The Bechdel Cast - We're Taking the Week Off and That's Feminist!

Episode Date: January 7, 2021

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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. Nerves the plot to murder a one-woman WikiLeaks. She exposed the culture of crime and corruption. They were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. Listen to Crooks everywhere. On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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 Lost Culture East. 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. On the Bechdelcast, 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 us. It is I, Caitlin Durante. Is it like Dracula? What's going on? Happy 2021, everybody. Caitlin's Dracula now. Things are going to be a little different this year.

I mean, my name does anagram to nine tit Dracula. Yeah, she's a special kind of Dracula. I don't have not one, not two tits, but nine of them. Anyway, this is off to a spectacular start. We are here really just to say we're not releasing a full episode today. Yeah. Which I immediately was like, well, defensive. The reason being is we usually take a week off in November, which we did not this year. And almost everyone is we usually take a week off in November, which we did not this year.

And almost everyone on our network took a week off last week. And we did not because we really desperately wanted to cover the movie New Year's Eve. A movie that literally no one has ever requested we do. So that's why we're taking this week off. We didn't take a week off at all in 2020, which is scary. Um, I think we did take one week off and then everyone was like, where's your episode this week? And then, well,

this is our 2021. It's the, listen, listen, we're taking this week off. Um, yes, but we have,

we, well, what I will say is we have a very exciting 2021 planned for everybody. Um, we are getting into 2021 records. We're going to be covering a lot of popular requests. We're going to be bringing on a lot of popular guest requests. There'll be surprises. There's going to be a really diverse swath of movies we're covering this year.

And if this pains you that we are gone for a week we are still over on the matreon at patreon.com slash bechtel cast but yeah it's it's just been it's still 2020 when we're recording this it's been a long year and we we just needed uh a week off we sure did and we hope you understand oh and you understand. Oh, and you can listen to, oh, plug, you can listen to Lolita podcast if you want. That is coming out this week. And if you want to listen to a podcast that's killing me and ruining my life, you should go listen. So there's options. You've got options.

And if you're like, gee whiz, I need to listen to Caitlin's voice talk about movies. You can tune in to Movie Talk with Caitlin, a show I do every Thursday on Instagram Live. And then this week's Lolita podcast also features Caitlin's voice. Wow, I'm everywhere. It's all about the history of Tumblr communities and book covers. And it's a lot. So there's other places to go. And the Bechdelcast will be back literally next Thursday and every Thursday after.

Next Thursday for your regularly scheduled programming. And a little fun preview. We are going to be recovering a movie from the very beginning of the podcast. We will not say which one. So you'll just have to tune in then and find out. That's right. Oh, yeah. Should we mention this?

That the original plan for January was going to just do a whole redo month of all the four episodes that we took down that we are redoing. We were going to do them all in one month and we realized that is a lot of work so well we just we just sort of decided we were going to space out that initiative yes we are going to be recovering all four this year but especially because there's a matrix movie coming out later in the year and so we wanted to release that episode a little closer we're getting in the weeds you know like we are going to be recovering all four of our episodes just not in a single month yes but we are doing one next week but which one we just told you not the matrix but which one there's still three others there's three others which one is it start taking no until you're just kidding

don't don't don't gamble or do what am i right i'm not gonna tell you how to live you know what you know do anything you want it's 2021 it's a new year anything could happen you know we're going in the bar you know so we hope that you're you're taking care uh we hope that you had you know as as a pleasant holiday season as is possible and uh we're here, you know, we're here, but just not this week, but sort of because you're listening to us right now. I mean, you're listening to us right now. God, we're so tired. We will be back next week. And thank you for your love and patience. And we love you. We love you. Take care of yourself and take care of each other. Bye-bye.

Remember that? All right, bye. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadson. 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. Thank you. days. Listen to Crooks Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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.