Speaker 1: Hello, it's Artsimone. During my time is Australia's most talented
Speaker 1: and gorgeous drag queen. I've learned to conceal a second
Speaker 1: side of me. Now I'm meeting with regular looking people
Speaker 1: who seem like they have ordinary lives but are concealing
Speaker 1: some downright freaky professions, hobbies and secrets. The catch is
Speaker 1: I don't know who's about to walk through the door
Speaker 1: or what they're concealing, but I'll ask the heart eating
Speaker 1: questions so we can find out together. Welcome to Concealed
Speaker 1: with Arts Simone. Speaking of the guests, oh, here they
Speaker 1: are roll the time.
Speaker 2: Hello.
Speaker 1: I'm Mimi.
Speaker 3: I'm from Brisbane and I'm thirty four years old. I
Speaker 3: have been a makeup artist of four fifteen years. Outside
Speaker 3: of work, I really enjoy comping, going to the beach
Speaker 3: and punting. I don't think art will guests what I'm
Speaker 3: concealing because wooden pail.
Speaker 2: But the looking off me.
Speaker 1: Hello me, me loving to meet you. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: this is my favorite blind date. My name's a Simone.
Speaker 1: Now I'm welcome to Concealed. Mimi is petite, You're tiny.
Speaker 1: We had to get me me up onto the chair.
Speaker 1: With a forklift because our chairs are very tall for
Speaker 1: me being a drag queen. Oh my goodness. And you've
Speaker 1: got a beautiful polo shirt on. And there's a hot
Speaker 1: dog monster with a devil tail mustard thing.
Speaker 2: Okay, my lord myself.
Speaker 1: Yes, so you have a logo. Okay, okay, now I'm curious.
Speaker 1: Now I'm very curious. Okay, and beautiful makeup. You're like,
Speaker 1: and you're ripped, thanked you are tap. I would be
Speaker 1: a bit nervous to run into you in a back
Speaker 1: alley because I think you could kick my butt. I
Speaker 1: reckon you could. Sometimes I can tell what someone does
Speaker 1: when they walk in. At the moment, I have no
Speaker 1: clue whatsoever. So I'm very very excited. So you said
Speaker 1: you makeup artist. Yes, I am. My goodness. What type
Speaker 1: of makeup do you specialize in? I do everything everything.
Speaker 3: I do commercial makeups, and I also do like hallowe
Speaker 3: and stuff movies.
Speaker 1: Good, oh good. I used to work at a makeup store,
Speaker 1: and it was how I got cheap makeup because it
Speaker 1: takes a lot of makeup to be a drag, I understand,
Speaker 1: so I had to just learn on the job how
Speaker 1: to do like beauty makeup, and I hated it so
Speaker 1: much because lovely little ladies their heads are so small
Speaker 1: and I've got giant, big like man hands. You know
Speaker 1: how hard it is to do a smoky eye when
Speaker 1: you're like holding up rush like with this weird fish shape,
Speaker 1: trying to get into the nooks and crannies. Scary. So
Speaker 1: I do have to admit I did send out a
Speaker 1: lot of girls onto Colin Street looking slightly extra fabulous.
Speaker 1: So did you train to be a makeup artist? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I started the makeup of Artists the course in China
Speaker 3: eighteen years ago.
Speaker 1: So you're from Brisin, but you're originally from China.
Speaker 2: I was born in b China.
Speaker 1: Oh good news. Okay, Okay, you've traveled the world okay,
Speaker 1: and you're into fitness. Can I ask what you just
Speaker 1: like to work out or yeah, what's your favorite sporting activities?
Speaker 1: Do you like to.
Speaker 3: Actually talking about sports? I'm not actually good at any
Speaker 3: just okay? Yeah good sports is hard hard for me.
Speaker 3: So it's like to lift things in like, do like
Speaker 3: just workout stuff?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Just always fast.
Speaker 2: Training or live the waste.
Speaker 1: I love that so much. Okay, So first question I
Speaker 1: have for you here today is how would your friends
Speaker 1: describe you in three words?
Speaker 2: Active?
Speaker 1: Active, bubbly, bubbly competitive? Oh, active, bubbly and competitive, which
Speaker 1: I think I've got from you in the first like
Speaker 1: two minutes being here. It's the vibe. It's the vibes
Speaker 1: that's you to a t Okay, So now in you're
Speaker 1: not lying to me. Active, bubbly, competitive, Okay, bubbly. Maybe
Speaker 1: you're into schweps. Sweps is best, you know, a bit
Speaker 1: of effervescence. Okay. Second question I have for you here today, Mimi,
Speaker 1: is if you could only eat one meal for the
Speaker 1: rest of your life, what would it be.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's a very hard question for me.
