Send us a text It's part 2 of our "Bitch Talk Takes LA" trip, and we're on location in sunny Sunset Beach, CA. We get into our trip to Disneyland (FYI- we might possibly be the first people to wear vibrators on Splash Mountain), our fancy Prime Rib dinner with friend of the show Richard "The Curse" (no wonder we found a piece of glass in our drink), and how Ange managed to crash her electronic wheelchair in epic fashion. Enjoy! Thanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached ...
Sep 29, 2021•20 min•Ep. 614
Send us a text We are grateful to welcome back to the show, director Justin Chon to talk about his latest film Blue Bayou . The last time we talked with Justin, was back at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019 when he screened the sister/brother drama Ms. Purple . Blue Bayou takes on the conversations around immigration, adoption, police brutality, racism, facing death and interracial marriage - all set in the beautiful landscape of one of our favorite places, New Orleans. Justin and Erin talk abo...
Sep 24, 2021•15 min•Ep. 613
Send us a text We finally made it to the Emmys! Actually we were staying at a hotel across the street and watching them from the bar next door, but that's pretty much the same thing. We get into our favorite winners, who we thought should have won (#EmmysSoWhite), and what it was like to be Emmy's adjacent. Maybe one day we'll actually make it indoors! Thanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 600 episodes without your help! -- Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, AA...
Sep 22, 2021•42 min•Ep. 612
Send us a text There seems to be an increasing amount of things to #BasicBitch about these days, but we're focusing a major part of this episode on our outrage over the passing of SB8 in Texas . We're excited to be joined by businesswoman, political fundraiser, activist and friend of the show Stephanie Dominguez Walton , who is planning a fundraiser called Fund the Fight to benefit Planned Parenthood Advocates Mar Monte. The virtual event is on Wednesday, September 29th, and will feature a coupl...
Sep 17, 2021•44 min•Ep. 611
Send us a text Lisa Yadao is a badass producer/director/screenwriter that we first met at a Center for Asian American Media event in 2018. We bonded over our mutual love of food, and it's fitting that she is now here to talk about her exciting new food doc series, Roots & Wings . The series "profiles WOC chefs who use food as a conduit for cultural awareness and as a means of perpetuating their cultural traditions". And the first episode highlights Yana Gilbuena , a traveling Filipino chef b...
Sep 15, 2021•23 min•Ep. 610
Send us a text We're back with a #BasicBitch for your ass, and we have a lot on our minds. We share our anger at the passing of SB8 in Texas (we were also interviewed for a recent KQED article ), losing Michael K. Williams , our fear about the upcoming CA Governor Recall (VOTE NO ON OR BY SEPTEMBER 14th please and thank you), fitted suits from China, elderly folks trying to hook Captain Party up with their nephews (please stop), and how to deal with dementia and aging. And for balance, we cap it...
Sep 10, 2021•44 min•Ep. 609
Send us a text We've been fans of Joel McHale since way back in The Soup days, and this interview is a result of the connecting of the minds via Instagram (we've finally found a purpose for social media). This conversation ranges from how he entered this world (it had something to do with sperm and Rome), to the impact of him earning a Masters degree (or lack thereof). Let's be honest, this guy doesn't need an introduction. We just hopped on the call and hoped for the best. Buckle up and enjoy! ...
Sep 08, 2021•38 min•Ep. 608
Send us a text Welcome to Flash Back Friday! With 600+ episodes, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with our new listeners (and maybe new to our regular listeners). Today we're bringing you back to the Sundance Film Festival in 2020, when we spoke with director Sara Colangelo from the emotional film Worth . Worth follows a lawyer (played by Michael Keaton ) fighting for the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund . It's based on real events and actual victims, and brings you right ba...
Sep 03, 2021•15 min•Ep. 607
Send us a text We're celebrating the Bentonville Film Festival with director/writer Mari Walker of the intense and beautiful film, See You Then . Simply put, this film follows two exes who reunite ten years later after an abrupt breakup, but the topics it covers are so much more than this! We loved seeing an interesting Asian woman lead, and in depth conversations regarding trans issues. Honestly, some of the conversations in this film could have been recorded from a Bitch Talk happy hour (men, ...
Sep 01, 2021•18 min•Ep. 606
Send us a text Welcome back to the Bentonville Film Festival ! This time we're bringing you a fun conversation with director/writer Prashanth Kamalakanthan and producer Artemis Shaw from the film Have a Nice Life . This is a rode trip film involving a stoner musician, and an Indian housewife (played by Prashanth's mom!). We get into the importance of representation, the sweaty days on set (shot in North Carolina in the middle of summer), and their family dinners at the end of the day. Prashanth ...
