CARPOOL: SWEETGREEN (unpaid)

Benny and Mary Beth muse on the upcoming election at the time of recording (spoiler alert: IT DID NOT GO OUR WAY!). We get to know Jackson a little better and hey straight guys! Turn the music down. Love ya, kid. This week is a CARPOOL for our favorite fast casual dining establishment: SWEETGREEN (unpaid). Please note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode. Sponsors: Visit ThirdLove.com and get $15 off your order with code PODCAST15 Head to https://www.squarespace.com/RIDE to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code RIDE. Use my special link EXPRESSVPN.com/ridepod to get 4 extra months with the 12-month plan or 6 extra months with the 24-month plan totally FREE. To learn more about therapy with NOCD, go to nocd.com and schedule a free 15-minute call with their team. Go to Nutrafol.com and use code RIDE for $10 off your first month’s subscription and free shipping. Get a 60-day free trial at https://www.shipstation.com and use code RIDEPOD. Thanks to ShipStation for sponsoring the show! Produced by Dear Media. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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

• 0:18Speaker 01

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

• 0:30Benito Skinner?

  I'm Benito Skinner.

• 0:31Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm Mary Beth Barone.

• 0:32Benito Skinner?

  And this

• 0:33Mary Beth Barone?

  is

• 0:34Benito Skinner?

  Ride.

• 0:38Benito Skinner?

  You just said something to me and it's crazy because it just makes me think about arrival in a huge, oh, goosebumps. Whoa, whoa.

• 0:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Whoa, we're 30 seconds in.

• 0:49Benito Skinner?

  No, and that's what you do to me, sis. But call me Huntie.

• 0:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Huntie.

• 0:53Benito Skinner?

  Okay, so here's the thing. You just said, this will come out when? Oh, we would know who the president is by then. And that, to me, it's like time is, it's but a dream and but a nightmare, maybe. I don't know.

• 1:04Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm nervous.

• 1:06Benito Skinner?

  I go so cold.

• 1:07Mary Beth Barone?

  No, I know.

• 1:08Benito Skinner?

  Can I just say?

• 1:09Mary Beth Barone?

  I go so cold. Yeah.

• 1:12Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. Sorry, I had oats this morning.

• 1:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, you did.

• 1:16Benito Skinner?

  Go get them, tiger.

• 1:16Mary Beth Barone?

  That's my guy.

• 1:17Benito Skinner?

  Go get them, tiger.

• 1:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Rar.

• 1:19Benito Skinner?

  I love all these LA coffee places.

• 1:21Mary Beth Barone?

  I hope everyone voted and I hope we know.

• 1:24Benito Skinner?

  That's the clip. That's duality.

• 1:26Mary Beth Barone?

  I want to say one thing, which is that I know we joke a lot about what Dear Media does and doesn't clip. And I just want to say to all the Baronies out there, Dear Media tried to clip my breakup. We got sent a Dropbox link of clips from the Halloween episode and there was one titled MB-breakup.mp4.

• 1:42Benito Skinner?

  Jackson, Jackson went, oh, I like this one. Say it, Jackson. I did like that one, but I had to get it cleared. Sorry. Okay, here's the thing, Jackson. We just couldn't, we couldn't Howard Stern drop the, drop it like that.

• 1:57Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, that's season three.

• 2:00Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 2:00Mary Beth Barone?

  If there was a breakup in season three, then that's totally something we could clip.

• 2:03Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 2:04Mary Beth Barone?

  And I understand that we were in Joker makeup, so that makes it inherently more comical. But it was just funny. I got out of a meeting and I had about 18 texts from the group chat. And Benny just goes, no to breakup.

• 2:15Benito Skinner?

  Hey, defend my wife.

• 2:17Mary Beth Barone?

  You protect me.

• 2:18Benito Skinner?

  I don't want to talk about our breakup right now. Okay? It's really sensitive for her. No, it was funny. I mean, I watched the clip five times. Jackson, Jackson wasn't wrong. It was amazing. But yeah, I just think it would have been just a little jarring for the kids.

• 2:32Mary Beth Barone?

  And for maybe Edward, possibly.

• 2:34Benito Skinner?

  Well, oh, God, I forgot. See, that's where my head's at.

• 2:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Jackson, can you say audio jungle?

• 2:39Benito Skinner?

  Audio jungle.

• 2:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. And thank you. Just like palate cleanser. We don't want any negativity in here.

• 2:45Benito Skinner?

  I found out that Jackson has been married for 10 years and I think it's so beautiful. And we're both, we are Scorpios and we're partnered with Scorpios.

• 2:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Whoa.

• 2:53Benito Skinner?

  Which I was just talking to Jackson. I think I said this on Jake Shane's podcast, which, thank you for the messages. I'm sorry I cheated on my wife, but it was with a gay dude, so I don't think that's that big of a deal. Hey.

• 3:04Mary Beth Barone?

  No comment.

• 3:05Benito Skinner?

  Got the shit, dude.

• 3:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Hey, no comment, dude.

• 3:07Benito Skinner?

  But we were talking about how whenever someone finds out that Terry's a Scorpio too, they'll be like, yeah, how's the fucking sex, f**k? And I'm like, I don't know you. We're at lunch.

• 3:16Mary Beth Barone?

  We're at a wedding.

• 3:17Benito Skinner?

  Literally, I'm like, what are you talking about?

• 3:18Mary Beth Barone?

  I just met you.

• 3:19Benito Skinner?

  Oh, yeah, but it's crazy in the bedroom. I'm like, I'm at a store. I met myself on Berlin right now.

• 3:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Isn't it crazy how I would never, it wouldn't even cross my mind to say something like that?

• 3:28Benito Skinner?

  Hey.

• 3:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Different, different. Gemini brain.

• 3:30Benito Skinner?

  I'm different, yeah.

• 3:31Mary Beth Barone?

  It's a Gemini brain. Hmm.

• 3:33Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 3:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, I did, how is the sex?

• 3:37Benito Skinner?

  Oh, God.

• 3:38Mary Beth Barone?

  It's pretty fucking good.

• 3:40Benito Skinner?

  Jackson, add me saying bazinga here.

• 3:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Every time you say bazinga, we have to pay CBS $20,000.

• 3:46Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, good.

• 3:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Just so you know.

• 3:47Benito Skinner?

  I want to say debt.

• 3:48Mary Beth Barone?

  That hole, we keep digging it deeper, deeper and deeper. Speaking of debt, we are taking a break for the holidays.

• 3:55Benito Skinner?

  Speaking of debt.

• 3:56Mary Beth Barone?

  And that debt, debt sort of relates to the holidays in any number of ways. So you figure out which one's the most personal to you.

• 4:01Benito Skinner?

  Agreed.

• 4:02Mary Beth Barone?

  We are taking four weeks off from the middle of December to middle of January. It's just so we can keep bringing you really good episodes. We need to rest, reset and live a little.

• 4:11Benito Skinner?

  And can I just say, oh, totally. I have to take Terry on the Orient Express.

• 4:14Mary Beth Barone?

  You do.

