We're Taking the Week Off and That's Feminist!

Happy New Year, Bechdel Heads! We're taking this week off, but we'll be back next week and the many weeks to come for more great episodes!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
On the Bell Cast, the questions asked if movies have
women in um, are all their discussions just boyfriends and husbands?
Or do they have individualism? The patriarchy? Zef invest start
changing it with the beck Del Cast. Hello, Becdel Cast
listeners as I Caitlin Durante, So like Dracula? What's going on?

(00:26):
Happy one? Everybody? Caitlin's Dracula? Now? Thanks? Are gonna feel
a little different this year. I mean, my name does
anagram to nine tit Dracula. She's a special kind of Dracula.
I don't have not one, not two tits, but nine

(00:46):
of them. Um. 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 um we which I
immediately was like, well defensive. Um. The reason being is

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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 twenty,

(01:28):
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 listen, listen, We're
taking this week off. Um, yes, but we have we
What what I will say is we have a very
exciting planned for everybody. Um, we are getting into records.

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We're going to be covering a lot of popular requests.
We're gonna be bringing on a lot of popular guest requests.
They'll be surprised, says Uh. There's going to be a
really diverse swath of movies recovering this year. And um,
if this pains you that we are gone for a week,
we are still over on the Matreon at patreon dot

(02:14):
com slash Bechtel Cast. But yeah, it's it's just been.
It's still we're recording this. It's been a long year
and we just needed a week off. We sure did,
and we hope 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

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you want to listen to a podcast that's killing me
and ruining my life, you should go listen. So so
there's 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 into Movie Talk with Caitlin
show I do every Thursday on Instagram Live. And then

(02:58):
this week's Lolita pod cast also features Caitlin's voice. I'm everywhere.
It's all about the history of tumbler communities and book
covers and it's it's a lot so that so there's
you know, there's other places to go. And the Backtel
Cast will be back literally next Thursday and every Thursday

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after next Thursday for your regularly scheduled program and a
little fun preview. Uh, we are going to be recovering
a movie from the very beginning of the podcast. We
will not say which one, um, so you'll just have
to tune in then and find out. That's right. Oh yeah,
we should We mention this that the original plan for

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January was going to just do a whole redo month
of all the four episodes that we took down that
we 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 gonna space out that initiative.
We are going to be recovering all for this year,

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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, but we
are doing one next week. But which one we just
told you, not the Matrix, but which one. There's three others.
There's three others. Which one isn't start taking until you're

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getting don't don't, don't camble or do what am I white?
I'm gonna do anything you want this 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 a pleasant holiday

(04:47):
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.

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Bye bye, remember that all right. Bye