The Bechdel Cast - Thanksgiving Minisode

Episode Date: November 22, 2018

On this minisode, Jamie and Caitlin thank all the people who have helped to make this podcast what it is!For Bechdel bonuses, sign up for our Patreon at patreon.com/bechdelcast.Follow @BechdelCast, @caitlindurante and @jamieloftusHELP  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th 2017 was assassinated. Crooks Everywhere unearthed the plot to murder a one-woman WikiLeaks. She exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. Listen to Crooks Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, you're just starting your career. That's where we come in. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in people who do, like negotiation expert Maury Tahiripour. If you start thinking about negotiations as just a conversation, then I think it sort of eases us a little bit. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Curious about queer sexuality, cruising, and expanding your horizons?

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now on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Thursday. On the Bechdel 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 and welcome to the Bechdel cast. Hi, it's us again. It's us, it's Caitlin. And Jamie.

And we're here for a special and short Thanksgiving mini-sode. So sorry if you're home and like, man, I wish I had content to consume instead of talking to my family. And you're probably right to feel that way. But even us content creators toiling in the content factory all day and freaking night. We got to take a break. Need freaking rest, man.

So we're going to take this opportunity instead. Instead of doing heavy discourse, which you've come to know and love we're gonna just say thanks to a bunch of people yeah so so these are uh yeah people we're thankful for uh we you know we don't recognize thanksgiving because it's yes it's not a holiday that i observe personally i will be watching titanic on a loop on this day but i will not i will binge eat yes but i don't like what thanksgiving stands for i like what binge eating stands for same which is compartmentalizing pain that's right where's that holiday the holiday of compartmentalizing pain we could adjust thanksgiving very easily to be anyways uh, so here are some people that we're thankful for.

That's right. First and foremost. We would be remiss. Aristotle. Aristotle Acevedo. He's been our producer from the beginning. From before we even started launching the episodes. He's been with us from day one.

He's the realest real one in the entire world yes he is the sweetest he is the most patient canonically as far as i'm concerned the only man oh except there's a few others okay melina okay yes alfred aristotle and then we'll get to there's there are a few other men we'll recognize on the list. But I want to say that it's, it's not often that you, you know, you find a man who is so supportive of the message that we deliver here on the Bechtel cast of, you know, gender equality and intersectional feminism and who walks the goddamn walk and literally walks women to abortion clinics so he's the he's the model after which all men should model themselves that's right so aristotle thank you so much for all the time and hard work you've put into making sure this podcast is actually a podcast and not just a bunch of goofs talking into a void. And in a year where we've had a lot of like changes in our, not, I mean, the show hasn't

changed, but the behind the scenes stuff was crazy. So we're, we're grateful that he's been with us the whole time and stays with us and we love him. That's right. And speaking of those changes, it's time for us to thank our other producer sophie lichterman yay sophie came into our life this year and we have never turned back we've never turned back as i understand it so she is our producer at how stuff works our network and as i understand it she begged the powers that be to work on our show really yeah she's like put me on bechdel cast i want to work on it she's like, put me on Bechdel cast. I want to work on it. I bet she's like regretting it. But we're thankful she hasn't said that to our faces. And so, you know, that's good.

That's great. So, Sophie, thank you for keeping us organized and for being on top of everything. And you're the best. Next, we would like to thank another man oh gosh yawn just kidding one of the greats jack o'brien who brought us onto the how stuff works network yes this year and was so supportive of our transition onto a network it's our first time on a network and yeah and he's been a fan from pretty early on oh yeah i mean. I mean, he was for almost, I met Jack almost two years ago and he contacted us originally

because he was a fan of the show. Anyways, we're just bragging that people have been fans of the show. This is really what this episode is. What is this for? We're not thankful. We are just proving how cool we are and how many fans we have.

