Still Buffering
Episodes
Still Buffering: "David the Gnome"
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's not often that our eldest Smirl siblings can bring something to the table that Rileigh never even knew existed...but boy Sydnee certainly hit the...
Still Buffering: "GUTS" - Olivia Rodrigo
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As a 23 year old teenage girl, Rileigh is obviously the key demographic for Olivia Rodrigo's angry-pop-rock-girl music, and we can't wait to dive righ...
Still Buffering: "Casablanca" (1942)
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Though admittedly this movie was far from any of our childhoods, it's become part of a meaningful holiday tradition for Teylor, so it merits a whole e...
Still Buffering: "Snow Angel" - Renee Rapp
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Not only does Rileigh get to share one of her favorite twenty-something teenage girl artists with her siblings this week, but she gets to teach them A...
Still Buffering: Jimmy Buffett
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We had planned on talking about Jimmy and his music in our next episode, but with the news of his passing, we found it difficult to talk about much el...
Still Buffering: "Princess Mononoke" (1997)
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're big fans of Miyazaki films around here, and while we may be slightly partial to Howl's Moving Castle (and for some of us, the tasty tasty lookin...
Still Buffering: Mario
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's not every week we get to take a journey through an amorphous idea of media on this show, but this time we're taking a deep dive into the world of...
Still Buffering: "Stick Season" - Noah Kahan
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we learn that the Smirl siblings have no idea what/where/who New England is, but they're convinced it's Appalachian, even though they liter...
Still Buffering: "Lost in Space" - Aimee Mann
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing our decision to not discuss any media that is subject to the ongoing strikes, we've been talking about a lot of music recently, and now it'...
Still Buffering: "Fight Club" (1999)
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It seems counter-intuitive that we're talking about Fight Club, since, well of course the first rule of Fight Club and all and...well...maybe we shoul...
Still Buffering: "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)"
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's that wonderful time of year once again where Rileigh gets to force her siblings to sit down and talk about Taylor Swift with her for a whole 45 m...
Still Buffering: Harley Quinn
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes, one of us loves a character or an artist or a body of work so much we can't even narrow down our favorite pieces, we just have to talk abou...
Still Buffering: Spongebob
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Well, it's all Sydnee can talk about these days, and it's a cartoon/movie/musical/entire universe that has spanned all the generations on this podcast...
Still Buffering: "Barbie: The Princess and the Pauper" (2004)
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate the upcoming live action Barbie movie that is sure to break the internet and make an appearance on this podcast, we're taking a look back...
Still Buffering: Paramore
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
CW: This episode contains a brief mention/discussion of suicide/mental illnessLike all great things from the 90s and 2000s, Paramore is having a resur...
Still Buffering: "[scrubs]"
04 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Things have been pretty hectic over here in the still buff fam but we're finally back on schedule with a look back at one of Syd's all-time favorite s...
Still Buffering: "Scream 6" (2023)
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If there's one thing in life that's certain, it's that you can always count on a new Scream movie being released at any given time, and it's always go...
Still Buffering: Letters to Cleo
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Syd always has some questionable pics for her summer playlist, but Tey is helping her out this week by providing us with some great 90s/2000s hits fro...
Still Buffering: "Singled Out"
30 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Did you ever appear on the 90s dating show, Singled Out? Did you actually fall in love? Were those dates even real? We need to know everything, becaus...
Still Buffering: "New Girl"
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We thought it was the Millennial/Gen Z equivalent of Friends, but the more we think about it this show is WAY better. It's the show that brought us bi...
Still Buffering: "Little Miss Sunshine" (2006)
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's a classic tragic-comedy (which we didn't know was a thing until just now) that we all know and love, especially since it reminds us so much of a ...
Still Buffering: "Full House"
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The siblings think they've finally cracked the reason why Sydnee always had such a love for Full House...and it's because her secret life goal is to r...
Still Buffering: Bluey
02 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
HAPPY END OF MAXFUNDRIVE! We love and appreciate all of you so much, and to show our love and appreciation we've brought one more guest on to the show...
Still Buffering: Jordan Matter
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
HAPPY MAXFUN DRIVE! It seems as if a trading of the youngest member of the podcast has taken place this week, as Rileigh has been replaced with Charli...
Still Buffering: "Perfect Match" (2023)
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's here, we've found the worst dating show/reality show of all time: Perfect Match. It's absolutely jam packed full of our favorite Netflix stars(I ...
