Josh Kilmer-Purcell was once Aquadesia, a popular drag queen living in New York City. True to her name, she was known for wearing a custom made acrylic bra that held live goldfish.

Josh turned his wild experiences into a book, “I Am Not Myself These Days“- one of the best drag queen memoirs ever.

Since then, he’s traded his goldfish in for herd of goats. Josh and his partner Dr. Brent Ridge from the Martha Stewart TV show bought a rustic farm in upstate New York named Beekman 1802. Life on the farm is now the focus of Josh’s new book, “The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Goat Farmers” and a reality TV show on the Discovery Channel’s Planet Green, “The Fabulous Beekman Boys.”

The TV show, set to premier on June 16th, is a real life green acres gone gay. What happens when a gay urban couple try to earnestly make it as farmers? There’s lots of funny moments and delicious organic homegrown food.

Join us as Josh tells us about his journey going green, his bizarre friendship with Shirley Phelps, the matriarch of America’s best known hate group the Westboro Baptist Church and why Oprah loves to give him full body hugs.

Also, what is the key ingredient that Goat Milk Soap and Crystal Meth share in common? And what’s the difference in milking a cow, a goat and a man?

[Originally posted on 06.08.10]

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Shirley Phelps’ God is angry at you, and probably everything and everyone you know. Why? Because you are gay or you accept gay people.

Shirley Phelps is the spokesperson, matriarch and part-time lawyer for the controversial Westboro Baptist Church out of Topeka, Kansas.

Gay folks have known about them for years since they first protested at the funeral of slain gay college student Matthew Shepard. Since then, they have garnered international attention for their protests of military servicemen’s funerals saying it’s “God’s vengeance upon America’s acceptance of homosexuals.” They are known as “America’s Most Hated Family.”

The Phelps family plans to protest at “Brokeback Mountain” actor Heath Ledger’s memorial services. They are even planning a protest outside the red carpet at this years Academy Awards! Gee, I wonder what Shirley will wear? Will her gown match her “God Hates Fags” sign?

[Editor's note: This interview was conducted before Heath Ledger died, on January 24, 2008. We thought it would be interesting to repost our interview with the matriarch of the Wesboro Baptist Church in light of their plans to protest the funerals of the victims of the recent shooting in Arizona.]

Shirley Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church presents TWO choices for America: ONE, imprison and then execute the gays because that’s what the Bible says or TWO, give gays all the same rights that every other American enjoys.

Shirley states that you don’t get to base your discrimination against gays on the Bible’s morality if you don’t have the the determination to back it up. Which to reiterate is imprisonment and then death. There is no soft line stance. It’s black or white.

Which one are you going to choose? Which one is your mother, brother, sister or father going to choose? Ask them, see what kind of answer you get.

Because of this, they might be the “most important GLBT activists since Stonewall” according to Out Magazine columnist Josh Kilmer Purcell. He feels so strongly about them that he started a brand new website: PhagsforPhelps.com.

From Josh’s website phagsforphelps.com:
Stealth homophobes across America have been able to hide for too long behind cuddly phrases like: “love the sinner, hate the sin,” and “separate but equal,” and “tolerance.” GLBT Americans are tired of being “tolerated.” We want to be respected and embraced as true equals, not “loved” as “sinners.

Listen as Shirley Phelps meets Josh Kilmer-Purcell for the very first time on a special Feast of Fools Double Date!

Why do a lot of gay people and Christian fundamentalists hate the pope AND President George W. Bush just for different reasons, why prayers should be best kept to yourself, why you shouldn’t get too close Cheney’s daughter, are leprechauns gay or not and why we are all depraved?

The podcast that is full of it, and by it we mean the Holy Spirit et al- Feast of Fools.

[Originally posted on 01.25.08]

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Josh Kilmer-Purcell was once Aquadesia, a popular drag queen living in New York City. True to her name, she was known for wearing a custom made acrylic bra that held live goldfish.

Josh turned his wild experiences into a book, “I Am Not Myself These Days“- one of the best drag queen memoirs ever.

Since then, he’s traded his goldfish in for herd of goats. Josh and his partner Dr. Brent Ridge from the Martha Stewart TV show bought a rustic farm in upstate New York named Beekman 1802. Life on the farm is now the focus of Josh’s new book, “The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Goat Farmers” and a reality TV show on the Discovery Channel’s Planet Green, “The Fabulous Beekman Boys.”

The TV show, set to premier on June 16th, is a real life green acres gone gay. What happens when a gay urban couple try to earnestly make it as farmers? There’s lots of funny moments and delicious organic homegrown food.

Join us as Josh tells us about his journey going green, his bizarre friendship with Shirley Phelps, the matriarch of America’s best known hate group the Westboro Baptist Church and why Oprah loves to give him full body hugs.

Also, what is the key ingredient that Goat Milk Soap and Crystal Meth share in common? And what’s the difference in milking a cow, a goat and a man?

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On today’s show writer and former drag queen Josh Kilmer-Purcell, well known for his best selling autobiography “I am Not Myself These Days” talks about his new novel “Candy Everybody Wants.”

In the novel Josh tells the story of a celebrity-obsessed gay teenager Jayson Blocher who leaves his life in the Midwest for the glamor of New York City, only to find that fame isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be.

Although he says the book isn’t about himself, you can read into the obvious parallels from his previous book “I am Not Myself These Days” where he chronicles his move to New York City from the Midwest to become a well-known drag queen. The book shares his passion for 80s pop culture, as references to campy nighttime soap operas like Dynasty, Dallas and Falcons Crest decorate the story line.

