Dancing + Pop Stars Talking in Songs

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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

• 0:19Mary Beth Barone?

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

• 0:30Benito Skinner?

  I'm Benito Skinner.

• 0:31Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm Mary Beth Brown.

• 0:33Benito Skinner?

  And this?

• 0:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Is?

• 0:34Benito Skinner?

  Ride.

• 0:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Those are the Epstein files. The conversation we just had is the Epstein files.

• 0:42Benito Skinner?

  We literally just did.

• 0:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Are we recording, Jackson? Okay, great.

• 0:48Benito Skinner?

  Okay.

• 0:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Do you want to start? I mean, we're going to keep what we just said, but you can start.

• 0:51Benito Skinner?

  Well, my big set piece is here.

• 0:56Speaker 00

  After the ecstasy testing for pregnancy, praying in MP3. I'm scared to let you see into the whole machine. Leave it out on the field. Your metal detector metering, it's my precious transit to yourself.

• 1:14Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm getting ready to listen.

• 1:15Speaker 00

  Nobody's daughter. Your baby, I'm free, I'm free. I'm free.

• 1:24Speaker 00

  But deep in my matter, you're changing my pattern. Jeff, he looks just right through me. Bars on my windows, you bust them wide open till clearness is all I see. I try letting the answer be part of the dance. I trip and stumble. Yeah, baby, I'm free, I'm free. I am free. I might have done the other one. Lips around your halo, you ask where I came from. I lied in it, I can't clean. Halo being a dick, do you understand?

• 1:56Mary Beth Barone?

  Sure.

• 1:57Speaker 00

  When that hit me.

• 2:00Speaker 00

  That might have been it.

• 2:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay.

• 2:01Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 2:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Yay.

• 2:03Speaker 00

  I will do it till I cry.

• 2:07Speaker 00

  How's it feel? Being this alive?

• 2:11Mary Beth Barone?

  And yeah, I don't care if my voice cracks.

• 2:14Speaker 00

  So, what'd you think? Did you love it?

• 2:16Mary Beth Barone?

  I loved it.

• 2:18Benito Skinner?

  Thank you, honey.

• 2:18Mary Beth Barone?

  What's cool is that you had done this for me already backstage when we were recording. So I've seen it. I love it. I think we should start every episode with that.

• 2:27Benito Skinner?

  Should I give you the other one that you like?

• 2:29Mary Beth Barone?

  No. Oh, yeah, sure, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just hate that, what happens now.

• 2:33Benito Skinner?

  Ruining my relationships.

• 2:34Mary Beth Barone?

  With me.

• 2:37Mary Beth Barone?

  It's Mouse.

• 2:39Benito Skinner?

  Is it Mouse?

• 2:39Mary Beth Barone?

  It's Mouse, yeah.

• 2:40Benito Skinner?

  Oh, 18th Diva, it's just you.

• 2:43Speaker 00

  Them bitches want my keys. The friend.

• 2:50Benito Skinner?

  Wait, why's the echo on there?

• 2:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay.

• 2:57Mary Beth Barone?

  What did I say before? I said if this is a test of my mental fortitude, we're reaching edge.

• 3:02Speaker 00

  Grab a pole up the politician, please.

• 3:09Speaker 00

  I don't need to see you, you're so good.

• 3:12Benito Skinner?

  Oh, shit. Do you see how I just didn't get the right toys as a kid?

• 3:17Mary Beth Barone?

  Can I just say one thing?

• 3:18Benito Skinner?

  Don't take it, because I know you won't give it back.

• 3:20Mary Beth Barone?

  No, give it to me. I want to say one thing. You ordered this and it came with no charger.

• 3:24Benito Skinner?

  No charger, nothing.

• 3:24Mary Beth Barone?

  It came as seen on TV.

• 3:26Benito Skinner?

  I just want to sing one more thing to you.

• 3:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Jackson, we're gonna have to fix the levels because that's gonna hurt people's ears and feelings.

• 3:32Benito Skinner?

  So I have a new toy. It's not an era, more just a toy.

• 3:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Adults can have toys. Inner child, what do you always say on the podcast?

• 3:39Benito Skinner?

  Let the inner child free. Wait, question. Did that make you laugh?

• 3:43Mary Beth Barone?

  It did.

• 3:44Benito Skinner?

  Did I see that Hunter Watt smile?

• 3:45Mary Beth Barone?

  No, for sure. I think it's different when it's not into another microphone and then it's like feeding that into my headphones. Like live, it sounds different, just so everyone knows.

• 3:53Benito Skinner?

  At my house later, I whipped that out. You were not even expecting it. I'm tucked.

• 3:57Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, yeah. And you sing Halsey.

• 3:58Benito Skinner?

  And I sing Halsey when she revealed her pregnancy at Coachella.

• 4:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 4:02Benito Skinner?

  Which didn't happen, all of this.

• 4:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 4:04Benito Skinner?

  I just had a bit for a while.

• 4:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Who's your favorite fictional character?

• 4:08Benito Skinner?

  Don't, because now I'm thinking again, who's yours? When she said Han Solo, I went, thank God.

• 4:14Mary Beth Barone?

  What a relief.

• 4:15Benito Skinner?

  I wonder when that video will come out. Isn't it so scary thinking of the archive of everything that exists?

• 4:19Mary Beth Barone?

  If ever, yeah.

• 4:20Benito Skinner?

  Everything everywhere all at once that exists of us on a press tour?

• 4:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. I wanted to say eight months into Trump's presidency, we haven't hit the Taika button once. So I think that's something we need to be mindful of and

• 4:30Benito Skinner?

  Hit it.

• 4:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Hit it.

• 4:31Benito Skinner?

  Taika button. AI cannot figure out fingers.

• 4:35Mary Beth Barone?

  And what's so interesting about that is that

• 4:38Benito Skinner?

  You'd think it'd be easy.

• 4:39Mary Beth Barone?

  are, no, hands are the hardest thing to draw, paint, all that stuff.

• 4:43Benito Skinner?

  Oh, that's true.

• 4:44Mary Beth Barone?

  So it's not surprising. I learned that literally in elementary school art class. Ms. Denapoli, shout out to her. I think that was her name.

• 4:50Benito Skinner?

  She turned off after hearing the vocoder.

• 4:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. She didn't like that. So yes, that is traditionally known as the hands are the hardest thing to sort of master as an artist. So maybe AI and humans aren't so different after all.

• 5:04Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I guess maybe we can find a common ground of sorts. Oh shit, I'm Sydney Sweeney.

• 5:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Don't be Sydney. We actually can't do that.

• 5:11Benito Skinner?

  I know. Wait, someone said that like, I don't know, they, there was some comment that was like, as if we had done some like a huge endorsement of the American Eagle thing. That never happens.

• 5:19Mary Beth Barone?

  No.

• 5:19Benito Skinner?

  Just to be clear.

• 5:20Mary Beth Barone?

  No, and it never will.

• 5:21Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, that wasn't it.

