Bitch Fest with Joseph Tito

Joseph Tito

Gay dad of twin girls, bestselling author, and a menace with a microphone. Joseph Tito rants about the b******t we all put up with: the school that lost its funding, the politician who deleted the comment, the grocery store shrinking your yogurt. He's usually implicated. He's always loud. New episodes every Monday. Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com. This is Joseph Tito, and I bitch so you don't have to.

  1. 3d ago

    You Said It Would Be Fun

    You've said it. Don't lie to me. You've looked at someone who loves you and said, "It'll take five minutes." I said it to my husband. Frank has a very serious corporate job. I put him in a wizard costume for a Party City shoot. Then, when the shoot was over and nobody needed a wizard anymore, I walked him porch to porch through the neighbourhood in hair to his waist and a beard to his knees. For free. I had my husband working an unpaid shift for Party City. This one is about the things we get people to do because they love us. "Well, while I've got you." The photo that turns into a shoot. And Laura and Paul, two invented people, at a dinner that turns out to be a murder mystery, where Paul refuses the accent at soup and by dessert wants to see Brenda's hands. I'm not the victim here. I'm the one with the idea. This episode is brought to you by SMLL Skin Solutions (said "Small Skin Solutions"), @smll.skin.solutions. Look up Sasha, the Injector Genie, on Instagram and TikTok at @the.injector.genie, and grab the discount in the free BTC Magazine app (App Store or Google Play). 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.

    You Said It Would Be Fun
  2. Oct 27

    The Delete Button & The Audacity

    I would like to begin by being gracious about the election result. Unfortunately, you've downloaded the wrong podcast. Angela Saggese lost the Ward 1 council race in Vaughan. The record: on May 29, 2023, as a York Catholic school trustee, she voted against flying the Progress Pride flag at the board office for June. The motion lost six to four, students walked out, and at that same meeting the board appointed her to its Gender, Sexuality and Catholic Education Committee. It's in the minutes. Then the endorsements. Stephen Lecce, our MPP and the Education Minister when that vote happened, who once said the flag sends "a signal of respect and inclusion." Anna Roberts, our MP. Michael Guglielmin, MP for Vaughan–Woodbridge. And Melissa Lantsman, deputy leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, who wrote in 2019 that "unequivocal support for LGBTQ people cannot be up for debate," and endorsed her two days before the vote. Frank, the polite one in this marriage, asked Anna Roberts a question under her endorsement post. Deleted. He asked again. Deleted again. He didn't even swear. Plus the local businesses that follow The Dad Diaries, said "thanks for letting me know," and kept endorsing. My money is gay. Every dollar. Ward 1 read the record. Marilyn Iafrate, councillor since 2010, kept her seat. New here? Welcome. Start with The Teacher Code, the one teachers keep sending each other, then The Class Shuffle. Then hit follow on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so the next one finds you. New episodes every Monday. No sponsor this week. Nobody paid for this one. 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 Delete Button & The Audacity
  3. Oct 26

    The Baby With No Teeth & The Candy Thief

    There's a four-month-old pumpkin on my porch. No teeth. Her mother is holding out a pillowcase. Ma'am, that baby can't eat a Coffee Crisp. That's your candy. Take two. No letter this week. It's Halloween, and I've been standing at that door for years taking notes. The mother forty feet back on her phone yelling "WHAT DO YOU SAY?" at a shark. The mom who answers for her kid like a publicist. The handmade traffic light who can't get up my steps. Every princess in a parka, because it's Ontario. The teenager in a hoodie who says he's dressed as "tired," which is the most honest thing anybody said all night. Then the houses. The full-size bar guy running a campaign one Oh Henry at a time. The "please take one" bowl that was empty at six-oh-four. The pencil house. Mrs. Rossi and the same box of raisins since ninety-four. And Deborah, lights off, on the floor. We can see the TV, Deborah. Plus Gina's trunk-or-treat sign-up sheet, and the biggest lie in parenting: "nobody eats anything until I check it." And I'm worse. A few pieces tonight, Papa puts the rest away for later. There is no later. This episode is brought to you by Michele Mateus of Mateus Studios, photographer, Vancouver (@mateusstudios on Instagram, @mateus_studios on TikTok), and her This Is Me editorial portrait experience. Ten percent off: grab the code in the free BTC Magazine app (App Store or Google Play). 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 Baby With No Teeth & The Candy Thief
  4. Oct 19

