Notting Hill + Having Regrets

Benny deals with his alleged COVID diagnosis while Mary Beth copes with past mistakes. All while we welcome Duddy to the cinematic universe. 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: Get 25% off the entire HillHouseHome website until Monday December 1st. Yes - 25% off your entire order! Find K18 at your local Sephora and feel the difference for yourself, or try it 10% off your first order at K18hair.com. Use code RIDE. Right now, during their Black Friday sale, you can shop their entire collection for up to 60% off. Plus, spend $135, and you’ll get an extra $25 off. Head to ThirdLove.com! Visit EatBanza.com and use code RIDE at checkout for 50% off your first order of pasta or mac & cheese. To learn more about therapy with NOCD, go to nocd.com and schedule a free 15-minute call with their team. 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.

• 0:19Speaker 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 wanna have fun. Start your engines. Tight, girl.

• 0:30Benito Skinner?

  I'm Benito Skinner.

• 0:31Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm Mary Beth Brown.

• 0:33Benito Skinner?

  And this.

• 0:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Is.

• 0:34Benito Skinner?

  Ride.

• 0:38Benito Skinner?

  Beautiful, fly, hot and sexy. Beautiful. They were playing Zara Larsson in Joe and the Juice last time I went, 20 minutes ago.

• 0:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. We had cracker sandwiches for lunch. Went in Rome.

• 0:51Benito Skinner?

  And dinner.

• 0:52Mary Beth Barone?

  And dinner.

• 0:53Benito Skinner?

  And just to walk in and you're, I think, coming, coming back from COVID, I'd say. I came here and got the black plague.

• 1:01Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm a [BLEEP]. First of all, I love when people say they had COVID when they didn't take a COVID test.

• 1:06Benito Skinner?

  Have you ever known your body? Have you ever in your life known your body?

• 1:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Then they tell people, I had COVID last week. So then everyone they interact with goes, well, I guess I have COVID. So now you're saying you have COVID.

• 1:17Benito Skinner?

  Sorry, I just flea bagged at the camera.

• 1:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, you broke the fourth law.

• 1:21Benito Skinner?

  His neck. But here's the thing. I just think like, they haven't acknowledged us, they never will.

• 1:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Joe and the Juice?

• 1:29Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, they're playing cat and mouse.

• 1:30Mary Beth Barone?

  No, because it's, yeah.

• 1:32Benito Skinner?

  But just walking in it, beautiful, fly, hot and sexy.

• 1:37Mary Beth Barone?

  What's the song Pretty Ugly that you put?

• 1:39Benito Skinner?

  Have you ever seen a pretty girl get ugly like this? Which is pretty much every time we're on camera for this podcast, I'd say.

• 1:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, it's, okay, so just to talk a little bit about the current space we're inhabiting, and I mean space in a larger sense, like.

• 1:52Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, sweetheart.

• 1:53Mary Beth Barone?

  When you attend events and things like that, you're getting glam a lot. So then when you don't have to have glam, it just feels better to not wear makeup and have just like bare skin. But that does definitely have its consequences, like looking terrible on this podcast.

• 2:08Benito Skinner?

  I've decided if you wanna fuck us, you wanna fuck us regardless.

• 2:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, you, and you should. Like, you can't just have us with our glam.

• 2:16Benito Skinner?

  Can you finish the shot? She's been drinking an immunity shot.

• 2:21Mary Beth Barone?

  For about 10 minutes.

• 2:22Benito Skinner?

  Well, we are teaching the Brits how to drink a drink.

• 2:25Mary Beth Barone?

  You can drink slow.

• 2:27Benito Skinner?

  Your time, my love.

• 2:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 2:29Benito Skinner?

  Let it simmer, nurse it.

• 2:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Everyone in this country is baffled by the fact that it takes me six hours to drink an iced coffee.

• 2:35Benito Skinner?

  It's all people have brought up to me. They're like, you're still with that coffee. I'm like, having this coffee is as good as my day gets.

• 2:41Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm nursing it.

• 2:42Benito Skinner?

  I'm nursing it because I don't want it to end.

• 2:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Because once it's gone, honey, it's gone. You can't get it back.

• 2:47Benito Skinner?

  It's gone. And then you have your second one and it never hits the same as that first one.

• 2:50Mary Beth Barone?

  It doesn't hit the same.

• 2:51Benito Skinner?

  Oh, the fern does tickle you quite a bit.

• 2:53Mary Beth Barone?

  You are understanding. We're in the Great British Library. We're in London. I guess we should say that too.

• 2:57Benito Skinner?

  London. I love it here. And London's so happy to have you back, baby girl. And I finally get to do a ride that I've been waiting to do for, since I was six.

• 3:07Mary Beth Barone?

  It's really fun.

• 3:07Benito Skinner?

  Sex.

• 3:08Mary Beth Barone?

  And a necklace.

• 3:09Benito Skinner?

  And a necklace. Delaney Jane, she's like entered her new era. So there's AI and then there's Delaney Jane. She is like, she's adding her own special effects to her videos. The production value has increased tenfold.

• 3:24Mary Beth Barone?

  She's killing it.

• 3:24Benito Skinner?

  She's absolutely eating down. I need to meet her. I need to give her a hug. She's so.

• 3:30Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm just trying to think where we could do that.

• 3:32Benito Skinner?

  Our daughter.

• 3:32Mary Beth Barone?

  We have to go to Australia.

• 3:34Benito Skinner?

  I really want to go to Australia. I really do.

• 3:37Mary Beth Barone?

  It's just so far. I have to go. My sister lives there. Like, I need to go. I need to visit her at some point.

• 3:43Benito Skinner?

  I think they love us down there for real.

• 3:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Film down there. A movie will film that we're in at some point.

• 3:47Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, definitely.

• 3:48Mary Beth Barone?

  They love filming in Australia. We're gonna get there.

• 3:51Benito Skinner?

  What about London?

• 3:52Mary Beth Barone?

  We'll stop by.

• 3:53Benito Skinner?

  What about New York City?

• 3:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, I would, yeah, I would love to film something in New York. Oh, should we talk about GQ Man of the Year? Party, not awards.

• 3:59Benito Skinner?

  You think of it?

• 4:00Mary Beth Barone?

  It's a party, yes.

• 4:00Benito Skinner?

  Should we read some of our jokes? Or we're actually gonna save those for, we have a very special guest next week.

• 4:04Mary Beth Barone?

  We have a guest, we have a guest next week.

• 4:06Benito Skinner?

  It is so not who you think it is.

• 4:08Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, I think it's gonna totally like completely surprise people.

• 4:12Benito Skinner?

  When you said it to me, I couldn't believe it.

• 4:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, well, it's returning to the sacred text in a way.

• 4:18Benito Skinner?

  On the TV, or I could just watch you two right here.

• 4:21Mary Beth Barone?

  No, you were being so funny.

• 4:23Benito Skinner?

  I was the funniest. I've ever been yesterday morning.

• 4:25Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 4:26Benito Skinner?

  So for anyone who wasn't there, I'm sorry, but.

• 4:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, and it was hardly anyone.

• 4:29Benito Skinner?

  So it was just two people.

• 4:30Mary Beth Barone?

  It was two people.

• 4:31Benito Skinner?

  For some reason, I could have toured it. It was like.

• 4:34Mary Beth Barone?

  You were cracking me up. Do you want to talk about your dream day as a woman? You went, you went, you riffed last night. You were riffing solo. I didn't have to say anything.

• 4:42Benito Skinner?

  I was so tired.

• 4:43Mary Beth Barone?

  I want to be a woman for one.

• 4:45Benito Skinner?

  Well, I had COVID. Well, I have COVID. It's the black plague. They got all kinds of stuff over here. I'm not used to. And are you laughing? I love our producer today. He's a cutie.

• 4:56Mary Beth Barone?

  We didn't have Jimmy last time because we booked two last minute, but so we were left to our own devices of clicking the record button. And I just said, I got too scared last time.

• 5:04Benito Skinner?

  We, you know, I didn't click that record button.

• 5:07Mary Beth Barone?

  I like, but it's a, you know, I want to include you.

• 5:10Benito Skinner?

  Together.

• 5:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Mutant, mutant and proud.