• 4:15Benito Skinner?

  But here's the thing, we really thought we would need more breaks and this has just been so fun. This season has flair.

• 4:22Mary Beth Barone?

  It's flair, Ken.

• 4:24Benito Skinner?

  It's chair.

• 4:25Mary Beth Barone?

  We were gonna do 12 weeks on, four weeks off for the whole season. And about 10 weeks in, we were like, what if we just, we just let it rip?

• 4:33Benito Skinner?

  I came in here stressed with Tiger Bomb on.

• 4:35Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 4:36Benito Skinner?

  Which I smell like a track meat.

• 4:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Which I love, yeah.

• 4:38Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. And, and I wasn't sure if I could do it. The second I'm in this fricking article chair, I'm home and I, and I see my girl and it's so fun. So this season, we've been having so much fun. We just, holidays, catch up. I, I just, I find it hard to believe you've heard everything twice and that's the rule.

• 4:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Two times, or it doesn't count.

• 4:57Benito Skinner?

  Two times a lady.

• 5:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Everything is so musical these days.

• 5:02Benito Skinner?

  It's romantic.

• 5:02Mary Beth Barone?

  And romantic. Terry's new era, that's life.

• 5:06Benito Skinner?

  Oh, this is huge.

• 5:07Mary Beth Barone?

  He announced to me a new era. I said, what's going on?

• 5:10Benito Skinner?

  Well, you know, his cultural digest, Terry is like.

• 5:12Mary Beth Barone?

  He's a, he's a cultural commentator.

• 5:14Benito Skinner?

  I'm dating a hot influencer. I feel like an NBA player.

• 5:16Mary Beth Barone?

  He did, he lip synced the BB Trix verse from Club Classics remix. And I was like, wait, I'm turned on right now.

• 5:24Benito Skinner?

  I know, that's the thing. He's turning on a lot of women and gay dudes.

• 5:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, how does that make you feel?

• 5:30Benito Skinner?

  I like it. I like my girl out there. We're showing that the horse girl, we've said this forever. Like everyone who thinks Terry's all meek and shy. Guess you haven't seen the brat.

• 5:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Not the case.

• 5:39Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my love.

• 5:39Mary Beth Barone?

  I love that your online.

• 5:40Benito Skinner?

  He's bombastic.

• 5:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Your online persona is a psychotic realtor in a pregnant belly. And his is just sort of like hot guy in the mirror.

• 5:49Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, hot guy by a pool.

• 5:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Every gay relationship needs both.

• 5:52Benito Skinner?

  You have to have both, but can I just say the range?

• 5:54Mary Beth Barone?

  The range.

• 5:55Benito Skinner?

  You're not gonna get that every day.

• 5:56Mary Beth Barone?

  No.

• 5:57Benito Skinner?

  Jackson, which one of you is hot guy by the pool and who's?

• 5:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Who's wearing a pregnant prosthetic belly?

• 6:01Benito Skinner?

  In Cabo San Lucas. Oh, my God. Well, I've, I don't know, because Andrew's a diesel mechanic, so he's like super. Diesel. Diesel mechanic.

• 6:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Diesel mechanic?

• 6:09Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, and he works in the ocean as well, so like. Holy shit. I'm like the housewife that can't cook. Gays are spectacular.

• 6:17Mary Beth Barone?

  And it's like, I just could have never predicted that he like works with his hands.

• 6:22Benito Skinner?

  No.

• 6:22Mary Beth Barone?

  You know what I mean?

• 6:23Benito Skinner?

  But you knew.

• 6:23Mary Beth Barone?

  And that's not a reflection of you. Jackson is just like, gay guys can have any job.

• 6:27Benito Skinner?

  Oh, so he works with his hands?

• 6:29Mary Beth Barone?

  His hands.

• 6:29Benito Skinner?

  How's the sex?

• 6:30Mary Beth Barone?

  How's the fucking?

• 6:32Benito Skinner?

  How's the homosexual sex?

• 6:33Mary Beth Barone?

  No, I just think it's cool that gay guys can have any job now.

• 6:37Benito Skinner?

  Clip that. And on the topic of gay guys having any job, hey, straight guys, turn the music down. We're in a conversation.

• 6:46Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 6:46Benito Skinner?

  What the fuck? What is going on? I have been to so many dinners, pre-games, I'm like, we're talking, we're in the car. Why are you blasting music? I can't hear you. I, if I'm listening to music on my own, at full blast, in my phone, it's like, hey, you've been fucking going crazy this week.

• 7:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 7:04Benito Skinner?

  You drunkard.

• 7:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Turn it down.

• 7:05Benito Skinner?

  And I go, no, I'm not gonna. But I really can't stress enough, straight men just blasting music all day. I'm like, we're in the car, you, you just asked me a question. And now I'm hearing BB tricks scream at me, which I like, but.

• 7:18Mary Beth Barone?

  I think they have to quiet the thoughts so they don't hit any women. You know what I mean? That's just me psychoanalyzing the male psyche.

• 7:27Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, gun to head, that's your first.

• 7:29Mary Beth Barone?

  So they don't hit women. I, I don't know exactly how it works with the math, but that's what I'm thinking.

• 7:34Benito Skinner?

  I think that's a fair assumption.

• 7:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 7:36Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, it's, it's to silence the thoughts are, God, these women will fuck me. And they're talking about Troye Sivan.

• 7:45Mary Beth Barone?

  And they wanna fuck him. It's not fair.

• 7:48Benito Skinner?

  Talk to a woman about seeing Troye Sivan on the sweat tour, she'll start sweating.

• 7:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 7:52Benito Skinner?

  She'll start panting.

• 7:53Mary Beth Barone?

  He's so, he oozes, he's just sex on a stick.

• 7:56Benito Skinner?

  Hey, sex in every city, every town.

• 8:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 8:00Benito Skinner?

  Speaking of sex in every city and every town. Sweet Green, we have to just say, and it's probably gonna say in the title, because it's

• 8:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Carpool.

• 8:11Benito Skinner?

  This is a carpool, and it's been a carpool in the making since I was in college, and I'll tell you why.

• 8:17Mary Beth Barone?

  I can't wait to hear the story of how we met Sweet Green. Each individually, we didn't know each other yet.

• 8:23Benito Skinner?

  The first bowl. Oh, I know so much about it, it will make your frickin' head spin, dude.

• 8:27Mary Beth Barone?

  I do too. I do too.

• 8:29Benito Skinner?

  Have you been to the first one?

• 8:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Let's just say, yeah, and I met the owners.

• 8:33Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my God. You had sex with both of the owners?

• 8:35Mary Beth Barone?

  I had sex with both the founders of Sweet Green. Not at the same time, don't get weird. Well, we're doing it, let's just say, we're doing, we're doing a carpool for Sweet Green.

• 8:43Benito Skinner?

  Sweet Green unpaid.

• 8:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Unpaid. Brackets unpaid. Unpaid will be in the title of the episode.

• 8:48Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, it's, we didn't, this is completely just for the love of the game.

• 8:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Some, some brands and companies do it so well that we don't need to be paid to talk about it.

