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Conversations with Dead People
by Gobbledygeek
In every generation, there is a Chosen Podcast. It alone will analyze the subtext, the allegory, and the clever Whedonesque dialogue. It is CONVERSATIONS WITH DEAD PEOPLE.
Episodes
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Episode 82 - Disharmony / Dead End / Belonging (feat. Melanie Scala)
What initially seemed like a pretty vague thematic grouping of episodes to discuss winds up proving to have some metaphorical meat on its bones. Returning friend Melanie Scala helps me find the significance of episodes 217, “Disharmony” and 218, “Dead End” beyond just the twin sides of the “where...
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Episode 81 - Reprise / Epiphany (feat. Eric Sipple)
“If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do.” Reunited, and it feels so good. Mimesis author and Deli Counter of Justice co-creator Eric Sipple is back with me, this time discussing two of the very best episodes of the show, “Reprise” and “Epiphany.” We bid farewell, mostly...
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Episode 80 - Blood Money / Happy Anniversary / The Thin Dead Line (feat. Johny Ho)
“It’ll wash.” NEXT: episodes 215, “Reprise” and 216, “Epiphany.” BREAKDOWN 00:00:55 - Intro / Guest 00:04:09 - Main Topic 01:11:11 - Outro / Next MUSIC “Conversations (feat. Wesley Mead)” by Azura (2017) “Smooth Criminal” by Michael Jackson, Bad (1988)
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Episode 79 - Reunion / Redefinition (feat. Sarah Kosheff)
Welcome back, Dead People! [Insert excuses for another delay between episodes here] Friend and fellow genre nerd Sarah Kosheff joins me for the first time on the ‘cast, and she brought a couple of her very favorite Angel episodes with her. 210, “Reunion” shows us the aftermath of last episode’s...
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Episode 78 - Darla / The Shroud of Rahmon / The Trial (feat. Wesley Mead)
“Darla” is an absolutely brilliant directorial debut by Tim Minear, which acts as a companion piece to Buffy’s “Fool for Love,” but also stands flawlessly on its own to deepen our understanding of the Fearsome Foursome vampire coterie. “The Shroud of Rahmon” is equal parts engaging (noir homages;...
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Episode 77 - Untouched / Dear Boy / Guise Will Be Guise (feat. Michael Holland)
Conversations with Dead People is back, and with hardly any time at all between episodes! Seriously, for all you could tell I recorded this episode the same night as our last one. Seamless! Hollywood hotshot Michael Holland is here and we share a few words about the Apple TV+ series The…
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Episode 76 - Judgment / Are You Now or Have You Ever Been / First Impressions (feat. Melanie Scala)
Melanie Scala joins me for her first Angel outing, picking up the pieces left in the aftermath of the Season 1 finale as we discuss a slightly uneven but ultimately pretty great three-episode launch for Season 2. Episode 201, titled (appropriately) “Judgment,” and episode 203, titled (also...
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Episode 75 - War Zone / Blind Date / To Shanshu in L.A. (feat. Elizabeth Rambo)
“Don’t believe everything you’re foretold.” ~Angel The prophecy is finally fulfilled as author, scholar, and friend Elizabeth Rambo makes her Angel conversations debut, just in time for the explosive final episodes of the first season. While the previous two Faith-centric episodes are a hard act…
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Episode 74 - Five by Five / Sanctuary (feat. Eric Sipple)
“Help me.” ~Faith After a good-not-great season one so far, Angel finds its feet properly, giving one of the best characters from across the Whedonverse one of the best moments of character development from across the Whedonverse. Or that’s my opinion at least. Fortunately, my good friend, Broken...
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Episode 73 - The Ring / Eternity (feat. Michael Holland)
Two episodes that likely don’t feature on anyone’s Top 10 lists. “The Ring” features our heroes releasing a bunch of murderous demons into the city. “Eternity” posits that anyone could have roofied Angel at any time to release Angelus. Both setups draw a fair amount of fan criticism. But Classic...
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Episode 72 - She / I’ve Got You Under My Skin / The Prodigal (feat. Stacey Abbott)
“Cagey little brutes, aren’t they?” The Mother of Angel Studies, author and vampire queen Stacey Abbott is back! This week we discuss the somewhat strained metaphor and textual subtext of episode 113, “She,” which for years I’ve remembered as unutterably terrible, but on this rewatch I find…
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Episode 71 - Parting Gifts / Somnambulist / Expecting (feat. Johny Ho)
“Wherever evil lurks, wherever the forces of darkness threaten humanity, that’s where I’ll be.” Johny Ho is back! Wesley Wyndam-Pryce is back! Johny Ho is back to talk to me about how awesome it is that Wesley Wyndam-Pryce is back! In 110, “Parting Gifts,” Angel Investigations get their very own...
