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Send us a textWe're bringing you another #BasicBitch, and newlywed Erin is updating us on her honeymoon while in Taos, New Mexico. We talk recovering from an epic wedding, eating good food, and farting on famous people. You know, a typical honeymoon. Thanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 600 episodes without your help! --Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, AAPI Lives Matter, and thank you for being vaxxed!--SUPPORT US HERE!Subscribe to our channel on YouTube for behind the scenes footage!Rate and review us wherever you listen to podcasts!Visit our website! www.bitchtalkpodcast.comFollow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.Listen every other Thursday 9:30 - 10 am on BFF.FMPOWERED BY GO-TO Productions Support the showThanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 11 years, recorded 800+ episodes, and won Best of the Bay Best Podcast in 2022 , 2023 , and 2024 without your help! -- Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, AAPI Lives Matter,

Send us a textWe have been big fans of Liz Garbus for a long time, and we were lucky enough to have her on our show at Sundance 2020 for her narrative film, Lost Girls. This time, she's back with a portrayal of arguably one of the most influential environmental leaders in our history, Jacques Cousteau. Her film, Becoming Cousteau, documents how he first fell in love with the sea (spoiler alert: it was all because of an accident), how he turned from explorer to activist, his complicated family life, and the mistakes he made along the way to greatness. She gets into the many years it took to gain access (and go through) his archival footage, the importance of sharing his story for future generations, and her insight on being a woman in a male dominated field (and a very successful one, at that). You can find Becoming Cousteau at a theater near you!Thanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 600 episodes without your help! --Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, AAPI Lives Mat

Send us a textCaptain Party and Producer Char are recording this #BasicBitch while driving home from Reno after the perfect week! They give you the deets on Erin's epic San Francisco wedding/pub crawl, and their crazy weekend in Reno for the Chili and Beer Festival. Between dancing on the streets of the Mission District to being hungover in a cabana and sleeping our way through a festival, you don't want to miss this one. And also, send Advil!Thanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 600 episodes without your help! --Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, AAPI Lives Matter, and thank you for being vaxxed!--SUPPORT US HERE!Subscribe to our channel on YouTube for behind the scenes footage!Rate and review us wherever you listen to podcasts!Visit our website! www.bitchtalkpodcast.comFollow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.Listen every other Thursday 9:30 - 10 am on BFF.FMPOWERED BY GO-TO Productions Support the showThanks for listening and for your support! We could

Send us a textWe've got another Basic Bitch for your earholes, recorded on location at the 2am Club, one of our favorite (and maybe only?) dive bars in Mill Valley. The Bitch Talk family has reunited to go to an event for the film Like A Rolling Stone: The Life and Times of Ben Fong-Torres, but more importantly, because Erin is getting married this week! We get into our anticipation and excitement for the big day, and then Ange and Erin break down their experiences at the recent Women's March (defend our reproductive rights now!), and Producer Char talks about her recent trip to Nashville.Thanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 600 episodes without your help! --Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, AAPI Lives Matter, and thank you for being vaxxed!--SUPPORT US HERE!Subscribe to our channel on YouTube for behind the scenes footage!Rate and review us wherever you listen to podcasts!Visit our website! www.bitchtalkpodcast.comFollow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitt

Send us a textWelcome to Flash Back Friday! With 600+ episodes, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with our new listeners (and maybe new to our regular listeners). This week we're excited to highlight a film that's streaming and available in select theaters nationwide, Seyran Ates: Sex, Revolution and Islam.Seyran Ates is a bisexual human rights activist, lawyer, and female imam who is fighting the patriarchy and changing the face of Islam toward a more just and equal world. Sounds easy, right? We sit down with director/writer Nefise Ozkal Lorentzen about why she felt compelled to share this story, some interesting challenges she had along the way, what a sexual revolution really means, and our ability to create change. Seyran Ates: Sex, Revolution and Islam is a powerful documentary that is certain to both inspire you, and show you what a more equitable world can look like.You can follow director/writer Nefise Ozkal Lorentzen on IG & Twitter & FBFollow Seyran Ates: Sex, Rev

