Speaker 1: On the Beck dol Cast, the questions asked if movies
Speaker 1: have women in them, are all their discussions just boyfriends
Speaker 1: and husbands? If do they have individualism? The patriarchy? Zef
Speaker 1: invest start changing it with the Bechdel Cast. Hello listeners,
Speaker 1: hellow town, your in. It's Caitlin and Jamie from the
Speaker 1: Bechtel Cast. Ever heard of us? Ever heard of us?
Speaker 1: We're assuming you've heard of us there if you clicked Um,
Speaker 1: we are here to do a little mini episode in
Speaker 1: which we're just going to do some shouts out, some
Speaker 1: you know, expressions of gratitude and to start and acknowledgement
Speaker 1: of and this is something that we should do way
Speaker 1: more often slash all the time. But we want to
Speaker 1: acknowledge that both myself and Jamie live and record this
Speaker 1: podcast on Tongva Land. Yes, yeah, obviously we recognize that
Speaker 1: the holiday being observed by many this month. Wall It's
Speaker 1: great to hang out with your family if that's what
Speaker 1: you enjoy doing. Uh, it's a bullshit colonial holiday. We
Speaker 1: don't observe it, you know, as we've said many times
Speaker 1: on the show. And you know we're two of the whites,
Speaker 1: so we are like still constantly learning and you know,
Speaker 1: trying to to do better and um, yeah, so we
Speaker 1: want to acknowledge that we live and record on tongue
Speaker 1: of the land, the tongue of the people who are
Speaker 1: still very present obviously in California, have a really fascinating
Speaker 1: history that I didn't know very much about up until
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. And so we'll be linking
Speaker 1: a little information in the description as well as making
Speaker 1: some donations to indigenous nonprofits, which we will also link
Speaker 1: in the description of this episode, and we hope you
Speaker 1: do the same. And if you don't know about the
Speaker 1: Indigenous history of the land that you currently live on,
Speaker 1: we would highly encourage you to learn more. It's never
Speaker 1: too late, for sure, and it's critical to note the
Speaker 1: history of where you live. Definitely, we encourage our non
Speaker 1: native listeners if you don't already know, to find out
Speaker 1: what Native land you reside on and find out ways
Speaker 1: you can meaningfully support the indigenous people's in your community. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: and again it's never too late to start learning. So
Speaker 1: we wanted to just make that acknowledgment at the top
Speaker 1: of the episode, um, and sort of move forward with
Speaker 1: classic bachtel Cast Gratitude episode because the holidays bullshit, But
Speaker 1: the concept of gratitude we're still we're still fans of it.
Speaker 1: I support it. Yeah, let's start with thinking all of
Speaker 1: the guests we've had on the show. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: it's let me wait, and let's just sort of as
Speaker 1: in review. We've had fucking bangers this year. I just
Speaker 1: want to shout out some of my face. I really
Speaker 1: loved are Sorry to Bother You, episodes of thank you
Speaker 1: to Sam Sanders and Icon in the Field. I really
Speaker 1: loved doing that episode. Uh, We're grateful for all of
Speaker 1: our guests, but I just wanted to I'm grateful that
Speaker 1: we did the Misery episode with Ashley Blaine, Feathers and Jenkins,
Speaker 1: What a treat, what a delight, Pray with Johnny Jay,
Speaker 1: Wild Things with Princess Weeks, the Shape of Water, which
Speaker 1: we eventually did even though, and the first one. But
Speaker 1: I'm also very grateful that we recorded maybe our most
Speaker 1: chaotic episode ever over on the Matrion. You're welcome, everybody, baby,
Speaker 1: We are the best with Margaret Kildrive. We just have
Speaker 1: had a real banger lineup of guests this year. I'm very,
Speaker 1: very grateful that guests continue to come on the show.
