CARPOOL: Puerto Rico

Mary Beth and Benny recount their magical trip to Puerto Rico and their stay at Dreamers Welcome. 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: For a better buzz without the booze, check out SenoritaDrinks.com. Must be 21+. Please enjoy responsibly. If you’re in the market for a beautiful new sofa, dining table or bed, head over to Article.com. Head to https://www.squarespace.com/ride to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code ride. To learn more about therapy with NOCD, go to nocd.com and schedule a free 15-minute call with their team. Go to DRINKAG1.com/RIDE to get their best offer… … get 3 FREE AG1 Travel Packs and 3 FREE AGZ Travel Packs, plus FREE Vitamin D3+K2 and AG1 Welcome Kit with your first AG1 subscription order 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.

• 0:19Mary Beth Barone?

  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. Tighter.

• 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?

  Skinny dipping with your heart, summer isn't over yet. I feel such a soul connection with Zara Larson. I just.

• 0:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Girl singers, they're still killing it to this day.

• 0:52Benito Skinner?

  Girl singers.

• 0:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Me or her?

• 0:55Benito Skinner?

  Me or her. No, me or her.

• 0:56Mary Beth Barone?

  Me or her.

• 0:57Benito Skinner?

  Dude, she is just, I just wanna be her for one day. I know I'd get up to all kinds of crazy things.

• 1:04Mary Beth Barone?

  I wonder who she dates.

• 1:06Benito Skinner?

  I hope he's treating her right. I, oh my God, so in my like huge moment with these, my new pop girl is Olivia Dean and she counts as pop, right?

• 1:14Mary Beth Barone?

  I think so.

• 1:14Benito Skinner?

  She's multiple.

• 1:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Jazz pop.

• 1:15Benito Skinner?

  Jazz pop. Oh yeah, she's jazz pop. Olivia Dean, last night I stayed up eating pistachios. Oral fixation, watching videos of her kind of do all those bullshit video things that everyone does.

• 1:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, like what would you have for a snack? Things like that?

• 1:31Benito Skinner?

  I literally, I watched her, I think it was a 20 minute video of her deciding between a US snack or a UK snack. It's like midway through, I thought, this is better than most movies.

• 1:42Mary Beth Barone?

  No, for sure.

• 1:42Benito Skinner?

  I was so locked in, in a way you can't even, so I've been watching so much of her and Zara, but Olivia Dean had such a you moment. They go, what are the three things that you need in a man like your non-negotiables? And she goes, oh, I have a lot more than three.

• 1:56Mary Beth Barone?

  Whoa.

• 1:56Benito Skinner?

  And I thought, wow.

• 1:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Wow, she's seen my list.

• 1:59Benito Skinner?

  You listening over there? Oh, yeah. Our producer, what's your name? We just go into these random places. I don't even know you, stranger. Hi, Paul.

• 2:08Mary Beth Barone?

  That's Paul.

• 2:09Benito Skinner?

  I love Fiddler on the Roof.

• 2:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Paul had to watch me have a complete meltdown over one of the ads.

• 2:13Benito Skinner?

  Oh, good.

• 2:14Mary Beth Barone?

  I won't say which one.

• 2:15Benito Skinner?

  Sometimes it is like, I don't know if we're like.

• 2:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, it's so intimate to like do an ad read in front of somebody.

• 2:21Benito Skinner?

  Off the bat?

• 2:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Off the bat.

• 2:23Benito Skinner?

  Instead, you have to go, we should strip naked in front of them consensually? And just let them see us laid bare? And then we start the pod. What's your take on that, Paul?

• 2:33Mary Beth Barone?

  He's not not on board. You can turn up the volume a tiny bit in headphones, just a little bit.

• 2:38Benito Skinner?

  Oh, you want to hear that?

• 2:39Mary Beth Barone?

  So, something I would like to declare on the podcast.

• 2:42Benito Skinner?

  I do declare.

• 2:43Mary Beth Barone?

  I do declare.

• 2:44Benito Skinner?

  Oh, there's been a here now, Morta, and it's in the truck.

• 2:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Dead man walking.

• 2:49Benito Skinner?

  So you're, oh, dead man walking. It's a knives out mystery. I love it.

• 2:53Mary Beth Barone?

  It's at, at the end of the day, it's a knives out mystery.

• 2:55Benito Skinner?

  I loved watching it. I watched it with my sister and her hubby in their house. And my sister has this massive dog. He's so gorgeous, name's Clark. He laid on me and I ate Skinny Pop and I had a margarita and I watched Josh O'Connor. Absolutely body and American accent.

• 3:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, oh, my God.

• 3:13Benito Skinner?

  Fantastic actor.

• 3:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, he did a great job.

• 3:15Benito Skinner?

  He was so good in it. For a second, I thought, is he not British? I was like, wow, he's really.

• 3:20Mary Beth Barone?

  He had you questioning everything.

• 3:21Benito Skinner?

  Well, I said, can someone tell his face?

• 3:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, no.

• 3:25Benito Skinner?

  Not in a bad way.

• 3:26Mary Beth Barone?

  No, he's so British looking.

• 3:27Benito Skinner?

  You know what I mean?

• 3:28Mary Beth Barone?

  He's so British looking. I just think, can someone tell his face? It has an under.

• 3:32Benito Skinner?

  Could it be more than it's me? Of course.

• 3:35Mary Beth Barone?

  I know, but because it's you, it's obviously.

• 3:37Benito Skinner?

  You know that I'm just like, there's just no way that guy isn't British.

• 3:40Mary Beth Barone?

  No, of course.

• 3:40Benito Skinner?

  I'm just like, there's something.

• 3:42Mary Beth Barone?

  He's British. And his bones, his bones are British.

• 3:44Benito Skinner?

  Like, if I found out you weren't from Connecticut, I'd be like, can someone tell her face?

• 3:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, someone tell her face.

• 3:48Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 3:49Mary Beth Barone?

  What I would like to tell people with our beautiful community that we have. So I think we need a scale for like things being, quote, bad for you. Because someone like literally stopped me in the middle of the street and was like, oat milk is bad for you. And I'm like, okay, smoking is bad for you.

• 4:07Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 4:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Cigarettes are bad for you, vaping is bad for you.

• 4:09Benito Skinner?

  Tanning beds are, I guess, bad for you.

• 4:12Mary Beth Barone?

  But I need to know, like, how bad? Like, is oat milk going to kill me?

• 4:16Benito Skinner?

  How bad?

• 4:17Mary Beth Barone?

  How bad?

• 4:18Benito Skinner?

  Wait, how bad?

• 4:19Mary Beth Barone?

  How bad?

• 4:19Benito Skinner?

  No, oat milk is like maybe going to give you like a little bit bad skin. And I think it potentially does something with like histamine.

• 4:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Everything's bad for you.

• 4:27Benito Skinner?

  We just love to beat off to these new products. Do you remember when avocado dropped?

• 4:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Mmm.

• 4:32Benito Skinner?

  When avocado toast dropped.

• 4:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Remember when hummus dropped?

• 4:34Benito Skinner?

