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Send us Fan Mail Per the usual, we went into a basic thinking we didn't have a ton to talk about but we did! Captain Party (Ange) had a serious question about a conversation she had with her doctor about having a hysterectomy and what that would mean for her body, Char and Ange talk A LOT!! about MTV's The Challenge, we finally talk about FX's The Bear (one of the best shows on TV i...

Send us Fan Mail Greetings bitches! We had a fuckin' blast talking with the comedy duo of the Boss Bitch Show outta New York - Rachel Green and Kirsten O'Brien . We learned so much during our convo from these two that it just proves you're never too old  to learn new things!  For instance, we were schooled in what slut throat is, that there are gang bang experts out there, that a ti...

Send us Fan Mail Hey y'all! In this basic bitch we talk about Erin and Ange's wild roller coaster ride in Austin, Texas including being there the day that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The trip was a trip and included lot's of breakfast tacos, celebrating Anthony Bourdain's birthday at one of his (and our) favorite spots, late night Whataburgers, Tupac sightings, oh...

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). Today, we're going back to our coverage of Sundance 2022. Joined by our Sundance partner in crime John Wildman of FilmsGoneWild.com , we welcomed back to the podcast   Sara Dosa, director of Fire of Love.  In  ...

Send us Fan Mail It's our fourth time speaking with a couple of our favorite documentarians ( RBG , My Name is Pauli Murray, Julia ) - Julie Cohen and Betsy West about they're latest film, Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down which does not disappoint.  Former congresswoman Gabby Giffords was shot in the face in 2011 at an in-person constituent event in a supermarket parking lot. She was...

Send us Fan Mail Not to brag, but this one is good! And not just because W. Kamau Bell is an accomplished stand-up comedian, 5 time Emmy Award winning host, director, and author, but because he is authentic, hilarious, and full of heart. Every time we sit down with him it feels like we've just had the most constructive and fun therapy session, and it just keeps getting better. We dive into wh...

Send us Fan Mail We got back on the saddle and held a little zoom sesh to basic bitch. We had Char captain this episode and she shared with us her Warriors parade story as well as the first public memorial she helped put together for our friend and podcast sister Dayna Keyes who passed away in late March. Thanks Char for taking the reigns on this one!! -- Thanks for listening and for your support!...

Send us Fan Mail Back in late April we got to watch a beautiful documentary called Bitterbrush during the SF Film Festival.  The doc. follows Hollyn Patterson and Colie Moline, range riders who are spending their last summer herding cattle in remote Idaho. When Erin sat down with the director, Emelie Mahdavian , they talked about how Emelie met the two range riders and how long it took her to get...

Send us Fan Mail Music feeds our souls over here on Bitch Talk and it was a joy to watch a documentary that celebrates that magical connection. We had the chance to speak with director/writer/producer Kathleen  Ermitage  who's film Mixtape Triology: Stories of the Power of Music explores three different musicians and their music - The Indigo Girls , Vijay Iyer , and Talib Kweli and the fans w...

Send us Fan Mail It's a pivotal moment in Bitch Talk herstory. We were able to "sit down" with Real World San Francisco cast members (and storytellers) Pam Ling and Judd Winick as well as directors Stacey Woefel and Bill Horner from the documentary Keep the Cameras Rolling: The Pedro Zamora Way. All of us at Bitch Talk were teenagers when this season of The Real World came out and i...

Send us Fan Mail It's Pride month and we're over here celebrating it by featuring a couple of films that will be screening at this years Frameline Film Festival. In this episode, we speak with the director and the subject of the documentary Jeannette . In June of 2016, 49 lives were tragically taken during a mass shooting on Latin Night at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. One...

Send us Fan Mail The independent film festival Dances with Films is underway and we had the pleasure of watching one of the festival's feature documentaries Rewilding .   Rewilding follows Anthony Dejesus, a 27-year-old budding artist and former Rikers Island inmate, as he leaves New York City for the first time with avid rock climbers and wilderness guides Jesse Spiegel and Vitek Linhart, de...

