Accents + Rachel Zegler at the Met Gala this Year

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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.

• 0:12Mary Beth Barone?

  It'll be great. I'm excited to just have everyone locked in.

• 0:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay, purpose. Okay, we're gonna record.

• 0:24Benito Skinner?

  Hi.

• 0:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Thank you.

• 0:25Benito Skinner?

  Hi.

• 0:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, I'm sorry, who are you?

• 0:27Benito Skinner?

  Hi, I'm Norma Jean.

• 0:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay, I, I host the podcast with Benny.

• 0:32Benito Skinner?

  Of course, yes, this, this is how you film these big old stinky things? May I join you, miss?

• 0:39Mary Beth Barone?

  I guess, I guess we could give you an audition.

• 0:41Benito Skinner?

  Of course, let me pick your reign at least. I just spit all over the table. I'm sorry. I just had two hot dogs in Times Square.

• 0:48Mary Beth Barone?

  So.

• 0:49Benito Skinner?

  Got off the train at Grand Central Terminal.

• 0:51Mary Beth Barone?

  And you walked here?

• 0:52Benito Skinner?

  I saw all the Zodiac signs on the ceiling, went to the Apple store and spent $10,000.

• 0:57Mary Beth Barone?

  You spent your whole advance from the studio?

• 0:59Benito Skinner?

  Of course. Well, they made me do this peroxide blonde yesterday. My head was burning and I got a nose job.

• 1:06Mary Beth Barone?

  It looks really good. It looks really natural. I don't know if you're totally right for this, but we'll have you, we'll have you read and we'll see.

• 1:12Benito Skinner?

  Oh, you know, my favorite thing that ever happened when I read for the comeback?

• 1:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 1:16Benito Skinner?

  My agent said, yeah, initially they wanted the character to be like 45 and I just waited on the call, like, but they've changed their mind in nothing, but booked it.

• 1:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Booked it. That's all that matters really at the end of the day.

• 1:30Benito Skinner?

  My first tape book, I've never booked off of the tape. Actually, no, that's not true.

• 1:34Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm still waiting. I'm still waiting on that for me.

• 1:37Benito Skinner?

  Okay. Muses don't get booked from tapes.

• 1:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, you're right. I shouldn't. I said it'll happen under my breath. I didn't mean that.

• 1:46Benito Skinner?

  So are we gonna talk about it? You're wearing a head wrap.

• 1:49Mary Beth Barone?

  So that's the probably first agenda item is I am wearing a Gen Z headscarf. It's Dior ERL and yes, my top is vintage Dolce & Gabbana. Come for me with the pitchforks, y'all.

• 1:58Benito Skinner?

  I got some vintage D and G shorts yesterday. Sue me, I wanna be, ahh. Um, that's the thing with the ambition.

• 2:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Blonde, so let's talk about it. And this outfit, by the way, is so like, I mean, it's Call Me By Your Name.

• 2:12Benito Skinner?

  No, it's like.

• 2:13Mary Beth Barone?

  It's Elio, Elio, Elio.

• 2:14Benito Skinner?

  I used to eat cream strawberries.

• 2:16Mary Beth Barone?

  We're making, or we're remaking Call Me By Your Name starring me and you.

• 2:20Benito Skinner?

  Oh, I can't wait.

• 2:21Mary Beth Barone?

  And it's about a straight couple who are trying.

• 2:22Benito Skinner?

  Oh, no, no, no, no. You're in boy drag, honey. Little Miss Timothée.

• 2:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Come on, Visions of Gideon.

• 2:30Benito Skinner?

  Isn't, can I just say something, by the way? Is it a video?

• 2:34Mary Beth Barone?

  There's no way of knowing. There's no way of knowing for sure.

• 2:37Benito Skinner?

  We only have so many queer texts and I hope even more come out, but like, Armie Hammer is in one of our best ones. What a total fucking bust.

• 2:46Mary Beth Barone?

  My future second husband.

• 2:47Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, and when I have to follow him, it's gonna suck, but I'll do it.

• 2:51Mary Beth Barone?

  I think we're gonna write more queer texts. We're gonna get, we're gonna get some stuff adapted. It's gonna be okay. But I wanted to know something. So there's this, there's this company, there's this movement to get people to register to vote and they want me to be involved and you have to like offer something. By registering to vote and proving that you enter a raffle and then like different public figures will offer things. So my pitch was I'll come out to your family for you.

• 3:14Benito Skinner?

  Wow.

• 3:15Mary Beth Barone?

  But they said that's too, it's like too cerebral. We need something tangible.

• 3:19Benito Skinner?

  Of course. Well, your, your head's always in the clouds.

• 3:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, I'm thinking like, what's gonna cause, what's like impact? I'm always thinking about impact.

• 3:26Benito Skinner?

  Of course. When are we not thinking about impact? Look at my head.

• 3:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Maybe it's we'll both go with you to get your hair dyed blonde.

• 3:33Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. Do you know, I learned so much yesterday.

• 3:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Tell me.

• 3:36Benito Skinner?

  Ian at my NYC, don't fill his books too much, but fill them. Um, he'll make time for me for sure. But my hair, it, the blonde, it, immediately the brunette lifted. The blonde was always within.

• 3:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay.

• 3:49Benito Skinner?

  We only had to dye it once.

• 3:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, that's amazing. And that's just better for your texture anyway.

• 3:53Benito Skinner?

  And then we glossed it. I really, everyone was like, it'll kill your hair. It didn't. It's like.

• 3:56Mary Beth Barone?

  Also, boys' hair grows so fast. Can everyone chill? Can I just say something? Fucking calm down.

• 4:03Benito Skinner?

  And girl, you better go look in the mirror and say it again.

• 4:06Mary Beth Barone?

  No.

• 4:06Benito Skinner?

  You have to calm down too, girl.

• 4:08Mary Beth Barone?

  That's different. When I do, it's different. I'm not telling people how to live.

• 4:12Benito Skinner?

  I agree.

• 4:13Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm freaking out on my own behalf, not other people's.

• 4:15Benito Skinner?

  That's very true.

• 4:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Like, I'm sorry, don't worry about me. I'm okay. As far as like, you know, getting, while Mackenzie, our manager, has expressed a little concern about the spray tans.

• 4:24Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 4:25Mary Beth Barone?

  I said, I don't vape. I'm not.

• 4:27Benito Skinner?

  Wait, why did she express concern?

• 4:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Just because of the chemicals, I guess.

• 4:30Benito Skinner?

  What do they do? Are they, but I hope.

• 4:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Probably it's the same chemical that's in oat milk that's gonna kill me.

• 4:34Benito Skinner?

  Oh God, I hope it's in this bleach. I sure do feel dizzy, Mr. DeMille.

• 4:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, hairdressers now, hairstylists hate when you say bleach because they don't use bleach anymore. And it like, mine got kind of like, she was like, we don't do that anymore. Like, it's not bleach.

• 4:47Benito Skinner?

  This feels like bleach.

• 4:48Mary Beth Barone?

  It's not. It's different.

• 4:49Benito Skinner?

  It's certain, it smelled like it.

• 4:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, it smells a certain way.

• 4:53Benito Skinner?

  When I saw them walk out, I saw Ian walk out and he had a K-18 bottle.

• 4:58Benito Skinner?

  And then, and to get the Saran Wrap on my head. Yeah, I mean, I really feel fully realized and it's funny because I know you would see this and immediately be like mentally not well.

• 5:10Mary Beth Barone?

  It can mean other stuff. It can mean mentally so well.

• 5:12Benito Skinner?

  And that's how I'm subverting it because my therapist even was like, you have to mark all these changes in your life with a big change. I think this is really fun for you.

• 5:19Mary Beth Barone?

  And interestingly enough, not to make it about me, but I am gonna bleach my brows in the fall.

• 5:24Benito Skinner?

