June 2, 2025 • 18 mins
Welcome to the first palette cleanser!
What's that? Babes, I'm still trying to figure that out myself.
If you've fallen into the recent Labubu trend, I have some WORDS for you! I'm going back into the personal artchives... it's real, raw, vulnerable and I HATE every second of it. If you were a chronic oversharer in the early days o facebook, you'll get it.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hello everyone, and welcome to the Palette Cleanser. It's me
Ad Simone, your host, and welcome. Now are you going
what's a palette cleanser, babes? I don't know either, to
be honest, but what we wanted to do this season
was mix things up a little bit and get to
know the audience a little bit more. We've had so
(00:29):
much fun over the first three seasons of Concealed, highlighting
and platforming all these crazy, kooky, everyday Aussies, but what
we've discovered is I don't get to know you guys
as much as i'd like to as well, nor do
you get to know much more about me. So what
we wanted to do this season is break up the
(00:49):
Concealed timeline every second week with a palette cleanser.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
So we're going to.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Cleanse your timeline, and we're also cleansing my face because
I I'm doing these ones out of drag and that
to some people may seem like I'm a little bit
of a lazy bitch, but it actually is a bit
confronting for me. I've been hiding behind the makeup and
the wigs and the lashes for the last three seasons,
(01:15):
and this time, I'm going to be here just as
me little lots of mine without a wig. So it's
going to be an interesting experience. And what I'm hoping, though,
is really struggled the first three seasons to let you
into my life as much as I would have liked to,
because the most exciting and fun thing about Concealed is
(01:36):
that I don't know who's in the room, and that
correates these really fun scenarios. But sometimes I do want
to know who's in the room, and I do want
to bring some people into the studio to introduce to
everyone that listens at home. So by bringing these palette cleanses,
we can introduce new characters and do new interviews, and
(01:57):
I can tell you a bit more about my life
and when I'm going on, and also react a bit
more in real time to stuff that's going on in
the world and give you my thoughts, opinions, and et cetera,
because exactly what the world needs is another drag queen
talking to microphone giving her your opinions, and I thank
you for listening to that, because I think that's quite special.
So we're going to have lots of fun segments, interviews,
(02:18):
exciting bits and pieces sprinkled throughout all the concealed episodes
that you know and love.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
They're not going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You're just getting more content, so basically, more bang for
your buck, even though you probably don't even pay for
this because this is free. So look at me. I'm
just Mother Teresa. I'm the Mother Teresa of Drag, formerly
the Ricky Lee of Drag. I'm now the Mother Teresa
of Drag, and I'm very proud of myself for that.
But it's been like a year since we've been here,
(02:46):
so I felt like a good place to open before
we get into our wonderful Parlotte Cleanser episode. We're just
to be you a little recap on what I've been
up to in the last twelve months. And I was
flicking through my Instagram account because that.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Is my diary. I don't know about you, but what I.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Do is if I want to find out where I
was and what I've been up to, I flick through
my Instagram, and apparently I've been up to a lot
of things.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Let me just pull up.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I actually made some notes because my brain is so
damaged from hairspray and all of the strained smells. I've
ingested over the years. Does everyone put everything on notes
apps like I do? Here we go. I released a
book called Drag Queens down Under, spotlighting thirty different drag
artists from across the country and profiling the history of
(03:33):
drag from the lay Girls to the Priscilla era, to
Drag Race and beyond. That came out last October, which
has been very fun seeing it in stores across the nation,
and it's been so wonderful to meet a lot of
you people who have loved the book and are celebrating
it and spreading it around. It's in bloody of Big
w and it still is so that either means they're
(03:54):
restocking or it's not moving. But either way, I'm excited
that I can go down to Big Dubs and go
and see this silly little book I worked on.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
So I did that.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I've also been touring the nation with a little show
called Fountain Legs in Lockdown, a drag parody play the
Kath and Kim show that I'm part of. That has
been an absolute joy, and I've been able to meet
so many concealed lesteners at all those shows across the
nation as well. So many have come up to me
and told me how much they love the show and
that they love meeting all these different characters and all
(04:23):
the stories and everything, and everyone has their favorite and
that's what I always like to listen. That's the first
question I asked. When someone says they listened to Concealed,
I'm like, well, who was your favorite guest? And I
tell you, everyone loves the crime scene cleaner. Apparently you dirty, dirty,
dirty people. But that's been a real joy. I've We've
done one hundred and six shows, one hundred and five
six shows. Now we're about to go to Edinburgh later
(04:45):
in the year and then will be touring the country again.
