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• 0:00Speaker 00

  The following podcast is a Dear Media production.

• 0:04Benito Skinner?

  I'm Benito Skinner.

• 0:05Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm Mary Beth Brown.

• 0:06Benito Skinner?

  And this.

• 0:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Is.

• 0:08Benito Skinner?

  Ride.

• 0:12Benito Skinner?

  Sabrina.

• 0:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Madonna.

• 0:15Benito Skinner?

  I've got something I want to talk about. Whoa, you hear those Harley Davidsons?

• 0:20Mary Beth Barone?

  They knew you were recording.

• 0:21Benito Skinner?

  Come on, it's a little Harley Davidson. It's the street gang.

• 0:25Mary Beth Barone?

  It's the greasers.

• 0:26Benito Skinner?

  Oh, it's the greasers.

• 0:26Mary Beth Barone?

  So we're the opposite to the greasers in The Outsiders.

• 0:29Benito Skinner?

  Hmm, I haven't watched The Outsiders in a long time, but I remember, um, we're gonna do it for Johnny.

• 0:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, we're gonna do it for Johnny and Ponyboy Stigolden.

• 0:36Benito Skinner?

  Oh, by the way, we're gonna do it for Johnny.

• 0:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, duh.

• 0:39Benito Skinner?

  So Sabrina, I've got something I want to talk about. Madonna's new album, Confessions 2, has hit the scene and it's hit the clubs. It's hit the airwaves and we're all just loving it. Um, there was a question, I think someone DM'd me where they were like, I was thinking, I was wondering what has.

• 1:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Thank you guys for joining us for episode three of season four. It's been so fun.

• 1:05Benito Skinner?

  Talking is one of the hardest things I've ever done.

• 1:08Mary Beth Barone?

  No, it's true.

• 1:09Benito Skinner?

  Someone DM'd me, was asking, um, what I thought about Confessions 2 and they could picture me doing all the lip syncing of Madonna talking throughout. It's some of the best pop talking I have ever experienced. Everything Madonna says is funny to me. Well, it's iconic. But she has one where she goes, everybody here is a work of art. And that's very me at the Galaxy Brain Ball.

• 1:29Mary Beth Barone?

  It is, which is coming up on Friday, which is so beyond sold out.

• 1:33Benito Skinner?

  We have this pod so you can plug stuff.

• 1:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Wait, totally. Well, there's nothing to plug there because it is sold out, but cheers.

• 1:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Galaxy Brain has been out for one day and I hope you've all watched it multiple times by now. I hope you took the day off from work, but it's not just about watching it the day it comes out. It's about watching it for weeks, months and years to come. So just come on now.

• 1:54Benito Skinner?

  Well, you know Murphy's Law, so I know that anything that can happen will happen and that means an orgy has taken place with Galaxy Brain playing in the background. You can send us a photo if you want, just, you know, don't, it shouldn't be too graphic. I don't want any, you know.

• 2:07Mary Beth Barone?

  No, I say keep it graphic.

• 2:09Benito Skinner?

  Totally.

• 2:10Mary Beth Barone?

  I want it to be.

• 2:10Benito Skinner?

  Well, I've sent you some graphic things.

• 2:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, there's nothing I haven't.

• 2:13Benito Skinner?

  The manicure pic.

• 2:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Before. The man I cure. Now, I'm gonna be honest with everyone and totally transparent. Yes.

• 2:20Benito Skinner?

  A lot to say on that later.

• 2:21Mary Beth Barone?

  I have not listened to Madonna's new album yet.

• 2:24Benito Skinner?

  To me, that sounds like it's something you'll experience later. And when people, people come to me and they're like, you haven't read A Little Life? And they, they hold me at knife point. And I say, I'm gonna get to it when I get to it. And when I do, I'm sure it's gonna mean the world. But that I think will be you with Confessions 2. But if you think I'm gonna walk into $3 bill and I'm not gonna look at you and say, I've got something I want to talk about. I mean, come on. It, it, this album, it just feels like a true return to form for her. I think it's fabulous. It flows so beautifully throughout. It kind of has a Renaissance feel in that you can just kind of like, you're at the club and it's like, oh shit. Bring your love, bring your love. But Dance Teria is a huge hit for me. I think we should have been in it in the bathroom.

• 3:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, there's, there's already a video for it?

• 3:09Benito Skinner?

  There's a video and it's full of the, the it girls of the moment. Come on, it girl.

• 3:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, that makes sense.

• 3:15Benito Skinner?

  We were grossly ignored.

• 3:17Mary Beth Barone?

  We were overlooked.

• 3:18Benito Skinner?

  Remember when there was, at one point, we were gonna be in Devil Wears Prada 2? I was sitting there.

• 3:23Mary Beth Barone?

  There was an avail check.

• 3:24Benito Skinner?

  There was an avail check and I watched the, I was watching the film. It's a film. I go, where the fuck did we have come into this?

• 3:31Mary Beth Barone?

  I think it was like at the party. You know, the party in the beginning?

• 3:35Benito Skinner?

  Oh, we were gonna be at the Met Gala.

• 3:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Is that what that was? In?

• 3:40Benito Skinner?

  Come on, brush your shoulders off.

• 3:41Mary Beth Barone?

  You're getting ahead of my legs.

• 3:43Benito Skinner?

  Speaking of which.

• 3:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Don't you dare. So, okay, and I want everyone to know, you can hear me clicking my precise V5 Pilot pen, which I was sent the pink edition of by Pilot and thank you so much. I have a whole box. I love them so much. I have written down the intro stuff today.

