Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show
Interviews with amazing people, comedians and LGBTQ+ legends, with pop culture and politics wrapped up in a delicious candy coating of camp.Hosted by Puerto Rican drag queen Fausto Fernós and his husband, Norwegian reality TV star Marc Felion, Feast of Fun began as one of the original 50 podcasts featured on iTunes in 2006, and celebrated by Apple: Feast of Fun "helped bring podcasting from an underground movement to a mainstream phenomenon." Five time winner of the People's Choice Podcast Award for Best LGBT podcast. We've done thousands of shows with wonderfully wild people, LGBTQ legends and their friends, and t...
Surfing the Blue Tsunami - Dan Cass
Despite gerrymandering, voter suppression, misinformation, attack ads featuring mothers trashing their own daughters, and billionaires like Elon Musk spending half a billion dollars, conservatives in the 2026 U.S. midterm elections were swept out to sea.
It was a BLUE TSUNAMI. Too big to rig.
Despite Republican efforts to make voting harder, Americans turned it out and elected some of the most progressive candidates ever, giving the Democrats in January control over the House, Senate and a majority of governorships.
But before you pop the champagne, why are Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries already promising not...
Dan Cass Wants You to Vote, Baby, Vote!
The 2026 U.S. Midterm Elections are here, and early voting is open. On the ballot: a war nobody asked for, an economy in freefall, job anxiety, medical privacy, trans rights, marriage equality, and even democracy itself are all up for grabs.
No big deal!
Meanwhile, Trump and his goons are working round the clock to break or steal everything.
There's a reason the scariest thing about Halloween this year is the election.
But it's not all doom and gloom. A record number of progressive candidates are running for office, and Democrats are fighting...
Sonal Aggarwal is a Woman on Fire
Chicago comedian Sonal Aggarwal has a fire burning inside her, literally. Before she was captivating audiences as a co-host of The Moth Radio Hour, she was spinning flames as a fire dancer, much to the horror of her family, friends and, honestly, most insurance companies.
After a near-fatal motorcycle accident (because apparently fire wasn’t dangerous enough), Sonal put out the flames and grabbed herself a mic, and somehow found stand-up comedy to be the safer career choice.
Since then, she’s become one of Chicago’s most magnetic performers, appearing in Hulu’s Out of t...
More than Medicine: The Power of Psychedelic Therapy to Heal Trauma
Every year millions of people struggle with mental health conditions, and for some, their trauma can become a lifelong prison.
They try medication, conventional therapy and every self help book they’re told might help. But for people with treatment-resistant PocTSD, the nightmares don't seem to come to an end. But what if there could be another way to heal?
For years, therapists and researchers have explored how psychedelics, paired with carefully guided counseling, can help people break free from behavioral patterns that have held them back.
In the new documentary More Than Me...
Return to Little House on the Prairie - Lee Ingalls
When Bonanza ended after 14 seasons, NBC television turned to its biggest star, Michael Landon, to create a new series. Landon adapted Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved “Little House” books into “Little House on the Prairie,” a family drama about perseverance, faith, and community on the American frontier.
Premiering in the aftermath of Watergate, the series became a cultural phenomenon, offering an optimistic vision of neighbors coming together to overcome hardship. More than 50 years later, Little House remains one of television's most beloved franchises.
Netflix is now rebooting the series with promises of a more historically accurate adaptation. The proj...
The Nanaz: Punk Rock Grandmas
As fascism and other systems of oppression slither their way into the mainstream, resistance doesn't always come from politicians, it’s coming from people with guitars, amps, and fierce music.
From Pussy Riot crashing churches in Russia to Welsh grannies cranking up distortion in Brooklyn, punk is still one of the loudest ways to say, “Hell to the no!”
Today Marc Felion is on special assignment in Brooklyn, New York talking to The Nanaz, a punk rock group from South Wales made up of women in their 50s and beyond. The group started as total strangers in a c...
Nadya Ginsburg Goes Feral for Madonna
Society is collapsing, the moon is full, and Madonna, Cher, and Nadya Ginsburg have all escaped from their cages.
Comedian, writer, and woman of a thousand voices, Nadya Ginsburg, is back with her new musical comedy cabaret Feral Fatale, featuring stand-up, songs, AI critiques, shapeshifting into pop icons, and a dramatic reading of Cher's most legendary tweets.
Today Nadya joins us to sink our teeth into Madonna's brand new album, Confessions II, which just like World War II uses Roman numerals to determine the version number. Is it her best album in decades or is it a...
