Bitch Fest with Joseph Tito

Joseph Tito
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Marriage, parenting, family drama — someone's gotta say what we're all thinking, and Joseph Tito is just unhinged enough to do it. Every week Joseph — gay dad of twin girls, bestselling author, and a menace with a microphone — reads your messiest letters and torches the villains with savage wit, brutal honesty, and just enough heart to remind you you're not alone in the chaos. From husbands who treat wives like free secretaries with dental benefits, to in-laws who think love has a rulebook, nothing is safe from the roast. Therapy meets stand-up meets that friend who's three glasses of wine deep and finally telling the truth. Send your mess to betweenthecoversmag.com. This is Joseph Tito — and I bitch so you don't have to.

  1. 1d ago

    The Plate Pusher & The Day Thief

    A guest who brings her own dish, eats only that, and pulls a face at yours. So the host sends her home with a doggy bag of the food she wouldn't eat. A mother-in-law who has claimed the good holiday for ten years running. Two letters from Vaughan, both about the same thing: who gets to decide. Plus the holiday group chat. The longest message you've ever seen, a reply to a question from nine messages ago, and one uncle who sends a thumbs-up. To what, Frank? What have you agreed to? Joseph reads both letters, torches neither woman who wrote in, and admits that one disappointed "oh, okay then" on the phone and he'd offer to host both families, cook two turkeys, and pick everybody up. And bring back his container. This episode is brought to you by Savor Us Catering in Vaughan. Elvira and her team cater across the GTA. Five percent off your first order, code in the free BTC Magazine app, App Store or Google Play, search BTC Magazine. BOOK SIGNING: Sunday, October 18, 2 to 4 PM at Hillcrest Mall in Richmond Hill. Joseph will be signing The Dad Diaries and reading a passage. Come say hi. THE DAD DIARIES, Joseph's memoir, is out now, published by Cormorant Books. Signed copies at thedaddiaries.com, also on Amazon and Indigo. Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com.More at betweenthecoversmag.com, or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android.Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.

    The Plate Pusher & The Day Thief

  2. 4d ago

    The Shrink Ray & The Loyalty Leash

    I opened a bag of chips on Saturday and it exhaled. Half air. And on the front, in a little yellow starburst, it said NEW LOOK. Girl, the look is the same. There's just less of you. This week we're going to the grocery store. Not to yell at the people who work there. Leave them alone. The kid on cash did not decide what butter costs. We're going after the people who decide what things cost, how much of it you actually get, and what the store knows about you when you walk in. The Competition Bureau just opened a call for information on grocery pricing. Shrinkflation. Skimpflation. Loyalty programs. Algorithms. In my grocery store. I go in for milk, I come out analyzed. The ice cream tub that stopped talking. The toilet paper hole that keeps growing. Brenda from product, who got a bonus for making your lasagna sadder. Why a discount has to be "loaded" like a dishwasher. The digital price tags on every shelf, and the law Manitoba actually had to pass so a store can't charge you more because of what it knows about you. And I'm in this one. I've done food campaigns. I've stood in my own kitchen and told you something was a great deal without checking the grams. I've never been in that meeting. But I've been the ad that came out of it. Plus what to actually do: answer the Bureau, read the small number on the shelf tag, take a picture of the price, and stop yelling at the cashier. She's on your side. She's just wearing their shirt. This episode is brought to you by Cheekbone Beauty, an Indigenous-run brand founded by Jen Harper. Get 20% off Cheekbone through the free BTC Magazine app (App Store or Google Play), and read our interview with Jen while you're in there. Send me your shrink. The product, the before, the after. I want the worst one in Ontario. BOOK SIGNING: Sunday, October 18, 2 to 4 PM at Hillcrest Mall in Richmond Hill. I'll be signing The Dad Diaries and reading a passage. Come say hi. THE DAD DIARIES, my memoir, is out now. It's the story of how I became a father to my girls and everything it took to get there. Signed copies at thedaddiaries.com, also on Amazon and Indigo. This is Joseph Tito, and I bitch so you don't have to. Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com. More at betweenthecoversmag.com, or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android. Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.