Send us Fan Mail If you're a long time listener of Bitch Talk, you may know the name John Wildman from all of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. You can say John has been our mentor and big brother in the film festival world and now he's on our show to promote his own short film - Sweat of his Cow .   We had no idea what kind of movie this would be, but we can tell you we were not disa...

Send us Fan Mail Hello listeners! We have an election tomorrow, June 7 in San Francisco and one of the city propositions is to recall our District Attorney.  We interviewed the D.A. back in the fall of 2021  and thought it would be a good reminder for our fellow voters to re-run this interview with Chesa. If you haven't voted yet or on the fence about this recall campaign, we hope you'll...

Send us Fan Mail Part two of our Basic Bitch is here!  This time we talk about Ange's 48-hour trip to San Francisco. It was supposed to be a week long trip, but life happens and she was able to come up at just the right time. You'll hear us talk about our new favorite restaurant Prubechu , how kick-ass the musician Peaches remains to be, some casual racism at Erin's job,  comedian H...

Send us Fan Mail It's been a minute since we've caught up - and as usual, there's a lot to talk about. This is the first part of our two part Basic because we needed a full debrief on Char's vacation on a Disney cruise, how much she loves a private island (duh), her bad luck with luggage, and our sidebar on the Amber Heard/Johnny Depp trial (spoiler, we don't give a fuck a...

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). Before we close out AANHPI Heritage Month, we're flashing back  to February of this year, when we hang with Lisa Ling as she launched her new show on HBO Max.  Holy shit, it's Lisa Ling ! This was a big dea...

Send us Fan Mail Had a great time talking with director Sally Rubin about her short film Mama Has a Mustache which screened at last month's 65th annual SFFilm Festiva l . Sally's film is a short, quirky, fully animated doc about gender and family, as seen through children’s eyes. Driven completely by audio interviews of kids ages 5-10, the film uses these sound bytes combined with clip-a...

Send us Fan Mail When Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was attacked in January 1994 it was the story of all stories that year. Fast forward 28 years later and we're sitting down with director Justin Young who's directorial debut, My Hero the Hitman , focuses on the person who was hired to attack Nancy Kerrigan, Shane Stant, and his sister Maile Stant.  There's a lot to uncover i...

Send us Fan Mail Comedian and author Ginny Hogan has written her first book I'm More Dateable Than a Plate of Refried Beans and Other Romantic Observations and we're here to give it the Bitch Talk bump.  Ginny's book takes us on the ride of how silly online/modern dating has become and has some hilarious observations on how these apps could work a little better for all of us, like,...

Send us Fan Mail Howdy Bitch Talkers! We're taking you back to the March 22 online event that we hosted for San Francisco non-profit WeXL with film financier Chiquita Banks, Esq. We were drawn to host this event because filmmakers and/or creatives need to understand insider knowledge of how projects get made in Hollywood - let's get rid of the gatekeepers already! Chiquita has a wealth o...

Send us Fan Mail Hi Bitch Talkers! We're all back in the same Zoom room catching up on life. We get into Ange's birthday trip to Mexico - how she almost missed her first flight out, going to an adult prom, celebrating opening weekend of Mexican baseball, and her love of cenotes. We also talk about the circle of Covid that seems to be closing in on us, and the shows and movies that are ma...

Send us Fan Mail Did you know that in the past 6 years, 33 states (including California) have passed laws to silence boycotts against Israel on its human rights record? This blatant attack on our freedom of speech has happened with very little coverage or knowledge on the part of the average constituent, which is what makes this documentary so very important. Boycott follows the stories of three c...

Send us Fan Mail Well, we met a new best friend - her name is Dahlia Gallin Ramirez and she has a new book out called Sex and the Single Panda : The Revolting Pursuit of Love in the Animal Kingdom .  The illustrated book was an idea that came to the cartoonist during the pandemic and explores the bizarre, intriguing, and often *disgusting* mating rituals of the animal kingdom. The book brilliantly...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Santa Barbara Film Festival! We were unable to join in person, but we still got to cover two very different yet captivating films, A Place in the Field and Fresh to Frightening: The Sharon Green Story . The feature film A Place in the Field follows veteran Gio Scuderi as he receives a package in the mail that sends him on a road trip to fulfill a promise, but ends u...