Bitch Talk Podcast

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...

Send us Fan Mail We're so excited to have John Wildman and his wife Justina Walford join us from quarantine in Dallas, Texas. Aside from being filmmakers, film festival publicists, movie buffs, and activists, they own enough pets to start a petting zoo! You may recognize John's voice from some of our previous Sundance interviews, as he's been our co-host and honorary Bitch for the p...

Send us Fan Mail It's week four of sheltering-in-place, and  we've got a lot to talk about.  While Producer Char teased Erin and Ange by eating senorita bread from Starbread, Erin and Ange talk about ribs, how California has handled business during the pandemic, the film Parasite, and going down a late night Google rabbit hole finding out everything one needs to know about Academy Award...

Send us Fan Mail We first spoke with director Sandi Tan back in 2018 when she was in town to promote her documentary Shirkers . We had a very memorable (and boozy) time with Sandi and thought, in this time of shelter-in-place, we'd take a chance and invite her back on to the show. We had a great chat about what she's been up to, how this time in history is the "time of why not?&quot...

Send us Fan Mail Erin, Ange, and Producer Char chat with friend of the show Dayna Keyes, host of the podcast Radio Rehab .  She talks about the struggles of being sober during a pandemic, going to AA meetings online, and how she chooses which meetings to join (spoiler: pick the ones with the best accents!) We get into what someone eats when they don't know how to cook, and what it's like...

Send us Fan Mail We're giving you some basic bitching from the third week of coronavirus quarantine. Producer Char, Captain Party, and Erin get into epic Zoom parties,  perms,  surprise FaceTime calls, and more. Let's get down (virtually) and  have some laughs.  We hope you are well wherever you might be and staying home.  As mentioned on the show, please support your local small busines...

Send us Fan Mail 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 is hired to be a mole in a retirement community. What starts out as a funny spy movie, becomes the most heartfelt documentary that'll leave you in tears.  We'...

Send us Fan Mail We're Bitch Talkin' quarantine style with nurse/dancer/musician Marina Stankov-Hodge.  She discusses her experience as a nurse, how things have changed (and CONTINUE to change) throughout the course of this pandemic, the local government's response (or lack thereof), and how the unions are saving the day.  In these crazy times, she has a way of bringing a thoughtful...

Send us Fan Mail We're Basic Bitching with our friend down in LA, Richard "the Curse" Horne.  We discuss the series of events that led to his unfortunate nickname, his man crush on Chris Cuomo, and his experience in the front lines as the manager of a Los Angeles health food store.  He gives tips on how to make your shopping experience safer for everyone, and explains why working on...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we’re taking you back to Sundance with an interview with director Nicole Newnham and co-director/talent James Lebrecht from the documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution . This film chronicles a Woodstock-esque summer camp for disabled kids that becomes a foundation for the disability rights movement. We discuss James’ experience as both subject and director...

Send us Fan Mail Chloe Jackman is one bad ass photographer. Bitch Talk's founder Erin has known Chloe for nearly a decade and has witnessed how she took her passion and made it in to a full-time career.  Erin spoke with Chloe in late 2019 ( after the stellar photo shoot she led for Bitch Talk's brand new website  ) about the world of photography, how she started, who her mentors are, and...

Send us Fan Mail Your bitches are Basic Bitching all the way from their respective homes via Squadcast . (It's basically Zoom for podcasters. )  All three of us have basically been SIP for the last couple of weeks and have a ton to catch up on. Costco shopping , virtual happy hours with friends and family, plane fares for hella cheap for travel later this year, who we think is winning the int...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we welcome Diana Weymar from the Tiny Pricks Project ,  the largest textile Trump protest ever .  She discusses the first piece she created for the project, how it has built a sense of community, and how it became the most peaceful way to deal with the stress that the idiot in chief has brought upon our country.  We also talked about the importance of having material re...