    The Shrink Ray & The Loyalty Leash

  3. Oct 1

    The Teacher Code & The Summers-Off Steve

    A five-year-old told his teacher he was going to rip her face off and eat it. She said, "Do you want salt with that?" That's the episode. A teacher wrote in anonymously, because legally she can't tell you what happens in your kid's classroom. The daily meltdowns. The kicking, the biting, the scissors. The twenty-four other kids told to ignore it. The ten minutes of paperwork for a two-second incident. And the code teachers speak because it's all they're allowed to say: "He had a big day." "We're working on regulation." "Your daughter was very patient today." Joseph decodes the code, refuses to roast a five-year-old, names the real villain (one teacher, zero assistants, and a gag order), and confesses to being Summers-Off Steve, the guy at the barbecue who says "must be nice, two months off." He said it to a teacher's face. She smiled like a hostage. Plus three things to actually say: at dinner tonight, to the teacher, and at parent council. This episode is brought to you by Mathnasium of Newmarket, run by Maria Elisa, a former teacher who found a way to make kids do math on purpose. Two hundred dollars off through the BTC Magazine app. Newmarket. Not Aurora, not Vaughan. Newmarket. Joseph's memoir THE DAD DIARIES is out now, published by Cormorant Books. Signed copies at thedaddiaries.com, also on Amazon and Indigo. Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com. More at betweenthecoversmag.com, or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android. Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.

    The Teacher Code & The Summers-Off Steve

  4. Sep 28

    The Class Shuffle & The Budget Bastards

    Three weeks into the school year I got an email saying my daughter was being switched to another class. So I went into that school like I was about to personally replace the Ministry of Education. No training. No experience. Just a daughter and a f*****g opinion. Then they told me why. Funding cuts. A class being cut. The secretary now splitting her time between two schools. The vice principal, same thing. Half here, half there. I'd come in to complain about the mess. They were the ones trying to make the mess work. This one is about the school office, where every parent starts with "sorry, just a quick thing" and it is never a quick thing. About a woman being "shared" like a plate of cookies, when putting her name on a second schedule does not create a second woman. About who's doing the other half. About the new sign outside the school that gets more adults than the problem it's standing in front of. And about the appreciation mugs, when what she actually needs is a job posting. And I'm in this one. I was the parent who walked in at full volume. Apparently my interest in education funding was waiting for a personal invitation, and it arrived in my inbox. No school named. No board named. On purpose. Teachers, EAs, secretaries, parents: tell me what's happening. Send it through the free BTC Magazine app (App Store or Google Play). I will not name your school and I will not name your board. THE DAD DIARIES, my memoir, is out now. It's the story of how I became a father to my girls and everything it took to get there. Signed copies at thedaddiaries.com, also on Amazon and Indigo. This is Joseph Tito, and I bitch so you don't have to. Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com. More at betweenthecoversmag.com, or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android. Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.

    The Class Shuffle & The Budget Bastards

  5. Sep 24

    The Self-Checkout Cop

    A woman writes in about a husband who has appointed himself Head of Loss Prevention for their marriage. He supervises her at the self-checkout. He audits the grocery bill. He announces to an entire restaurant that he is not tipping. None of these places employ him. Joseph calls him Dave, because this is Dave behaviour, and because Dave has been radicalized by a debit terminal. The trouble is that Dave isn't wrong. Tipping screens are out of control, the cereal box is a pamphlet, and they made the toilet paper narrower and thought nobody would notice. Being right about the problem still doesn't entitle you to become the town crier at a sandwich counter. Also: the Italian mothers of Woodbridge who drove to three stores with a flyer and a pen and were right about all of it, a confession involving a twelve-dollar item on a patio bill, and sixty-eight thousand loyalty points being guarded like offshore money. Next week: the coworkers who are not your friends, and the birthday card that proved it. Joseph's memoir THE DAD DIARIES is out September 26th. Signed copies at thedaddiaries.com, or pre-order anywhere you buy books. Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com. More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android. Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.