• 5:23Mary Beth Barone?

  That never will.

• 5:24Benito Skinner?

  We said something existed. And I think that that's one thing I just want to make clear on the pod. If we say that something exists, that doesn't mean-

• 5:31Mary Beth Barone?

  It's not an endorsement.

• 5:31Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 5:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay, so there's all the discourse about AI taking jobs and stuff, which I'm sure is happening. But all I see of AI are, like, I saw a video of all the Austin Powers characters as babies.

• 5:44Benito Skinner?

  Hmm, well, thank God.

• 5:45Mary Beth Barone?

  And so I'm like, was that someone's job before to do that by hand? It feels like AI is just creating a lot of stuff that we didn't have, that we actually don't need.

• 5:53Benito Skinner?

  See, I'll explain this to you, very straight male style.

• 5:56Mary Beth Barone?

  Please.

• 5:57Benito Skinner?

  Every movie before you make it, you have to see all that kind of stuff on storyboards. You have to see the kids.

• 6:02Mary Beth Barone?

  And them in their couple costumes.

• 6:03Benito Skinner?

  But what would this like, look like if it was like Gothic 80s horror? And it's like, well, I have a full storyboard.

• 6:08Mary Beth Barone?

  We can show you that.

• 6:09Benito Skinner?

  That person doesn't have a job. And that pisses me off, dude. No, I-

• 6:13Mary Beth Barone?

  A person now does not have a job. Do you get that?

• 6:16Benito Skinner?

  Do you fucking understand that? Hey, white bitch. Do you get that?

• 6:22Mary Beth Barone?

  And the answer is no.

• 6:23Benito Skinner?

  Everyone's you on the internet.

• 6:24Mary Beth Barone?

  No, I know. Wait, you know, oh, you know what I've been loving recently? I have a joke about Trump's kids and I posted it. And so all these people comment, don't quit your day job, which then actually is being supportive because my day job is being a comedian, which they don't realize. So they're like, oh, don't quit your day job, you ugly bitch. And I'm like, okay, I won't. I'm gonna keep doing stand up.

• 6:44Benito Skinner?

  You're right, I'm going to be an actor.

• 6:47Mary Beth Barone?

  And I am.

• 6:48Benito Skinner?

  What was the Nina thing you wanted me to read?

• 6:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, so, okay, there was a video of the New York Times talking about something really, really serious.

• 6:54Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 6:55Mary Beth Barone?

  It was a podcast and underneath there were these two comments that I felt were really important.

• 7:00Benito Skinner?

  Okay, let me get my, she would love that little thing just to play tricks. I'm curious why men always, oh.

• 7:10Mary Beth Barone?

  You remember now?

• 7:11Benito Skinner?

  Oh, fuck their bird. I'm curious why men always want to go to the bathroom to play with their bird. To play with their bird after watching my videos. Try it if you don't believe me.

• 7:24Benito Skinner?

  I just wanted to ask, what was everyone doing in the bathroom after watching my movie? Me at the premiere of Overcompensating?

• 7:33Mary Beth Barone?

  You at the premiere of Sugar Baby?

• 7:35Benito Skinner?

  No.

• 7:37Mary Beth Barone?

  So that just happened.

• 7:39Benito Skinner?

  My bird.

• 7:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Your bird. But I actually don't want, I'm just amplifying that.

• 7:44Benito Skinner?

  So I assume cock got just a little AI, hands and cock are a little tricky for it.

• 7:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Tough to master.

• 7:50Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 7:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Our notes app says, the owl outside my window.

• 7:55Benito Skinner?

  Oh, you're really gonna bring this bitch up. Speaking of bird, well, I have my first op of the year. I swear to God, I've.

• 8:03Mary Beth Barone?

  This is your first op of the year?

• 8:04Benito Skinner?

  I've been, I've had a really peaceful.

• 8:05Mary Beth Barone?

  My list has grown.

• 8:06Benito Skinner?

  No, my, I'm kidding, my list is huge. But there is this bird outside my window. Hedwig, turf Hogwarts, I can only imagine.

• 8:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Fuck you, J K Rowling.

• 8:18Benito Skinner?

  And fuck you, J K Rowling. You've seen the Jinx once in.

• 8:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, my God, that was so, I wonder how, I guess we need to post that in some way, shape or form.

• 8:27Benito Skinner?

  We have to.

• 8:28Mary Beth Barone?

  The teardown of J K Rowling.

• 8:29Benito Skinner?

  So simple, so beautiful.

• 8:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Eloquent, beautiful.

• 8:32Benito Skinner?

  Reading is fundamental. So. One morning, and you know, I'm, I'm a pretty heavy sleeper, honestly. Like you snuck into my house last night. I didn't hear a thing.

• 8:41Mary Beth Barone?

  You did not wake up. You didn't make a sound.

• 8:43Benito Skinner?

  And I know you were going crazy, folding everything. So I'm sleeping one morning.

• 8:48Mary Beth Barone?

  I did the Dyson.

• 8:50Benito Skinner?

  Fully in your heels with the big headphones on.

• 8:53Mary Beth Barone?

  These boots are made of a box.

• 8:55Benito Skinner?

  So this one morning, the sun starts to come in and the bedroom and the boudoir. And I hear huh huh. And I'm like, okay, well, once is fine. So this owl is a rancid ass bitch. This owl, I would say is very Joker coded.

• 9:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Just wants to watch world burn.

• 9:15Benito Skinner?

  Very much, very Riddler, because he'll do something like, and it's a he, because I, I just think a she would have come inside.

• 9:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 9:22Benito Skinner?

  She would be hanging out.

• 9:22Mary Beth Barone?

  And had a spot of tea with you.

• 9:24Benito Skinner?

  Of course, she'd be on my finger.

• 9:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, exactly.

• 9:26Benito Skinner?

  And I'd pet her huh huh. And I'd, I'd huh back at her. This I couldn't, I didn't understand the frequency. I tried it in the mic and nothing worked. This owl, he keeps going huh huh. And then he will wait. So it'll be like this. Huh huh.

• 9:43Benito Skinner?

  So I'm back asleep at this point.

• 9:46Benito Skinner?

  Like, and then the next one will come at a different time.

• 9:48Mary Beth Barone?

  It's maximum impact and it's not no rhythm.

• 9:51Benito Skinner?

  And it works for my washing machine. I swear to God, they're on the same circadian rhythm.

• 9:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Your washing machine is my horcrux or whatever. What does that mean?

• 9:59Benito Skinner?

  I don't know.

• 10:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Do you know what I mean?

• 10:01Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 10:01Mary Beth Barone?

  It's or what's the thing that like?

• 10:03Benito Skinner?

  It's.

• 10:04Mary Beth Barone?

  It's like, it haunts me and I hate it so much.

• 10:06Benito Skinner?

  Well, someone asked me to describe it once. They're like, what's the, you know, what's the vibe? And I said, I said, insidious.

• 10:12Mary Beth Barone?

