Feast Of Fun : Gay Talk Show

Love is hell! Valentine’s Day is almost upon us and while we are happily in love- it wasn’t always the case. We had to go on some really bad dates and kiss a lot of frogs before finally catching a prince.Today, comedian and former Korean talk show celebrity Vickie Eisenstein, joins us to talk about the weird dates she had while living in Korea. Vickie now performs in the acclaimed Improvised Jane Austen and she loves to bathe in pumpkin spice lattes and french fries on YouTube.Plus— Beyoncé goes full mother Mary pregnant gorgeousness at the Grammy’s.Beyoncé gets tipsy at the 2017 Grammys in her fierce and fabulous pregnant glory. Beyoncé gets tipsy at the 2017 Grammys in her fierce and fabulous pregnant glory. A newspaper in the Dominican Republic mistakes Alec Baldwin’s Trump for President Bannon’s Cheetoh snowflake. The world’s first transgender doll.

With Britney in the news again and the Netflix documentary "Framing Britney Spears" captivating audiences we thought we'd give an encore presentation of one of Britney's biggest fans, Chris Crocker, who went viral in 2007 for his "Leave Britney Alone" video. ___________Chris Crocker turned to the internet to escape the torment of being chased by gangs of boys at the mall.The internet helped him connect with the greater world around him when he couldn’t create a gay-straight alliance in his school and he left to be home schooled. To grow up a gay, eccentric and flamboyant teen has never been easy especially in a small conservative town in Tennessee.If it weren’t for the internet where would Chris Crocker be?Today Chris is one of the most watched and imitated video bloggers online. His iconic video of himself weeping and imploring the public to “Leave Britney Alone” made him a household name. Chris’ videos represent the dramatic change we’re seeing in how we create and consume media. Chris’ videos are just as

A common criticism of self help gurus like Oprah Winfrey and The Secret’s Rhonda Byrne is that their advice typically not only overlooks systemic inequality, it justifies it by laying blame on the person suffering. If you didn’t have those gloomy thoughts, you’d be sleeping on a bed of diamonds!But studies show that the best thing people can do to make their dreams come true is to fall in love with doing things, anything, like the ultimate self help guru Dr. Frank N Furter says: “don't dream it, be it.”Today writer Britt East, author of A Gay Man’s Guide to Life, joins us to look at how LGBTQ people can improve their lives by setting intentions but also by letting it go.Listen as we chat with Britt about;➤ All those sexy men on your Instagram feed may be keeping you from getting in shape.➤ Why you probably shouldn't tell your friends about your goals.➤ How violence can happen when you run out of ideas.FEATURED BOOK:Britt East - A Gay Man’s Guide to Life: https://amzn.to/2Z5rR6I

In the late 1970s radio stations were in revolt, declaring Disco music dead, culminating in the notorious Disco Demolition night at Comiskey Park, a promotional event that backfired into a full-on riot.“Disco Sucks” became the battle cry against the decadence of the club scene, its association with gay culture and because the music genre was overexposed- people got sick of the disco beat in bubble gum ads and celebrity vanity records- even the gay robots from Star Wars had a Disco Album.Out of the ashes of Disco’s demise, DJs in Chicago developed a new sound for a new generation which became known as House Music. This style became a hit in clubs catering to black, latino and gay folks, and is now what most electronic music is based on.Today we’re talking to one of the pioneering DJs of House Music, Ralphi Rosario. Recently, the City of Chicago named a street after his DJ group “The Hot Mix Five” for their contribution to the international House Music scene.Join us as Ralphi Rosario gives us some amazing stori

It’s the 16th anniversary of Feast of Fun- one of the first shows to kick off the podcast revolution.But honey, just because you’re revolting, does not make it a revolution!What started out as an experiment to capture some of the magic of our live musical variety shows where drag queens and kings, musicians, performance artists and comedians came together to let their freak flags fly freely went on to become one of the the longest running podcasts in “theirstory.”Our first podcast episode featured our live show’s musical director Taylor E Ross, who joined us on February 8, 2005 to take a look at how Janet Jackson’s costume malfunction at the Super Bowl Halftime show inspired people to take to the internet and create podcasts and other kinds of media that would be free from conservative oversight at the FCC.Taylor E Ross has dedicated most of his music career to working with some of Chicago’s top drag talent- from Joan Jett Blakk’s campaign to Lick Bush in ‘92 where she ran for the Presidency of the US, to Dav

