HOLIDAY SLEIGHRIDE: Christmas Lights + Bodegas

Get in the holiday spirit with Mary Beth and Benny. Please note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode. Sponsors: Get $15 off your purchase at thirdlove.com with code PODCAST15 Go to Quince.com/Ride for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Go to Squarespace.com for a free trial, and when you’re ready to launch, squarespace.com/RIDE to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Stop putting off those doctors appointments and go to Zocdoc.com/RIDE to find and instantly book a top-rated doctor today. If you’re in the market for a beautiful new sofa, dining table or bed, head over to Article.com. Find K18 at your local Sephora and feel the difference for yourself, or try it 10% off your first order at K18hair.com. Produced by Dear Media. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:00Speaker 00

  The following podcast is a Dear Media production. The following podcast is a Dear Media production.

• 0:19Speaker 01

  Hey, can you come pick me up? Yeah, what's wrong? Nothing. Are you sure? Yeah, no, I just need a ride. Oh, my God. So what? I just want to have fun. Start your engines. Take care.

• 0:30Benito Skinner?

  I'm Benito Skinner.

• 0:31Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm Mary Beth Brown.

• 0:33Benito Skinner?

  And this

• 0:33Mary Beth Barone?

  is

• 0:34Benito Skinner?

  Ride.

• 0:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Not this episode, obviously. Are we recording? Because we're already starting the episode. I'm not cutting this. We don't have to say we're not wearing makeup.

• 0:47Benito Skinner?

  They could figure it out.

• 0:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 0:48Benito Skinner?

  I think all the clues are there. Do I have berries in my teeth?

• 0:51Mary Beth Barone?

  No.

• 0:52Benito Skinner?

  I was maybe going to ride for smoothies, but it's our holiday sleigh ride.

• 0:56Mary Beth Barone?

  It's the sleigh ride.

• 0:58Benito Skinner?

  Clap. I love your nail color, Lincoln Park After Dark.

• 1:01Mary Beth Barone?

  So this is gel, so I don't know what the even

• 1:03Benito Skinner?

  Oh, could I do headphones?

• 1:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh.

• 1:05Benito Skinner?

  Do you want to or no?

• 1:06Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't ever want to because they make our heads look huge.

• 1:09Benito Skinner?

  Oh, God, I love. So Bondus Morphia can happen in pod.

• 1:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 1:14Benito Skinner?

  That's all I want to say. And also

• 1:16Mary Beth Barone?

  It can happen in pod and out of pod.

• 1:17Benito Skinner?

  Sex is the greatest aphrodisiac. Can someone tell us?

• 1:22Mary Beth Barone?

  We're trying to figure out.

• 1:23Benito Skinner?

  Have I already said this?

• 1:25Mary Beth Barone?

  We don't. There's no way of knowing, except if we listened to ourselves on the podcast, which we're simply not going to do. But if anyone's listened to that episode recently, did we say that sex

• 1:34Benito Skinner?

  Did like our favorite aphrodisiac is sex. Just to be clear, when Duddy's slurping down three oysters at once, mind you, she looks at the guy mouthful of oysters and goes, I don't care. Sex is the greatest aphrodisiac.

• 1:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Wait, you know what I was thinking? I think Duddy has a Christmas album.

• 1:52Benito Skinner?

  Oh, 100%.

• 1:53Mary Beth Barone?

  She's never

• 1:54Benito Skinner?

  Well, she has a good voice.

• 1:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Made music before.

• 1:55Benito Skinner?

  Can I say something? She has a good voice.

• 1:59Benito Skinner?

  I really can't stay.

• 2:01Mary Beth Barone?

  She dated a producer for a while and he was like, we should just get in the studio and do something.

• 2:04Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my God, she totally was. She dated the guy that was in the studio was Zara Larson. He like did sessions with Zara Larson and she's married to him.

• 2:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, but she dates outside the marriage as well.

• 2:15Benito Skinner?

  Well, yeah, she has to get her kills.

• 2:19Benito Skinner?

  Should we talk about her tartan holiday date, like?

• 2:24Mary Beth Barone?

  I wish he would.

• 2:25Benito Skinner?

  Your cousin was wearing a fabulous tartan skirt.

• 2:29Mary Beth Barone?

  I actually forgot about this.

• 2:30Benito Skinner?

  It's crazy, because for me as an artist, I'll see something and it just will like, it'll just click for me.

• 2:36Mary Beth Barone?

  By the way, I have no zingers today. I have not added to, because it's the holidays.

• 2:40Benito Skinner?

  You haven't even warmed up.

• 2:41Mary Beth Barone?

  It's the holiday. No, I have no zingers.

• 2:43Benito Skinner?

  You were so funny last night. Obviously, we watched heated rivalry because our king, Robbie GK, Riley from overcompensating, fucking bottoms in it.

• 2:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Gay for pay.

• 2:54Benito Skinner?

  So Robbie, we're so proud of you, sweetie. Grace had no idea.

• 2:58Mary Beth Barone?

  I didn't know.

• 2:58Benito Skinner?

  That that's what Robbie was doing. Speaking of smoothies.

• 3:01Mary Beth Barone?

  After his little nursing shifts at the old folks home.

• 3:03Benito Skinner?

  You said the funniest thing to me last night. You go, the smoothie place is called Strawberry. I, it took me a bit.

• 3:10Mary Beth Barone?

  In New York, in the heart of New York City.

• 3:11Benito Skinner?

  It took me a bit. I, obviously, we had a tantalizing time watching. We have one note, and this isn't like, we're not critics, really, but just like, take a shot or smoke a cig every time it tells you six months later.

• 3:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, or any time jump, even one day. They did a one day time jump.

• 3:26Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my favorite was, they had said two weeks, three times, and then they said two weeks. But I know for a fact that's like some kind of weird note, that someone was like, when's all this happening?

• 3:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 3:35Benito Skinner?

  Because it's, it's books. It's a book series, right?

• 3:37Mary Beth Barone?

  You say so.

• 3:38Benito Skinner?

  You don't even care about gay culture.

• 3:39Mary Beth Barone?

  I've never heard of it before. It's not been, it's not come across my desk, but I'm glad it has now.

• 3:43Benito Skinner?

  I know. I don't, I don't read the kind of like sexy, sweet books, but maybe I, maybe I will.

• 3:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Maybe you should.

• 3:49Benito Skinner?

  We're going on vacation, so maybe I'll read them on the beach.

• 3:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Whoa, the books we read on vacation. So you saw my, I almost said my niece, but no, it was my cousin, first cousin.

• 3:57Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, and she had this long tartan skirt on, and I thought, so she was twirling in it, and it really like kind of flew up, and I thought, well, Daddy'd wear that pantyless.

• 4:06Mary Beth Barone?

  But as a dress, a tube dress.

• 4:08Benito Skinner?

  A tube dress, of course. So it'd be a tube dress that's belted at the top.

• 4:13Benito Skinner?

  She'd do spins and she would be at a pub, and she would do the knife off the top of the Guinness in front of everyone, and go, "Look at this," and then do that, and then she'd lick the knife, eye contact with one person in the crowd.

• 4:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Lay down.

• 4:26Benito Skinner?

  Yo, of course.

• 4:27Mary Beth Barone?

  But she knows exactly how much pressure to put on it.

• 4:29Benito Skinner?

  Yes, and just a little blood comes out from the tip of her tongue. She tastes it and goes, "Pennies." And then looks someone in the eye. And they're obsessed, they're like completely locked in.

• 4:41Mary Beth Barone?

  I mean mesmerized.

• 4:42Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, she eats a shepherd's pie that night, too.

• 4:45Mary Beth Barone?

  I was gonna say too.

• 4:46Benito Skinner?

  Do you know what I mean?

• 4:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, she orders one and she goes, please may I have another?

• 4:51Benito Skinner?

  I'm still hungry. She does what no one's ever done in the history of man, which is order more food in the middle. When people say that, we can always order more food. I'm like, no, we can't.

• 4:59Mary Beth Barone?

  We're not gonna do that.

• 5:00Benito Skinner?

  No, we just put in the order.

• 5:01Mary Beth Barone?

  And we sat.

• 5:02Benito Skinner?

  So, wait, we're gonna restart this whole process?

• 5:04Mary Beth Barone?

  It's nice when the waiter lets you have that little fantasy because sometimes the waiter goes.

• 5:09Benito Skinner?

  Isn't it just that? Isn't it just a fantasy?

• 5:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Sometimes the waiter goes, well, we need to put it all in at once for chef. And I go, can we just have this moment? Where I say, maybe we'll get more, where I ask you, did we get enough food? And you say, I think so. And then I say, well, we'll always order more if we're hungry. Let's just accept that that's never gonna happen.

• 5:29Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 5:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Let's not fight it.