Speaker 2: You like food years? Do you like arist?
Speaker 1: You can only have one one?
Speaker 3: I'd like to have the biggest meal. Yes, Oh, you
Speaker 3: can't eat restaurant.
Speaker 1: I eat a lot like the going down to Smallgees today. Love,
Speaker 1: We're going to small Geese and I'm going to eat
Speaker 1: everything that's a niche reference for Victorians there smorgies. So
Speaker 1: you know, is there a particular favorite food that you
Speaker 1: if you had to eat that for the rest You've
Speaker 1: got a hot dog on your chest.
Speaker 2: I like hot dogs, yes, okay, hot dogs.
Speaker 1: Hot dogs okay, And final question number three, if you
Speaker 1: could make one thing illegal, what would it be. Hmmm.
Speaker 3: I don't like people judge how you look. Okay, okay,
Speaker 3: because when I grew up, I grew up in China.
Speaker 2: Yes, people tell me I look too fat. I was
Speaker 2: really big.
Speaker 1: I was a big kid too. Yeah, I was a poorker, and.
Speaker 2: It could be really harsh, just too little fat kids.
Speaker 1: Yes like that? Yeah, okay, So we're going to outlaw
Speaker 1: judging people by their looks. Yes, I like that. I
Speaker 1: like that. I think maybe that's why we both got
Speaker 1: into makeup as well, because that's how you can change
Speaker 1: your appearance or enhance it, or make other people feel special.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 1: Okay to recap active, bubbly, competitive, big meals. Yes, if
Speaker 1: you can make one thing illegal, it would be judging
Speaker 1: people from the way they look. Okay, all right, I
Speaker 1: gotta put my own to give skills. I mean, the
Speaker 1: investigative reporter out on the field today, I'm going to
Speaker 1: be guessing what Mimi is concealing from me. Okay, all right, Well,
Speaker 1: I think you know you're really into your fitness. You're
Speaker 1: like being strong, So my brain's going to be strong. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Oh, you don't like people being judged
Speaker 1: by the way they look. Okay, are you you sound
Speaker 1: like like you could be like a personal trainer or something?
Speaker 1: Are you like a personal trainer for because bubbly, are
Speaker 1: you a personal trainer for people that are addicted to
Speaker 1: drinking soft drink? What do you think? What do you think?
Speaker 1: What do you think? Is that right? I know?
Speaker 3: I am a compact Do you eat it? And I'm
Speaker 3: the number one rung the female compact? Did you eat it?
Speaker 3: In Australia? I'm grabbed the number four Oh in the country?
Speaker 1: You are a competitive eater?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, now I'm excited. You really threw me off
Speaker 1: with your fitness and your way people look. You like
Speaker 1: to eat and that explains we've got a hot dog. Yes,
Speaker 1: all right, we have just found out that Mimi is
Speaker 1: in fact not a personal trainer for people with soft
Speaker 1: drink addictions. No, she's not hanging by vending machines finding
Speaker 1: her clientele. She is, in fact Australia's number one female
Speaker 1: competitive eater and number four ranked in the country. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry what, I didn't even know that was a real thing.
Speaker 1: How do you even get into that? Could I get
Speaker 1: into it. I'm a bit hungry today, all right. So
Speaker 1: I'm here with Mimi and we have discovered the meme
Speaker 1: is not, in fact a personal trainer for people with
Speaker 1: soft drink addictions. No, you are in fact a competitive eater. Yes,
Speaker 1: and not only a competitive eater. You are the best were.
Speaker 2: Best female compactity eater in Elstra.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, I'm here with Royalty. Okay. I have
Speaker 1: lots of questions because this is so fascinating. I've only
Speaker 1: seen this in like TV and movies and stuff. I
Speaker 1: didn't know it was like real where you where do
Speaker 1: you competitive eat?
Speaker 3: All kinds of restaurants. I'm gonna come on some restaurants.
Speaker 3: Do you have an eating challenge?
Speaker 1: Thing?
Speaker 2: That have a huge for you?
Speaker 1: Now, just to prefaces, you're tiny. So how did you
Speaker 1: find the world of competitive eating?
Speaker 3: I was shopping doing the shopping in the shopping center,
Speaker 3: and I saw a pancake eating competitions.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I just think I'd go with the goal.
Speaker 1: What goes through your head when you're walking past you go?
Speaker 2: I was just hurry. I did have lunch, but.
