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༺𓆩༒︎𓆪༻ DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE ༺𓆩༒︎𓆪༻ A Gleeboot Ryan Murphy wrote “an hour ago” Tinashe sampling the worst song in Gaga’s catalogue Poly representation on Great British Baking Show An Atlantis live-action remake — but who plays Tarzan? A Sleeping Beauty “inspired” adaptation Jesse Singal and the Boston Covid Lesbian Bar Drama Is Primetime Robbie’s best performance? Phoebe Bridgers acting era????  Love to see Digger flopping Chris Hansen’s next move The sycophancy of To Catch a Predator But we are, all of us, the sickos… The Rated-R Jurassic Park that End of Oak Street wasn’t Love Hypothesis casting was inspired by its own fanfiction?? ⛧° 。 ⋆༺♱ BONUS EPISODES → PATREON.COM/LIKEAVIRGIN ♱༻⋆ 。°⛧ Dolly Parton and Tim Curry, according to gay pervs Batman movies, ranked by bisexuality ⁺‧₊˚ ཐི⋆♱⋆ཋྀ ˚₊‧⁺ REAL VIRGINS ONLY  ⁺‧₊˚ ཐི⋆♱⋆ཋྀ ˚₊‧⁺  Send this link to a friend Leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts + Spotify $upport trans cultural production: Patreon.com/LikeaVirgin         𓂋                                                                                   𓂋 ˚₊‧꒰ა ♡ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚ FOLLOW US @LIKEAVIRGIN42069 ˚₊‧꒰ა ♡ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚ ཐི༏ཋྀ󠀮 xoxo ROSE ♱ FRAN See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

⁺‧₊˚ ཐི⋆♱⋆ཋྀ ˚₊‧⁺ REAL VIRGINS ONLY  ⁺‧₊˚ ཐི⋆♱⋆ཋྀ ˚₊‧⁺  Send this link to a friend Leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts + Spotify Subscribe to bonus episodes: Patreon.com/LikeaVirgin ༺𓆩༒︎𓆪༻ DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE ༺𓆩༒︎𓆪༻ Buy Best Woman out on paperback now! Explaining the beef between Miley Cyrus and stealth icon Amanda Lear Perfume Genius’ newest song “Natural High” Video game composer David Wise Bowen Yang’s addition to the layered parfait that is Oh! Mary Is Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil better than The Odyssey? At least one podcast host may think so The highs and lows of the Comedy-Horror genre Do the first two Resident Evil movies/Mila Jovovich vehicles hold up? Rose Recs: Comics: Absolute Wonder Woman, Batman: Year One, Batman: The Man Who Laughs Books: Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk, The Tommyknockers by Stephen King Movies: Blair Witch 2016, Deadly Mile High Club, Pyewacket, The People Under the Stairs         𓂋                                                                                   𓂋 ˚₊‧꒰ა ♡ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚ FOLLOW US @LIKEAVIRGIN42069 ˚₊‧꒰ა ♡ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚ ཐི༏ཋྀ󠀮 xoxo ROSE ♱ FRAN See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to our Patreon for twice-monthly deep-dive bonus episodes!  Coming up this month on Patreon, we’ll excavate the hidden gems and gay interest lore of Dolly Parton and Tim Curry. patreon.com/LikeaVirgin Our free episode this week is a two-part review of: HOPE: The highs and lows of the largest American release of a Korean film since Parasite — a 2 hour, 47 minute monster-chasing gag  PRACTICAL MAGIC 2: Fran left the theater and Rose had to be medicated Also discussed this week: Why can’t Lilly Wachowski get any of her films made? The missing lesbian plotline from Practical Magic 2 What music artists should have been on the Practical Magic 2 soundtrack? The possible Hope sequel Lena Dunham’s baby Lady Gaga’s baby Become a true Virgin by paying us for our work :) patreon.com/LikeaVirgin XOXO ROSE AND FRAN See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to our Patreon for an upcoming deep dive two-parter on Dolly Parton and Tim Curry: patreon.com/LikeaVirgin This free episode discusses: Shallow thoughts on surviving gay 9/11 (ahead of deeper thoughts on Dolly/Tim on Patreon) This podcast does not formally recognize the passing of racist Instagram backdrop designer Yayoi Kusama Galliano and the hypocrisy of the fashion world Doll Invasion debrief and Charlene Incarnate’s “Piss Gate” Fran and Rose’s favorite Dolly Parton songs Tim Curry’s sexuality  Legend (1985) starring Tim Curry as satan and twink Tom Cruise with his pre-transition teeth Fran watched Annie (1982) also starring Tim Curry and that turned into a conversation about Sarah Jessica Parker’s hair Our official OFFICIAL FOR REAL THIS TIME statement on whether or not we will discuss Doo Doo C**a on HBO aka Harry Potter Support our independent work by subscribing to two bonus episodes per month: Patreon.com/LikeaVirgin   XOXO ROSE AND FRAN See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