Where's the Beef? - with Dan Cass
By now you’ve probably sick of hearing about the weird video made by McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempciznski, where he nervously takes a tiny bite of their new burger, referring to it as a “product.”
Since then, a myriad of executives have tried to one-up each other with their own burger “eating” videos, creating a full-fledged social media spectacle with the hopes of raising sales and building brand loyalty.
But one question still stands: why won't these burger CEOs show themselves swallowing their own “meat?”
Today Chicago comedian and burger aficionado Dan Cass joins us to look...
Matthew Davies - Designing for Star Trek & Bodybuilding in the Future
People love sports for the thrill of the challenge, to push their bodies to boldly go where they’ve never gone before. But in Star Trek, how would people compete in a universe where physical augmentation makes almost anything possible?
What happens to bodybuilding a thousand years from now?
Today’s episode is a dual drop from Feast of Fun and Let’s Grow Big Together, think of it as a transporter mishap where two podcasts are fused as one, but not as awkward as Tuvix.
In this series, we take a look at the pas...
Damon L. Jacobs Chooses Queer Joy
The sexual revolution didn’t happen all at once, it came in throbbing waves: the Pill. Stonewall. The AIDS crisis. The Internet. Grindr. PrEP. Doxy PEP. Sniffies!
We have more options than ever before and yet some still feel lonely. Swipe culture gives us abundance, but it also trains us to treat each other like custom coffee drinks.
How do we build intimacy without running a background check on somebody?
And why does jealousy still show up like it is paying the rent?
Today, queer activist and marriage and family therapist Damon L. Jaco...
Bad Bunny's Boricua Halftime Show Wins Big
Considering the rebellious spirit of reggaeton music, folks were all up in a knot as Bad Bunny took to the Super Bowl stage, expecting a vulgar, over-the-top spectacle.
Instead, we got a triumphant celebration of Puerto Rican culture, and at the end, a giant billboard reminding us: “The Only Thing More Powerful Than Hate Is Love.”
Not just a jolgorio for Puerto Rico, but a nod to queer icons like Ricky Martin and Lady Gaga, Bad Bunny’s record-breaking show drew 10 million more viewers than the game itself, making it officially the most-watched halftime show in history...
Heated Rivalry Melts All the Tuna
Move over RuPaul’s Drag Race! Straight women are now obsessing over a whole new TV show packed with competitive queens, only this time it’s hunky hockey players playing a little tonsil hockey off the ice.
Heated Rivalry, the sizzling new TV show based on Rachel Reid’s bestselling series about the secret gay romances of rival star hockey players, is scoring big with audiences. Like Brokeback Mountain, it’s got everyone thinking about how the puck slides into the net without lube.
The series has also sent the four lead actors’ careers skating into the spotli...
Bill Cruz's Christmas Miracle
Happy Holidays, everybody! One of the best parts of the season is when friends and family come back to town to bring the light, the noise, and the funk.
Today we welcome back one of the first openly gay comedians in Chicago’s stand-up comedy scene: Bill Cruz. After his time in LA, Bill has returned to Chicago and is here to help us wrap up this difficult year without crying into our coquito.
Back in the day, Bill helped shape our live Chicago comedy show, “Feast of Fools,” a little experiment that somehow evolved into one of...
Spencer Duncan from Big Queen to Big Muscle
One of the hardest things about building muscle is being able to consume vast amounts of food. And that’s why we say competitive eating is bodybuilding's distant cousin.
But for a plus sized drag queen, who is already big, it’s a challenge pivoting into bodybuilding and losing fat while building muscle at the same time.
Let’s Grow Big Together! It’s the podcast that reminds you it takes a lot of courage to sashay in heels, and even more to deadlift in them.
In this series, we take a look at the passio...
Dan Cass Stands Up to Abuse
As Republicans trip over themselves trying to explain why Jeffrey Epstein’s emails are “no big deal,” we’re all being reminded how easily the powerful can redefine sexual violence when it suits their needs.
Meanwhile our friend Dan Cass has been living the opposite nightmare. Dan was falsely accused by his ex-girlfriend of sexual assault, and unlike Republicans who can just get Megyn Kelly to shrug it off, Dan lost work, relationships, and nearly his mind trying to clear his name.
But here’s the twist: Dan did what almost nobody does, he successfully fought the defamat...
A Trans Perspective on Wicked
Transformations are often quite painful. Whether we’re growing emotionally or undergoing a physical metamorphosis, real change usually demands discomfort, and sometimes even danger.
In Jon M. Chu’s Wicked films, the characters literally burst through their own limits: they sprout wings, become tin or straw, or learn to fly by defying gravity.
