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Speaker 1: Hey there, Fana Ritos. It's been a while since we've

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Speaker 1: stepped back into flight school, where we watch and discuss

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Speaker 1: epic TV shows of the eighties and nineties.

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Speaker 2: So Pilot's epic pilot.

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Speaker 1: Pilots, yeah, not just TV shows, but pilot pilots, yes,

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Speaker 1: and flight school yes. So pull up a wicker chair

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Speaker 1: and prepare for some Miami mayhem, because today we are

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Speaker 1: heading all the way back to nineteen eighty five, to

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Speaker 1: the pilot episode that launched four of the most iconic

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Speaker 1: women in TV history.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we're talking the Golden Girl who Finally Love It.

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Speaker 1: In this minisode, we're breaking down the episode that almost wasn't.

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Speaker 1: We meet Dorothy, Rose, Sophia, and Blanche, and Blanche does

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Speaker 1: not sound like she's from the South like for one

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Speaker 2: I don't know, she sort of did.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look, as somebody who was thrown into doing

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Speaker 3: an accent zero preparation, a pilot will say that sometimes

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Speaker 3: they throw you into something and you try and they

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Speaker 3: go that we're gonna get someone to help you, and

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Speaker 3: you know, maybe that's what happened.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but I am very excited about this

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Speaker 1: This pilot first aired September fourteenth, nineteen eighty five.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just two years years before us. Yeah, that's crazy.

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Speaker 2: Like I didn't read eighty six or eighty six. We

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Speaker 1: So yeah, just two years before Full House premiere and

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Speaker 1: then Golden Girls ran for seven seasons. So this like we.

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Speaker 2: Overlaed through our fifth Yeah.

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Speaker 1: That's wild. I didn't really for some reason.

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Speaker 2: I sad a lot.

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Speaker 3: I know, I know I did too, because they're older

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Speaker 3: and we were younger, and so we're like, they, that

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Speaker 3: has to be so many ancient years ago, right, and

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Speaker 3: then we're like, no, actually that was we. Wow, we existed.

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Speaker 3: What a time to be alive. We existed and had

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Speaker 3: a TV show on the same time as The Golden Girl.

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Speaker 1: We could have been cast as guests on The Golden

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Speaker 2: I think that wasn't really their demographic.

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Speaker 1: Well no, you mean our demographics didn't overlap Full House

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Speaker 3: Girls, and I don't think I mean maybe some of

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Speaker 3: the grandparents and the mom.

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Speaker 2: Look, I love Golden Girls. I watched Golden Girls more

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Speaker 2: than I Watchful House. I watched you with my.

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Speaker 3: Mom, I watched Full House but love the Golden Girls.

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Speaker 1: I had until last night, I had never seen a

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Speaker 1: single episode of The Golden Girls. I know, I know,

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Speaker 1: Jony's like falling off her chair. I've seen I've seen

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Speaker 1: clips and scenes and clips. I had never seen an

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Speaker 1: entire episode starting to finish's.

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Speaker 2: Quitting the podcast?

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Speaker 1: Are you not going to be my friend anymore?

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Speaker 2: Because they had met?

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Speaker 3: No, because we've joked about it for years.

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Speaker 1: Yes, well, I've seen clips and seriously thought.

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Speaker 3: This was this, that that we spoke the language of

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Speaker 3: the of the Golden Girls.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I know the characters, I know the lore, I know,

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Speaker 1: I know, I've seen clips, but I had not seen

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Speaker 3: This I am. I'm a little wounded by this. It's

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Speaker 3: gonna take me a minute to recover knowing that, Uh,

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Speaker 3: I've I've been led to all this time that I

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Speaker 2: Girls, and really, uh, you just knew who they were.

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Speaker 1: I just knew, I just knew of them.

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Speaker 2: I did not.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know how it all began like it did

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Speaker 3: So so so so like did my cheesecake jokes ever Land, No,

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Speaker 3: you have no idea what the cheesecake.

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Speaker 1: that's the fame. I want to recreate the Lunai here.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I know. Oh that's where Betty White is from,

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Speaker 1: I know I know certain things. But what's the cheesecake?

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Speaker 2: They like to eat?

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Speaker 1: Cheesecake?

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Speaker 2: Okay, we'll see like at the end of the episode

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Speaker 3: And I think there's something else with the cheesecake, but

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Speaker 1: Of as they should. That nothing sells better than a cheesecake.

