Send us a text 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 businesses and restaurant and bar community: City Lights Bookstore GoFundMe Page The Social Study SF GoFundMe Page The Resta...
Apr 13, 2020•35 min•Ep. 440
Send us a text 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're all feeling a sense of loneliness and isolation, and this documentary perfectly displays how important it is to kee...
Apr 10, 2020•21 min•Ep. 439
Send us a text 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 yet honest perspective, and shares ideas on how we can help these front line workers from the comfort of our own homes...
Apr 08, 2020•35 min•Ep. 438
Send us a text 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 the front lines is both a blessing and a curse (pun intended). We also share a collective appreciation for California'...
Apr 06, 2020•36 min•Ep. 437
Send us a text 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 of the film, and the pros and cons of having too much archival footage to choose from. This film was r...
Apr 03, 2020•17 min•Ep. 436
Send us a text 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 how she's supporting the field. If you're looking for a photographer for events, wedding, that new LinkedIn head ...
Apr 01, 2020•36 min•Ep. 435
Send us a text 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 internet, and our favorite businesses and non-profits raising money to stay afloat. On Tuesday March 31 we're l...
Mar 30, 2020•30 min•Ep. 434
Send us a text 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 record of 45's presidency, because WORDS (f-ing) MATTER. With over 2,000 pieces in total, this project is t...
Mar 27, 2020•41 min•Ep. 433
Send us a text We're taking you back to Sundance, where we interviewed director Liz Garbus and star Amy Ryan of the film Lost Girls . The film is based on the true story of a desperate mother searching for her missing daughter, which eventually leads the police to the unsolved cases of murdered sex workers. We discuss these real life cases (which are STILL unsolved to this day) and what it means to be a bad bitch. This is an important story, beautifully told, streaming now on Netflix! We'd just ...
Mar 25, 2020•19 min•Ep. 432
Send us a text Hello to all the shelter in place bitches! There's so much to talk about and we wanted to take advantage of one of the last times we might be able to get in studio (social distancing, duh) and record a Basic Bitch. Let's chat about how Florida is the spring break asshole of all of the states, who the fuck is travelling and flaunting it, gun sales (gross), and the horrific effect of how the COVID-19 pandemic has had on our friends in the service and hospitality industry. Stay well,...
Mar 23, 2020•27 min•Ep. 431
Send us a text BREAKING NEWS! We had on one of our favorite guests on the show today - W. Kamau Bell! He was gracious enough to hop on the phone with us during the Coronavirus lock down of 2020 while he is quarantined with his family and helping to home school his daughters. Listen in as we talk about what he's been up to, where he's finding content to entertain his kids, how his Mom is holding up, when his CNN show is coming back, + MORE. Follow W. Kamau Bell at his website , Instagram , and Tw...
Mar 20, 2020•24 min•Ep. 430
Send us a text In this episode, Ange interviews Kelly Reichardt, director of First Cow. A film set in the 1820s, it follows two misfit best friends trying to find their American Dream as the first cow is being brought into the Pacific Northwest. They discuss the beauty of friendship, the dynamic between colonists and the Native Americans, her experience as a woman filmmaker in the indie "boys club" film world, and the dangerous effects of capitalism - even back when the country was first being d...
Mar 18, 2020•23 min•Ep. 429
Send us a text Hey bitches! We recorded this early last week (March 9, 2020) before shit really got real. Hope you enjoy this Coronavirus special basic bitch and we hope y'all are out there washing your hands, heading to the social distancing advice, and remembering to breathe through this. We'll be ok. -- Let us know how we're doing: therealbtpod@gmail.com Visit our website! www.bitchtalkpodcast.com Follow us on Instagram , Facebook , and Twitter. Listen in every Monday from 6:00 - 6:30 AM on B...
Mar 16, 2020•30 min•Ep. 428
Send us a text Bitch Talk had a great time chatting with bar owner and bloody mary maven, Gillian Fitzgerald. Gillian is the co-owner of Casements Irish Bar - a brand new drinking establishment in the heart of the Mission district of San Francisco, and a bit of an old soul when it comes to talking about her love of the City, it's bar culture, and how past San Franciscans used to drink. Gillian has a fantastic bartending history in around SF including one of our old haunts Nickies in the Lower Ha...
