If you like what we do and you’d like to see the show continue and do well, please nominate us for the Podcast Awards in two categories- Peoples Choice and GLBT. We like to think of this nomination and award as a thank you from the listeners for the quality programming we’ve provided free and uninterrupted for the last year.

You only have to nominate once. Thank you!

Here’s some photos of the People’s Choice Podcast Awards. Visit Flickr if you want to downloaded a high rez version- you voted for them, they are yours too!

Please nominate Feast of Fun for the tenth annual 2010 Weblogs Awards for Best GLBT Blog and Best Community Blog. This is the tenth year for the Bloggies and we would really appreciate your nomination. You have to scroll to the right on the website to vote, but it’s really easy to do. Thank you!

This is the fourth year in a row that the daily talk show hosted by Fausto Fernós and Marc Felion won in the “Best GLBT” podcast category in the People’s Choice Podcast Awards. Feast of Fun is a mix of social news, rising trends, in-depth interviews and live music sessions, described as “the best of the net in real-time with a gay slant.” 

Host Fausto Fernós says: “In a tough year full of highs and lows for the GLBT community, we’re thrilled to be part of a sweeping change in how New Media is affecting the cultural and political landscape of the nation and the world.

Audience at a taping of the live podcast at the Akbar in Los Angeles

The People’s Choice Podcast Awards are an annual set of awards given to the best podcasts as voted by the general public. Run by Podcast Connect Inc., the Podcast Awards have been given out since 2005.

Fausto Fernós and his partner Marc Felion spearheaded the podcasting revolution in February 2005 with their daily comedy talk show, the Feast of Fun, formerly know as Feast of Fools. The name change reflects changes to the website which includes user submitted content in the “Fresh” section of the website.

Feast of Fun is available for free through the iTunes Music store.

One of the most touching experiences of our trip to Las Vegas was meeting Joe Dugandzic and his boyfriend who make a podcast called “Nidocast.” They interviewed us for their show and at the end gave us a special present, a key to the City of Phoenix, Arizona.

We were deeply moved and excited to get a special present from Joe, and have had such a great time showing it off to all our friends!

We’re thrilled that Feast of Fun was nominated in two categories in the 2009 People’s Choice Podcast Awards in the “Best GLBT” category and the top prize of the “People’s Choice.”

These awards are considered the top prize for podcasting and we’re jumping with joy at the nominations. This really makes a tremendous difference in helping us to continue our programming, maintain the website and secure guests and sponsorships.

From the bottom of our hearts and on behalf of all our wonderful guests we thank you so much for your nomination. Voting starts on November 13th.

If your a first time visitor here you may be confused but we recently changed our name from Feast of Fools to Feast of Fun. If you don’t subscribe to the podcast, take a moment and click here to get it on iTunes and never miss a delicious show.

We’re excited to feel the hometown love for our daily talk show on extraordinary news, trends and interviews with a spicy gay twist. However, we were left scratching our heads wondering why the editors left out any voter testimonies and skipped on making any editorial comment of their own.

Many of you sung our praises on their site, so here are some of our favorites:

ALAN: “Feast of Fun is easily the best GLBT podcast. Their daily show excels in the scope of interviews, stories and hilarious banter that sets them leagues apart from any other form of media. Everyone in my office listens to the show, and most of us aren’t even gay.”

JAMIE: “Their interview of Shirley Phelps (FOF #690 – Shirley Phelps: An Unlikely Champion – 01.25.08) was the most complete interview of this controversial character I have ever heard. Not traditional journalism, but better than most news I see nowadays.”

HENRY: “FOF stands neck in neck with some of the best radio programs of all time, and deserves all the awards it gets.”

RICK: “FoF is the place to go for great news, up to date topics, interviews and… well… FUN!”

ROBERT: “Two Snaps Up!”

PHIL: “Marc and Fausto are ALWAYS great; informative and FUN! ”

ANNE: “FOF is fun and fresh.”

Congratulations to Windy City Media Group for being picked as the Editor’s choice for Best Gay News Source. Thank you to all who voted for us and don’t forget that Chicago is a city full of vibrant, wonderful publications, blogs and podcasts on a broad range of topics that appeal not just to GLBT folks, but to their friends everywhere. They don’t call it the Windy City for nothing!