  Don't even, I just got chills. Do you remember when kale dropped?

• 4:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Stop.

• 4:38Benito Skinner?

  Girl, kale had an incredible publicist.

• 4:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Kale had an amazing run. It's over, but.

• 4:44Benito Skinner?

  I know. Now, because Martha Stewart said it makes her bloat and fart and get gassy.

• 4:48Mary Beth Barone?

  I think a lot of people amplified.

• 4:52Benito Skinner?

  If these walls could talk.

• 4:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Could talk, they would say kale makes me bloat.

• 4:57Benito Skinner?

  Doesn't for me. I don't know. Maybe I don't notice, but.

• 4:59Mary Beth Barone?

  It does. I'm just kidding.

• 5:01Benito Skinner?

  Oh, it does. Oh, thank you. Here's the thing.

• 5:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 5:07Benito Skinner?

  I agree with what you're saying because it's also like, it's just fear. It's a culture of fear. So everyone like finds a new thing that's apparently terrible for you. So it's like, take a probiotic. And then people are like, God, don't. And then now it's like, you need to like consume more fiber. And then they're like, you'll overconsume it.

• 5:23Mary Beth Barone?

  And then he'll shit out your butt.

• 5:24Benito Skinner?

  Shit your fucking brains out.

• 5:25Mary Beth Barone?

  You'll shit your rectum out.

• 5:27Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I don't know. Or like, is alcohol, it's like, and then there was that one, there was some study that all wine drinkers just love a few years ago about how one glass of wine a day, like prevents you from having Alzheimer's or something.

• 5:39Mary Beth Barone?

  How many people are just doing one glass? Riddle me that.

• 5:42Benito Skinner?

  Y'all aren't acting like you're having one glass.

• 5:43Mary Beth Barone?

  No, that's just big glass, I guess.

• 5:46Benito Skinner?

  Whoa, big glass, I guess. Someone tell his face.

• 5:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Someone should tell his face.

• 5:52Benito Skinner?

  I want it on record, I guess, now after saying that, that I think Josh O'Connor is extremely handsome.

• 5:56Mary Beth Barone?

  It's that sort of a, a, objective, I feel like. It's not subjective.

• 6:00Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, agreed.

• 6:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Speaking of fear mongering and we're.

• 6:03Benito Skinner?

  Agreed, amplified.

• 6:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Amplified. This gets into what we ride for. We were in Puerto Rico on Saturday morning and we went to Cafe Regina, which I know I'm pronouncing it correctly, but.

• 6:12Benito Skinner?

  Regina.

• 6:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Regina.

• 6:13Benito Skinner?

  It's nasty, but it's Regina.

• 6:15Mary Beth Barone?

  This was before we were supposed to fly out, which was on Sunday, but after the Venezuela, the head of Venezuela, the guy in charge had been abducted by the American government, which just want to say, we don't condone in any way.

• 6:25Benito Skinner?

  No, I wasn't laughing at that. I'm laughing about what you're about to say.

• 6:28Mary Beth Barone?

  So this woman comes up and asks if she can pet Pinky, which of course, because Pinky is for Pinky's family style. She's for everyone.

• 6:34Benito Skinner?

  She's family style, but I, I was kind of by the end of the day, like at the airport, I'm like, let's hide the dog.

• 6:39Mary Beth Barone?

  No.

• 6:41Benito Skinner?

  Put the dog in the bag.

• 6:42Mary Beth Barone?

  She's popular.

• 6:43Benito Skinner?

  She is.

• 6:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Popular.

• 6:47Benito Skinner?

  I just got chills from that. I'm gonna be popular. That was incredible. I've never heard you like enunciate like such.

• 6:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Thanks. So this woman, she's standing really close to me and she's like, you know, we're never gonna get out of here, right?

• 7:01Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, these people.

• 7:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Flight's out on Friday. You know, they brought the guy here last night.

• 7:06Benito Skinner?

  He's here.

• 7:06Mary Beth Barone?

  That's why we can't get out.

• 7:07Benito Skinner?

  Shut my place. I told you, I don't trust anyone who has some kind of contraption on their arm. That's not a cast or something. You know what I mean? It was like, it was, she bought it herself. I just didn't trust it. She had some kind of like sling on.

• 7:23Mary Beth Barone?

  It was like a brace.

• 7:23Benito Skinner?

  It was like a brace, but it was one of those.

• 7:25Mary Beth Barone?

  It was made with metal, yeah.

• 7:27Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, they have those like, you know what I mean? It just, I was like, something about that. She had really scary eyes and it was so like person you meet in Whole Foods at the start of COVID.

• 7:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 7:37Benito Skinner?

  Who's like, hey, you know, and they've already shaved their head. Like she was just like.

• 7:43Mary Beth Barone?

  The hair is not clean.

• 7:44Benito Skinner?

  No, a hundred percent.

• 7:45Mary Beth Barone?

  You can never get the hair clean.

• 7:46Benito Skinner?

  Did you hear about long COVID? I'm like, yeah, I'm sorry. I'm trying to get my fucking coffee. I'm not doing this right now.

• 7:53Mary Beth Barone?

  She's like, the earliest flight out is Friday.

• 7:55Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 7:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Good luck.

• 7:56Benito Skinner?

  Hope you got your hotel for the week. We'll be sleeping on the fucking beach, [BLEEP]. I'm like, who is this woman? Pinky?

• 8:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Pinky, Pinky, come here. Pinky, come here, girl.

• 8:05Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 8:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. So that was just a personality type I haven't encountered in a while. She was very much like, get the canned soup, get the water bottles.

• 8:12Benito Skinner?

  That, buy out all the toilet paper. Do you remember that? God.

• 8:17Mary Beth Barone?

  What did they think was gonna happen? They were gonna stop producing it?

• 8:21Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I think they had seen like a quiet place and like all their like grocery stores and bodegas and that.

• 8:25Mary Beth Barone?

  I have to say, if a quiet place is what happens, toilet paper ain't gonna save us.

• 8:30Benito Skinner?

  No. Oh my God, I can't believe if it was all about being quiet, I would be like almost laughing all the time.

• 8:37Mary Beth Barone?

  And what about when you have to toot?

• 8:39Benito Skinner?

  Oh, girl, I'd go. That's how I commit suicide.

• 8:44Mary Beth Barone?

  You rip that. You go out in the middle of an empty field and you rip ass.

• 8:51Benito Skinner?

  Don't.

• 8:52Mary Beth Barone?

  That's what John Krasinski should have done.

• 8:54Benito Skinner?

  Standing on the train tracks.

• 8:55Mary Beth Barone?

  I love all of those movies.

• 8:57Benito Skinner?

  Do you understand? I think they're the best movies ever.

• 8:59Mary Beth Barone?

  I was watching a movie. I was watching a movie on a plane and I saw someone in front of me to where I could see through the seat. Watching Quiet Place. I literally turned off the movie I was watching and then turned on Quiet. I just was like, I gotta watch this movie right now.

• 9:11Benito Skinner?

  Hundred percent. That happened to me with, I was just on a flight and someone was watching Crazy Rich Asians and I completely locked in. Whoa, you just got water everywhere, girl. Oh, my God.

