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Thanksgiving Mini Episode · The Bechdel Cast

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  Speaker 1: On the bec Del Cast, the questions asked if movies
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  Speaker 1: have women and them, are all their discussions just boyfriends
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  Speaker 1: and husbands, or do they have individualism? The patriarchy Zef
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  Speaker 1: and best start changing it with the beck Del Cast. Hi, everybody,
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  Speaker 1: this is the beck Del Cast. My name is Jamie Loftus,
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  Speaker 1: my name is Caitlin Toronte. And this is our annual
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  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Mini said, which is our way of saying, we're
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  Speaker 1: taking the week off and uh, you know, ruminating on
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  Speaker 1: this holiday that celebrates genocide about the things that we're
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  Speaker 1: thankful for. So we're just gonna do a quick shout
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  Speaker 1: out to to everyone we're thankful for this year, and
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  Speaker 1: then we're gonna go eat some eat you know what.
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  Speaker 1: I'm over turkey. I'm gonna go eat sushi this Thanksgiving season.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna, yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna eat Seven eleven sushi. Yummy, yummy.
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  Speaker 1: So that's our first thank you, thank you, thank you
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  Speaker 1: to and to seven eleven, Thank you, love, thank you life.
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  Speaker 1: Um let's get started. Let's do it. Uh. First, big
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  Speaker 1: thanks to our producer Aristotle. Yes, you know him, you
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  Speaker 1: love him. He's been with us from the beginning. He's
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  Speaker 1: still with us. He's one of the only good men period.
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  Speaker 1: We've been saying it for years. It's true and too
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  Speaker 1: so if you liked our men, our producer at I
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  Speaker 1: heard radio. She is so wonderful. She's in the room
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  Speaker 1: right now. Hi, you're a half now. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: We love her so much. She's the best, and her
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  Speaker 1: dog Anderson and also a feminist icon and worthy of
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  Speaker 1: things as well. I would like to actually take this
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  Speaker 1: time in this platform to call out Sunny the Dog
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  Speaker 1: for really contributing nothing to discussions and in fact setting
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  Speaker 1: women even further another step backwards simply by him. I
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  Speaker 1: think you should be d platform. I mean I I
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  Speaker 1: follow his Instagram account and he is quite reductive train
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  Speaker 1: wreck at bad Dog's honey. Yes, so you don't give
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  Speaker 1: it follows who happens. We also want to thank people
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  Speaker 1: who have recorded for us whilst we were on the road,
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  Speaker 1: including you know Them you Love Them, Sammy Junio, Isaac
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Man that I love and uh and then Cute,
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  Speaker 1: and then other people from My Heart, Zach Daniel, Nick, Chris,
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  Speaker 1: the whole gang. They've all helped us out. Love to
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  Speaker 1: him to our I Heart l A team Jacque O'Brien,
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  Speaker 1: Miles Gray, Daniel Goodman, Anna Hosnie. They're the best and
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  Speaker 1: we love them. Thank you to our friend Mike Kaplan
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  Speaker 1: for writing our theme song and to Katherine vos Krasinski
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  Speaker 1: for performing our theme song. Thanks to them for doing
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  Speaker 1: such good work on the song. People singing about the shows,
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  Speaker 1: it's exciting. Uh. To all of the writers who have
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  Speaker 1: written us up and included us in articles and lists
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  Speaker 1: in the past year, um as well as the other
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  Speaker 1: podcasters who have had us on his guests and or
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  Speaker 1: have shot at us out on your podcast, We are
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  Speaker 1: very grateful. Hey, Jamie, all this being grateful for people
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  Speaker 1: is making me hungry. Oh I know where this is going. Caitlyn,
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  Speaker 1: Why don't you cook your Hello Fresh meals if you're
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  Speaker 1: so hungry. We don't have to eat seven eleven sushi
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  Speaker 1: you to all of the guests that we've had on
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  Speaker 1: the podcast. It's work that we make them do. We're
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  Speaker 1: like watch a movie analyze. It's so you know, they're
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  Speaker 1: putting in such good work. They're giving such terrific perspectives.
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  Speaker 1: The show wouldn't be anything without them. So thank you
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  Speaker 1: to every guest we've had on in the past year
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  Speaker 1: and across time, from the beginning of time when the
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  Speaker 1: world started right before the twenty six election um and
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  Speaker 1: of course all of our listeners. We love you into eternity.
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  Speaker 1: We can't tell you enough we love you or obsessed
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  Speaker 1: with you. Thank you nothing without you. Thank you for listening.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks especially to our matrons, anyone who subscribes to our
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  Speaker 1: patren slash Matreon. We appreciate your support so much. We
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  Speaker 1: truly couldn't do this without you. So major, major thanks
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  Speaker 1: to you. We love you so much, very grateful. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And then to everyone who's gotten merch and has shared
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  Speaker 1: pictures of them wearing the merch. It really always brightens
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  Speaker 1: our day and thank you for designing it. Hey, Caitlin,
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  Speaker 1: I want to say thank you for editing every episode.