  Oh, I can't wait. I'll be there for that.

• 5:26Mary Beth Barone?

  You better be.

• 5:26Benito Skinner?

  My therapist knows who you are, didn't know who I am. Humbled. I stay humbled.

• 5:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Your therapist?

• 5:33Benito Skinner?

  Yes.

• 5:33Mary Beth Barone?

  What do you mean?

• 5:34Benito Skinner?

  I brought you up and she was like, oh yeah, I mean, I've seen her stuff. And I went, whoa, whoa, whoa, let me take you back to our first day together. You hadn't seen a thing of mine.

• 5:41Mary Beth Barone?

  She's a woman. Also, Hinge deleted my profile. I got a Hinge profile to market the special. I made all the prompts about Galaxy Brain. It's been taken down. I had 280 something matches.

• 5:52Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 5:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Or like, you know, connections and some of them like could have been like my person.

• 5:56Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, that's so true. Wait, Hinge?

• 5:57Mary Beth Barone?

  Everyone that, everyone that reached out through Hinge, that's my family. I wish I could kiss all of you on the lips.

• 6:03Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 6:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Um, at least once, but unfortunately the matches are gone. Which is like, that hurts. Cause they took it down. They said you have to make a new profile if you wanna get back in here.

• 6:13Benito Skinner?

  I just don't think I was ever supposed to be on any of those apps.

• 6:16Mary Beth Barone?

  No one was ever supposed to be on any of these apps.

• 6:18Benito Skinner?

  Such a good, I, for my song, I would have done Bangarang Skrillex.

• 6:22Mary Beth Barone?

  And I think that would have worked for the, for the gay community.

• 6:25Benito Skinner?

  Don't you think? With the same photo of me 10 times.

• 6:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, no, no, no, no, that's beautiful.

• 6:29Benito Skinner?

  Me in drag as you, because they would have seen that by now.

• 6:32Mary Beth Barone?

  By now, it'll, it'll have hit the waves, the airwaves.

• 6:35Benito Skinner?

  Sorry, but like, I'm too fish.

• 6:38Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm too fish. They said I was too fish. That's them saying I was fish.

• 6:41Benito Skinner?

  Valentina has this incredible interview and it's my kind of full mood board. Cause at this time I haven't been it yet.

• 6:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 6:48Benito Skinner?

  But my full mood board is Valentina saying, they blurred my nipples on television. They're calling me fish.

• 6:53Mary Beth Barone?

  They're calling me fish?

• 6:54Benito Skinner?

  Very dudgy.

• 6:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Valentina also, when she did the lip sync that sent her home, she didn't know the words, but she was wearing like a face scarf. And they were like, you have to take it off. And she's like, I'd like to keep it on, please.

• 7:06Benito Skinner?

  I mean, one of the best moments. And she should have. I, I would have been curious to watch it. It's very you in every way. Dry skin, take me home from school.

• 7:14Mary Beth Barone?

  I'd like to keep it on, please. Is dermatitis being caused by climate change or is it a coincidence? I just know that like everyone has it now and they're struggling. I'm getting it more frequently and is it because of like the rising like temperatures?

• 7:28Benito Skinner?

  So I have so many theories. I don't think we were ever supposed to eat this many things with chemicals in them. I don't think that this, these many products should be hitting our faces. I also don't think we're supposed to exfoliate this much and I think that the air is gross. So those are all kind of factors.

• 7:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 7:45Benito Skinner?

  But pistachio milk, I tried her a couple of days ago. How creamy, how nutty, how awesome.

• 7:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Ever be bad about pistachio milk?

• 7:52Benito Skinner?

  Oh, they've nailed it.

• 7:53Mary Beth Barone?

  I love pistachios.

• 7:54Benito Skinner?

  I'm so happy and I'm seeing it on all these menus in New York and I'm like, hello, new nut has arrived.

• 7:59Mary Beth Barone?

  It's the center of the world.

• 8:00Benito Skinner?

  Hey, move, move over, Macadamia. You were, you were the fall for me.

• 8:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Hazelnut, you had your time.

• 8:06Benito Skinner?

  But hazelnut milk, I'm not seeing anywhere. I, of course, would love to.

• 8:09Mary Beth Barone?

  It's probably like a thousand dollars a bottle. But you're worth it. I'll do it.

• 8:14Benito Skinner?

  I'm blonde now. My God, come on.

• 8:17Mary Beth Barone?

  You know what I would have paid a thousand dollars for, but I went with Spotify so I didn't have to? Seeing Olivia Dean at the crypto.com arena. This is my like year of live music, which.

• 8:26Benito Skinner?

  Did you see Olivia Dean?

• 8:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 8:27Benito Skinner?

  I didn't even know that.

• 8:28Mary Beth Barone?

  I posted.

• 8:29Benito Skinner?

  And I see all your posts like with fervor.

• 8:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Interesting. I guess because you're in a different time zone.

• 8:34Benito Skinner?

  Have you done my Olivia Dean challenge?

• 8:36Mary Beth Barone?

  What's that?

• 8:37Benito Skinner?

  Were you on set with me? I made a few people do it. I don't think you were on set.

• 8:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Did you lift them up by their straight arms?

• 8:41Benito Skinner?

  No, they can have someone else do that.

• 8:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay.

• 8:43Benito Skinner?

  I was tired, but it was, um.

• 8:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Why?

• 8:50Mary Beth Barone?

  These walls, good thoughts.

• 8:52Benito Skinner?

  You know what? This is interesting because I had the thought this morning. I can't believe I've let some people be so mean to me in my life. I really am like so sweet.

• 8:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, thanks for bringing that up before we get into the Olivia Dean challenge, because I've been getting comments recently and as you know, we don't respond to comments on this podcast, except for right now and every single episode we've done thus far.

• 9:08Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, but after this?

• 9:09Mary Beth Barone?

  After this, we're so done.

• 9:11Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 9:11Mary Beth Barone?

  People are like, you're glowing, like, what are you doing? Um, it's because I don't have a man, uh, ravaging me emotionally right now. So I feel a lot better. I look better and it turns out self-respect does wonders for the skin.

• 9:23Benito Skinner?

  Oh, absolutely. Mallorca was what I needed. Um, was what I found. And I, Mallorca, am I saying that right?

• 9:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Mallorca, I think so.

• 9:31Benito Skinner?

  But, um, yeah, I needed like a really hard vacation and the sun to kind of sear my skin off. That's what I needed. But yeah, I, I can't stress enough. I mean, you just got totally fucking dogged last year.

• 9:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 9:44Benito Skinner?

  And this year. I just kind of all of it, all the years.

• 9:47Mary Beth Barone?

  It's been a tough stretch for me.

• 9:48Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 9:49Mary Beth Barone?

  But yeah, also huge ick is if you're mean to me. That's a huge ick.

• 9:53Benito Skinner?

  Oh, that's so rare. I haven't heard that one.

• 9:55Mary Beth Barone?

  I know. So I just thought like, that's something you could call out in the moment, go, oh, ick. I don't like that.

• 10:00Benito Skinner?

  Talk to me, talk to me.

• 10:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Talk to me, talk to me.

• 10:03Benito Skinner?

  Talk to me. You know a wedding? Hates to hear that. Those two little ditties coming.

• 10:08Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh my God. Oh my God, oh my God, I'm going to a wedding. I'm going to a wedding in two weeks. It's gonna be like, it's gonna be the third character of the few episodes after that. I just know it. You know, whenever we go to a wedding and we're like, all we can do is talk about the wedding?

• 10:20Benito Skinner?

  Oh yeah, of course.

• 10:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, that's about to happen.

• 10:22Benito Skinner?

  My big Vermont wedding.

• 10:23Mary Beth Barone?

  And it's in the Bahamas and I can't wait. It's like, it's like my, it's like the little like light at the end of the tunnel for me. I'm just like, this wedding is gonna be, it's gonna be so fabulous.

