Speaker 1: On the beck Del Cast, the questions asked if movies
Speaker 1: have women in um, are all their discussions just boyfriends
Speaker 1: and husbands or do they have individualism the patriarchy? Zef
Speaker 1: invest start changing it with the Bedel Cast. Hello and
Speaker 1: welcome to the Bechdel Cast. Hi, it's us again, it does.
Speaker 1: It's Caitlin and Jamie and we're here for a special
Speaker 1: and short Thanksgiving minisode. So sorry if you're home and then, like, man,
Speaker 1: I wish I had content to consume instead of talking
Speaker 1: to my family, And you're probably right to feel that way.
Speaker 1: But we even even us content creators, toiling the content
Speaker 1: factory all day and freaking night, we gotta take a break,
Speaker 1: freaking rest man. So we're going to take this opportunity
Speaker 1: instead instead of doing heavy discourse, which you've come to
Speaker 1: know and love, we're gonna just say thanks to a
Speaker 1: bunch of people. Yeah. So so these are yeah, people
Speaker 1: were thankful for we. You know, we don't recognize Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: because it's it's not a holiday that I observe personally.
Speaker 1: I will be watching Titanic on a loop on this day,
Speaker 1: but I will binge eat, yes, But I don't like
Speaker 1: thanks stands for I like what binge eating stands for
Speaker 1: is compartmentalizing pain. That's right. Where's that holiday? We could
Speaker 1: adjust Thanksgiving very easily to be anyways, So here are
Speaker 1: some some people that were thankful for that's right. First
Speaker 1: and foremost, we would be remiss Aristotle. Aristotle a servato.
Speaker 1: He's been our producer from the beginning, from before we
Speaker 1: even started launching the episodes. He's been with us from
Speaker 1: day one, so he's in the entire world. Yes, he
Speaker 1: is the sweetest, he is the most patient, canonical, as
Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned, the only man. There's a few others, Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: Alfred Aristotle, and then we'll get to there's there are
Speaker 1: a few men will recognize. But I want to say
Speaker 1: that it's it's not often that you, you know, you
Speaker 1: find a man who is so supportive of the message
Speaker 1: that we deliver here on the Becto cast of you know,
Speaker 1: gender equality and intersectional feminism and walk the goddamn walk
Speaker 1: and literally walks women to abortion clinics. So he's the
Speaker 1: he's the model after which all men should model themselves.
Speaker 1: That's right. So Aristotle, thank you so much for all
Speaker 1: the time and hard work you've put into making sure
Speaker 1: this podcast is actually a podcast and not just a
Speaker 1: bunch of goofs and talking into a void. And and
Speaker 1: in a year where we've had a lot of changes
Speaker 1: in our not I mean, the show hasn't changed, but
Speaker 1: the behind the scenes of was crazy. So we're we're
Speaker 1: grateful that he's been with us the whole time and
Speaker 1: stays with us when we love him. That's right. And
Speaker 1: speaking of those changes, it's time for us to thank
Speaker 1: our other producer, Sophie Lichtman. Yeah, Sophie came into our
Speaker 1: life this year and we have never turned back. We've
Speaker 1: never turned back, as I understand it. So she is
Speaker 1: our producer at How Stuff Works, our network, and as
Speaker 1: I understand it, she begged the powers that be to
Speaker 1: work on our show. Really yeah, she's like, put me
Speaker 1: on back toel cast, I want to work on that.
Speaker 1: She's like regretting it, but we're thankful she hasn't said
Speaker 1: that to our faces, and so you know, that's good.
Speaker 1: That's great. So Sophie, thank you for keeping us organized
Speaker 1: and from being on top of everything, and you're the best. Next,
Speaker 1: we would like to thank another man, yawn, just kidding.
Speaker 1: One of the greats, Jack O'Brien, who brought us onto
Speaker 1: the House Stuff Works Network this year and was so
Speaker 1: supportive of our transition onto a network and the first
Speaker 1: time on a network. And yeah, and he's been a
Speaker 1: fan from pretty early on. Oh yeah, I mean he
Speaker 1: was for almost I met Jack almost two years ago,
Speaker 1: and he's and and he contacted us originally because he
Speaker 1: was a fan of the show, and he was We're
Speaker 1: just bragging that people have been fans of the show
Speaker 1: is early with this episode. What is this for? Thankful?