In twenty twenty six, Crazy I was on Spicks and
Specs as special guest. I wasn't on the panel, not
good enough for that. But I did go to Spicks
and Specs and dress up as a drag queen and
scream at MEF Forrehurst. So if anyone's ever wanted to
do that, you can live vicariously through me and watch that.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So that's been nice. I went to Los Angeles for DragCon.
I went to London for drag Con. That was really fun. Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I also had my world famous costume that I wore
on drag Race as my entrance, took my paint Spider
Look that was displayed in the Art Gallery of South Australia.
So art on art on art look. I could go
on for three hundred years about all the minute details,
but I thought there's some pretty significant, fun, exciting things
that have happened since we last spoke. And also really
(05:32):
importantly on updates with me, is I have lost another toenail, Yes,
another drag wound, another tonail gone due to the perils
of my career, and I hear going, how do you
lose a tona when you're mostly dressed as cat today
night these days and you wear flats?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Girl, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I don't know the physics behind it. I don't know
if I've pissed off one of our previous Concealed guests.
Maybe the witch doctor has left a curse or something.
I don't know, but it has been happening to me.
So if anyone has any tips on prosthetic toenails that
look realistic, drop me an email at Concealed Withoutsimon at
gmail dot com. Yes, we have an email. Now, we
(06:12):
have an email. We've got so many ways to contact
and talk. Also, I mean this is probably looking behind
the curtain a little bit, but I now have access
to the social media accounts.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
This is actually reveal for everyone listening now.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I have never had any access to any of the
concealed accounts, and for some reason they've given me control.
So I can now communicate with all the concealed listeners.
And so please make sure you've go and follow us
on there because they're going to be updating it way
more and providing a lot more interaction and ways to
contact and be part of the show and celebrate everything
(06:45):
that is concealed. But that's from me to you. What
have you been up to? No, I actually can't hear.
I don't think you realized that this is actually podcast.
But if that made you feel better, that's what I'm
here for. That's what it's sort of palate cleansercive for. Anyway,
let's get into the episode. My name's a Simone. You're fabulous.
Let's do a palate cleanser. I think I know you
(07:14):
all very well that I can come clean on something,
and that.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Is I hate La Boo booths. I hate them.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I hate them, and I know it's a very strong word,
and I know that would be very controversial at the
moment because they're very hot to trot. La Boo boo,
you do voodoo, I do not, thank you very much,
and I'm just over it. And I hear you going, oh,
but you love collectibles, you love collecting things. I formally
used to love Laboo boos. I was very into it.
(07:43):
I love a blind box, I love a mystery, I
love a collectible, I love a key ring, I love
a trinket. But as of recent I don't know, La
boo boos have gotten into the wrong hands and they've
suddenly have given me the absolute disgusting ick. I don't
need to see you with your pumpkin spice latte, your
ice coffee, and your lab Boo boo hanging off yourn
(08:05):
happy bag. I'm not interested. I'm not interested at all.
I know they're like a recession indicator, and I know
that they're an indulgence. It's just a waste. And I'm
not even saying it's a waste because of the financial aspect.
You waste your money on whatever you want. I don't
give it a fuck, like, oh, I'm that passionate. Spend
your money on whatever you want, but it's a waste
of the beautiful Laboo boos. They're now hanging on all
(08:28):
these ugly handbags. And have you ever seen their faces?
The faces The reason they look like that is because
they're upset that they're hanging on those handbags as well.
