November 28, 2019 • 12 mins
Jamie and Caitlin give thanks on this mini Thanksgiving episode.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On the bec Del Cast, the questions asked if movies
have women and them, are all their discussions just boyfriends
and husbands, or do they have individualism? The patriarchy Zef
and best start changing it with the beck Del Cast. Hi, everybody,
this is the beck Del Cast. My name is Jamie Loftus,
my name is Caitlin Toronte. And this is our annual
(00:22):
Thanksgiving Mini said, which is our way of saying, we're
taking the week off and uh, you know, ruminating on
this holiday that celebrates genocide about the things that we're
thankful for. So we're just gonna do a quick shout
out to to everyone we're thankful for this year, and
then we're gonna go eat some eat you know what.
(00:43):
I'm over turkey. I'm gonna go eat sushi this Thanksgiving season.
I'm gonna, yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna eat Seven eleven sushi. Yummy, yummy.
So that's our first thank you, thank you, thank you
to and to seven eleven, Thank you, love, thank you life.
Um let's get started. Let's do it. Uh. First, big
(01:03):
thanks to our producer Aristotle. Yes, you know him, you
love him. He's been with us from the beginning. He's
still with us. He's one of the only good men period.
We've been saying it for years. It's true and too
so if you liked our men, our producer at I
heard radio. She is so wonderful. She's in the room
(01:25):
right now. Hi, you're a half now. I don't know.
We love her so much. She's the best, and her
dog Anderson and also a feminist icon and worthy of
things as well. I would like to actually take this
time in this platform to call out Sunny the Dog
for really contributing nothing to discussions and in fact setting
(01:48):
women even further another step backwards simply by him. I
think you should be d platform. I mean I I
follow his Instagram account and he is quite reductive train
wreck at bad Dog's honey. Yes, so you don't give
it follows who happens. We also want to thank people
who have recorded for us whilst we were on the road,
(02:10):
including you know Them you Love Them, Sammy Junio, Isaac
Taylor Man that I love and uh and then Cute,
and then other people from My Heart, Zach Daniel, Nick, Chris,
the whole gang. They've all helped us out. Love to
him to our I Heart l A team Jacque O'Brien,
(02:31):
Miles Gray, Daniel Goodman, Anna Hosnie. They're the best and
we love them. Thank you to our friend Mike Kaplan
for writing our theme song and to Katherine vos Krasinski
for performing our theme song. Thanks to them for doing
such good work on the song. People singing about the shows,
(02:51):
it's exciting. Uh. To all of the writers who have
written us up and included us in articles and lists
in the past year, um as well as the other
podcasters who have had us on his guests and or
have shot at us out on your podcast, We are
very grateful. Hey, Jamie, all this being grateful for people
is making me hungry. Oh I know where this is going. Caitlyn,
(03:13):
Why don't you cook your Hello Fresh meals if you're
so hungry. We don't have to eat seven eleven sushi
after all, because we have delicious meals from Hello Fresh.
With Hello Fresh, America's number one meal kit, you get easy,
seasonal recipes and pre measured ingredients delivered right to your door.
All you have to do is cook and enjoy. Well, Caitlyn,
(03:34):
you forgot to mention that Hello Fresh makes cooking delicious
meals at home fun and easy regardless of your comfort
level in the kitchen. From step to step recipes to
pre measured ingredients, you'll have everything you need to get
a delicious dinner on the table in just about thirty minutes. Yeah.
I usually don't know what I'm doing in the kitchen
at all, but Hello Fresh tells you exactly what to do.
It comes with everything you need, including these like recipe
(03:56):
sheets with like pretty pictures on them, the food that
you make. It's just so delicious. I ordered um vegetarian meals.
I cooked them up. They were so good. Yeah, I
got um. I I made a bunch of meals for
myself and my beloved. I have no skills in the
kitchen and I still don't, but Hello Fresh made me
feel like I did for a half hour, and that
(04:19):
was empowering in its way. That's a beautiful story. Thank you.
I am a fraud. Each week, Hello Fresh has twenty
plus seasonal chef curated recipes to choose from, including family
friendly recipes, vegetarian meals, and fun menu series like Hall
of Fame and Kraft Burgers. And Hello Fresh is flexible.
