Feast Of Fun : Gay Talk Show

People have an unabashed love for those burly jocks who chase balls or ripped comic book superheroes who fight crime but many folks don’t quite know what to make of those athletes whose goal is to be the biggest baddest muther f*ckers on the stage: bodybuilders.By taking what nature gave them and through the sheer force of lifting heavy-ass weights, bodybuilders create a physique that inspires some and bewilders others.Today we look at bodybuilding, the impact of muscle building on popular culture, from the early days of circus strongmen, to gay erotica and all the way up to modern day superhero blockbuster films.Plus-➤ A look at bodybuilding pioneers from Eugen Sandow to Jack LaLanne, from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Internet troll Zyzz.➤ Bodybuilders’ contribution to film and the critically acclaimed documentary Pumping Iron.➤ All your favorite Instagram hunks who continue the journey to building muscle.

One of the most underrated drag queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race is Vivacious, mother of Ornacia, whose fan slapping, club couture and sassy sayings have become part of the language of drag. She’s a national treasure, so it’s great when a big name like Miley Cyrus showcased her at the MTV Video Music Awards a few years back.And now, Vivacious recently tore it up with Katy Perry on Saturday Night Live where she synchronized her fan slaps to the pop diva’s “Swish Swish Bish.” The dance number was filled with fierce club kids but fifteen-year-old Russell Horning, known as the “Backpack Kid” stole the show with his goofy arm swinging.Today Vivacious joins us from her sewing room in New York City to kiki about her appearance with Katy Perry on SNL.VIVACIOUS: https://www.facebook.com/vivaciousnycPlus-➤ A trend we hope catches on: “straight” guys humping each other at furniture stores.➤ Melania slaps Donald Trump’s attempts to hold her hand.➤ What does Vivacious think of this week’s elimination on RuPaul’s Drag Race?

She looks like Dusty Springfield, sounds like Carol Channing and speaks like Bernie Sanders- it’s Lady Bunny– the queen who comes with no trigger warning because if you’re not already shooketh, you’re not paying attention.Lately, Bun-Bun feels like the world’s too negative on social media and that it’s too easy to get down in the dumps in this political climate, so sometimes you just gotta find yourself a good blunt, put on some good music and start your day right.Today, the wildly righteous Lady Bunny joins us to talk about the RuPaul’s Drag Race Snatch Game question about her, the changing nature of gay neighborhoods and how to pick up a hot man while in drag.Plus,➤ Is Jaden Smith putting on women’s clothes for a little publici-she?➤ The wild world of Sploshing.➤ A new study says kids should be eating their boogers.➤ A man wants to show a jury his dong to prove that his girlfriend choked to death on it. It’s oversized, just like this podcast

Like a real life Carrie Bradshaw in Sex in the City, Dina Nina Martinez writes about her romantic life, but instead of being Jewish New Yorker with a passion for Manolo Blahnik shoes, Dina’s a sexy texy-mexi-trans-terminatrix who likes to tell jokes.Today, Dina Nina Bonina Osama Bin Laden Brown Martinez joins us for her birthday to take a look at putting her dating life as a trans latinx woman on blast. Happy Birthday Nina!Listen as Dina Nina Martinez chats with us about her love life, transitioning from showgirl to funny girl and her fascination with Jesus being an alien.Plus–➤ The positive impact Caitlyn Jenner has had in the media even though she’s a highly unlikeable person.➤ Solid gold Darth Vader masks are all the rage in Japan.➤ Is the creature from the movie Alien transphobic?____________________FEAST OF FUN IS MADE POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF FABULOUS PEOPLE LIKE YOU.LISTEN TO THOUSANDS LEGENDARY SHOWS 
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It’s been almost a decade since Bebe Zahara Benet, the drag queen from Cameroon became the first America’s Next Drag Superstar on RuPaul’s Drag Race.Since then, she’s been traveling the world and rocking the house boots down with her music. Bebe has a brand new single “Get Fierce” – a lighthearted track that encourages people to celebrate who they are.Listen as Bebe Zahara Benet talks about her amazing decade as the first winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race winner, her friendship with all the Ru Girls and how drag has changed over the years.Plus–➤ What happened to the lifetime supply of makeup she was promised on the show?➤ The African origins of drag language.➤ A very NSFW sexy way to blend your make up.

