Haunted HayRide: Radical Transparency + Jumpscares

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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.

• 0:12Benito Skinner?

  Where's my Sally?

• 0:17Benito Skinner?

  I didn't even realize. Oh, my God. Fuck it, we're doing it. Come on in. Welcome our guests.

• 0:31Benito Skinner?

  Seat. Merry Christmas. Christmas come early.

• 0:37Mary Beth Barone?

  It was my birthday recently.

• 0:39Benito Skinner?

  Happy birthday, October 4th.

• 0:40Mary Beth Barone?

  I turned 30.

• 0:42Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, you didn't invite me.

• 0:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Actually. What is the line again?

• 0:47Benito Skinner?

  And everybody picture that I'm wearing icy blue contacts. I just, they would have hurt the whole time.

• 0:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Right. No, you shouldn't.

• 0:53Benito Skinner?

  This is the one time I'm being unprofessional.

• 0:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Actually, no, that's not the truth, Ellen.

• 0:58Benito Skinner?

  Welcome, everybody, to our spooky.

• 1:02Mary Beth Barone?

  It's our spectacular, it's a haunted he ride. Haunted sleigh ride, even.

• 1:05Benito Skinner?

  Look at me. Spooky.

• 1:15Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my God. I, Ellen pranks you. Oh, my God.

• 1:19Mary Beth Barone?

  I will fuck up your shit.

• 1:24Benito Skinner?

  Now I see why Ellen does it.

• 1:27Benito Skinner?

  You love it. Oh, thank you so much, my king.

• 1:31Mary Beth Barone?

  You make gay guys do it. I saw him walking in, the guy under there.

• 1:36Benito Skinner?

  I know.

• 1:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Jesse. I thought he was, no, I didn't even think of it one time.

• 1:41Benito Skinner?

  I love you so much.

• 1:44Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my God.

• 1:48Mary Beth Barone?

  You're unwell.

• 1:49Benito Skinner?

  I take to Molly all weekend. I go, wait, I'm feeling like Ellen.

• 1:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Wait, you're.

• 1:55Benito Skinner?

  I'm like.

• 1:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Wait, wait, wait. You just leaned in to camera and it focused on you in such a scary way.

• 2:03Benito Skinner?

  Wait, come here, baby. No, you can take the mask off.

• 2:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Jesse.

• 2:09Mary Beth Barone?

  I thought you might have a surprise for me.

• 2:11Benito Skinner?

  You were so, you were so quiet in a way that I was like, is he dead in there?

• 2:19Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my God. Well, if he would have passed out.

• 2:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Start way faster.

• 2:23Benito Skinner?

  I tried.

• 2:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Why was I rushing them and I didn't know there was a person in there? Now, who's in there? Which of my exes are in the smaller one?

• 2:30Benito Skinner?

  I knew that would tip you off, literally.

• 2:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Which of my exes are in the smaller one?

• 2:32Benito Skinner?

  Everybody.

• 2:36Mary Beth Barone?

  I know he wouldn't fit in there.

• 2:38Benito Skinner?

  That part. Well, here's the thing.

• 2:41Mary Beth Barone?

  I mean, we have to keep it authentic. It's a thrill. It's a thrill ride.

• 2:45Benito Skinner?

  Am I, am I okay? Okay. I, wow, I get why Ellen was so bloodthirsty for pranks. She could have killed some people, though, easily.

• 2:55Mary Beth Barone?

  It's a good thing I have low blood pressure.

• 2:57Benito Skinner?

  The degenerous queen. That's what people call me today. A Nikki quote. It is what it is. Today's about canceled people.

• 3:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Nikki.

• 3:05Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, it's about Nikki. Um, it's so crazy. I feel like I'm interviewing you immediately.

• 3:10Mary Beth Barone?

  You are interviewing me.

• 3:11Benito Skinner?

  I've locked into this.

• 3:12Mary Beth Barone?

  What would you like to know?

• 3:13Benito Skinner?

  Before this, Mary Beth goes, what if you were in the?

• 3:15Mary Beth Barone?

  I know. I thought, I wanted Molly to get in there. Now it makes sense why you guys weren't excited about that idea.

• 3:19Benito Skinner?

  Shit, and why I had to keep you in the bathroom.

• 3:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Can we take selfies in there? You're so, you're a liar. You lie.

• 3:26Benito Skinner?

  I'm actually really good at like, I was chilled the whole time. I was nervous that whole beginning part. Cause I was like, and I couldn't hear you breathe in a way that made me so nervous.

• 3:37Mary Beth Barone?

  You're not.

• 3:38Benito Skinner?

  They tried to cancel me.

• 3:41Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't care if it's a strap.

• 3:42Benito Skinner?

  I don't care if it's a strap. I said not in me. So I'm happy to say that today.

• 3:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Can find out who tweeted that.

• 3:50Benito Skinner?

  Who tweeted that?

• 3:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Or I think it might have even been a Facebook status.

• 3:52Benito Skinner?

  Where do you live? Cause we want you on Ride.

• 3:54Mary Beth Barone?

  We want you on Ellen. We're rebooting Ellen in the, but it's hosted by Benny Drama.

• 3:58Benito Skinner?

  I was so worried. They worried maybe you were gonna hit him. Sorry, I'm still on this prank.

• 4:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Hit him?

• 4:03Benito Skinner?

  Well, I just didn't know if you were gonna like push or like how much you were gonna freak out. Was that full? Like scared the shit out of you?

• 4:10Mary Beth Barone?

  I mean, you know what? I just, you kept saying spooky and I was like, what's going on?

• 4:15Benito Skinner?

  I know. That was the code word, obviously. Spooky was code word.

• 4:21Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't like when you keep secrets from me.

• 4:23Benito Skinner?

  I know. Initially, it was gonna be, they tried to cancel me.

• 4:27Mary Beth Barone?

  He was gonna say that.

• 4:28Benito Skinner?

  Well, I was gonna and then.

• 4:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, that was gonna be the code word.

• 4:30Benito Skinner?

  Jesse was gonna pop out.

• 4:31Mary Beth Barone?

  But I could have said that at any moment.

• 4:32Benito Skinner?

  Also, it could have just been Jesse, but I was like, something told me that Ellen used to do gorilla suits. Am I correct? She did, right?

• 4:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Christmas come early. Welcome to Ride.

• 4:42Benito Skinner?

  Welcome to our Halloween episode.

• 4:44Mary Beth Barone?

  No prosthetics this year.

• 4:45Benito Skinner?

  So no prosthetics, which made me think we weren't doing it. I walk into this unbelievable set. Molly, are you kidding me?

• 4:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Molly Brunk really pulled out all the stops.

• 4:53Benito Skinner?

  The costume is actually just the whole thing. And it's actually just simply you and Bangs.

• 4:58Mary Beth Barone?

  And I found the Alice Underrich set that Dakota wore. I got this on Vestiaire. Is that how you say it?

• 5:04Benito Skinner?

  Yes, of course.

• 5:04Mary Beth Barone?

  They had one available and it, it, it came home with me.

• 5:08Benito Skinner?

  Vestiaire.

• 5:10Benito Skinner?

  And I'm wearing head to toe. The Nobos. No, I don't know what Ellen was in. I assume she was in all vents, but I'm wearing all Amazon basics. Check the boots, sister.

• 5:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Can we, can I get a boot check? Can you lift them?

• 5:26Benito Skinner?

  Little boot check. They're gonna zoom in on these boots later. But, um, what did I call myself? Mustang Sally?

• 5:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, you said you felt like the jeans made you feel like Mustang Sally.

• 5:34Benito Skinner?

  And again, I'm sorry about the contacts, but I am tucked, so.

• 5:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Right. Right.

• 5:40Benito Skinner?

  Where is Ellen right now?

• 5:41Mary Beth Barone?

  I think she moved to London or something.

• 5:43Benito Skinner?

  What do you think, when Dakota's brought up to her, what do you think she does?

• 5:47Mary Beth Barone?

  I think she leaves.

• 5:49Benito Skinner?

  Porsha. Porsha. Didn't we say Porsha was a matcha woman?

• 5:52Mary Beth Barone?

  I think she's definitely a matcha woman.

• 5:53Benito Skinner?

  But it's funny, cause she was like in an ad for like some kind of macho or thing recently. And I was just like, wow, that's crazy.

• 6:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, she's a breadwinner now.

• 6:01Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, totally.

• 6:04Mary Beth Barone?

  She's a breadwinner.

• 6:06Benito Skinner?

  This Ellen face. I'm sad we were never on Ellen. We would have had fun on there.

• 6:10Mary Beth Barone?

  I know. I wonder who they would have brought from our past.

• 6:12Benito Skinner?

  Sweet. She seems complicated.

• 6:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, no, for sure.

• 6:15Benito Skinner?

  If I had to say.

• 6:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, she was like our first gay celebrity, basically.

• 6:19Benito Skinner?