• 5:14Benito Skinner?

  Wicked. Good.

• 5:16Mary Beth Barone?

  We were riffing yesterday. We had fun.

• 5:18Benito Skinner?

  Uh, we were so hungover after the GQ.

• 5:20Mary Beth Barone?

  I've never, it's the worst hangover I've had in years. It was so bad. I really was upset with myself. I was, I was sad.

• 5:28Benito Skinner?

  I keep taking down cheeseburgers in a way that is seeming clinical.

• 5:33Mary Beth Barone?

  It's clinical.

• 5:34Benito Skinner?

  But it's so mean. It's like a cheeseburger.

• 5:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Let's talk about Daddy.

• 5:40Mary Beth Barone?

  If you think I forgot one thing you said last night.

• 5:43Benito Skinner?

  Her name is Daddy. I think, okay, so I just was like so delirious and I just thought, I want to have a day as a woman. And I want to be such a level of out of pocket that like, so I said, I would start the day.

• 6:03Benito Skinner?

  What did I say? I said, I'd, I'd meet a guy and be like, take me to dinner. Why don't you? Like the second I meet him, he feels so uncomfortable. He'd say yes. I'd show up at the dinner in a corset with pasties on.

• 6:18Benito Skinner?

  Crotchless panties.

• 6:21Benito Skinner?

  And UG boots to my thigh.

• 6:22Mary Beth Barone?

  No, but then, then he takes you to dinner and the whole night you're saying, I want to have your babies.

• 6:30Benito Skinner?

  The whole time with my finger, I go, I want to have your babies.

• 6:33Mary Beth Barone?

  And then he, and then he tries to touch you and you. And then you go, you have to take me to Disney first.

• 6:41Benito Skinner?

  You forgot what I ordered for dinner. Dog.

• 6:48Benito Skinner?

  Dog and a strawberry banana smoothie.

• 6:54Benito Skinner?

  Then I take two shots.

• 6:58Benito Skinner?

  And oysters.

• 7:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Then you go ride the rides at Magic Kingdom.

• 7:03Benito Skinner?

  And the whole time I'm going.

• 7:06Benito Skinner?

  Like.

• 7:06Mary Beth Barone?

  And then you say your balls feel so good.

• 7:12Benito Skinner?

  I grab his crotch at one point and I say, your balls feel so good.

• 7:18Benito Skinner?

  And then I don't sleep with him.

• 7:20Mary Beth Barone?

  No.

• 7:21Benito Skinner?

  No.

• 7:21Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm actually, I'm crying.

• 7:24Benito Skinner?

  Throw him in the river.

• 7:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, it's a political assassination.

• 7:26Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 7:27Mary Beth Barone?

  It's a political.

• 7:28Benito Skinner?

  His whole day was spent with the governor.

• 7:34Mary Beth Barone?

  I want this for you so bad.

• 7:36Benito Skinner?

  I know. Come on, Genie. Where you at?

• 7:42Benito Skinner?

  It's all I want.

• 7:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Genie gives you one mission. You don't, you don't end homelessness.

• 7:46Benito Skinner?

  And during dinner, I keep like.

• 7:47Mary Beth Barone?

  It's not world peace.

• 7:48Benito Skinner?

  Putting my fist to my mouth.

• 7:51Mary Beth Barone?

  It's Teddy. It's one day is Teddy.

• 7:53Benito Skinner?

  One day is Teddy. Yeah. And she's so, like, I don't know, I know exactly what she looks like for some reason. Oh, and I would have gotten filler earlier in the day on my lips, so I'd have bruised lips. And anytime someone brings it up, I go, it's ketchup.

• 8:09Benito Skinner?

  I love her. Fuck, it's all I want.

• 8:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Now, this is a great idea for a short film, if you ask me.

• 8:17Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 8:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Because the twist that she's a political assassin, I think, would really catch people off guard.

• 8:21Benito Skinner?

  She has a gun.

• 8:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Right. A couple of guns.

• 8:24Benito Skinner?

  I was gonna be a woman for a day and wouldn't have a gun. Come on now.

• 8:27Mary Beth Barone?

  You'd have to.

• 8:28Benito Skinner?

  I have to make it through the day.

• 8:29Mary Beth Barone?

  You'd have to.

• 8:29Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 8:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Your balls feel so good.

• 8:32Benito Skinner?

  Your balls feel so good. Just out of pocket shit.

• 8:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Jimmy's dying in the corner. His heart's about to stop.

• 8:37Benito Skinner?

  Well, no, Jimmy's thinking, I gotta meet this girl.

• 8:39Mary Beth Barone?

  If only I could meet a woman like such as that.

• 8:41Benito Skinner?

  He goes, dream date, and he knows that. Yeah.

• 8:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, my God. Okay. So, the world ain't ready.

• 8:49Benito Skinner?

  So, girls, if you're listening. Just a few little pointers. I think my pasties would be either X's or hearts.

• 8:57Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, you know, they make shamrocks. Did you know they make shamrock pasties?

• 9:01Benito Skinner?

  So they're shamrocks. And in the middle of dinner, they'd keep peeling off, and I'd keep going, oh, my goodness, my bosoms. And then I have to press them back into my nipples. I have huge areolas, by the way.

• 9:11Mary Beth Barone?

  I know. I assumed that.

• 9:14Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. They don't cover them.

• 9:16Mary Beth Barone?

  No.

• 9:17Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. And then in the middle of dinner, she goes, I have to pull.

• 9:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Do you have an areola? I'm sorry, because this might be out there, but

• 9:26Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 9:27Mary Beth Barone?

  One that's so big that.

• 9:29Benito Skinner?

  A pasty couldn't even try. An XL pasty.

• 9:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Still the outline of it, like it doesn't quite cover it.

• 9:35Benito Skinner?

  Well, it's in fact, it kind of just makes like a, like a, like a symbol.

• 9:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, it's a whole, it's totally a new thing.

• 9:42Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 9:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 9:43Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 9:44Mary Beth Barone?

  So that's where we're at creatively.

• 9:47Benito Skinner?

  So kind of like, I've never been more, I'm in creative flow.

• 9:50Mary Beth Barone?

  You're in flow state.

• 9:51Benito Skinner?

  I'm in flow state.

• 9:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. Wow. I mean, to see that live last night, and again today, obviously, I mean, you could see I was like actually crying, but

• 9:58Benito Skinner?

  Thank you.

• 9:59Mary Beth Barone?

  The idea of that, yeah.

• 10:01Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I, I almost just revealed who was listening. We can bleep it, but he was, um.

• 10:06Mary Beth Barone?

  As if they're not going to figure that out.

• 10:08Benito Skinner?

  Okay. The other person who was there.

• 10:11Mary Beth Barone?

  Was of course Edward Blumel.

• 10:13Benito Skinner?

  It was.

• 10:13Mary Beth Barone?

  It's good to catch up with old friends when you're in town.

• 10:15Benito Skinner?

  Yes, and he, he missed being in hotel rooms with me, doing bits for you.

• 10:20Mary Beth Barone?

  What's cool?

• 10:21Benito Skinner?

  I see the two of you in a room and I'm like. I launch into, I'm it, the clown.

• 10:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, we love that.

• 10:28Benito Skinner?

  Mm hmm, dream roll.

• 10:30Mary Beth Barone?

  I did extend my stay at the hotel one night and they kind of honeydicked me because they told me how much it was going to be without VAT, service charge, et cetera, et cetera.

• 10:39Benito Skinner?

  Oh.

• 10:40Mary Beth Barone?

  So when I went down this morning to tap that credit card, I was hit with a number that I was simply not expecting. And I just said, you know what? C'est la vie.

• 10:49Benito Skinner?

  La vida bonita.

• 10:50Mary Beth Barone?

  La vida bonita, carpe diem.

• 10:52Benito Skinner?

  Of course, well, that one too.

• 10:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay, another modernization I want to do, carpe diem is Latin for seize the day, but I think carpe diem, shoot your shot, you should be DMing more people.

• 11:03Benito Skinner?

  Oh, it sounds like someone's got a new t-shirt idea.

• 11:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Me putting that on a t-shirt.

• 11:07Benito Skinner?

  I want you to come out with a t-shirt brand.