• 9:20Mary Beth Barone?

  My favorite flick.

• 9:21Benito Skinner?

  It's the best.

• 9:22Mary Beth Barone?

  John Chu.

• 9:22Benito Skinner?

  It was so fun. John Chu, it was so fun to just watch and, and honestly, like. Oh, did I tell you about the guy next to me who was watching all of overcompensating? But I looked so butt. I, I just don't think.

• 9:33Mary Beth Barone?

  You didn't want to acknowledge that it was you.

• 9:34Benito Skinner?

  Well, no, but I couldn't. And also I, there was no way he was gonna clock that it was me. Let me tell you. I did not look like whoever was on screen.

• 9:41Mary Beth Barone?

  We're off season right now, so.

• 9:43Benito Skinner?

  We're off season.

• 9:44Mary Beth Barone?

  I look so gigantic. And I don't care if that's like problematic to say. I could say how I feel. Do you get that?

• 9:51Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, honey. I, I look tan.

• 9:54Mary Beth Barone?

  A, a, and when people see the video, they're gonna go, maybe it's because you're wearing pants that are seven sizes too big for you. I do what I want.

• 10:01Benito Skinner?

  I like them baggy. That's me to my mom.

• 10:04Mary Beth Barone?

  I got these from Mothfood, so I'm pretty sure these were worn, uh. I actually don't even have a joke.

• 10:11Benito Skinner?

  I know exactly where it was going. We can all think about it and we all like.

• 10:15Mary Beth Barone?

  There's a lot of paint. I think that, I think that, yeah. Whoever wore these pants did a lot of work out in the fields. You know, chopping down corn stalks and whatnot.

• 10:24Benito Skinner?

  I think those were in dime square.

• 10:25Mary Beth Barone?

  No, you think, no, you're right. You're right. A nepo baby painted a painting in these or something.

• 10:31Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 10:32Mary Beth Barone?

  He got a lot of grease on them too.

• 10:34Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. And it was, yeah, it was male painter, straight. He has a studio.

• 10:39Mary Beth Barone?

  And it's huge.

• 10:40Benito Skinner?

  Oh, it's such a big painting.

• 10:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, I meant the studio, but the painting.

• 10:44Benito Skinner?

  But the painting is so big.

• 10:46Mary Beth Barone?

  The painting as well.

• 10:46Benito Skinner?

  It's completely useless.

• 10:48Mary Beth Barone?

  I would like to say something, you know how people write letters like, dear so and so?

• 10:51Benito Skinner?

  Yes.

• 10:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Dear phone.

• 10:52Benito Skinner?

  Dear John.

• 10:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Dear John. Dear phone, no, I cannot sit still for two seconds because I'm taking a photo of a dog and a person and they're both moving and I'm capturing a moment.

• 11:03Benito Skinner?

  No, I'm, I don't work for you. I don't work for you.

• 11:07Mary Beth Barone?

  You're working for me.

• 11:08Benito Skinner?

  For me.

• 11:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Do you see her anywhere?

• 11:14Mary Beth Barone?

  You're working.

• 11:15Benito Skinner?

  For me. Here's my, you are so Dakota Fanning from Uptown Girl. And I'm so Brittany Murphy. I miss her. I love her.

• 11:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Did you see David LaChapelle just did a big post about her?

• 11:26Benito Skinner?

  No, I want to see it. Oh, my God. I love, yeah, wow. She's just, I think, that's such a brilliant movie. Yeah, it's kind of like when cars get all mad about the seatbelts. It's like, okay. Well, I used to have, so when I used to drive in LA, my car would do this thing where in some areas it'd be like, the wifi shut down, like you're not allowed, you better not be using your phone. And I'm just like, I pay for you.

• 11:48Mary Beth Barone?

  What does that mean?

• 11:49Benito Skinner?

  What the fuck?

• 11:49Mary Beth Barone?

  The car can just do that?

• 11:50Benito Skinner?

  That was like telling on me to the police. I don't know. It was just like, federal regulations restrict you from doing that here.

• 11:57Mary Beth Barone?

  Dear Audi, A-Cab, love, Mary Beth and Benny. So, yeah, when the phone tells me to hold still for two seconds, you're not understanding what the, what, what is the purpose of an image? It's a capture a moment that's currently happening. Do you get that, phone?

• 12:11Benito Skinner?

  Things going on.

• 12:12Mary Beth Barone?

  What?

• 12:13Benito Skinner?

  Okay, good.

• 12:14Mary Beth Barone?

  He's leaving.

• 12:15Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 12:15Mary Beth Barone?

  He's like, I'm done with you guys.

• 12:16Benito Skinner?

  Paul's like, I know that we don't align politically.

• 12:19Mary Beth Barone?

  We don't align politically. He loves that the iPhone does that.

• 12:23Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, he's like, my family did that. That's my family pattern.

• 12:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Instagram, no, actually, I can't.

• 12:30Benito Skinner?

  I can't either lately.

• 12:31Mary Beth Barone?

  I can't get into it.

• 12:32Benito Skinner?

  I just think social media, I just need a little, I need some time.

• 12:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Sympathy is a knife and social media is a prison.

• 12:38Benito Skinner?

  It's a knife, Gwen.

• 12:39Mary Beth Barone?

  It's a knife, Gwen.

• 12:41Benito Skinner?

  Gwen, it's a knife, Gwen. Should we get into what we ride for?

• 12:44Mary Beth Barone?

  I think so.

• 12:45Benito Skinner?

  Which is?

• 12:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Carpool. Puerto Rico!

• 12:50Benito Skinner?

  It's like us presenting spring break to like our friend group. Puerto Rico!

• 12:56Mary Beth Barone?

  Señorita, we have a new, a [BLEEP] and bleep it, and it comes in a can. Who needs a boyfriend when you have Señorita? You know what I'm saying?

• 13:03Benito Skinner?

  My friend won't stop drinking Señoritas. She's trunked me out of them. I used to have a pack in the fridge.

• 13:10Mary Beth Barone?

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• 13:20Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah. Delicious.

• 13:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Crafted by winemakers with real juice, organic agave, and a touch of pink salt that me and my cousins just go completely gaga for. I mean, we're going ape shit.

• 13:30Benito Skinner?

  At Thanksgiving, I was like, I asked you guys what you're thankful for, and you're all saying Señorita. I mean, come on, it's a little much.

• 13:38Mary Beth Barone?

  You've heard of Impact, yes?

• 13:39Benito Skinner?

  Yes.

• 13:40Mary Beth Barone?

  If you're looking for alcohol alternatives, Señorita is a great option because it's non-alcoholic, plainly put, low calories, so it gives you a chill buzz. Rowin' with the homies.

• 13:50Benito Skinner?

  Agave, right?

• 13:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, I just said that.

• 13:52Benito Skinner?

  God, I love agave. Oh, God, I love agave.

• 13:56Mary Beth Barone?

  It won't ruin tomorrow.

• 13:57Benito Skinner?

  Wait, you're talking about me?

• 14:01Mary Beth Barone?