• 5:30Benito Skinner?

  No.

• 5:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Come on.

• 5:31Benito Skinner?

  This holiday season, promise not to do that, you guys.

• 5:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Promise.

• 5:34Benito Skinner?

  Promise.

• 5:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Also, I'm wearing a Gen Z headscarf, so my nanny, not my nanny, Pinky's nanny, Sasha. She wears this headscarf like this. And then I had a backup dog setter because Sasha wasn't available. And she was also wearing one like this. And I go, I guess this is what the kids are doing these days. So now, don't you think I look like I work in a kitchen?

• 5:53Benito Skinner?

  Well, like, no.

• 5:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Like, I'm frying up.

• 5:55Benito Skinner?

  I can't tell. I mean, like, yeah, I guess, but I can't really.

• 5:58Mary Beth Barone?

  This is my rib tank top and everything.

• 6:00Benito Skinner?

  Everything about you, aside from that, is saying, is saying not a woman cooking in the kitchen at a restaurant.

• 6:08Mary Beth Barone?

  I just keep my hair out of the food.

• 6:09Benito Skinner?

  I would be so curious what I would look like in it.

• 6:12Mary Beth Barone?

  You can try it later.

• 6:13Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I don't know.

• 6:14Mary Beth Barone?

  I know I'm cooking up Duddy's shepherd's pie. Well, I guess we can't talk about Jeremy O'Harris being in a Japanese prison, but let's just Google it.

• 6:22Benito Skinner?

  Let's just Google it. And Jeremy, we, free Jeremy O'Harris, please.

• 6:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Let us know what we can do to help.

• 6:26Benito Skinner?

  Like, we will come get you, sweetie. Wait, that's, oh my god.

• 6:30Mary Beth Barone?

  New Year's.

• 6:31Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. New Year's.

• 6:33Mary Beth Barone?

  We go get him.

• 6:33Benito Skinner?

  We go get him. We go, hey.

• 6:35Mary Beth Barone?

  We get off the plane first. We run to the front of the plane.

• 6:38Benito Skinner?

  Go get your girl.

• 6:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Go get your girl.

• 6:39Benito Skinner?

  And it's us getting Jeremy O'Harris out of prison.

• 6:41Mary Beth Barone?

  I just got chills.

• 6:41Benito Skinner?

  All jokes aside, we're so worried about him.

• 6:44Mary Beth Barone?

  I know. I'm like, are they taking okay care of him? Like, what's happening?

• 6:47Benito Skinner?

  Like, take care of our girl.

• 6:48Mary Beth Barone?

  I need someone who knows everything about 9/11, everything about the recent stuff in Saudi Arabia. And I only say stuff because I know it's really bad. I don't know every specific. I know they, like, killed a journalist, maybe more, probably more. But there's people going to the Saudi Arabia Film Festival, and I'm just like, is that chill? Because with the comedy festival, it felt like it was very not chill, and I was very much on that side of it not being chill. And now I'm just like, well, what? They're doing a film festival.

• 7:14Benito Skinner?

  I would say everything is confusing and everything is embarrassing. So you just kind of have to find that. And so you find that duality. But yeah, oh my god, it's like my greatest fear. Every time they go through my bag, I'm like, when they do that bomb thing, the like, you know, tests, I'm like, what if someone just rubbed bomb powder on me?

• 7:30Mary Beth Barone?

  What, when they do a little thing on your hand?

• 7:32Benito Skinner?

  Don't I look like someone who would want to rub bomb powder on? Right before I

• 7:38Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, that's what scares me, and those snitch-ass dogs. I looked at one of the dogs and went, shh.

• 7:43Mary Beth Barone?

  I did one time accidentally cart drogas from the UK to America. Luckily, it didn't get, I'm lucky.

• 7:51Benito Skinner?

  Can you say this on pod?

• 7:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Not my lucky stars.

• 7:53Benito Skinner?

  I wonder if you can say this.

• 7:54Mary Beth Barone?

  It happened. It could be lying.

• 7:56Benito Skinner?

  The world, exactly. Comedy is

• 7:58Mary Beth Barone?

  What are they gonna do?

• 7:59Benito Skinner?

  All you need to do is look at the camera.

• 8:00Mary Beth Barone?

  And I go parody law. I have been latching

• 8:03Benito Skinner?

  Oh my god, parody law got me through

• 8:05Mary Beth Barone?

  A lot.

• 8:06Benito Skinner?

  Eight years of my career.

• 8:07Mary Beth Barone?

  I've been latch-locking my door recently because I used to just let it, you know, it locks on its own. But I've been latching it because I thought if the government somehow finds my stand-up, which is widely available, they might just bust the door down. And my biggest concern if I got

• 8:22Benito Skinner?

  That latch will keep them out.

• 8:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, especially if they have big machine guns and stuff. But my big concern if I got detained was, like, Pinky's in the crate, so, or she's maybe not in the crate.

• 8:31Benito Skinner?

  I'll go get her. They won't come for me.

• 8:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, I don't think they would either.

• 8:34Benito Skinner?

  Well, they'd just kill me.

• 8:35Mary Beth Barone?

  If they were going to, they would have after the White House video.

• 8:37Benito Skinner?

  Oh, absolutely.

• 8:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Biden's trusted messengers.

• 8:42Benito Skinner?

  I forgot to tell you, a wedding I was at and a woman showed me texts back and forth. Here's my thing, like every now and then I'll look at my DMs and people will be like, "Come to my wedding" and I can't stress enough, like, I'll come if someone promises I'll have a good time at a wedding, but it remains to be seen. I was at this wedding and this woman showed me texts and she thought it was so funny. She was like, "I sent this bid to a friend of mine who was like a Republican and this is what they sent back" and they're like, "I can't believe they let that animal in the white house." And she was like laughing and I was like, "This is so..."

• 9:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Not funny.

• 9:16Benito Skinner?

  I was just like, "This is insane." I think people don't ever think about what they do.

• 9:21Mary Beth Barone?

  That is the big message of RIDE this year. There's a lot of themes and that's the big message. And I would also say-

• 9:26Benito Skinner?

  I would say fumbling is also a huge message.

• 9:28Mary Beth Barone?

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• 10:13Mary Beth Barone?

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• 10:57Mary Beth Barone?

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• 11:42Mary Beth Barone?

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• 12:28Mary Beth Barone?

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• 13:11Mary Beth Barone?

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• 13:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Genuinely, that's how I found my dentist in LA, dermatologist. I'm sure I've seen other doctors use Zocdoc as well that I can't think of right now because you guys, I'm really tired. Stop putting off those doctor's appointments and go to zocdoc.com/ride to find and instantly book a top-rated doctor today. That's z-o-c-d-o-c.com/ride, zocdoc.com/ride. Thank you. So I wanted to quickly talk about brand deals. I just feel like we're doing some housekeeping right now. Brand deals are really necessary for us to be able to maintain our lifestyles and I I just wanted to say-

• 14:31Benito Skinner?

  And your media, so I can't imagine a better clip for the holiday season.

• 14:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, I just wanted to say that I really-

• 14:39Benito Skinner?

  We might have to go off air really soon.

• 14:41Mary Beth Barone?

  I appreciate people supporting them. It's like, I know it's a bummer to see it.

• 14:45Benito Skinner?

  I know it can't make your day. Sometimes, though, I will say that I love seeing my friends' brand posts. I'm like, that's my girl, because I think about them on the shoot. I think about them reading whatever the original creative was, because there was something else that they then had to tweak.

• 14:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Exactly.

• 15:00Benito Skinner?

  And so if this is what I'm seeing now, I can't even imagine what it was before.

• 15:04Mary Beth Barone?

  And I'm trying to be, and as we've always tried to be really thoughtful about the products we're advertising for on the podcast, I will say, I definitely have to say, notice some bigger brand deals this year for ethical reasons. And it's really hard sometimes, but we're trying to be thoughtful always and- Of course, if we misstep, and this isn't even in reference to anything. I'm just foreseeing like, you know, we have to sell our bodies in this business.

• 15:28Benito Skinner?

  Well, of course, it's a part of-

• 15:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Prostitution in a lot of ways. So yeah, just thanks for liking the posts and even commenting sometimes if you feel so compelled.

• 15:36Benito Skinner?

  We should make a Duddy account so we could do like Shein, Target.

• 15:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh my, Shein, Target, AI.

• 15:42Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, AI.

• 15:43Mary Beth Barone?

  If you knew, if they knew some of the brand deals I said no to this year. I really wanna own property.

• 15:51Benito Skinner?

  Season six, god, it's like, can't we just let a woman own property? But we can't.

• 15:55Mary Beth Barone?

  We can't.

• 15:56Benito Skinner?

  It's crazy. New York has this thing where it's like, you write a letter to the board.