Speaker 1: That you were walking out and about you're hungry? You
Speaker 1: saw Oh pancake eating competition. Now, was this a challenge
Speaker 1: or was it like an actual competition with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, as official competition by Competitive Eating Australia. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: own community.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So you saw that, you said, I'll give that
Speaker 1: a shot. Did you prepare for that at all for
Speaker 1: the first time?
Speaker 2: No, No, I was I just ate lunch.
Speaker 1: So you go in there and how many pancakes?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 1: As many as you can eat? Yeah?
Speaker 2: One hour time limit? As many as you can.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's a lot longer than I thought, because you know,
Speaker 1: you say things and it's like everyone's like.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, most competition you have a short time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but that was long.
Speaker 1: Okay. So you go in there, you sit down. How
Speaker 1: many competitors are you against?
Speaker 2: Thirty?
Speaker 1: Wow? Yeah, I was just the love of you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a lung competition. A lot of people
Speaker 2: just see it as like, oh, your eat and maybe
Speaker 2: like about turns serious competitives.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, do you even have a game strategy the
Speaker 1: first time you're doing this? Oh?
Speaker 2: I just eat with knife on the book and I
Speaker 2: ate eighteen Okay I needn't in the first competition.
Speaker 1: No, I'm sure you did. Okay, but you got okay.
Speaker 1: So so you come seconds and you go, oh, this
Speaker 1: could be fun. So then where do you go from there?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: What did you do? You start researching?
Speaker 2: What did you There.
Speaker 3: Was some professional eaters in that competition. They think, well,
Speaker 3: you should do this, you should get into this.
Speaker 2: They told me that, and I got in touch with
Speaker 2: competitive eating in Australia.
Speaker 1: And what was the next one after that? That's the
Speaker 1: type of one I think I'd like the most.
Speaker 2: I want that one.
Speaker 1: Yes, you did. Yeah, so your second ever competitive eating
Speaker 1: competition you run?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: How do you balance competitive eating and fitness because those
Speaker 1: two things don't quite opposite?
Speaker 3: Yeah, just try to eat as healthy as I can.
Speaker 2: On my normal days.
Speaker 3: I do eating challenge like once a week, not too often,
Speaker 3: not too fun.
Speaker 1: You do eating challenge once a week.
Speaker 3: Sometimes when I travel even more than that, because if
Speaker 3: I only stay in one city for three days, I'd
Speaker 3: like to finish all the eating challenge in the city,
Speaker 3: So I do three days in a row.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. So they might not even be like
Speaker 1: official ones, but if save a restaurant has like a challenge,
Speaker 1: you'll go in there. Yeah, oh my goodness.
Speaker 2: Oh, comput patients, how do.
Speaker 1: You then so then because you must feel a bit
Speaker 1: rotten afterwards, right, do you feel a bit like bit
Speaker 1: sick after you do it?
Speaker 3: I can literally eat loud things I was little, so yeah,
Speaker 3: I most of times I'm okay after all.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. You know they say like with health
Speaker 1: and fitness, it's like what you put in and then
Speaker 1: you got exos to take it out.
Speaker 2: So I did set our small gym at my old
Speaker 2: house so I can do excesses every day.
Speaker 3: I don't have to travel to the gym. You do
Speaker 3: it my own house, like I say, mini them two hours.
Speaker 3: Do it every night after work.
Speaker 1: You work for all day and then go in the
Speaker 1: gym for two hours.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and night.
Speaker 1: Why why you'd be watching the Bachelor or something? I
Speaker 1: don't know. You can put drag Race on two hours.
Speaker 1: You're like the human cookie monster. This is crazy. So
Speaker 1: out of everything, what is your specialty food records?
Speaker 2: My record? I doubled the previous woman's record.
Speaker 1: You doubled it, So what is the record?
Speaker 2: It was eight and I ate sixteen in how long communutes?
Speaker 1: Sixteen? I scared. I bet you were still holding back
Speaker 1: a little bit. You're like, I've already won, but you
Speaker 1: know so I'm generally curious because I've seen videos of
Speaker 1: people competitive eating hot dogs. Let's go through the process
Speaker 1: of how to tackle eating a hot dogs step by step.
Speaker 3: Yeap, Different people have different strategy. But what I do
Speaker 3: is take the sausage out from the band, eat the
Speaker 3: sausage by itself, but with this kind of crushed the band,
Speaker 3: dip into water.
Speaker 1: Oh you're doing this at the same time.
Speaker 2: We have to and did this hand eat sausage? And
Speaker 2: just hand? Did this hand?
Speaker 3: I have the bend the water and out of the sausage.
Speaker 3: I put the band in my mouth and start the
Speaker 3: next one.
Speaker 1: And how much chewing happens?
