Bitch Talk Podcast

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). As we're preparing to participate in Sundance 2021 virtually, we thought it'd be a good time to take you back to our  first time at Sundance in 2019. This was recorded after our second full day of round the...

Send us Fan Mail Hey Bitch Talkers! We're headed (virtually) to Sundance 2021!! Thought we would officially share the good news. We're excited to be invited back for our third year in a row and to bring you some familiar and not so familiar voices!  Before we get into Sundance 2021, let's head back to Sundance 2020 when Erin and our honorary bitch, John Wildman (from our Festival Da...

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). We're headed back to Park City for a Sundance Film Festival 2020 conversation with director Ramona Diaz and musician Ruby Ibarra from the documentary A Thousand Cuts. A Thousand Cuts is an important and timely...

Send us Fan Mail Our first episode of the year features our new friend of the show, director Melissa Haizlip. Her film, Mr. Soul, features her uncle, Ellis Haizlip - a queer, Black, television producer and host of the first known Black variety show called Soul out of New York City.  We talk with Melissa in depth about the importance of the show Soul that ran from 1968 - 1973 on PBS stations across...

Send us Fan Mail Somehow we have made it to the end of 2020. This year's been too real and the year that can't stop/won't stop decided to come at us hard during the holidays. In our last Basic Bitch of 2020, we talk about co-host Angela's father, Tony Tabora, who passed away unexpectedly a couple of weeks after Thanksgiving.  Tony was a surprise guest on our 500th episode event...

Send us Fan Mail As they say, third time is a charm and we're so happy to bring y'all our last interview of 2020 with Bill and Turner Ross. We met the fellas earlier in the year at the Sundance Film Festival  and they haven't been able to get rid of us since. We catch up with the Ross brothers to see how the rest of their pandemic year has gone, if they're starting any new proj...

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). We've hand picked this episode to balance out this weeks other episode with Brianna Noble from Mulatto Meadows .   The Rider is a beautiful, American, cowboy story with so much compassion and gorgeous cinematog...

Send us Fan Mail We had the good fortune to welcome one of the most noteworthy person of 2020, East Bay native, Brianna Noble.  Brianna is the owner of Mulatto Meadows which is located in Martinez and also heads the non-profit Humble that uses horses to as a medium to inspire positive futures.  We talk with Brianna about her inspiration to get on her horse, Dapper Dan, back in May and ride during...

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). We've hand picked this episode to compliment our recent interview with the star of the film Jimmie Fails .  We've got ALL.THE.FEELS. for the movie The Last Black Man In San Francisco . Bitch Talk could not...

Send us Fan Mail The three amigos are back at what they do best - Basic Bitching.  Will Ange finally get on a dating app? What's it like doing shrooms for the first time?  Ange's  ongoing knee injury, how to handle taking care of aging parents, and more. We hope you all enjoy us getting back to basics. Thanks for listening! Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, and thank you for wearin...

Send us Fan Mail We last spoke with Jimmie Fails at the red carpet premiere of The Last Black Man in San Francisco , and have been wanting him back on the show ever since! No topic is off the table as we Basic Bitch with him about his quick rise to fame, his favorite places in San Francisco, how he celebrated his best birthday ever (while social distancing during a pandemic!), his music career, an...

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). Like many of you, we've been obsessively watching The Queen's Gambit , so we thought it would be fitting to bring back this interview with Anya Taylor-Joy from March of 2018. In this episode, Ange (Captain...

Send us Fan Mail Hey there! We're giving you some basic bitching straight from the mountains. Captain Party and Erin have hunkered down to hibernate, eat, drink, and exhale.  Let's get into The Queen's Gambit (streaming on Netflix), hot tubbing, Captain Party's knee injury update, fart rooms, and more.  Hope you all are doing well and got some necessary down time over the holid...

Send us Fan Mail In our first (and not last!) interview with SF comedian Arthur Gaus,  we chat about his 20- year comedy career, having a daughter right after the Covid lockdown started, recording his first comedy album right before shelter in place, juke boxes, dive bars, and more.  Arthur is a true blue San Franciscan and we were incredibly giddy to talk to him about the ever changing landscape...

Send us Fan Mail It's Thanksgiving week (whatever that means to you) and we're Basic Bitching about how 2020 keeps being 2020. We get into wreath making, East Bay BBQ, super quarantining , cancelling Rick(y) Schroeder, and how one of us is trying to pop their dislocated knee back in to place (WTF!?) We couldn't make this shit up. Enjoy. Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, thank...

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). With the holiday season right around the corner, we figured it was the perfect time to revisit one of our most fun interviews! Ike Barinholz 's new film,  The Oath , is about a family with different political be...

Send us Fan Mail Thanks to the work of MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini, we have further evidence that artificial intelligence programs (that are used in advertising, hiring, policing, etc) are as oppressive as the people that create them. We sat down with Shalini Kantayya, director of the documentary Coded Bias, which follows Joy on her quest for civil rights by creating the Algorithmic Justice Leag...

Send us Fan Mail We had such a great time welcoming back to the show,  Alexis Pence and new friend of the show, Hunter Pence!  The last time Alexis was on and in studio was waaaaaay back in late 2015 right before she and her (now husband) Hunter Pence got engaged.  We talk to the couple about how 2020 has treated them, Hunter's retirement from the SF Giants, their favorite fall holiday, trave...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Flash Back Friday! With 400+ episodes, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with our new listeners (and maybe new to our regular listeners). Captain Party sits down with show-runner and members of the cast of  Tales of the City . Based on a novel by Armistead Maupin , this miniseries is a revival of a show that centers around LGBTQ residents of an iconic...

Send us Fan Mail What's up y'all? Tired from the election trauma/elation yet? We sat down and decompressed about it all in this episode as well as caught up on some other topics including the show PEN15. Have you seen it? If you haven't, holy crap you should.....like NOW. It's on Hulu. If you don't have Hulu ask your friend/Mom/co-worker for their login asap. And in terms...

Send us Fan Mail Chef Tanya Holland of Brown Sugar Kitchen  and Top Chef fame is owning 2020. Through a pandemic causing financial unrest for (not only) her business but the entire hospitality business at large, a call for social justice and police reform, and a political year fraught with ups and downs -  Chef Holland has taken this time to expand her brand footprint to TV, a new Oakland cafe, +...

Send us Fan Mail We hope you're all hanging in there. We are trying to stay hopeful and patient in the wake of the election, but if you'd like an escape from the anxiety, we suggest checking out Charm City Kings , streaming now on HBO Max. Not only is it co-written by one of our favorite past guests, Barry Jenkins ,  but it's an entertaining film that will bring you all the feels. I...

Send us Fan Mail We're so grateful to be Bitch Talking with Dale Ho, Director of the ACLU 's Voting Rights Project , just in time for the election! We follow up on the status of his cases across the country, how he's preparing for potential problems on election day, and resources for people who want to know their rights as a voter. He also shares a new case he's arguing in the...

Send us Fan Mail Election day is Tuesday November 3rd! If you haven't already voted, be sure to drop off your ballot at the nearest dropbox, or in person at your polling place. Click here for more information. Welcome to Flash Back Friday! With 400+ episodes, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with our new listeners (and maybe new to our regular listeners). Friend of the show...

Send us Fan Mail Bad Hair may be one of the best horror films of our time.  Like, seriously.  Erin got to see the film at Bitch Talk's first night at the Sundance Film Festival. It was the first public screening of the film and it was packed with folks like Lena Waithe. It was bonkers.  Why is this one of our new favorite horror films?  Justin Simien wrote/directed Laverne Cox  New Jack Swing...