    The Self-Checkout Cop

  6. Sep 21

    The Chronic Canceller & The Red Heart Emoji

    Priya has a best friend who has cancelled on her eleven times this year. Eleven. Not in a lifetime — since January. The text lands about ninety minutes before, and it always says the same thing: ugh, I'm so sorry, today got away from me. Red heart emoji. Let's for sure do it soon. Soon never comes. Joseph gets into why she started counting in March, and what it means that she did — nobody builds a case file on a relationship that's working. Why "I thought you of all people would understand" isn't an apology, it's a promotion, to a title that comes with no dinners and no birthdays. And the uncomfortable turn: she isn't weighing you against better plans and picking them. She has learned, across eleven documented occasions, that cancelling on you is free. Plus a self-own, because Joseph says yes to everything with his whole chest — the event is far away, and future Joseph is not his problem. Busy people cancel once and reschedule immediately, because they want the thing. At a certain point "I'm so sorry" stops being an apology and becomes a subscription, and you're the one paying for it. Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com. More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android. Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.

    The Chronic Canceller & The Red Heart Emoji

  7. Sep 17

    The Tech-Support Warden & The Concerned Committee

    A friend texted Joseph in the middle of recording to say that getting old is a bitch. Not the knees. Not the back. The lecturing. Her kids are in their thirties. She is not old — she has just been reclassified. Two villains tonight. The tech-support warden, the adult child who has decided one forgotten password is a diagnosis, and who does the voice — the slow one, with the little pause in the middle. And the concerned committee, the relatives who caucus about you without you and turn up having already decided. Joseph gets into the coup nobody announces: thirty years of being the family's operating system, quietly deleted in one afternoon because your kid knows one thing about a phone that you don't. Why "I'm just trying to help" and "give me that, let me do it" are not the same sentence. And the two things you are allowed to say at the same time — I understand you're scared, and give me back my phone. She kept multiple humans alive through fevers, heartbreak and one truly regrettable haircut. She is not confused. She's just not in a hurry, and you've mistaken that for decline. Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com. More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android. Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.

    The Tech-Support Warden & The Concerned Committee

  8. Sep 14

    The Guilt-Trip Artist & The Family Martyr

    Two performers, one family. The guilt-trip artist, who never asks for anything directly because a sigh does the work of a sentence. And the family martyr, who does everything for everyone and makes absolutely certain everyone knows the cost. Joseph gets into the sentences that sound like love and function like a bill — "after everything I've done for you," "no, no, go, I'll be fine," "I just thought family mattered to you." Why guilt works on the people who care most and bounces off the ones who don't. And what happens the first time you don't take the bait. Nobody is asking you to be cruel. Just to stop paying for a ticket to a show you never bought. Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com. More at betweenthecoversmag.com — or read the magazine free in the BTC Magazine app, iOS and Android. Bitch Fest is a Between the Covers production.

    The Guilt-Trip Artist & The Family Martyr
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Marriage, parenting, family drama — someone's gotta say what we're all thinking, and Joseph Tito is just unhinged enough to do it. Every week Joseph — gay dad of twin girls, bestselling author, and a menace with a microphone — reads your messiest letters and torches the villains with savage wit, brutal honesty, and just enough heart to remind you you're not alone in the chaos. From husbands who treat wives like free secretaries with dental benefits, to in-laws who think love has a rulebook, nothing is safe from the roast. Therapy meets stand-up meets that friend who's three glasses of wine deep and finally telling the truth. Send your mess to betweenthecoversmag.com. This is Joseph Tito — and I bitch so you don't have to.

Information

  • Creator
    Joseph Tito
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    22
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 JEO Publishing / Between the Covers
  • Show Website
    Bitch Fest with Joseph Tito

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