Like a Virgin

Comedian, writer & actor Caleb Hearon joins Fran & Rose to talk about his favorite murderer John Wayne Gacy and other fictional and real gay killers This opens the door to tangents about everything from Garth Brooks' Sasha Fierce-esque alter ego to Lorena Bobbitt's ex-husband's porno to The Silence of the Lambs Caleb actually would rather have talked about Julia Roberts  This podcast...

As a gift to the Virgins this Pride 🌈 Fran & Rose are releasing an extra episode every week in June where they catch up about personal things from opposite coasts and tell each other secrets. tag our finsta @likeavirgin42069   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Comedian Sydnee Washington of Peak 2000s podcast joins Fran & Rose to talk about Paris Hilton and her groundbreaking show The Simple Life (with Nicole Richie, who was not Paris's first choice) It takes a turn into other leading ladies & chaos agents of 2000s culture and the reality TV genre: Jessica Simpson, LiLo, the Kardashians... Fran, Rose & Sydnee's Senior Superlatives Bimbo idiot...

Matt Rogers guest stars in an iconic mashup of the Las Culturistas and Like A Virgin cinematic universes  To talk about: theme parks! Disney! Six Flags! Universal! Dollywood! All of them! Matt’s secret tip for skipping the lines at Universal Studios Orlando Lots of singing! A herstory of misguided ally bops 🎶 from Macklemore to Jewel 🎶 on the occasion of Kendrick’s new release F...

Today we’re giving the Virgins what they really want by finally speaking on allll things Lord of The Rings Fran & Rose’s Middle Earth alter egos J.R.R. Tolkien & C.S. Lewis’s gay romance Elf dick + Hobbit hole? Is it Surreal or So Real? Dance Fever, obviously An Into the Woods review The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills are Back tag our finsta likeavirgin42069 See omnystu...

🚨 There are Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness   spoilers in this episode! 🚨 Watching WandaVision together sealed Fran & Rose's friendship, so they saw Doctor Strange for Wanda and Wanda only  Multiverses in pop culture: Russian Doll, Everything Everywhere All At Once Cheryl Strayed's concept of the ghost ship, and Fran & Rose's personal multiverses She came on this bi...

Fran & Rose are Nicole Kidman stans. Fran was in love from the moment their atheist bisexual bad girl neighbor showed him Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! and Rose’s love for the redheaded witch aesthetic has its origins in Practical Magic. Today’s episode is dedicated to Nicole’s wigs, noses, and iconic performances, her very few flops, and her legacy of representation for...

This podcast loves a 4 girls trying to find love and make it in the city show, and Girls — despite gestures wildly everything — is no exception. 10 years after its premiere, the girls are rewatching Girls, and Fran & Rose have 2022 takes on everything from Adam & Hannah's role plays to Jezebel's virulent fatphobia. And of course they argue about which Girl each other is. Plus,...

The last time queers had real fun watching TV was in 2019, when Gay God gave us Are You The One? Season 8, known officially as the Sexually Fluid season and colloquially as the bisexual chⒶos slut takeover of an otherwise meh reality dating competition. Comedian Honey Pluton joins Fran & Rose to talk about all the cumming, advanced math and ✨growth✨ that occurred on this one-of-a-kind season...

Like many queer children, Fran & Rose wanted nothing more than to be Dorothy, famously played by Judy Garland in the 1939 hit musical movie, The Wizard of Oz. Like many queer adults, they've figured out that The Tin Man, The Scarecrow and The Cowardly Lion were definitely fucking & sucking while Dorothy was asleep on the Yellow Brick Road. This episode contains many more Wizard of Oz theor...

The Like A Virgin confessional (323-PENANCE) had b2b callers waxing poetic about the early 2000s hit movie reboots of the classic '70s TV series Charlie's Angels starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu. Fran & Rose agree that Charlie's Angels (2000) and its sequel, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003), completely changed the world and all art created henceforth. Listen to find out...

You came to the confessional booth (aka rang the Like A Virgin hotline @ (323)PENANCE) and now Fran & Rose absolve you with their takes on Showgirls, James Cameron's Avatar, The X Files, Ugly Betty, Twin Peaks & High School Musical. Plus, Krisbians lost the Oscars, a post mortem on the Gilded Age, seeing Lost City IRL and how is this season of Drag Race still going?! See omnystudio.com/lis...

In 2003, reality television — and the world — changed forever when model, actress and now-mogul Tyra Banks launched America's Next Top Model (ANTM). This week, Fran & Rose are joined by journalist, social curator & ANTM devotee Tre'vell Anderson to discuss everything ANTM: the good (Miss J <3), the bad (Janice Dickinson), the extreme cringe (Tyra's racism, transphobia, homop...

