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Join our favourite drag queen, Art Simone as she puts on her detective cap, to solve a riddle and extract a confession from each guest, having their secret life exposed. You may recognise Art from her role as Kath Day-Knight, in the Kath and Kim Parody play, or being a diva on Ru Paul’s Drag Race Donwnunder, sashaying her way through Mardi Gras or maybe even have just seen her in her natural element in Geelong, but Art’s role as a private investigator, extracting a confessional, may be her most difficult role yet. For lovers of true crime, she...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Art Simone uses playful interrogation to uncover the expertise, private history and cultural worlds concealed behind a guest's first impression.
Art Simone turns each interview into a guessing game, meeting a guest through partial clues before drawing out the unusual experience they have concealed.
Art Simone can make you care equally about magpie rehearsals and a former bank hack.
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A playful reveal interview that ends on a practical warning about unsecured tech.
Art Simone frames Bastian Trepatel as a polished surprise, and the slow build does the work. The discussion moves from car racing, motorbike racing, a recently sold tech firm, and entrepreneurial swagger into a darker hacking past, before settling on how a lapse in basic…
A bingo-fuelled prank interview that settles into a warm case for Kath & Kim and Australian character comedy.
Art Simone keeps the pace breezy and joke-led, with Ms Edith Vale leaning into bingo, community chat, silver hair, and the bit itself. The conversation moves quickly from silliness to hair, charity work, and a sincere defense of Kath & Kim and Australian character comedy,…
A scam-baiting chat that starts playful and ends up useful.
Art Simone keeps the conversation light, but it soon settles into scam-baiting and why the practice can also teach people how fraud works. Rosie, a voice actor and musician in Los Angeles, comes across as easy company from the start.
A playful bird chat that turns into a genuinely informative conversation.
The episode starts as a playful guessing game, but Dr. Grainne Clary is the real draw: a Dublin-born academic with a PhD, a book writer, and a pole dancer who found that practice after leaving academia.
A playful reveal that turns into a grounded astrology chat.
The episode begins with a playful identity tease, then settles into a conversation about astrology, training, and the work that sits behind a polished public persona.
A clue-chasing reveal that turns everyday sound into a funny, tactile interview.
Concealed With Art Simone starts as a mystery-game bit and settles into a smart look at foley craft, with John from Quorn in South Australia holding the reveal until the setup lands.
A concealed-fact gag opens into doomsday prepping, luxury bunkers, and very expensive ways to imagine survival.
Art Simone opens with a concealed-fact tease, and the episode quickly wanders into doomsday prepping, timeshares for doomsday, and the strange business of decommissioned nuclear missile silos turned into luxury condos.
Teenage fear, bodily panic, and glitter obsession drive a camp, chatty interview.
Art Simone turns a fear of teenagers into a brisk, confessional chat that slides from drag-world menace to bodily chaos and then, eventually, glitter-soaked nonsense.
Queer stereotypes, sharpened and set loose.
Queer pop culture, loudly and lovingly overread.
Blunt talk on sex, identity, and desire.
Bill Edgar introduces himself as the “Coffin Confessor,” a Gold Coast, Queensland local who says he has lived there since he was two or three years old.
Art Simone opens with full sparkle, setting up a guest who seems almost too ordinary until the concealment game starts lifting the mask.
Art Simone opens from Edinburgh Fringe with a seagull dropping neon green bird shit on her wig, then shifts to the season’s other disaster: Sharon Maxine Laurie going to hospital and Jared stepping in from Breaking the Musical to play Sharon Stresluckley.
Art Simone tries to identify Renee from clues including a 1998 move to Melbourne, a charity head shave for the Leukemia Foundation, and a kitchen print called "Pancake Daddy" from the Laird.
Art Simone opens with a Facebook Marketplace purchase that sent her mother to a Werribee KFC car park to collect a Labubu before a late-night freeway handoff.
Art Simone opens with a glitter-first introduction.
Art Simone opens with a self-described fear of teenagers, or 'epiphobia,' and proposes rules like no loitering, pairs only, and a 3.15 to 3.45 outside-hours window for teens in Australia.
Matt, a stage hypnotist and comedy performer who lives in Perth after growing up just outside London, explains how he turned curiosity about hypnosis into a career.
Arda tells Art Simone how a Roman Catholic, homeschooled, QAnon household in Melbourne shaped their decision to leave home.
Sue, Art Simone's mother, arrives on the show to explain 'the real story of how Art Simone became Art Simone' and answers three clues tied to blue hair, Kris Jenner, and England.
Cassidy LeCrem, an Australian DJ and performer, reveals how she became a famous pop star in Malaysia despite not speaking the language.
Art Simone opens with a warning not to judge the guest on first appearance.
Drag queen Art Simone shares the traumatic story of her disastrous 21st birthday party where almost no one showed up, leading to her decision to never celebrate birthdays again.
Drag queen Art Simone hosts her 'Palette Cleanser' episode live from Edinburgh Fringe, sharing hilarious anecdotes about finding her doppelganger, giving unhinged wedding gift advice, revealing a life lesson from Drag Race, and passionately assembling her fantasy Australian girl group to replace the Young Divas.
Art Simone comes out swinging, ready to catch a secret while Ms Edith Vale plays a lovely old woman with deeply suspicious confidence.
Art Simone opens by teasing out Rosie's story with playful, guessing-game energy.
Art Simone interviews Dr.
Art Simone shares hilarious personal stories including accidentally carjacking someone while dressed as her drag persona Kath Day Knight, discussing a haunted wig from RuPaul's Drag Race star Jiggly Caliente, and offering social advice with her signature 'Look at you' hack.
Art Simone introduces a new 'palette cleanser' format where she appears without drag, shares personal updates including her book release and touring, and delivers a passionate rant about Labubu collectibles going mainstream.
Art Simone interviews Natasha Weber, who reveals her secret life as AstroTash, a professional astrologer.
Art Simone interviews Joanna, an Australian forensic pathologist who investigates deaths through autopsies and medical investigation.
Concealed With Me, Art Simone opens on a mystery guest and lets the clues do the strutting.