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Send us a textWe have another Basic Bitch for your ass, covering everything from the impeachment trial, preparing for our first SXSW, attacks on the AAPI community that have been in an uptick across our country, to an exciting new segment for our show. What do Rush Limbaugh and Baby Yoda have in common? You'll have to take a listen to find out.--Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, and thank you for wearing a mask. --Buy us a cup of coffee!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, and abortion is no

Send us a textNext stop, Slamdance y'all!  Our first interview during the film festival for filmmakers by filmmakers is with director Chelsea Christer and band member of The Matches,  Justin  San Souci. In this interview, they talk about their documentary Bleeding Audio, which follows the journey of a band out of Oakland, Ca. called  The Matches.  The  incredible footage they have of the band as they grow up in the music industry sets the stage for the journey they take as the industry turns to digital platforms almost overnight. The toll the digital age takes on a band coupled by having bad management is an interesting true story that Chelsea captures and tells so well through the lens of the band members, their parents, and their community.This was a fun interview and this doc. makes us yearn for live music shows - which can't come fast enough - after everyone gets the vaccine of course.  Thanks for listening!Bleeding Audio is currently playing at the Slamdance Film Festival, and will be making it

Send us a textIt's our Sundance 2021 wrap-up with our honorary Bitches John Wildman and Justina Walford of FilmsGoneWild.com.We talk the pros and cons of attending a virtual event (we missed being in Park City, but we are not complaining about doing interviews in our pajamas), our favorite interviews, which film has left us scarred for life, and spill some serious tea on what it's like to work with some of the more difficult publicists.A HUGE thank you to Sundance, we'll (hopefully) see you again next year! (preferably in person at the High West Distillery)Follow Films Gone Wild on their website & FacebookBe well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, and thank you for wearing a mask. --Buy us a cup of coffee!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

Send us a textWe're here at Sundance 2021 (virtually) joined by our honorary Bitch and Sundance partner-in-crime John Wildman ofFilmsGoneWild.com.In this episode, we're proud to bring you filmmakers and stories exclusively from the Bay! We're joined with the cast and crew from the films Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir, Homeroom, and Marvelous and the Black Hole.Producer Cassandra Jabola from Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir, discusses the cultural impact of Amy Tan, and the importance of representation in media. 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.In Marvelous and the Black Hole, we were joined by director Kate Tsang, and the stars Miya Cech, and the one and only Rhea Perlman. We discuss the Bay vibes throughout the film, channeling your inner badass, be

Send us a textWe're here at Sundance 2021 (virtually) joined by our honorary Bitch and Sundance partner-in-crime John Wildman of FilmsGoneWild.com.Happy hump day, ya'll! In this Episode, we are with the crew from First Date, One For the Road, and Pleasure, three films that will take you for a ride in more ways than one! In First Date, we're joined by director Manuel Crosby, producer/talent Brandon Kraus, and stars Tyson Brown, and Shelby Duclos. We get into filming shootouts and violent scenes on an independent budget, and the importance of having badass women save the day.We had a packed house for One For the Road, as we welcomed director Baz Poonpiriya, and stars Ice Natara, Tor Leeratanakajorn, and Violette Wautier. We get into how this film is loosely based on Baz's personal  life, and the fun of shooting a story about friends on a redemption road trip through Thailand.  And to cap it off, we bring you our interview with director Ninja Thyberg of the film Pleasure, the story of a young

Send us a textWe're here at Sundance 2021 (virtually) joined by our honorary Bitch and Sundance partner-in-crime John Wildman of FilmsGoneWild.com.In this Episode, we're joined by the cast and crew from the documentaries Bring Your Own Brigade, Rebel Hearts, and A Concerto is a Conversation.Emmy-winning director Lucy Walker shares her journey digging into the complicated history of California wildfires in Bring Your Own Brigade (spoiler alert: we can't blame everything on global warming).In Rebel Hearts, which chronicles a trailblazing group of nuns that fought back against the patriarchal stronghold of the Catholic Church, we commiserate with director Pedro Kos about growing up in a religious household with a healthy fear of nuns.Kris Bowers co-directs and stars in A Concerto is a Conversation, a  short doc that interweaves his career as a composer to the stories of his 91-year-old grandfather. The topics of the films in this episode further illustrate the importance of documentaries - to info

Send us a textWe're here at Sundance 2021 (virtually) joined by our honorary Bitch and Sundance Partner-In-Crime John Wildman of FilmsGoneWild.com.In this episode, we're joined with the cast and crew from the films  The Blazing World, Strawberry Mansion, and We're All Going to the World's Fair, all thriller/sci-fi films that will leave you debating the difference between dreams and reality.In The Blazing World, we speak with director Carlson Young and star Vinessa  Shaw about the the connection between dreams and trauma.The guys from Strawberry Mansion , Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney talk about the 10 year process to create this future forward drama that examines taxing people's dreams that contain advertisements (sound familiar?)Jane Schoenbrun and Anna Cobb from We're All Going to the World's Fair share their director/actor dynamic and the trust it took to accomplish Anna's powerful big screen debut.The best thing about being part of Sundance is watching exciting