• 10:31Benito Skinner?

  Well, we have JR's wedding also in October.

• 10:33Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 10:33Benito Skinner?

  So like two big weddings coming.

• 10:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Couples we believe in too. I haven't asked her if I can say her name and her fiance's name on the pod. We'll double check privacy and everything.

• 10:43Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 10:44Mary Beth Barone?

  The Patriot Act.

• 10:45Benito Skinner?

  It's, well, of course, it's HIPAA.

• 10:47Mary Beth Barone?

  The Patriot Act.

• 10:47Benito Skinner?

  Oh, the other day I got acupuncture and this woman was like, I love overcompensating. But like HIPAA. And I'm like, but wait.

• 10:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Wait, acupuncture HIPAA? I don't think.

• 10:56Benito Skinner?

  That's what I was thinking. I was like, I don't know about that. But then I said, my feet really smell. I hope, I hope that you won't say anything.

• 11:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Is it HIPAA?

• 11:02Benito Skinner?

  And she was like HIPAA. But I was like, I just don't.

• 11:05Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't know if acupuncturists are bound by HIPAA.

• 11:07Benito Skinner?

  Also, I'm like, the girlies and gays, like, do I really think you're not telling people at a dinner? No, I think you're telling people later.

• 11:12Mary Beth Barone?

  No, they're telling everyone.

• 11:14Benito Skinner?

  That's my thing.

• 11:14Mary Beth Barone?

  But also, I think it's insane to just expect doctors to not talk about stuff.

• 11:19Benito Skinner?

  I know.

• 11:20Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm like, whatever.

• 11:21Benito Skinner?

  Well, you know, I told it, oh god, it was so bad. I did a physical and I didn't know that there was a barony in the room during the physical.

• 11:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Like my STD test?

• 11:30Benito Skinner?

  And I was a little too honest about some recreational things. She like, like in that moment, her hero was fading.

• 11:37Mary Beth Barone?

  No. If anything, you're more human. You rise even higher. But we are people. That's the crazy thing.

• 11:44Benito Skinner?

  I know.

• 11:45Mary Beth Barone?

  It's hard to think about sometimes. So it's the Olivia Dean challenge.

• 11:48Benito Skinner?

  So the Olivia Dean challenge is when you kind of, you turn on a swivel and flip your hair. She has this walk and you kind of walk to, you, you make love to the camera, but it's a part of my masterclass where I think kind of no one could do it. You can't teach it. But I just wanted to see if people on set could do it. A few people could and it was really fun. A few people, I mean me, and I could do it. And.

• 12:07Mary Beth Barone?

  But you're good at that stuff.

• 12:08Benito Skinner?

  Oh, god.

• 12:09Mary Beth Barone?

  You have, you have this incredible control over even the tiniest muscles in your body. But you always have, even before you started becoming jacked.

• 12:15Benito Skinner?

  What do you mean? I cannot wait to be you on Friday.

• 12:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, I know.

• 12:19Benito Skinner?

  I actually like.

• 12:20Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm a little scared.

• 12:21Benito Skinner?

  No, people should be so scared. Can I tell you about kind of like all the things I have planned?

• 12:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 12:26Benito Skinner?

  Let's see if I go through with all of them. So will I have a thirty, it's gonna be the first Instagram carousel in history with thirty images.

• 12:33Mary Beth Barone?

  We have to do one with us kissing at the kissing booth and the caption is annihilation. So anyway, go on with your ideas.

• 12:40Benito Skinner?

  And also, my caption's gonna be us.

• 12:43Mary Beth Barone?

  This is us.

• 12:44Benito Skinner?

  No, but you're my tether.

• 12:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, oh, cool. Yeah.

• 12:47Benito Skinner?

  You're in the underground eating rabbits. I'm up in the, I'm having fun at the banquet.

• 12:51Mary Beth Barone?

  You're on, you're on, you're on the ground floor.

• 12:52Benito Skinner?

  So all night I'm going like this. And if you're not.

• 12:56Mary Beth Barone?

  Did you get the wig?

• 12:57Benito Skinner?

  Baby. Pass them the fuck.

• 13:00Mary Beth Barone?

  You are out of your mind.

• 13:02Benito Skinner?

  It's my Halloween. I actually, I wouldn't expect something big from us from Halloween yet.

• 13:06Mary Beth Barone?

  No, can I just say, like, I think it's, can we just not?

• 13:09Benito Skinner?

  I'm kind of like, is Halloween done? I'm so sorry. I think my Starbucks is the best I've ever, like, I'll ever do. That felt like Final Form to me. And then obviously, it was, it was met with mixed reviews. So I'm kind of like.

• 13:23Mary Beth Barone?

  By no, and no fault of yours.

• 13:25Benito Skinner?

  No, I really, I'm sorry. I didn't, I didn't mean it as any kind of statement. I'll just say that now.

• 13:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Political statement.

• 13:30Benito Skinner?

  Other than I just wanted it to be a BDSM mermaid. God forbid, I have E's.

• 13:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Are we allowed to just be BDSM mermaids anymore?

• 13:37Benito Skinner?

  God, what, a gay guy can't even be the Starbucks mermaid bastardized with size E bobbies? Like, god forbid. But I have a few ideas. It might just be simply, it's, it's Benny Drama on stilts. That might be Halloween.

• 13:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay, and we do the pod. I'll be in a hot air balloon and you're on the stilts?

• 13:55Benito Skinner?

  No, so we would just do a few clips of me up and down the street and then I bring the stilts in and that's kind of it.

• 14:00Mary Beth Barone?

  I, I would love to just like not do costumes this year.

• 14:03Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I, one hasn't come to me, but the thing that came to me is being you from the Galaxy Brain live taping.

• 14:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. And, and I, and can I just say, I cannot wait for that.

• 14:13Benito Skinner?

  I know, me too. And so, okay, so if you're not, if you're listening in the car with six of your kids, I'm doing two, kind of just my two fingers here on each side and just touching my bangs a little bit, just on my face.

• 14:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Woo, I just gotta chill.

• 14:27Benito Skinner?

  Going like this all night.

• 14:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 14:28Benito Skinner?

  At one point, I want to put one hand up and kind of vibe to the music.

• 14:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 14:32Benito Skinner?

  I want to slurp two drinks at the same time at one point, two tequila sunrises.

• 14:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, beautiful.

• 14:37Benito Skinner?

  I want one vogue cigarette indoors. And if someone says you can't smoke in here, I start laughing hysterically and then I piss myself.

• 14:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. That should, that'd probably be toward the end of the night.

• 14:47Benito Skinner?

  Hmm.

• 14:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Uh, uh, okay.

• 14:49Benito Skinner?

  Okay. I want to make sure I arrive in one of those SUVs that has little stars on the ceiling.

• 14:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Yes, or even a limo.

• 14:56Benito Skinner?

  Well, of course. And I, I asked you that. You just haven't responded yet.

• 14:59Mary Beth Barone?

  I said totally, we can book a limo.

• 15:00Benito Skinner?

  Okay, great. Well, then maybe we will.

• 15:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Maybe we will.

• 15:03Benito Skinner?

  Um, but yeah, it's, I think it's gonna be a big night for me. Um, it's kind of all I think about creatively of kind of like what my captions are, how I'll act, how I'll interact with people. I do. In her shoes is one. One is just rolled over in bed and your dad's still watching Galaxy Rain. The fuck?

• 15:20Mary Beth Barone?

  The fuck?

• 15:23Benito Skinner?

  Does your mom ever come home?

• 15:24Mary Beth Barone?

  It's perfect.

• 15:25Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. And then one, Mrs. Brown just saw this. She says I'm prettier than her own daughter.

• 15:31Mary Beth Barone?

  She would say that, though.

• 15:33Benito Skinner?

  I know. She's gonna see me. It's gonna be, the swans are gonna be out, the titties with a lot of hair are out. And yeah, I'm going full, lately at dinners, my nipples are out. I don't even care.

• 15:43Mary Beth Barone?

  And can I just say same?

• 15:45Benito Skinner?

  Who gives a shit?

• 15:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Why does it matter?

• 15:47Benito Skinner?

  I was in London for a while just now and I will say, um, British people more so than any other people have nipples out accidentally.

• 15:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 15:54Benito Skinner?

  In a way that's incredible. They'll just be talking to you and it's like full areola. Yeah.

• 16:00Mary Beth Barone?

  I guess I, I guess I remember that a little bit.

• 16:02Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 16:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. It's, it's fun. But at the same time, they're so like proper. And so I'm like, can you just like?

• 16:09Benito Skinner?

  It's such a combo of like pub culture and certainly taking down, I mean, the way they can take a frickin beverage down the gullet, as they say.

• 16:17Mary Beth Barone?

  They say, oh, I have a good, I have good constitution. That's, that's what they say. Which I actually like that turn of phrase.

• 16:24Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 16:24Mary Beth Barone?

  But it just means like I can drink like a, like a, what do, what's the phrase?

• 16:28Benito Skinner?

  Sailor?

• 16:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Sailor, but then it's cursed like a sailor, so I wasn't sure, but.

• 16:31Benito Skinner?

  Sailor's getting all this kind of crazy rebel.

• 16:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Rebel era, reputation.

• 16:36Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 16:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. Well, I'm happy for them that they can, the nipples are part of the outfit. I don't know who said that, but it was really profound whoever did.

• 16:44Benito Skinner?

  Oh, nipples are a part of the outfit?

• 16:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. If you could see my nipples, it's, they're part of the outfit. But I didn't come up, I didn't coin that.

• 16:49Benito Skinner?

  That might be me, but it's my clavicle.

• 16:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally. Oh my god, the clavicle's part of the outfit. I just had to take an extended, deep breath. I'm like.

• 16:58Benito Skinner?

  Duddy would eat him up.

• 16:59Mary Beth Barone?

  I've only consciously breathed lately. Um, Duddy.

• 17:02Benito Skinner?

  Wait, same.

• 17:03Mary Beth Barone?

  So that's cool and good, because I keep forgetting.

• 17:05Benito Skinner?

  Well, my low back, I mean, I, like, the odyssey is trapped right here.

• 17:10Mary Beth Barone?

  I.

• 17:12Benito Skinner?

  Yes.

• 17:13Mary Beth Barone?

  I have nothing else on that.

• 17:15Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I find you so attractive today. Wildly attractive.

• 17:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Weirdly same. Weirdly same. I will say, I'm, I'm wearing pink and I feel like that's a return to form for me. I'm not, I don't have as much pink stuff. It's a lot of black.

• 17:27Benito Skinner?

  I mean, cause after the, like, the, the Barbenheimer of it all, we all kind of retired pink for a little bit.

• 17:31Mary Beth Barone?

  We needed to take some.

• 17:32Benito Skinner?

  After I went to the, the Barbie premiere. Speaking of, Kenner G, anyone?

• 17:39Benito Skinner?

  You know what? No one said Kenner G to me, so I'm beating them to it.

• 17:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Such a good point.

• 17:43Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I'm beating them to it.

• 17:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Are you wearing makeup today?

• 17:45Benito Skinner?

  No.

• 17:46Mary Beth Barone?

  You look like you are.

• 17:47Benito Skinner?

  Really?

• 17:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, your skin's really dewy and stunning.

• 17:49Benito Skinner?

  Whoa, it's our derm triple cream.

• 17:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Speaking of HIPAA, because when I met her, she said, oh my god, I love overcompensating. But I don't think telling me something about myself is violating HIPAA.

• 17:59Benito Skinner?

  Well, it kind of means the world to know that beforehand, before I show whole.

• 18:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, of course, which you are doing to our dermatologist. By the way, I need to go in for a mole check. That's something. I'm just gonna say so I don't forget.

• 18:09Benito Skinner?

  I feel so, like, I, I, everyone in my family has these sexy moles that they keep getting checked. I don't have any.

• 18:14Mary Beth Barone?

  I have a lot, like, I am like, I have a lot of moles.

• 18:18Benito Skinner?

  Very Gigi Hadid.

• 18:19Mary Beth Barone?

  It's so Gigi Hadid.

• 18:20Benito Skinner?

  My sister Katie has the best mole. She has like moleography. What's it called? When you have a lot, a crazy mole game, it's bad.

• 18:27Mary Beth Barone?

  I have a Ryan's belt right here.

• 18:28Benito Skinner?

  Oh, that's so pretty. That's a big dipper.

• 18:30Mary Beth Barone?

  So if you have noticed.

• 18:31Benito Skinner?

  Oh my god, this, um, this straight dad recently showed me an app. Well, it's the dad I, I was in bed with after the Galaxy Brain.

• 18:38Mary Beth Barone?

  After you were watching it together.

• 18:39Benito Skinner?

  He had an astrology app that you put it up to the stars and it shows you what this, it was so cool. I was like, god, that's, so this is what dads are doing all day. That's amazing.

• 18:49Mary Beth Barone?

  They're finding new technologies.

• 18:50Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I think that's great.

• 18:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, it's really cool.

• 18:54Benito Skinner?

  Jones Road, down the Jones Road, driving my car down the Jones Road. Okay, so it's always fun to do an ad read without Mary Beth, because I get to listen to her ads after she listens to mine.

• 19:07Benito Skinner?

  It's a lot like, um, we've recorded something and they're playing it at the bachelorette party. So I have used the Jones Road Beauty Miracle Balm for, I think honestly, years at this point, but it's absolutely fabulous. You can use your fingers, you can dab, dab, dab it on those cheekalinas. You can also put it on your forehead. It's kind of like a bronze blush hybrid. It's not that like cakey makeup look. It feels very fresh, very sexy in the summer. It's like, oh my god, I was just out in the sun all day. It smells delicious and it doesn't irritate my skin. And you know, I'm a little rosacea doll, so that can mean the frickin world to a guy like me. You can use it as a highlighter, a blush, a lip tint. Oh god, multipurpose. It's the ultimate no fuss multitasker. So you can get that effortless glowy look in under sixty seconds, just like Queer as Folk and Overcompensating's Benny Drama.

• 19:54Benito Skinner?

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• 20:44Benito Skinner?

  Just head to jonesroadbeauty.com and use code RIDE at checkout. After you purchase, they will ask you where you heard about them. Well, you'll say I heard about it from a little [BLEEP] named Benny Drama. Please support our show and tell them our show sent you.

• 21:00Benito Skinner?

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• 21:44Benito Skinner?

  Let's just say I'm not going as Benito Skinner. I'm going as somebody else, somebody I admire a lot. She can post selfies on there if she wanted. You can buy her merch, which I heard is crap. Yeah, anything like that. So that's what's really cool about a website. I think one day I'll have my own. Head to, go to, or fucking check out Squarespace.com/ride for a free trial. And when you're ready to, well, I'm laughing by myself. Ah, it's been a long year. And when you're ready to launch, use offer code RIDE to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or Domon. The language here can be in my own words. And what's cool is that I just did that. Squarespace, thank you so much for being with us from the beginning.

• 22:24Benito Skinner?

  We love you down so much and we all can't wait to launch our own websites or Domons.

• 22:33Benito Skinner?

  No C D, let's fucking go. So, okay, relationships are intense.

• 22:40Benito Skinner?

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

• 23:25Benito Skinner?

