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🎨 PALETTE CLEANSER: Seagull shits + Lazy Susan is on FIRE... literally

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Methylated spirits run down Lazy Susan’s arm and ignite the wooden floorboards.

1. Concealed with Art Simone uses an Edinburgh Fringe update and a guest appearance from Lazy Susan to frame the episode around backstage chaos, drag work, and a shed fire. 2. Art Simone hosts and Lazy Susan joins as the winner of Drag Race Down Under, while also identifying herself as someone who writes, directs, and edits projects like Highway to Heal and Kick Ons. 3. The episode asks what happens when a drag shoot, a music promo, and a poorly contained prop fire collide in the same space. 4. Art opens with a seagull shitting neon green fluid into her wig while she is dressed as Cath Day Knight on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. 5. She says the Fringe has lasted about four weeks, that she and the team have been "passive flying," and that they were sitting with Prosecco outside a Scottish pub when the seagull struck. 6. Art describes the aftermath as bird droppings with little seeds in them and says the incident was recorded for social media. 7. She then says Maxine Laurie, who plays Sharon, got sick at the beginning of the fourth week and was rushed to hospital with blood, fluids, and an ambulance involved. 8. Because five shows remained, the team hired Jared from Breaking the Musical to learn the role of Sharon Stresluckley in 24 hours. 9. Art and Lazy Susan revisit Highway to Heal, a mini-series shot inside Art’s car during COVID with different parody formats like a cooking show, quiz show, and dating show. 10. Lazy Susan says she sat behind a faux wall in the backseat, calling herself the "hidden Mickey," while Art says the show was made with about $5,000 and a couple of GoPros. 11. They also talk about Kick Ons, which was filmed above Art’s garage in a loft space that had three-and-a-half-metre ceilings, a trap door, and no aircon or heating. 12. Art says Warner Music Australia asked for a TikTok lip sync to Ashnikko’s "Daisy," and Lazy Susan planned to film herself with a Daisy from Bunnings Warehouse. 13. Lazy Susan says she doused the flower with methylated spirits, held a Milo tin underneath, and tried to lip sync while a fan blew at her face. 14. She explains that the flame hit her hand, ran down the spilled spirits, crossed the wooden floorboards, and reached a full 1.25-litre bottle of methylated spirits. 15. Art says Mum grabbed the camera, both of them ran out through the trap door, and the room was engulfed before they returned to check the damage. 16. Lazy Susan says the fire was a chemical fire, that water was not the right response, and that she later used a wool suit to smother the flames. 17. Art and Lazy Susan keep the tone loose and conversational, moving between camp nostalgia, practical production talk, and detailed disaster storytelling. 18. The format is a fast back-and-forth interview with long anecdotes, interruptions, and recurring references to old projects, costume work, and low-budget filming setups. 19. Listeners who like drag production stories, Fringe chaos, and behind-the-scenes mishaps will get the most from it. 20. Listeners wanting a polished, tightly edited interview without many tangents may skip it.

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A Fringe update that moves from flyering to the practical work behind the fun.

Art Simone's Palette Cleanser stays rooted in Edinburgh at the end of the Fringe, with the Royal Mile, buskers, and flyering performers all still in the frame.

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For when you want tail-end Fringe stories, drag confidence, and a listener-side wander through a show that has been through it.

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