TOTALED: Teslas + Wedding Industrial Complex

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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 what? I just want to have fun. Start your engine. I guess.

• 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.

• 0:39Benito Skinner?

  You said too late to start, got your heart in a headlock. I don't believe any of it. You said too late to start with. Boom. Oh. Boom. Oh. Headlock being back on the charts means the damn world to a guy like me.

• 0:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Needless to say, Imogen Heep has joined TikTok.

• 1:01Benito Skinner?

  Well, of course.

• 1:02Mary Beth Barone?

  So we have her there.

• 1:03Benito Skinner?

  Terry O'Connor is running. No, he's not, but he should.

• 1:06Mary Beth Barone?

  I love that woman so much. What an artist, a true artist. When I was in Edinburgh doing the fringe, I was just at a random restaurant, like it's had like 16 seats in the whole place. Guess who walks in?

• 1:16Benito Skinner?

  Imogen Heep.

• 1:17Mary Beth Barone?

  Imogen Heep.

• 1:18Benito Skinner?

  Seen the world, done it all. Why did I say that to you and Terry recently? I've seen the world, done it all. Had my cake now.

• 1:25Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't even remember that. It was just one of many things. Your new era is Monica Barbado.

• 1:31Benito Skinner?

  You guys.

• 1:31Mary Beth Barone?

  But that's not even her name, and I got her name wrong, and it's Marne.

• 1:34Benito Skinner?

  What is it?

• 1:34Mary Beth Barone?

  It's Mernica.

• 1:35Benito Skinner?

  Mernica.

• 1:35Mary Beth Barone?

  It's Monica Barbado.

• 1:38Benito Skinner?

  Oh, you said Barbaredo during the Oscars last night, and boy.

• 1:42Mary Beth Barone?

  You really clung on to that one.

• 1:43Benito Skinner?

  It was my foot on a point. I was literally doing the Tate McRae, which is where you take your ankle and you put it to your ear. It's the new move in pop, and I love it. I could not stop saying this.

• 1:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Monica Barbaredo.

• 1:57Benito Skinner?

  And the Academy Award goes to Monica Barbaredo and Luca Guadagnino's queer.

• 2:05Mary Beth Barone?

  So I do want to announce that I have been released from the detainment center.

• 2:09Benito Skinner?

  Well, I got visitation rights.

• 2:11Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, and I'm out on good behavior right now, but they said at any moment they could come get me again.

• 2:15Benito Skinner?

  There was a true crime thing that happened. It was Bailey Sarian, who I still ride for to this day. She was saying this one person I remember got like a day off, like they got to go out of jail for a day and then they killed someone. I'm not, I'm sorry, I'm not laughing.

• 2:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Was it one of the pardoned people from January 6? One of them hit someone with their car and got a DUI and killed them. Like both of those things happened, same incident, you know what I mean?

• 2:38Benito Skinner?

  Welcome to Ride Heritage.

• 2:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Welcome to Ride Heritage.

• 2:40Benito Skinner?

  Jesus.

• 2:41Mary Beth Barone?

  That actually, I have, so I have a few like little things to just note right now.

• 2:44Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 2:45Mary Beth Barone?

  First of all, I'm hosting a protest at the Tesla showroom in Stanford on March 16th.

• 2:51Benito Skinner?

  Which really ties into.

• 2:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Which ties into what we're gonna talk about later. So if you're in the Fairfield County area, it's only actually a really quick train ride from New York and I'm just excited to see all the girls there with their signs and their verbal anger. Cause obviously it's a peaceful protest.

• 3:03Benito Skinner?

  They're calling it the prettiest rally in the world.

• 3:06Mary Beth Barone?

  In the world. So the other thing is there's obviously a huge mayoral election in New York this year and the primaries are on June 24th. And it's ranked choice voting, which I'm gonna make a video about, cause you know, my whole new thing, politics for hot people. But I'm endorsing candidate Zoran Mamdani. I think he's fabulous. He's a progressive. He's a socialist. He wants to decrease the cost of living for New Yorkers. And so just like, if you haven't heard of him, look him up. I'm gonna be posting about him a lot in the coming weeks and months, just cause we have two really scary people running this year. And I don't want either of them to even like get ranked in the ranked choice voting. So just to flag that that's someone that I ride for.

• 3:44Mary Beth Barone?

  And a lot of us want to activate politically, but the federal landscape is really scary. So local politics are so important this year and next year in the midterm. So just to say that.

• 3:53Benito Skinner?

  I loved what Patty Harrison posted about like how protests can make you feel. But Patty Harrison, I'm a genius comedian. She's so brilliant and we love her so much. But she posted about just going to protests and things actually like made her feel a lot better and I think like more in control of the situation. I just thought it was, it was brilliant and actually really like, it was to this. It's like going to things like that, I think make you feel less powerless. That's really all I'm gonna say on that because it's like, how do you cover this stuff? Like Terry with his cultural digest, I was talking to him and I was like, you're doing a good job of not bringing it up too much. Cause it's like, we saw it. Don't cover that. I don't want, I don't need to see it.

• 4:27Mary Beth Barone?

  The thing that happened in the Oval Office?

• 4:29Benito Skinner?

  I can't call it that anymore. That's not what it is.

• 4:32Mary Beth Barone?

  It's a circus.

• 4:33Benito Skinner?

  The amount of evil it would take to like, comment on that man's outfit.

• 4:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Every day I wake up and I think like, what fresh hell is gonna be

• 4:40Benito Skinner?

  Well, do you guys

• 4:41Mary Beth Barone?

  show up at my doorstep today?

• 4:42Benito Skinner?

  Do you guys really want my low back to hurt this much? I have joy to bring.

• 4:46Mary Beth Barone?

  I know. We have joy to bring and create.

• 4:48Benito Skinner?

  You saw something really big this week.

• 4:51Mary Beth Barone?

  I did.

• 4:52Benito Skinner?

  And you talk about it, but not give any, any plot points away or else me and my video will come for you.

• 4:58Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm gonna be, well, I'll be back in the detention center.

• 5:01Benito Skinner?

  Why do you think you were there in the first place?

• 5:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Cause I broke an NDA.

• 5:04Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 5:04Mary Beth Barone?

  I had the distinct pleasure and honor and joy of watching overcompensating. Oh my God.

• 5:11Benito Skinner?

  We turned her in. She's done.

• 5:12Mary Beth Barone?

  I literally watched it and I just said, I don't even know what to say. I was completely speechless. It's just so incredible to watch it come to life. And having been in the writer's room and just seeing the whole process, just like every step of the way, you have handled it with such grace and care and love for the project, the characters, the world. And I just think it's gonna like blow people's minds.

• 5:33Benito Skinner?

  It was funny, watching it with the last three episodes with you, I did realize how many Easter eggs we have for our babies in it.

• 5:39Mary Beth Barone?

  I just got chills.

• 5:40Benito Skinner?

  It's for baronies first, I would say.

• 5:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Even ones that I had forgotten we put in there.

• 5:45Benito Skinner?

  I know.

• 5:46Mary Beth Barone?

  There's so many.

• 5:47Benito Skinner?

  Like, I'll just say it right now, figs.

• 5:49Mary Beth Barone?

  And I'll say it right now, Dr. Broners.

• 5:51Benito Skinner?

