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Send us Fan Mail Welcome to day 6 of our Sundance/Slamdance Film Festival coverage! Joined per the usual with our Park City Co-Host, John Wildman of Films Gone Wild , we highlight two Slamdance documentaries that are centered around artists: The Mad Writer , and With Peter Bradley . The Mad Writer follows hip-hop phenom and music producer L'Orange as he deals with his clinical depression, in...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to day 5 of our Sundance/Slamdance Film Festival coverage! Along with our Park City co-host, John Wildman of Films Gone Wild , we're highlighting two Sundance documentaries that deal with current issues around the world and here in the US- Food and Country, and 20 Days in Mariupol. Food and Country follows trailblazing food writer Ruth Reichl during her journey to con...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to day four of our Sundance/Slamdance Film Festival coverage! Today we're getting to know two Slamdance documentaries that tell the story of overlooked or abandoned American towns- Cisco Kid and Motel Drive . Joined as always by our Park City co-host and honorary bitch, John Wildman of FilmsGoneWild.com .  In Cisco Kid , we meet Eileen, who is living alone among the r...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to day three of our Sundance/Slamdance Film Festival coverage! Today we're bringing you two Sundance documentaries dealing with women's issues that we knew we had to cover, Plan C, and Smoke Sauna Sisterhood.  Plan C follows Francine Coeytaux and her team of providers as they find ways to distribute abortion pills across the country during the pandemic, as well a...

Send us Fan Mail It's day 2 of our Sundance/Slamdance Film Festival coverage and today we're sharing three very different, yet powerful Slamdance narrative films. Joined again by our friend & Park City cohort, John Wildman of FilmsGoneWild.com.   Mascot follows a frustrated young man whose dangerous actions are endangering not only himself, but his whole family. Director Remy van Heu...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Day One of our Sundance and Slamdance Film Festival coverage! We've joined forces again with our dear friend and Honorary Bitch, John Wildman of Films Gone Wild , and we're excited to a share our interviews with two Sundance narrative films that we really loved...  First we sit down with director Sing J. Lee to talk about his beautiful film The Accidental Geta...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Flashback Friday! With 700+ episodes in our archive, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with y'all! This week, in celebration of the 11 Oscar nominations for one of our favorite films of 2022, we're throwing back to our interview with the directors and stars of Everything Everywhere All At Once . The Daniels Everything Everywhere All At Once i...

Send us Fan Mail We had a wild ride in Park City for the 2023 Sundance & Slamdance Film Festivals, and we're sharing some behind the scenes stories that would only happen to these old bitches... Let's just say we fell, we had breakdowns, and we ate puff pastry. So buckle up, enjoy the ride, and be on the lookout for our upcoming festival coverage ! -- Thanks for listening and for you...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Sundance 2023! And while we thought for a while that we might not make it, we are here and ready to take Park City by storm. But until that happens, we're sharing the frightening details of our 2 day, 21 hour journey through snow storms, sliding wheels, icy roads, and a car with electrical problems. So sit back, relax, and make sure you have chains in your trunk. A...

Send us Fan Mail TW, the topic of suicide is brought up during this conversation.  We think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship! Chef Catie Randazzo joins us from HBO's The Big Brunch , to talk about why they love being in the kitchen, how they got on the show, and the incredible difference the show has made in their life ever since. Catie shares what it means to be a "recove...

Send us Fan Mail Sixth time is a charm for one of our favorite returning guests, Mr. Daveed Diggs. He's our emotional support human and we are so thrilled that he is our first interview episode of the new year.  Normally we have Daveed on promoting a film or TV show, but this time we got to shoot the shit a bit and dig in to his music project Clipping - which is described as American experime...