  No, you know what I thought of? That share quote about Dax Shepard. It's you with every guy I've ever dated, basically, except Edward. There must be something I just don't see.

• 14:09Benito Skinner?

  There's gotta be something I don't see. That's kinda me with any girl I meet and her lover.

• 14:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Her lover?

• 14:13Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 14:14Mary Beth Barone?

  So, talk about that with your bestie as you crack open a can of Señorita Margaritas. I love that I can bring Señorita to a party or a hang, and everyone still thinks I'm drinking, so they won't give me the business.

• 14:25Benito Skinner?

  This year, it's like leave people alone, and especially if they have a Señorita in their hands.

• 14:28Mary Beth Barone?

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• 15:36Mary Beth Barone?

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• 16:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Hey, you guys, I know y'all were mad at me for eating in the last episode, so I don't think we ate in this one, but I am currently eating a sweet green salad right now. I'm with Pinky and I'm about to perform stand-up comedy at Tufts University. But before I do that, I wanted to let you know that this podcast is brought to you by Squarespace. Squarespace is the all-in-one website platform designed to help you stand out and succeed online. Whether you're just starting out or scaling your business, Squarespace gives you everything you need to claim your domain, showcase your offerings with a professional website, grow your brand, and get paid all in one place. No, I'm being so fucking for real right now. I use Squarespace. If you want to go see what Squarespace has to offer for us girls, literally go to marybethbarone.com.

• 16:53Mary Beth Barone?

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• 17:36Mary Beth Barone?

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• 17:46Benito Skinner?

  Get in, bitch. It's a carpool.

• 17:48Mary Beth Barone?

  OK, but I'm driving. Carpool.

• 17:51Benito Skinner?

  Puerto Rico.

• 17:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Wow.

• 17:53Benito Skinner?

  You had us.

• 17:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Let me count the ways.

• 17:55Benito Skinner?

  Let me count the ways. Here's the thing. So we were trying to find a place to go. We had been planning a trip together for a long time, but they never tell you about New Year's. You better plan about 12 months in advance. You start planning now, mama.

• 18:06Mary Beth Barone?

  If you want to go somewhere warm, it seems like nobody wants to be in the city they live in for New Year's. It's like even the cold weather places were pretty booked up. Like Paris was on our list as well. And it just felt like you're fucked.

• 18:18Benito Skinner?

  I'm so glad we went somewhere warm, though.

• 18:20Mary Beth Barone?

  Me too.

• 18:20Benito Skinner?

  And Puerto Rico, I don't even know how it fell into our lap, but I was just looking at warm places and I'd always wanted to go there.

• 18:26Mary Beth Barone?

  You Googled warm places.

• 18:28Benito Skinner?

  Well, I just looked up like places that are actually really hot right now.

• 18:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 18:31Benito Skinner?

  Because everyone would be like a beach vacation. Then you go there and it's like 7, it's like 60 and raining the whole time. Like, you know, the trip I took, it was like four years ago. I'm not going to say the place. I don't want to ruin tourism there, but it rained the entire time. Because Benny Drama saying that it rains somewhere, the city will shut down.

• 18:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 18:48Benito Skinner?

  I mean, they won't have any more tourists.

• 18:49Mary Beth Barone?

  I mean, their economy is in the toilet.

• 18:51Benito Skinner?

  It's in the crap.

• 18:52Mary Beth Barone?

  They've just declared bankruptcy.

• 18:54Benito Skinner?

  But I have this visual of me ziplining. Did I already talk about this?

• 18:59Mary Beth Barone?

  I think you did, but I can't remember now. We've said so much.

• 19:02Benito Skinner?

  It was athletic. I know, we've said so much.

• 19:04Mary Beth Barone?

  I watched our clips last night. I went on TikTok. So I, after my show, I was wired. I was laughing.

• 19:09Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 19:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 19:11Benito Skinner?

  I mean, you're fantastic.

• 19:12Mary Beth Barone?

  No, you were killing me.

• 19:13Benito Skinner?

  No.

• 19:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Yes, you were. No, no.

• 19:16Benito Skinner?

  No, you.

• 19:18Mary Beth Barone?

  No, everything. It's your everything.

• 19:20Benito Skinner?

  You're so everything, people meeting me.

• 19:25Benito Skinner?

  So, okay, I ziplined in this place and it was, it was like monsooning. But I don't know, and I kept asking the tour guides, I'm like, is this like fine to do? Like, we can hang it up.

• 19:35Mary Beth Barone?

  It's lightning.

• 19:36Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I was like, I think we're good. Like, I actually don't really need to do this. But it was like athletic. They're like, go, hooked, go. I'm on there. It's completely, it, it, it, my balls were like a foot from each other. It was like they had strapped me into this thing.

• 19:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Concealed.

• 19:54Benito Skinner?

  And I'm good, don't want them. It was, oh my god, and the rain, and it was just like, no part of it was enjoyable in any way. But yeah, so I had all that in the back of my head, so I was thinking, truly sun.

• 20:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 20:07Benito Skinner?

  Would love somewhere relatively close to get to, because I feel like sometimes like the travel of it all, especially during the holidays, kind of can be hellish.

• 20:14Mary Beth Barone?

  You don't want to, and you don't want to eat up two days of the trip with flights.

• 20:16Benito Skinner?

  No. And then Puerto Rico, and I found this company called Dreamers Welcome. They're LGBTQIA owned, and they have a series of hotels, and then they had a house. And so we went to the house, and it was just like truly a dream vacation. I love Puerto Rico so much. I love the people. I love the food. I have so many recommendations for places if people want to go there. I've just been yapping about it all week because everyone has been clocking tan.

• 20:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Everyone's in clocking the tan. And what I would like to say about Puerto Rico, I mean, I have so many things to say. So we were in San Juan. We were in the city, which was about a 25 minute walk from the beach, which is the perfect length of time for me to take Pinky.

• 20:54Benito Skinner?

  You're gonna take Pinky.

• 20:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Pinky, oh my god, Pinky came, because the house was pet friendly, and the backyard was fenced in in a way that felt like so, like, just not that she could like jump over a fence. Like, the walls were really high.

• 21:06Benito Skinner?

  It was big, yeah.

• 21:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Excuse me. So, she was just outside, like, laying in the sun on these little rocks, and just like living her best life. And the way she was so calm, like, allowed me to really, truly relax. You have an eyelash.

• 21:19Benito Skinner?

  All my wishes came true.

• 21:24Benito Skinner?

  Paul.

• 21:25Mary Beth Barone?

  I loved so many aspects. The house was beautifully decorated, thoughtful design, curated, born in reaction to.

• 21:32Benito Skinner?

  Oh, sorry. It was fabulous. Every part of the house was fabulous. There were like hammocks where you wanted them. The plants were gorgeous.

• 21:37Mary Beth Barone?

  A deck for.

• 21:38Benito Skinner?

  The art was like sexy and like very call me by your name. I don't know. It had a Guadagnino-ness to it.

• 21:44Mary Beth Barone?

  It was gay and sexual.

• 21:45Benito Skinner?

  It was gay and sexual. There was a hot tub.

