Buffy Speak
141 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 25 ratingsbuffy speak is a podcast about buffy the vampire slayer, which beth has seen upwards of ten million times and caroline is watching for the first time. we try to come at the show from an intersectional perspective and have a ton of fun with it. we hope you do too!
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722 – Chosen
August 19, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBalthough we've come.... to the eeeend of the rooooad.... still i can't leeeet gooooo...... this is it, y'all! the finale. there is just so much we cover in this episode that i cannot in good faith summarize it with a little pithy description. we're done! thank you so much for listening! you've made this journey a fun one. if you ever want to come back, we'll always be here for you. unlike spike and anya. who are dead.
722 – Chosen
August 19, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBalthough we've come.... to the eeeend of the rooooad.... still i can't leeeet gooooo...... this is it, y'all! the finale. there is just so much we cover in this episode that i cannot in good faith summarize it with a little pithy description. we're done! thank you so much for listening! you've made this journey a fun one. if you ever want to come back, we'll always be here for you. unlike spike and anya. who are dead.
721 – The End of Days
August 17, 2019 17:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MBAND ALMOST TWO MONTHS LATER, WE'VE RETURNED! due to some pretty serious personal Stuff, we weren't able to get this episode edited and uploaded in a timely manner. but we're here now! we've got mystery scythes. we've got chloroform. we've got... angel????
720 – Touched
June 23, 2019 14:00 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBin our first (!!!) in-person recording session since the premiere of our podcast, lo, those many years ago, we try and tally the people of color in this season, talk about spike and buffy's relationship (duh) and update ourselves on tom lenk's current career.
719 – Empty Places
June 13, 2019 22:00 - 1 hour - 42.7 MBWOOP DE DOO, we finally reached beth's least favorite episode of the entire series. sure do love to see our protagonist abandoned by her friends and loved ones! sure do Love That!
718 – Dirty Girls
May 01, 2019 16:00 - 39 minutes - 18.2 MBhello, caleb! hello, faith! goodbye, xander's left eye (or was it right? i'm too lazy to look it up)! goodbye, multiple potential slayers! PRIESTS. am i right ladies?
717 – Lies My Parents Told Me
April 16, 2019 16:00 - 54 minutes - 24.8 MBthis episode? is FUCKED. the gaps in spike's past are finally all filled in, but the most important thing is that buffy DEFINITELY didn't know that spike killed robin's mother and that beth is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT right. tell your friends.
716 – Storyteller
April 07, 2019 04:00 - 57 minutes - 26.5 MBthis episode is Fine but we get a bunch of andrew, which can be nice, depending on whether or not he's totally denying murdering his friend.
715 – Get It Done
March 25, 2019 04:00 - 41 minutes - 19.1 MBTRIGGER WARNING: this episode of buffy speak discusses discusses rape and, briefly, suicide. feel free to skip this one if you are uncomfortable with those topics! y'all like episodes that are at once lore-heavy and also answer NO questions whatsoever?? then this is the episode for you!! we've also got questionable narrative decisions, half-baked rape metaphors and another one of buffy's CLASSIC "everyone sucks but me" speeches. but at least the Generic African Men are actually speaking a r...
714 – First Date
March 13, 2019 04:00 - 32 minutes - 15.1 MBracism! racism galore! we've got racism against asian people, we've got racism against black people, we've got it all, folks! don't you JUST LOVE IT.
713 – The Killer in Me
February 25, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 37.5 MBamy sucks, kennedy... kind of... doesn't suck?, beth has never seen sky high and andrew is a downright delight. all this and more on this week's episode of BUFFY SPEAK: THE COLLEGE YEARS
712 – Potential
February 17, 2019 05:00 - 54 minutes - 25.1 MBwe continue to be BAFFLED by the fact that some people don't like dawn. what's wrong with you??? WHAT DOES SHE HAVE TO DO TO PLEASE YOU PEOPLE???
711 – Showtime
February 03, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 33.3 MBbeth manages to find one thing about each potential that she likes and caroline gets a SPECIAL SURPRISE when she finds out she didn't actually finish the episode.
710 – Bring On The Night
January 27, 2019 14:00 - 51 minutes - 23.7 MBso much has happened!! beth went to Podcast Convention Two, beth got engaged, beth saw mr. pointy in the (wooden) flesh, and caroline saw a badass lady on the train. oh, and also we talk about buffy.
