Pinky + Coke Zero

AI is after us! But we're always 10 steps ahead. This week Benny is riding for Coke Zero (in a way) and Mary Beth is riding for her dog Pinky. 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: Go to Squarespace.com for a free trial, and when you’re ready to launch, squarespace.com/RIDE to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain If you’re in the market for a beautiful new sofa, dining table or bed, head over to Article.com. Get $15 off your purchase at thirdlove.com with code PODCAST15. Get 10% off your first order sitewide with code RIDE at OSEAMalibu.com. 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, God. So what? I just wanna have fun. Start your engines. Tighter. I'm Benito Skinner.

• 0:31Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm Mary Beth Barone.

• 0:33Speaker 01

  And this?

• 0:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Is?

• 0:34Speaker 03

  Ride.

• 0:38Speaker 03

  Have you noticed Mary Beth Barone's flat chest? Nobody realized this is the reason Benito Skinner chose Mary Beth Barone over Terrence O'Connor. First, Mary Beth Barone's flat chest may symbolize a kind of neutralized attraction in Benito's eyes. This feature makes him feel like he's still interacting with masculine traits. For Benito, Mary Beth's flat chest provides a sense of security and continuity.

• 1:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Continuity.

• 1:01Speaker 03

  Avoiding the children having to adjust to female body differences. Second, Mary Beth's appearance in Benito's videos and their interactions have gone beyond ordinary friendship. From sitting side by side to exchanging glances, these details hint at a boyfriend-like intimacy. This public display of closeness may be Benito's way of signaling to the outside world that his emotional focus has already shifted. Finally, Benito's choice was not accident. Mary Beth allowed Benito to quickly find a replacement after the breakup, avoiding an emotional void. More importantly, her presence solidified Benito's image within his social circle, maintaining the narrative consistency of him as the ex-boyfriend. What do you think was the reason Benito Skinner is with Mary Beth Barone?

• 1:41Benito Skinner?

  I like that they posed that question after fully explaining.

• 1:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Every, every aspect of it.

• 1:46Benito Skinner?

  Every detail.

• 1:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Neutralized attraction. Let's talk about the pros of neutralized attraction.

• 1:49Benito Skinner?

  Well, what I love is that they do know that I'm nothing if not consistent.

• 1:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 1:53Benito Skinner?

  It's world building, no matter what.

• 1:54Mary Beth Barone?

  And you can keep the status in your friend group because you, I guess, are dating a girl that is sort of somewhat a boy. And so in that way, we're sort of, we're coming full circle. And that is that women that have flat chests are somewhat boys. Gay guys are somewhat girls. And women that have flat chests, any of y'all could date Benito. I just got to him first. Shit, dude.

• 2:15Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, seeing things like that the day after, like one of my least favorite days on earth. Yeah, the simulation is simulating.

• 2:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, I'm like, why am I catching strays?

• 2:25Benito Skinner?

  Well, I knew you would. And here's the thing, I.

• 2:28Mary Beth Barone?

  There are many, many, by the way, not just the one about my flat chest.

• 2:32Benito Skinner?

  Oh, no.

• 2:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Being the reason that we're together.

• 2:34Benito Skinner?

  I know. I can't stress enough, they're right. And I can't believe we got got like this.

• 2:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Called out so fast, like didn't even give us a day to just sort of like have some peace. It's just immediately we're dating and it's because of my flat chest.

• 2:47Benito Skinner?

  Do you know how that gets made? This is what I.

• 2:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Here's what I'm trying to, here's what I'm thinking about doing.

• 2:53Benito Skinner?

  Because also you know that there were ones that did my net worth, but then the guy on the other side was not Terry. So it was like another guy and they would like show our net worth and how over the years mine would grow and the other person's wouldn't.

• 3:04Mary Beth Barone?

  And who's the other person?

• 3:05Benito Skinner?

  No, I swear to God, I don't know who the person was.

• 3:08Mary Beth Barone?

  How much would you pay to hire a private investigator to trace this video back to whoever put in the code into AI to make it? Like, I would pay thousands if anyone has the fucking skill set.

• 3:20Benito Skinner?

  Do I even want to know?

• 3:21Mary Beth Barone?

  No, because.

• 3:21Benito Skinner?

  Do I even want to know the answer?

• 3:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Unknown number, which I haven't watched, but I know the twist. Have you heard about this documentary on Netflix?

• 3:27Benito Skinner?

  No.

• 3:27Mary Beth Barone?

  This girl's getting like relentlessly cyberbullied by an unknown number.

• 3:30Benito Skinner?

  It's her mom.

• 3:31Mary Beth Barone?

  And it turns out to be her mom. So it's like.

• 3:33Benito Skinner?

  That's so us coded.

• 3:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Who is it?

• 3:36Mary Beth Barone?

  It comes back to me.

• 3:37Benito Skinner?

  After all this time, I'm the wizard.

• 3:39Mary Beth Barone?

  You are.

• 3:40Benito Skinner?

  Girl, I'm the wizard of Oz, love.

• 3:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. So that's been interesting. I mean, it's been a crazy year and a lot of messages of support.

• 3:47Benito Skinner?

  AI said, give us.

• 3:49Mary Beth Barone?

  They said, hold my beer.

• 3:51Benito Skinner?

  How long? Nina Drava made that.

• 3:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. No, that actually makes sense. She's mad I got to you first because she is such big bobbies.

• 3:58Benito Skinner?

  She says, what's her does? They're not fresh.

• 4:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Why no one goes to bathroom to touch their bird after they watch Mary Beth Barrow's stories?

• 4:06Benito Skinner?

  Not one person touched their bird after licking its young boy. No one has.

• 4:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, it's neutralized attraction.

• 4:12Benito Skinner?

  Well, of course. Yeah. Well, that's I kind of like a neutralized attraction with my partner.

• 4:17Mary Beth Barone?

  To one way or another.

• 4:19Benito Skinner?

  I don't want to be like, no, I don't want to be attracted to you.

• 4:21Mary Beth Barone?

  You don't want to be a horn dog.

• 4:22Benito Skinner?

  Neutralized. I'm kind of thinking that AI spilled because you're kind of a fatty.

• 4:26Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm giving that.

• 4:27Benito Skinner?

  Wait, but the second I walked in here, you did compliment me like I'd like fresh out the gate.

• 4:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, I'm trying to win you over.

• 4:33Benito Skinner?

  Well, you did it.

• 4:34Mary Beth Barone?

  When's it gonna happen?

• 4:35Benito Skinner?

  With your gender neutrality.

• 4:36Mary Beth Barone?

  So editing a text message in iMessage, I found out years into the feature being available.

• 4:41Benito Skinner?

  You can see it.

• 4:41Mary Beth Barone?

  You can tap and see what the original message said. That's between me and God. What's the point of having an edit feature if they could see what I wrote before?

• 4:48Benito Skinner?

  They used to do that on Facebook, too. It's like, OK, snitch.

• 4:52Mary Beth Barone?

  What's the, but literally, what's the point? I might as well just like do the like correction and a star.

• 4:56Benito Skinner?

  I think it's so you can't gaslight people. I really do. It's like, I never said that. Go back in the messages and you've edited every single one.

• 5:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Who would do such a thing such as that?

• 5:05Benito Skinner?

  I can think of so many people who would. The list is so long. I.

• 5:08Mary Beth Barone?

  People are cruel then, and it's affecting me because I deserve to be able to do a little typo correction and not have it be like blasted to the world.

• 5:16Benito Skinner?

  People are cruel. 100%.

• 5:17Mary Beth Barone?

  What if I thought of a better way to say it, but it's a crush? And I'm like, fuck, I could edit it. But like, what's the point? Because then he's gonna know I then overthought it. And then it's like.

• 5:26Benito Skinner?

  We're here with Jackson today. Thank God, so I finally feel safe.

• 5:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Thank God we're at Dear Media.

• 5:30Benito Skinner?

  Jackson, I love your mullet, sis. Thank you. I've been trying to grow it out. It's so cutie. God, your voice, sometimes I forget.

• 5:36Mary Beth Barone?

  He missed you. We had another Australian feature on the pod, Rule, of course.

• 5:40Benito Skinner?

  Are you a huge Rule guy? Yeah, I love Rule. I've actually met him once.

• 5:43Mary Beth Barone?

  He's so tall. He's so fabulous.

• 5:45Benito Skinner?

  I asked if he could fight under your video and he said no, which I loved. I love, see, that's that kind of.

• 5:50Mary Beth Barone?

  You know what? I believe that.

• 5:51Benito Skinner?

  So here's my thing.

• 5:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Self-aware queen.

• 5:53Benito Skinner?