  If fuck, if you leave a fucking wet load in there.

• 10:17Benito Skinner?

  Fuck. God damn it. She's complaining about the wet load in there again. No.

• 10:21Mary Beth Barone?

  That your washing machine is a bitch.

• 10:23Benito Skinner?

  No, she is such a bitch. It's literally like the ghost of a 50s housewife who got wronged lives inside my insidious.

• 10:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Betty Draper's ghost lives in your fucking washing machine.

• 10:32Benito Skinner?

  The conjuring.

• 10:33Mary Beth Barone?

  And she sent the owl, by the way. But here's the thing, if you leave it. So, okay, I understand you don't want me to leave wet clothes in there, right?

• 10:39Benito Skinner?

  That's the frequency. He'd come, right then he would have gone huh huh.

• 10:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 10:43Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 10:43Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't want to leave wet clothes in the wash, but I gotta have a grace period of a little bit. And also if you beep 10 times, let it go.

• 10:50Benito Skinner?

  Mama, I'm on zoom.

• 10:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Let it go. We've moved on. We're doing something else.

• 10:55Benito Skinner?

  At that point they go, you're pathetic. You're just so needy.

• 10:59Mary Beth Barone?

  You're so fucking scar for attention.

• 11:00Benito Skinner?

  No, fully. My washing machine had the worst fucking childhood. But then, once I'm there, it's like it also shakes a lot. It's just so, it's overcompensating in a lot of ways.

• 11:11Mary Beth Barone?

  Tough.

• 11:12Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 11:12Mary Beth Barone?

  But I love waking up in your house.

• 11:13Benito Skinner?

  So that's my washing machine.

• 11:15Mary Beth Barone?

  And, and the owl. So I guess it's at this point, before we get into what we ride for, that we need to talk about in a French ass restaurant.

• 11:24Benito Skinner?

  Hurry up with my damn croissants! So.

• 11:27Mary Beth Barone?

  So we're not endorsing.

• 11:29Benito Skinner?

  God, no, we would.

• 11:30Mary Beth Barone?

  We are just saying that this exists.

• 11:32Benito Skinner?

  I can't stress enough. And if you actually think we are endorsing, you're not a part of the work.

• 11:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Listen to the entire podcast from the beginning and then come talk to me.

• 11:40Benito Skinner?

  And decide if we are supporting this at all. We don't even need to say who it is. I don't know why it came to my head. I just thought, I can't believe this lyric exists. I need to shout it out at Mary Beth right now in Montreal in this hotel. That had an interesting smell.

• 11:57Benito Skinner?

  It smelled like come, no?

• 12:00Benito Skinner?

  Well, don't say that. They'll come for you.

• 12:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Yes.

• 12:03Benito Skinner?

  Good. So.

• 12:04Mary Beth Barone?

  We're gonna bleep that. Not so. We're never revealing it. Also, the video podcast, I wonder if people are noticing how fidgety I am. I am adjusting in my chair about every five seconds.

• 12:16Benito Skinner?

  Also, I think there's just like a glow filter that we put on all of it just to make it consistent, but sometimes.

• 12:21Mary Beth Barone?

  For you guys.

• 12:21Benito Skinner?

  Hey, it's for you.

• 12:22Mary Beth Barone?

  It's not for us.

• 12:23Benito Skinner?

  It has nothing to do with us. I don't care how I look.

• 12:25Mary Beth Barone?

  No, we never do.

• 12:26Benito Skinner?

  No, I've never, I've never cared about some shit like that.

• 12:29Mary Beth Barone?

  How many doctors have you been to in the last two weeks?

• 12:30Benito Skinner?

  Thirty. I went to a holistic healer this morning and she told me I had rage in my liver. So I would say we're really getting closer and closer to an answer. But I think I might have.

• 12:40Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm not, I have nothing to say on that.

• 12:41Benito Skinner?

  I might have leaky gut.

• 12:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 12:43Benito Skinner?

  And all I said to her was, come on, leaky gut.

• 12:46Mary Beth Barone?

  You did not say that.

• 12:47Benito Skinner?

  I didn't.

• 12:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay, good.

• 12:48Benito Skinner?

  I just wanted to make you laugh. So in a French ass restaurant, hurry up with my damn croissants. It's just like, I just, yeah. So I did sing that at Mary Beth and I just thought of like Peter, season two, like saying that and thinking it was so sick. In a French ass restaurant, hurry up with my damn croissant.

• 13:09Mary Beth Barone?

  And that joke costing $50,000.

• 13:11Benito Skinner?

  A hundred.

• 13:12Mary Beth Barone?

  So.

• 13:13Benito Skinner?

  That would be a hundred. Sleep it.

• 13:17Mary Beth Barone?

  I, look, I like that people, there's levels to the work. There's levels to the meaning. That one is face value. It's face value. There's nothing deeper there. He's in a French ass restaurant. And can you picture him in a French restaurant yelling, hurry up with my damn croissants?

• 13:37Benito Skinner?

  And also, very clearly, it's not Paris.

• 13:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 13:40Benito Skinner?

  That's what I love. Like, I'm just in this French ass restaurant.

• 13:42Mary Beth Barone?

  In Paris, a French restaurant, it's just a restaurant.

• 13:45Benito Skinner?

  It's just a restaurant. So this is a French ass restaurant.

• 13:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Guess who's going to jail tonight? I just love saying that, but privately and on the podcast.

• 13:55Benito Skinner?

  And here on camera. No, this is something, it's, when you said face value, it makes me think of.

• 14:00Mary Beth Barone?

  What does it make you think of?

• 14:02Benito Skinner?

  I love having a podcast and just talking to the fucking most annoying girl in fucking comedy right now. You're so up your ass after your Big Seth moment.

• 14:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, it's me. I've been riding that way for a while, girl.

• 14:15Benito Skinner?

  So.

• 14:16Mary Beth Barone?

  I shouldn't even be here right now.

• 14:17Benito Skinner?

  I shouldn't have to fucking do this. That's what you say when you come in. We're so weird on here.

• 14:22Mary Beth Barone?

  I knock a chair over and I say, get me the fuck out of here. And hurry up with my damn croissants.

• 14:30Benito Skinner?

  In a French ass restaurant.

• 14:35Benito Skinner?

  And then the whole stadium is silent. And they all sing it with me. Hurry up with my damn croissants.

• 14:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Let me hear you.

• 14:44Benito Skinner?

  Okay, so here's the thing. I was at dinner last night. I was at dinner last night with Amber Bain of The Japanese House. And she was saying that she and her lovely bride, Alyssa, got in, not a squabble. I think it's just a really intense fight.

• 14:59Mary Beth Barone?

  You asked their biggest fight?

• 15:00Benito Skinner?

  Well, of course, I said, well, with my arms crossed, I said, what's your biggest fight?

• 15:03Mary Beth Barone?

  What's your biggest fight?

• 15:04Benito Skinner?

