Bitch Talk Podcast

Send us Fan Mail It's been a busy couple of months, and the bitches have a lot to catch up on! First Ange shares some deets about her trip to New York, including watching Jeff Hiller perform improv, drinking horny mezcals, and a happenstance hug/live performance with Bay Area rapper LaRussell . Then Erin shares how she became an award winning journalist!  Listen to our first and second interv...

Send us Fan Mail We've got Erin on the red carpet at the 2025 SFFilm Awards Night at Fort Mason in San Francisco! From SFFilm, we've got return guests Executive Director Anne Lai and Director of Programming Jessie Fairbanks .  We've also got SFFilm award nominees actress Wunmi Mosaku (from Sinners!!) and director Scott Cooper (from Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere ) plus actress...

Send us Fan Mail Peaches Goes Bananas is an exciting portrait of the feminist queer icon Peaches , aka Merrill Nisker, capturing her both onstage and off, giving us a glimpse of her creative process and intimate family life. We chat with director Marie Losier on the serendipitous way she met Peaches, her creative approach as a multi-hyphenate artist, and why she knew there was a beautiful story to...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our second neighborhood basic bitch! This time we're collaborating with San Francisco podcast - Storied: San Francisco and talking all things Mission District. This is our third to welcome multi-hyphenate, San Francisco born and raised, and Mission resident H.P. Mendoza on to the podcast. As we enjoyed the backyard of the bar Zeitgeist , H.P. gives us his experienc...

Send us Fan Mail Friend of the show and multi-hyphenate artist Rafael Casal returns just in time to celebrate the release of the inaugural The Bay List ! He shares how they chose the top 10 scripts from over one thousand applicants, the significance of this project being done in the Bay, and why he's more inspired than ever to create.  Then we dive into his most recent work on FX's The L...

Send us Fan Mail Come See Me In The Good Light is a beautiful documentary that follows two poet lovers, Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley , as they explore their relationship, laughter and mortality after receiving news of Andrea's incurable diagnosis. We were joined by director (and return guest ) Ryan White and producer/star of the film Megan Falley to discuss the lasting impact of this film,...

Send us Fan Mail This Basic Bitch has it all: death, dating, culture, comedy, competition, a dog chase, and motorboating. What can we say? It was a month. Enjoy. To read the award winning story, Fiammetta Wears Pretty Clothes , click here To become a volunteer for the nonprofit organization, Next Village, click here Support the show Thanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have...

Send us Fan Mail Don't forget to VOTE on November 4th , YES on 50 ! For more info, click here Welcome to Flashback Friday, we're bringing you a film that we covered for the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco that is now available in select theaters near you! Lesbian Space Princess is an animated film about a space princess who is thrust out of her sheltered life into a galactic que...

Send us Fan Mail We were so excited to chat with return guest Shabana Azeez about one of our favorite shows of the year, The Pitt ! We talk activism, mental health, and how she had to study up on American culture (she's originally from Adelaide, Australia). Then we dive into whether Noah Wiley is hot (spoiler: he is), how she accidentally went viral on social media, and which actor made her f...

Send us Fan Mail Director Geeta Gandbhir has made a revolutionary piece of work with her newest film, The Perfect Neighbor . The documentary uses police bodycam footage to show how minor disagreements between neighbors takes a lethal turn. Geeta joins us virtually to discuss her advocacy against " Stand Your Ground " laws, our desperate need for gun reform , and how this film can be both...

Send us Fan Mail Ange is on location at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to celebrate Filipino American History Month at the first-ever SOMA Pilipinas Pride: Makibeki . Raquel Redondiez is the director of SOMA Pilipinas , San Francisco's Filipino Cultural Heritage District; a "celebration of the love, pride and people power of generations of Filipinos in San Francisco and beyond"...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes we interview people and become friends at first Zoom! Julie Seabaugh is the producer/story editor behind the new Marc Maron documentary " Are We Good? ", chronicling the iconic comedian and podcasters' struggle with grief and return to comedy after the sudden loss of his partner during the pandemic. After waxing poetic about Bridget Everett's boobs, w...

Send us Fan Mail We're on location at Ange's favorite store, discussing our favorite spots in Europe, highlights from the Emmy's, and Erin's newest bout with Covid. We also share some Costco pro-tips, and cap it off with our newest segment, This Bitch , over a $1.50 (delicious AF) hot dog. Best deal in town! For more on Costco's response to the DEI backlash, click here Sup...

