New Year, New Q&A Episode
The Bechdel Cast
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Jamie and Caitlin are kicking off the new year with an episode of your (Matrons') questions and our answers!
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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. |
| 0:20.5 | Happy New Year. Listeners of the Bechdel cast. Happy New Year. |
| 0:22.5 | Yes. |
| 0:22.9 | Listeners of the Bechdel cast. |
| 0:24.8 | It's me, Caitlin. |
| 0:26.2 | It's me, Jamie. |
| 0:27.5 | And we are entering, if you can believe it, the 10th year of the Bechdel cast. |
| 0:34.8 | Gasp. |
| 0:35.2 | And as you can tell, the show started in November 2016 coincidence |
| 0:40.0 | but telling and um yeah things are better for women than ever yeah gender issues have been |
| 0:50.1 | resolved uh look we solved them look we're here to do a Q&A episode I don't know just like we didn't |
| 0:56.4 | fix it we didn't fix it we're doing our best but we uh yeah we're just two people um so we have |
| 1:02.9 | done this a number of times over the years we haven't done it in at least three years is that right |
| 1:08.2 | kielandina the last time we did it it's been while. In which we sort of put the call out for questions to our matrion community, if you're not aware, |
| 1:19.7 | hot plug. For many years now, we've had a Patreon, aka Matrion, where for $5 a month, |
| 1:25.7 | you can get two bonus episodes of the podcast, |
| 1:29.3 | as well as access to our well over 200 episodes of back catalog that goes back many, |
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