Feast of Fun : Gay Talk Show

The Dalai Lama says if every child in the world could be taught to meditate, folks wouldn’t be at each other's throats. Until that day comes, at every bar in the world there are staff who work tirelessly to keep a saloon brawl from breaking out. Today comedian Tim Warner joins us to talk about his experience working in a slew of gay bars.

RuPaul loves to say “If you can’t love yourself, how you gonna love somebody else?” meaning self-acceptance is key to having a life full of happiness & love. Easy to say when you’re Supermodel of the World but for us mere mortals it’s hard to tell you inner saboteur to sashay away. Today were taking a look at the juicy complexities of self-acceptance. Joining us is writer Derrick Clifton who writes about culture and politics for NBC news & Vox dot com.

One of the most interesting artists we met at the Austin International Drag Festival is Lady J Martinez, a drag queen who studies why folks have been dressing up in drag for centuries. Today drag queen historian Dr Lady J Martinez joins us to take a look at the controversial crowning on RuPaul’s Drag Race All stars 3 and she gives us a peek at the forced feminization and trans-ploitation films She-Man and Queens at Heart.

Oh Honey! Heavy is the head that wins the crown, and for the queen of all queens who won RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars 3, we know it’s also not easy to walk a mile in Trixie Mattel’s pink cowgirl boots. Today Vivacious, mother of Ornacia joins us to wrap up our podcast series on RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars 3 and what happens now that Shangela gets her dreams of getting the Drag Race crown denied.

We often get asked about the Kinsey Institute’s findings that say that gay men have half an inch longer penises than straight guys. So today, we are pulling out our yardstick and checking our junk against straight man Brian Sweeney to see if this is true. Are you ready Brian? Join us as we chat about why straight guy's ideas about dick size, how a big member can impact your team and why morning wood happens.

For Brittany Campbell, it’s a golden age- she's in the monster hit Hamilton the Musical, she’s releasing a new album and now she’s nominated for the Helen Hayes Award for her role as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. By George she’s got it! Listen as Brittany Campbell joins us to talk about her new album Stay Gold, how the drag queens of NYC took her under their glittery wings and her collaboration with pansexual albino supermodel Shaun Ross.

With just one more episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 3 to go before they crown a winner and, with BenDeLaCreme out of the way, it’s now the Trixie and Shangela show. Today, mother of Ornacia and mother to us all, Vivacious, joins us to take a look at the latest episodes of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars and New York Times’ big question this week: “Who is Ornacia?”

By breaking all the rules, Divine ushered in the era of the modern drag queen built on rebellion. Drag used to focus on female impersonation but Divine took it in a whole new direction that’s still being celebrated. Today Peaches Christ, joins us to take a look at the life and legacy of America’s first drag superstar- Divine. Why are drag queens who came of age at the time of RuPaul and Lady Bunny were more interested in being rebels than passing as beautiful women?

Rupaul recently came under fire for saying that they weren’t interested in casting trans women on Rupaul’s Drag Race, and boy did the internet let her have it! Today, the newly crowned Miss Gay Illinois of US of A 2018 Vivienne Dejour joins us to look at pageants, the queens that enter them and how to keep them all one big happy family.

“You’re tacky and I hate you!” Everyone remembers Billy, the flamboyant little kid nicknamed Fancy Pants in the hit film School of Rock starring Jack Black. Today child star Brian Falduto from the film School of Rock all grown up joins us to talk about his roller coaster ride being labeled “the gay kid” long before he was able to come out on his own terms.

RuPaul said one of the biggest challenges for casting a reality tv show is wading through the mountains of auditions where people “behave in a way that they think [the producers] want them to behave.” But how does that work for a competition that’s built on folks dressing up in costumes and lip syncing to other people’s songs? Today comedian Carma Nibarger joins us to wade through the mountain of questions from past audition forms for RuPaul’s’ Drag Race on what it takes to make your star shine bright on TV.

In most families it’s the parents that yell at the kids to turn down the music, but in these three gals households, it’s the moms who rock. Today, rockers Kelli Owens Hutton and Temple Schultz who form part of the rock trio The Big Ditties join us to talk about the weird place they find themselves in now that their parody video has been shut down by Extreme’s record label.

As Andy Warhol could have said, in the future, everyone will be a drag queen on RuPaul’s Drag Race. Today, mother has arrived, mother to Ornacia, Vivacious joins us to weigh in on the RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 10 girls and the last remaining episodes of RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars Three, or as we like to call it the BenDeLaCreme & Shangela Show.

Drag queens all around the world love using French words & names as part of their act. But what about drag queens in France? Surprisingly many of them use American sounding names and English expressions from their favorite TV show, RuPaul’s Drag Race. Today Parisian drag queen Sasha Kills joins us to talk about the drag scene en France.

One day on a whim, musical theater performer J Tyler posted photos of himself drinking his morning coffee in his well lit bedroom and it captured the imagination of folks on Instagram. Listen as photographer, performer and #instagay JTyler Whitmer joins us to talk about his unlikely career as a sex symbol with a passion for design. Plus: What about that photo of him with It Gets Better Dan Savage’s husband Terry Miller?