For the Girls!

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 to Salem, sisters!!!!!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 of the early 90s. The only Woman's War Movie must be celebrated! This is the apotheosis of Bette's career, and it was criminally under-celebrated at the time so let's get to lauding this true Diva Classic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 mother-Diva, P!nk. So grab your invisible Nanny, rename yourself Willow and meet us at the Pride Parade, because we are just getting this party started!

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 truly a symposium this week, and Alexandra is the ultimate teacher. So grab your Cha-Cha Heels, your champagne taste and meet us under the bridges of Paris!

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 named Susan and lend her perfect vocals to the dance-pop framework. You lift us up, you're all the angels that we need, and so we are giving you this episode reviewing one of our all time favorite albums!

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 independent Woman" that she was made to play. Whatever will be will be, but our love of Doris is never going to leave us, so come listen to a little Pillow Talk.

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 music theory. We are out here demanding miniseries, art installations and statues erected to these iconic women of music. It should be Automatic! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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, humanitarian Australian who has written her own script and built one of the most dynamic careers in the history of Hollywood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 truly incredible career in Hollywood as a writer for over 40 years. Come grab a little inspiration from one of the greats! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 the patriarchy and throw its corpse into the trunk of a car! We are going to do M&Ms, drink some Skinny&Sweet, and then Sexualize, Hunt and Murder our Bosses. We are keeping a spot for you at our lunch table to celebrate these iconic women and our own centenary! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Lansbury so hop on your bike, confess your sins and PRAY. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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! We hope you all are staying sane while keeping From A Distance, and just put this on to do a little Moonlight Dancing, Miss Otis! Let's go One More Round! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 gallon bucket, name your travel van and meet us out on the range. We are diving deep into the genius well of Chloe Zhao's work, stories of returning to an actual movie theater and of course everything Academy Awards. So pick up your ballot and get ready to mark every box for the transcendent movie of the year: NOMADLAND. Swankie Hive RISE!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 music. So come hear about her days with Lorraine Hansberry, her nights with Odetta, her improvs with Al Shackman and her protests with James Baldwin as we pay tribute to the genius, Nina, who put a spell on us all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 the weird and wondrous. rSo prepare yourselves to hatch the enigma that is Lady Gaga! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 most Horrible! We celebrate the counterpoint and beautiful tension of this masterpiece as well as its horny sisters on trolley Cars! We swoon, we sigh, and we say ICONIC,  So put us on your dance card and get ready for Art on art on art on art. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 contest involving Tina, so don't even try to. Get ready to do the Pony, shake your manes, and steam up those windows. Put on your shortest dress, and start to strutting, because we are going to tell you about the bad things gay kids do, give you Whatever You Want, and make your Wildest Dreams come true on this episode. Start chanting because we are headed to Nutbush to discuss the impact, the history, the legacy of the Performer, the Voice, the Legend: TINA! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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, Brittany Murphy, Kristen Rudrüd, Mindy Sterling, Alexandra Holden, Mo Gaffney, Nora Dunn and Queen Xenu herself: KIRSTIE ALLEY! We rewrite the Best-Of-1999 lists, marvel at some of these jokes, and really just revel in the dirty, dark and absurd America of Drop Dead Gorgeous! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 your gay pride and get ready to get drop dead gorgeous! (We are In Syndication! That's right it's time for Re-Runs, friends, so sit back, relax, smash that download button and enjoy one of our earliest episodes! We will be back with new episodes in March, and you can always find new episodes on our Patreon.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"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! (We are In Syndication! That's right it's time for Re-Runs, friends, so sit back, relax, smash that download button and enjoy one of our earliest episodes! We will be back with new episodes in March, and you can always find new episodes on our Patreon.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 We Are to be listening to Nancy Wilson, so hop on this train and let her transport you to another world. (We are In Syndication! That's right it's time for Re-Runs, friends, so sit back, relax, smash that download button and enjoy one of our earliest episodes! We will be back with new episodes in March, and you can always find new episodes on our Patreon.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 herstory and stay for the soaring gospel numbers, the rollicking guitar licks and high flying vocal of SRT. That's right, kitty cats, this week we are burning down the entire Hall of Fame and rebuilding it in Rosetta's name! (We are In Syndication! That's right it's time for Re-Runs, friends, so sit back, relax, smash that download button and enjoy one of our earliest episodes! We will be back with new episodes in March, and you can always find new episodes on our Patreon.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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.  (We are In Syndication! That's right it's time for Re-Runs, friends, so sit back, relax, smash that download button and enjoy one of our earliest episodes! We will be back with new episodes in March, and you can always find new episodes on our Patreon.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The new documentary of Aretha Franklin's live recording of her gospel album, Amazing Grace, is nothing short of a miracle. Just in time for Easter, Jason and Nick head to Church to learn at the feet of the Queen of Soul. This is the episode where we beg you to stop listening to this podcast and go to the movies, listen to Aretha, convert to Christianity and praise everyone involved in making this joyful noise!  (We are In Syndication! That's right it's time for Re-Runs, friends, so sit back, relax, smash that download button and enjoy one of our earliest episodes! We will be back with new episodes in March, and you can always find new episodes on our Patreon.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Madeline Kahn was the Queen of Comedy and this week we talk to her biggest fan, Michael Cyril Creighton! Feel the flames...just around your face as we float through the glorious career of Hollywood's saddest and sweetest clown. Madeline has inspired Michael's career and life in the fullest way, and there are few fans we have met more devoted. Join us in hailing Mrs. White, Trixie, Eunice Burns and all of the delectable creations of this singular actress. (We are In Syndication! That's right it's time for Re-Runs, friends, so sit back, relax, smash that download button and enjoy one of our earliest episodes! We will be back with new episodes in March, and you can always find new episodes on our Patreon.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jason and Nick do a deep dive into one of the great "Chick Flicks" of all time: Steel Magnolias! Come celebrate female friendships, 6 divas in their prime, perfectly calibrated emotional monologues, historic one-liners and 80's fashion. Legends Only Please. We are still on Re-Runs! New episodes start in March, but until then, flashback to baby Jason and Nick in their 4th episode, flashing back to their moldy VHS collection from the 80s. That's right, it's time to go back to the HAUS OF ROBERTS to re-celebrate Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Daryl Hannah and Dolly Parton in their perfect collaboration: Steel Magnolias! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

