The Bechdel Cast - A Bechdel Cast Year in Review + Tour Plug!

Episode Date: December 19, 2024

On this mini-sode, Jamie and Caitlin discuss what we watched this past year, movies we're looking foward to, plans for future episodes, and of course, plugged our upcoming live shows in January -- tickets at linktr.ee/bechdelcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Awoo-ga! It's a tour announcement. Yes, indeed. We are going back on tour, doing three different shows in three different cities, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Portland, Oregon. But if you cannot make it in person, we are live streaming both the Los Angeles and Portland shows. Here's the deal. Here is the deal. In Los Angeles, our show is on January 19th. It is a Bechtelcast celebration

where we're gonna have past guests do standup and solo acts. Jamie and myself are gonna do standup. We're gonna have fun little chats with our past guests and just have a big celebration of the show. In San Francisco, the show is on January 23rd. It is a part of SketchFest, and it is a part of our Shrektanic tour in which we are discussing Titanic.

Ever heard of it? And yes, we have outfits. This is the only show that will not be live streamed. So if you wanna see the Titanic show, you gotta be there in San Francisco. Indeed, and then finally we have a show in Portland on January 26th, that is at Curious Comedy Theater and it is also a Shrek Tannic show, this time about Shrek.

And it is also being live streamed. And a little note for our live stream shows, the Los Angeles and the Portland ones, if you cannot actually watch the show as it is being live stream shows, the Los Angeles and the Portland ones, if you cannot actually watch the show as it is being live streamed, you can still buy a ticket and have access to the stream for a week afterward. So if you don't live in those areas

and you wanna see the show, you still have plenty of access to the show. So please, if you can't make it to a live show, get a live stream ticket, it'll still be a blast. And if you are there at a live show, we always do meet and greets and have exclusive merch at the shows. We love going on tour and we love seeing y'all.

So we hope to see you there. And you can grab tickets at Linktree slash Spectalcast for all of those shows, the tickets to the live in-person shows, as well as the live streams. So Linktree slash Bechtelcast and we will see you there. Bye. Hey everyone, it's John also known as Dr. John Paul. And I'm Jordan or Joho.

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On the Peck Del Cast, the questions asked, if movies have women in them, are all their discussions just boyfriends and husbands or do they have individualism? The patriarchy's effin vast. Start changing it with the Bechdel cast. Hello Bechdel cast listeners. Here we are. It's me, Caitlin. It's me, Jamie.

So we're taking a week off from our normal episode this week, but we wanted to check in and do a few things. First and foremost, we're gonna plug our little tour coming up in January. And then we're also gonna do just sort of like a year in review, some movies we've seen this year that we really enjoyed, some stuff we're looking forward to in the coming year, soliciting requests from listeners,

episodes we haven't done, and movies you wanna hear us cover, stuff like that. Because here's a little peek behind the curtain. We are technically supposed to only make 50 episodes a year, but we just simply really enjoy making this show. So technically this is our week off, but we also still wanted to give you a little something to munch on, a little holiday snack.

Oh my goodness. So true, so true. So starting with our tour plug, we have shows in January in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland. And we're doing something very fun, I think. We're doing a combo of a Shrek Tanik US tour as well as on January 19th in Los Angeles.

This show's also being live streamed and it is a Bechtelcast celebration. Jamie, tell them what it is. Yeah, I'm so excited for this. We have never really gotten a chance to celebrate the show. I feel like every time we've been about to do it, something happens and we can't do it, such as a deadly pandemic,

such as I think like a theater closure or something like that. We wanted to just put on a show about the show and have all our favorite guests and celebrate our fans. And yeah, just have like a big fun Bechtel-y variety show for years. And so we're taking the opportunity to do that at Dynasty Typewriter where we love Dynasty Typewriter and it's a great chance for you guys if you are not in Los Angeles to watch the show as well.

We want everyone to feel welcome and to feel a part of it because we love making this show and we want to celebrate the show and ourselves and you guys, everybody. My mom's gonna be there. My mom's gonna be there. It's gonna be so much fun. I can't wait.

