FOF #1037 – Whose Death Panel is it Anyway?
AIDS activist Jim Pickett sheds light to Republican tactics of stalling health care reform.
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The fight is on over the future of Healthcare! America may have voted for change but health insurance industry funded conservative Republicans are doing everything in their power, come hell or high water, to misinform the public and stop reform dead in its tracks.
Secret deals with drug companies, Death panels– what’s going on here?
One sad reality is that the only death panels that do exist are inside the health insurance companies, every day life saving treatments are denied to people simply because it doesn’t help their profits.
AIDS activist and writer Jim Pickett is here to help us make sense of it all. Jim is co-chairing the National LGBTI Health Summit, a four day conference to build community networks and share ideas which starts this weekend in Chicago.
How do we inspire a deeper conversation inside our own community around health? What’s at stake if we don’t recognize the needs of gay folks in healthcare reform?
Come to “Risky Business” a live podcast forum at the Center on Halsted in Chicago in Monday, August 17th. Find out how porn – and bareback porn – affect our sexual desires and actions!
In the news:
Will conservative Christians declare the bizarre African frog who feeds her young with her own unfertilized eggs as unholy? You have to see the video to believe it!
The Anti-Gay lobby group Focus on the Family faces hard financial times.
And Viagra ice cream– just another form of P.R. spam or the real deal? On thing that may be the real deal is Peptol Bismol Ice Cream. Would you eat it?
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FOF #959 – How Are You Fabulous?
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How are you healthy? How are you fabulous? Gay men’s health blogger and advocate Jim Pickett is on today’s show. Jim’s reaching out to the fellas everywhere to write about ways they stay healthy.
For years, gay men’s health awareness campaigns have been wagging their fingers at us, focusing on the negatives but overlooking the positives aspect of who we are. Jim’s blog, Lifelube is collecting tips and tricks on how gay men stay healthy and vibrant, after all, being gay is not just good, it’s fabulous! (more…)
FOF #919 – Canary in the Coal Mine of Crazy
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Change is on the way! Obama’s health care leadership dramatically departs from the Bush days of dogma and ideology and moves forward into science-based decision making.
Today we have Jim Pickett, AIDS activist and cheeky writer behind Lifelube.org, the gay men’s health and sexuality blog here to discuss the significant changes wecan expect in Obama’s Administration and what it means for you.
If you live in Chicago, be sure to join Jim today, January 28th, at Hermanos de Luna Y Sol, a forum for Gay Latino Men and their allies at La Estancia Community Center in Humboldt Park.
Soon to be impeached Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevitch is making the rounds on the talk show circuit, including a very odd virtual conversation with Barbara Walters on The view.
Same sex animal weddings are becoming the rage in China, could their human equivalents be next?
Say hello to the Penis-o-meter, a new sex toy that slides on your love pole and counts how many thrusts it takes to get to the center of your tootsie roll pop.
A firefighter steals a severed human foot from a traffic accident with hopes of training her dog to find human bodies.
A new herpes rat cream, Iceland’s lesbian prime minister and grabbing your nuts for cancer.
Let’s take the time in 2009 to check your nuts for lumps!
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FOF #884 – Tunnel of Love
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A healthy booty is a happy one! The butt is the final frontier, not just for food leaving the body, but it’s also a psychological, sexual place wherein lies desire and identity.
In many ways, to ask people to accept gay men, is to ask them to understand and embrace anal sex. Yes, that is not ALL we do in the bedroom, but it’s one of the important things in our sexual lives.
Whenever I hear the statement that “gay/butt sex is not natural,” I wonder if this person knows anything about biology or animals that live in groups. All of nature loves some back door hanky panky; monkeys do it, dolphins do it, even… ok, I’ll stop now before it turns into a Cole Porter song.
Have we always been so shy about our behinds? In the late 1800s French professional farter and entertainer Joseph Pujol, known as Le Pétomane, was a staple at the Moulin Rouge nightclub where he would play musical instruments with his butt, blow out candles from several feet away. He wasn’t farting though, he would suck air in through his butt and then forcibly expel it. He could also suck water out of a bowl with his backside. Now, that’s a power bottom.
Today we’re shining some light into the place where the sun doesn’t shine. What are some common misconceptions about anal sex? How do porn stars do all that sex in movies? Besides using condoms, what are some new ways you can protect yourself from HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases?
Taped live at the Center on Halsted in Chicago Illinois- we’re joined by our bootylicious group of sex-experts: Chicago Porn Star J.C. Carter, Dr. Will Wong of the Chicago Department of Public Health and our very own Jim Pickett of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago and Project IRMA.
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We loved getting our picture taken pretending to enter the Tunnel of Love in Swan Boat created by Scott Bradley and Mike Miller from the Scooty and JoJo Show. Thank you boys! It was very romantic!
