September 8, 2025 • 17 mins
Today is Art Simone's birthday!!! But she will NOT be celebrating, all thanks to a party 12 years ago... no she hasn't moved on, and no she shouldn't have to.
Did you see Julia Roberts and Amanda Seyfried wore the same outfit? This happened at one of the biggest drag events, and it was SCANDALOUS! It's a story from the artchives which maybe shouldn't be told... oh well.
We bet no one has ever been obsessed with one film as much as Art Simone does. In fact, no one seems to like this film, except for Art. Is it a problem? Probably.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Welcome to the Ballet Glensa.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
My name is Artsimone and it's my birthday. But no,
I won't be having a party because I don't celebrate
birthdays because of traumatic experiences. Yes, that's right, it is
my birthday and I'm not having a birthday party.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Wow, I know.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
He go, Oh, you're such a spoil sport. Oh you
don't want to celebrate your birthday. Oh, because you're too old. No,
I'm very youthful, thank you very much. I'm thirty three.
Three three three is my lucky number. So I've decided
this is going to be my best year ever and
if it's not, well, maybe the next year will be.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
But I'll try for this year.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
But no, I'm not having a birthday party this year
and I will not have one ever again. Because I
want to take you back to my twenty first birthday party.
And I didn't really have many birthday parties growing up,
but my family said, you know what, you can have
a twenty first. We've got some budget. Will make a
wonderful night for you. Oh okay, what am I going
to do? So I booked upstairs at the Greyhound Hotel,
(01:03):
which was the biggest night club at the time, I
used to work there on a Friday night and I
managed to book the VIP area, which is upstairs, great
view of the club, great view of the stage, and
we had the balcony to ourselves so we could watch
all the shows.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
And me and my friends could party.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
That had a private little bar up there, cocktail bar
up there, so the drinks were sorted.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I was like, yes, let's book that.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Let's book some food because it was a kitchen at
the Greyhound Hotel and the prime item you needed at
a birthday party at that time was a photo booth.
You'd rent the photo booth to come in and you
could print your photos there and there, and then you'd
also have a photo book out on the table where
people as soon as they were printed, they could like
stick it in the book and then write a message
like happy birthday at simone, you sexy bitch. That's what
(01:46):
I would have written. So that sounds perfect. I've booked that.
I booked that. I booked that lovely invite all of
my friends, all of my drag queen friends and my
old high school friends, some of my work friends. It
was exciting that they're all going to come together and
I was going to put on this great not you know,
at my favorite club that I got to work at,
and I'm excited. You know, I don't really have parties.
This is the first time in my adulthood where I'm
(02:08):
having a party. This is going to be great. So
the night comes around, I've decided I'm going to go
in drag because this was like early on in my
drag career, I wanted to feel really, you know, I
loved the fantasy of getting in drag. Now not so much,
it feels a little bit different, but at the time,
I was like, oh, an, excuse the dress up, let's
do it.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I had a twenty first crown.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I'd grown up watching my sweet sixteen for so many
years that I decided this is going to be my one.
I'll get in there early because you know, we've got
to set up. My family arrives first, of course, because
we kind of got the relatives to come in early
because I don't want to be the when it turns
into a nightclub, how embarrassing. So you know, my second
cousins come, my grandmother comes, my little sister comes around.
(02:49):
Having a great time. We're using the photo booth, we're
sticking our things in Happy Birthday, sexy outsman, all the
good stuff, and I'm watching the clock. Yep, okay, the
times sticking. Where are other friends? Another hour goes by,
Oh there's one that's one of my Dracula's friends.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
So this is probably around nine pm. And then I
look at my phone. I sucketting messages. Oh hi, babe,
Sorry you can't make it. Oh this came up. Oh hi,
have a good night, can't go anymore? Oh sorry, I
have to wash my hair, you know, all the usual excuses.
They've already started bringing out the hot cannope so there's
just piles of them everywhere because no one's eating them,
and they're like, I don't know where to put these.
