The Bechdel Cast - These Barbies Are On Vacation

Episode Date: August 3, 2023

We're taking the week off, BUT! Check out our screening at American Cinemateque's Friend of the Fest -- https://www.americancinematheque.com/series/friend-of-the-fest-2023/. Also here are resources about the current strikes -- https://mashable.com/article/how-to-support-wga-writer-strike and https://entertainmentcommunity.org/how-get-help-and-give-help-during-work-stoppageSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey everybody, this is Matt Rogers. And Bowen Yang. We've got some exciting news for you. You know we're always bringing you the best guests, right? Well, this week we're taking it to the next level. The one, the only, Katherine Hahn is joining us on Las Culturistas. That's right, the queen of comedy herself. Get ready for a conversation that's as hilarious as it is insightful. Tune in for all the laughs, the stories, and of course, the culture.

Don't miss Katherine Hahn on Las Culturistas. Listen to Las Culturistas on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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 Mori 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. into a mafia state. Listen to Crooks everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. On the Bechtelcast, 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 effing vast. Start changing it with the Bechdel cast. Hello Bechdel cast listeners. It's summertime. My name is Jamie Loftus. My name is Caitlin Durante. This is the Bechdel cast and normally this is a show where we examine movies through an intersectional feminist lens using the Bechdel test as a jumping off point.

But today we're taking the day off. Truly. Okay so just so you know we ordinarily in our contract are supposed to release 50 episodes on the main feed a year. We ordinarily release 51 and only take the last week of the year off. This year we said, you know what? You know what? We are actually going to take the second week off and we're going to do it about six months before. It's reasonable. But we also know that if a week goes by and there is not something on the feed oh people get feral they don't know they think we're hurt riots in the streets they really but i as a podcast listener if the feed doesn't update i'm either like my phone is broken or my parasocial friend is in danger. So we just wanted to let you know that,

um, yeah, we're fine. We're just taking the week off summer vacation, baby. So enjoy your week. Enjoy the, uh,

many back episodes of the Bechtel cast. Also, if you're really hankering for some content and you're not already on our Patreon, AKA Matreon fun week to sign up uh patreon.com slash bechtel cast five bucks a month you get two bonus episodes a month and a back catalog of nearly 150 episodes are you joking wowie wow also fun announcement a chance to see us live for listeners who live in or near LA. The Bechtelcast

is participating in American Cinematheque's Friend of the Fest podcast festival this year, where we will be presenting the new 4K restoration of Thelma and Louise. So it's a screening of the movie presented by the Bechtel cast. So we'll be there to introduce the film. The screening is on Friday, August 25th at 7.30pm at the Arrow Theater in Santa Monica. And more info about attending this screening of Thelma and Louise can be found on AmericanCinemaTech.com or by going to our link tree, link tree slash Bechtelcast. We'll also post details about it on our social media. And we hope to see you there. The last thing that we wanted to share in the meantime, because we have talked about it in passing on recent episodes last thing that we wanted to share in the meantime because we have talked about it in passing on recent

episodes but we just wanted to say explicitly and wanted to acknowledge the ongoing strikes with the Screen Actors Guild and the Writers Guild of America. We obviously are very pro-labor and without the actors

and writers being given a fair deal, we will never be able to make movies that are enjoyable. And we can't talk about them if people behind the scenes are not being treated equitably. So if you have been having trouble keeping up with the news on those strikes, I don't blame you. It's really confusing. So we're going to link an update on what's happening, what the implications of those strikes, I don't blame you. It's really confusing. So we're going to link

an update on what's happening, what the implications of those strikes are. We also did a Patreon episode about the writer's strike specifically. And we'll link the Entertainment Community Fund. If you have some money to contribute, it goes directly to workers impacted by those strikes. Indeed. it's a hell of a summer folks oh tell me about it so um and enjoy the week off everybody i know i will wow let's go girls um yes we will be back next week with your regularly scheduled programming it's august so be on the lookout for a little birthday episode coming up for a one jamie loftus ever heard of her

my dad's the guest. It's the opposite of Let's Go Girls. Yeah, I cannot wait. And we'll be back soon. See you next week. Bye. Bye. Hey, everybody.

This is Matt Rogers. And Bowen Yang. We've got some exciting news for you. You know we're always bringing you the best guests, right? Well, this week we're taking it to the next level. The one, the only, Catherine Hahn is joining us on Las Culturistas. That's right. The queen of comedy herself.

Get ready for a conversation that's as hilarious as it is insightful. Tune in for all the laughs, the stories, and of course, the culture. Don't miss Catherine Hahn on Las Culturistas. Listen to Las Culturistas on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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.

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