  Real OCD is a serious condition. I have them, hey. Where distressing unwanted thoughts called intrusive thoughts get stuck on repeat and you feel compelled to do certain things. Mental or physical behaviors called compulsions to try to make the anxiety stop. With relationship OCD, compulsions might look like constantly seeking reassurance, replaying memories to see if you feel a spark or comparing your partner to others. But what's given me so much hope is learning that OCD is one of the most treatable mental health conditions when you get the right kind of specialized therapy. OCD needs ERP therapy, exposure and response prevention, which is proven to be the most effective treatment. And it did help me so much. NoCD is the world's leading OCD treatment provider and all of their licensed therapists specialize in ERP.

• 24:10Benito Skinner?

  Therapy with NoCD is 100% virtual, covered by insurance for over 138 million Americans and includes support between sessions. So you never have to face OCD alone. Well, you never are anyway, because you're right to here with me in my arms around you if you consent to that. I love you, stinky. To learn more about starting OCD therapy with NoCD, go to nocd.com and book a free call with their team. That's nocd.com. Love you. Should we get into what we ride for?

• 24:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Let's get into what we ride for today. I will be riding for accents.

• 24:39Benito Skinner?

  And I will be riding for Rachel Zegler at the Met Gala this year.

• 24:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Fabulous. Do you want to start?

• 24:45Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. So, okay, I'm just going to say a little background on this. Obviously this year was fashion as art, of course. So Rachel Zegler.

• 24:57Mary Beth Barone?

  Who I love, by the way.

• 24:58Benito Skinner?

  I couldn't love her more.

• 24:59Mary Beth Barone?

  I accosted her at SNL and she couldn't have been nicer.

• 25:01Benito Skinner?

  Same. We, we were together in the accosting. Iconic twink Jake Samas said that she's girl crush to him.

• 25:08Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 25:08Benito Skinner?

  And I completely agree.

• 25:09Mary Beth Barone?

  No, I would, if I had a husband, I'd leave him for her for sure.

• 25:12Benito Skinner?

  I got to talk to her about Evita. Hello. Come on, is she not on the freaking reference board, dude? But this is, okay, Rachel Zegler took her Met Gala fashion inspiration straight from art, referencing the execution of Lady Jane Grey by Paul Delarque. Okay, so Rachel Zegler goes onto the carpet at the Met Gala. And I'm writing for this because she has the white cloth over her eyes in this kind of corseted dress. She looked gorgeous. What she did on the carpet is such an, um, it's something that I almost can't describe, but I'm going to do my best.

• 25:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, it's that thing you can't describe.

• 25:47Benito Skinner?

  It's very that. Lockjaw be damned. She un, she kind of unhinges her jaw and starts kind of doing this thing with it where she's like, ah.

• 25:57Mary Beth Barone?

  It's, well, it's called posing. It's called making a choice.

• 26:00Benito Skinner?

  And that is why I'm writing for it. A gay right before it to her said, this is what you're going to do, mama.

• 26:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Mama.

• 26:07Benito Skinner?

  Mama.

• 26:10Benito Skinner?

  He goes, girl, and I know he had platinum hair.

• 26:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 26:13Benito Skinner?

  He said, unlock this, breathe through your, your tonsils, give them jaw working. And you know, all the comments on TikTok are always like, it's snowing. And I think less people are doing coke than you think is my kind of statement on that.

• 26:29Mary Beth Barone?

  That would not, first of all, that happens to guys. It doesn't happen to girls.

• 26:33Benito Skinner?

  No, that's such a good point.

• 26:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 26:34Benito Skinner?

  Guys with stank breath, and you remember the dinner we were at, at one point? We were at a dinner with a guy doing so much cocaine and I, I saw pebbles in his nose. His breath smelled, I'm not kidding, like full on caca.

• 26:47Mary Beth Barone?

  That was so scary.

• 26:48Benito Skinner?

  And he was, his jaw was moving at a rate.

• 26:51Mary Beth Barone?

  That was in DC. That was in our nation's capital.

• 26:53Benito Skinner?

  We, goes without saying.

• 26:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 26:55Benito Skinner?

  That's not the case here. This is like someone who's going on a carpet. She has a take on the material and she says haters be damned. I'm going to give it to you. And when you see the photos after, looks fabulous. I mean, sometimes the jaw is kind of going in a different direction, but.

• 27:09Mary Beth Barone?

  You know, she said, she said the jaw is part of the outfit.

• 27:11Benito Skinner?

  Exactly. She said, y'all know jaws.

• 27:15Mary Beth Barone?

  It's vulnerable and she knew there would be video and she said, I'm going to make the choice anyway.

• 27:19Benito Skinner?

  It's very like Mr. Zimmel.

• 27:21Mary Beth Barone?

  It is so that.

• 27:23Benito Skinner?

  But it's, so that's also one thing I'm going to do as you on Friday.

• 27:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Is the jaw.

• 27:28Benito Skinner?

  But it's jawbreaker. It's just, I just don't think people do stuff like that anymore.

• 27:33Mary Beth Barone?

  No, they're, they're not doing that. And can I say that posing on a red carpet is an incredibly vulnerable position, even just like at face value. Because you don't know what the angles are. You have no idea what the lighting looks like. You don't know how your, what your face is doing that day, what your body's doing, how the shapes are looking. So to go out with like such a strong thesis on what you're going to do. Honestly, we, we should be doing that more because like I don't want the anxiety. And then sometimes you see the Getty images and you're like, I didn't bring it that day.

• 28:03Benito Skinner?

  No, I know. And to me, she's, if I see it, it's so fuck y'all. I feel like every time I do it, they'll, they say smile. I smile. They use that image. It's the worst image of me that's ever been seen.

• 28:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, it's really not good.

• 28:15Benito Skinner?

  She is so locked in to what she's doing and telling a story. And I think that is art.

• 28:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, that's art and that's fashion as art.

• 28:22Benito Skinner?

  And that's face as art.

• 28:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 28:24Benito Skinner?

  And yeah, I just, I probably don't have more to say about it than that. But I think like, this is also coming off of Evita. She's a total freaking star. You guys were all chirping her for Snow White. And she goes, wait, just one second.

• 28:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 28:41Benito Skinner?

  It's so, it's so that.

• 28:43Mary Beth Barone?

  I ride so hard for her.

• 28:44Benito Skinner?

  I know.

• 28:44Mary Beth Barone?

  I just think she's like a fabulous woman and I think she's like not afraid to get political.

• 28:48Benito Skinner?

  West Side Story was gorgeous and she could not be more unbelievable in it. And is it Mike, Iced, past?

• 28:55Mary Beth Barone?

  I think it's Iced.

• 28:56Benito Skinner?

  Iced. Oh yeah, Mike, he's also just so unbelievable in it. The jaw to me is actually related in a way to her co-star Ariana doing, um.

• 29:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Did the thing?

• 29:08Benito Skinner?

  BAFTA. Yeah.

• 29:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Because they just said like, I'm going to do my thing.

• 29:12Benito Skinner?

  Angela Bassett did the thing. Yeah. It's just very like, I don't know. It just feels like culture.

• 29:20Mary Beth Barone?

  At the end of the day, oh my God, thank you for bringing this up. Because I think whether you agree with it or not, those people that are choosing to keep culture alive by not, not only making bold choices like this on a carpet, at events, doing a musical number to open the BAFTAs, just like sometimes, yeah, we're not going to get it right every time. But like, can you enjoy like the moment?

• 29:42Benito Skinner?

  I, I think it's just so cool.

• 29:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Let's give them something to talk about.

• 29:45Benito Skinner?

  That's what I mean. I think with Zendaya too. I just think it's fun to just see every look and that there's just, it's, it's the Addison Rae when someone goes like, when people are, you know, saying something about her trying and she's like, why don't you try once?

• 29:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 29:58Benito Skinner?

  I don't know if I'm quoting her correctly, but I know a gay guy will help us here.

• 30:03Mary Beth Barone?

  We won't acknowledge it after.