Send us a textWe're basic bitching about some important life lessons after Ange attempts to go to church, and Producer Char brings Prime Rib leftovers on a plane. Trust us, it's more traumatic (and hilarious!) then it sounds. And then we cap off the episode with an interview from Sundance 2021 with two of our favorite guests, director duo extraordinaire Betsy West and Julie Cohen. Their documentary, My Name is Pauli Murray, is available to stream on Amazon, and to watch in select theaters near you. This is one of our favorite documentaries of the year about a woman who was born in 1910, and has been a trailblazer for everything we're still fighting for today, including women's rights, the LGBTQ community, and Black Lives Matter. Support independent filmmakers and learn about this incredible person!You can follow director Julie Cohen on TwitterYou can follow director Betsy West on Instagram and TwitterThanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 600 episodes with

Send us a textLast month Erin sat down with a few of her favorite contestants from Top Chef season 18 at the brand new Moxy Oakland Downtown! Chef Maria Mazon, Chef Dawn Burrell, and Chef Nelson German couldn't have been any nicer and honest about the latest season that was shot during the height of the pandemic in Portland, Oregon. We talk about the restrictions and testing they all had to go through while filming the show, how tight the chefs were through it all, how the show has impacted their individual lives, and what they see in their culinary futures. Let us tell you, it was a joy to speak with a panel of chefs of color that are changing the culinary industry. Please support them and the many that are out there on a day-to-day basis feeding us and sharing their culture.  A big thank you to Nelson, Maria, and Dawn for their time. We hope  to have them on again in the future!Thanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 600 episodes without your help! --Follow Chef Nelson

Send us a textIt's part 2 of our "Bitch Talk Takes LA" trip, and we're on location in sunny Sunset Beach, CA. We get into our trip to Disneyland (FYI- we might possibly be the first people to wear vibrators on Splash Mountain), our fancy Prime Rib dinner with friend of the show Richard "The Curse" (no wonder we found a piece of glass in our drink), and how Ange managed to crash her electronic wheelchair in epic fashion. Enjoy!Thanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 600 episodes without your help! --Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, AAPI Lives Matter, and thank you for being vaxxed!--SUPPORT US HERE!Subscribe to our channel on YouTube for behind the scenes footage!Rate and review us wherever you listen to podcasts!Visit our website! www.bitchtalkpodcast.comFollow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.Listen every other Thursday 9:30 - 10 am on BFF.FMPOWERED BY GO-TO Productions Support the showThanks for listening and for your support! We co

Send us a textWe are grateful to welcome back to the show, director Justin Chon to talk about his latest film Blue Bayou. The last time we talked with Justin, was back at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019 when he screened the sister/brother drama Ms. Purple. Blue Bayou takes on the conversations around immigration, adoption, police brutality, racism, facing death and interracial marriage - all set in the beautiful landscape of one of our favorite places, New Orleans. Justin and Erin talk about the heavy topics of this film as well as why he landed on using New Orleans as the backdrop to the story, adoption as a capitalistic transaction, why he prefers the Linda Ronstadt version of Blue Bayou , and more. Blue Bayou  is out now in a theater near you. We hope that you will go out and support Korean American independent film and watch Justin's previous work - Gook  and Ms. Purple. Both streaming now on multiple platforms. Thanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 600 episodes

Send us a textWe finally made it to the Emmys! Actually we were staying at a hotel across the street and watching them from the bar next door, but that's pretty much the same thing. We get into our favorite winners, who we thought should have won (#EmmysSoWhite), and what it was like to be Emmy's adjacent. Maybe one day we'll actually make it indoors!Thanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 600 episodes without your help! --Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, AAPI Lives Matter, and thank you for being vaxxed!--SUPPORT US HERE!Subscribe to our channel on YouTube for behind the scenes footage!Rate and review us wherever you listen to podcasts!Visit our website! www.bitchtalkpodcast.comFollow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.Listen every other Thursday 9:30 - 10 am on BFF.FMPOWERED BY GO-TO Productions Support the showThanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 11 years, recorded 800+ episodes, and won Best of the Bay Best Podc

