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Battle Angels! We are moving the podcast in its entirety to our Patreon! So, we are reuniting on here, to tell you about it, the future of the pod, Barbie, the Meg, Haunted Guest Houses and of course a little Shelley Winters. We are back- kind of. Have a quick listen as we chart our new path.
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Published 08/02/23
This episode is from our vault it was originally recorded and released in March 2021 in honor of the documentary "TINA" being released. We are re-releasing this episode in honor of the Diva's passing. We hope it brings comfort to all you fans in mourning.
The day has finally come to honor, celebrate and worship the Goddess of Rock: Tina Turner! And just in time to prime you for this weekend's upcoming TINA Documentary, we welcome her superfan, Ben, who runs the Tina Turner Blog and wins every...
Published 05/24/23
That's right, the witches are back! Someone lit a black flame candle and brought the two of us out of hell and back to the hell of podcasting! We watched the movie last night with the rest of the global population, and then saved all of our takes for the hot mic. This is an unedited, unvarnished one night only return for us, and one way or another we are gonna find ya, and bring you all the goosies, all the nostalgia, and all the Divas. So strap your Roombas on your feet and get ready to fly...
Published 10/01/22
We’re back! For the 30th Anniversary of FOR THE BOYS we are giving it the full FOR THE GIRLS treatment. That’s right, girls, it’s a holiday special episode where we celebrate Bette Midler’s 1991 War Epic, update you on the past present and future of this podcast, and give you all the Diva News! So light a goddess candle and get ready to Billy-A-Dick down to the U.S.O as we go through every 20th Century American war, all of Bette’s period fashions, the Make-up, the vocals, and the Antifa-Divas...
Published 11/22/21
We're late, we know, but let us make it up to you by taking you into the greater Alecia Moore-iverse! That's right, it is time to touch the hem of the Punk-inspired-singer-song-writer-Pop-Rock-Icon: P!nk! It's time to PARTY, you perfect under-dogs! So get ready as we cover the documentary of her tour: What I Know So Far! We are coming with doc and album reviews, Diva News and Podcast announcements that will make us all cry! We are in full summer celebration mode of our emotional, honest, true...
Published 06/22/21
This week we talk about the most fascinating woman in the world, Eartha Kitt, with the most brilliant professor in the world, Alexandra Billings! So meet us in Katie's corner for some deranged and delightful Diva dish. We talk icons, transformation, wigs, the 80s, plagues and bazoomabs! Come and learn why queer people are the Phoenixes of the human experience, how to become sadistic women, and all about navigating chaos. We talk Eartha, Bette, Madonna, Cher, Barbra, Mae West and Judy - it is...
Published 06/15/21
That's right For the Girls, we are coming at you with a God Tier Album Review of Whitney Houston's 1990 I'm Your Baby Tonight! This episode already aired on our Patreon, so come and see what all the exclusive fuss is about! So hop onto your Nippy-cycle and get ready for Origins, trampoline choreography, 90s shame, self titled albums, and the beginning of the Bobby-era! Don’t try to sing along because it’s Whitney. Everyone just RELAX because Whit is going to explain Monogomy, exorcise a demon...
Published 06/08/21
Come down to the Easy Listening sections, friends, as we defend the great Diva of Classic Hollywood: Doris Day! We have a guest superfan, Chris Logan, all the way from London to celebrate Calamity Jane, America's Sweetheart, the great voice of her generation, Doris! So join us in reconsidering this unsung Diva who hasn't been properly been given her due. We cover her virginal reputation, Rock Hudson's thighs, the 650 songs she recorded, the dogs, the dogs and the dogs, and the "Almost...
Published 06/01/21
It's Diva You Should Know Week and we are celebrating the truly virtuosic genre-shifting multitudes of Ruth, Anita, Bonnie and June Pointer! Come with us through the Quartet of the 70s, the Trio of the 80s and the musicology of one of the most important music groups in history. We are worshipping these underusing superheroes this week as we review our favorite tracks, discuss their eclectic bop-filled library and cleanse our algorithms with this perfect music. Come for the hits, stay for the...
Published 05/25/21
All Bow Down to the Queen of Cinema, Cate Blanchett! This week we grovel at her feet with superfan, Jakob Plummer. We are writing long letters on our typewriters about Jasmine, Carol Aird, Charlotte Grey and Veronica Guerin! We analyze her royal work, her villain work, her elf work and her everywoman work as we swim through the fearless and versatile waters of the reining Ice Queen of the Movies. So get ready to bop through the many Gifts and the greatest hits of this singular, trail-blazing,...
Published 05/18/21
Our 100th Episode extravaganza continues with the screenwriter of 9 to 5, Patricia Resnick! And she knows from Diva. So come gab with us about her work on The Cher Show, Robert Altman films, and Better Things. Pat came with Diva stories and tells tales of Lucille Ball, Shelley Winters, Stephanie J Block, Glenn Close, Ruth Gordon, Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, and Bette Bette Bette Bette and Bette. Come hear tales of dancing with Nancy Reagan, creating this iconic film and building a...
Published 05/12/21
OUR 100th EPISODE IS HERE! And we couldn't think of a better way to celebrate than inviting back returning champion, LaToya Morgan, to discuss one of all of our favorite films: 9 to 5! We are here to worship the divas Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Patricia Resnick, Ann Roth, Elizabeth Wilson, Peggy Pope, Marian Mercer, Esther Sullivan and Roxanne Bonilla-Giannini in this all too prescient classic from 1980. So throw on your work kimono, catch that elevator, and get ready to murder...