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FOF #869 – Gay is Good
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What are some of the big issues facing gay men’s health? On today’s show we’ve got the fabulous Jim Pickett- director of Advocacy for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago and blogger for Lifelube, the gay men’s health blog.
Jim is back from the National Gay Men’s Health Summit,with an update on what new research shows about the safety of sex without condoms between two HIV infected men. You may be surprised to hear the results.
Another hot topic at the summit was how to tap into our strengths as gay people in order to fight disease and discrimination. As Harvey Milk said, “Gay is good,” and it’s about time we as a community started to believe it.
Join us as we chat with Jim about how racism affects your health, the ultimate taboo and why guys who are high strung and easily upset so enjoy the pleasure of anal delights.
We’re moderating the Tunnel of Love, a bootylicious live podcast forum about on sex, health and your booty, on Tuesday November 18 at the Center on Halsted. We’ll discuss how to keep your sex life hot, ways you can protect your butt before, during and after sex, what sex will be like in the future and the secrets of the pornstars! Please RSVP as seating will be limited.
Our final verdict on Scooty and Jojo’s Carpenters Halloween Show is to go see it. The most hilarious and unique show in town is dazzling crowds, so make sure to get your tickets now. They have extended the run but it will be over before you know it and you don’t want to miss it this crazy mash up of the movie Halloween and the Carpenters’ music.
The potty mouth pay out and why Obama just might be behind our panda themed Halloween.
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FOF #800 – We Are All Hussein
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Happy 800 shows everyone! Love to watch that odometer of podcasting turn.
Today we’re thrilled to have our good friend, writer and health advocate Jim Pickett joining us to dispel some rumors, conspiracies and misconception surrounding HIV/AIDS and healthcare.
We are very happy to announce that the Feast of Fools is the proud recipient of the Esteem Awards for best GLBT podcast presented by Windy City Black Pride and Pride Index. We’re sorry that we weren’t able to attend the awards ceremony on July 2 as we were in Pennsylvania. We’ve been honored to have such African Americans on the show as RuPaul, Alexyss K. Tylor, Rev. Charles Straight, Mr. Gay Shar Devon, author Frederick Smith, actor Marcus Patrick and video blogger B. Scott just to name a few.
The ACLU is condemning the crackdown on saggy pants in Flint, Michigan. The Flint Police Department routinely stops people who wear saggy pants that hang below their butts and issues misdemeanors for the offense citing disorderly conduct and indecent exposure laws.
The police cheif is even accused of asking the alleged offenders to lift up their long shirts so he can see just how low their pants sag. We know know that the only people that wear their pants like that are black kids in urban settings or white kids in the suburbs. I wonder which type the police are targeting.
Since we are always on the subject of safe sex, remember condoms aren’t the only way to protect yourself. You should always make sure that the place you are having sex is a safe and secure one. For example Taiwanese couple were making love in the back seat of their car when their car suddenly plummeted 150 feet down the cliff side. Although the unfortunate couple were bruised and battered, they did manage to climb back up the hill and get some help. We hope the woman’s husband doesn’t find out about the accident as he wasn’t the man in the car.
Wisconsinites, don’t run off to California for your same sex marriage just yet! Same sex couples that get married in California may get arrested in Wisconsin. An obscure law from 1915 states that it is a crime for a Wisconsin resident to enter marriage in another state if that marriage is illegal here. It carries a fine up to $10,000 and nine months in prison. Now you know what to get the couple for their wedding gift- bail bonds! We can’t wait to see how this plays out!
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I’m not sure what to say about this controversial New Yorker magazine cover depicting our possible future president Barak Obama and his wife Michelle as a muslim terrorist and a radical black activist. I love satire, I love crossing the line and I love to poke fun at political leaders, no matter who they are.
Some are easier to poke fun than others. The New Yorker claims this cover is just a send-up of all the ultraconservative, loony misconceptions Obama’s critics have tried to create. Tasteless and offensive as it may be, they have every right to run this image and for us to react to it.
This country, and the world can not afford another four more years of Bush’s policies, and divisive, fear based politics. Having Barak Obama as President means taking a look not only at our own racism, but also how we criticize our political leaders. I think it’s healthy for the public at large to have a massive purging of our hateful feelings, but at the same time, covers like this might just have the unintended consequence of bringing us four more years of an environmentally, economically and militarily disastrous leader, John McCain.
Go ahead and lick it- Feast of Fools.
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Jim Pickett’s Reaction to Two Girls, One Cup
I know we’re a little late to the party, but here is Jim Picket’s reaction video to the infamous “Two Girls, One Cup” video which has in many ways made us look at the freakish…
FOF #773 – Beyond Two Girls One Cup
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The internet is changing us in significant new ways. This past year at IML, the International Mr. Leather Expo in Chicago, there was an air of openness and comfort that I have never seen before.
