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Bitch Talk Podcast

Erin & Ange

An AAPI produced and hosted pop-culture podcast rooted in San Francisco.

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Slamdance 2025 - BANR and Project Dad

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2025/03/03

Send us a text We're at Slamdance 2025 celebrating two films that center around family issues. BANR is a narrative feature about a couple who has been together for forty years struggling with how to cope with the onset of Alzheimer's as the disease takes its toll. We were joined by director Erica Xia-Hou (夏侯云姗), who explains why she wrote the film during the pandemic as her grandmother was struggling with Alzheimer's, how a last minute dog adoption turned into a star of the film, and the ever...

30:36

Slamdance 2025 - Larry (They/Them) and Complicated

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2025/02/28

Send us a text Welcome to Slamdance 2025, where today we're bringing you two powerful documentaries. Larry (They/Them) follows non binary trans photographer Laurence Philomène during their transitional journey, as they piece together a photographic autobiography and art exhibit entitled "Puberty". Director Catherine Legault explains how she became friends with Laurence, bringing a new perspective to their art, and why it's important to show that everyone's journey is different. Complicated sh...

38:16

Slamdance 2025 - Coroner To The Stars and 40 Watts...

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2025/02/24

Send us a text Welcome to Slamdance 2025! In honor of Slamdance's first time being held in LA, we're kicking things off with two documentaries that are LA as fuuuck. Coroner to the Stars chronicles the life and career of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, head medical examiner and coroner from the late 60s-early 80s in Los Angeles. Director Ben Hethcoat shares the ten year journey it took to get this film made, how growing up as the son of a coroner helped him prepare for this film, and why Dr. Noguchi's ca...

24:34

Girls Will Be Girls Director Shuchi Talati

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2025/02/20

Send us a text Girls Will Be Girls follows 16 year-old Mira as she first discovers sexual desire while attending a strict boarding school in the Himalayas, but her coming-of-age is disrupted by her mother who never got to come of age herself. Director/writer Shuchi Talati shares how she was delicately able to portray teenage sexuality, why certain crew members had a lot of tips for a certain stuffed animal scene, and their emotional experience screening the film in India for the first time. W...

63:43

Basic Bitching at the 7th Annual Standard Deviant...

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2025/02/14

Send us a text Hot damn, this is a fun one! Our friends at the Standard Deviant Brewing Co invited us to record on location at their 7th annual chili cook off, and as regular patrons, we can say without a doubt it’s one of the most fun events of the year. You’ll meet all ten of the competing teams, learn about their secret recipes, and the inspiration behind their costumes (true to SF, we saw everything from ass cheeks to #FreeLuigi). Plus Erin and Ange catch you up on their January sh...

38:14

Sundance 2025 - Third Act and Heightened Scrutiny

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2025/02/12

Send us a text Welcome to our third and final episode for Sundance 2025, featuring two very timely feature length documentaries. Third Act is a documentary that follows the life of Asian American artist and activist Robert A. Nakamura (aka the godfather of Asian American media), while grappling with his recent Parkinson's diagnosis. We were joined by filmmaker (and Robert's son) Tadashi Nakamura and one of the subjects of the film/his mother, Karen Ishizuka, to discuss making this film as a f...

32:59

Sundance 2025 - Vox Humana and Rains Over Babel

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2025/02/06

Send us a text Welcome to the 2025 Sundance Film Festival! This week we're going international with two films that are an homage to their homeland. Vox Humana is a beautifully stylized short film about an eccentric zoologist that gets hired to communicate with a naked man found wandering in the woods after a major earthquake. Director Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan and producer Hannah Schierbeek share the importance of indigenous Filipino stories being represented in cinema, the disconnect betw...

44:08

Sundance 2025 - Remember Me and Didn't Die

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2025/01/31

Send us a text It's Sundance 2025, and we are kicking the festival off with two of our favorites! Remember Me is a short film that shows what happens when a woman who jut got dumped, turned 40, and returned home to take care of her dying father decides she's ready to go on a date. We are joined by director/writer/star Claire Titelman who shares how she found inspiration from the incredible dress she wears in the film (and also where to buy it!), and the story behind the hilarious karaok...

15:23

SF Sketchfest - Comedian Cassie Workman

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2025/01/27

Send us a textCassie Workman is a comedian from Australia who will be performing her one-person show, Aberdeen, at SF Sketchfest on Thursday, January 30th. The show is an epic poem inspired by the death of Kurt Cobain. Cassie shares with us how a visit to Cobain's hometown, Aberdeen, inspired her to write this show during the pandemic, the difference between comedy in Australia versus the states, and how a chance encounter with Phoebe Waller-Bridge helped elevate the show.Click here to get ti...

27:20

Union Producer Samantha Curley

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2025/01/23

Send us a textWe love LA and are heartbroken for the devastation in the wake of the wildfires. See below for links on how you can help.Displaced Black Families GoFund Me DirectoryARC Firefighter FunderSamantha Curley is an activist and producer whose most recent film, Union, documents a group of Amazon workers that embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York. She shares how the film found its origins in trolling Jeff Bezos's mansion in Beverly Hi...