(03:26):
So there's hot cannopeys just in a big mound. You've
got your loly pile, and then you've got your photo booth,
which there's a photo booth attendant just standing there staring
at me because no one's coming in to use the
photo booth. So we've got the space till eleven pm
that's when it opens to the public. So we're getting
closer and closer. I've got my family members who've also
decided to go home. Because the nightclub is opening, so
(03:48):
they don't want to be there for that. I've got
my one Dracula's friend, I've got one other friend, and
the photo booth people are cut packing up. They're starting
to clear away the piles of cannaps and ordieavs because
not eating them, and they don't want to have stinky,
like cold wet food just floating around the VIP lounge
at the Greyhound Hotel. Mums just started making up lollibags.
(04:10):
She's just pulled out the lolli bags and started making
them individually, and she's like, I don't know, you can
just give them out. And it's getting closer and closer
to eleven pm and no one's there, but there's still time.
It's not eleven pm yet. The photo breeth is still
kind of there, just packing up the props. So I'm positive.
You know, they're drag queens. Drag queens are like, they're
(04:30):
a little bit later than usual, but they can still come.
They can still come and have photos with me my friends.
You know, the club's already open, so they must be coming.
They're gonna be there anyway, so they're gonna pop up
and have a drink with me and have a little
photo in my photo booth. There's still time, there's still
possibility for great, great outcomes because we haven't even done
the birthday cake yet, and we got to wait for
the birthday cake, SOI there's bluff people of seeing happy birthday.
So I'm still positive that's going to be all right.
(04:52):
And we got closer and closer, and it was quite
sad because they had to remove the photo booth before
the public came in, and they had me my book,
my big, huge, big black book that was meant to
be filled with pages and pages of photos with everyone
and messages, and it had like three pages in it
and a USB with like six photos on it.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And I was like, oh, okay, that's nice. And then
you know, the.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Thing that really really really hurt was that I went
downstairs into the club and there were my friends downstairs
then come to the venue and just didn't even go
upstairs for a free drink or to wish me happy birthday.
I'll tell you what, don't throw birthday parties. You'll be disappointed,
you'll have a terrible time. I'm not interested. Okay, don't
(05:35):
do it. Save you money, treat yourself otherways. I don't know,
take yourself to the movies, go buy a hooker, I
don't care. Recently, Julia Roberts and Amanda Seyfried had a
little moment together in which they wore the same outfit
at the Venice Film Festival a couple of days apart,
but they wore exactly the same outfit.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
How did it happen?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Well, Amanda saw Julia wear it and went message to
her on Instagram, commented on Instagram and said, hey, we
like that outfit? Can I wear it? And apparently they
share the same stylists. So a couple of days later,
oh made a man is walking down in exactly the
same outfit?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
What? But this reminded me of a time. It's a
bit juicy.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I don't even know if I should be telling this story,
So I'm going to say allegedly above all of it,
because there was once a time within the Australian drag
scene in which three different drag performers arrived at the Divas,
which is the Drag Industry Variety Awards, the biggest awards
night in the country for drag, all wearing very very
(06:35):
very similar outfits, so similar that they were all made
out of the same fabric and I'm not saying like, oh,
pink sequin, Oh, how revolutionary, but no, there was this
very distinct black and white harlequin diamond sequin that was
only available in this one shop. No one else in
the country had it, and it was really exciting because
drag queens we love our looks and we love our
(06:57):
sequin and we get very excited when something new that
we can make out fooits out of. And no one
had ever seen any fabric like this before in the
entire country, so it was very exciting but also very
striking because it stands out in a room. So this
is about I don't know, twenty fifteen ish, on the
red carpet, we see a certain drag queen arrive in
(07:19):
this beautiful harlequin sequin outfit, parasol red hair, looks stunning, amazing,
like makeup that looks like a masquerade mask, strutting down
and go, oh, I've never seen that sequence before. It's amazing.
What you got's even us. She looks incredible, Oh my god,
and this is from an interstate queen. She'd flown in
from the outside of Australia for this looks incredible.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
And we're all going, oh my gosh, she looks so good.
I haven't looked so good. It's amazing. Her hair was
like gravity defying. It was incredible.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
And then we went back to our table, having a
little chin wag, a little gossip, and then in walks
on the red carpet another drag queen. But this drag
queen is in a one arm, one leag cutsuit. But
it's exactly the same black and white harlequin sequin what
wearing exactly the same fabric? Oh my god, it was scandalous.
