Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show Hosted by Fausto Fernós & Marc Felion

Box office poison! Critics hated the film Mommie Dearest, the film adaptation of Christina Crawford's tell all book chronicling the physical and mental abuse she suffered as the adopted daughter of Hollywood Golden Age legend Joan Crawford.

But thanks to the success of Rocky Horror Picture Show and the films of John Waters, the film studios quickly pivoted the marketing of the melodramatic movie into a dark comedy, showcasing it as a midnight feature film inviting drag queens to dress up and re-enact fights between momma Joan and her adopted daughter Christina.

Today we’re chatting with pop culture writer A. Ashley Hoff on the camp classic film Mommie Dearest and how the runaway success of the film forever changed how the public thinks about Joan Crawford and the film's star Faye Dunaway. 

In his new book With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic, A. Ashley Hoff explores how Christina's memoir got turned into this outlandish film. Hoff also explores all the myths surrounding Christina and Joan Crawford's actual lives.  

• Did Joan Crawford really beat up Christina with wire hangers?

• Was Joan Crawford bisexual? 

• Did Joan kill her 4th husband Al Steele? 

We all have days when we just want to tell authority figures, the teacher, the manager at work that you’re done with them and it’s time to go home and enjoy the rest of my life, and I could quit because of all of you.

Remember the “Bad Little Girl” who had enough of Linda? Well she’s all grown up now and doing ok.  

Today comedian Matt Brown joins us to find out what happened to Jayla Cummings, the adorable “Bad Little Girl” who went viral with her frustrated rant over being put in time out in daycare. 

Matt also weighs in on Jerry Seinfeld’s frustration with modern day television sitcoms, saying the “extreme left” is killing comedy. 

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• Due to an unexpected solar mass ejection, Chicago sees purple Northern Lights. 

• Chicago’s rat role gets dug up and put in a museum.

Another Met Gala has come and gone. The annual charity fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute always draws the world’s attention as notable artists, entertainers and the wealthy elite parade in lavish and often ridiculous outfits.

Despite not being in attendance this year, Lady Gaga  managed to be the top shared celebrity on the Internet for her Guggenheim Museum inspired dress. The catch? It was all done with AI, while Gaga probably stayed home nice and cozy in a bath full of bubbles and a dart board with Madonna’s face on it. 

Today we take a look at all the wet and wild news stories, like Lady Gaga and Rhianna’s fake Met Gala gowns, and how Pride Celebrations this year are shrinking in New York and Chicago. 

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• Madonna's last stop in Rio for her Celebration Tour surpasses the Rolling Stones as the 5th biggest music concert in history. 

• Twitter/X Ceo Elon Musk tells JK Rowling to post interesting and positive content on the site. 

• Republicans wear diapers in support of President Trump.

• Good vibrations- fiddler crabs send vibrations through the ground to attract a mate.

If you’re not used to going to the gym, working out can seem like you’re walking through a field of landmines. 

Am I doing this right? Will I hurt myself? Do I look good? They’re all going to laugh at me! And what happens If I run into the person I hooked up with last week and it didn't go so well because my Bulgarian Split Squats in bed didn’t impress them much? 

Let’s Grow Big Together - the podcast that likes big glutes and it can not lie! 

In this series, we’re taking a look at the passion for muscle, adventures in bodybuilding, muscle gods, muscle worship and practical advice to put on the gains. 

Today we’re taking a look at gymtimidation, what causes folks to get anxious about going to the gym. Whether it’s your first time or you recently lost motivation to lift weights, we’ve got ideas to get you through the door and through a great workout. 

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• How bodybuilding poses and kisses help build muscle. 

• New York City’s largest police union is suing to use performance enhancing drugs without state interference. 

• Harm reduction: how to balance the use of hard drugs and performance enhancing drugs so you dont drop dead. 

Get on the bus loser, we’re going to the Australian Outback in drag, again! It’s the 30 year anniversary of The Adventures Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the groundbreaking film that shook the world as three queens on a road trip across the Australian desert. 

The groundbreaking film won an Oscar for fiercest costumes ever and helped drag go mainstream. Now, three decades later after Priscilla, the big pink bus drove across the desert and into our hearts, the original cast is back for a highly anticipated sequel. 

Today we take a look at how the world changed in the short time from the documentary Paris is Burning scandalized movie screens to The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert becoming an international  hit, leading to an appetite for similar films like Too Wong Foo, Trick and Girls Will Be Girls. 

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• A group of professional German rugby players plan on coming out as gay on May 17 to celebrate International Day Against Homophobia.

• Once a drag queen, always a drag queen: ousted Republican Rep George Santos brings back his drag queen alter ego Kitara Ravache to make Cameo videos for “charity.” 

• Comedian Jerry Seinfeld once again complains about cancel culture making comedians too risk averse to try to make audiences laugh. 

It’s Lesbian Visibillity week, where we take a look at some of the most wonderful women who have shaped Feast of Fun over the course of 20 years. 

Just like no two people are alike, the relationships we develop in our lives will also be incredibly unique. 

Before open relationships became more acceptable in LGBTQ+ circles, sex-positive writer Tristan Taormino was helping pave the way for people to expand their minds to new kinds of relationships.

We spoke to Tristan in 2008 about her new book “Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships” where she said a big factor in fufilling relationships was for people to defnine monogamy on their own terms, and that the best relationships complement each other instead of trying to meet each other halfway in everything.  


Please enjoy this encore presentation of “Ménage à How Many?” with Tristan Taormino as part of our celebration of Lesbian Visibility Week and the design I made that became the modern lesbian pride flag. 


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