(04:41):
You can change your delivery days and food preferences, and
you can skip a week whenever you need so. Listeners,
here's your chance to get nine free meals with Hello
Fresh by going to Hello Fresh dot com slash TBC
nine and using code TBC nine. That's nine free meals
at Hello Fresh dot com slash tbcne mine with promo
code TBC nine. And now let's think more people. Thank
(05:05):
you to all of the guests that we've had on
the podcast. It's work that we make them do. We're
like watch a movie analyze. It's so you know, they're
putting in such good work. They're giving such terrific perspectives.
The show wouldn't be anything without them. So thank you
to every guest we've had on in the past year
(05:26):
and across time, from the beginning of time when the
world started right before the twenty six election um and
of course all of our listeners. We love you into eternity.
We can't tell you enough we love you or obsessed
with you. Thank you nothing without you. Thank you for listening.
Thanks especially to our matrons, anyone who subscribes to our
(05:51):
patren slash Matreon. We appreciate your support so much. We
truly couldn't do this without you. So major, major thanks
to you. We love you so much, very grateful. Uh.
And then to everyone who's gotten merch and has shared
pictures of them wearing the merch. It really always brightens
our day and thank you for designing it. Hey, Caitlin,
(06:15):
I want to say thank you for editing every episode.
The bed del has is not something we talked about
very frequently, but Caitlin has always taken the lead on
editing episodes and making sure that we sound smarter than
we are. You can't it is the most important part. Um.
Thank you to everyone who has come out to our
live shows and to all of the wonderful venues that
(06:38):
have had us over the past year. Uh. Special thanks
to the Ruby and Los Angeles for giving us our
monthly live show for the past year and change their
moving locations. But we have just enjoyed that partnership so
much and I'm very grateful so much. Yes, Um, speaking
of coming out to our live shows, some people have
(06:58):
traveled to come see us, which were very grateful for.
And then also with the holidays coming up, people are
traveling a lot. Maybe you're you know you're going to
be in a long car ride or plane trip and
this is a perfect time to think about Audible. You
might already be familiar with Audible, a leading provider of
premium digital spoken audio information and entertainment, But if you're not,
(07:22):
Audible Content includes an unmatched selection of audio books and
other audio products for your listening pleasure. In addition to
listening to the Bechtel Cast, You're gonna want to listen
to Audible content. Now is the best time to do it.
With a special offer of fifty off your first three
months access an unbeatable selection of audio books, including best sellers, motivations, mysteries, thrillers, memoirs,
(07:50):
and more. It's amazing, and Kaylin, you can choose three
titles every month, one audiobook and two exclusive Audible originals
you can't hear anywhere else. I got the audio book
for The Shining, which we did a recent episode about awesome,
and I'm thankful for that. Yes, we have an upcoming
(08:11):
episode on Little Women, Ever heard of Them? Ever heard
of them? And to prep for this episode, not only
am I going to watch the movie, I'm going to
listen to the audio book on Little Women on Audible. Well,
how studious of you. Thank you so much. You can
listen on any device, anytime, anywhere with the Audible app.
It's great while commuting at the gym or during your
(08:32):
holiday travels. With Audible, you'll also enjoy easy audiobook exchanges
and your own audiobook library you keep forever, even if
you cancel. Wow. Right now, for a limited time, you
can get three months of Audible for just six a
month is more than half off the regular price, So
give yourself the gift of listening. For more, go to
audible dot com, slash TBC or text TBC to five hundred,
(08:57):
five hundred. That's Audible dot com. Slash TVC or text
TVC to five hundred. I'm grateful for this offer, and
I'm grateful for more people. Let's give more thanks. Thank
you also just to UH, filmmakers, comedians, writers, podcasters, performers, entertainers,
anyone who's making cool stuff, especially if you're making stuff
(09:19):
that is diverse and inclusive and representing people thoughtfully. UH.
You're doing excellent work, and we appreciate you because we
need you. Uh. We appreciate the people who are making
the stuff that we've needed all along, and please keep
telling us about it. When you see something cool, you
see something new, and you see something different, we always
(09:41):
want to prioritize new and exciting voices. Yes, indeed, and uh, Caitlyn,
what do I think over you? I thank over for
you and thankful for our friendship which is just growing
and evolving into like this beautiful young enough and it
just it gets me all worked out. Oh my goodness,
I just thank you for being a part of my
daily life. That makes me ditto. What if that was
(10:04):
all I say? You're like awesome anyway, and by uh no, truly,
thank you so much. You are the funniest person I know.