  I know. And honestly, I'm kind of like, rarely do gays get that kind of power and like leave in a good way.

• 6:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 6:26Benito Skinner?

  So I'm not like, I don't know. I guess the whole thing is just a wash to me.

• 6:30Mary Beth Barone?

  It's a wash. There's a lot of good and a lot of bad.

• 6:33Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. Who was her, like, gay servant? Or was he straight?

• 6:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Who?

• 6:39Benito Skinner?

  She had like a guy that she would kind of like poke at. What was his name? Andy. Kind of the Molly or also the Jesse.

• 6:46Mary Beth Barone?

  I feel like you need to move your mic closer. We're keeping that.

• 6:51Benito Skinner?

  Well, I was kind of shouting and I knew I was gonna laugh so hard at the prank. I'm literally like, I, I have a sugar rush.

• 6:57Mary Beth Barone?

  You worked a prank into the Halloween episode, which is a first of its kind. I can't believe you doubted that we were going all in for this and you knew about that. Like, I've been really happy with the amount that we planned and put in and you've been doing backdoor deals like all fucking week.

• 7:09Benito Skinner?

  Well, texting Molly and saying, could we do right in the Ellen font for the mic covers? Like, that's, hey, it's the little things. It's thoughtful and it's.

• 7:16Mary Beth Barone?

  It's snacks rooted in the tradition of longevity.

• 7:18Benito Skinner?

  That's why I just wanna say, we have not read the, I have not read the Reddit in a really long time, but if there was any, um, whispers of us not wanting to do this podcast, in what world would?

• 7:31Mary Beth Barone?

  I bought Bangs. These are really high quality.

• 7:33Benito Skinner?

  We bought a gorilla suit this week. We're locked in. This is heaven. I'm like so happy to be here with you.

• 7:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Where do you wanna start with telling spooky stories?

• 7:40Benito Skinner?

  Well, so that was the spookiest of them all. And obviously today I'm writing for Jump scares and the greatest one of all time was just captured on film.

• 7:47Mary Beth Barone?

  And I'm writing for Chat. I cannot speak lately.

• 7:51Benito Skinner?

  I walked in and Carissa called me a dyke today, actually.

• 7:54Mary Beth Barone?

  She goes, what? That's bad?

• 7:56Benito Skinner?

  Can we?

• 7:56Mary Beth Barone?

  She goes, that's you? What can we even say anymore?

• 7:59Benito Skinner?

  This is my big question. And I, I'm, I've asked so many lesbians and they've asked me back of like [BLEEP] situation of what we could say. I'm saying it now. We'll bleep all of it, but I am curious. If anyone knows, if any straight girls listening, no, let us know.

• 8:15Mary Beth Barone?

  For me, as a bisexual woman, I just don't say either. Just play it safe.

• 8:19Benito Skinner?

  I think that's fair.

• 8:19Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't have the sort of bravery that Carissa has.

• 8:22Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 8:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Um, but I just feel like, yeah, it's not my, it's my word to say, my words to say.

• 8:27Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, of course.

• 8:29Mary Beth Barone?

  So we'll find out from the masses.

• 8:31Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. Well, Carissa can say it all.

• 8:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Right. Carissa.

• 8:35Benito Skinner?

  I guess we don't have to believe your name anymore, cause you're like, you're down for all.

• 8:38Mary Beth Barone?

  You're in the podcast cinematic universe.

• 8:40Benito Skinner?

  And now you say it. Now it's gone in the full circle.

• 8:44Mary Beth Barone?

  No, she started saying it again.

• 8:44Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, she's like, fuck.

• 8:46Mary Beth Barone?

  She's like, now that everyone knows who cares.

• 8:47Benito Skinner?

  Who gives a fuck? What do I have to fucking?

• 8:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Seriously.

• 8:49Benito Skinner?

  They tried to cancel me.

• 8:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Just every time you move, it's getting caught in my camera, which I actually like, cause it's cinematic.

• 8:57Benito Skinner?

  This?

• 8:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. Um, I'm writing for Radical Transparency today. The scariest thing of all, honesty.

• 9:03Benito Skinner?

  Whoa, my God, like literally, dude.

• 9:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Actually, Ellen.

• 9:07Benito Skinner?

  Actually, that's not exactly true, Ellen.

• 9:09Mary Beth Barone?

  That's not exactly true.

• 9:10Benito Skinner?

  You know what? I have my, it might be the only hot take I've got. She did that because she's a true nepo baby and that she's got nothing to lose. And she's, I, I think she's so talented. I'm such a, I think she's incredible.

• 9:21Mary Beth Barone?

  We're huge fans.

• 9:21Benito Skinner?

  We're huge fans of Ellen, but I, yeah, I'm like, she just had nothing to lose in a way that's so beautiful.

• 9:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Could have that much radical transparency.

• 9:31Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, and could just be like, well, that's just, why are you trying to lie on camera?

• 9:35Mary Beth Barone?

  It's not what happened.

• 9:36Benito Skinner?

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• 11:28Mary Beth Barone?

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• 11:34Benito Skinner?

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• 11:50Mary Beth Barone?

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• 11:51Benito Skinner?

  But that mandelic clearing serum, it has cleared my sister's skin, my skin, your skin, in a huge way. My god, you were going through it.

• 11:59Mary Beth Barone?

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• 12:01Benito Skinner?

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• 12:03Mary Beth Barone?

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• 12:11Benito Skinner?

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• 12:15Mary Beth Barone?

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• 12:23Benito Skinner?

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• 12:25Mary Beth Barone?

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• 12:25Benito Skinner?

  So the Nice Ice is, that's what I'm talking about.

• 12:28Mary Beth Barone?

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• 12:29Benito Skinner?

  I use it every day on set, deep up this little rosacea face. Come out, come out, come out. And usually, my skin hates niacinamide, but it's fine in that one. I am obsessed with the new cloths.

• 12:39Mary Beth Barone?

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• 12:40Benito Skinner?

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• 12:45Mary Beth Barone?

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• 12:55Benito Skinner?

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• 13:14Mary Beth Barone?

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• 13:15Benito Skinner?

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• 13:16Mary Beth Barone?

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• 13:23Benito Skinner?

  It's also so cool to know, like, just know that the person you're supporting in the business is like a really lovely person. Wow. Things can be good.

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• 13:44Benito Skinner?

  Well, that's kind of like top two.

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• 15:19Mary Beth Barone?

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• 15:25Benito Skinner?

  That's growtherapy.com/ride.

• 15:28Mary Beth Barone?

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• 15:36Benito Skinner?

  We're at the Montecito.

• 15:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Ranch, we're at the estate in Montecito.

• 15:39Benito Skinner?

  Yes.

• 15:39Mary Beth Barone?

  That's where we came to.

• 15:40Benito Skinner?

  Next to Harry and Megan, H and M. I love that they called each other H and M. I wrote a joke about it.

• 15:45Mary Beth Barone?

  I didn't know that. She didn't know that.

• 15:47Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. Kai Newman plays H. I just thought it was so funny to, H is just not a letter that's allowed to be a nickname, is my, just, if I had to say.

• 15:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 15:59Benito Skinner?

  Shit, I got some hot takes, is Ellen.

• 16:01Mary Beth Barone?

  I smell a subway take.

• 16:03Benito Skinner?

  Come on, let me do a subway take. Let Ellen do a subway take.

• 16:08Mary Beth Barone?

  Please get Ellen on Subway Takes.

• 16:09Benito Skinner?

  No one should be canceled.

• 16:10Mary Beth Barone?

  That should be the final episode.

• 16:11Benito Skinner?

  No one should be canceled, Kareem.

• 16:15Benito Skinner?

  No one should be canceled.

• 16:20Benito Skinner?

  I loved when J Lo was like, you're not New York, if you're, you're not a New Yorker. If you ain't from New York.

• 16:30Benito Skinner?

  Those are always funny to me.

• 16:31Mary Beth Barone?

  What's your subway take, if you had to do one?

• 16:33Benito Skinner?

  If I had to do one, I had one, I had one that wasn't good, but one thing I do think is that we shouldn't expect musicians to also perform live.

• 16:40Mary Beth Barone?

  What's so interesting is that I told you that that might be my subway take, and now you've adopted it as if it was your own idea.

• 16:46Benito Skinner?

  No, no, no, no, it was a different one.

• 16:47Mary Beth Barone?

  No, it, it was not.

• 16:49Benito Skinner?

  Are you serious?

• 16:49Mary Beth Barone?

  It was not. It was that pop stars should not be expected to perform live. Just because you can lay down a track in a studio doesn't mean you're a performer.

• 16:56Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 16:57Mary Beth Barone?

  So I'm glad that really resonated with you.

• 16:59Benito Skinner?

  Well, Kate Berlin taught me this thing that's, she says, NAP, not a performer, about some things.

• 17:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Why would every singer have to be a performer?

• 17:06Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, that feels crazy.

• 17:07Mary Beth Barone?

  You know what I mean?