Speaker 1: We are just proving how cool we are. Would like
Speaker 1: to have extend or things too, truly, everyone at the
Speaker 1: hay Slots, What's Up family who we love so much,
Speaker 1: Miles Gray and as N a two time guest of
Speaker 1: the show for crying at all the hosts on the
Speaker 1: network who we know and love. If you Wadway, Danny
Speaker 1: for Nandez, sharene Robert Evans, Edgar mom Pless Here, Jackie's, Neil,
Speaker 1: Andy and Naomi. Check out all of their podcast if
Speaker 1: you haven't already. The Daily Zeitgeist, ethnically ambiguous, artific in culture,
Speaker 1: Kings Behind the Bastards, Couples Therapy. Yeah, yeah, all of
Speaker 1: our all of our buds, buds that we're grateful to
Speaker 1: be part of the family. That's right. Also shouts out
Speaker 1: to some of the other folks. So you might have
Speaker 1: heard us mentioned be you know, you may not know,
Speaker 1: but Dan and Nick here at how Stuff Works. But again,
Speaker 1: sorry for thanking men Ge Whiz, but those are some
Speaker 1: of the good ones. Wonderful support and we are happy
Speaker 1: to be here. We love it. We'd like to thank
Speaker 1: our guests, Yeah, any guests we've ever had on UM.
Speaker 1: Basically we make you do homework to be on this show.
Speaker 1: So to anyone who's you know, put the time in
Speaker 1: and contributed your valuable perspectives to the show, we thank you.
Speaker 1: I'd also like to especially shout out our live show
Speaker 1: guests who truly have to go the extra mile in
Speaker 1: order to participate. So you will not have heard most
Speaker 1: of these episodes yet, but some recent live guests at
Speaker 1: Aaron Wack, Marshall Belski, Maggie may Fish, Daniel rad For
Speaker 1: Natalie McGill. Yeah, so we'd like to thank them in
Speaker 1: particular for for going way out of the way hell
Speaker 1: yeah to be there. And we're just very grateful to
Speaker 1: our guests for offering perspective and jokes and all that
Speaker 1: good ship. We love them very much so much and
Speaker 1: hope that you have found new faiths by listening to
Speaker 1: them on the show. My mom always tells me that
Speaker 1: she looks up everyone we ever have as a guest
Speaker 1: and you know, sees what they're up to, watches their
Speaker 1: comedy videos if there's a stand up and yeah, so
Speaker 1: someone's doing it. My mom is in love with Demi?
Speaker 1: Did you eBay? Who is so that is? You know?
Speaker 1: Her main takeaway from literally my mom's main take I'm
Speaker 1: she's not on the list. And here's why she's not
Speaker 1: on the list, because her main takeaway from our shows
Speaker 1: that she loves punch Up the Jam and she loves
Speaker 1: Demi and Meal. Those are her two favorite episodes. And
Speaker 1: she's just like, I just love Punch Up the Jam.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, it's a good know, but
Speaker 1: that's not why I told you to listen in that.
Speaker 1: So anyways, my mom's a huge Punch Up the Jam fan.
Speaker 1: Good for to show that is not on this network.
Speaker 1: So thank you so much, mom, if you're not on
Speaker 1: the list. I wanted to think any writers who have
Speaker 1: who have written about us, UH written articles or included
Speaker 1: us on lists of podcasts to love List, Culture and
Speaker 1: any podcast who have had one or both of us
Speaker 1: on his guests. We have a lot of fun doing that,
Speaker 1: you know, the people who give us more visibility, So
Speaker 1: so thank you so much for that appreciated. Rebecca Bols
Speaker 1: was one of our early a V Club advocates who
Speaker 1: wrote a lot about us and who was also a
Speaker 1: guest on our the Holiday episode. You should listen to
Speaker 1: her podcast, Classroom Crush. Yes, indeed, absolutely love uh. We
Speaker 1: would like to thank Mike Caplan, who I saw last week.
