Celine Dion's a Blank Canvas, Ione Hates Tasting Menus, Night of the Hunter

We cover a lot of ground this week. Ben has a theory about interpretive singers — Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, Kylie Minogue — as blank canvases who become icons not through their work but through their personal story. Then Ione delivers her definitive and very memorable theory on why she both hates and keeps returning to tasting menus. Ben recaps the Inner West Ale Trail — four shows at four breweries, ex-Citizen, Binsad, Dr. Spaceman, a full band set at Young Henry’s, and rain arriving just in time to make the finale feel like a great movie. We shout out friends of the pod: Daine’s new album In Endless Awe and Agony, and Georgia Maq for winning the Nathan Fielder lookalike contest in Silver Lake — we’re putting this on par with Tame Impala’s cultural impact. Ione rewatched Night of the Hunter and breaks down why it’s one of the greatest films ever made and where the love/hate knuckle tattoo actually comes from. She's also been going deep on Kubrick via The Plot Thickens podcast. We end on Ione’s theory about why she didn’t become more famous.