Square Dancing for P.E.

This episode delves into the hosts' personal experiences and reflections on various topics, including their careers, relocation, and the cultural impact of square dancing in Australian education.

1. Personal experiences in the entertainment industry, such as acting on TV shows, can lead to unique life situations like relocation and adaptation to new cultures.
2. The choice of roles in acting and music can be influenced by various factors, including the type of work, location, and the potential for personal fulfillment.
3. Square dancing in Australian schools during the 1980s is an example of how cultural trends can influence educational curricula.
4. The conversation touches on broader themes of identity, belonging, and the impact of cultural and artistic endeavors on personal and collective experiences.
5. The episode provides a glimpse into the hosts' views on the interplay between their personal lives and professional careers, highlighting the importance of balance and personal satisfaction.

1: Introduction and Personal Anecdotes

The hosts share personal stories and reflections on their names, cultural heritage, and experiences.
Ben Lee: "And Zeus liked everyone."
Ione Skye: "I love mythological family. We are rooted in, rooted in appreciation of the stars, astrology, the ancient."

2: Entertainment Industry Experiences

Discussion on their experiences in acting and music, including the logistics of filming TV shows across different locations.
Ione Skye: "I got written off the show... it was just a specific situation."
Ben Lee: "You're going to move and do a job in Australia, but you're not going to miss home."

3: Cultural Impact of Square Dancing

Exploration of how square dancing became part of Australian physical education and its cultural implications.
Ben Lee: "Square dancing was massive in the eighties in Australian PE classes."
Ione Skye: "People into paleontology, kids, right? Yes."

1. Embrace Change and Adaptation: Be open to relocating and adapting to new environments for career opportunities.
2. Consider Various Factors in Career Choices: Look beyond the paycheck to the quality of life and personal fulfillment when choosing roles.
3. Acknowledge Cultural Influences: Recognize and reflect on how cultural trends can influence educational and societal norms.
4. Balance Personal and Professional Life: Strive for a balance that allows for personal satisfaction and professional success.
5. Stay True to Personal Values: In career and life choices, align actions with personal values and aspirations.

On today’s pod we discuss the bizarre 80s Australian obsession with square dancing, Ione’s failed soccer dreams and Ben’s internal conflicts as an Australian creative artist.

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Ben Lee, Ione Skye

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Ione Skye

Sound litter Dolly threw a great party. We all drank a party. It got kind of gnarly. We're light as a feather. We're tougher than weather together.

We're reading. We're ready together. Oppa Opa. I like that, expressing your greek roots. You got in touch with your patois roots and your scottish roots on the last episode, and now you're delving into your mediterranean heritage.

Just. My name is greek. It is, isn't it? Ione, what was she known for? She was a demigod who Zeus liked.

Ben Lee

And Zeus liked everyone. I know that is not that prestigious a claim. So Hera turned her into a cow and put her on an island. But she was like this beautiful cow. So Zeus turned himself into a bull so he could def her f her.

Ione Skye

And. Yeah, and there's some sort of violet colored stone, like, you know, violet, my niece. Yes. Ione or Iona? Ione, I think.

And Violet also cross over meaning violet colored stone or there's some crossover with the names, which I love. I love mythological family. We are rooted in, rooted in appreciation of the stars, astrology, the ancient. The ancient narratives. Yeah, the runes.

But runes are just, they're not really. Well, runes are just, they're not. I mean, you throw the runes. What are they? I don't know.

Ben Lee

They. Little stick figures. Yeah. And then my father loved reading the runes. Yeah.

Ione Skye

I love a tarot card. Yeah, you don't. You don't read the runes much yourself. Didn't someone we knew, someone who had tattoos of runes, was it emile Curran Wilson or someone had runes on them? Emile Corrin?

Ben Lee

Yeah. I don't remember. Maybe. Yeah. Stick and poke.

Stick and poke. Before we get too deep into this episode, I'm experimenting with plugging upcoming shows at the beginning. What's that front loading? It's a pivot. I'm front loading the boring stuff.

So there is the next we're together variety show on April 18 at the great club. I'm playing a gig May 3 in Nana Wadding, Victoria at the round Sunday, May 5. We are both doing the not on your rider thing as part of the Sydney Comedy Festival. And then also today we're announcing. Oh, this is.

When is this? This is 1 June. I'm gonna be doing one of those small fry rock concerts in Brisbane at the Trifford. And it's me and Katie still, who is in little birdie. So there's some announcements for you, and there's going to be another announcement kind of this week about potentially taking the weird together variety show, Melbourne Way.

Ione Skye

Yeah. Can you believe it? I love it. I think I can't wait to see the Melbourne talent. Are you ready to expand your sense of possibilities in Melbourne beyond the Docklands apartments?

Yeah. The last time, well, the very last time, I treated myself as Retta from what's the show, parks and rec. They said, treat yourself, and I stayed in a fancy hotel, and I was so happy. That's right. You were like pock Hyatt or something.

Yeah, something. And I got, like, a suite with a wraparound balcony. But lest people think that was. I mean, that was an anomaly. You had a very interesting experience because you were filming.

Ben Lee

We came to Australia for 2021 and you booked a gig on this tv show, La Brea. Yes. Which is set ten minutes from our house in LA. Yeah. It was shooting in Melbourne, and it was as if the universe was out of quarantine.

Ione Skye

I know the universe. Like, you're gonna move and do a job in Australia, but you're not gonna miss home because you'll be filming in a fake Hollywood. And they did it very well, I have to say. But they put us up in the Docklands, which anyone I told were like. Ooh, in the dead of winter.

In the dead of a lockdown. Yeah. I mean, Melbourne had a very serious lockdown, but I had a good time. I tell the story that I walked across the street and there was an asian market, and I just got some goodies and ordered the best food. But remember that whole period?

Ben Lee

Cause there were those what they called snap lockdowns between the states. And it was like if there was, like, a random case of COVID just the borders would slam shut. So I remember every time you left, it was like a soldier going off to war. I was like, oh, my God, I. Might not see you again.

Ione Skye

I'm not a diva. But I started getting insane. Like, remember when I was getting fussy about the dumbest things because I think I was so scared of being locked down? No, but they weren't stupid. They were things like, you didn't want to go three days early for a car costume fitting.

Ben Lee

You were trying to minimize the time when you were crossing straight lines. I was just thinking today they got me a facial because it was such a big budget american tv show. And so before my shoot, I had this facial and I was just thinking, I should get a facial anyway. But, yeah, it was so it was a real network show where they, like, my character was a lawyer, so my clothes were like, beige sweater, gray sweater, beige skirt, gray skirt. Pumps this high.

Ione Skye

Pumps, maybe that high. Hair a little bit curled. Hair a little less curled. So they would fly me to Melbourne for one costume change look, to run it back by american executives. For those type of choice, everything goes past the.

And it was all these choices that were so minimal. And the costume designer was just like, oh, my God, I'm sorry. Your character is the boring clothes. But I didn't care. But I was like, can we just stack a couple fittings in one trip?

Because I'm not locking down for two weeks for one costume look. And then they wanted. Then when the lockdown got more serious, they wanted you to relocate, or you and Goldie to relocate, but not me. And it just sounded crazy. That was the first time you asked to be written off?

Yeah, I got written off the show. I mean, look, it was a good show. And I. If I had a sort of bigger part, and I would relocate to Melbourne for a tv show, it was just a specific. We were kind of.

Kind of like, moved back to LA. I can't remember why. I think it was just like, I had one scene every third episode, and it was just. I don't know why. Did I get written off?

Ben Lee

Yeah, you weren't doing a lot. And there was. You'd have had to move to Melbourne and we'd have had to be separated. You couldn't go back. You couldn't come with me to Melbourne?

Well, I was touring and I had a record coming out. I had to be in. I think now it's sort of a different time. And it's also like when you have a kid in school, it just. Relocating sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.

What do you think about now as an actor who's been through so many types of jobs in so many decades? Like, would you want a sort of, like, boring working actor job on a network show? Like, is that desirable? Or is it, like, it's all about. The writing and the people making it if it was, you know.

But for those kind of shows, it's not. It's really about the steadiness of the paycheck. I think it depends on the level. I mean, there's a lot of long winded shows that are amazing. Yeah.

So you would do it? You're open to it? Yes, I would do it if it was. If it was of a level of, you know, that I, like. You deserve.

Ione Skye

Well, you know, just the quality. The treat yourself. Treat myself with the quality? Yeah, of course. Absolutely.

Ben Lee

I feel kind of like, I know it's very case by case, like, I look at a lot of artists now. Obviously, we've talked about this ad nauseam, about how sellout culture was so big when we were coming up, and some of the ways that artists our age have trouble adapting now is by still holding onto values that they're irrelevant. If I got to be Ray Donovan. Well, that's not even. There's no compromise in that.

