Bitch Talk Podcast

Send us Fan Mail We're continuing our (virtual) Sundance 2022 coverage with the cast and crew from the short films The Panola Project , Hallelujah , and Fck Em Right Back . This is a particularly fun group of conversations that bring inspiration, heart, and the strength to say "Fuck You"! Rachael DeCruz and Jeremy S. Levine (who wrote, directed, and produced The Panola Project ) sha...

Send us Fan Mail It's Black History Month and one of the most memorable documentaries that we saw at last years South by South West (SXSW) is finally making it to the big screen in the Bay Area and beyond.   Who We Are: The Chronicle of Racism in America should be required viewing and your girls at Bitch Talk have learned so much from it that we refer to it's teachings often. We revere t...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our Sundance 2022 narrative features episode with three films that take you all around the world! Leonor Will Never Die is a Filipino film that follows a retired filmmaker as she becomes the action hero of her unfinished screenplay. The film's director, Martika Ramirez Escobar , explains her 8 year journey in creating the first grandma action hero in the Philippine...

Send us Fan Mail Our first batch of interviews from Sundance 2022 celebrates two returning guests, director of TikTok, Boom , Shalini Kantayya , and director of Fire of Love , Sara Dosa . The subjects of these documentaries couldn't be any more different, but their stories are equally powerful. With Shalini Kantayya's TikTok, Boom , we get a deep dive into the impact (both good and bad)...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to virtual Sundance 2022 ! We're kicking off our coverage with friend of the show and returning guest W. Kamau Bell to discuss his four part docu-series, We Need to Tak About Cosby . To say this is a heavy topic is putting it lightly, but Kamau proves to be the right person for the job, as he dives in to the life and legacy of Bill Cosby with thoughtful insight, and b...

Send us Fan Mail Annnnnnnnnnnnnnd we're back at virtual Sundance 2022 sifting through, reading, and watching all things Sundance Film Festival.  We will be kicking off our coverage this Friday with friend of the pod - W. Kamau Bell discussing his new Showtime documentary episodic We Need to Talk About Cosby  but first we must check-in with our Sundance co-pilot John Wildman from Films Gone Wi...

Send us Fan Mail We have a special treat for you today! It's a never before heard "lost" episode from Sundance 2020 , recorded by Ange and Producer Char in the wee hours of the night (after many cocktails). To set the scene - it was our final night in Park City, Utah, and after 6 days and 60 interviews, we decided to celebrate. A lot. After a High West whiskey tasting, a Lisa Loeb c...

Send us Fan Mail We're fresh off the heels of a great interview with SF Giants manager Gabe Kapler (dropping next month!), sharing some behind the scenes details on how we made it happen, and how we bonded over hip hop music. Erin shares how she survived the West CoastTsunami while on a trip to Mendocino,  and we learn that Producer Char goes crabbing on the regular. Like, she owns a crab tra...

Send us Fan Mail This conversation was a real treat! Mica welcomed us into her beautiful, bright, and cozy restaurant, Pomella (on Piedmont Ave in Oakland), and quickly offered us Baileys and coffee. You can say it was love at first site. The conversation flowed as smoothly as our coffees as we got into why she moved to the Bay from Israel, starting her career in catering, the essence of Israeli f...

Send us Fan Mail This is our first Basic Bitch of 2022, and unfortunately it's been a rough ass week. Listen as Erin and Ange process two completely different experiences that surprisingly end with the same lessons learned. And of course, we cap the episode off with our moment of pleasure, and we continue to be grateful for your support. Cheers to a steady climb to joy and happiness in 2022!...

Send us Fan Mail We're saying goodbye to 2021 (goodbye and good riddance!) with a bang, as we break down behind the scenes stories and facts on our favorite and most memorable interviews. Pop open a beverage of your choice and enjoy as we break down which guests we loved so much we had them on twice, which guests were almost too attractive to interview, which interviews left us speechless, an...

Send us Fan Mail The gang's all here, and we've got a lot to catch up on! We get into free porn in all-inclusive resorts in Mexico, a San Diego beach house getaway, how a belligerent SantaCon attendee ended up on Erin's families doorstep, and the good karma that is giving us hope in humanity. This is our last official #BasicBitch of 2021, and we thank you for spending this difficult...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes the stars align and we interview someone we were meant to be friends with! Erica Eng was born and raised in   Oakland, California , and sat down with us to talk about her short film, Americanized , a story about growing up in Oakland's hip-hop culture, playing basketball, and struggling with her Chinese-American identity. She shares what it was like to direct her re...

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...