Occupy Wall Street + The OC

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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

• 0:19Speaker 01

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

• 0:30Benito Skinner?

  I'm Benito Skinner.

• 0:31Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm Mary Beth Brown.

• 0:33Benito Skinner?

  And this?

• 0:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Is?

• 0:34Benito Skinner?

  Ride.

• 0:38Benito Skinner?

  California. California. Feeling so amigo. Let me go now. I haven't done that all season, but I am feeling so amigo to be here for the finale of season two is what we do, and we did it, girl. And I just did all of that again because we were recording. I can always do two takes, just don't ask me to do three, kid.

• 1:05Mary Beth Barone?

  No, I would never do something such as that.

• 1:07Benito Skinner?

  I'm wearing loafers. I'm ready to talk.

• 1:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay, well, I guess we should just get into it. Are there any housekeeping items you have for me? I'm gonna check my list.

• 1:15Benito Skinner?

  Oh, you want the finale? We're just, we want this one to be 15 minutes, quick and dirty.

• 1:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, it's 15 minutes.

• 1:21Benito Skinner?

  Today was a crazy day because the teaser's out and I'm fine to date the pod.

• 1:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Wow, we're dating the pod for the very first time.

• 1:29Benito Skinner?

  For the very first time in podcast history, we are dating the pod. We do record this sometimes before it comes out.

• 1:37Mary Beth Barone?

  We record this sometimes before it comes out.

• 1:40Benito Skinner?

  It's not live, which just is, I think that's a bummer and I'm sorry. Hey, I wish we could do it live every week. Teaser's out. To end on my girl with a headset, and I knew that Barone HQ would eat that up.

• 1:51Mary Beth Barone?

  And put me next to the teacher from Lizzie McGuire movie, of course.

• 1:57Benito Skinner?

  Ungermeyer.

• 1:57Mary Beth Barone?

  In her headset.

• 1:58Benito Skinner?

  Last name Ungermeyer, darling.

• 2:01Mary Beth Barone?

  On that topic of overcompensating, which I sometimes call the OC.

• 2:04Benito Skinner?

  The OC.

• 2:05Mary Beth Barone?

  But then I know I'm gonna confuse people.

• 2:08Benito Skinner?

  Well, sometimes when I try to make the graphics of me, you, Adam Wally, it's OC, but we are siblings, but we end up as Benjamin McKenzie and Misha Barton. But you know what? Let it rock, let it rock.

• 2:21Mary Beth Barone?

  It's just a reference. It's a reference.

• 2:24Benito Skinner?

  It's just a reference visually.

• 2:25Mary Beth Barone?

  We are, we are.

• 2:26Benito Skinner?

  Wally is so summer and Adam is so sad.

• 2:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Do you remember Youth of the Nation from Blue Crush?

• 2:33Benito Skinner?

  Youth of the Nation, we are, we are.

• 2:36Mary Beth Barone?

  That feels like post nine 11 media, even though I'm not sure if it was.

• 2:39Benito Skinner?

  My football highlight reels were post nine 11 media, to be clear.

• 2:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, my God. Oh, my God. You know what? Fuck. You know what I heard the other day and I go, we didn't talk about that on the pod? I'm here without you, baby. But you're still on my lonely mind. I think about you. That was about like going to Afghanistan.

• 2:57Benito Skinner?

  And I dream about you all the time.

• 3:01Mary Beth Barone?

  So that's important.

• 3:02Benito Skinner?

  Wake me up when September runs.

• 3:08Mary Beth Barone?

  So I didn't like Green Day for a while because they hated George Bush.

• 3:12Benito Skinner?

  Hmm.

• 3:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Little did I know, little did I know.

• 3:16Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 3:18Mary Beth Barone?

  One day I would not only be standing the band, I would also be riding for Occupy Wall Street. Now that's a, it's a spoiler, but today for the finale, I'm riding for Occupy Wall Street and you're riding for?

• 3:29Benito Skinner?

  It's a carjack, which I, I love coming up with these. I told Terry, we have a special episode coming after this one. You guys are gonna love it. I, I said, oh yeah, it's called the school bus. And he goes, I think you guys should stop.

• 3:39Mary Beth Barone?

  He's like, I don't think you need to always do that.

• 3:42Benito Skinner?

  He's like, I think we get it. Also, Terry, two minutes in.

• 3:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Two minutes in, kid.

• 3:47Benito Skinner?

  Yes, I'm doing a carjack today and I'm, I'm riding for something that Mary Beth was obsessed, bleep it, with the OC. I've been rewatching it at a pace that is making people worried.

• 3:57Mary Beth Barone?

  One can only describe it as it's clinical.

• 4:00Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 4:01Mary Beth Barone?

  It's a clinical level.

• 4:03Benito Skinner?

  If we're doing the A N T M photo shoot, it's gluttony. I'm gluttony.

• 4:06Mary Beth Barone?

  It's gluttony.

• 4:07Benito Skinner?

  It's my friend, I think I said this in the last episode and if not, I'll edit and you know, of course we, we can cut whatever we need to. Like feeling like fucking with you today. I don't know why, but he, yeah, he's been doing one a day. And he's like, how many are you doing? And I'm like, four to five at least.

• 4:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Four to five. It's only five hours. It's not even long.

• 4:24Benito Skinner?

  There was, I had a break, five minutes in between zooms and I almost went to. Watch it and I was like, oh, okay.

• 4:31Mary Beth Barone?

  It's that good.

• 4:32Benito Skinner?

  It's just that good. And can I say what else is just that good? The other OC, overcompensating.

• 4:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Overcompensating. So.

• 4:39Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 4:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Baronies, please send your questions to this is ride one at gmail dot com. Any questions you have about overcompensating, questions you have about the cast, we will answer them for you. But we're not gonna say how or when. We're not gonna say how or when.

• 4:53Benito Skinner?

  We would never. Amazon's at the door.

• 4:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, my God. Wait, they're here.

• 4:57Benito Skinner?

  I'm sorry.

• 4:58Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm back in the bunker. I'm in the detention center.

• 5:00Benito Skinner?

  Well, yes, you posted the trailer two minutes before you were supposed to.

• 5:04Mary Beth Barone?

  They found me. Amazon found me. The government found me. I was in the group text with Pete Hegseth as well about Yemen. And I was like, guys, I want to be, I want to divest from this narrative. Please let me leave this group chat.

• 5:16Benito Skinner?

  I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative. That was Mary Beth in every episode we would read.

• 5:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Pete Hegseth, Pete Hegseth sent that text that's like, are you ready to see, receive information that could potentially hurt you? And I was like, I don't want it. Please, please, please, please don't tell me. But he sent it anyway. And now here I am.

• 5:33Benito Skinner?

  Catch me on a weird day and I'm like, maybe.

• 5:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Maybe, but that day I didn't want to. I had already been going through a lot and so.

• 5:40Benito Skinner?

  Have you seen Adolescence? Sorry, I don't know what made me think of that.

• 5:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Avoiding it, actually.

• 5:44Benito Skinner?

  Whoa, I, well, I feel like I got arrested last night. It's an incredible show, but it's just kind of OC or nothing for me right now. And I say that with love to everyone involved. Like, I've tried to watch other things and I know that Adoles- me and Adolescence will have a moment. But I just, it, it made me so panicky that I had to, I had to exit. And for anyone else who's feeling that way, I would say if there's a complete polar opposite of a show, we made it.

