Bitch Talk Podcast

Send us Fan Mail This conversation was a real treat! For anyone who has ever listened to Bitch Talk, you know how much we loved Anthony Bourdain . So you can imagine our excitement at getting the chance to speak with his co-author, assistant, and "lieutenant" for almost 10 years, Laurie Woolever . Her newest book, "Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography" , is full of stories c...

Send us Fan Mail Over here at Bitch Talk, we were very happy to welcome San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin onto the podcast. If you're not familiar with him, here's the basics. In 2019, Chesa Boudin ran for the open seat of District Attorney of SF and won by a narrow margin . Chesa ran on a progressive platform talking about the elimination of cash bail, ending mass incarcerati...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome 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). We're bringing you back to the Sundance Film Festival of 2021, where we discussed a local story directed by San Franciscan Debbie Lum. Her film, Try Harder!  focuses on  Lowell High School - a public school that...

Send us Fan Mail The gang's all together for our first in-studio Basic Bitch  since June! We get into how Erin going to a Katie Pruitt concert led to her taking an at-home Covid test, our thoughts on the film Red Rocket ( starring Simon Rex 's penis), how Bay Area comedian (and prior guest ) Irene Tu is opening for Patton Oswalt and at the top of her game, tips on how to make the most of...

Send us Fan Mail Kate Slater is a white, anti-racist scholar and educator in a time where America's racial reckoning and call for justice has been heard across the nation and the world. She leads facilitation's and training's for both students as well as private organizations, and her passion for this work is palpable. We've rarely spoken to someone so fired up, and we jump rig...

Send us Fan Mail Julie Cohen and Betsy West are back with a documentary about another integral woman in our nation's history, Julia Child ! Their latest documentary, Julia , chronicles the life of the famous cookbook author and TV personality, from her youth, to her work in Secret Intelligence, to studying in Paris, and ultimately her monumental rise to success. We get into her impact on the...

Send us Fan Mail A Place to Breathe is a documentary that "explores the universality of trauma and resilience through the eyes of immigrant and refugee healthcare practitioners and patients". It provides an important glimpse into the heinous crimes that have happened (and continue to happen) around the world that have led people to escape their homes and seek refuge, and the people that...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome 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 , on the heels of having him on almost 400 episodes later, we're revisiting our conversation with director/actor Danny Strong , when he was doing press for his directorial film debut, Rebel in the Rye...

Send us Fan Mail Danny Strong is back! We spoke with him in 2017 for his film Rebel in the Rye , and it's still one of our most fun interviews ever (you can listen here ). We had a lot to catch up on, and we were especially excited to discuss his newest show, Dopesick . He gets into the serendipitous way he landed this project, and how he safely managed an intense filming schedule in the midd...

Send us Fan Mail Erin's back from her honeymoon and we're diving a little deeper into her post wedding/honeymoon thoughts, and how she managed not to fight with an anti-vaxxer on the plane. Ange shares a story of how she ended up both crying and falling in love at a luau. And you'll find out how Lionel Richie almost ended up as a focal point of Erin and Jeff's wedding. Enjoy! -...

Send us Fan Mail We're not quite sure how to even describe this episode, other than to say it left us wanting to journal afterwards. Erin has been trying to get adrienne maree brown on the show for quite some time, and after listening, you'll hopefully understand why. Her new novel, Grievers , is based in Detroit, and centers around a mysterious illness, loss, gentrification, loneliness,...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome 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). To cap off Filipino American History Month (October), we're flashing back to some of our favorite interviews with Filipino artists from the past year! We were blown away by not only the amount of Filipino storie...

Send us Fan Mail We'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 Live...

Send us Fan Mail We 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 (spoile...

Send us Fan Mail Captain 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,...

Send us Fan Mail We'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...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome 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, a...

Send us Fan Mail We'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 . Th...

Send us Fan Mail Last 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 ha...

Send us Fan Mail It'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 man...

Send us Fan Mail We 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 - a...

Send us Fan Mail We 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...

Send us Fan Mail There 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 Pla...

Send us Fan Mail Lisa 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 perpe...

Send us Fan Mail We'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 Par...