Speaker 1: He's doing great. He wrote our theme song. Yeah, way
Speaker 1: way way back in the day. He's an excellent musician
Speaker 1: and addition to being a great comedian. That's right. And
Speaker 1: Katherine vos Krasinski, I hope I said that right. Thank
Speaker 1: you to her for performing our our theme song, um voice.
Speaker 1: We all know we can messages all the time about
Speaker 1: how catchy and fun our theme song is and it's
Speaker 1: all Mike and Catherine, So check out the work of
Speaker 1: those very talented people. Absolutely uh. We would like to
Speaker 1: I'd like to thank people who have been helpful to
Speaker 1: us while we were touring. All the venues that we
Speaker 1: have performed at and that the various people, some of
Speaker 1: whom we're fans, who helped us set up shows. Um
Speaker 1: shout out to my cousin Tammy for putting us up
Speaker 1: for a night in d C. And we're still getting
Speaker 1: used to touring with the show. So thank you to
Speaker 1: everyone who has attended a live show we hope you
Speaker 1: have time, And to everyone who who has made doing
Speaker 1: our live shows possible because toron Ain and Easy Tornin
Speaker 1: Easy so yeah. Special thanks to the venues like Improv
Speaker 1: Boston and Camber to Massachusetts, Babies all Right in in Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: New York, Brown University, Good Good Comedy Theater in Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: Drafthouse Comedy Theater and Emissary in Washington, d C. So
Speaker 1: thanks to all those spaces, and oh and especial thanks
Speaker 1: to the Ruby in l A for giving us a
Speaker 1: monthly live show. So it's monthly. Check us out on
Speaker 1: the second Saturday of every month at nine pm if
Speaker 1: you happen to live in l A, which probably statistically
Speaker 1: you don't write but if you do, don't miss our
Speaker 1: next live show there at the Ruby on December eight.
Speaker 1: We're talking about Elf with special guest Marrow Wilson. So
Speaker 1: check that out, and this might be a good time
Speaker 1: to bring up the upcoming West Coast tour that we
Speaker 1: have because we're going to be in San Francisco, Portland,
Speaker 1: in Seattle in January, so we can we can shout
Speaker 1: that out. More details about that towards the end of
Speaker 1: this episode, and that reminds me. Thanks to all the
Speaker 1: festivals who have had us. We've got New York Comedy Festival,
Speaker 1: Women in Comedy Festival, the Boston Comedy Arts Festival, and
Speaker 1: other people who run especially and yes, Catherine Leon who
Speaker 1: helped us with the New York Comedy Festival and who's
Speaker 1: a dear friend of mine, um Michelle Barbara and everyone
Speaker 1: at the Women in Comedy Festival. Thanks to you for
Speaker 1: all of your support. And hey, Jamie, let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break and then we'll be back to thank some
Speaker 1: more people. Thanks. The longest acceptance speech truly sucked in
Speaker 1: a second, and we're back to give more thanks. It
Speaker 1: goes without saying finally, of course, we're thankful for you
Speaker 1: face so much. But in all series is to anyone
Speaker 1: who has ever listened giving us a review on iTunes
Speaker 1: that wasn't hates Men. One star dropped us a line
Speaker 1: on Facebook or Twitter, or emailed us or reached out
Speaker 1: or given us helpful critique which does help us improve
Speaker 1: the show. Shared your thoughts, experiences, and especially to people
Speaker 1: who are also matrons, and yeah, that support is truly invaluable.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I lost my job earlier this year because
Speaker 1: the comedy venue that I was doing the programming for
Speaker 1: suddenly closed down and I was without an income. And
Speaker 1: if it weren't for the matron, I literally would have
Speaker 1: not bad things would have happened badly. So well, we
Speaker 1: were thankful for bad things not happening to caitly In.
Speaker 1: So yes, very much. Thank you to the matrons who
Speaker 1: show their support. We have the best fans there, really,
Speaker 1: we do the most gracious and respectful, and we're always
Speaker 1: are so excited to meet you and like getting to
Speaker 1: talk to you and take pics and just talk about
Speaker 1: what brought you to the show, and it just it
Speaker 1: really we could wax poetic all damn day, but we're
Speaker 1: so grateful for you. Thank you for doing everything you do,
Speaker 1: and we hope to do this, you know, as long
Speaker 1: as we can. That's right. Also, a big thanks to
Speaker 1: anyone who's made fan art for us, has like sent
Speaker 1: us fan mail or gifts, because we've gotten some awesome
Speaker 1: gifts of like mammel pins, We've gotten T shirts, we've
Speaker 1: gotten stickers, books, Mike's Hard Lemon to DVD DVDs. We've
Speaker 1: received a beautiful handmade cutting board. Yeah, everything is incredible.