She's The Greatest Star: Barbra! We interview Thomas Jay Ryan on how the Streisand chip was implanted in his young brain, and we analyze Barbra's music, movies and magic. This controversial beauty never begged for love, and neither will we! Come learn a new vocabulary from Brooklyn's hometown Diva. Give It To Me, NOW! (We are In Syndication! That's right it's time for Re-Runs, friends, so sit back, relax, smash that download button and enjoy one of our earliest episodes! We will be back with new episodes in March, and you can always find new episodes on our Patreon.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time to look back before we can move forward, so get ready for a montage as we bop through our favorite episodes, lessons, guests, foibles and of course DIVAS of the last two years of For the Girls Podcast! Get ready for Flashbacks as we question ourselves and each other about the last two years. This is a podcast for Battle Angels this week, come down memory lane to celebrate fandoms of Phoebe Snow, Aretha Franklin, Faith Hill, Mary Kay Place, Trisha Yearwood, Diane Keaton, Annie Lennox, Bjork, Tori Amos, Elizabeth Taylor, Karen Carpenter, Elaine Stritch, Valerie Cherish, Angela Lansbury, Bette Midler and all of our glorious guests! Thank You for a beautiful first two years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All Hail the wholesome virtuosic gender bending English icon Julie Andrews! This week we dive deep into the 1982 classic Victor/Victoria and explore everything it taught our little queer hearts, celebrate the Lesley Ann Warren of it all and delve into the delicious depths of this Blake Edwards masterpiece. So throw on a diamond studded poncho and meet us down at Ches Luis for a bit of Jazz, a bit of 80s Oscars snubbery, and a bit of Liza. We are putting the C, H, I and C into Chicago this week, angels and hope you enjoy this truly warm, holiday-ish musical confection of identity, gender and JAZZ! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Merry Christmas, ladies, it is time to get right with the Lord and learn her many names: Angela, Jessica and Mrs. Anna North Clause! Hop in our sleigh as we fly you back to 1996, 1910 and eternity in the CBS made for TV Jerry Herman Musical: Mrs. Santa Clause! Missed this one? Don't worry, we didn't and we are taking you through Angela Lansbury's every divine movement as the newly liberated Wife of Santa. Angela becomes a labor organizer, feminist revolutionary, child psychologist and savior of the poor in this much overlooked epic. It may be the darkest winter on earth, but we are keeping it light and fun in here, so come for the sweet songs and stay for the Bob Mackie gowns as we bop through Mrs. Santa Clause! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the Christmas Castle where we worship all the Country Christmas Divas. You better be ready to pin the tail on the Baby Jesus because this week is brought to you by Dolly, LeeAnn, Faith, Trisha, Loretta, Wynonna, Naomi, and R E B A! Get ready to enter The Three Club and maybe even The Four Club as we get you into the Christmas spirit, have political realizations and drive you to the Mall. We are innocuous, ambiguous, and ubiquitous this week, kids, and coming at you with origins, Diva News, and everything canonically country.

