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Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show

Interviews with amazing people, comedians and LGBTQ+ legends, with pop culture and politics wrapped up in a delicious candy coating of camp.

Hosted by Puerto Rican drag queen Fausto Fernós and his husband, Norwegian reality TV star Marc Felion, Feast of Fun began as one of the original 50 podcasts featured on iTunes in 2006, and celebrated by Apple: Feast of Fun “helped bring podcasting from an underground movement to a mainstream phenomenon.” Five time winner of the People’s Choice Podcast Award for Best LGBT podcast.

We’ve done thousands of shows with wonderfully wild people, LGBTQ legends and their friends, and tackle the tough questions like: is Sasquatch a drag queen? How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll pop?

Subscribe and join us as we chat with gay musicians, counterculture comedians, trans pirates, lesbian warriors and pagan witches and celebrate the ridiculous and transform pain into pleasure.

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FOF #2955 - Kate Willett: Dirtbag Anthropologist Apr 29, 2021

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With all the challenges we’ve faced in recent years it feels like we’ve all grown closer together yet sometimes it also feels like we’re a million miles apart. Like Paula Abdul sang once, we take two steps forward, two steps back. So how do we come together when opposites attract?
When comedian Kate Willett suddenly found herself wanting to date men again after getting divorced from a woman she wondered about what kind of place she can hold in life for men and not let it get too weird.
In her new audiobook Dirtbag Anthropology, Kate Willet takes us on an intense roller coaster ride into the world of men. The series features hilarious and insightful conversations with comedians and experts and even Kate’s own father.
Today Kate Willett joins us to take a look at men, men, men. Listen as we chat with Kate about modern masculinity and how that nice guy doesn’t always end up being so nice.
DIRTBAG ANTHROPOLOGY
By: Kate Willett
📘 Listen on Audible:
https://www.audible.com/pd/Dirtbag-Anthropology-Audiobook/B08W5FSQ1V
Plus lots of hilarious animal news:
➤ Bart the “Zombie Cat” who became internet famous in 2015 for surviving being buried alive is doing amazing today.
➤ Folks are smuggling songbirds from Africa to compete in American Idol bird singing competitions.
➤ Prancer the mean little chihuahua that’s a vessel for 'Haunted Victorian Child' gets it’s forever home.

FOF #2954 - Zac Efron’s Face Shocker Apr 28, 2021

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What’s going on with Zac Efron’s face? In a video promoting Bill Nye’s new environmental awareness project “Earth Day the Musical” fans were left gasping when el Zac appeared in the video looking like he had botched plastic surgery.
I’m going to need more lip gloss to gloss these lips.
Today we dig in deep to find out what happened to Zac Efron’s face.
Plus so much delicious pop culture goodies:
➤ Was the 2021 Academy Awards the most boring Oscars ever? What ever happened to the worst dress list?
➤ The new documentary Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street opens in theaters.
➤ Caitlyn Jenner is running for governor of California.
➤ The average size for dongs is shrinking around the world.
➤ Eartha Kitt’s daughter Kitt Shaprio is coming out with her own Mommie Dearest book- Eartha & Kitt: A Daughter's Love Story in Black and White.
➤ Ricky Martin is dressed to filth sporting a grey beard.
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Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street Apr 26, 2021

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Sesame Street is one of the most influential television programs of all time. Premiering in 1969, its profound legacy impacted generations. Millions of children and adults were both educated and entertained as they watched a world that embraced diversity and inclusiveness.
And lovable grouches who live in garbage cans.
In 2009 we had the pleasure of interviewing biographer Michael Davis, author of the amazing book Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street. This year Michael Davis’ book is the source material for a feature documentary film, STREET GANG: HOW WE GOT TO SESAME STREET.
The documentary, directed by Marilyn Agrelo is now out in theaters and is receiving great reviews. Ben Kenigsberg of the New York Times says “even nostalgia-resistant viewers can learn something from this documentary version of a book on the making of the show.”
Please enjoy this encore presentation.
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{Best of Feast of Fun, FOF #926 - Sesame Street Cred - 02.06.09}
Sesame Street began in 1969 as a result of a question posed at a dinner party: “Could television be used to teach children, could learning be a form of entertainment?”
After forty years, the award winning program not only taught oodles of children how to count and recite the alphabet, but also taught them to embrace diversity and inclusiveness.
Whether black or white, tall and yellow or small and green, everyone had a home on Sesame Street.
We love the muppets because, much like ourselves, they aren’t perfect creatures. We see our own humanity in those furry faces with beady eyes as they deal with problems of everyday life.
Sesame Street showed animals, monsters and people living together and working through their differences, which influenced a huge population of children that eventually grew up to enthusiastically support diversity, technicolor hair and our nation’s first black president.
Street GangOn today’s show we’re talking to author Michael Davis about his book Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street. In his book Michael takes an in-depth look at the groundbreaking program from it’s inception to the present day, covering some interesting behind-the-scenes conflicts which were a part of the creative energy of the show.
Listen as we talk with Michael about hipsters and squares and the program’s counter cultural influence, KAMI, the HIV Positive Monster from South Africa and Bert & Ernie as Gay Icons
Find out how Sesame Street coped with the painful death of Actor Will Lee, who portrayed Mr. Hooper on the show, and the deaths of the behind the scenes masters: puppeteer Richard Hunt from AIDS, musician Joe Raposo from cancer and Muppet founder Jim Henson from toxic shock syndrome.
Plus questions from you, the listeners.
[Originally posted on February 6, 2009.]

