1 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ballet Glensa. 2 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 2: My name is Artsimone and it's my birthday. But no, 3 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:16,800 Speaker 2: I won't be having a party because I don't celebrate 4 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 2: birthdays because of traumatic experiences. Yes, that's right, it is 5 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:24,920 Speaker 2: my birthday and I'm not having a birthday party. 6 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 1: Wow, I know. 7 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 2: He go, Oh, you're such a spoil sport. Oh you 8 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:31,080 Speaker 2: don't want to celebrate your birthday. Oh, because you're too old. No, 9 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:33,880 Speaker 2: I'm very youthful, thank you very much. I'm thirty three. 10 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 2: Three three three is my lucky number. So I've decided 11 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:39,199 Speaker 2: this is going to be my best year ever and 12 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:41,239 Speaker 2: if it's not, well, maybe the next year will be. 13 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 1: But I'll try for this year. 14 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:44,840 Speaker 2: But no, I'm not having a birthday party this year 15 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 2: and I will not have one ever again. Because I 16 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 2: want to take you back to my twenty first birthday party. 17 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 2: And I didn't really have many birthday parties growing up, 18 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 2: but my family said, you know what, you can have 19 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 2: a twenty first. We've got some budget. Will make a 20 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 2: wonderful night for you. Oh okay, what am I going 21 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 2: to do? So I booked upstairs at the Greyhound Hotel, 22 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 2: which was the biggest night club at the time, I 23 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 2: used to work there on a Friday night and I 24 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 2: managed to book the VIP area, which is upstairs, great 25 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 2: view of the club, great view of the stage, and 26 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 2: we had the balcony to ourselves so we could watch 27 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 2: all the shows. 28 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 1: And me and my friends could party. 29 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 2: That had a private little bar up there, cocktail bar 30 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 2: up there, so the drinks were sorted. 31 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 1: I was like, yes, let's book that. 32 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:24,959 Speaker 2: Let's book some food because it was a kitchen at 33 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,960 Speaker 2: the Greyhound Hotel and the prime item you needed at 34 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,680 Speaker 2: a birthday party at that time was a photo booth. 35 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 2: You'd rent the photo booth to come in and you 36 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 2: could print your photos there and there, and then you'd 37 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 2: also have a photo book out on the table where 38 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 2: people as soon as they were printed, they could like 39 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 2: stick it in the book and then write a message 40 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:46,080 Speaker 2: like happy birthday at simone, you sexy bitch. That's what 41 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 2: I would have written. So that sounds perfect. I've booked that. 42 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 2: I booked that. I booked that lovely invite all of 43 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 2: my friends, all of my drag queen friends and my 44 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 2: old high school friends, some of my work friends. It 45 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 2: was exciting that they're all going to come together and 46 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 2: I was going to put on this great not you know, 47 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 2: at my favorite club that I got to work at, 48 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 2: and I'm excited. You know, I don't really have parties. 49 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 2: This is the first time in my adulthood where I'm 50 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 2: having a party. This is going to be great. So 51 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:12,920 Speaker 2: the night comes around, I've decided I'm going to go 52 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 2: in drag because this was like early on in my 53 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 2: drag career, I wanted to feel really, you know, I 54 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 2: loved the fantasy of getting in drag. Now not so much, 55 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 2: it feels a little bit different, but at the time, 56 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:26,519 Speaker 2: I was like, oh, an, excuse the dress up, let's 57 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:26,800 Speaker 2: do it. 58 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:28,359 Speaker 1: I had a twenty first crown. 59 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:31,359 Speaker 2: I'd grown up watching my sweet sixteen for so many 60 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 2: years that I decided this is going to be my one. 61 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:35,920 Speaker 2: I'll get in there early because you know, we've got 62 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:38,360 Speaker 2: to set up. My family arrives first, of course, because 63 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 2: we kind of got the relatives to come in early 64 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:42,079 Speaker 2: because I don't want to be the when it turns 65 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 2: into a nightclub, how embarrassing. So you know, my second 66 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 2: cousins come, my grandmother comes, my little sister comes around. 