• 8:57Benito Skinner?

  No.

• 8:57Mary Beth Barone?

  And that's come up a few times on the podcast, but just to say, we love Sweet Green, and we hope that, like, you'll try it. I don't know.

• 9:06Benito Skinner?

  We're acknowledging the work. We hope that it's in your city. If there's sex in the city, there's a Sweet Green.

• 9:11Mary Beth Barone?

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• 10:59Benito Skinner?

  Picture this. You're in your closet for sound. It's Terry's birthday and you just got a spray tan. It reeks in here. Okay, actually though, you're going about your day when suddenly a horrifying thought flashes through your mind. Don't lie to me, kid. This happens to me all the time, okay? Maybe it's a fear or something happening to a loved one, a disturbing or sexual image that keeps replaying in your mind, or an urge to do something you don't want to do. Your heart races, your palms sweat, and anxiety washes over you. Oh my God, I'm starting to panic reading this. I love it. You're mortified and you feel fully convinced that it's true. But babies, you know better. It's ego dystonic. Remember that. Look that up. Even though you know that this isn't who you are, but still, the question of, why did I think that? Am I a bad person?

• 11:44Benito Skinner?

  Start to consume you and you feel like you have to do something, anything, to make them go away. Well, if that sounds familiar, your name is Benny Drama. So here's the thing about those disturbing, unwanted thoughts. They're more common than you think. In fact, almost everyone has them. But for people with obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, they usually cause a lot of distress and feel hard to stop thinking about. So about a year ago, I started doing NoCD because I just couldn't drive to a place and like, do that. Do you know what I mean? It's like, my threshold of driving to things in LA, I'd reached it. But NoCD is a virtual therapy provider for OCD that's here to help anyone struggling with OCD and taboo or shameful thoughts get the treatment and support they need.

• 12:26Benito Skinner?

  Unlike general therapy providers, every NoCD therapist specializes in OCD. So they deeply understand intrusive thoughts. You don't need to feel insecure when sharing them with them. To learn more about therapy with NoCD, go to nocd.com and schedule a free 15-minute call with their team. That's n-o-c-d dot com to learn more and book a free 15-minute call.

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• 13:28Mary Beth Barone?

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• 13:54Benito Skinner?

  Get in, bitch. It's a carpool.

• 13:56Mary Beth Barone?

  OK, but I'm driving.

• 13:58Benito Skinner?

  Carpool. I just have to say this one thing about Sweetgreen is that I went to Georgetown, and the first one was in Georgetown. And it was this little hut.

• 14:07Mary Beth Barone?

  It was a hut.

• 14:07Benito Skinner?

  This gorgeous little cabin in the woods. It was so cute on M Street. And whenever I would visit my sister at college, it had just started. So I don't know exactly their established EST vibe, but to me, I think it's 2012-ish. And every time we would visit my sister at Georgetown before I went there, we would go to Sweetgreen. My dad called it insalada. That just wouldn't switch in his brain. He just said, should we go to insalada? So now, sometimes when I say Sweetgreen, my mom says Sweetgreens, and my dad says insalada. So, sounds, not words.

• 14:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Not words.

• 14:46Mary Beth Barone?

  It's intention.

• 14:46Benito Skinner?

  Exactly. But we would go and even then, they had the kale Caesar. Well, they used to, you used to be able to do the wraps. They've changed the menu quite a bit.

• 14:54Mary Beth Barone?

  They tried different things at first. You didn't, they didn't know what was gonna stick.

• 14:57Benito Skinner?

  There was Froyo at one point there inside. So you want to talk to me? I mean, there are easier ways to say you love many drama seven in queer.

• 15:03Mary Beth Barone?

  And you want his business ultimately.

• 15:05Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. So I'll have the Luca Guadagnino's queer with no rice. Thank you.

• 15:12Mary Beth Barone?

  And medium dressing.

• 15:13Benito Skinner?

  And medium dressing. But that's my first instance with it. And during college, it'd be like, every time I was like, oh my God, I'm gonna be healthy today and just have a fabulous, delicious Caesar. Cause to me, having like a diet soda and a big old chicken Caesar. Holy shite dude. It's cool. That's not really my order there now, but you know, I'm not.

• 15:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Case change. You weren't out of the closet at that time.

• 15:37Benito Skinner?

  No.

• 15:38Mary Beth Barone?

  You can't expect to have the same salad order as a closeted gay guy versus an out gay guy.

• 15:43Benito Skinner?

  So many clips today.

• 15:46Benito Skinner?

  So many clips.

• 15:47Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm thinking in clips now. I'm not thinking about the narrative structure. I'm thinking in clips.

• 15:52Benito Skinner?

  Okay, talk to me about your, talk to me in French.

• 15:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Talk to me in French, talk to me in Spanish.

• 15:56Benito Skinner?

  About the first time you went to Sweet Greens.

• 15:58Mary Beth Barone?

  About Sweet Green. So I, as many know, when I dropped out of college, I started working at a young startup called Warby Parker. So I was there when it was really small. And at that time, like all startup founders sort of knew each other. Cause it was like, they were like the young up and comers. And it was like, you know.

• 16:14Benito Skinner?

  Yo pros.

• 16:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Yo pros. And it's like, which companies are gonna be the unicorns? Which ones are gonna kind of have like CEO drama?

• 16:21Benito Skinner?

  Can I say something right now? Glass, yeah.

• 16:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Started as a blog, into the glass.

• 16:26Benito Skinner?

  Oh yeah. Barracuda.

• 16:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Ooh. I'm so glad you're doing that. So we did this thing at Warby Parker called the Warby Parker Class Trip, which is where they took a school bus and they made it like a mobile eyewear showroom. And I was on the class trip and we, we went around the country, but I only did like the Northeast.

• 16:44Benito Skinner?

  This is incredible.

• 16:45Mary Beth Barone?

  They sent, they sent five people in their mid twenties to go around the country. And one of the guys had to drive the bus with all the glasses in it. And we drove like the support car or whatever. So we did like Philly, DC, Boston.

• 16:57Benito Skinner?

  You had big opticals on?

• 16:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Hell yeah. Prescription too. And I don't have a prescription, so we crashed the car a few times. But when we went to DC, we heard whispers of this salad place. Okay. And it was like totally reinventing like the salad to go. And I maybe just salad was around at that time. Obviously Chipotle was like, it was sort of just like capturing this real desire for healthy food. That but you wanted it on the go. You wanted it in the middle of the workday. So I remember it was fun because like every city we were going to like a Sweet Green was popping up in that city. So I remember when we opened the Boston store because after the class trip, we started opening retail stores. And it was like, oh, there's a Sweet Green here like, and the best thing I could hear was like,

• 17:42Mary Beth Barone?

  do you want to get a Sweet Green?

• 17:44Benito Skinner?

  To me, I'm, I'm interested by this Warby Parker trip because I, I think every Warby Parker is in a Sweet Green is in a Warby Parker.

• 17:50Mary Beth Barone?

  And is in a school bus.

• 17:51Benito Skinner?

