Send us a text Welcome to Town Business: An Evening of Cultural Power. We love live events, especially when they're in our own backyard among our friends! This was the kickoff event to celebrate Oakland's Mayor Sheng Thao 's bold initiative to center film and television production as a cornerstone of economic development. And all we can say is, it's about damn time! The space was energized, the drinks and tacos were flowing, and we were lucky enough to chat with some of Oakland's finest. You'll ...
Nov 17, 2023•35 min•Ep. 767
Send us a text Not only is he one of our all time favorite guests, he's also officially been on our show more than anyone else, it's Daveed Diggs ! He shares the sweet story of how he found out he was going to be a father, how touring with his band Clipping has evolved now that he's in his 40s, the legacy of Blindspotting and what (he hopes) it means for the Bay, getting parenting advice from his parents, and some words of wisdom on how to maintain creative partnerships with your friends. This i...
Nov 10, 2023•53 min•Ep. 766
Send us a text Quiz Lady is a hilarious film about estranged sisters forced to cover their mother's gambling debts, starring Sandra Oh and Awkwafina . We chatted with director Jessica Yu about sisterhood, directing an epic drug scene, why pugs are the best dogs to work with, and which surprising film gives her comfort. Also, we support her mission in bringing back the fanny pack! Quiz Lady is streaming now on Hulu Follow Quiz Lady on IG Follow Jessica Yu on FB -- Thanks for listening and for you...
Nov 03, 2023•25 min•Ep. 765
Send us a text Reality Winner is an incredible documentary about one of the youngest whistleblowers in US history, and now she's finally able to tell her own story. At the age of 25, Reality Winner was sentenced to 63 months in prison, the longest ever imposed in federal court for an unauthorized release of government information to the media. And after following her story for 5 years, director Sonia Kennebeck has revised her original documentary ( United States vs. Reality Winner ) to include e...
Oct 27, 2023•29 min•Ep. 764
Send us a text This week we sit down over drinks at Oakland's Room 389 with NPR's Aisha Harris ! We find out how she became a film and pop culture critic (after a brief stint in a Broadway musical with Sally Struthers !), how she became one of the hosts of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour , and obviously get into all things pop culture. But we also talk about why we love her new book, Wannabe: Reckonings With The Pop Culture That Shapes Me , and the unfortunate (but hilarious) issue she had while re...
Oct 20, 2023•56 min•Ep. 763
Send us a text We're 10 years old, bitches! We breakdown Bitch Talk's origin story, including the John Stamos Minute and our Moments of Pleasure, on location at Harry's Bar in San Francisco - where it all began. And then learn why we call ourselves the Golden Girls of podcasting as we reflect on some of our favorite interviews and moments throughout the years. Thank you for voting us Best of the Bay Best Podcast for the second year in a row! (tied for first place with The Black Landscape ) Also,...
Oct 13, 2023•54 min•Ep. 762
Send us a text Cat Person is a film about a college student going on a date with an older man that evolves into all of the potential horrors of modern dating. It's based on a viral short story from the New Yorker in 2017, and six years later, it's as relevant as ever. We got to chat with director Susanna Fogel about the grey area of dating that most of us can relate to, how she was able to direct one of the more uncomfortable sex scenes we've ever seen, and her secret trick to cast bonding. And ...
Oct 06, 2023•19 min•Ep. 761
Send us a text This #BasicBitch was recorded live from one of our favorite restaurants in San Francisco, the Old Skool Cafe , a youth run jazz-themed supper club. The food is delicious, the service is wonderful, the ambiance is transporting, and the live music- you'll hear for yourself. We dive into our IMAX experience watching the newly restored Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense (out in theaters now! Click here for showtimes), and the pros and cons of the 415 Club at Oracle Park. The...
Sep 22, 2023•23 min•Ep. 760
Send us a text This #BasicBitch was recorded on location at the Mini Bar in San Francisco, and we're excited to finally share that we're in a movie! It's a brief cameo in the film Gasoline Rainbow directed by the Ross Brothers that just premiered at the Venice Film Festival . Take a listen for all the behind the scenes info on why we were asked to be in the film, where it all took place, our unique (yet familiar) experience on set, and when you can potentially watch it for yourself. Next we disc...
Sep 15, 2023•55 min•Ep. 759
Send us a text Take us back to our separate trips to Europe this year. Ange talks about her month long Spring visit to Germany, Brussels, and Amsterdam while Erin talks about her recent trip to Barcelona, Puglia (Italy), and Perchtoldsdorf (Austria). Then Ange dives into her quick trip to New York (she hadn't been back since 2003 y'all) and why it was a last minute decision. We wrap it up with Erin's somewhat annual Outside Lands jaunt peppered with beignet's, bounce, and her new obsession - The...