Still Buffering: Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An all punk cover band that does covers of musical theatre songs?? How have we never talked about this before?? It's quite literally all of our most i...
Still Buffering: "That Thing You Do!" (1996)
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's truly astonishing that it's taken us 3 years of talking about media that made us to finally have Sydnee bring up That Thing You Do, but here we a...
Still Buffering: Lizzy McAlpine
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rilo's brought us some more hip new Gen Z tunes but the only thing we seem to be able to talk about is how the heck do we say McAlpine and have we all...
Still Buffering: "Batman: The Animated Series" (1992)
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There have been many Batmans (Batmen, Batmi??) but to Teylor, there's one true Batman and one true Joker iteration that they love most, and it's this ...
Still Buffering: King's Island
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Okay yes it's not technically media BUT it at one time was full of pop culture references that were important to all of us, and also blue ice cream, i...
Still Buffering: Miley Cyrus
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Well, it took us three whole tries to get this episode finished and out to you all, but it's worth it to get to talk about Miley and all her eras for ...
Still Buffering: The Ergs!
22 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's always special when we can take a week to watch something or listen to something that was exceptionally meaningful to one of our siblings, and th...
Still Buffering: "The Sandlot" (1993)
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sydnee had an interesting choice of movie for her first ever date (and our dad was there too) so of course we all had to take a look back at it togeth...
Still Buffering: "Wednesday" (2022)
08 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This show blew up and broke the internet for a couple of weeks, so of course we had to revisit the world's favorite ooky and spooky family and take a ...
Still Buffering: "Gremlins" (1984)
01 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To round out the year of 2022 and the holiday season, it's time for that classic holiday (?) film featuring all the holiday (?) goo you could ask for,...
Still Buffering: "Home Alone" (1990)
17 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's time to dive into another holiday classic that somehow we have never talked about before: Home Alone! Also, since the holidays are the time of ye...
Still Buffering: "Falling for Christmas" (2022)
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's the most wonderful time of the year once again: the one where our screens and streaming services are jam-packed with holiday movies full of the c...
Still Buffering: The Menzingers
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How did Sydnee and Rileigh not know that their middle sibling was friends with a super cool and famous band and hosted shows for them in their living ...
Still Buffering: "The Wedding Singer" (1998)
20 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Apparently Rileigh was only aware of silly goofy movie dad Adam Sandler, while our older Smirl siblings were fully aware of young, romantic lead, SNL ...
Still Buffering: Taylor Swift - "Midnights"
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Once again, it's that magical time of year where our littlest sibling gets to force her big sibs to listen to an entire Taylor Swift album and then li...
Still Buffering: "May" (2002)
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rounding out our month of spook is a horror cult classic brought to us by our resident spooky movie sibling expert: Teylor! Tey's sisters had never he...
Still Buffering: "I Know What You Did Last Summer" (1997)
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's still spooky season, so we're still deep in the spooky movie genre! This week, we're sticking with Sarah Michelle Gellar and looking back at that...
Still Buffering: "Do Revenge" (2022)
16 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While not technically a spooky movie, Do Revenge is Rileigh's newest obsession, and it's the classic teen girl, rom-com, mashup of the century. Also, ...
Still Buffering: "Battle Royale" (2000)
09 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's spooky season! In celebration of this wonderful time of year, we at Still Buffering always take a couple weeks to celebrate the spooky and scary ...
Still Buffering: "Sister Act 2" (1993)
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We know our oldest Smirl sibling has a thing for sequels, but this time Sydnee is having us jump right into number 2 in the Sister Act series. From th...
Still Buffering: "Dated and Related" (2022)
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you know us, you know how much we love messy reality shows on Netflix, and especially when they include dating or sibling teamwork. So, when we saw...
Still Buffering: "Airheads" (1994)
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It seems like culturally we're all once again looking at Brendan Frasier, so why not take it back to one of his older movies that maybe didn't get all...
Still Buffering: Carole King
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Since we decided last week it's basically already fall, it's time to set the cozy mood with some music, and who better to help out than Carole King? A...
Still Buffering: "Scream" (2022)
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We've talked about Scream before, but one of our favorite horror franchises just keeps coming back for more, so obviously we had to talk about the new...
Still Buffering: "Broad City" (2014)
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's time to go deep into the world of female friendship, living in New York City, and (once again) how unrealistic those apartments in Friends were, ...