  Oh my God, literally, there are so many.

• 5:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 5:54Benito Skinner?

  Okay, someone will have to make like, I don't know, an Excel spreadsheet, I assume.

• 5:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Exactly with timestamps.

• 5:59Benito Skinner?

  I'm just glad you could see how much you shine. I love us as siblings. I really love us as siblings.

• 6:04Mary Beth Barone?

  My big takeaway, one of my big takeaways.

• 6:06Benito Skinner?

  Oh, this was huge.

• 6:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Other than that, you're a genius, obviously, which was number one. Number two, I was watching on screen and I kept being like, we, we look so much alike.

• 6:15Benito Skinner?

  Well, you know, the first time I met your mom, she went, oh my God.

• 6:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 6:19Benito Skinner?

  She was like, you are one of my kids.

• 6:21Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 6:22Benito Skinner?

  And then my dad has this game, which actually just ends up making two of my siblings feel bad about themselves, but where we're all at a table and he goes, pick which ones aren't my kids. He did that to you in Seattle, right?

• 6:31Mary Beth Barone?

  I think so.

• 6:32Benito Skinner?

  And every time they don't pick Jake, my brother Jake, who has like really dark hair and is like, he has more pale toned skin, is like, he does. Does look like us, but I guess not in the way that you look like us.

• 6:42Mary Beth Barone?

  But not as much as I look like you.

• 6:43Benito Skinner?

  And you next to my sister Laura, next to my sister Katie, it is like.

• 6:46Mary Beth Barone?

  It just makes sense.

• 6:47Benito Skinner?

  Well, duh. I knew we would translate as siblings, but it is kind of like, that's my sister.

• 6:52Mary Beth Barone?

  It's what I do.

• 6:53Benito Skinner?

  She do.

• 6:53Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 6:54Benito Skinner?

  And boy, does she do it up big.

• 6:56Mary Beth Barone?

  I mean, here's another thing I'll say.

• 6:58Benito Skinner?

  I just had so much gratitude for getting lunch to you, lunch with you.

• 7:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Lunch to you.

• 7:02Benito Skinner?

  Lunch to you.

• 7:03Mary Beth Barone?

  At Monica Barberito.

• 7:05Benito Skinner?

  Monica Barbarito.

• 7:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Barbarito.

• 7:08Benito Skinner?

  You guys all know what that means to me, to hear something like that. And Terry's out of town right now, so Mary Beth's here to babysit me. I swear to God.

• 7:16Mary Beth Barone?

  I said that to JR.

• 7:17Benito Skinner?

  I swear to God, you guys all talk amongst each other, like, because the house is never totally empty. Like, my sister will come into you, like, I swear to God.

• 7:26Mary Beth Barone?

  We have a schedule, shared Google Calendar.

• 7:28Benito Skinner?

  I know that Terry does. He's running something, because even my, my friend Matt, who, yes, is my agent, but he's my friend first. He texted me and goes, I know you're home alone, like, just checking in. I was like, oh, how do you guys know this?

• 7:44Mary Beth Barone?

  There's a group chat.

• 7:45Benito Skinner?

  Good.

• 7:46Mary Beth Barone?

  It's a whole thing.

• 7:46Benito Skinner?

  You gotta come check on your boy.

• 7:48Mary Beth Barone?

  You guys are gonna love overcompensating. It's truly a show, just for like, for the people. We're creating joy for the people that we want to create joy for with this show.

• 7:58Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I mean, my greatest hope with the whole show is that you will watch it with your bestie in bed on a laptop. We'll also actually surround sound in a movie theater, but actually.

• 8:08Mary Beth Barone?

  But when, when not able to, a laptop.

• 8:10Benito Skinner?

  A laptop or like a Roku TV, and you just rip through it and just like, it brings you so much joy and you see real, sweet, complicated human beings reflected back at you and, and your experience in college. But it just, yeah, I'm super proud of it. It's exactly what I wanted to make. And we did it. And we did it with like flair, chair, and everything above.

• 8:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Everything.

• 8:33Benito Skinner?

  And God, I love everyone who's in it. And like, the cast is so amazing. I feel really lucky. And if you're listening and you liked My Girl Abroad, or you liked the Horoscope videos, thank you for being here.

• 8:43Mary Beth Barone?

  And you're gonna love this show. And thank you for being a friend.

• 8:46Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 8:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Happy ride Heritage Month.

• 8:47Benito Skinner?

  And enough with the positivity.

• 8:49Mary Beth Barone?

  So Heritage Month last year, you know, it was the first time we ever did it. We came up with some fun things to do. We raised money for our trans organization. We decided to do a limited edition merch and if you donated money, you were entered to win a Tiffany bracelet. We wanted to be sensitive to the times that we're in, which are that I feel like the cost of living is going up. We didn't necessarily want people to like have to spend money on things. So instead, we're gonna do a little bit more of like a cerebral celebration of Ride Heritage Month. With special episodes. I don't even think we're gonna have a guest. I think we're just keeping it, we're keeping it pared back and stripped down.

• 9:24Benito Skinner?

  We couldn't book my boyfriend.

• 9:26Mary Beth Barone?

  We couldn't book Terry because unfortunately he's traveling.

• 9:28Benito Skinner?

  Three people in a room.

• 9:29Mary Beth Barone?

  I know, it's really hard.

• 9:30Benito Skinner?

  I couldn't do it.

• 9:31Mary Beth Barone?

  No, it's really hard.

• 9:31Benito Skinner?

  It's just crazy.

• 9:32Mary Beth Barone?

  And then obviously, the ultimate celebration of Ride Heritage Month is overcompensating.

• 9:37Benito Skinner?

  And we have something special coming for that.

• 9:38Mary Beth Barone?

  And we have something really special coming for that. And then I would say like, this season's gonna end and then you're gonna be really happy with what happens next. Is all I'm gonna say.

• 9:47Benito Skinner?

  Absolutely. Hey, absolutely.

• 9:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Absolutely.

• 9:49Benito Skinner?

  Hey, absolutely. Monica Barbaredo. Sorry, it hit me. Sometimes I gotta get those out.

• 9:54Mary Beth Barone?

  I can feel when the spirit compels you.

• 9:55Benito Skinner?

  It's just, it's in my chest. Like, I feel her in my chest.

• 9:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Monica Barbaredo.

• 9:59Benito Skinner?

  Oh, and we decided today, because Mavis is staying in my house, she's staying in my house. Our rides during this are like so deeply for baronies. Like this, they're as heritage. The ones we're picking are on the list and we're like, that's only if we really wanna hit the kids who have been here since the beginning. So that's what we're doing for Heritage. But you're right. And also, we already have the bedazzled tea out.

• 10:22Mary Beth Barone?

  It's forever in the collection.

• 10:24Benito Skinner?

  And thank you so much for everyone who donated to the families who needed you and needed us.

• 10:28Mary Beth Barone?

  After the fires.

• 10:29Benito Skinner?

  After the fires.

• 10:30Mary Beth Barone?

  So we just wanna be sensitive and just say like, here's, here's some free joy and we don't need you to spend money on anything.

• 10:36Benito Skinner?

  But really special episodes and the hitchhike is coming and we're so excited.