  Exactly.

• 17:52Mary Beth Barone?

  So that's what's cool about it.

• 17:53Benito Skinner?

  Glacier, oh, barracuda.

• 17:57Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, it's really scary.

• 17:59Benito Skinner?

  Why is that like clicking for me? Do you get that?

• 18:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Dear media clip.

• 18:05Benito Skinner?

  I love you today. I love you every day.

• 18:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Today you mean it.

• 18:09Benito Skinner?

  Today you meet, no, literally, I just love you. The way I talk about you in the car when you're not there. Shit, dude.

• 18:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Instead of listening to ride when we take a few weeks off, just watch the prestige once per week.

• 18:20Benito Skinner?

  I agree.

• 18:21Mary Beth Barone?

  I beg you.

• 18:21Benito Skinner?

  God, it's so good. We have to do that for Halloween one year. Me, you, Terry.

• 18:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 18:26Benito Skinner?

  Sorry, I can't say me, you, Edward, so.

• 18:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Things have changed. Life changes.

• 18:30Benito Skinner?

  Dear media knows why.

• 18:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Then they know why and they have a video of it.

• 18:32Benito Skinner?

  One day I think we could all be in a costume again.

• 18:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally. So I, and then they opened a Sweet Green right near our office, which was on like Lafayette. And I know that people are like, oh, it's expensive for a salad. Everything in New York is expensive. Everything in every city is expensive. So if I'm going to spend $16 on a salad, which is prepared by people who I know are, at, at least the attitude I'm getting from them is that they are well paid, well taken care of. The staff all seems friendly and to respect each other. I'm going to pay a premium for that.

• 19:02Benito Skinner?

  I agree.

• 19:03Mary Beth Barone?

  So.

• 19:03Benito Skinner?

  And they're telling me they, they still do it, but they tell you where they got the, the greens from in those things and the greens.

• 19:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Fresh ingredients.

• 19:09Benito Skinner?

  Fresh farm to table.

• 19:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Consistency across the country.

• 19:12Benito Skinner?

  Consistency. It always tastes the same, which sometimes like Starbucks doesn't really, they can't say that. But I, that's so funny because people will do that to me on like coffee. And I'm like, you're holding blue bottle. Like you spent $50 on that chai.

• 19:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, yeah, fuck that.

• 19:23Benito Skinner?

  So don't come for me right now.

• 19:24Mary Beth Barone?

  My original order was in the guacamole greens family.

• 19:27Benito Skinner?

  I was about to say, I know your order.

• 19:29Mary Beth Barone?

  And now I have, but you actually don't know my, my new order. I have a new order.

• 19:33Benito Skinner?

  Wait, new era alert.

• 19:35Mary Beth Barone?

  It's notes on the old order, but it's a little bit different.

• 19:37Benito Skinner?

  New drop?

• 19:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, I think something that we said on a

• 19:39Benito Skinner?

  After this, we can say Mary Best Way, right? When you walk in and they'll make it.

• 19:42Mary Beth Barone?

  I really hope so too, Ken. Sweetgreen Reach Out.

• 19:45Benito Skinner?

  What would her bowl be?

• 19:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, I know it has a burger on it.

• 19:48Benito Skinner?

  Exactly.

• 19:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Our Erawan Smoothie and our Sweetgreen.

• 19:51Benito Skinner?

  It's their first burger bowl.

• 19:53Mary Beth Barone?

  It's pork. It's a pork burger.

• 19:54Benito Skinner?

  I almost ordered a protein style burger in front of Terry with like the lettuce instead of the bun, but I couldn't look him in the eye after it.

• 20:00Mary Beth Barone?

  No, and he wouldn't probably have sex with you for a while.

• 20:03Benito Skinner?

  That's what I thought.

• 20:04Mary Beth Barone?

  So it's not worth it. Something we talked about on a that they cut and we asked them to not cut it, but they cut it anyway, was that people are always like, well, I get like Sweetgreen, it gives me a stomach ache. Like, I don't know. I just don't think, like, I don't like it. It makes my, I'm like, you're ordering the wrong thing. You don't have to order from the menu. You can make your own. B Y O B. Build your own bowl.

• 20:24Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 20:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Don't come to me with that bullshit.

• 20:26Benito Skinner?

  Uh uh.

• 20:27Mary Beth Barone?

  You don't have to have every ingredient in there.

• 20:29Benito Skinner?

  Hey, you can make a hell out of heaven and a heaven out of hell.

• 20:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Hell.

• 20:32Benito Skinner?

  And don't, hey.

• 20:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Ooh.

• 20:34Benito Skinner?

  Barracuda. Jackson, can you go, ooh, barracuda? In an Australian accent? Well, yeah. Yeah, okay. Oh, barracuda. Jackson, you're one for the books.

• 20:46Mary Beth Barone?

  I love it.

• 20:47Benito Skinner?

  I love him. Okay, so here's the, here's the deal. I need to know your order. And also, I, should I do like a little, like, almost like I'm the com app and I take you through it? I want to build the world around people. Cause I can smell it right now.

• 21:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, I'm ready.

• 21:01Benito Skinner?

  You ready?

• 21:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 21:03Benito Skinner?

  You grip the door. It's all glass. You can always see everything inside.

• 21:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Mm hmm.

• 21:06Benito Skinner?

  You open. That smell hits you. It's like, it's a little earthy, but also clean. It's a little delicious. You go to where you order. Yeah, exactly. Warm up your hands because you were cold from being outside, but now it's warm in here. Oh, you just met your friend. We just kissed under the Sweetgreen sign. So my lips are a little wet from Carmex. I look up at the freaking menu, even though I know exactly what I want.

• 21:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 21:33Benito Skinner?

  I'll either get the kale Caesar, sometimes bread, if I'm, you know, feeling absolutely fucking insane. Or harvest bowl.

• 21:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh.

• 21:43Benito Skinner?

  If I want to have something heartier and a little bit more substantial for the day. And they start to make it. I see them pour the wild rice.

• 21:52Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm melting an ice cube on my neck right now.

• 21:55Benito Skinner?

  I know, but you're touching yourself.

• 21:56Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 21:58Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my God. They scoop those fucking gorgeous cherry tomatoes that are cut in the middle. And I love when c's just have tomatoes. If you don't, deal with it. No anchovies. Disgusting. They put it in and then they go down. I love the hot chicken pot. They pour that over it so deliciously.

• 22:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, God.

• 22:15Benito Skinner?

  Then they ask you how much dressing you want, and I don't want it soaked, but I don't want a light dressing. I want to taste it in every bite. Medium. They put them.

• 22:24Mary Beth Barone?

  They sprayed D K on my apple.

• 22:27Benito Skinner?

  Literally.

• 22:32Benito Skinner?

  It's, it's all sensory until that moment when they go, it's so chic.

• 22:44Benito Skinner?

  And then watching a fucking legend chop that up with tongs.

• 22:52Mary Beth Barone?

  It's Tiffany check. Every.

• 22:54Benito Skinner?

  Look at the fingers. Like there, it is so.