But we'd like to extend our thanks to truly everyone at the Hey Sluts What's Up family, who we love so much. Miles Gray, Anna Hosnier, a two-time guest of the show for crying out loud. All the hosts on the network who we know and love. Ify Wadiwe, Danny Fernandez,

Shereen, Robert Evans, Edgar Momplasir, Jaquise Neal Andy and Naomi Check out all of their podcasts if you haven't already The Daily Zeitgeist, Ethnically Ambiguous, Nerdificent Culture Kings, Behind the Bastards Couples Therapy Yeah, all of our buds

We're grateful to be part of the family That's right Also, shout out to some of the other folks who you might have heard us mention but you know you may not know but dan and nick uh here at how stuff works but again sorry for thanking men gee whiz but those are some of the good ones wonderful support and we are happy to be here we love it we'd like to thank our guests yeah any guests who we've ever had on um basically we make you do homework to be on this show so to anyone who's you know put the time in and contributed your

valuable perspectives to the show we thank you i'd also like to especially shout out our uh live show guests who truly have to go the extra mile in order to participate uh so you will not have heard most of these episodes yet but some recent live guests uh aaron whack marsha belsky uh maggie may fish danielle radford natalie mcgill yeah so we'd like to thank them in particular for for going way out of the way hell yeah to to be there and we're just very grateful to our guests for offering perspective and jokes and all that good shit. We love them very much. So much. And hope that you have found new faves by listening to them on the show.

My mom always tells me that she looks up everyone we ever have as a guest and, you know, sees what they're up to. Watches their comedy videos if they're a stand up. And yeah, so someone's doing it. My mom is in love with Demi Ad ebay oh who isn't so that is you know her main takeaway literally my mom's main take i'm she's not on the list and here's why she she's not on the list because her main takeaway from our show is that she loves punch up the Jam and she loves Demi and Mio those are her two favorite episodes and she's just like I just love Punch Up the Jam I'm like you know what it's a good show but that's not why I told you to listen to that so anyways my mom's a huge Punch Up the

Jam fan good for a show that is not on this network so thank you so much mom you're not on the list i wanted to thank any writers who have who've written about us uh yeah written articles or included us on lists of podcasts to love list culture and any podcasts who've had one or both of us on as guests we have a lot of fun doing that you know the people who give us more visibility so thank you so much for that. Appreciate it. Rebecca Bones was one of our early AV Club advocates who wrote a lot about us and who was also a guest on our The Holiday episode. You should listen to her podcast, Classroom Crush. Yes, indeed.

Absolutely love. We would like to thank Mike Kaplan, who I saw last week. He's doing great. He wrote our theme song way, way, way back in the day. He's an excellent musician in addition to being a great comedian. That's right. And Catherine Voskrasinski. I hope I said that right.

Thank you to her for performing our theme song. That voice we all know so well. We love it. We get messages all the time about how catchy and fun our theme song is. And it's all Mike and Catherine. So check out the work of those very talented people. Absolutely. We would like to, I'd like to thank people who have been helpful to us while we were touring.

All the venues that we have performed at and the various people some of whom were fans who helped us set up shows shout out to my cousin Tammy for putting us up for a night in DC and we're still getting used to touring with the show so thank you to everyone who's attended a live show we hope you had a great time and to everyone who who has made uh doing our live shows possible because touring ain't easy baby touring ain't easy so yeah special thanks to the venues like improv boston and cambridge massachusetts babies all right in brooklyn new york brown university good good comedy theater in philadelphia draft house comedy theater and emissary in washington dc So thanks to all those spaces for having us.

And the Ruby in L.A. Oh, and a special thanks to the Ruby in L.A. for giving us a monthly live show. So it's monthly. Check us out on the second Saturday of every month at 9 p.m. If you happen to live in L.A., which probably statistically you don't. Right. But if you do, don't miss our next live show there at the ruby on december 8th we're talking about elf with special guest mara wilson so check that out and this might be a good time to bring up the

upcoming west coast tour that we have because we're gonna be in san francisco portland in seattle in january so we can we can shout that out more details about that toward the end of this episode. And that reminds me, thanks to all the festivals who have had us. We've got New York Comedy Festival, Women in Comedy Festival, the Boston Comedy Arts Festival, and all the people who run it, especially. Yes. And yes, yes Catherine Leon who helped us with the New York Comedy Festival and who's a dear friend of mine um Michelle Barbera and everyone at the Women in Comedy Festival thanks to you for all of your support and hey Jamie let's take a quick break and then we'll be back to thank some more people thanks this is the longest acceptance speech ever

it truly is talk to you in a second. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017, was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate. My name is Manuel Delia. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unhurts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks. Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price.

