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The flaming blue Fausto Fernos and his boyfriend Marc Felion chat with some of the most compelling and outrageous personalities about news, culture and gossip. This is NOT "Will and Grace" but a honest, humorous look at the world around us. If Seinfield w Primary Format : Comedy Language : English / Spanish Also Listed as: City : Chicago State/Province : IL Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Feast of Fools Podcasts Methings.com listings of Feast of Fools Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

FOF #1098 – Is It Too Late to Say “Yes We Can?” – 11.20.09 Jim Bennet of GayCo, the gay sketch comedy troupe that sprouted from Second City is back with “The Audacity of Nope." The skits touch on the feelings of many who worked in earnest to get Obama elected who now feel like they’ve been duped. Plus: Microsoft’s awkward attempt at a viral video, Sarah Palin Glenn Beck as a possible future running mate and our Holiday T-Shirt Contest! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1097 – The Drag Queen Who Stole Christmas – 11.19.09 Drag queen extraordinaire Madame X from "Snow White and the Drag Queen Who Stole X-mas," and the show's director Tony Lewis tallk about their campy holiday spectacle-- a delicious mash-up of holiday specials and music. News: Window Media, the nations’ largest publisher of GLBT newspapers suddenly shuts down over the weekend and a British truck driver calls his boss after being impaled by an 8ft pole. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1096 – Summer Nettles, Had Me a Blast – 11.18.09 We met Summer Nettles at a haunted house this past Halloween and fell in love. Summer works as a talk radio personality and producer on Chicago’s 1035 Kiss FM.She’s on today’s show talking about how she handles all the celebrity guests that come to her station and how she wooed the fabulous Wendy Williams to come in and tape an interview. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1095 – Behind Samwell’s What What In the Butt – 11.17.09 Today we’re talking to the one and only Samwell- in the flesh over the origins of his “What, What in the Butt” song, his future plans and his authenticity. On the advice of a co-worker, Sam Norman, took one of his funny catch phrases and turned it into an outrageous song. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1094 – The Mean, Little, Deaf and Queer Terry Galloway – 11.16.09 Deaf since the age of 10, Terry Galloway grew up to be one of the funniest performers of her generation. Her new memoir, “Mean Little deaf Queer” recounts some of her life’s most horrific and funny moments. Listen as we talk with Terry about laughing at your disabilities, why embracing failure in your work leads to success and why Hellen Keller is considered an S&M lesbian icon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1093 – Less Than Zero – 11.13.09 Voting begins today in the People’s Choice Podcast Awards! Feast of Fun is thrilled to be nominated for two prizes this year, Best GLBT podcast and the top category of People’s Choice. Please vote once every day until November 30. Victoria Lamarr joins us to wiegh in on the news: Carrie Prejean meltdown, Lou Dobbs quits CNN, Levi Johnston's chilly photoshoot, Susan Powter's crazy blog and Google to support full resolution high definition videos. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #877 – Q Boy Keeps it Fresh and Hot – 11.12.09 On today’s show we have two fabulous artists in the house, our Chicago based dirty gay rapper, Johhny Dangerous and UK rapper Q-Boy. Among only a few openly gay rappers in hip-hop, they are the leading faces in a new wave of music known as “homo hop”. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1092 – Bertha Mason Loves Pie – 11.11.09 At 6′5, 250 pounds, drag queen Bertha Mason towers over her audience in a live comedy cooking show where they help to bake, and then later eat, the tasty treats made on stage. Everybody gets a slice of Bertha’s delicious pie. In the news: Genetically engineered rabbit parts, soon to be extinct cuddly Koala Bears, Bhopal, India’s new tourist attraction, and video bloggers are taken to task for not talking about marriage equality. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1091 – Push or Pull? – 11.10.09 The disappointing November 2009 election left many gay rights activists struggling to make sense of the narrow margin that took away the right for same-sex couples to wed in Maine. Bloggers are asking for an embargo against the Democratic Party until careful attention is given to their long list of grievances. Hot topics: Michelle Williams at HRC, Broadway in Chicago's Young Frankenstein, and Nick Adams and Cristal Connors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1090 – Baby Jane Revisioned – 11.09.09 Today we’re talking to writer and director, Billy Clift about his debut film “Baby Jane?” - a loving parody of the classic and campy 1962 horror film. We're also joined by San Francisco drag queen Heklina who plays the nosy next door neighbor in the film. In the news: Carrie Prejean's mother sees her sex tape, female troubles, and a wife who is allergic to her husband's love juice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roseanne Barr Interviews Cher and Chaz One of my favorite web series is the “Cher and Chaz show” a comedy collaboration between Jackie Beat, Nadya Ginsburg, Selene Luna and the fabulous Roseanne Barr. As usual, they’re all brilliant. You might remember when... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1089 – Grammar Girl Dishes it Up – 11.06.09 Mignon Fogarty of the Grammar Girl podcast joins us to tlak baout her new book Mingnon’s come out with a brand new book “The Grammar Devotional: Daily Tips for Successful Writing” now available on our site. Listen as the Grammar Girl talks about the controversial topic of sex and gender in grammar, homophones and homonyms, pigeon english and lolcats, and the possible influence twitter has on the way we write. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1088 – Just in Time for the Holidays – 11.05.09 Comedian Cameron Esposito joins us to take a last look at our outrageous Halloween Costumes as the Wild Things and go over her hyper-lesbian Battlestar Galatica costume complete with fake tattoos. Cameron is recording her first comedy album on December 3rd and 4th. In the news- Maine Says No to Marriage Equality but yes to pot, a woman calls police to complain that her daughter is better at performing oral sex according to her husband, high tech help for modern day Santas and Google gets su ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1087 – Why Some Religions Hate on the Gays – 11.04.09 When filmmaker Ky Dickens came out to her friends in college, they responded by asked her to go into reperative therapy, quoting the Bible back at her, saying the devil had her heart. Ouch!Ky wrote a powerful letter to her close friend Katie debunking the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality, and got a moving apology from her friend. The letter inspired her to make the documentary film "Fish Out of Water." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1086 – Mae West and Sex – 11.03.09 Two the actors from a locval production of Mae West's play, Sex Jes Bedwineck and her love interest in the play, Sex by Mae West, actor Sean Patrick Ward, In the news: Chicago Cubs lesbian connection, USS New York uilt for salaveged steel of the Twin Towers and gay rights up for a vote in Maine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1085 - Chicago’s Halloween Secret - 10.30.09 Curtis Jensen joins us to talk about the Halloween Parade in Chicago. In the news: Levi Johnston disses the Palins, a man claims to be too fat to kill, California eyes legalizing pot and a phone call from a listener. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1085 – Chicago’s Halloween Secret – 10.30.09 Curtis Jensen joins us to talk about the Halloween Parade in Chicago. In the news: Levi Johnston disses the Palins, a man claims to be too fat to kill, California eyes legalizing pot and a phone call from a listener. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1084 – Mark of the She-Wolf – 10.29.09 Marc and Fausto perform a comedy skit about a man who is bitten by a she wolf and becomes a tranny werewolf. In the news: Hate crime bill signed, "Masculine Health Day" in China, and an iPhone ap that drives a car. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1084 - Mark of the She-Wolf - 10.29.09 Marc and Fausto perform a comedy skit about a man who is bitten by a she wolf and becomes a tranny werewolf. In the news: Hate crime bill signed, "Masculine Health Day" in China, and an iPhone ap that drives a car. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1083 - Hocus Poke Us - 10.28.09 Shivian Balaris of www.potionwood.com talks about the roots of Halloween, the origins of jack-o-lanterns, why witches ride broomsticks and the reason cats are so closely associated with the occult. Shivian also casts a spell on the listening audience to bring them great fortune. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1083 – Hocus Poke Us – 10.28.09 Shivian Balaris of www.potionwood.com talks about the roots of Halloween, the origins of jack-o-lanterns, why witches ride broomsticks and the reason cats are so closely associated with the occult. Shivian also casts a spell on the listening audience to bring them great fortune. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1082 - Inside the NO H8 Campaign - 10.27.09 Fashion photographer Adam Bouska and his partner, Jeff Parshley, founded the “NO H8 Campaign” to promote the overturn of Proposition 8. The campaign shows photos of people dressed in white shirt against a white background with their mouths covered in duct tape in silent protest and the words NO H8 emblazoned across their cheek. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1082 – Inside the NO H8 Campaign – 10.27.09 Fashion photographer Adam Bouska and his partner, Jeff Parshley, founded the “NO H8 Campaign” to promote the overturn of Proposition 8. The campaign shows photos of people dressed in white shirt against a white background with their mouths covered in duct tape in silent protest and the words NO H8 emblazoned across their cheek. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1081 – Double Date with Luna and Ginsburg – 10.26.09 Interview with Nadya Ginsburg, the woman of a 1000 voices and Selene Luna, the little burlesque star and rock & roll queen! They just wrapped up their hilarious comedy show "Luna and Ginsburg" at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1081 - Double Date with Luna and Ginsburg - 10.26.09 Interview with Nadya Ginsburg, the woman of a 1000 voices and Selene Luna, the little burlesque star and rock & roll queen! They just wrapped up their hilarious comedy show "Luna and Ginsburg" at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1080 – Watch Out for Matt Riddlehoover – 10.23.09 Filmmaker and MySpace Matt Riddlehoover talks about his role in "Watch Out," a dark film about an irresistible narcissist who could only make love to himself. The film's campy narrative and graphic portrayals of self-love and violence has audiences divided. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1080 - Watch Out for Matt Riddlehoover - 10.23.09 Filmmaker and MySpace Matt Riddlehoover talks about his role in "Watch Out," a dark film about an irresistible narcissist who could only make love to himself. The film's campy narrative and graphic portrayals of self-love and violence has audiences divided. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1079 – I Believe in Love B. Scott – 10.22.09 YouTube celebrity B Scott gives us a behind the scenes look at how he comes up with his sassy videos and infectious catch phrases. On November 2, B Scott talks in depth with his favorite pop star, Mariah Carey- did the glitter goddess let B Scott touch her rhinestone covered microphone? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1079 - I Believe in Love B. Scott - 10.22.09 YouTube celebrity B Scott gives us a behind the scenes look at how he comes up with his sassy videos and infectious catch phrases. On November 2, B Scott talks in depth with his favorite pop star, Mariah Carey- did the glitter goddess let B Scott touch her rhinestone covered microphone? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1078 - Deven Green’s Basket of Muffins - 10.21.09 Deven Green, the queen of YouTube and her hunky husband actor Joel Bryant join us to kick off our series of interviews from Los Angeles with some of the biggest names in online entertainment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1078 – Deven Green’s Basket of Muffins – 10.21.09 Deven Green, the queen of YouTube and her hunky husband actor Joel Bryant join us to kick off our series of interviews from Los Angeles with some of the biggest names in online entertainment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1077 - Live from the Blogworld Expo - 10.20.09 Taped live at the Blogworld Expo, a discussion of how the internet is changing news, music and entertainment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1077 – Live from the Blogworld Expo – 10.20.09 Taped live at the Blogworld Expo, a discussion of how the internet is changing news, music and entertainment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1076 – The Legendary Gaye Adegbalola – 10.19.09 Blues musician Gaye Adegbalola plays in our studio her greatest hits. She's wrapping up her farewell tour with her band Saffire, talking about her work in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, what drives her passion in music and why fighting shame is so critical for gay liberation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1076 - The Legendary Gaye Adegbalola - 10.19.09 Blues musician Gaye Adegbalola plays in our studio her greatest hits. She's wrapping up her farewell tour with her band Saffire, talking about her work in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, what drives her passion in music and why fighting shame is so critical for gay liberation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1075 - Matt Alber Hides Nothing - 10.15.09 Live music session with Matt Alber playing songs from his new abum "Hide Nothing." Matt opens up and shares the touching story of how he came out to his parents and what he's looking for in a man. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1075 – Matt Alber Hides Nothing – 10.15.09 Live music session with Matt Alber playing songs from his new abum "Hide Nothing." Matt opens up and shares the touching story of how he came out to his parents and what he's looking for in a man. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1074 - Scooty and Jojo Do Halloween - 10.14.09 Scott Bradley and Jonny Stax of the Scooty & JoJo Show talk about restaing their hit show "Carpenters Halloween" and popular costumes coming up this year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1074 – Scooty and Jojo Do Halloween – 10.14.09 Scott Bradley and Jonny Stax of the Scooty & JoJo Show talk about restaing their hit show "Carpenters Halloween" and popular costumes coming up this year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Kiss Ain’t Just a Kiss [Sponsored Video] A kiss ain’t just a kiss, it’s a way to make a difference and win big! Take a video or photo of two or more guys kissing before October 31, 2009 and upload it to Big Gay Kiss. Get everyone to rate, share and comment on your entry and you could win $10,000. But, more importantly, Interactive [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Kiss Ain’t Just A Kiss [Sponsored Video] A kiss ain’t just a kiss, it’s a way to make a difference and win big! Take a video or photo of two or more guys kissing before October 31, 2009 and upload it to Big... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1073 - Equality Marches On - 10.13.09 Our live coverage of the 2009 National Equality March, where thousands of people marched on the nation's capital to demand full equal rights for all GLBT people. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1073 – Equality Marches On – 10.13.09 Our live coverage of the 2009 National Equality March, where thousands of people marched on the nation's capital to demand full equal rights for all GLBT people. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #853 – Horror Movies Every Gay Man Must See – 10.12.09 Look out behind you! Do not go in there! Watch out! You always see it coming, but somehow, the victim in many horror films is always ridiculously unaware that they are about to be bludgeoned... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #853 - Horror Movies Every Gay Man Must See - 10.12.09 Look out behind you! Do not go in there! Watch out! You always see it coming, but somehow, the victim in many horror films is always ridiculously unaware that they are about to be bludgeoned to death. Why is that? On today’s show we’ve got movie maven Peaches Christ talking with us about Horror Movies every [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1072 – Haunted House – 10.09.09 Join us on a sound-seeing tour of Cursed Chicago, a haunted house that will scare the bejeebers out of you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1072 - Haunted House - 10.09.09 Join us on a sound-seeing tour of Cursed Chicago, a haunted house that will scare the bejeebers out of you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1071 - Like a Blowtorch in a Tornado - 10.08.09 Two of our latino friends, visual artist and gay dad Erik R Sosa and comedian, actor and performance artist Esteban Andres Cruz join us to take an intense and inebriated look at parenting, gay rights and how conservatives are targeting openly gay men appointed by the Obama administration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1071 – Like a Blowtorch in a Tornado – 10.08.09 Two of our latino friends, visual artist and gay dad Erik R Sosa and comedian, actor and performance artist Esteban Andres Cruz join us to take an intense and inebriated look at parenting, gay rights and how conservatives are targeting openly gay men appointed by the Obama administration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1070 – Tamale is Bound and Determined – 10.07.09 Comedian and interdisciplinary artist Tamale Sepp talks about her unusual dissertation, "Bound and Determined" which examines the ways we willingly get ited up in order to liberate ourselves. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1070 - Tamale is Bound and Determined - 10.07.09 Comedian and interdisciplinary artist Tamale Sepp talks about her unusual dissertation, "Bound and Determined" which examines the ways we willingly get ited up in order to liberate ourselves. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1069 - Taste the Rainbow - 10.06.09 Tips on making the most of the National Equality March. Lady Gaga commits to marching alongside all her gay fans, Levi Johnston commits to showing his goods in Playgirl and Graham Norton gets into trouble for joking on lesbian haircuts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1069 – Taste the Rainbow – 10.06.09 Tips on making the most of the National Equality March. Lady Gaga commits to marching alongside all her gay fans, Levi Johnston commits to showing his goods in Playgirl and Graham Norton gets into trouble for joking on lesbian haircuts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1068 – Blame it on the Bossa Nova – 10.05.09 Chicagoans were stunned when the International Olympic Committee announced that Rio would host the 2016 Olympic games. And Kathy Griffin’s in Chicago- will she stand by her gays and ride naked on horseback like Lady Godiva at the rally? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1068 - Blame it on the Bossa Nova - 10.05.09 Chicagoans were stunned when the International Olympic Committee announced that Rio would host the 2016 Olympic games. And Kathy Griffin’s in Chicago- will she stand by her gays and ride naked on horseback like Lady Godiva at the rally? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1067 – Twilight of the Gigi – 10.01.09 Satanist soccer-mom Gigi Deluxe Gross shares with us her tips and tricks on harnessing the powers of darkness to make Halloween fabulous, fake blood recipies and how to make your eye look like it got bit off by a wild beast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1067 - Twilight of the Gigi - 10.01.09 Satanist soccer-mom Gigi Deluxe Gross shares with us her tips and tricks on harnessing the powers of darkness to make Halloween fabulous, fake blood recipies and how to make your eye look like it got bit off by a wild beast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1066 – William the Conqueror – 09.30.09 Bill Cruz, a William the Conqueror of comedy joins us to take an irreverent look at history and how the French invader help introduce a lot of cuss words into the English langugage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1066 - William the Conqueror - 09.30.09 Bill Cruz, a William the Conqueror of comedy joins us to take an irreverent look at history and how the French invader help introduce a lot of cuss words into the English langugage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #986 - What’s Your Mamma Gonna Do For Work Now? - 05.14.09 In response to the murder of an erotic masseuse who advertised on Craigslist, the classified ad site announced plans to eliminate its “erotic services category” and screen all submissions before they are posted. So what’s your momma going to do for work now ? Today our pal Michael Lehet joins us to talk about his fabulous [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #986 – What’s Your Mamma Gonna Do For Work Now? – 05.14.09 In response to the murder of an erotic masseuse who advertised on Craigslist, the classified ad site announced plans to eliminate its “erotic services category” and screen all submissions before they are posted. So what’s... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1065 – Come Fly with Pam Ann – 09.29.09 Interview with comedian Pam Ann known as the most glamorous airline hostess in the world. Pam's flying across the country on a "USA Layover" her one woman show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1065 - Come Fly with Pam Ann - 09.29.09 Interview with comedian Pam Ann known as the most glamorous airline hostess in the world. Pam's flying across the country on a "USA Layover" her one woman show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1064 - The Journey of Queer Ricans - 09.28.09 Larry La Fountain, professor of queer studies at the University of Michigan talks about his new book Queer Ricans, an exploration of the cultural expression of Puerto Rican queerness and how sexuality has shaped and defined the Puerto Rican experience in the United States. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1064 – The Journey of Queer Ricans – 09.28.09 Larry La Fountain, professor of queer studies at the University of Michigan talks about his new book Queer Ricans, an exploration of the cultural expression of Puerto Rican queerness and how sexuality has shaped and defined the Puerto Rican experience in the United States. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1063 - The Best Church of God Will Save Your Soul - 09.25.09 Aemilia Scott and Mike Descoteaux from the Best Church of God play music from their show and reflect on the bizarre world of religion. Beyonce is set to perform in the Muslim city of Kuala Lumpur, will she be doing "Single Ladies" in a burqua? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1063 – The Best Church of God Will Save Your Soul – 09.25.09 Aemilia Scott and Mike Descoteaux from the Best Church of God play music from their show and reflect on the bizarre world of religion. Beyonce is set to perform in the Muslim city of Kuala Lumpur, will she be doing "Single Ladies" in a burqua? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1062 - Mack is Back - 09.24.09 Writer Byron Flitch joins us to take at the stunning news that 70s actress Mackenie Phillips had an 11 year incestual affair with her father the late musician John Phillips of the Mommas and the Pappas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1062 – Mack is Back – 09.24.09 Writer Byron Flitch joins us to take at the stunning news that 70s actress Mackenie Phillips had an 11 year incestual affair with her father the late musician John Phillips of the Mommas and the Pappas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1061 - The Secret Life of a Sex Columnist - 09.23.09 Sex advice columnist Anna Pulley takes a look back at her careerr so far as a sex writer. Two MIT students develop a math forumula that predicts if a man is gay on Facebook. Activist Lawrence Perea announces Chicago's Day of Change rally to support the National Equality March in D.C. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1061 – The Secret Life of a Sex Columnist – 09.23.09 Sex advice columnist Anna Pulley takes a look back at her careerr so far as a sex writer. Two MIT students develop a math forumula that predicts if a man is gay on Facebook. Activist Lawrence Perea announces Chicago's Day of Change rally to support the National Equality March in D.C. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1060 - Sorry, I’m Not Gay - 09.22.09 Comedian Adam Guerino talks about how he's usually the first gay man many straight guys meet and that after his performance they compellingly tell him "sorry guy, I'm not gay." Hunters, a gay bar in the suburbs of Chicago implements a new rule asking customers to show ID that matches their "gender representation" in efforts to reduce prostitution at their bar. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1060 – Sorry, I’m Not Gay – 09.22.09 Comedian Adam Guerino talks about how he's usually the first gay man many straight guys meet and that after his performance they compellingly tell him "sorry guy, I'm not gay." Hunters, a gay bar in the suburbs of Chicago implements a new rule asking customers to show ID that matches their "gender representation" in efforts to reduce prostitution at their bar. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1059 – One Woman Show – 09.21.09 Victoria Lamarr is depressed, so we try to shock her into happiness using scream therapy. Vicki is trying to put together songs for her one woman show. Will V-Marr's act be more Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall or Little Edie at the Reno Sweeney Nightclub? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1059 - One Woman Show - 09.21.09 Victoria Lamarr is depressed, so we try to shock her into happiness using scream therapy. Vicki is trying to put together songs for her one woman show. Will V-Marr's act be more Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall or Little Edie at the Reno Sweeney Nightclub? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1058 - The Mind of Madonna - 09.18.09 Singer Melissa Young joins us to take a look at the Madonna the entertainer, the woman and the iconoclast. A touching and colorful promise to a dead solider and hot celebrity news. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1057 - Teri Yaki’s Hangover - 09.17.09 Chicago drag queen Teri Yaki shares the spicy details of her sexy drunken birthday celebration and how she's pounding the pavement in her six inch heels looking for work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1056 - The Mayor of Boystown - 09.16.09 Bill Pritchard, the Chicago community organizer best known for his nickname "The Mayor of Boystown" talks about the gay scene in Chicago, clears up misconceptions, the hot guys he hangs with and why he's always wearing those suits. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1055 - Sipping the Sweet Tea - 09.15.09 Interview with with performer and writer E. Patrick Johnson about his book "Sweet Tea" a collection of real-life stories on the lives of gay black men living in the South. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1054 - All Apologies - 09.14.09 A hot discussion on musician Kanye West's outburst at the MTV VMA's, Serena Williams, South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson refuses to apologize, children behaving badly and the similarities between Madonna, Michael Jackson and Marc Felion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1053 - Acting Lessons - 09.11.09 Chicago comedian, musician and actor Esteban Andres Cruz talks about winning the prestigious Jeff Award and gives Marc and Fausot some acting lessons. Janet Jackson reveals in an interview that her brother Michael wore his mothers jacket when he first danced the moonwalk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1052 - Nine, Nine, Oh! Nine - 09.10.09 Sept. 9, 2009 or 9/9/09 is a day feared by numerologists as the end of the world, a perfect day to release the Beatles re-mastered song catalog and for Apple to release new iPods and iTunes software. Obama's big speech on healthcare and California Republican Assesmblyman Michael Duvall gets caught bragging about having sex with female lobbyists over a microphone he thought was turned off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1051 - Big Gay Wedding - 09.09.09 Fausto and Marc talk about Jim Verraros and Bill Brennen's fabulous gay wedding with comedian Bill Cruz. Also is the gay advertising industry pushing young gay men into man-orexia? Also Oprah hosts her talk show on the Michigan Avenue river bridge and David William's controversial childrens book on a boy who likes to cross-dress. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #962 - A Hard Woman is Good to Find - 09.08.09 Today we celebrate 11 years of fabulous shows, once as Feast of Fools, today as Feast of Fun. We’ve managed to dig up a very special guest from way back when, the tragically glamorous Victoria Lamarr! Back when we started the podcast in 2005, one of our early [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1050 - Step Right Up - 09.04.09 Brad Thomas, former ringmaster for the Ringling Brothers circus and Chicago public school teacher weighs in on Obama speaking to the nations kids and working for diversity and non-violence in schools. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1049 - I’m Going to D.C. - 09.03.09 As the groundswell for support in the National Equality March grows, organizers have released a list of 140 leaders and allies endorsing the march. Did our endorsement get lost in the email or are organizers limiting the list to people they deem worthy? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1048 - A Tale of Two Cities - 09.01.09 Special two hour call-in show with Mike Rogers on outing closeted anti-gay politicians, rumors on Perez Hilton and Michael Jackson and suicidial swiss cows. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1047 - Set Your Status to Stun - 08.28.09 Blogger Michael Lehet got an unexpected request from his boyfriend on Facebbok to confirm they are in a relationship. Bizzare reactions to Senator Kennedy's death and some easy steps to take to stay optimistic and productive. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1046 - Deven and Joel’s Excellent Adventure - 08.27.09 Deven Green and Joel Bryant share their story of traveling to the Middle East to entertain the troops, being searched at the U.S. embassy and their romantic adventure in Venice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1045 - Cameron Esposito Runs Away with the Circus - 08.26.09 Comedian Cameron Esposito, talks about dealing with gay jokes as a professional comedian and touring with an all-womens circus. Also, La Toya Jackson has been working with the L.A. police investigating her brother's death, earning the nickname "Detective La Toya." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1044 - Teri Yaki’s Tangy Taste - 08.25.09 Chicago drag queen Teri Yaki returns to follow up on the Lady Vera Parker story, the unhappy birthday party and shares her own experience of being behind bars. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1043 - Goodbye Mr. Clucky - 08.24.09 Comedian and writer Keith Ecker weighs in on the heated discussion on bareback sex. Florida is going haywire as they ban Mr. Clucky a favorite rooster from living in the city of Miami and a man tricks a woman into treating him like a baby by pretending to be his own handicapped brother. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Special Edition FOF: Risky Business? Live podcast forum on Barebacking, risk, pleasure and the influence of porn. Taped at the Center on Halsted in Chicago, August 17, 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1042 - Japhy Grant Raw&Uncensored - 08.21.09 Blogger Japhy Grant looks at the challenges he faced and the inspirational moments he cherished working in gay news. Japhy also dishes the dirt on Perez Hilton, RuPaul's Drag Race and the new season of Project Runway. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1041 - Getting in Hot Water - 08.20.09 Interview with Matt Johnson the manager of a coffee shop in Oak Park who's gotten into hot water for booking a minister who advocates gay reperative therapy. Tyra Bans yanks out her hair extensions and Project Runway returns to TV. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1040 - Special Ed - 08.19.09 Our friend Ed Hayes returns to talk about his love for so-called corporate efficiency and all things that destroy the American cultural landscape and a funny story about a Chicago gay bar manager who forced his employees to pay to come to his birthday party or lose their shifts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #920 - Deven Green Stimulates Your Economy - 08.18.09 Deven Green takes no prisoners. On today’s show we’ve got the very funny Deven Green, the queen of YouTube talking about how to stimulate the economy and turn garbage into gold. Deven cuts through the bull with razor precise karate chops and gets to the truth of what makes the world go round. Is America becoming [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1039 - Burn the Brief? - 08.17.09 Blogger Michael Lehet joins in on stories of our sexy fun convincing straight guys to join a kiss-in. New instruments and a australian fashion underwear company is under fire for an insensitive commercial portraying a solider injured by a land-mine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1038 - A Wise Latina Drag Queen and Her Mom - 08.14.09 Rupaul's Drag Race contestant Jade Sotomayor brings over her mom Noemi to reflect on her unprecedented success. Is Jade related to the first Latina supreme court judge Sonia Sotomayor? Lady Gaga goes gay again and Mumbai plans for their first Pride parade. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1037 - Whose Death Panel is it Anyway? - 08.12.09 AIDS activist Jim Pickett sheds light to Republican tactics of stalling health care reform. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1036 - Rise of Anna Conda - 08.12.09 San Francisco drag queen Anna Conda, longtime gay rights activist talks about the Great Nationwide Kiss-In happeing all across America to celebrate same sex affection and draw attention to the everyday violence gay people experience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1035 - Joshua Aaron Guthals Finds His Voice - 08.11.09 Live music session with Joshua Aaron Guthals of the band Kind Monitor, one of the most celebrated New York Indie musicians. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1034 - Lady Gaga’s Hermiedick - 08.10.09 Is pop singer Lady Gaga really a hermaphrodite? The baby daddy of Paris Jackson comes forward, it's the actor who played Oliver Twist. And a battle over a Sarah Palin tip jar erupts in a Chicago vegan diner. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #942 - In The Pink With Varla Jean Merman - 08.07.09 Varla Jean Merman! You’ve seen her on Project Runway, All My Children and in the fun movie Girls will be Girls now discover the fabulous person behind the big red wig! Is Varla Jean as sweet as she appears on stage and screen? Listen to today’s show and find out. Today we have Jeffrey Roberson, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #957 - Rock the Runway Ronnie - 03.25.09 Chicago born model Ronnie Kroell made it to the top two in the first season of Bravo’s hit reality tv show “Make Me a Supermodel.” His midwestern good looks, sparkling smile and unabashed honestly about his sexuality made him a viewer favorite. His intense friendship with fellow contestant, the straight prison guard Ben DiChiara, became a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1033 - Shine on Debbie Reynolds - 08.05.09 Interview with Hollywood's Golden age diva Debbie Reynolds on her career, love, dating gay men in Hollywood and weather or not she lives next door to her daugher Carrie Fisher. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1032 - Kristine W and the Power of Music - 08.04.09 Kristine W, one of the top five dance artists in the country plays some of her hit songs acoustically and takes a look at her career in music, surviving cancer and beauty pageant contestants. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1031 - Break Down the Walls of Love - 08.03.09 Therapist Damon L. Jacobs and his boyfriend Matt Cameron talk about breaking down the walls we may put up when trying to bring those we love in closer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1030 - Let’s Twist Again - 07.31.09 Steamworks' director of Marketing talks about the gay festivals happening this weekend, including Northalsted Market Days the largest street festvial in the midwest. One of our favorites is their Twisted Booth where anyone can play the classic game with hunky men. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #825 - Is This DEEE-END of Trannyshack? - 07.30.09 I love having celebrities in my hotel room. On today’s show we’ve got three delicious stars in our penthouse suite at the Hotel Mark Twain in San Francisco- Peaches Christ, Heklina, and Lady Miss Kier! The three of them, along with a multitude other fabulous performers will be working the stage on Saturday night at the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #804 - Deluxe and Delovely - 07.29.09 Gigi’s back boys! Our deluxe and delovely club-kid turned mother of two and visual artist is starting a new art group in Chicago, the Salon des Artistes Indépendants. Gigi and other artists decided to come together to form the Salon to produce a gallery effect that wasn’t tethered to a certain theme or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #525 - Becoming a Lesbian Dad - 07.28.09 The podcast that calls and calls until it gets it right-Feast of Fools! Getting a hold of celebrities is difficult, especially when you call the wrong number. It’s very nice when the person on the other end of the line is polite though. Leave it to the Canadians to be like that. They’re just happy [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #505 - Gay Guide to Chicago - 07.27.09 Why do we need to a show on a Gay Guide to Chicago? We often get the question from our listeners who plan to come to the Windy City for some good gay fun; “Dear Fausto and Marc-I’m coming to Chicago and I want to know what to do and where to go.” It’s a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1029 - Relationship Status - 07.24.09 Writer Byron Flitsch talks about relationships from the perspective of a gay man living in Chicago. The good, the bad, the ones that last and the ones that make a lasting impression. Also, another Chicago drag queen goes to jail for beating up a contest judge with a trophy she didn't win. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1028 - Twinkies & Ice Cream - 07.23.09 America's Lesbian Sweetheart Cameron Esposito guests to take a look at the new Harry Potter movie, Cook County's semi-legalization of pot, pizza grid cut vs pie slices, Yelp for online escorts and the death of the Taco Bell Chihuahua. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1027 - Microblogging for Marriage Equality - 07.22.09 Illinois State Rep. Greg Harris takes us on a behind the scenes look as the highest ranking openly gay official in Illinois, fighting for marriage equality and the state of healthcare reform. Why don't more politicians use Twitter? Political noise, crazy governors and resolutions in honor of Michael Jackson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1026 - The Farrah Fawcett of Bears - 07.21.09 Comedian Ben Lerman loves to play the ukulele. Ben might have accidentally become a bear sex symbol after hawking his show during Bear Week in the resort town of Provincetown, Massachusets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #526 - Heads or Tales: Jo-Jo Finds a Skull - 06.20.09 Our beloved Jo-Jo Baby, who works as a doll maker, club kid, artist, stylist and drag queen went onto eBay to look for mannequins. He found a guy who lives in his neighborhood who was selling three full-sized vintage African-American female mannequins- Jo-Jo just had to have them and made an appointment to view them. Although [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1025 - Glenn Loves Daniel - 07.15.09 Reality TV star Glenn Douglas Packard from "Brooke Knows Best" has a new boyfriend, underwear model Daniel Miagany. Plus- an interview with "3-Day Weekend" director Rob Williams. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1024 - International Drag Queen Day - 07.16.09 Drag queen Elysse Giovani talks about starting her own gay wedding expo in Chicago after a heated argument with an ignorant vendor. The first ever International Drag Queen Day celebrating the drag queens in our lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1023 - Who’s the Craziest Queen of Them All? - 07.15.09 Writer director Tony Lewis and drag queen Omicah from the musical show "Snow White and the Seven Drag Queens" return to Chicago, remenisce on real-life evil drag queens. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1022 - All My Divas - 07.14.09 Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, campy musician Melissa Young talks about her new show, a tribute to gay history through the lens of entertainers we love. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #463 - Weird Science - 07.13.09 Interview with British writer Grant Stoddard who wrote a colum on Nerve.com called "I Did it for Science" where he went on assignments exploring the outlandish, extreme or unusual in sex. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1021 - The Dumpster Diving Drag Queen - 07.10.09 When Victoria Lamarr isn't rollerblading on the Chicago lakefront, she loves to dumpster dive outside of celebrities' homes. What did she find in ousted Gov. Blagojevich's dumpster? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1020 - So You Think You Can Dance? - 07.09.09 If you ever dreamed of being a porn star, this is the show for you. Porn director and writer Mike Donner talks about his new book "How to be a Gay Porn Star." In the book Donner talks about breaking into the gay porn industry and dispells common porn myths. How do they keep it "up" after so many hours on the set? Will America ever get a porn star politician the way Italians now enjoy? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1019 - Out of the Internet and Into The Streets - 07.08.09 Activist Nik Maciejewski from the Chicago chapter of Join the Impact talks about the upcoming National Equality March in Washington D.C. and reflects on Michael Jackson's memorial service. Listen as we touch on the more moving and unusual highlights from the historic event, including how it temporarily brought down Twitter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1018 - Run, Lady Vera Parker, Run! - 07.07.09 Teri Yaki explains to the best of his knowledge the sordid details of Lady Vera Parker the Chicago drag queen who was arrested for check fraud and stealing a U-Haul truck from Kentucky. Why is Michael Jackson's death hitting the public especially hard and Sarah Palin's abrupt resignation leaves the country befuddled. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #315 - Castraticast - 07.06.09 We’re so excited because today we have one of the world’s oldest and most famous Castrati, the incomparable Alessandro Moreschi, pictured on the right. Click on the audio file at the bottom of the Wikipedia page for Moreschi to hear him sing. It’s freaky. Alessandro joins his lesser known Castrato singing buddies, Carlo Cuttheballi and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1017 - Sabrina Matthews’ Underwater Adventure - 07.03.09 Comedian Sabrina Matthews shares her story of being attacked by a barracuda off the coast of Myanmar, her unusual treatment at a foreign hospital, and how the US government almost left her to languish in Thai prison. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1016 - Summer Fashion and Skin-Care - 07.02.09 Eric Schwers from Baskit Underwear shares his secrets for picking the best swimsuit and underwear and Enrique Ramirez from Face to Face NYC Day Spa offers some inexpensive ideas for summer skin care. Plus a photo of Fausto as a Star Stek character. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1015 - Happy, Happy Homer - 07.01.09 Comedian Homer Marrs plays a song from his new show "Smile, You Have Depression." Have we become addicted to labeling ourselves as clinically depressed? Michael Jackson news and sex as the ultimate remedy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1014 - Ed Hayes Takes His Shirt Off - 06.30.09 On the 40th Anniversary of Stonewall, video blogger Ed Hayes reflects on the Chicago Gay Pride Parade and the sexy trouble he got into. Who knew that Michael Jackson's music would rule the gay parade? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #213 - That’s Why the Lady is a Tramp - 06.28.09 No hold bared interview with one of the world's most famous drag queens, Lady Bunny. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1013 - Stonewall Michael Jackson - 06.26.09 What a week! Music icon Michael Jackson dies of heart failure at the age of 50 at around the same time 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. Will Michael Jackson's death spark a new civil rights movement in the way that Judy Garland's death did for gay people 40 years ago? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1012 - Sanford and Sex - 06.25.09 Anti-gay S.C. Governor Mark Sanford admits to secretly flying to Argentina to meet a woman with whom he was having an affair. Burpless cows, stolen lesbian reliquaries and a mother in China boils a human head for soup in hopes it would cure her daughter's mental illness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1011 - People Are Not for Hitting - 06.24.09 Health care advocate Cat Jefcoat talks about the upcoming LGBTI Health Summit and the violence behind the very public fight between blogger Perez Hilton and musician Will.I.Am. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1010 - Phish Food for Bill Cruz - 06.23.09 Comedian Bill Cruz shares his sexy story of going to a Phish concertn where thousands of shirtless hunks grooved to extended jam sessions. Plus Perez Hilton gets punched in the face by the Black Eye Pea's manager. Where is the love? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1009 - Our Gretchen Phillips Experience - 06.22.09 Interview with living lesbian music legend Gretchen Phillips on the early days of her band Two Nice Girls, nurturing your creative spirit and her first new album in five years "I Was Just Comforting Her." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1008 - Getting Cheeky with Erica - 06.19.09 As summer weather finally arrives to Chicago, Cheeky Chicago's Erica Bethe Levin shares some ideas on outdoor dining, picking the right perfume and summer fashion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1007 - Friends With Benefits - 06.18.09 President Obama's signed memo extending some federal employees same-sex partner benefits causes woes. Why? Blogger Michael Lehet joins to examine Obama's sluggish support for equality. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1006 - Charleston Chew - 06.17.09 Comedian Cameron Esposito talks about her performance at the Aspen Rooftop Comedy Festival and muses with Marc and Fausto about having your own fantasy lesbian bar, the Charleston Chew. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1005 - Bareblack - 06.16.09 An in-depth discussion on the naked photos of Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black posted on Perez Hilton's website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1004 - Pretty For Me - 06.15.09 Gay fashion writer and Pretty Boy Magazine editor Terrence Chappell talks about diversity and summer fashion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1003 - Between the Sheets - 06.12.09 You can lie in bed, lay in bed, die and even pray in bed. You can laugh in bed give your heart or break your heart in half in bed. But never ever can you sin in bed! The lyrics to the song “The Bed” from the 1960s musical Hair ring true in our pal Adam [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1002 - Mike Ruiz Captures the Perfect Picture - 06.11.09 Interview with celebrity photographer Mike Ruiz on his famous clients, Kathy Griffin, LL Cool J and Lindsay Lohan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1001 - Vote for Hedda - 06.10.09 New York City Drag Queen comedian Hedda Lettuce talks about her desire to be a contestant on RuPaul's Drag Race. American Idol contestant Adam Lambert comes out as gay. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #1000 - Grand Slam Buffet - 06.09.09 Feast of Fun hosts Fausto Fernós and Marc Felion take a look back at 1000 shows in podcasting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Fire Eating Drag Princess Fausto Fernós sings a spanish version of "Aquarius" and eats fire. Taped at the Feast of Fools Live Show, April 1, 2000 at the Hothouse in Chicago, IL. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #935 - Crazy for Coco Peru - 06.08.09 Outrageous, bold and honest, that’s Coco Peru! Everybody’s favorite drag queen from the Bronx is on today’s show to talk about her career, her love life and drag queens. Coco is best know for her work in the films Trick and Girls Will Be Girls, as well as an unforgettable appearance on the groundbreaking TV show [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #999 - 999 is 666 in Bizzaro World - 06.05.09 We’re excited! We’re just one show away from our 1000th podcast spectacular, but today’s the last show ever to have three digits in the title. So if this messes up your iPod like a Y2K bug, then we’re sorry. On today’s show we talk about the hot news that matters most to you: Lady Bunny gives [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #998 - Pretty in Pink - 06.04.09 As our 1,000th show draws near and the chickens are coming home to roost! One of our earliest guests, and one of the world’s first video bloggers, Victoria Lamarr returns to rekindle her podcasting flame, relish in the gay pride month of June and announce her unrequited love for Alexandra Billings, the Grand Marshall of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #997 - Behind the Scenes on All About Evil - 06.03.09 She’s back! Peaches Christ gives us an exclusive behind the scenes look of the production of her debut horror film, All About Evil, which tells the story of a mad librarian who kills her victims in real life for her art house horror films. The grueling 28 day film shooting schedule took it’s toll [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #996 - Improv Everywhere Secrets Revealed! - 06.02.09 They impersonated U2 on the rooftops of New York City. They got over 1000 people to take their pants off and ride the subway. They invaded a Best Buy dressed like the store’s own employees and an Abercrombie & Fitch store with a hundred shirtless men. And they froze time at Grand Central Station. Improv Everywhere has [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #995 - The War Over Susan Boyle - 06.01.09 Susan Boyle! She says she’s never been kissed, lives with her cat Pebbles, and the video clip of her first appearance on the reality tv show Britain’s Got Talent has become the fifth most watched video online of all time. She finished second place in the reality TV show and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #994 - Have a Slice of Mekole Wells - 05.29.09 Chicago singer Mekole Wells was stabbed in the throat ten times and left for dead by her next door neighbor. She thought she would never to sing again. Today she’s singing better than ever and training to run in the Rock and Roll Half Marathon to raise money for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago. Listen as [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #993 - Russian Prison Andy - 05.28.09 For over 25 years, Andy Thayer has fought tirelessly for gay rights, including Marriage Equality, the Stop Dr. Laura campaign and anti-police brutality against gays. He recently was arrested at the 4th annual Gay Pride in Moscow which coincided with the popular Eurovision contest and spent the night in a Russian prison. Earlier this week the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #992 - A Dream Deferred Isn’t Always a Dream Denied - 05.27.09 Yesterday, the California Supreme Court announced it’s disappointing decision to uphold Proposition 8 which removed the right for same-sex couples to get married. Although we taped this show in advance of knowing the decision outcome, many states across the Union are moving forward towards Marriage Equality. The fight may not be easy folks, but we will [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #991 - La Monistat Keeps it Fresh! - 05.26.09 Although San Francisco drag queen La Monistat was named 2009’s Best Drag Queen by the readers of SF Weekly, she still considers herself an outsider to the drag world. With her flair for performance art, self expression and crazy blood soaked costuming, she isn’t your everyday queen on the scene. La Monistat says she was invited to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Special Edition FOF: Generation You - 05.25.09 Much like society in general, the gay community is stratified along age lines. Gay men are living longer than ever and some older folks feel disconnected to the younger generations that have not had the same experiences they’ve had. On the other hand, young people seem to be forging their way forward in this world [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #913 - Lose the Should, Get the Good - 05.22.09 You may not realize it, but the way you think could be sabotaging your life. On today’s show we have marriage and family therapist Damon L. Jacobs here to to talk about his new book “Absolutely Shouldless: The Secret to Living the Stress-Free Life You Deserve.” Damon wants you to be happy and live a stress free [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #913 - Lose the Should, Get the Good - 05.22.09 You may not realize it, but the way you think could be sabotaging your life. On today’s show we have marriage and family therapist Damon L. Jacobs here to to talk about his new book “Absolutely Shouldless: The Secret to Living the Stress-Free Life You Deserve.” Damon wants you to be happy and live a stress free [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video Clips from “Generation You” - a Live Podcast Forum Last night your pals FeastofFun.com (that’s us) & LifeLube.org joined forces to create a live podcast community forum at the Center on Halsted: “Generation You, Bridging the Gap” May 20, 2009. Video produced by Jason Smith. Check out the photos from the event here. Share & Save Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #915 - Living Outside Religion - 05.21.09 Is it possible to be gay and an atheist? On today’s show we have Greta Christina, a former peep show dancer and now a blog evangelist for atheism. Greta’s here to talk with us about living a fabulous life outside of religion and why you may be better off thinking of Jesus as Santa Claus. Join us [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #915 - Living Outside Religion - 05.21.09 Is it possible to be gay and an atheist? On today’s show we have Greta Christina, a former peep show dancer and now a blog evangelist for atheism. Greta’s here to talk with us about living a fabulous life outside of religion and why you may be better off thinking of Jesus as Santa Claus. Join us [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #990 - Yes, You Can! - 05.20.09 President Obama may be flip flopping on gay rights people. So what are you going to do about it!? Activists are asking you to send your pink flip flops of support for equality to the White House. Yes we can, will become Yes You Can, President Obama. Get to work! On today’s show our pal Curtis Jensen, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #990 - Yes, You Can! - 05.20.09 President Obama may be flip flopping on gay rights people. So what are you going to do about it!? Activists are asking you to send your pink flip flops of support for equality to the White House. Yes we can, will become Yes You Can, President Obama. Get to work! On today’s show our pal Curtis Jensen, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #989 - Woman of a Thousand Voices - 05.18.09 Madonna, Cher, Britney Spears and Winona Ryder- comedic actress Nadya Ginsburg can do them all flawlessly! In the popular web series “The Worm” directed by Austin Young, Nadya portrays these iconic pop stars having an existential crisis. Nadya brings a unique humanity to this wacky series by exposing these diva’s tragic flaws and celebrating their boundless [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #989 - Woman of a Thousand Voices - 05.18.09 Madonna, Cher, Britney Spears and Winona Ryder- comedic actress Nadya Ginsburg can do them all flawlessly! In the popular web series “The Worm” directed by Austin Young, Nadya portrays these iconic pop stars having an existential crisis. Nadya brings a unique humanity to this wacky series by exposing these diva’s tragic flaws and celebrating their boundless [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #988 - A Mysterious Roll of Pink Material - 05.18.09 High heel shoes, a Louis Vuitton bag held by an arm coming from a man’s nose, a mysterious roll of pink material, a Don Rickles cut out, and a drag queen dressed up as a bunny rabbit, superimposed on a doctor’s report of a sexually transmitted disease: these are all a part of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #988 - A Mysterious Roll of Pink Material - 05.18.09 High heel shoes, a Louis Vuitton bag held by an arm coming from a man’s nose, a mysterious roll of pink material, a Don Rickles cut out, and a drag queen dressed up as a bunny rabbit, superimposed on a doctor’s report of a sexually transmitted disease: these are all a part of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #987 - Esteban Cruz and the Benefits of Being a Homo - 05.15.09 Sexy, crazy and exhilarating –that’s Esteban Andres Cruz. His one-man show “Stuffed” is a collection of hilarious songs and stories about growing up gay in a macho super jock Hispanic household in Cicero, that’s on the west side of Chicago, yo! Esteban is here with his accompanist Scott Borchert to perform songs from “Stuffed” showing Saturday May 16th [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #987 - Esteban Cruz and the Benefits of Being a Homo - 05.15.09 Sexy, crazy and exhilarating –that’s Esteban Andres Cruz. His one-man show “Stuffed” is a collection of hilarious songs and stories about growing up gay in a macho super jock Hispanic household in Cicero, that’s on the west side of Chicago, yo! Esteban is here with his accompanist Scott Borchert to perform songs from “Stuffed” showing Saturday May 16th [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #986 - What’s Your Mamma Gonna Do For Work Now? - 05.14.09 In response to the murder of an erotic masseuse who advertised on Craigslist, the classified ad site announced plans to eliminate its “erotic services category” and screen all submissions before they are posted. So what’s your momma going to do for work now ? Today our pal Michael Lehet joins us to talk about his fabulous [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #986 - What’s Your Mamma Gonna Do For Work Now? - 05.14.09 In response to the murder of an erotic masseuse who advertised on Craigslist, the classified ad site announced plans to eliminate its “erotic services category” and screen all submissions before they are posted. So what’s your momma going to do for work now ? Today our pal Michael Lehet joins us to talk about his fabulous [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #985 - Welcome to Planet Larry La Fountain - 05.13.09 Some queer Puerto Ricans feel as if they’re from another planet- strangers in a strange land no matter where they go. Negotiating between cultures gives us fresh eyes with which to seek out the infinite possibilities. On today’s show we’re talking to the hilariously giddy Larry La Fountain, professor of queer studies at the University of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #985 - Welcome to Planet Larry La Fountain - 05.13.09 Some queer Puerto Ricans feel as if they’re from another planet- strangers in a strange land no matter where they go. Negotiating between cultures gives us fresh eyes with which to seek out the infinite possibilities. On today’s show we’re talking to the hilariously giddy Larry La Fountain, professor of queer studies at the University of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #984 - The Dark Amber Sound of Gregory Douglass - 05.12.09 Profound, beautiful and emotional- that’s Vermont musician Gregory Douglass. Upon graduating high school, Gregory was presented by his schools’ headmaster with a music award and an unusual piece of advice: Don’t go to college and just pursue a musical career. On today’s show Gregory is in the home studio playing songs from his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #984 - The Dark Amber Sound of Gregory Douglass - 05.12.09 Profound, beautiful and emotional- that’s Vermont musician Gregory Douglass. Upon graduating high school, Gregory was presented by his schools’ headmaster with a music award and an unusual piece of advice: Don’t go to college and just pursue a musical career. On today’s show Gregory is in the home studio playing songs from his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #983 - Jack of All Trades - 05.11.09 On the fourth season of the reality tv show Project Runway- mens designer Jack Mackenroth abruptly withdrew from the show due to a serious staph infection completely unrelated to his HIV status. A real life jack-of-all-trades, he is now working on a design-inspired TV show pilot with Kevin Christiana. He’s in Chicago to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #983 - Jack of All Trades - 05.11.09 On the fourth season of the reality tv show Project Runway- mens designer Jack Mackenroth abruptly withdrew from the show due to a serious staph infection completely unrelated to his HIV status. A real life jack-of-all-trades, he is now working on a design-inspired TV show pilot with Kevin Christiana. He’s in Chicago to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #982 - Killer Lesbot Terminators From The Future - 05.08.09 There’s a lot of hot science fiction movies coming this month. One highly anticipated film is Terminator Four: Salvation. Did you know that the terminator movies are very popular with Lesbians? On today’s show America’s Lesbian Sweetheart, Cameron Esposito,is here to explain why our lavender sisters are fascinated with killer sexy robots from the future. Cameron is performing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #982 - Killer Lesbot Terminators From The Future - 05.08.09 There’s a lot of hot science fiction movies coming this month. One highly anticipated film is Terminator Four: Salvation. Did you know that the terminator movies are very popular with Lesbians? On today’s show America’s Lesbian Sweetheart, Cameron Esposito,is here to explain why our lavender sisters are fascinated with killer sexy robots from the future. Cameron is performing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #981 - Siete De Mayo - 05.07.09 Let’s celebrate! It’s our Cinco De Mayo Show, a couple of days late, so really it’s our Siete de Mayo show. This celebration of Mexican Heritage and pride commemorates the Mexican army’s unlikely victory over French forces on the fifth of May. Open up a cerveza and join us we toast our Latino Heritage, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #981 - Siete De Mayo - 05.07.09 Let’s celebrate! It’s our Cinco De Mayo Show, a couple of days late, so really it’s our Siete de Mayo show. This celebration of Mexican Heritage and pride commemorates the Mexican army’s unlikely victory over French forces on the fifth of May. Open up a cerveza and join us we toast our Latino Heritage, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #980 - 100 Things Glenn Douglas Packard Has Done - 05.06.09 Listen to this question: “on a scale from one to ten, just how gay are you? It’s cool with me, after all, some of my best wrestling buddies are gay too.” That’s the question 80’s wrestling star Hulk Hogan asked Glenn Douglas Packard on the Reality TV show “Brooke Knows Best.” Although the point [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #980 - 100 Things Glenn Douglas Packard Has Done - 05.06.09 Listen to this question: “on a scale from one to ten, just how gay are you? It’s cool with me, after all, some of my best wrestling buddies are gay too.” That’s the question 80’s wrestling star Hulk Hogan asked Glenn Douglas Packard on the Reality TV show “Brooke Knows Best.” Although the point [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #780 - Ménage à How Many? - 05.05.08 How many are in your party? For some people monogamy is just right, but for a growing number of people, open relationships is where they find true happiness. We are raised on fairy tales of a handsome prince rescuing a fair maiden and then they live happily ever after, but how close is this image [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #780 - Ménage à How Many? - 05.05.08 How many are in your party? For some people monogamy is just right, but for a growing number of people, open relationships is where they find true happiness. We are raised on fairy tales of a handsome prince rescuing a fair maiden and then they live happily ever after, but how close is this image [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #979 - Cuban Sex Workers and British Scally Lads - 05.01.09 Although the Cuban sex trade has been well documented, a new film, Luchando, shows how modern Cuban people are to each other for intimacy and economic gain. Today we’re talking to documentary filmmaker Noelle Stout and Alphonso Morgan, the producer of the film “Luchando” which follows the struggle of four sex workers in Cuba. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #979 - Cuban Sex Workers and British Scally Lads - 05.01.09 Although the Cuban sex trade has been well documented, a new film, Luchando, shows how modern Cuban people are to each other for intimacy and economic gain. Today we’re talking to documentary filmmaker Noelle Stout and Alphonso Morgan, the producer of the film “Luchando” which follows the struggle of four sex workers in Cuba. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #978 - The Pop Princess and the Peruvian Player - 04.30.09 You may not know about her yet, but Emme is coming to America, and she is bold, fierce and fabulous! Today we’re talking to Mariella Vitale the Argentine pop star known as Emme, who co-stars in the new film “El Niño Pez” The Child Fish- a sexy thriller about a love affair between the daughter [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #978 - The Pop Princess and the Peruvian Player - 04.30.09 You may not know about her yet, but Emme is coming to America, and she is bold, fierce and fabulous! Today we’re talking to Mariella Vitale the Argentine pop star known as Emme, who co-stars in the new film “El Niño Pez” The Child Fish- a sexy thriller about a love affair between the daughter [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #977 - Miami, Martí, Movies & Me - 04.29.09 Miami is a city full of good looking people, great weather and fabulous beaches. The annual Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival is under full swing, bringing some of the hottest queer films, documentaries and shorts to the forefront. Now’s a great time to take a trip to the part of America that pokes [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #977 - Miami, Martí, Movies & Me - 04.29.09 Miami is a city full of good looking people, great weather and fabulous beaches. The annual Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival is under full swing, bringing some of the hottest queer films, documentaries and shorts to the forefront. Now’s a great time to take a trip to the part of America that pokes [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #976 - Flexing Your Gay Movie Muscle - 04.28.09 Summer’s just around the corner, and this year’s movies promise to be the gayest, hottest and most fabulous yet. Today, writer and film critic Gregg Shapiro joins us to talk about Queer Cinema 101, a new gay and lesbian movie series at the Center on Halsted in Chicago. The series features screenings of classic [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #976 - Flexing Your Gay Movie Muscle - 04.28.09 Summer’s just around the corner, and this year’s movies promise to be the gayest, hottest and most fabulous yet. Today, writer and film critic Gregg Shapiro joins us to talk about Queer Cinema 101, a new gay and lesbian movie series at the Center on Halsted in Chicago. The series features screenings of classic [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #975 - A Salute to Bea Arthur - 04.27.09 Comedy actress Bea Arthur, best known for her starring roles in the hit TV sitcoms. Maude and The Golden Girls. died of cancer over the weekend. She was 86. Today we take look at the comedy legend’s work from her groundbreaking portrayal of wisecracking outspoken liberal in Maude, to her 1979 comedy special featuring [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #975 - A Salute to Bea Arthur - 04.27.09 Comedy actress Bea Arthur, best known for her starring roles in the hit TV sitcoms. Maude and The Golden Girls. died of cancer over the weekend. She was 86. Today we take look at the comedy legend’s work from her groundbreaking portrayal of wisecracking outspoken liberal in Maude, to her 1979 comedy special featuring [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #974 - Japhy Grant Tells It Like It Is - 04.24.09 Four years ago Japhy Grant moved to Los Angeles with the hopes of becoming a screenwriter. He turned to blogging as way to find his voice and network in the entertainment industry. Today, he’s the smart and funny editor of Queerty, a news blog for gay men and their fans. Free of an agenda, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #974 - Japhy Grant Tells It Like It Is - 04.24.09 Four years ago Japhy Grant moved to Los Angeles with the hopes of becoming a screenwriter. He turned to blogging as way to find his voice and network in the entertainment industry. Today, he’s the smart and funny editor of Queerty, a news blog for gay men and their fans. Free of an agenda, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #973 - Who is the Gayest of Them All? - 04.23.09 Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the gayest of them all? Don’t ask questions if you aren’t prepared to hear the answer! Put on your tiaras! We’re talking to Tony Lewis and Emily Rogers from the new musical spectacle Snow White and the Seven Drag Queens. Returning from a successful run of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #973 - Who is the Gayest of Them All? - 04.23.09 Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the gayest of them all? Don’t ask questions if you aren’t prepared to hear the answer! Put on your tiaras! We’re talking to Tony Lewis and Emily Rogers from the new musical spectacle Snow White and the Seven Drag Queens. Returning from a successful run of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #972 - Jock Jam - 04.22.09 Let’s get ready to rumble! Today we’re talking to openly gay basketball players Jamel Lewis and Chris Johnson. Their team, the Rockdogs, is the central focus of Logo’s hot new reality TV show Shirts & Skins. The series presents an intimate look at the close friendships behind one of the nation’s most unique basketball [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #972 - Jock Jam - 04.22.09 Let’s get ready to rumble! Today we’re talking to openly gay basketball players Jamel Lewis and Chris Johnson. Their team, the Rockdogs, is the central focus of Logo’s hot new reality TV show Shirts & Skins. The series presents an intimate look at the close friendships behind one of the nation’s most unique basketball [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #971 - California vs. Hilton - 04.21.09 On today’s Feast of Fun- comedian Adam Guerino brings his gal pal, Beth Stelling over to talk about their hilarious upcoming shows in Chicago. Beth has Daddy issues she still hasn’t resolved, and we’re trying to do our best to ease her anxieties caused by he father’s abandonment. All in good fun of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #971 - California vs. Hilton - 04.21.09 On today’s Feast of Fun- comedian Adam Guerino brings his gal pal, Beth Stelling over to talk about their hilarious upcoming shows in Chicago. Beth has Daddy issues she still hasn’t resolved, and we’re trying to do our best to ease her anxieties caused by her father’s abandonment. All in good fun of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #970 - Crime and Punishment - 04.20.09 Last time nightlife photographer George St. George was on the show it was all about murder, madness and mayhem. Today we’re taking it easy and breezy, for the most part! George was recently arrested for taking pictures of a sex worker at a place where he shouldn’t have been. His court date is coming up- [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #970 - Crime and Punishment - 04.20.09 Last time nightlife photographer George St. George was on the show it was all about murder, madness and mayhem. Today we’re taking it easy and breezy, for the most part! George was recently arrested for taking pictures of a sex worker at a place where he shouldn’t have been. His court date is coming up- [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #761 - Bucking the System - 04.16.09 Michael Buckley will do almost anything to entertain you; cartwheels, hand stands and even a little skin show. Flipping snarky catchphrases with insightful quips on celebrity news and popular culture, Connecticut based Michael Buckley’s video blog “What the Buck” bitingly comments at lighting speed on the nature of celebrity and the ridiculousness of fame. His quick-paced, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #761 - Bucking the System - 04.16.09 Michael Buckley will do almost anything to entertain you; cartwheels, hand stands and even a little skin show. Flipping snarky catchphrases with insightful quips on celebrity news and popular culture, Connecticut based Michael Buckley’s video blog “What the Buck” bitingly comments at lighting speed on the nature of celebrity and the ridiculousness of fame. His quick-paced, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #756 - Chris Crocker Tells on You - 04.15.09 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #756 - Chris Crocker Tells on You - 04.15.09 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #744 - Art Abuse - 04.14.08 Poor Enrique Iglesias! The dreamy son of latin crooner Julio Iglesias is so fed up from people thinking he has a small penis that he’s issued a press release stating he has a large dick. I believe you Enrique, but we still need visual confirmation. About six years ago, Enrique joked in an interivew that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #744 - Art Abuse - 04.14.08 Poor Enrique Iglesias! The dreamy son of latin crooner Julio Iglesias is so fed up from people thinking he has a small penis that he’s issued a press release stating he has a large dick. I believe you Enrique, but we still need visual confirmation. About six years ago, Enrique joked in an interivew that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #969 - Does Ben Lerman Need Tough Love? - 04.13.09 Look out people! Ben Lerman’s ukulele is on fire. The New York based comedian just got back from a stint in Mexico and he’s here today in the home studio to play four brand new songs, including some he wrote for the ladies. One song is about the glories of multiple orgasms, how to achieve them and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #969 - Does Ben Lerman Need Tough Love? - 04.13.09 Look out people! Ben Lerman’s ukulele is on fire. The New York based comedian just got back from a stint in Mexico and he’s here today in the home studio to play four brand new songs, including some he wrote for the ladies. One song is about the glories of multiple orgasms, how to achieve them and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #968 - Tom Goss Backs It Up - 04.10.09 There’s just something about Tom Goss’ music that puts you in a happy and peaceful mood. Our favorite wrestler turned priest turned musician, the very loveable Tom Goss is back with his new album Back to Love. The question is, why did he ever leave love behind? Tom plays for us songs from his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #968 - Tom Goss Backs It Up - 04.10.09 There’s just something about Tom Goss’ music that puts you in a happy and peaceful mood. Our favorite wrestler turned priest turned musician, the very loveable Tom Goss is back with his new album Back to Love. The question is, why did he ever leave love behind? Tom plays for us songs from his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #967 - Cruz Control - 04.09.09 Bill Cruz just got back from performing and signing books in New York City and Philadelphia and he’s feeling frisky. Bill is featured in Out on the Edge: America’s Rebel Comics a book that details the true lives stories of gay comedians so he did a book signing and some stand-up out [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Drag Race Photo Shoot with BeBe Zahara Benet&Jade Be sure to subscribe to our new YouTube channel, Feast of Fun. Share & Save Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #966 - How to Marry a Millionaire - 04.08.09 Callooh! Callay! Iowa and Vermont join Massachusetts and Connecticut as states legalizing gay couples to marry! Even Washington D.C. is getting in on the gay fun by recognizing same-sex marraiges. A domino effect may be under way as the most hotly contested civil rights issues of our day finally gives way. So why aren’t we [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #965 - Microagressions, Macroconsequences - 04.07.09 Microagressions. Do you know what I’m talking about? Those subtle jabs that chip away at our sense of self worth. On today’s show- Dr. Brian Mustanski, assistant professor for the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago talks with us about microassaults, microinsults, and microinvalidations - all these little bits [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #964 - A Brief History of Leather - 04.06.09 Every year over Memorial Day weekend Chicago is host to the hugely popular International Mr. Leather Conference, a gathering for leather man and other assorted kinky types. We’ve seen everyone from Marlon Brando to Madonna wearing the sexy leather gear, but where did all begin? Today we’re talking to Leather Historian and 2007 International Mr. Leather [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Model Ronnie Kroell Talks About Discovering His Boyfriend was a Porn Star Video simulcast with Outworld.tv, we interview model, singer and actor Ronnie Kroell, who made news as the second runner up in Bravo’s reality TV show “Make Me a Supermodel.” Ronnie shares with us the story on how he discovered his boyfriend was not just a porn star but a male escort, and who he’s talking [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Behind the Scenes with BeBe Zahara Benet&Jade [VIDEO] Behind the scenes taping the podcast interview with Bebe Zahara Benet & Jade. Click here to listen to the entire interivew on the Feast of Fun podcast. Be sure to subscribe to our new YouTube channel, Feast of Fun. | Facebook Share & Save Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #963 - What’s Next for BeBe Zahara Benet&Jade - 04.03.09 Everybody’s favorite African drag queen -BeBe Zahara Benet and Chicago’s very own Jade are on today’s show. Also known as Nea Marshall Kudi and David Sotomayor, these two fabulous drag divas won people’s hearts when they competed for the title of “America’s next drag superstar” on the reality TV show [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #862 - Welcome to Deven Green - 04.02.09 On today’s show we’ve got the very funny Deven Green, YouTube Comedy sensation, known for her videos as “Brenda Dickson - Welcome to my Home” and Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian. Hailing from the great white north, Deven Green was a runway model, a competitive ice skater and the first female voice for the Canadian [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #962 - A Hard Woman is Good to Find - 04.01.09 Today we celebrate 11 years of fabulous shows, once as Feast of Fools, today as Feast of Fun. We’ve managed to dig up a very special guest from way back when, the tragically glamorous Victoria Lamarr! Back when we started the podcast in 2005, one of our early [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #961 - Supercalifragilisticexpialipodcast - 03.31.09 Step in time! Get in line! Broadway in Chicago and theater producer Cameron Mackintosh bring the fabulous Mary Poppins to the Cadillac Theater in Chicago. This musical adaptation of the beloved Disney film (iTunes) and books by P.L Travers (Amazon) features over the top musical numbers and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #960 - In the Pink with Davey Wavey - 03.30.09 Web Designer David Jacques turned to video blogging to document and reflect on his life experiences. A year later as Davey Wavey, his video blog became one of the more popular channels on YouTube, in part because he shows off his muscular toned body, but also because of his inviting [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #959 - How Are You Fabulous? - 03.26.09 How are you healthy? How are you fabulous? Gay men’s health blogger and advocate Jim Pickett is on today’s show. Jim’s reaching out to the fellas everywhere to write about ways they stay healthy. For years, gay men’s health awareness campaigns have been wagging their fingers at us, focusing on the negatives but overlooking [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #958 - Cameron Esposito is a Zesty Delight - 03.25.09 America’s Lesbian Sweetheart, Cameron Esposito is back from Africa and the U.K! Cameron cool comedy stylings endear her to audiences everywhere- here and abroad and to broads as well. Cameron was lauded by one reviewer in London as a “zesty delight.” I bet he thought she would taste real good! She’s in the home studio, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #957 - Rock the Runway Ronnie - 03.25.09 Chicago born model Ronnie Kroell made it to the top two in the first season of Bravo’s hit reality tv show “Make Me a Supermodel.” His midwestern good looks, sparkling smile and unabashed honestly about his sexuality made him a viewer favorite. His intense friendship with fellow contestant, the straight prison guard Ben DiChiara, became a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Congratulations to Bebe Zahara Benet! Congratultations to RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant Bebe Zahara Benet for winning the coveted title of “America’s Next Drag Superstar.” We expect great things from the big wigged gal from Cameroon, West Africa. You really are a superstar. Cook the runway! In case you missed it, click here to listen to our interview with Bebe Zahara [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #956 - Stretching Your Gay Travel Dollar - 03.24.09 Think you don’t have the money to go on vacation this summer? Think again. Fare wars have driven airline tickets to a record low, as most major airlines are slashing prices to hopefully stimulate the travel dollar. Will it work? On today’s show we’re talking to the hunky Bryan Herb and his equally hunky partner Joel [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #955 - Put On Your Easter Bonnet- 03.23.09 Put your Easter bonnets folks- it’s official! Spring is here. Marc just made some spring colored Aretha Style cardboard hats that were a hit a our friend’s party this weekend. Everyone’s wearing Aretha hats, even blogger Perez Hilton was spotted wearing one at SXSW. Listen to today’s show as Marc and I discuss the hot topics, news [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #954 - Jessica Halem is Solar Powered - 03.20.09 Strap yourselves in! We’re talking to the very funny Jessica Halem on today’s show! She once was the executive director for Chicago’s Lesbian Community Cancer Project, and now she’s moved to Portland, Oregon to pursue her comedy career and to be with her partner Red. Listen as Jessica shares her hilarious take on going green with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #953 - Will Bebe Zahara Benet Win? - 03.19.09 Out of Africa and onto American television- Bebe Zahara Benet is on today show! As the front runner in RuPaul’s Drag Race, she’s captured our hearts with her glamorous embrace of the “untamed beauty” and brought a delicious African flair to the show. Will Bebe be America’s Next Drag Superstar? Trading the wilds of Africa for the Midwestern [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #952 - How Green Was My Fountain - 03.18.09 I see a fountain and I want it flowing green! America’s Favorite First Lady Michelle Obama brings a little Chicago love to the White House by dying the fountain green for St. Patrick’s Day, just like they do here with the Chicago river. To celebrate we are bringing our favorite Irish bear concierge Kevin Thomas joins [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #951 - Meet the Publisher - 03.17.09 Ding dong! Everybody’s ringing the death nell for print media lately, even newspapers themselves! But not every ship is sinking! On today’s show we’re talking to Gay Chicago Magazine’s new publisher, Michael Harrington. On the first day of this year Michael took over the helm of Illinois’ longest running gay & lesbian print publication and hopes [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #950 - Facebook Me, Facebook You! - 03.16.09 Facebook! It changed. So what are you gonna do about it baby? Last week the Sears Tower became the Willis Tower, Feast of Fools changed it’s name to Feast of Fun and everybody’s favorite social network overhauled it’s user interface. Is the sky falling or are we now soaring into the stars? Come on people, don’t [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #949 - Feast of Fun - 03.13.09 It’s time to bring on the Samba or lay some blame on the Bossa Nova. We’ve got a gay fun show for you today with live music by Chicago Jazz singer Solitaire Miles and Brazilian guitarist Paulinho Garcia. Solitaire grew up with me in Erie Pennsylvania, and now she’s working the new media to expand [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #948 - George St. George Slays It - 03.12.09 “Take My Picture Now! Do I look ugly? I demand you destroy all the copies of those photos.” These are the expressions that a lot of photographers endure when taking pictures out at nightclubs or at special events. For over 15 years, George St. George has photographed Chicago’s nightlife and he’s seen a lot: the fabulous, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #946 - The Most Dangerous Game - 03.08.09 Pull out your sombreros everybody, on today’s show it’s a Mexican Fiesta with the fabulously funny Bill Cruz. Bill recently performed with us at Steamworks, the gay men’s bathhouse in Chicago. He was all wrapped up in towels and delivered his monologue like a Roman statesman addressing the Senate. The Senate of Queers that is! What a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #946 - Gigi’s New Bouncy Clothes - 03.08.09 Boing boing! Gigi Deluxe, Chicago’s glamor-puss is here to talk about her new collaboration with House of Bias, a fashion forward clothing line specializing in clothes made out of rubber latex. Think it’s too kinky for you? The clothing line hopes to mainstream latex-wear for everyone, touting the form-flattering [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #945 - All Jacked Up Over Java - 03.07.09 Coffee! Oooh does it get people’s panties in a bunch! Everyone has strong opinions about where you get it, how much it costs and it’s ramifications for society at large. Beer, another popular beverage for adults, hardly creates the same kind of political passion as the java juice does. Why don’t we ask if the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #944 - McNuggets 911 - 03.06.09 Spring is just around the corner and in Chicago we’ve having unseasonably warm weather, so celebrate, because we’re usually still freezing our butts off this time of year! Our blogging friend Michael Lehet is soon headed to Amsterdam - a city where pot is legal, prostitution is regulated and girl on girl sex [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #943- Brunch Divas - 03.05.09 Why is brunch such a gay thing? Why not call it linner, lunch-din or sup-fast? Today we’re talking to Chicago entertainers Scott Bradley and Jonny Stax, the dynamic drag duo that is Scooty & Jojo. They’re inviting us to their production of Diva Bruch, a glamorous event where guests feast on specialty brunch [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Varla Jean Merman - Towel Wrap Varla Jean Merman as Jeffery Roberson shows Marc Felion how to wrap a towel into a Princess Leia hairdo. What do you think? For a high-quality version of the video, subscribe with : RSS | iTunes | YouTube | Blip.tv Share & Save Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #942 - In The Pink With Varla Jean Merman - 03.04.09 Varla Jean Merman! You’ve seen her on Project Runway, All My Children and in the fun movie Girls will be Girls now discover the fabulous person behind the big red wig! Is Varla Jean as sweet as she appears on stage and screen? Listen to today’s show and find out. Today we have Jeffrey Roberson, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #941 - Phil Putnam Tickles the Ivories - 03.03.09 On today’s show musician Phil Putnam plays live in our home studio songs from his new album “Casualties.” Listen as Phil talks with us about living with Tourette’s Syndrome, a neural disorder characterized by physical and vocal tics. It’s often associated with the exclamation of obscene words or socially inappropriate and derogatory remarks. How does music [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #940 - Steamworks Spectacular - 03.02.09 Let’s all go to Steamworks! On today’s show we pick up our microphones and head on down to the sexiest place on earth- Steamworks gym sauna and baths to put on a show. Listen to hilarious performances by comedians Keith Ecker, Adam Guerino and Bill Cruz plus musical guests Tracy Tyler and Phil Putnam! If you’ve ever [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #772 - Mask On! - 02.27.09 I simply can’t stop looking at Maskon.com, one of my all-time favorite websites. Mask-on is a support site dedicated to trannies who like to “mask.” “Maskers” enjoy cross-dressing as women by using masks instead of make-up to create the illusion. They don’t really try to fool anyone into thinking they are actual flesh and bones women, but [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #939 - Cleve Jones Dances with Madonna - 02.26.09 You saw him at the Oscars, now on today’s show we have longtime gay rights activist Cleve Jones talking about what it was like to walk the red carpet at the Academy Awards, dance with Madonna at the after-party and hold Dustin Lance Black’s hand during the momentous evening. The Oscar win for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #938 - Oscar Hangover - 02.25.09 After the big ol’ lovefest known as the 81st Annual Academy Awards was over, the proverbial shit has hit the fan. Beyonce’s mild wardrobe malfunction passed the network censors but thanks to the magic of High Definition television, was caught by some titaltated fans. Will Beyonce’s mosquito bites unleash a dengue fever of puritanical [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #937 - A Taste of Ongina - 02.24.09 In the latest episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race, the reality TV show created to produce the next drag superstar, one of the contestants, Ongina, tearfully revealed she was HIV positive. Today we’re talking to Ongina, also known as Ryan Palao, about what it was like to boldly share this intimate detail with millions of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #936 - Oscarcast 2009 - 02.23.09 At 81 years of age, are the Oscars getting old and tired or becoming young and vigorous like Benjamin Button? One thing’s for sure, the Oscars are still the Superbowl for the Gays! Today we’re talking about the Oscars, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for excellence in the film [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #935 - Crazy for Coco Peru - 02.20.09 Outrageous, bold and honest, that’s Coco Peru! Everybody’s favorite drag queen from the Bronx is on today’s show to talk about her career, her love life and drag queens. Coco is best know for her work in the films Trick and Girls Will Be Girls, as well as an unforgettable appearance on the groundbreaking TV show [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #934 - Under the Hood with Jade - 02.19.09 The new reality tv show “RuPaul’s Drag Race” may be a hit, but “where’s the drama mama?” It’s not like drag queens don’t know how to throw a little shade. On today’s show we have Jade, a rising star in Chicago’s nightlife, here to take us under the hood of the hit TV show. Jade was [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #933 - Presidents’ Gay - 02.18.09 President’s Day, a day where we celebrate the contribution of many of our nation’s great presidents has come and gone, but one thing we’re often asked is which presidents were gay or even a little tranny? Do any of these political leaders look gay to you? On today’s show we examine the sexual [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #836 - Web One Point Oh! - 02.17.08 Some days you just feel like browsing back on those oldies but goodies. On today’s show our pal Michael Lehet joins us to reminisce on the golden moments of the internet, before viral videos, podcasts and blogs captured our heart and minds, the glory days of Web 1.0. Oh that great phenomena that amused us [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #932 - Party Time - 02.16.09 What a weekend! Friday the 13th preceded Valentines day this year. For some people, it’s two unlucky days in a row. Why does the universe have to be so cruel? Blogger Michael Lehet, bear movie night organizer, Jaimie Williamson and the shirtless Keith Ecker join us for a late night party and discussion of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #931 - Rendez-vous with Ramen Noodles - 02.13.09 You thought the last election was about change? Well in 2012, some believe a dwarf star will travel near the Earth and bring about profound spiritual transformation or an apocalypse, take your pick. We know a lot of you have been partying like it’s 1999 since 1983 and years 1984, 1999 and 2001 all came and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #930 - Mexican Golden Girls - 02.12.09 Las Mujeres Doradas means The Golden Girls in Spanish and we feel a little bit like a Mexican version of the campy 80s sitcom when hanging out with our good friend comedian Bill Cruz. On today’s show the very likable, big gay Mexican Bill Cruz joins us to talk about what it’s like to be [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #929 - Sweet, Sweet Candi - 02.11.09 Isn’t it an odd coincidence that this year Valentine’s Day lands on the day after Friday the 13th? For many, the romantic holiday is filled with anxiety that often puts relationships under the strain. To take the edge off, we love to window shop on our friend Candi Stratton’s online store, Sequin Queen.com and imagine [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #928 - Wines to Make Your Love Grow - 02.10.09 Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and we have the delightful Alpana Singh on today’s show to talk about wines to share with your loved ones. Alpana Singh is a master sommelier, blogger and weekly columnist for Chicago’s Redeye Newspaper and host of the four time Emmy Award-winning restaurant review TV show, Check, Please! on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #927 - RuPaul’s Drag Race Wins - 02.09.09 Work the runway sweetie! RuPaul is back on television, sashaying and shantaying her way into our hearts in her critically acclaimed new show RuPaul’s Drag Race. On today’s show we’re talking to Supermodel of the World RuPaul about how the Drag Race project came together and who she thinks is going to be the winner of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #925 - New Music Showcase - 02.05.09 What are some effective ways musicians can get their work heard and build a loyal audience? Gary Ward, also known as Gary Airedale, is here to talk about the music business and offer some insight into getting your music heard. Gary was fascinated by the live music scene and followed his passion to be [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #924 - The Escort, the Preacher and the Church - 02.04.09 On today’s show we’re talking to Mike Jones, the writer and escort who came forward several years ago with evidence of a gay sex affair with the Reverend Ted Haggard. One morning at the gym, while watching TV, Mike discovered that Ted Haggard was the true identity of one his regular sex clients. He knew he [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #923 - Spring Awakening - 02.03.09 Spring is just around the corner and we have our pretty song bird Tracy Tyler here to chirp away the winter blues. Our suburban trannie gal pal is here to share the hot new spring fashion trends and stories of hair do mishaps and wild sex! Now, Tracy’s sex stories are all true, but they [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #922 - Superbowl XL Ay, Ay, Ay! - 02.02.09 It’s Superbowl XL ay ay ay! Andale, arriba! Today we celebrate Feast of Fools as we enter our fifth year of podcasting. Yes folks, its been that long! Our first podcast in 2005 examined the Superbowl halftime show and the commercials that went with it. We’ve done one every year since. In 2005 a lot of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #921 - Thank Zeus for Xanadu! - 01.30.09 Ding dong, the cuckoo clock has run out for Governor Blagojevich. Yesterday the Illinois senate unanimously voted to impeach the unpopular Governor on corruption charges, in their best Donald Trump impersonation- you’re fired. Meanwhile HBO aired the awkward documentary, The Trails of Ted Haggard, which focused on the fallen homo-hungry evangelist. The short [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #920 - Deven Green Stimulates Your Economy - 01.29.09 Deven Green takes no prisoners. On today’s show we’ve got the very funny Deven Green, the queen of YouTube talking about how to stimulate the economy and turn garbage into gold. Deven cuts through the bull with razor precise karate chops and gets to the truth of what makes the world go round. Is America becoming [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #919 - Canary in the Coal Mine of Crazy - 01.28.09 Change is on the way! Obama’s health care leadership dramatically departs from the Bush days of dogma and ideology and moves forward into science-based decision making. Today we have Jim Pickett, AIDS activist and cheeky writer behind Lifelube.org, the gay men’s health and sexuality blog here to discuss the significant changes wecan expect in Obama’s Administration [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #918 - Kate Clinton Burns Bush - 01.27.09 For over 25 years, Kate Clinton has worked as a political commentator and comedian on stage and television, succeeding as an out lesbian. Before Ellen, Before Rosie and even before Lily Tomlin, there was Kate Clinton. A self-described Stonehenge lesbian, feminist humorist or fumerist, Clinton paved the way for many queer people in the world [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #917 - The Politics of Failure - 01.26.09 The politics of failure is taking center stage. Today we take a look at three fallen leaders and their relationship to the media. President Richard Nixon interviewed by David Frost. The film Frost/Nixon received several Oscar nominations for the portrayal of David Frost’s famous interview with disgraced President Richard Nixon. After seeing Frank Langella’s master [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #916 - The Hat that Wouldn’t Die - 01.22.09 Shine on you crazy rhinestones! Everyone still talking about and photoshopping themselves into Aretha Franklin’s gray bedazzled hat. The whole world’s gone gaga over Aretha’s sparkly gray hat. Even lesbian talk show host Ellen DeGeneres wore a crude copy of the $175 dollar creation of Luke Song, the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #915 - Living Outside Religion - 01.22.09 Is it possible to be gay and an atheist? On today’s show we have Greta Christina, a former peep show dancer and now a blog evangelist for atheism. Greta’s here to talk with us about living a fabulous life outside of religion and why you may be better off thinking of Jesus as Santa Claus. Join us [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #914 - Inaugural Balls - 01.21.09 History was made as Barack Hussein Obama became the 44th President of the United States, sworn to defend the U.S. Constitution which, at one time, defined blacks as three-fifths of a person. As our country’s 44th president, does Obama have the Formula 44 to relieve the symptoms that plague this nation? The very funny Cameron [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #913 - Lose the Should, Get the Good - 01.20.09 You may not realize it, but the way you think could be sabotaging your life. On today’s show we have marriage and family therapist Damon L. Jacobs here to to talk about his new book “Absolutely Shouldless: The Secret to Living the Stress-Free Life You Deserve.” Damon wants you to be happy and live a stress free [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #912 - Hot Gay Comic - 01.19.09 Just because you’re attractive doesn’t mean you can’t be funny. Writer and comedian Keith Ecker just broke up with his boyfriend six months ago and has worked hard to get in shape and pursue his dreams of becoming a professional comedian. And let me tell you, the guy looks goodand he’s funny. On today’s show [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #911 - Michael’s Plea - 01.16.09 At the age of 15, West Virginia resident Michael Schnyer met Wisconsinite Dean Juenke online. As their relationship grew more intense Michael decided to come out to his parents and reveal that he was having a romantic affair with a much older man whom he never actually met in in person. Michael’s parents in an attempt [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #910 - Slap an O on It - 01.15.09 The whole nation has Obama fever, as the Senator from Illinois plans to take the oath on Tuesday January 20 and become our nation’s first black president. Everything from key chains, candies and clothing has the Obama O logo slapped on it, even Spider Man is getting into the act. The latest issue of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #909 - King of the Cul De Sac - 01.14.09 Before Darren Stein went on to direct such fabulous films as Jawbreaker and Sparkler, he made short videos with his friends in their suburban cul de sac. His sophisticated short movies touched on adult subjects of jealousy, sexuality, violence and murder. The films were over the top, with titles like “Gay as a Whistle”and “Satan’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #908 - Kevin’s Oscar Picks - 01.13.09 Oscar! Oscar! Oscar! We’re not talking about the Odd Couple, we’re talking about the Academy Awards. What’s a golden globe? What’s the national board of review? What does this all mean? Kevin Thomas, your gay concierge joins us to share his picks and tricks on films and actors possibly up for an award this year. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #907 - What’s Hot When It’s Cold - 01.12.09 Just because it’s snowing outside doesn’t mean you should be staying in! On today’s show we’ve got Kevin Thomas, your gay concierge and friend to all bears (and their admirers) to talk about what’s hot on Broadway and in Chicago theater. A sizzling production of Miss Saigon is now playing at the Drury Lane [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #906 - Doma-Bama - 01.09.09 Bad cops, no donuts! That’s one of Andy Thayer’s favorite chants. Andy is a hard working longtime activist fighting for gay and lesbian rights with the Gay Liberation Network. Andy is leading this weekend’s demonstration against the Defense of Marriage Act. Will President Elect Obama repeal this awful measure? President to be Obama seems to speak [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #905 - Joining the Impact - 01.08.09 January is named after Janus, the Greek god of beginnings and endings. On today’s show we take a look back at last year and look forward to what’s to come. Did we stop the hate in 2008? Will we take the time to be divine in 2009? Or can we just stop the whine in 2009? [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #783 - Fanfare - 12.30.08 Cheerleaders, a studly viking and a ukele playing guy from New York join us on today’s overstuffed burrito of podcasting fun. Sometimes when you overbook your guests, you get a whole new exciting taste combination of fun and pleasure. On today’s show we have a superfan Jonas Åstrøm, musical guest Ben Lerman who’s star is quickly [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #904 - Incredibly Strange Christmas Music - 12.23.08 Christmas music connects us to a sense of childhood wonder bot it can also drive us mad! On today’s special eggnog flavored Feast of Fools we’re taking you sleigh ride of crazy as we play for you some of the most insane, scary, offensive and over the top Christmas themed music. We’ve got singing animals, fascist [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #903 - Jackie Beat Speaks - 12.22.08 Good drag queens are just like Christmas- loud, tacky and over the top! We’re so happy to have the award-winning drag queen, comedian and all around dirty bird- Jackie Beat for a very late night chat. We caught up with Jackie before her very very late night performance at Berlin nightclub, where she wowed the crowd [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #902 - Naked Santa and the Naughty Mrs. Claus - 12.19.08 Were you a good little boy, girl or intersexed child this year? If you were, you might be getting a visit from Naked Santa and the naughty Mrs. Claus! On today’s show we have the always hilarious Deven Green, YouTube Comedy sensation, known for her videos as “Brenda Dickson - Welcome to my Home” and Betty [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #901 - Holiday Fitness Tips and Tricks - 12.18.08 We love Ben Lerman so much we had to have him back! He sobered up a bit since yesterday’s show and he’s ready to engage us about some fascinating news and social trends. Who names their kids after fascist, racist dictators? Heath Campbell went to several cake shops trying to get his three-year-old’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #900 - No One Loves Christmas Like the Jews - 12.17.08 Did you know that many of the great Christmas songs were written by Jewish people? Mel Torme wrote “The Christmas Song,” Adolphe Adam wrote “O Holy Night,” Johnny Marks “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” and Irving Berlin wrote “White Christmas.” As comedian and conservative pundit Ben Stein said “No one loves Christmas like the Jews.” [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #899 - All Things Chocolate - 12.16.08 Who doesn’t love a little chocolate? On today’s show we’ve got a guy who works with it every single day- chef Pedro Gómez. He’s here to talk about all things Chocolate: it’s rich flavor, the history of chocolate in Mexico and Pedro’s fascinating erotic chocolate sculptures. We love to tease Pedro every year at the World [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #898 - Christmas Stalkings - 12.15.08 Christmas is the season for stalking hot men! Tracy loves to seek hunky men from her past on the internet, and sometimes it gets her into trouble. Some call it cruising, some call it social networking and others call it stalking. Tracy also reveals how she once broke up with a guy by dumping [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #897 - Kevin’s Tips for the Thrifty Holidays - 12.12.08 Just because the economy is in the bidet doesn’t mean that you can’t have any fun. On today’s show we have America’s lovable gay concierge Kevin Thomas, sharing his ideas on how to save money during this economic downturn and support the arts all at the same time. Cheap great shows to see in San Francisco, Chicago [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #896 - Rubbernecking on the Superhighway - 12.11.08 On today’s show we’ve got one Chicago most influential internet people, Andrew Huff, editor and publisher of Gaper’s Block, a Chicago Centric Online Magazine. A gaper’s block, for those of you who don’t know, is holdup in traffic caused by drivers slowing down to see what happened in an accident or other event on the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #895 - A World Without Gay People - 12.10.08 What would the world be like without gay people? On today’s show Marc Felion and myself Fausto Fernos try to go back into the closet, and play it straight. Believe me, it doesn’t last for long as the pretense of banging chicks quickly goes