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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 #2889 – The Mandela Effect: Did Madonna Ever Meet Elvis? Aug 18, 2020

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It’s Madonna’s birthday and it’s also the anniversary of the day Elvis Presley died. But does their connection go deeper than that?
Making the rounds again on the internet is an old archive image of a young woman bearing an uncanny resemblance to the queen of pop, trying to get close to Elvis, the King of Rock and Roll.
The black and white photo taken in 1970 in front of the Olympia Theater is hotly contested as to whether the young woman is or isn’t Madonna. Madame X isn’t speaking about it and perhaps she’s enjoying the mystery of it all and the wild speculation that the photo might be an artifact from a parallel universe.
Today we take a look at the mysterious photo of a young woman trying to meet Elvis. Is this an example of the Mandela effect: the phenomena where large groups of people can recall something that did not happen or remember it very differently from the way it actually occurred.
Plus–
➤ Dolly Parton says Black Lives Matter, you sexist egotistical lying hypocritical bigot.
➤ A woman named Faerie Argyle Rainbow says she’s the designer of the Rainbow Flag.
➤ Soap opera hunk Wesley Eure, best known as Will from the tv show Land of the Lost had a love affair with actor Richard Chamberlain.
➤ TS Fausto fizzled out
➤ Happy Birthday to everyone’s favorite pig in a wig, Lady Bunny!

James St. James' Freak Show: When High School is a Drag Aug 17, 2020

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James St. James next to photos of his club kid days in NYC. Photos courtesy of James St. James.
Youth gay culture is exploding online and in high schools everywhere. Just take a look at our community forums here at Feast of Fools. Youth gay culture, GLBT teens, or whatever words you want to use to use to describe it: teenagers all over the United States are speaking up, talking about their sexual identity with the support of their parents and schools.
You've come a long way, gay baby! Just PLEASE wait until you're old enough to understand the ramifications of your actions before you do "it," and when you do, please PLEASE use a condom.
{Originally posted as FOF #527 - High School is Such a Drag - 05.04.07}
Freak Show is now a movie on Amazon Prime!
Gay culture folks like us or writer James St. James are thrilled to welcome these fresh faces into the fold and share our stories, experiences and ideas. Today we're delighted to bring legendary NYC nightclub performer (or club-kid) James St. James on the show to talk about his new book "Freak Show," a semi-fictional story about the struggles and triumphs of a fabulous gay teenager living in a conservative Southern town in Florida. I say semi-fictional because in many ways the story is loosely based on his own life experiences growing up gay.
"Freak Show" attempts to create a healthier atmosphere as he tells the story of Billy Bloom and his struggles to fit in at his High School and how he tries to get the class hunk. It may sound like a departure from his better known autobiographical novel "Disco Bloodbath" (later re-named "Party Monster") where he tells the dark and grim story on how NYC nightclub promoter/club-kid Michael Alig killed his drug dealer Angel Melendez.
We're making a special announcement today. The word "reinventing" needs to be dis-invented. We're tired of seeing everyone everywhere "re-invent themselves" when they are really just putting on a new wig and going shopping at H&M. Save the word for when it means something, like "they just re-invented the combustion engine to run on hugs and kisses."
Join Marc Felion and me, Fausto Fernós as we talk to James St. James about his book and his celebrity gossip. Did he really sleep with Macauly Culkin? Listen to today's show and find out.
The podcast you want to take to the prom: Feast of Fools.
Featured Book:
Freak Show by James St. James: Amazon
Featured Music:
Reuben Butchart - Golden Boy: iTunes | CD Baby | Amazon