709 – Never Leave Me
January 14, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 29.1 MB"never leave me" indeed! sorry we've been away for (undisclosed amount of time) but we're BACK and we are OUT OF ORDER. caroline's hard drive is kind of shot, and we may not get our original 708 back, but here's 709 while you wait! we've got andrew. we've got spike. we've got andrew and spike. what more could any of us want!!
707 – Conversations With Dead People
December 16, 2018 20:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBconversations with alive people about conversations with dead people about the indigo girls and tom hanks
706 – Him
December 09, 2018 18:00 - 34 minutes - 16 MBwow this episode is bad! i mean, like, really bad! like, misogyny and strange editing and weird character choices bad! WHY'D YOU DO US LIKE THIS ANDREW? WHYYYY
705 – Selfless
December 06, 2018 18:00 - 57 minutes - 26.4 MBfriends stabbing friends, friends accidentally getting their friends disintegrated, friends pouring all of their identities into their romantic partners, and STILL this episode doesn't carry as much of the emotional weight as it wants to. oh well.
704 – Help
November 18, 2018 19:00 - 1 hour - 36.2 MBeveryone please welcome this week's guest, a bird! their credentials are that they went to bird school, which is for birds, and are therefore incredibly qualified to speak to this episode of buffy.
703 – Same Time, Same Place
November 06, 2018 23:00 - 59 minutes - 27.3 MBbeth and caroline don't particularly care for this story line so we spend most of it talking about jack black and the johns mulaney and cusack. hope that's okay.
702 – Beneath You
October 21, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 32 MBit's all come down to this, folks. we've been doing this podcast for almost three years, and we've finally come to the ultimate question. the final query. the question that, were it to be answered correctly, would cause society's ruination and humanity's demise: who topped, spike or angel?
701 – Lessons
October 15, 2018 04:00 - 56 minutes - 25.8 MBwelcome to season 7 everyone!! the lessons WE learn this week are you can always go back to high school, especially if the weird principal knows everything about you, and that our last season is gonna be a blast.
622 – Grave (with Meghan Griffin)
September 24, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 34.2 MBmeghan griffin (@megggriffin) joins us for one last go around the depressing season 6 track. xander sucks! dawn and buffy are the best! GILES IS BACK!!! what a rollercoaster we've been on, friends. we can't wait to never watch season 6 ever again. onwards and upwards!
621 – Two to Go
September 24, 2018 04:00 - 58 minutes - 26.6 MB"i'm sick of willow's bullshit" - caroline sears, 2018
620 – Villains
September 09, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 40.3 MBhellLLLLOOOOOO dark willow! does warren deserve to die? who knows! but he sure doesn't have his skin anymore, we can tell you that for free.
619 – Seeing Red (with Karis Ford)
August 28, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 53.2 MBkaris ford (@KarisFord1) joins us to talk about.... stuff.www.autostraddle.com/all-65-dead-lesbian-and-bisexual-characters-on-tv-and-how-they-died-312315/amp/https://www.stuffmomnevertoldyou.com/podcasts/bury-your-gays.htm
618 – Entropy
August 20, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 28.6 MBshould willow and tara have gotten back together? how low can xander stoop? these are important questions, but none so important as why caroline never goes to waffle house.
617 – Normal Again (with Linnea Thunselle)
August 12, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 33.5 MBlinnea thunselle (@linnea1928) joins us for... an episode. yep, this sure is an episode of buffy the vampire slayer, helmed by joss whedon, starring sarah michelle geller and others. yep. this episode sure does exist. mhm.
616 – Hell's Bells (with Mae Copeland)
August 05, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 32.6 MBthis week we're joined by mae copeland (twitter: @zaddymae, instagram: @buffythestyleslayer) to contemplate just what in the world the writers were hoping to accomplish by breaking xander and anya up. WHAT'S THE POINT? WHAT IS TO BE GAINED??????
615 – As You Were
August 02, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 34.3 MBin continuing the tradition of our opinion of buffy's love interests being in a total state of flux, we actually really like riley in this episode!! WHO ARE WE?????????
614 – Older and Far Away (with Julia Marostica)
July 22, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 43.2 MBjulie marostica (@jojomarostica on instagram) joins us to talk about the last ever buffy birthday episode, and what an episode it is! we've got all your favorite characters: richard, sophie, clem (okay but clem is actually the best). we also cover the buffy reboot, which......... yikes.