Like all the past Wizard of Oz books and films, Wicked is a mirror of its time. Since the Covid pandemic, conservative movements around the globe have seized on a new scapegoat: openly trans and gender-diverse people. Despite being a tiny fraction of the...
I Almost Went Blind
Sometimes life forces you to hit the pause button. Not because you wanted to, but because your body says, “sit down honey, we’ve got work to do.”
After nearly two decades of podcasting, we thought we’d seen it all, until this summer, when I had emergency eye surgery to save my vision, and Marc had his heart shocked back into rhythm after a scary bout of atrial fibrillation.
Between the two of us, we had enough hospital bracelets to start our own line of jewelry.
But through all of it, we learned a few thi...
Topher Payne: The Tree Who Set Healthy Boundaries
One of the most divisive books in children’s literature is Shel Silverstein’s "The Giving Tree," the story of a dysfunctional relationship between a boy and a sentient apple tree who gives him everything she has, from her apples and leaves to her branches and trunk, until all that's left is a stump.
Meant as a parable of unconditional love, writer Topher Payne thought our doomed pair needed a better ending to their sad story. He wrote "The Tree Who Set Healthy Boundaries," where the tree learns to say no and lives a long, happy life because of i...
Dan Cass Escapes from Alligator Auschwitz
After threatening Americans with raising their taxes by 68%, President Trump managed to strong-arm Republicans in Congress into passing his Big Burglary Bill: a sweeping economic and policy package that slashes healthcare funding, shuts down hospitals, inflates ICE’s budget to be larger than the Marines’, opens new concentration camps in Florida, adds $3.4 trillion to the national deficit, and gives billionaires even more tax breaks than ever before.
So why didn’t more people try to stop it?
Today, comedian Dan Cass joins us to break down the nightmare that is the Big Burglary Bill, and the swampy...
Queeny Bitch and the Windy City Comedy Festival
When the world is falling apart, sometimes the best thing you can do is make art. Just because Republicans are doing everything they can to crush the joy in people’s hearts, doesn't mean you can’t dumpster dive a feather boa, borrow a pair of heels and put on a show.
Remember, that some of the greatest works of art have blossomed in the shadows of fascism.
Today we're talking with comedian and showbiz mogul Queeny Bitch—a comic, provocateur, and now one of the masterminds behind the Windy City Comedy Festival, where...
From Burlesque to Bikes: Tamale Sepp on Dykes on Bikes, Pride, and Queer Power
A beloved Pride tradition around the world is the roar of Dykes on Bikes: a fierce motorcade of motorcycle mamas who kick off the parade with a chrome-plated spectacle of queer power, and noise. They first rolled onto the scene at San Francisco Pride in the mid-’70s and quickly became a staple all over the world.
Inspired by those heavy-metal heroines, Chicago’s own Bikes and Mics emerged—a no-rules posse of queer performers, riders, and creatives. This year, the group celebrates their 10th anniversary with a high-octane Mad Max–themed ride, complete with leather, dust, and rumors of...
Dan Cass - April Showers Bring May Flowers
Spring is here, and things are getting rough.
T.S. Eliot called April "the cruelest month,” and honestly, he had a point. After a long, cozy winter of emotional hibernation, spring forces us to feel things again.
Today, Chicago comedian and part-time Russian dance expert Dan Cass joins us to explore the hilarious side of a world that’s struggling. Should we start an OnlyFlans? A nude comedy show? Honestly, it's getting desperate.
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Kate Bornstein’s 101+ Helpful Hints for Living Your Best Queer Life
About 20 years ago, Kate Bornstein wrote Hello, Cruel World to give people permission to stay alive in a world that makes that feel impossible.
Today, that world is trying even harder to crush anyone who lives outside the binary—trans, queer, disabled, neurodivergent, or just too free for a system built on control.Attacks on trans rights aren’t just about gender—they’re a strategy to dismantle all core freedoms: privacy, bodily autonomy, parental rights, healthcare, education, and safety.
Trans people are being scapegoated to erase rights for everyone, starting with the most vulnerable.So what do...
Dan Cass - MAGA the Musical!
Conservatives are always forcing their outdated vision onto culture, education, and policy because deep down, they know they’re losing the long game.
A leaked Kennedy Center board meeting reveals Trump is pushing to make the nation’s cultural hub more conservative by stacking its lineup with right-wing musicals. So, what’s next? MAGA: The Musical?
Today, comedian Dan Cass joins us to break down how fascists try to seize power—and, more importantly, how to fight back.
