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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 #2896 - Peaches Christ and the Witches of East Bay Sep 23, 2020

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When you're a drag queen, you’re timeless, well at least until your wig starts to break down and your makeup starts to crack at the end of the night. But time comes for us all, even the most legendary drag queens, and that doesn't always have to be a scary thing.
When you get older, you’re hopefully able to see things in a bigger perspective and conjure up a little magic to make things exciting.
One of our favorite movies is The Witches of Eastwick, which pits three icons: Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfieffer against the devil himself as they turn to witchcraft to manage their mid-life crisis.
PEACHES CHRIST: www.peacheschrist.com
Today, San Francisco drag empresario Peaches Christ chats with us about opening up her vault of drag parodies for an internet viewing party of her show “The Witches of East Bay” where Peaches Christ, Coco Peru and Chad Michaels take a look at what happens when three drag legends get older in a world dominated by pesky young drag queens.
Don’t miss the viewing party on Oct 1 at at 6PM Pacific.
https://peacheschrist.live/
Plus,
➤ Why do JK Rowling and other high profile queer celebrities come out aganist trans inclusion?
➤ 80’s Gay icons that became TV commercial spokespersons.
➤ A look at the amazing life of drag queen Peggy L’Eggs.

FOF #2895 - What Pee Wee Herman's Crack PSA Taught Us About Covid Sep 22, 2020

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And now a public service announcement for public service announcements. Since World War II, the US government has been harnessing the power of the media to raise awareness about certain topics and to shape people’s behavior.
Although some PSA’s are wildly ridiculous like trying to get people to eat healthy or to avoid using drugs, the reason these campaigns persist is because to some extent they are successful. So where are all the public service announcements for COVID?
Today, Summer Nettles, TV news producer and former communications specialist for the City of Denver, Colorado, joins us to look at some of our favorite public service health TV ads, and why Republicans aren’t using what we’ve learned in the past 75 years of ads.
Plus,
➤ When Pee Wee Herman told kids not to use crack.
➤ Don’t play inside of refrigerators.
➤ Time for Timer-- did you try to make popsicles out of toothpicks and ice cube trays filled with juice?

FOF #2894 - Lovecraft Country, Trashy Novels and Morality Tales from the Hood Sep 17, 2020

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Sometimes the urge to write is so strong that you can’t wait for a publisher to show the world the masterpiece in your mind.
Thankfully in the digital age it’s easy to self publish but who exactly is going to read a book titled “This Hoe Got Roaches Up in Her Crib?”
In the new podcast “The Hood Novel Book Club” comedian Rachel Hall looks at wonderfully weird books about the modern black experience that were written by self published authors with hilarious results.
Today, Rachel Hall joins us to take a look at trashy books, morality tales and science fiction from the perspective of great and not so great black authors.
RACHEL HALL'S PODCAST: https://apple.co/3kqN1Fb
Plus--
➤ HBOMAX’s Lovecraft Country has us jumping out of our skin.
➤ Captain America, Chris Evans, who has the world’s attention with his “accidentally” leaked dick pic, wants you to do one thing: vote.
➤ Kanye West releases his own pee tape where he wizzes on his Grammy Award.
➤ Lil’ Nas X is putting out a children’s book all about the C word.
➤ Madonna is going to co write and direct her own biopic.

The Wigs Behind Hedwig and the Angry Inch Sep 16, 2020

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Neil Patrick Harris won a Tony Award for starring in Hedwig and the Angry Inch on Broadway, but we all know the real star is the spectacular wig design of Mike Potter.
The task of styling these magnificent wigs for the show goes to legendary NY drag queen Perfidia, or as Facebook likes to call her, Steven Perfidia Kirkham, who you may know from the documentary Wigstock or the YouTube video we did with her titled “How to Style a Big Wig for Drag Queens in the Style of Lady Bunny” which is a hit with queens both new and old.
Listen as Perfidia gives us a behind the scenes tour of what it’s like styling wigs for Hedwig, working with Neil Patrick Harris, Book of Mormon’s Andrew Rannells and Dexter’s Michael C. Hall. Did she ever solve Broadway’s biggest mystery- the case of the stolen Hedwig wig.
Hedwigs through time. John Cameron Mitchell, Ally Sheedy, Jinkx Monsoon, Neil Patrick Harris, Andrew Rannells, Michael C Hall. Photos courtesy of Hedwig on Broadway.

FOF #2893 - Howard Ashman: the Amazing Man Who Gave a Mermaid a Voice and a Beast a Soul Sep 14, 2020

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It’s hard to imagine Disney without it’s iconic animated musicals, but in the 80s after several box office bombs, Disney considered never making animated musicals again.
Thankfully, after playwright and lyricist Howard Ashman’s breakthrough success with his oddball musical comedy Little Shop of Horrors, Disney asked Ashman to work with them and The Little Mermaid, a film that became so successful that it kicked off what’s now known as the Disney Renaissance.
In the new Disney+ documentary, “Howard,” we get a rare look at the amazing work and career of Howard Ashman, whose life was tragically cut short when he died from AIDS in 1991, midway through the production of Beauty and the Beast and Aladddin. Howard never saw either of these films finished and his surviving partner collected his Oscar for Best Original Song “Beauty and the Beast.”.
Today musical theater enthusiast Jake Bellisimo from the YouTube channel Dreamsounds joins us to take a look at the amazing musical legacy of Howard Ashman, queer coding in Disney films and Beauty and the Beast as an allegory for society’s betrayal of people with AIDS.
JAKE BELLISSIMO: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3WiDtXCBED-X4pBLPEk79w

