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༺𓆩༒︎𓆪༻ DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE ༺𓆩༒︎𓆪༻ A hetero porn star’s YouTube channel as ASMR RIP @likeavirgin42069 LONG LIVE @likeavirginpod RIP the Covid Conscious Lesbian Bar Love is dead. (Chrishell and G Flip broke up) Nathan Fielder is not a sex symbol The return-to-form villain fantasia: Clayface Live-action Clayface vs. Harley Quinn’s animated Clayface We teach Whales to fall themselves, to make themselves faller The Whale is also your Father? Josh Brolin = HOT Secular Bible Study with Sister Fran: Jonah HOMEWORK FOR VIRGINS: see Wicker ⛧° 。 ⋆༺♱ BONUS EPS → PATREON.COM/LIKEAVIRGIN ♱༻⋆ 。°⛧ Classic Universal Monsters, Ranked by Bisexuality 10 Certified Virgin Recommendations for October ⁺‧₊˚ 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 @LIKEAVIRGINPOD ˚₊‧꒰ა ♡ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚ ཐི༏ཋྀ󠀮 xoxo ROSE ♱ FRAN See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

༺𓆩༒︎𓆪༻ DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE ༺𓆩༒︎𓆪༻ We have a tiktok now!!!! Follow @likeavirgin42069 Why are you barefoot in a hotel lobby? Where were Dixie Kong and Olive Oyl? Roxxy Andrews at Orlando Pride (Jesus at Christmas) The best rollercoaster at Universal/Disney Parks Orlando The fastest rollercoaster at Universal/Disney Parks Orlando Avatar: Seven Havens (Jae, Datu and daddy Karthik) Homework: See Clayface ⛧° 。 ⋆༺♱ BONUS EPISODE → PATREON.COM/LIKEAVIRGIN ♱༻⋆ 。°⛧ Classic Universal Monsters, 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.

༺𓆩༒︎𓆪༻ DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE ༺𓆩༒︎𓆪༻ What the hell did Fran win a (regional) Emmy for? We must prepare for war (Girls reboot) Kelly Clarkson is beefing with a “curiosity shop” slash luxury magic boutique Why Troye Sivan is the Only F*gg*t Pop Star Is Amazon’s Carrie Certified Doodoo C**a? Carrie’s adaptational changes compared to the book Stephen King and what Mike Flanagan gets right ⁺‧₊˚ 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.

༺𓆩༒︎𓆪༻ DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE ༺𓆩༒︎𓆪༻ Our commenters have really strong feelings about latte art Gothic Renaissance NYC is our chosen family  Batman production halted; so begins our hunger strike Fran & Rose have agreed to direct Batman Part 2 Our [SPOILER FREE] review of Club Kid by Jordan Firstman Josh Hutcherson is trans masc culture Verity and the Enchickenification of Media Cathy in East of Eden low-key created Rose The Bible According to Fran: the story of Cain & Abel  Virgin Homework: Watch Carrie on Am*z*n Pr*me ⛧° 。 ⋆༺♱ BONUS EPISODES → PATREON.COM/LIKEAVIRGIN ♱༻⋆ 。°⛧ Batman movies, Ranked by Bisexuality TWO MORE spooky season episodes coming up  ⁺‧₊˚ 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.

༺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.