Send us a text Hello Bitch Talk fam. This interview has nearly been a year in the making and we're so glad we could finally welcome onto our show writer/director Jacintha Charles and we welcome back a friend-of-the-show, producer Lisa Yadao of Paper Tongue Productions . Jacintha has written a beautiful, moving short film called MADHAVI - a story touching on the aftermath of domestic violence within the South Asian community. In our conversation we talk about why Jacintha wanted to tackle this su...
Aug 26, 2022•21 min•Ep. 695
Send us a text Welcome to Flash Back Friday! With nearly 700 episodes in our archive, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with our new listeners (and maybe new to our regular listeners). Joined by our Sundance brother and Honorary Bitch John Wildman of FilmsGoneWild.com, we were knee deep into our virtual coverage of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. We are excited to bring you a conversation from our special documentaries episode, Free Chol Soo Lee . It tells the story of a young Kore...
Aug 19, 2022•16 min
Send us a text Welcome to another #BasicBitch after an eventful week! We start off by answering questions from an exciting new listener (send us your questions and you can be next!), Erin discusses her experience at the Cloud Club in Oracle Park (Go Giants!), and Ange shares her new business idea after a couple of unfortunate run-ins with a screen door. Plus we reminisce about the magic of 90s Glamour Shots (keep your eyes peeled for more shares on our IG account ). And of course, we cap it off ...
Aug 17, 2022•58 min•Ep. 694
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). We're riding the Filipino Pride wave with all the good vibes around Jo Koy's filipino family film Easter Sunday so we decided to revisit our Zoom hang with our dear friend of the show H.P. Mendoza, -- 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 h...
Aug 12, 2022•42 min
Send us a text Hello Bitch Talkers! Char, Erin, and Ange jumped on a Zoom to check-in and see what's up. We get into talking about long Covid and is Erin ok? What we're all watching (yes, shout out to Better Things again!), how our friend of the show Joel McHale is showing up in everything, our dream hangs with past guests, Char's hot take on the Anne Heche car crash, do people still get perms, and of course, wrapping up the episode with our moment(s) of pleasure. Also, RIP to Bill Russell , Nic...
Aug 10, 2022•49 min•Ep. 693
Send us a text Howdy Bitch Talkers! We've got a fun conversation just in time for the release of the movie Easter Sunday starring comedian Jo Koy ! Bay Area raised screenwriter Ken Cheng joined us on the podcast to talk about how Easter Sunday came together. It was one of those stories that could only happen in Hollywood but that was pushed by the need to have AAPI, particularly Filipino representation on the big screen. Ken talks about why Daly City had to be the backdrop of this story, his Ste...
Aug 05, 2022•33 min•Ep. 692
Send us a text Hey bitches! We jumped on a quick Zoom to basic about the last week of life. Somehow Erin caught Covid for the first time, Ange went to the Hollywood Bowl to see TLC and Boyz II Men , and Erin and Char have a little conversation around the Apple TV coverage of SF Giants games (we're talking a little baseball people.....). It's a quickie so don't get too comfortable! -- Thanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 600 episodes without your help! -- Be well, s...
Aug 03, 2022•30 min•Ep. 691
Send us a text It was a bit of a dream to talk with fellow podcaster Brittany Luse from the acclaimed podcast For Colored Nerds . She's been in the game nearly as long as we have and we hit her up with some questions we had like intellectual property challenges as a podcaster, how she and her podcast partner Eric Eddings ended up together as hosts (...it involved something called Trash Thursdays at Howard University), who her ultimate guest would be on their show, and what is bringing her pleasu...
Jul 29, 2022•44 min•Ep. 690
Send us a text Per the usual, we went into a basic thinking we didn't have a ton to talk about but we did! Captain Party (Ange) had a serious question about a conversation she had with her doctor about having a hysterectomy and what that would mean for her body, Char and Ange talk A LOT!! about MTV's The Challenge, we finally talk about FX's The Bear (one of the best shows on TV in our honest opinion) and how, after 9 years of podcasting, we still can't get through to big movie studio gatekeeper...
Jul 27, 2022•58 min•Ep. 689
Send us a text Greetings bitches! We had a fuckin' blast talking with the comedy duo of the Boss Bitch Show outta New York - Rachel Green and Kirsten O'Brien . We learned so much during our convo from these two that it just proves you're never too old to learn new things! For instance, we were schooled in what slut throat is, that there are gang bang experts out there, that a tight 5 in stand-up is difficult, that the movie Showgirls is a must see, and that it's a right of passage for every New ...