FOF #2892 - The Golden Girls Gets An All Black Cast Sep 09, 2020

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Knock Knock! Who’s there? Phyllis. Phyillis who? Phyillis your Census form!
Have you signed up for the 2020 Census? If you didn't, the Golden Girls reboot has a message for you- fill out the census and get counted for the government services your community deserves.
In a Zoom Where it Happens virtual watch party, with openly queer Hollywood writer Lena Waithe as the host and narrator, legendary ladies of black theater performed a book reading of a classic Golden Girls episode centered around everyone being sick and going out anyway. How timely.
Today, comedian Matt Brown joins us to take a look at the recast of Golden Girls with an all black cast starring Alfree Woodard, Tracee Ellis Ross and Regina King. Who would you cast in a dream team of all time legendary black women?
MATT BROWN: http://mattbrowncomic.com
Plus--
➤ Mariah Carey lives up to all the wild rumors in her upcoming memoir.
➤ A professor fesses us to pretending to be Black and Latinx.
➤ The Kardashians call it kwits.
➤ Paris Hilton comes out as a victim of the Troubled Teen torture camp industry.

The Very Special World of DeAundra Peek Sep 07, 2020

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I think I know what love is, it's DeAundra Peek! Yaaaaaaay.
Before YouTube and the Internet, people used to record their favorite cable access shows onto VHS cassette tapes in order to pass them along to their friends in other cities. One show that thrived outside of its home market of Atlanta, GA was “DeAundra Peek’s Teenage Music Club” where a very special drag queen, DeAundra Peek, would enthusiastically cook Vienna sausages and sing along to karaoke versions of pop hits.
DEAUNDRA PEEK'S VIDEOS: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL62A6D23BAA3B9ADD
A contemporary of RuPaul and Lady Bunny, DeAundra continued her cable access show for years and although she was loved by so many, DeAundra mysteriously disappeared, never to be heard from again, until now.
Today, we're talking to Rosser Shymanski, the person behind the fabulous DeAundra Peek about her early days in drag, her friendships with all these glorious drag queens and why after all these years she might be ready for a comeback.

After the Show: DeAundra Peek Spills the Tea Sep 06, 2020

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RuPaul and DeAundra Peek back in the mid 80s in Atlanta Georgia. Photo: Rosser Shymanski
After our podcast with DeAundra Peek, remained on the line to continue talking about how she got her start on the Atlanta based cable access program “The American Music Show,” which also featured a very young RuPaul.
Listen as we chat at about the incredible drag scene of Atlanta in the 80s that gave birth to such legends as RuPaul and Lady Bunny, and lots of juicy behind the scenes tea.
{Originally posted as FOF #2386 - DeAundra Peek Spills the Tea - 09.07.16}

FOF #2891 - The Man Who Signed Metallica, Beat AIDS and Took a Bubble Bath with Nina Simone Aug 26, 2020

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The club scene in New York City in the 80s was an incredible time for live music:
Punk, Pop, the second British Invasion, and Heavy Metal bands dominated a scene where people had plenty of free time and lots of great drugs to take it all in.
At the center of this incredible world was Michael Alago, a music superfan who became one of the biggest names in music, despite being a young queer Puerto Rican from Brooklyn.
Michael started out booking acts like Duran Duran, U2 and Tina Turner for her big comeback and then as the A&R guy for Electra Records signed Metallica and changed the world.
In his new autobiography “I am Michael Alago” Michael takes us on a fabulous journey from sneaking out of his parents house at the age 16 to becoming one of the top A&R reps in music. Michael's stories will have you hooked, from his role in shaping the music industry, to his personal struggles with drugs and alcohol, to fighting HIV and finding a second career as a photographer of hot muscular men.
MICHAEL ALAGO: https://www.instagram.com/michaelanthonyalago
Today Micahel Alago joins us to talk about his amazing book and amazing life, from signing some of the biggest names in music, to helping Nina Simone relaunch her career, to his relationship with Patti Smith and his wild nights sexing it up in New York City.
📘 Featured Book:
Michael Alago - I am Michael Alago
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1617137251/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1617137251&linkCode=as2&tag=faustofernos-20&linkId=e791ee017106ec96a808916adc668388

FOF #2890 - Chelsea Myers is Breaking Free from Hypnosis Aug 20, 2020

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Listen to the sound of my voice. You are getting very, very excited. We are in total control of the horizontal, the vertical, but especially the horizontal. We can make things boring, or fabulously exciting.
When people think of hypnotism, a lot of them conjure up the idea of a malevolent force like Dracula trying to get them to do their bidding.
But in reality people turn to hypnotism to live better lives, from quitting smoking to forced feminization: the art of transforming yourself into a beautiful creation of your dominatrix’s imagination.
It seems like hypnosis could unlock the limitless potential of the mind, but is it possible to go too far?
Today comedian Chelsea Myers joins us to look at all the wild things people turn to hypnotism for help. Besides being a fabulous queer comedian in Chicago, as a teenager Chelsea was hypnotized at a party and wasnt able to break the spell.
CHELSEA K MYERS: https://www.chelseakmyers.com
Plus--
➤ Cher wants to volunteer at the post office. Rain, sleet or snow won't hold Cher back!
➤ Chocolate snow falls to the ground after a malfunction at a chocolate factory.
➤ Non-binary, transgender Vikings.
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