Weirder Together with Ben Lee and Ione Skye

On today’s pod we chat Ben’s Eddie Vedder experience, Ione going to see the Pixies last week, Amanda De Cadenet joining RHOBH, “Didion & Babitz” by Lili Anolik, top secret projects in Taiwan, bootleg sweatshirts, Jesse Eisenberg’s trauma tourism, remembering hearing the Strokes for the first time, whether Green Day are “hot”, Father John Misty winning over older female fans with his new album “Mahashmashana”, Schoolies Porn being shot in Surfer’s Paradise, and lots more! 

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We GET INTO IT on this weeks pod about all the above juicy subjects as well as chatting about vintage Dior nightgowns, Heavenly Creatures friendships, cult like meditation teachers and Paul Simon, as well as premiering new music from Georgia Maq and On Occassion.

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The plague has passed through our humbled abode and we reconvene to discuss Ione conquering her FOMO while living outside of the US, feeling lucky in Sydney, Jokermen podcast, Randy Newman, Paul Simon’s “Graceland”, friends who are reading advance copies of Ione’s memoir, US election anxiety and leftist tantrums, William Tyler, Timothy Leary, hanging chads, The Cure’s new album, The Try-Outs, “Saturday Night”, Ben’s controversial spelling video that led to a confused text from Missy Higgins, Harmony Korine, Andy Kaufman, emailing with Crispin Glover, and Ben’s new duet with Johanna Samuels “Sunset Marquis”.

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We haven’t podded for a minute so excitedly talk over each other about all kinds of subjects: Ione takes aim at Ben’s lack of compassion for the lowly Bin Chicken, we recap SXSW Sydney and Alexi Wasser’s visit. We discuss what makes the perfect houseguest, shirtless Travis Scott fans, Morrissey’s love life, The LA Times Presidential endorsement controversy, cheering on Lidia Thorpe while feeling co-dependent with the oppressor and the new Tegen and Sara documentary. 

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This episode we reluctantly attempt to jump the cultural bandwagon of “Industry”-fandom, share Kris Kristofferson stories, get excited for SXSW Sydney and our friend Alexi Wasser’s visit to Australia to screen her film “Messy” as well as shareing some inspiration gleaned from hanging with Belinda Carlisle this week.

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