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Hello, I'm Jeffrey Jay
As the United States slides deeper into fascism, Republicans are ramping up attacks on trans people, immigrants, and pretty much anyone who stands in their way.
One thing is clear—most Americans don’t personally know any trans people so it is easy for Republicans to scapegoat them.
But here’s the thing: LGBTQ+ people are everywhere. And with polls showing that more people than ever identify as LGBTQ+, we hold real power, if people actually see and know us.
One trans pioneer making that visibility impossible to ignore is comedian Jeffrey Jay.
To...
Kyle Smolinski - Muscle, Mass and Rainbows
Chicago’s very own Kyle Smolinski is a rising star in the Open Bodybuilding scene, dominating some of the top NPC heavyweight contests—including a gold-medal win in the heavyweight division at the NPC Jay Cutler Classic in Virginia.
But beyond his impressive size and stage presence, Kyle is also openly gay and known for his signature rainbow-colored hair.
Let’s Grow Big Together! The podcast that builds muscle with all the colors of the rainbow, including biceps, bronzer, and big queer energy.”
In this series, we take a look at the passion for muscle, a...
André Robert Lee Looks Back on Starrbooty, RuPaul
One of our all-time favorite wacky and wild films is RuPaul’s Starrbooty.
Created during a lull in her career, the film revives one of Ru’s early cable-access TV characters- Starbooty—a private detective turned sex worker who lands herself in increasingly ridiculous situations. The film celebrates RuPaul’s love for sexploitation, melodrama, gratuitous nudity, and her circle of kooky friends.
Many consider Starrbooty the launchpad for RuPaul’s resurgence as host of RuPaul’s Drag Race, a show that mainstreamed drag so successfully it has overshadowed many other styles and interpretations of the art form.
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Cleve Jones Takes on America’s Armageddon
America is under attack by the wolves in the federal government who are chewing it apart. As the nation spirals into confusion and despair, we are left wondering—why does it feel like no one is fighting back?
As Harvey Milk said, “Get out of the bars and into the streets!” Now more than ever, we need to step away from our screens, show up in public spaces, and organize. In the absence of leadership, it’s up to all of us to lead.
As a protégé of Harvey Milk, Cleve Jones became a key figure in...
Tiny Thickemz and OhJay Lamont - Couples Who Laugh Together Stay Together
Americans are now queerer than ever! A new Gallup poll shows 9.3% of folks now identify as something other than straight—up from 7.6% in 2023. And Gen Z? A whopping 23%!
Party!
While it seems like the country’s getting more conservative, people's sexuality and gender identity says otherwise.
Joining us today is the self-proclaimed ‘lesbian on the weekends’-- the West Side comedy queen of raunch, Tiny Thickemz, along with her comedy partner in life and onstage, OhJay Lamont. Together they host ‘Love is Blind’ at Chicago’s Laugh Factory, where real couples do joint stand-up sets about thei...
Caleb De Casper is a Wicked Witch
In The Wizard of Oz, Glinda asks, “Are you a good witch or a bad witch?” As it turns out, most witches are good—because the bad ones end up cursing themselves into oblivion.
Today, we’re chatting with one of our favorite wicked but wonderful witches, musician Caleb De Casper. A fierce advocate for queer rights, Caleb is known for his electrifying performances and signature blend of dark synth-pop, glam punk rock, and horror cabaret.
Honored with his own day in Austin, Texas, Caleb joins us to celebrate 20 years of Feast of Fun and give us a sneak...
Emilia Perez vs Wicked
Netflix’s Emilia Perez is a hot mess of a movie. This musical crime drama, written and directed by French filmmaker Jacques Audiard, follows a de-greenified Zoë Saldaña working as a lawyer for a Mexican drug lord who transitions.
Saldaña’s character later goes on to support the former Mexican drug lord as she attempts to atone for her criminal past by founding a nonprofit to rescue the victims of the country’s drug cartels, including her own.
What could have been a powerful exploration of the struggles faced by trans people and all women in...
Amanda Cohen Battles the LA Fires
The LA fires impacted thousands of lives, with entire neighborhoods and landmarks reduced to ash. In moments like these, it’s easy to feel a sense of dread and despair, but that’s when comedy is at the most vital. Laughter doesn’t fix the chaos, but it reminds us to breathe, connect, and find light even in the darkest moments.
Today comedian and Feast of Fun legend Amanda Cohen joins us to talk about her experience surviving the Greater Los Angeles Wildfires of 2025. Amanda was a big part of our live show and the early days o...