I guess after everyone saw the 2 Girls 1 Cup gross out video, nothing is too shocking or extreme anymore. Your freaky sex fetishes are just an everyday thing as long as it doesn’t involve two girls, one cup and what looks like chocolate mousse.
On today’s show Jim Picket talks about our up and coming Sex and the Superhighway Live Podcast Forum at the Center on Halsted, Thursday June 12 at 6 PM where we’ll be listening to your stories of hooking up online and how the internet is changing your life, for better or worse.
The Live Podcast features an interview and question and answer session with Stephan Adelson, the former G.M. of Manhunt, Beau Gratzer from Howard Brown Health Center and Brian Mustanski, from the University of Illinois-Chicago.
Well, the big news is that the Black Eyed Peas are going to be singing “Hey mama it’s going to be Obama!” as the dramatic and exciting Democratic Presidential Primaries came to a conclusion today as Obama got the number of delegates necessary to become the Democratic presidential .
Still, in a way we’re a little sad. Marc and I wanted to see them both enter the Democratic National Convention as if it were the Thunderdome with Tina Turner screaming “Two men enter, one man leaves!” in a knife fight to decide who would be the winner.
Alas, no such luck. And I just don’t see McCain putting up much of a fight as he’s been pussy-whipped by W these past eight years. McCain is just a sad-sack of political corruption and greed.
We love that Arianna Huffington is promoting ménage à trois on her blog. Ariana, the Zsa Zsa Gabor of political pundits, is asking journalists to get over their “old media” vs. “new media” comparison and says how the news is made and reported has changed.
From her blog: “The debate that has been dominating journalistic circles for the last few years has been print vs. online — but, in fact, that discussion is totally obsolete. It’s as musty as the old barroom argument about Ginger vs Mary Ann. It’s 2008, why not have a three-way?” Why not indeed?
And I’m feeling frisky so please join us this Saturday at Pridefest Milwaukee for the largest love-in of them all.
Is that a bug in your salad? Go ahead and eat it as scientists are now urging you to add bugs to your diet as a nutritious and eco-friendly way of packing in the protein. Sounds yummy! I think they should market ground up grasshoppers as “Soylent Green” as a nutritional powder for athletes and bodybuilders.
Soylent green is grasshoppers!
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FOF #752 – Good Sex, Bad Sex
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Sex is like lot like pizza- no matter how bad it is it’s still pretty good.
But the thing with sex is that everyone thinks they are the greatest lover, but sex is also like baseball; everyone can play baseball, but how many of us are good enough to make it to the world series?
In the 1934 film Sex Madness, the opening credits implore us that syphilis “must no longer remain hushed, but must be fought in the open like any other dangerous contagious disease….humanity must be enlightened! Ignorance must be abolished! Young and old.. rich and poor, they must be told.”
Sex Madness is a camp movie but even way back in the 1930s people struggled with how to discuss sex out in the open. Substitute HIV/AIDS for syphilis and you can see we might not have come as far as we thought in thinking about diseases and sex.
On today’s show, join for a lively discussion at the Center on Halsted in Chicago on gay men’s relationship to sex and risk.
The forum features panel experts Dr. David Halperin of the University of Michigan, Dr. Gary Harper of DePaul University and Dr. Michele Morales of Northwestern University, as well as LifeLube’s Jim Pickett and questions from you, the general public.
Discover some of the inaccurate and damaging psychological concepts that are being used to describe gay men. Are some of the studies being done actually making us sick? What do we all ultimately desire?
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FOF #742 – Live from Steamworks
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It’s the show you’ve all been waiting for, our LIVE podcast from Steamworks! Of all places indeed.
We packed up the microphones and recording equipment and took our booties down to the “Sexiest Place on Earth,” also known as Steamworks on 3246 N Halsted Street in Chicago.
What a turn out! No longer do I need to imagine the audience being naked, as they really were almost naked. Sporting nothing but clean towels, we were surrounded by hunky and lunky men watching our hi-jinks and tomfoolery.
Listen as Jim Pickett, Tracy Tyler, Sal-E and his surprise guest Terryaki, Marc Felion and me, Fausto Fernós share our wit and wisdom with the good people at Steamworks.
Did I forget to mention we interviewed porn actor Vinnie D’Angelo? Vinnie looks hot so please chack out his pictures as he sat on a very special cake.
The girl who stole the show was Tracy Tyler. Pictured here, she caused quite a commotion when she boldly announced she was going to compete in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China by becoming the first transgenered athlete to compete in synchronized swimming.
Don’t hold you breath though, as Tracy is not quite ready to go under the knife just yet. Marc and I wrote that skit with the help of Mike Oliphant back in 2004 for the last Olympics in Athens just before we started podcasting. An old chestnut like that deserved a new life and we’re glad Tracy could
shine at it.
Oh what fun we had! The podcast that always helps you to release the pressure- Feast of Fools.
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