• 10:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Coming. And today, we're doing something really special, which I feel like maybe people aren't gonna see coming, but they have requested. And before we get into it, I need to tell the story of when I crashed my car the day that I got into Boston College. But today, we're gonna be doing an episode called Totaled, where we die for things.

• 10:56Benito Skinner?

  Benny, look out! I think about that a lot. Oh, my exit. We're gonna die for some shit.

• 11:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 11:02Benito Skinner?

  It feels good. Come on, let's be a little nasty.

• 11:04Mary Beth Barone?

  I just think with the current administration that we're in, like, being hateful is unfortunately back. We also balance it with being loving. And on that note, I saw on the Reddit, people were having a discourse about may they experience the loss of a child.

• 11:16Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my god. I didn't mean to, I didn't mean to spark this.

• 11:20Mary Beth Barone?

  People are scared that when I say like jokes we can't tell until season six, they think it's gonna be all really dark. It's not. Some of it's just like name dropy or funny stories or things that like need explanation. They're not all dark jokes. So I don't want people to think that like when we're in season six, we're gonna be like talking about really dark shit.

• 11:38Benito Skinner?

  I want to say that like, that's about as dark as I'll go. And just to be clear, I'm talking about like haters and I don't actually mean a child.

• 11:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, because there's no they and there's no child.

• 11:48Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, so just to be clear.

• 11:50Mary Beth Barone?

  It's very abstract.

• 11:51Benito Skinner?

  I, I am, Deliverance Richards is wishing this on someone who said something awful about her. Just to be clear, she doesn't exist.

• 11:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Character who doesn't exist and then.

• 12:01Benito Skinner?

  But yeah, that's as, that's really as dark as we go. The rest are just like, I would say some of the dumbest things you've ever heard in your life.

• 12:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Dumb things and things that we just think like, you're not ready to hear.

• 12:11Benito Skinner?

  Was as dumb. They'll hear about Grandpa Terry.

• 12:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Are you, do you want to get into that right now?

• 12:16Benito Skinner?

  Should we talk about it?

• 12:17Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't even know how you're going to explain it because it's so physical, but I'd love to hear how you're gonna lay this out for people.

• 12:23Benito Skinner?

  Well, sometimes I, so if Terry's family is listening, I would duck out for the next minute. And I can't stress that enough.

• 12:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Or don't, because like.

• 12:30Benito Skinner?

  Or don't. See, all of me.

• 12:31Mary Beth Barone?

  You might love it.

• 12:32Benito Skinner?

  You love me.

• 12:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Loving me means loving all of me.

• 12:35Benito Skinner?

  So Terry looks at TikTok in his bed and he does a lot of work.

• 12:39Mary Beth Barone?

  In his bed and you guys do sleep in separate rooms.

• 12:41Benito Skinner?

  I can't stress enough, I live in his house, honey. And, and now that you're staying with me, it's your house. So he's on his phone and I have to get his attention sometimes. But I've created this thing where this is like. Oh my god, it really just makes you realize like how psychotic I am. I will pretend to be getting fucked by a Terry from the future, the ghost of Terry Jackson itself. Hey, Jackson just walked out.

• 13:13Mary Beth Barone?

  This is my favorite bit of yours.

• 13:15Benito Skinner?

  And I'm like, oh my god, Grandpa Terry, oh my god. And I'll like bang my head against the headboard and I'll really commit.

• 13:21Mary Beth Barone?

  But he doesn't.

• 13:22Benito Skinner?

  Cause you know, physical comedy is my whole thing.

• 13:23Mary Beth Barone?

  He doesn't bat an eye though.

• 13:25Benito Skinner?

  No, and he.

• 13:26Mary Beth Barone?

  It's never worked to get his attention.

• 13:27Benito Skinner?

  He didn't say a word about it and then one day to me and you, cause he knew that you knew about Grandpa Terry. He sends him with the age filter on and goes, Grandpa Terry. And that's when I knew that was my king. But yeah, just pretend, just pretend that the ghost of the person you're with from the future is railing you. Cause he'd rather rail you in that moment than the person who's in the bed with you.

• 13:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 13:50Benito Skinner?

  It's kind of the bit.

• 13:51Mary Beth Barone?

  And for that reason, he deserves it. He deserves to be railing you.

• 13:53Benito Skinner?

  Exactly.

• 13:54Mary Beth Barone?

  But I love Grandpa Terry. I say hi to him. Every time I walk in the house, I have to say hi to Grandpa Terry.

• 13:59Benito Skinner?

  Well, of course you acknowledge him first. Acknowledge the work.

• 14:02Mary Beth Barone?

  And that brings me to my other favorite bit of yours, which is whenever you're watching a TV show and the character looks off screen, they're, you say they're looking at a ghost.

• 14:09Benito Skinner?

  Carrie.

• 14:10Mary Beth Barone?

  So you're like, Carrie is seeing so many ghosts right now in this scene.

• 14:13Benito Skinner?

  It's the Sixth Sense. If you watch, it's Sixth Sense in the City, sweetheart. Let me tell you, it is like.

• 14:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, Brony HQ is gonna have a lot of fun making a poster for Sixth Sense in the City.

• 14:22Benito Skinner?

  Oh god, I know.

• 14:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Either Brony HQ, I mean, talk about right heritage.

• 14:26Benito Skinner?

  You have my heart. They found the book with the stickers. It was circle stickers and gold, and gold star stickers. I saw that. You know me to my core. But someone, I realized that all of you know me to my core because there was a post of like a seal that had completely like put up its whole like butt, like its skin all the way up. So it's just like its little head. And somebody commented. At Benny Drama trolling Terry. And I was like,

• 14:53Mary Beth Barone?

  That's Grandpa Terry in a way.

• 14:55Benito Skinner?

  You understand me to a level that I don't even understand myself. Like, that is what I do to get his attention.

• 15:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 15:02Benito Skinner?

  Or if, like, I'm really in a bind, I tuck quickly and just run out and do Halsey at Coachella, which have we talked about?

• 15:08Mary Beth Barone?

  Of course. We've talked, we've definitely covered that, but I have video that no one has seen.

• 15:13Benito Skinner?

  That's gonna stay in.

• 15:15Mary Beth Barone?

  That's season six.

• 15:16Benito Skinner?

  The two things we want, Jonathan Bailey just in the boots, dancing to Dancing Through Life, and me tucked with a pregnant belly on.

• 15:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Halsey at Coachella.

• 15:24Benito Skinner?

  Halsey with the Chainsmokers.

• 15:25Mary Beth Barone?

  So baby, come on over. In the backseat of your Rover.

• 15:29Benito Skinner?

  And I know we can. I met one of the Chainsmokers.

• 15:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Which one?

• 15:34Benito Skinner?

  The titular Chainsmokers. Well, don't ask me that, sweetie. But I loved him. He was a doll.

• 15:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, I like their music, I can't lie.

• 15:41Benito Skinner?

  I'm really pissed because Taika hasn't been at any things I've been to. And I've kind of been on the circuit lately because I'm starting to do press. Press is press, I mean, what do you want me to say? But I cannot find Taika to save me. But you know who I saw at Vanity Fair? Sebastian Stan. And a respectful king. He said thank you to a couple of people I saw. I was gonna go say hi, but then, I don't know, he was just so busy.

• 16:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 16:03Benito Skinner?

  But he was really working the room.