They're very disappointed about it, and they're disappointed that you've
taken them into their life, you've adopted them, and they
don't even want to be there. So to all the
girls that are now clipping on their overpriced laboo boos
(08:49):
and the fake lafou foos, stop it. And I knew
it went too far when my sister, she is a
mother of three soon to before, and her kids, of
course I obsessed with Labooboo, so they see them everywhere.
They're exciting, They're a toy, they're soft, and they really
wanted them. So she went on Ali Express and bought
(09:12):
them fake like six dollar ones, but then went and
bought a sixty dollar Labooboo for herself for her to have.
What I don't agree with it give them to the children,
give them to the little people that are obsessed and
loved them, and cherish them and dress them up and
make them feel special, and you know, as someone who
has faced a lot of adversity over the years for
(09:33):
my interest in dollies, it's a bit hypocritical to see
all these people now say that they're super cool and
they're really fabulous. Meanwhile, I've been ridiculed my entire life
for liking things that are collectible and dolly like, But
seeing all those people love them, it's like, oh, I
don't like this anymore. I liked being a little bit unique,
(09:54):
a little bit individual, a little bit you know, out
of the box. I am all for a PopMart, I'm
all for a mist three blind box, I'm all for
a little trinket moment.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
And there used to be a.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Camaraderie and there used to be like this, I don't know,
like this, you just nod to someone if you'd see
that they had one on their bag or they were
walking around with one, or it's this little community. And
that's what I really loved about it, and it really
just stell it into something that was a little bit
gross tbh. The thing is, if you like laboo boos,
there is a whole world out there for you if
(10:25):
you actually enjoy the mystery behind it. The hunt for
it the excitement about trying to collect the set.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
That's the other thing.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
People just want to They're missing out on the fun
of the mystery of the labooboo now because they just
want to know what one they're buying, so they get
people to open them and buy the color they want.
Because the fun thing about a labooboo is your gambling.
You're going, all right, I'm buying like five of these boxes.
I better get the one I want, and I don't,
and then that's it. But like it's the gambling, it's
the fun. It's gambling for millennials. I'll tell you what, though,
(10:56):
I am waiting for a gap in the market. It
must be about to blow, like it must be about
to end, because everyone's kind of got one. Everyone who
did want one has got one. Everyone has paid too
much money for one. So I think I can jump
back on the bandwagon when the basically the price of
them goes down.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Because and when there's stock.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I'm look, I'm very burned about the situation because I
even was on like the pop up websites trying to
get them.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I lined up to try.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
And get one of the new collection, and I couldn't
get them so you people have gone to ruin it
for all of us. I like a little bit of
scarcity because that makes it fun, a little bit of mystery.
But that's why they're in a blind bag and why
you can you know the mystery secret one is one
every seventy two. But now that you just can't get
one anywhere, and it's all these people reselling them on
Facebook marketplace. Absolutely not get them off your ugly stinking bags.
(11:49):
And maybe if you, if you do want to give
up your la boo boo, just po box five two
six eighth North stra Long if you want to get
rid of them.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
The archives, all right, we are diving back into the archives,
through the archives today to a moment in history, and
this particular moment is some personal history.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
We've gone back through art Simone's Facebook account to the
year two thousand and nine, to a status on Christmas
Day and it goes a little bit like this, what
an ungrateful cow my big sister is in quotation marks, Well,
that's crap.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I never wanted one of those. What a shit present?
Why would someone give it to me? Piece of shit?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
This reason why I never asked of one of those?
And then I wrote what a stupid idiot gur with
four hours, and then I commented underneath she got an
iPod touch of Via Sassoon hair straightener, DVD's perfum in
games ha ha ha ha ha, people's true colors, show
it Christmas time, sticky audy face emoji. And then there's
(13:03):
one comment from me, I wanted a straightener even though
I don't have much hair to straighten. I will one day,
and there's another comment for me. But I did get
a new set of Wayfairies after I stepped on my
old ones, of course, a Glee CD, a couple of
(13:23):
after shaves, a T shirt and Hotman the pop Man
to sit my pots on when they're hot. How fun
sticky addy face emoji. And then I commented again Heartbeats,
which is a brand of Lady Gaga headphones. She did
a collaboration with like Doctor dre Beats, and she wrote,
(13:45):
gave it Heartbeats. So I think I'm talking about that.