Listen to Crooks Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradente. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline, a new podcast from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. When you're just starting out in your career, you have a lot of questions. Like, how do I speak up when I'm feeling overwhelmed?

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and the person who gets the job is usually who applies. Yeah, I think a lot about that quote. What is it, like you miss 100% of the shots you never take? Yeah, rejection is scary, but it's better than you rejecting yourself. Together, we'll share what it really takes to thrive in the early years of your career without sacrificing your sanity

or sleep. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey everybody, this is Matt Rogers. And Bowen Yang. We've Sandra Bernhardt and you. for a conversation that's as hilarious as it is insightful. Tune in for all the laughs, the stories, and of course, the culture. I feel some Sandra Bernhardt in you. Oh my God, I would love it.

I have to watch Lost. Oh, you have to. No, I know, I'm so behind. Katherine Hahn can sing. Oh, I'm really good at karaoke. And on camera, yeah, what's your song? Oh, I love really good at karaoke. What's your song? Yeah, what's your song? Oh, I love a ballad. I felt Bjork's music

and I just was like, who is this person? I got to hawk this slalom, Luge. I'm not going to hawk this slalom. I absolutely love it. It was somehow Shakespearean

when you said it. It was somehow gorgeous. Yee, my slok, you hollum. Listen to Las Culturistas on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back to give more thanks. It goes without saying, finally, of course, we're thankful for you. The fans.

We love you so much. But in all seriousness, to anyone who has ever listened, given us a review on iTunes that wasn't Hates Men 1 Star, dropped us a line on Facebook or Twitter or emailed us or reached out or given us helpful critique, which does help us improve the show. Yes. Shared your thoughts, experiences, and especially to people who are also matrons. And yes, that support is truly invaluable. Oh, yeah. I lost my job earlier this year because the comedy venue that I was doing the programming for suddenly closed down and I was without an income. And if it weren't for the Matron, I literally would have not bad things would have happened. Bad things. Well, we are thankful for bad things not happening to Caitlin.

So, yes, very much. Thank you to the matrons who show their support. We have the best fans. We do. The most gracious and respectful and smart. We're always so excited to meet you and getting to talk to you and take pics and just talk about what brought you to the show. And it just, it really, we could wax poetic all damn day. We could.

But we're so grateful for you. Thank you for doing everything you do. And we hope to do this, you know, as long as we can. That's right. Also, a big thanks to anyone who's made fan art for us or who has like sent us fan mail or gifts because we've gotten some awesome gifts of like enamel pins. We've gotten t-shirts.

We've gotten stickers, books, Mike's Hard Lemonade. DVDs. DVDs. We've received a beautiful handmade cutting board. Yeah. Everything is incredible. Yes. The fan art especially brings me such joy.

I know. It's so adorable and wonderful. We highly, if you, we're always down. Yes. We're just always down to receive. What a cool message.

On this Thanksgiving. On this Thanksgiving. Speaking of capitalism, this is a great point to mention that it's capitalist season again baby isn't it always tiki uh anyways your loved ones will be expecting items from you shortly and what better item to peddle to them aggressively than an item that we made uh this is my plug for our t public store where we just released for the you'll hear this on thanksgiving and you'll be like well

isn't black friday tomorrow isn't cyber money the next monday well guess what i'm gonna forget to release them so they're all out now a lot of new designs first of all queer icon baby grinch uh there's two different designs and one grinch is wearing heels and has nipple tassels yeah there's also a tamer design for those that can't, I don't know, fucking handle it. We're launching our non-binary icon design. We have a strong female protagonist that's been out, but we have it in multiple colors. Our embargo on men design is out. And a new design of Caitlin and myself, if you happen to need us on your body.

Which you do. Which you do. There's two different examples of us passing the Bechdel test on merch. Wonderful. So it's all out now, baby. And thanks to everyone who's already bought merch and supported the show that way. We love it when you, you know, wear the merch, send your photos, keep doing it. We love it so much.