• 17:07Benito Skinner?

  Well, this is my take. Sorry, easy.

• 17:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, I guess it is, since I've already done.

• 17:11Benito Skinner?

  You're really trying to take another thing from Ellen.

• 17:13Mary Beth Barone?

  I've already done subway takes and you haven't.

• 17:16Benito Skinner?

  I loved your subway take.

• 17:18Mary Beth Barone?

  My subway take is that Benny Drama should do subway takes. 100% agree.

• 17:23Benito Skinner?

  Exactly, agree. My subway take. That's me at the Thanksgiving dinner, Ted. My subway take.

• 17:31Mary Beth Barone?

  At my house.

• 17:32Benito Skinner?

  Immediately, I'm in the holiday spirit. I want to go to the Grove.

• 17:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, my god, we should go see the tree this year at the Grove.

• 17:39Benito Skinner?

  At the Grove, yeah, we have to. Bah, who forest. It's so LA, I watched them shave a tree down, re-put in each branch to make it look pretty, and I just thought, bah, who forest.

• 17:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, pretty herds.

• 17:55Benito Skinner?

  I love that some LA bullshit there.

• 17:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 17:59Benito Skinner?

  They went, oh, no, the tree is all fucked up, the branches.

• 18:01Mary Beth Barone?

  It's not symmetrical.

• 18:02Benito Skinner?

  The branches are all random, random, the branches are all random.

• 18:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Why did these branches grow all random, like that? Daddy, can we take the branches off?

• 18:12Benito Skinner?

  Take the branches off and start from scratch. Meanwhile, the Rockefeller Center, one like has rats in it.

• 18:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Whatever, that's their house.

• 18:19Benito Skinner?

  It has owls flying out.

• 18:20Mary Beth Barone?

  That's their house.

• 18:21Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, well, of course.

• 18:23Mary Beth Barone?

  LA does not care about the homelessness epidemic. Let the people live in trees.

• 18:30Mary Beth Barone?

  That's my subway take.

• 18:32Benito Skinner?

  That's your subway take? I know, I want to do a really intense one, just to see like how that goes. Okay.

• 18:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, can't say that. Oh, can't say that.

• 18:43Benito Skinner?

  Me editing the pod.

• 18:44Mary Beth Barone?

  You're so fucking a-list.

• 18:46Benito Skinner?

  Me silencing women. So I'm wearing Chelsea boots. And what you don't understand is that these boots are made for walking.

• 18:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Actually, actually, Ellen, that's not true.

• 18:58Benito Skinner?

  Where's my Sally?

• 19:03Benito Skinner?

  And stop doing that.

• 19:08Benito Skinner?

  This is the best episode of Ride Ever. I actually think we should just do Ellen.

• 19:16Mary Beth Barone?

  We're not riding for anything.

• 19:17Benito Skinner?

  Oh my god. I used to wear these jeans. I would put on rag and bone. The fit was number one.

• 19:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Tighter even.

• 19:24Benito Skinner?

  And I put tighter even. I just remember being like, I'm ready for the day.

• 19:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Sitting at an office job in skinny rag and bone denim, I had bruises. I would get bruises on my, on my midsection.

• 19:37Benito Skinner?

  Totally.

• 19:38Mary Beth Barone?

  And it's like denim up the.

• 19:40Benito Skinner?

  Well, high-waisted became a thing for men recently, and I remember like in the last few years. Oh, you know the ones. Me, I've worn a few high-waisted things. And I just, I have so much respect for all people who have worn them before, mostly women.

• 19:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Especially because we have different stuff down there.

• 19:55Benito Skinner?

  Across here.

• 19:56Mary Beth Barone?

  It's a little bit like, it's like hurts more.

• 19:58Benito Skinner?

  It really does. I'm wearing Chris's powder. I feel really.

• 20:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Can I tell a tale from the crypt? Which means a tale, a story about my ex.

• 20:05Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, of course.

• 20:06Mary Beth Barone?

  I won't name which one.

• 20:07Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. Wait, I have to get back into Halloween spirit.

• 20:10Mary Beth Barone?

  So I was in a relationship. Let's start there. And I had the opportunity to do some travel.

• 20:17Benito Skinner?

  How many boyfriends you got, you whore, Ellen? Me as Ellen.

• 20:21Mary Beth Barone?

  And I say I am a whore. Yeah, I wear shorts to the gym, Ellen.

• 20:27Mary Beth Barone?

  So I was in a relationship. I had the opportunity to travel to the, to a vacation destination.

• 20:32Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 20:32Mary Beth Barone?

  On the trip, we took lots of photos, as you would do. I went to Hawaii and took a bunch of pictures. I'm putting together a photo dump because I'm a, I'm, I'm a public person. I live my life publicly.

• 20:43Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 20:43Mary Beth Barone?

  But I have private stuff too. But I wanted people to know that I went to Hawaii.

• 20:46Benito Skinner?

  If you're gonna, if you're gonna be public, get ready to have your relationships and everything about you publicly critiqued. When people say that, I'm like, I just don't like, do you have no family? Is there no family? We have to find some.

• 20:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, there's no family.

• 20:59Benito Skinner?

  There's no family.

• 20:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Here's the problem with those people. They don't like their family and there's no chosen family.

• 21:04Benito Skinner?

  Okay, well then.

• 21:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Because no one wants to be around them.

• 21:06Benito Skinner?

  Who's Ellen's chosen family?

• 21:08Mary Beth Barone?

  I would say maybe Portia.

• 21:09Benito Skinner?

  Tom Cruise.

• 21:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Portia at one point.

• 21:11Benito Skinner?

  Mr. Tom Cruise. Digger. Keep going.

• 21:15Mary Beth Barone?

  The digger, the titular digger.

• 21:16Benito Skinner?

  Well, that's the titular digger.

• 21:19Mary Beth Barone?

  So I go to Hawaii. I'm planning this dump once we're back. And it's an explosive photo dump, obviously. No longer available. It's, it's been archived. But um, he started being kind of mean towards me after I had this dump planned and I posted it. Well, no, this was when we got back.

• 21:32Benito Skinner?

  Oh, good.

• 21:32Mary Beth Barone?

  But we're coming off the heels of this lovely, lovely vacation. So I post the dump. It's obviously fabulous and well-curated. And then he starts being mean to me. And of course, communication, not great. So I say like, what's, what's up? And he was like, well, you posted a photo that I took of a dolphin and you didn't ask me for permission. And I was like, it was on my phone, like I could have taken it. And he was like, no, because it's perfectly centered in the frame. And look at this picture that you took of a rooster. It's like, it's like, it's like not a good photo. So like, I obviously took that.

• 22:05Benito Skinner?

  My grandpa was at Pearl Harbor. You know what I mean? Oof, that's really tough. That's hard.

• 22:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, so.

• 22:14Benito Skinner?

  I just, I.

• 22:16Mary Beth Barone?

  He was mad because I posted a photo from our vacation that he took without asking. And can I just also clarify by saying that he never posted about the trip?

• 22:26Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 22:27Mary Beth Barone?

  So it's not, I didn't take anything from him.

• 22:32Benito Skinner?

  This has been awesome. We're gonna go. But thank you, Molly, for sending this up. Thank you, Jesse, of course. Jesse has passed out.

• 22:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Jesse is no longer with us. But we have to finish the episode.

• 22:43Benito Skinner?

  That's one of, you know what, when, I think one of the Halloween years I read for, I, I rode for girls going on dates. And my god, it's just everything I hear about it. As I've said, everything I hear about being a woman, just you guys are not selling it to me.

• 22:56Mary Beth Barone?

  What happens after the dates can be sometimes the worst part.

• 22:59Benito Skinner?

  Even worse when you lock in.

• 23:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Once you've locked in.

• 23:01Benito Skinner?

  Oh my god.

• 23:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Because I go, well, that's not really a reason to break up with someone, but I feel like that's kind of weird to be mad at me about that.

• 23:06Benito Skinner?

  I feel like gays would just be like, I'm posting it too.

• 23:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, they would be like, they would, yeah, they would just go like, that's cool that you posted that.

• 23:15Benito Skinner?

  I love gay couples on TikTok. There's been a lot that are like breaking up and they're like in battles with each other.

• 23:20Mary Beth Barone?

  Season randomly. I'm hearing about some high-profile breakups lately.

• 23:23Benito Skinner?

  Oh, really?

• 23:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, I can't.

• 23:24Benito Skinner?

  Any that you can disclose?

• 23:25Mary Beth Barone?

  No.

• 23:25Benito Skinner?

  Okay.

• 23:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Later. Yeah.

• 23:28Benito Skinner?

  Come on, say it. It's the perfect place to say it, right?

• 23:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Why? I mean, I could say it, but we'd have to bleep it.

• 23:33Benito Skinner?

  I can't imagine doing a talk show because it'd be like, you'd have to know everyone and be interested in everything. It'd be so scary.

• 23:39Mary Beth Barone?

  So much stuff too. I think I'd like that part though.

• 23:41Benito Skinner?

  How much do we think Ellen was watching?

• 23:44Benito Skinner?

  She watched Shrek 2.

• 23:45Mary Beth Barone?

  A lot.

• 23:46Benito Skinner?

  You know what I think about all the time?

• 23:47Mary Beth Barone?

  What?

• 23:48Benito Skinner?

  And I remember as a kid being like, wow, that would have like really broken me. Um, Antonio Banderas was on Oprah for Puss in Boots, or not Puss in Boots, he was for Shrek 2.

• 23:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay.

• 23:58Benito Skinner?

  And she said Puss in Boots stole the movie. And the whole cast was there. And I'm like, if I was in the cast, I'd be like, hey Oprah, that really fucking hurt. What you said out there fucking like stung.

• 24:09Mary Beth Barone?

  How long have you been sitting with that?

• 24:11Benito Skinner?

  I actually like, I think about it a lot because I'm like, fuck, that would have like, and she, do I think she was wrong? No. Like, I do think Puss in Boots like left with that movie, but I just.

• 24:20Mary Beth Barone?

  I mean, he didn't leave with the movie. He left with the franchise.

• 24:22Benito Skinner?

  Exactly.

• 24:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Puss in Boots Last Wish. What's it called?

• 24:26Benito Skinner?

  Best movie I've ever seen. Is that what you're talking about?

• 24:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Puss in Boots, The Last Wish.

• 24:30Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, The Last Wish.

• 24:30Mary Beth Barone?

  I watched that in Hawaii.

• 24:31Benito Skinner?

  It's about death.

• 24:32Mary Beth Barone?

  On that trip.

• 24:33Benito Skinner?

  Oh, he did like that, right?

• 24:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 24:35Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 24:35Mary Beth Barone?

  He actually insisted we watch it on the vacation.

• 24:38Benito Skinner?

  Straight guys love to make their girlfriends watch animated things. Because my, my brother-in-law does that to my sister, which I love. Because he'll be like, we haven't watched Toy Story 5 yet. He said that recently. I thought it was really cute. He's a good one.

• 24:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 24:51Benito Skinner?

  Oh, oh my god.

• 24:51Mary Beth Barone?

  And I liked the movie, but now I can never watch it again.

• 24:54Benito Skinner?

  Well, of course.

• 24:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Because it's obviously associated with that.

• 24:56Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. Lux is an interesting album for me lately, if I go back into it.

• 25:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay.

• 25:00Benito Skinner?

  I don't know how to describe it. It was just an interesting time. But I think it's the best album ever made as well.

• 25:05Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm gonna have to say that I agree with you. A hundred percent agree.

• 25:10Benito Skinner?

  That part. Could I have my, could you guys bring me my little Heineken? I just need a little lip. Ellen did this on set.

• 25:16Mary Beth Barone?

  He wants a drunk drive again.

• 25:17Benito Skinner?

  My lips have been so.

• 25:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Benny wants a drunk drive again.

• 25:20Benito Skinner?

  Sponsored by Heineken, as always. Thank you, darling love.

• 25:26Mary Beth Barone?

  We're not cutting this. This is how the sausage is made. And we don't do commercial breaks.

• 25:32Benito Skinner?

  No, mama. Mama.

• 25:36Mary Beth Barone?

  I want it live streaming. Fifty-five minutes.

• 25:39Benito Skinner?

  What else are we gonna talk? Oh, I have to talk about Carrie.

• 25:41Mary Beth Barone?

  We have to talk about Carrie.

• 25:44Mary Beth Barone?

  I re-watched Donnie Darko just while we're getting into spooky season. I loved it. It holds up. Drew Barrymore and Donnie Darko is so fucking stunning. Noah Wiley also playing a teacher in that movie. The performances are incredible. It really, really just, it still works to this day.

• 25:59Benito Skinner?

  Drew Barrymore is like a, a beauty beyond.

• 26:02Mary Beth Barone?

  I think she produced the movie too. It said Flower Films at the beginning.

• 26:05Benito Skinner?

  She's kind of new Ellen.

• 26:09Benito Skinner?

  Drew. I, that would be someone like if I found out, like if they got, I would be devastated if Drew was like, but she's just not. She's just like the purest.

• 26:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Drew Barrymore and Kevin Spacey. I think if I heard that he had done anything bad, I would be like, I fucking love American Beauty.

• 26:23Benito Skinner?

  I know. I was just, I was just at Heathrow and I thought, this must be the place.

• 26:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. Because you met him, right? You guys hooked up?

• 26:30Benito Skinner?

  Give me a little wave.

• 26:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay.

• 26:32Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. Made me feel young.

• 26:34Mary Beth Barone?

  That's who I met Armie Hammer through.

• 26:36Benito Skinner?

  Oh, yeah. Well, they're all in cahoots.

• 26:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. They're in a group chat.

• 26:39Benito Skinner?

  There's a few people that are in too many photos with bad people. And I think we should just, I would love to get them on Ellen, is what I would say with that.

• 26:46Mary Beth Barone?

  You know what? I would like to get them on Dakota Johnson's talk show.

• 26:49Benito Skinner?

  Oh my god.

• 26:50Mary Beth Barone?

  I think she could do some good investigative work.

• 26:52Benito Skinner?

  I would love to see her do a podcast. Because again, nothing to lose. She just doesn't give a fuck.

• 26:56Mary Beth Barone?

  I think she did the Vogue podcast recently.

• 26:58Benito Skinner?

  Oh, I'm gonna listen. I'm gonna love it.

• 26:59Mary Beth Barone?

  It's good.

• 27:00Benito Skinner?

  Um, I want to talk to you about Carrie.

• 27:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Please.

• 27:02Benito Skinner?

  Prime Video, our home.

• 27:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Dada.

• 27:05Benito Skinner?

  Can you say dada for me?

• 27:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Dada.

• 27:09Benito Skinner?

  I love making people repeat things. It's how I know that like I've still got them. Do you know what I mean?

• 27:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, that's how you know.

• 27:14Benito Skinner?

  And when they stop, that's when I know.

• 27:15Mary Beth Barone?

  You've lost them.

• 27:15Benito Skinner?

  I've lost. Yeah. You're losing me. Um, and also thank you to everyone who just over the years has sent me the you're losing me thing when they've tried it on people. A lot of people say that they really meant it when they say it, which I think is beautiful. Carrie. So there is this remake of Carrie on Prime Video. Mike Flanagan is at it again. That bomba cloud.

• 27:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Who's that?

• 27:35Benito Skinner?

  I don't know why that came into my head.

• 27:38Mary Beth Barone?

  This is gonna be a short episode.

• 27:40Benito Skinner?

  Oh my god. So um, Mike Flanagan, he's done like a lot of horror. He did House on, not House on a Haunted Hill. A little teaser. What's coming from me? Um, a, he did The Haunting of Hill House.

• 27:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, cool.

• 27:53Benito Skinner?

  Yes. Um, and that like franchise. But he's, he's like a legend in the horror space. This remake of Carrie, I kind of thought like, okay, we kind of just had a remake and maybe, you know, this is like, it's literally one of my favorite movies of all time. It's a perfect film. The original, Sissy Spacek. This one is so thoughtfully crafted. The music is incredible. There's a Lana needle drop. There's a, um, is it Hot and Freddie? Hot and Freddie? Is that what it's called? This band is amazing. They have this song, Shy Girl. It plays in it. It's amazing. But they've managed to bring Carrie into the new millennia. And it actually works and like it doesn't feel like a forced reboot of sort of like, it's actually really interesting how like phones play into it.

• 28:38Mary Beth Barone?

  I need to watch it.

• 28:39Benito Skinner?

  The mom, her name's Margaret Red. Where she, no. So they start essentially, someone starts like a fake account, like a meme account. And they call it Carrie Red because of the period situation that happens. Which, thinking about it in modern day is actually like so harrowing to have somebody who's like bunkered down and doesn't know what's going on. Like, it's, it is really sad. The lead actress is amazing. The woman who plays um, Margaret White is unbelievable. She starts like an Instagram account as well. And so now all these gays have accounts that are Margaret Red.

• 29:09Mary Beth Barone?

  She starts an Instagram account to post.

• 29:12Benito Skinner?

  Like mom stuff. I can't give too much away.

• 29:14Mary Beth Barone?

  I can't wait to watch.

• 29:15Benito Skinner?

  You are gonna have, it is candy. I watched it in two days.

• 29:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Did it all come out at once?

• 29:19Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, it's all out. And it's just like, I just was completely, I was truly blown away by this.

• 29:25Mary Beth Barone?

  I need more spooky, spooky content.

• 29:27Benito Skinner?

  It's perfect for spooky season.

• 29:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Don't.

• 29:38Benito Skinner?

  Everybody please. Sorry, not funny. A little bit.

• 29:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Is Chris Martin in there?

• 29:43Benito Skinner?

