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The eX Files: The X-Files 3.04 Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
Season 3 · Episode 304
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 • Duration 02:00:48
Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free.
A veritable smorgasbord of both psychics and Buffering jingles converge for one of The X-Files most beloved episodes, S3E4 "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose." We've got Peter Boyle, questions about the meaning of life, Jenny feeling all kinds of feelings, and Kristin returning to her crystal ball (adding to the veritable smorgasbord of psychics) to find out more about Scully's NEW DOG.
Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 1.5/5 Uranuses (hehe) Unlimited
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The eX-Files: The X-Files 3.03 DPO
Season 3 · Episode 303
Thursday, April 2, 2026 • Duration 01:13:17
Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free.
Giovanni Ribisi and Jack Black love to play video games and one of them also likes to BE LIGHTENING AND MURDER PEOPLE?! We have incel vibes a-plenty, a sheriff who is the patriarchy jingle embodied, beer bottles all over the front lawn, and Scully finally (finally!) getting her autopsy groove back. It's Season 3, Episode 3: "DPO".
Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 2.75/5 Jelly Donuts (They’re From Yesterday, But They’re Still Good)
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Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson
Edited by: Mak Kellerman
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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.
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Okey Dokey: Fallout 1.02 The Target
Season 3 · Episode 102
Thursday, November 20, 2025 • Duration 01:45:21
Welcome to Okey Dokey, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Fallout one episode at a time, spoiler free. Join us in rewatching the first ten episodes of Fallout's first season leading up to Fallout's Season 2 premiere on December 17th!
It's Season 1, Episode 2: "The Target," and Barv is just trying to eat her beans, goddammit!!!
IN EPISODE LINKS
SNL's "Singing Sisters"The Atlantic "You Can't Keep Your Parents' Skulls"Untapped Cities "Wade's Salvage"
This episode originally aired in our Patreon-Exclusive feed on June 28, 2024
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Beyond Buffering is the place where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs & Kristin Russo rewatch all of their favorite television shows that exist outside of the Buffyverse! In this feed you will find conversation on 90s classics such as The X-Files & My So-Called Life plus current favorites like Yellowjackets & Fallout!
Looking for aliens?
The eX-Files Season 3 returns here in this feed on March 5th!
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Produced by: Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs
Edited by: Kristin Russo
Logo: Devan Power
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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.
Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting
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The eX-Files: The X-Files 1.01 Pilot
Season 3 · Episode 101
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 • Duration 01:43:05
It's the inaugural episode of The eX-Files, and FBI Agent Dana Scully has been assigned to write field reports on (and become best friends with) Agent Fox "Spooky" Mulder. Our first X-File has us going to Bellefleur, Oregon where the Class of '89 simply cannot stay away from the woods, where Scully takes a bath in the dark and gets some mosquito bites, and where Mulder has a f*cking blast losing 9 minutes of that most beloved of universal invariants: TIME!!! Could it be the stinky alien babies?!?!?!
Come with us on our newest podcast rewatch adventure, where Jenny Owen Youngs is showing her ex-wife Kristin Russo each and every episode of The X-Files one at a time.
Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this X-File a scary rating of 2.5/5 Grey Metallic Implants
WATCH OUR LIVE RECORDING OF "EPISODE 0"
It is, and we cannot stress this enough, a very fun time: stagepilot.com/exfilesOnly available through April 2nd!
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+++Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya FergusonEdited & Mixed by: John Mark Nelson and Kristin RussoLogo: Devan Power
+++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.
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Doomcoming: Yellowjackets 1.10 Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
Season 2 · Episode 110
Wednesday, February 8, 2023 • Duration 02:00:38
Welcome to Doomcoming, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Yellowjackets one episode at a time, spoiler free.
We did it! We disposed of the body of our murdered lover, made an altar with the head of our dead dog, attended Gloria's funeral, got kidnapped by Triangle Buddy Devotees, and looked SO FUCKING HOT at our 25th High School Reunion!
Meanwhile in the woods... oh no? Oh no. OH NO.
It is the season finale of Doomcoming (and Yellowjackets!) where we dig into "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi".
(Shauna DIDN'T EVEN LIKE SOCCER, guys.)
Our episodes are spoiler-free, so you can watch along with us in real time if you haven't seen the series yet, and each episode will also include a segment at the end called "What's The Buzz" where we talk about some spoilery theories for those of you who have seen the whole first season and who might be as deep into Reddit as Jenny...
What's The Buzz Segment Timestamps:
THERE IS NO WHATS THE BUZZ BC IT IS OVER THERE IS NOTHING TO BUZZ TIL MARCH 24!
SEASON 2 TEASER TRAILER THOUGHTS
https://www.patreon.com/posts/doomcoming-2s-on-78311712
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MUSIC
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Produced by: Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs
Edited by: Kristin Russo
Logo: Devan Power
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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.
Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at
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Doomcoming: Yellowjackets 1.09 Doomcoming
Season 2 · Episode 109
Wednesday, February 1, 2023 • Duration 02:03:26
Welcome to Doomcoming, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Yellowjackets one episode at a time, spoiler free.
It is time for the TITULAR DOOMCOMING, people!!! Let's tell the forest creatures how gay we are!!! Let's trip on mushrooms so hard that we confuse people for forest creatures?!?! Let's scream-sing KISS FROM A ROSE in 1996 and, in 2021, lie to our friends about the motives of our now-murdered-lovers!!!! It's gonna be a goddamn blast.
Our episodes are spoiler-free, so you can watch along with us in real time if you haven't seen the series yet, and each episode will also include a segment at the end called "What's The Buzz" where we talk about some spoilery theories for those of you who have seen the whole first season and who might be as deep into Reddit as Jenny...
