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What is the Feast of Fools?

The Feast of Fools podcast features cocktails, gossip, news and interviews with some of the worlds most eclectic celebrities, newsmakers, and musicians. Hosted by the flaming blue Fausto Fernós with his boyfriend Marc Felion, the Feast of Fools has been in the top 50 downloaded comedy podcasts in the world and currently ranks as iTunes’ #1 gay podcast.*

With over a million downloads to this date, the Feast of Fools has the distinction of having one of the largest audiences for a comedy show produced from Chicago, and the largest audience for a GLBT-themed podcast in the world. It remains as one of the most popular daily audio programs of its kind for any audience.

Feast of Fools : Gay Fun Show was one of the very first podcasts produced by a gay couple and was the first podcast to win a People’s Choice Podcasting Award for “Best GLBT Podcast” in the first year of the organization’s decision to create the category. Other awards have been: “Best Podcast” (Pressie Awards 2006, Chicago Free Press), “Best Podcast” (Gay Bloggies), “Best Podcast” (Best Gay Blogs), “Queers Who Make Chicago Great 2006″ (Time Out Chicago).

When the iTunes Music store celebrated it’s one year anniversary of podcasting, Feast of Fools was chosen as one out of 48 “pioneering shows… helping to bring podcasting from an underground movement to a mainstream phenomenon, [Feast of Fools] helped to pave the way.” -iTunes Music Store, June 28, 2006.

In the November 2005 issue of OUT Magazine featured an article about the Feast of Fools saying: “Pretty Impressive… a combination of outrageousness and intimacy that’s won listeners over.” -Troy Dreier, OUT Magazine.

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* Rankings acording to the iTunes Music store popularity listings from October 2005 to April 2007.

Fausto Fernós - Chicago, Illinois

As a performer and artist Fausto Fernós has achieved acclaim in a variety of mediums. He started performing at 18 in Austin, Texas, where he self-produced a weekly live soap opera called “SoftMen.” He went on to produce and host other variety shows in Austin, Texas and Chicago, including the “The Minimum Wage Art Series,” “The Big Wig Revue,” and “Pe.A.Ch. –The Performance Art Church.” Fernós is best known in Texas for his unusual cable access talk show “Faustina!” which won several awards, including the Austin Chronicle’s “Best of Austin: Best Cable Access Show” in 1995.

Fernós also has written and directed three musicals dealing with such diverse subject matter as gay biology “Homosexual Personæ,” the first complete dinosaur fossil ever discovered “Mary Anning,” and the search for intelligent life beyond Earth “Voices From The Sky.” Fausto also performs regularly with his band, which was featured at the queer rock concert IDA-palooza along with Bitch and Animal & Pistol Pete and Pop-Gun Paul in the mountains of Woodbury, Tennessee. In June of 2001, Fausto Fernós was awarded by Windy City Media Group, the “30-under-30-award”, a distinction given every year to 30 GLBT visionary people under the age of 30 who make Chicago one of the most interesting cities in the world.

In June of 2003, Fausto’s solo work was featured in the exhibition “Confessions of the Avant-Garde” a retrospective of the Cleveland Performance Art Festival history and legacy. Fausto Fernós was selected out of literally thousands of images, artists, and media as one of the 20 featured artists included in that exhibition. Others artists included were: Blue Man Group, Karen Finley, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Goat Island, and Holly Hughes. Currently, Fausto produces and hosts with his life-partner Marc Felion “Feast of Fools : Gay Fun Show”- the worlds most downloaded podcast for a gay and lesbian audience.

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Marc Felion - Chicago, Illinois

Marc Felion works as a bartender for a local champagne bar. As a master mixologist, Marc Felion brings his cocktail knowledge to the podcast. He is continually conceiving new and clever drinks. He will often take an old drink recipe and add a new twist to make it new and refreshing.