So all the queens are going, do you see over that?
(08:06):
Oh my god, because that is the worst nightmare. We
pride ourselves on our looks. Our looks are our identity.
Especially at an awards ceremony like the Divas, you want
to look the best, You want to stand out in
the room, especially because at the Diva Awards they have
a bell of the ball, which is the best dressed,
as voted by.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
A distinguished panel of judges.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
So you know, every single drag queen is in there
peacocking for their life, strutting around wanting to get noticed
by we don't know who the judges are, but you
know you're working the room. You're showing off your outfit,
you're waving to everyone, so you want to stand out.
So the worst thing that could ever happen would be
someone else with the same distinctive fabric as you, let alone,
the same outfit.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
So were Oh my god, Oh my god, I embarrassing?
Just die? What die?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
And then walks in a third queen in the same fabric. Again,
what how do they do it? What's going on? This
is every going to be wearing this? Was there a
mental note that we all had to wear the same fabric?
I don't know, but it happened. So we're all gossiping,
and then we get the news that the same queen
(09:12):
took these girls to the same fabric shop on separate
occasions and watched them by this fabric for their Diva
Reward outfit. They knew that what it was for, so
there was someone at play. There was a sabotaging drag queen.
Can you imagine that? Isn't that scandalous? There's one drag
queen that went out and encouraged these three different people
(09:32):
to buy the same distinct harlequin fabric.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
It gets worse because they come to the portion of
the evening, which is the bell of the ball, so.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
The host gets up on the stage. The winner is.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
The first queen that walked in with the harlequin sequin fabric.
They awarded it to the first queen they saw with
this exclusive fabric. Their heads are turning because they're looking
at the other two queens who are wearing the same fabric,
and they go, why not win? What? No? Win? But no,
they gave it to the first one that arrived in
her sickening harlequin sequin outfit. And do you know what
the moral of the story is here today for those
that are listening, arrive at events on time.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
On time, if not early, comes your coves.
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Speaker 1 (12:29):
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Speaker 2 (12:38):
Oh yes, it's the artifacts where I'm bringing an item
to do a show and tell for adults. And you know,
I've got lots of different things in my collection, between
wigs and costumes and trauma. But what I've unpacked for
you here today is something that I saw just before
I left the house today and I said, that could
be interesting for someone, and maybe that person is you.
(12:58):
So what I've brought in for you is an item
that means a lot to me, and it's probably a
little bit of a niche item, but you may know.
In the twenty ten Ish Charlie the Chocolate Factory with
Johnny Depp and Tim Burton was released, and I went
to see this film for my birthday. I think but
I saw the film Charlie the Choco Factory, and I
(13:19):
loved it.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
It was cab, it was dark, it was ooky, spooky,
it was you know, filled with chocolate, which is a
form of fatty love that as well.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
So I saw that with my mom and my family.
It was great.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
And then I went on tour because I was a
nerd and I was part of the band and I
was fast tracked to the senior band when I was
in year seven because I'd been doing music for a while.
So I became the senior percussionist in the school band.