• 6:11Mary Beth Barone?

  And there's room for both, which is important.

• 6:13Benito Skinner?

  Well, that's what's so cool about media.

• 6:15Mary Beth Barone?

  I will watch it eventually. I just don't want to watch it right now.

• 6:18Benito Skinner?

  Let's watch it together at Coachella.

• 6:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, perfect. Yeah. Well, I'm not going to see any of the performers.

• 6:23Benito Skinner?

  Of course not.

• 6:25Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm bringing my laptop to stream.

• 6:26Benito Skinner?

  They're like, hey, are you at the, what's it? I literally almost said the Manjaro tent. Leaving LA, I should move.

• 6:32Mary Beth Barone?

  It's the Sahara tent, my love.

• 6:33Benito Skinner?

  Sahara tent. And we're like, we kind of have our own Sahara tents. I didn't know you were so opinionated.

• 6:40Mary Beth Barone?

  On that note, I did want to say that Sweet Greens are sanctuary cities for Baronies. So if you ever feel unsafe or like, you know how there's like sanctuary cities for like certain demographics? Sweet Green is our, is a sanctuary city.

• 6:52Benito Skinner?

  Quasi Moto's mom. What doors do you think she was banging down? That was the Sweet Green love.

• 6:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh my god.

• 7:00Benito Skinner?

  Sex, Sherry, sex, Sherry.

• 7:02Mary Beth Barone?

  You bring up this Hunchback of Notre Dame literally every chance you get.

• 7:05Benito Skinner?

  Well, I was saying to Terry, I think there's something beautiful in the animated films that exist now, but they are so starkly different than the absolute batshit ass insane things that we grew up with. I was in the car last night and I'm like, maybe this is the woke mob's fault.

• 7:23Mary Beth Barone?

  No, I think it's that back then, kids needed to be exposed to like trauma and heartbreak because their siblings were dying of polio and the measles. And then it became like, oh, childhood is actually something to be celebrated. People should stay kids as long as they can. And so they started making movies that like were heartfelt and hopeful. But I was thinking about All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 and how I want to talk about that in season three or four. It's definitely not a season two topic because it's really like, that movie is about like, it's about the mob and it's about where dogs go when they die. And it's like, not like, it's like fucking scary.

• 7:56Benito Skinner?

  Oliver and Company, also about the mob.

• 7:59Mary Beth Barone?

  And on that note, Bambi, Dumbo, I mean, they're all just like so sad.

• 8:02Benito Skinner?

  Tarzan, Tarzan, let's say it together. One, two, three, Chosen Family.

• 8:08Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, for sure.

• 8:08Benito Skinner?

  Tell me that's not about Chosen Family. The Death Count and Tarzan will send a chill down your spine. And there is a full scene in Hunchback, I think I've literally talked about it, I'll talk about it again, where that nasty little priest, I think he's a priest.

• 8:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Don't know the official title.

• 8:22Benito Skinner?

  His song is about like being attracted to Esmeralda. It's very much like your haters are your biggest fans. That was a tough lesson for kids when she didn't end up with Quasi. I don't know what they were trying to teach us with that. In the book, she's, she dies, I found that out. I didn't realize, but in the movie, you know, they don't end it like that. But in the book, I do believe she's burned at the stake. So Disney was kind of like, have you read this fucking crazy ass book? Someone I know that Crime and Punishment was, was pitched during that time.

• 8:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, oh, oh, wait, wait, wait. Hans Zimmer, I just saw a clip of Hans Zimmer talking about scoring The Lion King because his dad died when he was six years old. And he, he decided to work on that movie because his daughter was six years old and he had not worked on a movie that he, his daughter could like, he could share with his daughter. So he watched the movie and he, I have chills, literally. He was like, I watched the movie and it is about like, it is about a child losing his father. And he was like, admittedly with fart jokes, but he was like, when you hear the score, it's like, it is like for my father, like I wrote it for my father.

• 9:22Benito Skinner?

  Oh, I just got chills because I just pictured, oh my god, that moment when fucking Simba. Starts to go up pride rock and he goes,

• 9:34Benito Skinner?

  and it's Simba, remember.

• 9:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Stop.

• 9:39Benito Skinner?

  I used to do that as a kid. I used to do that as a kid all the time.

• 9:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Impression.

• 9:43Benito Skinner?

  Well, yeah, it's in my arsenal. James Earl Jones. I'm literally, what an incredible man. I miss him. I think that that's the best vocal performance. He has the two best vocal performances of all time. Darth Vader and Mufasa.

• 9:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. Wow.

• 9:57Benito Skinner?

  That's impact.

• 9:58Mary Beth Barone?

  One of the greats.

• 9:59Benito Skinner?

  That's impact kitchen.

• 10:01Mary Beth Barone?

  And we said, we're not talking about James Earl Jones until the finale of season two. We had that conversation. We said they're not ready.

• 10:07Benito Skinner?

  It's in the contracts.

• 10:09Mary Beth Barone?

  It's in the contract. I want to redefine the word posthumous to mean like after you've been canceled. So it's like, you can like put something out posthumously, but it's like, like Shane Gillis has had a Netflix special. It was like his posthumous Netflix special. Do you get that?

• 10:23Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I think that's great. To me, you're now, I feel like you're just trying to get clipped by Dear Media. You're begging for it.

• 10:30Mary Beth Barone?

  I have a separate notes app for things I think Dear Media will clip.

• 10:33Benito Skinner?

  You want them to clip all of this? Let's see if I've got anything. Well, I have all my OC notes. This is the first time I've ever taken notes for the pod. Pod opening. Let's see if there's anything that we forgot. This is fly cleaners caused my breakup.

• 10:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, but that feels season three or four.

• 10:48Benito Skinner?

  Can we keep the line though?

• 10:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, of course. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I was dating someone when I was like 24 and 25. And I said to him, like, I just think if I think fly cleaners will lose our stuff. And let's just say like two weeks later, we weren't dating anymore. We lived together, by the way. So we'll talk about that in season three.

• 11:08Benito Skinner?

  I do have a thing here about sometimes dogs smell really bad and your hand smells bad after petting them. And if you have one of those dogs, give it a bath. I don't know why.

• 11:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Dear Media, you know what to do.

• 11:22Benito Skinner?

  Live that sister. Here's my thing. I'm just like, at least give me a warning. Now my hand smells like zutipie. And I will say it as many podcasts as it takes. If the trash bin is full, you can put the dog shit in it. If it is empty, you're a bad person, I fear. You can't do that.

• 11:42Mary Beth Barone?

  I hate the idea of more surveillance, but I do think like sometimes these people need to be like

• 11:46Benito Skinner?

  Talking about surveillance. Let me say, oh my God, adolescence. Well, it's just like, I just was not ready. Adolescence was put on the TV and I did not give my consent in the way. I was not mentally ready for that. So not to give anything away.

• 12:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Here's a happy story. My dad got a call a few weeks, maybe a couple of months ago from someone who was like, I'm your cousin. Our, so a pair of sisters married a pair of brothers. So like on both sides, they're cousins. Do you get what I mean?

• 12:17Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, totally.

• 12:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Cousins. And then he came to my parents' house for dinner and he's just like a lovely guy and he knows like a ton about our family history on my dad's side. So it's just crazy that one, like that can happen at any age. You can have a new family member. And also just the idea, what a thrill to have a double cousin, two sisters marrying two brothers.

• 12:38Benito Skinner?

  It's very, the kids are all right, but like a new spin on it.

• 12:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Exactly. It's very, and I think Terry would like it.

• 12:44Benito Skinner?

  Oh, he would love. He asked to watch that movie every single night. And I'm like, really? That's your heart's desire. One of these nights though, I'm gonna say it to surprise my man.

• 12:53Mary Beth Barone?

  I would love to shake Mark Ruffalo's hand and just say like, thank you for everything. Do you get that?

• 12:59Benito Skinner?

  I agree. I know he gives good hugs.

• 13:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh my God. You know what?

• 13:03Benito Skinner?

  Of aftershave and pipe tobacco. What is that?

• 13:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Mark Ruffalo?

• 13:07Benito Skinner?

  Cinnamon and pipe tobacco.

• 13:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Cinnamon and pipe tobacco.

• 13:10Benito Skinner?

  I scared the shit out of this woman recently because I hugged her and I went by the fireplace and she went, yeah?

• 13:17Mary Beth Barone?

  What woman? Who are you hugging?

• 13:18Benito Skinner?

  Oh, here I go again. We were doing an edit for the trailer for overcompensating. And this woman who worked with the main editor, I hugged her and I was like by the fireplace. It blew her mind. I think to have a man know anything, she didn't know I was gay yet, I think.

• 13:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, and thank you. Okay. So men's spatial awareness is also in this, in this note. How many times have you seen, okay, picture this.

• 13:44Benito Skinner?

  Straight men. You know, you're talking straight men.

• 13:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Of course. This happened to me and it really, it brought up a lot for me.

• 13:49Benito Skinner?

  Okay.

• 13:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Picture this, you're walking into the Soho house, into Holloway House. And there are two women and one man in a semicircle having a conversation in front of the door.

• 13:58Benito Skinner?

  What's that? I smell? What's that brand? That's Cowshed.

• 14:02Mary Beth Barone?

  It's Cowshed.

• 14:03Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, keep going.

• 14:04Mary Beth Barone?

  You're approaching the door and as you get closer, you notice the man who is blocking the door the most is not moving over even slightly. And in fact, hasn't moved at all. And then you have to watch one of the women he's with, put her hand on his back and physically push him out of the way, of my way, so I can get in the door. I have seen that happen at social functions. I've seen it happen on mass transit. I've seen it happen at airports. What are men not seeing? Is their peripheral vision okay? Because they're not seeing that, like, there is a figure, a human-shaped person, walking towards them and they need to move.

• 14:38Benito Skinner?

  This is same with at airports and stuff and they never know the size of their bag that they're carrying. I'm like, hey, just to, just so you know, your bag is in a ghost.

• 14:47Benito Skinner?

  Hey, sir, I'm not sure if you know this, but your bag is in a ghost. It hit me.

• 14:50Mary Beth Barone?

  So it's, it's a physical tangible thing.

• 14:53Benito Skinner?

  It's a part of you and I would probably like, watch where you move it. Yeah, that, and then I have to say, I've been on a few lunches with straight men recently, where they were speaking so loudly and also their bodies were opened up to the whole restaurant. And I was kind of like, if you want to just do a set, I'm sure you could find a stand-up show. Like, I'm sure you could, you could get a mic. Like, if you really want one, I bet we could find that for you.

• 15:15Mary Beth Barone?

  If you want to put on a show, honey, there's menus all over the city.

• 15:18Benito Skinner?

  Totally. It's like, but I'm trying to eat a quinoa bowl and I want it to be private and intimate. But I'm over it.

• 15:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, maybe this is a difficult conversation that like girlfriends of straight men need to have and mothers, I would say, perhaps.

• 15:31Benito Skinner?

  I would say, start with a compliment. I don't want to set these guys off. Let's start with a compliment, but let's, hey, it's a roller coaster. Build them up before you tear them down.

• 15:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Exactly. And I do want to shout out all the baronies who are on the way, baronies on board, all the pregnant barony moms. And then I read on the Reddit today that someone was referring to their unborn child as fucker Jones, whenever the baby would do something annoying, like kick her or whatever. And I just love that that is, I mean, it's just so beautiful. And we can't wait to watch these children grow up with, with just love in the home.

• 16:04Benito Skinner?

  I'm picturing AirPods, AirPod Maxes on the baby bump and they're listening to our Ferrero Rocher episode. They're turning up.

• 16:13Mary Beth Barone?

  And their moms are whispering to them, I'll never keep a secret from you.

• 16:18Benito Skinner?

  We don't. Wait, Jackson, what was your favorite episode? Me begging for compliments because the world is so scary.

• 16:24Speaker 04

  No, honestly, I loved the Bond episode.

• 16:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh.

• 16:27Benito Skinner?

  Oh.

• 16:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Fascinating.

• 16:29Benito Skinner?

  I love that. That feels very Skuna.

• 16:33Speaker 04

  Skuna.

• 16:34Mary Beth Barone?

  And thank you for bringing up our parent company, Amazon, who has just gotten the rights from the broccoli family for James Bond.

• 16:41Benito Skinner?

  You're looking at Q and a Bond girl.

• 16:45Mary Beth Barone?

  And M. They're gonna have me play, they're gonna have me in old lady prosthetics to say M.

• 16:50Benito Skinner?

  Oh, very X. I love that.

• 16:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, very X.

• 16:54Benito Skinner?

  Should we get into what we ride for in this big finale day? What was your favorite of the season, actually, before we get into it? Because I'm curious.

• 17:01Mary Beth Barone?

  This is so random, but I really, for some reason, when I was editing Kelly Rohrbach's Instagram, the sensory experience of hearing us describe pictures.

• 17:10Benito Skinner?

  You made me laugh in that.

• 17:13Mary Beth Barone?

  It's cold, babe.

• 17:14Benito Skinner?

  You were so cute.

• 17:15Mary Beth Barone?

  No, it was so funny.

• 17:17Benito Skinner?

  Let us know which ones you guys like. It's always good to. My favorite, I think it was Kelly Rohrbach's. I was laughing. I was pissing myself at you during that. That was, oh my god. There was something else that really made me laugh. Let me, if I just see them, I'll see it.

• 17:32Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm starting a doc of jokes we can't talk about until season six, and we'll bleep this, but you know what I thought of the other day?

• 17:38Benito Skinner?

  What?

• 17:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Best believe I'm still bejeweled. Turn your mouth into a shitter.

• 17:43Benito Skinner?

  Oh, we can do that now. So.

• 17:45Mary Beth Barone?

  No.

• 17:45Benito Skinner?

  I ruin every song I sing with Terry, and I have to. It's the first thing I do. Like, I just did. So, debuting, relationships. What's all this talk of relationships? I just have to. I don't know why my brain does that. Gwistle while you gork. Gwada gwada gwada gwada gwada.

• 18:04Mary Beth Barone?

  All my life, I always loved parages.

• 18:07Benito Skinner?

  Oh, I don't think they're ready for parages. Have we talked about parages? I don't think so. 16 parages, driving away.

• 18:18Mary Beth Barone?

  It doesn't make sense.

• 18:19Benito Skinner?

  I would do that. Do you get it? Parages. Do you get the joke, Jackson?

• 18:24Speaker 04

  No.

• 18:25Benito Skinner?

  Well, there's no-

• 18:26Mary Beth Barone?

  No one does. So, Jackson, do you get it now?

• 18:30Speaker 04

  I still don't get it.

• 18:31Benito Skinner?

  Is this, is-

• 18:32Speaker 04

  Am I dumb?

• 18:34Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't get it either.

• 18:35Benito Skinner?

  It's just literally fucking up the lyrics or something. Just making some-

• 18:38Mary Beth Barone?

  So, do be jeweled, do be jeweled.

• 18:40Benito Skinner?

  Best believe I'm still be jeweled. When I walk in the room, I can turn your mouth into my own personal shitter.

• 18:49Benito Skinner?

  It's so dumb.

• 18:50Mary Beth Barone?

  This is why I have to-

• 18:52Benito Skinner?

  Best believe I'm still be cruel.

• 18:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Speaking of si- sitting at a dinner. I'm at, I'm at Ellen E. Oysters. And Benny's pointing his mouth and saying, "I can turn your mouth into a shitter."

• 19:06Benito Skinner?

  I'm just bored.

• 19:08Mary Beth Barone?

  Hey, babe, if you want to do a set, we'll find you a stage.

• 19:12Benito Skinner?

  Fuck it.

• 19:15Benito Skinner?

  At Ellen E., you go, "What's it, what's down the block? Virgil? The Virgil's right down the street, babe." Yeah, that's one. 16 parages and then aqua marine. And then I changed it to aqua poutine.

• 19:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Some of these girls listening are gonna latch on to these and ruin their friends' days.

• 19:40Benito Skinner?

  Ruin their relationships, I would say. Relationships. What's all this talk of these relations? Recently, though, Terry, he's working with a new musician. And we were listening to the song and I immediately did one. And he was like, "Just give me a week with it first." And I respected that.

• 19:58Mary Beth Barone?

  He was like, "Let me come up with the vision and then we'll get into that."

• 20:01Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, then we can get into you. Absolutely, just demolishing-

• 20:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Bastardizing.

• 20:07Benito Skinner?

  Bastardizing.

• 20:08Mary Beth Barone?

  Bastardization.

• 20:09Benito Skinner?

  The bastardization of fabulous pop music.

• 20:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Um, okay, should we get into, oh, you want to say something?

• 20:15Benito Skinner?

  Well, no, I'm just, yeah. Today, for the last ride of season two, I'll be riding for the OC.

• 20:21Mary Beth Barone?

  And I will be riding for a little left-wing populist movement called Occupy Wall Street. Let's get into it.

• 20:29Benito Skinner?

  Uh-oh, smells like cow shed and heritage.

• 20:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Thank you.

• 20:34Benito Skinner?

  Fuck.

• 20:36Mary Beth Barone?

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• 21:21Mary Beth Barone?

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• 22:03Mary Beth Barone?

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• 22:12Benito Skinner?

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• 22:55Benito Skinner?

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• 23:33Benito Skinner?

  And Zocdoc, we love you to death, kid. Actually, not death. We're not going to talk about death. We just like love you, kid. You can keep all of that. You can just see that sometimes, you know, improv, it doesn't work. All right, I love you all so much. Zocdoc dot com slash ride. I'm sad it's the finale. But so many surprises are coming. Okay, daddy loves you.

• 23:51Mary Beth Barone?

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• 24:36Mary Beth Barone?

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• 25:28Benito Skinner?

  Who cares? Ride! So I have been taking notes while watching the OC. I have a few things I want to talk about. I'm just going to read these off and if anything sparks, let me know. Jackson, you can stop me at any time.

• 25:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay, just let me, give me one beat after each thing and I'll say if I want to, if I want to amplify or add to.

• 25:47Benito Skinner?

  Perfect. We're just firm and we move on.

• 25:52Benito Skinner?

  You do the SOS. Ryan's armband.

• 25:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Amplify.

• 25:56Benito Skinner?

  Okay, so. So Ryan Atwood, for those who haven't seen the OC, it's about this boy from Chino who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and his brother gets him in trouble at the beginning. He's in trouble with the law and this lawyer comes who takes him into his house and they adopt him, this lawyer and his very rich wife who live in Newport Beach in the OC. They have a son Seth and he becomes fast friends with Ryan Atwood. Next door is this family friend, Marissa Cooper, the hottest girl in town, who's Luke's girlfriend. And her best friend is Summer, who Seth is in love with. And I think that's kind of it.

• 26:36Benito Skinner?

  It's just like the life and times of these four hotties in high school in, in the OC. In Orange County. So Ryan has an armband that he wears throughout the entirety of the show. It's leather. I would say if I had to shout out a brand, I think Fossil comes to mind, but it's-

• 26:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Would you call it an armband or a bracelet?

• 26:57Benito Skinner?

  So this, this is kind of a big question. It's kind of giving Helen of Troy in a way.

• 27:04Mary Beth Barone?

  He also is a choker. I don't want to, I don't want to breeze past that he is a jewelry guy.

• 27:09Benito Skinner?

  So I know that- Best believe he's still be cruelled.

• 27:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Be cruelled.

• 27:13Benito Skinner?

  So here's the thing. He is a jewelry guy. He also always has like, quite possibly the biggest watch you've ever seen on his other arm. So he's a man of balance, certainly, but this armband, it's leather, it's, it is a part of, I think, every episode that I've seen up to now. I'm on season two-

• 27:30Mary Beth Barone?

  It's Connell's chain. Ryan Atwood's quote unquote armband walked so Connell's chain in Normal People could run.

• 27:36Benito Skinner?

  And his choker.

• 27:37Mary Beth Barone?

  His choker. Yeah.

• 27:38Benito Skinner?

  Ryan's choker. It's really tight, I would say. He also wears these tanks. Like, he's always in a white tank and he's pumped.

• 27:45Mary Beth Barone?

  With a short sleeve button down over it.

• 27:47Benito Skinner?

  Well, of course. And he also kind of like sometimes has like bangs and a bowl cut and kind of a like chic way, but he meant the world to me as a kid. And rewatching the show now, I get why. I just, I love this absolute stud. Next, or do you want to amplify more?

• 28:00Mary Beth Barone?

  No, I love that. I love where we got with that one.

• 28:03Benito Skinner?

  Luke's dad being gay. Can I say something to you?

• 28:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Yes.

• 28:07Benito Skinner?

  Mustang dealership.

• 28:11Benito Skinner?

  I think it's Mustangs. It felt like Mustangs. His dad being gay. He calls Adam Brody's character Seth a queer the whole time in a way that's just like, it's, this is all Luke says for the first like four episodes.

• 28:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, he's a water polo player.

• 28:25Benito Skinner?

  Well, of course. Luke's dad being gay, just, I was just watching it and it took my breath away. I don't think I really registered that as a kid. I definitely watched it too young. Very much giving youngest sibling and that I was watching this at like way too young of an age to really like sit with Julie Cooper. But even at like nine, I could really see a lot of myself in Julie Cooper. So-

• 28:45Mary Beth Barone?

  She is just, I mean, Melinda Clark, amazing performance. She really plays it like it's Hamlet, but I don't, okay. One thing about Luke first, so I made a TikTok about this because I rewatched season one of the OC in the pandemic.

• 28:56Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 28:57Mary Beth Barone?

  He is such a fascinating character because they, the writers literally said, we are going to make Luke whatever we need him to be in this episode. Character consistency be damned. I had whiplash. He's a bad guy, then he's a good guy, then he's beating someone up, then he's accepting his gay dad. Then he's fucking Marissa's mother.

• 29:15Benito Skinner?

  You're leaving out the craziest thing he did of all. He moved to Portland, which we'll get into in a minute.

• 29:24Benito Skinner?

  You want to talk about Occupy? Let me tell you a little town called Portland, Oregon. Yeah, he moves to Portland. Portland is very, it's really present in the show. It's kind of like, it's on the menu.

• 29:37Mary Beth Barone?

  For the West Coast kids, Portland is like the place you could go to like, you know, be who you really are. And I think that's cool.

• 29:44Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. Would you want to keep going on Luke's dad being gay? I think we nailed it. I feel good about it.

• 29:48Mary Beth Barone?

  No, that's, it was, it was boundary pushing and I think it was important. It was important for that to happen.

• 29:56Benito Skinner?

  It immediately broke up the whole family. Well, yeah, but I, I just thought it was cool. Two dudes in suits hooking up at an auto dealership and your son in the end is like, you know what, dad? Like, I'm going to love you and let's move to Portland. Marissa putting her hair behind her ears. I don't know exactly what I meant by this, but you know what I mean by this. We can continue.

• 30:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Hundred percent, yeah.

• 30:16Benito Skinner?

  Summer is bimbo rights.

• 30:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, my God, okay.

• 30:19Benito Skinner?

  Goes to brown.

• 30:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Summer, very similar to Aaron Paul's character in Breaking Bad. Summer was not supposed to be in the show for the whole season, let alone the whole show.

• 30:28Benito Skinner?

  It wasn't until midway through season one that she's even in the iconic, if we're talking about iconic theme song. But she's not in the opening, in the beginning. Tate Donovan has a card and she doesn't. It's kind of.

• 30:40Mary Beth Barone?

  She had to work her way up.

• 30:41Benito Skinner?

  Same with the guy who plays Luke, he has one.

• 30:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, also, um, my friends and I did an OC parody. I think I talked about this on Obsessed, but I'm not sure. We did an OC parody called The FC because we're from Fairfield County. And we still have the tapes. It's two about 10 minute episodes and I obviously play Marissa Cooper. Um, but we changed the theme song. We've been on the run looking for some bagels, driving down I-95. Fairfield County, here we come. So I just want to shout out to all my girls who were in that with me. I was able to costume an entire cast of people with just the clothes that I had at my house. Every character.

• 31:13Benito Skinner?

  Well, that's very overcompensating.

• 31:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Including Dr. Roberts, by the way.

• 31:18Benito Skinner?

  Stop.

• 31:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Jake played Dr. Roberts. He played Johnny. He played, he played a bunch of people.

• 31:23Benito Skinner?

  Fairfield County, here we go.

• 31:30Mary Beth Barone?

  It's pretty good.

• 31:32Benito Skinner?

  Summer is bimbo writes, though, I just think she's an incredible character. And that's called being a star. You show up and they're like, damn, we tried to make you one note. Sorry, you're complex. You contain multitudes. We'll see you in season two. I can't stress enough how many fucking episodes they have per season. It's like 25. It's unbelievable. It's very Gossip Girl.

• 31:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Very Gossip Girl.

• 31:52Benito Skinner?

  Josh Schwartz did both of these is insane to me.

• 31:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Also, I know Summer would have fucked with Ride the Pod.

• 31:58Benito Skinner?

  Oh, she would have fucking loved. And Marissa would have been like, what are you listening to?

• 32:02Mary Beth Barone?

  What even is that?

• 32:04Benito Skinner?

  What is this? She, Misha Barton, if you're listening, sweetheart, I love you so much.

• 32:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Generational talent.

• 32:11Benito Skinner?

  Dear God. And she has, I watch her storylines and I'm like, this is really hard. Like, these are, I, her acting, I'm like, this is a really complicated character. They don't give Marissa one good fucking day on earth. And I'm not gonna talk about it because you know, when I get to season three, I'm not even watching the episode. To be clear.

• 32:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Out of respect.

• 32:33Benito Skinner?

  Out of respect.

• 32:34Mary Beth Barone?

  For all those involved.

• 32:34Benito Skinner?

  For everyone involved, the show ends at graduation. Goodbye. Thank you.

• 32:38Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't know if this is on your list, but I don't want to talk about Oliver Trast.

• 32:42Benito Skinner?

  He's not, and I think I knew that you wouldn't. But can I just say, what an unbelievable storyline. I was watching that on a Delta flight, just buried in my phone. And the fact that I looked up at the end and I met a Barone flight attendant, my darling love.

• 32:57Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh my god.

• 32:58Benito Skinner?

  He was such a doll. And it was just really disorienting to go from living with Oliver Trask for the past three hours on the flight to having to say like, thank you, you know, I'm so glad we landed.

• 33:09Mary Beth Barone?

  The New Year's Eve where Marissa's wearing a cutout black dress with a poof and a ponytail. And when Ryan comes in right at the stroke of midnight, nothing can compare to when you roll the dice and swear.

• 33:23Benito Skinner?

  I love you. Nothing can compare to when you fuck me nice and swear. See, I can take anything and do that.

• 33:33Mary Beth Barone?

  And just make it filth.

• 33:35Benito Skinner?

  Wait, what were you gonna say?

• 33:36Mary Beth Barone?

  No, that was it.

• 33:37Benito Skinner?

  You're so Marissa. Her lacoste polos, I didn't write that in here, but.

• 33:40Mary Beth Barone?

  The lacoste polos, the juicy zip ups, the skirts. I mean, it's all, it's all there.

• 33:44Benito Skinner?

  Can I say something to you? Chanel tote.

• 33:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, and when she became the face of Keds, how many pairs of Keds do you think I had?

• 33:51Benito Skinner?

  Oh, I can't even imagine. I know you had the slip on ones too.

• 33:54Mary Beth Barone?

  I sure did, babe.

• 33:55Benito Skinner?

  Backless. Julie Cooper's streaks, Kirsten Cohen and Julie Cooper, their hair streaks is very Kelly Clarkson breakaway. I think. Is that what I'm thinking of? But the streakage in the hair and there is a five episode stretch in season one where Kirsten, she has a different hairstyle and a different cut in every single scene and every take. And I just think it's like fucking sick. And I think she was trying to find it and she does find it. Also Kelly Rowland, fabulous actress. And oh my god.

• 34:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Kelly Rowland?

• 34:28Benito Skinner?

  No, it's just Kelly Rowland is her name, I believe. The actress who plays Kirsten Cohen.

• 34:31Mary Beth Barone?

  I was thinking of Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child.

• 34:34Benito Skinner?

  Who, what's the name of, oh, Peter Gallagher. He is fucking fabulous.

• 34:40Mary Beth Barone?

  He's so good.

• 34:40Benito Skinner?

  As Sandy Cohen. He's just like one of those guys. Seth being a loser is so 2003. This man couldn't be cuter. It's so Hilary Duff and the guy from Smallville going to that high school in Cheaper by the Dozen.

• 34:53Mary Beth Barone?

  And being, and being like bullied.

• 34:54Benito Skinner?

  Friend. I'm like, I'll be your friend. You can both pummel my ass.

• 34:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Graphic novels. He likes graphic novels.

• 35:00Benito Skinner?

  I mean, he's just a dorkable. Seth is very ribbit girl in this show. He's, he ribbons for about the first 10 episodes, I'd say.

• 35:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, and you know what? When Summer dresses up as Wonder Woman, she should have been that. She should have been DC's Wonder Woman.

• 35:14Benito Skinner?

  She does look like Wonder Woman. I forgot that she did that. There's a lot of choose between us vibes.

• 35:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, there's a lot of love triangles. Yeah, especially in high school. I'm like.

• 35:24Benito Skinner?

  So I actually have a separate note that says, Kiki streaks. Her hair changes in every episode. It's a continuity nightmare. That really is my love letter to editors, and I'm sorry you had to deal with that.

• 35:33Mary Beth Barone?

  This goes out to all my heads of the hair department. Fine battles with the rest of my day.

• 35:39Benito Skinner?

  Kiki Ross backed. Here's the thing. So Julie Cooper Nickel. This woman bodies that role like you can, Melinda Clark. You are a hero to us all. She has so many fabulous fucking line reads in this. Her and Marissa fight in every single scene.

• 36:01Mary Beth Barone?

  She would do anything for her family.

• 36:03Benito Skinner?

  No, I know. That's my thing. I think she's like, she is a true feminist, first off. But I think she is fighter. She is so tyka.

• 36:14Mary Beth Barone?

  She is sleepy way to the top. She is the mother to Willa Holland and Shailene Woodley, who both play the role of Caitlin. And for Willa Holland to then enter the Gossip Girl cinematic universe as Agnes is just like.

• 36:25Benito Skinner?

  Josh Schwartz.

• 36:26Mary Beth Barone?

  You don't know what that meant to me. Like, a lot of the decisions that were made in these shows, like, they don't know what it meant to me.

• 36:32Benito Skinner?

  I think they do now.

• 36:34Mary Beth Barone?

  I hope they do. I hope they're listening. Wait, didn't Mick G work on the OC or no? Am I thinking of Speed?

• 36:40Benito Skinner?

  So funny you say this. Executive produced by Mick G. And I said, you go and jump if Mick G made it. I think it's one of my favorite pilots of all time. Whoever you want me to be, as the first line Ryan says to Marissa, it's very when you and I met.

• 36:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 36:56Benito Skinner?

  And it's just one of those shows. It gets soapy, it's drama, it's quirky, it's funny, it's candy.

• 37:03Mary Beth Barone?

  It's so funny. The scripts are so funny.

• 37:05Benito Skinner?

  It's so hardcore, though, at times, in a way that you're just like, like, guns are certainly in the show. If you've seen Gossip Girl, if you're ready to just hunker down for a long. Spring, do it with the OC and do I love the ending? No, but I think these shows, my heart goes out to writers who are writing a thousand episode, I mean 25 a season. It's like, oh, people being like, oh, it kind of has a lull in the middle. I'm like, what else could they do? An alien abduction would be all I could pitch at that table.

• 37:34Mary Beth Barone?

  They did everything.

• 37:35Benito Skinner?

  I literally don't even know, but I will say someone in that room hated Marissa. They hated Misha Burton. They were like, she's gonna have the worst experience of her life again today.

• 37:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 37:45Benito Skinner?

  And then Olivia Wilde and her pencil thin eyebrows popped up on my screen and I went, holy fuck. And I forgot about her and Marissa, which I feel like is handled in a very like it's sexualized like lesbians. I would say there's fuckery involved, but I feel like there's a part of it that I hadn't seen that kind of queerness on screen and it certainly wasn't.

• 38:06Mary Beth Barone?

  By visibility.

• 38:07Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, it wasn't in Gossip Girl at all. I just remember like Serena's brother being gay and suicidal. That was all we got out of that.

• 38:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, that's the only way.

• 38:15Benito Skinner?

  Well, of course. And thank you, seeing myself reflected in media.

• 38:20Mary Beth Barone?

  The, the by visibility, I mean, what was it? What was the music venue called?

• 38:24Benito Skinner?

  Oh, The Bait Shop.

• 38:25Mary Beth Barone?

  The Bait Shop was just huge.

• 38:27Benito Skinner?

  The Bait Shop, whoever is the booker for The Bait Shop, let's give them a raise.

• 38:31Mary Beth Barone?

  A raise immediately.

• 38:33Benito Skinner?

  Death Cab for Booty?

• 38:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Also, I mean, Spoon, the soundtrack in and of itself.

• 38:37Benito Skinner?

  The Killers perform at The Bait Shop. And my thing is that like, there's all this drama going on. Like, I know that they had to build The Bait Shop on a soundstage, but it was so funny because like, none of them are listening to the concert. They're all like backstabbing each other and like there's fraud and arson and like all kinds of things going on and it's like the killers are performing.

• 38:56Mary Beth Barone?

  Look, you can criticize some of the storylines, you can criticize some of the seasons, whatever you want to do, that's between you and God. But for me, it's just like, it was a golden age of television experience and to be watching it week to week. I mean, I hated when they would take breaks for holidays.

• 39:11Benito Skinner?

  But you remember being at school and you knew a new episode was coming? And you're like, ah, I know the Oliver Tusk storyline is gonna find its way. Oh, I will say one thing about him, he revolutionized a blazer at high school. And Seth has good style.

• 39:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Also, this was when DVR was sort of new on the scene and I wasn't allowed to watch TV on weekdays. So I DVR was huge for me because I needed to still be up to speed on everything, but I couldn't always watch that day. But it was good to just know that a new episode was coming out and it was going to be an hour and it was just going to be like my little escape for the week.

• 39:44Benito Skinner?

  God, it's just, it's making me feel so good. I finished overcompensating. I do this every time I finish something, I need something like this. Like after the ride tour, we did all of Gossip Girl.

• 39:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 39:54Benito Skinner?

  And then after this, I'm like.

• 39:55Mary Beth Barone?

  It's just good to decompress.

• 39:56Benito Skinner?

  I just, yeah. And I just like, I don't have to think about what I'm watching every night. It's just like, boom, we're watching the OC and I have never once skipped the intro song. Every time it pops up, I'm like, after the cold open, I'm like, fuck, like run that shit back. I love it. I just want to say Chanel prom dress, but.

• 40:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh my God. Yeah. She wears a lot of Chanel in that show.

• 40:17Benito Skinner?

  She has a ton of Chanel. I would say also Chanel Hulketer. It's very Mason Perrier ultimate. That would have been her drink of choice. Also, Misha Barton is always in flats because she's so much taller than the cast, which I love.

• 40:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Model, model behavior.

• 40:30Benito Skinner?

  Model behavior, girl. It is so you coded, if you know what I'm talking about.

• 40:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, please.

• 40:35Benito Skinner?

  Misha Barton, she walks so Grace could run in a lot of ways and I definitely.

• 40:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Misha, you mean the world to me.

• 40:42Benito Skinner?

  I felt, I felt my influence of that show in the cliffhangers we do because like that, I love writing cliffhangers and I think the OC taught me that that's like, that's how you end an episode. You can't, no, it can't be good. You gotta give them a little spicy. They gotta, they gotta click next. So yeah, I OC, I love you. And can I say something else to you? The OC makes volume one, you're going to Barnes and Noble, you're getting the CD and you're playing it, you're playing it start to finish. Couple of songs are a little too alt for you, but you, you make it through them and it's just fabulous.

• 41:17Speaker 05

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• 41:22Benito Skinner?