  I've been hanging out with a couple of straight guys lately. And what I'm finding is I am completely finally out of pocket. I've found the people I'm out of pocket with. I say whatever I think.

• 6:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Do you want to talk about it?

• 6:03Benito Skinner?

  Well, a little bit because I was. Kai?

• 6:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Kai.

• 6:08Benito Skinner?

  Kai.

• 6:08Mary Beth Barone?

  This is a really good moment, actually.

• 6:10Benito Skinner?

  Yes.

• 6:10Mary Beth Barone?

  So this week, it has been revealed and we're calling it a reveal. I am doing a stand-up special on Netflix. Netflix.com, the website and the app. And Kai Newman is directing. So if you're wondering why Kai's been really in the fold lately, why Kai's been in the ether, that's why.

• 6:29Benito Skinner?

  Well, and that's why I dated you to stay within my, what is it?

• 6:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Social circle.

• 6:33Benito Skinner?

  My social circles.

• 6:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, we'll keep your status within your social circles.

• 6:36Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 6:36Speaker 05

  And, uh, Any Drama Productions.

• 6:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Any Drama producing.

• 6:40Speaker 05

  Any Drama Productions has arrived at the premiere of Mary Beth.

• 6:43Benito Skinner?

  Netflix special directed by Kai Newman. Me and my team were happy to join and be producers on this one. It's a, I think it's the best hour of stand up I have seen ever. I'm not kidding. It's literally like, I've seen it now probably six times.

• 6:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 6:55Benito Skinner?

  I saw it just for laughs.

• 6:56Mary Beth Barone?

  And it's gonna change a bit too. And having said that, it's called Galaxy Brain. The first time I was ever referred to as having a galaxy brain was under a clip where I was talking on this podcast about microwaves. So that has really stuck.

• 7:08Benito Skinner?

  Be careful. As your producer, she's gonna come for residuals.

• 7:10Mary Beth Barone?

  No, for sure. And I'm happy to give her 10, 20, give her 20.

• 7:14Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I'll give her the 20.

• 7:15Mary Beth Barone?

  And.

• 7:16Benito Skinner?

  Hey, the producer's got this one.

• 7:17Mary Beth Barone?

  You should come to the taping if you live in New York or if you live elsewhere. It is going to be, drumroll please.

• 7:23Benito Skinner?

  Jackson, do a drumroll, sweetie.

• 7:25Mary Beth Barone?

  It's March 19th, 2026 in New York City. So tickets are available through my website and I just can't wait. I'm really proud of it and I can't wait to have it available to like so many new people.

• 7:36Benito Skinner?

  It's fabulous.

• 7:37Mary Beth Barone?

  It's fabulous.

• 7:38Benito Skinner?

  If I had to say one goddamn fucking word, it's fabulous. And I love your outfit for it and I love every joke and every crevice. I love every atom of you.

• 7:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Every little ridge in my brain. So let's talk about Kai quickly.

• 7:49Benito Skinner?

  Let's talk about Kai. Well, this man has got me. He's got me totally weak at the knees. He's got me laughing at dinners and it's so funny. So I was talking to our friend, Pat Regan, who's a writer and overcompensating genius. I assume everyone listening to this has heard of his treatment. Yeah, he's just like, he is the funniest person alive. And so I was talking to him and we were like, okay, yeah, maybe we'll go to this like event. It was kind of like a, it was like a gay guy night of sorts. And I was like, we should do this costume velvet goldmine. We'll wear some boas and it'll be fun. And if anything, we'll mine some stuff for the show. And then Kai texts me, straight man, and he's like, we going to panic tonight? I was like, what? And so then.

• 8:32Mary Beth Barone?

  He knows stuff.

• 8:33Benito Skinner?

  Well, so then I had a chaperone.

• 8:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 8:35Benito Skinner?

  And that.

• 8:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Not cutting that.

• 8:38Benito Skinner?

  And you shouldn't. So Kai comes with us. He's dressed as Tinker Bell and I spend the night laughing, shooting the shit with Kai. I mean, he's just, he's, he's just one of those guys. But here's the thing. He makes me laugh. He is definitely a part of the straight guy community that talks about my fitness and my fitness goals a lot, which I love talking about.

• 9:00Mary Beth Barone?

  And your body.

• 9:01Benito Skinner?

  Talks about my body a lot. I'll say it. But he's a generational talent and he's so funny.

• 9:05Mary Beth Barone?

  He's just built different.

• 9:06Benito Skinner?

  We got this.

• 9:07Mary Beth Barone?

  You know what I mean?

• 9:08Benito Skinner?

  We got this, Kev.

• 9:09Mary Beth Barone?

  He's built different.

• 9:10Benito Skinner?

  We have chemistry. I'm not kidding. We have crazy chemistry.

• 9:12Mary Beth Barone?

  I know. And I love to watch that unfold right before my eyes because I did meet you guys at Panic, Panic Room. On Saturday, I went out with straight guys without you, which was obviously really scary.

• 9:22Benito Skinner?

  Well, you know what I told you?

• 9:23Mary Beth Barone?

  What?

• 9:24Benito Skinner?

  I said dinner at six and one too many straight guys, you've lost me. But I'm gonna get a spray tan.

• 9:28Mary Beth Barone?

  They were really sweet, but Kai did compliment my skin. You know what I mean? It's just those little moments where I go, you're just different. You're not like the other girls.

• 9:37Benito Skinner?

  You know what he said to me? He goes, you're what a man should look like. I said, Kai.

• 9:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Hi.

• 9:42Benito Skinner?

  I got little chills down my back.

• 9:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, my God. And yeah, I just, I could, you know, I could go on.

• 9:48Benito Skinner?

  I can imagine all the people in his DMs. We're only making it worse.

• 9:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Let's just say sometimes you have to make sense of your life and you think, maybe everything I've done up to this point is so that I could meet Kai Newman. Do you get that?

• 9:59Benito Skinner?

  Completely agree.

• 10:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Do you understand?

• 10:01Benito Skinner?

  All the roads that led me to Kai Newman. Oh, hey, I'll drive down him again.

• 10:05Mary Beth Barone?

  I would do it a thousand times if you're gonna tell me for Kai.

• 10:08Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. So here's the thing.

• 10:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Kai is gonna be my plus one to some events coming up.

• 10:12Benito Skinner?

  I wonder.

• 10:13Mary Beth Barone?

  I'll say that much.

• 10:14Benito Skinner?

  And me too, girl. Hey.

• 10:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Hey, I'll fight you for it.

• 10:17Benito Skinner?

  Arm wrestle, girl, with your little tat. Here's my thing.

• 10:20Mary Beth Barone?

  Fake, by the way.

• 10:20Benito Skinner?

  I met the apps. I mean, I don't even know what to say, but I met my kids, the emergency intercom kids.

• 10:27Mary Beth Barone?

  To not mention that we finally met Drew and Enya.

• 10:30Benito Skinner?

  Drew and Enya. I want to hold them. I want to kiss them. I did in so many ways. Drew was in a clown costume that had a slit down the back. And I thought, so that's my good fucking sis.

• 10:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 10:42Benito Skinner?

  And if you come for him, you come for me, you come for my family. They were. We're just delicious and I want to hold them and they're so cute. But I am kind of like, I, you know, in a way that if I saw them with Jackson, I'd be like, hey, what the fuck's going on here?

• 10:57Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 10:57Benito Skinner?

  So I do want to also just say like, Kai ain't ours.

• 11:01Mary Beth Barone?

  No.

• 11:01Benito Skinner?

  But we will take him as he is whenever we get him.

• 11:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 11:05Benito Skinner?

  And we have respect for the space.

• 11:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Absolutely. And it's like, you have to just pay respects to those that were there first.

• 11:11Benito Skinner?

  It's like, hey, can I just say, Greta Titleman introduced me to J R Mendoza. I think her every day of my life.

• 11:18Mary Beth Barone?

  I know you do. You text her every single day. You have a script that runs.

• 11:21Benito Skinner?

  And sometimes I know that other people are gonna go and they're gonna, they're gonna go to daddy and he's gonna get more and more booked.

• 11:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. And that's what you want to see people succeed. So I guess I would just have to say like, thank you for letting us have as much time as you're willing to give.

• 11:33Benito Skinner?

  And we'll give him right back when we're done.

• 11:37Mary Beth Barone?

  So that's what we have to say on that.

• 11:38Benito Skinner?

  Can I say my biggest thing of the past week?

• 11:40Mary Beth Barone?

  I know what you're gonna say.

• 11:42Benito Skinner?

  So I love bees. I love everything about them. I love honey. I love what they do. I love pollination. I think all of it's fantastic. Let me eat my lunch outside.