I wrote heart Beats. I really wish they sold them
over the counter in Australia. I'm desperate for a pair.
I'd probably leave it sealed because I know what music's
on it what, But I am quite content with my
four copies of the Monster, although I really want the
art book.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
G and then the final comment is are you serious
it's been taking down? Fuck faark. I was waiting till
I got home to order it. Crap crap crap crab.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Well, I'll do have the CDs and no, I don't
have the single sad face cries. I wrote the word cries.
I shall take a photo when it's up on my
wall and all put together a nice It's in pieces,
packed up nicely. Oh, Lady Gargar's voice. My record player
only has two speed settings. I need a new one.
One of the speakers doesn't even work fail for ever.
(14:37):
I'm wondering there is not a single like or engagement
on this entire post. I wonder why it's just thirteen
comments from me to me on the twenty fifth of
December two thousand and nine. But I'm glad that I
was able to be there for myself.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
It's time for a soapbox. What's that? Well?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I decided, you know, I want to give back to
the community because it's not enough that I give you
my beautiful, sweet voice in your ears each and every week.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
But I thought, I want to give you a piece
of my podcast.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yes, I am donating thirty seconds of my airtime to you,
the audience, you the listeners. If you jump onto the
Instagram considered without Simon, there's a link there to leave
a voice message or a voice note or an audio
note where you can send in a thirty second audio
clip to be part of the soapbox. And that can
(15:37):
be to spook something you want to sell. You could
break up with your partner. You could treat it like
a Facebook marketplace ad. Do you have a garage sale
happening very soon? Is it someone that's annoying? Do you
want to air grievances whatever you want and you want
to be on the air and you want me to
react to you can do it. We've got a thirty
second soapbox moment from our first guest called Beck. I
(16:01):
haven't heard it, so it's going to be a surprised
to me. Take it away, Beck, thirty seconds on the clock.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Genuine state of the art stoneware ceramics, any shape, any color,
any size, any design, anything you want. They are so
cheap that it actually costs me more to make them.
It is so cheap, in fact, that it is not
worth my time to find those or examples of those.
Jump to designed by beckh BCU on my Instagram. On
(16:27):
there you might find some artwork as well. I do
do commission pieces. I hate it, but I will do
it and also charge you basically nothing. Have a little look.
See what have you got to lose?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
We go Designed by Beckhu State of the Art.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
What is this stoneware cook where there's a lot going
on and commissions that she doesn't like doing but she
could do them. In fact, she's losing money, which I
think is actually a real reflection on the art world
in general. You know, if you do anything creative, don't
expect to be making money out of it. And I
don't think beck Who is either. So I'm designed by
beck who was a much description on what any of
(17:01):
these things actually look like, except for Stay of the Art.
So your say of the art may be different to Bex.
But hey, that was our first soapbox. See it's that easy.
All you need to do is head to the Instagram.
The link is there to be able to send in
a thirty second soapbox moment. Do something exciting, all right?
It makes you leave your email because some people I
(17:22):
feel like I'm going to want to do a follow
up interview with If you have something really exciting to
send through take my airwaves. It's for you. Be part
of the soapbox. It's that easy, all right. That brings
us to the end of our first ever palette cleanser.