• 11:09Mary Beth Barone?

  I sell three units of the carpe diem t-shirt.

• 11:13Benito Skinner?

  You think that's a three unit purchase? That's got.

• 11:15Mary Beth Barone?

  You think that has?

• 11:16Benito Skinner?

  Numbers, honey.

• 11:17Mary Beth Barone?

  Best seller potential.

• 11:18Benito Skinner?

  Numbers, Jimmy'd buy one.

• 11:20Mary Beth Barone?

  Jimmy would, well, he would gift one gratis. He'd buy three.

• 11:22Benito Skinner?

  I want Jimmy to wear whitey-tities with that on it, on the back, it says, carpe diem. Some girl taking those off?

• 11:29Mary Beth Barone?

  He's married, fully.

• 11:30Benito Skinner?

  His wife taking those off? The fuck? See, I can adapt.

• 11:34Mary Beth Barone?

  She goes, who have you been hanging out with?

• 11:35Benito Skinner?

  So, oh, wait, this is Daddy in the middle of the date. So, what's your wife's name?

• 11:42Benito Skinner?

  She leans from southern to Nina drama to

• 11:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 11:46Benito Skinner?

  Different accent per

• 11:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Her.

• 11:48Benito Skinner?

  Oyster.

• 11:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Different accent per course, yeah.

• 11:52Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 11:52Mary Beth Barone?

  For having a smoothie after dinner and then just belching.

• 11:55Benito Skinner?

  And then for dessert.

• 11:56Mary Beth Barone?

  Take me to Disney.

• 11:57Benito Skinner?

  For dessert, it's Disney, but she also goes, I love tiramisu. And they don't have it on the menu, so they have to go somewhere else. Prove to me you love me.

• 12:08Mary Beth Barone?

  See, if we lived in a world where women could behave that way, the world would be such a better place.

• 12:12Benito Skinner?

  No, that's what I mean. Like, it's just this one day.

• 12:14Mary Beth Barone?

  We have to hold back so much.

• 12:16Benito Skinner?

  I know.

• 12:16Mary Beth Barone?

  And even still, guys won't date us. Like, we can be the perfect woman and still.

• 12:21Benito Skinner?

  You were the perfect woman the other night at GQ, man of the year. A night all about men, you made it all about women.

• 12:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Women's is is.

• 12:29Benito Skinner?

  My goodness gracious.

• 12:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Yes. I mean, it was fun. I wore the dress in my dreams. I decided I'm gonna wear that dress again to something else, cuz I want to re-wear.

• 12:36Benito Skinner?

  It's your Tiffany Haddish, Alexander McQueen dress.

• 12:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Exactly. Thank you for saying that.

• 12:40Benito Skinner?

  It's back.

• 12:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, my God, when you rubbed your nose.

• 12:42Benito Skinner?

  God, it's just like.

• 12:43Mary Beth Barone?

  That was so, it's crass. Well, you rubbed it, you went like this.

• 12:47Benito Skinner?

  You know what?

• 12:48Mary Beth Barone?

  If you haven't seen.

• 12:49Benito Skinner?

  Our friend said it was cutie.

• 12:50Mary Beth Barone?

  If you haven't seen the episode of Ride From Last Week, the way Benny, someone in the comments goes, the way Benny rubbed his nose like a toddler, and it has the timestamp, so you can just.

• 12:59Benito Skinner?

  Sorry, I just like, sometimes it just, it's so.

• 13:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Doing things. You were doing hand puppets or whatever, shadow puppets.

• 13:04Benito Skinner?

  I have SARS-CoV-19.

• 13:07Mary Beth Barone?

  All right, let's get into what we ride for.

• 13:08Benito Skinner?

  Ah, sometimes I think about you saying, thank you, my friend, about the bat at the Wuhan market.

• 13:16Benito Skinner?

  Do you remember?

• 13:17Mary Beth Barone?

  I remember, but here's the problem where we're at.

• 13:19Benito Skinner?

  If COVID hadn't happened, your friend wouldn't have gotten cheated on.

• 13:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, yeah, of course. And she would have still gotten married.

• 13:25Benito Skinner?

  Married to someone who cheated on her.

• 13:26Mary Beth Barone?

  That was my cousin.

• 13:27Benito Skinner?

  Your cousin, yeah.

• 13:28Mary Beth Barone?

  That's la familia.

• 13:29Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, la familia.

• 13:30Mary Beth Barone?

  La familia.

• 13:31Benito Skinner?

  Family runs deep. What did I write?

• 13:33Mary Beth Barone?

  For good.

• 13:34Benito Skinner?

  Uh, Scanlon family strong in a, in a script for overcompensating.

• 13:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 13:39Benito Skinner?

  That made you laugh. It's fun to write drafts and know that Mary Beth will read them, and then I'm gonna get a text about something that I've added.

• 13:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Uh, yeah.

• 13:45Benito Skinner?

  I have little winks for my girl. Today I will be writing for Not Saying Hell.

• 13:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Wow.

• 13:51Benito Skinner?

  The film, not the place, but I, the place is great too, but it's the film.

• 13:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, the film is everything. I'm gonna ride for having regrets. Pinky.

• 14:00Benito Skinner?

  Pinky is attacking my ear right now. She is slobbering down the holes. Sister!

• 14:06Mary Beth Barone?

  The Veronis at Hill House Home are back.

• 14:08Benito Skinner?

  But this time, their entire website is 25% off their annual suit.

• 14:12Mary Beth Barone?

  In case you don't know, let us introduce you to Hill House Home. Hill House Home invented the viral nap dress.

• 14:18Benito Skinner?

  I love taking naps in my nap dress. Celebs like Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Anne Hathaway, Kathy Hilton, and Mary Beth Barone have been spotted in Hill House.

• 14:31Mary Beth Barone?

  And their latest customer, Duddy.

• 14:34Benito Skinner?

  Duddy, girl, she would love a Hill House nap dress. I'm gonna go take a nap in your closet. Pinky, kiss me in the mouth.

• 14:42Mary Beth Barone?

  They make the cutest little dresses and tops for our girls. They are truly heirloom pieces. But the thing we really love from Hill House Home are, I never know if it's are is, but the thing we love are their loungewear and bedding.

• 14:55Benito Skinner?

  Oh, God, Christmas come early. Talk about a perfect Christmas present.

• 15:00Mary Beth Barone?

  They're back, too. Oh, okay, God. This will be Benny's last ad. He is, he's perishing.

• 15:05Benito Skinner?

  London took me out.

• 15:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Their bathrobes and pajamas are so soft. Purchase for getting ready.

• 15:11Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my God, so it's perfect. So that's actually sounded out here, perfect for getting ready moments.

• 15:17Mary Beth Barone?

  The tees are made from the same fine fabric as their baby onesies, so you can sleep like a baby. It says, use your own tone of voice, so it sounds personal and natural.

• 15:25Benito Skinner?

  Well, nailed it. We are clearly big fans, so please have fun with it. That's also from them as well. And hey, Hill House, we appreciate the compliments. Always welcome here.

• 15:33Mary Beth Barone?

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• 15:43Mary Beth Barone?

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• 15:44Benito Skinner?

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• 15:57Mary Beth Barone?

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• 16:08Benito Skinner?

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• 16:16Mary Beth Barone?

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• 16:18Benito Skinner?

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• 16:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Through a lot.

• 16:25Benito Skinner?

  And so did you. I made you dye it for our show. If you guys haven't seen it, it's totally personal and you hate us.

• 16:31Mary Beth Barone?

  It's totally personal and I've put my hair through a lot, honey. Bleach, color, heat, hairspray, you name it. I've done it all.

• 16:39Benito Skinner?

  Keep going.

• 16:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay.

• 16:40Benito Skinner?

  You should be able to keep doing ads regardless of what comes out of my mouth.

• 16:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Usually I can. It's 10pm right now. It's 10pm. Do you know where your K18 is? Find K18.

• 16:51Benito Skinner?

  My K18 hasn't texted me back. I don't know where she is.

• 16:55Mary Beth Barone?

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• 17:05Benito Skinner?

  Come on.

• 17:06Mary Beth Barone?

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• 17:18Benito Skinner?