Miz Cracker Cuts the Cheese Aug 17, 2020

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It’s been a huge year for drag queens and their fans, not just with RuPaul’s Drag Race’s move to a major cable channel, but also with the many web series and reality TV shows featuring drag artists- Dragula, Celebrity Big Brother, Trixie and Katya Show and of course Cooking with Drag Queens are all serving up piping hot drag goodness.
So why are people saying drag is not the shiny happy party it promised to be? As Morgan McMichael says “why you mad girl?”
{Originally posted as FOF #2577 – Miz Cracker and Cheese – 02.14.18}
Today, one of New York’s hottest drag queens, Miz Cracker, joins us to talk about the way drag queens have taken over media and what that means for the goils who grew up pounding the pavement in heels to perform at the local queer watering holes.
Plus--
➤ RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 3– who does she think will snatch the crown?
➤ The gayest openly gay Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon sends a love letter to his haters.
➤ The controversy over Kehinde Wiley’s verdant portrait of President Obama.

FOF #2888 – The Queens Battle for Miss Continental Aug 13, 2020

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In the world of female impersonation pageants there is no title more coveted than being crowned Miss Continental.
Founded in 1980, The Miss Continental Pageant attracts contestants from all around the world and even some of the most beloved Ru Girls had their eye on the crown first before they went on to Drag Race.
But with so many other pageants in the world, what is it that makes contestants so willing to sacrifice everything and return year after year in hopes of snatching the Miss Continental crown?
The new documentary film, The Queens, looks at the allure of the decades old Miss Continental contest and what it takes to win the one crown that rules them all.
GET THE QUEENS DOCUMENTARY:
https://www.thereporters.org
Today, The Queens’ filmmaker, Mark Saxenmayer, joins us to talk about how the documentary showcases the Continental Pageant system with a behind the scenes look at the run up to the competition and interviews with the legends who run the prestigious contest.
MARK SAXENMEYER:
https://www.facebook.com/marksaxenmeyer
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FOF #2887 - Kamala Harris Makes Herstory! Aug 12, 2020

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Callooh! Callay! Kamala Harris has been selected by Joe Biden as his running mate for the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Harris makes history as the first Black woman and the first Asian American woman to run as a vice presidential candidate on a major US party ticket.
Although she wasn’t most progressives' first choice as VP, Harris strikes a delicate balance between the desire for representation and candidates who will aggressively pursue reform while calming down the more conservaitve factions of the party.
Today comedian Lindsay Shaw joins us to take a look at the announcement of Kamala Harrris as Vice President and how Republicans are already sharpening their knives.
LINDSAY SHAW: https://www.instagram.com/linsasha/
Plus--
➤ RuPaul is back in the tabloids as folks scrutinize why the host of Drag Race unexpectedly deleted her social media accounts.
➤ Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion have a new hit song WAP about the power of the wet vajayjay.
➤ Madonna’s masterpiece performance of Vogue at the 1990s MTV Video Music Awards gets a high definition upgrade courtesy of artificial intelligence powered software.

Naysha Lopez Wins Our Hearts Aug 11, 2020

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One of the hardest gigs on reality television is to be the first queen sent home on RuPaul’s Drag Race. For many drag queens, getting on the program is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to show an international audience what they got.
[Originally posted as FOF #2307 – Naysha Lopez Won Our Hearts – 03.16.16]
Unfortunately, for the gals who go home early, it’s tough because they invest so much into their costumes they never get to show on TV.
Today Naysha Lopez, the first gal to go home from Season 8 of RuPaul’s Drag Race joins us to talk about winning the prestigious Miss Continental 2013, and how it compares with being on Drag Race.
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Plus–
Is there any truth to the urban legend of pageant girls poisoning each other’s makeup?
The challenges of being Miss Continental.
Who is she rooting to win this season 8?