• 16:05Mary Beth Barone?

  I mean, as a nominee.

• 16:06Benito Skinner?

  But I, you know, my third eye is always open and I can sense dark energy. Didn't get a single bit of it from him.

• 16:11Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm so happy.

• 16:12Benito Skinner?

  Seemed like a total doll.

• 16:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, okay, well, that makes me happy to hear.

• 16:14Benito Skinner?

  Well, I hope this doesn't age poorly. He's, Sebastian Stan, you have 10 days to not get me too'd.

• 16:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Exactly, and please don't.

• 16:21Benito Skinner?

  And please don't disappoint us.

• 16:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally. So, I want to talk about when I got into college. Well, I just, again, I'm amplifying, I'm not adding to, because you're so right. Mary Beth Barone, age 17 slash 18. I'm taking an AP US government test, AP US Gov.

• 16:39Benito Skinner?

  She's getting a five.

• 16:40Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm getting it, well, it's just, it was just a test, it wasn't the test.

• 16:43Benito Skinner?

  Oh, God.

• 16:43Mary Beth Barone?

  It was just like a test in AP Gov.

• 16:45Benito Skinner?

  Don't make me nervous.

• 16:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Sorry, so, I'm taking a test, I get a text on my pink flip phone from my dad that says, "You got a big letter from B.C." So I'm in the middle of a test and I'm reading that text and I, I stand up in the middle of the test and I go to the window and I call my dad. And I say, oh, I'm on the phone during a test. My, my teacher, Ms. Berkeley, bless her, we kind of ran train on that class. It was second semester seniors and we're just like, we don't care how a bill turns into a law.

• 17:11Benito Skinner?

  No, sorry sis.

• 17:12Mary Beth Barone?

  We just don't care. I'm so sorry.

• 17:13Benito Skinner?

  I'm just a bill. I've got a call. See you later.

• 17:17Mary Beth Barone?

  Sorry, I'll PRB.

• 17:18Benito Skinner?

  You took out your sidekick? Dad, what?

• 17:21Mary Beth Barone?

  I go to the window and he opens it and he says, I got in. I literally scream, I leave. In the middle of the test, I leave. I, I don't care about this test anymore.

• 17:29Benito Skinner?

  You are? You're dry skinned. You said, come pick me up.

• 17:33Mary Beth Barone?

  I said, I have to go home.

• 17:34Benito Skinner?

  I got into college.

• 17:35Mary Beth Barone?

  So I go out to the senior lot and I get in my mom's Lexus that she let me drive through high school. And I'm in the car, I'm crying, I'm so happy. I think I probably called like one of my siblings or my mom or something. I was freaking out. And so I get in the driver's seat and I'm backing up and I'm like, I'm elated. And then this guy who was in my grade, who was my friend, Pat Green, is like, he is in a car that's like perpendicular to my car and he's pulling, he's pulling through the lot. And I waved to him and he, he, he goes, I can see him through the windshield going, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. And putting his hands over his mouth and it's because I'm backing into a car.

• 18:09Benito Skinner?

  So that's why.

• 18:10Mary Beth Barone?

  So that's why.

• 18:10Benito Skinner?

  You gagged him sis.

• 18:12Mary Beth Barone?

  He waves hi to me and he's, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. And hands over mouth. And I fully crashed into the Audi that was parked behind me. Keep in mind, I have a backup beeper on my car and I have a backup camera. And then a backup camera.

• 18:25Benito Skinner?

  I love when the beep gives up though. It's like, hey, you've hit them.

• 18:27Mary Beth Barone?

  It's like so unfortunate. We did everything we could and we still got in a car accident.

• 18:31Benito Skinner?

  Hey, so you did it.

• 18:33Mary Beth Barone?

  So I literally, I'm like, fucking hell. Like, I just got into college. It's such an exciting day. And my top choice, by the way. And so.

• 18:41Benito Skinner?

  You got into your top choice?

• 18:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 18:42Benito Skinner?

  Congratulations.

• 18:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Thank you. I mean, I left after two years, so I guess, whatever, everything happens for a reason. I have to get out of my car and I'm like, fuck. And I really wanted to go home, but I had to wait till final period got let out so I could talk to the girl whose car it was and be like, hey, I hit your car. I didn't do hit and then.

• 18:57Benito Skinner?

  I got into Boston College.

• 18:58Mary Beth Barone?

  But I got, you have to understand that I got into Boston College.

• 19:01Benito Skinner?

  I got into B C, but I hit your Kia.

• 19:03Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm so. Sorry, I, and I, you know, I was fully insured as a driver, so I did end up covering the cost and everything. But I've only been in two accidents, knock on wood. That was the one. Three months later, I'm pulling out of my boyfriend's house. Our friends' Range Rovers parked there, fully back into it.

• 19:18Benito Skinner?

  You're just not seeing it.

• 19:19Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't look behind myself.

• 19:21Benito Skinner?

  Hey, here's the thing.

• 19:22Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't like looking at the past. I want to see the future. I look forward.

• 19:25Benito Skinner?

  Do you understand that we can't move into the future until we acknowledge our past? Do you get that?

• 19:29Mary Beth Barone?

  But I didn't get that then.

• 19:31Benito Skinner?

  Now you get that.

• 19:31Mary Beth Barone?

  But now I do. So I, one of my big regrets is that in high school, I, so I was, I was able to drive my mom's car and she was driving like a beat up old car so that I could have a nice car. And then my parents wanted to buy me like a Honda Civic that would have been like just nice to have for the rest of my like adult life.

• 19:47Benito Skinner?

  Forever.

• 19:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Forever.

• 19:48Benito Skinner?

  They're cockroaches.

• 19:48Mary Beth Barone?

  But I was such a little brat and I was like, no, I want to keep driving the Lexus. And I was just like, I, I fucked up. I was being a little brat and I have regrets. I do have regrets.

• 19:57Benito Skinner?

  You probably didn't get in trouble though, because it's like you got into B C and you're just like, sorry, I was so excited. I did get in a wreck.

• 20:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, and I am sorry. And yes, Hondas did survive the blast.

• 20:05Benito Skinner?

  No.

• 20:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Along with Shenyuan advertisements and cockroaches.

• 20:09Benito Skinner?

  The cockroach of cars. That's what they say at the dealership. Terry has one that he literally like, he does like, it is kind of like a bop it. He slaps the windshield, like farts and then it starts. It's like, yeah, literally like.

• 20:23Mary Beth Barone?

  What's the passcode? This is what, in, in Massachusetts?

• 20:26Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. It's, oh my God, I love that car. And like, none of the audio.

• 20:31Mary Beth Barone?

  They last forever.

• 20:32Benito Skinner?

  The sound system kind of doesn't work, but it's like, and sometimes it is fully grring at us. Like, it's really cool. There's a roar to it.

• 20:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, roar.

• 20:40Benito Skinner?

  Well, speaking of cars I want to wreck.

• 20:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. So should we get into what we die for?

• 20:45Benito Skinner?

  Die, it's time to die.

• 20:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Crazy to say. And we're going to do some mini dies and then we're going to get into what we really die for.

• 20:49Benito Skinner?

  Do you know what's funny that we, there's an invisible string between me and you? Because I got in a wreck on the way to the A C T. Did I ever tell you this?