• 21:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Movie room.

• 21:48Benito Skinner?

  Movie room.

• 21:49Mary Beth Barone?

  So beautiful.

• 21:50Benito Skinner?

  Ah, the bathrooms were like such good selfie lighting. I just like, every part of the house was fabulous and I felt very central to where we're going.

• 21:57Mary Beth Barone?

  Me too.

• 21:57Benito Skinner?

  And, oh my God, there's this place Cafe Rahina where we got coffee every morning. And then, uh, was it Hilda? Where we got sandwiches and this little market. Oh my God, you go Cafe Rahina, Rahina, and then you go to Hilda and, oh, I treated Hilda like a grocery store.

• 22:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, well, you know, they had bjorn corn at Hilda.

• 22:14Benito Skinner?

  Oh, sweetie, they had everything.

• 22:16Mary Beth Barone?

  They had everything you could ever need.

• 22:17Benito Skinner?

  Themselves on longevity.

• 22:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, so Benny comes to the beach after having grocery shopped. He bought cured meats and Avada chips and on the chips.

• 22:26Benito Skinner?

  I bought Iberco ham.

• 22:26Mary Beth Barone?

  On the chips, it said snacks rooted in the tradition of longevity.

• 22:31Benito Skinner?

  Would I buy any other kind of chip?

• 22:32Mary Beth Barone?

  That sounds straight out of the mouth of Billy Shakespeare.

• 22:36Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, absolutely. That's got, that's got Billy's stank on it.

• 22:39Mary Beth Barone?

  I couldn't stop saying it. Snacks rooted in the tradition of longevity.

• 22:42Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my God. I just thought about our reef flip flops. Reef flip flops, eating a sweet potato chip with your bestie on the beach. And, oh my God, you guys, I had the best view. So the waves were kind of intense in the beach we went to. Mary Beth, they were kicking her ass.

• 22:55Mary Beth Barone?

  I have more to say on that.

• 22:56Benito Skinner?

  They were kicking Mary Beth's ass. I loved it. And the water's warm there.

• 23:01Mary Beth Barone?

  It's warm.

• 23:01Benito Skinner?

  Everyone, oh my God, everyone there is so sweet and beautiful and like, oh my God. Every restaurant, do you remember El Masai?

• 23:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Every meal we had was immaculate.

• 23:10Benito Skinner?

  Reservations by me.

• 23:11Mary Beth Barone?

  Reservation king over here. I love that you planned, you really took it upon yourself to like do all the planning and you kept sending stuff and I was just like, literally whatever you want to do. Like, I'm just along for the ride. I will say about the beach, so we met some locals on the Friday night. We did like a night, crazy night out. We ended up at karaoke.

• 23:28Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 23:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Uh, and it, all the songs sounded like the original song to me because they were all in Espanol.

• 23:33Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 23:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Like, I didn't know them. So it was like all professional singers.

• 23:35Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I was like, you guys have bars.

• 23:37Mary Beth Barone?

  But they told us that the beach where we were going every single day, they were like, oh, you don't swim in those waters.

• 23:42Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 23:42Mary Beth Barone?

  You don't go to that beach if you want to swim because it's genuinely, the waves are so strong and terrifying. So I would say maybe read up on the beaches. See if you want to take an excursion out of the city. But for me being in San Juan, and I like it too. I like waves. I went to Cayman Islands last summer and I loved the beach because it was very calm. But that's the vacation that I wanted. I wouldn't want rough waves when I'm by myself because then if I, you know, go under.

• 24:05Benito Skinner?

  Oh, don't even say that.

• 24:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Sorry, no one's looking for me.

• 24:06Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 24:07Mary Beth Barone?

  But I loved being at the beach with, with my guys and I feel like it was, it's such like a hidden gem. And maybe I'm just stupid for, for saying it's hidden, but to me, I just never been there.

• 24:18Benito Skinner?

  I know.

• 24:19Mary Beth Barone?

  And I've been to so many beaches and cities and I loved that we had both in San Juan. And I think it's good. The reason that I really wanted to talk about it on the podcast is because I know that our listeners are very conscientious travelers. So obviously there are a lot of areas where the locals don't love tourism so much because people come to their city and their beach and they treat it like a trash can. Like they're disrespectful, they are entitled, they're not being thoughtful.

• 24:46Benito Skinner?

  Those chips based in longevity, home with us.

• 24:48Mary Beth Barone?

  We sure did.

• 24:49Benito Skinner?

  We didn't leave them at the beach.

• 24:50Mary Beth Barone?

  No ma'am.

• 24:51Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 24:51Mary Beth Barone?

  And so I just think it's nice. And when I, when we talked to people that were from there, it seemed like they really love to be able to be so proud of

• 24:59Benito Skinner?

  Share it.

• 24:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Their country and share it. But I just feel like it's just important to get tourists, especially from, you know, the continental United States. If you're going to go there, tip well, eat local.

• 25:10Benito Skinner?

  It's called spreading love.

• 25:11Mary Beth Barone?

  And, and of course, spread love and, and stimulate that economy a little bit. I just think like, yeah, there's, you know, there's people that are like, oh, you're not supposed to go to Hawaii anymore. And now I guess they're like destroying tourists. They're destroying the coral reef in like Australia. So I think they closed it.

• 25:26Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 25:27Mary Beth Barone?

  And it's just like, we, it doesn't have to be that way.

• 25:29Benito Skinner?

  No, just stop like expecting, I, I think the one thing that Americans I think tend to do is arrive somewhere. It's like, I'm on vacation. I do whatever the fuck I want. It's like, no, someone lives here. So like be a human being who cares about other people. Like have, have respect and, and be thoughtful for. You know, queer people traveling, I think sometimes there is the question of like, oh, is this safe for me? Can I do this? And the fact that it was owned by queer people made me feel really safe for us there. And also, like, they gave so many recommendations of, like, gay bars and places that were just, and I just felt like a very, like, inviting, beautiful. I just felt comfortable the whole time being an out-gay man.

• 26:06Mary Beth Barone?

  You thought that the Uber wouldn't pick you up because there was two gay guys, but it was because you were covered in sand?

• 26:11Benito Skinner?

  It's because I was covered in sand. They don't pick you up from the beach. Some of the Ubers were like, we don't want sand in the car. And I was like, totally respect that. I thought it was because I am queer as folks, Benny Drama.

• 26:20Mary Beth Barone?

  No, they said it's a cleanliness issue.

• 26:22Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, they said, absolutely. They said, hey, love overcompensating. Come on.

• 26:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Thing I will say is because it's an island, like, we would go to the restaurant and be like, oh, can we get, like, the salmon? And then a couple of minutes later, the waiter would come back and be like, we don't have that.

• 26:36Benito Skinner?

  So it's not here. But I loved that. Something about that, I'm like, good, it's not just like, we're not overordering everything.

• 26:41Mary Beth Barone?

  No, and guess what? You're gonna look at that menu, you're gonna pick something else. Expect the unexpected.

• 26:46Benito Skinner?

  Socina al fondo was like, one of the best meals I've had.

• 26:50Mary Beth Barone?

  We should make a travel guide because I don't remember the names and I don't say them out of respect to the Spanish language.

• 26:56Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 26:56Mary Beth Barone?

  Because you've heard me try. I thought you did great.

• 26:58Benito Skinner?

  Thanks.

• 26:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Benito. But we'll make a little list.

• 27:03Benito Skinner?

  I'm on a video set with the flu and I'm gonna do an AG1 ad read. And this is one of those moments where you sit with yourself and you just think, there were so many different decisions, doors opened, doors closed, that led me to this moment to do this ad read. And here I am. And I'm actually wondering to what Mary Beth's ads were like this week. I'm here with Jake Sammis. Say hi, Jake.

• 27:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Hey, guys.

• 27:28Benito Skinner?

  AG1, he wants his fee. So AG1, there is no right time for better health, right Jake Sammis? There's just now. AG1 is the easiest and most impactful habit you can implement this year. I use this every single fucking day, and you should too. By the way, AG1 now comes in original, citrus, berry, and tropical. My favorite's berry because I'm gay, but experiment with the flavors. They're all delicious. AG1 is the opposite of complexity, just like me.

• 28:00Benito Skinner?

  Twenty seconds, one scoop, eight ounces of water. Done. Drink it first thing, chug it before coffee, before checking your phone. It will become a micro habit. Oh, okay, I've been called to set, but I'm gonna keep reading this AG1 ad. Say hi. Hello. Okay, one sec. That anchors everything else. And the new next-gen formula, holy fucking shit. They've added more vitamins and minerals than ever. Clinically proven to fill common nutrient gaps. AG1 has over 50,000 verified five-star reviews and comes with a 90-day money-back guarantee. Go to drinkag1.com/ride to get their best offer. Hubba hubba. Get three free AG1 travel packs and three free AGZ travel packs

• 28:45Benito Skinner?

  plus free vitamin D3 plus K2. And AG1, welcome kit with your first AG1 subscription order. That's drinkag1.com/ride. Drinkag1.com/ride. Thank you, AG1. Time for a NoCD ad. Yeah, I'm doing this in front of an audience because I'll talk about OCD in front of fucking anyone. Wait, I'm getting a makeup touch-up lip.

• 29:13Benito Skinner?

  So here's the thing, you guys. I have OCD and I get intrusive thoughts. And sometimes I'll be on a set and I'll see a knife and I'm like, stab my thigh. But here's the thing, I can laugh about it now because I use NoCD and I got a therapist and they taught me that those thoughts are ego dystonic. I don't actually want to stab my leg, just like you don't actually want to kill Benny Drama when you think that, when you hear my voice. You don't, okay? NoCD is a virtual therapy provider for OCD that's here to help anyone struggling with OCD and taboo or shameful thoughts get the treatment and support they need. Are you listening, Jake Samus? You could support a friend like me. Unlike general therapy providers, every NoCD therapist specializes in OCD, so they deeply understand intrusive thoughts.

• 29:56Benito Skinner?

  That means no matter how disturbing, taboo, or shameful you think something is, like killing Benny Drama, your therapy sessions are a safe space to be open about it. Using Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy, or ERP, the most proven OCD treatment Your NOCD therapist can help you take the power away from OCD and distressing thoughts in live face-to-face therapy sessions. NOCD also accepts many major insurance plans and offers always-on support between sessions. To learn more about therapy with NOCD, go to nocd.com and schedule a free 15-minute call with their team. That's nocd.com to learn more and book a free 15-minute call. NOCD, I fucking love you. Oh, speaking of Benito, it was so funny, well, maybe a little sad, but every time

• 30:41Benito Skinner?

  I got Ubers.

• 30:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Sorry, and look how gross I have not shaved my legs.

• 30:46Benito Skinner?

  Doing this all night, all summer. Come on, I'm gonna keep this on for 10 years.

• 30:51Mary Beth Barone?

  I hope so, I'm wearing it to the Golden Globes.

• 30:53Benito Skinner?

  Look at me in my like sweatpants.

• 30:55Mary Beth Barone?

  You're very masked today.

• 30:57Benito Skinner?

  Oh yeah? What are you gonna do about it?

• 31:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Don't threaten me with a good time.

• 31:03Benito Skinner?

  Big. I heard you're big, me the guys. Here's the thing, here's the thing, here's the thing, here's the thing. Yeah, so some Ubers picked me up and they were expecting Benito, obviously Bad Bunny icon, Benito is from Puerto Rico. He is a treasure from Puerto Rico, obviously, what a legend. So they see Benito and they were like, maybe, just maybe, and so I felt bad.

• 31:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Our hearts were fluttering.

• 31:30Benito Skinner?

  They were so sad, they go, no, no, no.

• 31:36Mary Beth Barone?

  You also bought, you bought a microphone and a little mic pack to wear at the house.

• 31:41Benito Skinner?

  I did, I had bits ready for the house and I had snacks waiting for you guys when you got there. I just felt like, I don't know, I felt like I had my own travel show.

• 31:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, and we aren't even talking about New Year's Eve.

• 31:53Benito Skinner?

  Mm-hmm.

• 31:54Mary Beth Barone?

  New Year's Eve, we found this hotel where it was like, truly felt like the apex of the world, where there were just so many different people dressed for different events, but all in one place. Like, some people were wearing straight-up prom dresses. I had on the Reformation Yorkdale dress that I accidentally Mary Lemon wrote in.

• 32:11Benito Skinner?

  I had.

• 32:12Mary Beth Barone?

  You had a button-down.

• 32:13Benito Skinner?

  I had a button-down on and Abercrombie jeans, a trucker hat and reef flip-flops on, which people get so mad about jeans with flip-flops, stay mad, motherfuckers.

• 32:22Mary Beth Barone?

  We're bringing it back.

• 32:24Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, stay mid.

• 32:24Mary Beth Barone?

  We're bringing it all the way back.

• 32:25Benito Skinner?

  I loved my reef flip flops. They're so comfortable. They're like tempered pads for your feet.

• 32:28Mary Beth Barone?

  I walked a mile in them.

• 32:30Benito Skinner?

  Walk a mile in these Louboutins. They don't wear these shits where I'm from.

• 32:35Mary Beth Barone?

  So.

• 32:36Benito Skinner?

  They don't wear these shits where I'm from.

• 32:38Mary Beth Barone?

  So we were at the hotel.

• 32:40Benito Skinner?

  Go through.

• 32:41Mary Beth Barone?

  And not only did.

• 32:42Benito Skinner?

  Baby, give me the attention I so deserve.

• 32:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Not only did a baroni come up to us, and she was the sweetest thing, and your stylist who was there said, I have literally never seen someone come up to you as a fan that wasn't so smoking hot.

• 32:54Benito Skinner?

  So fucking cutie down.

• 32:55Mary Beth Barone?

  And cutie down.

• 32:56Benito Skinner?

  I love our daughters. I just ran into one on the street. She just got fired, which I think is for the best for her. I see so, I see such a good 2026 for her. She works in tech. I, I, there's something better. I don't know. She just.

• 33:07Mary Beth Barone?