out the window. It’s hard playing straight so may be [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #894 - Santa Bear - 12.09.08 Santa Claus is the ultimate bear as a jolly plump fella, full of hair, flavor and gifts who is here to bring a sense of fertility and prosperity to the holiday season. On today’s show we have our friend Jamie Williamson, a local bear community organizer, here to talk about the Chicago bear scene, movie nights [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #893 - The Cornfields of Iowa - 12.08.08 Poor Marc! He got a chocolate advent calendar from Jonas one of our sexy Norwegian listeners and it’s real a torture, since he can only eat one candy a day, or suffer the consequences from Santa Claus- On today’s show Adam Guerino, our fabulously gay comedian friend talks about creating his “f-word” it list, (rhymes [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #892 - The Real Life Cleve Jones - 12.05.08 How far have we come in the fight for gay, lesbian, bisexual ans transgendered rights since the 1970s? Gus Van Sant’s new biographic film MILK brings forth a chilling timeliness with parallels to the anti-gay measures passed in the last election. Have we come a long way baby, or have we only just begun? On today’s show we [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #891 - Christmas with Peaches - 12.04.08 Merry Christmas! Ho ho ho. For many the mere thought of the holiday season is enough to send chills down your spine. Christmas films expose our anxieties and our desires around the pressure from both our families and society which urges us to spend, spend, spend. Whether it’s time or money, we are spending something [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #890 - It’s the Little Things - 12.03.08 Christmas is just around the corner, so we got our friend, America’s Lesbian Comic Sweetheart, Cameron Esposito, a Lesbian Sex cook book- Lesbian Sex: 101 Lovemaking Positions Just what she’s always wanted. A manual on nagging her girlfriend for more sex. Cameron’s busy getting ready for her tour to the UK and South Africa. Make sure [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #889 - Milk and Meat - 12.02.08 Thanksgiving has come and gone, but we’re stuck with a fridge full of delicious food, the only problem is it’s all TURKEY. What do you do with leftovers when the holidays have come and gone? You can really only eat so much Turkey Tetrazinni. On today’s show our good friend blogger Michael “too legit to quit” Lehet [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #662 - Ting A Ling - 12.01.08 Ask not for whom the bells jingle, they jingle for thee. What is up with Christmas themed music and that annoying, repetitive jingle you hear in almost every song out there? You know what I’m talking about, that jing-a-ling that makes even my ting-a-ling mind go batty with holiday-themed anxiety. On today’s show Marc and I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #829 - Stoking the Fire - 11.28.08 Rick Stokes did what almost every gay man in Kansas did back in the 1950s- he got married to a woman. His wife knew that he had a number of gay experiences before they got married but whether it was naivety or wishful thinking, they thought his desire for a gay life would go [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #888 - Tom Goss is in the House! - 11.26.08 What’s the true meaning of Thanksgiving? Either way, I can’t wait until my family arrives to start celebrating the holidays! To kick off the ‘Ving Break, we’ve got hunky musician Tom Goss to serenade you into the weekend and help us to finally discover the true spirit of the holiday season. Tom’s a former wrestler, priest [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #887 - Inventions Gone Wild - 11.25.08 If necessity is the mother of invention, then drag queens are the children of finding a shortcut to looking fabulous! When Teri Yaki isn’t busy entertaining audiences in Chicago, she buries herself in her basement coming up with real-life inventions to patent, with hopes of making enough money one day to own her own nightclub. Hailing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #886 - Turkey in My Tummy - 11.23.08 Gobble gobble! What better way to celebrate Thanksgiving than with Tracy Tyler, our fabulous trannie gal pal from the suburbs of Chicago. Tracy’s here to find the true meaning of Thanksgiving- is it being grateful? friends? Family? Or is it the food? Listen to today’s show for some fabulous new ideas on preparing the classic Thanksgiving dinner! We [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #885 - Chock Full of Nuts - 11.21.08 Why are there so many songs about rainbows, and what’s on the other side? And why is the internet chock full of nuts? On today’s show we’ve got one of our power listeners, Dr. Thom Cantey, a resident psychiatrist here in Chicago. He’s got some pretty strong opinions in regards to the recent passing of Proposition 8, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #884 - Tunnel of Love - 11.20.08 A healthy booty is a happy one! The butt is the final frontier, not just for food leaving the body, but it’s also a psychological, sexual place wherein lies desire and identity. In many ways, to ask people to accept gay men, is to ask them to understand and embrace anal sex. Yes, that is not [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #883 - Jann Klose Live - 11.19.08 Let’s get a little bit Kloser, don’t be shy. The German born, African raised Jann Klose is here in the home studio and he looks and sounds like a dream. Jann just dropped by the home studio to visit with us while he was in town to play at a tribute to musician Jeff Buckley [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #882 - Rev. Straight Talks About Prop. 8 - 11.18.08 How do you stop the hate in 2008? The recent passing of Proposition 8, a California State ballot aimed to take away the State’s ability to issue same-sex marriage licenses is raising questions on the role of race and sexuality in this last election. It’s also making people highly aware of the differences. Not everyone [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #881 - Eric Lutz is SO Gay - 11.17.08 Eric Lutz is SO gay! Well, that’s the name of the new drinking game so get a glass and a bottle and play along. Why is it so much fun to tease straight men? One pastime we gay men seem to enjoy is obsessing over the intangible nature of mixed orientation relationships. On today’s show [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #880 - Gay is Good, Gay is Great - 11.14.08 Going to a gay rights protest this weekend? We’ve got you covered. On today’s show we’re sharing our tips on making the most of your local gay rights protest and how to enjoy a fabulous and passionate fight for gay rights! This may be some people’s first time at a protest so please dress for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #879 - Rich Latin Flavor - 11.13.08 Sazon! It means flavor in spanish. Today we continue our delicious latin flavored podcast with our queer Puerto Rican friends Carlos Torres and Gerry Peréz. Carlos talks about the upcoming documentary “A Sealed Fate” about the plight of baby seals showing at the Silver room in Chicago on Wednesday December 3. And Gerry’s photography is showing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #878 - Puerto Rican Truth or Dare - 11.12.08 Lets talk about sex baby! On today’s Feast of Fools we’re getting jiggy with it as we examine the nature of three ways, rules for keeping it safe, sexy and fun. Marc always is telling me that if someone wants to play Truth or Dare with you, chances are they want to get you naked [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #508 - Lizz with Two Z�s - 10.06.08 You may not immediately recognize Lizz’s name, but you probably enjoy the fruits of her labor. Comedian and television producer Lizz Winstead created the news parody program “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central as a response to CNN’s paradigm shifting coverage of the first War in Iraq in the early 90s. Since it’s inception the show [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #853 - Horror Movies Every Gay Man Must See - 10.02.08 Look out behind you! Do not go in there! Watch out! You always see it coming, but somehow, the victim in many horror films is always ridiculously unaware that they are about to be bludgeoned to death. Why is that? On today’s show we’ve got movie maven Peaches Christ talking with us about Horror Movies every [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #852 - Standing Up to Bullies - 10.01.08 Bullies! Those awful people who abuse and manipulate you. What makes a person want to be like that? What gives them power? What happens when they grow up? Not only are a lot of young queer people on the receiving end of this type of abuse, but many of them are also the ones who [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #851 - Kneeling Before God - 09.30.08 Gay people are the backbone of many of the world’s great religions, but sadly under difficult times these Churches scapegoat some of their most beloved members. High ranking Catholic Church officials blamed the scandalous cover up of child molestation on the church’s tolerance of gay men. On today’s Feast of Fools we’ve got two authors [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #850 - Bears, Broadway and Beyond - 09.29.08 For people who want to experience the thrill of a Broadway show, they no-longer have to travel to Manhattan, many of the big hits on Broadway are now making their first run in theaters all across the U.S. On today’s show our lovable on-air concierge Kevin Thomas comes back to report on what’s coming soon to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #849 - Marching for Matthew Shepard - 09.26.08 It’s been 10 years since college student Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered in the town of Laramie, Wyoming. How far have we come in creating laws to protect queer folks from violent crimes? On today’s show we’ve got Wayne Besen- best known for Anything but Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #848 - Teri Yaki Becomes Amanda - 09.25.08 Kids, say hello to your new mommy! Teri Yaki’s been working hard to transform herself into Amanda Steinstein, for our very special What Not to Wear/Feast of Fools viewing party at Hydrate in Chicago on Oct 10. We’ll have a blast watching on a jumbo screen as we raid Amanda’s closest, try on some of her [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #847 - Clay Aiken is Gay! - 09.24.08 Clay Aiken gay? You bet! And that’s okay. The red-headed pop singer, best known as the second runner up in the second season of the TV singing competition American Idol came out of the closet as a gay man and is on the front cover of People magazine with his newborn son. Aiken says that he “cannot [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #846 - Chris Crocker Has His Mind in the Gutter - 09.23.08 Today’s show is hot hot hot! We’ve got two intense performers, internet sensation Chris Crocker and drag war drag queen Regina Upbright. Chris Crocker’s back with a hot new single- Mind in the Gutter- and it’s on top of the charts. Click here to get it now on iTunes for 99 cents. Join us as Chris talks [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #845 - Redefining Spirituality - 09.22.08 Many of the world’s religions often stand in the way in the advancement for gay rights. As churches struggle to reconcile with modern times, they often scapegoat their own queer members in order to retain influence and power. Because of this, a lot of people feel animosity to the religions they grew up with and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #844 - Let Your Freak Flag Fly Freely - 09.19.08 Get your fetish gear ready folks! Whip it up. Whooo. On today’s Feast of Fools we’ve got Demetri Moshoyannis, he’s the sexy executive director for the Folsom Street Fair, one of the largest spectator events in California. As one of the few occasions when sadomasochistic activities are encouraged and performed in public, it attracts a considerable [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #844 - Let Your Freak Flag Fly Freely - 09.19.08 Get your fetish gear ready folks! Whip it up. Whooo. On today’s Feast of Fools we’ve got Demetri Moshoyannis, he’s the sexy executive director for the Folsom Street Fair, one of the largest spectator events in California. As one of the few occasions when sadomasochistic activities are encouraged and performed in public, it attracts a considerable [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #843 - The Pulse on Boystown - 09.18.08 On today’s show we have Nirmalpal Sachdev, the general manager of Steamworks and Sean Kotwa, the gayest manager at the gay nightclub Hydrate who have the pulse on Chicago’s gay neighborhood - Boystown. They’re here to tell us all about the scene and fantastic events happening this month and next such as Lube Wrestling, Steamworks [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #843 - The Pulse on Boystown - 09.18.08 On today’s show we have Nirmalpal Sachdev, the general manager of Steamworks and Sean Kotwa, the gayest manager at the gay nightclub Hydrate who have the pulse on Chicago’s gay neighborhood - Boystown. They’re here to tell us all about the scene and fantastic events happening this month and next such as Lube Wrestling, Steamworks [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #842 - Laughter Fluffer - 09.17.08 On today’s show we’ve got the delightful Jacob Hatchkevitch, a Chicago comic actor and writer who’s busy planning several exciting events with his comedy troupe - Laughter Fluffers. Check out his upcoming shows- Bob Rauschenburg America, Into the Loop at Second City and A Night of Deadly Sins: Embracing the Inner Sinner that benefits Chicago Fusion [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #842 - Laughter Fluffer - 09.17.08 On today’s show we’ve got the delightful Jacob Hatchkevitch, a Chicago comic actor and writer who’s busy planning several exciting events with his comedy troupe - Laughter Fluffers. Check out his upcoming shows- Bob Rauschenburg America, Into the Loop at Second City and A Night of Deadly Sins: Embracing the Inner Sinner that benefits Chicago Fusion [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #841 - The Sexiest City in America - 09.16.08 What is it about Milwaukee that turns the editors of Marie Claire magazine on so much? They have proclaimed Milwaukee to be the sexiest city in America because it is “the nation’s summer-festival epicenter.” It is a place where “NASCAR tailgaters, Lebanese dabka dance fans and Foo Fighters freaks (are) all welcome.” i [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #841 - The Sexiest City in America - 09.16.08 What is it about Milwaukee that turns the editors of Marie Claire magazine on so much? They have proclaimed Milwaukee to be the sexiest city in America because it is “the nation’s summer-festival epicenter.” It is a place where “NASCAR tailgaters, Lebanese dabka dance fans and Foo Fighters freaks (are) all welcome.” i [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #840 - Frat Brothers - 09.15.08 It’s rush season on the Feast of Fools people! We’ve got a whole fraternity of handsome fellas in the home studio and I’m feeling like throwing my own toga party. Whooo!!! Toga, toga toga! In the mid 80s several frat brothers organized Delta Lambda Phi, as a way to offer a social environment and structure [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #840 - Frat Brothers - 09.15.08 It’s rush season on the Feast of Fools people! We’ve got a whole fraternity of handsome fellas in the home studio and I’m feeling like throwing my own toga party. Whooo!!! Toga, toga toga! In the mid 80s several frat brothers organized Delta Lambda Phi, as a way to offer a social environment and structure [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #839 - Bette Davis Stamps - 09.12.08 We’ve got a special delivery for you today! Tracy Tyler joins us to talk about the new Bette Davis Stamp released by the US. Postal Service. The legendary Hollywood actress will be honored on September 18, 2008 on the 100th anniversary of her birth as a postage stamp in the Legends of Hollywood Series stamps. Our [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #839 - Bette Davis Stamps - 09.12.08 We’ve got a special delivery for you today! Tracy Tyler joins us to talk about the new Bette Davis Stamp released by the US. Postal Service. The legendary Hollywood actress will be honored on September 18, 2008 on the 100th anniversary of her birth as a postage stamp in the Legends of Hollywood Series stamps. Our [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #838 - September 11 Cake - 09.11.08 It’s hard to find the right words to talk about the painful and tragic events taking place on September 11, 2001. Do you say “Happy September Eleven?” or “May Your September Eleven be a Solemn And Peaceful Day.” We all wish each other “happy” Memorial Day, so why not on Sept. 11 and other death-related [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #838 - September 11 Cake - 09.11.08 It’s hard to find the right words to talk about the painful and tragic events taking place on September 11, 2001. Do you say “Happy September Eleven?” or “May Your September Eleven be a Solemn And Peaceful Day.” We all wish each other “happy” Memorial Day, so why not on Sept. 11 and other death-related [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #837 - Pinching Pennies - 09.10.08 Get ready to pinch your pennies. On today’s show we’ve got Jay Shaff- gay photographer and long term tightwad here to share with us his quick and easy tips on saving money and surviving the downturn in the economy. Listen how you can save money on food, transportation, socializing and utilities- how can you make the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #837 - Pinching Pennies - 09.10.08 Get ready to pinch your pennies. On today’s show we’ve got Jay Shaff- gay photographer and long term tightwad here to share with us his quick and easy tips on saving money and surviving the downturn in the economy. Listen how you can save money on food, transportation, socializing and utilities- how can you make the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #836 - Web One Point Oh! - 09.09.08 CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE SHOW | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES Some days you just feel like browsing back on those oldies but goodies. On today’s show our pal Michael Lehet joins us to reminisce on the golden moments of the internet, before viral videos, podcasts and blogs captured our heart and minds, the glory days of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #836 - Web One Point Oh! - 09.09.08 CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE SHOW | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES Some days you just feel like browsing back on those oldies but goodies. On today’s show our pal Michael Lehet joins us to reminisce on the golden moments of the internet, before viral videos, podcasts and blogs captured our heart and minds, the glory days of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #835 - HIV, AIDS and the Law - 09.08.08 CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE SHOW | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES For 20 years, the AIDS Legal Council of Chicago (ALCC) has been fighting to protect the legal rights of not just people with HIV, but all of us with regards to this challenging sexually transmitted disease. On today’s show Justin Hayford, the case manager for the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #835 - HIV, AIDS and the Law - 09.08.08 CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE SHOW | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES For 20 years, the AIDS Legal Council of Chicago (ALCC) has been fighting to protect the legal rights of not just people with HIV, but all of us with regards to this challenging sexually transmitted disease. On today’s show Justin Hayford, the case manager for the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #834 - The Legacy of Liberace - 09.05.08 CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE SHOW | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES Put on your rhinestone covered headphones, we’ve got a dazzling show for you today! Is it possible to put a million rhinestones into this podcast? From Las Vegas, we salute one of the great ones, Liberace- the flamboyant musician who’s showbiz style and ornate [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #834 - The Legacy of Liberace - 09.05.08 CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE SHOW | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES Put on your rhinestone covered headphones, we’ve got a dazzling show for you today! Is it possible to put a million rhinestones into this podcast? From Las Vegas, we salute one of the great ones, Liberace- the flamboyant musician who’s showbiz style and ornate [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #833 - Project Drag Queen - 09.04.08 CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE SHOW If you love drag queens and Project Runway, today is the show for you! We’ve got New York City’s very own Miss Understood of Screaming Queens talking about the Drag Queen Challenge on the hit reality TV show Project Runway. Miss Understood spills the beans on how reality TV shows are [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #833 - Project Drag Queen - 09.04.08 CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE SHOW If you love drag queens and Project Runway, today is the show for you! We’ve got New York City’s very own Miss Understood of Screaming Queens talking about the Drag Queen Challenge on the hit reality TV show Project Runway. Miss Understood spills the beans on how reality TV shows are [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #832 - In a World With Hope - 09.03.08 CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE SHOW Today we bid a tearful goodbye to Don La Fontaine, the King of Voice overs who