And our school band had this thing that every two
years they would go and tour, and it was on
my actual birthday, so that night we didn't have a show,
(13:54):
so they took everyone in the band to go see
a movie. And what movie did we see? Charlie the
Choco Factory. And the school band person, Lady per teacher,
I don't know what you call her anymore. She got
like a little Wonka chocolate bar for everyone and you'll
watch the.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Movie and it was great.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
And I really enjoyed being in that band because you know,
I'm a bit of weird. I was a bit of
an outcast, but I felt really safe within the crew
of the band similar interests. I was recognized for my skills,
so I felt important, I felt valued. So I really
enjoyed being part of the band. And I love seeing
this movie and I got to see it again because
it was a great time. So then this movie just
(14:31):
became my personality. Loved it, watched it all the time,
came out on DVD. As soon as it came on
DV I got it. I had little action figures.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I loved it.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I have magnets on my fridge steel Anyway, this film
has meant a lot to me throughout my life. I've
watched it god a thousand times, if not more. I
used to put it on every time I did my makeup,
and I was doing drag five to six days a week,
so that was a lot of Johnny Depp and Willie
Wonka and that little buck teeth child in my ears.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
But I loved it.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
And the best thing about that film is it doesn't
that awful scene with the mum with the spoon and
the fork, you know, you know, you know, soup of
like laundry going teared up. Charlie doesn't have that and
I think that's why it is a superior film. Fight me,
the Tim Burton Chile on the Chocolate Factory is better
than the original. Still love it to this day, so
(15:19):
much so that I got a tatoo and the artifact
could be the tattoo that I got.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
But I once found out that.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
You can just buy stuff from movies, Like there's websites
that you can just buy props or costumes or set
pieces or anything scripts from films because people that worked
on them end up with them and then they sell
them because there's people aren't there for them. So there
was some charm on the Chocolate Factory items up on
(15:46):
this website, so you know, and this is like ten
plus years since the movie's come out. So there was
like some fiberglass candy cane that was rotting. There was
like a random doll that had one eye missing. But
what they did have Wonka bars, actual Wonka bars from
the set. So they had just unwrapped Chucky one which
is actually made a plastic for people listening, I'll give
(16:07):
you a sound effect.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Chocolate.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
But then they also had the foil wrapped Wonka bars,
which has one of those things inside, but it's all
wrapped and it's from the movie, like this was on
the set with Johnny Depp and that little kid with
the buck teeth, like they were all together, you know,
hanging around this bar of chocolate, and now I've got one,
and I just think that's beautiful because I think the
moral of the story is is adult money is for
(16:31):
you to use it on whatever you want. And I
decided to invest in a piece of plastic that says
Wonka because it makes me feel good. Thank you so
(16:52):
much for joining us here at the balat Glenzel. We've
got a regular episode of Concealed again next week.
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Welcome to the Ballet Glensa.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
My name is Artsimone and it's my birthday. But no,
I won't be having a party because I don't celebrate
birthdays because of traumatic experiences. Yes, that's right, it is
my birthday and I'm not having a birthday party.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Wow, I know.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
He go, Oh, you're such a spoil sport. Oh you
don't want to celebrate your birthday. Oh, because you're too old. No,
I'm very youthful, thank you very much. I'm thirty three.
Three three three is my lucky number. So I've decided
this is going to be my best year ever and
if it's not, well, maybe the next year will be.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
But I'll try for this year.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
But no, I'm not having a birthday party this year
and I will not have one ever again. Because I
want to take you back to my twenty first birthday party.
And I didn't really have many birthday parties growing up,
but my family said, you know what, you can have
a twenty first. We've got some budget. Will make a
wonderful night for you. Oh okay, what am I going
to do? So I booked upstairs at the Greyhound Hotel,
(01:03):
which was the biggest night club at the time, I
used to work there on a Friday night and I
managed to book the VIP area, which is upstairs, great
view of the club, great view of the stage, and
we had the balcony to ourselves so we could watch
all the shows.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
And me and my friends could party.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
That had a private little bar up there, cocktail bar
up there, so the drinks were sorted.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I was like, yes, let's book that.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Let's book some food because it was a kitchen at
the Greyhound Hotel and the prime item you needed at
a birthday party at that time was a photo booth.
You'd rent the photo booth to come in and you
could print your photos there and there, and then you'd
also have a photo book out on the table where
people as soon as they were printed, they could like
stick it in the book and then write a message
like happy birthday at simone, you sexy bitch. That's what
(01:46):
I would have written. So that sounds perfect. I've booked that.
I booked that. I booked that lovely invite all of
my friends, all of my drag queen friends and my
old high school friends, some of my work friends. It
was exciting that they're all going to come together and
I was going to put on this great not you know,
at my favorite club that I got to work at,
and I'm excited. You know, I don't really have parties.
This is the first time in my adulthood where I'm
(02:08):
having a party. This is going to be great. So
the night comes around, I've decided I'm going to go
in drag because this was like early on in my
drag career, I wanted to feel really, you know, I
loved the fantasy of getting in drag. Now not so much,
it feels a little bit different, but at the time,
I was like, oh, an, excuse the dress up, let's
do it.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I had a twenty first crown.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I'd grown up watching my sweet sixteen for so many
years that I decided this is going to be my one.