• 15:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, yeah.

• 16:00Benito Skinner?

  And I'm like, I gotta see this board. In my head, I'm Samantha Jones.

• 16:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Of course.

• 16:03Benito Skinner?

  I'm the whore they saw on the internet.

• 16:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, yeah. And they go, you're letting strange men into the building.

• 16:08Benito Skinner?

  No, literally, and it's you. We, there's a flat-chested young boy who comes all the time.

• 16:14Mary Beth Barone?

  My boobs have never been smaller. I appreciate all the attention they're getting.

• 16:17Benito Skinner?

  I knew they'd have their shining day.

• 16:19Mary Beth Barone?

  A lot of people have notoriety for having big boobs. I might be one of the first to have notoriety for having small ones. These little bee stings. I was thinking, just to put one more thing on my plate, I kinda wanna have a small boob summit next year in New York, where, you know, we can just gather as a community, big boob, big titted, big melon, jugs. All of those would be welcome, but it would be really a celebration. We could have keynote speakers.

• 16:42Benito Skinner?

  Oh, well.

• 16:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Penny.

• 16:44Benito Skinner?

  Nina Drama, in the breastplate. She's an E.

• 16:47Mary Beth Barone?

  She's getting a reduction.

• 16:48Benito Skinner?

  I got Es.

• 16:49Mary Beth Barone?

  She can't wait to join the community.

• 16:50Benito Skinner?

  Well, Duddy's gonna say, I'm getting surgery next week. At the, this is at the Irish pub, and they go, for what? And she goes, breast reduction.

• 16:57Mary Beth Barone?

  Breast reduction?

• 16:58Benito Skinner?

  My lower back hurts.

• 16:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Ugh, they're too big. Don't they just get in the way of everything? She dips one in the shepherd's pie.

• 17:03Benito Skinner?

  And then she goes, where do I take a shit around here?

• 17:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 17:08Benito Skinner?

  Also, she has, again, her UG boots on. They're never not on.

• 17:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, the sorry fellas, the UG boots stay on during sex.

• 17:15Benito Skinner?

  Someone said.

• 17:17Mary Beth Barone?

  Don't, the pussy flapping, I know.

• 17:20Benito Skinner?

  Worm from the Uggs.

• 17:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay, now that we've talked about politics, uh, brand deals-

• 17:25Benito Skinner?

  Can we talk about sex as an aphrodisiac?

• 17:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Let's talk about sex as aphrodisiac. Let's talk about what we ride for. Whoa, I mean, let's get into what we ride for.

• 17:32Benito Skinner?

  Wait, there was something, there was something else I wanted to say.

• 17:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Fuck my chungus life.

• 17:36Benito Skinner?

  Fuck, okay, yeah.

• 17:37Mary Beth Barone?

  But we have to do it quick.

• 17:38Benito Skinner?

  God, fuck, yeah, fuck my chungus life.

• 17:40Mary Beth Barone?

  And having a face is on here as well.

• 17:43Benito Skinner?

  That wasn't me.

• 17:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Are you sure?

• 17:46Mary Beth Barone?

  I feel like that was-

• 17:46Benito Skinner?

  My face is the front of shop? Like, I don't-

• 17:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Having a face- I think you just said, like, I wanna just touch on having a face, cuz it's hard. I feel like cuz it- Cuz of your- You're battle with your skin, but-

• 17:59Benito Skinner?

  I mean, I'm in a war- I'm in a war right now with dermatitis, but I'm boldly just here letting it rip. I'm doing zero therapy right now and just using a face wash and letting it all dry up. But I think it's in the gut. It all comes back to the gut. So I'm in the gut right now and I have to, like, limit a lot of the things I'm eating and I can't stress enough, like, it's not that hard.

• 18:22Benito Skinner?

  It's, I thought it would be harder, but like, honestly-

• 18:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, not in 2025.

• 18:24Benito Skinner?

  In New York City, like, I wouldn't- And I'm spending time with you. You, like, you've heard about these brands called, like, Pretz for, like, years.

• 18:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Quince.

• 18:33Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, exactly. What was the one-

• 18:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Not to be confused with Quince.

• 18:35Benito Skinner?

  What was the brand that Pinky was, like, going, she was a billy goat on my body for?

• 18:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh.

• 18:39Benito Skinner?

  She's obsessed with stepping on my sack.

• 18:41Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 18:42Benito Skinner?

  Can I just say? She, last night, though, do, okay, this moment happened with Pinker.

• 18:48Mary Beth Barone?

  I have to say something about last night. I found a cashew in my bed, so Benny Drama will not be eating snacks in my bed anymore. You can win back a privilege, but with good behavior.

• 18:57Benito Skinner?

  And I know you were so tired and you saw the cashew and went, mm, and you ate it.

• 19:03Mary Beth Barone?

  And a little, there was a little blood.

• 19:05Benito Skinner?

  Exactly. Okay, well, I'm sorry, but you love those cashews.

• 19:09Mary Beth Barone?

  It wasn't a big deal. I just am saying, no more food in the bed for right now.

• 19:13Benito Skinner?

  Baby, but I love them in my head. So she was, like, nestled in a little ball, and then I wrapped my arms around her, and we were just laying there watching gay sex in heated rivalry. And then I took my hands off her my back. She looked back at me like-

• 19:29Mary Beth Barone?

  She was like-

• 19:30Benito Skinner?

  I'm good as fuck.

• 19:31Mary Beth Barone?

  The fuck?

• 19:32Benito Skinner?

  Like, it was so-

• 19:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Hard. Wouldn't it be cool if I was dating someone who could just, like, bring her to meet us after this? Like, they would just be able to be helpful and just, like-

• 19:41Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. Oh, my god, can I say, there's been three straight guys this year that have completely electrified me. Like, I have three-

• 19:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Besides Kai, who?

• 19:50Benito Skinner?

  Kai, met one in London, and then there was a recent one that blew me away.

• 19:55Mary Beth Barone?

  I would love to know. Is it your friend from college, Lucas?

• 19:58Benito Skinner?

  Oh my god. Yeah, well, okay, so I'm back in New York. I'm finally with my college roommates again.

• 20:03Mary Beth Barone?

  You're reconnecting with-

• 20:04Benito Skinner?

  Straight boys.

• 20:05Mary Beth Barone?

  You're touching grass proverbially, I would say.

• 20:06Benito Skinner?

  I'm touching grass. I, they took me to Zootopia 2, which I have to talk about for a sec. Having two straight guys take me to Zootopia 2. And by that, I mean, I bought the tickets, they got me Coke Zero.

• 20:17Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm gonna eat fruit leather.

• 20:18Benito Skinner?

  Please.

• 20:19Mary Beth Barone?

  I've, I'm just gonna do it.

• 20:20Benito Skinner?

  The best line in Search Party is John Early.

• 20:22Mary Beth Barone?

  What?

• 20:23Benito Skinner?

  Does he say, "That [bleep] it with fruit leather?" I think about it so often, it's so good.

• 20:26Mary Beth Barone?

  I love fruit leather.

• 20:27Benito Skinner?

  Oh, yeah, this is, is this on my, am I allowed to eat this?

• 20:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Mm-hmm, of course. There's not in my bed.

• 20:35Benito Skinner?

  So, Zootopia 2. Zootopia 2 is-

• 20:38Mary Beth Barone?

  What were you talking about before that? Oh, the third street guy you met that blew you away. I need to know who this is. Probably have a girlfriend, but-

• 20:45Benito Skinner?

  They all do.

• 20:46Mary Beth Barone?

  I know, I know.

• 20:48Benito Skinner?

  Who's the third?

• 20:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Kai doesn't, but most of the good ones do.

• 20:50Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, it's Kai. Louis, if you're listening, Louis from London told, that was like-

• 20:55Mary Beth Barone?

  LL, flipping around? Wicked witch!

• 21:00Benito Skinner?

  And then, god, who was the last one? Oh!

• 21:03Mary Beth Barone?

  You're getting choked up.

• 21:03Benito Skinner?

  It was your cousin's husband.

• 21:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh my god.

• 21:06Benito Skinner?

  It was your cousin's husband.

• 21:08Mary Beth Barone?

  You met the guy who, my cousin snapped, he stood up and went to go take care of the kids.

• 21:12Benito Skinner?

  And I completely get their relationship. I love them so much.

• 21:14Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm a [bleep].

• 21:14Benito Skinner?

  They're so adorable, and I just like, I love talking to him, and he's just a doll. But all your brothers, I mean, like, are just kinda dolls.

• 21:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 21:22Benito Skinner?

  Like, I don't, and don't make-

• 21:23Mary Beth Barone?

  They were raised right.

• 21:23Benito Skinner?

  And don't make me pick.

• 21:25Mary Beth Barone?

  I would-

• 21:26Benito Skinner?

  Please don't!

• 21:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Never, but you know, Vicky has it right.

• 21:29Benito Skinner?

  Pam, I know you're not listening, just kidding, you are. But we haven't spent enough time together, but I know it's like, all gonna come out in the wash.

• 21:35Mary Beth Barone?

  It's all gonna happen.

• 21:36Benito Skinner?

  But me and Vicky, but, oh my god, I, ugh, let me talk about this.

• 21:40Mary Beth Barone?

  You have so much to say, but I needed to read you Pam's text to me the other day. Pam texted me, "Glad to hear you will come to visit when you have a movie filming here, that means a lot."

• 21:49Benito Skinner?

  Love you, sister.

• 21:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Love you, girl.

• 21:51Benito Skinner?

  Merry Christmas.

• 21:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Hey, I will come, but I need someone to pay for it.

• 21:54Benito Skinner?

  Down under.

• 21:55Mary Beth Barone?

  First class. Okay, anyway.

• 21:56Benito Skinner?

  We should do press down in Australia. It was our second biggest on the, the rap thing. Yeah.

• 22:01Mary Beth Barone?

  And obviously, we denounce Spotify and their ice ads, like, it's insane.

• 22:04Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, what the fuck?

• 22:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, what the actual fuck?

• 22:07Benito Skinner?

  I've bleep it.

• 22:08Mary Beth Barone?

  What are you gonna do?

• 22:09Benito Skinner?

  I don't know.

• 22:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Sorry, let's talk about Zootopia.

• 22:11Benito Skinner?

  Everything's demonic. Zootopia 2 is not. It is that woke shit.

• 22:16Mary Beth Barone?

  But it's anti-cop. It's anti like-

• 22:18Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, they're still like, it finds a way to make it feel anti-cop and like anti, I would say it's more anti-government. It's like corrupt mayors and-

• 22:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Fluff on your beard.

• 22:28Benito Skinner?

  You know that they're like obsessed.

• 22:30Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 22:30Benito Skinner?

  These particles. I'm not kidding. The jokes per minute in this film.

• 22:34Mary Beth Barone?

  I got to see it.

• 22:35Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my God, I was like, like belly laughing.

• 22:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Really?

• 22:38Benito Skinner?

  It was unbelievable and Zach Rice-

• 22:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Naked gun. Zach Rice.

• 22:42Benito Skinner?

  Zach Rice, who's in the room. We love you, Zach. Was it someone he knew?

• 22:46Mary Beth Barone?

  His brother.

• 22:46Benito Skinner?

  His brother.

• 22:47Mary Beth Barone?

  I almost said his boyfriend, but he's fully straight.

• 22:49Benito Skinner?

  He's a fully straight man.

• 22:49Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't see straight people.

• 22:51Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, they're, yeah. It has to be his gay husband, Dre.

• 22:54Mary Beth Barone?

  His boyfriend or whatever.

• 22:55Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 22:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 22:55Benito Skinner?

  He's a guy, so he has a husband. Did the animated the scenes where they, I don't want to ruin something, but they referenced The Shining. I'm not gonna say anything.

• 23:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay.

• 23:02Benito Skinner?

  But it's like-

• 23:03Mary Beth Barone?

  That's so cool.

• 23:03Benito Skinner?

  The, oh, my God, the like deep cuts in it, the story. I was just completely electrified.

• 23:08Mary Beth Barone?

  Wow.

• 23:09Benito Skinner?

  But the fox and the bunny won't kiss. And that's one thing as a kid I would have been like, because I know other kids were like, I'm looking away. I was like, I'm leaning in.

• 23:16Mary Beth Barone?

  They don't kiss?

• 23:17Benito Skinner?

  No.

• 23:17Mary Beth Barone?

  So the video I saw of her pregnant was AI?

• 23:20Benito Skinner?

  So that was us consuming AI, but it's the one time I think it's okay.

• 23:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. That's what AI should be used for, in my opinion.

• 23:26Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, it's like-

• 23:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Making fan edits, yeah.

• 23:28Benito Skinner?

  Fanfic is great, but-

• 23:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Not like taking jobs.

• 23:31Benito Skinner?

  No, but it just, it was crazy to not see it with you, but I know I'll see it a second time with you.

• 23:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Of course. I like to, you know me, I love to watch stuff at home. I'm gonna wait till it's out on BOD.

• 23:40Benito Skinner?

  You love to watch Robbie G K on screen.

• 23:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Getting plowed.

• 23:45Benito Skinner?

  It was major. I loved that episode. I thought he was fantastic. I'm, I'm having so much fun.

• 23:49Mary Beth Barone?

  He played gay like really well.

• 23:51Benito Skinner?

  I also loved how limited I'm watching people play hockey. I really thought going in I was gonna see some games, which almost to the point where I'm like, I might, I might want to watch a game here.

• 24:00Mary Beth Barone?

  A little bit, a little bit on the ice.

• 24:01Benito Skinner?

  I want to see a little-

• 24:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 24:03Benito Skinner?

  A little backwards when the, when people skate backwards.

• 24:07Mary Beth Barone?

  It's all in, we gotta go to a Ranger game.

• 24:09Benito Skinner?

  One of my childhood crushes. Are you ready? Apollo Anton Ono.

• 24:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Of course.

• 24:14Benito Skinner?

  Die.

• 24:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, well, of course.

• 24:15Benito Skinner?

  I love-

• 24:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Speed skater, right?

• 24:16Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 24:17Mary Beth Barone?

  Of course.

• 24:18Benito Skinner?

  Oh, I would love you with an Olympian.

• 24:20Mary Beth Barone?

  I know, but they have really bad mental health. Not to say, oh god.

• 24:25Benito Skinner?

  Oh, here she goes. Isn't it about time we cancel this fucking witch? Isn't it about fucking time?

• 24:33Mary Beth Barone?

  I am totally open to dating someone with poor mental health. Can I just say, and I have?

• 24:39Benito Skinner?

  Oh, yeah.

• 24:40Mary Beth Barone?

  And I will again. I'm just saying, I watched a documentary about Olympians' mental health.

• 24:46Benito Skinner?

  Oh, wow. What's it called?

• 24:48Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't remember. Going for the gold or something like that.

• 24:51Benito Skinner?

  It's gotta be that.

• 24:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, so anyway, but yes, athletes, but not till after the special.

• 24:57Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, because actors have good mental health.

• 24:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, totally. Anyone that wants to date me will unfortunately have to wait till after the special is filmed.

• 25:03Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 25:04Mary Beth Barone?

  And if you can't wait four months, then I guess you don't want it that bad.

• 25:06Benito Skinner?

  Hold tight, you know, stay strong. And I want to see someone really put the work in. I want to see them put on the ritz. And I'm not one of those people that's like, cross their arm, it's like, impress me? But it'd be nice if like, someone, I don't know, did like, a little dance for us.

• 25:19Mary Beth Barone?

  How about lifting a finger? Have you considered?

• 25:22Benito Skinner?

  What about, oh my god, I, you know, I know, like, he was on, I don't want everyone to just keep speculating about you guys, because it's too much for all of us. Edward's like, one of the few straight men who has like, taken me to dinner. Like, he is paid, which I'm like, oh my god, what are you doing with that thing?

• 25:37Mary Beth Barone?

  I know, it's...

• 25:38Benito Skinner?

  And he's laying down the plastic.

• 25:40Mary Beth Barone?

  He's putting the plastic down. He's tapping it and he's tapped to go.

• 25:44Benito Skinner?

  I'll just be honest, it doesn't always happen.

• 25:45Mary Beth Barone?

  I know. Well, yeah, my therapist asked me, like, how do you feel about not dating for a bit? And I was like, as soon as I made that declaration, which I'm telling as many people as possible, so I'll stick to it, my nervous system just relaxed a little bit.

• 25:59Benito Skinner?

  That is so, it's all about that right now. The year you had, take my hand.

• 26:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh my god, I have such a funny story.

• 26:05Benito Skinner?

  Oh my god, we'll just hold it for a sec, because I'd love to just say something, really? This is from me and the kids, we're so proud of you. That was such a fucking doc shit year. But then also like the show came out and you guys were all so sweet about it. And this community of ride is gorgeous. We will be taking kind of a little bit of a break though, because I don't think-

• 26:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, we're doing the rerun episodes and then the season ends in February.

• 26:26Benito Skinner?

  Yes, we end in February and we're gonna take a little break when we shoot just because that was a lot. And I just want to make sure when we do this, that you never have to think we don't want to do it. I will say like, it's funny, whenever we've been here, well, if we say that, it's like, in theory, we don't want to work. But this is like heaven.

• 26:44Mary Beth Barone?

  It's so fun. I know.