Tik Tok, You've Been Clocked - Dan Cass
The world feels like it’s teetering on the edge of an apocalypse, or maybe just a really dramatic season finale.
Lately, we've witnessed a wave of significant deaths, or things barely clinging to life: TikTok, filmmaker David Lynch, anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant, bodybuilder Chris O’Donnell, PrEP, Marriage Equality, democracy, the U.S. dollar, the Golden Globes, The Village People and yes, even Snoop Dogg’s career.
But, as Florence + The Machine wisely reminds us, it’s always darkest before the dawn. Change often comes with chaos, upheaval, and a little bit of existential dread. So, take...
The Grinch Who Stole Cher
It’s not easy being green—especially when your heart is three sizes too big. No, we’re not talking about someone abusing anabolic steroids; we’re talking about everyone’s favorite green Christmas curmudgeon: The Grinch.
Created by Dr. Seuss and brought to life in the iconic animated Christmas special by Chuck Jones—of Tom & Jerry fame—The Grinch was voiced by two legends: Boris “The Mummy” Karloff and Thurl “Tony the Tiger” Ravenscroft. As two beloved queer cultural figures, both are integral to this beloved holiday tradition.
And yet, despite the popularity of the book, the animated TV...
Golden Girls’ Bea Arthur Lives on in Luke McQuillan
The TV sitcom The Golden Girls went off the air 32 years ago, but thanks to reruns, Dorothy Zbornak and her gal pals live on in the hearts of many, especially queer folks who delight in the comedic hijinks of four senior women living together in Miami.
Although he was a toddler when the Golden Girls was first broadcast, voice over and musical theater actor Luke McQuillan’s viral covers in the voice of Bea Arthur is helping to keep the show’s legacy alive and it got him cast on Cartoon Network and Netflix shows.
Is Luke...
Make Kindness Great Again
As Americans watched Nazis march in Columbus, Ohio, we are left wondering: why is fascism on the rise? More young people in the US are voting for MAGA Republicans than ever before, with a notable increase among young white men.
Why is this happening, and how can we make kindness and compassion great again?
Today, the Rev. Quincy Danger Worthington—better known to us as the Rev. Danger—joins us to share his experience in confronting right-wing extremism within his own church. Quincy came of age in the Punk and Hardcore scene in Erie Pennsylvania, and his...
Wicked is Popular!
Wicked is popular! The film adaptation of the musical adaptation of the literary reimagining of the Wicked Witch of the West is surpassing all box office expectations. Composer Stephen Schwartz already announced a 3rd and 4th film in the works.
The Wickedverse is expanding.
But why does this story resonate so deeply right now? As the world faces a resurgence of fascism, audiences yearn for a trip over the rainbow and they find inspiration in Elphaba's fight against the oppression of the talking animals in Oz which feels eerily timely, reminding us all of the importance t...
Brian Yuen - Bodybuilding with HIV
We’re living in a new golden age of bodybuilding, thanks in part to the Internet, which provides endless resources for building muscle, and to medical advancements over the past few decades in fighting HIV, AIDS, and cancer.
Let’s Grow Big Together! The podcast that tests positive for F.U.N. (and lots of performance enhancing drugs.)
In this series, hosts Fausto Fernós and Marc Felion take a look at the passion for muscle, adventures in bodybuilding, muscle gods, muscle worship and practical advice to put on the gains.
Today Canadian bodybuilder and imm...
Will the Real Matt Brown Please Stand Up?
Our guest today is very well known to listeners of the show, or so you think.
For the past six years, we’ve been delighted to get to know comedian Matt Brown, for their snark, sass and being unconventional when it came to gender expression as Ms Brown Comic.
This past fall, Matt has been going through a lot of changes, for one they are changing their social media handle from Ms. Brown comic to just Matt Brown. And on top of that, Matt is now currently dating a woman. Bisexual folks are real after all, and...
The 2024 Post Election Blues
Folks are shocked at the results of the 2024 US Presidential Election. Despite insulting everyone they could and promising to end free elections, Trump and MAGA republicans are set to control our federal government, now with no judicial restraints.
For all purposes, Trump is about to be the United States’ first dictator.
Everyone is blaming everybody, everything everywhere, all at once:
• Election Interference.
• Democrats.
• Gen Z.
• Corporate owned news media.
• Tik Tok, Facebook, Twitter.
• Kamala, Bernie, Hillary, Joe.
• Putin, Netanyahu, Kim Jon Un, Winnie the Pooh.
• Jill Stein, election hipsters. <...
