you met

1:45.7

here in our buffering verse when she did a segment in our episode for Tabula Rasa.

1:50.5

Yes, we will be, as you probably have guessed, taking a deeper look at Willow's Ark with

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