Fortune's Favorite Daughter
Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show
Fausto Fernós
4.4 • 834 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In her new memoir Self-Made Woman, Denise takes us on a roller coaster ride through her adventures as a transgender gal surviving drug addiction, alcoholism, car crashes, risky sex and life behind bars.
[Originally posted as FOF #2532 - Fortune's Favorite Daughter - 09.25.17]
Listen as Denise Chanterelle DuBois joins us to talk about her life as a cocaine dealer, being a tour guide in Costa Rica and why she handed out donut holes to the public to celebrate a major trans victory.
Fausto Fernós, Denise Chanterelle DuBois and Marc Felion. Photo: Fausto Fernós.
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| 0:00.0 | Denise Chanterelle Dubois has lived an outrageous life. |
| 0:11.0 | Right out of a TV show like Narcos or Orange is the New Black. |
| 0:15.0 | A closeted trans woman in the 80s, Denise was a cocaine dealer in Southern California until she got caught with a kilo, |
| 0:24.5 | went to prison, and then managed to get out after serving only four and a half months. |
| 0:31.0 | In her new memoir, Self-Made Woman, Denise takes us on a roller coaster ride through her adventures as a transgender gal surviving drug addiction, alcoholism, car crashes, risky sex, and life behind bars. |
| 0:43.9 | Listen as Denise Chanterelle Dubois joins us to talk about her life as a cocaine dealer, being a tour guide in Costa Rica, and why she handed out donut holes to the public to celebrate a major trans victory. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm Fausto Farnas. I'm Mark Fillion. And this is Feast of Fun. |
| 1:03.1 | The clock is ticking. Time is running out. We have until October 19th at 10 p.m. to fund the |
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| 1:14.0 | A magical look at the lives of extraordinary performers and food. |
| 1:18.5 | Please pledge today at Cooking with Drag Queens.com or the series is toast. |
| 1:25.7 | Our guest today is author Denise Chanterelle Dubois, whose new memoir, self-made woman, tells the amazing story of her adventures in life, surviving drug addiction, alcoholism, car crashes, risky sex, and prison. |
| 1:44.7 | At a girl. |
| 1:47.4 | Welcome to Feast of Fun, Denise. |
| 1:49.9 | Thank you so much for having me here. |
| 1:52.2 | I really appreciate being on your show. |
| 1:54.6 | Oh, you're so sweet. |
| 1:55.6 | Thank you. |
| 1:56.2 | You describe yourself in your book as Fortune's favorite daughter. |
| 2:00.6 | Why is this lady so lucky? |
| 2:03.4 | I came close so many times in my life to being dead. Not only was bullets flying through the |
| 2:09.8 | air, but the copious amounts of alcohol I drank, I drank enough to sink a battleship. I smoked |
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