FOF#2953 - Hedwig Queen Becomes the Tiger King Apr 21, 2021

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Tiger King- the true crime story reigned supreme as the 2020 pandemic documentary series on Netflix. The tale about an eccentric group of private zoo owners battling it out over who would be king of the caged jungle cat captivated the world at a time we all felt trapped in cages ourselves.
It was so wildly popular that it is now getting a dramatic series produced by everyone’s favorite lesbian Kate McKinnon and starring none other than Hedwig himself, John Cameron Mitchel.
Will the Hedwig queen be able to transform herself into the Tiger King?
Today we take a look at the new web series Joe Exotic, now in production, that digs even deeper into the mayem, meth and madness of the Tiger King world.
Plus--
➤ Lesbify everything. Folks are asking for comedian Tig Notaro to digitally replace every terrible man in any movie ever.
➤ There’s a Change.org petition to cancel Colton Underwood’s Netflix reality TV show.
➤ Are pierrot masks basic?
➤ Who will win RuPaul’s Drag Race season 13? Place your bets!

FOF #2952 – HRH Princess Diandra Reads Diana Ross to Filth Apr 20, 2021

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HRH Princess Diandra has an amazing drag career impersonating her first love Diana Ross. But she also relishes channelling the other two great entertainers in her Holy Trinity- Tina Turner and Patti Labelle.
As much as Princess Diandra loves her divas, she cuts them no slack. She’d just as soon come for those ladies that the “HRH” in her title might as well stand for “Honey, Read Her!”
PRINCESS DIANDRA: https://www.instagram.com/hrhpd/
Now the tabloids went wild when Diandra literally poked Diana Ross. So imagine what Diandra is like to celebrities she doesn’t care for. Photographer David LaChapelle tasted the apple martini she dumped over his head. Madonna felt the coldness of Diandra’s shade. And Kathie Lee Gifford got an earful on a phone call so legendary it made it on TV.
Today we’re talking to Her Royal Highness Princess Diandra about all her adventures performing as a legendary drag entertainer and all celebrities she loves to read to filth.
Plus–
➤ Stalking celebrities outside of Studio 54 as a teenager.
➤ As mother of the House of Ecstasy, what are her thoughts on the final season of POSE?
➤ Filming To Wong Foo with all the top drag queens of the day.
➤ What happened to her number at Wigstock 2.0
➤ And all the tea Patti Labelle has on everyone.
Honey, this is a show you don’t want to miss!

FOF #2951 - The Bachelor Colton Underwood Comes Out as Gay Apr 14, 2021

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The Bachelor reality TV franchise is a top show with American conservatives because it reinforces antiquated ideas of love where 12 people go at each other’s throats for the top prize, a hand in marriage to a random stranger.
As the most heteronormative show on tv with the blandest contestants, it came as a bit of surprise when Colton Underwood, one of the series’ top contestants came out as gay, along with a tell all book sharing every juicy detail of his sex life.
Colton is now on the talk show circuit, promoting his new book where he declares “I’ve hated myself for a long time.” Well Colton, that makes two of us.
Today we’re taking a look at queer bating on reality TV dating shows, the all new Gay Bachelor Colton Underwood, A Shot of Love with Tila Tequila and Robert Sepuvelda Jr. the Instagram escort who was the prize pig on Logo’s “Finding Prince Charming” hosted by Lance Bass.
Plus --
➤ Plastic surgeons report a growing number of teens want to look like their Instagram filters in real life.
➤ Before Michael Stipe became a pop music legend with REM, he regularly showed up as Dr Frank N Furter at screenings of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
➤ Chris Crocker’s masterpiece viral video “Leave Britney Alone” sells for $41,000 in cryptocurrency.