  Chris Martin in there, love. Um, but I, it's perfect for spooky season. It's so, I just thought it was so well done, well acted and just like the new age of like Gen Z and like also there's this one scene where Carrie doesn't know about school shootings and they do like a shooting drill. It is like unbelievable. I don't know.

• 30:03Mary Beth Barone?

  You're really going there.

• 30:03Benito Skinner?

  It wasn't scared of going there in a way that I was really impressed with.

• 30:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay.

• 30:08Benito Skinner?

  Carrie does coke. No, kidding.

• 30:10Mary Beth Barone?

  But that would be, okay.

• 30:11Benito Skinner?

  Well, I guess she does get high in a scene.

• 30:13Mary Beth Barone?

  You've stolen me on it.

• 30:14Benito Skinner?

  It's, it is like such a, it was fabulous.

• 30:16Mary Beth Barone?

  I look forward to watching it and then chatting with you after.

• 30:18Benito Skinner?

  Another hit from Prime Video.

• 30:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Yep. With Tinder group hangouts.

• 30:25Benito Skinner?

  Oh, come on. Don't choke on your words. It's Tinder.

• 30:28Mary Beth Barone?

  It's Tinder. The group chat can actually go somewhere because you know how the group chat goes. Someone throws out, what's the move tonight? And it turns into 40 messages, three polls, a bunch of reactions, maybe even, what's that? A doodle.

• 30:40Benito Skinner?

  Oh, a doodle.

• 30:41Mary Beth Barone?

  And then zero decisions.

• 30:42Benito Skinner?

  So with group hangouts, you and your friends pick an activity. It can be drinks, mini golf, karaoke, motherfucker, whatever sounds like the fun move for you and your friends. Then you can find another group who are looking for the same vibe. No blind date, no forced pairing, just your people doing something you were already gonna do. Except now there's a possibility for new connections and maybe romance.

• 31:04Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm learning about this feature for the first time as well.

• 31:06Benito Skinner?

  I know. I've known about it for a while.

• 31:07Mary Beth Barone?

  You've been using it quite frequently.

• 31:08Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 31:09Mary Beth Barone?

  With the group chat, there's no pressure on any one person to carry the conversation. You're just planning a night out that happens to include some new faces. Tinder makes that easy to do. Here's what I love about this. Tinder said, in the words of Catherine Hudson, I'm not just one thing.

• 31:20Benito Skinner?

  Exactly. Tinder has always been where connections, wait.

• 31:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Wait, you missed part of it. Hey, hang on, hang on, hang on.

• 31:28Benito Skinner?

  Maybe you all become friends. Maybe two people hit it off. Maybe three people hit it off.

• 31:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Ooh.

• 31:34Benito Skinner?

  Either way, I want to tell people to do that more during sex and dates going.

• 31:38Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm not sure I could do that, even if I wanted to.

• 31:41Benito Skinner?

  Either way, you had a good night with your friends, which was never in question.

• 31:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Tinder has always been where connections start. Now it's where you bring your friends along for the ride. Oh, yeah.

• 31:50Benito Skinner?

  Come on.

• 31:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Try Tinder group hangouts, bring your friends, pick a plan, meet new people. Download Tinder today.

• 31:56Benito Skinner?

  Of course. I mean, hey, what could go wrong?

• 31:59Mary Beth Barone?

  I mean, it's not the craziest idea.

• 32:04Speaker 03

  Monopoly at McDonald's is back.

• 32:13Speaker 03

  You can't win if you don't play. Get your bag.

• 32:16Benito Skinner?

  Today I'll be writing for Jump Scares.

• 32:17Mary Beth Barone?

  And I will be writing for Radical Transparency.

• 32:20Benito Skinner?

  Should we get into it?

• 32:20Mary Beth Barone?

  Let's get into it.

• 32:22Benito Skinner?

  So do you want to go first? Ellen usually goes first.

• 32:26Mary Beth Barone?

  And also it's fun because this means a few different things.

• 32:29Benito Skinner?

  So Jump Scares is really interesting because traditionally, obviously it meant times in a movie theater where you jump.

• 32:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Yep.

• 32:34Benito Skinner?

  That are a little.

• 32:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 32:35Benito Skinner?

  And there are so many throughout history. My favorite, and I don't know if this actually counts as one, which is cool, and I'm sure a virgin will let us know.

• 32:45Benito Skinner?

  But in The Exorcist, there's little flashes of the devil, like of the demon, and those made me kind of jump. So I feel like, yeah, but it's really anything that has like perfectly, it is a science

• 32:57Mary Beth Barone?

  that Ms. Wes Craven perfected.

• 33:00Benito Skinner?

  Well, you know. That's Ms. Wes Craven to you, Dakota.

• 33:02Mary Beth Barone?

  You know, when I jump scared the most in a theater experience was with you seeing Smile in reclining seats in Los Angeles.

• 33:07Benito Skinner?

  Holy shit.

• 33:08Mary Beth Barone?

  The first smile, I had not jumped like that in a theater in years.

• 33:12Benito Skinner?

  And Smile 2 really, really, Naomi's performance is unbelievable, but also Naomi, first name basis.

• 33:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, you've had her on, you've had her on the show.

• 33:22Benito Skinner?

  Of course. Yeah, when she was Princess Jasmine. Of course.

• 33:26Benito Skinner?

  But, uh, that one has, the second one really got me. And recently I saw Resident Evil.

• 33:32Mary Beth Barone?

  I need to see that.

• 33:33Benito Skinner?

  It is so fucking good. It's like an hour and a half in the theater. That's just pure entertainment.

• 33:38Mary Beth Barone?

  I have to see it.

• 33:38Benito Skinner?

  Look at me, I'm watching stuff again. I want to be out in culture, get to know what's going on, what the kids are talking about.

• 33:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Sorry.

• 33:44Benito Skinner?

  Play that new choice.

• 33:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Your hairstyle just actually hit me.

• 33:47Benito Skinner?

  What?

• 33:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Your hairstyle.

• 33:49Benito Skinner?

  What do you mean my hairstyle? We kept the chops, sorry. It's like in the past I would have committed, but like I just.

• 33:56Mary Beth Barone?

  It doesn't take anything away from it.

• 33:58Benito Skinner?

  I know. My Ellen beat kind of ate George Santos glam.

• 34:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Hmm. So Jump Scares traditionally one thing.

• 34:05Benito Skinner?

  So it's one thing, but then it became a thing of like, whoa, jump scare, like having somebody in a show that you weren't expecting.

• 34:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Opening a photo, making it bigger and there's something hiding you didn't see before.

• 34:16Benito Skinner?

  Background. It's just, it's heaven. Some of my favorite are Wendy Williams and her incredible talk show.

• 34:22Mary Beth Barone?

  When she would burp and fart.

• 34:24Benito Skinner?

  She would burp and fart, but there's one where she goes, it's a Halloween spec, her Halloween spectacular. And they, they into the crowd and someone's in this disgusting mask and she goes, wait, what was that? My favorite, it's so.

• 34:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Her compilations are just.

• 34:39Benito Skinner?

  It's a perfect jump scare. Um, the jump scare and overcompensating when Miles's girlfriend is there.

• 34:45Mary Beth Barone?

  And when you, when you do the Halloween special effects stuff.

• 34:48Benito Skinner?

  Well, that.

• 34:49Mary Beth Barone?

  When they pull you out of class.

• 34:50Benito Skinner?

  We literally had full jump scare and you pulling up as Alice. Alice Cullen. That's also.

• 34:56Mary Beth Barone?

  This man wants me to get banged so damn bad.

• 34:58Benito Skinner?

  I'll stop it. Nothing.

• 34:59Mary Beth Barone?

  It's not gonna happen.

• 35:00Benito Skinner?

  God, it frames your face so perfect and I hate looking at your forehead.

• 35:04Benito Skinner?

  Oh my God. Can you imagine? It'd be so easy to be a straight man and treat a woman well. You guys, my God, it's like,

• 35:14Benito Skinner?

  let me do it. Let me take care of you. I'll take care of you. Drake and Ellen loved each other. All right, I'm gonna keep going. So as far as jump scares.

• 35:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, there's this as well, a true jump scare.

• 35:27Benito Skinner?

  Well, the best.

• 35:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Hiding around the corner from somebody.

• 35:29Benito Skinner?

  You know, I love a prank. That, I think, I've, I think there is something so magical. The joy me and Molly had texting back and forth, knowing that this was gonna happen. I told our manager, our shared manager, Dakota and Ellen, shared an agent, Mac. She was like, I'm actually gonna piss myself. Like we were.

• 35:50Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't like not knowing stuff.

• 35:51Benito Skinner?

  Every person I told I was doing this to you, they were like, she's gonna kill you.

• 35:54Mary Beth Barone?

  You've given me a few jump scares because if I, if I recall correctly, I was in the shower at your house. She was in the shower.

• 36:04Benito Skinner?

