Folks are having a hearty laugh over President Trump getting hospitalized for testing positive 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 the President, First Lady and 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 and the world?

MATT BROWN: http://www.mattbrowncomic.com

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➤ Just in time for Halloween - research reveals that if your bones are quaking when you're scared it's because your flight or fight response originates from your skeleton.

➤ The cast of the film Spinal Tap finally reunite for a Democratic party fundraiser.

➤ The wonderfully weird TV spots for fast food by legendary divas like Aretha Franklin and Mary J Blige. What product would Tina Turner endorse if she was shilling it in the 80s?

Remember those tin cans you’d play with your friends as kids? Here’s a new podcasting experiment, where we tape a podcast live on location with queer Latinx studies professor Larry LaFountain, who’s best known to Feast of Fun listeners as Lola Von Miramar, the first drag queen to in our Cooking with Drag Queens video series.

This fall marks the 10 year anniversary of Cooking with Drag Queens, the oddball cooking show that helped inspire so many wonderful videos and introduced many of the world’s top drag queens to the mainstream: Trixie Mattel, Kim Chi, Bob the Drag Queen, Katya Zamolodchikova, The Vixen, Cynthia Lee Fontaine, April Carrión, Milk, Kelly Mantle, and so many more.

One of the the most talked about and parodied costumes any pop star has ever sported is the meat dress worn by Lady Gaga at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. Mother Monster wore it to draw attention to the U.S. military ban on lesbian and gay service members. Time Magazine named it the top fashion statement of the year.

Today we’re serving up butcher shop realness, talking to Franc Fernandez, the remarkable man behind the amazing and delicious meat dress.

Listen as we talk about how they made the meat dress, how the dress influenced the government’s lifting of the the anti-gay military ban, and discover where that mouth watering gown eventually wound up.

When you're a drag queen, you’re timeless, well at least until your wig starts to break down and your makeup starts to crack at the end of the night. But time comes for us all, even the most legendary drag queens, and that doesn't always have to be a scary thing.

When you get older, you’re hopefully able to see things in a bigger perspective and conjure up a little magic to make things exciting.

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.

PEACHES CHRIST: www.peacheschrist.com

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.

Don’t miss the viewing party on Oct 1 at at 6PM Pacific.
https://peacheschrist.live/

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➤ Why do JK Rowling and other high profile queer celebrities come out aganist trans inclusion?

➤ 80’s Gay icons that became TV commercial spokespersons.

➤ A look at the amazing life of drag queen Peggy L’Eggs.

And now a public service announcement for public service announcements. Since World War II, the US government has been harnessing the power of the media to raise awareness about certain topics and to shape people’s behavior.

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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➤ When Pee Wee Herman told kids not to use crack.


➤ Don’t play inside of refrigerators.


➤ Time for Timer-- did you try to make popsicles out of toothpicks and ice cube trays filled with juice?

Sometimes the urge to write is so strong that you can’t wait for a publisher to show the world the masterpiece in your mind.

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.

RACHEL HALL'S PODCAST: https://apple.co/3kqN1Fb

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➤ HBOMAX’s Lovecraft Country has us jumping out of our skin.

➤ Captain America, Chris Evans, who has the world’s attention with his “accidentally” leaked dick pic, wants you to do one thing: vote.

➤ Kanye West releases his own pee tape where he wizzes on his Grammy Award.

➤ Lil’ Nas X is putting out a children’s book all about the C word.

➤ Madonna is going to co write and direct her own biopic.

Neil Patrick Harris won a Tony Award for starring in Hedwig and the Angry Inch on Broadway, but we all know the real star is the spectacular wig design of Mike Potter.

The task of styling these magnificent wigs for the show goes to legendary NY drag queen Perfidia, or as Facebook likes to call her, Steven Perfidia Kirkham, who you may know from the documentary Wigstock or the YouTube video we did with her titled “How to Style a Big Wig for Drag Queens in the Style of Lady Bunny” which is a hit with queens both new and old.

Listen as Perfidia gives us a behind the scenes tour of what it’s like styling wigs for Hedwig, working with Neil Patrick Harris, Book of Mormon’s Andrew Rannells and Dexter’s Michael C. Hall. Did she ever solve Broadway’s biggest mystery- the case of the stolen Hedwig wig.

Hedwigs through time. John Cameron Mitchell, Ally Sheedy, Jinkx Monsoon, Neil Patrick Harris, Andrew Rannells, Michael C Hall. Photos courtesy of Hedwig on Broadway.

It’s hard to imagine Disney without it’s iconic animated musicals, but in the 80s after several box office bombs, Disney considered never making animated musicals again.

Thankfully, after playwright and lyricist Howard Ashman’s breakthrough success with his oddball musical comedy Little Shop of Horrors, Disney asked Ashman to work with them and The Little Mermaid, a film that became so successful that it kicked off what’s now known as the Disney Renaissance.

In the new Disney+ documentary, “Howard,” we get a rare look at the amazing work and career of Howard Ashman, whose life was tragically cut short when he died from AIDS in 1991, midway through the production of Beauty and the Beast and Aladddin. Howard never saw either of these films finished and his surviving partner collected his Oscar for Best Original Song “Beauty and the Beast.”.

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.

JAKE BELLISSIMO: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3WiDtXCBED-X4pBLPEk79w

Knock Knock! Who’s there? Phyllis. Phyillis who? Phyillis your Census form!

Have you signed up for the 2020 Census? If you didn't, the Golden Girls reboot has a message for you- fill out the census and get counted for the government services your community deserves.

In a Zoom Where it Happens virtual watch party, with openly queer Hollywood writer Lena Waithe as the host and narrator, legendary ladies of black theater performed a book reading of a classic Golden Girls episode centered around everyone being sick and going out anyway. How timely.

Today, comedian Matt Brown joins us to take a look at the recast of Golden Girls with an all black cast starring Alfree Woodard, Tracee Ellis Ross and Regina King. Who would you cast in a dream team of all time legendary black women?

MATT BROWN: http://mattbrowncomic.com

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➤ Mariah Carey lives up to all the wild rumors in her upcoming memoir.

➤ A professor fesses us to pretending to be Black and Latinx.

➤ The Kardashians call it kwits.

➤ Paris Hilton comes out as a victim of the Troubled Teen torture camp industry.

I think I know what love is, it's DeAundra Peek! Yaaaaaaay.

Before YouTube and the Internet, people used to record their favorite cable access shows onto VHS cassette tapes in order to pass them along to their friends in other cities. One show that thrived outside of its home market of Atlanta, GA was “DeAundra Peek’s Teenage Music Club” where a very special drag queen, DeAundra Peek, would enthusiastically cook Vienna sausages and sing along to karaoke versions of pop hits.

DEAUNDRA PEEK'S VIDEOS: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL62A6D23BAA3B9ADD

A contemporary of RuPaul and Lady Bunny, DeAundra continued her cable access show for years and although she was loved by so many, DeAundra mysteriously disappeared, never to be heard from again, until now.

Today, we're talking to Rosser Shymanski, the person behind the fabulous DeAundra Peek about her early days in drag, her friendships with all these glorious drag queens and why after all these years she might be ready for a comeback.