I'll get in there early because you know, we've got
to set up. My family arrives first, of course, because
we kind of got the relatives to come in early
because I don't want to be the when it turns
into a nightclub, how embarrassing. So you know, my second
cousins come, my grandmother comes, my little sister comes around.
(02:49):
Having a great time. We're using the photo booth, we're
sticking our things in Happy Birthday, sexy outsman, all the
good stuff, and I'm watching the clock. Yep, okay, the
times sticking. Where are other friends? Another hour goes by,
Oh there's one that's one of my Dracula's friends.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
So this is probably around nine pm. And then I
look at my phone. I sucketting messages. Oh hi, babe,
Sorry you can't make it. Oh this came up. Oh hi,
have a good night, can't go anymore? Oh sorry, I
have to wash my hair, you know, all the usual excuses.
They've already started bringing out the hot cannope so there's
just piles of them everywhere because no one's eating them,
and they're like, I don't know where to put these.
(03:26):
So there's hot cannopeys just in a big mound. You've
got your loly pile, and then you've got your photo booth,
which there's a photo booth attendant just standing there staring
at me because no one's coming in to use the
photo booth. So we've got the space till eleven pm
that's when it opens to the public. So we're getting
closer and closer. I've got my family members who've also
decided to go home. Because the nightclub is opening, so
(03:48):
they don't want to be there for that. I've got
my one Dracula's friend, I've got one other friend, and
the photo booth people are cut packing up. They're starting
to clear away the piles of cannaps and ordieavs because
not eating them, and they don't want to have stinky,
like cold wet food just floating around the VIP lounge
at the Greyhound Hotel. Mums just started making up lollibags.
(04:10):
She's just pulled out the lolli bags and started making
them individually, and she's like, I don't know, you can
just give them out. And it's getting closer and closer
to eleven pm and no one's there, but there's still time.
It's not eleven pm yet. The photo breeth is still
kind of there, just packing up the props. So I'm positive.
You know, they're drag queens. Drag queens are like, they're
(04:30):
a little bit later than usual, but they can still come.
They can still come and have photos with me my friends.
You know, the club's already open, so they must be coming.
They're gonna be there anyway, so they're gonna pop up
and have a drink with me and have a little
photo in my photo booth. There's still time, there's still
possibility for great, great outcomes because we haven't even done
the birthday cake yet, and we got to wait for
the birthday cake, SOI there's bluff people of seeing happy birthday.
So I'm still positive that's going to be all right.
(04:52):
And we got closer and closer, and it was quite
sad because they had to remove the photo booth before
the public came in, and they had me my book,
my big, huge, big black book that was meant to
be filled with pages and pages of photos with everyone
and messages, and it had like three pages in it
and a USB with like six photos on it.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And I was like, oh, okay, that's nice. And then
you know, the.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Thing that really really really hurt was that I went
downstairs into the club and there were my friends downstairs
then come to the venue and just didn't even go
upstairs for a free drink or to wish me happy birthday.
I'll tell you what, don't throw birthday parties. You'll be disappointed,
you'll have a terrible time. I'm not interested. Okay, don't
(05:35):
do it. Save you money, treat yourself otherways. I don't know,
take yourself to the movies, go buy a hooker, I
don't care. Recently, Julia Roberts and Amanda Seyfried had a
little moment together in which they wore the same outfit
at the Venice Film Festival a couple of days apart,
but they wore exactly the same outfit.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
How did it happen?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Well, Amanda saw Julia wear it and went message to
her on Instagram, commented on Instagram and said, hey, we
like that outfit? Can I wear it? And apparently they
share the same stylists. So a couple of days later,
oh made a man is walking down in exactly the
same outfit?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
What? But this reminded me of a time. It's a
bit juicy.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I don't even know if I should be telling this story,
So I'm going to say allegedly above all of it,
because there was once a time within the Australian drag
scene in which three different drag performers arrived at the Divas,
which is the Drag Industry Variety Awards, the biggest awards
night in the country for drag, all wearing very very
(06:35):
very similar outfits, so similar that they were all made
out of the same fabric and I'm not saying like, oh,
pink sequin, Oh, how revolutionary, but no, there was this
very distinct black and white harlequin diamond sequin that was
only available in this one shop. No one else in
the country had it, and it was really exciting because
drag queens we love our looks and we love our
(06:57):
sequin and we get very excited when something new that
we can make out fooits out of. And no one
had ever seen any fabric like this before in the
entire country, so it was very exciting but also very
striking because it stands out in a room. So this
is about I don't know, twenty fifteen ish, on the
red carpet, we see a certain drag queen arrive in
(07:19):
this beautiful harlequin sequin outfit, parasol red hair, looks stunning, amazing,
like makeup that looks like a masquerade mask, strutting down
and go, oh, I've never seen that sequence before. It's amazing.