The early 90s was an exciting but difficult time to be a queer person in the United States. The AIDS crisis was still claiming so many lives and after 8 years of President Regan not even mentioning the word AIDS and 4 years of President Bush’s inaction, LGBTQ folks felt invisible, and our visibility was a matter of life and death.In the spirit of making a political statement, and shocking the squares, Joan Jett Blakk, backed by Queer Nation, launched her bid to become President of United States with the catchy slogan “Lick Bush in ’92.”This bold political performance art would had been just a delightful footnote in the history of queer activism until this year when Broadway director Tina Landau and Moonlight Oscar winner Tarell Alvin McCraney presented their new play, “Ms Blakk for President,” now playing at the Steppenwolf Theater.Today Terence Alan Smith, the artist behind the drag personage of Joan Jett Blakk joins us to talk about that amazing time when a black drag queen ran for President of the United S

Some names are just begging to be adopted by drag queens, kings and other colorful shape shifters: Robin Banks, Poo Ping, Ima Hogg, Peter Gozinya or Izzy Hung.So what happens when two drag queens in the same city come up with the same name at the same time? Who gets to keep the exclusive rights to the name?Today San Francisco drag queen Nicki J!zz, that’s Jazz with I, joins us to tell us how a queen came for her drag name while performing in one of Peaches Christ’s shows and how black drag queens and their allies are organizing to put pressure on gay bars to fight racism and undo years of harmful people and policies.NICKI J!ZZ: https://www.instagram.com/nicki_jizz/Plus--➤ Is Lady Gaga trying to kill us all?➤ Trans television and film pioneer Jen Richards gets cast as a detective in the new CBS series Clarice, based on Silence of the Lambs.THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS: ➤ Uniform Teethhttps://www.uniformteeth.comBook your free consultation, get $150 off with code FEAST150➤ SpanxSpanx is offering Feast of Fun listene

What they didn’t tell us in grade school about George Washington Carver is that he came across as unapologetically queer-Carver spoke to the flowers every morning, he shared a bed with his male lover and he rubbed out the sore muscles of college athletes with his therapeutic hot peanut oil massage.Today comedian Matt Brown joins us to look at the scientist and mystic, George Washington Carver- his pen pal friendships with married women, his romance with Tuskegee scientist Austin Curtis Jr and working as a nutritional advisor to Gandhi.Plus-➤ BLM, Stacy Abrams and Jared Kushner all get nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.➤ A team of social media influencers get arrested for turning the Hollywood sign into Hollyboob to raise awareness for breast cancer and themselves.➤ Dolly Parton turned down the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Trump twice.

For many folks Valentine’s Day is a special time to celebrate the ones they love, but the origins of this romantic holiday are anything but a box of chocolates.While it may seem like just another cash grab by candy manufacturers, Valentine’s Day began in Greco-Roman times as a sadomasochistic fertility ritual and nowadays it is responsible for a lot of horrific clickbait relationship advice articles on the Internet.Today Brian Sweeney joins us to take a look at the dark and gruesome origins of Valentine’s Day and all the outrageous romantic advice blogs post to coincide with the holiday.{Best of Feast of Fun, originally posted as FOF #2706 - The Horrific Origins of Valentine's Day - 02.14.19}

When life knocks you down, it’s hard to get back up, especially when you live in an oppressive place, your family rejects you for being gay and you’ve broken both your legs.For real estate entrepreneur Harma Hartouni, things weren’t always in the pink. Although he was born in the US, Harma was taken to live in Iran at a young age, and as a ethnic Armenian and a gay kid he felt he was at odds with the world around him.Thankfully after serving in the Iranian military, Harma got back to LA and started to feel his oats, or in his case feeling his tabbouleh.HARMA HARTOUNI: https://www.harmahartouni.comToday, Harma Hartouni joins us to talk about his new memoir, Getting Back Up: A Story of Resilience, Self-Acceptance and Success, which details his life growing up as a gay Armenian in Iran, moving back to LA to come out as gay and marrying his Disney Prince.Listen as Harma regales us about his adventures in being gay in LA and his early hilarious and endearing misunderstandings of gay culture.FEATURED BOOK:

With both Valentine’s Day and Groundhog Day, February has to be the sexiest month of the year, but also the most frustrating, after all, with the Covid pandemic raging, how are we going to get Cupid’s arrow to strike us in our little burrows as we self-isolate?Before Covid, many LBGTQ folks enjoyed a decade of fun thanks to PrEP, the daily pill regimen that effectively blocks HIV infections. But now the anxiety over HIV is being replaced by anxiety over Covid.It’s like we are all PrEPped up with nowhere to blow!Today healthcare advocate Michael Chancely, who recently took over running the PrEP Facts: Rethinking HIV Prevention and Sex group on Facebook, joins us to take a look at Valentine’s Day in the age of PrEP and Covid.Listen as we chat with Michael about the challenges we face confronting shame, how much sex is too much and how to get everyone onboard with the Covid vaccine.Plus --➤ Get those cookies Gaga, we take a look at Lady Gaga’s pink and green Oreo cookies.➤ Getting plowed in the snow.➤ Doja Cat’s

As the Covid pandemic enters its second year, we’re reminded about how vital our relationships with each other are and how much we miss human physical contact.Reach out and touch somebody's hand, but don’t breathe on them if you can!Today comedian Rachel Hall, host of the Hood Novel Book Club podcast joins us to take a look at the struggle people are going through not having hugs during the Covid Pandemic, and all the new TV shows folks are watching, including the Netflix series Bridgerton and what to make of the just announced Harry Potter series.RACHEL HALL: https://www.facebook.com/LikeRachelHallisFunnyUpdate: Fixed audio syncing issues. Plus--➤ Is Jane Krakowski biting the MyPillow?➤ Remembering talk radio legend Larry King and the art of the interview.➤ Lourdes Leon is reading folks to filth!➤ Feast of Fun celebrates our 17th season of podcasting with a new experimental episode: Feast of Fun Live!FOLLOW US ON STEREO: https://stereo.com/feastoffun

Patti Jenkins’ highly anticipated sequel to Wonder Woman promised that WW84 would be a tribute to the campy 1970s TV series, but instead we got a movie like the year 2020, full of confusion, chaos and general contempt for humanity.Wonder Woman 84 catches up with Princess Di 70 years after her boyfriend Steve sacrificed himself. She’s now working at the Smithsonian with Geologist, Gemologist, Lithologist and Part time Crypto-zoologist single white female Barbra Miverva who discovers a magic brown crystal that grants your heart’s desires.Wonder Woman smokes that crystal to wish her dead lover Steve Trevor back to life and Barbra wishes for the ability to walk around in purrrfect high heel shoes.And there's a Donald Trump/Tony Robbins villain who wishes to dominate the world.In press interviews, Patti Jenkins says she was paid 7 times less than other directors for the same type of move and that the film suffered because she wasn’t given enough time to make it.Today comedian and curmudgeon Brian Sweeney joins us

With so many talented people losing their jobs this past year, it’s hard not to think about the song “Music and the Mirror” from the musical “A Chorus Line” where Cassie begs to be given just a chance to work. All I ever needed is the music, and the mirror, and the chance to dance for you.The pioneering musical was created in New York City in the early 70s during an economic downturn when a lot of actors and dancers were out of work. When the performers showed up, many of them didn’t know that it would be a workshop where they’d be asked to bare their souls and turn their personal stories into what would become A Chorus Line.JOHN MARSHALL JR: https://www.facebook.com/john.marshall.9828Today actor, singer, dancer, model John Marshall Jr. joins us to take a look at the songs from A Chorus Line through his own experience in being in the legendary show and his career as a musical theater performer.Are the dancers really expected to learn all those moves in seconds? Is everyone beautiful at the ballet? What happen

People usually think that folks who are obsessed with the income of the guys they date are tacky, dismissing them as gold-diggers.But one of the most common reasons couples break up is because of financial hardship.Mo’ money brings mo’ problems, but being broke ain't one of them.Joining us today, is the Human Ken Doll-- Justin Jedlica, who despite his humble origins, personally financed all his plastic surgery and recently married a very wealthy man.Also joining us Jeremy Forse, who as J Citi-Fresh works as a male entertainer extraordinaire and model in Pittsburgh.{Best of Feast of Fun, originally posted as FOF #1926 - How to Marry a Rich Man - 01.29.14}