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Episode 70 - I Will Remember You / Hero (feat. Matthieu Cravatte)
“Is that it? Am I done?” It’s taken much longer than I would’ve liked to get this episode edited and out to y’all, and I was way off what I will laughingly refer to as my game, but hey...our rats are low at least. This time around I’m joined by America’s favorite philosophizing Frenchman Matthieu...
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Episode 69 - Sense & Sensitivity / Bachelor Party (feat. Michael Holland)
Hollywood bigshot and industry insider Michael Holland welcomes us to HIS turf as we continue our transition from the cemeteries of Sunnydale to the morgues of LA. The conversation this time covers two episodes often dismissed as early-series filler, but which we argue actually have important...
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Episode 68 - In the Dark / I Fall to Pieces / Rm w/a Vu (feat. Dale Guffey)
Can we get back to Angel? Please?! *sobs* My dear friend, author, and hot chick with superpowers Dale Guffey has stayed over from last week to help me get back into the swing of things. As avowed and unapologetic Spike fans, we bask in the glorious, bleach blonde silver lining that is that…
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Episode 67 - A Very Special Episode of Conversations with Dead People (feat. Nikki Stafford and Dale Guffey)
Where do we go from here? That question has perhaps never been as relevant or as painful within the Whedony community as it is right now. It’s a difficult time to be a fan, as the recent and continuing alegations and revelations about the man that has, so far, given this entire fandom its name,...
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Episode 66 - City Of / Lonely Hearts (feat. Stacey Abbott)
The sun has set on Sunnydale, and so now we leave behind the hell of the small town and head into the Big Bad City. Stacey Abbott, Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Roehampton University, editor of Reading Angel: The TV Spin-Off With a Soul, and author of Celluloid Vampires: Life After...
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Episode 65 - Fray (feat. Dale Guffey and Vickie Willis Navarra)
With Buffy the Vampire Slayer in our review mirror and its amazing spin-off series Angel looming on the horizon, we’re going to take this limbo-like space in between to explore some comics. One comic in particular, Joss Whedon’s 2001-2003 four-color debut Fray. Joining me for this discussion 200...
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Episode 64 - Chosen (feat. Nikki Stafford, Elizabeth Rambo, and Arlo Wiley)
“What are we gonna do now?” All good things, as the saying goes. It’s been quite a journey, this rewatch and analysis of a show I’ve had a mostly-love-but-just-a-little-bit-hate relationship with for the past 20+ years, and I’d like to think we’ve all learned some things. For example, in this…
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Episode 63 - Touched / End of Days (feat. Dale Guffey)
“Thank God we’re hot chicks with superpowers.” Returning hot chick with superpowers Dale Guffey, recently crowned Area Chair of "Lawyers and the Legal System in Popular Culture" for the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, continues her award-winning guest stint in the graveyard as we...
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Episode 62 - Dirty Girls / Empty Places (feat. Dale Guffey)
“I got dangerous for a while.” DALE! You guys, it’s Dale! Dale Guffey, author of Faith and Choice in the Works of Joss Whedon (among other things) is finally here! And she makes an enthusiastic addition to the graveyard chorus. She brings her wit, charm, and scary brain to the discussion of…
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Episode 61 - Get It Done / Storyteller / Lies My Parents Told Me (feat. Elizabeth Rambo)
My friends, I’m not 100% sure, but I think it’s possible that this set of episodes, and the discussion with fan favorite repeat guest Elizabeth Rambo about them, may have performed a damned Buffy the Vampire Slayer miracle on your oh-so-humble host… Next: We’ve ALL been chanting and praying and...
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Episode 60 - Potential / The Killer in Me / First Date (feat. James Rocha)
“It’s almost like this sort of metaphor for womanhood, isn’t it? This sort of flowering that happens when a girl realizes that she’s part of a fertile heritage stretching back to Eve…” Author and philosophy professor James Rocha is back in the graveyard with me again to discuss three more…
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Episode 59 - Bring On the Night / Showtime (feat. Vickie Navarra)
‘Verse-y author/editor Vickie Willis Navarra returns at long last (my bad, sorry) to try and help me over my growing Season 7 apathy as we begin our slow, tortured crawl to the finish line. Episode 710, “Bring On the Night” is the first appearance of Kennedy and the final appearance of Joyce. So...