Speaker 1: And talk about movies they love hate or you know,
Speaker 1: our having a growing love or growing hate towards We
Speaker 1: appreciate it. We really do celebrate it. Yeah, I'm very
Speaker 1: grateful for UM, for all of our guests, and secondly
Speaker 1: for all of our goddamn listeners. Oh my gosh, our
Speaker 1: listeners are the best. We thank you so much for
Speaker 1: everything that you do, for listening, for providing us with
Speaker 1: just additional insights and resources. Sometimes we miss things, sometimes
Speaker 1: we forget to mention something, whatever it may be. We're
Speaker 1: just very grateful for for everything you have to offer.
Speaker 1: And you have definitely over the years helped us to
Speaker 1: keep our discussions as thoughtful and intersectional as possible, because
Speaker 1: that's what we're always striving to do and ours have
Speaker 1: been to like, yeah, thanks for in addition to always
Speaker 1: like adding to the conversation and and like I just
Speaker 1: love like our community is Like so, I don't know,
Speaker 1: like online communities get a bad rap, and rightfully so
Speaker 1: in a lot of a lot of ways, but I
Speaker 1: feel very lucky that our community even when there are
Speaker 1: UM criticisms or or Caitlin and I missed something which
Speaker 1: we do all the time, or like yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: like we've got a community vibe, and I feel very
Speaker 1: very grateful that our listeners show us so much grace.
Speaker 1: We try to show you know each other and you know,
Speaker 1: everyone grace. It just makes me very happy when you know,
Speaker 1: it's like we all trust that we want to do
Speaker 1: better by each other. And wow, okay, don't get emotional,
Speaker 1: um shame, but yeah, I just our listeners are the
Speaker 1: best and we've learned so much from you over the years.
Speaker 1: And oh this is fun, um, and we're excited to
Speaker 1: see you in person again because we're doing a tour
Speaker 1: um and about two and a half fish months at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the beginning of February on the West coast. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: so we don't have a lot of details yet, but
Speaker 1: suffice it to say that late January, early February, we'll
Speaker 1: be doing a West coast tour. Will announce everything more
Speaker 1: officially when we have all the details locked in. But
Speaker 1: you know, we just wanted to put that on your
Speaker 1: radar save the date. The date being vague. Me and
Speaker 1: Caitlin are getting married. We're getting married, but yes, we're
Speaker 1: we're very very grateful for you. Extra extra shout out, um.
Speaker 1: Sorry you hate to hear it. But look, I'll say it.
Speaker 1: I'll say it. Yeah, we're extra grateful for the Matrons. Sorry,
Speaker 1: oh pay to play? Oh I guess so sorry, sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm well. Look, look it's because we live in a capital,
Speaker 1: as we live in a society, we're extra grateful for you. Sorry. Well,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. The support we get from the Matrons
Speaker 1: is the reason this show has been able to continue
Speaker 1: to exist all these years. If not for the financial
Speaker 1: support of the Matrons, we would not have been able
Speaker 1: to sustain this show. So we really appreciate I mean,
Speaker 1: that was like truly what got us to stop losing
Speaker 1: money running this show, which we were for like the
Speaker 1: first while. Basically yeah, which is a fun fact about podcasting,
Speaker 1: or at least at the at that time. It's weird.
Speaker 1: It feels like there's been like a million things have
Speaker 1: happened since then. But you know, it was like yeah,
Speaker 1: you're like, you're like, well, let's see if anyone starts listening,
Speaker 1: and then it was it wasn't until we started the
Speaker 1: Matreon that we were able to certainly not support ourselves
Speaker 1: right away, but like you know, at least get out
Speaker 1: of the get out of the Red Red or black.
Speaker 1: I think get out of the Red. Oh god, okay, yes, um,
Speaker 1: I was about to say it, so yeah, that naming
Speaker 1: convention confuses me. Sorry anyways, it's confusing. I just think
Speaker 1: everything should be on the stoplight system, and so I'm like,
Speaker 1: why is it red? If you're like in the red,
Speaker 1: that should be negative. If you're in the green, that
Speaker 1: should be positive. It's also the Coller of Money, which
Speaker 1: is a movie. If you're in the yellow you're something something.
