Speaker 1: On the Bechdel Cast, the questions ask if movies have
Speaker 1: women and them are all their discussions just boyfriends and
Speaker 1: husbands or do they have individualism? It's the patriarchy, Zefph
Speaker 1: and Beast start changing it with the Bechdel Cast.
Speaker 2: Hello Bechdel Cast listeners. There we are.
Speaker 3: Caitlin and it's me Jamie and it's our end of
Speaker 3: year bray ever heard of it? I have not to brag.
Speaker 3: We have released I want to say, forty nine brand
Speaker 3: new episodes this year, possibly fifty. So we are given
Speaker 3: a couple weeks off every year and we usually like
Speaker 3: to save one for last you know why, so we
Speaker 3: can hang out and watch the Muppet Christmas Carol this week,
Speaker 3: which is what we would normally do.
Speaker 2: It's what we're gonna do, that's right. So this is
Speaker 2: not a full episode. This is just a quick little
Speaker 2: us popping in to tell you we're not doing a episode.
Speaker 2: But what we are doing is plugging the tour that
Speaker 2: we have coming up in February. If you haven't heard,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, we got a big year, big year ahead.
Speaker 2: So in early February we are going on tour. We're
Speaker 2: going to some cities in California and Texas. Jamie tell
Speaker 2: them more about it.
Speaker 3: I sure will. So, yeah, we're going on tour at
Speaker 3: the beginning of February. We are hitting San Francisco at
Speaker 3: SF Sketch Fest on February first. We're heading to Sacramento
Speaker 3: Lady Bird Ever Heard of It on February second, and
Speaker 3: one of those shows has already sold out, So if
Speaker 3: you didn't get tickets and you're in Sacramento, jump for
Speaker 3: those other tickets now. February third, we'll be in Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 3: February fifth, we will be in Austin, Texas, and then
Speaker 3: we're gonna swing on back down to California. And on
Speaker 3: February tenth, we will be at Wicked West in San Diego.
Speaker 3: But here's the twist. We mysteriously didn't cover I think
Speaker 3: the largest grossing movie of the year, which also happens
Speaker 3: to be the largest grossing movie ever directed by a woman.
Speaker 3: And so it's just interesting, and it is because we
Speaker 3: were saving it for a tour so we could wear
Speaker 3: cute outfits. It's the Barbie Tour. Yes, so we will
Speaker 3: be covering Barbie. We're gonna be, you know, putting together
Speaker 3: a big live show as if you've been to our
Speaker 3: live shows before, you get the Bechdel Cast experience, you
Speaker 3: get the discussion. But we also play games, we wear outfits,
Speaker 3: we do meet and greets afterwards, we have tour exclusive
Speaker 3: merchant posters. It's really really fun, and we're coming to
Speaker 3: most of these cities. All of these cities except for
Speaker 3: San Francisco we've never toured to before, so we're very
Speaker 3: very excited. And yeah, except in Sacramento, where we're also
Speaker 3: covering the Wolf of Wall Street for the second show. Right,
Speaker 3: we're doing two shows. Everything else is Barbie.
Speaker 2: Yes, so yeah, so Barbie. And until quite recently, we
Speaker 2: weren't sure what we were going to do in San Francisco.
Speaker 2: We were kind of waiting to see if there would
Speaker 2: be a guest confirmed, but it's official. We're also covering
Speaker 2: Barbie in San Francisco. So if you already bought a
Speaker 2: ticket to that show and you're like, what movie are
Speaker 2: they covering, it's Barbie. It's Barbie.
Speaker 3: Congratulations.
Speaker 2: And then the show that's not yet sold out in
Speaker 2: Sacramento is the Wolf of Wall Street show, So come
Speaker 2: on to that, come to all the other shows, go
Speaker 2: on tour with us. It'll be a blast, and we
Speaker 2: have an exciting year for touring coming up. Suffice it
Speaker 2: to say, you might be catching us over sea gas
Speaker 2: in the spray in the spring. Yeah, I mean perhaps
Speaker 2: if you kind of live in or near the UK.
Speaker 2: Huh huh huh, we're.
Speaker 3: Gonna possibly be there and like in more than one location.
Speaker 3: So just think about that.
Speaker 2: Just think about it.
Speaker 3: And in the meantime, if you live in California or Texas,
Speaker 3: get excited. We're very, very excited. Especially. I think Austin
Speaker 3: has a special place in my heart, not just because
Speaker 3: I love doing shows there, but because we had a
Speaker 3: show sold out there for April twenty twenty and we
Speaker 3: are finally making good on it. So we would love
Speaker 3: to pack out these shows. We're so I know that
Speaker 3: our listener base correctly complaints that we go to the
Speaker 3: same five cities all the time, but we're only going
Speaker 3: to one of those same five cities on this tour. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so please come out. We would love to meet you.