• 30:05Benito Skinner?

  And I know my hair would make you think I could nail that quote. I'm just, I'm sorry today.

• 30:08Mary Beth Barone?

  We, we can't know every quote.

• 30:09Benito Skinner?

  I can't know every quote, unfortunately. But it is true. It's like she, she got on that carpet and she did something.

• 30:16Mary Beth Barone?

  How many people's Met Gala looks are we still talking about?

• 30:19Benito Skinner?

  Exactly. That's what I'm saying. And her gay, her muah, I know, was at the fricking, what's the, is the Carlyle Hotels and that where they stay? I don't know. Whatever.

• 30:31Mary Beth Barone?

  We haven't been.

• 30:31Benito Skinner?

  He was there watching on the TV and he goes, that's my fucking girl.

• 30:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 30:34Benito Skinner?

  And he goes, let that, come on jaw.

• 30:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Come on jaw.

• 30:37Benito Skinner?

  Come on fucking lower bottom lip. Let's fucking go teeth. Let's go bottom row.

• 30:43Mary Beth Barone?

  I think it's fabulous. I think it's wonderful. She could do no wrong in my eyes and I just.

• 30:47Benito Skinner?

  Can you do it for me?

• 30:48Mary Beth Barone?

  We should have her on the pod. I personally can't.

• 30:50Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 30:51Mary Beth Barone?

  My jaw is way too tight for something like that. I would need a movement coach.

• 30:54Benito Skinner?

  How cool is that to do something that not everybody can do?

• 30:58Mary Beth Barone?

  And I just sip.

• 30:59Benito Skinner?

  Which is my new thing. I said this to my lovely trainer in New York, Lex. My girl, I was saying sometimes the hottest thing you can wear is the thing that no one else could pull off.

• 31:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally agreed.

• 31:09Benito Skinner?

  I said this to her.

• 31:10Mary Beth Barone?

  That's why I purchased my dress for Galaxy Brain Ball. You'll see.

• 31:14Benito Skinner?

  I haven't seen it yet.

• 31:15Mary Beth Barone?

  It's like, it's kind of giving Glinda a little bit.

• 31:18Benito Skinner?

  Whoa.

• 31:18Mary Beth Barone?

  It's like a reference to the Weirhoff, but it's Vivian Westwood.

• 31:21Benito Skinner?

  It's like Two Fish.

• 31:23Mary Beth Barone?

  It's Two Fish. They said I was too fish. I mean, that's them calling me fish.

• 31:27Benito Skinner?

  That's them calling me fish. Well, Rachel, you're on notice. I love you, sweetie.

• 31:32Mary Beth Barone?

  We should get her on the pod.

• 31:33Benito Skinner?

  I'd have the time of my life. I would love her to show me like how she did it and kind of, I want to know the backstory. But I also kind of don't. I'm like, maybe this art just speaks for itself. We don't have to explain everything.

• 31:43Mary Beth Barone?

  No, we could have her on to just talk about other stuff, what she writes for.

• 31:46Benito Skinner?

  Oh my God, I would love to hear that. I wonder.

• 31:49Mary Beth Barone?

  She's just a true talent.

• 31:50Benito Skinner?

  If I had that voice, you'd be hearing it a lot.

• 31:52Mary Beth Barone?

  I know. I brought up the Betches interview already, but they asked me, do you think theater kids are doing too much? And I said, no, I think they're doing just the right amount.

• 31:59Benito Skinner?

  How cool is it to love something? I mean, this whole podcast is about that in a big way. I think it's amazing. I think like, as long as they're not being mean and hateful.

• 32:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 32:07Benito Skinner?

  Which, you know, sometimes they are when they end up as casting directors, but other than that, I think they're usually pretty sweet.

• 32:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, I think they should keep it up.

• 32:14Benito Skinner?

  I have a good time with them.

• 32:15Mary Beth Barone?

  We need the theater.

• 32:17Benito Skinner?

  Of course we need the theater.

• 32:18Mary Beth Barone?

  I do think being a Broadway star is probably the hardest thing to actually be successful, like.

• 32:23Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 32:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Cause at least with comedy, you can sort of like start your own show or like, you can find ways of performing, but you could never put on your own Broadway show.

• 32:31Benito Skinner?

  No.

• 32:31Mary Beth Barone?

  To get to that level, it requires like so much.

• 32:33Benito Skinner?

  I've been trying for years.

• 32:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Sacrifice, I know.

• 32:35Benito Skinner?

  My one man show, Penis.

• 32:37Mary Beth Barone?

  It's one man, it's a one man show called Penis.

• 32:40Benito Skinner?

  So there's this one man show called Penis.

• 32:42Mary Beth Barone?

  And it's getting rave reviews by some, others are questioning the narrative. Yeah, we're not sure.

• 32:48Benito Skinner?

  People are choosing either Titanic or Penis.

• 32:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Or Penis.

• 32:50Benito Skinner?

  And they're choosing Titanic.

• 32:52Mary Beth Barone?

  For, for now.

• 32:53Benito Skinner?

  Well, for now. It's a work in progress.

• 32:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally. It's a WIP. WIP. So this week I'm writing for accents and there's so many different elements of accents that I'm writing for this week. So personally, I think when someone speaks English with an accent, it's just beautiful to me. I love hearing it. I love hearing the different pronunciations. I get really sad when I hear someone with a strong accent or a thick accent apologizing for.

• 33:21Benito Skinner?

  Don't do that.

• 33:21Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm like, you don't know how fucking hot this sounds to me. And like, one thing I will say is that we do a lot of casting in the industry of characters that have accents, but the, the actors don't. And I find that when you can spot an authentic accent in a TV show or movie, like it's just, it's.

• 33:40Benito Skinner?

  I, of course I love this. You know, actually the character of Miles was just an American boy before Rish Shaw came in, read for it. And then we were like, can you do it in your regular accent? And he, he did it and we just said, I mean, we gotta book this kid.

• 33:54Mary Beth Barone?

  We fell in love.

• 33:55Benito Skinner?

  Like, come on, we'll see you on set.

• 33:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 33:58Benito Skinner?

  You know, once we get the deal signed and everything for us, we have to make sure we like, you know, get approvals.

• 34:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, negotiations.

• 34:03Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, of course. But yeah, I, I mean, God, you know me.

• 34:06Mary Beth Barone?

  And I'm not, I don't mean.

• 34:07Benito Skinner?

  Panties drop.

• 34:07Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't mean, I guess I don't mean accents within America, which is sort of a separate thing to me.

• 34:12Benito Skinner?

  Well, yeah, it's not. I mean, although I do find the Midwestern one charming, this other one, nice on some people. New York, heaven.

• 34:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh.

• 34:19Benito Skinner?

  Boston, I'm like, whoa. I, I rarely hear that.

• 34:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Land there.

• 34:23Benito Skinner?

  The fuck?

• 34:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Like, how did you come up with that?

• 34:25Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, that one's crazy. But then, um, it's kind of strange how much I don't think we, we don't have any.

• 34:30Mary Beth Barone?

  We are accentless.

• 34:31Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 34:31Mary Beth Barone?

  I would say. Yeah. It's, some regions just don't have one.

• 34:35Benito Skinner?

  I love all the, it's so interesting hearing all the different ones in the UK.

• 34:38Mary Beth Barone?

  I do. Like the Pittsburgh, oh, interesting. Well, the UK is like, I mean, it's a whole like.

• 34:43Benito Skinner?

  And they've only decided that Emma Stone is allowed to do it.

• 34:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Mm-hmm.

• 34:46Benito Skinner?

  Right, I guess. Um, but that's really, that one I kind of don't even go near as far as doing an impression of because there's just so many and they're so picky.

• 34:54Mary Beth Barone?

  There's so many. There's RP, there's Manchester, there's Liverpudlian, which is if you're from Liverpool. I mean, the list goes on.

