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The Vulcan School to Prison Pipeline – What the Trek? #2

In Season one, episode 2 “Battle at the Binary Stars” the Federation is in a standoff with the newly united Klingon Empire.

Is Commander Michael Burnham the victim of the Vulcan School to Prison Pipeline?

Posted in: Podcast, Television, What the Trek 7 years ago 0

We Come in Peace – What the Trek? #1

The wait is over. After 12 years of having all transmissions offline, Star Trek is back on TV, for one glorious night. This time the show is going where no black woman has gone before by casting The Walking Dead’s Sonequa Martin-Green’s as first officer Michael Burnham and all hell breaks loose.

Please welcome the crew of this podcast which takes a look at the newest Star Trek series. Listen as Fausto Fernós, Marc Felion, Brian Sweeney & Collette Gregory explore strange new worlds and drive each other up the wall.

Posted in: Podcast, Television, What the Trek 7 years ago 0

FOF #2530 – This is IT

‘IT,’ the new movie based on the book by Stephen King is slashing box office records.

Today we’re joined by Brian Sweeney who says ‘IT’ perpetuates the harmful stereotype that clowns in storm drains are child-eating monsters and that he grew up with a lot of kids who talked to clowns in storm drains, and only three of them were ever eaten.

Posted in: Podcast 7 years ago 1

FOF #2503 – Spider-Man is Amazing Again

Hey there true believers! Spider-Man is amazing again! Owing a lot to John Hughes’ hilarious teen-angst films of the 80s, Spider-Man Homecoming ditches the dreary origin story because we’ve already Uncle Ben there, done that and gives us what Spiderman is all about, a mythical coming-of-age story of a misfit teen.

Today we’re taking a look at the new film Spider-Man Homecoming with the very funny and insightful Brian Sweeney, whose favorite superhero of all time is Spiderman.

Posted in: Comedians, Podcast 7 years ago 2

FOF #2490 – Vivacious Tears it Up with Katy Perry on SNL

One of the most underrated drag queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race is Vivacious, mother of Ornacia, whose fan slapping, club couture and sassy sayings have become part of the language of drag. Recently, Vivacious tore it up with Katy Perry on Saturday Night Live.

Today Vivacious joins us from her sewing room in New York City to kiki about her appearance with Katy Perry on SNL.

Posted in: Drag Queens & Kings, Podcast 8 years ago 2

FOF #2489 – Alien: Whores of Lost Atlantis

We love H.R. Giger’s Alien monsters: the intergalactic gothic superbeasts that look like a combination of male and female genitalia who will ruin your day if they don’t impregnate you first.

Today, we take a look at the new Alien: Covenant film, our favorite things from past Alien movies, why we’re all secretly rooting for the monster and why the movie and book titles sound like gay Broadway plays.

Posted in: Podcast 8 years ago 5

FOF #2480 – The Best Worst Star Trek TV Episodes Ever

The new Star Trek series, Discovery, is late- either it’s having a hard time initializing the show’s warp core or the inertial dampeners are offline but will it ever get off the ground and launch into space?

Today, comedian Brian Sweeney joins us to take at what we know so far about the series and to also take a look at our favorite worst Star Trek TV episodes.

Posted in: Comedians, Podcast 8 years ago 1

FOF #2362 – That Was So Gay

Gays are known as trendsetters but what happens when the trend becomes so ubiquitous that it loses any sense of what made it fagtastic?

Today we take a look at things that people used to think of as very gay gay gay that aren’t so gay anymore.

Posted in: Podcast 8 years ago 1

FOF #2354 – Stop the Madness

People say “If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention” but we are more than angry, we are also heartbroken over the intolerable level of violence committed against people of color in the United States.

Joining us today to help us make sense of all this madness is Fawzia Mirza, Pakistani-Canadian Muslim comedian, actress and international sex symbol.

Posted in: Actors, Comedians, Podcast 8 years ago 5

FOF #2346 – Silence Equals Death

In the mid 80s, a broken healthcare system and a government content with letting people die from AIDS forced artists to make art that challenged, inspired and aroused the public to change their views on LGBT folks, HIV & AIDS.

Today, we take a look at the future of LGBT rights by taking a look at the iconic artists collective that inspired a generation of people to act up, fight back and fight AIDS.

Posted in: Podcast 8 years ago 0