Speaker 1: Minions you have to if you're in the yellow, you're
Speaker 1: Kevin and so you know, it's just something to think about. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm grateful for the Minions episode, and I'm grateful for
Speaker 1: this is the year that I'm grateful for a Rise
Speaker 1: of Grew obviously, oh my gosh, very grateful for Rise
Speaker 1: of Crew h Rise of Grew. It was the song
Speaker 1: of the summer. Although I will say you what I'm
Speaker 1: not grateful for. What's that? This is controversial Rise of
Speaker 1: Grew soundtrack flop bad. I don't even remember a single
Speaker 1: song on it. Name one song from the Rise of
Speaker 1: group soundtrack, flop flop. I see your point. Good. They
Speaker 1: made St. Vincent record Funky Town and it sucked. It
Speaker 1: didn't make any sense. Um. Yeah, I don't know someone
Speaker 1: someone dropped the ball over at illumination. Um. Anyways, if
Speaker 1: I don't get hired to write Minions five, I'll I'll
Speaker 1: walk into trap. Um. What else are we grateful for? Oh,
Speaker 1: I would like to make a special shout out to
Speaker 1: We're very grateful for Sophie Lichtman. We're always grateful to
Speaker 1: Sophie Lichtman, a longtime producer of the show, as well
Speaker 1: as Aristotle Asaveta. Oh my gosh, such shouts out to
Speaker 1: Sophie and Aristotle again, people that we would not have
Speaker 1: been able to do the show without so so many
Speaker 1: thanks to our pals and just for their friendship too.
Speaker 1: It's like it just it gets me all worked up.
Speaker 1: We're very very lucky too. I think, like have such
Speaker 1: an amazing group that, like I just everyone we worked
Speaker 1: with is so nice. It's wild, it's wonderful. And speaking
Speaker 1: of friendship, Jamie, yeah, I would just like to say
Speaker 1: special thanks to you for being my friend, my co host,
Speaker 1: the best co host in the world. I love you, Kitlin.
Speaker 1: I'm very grateful for you to what a beautiful friendship
Speaker 1: We've never thought sometimes I like kiln that I are
Speaker 1: kind of like a married couple. It's what married couples want.
Speaker 1: I think people want to be us or they want
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna say that I want to be
Speaker 1: inside us there maybe there, I mean sometimes everyone, I
Speaker 1: mean whatever. I can't drink um. Anyways, I'm so grateful
Speaker 1: for your friendship. Made me laugh every day. You're so
Speaker 1: kind and you're so patient, and I just like, truly
Speaker 1: one of the greatest friendships of my life as well
Speaker 1: as I mean, I just can't imagine someone I want
Speaker 1: to work with my I'd like, I just love you,
Speaker 1: I trust you, and I think you're the best. And
Speaker 1: I'm crying so we could talk about anything. And also
Speaker 1: it's really nice to like work with someone that I'm like,
Speaker 1: how do I phrase this correctly, Like to work with
Speaker 1: someone that it's like it's all good. Like if we
Speaker 1: disagree with something, we'll figure it out. If something comes up,
Speaker 1: we'll figure it out. Like it's just like a place
Speaker 1: of trust. And it's a safe place. I was gonna
Speaker 1: say it's the quiet place, but it's definitely not. It's
Speaker 1: a really loud place. It's a quiet place. Part two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're very loud we you know, but we're just we're
Speaker 1: just making sure our voices are heard. Um, um to me,
Speaker 1: I am sorry? Wait what when Jeffer Lopez saying let's
Speaker 1: get loud at Joe Biden's in non curation and I
Speaker 1: mean we're like, what the funk am I looking at? Sorry? Yeah,
Speaker 1: continue confusing, But Jamie, I just want to say I
Speaker 1: love you so much. I'm so grateful for our friendship,
Speaker 1: for the work that we do together. You are the
Speaker 1: smartest and funniest person I've ever known, and I just
Speaker 1: love doing this show with you. Let's do it for then,
Speaker 1: for until we die. Okay I did just threaten to
Speaker 1: walk into traffic, so be careful. I really have to
Speaker 1: write Venue is five or the fectial cast, and it
Speaker 1: would be horror. It would be bad. Um, are you listening, illumination.