Josh’s writings always make for a great summer read, so it’s no coincidence that his book was released in April. If you live in Milwaukee, WI, go check him out tonight at Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop @7:00 pm, 2559 N. Downer Ave.

Join us as we talk about the farm his partner Dr. Brent Ridge and he live on during the weekends and the famous goat milk soap they make and sell. The website for the farm seems so cozy, it makes you just want to escape there for the weekend.

If you think it looks a bit like a gay version of Martha Stewart, you’re right to see the influence! Josh’s hubby to be is a regular on Martha’s daytime TV show where he talks about healthy liviing when he’s not working as a doctor at Mount Sinai Medical Center.

So the question everybody is asking gay media power couples like Josh and Brent are- now that it’s legal in California and the marriages will be honored in New York City, will you be officially tying the knot? Can we come to your wedding? You just know they will have great homemade goat-milk soap as wedding favors.

But will his right-wing gal pal Shirley Phelps come to the ceremony? Seriously, Josh is an advocate that gays should be happy that the Phelps family is so loud and proud in their anti-gay rhetoric, after all, they force people to stand up for gay rights or look like lunatics. Last time Josh was on our show we had a double date with him and Shirley Phelp and lets just say the results were flabbergasting.

Also- a computer program written by a evolutionary anthropologist suggests religious beliefs may be a product of evolution, saying that it might be evolutionarily advantageous for non-believers to support people who believe in non-verifiable data, since in the long term this may keep the “tribe” intact and help win bloodthirsty struggles.

But in the modern day of hi-tech warfare and our ability to destroy the world, religious beliefs might actually prove to be lethal for us all.

A shining beacon in the darkness- Feast of Fools.

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Shirley Phelps is the spokesperson, matriarch and part-time lawyer for the controversial Westboro Baptist Church out of Topeka, Kansas.

Gay folks have known about them for years since they first protested at the funeral of slain gay college student Matthew Shepard. Since then, they have garnered international attention for their protests of military servicemen’s funerals saying it’s “God’s vengeance upon America’s acceptance of homosexuals.” They are known as “America’s Most Hated Family.”

The Phelps family plans to protest at “Brokeback Mountain” actor Heath Ledger’s memorial services. They are even planning a protest outside the red carpet at this years Academy Awards! Gee, I wonder what Shirley will wear? Will her gown match her “God Hates Fags” sign?

[Editor's note: This interview was conducted before Heath Ledger died.]

Shirley Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church presents TWO choices for America: ONE, imprison and then execute the gays because that’s what the Bible says or TWO, give gays all the same rights that every other American enjoys.

Shirley states that you don’t get to base your discrimination against gays on the Bible’s morality if you don’t have the the determination to back it up. Which to reiterate is imprisonment and then death. There is no soft line stance. It’s black or white.

Which one are you going to choose? Which one is your mother, brother, sister or father going to choose? Ask them, see what kind of answer you get.

Because of this, they might be the “most important GLBT activists since Stonewall” according to Out Magazine columnist Josh Kilmer Purcell. He feels so strongly about them that he started a brand new website: PhagsforPhelps.com.

From Josh’s website phagsforphelps.com:
Stealth homophobes across America have been able to hide for too long behind cuddly phrases like: “love the sinner, hate the sin,” and “separate but equal,” and “tolerance.” GLBT Americans are tired of being “tolerated.” We want to be respected and embraced as true equals, not “loved” as “sinners.

Listen as Shirley Phelps meets Josh Kilmer-Purcell for the very first time on a special Feast of Fools Double Date!

Why do a lot of gay people and Christian fundamentalists hate the pope AND President George W. Bush just for different reasons, why prayers should be best kept to yourself, why you shouldn’t get too close Cheney’s daughter, are leprechauns gay or not and why we are all depraved?

The podcast that is full of it, and by it we mean the Holy Spirit et al- Feast of Fools.

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PETA (that’s People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals… shouldn’t it be called PFTETA?) ain’t too happy with this, and so their cute representative Mike Brazell makes an earnest plea for all future drag queens out there to NOT use animals of any kind in their costumes. We ain’t kidding.

Listen to this funky conversation about why you should become a vegan or why you should enjoy having goldfish as pets. It’s all over the place, and a whole lot of fun.

If you want to know more about Josh Kilmer-Purcell, check out this definitive interview we did with him this past February by clicking here.

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Also known as Aqua, he worked his routine with our very own Miss Understood at Lucky Chang’s, a popular drag-entertainment Asian restaurant in New York City. Aqua won many contests, but the wild thing about her life is the excess of her existence-booze, drugs, hooker parties, bondage freaks and a hustler boyfriend.

On the right is a Wigstock publicity photo of Josh Kilmer-Purcell as Aqua. Note the live goldfish in his costume!

On todays show we discuss his new book “I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir.” Josh’s book is tale of being in love with the wrong man in the wrong way. This troublesome romance starts in a drunken mess and ends, well… we don’t want to give it away so you will have to read it to find out!

In Josh Kilmer-Purcell’s memoir you might see the influence of his good friend James Frey, author of the highly debated book on everyone’s lips: “A Million Little Pieces.” Listen to Josh speak candidly about the “frey over Frey” in the publishing world, the ramification it presents to his own book, and Oprah’s reaction to Frey’s missteps.

Delicious, pernicious and nutritious, the Feast of Fools.

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