We love reposting those. So thank you to everyone who is spreading the word of the Bechtel cast through your apparel. So thank you. Yes, we love you dearly. Thank you so much. I hope you're having a good holiday. And if you're not, I hope you get revenge on the person who made it not good for you. And I always want to say that, like, messages from fans, brag, who often say things.

They'll say things like this podcast has helped me get through a difficult time. Or they'll say like this podcast has completely changed the way that I view movies and has made me a more critical consumer of media. Or they'll say something like, listening to your podcast empowered me to stand up for myself, or to kind of speak out in the name of feminism and female empowerment. So thank you to anyone who sent us a message like that, because that is why we do the show to help people view media differently and to empower people and to entertain you hopefully too yes and especially what's been valuable to me and i think what always makes our show better is uh when our listeners are able to educate us and if there are issues on the show where sometimes you know caitlin myself and sometimes our guests between the three of us, we're, we're not able to fully understand a complicated social issue. We have blind spots. Yeah,

we definitely have blind spots. And I mean, it's the never ending quest to understand a little better and always be listening. And that certainly applies to our listeners who I've, I mean, I've learned so much. I mean, even thinking about, we talked about this a lot in our 100th episode, but like how differently I view stuff than I did two years ago when we started the show. I mean, I think about some of our early episodes where it's like the blind spots are out. And I'm sure, you know, ideally we'll feel that way about us right now in two years from now. So, yes, from from all of you has just been such a so wonderful pleasure yes thank you so much love you and i said this last year on our little thanksgiving episode but i will say it again i just want to say thanks to all the

women non-binary queer people of color the filmmakers comedians writers and the occasional entertainers right yes um because some of my favorite example is the pop culture detective jonathan mcintosh who's making great video essays about toxic masculinity and the like in media and how we need to have conversations about it and reverse those bad trends and tropes but um yeah i just want to say thanks to all the people who are making things and creating art and telling their stories but i also i have to say thanks to all the people who fucked up real bad and made bad movies because it gives us things to talk about. Shout out to all the major fuckos out there who are making bad stuff so we can roast you. Yes.

And also shout out to the occasional very good movie that we cover on the show. Yes, indeed. I mean, yeah. And to any of our male listeners, we also appreciate you. And one of, one something that always sort of uh resonates with me when hearing from a male listener is that it you know just affects their worldview and makes them view media a little differently because it you know it was made for you right and so understanding that uh that is perhaps not the move is terrific and indeed we appreciate you we do we we come down pretty hard on men

a lot and we and we recognize that but there are some good ones and i wanted to thank a few specific ones but some some friends of mine and and this includes people of all genders but um jt my best friend in the world uh listens. He doesn't have to, but he does. So thanks to JT for listening. My good friends Maya, Martha, and Kanese, and Jenny Chalikian, the last two, have been guests of ours on the show. Thanks to my mom and my brother Eric for listening.

My friends Justine and Dan. My friends Nolan, Alex, and Jake all listen to the show so there's some of those and then of course thanks to my dear friend Sammy who has recorded some episodes for us who has been a guest on the she's the man episode and um they're also going on tour with us yes going on tour with us and Sammy's given me a lot of technical advice on like editing and how to work this zoom machine that i bought to record our some of our episodes on so uh yes thanks to all those people who are very near and dear to me a few people i'd like to thank my little brother who listens to every episode and to his many female friends he's introduced the show to. I would like to thank the three female writers