• 11:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Bees have gotten so aggressive in the past couple of years.

• 11:55Benito Skinner?

  So I am honey, it seems?

• 11:58Mary Beth Barone?

  I said, I want honey. That's bees.

• 12:00Benito Skinner?

  That's bees.

• 12:01Mary Beth Barone?

  That's bees talking about Benny drama.

• 12:02Benito Skinner?

  No, I know. They find me the second I go outside with my big green stinky salad from Goop. And I'm trying to eat and I'm just like, I'm in the writers room. I just want a little air. I just want a little sun on my face.

• 12:14Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 12:15Benito Skinner?

  Feet in the sand.

• 12:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Not gonna happen.

• 12:17Benito Skinner?

  They swarm me. It's the Lady Gaga Wale song. Looking at, looking at, looking at me. Look at that, look at that, they looking at me. Eyes all sticky like honey on bees. Wait, but it's just for my lunch, though. The second I'm done with it, you can go about your days.

• 12:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Here's what I'll say about that because I spent the summer, I spent a lot of time at my parents' house this summer, obviously grieving with my family. And I spent some time at, and Dear Media. I spent, I was laying by the pool. That's where I find my peace is at my parents' pool. Sometimes I bring my laptop out there, even though the screen's reflective and I do a little writing. The peace was interrupted by these bees. And it was like, it didn't matter if I, they were, they were landing on my book. They were swarming my coconut La Croix. God forbid I had any more slow food out there. I mean, they're landing on me. And so there is something you can do that we found out by accident. One time at the pool, we left a shot glass that had a little bit of fireball in it. It was a massacre.

• 13:15Mary Beth Barone?

  There were about 50 dead bees in there. I'm not saying I would do that and we learned a lot, but I'm just saying there's here, I'm saying I wouldn't do it. I'm saying I wouldn't do it.

• 13:26Benito Skinner?

  You're giving them the tools to do it, but you're saying I wouldn't.

• 13:27Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm saying I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't do it. I'm just saying it happened accidentally. So just know that in my mind, and this is what, cause I am a lover, not a fighter and I would never want to, we need bees now more than ever. I mean, that's what I'm being told.

• 13:38Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 13:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Is that I wouldn't do that. Just know that I know a way to fix it and I'm not doing it.

• 13:43Benito Skinner?

  Well, I'm talking to them. It's like, you know how people talk to their dogs? Like Pinky and I have talked at length, ad nauseam about all kinds of things.

• 13:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, for sure.

• 13:50Benito Skinner?

  But I, I'm telling them, I'm like, no, it's all good. Like I'm not going to kill you. I'm not going to do anything. Let me finish my Caesar wrap.

• 13:57Mary Beth Barone?

  You know what I say to them? I go, I see you.

• 13:59Benito Skinner?

  I grabbed.

• 14:01Mary Beth Barone?

  You are seen.

• 14:02Benito Skinner?

  You don't have to do this for any.

• 14:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Hey, hey, hey.

• 14:05Benito Skinner?

  You're enough.

• 14:06Mary Beth Barone?

  You're enough, just as you are.

• 14:07Benito Skinner?

  But also. Fix your eyesight. That's a flower. This is human being. There's no.

• 14:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Whatever you're smelling.

• 14:15Benito Skinner?

  Hey, no nectar on this guy. Well.

• 14:18Mary Beth Barone?

  You are seen and you are loved.

• 14:20Benito Skinner?

  Now go.

• 14:20Mary Beth Barone?

  And I hear you.

• 14:21Benito Skinner?

  And fly.

• 14:22Mary Beth Barone?

  I could ride for events, which I never would have ridden for a year ago or two years ago. No, I'm not, but I'm going to talk about something that happens at events. So when you're at events, you meet peers, you meet heroes, you meet people from every walk of life.

• 14:34Benito Skinner?

  Oh, do you, I mean. I met Hillary Duff. It was explosive. She's perfect. She's actually like my favorite person. And you know who else is Rita Ora and Taika Waititi.

• 14:42Mary Beth Barone?

  And I am not surprised.

• 14:44Benito Skinner?

  I held that man like I held Kai Newman.

• 14:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, no, it was very kind.

• 14:49Benito Skinner?

  They are delicious. I went to this thing alone and I was so nervous and it was.

• 14:53Speaker 05

  It was folk world.

• 14:55Mary Beth Barone?

  I mean, once again.

• 14:56Speaker 05

  It was folk world.

• 14:57Benito Skinner?

  I just felt so safe in Taika Waititi's arms. And to me, if you don't clip that, I mean, you're just like, what's even the point at this point?

• 15:03Mary Beth Barone?

  I know they're having fun.

• 15:05Benito Skinner?

  And I felt it in every way. Like, I can't stress enough.

• 15:08Mary Beth Barone?

  Also, body tea. Can we talk about body tea?

• 15:11Benito Skinner?

  There's so much body tea. I've been around such body tea lately.

• 15:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Here's the problem, and this is not about any of the people that you met at that event, because this is about an event that I attended.

• 15:20Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 15:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Sometimes you talk to someone long enough to realize that you don't align with their politics. And it's sort of like, and I hate to bring up The Simpsons, but if anyone is listening with their straight boyfriend.

• 15:31Benito Skinner?

  Principal Skinner, are you kidding? I love The Simpsons.

• 15:33Mary Beth Barone?

  When he sort of backs up into the bush and you just think, so this is the part of the conversation where I leave, because I don't want to know anymore. Up, up, up, up, up. No, no, no, no, no. Let me just, please don't. Really hard, really tough.

• 15:45Benito Skinner?

  It happens sometimes in like doctor's offices or like, I don't know.

• 15:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, just anywhere. It happened to me in the Cayman Islands. I was in the ocean talking to Canadians and they were like, really scary what's happening with the mayoral election in New York. I was like, what is scary about it?

• 15:57Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, yeah, nothing scary about it.

• 15:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Sorry, it's actually not scary. And what the fuck do you care, by the way?

• 16:01Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. And can I just say, take the photo. God damn it.

• 16:07Mary Beth Barone?

  And it can happen at, you know, meeting your boyfriend's family. It's not just like, hey, relatable alert. It's not just at events. Can be at work, can be anywhere. I think sometimes we make people feel comfortable to just say whatever.

• 16:19Benito Skinner?

  Oh, 100.

• 16:19Mary Beth Barone?

  And then.

• 16:20Benito Skinner?

  Your face to me, I'm like, I gotta tell this bitch some crazy shit.

• 16:23Mary Beth Barone?

  And, and fine, but let's like, let's do a little test of the waters first, or check my Instagram.

• 16:28Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 16:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Before you start talking politics with me.

• 16:31Benito Skinner?

  And you also don't have to talk about really any of that with me at an event when you don't know me. You know what I mean? Like, you could have just not also. That's the thing where it's like, are you saying this because you also know it's kind of fucked up? Or do you just want to have one ally? It won't be me, by the way.

• 16:45Mary Beth Barone?

  I think it's an immediate feeling of I'm aligned with this person on so many things. We've talked for seven minutes, seven and a half even. And then they're gonna just insert in something that they think, oh, well, there's no way this person would disagree with that. But you really just don't know. And yeah, it's tough. I don't, I don't want to say anymore, but I feel like just, yeah, tread lightly. I mean, also, it's like, I know that I have the correct opinion. So if I'm not bringing it up, please, God, don't you bring it up.

• 17:09Benito Skinner?

  No, please, honey, don't.

• 17:11Mary Beth Barone?

  Please. I did want to say one more thing before we get into what we ride for.

• 17:14Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, please.

• 17:15Mary Beth Barone?

  I can be mean. When prompted.

• 17:18Benito Skinner?

  Yes.

• 17:18Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm a bitch sometimes, and I have very high expectations for the people around me. Let's move on.

• 17:23Benito Skinner?

  Of course. Remember when you told me that you think I'm meaner?

• 17:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. I was canceled, actually, on the Reddit. People were saying that I seem low key mean, and I'm like, but you're nice?

• 17:34Benito Skinner?

  Well, that's.

• 17:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, but you're coming to the Reddit to comment. And by the way, here's what I want to dispel. If you ever hear a rumor about me being difficult to work with, diva on set, rude? I had my reasons. I would never do that unless it was coaxed out of me, that type of performance.

• 17:50Benito Skinner?

  I know, sweetie.

• 17:51Mary Beth Barone?

  And I just hit the mic.

• 17:52Benito Skinner?

  So this is our land.

• 17:54Mary Beth Barone?

  This is our land. And it's like, you don't have to spread any rumors about me, me, mean. I can be mean sometimes. Who among us doesn't have their moments? I don't care. It's like.

• 18:03Benito Skinner?