  Yes.

• 36:04Mary Beth Barone?

  I was in the shower at your house and the photo of the gay guys, that's of one of their heads with a buzz cut. I thought it was a person.

• 36:11Benito Skinner?

  And I thought the water pressure had knocked you out.

• 36:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, you know, I'm so delicate.

• 36:15Benito Skinner?

  It knocked you down like Carrie.

• 36:16Mary Beth Barone?

  If the water's too hot. I just, I just completely passed out.

• 36:20Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 36:20Mary Beth Barone?

  I can't, I'm just too, you know, yeah.

• 36:24Benito Skinner?

  And I was like, what? Um, so a photo gave you a jump scare. That wasn't me. That was a photo on a wall.

• 36:29Mary Beth Barone?

  I get really, I am a very jumpy person.

• 36:32Benito Skinner?

  Yes, of course.

• 36:32Mary Beth Barone?

  So I can get a jump scare from almost anything.

• 36:35Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, of course. I lately, things have been jump scares to me. Sometimes seeing someone on the street will give me a jump scare.

• 36:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Or a stomach ache.

• 36:44Benito Skinner?

  A stomach ache.

• 36:45Mary Beth Barone?

  You know, when you see someone that you don't want to see and it gives you, you have a physical response, like someone punched you in the stomach.

• 36:50Benito Skinner?

  Oh, yeah, absolutely. I have.

• 36:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Cool, just checking.

• 36:52Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, no, I, it's every day.

• 36:56Benito Skinner?

  Um, but to me, there's something so, it's a reminder that you're human.

• 37:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Human.

• 37:02Benito Skinner?

  It's a, it's being in the theater for Resident Evil and there, there were like five to 10 jump scares that like truly got me like full jump and I made a sound. And it's so fun. It's like, also I love going to like those haunted houses. I'm actually like brave. At those.

• 37:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 37:20Benito Skinner?

  I can't think of the word brave without thinking of that fuck ass Pixar movie. Do you?

• 37:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Brave, the movie Brave.

• 37:26Benito Skinner?

  Brave.

• 37:28Benito Skinner?

  Can you do it?

• 37:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Brave.

• 37:32Benito Skinner?

  Brave.

• 37:32Mary Beth Barone?

  We have a Scottish family friend and his son's name was David and he would always go, oh, David.

• 37:41Mary Beth Barone?

  So we just, I just, that's a stim. That was an early stim of mine. In the house, he's looking for David. Oh, David.

• 37:50Benito Skinner?

  I'm gonna wet my pants.

• 37:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Shout out to, shout out to Alistair Johnstone. You're a total legend.

• 37:57Benito Skinner?

  Brave.

• 37:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, David.

• 38:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Benny, we can't stop. You have the whole day.

• 38:09Benito Skinner?

  Oh my God. Nothing can make Ellen laugh like this. I actually like want to check on her.

• 38:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Have enough joy.

• 38:17Benito Skinner?

  I, that's crazy because like Portia seems so lovely. I just think like my one take on her, I'm caught. My one thing on her is it's like she, people were so awful to her when she came out and like.

• 38:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 38:29Benito Skinner?

  You know what? Like women in the entertainment industry are treated like absolute shit. I, I think.

• 38:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, they're whores.

• 38:35Benito Skinner?

  They're fucking sluts and they won't let me fucking fight them.

• 38:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Can I say one thing? Oh, David.

• 38:45Benito Skinner?

  I'm actually, I can't.

• 38:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Can I say one thing about the women dressing as whores at the gym? Where have you been?

• 38:52Benito Skinner?

  No, exactly. I'm like.

• 38:53Mary Beth Barone?

  What have you been doing?

• 38:54Benito Skinner?

  Yoga pants been here.

• 38:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Yoga pants? I was wearing yoga pants. I was wearing leggings as pants in high school.

• 39:00Benito Skinner?

  You know what's funny? It's like, but then I really, as we said, he is, he hasn't seen gay guys at a gym. Go to an Equinox, big guy.

• 39:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Go in the sauna.

• 39:10Benito Skinner?

  You'll see something.

• 39:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, you want to sit in a sauna?

• 39:12Benito Skinner?

  See? No lines.

• 39:14Mary Beth Barone?

  I know someone that was banned from Equinox for sauna behavior.

• 39:18Benito Skinner?

  Hey, don't talk about me like that. But you know in Christmas Vacation where she lifts up her skirt and goes, see? No lines. And the panty, that raised me.

• 39:26Mary Beth Barone?

  That's you at the gym.

• 39:26Benito Skinner?

  That's why I act like that.

• 39:28Mary Beth Barone?

  That's why.

• 39:31Benito Skinner?

  Oh, yeah. What was I saying?

• 39:31Mary Beth Barone?

  You're forgetting we're on a podcast.

• 39:33Benito Skinner?

  Sorry, what was I saying?

• 39:33Mary Beth Barone?

  You're brave for going to the theater and sitting through jump scares.

• 39:37Benito Skinner?

  Oh, no, I'm, I'm brave when I go to haunted, when I go to haunted houses.

• 39:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, right.

• 39:42Benito Skinner?

  Um, because I lead. I think it's fun to get the scare.

• 39:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, well, you're gonna pay.

• 39:46Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, well, exactly. If I'm paying my good, hard earned fucking money. Thank you, Prime Video, by the way.

• 39:53Benito Skinner?

  But if I am, if I'm in the back.

• 39:55Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm paying for the experience.

• 39:57Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I'm like, well, I know they're coming now. If the first person like screamed, have I been to one with you? I think I have.

• 40:02Mary Beth Barone?

  I think we went to one.

• 40:03Benito Skinner?

  We did one, right?

• 40:04Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't mind jump scares. It makes me feel alive.

• 40:06Benito Skinner?

  I know. I just think they're really beautiful. I think seek them out in all, in every day of your life. Junkies, adrenaline junkies, but.

• 40:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Cheap thrills.

• 40:16Benito Skinner?

  I love cheap ass. Come on. Ladies and gentlemen, see ya.

• 40:24Benito Skinner?

  She pops out.

• 40:25Mary Beth Barone?

  She gets in there with Maddie Ziegler, my queen. I love Maddie Ziegler.

• 40:30Benito Skinner?

  I'm fucking a **** her. I wanna dance with her.

• 40:32Mary Beth Barone?

  She's such a good dancer.

• 40:33Benito Skinner?

  I wanna dance with her.

• 40:34Mary Beth Barone?

  I really wanna learn a good routine with you, like, for real.

• 40:37Benito Skinner?

  I know. Well, yeah.

• 40:38Mary Beth Barone?

  And you know my plan for my linger cover? I'm gonna take voice lessons for six years, but we're just gonna work on the song linger. And then I'm gonna post a cover of it and never address it.

• 40:48Benito Skinner?

  Oh, I can see.

• 40:49Mary Beth Barone?

  But it's going to be a pitch perfect cover.

• 40:50Benito Skinner?

  No, I know, and I can see you in your room. It's minimal makeup. It's a little makeup, of course, just a little bit. I like my girls with no makeup. Just a little bit of concealer, a little eye, a little mascara, lip liner, lips, a gloss on for top. Blush across the nose.

• 41:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Spray tan, body makeup.

• 41:05Benito Skinner?

  Yes, body, well, body makeup, of course.

• 41:08Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, so that's my big plan for my linger cover.

• 41:10Benito Skinner?

  That's gonna be so good.

• 41:10Mary Beth Barone?

  And who knows where I'm at in the process, you know? It's like, I'm not gonna tell you, but

• 41:14Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 41:14Mary Beth Barone?

  it will sound really good and you'll be like, oh.

• 41:17Benito Skinner?

  Remember when you asked for voice lessons for Welcome to the Black Parade?

• 41:20Mary Beth Barone?

  And they said, no, we like it in the audition how you did it. We want it to be bad.

• 41:24Benito Skinner?

  No, so we want it bad, as you did it.

• 41:28Mary Beth Barone?

  My voice never recovered from that. I didn't have the proper vocal warmups.

• 41:31Benito Skinner?

  Right.

• 41:32Mary Beth Barone?

  lawsuit incoming. That's a jump scare for you. You know what's the ultimate jump scare is getting served papers?

• 41:38Benito Skinner?

  Whoa.

• 41:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Like a subpoena or whatever.

• 41:40Benito Skinner?

  Whoa.

• 41:40Mary Beth Barone?

  They go, are you Benny Drama Seven? You've been served.

• 41:43Benito Skinner?

  And they said, wait, from Queers, they go, yeah, from Queers Folk, the reboot. And then they hand it to me and I go, what?

• 41:48Mary Beth Barone?

  And you're getting sued for every dime you have.

• 41:51Benito Skinner?

  Beth wants sole custody of ride? Oh, my god.

• 41:55Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm gonna get, I'm gonna replace you.

• 41:57Benito Skinner?

  But yeah, so that, we just, we love, I love a jump scare. Seek them out, go to a haunted house and scare the shit out of your partner.