She's gonna act up. I can feel it. So, and we will be announcing guests for that soon. But get your ticket. All right, you're gonna be you're gonna be happy. You're gonna like the way it looks. I guarantee it. Oh, where'd that come from? It's like a men's warehouse. Not very buntle cast. Well, here's the thing. It's gonna be sexy as hell. Oh, I'm gonna wear something slutty for sure. Hell

yeah, me too. I want wanna be perfectly clear. My titties might be out, I don't know. My titties will probably be in, but you will be able to see my nipples. That's more my speed. Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm like sheer top fives. I don't have enough titties to really spill out. That's okay.

Well, I mean, who knows how my titties out scenario will manifest exactly, but you have to come to the show to find out. Yeah. Caitlin's boobs never disappoint. And this is, and we're objectifying each other. Okay. So the first show, Vectal Cast Celebration, live stream tickets available, Los Angeles

titties out. January 19th. January. That's what I meant to say. Yeah. Equally important details. The second show on this tour is in San Francisco as a part of SketchFest.

We love going to SketchFest. We go every year. This is our fifth or sixth time or so. This show is January 23rd. This is a part of our Shrektanic US tour. So famously, we did the Shrek Tanik UK and Ireland tour. Which I wasn't able to be at. So this will be my first Shrek Tanik tour. I'm very excited. I'm so excited for you, Jamie. It's a blast if I do say so myself. And so this is part

of the Shrek Tanik tour in San Francisco. We are covering Titanic. And this is the only show that is not being live streamed as a part of this tour. So if you want to see us talk about Titanic and believe me, you do, you have to come to San Francisco and be there in person. Again, that shows January 23rd at Club Fugazi. That's where we were last year. If you came to our SF show last year, it's a beautiful space and we're so excited to talk about Titanic I don't think we've ever actually mentioned Titanic on the show before Jamie. So this will kind of be a first

No, it's actually to be my first time seeing it same. I hope it's good. I've heard good things I hope it has an age like milk and then we're going to milk. And then we're going to Portland for the Shrek portion of our Shrek Tannic tour, Portland, Oregon, that is. And that will be at our beloved Curious Comedy Theater, and we'll be covering Shrek, very likely some surprise guests there as well. And that will be a live streamed show. So if you want to be at the Shrek portion of the Shrek Tanik tour, you are more than welcome. And we've got links to everything on our link tree. Indeed. So the Portland shows January 26.

I can't remember if we mentioned that or not. It's the Shrek show. It's being live streamed. So just a note about the live stream shows in LA and Portland. If you cannot watch the show as it's being streamed live, you can still buy a live stream ticket and then you'll have access to the stream for a week afterward.

So you've got plenty of time to check out the show on the stream. So like you said, Jamie, tickets are at our Linktree, Linktree slash Bechdelcast, as well as the description of this episode. So please, please, please come to our tour. We'd love to see you. We always do little meet and greets at our live shows. We sell exclusive tour merch. Yeah, it's fun. It's so much fun. I can't wait. So yeah, that's the tour. Let's plug our matriarch shall we as well? Yes, I've really if you're not a member of our patreon aka matriarch huge mistake. We've had like a big fun year on the matriarch

this year. It's been one of my favorite years on the matriarch because I feel like it's been a good mix of crowd pleasing favorites, movies that we just haven't covered for some reason that everyone wants to hear about and more priority on directors who are not men, which has been, uh, I've had a lot of fun with this year as well. So I don't know. It's been a really fun blend this year. Did we kick off 2024 on the matron with the Pinocchio Wars or was that last year? No that was last year but I still think that's our best work to date. I think if I had to choose a favorite episode of really anybody that's so horrible but I loved the Pinocchio Wars

it was so much fun. It was a blast. Yeah and this I think we hit 150 episodes on the matriarch this year, which is wild. For sure. Yeah, we're having a blast over there and we are trying to, I mean, again, we upped the amount of community inclusion this year. So there's a lot more polls. If you are a member of the matriarch, you will have a say in what we cover.