67 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 2: Having a great time. We're using the photo booth, we're 68 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:55,679 Speaker 2: sticking our things in Happy Birthday, sexy outsman, all the 69 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 2: good stuff, and I'm watching the clock. Yep, okay, the 70 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 2: times sticking. Where are other friends? Another hour goes by, 71 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:04,640 Speaker 2: Oh there's one that's one of my Dracula's friends. 72 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 1: Hello. 73 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:07,639 Speaker 2: So this is probably around nine pm. And then I 74 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 2: look at my phone. I sucketting messages. Oh hi, babe, 75 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 2: Sorry you can't make it. Oh this came up. Oh hi, 76 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 2: have a good night, can't go anymore? Oh sorry, I 77 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 2: have to wash my hair, you know, all the usual excuses. 78 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 2: They've already started bringing out the hot cannope so there's 79 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:24,799 Speaker 2: just piles of them everywhere because no one's eating them, 80 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 2: and they're like, I don't know where to put these. 81 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 2: So there's hot cannopeys just in a big mound. You've 82 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 2: got your loly pile, and then you've got your photo booth, 83 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 2: which there's a photo booth attendant just standing there staring 84 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 2: at me because no one's coming in to use the 85 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 2: photo booth. So we've got the space till eleven pm 86 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 2: that's when it opens to the public. So we're getting 87 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 2: closer and closer. I've got my family members who've also 88 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 2: decided to go home. Because the nightclub is opening, so 89 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 2: they don't want to be there for that. I've got 90 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 2: my one Dracula's friend, I've got one other friend, and 91 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 2: the photo booth people are cut packing up. They're starting 92 00:03:57,440 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 2: to clear away the piles of cannaps and ordieavs because 93 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 2: not eating them, and they don't want to have stinky, 94 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 2: like cold wet food just floating around the VIP lounge 95 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 2: at the Greyhound Hotel. Mums just started making up lollibags. 96 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:13,000 Speaker 2: She's just pulled out the lolli bags and started making 97 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 2: them individually, and she's like, I don't know, you can 98 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 2: just give them out. And it's getting closer and closer 99 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 2: to eleven pm and no one's there, but there's still time. 100 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 2: It's not eleven pm yet. The photo breeth is still 101 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:27,600 Speaker 2: kind of there, just packing up the props. So I'm positive. 102 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 2: You know, they're drag queens. Drag queens are like, they're 103 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 2: a little bit later than usual, but they can still come. 104 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 2: They can still come and have photos with me my friends. 105 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 2: You know, the club's already open, so they must be coming. 106 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 2: They're gonna be there anyway, so they're gonna pop up 107 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:40,280 Speaker 2: and have a drink with me and have a little 108 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:43,280 Speaker 2: photo in my photo booth. There's still time, there's still 109 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 2: possibility for great, great outcomes because we haven't even done 110 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 2: the birthday cake yet, and we got to wait for 111 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 2: the birthday cake, SOI there's bluff people of seeing happy birthday. 112 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 2: So I'm still positive that's going to be all right. 113 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:56,279 Speaker 2: And we got closer and closer, and it was quite 114 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 2: sad because they had to remove the photo booth before 115 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 2: the public came in, and they had me my book, 116 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 2: my big, huge, big black book that was meant to 117 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 2: be filled with pages and pages of photos with everyone 118 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:08,600 Speaker 2: and messages, and it had like three pages in it 119 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:10,600 Speaker 2: and a USB with like six photos on it. 120 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, okay, that's nice. And then 121 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:14,280 Speaker 1: you know, the. 122 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 2: Thing that really really really hurt was that I went 123 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,920 Speaker 2: downstairs into the club and there were my friends downstairs 124 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 2: then come to the venue and just didn't even go 125 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:26,599 Speaker 2: upstairs for a free drink or to wish me happy birthday. 126 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, don't throw birthday parties. You'll be disappointed, 127 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 2: you'll have a terrible time. I'm not interested. Okay, don't 128 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 2: do it. Save you money, treat yourself otherways. I don't know, 129 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 2: take yourself to the movies, go buy a hooker, I 130 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 2: don't care. Recently, Julia Roberts and Amanda Seyfried had a 131 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,480 Speaker 2: little moment together in which they wore the same outfit 132 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 2: at the Venice Film Festival a couple of days apart, 133 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:55,840 Speaker 2: but they wore exactly the same outfit. 