Aug 30, 2021•14 min•Ep. 605
Send us a text Welcome to Flash Back Friday! With 600+ episodes, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with our new listeners (and maybe new to our regular listeners). Homeroom follows the class of 2020 at Oakland High School as they work to make a change in the school to prison pipeline, and react to a global pandemic. We were honored to chat with one of the doc's main subjects, Denilson Garibo , about activism, persistence, and where we go from here. You can watch Homeroom right now o...
Aug 27, 2021•21 min
Send us a text This is our first year covering the Bentonville Film Festival , and we're excited to bring you this conversation with filmmakers/brothers Brandon and Lance Kramer , of the documentary The First Step . This film follows tv host/author/political commentator Van Jones as he attempts to pass a criminal justice bill under the Trump administration. They discuss their connection to Van Jones, the divisive nature of politics, and the difficulties of gaining access to interviews in the Whi...
Aug 25, 2021•15 min•Ep. 604
Send us a text It's been a minute since we Basic Bitched so we thought we jump on in! Get ready for some behind the scenes of our 600th episode recording, how Ange's aka Captain Party knee surgery went, rando sighting of the San Francisco Giant's manager scooting his way around the City, + more. Thanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 600 episodes without your help! Follow Gabe Kapler at his website and on Twitter Watch Blindspotting on STARZ ! Grand Sierra Resort Chi...
Aug 23, 2021•43 min•Ep. 603
Send us a text Welcome to Flash Back Friday! With 600+ episodes, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with our new listeners (and maybe new to our regular listeners). In this FBF, we're headed back to early 2021 to the Sundance Film Festival talking with Emmy-winning director Lucy Walker about her film Bring Your Own Brigade . Lucy shares her journey digging into the complicated history of California wildfires in her documentary (spoiler alert: we can't blame everything on global warmi...
Aug 20, 2021•27 min
Send us a text Director Abby Ginzberg is giving us life in episode 602 of the podcast. Abby is the director of the upcoming documentary Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth To Power and the film couldn't come at a better time. Barbara Lee is a force to be reckon with - she was fighting for human rights as early as high school when she fought for herself and others, while working with the NAACP, to be considered for the cheerleading squad - not just the white, blue-eyed, blonde girls. As a single mother C...
Aug 18, 2021•29 min•Ep. 602
Send us a text Hello! You've reached episode 601!! In this episode, host Erin Lim talks with Respect director Liesl Tommy about this major motion picture that tells the traumatic younger years of the Queen of Soul - Aretha Franklin . Aretha's young life was fraught with death, rape, as well as controlling, toxic men. Director Liesel Tommy wanted to tell that part of Aretha's herstory which is exactly what she does with a thoughtful eye on balancing all of the beauty and horrors of Aretha's life....
Aug 16, 2021•15 min•Ep. 601
Send us a text The Bitch Talk 24 Hour Whirlwind 600th Episode Extravaganza!!! Coming all the way live from Top Chef's Nelson German's restaurant alaMar Kitchen and Bar in downtown Oakland AND from the season finale premiere of the Blindspotting TV show we are bringing you our 600th episode! The working title was "24 hour, whirlwind 600th episode extravaganza" if you wanted the inside scoop. Ange, aka Captain Party flew up Sunday morning from L.A. to join the Bitch Talk team to enjoy a beautiful ...
Aug 13, 2021•51 min•Ep. 600
Send us a text It's a wrap on season one of the Blindspotting tv show (you can watch the whole season right now on STARZ), and we're capping off our celebration with actor and singer, April Absynth ! We last spoke with her in May for her starring role in Lumpia with a Vengeance , and this time around she's playing a completely different character that we instantly fell in love with, Jacque. We get into why this character needed to be Filipina, the importance and responsibility she felt to repres...
Aug 11, 2021•37 min•Ep. 599
Send us a text Did y'all watch the final episode of Blindspotting on Starz last night?! If you did - CAN WE TALK? If you didn't, hurry up already. Our guest in this episode, Benjamin Earl Turner plays the loveable next door neighbor parolee Earl and we were so excited to welcome him to Bitch Talk. Not only is Benjamin a talented actor, he's a musician, and spoken word artist and met Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal when he was a youngster in the Bay. We talk with Benjamin about acting for the first...
Aug 09, 2021•26 min•Ep. 598
Send us a text Welcome to Flash Back Friday! With 500+ episodes, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with our new listeners (and maybe new to our regular listeners). In honor of the season finale of Blindspotting (this Sunday 8/8 on STARZ), we're sharing an interview we did with the co-creator, showrunner, actor (and East Bay native!) - Rafael Casal ! We got to catch up with him about the season 1 spin off series of the film with the same name, the importance of an equitable writers r...