And we almost always honor our word. Right now, as we're recording this, there's drama. There's drama on the matriarch. We are in a 50-50 deadlock of our second December episode. And very different movies. I'm thrilled. It's between the original Black Christmas, which celebrates, I didn't even realize,

celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Yes. And a movie that came out three seconds ago that's supposed to be God-awful called Our Little Secret, the latest Lindsay Lohan effort on Netflix. Right. There's about 800 votes in right now, and it is literally 50-50.

And to think you could be the tiebreaker if only you remember The Matron. Yeah, so true. And this is really obvious. I know we've said it a million times, but if you want to directly support the show, that is the best way. And it's kind of the best bang for your buck as well, because it's, you know, five bucks a month and you get two bonus episodes plus 150 other episodes. Including the Pinocchio Wars. I was about to say, especially the Pinocchio Wars, our best episode. It's pretty mean of us to have our best episode

behind a paywall, but- Well, that's capitalism, baby. We live in a society. We live in a society, I don't know what to tell you. Yeah, some possible themes. Oh yes, do you have some pitches? Well, there's some ones that we've kind of teased or kind of joked about doing, but I think we actually should do them. And then I have a few pitches as well.

Oh, okay. So we, I think very recently we're just talking about doing Rodenttober in which we would cover- Oh yes, Mike's Mike inspired theme. Yes, Ratatouille and then something else else some other rodent movie. We could do Flush the way we could do I think we should do Alvin and the Chipmunks. No Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 because that has the Chipettes. Wow feminism. The Chipettes are feminist canon in my opinion. Incredible. Another one we teased was Insecttober, in which we would cover B-movie and The Fly.

Our feminist podcast, we really love... The Matron is fun. Yeah, I do. God, I really want to watch The Fly again. I don't know why I was so serious when I said that, but I really do. Well, we're going to... It came in number two in a poll we did recently, and it seemed like enough people really do. Well, we're gonna, it like came in number two

in a poll we did recently, and it seemed like enough people were interested. So I think we should do it. I was gonna pitch that as a potential month, is movies that have almost won previous matriam polls. Cause I feel like there's a few movies, I'm trying to pull an example, but like, I feel like there's a few that have,

we've almost covered like multiple times over the last decade. And it's just like, well, few that we've almost covered like multiple times over the last decade. And it's just like, well, I guess we'll never know if in bruges is feminist or not or whatever. Like. So we've got Rodenttober, Insecttober, a few other animal themed ones. I don't know why, but they're just,

they're such fun movies. Cause you've got Dog December, I would like to pitch, Air Bud, and maybe like Beethoven, or something, something like that. I would like to pitch Snake September, in which we would cover- It's all animals, Kim? And then there's another one too, but it's,

look, animals are an important part. No, I know, I show up empty handed, I show up empty handed with pitches, and then I start yelling at Yeah, it's just interesting It's it is but snakes September would be snakes on a plane and anaconda Mm-hmm. I think it's important that we discuss those and then I'm still gunning for mask March in which we would cover Jim Carrey's the mask as well as the mask of Zorro. I think oh wow I used it, you know, I think. Oh, wow.

I used to, you know what's really funny to me? Yeah. Is that I watched the Mask of Zorro in eighth grade history. And you're like, what? That's probably not historically accurate. It was just, it just made me laugh. I was like, for the love of God. Yes, I have a lot of, Yes, I have a lot of proposals.

I'm trying to pull them. I wanted to do a Coralie month on the matriarch where we covered both the substance and revenge. Oh yes. French Diva month really. Or we could do French Diva month and do the substance and anatomy of a fall. Oh right.

The French gals are having a big moment. I also, I don't know how fun this would be, but so stay with me. But I would really be curious to do a post-Me Too auteur month. That's a clunky name. I've brought it up a lot of how there was like a whole slate of male auteurs attempting to make a feminist movie,

and I think they've all been forgotten. I'm thinking about, what was that movie about? Like, Megyn Kelly. Oh, bombshell. Yeah, like that sort of genre of movie where it's like man trying to be ally, failing and yet winning an award for it. That's what I would call the month. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Um, Alex Garland's

men. I didn't see that. I know you did. No, I didn't see that. I would never watch. Okay. I just, I, I imagined that that is a title that has to be screamed. Men, yeah, it's like his wife, men. I mean, there's so many options. And then there's also, I mean, on the main feed, we want to cover or continue to cover really a wider slate of movies. I would love to cover more movies from trans directors in the coming years.