134 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:56,719 Speaker 1: How did it happen? 135 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 2: Well, Amanda saw Julia wear it and went message to 136 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:02,039 Speaker 2: her on Instagram, commented on Instagram and said, hey, we 137 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 2: like that outfit? Can I wear it? And apparently they 138 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:07,479 Speaker 2: share the same stylists. So a couple of days later, 139 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 2: oh made a man is walking down in exactly the 140 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 2: same outfit? 141 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 1: What? But this reminded me of a time. It's a 142 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 1: bit juicy. 143 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 2: I don't even know if I should be telling this story, 144 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,160 Speaker 2: So I'm going to say allegedly above all of it, 145 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 2: because there was once a time within the Australian drag 146 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 2: scene in which three different drag performers arrived at the Divas, 147 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 2: which is the Drag Industry Variety Awards, the biggest awards 148 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 2: night in the country for drag, all wearing very very 149 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:38,479 Speaker 2: very similar outfits, so similar that they were all made 150 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:42,160 Speaker 2: out of the same fabric and I'm not saying like, oh, 151 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 2: pink sequin, Oh, how revolutionary, but no, there was this 152 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:50,159 Speaker 2: very distinct black and white harlequin diamond sequin that was 153 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 2: only available in this one shop. No one else in 154 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 2: the country had it, and it was really exciting because 155 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 2: drag queens we love our looks and we love our 156 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 2: sequin and we get very excited when something new that 157 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 2: we can make out fooits out of. And no one 158 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 2: had ever seen any fabric like this before in the 159 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 2: entire country, so it was very exciting but also very 160 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 2: striking because it stands out in a room. So this 161 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 2: is about I don't know, twenty fifteen ish, on the 162 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 2: red carpet, we see a certain drag queen arrive in 163 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 2: this beautiful harlequin sequin outfit, parasol red hair, looks stunning, amazing, 164 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 2: like makeup that looks like a masquerade mask, strutting down 165 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 2: and go, oh, I've never seen that sequence before. It's amazing. 166 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 2: What you got's even us. She looks incredible, Oh my god, 167 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 2: and this is from an interstate queen. She'd flown in 168 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:38,440 Speaker 2: from the outside of Australia for this looks incredible. 169 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: And we're all going, oh my gosh, she looks so good. 170 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 1: I haven't looked so good. It's amazing. Her hair was 171 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 1: like gravity defying. It was incredible. 172 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 2: And then we went back to our table, having a 173 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 2: little chin wag, a little gossip, and then in walks 174 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 2: on the red carpet another drag queen. But this drag 175 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 2: queen is in a one arm, one leag cutsuit. But 176 00:07:56,520 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 2: it's exactly the same black and white harlequin sequin what 177 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:03,960 Speaker 2: wearing exactly the same fabric? Oh my god, it was scandalous. 178 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 2: So all the queens are going, do you see over that? 179 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 2: Oh my god, because that is the worst nightmare. We 180 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 2: pride ourselves on our looks. Our looks are our identity. 181 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 2: Especially at an awards ceremony like the Divas, you want 182 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 2: to look the best, You want to stand out in 183 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 2: the room, especially because at the Diva Awards they have 184 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 2: a bell of the ball, which is the best dressed, 185 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:27,360 Speaker 2: as voted by. 186 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 1: A distinguished panel of judges. 187 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 2: So you know, every single drag queen is in there 188 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 2: peacocking for their life, strutting around wanting to get noticed 189 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 2: by we don't know who the judges are, but you 190 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 2: know you're working the room. You're showing off your outfit, 191 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 2: you're waving to everyone, so you want to stand out. 192 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 2: So the worst thing that could ever happen would be 193 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 2: someone else with the same distinctive fabric as you, let alone, 194 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 2: the same outfit. 195 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 1: So were Oh my god, Oh my god, I embarrassing? 