Aug 25, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 758
Send us a text It was months in the making but we finally got to chat with musician and writer Thao Nguyen! We saw Thao perform live IN A CHURCH earlier this year at the SXSW festival down in Austin and immediately knew we had to have her on. Thao's energy, lyrics, and musicianship is a thing to experience and we have been so energized to talk with her that this interview did not disappoint. In this chat we get Thao's origin story, why and how she landed in San Francisco in the mid 2000's, where...
Aug 12, 2023•29 min•Ep. 757
Send us a text Randall Park is even more lovely in person than he is on screen! Ange sits down with him at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco to discuss his feature length directorial debut, Shortcomings , based on the graphic novel by Adrian Tomine . The film follows three young Asian Americans living in the Bay Area as they navigate life, relationships, and (hopefully) their own personal growth. Randall shares his reaction to reading the novel in 2007, AAPI representation through the years, a...
Aug 04, 2023•25 min•Ep. 756
Send us a text We kick off the conversation with producer Ryan Coogler , who talks about the work he's been doing with his company, Proximity Media , and how much each project means to him. Next we speak to Jason Richards , Steph's college teammate, who discusses the surreal feeling of being on the red carpet and what it's like to have known Steph since he was 16. Then friend of the show W. Kamau Bell pops in to talk about how it felt to win an award as a filmmaker, and shares his experience as ...
Jul 28, 2023•14 min•Ep. 755
Send us a text This is the first #BasicBitch that we've recorded since March, and clearly we have a lot of shit to catch up on! We talk major changes in the Bitch Talk universe (including celebrating our 10 year anniversary!), highlights from CAAMFest (the Center for Asian American Media Film Festival), our favorite movies of the summer, fancy dinners, live music/art, dicks and menopause, our favorite guests of the summer, and a chaotic pub crawl that included a dirty twist. This episode is load...
Jul 22, 2023•53 min•Ep. 754
Send us a text Holy shit, it's the Indigo Girls ! We interviewed the director ( Alexandria Bombach ) of their documentary It's Only Life After All , at SXSW this year and we've been waiting to interview Amy and Emily ever since. And what better timing than Pride weekend before their set at the Stern Grove Festival - one of our favorite summertime activities in San Francisco! Amy Ray and Emily Saliers speak as passionately as they sing. They share their early activism and who inspired them to tak...
Jul 14, 2023•28 min•Ep. 753
Send us a text This is a film that makes us proud to be from the Bay! Earth Mama follows a pregnant young single mother of two who embraces her Bay Area community as she determines the fate of her family. Director Savanah Leaf sits down with us to explain how this film was born from her short film The Heart Still Hums , the meaning of the title, and how writing the screenplay was a form of therapy. We were also joined by Bay Area Hip Hop artist Tia Nomore who shares why she decided to try her ha...
Jul 07, 2023•19 min•Ep. 752
Send us a text Welcome to the SF Frameline Film Festival! Every Body is an important and beautiful documentary that focuses on three intersex people's lives as they process the traumas of their past, find community, thrive in their personal lives, and become leaders in the movement for a greater understanding of the intersex community and an end to unnecessary surgeries. Director Julie Cohen and producer Tommy Nguyen share how the intersex movement has been a long time coming, the horrendous str...
Jun 30, 2023•22 min•Ep. 751
Send us a text We're on location at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco to talk about the exciting new Disney+ comedy/action series, American Born Chinese . Executive Producer/graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang and actor Daniel Wu sit down with us to talk about the audience reaction at the series premiere at SXSW , how the casting and timing of the show created a perfect storm (in the best way possible), their collective roots in the Bay, and the fact that the Asian American story has something t...
Jun 23, 2023•21 min•Ep. 750
Send us a text Get ready to laugh your ass off! Author/comedian/blogger/tv writer Samantha Irby is in the house and if you've ever read any of her books, she does not disappoint. As the conversation fluctuates between heavy and light (ie: from bowel issues to the deaths of our mothers), she is as real as it gets in the most hilarious way possible. You'll hear her thoughts on assisted living (pro), the news (con), NKOTB (pro), getting dressed (con), and the hilarious reason she waited almost 30 y...
Jun 16, 2023•49 min•Ep. 749
Send us a text That's right y'all, the bitch is back - W. Kamau Bell. We got to sit down in Kamau's NEW PRODUCTION OFFICES!! in Oakland and have a serious sit down with our un-official co-host about his latest documentary 1000% Me now streaming on HBOMax, his Peabody award for We Need to Talk About Cosby , what happened with his show United Shades on CNN , why it's hard for him to take a vacation, the state of stand-up comedy and "cancel culture", and see what he thinks about having his own TV r...