We have in the works, some episodes covering Palestinian films. And if you have any recommendations for guests for those episodes, we definitely want to hear. I'm excited for the coming year, because I don't know, you would think after eight years that we would not still have so many movies to cover, but we simply do. I also, oh, also on the, the matriarch, I would love to, I mean, it would be a little heavy, but I would love to have like a women's mental health kind of theme.

This is a theme we pitched years ago. Was it? It was like Girl Interrupted and maybe like a woman under the influence, something like that. Like I, there's nothing but options, but I would love to do, yeah, like a focus on, and hopefully movies from different eras too. They don't have to be good,

they just have to be influential. You know the rules of the show. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So many good themes, listeners, if you have any matri on themes you wanna pitch or just regular main feed episodes that you'd like to hear us cover, please let us know.

We have a request form that you can fill out. It's on our link tree. And so you can submit requests there. A lot of people like DM us on Instagram, you know, whatever way you wanna tell us, let us know. And Jamie, you and I, we both went to the movies this year. Actually, we both did it quite a bit. Quite a bit. Interesting.

Did you have any favorite movies that either you saw from 2024 or that you just happened to see for the first time in 2024 doesn't need to be a new release from this year. I there are there are a bunch of movies that I saw for the first time this year. Many of them were for the show as is always true. I'm going to try to think of movies I didn't watch for the show specifically. I mean, I as loyal listeners will know, I was with my dad a lot this year before he passed and we watched a bunch of movies together

and that was like so many really nice memories. So not first watches, but like really nice final watches of some of me and my dad's favorite movies together. So Pee Wee's Big Adventure was a big one. He watched School of Rock with me. I would not say that's one of his favorites, but. It's one of your favorites. It is my very favorite.

We watched The Wizard of Oz. We watched, and then just like a bunch of like old, we watched Monty Python, Holy Grail. Nice. Just dad core favorites. And then I watched a few movies for the first time with him a little earlier in the year. I saw the original Manchurian candidate which was actually very good it is very good the long goodbye which I is one of those

movies and I'm like I know it's good but I don't really want to see it again we watched a documentary about Paul Robeson which was really fascinating my dad's a big documentary guy so yeah that'll be my first chunk of special movie experiences, was watching stuff with him earlier this year. Lovely, thank you for sharing that. Of course. I, on the other hand, just went to AMC theaters

by myself all the time. I mean, I did plenty of that too. For sure. We go to that place. We come to this place for magic. We come to this place to laugh, to cry, to care, of course. And the movies that I watched at that place were, for example, some of my favorites,

The Substance, which we already mentioned. Absolutely one of my, we, oh God, I love what we emphatically agree on a movie and it's so good. We will cover it sometime soon for the listeners who want to hear us cover it. I know we've gotten many requests already. I saw the TV glow was another that I really enjoyed in theaters this year.

I low key loved the movie Heretic. I still haven't seen it. I don't know if it's good or not, but I loved watching Hugh Grant be basically the same villain character he is in Paddington 2. But this time he's Mormon, question mark? No, he's not Mormon. You know, I'm not gonna give anything else away,

but he's critical of organized religion, we'll say that. What a diva. Yeah, I also loved, oh, this was an under the radar movie that I hosted a Q and A for, and I thought it was just like so, so good. Would hugely recommend for any body horror fans, if you enjoyed The Substance, if you enjoyed Night Bitch, you'll enjoy Booger by Mary Dauterman

about a woman who is slowly turning in to her recently deceased friend's cat. It is awesome. She's a first time director. Does she grow extra nipples? I can't spoil it, but I will say it's like, I don't know. I feel like on the body horror spectrum, it is like between the substance and Night Bitch. Okay. So it's

it's it's a good it's a good feeling. I highly recommend it. Yeah that was another fun one from this year. Very cool. I'll just rattle off a few of my other favorites from 2024. I really enjoyed Thelma. I still need to see it. It's so fun, it's very funny. I really liked Dee Dee, Kneecap. I did enjoy Moana too. The songs didn't quite slap as much as the first one, but I had a good time. I enjoyed the movie Wicked Little Letters. Oh, I enjoyed the movie Wicked.