Still Buffering: "A League of Their Own" (1992)
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's the sports movie that makes everyone (well, really mostly Sydnee, if we're being honest) cry every single time without fail, and just in time, be...
Still Buffering: "Not Okay" (2022)
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's the newest streaming hit that is spilling all the tea on how Gen Z actually is using social media, what influencer parties are like, and why guin...
Still Buffering: Elliot Smith
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We love talking about music and all our favorite artists on our show, and sometimes it's because their work means a whole lot more to us than we even ...
Still Buffering: Wayne's World (1992)
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Oh, this episode? It's Wayne's World. Wayne's World. It's party time, while also being excellent. Get ready for an extreme close-up on this classic!
Phoebe Bridgers
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're discussing singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers and the impact her music has had on Rileigh.Music: “Baby You Change Your Mind” by No...
Don Hertzfeldt
17 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're exploring the work of Don Hertzfeldt, a wildly influential animator and two-time Oscar nominee. Music: “Baby You Change Your Mind”...
Still Buffering: "Death Becomes Her" (1992)
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's time for another one of those somewhat spooky, kinda gross, pretty funny, and surprisingly meaningful movies from the 90s that all the Smirl sibl...
Still Buffering: "Whodunnit?" (2013)
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It was a weird reality/fiction/murder mystery/game show that only aired for one season on ABC when Rileigh was 12, but that doesn't mean she wasn't (a...
Still Buffering: Ani DiFranco
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's still Pride Month, but this time it's Pride: Secret Contraband Music Edition instead of Pride: Pirate Edition! So, of course, we're listening to ...
Still Buffering: "Our Flag Means Death"
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Pride Month! To celebrate this joyous time of year, we're diving into the pirate-filled adventure that is Our Flag Means Death, because it's gay...
Still Buffering: "Harry's House"
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Well, if Rileigh doesn't have a new Taylor Swift album to make her siblings listen to, she's gonna find the next closest thing, which is of course, a ...
Still Buffering: "Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers" (2022)
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's yet another super influential media moment from the younger years of the older Smirl siblings that's been rebooted for the modern age: it's Chip ...
Still Buffering: "Goldeneye 007"
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It was the multiplayer video game experience that defined the younger years of the older Smirl siblings, complete with such classic bits as DK mode an...
Still Buffering: "One Day" (2011)
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rileigh felt a need to introduce her siblings to a movie she watched incessantly with friends in high school, neglecting to remember just how ridiculo...
Still Buffering: "The Last Unicorn" (1982)
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We've done it, we've found and discovered and dissected the meaning of the 80s cartoon movie: "The Last Unicorn." It's not all rainbows and unicorns, ...
Still Buffering: "Mermaids" (1990)
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Even though Sydnee brought this one to the table, it's a movie that the Smirl siblings have long associated with their mom, and there are a lot of rea...
Still Buffering: "Into the Woods"
24 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's that time of year for summer theatre again for Rileigh, so why not take some time to talk about this year's musical? We're going into the woods a...
Still Buffering: Against Me! - "Transgender Dysphoria Blues"
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Teylor is always introducing their sisters to cool, meaningful, and just overall really good stuff from their life, and this week is certainly no diff...
Still Buffering: "Dogma" (1999)
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's honestly remarkable that we haven't talked about Kevin Smith movies yet, so we had to start with Sydnee's all-time favorite out of them all. Plus...
Still Buffering: Katy Perry
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
She was making some of the world's most popular pop music of the early 2010s, when Rileigh was probably too young to be listening to some of it, but t...
Still Buffering: "Perfect Blue" (1997)
27 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As usual, Teylor has introduced their siblings to a really great anime they had never heard of before, and this time it's a spoooky one! Well, more so...
Still Buffering: "No Doubt"
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rileigh legitimately had no clue that Gwen Stefani was in a band before she went solo...like really no idea. So obviously her siblings had to rectify ...
Still Buffering: "(500) Days of Summer" (2009)
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all know that Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon Levitt are eternally quirky-cute and boyish-cute, respectively, so we simply must take a look back ...
Still Buffering: "Jack*ss"
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Well, we did it, we FINALLY said a bad word on this show. Actually a lot of times, because we're talking about Jackass! It's time to dive in and answe...
Still Buffering: "Can't Hardly Wait" (1998)
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's about time we dove into the classic "giant party at the end of senior year" movie genre, and what better starting point than Can't Hardly Wait? I...