You want to be Ray Donovan. I know. Well, that's what you're saying, but that's a long commitment of a show. Yeah, but you're talking about a very. 30 rock or whatever I think you're.

Using by talking about really good quality. You're talking about the absolute cream of the. That's not your average working actor's. So you're saying, would you do a medium. I'm saying, would you take Westward a long time, even that top, top of.

Ione Skye

The line that I would do. But you're saying not top of the line. No, I'm just saying a working actor job. Would you want a job that you worked four days a week? It depends on a show you didn't really care about.

But it was a good paycheck. The quality is not cream of the cross. It's fine. It's fine. Like a network show, you know, I.

Guess it depends where it is. Like, what if I was playing an american in Paris and I felt like living in Rome or Paris or something? So it's circumstantial to you. Sure. And it was like, you know, a mid level show in Europe, but I got paid enough to live a nice life, and we all felt like moving.

Ben Lee

Because I think people perceive you as being very picky, which you kind of are like, that's what's interesting about. But look at my IMDb. Not so picky, but each thing you've. Picked for very specific purposes. Lifetime.

Ione Skye

And. But those. You gotta do some lifetime shows. And what's the other one? I've done both.

Ben Lee

Like Hallmark. I've done both. Yeah. Well, the Santa incident, I mean, that was. Anybody that wants a great Christmas movie about a vet, because I know you've done some.

No, you've done. I did two. You've done some other vet movies, not for Christmas, but in the scent incident, you get to do the vet and the Christmas movie. And that is. That's double double banger.

Ione Skye

Yeah, yeah. Double darshan. Where. Remember those cute little kids in Ireland? Oh, my God.

Ben Lee

Playing your children. I know. They were like, I had little kids playing my kid. Little irish kids playing, you know. But I wasn't irish.

Ione Skye

Oh, no, no. They did american accents. Oh, right, yeah, yeah. I was like, but why was I american? I'm like, they played Americans anyway.

They. Goldie was a little baby and the little girl was like, goldie was one. She was like, why is she always so dirty? Why does she always have dirty clothes? Like, she's one vomiting on herself still.

Ben Lee

Yeah, exactly. That was good. That was a fun adventure. I like Dublin. Yeah.

I like that our life has taken us through these moments of having to relocate and reorient ourselves. Like, we've been talking a lot about this time being here in Sydney, about how much of our identities get formed around our house and where we are and our communities, and how it's such an amazing opportunity to open up to new things about yourself. Like, you're going to become a jogger, you were saying yesterday. I know. Well, I was.

Ione Skye

There's a lot of joggers in Sydney. Cause it's a, you know, it's sort of fun, I guess. People think LA is like that, too. And, you know where it's supposed to. Be in the fitness.

You know, it's supposed to be fitnessy is. I feel like Colorado is one of the most fitness states, places that are pleasant outdoors, I suppose. So I see these joggers and I'm like, what if I had a dream I was jogging? Cause I've been conflicted with, like, I get so stuck with being in LA or being identified as like, someone who would live in London or New York or LA. And so getting out of that has been so.

I feel like the dream was telling me I can beat a whole new person. Totally. And maybe a jogger. The jogging side of you, there is something for you. Like, I identify one of the moments I fell in love with you as when we were sitting in a kundalini yoga class and you were going rotating side to side going, and you were doing it really fast and it had a jogging motion to it.

Ben Lee

And something about you maybe because you're such a mellow person when you really exert yourself physically. It's hot. It's very attractive. Well, I think it's my inner child. I know this has sounded like a new age episode.

Ione Skye

And you know how much I'm cringey about that. But as a kid, like, when I was on the soccer team, I was the goalie, and I was so bummed. Cause I just wanted to run. That is a hard job, though. It's hard, but you don't get to run.

Ben Lee

But were you scared of the ball? Yeah, a little bit. But the point of my story is I wanted to run because when you're young, you love running. And, like, remember playing, of course. And just, like, I would see a field, and you're just, like, the instinct of the young, you know?

Ione Skye

At least I had that. So I think there's a part of me that still wants to be vigorous. So let's get back to your soccer experience. Did you sort of try out to be the goalie, or did you get put in the goalie? I got put in, not because I wasn't a good jogger, but they thought I'd be good at it.

Ben Lee

So what was it about you? Or maybe I wasn't good at soccer, and they thought I'd be, but goalie's very. You had to dive. Did you dive for the ball? Yeah.

Ione Skye

And I had a sort of funny, like, real housewives of Los Angeles, real children of Los Angeles moment where the goalie wears brown, or at least in this. And all the other kids wore the uniform colors. Right. Whatever. The team was green, let's say.

And on the day of the picture, there was this little girl who had joined late in the season, and she was like a real cutie pie winner type, I don't know, performance. Wait, hang on. One kid Goldsby had a close. That's right, baby. Her playing soccer as a child.

Ben Lee

Goalie. She said goalie about soccer. Oh, my gosh. Anyway, so she on the. She was goldie for some reason.

Ione Skye

One game, and I was. Got to run around. And then it was the day of the pictures, and she had the brown uniform, but I was goalie the whole year. And the only good thing I was thinking is, in the picture, I'll wear brown, and you get to stand in the center of the team. And you know that pose where you're on one knee?

Ben Lee

Oh, yes. One knee's on the grass, and one knee's up, and you're standing like this. And that's you in the middle? Yeah. And she.

Ione Skye

Cause she. And I said, well, I think we should change. Cause I'm the goalie, right? She's like, well, I was the goalie today. And I was like, no, I'm the goalie for the whole season.

You just happen to be it today. And she not only is in the picture, but she's like. She's like really front and center and I'm next to her and her knee is even, like coming in front of my body and I'm like holding. You hold the soccer ball and you put your hand. But you did get to hold the ball.

We all. I think. No, I don't know. No, I think she holds the ball. She held the ball and she's got her knee up and her knee is sort of edging you out of here.

And you get the placard. You know what I mean? Do you ever get those? It's on that bad cheap wood. I had it somewhere.

I wish I still had it, but. And I'm. What pose are you in? I don't know, but I'm smiling, like. Just to represent on the outside but.

Not on the inside. And it was such an intense season because it was a man and a woman, a married couple who were coaching together and half, like toward the end of the season, it got tense and then it turned out they were separating. And then there was. And then we were all like, well, which one's gonna coach us? We were caught in this.

Cause they were like such figures for us. It was very emotional. That's crazy. Do you think so? They were like working on some of their marriage issues on the field.

Maybe they're like, this will save our, like, let's coach together. They do save the couples that coach together. Yeah. No, that's a classic way of saving the coaching soccer team to save the marriage. But didn't work.

Ben Lee

Well, it's very. This is all in a pre ted lasso world, too. Like, Americans infatuation with soccer was in a very infant state. Yeah. I mean, that soccer league called the ACLU, or what was it called?

No, no, the ACLU is the American Civil Liberties Union. They like, protect people's rights. Oh, no, no, we weren't sue the government. No. But you've seen this team, this.

Ione Skye

It's a very la thing. I think it must have started in the fifties or sixties, but in the eighties it was major and it's still happening. But it was like, you know how sports go in and out of, like gymnastics. In the eighties, every school was like, not every school, but had gymnastics. Yeah, huge.

Ben Lee

Huge. What was big here is always square dancing. Square dancing was massive in the eighties in australian pe classes. I don't. I've got it.

It's an amazing thing because there surely was an education board that someone came. In with the idea. They were like, what are we gonna make compulsory? They were like, how about square dance? Were there films that were influencing people or what was influencing people?

Ione Skye

Because sometimes a film like Jurassic park got a lot of money behind and. People into paleontology, kids, right? Yes. And they put money behind it and found all those new dinosaurs in China. Right.

Ben Lee

So are you insinuating there is some kind of. There was like a big square dance conspiracy to get it into schools or. No, I'm, I'm saying that there was a big album or there was a big. Something often gets, you know, country or the world. Well, I've mentioned this before, but like, guns n roses and skid row and eighties rock, there was a lot of cowboy imagery in the movie.

Do you remember young guns? Right, like young guns, like cowboys were. In the zeitgeist and your bat mitzvah was themed. My bar mitzvah? Bar mitzvah, yeah, it was cowboy themed.

Ione Skye

And your parents wore the. Did they get the outfits? No, my mom went traditional. But did they get square dancing outfits outside of your birthday bar mitzvah theme? Did my parents wear square dancing outfits?

When, like, didn't they do square dancing? I think they had done some. Done some square dancing. It wasn't like a regular thing, but, yeah, it was kind of a. There was a certain.

Ben Lee

It was a beloved sport. Sure. Within our community. Look, the jewish square dance community of 1980s Australia really has a lot to answer for.

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Ben Lee

Yeah. So. So there you go. So how are you settling in? Do you feel like, do you feel like an australian?

Ione Skye

I do. I mean, I do. It's like nice. We've done this before, so. I know, I know.

The rigmarole. Yeah. We had a really nice dinner last night with my old friends Dan, Zilba, and Esther. Fun, hilarious kids. And they, and I was saying it's really fun because they're, yeah, they're like childhood friends and school friends of mine that went into the music business.

Yeah. And it's, it's fun to have that dual perspective I'm thinking so much about, I guess because we're here and I'm australian and I'm a musician and I'm looking at all my friends with their careers and I'm just thinking a lot about my identity as an australian musician, an australian creative. And it's very, like, it's provocative for me. It's complicated for me, I think because Australia is a small country and it's a small market and in some ways, some places that are small, it encourages people to just, like, not give a fuck and just be themselves and other places that are small, it encourages a bit of conservatism in the way of thinking. So I always, like, pushed back against that because there was, like, a way you do things.

Ben Lee

And I still feel like that. I still feel like a lot of Aussie music and Aussie film is very caught in rules and expectations about the way things are done. What do you think about the big australian stars like Olivia and Olivia Newton John, Michael Hutchins? I mean, I love them. I mean, they're very.

The ones that broke through at that level. How did they feel about it? In excess. Really worked their way up through the circuit that was the pub rock circuit living in. John, I don't know about her actual.

Ione Skye

And the bg trajectory, but did they. How did they feel about Australia? I feel like Michael Hutchins lived in England. Right. Well, and back here.

Ben Lee

I mean, I think most australian creatives feel similarly conflicted where they just love the country so much because it really is like, if you have to be from anywhere, that's your home base. I mean, Australia is just amazing. But there are challenges with being an australian artist. Like, we were chatting last night about the Aussie artists that go over to south by southwest and how. Because there's a little bit of a protected system here, some of them are not used to competing at an international level.

And it's a bit of a shock to the system how hungry people in other countries, bigger countries are for their place, you know, for their seat at the table. Yeah. Like in. In countries like this, where there's. Even though it's hard to get, there is support from the government for creative projects and you can get grants and you can get that.

You know, it's a very. Oh, right. It's a balancing thing of, like, in some ways it's good and in some ways it sort of, like, creates a false sense of sometimes entitlement on the part of creative people. Kate's saying about the punk scene are really technically good because they sort of don't have any hope of. Yeah, well, the punk bands that Kate my stepdaughter that Kate hangs out with and is involved in that scene, they are very outside the system, so they're not going to sounds Australia for funding or expectations of.

Ione Skye

But did Amel and the sniffers? Yeah, but that's in a way, I think why Amel and the sniffers got pushed because they. Oh, right, they had commercial aspirations. Yeah, they do work within the system doing so. And I think they're an amazing band and it's worked really great.

Ben Lee

But within the punk community, I think it was a bit blasphemous that they. Like that where there's, I wonder what's it like in the LA or the Detroit or whatever punk scene did people. I mean, when they started doing really well. Well, look at Green Day. I mean, I think Green Day are probably the closest kind of comparison you can have to Amel.

Where they did come out of an underground scene. Like the Gilman street scene in Berkeley was a punk scene. It was like all ages shows and squat houses and all that stuff. But Green Day had much bigger aspirations and it's like, it is pretty, I think you do. If you come up through a scene like that, you do kind of walk around in your success feeling like you've got a bit of an arrow target on your back.

Ione Skye

Yeah. You know? Yeah, I know. Flea felt conflicted. Yeah.

Ben Lee

Chili peppers were similar. But I think after decades and decades, you probably relax. I think there is a level in your bank account that makes you feel comfortable with the sacrifice of losing a few friends. Yeah, he does. He's very charitable.

But being in LA, I think is different in that even the punk bands in LA, it's so embedded. The idea of show business is so embedded in LA. And what about New York? There's a fabulousness about no stooges were Detroit. I mean.

Yeah, I do think there's a. If you're in LA or New York. You'Re just like, you do grab with. An expectation of wanting power, success a little bit. Exactly.

