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In the new documentary More Than Medicine, filmmakers Kerthy Fix and Paul Kloss follow therapists and patients for nearly a decade as they explore the promise, controversy, and impact of psychedelic therapy. But this emerging movement faces significant challenges, including the FDA’s 2024 rejection of an application for MDMA-assisted therapy.
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As fascism and other systems of oppression creep into the mainstream, some of the fiercest resistance is coming from people with guitars, amps, and absolutely no patience for bullshit.
Marc Felion talks with The Nanaz, a punk band from South Wales made up of women in their 50s and beyond, about finding a second adolescence through punk and why older women with guitars might be the most dangerous people in the room.
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Move over RuPaul’s Drag Race! Straight women are now obsessing over a whole new TV show packed with competitive queens, only this time it’s hunky hockey players playing a little tonsil hockey off the ice.
Heated Rivalry, the sizzling new TV show based on Rachel Reid’s bestselling series about the secret gay romances of rival star hockey players, is scoring big with audiences. Like Brokeback Mountain, it’s got everyone thinking about how the puck slides into the net without lube.
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What can Wicked teach us about facism? What can Elphaba’s journey reveal about the machinery of oppression and about the yellow brick roads queer and trans people are still carving toward liberation?
Today we’re joined by trans-tech visionary Violet Kitajewski to explore Wicked as an allegory for LGBTQ resilience, transformation, and resistance. After all, that gravity isn’t going to defy itself.
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After nearly two decades of podcasting, we thought we’d seen it all, until this summer, when I had emergency eye surgery to save my vision, and Marc had his heart shocked back into rhythm after a scary bout of atrial fibrillation.
Between the two of us, we had enough hospital bracelets to start our own line of jewelry.
But through all of it, we learned a few things: about getting older, facing fear, and finding humor when life gets dizzy or blurry.
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One of our all-time favorite wacky and wild films is RuPaul’s Starrbooty.
Created during a lull in her career, Starrbooty became the launchpad for RuPaul’s career resurgence as host of RuPaul’s Drag Race, a show that mainstreamed drag so successfully it has overshadowed many other styles and interpretations of the art form.
Today, Starrbooty producer and acclaimed filmmaker André Robert Lee joins us to revisit this wonderfully twisted film and discuss the challenges and triumphs of being a queer Black creative. We also dive into his other fantastic projects, including Dirty Laundry (starring Jenifer Lewis and Loretta Devine) and The Prep School Negro, a documentary which follows young Black students adventures on their way to college.
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Americans are now queerer than ever! A new Gallup poll shows 9.3% of folks now identify as something other than straight—up from 7.6% in 2023. And Gen Z? A whopping 23%! Party!
Joining us today is the self-proclaimed ‘lesbian on the weekends’– the West Side comedy queen of raunch, Tiny Thickemz, along with her comedy partner in life and onstage, OhJay Lamont. Together they host ‘Love is Blind’ at Chicago’s Laugh Factory, where real couples do joint stand-up sets about their relationships—LIVE on stage.
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Today, we’re chatting with one of our favorite wicked but wonderful witches, musician Caleb De Casper. A fierce advocate for queer rights, Caleb is known for his electrifying performances and signature blend of dark synth-pop, glam punk rock, and horror cabaret.
Honored with his own day in Austin, Texas, Caleb joins us to celebrate 20 years of Feast of Fun and give us a sneak peek at his new single, Chemical Blue.
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The 2024 U.S. Presidential Election is here. As you can imagine, folks everywhere are in jitters as the Nation faces not just full on fascism but the threat of a prolapsed economy as a result of Republicans not understanding how tariffs work.
Democratic candidate Kamala Harris made an appearance for two and a half minutes on Saturday Night Live’s opening sketch to address people’s anxiety over the election. Harris said the best we can do is use our power to vote, and hold on tight to the promise that America will get through this.
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Today we take a look at the election to end all elections and this year’s Halloween costumes with comedian Dan Cass, one of Chicago’s top comedy writers and performers, who spent time in Russia studying experimental theater.
Dan almost became a ghost after a bad accident on a Divvy bike, but thankfully what didn’t kill him just pissed him off. Listen as we take a look at the 2024 US Presidential election and Halloween costumes so scary, kids are dressing up as undecided voters wearing MAGA rainbow hats.
Marc Felion is the co-host and producer of the Feast of Fun podcast and the web series “Cooking with Drag Queens.” He’s also a semi-finalist on the Norwegian reality TV show “Everything for Norway.” He’s a proud dog dad who loves weird news.
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