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Just in time for Christmas- Martin Shkreli, the bro-CEO, who’s the most hated man on the Internet, has been arrested for engaging in what prosecutors say was a Ponzi-like scheme at hedge fund he ran and at a pharmaceutical company he once headed.
Today, on our next to the last show of the year, we’re talking about forgiveness, peace and joy. with the fabulously Vine superstar Meg Grunewald.
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The War on Christmas has been fought through the ages and been won time and time again, not by the little baby Jesus, but by Santa Claus.
Today cultural anthropologist Gerald Cole joins us to discuss the unusual origins of Christmas, the battles over the which traditions to keep, the frightening Krampus and the many other demonic companions to Santa Claus.
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Today we’re joined by academic drag queen Summer Clearance, who under the name Domenick Scudera is a professor of theater at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania.
Domenick teaches a course on the History of Drag Performance, from Shakespeare to RuPaul, where he gets his students excited about the artform of drag as it “brings into focus issues of identity, authority, agency, gender variance, and masculine/feminine constructs.”
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George Lucas commissioned The Star Wars Holiday Special with hopes of keeping the movie fresh in people’s minds while he filmed the Empire Strikes Back. It aired on November 17, 1978 to dismal reviews and is considered by many as one of the most awful and hilarious TV specials of all time.
Today we’re talking to comedy writer and gay legend Bruce Vilanch, who worked as a writer for The Star Wars Holiday Special, and also on many lavish, campy TV specials of the 1970s including The Paul Lynde Halloween Special, The Cher Show, and The Brady Bunch Variety Hour.
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Lady Bunny roasts the girls from Drag Race while doing her best Paula Dean voguing.
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Pretty much all of your favorite drag queens have been at one time or another photographed by San Francisco’s very own José Alberto Guzman Colón.
You’ve probably seen his work in Peaches Christ’s movie posters or plastered over many drag queens’ Facebook pages.
Today José Alberto Guzman Colón joins us to talk about the outpouring of support he received after getting all his camera equipment stolen and how to bring out the best in a drag queen’s photo shoot.
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If you could travel back in time to kill baby Hitler would you do it? Republican Presidential candidate Jeb Bush says he’d love to slay baby Adolf but we aren’t so sure that’s the best way to go.
Today, Chicago drag queen aerialist Muffy Fishbasket joins us to contemplate the ramifications of time travel and the ethics of murdering the tyrants and monsters of the past.
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The last time Jeffrey Jay was on the podcast he was excited to celebrate Halloween by going as Wonder Woman, but his cross dressing aspirations were thwarted by his boyfriend who doesn’t enjoy dressing up in costumes.
Today, Jeffrey joins us to talk about how his Halloween dreams were crushed and how he pranked his boyfriend with spiders and party streamers.
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The Imperial Court System is celebrating its fiftieth year raising funds through charity balls where members hang out in royal attire and bestow upon each other really long colorful royal titles.
Today, we’re joined by Diamond Deveraux, who used to be known as the drag step daughter of Teri Yaki, but like Cinderella, she left her evil stepmom in the dust and just got crowned Empress 12 of the Imperial Windy City Court of the Prairie State Empire.
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While many drag queens in need have lived out of their vehicles, Erika Simone makes a good living with her car, a tran-tastic taxi, by picking up passengers while wearing an adorable little yellow chauffeur outfit.
Today we chat with Erika Simone about how she’s taking the world of ridesharing by storm, her passengers’ reactions to her get up, and how she hopes to take her cross-dressing cab and spin it into a reality TV show.
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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