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• 43:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Holy shit, you guys. I am so excited to tell you about Dylan Mulvaney's book. In Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer, Dylan pulls back the curtain of her it-girl lifestyle with a witty and intimate reflection of her life pre and post-transition. So I have been a follower of Dylan's for many, many years now, and I absolutely love her content. And I have to say, her style and her tone and the way she writes and communicates, translated so well to a book. I literally cracked the book open on Friday night and I cleared my plans because I needed to finish it. It's such a page-turner. It's laugh-out-loud funny and powerfully honest. Like, I have to say, I truly laughed so many times while reading this book, but it is incredibly moving.

• 43:54Mary Beth Barone?

  And it's about Dylan's journey through girlhood. And it is a love letter to everyone who stands up for queer joy. Wow, I can't shut up about this book. It's an instant New York Times bestseller and this spring's must-read memoir. This woman has lived a thousand lives. I mean, she writes about doing ayahuasca in the book, just to give you a little preview. No spoilers, though. And I just have to say, I'm so proud of her for writing this book and I just truly enjoyed it so much. So if you're looking for a gift for someone who is a total bookworm, I would say, pick up a copy of Paper Doll and get one for yourself, too, because you're gonna love it. Buy your copy of this spring's must-read memoir, Paper Doll. Available wherever books are sold.

• 44:39Mary Beth Barone?

  We're at a restaurant. We're at a restaurant right now, Dylan. And he ordered the chicken and I got a salad and fries. I got the chicken salad. It's one of those pork nights. To segue here, because I do think that Marissa's dad taught me about embezzling, which would then be huge for us in the early 2000s when the Great Recession happened. The housing bubble burst.

• 45:02Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. As Marissa said to her mom and dad, "My dad's a thief and my mom's a whore."

• 45:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, exactly.

• 45:08Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 45:08Mary Beth Barone?

  And for a lot of people, that was the case when the Big Short happened.

• 45:13Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my god.

• 45:15Mary Beth Barone?

  So...

• 45:15Benito Skinner?

  To me, right now, on the screen, you're Margot Robbie in the bathtub with the champagne.

• 45:20Mary Beth Barone?

  In the Big Short.

• 45:21Benito Skinner?

  Describing what all this means. Yeah, describing Occupy. It's just Occupy to me.

• 45:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay, it's just Occupy. It's the Occupy movement. So I was still Republican when the Occupy movement happened. So to me, these were just like a bunch of hippies who didn't want to go to work.

• 45:35Benito Skinner?

  To your media.

• 45:38Benito Skinner?

  It's like you do it on purpose.

• 45:40Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm not, I swear.

• 45:43Benito Skinner?

  Get your notes out, tell me about Occupy.

• 45:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay, so first of all, it only happened for 59 days. I literally remember it being seven years.

• 45:52Benito Skinner?

  Wait, you're lying. It was longer than the Iraq War.

• 45:55Mary Beth Barone?

  It was 59 days from September 17th to November 15th, 2011.

• 46:00Benito Skinner?

  I, I just don't think that's true.

• 46:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Look, I'm seeing it in my research.

• 46:05Benito Skinner?

  In my head, it was three years.

• 46:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Exactly. And maybe that's just a testament to the impact of it, but basically it was the left-wing populist movement against economic inequality, corporate greed, big finance, and the influence of money in politics. And it began in Zuccotti Park in New York City's financial district. So, what I didn't realize, because I did know that they were like protesting the bailouts that Bush passed, where they like helped banks, you know, get back on their feet, even though they wouldn't help like Americans who had their life savings stolen from them by like Bernie Madoff. So there was a big ruling in 2010, it was the Citizens United versus the FEC, and the US Supreme Court ruled that corporations can give as much money as they want to political candidates.

• 46:49Benito Skinner?

  I'm picturing like all the people listening to this pod drinking like refreshers, hearing you talk about Occupy Wall Street. We are the revolution.

• 46:59Mary Beth Barone?

  We just need to, well, it's because it's called balance.

• 47:03Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 47:05Mary Beth Barone?

  One day I'm gonna bring you Kelly Warbox's Instagram, and one day I'm gonna bring you Occupy Wall Street, and one day you'll see that those are connected. These protests gave rise to the wider Occupy movement in the United States and other Western countries. So I do believe that their slogan was, "We are the 99%." And I just think that this was so Taika, it was so Fita, they brought tents, they camped out there for like weeks, and I mean, I guess like 57 days or whatever. But I just think it's so cool that they were taking it to the streets, and that's, I don't know what they actually accomplished, and I refuse to look it up. But I just think it's the only way to cause change, is to like cause a ruckus. And even though some media outlets might paint you as like a whatever hippie and you're lazy,

• 47:48Mary Beth Barone?

  just imagine being at those protests. Like you can just look back and be like, fuck yeah, I did that.

• 47:53Benito Skinner?

  It's the first time America was giving French. Do you know what I mean?

• 47:57Mary Beth Barone?

  I literally do.

• 47:58Benito Skinner?

  It's the first time we acted French, and we've never done it since, but boy, did I love it. I have like such a- I think what's a perfect experience with Occupy Wall Street, personally, my cousin lived in Portland. I can only guess on the same street as Luke's dad.

• 48:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Luke's dad.

• 48:15Benito Skinner?

  And Jackson laughed at that.

• 48:20Benito Skinner?

  You little scuna. And we were there for a wedding and it was during the, I guess, the the week of Occupy Wall Street. But it was during Occupy Portland. I can't stress enough that I, were there any other occupants of Portland? Everywhere was closed. Hotels weren't running.

• 48:40Mary Beth Barone?

  The entire workforce was shut down.

• 48:43Benito Skinner?

  We couldn't go anywhere. My parents were like, obviously, we agree with this, of course, but we are just kind of like, the whole city is not running. There's this park in the middle. There wasn't one frickin blade of grass that wasn't occupied.

• 48:58Mary Beth Barone?

  That wasn't being sat upon.

• 48:59Benito Skinner?

  It was. It was so iconic to me. And I just think about it and I'm like, I had the perfect front row seat of Occupy Wall Street. And I was like, I think I was 16. Were we like, we were in high school, I think, when?

• 49:11Mary Beth Barone?

  No, we were 10.

• 49:13Benito Skinner?

  Really? During Occupy Wall Street?

• 49:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 49:16Benito Skinner?

  What year?

• 49:16Mary Beth Barone?

  It was 2011.

• 49:18Benito Skinner?

  Whoa.

• 49:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, wait, fuck. No, I'm sorry. I was 20. What am I saying?

• 49:22Benito Skinner?

  Hey, you.

• 49:23Mary Beth Barone?

  I was born in 2001.

• 49:25Benito Skinner?

  They know our ages. As sad as it is, and they know I'm 5'1" on IMDb.

• 49:29Mary Beth Barone?

  I never said I was smart.

• 49:31Benito Skinner?

  I was like, I remember.

• 49:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Don't put numbers in front of me.

• 49:33Benito Skinner?

  I remember having a football game and then seeing Occupy Wall Street in Portland. And if that doesn't show you the range. I think Portland was excited about it because it was, they were certainly keeping Portland weird. But, and I was happy to be part of it as well. I love this. I think it feels like community. It feels like really sticking it to the man in a huge way. And yeah, I wish we had some of that fight right now.

• 49:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Can I tell you what it is to me? It's, I want to make art and I want to make trouble. We are the 99% originated, like that variation originated from a Tumblr page.