It's time for Diva The Movie, also known as All About Eve! We welcome writer and film savant, Mark Harris to dive deep into our fandom of this 1950's World of Women! Come celebrate Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, Celeste Holm, Marilyn Monroe and the Thelma Ritter of it all. We define camp, get to the bottom of 50s gay coding, and ride it real bumpy though the wit, rhythm, furs and bon-mots of magnificent Margo, conniving Karen, illusive Eve and brilliant Birdie. We are so Thankful for this iconic film and the incredible conversation we had around it. Have a great holiday week!

Welcome to the cult of Audra, honies! Dust off your TONY Awards to get in the door because this episode is for LEGENDS ONLY. We welcome host of Netflix's The Big Flower Fight, Kristen Giffith-Vanderyacht to swim in the luscious and magical waters of his diva: Audra McDonald! So get your Mom to drop you at Barnes and Noble and meet us in the CD Section because we are going back to Broadway this week to gush over this living legend's career on stage, screen and in the recording studio. So tribe up because we are plotting Ms. McDonald's EGOT and bopping through every soaring ballad as we worship Broadway's brightest star and the voice of our hearts: Audra Ann McDonald.

Bow down, because we are spitting straight bars this week as we worship the original multi-hyphenate, the Friple threat, the Judge, Jury and Executioner: Queen Latifah! Comedian Alex English is our guest and we dive deep into his fandom of the Jersey Girl, the Feminine Teacher, the Lady MC, Dana Owens! So get ready for some order in the court as we fan out over her reign. We dive deep into Set It Off, Living Single, Bessie, the albums and the celebrity of one of our most enduring stars. So get ready to hear about the Evil That Men Do, get into a Dis Battle and find finally some U.N.I.T.Y. over at the United Nations of Divas as we ALL HAIL THE QUEEN!

Battle Angels Assemble! It is Election Week and we are bringing you a Diva filled playlist to give you solace, courage, fortitude, inspiration and ignition as you march, stand or wait to VOTE tomorrow. We know that the Beth Army can't wait to vote this monster out of office, and you know the Divas will be with you in spirit every step of the way. So come along as we listen carefully to Dolly, Mavis, P!nk, Melanie, Roberta, Tracy, Martina and Nina as they sing songs of Liberation. A clear blue morning is coming as long as we don't lay down, but put our bodies into Action, know that everything must change and set out to burn down the abusive men trying to control us in these trying times! Take care of yourselves this week, stay strong and VOTE!

Happy Halloween, Witches! Get ready for some Satanic Panic, because we are flying back to 1990 to celebrate the Grand High Witch of Movie Halloween: Angelica Huston in THE WITCHES! We all know kids smell like dog shit, so warm up your little voice because we are going to sing the praises of the truly grotesque and joyous witches of Roald Dahl and Jim Henson's imaginations. Set your VCR tracking to spooky, and cuddle up with your grandmamas and your chocolate bars. We are working only with the most practical magic this season and this episode is our Grand High Finale of the Season!

