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December 24, 2020

Ben Lee's quarantine podcast: What am I about?

Australian indie-pop musician Ben Lee went into 14-day quarantine in a Sydney military hotel when he returned from Los Angeles, and he used that time to make a 30-minute podcast a day (find them all here). Rather than talk about his music, he discussed himself, as well as some general themes like conspiracy theories, blockchain, death, gurus, marketing etc. What he tried to do, as he's told the Guardian, is to answer questions like "What am I about? Why have I been attracted to all these things? What are the common threads?”.

Oh, the merry quarantine days - a toddler named Jolee Dunn performed a very original song called 'I Wonder What’s Inside Your Butthole' with lyrics “I wonder what’s inside your butthole/ Maybe there is astronauts/ Maybe there is aliens/ All inside your butthole/ What’s inside your butthole?/ I always want to know”. Her mother posted in on Twitter and it, of course, became a viral hit. Now, the 'How I Met Your Mother' actor Josh Radnor and Australian folk artist Ben Lee made a cover of it.