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🎨 PALETTE CLEANSER: Toupe or Not Toupe with Hannah Conda 💇

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Hannah Conda says Tia Coffey 'shat in my wigs' and punched her with Jimbo's breast.

1. Concealed with Art Simone turns a Palette Cleanser episode into a Facebook Marketplace Labubu story set in Werribee and a KFC car park. 2. Art Simone hosts the episode and brings in Hannah Conda, the first guest in this format, because Hannah has appeared on RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under season two and UK vs the World. 3. The episode asks what happens when a drag queen tries to buy a sought-after Labubu through Facebook Marketplace and then hand it over in person. 4. Art says she had never used Facebook Marketplace before, did not trust strangers, and transferred money before meeting the seller. 5. She says she sent her mother to collect the item, describing her as a small blonde woman who wears glasses and an 'Art Simone's proud mom' badge. 6. Art places the exchange in Werribee, near the freeway between Geelong and Melbourne, at about eight o'clock at night. 7. She describes parking beside her mother's car in a nearly empty KFC car park while people inside the restaurant watched the handover. 8. The box contains a blue Labubu, which Art says was the only colour she wanted after seeing the market for blind-box versions and rare pulls. 9. She says the purchase cost $50, while some Labubus are selling for more than $100 and a Werribee Plaza vending machine version costs $85. 10. Hannah Conda joins to talk about telling her grandparents she was a stripper because she did not want to explain drag at first. 11. Hannah says her parents supported drag but asked her not to tell her grandparents because they did not want to shock them. 12. The story becomes more awkward when her court-hotel number plates, 'HC13WA,' force her to invent the name 'Hot Chris.' 13. Hannah says she told her grandparents she was 'a podium dancer and a bit of a stripper at a nightclub' before later correcting the story. 14. She eventually made a PowerPoint presentation with photos and word art to explain that she was Hannah Conda, not Hot Chris the stripper. 15. Hannah says her grandmother was angry about missing five years of shows and now comes to her performances in Perth with a front-row chair and a Bailey's. 16. The episode shifts to Hannah's Snatch Game live tour with In the Dark Events, alongside Gottmik, Jimbo, Trinity the Tuck, Jujubee, Pythia, and Tia Coffey. 17. Hannah and Art trade backstage stories about touring Australia, meeting local drag performers on Oxford Street, and learning the local scene city by city. 18. The tone stays fast, camp, and conversational, with Art steering jokes, interruption, and quick audience reactions. 19. Drag fans who enjoy tour gossip, family stories, and queer comedy. 20. Listeners wanting a serious long-form interview or low-energy chat.

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Camp chaos, family disclosure, and an honest look at performance and secrecy.

Art Simone begins with a comic cautionary tale about a first Facebook Marketplace purchase gone sideways, then turns that panic into a broader talk about drag, secrecy, and the strange work of explaining a life in performance to family.

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When your first Facebook Marketplace buy turns into a mother-on-the-front-line rescue and a full dignity wipeout.

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