Welcome witches to the Diva Hall of Fame where we worship the white winged Witch of them all: STEVIE NICKS! It is finally time to cast a spell for this Mount Rushmore Diva, the timeless sorceress, the songwriter Diva supreme with her super fan, Mark Snyder. All we wanna do is talk about Stevie Nicks this week, so cast your spells in honor of the uber feminine Queen of box sets. We are going to be making sure your crystal visions are 20/20. Get ready for the STORM of it all because there is trouble in Shangri-La, so climb into the bell jar of fandom, grab Sara and come join your Sisters of the Moon!

Gather, All Witches on our Island of Spells as we summon the 90s classic, PRACTICAL MAGIC! That's right, Owens Girls, we are whipping out our candle collections and brushing off our powers to conjure Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing and The Diane Weist!!! Welcome to our second Heaven where we eat brownies for breakfast and stir coffee with our minds. October is for curses, kids, so grab Marie Osmond and meet us down at the Witch Motel because we are going to combine our powers to return to a happier time where romance was queen, rose bushes were evil and we PUT THE LIME IN THE COCOUNUT!

It's time for part 3 of our favorite returning series: My Favorite Murder She Wrote! That's right, kids, we are sailing back into our personal paradise, Cabot Cove, to kick off the spooky season, and this time, they call the witch Mariah! Come down to the Cabot Cove Community Players where the new woman in town may be too good at her roll as a historic town witch. Draw a Pentagram and summon Eve Simspson to write your name in the book of the beast, we can get as scary as we want because we know that God is always with us in the form of Jessica Fletcher. Mrs. F is going to collect evidence, analyze handwriting and clock jewels in this ICONIC episode. UNDER HER EYE!

It's time to get into all of your fall feelings with the soul searing, Diva stuffed, aughts epic: THE HOURS! This Had Oscar Buzz's host, Joe Reid, joins us to discuss his favorite movie and all 11 Divas in it. So put some rocks in your pockets, grab a pumpkin spice latte and meet us down by the river to celebrate the beginning of the modern Streepasaince, the Kidman Oscar triumph and the Julianne Moore of it all! Get ready for a panic attacks, kids, because this is Swoon the Movie and it is overflowing with ACTRESSES. So get ready to confront your true self, write your graduate thesis and buy the damn flowers yourself because we are going down to 10th street this week to worship Clarissa Vaughan, Virginia Woolfe and Laura Brown!

It's TV Binge time finally! That's right, we watched a whole season of a show that we told you we were going to and we stuck to it with HIGH FIDELITY! Come celebrate this criminally not-renewed Hulu romantic dramedy and it's two Divas: Zoë Kravitz and Da'Vine Joy Randolph! So walk over to the offices of For the Girls Podcast and bring your best vinyl and all of your fandom because we are going to do some culture SHARING. We loved this new indie aughtsy rom-com and want you to watch it to so we can all pretend to be impossibly cool sad girls, live our NYC fantasy, hate all forms of money and develop your TASTE.

It's Cyndi Lauper week with D-Listed writer, journalist and Cyndi fan Mieka Strawhorn! We are starting at the very beginning with an album review of the first, the iconic, the never overplayed: "She's So Unusual." So strap a tutu to your head, throw some glitter in the air and get ready to bop like Tipper Gore ain't watchin'! We put on our Prince thongs, play mouth guitars, destroy pool toys and pretend to cry with white girls as we worship this era-defining, activist legend. So get ready to enjoy your private She-Bop, learn about Fiona Shaw's Grammy, and of course HAVE FUN as we celebrate this steel piped joyful Brooklyn Diva!

The time has finally come to discuss the greatest Broadway Diva of them all, Elaine Stritch! This legendary old broad has been on Nick's Mount Rushmore of Divas for decades and we are going to etch her onto yours. So door rings, bells chime, here comes Lainey! We are at Liberty this week kids, so if you are cute and gay, come on down to the Great White Way. We worship this WASP style icon, this actors' spirit, this confessional Diva of the Theatre- so raise your vodka stinger, throw on a say something hat and meet us up at our room in the Caryle as we lead a parade for this Zen priestess of the stage: Stritchy!