  I love this. Wait, I'm seeing this perfect speech for season two.

• 18:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Love me or hate me, it's still an obsession. Love me or hate me, that is the question.

• 18:10Benito Skinner?

  Fuck you.

• 18:11Mary Beth Barone?

  If you love me, well, thank you. And if you hate me, well, then fuck you.

• 18:14Benito Skinner?

  Who is that, by the?

• 18:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Lady Sovereign.

• 18:15Benito Skinner?

  Oh, Lady Sovereign, I forgot about Lady Sovereign. That's good for season two as well. I stand by the thing I said, that you're a baby chihuahua limousine princess.

• 18:22Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 18:23Benito Skinner?

  And I think, I, I think that's the thing. Also, sometimes when people do that, where they're like, you're mean, or you have mean girl energy. I'm like, I want to see you at an airport when your flight's canceled. Because if you're sweet. This I gotta see.

• 18:36Mary Beth Barone?

  I just think it's funny just now because we have a podcast, I can say with no shame that like, yeah, I'm a woman and I'm sexual and I love you.

• 18:44Benito Skinner?

  I'm a bitch.

• 18:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Like she said it.

• 18:48Benito Skinner?

  I'm a mother and I'm a sinner.

• 18:49Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm a saint.

• 18:51Benito Skinner?

  I will not be ashamed.

• 18:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Or something like that. But yeah, like I have, I have a place where I can literally just say like, yeah. And guess what? If you don't want to listen to the podcast anymore because you think I'm mean sometimes.

• 19:03Benito Skinner?

  Can I say?

• 19:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.

• 19:06Benito Skinner?

  I wouldn't want it any other way.

• 19:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 19:11Benito Skinner?

  I wouldn't.

• 19:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Thank you.

• 19:12Benito Skinner?

  Ice woman.

• 19:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Wait, what is it? Hello Reverend Mosby.

• 19:17Benito Skinner?

  Hello Reverend Mosby.

• 19:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Proud of it babe.

• 19:20Benito Skinner?

  That ice woman.

• 19:21Mary Beth Barone?

  No, is it ice woman?

• 19:23Benito Skinner?

  Those, ship those kids off to boarding school in ten buck two. Should we get into what we're writing for?

• 19:30Mary Beth Barone?

  I think we should.

• 19:31Benito Skinner?

  What are you writing for?

• 19:32Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm writing for Pinky.

• 19:33Benito Skinner?

  Oh God, yes. It's the Pinkerton episode.

• 19:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, this is huge.

• 19:36Benito Skinner?

  And I'm writing for.

• 19:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, writing for.

• 19:44Benito Skinner?

  And that's it. I literally, could you imagine? That's it.

• 19:47Mary Beth Barone?

  You're writing for a sound?

• 19:48Benito Skinner?

  No, I die.

• 19:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, you passed away.

• 19:50Benito Skinner?

  I'm writing for Diet Coke and its constituents.

• 19:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 19:53Benito Skinner?

  Is that the, is that a misuse of that word?

• 19:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, I don't know what you're talking about, so I'll find out once you start talking.

• 19:59Benito Skinner?

  What does constituents mean?

• 20:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Constituents are like the people in your district that like vote for you. So what do you think it means?

• 20:07Mary Beth Barone?

  What do you think it means?

• 20:08Benito Skinner?

  I've got it. Yeah. I mean, like for me.

• 20:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Like the people, you mean the people that drink it?

• 20:12Benito Skinner?

  No, no. What's so cool is that I completely am saying that constituents are like Coke Zero. And that's it.

• 20:21Mary Beth Barone?

  And then the men's one that they made was the men's one. They made it for men. So is that Coke Zero? So that it was less feminine than Diet Coke?

• 20:28Benito Skinner?

  Is that why they made Coke Zero?

• 20:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 20:30Benito Skinner?

  I thought it had less aspartame. That's what I've been telling every person I've met.

• 20:33Mary Beth Barone?

  So what you're saying is that you ride for Diet Coke and it's like off, not offspring, but it's like.

• 20:40Benito Skinner?

  Let's just say I ride for Coke Zero, period.

• 20:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay.

• 20:44Benito Skinner?

  Just do that. But I am gonna talk about Diet Coke, which I just chugged. I practically butt-chugged the thing.

• 20:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, it's just, it's same person, different con.

• 20:50Benito Skinner?

  Did you laugh at butt-chug, Jackson?

• 20:52Mary Beth Barone?

  I didn't even.

• 20:53Benito Skinner?

  Wow, you missed us.

• 20:54Mary Beth Barone?

  And can I just say, I blew right past it. So you're riding for Diet Coke, Coke Zero?

• 21:00Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, Diet Coke and its constituents. We're keeping all that.

• 21:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Of course.

• 21:02Benito Skinner?

  But you know that it's kind of, I meant like Coke Zero and Diet Coke.

• 21:05Mary Beth Barone?

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• 21:15Mary Beth Barone?

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• 21:33Mary Beth Barone?

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• 22:03Mary Beth Barone?

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• 22:04Mary Beth Barone?

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• 22:22Mary Beth Barone?

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• 22:37Speaker 07

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• 22:40Mary Beth Barone?

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• 23:02Speaker 07

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• 23:37Mary Beth Barone?

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• 24:01Speaker 07

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• 24:10Mary Beth Barone?

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• 24:58Mary Beth Barone?

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• 25:43Mary Beth Barone?

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• 25:57Benito Skinner?

  Who cares? Ride! Can I go first?

• 25:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Absolutely.

• 26:00Benito Skinner?

  So I just took down this sizzling little drink. Ice woman. Here's the thing. I grew up with this ad campaign. Oh, ah, starry eyes, surprise. Summer in the sunrise, dance all night. We're gonna dance all night, dance all night to this DJ. And that girl, in my head, she's in a green tube top.

• 26:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Yep.

• 26:21Benito Skinner?

  And roller skates. And it's the sparkle of Diet Coke. Oh, what? And I'm moving my hips slowly as the TV plays it. And I go, don't fast forward, don't TiVo this. I love this. My mom was a full addict. She would have like for a day of Diet Coke. And I remember at the time, I was young, so I was having like... Coke raw, or as some people say-

• 26:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Every day.

• 26:43Benito Skinner?

  Full fat Coke.

• 26:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Every day.

• 26:45Benito Skinner?

  Every day. Yeah, I mean, it's why, I mean, my teeth were just-

• 26:49Mary Beth Barone?

  We did pizza night on Fridays and we were allowed to have soda then and that's it.

• 26:52Benito Skinner?

  So I keep, I keep surrounding myself with dark haired beauties, I would say, who have the exact same rules.

• 26:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 26:59Benito Skinner?

  I was the youngest in my family. It was pretty much just like, let her rip. Like, this kid is gonna watch Real World Boston. Feel strange watching Real World Boston, next, Real World Road Rules.

• 27:11Mary Beth Barone?

  Room Raiders.

• 27:12Benito Skinner?

  Room Raiders. And I was gonna eat kinda whatever the fuck I wanted and definitely take down some soda in a big way. Like, I, I still can't go into a movie theater without having now a Coke Zero, but at the time, a Coke Slushy. I would have a Coke Slushy every time I went to the movies.

• 27:28Mary Beth Barone?

  If I had a Coke Slushy, my heart would stop. I can say that with confidence.

• 27:31Benito Skinner?

  Mine just grows bigger.

• 27:33Mary Beth Barone?

  That's how we're built different. That's how we were made different by God and God's hands.

• 27:37Benito Skinner?

  I know, I can like, I can take sugar.

• 27:40Mary Beth Barone?

  I really can't. I have opened my heart up to soda more lately, which is I'll have a Diet Coke. I used to take 10 years off from soda, as I've talked about on the podcast.

• 27:48Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, of course.

• 27:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Eating disorder mentality, making rules for yourself, that sort of thing. Now, as I am in recovery, I'm trying to allow myself pleasures of life, one of them being a Diet Coke at a dinner. And sometimes then after that, I have to go home, because maybe it's little bubbles in my tummy, but I am trying to enjoy life more.

• 28:05Benito Skinner?

  That makes us so happy and we're happy to have you whenever we get you.

• 28:08Mary Beth Barone?

  As one of Diet Coke's most recent constituents, I would say, like, I'm just happy to be here.

• 28:13Benito Skinner?

  And God, are we lucky. You look good with one kid.

• 28:17Mary Beth Barone?

  Hey, thanks.

• 28:18Benito Skinner?

  I went to play an old man in something one day where I go, you look good, kid. You know what I mean?

• 28:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 28:23Benito Skinner?

  And that's my last role.

• 28:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Like the older guy in The Holiday.

• 28:25Benito Skinner?

  Yes. Oh, my God, please. He was like, really fucking old in that. I love him in that. He like, melted me. I was kind of rooting for them more than I was her and Jack Black at times, which is kind of a hot take, but-

• 28:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Hey, save it for the holiday episodes. What'd you kid?

• 28:39Benito Skinner?

  Can't wait. Yeah, so this was like a part of my childhood or whatever. Like I just, my mom and her Diet Coke, it was chic. I loved it. It was her thing. I loved Coke.

• 28:47Mary Beth Barone?

  With a straw mask?

• 28:48Benito Skinner?

  My mom, I think, would put it, she would put it into like a bigger cup with a ton of ice.

• 28:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Cool.

• 28:52Benito Skinner?

  People are so stingy with ice lately. I don't know what's going on.

• 28:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, it's, it was crisis.

• 28:56Benito Skinner?

  It's a crisis, like especially in Toronto. I remember just being like, I'll beg. Like if you want me to beg, I'll beg. And I have that in Europe sometimes too. Travel privilege, of course. Goes without saying. And New York sometimes is less on the ice. LA is like, here's a full thing of ice. And I love that.

• 29:11Mary Beth Barone?

  And that's dinner for a lot of people here.

• 29:13Benito Skinner?

  Of course, of course. And lunch. But I love at a movie theater, it's kind of that choose your own adventure. Like I want to be in control of the ice, I'd say, because I know just the right amount.

• 29:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 29:24Benito Skinner?

  Just the right amount. So obviously a huge fan of the Coke brand.

• 29:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, I forgot to say pool privilege when I was talking about my parents' house.

• 29:31Benito Skinner?

  Oh, good. Yeah, yeah.

• 29:31Mary Beth Barone?

  So I just want to get that in there.

• 29:32Benito Skinner?

  Of course. I mean.

• 29:34Mary Beth Barone?

  And thank you. And can I just say?

• 29:35Benito Skinner?

  They would have.

• 29:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Thank you.

• 29:36Benito Skinner?

  They would have come for this bitch over here for that.

• 29:38Mary Beth Barone?

  My parents have a pool.

• 29:38Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 29:39Mary Beth Barone?

  And thank you.

• 29:40Benito Skinner?

  Thank you. Sorry. And thank you. Thank you really stuck with you.

• 29:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, just the line read of, and can I just say, thank you about come on, Kirk punk?

• 29:52Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 29:52Mary Beth Barone?

  It's a favorite of mine.

• 29:53Benito Skinner?

  I've never seen something more in my life or been yelled at more in my life than that little, little phrase. So I guess I'll just say one more time.

• 30:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Thank you.

• 30:05Benito Skinner?

  Okay, so we get it all the way up to college and I'm still like practically butt chugging this Coke. Like I guess.

• 30:11Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, just get Jackson on that one more.

• 30:13Benito Skinner?

  Jackson, I cannot.

• 30:15Mary Beth Barone?

  We haven't been here in a while.

• 30:16Benito Skinner?

  See, this is kind of like.

• 30:17Mary Beth Barone?

  He's missed us.

• 30:18Benito Skinner?

  He doesn't know that if someone giggles, it's like, well, I'm locking in. I'm saying it five more times. This is huge. No, he won't. You just cut on. Okay, so like I'm, and I thought, I just don't really like the taste of Diet Coke. That was my big thing. I don't like the taste of Diet Coke. Then in the last few years, I'm like, oh, it's just like a lot of sugar. And I just like, I don't know. I'm like, I gotta, I gotta be thoughtful of this. My grandma had diabetes and like, I just, I'm like trying to be less sugar obsessed. I mean, I'm taking it down still in a way.

• 30:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Sugar centric.

• 30:48Benito Skinner?

  Sugar centric. Whoa, my memoir.

• 30:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Whoa.

• 30:51Benito Skinner?

  Hello. So I start drinking Diet Coke. And after probably the 50th one, I was like, I think I really fuck with the taste. And I think I need one right now.

• 31:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 31:04Benito Skinner?

  And if you squeeze a lemon in it, the chills down my back when I have that first sip. And to get a little caffeine later in the day.

• 31:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Can I just say?

• 31:14Benito Skinner?

  But then I go to Europa. I go to Canada even. And Diet Coke is not as common there as I thought it would be. Instead, it's this crazy little hussy known as Coke Zero. And my God, does she have me by the balls. It's just a little better.

• 31:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Different.

• 31:32Benito Skinner?

  It's different. It just tastes different. Like I just know. And it's like, if you get a crisp Coke Zero or, oh my God, God willing, you get a Coke Zero in a glass bottle.

• 31:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 31:43Benito Skinner?

  What it, and by the way, of course, this is unpaid.

• 31:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, yeah, I didn't even think we were gonna say it.

• 31:48Benito Skinner?

  Cool privilege and this is not paid.

• 31:50Mary Beth Barone?

  And on the, I am going to talk about Pepsi just to, cause fair and balanced.

• 31:53Benito Skinner?

  Pepsi's Pepsi.

• 31:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Pepsi.

• 31:54Benito Skinner?

  My favorite.

• 31:55Mary Beth Barone?

  For those who think young.

• 31:55Benito Skinner?

  I'm gonna talk, yeah, I'm gonna talk about Pepsi.

• 31:57Mary Beth Barone?

  Cause I'm a Pepsi fan, I'm in a Pepsi family. My mom's a Pepsi girl, Diet Pepsi.

• 32:01Benito Skinner?

  No fucking way. You're a Pepsi house.

• 32:04Mary Beth Barone?

  We are a Pepsi household.

• 32:05Benito Skinner?

  Whoa. I mean, I, someone asked recently, do you want Pepsi Zero? And I went, that's so cool that they didn't even try to make it sound different.

• 32:11Mary Beth Barone?

  No, why would they?

• 32:12Benito Skinner?

  It's just Pepsi Zero. Like they're like, we did the same fucking thing. Enjoy it.

• 32:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Hey, we saw it worked. We love what you guys did there.

• 32:17Benito Skinner?

  Pepsi is different and I can taste the difference, but I like it too. And if it's there, of course I say, bring it.

• 32:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Bring it.

• 32:23Benito Skinner?

  So fine.

• 32:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Yep.

• 32:24Benito Skinner?

  And hey, don't apologize.

• 32:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Equal opportunist.

• 32:26Benito Skinner?

  Hey, of course.

• 32:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Soda.

• 32:27Benito Skinner?

  Always. So I find Coke Zero. The way I would take these down on set as a midday treat. One day on set, Owen Thiel and I, I don't think anyone knows this about overcompensating. Owen Thiel, we didn't have for that many days, just because obviously he was shooting adults. He was about to shoot adults and like, just, you know, it was very tricky to make sure that we had Owen as much as we wanted to have Owen, which was like, we need one even more of him. So we shot all the bodega scenes for the entire series in one day. And so it's just me and him in that bodega for like 14 hours. And then this time hits and it's like 8:00 PM. And we're about to do, I think, the last one, which, oh, it's the end of episode six,

• 33:11Benito Skinner?

  the Edge of Glory sequence, which I love. And we're like, it's a little flirty and just like, and it's just cute. And I look at Owen and I go, there's a McDonald's down the block. There's McDonald's down the block. And he looked at me and goes, Diet Coke?

• 33:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Wow.

• 33:24Benito Skinner?

  Let me one up you, my good sis.

• 33:26Mary Beth Barone?

  And you guys said this all without speaking, just looking at each other.

• 33:29Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 33:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 33:30Benito Skinner?

  And I'm not kidding. Like, I could have, and he would have been like, yeah, that's what I asked for. I got us the biggest Coke Zeros. And then it was like, everyone around was like, I need one. So then I just kept getting everyone these, everyone on set had these absolute goblets of Coke Zero. We nailed the scene. It just brought us all together.

• 33:50Mary Beth Barone?

  It's a little boost. It's a little treat.

• 33:51Benito Skinner?

  So what I can also say is like, it's a great way to bond with a bestie is to get the biggest Coke Zero you can. I also really recommend them before a night out. You Miss Social Chair had thrown a party at your place for the whole cast. And I, I love that in your place, it's like an extended stay hotel.

• 34:09Mary Beth Barone?

  A one bedroom apartment.

• 34:11Benito Skinner?

  But you, you turned it out.

• 34:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, I'm so lonely in my mansion. That's me. That's me in, in Yorkville.

• 34:17Benito Skinner?

  Right? Yeah, yeah, wait.

• 34:19Speaker 05

  Babe, I'm so lonely in my mansion.

• 34:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Lonely in my mansion.

• 34:23Benito Skinner?

  I love her riffs. Delicious. But on the way to it, I thought, oh my God, I'm like a little tired. And I got a massive Coke Zero and I came right to yours and I was good for the whole night.

• 34:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, those are fun nights.

• 34:33Benito Skinner?

  What I've always, I think, been a proponent for on this pod, what's always been very important to me is giving yourself just a little fucking treat. It really do just be the little things. And I'm finding that recently. It's just nice to go for a walk, put in Lord and get yourself a Diet Coke, Coke Zero and maybe a Diet Pepsi even. What Addison Rae did for them. And I think also Brittany, I mean, when Brittany was the Pepsi Girl.

• 34:57Mary Beth Barone?

  Huge contract. Monster contract.

• 35:00Benito Skinner?

  I mean, unbelievable contract. Like the choreography she had in those Pepsi ads, like it was insane. And that interview where she's like Pepsi's Pepsi. What kind of Pepsi? I like Pepsi's Pepsi. I knew what she meant.

• 35:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 35:10Benito Skinner?

  Absolutely.

• 35:11Mary Beth Barone?

  It's like when Harry Styles said, well, it's a movie that you see at the movies. It's like a movie.

• 35:15Benito Skinner?

  Exactly.

• 35:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Like, don't act like you don't know what he's talking about.

• 35:17Benito Skinner?

  I completely get it.

• 35:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Come on.

• 35:19Benito Skinner?

  I remember, I cheated on Coke during that time because of it. I was just so.

• 35:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Cause you were brand loyal.

• 35:25Benito Skinner?

  Well, brand loyal to Brittany. I was like, whatever she's supporting, I have to, you know, I gotta put more cash in her pocket.

• 35:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 35:31Benito Skinner?

  And I still think that.

• 35:32Mary Beth Barone?

  I do think it's like, everything in moderation, of course.

• 35:35Benito Skinner?

  Okay. So what we want to say is everything in moderation, of course.

• 35:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Of course. And I think having these little treats for yourself. Right now, we're living in a time when we need to cope constantly. We are in a constant state of coping with the world, our day to day lives, interpersonal relationships, every aspect, it's just coming at us from all directions. So I think any way that you have to cope is so important. And that can be just as simple as going to the bodega, getting a Coke for 12, 13, $14, however much they cost. It's very, how much does a banana cost, Michael? $10? I think prices are going up, but it's never going to be too much where you can enjoy an ice cold diet soda.

• 36:13Benito Skinner?

  And just to anyone watching, I'm realizing it's a scab on my lip. I cut my lip. So if you've wondered the whole time, does he have chocolate cake off to the side? Maybe, but it's actually a scab.

• 36:23Mary Beth Barone?

  It's a scab.

• 36:24Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. Thank you for saying that about Diet Coke and Coke Zero. To me, you're Diet Coke. To me, I'm Coke Zero.

• 36:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 36:31Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 36:32Mary Beth Barone?

  It's that neutralized attraction.

• 36:34Benito Skinner?

  It's neutralized attraction. AI spilled with that. Also, we have to shout out Amber Bain of The Japanese House also caught the stray.

• 36:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, she was the first.

• 36:43Benito Skinner?

  She was pointed out first as being flat chested.

• 36:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Because they thought it was me.

• 36:48Benito Skinner?

  Two of, can I just say two of the hottest people I know in the world? So happy to share that AI video with both of you.

• 36:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Just as a little segue, Amber Bain, of course, has a song about her dog, Joni Jones. And when I realized it was a song about a dog, that just touched me in such a special place in my heart. Because I often think about writing songs about Pinky, which is who I'm going to be writing for today.

• 37:11Benito Skinner?

  You gotta do, make a record.

• 37:12Mary Beth Barone?

  I might make a record. It's just all songs about my dog.

• 37:15Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 37:17Mary Beth Barone?

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• 37:24Speaker 06

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• 37:25Mary Beth Barone?

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• 37:35Speaker 07

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• 37:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Yes, and now let's talk about the TikTok-famous Andaria Algae Body Oil. It's not your typical body oil, right, Elen?

• 37:57Speaker 06

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• 38:02Mary Beth Barone?

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• 38:03Speaker 06

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• 38:08Mary Beth Barone?

  Fast-absorbing and transforms dry skin to silky soft and unbelievably glowing. And that's exactly what it did to my skin when I got a big box of Osea, and I used the body wash as well. It's also sourced from some of the cleanest waters on Earth, using sustainable seaweed harvesting practices that are gentle on the planet. So you want to read this at the same time?

• 38:27Speaker 07

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• 38:38Mary Beth Barone?

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• 38:52Speaker 07

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• 38:55Mary Beth Barone?

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• 39:32Speaker 07

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• 39:35Mary Beth Barone?

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• 40:05Speaker 07

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• 40:11Mary Beth Barone?

  That's right. Seriously, stop settling for average bras. Go to thirdlove.com and don't forget to use our code PODCAST15 so that they know that we sent you to get a beautiful new bra, or who knows, maybe even a few new bras that fit you like a glove. Thank you, Third Love. OK, so picture this. It's 2024. I am going through the audition process of overcompensating. I'm in the writer's room. Every day I have a lover that lives in another country who refuses to move for me despite my best efforts. And I'm just thinking, I'm so stressed out. Like, what do I know to be true about dogs is that they are de-stressors? I mean, my goodness, you can order puppies to the office just to pet them.

• 40:53Benito Skinner?

  Of course. They have them in hospitals.

• 40:54Mary Beth Barone?

  They do. What I didn't know.

• 40:56Benito Skinner?

  That's my big statement of the day. They have them in hospitals. You hear that, Jackson?

• 41:00Mary Beth Barone?

  What I didn't know is that dogs are calming. Puppies actually cause stress.

• 41:07Benito Skinner?

  Yes.

• 41:07Mary Beth Barone?

  But I found that out very late into the process, which was, of course, six months into having a puppy. I reached out to Waggy Tail's Rescue when I decided it was time. I was ready to get a dog. And this is coming from someone who had previously been obsessed with bleep it, not having pets.

• 41:22Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 41:22Mary Beth Barone?

  That was an obsession of mine.

• 41:23Benito Skinner?

  Well, at the time, hey, is everything not just a reflection of the time?

• 41:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, every day is a winding road. I also rode for changing your mind.

• 41:29Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 41:30Mary Beth Barone?

  So I decided it was time for me to get a dog.

• 41:32Benito Skinner?

  You've been playing sick mind games with our listeners.

• 41:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Hey, hey, can I say?

• 41:36Benito Skinner?

  Have I ever said our listeners?

• 41:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Try to keep up. Try to keep up.

• 41:39Benito Skinner?

  Hey. I'm trying.

• 41:40Mary Beth Barone?

  So I reach out to Waggy Tales. I tell them I'm interested. I fill out the application. I'm approved. And they said, we have 40 dogs coming from Tijuana to New York City. We'll send you photos of all of them once we get them and you can pick the one that you want. Well, you have to send three that you wanted. So I'm at the Olivia Rodrigo concert when the email comes in with the grid of dogs.

• 42:00Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 42:00Mary Beth Barone?

  And I see this dog and she is so stinking sassy. She was doing like total blue steel to the camera in this photo.

• 42:08Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 42:08Mary Beth Barone?

  And it's just said baby four. Actually, no. It said on the grid, baby four. And she's giving this sort of coy little look.

• 42:14Benito Skinner?

  And she still does.

• 42:15Mary Beth Barone?

  And I said, that's my dog.

• 42:16Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 42:17Mary Beth Barone?

  And I said, I didn't know if it was a boy or girl. I really wanted a girl dog. So I emailed back and I said, baby four is my top choice. So yeah, let me know. It's sort of the deets and if that's the one that I can have. And they got back to me and it was a girl and she was three pounds and her name at the time was Matilda. And these photos just like melted my heart. So I went, it was almost like back to school shopping. Like you go get all the materials that you need for this little creature that's gonna like totally change your life. So the day that she came to New York, I went to the East Village. I got her. And I've never smelled anything worse than the smell that was coming out of that van because it had 40 dogs in crates in it. So I decided to take her immediately up to Midtown where my mom was getting her haircut.

• 42:56Benito Skinner?

  Quickly, let me raise you Idaho football locker room.

• 42:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, so I've never smelled some shit like that.

• 43:02Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 43:02Mary Beth Barone?

  So I brought her up to the hair salon. We put her in the sink where they wash hair and we washed her. And her skin, you could see through her white fur. My mom said, I think we should name her Pinky. And so it's Pinky in the brain, but also Pinky was my nickname when I was little. My dad used to call me Pinky because I only wanted to wear pink. So yes, I did name my dog after myself. And that's some legends only shit.

• 43:24Benito Skinner?