    The Parking App & The Convenience Fee

    The sign says pay by app. There's a machine right there. It's got a garbage bag over its head like it's being kidnapped. No letter this week. This one's mine. I want somebody to tell me when leaving my car in a rectangle became a relationship. The dentist has a portal. Your kid's school has four apps. The menu is a sticker on the table and it wants to send you notifications. The password that can't be one you've used before, and I've used them all. Pressing "I agree" to God knows what. Typing sixteen digits with a wet thumb while a guy in a pickup waits for your spot. The dollar ninety-nine convenience fee, and whose convenience that is exactly. "How was your parking experience?" It was a rectangle. Sal, the man in the booth who used to be the app. And the scammers putting fake QR stickers on parking machines, which works because the real ones already look like a scam. And I'm in this one. I have an app. Every sponsor discount on this show lives in it. I could just say the code into the microphone. I'm not going to. Then the part that actually gets me. Do all of that at seventy-five, with coins, holding a toonie up to a machine that hasn't had a slot in years. Next time you see her, don't point at the sign. Put her plate in your app. You already work there. This episode is brought to you by Tommy Gun's Original Barbershop in Maple. Ten percent off your first visit: grab the code in the free BTC Magazine app (App Store or Google Play). 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 Parking App & The Convenience Fee
  5. Oct 15

    Everything I Hate About Social Media

    Nine years on social media. Two hundred thousand followers, mostly women, mostly moms, almost no gay men. Joseph has thoughts about that, and about the other seventy percent of what all of us do online. The nail tapping. The "everyone's been asking" when nobody asked. The fit check nobody requested. The seven-part series about a brunch invitation. The grocery montage that takes more editors than a feature film. The motivational speech filmed in a parked Hyundai. And the confession: he has walked into his own house more than once, because the first time he entered his own home it wasn't natural enough. Underneath the roast, the actual point. Social media paid his bills and let him stay home with his girls when he was a single father, and he will never shit on that. What he hates is the moment the content becomes more important than the thing that was actually happening. Dinner can just be dinner. New here? Welcome. Start with The Teacher Code, the one teachers keep sending each other, then The Class Shuffle. Then hit follow on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so the next one finds you. New episodes every Monday. This episode is sponsored by Glitz Jewellery, 2396 Major Mackenzie Drive, Unit 8, Vaughan. Ask for Lina. Fifteen percent off through the BTC Magazine app. 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.

    Everything I Hate About Social Media
  6. Oct 12

    The Angel Defense & The Bike Rack

    There's one at every school. She parks in the fire lane like it was built for her. Her daughter is an angel. Just ask her. In the office. At full volume. Last week I asked you which moms you wanted roasted, and my DMs have never filled up that fast. So this week it's Brenda. Not one woman. A franchise. There's one in every plaza, like a Tim Hortons. The four-minute voice notes that start with "I'm not trying to start anything." The second group chat, the real one. The birthday party that invited one twin, and the day I called a mother like a talent agent, with a rider. The concussion that turned out to be a brush, caught by the only school security camera in history that actually worked. What saved Brenda in the parking lot that day (it wasn't growth, it was a gummy). And what the school really means when it says "try to ignore her if you can." And I'm in this one. I've been Brenda too. For about fifteen minutes. The difference is, I let the tape play. Plus what to actually do if it's happening to your kid: write it down, ask the school what the plan is for the kid doing it, and when somebody tells you something about yours, say "okay, I'll talk to my daughter." Then actually do it. This episode is brought to you by Jova Medical Aesthetics in London, Ontario. If you're in perimenopause or menopause, Dr. Alicia Smith treats hormone imbalance, and the consult is online. Your first consultation is free: grab the code in the free BTC Magazine app (App Store or Google Play) and give it to them when you book. 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. Richmond Hill, Aurora, Woodbridge, Oshawa, 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 Angel Defense & The Bike Rack
  7. Oct 5

    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

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Gay dad of twin girls, bestselling author, and a menace with a microphone. Joseph Tito rants about the b******t we all put up with: the school that lost its funding, the politician who deleted the comment, the grocery store shrinking your yogurt. He's usually implicated. He's always loud. New episodes every Monday. Got a mess of your own? Send it to info@jeopublishing.com. This is Joseph Tito, and I bitch so you don't have to.

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