May 26, 2023•52 min•Ep. 748
Send us a text We're celebrating CAAMFest (the Center for Asian American Media Festival) 2023 with the awesome and inspiring documentary, Fanny: The Right To Rock . Ange sits down (virtually) with director Bobbi Jo Hart to discuss how she first found out about Fanny (the first all female rock band to release an album on a major label), and the serendipitous steps (including a David Bowie quote) that led to her directing this film. She discusses how the band is still breaking glass ceilings as wo...
May 19, 2023•22 min•Ep. 747
Send us a text Welcome to CAAMFest (Center for Asian American Media) 2023, where we're covering a documentary on our favorite pool player of all time, Jeanette Lee VS . Director Ursula Liang and Jeanette Lee (aka the Black Widow) sat down with us to share how this film came to be during a very life changing time for both of them. Ursula shares some insight for indie filmmakers on being commissioned to direct a film, and the importance of us being able to tell our own stories. Jeanette Lee opens ...
May 17, 2023•23 min•Ep. 746
Send us a text Welcome to CAAMFEST ( Center For Asian American Media) 2023! We're kicking off the festival (May 11-21st) by bringing you a fun conversation with the Festival and Exhibitions Director, Thúy Trần. Thúy is a ball of energy and a force to be reckoned with! She shares her upbringing as a Vietnamese immigrant, why she felt called to the Bay Area, how she landed her role at CAAM, and what exciting events and films we have to look forward to. We also discuss the evolution of Asian Americ...
May 10, 2023•25 min•Ep. 745
Send us a text Welcome back to our live broadcast from the SFFilm Festival's filmmakers lounge! In this final SFFilm Fest episode, Erin sits down with director Rooth Tang and producer Michelle Moy to discuss their documentary film Rally , about San Francisco political kingmaker Rose Pak. If you're not from or live in the City, you may be asking yourself who's Rose Pak, and why should I care? Well, Rose was an interesting character - immigrant to the states, started out as a journalist for the Sa...
May 05, 2023•18 min•Ep. 744
Send us a text Welcome back to our live broadcast from the SFFilm Festival's filmmakers lounge! In this episode, Erin talks with the directors of the very powerful documentary Bad Press . Bad Press tells the story of when the Muscogee Nation suddenly begins censoring its free press, a rogue reporter fights to expose her government's corruption in a historic battle that will have ramifications for all of Indian country. This story was an eye opener on so many levels and Erin talked with the direc...
May 03, 2023•18 min•Ep. 743
Send us a text Hello again from SFFilm Festival 2023! Today's episode brings you director/writer Lorena Padilla and producer Georgina Gonzalez from the film Martinez. In her directorial debut, Lorena has written and brought to life a beautiful story about an aging man who has mostly frowned at life and after a female neighbor around his age passes away, he picks up the remnants of her life and starts to live. Erin sits down to talk with Lorena about the personal story connected to this script, t...
Apr 28, 2023•16 min•Ep. 742
Send us a text It's that time of year in San Francisco y'all. SFFilm Festival has rolled through the City and we're happy to bring you a few interviews we just held over the weekend LIVE in front of filmmakers and festival goers while sipping on some wine. First we are bringing you SFFilm Festival director of programming Jessie Fairbanks. Erin and Jessie talk about elevating new and local filmmakers in this years festival, what draws her to documentaries, how programming around the country is va...
Apr 26, 2023•17 min•Ep. 741
Send us a text Zoe Lister-Jones is a bad bitch. She is the writer, director, showrunner, and lead actor in her latest project SLIP now playing on The Roku Channel . We caught up with Zoe earlier this week to discuss this magically surreal, time jumping, orgasmic ride of a TV show. She enlightened us about when she started working on this script, how Buddhism influenced the story line, how important your ride or dies are in every stage of life, and maybe Captain Party puts Erin on the spot in fro...
Apr 21, 2023•21 min•Ep. 740
Send us a text Welcome to the South By Southwest (SXSW) Festival in Austin, Texas! Holy shit, this interview is a doozy. To our regular listeners, this episode is more of a #BasicBitch than an interview, and at one point the tables were turned and Erin and Ange were the ones receiving questions. Let's just say that we had a meeting of the minds with these ladies, and this is (hopefully) the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Mother of the Dawn is a short film about a female truck driver in Bra...
Apr 19, 2023•29 min•Ep. 739
Send us a text Welcome to the South By Southwest ( SXSW ) Festival in Austin, Texas! We watched the Blindspotting Season 2 premiere, now it's time to party! This is a Basic Bitch from the Fairmont Hotel in Austin, as we celebrate the season premiere with cast and crew from the show. Listen to what happens when you're halfway through covering a festival and you mix hors d'oeuvres with an open bar. Enjoy! Watch Blindspotting Season 2 streaming on April 14th on Starz -- Thanks for listening and for...
Apr 14, 2023•16 min•Ep. 738