lent his voice for over three decades to over five thousand movie trailers. The man popularized the catch phrase “In a world where…” and helped define the industry of professional movie trailer voice overs. In [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #832 - In a World With Hope - 09.03.08 CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE SHOW Today we bid a tearful goodbye to Don La Fontaine, the King of Voice overs who lent his voice for over three decades to over five thousand movie trailers. The man popularized the catch phrase “In a world where…” and helped define the industry of professional movie trailer voice overs. In [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #831 - Noisy Road Trip - 09.02.08 We drove up to Saugatuck, Michigan for Labor Day Weekend with Tracy Tyler to chill and hang out at Marc’s cousin’s lovely place. We were excited to go see what all the fuss was all about. After all, Saugatuck sounds a lot like of other things. The place certainly earns its title as the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #831 - Noisy Road Trip - 09.02.08 We drove up to Saugatuck, Michigan for Labor Day Weekend with Tracy Tyler to chill and hang out at Marc’s cousin’s lovely place. We were excited to go see what all the fuss was all about. After all, Saugatuck sounds a lot like of other things. The place certainly earns its title as the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #729 - The Golden Standard - 09.01.08 Ever notice how crazy people LOVE to talk about gold? Specifically the gold standard. If you’re ever at a party and someone starts ranting about how our economy is built on a house of cards because our currency isn’t based on gold anymore, put your cocktail down slowly walk away. Believing that we should revert [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #729 - The Golden Standard - 09.01.08 Ever notice how crazy people LOVE to talk about gold? Specifically the gold standard. If you’re ever at a party and someone starts ranting about how our economy is built on a house of cards because our currency isn’t based on gold anymore, put your cocktail down slowly walk away. Believing that we should revert [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #830 - An All You Can Eat Buffet of Hope - 08.29.08 Bam! Obama for President. The Illinois Senator wowed everyone, even Republicans last night as he graciously accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for President of the U.S. to the A. Okay? Okay. He managed to work in quotes from Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I have a Dream” speech and even the play “A Raisin in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #830 - An All You Can Eat Buffet of Hope - 08.29.08 Bam! Obama for President. The Illinois Senator wowed everyone, even Republicans last night as he graciously accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for President of the U.S. to the A. Okay? Okay. He managed to work in quotes from Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I have a Dream” speech and even the play “A Raisin in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #829 - Stoking the Fire - 08.28.08 Rick Stokes did what almost every gay man in Kansas did back in the 1950s- he got married to a woman. His wife knew that he had a number of gay experiences before they got married but whether it was naivety or wishful thinking, they thought his desire for a gay life would go [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #829 - Stoking the Fire - 08.28.08 Rick Stokes did what almost every gay man in Kansas did back in the 1950s- he got married to a woman. His wife knew that he had a number of gay experiences before they got married but whether it was naivety or wishful thinking, they thought his desire for a gay life would go [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #828 - The Battle for Equality - 08.26.08 Ding dong, somebody’s getting married on today’s Feast of Fools, could it be you? We’ve got a blue light special on gay marriage as we talk to Bill Stewart, K-Mart’s former Chief Marketing Officer who left his job and lucrative salary to campaign full time on his own dime to maintain marriage equality in California. Stewart [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #828 - The Battle for Equality - 08.26.08 Ding dong, somebody’s getting married on today’s Feast of Fools, could it be you? We’ve got a blue light special on gay marriage as we talk to Bill Stewart, K-Mart’s former Chief Marketing Officer who left his job and lucrative salary to campaign full time on his own dime to maintain marriage equality in California. Stewart [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #827 - Hard to Say Goodbye - 08.25.08 We couldn’t stay away from the City By the Bay, so we stayed one more day with Kevin who is fabulous! And gay. So gay he makes a rainbow flag seem modest. Being in San Francisco and Las Vegas and meeting up with YOU, our listeners in both of these fabulous cities was a real [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #827 - Hard to Say Goodbye - 08.25.08 We couldn’t stay away from the City By the Bay, so we stayed one more day with Kevin who is fabulous! And gay. So gay he makes a rainbow flag seem modest. Being in San Francisco and Las Vegas and meeting up with YOU, our listeners in both of these fabulous cities was a real [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #826 - The Day After - 08.25.08 What a night! Trannyshack’s Kiss-Off party came and went without a hitch, marking the end of an era in San Francisco’s drag scene and the start of a new one for all involved. Over 3,000 delighted fans showed up at the Regency Center on Saturday night to watch some of the country’s best drag queens [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #826 - The Day After - 08.25.08 What a night! Trannyshack’s Kiss-Off party came and went without a hitch, marking the end of an era in San Francisco’s drag scene and the start of a new one for all involved. Over 3,000 delighted fans showed up at the Regency Center on Saturday night to watch some of the country’s best drag queens [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #825 - Is This DEEE-END of Trannyshack? - 08.22.08 I love having celebrities in my hotel room. On today’s show we’ve got three delicious stars in our penthouse suite at the Hotel Mark Twain in San Francisco- Peaches Christ, Heklina, and Lady Miss Kier! The three of them, along with a multitude other fabulous performers will be working the stage on Saturday night at the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #824 - Finding Gold in San Francisco - 08.21.08 If you’re looking for gold in San Francisco, you can find it in the hearts and minds of every creative spirit that resides in the city, and in the warm hospitality we’ve found at the Hotel Mark Twain. Okay, maybe I’ve been huffing the fumes a bit, but we’re just tickled pink by the graciousness [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #823 - Room Service - 08.20.08 We’re in San Francisco! As the cradle of gay culture, the City by the Bay is home to fabulous folks who’ve shaped the way we think of all things rainbow. Why did it become so gay? Was it the sailors that settled here after World War II? Was it the gold miners shacking up during [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #822 - Twitter Suicide - 08.19.08 Nick Starr feels more comfortable text messaging than he does placing a phone call. Watching him work his iPhone, I see that his text message function gets used a whole lot. As an internet junkie Nick embraced texting early on, before it became many people’s primary form of communication. He was also one of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #821 - Preparing for Disaster - 08.18.08 We’re in Las Vegas! A city full of bright lights, slot machines, lavish shows and tacky things everywhere. A great place to visit, but being surrounded by so many people gambling the night away on slot machines and roulette wheels makes me panic a little. Like the end of the world is near. Las Vegas [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #820 - The Mind Body Connection - 08.15.08 How is the internet affecting us? Recently we held a public form (with LifeLube) on the topic on how online communites, podcasts, forums, blogs and videos are changing not only the way we see ourselves, but how the general public thinks about queer folks. Let’s face it. There’s a whole lot of crazy on the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #819 - Mini Cows and Killer Crocs - 08.14.08 Gaybies beware! Kathy Griffin is on the rampage. In case you’ve missed the best reality show on television, comedian Kathy Griffin hit an off-key with some of the gays who have opted to become parents otherwise know as gaybies. On today’s show Curtis Jensen joins us to talk about his crazy friend’s outrage [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #818 - Shake It Again Sister - 08.11.08 We’ve got the Shaker Sisters today- Robyn Monks and Jen Zias, join us to talk about their debut album All Night Through- a fabulous collection of country and pop songs about the trials and tribulations of being a woman, or a gay guy. Christmas in July comes but once a year or does it? Robyn shares [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #817 - Dog Clone Lady - 08.11.08 Some guys just know how to take a good photo. As I was walking around Market Days this weekend, I asked a hunk in his swimming trunks to pose for me and usually most hunks turn to the camera and smile, well, this guy turned his face upwards and started tugging on his swim trunks. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #816 - Market Days Madness - 08.11.08 What a weekend! Chicago almost busted at the seams as over 200,000 people came from all parts of the world to hang out, celebrate and enjoy the perfect weather, music and sexy people walking around Lakeview for Northalsted Street Market Days. Steamworks didn’t disappoint with their fantastic twister inspired booth. With the hunky guys playing the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #778 - Voluptous Diva - 06.12.08 Diva! Diva! Diva! Kennidi Monroe just put out her very first single and it has a catchy riff. What is it? Voluptuous Diva. It’s the word “diva” over and over and over again. The song seems like a Saturday Night Live sketch in extremis, and we love it. The campy awkwardness is disarming and it’s fun [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #777 - Dinner, Then the Sex - 06.11.08 The story of Lena’s life reads like pages of a pulp fiction novel with drama, intrigue, a music career and time spent in prison for being wrongly accused as a Russian spy by her husband for leaving him. Welcome to Lena, population fabulous. Lena’s a Russian-born rock musician who lives in our neighborhood of Andersonville and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #776 - Alpana�s Summer Wines - 06.10.08 In the camp classic Myra Brenkinridge, Mae West sang that to experience life fully “You’ve gotta taste all the fruit, you’ve gotta drink all the wine.” And boy do we like to enjoy life fully! On today’s show, Alpana Singh, the youngest female master sommelier in the world, returns to talk about what’s hot to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #685 - Peaches Christ Will Save You - 06.08.08 WWPCW? What Would Peaches Christ Watch? A campy horror film with lots of gratuitous sex, violence and wild women on the verge of insanity, of course! Brainchild of filmmaker Joshua Grannell, Peaches Christ is well known in San Francisco for the 10-year-running Midnight Mass movie events where drag queens perform tacky skits before the screening of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #775 - Unusual Beauty Treatments - 06.06.08 Every now and then you have one of those golden moments that just make you so happy that you feel golden and everything you touch is shiny and golden. These moments are rare like the unexpected phone call inviting you to a fabulous event or a card from a long lost love trying to reconnect. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #774 - Inside Gay Travel - 06.05.08 Summer is here and the warm weather beckons us to travel. Pack your bags, because on today’s show we’re talking to two of the hottest gay tour providers, Joel Cabrera and Bryan Herb who run Zoom Vacations, the award-winning Gay Travel Company. This real-life gay couple run the company together, putting together fun stylish, authentic and care-free [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #773 - Beyond Two Girls One Cup - 06.04.08 The internet is changing us in significant new ways. This past year at IML, the International Mr. Leather Expo in Chicago, there was an air of openness and comfort that I have never seen before. I guess after everyone saw the 2 Girls 1 Cup gross out video, nothing is too shocking or extreme anymore. Your [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Mask? We like to joke that the masking fetish is really for lazy trannies who don’t want to go through the trouble of putting on make up. It’s fun to say but it may not be true. Everyone Forever described the desire for masking as “from the wearer’s point of view, the mask provides an opportunity [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #772 - Mask On! - 06.03.08 I simply can’t stop looking at Maskon.com, one of my all-time favorite websites. Mask-on is a support site dedicated to trannies who like to “mask.” “Maskers” enjoy cross-dressing as women by using masks instead of make-up to create the illusion. They don’t really try to fool anyone into thinking they are actual flesh and bones women, but [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #771 - Leather and Lace - 06.02.08 IML, the International Mr. Leather conference came and went last week here in Chicago and we’re still recovering from the dizzying hurricane of leathermen, human dogs, bondage queens, otters, bears and furries! There was two of every kind, and then some at this sexual menagerie of all kinds of fetishes last weekend. The colorful sexual diversity [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #770 - Obsession with Candy - 05.30.08 Some of the most popular queer content found online and in traditional media is our collective fascination with famous actors, musicians and public figures. Why do gay men obsess on it so, and why does this type of content so appealing? On today’s show writer and former drag queen Josh Kilmer-Purcell, well known for his best [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #769 - Madonna, Ben and Us - 05.29.08 Ben’s back in town to perform at Mary’s Attic this Friday and Saturday and we highly recommend the show. We chat with Ben about his FAME moment when he started posing for “artistic” photos and wound up naked with only his ukelele to cover his manhood. Madonna’s was awfully courageous to do a collaboration with Justin Timberlake, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #768 - Far Out Fashion - 05.28.08 We have a passion for fashion, especially when it gets a little weird. We found lots of hot fashion for you to enjoy. Say hello to Hello Kitty, the fashion icon created by Sanrio,has been named ambassador for tourism by the government of Japan. As ambassador, I wonder if she will have diplomatic immunity [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #767 - Viral Animals - 05.27.08 Everybody loves animals. Even if you don’t have a pet, you can’t help but ooh and aw over a dancing squirrel, a skateboarding dog or a cute cat. Is our collective fascination over animals a genuine interest in them, or part of a larger desire to see our own human qualities in the world around us? Disney [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #714 - I Love My Divas, But I Don�t Have Any Friends - 05.26.08 I love my divas, but I don’t have any friends. If you find yourself asking this question, have we got a show for you! Joining us on today’s podcast is Jason McVicker, Director of Mental Health Services for the Center on Halsted -the Midwest’s largest GLBT community center. Besides providing daily help to many gays in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #539 - Human Dogs - 05.23.07 You’ve heard some people say “all men are dogs.” Well these guys take it to the limit! On today’s show we’re talking to our die-hard power listener Pup Don, who happens to be into Pup-Play- someone who’s sexual fetish is to go around on all fours pretending to be a dog. He’s brought over his pals [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #766 - Fun with Fur - 05.22.08 Live in Chicago? Go see Avenue Q the Musical. Now. The furry, award-winning musical conceived by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx is now playing in Chicago at the Cadillac Palace Theater until June 7. Avenue Q the Musical pays a satirical homage to children’s television programs like Sesame Street and The Electric Company. It is a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #765 - Fighting for Your Diva - 05.21.08 Don’t mess with a Mariah Carey fan! They will cut you. A Naples Florida guy and his alleged girlfriend were listening to the music by the star of Glitter when another car pulled up alongside at an intersection and shouted the fan a derogatory name for grooving to her music. You can probably guess what [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #764 - Angels, Devils and Aliens - 05.20.08 The Vatican has been huffing a little too much of its own incense. They are saying it’s ok to belive in aliens. You go girl! This past week their cheif astronomer, the Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes said that the “vastness of the universe means it’s possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #763 - After School Special - 05.19.08 Ever wonder what Amanda Steinstein was like in high school? Pretty much the way she was today. Surprise surprise! Join us for a very special Feast of Fools as Amanda is reunited twenty years later with her high school gal pal Louise who has since become a man named Lukas. Lukas compares discovering what his true gender [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #762 - But I�m a Cheerleader - 05.16.08 Give me and F! Give me an O! Give me another F! What does that spell? A-W-E-S-O-M-E P-O-D-C-A-S-T. I know it’s a bit much, but bear with me. On today’s show we’re cheering our little lungs out for pride, yes, pride because California’s Supreme Court declared that gay couples in the nation’s most populous state [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #761 - Bucking the System - 05.15.08 Michael Buckley will do almost anything to entertain you; cartwheels, hand stands and even a little skin show. Flipping snarky catchphrases with insightful quips on celebrity news and popular culture, Connecticut based Michael Buckley’s video blog “What the Buck” bitingly comments at lighting speed on the nature of celebrity and the ridiculousness of fame. His quick-paced, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #760 - If It Ain�t GayCo, Don�t Fix It - 05.14.08 Aren’t they cute? Comedians Jim Bennet and Andy Eninger from GayCo, the Chicago based queer comedy troupe join us today to celebrate over a decade of fun-filled shows. GayCo began as a lesbigay focused workshop at the famed Second City Comedy Troupe in Chicago. Remember when everyone thought Whitney Houston was a closet lesbian? Their first [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #759 - Poke In The Eye - 05.13.08 If you’re ever attacked by a shark or giant beast, there really is one thing to do: poke it in the eye. This poor guy survived a shark attack which could have killed him. The Australian swimmer described his technique for escape as “I found it’s eye and I poked it in the eye, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #758 - Kennidi is Sorry - 05.12.08 Kennidi is sorry. And she apologizes too. Kennidi told us she’s really really sorry for picking on video blogger Chris Crocker in the show comments last week. Fessing up that she was doing it all for attention, our southern belle promises from now on to keep her videos focused on positive ideas and outrageous tranny [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #757 - Pre-Cycling - 05.09.08 Everybody is going green these days, and I’m not talking about the incredible hulk! Whoo I’d love to be around the ONE time his pants finally ripped off when he transformed. No, were talking about the environment. Green is no longer obscene, green is in. In case you’ve been living under a rock, the fashion [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #756 - Chris Crocker Tells on You - 05.08.08 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #754 - Work the Runway Steven - 05.06.08 Steven Rosengard was the first Chicago based designer to be on Project Runway, the fabulous reality television show where contestants compete against each other to create the best clothes. Their designs are judged and one or more of the contestants are eliminated each week. Project Runway Season Four was filled with a lot of great talent [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #753 - Cinco de Mayo Clinic - 05.05.08 Happy Cinco de Mayo everybody! Okay, so it’s a little hard to celebrate the Mexican equivalent of St. Patrick’s day, a drinking holiday, on a Monday, but bear with us. Sal-E joins us to start off the show right with a pitch shifted, hi-NRG version of La Bamba. Then afterwards we serve up a little [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #752 - Good Sex, Bad Sex - 05.02.08 Sex is like lot like pizza- no matter how bad it is it’s still pretty good. But the thing with sex is that everyone thinks they are the greatest lover, but sex is also like baseball; everyone can play baseball, but how many of us are good enough to make it to the world series? In [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #751 - Return of the Diva - 04.31.08 She was left for dead when her next door neighbor stabbed her in the neck, suddenly and without warning. Luckily she had the presence of mind to call 911. That phone call saved her life. On today’s show singer