Are you feeling fresh? Are you feeling cleansed? Are you
(17:43):
feeling rejuvenated?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I sure am, and I can't wait to keep bringing
these episodes to you throughout the season of Concealed. Now
don't forget to jump onto our socials, which I am
now running, and you can send in a voice note
to be part of the soapbox.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
If you've got something you want a sprook, it's there
for you.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
You can also send in something from the archives, or
you can even just you know, get in contact and
tell me something that you may think I need to know,
or send me a love note. I don't mind, all right,
I'll be back to chat with you next week, where
we meet a guy called Matt who's apparently lived a
million lives. He lives in Perth currently, but what he's
(18:22):
concealing led him into an unusual run.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
In with Mike Tyson.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I don't know who that is, so I can't wait
to find it next week with all of you. Thanks
for joining us on the palate cleanser Babe,
Hello everyone, and welcome to the Palette Cleanser. It's me
Ad Simone, your host, and welcome. Now are you going
what's a palette cleanser, babes? I don't know either, to
be honest, but what we wanted to do this season
was mix things up a little bit and get to
know the audience a little bit more. We've had so
(00:29):
much fun over the first three seasons of Concealed, highlighting
and platforming all these crazy, kooky, everyday Aussies, but what
we've discovered is I don't get to know you guys
as much as i'd like to as well, nor do
you get to know much more about me. So what
we wanted to do this season is break up the
(00:49):
Concealed timeline every second week with a palette cleanser.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
So we're going to.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Cleanse your timeline, and we're also cleansing my face because
I I'm doing these ones out of drag and that
to some people may seem like I'm a little bit
of a lazy bitch, but it actually is a bit
confronting for me. I've been hiding behind the makeup and
the wigs and the lashes for the last three seasons,
(01:15):
and this time, I'm going to be here just as
me little lots of mine without a wig. So it's
going to be an interesting experience. And what I'm hoping, though,
is really struggled the first three seasons to let you
into my life as much as I would have liked to,
because the most exciting and fun thing about Concealed is
(01:36):
that I don't know who's in the room, and that
correates these really fun scenarios. But sometimes I do want
to know who's in the room, and I do want
to bring some people into the studio to introduce to
everyone that listens at home. So by bringing these palette cleanses,
we can introduce new characters and do new interviews, and
(01:57):
I can tell you a bit more about my life
and when I'm going on, and also react a bit
more in real time to stuff that's going on in
the world and give you my thoughts, opinions, and et cetera,
because exactly what the world needs is another drag queen
talking to microphone giving her your opinions, and I thank
you for listening to that, because I think that's quite special.
So we're going to have lots of fun segments, interviews,
(02:18):
exciting bits and pieces sprinkled throughout all the concealed episodes
that you know and love.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
They're not going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You're just getting more content, so basically, more bang for
your buck, even though you probably don't even pay for
this because this is free. So look at me. I'm
just Mother Teresa. I'm the Mother Teresa of Drag, formerly
the Ricky Lee of Drag. I'm now the Mother Teresa
of Drag, and I'm very proud of myself for that.
But it's been like a year since we've been here,
(02:46):
so I felt like a good place to open before
we get into our wonderful Parlotte Cleanser episode. We're just
to be you a little recap on what I've been
up to in the last twelve months. And I was
flicking through my Instagram account because that.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Is my diary. I don't know about you, but what I.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Do is if I want to find out where I
was and what I've been up to, I flick through
my Instagram, and apparently I've been up to a lot
of things.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Let me just pull up.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I actually made some notes because my brain is so
damaged from hairspray and all of the strained smells. I've
ingested over the years. Does everyone put everything on notes
apps like I do? Here we go. I released a
book called Drag Queens down Under, spotlighting thirty different drag
artists from across the country and profiling the history of
(03:33):
drag from the lay Girls to the Priscilla era, to
Drag Race and beyond. That came out last October, which
has been very fun seeing it in stores across the nation,
and it's been so wonderful to meet a lot of
you people who have loved the book and are celebrating
it and spreading it around. It's in bloody of Big
w and it still is so that either means they're
(03:54):
restocking or it's not moving. But either way, I'm excited
that I can go down to Big Dubs and go
and see this silly little book I worked on.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
So I did that.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I've also been touring the nation with a little show
called Fountain Legs in Lockdown, a drag parody play the
Kath and Kim show that I'm part of. That has
been an absolute joy, and I've been able to meet
so many concealed lesteners at all those shows across the
nation as well. So many have come up to me
and told me how much they love the show and
that they love meeting all these different characters and all
(04:23):
the stories and everything, and everyone has their favorite and
that's what I always like to listen. That's the first
question I asked. When someone says they listened to Concealed,
I'm like, well, who was your favorite guest? And I
tell you, everyone loves the crime scene cleaner. Apparently you dirty, dirty,
dirty people. But that's been a real joy. I've We've
done one hundred and six shows, one hundred and five
six shows. Now we're about to go to Edinburgh later
(04:45):
in the year and then will be touring the country again.