I pull from most frequently when working on this show, which would be Lindsay Ellis, Anita Sarkeesian, and Roxane Gay, two of whom have been on the show. And I would like to thank my boyfriend. Boo! I know. Who listened to 900 episodes before boyfriend is a very nice man he's allowed i'm glad that you're with him i regret to inform you he's allowed until he's not and then he's out of there shout out well the final person i would like to thank is you jamie i want to thank you for being

with me this whole time i want to thank you for your perspective and your humor and everything that you bring to the table it's so valuable and wonderful and i have so much fun doing this with you and i hope we do it forever forever i love you i'm thankful for you too i'm thankful for i mean i'm thankful for truly our we feel like we gush about our friendship very well the people love it and it no but it uh has changed my life so shut up okay anyways it has uh changed my life and shaped it in a very positive way and we love each other and it's grass

and yeah and thank you for I love your notes oh my god I take too many notes you take so many notes I love it it makes me feel safe thank you for making me feel very self consciousconscious about your notes

no your notes are literally my safe space i feel safest in the arms of your notes um yeah i'm thankful for you i'm thankful for uh how this show has you know changed stuff for us i'm very grateful and we we love you and if this is your first episode listening you're psychotic so thanks yeah thanks to well we do have some brand new listeners we've had some people who've been with us from the first episode no matter where you came into the show, we appreciate you as listeners and we love you so much. Yes, queen. Yes, queen. Go off. As promised, we will plug our West Coast tour now.

Oh, yes. Hello. Hello. We're going to be in San Francisco on January 20th talking about the Breakfast Club as a part of SF Sketch Fest. Tickets are available for that now. So get them while you can. We are then moving on up the coast to Portland, Oregon. We're literally stopping in wine country.

Deal with it. Yes. Sometimes we're Caucasian women and it happens. We have to drink some white wine at a vineyard. Who says white people don't have culture? Just kidding. We're also going to look at some trees some redwood trees on the way we're very cool try not to be jealous of us

we stare at trees and get drunk and then we so we'll be in portland on january 23rd we are talking about fight club yes and we're going to be at curious comedy theater yeah so tickets are also online for that so uh go to bechtelcast.com slash the live appearances tab for tickets and then we're also going to be in seattle for two shows back to back on the same night january 25th we're talking about the little mermaid on the first show and then sleepless in se. How appropriate. Literally imagine how hard we thought about that one. Really earning every cent over here.

But The Little Mermaid, that was a decision. Yeah, that was like, what should we do? I was literally, I was like, are people in Seattle going to throw things at us? We're being like, what should we do? I was literally, I was like, are people in Seattle going to throw things at us? We're being like, did you do that? Did you? Maybe they'll be people in Seattle. I've found her very nice. I've never been.

I've never been to your fine city. Do you know where Frazier will come? Frazier. Is he a real man? Oh my God. He's going to bring his brother Niles and they're going to be there. And I hope Daphne comes. And I love Ross.

Ross is a feminist icon I'd like to thank Ross for setting I haven't seen that show I don't know who that is oh she's the fun one anyways that is problematic in that she's you know I could I I'm gonna start a spin-off great Frasier feminist icon no is the name of the podcast okay well that that's been our mini thanksgiving episode uh thanks i'd like to thank ariana grande for her music oh my goodness i would like to thank cats for one having eight nipples and two for being cute cuddly little critters i'd like to thank alfred molina for ignoring me that time did he no no you were too afraid to talk to him is what happened um actually he ignored me and it broke my heart okay i remember that happening differently so thanks thanks for listening to this

little mini app and thanks again to to all the people that have contributed to this show and made it what it is, and to our listeners and our fans and guests and our behind-the-scenes folks. Thank you, life! Thank you, life! And have a great holiday, and, you know, just keep it real, dog. What?

No, that's, you're right. I can't top that. The episode is over. Bye. Bye. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017, was assassinated. Crooks everywhere unearthed the plot to murder a one-woman WikiLeaks.

She exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. There's a lot to figure out when you're just starting your career. That's where we come in. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in people who do, like negotiation expert Maury Tahiripour.

If you start thinking about negotiations as just a conversation, then I think it sort of eases us a little bit. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Curious about queer sexuality, cruising, and expanding your horizons? Hit play on the sex-positive and deeply entertaining podcast, Sniffy's Cruising Confessions. Join hosts Gabe Gonzalez and Chris Patterson Rosso as they explore queer sex, cruising, relationships, and culture in the new iHeart podcast, Sniffy's Cruising Confessions. Sniffy's Cruising Confessions will broaden minds

and help you pursue your true goals. You can listen to Sniffy's Cruising Confessions, sponsored by Gilead, now on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Thursday.