Everything you say makes me laugh so hard, and all
of your insights and contributions to this show are so invaluable,
and I just don't know what I would be doing
(10:28):
without you. I can't picture your life with that ship.
You're so funny, as so talented, and I just I
just I just love you and I don't want to
get I think I'm like, are we just like hungry?
And I'm like, okay, I love you so much and
thank you overwhelming true and so you know, and and
(10:52):
of course I think we saved the best for last.
I wanted to thank Melina for being in the show.
We can't wait to have you back. But you haven't
agreed to do. But I mean we'll be hitting out
any any day now, you know, just don't agree to it.
He's like, I'll come back anytime, anytime. Yeah, he said,
he said it. He said it, he said it, but
then he got frozen too, So we don't know. He's
(11:13):
a big start now he's I mean, he's always been
a big start, but now he got frozen too. I
don't know if you'll have time. I hope he does.
Either way. We're so thankful for you, Yes forever, And
that's how we end our Thanks for the feminist podcast.
Well I'll just insert one last thing, and thanks to
all the cats out there. Oh yes, you know there
(11:34):
are many. There are many, many nipples. Um. I just
love all the cats out there. They're so cute. Send
me your cat pictures. I just got a cat. I know,
it's so cute. It's very small. Caitlin. Just Caitlin counts
his little nippies every day. I wake up every morning,
I come over and I say, Jamie, I need to
(11:56):
come the nipple accountant her at. I sometimes regret turning
this into the bit that I always do, because it's
truly one of the more disturbing aspects of my life.
But people loved her. People love to tweet at you
about cat nipple and I'm just like and it is
self creative problem. That is a thing that I decided
(12:20):
should be a thing in my life. Um So, yeah,
cats are the best, and their nipples I'm honestly neutral on.
But you know I've packed myself into a corner with
the cat nipple thing. Any who. Um, yes, thanks thanks
for listening, Thanks for anyone who's ever supported us in
any way. We are eternally grateful. And now we're going
(12:41):
to go eat some delicious meals from Hello Fresh and
seven eleven, and we wish you all very safe and
happy holidays. Bye bye,
On the bec Del Cast, the questions asked if movies
have women and them, are all their discussions just boyfriends
and husbands, or do they have individualism? The patriarchy Zef
and best start changing it with the beck Del Cast. Hi, everybody,
this is the beck Del Cast. My name is Jamie Loftus,
my name is Caitlin Toronte. And this is our annual
(00:22):
Thanksgiving Mini said, which is our way of saying, we're
taking the week off and uh, you know, ruminating on
this holiday that celebrates genocide about the things that we're
thankful for. So we're just gonna do a quick shout
out to to everyone we're thankful for this year, and
then we're gonna go eat some eat you know what.
(00:43):
I'm over turkey. I'm gonna go eat sushi this Thanksgiving season.
I'm gonna, yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna eat Seven eleven sushi. Yummy, yummy.
So that's our first thank you, thank you, thank you
to and to seven eleven, Thank you, love, thank you life.
Um let's get started. Let's do it. Uh. First, big
(01:03):
thanks to our producer Aristotle. Yes, you know him, you
love him. He's been with us from the beginning. He's
still with us. He's one of the only good men period.
We've been saying it for years. It's true and too
so if you liked our men, our producer at I
heard radio. She is so wonderful. She's in the room
(01:25):
right now. Hi, you're a half now. I don't know.
We love her so much. She's the best, and her
dog Anderson and also a feminist icon and worthy of
things as well. I would like to actually take this
time in this platform to call out Sunny the Dog
for really contributing nothing to discussions and in fact setting
(01:48):
women even further another step backwards simply by him. I
think you should be d platform. I mean I I
follow his Instagram account and he is quite reductive train
wreck at bad Dog's honey. Yes, so you don't give
it follows who happens. We also want to thank people
who have recorded for us whilst we were on the road,
(02:10):
including you know Them you Love Them, Sammy Junio, Isaac
Taylor Man that I love and uh and then Cute,
and then other people from My Heart, Zach Daniel, Nick, Chris,
the whole gang. They've all helped us out. Love to
him to our I Heart l A team Jacque O'Brien,
(02:31):
Miles Gray, Daniel Goodman, Anna Hosnie. They're the best and
we love them. Thank you to our friend Mike Kaplan
for writing our theme song and to Katherine vos Krasinski
for performing our theme song. Thanks to them for doing
such good work on the song. People singing about the shows,
(02:51):
it's exciting. Uh. To all of the writers who have
written us up and included us in articles and lists
in the past year, um as well as the other
podcasters who have had us on his guests and or
have shot at us out on your podcast, We are
very grateful. Hey, Jamie, all this being grateful for people
is making me hungry. Oh I know where this is going. Caitlyn,
(03:13):
Why don't you cook your Hello Fresh meals if you're
so hungry. We don't have to eat seven eleven sushi
after all, because we have delicious meals from Hello Fresh.