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Episode 58 - Sleeper / Never Leave Me (feat. Tami Anderson)
I have no idea what Anya is talking about. For me, Souled Spike IS Happyland! But whatever. This week I’m joined by fan and amateur Buffyologist Tami Anderson to discuss the Pavlov’s Bell-ness of episode 708, “Sleeper,” and how I will never forgive episode 709, “Never Leave Me” for turning the...
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Episode 57 - Conversations with Dead People (feat. Eric Sipple)
“Do the words ‘superiority complex’ mean anything to you?” This week I’m joined by Broken Magic author and my very frequent collaborator Eric Sipple, here to discuss arguably the most important episode of the series (being the namesake of this clearly revolutionary podcast) episode 707,...
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Episode 56 - Help / Selfless / Him (feat. Michael Adams)
Michael Adams, author of Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon, joins me as I continue my march to the end here in Season 7 with the next three episodes. “Help” introduces us, for a tragically brief time, to the delightful Azura Skye as Cassie, doomed teenage poet and seer. “Selfless”...
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Episode 55 - Lessons / Beneath You / Same Time, Same Place (feat. Theresa Fortier)
“Can we rest now? Buffy...can we rest?” The seventh and final season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer starts much stronger out of the gate than I had remembered. 701, “Lessons” takes us back to the beginning (not the Bang, not the Word, but the true beginning) as a beautiful little parade of every Big...
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Episode 54 - Two to Go / Grave (feat. Elizabeth Rambo)
“She's a truck-driving Magic Mama! And we've got maybe seconds before Darth Rosenberg grinds everybody into Jawa-burgers, and not one of you bunch has the midichlorians to stop her.” - Andrew Wells Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee, Season Six. We’ve come to the yellow...
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Episode 53 - Seeing Red / Villains (feat. Elizabeth Rambo)
“What have I done? Why didn’t I do it?” Fan-favorite Elizabeth Rambo sticks with me for another light-hearted discussion about Season Six. This time around we get misogyny and magic balls and whether the [CW: sexual assault] scene was really a necessary part of Spike’s journey or if it was a...
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Episode 52 - Normal Again / Entropy (feat. Elizabeth Rambo)
“I know the world feels like a hard place sometimes, but you’ve got people who love you.” We live in interesting times, my friends. So returning guest Elizabeth Rambo and I first talk about how we’re both surviving the latest apocalypse, before diving into the uplifting palate cleanser that is...
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Episode 51 - Older and Far Away / As You Were / Hell’s Bells (feat. Jessica Hautsch)
Look, my ability to establish and maintain a reliable podcasting schedule has degraded, to say the least, as this process has gone on. I know it. YOU know it. I’m sorry. But this past year of March and April has seriously thrown me off my groove, and not in the fun Disney way with llama faces and...
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Episode 50 - Gone / Doublemeat Palace / Dead Things (feat. Eric Sipple)
For my 50th birthday (ugh), my gift to you is the 50th episode (egads) of this podcast, which will focus on the 50th worst episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (I made that last part up...it’s probably higher on most “Worst Of” lists. It’s a meat process.) Joining me this time is my good friend…
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Episode 49 - Tabula Rasa / Smashed / Wrecked (feat. James Rocha)
James Rocha, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Fresno State and co-author, along with his wife Dr. Mona Rocha, of Joss Whedon, Anarchist? A Unified Theory of the Films and Television Series, returns to help ease us into the poor decision making of the Scooby Gang, and the heavy-handed…
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Episode 48 - Once More, With Feeling (feat. Arlo Wiley)
So you know how time flows differently from one dimension to the next? Yeah, I was sucked into a hell dimension where it felt like only a week went by, but here in the real world you guys have suffered through three Conversations with Dead People-free months! Or maybe I was in Heaven...I think I...
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Episode 47 - Life Serial / All the Way (feat. Stephanie Graves)
“Mist...cemetery...Halloween. Should end well.” Stephanie Graves is back with me to discuss two more episodes of the Happy Funtime Show, otherwise known as Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 6. In episode 605, “Life Serial,” we get some genuine laughs as the show finds the humor in young adults...
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Episode 46 - After Life / Flooded (feat. Faith Currant)
“Every night I save you.” Clearly I’ve set my listener expectations in terms of my Season 6 feelings. So to keep myself honest, it seems I have decided to frontload those discussions of Depression: The Series with avowed superfans of said season. Following on the heels of last week’s talk with...
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Episode 45 - Bargaining, Part1 / Bargaining, Part 2 (feat. Elizabeth Rambo)
“Is this hell?” We begin our 22 Stages of Season 6 Grief with the two-part season premiere “Bargaining.” Professor, author, and undeniable Season 6 expert Elizabeth Rambo makes her triumphant return to the Conversations graveyard to help us all get through these difficult times. We talk about the...