Aug 06, 2021•35 min
Send us a text In honor of the season finale of the Blindspotting spinoff (airing this Sunday, August 8th on Starz), we're bringing you a series of interviews with some of out favorite cast members! Candance Nicholas-Lippman plays Janelle, the best friend everyone needs in their lives. And Candace, in real life, is no different! We get into how she manifested her role in this show, the importance of being able to collaborate with the show's creators to make this character authentic, her spoken w...
Aug 04, 2021•48 min•Ep. 597
Send us a text We are very excited to welcome the very talented Sonia Kennebeck back to the show to talk about her film Enemies of the State. It's the true story of Matt DeHart who believes that he is being targeted by the U.S. government for having confidential documents alleging misconduct by the CIA. The film takes you on the roller coaster ride that Matt and his parents rode as well as the government officials that were (and possibly still are) after him. Sonia's constant deep dive into how ...
Aug 02, 2021•25 min•Ep. 596
Send us a text Welcome to Flash Back Friday! With 500+ episodes, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with our new listeners (and maybe new to our regular listeners). This week we're flashing back to January of this year when we interviewed director Melissa Haizlip from the film, Mr. Soul . This documentary features her uncle, Ellis Haizlip - a queer, Black, television producer and host of the first known Black variety show called Soul! out of New York City in the 60s. We talk with Mel...
Jul 30, 2021•57 min
Send us a text Debra Chasnoff was an Oscar-winning documentarian/activist whose films helped educate people on everything from LGBTQ rights, to nuclear weapons, and affordable housing. So it's no surprise that when she found out she had stage 4 breast cancer, she decided to turn the camera on herself to teach us one final lesson - what it means to truly live. On its surface, the documentary Prognosis- notes on living follows Debra Chasnoff along with her family and friends in the days following ...
Jul 28, 2021•16 min•Ep. 595
Send us a text We had a whirlwind afternoon of recordings which included this Basic Bitch for your asses. All of us bitches have been out in the wild - Ange riding around Disneyland in a wheelchair, Char out and about on a last minute California Mission's tour with her family, and Erin just got back from Texas talking about some of her favorite moments and food, of course. Plus, we end on our collective moment of pleasure right now. Put in those earbuds and enjoy. Thanks for listening! Be well, ...
Jul 26, 2021•44 min•Ep. 594
Send us a text Welcome to Flash Back Friday! With 500+ episodes, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with our new listeners (and maybe new to our regular listeners). On the heels of our interview with Stephen Satterfield about his new Netflix docu-series High on the Hog , we wanted to bring back our first interview with him from 2018 that went so well, we had to break it up into 2 episodes! He's a chef/writer/sommelier changing the way we look at, read about, and eat food. In our firs...
Jul 23, 2021•28 min
Send us a text This is our third time having chef/sommelier/writer Stephen Satterfield on the show, and the conversations just keep getting better! He's joining us to talk about his new Netflix series High on the Hog , a four part docu-series that explores how African American cuisine transformed America. We get into how he ended up hosting the show, his emotional journey in Africa, and the significance of elevating black stories and food in this moment. This show is an enjoyable as it is inform...
Jul 21, 2021•35 min•Ep. 593
Send us a text Welcome to our Basic Bitch, travel edition! Erin is on location in Austin, Texas, where she discusses good food, potential threesomes, and her constraint in the face of aggressive conservatives (it's called maturing, folks). We get into the current political climate in Texas (#FuckGregAbbott), and how karaoke may be the key to uniting the country. And then Ange shares her trip to Solvang, where she went wine tasting, gambling, and somehow ended up with the master key to the hotel....
Jul 19, 2021•40 min•Ep. 592
Send us a text Welcome to Flash Back Friday! With 500+ episodes, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with our new listeners (and maybe new to our regular listeners). In honor of the newly released Anthony Bourdain documentary, Roadrunner , we're celebrating the film's director, Academy Award winner Morgan Neville , who we had on the show back in 2018 for the Mr. Rogers documentary, Won't You Be My Neighbor . You will have all of the feelings when you watch both films, and we're notici...
Jul 16, 2021•20 min
Send us a text It's been a long three years without Anthony Bourdain, but his impact on our lives is still strongly felt. So we were super excited to watch Roadrunner , the documentary that chronicles his life, directed by the one and only Morgan Neville (spoiler alert: we LOVED it). In this episode, you'll get our thoughts on the film, and then hear some highlights from our epic SF Bourdain Pub Crawl that we did shortly after his death in 2018. We hit up some of Anthony Bourdain's favorite plac...
Jul 14, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 591