songwriter Mekole Wells lives to tell her story of her near death and then being confronted with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #750 - Transgender Menace - 04.30.08 I am a woman, ok? Tracy is in a bit of a quandry. Our modern day suburban tranny Tracy Tyler is in a bit of a stick since she got cast as a man in a local production of the musical Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Since Tracy has spent the past couple [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #749 - Do Crazy Women Wear Tiaras? - 04.29.08 Only crazy people, beauty pageant winners, drag queens and royalty wear tiaras- when it comes to the folks of the Windy City Empire, you can check “all the above.” It’s always such a nutty delight to see them out and about in your local gay bar holding court and raising money for a wide variety [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #748 - Teriyaki Sauced - 04.28.08 Sit tight! We’ve got a drag-queen filled, delicious roller coaster ride of podcasting for you today. Sal-E’s best gal-pal Teri Yaki joins us to talk about why so many people love to claim a drag queen as their best friend, why drag queens fight so much with each other and the origins of his delicious [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #747 - Ukulele Dreamer - 04.25.08 Ben is banging away on the ukulele on today’s show and I couldn’t be happier! Who doesn’t love the Hawaii’s contribution to the world of music when it’s accompanied by funny lyrics? On today’s show we’re talking to Indiana born, New York City living comic-musician Ben Lerman. Ben’s touring the country promoting his new CD “Ukelear [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #746 - B. Scott is Hot - 04.24.08 Video blogger B. Scott is all about the love. So much in fact that he puts the word love even before his name on his YouTube channel and blog LoveBScott. As one of the most viewed video bloggers on YouTube, some of B. Scott’s video entries have been seen by about the same number [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #745 - Adult Baby Party - 04.23.08 Waah! Sometimes you feel like a big baby and wish all you had to worry about was learning how to walk and when your next feeding will be. But let’s face it, the world of a child is a strange new world that can be very frightening. Still many adults find pleasure in dressing up [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #744 - Art Abuse - 04.22.08 Poor Enrique Iglesias! The dreamy son of latin crooner Julio Iglesias is so fed up from people thinking he has a small penis that he’s issued a press release stating he has a large dick. I believe you Enrique, but we still need visual confirmation. About six years ago, Enrique joked in an interivew that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #743 - Shine on Jeffree Star - 04.21.08 Think Pink! Queen of the Internet, fashion model and indie musician Jeffree Star joins us today to talk about his new single “Heart Surgery Isn’t That Bad” and his tour across the U.S. Since the young age of 15, Jeffree began blogging and posting haunting photos of himself in makeup. Six years later and at the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #742 - Live from Steamworks - 04.18.08 It’s the show you’ve all been waiting for, our LIVE podcast from Steamworks! Of all places indeed. We packed up the microphones and recording equipment and took our booties down to the Happiest Place on Earth, also known as Steamworks on 3246 N Halsted Street in Chicago. What a turn out! No longer do I need to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #741 - Birthday Wishes - 04.17.08 It’s my birthday! We’re gonna party like it’s your birthday and drink Bacardi, like it’s your birthday… Don’t you just love this cake? We went to our neighborhood Swedish Bakery to get my favorite chocolate birthday cake and we asked the nice young woman behind the counter to write “Happy Birthday Fausto - Do NOT Sit [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #740 - Bitch Please! - 04.15.08 Bitch! No, I’m not talking about yo’ momma, I’m talking about Bitch with a captial B, the righteous musician best known for being part of the former indie rock band Bitch and Animal and for her appearance in the groundbreaking film “Shortbus.” Bitch’s fierce Amazon-like presence brings forth a great sense of humor and vulnerability that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #739 - Cougars Just Wanna Have Fun - 04.15.08 Growl! Cougars are on the prowl. On today’s show our pal Jim Pickett introduces us to a new term: COUGAR. Think of it as M.I.L.F. (Mother I’d Like to F*ck) but a little older and a lot more sexually aggressive. Are we seeing a new sexual identify forming here? It seems it is becoming all [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #737 - Big Girl Party - 04.14.08 Every weekend in the burbs of Chicago, big girls and their admirers get together for a party and two weekends ago our large and in charge pal Tracy Tyler attended and was the belle of the ball. Listen as Tracy Tyler shares her delicious story about going to the big girl party and hooking up. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #736 - Chix and Waffles - 04.11.08 It’s okay to eat chicken and waffles. Really. But some people think it’s gross, even though Oprah several years ago talked about how she just loved to put away a plate of grilled chicken and waffles. I’ve had them too and it’s delicious! Sadly though, a Chicago and a Los Angeles restaurant specializing in the exotic [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #736 - Finding Your Inner Beauty - 04.10.08 Kennidi just won’t eat her vegetables. Why not? Every trans-gal needs to get her green on. Most veggies have estrogenic properties, which ultimately help both men and women maintain a healthy balance inside and out. Eating a plate of watercress isn’t going to give you boobs or put hair on your chest- vegetables just have [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #735 - Tweet Tweet - 04.09.08 Tweet tweet indeed! If you think podcasts are the sole domain of the odd and unusual, you’re wrong. A British radio station has become an unlikely hit by broadcasting nothing but a twenty minute loop of the ambient sound of a country garden with birds a-twittering in the background. It’s lovely I tells ya, governor. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chita Sings, Dances and Wears Crazy Costumes Chita Rivers sings, dances and wears some pretty crazy costumes. She is an amazing talent and I wonder how she ended up in some of these acts. Here she is on the Carol Burnett show cooking, dancing and singing in a spacesuit. Food, space and hot men, what else could you want? And the you have [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #648 - Starrbootylicious - 04.08.08 Get your booty in high gear people! The most famous drag queen in the world, RuPaul joins us for real on today’s show. Well known for her 1993 chart topping release Supermodel, RuPaul Charles is still going on strong as a drag queen, comedian, musician and filmmaker. RuPaul literally became the first drag queen supermodel after [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #658 - Alexyss Power - 04.07.08 Alexyss K. Tylor is a woman on a mission. Having been kicked out of her home as a teenager by her mom for being in a lesbian relationship, she’s made it her calling to help us liberate our libido, our collective vaginas, penises and sperm in order to lead a happy healthy life. Far out, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #635 - Podcast of the Apes - 04.04.08 The planet of the apes might be closer than you think! Killer monkeys in India have gone too far, when last week they took out a senior Indian government official in his own home. New Delhi deputy mayor SS Bajwa died after being pushed off his balcony by a gang of Rhesus macaques. Part of the problem [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #734 - Reverend Straight - 04.03.08 The Rev. Charles Straight was there when it happened. In the eighties he was a phlebotomist as the AIDS crisis exploded, when it was still called GRID or Gay Related Immune Disorder. Today he’s the assistant pastor of Wesley United Methodist Church and preaches about how we must address our fear of gays when dealing with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #733 - The Truth in the Lies - 04.02.08 Today we reveal all the answers to the Feast of Fools Quiz! Congratulations to Cliff Dix and Sebastian Keenan who tied for first place. They got the most answers right, even though they both got three answers wrong. Several people tried to change their answers after what they considered to be their first draft but [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #732 - She Had it Coming - 04.01.08 We are such babies. We’re only ten year’s old! Can you believe it? The Feast of Fools is starting its second decade in show business. We seen a lot of transformation through the years and we look forward to do a lot of new and exciting things in the future. We hope you come along [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #731 - Bear it Up - 03.31.08 Bobaloo aye! Bobaloo is NOT a Cuban spirit of illness and disease made famous in the song by Desi Arnaz, but rather a comedian and he’s on today’s show. Bobaloo joins us to share his experiences in the world of being a bear comic. Bobaloo moved from Milwaukee to LA on a whim and he [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Uneasy Lies The Head That Wears The Crown We loved hanging out with Kennidi and Reina at Paper Dolls, the drag show at Mary’s Attic which is held every Thursday night. The host of the drag show is Mercedes, who was recently crowned the reigning Miss Continental Plus 2008. Miss Continental Plus is THE pageant for plus sized female impersonators. We’ve been [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Uneasy Lies The Head That Wears The Crown We loved hanging out with Kennidi and Reina at Paper Dolls, the drag show at Mary’s Attic which is held every Thursday night. The host of the drag show is Mercedes, who was recently crowned the reigning Miss Continental Plus 2008. Miss Continental Plus is THE pageant for plus sized female impersonators. We’ve been [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #730 - The Nature of Addiction - 03.28.08 They should know better but for some reason well-to do gay men in the Midwest turn to crystal meth as a way of dealing with their loneliness, isolation and because it simply feels good. On today’s FOF we’re talking to author Terry Oldes about his new book “Dancing with Tina” which chronicles his year-long struggle [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Virtual Drag Virtual drag. Ah, the sweet sweet power of the Internet that allows the hidden DIVA from within to emerge. While he may not be the next La Peque�a he has great potential. We would love to force feminize this boy or have him sit on a cake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #729 - The Golden Standard - 03.27.08 Ever notice how crazy people LOVE to talk about gold? Specifically the gold standard. If you’re ever at a party and someone starts ranting about how our economy is built on a house of cards because our currency isn’t based on gold anymore, put your cocktail down slowly walk away. Believing that we should revert [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #728 - Fighting for the Man Next to You - 03.26.08 What does Christopher Rice think that the U.S. Marines and gay men share in common? In Christopher Rice’s new book “Blind Fall” he takes a look at the common ground many gay men and Marines share. In today’s interview Christopher shares with us his insight into the Marines he interviewed for his new [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #727 - Shake it Sister - 03.25.08 We got your fill of diva-licious podcasting today as Jenniphre Zias is in the house! One half of the country duo The Shaker Sisters comes to talk about their brand new album “All Night Through” a delicious assortment of strong female torch songs set to a snappy zydeco-inspired sound. Jenniphre and Robyn Monks met in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #556 - Russian Robocops - 06.19.07 Did you hear the one about the egg-shaped Russian robocop? As far as we know, this is a true story. A Russian six-foot tall egg-shaped robot, hailed by the Russian police force as a bold new crime fighting tool broke down on it’s first day on the job, not because it couldn’t fail to comprehend [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #269 - Levi Kreis Bares His Soul - 03.17.06 Levi Kreis is nice. A childhood musical prodigy, his parents were blown away when at the tender young age of six he learned to play “Pomp and Circumstance” after coming home from his kindergarten graduation. Levi spent most of his life honing his fine singing voice and musical skills, as well as dealing with being [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #276 - Osaka Hernandez�s Weddings - 03.20.08 Osaka Hernandez had a huge following in Japan. If Selena was the “Madonna” of Tejano music, then Osaka was considered to be the “Cyndi Lauper.” Okay Osaka was a fabulous drag queen and never sang any conjunto music, but it makes a great introduction, doesnt it? On todays show, our lovely New York City pal John [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #726 - Locker Room Humor - 03.19.08 Gregg loves his new firecracker red Feast of Fools mug, but he especially likes it because it holds 15 oz. instead of the regular 10 ounces that most mugs hold. Gregg says now he doesn’t have to take as many trips from his basement office to his kitchen in order to refill his cup. I know [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #725 - Movies Every Gay Man Must See - 03.18.08 Since the early days of film, making and watching movies has been a very gay pastime. Check out this early “Kinestoscope” movie of two men dancing made by William Dickson at Thomas Edison’s “Black Maria” experimental film studio. I’m not sure if the two guys were Thomas Edison’s hunky assistants or just some gay [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #724 - Rejuvinating Orgasms - 03.16.08 Feel like screaming in ecstasy? Go ahead. Moaning in pleasure doesn’t just feel good, it may actually be good for you. An article about orgasms from the Russian news website Pravda sheds some light into the health benefits of the orgasm backed up by various studies. According to the article, sex can be used for weight-loss, as [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #723 - Sing a Happy Song - 03.14.08 Tracy Tyler is confused. She can’t seem to figure out what song to sing for Good Friday. And for that matter, just WHEN is Good Friday anyways? Tuesday? Saturday? Friday? That sounds just too obvious. Seriously, our gal pal is stumped. She wants to find the perfect song to impress her congregation of the Brighter Tomorrow. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #722 - Drag Wars - 03.13.08 Oh girlfriend, it’s getting vicious on one page of our comments thread. In case you don’t subscribe to comments on the blog entries, you may have missed an intense exchange by most of Chicago drag queens and nighclub performers on the show FOF #713 - 9 1/2 Inch Tiara - 02.27.08 So today Sal-E comes on the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #721 - I Wish I was in Philly - 03.12.08 Those were some delicious house-brewed beers we had last weekend! Our coverage of Philly’s Beer Week continues with our in-depth key analysis of what makes the City of Brotherly love so rich in breweries and fantastic pubs. Philadelphia loves LOVE so much so that it created an official “Love Park.” The former JFK Plaza located [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #720 - A Glass of Joy - 03.11.08 Beer, beer, beer! Philadelphia is a city overflowing with breweries and fabulous bars and restaurants passionate about serving great beer. And why not? It’s a city where drinking a pint glass takes you back in time to the birthplace of Independence. Our Founding Fathers gathered around beer halls and coffee shops to talk about the ideas [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #258 - Feifdom of Freakishness - 03.10.08 One of the most loveable podcasters, Amanda Steinstein joins us today to talk about Domino’s Pizza founder Thomas S. Monaghan desire to build a ultraconservative town free of gays, pornography, drugs, and propbably non-catholics called Ave Maria. If you thought your neighborhood was creepy enough, just imagine what this ultraconservative hell-hole will be like. And they [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #719 - In the Pink Radio - 03.07.08 As audiences for podcasts grow larger and the technology to access the internet becomes more accessible how will traditional media adapt? Radio has always been a lifeline for people in peril. During the disaster of Hurricane Katrina, the only way the public could get access to life saving information was by turning on the radio. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOFA #681 - Project Christian - 03.06.08 Christian wins! I was overwhelmed by the emotion of seeing our very own Christian Siriano win Project Runway. Was there any doubt in anyone’s mind? Congratulations Christian- you deserved it and your clothes looked STUNNING. To celebrate, we’re reposting this “Best Of FOF” interview we did with Christian in January, when it wasn’t so clear the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #718 - Too Soon to Tell - 03.05.08 Folks, we stayed up till the wee hours of the night trying to report back to you on who won. What was the outcome of this difficult decision? It seems at this point the country is still trying to decide who they will pick in this years bitter contest on American Idol. Mary did you know? [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #717 - A Stunning Woman - 03.04.08 Brace yourself, you’re about to get a stunning! Calpernia Addams, the Peabody Prize winning writer, actress and activist, best known on the Feast of Fools for her single “Stunning” joins us today to talk about the genesis of that fabulous dance song. “Stunning” came out one of the episodes from her brand new reality tv series [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #716 - Sexy Secretive Ways - 03.03.08 Victoria’s Secret executives made a public statement last Friday saying their image has become “too sexy for their own good.” The San Francisco based chain of women’s underwear, known for their erotic catalogs marketed towards men is now saying their aggressive approach may be backfiring, claiming sales have dropped as a result of women becoming alienated [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #715 - Double Cut Porkchop - 02.29.08 Let’s talk about this seasons Fox television reality series American Idol. Did you get to see the incredible David Archuleta singing John Lennon’s “Imagine” this past week? I swear he grabbed my heart with his voice and put it somewhere in heaven. Is Archuleta in Spanish a type of pork chop or a special kind [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AYDS Helps You Lose Weight! One of the longest running jokes on the Feast of Fools is the chocolate flavored candy that promotes weight loss- “Why take diet pills when you can enjoy AYDS.” Gosh, HOMOphones are so hilarious! Thank you to Rick for finding this gem of a commercial that’s glory faded at the onslaught of the AIDS epidemic. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #714 - I Love My Divas, But I Don�t Have Any Friends - 02.28.08 I love my divas, but I don’t have any friends. If you find yourself asking this question, have we got a show for you! Joining us on today’s podcast is Jason McVicker, Director of Mental Health Services for the Center on Halsted -the Midwest’s largest GLBT community center. Besides providing daily help to many gays in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #713 - 9 1/2 Inch Tiara - 02.27.08    Most people look insane wearing tiaras. Even still, gay men and women all across the world compete in pageants that cost a ton of money to participate in and for what? The competition is often so stacked against you and it’s more about who you know rather than how fierce a queen you are. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #712 - Your Gay Doctor - 02.26.08 Gay men are living longer than ever and we need to make sure we continue to keep the healthy bodies we’ve enjoyed in our younger years. After all, life doesn’t end at forty. On today’s show we’re talking to Dr. Frank Spinelli, your gay doctor about his brand new book “The Advocate Guide to Gay Men’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #711 - Oscarcast 2008 - 02.25.08 I have Oscar Fever! Literally, because I drank too much cheap champagne last night. Owww. Despite torrential downpours, the writers strike and the threat of the Westboro Baptist Church picketing, the “Superbowl for Gays,” the 80th Annual Academy Awards Ceremonies, also known as the Oscars managed to put on a relatively tight but lackluster show. Many Oscar [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #710 - Stunning - 02.22.08 Stunning! Stunning! We’re all stunned by Robbie D’s remix of Calpernia Addams new song “Stunning.” It is a super pop trash hit that is sure to rise to the top of the club charts. We love the song because of the threatening double meaning of the word “stunning” or “stunned.” The listener doesn’t quite know [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #708 - The True Flavor of Love - 02.20.08 It’s amazing what our lovely tranny friend Tracy can do with her voice! On today’s show Tracy Tyler surprises us all by demonstrating how she can go effortlessly from femme to butch. Listen in as Tracy shares her tips and tricks on how to “force-masculinize” your voice, or let it go femme and fancy free. Despite [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOF #707 - Transadmiration - 02.19.08 Tracy is a popular gal with all the trannie chasing, straight identified men. Who can blame them? Tracy has it all, a lovely outgoing personality, a