Mar 13, 2020•37 min•Ep. 427
Send us a text We’re bringing you back to Sundance, this time with Nanette Burstein, director of the episodic documentary, Hillary . She talks about her journey in documenting such a polarizing figure, and her challenges in getting Hillary’s political rivals to be in the film. In a time of great political turmoil, it’s important to keep in mind not just a person’s policy, but their humanity, and how our perception of them is greatly skewed by our own biases. Hillary is streaming right now on Hul...
Mar 11, 2020•15 min•Ep. 426
Send us a text Ange, aka "Captain Party" sits down with Director/Co-Writer Benh Zeitlin and actress Devin France from the film Wendy , a re-imagining of Peter Pan like you've never seen before! This is the exciting follow up to Benh's Academy Award nominated film, Beasts of the Southern Wild . Some of the topics they hit on include Benh's casting process- comprised of kids and first time actors, the difficulties of shooting on location in the middle of a deserted island, and Devin's experience a...
Mar 06, 2020•31 min•Ep. 425
Send us a text Bitch Talk is live on location at Oakland's Mad Oak bar talking with writer, reporter, poet, and mental health advocate Jenee Darden . She's had a passion for writing since she was a child and has carried that into her career at NPR, Time Magazine , KQED , KALW , LA Times , and many more. Jenee has also led an interesting life--being the daughter of Christopher Darden (the co-prosecutor on the O.J. Simpson criminal trial) brings a certain level of awareness, paranoia, mental insta...
Mar 05, 2020•46 min•Ep. 424
Send us a text We're on location at the new Irish bar called Casements in San Francisco. Your Bitches have been hustling hard this past week and it's time to sit down, grab a drink, and catch up... hear about Ange's recent trip to a Beer Festival in Oregon, a brainstorm session for new tattoos, and an epic story of one of the Bitch's 18th Birthday. In the next couple of weeks, we'll release our interview with Casement's co-owner Gillian Fitzgerald. You'll hear the crew getting schooled on who Ro...
Feb 29, 2020•27 min•Ep. 423
Send us a text We're coming to you live from the historic Roxie Theater in the Mission district of San Francisco with Rafael Casal, Daveed Diggs, Activist Carroll Fife, and Executive Director of Oakland Community Land Trust Steve King. You'll hear Bitch Talk founder Erin Lim lead the conversation with the panel discussing affordable housing solutions for Bay Area folks and how Carroll helped organize the #moms4housing movement in Oakland. This was a benefit screening of the film Rafael and Davee...
Feb 26, 2020•36 min•Ep. 422
Send us a text We're back with another Sundance episode, this time from the red carpet! Listen in as we speak to actress Tessa Thompson and filmmaker David Lowery before sat on a Sundance panel called The Movie That Blew My Mind . These red carpets are fast and furious, and one of our co-hosts (who will remain nameless) may or may not have gotten flustered by standing WAY too close to Tessa Thompson (spoiler alert: she's GORGEOUS). You'll have to listen to find out who. Enjoy! Let us know how we...
Feb 21, 2020•16 min•Ep. 421
Send us a text We interviewed Fabian Velasco and Milos Mitrovic, co-directors of the film Tapeworm back at Sundance. (Fun fact, while Sundance is going on, there's a whole other festival called Slamdance which screens truly independent film.) That's how we got to chat with these Canadians about the story behind their film, their actors, and which one of them likes the new buildings going up in their home town of Winnipeg. Enjoy our fun and funny convo with Fabian and Milos and please don't forge...
Feb 19, 2020•20 min•Ep. 420
Send us a text We're taking you back to Sundance with one of our favorite conversations, a round table with female composers (and serious BAD BITCHES!). Listen in as Anne Nikitin (Lost Girls), Tamar-Kali (The Last Thing He Wanted, Shirley, The Assistant), and Nainita Desai (The Reason I Jump) discuss the importance of sound in film, their own personal process in creating an original score, and what it means to be a woman in a male dominated field. Their talent, strong work ethic, and powerful vo...