Speaker 1: I'm grateful for you know what? I'm not Okay? Can
Speaker 1: we have a hater's corner? Oh? I'm not grateful for
Speaker 1: no Princess which this year? What the fuck? But but
Speaker 1: we do have a Lindsay Lohan Christmas movie which we
Speaker 1: are covering on the Matreon fear not. Yes, listeners, Look,
Speaker 1: I can't wait. I oh, this is what I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, because we're talking about a quiet place. My
Speaker 1: I was just visiting home and my dad started doing
Speaker 1: this bit that I thought was really funny. We were
Speaker 1: watching the worst movie I've ever seen. I would love
Speaker 1: to cover it on this show someday. Um, something Borrowed.
Speaker 1: It's like iconically bad. Everyone is firing at an eleven
Speaker 1: at sucking, but John Krasinski's in it. And we started
Speaker 1: doing this bit where anytime John Kristinski was on the screen,
Speaker 1: we were like, I can't believe he's cheating on Pam.
Speaker 1: Why is he cheating up Pam? Why is he wearing
Speaker 1: that shirt? Jim wouldn't wear that shirt. It was really
Speaker 1: funny to me. Um, it's the worst movie I've ever
Speaker 1: seen in my life. Something Borrowed? Okay, something bar It's
Speaker 1: Kate Hudson playing the best friend of Jennifer Goodwin playing
Speaker 1: the part Jennifer Goodwin played back in that day, which
Speaker 1: was like I'm turning thirty and therefore I'm basically dead
Speaker 1: and like she has to have sex with a guy
Speaker 1: named Dex or she'll explode. I don't even like that's
Speaker 1: my tape, that would be my punch up is like
Speaker 1: why does she have to have sex with this guy
Speaker 1: named dex Well, she's going to explode if she doesn't.
Speaker 1: It's like me needing to write Minions five or all
Speaker 1: walk into traffic. Yeah, okay, well I guess I'll think
Speaker 1: about checking that out. But I'd be so grateful if
Speaker 1: you watch that horrible movie that that you'll hate, Let's
Speaker 1: watch it together. You know what I'm grateful for the
Speaker 1: movie Are Are Are We're going, We're going soon. I'm
Speaker 1: so excited. I'm grateful for you know, all the all
Speaker 1: the usuals, Paddington, Titanic, Alfred Molina. You know, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: very I'm just grateful for and I'm grateful for this. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm grateful Mitchell Farrell got elected out of office. There's
Speaker 1: there's so much to be grateful for this year. Truly,
Speaker 1: it is the first, at least personally. I know that
Speaker 1: everyone's mileage various. We're not trying to but um, I
Speaker 1: don't know. This has been the first year in many
Speaker 1: years where I've just been like, it's nice to feel
Speaker 1: like a person sometimes person. It is very nice. And
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're feeling good. And I hope our listeners
Speaker 1: are feeling good, be good, be safe. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, and maybe if we all band together and
Speaker 1: make a wish at eleven eleven elon Musk will be
Speaker 1: swallowed by hell and go to hell. Wouldn't that be
Speaker 1: fun and interesting? That would be very nice. With that said,
Speaker 1: please follow us on Twitter. No, I'm kidding, but there,
Speaker 1: I mean you can't. Well, well, I'm I'm still there.