• 22:59Benito Skinner?

  They're, they're fucking stabbing the bottom of the bowl.

• 23:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Mixer.

• 23:02Benito Skinner?

  When I see tongs now, I don't think that they're to grip with. I assume it's to fucking butcher a salad. Then they put, then they look at you, bread. And sometimes it can be sweet. It can be mean. I don't care. I'll take it anyway. Give it to me raw. Give it to me nasty.

• 23:16Mary Beth Barone?

  However, you're feeling.

• 23:17Benito Skinner?

  Exactly. Don't fake it. And I sometimes say yes, if it's for you, I say no.

• 23:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Thank you.

• 23:23Benito Skinner?

  And then they, they pop it away. They put it to the side and you're in, you're out. And yeah, I'm getting probably a couple of spin drifts while I'm at it. And then you go and you've got your big fucking green sack. But that perfect branding, the, uh, the logo, if I'm correct, has always been the same. It's very clean, very delicious, very glacier. Ooh.

• 23:45Mary Beth Barone?

  So here's what I'm doing when I bust into that Williamsburg sweet green.

• 23:50Benito Skinner?

  You say the exact same thing because you're right next to me.

• 23:52Mary Beth Barone?

  I do.

• 23:52Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 23:53Mary Beth Barone?

  We're in there. We're, we're settling in. We're having a chat. I probably have to pee as soon as I get there. So I asked them for the bathroom code, which they so graciously give me.

• 24:00Benito Skinner?

  Always a good bathroom. Spacious, big.

• 24:02Mary Beth Barone?

  On the way to order, I grab a bag of either the Green Goddess Chips, the sweet green burn Green Goddess Chips, which you called, you FaceTimed me the first time you tried.

• 24:10Benito Skinner?

  I got sent that. I don't even know who got my address, how this happened. They showed up on my doorstep. I, maybe it was my intruder. He left them there. It was, I got them and I, I've never done this in my life. I was seeing you for a live show in Denver, or where was I meeting you? Denver?

• 24:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Denver, I think.

• 24:27Benito Skinner?

  I put them in my backpack, traveled them to you because I was like, you gotta try these, girl.

• 24:33Mary Beth Barone?

  You couldn't believe it.

• 24:34Benito Skinner?

  I couldn't believe it. It's the best chip I've ever had.

• 24:35Mary Beth Barone?

  And now they have them all over, nationwide. They also have a regular potato chip flavor. So it just depends what mood I'm in that day, if I'm gonna grab one or the other.

• 24:43Benito Skinner?

  I love watching you eat chips.

• 24:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Hey, thanks.

• 24:45Benito Skinner?

  It's the little things, Jackson.

• 24:47Mary Beth Barone?

  I get to the ordering station, station number one. They ask me what I want. I say, I'm gonna build my own. And we have an acknowledgement there.

• 24:54Benito Skinner?

  They go, great.

• 24:55Mary Beth Barone?

  They think, oh, cool. We have an acknowledgement.

• 24:58Benito Skinner?

  Hey, good for you.

• 24:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Because we know we respect each other. They say, this is a girl that knows what she wants. But here's the thing with my build my own. They're expecting me to be like wishy washy, ask them about like, what does this taste like? Blah, blah, blah. Hell, no. It's military precision. I know exactly what I want.

• 25:12Benito Skinner?

  And you should at this point.

• 25:13Mary Beth Barone?

  You should. It's not rocket science, by the way. You pick the ingredients you like and hopefully they go together.

• 25:18Benito Skinner?

  Although I could never do that. Like, cause I'd be like, I'll have every dressing, I guess.

• 25:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 25:22Benito Skinner?

  Like, I would, mine would be so vile. I trust the professionals and the chefs. Ooh, I also had steak recently from there.

• 25:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, they have these protein plates now.

• 25:31Benito Skinner?

  I love a protein plate.

• 25:32Mary Beth Barone?

  So I walk in and I say, I'm gonna build my own and it's gonna be a spinach and wild rice base. But lately, I've been actually doing spinach and white rice. And what I say to them is, not that much spinach. So they do one tong full and I go, that's good, that's good, that's good. You don't have to do anymore.

• 25:47Benito Skinner?

  How much do spinach and kale hate each other, do you think?

• 25:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, they don't talk.

• 25:52Benito Skinner?

  Got the same hair.

• 25:53Mary Beth Barone?

  We've got the same hair. They need to work it out in the remix.

• 25:55Benito Skinner?

  I think they're pissed because spinach was the original doll.

• 25:58Mary Beth Barone?

  I know. And then kale came through and shook things up, but it's okay to have some like friendly competition.

• 26:02Benito Skinner?

  Kale really does. Martha Stewart once said, she goes, I don't put kale in anything. It makes me burp and bloat. And I'm like, wait, ever since she said that, I'm like, I do see that.

• 26:10Mary Beth Barone?

  It's kinda, it is true. So that's why I don't really go near it.

• 26:12Benito Skinner?

  But I say, hail Brutus, kale Caesar.

• 26:17Benito Skinner?

  I'll have the it's super take kale season.

• 26:20Mary Beth Barone?

  God, you're really firing on all cylinders today.

• 26:22Benito Skinner?

  I'll kiss you.

• 26:23Mary Beth Barone?

  You really are.

• 26:23Benito Skinner?

  Wait, really?

• 26:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 26:24Benito Skinner?

  I don't feel it.

• 26:25Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm loving it.

• 26:26Benito Skinner?

  I'm wearing a fleece zipped up to the top.

• 26:28Mary Beth Barone?

  So sometimes the person working will be like, oh, I'll give you double rice then because you're only doing half the amount of spinach. And if they don't do that, that's also fine because I don't need that much of the base. I'm not in it for the base. I'm in it for the toppings, if that makes sense. So then we move over to the add-ons, which are $0.00. These are the free add-ons. So I'm doing sweet potato and broccoli.

• 26:47Benito Skinner?

  They are, they have such good sweet taters.

• 26:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, my God, they're fabulous.

• 26:50Benito Skinner?

  Jesus.

• 26:50Mary Beth Barone?

  And honestly, for me, that's all I'm doing with that section. Then we're moving on to the premium add-ons. I'm doing double blackened chicken because I need the protein.

• 26:58Benito Skinner?

  Blackened chicken.

• 26:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Roasted chicken, but blackened chicken is like sort of in a kale spinach type of way. Has come in and just like totally.

• 27:05Benito Skinner?

  Blown the roof off.

• 27:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Blown the roof off. So I'm doing double blackened chicken. It's worth the extra three bucks or whatever. Goat cheese, which I hadn't even considered until recently.

• 27:14Benito Skinner?

  It's well, it's goat cheese is in the harvest fall.

• 27:17Mary Beth Barone?

  It's in a harvest fall, kid, but I had overlooked it.

• 27:19Benito Skinner?

  That's another.

• 27:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 27:21Benito Skinner?

  With that dipper, that little.

• 27:22Mary Beth Barone?

  It's an ice cream scooper.

• 27:24Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, exactly.

• 27:25Mary Beth Barone?

