Blind boxes + Popstar Academy

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• 0:00Speaker 00

  The following podcast is a Dear Media production.

• 0:04Benito Skinner?

  I'm Benito Skinner.

• 0:05Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm Mary Beth Brown.

• 0:06Benito Skinner?

  And this.

• 0:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Is.

• 0:08Benito Skinner?

  Ride.

• 0:13Mary Beth Barone?

  They're so fucking broke.

• 0:16Benito Skinner?

  Girls like swerving off the road, listening to me with this lifesaver.

• 0:21Mary Beth Barone?

  They can listen. It's okay. Like, sometimes you have conversations and you have other stuff going on internally.

• 0:26Benito Skinner?

  When I hear the sound of someone with a mint, I remember this was my first experience with ASMR. I think when I wrote, was I a [BLEEP] with ASMR or did I ride for it? I think I, maybe I did both.

• 0:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Unfortunately, there's no way of knowing.

• 0:39Benito Skinner?

  I know. There's no way.

• 0:40Mary Beth Barone?

  There's no way to check. There's no record of it.

• 0:42Benito Skinner?

  I think that all the time. So I recently thought, did I say that in a video? And then I was like, there's just simply no way for me to find that out. But the sound of a lifesaver.

• 0:53Benito Skinner?

  In, in a woman's mouth, not a man's. I don't want to hear it in a man's. Well, it's just gross. It's stanky. I was recent, oh God, there's so much to say.

• 1:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Where are you gonna, where are you gonna start? This is chaotic. I'm a [BLEEP]. This is chaotic.

• 1:07Benito Skinner?

  I'm in the zone, mama.

• 1:09Mary Beth Barone?

  I gotta check my hair.

• 1:10Benito Skinner?

  After I told you, woke up depressive today.

• 1:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, I was gonna ask you if you think I have OCD.

• 1:16Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my God.

• 1:17Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, my God. Different one than you, obviously.

• 1:20Benito Skinner?

  One sec. Let me think of a song to start us off and just get grounded, touch my moon rock.

• 1:25Mary Beth Barone?

  We're not cutting any of this.

• 1:26Benito Skinner?

  Of course not.

• 1:27Mary Beth Barone?

  We couldn't possibly.

• 1:28Benito Skinner?

  Of course not. Oh, I literally heard a song this morning and I thought I have to sing that to Mary Beth. But I, I wonder what it was. Obviously, I listened to Crank 2. That's how I started.

• 1:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 1:39Benito Skinner?

  Hearing Crank 2 drop while I'm waiting for 2 Joe and the Juice sandwiches.

• 1:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Cracker sandwiches.

• 1:43Benito Skinner?

  Oh, oh, my God. I know. I know what I was gonna start with.

• 1:47Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't, you, this is like, this is next level Benny right now. Oh.

• 1:55Benito Skinner?

  I brought sustenance.

• 1:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Thank you. That was worth it.

• 2:00Benito Skinner?

  I brought sustenance.

• 2:00Mary Beth Barone?

  I brought sustenance.

• 2:02Benito Skinner?

  Non-sponsored, but my God, it's about time, right?

• 2:04Mary Beth Barone?

  I brought sustenance. What people forget is that there was a time where Joe and the Juice only hired male models. No woman works there. They only hired male models to make the cracker sandwiches. And this was like in Soho. And so you could just go in there in the middle of the day and just like take a little peek.

• 2:19Benito Skinner?

  Time is certainly of the essence at Joe and the Juice.

• 2:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, they're not in it for speed. It's not like your, your driving style.

• 2:26Benito Skinner?

  When I used to drive.

• 2:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 2:27Benito Skinner?

  So obviously, I brought sustenance as L. Woods in Legally Blonde, when she brings like a sourdough bread to.

• 2:34Mary Beth Barone?

  She brings a pastry, a bread basket to study.

• 2:37Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 2:38Mary Beth Barone?

  And then they say, maybe you should go join a sorority. Like, you could join, like, instead, like.

• 2:43Benito Skinner?

  And I'd be like, wait, I might.

• 2:47Benito Skinner?

  I think it's so funny to think that a group of law students who are working really hard at Harvard Law wouldn't love a chocolate croissant. Like, that just feels a little unrealistic to me. That's, that's what takes me out of the movie.

• 3:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, I wonder if the students at the time were upset with their portrayal, or if they like being portrayed as kind of like holier than now.

• 3:10Benito Skinner?

  I remember the lesbian character so viscerally to me.

• 3:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. Well, she wanted to call it an Ovestor.

• 3:15Benito Skinner?

  Yes. And she told me, she taught me what.

• 3:17Mary Beth Barone?

  This is my maternity rug that Skims does. It's not actually maternity, but does it look like one? Or not. It does, right? Like, this is insane.

• 3:26Benito Skinner?

  You taking a guy home and saying, wanna see my brassiere, baby?

• 3:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Wait till you get a load of this. I just thought I had a hair tickling me, but I think it's just me imagining things.

• 3:35Benito Skinner?

  I've had this thought recently, like if a guy wanted me to be in lingerie, what I would do, like if I would go through with it.

• 3:41Mary Beth Barone?

  The biggest gag of all is that guys do not care about lingerie. And you, you buy it, you wear it once, you never look at it again. And then if you break up, you have to throw it out. It's like the biggest lie we've been told as artists.

• 3:52Benito Skinner?

  I, yeah, it's, well, that's all Blair Waldorf. Leighton Meester did that.

• 3:56Mary Beth Barone?

  She was, they were in the pocket of big lingerie on that show.

• 3:59Benito Skinner?

  Okay, once you hit 16, my sister must have to go to a lingerie store in Paris.

• 4:06Mary Beth Barone?

  A Jean Provocateur.

• 4:06Benito Skinner?

  A Jean Provocateur.

• 4:08Mary Beth Barone?

  She has to take a trip to Paris.

• 4:09Benito Skinner?

  And get a corset, pasties, bustier, a garter. What's the, um, what are these guys? I keep saying stirrups.

• 4:16Mary Beth Barone?

  No, I think it's a stuff.

• 4:17Benito Skinner?

  It's not a stirrup.

• 4:18Mary Beth Barone?

  It's a stuff.

• 4:18Benito Skinner?

  Stocking. But when they have the little.

• 4:20Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. Oh, I don't know what that's called.

• 4:23Benito Skinner?

  You have them on, but you don't know.

• 4:24Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm wearing them right now. Well, I wear them every day because I keep my gun in there.

• 4:27Benito Skinner?

  I love the idea that it's for you. It's like, so you have all these like wires for you? That sounds terrible.

• 4:33Mary Beth Barone?

  It's prodding, you know, being poked and prodded.

• 4:37Benito Skinner?

  That's a shirt I caught here.

• 4:38Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 4:39Benito Skinner?

  That means the world to see it again. Reware. I really love that shirt.

• 4:44Mary Beth Barone?

  I know. Thank you, Acne Studios.

• 4:46Benito Skinner?

  Why did I get it for you? Just birthday? Yeah.

• 4:48Mary Beth Barone?

  It was birthday.

• 4:49Benito Skinner?

  It could have been anything, by the way.

• 4:50Mary Beth Barone?

  But it was birthday.

• 4:51Benito Skinner?

  What I was saying about the lifesaver, and it's almost done. I'm kind of making a meal of it.

• 4:54Mary Beth Barone?

  You could crunch it. That wouldn't make me upset. You crunched it.

• 4:58Benito Skinner?

  Nasty gal. Nasty gal.

• 5:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Nasty gal.

• 5:01Benito Skinner?

  I brought sustenance. Fuck, she's so me. ASMR, when it was like people reading in first grade, there was this woman who would come to our class and read books with us outside, like during the day. She would pop in a word, there's our lifesaver. And I, the chills down my spine. It was like the scoliosis test.

• 5:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 5:19Benito Skinner?

  Which every time, you know what I did? I'd kind of bend my hip.

• 5:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Crack an egg on your head that the yolk dripped down. Do you know, you remember that?

• 5:28Benito Skinner?

  Practical Magic 2.

• 5:30Mary Beth Barone?

  This episode of Ride is brought to you by Practical Magic 2. It's what we do.

• 5:36Benito Skinner?

  Which is the back. Come on. The egg dripped down my, like, if someone did that to me, I was like, I'll piss my pants.

• 5:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 5:44Benito Skinner?

  You want me to piss?

• 5:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Maybe they did.

• 5:48Benito Skinner?

  I woke up sad randomly, and I feel really good seeing you.

• 5:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, I would like to talk about today's scheduling, which you thought the podcast started at 11. You texted me at 11:09 that you were waiting for the cracker sandwiches.

• 6:00Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 6:00Mary Beth Barone?

  And then I revealed to you that it starts at 11:30, and then you were still late.

• 6:05Benito Skinner?

  So I was still late.

• 6:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Which I actually find like impressive a little bit. I'm just like, how?

• 6:12Benito Skinner?

  I actually don't know. I said to, I was talking to, um, was I, I think I said it to Jake Samas.

• 6:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Some big celebrity?

• 6:19Benito Skinner?

  Oh, God.

• 6:20Mary Beth Barone?

  You just started [BLEEP] fucking name drops, kid.

• 6:23Benito Skinner?

  I was talking to Tom Cruise.

• 6:26Benito Skinner?

  So I was talking to Tom about Scientology, and we were talking.

• 6:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, which part?

• 6:31Benito Skinner?

  We're shooting the shit.

• 6:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 6:33Benito Skinner?

  All the good parts.

• 6:36Benito Skinner?

  But we were talking about Scientology. And then I said, I think, I was put, it was Jake Samas. I was put on this earth, and there's something working through the universe where I'm actually not late to other things, except if it's with you randomly. So I think the universe is like, this is good for her. This is what I'm saying right now.

• 6:55Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm not, I haven't found a lesson yet, but we will. We will, as you hold the.

• 6:59Benito Skinner?

  I was put here.

• 7:01Mary Beth Barone?

  You're put here to, to challenge me and help me grow.

• 7:03Benito Skinner?

  Don't I look like this? This is cowabunga.

• 7:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Show them their necklace.

• 7:07Benito Skinner?

  Cowabunga.

• 7:08Mary Beth Barone?

  It's very cowabunga.

• 7:10Benito Skinner?

  This is Eli Birch. I love Eli Birch.

• 7:11Mary Beth Barone?

  We're both doing flip flops today.

• 7:13Benito Skinner?

  Follow Eli. Dog's out.

• 7:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Dog's out. Let's rest this gently. Do you think I have OCD?

• 7:19Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my God. I mean, who's to know? You gotta go on OCD to find that out.

• 7:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Just because I vacuum three times a day? Do you think that I have OCD?

• 7:25Benito Skinner?

  There is, I mean, cleaning OCD is a thing. It's not the one I have.

• 7:28Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm not trying to co-opt that. Like, I would never identify as OCD now that I'm 34 years into life. And it's like, it's just not part of my brand. It never will be. But I feel like I was just curious from an expert in the field.

• 7:37Benito Skinner?

  Like, I'm bi.

• 7:38Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 7:40Benito Skinner?

  You laughing?

• 7:41Mary Beth Barone?

  You want to get into that? Do you want to get into that today?

• 7:43Benito Skinner?

  God, no.

• 7:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Like, no.

• 7:45Benito Skinner?

  I couldn't be less. Um, I, if I had to guess, you know, I would need a doctorate. But to me, I think cleaning and those things feel, like, it's interesting, I wonder, and I'm sure someone can tell us this, but the difference between like type A and OCD, because I think, also, my mom is very clean and is like really intense about that. But I don't think it like, she's not thinking, I have to clean this or my whole body's sick.

• 8:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. That's not, the stakes aren't that high. I'm just like, I think I would like it better.

• 8:17Benito Skinner?

  Do you, like, if there was, if we've kind of fucked up some of this room, would it make you like, like viscerally sick?

• 8:23Mary Beth Barone?

  No, but sometimes I'll like pause.

• 8:25Benito Skinner?

  If this was cockeyed or something?

• 8:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, no, I wouldn't get sick. But sometimes I would like pause a movie or a show to like go throw out a paper towel. You know what I mean?

• 8:34Benito Skinner?

  I think an interesting example of this is Khloe Kardashian. I remember that being in The Kardashians, that she has a cleaning thing to where everything has to be super clean.

• 8:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 8:44Benito Skinner?

  I don't know. It's not, that's not my manifestation of OCD, so I couldn't tell you. And I probably shouldn't. But to me, I'm like, I think, no matter what, thinking of those things as like, am I doing it because, like, why? I think it's been my, through therapy, that's what I've been working on.

• 9:02Mary Beth Barone?

  It's your why.

• 9:03Benito Skinner?

  Why does that make me feel this way? Or why is my whole body sick if I don't do this? Because I'm the opposite. I, cleaning, it doesn't, I feel nothing.

• 9:11Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, we know.

• 9:14Benito Skinner?

  Just do it.

• 9:15Mary Beth Barone?

  We call him, we call him Benito. Benito wet towel Skinner.

• 9:19Benito Skinner?

  Would you just fucking do it already?

• 9:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Put him down, put the dogs down. I wanted to say something about the Geneva Convention because we're not there. You may have noticed we're actually not in our home studio right now.

• 9:29Benito Skinner?

  No, we're in a paper town.

• 9:31Mary Beth Barone?

  We're in a paper town.

• 9:32Benito Skinner?

  But you know what I love about it? Cause I saw that on the schedule and I thought this started at 11, still came at 11:35. Come on! But I, but I was like, oh my God, I forgot. We used to show our kids podcast studios all over the land. Look at that one, it's in Montreal. Oh my God.

• 9:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, and so.

• 9:53Benito Skinner?

  We did one in Texas.

• 9:54Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 9:55Benito Skinner?

  We did one in Chicago.

• 9:56Mary Beth Barone?

  We did a encyclopedia of ride in Texas, but this was when we were long distance best friends.

• 10:00Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 10:00Mary Beth Barone?

  I wanted to say at the Geneva Convention, so I think what's happening with the sound is that we keep putting our elbows and hands on the table because we speak with our hands. And so then they have to adjust the volume to make that go away. So I actually am wondering if we're going to have any volume issues today. And on that note, what I would love to pitch is to get like an impact mat at the Geneva Convention where it's a little squishy. So if we put our extremities on the table, it's not going to cause any problems.

• 10:24Benito Skinner?

  I love the thought that it's like a full, like it's played, it's slime.

• 10:28Mary Beth Barone?

  It's, well, it's foam. Yeah. It's noiseless.

• 10:31Benito Skinner?

  I have to wear arm pads to do the pod. I would for the kids.

• 10:34Mary Beth Barone?

  I want to tell a story I got permission to tell. Is that okay?

• 10:38Benito Skinner?

  I can't wait.

• 10:38Mary Beth Barone?

  It's not about you.

• 10:39Benito Skinner?

  Oh, I, I, yes.

• 10:41Mary Beth Barone?

  But if it was, I would also tell it.

• 10:43Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 10:43Mary Beth Barone?

  I just didn't want to scare you.

• 10:45Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I'm not scared.

• 10:46Mary Beth Barone?

  So I'm, I have a, a neighbor of mine who I'm friends with. I mean, we were friends first, then we found out we were neighbors, but so she, I saw her.

• 10:53Benito Skinner?

  Also, how cool is that?

• 10:55Mary Beth Barone?

  It's really cool. I just don't want her to think, I don't want her to think I'm describing her as a neighbor, you know, because that's like, whatever. That has implications.

• 11:03Benito Skinner?

  I've had that too, where it's like, sometimes if someone is technically like a coworker or something, it is so uncomfortable to say what they are to you.

• 11:11Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 11:11Benito Skinner?

  I'm going to start just saying lover. Like I've gotten, that's a lover of mine.

• 11:14Mary Beth Barone?

  That's my sexual partner.

• 11:15Benito Skinner?

  That, yeah.

• 11:16Mary Beth Barone?

  So I'm friends, she's a friend and we, we see each other maybe once every six months. So we went for a walk and she was like, I can't wait. This guy I've been talking to, we're really serious. He lives in another state and he's going to move here for me and he's coming to stay with me for a few weeks and we're going to look at places. So the next time I saw her was a few months later, I was so excited for her too. And then I was like, what's going on with the guy? She's like, oh, well, we broke up. And I was like, what happened? And she was like, well, the trip kind of didn't go well. And he said she was controlling and his example was she asked him to take his sunglasses off inside. Cause she thought it came off as rude. So he said she was controlling. So I just wanted to share that with everyone.

• 11:57Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 11:58Mary Beth Barone?

  I might just do a, like MB's corner where I bring a story about something a straight man has done and we just need to sit with that.

• 12:05Benito Skinner?

  Well, I think it's, it's going to be great. It's going to be exposure and response therapy for our listeners, but also I think maybe it could, ooh, is there, is there a cruise ship outside?

• 12:14Mary Beth Barone?

  So the cruise ship, yeah.

• 12:15Benito Skinner?

  We forgot to tell you, we're on the Disney.

• 12:16Mary Beth Barone?

  We're at the port.

• 12:18Benito Skinner?

  What's it called? The Disney, it's just Disney Cruise?

• 12:20Mary Beth Barone?

  Disney liner, the Disney Cruise.

• 12:22Benito Skinner?

  So crazy as a kid. All aboard.

• 12:25Mary Beth Barone?

  It's, well, it's fleet week.

• 12:27Benito Skinner?

  Oh God, totally. Um, you would have survived Titanic, I wouldn't have. I thought that the other day, I had that true thought walking. Experience the Titanic. I wish we had gone to that in LA before I moved.

• 12:38Mary Beth Barone?

  I did do the Titanic walking museum thing that they had a few years ago in New York, but they didn't drown you or anything. I don't know how intense the experience got, but.

• 12:46Benito Skinner?

  They did not, yeah, that, that kind of.

• 12:48Mary Beth Barone?

  I want a cold plunge at the museum.

• 12:50Benito Skinner?

  It gets cold, yeah, a polar bear plunge at the end. But I think hearing these stories, it might help some people maybe wake up from those and be like, oh, wait, I was treated horribly. These men are insane. I, I'm in the right.

• 13:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, that I'm in the right is huge as a modality of thinking.

• 13:06Benito Skinner?

  Well, of course.

• 13:06Mary Beth Barone?

  But I also think for men to hear this, and if you see any of yourself in that, like let's look, let's just continue to dig.

• 13:12Benito Skinner?

  Why are we so angry?

• 13:14Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't know.

• 13:15Benito Skinner?

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• 14:42Benito Skinner?

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• 15:23Benito Skinner?

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• 16:08Benito Skinner?

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• 16:54Benito Skinner?

  Moi moi.

• 16:57Benito Skinner?

  NoCD, let's fucking go. So, okay, relationships are intense. They make us care deeply, feel vulnerable, maybe even freak out a little sometimes. That's human. But some people have relationship concerns that go far beyond standard ones. Like finding another person attractive, then immediately thinking, oh my God, does this mean I don't really love my partner? Or needing constant reassurance that your relationship is right or that you're not making the wrong choice because you never feel sure enough. Or asking yourself the same question hundreds of times a day. Do I really love them? What if I'm wasting their time and searching for some feeling of certainty that never comes? Many people think these sorts of thoughts and anxieties are just overthinking or commitment issues, but they can actually be signs of relationship OCD.

• 17:40Benito Skinner?

  So many people think OCD is just about cleaning or organizing or making your books the kind of like rainbow pattern, but that stereotype couldn't be more wrong. Real OCD is a serious condition. I haven't, hey, where distressing unwanted thoughts called intrusive thoughts get stuck on repeat and you feel compelled to do certain things. Mental or physical behaviors called compulsions to try to make the anxiety stop. With relationship OCD, compulsions might look like constantly seeking reassurance, replaying memories to see if you feel a spark or comparing your partner to others. But what's given me so much hope is learning that OCD is one of the most treatable mental health conditions when you get the right kind of specialized therapy.

• 18:18Benito Skinner?

  OCD needs ERP therapy, exposure and response prevention, which is proven to be the most effective treatment and it did help me so much. NoCD is the world's leading OCD treatment provider and all of their licensed therapists specialize in ERP. Therapy with NoCD is a hundred percent virtual, covered by insurance for over 138 million Americans and includes support between sessions. So you never have to face OCD alone. Well, you never are anyway, because you're right here with me in my arms around you if you consent to that. I love you, stinky. To learn more about starting OCD therapy with NoCD, go to nocd.com and book a free call with their team. That's nocd.com, love you.

• 18:59Benito Skinner?

  I'm staying in a hotel right now because um.

• 19:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Because you want to get hate crimed? You want someone to call you the F slur and L again?

• 19:06Benito Skinner?

  I actually can't believe that happened to me from a woman, bullets.

• 19:10Mary Beth Barone?

  It'd be your own people.

• 19:12Benito Skinner?

  Really be your own girly pops.

• 19:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 19:14Benito Skinner?

  So I was in, there was a sauna in the basement. And so I was like, okay, you know what? I'm gonna, I don't do saunas that much. And I always think of Court, when we had Court on for the overcompensating episode and he goes, fuck Todd in here.

• 19:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Todd in here.

• 19:28Benito Skinner?

  Fully a straight guy. And the gay guy was like, you've been driving us a while since you got in here. I think about that so often.

• 19:36Mary Beth Barone?

  I try not to think about that, but I'm glad I'm thinking about it now.

• 19:38Benito Skinner?

  Agreed.

• 19:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 19:39Benito Skinner?

  And so I'm in the sauna and this guy, uh, an alarm goes off and we kind of start laughing because it's kind of like, what could be a worse sound to hear while we're in this sauna? And then he turns and he's like, man, I'm straight, but you got a great body. And I just think somebody, he's like, I want to tell you that. And I was like, that, thank you. And he's like, sorry, I'm, I'm just like, I'm nervous. I got a date tonight with this girl and I FaceTimed her a few times and I really like her and I hope it goes well. And I was like, oh my God. And I said, start from the top. I spent 20 minutes in that sauna talking to Chad, real estate developer. Yes.

• 20:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, that's.

• 20:16Benito Skinner?

  Total darling.

• 20:16Mary Beth Barone?

  That's beautiful.

• 20:18Benito Skinner?

  He, now he FaceTimes girls before the blind dates because he's like, I don't want to waste their time or my time. I want to see if we kind of could talk for more than five minutes.

• 20:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Whoa.

• 20:26Benito Skinner?

  And I'm like, whoa.

• 20:27Mary Beth Barone?

  He's, he's playing with form.

• 20:28Benito Skinner?

  He is, but he was just a total darling love.

• 20:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Wait, how did you not tell me about this?

• 20:33Benito Skinner?

  A few good guys out there.

• 20:34Mary Beth Barone?

  I think there are and they should all.

• 20:36Benito Skinner?

  Chad killed six women last night.

• 20:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, their bodies are buried, but um, but they should, oh, he should write a book, maybe.

• 20:42Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I don't know, something about.

• 20:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Let's do some.

• 20:45Benito Skinner?

  Shooting the shit with a gay guy in the sauna and.

• 20:47Mary Beth Barone?

  He felt safe with you.

• 20:48Benito Skinner?

  Chad fucked me.

• 20:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, you guys, I, I knew, I knew that.

• 20:52Benito Skinner?

  No, it was like, I don't know. And when he left, he, he said, can't wait to watch overcompensating. And I said, I hope the date goes amazing.

• 20:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh.

• 21:00Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 21:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, actually, on that note, a straight man stopped me in my coffee shop recently and said he and his wife love overcompensating.

• 21:06Benito Skinner?

  Oh, that's awesome.

• 21:07Mary Beth Barone?

  And I thought that was cool to watch stuff with his wife and also bring her up to me. That's awesome.

• 21:12Benito Skinner?

  Oh, that's, to say it early.

• 21:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 21:14Benito Skinner?

  Because he's probably like, this girl wants to smash.

• 21:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, yeah. That was the intention.

• 21:17Benito Skinner?

  I've seen her stand up. She'll like me.

• 21:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 21:20Benito Skinner?

  But I, um, I'm laughing because at one point I kind of made a joke about it. I was like, yeah, and in the show, like I, I play a college student. And he goes, no, no, no, don't do that. You look great, man. I was like.

• 21:33Mary Beth Barone?

  He healed you.

• 21:34Benito Skinner?

  Seriously. Actually, I don't think he's real.

• 21:36Mary Beth Barone?

  You know, no, I was gonna say, you know, and it's.

• 21:38Benito Skinner?

  I was on Cat.

• 21:39Mary Beth Barone?

  You know, and it's a wonderful life, Clarence or whatever.

• 21:42Benito Skinner?

  Do you know, that's kind of like a gay allegory.

• 21:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, I didn't know that.

• 21:44Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. Dive back in. Merry Christmas.

• 21:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay.

• 21:49Benito Skinner?

  I think initially it was the, is it the Haze Code? What's the, the celluloid closet is an amazing doc about how there, there was all these like gay, like winks essentially that were put into movies in like the twenties and thirties. And then there was like this code that launched, I think it was after World War Two, where they were like, knock it off.

• 22:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, yeah.

• 22:09Benito Skinner?

  These designers are acting a little fruity in these movies.

• 22:11Mary Beth Barone?

  I think that's what, um, isn't there something about that in the Aviator? It's like, because they had rules about cleavage and stuff.

• 22:17Benito Skinner?

  I realized recently I haven't seen the Aviator.

• 22:20Mary Beth Barone?

  You should watch it.

• 22:20Benito Skinner?

  I think so too.

• 22:21Mary Beth Barone?

  It's kind of like.

• 22:22Benito Skinner?

  Kate Blanchett, right?

• 22:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Kate Blanchett as Catherine Hepburn and of course Leonardo. As Howard Hughes.

• 22:28Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 22:28Mary Beth Barone?

  The way the feature, the way the feature, I mean, speaking of OCD.

• 22:31Benito Skinner?

  And he didn't win for that. I remember that being like a big thing.

• 22:34Mary Beth Barone?

  He got robbed a lot and then he won for the Revenant or something.

• 22:37Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 22:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Should we get into what you ride for?

• 22:39Benito Skinner?

  I would love to. So I was only five minutes late because I was writing for Blind Boxes. And I brought Mimi So, a great place in Soho to get them. Not sponsored again, but hey.

• 22:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Free promo.

• 22:53Benito Skinner?

  Capitalist at heart.

• 22:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Free promo.

• 22:54Benito Skinner?

  Cowabunga.

• 22:55Mary Beth Barone?

  So I'm writing this week for Pop, uh, Pop Star Academy, the Netflix program.

• 23:00Benito Skinner?

  My God, I can't.

• 23:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Which I can't wait to talk about with you.

• 23:02Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, they're dropping like flies on Cat's eye though.

• 23:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, let me get, we're gonna get into that.

• 23:06Benito Skinner?

  Okay.

• 23:06Mary Beth Barone?

  We're gonna talk about all that.

• 23:07Benito Skinner?

  I say with love and adoration for Cat's eye, of course. And I hope everyone's well, but I just, it's, they're gonna end with one and it might just be you.

• 23:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, uh, I'm ready to step in whenever. I want to do Love Island next season where they just randomly have a 36 year old. Cause I'll be 36 next year and I'm just like, I have no plastic surgery and I'm on the British one too. I just want to see how quickly I'd get voted off.

• 23:27Benito Skinner?

  Or actually.

• 23:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Or straight to the top.

• 23:30Benito Skinner?

  You could be the queen of steampunk if you'd only allow it.

• 23:32Mary Beth Barone?

  If I had only fucking let it happen. Last, last night at my show, Front Row, we had a Pilates instructor, a stay at home dad, a physician that worked for a nonprofit and a social worker. I mean, I was just like, this is just so cool. Like, it's just cool.

• 23:45Benito Skinner?

  Come on, that's amazing. It's guess who?

• 23:46Mary Beth Barone?

  That's so fun.

• 23:48Benito Skinner?

  Do you want to open your prezies first or do you want to talk about Pop Star Academy?

• 23:51Mary Beth Barone?

  I think I want to just randomly talk about Pop Star Academy.

• 23:53Benito Skinner?

  And you've done this before.

• 23:55Mary Beth Barone?

  I know, it's cool. So when we were filming overcompensating in Toronto, we had, you know, you're on set and so I had some downtime.

• 24:02Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 24:03Mary Beth Barone?

  So I watched, two years late, I watched a show called Pop Star Academy.

• 24:08Benito Skinner?

  I love that. It's like watching an older season of American Idol almost in my head.

• 24:11Mary Beth Barone?

  Me just watching the brutalists. It's very that.

• 24:14Benito Skinner?

  There was a building there.

• 24:15Mary Beth Barone?

  And it was brutalist.

• 24:16Benito Skinner?

  And it was brutalist. And it was beautiful.

• 24:17Mary Beth Barone?

  So.

• 24:18Benito Skinner?

  They fucking ruined it.

• 24:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, it was my favorite.

• 24:20Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 24:20Mary Beth Barone?

  So I, I start this program. I don't know exactly what I'm getting into. I knew the conceit was that the, these executives wanted to put together a K-pop group. But it, or in the style of a K-pop group.

• 24:31Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 24:31Mary Beth Barone?

  And.

• 24:32Benito Skinner?

  When you saw the name, did you think I hosted it?

• 24:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, well, I was expecting, but then I remembered that was the dance competition show on, on Quibi with Liza Koshy.

• 24:40Benito Skinner?

  Yes. I wonder who has the tapes of me being a guest judge on the dance competition. So I've lived nine lives.

• 24:47Mary Beth Barone?

  I was on the punk reboot. I was on the punk reboot. People forget that.

• 24:51Benito Skinner?

  We were Quibi darlings. Quibi down.

• 24:55Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm Quibi down. So I turned this program on and it's sort of like, it's sort of like everything I would want in a television show. And you know, I'm not a reality TV girl, but this is really like, it's very women's stories matter.

• 25:08Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 25:09Mary Beth Barone?

  So they are identifying these girls with star quality, right? And they, they invite, I don't know what the numbers are. I'm going to say like a hundred to enter Pop Star Academy. And it's a rigorous, sort of like military style training for being in a pop group. They're doing rehearsals like eight hours a day. They're singing, they're making different combinations of the girls and then they're slowly narrowing things down. And the girls, the ones that were like in contention all had to move to LA from wherever they're from, from all over the world. And they would add girls at different times. Some of the girls were already in the training for like three months and then they would bring new girls in. And some of them would just get eliminated. And it was, it's just like, I felt like there was this sisterhood among the girls.

• 25:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Cause even though they were in competition with each other, they really cared about each other. And like, it was just really sweet to like their, and they were all in their teens too. I mean, it's like, well, I know some of them maybe were in their twenties. What a dream to be like, I was like, God, I, I can't sing or dance, but I would have loved to just.

• 26:05Benito Skinner?

  But fuck it.

• 26:06Mary Beth Barone?

  I would love to be considered, you know?

• 26:07Benito Skinner?

  You guys can't even hit me up. Like, at least give me a shot.

• 26:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Just like, I could try.

• 26:12Benito Skinner?

  God, of course.

• 26:12Mary Beth Barone?

  You know, but the physical toll, this training, and this is the traditional K-pop training.

• 26:16Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 26:17Mary Beth Barone?

  And it was, it was just incredible to see. And I loved watching them navigate these things. And they were all so mature and just like such beautiful people. And at one point they did an elimination that this girl just, she was just like, I thought that I didn't like that. And she just left. She had been, she was very close to the final round of eliminations. And she was just like, I didn't like how that went down, so I'm, I'm going home.

• 26:40Benito Skinner?

  So you, when your skin was dry at school.

• 26:42Mary Beth Barone?

  It was so me with dry skin at school.

• 26:44Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. And just being like, hey, I just like, actually this one, I gotta check out.

• 26:48Mary Beth Barone?

  So I need.

• 26:48Benito Skinner?

  It's not going good.

• 26:49Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't, I don't like it.

• 26:50Benito Skinner?

  I'm actually good.

• 26:51Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't like how it feels.

• 26:52Benito Skinner?

  That girl on America's Next Top Model where she's like, this isn't for me.

• 26:54Mary Beth Barone?

  This isn't for me and so I'm going to go home. Exactly.

• 26:57Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 26:57Mary Beth Barone?

  And it was watching these girls dance with such precision. It's obviously mesmerizing. That's why all those dancing videos go viral on TikTok.

• 27:05Benito Skinner?

  Gap ad is like, I, I, I think it has to be like, maybe Britney dancing in the Pepsi commercial where they're kind of in the like warehouse with the trucks. Is maybe, I mean, it, it like, it comes close to that. I would say like, nothing could beat that video of Britney, but it's like.

• 27:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Gives me full chills.

• 27:21Benito Skinner?

  It's the most incredible thing I've ever seen. The little milkshake.

• 27:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 27:25Benito Skinner?

  Oh, the amount of gays that are doing that at afters.

• 27:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 27:28Benito Skinner?

  Like, that's beautiful.

