Thanksgiving Minisode

Caitlin and Jamie say thanks to our listeners, our Matrons, and more on this mini Thanksgiving episode!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
On the Bell Cast, the questions asked if movies have
women and um, are all their discussions just boyfriends and
husbands or do they happen individualism, the patriarchy? Zef in
best start changing it with the Bell Cast, gobble gobbles,
It's thanks, uh back there? Hey, you know what I'm

(00:25):
thankful for? I got it, I got it, I got hey,
keep this, don't delete it. Hey, you know, I'm thankful
for what's that? Women being portrayed in movies with respect
and dignity. I'm thankful for that too. Unfortunately it didn't
happen this year or any previews here, almost never. In fact,

(00:45):
I'm thankful that it doesn't happen because that gives us
stuff to talk about on this podcast. What's what I'm
thankful for? Caitlin Durante thankful for problematic bullshit? Hey, um,
if you're curious what's happening, this is our just quick
little you're curious. This is the Bechtel Cast. This is
our very quick Thanksgiving episode where we're not talking about

(01:07):
a movie. We're just gonna pay some thanks. If you want,
like maybe a full episode, you should subscribe to our
Patreon because we've got a few bonus episodes that are
going to come around around Thanksgiving, and you can get
access to all the existing bonus episodes as well. That's true. True,
Halloween's over, so we just wanted to take this opportunity

(01:29):
because it's Thanksgiving to say thanks to some people and
some groups of people that we want to thank. Yeah.
So first, I want to thank Aristotle for being the
best producer in the world. I'm thankful. I wanted to
say thanks to Mike Kaplan for writing our theme song

(01:49):
and to Catherine vos Krasinski for performing it. Thank you, yes, thanks.
I wanted to thank all the guests we've had on
this past year. Thank you, guys, so fun and so wonderful.
I wanted to thank rebeccable Nous for writing articles about
us in the Avy Club. Yeah, Jesus, oh my god.
I want to thank our our friends at the Cracked

(02:10):
podcast for giving us the first first bum. Yeah, and
any friends who have had us on their podcasts and
given us a space to promote the Bechtel Cast. That's
been awesome. I want to thank all of our listeners, Um,
all past that's a little more of a you thing, okay,

(02:30):
Jamie Loftus hates our listen personally, I would like to say,
funk the list. Okay, well I disagree. I I also
want to thank anyone who's you know, messaged us or
tweeted at us and you know, said kind words and
just any feedback has been wonderful, except except for the
steampunk the guy who is mean about steam punk and

(02:53):
couldn't get over, you know, couldn't reconcile the fact that
he that he sucks. Hey, here's here's the Okay, you
send out things, I'll send out a slew of fuck you,
all right. I want to thank everyone who's made fan
art for us. It's great. I'd like to give a
big funk you to every living artist who hasn't. I

(03:16):
wanted to thank everyone who has come to our live shows,
and I also want to plug the next live show
we have, which is on December two at the Nerdest
show Room at Mault dot Comics in Los Angeles. So
if you're in the area, come to that. We've got
Deborad Giovanni and we're talking about die Hard. I'm so
thankful for Deborah. I'd like to send a big fuck
you out to my cousin who assumed that he could

(03:38):
just come visit me whenever he wants, because quote, I
didn't think you had a job, unquote, very rude and inaccurate.
Fuck you. I want to thank all of our matrons
who have subscribed to our Matreon. I want to say
a big fuck you to the Apple Company. Stop making
my products break. I don't have any money, like your

(04:01):
laptop and your phone, laptop and my phone, like like
the the, like my only friends. I wanted to thank
all the women and non binary filmmakers, comedians, podcasters, performers, entertainers,
anyone who's making things and creating art, because this is
our fucking time now. I want to send a big

(04:22):
funk you out to every white male comic who says,
you know, it's kind of hard for us right now.
It's all of them. It's all of them. You know,
it's actually kind of hard for us to get right now.
And that's a big funk you to you guys. Guess what,
maybe your comedy is boring. And Jamie, I want to

(04:44):
thank you for being for an impossible just the best
co host I could ever ask for. Thank you for
being so bright and funny and insightful every episode. I
love you. I'd like to have a big fuck you
to I call us Kalin for putting me in an
impossible situation given the perimeters of the episode. But also

(05:09):
I'm very thankful for you and your brilliance. And it's
always just what a man, Jamie. Do you know what
I have to say to that bff? Suck you? Yeah,
see you twisted at the end. This lady's got a
masters and writing. What a twist. You set up the
president and then you twisted. That's called a subversion. Folks, Hey,

(05:31):
what are you doing? Shouldn't you be uh, shouldn't you
be breaking your family apart? Right now? Why are you
listening to us? I mean, it's what this is five
minutes long. You had time for this. Don't feel bad
now go eat some turkey or you know whatever. And also,
suck colonialism. That's the main thing I want to say
about Thanksgiving. Suck colonialism and probably fun your family. And yes,

(05:56):
once again, just thanks to all of our listeners. Don't
listen to what Jamie said out. Yeah, you're great and
you're wonderful and thanks for your support and happy holiday.
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