  She said, Alyssa and I were confused as to if Pork Nights has any sexual innuendo. Cause she was like, I just think it's like you just saying Pork Nights, you just like eating pork. And I'm like, no, it's just that. It hasn't.

• 15:14Mary Beth Barone?

  For now.

• 15:15Benito Skinner?

  Well, for now.

• 15:16Mary Beth Barone?

  We'll see how it evolves.

• 15:17Benito Skinner?

  It could evolve any, yeah, any which way. But yeah, I'm like, no, that's, I think that's the beauty of this.

• 15:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Sometimes it's just literal and it's just like, yeah.

• 15:24Benito Skinner?

  When you go to dinner, when you go to dinner and you eat pork. So

• 15:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Be that simple.

• 15:28Benito Skinner?

  Today I'll be writing for

• 15:29Mary Beth Barone?

  We should have a podcast.

• 15:30Benito Skinner?

  So, and I'm so glad we do. And this is why we have one.

• 15:34Mary Beth Barone?

  And you don't, or maybe you do.

• 15:37Benito Skinner?

  Oh, you probably do. So today I will be writing for Pop Stars Talking in Songs.

• 15:43Mary Beth Barone?

  And today I'm gonna ride for dancing and I would like to go first. Hey, Baronies, we're back in the submersible this week for ads. In many ways, in the submersible and in many other ways, we are next to a pickleball court. So today, as you can hear, the sounds of the ball hitting the ground. And we're starting with a company that I am very passionate about, Hill House Home. So as you know, Baronies on staff at our newest advertiser convinced their bosses to let them advertise with us. So you know, this one's gonna be for our girls. Let us introduce you now. Drumroll, please. The Hill House Home Viral Nap Dress. Celebrities like Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Anne Hathaway, and Kathy Hilton have been spotted in Hill House. They make the cutest little dresses and tops for our girls, perfect for spring and summer.

• 16:29Mary Beth Barone?

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• 17:13Mary Beth Barone?

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• 17:25Benito Skinner?

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• 18:06Benito Skinner?

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• 18:51Benito Skinner?

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• 19:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay, as a card-carrying girl's girl, I have something to tell you. This summer is not only about being sexy, it's about having a better morning after. You heard that right. You might be waking up in your own bed or someone else's, and I know what you're thinking right now. This girl woke up in my house. And the house that you woke up in may or may not have navy blue sheets. That's none of my business. But it doesn't matter because Julie has you covered. The Julie Morning After Pill uses the same trusted gyno-recommended ingredient as Plan B to delay ovulation and prevent pregnancy when taken up to three days after unprotected sex. Julie literally just sent one to my house. Can you believe that? I got a Julie pill in my house. If there's no egg, there's no fertilization. And if there's no fertilization, there's no pregnancy. It's called science, women in STEM, hello. The earlier you use it, the better it works. And when you need it,

• 20:04Mary Beth Barone?

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• 20:49Mary Beth Barone?

  No age restrictions and no ID required. We love you, Julie. Thanks for protecting our girls.

• 20:57Mary Beth Barone?

  Wait, where are we going?

• 20:58Benito Skinner?

  Who cares? Ride! I don't feel like that. Well, you know, Mika. All right, go. Sorry about that.

• 21:11Mary Beth Barone?

  Don't. Let me start.

• 21:15Mary Beth Barone?

  So I don't have that much to say.

• 21:18Benito Skinner?

  Oh, really? Well, you just let the moves do the talking.

• 21:20Mary Beth Barone?

  Exactly. Body language. As Ursula once said.

• 21:24Benito Skinner?

  Body language.

• 21:29Mary Beth Barone?

  So the gas leak era has been extended three times, just so everyone knows.

• 21:35Speaker 00

  The gas leak has landed at the Pacific Design Center. This place about to blow.

• 21:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Speaking of dancing.

• 21:44Speaker 00

  When Dear Media blows up, it's gonna be me and you walking away in Nurse costume painted as the Joker.

• 21:55Speaker 00

  Each color of the Pacific Design Center blowing up.

• 21:59Mary Beth Barone?

  The poor other businesses in the building who did nothing wrong.

• 22:02Speaker 00

  You turn to me and go, "Blue." "Red." We would have gotten everyone out, by the way.

• 22:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, yeah, it's just a demolition. They want to put up a new Pacific Design Center and we're helping them out.

• 22:15Speaker 00

  Of course.

• 22:16Mary Beth Barone?

  So, okay.

• 22:19Mary Beth Barone?

  After reading Mark Ronson's book, which I just can't shut up about.

• 22:22Speaker 00

  Good.

• 22:23Mary Beth Barone?

  I really found myself feeling nostalgic for those nights when I was in my twenties that you had no plan. You do a pregame at the apartment. You do a little Molly and you just see where the night takes you. And usually it took you somewhere to dance until four in the morning because the bars in New York are open until four. And you would, honestly, it was like a workout, like you were breaking a sweat. Maybe you made out with someone, an MO on the D flow, as we used to call it, make out on the dance floor. You would connect with people, you would lose your phone briefly and then find it.

• 22:54Speaker 00

  I'm like gyrating in my seat right now, like I'm literally like.

• 22:56Mary Beth Barone?

  You would tell your friends how much you love them. One time I took a shot of whiskey and there was a piece of glass in the liquid, which I put to the top of my roof of my mouth with my tongue. I swallowed the whiskey and I took the glass out and I showed it to the bartender, tiny little piece of glass.

• 23:09Speaker 00

  And you slit their throat with it?

• 23:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, I did. Then I burned the place to the ground.

• 23:13Speaker 00

  I'm with Catwoman today at Dear Media.

• 23:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Yes.

• 23:16Speaker 00

  My lamest joke to date. Hit me.

• 23:19Mary Beth Barone?

  I do have nine lives. I'm running low, though, by the way. We're nearing the end here.

• 23:24Benito Skinner?

  Definitely.

• 23:25Mary Beth Barone?

  So I just have a lot of, I, I wanna dance again.

• 23:29Benito Skinner?

  Can, I'm just so happy to hear you say this. There was a gay night recently that I went to.

• 23:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Gay guy night?

• 23:34Benito Skinner?

  It was gay guy night, literally. And I, like, barely moved my hips, but just even that little gyration, because, you know, my body does do a lot of talking. And I can just, kinda just, it's all hips.

• 23:45Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't think of LA as a big dancing culture.

• 23:47Benito Skinner?

  Well, I wish there was, but there isn't. So I went to this, this gay night downtown with Jordan Firstman, Owen Thiel, Jared Elner, and Terry. The night was structured in a way where it was like, the dancing was just one beat that was playing. And I was like, oh, I kind of sometimes like, for me to really dance, I need like lyrics a little bit.

• 24:04Mary Beth Barone?

  I wanna sing. I wanna dance to Top 40. So this is my big critique of New York right now. So there's a really great dancing spot called Chow Chow in Williamsburg, but every night I've gone there, they play disco, which like, I wanna hear Top 40, I wanna dance to me.