Feb 14, 2020•19 min•Ep. 419
Send us a text Let's chat about the weekend's awards shows, shall we? Oh boy. Have we got an awards show Basic Bitch rehash for YOU. The Academy Awards was good for what it was and we we got excited to talk through some of our favorite moments (Maya Rudolph, Kristin Wiig, Janelle Monae, and of course Billy Porter) but our most favorite awards show of the year - IFC's Film Independent Spirit awards was on Saturday afternoon and we've got a lot to say about it. Tune in and leave us a comment/ratin...
Feb 12, 2020•34 min•Ep. 418
Send us a text Ruby Ibarra. Ruby Ibarra. Ruby Ibarra. We're making sure you know her name in case you didn't know. Bitch Talk first met Ruby (a Filipina Hip-Hop artist and DNA scientist) at San Francisco's CAAMFest a couple of years ago when we hosted the Q&A for her documentary "Nothing on Us" . We haven't forgotten her name or the impression she made on us since then. It took a couple of years and the Sundance Film Festival to make it happen but we were able to catch up with Ruby and final...
Feb 08, 2020•28 min•Ep. 417
Send us a text Welcome to our first official interview from Sundance, with director Lana Wilson of the Taylor Swift documentary, Miss Americana . We discuss the hard work it takes to become one of the world's most popular musicians, Taylor's struggle to find her voice, and the toxicity of social media. Have a listen, and watch this great film right now on Netflix! Let us know how we're doing: therealbtpod@gmail.com Visit our website! www.bitchtalkpodcast.com Follow us on Instagram , Facebook , a...
Feb 05, 2020•24 min•Ep. 416
Send us a text It's our first segment out of Sundance and we're sitting down with the Festival Daily Buzz gang to catch up. It's been a year since our first trip to the well known festival and this time we get to give you (our listeners) the skinny on how we got here and who's involved. Thank you again to our supporters and donors who helped get us to Sundance. The Social Study, W. Kamau Bell, Lyrics Born, Fleet Wood SF, Moon Looms, Storied: San Francisco, and Chef Tu David Phu + the folks who c...
Feb 01, 2020•14 min•Ep. 415
Send us a text Bitch Talk is back at the SF Women's March and bringing you interviews from Katherine Gin from Immigrants Rising , author, filmmaker, and founder of the Webby Awards Tiffany Shlain , and the MC of the rally Kimberly Ellis. Thanks as always to our friend and one of the co-founders of the SF Women's March Sophia Andary for having us at the March. If you didn't catch our earlier interview with one of the other featured speakers at the SF rally, click here to listen to our chat with S...
Jan 22, 2020•19 min•Ep. 414
Send us a text We're ready for the 3rd annual Women's March SF: Together We Rise! Listen in as we speak with one of their featured speakers, Toni Newman . She's an author and the Executive Director of the St. James Infirmary , a peer based health and safety clinic for sex workers of all genders. She shares the story of her 25 year transition, and how her life experiences led to the important work she does today. She is an inspiration, and a force to be reckoned with! Thank you for your work, and...
Jan 18, 2020•30 min•Ep. 413
Send us a text Welcome back to the podcast, y'all. We have part two of our coverage of the second annual Coven Film Festival held in San Francisco. Coven Film Fest is an all womxn filmmaker festival celebrating all types of womxn behind the camera. In this second episode (you can catch the first episode here ) you'll hear Erin and Ange talk to filmmakers Erica Scoggins , Mariah Hoffman , Zoe Salicrup Junco , Lauren Sowa, Mily Mumford , and Coven Best Short Film Winner - Foster Wilson . We had a ...
Jan 16, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 412
Send us a text Howdy Bitch Talkers! We're coming to you live from the second annual Coven Film Festival. A festival focusing on womxn and non-binary filmmakers. Hey, guess what, WOMXN ARE MAKING GREAT FUCKING MOVIES....even if the Academy voters don't nominate them. Please enjoy the first of two episodes recorded over the weekend in the Mission district in San Francisco. This first episode features the team behind the Coven Film Fest - Cameo Wood, Connie Jo Sechrist, and Director of Programming ...
Jan 15, 2020•50 min•Ep. 411