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Episode 44 - The Gift (feat. Michael Holland)
“But...you’re just a girl.” “That’s what I keep saying.” We’ve come at last to the end. Well, *AN* end. We’ve reached what could have (and maybe should have?) been the end of all things Buffy the Vampire Slayer with the Season 5 finale “The Gift.” Michael Holland returns, with a shiny new job...
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Episode 43 - Spiral / The Weight of the World (feat. Margaret Ann Robbins)
“Do we suspect that there may be some kind of connection between Ben and Glory?” Great question, Giles. First time guest Margaret Ann Robbins joins me to answer that and other ponderables. For example, in “Spiral,” is Buffy the Vampire Slayer really just a retelling of Milton’s Paradise Lost? Are...
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Episode 42 - Forever / Intervention / Tough Love (feat. Melanie Scala)
Stage and screen legend Joel Grey joins the series, and so from this point on Conversations with Dead People is a Joel Grey fan podcast. Sorry Buffy fans. Okay, seriously, we’re into the darkness of the near-end of Season 5 now, which of course is also a LOT of foreshadowing of the darkness...
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Episode 41 - The Body (feat. Arlo Wiley)
“But I don't understand! I don't understand how this all happens. How we go through this. I knew her, and then she's—there's just a body, and I don't understand why she just can't get back in it and not be dead ... anymore! It's stupid! It's mortal and stupid! And ... and Xander's crying and not...
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Episode 40 - Crush / I Was Made to Love You (feat. Jessica Hautsch)
Jessica Hautsch is back in the cemetery to discuss two more episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Being massive Spike fans, episode 514, “Crush” gives us both a lot to talk about. Episode 515, “I Was Made to Love You” gives us...less. We have plenty to say about the performative nature of Spike,...
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Episode 39 - Checkpoint / Blood Ties (feat. Johny Ho)
Wait, Ben is Glory?! THE BREAKDOWN Run Time: 01:11:53 00:00:55 - Intro / Guest / R.I.P. Rutger Hauer 00:06:24 - Main Topic 01:06:33 - Outro / Next THE LIBRARY Library Closed For Filing - Please Come Back Tomorrow THE MUSIC “Conversations (feat. Wesley Mead)” by Azura (2017) “What’s the Frequency,...
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Episode 38 - Into the Woods / Triangle (feat. Jessica Hautsch)
Jessica Hautsch is back and prepared to face off with me about the Buffy / Riley breakup. In 510, “Into the Woods,” I finally come to the presumed end of my Quixotic mission to defend Riley Finn...because the writers FINALLY dump him unceremoniously. Did Captain Cornfed get a fair shake, from the...
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Episode 37 - Shadow / Listening to Fear (feat. Michael Holland)
No good deed goes unpunished, and so Michael Holland pays for being such a great guest last week, where we got to discuss one (maybe two?) of the best episodes in the entire series. His penance? He’s back with me again, which is perhaps punishment enough, but in fact he’s here to talk about Buffy...
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Episode 36 - Family / Fool for Love (feat. Michael Holland)
I’m a bad podcaster, but I’m a good man. I’m just so into this Buffy the Vampire Slayer rewatch lately that I decided to get really sick just as we start getting into the episodes that deal with Joyce getting really sick. Fortunately I SEEM to have rounded a corner, and with luck (and maybe a...
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Episode 35 - Out of My Mind / No Place Like Home (feat. Stephanie Graves)
Plague demons worked their worst to keep this episode out of your earbuds, faithful listeners. But I have valiantly fought my way free of the mucous-based hell dimension to finally bring you my discussion with the inimitable Stephanie Graves about 504, “Out of My Mind” and 505, “No Place Like...
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Episode 34 - Buffy vs. Dracula / Real Me / The Replacement (feat. Dax Stokes)
Are season openers the weakest link in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer chain? Is Rudolf Martin an interesting Prince of Darkness? Are Xander’s days of being everybody’s butt-monkey finally over? Dax Stokes, host of the podcast The Vampire Historian, makes his Conversations debut to discuss these and...
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Episode 33 - Primeval / Restless (feat. Mary Ellen Iatropoulos)
Multi-Mr. Pointy Award-winning author Mary Ellen Iatropoulos returns to discuss Franken-Forrest, Cabin in the Woods, and Joss’ obsession with concepts of hybridization in 421, “Primeval.” And then Season Four comes to it’s oh-so-welcome end with 422, “Restless,” which features some very unsubtle...
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In every generation, there is a Chosen Podcast. It alone will analyze the subtext, the allegory, and the clever Whedonesque dialogue. It is CONVERSATIONS WITH DEAD PEOPLE.
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