Fran & Rose deliver an oral herstory of the iconic actresses from the 1999 beauty pageant mockumentary Drop Dead Gorgeous, including: the original manic pixie dream girl Kirsten Dunst, the biggest movie star who is also a Housewife Denise Richards, politically woebegone Kirstie Alley, Amy Adams, Brittany Murphy, Allison Janney, and more. Plus, Grimes' secret baby and new reason to put anti=imp...

Fran & Rose's IRL viewing of The Batman not only inspires takes on Zoe Kravitz's stiletto parkour and Robert Pattinson's emo vibes, but sends them into their feelings about Bat-thems and Catwomen of yesteryears. Plus, Lexi's play, the agony of a double save and some streaming movie recs. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for pr...

"The only thing gayer than gay sex is the anticipation of gay sex." -Fran Tirado, 2022 With gay sex in mind, Fran, Rose & our special guest and anime expert JP Brammer delve into the world of anime — from Neon Genesis Evangelion to Naruto to everyone's favorite magical moon cop to hentai to Miyazaki to Yuri on Ice. And, of course, they answer important questions about Pokemon like: which Pokem...

Rose flexes her virginity as a person who hadn't until recently seen the 2009 psychological thriller Obsessed starring Beyoncé Knowles, Ali Larter and Idris Elba. Seasoned viewer Fran expands the conversation to talk about wtf was happening in other erotic psychological thrillers feminists hate like Fatal Attraction & Basic Instinct. Tangents include the direct line from Obsessed to Lemonade,...

A quarter of a century ago, an album was released and the world was never the same. That album is Alanis Morissette's yodel-packed Jagged Little Pill, and on this episode, Fran & Rose get into its wrath, lyrical genius and importance in the gay canon with prolific performer Charlene Incarnate. Tangents include the notes Idina Menzel can't hit, living with a Broadway curse and the messiest mome...

Like A Virgin celebrates Valentine’s Day with Rose forcing Fran to watch a movie not about love or romance, but about a meek woman being coerced into a quasi-kinky relationship by a very rich man that she loves for no apparent reason. Of course we are talking about the most lucrative movie ever adapted from a work of Twilight fan fiction: 50 Shades of Grey. On today’s episode, Fran & Rose disc...

In every generation there is a Virgin — the kind who hasn't until very recently seen turn of the millenium hit TV series Buffy The Vampire Slayer. This week, That Virgin is Fran, and this week, Fran gets inducted into Buffy fandom by superstans Rose and guest Watcher Evan Ross Katz, writer & Buffy herstorian. Their conversation spans teenage Buffy fandom — the message boards, fan fiction and t...

There are numerous ways to rank the numerous, painstakingly-intertwined movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), and on today's show, Fran & Rose bravely tackle many such hierarchies with comic book nerd and comedian Joel Kim Booster. Including: which movie features Scarlett's worst wig? Which franchises are anchored by STARS who are NOT actresses and which star ACTRESSES who are NOT sta...

Fran & Rose are musical theater girls. They're in recovery, but that doesn't mean they won't still passionately debate who is responsible for a lapse in believability in the latest movie adaptation of West Side Story. Is it the director Steven Spielberg? Or is it William Shakespeare, who wrote the musical's original source material, Romeo & Juliet? Spoiler: Fran has notes for Shakespeare....

If you’re a regular listener of this podcast, you might be able to guess that Rose has always liked scary movies and Fran has embraced them gradually after decades of being terrified of anything with a whiff of brujería. Now, both love the seminal 1996 teen slasher movie Scream and its increasingly meta sequels. This week, Fran & Rose discuss the rules that one must abide by in order to succes...

At its purest, this podcast trafficks in the kind of art that requires sustained evangelizing to ensnare a new fan. Works of art so maligned, so… memed that it’s difficult to tell on first watch if true fans like it earnestly or ironically. Rose has been trying to get Fran to love and appreciate Twilight for years. They did finally watch it together after many botched attempts, but Fran still isn’...

Inside you there are two wolves: one is Fran and one is Rose, and they both are obsessed with Moonstruck, the only movie where Nicolas Cage is hot. The 1987 Oscar-winning romantic comedy really has it all: a protagonist played by a woman on the pop star to leading lady pipeline, an iconic makeover, a cryptic prophecy from a witch, and valuable wisdom for the sensitive viewer. If you love love, if...