• 26:46Benito Skinner?

  I would do this with you forever. If, like, if it was just this and then it, I don't even know, yeah. You didn't have to be thoughtful about the rest of the machine around it. That'd be fabulous.

• 26:54Mary Beth Barone?

  And AI accounts clipping stuff and making you sound psychotic.

• 26:57Benito Skinner?

  Again, that's just not us.

• 26:58Mary Beth Barone?

  It's just not us.

• 26:58Benito Skinner?

  We would use two filters, not four.

• 27:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Not four.

• 27:01Benito Skinner?

  Two at max.

• 27:02Mary Beth Barone?

  We look animated in it.

• 27:03Benito Skinner?

  Well, I'm not minding it for these past few weeks.

• 27:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Zach's brother does those videos. They're animated, fully animated.

• 27:08Benito Skinner?

  Referencing The Shining.

• 27:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Exactly. I went to a craniosacral massage this week, which was recommended to me by my physical therapist. And it was fabulous. But when we sat down, you know, when you look someone in the eye and you just go, I know, I'm gonna start crying as soon as they ask me a question.

• 27:22Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my ear?

• 27:23Mary Beth Barone?

  It was instantaneous. She said, ask me about my shoulder, my neck, all that stuff. She's like, and how's your emotional life been? And I was just like, so, got dumped, dad died, fully had an eating disorder this summer. And then now I'm in a TV show, which is obviously a bright spot in the air, but it's just like, my life is different. I just couldn't not cry. So it was really good though. It was really like impactful. And I'm gonna go back on Monday and I'll keep you guys posted on my progress. Shakira said it best, try everything.

• 27:51Benito Skinner?

  This one is, let's turn the dance floor into a zoo, by the way, which is very us.

• 27:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Whoa.

• 27:55Benito Skinner?

  That's very ride.

• 27:55Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm so down.

• 27:56Benito Skinner?

  I can't tell if, I guess in Zootopia, the whole thing is kind of like, there's no cages really. Well, unless it's corruption.

• 28:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 28:04Benito Skinner?

  But, so, I guess like zoos are chill. Like, the term zoo is kind of good here, in fact.

• 28:09Mary Beth Barone?

  I think it means something different.

• 28:10Benito Skinner?

  I think it means something different.

• 28:11Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 28:12Benito Skinner?

  You know, it's funny, in London, it was Zoo, Zootopolis or something.

• 28:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh.

• 28:16Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, they had like a different one. Yeah. Obviously cutting that. That was, I'm so glad you guys know that now.

• 28:22Mary Beth Barone?

  They put their own spin on stuff.

• 28:23Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, the philosopher's stone.

• 28:25Mary Beth Barone?

  We actually legally need to get into what we ride for. And it's gonna be really fast. We had a big intro.

• 28:29Benito Skinner?

  I will be riding for those Christmas lights.

• 28:33Mary Beth Barone?

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• 29:16Mary Beth Barone?

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• 29:59Mary Beth Barone?

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• 30:17Mary Beth Barone?

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• 30:39Mary Beth Barone?

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• 31:23Mary Beth Barone?

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• 32:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Quince pretty much has your whole list covered. Mongolian cashmere sweaters for $50, when you would normally pay $200 or more. The kind you'll wear on repeat. Then there's the denim that goes with everything. Silk tops and skirts for when you need to look put together. Cashmere beanies and scarves and down jackets that actually keep you warm. Italian wool coats were at the absolute top of my list. They look designer, they feel luxurious, and they are made with premium materials. But like everything at Quince, the price won't make you panic. We're talking way less than other brands charge. You might be wondering, well, how do they manage that? By working with trusted factories that maintain high standards for both craftsmanship and ethical practices, and by cutting out the middlemen, then markups. Quince is able to pass those savings straight to you.

• 32:51Mary Beth Barone?

  There are so many things on Quince's website that I can totally see myself giving each and every person on my list this year, whether it be a scarf or a sweater, a jacket, or I don't know, a pillowcase. As you know, Quince has gifting covered beyond clothing too. They have home, bath, kitchen, or travel. Find gifts so good you'll want to keep them with Quince. Go to quince.com/ride for free shipping on your order and 365 day returns. Now available in Canada too. That's Q U I N C E dot com slash ride to get free shipping and 365 day returns. Quince.com slash ride. Wait, where are we going?

• 33:28Benito Skinner?

  Who cares? Ride! You know what I've noticed before I get into Christmas lights? Sorry, I'm just diving right in because I know you want me to. I know you want me to.

• 33:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Yep.

• 33:37Benito Skinner?

  Straight people are obsessed with those huge skeletons in their yard.

• 33:40Mary Beth Barone?

  This is so weird that you just said that.

• 33:42Benito Skinner?

  Do you know what I mean?

• 33:43Mary Beth Barone?

  I passed one on the way here.

• 33:44Benito Skinner?

  How?

• 33:45Mary Beth Barone?

  It had Christmas lights on it.

• 33:47Benito Skinner?

  Where'd they put it?

• 33:48Mary Beth Barone?

  In the front, like, you know, someone had a little, you know, sometimes in Brooklyn, you can have like, there's like a gate and then it's a thing and then it's a house.

• 33:54Benito Skinner?

  From like the basement thing?

• 33:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, and I was gonna take a picture and say, so I met someone. But I decided I was just on my way to something and I couldn't stop.

• 34:02Benito Skinner?

  That's, is there anything sadder than that when you think you're about to make content and then you just, your, your fingers hurt?

• 34:07Mary Beth Barone?

  You're just like, actually, I can't today.

• 34:09Benito Skinner?

  No, I can't put myself out there. I can't even put myself out there to Mary Beth Barone right now.

• 34:13Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 34:13Benito Skinner?

  So, do you know what I mean? I'm like,

• 34:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Sex is an aphrodisiac.

• 34:16Benito Skinner?

  Sex is like such an aphrodisiac.

• 34:19Mary Beth Barone?

  That's true, though.

• 34:20Benito Skinner?

  Are you so horny lately?

• 34:22Mary Beth Barone?

  That's something I've sort of had to dial it back because I don't have, I don't have an outlet for it.

• 34:27Benito Skinner?

  Cool.

• 34:27Mary Beth Barone?

  And I don't want one.

• 34:28Benito Skinner?

  Cool.

• 34:29Mary Beth Barone?

  But, but, short answer, yes.

• 34:31Benito Skinner?

  But can I just, yes.

• 34:33Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't know what you're gonna say about Christmas lights and I'm just excited.

• 34:36Benito Skinner?

  Oh, I can't wait to get into it.

• 34:37Mary Beth Barone?

  And I'm not trying to steer the conversation, I'm just genuinely saying I have an excitement.

• 34:40Benito Skinner?

  I just had to point out these skeletons because like there's something going on. It's like,

• 34:44Mary Beth Barone?

  They're huge.

• 34:45Benito Skinner?

  They're just like, straight people have been like, honey, I'm home and I got something.

• 34:50Mary Beth Barone?

  So I did a thing.

• 34:52Benito Skinner?

  If Duddy sees one, she takes it down, by the way.

• 34:54Mary Beth Barone?

  A hundred percent and,

• 34:55Benito Skinner?

  They piss her off.

• 34:56Mary Beth Barone?

  Now that you say that, I'm like, should I get one for the flagpole at my parents' house? And it's just holding on to it. I would.

• 35:02Benito Skinner?

  During Halloween, yes, but when they start adding like, you know,

• 35:05Mary Beth Barone?

  A Santa hat?

• 35:06Benito Skinner?

  A leprechaun hat, that's when I start getting pissed off. It's not, it's, come on. It's not a year round thing. So, Christmas lights. I am sure they are dog shit for the environment. So, or just like in general, they're not, it's waste. So, I just want to say that.

• 35:21Mary Beth Barone?

  And using electricity.

• 35:22Benito Skinner?

  But I guess these little things are how we feel better during a fascist regime. So, here we are. But as a kid, I loved helping my dad put up Christmas lights. It was so like, I don't know, I just put on my little coat and mittens and I'd be like, fuck yeah, let's go.

• 35:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Now, did you have the icicle ones or were you doing a more classic vibe?

• 35:38Benito Skinner?

  So, it would change year to year. My parents love a very classic, like, warm lights. Rainbow of sorts. I mean, come on, they made me gay, dude.

• 35:47Mary Beth Barone?

  It was exposure.

• 35:48Benito Skinner?

  But like, very kind of old world Christmasy vibes is kind of the, what my parents are doing. Like, every ornament on our tree is blown glass.

• 35:57Mary Beth Barone?

  I love a thematic tree.

• 35:58Benito Skinner?