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Unstoppable with Actor Jharrel Jerome

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2025/01/17

Send us a textWe have been following Jharrel Jerome's acting career since Moonlight, and couldn't wait to have him on the show! Ange sits down with Jharrel to discuss his newest project, Unstoppable, based on the true story of wrestler Anthony Robles, who was born with one leg and became a national wrestling champion in 2011. He shares how he trained himself to use one leg, the emotional aspect of the story, and acting alongside some powerhouse stars.Unstoppable is streaming on Amazon Prime r...

28:39

SF Sketchfest 2025 - Tinder Live! creator Lane Moore

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2025/01/10

Send us a textLane Moore is all the hyphenates- writer/actor/comedian/musician/all around bad-bitch. We had so much fun diving into the origin of her Tinder Live show that is celebrating its 10th anniversary at SF Sketchfest with guest hosts Busy Philipps and Paul F. Tompkins at Cobb's Comedy Club on January 24th! She explains how she's been an all around artist since childhood, the comedy and sometimes horror of app dating, how her Ted Talk and books will reflect her legacy, and her band's (...

14:19

Nickel Boys director RaMell Ross

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2025/01/03

Send us a textNickel Boys is based on a novel (which is based on a true story) that follows two African-American boys who form a close friendship while enduring the the horrors of a reform school in Florida. Director RaMell Ross sits down with Erin to discuss how he was able to conceptualize big concepts from the book into a film through tone and an incredible soundtrack, why it took four years of research to collect the archival footage, and casting Bay Area favorites Daveed Diggs and Jimmie...

66:08

Basic Bitch - Our 2024 End of the Year Review!

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2024/12/31

Send us a textHow is it possible that 2024 both flew by and seemed to last forever? We recap behind the scenes highlights from festivals and live events, our favorite interviews and return guests, a year that brought the Bay's first POC Food and Wine Fest and Color Your Mind Festival, the birth of The Bay List, and ending the year with a trip to LA for good food, a Bitch Talk business coaching session with Morgan Shidler, and the spank heard 'round the world.Have a good NYE everyone. Thank's ...

34:36

Basic Bitch - Belize, Secrets, Altoona, and Bush

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2024/12/23

Send us a textWell…it’s been a long ass time since our last #BasicBitch, and we’ve got a lot to catch up on! Ange returned to her favorite town in Belize, Erin shares her love for Wicked, San Francisco “survived” a tsunami and tornado warning, and something exciting happened in Altoona, Pennsylvania (for maybe the first time ever?). Don’t forget to shop small, and check in with your loved ones, especially during this time of year.Support the showThanks for listening and for your support! We c...

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Nurse Unseen Director Michele Josue

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2024/12/13

Send us a textNurse Unseen is a documentary that explores the untold history and humanity of the Filipino nurses who risked their lives on the front lines of the pandemic while being thousands of miles away from home. Director Michele Josue explains the importance of telling Filipino stories through our lens, and how she started filming before the pandemic and when the story took an unexpected turn. Then we share what it means to unpack the colonization mentality, and our mutual love for Tia ...

47:04

Hustle & Play with Morgan Shidler

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2024/12/06

Send us a textAnyone out there feeling burnt out? Have a full calendar, but not feeling fulfilled? Daydream about another kind of life, but not sure how to get there? You're not alone. There's a community of folks led by curiosity deep diving into their lives and filling their days with play, gratitude, push, and hustling. That community was founded and is facilitated by Morgan Shidler, who worked in the public education system in San Francisco and Oakland until she was laid off. Findin...

38:28

The Path Forward Co-Directors Julie Cohen and Mo...

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2024/11/29

Send us a textRight now, there are Palestinian and Israeli people working toward peace. This work has transcended chaos, war, and hate. Frequent guest of the show, director Julie Cohen (RBG, Every Body, My Name is Pauli Murray, Julia) and new friend of the show director Mo Husseini partnered on The Path Forward to capture the work done by everyday people who want to end histories of trauma and heal through conversation and community-building.This short documentary film seeks to amplify t...

35:28

The Return of Jeff Hiller!

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2024/11/22

Send us a textA conversation with Jeff Hiller is so comforting, it's just the medicine we needed in this moment. He stars in one of Bitch Talk's favorite shows, Somebody Somewhere, which has started it's third and final season on HBO/Max/whatever it's called. He shares with us his biggest dream for a future acting role, the story behind his real life obsession with Mentholatum, which scene made everyone both in front of and behind the camera cry, and a life changing tip from the show's costum...

23:48

Interior Chinatown Creator Charles Yu

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2024/11/19

Send us a textInterior Chinatown is the new and exciting series on Hulu based on the novel of the same name. The story follows Willis Wu, a background character trapped in a police procedural called Black & White, after he becomes witness to a crime and discovers secrets about his family's buried history. Ange sat down virtually with author/series writer Charles Yu to commiserate on how it felt to be Asian during the pandemic, the complicated relationship between immigrants and their firs...

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