613 – Dead Things (with Madeline deVillers)
July 17, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 40.7 MBmadeline devillers (@radddeline on instagram) joins us to talk about a TRULY BLEAK episode of buffy. while we try to distract ourselves from the darkness that threatens to encroach at any given moment, we talk about the pros and cons of buffy/spike and.... not much else, honestly.
612 – Doublemeat Palace
July 08, 2018 04:00 - 40 minutes - 18.3 MBwow! caroline gives this episode our very first 11/10! and since there's no recording of it there's no way to prove that i'm lying!
611 – Gone
July 02, 2018 04:00 - 44 minutes - 20.3 MBIn Which They Take The Metaphor A Little Too Far
610 – Wrecked
June 24, 2018 04:00 - 48 minutes - 22.3 MBsimilar to season 6 itself, this episode of buffy speak gets A LIL DARKER than we intended, but it's okay because... slaps?
609 – Smashed
June 18, 2018 04:00 - 46 minutes - 21.5 MBSPIKE: hewwo buffy BUFFY: ...what SPIKE: i'm in wuv wif you BUFFY: What Is Going On
608 – Tabula Rasa (with Whitney and Lindsey Nelsen)
June 03, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 38.5 MBwhitney and lindsey nelsen (from historical hotties @historicallyhot) join us to GAB about WILLOW'S BAD DECISIONS, STARDEW VALLEY and SPIKE (that last one is mostly on beth's part)
607 – Once More With Feeling
May 27, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 42.7 MBIT'S HERE!!! IT'S REALLY, FINALLY HERE!! if you can stand beth singing every reference to every song, THIS IS THE EPISODE FOR YOU!
606 – All the Way
May 21, 2018 04:00 - 44 minutes - 20.4 MBthere is bookoodles and bookoodles of foreshadowing in this episode that beth did not remember and cannot talk about with caroline, so if you're coming here for that, TOUGH COOKIES.
605 – Life Serial
May 13, 2018 04:00 - 59 minutes - 27.2 MBthis show has vampires and demons figuring on a regular basis, but the least realistic part is the part in this episode where every student in a college classroom want to volunteer information when prompted. absolutely untenable.
604 – Flooded
May 08, 2018 04:00 - 51 minutes - 23.6 MBhere we are, armed with an overwrought metaphor for adulthood and an EXCELLENT scene between willow and giles.
603 – After Life
April 29, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 28.4 MB@ THE UNIVERSE: LEAVE BUFFY ALONE!!!! LEAVE HER ALONE!
601/02 – Bargaining (with Summer Atkins)
April 23, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 42.6 MBbeth's friend summer joins us to talk about the start to season 6, AND WHAT A BLEAK START IT IS. luckily, beth has a special new game to lighten things up!
522 – The Gift (with Meghan Griffin)
April 09, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 31.1 MBmeghan griffin (@MeggGriffin) is back to talk about A LOT OF STUFF, okay? we're talking A LOT. way too many things to fit in a pithy little description. it's the gift, okay? you know what you're getting into here.
521 – The Weight of the World (with Meghan Griffin)
April 01, 2018 04:00 - 58 minutes - 26.8 MBmeghan griffin (@MeggGriffin) joins us to talk about what, exactly, ben's connection is with glory.
520 – Spiral
March 25, 2018 04:00 - 55 minutes - 25.6 MBwell, guys, this is it. caroline's last episode. it's been a good run! say goodbye! forever! she's gettin' on a midnight train and never comin' back!
519 – Tough Love
March 18, 2018 04:00 - 47 minutes - 21.9 MBTARA!!! NOOOOOOOOOOO TARAalso beth loves spike but what else is new
518 – Intervention
March 12, 2018 04:00 - 53 minutes - 24.6 MBfeaturing a lot of uncharacteristic discussions of philosophy. THANKS MIKE SCHUR
517 – Forever
March 05, 2018 05:00 - 46 minutes - 21.5 MBsubscribers, we love and appreciate you!!! you are lovely and wonderful and we are happy you're here. (we DO talk about buffy but we just wanted you to know.)
516 – The Body (with Matt Cruea)
February 25, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 27.8 MBmatt cruea (@mattunderscorec from stuff weekly) joins us for a gut punch of an episode. RIP joyce, your scenes with spike were the best.