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Send us Fan Mail We had a great time talking with a couple of the featured speakers and the MC of the San Francisco Women's March. Listen in as we chat with comedian Mona Shaikh , porn literacy and mindful masculinity educator Natash Singh , and San Francisco writer Rebecca Solnit right before they took to the stage in front of San Francisco's City Hall. If you marched in your local Wome...

Send us Fan Mail It's our first That's What She Said event of 2019! This month we have on returning guest Sophia Andary, co-chair of the San Francisco Women's March ! We had a great time catching up with Sophia, talking about the latest election, and the wins that the Women's March has had since 2017. We hope all of you bitches get your signs and community together to march for...

Send us Fan Mail Happy New Years! Welcome to our first episode of the year featuring actor/musician/step-brother John C. Reilly. We had the chance to sit down and talk with him about his latest film Stan and Ollie.  John C. Reilly might have been the hardest working actor in Hollywood over the holidays (with Wreck It Ralph, Holmes and Watson releasing) but he made time to speak with yours truly. E...

Send us Fan Mail 2018 was a fantastic year for Bitch Talk. We can't thank y'all enough for listening, commenting, liking, following, and most of all supporting us in our fifth year. We had so many fantastic guests this year that when you listen to our round up, it's a little overwhelming. But don't fret, we do some basic bitching towards the end so you know what we've been...

Send us Fan Mail Captain Party sits down with Oscar nominated writer and director Peter Hedges to discuss his powerful new film Ben is Back.  They talk addiction, the unwavering love of a parent, what it was like working with his son (the super talented Lucas Hedges), and the moving performance of Julia Roberts.  Not only has he been writing for decades (remember What's Eating Gilbert Grape?!...

Send us Fan Mail When you grab drinks and calamari with director Sandi Tan, you're in for a damn TREAT. Listen in as Ange and Erin talk filmmaking, trying to be human, zines, and more in this episode. Go #netflixandchill with Sandi's film SHIRKERS now. You will never forget this film or it's story.   Visit our website! www.bitchtalkpodcast.com Follow us on Instagram , Facebook , and...

Send us Fan Mail Erin & Ange chat with hilarious comedy duo and best friends, Frances Callier and Angela V. Shelton, better known as FRANGELA .   It was a well rounded discussion of politics, getting peed on, and the fine art of keeping your penis in your pants.  Ange and Erin also unsuccessfully test out a new nickname of their own (please head to our website for comments or suggestions). Hav...

Send us Fan Mail Your girls at Bitch Talk landed one of the classiest, well known, Asian American actors out there. Big thanks to Steven Yuen for coming into the studio during the Bay Area's apocalypse and sitting down with us to discuss his latest film Burning , Korea, life, and the meaning of Han .   Visit our website! www.bitchtalkpodcast.com Follow us on Instagram , Facebook , and Twitter...

Send us Fan Mail We are once again recording live from The Social Study at their monthly womxn's event That's What She Said ! Sara Bergamaschi is a fighter. She's the co-founder of SAHR (Strategic Advocacy for Human Rights) which is a women-led team of human rights lawyers and advocates working to break barriers to justice for survivors of gender violence. Listen in as we talk with...

Send us Fan Mail Hey Bitch Talk listeners! We took the opportunity to use an episode to talk about the upcoming mid-term elections in the U.S. because it's extremely important. Of course we use some comedy in this one because there's a lot to laugh about, but please, please, PLEASE, go out to your local polling place and VOTE. In 2016 we got duped and a lot of registered voters did not g...

Send us Fan Mail It's opening night of Family Affair's "Freaks of the Industry" exhibit, showcasing a collection of photographer B+'s early 1990s work from the Bay Area, featuring the likes of E40, Blackalicious, Hieroglyphics, The Coup, Too $hort, and Lyrics Born, to name a few.  Ange bumps into epic Bay Area journalist Eric Arnold and they discuss Pam the Funkstress, the...

Send us Fan Mail Erin and Ange sit down with hip-hop journalist, Joy Ng and discuss why representation matters, navigating cultural appropriation, b-boys, Lauryn Hill, Filipina rising star, Ruby Ibarra , and the golden era of female emcees.  In the end, she schools us old ladies on new hip-hop and R&B artists to follow. Thanks for the heads up, Joy! Check out her website  for more thoughtful c...

