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Could it be that Donald Trump is “post-sex?” Hosts Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee pose the provocative question in this week’s episode of The Daily Beast Podcast. It has long been reported that Trump and his wife Melania sleep in separate bedrooms, while the First Lady is reportedly splitting her time between Mar-a-Lago and the White House during his second term.

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“The implication is that he has a lot of time to focus on executive orders,” Coles quipped, adding, “I think it might explain all the late night Truth Socials.”

It might also explain the president’s headfirst plunge into what some see as a looming constitutional crisis—a topic the hosts unpacked with guest Shan Wu, a Daily Beast contributor and former federal prosecutor who served as a counsel to U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno.

Next, Emmy Award-winning writer and producer duo Max Mutchnick and David Kohan—co-creators of shows such as Will & Grace and Partners—joined the hosts to discuss their new sitcom, Mid-Century Modern.

Billed by some outlets and reviewers as a “gay Golden Girls,” the series features three best friends who move in together, telling the stories of their middle aged love lives. Although the comparison gets the gist of the show across, Mutchnick said it’s not quite apt. “I don’t think that that’s what we ended up writing,” he argued—and fair enough, because Sophia Petrillo is one of a kind.

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The creators shared how they pitched the show as a fresh take on the multi-cam sitcom, stripped of its usual “stilted talk.”

“The idea of us writing in a cadence and using the words that we use was appealing,” Mutchnick said.

But they was also forced to deal with unexpected situations—and storylines—that aren’t fun to script: When one of the cast members, Linda Lavin, passed away during the filming of the series, the creators faced the difficult task of writing her character’s death into the show. Kohan said that Lavin, who had been diagnosed with lung cancer, didn’t want her illness to be hidden.

“One of the things she said to us was, ‘whatever’s going on with me put it into the character,’” Kohan recalled, remembering Lavin as a “loving and soulful” person. To see how the show worked to memorialize her, watch along after it debuts on Hulu on March 28.

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