Published 05/11/21
Open the Book of Cabot Cove and unleash an episode of Biblical proportions! That's right we are going back to paradise to learn and preach the theology of JB Fletcher. This is our fourth installment of this series and this time we study Season 4, Episode 7: "If It's Thursdays, It Must Be Beverly." So get ready to go to the beauty shop, reunite with Evie Simpson, hear about naughty kitties, Lotharios, Salmon mousse and of course, God herself. We are taking you back to the church of Angela...
Published 05/04/21
Welcome to our second Bette Midler Album Review! That's right, we are going back to the well this week to dig for some gold. So come and celebrate the 7th studio album from our goddess: Bette Midler! This is our next-step-Bible filled with nostalgia, herstory, Marc Shaiman, Dionne Warwick, Diane Warren, Janice Ian, Jennifer Lewis, and Adult Contemporary Charts. So come and find your joy as we dive into the Grammy for Female Pop Vocal Performance, the 90s, Los Angeles fantasies and Leggings!...
Published 04/27/21
It's Oscar week and we have invited critic, podcaster and Oscar savant, Chris Feil from This Had Oscar Buzz to join us at the altar of the Nomads! That's right, it is time to stan for our divas: Frances McDormand, Chloe Zhao, Linda May and Swankie!!! Tear up those lesson books, kids, because we are talking about art this week. We three matinee ladies are sitting by the fire discussing Community and Solitude, Fran's career, Chloe's meteoric rise and Linda May's Oscar campaign. So grab your 7...
Published 04/20/21
Book Club!!! We read Nina Simone's autobiography: I Put A Spell On You, and are coming at you with one queer ass book report! How many times can we say "Singular?" Well, take a listen and find out as we etch our new knowledge onto the Mount Rushmore of Divas. We travel from North Carolina to Barbados, from New York to Paris and Liberia to learn about the life and legacy of this complex, beautiful, century shifting virtuoso. We let her own words and story re-contextualize how we listen to her...
Published 04/13/21
Claws Out, Claws Up, it's time to worship the Mother Monster herself: Lady Gaga! We have her superfan and internet lip-syncing sensation, Ben Yahr, with us this week to break down everything about the Fame Monster. So grab your freak flag and get ready to plant it on planet Chromatica. We are building the ultimate outlet for your coven of Monsters. We are analyzing, rhapsodizing, and immortalizing this free woman, songwriter, performance artist, actress, provocateur, activist and beacon for...
Published 04/06/21
Hop onto the Nostalgia Trolley, Friends of Judy, as we go back to 1944 Hollywood and 1903 St. Louis to celebrate one of the great movie musicals of all time: Meet Me in St. Louis! Just in time for Easter we are ready to worship any resurrection of the work of Divas: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremmer and Marjorie Main! We are coming with the earm worms, so grab your gin, meet us in the bathtub and get ready for origins, confessions, Chintz, thirst and us being the...
Published 03/30/21
We're Back with a Diva Filled SEASON 3 PREMIERE! This week we present to you the "Mount Rose Sara Lee Cosmetics For the Girls Podcast Drop Dead Gorgeous DIVA Pageant!" Don't cry out loud, we are searching for Kiki's EGOT as we reclaim this Diva stuffed classic in the named of Y2K Camp. So throw some vaseline on your teeth, grab a cardboard box of VHS tapes and meet us on the swan float, babies. We are going to worship Kirsten Dunst, Denise Richards, Allison Janney, Ellen Barkin, Amy Adams,...
Published 03/16/21
Enter the Diva Supreme, America's Greatest Superstar, the one the only MISS PIGGY! Moi better be ready, because we are going to try to cover the influence, the impact, the import of the greatest actress, singer, personal trainer, international icon, Miss Piggy. There aren't even enough adjectives to start this episode, so just download it. We cover Piggy's film career, romance and political impact. We cover Billionares, And MacDowell, Fair Queens, and Fergie! So exile that self-doubt, grab...
Published 03/09/21
"Working Girl" Rewatch! Take the Staten Island Ferry back to 1988 with us to celebrate Melanie, Sigourney and Joan. This is an Origins episode where Jason and Nick continue mining their nostalgia til death. Worship the hair, the eyeshadow, the shoulder-pads, and the Reaganomics of this classic comedy. These ladies teach us mergers & acquisitions, flawless fashions, and the value of female friendships. Let the River Run!
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Published 03/02/21
Come to the schoolhouse children, because there is a Diva you should know named Nancy Wilson! This week we worship Sweet Nancy, the girl with the honey-coated voice. We go back to the Cocoanut Grove to fly through 70 albums over her prolific and criminally under appreciated career. So come fire walk with us back to the 60s with us as we take a hard bop through Ohio, New York City, Los Angeles, and get drunk in San Francisco listening to Pop, R&B, Broadway and JAZZ. You don't know How Glad...
Published 02/23/21
There is one woman who is the GodMother, The Queen, The Patron Saint of Rock 'n Roll: SISTER ROSETTA THARPE! We have been dying to cover this extraordinary Diva for a while and we saved her to round out your Gay Pride Season! So come and learn about this genre defying, electric guitar playing, ball gown wearing Stadium Bride! I bet the history books didn't tell you that Rock was invented by a queer black woman did they? Well that's because all the history books are WRONG. So come for the...
Published 02/16/21
All Hail the Coffeehouse Queen, Dar Williams! Jason & Nick dive deep into Dar's first two albums, The Honesty Room & Mortal City,and, their poetic adolescences, teenage car accidents and seasonal depression! We're so glad you finally made it here to our 13th Episode! We hope we're aging well and that you will come and sit in the Honesty Room with us as we laugh and cry in the church of this goddess folk-singer-songwriter-diva.
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Published 02/09/21