FOF #2950 - Alexandra Gray on Sister Act and Black Divas Apr 13, 2021

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Sister Act, the 1992 musical comedy starring Whoopi Goldberg, is a favorite classic for many LGBTQ+ folks, afterall, who can't relate to a larger than life figure who has to find their own special world to protect themselves from dangerous forces?
Today Alexandra Gray, drag entertainer from the Hall Dynasty, daughter of the legendary Tajma Hall and sister to Drag Race winner Jaida Essence Hall joins us to take a look at her life working in Chicago’s drag scene of the 90s and early 2000s and then getting cast in the Sister Act Musical, in the lead role of Delores Van Cartier.
Listen as we chat Her Most Imperial Soverign Majesty, the Bronze Bombshell, Feline Femme Fatale, the Goddess of Gotham, the Kitten of Couture, the Purrrfection of the Fountain, and that’s just one of her titles, about how drag gave her a path to expressing her womanhood and the similarities of her life to the movie Sister Act.
Plus-
➤ How Alexandra’s love for Disney villains endears her to the children she works with.
➤ Listen to Alexandra’s amazing ability to vocally transform herself into the legendary divas of all time: Eartha Kitt, Patti Labelle, Tina Turner, Diana Ross and maybe even you.

Drag Queen Peaches Christ on Wild Women in Film Apr 12, 2021

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A lot of us who love drag, love it because because it channels the spirit of those wild, outrageous women who embrace their rebellious side and point their middle finger at what the world wants them to be.
Today. Peaches Christ, San Francisco’s drag impressario and cult film fanatic joins us to take a look at movies with wild women who don’t give a fuck. Listen as we look at sexploitation and hagsploitation in films like All About Eve and Showgirls, Valley of the Dolls and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and Female Trouble and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
Plus-
➤ Riding in the passenger seat with Faster Pussycat Kill Kill’s Tura Satana at the wheel?
➤ Can anything taboo anymore?
➤ Forced feminization- is it tired movie trope or a legit sexual fetish?

FOF #2949 - Making Out with Strangers Apr 08, 2021

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While there are a lot of similarities between the AIDS crisis of the late 80s and today’s Covid pandemic, one thing that’s been hard for a lot of people is not being able to meet up for a little hanky panky, not even get a little kiss.
Well, pucker up lovers, cause that’s all about to change.
Health experts are saying that at this point in the pandemic, a kiss is once again just a kiss, and like ACT-UP said in the 80s, greed and indifference are the real killers.
Today we’re taking a look at new health guidelines that are saying if you’ve had your covid shots, it’s probably ok to kiss and hook up with strangers.
LINK: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/well/live/covid-fully-vaccinated-guidelines.html
Plus--
➤ It turns out the famous Marshmallow Test given to children was just a bunch of fluff!
➤ Bill Murray says he was tricked into doing Ghostbusters II when promoting the new movie Ghostbusters: Afterlife and the script to the movie was completely changed once filming began.
➤ Pose Announces its third and final season airs on May 2.
➤ A child finds a bullet in a bag of hot Cheetos.
➤ Dragula is casting for their 4th season with the same cash prize as RuPaul’s Drag Race: $100,000.
➤ Larry LaFountain' new book is out! - Translocas- The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance Save 30% with promotion code UMS21.
https://www.press.umich.edu/11314788/translocas
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FOF #2948 - Loving: A Collection of Photos of Men in Love Transcends Time Apr 07, 2021

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“Love is love” became the rally cry of the modern LGBTQ+ movement, declaring that love is universal among all people. But in the past, the love that dared not speak its name found other ways to express itself in photography.
Photography allowed loving couples to document their relationship even if they had to hide the pictures away in drawers or books for fear of being discovered.
Thankfully, photograph collectors and real life married couple Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell have uncovered thousands of intimate photos of same sex couples, many of which are featured in their new book: Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850s-1950s.
Today Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell join us to take a look at these marvelous photographs from their book Loving and untangle the secret codes men had for expressing love and intimacy.
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