Jul 22, 2022•45 min•Ep. 688
Send us a text Hey y'all! In this basic bitch we talk about Erin and Ange's wild roller coaster ride in Austin, Texas including being there the day that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The trip was a trip and included lot's of breakfast tacos, celebrating Anthony Bourdain's birthday at one of his (and our) favorite spots, late night Whataburgers, Tupac sightings, oh, and Covid. Be careful out there folks, Covid is still out there and contagious AF. We're thankful for vaccines and boost...
Jul 20, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 687
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 going back to our coverage of Sundance 2022. Joined by our Sundance partner in crime John Wildman of FilmsGoneWild.com , we welcomed back to the podcast Sara Dosa, director of Fire of Love. In Fire of Love , we get an intimate look at the lives of the world's most famous volcanologist couple, Katia and Mauric...
Jul 15, 2022•20 min
Send us a text It's our fourth time speaking with a couple of our favorite documentarians ( RBG , My Name is Pauli Murray, Julia ) - Julie Cohen and Betsy West about they're latest film, Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down which does not disappoint. Former congresswoman Gabby Giffords was shot in the face in 2011 at an in-person constituent event in a supermarket parking lot. She was severely injured and, at first, it was reported that she died from her injuries. The film Gabby Giffords Won't Back Do...
Jul 13, 2022•20 min•Ep. 686
Send us a text Not to brag, but this one is good! And not just because W. Kamau Bell is an accomplished stand-up comedian, 5 time Emmy Award winning host, director, and author, but because he is authentic, hilarious, and full of heart. Every time we sit down with him it feels like we've just had the most constructive and fun therapy session, and it just keeps getting better. We dive into whether he considers himself an optimist, the complications of being a tourist in Hawaii, his on screen wardr...
Jul 08, 2022•53 min•Ep. 685
Send us a text We got back on the saddle and held a little zoom sesh to basic bitch. We had Char captain this episode and she shared with us her Warriors parade story as well as the first public memorial she helped put together for our friend and podcast sister Dayna Keyes who passed away in late March. Thanks Char for taking the reigns on this one!! -- Thanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 600 episodes without your help! -- Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, A...
Jun 30, 2022•43 min•Ep. 684
Send us a text Back in late April we got to watch a beautiful documentary called Bitterbrush during the SF Film Festival. The doc. follows Hollyn Patterson and Colie Moline, range riders who are spending their last summer herding cattle in remote Idaho. When Erin sat down with the director, Emelie Mahdavian , they talked about how Emelie met the two range riders and how long it took her to get their trust to film them, how she and her crew managed filming mostly outdoors for months at a time, an...
Jun 27, 2022•13 min•Ep. 683
Send us a text Music feeds our souls over here on Bitch Talk and it was a joy to watch a documentary that celebrates that magical connection. We had the chance to speak with director/writer/producer Kathleen Ermitage who's film Mixtape Triology: Stories of the Power of Music explores three different musicians and their music - The Indigo Girls , Vijay Iyer , and Talib Kweli and the fans who have been inspired by their art. Kathleen tells us how she went about finding these stories, what she lear...
Jun 22, 2022•14 min•Ep. 682
Send us a text It's a pivotal moment in Bitch Talk herstory. We were able to "sit down" with Real World San Francisco cast members (and storytellers) Pam Ling and Judd Winick as well as directors Stacey Woefel and Bill Horner from the documentary Keep the Cameras Rolling: The Pedro Zamora Way. All of us at Bitch Talk were teenagers when this season of The Real World came out and it was a game changer. We were all affected by this season and knew deep down it was different. And, during San Franci...
Jun 17, 2022•17 min•Ep. 681
Send us a text It's Pride month and we're over here celebrating it by featuring a couple of films that will be screening at this years Frameline Film Festival. In this episode, we speak with the director and the subject of the documentary Jeannette . In June of 2016, 49 lives were tragically taken during a mass shooting on Latin Night at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. One of the survivors of that night is Jeannette, a gay single mother struggling to come to terms with a tragedy for ...
Jun 15, 2022•15 min•Ep. 680
Send us a text The independent film festival Dances with Films is underway and we had the pleasure of watching one of the festival's feature documentaries Rewilding . Rewilding follows Anthony Dejesus, a 27-year-old budding artist and former Rikers Island inmate, as he leaves New York City for the first time with avid rock climbers and wilderness guides Jesse Spiegel and Vitek Linhart, determined to field test a program to take formerly incarcerated men into the wild. The documentary pushes all ...