Speaker 2: We try to do less chewing, but don't chalk yourself.
Speaker 1: My mom would hate you. She's only food your food. Well,
Speaker 1: Mom gets what. Maybe I was just trying for competitive eating. Okay, Mom,
Speaker 1: you've just really been stifling my creativity. You know, I
Speaker 1: was always bad at sport, mum, But maybe I could
Speaker 1: have been good at this. All right, Mom, this is
Speaker 1: all your fault. Mom, I could have been a superstar
Speaker 1: sports person. Need to go call her after this and
Speaker 1: yellow I.
Speaker 3: Grew up people, Obviously I don't eat like a girl. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so I grew up in China. Yeah, people just to
Speaker 3: say I'm not normal, I'm a monster. I don't eat
Speaker 3: like a girl. But luckily my mom is very supposible.
Speaker 1: Oh good, I'm glad that you have found you're like
Speaker 1: people right and something you can be celebrated for. Yes.
Speaker 1: So what's the community of competitive eaters like? Are they
Speaker 1: supportive or are they like you took out my champion
Speaker 1: pizza eating title, Get out of here. I'm Has it
Speaker 1: been any sabotage amongst the competitive eating competition?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: In a competitive eating as official competition, it won't hypen.
Speaker 3: But sometimes little restaurant yes, private competitions, they will have
Speaker 3: some time honeycap for professional order.
Speaker 1: That's not fair. Do you hide it? Do you go
Speaker 1: you cover your little logo and you go, you go,
Speaker 1: oh hello, I'm just here for dinner.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Sometimes they ask you to start like two minutes
Speaker 3: after other people.
Speaker 1: That's not fair, not fair.
Speaker 2: We don't like that at all.
Speaker 1: I know some of these competitions you'll win like a
Speaker 1: T shirt or you'll get your meal for free. Is
Speaker 1: that like a trick way If you're like, guys, let's
Speaker 1: go out to dinner tonight, it's on me and they're like,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? And then you go in
Speaker 1: there eat it or win the challenge and you go
Speaker 1: or do they have They probably have pictures of you
Speaker 1: and say do not let her in. They probably have
Speaker 1: like I wanted all the restaurants to be happy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're like, no, no competition for her. Thank you, just
Speaker 1: just before.
Speaker 2: Most of us restaurants very good to us.
Speaker 1: Oh good? What's good business too? Write and I guess
Speaker 1: it's kind of fun if it's a challenge.
Speaker 2: For the people and we promote for them on patch too.
Speaker 1: What's a good deal to have? Then? So pre competition,
Speaker 1: do you have any processes or rituals? You go, all right,
Speaker 1: today is competition to day. What do you do to
Speaker 1: prepare for that day?
Speaker 3: Not too many skills, but just don't stuff yourself down
Speaker 3: the previous day because you're someone will shrink. Some people
Speaker 3: think if you get very hungry, you've got.
Speaker 1: Your room right Yeah? No, because yeah, because it's a muscle, right,
Speaker 1: you're going to stretch it. I didn't think of that.
Speaker 1: I need to thank you. I think you've equipped me
Speaker 1: with my new excuse when I'm like want to eat something,
Speaker 1: It's be like guys, I've got a competition tomorrow. I
Speaker 1: just need to stretch my sometthach. Okay, I need to
Speaker 1: go and stretch my stomach. So if anyone sees me
Speaker 1: out eating, I'm training. Okay, do you have a name
Speaker 1: for yourself? What do you call yourself?
Speaker 2: I call myself Mimi, the mini Monster. I just exactly cool,
Speaker 2: the mini Monster.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you walk in, They're.
Speaker 2: Like, no, maybe the mini monsters here around?
Speaker 1: Do you competitive eaters around the world know who you are?
Speaker 1: Have you been able to compete internationally? Yet?
Speaker 3: I got invited to go to Canada and you as
Speaker 3: to do competitions that must right before COVID.
Speaker 1: That's right, you said it can wait. I'm still hungry.
Speaker 1: But when you do go, I'll be there. I'm going
Speaker 1: to be in the front road for you, maybe the
Speaker 1: mini Monster, and I'll be going may maybe I want
Speaker 1: to see you do that.
Speaker 3: It's not very beautiful pleasant watching a lot of competitions,
Speaker 3: but in order to win, we'll have to.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you have to not care about what you
Speaker 1: look like. You just have to go for it. You
Speaker 1: said you didn't like sport, but like, this is a sport.
Speaker 1: This is this is a sport. You see you go huh.