Speaker 1: The fan art especially brings me such joy. Know, it's
Speaker 1: so adorable and wonderful. We highly if you, if you,
Speaker 1: if you were always down yes to us. What a
Speaker 1: cool message this Thanksgiving? On this Thanksgiving speaking of capital
Speaker 1: is some Uh, this is a great point to mention
Speaker 1: that it's capitalist season again. Baby, isn't it always t heat? Anyways,
Speaker 1: your loved ones will be expecting items from you shortly,
Speaker 1: and what better item to pedal to them aggressively than
Speaker 1: an item that we made. Uh. This is my plug
Speaker 1: for our t public store where we just released for
Speaker 1: the You'll hear this on Thanksgiving and you'll be like, well,
Speaker 1: isn't Black Friday tomorrow? Isn't cyber money the next Monday? Well,
Speaker 1: guess what I'm going to forget to release them? So
Speaker 1: they're all out now a lot of new designs. First
Speaker 1: of all, queer icon baby grinch. Uh, there's two different
Speaker 1: designs In one, Grinch is wearing heels and has nipple tassels.
Speaker 1: There's also a tamer design for those that can't I
Speaker 1: don't know fucking handle it. Um, there's what we're launching,
Speaker 1: our non binary icon design. We have a strong female
Speaker 1: protagonists that's been out, but we have it in multiple colors.
Speaker 1: Are inbar go on men designs and a new design
Speaker 1: of Caitlin and myself. If you happen to need us
Speaker 1: on your body, which you do. There's two different examples
Speaker 1: of us passing the Backtel test on merch. Wonderful. What's
Speaker 1: all out now? Thanks to everyone who's already bought merch
Speaker 1: and supported the show that way. We love it when
Speaker 1: you you know where the photos keep doing it. We
Speaker 1: love it so much. We love reposting those. So thank
Speaker 1: you to everyone who is spreading the word of the
Speaker 1: Backtel cast through your apparel. So thank you. Yes, we
Speaker 1: love you, dearly, thank you so much. I hope you're
Speaker 1: having a good holiday, and if you're not, I hope
Speaker 1: you get revenge on the person who made it not
Speaker 1: good for you. And I always want to say that,
Speaker 1: like we get messages from fans brag chopped out the
Speaker 1: same thing they'll say things like this podcast has helped
Speaker 1: me get through a difficult time, or they'll say like
Speaker 1: this podcast has completely changed the way that I view
Speaker 1: movies and has made me a more critic cool consumer
Speaker 1: of media. Or they'll say something like, um, listening to
Speaker 1: your podcast empowered me to stand up for myself or
Speaker 1: to kind of speak out in the name of feminism
Speaker 1: and female empowerment. So thank you to anyone who sent
Speaker 1: us a message like that, because that is why we
Speaker 1: do the show, to help people view media differently, and
Speaker 1: to empower people, and to entertain you hopefully too. Yes,
Speaker 1: and especially what's been valuable to me, and I think
Speaker 1: what always makes our show better is when our listeners
Speaker 1: are able to educate us. And if there are issues
Speaker 1: on the show where sometimes you know, Caitlin, myself and
Speaker 1: sometimes our guests between the three of us were not
Speaker 1: able to fully understand a complicated Yeah, we definitely have
Speaker 1: blind spots, And I mean it's the never ending quest
Speaker 1: to understand a little better and always be listening. And
Speaker 1: that certainly applies to our listeners who I've I mean,
Speaker 1: I've learned so much, mean even thinking about We talked
Speaker 1: about this a lot in our hundredth episode, but like
Speaker 1: how differently I view stuff than I did two years
Speaker 1: ago when we started the show. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: about some of our early episodes where it's like the
Speaker 1: blind Spot are out sweet uh and and I'm sure
Speaker 1: you know ideally will feel that way about us right
Speaker 1: now in two years from right, So yes, learning from
Speaker 1: from all of yous has just been such a so
Speaker 1: wonderfu leasure. Yes, thank you so much. And I said
Speaker 1: this last year on our little Thanksgiving episode, but I
Speaker 1: will say it again. I just want to say thanks
Speaker 1: to all the women, non binary, queer people of color,
Speaker 1: the filmmakers, comedians, writers and entertainers right yes, um, because
Speaker 1: some of my favorite example is the pop culture detective
Speaker 1: Jonathan McIntosh, who's making great video essays about toxic masculinity
Speaker 1: and the like in media and how we need to
Speaker 1: have conversations about it and reverse those bad trends and tropes.