Jun 10, 2022•18 min•Ep. 679
Send us a text If you're a long time listener of Bitch Talk, you may know the name John Wildman from all of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. You can say John has been our mentor and big brother in the film festival world and now he's on our show to promote his own short film - Sweat of his Cow . We had no idea what kind of movie this would be, but we can tell you we were not disappointed. In this episode, we talk to John about where the idea of this film came from ( remember the days of skin...
Jun 08, 2022•14 min•Ep. 678
Send us a text Hello listeners! We have an election tomorrow, June 7 in San Francisco and one of the city propositions is to recall our District Attorney. We interviewed the D.A. back in the fall of 2021 and thought it would be a good reminder for our fellow voters to re-run this interview with Chesa. If you haven't voted yet or on the fence about this recall campaign, we hope you'll listen with an open mind and read some of the links we've provided below as reference. This recall is undemocrati...
Jun 06, 2022•30 min
Send us a text Part two of our Basic Bitch is here! This time we talk about Ange's 48-hour trip to San Francisco. It was supposed to be a week long trip, but life happens and she was able to come up at just the right time. You'll hear us talk about our new favorite restaurant Prubechu , how kick-ass the musician Peaches remains to be, some casual racism at Erin's job, comedian Hari Kondabalu , nursing home care, and some crying (because life is kinda fucked right now). Like you all, we are tryin...
Jun 03, 2022•55 min•Ep. 677
Send us a text It's been a minute since we've caught up - and as usual, there's a lot to talk about. This is the first part of our two part Basic because we needed a full debrief on Char's vacation on a Disney cruise, how much she loves a private island (duh), her bad luck with luggage, and our sidebar on the Amber Heard/Johnny Depp trial (spoiler, we don't give a fuck about it). We'll have part two of our Basic this Friday when Ange catches up on her 48-hour San Francisco extravaganza and how t...
Jun 01, 2022•42 min•Ep. 676
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). Before we close out AANHPI Heritage Month, we're flashing back to February of this year, when we hang with Lisa Ling as she launched her new show on HBO Max. Holy shit, it's Lisa Ling ! This was a big deal for us, and she lived up to every expectation. Her new show, Take Out with Lisa Ling , is an HBO docu-series that tak...
May 27, 2022•25 min
Send us a text Had a great time talking with director Sally Rubin about her short film Mama Has a Mustache which screened at last month's 65th annual SFFilm Festiva l . Sally's film is a short, quirky, fully animated doc about gender and family, as seen through children’s eyes. Driven completely by audio interviews of kids ages 5-10, the film uses these sound bytes combined with clip-art and mixed media to explore how children are able to experience a world outside of the traditional gender bina...
May 25, 2022•13 min•Ep. 675
Send us a text When Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was attacked in January 1994 it was the story of all stories that year. Fast forward 28 years later and we're sitting down with director Justin Young who's directorial debut, My Hero the Hitman , focuses on the person who was hired to attack Nancy Kerrigan, Shane Stant, and his sister Maile Stant. There's a lot to uncover in this film. It's not specifically about the act of violence that happened in 1994, but dives into the backstories of ...
May 20, 2022•16 min•Ep. 674
Send us a text Comedian and author Ginny Hogan has written her first book I'm More Dateable Than a Plate of Refried Beans and Other Romantic Observations and we're here to give it the Bitch Talk bump. Ginny's book takes us on the ride of how silly online/modern dating has become and has some hilarious observations on how these apps could work a little better for all of us, like, wouldn't it be fun to have an away message option for your DM's? Fucking brilliant. We also chat with Ginny about her ...
May 18, 2022•16 min•Ep. 673
Send us a text Howdy Bitch Talkers! We're taking you back to the March 22 online event that we hosted for San Francisco non-profit WeXL with film financier Chiquita Banks, Esq. We were drawn to host this event because filmmakers and/or creatives need to understand insider knowledge of how projects get made in Hollywood - let's get rid of the gatekeepers already! Chiquita has a wealth of knowledge of how film projects are funded, how streaming has taken over the industry, how Covid changed the wa...
May 13, 2022•44 min•Ep. 672
Send us a text Hi Bitch Talkers! We're all back in the same Zoom room catching up on life. We get into Ange's birthday trip to Mexico - how she almost missed her first flight out, going to an adult prom, celebrating opening weekend of Mexican baseball, and her love of cenotes. We also talk about the circle of Covid that seems to be closing in on us, and the shows and movies that are making us happy ( and Erin's obsession with actor Walton Goggins right now ) . Hope y'all are doing well out there...
May 09, 2022•41 min•Ep. 671
