For the Girls!

That's right, time to return to the source of all joy, triumph and exaltation: Bette Midler! Come back with us to 1980 as we explore the apex of Bette's career and the apotheosis of her stage shows: Divine Madness! We dive into her career, life and artistic intention around this glorious and jubilant concert. We read Pauline Kael, sample Barbara Walters and shout out to Linda Hart. So come for the tunes and jokes and stay for our endlessly fascinating origins. Get ready to make that Big Noise and experience the Fire Down Below. Stay With us, Battle Angels, we are Ready to Begin Again...cuz everybody must. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We are taking a pause this week to spend less time talking and more time thinking. We do a little bit of talking about it here if you want to listen. Otherwise please have a safe, educational and active week. We know our Battle Angels stand with us in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.If you don’t, you are no Battle Angel. Thanks for your patience, there will more Diva content soon, but until then, please remember the words of the great Nina Simone, “Everything Must Change.” 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CAUTION! The time has finally come for a visitation from the Imperfect Angel's Advocate. This ain't no Daydream, kitty cats, We are going to worship the one and only Mariah Carey! So welcome her super fan, Jordan Taylor, strap on your Charmbracelet, grab your dictionary and get ready for a positive moment. You had better turn the caps lock on because we are going full DIVA this week. We are joining the Lambily, serving some ASMR and bopping through the songs of the summer! Come to f*g out, and stay for the journey, the Emotions, the Adventures, the Emancipation of Mimi! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s time to come to the edge. So get ready to escape from your day with what just may be our gayest episode EVER. Calling all Aunts, nieces, addicts and moms to join us for a very special episode celebrating Postcards From the Edge. This movie is diva packed so get ready to worship Meryl Streep, Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, CCH Pounder, Annette Bening, Robin Bartlett, Dana Ivey and Mary Wickes! It is a Shirley MacLaine Battle Royale this week, kittens, so come for the CarrieQuips and stay to pick your celebrity mom because everybody’s got a podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If you are V.I. (Valerie Interested), you have come to the right podcast! So get ready to battle misogyny, taste the rainbow and SEE RED as we dive back into The Comeback (Season 2) with Max Jenkins! Calling all Baby Girls, Love Balls and Lady Writers to come and worship that prestige cable goddess, Valerie Cherish! We will weather the degradations of Hollywood, season three theories, Kyra Sedgwick’s The Closer, PLL and self-esteem! This episode is wild, so hold on to your wig because it is Gigi O’Clock somewhere! 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, Hello, Hello! It is finally time to bow down to existential Diva of Brentwood: Valerie Cherish! Join us and superfan, Max Jenkins, as we throw on our Valerie Cherish masks, drive to the westside and worship the quintessential American art form: Lisa Kudrow. This is Max’s Game of Thrones, so summon your Big Amy Klobuchar energy as we tackle the Godot of Sitcoms, the first #MeToo series, the ultimate mockumentary: THE COMEBACK! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Diva News: We’ve been locked out of Cabot Cove! So join us on the hero’s journey as we try to pedal our way back into the murderous bloodstained Maine paradise to worship our God, JB Fletcher. We may not have bodies to die for right now, but the divas of Cabot Cove do, so throw on your aerobic wear and your thinking caps as we try to solve this delicious and terrifying murder from 1991. Jessica Fletcher, Sherrif Matt and Sally Struthers get us through this iconic battle of Goodand Evil, as we bring you My Favorite Murder She Wrote! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We know that Rachel done already got married and is probably divorced by now, but drive frantically with us back to 2008 as we welcome Carey O'Donnell to worship his diva: Kym! Kym is the character portrayed flawlessly by Anne Hathaway in "Rachel Getting Married". So put down your Hate-O-Rade, and get ready as we worship Anne, Rosemary Dewitt, Debra Winger, Roslyn Ruff and Anna Deavere Smith! We cover early recovery, addiction, honesty, family and late aughts highlights. We seek #Justice4RosemaryDewitt, take detours to Kiki Dunst and Miranda July, but mostly raise up Anne Hathaway, mother of the New Earth! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices