Ben and Ione recap a wild week hosting Ione’s childhood friend Karis in Sydney and Melbourne, contemplate Henry Winklers casting in Happy Days, and why the Caterpillar Club is committing an unforgivable sin with their door policy. To dive deeper into our world visit us at https://weirdertogether.substack.com/

Today we discuss the new Andy Kaufman doco “Thank You Very Much”, Jefferey Lewis and Michigan woodland fisting circles, before being joined in the studio by Australian EDM genius Ninajirachi. To dive deeper into our world, and to hear the full finished version of Nina’s song, visit us at https://weirdertogether.substack.com/

We are back with a holiday pod discussing Christmas in Australia, holidays in Terrigal, Dan and Jedda Stricker’s iconic Christmas party, the search for the perfect haircut, the magic of Byron Spencer, not loving Anora, whether cinema can ever belong to young people the way pop music does, the Blake Lively/Justin Baldoni lawsuit, Hollywood smear campaigns, the witch archetype, the art of the personal media narrative, Lana Turner, Ione’s audiobook, Mick Fleetwood and why drummers have big personalities, Buckethead vs Slash, Carrot Top and the perfect blend of looks and charisma, the Pulp 33 1/3 book, career suicide, Jarvis vs Michael Jackson, and why we still love 7” singles.

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Insomnia, app ideas, telling 24 hour time, dealing with trolls on tiktok and deconstructing Spencer and Heidi's new podcast.

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We rehash our very first fight...about spatulas.

We also chat G FLIP, Leo's Pussy Posse, hacked instagram accounts, aging, apple trees and more.

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We experiment with introducing each other.

Ben ponders the possibility of spiritual healing at the Grove.

Ione contemplates beautiful Scottish women under a spotlight.

Ben's tour dates and tix via https://www.ben-lee.com/tour-dates

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Cowboy themed bar mitzvahs! Queer two-step dance clubs! The mansplaining gap!

We reference Caveh Zahedi's "The Show About the Show"

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX1W43ZgDnWFX5BE3mGOpfD_dOKJQh-Ms

and "Getting Stoned with Caveh"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n_XpM7mQNQ&t=1810s

Ben tour dates

https://www.ben-lee.com/tour-dates

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Stand-up comedy legend, actor, scientist, philosopher and writer Charles Fleischer is our guest this week.

The voice of Roger Rabbit and the man who originally said "If you remember the 60s you weren't really there" tells all about showbiz, moleeds and inventing musical instruments on this awesome ep.

Learn more about Charles at https://charles-fleischer.com/

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We contemplate the pioneers of plastic surgery and why everyone should date a fireman.

Happy Birthday Tom Robbins!

And happy release day to DeepFaith with their single "King of the Red Hot Chili Peppers" via Weirder Together.

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We are back from our adventure in Careyes with tales to tell!

We also mention Mariachi Rosales

https://www.facebook.com/MariachiRosalesAutlan

This episode of "This Week in Virology"

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-virology/id300973784?i=1000621273713

and we finish up with the song "Pearly Whites" by McDermott & North from their new ep out now via Weirder Together

https://open.spotify.com/album/267sEtua3ABF9ic8JaAm3x?si=rD7r2T7nSTqmmr9QswU-Ng

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We drag ourselves away from Margaritas, fish tacos and dips in the ocean on our glamorous getaway in Costa Careyes to debrief about our struggle to relax.

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Ione feels terrible about ruining Ben's plans to go to Beck's birthday party.

Ben writes terrible jingles in the bathtub.

Every Yiddish word means penis.

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Tim and Sam from Cub Sport join us the day after their "Jesus At The Gay Bar Tour" wraps up in the US.

They reflect on taking personal risk, staying true to themselves and what it feels like to be the most handsome dudes in Australian music.

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On today’s pod we chat about Ione’s top secret new job, the inexplicable economics of iPhone games, Apple Martin and Le Bal des Debutantes, Timotee Dylan and Rock Biopics, cancelling vs karma, 70s parties, the delicate nature of jamming, Paris Hilton melodies, Thanksgiving in Sydney, Black Sabbath’s hippy side, Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga’s unbroken eye contact, the isolated end game of being rich, Tilda Swinton and Chris Chang’s art photo fanzine “18 & Over”.

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Ben tries to tell the difference between Indiana Jones fans and Neil Young fans.

Ione tries to figure out why she isn't feeling upset.

Watch the Ben and Georgia Maq's "Androgynous" video, directed by Ione, here:

https://youtu.be/Qe_t_HNk16U

Listen to "Androgynous" here:

https://open.spotify.com/album/16r1HPW86jKKefKeNFSmqX?si=CxN2nOuZStmqQmXj6N3NhA

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Sun's out, birds are singing, and we've officially launched Weirder Together Records!

We are joined by Rhys North to celebrate.

Check out "The Hollywood EP" by McDermott & North, produced by Ben Lee, OUT NOW

https://open.spotify.com/album/267sEtua3ABF9ic8JaAm3x?si=IbF73ZsqRBKJVLdDajyzsw

And follow McDermott & North on IG @mcdermott.north

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Recap of the week Joanna Sternberg took over Los Angeles.

We also chat about Klaus Voorman, Blake Mills, visit legendary Hollywood club night Georgio's, do some woke aerobics at Sweaty Pony with Soko and more!

Check out Ben's pod "ON THE FUTURE OF BEING A MUSICIAN" at

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-future-of-being-a-musician-with-ben-lee/id1691242962

Pre-save the upcoming McDermott & North "Hollywood EP" out June 30 at

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/mcdermottandnorth/the-hollywood-ep

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Joanna Sternberg is a singer, songwriter, musician and visual artist born/based in New York City.

Their new album "I've Got Me" is produced by Matt Sweeney and is out on Fat Possum Records.

The song at the end of this episode is "This Is Not Who I Want To Be" from Joanna's first album "Then I Try Some More"

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Did Ben enjoy Father's Day?

Can Ione remember Howie Mandel's name?

Will Joanna Sternberg perform an indie-rock version of Wagner's Ring Cycle at our house tonight????

Listen to the Jason Woliner episode here

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/weirder-together-with-ben-lee-and-ione-skye/id1623436896?i=1000597408210

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Our guest today is Canadian actor, Steven Ogg. He is known for roles in The Walking Dead, Better Call Saul, Westworld, The Tick, and Snowpiercer and also for his role in Grand Theft Auto.

But he is also just a born artist, fan and passionate lover of poetry, music and culture.

Follow him on IG at @ogg_steven

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A cross-generational excursion to see The Dare, checking out Alex Cameron at the Cara, worried that the Jokermen guys think Ben's a coke fiend, Ione sees The Secret of My Success for the first time and considers whether housewives still take Black Beauties to clean their house. We also ponder why everyone on The Ultimatum is drinking from Silver Goblets while we enjoy season 3 of "I Think You Should Leave". Ione recalls nursing a pigeon during June Gloom.

The song at the end is HERE by Radnor & Lee

https://open.spotify.com/album/0oVUMRsFuUIB5fkIfiLIRe?si=Gg5Mk9afQwyMr0p6ezmDyg

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Patience was the lead singer, magic-maker and ringleader for the seminal Aussie punk band The Grates.

Check them out at

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0aWSylARSZCDo7vTDgvKbb?si=Dg5JHdM4TQqSETc3Bz13Og

Check out The Minutes podcast by Patience and Mel Buttle

https://open.spotify.com/show/3hx7mCMo6EnIA6xODPV2GB

Watch Patience and Rachel Burke's YouTube show

https://www.youtube.com/@fancyfreetime

Learn more about "Not On Your Rider" here

https://www.isolationtrivia.com/notonyourrider

Follow Patience on IG at

https://www.instagram.com/paehoddy/

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Ben Lee explores the possibility of a sustainable future as an artist in the music industry in a rapidly changing landscape.

This first episode is a discussion with Gomez's Tom Gray who as well as being a musician, is an activist who created The Broken Record campaign as well as running the Academy’s #FixStreaming initiative, which are calling for better streaming revenues for artists and helped spark the Economics of Music Streaming inquiry.

This is the only episode that will appear in your feed automatically because you subscribe to Weirder Together.

To subscribe to this series and receive future episode please subscribe at

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Ione likes an "ankle touch" while she sleeps.

Ben walks past Glen Campbell's haunted estate.

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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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Our guest this week is comedian, actor, musician and lovable freak Whitmer Thomas.

Find Whitmer on IG at https://www.instagram.com/whitmerthomas

Watch Whitmer's HBO special "The Golden One" https://www.max.com/movies/ff79cfb9-14d7-4455-9261-ff927cad3060

Watch Whitmer's film "The Civil Dead" at https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.fe79f804-5aac-4445-8bee-522f81658702?autoplay=0&ref_=atv_cf_strg_wb

Join Whitmer's Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/SneakyDumbass/posts

Whitmer's song "Rigamarole" from his 2022 album "The Older I Get The Funnier I Was" listen on Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/album/0Zo2bqwtYROgEczX4jG2W7?si=_ywmstBpSGGldEVyUH8U_g

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Ione is having a full-on anxiety attack about choosing the right menu for a Memorial Day hang. 

Ben attempts to stage dive at the Hoodoo Gurus but the crowd doesn’t catch him.

Ben's new single, Tuck Shop, a collaboration with Ninajirachi, is OUT TODAY!

Check it out on Spotify HERE: https://open.spotify.com/album/7g1mTqFfloA0fnZJZ4XbS9?si=59f72d5CTL6SQaCODpgsqg

Check it out on Youtube HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPZVP_AHbuI

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Ione has a lot of living to do!

Ben rates "cooking" on his time/energy expenditure balance sheet!

There's an AirBnb scandal!

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This week we are joined by our most healthy and stylish friend Daphne Javitch.

We chat about Ione and Daphne's history of smoking cigarettes in bed, Daphne's move from the fashion industry into health coaching, as well as her secret desire for casual phone conversations with Kara Swisher.

Learn more about Daphne at https://www.doingwell.com/

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On this 1st anniversary celebration episode we are joined by long time friend/daughter of the pod...Goldie!

Join us for an in-depth discussion of YouTube interrogation videos, how teens blackmail each other and why 7th grade is scarier than the film Hereditary.

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Our friend Nina Oyama is an Australian comedian, writer, actor, and director. 

She tells us all about discovering weed gummies, the difference between American and Australian writers rooms, why she's a terrible wingman, and her reasons for believing magicians are "the prettiest horse in the glue factory"

Follow Nina on Insta at https://www.instagram.com/nina.oyama/

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Ben is fired up with opinions about the Monarchy and Azealia Banks.

Ione wonders if some people who run drug cartels might also be good parents.

We reference Marc Fennell's "Stuff the British Stole"

http://www.marcfennell.com/stolen

Musack - giving kids and teens a voice through music by providing guitars, drums, and support for music teachers.

https://www.musack.org/our-story

"Birds and Bees" by Ben Lee (feat. Mandy Moore)

https://open.spotify.com/track/2ia845PL7GEoQfjlsS2fQn?si=9c4c9f4d93d44409

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Liz Goldwyn is an author, filmmaker, and the founder of The Sex Ed, an online community and podcast dedicated to sexual well-being.

We go back with her and she's been digging the pod, so we invited her to sit down for a chat...

Follow Liz on IG at @goldilocksg

and check out www.thesexed.com

Her book "Sex, Health & Consciousness" is available here https://www.thesexed.com/book

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Ione becomes inexplicably overwhelmed by the dancers and production at a Madonna concert in the 90s.

Ben contemplates songwriting, Weezer, Lewis Capaldi and Neil Young.

Finally up to date with Vanderpump Rules.

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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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Talking to multi-disciplinary artist Brock Enright is a trip. As he says in this interview, he "opens doors" into other ways of thinking, feeling and being.

Enjoy this chat and check out Brock's podcast series VAGUE DATA on our Weirder Together Podcast Network

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vague-data/id1650108789

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The true story of the night Ninajirachi turned our house into a full-on rave!

Check out Ninajirachi's music here https://open.spotify.com/track/1NAYrYgd473ua418mz32xb?si=ae58f4ef7a3f437c

To listen to the Becky & Cam Show episode "Super Rich Kids" at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-becky-cam-show/id1436299128?i=1000609987470

Buy live or virtual tix to the Dan Mangan & Friends show at Dynasty Typewriter feat. Ben Lee, Mae Martin, Steven Ogg and Lauren Ruth Ward via https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dan-mangan-friends-w-mae-martin-steven-ogg-ben-lee-and-more-tickets-622092374037?fbclid=PAAaY111cIAjzQ7Cc0QaN5r15RF2oTjGqVAMpdHh3fwuqBiUG3pCQU4X63pSQ

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Wain and Wedren reflect on decades of collaboration and friendship on projects like "The State" "Wet Hot American Summer" and "Wanderlust"

Listen to the full episode at

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Ione reminisces about kids who talked about Jesus on the playground.

Ben contemplates whether the Beautiful Babies would be open to wheatgrass suppositories.

Everyone is excited for the launch of "The BLAG Show with Sarah and Sally" on the Weirder Together Podcast Network this week!

LISTEN TO THE DEBUT EPISODE HERE https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-blag-show-with-sarah-and-sally/id1682346405

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Our friends Amanda Demme and Erika Linder join us for a long messy chat about creativity, androgyny, beauty, instinct, intimacy co-ordinaters and sex shops.

Follow Erika on IG at @richiephoenix

Follow Amanda on IG at @amandademme

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Ben and Ione get an iconic text message from a legendary beautiful baby.

Check out the only podcast that mentions 14th Century Zen poet Ikkyu, Harmony Korine and Mallrat in the same episode!

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Ione appears in the NY Post's Page 6 column.

Ben chastises Kanye for having lack of commitment to his hate.

Dinner at Pace where Beck makes a controversial statement regarding Depeche Mode.

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Ione asks Ben to read Sappho

Ben expresses gratitude for frozen food.

Karaoke. Lesbian wine bars. Burdened by passion.

Check out Ben and Meg Washington's cover of Paris Hilton's "Stars Are Blind"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=wTWzJsjGIR8

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Ben pays tribute to Fiddler on the Roof's Chaim Topol.

Ione is blocked with connecting to Midwestern Rock.

Goldie wins the Oscar ballot.

Tix available to THE THING festival: See Ben perform a band set and a DJ DadBod set, and Ben and Ione record a live pod episode in Washington State!

www.thingnw.org

Check out Venezuelan artist Anne Diaz and her new release "Despechada" www.anediazmusic.com

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Ben gets Ione up early to pod.

Ione remembers getting a knife pulled on her...twice.

Ben wonders if he was mugged "properly".

To learn more about The Ron Persky Songwriting Workshop follow www.instagram.com/ron_persky

To donate to the Dorian Kweller Memorial Fund visit https://www.gofundme.com/f/doriankweller

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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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Behold a harrowing tale...

We survived a 48 hour blackout - the whole story only right here!

We also cover Ione attending the Nirvana Unplugged concert, Jake Fogelnest being a bridge between comedy and music, and giving Kate Moss a character reference while she bathed.

Buckle up, its a goodie

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Special guests this week are Lou Barlow and Adelle Barlow, who do a weekly podcast called "RAW IMPRESSIONS" on the Weirder Together Podcast Network. Ben and Lou go way back to the 90s but this is the first time the two couples have hung out in person.

Listen to Raw Impressions at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/raw-impressions-with-lou-barlow-and-adelle-barlow/id1655003886

To read the article Ione wrote about Tatiana von Furstenburg check out https://www.huffpost.com/entry/royalty-in-la-tatiana-von_b_370899

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Introducing the newest member of the Weirder Together Podcast Network Family - "MAKING WAYS: THE ART OF MUSIC"

This series is all about the crossroads where music and visual art meet. Host Rob Goodman, a diehard music fan and illustrator for bands, interviews bands together with their visual art counterparts, about the art of music and creative collaboration. We’re talking album artwork, posters, stage shows, and collaborations for music videos, TV, film, fashion, and beyond.

Listen and subscribe HERE:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-ways-the-art-of-music/id1217089361

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