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, I just wanna say thanks to all
Speaker 1: the people who are making things and creating art and
Speaker 1: telling their stories. But I also I have to say
Speaker 1: thanks to all the people who funked up real bad
Speaker 1: and and made bad movies because it gives us things
Speaker 1: to talk about shots, shouts out to all the major
Speaker 1: fucos out there who are making bed stuffy, and also
Speaker 1: shout out to the occasional very good movie that we
Speaker 1: cover in the shop ye I mean yeah, And and
Speaker 1: to any of our male listeners, we also appreciate you.
Speaker 1: And it's one of uh. One something that always sort
Speaker 1: of resonates with me when hearing from a male listener
Speaker 1: is that it, you know, just affects their worldview and
Speaker 1: makes some view media a little differently because you know
Speaker 1: it was made for you, and so understanding that that
Speaker 1: is perhaps not the movie is terrific. And indeed we
Speaker 1: appreciated we we we come down pretty hard on men
Speaker 1: a lot, and we and we recognize that. But there
Speaker 1: are some good ones and I wanted to thank a
Speaker 1: few specific ones, but some some friends of mine, and
Speaker 1: this includes people of all genders. But um, j T,
Speaker 1: my best friend in the world, listens. He doesn't have to,
Speaker 1: but he does so. So thanks to JT for listening. Um,
Speaker 1: my good friends Maya, Martha and Kinney's uh and Jenny
Speaker 1: to looking in the last two have been guests on
Speaker 1: the show. Thanks to my mom and my brother Eric
Speaker 1: for listening. My friends Justine and Dan, my friends Uh, Nolan,
Speaker 1: Alex and Jake all listen to the show. So there's
Speaker 1: some of those friends. And then of course thanks to
Speaker 1: my dear friend Sammy, who has recorded some episodes for us,
Speaker 1: who has been a guest on the She's the Man episode,
Speaker 1: and um they're also going on tour with us, yes,
Speaker 1: going on tour without and Sammy has given me a
Speaker 1: lot of technical advice on like editing and how to
Speaker 1: work this zoom machine that I bought to record our
Speaker 1: some of our episodes on. So yes, thanks to all
Speaker 1: those people who were very near and dear to me.
Speaker 1: A few people, I'd like to thank my little brother
Speaker 1: who listens to every episode, and to his many female
Speaker 1: friends he's introduced the show too. I would like to
Speaker 1: thank the three female writers I pull from most frequently
Speaker 1: when UH working on this show. It would be Lindsay Ellis,
Speaker 1: Anita Sarkisian and Roxane Gay too, of whom have been
Speaker 1: on the show. And I would like to I'd like
Speaker 1: to thank my boyfriend Dude, who listened to nine episodes.
Speaker 1: Your boyfriend is a very nice man and he's allowed
Speaker 1: I'm glad that you're with him. I regret to inform me,
Speaker 1: and he's allowed until he's not, and then he's out
Speaker 1: of there, shout out. The final person I would like
Speaker 1: to thank is you, Jamie. I want to thank you
Speaker 1: for being with me this whole time. I want to
Speaker 1: thank you for your perspective and your humor and everything
Speaker 1: that you bring to the table. It's so valuable and wonderful.
Speaker 1: And I have so much fun doing this with you,
Speaker 1: and I hope we do it forever. I love you.
