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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...

Send us Fan Mail We've been fans of Joel McHale since way back in The Soup days, and this interview is a result of the connecting of the minds via Instagram (we've finally found a purpose for social media). This conversation ranges from how he entered this world (it had something to do with sperm and Rome), to the impact of him earning a Masters degree (or lack thereof). Let's be ho...

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 bringing you back to the Sundance Film Festival in 2020, when we spoke with director Sara Colangelo from the emotional film Worth . Worth follows a lawyer (played by Michael Keaton ) fighting for the...

Send us Fan Mail We're celebrating the Bentonville Film Festival with director/writer Mari Walker of the intense and beautiful film, See You Then . Simply put, this film follows two exes who reunite ten years later after an abrupt breakup, but the topics it covers are so much more than this! We loved seeing an interesting Asian woman lead, and in depth conversations regarding trans issues. Ho...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Bentonville Film Festival ! This time we're bringing you a fun conversation with director/writer Prashanth Kamalakanthan and producer Artemis Shaw from the film Have a Nice Life . This is a rode trip film involving a stoner musician, and an Indian housewife (played by Prashanth's mom!). We get into the importance of representation, the sweaty days on...

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). Homeroom follows the class of 2020 at Oakland High School as they work to make a change in the school to prison pipeline, and react to a global pandemic. We were honored to chat with one of the doc's main subjec...

Send us Fan Mail This is our first year covering the Bentonville Film Festival , and we're excited to bring you this conversation with filmmakers/brothers Brandon and Lance Kramer , of the documentary The First Step . This film follows tv host/author/political commentator Van Jones as he attempts to pass a criminal justice bill under the Trump administration. They discuss their connection to...

Send us Fan Mail It's been a minute since we Basic Bitched so we thought we jump on in!  Get ready for some behind the scenes of our 600th episode recording, how Ange's aka Captain Party knee surgery went, rando sighting of the San Francisco Giant's manager scooting his way around the City, + more.  Thanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 600 episode...

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). In this FBF, we're headed back to early 2021 to the Sundance Film Festival talking with  Emmy-winning director Lucy Walker about her film Bring Your Own Brigade . Lucy shares her journey digging into the complic...

Send us Fan Mail Director Abby Ginzberg is giving us life in episode 602 of the podcast. Abby is the director of the upcoming documentary Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth To Power and the film couldn't come at a better time.  Barbara Lee is a force to be reckon with - she was fighting for human rights as early as high school when she fought for herself and others, while working with the NAACP, to...

Send us Fan Mail Hello! You've reached episode 601!! In this episode, host Erin Lim talks with Respect director Liesl Tommy about this major motion picture that tells the traumatic younger years of the Queen of Soul - Aretha Franklin . Aretha's young life was fraught with death, rape, as well as controlling, toxic men. Director Liesel Tommy wanted to tell that part of Aretha's herst...

Send us Fan Mail The Bitch Talk 24 Hour Whirlwind 600th Episode Extravaganza!!! Coming all the way live from Top Chef's Nelson German's restaurant alaMar Kitchen and Bar in downtown Oakland AND from the season finale premiere of the Blindspotting TV show we are bringing you our 600th episode! The working title was "24 hour, whirlwind 600th episode extravaganza" if you wanted th...

Send us Fan Mail It's a wrap on season one of the Blindspotting tv show (you can watch the whole season right now on STARZ), and we're capping off our celebration with actor and singer, April Absynth ! We last spoke with her in May for her starring role in Lumpia with a Vengeance , and this time around she's playing a completely different character that we instantly fell in love wit...