Like a Virgin

• Fran & Rose catch up on their current obsessions after what felt like an eternity of vacation. Topics include Ethel Cain, Kelela, Rina Sawayama, Prey, Jurassic World, Selling the OC, lots of gay romance novels and the headliner... The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

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• You best start believing in ghost stories, Virgins... because you're in one: at last, an episode about the 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl that changed Fran & Rose's lives forever
• Keira, Orlando, the abhorrent Johnny Depp (but mostly just his eyeliner), corsets, other horny pirate content and the aesthetic link between pirates and nonbinary people
• no "news" this week because we're still on semi-vacation, but back in full form next week!

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• We're on summer gaycay! So rather than being up on all the latest in pop culture news, Fran & Rose get personal and talk about how and why they are so beautiful. 

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• We're on summer gaycay! So rather than being up on all the latest in pop culture news, Fran & Rose get personal and dig into a question that never goes out of style: why have all your past relationships failed?

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• Exactly two of auteur Baz Luhrmann’s movies interest Rose: Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge. Fran’s fandom runs deeper, and they forced Rose to watch Strictly Ballroom for the making of this episode
• They also discuss their qualms with Elvis, touch on Gatsby and sing a lot
• Plus, Fran’s trip to the Chromatica Ball, Gaga set list analysis from resident Little Monster Rose, a PSA from Fran to NOT watch Secret Celebrity Drag Race, the A League of Their Own reboot, and the Kim Petras leaked album

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• Fran & Rose have been nonstop consuming media, so they made a special episode completely dedicated to yesterday’s — literally — pop culture: the culmination of this season of FBoy Island (with spoilers!), Harley Quinn's return, West World's decline, new movies They/Them, Not Okay, and Bodies Bodies Bodies, Pretty Woman and Good Luck To You, Leo Grande as a double feature of good movies with yikesy portrayals of sex work, Netflix’s Fleabagesque Persuasion adaptation, Maggie Rogers' new album/PhD project and the Beyoncé remixes 
• Plus, Like A Virgin book club members get some juicy recs including Book Lovers by Emily Henry and Husband Material by Alexis Hall

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• Fran & Rose go song by song through Beyoncé's latest album, Renaissance, discussing its queer, Black influences & samples and talking theories about the future and favorites from her entire ouevre
• Plus, welcoming August by Taylor Swift by talking about her ozone-damaging proclivities
• Full reactions to Jordan Peele's Nope, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, and this week's FBoy Island episodes (includes spoilers of all three! skip to 24ish minutes in if you want to avoid)

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• Comedian & soda pop aficionado Cole Escola joins Fran & Rose to talk about the drinkable and increasingly obsolete behemoth of popular culture
• Tangents include gross cafeteria antics, cereal, Arby’s, and the teacher’s lounge
• Plus FBoy Island, a herstory of Thor, the latest Virgin book club read and a no-spoilers Nope quickie 

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• Your heart may not go on after listening to Fran & Rose's takes on the iconic 1997 movie about a T4T couple, Titanic (and how our Rose like Titanic's Rose lost her virginity at sea <3)
• Plus, are we actually starting a Like A Virgin book club? 
• Fran on Drag Race España season 2
• Rose on What We Do in the Shadows
• Ally anthem hits and misses
• Rose saw the Minions movie

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• Comedian & writer Jes Tom joins fellow Phantom stan Rose & reluctant fan Fran to geek out over Jes & Rose’s absolute favorite musical Phantom of the Opera and the irresistibly bad 2004 Joel Schumacher movie adaptation, plus other obscure Phantom spinoffs
• Learn theories about the queer identities of literally every character and also how Phantom was a root of Jes’s colonized desire
• Plus: Ultimate Girls Trip, Stranger Things, Ms. Marvel and Fran’s Fire Island K Hole
• 🥳 celebrate Rose’s birthday by getting fucked to a Phantom of the Opera remix

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