With Hello Fresh, America's number one meal kit, you get easy,
seasonal recipes and pre measured ingredients delivered right to your door.
All you have to do is cook and enjoy. Well, Caitlyn,
(03:34):
you forgot to mention that Hello Fresh makes cooking delicious
meals at home fun and easy regardless of your comfort
level in the kitchen. From step to step recipes to
pre measured ingredients, you'll have everything you need to get
a delicious dinner on the table in just about thirty minutes. Yeah.
I usually don't know what I'm doing in the kitchen
at all, but Hello Fresh tells you exactly what to do.
It comes with everything you need, including these like recipe
(03:56):
sheets with like pretty pictures on them, the food that
you make. It's just so delicious. I ordered um vegetarian meals.
I cooked them up. They were so good. Yeah, I
got um. I I made a bunch of meals for
myself and my beloved. I have no skills in the
kitchen and I still don't, but Hello Fresh made me
feel like I did for a half hour, and that
(04:19):
was empowering in its way. That's a beautiful story. Thank you.
I am a fraud. Each week, Hello Fresh has twenty
plus seasonal chef curated recipes to choose from, including family
friendly recipes, vegetarian meals, and fun menu series like Hall
of Fame and Kraft Burgers. And Hello Fresh is flexible.
(04:41):
You can change your delivery days and food preferences, and
you can skip a week whenever you need so. Listeners,
here's your chance to get nine free meals with Hello
Fresh by going to Hello Fresh dot com slash TBC
nine and using code TBC nine. That's nine free meals
at Hello Fresh dot com slash tbcne mine with promo
code TBC nine. And now let's think more people. Thank
(05:05):
you to all of the guests that we've had on
the podcast. It's work that we make them do. We're
like watch a movie analyze. It's so you know, they're
putting in such good work. They're giving such terrific perspectives.
The show wouldn't be anything without them. So thank you
to every guest we've had on in the past year
(05:26):
and across time, from the beginning of time when the
world started right before the twenty six election um and
of course all of our listeners. We love you into eternity.
We can't tell you enough we love you or obsessed
with you. Thank you nothing without you. Thank you for listening.
Thanks especially to our matrons, anyone who subscribes to our
(05:51):
patren slash Matreon. We appreciate your support so much. We
truly couldn't do this without you. So major, major thanks
to you. We love you so much, very grateful. Uh.
And then to everyone who's gotten merch and has shared
pictures of them wearing the merch. It really always brightens
our day and thank you for designing it. Hey, Caitlin,
(06:15):
I want to say thank you for editing every episode.
The bed del has is not something we talked about
very frequently, but Caitlin has always taken the lead on
editing episodes and making sure that we sound smarter than
we are. You can't it is the most important part. Um.
Thank you to everyone who has come out to our
live shows and to all of the wonderful venues that
(06:38):
have had us over the past year. Uh. Special thanks
to the Ruby and Los Angeles for giving us our
monthly live show for the past year and change their
moving locations. But we have just enjoyed that partnership so
much and I'm very grateful so much. Yes, Um, speaking
of coming out to our live shows, some people have
(06:58):
traveled to come see us, which were very grateful for.
And then also with the holidays coming up, people are
traveling a lot. Maybe you're you know you're going to
be in a long car ride or plane trip and
this is a perfect time to think about Audible. You
might already be familiar with Audible, a leading provider of
premium digital spoken audio information and entertainment, But if you're not,
(07:22):
Audible Content includes an unmatched selection of audio books and
other audio products for your listening pleasure. In addition to
listening to the Bechtel Cast, You're gonna want to listen
to Audible content. Now is the best time to do it.