  Let me introduce you to my poodle, Drama.

• 43:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Drama. So Pinky, wow, the first few months were really, really hard.

• 43:33Benito Skinner?

  I was there.

• 43:33Mary Beth Barone?

  I mean, the first year was hard.

• 43:34Benito Skinner?

  I was there. It was rare.

• 43:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Crate training, potty training in an apartment building, just dealing with like the chaos of having a puppy. I also had so much paranoia about being a bad dog mom that I would like play with her for too long where she would get so tired. And then that's when they start biting you. She had razor Sharp teeth, but I know what type of parent I would be if I had kids. Cause when she pooped in her crate, I was like, she's just expressing herself creatively.

• 43:55Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 43:56Mary Beth Barone?

  You know, and I just would, I just know I would always defend my kid.

• 43:59Benito Skinner?

  She's figuring it out.

• 44:00Mary Beth Barone?

  She's just like, let her fucking do her process.

• 44:02Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 44:02Mary Beth Barone?

  But it was really, really tough and it was hard sometimes, you know, especially when we were on set.

• 44:07Benito Skinner?

  There was one day in particular, I believe.

• 44:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Where she.

• 44:10Benito Skinner?

  Took a shit in my trailer.

• 44:11Mary Beth Barone?

  And peed.

• 44:11Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, and peed.

• 44:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Peed and pooped in your.

• 44:13Benito Skinner?

  Within seconds.

• 44:14Mary Beth Barone?

  In your trailer.

• 44:14Benito Skinner?

  But to me, I think I realized who I was as a parent, cause I thought, that's so cool.

• 44:18Mary Beth Barone?

  It was very letting water dry, cause I just cleaned it up and you didn't, you weren't mad.

• 44:22Benito Skinner?

  Well, of course not.

• 44:22Mary Beth Barone?

  It was very cool.

• 44:23Benito Skinner?

  The door's open.

• 44:24Mary Beth Barone?

  It was so Megan Draper of you.

• 44:25Benito Skinner?

  Oh, God.

• 44:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, God.

• 44:26Benito Skinner?

  Well, of course. No, but I just remember being like, yeah, I mean, my baby girl's comfortable. She's with daddy and like, I just took a nap. So how could I care about anything right now? And.

• 44:35Mary Beth Barone?

  And having a dog has changed my life in so many ways. There, there was a lot that I learned on Reddit.

• 44:39Benito Skinner?

  Changed my life.

• 44:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, I mean, she's a wonderful dog.

• 44:42Benito Skinner?

  With this dog.

• 44:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 44:43Benito Skinner?

  She sees me.

• 44:44Mary Beth Barone?

  I know. But I went on Puppy 101 for a bit and I found out about the Puppy Blues, which is where there's like several points in having a puppy where you think you've like, totally ruined your whole life and made a huge mistake. You just have to push through. We had some like moments where we had to really dig in on the training aspect and, and setting firm boundaries. She's still crate trained and I'm really proud of my girl. What I also found out is that every dog has behavioral issues, most dogs, probably 99%. And it's just like a roll of the dice, which one your dog is gonna have. So Pinky is resource guarding, so sometimes she'll get really feisty if there's like food around and there's another dog. So we just avoid that stuff, but it's really just like managing your dog. I also have a nanny for Pinky, nanny privilege. I have so much separation anxiety and guilt that I am a working mom, a single mom, and I would never, ever equate.

• 45:29Benito Skinner?

  Single mom who works two jobs.

• 45:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Two jobs, but I have seven jobs. And I would never equate having a dog with having kids. I'm like dog mom. I don't think that they're equally as hard or anything.

• 45:38Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 45:39Mary Beth Barone?

  It's very much a she rescued me situation and I'm really glad I got her like, so she was old enough when the election happened that she was just a comfort to me and not stressful.

• 45:47Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 45:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Because like I've really needed that, especially this year with everything that's happened to me.

• 45:51Benito Skinner?

  I'm so glad you have Pinky.

• 45:52Mary Beth Barone?

  I also wanted to say that I did, that after I got dumped, I went to Pilates that day.

• 45:57Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 45:57Mary Beth Barone?

  And that was for Pinky.

• 45:58Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 45:59Mary Beth Barone?

  You know, and that was for all the girls out there.

• 46:01Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 46:02Mary Beth Barone?

  That I've had to go through some shit like that and just like show up.

• 46:04Benito Skinner?

  Well, you can let down your Pilates instructor.

• 46:06Mary Beth Barone?

  I love her.

• 46:07Benito Skinner?

  Show up.

• 46:07Mary Beth Barone?

  I love her.

• 46:08Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 46:08Mary Beth Barone?

  And so Pinky's really been there for me and I think like she is just so goddamn cute. The face card is lethal.

• 46:15Benito Skinner?

  Face card is crazy. She's brawny. Like she's got these shoulders on her.

• 46:18Mary Beth Barone?

  She's masculine and feminine.

• 46:19Benito Skinner?

  And now you know why I'm, now you know why I'm completely, I mean, she's got my jaw on the floor. But I do this thing where right behind her, oh my God, I'm talking about my girl. I'm talking about my baby girl. Me and her lately are connecting in a way that's like, she's locked in with me.

• 46:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, it's very like, I'm not the stepdad, I'm the dad who stepped up.

• 46:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Cause she's had two dads already and it's like.

• 46:40Benito Skinner?

  I know. And she goes, finally, this one's gonna stick.

• 46:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 46:43Benito Skinner?

  Cause she knows, and I've been, I mean, I'm doing my rotations, but I, she, oh my God, we had this terrible night out. Got home, we've already talked about it. She gets on my chest and I just start rubbing right behind, like, I guess it would be on her shoulders. Her head, her neck curls back. She goes.

• 46:59Mary Beth Barone?

  She puts on a Joker smile.

• 47:00Benito Skinner?

  It's crazy. Why so serious?

• 47:02Mary Beth Barone?

  I have a really good picture of her doing a Joker smile that I'll finally post. Cause we never talked about it.

• 47:06Benito Skinner?

  I just worked her shoulders.

• 47:08Mary Beth Barone?

  And you put her in your shirt sometimes.

• 47:09Benito Skinner?

  I love putting her in my shirt. Well, it's skin to skin contact. You're supposed to do that as a father.

• 47:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 47:13Benito Skinner?

  So why wouldn't I?

• 47:14Mary Beth Barone?

  So I did think she was gonna be six pounds total. She is 16 pounds, but she flies with me. She is.

• 47:20Benito Skinner?

  I wouldn't want her smaller, can I say?

• 47:21Mary Beth Barone?

  I thought it would be cool to have a dog I could put in a bag, but she had her own ideas about what her life would be. And we are so similar. We really, we are moody. We are demanding. We wanna be scratched and tickled.

• 47:33Benito Skinner?

  Sexual, I'll say.

• 47:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Sexual. She has a very, she has a lot of energy in that department.

• 47:38Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, she does.

• 47:38Mary Beth Barone?

  And having something else to take care of, it's what I want.

• 47:42Benito Skinner?

  Both love Benny Drama. Jesus Christ.

• 47:44Mary Beth Barone?

  And we're both huge fans.

• 47:45Benito Skinner?

  Get off the guy.

• 47:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Of the work. She's seen the show a lot. And so, yeah, it was, it was hard to tell her when my last relationship failed, but I just, it's, it is what it is.

• 47:55Benito Skinner?

  It's all a part of her story and I think she gets that.

• 47:58Mary Beth Barone?

  And just to think about a little puppy on the streets of Tijuana that now is a big city dog and she's just living large. And like, I spoil her because I love her.

• 48:07Benito Skinner?

  Very Marissa Cooper in a way.

• 48:08Mary Beth Barone?

  She was, yeah. And we played, when I brought her home, I played Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley. And so, very cinematic.

• 48:15Benito Skinner?

  Jackson, silent.

• 48:16Mary Beth Barone?

  It's never a good time to get a dog, probably. So just, just dive in headfirst. There's tons of rescues. Yeah, I just, I mean, I love her so much and she is like. Such an important presence in my life. Like, I'm just so happy.

• 48:29Benito Skinner?

  And yes, everyone, so the overalls, I did get them for a six pound dog, not a 16 pound dog. So we are working on getting a different size. It's, it is what it is.

• 48:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Pinky at the airport, it's like I'm walking around with like Mickey Mouse, you know, like everyone wants to pet her and everyone's so happy she's there. I think putting in the time early on to make her be a good dog, she's not perfect.

• 48:48Benito Skinner?

  When she grows up and hears all this, it's gonna mean so much to her.

• 48:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh my God, I just love her. I just love her.

• 48:56Benito Skinner?

  No, I do too.

• 48:56Mary Beth Barone?

  And again, I want someone to talk to me, how I talk to Pinky.

• 48:59Benito Skinner?

  You don't have her here with you right now, do you?

• 49:00Mary Beth Barone?

  No, she's with the, she's with the nanny, my fabulous nanny.

• 49:03Benito Skinner?

  God, I need her.

• 49:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Sasha. So yeah, when I come home with Pinky, I'm, I'm nuzzling in her neck. I'm telling her how special she is, how much I love her, how much she makes my life better. I just, yeah, it would be cool for someone to feel that way about me.

• 49:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Maybe one day.

• 49:19Benito Skinner?

  I think so.

• 49:20Mary Beth Barone?

  And I feel, I feel like a rescue puppy.

• 49:24Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 49:24Mary Beth Barone?

  In dating, I'm like, I've been through so much trauma.

• 49:27Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 49:27Mary Beth Barone?

  And I just need someone that makes me feel safe. So I'm not shaking in the corner. Cause that's kind of what it feels like sometimes. Should we get into ride or die?

• 49:35Benito Skinner?

  You know, I'm here to hold you.

• 49:36Mary Beth Barone?

  I know, and I'm so grateful.

• 49:37Benito Skinner?

  Very much in the same way I hold Pinky.

• 49:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Beautiful, full life.

• 49:39Benito Skinner?

  Skin to skin contact. I love putting you in my shirt whenever you need me to.

• 49:42Mary Beth Barone?

  And it's, cause it's so billowy.

• 49:44Benito Skinner?

  It's crazy. How many hotel rooms have we cried together in?

• 49:48Mary Beth Barone?

  A lot. And Pinky's there now, which is really cool.

• 49:51Benito Skinner?

  It's so cool. She gets to see that.

• 49:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 49:53Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. I love holding you though. You're both my little Chihuahua limousine princesses.

• 49:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. And, and hey, we're happy.

• 49:59Benito Skinner?

  What a gift. You know what you are, Mary Beth?

• 50:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Bisexual?

• 50:03Benito Skinner?

  Well, yeah, but you're also my ride or die. Ride or die. I ride and die for Pinky. I would do anything for that dog. She is my princess. She tested me on set, but in ways that I didn't know a man like me could be tested in these ways. You know, when she knocked over that camera, I think it was a good lesson and could anything matter less.

• 50:24Mary Beth Barone?

  But also it was good for me to be like, I do need to get this dog in check.

• 50:27Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 50:28Mary Beth Barone?

  And sometimes it's just, you gotta leave her home.

• 50:30Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. And I, and can I just say, I know for a fucking fact that my bestie, bestie Barone is not putting her dog shites in an empty garbage can.

• 50:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Never. I, I always check.

• 50:40Benito Skinner?

  To be put back in the home.

• 50:42Mary Beth Barone?

  I always check.

• 50:42Benito Skinner?

  What I have to remind again, it's that it goes back into the garage and then the garage smells like shit because the bags you use are not good. They're not the ones. Those green ones are not doing it. They're not enough. My garage still smells like zuki.

• 50:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Zuzu.

• 50:55Benito Skinner?

  Fuck you.

• 50:56Mary Beth Barone?

  You know what? That's not gonna be a problem in New York.

• 51:00Benito Skinner?

  Never a good time to move, but it is what it is.

• 51:02Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm really glad that you and Pinky have this bond because it's obviously so important to me.

• 51:06Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 51:06Mary Beth Barone?

  And she just fucking loves you so much. Like when you come over, you see her whole butt, her whole back half of her body's bagged. She does a wiggle butt.

• 51:14Benito Skinner?

  She knows daddy Warbucks has come through to like check on his princess.

• 51:18Mary Beth Barone?

  I sent her to a camp for training and I just have to read you what they wrote in her like, you know, daily summary.

• 51:24Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, of course.

• 51:24Mary Beth Barone?

  It was so fucking cute.

• 51:26Benito Skinner?

  Can't wait to have her on set. She can be on set every day.

• 51:28Mary Beth Barone?

  I'll post it. She is gonna be a, a full onset dog this time.

• 51:31Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 51:31Mary Beth Barone?

  I'll post what her report card said at camp.

• 51:34Benito Skinner?

  And you have to post at least the close up of her costume. Maybe we can edit out where she goes.

• 51:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Also, one time I did get an email from her daycare and the subject was Pinky's behavior.

• 51:45Benito Skinner?

  So, reputation.

• 51:47Mary Beth Barone?

  I had a meltdown. This was so long ago though.

• 51:50Benito Skinner?

  Reputation.

• 51:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 51:52Benito Skinner?

  Pinky's behavior. You walked in flustered. What did you do now to embarrass us?

• 51:57Mary Beth Barone?

  What?

• 51:58Benito Skinner?

  What did you do now to embarrass us?

• 52:01Mary Beth Barone?

  I ride for Diet Coke and Coke Zero and its constituents. It's many millions of constituents.

• 52:05Benito Skinner?

  Huzzah.

• 52:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Huzzah. I love having a little comfort. I love giving yourself a little treat. You love like bubbly drinks and it's just such like a, it's such like a...

• 52:14Benito Skinner?

  It's because I'm sparkly.

• 52:15Mary Beth Barone?

  It's a cornerstone of your personality. It is. It's your effervescence.

• 52:18Benito Skinner?

  Thank you.

• 52:18Mary Beth Barone?

  So I just know when I sit down at a table, if you're not there yet, I'm ordering a flat, a tap water for me in many ways and then a sparkling water for you.

• 52:25Benito Skinner?

  I find it so unbelievably hot when someone goes, I already ordered you the sparkling water. I went.

• 52:33Mary Beth Barone?

  And can I say one thing?

• 52:35Benito Skinner?

  What?

• 52:35Mary Beth Barone?

  When you order a Diet Coke at the table, you empower everyone else at that table to also order a Diet Coke.

• 52:42Benito Skinner?

  Can I just say, I'm literally both shoes on the fucking seat. I don't care. It's your media.

• 52:48Mary Beth Barone?

  These are Rinnit.

• 52:50Benito Skinner?

  I'm, these are Rinnit. I...

• 52:53Mary Beth Barone?

  One day we'll tell you guys about my Jennifer Hudson impression in Sex and the City movie, but we did cut it. We will be doing it in season six.

• 53:01Benito Skinner?

  It, it would get cut in somewhere else. Diet Coke, pass it on. What you do to a table, if you order that shit, it's like an espresso martini. The whole table's a buzz.

• 53:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Have you heard of the term vibe shift?

• 53:15Benito Skinner?

  You know vibe shift?

• 53:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, you're fluent in vibe shift?

• 53:18Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 53:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Shift the vibe at that table.

• 53:20Benito Skinner?

  People don't know that after you have your first cocktail, you can have a Diet Coke after to give you a little caffeine and a boost before you hit your second drink. And that's where I am built different. I don't abide by these rules. Sometimes like, you know, oh, God.

• 53:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Smash the patriarchy. Do what you wanted at dinner. Except don't be awkward and weird. You know, like, don't get so drunk that the dinner is weird.

• 53:40Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, if you're weird when you're drunk, like.

• 53:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Stop drinking, yeah.

• 53:44Benito Skinner?

  One drink, one water. What has daddy always said?

• 53:47Mary Beth Barone?

  One drink, one water.

• 53:47Benito Skinner?

  You're being so fucking weird.

• 53:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 53:49Benito Skinner?

  I will say, people are really strange to single people. And I am so sorry. Because I never really knew. But now I've been knew and I'm, I am, oh my God.

• 54:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Next week, I'm riding for being 25 at heart.

• 54:07Benito Skinner?

  Hey, girl.

• 54:08Mary Beth Barone?

  That's a little preview for you.

• 54:09Benito Skinner?

  22.

• 54:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 54:11Benito Skinner?

  Okay, wait to meet you.

• 54:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, we hope you all enjoyed our first episode post Halloween. The world is different now that we posted those costumes. I hope you realize.

• 54:19Benito Skinner?

  What did I say to you? It was like, it's media that shouldn't exist, but now it does and.

• 54:26Mary Beth Barone?

  And we can't go back.

• 54:27Benito Skinner?

  We can't go back. It's like, it is, yeah.

• 54:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Welcome. We just can't stop.

• 54:32Benito Skinner?

  We can't stop. I have to be here with my bestie, even though she's a raging bitch.

• 54:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, psycho, cunt.

• 54:39Benito Skinner?

  Got Jackson on that one, my love. Butt chug. Maybe we'll just end with that. One, two, three, all three of us.

• 54:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Butt chug.

• 54:48Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my exit.

• 54:50Mary Beth Barone?

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

• 55:02Benito Skinner?

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