In twenty twenty six, Crazy I was on Spicks and
Specs as special guest. I wasn't on the panel, not
good enough for that. But I did go to Spicks
and Specs and dress up as a drag queen and
scream at MEF Forrehurst. So if anyone's ever wanted to
do that, you can live vicariously through me and watch that.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So that's been nice. I went to Los Angeles for DragCon.
I went to London for drag Con. That was really fun. Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I also had my world famous costume that I wore
on drag Race as my entrance, took my paint Spider
Look that was displayed in the Art Gallery of South Australia.
So art on art on art look. I could go
on for three hundred years about all the minute details,
but I thought there's some pretty significant, fun, exciting things
that have happened since we last spoke. And also really
(05:32):
importantly on updates with me, is I have lost another toenail, Yes,
another drag wound, another tonail gone due to the perils
of my career, and I hear going, how do you
lose a tona when you're mostly dressed as cat today
night these days and you wear flats?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Girl, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I don't know the physics behind it. I don't know
if I've pissed off one of our previous Concealed guests.
Maybe the witch doctor has left a curse or something.
I don't know, but it has been happening to me.
So if anyone has any tips on prosthetic toenails that
look realistic, drop me an email at Concealed Withoutsimon at
gmail dot com. Yes, we have an email. Now, we
(06:12):
have an email. We've got so many ways to contact
and talk. Also, I mean this is probably looking behind
the curtain a little bit, but I now have access
to the social media accounts.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
This is actually reveal for everyone listening now.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I have never had any access to any of the
concealed accounts, and for some reason they've given me control.
So I can now communicate with all the concealed listeners.
And so please make sure you've go and follow us
on there because they're going to be updating it way
more and providing a lot more interaction and ways to
contact and be part of the show and celebrate everything
(06:45):
that is concealed. But that's from me to you. What
have you been up to? No, I actually can't hear.
I don't think you realized that this is actually podcast.
But if that made you feel better, that's what I'm
here for. That's what it's sort of palate cleansercive for. Anyway,
let's get into the episode. My name's a Simone. You're fabulous.
Let's do a palate cleanser. I think I know you
(07:14):
all very well that I can come clean on something,
and that.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Is I hate La Boo booths. I hate them.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I hate them, and I know it's a very strong word,
and I know that would be very controversial at the
moment because they're very hot to trot. La Boo boo,
you do voodoo, I do not, thank you very much,
and I'm just over it. And I hear you going, oh,
but you love collectibles, you love collecting things. I formally
used to love Laboo boos. I was very into it.
(07:43):
I love a blind box, I love a mystery, I
love a collectible, I love a key ring, I love
a trinket. But as of recent I don't know, La
boo boos have gotten into the wrong hands and they've
suddenly have given me the absolute disgusting ick. I don't
need to see you with your pumpkin spice latte, your
ice coffee, and your lab Boo boo hanging off yourn
(08:05):
happy bag. I'm not interested. I'm not interested at all.
I know they're like a recession indicator, and I know
that they're an indulgence. It's just a waste. And I'm
not even saying it's a waste because of the financial aspect.
You waste your money on whatever you want. I don't
give it a fuck, like, oh, I'm that passionate. Spend
your money on whatever you want, but it's a waste
of the beautiful Laboo boos. They're now hanging on all
(08:28):
these ugly handbags. And have you ever seen their faces?
The faces The reason they look like that is because
they're upset that they're hanging on those handbags as well.
They're very disappointed about it, and they're disappointed that you've
taken them into their life, you've adopted them, and they
don't even want to be there. So to all the
girls that are now clipping on their overpriced laboo boos
(08:49):
and the fake lafou foos, stop it. And I knew
it went too far when my sister, she is a
mother of three soon to before, and her kids, of
course I obsessed with Labooboo, so they see them everywhere.