Well, that too. I enjoyed the movie Wicked. Wicked is fun. It's the best movie. It looks bad, but it sounds amazing. I love it. Also, this obviously did not come out in 2024, but I saw, and I already talked about this

on a recent episode, but I saw Gremlins 2 for the first time, and wow, is it my new favorite movie. I had a blast. I can't, we're gonna cover that for your birthday. Yeah, probably. A movie I had not seen or heard of that was, I don't know, sometimes those Delta flights, they're like, Jamie, heard of this one?

Haven't, but it's a movie that came out in 2023. I don't know if it was released in the US ever in a formal way. I hadn't heard of it, but it's called Monster. It is a Japanese film. It's like a queer coming of age psychological like drama. It's hard to explain. But I thought it was really, really good. I've seen it twice now because you know when you see a movie on a plane and you're crying and you're like was it the plane or the movie? It's in fact the movie. I would really recommend it. I didn't hear very much about it in the U.S. but it seems like it did pretty well in Japan and yeah it's a really sweet and sad story so I would recommend it. sweet and sad story. So I would recommend it.

Lovely. There's some movies also that come out in 2025 that I'm very much looking forward to. We are looking forward to. Namely, Paddington in Peru, which was supposed to be released in the US back in November. That got pushed to January.

Now it's pushed to February 14th, which is like, why is that coming out on Valentine's Day? That's a weird choice. I don't know if it's good or not. And please don't tell me for those of you who might've already seen the movie because it was released in the UK in November. Already?

Oh my gosh. Yeah, so I don't know why the US release date is so far away. Interesting? Oh my gosh. Yeah, so I don't know why the US release date is so far away. Interesting. I'm nervous, I don't know if it's bad, don't tell me. If it's good, I guess tell me. I don't know, I just, I wanna experience it for myself. But don't go too far.

But I'm nervous. But I'll see it. I'm excited for Wicked Part 2, obviously. Oh yes. Other ones, Mickey17, the new Bong Joon Ho. That release date also keeps getting pushed back in a way that's, because I think it's now coming out in April or something.

I don't know, they keep changing it. Rude. Yeah. We've got Megan 2.0. I know, we gotta go together. Yeah. Mattoogin. Yes, Matthreegin 2.

I'm excited for Love Hurts, which is that action movie starring Kee Kee Kwan. Oh, I haven't heard of it. Yeah, it looks fun based on the trailer. Also fun based on the trailer is One of Them Days, that Kee Kee Palmer and SZA movie that comes out soon. I'm seeing this for the first time. Del Toro's making a Frankenstein movie.

Yes, starring Oscar Isaac. Hello. Okay, say no more. Excuse me, okay, I'm putting that on my watch list. Thank you Letterboxd for that information. And will I see Now You See Me Three? Which is not called Now You Three Me. Yeah, I'll probably go. Will you Three Me? Yeah, I'll probably go.

Will you say it? OK. Well, that brings me to a list I have of unnecessary movies and sequels. Now You Three Me? I did put Now You Three Me on there along with Zootopia 2. Oh my god. Yeah, the Revenge of Copaganda Animals.

Yes. Speaking of which, the movie Den of Thieves is getting a sequel and that comes out soon for reasons unknown. Why would they make a sequel of that? Okay. Another unnecessary sequel, Jurassic World Rebirth. Does anyone even care about that anymore?

It's just like they're determined to. And if Freakier Friday is on this list, I'm gonna cut my own head off. I'm excited for Freakier Friday. No, I'm excited for it. Okay, okay. Just letting you know. We do have two Snow White movies coming out

and I was going to pitch the Snow White Wars, but also one of them has Zionist Gal Gadot in it, so I will not be watching that under any. So I will not be watching that. I will not be watching. I just, ugh, I, that looks stinky. And I'm a, I'm a Rachel Ziegler fan. I just am like, well, God, it does not look good. Yeah.