Ione Skye

And New York has got those crystals in the, in the dirt and that's what makes it. Oh, is that true? That's what my brother said, that the soil under Manhattan has got a lot of crystals in it and that's what made it vibrant and a place for people to go. I believe it. I don't know about if it's crystals, but I do think in Australia the feeling of having your feet on the ground here is a different feeling than your feet on the ground somewhere else.

I know program that my friend told me about where you, you know, you never sit in bed unless you're sleeping or stupping. And you only, you know, you turn off the, you know, the whole devices thing. And if you are restless, you get up, get out of bed, sit in a chair, go in the living room. Whole program to sleep through the night. And I just had to come to Australia.

Yeah. Get some sleep. You're sleeping well, right? You wake up. I still wake up in the night.

Ben Lee

But you're chill. I'm not anxious. I know sometimes I, like, I turn over and you're awake in the night listening to a podcast or something, and you go, hi. And you just have, like, a smile on your face. Everything I ever, you know, I kept saying to you, I don't.

Ione Skye

I just expect an appropriate amount of anxiety, the appropriate amount of grief, anger, all of this. I don't want the neurotic, you know, where I'm like for no reason, just traumatically having anxiety attacks or whatever. And I don't know if I just hoped it into existence or what, but knock on wood, it's not perfect. I'm not expecting, whatever, to sleep like a teenager again, but, I mean, it's kind of amazing. Can we have a conversation en pod?

Ben Lee

Because often we finish and you say, oh, can we put a song at the end? And it's always too late. I finished it. We're doing it. Well, let's talk it through now on the pod.

What song? If you could have a song that sums up this moment in your life. This makes me so mad because I always think of the song after. But now I'm being put on your. Let's talk it through.

Ione Skye

Why are you making me pick it on camera? Because then there'll be accountability where I'm going to be editing and I'll be like, I have to put this on because I said I'm going to do. You're going to put a song, and if I don't think of it at this second, you're still putting a song on. Yeah, but if you come and tell it to me after I finished editing, I gets too late. So that's why I'm saying this is a chance for us to, like, talk it through and think of a song you might like to hear.

I'm having that, like, thing where you're like, what's the vice president's name? And you're like, oh, I stuck. You're putting me. You're choking me. I mean, you're making me joke.

I'll tell you right after. Okay. Okay. It's a surprise. Beautiful, baby.

Ben Lee

Okay, that sounds good. Thank you. And I won that one. How was your. I didn't win the cupcake wars, but I won.

Yeah, we're trying to make a. I've got a single coming out, and we were trying to make a video today, just like a lyric video. I'm like, you should get the bigger cupcakes, because we're writing words on them, and you're like, no, small's fine. Small's fine. And we brought them home.

But did you just. So I understand, did you mean let's do all big. I just said big. You'll be able to write the words on. Right, but I thought you meant mixing them in.

I thought you meant for the big old. I thought you meant for the writing. I don't know. Okay, anyway, that's fine. This is gonna.

We're now discussing a video concept that is not going to get made. But the cool thing was you, me, and Goldie were problem solving this, and we came up with another whole idea that we're gonna go shoot right after this. Yeah, after. And in order not to waste the cupcakes, I think we should bring them over to the fairy children that we made friends with. Yeah.

I think we should eat them. I don't. Yeah, I don't want that much. I wanted to ask you, though, how was your. Because you had my first gig down at Dashville of this current little time, and you had your first night in our new house by yourself.

Ione Skye

Yeah. Which is gonna be sort of part of it. It was a little dramatic because Goldie had that funny. Oh, yeah. Night.

Ben Lee

Like, a weird night sweat somehow. Some physical thing where I was like, I don't know the number of a paramedic if I need one, and she told me it's triple zero. Oh, so she knew. Yeah. But she didn't tell.

Yeah, she probably knew from, like, watching Bandai rescue. Oh, yeah. And also, if you dial 911 anywhere, it'll connect you. Is that true? That's what she said.

That does make sense, because you think of all the movies, like, kids must grow up all over the world thinking that they dial 911. Right. 900 eleven's a joke in your town. Yeah. You know that song?

I do know. It's public enemy. Yeah. Maybe that's the song we put on. Let's do it.

Ione Skye

Can we, please? Can we? I like settling on that. Okay, beautiful babies. Thank you for listening to weird and welcome.

Ben Lee

I'm Ben Lee. I'm Ionie Skye. And this is Public Enemy with 911. He's a joke. I want to say one more thing.

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