They're exciting, They're a toy, they're soft, and they really
wanted them. So she went on Ali Express and bought
(09:12):
them fake like six dollar ones, but then went and
bought a sixty dollar Labooboo for herself for her to have.
What I don't agree with it give them to the children,
give them to the little people that are obsessed and
loved them, and cherish them and dress them up and
make them feel special, and you know, as someone who
has faced a lot of adversity over the years for
(09:33):
my interest in dollies, it's a bit hypocritical to see
all these people now say that they're super cool and
they're really fabulous. Meanwhile, I've been ridiculed my entire life
for liking things that are collectible and dolly like, But
seeing all those people love them, it's like, oh, I
don't like this anymore. I liked being a little bit unique,
(09:54):
a little bit individual, a little bit you know, out
of the box. I am all for a PopMart, I'm
all for a mist three blind box, I'm all for
a little trinket moment.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
And there used to be a.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Camaraderie and there used to be like this, I don't know,
like this, you just nod to someone if you'd see
that they had one on their bag or they were
walking around with one, or it's this little community. And
that's what I really loved about it, and it really
just stell it into something that was a little bit
gross tbh. The thing is, if you like laboo boos,
there is a whole world out there for you if
(10:25):
you actually enjoy the mystery behind it. The hunt for
it the excitement about trying to collect the set.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
That's the other thing.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
People just want to They're missing out on the fun
of the mystery of the labooboo now because they just
want to know what one they're buying, so they get
people to open them and buy the color they want.
Because the fun thing about a labooboo is your gambling.
You're going, all right, I'm buying like five of these boxes.
I better get the one I want, and I don't,
and then that's it. But like it's the gambling, it's
the fun. It's gambling for millennials. I'll tell you what, though,
(10:56):
I am waiting for a gap in the market. It
must be about to blow, like it must be about
to end, because everyone's kind of got one. Everyone who
did want one has got one. Everyone has paid too
much money for one. So I think I can jump
back on the bandwagon when the basically the price of
them goes down.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Because and when there's stock.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I'm look, I'm very burned about the situation because I
even was on like the pop up websites trying to
get them.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I lined up to try.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
And get one of the new collection, and I couldn't
get them so you people have gone to ruin it
for all of us. I like a little bit of
scarcity because that makes it fun, a little bit of mystery.
But that's why they're in a blind bag and why
you can you know the mystery secret one is one
every seventy two. But now that you just can't get
one anywhere, and it's all these people reselling them on
Facebook marketplace. Absolutely not get them off your ugly stinking bags.
(11:49):
And maybe if you, if you do want to give
up your la boo boo, just po box five two
six eighth North stra Long if you want to get
rid of them.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
The archives, all right, we are diving back into the archives,
through the archives today to a moment in history, and
this particular moment is some personal history.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
We've gone back through art Simone's Facebook account to the
year two thousand and nine, to a status on Christmas
Day and it goes a little bit like this, what
an ungrateful cow my big sister is in quotation marks, Well,
that's crap.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I never wanted one of those. What a shit present?
Why would someone give it to me? Piece of shit?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
This reason why I never asked of one of those?
And then I wrote what a stupid idiot gur with
four hours, and then I commented underneath she got an
iPod touch of Via Sassoon hair straightener, DVD's perfum in
games ha ha ha ha ha, people's true colors, show
it Christmas time, sticky audy face emoji. And then there's
(13:03):
one comment from me, I wanted a straightener even though
I don't have much hair to straighten. I will one day,
and there's another comment for me. But I did get
a new set of Wayfairies after I stepped on my
old ones, of course, a Glee CD, a couple of
(13:23):
after shaves, a T shirt and Hotman the pop Man
to sit my pots on when they're hot. How fun
sticky addy face emoji. And then I commented again Heartbeats,
which is a brand of Lady Gaga headphones. She did
a collaboration with like Doctor dre Beats, and she wrote,
(13:45):
gave it Heartbeats. So I think I'm talking about that.
