American Fiction Ronald Young, Jr.
The Bechdel Cast
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
This week, Caitlin, Jamie, and special guest Ronald Young Jr. examine representation in a movie that examines representation -- American Fiction (2023)!
Follow Ronald on Instagram, Threads, and Letterboxd at @ohitsbigron and check out his podcasts Weight For It and Leaving the Theater!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.9 | On the Bechdelcast, the questions asked if movies have women in them. |
| 0:09.8 | Are all their discussions just boyfriends and husbands, or do they have individualism? |
| 0:14.5 | The patriarchy's effing vast. |
| 0:17.1 | Start changing it with the Bechdel cast. |
| 0:20.7 | Hey, Jamie. Hey, Caitlin. I was thinking. Start changing it with the Bechdelcast Hey Jamie |
| 0:22.0 | Hey Caitlin |
| 0:23.2 | I was thinking that we should change the name of the podcast to |
| 0:29.2 | To what? |
| 0:30.2 | Fuck |
| 0:30.9 | Wait, that's so pertinent |
| 0:33.6 | That's so pertinent |
| 0:34.9 | The fuckdell cast |
| 0:36.9 | The fuddle cast I mean I think there's certain episodes that have sort of devolved into the fucktel cast over the years. True. Why not just commit? Anyway, that was the brilliant idea I had for the intro of this episode. Welcome to the becktal cast. Or sorry, welcome to Or sorry, welcome to Falktel Welcome to the Foktelcast. I, yeah, I was going to do a play on the ending of the movie and keep making us retake it over and over and over and then have it escalate. Oh, sure, sure. This is what we should, we should, we should really circle up with with our intros. |
| 1:12.2 | Look, this is the Fructil cast. |
| 1:14.3 | My name is Jamie Loftus. |
| 1:15.7 | My name is Caitlin Durante. |
| 1:17.0 | This is our show where we examine movies through an intersectional feminist lens using the |
| 1:21.6 | Bechdel Test as a jumping off point. |
| 1:25.1 | And Jamie, what's that? |
| 1:26.5 | Well, the Bechel test is a media metric created by |
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