INTERVIEW: Jim Colucci Returns!
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Golden Girls Deep Dive
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Cheescakes, he's back!!! It's the incredible Jim Colucci, fabulous storyteller and author of the definitive guide to our favorite ladies, Golden Girls Forever. We heard all about his interview with Bea Arthur on his first trip into the studio with us, so now he's back to tell us all about his time with Betty White and Rue McLanahan. And he took your questions as well! Tune in for the fun!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Cheezys, Patrick here. |
| 0:09.0 | Mother and I are so excited because the great Jim Colucci, author of The Golden Girls Tome, |
| 0:18.0 | Golden Girls Forever, came back into the studio this week and sat down with us for a fabulous, hilarious interview. |
| 0:24.6 | This time he tells us all about his stories of meeting and interviewing Betty White and Rue McClanahan. |
| 0:29.9 | And then we do a whole bunch of listener questions. |
| 0:32.1 | It was so much fun. |
| 0:33.0 | Jim is just the most fabulous guy in the entire world. |
| 0:35.8 | If you don't have a copy of Golden Girls forever, |
| 0:38.6 | I insist that you run right out and get one today. And that's all cheesy is enjoy this interview, |
| 0:44.7 | and I'll say a quick goodbye on the way out. Mother, Jim is back in the studio with us. Hi, Jim. Hi, |
| 0:53.6 | I'm so happy to be with you guys. Anybody who is looking at videos of this, you're going to see Jen and I sharing a microphone looking completely insane. I'm very in your space. This is actually Papa's dream, as you all know, for me to be in bed with him. Yeah, we're snuggling. This is the closest we're ever going to get. |
| 1:25.5 | You know, Patrick, you came up with some excuse why you had to do this. I was like, uh, our mics don't work. Uh, we don't, we have to, we only have two microphones now. Jennifer, blink twice if you're in trouble or call HR or something. If you want me to call HR, okay. Oh, with those lashes. Do it. Oh my God. |
| 1:26.9 | So, Jimmy, you're back. |
| 1:27.7 | It's so good to see you. |
| 1:28.7 | It's good to see you guys. |
| 1:29.6 | Thank you for being here. I'm so happy to. |
| 1:30.3 | This is a highlight of my trip, Becky. Oh, with those lashes. Do it. Oh, my God. So, Jimmy, you're back. It's so good to see you. |
| 1:27.7 | It's good to see you guys. Thank you for being here. I'm so happy to. This is a highlight of my trip back east. |
| 1:31.8 | Oh, my God. Well, you promised that you were going to tell us the stories of your interviews with Rue and Betty. But first I should ask you how your times with them went, because here I put my foot in my mouth last time and said my time with B and that it was |
| 1:44.3 | pretty good and that she melted with in my arms at the end and it was all good and then Patrick's like |
| 1:48.7 | she was one of the worst things that ever happened to me and then I go to your show and I hear how |
| 1:52.7 | bad it was oh my god I never met either one of them I never met Betty did you I met with I met with |
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