Grab your roller skates and your 4 best punk girlfriends and let's join the cult of Belinda Carlisle! We have ice cold takes for these hot summer days, so join us in celebrating the Go-Go's front woman, the queen of Pop, the chanting witchy goddess, Belinda, with her superfan and friend, David Russell! We are unsealing these lips and flying to Thailand to spin and prance to some of the greatest bops of the last century. So, live your life be free kids because we are mad about all of you and ready to give you Heaven on earth in the form of this sweet podcast. Let's go on Vacation!

Welcome home to the Haus of Roberts!!!! That’s right, we are headed back to the year 2000 and driving to Hinckley California to celebrate the Oscar winning turn of our Hollywood sweetheart, Julia Roberts! So throw on your favorite halter top, grab a vile of ground water and get reading to dismantle the entire system! This week, we not only review this great film, but we turn into Diva Lawyers in order to pick apart its most iconic monologues, defend Aliens, date dirty bikers and prove that the earth is FLAT. So get ready to worship the people’s princess and listen to the wisdom of the great Erin Brockovich.

Broadway Divas have always been our strongest suit, so hop into your open grave and dream of 1999 when our returning guest and best friend of the podcast, Nick Mayo, first saw AIDA! That's right we are worshipping at the feet of Heather Headley and Sherie Rene Scott this week, queens, so you better star cross that love, brush off your original Broadway Cast double CD cases and get ready for some belting down in Egypt! The Gods love Di-i-vas, and so do we! So come for the Nubian Queens, Caucasian Pharohesses and Egyptian Eye tattoos! These Should Have Been Our Times - but it's not, so at least we have a podcast.

It’s finally time to touch the third rail of joy, the ultimate actress, iconic screen legend: Alfre Woodard! We hope you are comfortable with our feelings at this point because we are going to dive deep into the career of this human cry cue. It’s Jason’s Birthday episode, so pour yourself a nip, and summon all your Big Mom Energy as we go Down in the Delta to catch some Passion Fish. We are coming to you this week with all our Heart and Souls as we form a mob to burn down the Academy and put all of Alfre Woodard’s work directly into the Louvre!

Grab your drumsticks and lets cruise back to Downey, California because it is Karen Carpenter time with very special guest Louis Virtel! Louis is a true Diva whisperer and he takes us on an in depth journey into his fandom of the Lead Sister herself: K.C.! So get ready for us to spill all of Agnes’ Iced Tea as we talk over all of Karen’s Bops and Richards Flops. We are jamming out through the nuclear winter in Century City and we’re calling all occupants of soft rock heaven to join us as we worship the witchy, ambivalent, virtuosic Goddess of sad-girl-summer: Karen Carpenter!

It's finally Linda Ronstadt Day! Come and celebrate the Queen of Rock, Pop, Country, Standard, Operetta, Mexican Folk and New Wave! We are covering the not so new documentary about Linda's extraordinary career, impassioned activism and masterful music.  We are not For the Hims, we are only For the Lindas this week, so say Adieu False Heart and get ready to stat marching to the beat of a Different Drum...we don't know much, but we know we will always love Linda from the Blue Bayou to bottom of Laurel Canyon.

Four words: Pamela Suzette BadAssssssss Grier! We welcome back our returning champion, screenwriter, producer and Diva savant, LaToya Morgan to discuss Coffee, Foxy Brown, Friday Foster, Kit Porter, Jackie Brown...Pam Grier!!!!!!! This is a no holds barred episode as we cruise back to the 70s and dive into our sexy Blackxploitation fantasy to worship the original female Action Icon! We are lawyers now, so bring your briefcase, your dictionary and your shotgun to celebrate the Avenging Angel, Hollywood Legend, President of the Universe: Pam Grier!

This week our sun moon and stars are in the house of two Judy’s: GARLAND AND DAVIS! That’s right, we are going back to 2001 to cover the epic miniseries, “Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows.” If you hadn’t noticed, this is a Show Business podcast, kids, and we are coming back for a third bite at the apple of the Diva Supreme: Judy Garland. This is deep weeds Diva nonsense this week as we tackle Aussie acting legend Judy Davis and her portrayal of all of our mother, Judy G. We also talk about the transcendent Tammy Blanchard as the young Judy, supermarkets, Liza, Lorna, Joey, Jean Grey and the Babadook. Don’t be a (Alison) pill, download this episode because there is also a very special Battle Angel announcement in store. Get Happy.