Send us a textWe're here at Sundance 2021 (virtually) joined by our honorary Bitch and Sundance Partner-In-Crime John Wildman of FilmsGoneWild.com. In this Episode, we are with the crew from My Name is Pauli Murray and Playing with Sharks, two documentaries that cover powerhouse women!  In Betsy West and Julie Cohen's documentary, Pauli Murray gets her long overdue moment to shine. As a non-binary black activist, lawyer, and poet born in 1910, her life helped pave the way for the likes of Rosa Parks and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Playing with Sharks, director Sally Aitken and producer Bettina Dalton introduce us to Valerie Taylor- marine conservationist, underwater photographer, filmmaker, and Australian icon who was among the first woman deep sea divers, and (along with her husband Ron) was the first to film the great white shark without the protection of a cage. We're talking about badass women on the screen, with badass women who were behind the camera. Enjoy!Follow Films Gone Wild on their websit

Send us a textWe've been virtually covering the Sundance Film Fest for the last week or so and wanted to check-in with our friend, John Wildman of Films Gone Wild . Normally we'd be in a room with John co-hosting a show called The Festival Daily Buzz for a local Park City, Utah radio station, but this year, since we're sheltering in place, we're Sundanc-ing as our respective outlets. Sit back and enjoy our thoughts on the realities of watching a film festival movie at home when you're  sharing space with others (clearing through - family),  juggling interviewing multiple guests on one screen via Zoom, and missing the things that Sundanc-ing in place just can't replace when you're in Park City. We'll be all Sundance during the next week or two, so get ready for some fun and insightful interviews with filmmakers, actors, and producers from all around the world.   Thanks for listening! Follow Films Gone Wild on Facebook --Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, and thank y

Send us a textThird times a charm, y'all. We're back at the Sundance Film Festival, virtually of course, and we're starting it off with a local story directed by San Franciscan Debbie Lum.  Her film, Try Harder!  focus's on a handful of Lowell High School - a public school that kids have to test into - and their (and sometimes parents) obsession with getting into Ivy League colleges.  The film made us think about our high school experiences and appreciate that our parents didn't pressure us about getting into college. Like, not at all. So let's get into our first of many Sundance 2021 interviews and find Try Harder! once it gets its official release date. --Follow Try Harder! on IG,FB, and Twitter.--Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, and thank you for wearing a mask. --Buy us a cup of coffee!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, Fa

Send us a textErin and Ange sit down with Erika Cohn, director of the documentary Belly of the Beast, a film that follows the fight against the illegal sterilization of women in prison. While this documentary has been 10 years in the making, it all started when she became a volunteer at the Oakland based organization Justice Now, which fights to provide social justice for women in prison. We get into the back stories of film's main subjects, Kelli Dillon, and Cynthia Chandler, and the dark history of eugenics in California. This is a powerful documentary that further proves our need for MAJOR transparency in our prisons, and to rethink the money spent on a system that is completely inept. And while we're at it, when the hell will the decisions made about a woman's body be her own? The fight is not over, reparations have not been made, and the people at the helm of these atrocities (that are still happening to this day) have not yet been held accountable. Support this film, get fired up, and go

Send us a textWe're baaaaaaaaaack. So much to talk about and not enough time...Why does it feel like we've already lived a full year and it's only mid-January?  Maybe Dr. Fauci can answer that? Anyway, we've got your first Basic Bitch ready for your 2021 ears and man, do we get IN TO IT.  We watched the fuck outta the inauguration and have a lot of thoughts about the day and festivities. We're trying to figure out how to get our elderly family members the Covid vaccine, figured out that Ange requested the song Too Close by NEXT way too much, and what's it like to try to buy a home in the Bay Area. We've got a lot to say, so let's go! Thanks for listening!--Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, and thank you for wearing a mask. --Buy us a cup of coffee!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 o

Send us a textHello Bitch Talkers and welcome to our first official recording of 2021. We're not wasting any time and catching up with our friend of the show, Sophia Andary, who's running for a delegate spot in Assembly District 19. We met Sophia in 2018 when she came on the podcast to talk abut her role in San Francisco Women's March as well as to promote the event. We've stayed in touch with Sophia over the last few years and have been able to watch her growth in the community: She was nominated by San Francisco's mayor to the Commission on the Status of Women, and she's now running for a spot on SF's Assembly District 19  slate as a Democratic state delegate. There's so much to dig into and we're so happy to start off the year empowering womxn focused on real political change. Follow Sophia at her website and on Instagram @ sophia_a_sf--Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, and thank you for wearing a mask. --Buy us a cup of coffee!Subscribe to our channel on 

Send us a textWelcome to Flash Back Friday! With 500+ episodes, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with our new listeners (and maybe new to our regular listeners).As we're preparing to participate in Sundance 2021 virtually, we thought it'd be a good time to take you back to our  first time at Sundance in 2019. This was recorded after our second full day of round the clock interviews, press lines, red carpets, and after parties...and we are exhausted, delirious, running on adrenaline, and liquored up! It's a true glimpse into what goes on to your mental state while covering one of the biggest film festivals in the world. Enjoy!Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, and thank you for wearing a mask. --Buy us a cup of coffee!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.FMPO