• 42:03Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm so sick of straight guys that don't like horror movies. Like, you make every day a horror movie for us and you can't sit in a fucking theater next to your girl while she goes, ah!

• 42:12Benito Skinner?

  Whoa.

• 42:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Like.

• 42:14Benito Skinner?

  My read, that was amazing.

• 42:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Don't be like that.

• 42:16Benito Skinner?

  Is that, I feel like that's not, is that usual?

• 42:18Mary Beth Barone?

  It's a thing. It's a thing. Maybe just the guys I date.

• 42:21Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I think so.

• 42:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, I have no type, except guys that don't like horror movies.

• 42:25Benito Skinner?

  Exactly. I'm like, wait.

• 42:26Mary Beth Barone?

  I date pussies.

• 42:26Benito Skinner?

  I think literally, as I said, Pearl Harbor. Continue, let's get into it.

• 42:31Mary Beth Barone?

  So radical transparency.

• 42:33Benito Skinner?

  Which you taught me about.

• 42:34Mary Beth Barone?

  I feel like, I feel like if there's one thing I can bring to my relationships, it's how to, like, teach radical transparency through action.

• 42:46Benito Skinner?

  You send them off to the next one with a younger girl.

• 42:48Mary Beth Barone?

  I do, or a younger guy even. Even younger gay guy.

• 42:53Benito Skinner?

  Yes.

• 42:53Mary Beth Barone?

  So I love to practice radical transparency. It's not always easy. It sort of ties into doing the thing. It ties into being vulnerable. It's all part, it's all part of the same, like, I guess, like, mindset, ethos, and pathos. Not sure which one.

• 43:06Benito Skinner?

  In my head, you have bangs now, sorry.

• 43:07Mary Beth Barone?

  And so I have bangs now.

• 43:08Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 43:09Mary Beth Barone?

  So I just think it's good to, like, sometimes you have to initiate difficult conversations. You have to be honest with people. You have to send a text that you don't really wanna send. But I just think it can be so powerful because it, it deepens your relationships. And if people in your life can't handle radical transparency, then maybe they shouldn't be in your life.

• 43:24Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, and that's something that it would have really, like, been good for Ellen to know.

• 43:30Mary Beth Barone?

  There's nothing scarier than the truth.

• 43:31Benito Skinner?

  There's nothing scarier than the truth. You've taught me that, but also, there's nothing more empowering than the truth.

• 43:36Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 43:36Benito Skinner?

  The truth will set you free, by the way.

• 43:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Do you see that duality?

• 43:38Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 43:39Mary Beth Barone?

  It's a duality.

• 43:39Benito Skinner?

  And I think there's something really, I think as a people pleaser, it can be really hard, but radical transparency of being like, also, it's very feeling, feelings.

• 43:47Mary Beth Barone?

  It's feeling, feelings.

• 43:47Benito Skinner?

  Saying like, you know what? I'm just gonna be totally honest.

• 43:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Like, this is how that made me feel.

• 43:52Benito Skinner?

  I can't do this podcast with this woman anymore, unless she puts a muzzle on. Breathe.

• 43:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Breathe.

• 43:59Benito Skinner?

  Oh.

• 44:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, David.

• 44:02Benito Skinner?

  That is literally how I wanna be woke up.

• 44:07Mary Beth Barone?

  I mean, I'm gonna do a voice note and you can set it as your alarm.

• 44:10Benito Skinner?

  I would die. No, I want it to be you.

• 44:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay.

• 44:13Benito Skinner?

  Can you read me the Polar Express with that?

• 44:15Mary Beth Barone?

  I, I, those are the only words I can say in the accent, but I'll try. Oh, David.

• 44:23Mary Beth Barone?

  You know you're about to get yelled at.

• 44:24Benito Skinner?

  No, I know.

• 44:25Mary Beth Barone?

  David did something.

• 44:26Benito Skinner?

  David did something crass.

• 44:28Mary Beth Barone?

  You left something out.

• 44:29Benito Skinner?

  He been acting a fool.

• 44:30Mary Beth Barone?

  So I know it's tough, and I know it's

• 44:33Benito Skinner?

  It's gonna be hard and it's gonna be the spookiest thing of all, but what could be spookier than living a lie?

• 44:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally, and living in fear and all that stuff. And it's nearing the end of the year, and I guess we need to maybe just, like, take stock of how the year went, where our relationships are at, and maybe there's conversations that you can have over some figgy pudding.

• 44:54Benito Skinner?

  Oh, you've really got yourself there, bitch.

• 44:57Mary Beth Barone?

  I make myself laugh so much.

• 44:59Benito Skinner?

  So bring, bring us some figgy pudding.

• 45:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Me texting, I'm laughing my little ass off at my own stuff.

• 45:07Benito Skinner?

  Same, every now and then. I was texting Owen Thiel recently and I said something and I went, fuck, like, no one do it like me.

• 45:12Mary Beth Barone?

  There's a glitch where you react to your own texts by accident. Sometimes I just leave it.

• 45:16Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, of course.

• 45:17Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm trying to react to the other person's, then I hard it, but it's, it's accidentally doing my own. And I go, you know what? I stand by that.

• 45:24Benito Skinner?

  No, I cooked there. No, I'm leaving that.

• 45:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Seriously.

• 45:27Benito Skinner?

  Sometimes, I mean, your texts to me, our texts back and forth, I do, I screenshot a lot.

• 45:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Me too.

• 45:32Benito Skinner?

  That's insane.

• 45:32Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't wanna forget.

• 45:33Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 45:34Mary Beth Barone?

  What is a, well, I guess it's hard to put people on the spot.

• 45:37Benito Skinner?

  No, say it.

• 45:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, I was just gonna say, like, how has radical transparency, like, made your life better?

• 45:43Benito Skinner?

  It was helpful for overcompensating because I just had to, I think just being honest about everything was great, because then you're not, I think, when you do that.

• 45:50Mary Beth Barone?

  It leads to resentment when you withhold.

• 45:52Benito Skinner?

  It doesn't. I do this thing as a Scorpio. It is Scorpio season. Sorry to everyone, battening down the hatches. I, I think I've said this on the pod, but it's really crazy being a Scorpio because you say it to people and they're like, yeah, you like to cum, you know, and you're like, Jesus Christ. I'm like, I'm at John the Jew.

• 46:06Mary Beth Barone?

  By the way, who's saying that?

• 46:07Benito Skinner?

  People say that. I mean, to gay guys already, they're like, yeah, I was sonic good. Yeah, are you somebody's doggy?

• 46:14Mary Beth Barone?

  I just wanna say that we are, we are like that because of y'all.

• 46:21Benito Skinner?

  Radical transparency.

• 46:22Mary Beth Barone?

  You're gonna show me butthole on Instagram, but if I ask you how the orgy was, what, I'm insensitive? Figure that shit out amongst yourselves.

• 46:30Benito Skinner?

  I will.

• 46:30Mary Beth Barone?

  And let us know who can say the slurs.

• 46:32Benito Skinner?

  I'll take it to the, I'll take it to the board.

• 46:33Mary Beth Barone?

  If I'm, if I can say the slurs, I would love to.

• 46:38Benito Skinner?

  I know.

• 46:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Not about people.

• 46:39Benito Skinner?

  I know Dakota has.

• 46:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Not about people, just general.

• 46:42Benito Skinner?

  She's like, what?

• 46:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, you know, she's a, she is that gay best friend that she'd like, you'll hear about it on the Vogue podcast.

• 46:51Benito Skinner?

  Oh, that shows her stuff.

• 46:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Her friend is gay.

• 46:53Benito Skinner?

  Oh, that shows her memes. I think I've seen this. She has a gay friend that shows her memes.

• 46:57Mary Beth Barone?

  Sort of like you showing the music.

• 46:58Benito Skinner?

  Every girl has that in their car.

• 46:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, not every girl.

• 47:00Benito Skinner?

  We live in the car.

• 47:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Not every girl.

• 47:02Benito Skinner?

  Exactly, not every girl.

• 47:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Not every girl.

• 47:04Benito Skinner?

  Uh, it was really sad. Recently, I've been a **** this one TikToker, and she, I've just ****ing, she goes to this place called Seven Brew. It's some, like, coffee place in the south, I think.

• 47:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Shout out to them, by the way.

• 47:15Benito Skinner?

  Shout out to Seven Brew, by the way. We'd love to do a partnership. But I was watching and, you know, when it just hits you and you go,

• 47:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Hmm, Republican.

• 47:25Benito Skinner?

  I don't know our politics.

• 47:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 47:27Benito Skinner?

  And that was bummer, and I just don't see any gay guys.

• 47:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Glenn Powell saying politics are divisive.

• 47:31Benito Skinner?

  Wait.

• 47:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, let him cook.

• 47:33Benito Skinner?

  Wait.

• 47:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Let him fucking cook, dude. I don't get involved with all that. It's a little divisive.