• 24:19Benito Skinner?

  Me, me, me. I wanna dance to Charlie's Angels. I would do Boiler Room Set. If you just play Boiler Room Set.

• 24:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 24:25Benito Skinner?

  I, I'm not asking you to change the club vibe.

• 24:27Mary Beth Barone?

  No.

• 24:27Benito Skinner?

  That's what I want. Just every now and then, I want it to be like,

• 24:32Benito Skinner?

  and I'm like, are they doing Carly Rae? And then they don't play it, but it's just a little bit.

• 24:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Right. I need a little, like, a crumb of it. So I actually got a DM the other night that I didn't see until the next morning. It was Parker, the SoulCycle instructor I'm obsessed with, who is also a DJ. And he had messaged me, do you wanna go out dancing tonight in Williamsburg? I could, I-

• 24:49Benito Skinner?

  That's so Carrie of you.

• 24:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Was so mad. I was so mad in the morning.

• 24:52Benito Skinner?

  Let's go dancing. When she calls all the girls, four-way call.

• 24:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Dayglow underwear and a sheer dress.

• 24:57Benito Skinner?

  I, you took me dancing.

• 24:59Mary Beth Barone?

  What, the $3 bill night?

• 25:01Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, when you did meth.

• 25:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Infamous night when I did meth accidentally. This has been coming up a lot recently.

• 25:04Benito Skinner?

  I, I also think I did meth, in a way.

• 25:07Mary Beth Barone?

  In a way. It was contact high.

• 25:09Benito Skinner?

  It was a contact high. I smoked so many cigs that night. I just felt like a dancing boy.

• 25:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Such a fun night. It went from the best night ever to the worst day ever the next day, because we didn't sleep till 8:00 PM the next day.

• 25:19Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 25:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Anyone who had done the Molly, it was laced with meth. We did not sleep. I had to cancel opening for George Caveras because I was like way too

• 25:25Benito Skinner?

  Oh, yeah.

• 25:26Mary Beth Barone?

  and upset.

• 25:27Benito Skinner?

  You got me so fucked up that night that the next day I cried at the Ralph Lauren documentary on a flight home. So.

• 25:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Do without what you will.

• 25:34Benito Skinner?

  Just think about that, you guys. But here's the thing. I'm so, oh, yeah. So at this gay night, it was tiered. So it was like the dancing was only to one beat. Then there was a darkroom if, you know, you wanted to get into that.

• 25:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 25:44Benito Skinner?

  And then there was a massage area. So a woman was giving chair massages. So that's where I was.

• 25:48Mary Beth Barone?

  So that's very LA to me.

• 25:51Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, but it was great. And like she, it was so funny. She gave me her card at the end of it and was like, you're so tense. And I'm like, well, yeah, like I'm out right now.

• 25:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Right. You're you're socializing in LA.

• 26:00Benito Skinner?

  It's weird to be like, kind of drunk as fuck and get a massage. It kind of doesn't feel good. But I, it was like, you know, I don't know. Just that night I was promised dancing and I didn't necessarily get it. But I'm dying to feel the sweat.

• 26:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Let's go dancing in New York, maybe, when you're there. If anyone knows good dancing spots, please let us know. Either start a Reddit thread or you could just reach out directly. But I want to dance and I just want it to be songs that I know and maybe some like 90s songs, maybe some totally like, you know, current stuff. But I do want to reiterate, I wasn't going to clubs like Marquee and One Oak. Obviously, I went to those a few times, but not regularly. These were clubs in the East Village where there was like a basement. There was one called Ella that shut down. And it was just such a good vibe in there. It was sort of like 50s diner vibes, but without the booths.

• 26:46Benito Skinner?

  Do you remember Elvis Guest House?

• 26:48Mary Beth Barone?

  No.

• 26:49Benito Skinner?

  Is it? I think it was Elvis Guest House. They had that like one backroom that was so Instagram because it was like a wall of flowers, like fake flowers.

• 26:55Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't remember that.

• 26:56Benito Skinner?

  And everyone would like, kind of, that would, that'd be where they'd launch their relationships with like a photo of them.

• 27:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Whoa.

• 27:00Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, it was crazy. First, like, gay romance photo I posted was at Elvis Guest House. But yeah, that, oh, my God, I remember going there and it was like the best music and you're just sweating so much.

• 27:10Mary Beth Barone?

  I know. I just want to let loose.

• 27:11Benito Skinner?

  You know that middle part where the sweat looks good? I love that part.

• 27:14Mary Beth Barone?

  If you take photos at the end of the night, at one of those nights,

• 27:17Benito Skinner?

  A ghoul.

• 27:17Mary Beth Barone?

  it can be really scary.

• 27:18Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my God. So I did go dancing with the boys in Paris a little bit. Rich sent me a photo of

• 27:23Mary Beth Barone?

  You went dancing with Adam and Rich.

• 27:25Benito Skinner?

  Well, Adam went home early and then Rich and I were kind of like there for a little bit, but then.

• 27:29Mary Beth Barone?

  I cannot, I just picture this.

• 27:31Benito Skinner?

  Oh, well, yeah, it's just Rich and I kind of.

• 27:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 27:33Benito Skinner?

  Well, you've seen it in the show. That's kind of that. We're just like, it's a little shoulder movement. It's like, it's fun. And this one photo of me, I was like, who else has access to this? Was like, um, you know, when you see a photo of yourself, you just immediately are like, hi. It was like. The sun had never seen me and I-

• 27:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Sickly. I think sickly.

• 27:54Benito Skinner?

  Disgusting.

• 27:54Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm gonna post a dump on Ride the Pod of the Meth Night. So you could see us at our high highs.

• 27:59Benito Skinner?

  God, I-

• 28:00Mary Beth Barone?

  We had so much fun.

• 28:01Benito Skinner?

  In my head, like, it was cute.

• 28:03Mary Beth Barone?

  It was cute. I had a cute outfit. We looked really cute.

• 28:05Benito Skinner?

  I remember a really tight shirt.

• 28:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 28:07Benito Skinner?

  I was like, you know what? Fuck it, we're dancing. Fuck it, we ball. Did I tell you I wanna say that more?

• 28:12Mary Beth Barone?

  No.

• 28:12Benito Skinner?

  Fuck it, we ball.

• 28:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, cool. I'm so on board with that, by the way.

• 28:15Benito Skinner?

  It has the best sentiment to it. Like, fuck it. Like, fuck it all, we ball.

• 28:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Mm-hmm.

• 28:18Benito Skinner?

  You know?

• 28:19Mary Beth Barone?

  I danced a lot when I went to Glastonbury, which I don't know if I could ever go back to, cuz I almost died. And I will tell the story of doing stand-up comedy in the VIP tent on a Saturday on a come down, but not right now.

• 28:30Benito Skinner?

  And who was in the tent? Give them a taste, cuz that's-

• 28:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Tilda Swinton.

• 28:34Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, that's- see, you don't know the story until you know that.