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  Speaker 1: The bed del has is not something we talked about
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  Speaker 1: very frequently, but Caitlin has always taken the lead on
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  Speaker 1: editing episodes and making sure that we sound smarter than
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  Speaker 1: we are. You can't it is the most important part. Um.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you to everyone who has come out to our
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  Speaker 1: live shows and to all of the wonderful venues that
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  Speaker 1: have had us over the past year. Uh. Special thanks
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  Speaker 1: to the Ruby and Los Angeles for giving us our
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  Speaker 1: monthly live show for the past year and change their
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  Speaker 1: moving locations. But we have just enjoyed that partnership so
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  Speaker 1: much and I'm very grateful so much. Yes, Um, speaking
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  Speaker 1: of coming out to our live shows, some people have
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  Speaker 1: traveled to come see us, which were very grateful for.
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  Speaker 1: I'm grateful for more people. Let's give more thanks. Thank
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  Speaker 1: anyone who's making cool stuff, especially if you're making stuff
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  Speaker 1: that is diverse and inclusive and representing people thoughtfully. UH.
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  Speaker 1: You're doing excellent work, and we appreciate you because we
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  Speaker 1: need you. Uh. We appreciate the people who are making
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  Speaker 1: the stuff that we've needed all along, and please keep
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  Speaker 1: see something new, and you see something different, we always
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  Speaker 1: want to prioritize new and exciting voices. Yes, indeed, and uh, Caitlyn,
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  Speaker 1: what do I think over you? I thank over for
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  Speaker 1: you and thankful for our friendship which is just growing
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  Speaker 1: and evolving into like this beautiful young enough and it
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  Speaker 1: just it gets me all worked out. Oh my goodness,
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  Speaker 1: I just thank you for being a part of my
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  Speaker 1: daily life. That makes me ditto. What if that was
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  Speaker 1: all I say? You're like awesome anyway, and by uh no, truly,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much. You are the funniest person I know.
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  Speaker 1: Everything you say makes me laugh so hard, and all
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  Speaker 1: of your insights and contributions to this show are so invaluable,
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  Speaker 1: and I just don't know what I would be doing
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  Speaker 1: without you. I can't picture your life with that ship.
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  Speaker 1: You're so funny, as so talented, and I just I
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  Speaker 1: just I just love you and I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: get I think I'm like, are we just like hungry?
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, okay, I love you so much and
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  Speaker 1: thank you overwhelming true and so you know, and and
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  Speaker 1: of course I think we saved the best for last.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to thank Melina for being in the show.
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  Speaker 1: We can't wait to have you back. But you haven't
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  Speaker 1: agreed to do. But I mean we'll be hitting out
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  Speaker 1: any any day now, you know, just don't agree to it.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, I'll come back anytime, anytime. Yeah, he said,
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  Speaker 1: he said it. He said it, he said it, but
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  Speaker 1: then he got frozen too, So we don't know. He's
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  Speaker 1: a big start now he's I mean, he's always been
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  Speaker 1: a big start, but now he got frozen too. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you'll have time. I hope he does.
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  Speaker 1: Either way. We're so thankful for you, Yes forever, And
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  Speaker 1: that's how we end our Thanks for the feminist podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Well I'll just insert one last thing, and thanks to
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  Speaker 1: all the cats out there. Oh yes, you know there
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  Speaker 1: are many. There are many, many nipples. Um. I just
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  Speaker 1: love all the cats out there. They're so cute. Send
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  Speaker 1: me your cat pictures. I just got a cat. I know,
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  Speaker 1: it's so cute. It's very small. Caitlin. Just Caitlin counts
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  Speaker 1: his little nippies every day. I wake up every morning,
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  Speaker 1: I come over and I say, Jamie, I need to
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  Speaker 1: come the nipple accountant her at. I sometimes regret turning
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  Speaker 1: this into the bit that I always do, because it's
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  Speaker 1: truly one of the more disturbing aspects of my life.
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  Speaker 1: But people loved her. People love to tweet at you
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  Speaker 1: about cat nipple and I'm just like and it is
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  Speaker 1: self creative problem. That is a thing that I decided
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  Speaker 1: should be a thing in my life. Um So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: cats are the best, and their nipples I'm honestly neutral on.
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  Speaker 1: But you know I've packed myself into a corner with
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  Speaker 1: the cat nipple thing. Any who. Um, yes, thanks thanks
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  Speaker 1: for listening, Thanks for anyone who's ever supported us in
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  Speaker 1: any way. We are eternally grateful. And now we're going
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  Speaker 1: to go eat some delicious meals from Hello Fresh and
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  Speaker 1: seven eleven, and we wish you all very safe and
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  Speaker 1: happy holidays. Bye bye,