Bitch Talk Podcast

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...

Send us Fan Mail We got on the mics right after a pretty full day of filming for our upcoming 500th episode. We're a little tired, sun drunk, and maybe even a little boozy - but we get into talking about the passing of one of our favorite supreme's, RBG, Ange's conversation with her dad about what and who DoorDash is (wtf is a dash?!), taking care of our aging parents, dirty Haight...

Send us Fan Mail Chef Pierre Thiam is a gift to the food industry and he is working hard to give farmers in West Africa a platform and pathway to the food that they grow. What a treat it was for us to talk with the chef, cookbook author, and social justice activist. We had a wonderful conversation about his story — moving from the Senegalese capital city Dakar to New York City. We also chat about...

Send us Fan Mail It may have been the weirdest week of our lives. Some thought the apocalypse was upon us. It wasn't as if the smoke and the record heat was enough, but then throw in a day that never saw the sun - it got funky, folks.  We caught up to talk about the day that was orange, plus a bunch of other topics like, who's your celebrity #1, walking in on your parents having sex more...

Send us Fan Mail We're flashing back to 2018 and the 38th annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival with the director of the documentary Satan & Adam V. Scott Balcerek and one of the subjects Adam Gussow.  (If it sounds like Erin interviewed them alone, your ears are right. Captain Party and Producer Char were out there living their best lives travelling around California for a bit.)  Sat...

Send us Fan Mail We had so much fun chatting with comedian Nicole Tersigni, author of " Men to Avoid in Art and Life ". She explains how a joke that started as a twitter thread became a book in just a year's time, and how she came up with the different types of men to avoid (the mansplainer , the concern troll, the comedian, the sexpert, and the patronizer). We discuss men's su...

Send us Fan Mail It's time for another basic bitch! We discuss the pros and cons of being trapped on an island in the middle of a pandemic (shout out to friend of the show, Stephanie, who's currently trapped in New Caledonia ), and our thoughts on San Francisco's annual concert, Outside Lands, going virtual this year with Inside Lands . Finally, we come up with an idea for a new mus...

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). We're taking you back to Sundance where we spoke with director Maite Alberdi, of  The Mole Agent . This was one of our favorite films of  Sundance ! Based in Chile, this documentary is about a man in his 80s who...

Send us Fan Mail Lingua Franca is a hauntingly beautiful film that will (hopefully) stay with you long after the credits start to roll. A conversation with the film's writer/director/producer/editor/star, Isabel Sandoval , proved to be just as satisfying! We discuss the evolution of the script after the 2016 election, the importance of marginalized artists lifting each other up, what makes th...

Send us Fan Mail Ange, aka Captain Party, had the chance to go glamping with her friend and twin girls up in the Mendocino redwoods. During our catch-up, Ange's story was a good reminder for our team that even though we love the children in our lives, we also love our freedom and taking a nap anytime we want to is pretty spectacular.  We also get in to our upcoming 500th episode event that&ap...

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). This time we're taking you to April 2019, when Ange sits down with 80s icon Emilio Estevez. His film, The Public , takes place in a public library in Cincinnati, Ohio. With the state of our public services ( suc...

Send us Fan Mail Friend of the show (and IRL) Kimi Moon recently Zoomed with us to talk about starting a new career during the COVID pandemic. Kimi opened up about her personal trauma as a young person and after years of self medicating, not talking about the violence she endured, and pursuing dreams that weren't necessarily hers - she listened to the Universe and started the journey to get i...

Send us Fan Mail Well, 2020 can't be anymore 2020 without the onslaught of California wildfires.  Your Bitch Talk bitches talk about how we've been impacted by the hundreds of fires burning up the state and how a couple of our favorite documentary filmmakers were a part of the Democratic National Convention.  Let's do some Basic Bitching and have a giggle - with an adult beverage ma...

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). We chose this episode because it's timely for a couple of reasons. The biggest election of our lifetime is just around the corner, and our future next president is most likely going to nominate AT LEAST one new...