• 28:36Mary Beth Barone?

  But there were a lot of other people there, too.

• 28:38Benito Skinner?

  Oh, I thought she was laughing.

• 28:40Mary Beth Barone?

  One day I'll get into it on the pod here. But I just miss dancing. I would love to go dance with you. And I just wanna like, yeah, just let loose on the dance floor and have fun. I don't know.

• 28:49Benito Skinner?

  Harmony Tivedad is the best DJ in Los Angeles.

• 28:53Mary Beth Barone?

  I would go anywhere she is.

• 28:55Benito Skinner?

  It's literally Alex Chapman, Harmony Tivedad. If they're on, and oh my god, you need to go to a gag night. Alex Chapman.

• 29:02Mary Beth Barone?

  In New York?

• 29:03Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. Alex and Zoe, they put on- I was on the mic for like two seconds before they played Abracadabra, like, kind of exactly when I should be on mic.

• 29:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Right, right.

• 29:11Benito Skinner?

  And it was just fab- that hits. You need the gays and the girlies to decide the music.

• 29:16Mary Beth Barone?

  And once they're on the dance floor, it's like everyone else has permission to get out there. But I also wanna say no shade to disco. I just can't, I don't have the type of rhythm.

• 29:23Benito Skinner?

  And dear media, clip that. Hey, no shade to disco.

• 29:26Mary Beth Barone?

  No shade to disco. I don't have the rhythm to really dance that. I need it to be sort of like-

• 29:30Benito Skinner?

  I know.

• 29:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Where I could put my hands up in the air.

• 29:33Benito Skinner?

  Clear blue. It's just like, I just need a- I need a couple lyrics to like find my footing.

• 29:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh my god, Dream Baby. Did you ever go to Dream Baby in the East Village?

• 29:40Benito Skinner?

  I think I might have, actually.

• 29:41Mary Beth Barone?

  I got kicked out of there multiple times for dancing on furniture.

• 29:44Benito Skinner?

  Give me right now. That'd be me in the back of it.

• 29:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Me dancing on Thomas Google at the premiere.

• 29:48Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my god.

• 29:49Mary Beth Barone?

  If we get renewed for season two, we will post that video. I have a crush on a gay man.

• 29:56Mary Beth Barone?

  He is married to a man.

• 29:57Benito Skinner?

  So Mary Beth has a crush on a gay man and his boyfriend texts me the morning after the premiere, nothing, just the video of Mary Beth going, I think it's a party for you. And it's literally Mary Beth doing a full body roll, which you've never done on me.

• 30:15Mary Beth Barone?

  I used to give lap dances like to buy you a drink to Jake all the time at parties. Cause it was just like a safe space, but like I can do some shit like that.

• 30:22Benito Skinner?

  I love when you get drunk, when you and I are drunk together, it's like, come on, the world is like totally ours.

• 30:27Mary Beth Barone?

  It hasn't happened that many times.

• 30:29Benito Skinner?

  No.

• 30:30Mary Beth Barone?

  We need to fix that. It's just because I feel like when we are together, we just stay home.

• 30:34Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, like tonight, it's goop kitchen. It's my signature goop. Dancing is everything to me. I've been really wanting to take a class and I think I found this instructor. I'll tell you guys about it. Once I do it to do, I'm a slave for you choreo. I just want to be like, I want a bunch of people at the playground kind of going woo. And then I come out and I'm like, I'm, you know, I've got.

• 30:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Step up to the streets.

• 30:53Benito Skinner?

  Jeans on, boom.

• 30:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. Sorry, I can't clear my throat. It's just the type of day we're having.

• 30:58Benito Skinner?

  Oh my God, wait, I kind of danced, I kind of danced throughout the college tour. There were some like, you know, some of the bars and stuff, they were playing music. I don't know. I'm just thinking of when I've like been dancing.

• 31:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Don't lie.

• 31:08Benito Skinner?

  It's like, there's so much restriction. I just want to like let loose. I want to show everyone that I am honey. Hey, it's Benny. Mary Beth and I are separated right now, conscious uncoupling as we do these ads this week. Let's get into it. So if you're paying rent every month without earning anything in return, let me, queer spokes Benny Drama, introduce you to Bilt. The rewards program designed for renters who want to earn something for their largest monthly expense. Let me explain. Nobody wants to pay rent, but if you have to, Bilt makes it worth it. Bilt is revolutionizing how millions think about paying rent by rewarding their members with points and exclusive benefits around their neighborhood every single month. By paying rent through Bilt, you earn flexible points that can be redeemed towards hundreds of hotel.

• 31:52Benito Skinner?

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• 32:37Benito Skinner?

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• 32:52Benito Skinner?

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• 33:37Benito Skinner?

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• 34:56Mary Beth Barone?

  Let's talk about pop stars talking in songs. How did you put it so eloquently?

• 35:00Benito Skinner?

  Okay, so-

• 35:01Mary Beth Barone?

  What's the title of this one gonna be?

• 35:03Benito Skinner?

  Pop Stars Talking in Songs.

• 35:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Cool.

• 35:05Benito Skinner?

  And here's the thing, I think this is actually one that's like, oh, well, of course, you love this, but I think some of mine are different than other people's.

• 35:13Mary Beth Barone?

  And some people really don't like this.

• 35:15Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, some people hate this. I find that every time it's there, it tickles my brain. So I wrote a bunch of examples. So this just means kind of any pop diva in the middle of a song, they hit you with a, "I can't believe I'm telling you this, but I've had a couple of drinks and, oh my god," which is my favorite of all time, and that's Lady Gaga in Sex Dreams. That came out when I was in the closet. And to hear that little riff the first time-

• 35:39Mary Beth Barone?

  That hurts.

• 35:40Benito Skinner?

  "I can't believe I'm telling you this, but I've had a couple of drinks and, oh my god." It's just like, it's as good as anything could ever be. So that's one of my favorites. Sabrina in kind of every song she's made is the note I made here. She's kind of always like, [BLEEP], you know, in a funny way, but it's like-

• 35:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, and to me, it's always like, "So you're Brad Pitt."

• 35:57Benito Skinner?

  It's so, "So you're Brad Pitt."

• 35:58Mary Beth Barone?

  But all of Sabrina's are like that, and that's complimentary.

• 36:01Benito Skinner?

  Of course, and I love it so much. Does she do one in Man Child? She does. It's like, Okay, how does it start or something? Like, I love when it's at the start. I think that's so fun. Beyonce has really theatrical ones.

• 36:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, I mean, yeah.

• 36:14Benito Skinner?

  Because they always. Oh, how I've missed you, my love. That one, to me, I get goosebumps.

• 36:20Mary Beth Barone?

  That almost gave me goosebumps.

• 36:21Benito Skinner?

  I know. I also love when she says, you know, all these songs sound good. That one kills me. I would love to hear any Renaissance in the club. I would literally just like. But, you know, all these songs sound good. I love that.

• 36:39Mary Beth Barone?