• 47:38Benito Skinner?

  It's a little divisive for me.

• 47:39Mary Beth Barone?

  It's just because it just, like, doesn't bring people together.

• 47:41Benito Skinner?

  Me at Thanksgiving at your house? It's a little divisive. I need some figgy pudding. Let's get to this other thing. What is figgy pudding?

• 47:49Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't know.

• 47:49Benito Skinner?

  Figs and pudding?

• 47:50Mary Beth Barone?

  It's pudding or something.

• 47:51Benito Skinner?

  Good.

• 47:52Mary Beth Barone?

  It's pudding and it's a little figgy.

• 47:53Benito Skinner?

  I do love figs. I love figs. But it's helped me with overcompensating. It's helped me, I think, grow up. It, it's helpful as a grown up to say how you're feeling and not, as a Scorpio, as I was saying, this is what I was gonna say. I bottle things and then I just store them all. And then when I actually just let them out, I let out like a laundry list of things that have bothered me and people are like, you didn't say anything about any of those. So I'm trying not to do that.

• 48:19Mary Beth Barone?

  And it can be these, it can be incremental. I think

• 48:21Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 48:21Mary Beth Barone?

  once you start doing it, like, as a daily practice, and this doesn't mean you should be a cunt to people. It's just like, once you start saying stuff more casually, like, it, it's not such a big deal anymore.

• 48:31Benito Skinner?

  Molly, what'd you mean by that?

• 48:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, I know you guys have had some confrontations.

• 48:35Benito Skinner?

  With so many.

• 48:36Mary Beth Barone?

  I've been using this with my mom because she'll pick me up from Connecticut sometimes and drive me home. She drives like an F1 driver, by the way.

• 48:41Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 48:42Mary Beth Barone?

  This woman is out there and has, of course, a cheetah print, um, steering wheel cover.

• 48:46Benito Skinner?

  Well, honey, protect her.

• 48:47Mary Beth Barone?

  We get in at least one fight every time she drives me home because I feel unsafe. And so this past time, she, someone was honking at her and I was like, it's because you're, you're straddling two lanes. And she's like, I know.

• 49:00Mary Beth Barone?

  She kinda like went from zero to a hundred.

• 49:02Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 49:02Mary Beth Barone?

  And then I said afterwards, like, I don't think that reaction was warranted. I was totally calm coming to you with this, and I just thought you might wanna know why someone's honking at you. And she was like, yeah, I know. It's just because people have criticized my driving for a long time. And so I, I'm really sensitive.

• 49:18Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 49:18Mary Beth Barone?

  And then that was it. That was it. The fight was over.

• 49:20Benito Skinner?

  You see the humanity.

• 49:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 49:22Benito Skinner?

  I know that, I would love to see Ellen sit down.

• 49:26Mary Beth Barone?

  On camera.

• 49:27Benito Skinner?

  Talk shop with us. Ellen, you're welcome on a ride. Let's talk about this.

• 49:32Mary Beth Barone?

  I would have Ellen on a ride. It's not like she, like, did, like, she didn't abuse her power. Like, I think she's just cranky or something.

• 49:39Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 49:40Mary Beth Barone?

  So I think I could have a cranky guest too.

• 49:42Benito Skinner?

  I've heard of plenty of cranky guys that are kinda rocking it out still.

• 49:46Mary Beth Barone?

  That even more so than they ever have, maybe.

• 49:49Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, so that, I don't know.

• 49:50Mary Beth Barone?

  I think we could maybe, like, figure it out.

• 49:52Benito Skinner?

  I guess I'm a proletariat.

• 49:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Right. Yeah. I guess I'm a proletariat.

• 49:59Benito Skinner?

  I finally melt.

• 50:00Mary Beth Barone?

  You finally said the thing that, like, makes no sense.

• 50:08Benito Skinner?

  I have been trying to do that too of like, how far could I go?

• 50:11Mary Beth Barone?

  But I'm, here's what I'll say about that for myself. I am a very empathetic conversationalist. So even if someone says something that doesn't make sense, I'm never the one going, what did you just say? I'm like, I'll just repeat it back to them. And then we see if we're gonna stay in that zone or move on.

• 50:26Benito Skinner?

  Let's figure it out.

• 50:27Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't like making people uncomfortable. I hate when people do that or they're like, cool story.

• 50:31Benito Skinner?

  I'm like, has anyone ever just like actually actively tried to make people feel better? I'm like, I have, I don't know. And not to be like, pat myself on the back, but I'm just like, that's so weird.

• 50:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Here's what I love. I love making people feel comfortable. And sometimes having a conversation rooted in radical transparency, it can be a little uncomfortable. So you, you can just like, present the information in a kind way.

• 50:52Benito Skinner?

  I will say, it feels so adult. It feels like therapy speak, but in a good way.

• 50:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, it's not weaponization. Yes, I'm using it for good.

• 50:58Benito Skinner?

  Thank you for bringing that here. I ride for radical transparency because I've been really trying to practice it as I've gotten older. It's hard as the youngest child.

• 51:06Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 51:07Benito Skinner?

  You keep things bottled in. It's hard as a little sexual Scorpio to not just let her rip. But um, sometimes you gotta just say it. And when you communicate something and someone meets you there, this is also important. If someone can't handle the radical transparency, you gotta, you gotta reevaluate that relationship.

• 51:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Or try, you can keep trying, but I find that sometimes people are not ready because we don't practice it in our society that much.

• 51:30Benito Skinner?

  Thinking about proletariat.

• 51:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, we're all thinking about that. I'm trying to keep talking while I think about it. It's not practiced as much in our society. It's, it's like whispering to other people about what you're frustrated by or like not. Yeah, I don't think like that honesty. We don't have a society based in honesty. So I think it makes people feel like on the back foot a little bit, but it doesn't have to. So you can try to like, yeah, just like work it in.

• 51:52Benito Skinner?

  And happy Halloween, by the way.

• 51:53Mary Beth Barone?

  And happy Halloween, by the way. I definitely ride for jump scares. You know, I'm always down to go to see a spooky movie. I would say the most, the, the genre I see in theaters the most is scary.

• 52:03Benito Skinner?

  Well, I think those ones, that and the Odyssey, those are kind of like the two things. Like all horror films and the Odyssey should be seen in theaters. Dune 3 should be on a phone.

• 52:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Or an Apple Watch.

• 52:13Benito Skinner?

  That's personal. Apple Watch, that's.

• 52:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, oh shit. Dune's playing on my Apple Watch. Let me just turn that off really quick.

• 52:19Benito Skinner?

  My PSP is still playing Dune.

• 52:21Mary Beth Barone?

  My Nintendo Switch has my.

• 52:23Benito Skinner?

  When I had my PSP, it was so fire. I had Spider-Man and The Italian Job.

• 52:28Mary Beth Barone?

  As a movie?

• 52:29Benito Skinner?

  Yes.

• 52:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Or the game?

• 52:30Benito Skinner?

  Well, I had the game Spider-Man because I loved web slinging.

• 52:33Mary Beth Barone?

  We know Scorpio. How is the sauna, by the way? Fucking dirty pig bottom.

• 52:38Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 52:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Are you a little dog?

• 52:41Benito Skinner?

  I asked for.

• 52:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Get on your knees, bitch.

• 52:44Benito Skinner?

  Oh, you have got something here.

• 52:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, I think you know what it is.

• 52:51Benito Skinner?

  But uh, jump scares are happy to have you. I'm sorry we had to do one, but I had to demonstrate in order to show the girls.

• 52:56Mary Beth Barone?

  We're gonna auction this off at auction.

• 52:58Benito Skinner?

  This is a really gorgeous box. It was, it was both so in your face as maybe having someone in it.

• 53:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 53:06Benito Skinner?

  That I really love how much you trust the earth.

• 53:08Mary Beth Barone?

  That's true to the set.

• 53:09Benito Skinner?

  It makes me sad for you in relationships that you trusted that.

• 53:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Thanks dad.

• 53:14Benito Skinner?

  Well, I love that Ellen had to go like this after fucking Dakota blew up the chat. She was like, don't have.

• 53:20Mary Beth Barone?

  No more.

• 53:21Benito Skinner?

  Don't have the guy dressed as Ronald Reagan pop out at her.

• 53:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 53:24Benito Skinner?

  Don't, no gorilla suit today.

• 53:30Mary Beth Barone?

  And, and Merry Christmas.

• 53:31Benito Skinner?

  And Merry Christmas.

• 53:32Mary Beth Barone?

  We wish you a Merry Christmas. We wish you a Merry Christmas.

• 53:36Benito Skinner?

  We wish you a Merry Christmas.

• 53:37Mary Beth Barone?

  And a Happy New Year.

• 53:41Benito Skinner?

  Prive.

• 53:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, David.

• 53:51Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my exit.

• 53:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Benny babe, eyes on the road.

• 53:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Benny, go!

• 53:59Speaker 03

  Ride.