Flower power! Although they never identified as gay or straight, pioneering scientists Alexander Von Humbolt and George Washington Carver both wrote about their love of flowers and men. Also in the image collage is an awesome photo of anthropologist Margaret Mead with a parrot.It’s no secret that LGBT folks have had a profound influence on the arts but they’ve also had a tremendous effect on scientific discovery even though they often had to hide who they were.Today, we are joined by science journalist Vincent Gabrielle to explore the lives of extraordinary LGBT scientists who changed the world.It's a whole new generation! Science historian and lover of trees Vince Gabrielle directs pedestrians during an Americorps environmental restoration project. Photo: Tiffany Wong{Best of Feast of Fun, originally posted as FOF #2390 - Queer Science - 09.13.16}Listen as we take a look at: • Why so many places are named after explorer Alexander Von Humboldt. • George Washington Carver’s flower power. • How Leonardo Da Vinc

Comedian Pam Ann’s demented flight attendant persona harkens back to the groovy days of the airline industry when flight attendants wore sexy outfits and served up lavish meals to well dressed passengers.Since the pandemic, things have been tough for an entertainer like Pam Ann who gets a lot of energy from interacting with the live audiences who serve as her passengers on her wild plane ride.It’s hard to keep our favorite twisted flight attendant down, so Pam Ann is back performing her one stewardess show PAMDEMIC in Florida at Hunters NightClub, but instead of the normal 200 seat audience, each show is limited to just 56 people all wearing masks.Today Pam Ann, our sister of the friendly skies, joins us to take a look at how flying has changed during the pandemic, and the delicious irony of Republican seditionists who stormed the Capitol being put on the No Fly Lists.All the sex workers in Miami Beach are very glamorous and come with their own entourage.Plus--➤ Pam Ann’s early years in Australia performing w

It was the night the lights almost went out in Georgia, and the whole country for that matter, when on January 5, voters cast their ballots for who would control the Senate. Thankfully, the good people of Georgia broke with tradition and voted Democratic thereby rescuing us from certain facism.The next day, however, following the urging of President Trump, thousands of Republican with the help of local police, Republican congressmen and the FBI, stormed the Capitol building with one goal: to overthrow the Federal government.The whole reason why we’re not telling a different story now is because of Stacy Abrahms and thousands of people who volunteered to get Georgia to vote.Today therapist and relationship expert Damon L Jacobs joins us to talk about his adventures in getting folks to vote in the Georgia Senate runoff election that helped bring the country back from the brink of facism.DAMON L JACOBS: http://damonljacobs.comPlus--➤ Oscar the Grouch and Fran Leibowitz, why it’s so important to love the curmudge

Today we salute one of the leaders of the Civil Rights movement, a fabulous gay black man named Bayard Rustin- the chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.Sadly, Rustin is largely ignored in the history of equality in this country because of his sexuality, so today we also remember the importance of his influence on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his desire for non-violent protest.{Best of Feast of Fun, Originally posted as FOF #1313 - Thank You Bayard Rustin - 01.18.11}

We were all hoping that 2021 wouldn’t be as terribly twisted as 2020, but in the first week of the new year we got rumors that Kanye West is dating Jeffree Star, Azealia Banks boils her cat, Armie Hammer is into cannibalism, the Gays over Covid scandal, Trump’s second impeachment and Republicans invade the Capitol building to overthrow Democracy.Did you just say Armie Hammer is into cannibalism? And you thought the intimate scene with a peach in “Call Me By Your Name” was too outrageous.Today we’re back with a vengeance to take a look at the truly twisted, outrageous news that happened over the winter break.Plus➤ Wonder Woman’s WTF1984.➤ America falls in love all over again with lesbian curmudgeon Fran Leibowitz.➤ Sex and the City gets a reboot minus Kim Katrall.➤ Happy Birthday to the last surviving Golden Girl Betty White turns 99.➤ Farewell to Joanne Rogers, the wife of Mister Roger joined her husband in the land of make believe she was 92.THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS: ➤ Uniform Teethhttps://www.uniformteeth.com