  The one that always jumps out to me is the old Taylor. You can't come to the phone right now.

• 36:42Benito Skinner?

  I was.

• 36:43Mary Beth Barone?

  She's dead.

• 36:43Benito Skinner?

  On my list, of course.

• 36:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Sorry, I didn't want to jump the gun, but.

• 36:46Benito Skinner?

  There's a few Taylor ones, like, I think she does one, and I forgot that you existed. I mean, I cannot wait. I just hope this opens the floodgates for all of you to just tell us all the ones you love, because there's just so many. Charlie has a few that are unexpected. She has this one that's on How I'm Feeling Now. She's like, you know, it's like, yeah, you know, it's just like, it's a, you know, do you have, do you know what I'm talking about? Where she's like, it just feels like a really thing to go through alone. I think it's on.

• 37:13Mary Beth Barone?

  On the deluxe?

• 37:14Benito Skinner?

  No, it's on How I'm Feeling Now, and it's like a voicemail, which is kind of its own category, but I call it talking in songs.

• 37:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Comes into the mix, and she's using voice notes from, I believe, her mother or grandmother.

• 37:25Benito Skinner?

  And Frank is his mom for the Facebook one, so, yeah, but, yeah, where she goes, it's like, huh, it's like. Well, I'm kind of giving Kate Moss.

• 37:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, I love it.

• 37:33Benito Skinner?

  Have you ever heard my Kate Moss?

• 37:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, I think, I mean.

• 37:35Benito Skinner?

  It's not bad.

• 37:36Mary Beth Barone?

  No, I love that it's in your arsenal.

• 37:39Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, Kate's always there. I'm waiting to drop that on a big, on a big show.

• 37:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 37:44Benito Skinner?

  But, yeah, I'm trying to think of, I think it's on How I'm Feeling Now. I'm just like, I think, oh, it's on Enemy, where she's like.

• 37:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Wait, sorry, I was thinking of Crash. I was thinking of Crash.

• 37:52Benito Skinner?

  She's like, like, it hurts, like, yeah.

• 37:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 37:54Benito Skinner?

  It's like, yeah. And then it's, maybe you're my enemy. I'm a. Give me the.

• 38:00Mary Beth Barone?

  No.

• 38:01Benito Skinner?

  God. So I love Charlie doing that. Can I just say three things to you? Charlie, Caroline, Chris. I wish that that was in the intro for.

• 38:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Charlie, Caroline, Chris.

• 38:11Benito Skinner?

  Can I say something to you right now? Charlie, Caroline, Chris. So, all this to say that all the icons and legends have done this.

• 38:21Benito Skinner?

  A new darling of talking in pop songs has landed. She has emerged. Miss Addison Rae. Now just drop the Rae. It's cleaner.

• 38:32Mary Beth Barone?

  It's cleaner. I thought you were gonna say chapel.

• 38:35Benito Skinner?

  Chapel does.

• 38:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Come on, girls.

• 38:36Benito Skinner?

  Oh, wait, wait chapel, but still chapel feels less. I guess she does have some talking. And then there's this.

• 38:42Speaker 00

  You know what they say? Never waste a Friday night on the first date.

• 38:46Benito Skinner?

  Period.

• 38:47Speaker 00

  There I was, in my heels with my hair straight.

• 38:50Benito Skinner?

  Seriously.

• 38:52Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. What the hell? Oh, my God.

• 38:59Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my God.

• 39:00Mary Beth Barone?

  I just got chills because you know what? This just reminded me of.

• 39:02Benito Skinner?

  What?

• 39:05Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm at the Soho House.

• 39:07Benito Skinner?

  Oh, us.

• 39:08Mary Beth Barone?

  We do it.

• 39:09Benito Skinner?

  Wait, we are the reference in our, in our hot debut track, which we toured. Do you, I mean, we had an international tour of that song.

• 39:16Mary Beth Barone?

  We did.

• 39:16Benito Skinner?

  Soho House.

• 39:17Mary Beth Barone?

  Just the one song.

• 39:18Benito Skinner?

  We need to release it just it's, you know.

• 39:19Mary Beth Barone?

  I want to.

• 39:20Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. Actually, maybe we'll just put it at the end of this episode for people who haven't heard it.

• 39:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Because it's at the end of an episode from season one, but we don't know which one, which is cool.

• 39:28Benito Skinner?

  We could never know.

• 39:28Mary Beth Barone?

  So we'll put it at this one, too.

• 39:29Benito Skinner?

  I just broke the fourth wall.

• 39:30Mary Beth Barone?

  I've been doing it a couple of times.

• 39:31Benito Skinner?

  Shit. OK, so Addison. And dear media, clip that. She has electrified me. The way she talks in a pop song. My mom always told me, never trust me. I have to play it for you. It's just too.

• 39:50Mary Beth Barone?

  I know, I may be young, but I got feelings, too.

• 39:53Benito Skinner?

  Wait.

• 39:53Mary Beth Barone?

  What I need to do, just do it.

• 39:56Benito Skinner?

  How did I?

• 39:56Mary Beth Barone?

  All your people look at me.

• 39:57Benito Skinner?

  How did I skip Britney? Am I OK? This is a story about a girl named Lucky. I mean, it's the first time anyone has ever talked in a pop song. Period. Obviously, Britney and now Addison. Addison has this song that's called Money is Everything. Us in our Dyson debate.

• 40:15Mary Beth Barone?

  And Addison's sale.

• 40:17Benito Skinner?

  Who cares? Come on, let's have some fun.

• 40:19Mary Beth Barone?

  We're having fun.

• 40:20Benito Skinner?

  This, I don't even want to mimic it because I just, I want you to hear it for yourself because this is exactly what I'm talking about. And if you don't love this, that's crazy to me.

• 40:34Mary Beth Barone?

  It's this.

• 40:36Benito Skinner?

  It's an ice cube down your neck.

• 40:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Tea spilled, though.

• 40:49Benito Skinner?

  No, I know. Come with me to heaven. No, I have a lot of it. So, can a girl just have fun? Can a girl have fun? And then at the very end, are you ready? Because it goes from there into how me is this? Me at the premiere of Overcompensating?

• 41:10Benito Skinner?

  Mama Jean, see you, baby, don't laugh.

• 41:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Whoa, this goes kinda hard.

• 41:18Benito Skinner?

  Oh, I'm the richest girl in the world. Money loves me, I'm the richest girl in the world. And then, I love a

• 41:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 41:26Benito Skinner?

  So, I love it. It's just delicious. It's like, it's something, I don't know, it feels like personal.

• 41:32Mary Beth Barone?

  It's playing with form.

• 41:33Benito Skinner?

  Well, of course, it's playing with form and its duality, but there's something about just like, it's a little wink and a smile. It's breaking the fourth wall in a lot of ways.

• 41:39Mary Beth Barone?

  It is, and it's speaking directly to the reader.

• 41:41Benito Skinner?

  Well, it's speaking directly to

• 41:42Mary Beth Barone?