  Oh, God. Third Love. I can always tell when it's Third Love. She's got a perfect bra on.

• 17:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Have you ever settled for a bra that's just okay?

• 17:25Benito Skinner?

  No.

• 17:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Third Love is here to change that. And I brought this up last week and one person, it totally resonated with them. Third Love was in Workaholics. Remember Third Love? When he's talking about Third Love? Anyway, look it up.

• 17:35Benito Skinner?

  Oh, I love the acid trip episode.

• 17:37Mary Beth Barone?

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• 17:58Benito Skinner?

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• 18:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Yep.

• 18:07Benito Skinner?

  And the fit, it's unmatched.

• 18:10Mary Beth Barone?

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• 18:14Benito Skinner?

  That's an insane amount of sizes. I would almost beg them for less.

• 18:17Mary Beth Barone?

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• 18:31Benito Skinner?

  Oh, you know my rack's about to sit bigger.

• 18:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Yep.

• 18:34Benito Skinner?

  Let's go, baby. Hurry.

• 18:35Mary Beth Barone?

  You're you're getting all that tryptophan in there. It goes straight to the tatas.

• 18:39Benito Skinner?

  Take a little nap, wake up with bigger bobbies. What is it? Plus, you get $25 off when you spend $135. But hurry, this sale won't last forever, motherfucker.

• 18:49Mary Beth Barone?

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• 18:58Benito Skinner?

  Who cares? Ride. Perfect. I'll go first. Uh, okay.

• 19:05Benito Skinner?

  What about that, Jimmy? Is that is that the perfect woman?

• 19:07Mary Beth Barone?

  He's smiling.

• 19:08Benito Skinner?

  Gee, I wonder why she's single.

• 19:11Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, if you can't handle me burping.

• 19:12Benito Skinner?

  That was very Duddy. Duddy would have done that after every oyster.

• 19:17Benito Skinner?

  And then she goes, these always manage to make me sick as a dog.

• 19:22Benito Skinner?

  Take me to Disney, stupid.

• 19:25Benito Skinner?

  She'd say stupid the whole time.

• 19:26Mary Beth Barone?

  She only wants to ride rides on a full stomach.

• 19:29Benito Skinner?

  Oh, no. And then when they go to Disney.

• 19:30Mary Beth Barone?

  I want to do Splash Mountain.

• 19:31Benito Skinner?

  She does Splash Mountain. She has a fur stole there.

• 19:36Mary Beth Barone?

  She buys a mini costume as well.

• 19:38Benito Skinner?

  Well, of course, not to wear, just to buy.

• 19:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Just to have.

• 19:43Benito Skinner?

  Just to have.

• 19:44Mary Beth Barone?

  She goes, I love this piece. Buy it for me.

• 19:46Benito Skinner?

  Buy it for me. I want to go to the bibbidi-bapidi boutique. That's what she says. And every time she meets a princess, she goes, I'm one too.

• 19:57Benito Skinner?

  I love her. She is the one. God, she's me.

• 20:01Mary Beth Barone?

  In another world, you would you would make this character come to life, but I understand why you can't.

• 20:06Benito Skinner?

  Too tired, no. Too tired. So there's this film, Notting Hill.

• 20:13Benito Skinner?

  Clip that.

• 20:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 20:15Benito Skinner?

  British Library, clip that. I'm back in London.

• 20:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Welcome to Fiction Studios.

• 20:19Benito Skinner?

  I think it's about fucking time I talked about this this film that I think is the best rom com of all time, and I said it. So my mom is a Hugh Grant head. She is addicted to that sour puss.

• 20:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Can I just say one thing about my history with Hugh Grant?

• 20:34Benito Skinner?

  Can you tell me what year it came out?

• 20:36Mary Beth Barone?

  I will.

• 20:37Benito Skinner?

  And then you're allowed to go.

• 20:39Mary Beth Barone?

  And then I can speak on that.

• 20:41Benito Skinner?

  Then you're allowed to talk.

• 20:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Notting Hill. You know that my family, 1999. So actually a little later than I even thought.

• 20:47Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. So I was six in the movie theater. My parents really just didn't give a.

• 20:51Mary Beth Barone?

  No. Hugh Grant, I always had a sort of negative connotation with because he cheated on Elizabeth Hurley with a prostitute. Which like, obviously I think prostitution, like, let's get it ladies. You know, I support it as a job.

• 21:04Benito Skinner?

  Of course. Well, you support Duddy.

• 21:06Mary Beth Barone?

  And I support Duddy as a person, as an individual, and as a singular voice in entertainment. But I felt like to be such a public person, I don't know, maybe you should just be a little more careful. Go to a hotel. I mean, you shouldn't cheat.

• 21:19Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 21:19Mary Beth Barone?

  But if you're going to, I think he got caught in the back of a car cheating on Elizabeth Hurley with a prostitute.

• 21:24Benito Skinner?

  My mom really left that out of any narrative about him. I think she just chose to.

• 21:27Mary Beth Barone?

  She wanted to protect him for you guys.

• 21:30Benito Skinner?

  And mom, thank you. I had that with Jude Law and Santa Miller. That really hurt me because they meant the world to me.

• 21:36Mary Beth Barone?

  With the nanny.

• 21:37Benito Skinner?

  I know. You know, tell us all this time.

• 21:40Mary Beth Barone?

  If I was a celebrity, let's just say, if I was a celebrity and I was married with a family, I'm going to hire the gayest gay male nanny money can buy. I ain't hiring a young, hot thing.

• 21:53Benito Skinner?

  I want him walking in going beautiful, fly, hot, and sexy, fresh from a berries.

• 21:58Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't care how insane they are. I don't, I don't care. I'm like, I trust you with my children. I'm not bringing another woman into the house. In an ideal world, you wouldn't even need to worry about it, but I think I'll end up with a cheater.

• 22:11Benito Skinner?

  So that is kind of just a perfect clip.

• 22:15Benito Skinner?

  I think I'll end up with a cheater. Takes a sip. That's my girl. I hope not, because then I've got another op.

• 22:22Mary Beth Barone?

  But I'll use it for the art.

• 22:24Benito Skinner?

  You always use it for the art and thank you. So Hugh Grant had a very clear name in my house. He was beloved. It was him and Patrick Dempsey. My mom was horny, it seems for these guys. And we were Julia Roberts household. Runaway Bride was huge for me.

• 22:41Mary Beth Barone?

  We love Aaron Brockovich in my house.

• 22:43Benito Skinner?

  Aaron Brockovich. Yeah, I mean, sorry. I spent so much of my childhood saying, you're never gonna be Jello.

• 22:50Mary Beth Barone?

  You're never gonna be Jello.

• 22:52Benito Skinner?

  Which is like, I can't believe I had seen all those, but. Oh, my exit is in reference to.

• 22:57Mary Beth Barone?

  Huge.

• 22:58Benito Skinner?

  I mean, that is Cameron Diaz, but it's Julia Roberts multiverse.

• 23:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Her maid of honor broke her, what shattered her hip line dancing in Abilene.

• 23:05Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 23:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Anyway.

• 23:06Benito Skinner?

  So there's this perfect rom com and they don't exist anymore. I'm sorry. I love that every rom com that comes out, people are like, rom coms are back. And then you watch it and it's kind of the worst thing you've ever seen in your life.

• 23:17Mary Beth Barone?

  But I'm gonna save the genre, do you know that?

• 23:17Benito Skinner?

  No, I know. And I think we could do it together if you'd only let me.

• 23:20Mary Beth Barone?

  We're, and we're, that's my plan.

• 23:22Benito Skinner?

  And there's this one that exists that is so. It's just a perfect movie in every way. I assume every single person who's listening to this podcast loves this film.

• 23:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Seen it.

• 23:32Benito Skinner?

  Come on. But Hugh Grant works in a bookstore. They sell travel books.

• 23:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 23:39Benito Skinner?

  Which I'm kind of like Hugh Grant makes up to a hundred pounds a year.

• 23:44Mary Beth Barone?

  A hundred pounds a year.

• 23:44Benito Skinner?

  But hey, doesn't matter. Love his flat with Spike. I will just flag incredible ensemble cast. Just like fab, everyone, I mean, the Brits know how to act. Let's be real.