Still Buffering: "Camp Rock" (2008)
20 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Disney Channel original movie musicals defined Rileigh's childhood, and almost none more so than Camp Rock. Starring the Jonas Brothers, of course, an...
Still Buffering: My Chemical Romance
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
So many of the things that Sydnee and Teylor loved most in the past have made resurgences among the cool new teen generations, and My Chemical Romance...
Still Buffering: "My Girl"
30 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Well, we unexpectedly had to take a whole week off and all we have to offer you upon our return is an episode about quite possibly one of the saddest ...
Still Buffering: "La La Land"
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It was the musical, colorful sensation of the mid-2010s, and it's one of our littlest sib's favorite movies of all time: it's La La Land! Time to go f...
Still Buffering: "Akira" (1988)
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's our first anime of the year, complete with flesh blobs and motorcycle superpowers! It's Akira! Music: "Baby You Change Your Mind" by Nouvellas
Still Buffering: Kelly Clarkson
03 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To round out this year of Still Buffering, our siblings have brought you a whole episode dedicated to an artist that we all really didn't know Sydnee ...
Still Buffering: "The Princess Switch 3" (2021)
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Well...tis the season to be jolly and also to watch some extremely questionable Netflix original Christmas movies. It's become a tradition here on Sti...
Still Buffering: "Batman Returns" (1992)
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It is the holiday season, so we're taking a stop to check in with one of those classic Christmas movies we all love to enjoy with the family around a ...
Still Buffering: Supermarket Sweep
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's been one of Sydnee's biggest dreams for most of her life, and now we're realizing it's also a little queer we think: it's Supermarket Sweep! Sydn...
Still Buffering: RED (Taylor's Version)
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's finally here, the day Rileigh has been not so patiently waiting for for the past three weeks: the day she forces her siblings to spend an hour ta...
Still Buffering: "Donnie Darko" (2001)
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Well, it's a classic movie from Teylor's youth that is worthy of discussion, but that doesn't mean Rileigh is happy about its leading man. It's that t...
Still Buffering: New Kids on the Block
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Boy bands were all the rage back in the 90s, mostly the classics like NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys, but Sydnee somehow had a boy band obsession from ...
Still Buffering: "Pitch Perfect"
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This movie defined an entire generation of young theatre tweens, including our very own Rileigh. A literal cup had such a grasp on Rilo and all of her...
Still Buffering: Bif Naked
07 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Once again, we're taking a journey back to the era of "angry girl" rock, where the songs were great and the outfits were just so, so 90s. Come join us...
Still Buffering: "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rounding out our spooky season spectacular here on Still Buff is a classic from Sydnee and Teylor's youth that has crossed over into the new generatio...
Still Buffering: "Hocus Pocus" (1993)
24 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To continue our spooky season series, we're diving back into a Halloween classic, "Hocus Pocus!" Even though it came out a whole 7 years before Rileig...
Still Buffering: "Final Destination" (2000)
16 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
CW: This movie series is about, well, death. So if discussions of death and dying aren't comfortable or safe for you and your mental health, we sugges...
Still Buffering: Treehouse of Horrors
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's a classic show older than our youngest Smirl sibling with a classic Halloween special that's been around just as long. It's the Simpsons Treehous...
Still Buffering: "Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, and Blonde" (2003)
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We all know by now about the special place l Elle Woods holds in Rileigh's heart, but do we all also know about the less-than-great sequel to the clas...
Still Buffering: "FLCL" (2000)
26 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Teylor has brought our siblings another important anime from their youth that isn't necessarily able to be comprehended easily, BUT it's entertaining ...
Still Buffering: Shel Silverstein
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sydnee has long had a love for a poet with some interesting styles and interesting illustrations that she now has passed on to her weird kids; it's Sh...
Still Buffering: "Tangled"
11 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rileigh just had a big birthday (21!) so we're diving into her all-time favorite movie that also is kinda based around a birthday: Tangled! Apparently...
Still Buffering: Poe
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
No, not the Edgar Allen kind, but the cool 90s music kind! It's Poe! Teylor and Sydnee shared a love for Poe's music, and Rileigh had never heard of h...
Still Buffering: "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead" (1991)
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
No one can quite figure out why Sydnee is so drawn to this movie that is...far darker than any of us remembered, but we're pretty sure it has to do wi...
Still Buffering: "Gravity Falls"
20 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Aaand we're back! It's full of puzzles and mysteries and sibling love, so it's perfect for our show, it's Gravity Falls! Apparently for Rileigh to be ...