196 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 1: Just die? What die? 197 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 2: And then walks in a third queen in the same fabric. Again, 198 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,200 Speaker 2: what how do they do it? What's going on? This 199 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 2: is every going to be wearing this? Was there a 200 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 2: mental note that we all had to wear the same fabric? 201 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:06,280 Speaker 2: I don't know, but it happened. So we're all gossiping, 202 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 2: and then we get the news that the same queen 203 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 2: took these girls to the same fabric shop on separate 204 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 2: occasions and watched them by this fabric for their Diva 205 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:21,719 Speaker 2: Reward outfit. They knew that what it was for, so 206 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,319 Speaker 2: there was someone at play. There was a sabotaging drag queen. 207 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:28,440 Speaker 2: Can you imagine that? Isn't that scandalous? There's one drag 208 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 2: queen that went out and encouraged these three different people 209 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 2: to buy the same distinct harlequin fabric. 210 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:36,840 Speaker 1: Oh my god. 211 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 2: It gets worse because they come to the portion of 212 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 2: the evening, which is the bell of the ball, so. 213 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 1: The host gets up on the stage. The winner is. 214 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:52,040 Speaker 2: The first queen that walked in with the harlequin sequin fabric. 215 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:54,320 Speaker 2: They awarded it to the first queen they saw with 216 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,320 Speaker 2: this exclusive fabric. Their heads are turning because they're looking 217 00:09:57,320 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 2: at the other two queens who are wearing the same fabric, 218 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:01,680 Speaker 2: and they go, why not win? What? No? Win? But no, 219 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 2: they gave it to the first one that arrived in 220 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 2: her sickening harlequin sequin outfit. And do you know what 221 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:08,880 Speaker 2: the moral of the story is here today for those 222 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 2: that are listening, arrive at events on time. 223 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 1: On time, if not early, comes your coves. 224 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:28,000 Speaker 2: Twenty eighth of June twenty ten Facebook status update, I right, 225 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 2: I keep stabbing myself with the needle while sewing. 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If you can put up with me, 267 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 2: I'm sure you can put up with them as well. 268 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:34,560 Speaker 1: Good on your gaze see Arta bacs. 269 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 2: Oh yes, it's the artifacts where I'm bringing an item 270 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 2: to do a show and tell for adults. And you know, 271 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 2: I've got lots of different things in my collection, between 272 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 2: wigs and costumes and trauma. But what I've unpacked for 273 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:52,960 Speaker 2: you here today is something that I saw just before 274 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 2: I left the house today and I said, that could 275 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:58,400 Speaker 2: be interesting for someone, and maybe that person is you. 276 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:01,760 Speaker 2: So what I've brought in for you is an item 277 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:03,959 Speaker 2: that means a lot to me, and it's probably a 278 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 2: little bit of a niche item, but you may know. 279 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 2: In the twenty ten Ish Charlie the Chocolate Factory with 280 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 2: Johnny Depp and Tim Burton was released, and I went 281 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 2: to see this film for my birthday. I think but 282 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:19,840 Speaker 2: I saw the film Charlie the Choco Factory, and I 283 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 2: loved it. 284 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 1: I enjoyed it. 285 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:23,680 Speaker 2: It was cab, it was dark, it was ooky, spooky, 286 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:26,200 Speaker 2: it was you know, filled with chocolate, which is a 287 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:28,319 Speaker 2: form of fatty love that as well. 288 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 1: So I saw that with my mom and my family. 289 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:32,000 Speaker 1: It was great. 290 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:35,080 Speaker 2: And then I went on tour because I was a 291 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:37,679 Speaker 2: nerd and I was part of the band and I 292 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:41,440 Speaker 2: was fast tracked to the senior band when I was 293 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:43,800 Speaker 2: in year seven because I'd been doing music for a while. 294 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:46,199 Speaker 2: So I became the senior percussionist in the school band. 295 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:48,560 Speaker 2: And our school band had this thing that every two 296 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:51,319 Speaker 2: years they would go and tour, and it was on 297 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:54,320 Speaker 2: my actual birthday, so that night we didn't have a show, 298 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:56,360 Speaker 2: so they took everyone in the band to go see 299 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:58,920 Speaker 2: a movie. And what movie did we see? Charlie the 300 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 2: Choco Factory. And the school band person, Lady per teacher, 301 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:05,760 Speaker 2: I don't know what you call her anymore. She got 302 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 2: like a little Wonka chocolate bar for everyone and you'll 303 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 2: watch the. 304 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:09,679 Speaker 1: Movie and it was great. 