• 23:55Mary Beth Barone?

  I mean, they invented Shakespeare.

• 23:56Benito Skinner?

  Thank God. Such a good point.

• 24:01Benito Skinner?

  Um, I mean, look where we are.

• 24:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Yep.

• 24:03Benito Skinner?

  They're learned. So Julia Roberts stumbles in. And what's her name?

• 24:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Anna Scott.

• 24:11Benito Skinner?

  Anna Scott comes in beret on.

• 24:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Chanel Beret.

• 24:16Benito Skinner?

  Chanel.

• 24:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Two words, Chanel Beret.

• 24:18Benito Skinner?

  Well, of course she's a movie star. Chanel Beret, Little Black Sonnies. She walks into this travel bookshop.

• 24:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Ooh, that's my drag name Chanel Beret.

• 24:27Benito Skinner?

  Oh, perfect.

• 24:28Mary Beth Barone?

  But it's so different. Sorry, I just thought of that.

• 24:30Benito Skinner?

  Daddy's tipping you. With yen. So. Everything she does, it's a, it's a political statement.

• 24:41Benito Skinner?

  Subversive. So Anna Scott walks in and she's like, I'm looking for a book. And Hugh Grant's like, I got more than that. I'm gagged for you, Anna Scott.

• 24:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 24:50Benito Skinner?

  And she's just a movie star who just like wants to be seen. She gets seen by this guy and then she buys a book and that's it. And you think, okay, that's it. Yeah, right? I also have to add, there's this actor who works in the bookshop with him, who has some of the best line delivery and

• 25:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Incredible.

• 25:07Benito Skinner?

  He's phenomenal.

• 25:07Mary Beth Barone?

  He's so good.

• 25:08Benito Skinner?

  Every single person is firing on all cylinders. So then Hugh Grant goes and gets an orange juice. He runs into Anna Scott again in Notting Hill and he spills it all over her top, her tiny little white top. And he's like, I live nearby. If you want me to dry it off for you. They go back, sparks fly. Okay. Like, come on, she's falling for Hugh Grant. He's adorable. Also, she got paid so much for this because it was a huge hit. Like, this is, this was a huge

• 25:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Twenty million or something.

• 25:37Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, it was like unbelievable. I think it was the most someone had ever been

• 25:40Mary Beth Barone?

  At the time.

• 25:41Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. Which, it was just incredible. Okay, so, you know, I'm not going to give too much away, but essentially these two kind of fall for each other and it's a will they, won't they?

• 25:51Mary Beth Barone?

  It's a will they, won't they?

• 25:52Benito Skinner?

  From different worlds. She's like a Hollywood movie star. He's runs a bookshop. Every single scene is sweet, thoughtful. The choice is made. There's one where she leaves for a while and he doesn't hear from her. And they do like a season's passing as he goes through a market. Ain't no sunshine when Mary Bear's gone.

• 26:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Remember the scene where she has braids at the dinner?

• 26:14Benito Skinner?

  So

• 26:15Mary Beth Barone?

  A French braid at the dinner.

• 26:16Benito Skinner?

  So you're going to talk about the French braid and the kind of silk top, floral top that she wears when they go to the private park and the hookup. She wears that to a friend's dinner.

• 26:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, because it's just lo-fi.

• 26:26Benito Skinner?

  It's lo-fi and she pulls up and they go,

• 26:28Mary Beth Barone?

  You're Anna Scott.

• 26:29Benito Skinner?

  You're fucking Anna Scott. And he just brings her and it's like, what?

• 26:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, it's just, it's the girl I know.

• 26:34Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. And, oh my God, his sister in it is so fabulous. I love her. I got in trouble as a kid because after I saw it, I kept going, oh, holy fuck. Yeah, so my mom was like, that's funny, but you you gotta cut that. And I'm like, all right, well, I'm just giving you a perfect line read. You fucking bitch.

• 26:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Sorry.

• 26:50Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, don't take me to the movies then. It's hard to even know where to start with this, but I'm seeing a lot of like the places where they shot it throughout the, you know, this gorgeous city. I think it just makes me miss miss those rom coms because they just had they such big budgets and the scripts were so sharp. And the movie stars were phenomenal. And it just felt you could feel the chemistry, the chemistry of the whole cast. It just didn't feel like, I don't know, everything feels like it's shot on like some weird HD camera. And it looks like it feels like it was, yeah, it's just gone through too many notes or something. I don't know.

• 27:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, well, the cast nowadays too are all just like algorithms spitting out like who would people most watch? I guess instead of focusing on like, is the story good? Is the script good? Do they have chemistry? Is this something people can like latch on to?

• 27:36Benito Skinner?

  Julia and Hugh, you're literally like, I believe that these two people like, and if they don't end up together, and I'm not going to give it away, but I would have burnt this city to the ground.

• 27:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, the blitzkrieg.

• 27:46Benito Skinner?

  The blitzkrieg.

• 27:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Again.

• 27:48Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 27:48Mary Beth Barone?

  This movie functions also as like a wish fulfillment thing because she is a huge celebrity. And it's like escapism in a way. I was raised on rom coms.

• 27:55Benito Skinner?

  In a lot of ways, you were doing Notting Hill. I mean, you were both actors.

• 27:58Mary Beth Barone?

  But yeah, we did. We did a little Notting Hill from time to time.

• 28:00Benito Skinner?

  Hey, sweetie, of course.

• 28:02Mary Beth Barone?

  I know. I think back then they wrote these characters as real people with like emotional depth. And I think that's what I miss about that's what I'm missing in rom coms today. It's like the choices people make in rom coms today. I'm just like, no person would ever do that. No person would ever behave that way. No person would ever talk like that, even the supporting characters. So I'm just like.

• 28:20Benito Skinner?

  The gay guys I've auditioned for in these movies are they're monkeys. It's like, actually, I'm like.

• 28:26Mary Beth Barone?

  They set the they set the gay rights movement back a lot of years.

• 28:29Benito Skinner?

  I messaged back and I'm like, oh, I forgot to tell you I'm not an animal. But I know some animal trainers that would have great, great animals for this.

• 28:36Mary Beth Barone?

  The actors are union.

• 28:37Benito Skinner?

  Aren't you gonna fuck him?

• 28:40Benito Skinner?

  Like, that's literally the gay guys. And then I have to wear a tight shirt for it.

• 28:43Mary Beth Barone?

  And a butt plug.

• 28:43Benito Skinner?

  And I don't buck.

• 28:45Mary Beth Barone?

  And you have to wear a butt plug.

• 28:46Benito Skinner?

  Well, you have to wear a butt plug.

• 28:47Mary Beth Barone?

  With a tail on it. And that's a big comedic reveal when the character turns.

• 28:51Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, of course.

• 28:51Mary Beth Barone?

  That he has a butt plug with a tail sticking out of his pants.

• 28:54Benito Skinner?

  A fox tail.

• 28:55Mary Beth Barone?

  It's a fox tail.

• 28:56Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 28:56Mary Beth Barone?

  And he goes, oh, this. And then he goes, yas, mama.

• 29:01Benito Skinner?

  Oh, the parents aren't gagged for you yet? Well, just like, I don't know, fuck him again. Sorry, I'm at a circuit party. Like, that's literally it. And it's like, okay, yeah, no, I love the, this is a really dynamic character. Every lead in them is always like, I'm just like so busy.

• 29:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 29:20Benito Skinner?

  And that's like the main thing about them. They're just busy. They're busy for love. But the issue is also budget. It's like something about people not going to the movie theater to see them, which I wonder what the shift is there.

• 29:31Mary Beth Barone?

  But I don't think you need to have a huge budget to make an amazing rom com.

• 29:34Benito Skinner?

  I don't think so either, but I feel like this one has it because you can feel how like, that's what I was saying about the choices, like where they shoot it, where the like, the sets, everything is so like grand in this. The movie stars of it all. Oh, my God, there's this scene, let me tell you. Okay, so, oh, and Julia Roberts laugh, but they go to this like private park after she like slays at this dinner with his friends. It's such a powerful scene.

• 29:55Mary Beth Barone?

  It's really cool.

• 29:56Benito Skinner?

  Watching someone slay at a dinner with friends, I mean, come on. And they're like, you know, they're falling for her. They go to this private park. It's locked. They like climb up the.