I wrote heart Beats. I really wish they sold them
over the counter in Australia. I'm desperate for a pair.
I'd probably leave it sealed because I know what music's
on it what, But I am quite content with my
four copies of the Monster, although I really want the
art book.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
G and then the final comment is are you serious
it's been taking down? Fuck faark. I was waiting till
I got home to order it. Crap crap crap crab.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Well, I'll do have the CDs and no, I don't
have the single sad face cries. I wrote the word cries.
I shall take a photo when it's up on my
wall and all put together a nice It's in pieces,
packed up nicely. Oh, Lady Gargar's voice. My record player
only has two speed settings. I need a new one.
One of the speakers doesn't even work fail for ever.
(14:37):
I'm wondering there is not a single like or engagement
on this entire post. I wonder why it's just thirteen
comments from me to me on the twenty fifth of
December two thousand and nine. But I'm glad that I
was able to be there for myself.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
It's time for a soapbox. What's that? Well?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I decided, you know, I want to give back to
the community because it's not enough that I give you
my beautiful, sweet voice in your ears each and every week.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
But I thought, I want to give you a piece
of my podcast.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yes, I am donating thirty seconds of my airtime to you,
the audience, you the listeners. If you jump onto the
Instagram considered without Simon, there's a link there to leave
a voice message or a voice note or an audio
note where you can send in a thirty second audio
clip to be part of the soapbox. And that can
(15:37):
be to spook something you want to sell. You could
break up with your partner. You could treat it like
a Facebook marketplace ad. Do you have a garage sale
happening very soon? Is it someone that's annoying? Do you
want to air grievances whatever you want and you want
to be on the air and you want me to
react to you can do it. We've got a thirty
second soapbox moment from our first guest called Beck. I
(16:01):
haven't heard it, so it's going to be a surprised
to me. Take it away, Beck, thirty seconds on the clock.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Genuine state of the art stoneware ceramics, any shape, any color,
any size, any design, anything you want. They are so
cheap that it actually costs me more to make them.
It is so cheap, in fact, that it is not
worth my time to find those or examples of those.
Jump to designed by beckh BCU on my Instagram. On
(16:27):
there you might find some artwork as well. I do
do commission pieces. I hate it, but I will do
it and also charge you basically nothing. Have a little look.
See what have you got to lose?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
We go Designed by Beckhu State of the Art.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
What is this stoneware cook where there's a lot going
on and commissions that she doesn't like doing but she
could do them. In fact, she's losing money, which I
think is actually a real reflection on the art world
in general. You know, if you do anything creative, don't
expect to be making money out of it. And I
don't think beck Who is either. So I'm designed by
beck who was a much description on what any of
(17:01):
these things actually look like, except for Stay of the Art.
So your say of the art may be different to Bex.
But hey, that was our first soapbox. See it's that easy.
All you need to do is head to the Instagram.
The link is there to be able to send in
a thirty second soapbox moment. Do something exciting, all right?
It makes you leave your email because some people I
(17:22):
feel like I'm going to want to do a follow
up interview with If you have something really exciting to
send through take my airwaves. It's for you. Be part
of the soapbox. It's that easy, all right. That brings
us to the end of our first ever palette cleanser.
Are you feeling fresh? Are you feeling cleansed? Are you
(17:43):
feeling rejuvenated?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I sure am, and I can't wait to keep bringing
these episodes to you throughout the season of Concealed. Now
don't forget to jump onto our socials, which I am
now running, and you can send in a voice note
to be part of the soapbox.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
If you've got something you want a sprook, it's there
for you.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
You can also send in something from the archives, or
you can even just you know, get in contact and
tell me something that you may think I need to know,
or send me a love note. I don't mind, all right,
I'll be back to chat with you next week, where
we meet a guy called Matt who's apparently lived a
million lives. He lives in Perth currently, but what he's
(18:22):
concealing led him into an unusual run.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
In with Mike Tyson.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I don't know who that is, so I can't wait
to find it next week with all of you. Thanks
for joining us on the palate cleanser Babe,
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