Bitch Talk Podcast

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...

Send us Fan Mail Oooooo weeeee! We get back to basics in this Basic Bitch with Captain Party, Producer Char, and Erin! We haven't been able to catch our breath and just have a basic bitch in a minute. It's been a really strong month of interviews with our heroes in  entertainment, food, politics, and poetry. On this episode we get to talk about the sneeze that made us laugh so hard we cr...

Send us Fan Mail You never know what to expect from a conversation with Rafael Casal, you just buckle up and enjoy the ride!  We get into his childhood in Berkeley, what sparked his love for poetry , battling Swine Flu at the age of 23, colonialism, politics, and the importance of journaling.  He dives into why he shouldn't have to choose between being an actor, writer, and musician, and why...

Send us Fan Mail Thea Matthews is a San Francisco native and poet. She's a kind and graceful spirit who has her first book coming out in June titled Unearth [The Flowers] . We chat with Thea about growing up in the City's Excelsior neighborhood, her path to poetry, what keeps her in SF, and finding the beauty during the pandemic. This was our first time speaking with Thea and we hope to...

Send us Fan Mail It's been a couple of years since we've had Director and San Francisco native H.P. Mendoza on our show. We catch up with him about his (almost) year living in Tokyo, what it's like to come back to the states during a pandemic,  Japanese chicken nuggets, CAAMfest , how he won the internet early during SIP, and his legendary Mission Arcade parties.  It's always a...

Send us Fan Mail This is our third time having Daveed Diggs on the show (first for Blindspotting , and then at an event in support of Moms 4 Housing at the Roxy theatre in SF), but our first time getting to really know him and just shoot the shit. To say this Basic Bitch was fun is the understatement of the year! He digs into his childhood, what it felt like to swim in his own pool for the first t...

Send us Fan Mail We're continuing our celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with friend of the show, filmmaker/butcher/jerky girl Anica Wu. She describes her life as a young immigrant from Hong Kong, the origin of her name, and what inspired her to become a butcher and start her own jerky company.  Anica gives us the skinny on what it's like to be (one of) the only women i...

Send us Fan Mail We're continuing the celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with Oakland native Chef Tu David Phu. We had Tu on the show back in December of 2019 for the first time and really connected with his story and his energy. In this episode we talk about the effects on the restaurant industry caused by the pandemic, realities of Xenophobia,  something called the "P...

Send us Fan Mail Being confined in an enclosed space with the same people and no physical contact with the outside world.  Sound familiar?  It's also the premise of the Hulu Documentary Spaceship Earth , which explores the controversial   Biosphere 2 , an experiment started in 1991 to create a self-sustaining ecosystem to both advance space exploration, and to support life in the event that t...

Send us Fan Mail We're headed back to the Sundance Film Festival to hear Erin and The Daily Buzz co-host John Wildman talk with Director Laurent Bouzereau and Producer Natasha Gregson Wagner (Natalie Woods daughter) about their HBO documentary Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind .  It was a treat to speak with the daughter of old Hollywood royalty and to hear her talk about the process of putti...

Send us Fan Mail We're kicking off Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with a bang!  Dino-Ray Ramos, Associate Editor at Deadline , has been on the show a handful of times, but none more appropriate than now considering he was just awarded one of the A100's Most Impactful Asians of 2020 (with the likes of Awkwafina and The Rock?!?). So, naturally, we start off the interview discussing...

Send us Fan Mail Friend of the show Steph Walton is running for Oakland City Council and we couldn't be happier that she's running for elected office. Steph is a former podcaster and comes with a lengthy background in radio sales - so she knows how to give good conversation.   We talk with Steph about what sparked her interest in running for local office, the town of Oakland, the homeles...

Send us Fan Mail It's week 5 of shelter-in-place, and there's a lot going on! We recorded this right after our interview with Daveed Diggs which comes out May 15th (spoiler alert: HE'S THE BEST). We discuss behind the scenes info on our interview with Daveed, the concept of time during a pandemic, the fun of driving on an empty highway (who knew a Prius can go 90mph?), and biologica...

Send us Fan Mail It's been more than four years since comedian Rachel McDowell has been on the podcast and we couldn't wait to catch up with her. We talk about how politics have changed since we recorded last, what's it like to be a comedian down in L.A., how does the voice over scene work, and can we like Louis C.K. again?  Plug your headphones in and let's do this.  For more...