Bitch Talk Podcast

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...

Send us Fan Mail Whoa. We made it to episode 501!  Thanks to the listeners, followers, family, and friends who made our 500th virtual episode a success!  Shout out to our special guests - Frangela, Frankie Quinones, Ruby Ibarra, Aireene Espiritu, Marina Stankov-Hodge, Laura Kirkeby, and Tony Tabora for showing out and to the incredible all women production team who brought the show together - vide...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our 500th episode! We're thrilled to celebrate the occasion with Frances Callier and Angela V. Shelton, aka comedy duo FRANGELA . We get into the unsettling events of this year, the upcoming election , and our theories on the future of our country. We were dealing with heavy topics, but these ladies have a way of channeling our anger and anxiety into laughter, some...

Send us Fan Mail We are days away from our virtual 500 episode event! Did you get your tickets yet?! We're doing a little bonus bitching in this episode - saying hi, recounting our week, and reminding y'all to get your tickets to our extra FUN 500th virtual event this Wednesday, October 21! Join us plus special guests comedian Frankie Quinones, comedy duo Frangela, hip-hop artist/activis...

Send us Fan Mail Happy 400th episode to us! We've got Producer Char, Erin, and Captain Party back in the studio and on the mic. This is an extended Basic Bitch as we reminisce over the interviews and opportunities we've been given since episode 300. We end the celebration with Ange's thoughts on the erotic Hump Film Festival , and trying Senorita Bread for the first time. Settle in...

Send us Fan Mail Let's head back to the summer of 2018 when we first met comedian, United Shades of America host, and Bay Area resident W. Kamau Bell. He said yes to an interview over Twitter and it was just in time for our 300th episode. It's one of our favorite interviews because after our 30 minutes was up with him, he asked us if we could go to 45 minutes. Why, yes of course we could...

Send us Fan Mail The gang all road tripped up to the magical land of Reno for our 200th episode. The good news is that all survived the weekend and even got some good pool time in. The better news is that Captain Party (Angela) recorded some late night gems deep in the casino right as the sun was coming up. Enjoy this throwback to a simpler time when we all could hang out up in Reno, by pools, and...

Send us Fan Mail We're throwin' it back to 2015 and our first official live event celebrating out 100th episode. Mark your calendars for Wednesday, October 21 for our 500th Zoom episode event! In this episode, we're live from the Hemlock Tavern (RIP) in San Francisco in 2015 with special guests comedian Reggie Steele, Broke-Ass Gourmet Gabi Moskowitz, Deadline editor Dino-Ray Ramos,...

Send us Fan Mail The gang gets together for a little Friday fun to catch up after dropping our 499th episode, and to fill everyone in on what we've got planned in the coming weeks--let's just say planning our 500th event has been peak 2020.  We also drop a few nuggets of info for our upcoming milestone episode event happening later in  the month,  so stay tuned for more announcements!  B...

Send us Fan Mail We all need to be as fired up as Julie Taymor right now! From the passing of RBG , to the upcoming election , this is the perfect moment for a biopic on Gloria Steinam 's life (based on Gloria's NY Times bestselling book, My Life on the Road ). We get into the power of this moment, how to channel our inner Gloria Steinam, the importance of travel, and why there is more t...

Send us Fan Mail We're taking you back to Sundance 2020 where we got to talk about the documentary Softie with the film's director, Sam Soko , and subjects Boniface Mwangi , and his wife Njeri Mwangi . Along with being a very powerful film about an underdog activist running for political office, it's also the first film from Kenya to ever premiere at Sundance! We get into the corrup...

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).  It's been a particularly hard week (month, year, etc). So we decided to go back to an episode that gave us a lot of laughs. We were honored to present a comedy show at Cobb's Comedy Club in San Francisco,...

Send us Fan Mail Much like its title, this is a movie that stays with you. On its surface, it's a film about a man coming home to his childhood neighborhood that he no longer recognizes. But in the context of a social uprising in support of black lives, this film is a cautionary tale. Director/producer/writer Merawi Gerima is here to make sure his community in DC not only has a voice, but doe...