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Still Buffering: How to Roommates (Part 2)

27 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Well, now our babiest Smirl has had the experience of living with roommates for a full year, and she's about to do it all again next year, so does she...

Still Buffering: How to Poetry

14 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We all did it as angsty emotional teens, didn't we? Filled notebooks and notes apps with long, dramatic, heartbreak poems? Or was that just Sydnee and...

Still Buffering: How to Commercials

08 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Okay, we have some serious opinions about commercials of the 90s, but who doesn't? They were all kinda the same, we all still remember ALL of them, an...

Still Buffering: How to Internet

01 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We realized in the entire 3+ years of this show that we had NEVER dedicated an entire episode to the entity that is ~the internet~. So we're going dee...

Still Buffering: How to Enjoy Adulthood

26 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Rileigh's enjoying a beach vacation, so Sydnee and Teylor capitalize on the opportunity to reflect on all the great stuff about being an adult. Music...

Still Buffering: How to Jewelry

17 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Upon a recent trip with Rileigh to the mall, Sydnee made a shocking discovery: teens don't wear tons of jewelry anymore??? What ever happened to the g...

Still Buffering: How to Home Videos

08 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We all made them as teens, you know, those homemade movies and videos that are horribly put together and have little to no actual plot but that we LOV...

Still Buffering: How to Boredom

01 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It's almost summertime, which means the teens will be home all day every day and looking for something to do. So what are some fun activities for the ...

Still Buffering: How to Sleep

24 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It's finals season for Rileigh, and it seems like sleep is one key part of life that she isn't doing too great on. Not to mention curfews, party times...

Still Buffering: How to Money

19 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It's been a bit of a rough week for all of us, hasn't it? We started it all off with Tax Day, and we should have known then it'd be a little bit of a ...

Still Buffering: How to Operation Blue Ivy

10 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Well, our sisters have returned on no day other than National Sibling Day! To celebrate, we're talking about the hippest of controversies happening wi...

Still Buffering: How to 90s Teen Quiz

27 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

IT'S STILL THE MAXFUNDRIVE! To wrap-up and continue to celebrate this joyous season, we're continuing a tradition we started last year during the MaxF...

Still Buffering: How to Future Teens (Featuring Charlie Gail!)

19 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

IT'S THE MAXFUNDRIVE! To celebrate this most wonderful time of year, we brought on our favorite teen of the future, Charlie Gail McElroy! We wanted to...

Still Buffering: How to Fictional Female Heroes

14 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We're back with part 2 of our Women's History Month extravaganza! This week, we're discussing some of our fictional female role models, and how female...

Still Buffering: How to Female Role Models

06 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It's Women's History Month! To celebrate this month of celebration, we're all sharing our most inspiring and influential female role models throughout...

Still Buffering: How to Ask a Teen 4

27 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It only took us a year, but we're back with another "Ask a Teen!" We've collected all of your questions like "a squirrel with nuts" as Sydnee would sa...

Still Buffering: How to Save the Environment

19 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We've talked a lot before about the growing "woke-ness" of this generation, but we haven't spent much time discussing how it is helping our planet. Ba...

Still Buffering: How to Shared Cultural Experiences

13 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The older sisters realized that back in the day there would be widespread cultural moments that thousands of teens everywhere shared, whether it was a...

Still Buffering: How to Keep Sentimental Items

05 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

As we all continue on our path to a tidy living space, we've realized that as teens we can tend to keep a lot of "sentimental" things that we really p...

Still Buffering: How to Influence(r)

31 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

All we can talk about this week is the disaster that was the Fyre Festival, so we wanted to find a way we could talk about it on our podcast, and we d...

Still Buffering: The StillBuff Awards (Live from PodCon2!)

24 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We all made it to Seattle for the podcasting event of the year, PodCon2! To commemorate this momentous occasion, we're hosting the first ever "Young A...

Still Buffering: How to Organize

17 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We're all three obsessed with Marie Kondo and her tidiness (because like, who isn't?) and we want to talk about it, so we're talking about dorm room o...

Still Buffering: How to Resolutions

08 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Happy New New! To celebrate the start of a brand new year, we're talking about our resolutions! You know, those things that everyone talks about but m...

Still Buffering: How to Come Home

28 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Sadly, the holiday season has come to a close, but thankfully we're still in that weird stretch of days where we're all still acting like it's a holid...