  It's those old, I think they're called old world. It's like the, like, true, yeah. The theme is heavy, but my mom also, like, every year she gets us a new ornament for it. And because she's had to do so many and has so many kids and grandkids now. Like, I would say, like, it's a loose interpretation of what our year was.

• 36:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Sure. Oh, it's a meaningful ornament.

• 36:18Benito Skinner?

  One time she like, she hates salmon, like, she doesn't like eating it, but I like salmon, so she got me a salmon.

• 36:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 36:24Benito Skinner?

  And I was like, no.

• 36:25Mary Beth Barone?

  But I see that.

• 36:25Benito Skinner?

  Totally, and that kind of was my 2024.

• 36:28Mary Beth Barone?

  It's just about being, my stomach is making crazy, did you hear that? I don't like that.

• 36:33Benito Skinner?

  He's kicking.

• 36:33Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't like it, he's kicking. That's our big surprise, 2026.

• 36:38Benito Skinner?

  Our kid.

• 36:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Moneymaker, though.

• 36:41Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 36:42Mary Beth Barone?

  If we're ever, if we're ever low key falling off.

• 36:44Benito Skinner?

  In finance.

• 36:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 36:46Benito Skinner?

  In finance, I swear to God.

• 36:47Mary Beth Barone?

  I just meant getting the kid brand deals, but yeah, he also would be one of our greatest mathematical minds.

• 36:52Benito Skinner?

  Brand deals, I haven't really done one in a while.

• 36:54Mary Beth Barone?

  You're right. They call him Mr. Venmo back home.

• 36:58Benito Skinner?

  Oh, honey.

• 36:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, yeah.

• 36:59Benito Skinner?

  I know you guys got Venmo stash.

• 37:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Mrs. Milk.

• 37:02Benito Skinner?

  I know you got that.

• 37:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Christmas lights.

• 37:04Benito Skinner?

  Christmas lights. I I do think there's something so chemical about them. It's childlike wonder. I fucking love seeing how ugly they can get to like when people just do like dog shit ones. God, those stupid fucking blow up things. Those do not count. I find those to be.

• 37:20Mary Beth Barone?

  Those are not under the umbrella of Christmas lights.

• 37:22Benito Skinner?

  Those are disgusting.

• 37:24Mary Beth Barone?

  They're garish.

• 37:25Benito Skinner?

  But if you have a hundred of them, I'm down. If you only have one, it's bullshit.

• 37:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally agree.

• 37:30Benito Skinner?

  But if you have.

• 37:31Mary Beth Barone?

  If you have a community.

• 37:32Benito Skinner?

  If I don't see a fucking stitch of grass, honey.

• 37:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Honey, then that's kind of like artful in a way.

• 37:38Benito Skinner?

  And I like when they're interacting.

• 37:39Mary Beth Barone?

  It's indie sleaze.

• 37:40Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my God, they're literally it's it is full indie sleaze. It's like, oh, they they make me sick.

• 37:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 37:48Benito Skinner?

  But there's a few houses in Idaho where they're very Christmas Vacation, which I do think is one of the best Christmas films of all time.

• 37:54Mary Beth Barone?

  It stresses me out, but.

• 37:56Benito Skinner?

  See, here's the thing. It used to as a kid, but now since I know everything that's gonna happen, I remind myself of that. And it's almost ERP.

• 38:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, cool.

• 38:04Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, but it's, oh, my God, when he puts up the lights on the house and they finally work and like, oh, my God. And now my parents, because finally I talked to them and I was like, I don't want you guys on ladders anymore.

• 38:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 38:14Benito Skinner?

  We have someone come and just do like a strip of lights for them so they still have it on their house. And when I drive down that freaking road in Idaho and I see the lights. And then I see a few weird nativity things, which, you know, it is what it is. And get to my house, it just. Those Christmas lights light up.

• 38:35Benito Skinner?

  I hope my way back to me. Have you not heard this Coldplay Christmas Lights song?

• 38:40Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't. I guess I don't have it committed to memory.

• 38:42Benito Skinner?

  I thought you were about to dive right in.

• 38:43Mary Beth Barone?

  No, I don't have it off my heart.

• 38:44Benito Skinner?

  It'll break your heart. It's a perfect Christmas song. But to me, getting in a car. You've been cold outside. Your hands freezing. You get a hot cocoa, maybe with coconut in it. Yeah, I'm dead toasted fucking marshmallow or maybe a little coconut. I don't give a fuck. I don't care what is in your hot chocolate. That's what's in mine.

• 39:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 39:04Benito Skinner?

  Or maybe peppermint from Williams Sonoma, but you would have had to make that at home and then take it in to go. This, I'm more, we're out in the world. We're getting it from a local.

• 39:11Mary Beth Barone?

  A mom and pop shop.

• 39:12Benito Skinner?

  A mom and pop. Get that. You drive to the, a few of the houses throughout Boise that have the craziest lights. You stay for about two seconds.

• 39:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. It's a drive, it's a drive and go. It's a go see.

• 39:24Benito Skinner?

  It's just, I love it. And it's so, it's the simple things. There's this thing in Idaho that has, they light up the botanical gardens.

• 39:31Mary Beth Barone?

  That sounds cute.

• 39:33Benito Skinner?

  And it's so fun. It's very me and my dad at museums. We are there for five minutes.

• 39:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. Well, you've seen all you need to see.

• 39:37Benito Skinner?

  Well, you're freezing.

• 39:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 39:39Benito Skinner?

  So, and it's snowing. But, oh my, and every time my mom would just go, that's pretty, like to add a couple of things. And she's like, cool light. It's like a candy cane.

• 39:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 39:46Benito Skinner?

  Or like, oh, one time it was a poinsettia.

• 39:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Whoa.

• 39:50Benito Skinner?

  What do we say?

• 39:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Whatever you want.

• 39:52Benito Skinner?

  I don't care.

• 39:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Words. It's all about just having fun with it.

• 39:54Benito Skinner?

  To me, poinsettia sounds better.

• 39:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Me too.

• 39:56Benito Skinner?

  You know, poinsettia feels a little, but they had a light version of it. My mom, the way this electrified her, like that's.

• 40:02Mary Beth Barone?

  That's cool though.

• 40:03Benito Skinner?

  That's feral joy.

• 40:03Mary Beth Barone?

  That's like when they figured out how to do, I, I don't really fuck with fireworks. I think they're a huge waste of money. But when they figured out how to do shapes, I was like, that's cool that they did that.

• 40:11Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 40:11Mary Beth Barone?

  Like they're innovating.

• 40:14Benito Skinner?

  Charlie Caroline Christmas.

• 40:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Exact.

• 40:16Benito Skinner?

  Let's call that.

• 40:17Mary Beth Barone?

  Whoa.

• 40:17Benito Skinner?

  Let's do that this year.

• 40:18Mary Beth Barone?

  That's the title of the episode.

• 40:19Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 40:20Mary Beth Barone?

  My mom is big into Christmas decorations. It's like, as soon as it's Thanksgiving, it's Christmas season in the house. And thank God we have two trees. I mean, the amount, the volume of Christmas decorations and it makes the house just feel so full. And then when Christmas season passes and we take it down, the house just feels like, you know, it's just done a round of GLP one. It just looks like.

• 40:40Benito Skinner?

  Totally.

• 40:41Mary Beth Barone?

  You know, you miss the little extra flourishes.

• 40:43Benito Skinner?

  Well, of course, and they don't look the same. Let me tell you.

• 40:45Mary Beth Barone?

  The same, but.

• 40:47Benito Skinner?

  Uses that, loses that youthful energy.

• 40:49Mary Beth Barone?

  It loses the pump, pumpness.

• 40:50Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 40:51Mary Beth Barone?

  I have Christmas lights in my apartment year round on my, on my like ceiling, as you know. But I've added more Christmas lights because they got a tree and then I have the multi-colored ones in the front.

• 41:01Benito Skinner?

  I know. I was in there last night and I thought you were setting the. For heated rivalry with me and you kind of were.

• 41:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 41:05Benito Skinner?

  I was getting into Christmas. It's hard, though, because we're riding right now. I kind of never know what season or day it is and just the times and stuff. So it was nice to like.

• 41:13Mary Beth Barone?

  That's why I have to put up visual indicators like Christmas lights.

• 41:16Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. And actually, the cold weather is helping me. I'm like, oh, yeah, it's, it's, it's the Christmas.

• 41:19Mary Beth Barone?

  It's a reminder.

• 41:20Benito Skinner?

  It's the Christmas.

• 41:21Mary Beth Barone?

  But I like that Christmas lights can be secular. Like you can put up, you know, blue ones. You can put up icicles. You can put up whatever. And I think like just the, yeah, the integrity of the lights. I, I call my mom or my, I should say my mom called me yesterday just to be historically accurate. She called me.

• 41:35Benito Skinner?

  Thank you.