• 30:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Because Anna Scott's down for whatever.

• 30:08Benito Skinner?

  Well, she doesn't give a fuck. She's a movie star, but she's also like wearing Gap jeans.

• 30:12Mary Beth Barone?

  She's just having fun.

• 30:13Benito Skinner?

  She doesn't care. And so then she jumps the fence and then he goes and she gives him shit because she's just like, whatever. Yeah, and then he says, whoopsie daisies. And it's just, it's, it's just, wow, what a perfect film. I watched it again on a plane recently and because I hadn't seen it probably. Well, I watched it with my mom every week for a while. I mean, my mom can see a movie 50 times.

• 30:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, there's movies I've seen hundreds of times.

• 30:39Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 30:39Mary Beth Barone?

  I actually don't think I saw Notting Hill until I was dating a British person. I watched it here in London for the first time. Yeah. It just was one that wasn't on my radar. And then once it was, now I think I've seen it 10 times.

• 30:49Benito Skinner?

  Blew you away.

• 30:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Blew me away. Guess how much money you made at the box office?

• 30:52Benito Skinner?

  How much?

• 30:52Mary Beth Barone?

  364 million.

• 30:54Benito Skinner?

  God, that's incredible.

• 30:55Mary Beth Barone?

  And that's like in 1999, too.

• 30:56Benito Skinner?

  I remember going to the theater with my family, six years old, watching frickin' Hugh Grant take Julia Roberts to task.

• 31:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Fine Notting Hill on streaming wherever.

• 31:08Benito Skinner?

  Wherever.

• 31:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Wherever.

• 31:10Benito Skinner?

  I mean, it has like one of the most iconic scenes in film history.

• 31:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Which one?

• 31:14Benito Skinner?

  Just a girl standing in front of a boy.

• 31:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, oh my god, stop. It really hearkens.

• 31:19Benito Skinner?

  Asking him to love her.

• 31:20Mary Beth Barone?

  That just gave me chills.

• 31:21Benito Skinner?

  No, I know. She looks so cute. She's in a little blue sweater.

• 31:24Mary Beth Barone?

  What's that meme that's like, I want to be adored by millions, perceived by none, and loved by one special boy?

• 31:31Benito Skinner?

  Is that too much to ask?

• 31:33Mary Beth Barone?

  It is for some of us.

• 31:35Benito Skinner?

  I know, I know. Oh my god.

• 31:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Some rom-coms I love.

• 31:39Benito Skinner?

  If you love Love Actually, this is like, you're gonna get.

• 31:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh my god.

• 31:42Benito Skinner?

  It feels like they all exist in the same universe. All those people are still, yeah.

• 31:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Love Actually, Notting Hill.

• 31:47Benito Skinner?

  Uh.

• 31:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Serendipity is a really underappreciated one that I'm obsessed with. Oh my god, The Holiday. And we're almost upon the season where I get to watch all of them.

• 31:55Benito Skinner?

  I have a crazy take on The Holiday. I really like Kate Winslet with the old guy.

• 31:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, I know, I agree.

• 32:00Benito Skinner?

  People don't really know that, but I'm like, that to me is chemistry. She's friends with Jack Black.

• 32:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Right, but she's dating the older guy.

• 32:06Benito Skinner?

  Well, yeah, she's having sex with the older guy.

• 32:08Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, yeah, she's getting bent over.

• 32:10Benito Skinner?

  Well, yeah, she's helping him get his legs back.

• 32:12Mary Beth Barone?

  His groove back.

• 32:13Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 32:14Mary Beth Barone?

  I got a little exercise we could do.

• 32:16Benito Skinner?

  Literally.

• 32:17Mary Beth Barone?

  In the pool. I mean, they're literally in the pool together.

• 32:19Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I mean, come on. And she's like, she's such a baddie. Like, I just, those two have such good chemistry. I want them together.

• 32:25Mary Beth Barone?

  She's got a spray tan.

• 32:26Benito Skinner?

  Oh my god. Oh, wait, that moment, sorry not to bring up another perfect rom-com, but the moment where you think Cameron Diaz is gonna leave, she doesn't, she's in that bar, but there's this moment, and then someone passes and she's in the pub and she waves, she's in her little friggin'.

• 32:40Mary Beth Barone?

  The little moment of confusion when she shows up at the house and he has two daughters.

• 32:45Benito Skinner?

  Hey, we've all been there.

• 32:46Mary Beth Barone?

  W I D O W E R.

• 32:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, anyway.

• 32:52Benito Skinner?

  They love that napkin head thing.

• 32:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh my.

• 32:54Benito Skinner?

  I'm like, that wouldn't have, hey, as a kid, that wouldn't have made me laugh.

• 33:00Benito Skinner?

  Try again.

• 33:00Mary Beth Barone?

  But what if it was Jude Lott?

• 33:04Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I mean, him in Talented Mr. Ripley is a shocking piece.

• 33:08Mary Beth Barone?

  It's a shocking piece.

• 33:09Benito Skinner?

  It's shocking piece, and Gwyneth.

• 33:11Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 33:11Benito Skinner?

  Jesus Christ. But yeah, Notting Hill, Julia Roberts, you're on notice. I think you've got it, sis. You've got that star power.

• 33:18Mary Beth Barone?

  You see a lot for her, a bright future.

• 33:21Benito Skinner?

  Oh, it's Bonza, my love.

• 33:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Makes better-for-you versions of comfort foods: pasta, pizza, mac and cheese, and waffles, made from chickpeas and their gluten-free.

• 33:29Benito Skinner?

  They are really freaking delicious. I ate some for my niece. My niece was eating it, and you know when kids kind of like eat two bites and you're like, "Give me that spoon. Let me take this to task." That's what I did.

• 33:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Wait, they wrote a whole script for us.

• 33:39Benito Skinner?

  Okay, should we do it?

• 33:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay, holiday season is here, which means loved ones, so much food you can't unzip your pants or zip them.

• 33:49Benito Skinner?

  And everyone processing a lot. Seriously, I am not looking forward to all the questioning. Wait, I love this script. Keep going.

• 33:56Mary Beth Barone?

  And for anyone going through it right now, we see you.

• 33:59Benito Skinner?

  Which is why a comforting plate of mac and cheese is basically emotional support at this point, fucker.

• 34:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Pass the pasta, please.

• 34:07Benito Skinner?

  Please.

• 34:08Mary Beth Barone?

  And listen, for all my gluten-free baddies out there trying to survive Thanksgiving without getting interrogated and without getting served a sad mushy noodle, we need to talk. Let's face it, gluten-free pasta has a problem. Trust me, I know. It goes soft too soon, it falls apart under pressure, and it can make you feeling unsatisfied.

• 34:27Benito Skinner?

  Like, get out of here, kid.

• 34:28Mary Beth Barone?

  And you know where to stick it.

• 34:29Benito Skinner?

  You're ruining the casserole. Wait, I don't have that many lines. I want to talk to Bonza about, I did a word count, and Mary Beth has more.

• 34:36Mary Beth Barone?

  All right, well, guess what? This pasta holds up in hot and steamy situations. And then you have a line right there.

• 34:42Benito Skinner?

  Oh, Kerblunk! Straight into the pot like a confident king.

• 34:46Mary Beth Barone?

  And honestly, with Thanksgiving leftovers lasting approximately seven business days, you need a noodle that stays strong. They might ask you about your dating life, but at least they won't complain about the pasta. Because the only thing going limp at Thanksgiving should be the decorative inflatable turkey on the lawn.

• 35:00Benito Skinner?

  Life's too short for limp noodles.

• 35:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Why the gunshots?

• 35:06Benito Skinner?

  Visit eatbanza.com and use code RIDE at checkout for 50% off your first order of pasta or mac and cheese. That's eatbanza.com and use code RIDE for 50% off your first order of pasta or mac and cheese.

• 35:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, I know you're excited to talk about this episode being brought to you by NoCD.

• 35:29Benito Skinner?

