A WORLD OF WONDER WITH FENTON BAILEY

Homophilia

WOW Podcast Network

Comedy

4.4 • 926 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Legendary legend Fenton Bailey joins us to talk about his new book Screen Age: How TV Changed Our Reality, From Tammy Faye to RuPaul’s Drag Race. Plus: the Succession-esque drama of the Redstone family book Unscripted, the joys of bold wallpaper, the personal breakthrough of playing Titania in a high school production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the camp of Batman, the excess of the ‘80s, the shocking truth of his morning ritual, the lucky break of meeting a business partner in film school, the significance of David Bowie and T Rex, the reality of Las Vegas as a city in drag, and the challenge of producing RuPaul’s Drag Race in these stupid times.

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0:00.0	In a world full of street people aren't you glad there's Wow presents plus the number one place in the world to see drag race And so much more.
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0:18.0	Still only 499.
0:20.0	Subscribe today as streamed on TV. Yeah. Matt are you ready for fun in the sun. I'm always always ready for fun in the sun.
0:58.0	Oh boy listen we are going to be a part of Miami Beach Pride this year, Matt McConkey, in what capacity?
1:08.2	We don't know.
1:09.2	We don't know.
1:10.2	Don't know.
1:11.2	Don't care.
1:12.2	We'll be there. That's all we need to know. All we need to know is that we're going to be there. It's going to be an incredible event. There has never been a more important time for you to show up and show out in the state of Florida.
1:25.7	It is, it's gonna be, it's, it's gonna be a joyful event if it fucking kills us.
1:31.4	It just is. It's gonna be so much fun. We are going to be there the weekend of April 14 1516th.
1:40.0	There's going to be parties at the beach. There's one hosted by Sandra Bernhard that we'll be at
1:47.8	Jonathan Bennett from Mean Girls is one of the Grand Marshals. I believe that Dave Holmes is going to be on a pride
1:54.9	fight on there is I heard yes so one of the one of the sort of themes of
2:01.6	this Miami Beach Pride is legacy couples. This is the 15th annual Miami Beach
2:08.7	Pride and so they are honoring couples who have been together for 15 or more years.
2:13.0	There are going to be a bunch of us.
2:14.0	And I don't know if we're just all going to be walking together,
2:17.0	or if it's going to be a proper float,
2:18.0	or what the deal is, I don't know.
2:21.0	But I know that we're going to be there come wave at us I just just just be there
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