  And here's the thing about goat cheese, because it's not from a cow. So it's actually, it is non-dairy. And you can fight me on that if you want, but I'm dairy free. So I can only really have feta and goat. And I'm going for it now.

• 27:36Benito Skinner?

  Those are good ones.

• 27:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Really good ones.

• 27:37Benito Skinner?

  Good ones to have.

• 27:38Mary Beth Barone?

  They're nice and soft.

• 27:38Benito Skinner?

  Sad you can't have cheddar. Cheddar is.

• 27:40Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 27:41Benito Skinner?

  She's supreme. Sharp cheddar, Vermont's sharp cheddar. I miss Vermont. I hope y'all miss me.

• 27:46Mary Beth Barone?

  I know they do at the airport especially.

• 27:49Benito Skinner?

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• 28:33Benito Skinner?

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• 29:15Benito Skinner?

  Okay, I love you Squarespace and God, it was fun to just have this little moment just us. Oh my God. Oh my God.

• 29:26Mary Beth Barone?

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• 30:09Mary Beth Barone?

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• 30:52Mary Beth Barone?

  or six extra months with the 24-month plan totally free. If you travel a lot, I really can't speak highly enough of ExpressVPN. I use it personally. That's expressvpn.com/ridepod to get an extra four months or even six months of ExpressVPN totally free. Think of all the porn you could watch with six free months of ExpressVPN.

• 31:13Benito Skinner?

  Dear Media said you have to do the ShipStation ad. Just you, Benny. No MB. ShipStation hates Mary Beth. So, okay, here's the thing. A lot has changed over the last year. If you have a growing e-commerce business, you can frickin' relate, dude. Whether you're looking for better efficiency during the hectic holiday season or your business has outgrown your old shipping solutions, you need ShipStation to help you scale your business. Every time I almost say shit station, but it's ShipStation. I love you, ShipStation. ShipStation helps you achieve exceptional shipping efficiency with a robust, all-in-one order fulfillment system that integrates with over 180 of the most popular e-commerce platforms, marketplaces, and carriers.

• 31:56Benito Skinner?

  Okay, so with ShipStation, you can effortlessly scale your business with smart features and automations that boost efficiency while bringing costs down. Lead your business into the future with technology built to save you time, extra costs, and headaches. It's the fastest, most affordable way to ship products to your customers with discounts up to 89% off UPS, DHL Express, and US Cass rates. Seamlessly integrate with services and selling channels you already use and manage orders on one easy dashboard. Damn. Scale your e-commerce business with shipping software that delivers. Switch to ShipStation today.

• 32:37Benito Skinner?

  Go to shipstation.com and use code RIDEPOD to sign up for your free 60-day trial. That's shipstation.com/ridepod. Ship those goods, babies. Let's do this thing.

• 32:50Benito Skinner?

  Oh, I had a question for you. I was gonna text you. Is there anything P. Diddy didn't do that was awful? I'm actually-

• 32:56Mary Beth Barone?

  So, what we're finding is no.

• 32:58Benito Skinner?

  I'm like, I think in court, they should just be like, so he did everything.

• 33:01Mary Beth Barone?

  So, we're not even gonna read what the charges, cuz it feels like, it feels like you should just assume anything bad, he's done.

• 33:07Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, just top to bottom has done everything.

• 33:10Mary Beth Barone?

  As bad as it gets. Well, here's my thing. For the lawyers prosecuting, please do your due diligence and don't mistrial. I beg you.

• 33:18Benito Skinner?

  No.

• 33:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Just do the thing.

• 33:19Benito Skinner?

  Please don't mistrial.

• 33:20Mary Beth Barone?

  Only the witnesses you're allowed to call, please. You know what? I wanna see the names. I want to see the fucking names.

• 33:27Benito Skinner?

  I go, can I, I thought I was gonna get him with Epstein. I thought fucking Ghislaine was gonna come through. Need, I need a list. And let's just finish this out, because I'm seeing a circle here. So, we could just, come on, lock them all up. Let's get it done. And hey, let's let out some first time offenders.

• 33:45Mary Beth Barone?

  And some-

• 33:45Benito Skinner?

  Let's let out some drug dealers.

• 33:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Low level drugs.

• 33:47Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, drug dealers in quotes.

• 33:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 33:49Benito Skinner?

  I'm looking at a fucking MedMen Apple Store.

• 33:51Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 33:51Benito Skinner?

  It's like, let them out. I don't want this.

• 33:53Mary Beth Barone?

  They have merch, MedMen merch now.

• 33:54Benito Skinner?

  Don't.

• 33:55Mary Beth Barone?

  I know. I saw like a Letterman jacket situation yesterday when I drove by.

• 33:58Benito Skinner?

  Oh, Christmas gift sorted for you.

• 34:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Here's my thing. I'm not assuming anyone that went to Diddy's white party was involved in, in the wrongdoing.

• 34:05Benito Skinner?

  No, no.

• 34:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Or, I mean, the crimes, I should say, the wrongdoing. Do you see how like, we like censor ourselves when we talk about things that men do? In the crimes, but I would love to know who was. I just think we need justice now more than ever, honestly. I think if Kamala wins, Diddy will be prosecuted and he'll go to jail. If Trump wins, he will get off scot-free somehow, some way. Do you know what I mean?

• 34:27Benito Skinner?

  I just, it's so, it's all so gross. I don't know. I wanna, I wanna believe, I wanna believe in good.

• 34:34Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 34:35Benito Skinner?

  Ever since your justice episode, I wanna believe in good.

• 34:37Mary Beth Barone?

  I know. And we wanna talk about fun things like Sweetgreen, but it's hard when there's so much other stuff going on.

• 34:42Benito Skinner?

  Well, I just had to say that to you, cuz I was just like, every day I see a new article and I'm like, oh, that's now the newest disgusting thing I've seen? Like, they just, it's not that they get grosser, they're all disgusting, but it's just like, wow. Literally just more.

• 34:54Mary Beth Barone?

  More.

• 34:54Benito Skinner?

  Like, wow.

• 34:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 34:55Benito Skinner?

  But wait, there's more.

• 34:56Mary Beth Barone?

  So, I'm getting a medium balsamic. Dressing on the salad, by the way. I mean, how should we segue out of that one?

• 35:04Benito Skinner?

  I just, I, there's no other way to, that's what life is right now. I think that's the hard part. It's like the, the conversations we're having and then we just, we do just have to like go on a walk and listen to music. Like, I don't really know.

• 35:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Go to Sweet Green, kick your feet up, try to relax, try to find peace. Sweet Green for me is a very peaceful place.

• 35:22Benito Skinner?

  Do you know what Terry said to me last night?

• 35:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Why?

• 35:24Benito Skinner?

  Which, oh, I brought him up, didn't I already?

• 35:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, yeah.

• 35:26Benito Skinner?

  Oh, yeah, I brought up our sex. One day I'll ride for sex. I can't decide when. I just don't want like families to listen.

• 35:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, it's okay. We don't have to talk about ourselves having sex. We can just talk about it generally.