Send us a textThere seems to be an increasing amount of things to #BasicBitch about these days, but we're focusing a major part of this episode on our outrage over the passing of SB8 in Texas. We're excited to be joined by businesswoman, political fundraiser, activist and friend of the show Stephanie Dominguez Walton, who is planning a fundraiser called Fund the Fight to benefit Planned Parenthood Advocates Mar Monte. The virtual event is on Wednesday, September 29th, and will feature a couple of Bitch Talk's favorite guests (Alanna Brown and Rafael Casal of Blindspotting). We get into the broad scope of help that Planned Parenthood provides, the importance of stepping up in this moment, why California needs to set the example for the rest of the country, and share our own personal stories with how Planned Parenthood has saved our lives. We urge you to stay vocal and help in any way possible! (click here for tickets to Fund The Fight!). You can follow Stephanie Dominguez Walton on TwitterYou ca

Send us a textLisa Yadao is a badass producer/director/screenwriter that we first met at a Center for Asian American Media event in 2018. We bonded over our mutual love of food, and it's fitting that she is now here to talk about her exciting new food doc series, Roots & Wings. The series "profiles WOC chefs who use food as a conduit for cultural awareness and as a means of perpetuating their cultural traditions". And the first episode highlights Yana Gilbuena, a traveling Filipino chef bringing Kamayan food to the people, one state at a time. We get into Lisa's company, Paper Tongue Productions, how they chose which chefs to highlight, the importance of the series being 100% female made and majority BIPOC, the awesome perks on their GoFundMe campaign, and the perks of being Filipino. We had a lot of fun with this one, and we think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. You can help bring Roots & Wings to completion by donating to their GoFundMe campaign right now!You can

Send us a textWe're back with a #BasicBitch for your ass, and we have a lot on our minds. We share our anger at the passing of SB8 in Texas (we were also interviewed for a recent KQED article), losing Michael K. Williams, our fear about the upcoming CA Governor Recall (VOTE NO ON OR BY SEPTEMBER 14th please and thank you), fitted suits from China, elderly folks trying to hook Captain Party up with their nephews (please stop), and how to deal with dementia and aging. And for balance, we cap it off with our moments of pleasure. Join the fight for women's reproductive rights:What's SB8?abortionfunds.orgPlanned Parenthoodvoteprochoice.us/endorsed-candidates-2021Emergency Planned Parenthood Abortion FundingACLUAbortion FinderNARAL Pro-Choice AmericaFor more information on the California Recall Election on September 14th, click Support the showThanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 11 years, recorded 800+ episodes, and won Best of the Bay Best Podcast in 2022 , 2023

Send us a textWe've been fans of Joel McHale since way back in The Soup days, and this interview is a result of the connecting of the minds via Instagram (we've finally found a purpose for social media). This conversation ranges from how he entered this world (it had something to do with sperm and Rome), to the impact of him earning a Masters degree (or lack thereof). Let's be honest, this guy doesn't need an introduction. We just hopped on the call and hoped for the best. Buckle up and enjoy!Thanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 600 episodes without your help so thank you and this episode is dedicated to y'all! You can follow Joel McHale on IG & FB & Twitter--Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, AAPI Lives Matter, and thank you for being vaxxed!--SUPPORT US HERE!Subscribe to our channel on YouTube for behind the scenes footage!Rate and review us wherever you listen to podcasts!Visit our website! www.bitchtalkpodcast.comFollow us on Instag

Send us a textWelcome to Flash Back Friday! With 600+ episodes, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with our new listeners (and maybe new to our regular listeners).Today we're bringing you back to the Sundance Film Festival in 2020, when we spoke with director Sara Colangelo from the emotional film Worth. Worth follows a lawyer (played by Michael Keaton) fighting for the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. It's based on real events and actual victims, and brings you right back to that horrible moment, 20 years ago. We get into how she got connected with this project, it's emotional impact, and what it was like to work with such incredible talent. You can watch Worth right now on Netflix.Follow director Sara Colangelo on IGThanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 600 episodes without your help! --Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, AAPI Lives Matter, and thank you for being vaxxed!--SUPPORT US HERE!Subscribe to our channel on YouTube for b

