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Even though trick or treating and Halloween parties are out this year because of the COVID pandemic, candy sales are way up, which makes you think- what are people doing for Halloween this year other than panic stuffing their faces with candy?
Maybe dressing up at home as our favorite Golden Girl just for likes on social media?
Today Matt Brown joins us to take a look at the true meaning of Halloween: pigging out on candy and acting like a frea
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At the height of the AIDS crisis, artists made sense of the overwhelming despair by giving voice to the isolation people felt and they helped guide our communities forward.
Today, performance artist Hereclitus Vernon joins us to talk about being one of the first people to come down with COVID-19 during the early days of the quarantine. Seven months later, Here is still dealing with the health consequences of the coronavirus.
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The last guest we had in person, in the home studio, before the big shutdown, was the delightful comedian Jake Noll who came on to talk about the big changes going on in their life.
With uncertain doom looming around the corner, we wondered which post-apocalypic character from Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome would we wind up being: Tina Turner or Mel Gibson?
Today comedian Jake Noll joins us to talk about their adventures in transitioning during quarantine, how they almost got roped into a cult in their early days of comedy and finding their way out of a Kobe Bryant shaped corn maze.
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Break out the party hats and put on your mask for masks- this November marks the 10 year anniversary of PrEP, the revolutionary HIV prevention method that reduces the risk of contracting HIV even if you’re exposed to the virus.
Just like birth control, the daily pill that effectively stops all new HIV transmissions has been met by the public with a lot of controversy.
But the big question is “how do we get more people on PrEP?”
Today therapist and relationship expert Damon L Jacobs joins us to take a look at a decade of PrEP and how the sexual liberation that came from it is now impacted by the COVID pandemic
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Although drag queens are known for working the runway sweetie, who is to say the art of drag can’t make a twirl in your bakery display case? Okay. Yes girl, spin Miss Swiss Buttercream, frosted for the gods!
Wait- you think drag and pastries don’t mix? They do if it’s DragCakes on Instagram. Created by pastry artist Josué Luciano, drag cakes are edible delights that pay homage to some of the greatest moments in drag.
Today Josué Luciano, the king of drag cakes joins us to take a look at his elaborate confectionery creations inspired by legendary drag queens and great moments in pop music.
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Folks are having a hearty laugh over President Trump getting hospitalized for COVID-19, the deadly disease he said would go away like magic.
Now Republicans are asking for compassion for the President, so at least we can all be on the same page as to how terrible this virus can be.
Today comedian Matt Brown joins us to take a look at the complicated reactions people have to the shocking news that many top Republicans including the Supreme Court pick Amy Barrett all came down with COVID-19. But after almost 4 years of daily lies, could Trump be crying wolf or is this the truth, of which he was so afraid, he downplayed it to the American public?
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One of our favorite movies is The Witches of Eastwick, which pits three icons: Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfieffer against the devil himself as they turn to witchcraft to manage their mid-life crisis.
Today, San Francisco drag empresario Peaches Christ chats with us about opening up her vault of drag parodies for an internet viewing party of her show “The Witches of East Bay” where Peaches Christ, Coco Peru and Chad Michaels take a look at what happens when three drag legends get older in a world dominated by pesky young drag queens.
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Although some PSA’s are wildly ridiculous like trying to get people to eat healthy or to avoid using drugs, the reason these campaigns persist is because to some extent they are successful. So where are all the public service announcements for COVID?
Today, Summer Nettles, TV news producer and former communications specialist for the City of Denver, Colorado, joins us to look at some of our favorite public service health TV ads, and why Republicans aren’t using what we’ve learned in the past 75 years of ads.
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Thankfully in the digital age it’s easy to self publish but who exactly is going to read a book titled “This Hoe Got Roaches Up in Her Crib?”
In the new podcast “The Hood Novel Book Club” comedian Rachel Hall looks at wonderfully weird books about the modern black experience that were written by self published authors with hilarious results.
Today, Rachel Hall joins us to take a look at trashy books, morality tales and science fiction from the perspective of great and not so great black authors.
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After several box office bombs in the 80s, Disney considered never making animated musicals again.
Thankfully, after playwright and lyricist Howard Ashman’s successful musical comedy Little Shop of Horrors, Disney asked him to work with them and launched the Disney Renaissance.
Today musical theater enthusiast Jake Bellisimo from the YouTube channel Dreamsounds joins us to take a look at the amazing musical legacy of Howard Ashman, queer coding in Disney films and Beauty and the Beast as an allegory for society’s betrayal of people with AIDS.
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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