• 35:03Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, of course.

• 35:04Mary Beth Barone?

  And then of course you have Irish accents that are so hot to me. Oh, one thing I learned dating a British person is that Wales is a country.

• 35:12Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 35:13Mary Beth Barone?

  They have their own language and they have their own accents and I personally just love it. And I think it's divine.

• 35:19Benito Skinner?

  Stunning.

• 35:19Mary Beth Barone?

  But I think Diana, Princess of Wales, like it didn't occur to me that that was actually a country.

• 35:23Benito Skinner?

  Oh.

• 35:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Did you know that?

• 35:25Benito Skinner?

  Um, yeah.

• 35:26Mary Beth Barone?

  If you didn't, like, we're all about like sharing information. I mean, I wouldn't expect you to know it, but.

• 35:30Benito Skinner?

  I am so dumb blonde. Blonde starring Ana de Armas.

• 35:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Starring Ana de Armas.

• 35:35Benito Skinner?

  I love her accent in that.

• 35:36Mary Beth Barone?

  And, and to, to say, we're going to cast the person we want for this, not the one that can nail the accent. I think, I think it's wonderful and it's a creative liberty.

• 35:44Benito Skinner?

  Marilyn had a Latina accent.

• 35:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. As far as, I mean, there's no footage of her. We, we have no way of knowing, but.

• 35:50Benito Skinner?

  Oh God, fucking Rosalia's accent. Oh my God.

• 35:55Mary Beth Barone?

  And I'm sure she's. I'm sure she's singing in the other languages with accents. What's so fascinating to me is the idea of like an American person speaking French with an American accent. That's just something I'll never understand or know how that sounds.

• 36:07Benito Skinner?

  Kiwi accent.

• 36:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Kiwi, and Aussie is so.

• 36:11Benito Skinner?

  So fun. You never know what you're going to hear with those accents.

• 36:14Mary Beth Barone?

  I know. They have words we could have never imagined.

• 36:16Benito Skinner?

  They, they keep you fucking guessing.

• 36:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Keep you on your toes.

• 36:19Benito Skinner?

  Oh God, you know, okay. So some just slang things that I love. British, fit, when they say something's fit.

• 36:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh my God. And TBF, to be fair.

• 36:28Benito Skinner?

  Oh, whoa, I haven't even heard that.

• 36:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, to be fair.

• 36:30Benito Skinner?

  Nipples hard as rocks.

• 36:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Like to be honest, but different.

• 36:32Benito Skinner?

  Wow. What you saying though?

• 36:34Mary Beth Barone?

  What you saying though?

• 36:35Benito Skinner?

  It's like, what am I saying though? That's such an interesting thing to say.

• 36:39Mary Beth Barone?

  I really like when also people have accents on the British language. So I, I also am really partial to an Indian accent. I think it's beautiful and it's so rhythmic.

• 36:48Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 36:49Mary Beth Barone?

  I mean, I love all the accents. Give them all to me. These are just ones to highlight.

• 36:52Benito Skinner?

  Sofia Vergara, I used to like literally watch Modern Family two, hear her accent. I loved it. Oh God. I just, um, I just watched Penelope Cruz in The Invitation.

• 37:01Mary Beth Barone?

  The invite even.

• 37:02Benito Skinner?

  I will die having never gotten this. What is wrong with me?

• 37:07Mary Beth Barone?

  It's okay. I think there was another movie called The Invitation. That's probably why, but.

• 37:12Benito Skinner?

  What's the one with, um, oh my God, Jason Bateman and he was really mean to someone in high school and the guy is getting, oh, that's the gift. I love that movie.

• 37:20Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, it's hard. And then there's like the inheritance or whatever.

• 37:23Benito Skinner?

  Her accent. All I'm saying is Penelope Cruz's accent. And Javier Bardem while I'm at it. Come on. I'll say it. I want to see him.

• 37:30Mary Beth Barone?

  It's just, we all do.

• 37:33Benito Skinner?

  I want to see him fuck.

• 37:34Mary Beth Barone?

  I know. Maybe one day.

• 37:36Benito Skinner?

  Such a good point.

• 37:36Mary Beth Barone?

  We don't know.

• 37:37Benito Skinner?

  You never know.

• 37:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Anything could happen, Murphy's Law. Anything that can't happen will happen.

• 37:40Benito Skinner?

  And will happen.

• 37:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Now I'm going to offer a take that people can feel free to disagree with. This is one of those takes that maybe last season I wouldn't have said.

• 37:46Benito Skinner?

  Okay.

• 37:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Personally, I think it is okay to do an accent when you're telling a story if it serves a narrative purpose.

• 37:55Benito Skinner?

  Okay.

• 37:55Mary Beth Barone?

  If you're doing it in an insensitive way, in a bigoted way, in a racist way to make fun of the accent, I don't think that's okay.

• 38:01Benito Skinner?

  But if it's a quote.

• 38:03Mary Beth Barone?

  But if it's a quote and it will, it will have a bigger impact if said in.

• 38:08Benito Skinner?

  People will know what you're referencing. Okay.

• 38:11Mary Beth Barone?

  Personally, I think it's okay, but it's hard. That's obviously a fine line and people would abuse that if it was a privilege that we granted.

• 38:17Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 38:17Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm not saying I, someone.

• 38:18Benito Skinner?

  You're talking about a fag cent.

• 38:20Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 38:22Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm only talking in that case, by the way.

• 38:24Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 38:24Mary Beth Barone?

  No other case.

• 38:25Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, you're fag cent.

• 38:26Mary Beth Barone?

  There's a lot of cultural commentary we could be making in a respectful way if we could do accents. I understand by the way, why we've said no more, but like, you know, when you have a cousin who just like, doesn't know that rule. And then they like are telling a story and they use the accent and it's just like, it's just, I don't know. It puts me, it paints a picture.

• 38:43Benito Skinner?

  Well, Parni gets a little jealous because I'm like, they don't even know, but they also just like nailed that story because they could, they could do all the accents.

• 38:48Mary Beth Barone?

  They could do the accents.

• 38:49Benito Skinner?

  That's so cool that they have that freedom.

• 38:51Mary Beth Barone?

  So I, I am sorry that if like, you know, it's like, we, this is why we can't have nice things. It's like bigoted people have sort of taken that for the rest of us and just like made it awful.

• 39:00Benito Skinner?

  It's funny to say, is that offensive? But then I did Mitch McConnell having a stroke at one point where he goes. Anis, true.

• 39:09Mary Beth Barone?

  See that, it's that muscle control that I was just talking about. Well, cause he's, he died, right?

• 39:15Benito Skinner?

  I don't care.

• 39:16Mary Beth Barone?

  No, I think he died. So all bets are off.

• 39:19Benito Skinner?

  Exactly. Oh girl, she's six feet under. Ready? Here we go. Anis, true.

• 39:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Again.

• 39:28Benito Skinner?

  Okay, wait. What did he say also?

• 39:30Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't even know.

• 39:31Benito Skinner?

  Anis. I'll look straight in the camera.

• 39:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh no, Lindsey Graham died. That one died.

• 39:36Benito Skinner?

  Okay. Anis, true. Wait, I have, I'm going to laugh every time. Anis, true.

• 39:44Mary Beth Barone?

  And, wait, you know, this is giving Dana Carvey in The Master of Disguise.

• 39:50Benito Skinner?

  Oh my God, him as the like, is he like a turtle at one point?

• 39:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Exactly.

• 39:55Benito Skinner?

  That movie was everything to me. I used to put the VHS in the car.

• 39:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 39:58Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. And then I'd watch Grease. And I, every time I go, they're too old to be 16, mom. Turn this movie off. And then she drove us off the road.

• 40:08Mary Beth Barone?

  The road, yeah. No, that's fun.

• 40:10Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 40:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Love a road trip.