Send us a textWe're celebrating the Bentonville Film Festival with director/writer Mari Walker of the intense and beautiful film, See You Then. Simply put, this film follows two exes who reunite ten years later after an abrupt breakup, but the topics it covers are so much more than this! We loved seeing an interesting Asian woman lead, and in depth conversations regarding trans issues. Honestly, some of the conversations in this film could have been recorded from a Bitch Talk happy hour (men, we suggest watching this film with a note pad). Mari shares her writing process, how making this film was like therapy, and how she came up with a XXX-Rated art exhibit idea for the film.Thanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 600 episodes without your help! Follow See You Then on IG & FB & TwitterFollow director Mari Walker on IG & FB & Twitter--Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, AAPI Lives Matter, and thank you for being vaxxed!--SUPPORT US HERE!Subscribe to ou

Send us a textWelcome back to the Bentonville Film Festival! This time we're bringing you a fun conversation with director/writer Prashanth Kamalakanthan and producer Artemis Shaw from the film Have a Nice Life. This is a rode trip film involving a stoner musician, and an Indian housewife (played by Prashanth's mom!). We get into the importance of representation, the sweaty days on set (shot in North Carolina in the middle of summer), and their family dinners at the end of the day. Prashanth shares what it was like to shoot in his hometown, and his decision to hide the scripts from his mom. Artemis shares how she got involved in the film and how she ended up singing the film's theme song.  It's conversations like this that remind us why it's so important to support independent film.Thanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 600 episodes without your help! You can follow director Prashanth Kamalakanthan on IG & FB & TwitterYou can follow producer A

Send us a textWelcome to Flash Back Friday! With 600+ episodes, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with our new listeners (and maybe new to our regular listeners).Homeroom follows the class of 2020 at Oakland High School as they work to make a change in the school to prison pipeline, and react to a global pandemic. We were honored to chat with one of the doc's main subjects, Denilson Garibo, about activism, persistence, and where we go from here. You can watch Homeroom right now on Hulu!Thanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 600 episodes without your help! You can follow Homeroom on Instagram  and  TwitterYou can follow Denilson  Garibo on Instagram --Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, AAPI Lives Matter, and thank you for being vaxxed!--SUPPORT US HERE!Subscribe to our channel on YouTube for behind the scenes footage!Rate and review us wherever you listen to podcasts!Visit our website! www.bitchtalkpodcast.comFollow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Tw

Send us a textThis is our first year covering the Bentonville Film Festival, and we're excited to bring you this conversation with filmmakers/brothers Brandon and Lance Kramer, of the documentary The First Step. This film follows tv host/author/political commentator Van Jones as he attempts to pass a criminal justice bill under the Trump administration. They discuss their connection to Van Jones, the divisive nature of politics, and the difficulties of gaining access to interviews in the White House. In a country where we like to label people as villains or heroes, this film shows how real life is not that simple. If you live in California, don't forget to vote NO ON THE RECALL of Governor Newsom! This is a Republican power play that will end up costing us millions of dollars. For official information on the recall, click here.--Thanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 600 episodes without your help! --Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, AAPI Lives Matter, and tha

Send us a textIt's been a minute since we Basic Bitched so we thought we jump on in!  Get ready for some behind the scenes of our 600th episode recording, how Ange's aka Captain Party knee surgery went, rando sighting of the San Francisco Giant's manager scooting his way around the City, + more. Thanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 600 episodes without your help!Follow Gabe Kapler at his website and on  TwitterWatch Blindspotting on STARZ!Grand Sierra Resort Chili Fest info. HERE--Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, AAPI Lives Matter, and thank you for being vaxxed!--SUPPORT US HERE!Subscribe to our channel on YouTube for behind the scenes footage!Rate and review us wherever you listen to podcasts!Visit our website! www.bitchtalkpodcast.comFollow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.Listen every other Thursday 9:30 - 10 am on BFF.FMPOWERED BY GO-TO Productions Support the showThanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 11 ye