Still Buffering: How to Christmas Music

19 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It's the holiday season, which means it's that time of year where everyone remembers that "Baby It's Cold Outside" is kind of a problematic song and w...

Still Buffering: How to Christmas Prince 2

11 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

HE'S BACK! Our Christmas King has returned and we're here to talk aalll about that royal wedding. We still aren't sure how the royal lineage works in ...

Still Buffering: How to Teen Christmas List 2018 (With our Mom!)

29 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Our oldest sister is traveling this week, so we've replaced her with our mom! The holiday season has arrived once again, so we're helping you come up ...

Still Buffering: How to Bras

23 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Well, it's Thanksgiving, but we wanted to give you something to listen to so you can recover from all of those conversations you had to have probably ...

Still Buffering: How to Youtube with Hank Green!

14 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The sisters are joined by a VERY special guest this week, Hank Green! Rileigh has attempted in the past to share her knowledge of Youtube, but this we...

Still Buffering: How to Election Day

06 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

All we have to say this week is GO VOTE! Music: "Baby You Change Your Mind" by Nouvellas

Still Buffering: How to Trick or Treat

01 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The spooky season has come to a close, but before we depart from this most wonderful time of year, we want to talk about trick or treating! Sure, it m...

Still Buffering: How to Haunted Houses

23 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It's that ~spooky~ time of year again, and our sisters want to talk about one of the spookiest experiences of the teen and adult Halloween experience:...

Still Buffering: Best of Buffering 3

18 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Well, 2/3 of our sisters are off being famous authors and illustrators on whirlwind book tours, so our littlest sister has put together a third editio...

Still Buffering: How to Documentaries

11 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Rileigh has been obsessed with Shane Dawson's recent Youtube documentary series, and Sydnee is very confused by that idea, so we're going full documen...

Still Buffering: How to Friendships

03 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We know we've talked about friends before, but we realized that non-male friendships in the media kinda get a bad rep, and no one really understands w...

Still Buffering: How to American Vandal

26 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

So, there's this show on Netflix called "American Vandal," and all three of us are kind of obsessed with it recently? And it's about teens? So, we're ...

Still Buffering: How to Shoes

18 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Now stick with us here, we know you hear "shoes" is our topic and you're like, come on sisters, that's the best you have for us? But HEAR US OUT, did ...

Still Buffering: How to Roommates

13 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The sisters are back! Fresh from a brief hiatus, the Smirl girls are here to discuss roommates. Rileigh has officially lived with her roommates for ab...

Still Buffering: How to Long Distance Relationships

28 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

You have all watched (well, listened to) our littlest Smirl go through some pretty big changes recently, and now she's going through another. Long dis...

Still Buffering: How to First Day of College

21 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Last week she was moving into her dorm, and this week our littlest Smirl has become a full-fledged college student! We're talking all about how differ...

Still Buffering: How to College Move In

16 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The day has finally arrived! The littlest Smirl sister has packed her bags and moved into her first college dorm. From giant cardboard moving bins to ...

Still Buffering: How to College Orientation

07 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Well, the time has come for our littlest sister's final episode still living at home, this time next week she'll be all on her own in her big girl col...

Still Buffering: How to Family Dinners

31 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We're sorry we missed our episode last week! All three sisters were on island time, and podcasting can get tricky when you're on an actual island. But...

Still Buffering: How to Dorms

17 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Our babiest Smirl is moving into her very first dorm in just about three short weeks, so our oldest sisters are giving her the perfect list of dorm es...

Still Buffetting: How to Concerts

13 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Still Buffetting, the newest Jimmy Buffett fancast where we only discuss the world through the eyes of the chillest dude, Sir Lord Reverend...

Still Buffering: How to Teen Game Shows

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In celebration of the remake of the hit teen game show "Double Dare," the sisters are talking all of the classic game shows of the 90s, from "Wild and...

Still Buffering: How to Pride (Now with 50% Teens!)

26 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Happy Pride Month! To celebrate this wonderful time of the year, the sisters were joined by one of Rileigh's long time friends, Elizabeth, a teen memb...

Still Buffering: How to Teen Stunts

19 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Our littlest Smirl sister went on a teen adventure this past weekend where she made some decisions that probably weren't the smartest, and our other s...

Still Buffering: How to Stream

14 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In the first ever extra early morning edition of Still Buffering, the sisters dive into all of the differences that exist in consumable media of today...

Still Buffering: How to Conspiracy Theories

05 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever doubted that the Earth is round? Or believed that Avril Lavigne is not really still OUR Avril? Then chances are, you might be a teen and...

