Bitch Talk Podcast

Send us Fan Mail We're taking you back to Sundance 2020 where we chatted with Michael Almereyda, director of the biographical drama, Tesla . This film chronicles the life of a young Nikola Tesla , through the eyes of Anne Morgan (the daughter of J.P. Morgan ). He gets into how the screenplay evolved through the years, why now is the perfect time for this film to come out, what it was like wor...

Send us Fan Mail What's up listeners?! How you hangin'? We got on a Zoom and chatted about WAP, the weird Northern California weather (is the apocalypse near?),  Kamala Harris, Reimagine, the Clit, and more in this Basic Bitch.   We hope you're well and taking care of yourself.  Now let's get into it and giggle. Be well, stay safe, and thank you for wearing a mask . -- Buy us a...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Flash Back Friday! We're taking you back to July of 2018 when we interviewed director Kimberly Reed of the documentary Dark Money. With arguably the most important election of our lifetime looming in the near future, this topic remains relevant AF.  FOLLOW THE MONEY. A term coined by the film All The President's Men back in 1976 and that has even more weight n...

Send us Fan Mail The  new A24 film, Boys State is physically jarring and hopeful all at once.  It's a story of youth, how teenage boys talk about politics, how most of these boys are influenced by their parents politics, future change makers, and speaking from the heart.  It's a glimpse into our collective future, and as hard as it is to hear some of the boys talk about politics that are...

Send us Fan Mail We're starting off the week with some Basic Bitching. We're still waiting for Uncle Joe (Biden) to pick his Vice Presidential candidate, stoked on the NRA lawsuit that the NY City Attorney General brought against the organization, the Warner Brothers film Judas and the Black Messiah , the show and podcast Dirty John, and more. Plus, did you know you can buy us a cup of c...

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 week we're taking you back to CAAMFEST 2018 , where we moderated the " Nothing on US: Pinays Rising " Q&A with director/MC Ruby Ibarra , co-director Evelyn Obamos, spoken word artist Faith San...

Send us Fan Mail We return 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 documentary about the trials and tribulations of Maria Ressa , prominent journalist and founder of Rappler , the top online news site in the Philippines. Her criticism of the govern...

Send us Fan Mail Hello there! In our last Basic, we neglected to talk about all the news that happened while Erin was road trippin' and the rest of the team took some time off. In this episode, we catch up on AOC's thoughtful retort to Rep. Yoho non-apology (about calling her a fucking bitch!) on the House Floor, John Lewis's death, Emmy nominations, Biden's VP decision - (beca...

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 bringing you back to Sundance , to an interview with Lulu Wang , the writer and director of one of our favorite films of the festival,  The Farewell .  We discuss being Chinese-American, showing another si...

Send us Fan Mail Erin breaks down her California road trip, while Ange and Char discuss the highs and lows of life in quarantine. We end it with our thoughts on the return of baseball (for better or worse) and an exciting turn for women in sports! Be well, stay safe, and thank you for wearing a mask . Subscribe to our NEW channel on  YouTube  for behind the scenes footage! Rate and review us where...

Send us Fan Mail We're headed back to the Sundance Film Festival to share our interview with the filmmakers of the upcoming documentary The Fight , Elyese Steinberg and Eli B. Despres, and featured ACLU Voting Rights attorney (and Bay Area native!), Dale Ho. In this interview, we talk with the filmmakers about their incredible access to the ACLU attorneys and their history making cases, how t...

Send us Fan Mail One of the highlights of Sundance 2020 was this chat with Ron Howard , director of the documentary, Rebuilding Paradise . This is a powerful documentary about the fires that raged across the Northern California town of Paradise, California in 2018. As residents of the Bay Area who lived through the effects of this tragedy, we were especially moved by this film. Ron discusses how h...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Sundance Film Festival 2020, where we were thrilled to be part of the red carpet event for the Go-Go's self titled documentary . We got to speak with all the ladies in the band, as well as the director, Alison Ellwood. We discuss why this was the right time to tell their story, the secret behind the band's staying power, and of course, we get a little...