• 35:35Benito Skinner?

  But I would. I want to really get into it. If I'm gonna ride for it, then let's ride.

• 35:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Let's.

• 35:39Benito Skinner?

  Giddy up cowboy. But last night he turned to me and said, would you want to watch The Wizard of Oz and eat M and M's with me?

• 35:47Mary Beth Barone?

  We need to do things like that.

• 35:48Benito Skinner?

  Sometimes you have to.

• 35:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Find your peaceful little corner of the world for a bit. Put the phone down.

• 35:53Benito Skinner?

  Can I just say what I want for everybody too? I was thinking about this. You just, if you get any censure with someone who doesn't ride for you and doesn't support you, get out. You deserve it. Because Terry just, wow, that man, the way he loves me, it's just so cool. The other day he, we were driving in the car. I just wanted to tell some people some nice things because it's like, I feel like the world's really gross, but like I just, I want this for every person, specifically queer and women. Like, I don't really care that much about.

• 36:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Luca Guadagnino's queer and women.

• 36:21Benito Skinner?

  So Luca Guadagnino's queer and women.

• 36:22Mary Beth Barone?

  And women.

• 36:24Benito Skinner?

  Wait, I like that.

• 36:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Clip that.

• 36:27Benito Skinner?

  Clip that. I, he turned to me and was just like, I'm so in love with you. And it was like the sweetest moment of my life. He just, he rides so hard.

• 36:35Mary Beth Barone?

  It gives me chills.

• 36:36Benito Skinner?

  And I showed him, I did show him the pilot of my show and he, he was like, he was crying.

• 36:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Nine years in, eight years in?

• 36:42Benito Skinner?

  Eight.

• 36:42Mary Beth Barone?

  That's pretty powerful.

• 36:43Benito Skinner?

  Eight and a half.

• 36:44Mary Beth Barone?

  The love is there.

• 36:45Benito Skinner?

  And you know what? It happens every year. He says, I think you're the most in love with me when I put on my breastplate and I'm this character I am for Halloween. So we went out for Halloween. You as Cher, I can't get over it. I brought up, I think in last week's episode too, but he puts on this breastplate and hip pads and he's kind of just this girl who's having fun on Halloween. That's the costume. But he has like a whole different personality for the night.

• 37:06Mary Beth Barone?

  It completely changes his entire. What he brings to the party, what he's bringing to the function.

• 37:11Benito Skinner?

  So everything he says is funny.

• 37:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 37:13Benito Skinner?

  He, he lost this hat, this kind of very Prada.

• 37:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Very Prada.

• 37:18Benito Skinner?

  Very conductress hat. It flew off of him. He turns to our friend I know and goes, capture this. He jumps over a fence and goes down a hill.

• 37:27Mary Beth Barone?

  On a porch.

• 37:28Benito Skinner?

  On a porch.

• 37:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Uphill.

• 37:29Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 37:30Mary Beth Barone?

  He jumps down in the soletto's.

• 37:31Benito Skinner?

  In heels.

• 37:32Mary Beth Barone?

  And he fetches the, he fetches the hat.

• 37:34Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. Capture this.

• 37:36Mary Beth Barone?

  And the content from that night, I mean, if you want a good laugh, the dump he posted is just flawless, no notes.

• 37:43Benito Skinner?

  Give me.

• 37:46Benito Skinner?

  That's us in Sweetgreen.

• 37:47Mary Beth Barone?

  It's important. So that night out for me was so nice because I really did just like leave the world behind. Like, we were just having fun and I've been, I've been doing more putting my phone down recently, which I've actually now twice missed really important stuff. But it's been worth it. I have no regrets. Like, just put the phone down. It's like, you'll figure it out, whatever happens.

• 38:06Benito Skinner?

  I post your breakup video.

• 38:07Mary Beth Barone?

  You posted the, and I panicked and I ran to you and I said, take that down. No, I, I think it's really important. Like, when I see a Sweetgreen when I walk by, a song plays in my head that I don't even like, but it is so like, it's Home by Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros. I can't listen to that song anymore, but I, when I walk by a Sweetgreen, when I decide I'm gonna just treat myself.

• 38:31Benito Skinner?

  Oh.

• 38:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Pretty good. So I love Sweetgreen. I'm getting a medium balsamic vinaigrette. I'm having it shaken up, you know, mixed. And then no bread for me, obviously. Sometimes I get one of those kombuchas, Pink Lady Apple flavor.

• 38:44Benito Skinner?

  Oh, Pink Lady Apple is so delicious. I love it. I love the pomegranate too. And sometimes there's a holiday flavor. HealthAid, you're on notice.

• 38:51Mary Beth Barone?

  HealthAid, you have our attention. So I love Sweetgreen and I love that it, like, you just know what you're walking into. And I really hope that people who work there, like, understand the joy that they're bringing a dumb bitch like me. When you can mix a salad of my choosing with premium ingredients. Like, I'll pay anything for, oh my, I'm so glad we're talking about this. I was in Sweetgreen in Williamsburg and there was a woman in there and she was like making such a fuss.

• 39:16Benito Skinner?

  Don't do that here.

• 39:17Mary Beth Barone?

  She was like. This manager lied to me last week. I know she lied to me. She's li- she's a liar.

• 39:23Benito Skinner?

  What, what could anyone be lying about at Sweetgreen?

• 39:25Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't know.

• 39:26Benito Skinner?

  I actually need to know.

• 39:27Mary Beth Barone?

  But you know when, you know when someone is being sort of like ramrodded verbally? And you and another person working there acknowledge that that's happening? And you give them empathetic eyes and you're just like, I, I am sorry, but you say it without saying it. That's the level of communication I have with the people that work at Sweetgreen.

• 39:44Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, same.

• 39:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Because we are connected in that way.

• 39:46Benito Skinner?

  Family.

• 39:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Family. And so I really feel for them. I wanted to get involved, but I was just like, I can't right now. But I wanted to be like, can you leave?

• 39:55Benito Skinner?

  You had just gotten a spray tan. Yeah. I'm too sticky. I can't get my hands in this.

• 39:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Here's the thing. Could you leave?

• 40:00Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 40:01Mary Beth Barone?

  You're kind of fucking up the vibe in here.

• 40:03Benito Skinner?

  My thing with so many people is just like, aren't, don't you have other things to, like, there has to be, you have to, like, right now, it took me two seconds. I see this bottle and I could easily shove this up my ass.

• 40:13Mary Beth Barone?

  I was gonna say.

• 40:14Benito Skinner?

  It's not hard. Like you, it takes a second. Like Jackson over there, like, you see, there's a couple of things on that table.

• 40:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Um, hi.

• 40:20Benito Skinner?

  You can just quickly find it.

• 40:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Microphone?

• 40:21Benito Skinner?

  Whoa, microphone. Oh.

• 40:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Straw?

• 40:23Benito Skinner?

  Oh, phone, if you, you know, probably a tricky one. A shoe. You just round it up. Like, it's just, there's so many things you can put up your ass. But, okay, I, I think I have a really fun game.