  I think so too.

• 33:08Benito Skinner?

  She's so cute. We're both in camo, real tree, but in a fun way.

• 33:11Mary Beth Barone?

  Maybe you'll start a business or something, entrepreneur, and you get a Squarespace website.

• 33:15Benito Skinner?

  You know, I won't, but she will.

• 33:16Mary Beth Barone?

  I know you won't.

• 33:17Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 33:18Mary Beth Barone?

  On the night of New Year's Eve, we found that the hotel was actually on the beach. So we went to the beach. And when it struck midnight, they had fireworks. Baby, you're a firework. You're a firewig. And Jake Samus and I, your stylist, went in the water. I went skinny dipping at midnight on New Year's.

• 33:35Benito Skinner?

  I know.

• 33:35Mary Beth Barone?

  And when I came out of the water, I felt like a newborn baby. And there was an image taken of that moment that I have never received such overwhelming.

• 33:44Benito Skinner?

  Hysteria.

• 33:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Positive feedback about. It's like, the picture went triple platinum.

• 33:49Benito Skinner?

  Well, sweetie, it's one of those shots that just sticks with you. It's gonna be a part of my star making course at NYU. I show that and I go, can't be taught. And then the next slide, can't be taught.

• 33:59Mary Beth Barone?

  I am gonna, you know, I wanna do a class at NYU about dating.

• 34:02Benito Skinner?

  Oh, wait. Okay, you do that. You do the Carrie Bradshaw.

• 34:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Yes.

• 34:05Benito Skinner?

  At the second one, only three people show up. And she goes, get up.

• 34:08Mary Beth Barone?

  I go, we're going to the bars.

• 34:09Benito Skinner?

  Come on, let's go to the bars.

• 34:10Mary Beth Barone?

  I take a bunch of 19 year olds to a bar as their teacher. I get them drunk.

• 34:16Benito Skinner?

  You hook up with three of them.

• 34:17Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm like, sir, any of you buy?

• 34:20Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm a predator in this. In this scenario.

• 34:23Benito Skinner?

  Wait, that's incredible. But for my star making course, at the end, we'll all audition for the same part and one of them will book it over me.

• 34:30Mary Beth Barone?

  That's very Pedro Pascal.

• 34:31Benito Skinner?

  Did I tell you?

• 34:32Mary Beth Barone?

  That just reminded me.

• 34:33Benito Skinner?

  Rihanna at Victoria's Secret Fashion Show when she had a better walk than all the angels.

• 34:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Whoa, that just reminded me.

• 34:37Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 34:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Because you know I'm doing red carpet interviews at the Golden Globes.

• 34:40Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my God, I love that you're going to the GG's.

• 34:42Mary Beth Barone?

  I have to send this voice note because there's Pedro Pascal lore that I I don't know if it's like bad to repeat, but I'll say it after it just.

• 34:48Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, the Game of Thrones where he didn't audition because he got like.

• 34:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, he was coaching. He was coaching someone for an audition for that part.

• 34:54Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 34:54Mary Beth Barone?

  And he was like, I think I could book this. And then he did it and he got it.

• 34:58Benito Skinner?

  And he was like, he showed up to class the next day and he looked at the guy and went, did you book it?

• 35:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Have you heard that?

• 35:07Benito Skinner?

  Did you book? I I don't think you did because my agent called me this morning and I quit. Bye.

• 35:15Mary Beth Barone?

  He shut the lights off on the way out. Do you want me to? Because this will this will have already happened. So do you want me to read you some of the questions?

• 35:21Benito Skinner?

  Yes, please.

• 35:22Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm going to ask some of the people.

• 35:23Benito Skinner?

  Should I answer?

• 35:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, maybe I shouldn't spoil it, but these will already be out.

• 35:28Benito Skinner?

  This is so fun. It'll already be out. Okay, let's see if I have answers.

• 35:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Smash or pass?

• 35:31Benito Skinner?

  Okay.

• 35:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Frankenstein's monster.

• 35:33Benito Skinner?

  Oh, smash.

• 35:35Mary Beth Barone?

  The car from F1.

• 35:37Benito Skinner?

  Ooh, pass.

• 35:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Idris Elba as Buffalo Cop in Zootopia 2.

• 35:42Benito Skinner?

  Oh, smash. And and can I do it again?

• 35:46Mary Beth Barone?

  You'll double whammy it.

• 35:48Benito Skinner?

  Okay, can we fucking do it again?

• 35:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Flying monkey from Wicked 2.

• 35:51Benito Skinner?

  Oh, pass.

• 35:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Really tall and skinny new avatar.

• 35:55Benito Skinner?

  Oh, smash.

• 35:57Mary Beth Barone?

  Aunt Gladys from Weapons.

• 36:00Benito Skinner?

  Not smash, but we would definitely have a good time together. And I think I could easily be her assistant.

• 36:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Jack O'Connell when he's a vampire.

• 36:07Benito Skinner?

  Oh, randomly pass.

• 36:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, I'm a smash on that one.

• 36:11Benito Skinner?

  I know. And you would think I would be, but just something about that. He's so good in it that I really am. I'm kind of too scared to say smash.

• 36:17Mary Beth Barone?

  We'll bleep it.

• 36:18Benito Skinner?

  Oh.

• 36:20Benito Skinner?

  Just us staring at each other.

• 36:24Benito Skinner?

  I can't wait to watch people on the carpet answer that one.

• 36:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 36:28Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 36:29Mary Beth Barone?

  I want to ask people what their Sweet Green order is.

• 36:31Benito Skinner?

  Oh, they have this new thing that just launched.

• 36:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Tell me.

• 36:35Benito Skinner?

  I don't know who exactly it was, but it was like function or something. They have like a new menu. I got this like Omega Bowl. I was like, I'll have the Omega Bowl.

• 36:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, my God. There was, what did I text you today? There was Hawkeye at Sweet Green, sitting alone in the corner. I'm in the corner.

• 36:49Benito Skinner?

  Watching you kiss and watching you, watching you kill Caesar. Oh.

• 36:56Mary Beth Barone?

  We have to stop recording.

• 36:57Benito Skinner?

  I don't think we should have a show anymore.

• 36:59Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't either. But, you know, my old self, I would have maybe like sat near him and tried to make eye contact. But I just, I literally went through it. I go, he's prob, he's probably got some annoying political opinion I'd uncover in three to six months. I actually just can't.

• 37:12Benito Skinner?

  Maybe in one month, in fact, actually.

• 37:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Maybe in one day. Yeah, it's fast.

• 37:16Benito Skinner?

  It'd be quick. Oh, I just yawned.

• 37:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh.

• 37:19Benito Skinner?

  Right after dark, my darling. A lady never yawns when she's with the one she loves.

• 37:24Mary Beth Barone?

  It is actually, it is actually 6:00 PM. So what I want to say about Puerto Rico, just to summarize.

• 37:29Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I think you should.

• 37:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Beautiful location for families.

• 37:32Benito Skinner?

  Mm-hmm.

• 37:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Beautiful location for lovers.

• 37:35Benito Skinner?

  Mm.

• 37:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Beautiful location for friends.