Pageant Queen Aurora Sexton Looks at the 1968 Documentary The Queen Aug 11, 2020

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One of the most influential LGBT documentaries of all time is The Queen, Frank Simon and Flawless Sabrina’s 1968 film that takes the viewer behind the scenes of a tumultuous drag pageant held in New York City two years before the Stonewall riots.
The landmark film, which has now been remastered and is available on Netflix, inspired the likes of Paris is Burning, Wigstock, Pose and RuPaul’s Drag Race.
[Originally posted as FOF #2824 – Pageant Queen Aurora Sexton Looks at the 1968 Documentary The Queen]
Today, Miss Gay U.S. of A pageant winner, Aurora Sexton, joins us to look at drag pageants over the decades and what it takes for a gal to make it big in the pageant circuit.
Aurora Sexton painted for the gods.
Aurora Sexton snatches the crown.
Aurora Sexton as Melania Trump in her solo show “Let Them Eat Cake!”
Plus–
➤ RuPaul brings queer and drag culture to Saturday Night Live and gives Pete Davison a drag makeover.
➤ Aurora’s “LET THEM EAT CAKE! Diary Of A First Lady” A one woman show about the excitement, stress and drama of being FLOTUS!
➤ What was Alyssa Edwards like in her early days in the pageant system?

FOF #2886 - Podcast Pizza Party Aug 06, 2020

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With the weekend coming up, we thought today we’d kick back, put a pizza in the oven and take a look at the goodies from the week and all the hot news--
➤ A medical miracle: doctors grow a dong on a man’s arm to replace it.
➤ Jennifer Hudson wows the internet with her powerful and dizzying musical tribute to the late Civil Rights Leader John Lewis.
➤ As if Ellen didn’t have enough troubles, the ratings to her TV show are plummeting.
➤ Lilly Wachowski says she likes that "The Matrix" is seen as a trans allegory.
➤ Good News- all Chicago Public Schools will go fully remote to start the fall 2020

Does My Voice Sound Gay? Aug 06, 2020

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How you talk and the way you sound matters, like, you know? A whole lot. Really!
Our speech patterns, accents and word choices make a strong first impression. It influences the way people think about somebody when they know absolutely nothing about them.
If you spend a lot of time around gay men, black women or drag queens, chances are you’ll greet them with a — hey girl!
Many young male actors coming to Hollywood, some of them gay, some of them not, secretly hire speech coaches to train their voices to sound more sexual orientation neutral, so they can pass better and take on leading man roles.
[Originally posted as FOF #1550 – This is the Voice I Want to Use – 03.26.12]My
It’s very common for business people from other countries take speech classes to help them communicate more clearly.
The way we talk has a lot to do with not just where we come from, but who we surround ourselves with. Are you a fraud then if you change the way you speak?
Today we’re joined by speech pathologist and video blogger Jennifer Tarle to take a closer look at the way we talk, and what we can do to speak more clearly to connect better with others.
JENNIFER TARLE: http://tarlespeech.com/
➤ Why does everyone today sound like, you know, um, Valley Girls from the late 80s?
➤ The biologial and social origins of the way gay men talk.
➤ Transgender vocal warm ups.
➤ The strange Pittsburgh Accent.
➤ Mike Tyson’s butch lisp.
➤ All those quirky ways Fausto pronounces words as a bilingual speaker from his native Puerto Rico.
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FOF #2885 - Ellen, Madonna and RuPaul in Crisis Aug 05, 2020

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Celebrities have always been welcome in our homes for their ability to entertain and help us escape the troubles of the world.
But during the Covid pandemic, there’s a reckoning, and many celebrities that we adored before all hell broke loose are now facing their own crisis over their inability to relate to people and at worse, spreading misinformation that can cost people’s lives.
Today we’re taking a look at Ellen, Madonna and RuPaul: three beloved gay icons in crisis.
From Ellen saying she’s going to quit her show if people don’t quit saying she’s secretly a meanie, to RuPaul’s mysterious disappearance from social media and even Madonna spreading a quack doctor’s claim that there’s a Covid cure being kept from the public and that demon sperm is out to get you!
Plus--
➤ The dubious health claims presented whack as fact in Zach Effron’s new Netflix Daddy/Son travel romp “Down to Earth.”
➤ Solving the mysterious case of the haunted mirror.
➤ Lifetime channel movies go gay and Asian, what’s next, fats and femmes? We certainly hope so!

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