No new episode this week as we are recovering from Doll Invasion, but that means you get a special treat: one of our Patreon bonus episodes! We release two of these a month, so subscribe now and get more of us in your ears!  Refer to our free post on Patreon to see photos of each dress and superlative category: Best Disney Dresses, Ranked Worst Dress Best Separates Unconventional Materials Challenge Tboy Swag Crone Realness Sasha Velour Award for Excellence in Nightgowns Best Cloak/Outerwear Xoxo Fran & Rose Follow us on IG for memes and show updates: @likeavirgin42069 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Next week, we will be discussing nothing but Dolly Parton. This episode, recorded hours before the passing of the one and only Dolly Parton, features the following:    Why everyone should come to Doll Invasion The Ren Faire docuseries just might get us to reconsider the documentary genre Our X3 viewing Recent casting controversy in the upcoming Harry Potter series The Gilded Age is returning and infinitely better than Harry Potter Two recommendations from Rose’s Book Corner: Red X by David Demchuk (2021) Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo (2021) 2 Trans 2 Furious What Fran and Rose would do with $10M+ in inheritance Birkin discourse The Bisexual Problem by VerilyBitchie How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong   Subscribed virgins get two bonus episodes this month: One explaining Mr. X-Toon controversy (plus extended personal gossip) and another with a Disney Villain Smackdown. Subscribe to bonus episodes on Patreon.com/LikeAVirgin   LOVE Y’ALL XOXO ROSE AND FRAN See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode discusses two films we’ve lovingly labeled as the “queer homework” genre. Both films are about sex, and some kind of unlocking, and both films are very firmly in an indie filmmaker canon for the Criterion-enjoyer:  Jane Schoenbrun's Sex & Death at Camp Miasma and Gregg Araki’s I Want Your Sex For deeper-dives into the culture of yore twice a month, subscribe to our bonus episodes at: Patreon.com/LikeAVirgin Follow us on IG for memes and show updates: @likeavirgin42069  XOXO Rose & Fran See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s a Girls Girling episode! Rose and Fran conduct unstructured gossip and the latest in culture. For highly researched deep-dive episodes twice a month, subscribe at Patreon.com/LikeAVirgin This week, we discuss: Baela get your gun! And more on the House of Dragon S3 finale Titane’s place in the trans canon Is Muriel’s Wedding better than the Odyssey? Someone Please Buy Rose the $2200 Franklin Mint Rose from Titantic Doll Trunk Set More X-Men gossip Next week we’ll discuss Jane Schoenbrun's Sex & Death at Camp Miasma and Greg Arakki’s I Want Your Sex Follow us on IG for memes and show updates: @likeavirgin42069 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

IMPORTANT TRAN-DATE FOR VIRGINS! Please take two seconds to give our podcast a 5-star review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.  You are listening to the free episode of Like a Virgin. For bimonthly bonus episodes, head on over to our Patreon. Our most recent bonus episode was an Action Movie Diva Smackdown — bracket style! On week’s episode we discuss: Fran’s current planning phase for Doll Invasion on Fire Island Aug 28-30 Why is Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender literal porn? The highs and lows of Tom Holland’s fourth Spider-man movie: Brand New Day X-Men casting rumors and what lies ahead for the MCU XOXoxoxox Fran & Rose Follow us on IG for memes and show updates: @likeavirgin42069 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A jam-packed episode devoted solely to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey — and the original Homeric text? You’re welcome! Stories are so powerful. Love the deep dive discussion? You’re only getting half the story! Head to patreon.com/likeavirgin for twice-monthly bonus episodes where we tend to do more of the excavational analysis. In this episode we discuss: Why there was no butt sex in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey? Zeus’s Law, and what the film tries (and fails) to say about war. Spoiler alert: war bad Background on the collapse of the Bronze Age and how Nolan inverts the myth of the “Sea People.” How The Odyssey’s redemption of Men™ mirrors Nolan’s other films Was Zendaya a goddess or Odysseus' conscience? Does it matter?? Why Tom Holland turned every scene into gay porn Why Anne Hathaway will win the Oscar Why Samantha Morton will also win the Oscar The role of Women™ in The Odyssey — both Homerically and Nolanly Dr. Emily Wilson’s eviscerating take on Nolan’s Odyssey Odysseus’ Obstacles, Ranked on the Suck-o-meter: The Cyclops/Polyphemus The Giants/The Laestrygonians Circe Tiresies/The Shades of the