• 37:37Benito Skinner?

  Mm-hmm.

• 37:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Not that far on a flight from New York.

• 37:40Benito Skinner?

  Three and a half hours, easy.

• 37:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Incredible food.

• 37:43Benito Skinner?

  Oh, the food, like, I don't know what blew me away more. I think also, you know what I loved? It's the, uh, the accessibility of the beaches. I feel like you go to so many places and they're like, do you have a towel?

• 37:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 37:54Benito Skinner?

  Did you buy one of the chairs? I'm like, this is God's earth.

• 37:58Mary Beth Barone?

  So Earth is family style.

• 37:59Benito Skinner?

  So Earth is, Earth is family style. And I walk right onto the beach of a W Hotel. In high heels. Daddy goes, Earth is family style. And you know, Daddy is ass naked, still in her Ugg boots.

• 38:15Benito Skinner?

  At the win Las Vegas. And she goes, "Take me as I am, sire."

• 38:22Mary Beth Barone?

  You know, I want to go to Vegas with you. I think we would genuinely have fun.

• 38:25Benito Skinner?

  We've been to Vegas together.

• 38:29Mary Beth Barone?

  It would be different, I think, if we went and we got sloshed. I got a fucking parasite. I got a parasite from a candy kebab. I won't say where I got the kebab from.

• 38:40Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 38:40Mary Beth Barone?

  But I got a parasite and I couldn't go to Palm Springs weekend. Oh, oh, traveled pretty much.

• 38:46Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my god.

• 38:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, Vegas, Palm Springs, parasite.

• 38:49Benito Skinner?

  Any other desert locations you'd like to go to?

• 38:52Mary Beth Barone?

  I mean, she's just like different now.

• 38:54Benito Skinner?

  I mean, my god, have you listened to the pod? All they do is talk about these places they're staying at. I mean, they really fell off, right?

• 39:03Benito Skinner?

  If you guys are talking shit about us at a dinner, go ahead. We've got nothing, but let me tell you this. If you met us, god, you'd melt.

• 39:09Mary Beth Barone?

  You know what I think is the funniest thing?

• 39:11Benito Skinner?

  You've ever seen and met.

• 39:12Mary Beth Barone?

  I watched Courtney cook yesterday.

• 39:14Benito Skinner?

  How are you doing?

• 39:15Mary Beth Barone?

  I mean, what a stunner.

• 39:16Benito Skinner?

  Isn't she just gorgeous?

• 39:18Mary Beth Barone?

  I watched her eat an onion like that.

• 39:20Benito Skinner?

  I know, in one bite.

• 39:21Mary Beth Barone?

  And I wasn't bad at it.

• 39:23Benito Skinner?

  I showed her to Jake Sammis and he was like, "She's got such star quality." And I was like, "Well, of course, she's part of my class." But she, the way she takes down one bite is so like, it's so me-coded. But, oh, which, we ain't stressing.

• 39:35Mary Beth Barone?

  We ain't stressing.

• 39:36Benito Skinner?

  And she goes, "Fabulous." Or she, and then when she, the way she's like a mayo across all her dishes.

• 39:42Mary Beth Barone?

  It's a girl after my own heart.

• 39:44Benito Skinner?

  No, she is so, Courtney.

• 39:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Courtney, you have our attention.

• 39:47Benito Skinner?

  I'll see you soon. That's all I'm saying.

• 39:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Also, on the Betty Draper of it all, and I did want to say from my photo dump from Puerto Rico, which I do believe had the potential and probably has changed lives. I didn't inhale the cigarette. It was just a prop. If you ever see me take a photo with a cigarette, I'm not actually smoking it. And you could say, "Oh, poser," whatever, whatever. It's, I like the way it looks on my hand, but I don't want to do that.

• 40:09Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. Isn't it your life? La vida bonita. What did I say to you?

• 40:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Smoking is as bad for you as oat milk. So you might as well just kill yourself.

• 40:17Benito Skinner?

  Exactly. Or staring at your phone right before you go to bed. I'm like, "What the fuck else am I supposed to do?" Dr. Oz.

• 40:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Stick something up your butt.

• 40:25Benito Skinner?

  Stick something up my butt?

• 40:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Have my magic beans and don't check your phone before bed.

• 40:29Benito Skinner?

  Fuck her.

• 40:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Are, is everyone not sleeping? Like, I look at my phone right before my eyes close or I'm watching TV. I sleep really, really good.

• 40:37Benito Skinner?

  No, literally, and if I don't one night, I sleep bad. Like if I didn't get that time on the phone and I didn't watch Courtney Cook, I'm sleeping bad. I need to watch Olivia Dean try a frickin', uh, their jammy joggers. What are they called?

• 40:52Mary Beth Barone?

  What are they called? Talky talky or something? You know, those twisted orange things?

• 40:57Benito Skinner?

  Oh, she had, she had something like a quirly wirly. The names of the British ones were sending me to the moon.

• 41:03Mary Beth Barone?

  I was on the subway today and I was looking at Jonathan Anderson's Instagram and I literally, it was literally like Alice when she falls into Wonderland. I like, I lost time. Like, I was just looking and I was, I forgot where I was. I was like, I could have almost like missed my stop. Luckily I came to before I got to Bedford Ave.

• 41:21Benito Skinner?

  That's me with Miss Cook lately. I'm like, whoa, I'm like, I just ate 12 meals. I'm full.

• 41:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. And I guess we don't do ride or die with, uh, with carpools, but if you have an opportunity, go to Puerto Rico early and often. Don't wait, don't wait till you're 34.

• 41:37Benito Skinner?

  No, don't wait until you're 34. I mean, God, you've missed so much.

• 41:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Two of my friends actually went to live there for a month, like when I was still all work from home vibes. Like it wasn't a raging pandemic, but no one was back in office. And I, I remember them having-

• 41:50Benito Skinner?

  It wasn't a raging pandemic, but no one was back from office.

• 41:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. So welcome to the pod.

• 41:57Benito Skinner?

  Keep going.

• 41:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Uh, so they lived there for a month and I was like, what a cool thing to just like relocate briefly. They both bought their dogs.

• 42:02Benito Skinner?

  I would live in the house we stayed at for a month. I really would.

• 42:04Mary Beth Barone?

  We could write a lot of good stuff in there.

• 42:06Benito Skinner?

  Whoa. Well, I already pitched, so, oh my God, I had the best moment of my life. I just turned to Mary Beth and I knew that I had this idea and I was like, I want you to write it. And it just happened and we touched hands and then the next day you pitched me on it. Genius.

• 42:18Mary Beth Barone?

  And it's like really good.

• 42:19Benito Skinner?

  I'm in awe of this, of this crazy girl.

• 42:21Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm just crazy like that.

• 42:22Benito Skinner?

  In this midnight sun. Favorite friend to travel with?

• 42:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 42:28Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 42:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 42:30Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. Yeah. I guess so.

• 42:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Thank you, guys.

• 42:35Benito Skinner?

  Thanks, you guys. Thank you, Paul. Oh, my exit.

• 42:39Mary Beth Barone?

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

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