• 27:29Mary Beth Barone?

  That's culture.

• 27:29Benito Skinner?

  There was a building there.

• 27:30Mary Beth Barone?

  And it was brutalist. They're keeping culture alive. And I think what's interesting too is like, they weren't really shying away from the fact that like, the girls were putting themselves through so much physically that they were getting injured. And so I know that Cat's eye just had to drop out of Daisy Chain Fields because one of their members was injured.

• 27:47Benito Skinner?

  I'm like, I feel like they've been going nonstop for a very long time. Hit me up, you know?

• 27:51Mary Beth Barone?

  What was interesting was the final elimination, I believe it was like weighted scores, like the public voted. Cause while this was happening, they were doing a YouTube series where fans could vote in real time. And it was like, they tallied social media stuff, like likes and followers and whatever and views and everything. But then at the end, it was like, it was sort of a weighted average. And I know there was some people that did not make it that like maybe were favorites of mine who I thought should have.

• 28:15Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 28:15Mary Beth Barone?

  And then there was a sort of controversial pick for the group. And then, um, Adella, who was not picked for the final group is now a solo artist.

• 28:23Benito Skinner?

  Major. Prima is fabulous.

• 28:26Mary Beth Barone?

  And you know.

• 28:27Benito Skinner?

  You sent me a few of her songs this week.

• 28:28Mary Beth Barone?

  I really did. Cause the baddest bitches ain't in LA.

• 28:31Benito Skinner?

  No, they're in Stanford, Connecticut.

• 28:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Stanford. They're holding it down. They're at Three Little Birds Coffee in Stanford.

• 28:36Benito Skinner?

  I'm like Princess Diana.

• 28:38Mary Beth Barone?

  So I just love the show. I think it's like, it's also just wholesome. It's like, they're not doing anything nefarious.

• 28:45Benito Skinner?

  That show in 2003 like is so diabolical.

• 28:48Mary Beth Barone?

  I mean, many of the.

• 28:49Benito Skinner?

  It's making the band.

• 28:50Mary Beth Barone?

  So I'm really grateful it happened when it happened. And that's not to say they were not put through the wringer mentally, physically and emotionally.

• 28:55Benito Skinner?

  And we have to shout out Charlie Christie.

• 28:57Mary Beth Barone?

  And Charlie Christie, who was a featured player.

• 28:59Benito Skinner?

  A friend of ours.

• 29:00Mary Beth Barone?

  In Pop Star Academy.

• 29:02Benito Skinner?

  He's fabulous. The sweetest man alive.

• 29:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 29:04Benito Skinner?

  It's crazy. I literally just ran into him in New York and I saw him and I go, Mary Beth is a pop star academy. And he was like, the, really?

• 29:13Mary Beth Barone?

  The show from three years ago?

• 29:14Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, he was like, wait, that was a long, yeah. And I was like, no, she's just locking in.

• 29:18Mary Beth Barone?

  I find things when I find them and I'm looking forward to a second season.

• 29:21Benito Skinner?

  Who knows when I'll read it?

• 29:22Mary Beth Barone?

  A little life. I want to go on the record as saying, I don't think you should read it. I didn't read it, but I know they did a play version of it that had like ambulances waiting outside. Because it was so graphic that people were passing out in the theater. And I think the main actor showed whole. So.

• 29:42Mary Beth Barone?

  It's coming to Broadway, babe. You wanna throw your hat in the ring?

• 29:46Benito Skinner?

  Looks like all I want is a chance. My own Pop Star Academy.

• 29:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, they do a training camp for A Little Life on Broadway. You're ready. I think you're ready.

• 29:55Benito Skinner?

  I think so, too. I've got this mustache.

• 29:58Mary Beth Barone?

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• 30:42Mary Beth Barone?

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• 31:26Mary Beth Barone?

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• 31:40Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, absolutely.

• 31:42Mary Beth Barone?

  He's already-

• 31:42Benito Skinner?

  By the way, Johnny Depp, before he was-

• 31:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Scrooge?

• 31:47Benito Skinner?

  He was Ebenezer. Yeah, continue.

• 31:50Mary Beth Barone?

  So he's already my first call when I match with someone.

• 31:52Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 31:53Mary Beth Barone?

  He's planning my outfit with me, and we always end up with a full post-hang debrief after a date. I mean, you literally wanted to come with me on a first date.

• 31:59Benito Skinner?

  I know, and I wish I had, because I would have told you to wear leggings, a corset, trainer, two pasties in the shape of stars, and necklace with an electric guitar on it. And I would say, "Spike your hair up, two big spikes."

• 32:19Mary Beth Barone?

  It would be so long.

• 32:20Benito Skinner?

  Do a smokey eye and a red lip. Those are all things that seduce a straight man.

• 32:25Mary Beth Barone?

  But now at Tinder's double date, he won't just hear about it. He'll actually be along for the ride.

• 32:30Benito Skinner?

  Yes, so with Double Date, you and your bestie can match and meet new people together. Tap the Double Date icon to see profiles built for two. When you match with another pair, the group chat kicks off with everyone, which already puts vibes on 10.

• 32:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Scope the profiles, send a GIF that matches the energy, make the chat fun, keep the vibes up when you're out together, and laugh about it all with your bestie. Whether it turns into a fun memory or something more, it's always better when you're in it together.

• 32:55Benito Skinner?

  So you and your bestie finding a match together? Sounds like a good link-up. Meeting new people doesn't have to be a solo assignment. With Double Date, consider your odds for finding something or someone doubled. Try Tinder Double Date, because everything's better with friends. Download Tinder today. You know, it's funny. When you're gay and you go blonde or get a mustache, everyone gives you a really raw review off the bat of seeing you in a way that I'm like, "That would be crazy if I did that back."

• 33:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, it's maybe like when a woman becomes pregnant, and then the people really feel like they want to comment on it.

• 33:27Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 33:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Like, "You look ready to pop."

• 33:29Benito Skinner?

  Damn, girl, it's fully cooked.

• 33:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Is it twins?

• 33:31Benito Skinner?

  And they're like, "I'm three months."

• 33:33Mary Beth Barone?

  They're like, "Cool, yeah, I just found out."

• 33:35Benito Skinner?

  The moment in two weeks' notice, I don't know if we've talked about this line read. I used to say this all the time as a kid. The woman where Hugh Grant thinks she's pregnant early in the film, and then at the end, she is pregnant. He at first was like, "Congrats on your pregnancy." And she's like, "I'm not pregnant." And at the end, when he says, she goes, "Are you gonna congratulate me?" Because she ends up being pregnant. And he's like, "I'm not falling for this again. I'm not falling for this again." And she goes, "You wanna see the damn sonogram?" I used to say it all the time as a kid.

• 34:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Wait, now it's all coming back to me.

• 34:03Benito Skinner?

  You're feeling it, right? She, this actress, I don't know who it is. She's fantastic in it, but- "You wanna see the damn sonogram?"

• 34:09Mary Beth Barone?

  I wonder if Hugh Grant has seen Pop Star Academy. Could've.

• 34:13Benito Skinner?

  No comment on that.

• 34:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Depends on how old the woman he's currently dating is, which we're not sure. But I think Pop Star Academy, it's about grit, it's about determination, it's about skill, it's about loving your craft, and it's about sisterhood. And so I really found it to be just like a joy to watch.

• 34:32Benito Skinner?

  This is Benny Drama's Star Academy. Yes, I'm with her right now. Yes, of course. They want to talk to you.

• 34:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Hello? Oh, no.

• 34:43Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, perfect.

• 34:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, I didn't want to do it.

• 34:45Benito Skinner?

  Okay, cool.

• 34:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Sometimes you have to leave them wanting more.

• 34:47Benito Skinner?

  That was a test. We didn't think it was good for you.

• 34:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Exactly.

• 34:50Benito Skinner?

  So I want to do my own Star Academy. I think that's how I'll end my life here on Earth. My last big, that's my fourth quarter.

• 34:56Mary Beth Barone?

  It's your last big project. That's your swan song.

• 34:58Benito Skinner?

  I can't wait.

• 34:59Mary Beth Barone?

  I can't wait, too. I hope I'll be a judge.

• 35:01Benito Skinner?

  My traitor of sorts.

• 35:02Mary Beth Barone?

  I want to be at the desk.

• 35:03Benito Skinner?

  Of course. Yes. You're a judge, Olivia Dean's a judge.

• 35:07Mary Beth Barone?

  And then there's a guest judge. And La Roche does the guest judging a lot.

• 35:11Benito Skinner?

  I, actually, like, I need to just ride for La Roche.

• 35:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Actually, let's write that down.

• 35:18Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 35:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Because I would love to discuss it as well. The riding for La Roche.

• 35:23Benito Skinner?

  I recently, oh, and I had one encounter with La Roche at the Los Culturistas-

• 35:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Awards that I wasn't invited to, multiple years in a row.

• 35:32Benito Skinner?

  Totally, and I wanted you to talk about that.

• 35:34Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't think it's weird to bring it up.

• 35:36Benito Skinner?

  That you weren't invited?

• 35:37Mary Beth Barone?

  I was invited when it was in New York, before it was on TV. And I actually presented an award. But anyway, go on.

• 35:44Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, so La Roche was backstage, and I saw him, and I had to tell him just how much I'm a [BLEEP] with him. And he, he was buying these, um, I don't know exactly what they're called, but they're like a salmon that's almost been turned into a jerky of sorts, a salmon jerky. But they're like really expensive and like fabulous, and he'll eat them on TikTok. I'd watch 40, I would watch it for 40 hours.

• 36:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 36:06Benito Skinner?

  It's the best thing I've ever seen.

• 36:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, that brings up him, so La Roche was a guest on Z-Way recently, and I really enjoyed that episode.

• 36:13Benito Skinner?

  Totally different feeling.

• 36:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally different feeling.

• 36:17Benito Skinner?

  I, I saw her recently and brought that up, and I, I was laughing with her, because I'm like, that's just, that is what that show can do. Create a moment like that.

• 36:25Mary Beth Barone?

  And he goes, "Since birth."

• 36:28Benito Skinner?

  Totally different feeling.

• 36:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally different feeling.

• 36:30Benito Skinner?

  He has this line that he said, "I love how, the pettiness is just like, of course, as a Scorpio, I'm like, well, that gives me chills." I think it was like a Vogue what's in his bag, and he, he brought out a globe, and he goes, "'Cause I'm from the world."

• 36:42Mary Beth Barone?

  "Je suis de la monte."

• 36:43Benito Skinner?

  "Je suis de la monte." But he had said this girl where he goes, "We're from the same place, babe." And the girl goes, "Queens?" And he goes, "The world."

• 36:49Mary Beth Barone?

  The world!

• 36:50Benito Skinner?

  I'm like, "Je suis de la monte."

• 36:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Thanks for bringing that up. We'll get into what you ride for right after I share this with you. So I've been watching a lot of talkbacks with Brady Corbeil, who directed The Brutalist.

• 37:01Benito Skinner?

  Good, as you should. He won for it, right?

• 37:03Mary Beth Barone?

  I think so.

• 37:04Benito Skinner?

  He better have.

• 37:05Mary Beth Barone?

  He won a lot of stuff for it. But I have this thing that I've been saying for a while, which is like, with new movies and TV shows, a lot of times, it doesn't matter if it's good. It just matters that it exists.

• 37:15Benito Skinner?

  When you, I actually have repeated this at three dinners recently.

• 37:18Mary Beth Barone?

  And thank you for spreading that. And I was listening to this talkback that he did, and he said, like, "It doesn't matter if a movie does well. It matters if it exists." And I was like, "Whoa, are you like in my brain?" It was kind of crazy to hear someone else say it and be like, "Okay, well, if the director of The Brutalist thinks so, and I think so, then it must be true."

• 37:36Benito Skinner?

  You guys have always been kind of tit-for-tat, very cat and mouse.

• 37:39Mary Beth Barone?

  But our, uh, our content, totally different feeling.

• 37:42Benito Skinner?

  Totally different feeling. God, you still make me laugh. I was repeating some of your jokes to a group of gays last night, and I actually did a really good job on some of them.

• 37:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Which one?

• 37:52Benito Skinner?

  Some of your newer stuff.

• 37:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay, cool. I did it all last night.

• 37:55Benito Skinner?

  I mean, it's, I think it's fabulous.

• 37:57Mary Beth Barone?

  It's fun. I have 15 minutes.

• 37:59Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 38:00Mary Beth Barone?

  So it'll be an hour at some point.

• 38:01Benito Skinner?

  It's gonna, it's-

• 38:02Mary Beth Barone?

  We just have to, these are the concepts right now. We have to flat, make them wider. You know what I mean? We have to flatten them. But it's okay, we're gonna get there.

• 38:11Benito Skinner?

  Well, yeah, I, there was a cut for an episode of overcompensating that was like 48 minutes. And I'm like, ultimately, it's a 30-minute comedy. So we're just trying to figure that out as well.

• 38:18Mary Beth Barone?

  It just, it's hard when you write so much good stuff.

• 38:20Benito Skinner?

  Sometimes it can be too big, sometimes it can be too small. Let's find it right in the middle, and that's where we find it.

• 38:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Should we open some blocks, blockses? I said, "Blockses."

• 38:27Benito Skinner?

  Let's open some blockses, fuck it. So I am riding for blind boxes. And these, I just want to say, if these existed when I was a kid, it would have put my mom into psychosis. And we actually would have had to sell the house.

• 38:39Mary Beth Barone?

  I was gonna literally say second mortgage.

• 38:41Benito Skinner?

  We would have had to sell the house. Because my OCD, I would have been like, I have kind of collector OCD, so I would have been like, "If, if I don't get all of them, like, I, there will be a tornado that storms through Boise, or my mom will fall in quicksand. So I, I need us to get these, or I'm just not gonna sleep well." So I have been watching these on TikTok, and I've kind of learned how to open them.

• 39:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, in the right way?

• 39:05Benito Skinner?

  Yes, of course. And it's just, it's such a quick dopamine rush that I'm sure could become an addiction for many, including me. It's just these little moments of joy. I think it's so cute. It's so cutesy, too. Like, the ones I got, I think all could be keychains. And I love sharing a keychain with you.

• 39:21Mary Beth Barone?

  You got me a bedazzled Chihuahua keychain recently. It's on the keys.

• 39:24Benito Skinner?

  And a little boo-boo. And, and then, um, we did a Zootopia blind box opening.

• 39:29Mary Beth Barone?

  You know what I thought of on the way? Is any, any gift can be a blind unboxing when it's a gift off-season.

• 39:36Benito Skinner?

  Well, we've all seen Seven.

• 39:38Mary Beth Barone?

  We've all seen Seven. What's in the box?

• 39:41Benito Skinner?

  So today, um, it's gonna be a what's in the box thing. Kevin Spacey.

• 39:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Can I just say Kevin Spacey?

• 39:48Benito Skinner?

  I think it was a year ago today that he smiled at me at the Heathrow Airport. I said, "But..."

• 39:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Wait, that might be true.

• 39:56Benito Skinner?

  I think it was literally a year ago today. Yeah.

• 39:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay, let's get, let's open some shit.

• 40:00Benito Skinner?

  So I went into Miniso. There's a bunch that you can buy on TikTok and stuff, but I really loved going in there because you can kind of see, you see how big they are, you see the, like, I don't know, I just, I don't know who to trust.

• 40:11Mary Beth Barone?

  That can be so tough.

• 40:12Benito Skinner?

  It was fucking packed. And there were so many. But I decided that these two felt like themes that were of the pod and of us.

• 40:20Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay.

• 40:20Benito Skinner?

  Blake Silva, who's my, my Pooh Bear connoisseur, who I love so much. One of my-

• 40:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Everyone needs one.

• 40:25Benito Skinner?

  One of my Disney girls.

• 40:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 40:27Benito Skinner?

  Well, sweetie, of course, I've got a dealer. You know, recently, someone was like, "God, where would you get a custom cake in, in London?" And I thought, "Well, I obviously have someone. What do you mean?"

• 40:36Mary Beth Barone?

  A custom cake?

• 40:37Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I'm like, easy.

• 40:38Mary Beth Barone?

  What, like, it's hard?

• 40:39Benito Skinner?

  I go, "Sweetie, tell me what city."

• 40:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, that's not hard.

• 40:41Benito Skinner?

  There's a birthday going on? Like, tell me what city. I'm happy to get the cake.

• 40:44Mary Beth Barone?

  We can figure it out.

• 40:45Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I'm like, so, but my new thing is buying people custom cakes. I'm a [BLEEP].