  I want to talk about NoCD. Make sure that you're going about your day when suddenly a horrifying thought flashes through your mind. You know, actually, I've been, I've been working a lot lately and kind of stressed and, you know, traveling. So I find that I get more intrusive thoughts during that time when I'm not like checking in with myself. So I just want all of you to know that if you're experiencing them, hey, Benny Drama's right here with you. If you're thinking to yourself, I want to kill Benny Drama. No, you don't. I know that's ego dystonic and it has nothing to do with what you actually want to do. NoCD can be there to help, especially during the holidays. It can just be a lot. There's a lot of, there's a lot of social interaction. There's a lot of pressure. So using exposure and response prevention therapy or ERP, the most proven OCD treatment, your

• 36:11Benito Skinner?

  NoCD therapist can help you take the power away from OCD and distressing thoughts and live face-to-face video therapy sessions. NoCD also accepts major insurance plans and offers always-on support between sessions, which you can like message your therapist. You can go to these like forums and community pages with people, which I think will also be very helpful during the holidays. So to learn more about therapy with NoCD, go to nocd.com and schedule a free 15-minute call with your team. That's nocd.com to learn more. Book a free 15-minute call. NoCD, we love working with you and you truly helped me so much and I think you're going to help a lot of the bronies. When my voice dipped just now, it's because he actually jumped directly on my nutsack. So her intrusive thought was, I'm gonna jump on his nutsack. And she actually went through with it, but I know you've actually got that.

• 36:56Mary Beth Barone?

  Don't cut it. I think everyone knows it's just a little joke. So this week I'm writing for having regrets.

• 37:02Benito Skinner?

  Good.

• 37:03Mary Beth Barone?

  And it's not that I write for doing things in life that I regret.

• 37:08Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 37:08Mary Beth Barone?

  It's more that I just hear people say all the time, like, I have no regrets. And I'm like, that literally cannot be true. We've all done stuff that we wish we didn't do. And I know that like, everything that's happened to me, and every choice I've made has like, gotten me here today to the Great British Library with Jimmy and Benny.

• 37:23Benito Skinner?

  Benny Drama.

• 37:24Mary Beth Barone?

  And just having been introduced to this amazing new character named Duddy. But I think that there's a few things I've done that I could have not done, and I would still be right here. Do you know what I mean?

• 37:34Benito Skinner?

  I completely agree. And I think also, like, I think just knowing that you can have them, because everyone kind of forcing the having no regrets thing, I'm like, oh, well, now I feel bad, because like, I do have a few.

• 37:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, so my god, the conversations again to talk about how weird people are towards single women and men too, but just my experience with women.

• 37:51Benito Skinner?

  Oh, lately, it's, I have this guy for you.

• 37:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Can we, can we stop with the platitudes? I need to, I just need to be free of them for a while.

• 37:59Benito Skinner?

  More catitudes, less platitudes.

• 38:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Because I got in kind of like a heated discussion with a friend of mine, because I was saying like, I'm getting really comfortable with the idea of just being on my own. And maybe I won't meet the right person for me, and I need to like, I want to build a lifestyle that I want by myself, which is something I didn't think I would do.

• 38:14Benito Skinner?

  Anna Scott thought that too, and then she walked into a travel bookshop.

• 38:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, I'm in London, I'm going into every single bookstore that I'm passing by.

• 38:20Benito Skinner?

  Oh, I keep going in.

• 38:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Does Hugh Grant work here?

• 38:22Benito Skinner?

  I keep going in with the beret, and they go, we don't have what you want.

• 38:25Mary Beth Barone?

  They said, um, yeah, we don't really.

• 38:27Benito Skinner?

  Excuse me?

• 38:27Mary Beth Barone?

  We don't serve your, we don't serve your kind here. Oh, you knocked that, you did knock that.

• 38:33Benito Skinner?

  Fuck. Oh, my god. I knocked a full fucking smoothie. Shit.

• 38:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Hey, we'll get, we'll get to that later. So that's a regret you might have.

• 38:41Benito Skinner?

  So I actually fully regret that, Jimmy. I'm so sorry. I actually like that it's there. I'm, just to anyone who saw that, I didn't mean it.

• 38:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Maybe I did it. I don't think I did.

• 38:49Benito Skinner?

  You didn't. There's absolutely no way.

• 38:51Mary Beth Barone?

  So, yeah, I just think, when I'm presenting something about my life, or like, my approach to being single or whatever it is, it's just like, I don't need you to like, come back to me with like, a different opinion, unless I'm actively seeking advice. So if I'm just saying like, yeah, I need to get comfortable being on my own, and if I meet someone, great, and that's like, such a. That's a bonus. But I don't want people to be like, well, you're, you need to stop dating actors. You're not meeting the right people, like blah blah. It just, it annoys me because I'm like, no, I'm smart. Like, I know that, and I'm totally open to dating a person that's not in the industry. But I just think it's like, it makes me feel like people don't think I can like make good choices. And I'm like, no, I've, I've literally made a lot of good choices. I've made some bad ones, too.

• 39:31Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 39:31Mary Beth Barone?

  But I'm just like, stop.

• 39:33Benito Skinner?

  I think it's something of, I don't know if it's like strictly millennial, but there's something where people think they have to, like you have to have a take on something. The culture of like, you need to have, I'm like, I, there are lots of things I just literally have not thought about and I do not care about, so I don't have a take.

• 39:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 39:49Benito Skinner?

  And also, I don't think I always need to be giving advice on something, especially when I know nothing about it or the context of who you've been with or what your experiences were. I just think everyone feels like they need to. And I felt that too in the past like month or so, where people are kind of like forcing something on me or telling me what I should be doing right now.

• 40:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Or what the rules are.

• 40:08Benito Skinner?

  Fuck your rules. I'm like, I don't want them.

• 40:10Mary Beth Barone?

  I mean, I feel like in the gay community, it feels like there's a lot of these rules.

• 40:14Benito Skinner?

  Oh my god, they're like, you, like, oh, you must be freaking going crazy. Yeah, yeah, you gotta.

• 40:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, you need your hoe phase. Well, you better, blah, blah, blah. Well, we don't do, but it's just like, stop.

• 40:23Benito Skinner?

  Meanwhile, I've got kids in my DMs saying, get your ass back to that computer on Final Draft and finish season two. And I'm like, I'm trying.

• 40:30Mary Beth Barone?

  You're on your way.

• 40:31Benito Skinner?

  I'm trying, but.

• 40:32Mary Beth Barone?

  We have to take breaks.

• 40:32Benito Skinner?

  I'm trying, but your cousin's trying to set me up with this random fucking guy. I don't want to do that.

• 40:37Mary Beth Barone?

  No.

• 40:38Benito Skinner?

  So, less advice, unless, unless asked for.

• 40:41Mary Beth Barone?

  You know what my eighth grade yearbook quote was?

• 40:44Benito Skinner?

  Oh, I can't wait.

• 40:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Um, it was Lucille Ball. And she said, I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things I haven't.

• 40:50Benito Skinner?

  That's beautiful.

• 40:51Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm making choices and sometimes they're wrong. And I can admit when I have regrets. Yeah.

• 40:56Benito Skinner?

  It came late, I, you know, it was COVID.

• 40:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. What is it called? Time release. You had time release goosebumps. I just think.

• 41:02Benito Skinner?

  Jimmy laughing is killing me.

• 41:03Mary Beth Barone?

  No, I'm so glad he's here.

• 41:04Benito Skinner?

  He's so, I love him, he's so cute.

• 41:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Cause when Jackson's on with us, he is behind a huge computer screen. So we can't even see when he's laughing or anything like that.

• 41:10Benito Skinner?

  Well, he's only laughing at me saying butt chug, it seems.

• 41:12Mary Beth Barone?

  I know. But I just think that idea of like, yeah, you shouldn't have regrets. It's like, no, I do. I have some recent ones, too. I'm just like, oh, I was. I didn't do that. Sometimes you have to make the same mistakes so many times to just learn from it.

• 41:23Benito Skinner?

  I so hear that. I had a zit on my cheek and it really wasn't a zit and I've had a scab for two weeks.

• 41:28Mary Beth Barone?

  You picked at it.

• 41:28Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I really did.

• 41:29Mary Beth Barone?

  And it's gone. Your skin looks really good today.

• 41:31Benito Skinner?