Underworld The Sirens Scylla and Charybdis Helios’ Cattle Calypso Boat of Idiots (aka Odysseus’ men) All These Hoes (aka Antinous and the suitors) The Official Like a Virgin Guide to Peeing During The Odyssey Does Ludwig Göransson deserve to get his ass ate? Does Christopher Nolan deserve to get his ass ate? Is The Odyssey better than Disney’s Hercules? Is The Odyssey better than Uptown Girls? MADELINE MILLER YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS!!!!!!!! XOXoxoxox Fran & Rose Follow us on IG for memes and show updates: @likeavirgin42069  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A juicy episode on the main feed this week discussing the transgender undertones of John Early’s Maddie’s Secret.  Love the free episode? You’re only getting half the story! Head to patreon.com/likeavirgin for twice-monthly bonus episodes. On this week’s free episode we discuss: How to enjoy John Early’s Maddie’s Secret when some of its comedic sensibility rests on a man dressed as a woman. The influences and precarious precedent of Maddie’s Secret’s “gender comedy”: Oh! Mary, Madea, Big Momma’s House, Mrs. Doubtfire, John Waters, Tootsie, The Birdcage, White Chicks, and more. The grotesque soullessness of the Avengers: Doomsday trailer The resounding disappointment of The Vampire Lestat The bloodlust of Project Runway’s 78th season. Homework: Everyone go see Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey in time for next week’s discussion. XOXoxoxox Fran & Rose Follow us on IG for memes and show updates: @likeavirgin42069 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to bonus episodes on patreon.com/likeavirgin - this month, jam-packed dive into Madonna’s Confessions 1 and 2.  On this week’s free episode we discuss: Going to Club Confessions God Tier Madonna Remixes The Xmen reboot HATES women ?  Avatar: the Last Airbender live action is the most unfunny shit!  Why The Americans is required viewing  Vampire Lestat in its flop era? (But Sheila Atim tore!) The Invite is neo-hetero propaganda  Evil Dead: Burn  Lee Cronin’s The Mummy Ormund Hightower’s ass Why Industry was robbed in the Emmy nominations XOXoxoxox Fran & Rose Follow us on IG for memes and show updates: @likeavirgin42069 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is a free episode of Like a Virgin! Support our independent work and get bonus episodes and ad-free episodes on Patreon.com/LikeAVirgin ! Rose is a recent Sniffies convert thanks to Sniffiesvangelist Fran A gay history of a circulating meme featuring photo-chopped Madonna from 2006 that’s weirdly entwined with Rose and Fran’s career Rose and Fran’s abbreviated thoughts on Confessions 2.  (Head to Patreon for a Confessions 1 & 2 deep-dive discussion, album/era history, track analysis, and more on a bonus episode very soon.) Rose’s review of John Early’s Maddie’s Secret Fran and Rose saw the gay horror film Leviticus Discussion of Rhaenyra’s first days in office XOXoxoxox Fran & Rose Follow us on IG for memes and show updates: @likeavirgin42069 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is a free episode of Like a Virgin! Support our independent work at Patreon.com/LikeAVirgin ! This week, we discuss: Why you should listen to our latest bonus episode “Best Disney Dresses” on Patreon.com/LikeAVirgin Recent viewings of: Ever After Salt Escape Room: Tournament of Champions The Americans Recent readings of:  Carrying by Samantha Josephs (out 10/6, PREORDER NOW!!!) Paradise Logic by Sophie Kemp Why aren’t there more fairies in media? Stream the Sonic R Original Soundtrack!!!!!!! Why we’re only rooting for the dragons, on House of Dragon Is a Rock-aissance in our midst? Extended discussion of Charli XCX’s singles thus far from her forthcoming not-rock album Homework for the Virgins Listen to Madonna’s Confessions 1 & 2 See Leviticus Watch/recommend your favorite action movie starring a woman for discussion in next week's episode XOXoxoxox Fran & Rose Follow us on IG for memes and show updates: @likeavirgin42069  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week we discuss: Rose met Zohran and now they’re in a nonhierarchal poly structure  House of Dragon S3: MILF porn? The State of Olivia Rodrigo, and why her music is for virgins (derogatory) The Vampire Lestat: MILF porn???  Rose’s Reading List:  So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison Petty Lies by Sulmi Bak Mister Magic by Kiersten White Hard Luck Jenny by David Sodergren The Dark Tower: Drawing of the Three by Stephen King Last Days by Brian Evensen Diva, get ad-free episodes and bonus episodes only on Patreon.com/likeavirgin Xoxo Fran & Rose Follow us on IG for memes and show updates: @likeavirgin42069 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.