• 40:50Mary Beth Barone?

  This is news to me.

• 40:51Benito Skinner?

  Give a gay guy a TV show and watch the world burn. You know, when there was a dolphin in Venice? That's that.

• 40:57Mary Beth Barone?

  That's that. Yes.

• 40:59Benito Skinner?

  So Blake does it, but I love. So how we're gonna do it is I'm gonna hand it to you and we're both gonna tell, say the one we want.

• 41:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay.

• 41:06Benito Skinner?

  But you know, it's fine if we don't get it.

• 41:08Mary Beth Barone?

  Of course.

• 41:08Benito Skinner?

  Then we're gonna say a backup. We are gonna say the one we don't really want.

• 41:11Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay.

• 41:12Benito Skinner?

  Which I think is kinda negative, but we're gonna do it.

• 41:13Mary Beth Barone?

  We have to establish stakes.

• 41:14Benito Skinner?

  Exactly. So that's, exactly. And then you open it and it's just like, it's just pure childhood joy. I think I'm always bringing childlike wonder into this pod because I just think it's fucking fun and we don't get enough of it.

• 41:26Mary Beth Barone?

  You said you wanted to do more prepping for episodes and I feel like this is, like, we knew what we were writing for before we got here, which is different.

• 41:35Benito Skinner?

  Okay, so you get to choose the first thing. It's either Powerpuff Girls or Zootopia.

• 41:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, Powerpuff Girls first. Has to be.

• 41:42Benito Skinner?

  That one is so calling you.

• 41:44Mary Beth Barone?

  It's calling me.

• 41:45Benito Skinner?

  I like, I believe in witchcraft, really. Practical magic.

• 41:48Mary Beth Barone?

  So.

• 41:49Benito Skinner?

  Yes.

• 41:50Mary Beth Barone?

  All right, so it's, it can be, it's, it can be one of these six.

• 41:53Benito Skinner?

  So it's gonna be one of these six.

• 41:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay, so for me, I, any of the ones with the ears, I would be cool with.

• 41:59Benito Skinner?

  I agree, so to me.

• 42:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Because they look like pinky.

• 42:01Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, it's, it's very bunny.

• 42:04Mary Beth Barone?

  I, there's none that I don't want. Is that crazy? Like, I see the good in each of them.

• 42:07Benito Skinner?

  You know what's funny? I think I have gotten these before or ones similar because me and Cecilia, who I love so much in Toronto.

• 42:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Lesbian.

• 42:15Benito Skinner?

  Me on, so lesbian. I thought you were gonna say that. Um, worked on overcompensating and we got them one day. And I got the crying blossom or something that looks like that. I'm a Bubbles girl, though.

• 42:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay.

• 42:27Benito Skinner?

  Because we're both atomic blondes with attitudes.

• 42:30Mary Beth Barone?

  You're atomic blondes with attitudes.

• 42:31Benito Skinner?

  But like a really sweet disposition. So to me, I'm probably, I think I'm Bunny Bubbles, which is like, she has little ears.

• 42:41Mary Beth Barone?

  I guess, yeah, I guess if I want, if I was like, which one do I want for sure? It would be Bunny Buttercup. And then if I had to choose one that I didn't want, I guess crying blossom because she looks the most sad.

• 42:51Benito Skinner?

  Of course you're Buttercup.

• 42:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 42:52Benito Skinner?

  I didn't even think about that. Okay, so if we get the one we like, we can also trade.

• 42:56Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay, cool.

• 42:57Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. This would have been crazy. As a kid, if someone would have gotten something, I would have had to like, be a card dealer.

• 43:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Pokemon cards.

• 43:03Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 43:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Because you didn't know what was in there.

• 43:05Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I didn't do those as much.

• 43:07Mary Beth Barone?

  I mean, I didn't either, but we all had our phases.

• 43:09Benito Skinner?

  All right, ready? Um, okay, so close your eyes now. And then we go like this and you feel it. Give him the ASMR. Okay. And then try to find.

• 43:18Mary Beth Barone?

  I found it.

• 43:19Benito Skinner?

  The, the cutaway thing?

• 43:23Benito Skinner?

  Maybe I'm doing this wrong.

• 43:25Mary Beth Barone?

  You did find the, find the, find the tab.

• 43:28Benito Skinner?

  Okay, okay, okay. I'm feeling it. I'm feeling it. Mine has ears. All right, three, two, one.

• 43:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Mine doesn't have ears.

• 43:37Benito Skinner?

  Wait, but I got the one you wanted. Open.

• 43:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh my god! Okay.

• 43:43Benito Skinner?

  I want that one.

• 43:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay, cool.

• 43:44Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 43:45Mary Beth Barone?

  And then we put these where?

• 43:46Benito Skinner?

  We could put them on a bag. We can put them on a belt.

• 43:48Mary Beth Barone?

  We could put them on a belt.

• 43:49Benito Skinner?

  We could like.

• 43:50Mary Beth Barone?

  You can put them on a necklace.

• 43:51Benito Skinner?

  Of course, right here.

• 43:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Cute. Pinky's gonna love this.

• 43:54Benito Skinner?

  Wait, this is really cute. It's like I have you with me all the time.

• 43:57Mary Beth Barone?

  It's like you have your little, it's a pocket.

• 43:59Benito Skinner?

  I'm glad you got the one you wanted.

• 44:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Pocket bestie. Well, hey.

• 44:04Benito Skinner?

  He sent me back 50 bucks.

• 44:06Mary Beth Barone?

  I can, I saw the MSRP. It was 19.99.

• 44:09Benito Skinner?

  I go silent for the rest of the, the recording. I don't say a word.

• 44:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, that's something my ex, that's something my ex would do. If my ex didn't get the blind box he wanted.

• 44:17Benito Skinner?

  Completely pissed. Um, this makes me so happy. It's so you to me.

• 44:20Mary Beth Barone?

  And thanks for trading.

• 44:21Benito Skinner?

  Isn't that so? Well, of course, sweetie, that's the one you wanted. How fun is this?

• 44:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh my god, I love. Look at it. It's so small.

• 44:27Benito Skinner?

  Aren't they cutie cutie?

• 44:29Mary Beth Barone?

  It's a little pinky.

• 44:30Benito Skinner?

  Oh, whoa, they're really beautifully made. Like, the craftsmanship's here.

• 44:34Mary Beth Barone?

  And for only 20 bucks? This is, this is cool.

• 44:38Benito Skinner?

  Bring these to Thanksgiving at your house. Whoa, look at this. Look at this.

• 44:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Just think about the havoc these have wreaked on families with multiple kids and/or groups of three best friends.

• 44:46Benito Skinner?

  Horrific.

• 44:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Like the trades and the not trades.

• 44:48Benito Skinner?

  So scary.

• 44:50Mary Beth Barone?

  All right, what's next? It's Zootopia.

• 44:52Benito Skinner?

  So there's Zootopia, but there, little crying baby. How you is that?

• 44:56Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, cool.

• 44:57Benito Skinner?

  That one's calling to you.

• 44:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Little crying baby.

• 44:59Benito Skinner?

  But it's Zootopia. Little crying baby meets Zootopia.

• 45:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay, here's what I would love. I would love Finnick because it has a little, a little pacifier.

• 45:06Benito Skinner?

  I knew you were gonna do Finnick.

• 45:08Mary Beth Barone?

  The one I wouldn't want, I guess, would be Poverty Linkslie.

• 45:11Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, we did say what we didn't want. I actually wanted all of these in my heart.

• 45:14Mary Beth Barone?

  I didn't want crying blossom because I thought it was too sad.

• 45:17Benito Skinner?

  Totally.

• 45:17Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't wanna, I don't know what happened to her. I don't want Poverty Linkslie.

• 45:22Benito Skinner?

  Okay, so to me, yeah, Poverty Linkslie is like not really calling to me. I would love Nibbles. He's a little beaver.

• 45:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, Nibbles is cutie.

• 45:33Benito Skinner?

  I think that was a she. Actually, you know who I want? I want either Nick Wilder or Judy Hopps because that was our Halloween costume.

• 45:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Here's my problem. I'm like, I just wanna open it because I wanna know. Like, that's a problem.

• 45:43Benito Skinner?

  You'd be a glutton in there. You're in the store opening all of them.

• 45:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, I wanna know before I buy. I'm not buying some bullshit. I don't know what it is.

• 45:51Benito Skinner?