Daphne Dumount done fucked up drag, but it’s all right, because drag is all about shaking things up (or down.)This Saturday, here in Chicago at The Call, Marc’s pulling Daphne Dumount out of storage and putting her to work. But is she really ready for it?Today, comedian Cody Melcher joins us to to look at common mistakes drag queens make and what are some easy tricks to dazzle the audience into forgetting you’re just a dude in a wig.Plus–➤ A Russian deputy prime minister insists a robot that’s being trained to shoot guns is ‘not a terminator.➤ The Facebook Live killer changes his status to Facebook dead.➤ The worst little whorehouse in Texas.➤ Unicorn Frappucinos➤ Tim.com domain is up for grabs.➤ An African village is terrorized by a gay baboon.____________________FEAST OF FUN IS MADE POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF FABULOUS PEOPLE LIKE YOU.LISTEN TO THOUSANDS LEGENDARY SHOWS 
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One of the best things happen when crazy TV shows become popular is the fans grab a hold of past episodes and remix them into hilarious, brilliant works of art.This season’s new changes have prompted other fans to say RuPaul’s Drag Race has fucked up RuPaul’s Drag Race, but that’s okay, because one of the best things about drag is the ability to f*ck shit up.Today, video editor and insta-stud Lee Dawson joins us to talk about his she-larious RuPaul’s Drag Race remixes that f*ck up the show’s narrative, and his intimate meet-up with Ginger Minj and Katya Zamolodchikova.➤ Listen as we kiki with Lee about fitness and bodybuilding for drag race fans, our obsession with Valentina and Nina Bonina Banana Fofana Osama Bin Laden Brown and the LGBT rainbow quilt of culture.

Spoiler alert! It broke our hearts to see blond bombshell Jaymes Mansfield be the first contestant to go home on RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 9. But things aren’t over yet for this gal from Wisconsin- she’s still putting out great work in her LGBT pop culture web series Drag Herstory and she makes her Cooking with Drag Queens debut where we make a Beauty and the Beast Princess Doll Cake.Today, Jaymes Mansfield joins us to share her experience on RuPaul’s Drag Race and meeting so many of her idols including Lady Gaga.And Rebel Wilson!Plus,➤ Vivacious has a message for Jaymes about her shady dig at her in her Meet the Queens video.➤ Former Rupaul’s Drag Race contestant Adore Delano sues her management company for allegedly ripping her off.➤ Jaymes answers all your questions. Remember: the best ones are read on the show, and the worst ones are read to filth. You don’t want to miss it.

We’ve all had dates that went horribly wrong, but then later, as we tell our friends about the bad romance over and over again it becomes comedy gold.Today, comedian Zach Zimmerman joins us to talk about his new show “The Twink on the Fire Escape,” an interactive performance pub crawl through Chicago’s Boystown where he tells the hair-raising story of a date with a young blond guy that ended with both of them on a fire escape clinging for dear life.Listen as Zach tells us about his true life twink dating disaster and hilarious character Luke Babylon, Christian Magician.

Since Lady Gaga tweeted her support for RuPaul’s Drag Race many years ago, fans have been clamoring to get Mother Monster on Mama Ru’s show. Well hold on to your weaves hennies, cause on the season premiere, Lady Gaga walks into the workroom like any other contestant to join the 13 queens (and one mysterious 14th goil).It’s a huge win for drag queens and for RuPaul’s Drag Race, and it beautifully brings an artist full circle whose roots comes from the New York City drag scene.Today, Jackie Huba, author of two books on Lady Gaga and drag queens joins us to talk about how successful drag queens turn their followers into super fans and what you can learn from these gals to make your own business and life a sparkling success.

