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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...

Send us Fan Mail Did y'all watch the final episode of Blindspotting on Starz last night?! If you did - CAN WE TALK? If you didn't, hurry up already. Our guest in this episode, Benjamin Earl Turner plays the loveable next door neighbor parolee Earl and we were so excited to welcome him to Bitch Talk. Not only is Benjamin a talented actor, he's a musician, and spoken word artist and m...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Flash Back Friday! With 500+ episodes, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with our new listeners (and maybe new to our regular listeners). In honor of the season finale of Blindspotting (this Sunday 8/8 on STARZ), we're sharing an interview we did with the co-creator, showrunner, actor (and East Bay native!) - Rafael Casal ! We got to catch up with...

Send us Fan Mail In honor of the season finale of the Blindspotting spinoff (airing this Sunday, August 8th on Starz), we're bringing you a series of interviews with some of out favorite cast members! Candance Nicholas-Lippman plays Janelle, the best friend everyone needs in their lives. And Candace, in real life, is no different! We get into how she manifested her role in this show, the impo...

Send us Fan Mail We are very excited to welcome the very talented Sonia Kennebeck back to the show to talk about her film Enemies of the State.  It's the true story of Matt DeHart who believes that he is being targeted by the U.S. government for having confidential documents alleging misconduct by the CIA. The film takes you on the roller coaster ride that Matt and his parents rode as well as...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Flash Back Friday! With 500+ 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 flashing back to January of this year when we interviewed director Melissa Haizlip from the film, Mr. Soul . This documentary features her uncle, Ellis Haizlip - a queer, Black, television produc...

Send us Fan Mail Debra Chasnoff was an Oscar-winning documentarian/activist whose films helped educate people on everything from LGBTQ rights, to nuclear weapons, and affordable housing. So it's no surprise that when she found out she had stage 4 breast cancer, she decided to turn the camera on herself to teach us one final lesson - what it means to truly live. On its surface, the documentary...

Send us Fan Mail We had a whirlwind afternoon of recordings which included this Basic Bitch for your asses. All of us bitches have been out in the wild - Ange riding around Disneyland in a wheelchair, Char out and about on a last minute California Mission's tour with her family, and Erin just got back from Texas  talking about some of her favorite moments and food, of course. Plus, we end on...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Flash Back Friday! With 500+ episodes, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with our new listeners (and maybe new to our regular listeners). On the heels of our interview with Stephen Satterfield about his new Netflix docu-series High on the Hog , we wanted to bring back our first interview with him from 2018 that went so well, we had to break it up into...

Send us Fan Mail This is our third time having chef/sommelier/writer Stephen Satterfield on the show, and the conversations just keep getting better! He's joining us to talk about his new Netflix series High on the Hog , a four part docu-series that explores how African American cuisine transformed America. We get into how he ended up hosting the show, his emotional journey in Africa, and the...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our Basic Bitch, travel edition! Erin is on location in Austin, Texas, where she discusses good food, potential threesomes, and her constraint in the face of aggressive conservatives (it's called maturing, folks). We get into the current political climate in Texas (#FuckGregAbbott), and how karaoke may be the key to uniting the country. And then Ange shares her tri...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Flash Back Friday! With 500+ episodes, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with our new listeners (and maybe new to our regular listeners). In honor of the newly released Anthony Bourdain documentary, Roadrunner , we're celebrating the film's director, Academy Award winner Morgan Neville , who we had on the show back in 2018 for the Mr. Rogers...

Send us Fan Mail It's been a long three years without Anthony Bourdain, but his impact on our lives is still strongly felt. So we were super excited to watch Roadrunner , the documentary that chronicles his life, directed by the one and only Morgan Neville (spoiler alert: we LOVED it). In this episode, you'll get our thoughts on the film, and then hear some highlights from our epic SF Bo...

Send us Fan Mail Erin, Ange, and Producer Char are back at it Zoom-style, recapping more on Erin and Ange's secret film project up to Portland, sharing misunderstandings with a doctor, recapping what they did over the 4th of July weekend, and of course, their moments of pleasure.  -- Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, AAPI Lives Matter, and thank you for getting vaxxed. -- Buy us a  cup...