• 41:35Mary Beth Barone?

  And she said that she had bought Christmas lights for the tree. She put them on and then she realized they were a different brightness than the ones that they already had on there. So she had to take them off and put those elsewhere, repurpose and then get ones that matched. That's an important thing. And it's like, if you're not thinking, if it's like, my mom is very aesthetic. And so she's thinking about that stuff and that was definitely passed down to me and I'm really grateful for that.

• 41:55Benito Skinner?

  I forgot to mention when houses have, there are a few houses in Boise that have like concerts that go, that play with the lights where it's like.

• 42:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, that's cool.

• 42:04Benito Skinner?

  That's fucking nuts.

• 42:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Really cool.

• 42:06Benito Skinner?

  That to me, I can only watch it for three seconds, but I love it.

• 42:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. If you get seizures, maybe don't go there.

• 42:12Benito Skinner?

  I would definitely not go there. Don't watch the moment teaser and don't go to that. And maybe not, we've done some ride things that maybe were.

• 42:18Mary Beth Barone?

  A little bit tough.

• 42:20Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 42:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, I won't do ride or die right now.

• 42:22Benito Skinner?

  Please don't.

• 42:22Mary Beth Barone?

  So I'm not gonna skip ahead. But I would love to talk about bodegas.

• 42:27Benito Skinner?

  Merry Christmas of you.

• 42:28Mary Beth Barone?

  And Merry Christmas.

• 42:29Benito Skinner?

  Bodegas are your friend.

• 42:29Mary Beth Barone?

  The bodegas are your friend. If a mall is an older sister, bodega is Christmas to me because here's the thing with bodegas. I have lived in the vicinity of many different bodegas. I will say my favorite bodega in all my time here in New York City is the one that I live near currently, which I'm not going to say what it is because I don't want people to like triangulate my location.

• 42:49Benito Skinner?

  They know where we live, but totally.

• 42:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 42:51Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 42:51Mary Beth Barone?

  But let's just say that the man that works at the bodega, I think he owns it. His wife is there sometimes with their kid. His name is Iham.

• 42:57Benito Skinner?

  Oh, do you know what he told me last night?

• 42:59Mary Beth Barone?

  What did he tell you?

• 42:59Benito Skinner?

  Say hi. Say hi to your friend for me.

• 43:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, my God.

• 43:02Benito Skinner?

  I said, that's not my friend.

• 43:03Mary Beth Barone?

  That's my fucking, that's my chick.

• 43:06Benito Skinner?

  That's just some girl I go to sometimes. And then he dap me up.

• 43:09Mary Beth Barone?

  I haven't been there in a couple of days.

• 43:10Benito Skinner?

  And then we knocked foreheads together.

• 43:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, he's in the hospital right now.

• 43:13Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I bought a cashew nut date.

• 43:16Mary Beth Barone?

  So here's the thing with bodegas.

• 43:17Benito Skinner?

  You just are gonna pass cashew nut date?

• 43:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, we already talked about you eating them in my bed, so.

• 43:22Benito Skinner?

  You're so spoiled and loved.

• 43:24Mary Beth Barone?

  I would imagine that getting the bodega account as a sparkling water company, as a protein bar company, as a snack company, I'm assuming there's one person at the top of bodega enterprises. And they go, we'll do this brand this year, we're gonna do this brand this year, we're gonna do this brand this year. We're gonna stock all, because the bodegas have consistent brands.

• 43:43Benito Skinner?

  And Poppy goes, you'll stock us.

• 43:46Mary Beth Barone?

  They go, what the fuck are you gonna do about it?

• 43:49Benito Skinner?

  We'll put a full fridge, right?

• 43:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. Oh, honey, we're doing, what are they called? What are those ones at the end of the aisle called? I don't remember. It was a thing in Mad Men.

• 43:58Benito Skinner?

  Kiosk?

• 43:59Mary Beth Barone?

  No, it's like a whole thing in advertising.

• 44:01Benito Skinner?

  No, I'm telling you, I'm keeping the gun up.

• 44:02Mary Beth Barone?

  No, the gun is up. The gun is pointed at me and it's Poppy.

• 44:05Benito Skinner?

  You will get every goddamn Poppy flavor. Yeah.

• 44:08Mary Beth Barone?

  But I just think that must be really cool if you're, if you're an entrepreneur and you're starting a new brand that lands in bodegas.

• 44:13Benito Skinner?

  Do you wanna shout out Liquid Death? I mean, you are like.

• 44:16Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm gonna shout out, of course, I'm gonna shout out Liquid Death. I'm gonna shout out Quins that does the peanut butter filled gluten free pretzels.

• 44:22Benito Skinner?

  It turned, it turned Pinky into a billy goat on me.

• 44:25Mary Beth Barone?

  But they fly off the shelves, so sometimes they don't have stock. And the only ones with cheese, and I can't eat those, obviously.

• 44:29Benito Skinner?

  They had the cheese pizza, the cheesy pizza ones. They had the cheese pizza ones.

• 44:32Mary Beth Barone?

  But how cool is it to just go into a bodega, maybe you discover a new snack brand? I mean, it all fits into each other, but it's like, it can be Christmas every day if you live near a bodega. The, like, yes, I'm tapping to pay and it's $21 for two cans of water.

• 44:46Benito Skinner?

  I know, they're kind of diva-y, which I love. Like, some of them, it's fun.

• 44:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, it's cost of living crisis.

• 44:51Benito Skinner?

  Well, of course. And that's what I was gonna say. Well, some have just bongs and then others have like a very Mary Beth snacks. So it's, it's really interesting. It's like the one by you is so, it's so like the snack aisle at like an Air One kind of is the vibe. Like, maybe, maybe actually it's more of like a Whole Foods Air One love child of sorts.

• 45:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 45:11Benito Skinner?

  The one by my hotel right now is is bong coated. It's very like.

• 45:14Mary Beth Barone?

  It's sort of like a smoke shop.

• 45:15Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, yeah, but they still have like the, you know, Schweppes and some of the really big brands.

• 45:20Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, the bodegas that are basically empty, I'm so curious, like, what's the financial situation there? It's none of my business. I'm just curious.

• 45:25Benito Skinner?

  Those are it's hard not to think that laundering is a part of some of these things.

• 45:28Mary Beth Barone?

  I would imagine that it is, but I like ones that are stocked up. And when everything is sort of in a row, like the aisles are pretty like tight. And then you can look at it and it just looks like it's picturesque to me. When I see all those little, all those little products in a perfect line and all the colors. I mean, it's just beautiful.

• 45:44Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, mental illness is incredible.

• 45:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Yes.

• 45:46Benito Skinner?

  The things that can make it feel better.

• 45:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Yes, the things that soothe you, which is being in a very tightly packed bodega. That might smell like soup, or it might smell like eggs, or it might just be like really aerated. Mine smells great.

• 45:58Benito Skinner?

  Smells so good.

• 45:59Mary Beth Barone?

  And I love going in there. There's one right next to this podcast studio that we've popped in. We went in as our Zootopia characters and we got a little picture on the security camera. But I just love how every bodega, it's like a fingerprint, you know, it's always different. There's no two that are the same.

• 46:13Benito Skinner?

  But then there's some that have the same DNA. There's things that we share and Taylor Swift ambassador in New York City.

• 46:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Or as an ambassador.

• 46:21Benito Skinner?

  Bodega is your friend and it really is.

• 46:24Mary Beth Barone?

  And I just get it going and get a treat, spend 20 bucks.

• 46:27Benito Skinner?

  I have the funniest story about Wally. When I called her after the show and I was like, what are you doing? And she was like, I'm working in a bodega. And I was like, why? She's like, I knocked over all these cans. And I said, like, I could work to pay it off. And then the guy said, okay.

• 46:42Mary Beth Barone?

  She is one of a kind. She is much like a bodega. That's insane, but I love that you could call her and you just never know.

• 46:49Benito Skinner?

  I never know.

• 46:50Mary Beth Barone?

  She'll be.

• 46:50Benito Skinner?

  When I called her to tell her we got season two, she was in Mexico, holding the world's most venomous snake.

• 46:56Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 46:57Benito Skinner?

  She had just done that. And she's like, okay, I'll stop. Sorry. Now that we're doing season two.

• 47:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Put it down.

• 47:01Benito Skinner?

  She put the snake down.

• 47:02Mary Beth Barone?

  He said, insurance is never gonna.

• 47:03Benito Skinner?

  It was sucking her neck and she was like, oh my God, we got it.

• 47:06Mary Beth Barone?

  She goes, ah, get off, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.

• 47:08Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 47:09Mary Beth Barone?

  So pop in your local bodega. I also think even though it's probably a little more expensive to buy stuff there. I'm like, I like to support the small business.

• 47:16Benito Skinner?

