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These Barbies Are On Vacation · The Bechdel Cast

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  Speaker 1: On the Bechdel Cast, the questions asked if movies have
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  Speaker 1: women and them, are all their discussions just boyfriends and husbands,
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  Speaker 1: or do they have individualism the patriarchy? Zeffi fast start
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  Speaker 1: changing with the Bechdel Cast.
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  Speaker 2: Hello Bechdel Cast.
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  Speaker 3: Listeners, It's summer time. My name's Jamie Lovetes.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Caitlin Drante. This is the Bechdel Cast.
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  Speaker 2: And normally this is a show where we examine movies
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  Speaker 2: through an intersectional feminist lens, using the Bechdel Test as
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  Speaker 2: a jumping off point. But today we're taking the.
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  Speaker 3: Week the day off truly. Okay, So just so you know,
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  Speaker 3: we ordinarily, in our contract, are supposed to release fifty
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  Speaker 3: episodes on the main feed a year. We ordinarily release
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  Speaker 3: fifty one and only take the last week of the
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  Speaker 3: year off. This year we said, you know what, you
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  Speaker 3: know what, we are actually going to take the second
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  Speaker 3: week off, and we're going to do it about six
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  Speaker 3: months before it's reasonable. But yeah, we also know that
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  Speaker 3: if a week goes by and there is not something
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  Speaker 3: on the feed, oh, people get feral. They don't know.
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  Speaker 3: They think we're.
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  Speaker 2: Hurt riots in the streets.
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  Speaker 3: They really, But I as a podcast listener, if the
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  Speaker 3: feed doesn't update, I'm either like my phone is broken
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  Speaker 3: or my parasocial friend is in danger. So we just
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  Speaker 3: wanted to let you know that you know, we're fine.
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  Speaker 3: We're just taking the week off.
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  Speaker 2: Summer vacation, baby.
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  Speaker 3: So enjoy your week. Enjoy the many back episodes of
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  Speaker 3: the Bechdel Cast. Also, if you're really a hankering for
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  Speaker 3: episodes a month and a back catalog of nearly one
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  Speaker 3: hundred and fifty episodes.
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  Speaker 2: Wowie Wow. Also fun announcement a chance to see us
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  Speaker 2: live for listeners who live in or near LA. The
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  Speaker 2: Bechdel Cast is participating in American Cinema Tech's Friend of
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  Speaker 2: the Fest Podcast festival this year, where we will be
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  Speaker 2: presenting the new four K restoration of Thelma and Louise.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a screening of the movie presented by the
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  Speaker 2: Bechdel Cast, so we'll be there to introduce the film.
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  Speaker 2: The screening is on Friday, August twenty fifth at seven
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  Speaker 2: thirty PM at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica, and
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  Speaker 2: more info about attending this screening of Thelma and Louise
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  Speaker 2: can be found on American Cinema tech dot com or
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  Speaker 2: by going to our link tree link tree Slash. Bechdel
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  Speaker 2: Cast will also post details about it on our social
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  Speaker 2: media and we hope to see you there.
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  Speaker 3: The last thing that you wanted to share in the meantime,
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  Speaker 3: because we have talked about it in passing on recent episodes,
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  Speaker 3: but we just wanted to say explicitly and wanted to
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  Speaker 3: acknowledge the ongoing strikes with the Screen Actors Guild and
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  Speaker 3: the Writers Guild of America. We obviously are very pro
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  Speaker 3: labor and without the actors and writers being given a
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  Speaker 3: fair deal, we will never be able to make movies
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  Speaker 3: that are enjoyable and we can't talk about them if
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  Speaker 3: if people behind the scenes are not being treated equitably.
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  Speaker 3: So if you have been having trouble keeping up with
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  Speaker 3: the news on those strikes, I don't blame you. It's
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  Speaker 3: really confusing. So we're going to link an update on
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  Speaker 3: what's happening, what the implications as those strikes are. We
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  Speaker 3: also did a Patreon episode about the Writer's strikes specifically,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll link the entertainment. Can you to defund if
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  Speaker 3: you have some money to contribute, It goes directly to
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  Speaker 3: workers impacted by those strikes.
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  Speaker 2: Indeed, it's a hell of a summer, folks. Tell me
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  Speaker 2: about it. So and enjoy the week off, everybody. I know.
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  Speaker 2: I will done, done.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go girls. Yes, we will be back next week
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  Speaker 2: with your regularly scheduled programming. It's August, so be on
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  Speaker 2: the lookout for a little birthday episode coming up for
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  Speaker 2: a one Jamie loftus.
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  Speaker 3: Her My dad's the guest. It's the opposite of let's
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  Speaker 3: go girls.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I cannot wait, and we'll be back soon. See
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  Speaker 2: you next week. Bye bye,