Speaker 3: We love doing the meet and greets, and we'll see
Speaker 3: you Barbie's there. Come in your Barbie finest.
Speaker 2: Truly, and hey, if you want to get tickets to
Speaker 2: those shows, here's how you do it. You go to
Speaker 2: link tree slash Bechdel Cast, all the tickets are there,
Speaker 2: and we're so excited to see you there.
Speaker 3: We're very, very pumped. And just because it's the end
Speaker 3: of the year, we do this on the Matreon all
Speaker 3: the time, Patreon dot com slash Bechtel Cast. Five dollars
Speaker 3: a month gets you to bonus episodes a both that
Speaker 3: access to almost two hundred back episodes. But we we're
Speaker 3: just we're very we're very grateful to you, to our listeners.
Speaker 3: We wanted to end the year reflectively.
Speaker 2: We had a great year.
Speaker 3: We had a really fun year. We got to tour
Speaker 3: a little bit, We got to have a lot of
Speaker 3: amazing returning guests, a lot of new guests, cover a
Speaker 3: lot of I think today this year we got through
Speaker 3: I think a lot of popularly requested movies more than
Speaker 3: we usually do. We didn't force our will this year,
Speaker 3: and I think that's beautiful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good for us, and yeah.
Speaker 3: Maybe next year we'll be tyrants. Either way, we're just
Speaker 3: grateful to have you here, and thanks as always for
Speaker 3: being a listener and for I mean for gently educating
Speaker 3: us as you have for years, seven years. We didn't
Speaker 3: we never really like celebrate our anniversary. Yeah, we always
Speaker 3: forget babe, we never celebrate our anniversary anymore. Well, it's
Speaker 3: like right after Trump got elected. This the first time,
Speaker 3: depending on when you're sneak to this, unfortunately, but seven years,
Speaker 3: seven years of bliss.
Speaker 2: It's so true, and we're nearing also, I think five.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure how many main feed episodes. It's wild
Speaker 2: that we don't have a handle on this.
Speaker 3: We're too busy creating content, it's true.
Speaker 2: But I do know that we as far as the
Speaker 2: number of movies we've covered, both on the main feed
Speaker 2: and the Patreon aka Matreon, it's nearly five hundred. Wow,
Speaker 2: can you believe it?
Speaker 3: And there's only five hundred and twelve movies, So we're
Speaker 3: gonna have to figure out what to do now. We're
Speaker 3: we're incredibly grateful that you've been with us for all
Speaker 3: these years. Hands too many more And spoiler alert, we're
Speaker 3: about to record the first episode of the year and
Speaker 3: hit stars a green celebrity.
Speaker 2: Wow, who could it be? Is it the Grinch? Is
Speaker 2: it wow? Camora from Guardians of the Galaxy. No, we
Speaker 2: just covered that.
Speaker 3: It's Shrek, the only one we haven't covered for now.
Speaker 2: For now, but also wait posts and Boots movies, they're
Speaker 2: a thing. It's true. I would like to plug something
Speaker 2: really quick before we wrap up, which is my intro
Speaker 2: to screenwriting class. Yes, I have a section starting on
Speaker 2: January sixth, which is like such a normal day in history.
Speaker 2: Nothing I don't think ever happened on that day, and.
Speaker 3: We canceled a recording that day. I remember because we're
Speaker 3: like should we not today? I don't regret it. It
Speaker 3: was the right thing to do.
Speaker 2: It was the right thing to do. But yes, I
Speaker 2: have a few spots left in that section at the
Speaker 2: time of us recording this. So if you're interested in
Speaker 2: taking one of my screenwriting classes, I've got this intro
Speaker 2: section that has a few spots, So head to Caitlin
Speaker 2: Durante dot com slash classes for like the registration and
Speaker 2: more details on that. But it's like Saturdays for eight weeks.
Speaker 3: And then for me get a copy of Raw Dog
Speaker 3: if you haven't already, treat yourself. And I have a
Speaker 3: new weekly series starting in March that I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: tell you any more podcast, but a thrilling year of
Speaker 3: content creations ahead.
Speaker 2: Wow, look at us.
Speaker 3: I have a wonderful New Year. Everyone celebrates safely, and
Speaker 3: we will. We will Shrek you in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. Okay, bye Shrek You.
Speaker 1: Then bye