Bitch Talk Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Bitch Talk had such a great time speaking with writer, director, and actor Paul Dano about his new film Wildlife . He's a thoughtful and sentimental artist who has taken his first stab at directing Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan after adapting the screenplay from Richard Ford's novel of the same name. Take a listen and see why Paul Dano is one of our favorite intervi...

Send us Fan Mail Ike's new film, The Oath , is about a family with different political beliefs trying to survive Thanksgiving dinner. Ange and Ike discuss staying informed yet sane in the age of 24-hour-news, and why social commentary and laughter go hand-in-hand. With a cast including Tiffany Haddish and John Cho, this movie is full of twists, but expect to feel tension, stress, and laugh ou...

Send us Fan Mail Bitch Talk hosts Erin and Ange were invited to moderate a panel at the Mill Valley Film Festival's Mind The Gap summit discussing women in film and technology and we're giving you exclusive access to the conversation. The topic of the panel was Art as Activism and they were joined by some heaving hitting women. Activist/singer Holly Near , co-director of Netflix's R...

Send us Fan Mail Happy October Bitches! We're live at the monthly That's What She Said event in the Fillmore district of San Francisco. This month we got to chat with featured speaker, Lyzz Schwegler from the Sister District Project  whose motto is " you can sleep after election day ." Listen in and take note y'all, we may only have 30+ days until the mid-terms in the U.S....

Send us Fan Mail The whole gang is back together in studio for an overdue Basic Bitch session. Hear about Erin's vacay to Hawaii, Char's work trip to Los Angeles, and what recent sporting event got Ange a little emotional about. Plus let's talk about what did and didn't happen at the Emmy's and what next big event Erin and Ange will be hosting in October. Download NOW. Vis...

Send us Fan Mail Breakdancer, nurse, world traveller, singer songwriter, doula, Fulbright Scholar...we could go on, but you get the point.  She's a BADASS. Ange sits down with longtime friend, Marina Stankov-Hodge, as she discusses growing up mixed race, how she ended up living in the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro, her recent experience in a 10 day Vipassana Meditation, and EVERYTHING in b...

Send us Fan Mail Another one of our favorite SF dive bars is closing on October 6. The Hemlock Tavern is near and dear to our hearts at Bitch Talk. Not only have we spent many a night drinking and listening to local, live music in the musty back room, we also celebrated our 100th episode (200 episodes ago?!?) with a live event in said musty room. We thought we'd honor the place with travel wr...

Send us Fan Mail Here we are, y'all. Five years and 300 episodes later. So happy and humbled to bring you this major milestone episode featuring comedian, journalist, father, activist, author, podcaster, and Bay Area resident  W. Kamau Bell . We sat down with Kamau in July for our scheduled 30 minutes, and while recording, he changed it up and gave us 45 minutes. We realize it's a longer...

Send us Fan Mail In this Episode, Erin is at Closing Night of the 38th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. She sits down with Director Sam Pollard to talk about his film, Sammy Davis, Jr. I've Got To Be Me. For more on the film, visit their website.   Visit our website! www.bitchtalkpodcast.com Follow us on Instagram , Facebook , and Twitter...   Support the show Thanks for listening and for...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 298 is all about your basic bitches. Sit down, put your feet up, give yourself a good pour of brown liquor and sit in with us as we catch up on life. We're also so close to our 300th episode, we just want to say thank you for listening in every week to our interviews, adventures, and basic bitch talk. Without an audience we wouldn't be here.  If you can't ma...

Send us Fan Mail Talk about some bad bitches! Ange sits down with director/writer Crystal Moselle and the cast of Skate Kitchen , a film that centers around a New York based crew of female skaters, played by the real life members of Skate Kitchen! Regardless of age, this film will make you want to grab a skateboard and hit the pavement.  Hear about Crystal's chance encounter on the NY subway...

Send us Fan Mail We're live from the 38th annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival with the director of the documentary Satan & Adam V. Scott Balcerek and one of the stars 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.) Satan and Adam is the s...

Send us Fan Mail It's opening night for the 38th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival and we're on location at the Castro Theatre to interview Lisa D'Apolito, director of Love, Gilda .  It's an intimate look at the life of Gilda Radner, one of the funniest women in comedy, and an original cast member of Saturday Night Live.  Lisa discusses her access to Gilda's personal audi...