Speaker 1: I'm I truly. People have been making this joke and
Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, it's like the band on the Titanic
Speaker 1: is playing for Twitter. And I was like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess that. I'm like, kind of I thought that I
Speaker 1: would be getting in a lifeboat, but it turns out
Speaker 1: I'm the elderly couple in the bed. Um I'm waiting
Speaker 1: for over the room to fill with water. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess I'm still there. That's you and
Speaker 1: me together on the bed. Twitter. Please still follow us.
Speaker 1: Oh god, follow the Instagram. I mean everything's fucking compromised.
Speaker 1: But like Twitter, I mean, I mean, if it goes away,
Speaker 1: it would actually be you know, probably net positive for
Speaker 1: the world. I think, um, the world be a safer place.
Speaker 1: But Instagram, I mean, who Mark Zuckerberg on Instagram, and
Speaker 1: I've never heard a bad word about him, so probably
Speaker 1: follow us a little there. Everything's funny, especially because on Instagram.
Speaker 1: Let me just plug my amazing, hilarious, awesome, put way
Speaker 1: too much time into this bit bit where I re
Speaker 1: edit the ending is of movies if they ended the
Speaker 1: way Shrek ends, which is how every movie should end.
Speaker 1: Check that out. It's my finest work and I do
Speaker 1: need you to watch those on Instagram and TikTok. I'm
Speaker 1: a TikToker now, bravely say what you will. She's a
Speaker 1: TikToker now. And that's also a famously uncompromised social media.
Speaker 1: You know, there's no surveillance that it's and then but
Speaker 1: then people are like, join Mastodon, and immediately my whole
Speaker 1: body rejected that I don't. It's new Twitter. And then
Speaker 1: anytime I say I'm not going to do it, people
Speaker 1: are like it's great. I'm like, I'm sure it is great,
Speaker 1: but I can't at this point sign up for something
Speaker 1: I'll die. I might get to be real because all
Speaker 1: of the jackals at the on it, Hey, I'd had it,
Speaker 1: and so they would they would always be like murderers
Speaker 1: getting the I was in so many people's be reals,
Speaker 1: and then I couldn't ever see them because I'm crusty
Speaker 1: and I didn't have to be real. Another thing that
Speaker 1: I don't really know what that is, but it's fun.
Speaker 1: But if you're boring, it's bad, which is why I
Speaker 1: don't have it. Um can I tell you what be
Speaker 1: real is? And then I'll be so grateful. I do
Speaker 1: know because I have some friends who use it. And
Speaker 1: then I'm like, this sounds like a lot of effort.
Speaker 1: What we're saying is that if you want to sign
Speaker 1: up for something, you could sign up for Matreon. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: where these kind of chaotic conversations take place twice a month.
Speaker 1: I love. I am grateful for the Matrion, and I'm
Speaker 1: grateful for I'll say I'm grateful for the Matrons again
Speaker 1: for being so like, you know, open to us kind
Speaker 1: of goofing around and having some fun on that because
Speaker 1: I think on on the main feed we try to
Speaker 1: keep it more discussion oriented. Not that we don't have
Speaker 1: fun on the main feed, but the Matrion is loose.
Speaker 1: We're Caitlin and I let our hair down. It's really
Speaker 1: for us to just goof But also we have incredible, amazing,
Speaker 1: perfect ten out of ten no notes discourse on the
Speaker 1: Matreon as well. We do we do um there Truly,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't believe how many thoughts we had on the Minions,
Speaker 1: and we keep alluding to the Minions and basically every
Speaker 1: other episode since then. Yeah, they're I think they're backtel
Speaker 1: Cas canon. At this point, basically I wanted to say
Speaker 1: kind of I'll close out by saying I'm grateful for
Speaker 1: Laurie Durante, our most loyal listener, m a pillar of strength,
Speaker 1: a pillar in her community, and our biggest supporter and cheerleader,
Speaker 1: and shout out Laurie, and also shout out Jill. I
Speaker 1: was well, I was going to say, on your behalf,
Speaker 1: shout out Jill Loftis. She signed up for the Matrion
Speaker 1: this year she did. Oh, welcome Jill to hear miny,
Speaker 1: happy to have you to hear Minions. UM. So you know, ultimately,
Speaker 1: shout out moms. We're grateful for your gestation. Um, and
Speaker 1: thanks for that, because being a line is pretty sick,
Speaker 1: pretty awesome, epic, Thank you, Lorian, Jill for life. A
Speaker 1: Father's day, Okay, happy mother's Day, what happened? But yes,
Speaker 1: we love you. Um oh, and I'm grateful for for
Speaker 1: whatever that was happening with the Don't Worry Darling Press store.