• 20:57Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh my God.

• 20:58Benito Skinner?

  I saw a raccoon run across the road. I fully stopped on a freeway.

• 21:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Green is the fun, and the fun and the fun on the hood of your car.

• 21:06Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, it's very us because then I went to the ACT. But the difference between us is I, you would have not gone to the test. I went to the test in bomb diggity. It was terrible.

• 21:17Mary Beth Barone?

  How could you not after having a car wreck? You know, that's anxiety inducing.

• 21:21Benito Skinner?

  It was crazy. Yeah, of course. My parents were all like, why'd you still go to the test? And I was just like, I don't know, because of the pressure of society. You guys are talking about these ACT and SAT tests all the fucking time. I thought if I didn't, I'd die.

• 21:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, you would go to hell for sure, which isn't Easter egg for next week.

• 21:37Benito Skinner?

  Oh, you guys are, get ready. Next week is as ride as ride gets.

• 21:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Next week is like, there's ride heritage, there's ride, there's ride heritage. And then there's like annihilation.

• 21:48Benito Skinner?

  Exactly.

• 21:48Mary Beth Barone?

  There's like where ride sees itself so clearly in the mirror that we hold up.

• 21:52Benito Skinner?

  Consciousness.

• 21:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, it's consciousness. Do you want to say what you die for as your, the main headliner?

• 21:57Benito Skinner?

  So I die for Teslas.

• 21:59Mary Beth Barone?

  And I die for the wedding industrial complex.

• 22:02Benito Skinner?

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• 25:15Benito Skinner?

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• 25:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Wait, where are we going?

• 25:32Benito Skinner?

  Who cares?

• 25:35Benito Skinner?

  Die. This is crazy, cuz like, I already know how this ends before it begins. In a way that's so powerful. Jackson, say hell yeah. Hell yeah. And say Monica Barbaredo. Monica Barbaredo.

• 25:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Thank you.

• 25:47Benito Skinner?

  Fuck, I love you. So, should I get into like a mini die really quick?

• 25:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, and my mini die is pretty, it's pretty succinct, so I'll just say it.

• 25:56Benito Skinner?

  Can't wait for this.

• 25:56Mary Beth Barone?

  I really die for straight men who do front-facing camera comedy critiquing straight male behavior. Like, sometimes it's just so on the nose where I'm like, you are that guy. Like, you know the material so well cuz you are that guy. And I don't think straight guys should be in front of the camera.

• 26:10Benito Skinner?

  My only comment on this is, I'm like, yeah. I don't know if you're that good of an actor.

• 26:16Mary Beth Barone?

  No, exactly.

• 26:17Benito Skinner?

  I'm like-

• 26:17Mary Beth Barone?

  There's a reason this is landing.

• 26:18Benito Skinner?

  It's feeling a little too, yeah. Because then, the next post will kinda be about their body. You know what I mean? I'm like, oh-

• 26:25Mary Beth Barone?

  I do know what you mean.

• 26:26Benito Skinner?

  I don't trust you.

• 26:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Mm-mm. No.

• 26:28Benito Skinner?

  My mini die is kind of, I assume, it's very tied to that in a way. It's just moodiness, and I've never seen this from a queer person or a woman. Like, they don't bring that shit to work. And as I said in the card you this morning, people who have periods, I cannot believe you guys are clocking in. God knows I wouldn't. I thought about that on set all the time.

• 26:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, like, some people on set right now, in this moment, have their period and they're still here.

• 26:55Benito Skinner?

  Some had them last night at the party. I'm like, that just breaks my heart.

• 26:58Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 26:59Benito Skinner?

  I'm literally like, you should say it first, you should lead with it.

• 27:02Mary Beth Barone?

  If it's not all quiet on the Western front, you should be leading with that because you just should show people how much you're able to accomplish in spite of what your body is doing, which is revolting against you.

• 27:11Benito Skinner?

  I always find out after the fact, and I'm like, oh my god, you just did, you memorized and you felt this way?

• 27:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, it's crazy.

• 27:17Benito Skinner?

  That's the power of my doll, baby.

• 27:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Thank you for acknowledging that.

• 27:20Benito Skinner?

  Of course, it's just, it really blows me away. But moodiness. I just think moods are for children, my loves, and i-if you're gonna bring that in, you have to- Sit in your car, take a deep breath, don't bring that into work. Don't, don't change the energy of a room.

• 27:33Mary Beth Barone?

  No, that's insane.

• 27:34Benito Skinner?

  Someone who's moody, it just makes me so angry cuz I'm like, you just don't get to do that. You don't get to like, change everyone else's moods just because you feel shitty.

• 27:41Mary Beth Barone?

  On other people.

• 27:42Benito Skinner?

  It's just not fair. I'm like, go figure it out. And I feel like, that's something that, I don't know, the people-pleasing in me, I, you know, sometimes I try to like, I try to fight that, but that- That is one thing I like, that I'm like, I refuse to enter a room and make it worse than before I came in.

• 27:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Exactly. And I can attest that you are not a moody person. And I feel like, you know what? Tap into the people who you can really like, if you need to like go off really quickly and just like, be like, I have to complain about this thing, I have to vent. And then you have to compose yourself and then get back to the task at hand.

• 28:14Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, which is what adults do.

• 28:15Mary Beth Barone?

  It's what adults do. We don't have a tantrum in the middle of the grocery store.

• 28:18Benito Skinner?

  Wally on set of overcompensating was really good for me because she was like, lunchtime is for naps, babe. Go take a nap, go take a rest. You're talking all day.

• 28:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, you're having to be everything to everyone.

• 28:29Benito Skinner?

  Just conserve your, yeah. Also, if you're moody all the time, something's off. So you got to figure that out. Nothing pisses me off more.

• 28:34Mary Beth Barone?

  It's very unbecoming of a lady.

• 28:36Benito Skinner?

  Well, of course, and it's kind of never really a lady.

• 28:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 28:39Benito Skinner?

  It's kind of always a straight man doing a front-facing comedy video. I die the most, but you want to talk about something I die for? Teslas. And if you have one, I, it's not judgment-based. I just, when I get an Uber and the Tesla pulls up, I think to myself, wow, someone up there really fucking hates my guts, huh?

• 29:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, it's homophobia.

• 29:01Benito Skinner?

  Well, it's homophobia at its core. And the way that it feels to ride in a Tesla, I get nauseous in cars. This is different. This is chemical.

• 29:11Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, it's like you're on a gyroscope. Do you know those things where it like shakes you around?

• 29:15Benito Skinner?

  Totally. It's like, you know how amusement parks now, it's all like 3D and it's just a screen in front of you to make you as sick as possible?

• 29:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 29:22Benito Skinner?

  That's kind of the vibe. And I will be in the back of it. Well, first off, I, you know, I have to play with the lid.

• 29:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Of course.

• 29:28Benito Skinner?

  To get in it, which I just can't.

• 29:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, and do you know how many different handles they have for Teslas now? Because sometimes the different generations of Teslas will be different handles.

• 29:36Benito Skinner?

  I didn't tell you what happened to me recently.

• 29:38Mary Beth Barone?

  What?

• 29:38Benito Skinner?