Still Buffering: How to Graduation

31 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The day is finally here, the day our littlest Smirl sister has officially graduated high school! Before we dive into summer break, we're going over al...

Still Buffering: How to High School

23 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Well, our littlest Smirl sister has completed high school at last. To celebrate this momentous occasion, we're taking a look back at all of our high s...

Still Buffering: The Game of Phones (Live from Columbus!)

19 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Live from the Columbus Podcast Festival, the sisters play the hot teen game, The Game of Phones! Although Teylor got it confused with something else a...

Still Buffering: How to Backpacks

08 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Backpacks. An integral part of every teen/school experience. Something that seems as if it's remained constant throughout time, but has it? Despite th...

Still Buffering: How to Teen in The 80s

01 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

So Sydnee found this book, and it's a very bad book, but it makes for very good talking points on our show, so that's what we're sharing with you toda...

Still Buffering: How to "Cool" Teen Apps

25 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Teens these days are living their lives inside of their apps, and not the delicious kind that you eat before dinner, but the tech kind that live in th...

Still Buffering: How to Prom (Part Two)

17 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Our babiest sister is fresh off of Senior Prom weekend and is here to give us the inside scoop! We've covered prom before, but now we have a firsthand...

Still Buffering: How to Graduation Songs

11 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Happy week 2 of the MaxFunDrive! To celebrate our youngest Smirl's impending graduation, we decided to come up with a definitive playlist of the best ...

Still Buffering: How to Life Hacks

04 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It's the most wonderful time of the year, the MaxFunDrive! To kick off our yearly celebration of our MaximumFun family, we're diving into the most pop...

Still Buffering: How to Roadtrips

27 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It's Sydnee's birthday, so she can finally run for president! Also, our babiest sister just got back from a fun, big kid road trip, so we're talking a...

Still Buffering: How to Malls

20 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We've joked for a long time about our collective feelings towards Claire's, a mall staple for decades, and now (maybe unsurprisingly?) they're closing...

Still Buffering: How to Flirt

15 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

As requested by a listener, Emma, this week, the sisters are talking about flirting! Sydnee is a self-proclaimed "expert" in flirting, Rileigh believe...

Still Buffering: How to "Everything Sucks!"

07 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The new Netflix original, "Everything Sucks!" was basically designed to be discussed on our podcast, so here we are discussing it! On our podcast! Fro...

Still Buffering: How to Ask a Teen 3

01 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We're back with an all new edition of Ask a Teen, where you all can ask America's Favorite Teen, Rileigh Smirl, all of your most dire generation z-cen...

Still Buffering: How to Speak Out

22 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It's been a rough week here in America, and we want to talk about it because it seems like teenagers are finally on the front page for something other...

Still Buffering: How to Valentine's Day

14 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Sorry for the late upload this week again, but one of our sisters had a baby! To celebrate the arrival of another McElroy who showed up just a day bef...

Still Buffering: How to College Prep

10 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We're sorry for another late upload, it is apparently the time of year where everyone is sick with everything all of the time, including our sisters. ...

Still Buffering: How to Sick Days

31 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The flu season is in full swing, and unfortunately 2/3 of this podcast have contracted some sort of flu-like bug. Not to fear though! The sisters stil...

Still Buffering: How to Internet Challenges

23 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We kind of talked about Tide pods last week, but this week we went ALL in on Internet challenges. We talked about all of the dumb and dangerous things...

Still Buffering: How to Procrastinate

18 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We're sorry this episode is a day late, but we're all really really bad about procrastinating, so that's what we decided to talk about! This episode c...

Best of Buffering 2

10 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week, our eldest Smirl sister is too sick to make goofs, so we put together some of our favorite and best goofs from all of our shows to make up ...

12 Days of Still Buffering (Live from Candlenights!)

04 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The holiday season may be over, but the spirit of Candlenights lives on all year round! So to save you from those post-holiday blues, here is our live...

Still Buffering: How to Christmas Prince

21 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We're less than one week away from Christmas and only a day away from Candlenights, so let's talk about one of the most popular holiday movies of this...

Still Buffering: How to Gifts (Live from Podcon!)

14 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We did a live show! At PodCon! In Seattle! We talked more about Claire's because it's been a while since we've reminded you all of the many joys and h...

Still Buffering: How to Caffeine

05 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Finals and exams and holiday shopping are all happening at once, so we all need a little bit of an energy boost, so why not down a few Red Bulls and S...