What you got's even us. She looks incredible, Oh my god,
and this is from an interstate queen. She'd flown in
from the outside of Australia for this looks incredible.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
And we're all going, oh my gosh, she looks so good.
I haven't looked so good. It's amazing. Her hair was
like gravity defying. It was incredible.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
And then we went back to our table, having a
little chin wag, a little gossip, and then in walks
on the red carpet another drag queen. But this drag
queen is in a one arm, one leag cutsuit. But
it's exactly the same black and white harlequin sequin what
wearing exactly the same fabric? Oh my god, it was scandalous.
So all the queens are going, do you see over that?
(08:06):
Oh my god, because that is the worst nightmare. We
pride ourselves on our looks. Our looks are our identity.
Especially at an awards ceremony like the Divas, you want
to look the best, You want to stand out in
the room, especially because at the Diva Awards they have
a bell of the ball, which is the best dressed,
as voted by.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
A distinguished panel of judges.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
So you know, every single drag queen is in there
peacocking for their life, strutting around wanting to get noticed
by we don't know who the judges are, but you
know you're working the room. You're showing off your outfit,
you're waving to everyone, so you want to stand out.
So the worst thing that could ever happen would be
someone else with the same distinctive fabric as you, let alone,
the same outfit.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
So were Oh my god, Oh my god, I embarrassing?
Just die? What die?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
And then walks in a third queen in the same fabric. Again,
what how do they do it? What's going on? This
is every going to be wearing this? Was there a
mental note that we all had to wear the same fabric?
I don't know, but it happened. So we're all gossiping,
and then we get the news that the same queen
(09:12):
took these girls to the same fabric shop on separate
occasions and watched them by this fabric for their Diva
Reward outfit. They knew that what it was for, so
there was someone at play. There was a sabotaging drag queen.
Can you imagine that? Isn't that scandalous? There's one drag
queen that went out and encouraged these three different people
(09:32):
to buy the same distinct harlequin fabric.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
It gets worse because they come to the portion of
the evening, which is the bell of the ball, so.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
The host gets up on the stage. The winner is.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
The first queen that walked in with the harlequin sequin fabric.
They awarded it to the first queen they saw with
this exclusive fabric. Their heads are turning because they're looking
at the other two queens who are wearing the same fabric,
and they go, why not win? What? No? Win? But no,
they gave it to the first one that arrived in
her sickening harlequin sequin outfit. And do you know what
the moral of the story is here today for those
that are listening, arrive at events on time.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
On time, if not early, comes your coves.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Twenty eighth of June twenty ten Facebook status update, I right,
I keep stabbing myself with the needle while sewing. Dot
dot dot make it stop, sad face one like one
comment from Melanie Smith. Use a symbol.
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I don't care. It's my gift to you because I
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We're big fans. Our little pod is called Two Gay Mates.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
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Speaker 2 (11:43):
I assume she's a roller derby or woodworking or god
knows what those people do.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
If you're queer, you'll love our pod.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
We just talk about gay shit.
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If you're straight, you, I mean you can listen if
you want.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
We don't agree or endorse your lifestyle, but you're welcome
to listen too.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Gay mates, look us up.
