Matt Baume

My guest this week has a track record of going viral — whether he wanted to or not. Mike Aylesworth’s first brush with fame was as a teenager in the late 90s when he challenged the Boy Scouts’ ban on gay members… then in adulthood when he dreamed up an invention in the bathtub that changed his life,

Seinfeld, Friends, Roc, Living Single, The Golden Girls ... why did so many 90s sitcoms want to talk about gay marriage, when it wasn't even legal yet? And did those episodes help, or make people more accepting? Let's talk about what was going on, what those episodes got right (and sometimes wrong),

The year is 2008, and you are in charge of a campaign to convince California voters that gay marriage is good, actually. The problem is that it's 2008, and California voters aren't sure how they feel about this whole same sex marriage thing. So what do you do?I've been unearthing a lot of old interv

Hello there! In making my recent video about the show Soap, I was super fortunate to get to talk with Marsha Posner Williams, whose name you probably recognize from hundreds of episodes of television, notably Soap and The Golden Girls among many other shows. A bunch of her stories appeared in my vid

For this week’s episode of The Sewers of Paris, we’re jumping back to a 2015 interview about the show Soap, which was something of an obsession for my guest Andrew. It's a little unfair that so many gay men adore The Golden Girls, but fewer have heard of the show Soap, without which Blanche, Rose, S

My guest this week on The Sewers of Paris is Jim Colucci, author of numerous books about the behind-the-scenes stories of the making of classic TV shows. In his work he’s had opportunities to interview greats like Norman Lear, Betty White, and Bea Arthur — but the REALLY good stories are about what

Hello Fleckman Fans, I'm doing something a little different with this week's bonus video -- I'm going to share with you my full conversation with Stan Zimmerman, who was a writer on many episodes of The Golden Girls and went on to such delightful projects as the Brady Bunch movie and the lesbian kis

On tonight’s episode of The Sewers of Paris: The Wizard of Oz, The Brady Bunch, and a never-completed sitcom starring Diana Ross. My guest this week is TV writer Stan Zimmerman, whose credits include episodes of The Golden Girls, Gilmore Girls, The Brady Bunch Movie, and the gay kiss episode of Rose

How do you muster the nerve to keep going when it seems like the odds are stacked against you? My guest this week picked up some life advice from improv comedy -- in particular, the lesson to say yes and then heighten whatever's happened so far. Though you may know Michael Henry from his YouTube com