  Okay, ready? Close your eyes.

• 45:54Benito Skinner?

  Get in there.

• 45:58Benito Skinner?

  Okay, this time, we have to open at the same time.

• 46:01Mary Beth Barone?

  And open our, open our eyes. Okay.

• 46:04Benito Skinner?

  Do you have it in your hand?

• 46:05Mary Beth Barone?

  No, I don't yet.

• 46:05Benito Skinner?

  Okay.

• 46:08Mary Beth Barone?

  Wait, wait, wait. I'm gonna trash away.

• 46:10Benito Skinner?

  Like, collectible. I thought these were keychains. Wow, she really led me astray in there.

• 46:14Mary Beth Barone?

  All right, so.

• 46:15Benito Skinner?

  Three.

• 46:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Two.

• 46:16Benito Skinner?

  Two, one.

• 46:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh my god. We got the same one.

• 46:22Benito Skinner?

  If that ain't us. Who is this?

• 46:23Mary Beth Barone?

  That's an alignment.

• 46:24Benito Skinner?

  Lemming?

• 46:25Mary Beth Barone?

  It's Lemming. Lemming's cute. Lemming would have been a second for me.

• 46:29Benito Skinner?

  I agree. Wait, this is so cutie.

• 46:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh my god, it's so heavy.

• 46:33Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I mean, it's well made, as I said, well constructed. Okay.

• 46:37Mary Beth Barone?

  It just jumped out of my hand.

• 46:38Benito Skinner?

  They really told me this was a keychain.

• 46:40Mary Beth Barone?

  That's okay. Well, we couldn't, what would we have done with two keychains?

• 46:43Benito Skinner?

  I agree.

• 46:43Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm gonna show you where I'm gonna put this in my place. I have a really exciting thing happening in my bathroom.

• 46:47Benito Skinner?

  I can't wait. Look at this. Wait, that is so cutie. Look at the crying.

• 46:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Look, let's put them right there.

• 46:53Benito Skinner?

  It's so sweet.

• 46:53Mary Beth Barone?

  And they can be, they can be featured players in the next episode.

• 46:57Benito Skinner?

  We kind of both came from like ma, places of matching. That's really cool.

• 47:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, well, there's a, there's a synergy. There's an alignment. I mean, you picked the boxes, kid.

• 47:06Benito Skinner?

  Exactly.

• 47:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Did a good job. Thanks for my presents.

• 47:08Benito Skinner?

  So that's, this was blind, obviously, I think this episode would be, that portion would be more fun to watch. I could, I can only assume.

• 47:15Mary Beth Barone?

  But there's video on Spotify now, so.

• 47:17Benito Skinner?

  Exactly. Oh, that's why the intro isn't as long, I believe.

• 47:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh.

• 47:22Benito Skinner?

  Because some people are like, what happened to the song?

• 47:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 47:24Benito Skinner?

  And they would send me pictures of guns and are like, which one should I use on Benny Drama?

• 47:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, they sent you a photo outside of your parents' house.

• 47:30Benito Skinner?

  People do know that that happened to me when I did that White House video.

• 47:34Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't think enough people know, but I tell them a lot. I tell people a lot.

• 47:37Benito Skinner?

  For like weeks.

• 47:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 47:38Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, and they found like my family's numbers and asked if I had AIDS.

• 47:42Mary Beth Barone?

  They doxed you.

• 47:43Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, so that's why I'm scared all the time.

• 47:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Yes.

• 47:46Benito Skinner?

  It's been a good, that was my seventh life. I'm on the night.

• 47:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, it's a crazy life.

• 47:51Benito Skinner?

  God, it's all dizzying. But stuff like this, I think, is just these little joys.

• 47:55Mary Beth Barone?

  It's joy.

• 47:56Benito Skinner?

  I will say, do this with like nieces and nephews and your kids. It's just crazy unless, I mean, things can, they can get sad quick. Because if you don't get the one you wanted.

• 48:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Right, then it's like all hell's broken loose.

• 48:06Benito Skinner?

  Maybe get a few.

• 48:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Just bet your bets.

• 48:08Benito Skinner?

  Yours is like so you to me.

• 48:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Wants to like say what she rides for.

• 48:13Benito Skinner?

  No.

• 48:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Look at that.

• 48:14Benito Skinner?

  Oh my god, cute!

• 48:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Thank you for these.

• 48:17Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 48:17Mary Beth Barone?

  An interactive show and tell episode.

• 48:19Benito Skinner?

  Sorry, I was five minutes late, but I, it's funny. I thought I was so ahead of time. I thought I could get a coffee after this.

• 48:25Mary Beth Barone?

  I knew it.

• 48:25Benito Skinner?

  And then I walked out and it was 11:30. So I didn't get the coffee.

• 48:28Mary Beth Barone?

  No, but I could tell that, I could tell that once I revealed to you that it was 11:30, it was about to go haywire.

• 48:35Benito Skinner?

  No, I just, I was like, well, now I'm getting two blind boxes.

• 48:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, of course.

• 48:38Benito Skinner?

  I just think you need the two just in case the first one doesn't really service you in a big way.

• 48:43Mary Beth Barone?

  And in this case, we got two good ones.

• 48:44Benito Skinner?

  I feel really good. This on a speedy bag?

• 48:47Mary Beth Barone?

  This on a speedy, oh, don't get me started. Okay. That's genius. I, I ride for blind boxes. I love childlike wonder. I like to just have a little treat. It's a little treat.

• 48:57Benito Skinner?

  It's a little treat. It's just like, and I don't know something about it being, it feels witchy to me, too. That's like this called to me. I needed to have this one.

• 49:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, how do you choose of all the boxes? You know, it's like.

• 49:08Benito Skinner?

  I just feel it. I'm like, if I picked it, it's kinda like with fortune cookies when they arrive at the table. I'm like, that one's mine. I don't know how to, like, and I could never trade. Sorry. Like, there's no way.

• 49:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, you can't trade fortune.

• 49:17Benito Skinner?

  No. Well, fortune, disgusting. But these, it's like, it's so fun when someone really wants one and you get it. Like, what a gift.

• 49:23Mary Beth Barone?

  A cool thing.

• 49:24Benito Skinner?

  It would have been something where like my mom would have gotten them and then no matter what, given it to somebody and that would have been hard to watch.

• 49:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 49:30Benito Skinner?

  Like, she does that all the time.

• 49:31Mary Beth Barone?

  My stomach hurt, kinda.

• 49:32Benito Skinner?

  I watched my mom recently give like the best bite of a salad to, I think it was my sister and I just thought, fuck. Like, she's just the pink print.

• 49:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, that's how I know motherhood's not for me.

• 49:41Benito Skinner?

  I agree.

• 49:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Because I need that. I want that bite.

• 49:44Benito Skinner?

  That's gonna be your bite.

• 49:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Bite. I ordered the salad. Sorry. I'm really sorry.

• 49:50Benito Skinner?

  You got one kid.

• 49:51Mary Beth Barone?

  He's right in front of me.

• 49:52Benito Skinner?

  Keep raising him, girl.

• 49:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Look at on it.

• 49:55Benito Skinner?

  Of course I ride for Popstar Academy. I would love to run it.

• 49:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Can I say, you should download it for a long flight.

• 50:01Benito Skinner?

  I think I will.

• 50:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Breeze through. It's intoxicating.

• 50:04Benito Skinner?

  I mean, like, it has everything I love. Dancing, the power of women, the power of eyeliner, the power of persuasion, grit, true grit.

• 50:15Mary Beth Barone?

  They're athletes as well.

• 50:16Benito Skinner?

  Well, of course, there's an athleticism to that. Are you kidding me? And I think girl groups, the power of that in and, in and of itself, of course, I'm excited and electrified by that. So this is like a, this is a.

• 50:27Mary Beth Barone?

  It's a no, it's a slam dunk.

• 50:28Benito Skinner?

  This is a top two for me, I'd say.

• 50:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Slam dunk.

• 50:30Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I'll be there soon.

• 50:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, we hope you enjoyed this episode. We love you guys and we'll see you next time.

• 50:35Benito Skinner?

  I brought sashdenuts.

• 50:36Mary Beth Barone?

  I brought sashdenuts. We're gonna eat cracker sandwiches now.

• 50:38Benito Skinner?

  Yes.

• 50:45Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my exit.

• 50:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Benny babe, eyes on the road. Benny, go!

• 51:08Speaker 03

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