Send us Fan Mail We're recording LIVE from the That's What She Said monthly event created for womxn by womxn in the heart of the Fillmore district of San Francisco. Listen in as we basic bitch at the bar of The Social Study and catch up on life cause it's been a minute. #bitchplease #listensharerepeat Visit our website! www.bitchtalkpodcast.com Follow us on Instagram , Facebook , an...

Send us Fan Mail We are continuing our #bourdaincrawl throughout San Francisco. We hit the infamous LiPo Lounge , Sam's Pizza & Burgers , Toranado , and Aub Zam Zam . It was a fun two day event filled with libations, laughs, and more stories. Enjoy our second foot tour around San Francisco celebrating Anthony Bourdain and his love for our beloved and complicated City.  Visit our website!...

Send us Fan Mail FOLLOW THE MONEY. A term coined by the film All The President's Men back in 1976 and that has even more weight now. We sat down with filmmaker Kimberly Reed who's new film Dark Money will leave you thankful for filmmakers like her and journalists like John S. Adams   of the Montana Free Press.  While we sprint in to this election season head out to the movie theater and...

Send us Fan Mail For more than 25 years, director and photographer Lauren Greenfield has studied what wealth means to people in the U.S. through her lens. In her latest documentary,  Generation Wealth ,  Laura captured the wealth of people like the Kardashians way back to when they weren't a commodity, just teens growing up in a wealthy bubble. It's a study in the affluence of the '...

Send us Fan Mail Oooooooooo weeeeee! The ladies of Bitch Talk had the chance to see Blindspotting a couple of months ago, and the minute it was over Erin and Ange knew they had to talk with Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal immediately. We had a great conversation with the East Bay natives and we truly hope this film soars at the box office.  Sorry To Bother You and Blindspotting  both honor the love,...

Send us Fan Mail This week Ange is joined by Dayna Keyes, host of the podcast Radio Rehab , to bring you a collaboration we affectionately call Bitch Rehab .  Both Ange and Dayna interview Bo Burnham about his directorial debut,  Eighth Grade , a dramedy that explores the awkwardness of eighth grade in the selfie generation.  Not only will it bring you back to those anxiety riddled junior high yea...

Send us Fan Mail It's comedy night!  We're back at  That's What She Said , an exclusive event created by womxn for womxn, held on the first Monday of every month at The Social Study in San Francisco. We talk to Ali Littman about her work as a journalist, her new novel Radio Underground , and her life in comedy.  Later, we're joined by Anica Cihla who talks about moving to the b...

Send us Fan Mail In late November 2015, Bitch Talk had the pleasure of speaking with Boots Riley. During our interview Boots talked about the film that released today in select cities - Sorry To Bother You . While we were excited to speak with Boots because of his music and activist work, little did we know that his debut film was going to be the talk of the 2018 movie industry. Please enjoy our r...

Send us Fan Mail It's always a pleasure to sit down with women directors and just chat. That's exactly what we did with director Shana Feste back in April when she was in town promoting her film Boundaries  during the San Francisco International Film Festival. Listen in as we talk about dogs, dating, Yahya Abdul Mateen, II  , and getting to make the movies she wants to make. Enjoy our co...

Send us Fan Mail So there's this girl that we met way back in early May. When she came over to us on the red carpet of the CAAMFest launch party she gave us big ol' hugs and we never looked back. A month and some change later, we met up with her at the Pinterest headquarters in San Francisco to have dinner, catch up, and see what makes this magical unicorn a magical unicorn.  Visit our w...

Send us Fan Mail To say that Bitch Talk idolized Anthony Bourdain would be an insult. Anthony Bourdain was a spirit guide in the way we eat, how we tell stories, how we travel, and how we see the world. We wanted to keep his curiosity about life alive and we're doing that by honoring him and his energy by dedicating one, two, or maybe even three #bourdaincrawls throughout San Francisco. Here...

Send us Fan Mail Owen Husney, Prince's first manager sits down with Captain Party to discuss how he discovered Prince, and shares some intimate stories of a young man on the verge of greatness. Then the Captain switches gears to bring you the story behind Prince's iconic first photo shoot with photographer Robert Whitman. We want to thank San Francisco's Family Affair  art + photogr...