Speaker 1: That was fun to watch. Yeah, I'm grateful for twenty
Speaker 1: four hours on the Internet where people thought Harry Styles
Speaker 1: spit on Chris Pine. You know, you know, you gotta
Speaker 1: spend your time somehow, It's true. The last thing I
Speaker 1: want to do is to take a moment to let
Speaker 1: you know about a fundraising campaign for a wonderful nonprofit
Speaker 1: called A Streams of Axillon. Shout out to my Spanish tutor, Adriana,
Speaker 1: who works for this organization and who let us know
Speaker 1: about this campaign. Okay, So, thro Streams an Axion or
Speaker 1: O d A is a Mexico City based organization that
Speaker 1: was created by and for people who have been affected
Speaker 1: by the experiences of deportation and forced return to Mexico
Speaker 1: from the United States. This is their fourth annual crowdfunding campaign.
Speaker 1: This campaign is called Fight for Hugs and they're raising
Speaker 1: money that will support people and families that have been
Speaker 1: separated from their children, spouses, siblings, parents, communities in general,
Speaker 1: and the money will go toward paying for things like
Speaker 1: legal service fees, visa fees, passports, flight tickets, other expenses,
Speaker 1: anything related to reuniting families who have been affected by deportation.
Speaker 1: This fundraising campaign is happening now through December, so if
Speaker 1: you're able, please make a donation as soon as possible
Speaker 1: to The link is donor box dot org slash fight
Speaker 1: dash for dash Hugs. We will put that link in
Speaker 1: the episode description, will pin it to the top of
Speaker 1: our Twitter feed, we'll put it on our Instagram, it
Speaker 1: will be accessible on our platforms. UH. Once again, the
Speaker 1: link is donor box dot org slash fight dash for
Speaker 1: Dash Hugs. So if you're able, please donate to this
Speaker 1: amazing fundraiser for this amazing organization. Do we have any
Speaker 1: thing anyone else to thank anything else we're grateful for
Speaker 1: at this time? Well, I just our I Heart. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm always very grateful to Jack O'Brien for bringing us
Speaker 1: onto the I Heart Network originally um and and introducing
Speaker 1: us to Sophie. So thank you, John, Thank you so
Speaker 1: much to Jack into all our friends at My Heart.
Speaker 1: You know you're Miles Grays, You're on a host NS,
Speaker 1: you'r Sharene Lanni Uniss, You're you're Robert Evans. You know what, fine, fine,
Speaker 1: fuck Robert Evans, I guess and uh and ultimately Cliffhanger.
Speaker 1: I'm grateful for When I say all those names in order,
Speaker 1: I'm grateful for Santa University, which will be coming out,
Speaker 1: um should be coming out next to Santa University. Six.
Speaker 1: I keep saying that I'm going to write Santa Think
Speaker 1: as a as a sequel to Santa University, and then
Speaker 1: we'll be feuding, and then I haven't done it, but
Speaker 1: I think there's still time. I love it. Um. Okay, well, uh,
Speaker 1: we're we're grateful for you. Um. Please take this opportunity
Speaker 1: today to educate yourself on the indigenous history of where
Speaker 1: you live. You know, be good to each other, and
Speaker 1: uh we will will. We'll be here next week, we
Speaker 1: sure will. We will see you then, bye bye,