Weirder Together with Ben Lee and Ione Skye

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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“Were you sad when David Blaine died?” asks Goldie, opening a fun hectic family pod episode. We realize she’s thinking of Houdini, and move on to cover growing up watching Nathan Fielder, generational concepts of gender, Big Mouth, getting the sex talk from your parents, and then do a listen through to Ben’s new album “This One’s for the Old Headz” OUT TODAY. We reflect on the themes of growing up, nostalgia, being friends with freaks and not giving up the fight.

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It’s our joint bday week and Ben decides its time to put the hard sell on why he thinks Ione should be on DWTS much to her chagrin. We also recap Ione’s Omakase sushi dinner at Besuto, a million dollar bath tub invention, why the word “Child” gave Ione a mood swing, our new PICK OF THE WEEK column, The English Teacher, multi-tasking, marriage as a mutual training program, Christmas dinner with Liev Schreiber, late NYC nights with Sam Rockwell, Amy Taylor’s BIG SOUND keynote, as well as Australia’s tall poppy syndrome.

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