305 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 2: And I really enjoyed being in that band because you know, 306 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:14,160 Speaker 2: I'm a bit of weird. I was a bit of 307 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:19,040 Speaker 2: an outcast, but I felt really safe within the crew 308 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 2: of the band similar interests. I was recognized for my skills, 309 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 2: so I felt important, I felt valued. So I really 310 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 2: enjoyed being part of the band. And I love seeing 311 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 2: this movie and I got to see it again because 312 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:31,680 Speaker 2: it was a great time. So then this movie just 313 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:34,160 Speaker 2: became my personality. Loved it, watched it all the time, 314 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 2: came out on DVD. As soon as it came on 315 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:37,640 Speaker 2: DV I got it. I had little action figures. 316 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 1: I loved it. 317 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 2: I have magnets on my fridge steel Anyway, this film 318 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 2: has meant a lot to me throughout my life. I've 319 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 2: watched it god a thousand times, if not more. I 320 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 2: used to put it on every time I did my makeup, 321 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 2: and I was doing drag five to six days a week, 322 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 2: so that was a lot of Johnny Depp and Willie 323 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 2: Wonka and that little buck teeth child in my ears. 324 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 1: But I loved it. 325 00:14:57,800 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 2: And the best thing about that film is it doesn't 326 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:03,200 Speaker 2: that awful scene with the mum with the spoon and 327 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 2: the fork, you know, you know, you know, soup of 328 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 2: like laundry going teared up. Charlie doesn't have that and 329 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 2: I think that's why it is a superior film. Fight me, 330 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 2: the Tim Burton Chile on the Chocolate Factory is better 331 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:19,160 Speaker 2: than the original. Still love it to this day, so 332 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:20,880 Speaker 2: much so that I got a tatoo and the artifact 333 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 2: could be the tattoo that I got. 334 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: But I once found out that. 335 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 2: You can just buy stuff from movies, Like there's websites 336 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 2: that you can just buy props or costumes or set 337 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:38,520 Speaker 2: pieces or anything scripts from films because people that worked 338 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 2: on them end up with them and then they sell 339 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 2: them because there's people aren't there for them. So there 340 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:46,440 Speaker 2: was some charm on the Chocolate Factory items up on 341 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 2: this website, so you know, and this is like ten 342 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 2: plus years since the movie's come out. So there was 343 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 2: like some fiberglass candy cane that was rotting. There was 344 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 2: like a random doll that had one eye missing. But 345 00:15:56,760 --> 00:16:01,480 Speaker 2: what they did have Wonka bars, actual Wonka bars from 346 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:05,320 Speaker 2: the set. So they had just unwrapped Chucky one which 347 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 2: is actually made a plastic for people listening, I'll give 348 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 2: you a sound effect. 349 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 1: Chocolate. 350 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 2: But then they also had the foil wrapped Wonka bars, 351 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 2: which has one of those things inside, but it's all 352 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 2: wrapped and it's from the movie, like this was on 353 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 2: the set with Johnny Depp and that little kid with 354 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 2: the buck teeth, like they were all together, you know, 355 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:27,080 Speaker 2: hanging around this bar of chocolate, and now I've got one, 356 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:29,240 Speaker 2: and I just think that's beautiful because I think the 357 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 2: moral of the story is is adult money is for 358 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 2: you to use it on whatever you want. And I 359 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 2: decided to invest in a piece of plastic that says 360 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 2: Wonka because it makes me feel good. Thank you so 361 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:54,120 Speaker 2: much for joining us here at the balat Glenzel. We've 362 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 2: got a regular episode of Concealed again next week. 363 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: But don't forget. 364 00:16:57,800 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 2: If you want to sit in a soapbox or an 365 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 2: arts advice as a bitty voice note, jump into the 366 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 2: show notes and click there, or jump onto the socials 367 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:08,280 Speaker 2: instead with Utsman and see us through there. 368 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:14,840 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go bye. Produced by Indianna Symons Lost in Sound