Still Buffering: How to Safe Dating (Featuring Rychelle Moses)

28 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's very special episode we have a very special guest, domestic violence victims' advocate and youth services coordinator for Branches Dome...

Still Buffering: How to Skincare

22 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Bad skin is something most of us deal with throughout our teen years, both "back in the day" and today. But, it seems like today teens are a way more ...

Still Buffering: How to Teen Gadgets

14 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The holiday season has arrived, and that means everyone is struggling to figure out what new hip gadgets to get for the teens in their life for the ho...

Still Buffering: How to Sexism

08 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Trigger Warning: Mention of suicide, sexual harassment/assault We've all dealt with sexism in some form at some point in our lives, as cool teens, as...

Still Buffering: How to The Craft

31 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Happy Halloween! To celebrate, let's discuss one of the spookiest and teen-iest movies of all time, The Craft! From the real deal spells to the #teenl...

Still Buffering: How to Halloween Like a Teen

27 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We're back this week with a ghost who replaced Rileigh and now is just a scratchy, spooky voice from the void. (Actually Rileigh is just really sick s...

Still Buffering: How to Urban Legends

17 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It's spoopy season! Since it's the most wonderful time of the year, we're talking about all of the scary stories, myths, and games we heard of and pla...

Still Buffering: How to Tattoo

10 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It finally happened! After being extremely disappointed a few months ago when she couldn't get a tattoo at the beach, our babiest sister has finally b...

Still Buffering: How to Help

03 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Trigger Warning: Gun violence is discussed in this episode. The world is a scary place, and we've talked before about how we can cope with that scarin...

Still Buffering: How to Dance

26 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

All the teens are out in their fancy dresses and carrying their bouquets, so that can mean only one thing, it's Homecoming season! One of the most imp...

Still Buffering: How to Let Go

20 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Just like Elsa, there are a lot of things we let go of, like friends, grudges, and even relationships. But does that get harder as we grow older or is...

Still Buffering: How to DIY Fashion (Live from New York!)

14 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Join us as we discuss all of the hot teen do-it-yourself fashion trends of years past and years present, all together live from The King's Theatre in ...

Still Buffering: How to Autumn

05 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It's September! Which means it's basically almost practically Autumn, the spookiest and most exciting season of the year! Since it's our littlest sist...

Still Buffering: Rileigh's Year in Review

31 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It's our babiest sister's 17th birthday! To celebrate, the sisters take a look back at all of the advancements our littlest Smirl sister has made sinc...

Still Buffering: How to Gym Class

22 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Our youngest sister has managed to escape one of school's worst parts, gym class, and her gym class brought about some pretty interesting stories. So ...

Still Buffering: How to Teen Vogue

15 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Out of all the crazy teen media that exists today, Teen Vogue has been getting a lot of attention, and we want to talk about why! Some moms have been ...

Still Buffering: How to Ask a Teen 2

08 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In a second special question and answer edition, the sisters have answered all of the most heartfelt and ridiculous questions from all of you! From ke...

Still Buffering: How to College

01 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Senior year means a lot of decisions, and we've talked about some of the big ones. But we haven't ever discussed the next step: college. From how you ...

Still Buffering: How to Career Choice

25 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Since our littlest sister is about to enter her senior year of high school, she's had to think a lot about her possible career choices, and as always ...

Still Buffering: Best of Buffering 1

19 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It's been a hectic week for one of our sisters, so it's time for Still Buffering's first ever super special Best Of Buffering episode! We've put toget...

Still Buffering: How to Self Care

11 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Everyone knows it's important to take care of yourself as an adult when life can get hectic and stressful, but little did you know teens get stressed ...

Still Buffering: Teen Tech Update 1: Snapmaps

04 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In a special edition of Still Buffering, the sisters cover a topic that can't be compared to the generations of Sydnee and Teylor, but rather is so ne...

Still Buffering: How to Teen Heartthrobs

27 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We all had those dreamy teens that we dreamt would some day fall in love with us against all odds and whose posters we had plastered all over our bedr...

Still Buffering: How to Summer Camp

20 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

From teen summer camp romances to the music classes taught by famous superstar brothers, most people have wondered where the summer camps in movies an...

Still Buffering: How to Amusement Parks

13 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In another episode to celebrate the start of summer, the sisters are talking about one of everyone's favorite types of places to go in the summertime,...