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Love, oh fellow gay from gay to gay to you today,
go and listen to the whatever what was it too?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Gay broke? I wasn't listening two gay people.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I got distracted when you talked about lesbian and I
was like, yes, I agree, Roller Derby Two Gay Mates
was that it?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I think that was it.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Go and listen to two Gay Mates wherever you get
your podcasts, and if that's anything to go by, it's
at least going to be mediocre and semi entertaining. And
I think that's beautiful. If you can put up with me,
I'm sure you can put up with them as well.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Good on your gaze see Arta bacs.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Oh yes, it's the artifacts where I'm bringing an item
to do a show and tell for adults. And you know,
I've got lots of different things in my collection, between
wigs and costumes and trauma. But what I've unpacked for
you here today is something that I saw just before
I left the house today and I said, that could
be interesting for someone, and maybe that person is you.
(12:58):
So what I've brought in for you is an item
that means a lot to me, and it's probably a
little bit of a niche item, but you may know.
In the twenty ten Ish Charlie the Chocolate Factory with
Johnny Depp and Tim Burton was released, and I went
to see this film for my birthday. I think but
I saw the film Charlie the Choco Factory, and I
(13:19):
loved it.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
It was cab, it was dark, it was ooky, spooky,
it was you know, filled with chocolate, which is a
form of fatty love that as well.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
So I saw that with my mom and my family.
It was great.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
And then I went on tour because I was a
nerd and I was part of the band and I
was fast tracked to the senior band when I was
in year seven because I'd been doing music for a while.
So I became the senior percussionist in the school band.
And our school band had this thing that every two
years they would go and tour, and it was on
my actual birthday, so that night we didn't have a show,
(13:54):
so they took everyone in the band to go see
a movie. And what movie did we see? Charlie the
Choco Factory. And the school band person, Lady per teacher,
I don't know what you call her anymore. She got
like a little Wonka chocolate bar for everyone and you'll
watch the.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Movie and it was great.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
And I really enjoyed being in that band because you know,
I'm a bit of weird. I was a bit of
an outcast, but I felt really safe within the crew
of the band similar interests. I was recognized for my skills,
so I felt important, I felt valued. So I really
enjoyed being part of the band. And I love seeing
this movie and I got to see it again because
it was a great time. So then this movie just
(14:31):
became my personality. Loved it, watched it all the time,
came out on DVD. As soon as it came on
DV I got it. I had little action figures.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I loved it.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I have magnets on my fridge steel Anyway, this film
has meant a lot to me throughout my life. I've
watched it god a thousand times, if not more. I
used to put it on every time I did my makeup,
and I was doing drag five to six days a week,
so that was a lot of Johnny Depp and Willie
Wonka and that little buck teeth child in my ears.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
But I loved it.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
And the best thing about that film is it doesn't
that awful scene with the mum with the spoon and
the fork, you know, you know, you know, soup of
like laundry going teared up. Charlie doesn't have that and
I think that's why it is a superior film. Fight me,
the Tim Burton Chile on the Chocolate Factory is better
than the original. Still love it to this day, so
(15:19):
much so that I got a tatoo and the artifact
could be the tattoo that I got.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
But I once found out that.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
You can just buy stuff from movies, Like there's websites
that you can just buy props or costumes or set
pieces or anything scripts from films because people that worked
on them end up with them and then they sell
them because there's people aren't there for them. So there
was some charm on the Chocolate Factory items up on
(15:46):
this website, so you know, and this is like ten
plus years since the movie's come out. So there was
like some fiberglass candy cane that was rotting. There was
like a random doll that had one eye missing. But
what they did have Wonka bars, actual Wonka bars from
the set. So they had just unwrapped Chucky one which
is actually made a plastic for people listening, I'll give
(16:07):
you a sound effect.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Chocolate.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
But then they also had the foil wrapped Wonka bars,
which has one of those things inside, but it's all
wrapped and it's from the movie, like this was on
the set with Johnny Depp and that little kid with
the buck teeth, like they were all together, you know,
hanging around this bar of chocolate, and now I've got one,
and I just think that's beautiful because I think the
moral of the story is is adult money is for
(16:31):
you to use it on whatever you want. And I
decided to invest in a piece of plastic that says
Wonka because it makes me feel good. Thank you so
(16:52):
much for joining us here at the balat Glenzel. We've
got a regular episode of Concealed again next week.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
But don't forget.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
If you want to sit in a soapbox or an
arts advice as a bitty voice note, jump into the
show notes and click there, or jump onto the socials
instead with Utsman and see us through there.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
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