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Out on the Lanai: A Golden Girls Podcast

The Golden Girls & Black Fandom (w/ April Kimble aka "Black Blanche")

Out on the Lanai: A Golden Girls Podcast

H Alan Scott, Kerri Doherty

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.5605 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

H. Alan Scott/Sadie Pines and Kerri Doherty are joined by writer/performer April Kimble to chat about Black fandom and representation on The Golden Girls. They discuss the origin of April's fabulous "Black Blanche" persona, the treatment of Black characters on the show, and April even weighs in on whether or not Blanche wanted to sleep with George Clooney! 

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0:00.0

Thank you for being a friend.

0:04.0

Travel down the road and back again.

0:08.0

Your heart is true.

0:11.0

You're a pal and a confidant.

0:14.0

Picture at Los Angeles, 2023.

0:17.0

Welcome to Out on the Linai, the only Golden Girls podcast you're ever going to need to listen to. I am H. Allen Scott slash Sadie Pines. And I'm Carrie Dordy. You need an AKA. I said it during the episode, but I think you need anything to see if it's like Bob. And this is a podcast where we used to watch an episode of the Golden Girls and then talk about it, but we ran out of those episodes. And then we broke down the Golden Palace. And guess what? We ran out of those episodes too. And now, Carrie, what do we do? Whatever the hell we want. That's what I like, I like it better when just you say it. You know how that's like, I had like this lady from a John Waters film when she's talking about eggs?

0:56.4

And she's like, eggs, I want eggs, eggs.

0:58.7

And I try to do it in that voice.

1:00.8

I love it.

1:01.7

It sounds like very much like a John Waters character.

1:06.0

Today, everybody, we are doing another Golden Topics episode where we talk about

1:09.8

unforgettable stories and

1:10.9

lessons on the Golden Girls and how they tie into our own life experiences. And today's

1:16.3

episode is a very special one. We're talking to April Kimball, aka Black Blanche, who we met at

1:22.8

Golden Con this year, who is absolutely fabulous. We talked about the black characters and storylines on the show

1:32.0

and sort of what her thoughts are from her own lived perspective. And we just had a really great

1:38.9

conversation with her and sort of talked a little bit about her persona of Black Blanche and and sort of what she was doing at GoldenCon.

1:48.0

And she's just so lovely.

1:50.7

And I love her TikToks.

1:53.1

She basically what she does is she inserts herself as like a black golden girl into scenes and then sort of gives her commentary

2:03.3

as if she were a character in those scenes.

2:06.6

And so we'll definitely link to her TikTok and Instagram.

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