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Speaker 1: Girlfriends and a lanai. You know this was this. I'm

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Speaker 2: You're like, this is you know what the crazy thing is.

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Speaker 3: That's how old they were when they were playing them.

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Speaker 2: Tell me about it.

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Speaker 1: I had to look up their actual agents. Okay, here,

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Speaker 3: So you know what, I was shocked their early playing

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Speaker 1: That's yeah, like that's me. That's going to be me soon,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you better. But this is gonna find out find

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Speaker 3: You celebrate your freedom because you're going in a home

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Speaker 1: It, as long as it has a Leni and Miami.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna start getting you outfits with gigantic

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Speaker 1: The styling of this, like they all had like gray

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Speaker 2: Who I don't know any fifty.

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Speaker 1: Three fifty five year olds who have white gray hair,

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Speaker 1: Like that's like eighty nineties, eighties and nineties.

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Speaker 2: Now, I feel not back then? Back then? Did fifty

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Speaker 3: Oh God, because think about it, because like our think

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean like we are today.

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Speaker 3: It's an interesting phenomenon that's happened, where like suddenly that

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Speaker 3: doesn't seem so old because we don't it doesn't you

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Speaker 3: You know, it's just like the idea I think of

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Speaker 3: because it's gen xers that are fifty something and they're like,

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Speaker 1: We're not Yeah, we're not old at all. We're denial

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Speaker 3: And so I think, you know, it's I think creeped

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Speaker 2: To make them look older.

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Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely, this is intentional.

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Speaker 3: If they had great hair, was you know, call you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, these ladies are these lady should be out in Miami.

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Speaker 1: Oh it was, I was. I was stunned, like this

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Speaker 1: whole thing. I'm now going to start a Golden Girl's

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Speaker 1: rewatch podcasts because I.

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Speaker 3: Just I just finished the brick Craft Golden Girls fortieth

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Speaker 3: anniversary lego set.

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Speaker 2: No, no, it's them. Oh it's them.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, that's amazing them. Zoe got it for

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Speaker 1: I believe that's a mate that's so perfectly awesome. Oh yes,

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Speaker 1: pretty please send a photo that's Jenny. Jenny wants a

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Speaker 3: Yes, I will send a photo of that so that

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Speaker 1: So great. Okay, so should we go through? Do we

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Speaker 2: I mean, we know we know Dorothy's Barnack is be Arthur?

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Speaker 2: Who is we know Dorothy? We love Dorothy. Dorothy is

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you are have so many similarities between her and yes, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Not kidding you though, Like I watched as a kid.

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Speaker 3: She thinks somewhere in there like absorbed in this sort

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know you imprinted on her at a young

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh she's fantastic. She's so fantastic. I love her.

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Speaker 1: Did you have you watched Maud her show before?

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Speaker 2: I mean the whole thing through, but yes, I have

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's so fantastic. And then Rose Nyland played by

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Speaker 1: Betty White. I related to her in her like naivete

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Speaker 2: Yes, Betty, what are you talking about?

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Speaker 1: Who? What do you mean what she's She's just so

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Speaker 1: adorable and just lovely. I so much.

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Speaker 3: Had such an amazing career, Yeah, such an amazing, lengthy,

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Speaker 2: And she was gorgeous.

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Speaker 1: Oh my godiness, she.

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Speaker 2: Was stunnying when she was young.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, stunning, beautiful, charismatic, Yeah, just so brilliant with comedy

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Speaker 1: and goodness, yes, we're we It was just a joy

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Speaker 1: to watch her, for sure. Yeah. Blanche Devereaux the man

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Speaker 1: hungry Southern Bell played by Rue McClanahan. And it says

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Speaker 1: here McClanahan notably does not use a Southern accent for Blanche,

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Speaker 1: how rude. But as the show was picked up, she

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Speaker 2: Thank god.

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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, so that's it was the director's directors in

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Speaker 3: The the southern accent she has is just icon it's

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Speaker 2: The world is small. The house is full of Sophia's purses. Oh,

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Speaker 1: Wait to see it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well she's always holding on to it.

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Speaker 1: That's what the queen she did too, Like I think

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Speaker 2: We used to call my friends, uh, my friend's grandma.

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Speaker 2: We used to call her Sophia because she would.

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