For many LGBT folks in the past, hearing other people tell their coming out stories was a great source of inspiration for they themselves to finally take the leap out of the closet.Nowadays, it’s not as hard to be out and proud so it’s easy to dismiss the impact someone’s coming out storiy can have on others.Today, comedian Rachel McCartney joins us to take a look at coming out stories, how LGBT stories were a big part of the early days of the Internet and what coming out will look like in the future.Plus–➤ RuPaul gets a TV show based on her life.➤ ‘Power Rangers’ makes history with the first gay superhero on the big screen but it’s not the Pink one.➤ Ellen DeGeneres breaks her finger.

Audiences had their pitchforks and torches ready to kill the live action Beauty and the Beast over Disney’s inclusion of their first gay character ever.But in the end, the new film was a beast in the box office, roaring into a record breaking opening weekend becoming the biggest ever for the month of March.Did somebody bend unexpectedly?Today, comedian Cody Melcher joins us to take a look at Disney’s live action remake of Beauty and the Beast, and all the delicious gay subtext from this and the classic 1991 Disney animated film.Plus–➤ Queer Beauty and the Beast fan art.➤ Disney’s prequel/sequel or “inbetweenquel” – An Enchanted Christmas with Tim Curry and Paul Reubens.➤ Sesame Street introduces Julia, a new puppet with autism.➤ Why everyone’s part of some kind of gay community whether they like it or not.

For many gay men of my generation, we grew up thinking we weren’t just the only gays in the village, but in the whole world.If we had any chance of sleeping with a guy, we thought he would have to be straight, not realizing gay guys come in all kinds of flavors.Today, we take a look at the facts, fantasy and phenomena of gay men having sex with straight identifying men. What’s really going on here? Listen as we take a look at a new study about straight guys who get it on with other men and the internet industry that makes money from gay men’s straight trade fantasies with spammy videos that promises to land you the man of your dreams with this one weird trick.Plus-➤ Katy Perry says she spent much of her youth trying to pray the gay away at Jesus Camps, and as an adult does not identify as straight.➤ California Democrats plan to launch a statewide single payer healthcare system.➤ Star Trek actor Sir Patrick Stewart reveals he uses marijuana daily to deal with arthritis.➤ Felicia O’Dell, the video cooking super

Forget about Trump’s paranoia that Obama was spying on him through a microwave oven, the tech company We-Vibe just settled a $3.75 million class action lawsuit over storing information about users’ sex toy habits without their knowledge.It just so happens our friend comedian Jeffrey Jay uses the smart vibrator to get intimate with his boyfriend over long distances, and now is wondering what to do with the settlement money.Today, Jeffrey Jay joins us to talk about our sexual anxieties in the digital age. How much does the NSA know about our orgasms? And are we boring if we always eat the same kind of foods, listen to the same music and have the same kind of sex?Plus—➤ Trump thinks Snoop Dog should get arrested for shooting him in a music video.➤ Cooking sensation Auntie Fee is on life support after suffering a heart attack.➤ Beauty and the Beast live action director Bill Condon reveals Disney lyricist Howard Ashman’s battle with AIDS shaped the animated Beauty and the Beast.➤ Condragulations to RuPaul Andre Le

You know Drag Race season is gearing up when you see fights breaking out all over social media on what is and what isn’t drag. Good god girl, get a grip: it’s all drag!Just because you don’t like what a queen is serving doesn’t mean somebody else finds it’s delicious.Today, drag queen Eva Styles joins us to take a look at some legendary and not so legendary fights drag queens have had over the years- from big names in the business to queens who just can’t keep their opinions in their purse.Plus-➤ A child comes out as trans to their parent with a surprising twist.➤ Grindr releases controversial new emojis.➤ A couple gets into trouble with the police for faking a murder with ketchup.➤ Joni Sledge, the singer best-known for the disco anthem We Are Family, has died, she was 60.