Send us Fan Mail The documentary The Fight  -  ( about  a scrappy team of heroic ACLU lawyers in an electrifying battle over abortion rights, immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights and voting rights) comes out later this month.  We got to see the film for our initial interview at the Sundance Film Festival with filmmakers Elyse Steinberg, Eli Despres, and ACLU lawyer Dale Ho - and as we'd like to say...

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 bringing you back to March of this year (which may as well have been a lifetime ago), with one of our favorite recurring guests, W. Kamau Bell . He was gracious enough to hop on the phone with us  during t...

Send us Fan Mail We're rewinding back to the January 2020 Sundance Film Festival chatting with the director of We Are Freestyle Love Supreme , Andrew Fried. The film is a time capsule featuring the FLS members in the summer of 2005 making their debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Andrew followed the group who comprised of Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, Christopher Jackson, Anthony Venez...

Send us Fan Mail We're back in studio - socially distancing of course, talking about how to put together a virtual baby shower, Hamilton on Disney+,  postponing a wedding,  the possibility of a new president, and the new game called "porno or labor". Thanks for listening and hope you get a giggle out of this. ---- Be well, stay safe, and thank you for wearing a mask . Subscribe to o...

Send us Fan Mail We're starting a new series called Flash Back Friday's because we have a lot of content we want to share with our new listeners ( and maybe new to our regular listeners.) In honor of National Dive Bar Day , this week's Flash Back Friday is brought to you from a dive bar in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco, recorded in December of 2017. It represents the...

Send us Fan Mail We've been wanting Bill and Turner Ross, directors of Bloody Nose Empty Pockets , back on the show since we met them at Sundance earlier this year. It was  100% worth the wait! If you're missing your favorite watering hole, this film is the cure for you. We "dive" into what makes dive bars so special, how they came up with the title, and why they decided to ope...

Send us Fan Mail Erin and fellow Festival Daily Buzz co-host John Wildman speak with Mucho Mucho Amor directors Cristina Costantini and Kareem Tabsch. Back at this years Sundance Film Festival we got to speak with the directors of the Netflix film Mucho Mucho Amor which documents the life of legendary psychic Walter Mercado. Erin and fellow Festival Daily Buzz co-host John Wildman were delighted t...

Send us Fan Mail Flashing back to our July 2018 conversation with Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal about their film Blindspotting.  Thanks to the brilliant mind of our Producer Char, we're flashing back to our July 2018 conversation with Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal when they were promoting their new film Blindspotting. This conversation is hella timely as we talk about police killings, trauma...

Send us Fan Mail Y'all are so lucky. You haven't seen the film Bloody Nose Empty Pockets - yet. It was one of our favorite movies at this years Sundance Film Festival. We fe lt seen, if you will, when we watched this movie. Not so much in the women of color, gonna change the world kinda seen, but dive bar loving ladies who would rather pony up to a spot named Dave's vs. a place call...

Send us Fan Mail We're basic bitching with guest Kimberly Mangarin, a program supervisor for community based programs that deal with under-served children and families. We get into the Defund the Police movement, and Oakland Unified School District's vote to replace the police with mental health workers. Kim shares her thoughts on why social workers are better equipped to deal with situa...

Send us Fan Mail We're starting a new series called Flash Back Friday's because we have a lot of content we want to share with our new listeners ( and maybe new to our regular listeners.) We're starting with Academy Award winning director Barry Jenkins in 2016 since we just mentioned him on episode 469.  2016 Show Notes: Bitch Talk is pleased to have director Barry Jenkins join the...

Send us Fan Mail The gang is back in studio (social distancing of course!) and basic bitching. We got lots to talk about including Juneteenth , Ruby Ibarra , the docs LA 92 and Untouchable , When They See Us, and Disclosure , strip clubs (EWWWWW!), and secret spots that are open right now in SF without a crowd (SHHHH). We even get into the Gary Chambers, Jr. speech in front of the Baton Rouge scho...