Speaker 1: Earlier today, I said I wouldn't want to be near
Speaker 1: you in like a back alley because you kick my butt,
Speaker 1: you'd bite my leg off, That's what That's what you'd
Speaker 1: be like. Nah, crazy, you'd be a good bodyguard one day. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I have to take it to a gig with me
Speaker 1: one day, and you'd be like, get out, White, get out, White,
Speaker 1: get out. Why I doing this podcast? I am collecting
Speaker 1: the craziest band of misfits, and I just love the
Speaker 1: idea of all of us in a room one day,
Speaker 1: just like just like you know how they have like
Speaker 1: the Avengers, and it's like instead of the Avengers, it's
Speaker 1: all the people from Concealed without Simone stratting down. You know,
Speaker 1: we've got a mermaid swimming there, We've got a taxidermist
Speaker 1: who's going to rip your skin off, and then we've
Speaker 1: got Memi, the mini monster, who's gonna I think we
Speaker 1: take on the world. I think we take on the world.
Speaker 1: I think it's beautiful, it's so stunning. Well, I really
Speaker 1: feel like the most natural thing is I think I
Speaker 1: want to have a go. Do you think do you
Speaker 1: think you know you I'm certainly hungry after all of
Speaker 1: this walker food.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, I actually bought some cup kecks flaws.
Speaker 1: Have you competitive eaten cupcakes before I tried? Okay, what
Speaker 1: would be your game plan? Because there's a lot going on.
Speaker 1: You've got frosting on the top. You've got the little
Speaker 1: wrappers on as well. Are you allowed to pre peel them.
Speaker 3: All or peel while we were eating? Because the same
Speaker 3: some time, because you're chewing and you're doing something.
Speaker 1: Your multitasking is are very good? Me? Oh my god?
Speaker 1: Six cupcakes each? So twelve cupcakes have just made the
Speaker 1: way into the studio. They're huge. There is so much
Speaker 1: frusting on these. I don't even know how am I
Speaker 1: going to get through these? Oh don't worry. Everyone. That
Speaker 1: brought me some cutlery, Thank goodness. Yes, And what is
Speaker 1: going to be our time limit? To try and eat
Speaker 1: as many as we can?
Speaker 2: Just to as quick as you can.
Speaker 1: Oh so we're going to see how long it takes
Speaker 1: to eat the six Oh my god, I terrifying. Okay,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, prepare. Okay, you know you've got your
Speaker 1: water next year. I have a rock and some cutlery,
Speaker 1: so you know I'm going to pray this is like,
Speaker 1: this is just so terrifying. Okay, okay, okay, Mimi is
Speaker 1: staring at the cupcakes. Her eyes are locked, ready to go.
Speaker 1: She's got a water bottle right next to her. I
Speaker 1: think we're going to do it. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1: I'm nervous. It's like when you have to pop a
Speaker 1: bottle of champagne, you know, It's like, Okay, here you go, three, two,
Speaker 1: one go. Okay, we're peeling. Oh my god, there's okay, okay,
Speaker 1: we've almost lost one. We've lost one. It's gone already
Speaker 1: in her mouth, and she's sipping some water and we go,
Speaker 1: oh swallow down. One cupcake gone me. I've just eaten
Speaker 1: some frosting. It's delicious. Okay, we've already peeled number two.
Speaker 1: She's already in chewing. I'm still eating them, fristing. I
Speaker 1: have a big mouth, but I'm not really good at this. Okay.
Speaker 1: I've never called a race before, but I should get
Speaker 1: a job as a race caller after this. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: she's already done three and she's gotta be more water.
Speaker 1: Her odor locked on the cup game. Oh Jesus Christ, jeez,
Speaker 1: fully put the whole thing in there. I feeling she's
Speaker 1: gonna actually eat a rapper. No, she didn't. It's gone.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh my god. Okay, five and a
Speaker 1: half okay, all right, were on the final cup game.
Speaker 1: It's going into Mimi's mouth. Jesus, okay, and we're half
Speaker 1: a cup back, not even Oh my god, it's gone
Speaker 1: and she's swallowing it. I'm gonna stop the time and
Speaker 1: supper time and supper the time a minute, a minute,
Speaker 1: eighteen seconds. Oh my god, well I've got five more years.
Speaker 2: He chose them slowly, please.
Speaker 1: Mimi the mini monster competitive eater has shown me her stuff.
Speaker 1: She has shown me how to shove a cupcake into
Speaker 1: a tiny orifice and still have a smile at the end.
Speaker 1: You know, I feel like I could use some of
Speaker 1: those skills within my own career. Maybe not cupcakes, but
Speaker 1: I am very good at shoving things into other things,
Speaker 1: So I feel like maybe we could do a great duo.
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