• 40:11Benito Skinner?

  I love this accent. I think all accents are so beautiful and I do agree that we should stop having shame. It's so sad that so many of our like grandmas and great grandparents like, like don't learn languages and don't have my accent because it's, you have to assimilate. Assimilate?

• 40:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Assimilate, yeah.

• 40:25Benito Skinner?

  Assimilate.

• 40:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Assimilate. I know it would have been, I think like learning another language is probably just like, it's not going to happen for me. I think I would learn for a partner just so I could potentially like know what they're texting about in their native language.

• 40:40Benito Skinner?

  More as like a thing of a trust for you.

• 40:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, just being like, oh, I need the full picture of like your experience.

• 40:45Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 40:46Mary Beth Barone?

  But yeah, that would definitely be like a huge undertaking. And I do just want to say, I took Latin in high school, which I feel like we've talked about. It's a very specific type of person that takes Latin. In my case, our teacher, Ms. Nelson, there was only one Latin teacher. She taught all the levels and it was just like ultimately pretty easy to cheat in the class.

• 41:03Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. Well, that can be of course, and you know, and that's same goes for a computer science class I took at one point, but um, I took Spanish and at times it would be really hard and at times it, it felt easier, but I just wish, I, I don't know. It's something with my brain. It's just not quite.

• 41:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Mind for it.

• 41:19Benito Skinner?

  I know. And I have a friend, Nora, who like any language she can kind of do, and I know. Where they can do like Italian, French and Spanish.

• 41:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, my Uncle Greg, he speaks seven.

• 41:30Benito Skinner?

  God.

• 41:31Mary Beth Barone?

  But I don't know. I think he got all the genes.

• 41:33Benito Skinner?

  His dreams are crazy.

• 41:34Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 41:35Benito Skinner?

  It's the UN, honey. The Geneva Convention.

• 41:38Mary Beth Barone?

  He's a gay guy.

• 41:38Benito Skinner?

  Whoa, I can't even imagine. Oh, he's a Burgund.

• 41:42Mary Beth Barone?

  He's a Burgund in his mind.

• 41:44Benito Skinner?

  We get into, right?

• 41:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Wait, what do they speak there in Berlin?

• 41:47Benito Skinner?

  I don't speak German, but I can if you like.

• 41:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay, cool. I wasn't sure. I don't know stuff like that.

• 41:52Benito Skinner?

  It's so bold of Gaga to do that because obviously anyone German would listen and be like, this is a travesty, but maybe they're also just like, hell, fucking yeah. I can't tell if people in places like when you try or like when you don't.

• 42:04Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't know because I don't like to like read off a menu if it's in a different language or like attempt to speak any, any word of any other language because I do probably think it sounds disrespectful. I don't rate myself, which is a Britishism. I don't rate myself enough to pull that off. So I'm pointing at the menu. I'm trying to, but that's out of respect to not like totally like degradation. I don't want to degrade the language.

• 42:29Benito Skinner?

  And the INA said, I'll have the salmon.

• 42:31Mary Beth Barone?

  The only thing I will attempt to say is, je suis de la mode.

• 42:35Benito Skinner?

  This is so, what a theme this is. It's very, we are international. We are of the world.

• 42:40Mary Beth Barone?

  We are of the world.

• 42:41Benito Skinner?

  And that's kind of what you're writing for and also a way. It's being of the world and loving.

• 42:44Mary Beth Barone?

  And not apologizing for it. How about? Just like own your, own your shit.

• 42:48Benito Skinner?

  And Rachel Zegler, she's not apologizing.

• 42:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally unapologetic. So ride or die.

• 42:53Benito Skinner?

  Ride or die.

• 42:54Mary Beth Barone?

  You go first.

• 42:55Benito Skinner?

  How can I not ride for accents? They, they make these panties drop. I think they sound beautiful. I love them in the work. I love them in shows. I love them everywhere. I want to hear them more, whisper them in my ear. Oh my God, I love when people with accents do ASMR channels. I'm, I'm locked in. This one woman, Maria Gentle Whispering, she has a Russian accent and oh my God, I can like feel the tingle.

• 43:20Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, Russian accents?

• 43:21Benito Skinner?

  Ah.

• 43:23Mary Beth Barone?

  So there's something about them for me. I just love it and I.

• 43:27Benito Skinner?

  Like Jennifer Lawrence in Red Sparrow.

• 43:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 43:29Benito Skinner?

  Did we ride for that?

• 43:30Mary Beth Barone?

  No, not yet.

• 43:31Benito Skinner?

  Oh, so yes, but I love accents. Everyone keep yours. I'm happy to hear it.

• 43:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Please, hold on to it.

• 43:38Benito Skinner?

  Hold on to it, okay? You promise?

• 43:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, you know what accent I love too is the Jamaican accent, which I think is like, I think it has some connection to Irish. There's something with like how they pronounce everything.

• 43:50Benito Skinner?

  And speaking of accents, I just watched the Katie Price documentary.

• 43:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh.

• 43:54Benito Skinner?

  Maybe the best thing I've ever seen.

• 43:56Mary Beth Barone?

  I can't wait to hear about this.

• 43:57Benito Skinner?

  It's, I kind of just simply have to ride.

• 43:59Mary Beth Barone?

  You know, it's a great study in accents in the UK specifically is Love Island, which I didn't watch this season because it's too many episodes, but they get people from all over the UK and throw them in a house and some of the words you're hearing pronunciation, it's, I need the subtitles.

• 44:12Benito Skinner?

  Sometimes I don't like to be bullied into watching things.

• 44:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Never. No, you shouldn't. It's, it's a full-time job. It's on five days a week.

• 44:18Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I'm like, I have to turn in a gay show to you guys. Let me turn that in and then movies are like, I can do it and they're done and then I can move on.

• 44:24Mary Beth Barone?

  A twing.

• 44:25Benito Skinner?

  A twing.

• 44:27Mary Beth Barone?

  I ride for Rachel Zegler at the Met Gala this year. I would ride for her at the Met Gala every year. I think she's making choices. She's making art. She's saying yes to things. And again, it's that idea that we need to just keep culture alive because if we don't like, what do we really have? And so that's, brings us back to Blondie ambition.

• 44:44Benito Skinner?

  That's the thing with the ambition. Everything's a competition.

• 44:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. And I'm really glad that I've said my piece on accents, which is also part of contributing to culture. It's a discourse. You guys can speak on it and, and you can disagree with me and I, that's okay.

• 44:59Benito Skinner?

  It's crazy though that you never brought up Nina Drama, her accent.

• 45:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Cause where, and where is she from?

• 45:05Benito Skinner?

  It has like a Russian a little bit. I would say if I had to percolate on it. Yes, of course. Yes, sure. What's mine is mine.

• 45:16Mary Beth Barone?

  What's mine is mine.

• 45:18Benito Skinner?

  Someone said that to me yesterday. She was the first person who saw me blonde. And she goes, what's mine is mine's. And she goes, your face is sitting. You don't need new disguises.

• 45:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Whoa, this is just someone coming up cold. I love that.

• 45:30Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. It's great to be back in New York City.

• 45:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Of course.

• 45:33Benito Skinner?

  The accents here? Come on. They're everywhere. Sophie Pavat has the best one. I'm getting a facial next week.

• 45:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Welsh. A beautiful Welsh woman.

• 45:41Benito Skinner?

  How gorgeous is that?

• 45:41Mary Beth Barone?

  And we love her so much.

• 45:42Benito Skinner?

  Is there anything you'd like to end with?

• 45:44Mary Beth Barone?

  I guess just like.

• 45:45Benito Skinner?

  I guess all I can say is, did I get the part?

• 45:52Mary Beth Barone?

  You got the part.

• 46:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, my accent. Benny babe, eyes on the road.

• 46:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Benny, go!

• 46:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Ride.