Jordan Peele’s new satirical comedy horror film Get Out is so good that we had to do another another podcast about it!The other day, we spoke to Zach Stafford, a black guy who finds himself in awkward situations with some of his white family, and today we’re joined by Meg Grunewald, a white gal who enjoys diversity in her romantic life, and whose parents are into hypnosis and brain surgery.Join us as we kiki about Meg’s romantic life and all the awesome stuff we find on the Internet, like Funny or Die’s brilliant Trump/Get Out parody.Plus—➤ Vampire websites are nothing new, but they now seem to be targeting progressive news sites.➤ Digital 3D printer pizza comes to NASA.➤ All pink Starburst edition.➤ Starbucks whiskey barrel roasted coffee beans.➤ Arnold Schwarzenegger says President Trump is in love with him.

Get Out, the exciting new film by comedian Jordan Peele takes a look at racism and the fetishization of black people by drawing on provocative elements from films like The Manchurian Candidate, The Stepford Wives and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?In the film, a white girl brings her black boyfriend home to meet her parents, and while he’s initially apprehensive about being immersed in an all white environment, he soon finds himself terrified as he’s trapped in a Twilight Zone experience by the family who want to make him a slave in a very unexpected way.Today, Zach Stafford, editor at large for OUT magazine joins us to talk about Get Out’s indictment of racism in America and was the film Moonlight robbed of its Oscar moment.Be warned, there are many spoilers, so please go see the film first.Plus—➤ Ben Carson, the only black man in Trump’s administration says he has the ability to drill holes in people’s heads to hack the brain to perfectly recall books read 60 years ago.➤ Can LGBT media survive being ad based

Despite all the amazing advances we’ve made as LGBT folks, many of us feel lonelier than ever. And even though the internet is tying us all together in unprecedented ways, a lot of these digital friendships are virtual and not brick and mortar relationships that stand the test of time.Today, we’re taking a look at why some gay guys are feeling like they’re trapped at a bottom of a rainbow well while everyone else is having a fabulous party.Our guest today is a Cruise Director drag queen Alex Kay, who likes to pair up lonely folks at the bars so she doesn’t have to deal with their bullshit.Plus—➤ Orlando City Stadium puts in 49 rainbow colored seats in honor of the people who died at the Pulse Massacre in Orlando.➤ Producers of When We Rise are blaming the show’s low ratings on young gays for not being interested in their LGBT history.➤ RuPaul’s Drag Race moves to VH1.➤ A mannequin catches a murderer.

On the day that SNL writer Katie Rich was suspended for tweeting that the youngest son of the president “will be this country’s first homeschool shooter,” comedian Shannon Noll was just starting to promote a variety show that placed the boy as sympathetic character in the center of a political comedy.Shannon, who bears a striking resemblance to a young Ellen DeGeneres and to teenage boys everywhere wasn’t prepared for the onslaught of hate for something they considered a fluff piece.Today, Shannon Noll joins us to talk to about the controversy of comedians poking fun at the president’s kids and how to handle the haters online.Plus-➤ Have you done these 13 things in the nude?➤ Picky eaters and why Trump’s well done steak matters.➤ Pink Oreos’ pink poop problem.

Many of our guests, before we start recording, ask us if they can cuss on the podcast and we say “Hell yeah!” I mean F*ck yeah.” But, we discourage it anyway because as good as it feels to let it all out, cussing sometimes keeps people from speaking their minds.Recently Trump’s Public Enemy #1, the BBC, said they’re not f*cking crazy about cussing and decided to look into into why people love to swear.Today, Brian Sweeney, who every other word is BEEEP joins us to take a look at taboo words, why everyone doesn’t agrees on what foul language is, and will newscasters in the future cuss like sailors?Plus–➤ A managing partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers was busy backstage tweeting photos of Emma Stone and now is getting blamed for the Best Picture f*ck up.➤ Teletubbies and Crazy Frog turn f*cking 20.➤ Patricia Arquette is mad as HELL that her sibling Alexis was left out of the Oscar’s “In Memoriam.”