Speaker 1: I'm thankful for you too. I thankful for I mean
Speaker 1: thankful for truly art. We would like a gush about
Speaker 1: our friendship very and no, but it has changed my life,
Speaker 1: so shut up, okay. Anyways, it has changed my life
Speaker 1: and shaped it in a very positive way. And as
Speaker 1: we love eachild, we love each other and it's grass.
Speaker 1: Um and yeah, and and thank you for I love
Speaker 1: your notes so many notes. I love it actually feel
Speaker 1: safe and thank you for making me feel very self
Speaker 1: conscious about your notes are Your notes are literally my
Speaker 1: safe space. I feel safest in the arms of your notes. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm thankful for you. I'm thankful for how this show has,
Speaker 1: you know, changed stuff for us, and it's very grateful
Speaker 1: and we we love you, and if this is your
Speaker 1: first episode listening, you're psychotic. So thanks, yeah, thanks to Well,
Speaker 1: we do have some brand new listeners. We've had some
Speaker 1: people who have been with us from the first episode,
Speaker 1: no matter where you came into the show. We appreciate
Speaker 1: you as listeners and we love you so much. Yes, Queen, Yes, Queen.
Speaker 1: As promised, we will plug our West Coast tour now, yes, hello, Hello.
Speaker 1: We're going to be in San Francisco on January talking
Speaker 1: about the Breakfast Club as a part of SF Sketch Fest. Um.
Speaker 1: Tickets are available for that now, so get them while
Speaker 1: you can. We are then moving on off the coast
Speaker 1: to Portland, Oregon. We're literally stopping in wine country. Deal
Speaker 1: with it. Yes, sometimes we're Caucasian women and they have
Speaker 1: we have to drink some white wine at a vineyard.
Speaker 1: Who says why people don't have culture? Just kidding. We're
Speaker 1: also going to look at some trees, some redwood trees
Speaker 1: on the way. Very cool. Try not to be jealous
Speaker 1: of this, but we stare at trees and then we
Speaker 1: so we'll be in Portland on January. We are talking
Speaker 1: about fight Club and we're going to be at Curious
Speaker 1: Comedy Theater. Yeah, so tickets are also online for that,
Speaker 1: So uh go to beac too cast dot com sash
Speaker 1: the live appearances tab for tickets. And then we're also
Speaker 1: going to be in Seattle for two shows back to
Speaker 1: back on the same night January. We're talking about The
Speaker 1: Little Mermaid on the first show and then Sleepless in Seattle.
Speaker 1: How appropriate? Literally, imagine how hard we thought about that
Speaker 1: one really earning every center here. But the Little Mermaid
Speaker 1: that was that was like which I was literally I
Speaker 1: was like, are people and see how I'm gonna throw
Speaker 1: things at us? And were being like did you do that?
Speaker 1: Did you? Maybe they'll be people in Seattle. I've found
Speaker 1: her very nice. I've never been I've never been to
Speaker 1: your fund city fer Oh my god, I go brother
Speaker 1: Niles and Daphne comes and I love ros is the
Speaker 1: feminist icon. I'd like to thank Ross. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: that show. I don't know who that is. She's the
Speaker 1: fun one anyways, that is problematic and that she's you know,
Speaker 1: I could I'm gonna start it has been up great
Speaker 1: Fraser feminist icon no is the name of the podcast. Okay,
Speaker 1: well that that's been our MANI Thanksgiving episode. Thanks, Oh
Speaker 1: my goodness. I would like to thank cats for one
Speaker 1: having eight nipples and two for being cute, cut a
Speaker 1: little critters to thank for Molina for ignoring me that time?
Speaker 1: Did he were too afraid to talk to him? Is
Speaker 1: what happened? Um? Actually he ignored me and it broke
Speaker 1: my heart. Okay, I remember that happening differently. So thanks.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to this little mini app and thanks
Speaker 1: again to to all the people that have contributed to
Speaker 1: this show and made it what it is, and to
Speaker 1: our listeners and our fans and guests, and thank you
Speaker 1: behind the scene. Thank you, Thank you life, and have
Speaker 1: a great holiday, and you know, just keep it real.
Speaker 1: What No, that's you're right, I can't tap. That episode
Speaker 1: is over. Hi,