What's The Buzz Segment Timestamps: 1:50:05 - 1:54:14
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MUSIC
Theme song and segment music composed and performed by the one and only Jenny Owen Youngs.
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Produced by: Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs
Edited by: Kristin Russo
Logo: Devan Power
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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.
Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at
bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting
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Doomcoming: Yellowjackets 1.08 Flight of the Bumblebee
Season 2 · Episode 108
Wednesday, January 25, 2023 • Duration 01:31:30
Welcome to Doomcoming, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Yellowjackets one episode at a time, spoiler free.
In '96, Van is alive (again!), Laura Lee is going to get help by flying the Hail Mary Full Of Heroin Plane (oh no), Coach Ben is gay (hot), Travis is being a dingus (sigh). In '21, Jeff is being cute (as usual), Callie can't find Adam on the internet (but can find his ID in HER HOUSE), and Caligula *almost* flies to bird heaven (where he'd have been swiftly followed by Jessica Roberts, but both thankfully live to see another day).
Most importantly: Misty snorts (almost) all of Nat's cocaine and we laugh and laugh and laugh and LAUGH.
It's Yellowjackets S1E8: Flight of the Bumblebee and we really, really, really wish Leonard and Laura Lee were still safe on the island. : (
Our episodes are spoiler free, so you can watch along with us in real time if you haven't seen the series yet, and each episode will also include a segment at the end called "What's The Buzz" where we talk about some spoilery theories for those of you who have seen the whole first season and who might be as deep into Reddit as Jenny...
What's The Buzz Segment Timestamps: 1:27:08 - 1:32:00
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MUSIC
Theme song and segment music composed and performed by the one and only Jenny Owen Youngs.
LOOKING FOR BUFFY CONTENT?
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Produced by: Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs
Edited by: Kristin Russo
Logo: Devan Power
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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.
Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at
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Doomcoming: Yellowjackets 1.07 No Compass
Season 2 · Episode 107
Wednesday, January 18, 2023 • Duration 01:42:50
Welcome to Doomcoming, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Yellowjackets one episode at a time, spoiler free.
On the one hand OH NO, it is wolf-o-clock in the '96 woods, but on the other hand OH YES, we have nearly all of our adults in a high speed, glitter-covered chase for the ages?! Also introducing a new segment called "What's The Most New Jersey," plus a conversation about Jenny's dog Frank's inability to help her find an owl pellet — this episode truly has something for everyone. Except a compass.
It's Doomcoming's seventh episode, covering Yellowjackets Season 1, Episode 7: No Compass.
Our episodes are spoiler free, so you can watch along with us in real time if you haven't seen the series yet, and each episode will also include a segment at the end called "What's The Buzz" where we talk about some spoilery theories for those of you who have seen the whole first season and who might be as deep into Reddit as Jenny...
What's The Buzz Segment Timestamps: 1:30:57 - 1:38:27
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MUSIC
Theme song and segment music composed and performed by the one and only Jenny Owen Youngs.
LOOKING FOR BUFFY CONTENT?
Head over to Buffering the Vampire Slayer and Angel On Top!
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Produced by: Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs
Edited by: Kristin Russo
Logo: Devan Power
+++
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.
Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at
bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting
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Doomcoming: Yellowjackets 1.06 Saints
Season 2 · Episode 106
Wednesday, January 11, 2023 • Duration 01:47:00
Welcome to Doomcoming, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Yellowjackets one episode at a time, spoiler free.
This week on Doomcoming, Yellowjackets gives us a lake baptism, some sexting, and a helping of very confusing birthday and graduation math — amongst other things (like learning Adult Nat actually *always* wears casual fishnets and that all version of Taissa are eating dirt). We are talking about Season 1, Episode 6 "Saints"!
Our episodes are spoiler free, so you can watch along with us in real time if you haven't seen the series yet, and each episode will also include a segment at the end called "What's The Buzz" where we talk about some spoilery theories for those of you who have seen the whole first season and who might be as deep into Reddit as Jenny...
What's The Buzz Segment Timestamps: 1:31:10 - 1:36:41
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MUSIC
Theme song and segment music composed and performed by the one and only Jenny Owen Youngs.
LOOKING FOR BUFFY CONTENT?
Head over to Buffering the Vampire Slayer and Angel On Top!
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MERCH |bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop
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Produced by: Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs
Edited by: Kristin Russo
Logo: Devan Power
+++
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.
Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at
bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting
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Doomcoming: Yellowjackets 1.05 Blood Hive
Season 2 · Episode 105
Wednesday, January 4, 2023 • Duration 01:51:17
Welcome to Doomcoming, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover Yellowjackets one episode at a time, spoiler free.
The halfway mark in our Doomcoming journey has arrived bringing us more Triangle Buddy, a slumber party seance, an owl cam, Callie on Molly, and Montell Jordan — among other things.
This week we are talking about 1.05 "Blood Hive," where the bloody soldiers are on the right and breakfast is on the left.
Our episodes are spoiler free, so you can watch along with us in real time if you haven't seen the series yet, and each episode will also include a segment at the end called "What's The Buzz" where we talk about some spoilery theories for those of you who have seen the whole first season and who might be as deep into Reddit as Jenny...
What's The Buzz Segment Timestamps: 1:43:06 - 1:50:54
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Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials
MUSIC
Theme song and segment music composed and performed by the one and only Jenny Owen Youngs.
LOOKING FOR BUFFY CONTENT?
Head over to Buffering the Vampire Slayer and Angel On Top!
PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast
MERCH |bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop
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Produced by: Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs
Edited by: Kristin Russo
Logo: Devan Power
+++
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.
Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at
bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting
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