Mommy Dead and Dearest

The Apollo is a documentary that explores the historical and cultural significance of Harlem’s landmark theater of the same name. Brittany and Ronald unpack some of the most memorable performances highlighted in the film and discuss the role the Apollo has played in Black culture ...  Show more

George Carlin’s American dream is a two-part documentary that follows the life and work of legendary comic George Carlin, dubbed the “dean of counterculture comedians.” Brittany and Ronald talk with co-directors Judd Apatow and Mike Bonfiglio about Carlin’s trajectory from variet ...  Show more

HBO presents HBO Docs club, a podcast that pulls back the curtain on a wide variety of titles from the HBO Documentary Films unit. We wanted to give you access to the fourth episode, where hosts Brittany Luse (For Colored Nerds) and Ronald Young, Jr. (Solvable) discuss 'Mommy Dea ...  Show more

Hello friends! Hope you all are having a wonderful day so far. Today we talk about Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her mom Dee Dee. Its a very interesting, sad, weird, strange, wtf, story. Seriously. Would love to hear what you think about the case . I know this is a long one, i tried m ...  Show more

Gypsy Rose Blancharde was a girl who had been told by her mother Dee Dee all her life that she was sick. Her mother even put her in a wheelchair from a very young age. There was one problem with all of this, Gypsy wasn't sick and she could walk just fine. This charade continued f ...  Show more

Late on the evening of June 14, 2015, deputy sheriffs in Greene County, Missouri, found the body of Dee Dee Blancharde laying facedown in a pool of blood from the stab wounds that had killed her several days earlier. There was no sign of her teenage daughter, Gypsy Rose, who, acc ...  Show more