Send us Fan Mail Hey there! Happy new year!  2023 marks our 10th year in podcasting and we're so excited to share this major milestone with you. Earlier this week we sat together in studio and recorded our first Basic Bitch of this year. In this episode we talk about our Sundance fundraiser that is going on right now. It costs upwards of $6K to cover both the Sundance and Slamdance film festi...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Bitch Talk's official 2022 year in review! We go over our favorite interviews, interesting things we learned about each other while Basic Bitching, and the return guests that make our year complete. We also share which episode "some people" call Erin's best interview, which guest was almost too hot to handle, and the magic of "perm talk". T...

Send us Fan Mail Jeff Hiller plays one of our favorite characters (Joel) on one of our favorite shows (HBO's Somebody Somewhere ), so this interview is something of a love fest! We discuss the significance of his character, the complicated nature of religion, and how he deals with the  pressure of singing alongside co-star and icon Bridget Everett . He also teaches us the secret to acting in...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Flashback Friday! With 700+ episodes in our archive, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with y'all!  We're flashing not too far back to episode 700 when we sat down IN PERSON with actor Luke MacFarlane and co-writer/actor Billy Eichner of the film BROS. It was such a great interview and we really loved this movie and now that it's streami...

Send us Fan Mail We're finally reunited in the studio for a #BasicBitch just in time to hear a recap of Ange's trip to Mexico! And then we catch up on life in the Bay and try not to cry during Producer Char's moment of pleasure. Spoiler: we failed.  -- Thanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 700 episodes without your help!  -- Be well, stay safe, Bla...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Flashback Friday! With 700+ episodes in our archive, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with y'all! This week, we are flashing back to EP686, when we brought back a couple of our favorite filmmakers Julie Cohen and Betsy West,  as they discuss their latest documentary Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down . The film recently premiered on CNN, and can...

Send us Fan Mail Who knew we needed a Cat Daddies documentary? Director Mye Hoang did and she uncovered stories of men across the U.S. who love their cats - like, A LOT.  Of course we know that cats are a thing (we're dog people over here, mostly because of allergies *s neeze! *) and we know so many folks who love them, but this film is actually a conversation about masculinity, love, bonding...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Flashback Friday! With 700+ episodes in our archive, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with y'all!  In this flashback we are talking with directors Rayka Zehtabchi and Shaandiin Tome who's documentary short - Long Line of Ladies debuted at this year's Sundance Film Festival.  We're rolling this interview back out to you because the...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is all about The Sports Bra ! Jenny Nguyen joins us to talk about why she wanted to open the first bar that focused on women's sports, and how her business' success is proving that she is filling a major gap in the industry. People love women's sports, they just never had real access to it, and this bar is a major step in the right direction! We get int...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our Basic Bitch about different trips we've taken far away, at home, and in our minds. Ange catches us up on her adventures in Mexico (and explains the origin of a "Kiefer Sutherland Hat"), Erin reflects on her work staycation at the Intercontinental in SF, and Char shares all the free stuff she gets at her new favorite casino. Then Ange explains how a me...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Flashback Friday! With 700+ episodes in our archive, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with y'all! We are so proud re-share with you our SXSW conversation with director David Siev. David's film, Bad Axe  is out today in select theaters and streaming on Google Play Movies and Amazon Prime Video and we hope that you will seek it out while you&a...

Send us Fan Mail Well it's about time we have on director and podcaster Jordon Briggs on our show. Jordon has been a fan of Bitch Talk for a few years and has supported us in many ways. Now it's our turn to support him. Jordon has a short documentary screening now during the SmartFone Flick Fest called Her Hair. We talk with Jordon about this film that he shot in 2017 which features his...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Flashback Friday! With 700+ episodes in our archive, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with y'all! Since today is Veteran's Day in the United States and we are going through some scary mid-term elections, we thought it would be a good time to bring back our 2021 interview with director Sonia Kennebeck talking about her documentary The U.S. vs...

Send us Fan Mail In this Basic, the bitches are in a funky mood as Erin shares one last New Orleans travel story that goes a little dark ( no surprise). Then Producer Char shares a story of watching her neighbors getting rained on, and Ange shares a little about her current sabbatical in Mexico. There's an age old argument about what actually constitutes as "early afternoon", and Er...