  Thank you so much. I think I have found the culprit, but I will say I want to shout out this one company because it really has helped me so much. So it's called Saving Face Company. I just ordered five bottles. So if you even try to fucking sell this out, good luck.

• 41:44Mary Beth Barone?

  No, they're all at my apartment waiting for you.

• 41:46Benito Skinner?

  They're all at your apartment. But Saving Face Co., it's by this nurse practitioner. She did an incredible job. She has type 2 rosacea and peri-oral dermatitis. And it's this sulfur face wash and this amazing moisturizer and they have helped so much and it less.

• 42:01Benito Skinner?

  Every single thing in my life is like do less, except write the show.

• 42:05Speaker 04

  I can't even like shop.

• 42:07Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 42:08Speaker 04

  I like can barely shop in London.

• 42:09Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 42:10Speaker 04

  And like, that's how Julia like found him. She was just moseying around Notting Hill.

• 42:16Mary Beth Barone?

  I need to be going into more bookshops.

• 42:17Benito Skinner?

  Fuck, I do too.

• 42:19Mary Beth Barone?

  You like my shirt?

• 42:20Benito Skinner?

  So we are wearing our merch. We're excited. We think it's better quality than the last run. Merch is tricky. We always spend too long on it. I will say also, we were already in production when Come On Kerplunk happened, so there will be a Come On Kerplunk.

• 42:33Mary Beth Barone?

  That's gonna be a limited edition.

• 42:34Benito Skinner?

  That's gonna be a limited edition later.

• 42:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Later.

• 42:36Benito Skinner?

  You know, and we're gonna find something fun to do with that one.

• 42:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 42:39Benito Skinner?

  We're gonna have like a donation.

• 42:41Mary Beth Barone?

  We're gonna invent a new product.

• 42:42Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, it's, oh my god.

• 42:43Mary Beth Barone?

  And it's gonna be a fundraiser.

• 42:45Benito Skinner?

  Exactly. What's the butt plug tale?

• 42:46Mary Beth Barone?

  It's the butt plug fox tale. That's genius. Alright, we actually have to get to work on that.

• 42:51Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, Come On Kerplug. See how quick? I'm firing right now. It's Duddy. Duddy's brought me back.

• 42:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Should we get into Ride or Die?

• 42:59Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 43:00Mary Beth Barone?

  You know what you are, Benny?

• 43:02Benito Skinner?

  Hmm, I [BLEEP].

• 43:03Mary Beth Barone?

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

• 43:07Benito Skinner?

  Ride or die.

• 43:09Mary Beth Barone?

  So I ride for Notting Hill, of course. I think it's a fabulous rom-com. I think-

• 43:13Benito Skinner?

  Hey, can I say something to you?

• 43:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Yes.

• 43:15Benito Skinner?

  Indefinitely.

• 43:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Indefinitely.

• 43:17Benito Skinner?

  That's just a little Easter egg.

• 43:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Should we watch it tonight? I guess is the only question.

• 43:23Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I could watch it any day. And then I'd skip through some of the parts that make me sad, but oh my God. Such a great like scene about breasts. You know what I'm talking about? It just says, all the writing is so good.

• 43:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, I feel like back then, the way they did scripts was like every line is an opportunity. And now it feels like not that so much anymore, except for of course, our show that we're in called Overcompensating.

• 43:46Speaker 04

  I really love season two. It's like really like.

• 43:50Benito Skinner?

  It's pulling at my heartstrings. I will say, I'm feeling a lot.

• 43:54Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm feeling a lot too.

• 43:55Benito Skinner?

  Feel everything. Should I tell them the slogan for season two or no?

• 43:57Mary Beth Barone?

  No, don't, don't spoil. You're, this is how I know how much you love this season. You keep wanting to tell everyone.

• 44:02Benito Skinner?

  Everyone at every dinner, I'm like, do you want to know?

• 44:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Marketing, character, everything. I'm like, let's just wait.

• 44:07Benito Skinner?

  Did I show you the marketing? You, I already showed you what I want to do. It's all up here, my love.

• 44:12Mary Beth Barone?

  It's all happening.

• 44:13Benito Skinner?

  It's, it is all happening. God, I have so many calluses though.

• 44:16Mary Beth Barone?

  From all your lifting.

• 44:17Benito Skinner?

  I am, yeah. Beast mode activated.

• 44:22Benito Skinner?

  That's like one of the lines I say is the like gay best friend in a rom com. I actually have to say, I thought I was going to die for having regrets. Because I'm like, you know what? Bloom were planted.

• 44:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 44:34Benito Skinner?

  But I think it's fine. I think to have them is fine and to understand that you don't need to feel terrible about them. But that you learn from them, I think is, is kind of beautiful and being like, I probably wouldn't do that again.

• 44:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 44:45Benito Skinner?

  And I have a regret of that. I think mine are always like, maybe a miscommunication or saying something that I should have said. And, and those I, I feel fine to have regrets in. It's, I've learned to feel less terrified of being honest or saying the thing that I really wanted to. So I'm right there with you and I just, God, what a great girl. I mean, you're just a total sweetie pie.

• 45:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, I think.

• 45:10Benito Skinner?

  So sorry about the smoothie, but.

• 45:11Mary Beth Barone?

  No, it's okay.

• 45:12Benito Skinner?

  It's a part of the carpet now, Jimmy.

• 45:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Actually, what's interesting is it's not seeping in. But what I was gonna say that I forgot and then I just remembered, it's not seeping in, is that if you want to embrace this idea of having regret and learning from it, I would say, and I've talked about this before, Jessica Simpson's book, one of the things I loved about it was how open she was about, like, she took some Ls that were like self-inflicted. And I think I found that to be so, like, it was just so human, but like also foreign for a celebrity to human. For a celebrity to acknowledge their Ls, I think I just hadn't seen that as much. It's like, they all want to paint this perfect picture, but we are all so flawed, and I just thought it was really refreshing to read that. And sometimes you have to work through those feelings to know like how you ultimately want to think about something and categorize it.

• 45:57Mary Beth Barone?

  But I've had things I've regretted and then later down the line, I realized I didn't regret them.

• 46:01Benito Skinner?

  I regret making Britney videos.

• 46:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 46:03Benito Skinner?

  I wish I never had. I had no idea what she was going through and I would have never made them. So I feel like that's also something too of like, yeah, I literally, I wish I never made those videos. And I'm glad I took them down, but I'm like...

• 46:14Mary Beth Barone?

  And sometimes you do stuff that you, yeah, at first you don't regret, and then down the line, you're like, oh, I shouldn't have done that. Or I wish I didn't do that.

• 46:20Benito Skinner?

  When you have context. I wish I never rode for the woman on the plane. I didn't know she would mag on my ass.

• 46:25Mary Beth Barone?

  You never could ever predict something like that.

• 46:28Benito Skinner?

  Of course I regret that.

• 46:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Of course.

• 46:30Benito Skinner?

  I think about that episode every day in my life.

• 46:31Mary Beth Barone?

  So, Barone, let us know your biggest regrets on the Reddit.

• 46:33Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 46:34Mary Beth Barone?

  If you feel comfortable, we're just curious what you're regretting these. And one day, yeah...

• 46:38Benito Skinner?

  All of them go having kids.

• 46:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Having kids, for sure. I will definitely, when I write a memoir, there will be a few chapters on my regrets, for sure.

• 46:46Benito Skinner?

  One being, "I walked into this bar and they..."

• 46:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Our wicked lady.

• 46:50Benito Skinner?

  "I met this gig..."

• 46:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Bushwick, New York.

• 46:52Benito Skinner?

  "He proceeded to make me full of memes on TV. Made me wear wig." How cute is my hat?

• 47:00Mary Beth Barone?

  I love it.

• 47:00Benito Skinner?

  It's got a little leather strap in the back. Jimmy asked for it and I said, Jimmy, it's mine.

• 47:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Jimmy, you can't have it, I'm sorry.

• 47:05Benito Skinner?

  Beautiful, fly, hot, and sexy.

• 47:09Mary Beth Barone?

  We're gonna clean up this smoothie.

• 47:10Benito Skinner?

  Whoopsie daisies.

• 47:15Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my exit.

• 47:16Mary Beth Barone?

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

• 47:29Mary Beth Barone?

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