  Oh my God. Terry and I almost didn't get out of this fucking Tesla Uber. We, we, oh my God. So we were in New Orleans and we got a Tesla and it had butterfly doors. How asinine is that? So it drops us off on Bourbon Street. And the butterfly doors came up and two gay guys walk out. Everyone on the street was, they were sick.

• 30:02Mary Beth Barone?

  It's garish.

• 30:03Benito Skinner?

  It was garish. I felt so embarrassed. There was like purple lights coming out of it. I just, I wanted to die in that moment. What they're doing with doors over there, I can't even, and I'm not even going to talk about him.

• 30:15Mary Beth Barone?

  All I want to say-

• 30:16Benito Skinner?

  Lowercase H I M.

• 30:17Mary Beth Barone?

  All I want to say is that Elon Musk was not a founder of Tesla. He was appointed CEO. He had nothing to do with the actual creation of it. If I'm not mistaken, and you can fact check me. And he is the CEO right now. The stock is tanking. By the way, if you have Tesla stock, sell it. Go protest at a Tesla. There is a fascist dictator. All of his worth, a lot of it is tied up in Tesla. And it's plummeting. Sales are plummeting. Oh my God, I saw the most fabulous thing. People are rebranding their Teslas. They are putting Audi logos on it. They're putting Mazda logos on it. They're putting Toyota logos. They do not want to be driving Teslas.

• 30:52Benito Skinner?

  They want to make art and they want to make trouble. That is so Cruella coded.

• 30:56Mary Beth Barone?

  It's very Cruella.

• 30:57Benito Skinner?

  Taking a little like paint chipper and taking off the Tesla.

• 31:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. So what we're doing is working and it is going to impact his wealth directly.

• 31:07Benito Skinner?

  And I hate the screens, just, which feels very tied to what you just said.

• 31:10Mary Beth Barone?

  The moon roof? First of all, there's an iPad in the car. I don't want an iPad. It's distracting.

• 31:15Benito Skinner?

  It's a laptop. It's a 16 inch.

• 31:17Mary Beth Barone?

  The moon roof, Pinky, whenever in an Uber, in a Tesla Uber, she'll look up at the moon roof and think it's another dog. Cause she can see her reflection and she starts barking. Cause she knows there's dark energy in that car.

• 31:28Benito Skinner?

  Consciousness.

• 31:29Mary Beth Barone?

  It's her consciousness.

• 31:31Benito Skinner?

  So these cars suck so much dick and I, I hate them. Like I, I really hate these cars. I hate being in them. I hate hearing about what they do. I hate opening the door of them.

• 31:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. Every, every aspect of the experience is just worse than any other car.

• 31:46Benito Skinner?

  It's awful. And whoever tricked everyone into thinking they're better for the environment, aren't they not?

• 31:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, so electric batteries are really, they're impossible to recycle.

• 31:54Benito Skinner?

  Yes.

• 31:55Mary Beth Barone?

  So electric cars, like getting less reliant on gas is a good thing.

• 31:59Benito Skinner?

  Yes.

• 31:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Because it's, the gas will run out. It's a finite resource. But yes, they have not quite figured out how to make these like actual- Sustainable vehicles.

• 32:08Benito Skinner?

  And might I just get into the cyber truck? When I see people walk out of a cyber truck, I'm like, you're about to meet Flor.

• 32:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 32:15Benito Skinner?

  I can't stress enough.

• 32:17Mary Beth Barone?

  I never see people coming out of them. I only see them parked like around town and I'm just like, you're disgusting.

• 32:22Benito Skinner?

  Conspiracy theory. Like, I don't know if anyone's actually.

• 32:24Mary Beth Barone?

  They're self-driving.

• 32:24Benito Skinner?

  Well, do you know the conspiracy theory that we predicted?

• 32:27Mary Beth Barone?

  We had, there was a prophecy that was foretold and so a cyber truck did explode with a veteran inside of it. And so, yeah, that's hard. It's hard right now. But that happened.

• 32:38Benito Skinner?

  I know. It's insane.

• 32:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 32:41Benito Skinner?

  We live in this strangest, well, I say that, I'm sure that every time felt strange, but this one is really fucking bizarre.

• 32:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. Well, here's what's weird to me.

• 32:50Benito Skinner?

  Oh, like, this I gotta hear.

• 32:51Mary Beth Barone?

  So in school, I feel like we were taught and told that being a Nazi is like the worst thing a person can be. And I agree with that to this day.

• 32:59Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 33:00Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't understand the reboot. They're rebooting the Nazis. Like, why are we doing that? Because these people that are [BLEEP] with American nationalism and how like we like, you know, swooped in during World War II and like saved Europe. I'm like, do you realize who we were fighting? It's the people you're now emulating.

• 33:16Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 33:17Mary Beth Barone?

  So I don't understand. Your, your whole ethos makes no sense. It's completely contradictory.

• 33:21Benito Skinner?

  It's people who feel small and they're like, these women won't fuck me. Small little men with polio.

• 33:27Mary Beth Barone?

  And measles.

• 33:29Benito Skinner?

  And measles. Disgusting.

• 33:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 33:31Benito Skinner?

  Disgusting.

• 33:32Mary Beth Barone?

  So I will say, I feel bad for people that bought Teslas thinking they were doing good.

• 33:37Benito Skinner?

  And I have family who, who have Teslas and I feel so bad because I'm like, and they know and they're like, I'm trying to get rid of this heap of shit.

• 33:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 33:43Benito Skinner?

  And you know who did? Cheryl fucking Crow.

• 33:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Crow, and she donated the money to NPR.

• 33:47Benito Skinner?

  God, I wish I could kiss that woman.

• 33:48Mary Beth Barone?

  She has been on the right side of history for so fucking long.

• 33:51Benito Skinner?

  Toilet paper. How many squares?

• 33:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Four, four squares per, four squares per bathroom trip. And that will save the planet. That alone will save the planet.

• 33:59Benito Skinner?

  You're gonna need to wash your hands after that one.

• 34:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 34:01Benito Skinner?

  Trust. Can I just say, maybe eight. I love you, sister. Here's my thing. Fuck Teslas, but if you have one, I'm not mad, just to be clear. I just like, I hate.

• 34:11Mary Beth Barone?

  Unless you support the.

• 34:13Benito Skinner?

  Well, of course, then I'm furious and you shouldn't be listening. I want to take a bat to a cyber- me, hey, my linebacker shoulders, a bat and a cyber truck.

• 34:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 34:23Benito Skinner?

  Has anything ever sounded hornier to you?

• 34:26Mary Beth Barone?

  I'd watch that, is all I'm saying.

• 34:27Benito Skinner?

  Me, Grandpa Terry, taking a bat to that thing.

• 34:29Mary Beth Barone?

  I'll record it, I'll film. I know, it's really hard because it just feels like a reminder, a constant reminder of what's going on.

• 34:35Benito Skinner?

  And I also just want to say about this about Teslas, it's not a smooth drive.

• 34:39Mary Beth Barone?

  No.

• 34:40Benito Skinner?

  That's my thing too. It's like, it's not even a fucking good car.

• 34:43Mary Beth Barone?

  It's jerky.

• 34:44Benito Skinner?

  It's jerky and that's, oh my god, and if you're with a driver who, who loves the brake, oh my god, you better, you better have your ginger chew ready to go the second you step out of that thing.

• 34:52Mary Beth Barone?

  It's, it's, it's seasickness.

• 34:54Benito Skinner?

  Well, if you can, get out of it.

• 34:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Getting in a Tesla, you need your sea legs, because you are gonna get nauseous and you're gonna wanna throw up.

• 34:59Benito Skinner?

  And you know I don't have my sea legs.

• 35:00Mary Beth Barone?

  I know you don't.

• 35:00Benito Skinner?

  I need ramamine from Cabo San Lucas.

• 35:02Mary Beth Barone?

  You're from Landlocked, Idaho.

• 35:03Benito Skinner?

  Well, of course.

• 35:05Mary Beth Barone?

  I hate Tesla so much.

• 35:07Benito Skinner?

  Jackson, you don't drive one, do you?

• 35:08Mary Beth Barone?

  Uh, no, I'm an Audi boy. Thank god.

• 35:10Benito Skinner?

  Audi, so the death of me, me too. I might ride for Audi at some point.

• 35:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Whoa, I would love that. I love them. My dream car when I was 14, Audi TT.

• 35:17Benito Skinner?

  Are you serious?

• 35:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, silver Audi TT.

• 35:19Benito Skinner?

  Mine was a PT Cruiser.

• 35:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, so, so you came out in high school.

• 35:26Mary Beth Barone?

  PT Cruiser, I love that.

• 35:28Benito Skinner?

  I also wanted a Kia Soul for a sec.

• 35:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, and why the hell not?

• 35:31Benito Skinner?

  Well, good marketing works on me.

• 35:33Mary Beth Barone?

  As long as it's not a Tesla.

• 35:34Benito Skinner?

  The hamsters in the car, very, oh yeah.

• 35:36Mary Beth Barone?

  The hamsters in the car.

• 35:37Benito Skinner?

  Barbaredo! I know she doesn't drive a Tesla.

• 35:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Absolutely not, not a chance.

• 35:43Benito Skinner?

  Thank you so much for your love on This Is How We Do.

• 35:48Benito Skinner?

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• 39:37Benito Skinner?

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• 41:12Mary Beth Barone?

  I will be dying for the wedding industrial complex. So I don't even have that much to say about this because I feel like we've covered it a lot already.

• 41:19Benito Skinner?

  Well, dear, you know, I've said, I have spoken my piece.

• 41:22Mary Beth Barone?

  We have, we've spoken on it. And I just think weddings are a celebration of love. They're a celebration of life and togetherness and joining people in a union. And it's like amazing that we, that we even like are vulnerable enough to allow ourselves to fall in love. When there's like so much risk associated with that. And I just feel like sometimes with weddings, it's like focusing on the wrong things. And it makes the celebration something that the people who have to go to the wedding ultimately resent, which is not fun.

• 41:53Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 41:54Mary Beth Barone?

  And I think it's just like with social media and like, I just think people feel.

• 41:59Benito Skinner?

  Social media ruined weddings.

• 42:00Mary Beth Barone?

  So I do, so social media, that's maybe the thesis of this argument is that social media ruined weddings. Because I think it's more about like, sometimes the photo opportunities or like.

• 42:09Benito Skinner?

  I was your TA just now. We were at a meeting and I was your TA and I go, here's your thesis.

• 42:13Mary Beth Barone?

  It's about posting, it's about photos, it's about content capture. I don't think that's like what weddings really are about for me personally.

• 42:21Benito Skinner?

  I completely agree. I think the more I see all of it, the more I'm like, okay, I do think that the bubble is about to burst. And here's my thing, I think like, obviously do whatever you want with it. Rarely do I have people who tell me, I'm so excited to go to this wedding. And that's where I'm like, I feel like these used to really slap.

• 42:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 42:39Benito Skinner?

  Cause it used to be one thing and it would be the ceremony, the reception. And then I'm just watching everybody get so wrapped up in so many things. And honestly, I think it's a lot of people who really just love event planning and they. That they love that like my sister, I think in the process was kind of like, fuck, I really

• 42:57Mary Beth Barone?

  This is like fun.

• 42:58Benito Skinner?

  For this shit.

• 42:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 42:59Benito Skinner?

  Which I think that's so fun. I feel like, I mean, I loved my sister's wedding. It really was just like a wedding and a reception and then like a cute little like if you're around to have like a little snacky before you leave, which was very cute. I think that there's so much pressure on it to the point where I'm like, how could the two people getting married have any fucking fun at this?

• 43:16Mary Beth Barone?

  No, there's so much pressure and it's so expensive.

• 43:20Benito Skinner?

  It's so expensive and for guests, it's so expensive and for guests with kids, that's a whole other thing.

• 43:24Mary Beth Barone?

  So it's it's the engagement. This is this is like maximum impact wedding industrial complex. It's the engagement party.

• 43:31Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 43:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Bridal shower. Destination bachelorette.

• 43:34Benito Skinner?

  Oh.

• 43:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Welcome dinner.

• 43:36Benito Skinner?

  This is what I said when I said I've seen the world done at all.

• 43:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Wedding and then reception and then the brunch the next day. Like you said, are they even enjoying themselves at the at the function? But I think you can really tell when a wedding is like coming from a good place. Does that make sense?

• 43:50Benito Skinner?

  Agreed. I can tell when it's like, no, and here I go again. The big Vermont wedding. Liv, I know you're listening, love. Liv and Matt's wedding, it was just like Vermont and like she only had two costume changes and that's so fair because she wanted to like dance more in her dress.

• 44:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Of course.

• 44:07Benito Skinner?

  But like she wore her dress for most of the reception and that's kind of my rule. If you're spending most of your reception changing, that to me is sad. I'm like

• 44:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Because you're not with the people.

• 44:15Benito Skinner?

  And you know, you have other events where you can wear like cute little white dresses, but you bought that wedding dress. Like, wear that shit. Like our moms wore that shit.

• 44:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Probably the most expensive thing many of us will ever buy or own.

• 44:25Benito Skinner?

  Absolutely. So I'm like, wear it. I mean, God knows I'll probably change a couple of times, but I'm like, I just don't want that to be the whole thing. It's like, there's his new outfit.

• 44:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Remember the psychotic email sent by a bride to her bridesmaids that went viral?

• 44:37Benito Skinner?

  Oh, yeah, yeah.

• 44:38Mary Beth Barone?

  That girl is from my neighborhood. So just keep that in mind.

• 44:40Benito Skinner?

  Okay. And you were a bridesmaid.

• 44:42Mary Beth Barone?

  And I was a bridesmaid.

• 44:44Benito Skinner?

  Twenty seven dresses. That just hit me like a ton of bricks.

• 44:47Mary Beth Barone?

  I just think be mindful and like ask yourself, check in with yourself on like, what is the motivation for the thing? And and then if it feels true to you and if you're like a totally lavish, over the top person and your wedding reflects that, like wonderful. I think that's amazing. And also I'm really scared that they are going to overturn gay marriage. And so I'm scared about that.

• 45:09Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 45:10Mary Beth Barone?

  And I just think

• 45:10Benito Skinner?

  Oh, is that too political? I'm looking right down the barrel of the camera right now. Dear media, clip this.

• 45:17Mary Beth Barone?

  Here's what I want this die to allow people to do. I'm giving you permission to have the wedding of your dreams. Not what you think you need to plan.

