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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Danny and SMITHA and welcome to stuff

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Speaker 1: I Never told you production to iHeart Radio, and welcome

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Speaker 1: to another sub subsegment of fictional women around the world. Today,

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Speaker 1: in homage to actress Betty White, who died in December one,

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Speaker 1: jes shy over on birthday, we're going to discuss one

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Speaker 1: of her most iconic characters, Rose Nilan, from the hit

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Speaker 1: American television sitcom The Golden Girls. And actually today I

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Speaker 1: was at the grocery store Samantha, because as we record,

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Speaker 1: this winter storm is approaching a lot of the country,

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Speaker 1: including here, and people in the South know that that

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Speaker 1: means there's panic buying um bed and milk, because that's

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Speaker 1: essentially the only thing we need, which is not good

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Speaker 1: when there's already shortages because of COVID. But as I

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Speaker 1: was checking out, there was a magazine and I think

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Speaker 1: it must have been completed before she died, but the

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Speaker 1: cover said Happy Birthday to Betty way to her hundredth birthday,

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Speaker 1: and I got a little her birthday, right, I think.

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Speaker 1: So it's it's near as we record this, which is

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Speaker 1: have a parade, but then people were like, maybe not

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Speaker 1: on MLK, we can maybe the time. So Also, I

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Speaker 1: think we've talked about this before, because there is a

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Speaker 1: classic episode you can listen to that we've run before

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Speaker 1: about the Golden Girls. I still haven't seen the Golden Girls.

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Speaker 1: I feel like maybe we should do a live episodes

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Speaker 1: of that since we're doing Sex in the City, because,

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Speaker 1: as many have pointed out, that was the original Sex

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Speaker 1: day that said that the Golden Girls were younger and

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Speaker 1: To the point on TikTok when a content creator was

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Speaker 1: see the differences. To be fair, they did age them up.

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Speaker 1: We know it's still Getty who played Sophia was actually

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Speaker 1: friend Katie who's been on here many times. She was

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Speaker 1: raising a really conservative both religiously and socially and also politically,

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Speaker 1: thought that was so funny. Yeah, very sweet. They would,

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Speaker 1: I took the test last night. I got Dorothy. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if that's right, but yeah, I would have

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Speaker 1: retake this. I think take this. Yeah, so be Arthur,

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Speaker 1: who plays Sophia's daughter, was only one year younger. No,

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Speaker 1: some Golden Girl facts for every Girl facts, because I

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Speaker 1: Sophia is a sassy older one older the mother of

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Speaker 1: let us know who you think we are. And I

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Speaker 1: will I will retake this very important quiz because I

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Speaker 1: it had. But very briefly, The Golden Girls premiered in

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Speaker 1: Comedy Series. Yeah. So. Rose Nylin born Rose Lindstrom was

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Speaker 1: So when you do the breakdown of character attributes. Rose

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Speaker 1: but we will come back to that. But from Collider

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