Send us Fan Mail Bitch Talk had such a great time speaking with writer, director, and actor Paul Dano about his new film Wildlife . He's a thoughtful and sentimental artist who has taken his first stab at directing Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan after adapting the screenplay from Richard Ford's novel of the same name. Take a listen and see why Paul Dano is one of our favorite intervi...

Send us Fan Mail Ike's new film, The Oath , is about a family with different political beliefs trying to survive Thanksgiving dinner. Ange and Ike discuss staying informed yet sane in the age of 24-hour-news, and why social commentary and laughter go hand-in-hand. With a cast including Tiffany Haddish and John Cho, this movie is full of twists, but expect to feel tension, stress, and laugh ou...

Send us Fan Mail Bitch Talk hosts Erin and Ange were invited to moderate a panel at the Mill Valley Film Festival's Mind The Gap summit discussing women in film and technology and we're giving you exclusive access to the conversation. The topic of the panel was Art as Activism and they were joined by some heaving hitting women. Activist/singer Holly Near , co-director of Netflix's R...

Send us Fan Mail Happy October Bitches! We're live at the monthly That's What She Said event in the Fillmore district of San Francisco. This month we got to chat with featured speaker, Lyzz Schwegler from the Sister District Project  whose motto is " you can sleep after election day ." Listen in and take note y'all, we may only have 30+ days until the mid-terms in the U.S....

Send us Fan Mail The whole gang is back together in studio for an overdue Basic Bitch session. Hear about Erin's vacay to Hawaii, Char's work trip to Los Angeles, and what recent sporting event got Ange a little emotional about. Plus let's talk about what did and didn't happen at the Emmy's and what next big event Erin and Ange will be hosting in October. Download NOW. Vis...

Send us Fan Mail Breakdancer, nurse, world traveller, singer songwriter, doula, Fulbright Scholar...we could go on, but you get the point.  She's a BADASS. Ange sits down with longtime friend, Marina Stankov-Hodge, as she discusses growing up mixed race, how she ended up living in the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro, her recent experience in a 10 day Vipassana Meditation, and EVERYTHING in b...

Send us Fan Mail Another one of our favorite SF dive bars is closing on October 6. The Hemlock Tavern is near and dear to our hearts at Bitch Talk. Not only have we spent many a night drinking and listening to local, live music in the musty back room, we also celebrated our 100th episode (200 episodes ago?!?) with a live event in said musty room. We thought we'd honor the place with travel wr...

Send us Fan Mail Here we are, y'all. Five years and 300 episodes later. So happy and humbled to bring you this major milestone episode featuring comedian, journalist, father, activist, author, podcaster, and Bay Area resident  W. Kamau Bell . We sat down with Kamau in July for our scheduled 30 minutes, and while recording, he changed it up and gave us 45 minutes. We realize it's a longer...

Send us Fan Mail In this Episode, Erin is at Closing Night of the 38th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. She sits down with Director Sam Pollard to talk about his film, Sammy Davis, Jr. I've Got To Be Me. For more on the film, visit their website.   Visit our website! www.bitchtalkpodcast.com Follow us on Instagram , Facebook , and Twitter...   Support the show Thanks for listening and for...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 298 is all about your basic bitches. Sit down, put your feet up, give yourself a good pour of brown liquor and sit in with us as we catch up on life. We're also so close to our 300th episode, we just want to say thank you for listening in every week to our interviews, adventures, and basic bitch talk. Without an audience we wouldn't be here.  If you can't ma...

Send us Fan Mail Talk about some bad bitches! Ange sits down with director/writer Crystal Moselle and the cast of Skate Kitchen , a film that centers around a New York based crew of female skaters, played by the real life members of Skate Kitchen! Regardless of age, this film will make you want to grab a skateboard and hit the pavement.  Hear about Crystal's chance encounter on the NY subway...

Send us Fan Mail We're live from the 38th annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival with the director of the documentary Satan & Adam V. Scott Balcerek and one of the stars Adam Gussow.  (If it sounds like Erin interviewed them alone, your ears are right. Captain Party and Producer Char were out there living their best lives travelling around California for a bit.) Satan and Adam is the s...

Send us Fan Mail It's opening night for the 38th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival and we're on location at the Castro Theatre to interview Lisa D'Apolito, director of Love, Gilda .  It's an intimate look at the life of Gilda Radner, one of the funniest women in comedy, and an original cast member of Saturday Night Live.  Lisa discusses her access to Gilda's personal audi...