There's going to be a, uh, this is sort of interesting. Did you read Hedda Gabler in high school? No, I didn't. It's a European,-feminist play. Okay. Norwegian, Norwegian by Henrik Ibsen. I had to read it in high school and I wanted to revisit it because I really liked it.

I feel like it was in my, like my high school English teacher was big time, like we're gonna read women. Nice. Yeah, so, but Nia DaCosta, who in the past has, I mean, she directed the Marvels, she directed Candyman. I'm really excited that she's adapting Hedda Gabler starring Tessa Thompson, which I think sounds really good.

I'm excited to see her, cause I feel like she has like low-key been like sabotaged with like franchise stuff and I'm excited to see her do obviously Head of Gabbler's and adaptation but it's I'm excited to see that. I will definitely go see that. Let her cook. Is there anything else Jamie you'd like to share? I'm gonna see Avatar 3. That's what I'd like to share. I'm gonna see it. It does sort of

go without saying. Our King James Cameron. 3vatar. Precisely. I would like to personally plug, I teach screenwriting classes as you may or may not know with the master's degree that you may or may not know that I have from Boston University in screenwriting that I of course never mentioned. But I do use it to teach both an intro to screenwriting class so that's suitable for beginners or someone who needs a refresher or any kind of introductory screenwriting class.

And then I also teach a workshop in class which allows students to bring in material that they have written or ideas that they wanna develop further. And you workshop that with your peers and you get feedback from your classmates and from me. So those are classes that I teach and you can find more information about them

on my website, caitlindorante.com slash classes. Wow, Jamie, do you have anything you wanna plug? Yes, I'm excited for this coming year. Yeah, I don't have a master's degree and I never will. But, well, I hate debt. And you can just Google things. That's why you should take my classes instead of going to get a master's degree.

Save yourself six figures and take Caitlin's class. Truly. But yeah, this coming year, I've really been enjoying working on 16th Minute. If you're listening to this when it comes out, we just finished a three-part series on the Manosphere, which was really stressful to finish, but I think if you're not familiar with that space, I would recommend checking out the series. It's

intended to sort of be like an explainer of what the space is and what we can kind of expect to see from it, unfortunately, in the coming year, now that it has been very much empowered by Trump. So we're working on that. Other recent subjects I really enjoyed were the Wicked Witches, the East Bro guy, if you have ever seen that clip. I tracked him down, and he's a weird guy.

We also did a series on Tessica Brown, the Gorilla Glue Girl, we did William Hung, we did the Tumblr Bone Witch, and we have Tays on Day coming up at the beginning of the year. I also produce We The Unhoused, which is a show very close to my heart by my friend Theo Henderson,

who is a formerly unhoused man who is now an advocate for the unhoused. It's a story by the unhoused for the unhoused. And we've been covering a lot about the Supreme Court decision that happened earlier this year, grants passed, which essentially makes it illegal to be unhoused at all. And so Theo has been covering that really, really thoughtfully.

And I would recommend checking that show out. And also I will be on tour to some extent this coming spring because the paperback of my book, Raw Dog is coming out. Yeah, so I went to I think eight cities last year when the hardcover came out and I'm gonna went to I think eight cities last year when the hard cover came out and I'm going to go to I think five or six more that I didn't go to last time. I'm aiming to go to Seattle. I may need to go to Philadelphia. I'm just if there's a city that

you think I should go to. I would love to see you on my little spring tour. Oh, my gosh, that's so exciting. Yeah. And yeah, those Oh, and I have a special coming out next year called The Tiny Man is Trying to Kill Me. I'll let you know more when I know more. Yay. I think we should cover Leprechaun to promote that. We should just find a tiny man movie. Have you ever seen Leprechaun? No. Nor have I, but I know enough about it that I think that would be a hilarious choice. It's supposed to be gnarly, right? Yes. Yeah. There's also some sequels that are very wild as well from what I understand. That's like the Jennifer Aniston's first

movie was like Leprechaun 2, right? Yes, I think so. Yeah. Wild. So yeah, we'll do Leprechaun to promote your special. Yeah, I can't wait for all of that. Also Santa University. Santa Universities will be out by the time you hear this, I believe. Or no, it won't. No, it won't. It'll be out on Christmas Eve.