• 40:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Tell me.

• 40:33Benito Skinner?

  Say, tell me any person, I'll tell you their Sweetgreen order.

• 40:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Whoa, okay.

• 40:37Benito Skinner?

  Right?

• 40:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Marissa Miller.

• 40:39Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my, are you seriously gonna do this? Guacamole green.

• 40:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 40:43Benito Skinner?

  Double the onions.

• 40:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Total, and that's crazy.

• 40:46Benito Skinner?

  Light dressing. Next.

• 40:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, totally. Um, Charlie.

• 40:49Benito Skinner?

  Charlie, I would say she would kind of randomly go protein heavy. Harvest bowl, no rice, double chicken.

• 40:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Whoa.

• 40:55Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 40:56Mary Beth Barone?

  You rattling these off.

• 40:57Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 40:57Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, John Cena.

• 40:59Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my god.

• 40:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Before the Oscars, before he's going nude at the Oscars.

• 41:01Benito Skinner?

  Nude at the Oscars. He gets a kale Caesar with chicken, heavy on the dressing.

• 41:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 41:06Benito Skinner?

  Two pieces of bread. Then he goes back in line, puts a wig on. He puts a wig on and he, he orders one of the protein plates.

• 41:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 41:14Benito Skinner?

  The salmon one.

• 41:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 41:15Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 41:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Or, you know what I'm loving these days is the hot honey chicken plate.

• 41:19Benito Skinner?

  Well, that's what-

• 41:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Fabulous plate.

• 41:20Benito Skinner?

  Well, so that's what he gets.

• 41:21Mary Beth Barone?

  It's a fabulous plate.

• 41:22Benito Skinner?

  Hot honey, double the hot.

• 41:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Next would be, oh my god, Greta, Greta Thunberg, who I'm gonna ride for at some point.

• 41:29Benito Skinner?

  Oh, this is, okay, so she puts her hands out?

• 41:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 41:36Benito Skinner?

  Okay, so she- Okay, so she puts her hands out and they do sweet potato, chicken, and a little bit of balsamic. She's on her way to a protest and I love her for it.

• 41:44Mary Beth Barone?

  And she just goes.

• 41:45Benito Skinner?

  She takes it right in her hands and then has it. Sorry, that's incredible.

• 41:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Sorry.

• 41:49Benito Skinner?

  She's not doing the bowl. They put rice, because she's been outside. She's been protesting, Miss Girl. The doll.

• 41:56Mary Beth Barone?

  So the first one's she's on her way to a protest. The second one is post protest.

• 41:59Benito Skinner?

  Because she's make your own.

• 42:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 42:01Benito Skinner?

  Like, look, if you're gonna fight like that, like, you're not.

• 42:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Individualist.

• 42:04Benito Skinner?

  Exactly, you're independent. So then she puts sweet potatoes, little balsamic, bread, and I'm gonna say chicken, and maybe a little steak. Like, to me, it's like double, although maybe she's no meat.

• 42:16Mary Beth Barone?

  We'll find out.

• 42:17Benito Skinner?

  So it just depends on the day, I guess.

• 42:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 42:19Benito Skinner?

  Who next?

• 42:20Mary Beth Barone?

  Finally, the Joker.

• 42:21Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my god.

• 42:23Mary Beth Barone?

  So right before he's gonna blow it up, what's he gonna order? Because I know he's hungry.

• 42:27Benito Skinner?

  Okay, here's the thing with the Joker. He looks at the menu and he notices kale Caesar. And he goes, that's funny.

• 42:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 42:38Benito Skinner?

  You wanna know how I got these scars? He says, kale Caesar. Like, there's something funny to him about that. Yeah.

• 42:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, he's a great sense of humor.

• 42:47Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I think so, too. I think he's a kale Caesar. And then, well, when he's in Hollywood, though, he gets the Hollywood Bowl.

• 42:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, he likes a pun.

• 42:56Benito Skinner?

  He loves, that's his thing.

• 42:57Mary Beth Barone?

  Funny little name, a wink, wink.

• 42:59Benito Skinner?

  Well, he thought his life was a tragedy, but it's actually a comedy. So then he gets the kale Caesar.

• 43:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 43:04Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. What do you think? Did I do a good job?

• 43:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Ooh.

• 43:07Benito Skinner?

  Barracuda. New era alert, barracuda era.

• 43:11Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, we don't do ride or die for car pools, but.

• 43:13Benito Skinner?

  No, I think, obviously, goes without saying, treat yourself to Sweetgreen today. I would love to do an activation there for you guys. I don't know, we'll figure something out. Meet us under the Sweetgreen sign.

• 43:22Mary Beth Barone?

  One time I went to a Sweetgreen activation because I had a friend that worked at corporate, and S D Heim was there DJing.

• 43:29Benito Skinner?

  Exactly.

• 43:29Mary Beth Barone?

  In a Sweetgreen parking lot.

• 43:30Benito Skinner?

  Oh, this brings up a huge thing. I've been to Sweetgreen festivals. Trust.

• 43:35Mary Beth Barone?

  The, what was it?

• 43:36Benito Skinner?

  Sweetlife. I saw Lana Del Rey and Grimes at Sweetlife.

• 43:40Mary Beth Barone?

  I know Kid Cudi performed there once.

• 43:42Benito Skinner?

  I saw Foster the People.

• 43:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, yeah.

• 43:43Speaker 04

  All the other kids with pumped up kicks, better run, better run.

• 43:48Benito Skinner?

  They were so much fun. It was at this like amazing kind of like pavilion.

• 43:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Hmm.

• 43:53Benito Skinner?

  And very like Roman, but it was really incredible. I saw Flume there and I remember I turned to the person next to me. Yeah. And I had done like, I think I had done a little Molly or something, but I turned to my friend next to me. I said, he has the best visuals. And I think about it a lot.

• 44:06Mary Beth Barone?

  That was your big statement of the day.

• 44:08Benito Skinner?

  That was, yeah, exactly. It was huge.

• 44:09Mary Beth Barone?

  The Eiffel Tower is big.

• 44:11Speaker 04

  The Eiffel Tower is big.

• 44:13Benito Skinner?

  Oh, and I saw Kendrick there randomly, I believe.

• 44:16Mary Beth Barone?

  The 20 teens were a crazy time.

• 44:18Benito Skinner?

  Sorry, like music was so good.

• 44:20Mary Beth Barone?

  Anything was possible in the 20 teens. Would you agree with that?

• 44:21Benito Skinner?

  I completely agree.

• 44:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Like, anything could happen in the 20 teens.

• 44:24Benito Skinner?

  I sang Cups last week. And can I sing something to you right now to get us out of this?

• 44:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Yes.

• 44:29Benito Skinner?

  Home. Let me come home. Home is wherever I'm with you. Home. Let me go home. Home is wherever I'm with you. At Sweetgreen. Sweetgreen. Sweetgreen. Oh, my accent.

• 44:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Benny, babe, ice on the road.

• 44:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Benny, go!

• 44:56Benito Skinner?

  Ride, ride, ride.

• 45:02Speaker 05

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