Send us a textHey Bitch Talkers! We're headed (virtually) to Sundance 2021!! Thought we would officially share the good news. We're excited to be invited back for our third year in a row and to bring you some familiar and not so familiar voices! Before we get into Sundance 2021, let's head back to Sundance 2020 when Erin and our honorary bitch, John Wildman (from our Festival Daily Buzz team) talk with esteemed director Steve James and subjects Dr. Amara Enyia and Maze Jackson from the episodic - City So Real.  This show couldn't be more relevant in this time of political theater mixed with deep seated racism and upheaval.  We had a fantastic time talking with these three about Chicago and it's political machine and hope you all will watch City So Real streaming now on Nat Geo and Hulu. Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, and thank you for wearing a mask. --Buy us a cup of coffee!Subscribe to our channel on YouTube for behind the scenes footage!Rate and review us wherever you list

Send us a textWelcome to Flash Back Friday! With 500+ episodes, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with our new listeners (and maybe new to our regular listeners). We're headed back to Park City for a Sundance Film Festival 2020 conversation with director Ramona Diaz and musician Ruby Ibarra from the documentary A Thousand Cuts.A Thousand Cuts is an important and timely documentary about the trials and tribulations of Maria Ressa, prominent journalist and founder of Rappler, the top online news site in the Philippines. Her criticism of the government, particularly under President Duterte's rule, has led to death threats, time in prison, and in June 2020 she was found guilty of cyber libel in the Philippines.  Her tenacity and fearless journalism is one of the reasons she was named Time Magazine's person of the year in 2018.  Director Ramona Diaz discusses the importance of this documentary, and the parallels between attacks on freedom of the press in both the Philippines and th

Send us a textOur first episode of the year features our new friend of the show, director Melissa Haizlip. Her film, Mr. Soul, features her uncle, Ellis Haizlip - a queer, Black, television producer and host of the first known Black variety show called Soul out of New York City.  We talk with Melissa in depth about the importance of the show Soul that ran from 1968 - 1973 on PBS stations across the country, James Baldwin, Black culture, Lenny Kravitz, poetry, the magic of Robert Glasper, and more. The show Soul is an extremely important part of American culture and we hope that Melissa's film will spark a new interest in Ellis Haizlip and his Black culture movement. You can find Mr. Soul on different platforms here. We hope you find this film as informative and revolutionary as we did. Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, and thank you for wearing a mask. --Buy us a cup of coffee!Subscribe to our channel on YouTube for behind the scenes footage!Rate and review us wherever you listen to podcasts!Visit

Send us a textSomehow we have made it to the end of 2020. This year's been too real and the year that can't stop/won't stop decided to come at us hard during the holidays. In our last Basic Bitch of 2020, we talk about co-host Angela's father, Tony Tabora, who passed away unexpectedly a couple of weeks after Thanksgiving. Tony was a surprise guest on our 500th episode event back in October and we thought it only fitting to honor him and his spirit in our last podcast episode of the year.  We know this isn't one of our normal Basic Bitches but we hope to not only lift up Tony's life but to inspire y'all to reach out and say hello to a loved one. Thanks for listening. Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, and thank you for wearing a mask. --Buy us a cup of coffee!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 ev

Send us a textAs they say, third time is a charm and we're so happy to bring y'all our last interview of 2020 with Bill and Turner Ross. We met the fellas earlier in the year at the Sundance Film Festival  and they haven't been able to get rid of us since.We catch up with the Ross brothers to see how the rest of their pandemic year has gone, if they're starting any new projects, how New Orleans is doing  this far into COVID, what are they doing (if anything) for the holidays, and more. We absolutely love these guys and wanna say thanks for one of our favorite films of the year - Bloody Nose Empty Pockets - and for always saying yes when we ask them to be on the podcast. Y'all are cool. You can stream Bloody Nose Empty Pockets on YouTube, Google Play Movies & TV, Vudu, and Amazon Prime Video. Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, and thank you for wearing a mask. --Buy us a cup of coffee!Subscribe to our channel on YouTube for behind the scenes footage!Rate and review us wherever

Send us a textWelcome to Flash Back Friday! With 500+ episodes, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with our new listeners (and maybe new to our regular listeners). We've hand picked this episode to balance out this weeks other episode with Brianna Noble from Mulatto Meadows.  The Rider is a beautiful, American, cowboy story with so much compassion and gorgeous cinematography it will make your heart burst! Listen in as we sit down with Director Chloe Zhao and Actor Brady Jandreau to talk about how the film evolved and the generosity of its actors to play dramatized versions of themselves for the big screen. You can support The Rider  by streaming through Google Play Movies & TV, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, and Vudu. Also, be on the lookout for Chloe's new film, Nomadland, which will be releasing in February 2021 starring the wonderful Frances McDormand.Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, and thank you for wearing a mask. --Buy us a cup of coffee!Subscribe to our channel on Y