Bitch Talk Podcast

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...

Send us Fan Mail Well, hello there.  We've got Captain Party, Producer Char, and Erin basic bitching again from quarantine.  The gang catches up and talks about that awesome 48Hills feature we got back in May by journalist and friend of the show Josh Rotter.  We also get into the topic of hearing from old friends discussing how the BLM uprising  is impacting our old relationships and how the...

Send us Fan Mail Your girls are basic bitching about New Kids On The Block, "Crawl in Place" pub crawl, seeing family in person after months in SIP, and more...  It's been a minute since the three of us have had a basic bitch session.  We got to catch up on  Ange's visitor from L.A.(Richard "The Curse")  and their "Crawl in Place" pub crawl, Char getting out...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to part 2 of our conversation with nurse/dancer/musician/activist Marina Stankov-Hodge. We originally did not plan on having a 2 part episode, but our "post" conversation talk provided to be so good, we decided to share it anyway! We talk about Black Trans deaths, the phobia in Black culture with the queer community, and the problem with hypermasculinity . We dis...

Send us Fan Mail This is nurse/dancer/musician/activist Marina Stankov-Hodge's third time joining us on Bitch Talk! She's one of our favorite guests, and her episodes reflect her uniqueness and diversity as a person. Her first episode centered around her origin story leading up to becoming a nurse and her work in Brazil (which ends with an original song performance!), and her second epis...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Part 2 of our international Basic Bitch with Anna Mangelsdorf, an artist in Germany, and Lizi Nachum, a teacher in Israel. We dive deeper into the topic of racism, and Lizi shares a traumatizing story that explains why she will NEVER return to the US. We discuss wether or not the US is still considered a leading country in the world, and wether that's a good thing...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our international Basic Bitch with Anna Mangelsdorf, an artist in Germany, and Lizi Nachum, a teacher in Israel. With all of the issues going on in our country, it's easy to be stuck inside our bubbles. We wanted to get some different perspectives from people just like us, only on the other side of the world. We discuss the difference in our country's response...

Send us Fan Mail Industrial designer Ti Chang had an idea. She wanted to change the way women experienced self-pleasure. In 2008, Ti took all of her savings and her idea  of designer/wearable vibrators to China for production -- at that time the idea was called Incoqnito.  While she was shopping her product around, she  met entrepreneur Michael Topolovac who owned CRAVE and acquired Ti's comp...

Send us Fan Mail We're taking you back to Sundance 2020 with a conversation about Be Water , a documentary on the life of Bruce Lee . Director Bao Nguyen and producer Julia Nottingham discuss Bruce Lee's experiences in San Francisco, sifting through the incredible amounts of archival footage, and America's treatment of Asians. This is a wonderful documentary that digs deeper into th...

Send us Fan Mail We are in a collective grief around the world and wanted to chat with a couple of our friends of the show - Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist Lindsay Repko and Director of Programming for Reimagine End of Life, Dara Kosberg.  We've had an unbelievable ride of guests during SIP but we wanted to take a pause and address the collective loss and grief the world is going through righ...

Send us Fan Mail Nisha Ganatra has been an advocate for women in the entertainment industry from the jump. Her feature debut Chutney Popcorn received the Reframe Stamp of approval, and she's currently working with NBC on Female Forward , a female director mentorship program. We discuss the difficulties of hiring a female crew, why we need allies, and the importance of sharing stories about wo...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to part 2 of our conversation with the amazing Evelyn Obamos, Filmmaker & Creator Strategy Operations Manager at Pinterest.   One of the upsides to recording from home is the potential for surprise guests!  As a Bitch Talk Podcast first, Evelyn's boyfriend, Jeremiah, joins the conversation to discuss how they met at Pinterest , and what makes their relationship un...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to part 1 of our 2 part interview with  our dear friend of the show Evelyn Obamos! In this first episode, she shares her most recent adventures filming a trip to the Philippines with hip-hop rising star Ruby Ibarra , meeting the CEO of Rappler (the NPR of the Philippines) and all around badass, Maria Ressa , living in a shipping container with her family in Guam, and her a...