🍮Thank you for being a friend 🍮 Our marvellous guest Mandy Kaplan (from Make Me a Nerd podcast) leads the conversation on The Golden Girls. We get into whether the Golden Girls was borne from genuine interest in telling the stories of older ladies, or opportunistic tokenism, whether social issues ever gain meaningful traction through fictional media and how GG set the tone for comedic writing structures yet to be successfully imitated. Tangents include   How soon in the relationship it’s acceptable to propose to your S/O Why Menopause remains a taboo How social media has, counterintuitively, forced celebrities to be far more private in their interactions with fans You can find more of Mandy on her... Website: https://www.mandykaplan.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO6MWAz0fVsksspysLp2hEIUbBRNZ3UXw Or watch her movie '30 Days of Sex to Save Your Marriage" on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/en-gb/movies/633202/30-nights-of-sex-to-save-your-marriage   Our promo partners are:  This Week in Fandom History... Website: https://www.thisweekinfandomhistory.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7xGvniPbUmmrucPsLkM2VG and  Rewind Rewatch... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/12TwAG0oAhwUppSt4DpGES Youtube: https://youtube.com/@rewindrewatchpodcast?si=FD1-RKtS064ScbfJ