  Oh, I grocery shop in the bodega. Trust. And all the little Christmas things are out, like all the like little specific, you know, the limited edition peppermint bark.

• 47:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, there's.

• 47:25Benito Skinner?

  Oh, that just got me excited.

• 47:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, and we'll get some after.

• 47:28Benito Skinner?

  I'm limiting dairy right now. I need to find a non-dairy peppermint bark. If anyone has non-dairy peppermint bark.

• 47:35Benito Skinner?

  Let me know.

• 47:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Yes, no.

• 47:36Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 47:37Mary Beth Barone?

  There's a, there's a company that makes mints that I've noticed are popping up in the bodegas. And I just thought to myself, well, I'm proud. Like, I'm proud of this mint company, this little upstart. It's probably owned by Monsanto. But I think it's cool that, you know, these new brands are making their way into the bodega space. That's just the things that I think about when I'm by myself.

• 47:54Benito Skinner?

  Galaxy bring it, sweetie.

• 47:55Mary Beth Barone?

  When I'm on the train.

• 47:56Benito Skinner?

  When those AirPods are weighing you down.

• 47:58Mary Beth Barone?

  When I have to take my AirPods out because they're too heavy. I then, my mind can only just wander. So, thank you.

• 48:04Benito Skinner?

  Say something?

• 48:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 48:05Benito Skinner?

  Favorite Christmas present as a kid?

• 48:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Whoa. Okay, there was this one Christmas in eighth grade.

• 48:11Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 48:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Where I was having a tough, your eighth grade's tough. It's tough for everyone. You're a young teen and especially the social politics of, you know, being a young woman. I got a purple rolling suitcase. I got a.

• 48:23Benito Skinner?

  To travel the world.

• 48:23Mary Beth Barone?

  I got a pink cashmere sweater from Lauren Taylor. I got a mini iPod that was pink. And I, and if I'm not mistaken, that was the year I got my Tiffany bracelet. I had a huge Christmas.

• 48:34Benito Skinner?

  Spoiled.

• 48:35Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm the youngest. It was like Christmas magic still.

• 48:37Benito Skinner?

  Every now and then it's like, yeah, like, you know, the youngest comes out and is like, well, eight.

• 48:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Let's just say that Jesus wasn't the only person that was born that day. My capitalistic self was also born that day.

• 48:47Benito Skinner?

  Oh, honey.

• 48:48Mary Beth Barone?

  I mean, it had been a while, but I got emboldened that year.

• 48:52Benito Skinner?

  Nag, Nag Olympics.

• 48:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 48:54Benito Skinner?

  One time, my mom was like, did you get everything you got? And I literally Nina dramatized her. I went, not everything.

• 49:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Not everything. Didn't get the laptop with internet.

• 49:03Benito Skinner?

  Oh my god.

• 49:04Mary Beth Barone?

  It was okay.

• 49:05Benito Skinner?

  Next year.

• 49:05Mary Beth Barone?

  I got it when I went to college and that was what was appropriate.

• 49:08Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 49:08Mary Beth Barone?

  In that time, so. Yeah.

• 49:11Benito Skinner?

  I just was curious.

• 49:11Mary Beth Barone?

  Favorite Christmas present ever for you?

• 49:13Benito Skinner?

  I remember the Wii being really crazy because it was so hard to get. But like, my dad waited in line, which is really sweet, outside Missouri.

• 49:19Mary Beth Barone?

  I mean, game console culture, I have three brothers.

• 49:22Benito Skinner?

  Wies are gay, by the way.

• 49:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Of cour-, of course.

• 49:24Benito Skinner?

  GameCube and Wii are gay.

• 49:26Mary Beth Barone?

  They're more queer, yeah, they're the queerest.

• 49:27Benito Skinner?

  Xbox says [BLEEP] and shoots people. Playstation is like, actually, he might be good at sex.

• 49:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Middle of the road.

• 49:34Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, he's, he's like.

• 49:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Libertarian.

• 49:35Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, he's kind of nice. GameCube guys, it's like you're bi or gay. So, but, so I was, you know, I was of that, but of that persuasion. But Wii just.

• 49:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 49:47Benito Skinner?

  Me playing Wii Tennis. I loved it. And I was really good at Wii.

• 49:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Bowling?

• 49:51Benito Skinner?

  The flicker-erist. You know what I mean?

• 49:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 49:53Benito Skinner?

  So the Wii was huge, which is, I don't know if people would expect that from me, but I got Wii and then these Chaka Uggs that year.

• 49:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Whoa.

• 49:59Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, and I was rocking Uggs at school.

• 50:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Absolutely.

• 50:02Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 50:02Mary Beth Barone?

  As you should.

• 50:03Benito Skinner?

  And it was, I kinda got made fun of them, but then everyone kinda thought, fuck, those kind of, those kind of slaps.

• 50:08Mary Beth Barone?

  Uggs took a minute for people to come around on, but then, once they did, it was like, let's, can we just all accept that these are comfortable and we wanna wear them and they're warm?

• 50:15Benito Skinner?

  For my Uggs for set. They're at your house. They're not ready. You know what you are, Mary Beth?

• 50:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Bisexual?

• 50:22Benito Skinner?

  Well, yeah, but you're also my ride or die. Ride or die.

• 50:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Of course, I ride for Christmas lights. I love the holiday spirit, especially this year. It's holiday cheer. Get into it. I hope people have a lot of good Christmas memories.

• 50:35Benito Skinner?

  I know.

• 50:35Mary Beth Barone?

  And not traumatic ones and make new ones. And here's what I'll say about this. I always thought like, I'm gonna wait to start my own traditions for when I have a partner. And now I'm just gonna do it on my own and have this great, big, beautiful life. And if someone wants to be a part of it, me and Benny Drama's life, then welcome.

• 50:53Benito Skinner?

  Then come on in, come on down, cuz we'd love to, we'd love to have you. Our hearts are open and I'm so excited to spend New Year's Eve with you.

• 51:00Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 51:01Benito Skinner?

  Pinky's my midnight kiss.

• 51:03Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 51:04Benito Skinner?

  I, of course, ride for bodegas. It's been so nice to have them again and to be able to walk to them and just like go and see all the snacks and.

• 51:12Mary Beth Barone?

  And a liquid dust tall boy.

• 51:14Benito Skinner?

  I'm on a gut health journey right now, so I have to be mindful of like dairy and gluten and all those things as I heal my microbiome in my stomach. So it's been really fun, too, to kind of tap into your world of these snacks.

• 51:25Mary Beth Barone?

  You're looking at, you're looking at a packaging and you're looking to see all the circles on it.

• 51:28Benito Skinner?

  I'm looking to see a V.

• 51:29Mary Beth Barone?

  And you're looking to see GF.

• 51:30Benito Skinner?

  And then I'm looking, no, none of that.

• 51:32Mary Beth Barone?

  None of that, none of that.

• 51:32Benito Skinner?

  Check, check, check.

• 51:33Mary Beth Barone?

  And it's just fabulous.

• 51:34Benito Skinner?

  And that's what I brought last night and I, yeah, I had a few nibbles in your bed and maybe a few fell out of my mouth cuz my jaw was dropped seeing a man that you had been with on camera. Be with a man?

• 51:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, that was shocking.

• 51:44Benito Skinner?

  So classic you, girl.

• 51:45Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 51:46Benito Skinner?

  That's just the way of our- Wah, wah, wah. Merry Christmas.

• 51:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Have a great holiday season with your families or whoever's chosen family by yourself, whatever you choose.

• 51:54Benito Skinner?

  Is this coming out right at Christmas?

• 51:55Mary Beth Barone?

  It's the last episode of the year before we do Encyclopedia of Ride, which is reruns.

• 52:00Benito Skinner?

  Oh, I can't wait for our ins and outs.

• 52:01Mary Beth Barone?

  And don't we love a good rerun, folks?

• 52:04Benito Skinner?

  Hey, let's tune in. It might be helpful. We know a lot of you have joined kind of at random times. I'm sure you're just so confused.

• 52:10Mary Beth Barone?

  It's gonna be so funny, because like so many eras just won't be in there. But this is obviously, you know, it's older. And the video of us, it's gonna show you what we used to look like.

• 52:17Benito Skinner?

  Oh.

• 52:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Great plastic surgery.

• 52:19Benito Skinner?

  Oh, I hate that.

• 52:20Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 52:21Benito Skinner?

  That just got caught in my throat.

• 52:22Mary Beth Barone?

  It's really scary. We have to go back and edit those. We love you guys so much. Have a great holiday.

• 52:25Benito Skinner?

  Pidious. I love you.

• 52:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Merry Christmas and fuck our chungus life.

• 52:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, my exit. Benny, babe, eyes on the road. Benny, go!

• 52:46Speaker 04

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