Send us Fan Mail We're on location at the 2025 SFFilm closing night red carpet! The closing night film, Outerlands , is a local film that follows Cass as a one night stand with a co-worker leads to them agreeing to watch her 11-year-old daughter while she goes out of town. They end up forming a bond that forces Cass to confront their own difficult past that they've been hiding from. SFFi...

Send us Fan Mail Holy shit, we've been waiting for 5 years to have this conversation! We first heard about The Forty-Year-Old Version at Sundance 2020, and we knew that we would one day interview the writer/director/star Radha Blank . And it was worth the wait! The Forty-Year-Old Version follows a down-on-her-luck NY playwright who reinvents herself as a rapper in an attempt to breakthrough a...

Send us Fan Mail It's conversations like this that make us remember why we are still here after 12 years and over 800 episodes. Filmmakers/activists/return guests Julie Cohen , and Ramona Diaz join us to discuss the intersection between art and activism, and how important it is for us to stay engaged. Ramona, who grew up under Marshall Law in the Philippines, shares how what is happening in t...

Send us Fan Mail Danielle Scott: Ancestral Call is a short film that follows the multi-racial mixed-media artist Danielle Scott as she explores intergenerational trauma and her ancestors' legacy through art that exposes both the pain and the beauty of our past.  Co-directors Sonia Kennebeck and Tetiana Anderson join us to share the serendipitous way they met Danielle Scott, the importance of...

Send us Fan Mail We're on location at USF for the SFFilm Youth Filmmakers Camp ! (see below)  We're joined by SFFilm's Director of Education Keith Zwölfer and Education Manager Soph Schultz Rocha who discuss the importance of a thriving film culture. We also sit with two filmmaking students - Aisha McCulloch and Sky Hsu who share what kind of stories they'd like to tell, and fi...

Send us Fan Mail Whew, this one is a doozy! Ange and Erin discuss the magic of seeing Bridget Everett live, the unveiling of the Golden State Valkyries (SF's new WNBA team!) mascot, a haunting camel toe, and an epic goodbye party for one of their favorite bartenders in the city. For tickets to My Fair Lady click here Support the show Thanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't...

Send us Fan Mail Goodbye Horses is not only the cult classic song that plays during our favorite scene in The Silence of the Lambs , it is also the the greatest hit of an artist who mysteriously disappeared for 25 years. Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus , is a documentary that reveals the reason behind Diane Luckey 's (aka Q Lazzarus) rise, fall, disappearance, and her plans to re...

Send us Fan Mail Rax King 's book, Sloppy, Or: Doing It All Wrong , is her newest collection of hilarious and heartfelt personal essays that explore everything from sobriety, begrudging self-improvement, and the bad habits we cling to with clenched fists. She joins us to discuss being an asshole, how having addicts as parents probably saved her life, and the interesting trait that she thinks...

Send us Fan Mail Chinatown Cha-Cha is a documentary that follows 92 year-old previous nightclub owner/dancer Coby Yee as she decides to perform again and go on tour with the senior dance troupe Grant Avenue Follies . Ange is joined by director Luka Yuanyuan Yang and Cynthia Yee, one of the dancers/subjects of the film, to discuss how Chinese women were at the core of the Chinatown nightlife and bu...

Send us Fan Mail We're celebrating Bitch Talk turning 12 years old with a new neighborhood series where we go on location and highlight our favorite places! We love any excuse to share what we love about our city, and the obvious place to start is the neighborhood where Erin and Ange first became friends: The Inner Richmond! The 540 Club is the scene of this Basic Bitch where you'll hear...

Send us Fan Mail Holy shit, this one is special! If you haven't heard, Bay Area rapper/activist/Filipina icon/mother Ruby Ibarra is the winner of the 2025 NPR Tiny Desk Concert with her song " Bakunawa " (watch the Tiny Desk Concert here !). To kick off her Tiny Desk Concert tour, the kind folks at the Lagunitas Brewing Company invited us to Ruby's concert at their beautiful br...

Send us Fan Mail We're gonna go ahead and say it, this is one of the best films of the year! And one that you definitely have to see in theaters. Just do yourself a favor and do it. But we digress... 40 Acres is set in a post-apocalyptic world with food scarcity, where a Black and Indigenous family must defend their farmland against cannibals trying to steal their resources. Director/writer R...