With a special offer of fifty off your first three
months access an unbeatable selection of audio books, including best sellers, motivations, mysteries, thrillers, memoirs,
(07:50):
and more. It's amazing, and Kaylin, you can choose three
titles every month, one audiobook and two exclusive Audible originals
you can't hear anywhere else. I got the audio book
for The Shining, which we did a recent episode about awesome,
and I'm thankful for that. Yes, we have an upcoming
(08:11):
episode on Little Women, Ever heard of Them? Ever heard
of them? And to prep for this episode, not only
am I going to watch the movie, I'm going to
listen to the audio book on Little Women on Audible. Well,
how studious of you. Thank you so much. You can
listen on any device, anytime, anywhere with the Audible app.
It's great while commuting at the gym or during your
(08:32):
holiday travels. With Audible, you'll also enjoy easy audiobook exchanges
and your own audiobook library you keep forever, even if
you cancel. Wow. Right now, for a limited time, you
can get three months of Audible for just six a
month is more than half off the regular price, So
give yourself the gift of listening. For more, go to
audible dot com, slash TBC or text TBC to five hundred,
(08:57):
five hundred. That's Audible dot com. Slash TVC or text
TVC to five hundred. I'm grateful for this offer, and
I'm grateful for more people. Let's give more thanks. Thank
you also just to UH, filmmakers, comedians, writers, podcasters, performers, entertainers,
anyone who's making cool stuff, especially if you're making stuff
(09:19):
that is diverse and inclusive and representing people thoughtfully. UH.
You're doing excellent work, and we appreciate you because we
need you. Uh. We appreciate the people who are making
the stuff that we've needed all along, and please keep
telling us about it. When you see something cool, you
see something new, and you see something different, we always
(09:41):
want to prioritize new and exciting voices. Yes, indeed, and uh, Caitlyn,
what do I think over you? I thank over for
you and thankful for our friendship which is just growing
and evolving into like this beautiful young enough and it
just it gets me all worked out. Oh my goodness,
I just thank you for being a part of my
daily life. That makes me ditto. What if that was
(10:04):
all I say? You're like awesome anyway, and by uh no, truly,
thank you so much. You are the funniest person I know.
Everything you say makes me laugh so hard, and all
of your insights and contributions to this show are so invaluable,
and I just don't know what I would be doing
(10:28):
without you. I can't picture your life with that ship.
You're so funny, as so talented, and I just I
just I just love you and I don't want to
get I think I'm like, are we just like hungry?
And I'm like, okay, I love you so much and
thank you overwhelming true and so you know, and and
(10:52):
of course I think we saved the best for last.
I wanted to thank Melina for being in the show.
We can't wait to have you back. But you haven't
agreed to do. But I mean we'll be hitting out
any any day now, you know, just don't agree to it.
He's like, I'll come back anytime, anytime. Yeah, he said,
he said it. He said it, he said it, but
then he got frozen too, So we don't know. He's
(11:13):
a big start now he's I mean, he's always been
a big start, but now he got frozen too. I
don't know if you'll have time. I hope he does.
Either way. We're so thankful for you, Yes forever, And
that's how we end our Thanks for the feminist podcast.
Well I'll just insert one last thing, and thanks to
all the cats out there. Oh yes, you know there
(11:34):
are many. There are many, many nipples. Um. I just
love all the cats out there. They're so cute. Send
me your cat pictures. I just got a cat. I know,
it's so cute. It's very small. Caitlin. Just Caitlin counts
his little nippies every day. I wake up every morning,
I come over and I say, Jamie, I need to
(11:56):
come the nipple accountant her at. I sometimes regret turning
this into the bit that I always do, because it's
truly one of the more disturbing aspects of my life.
But people loved her. People love to tweet at you
about cat nipple and I'm just like and it is
self creative problem. That is a thing that I decided
(12:20):
should be a thing in my life. Um So, yeah,
cats are the best, and their nipples I'm honestly neutral on.
But you know I've packed myself into a corner with
the cat nipple thing. Any who. Um, yes, thanks thanks
for listening, Thanks for anyone who's ever supported us in
any way. We are eternally grateful. And now we're going
(12:41):
to go eat some delicious meals from Hello Fresh and
seven eleven, and we wish you all very safe and
happy holidays. Bye bye,
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