Marc is natural conversationalist. He uses this a lot at his regular job where he has to talk to complete strangers, sometimes for hours at a time. Marc also credits his large family with his conversation skills. Growing up in a large family in Erie, PA there was always something going on and always something to talk about.

Marc is an avid reader and his brain retains all the bizarre facts and figures. He can finish a book in a day if he sets his mind to it. Marc scours the Internet for unusual, sexy, provocative and stupid news. Before the Internet, Marc use to spent hours at the library reading newspapers, magazine, and telephone books. He is always amazed at the infinite possibilities that exist.

Marc has always had a bit of wanderlust. he has traveled quite a bit. He spent two years in Europe working at a small resort town in Southern Germany. From this home base he made numerous excursions to various parts of Europe. He has traveled to Asia, North Africa, Central and South America. He is very excited about the possibility of taking the Feast of Fools Podcast on the road.
Marc joined the Feast of Fools family in 1999 when Fausto and he started dating and Marc commandeered the kitchen where he worked so that they could make cookies to sell at a bake sale to raise money for the Feast of Fools live Show. He thinks we made about $60.

Marc was always behind the scenes at the Feast of Fools Live Show. He helped write scripts and make costumes. He was ever present at the the actual event, working the crowd, greeting guests, running the video camera and working the spotlight.

Marc became involved in The Feast of Fools Podcast because he had to! It was taking place in his living room night after night. Join in on the fun or go hide in the back bedroom. Marc feels that everyday society is inundated with images and messages that reinforce heterosexuality. He feels its his job to to bring images and messages that reinforce other lifestyles. Marc thinks of the Feast of Fools Podcast helps bring a positive message of what gay men really are like.
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Amanda Steinstein - Chicago, Illinois

Amanda Steinstein would rather be curled up reading science fiction paperbacks than anything else. Between alternating trips to the gym and Baskin-Robbins, Amanda likes to do improv and sing karaoke.
She also loves to paint on people…kids will do, but she prefers grown-ups because they hold still better. Amanda scours the Internet for what she feels is the weird, the wisdom and the absurd. Her acerbic witt and charm bring a lot to the banquet that is the Feast of Fools.

Amanda Steinstein found the Feast of Fools through an ad that was placed on craigslist.org. “Rejected by American Idol? Humiliated by your peers? The Feast of Fools wants YOU. Bring us your geeks, your misfits, your outcasts, your oddballs. We want big chested, bold women to sing, crack jokes, collaborate and dance in our musical variety shows.” Amanda Steinstein was the only person who shined in the auditions, and the rest is HER-story.

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John Q. Sanchez - New York City, New York

John Q. Sanchez lives in New York City, where he works as a writer and an editor. He was part of the pioneering Web zine Blair (home of “Gay or Eurotrash”) and self-published such 90s underground oddities as “Fed-Up Secretary,” “I’ve Written a Letter,” and “Flying Buttress.” In the mid 90s he was well known in the performance art scene as “Osaka Hernandez” who billed herself as the Cyndi Lauper of Tejano music. Currently John Q. Sanchez writes and edits Tasty Zine, the official collaborative magazine for the Feast of Fools podcast as well as his personal blog.

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SAL-E - Chicago, Illinois

Sal-E works ferociously as a cosmetologist at Milio’s Hair Salon in Chicago, Illinois. Born and raised in Chicago’s northwest-side he quickly developed a reputation for creating original costumes that are inspired by found objects and result in a wide variety of looks. From a psychedelic baroque monarch to a heroic comic book figure Sal-E is one of the most requested nightclub personalities and is seen everywhere on extreme make-up photo galleries.

His message is one of dressing the part and living the life of self-empowerment, color and simply having fun. One could mistake his abilities to transform himself on a daily basis as mutant shape-shifiing, but it’s all in the skill of his hands and make-up box.

A regular contributor to the Feast of Fools, he’s well known across the internet as a folkloric figure of the Club World and of the urban nightlife experience.

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