• 50:03Benito Skinner?

  I'm seeing you at the Met Gala with that bedazzled on your chest.

• 50:06Mary Beth Barone?

  We are the 99%.

• 50:08Benito Skinner?

  But you're at the Met Gala.

• 50:10Mary Beth Barone?

  And I'm at the Met Gala.

• 50:11Benito Skinner?

  You have a tight ponytail.

• 50:12Mary Beth Barone?

  And it's art, it's art couture. Basically, we are the 99% was quote unquote arguably the most successful slogan since hell, no, we won't go of the Vietnam War era. Now, I will be doing a Taylor's version of Ken Burns' Vietnam War documentary, but that's down the line.

• 50:28Benito Skinner?

  This is very you coded. Don't even get my girl started on Vietnam War. You say Ken Burns around my girl, she's ready to go.

• 50:35Mary Beth Barone?

  I will light it up.

• 50:37Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, they had amazing branding. I remember the signs. Also, like, everyone on the left is an artist, so you know we had murals galore. Like,

• 50:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Hell, yeah.

• 50:45Benito Skinner?

  My girls were turning it out. So, yeah, I mean, it was definitely art. It was make trouble, Corella coded. It was very spray paint your face and it says the future in stencils on it.

• 50:56Mary Beth Barone?

  And you know what it's kind of giving to me is Gotham City.

• 51:00Benito Skinner?

  Well, let me tell you, Portland felt like it.

• 51:04Mary Beth Barone?

  As it so often does.

• 51:05Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 51:06Mary Beth Barone?

  We need more fire. We need more energy. And I do, of course, want to say before people come for me, there was a crime issue in the encampment. I'm not going to get into it too much. I don't know if it was perpetuated by the protesters or by people who would come and like, sort of antagonize the protesters. But I do want to say that I saw that in my research, so I don't want that to go, you know, unsaid and people get mad at me. It's not a perfect movement. I don't think there's ever been a perfect movement, maybe except for Ride, season two.

• 51:32Benito Skinner?

  I'd say so.

• 51:33Mary Beth Barone?

  And it is a movement. It's not a podcast.

• 51:35Benito Skinner?

  If you hadn't brought up, this is how we do, would have been a perfect season.

• 51:40Mary Beth Barone?

  I brought that up.

• 51:41Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, that was you. You made me, you made me do that.

• 51:43Mary Beth Barone?

  I didn't do that.

• 51:45Benito Skinner?

  This is our land. You were definitely the 1% that one day on set. I was occupied in that moment.

• 51:52Mary Beth Barone?

  When you watch the live photo, I am the 99%.

• 51:55Benito Skinner?

  Exactly.

• 51:57Mary Beth Barone?

  And that's important to note. So I just think it's been, wow, such a fabulous season of Ride. I can't wait to come back May 28th. And there's a surprise. Email your questions about overcompensating to this is ride one at Gmail.

• 52:08Benito Skinner?

  Who knows what we'll do with them?

• 52:09Mary Beth Barone?

  I mean, we have no idea. You know what you are, Benny?

• 52:12Benito Skinner?

  Hmm, I [BLEEP].

• 52:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Your words, not mine. Babe, you're my ride or die.

• 52:17Benito Skinner?

  Ride or die.

• 52:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Of course I ride for the OC. I couldn't ride harder for this and I feel like it was formative for me. And just to have female characters who were complex and written well and just wearing couture.

• 52:31Benito Skinner?

  And killed.

• 52:33Mary Beth Barone?

  And ultimately die. It's just like.

• 52:35Benito Skinner?

  That's so fucked up.

• 52:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Like McGivitt and McGivitt take it away.

• 52:39Benito Skinner?

  Do not. Don't make me laugh and love you even more.

• 52:42Mary Beth Barone?

  And your media, clap that.

• 52:43Benito Skinner?

  Clip that. Here's my thing. Occupy, I'm gonna ride till I die for Occupy. It was Viva la Revolucion. It was, it was Viva la Vida. It was Portland. It was Luke's dad. It was everything. And you know what? If my family had to eat continental breakfast at the hotel and it wasn't that good, like that's fine because we were fighting for something bigger. And I think that's the first time I really saw that. So that was really good for a young little football player to see. And it definitely influenced the fight to in us, my love. Occupy, we see you and we stand with you.

• 53:16Mary Beth Barone?

  And I'm sorry for my feelings towards you in the past.

• 53:20Benito Skinner?

  Well, of course. Little did I know there was a Republican girl out there who was gonna see me more than I had even seen myself.

• 53:26Mary Beth Barone?

  And she was, she was nearly ready to leave it all behind.

• 53:30Benito Skinner?

  Well, of course. She just needed, it's the Joker, the push.

• 53:34Mary Beth Barone?

  The push. I just needed to take one more philosophy class at Boston College and then I was out the door.

• 53:39Benito Skinner?

  So, speaking of the Joker, I, as we end season two, who is the immovable force? What is it again?

• 53:48Mary Beth Barone?

  When an. When a immovable, hold on. When an.

• 53:52Benito Skinner?

  When an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? What is it?

• 53:56Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay. It's when an immovable object meets an unstoppable force. So what's the question?

• 54:03Benito Skinner?

  Which one is which of us?

• 54:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh.

• 54:06Benito Skinner?

  You are an immovable object.

• 54:07Mary Beth Barone?

  I think I'm an immovable object and you're an unstoppable force. And what happens when they meet? They, they start a podcast.

• 54:13Benito Skinner?

  They start a podcast, my love. We.

• 54:16Mary Beth Barone?

  And they revolutionize television.

• 54:17Benito Skinner?

  Well, of course. We are so excited for you to see Overcompensating. We are so excited to be back. We're gonna be back sooner than we were after season one, trust. And we're just so freaking excited. This. Season. Thank you for bearing with us and Mary Best Detainment and us shooting a television.

• 54:33Mary Beth Barone?

  And it hasn't been easy. They're letting me out to hit the campaign trail. They're letting me out for press because I told them, as I, as I said last week, we're going to the swing states. And so they they're perfectly happy to do that, but they did say I will be coming back. So.

• 54:48Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 54:49Mary Beth Barone?

  It's not, I'm not free carte blanche, whatever. It's like, it's temporary. But I'm excited to, between now and when we come back for season three, and of course, we have a little surprise. The show will be out. You can see it and watch it and like, tell us how how you feel about it.

• 55:02Benito Skinner?

  All eight episodes and over 227 territories globally. It's the only number I've ever memorized. Prime video, watch it, stream it, watch it with your best friends. And let's just say if you're having a watch party in LA, you should maybe like DM me the address. Who knows what we'll do with that? We DP all these houses. We throw beer bottles at garage doors.

• 55:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Send drones. We send a pack of drones to them.

• 55:27Benito Skinner?

  We call the cops on everybody. We would be put on hold.

• 55:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Cop from Ride Live.

• 55:31Benito Skinner?

  Oh my God, she should drive us around.

• 55:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Wait, if we really do go to people's places, we will cut this.

• 55:40Benito Skinner?

  Oh my God, believe that.

• 55:42Mary Beth Barone?

  We will.

• 55:42Benito Skinner?

  And can I just say, dear media, one, two, three, clip that. Best believe I'm still a crow.

• 55:52Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my exit.

• 55:53Mary Beth Barone?

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

• 56:06Speaker 06

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