  You, dear reader.

• 41:43Benito Skinner?

  It's to homosexuals.

• 41:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Exactly.

• 41:45Benito Skinner?

  I know that it's being like, we have to wink at these fuckers, or else they're gonna freak out. You know what you are, Mary Beth?

• 41:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Bisexual?

• 41:52Benito Skinner?

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

• 41:57Mary Beth Barone?

  I ride for pop stars talking in songs.

• 42:02Benito Skinner?

  Oh, you're already going there? Oh, you're going in?

• 42:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, we have to, kinda.

• 42:05Benito Skinner?

  I don't speak German, but I can if you like. I think that's the last one. And then, I'll just keep

• 42:08Mary Beth Barone?

  No, you know what reminds me of you? When Lady Gaga goes, "Can you go a little faster?"

• 42:14Benito Skinner?

  How?

• 42:15Mary Beth Barone?

  That one is so you to me.

• 42:18Benito Skinner?

  John Wayne?

• 42:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 42:19Benito Skinner?

  It's like, you know me better than I know myself.

• 42:22Mary Beth Barone?

  We're getting there.

• 42:22Benito Skinner?

  It's just like, I just wanna be on the back of a "Can you go a little faster?"

• 42:28Mary Beth Barone?

  So I ride for playing with form.

• 42:31Benito Skinner?

  Oh, I, by the way, I had a B12 shot today, so I feel like I did.

• 42:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, that's why. Okay, that's why this is all making a lot more sense.

• 42:37Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I forgot to tell you.

• 42:38Mary Beth Barone?

  I like when people are told, hey, you have to do this thing one way, and then they say, well, I'm gonna flip the script. So it's a song, it's for singing, but actually, here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna talk. And you're gonna fucking deal with it.

• 42:48Benito Skinner?

  Hey, is the mic still on? Did you get that last part?

• 42:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Did you get that?

• 42:51Benito Skinner?

  Cause I think you're gonna want it. Oh, I love this one.

• 42:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Put the fucking mic on.

• 42:54Benito Skinner?

  You know what's a good one is Lana in A and W. She goes, oh my god. I love that sound. Okay, keep going.

• 43:00Mary Beth Barone?

  I just think it's cool to creatively express yourself, just like we do on this podcast.

• 43:04Benito Skinner?

  I agree.

• 43:05Mary Beth Barone?

  And sometimes, like, just doing it through one medium is not enough, so you need to add a little spoken word. And so I love pop, you know, I love girl singers. I was actually thinking, guys singers could take a few years off. I think we've heard enough. And I would just love to make more room for girl singers. And it just all sort of ties back to that, except Bon Iver, of course, because he is somewhat girls.

• 43:25Benito Skinner?

  Justin Vernon is somewhat girls. He doesn't count. I'm not even gonna say I ride for dancing, because that would be just too, it would minimize something that means the world to me. I've been dancing since I was a little kid. I think there's only one way to end this.

• 43:37Mary Beth Barone?

  In a gay way, too.

• 43:38Benito Skinner?

  And I just want, how about you and your guy just dance to a song together right now?

• 43:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Let's do it.

• 43:43Benito Skinner?

  In our chairs.

• 43:47Benito Skinner?

  Come on!

• 43:49Mary Beth Barone?

  And you'll see, I don't have rhythm. I'm better when I'm a little bit buzzed.

• 43:55Benito Skinner?

  Everybody, listen to Romy Mars right now. We'll probably get flagged for this. We demonetized.

• 44:02Mary Beth Barone?

  He's sober.

• 44:03Benito Skinner?

  We're just gonna get through the first chorus.

• 44:07Benito Skinner?

  Oh my god.

• 44:08Mary Beth Barone?

  You can dance while sitting down, that's what they don't tell you.

• 44:12Benito Skinner?

  All American. Mom and dad, us.

• 44:17Mary Beth Barone?

  This song came out three days ago.

• 44:21Benito Skinner?

  Us. In the meantime. I know all the words.

• 44:27Benito Skinner?

  No, maybe I don't. Oh, yeah, I don't. Ready? So close your eyes, if this is my body's ego, we can go all night long, if it's not about me. Though if you wanna meet up in a night, you are to my waist.

• 44:44Speaker 03

  Look in my face. My body's a mood. My tongue.

• 44:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, and I have so.

• 44:51Speaker 03

  I go up and down like you.

• 44:54Mary Beth Barone?

  The dancing should reflect the lyrics.

• 44:56Speaker 03

  Of course. Well, of course, always. I take my clothes off.

• 45:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Thank you, guys. We love you. Hey, dance. What did we do in the hotel room in Montreal? We put on Hannah Montana and we danced.

• 45:12Speaker 03

  Dance.

• 45:14Speaker 03

  Hey, babe. Yeah, are you right now? I'm at the Soho House. Are you serious? Yeah. I've been dying to get into that place. Oh, my God. It's easy. Wait, seriously? Could you, like, I don't know, write me a recommendation? Yeah, babe. You're the best, best, best, best. Soho House, they all want in. Camera phones, RSN. Let the famous live in peace. Your connections will increase.

• 45:44Mary Beth Barone?

  You never know who you will see. But first you have to pay the fee. Oh, yeah, there's an application. You gotta come with a recommendation.

• 45:52Speaker 03

  Soho House is the place to be. Soho House is the place to be. Think of all the names you'll see. Soho House is the place for me.

• 46:00Speaker 04

  Soho House is the place to be. Soho House is the place to be. Think of all the names you'll see. Soho House is the place for me.

• 46:09Speaker 04

  Soho House is the place to be. Soho House is the place to be.

• 46:16Speaker 03

  Gender neutral. Think of all the names you'll see. Soho House is the place for me. Nepotism here actually works. You're gonna love all the perks. Hit the pool deck with your friends. Here the fun never ends.

• 46:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Royals, oligarchs, Saudi money. What do they have in common? So much money. Yeah, we rhymed money with money. I mean, the song's supposed to be funny.

• 46:40Speaker 03

  Soho House is the place to be. Soho House is the place to be. Think of all the names you'll see. Soho House is the place for me.

• 46:48Speaker 04

  Soho House is the place to be. Soho House is the place to be. Think of all the names you'll see. Soho House is the place for me.

• 47:05Speaker 00

  Think of all the names you'll see. Soho House is the place for me. A pool, a kitchen, and a bar. Take a minute in the lounge, baby, and you'll go far.

• 47:28Speaker 00

  Soho House is the place to be. Soho House is the place to be. Think of all the names you'll see. Soho House is the place for me.

• 47:35Speaker 04

  Soho House is the place to be. Soho House is the place to be. Think of all the names you'll see. Soho House is the place for me.

• 47:45Speaker 00

  Soho House is the place to be. Soho House is the place to be. Think of all the names you'll see. Soho House is the place for me.

• 48:02Speaker 03

  Oh, my exit.

• 48:04Speaker 00

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

• 48:17Speaker 05

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