Okay, so you've got that to look forward to listeners. Santa University eight, if you can believe it. Wowie wow. I will be reprising my role as Sully, the Boston local who is the manager of the store Lids. Best character ever written, best character ever performed by me. Oh, I've EGOT, EGOT for you.

Thank you. Yes. Thank you so much. So yeah, there you have it listeners. Thank you so much for feedback and suggestions and recommendations and for just being here with us. We love you. We love you so much.

We're excited to be on tour. We're excited to see everybody and we're going to watch Ratatouille on Christmas together. Sorry. Sorry. Yeah, if you don't know what that is, look it up. And then you can thank us later. Thanks for hanging out with us for a half hour. Enjoy your holiday if you are celebrating and enjoy your week if you're not.

We love you so much and we'll see you next week. Bye. Bye. The Bechtel cast is a production of iHeart Media. and we'll see you next week. Bye! Bye! The Bechtel Cast is a production of iHeart Media hosted by Caitlin Durante and Jamie Loftus, produced by Sophie Lichterman, edited by Mo Laborde. Our theme song was composed by Mike Kaplan with vocals by Catherine Voskrasensky. Our logo and merch is designed by Jamie Loftus and a special thanks to Aristotle Acevedo. For more information about the podcast, please visit linktree slash Bechtelcast.

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Listen to Decisions Decisions on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Attention, Bechtelcast listeners, awoo-ga! It's a tour announcement. Yes, indeed, we are going back on tour, doing three different shows in three different cities, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Portland, Oregon. But if you cannot make it in person, we are live streaming both the Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Portland, Oregon.

But if you cannot make it in person, we are live streaming both the Los Angeles and Portland shows. Here's the deal. Here is the deal. In Los Angeles, our show is on January 19th. It is a Bechtelcast celebration where we're gonna have past guests do stand up and solo acts. Jamie and myself are gonna do stand up.

We're gonna have fun little chats with our past guests and just have a big celebration of the show in San Francisco. The show is on January 23rd. It is a part of SketchFest and it is a part of our Shrektanic tour in which we are discussing Titanic ever heard of it. And yes, we have outfits.

This is the only show that will not be live streamed. So if you wanna see the Titanic show, you gotta be there in San Francisco. Indeed, and then finally, we have a show in Portland on January 26th. That is at Curious Comedy Theater and it is also a Shrektanik show, this time about Shrek. And it is also being live streamed.

And a little note for our live stream shows, the Los Angeles and the Portland ones, if you cannot actually watch the show as it is being live streamed, you can still buy a ticket and have access to the stream for a week afterward. So if you don't live in those areas and have access to the stream for a week afterward. So if you don't live in those areas and you wanna see the show,

you still have plenty of access to the shows. So please, if you can't make it to a live show, get a live stream ticket, it'll still be a blast. And if you are there at a live show, we always do meet and greets and have exclusive merch at the shows. We love going on tour and we love seeing y'all so we hope to see you there. And you can grab tickets at linktree.com for all of those shows, the

tickets to the live in-person shows as well as the live streams. So linktree.com and we will see you there. Bye. Hey everyone, it's John, also known as Dr. John Paul. And I'm Jordan or Joe Ho. And we are the Black Fat Film Podcast. A podcast where all the intersections of identity are celebrated. Oh, chat, this year we have had some of our favorite people on including Kid Fury, T.S.

Madison, Amber Ruffin from the Amber and Lacey Show, Angelica Ross, and more. Make sure you listen to the Black Fat Femme podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Have a podcast or whatever you get your podcast, girl. Oh, I know that's right. Had enough of this country? Ever dreamt about starting your own? I planted the flag. This is mine.

I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There are 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Or maybe not. No country willingly gives up their territory. Oh my God. What is that? Bullets.

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