• 45:26Benito Skinner?

  Exactly.

• 45:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Not a spectacle. It's the wedding of your dreams and you don't let anyone, you don't let your fiance's mom dictate it. You don't let your grandma dictate it. You, it's your wedding.

• 45:37Benito Skinner?

  It's supposed to be your favorite day.

• 45:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Ever.

• 45:39Benito Skinner?

  Like, I was talking to a friend and she was like, I literally just want to get married in Vegas. And I was like, well, then you should. If that's what you want. There's so much pressure and I think, again, it is because of social media of like,

• 45:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Uncapitalism.

• 45:51Benito Skinner?

  No, I have to do, yeah, and I have to do this whole thing. And like even Terry and I have kind of like, some people have been like, your wedding's gonna be crazy. And I'm like, I just don't think it is. I want Terry to like, to do the flowers.

• 46:02Mary Beth Barone?

  And you're not gonna have a step and repeat with like a vodka brand on it.

• 46:04Benito Skinner?

  No, and I don't want cameras. Like, I really don't. I'm like, I, you know, I grew up with them.

• 46:12Speaker 04

  I, the cameras are in my face all day. I mean, look at me with this pod. There's three big old cannons looking at me right now.

• 46:18Benito Skinner?

  I watch people absolutely spin out over this and I'm like, please don't. We're giving you permission right now. If you just need two of your girlies to say you don't have to do all that, do exactly what you want to do. Don't feel pressured to, you know, just, oh my God, there's so much.

• 46:34Mary Beth Barone?

  I do think it's funny that because we're in our 30s now, it's like weddings are where people go to like, do hard drugs. And I just think it's funny. It's like, it becomes a music festival in that moment.

• 46:43Benito Skinner?

  I've been to so many weddings where they're like, here's acid spray. And I'm like, whoa, I'm tripping acid at this? No.

• 46:49Mary Beth Barone?

  That's kind of cool. I like it.

• 46:50Benito Skinner?

  No, I know. You're a little nasty girl.

• 46:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, cause I'm not doing drugs much anymore, but at a wedding, I'll make an exception usually. It's fun. I'm having fun.

• 46:56Benito Skinner?

  You'll do G at a wedding.

• 46:57Mary Beth Barone?

  I'll do G at a wedding. I don't do G except for at weddings. You know what you are, Benny?

• 47:02Benito Skinner?

  Hmm, a [BLEEP].

• 47:03Mary Beth Barone?

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

• 47:07Benito Skinner?

  Ride or die.

• 47:09Mary Beth Barone?

  So to get into ride or die, I think we can both confidently say that we die for Teslas and we die for the wedding industrial complex.

• 47:15Benito Skinner?

  I guess the flip here would have been like, do you ride for it? You know what I mean?

• 47:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Good call. We're subverting the form.

• 47:19Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, so this would be, I, I really... I die for the wedding industrial complex. I think it's created so much anxiety. I guess it maybe has created jobs, but I also feel like they're exploitative at times. I think this is what's beautiful. If you go to a place and it's like a destination and you do all local artisans, that's fabulous. I think that's great. Bringing in like some insane cake, you know what pisses me off? When the cake's not real.

• 47:44Mary Beth Barone?

  That's insane. I've never, I have never heard of that.

• 47:47Benito Skinner?

  Styrofoam.

• 47:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Just for optics, just for the aesthetic?

• 47:51Benito Skinner?

  For the size.

• 47:52Mary Beth Barone?

  That's so weird. It's all smoke and mirrors.

• 47:55Benito Skinner?

  Jackson left again.

• 47:56Mary Beth Barone?

  I know, he's gone. He actually left the building.

• 47:58Benito Skinner?

  He went for his new nut.

• 47:59Mary Beth Barone?

  He didn't just leave the room, he left the building.

• 48:01Benito Skinner?

  It's schooner time.

• 48:02Mary Beth Barone?

  It's schooner time.

• 48:03Benito Skinner?

  It's schooner time.

• 48:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, happy ride heritage month.

• 48:06Benito Skinner?

  To Monica Barbaredo.

• 48:07Mary Beth Barone?

  To Monica Barbaredo, to Monica Barbaredo only.

• 48:10Benito Skinner?

  So you're not gonna die for Teslas?

• 48:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, I died for Teslas. I mean, I think I died for Teslas before all this shit started. Like, I just thought that the cars were very like nausea inducing. And I don't like this, the aesthetic. A Cybertruck to me is like, that is an assault on the senses.

• 48:28Benito Skinner?

  You know what I want? It's like, be a car. I don't wanna, I don't wanna ride around in an iPad.

• 48:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Let cars be cars.

• 48:33Benito Skinner?

  Let cars be cars, woke mob.

• 48:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Cars be cars, my god, please.

• 48:38Benito Skinner?

  You know what I mean? It's like one big iPad, it's one big like, uh, TV that's playing a fireplace on it. You know what I mean?

• 48:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, it's one big, it's one big Yule log. And that's not okay.

• 48:48Benito Skinner?

  Oh, knock it off. You're gonna talk about Yule logs during Heritage?

• 48:52Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm just saying, be what you are.

• 48:53Benito Skinner?

  My darling love.

• 48:54Mary Beth Barone?

  In many ways, both of our dies are be what you are.

• 48:57Benito Skinner?

  What do you think they're gonna think of Grandpa Terry?

• 48:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Here's the thing. If you resisted at first, because a lot of people know this, that I did not understand Faita the Good Faita for a while.

• 49:07Benito Skinner?

  Whoa.

• 49:08Mary Beth Barone?

  You know, you knew that. I was like, I'm not getting this bit.

• 49:10Benito Skinner?

  I love Faita. You know how originally, I don't know if we've talked about this, but originally it was like, I said it in such a specific way.

• 49:16Mary Beth Barone?

  I know. And I didn't get the bit. But then, the more you did it, I think, oh, I totally get this now.

• 49:21Benito Skinner?

  Did I ever say where it came from? Of what made me, it made me think. I just said that every time a queer person or a woman is on a red carpet, they're asked the most intense question possible.

• 49:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 49:30Benito Skinner?

  And then straight guys are asked like, like.

• 49:32Mary Beth Barone?

  What type of toilet paper do you use?

• 49:34Benito Skinner?

  You like titties? You know, they're like, hey, you gotta piss, man? And we're asked like, what do you think of the political landscape and what's going on right now? Just like. Oh, I'm at a lip gloss event. But yeah, I think it's terrible. And now I'm like, I will fight her.

• 49:50Mary Beth Barone?

  The good fighter.

• 49:52Benito Skinner?

  And we will, and we said that.

• 49:53Mary Beth Barone?

  And we do.

• 49:54Benito Skinner?

  So we're fighting the good fighter because the fight has come to us and we've been training. This is your song. Me at your wedding. And you can tell everybody.

• 50:05Mary Beth Barone?

  This is a song.

• 50:07Benito Skinner?

  I hope you don't mind. I hope you don't mind. Are you actually gonna have me perform at your wedding?

• 50:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Maybe.

• 50:13Benito Skinner?

  That I put down in words. I will want to fly this. That Monica Barbara. Raiders in the world. Oh, my accent.

• 50:27Mary Beth Barone?

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

• 50:39Speaker 05

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