• 4:00Benito Skinner?

  Whoa, whoa, whoa. So again, as I was saying, and it girl was grossly ignored. You're getting ballpoint pen PR?

• 4:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, yeah, honey.

• 4:08Benito Skinner?

  Oh, sister.

• 4:08Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, they had my address, kid.

• 4:10Benito Skinner?

  I'm good on the Mimi purses. I got my ballpoint pens.

• 4:13Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm good. My apartment's pretty full right now.

• 4:16Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 4:17Mary Beth Barone?

  So you, okay, I wrote everything down, so I don't have my phone. There's no technology in between us, except of course, the microphones, the neon sign and then all these cameras. So, um, it's just you and me.

• 4:27Benito Skinner?

  And me and my phone.

• 4:28Mary Beth Barone?

  And sacred scroll and your, your phone as well.

• 4:29Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 4:30Mary Beth Barone?

  So you wanted to talk about the brush your shoulders off.

• 4:33Benito Skinner?

  Challenge.

• 4:36Benito Skinner?

  And I, no need to cross it off. I haven't talked about it yet.

• 4:39Mary Beth Barone?

  But we got to it.

• 4:42Benito Skinner?

  Totally. I'm like, I loved making lists. I love making lists when I'm like, breathe, you know, I'm like, stretch.

• 4:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Um, brush teeth.

• 4:50Benito Skinner?

  Did it. Um, I do every step in my skincare routine.

• 4:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Is, has to be.

• 4:56Benito Skinner?

  Isn't it so?

• 4:57Mary Beth Barone?

  One of the greatest images. It's like, it's, it's the birth of Venus.

• 5:00Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 5:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Then Queen Latifah and then I guess like.

• 5:04Benito Skinner?

  A picture of a vermicelli bowl on Postmates? And can I just say?

• 5:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Vermicelli bowl. Thank you.

• 5:12Benito Skinner?

  Thank you, thank you, thank you. The way you have embraced this dish, taught us about this dish and sent us, I would say I've, I've seen a thousand vermicelli bowls.

• 5:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Dozens of vermicelli bowls.

• 5:24Benito Skinner?

  But there's not one vermicelli bowl I don't want to see. And so it's been amazing. The brush your shoulders off challenge. So as we entered the dating scene.

• 5:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, we're.

• 5:36Benito Skinner?

  I've got something I want to talk about.

• 5:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, I have a lot to say, but we're gonna get to it.

• 5:40Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, or not.

• 5:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, no, it's more general notes.

• 5:43Benito Skinner?

  Agreed.

• 5:44Mary Beth Barone?

  On the whole thing.

• 5:45Benito Skinner?

  There are some, so I think there's, um, something that really dawned on me is if you can't look at your man and say, go on, man. Brush your shoulders off. And he do it? He's not the one.

• 5:57Mary Beth Barone?

  You have to film yourselves doing this with your cranky ass boyfriend.

• 6:00Benito Skinner?

  No, because.

• 6:01Mary Beth Barone?

  This brings up another.

• 6:02Benito Skinner?

  They have a chip on their shoulder. Let, brush it off. Let me paint some pictures for you.

• 6:09Benito Skinner?

  You just, you go down on this man and it's amazing, right?

• 6:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Which is what you call giving head. Yeah.

• 6:13Benito Skinner?

  I know all my girls.

• 6:15Mary Beth Barone?

  I love going down on guys.

• 6:20Benito Skinner?

  Oh, we are so back. You watching porn over there, Kate? So here we go.

• 6:25Mary Beth Barone?

  When you go down on your man.

• 6:26Benito Skinner?

  When you go down on your man, um, and you know, you kind of like,

• 6:33Benito Skinner?

  he's a lucky one. You go, come on, man. Brush your shoulders off. And he, if he doesn't go.

• 6:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Don't film yourselves doing that one. That one's private.

• 6:42Benito Skinner?

  So that's private. But, um, but no, it's like, you know.

• 6:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, it's playful. If your guy can't be playful with you, it's probably not.

• 6:48Benito Skinner?

  If he can't be proud to be with you.

• 6:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 6:51Benito Skinner?

  I don't want any of my girls with guys like that. I think he should be like, you know, or if something big happens for him, which I think we have to celebrate those, especially straight guys, or they'll shoot us.

• 6:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Shoot us, yeah.

• 7:00Benito Skinner?

  So, you know, he hits a golf club, what, 200 yards?

• 7:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Or something.

• 7:04Benito Skinner?

  Lies, probably says it's 300.

• 7:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 7:06Benito Skinner?

  Farthest they've ever gone.

• 7:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Embellishing, huh?

• 7:07Benito Skinner?

  I love the amount of straight men that have told me that they've hit a, an iron or a driver, like 300 yards. I'm like, no, you didn't.

• 7:15Mary Beth Barone?

  First of all, that couldn't mean less to me. I have no idea.

• 7:17Benito Skinner?

  No, but.

• 7:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Distances in my mind, that can mean anything. Is that a football field? Is that an Olympic sized swimming pool? I don't know.

• 7:22Benito Skinner?

  But it doesn't matter because all you have to do is go, go on, man.

• 7:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Come on, brush your shoulders off. Well, I have never been told that. Come on, brush your shoulders off. When girls are with their boyfriends and they come up to us to say they love the pod or overcompensating or hopefully one day Galaxy Brain. Well, see, I mean, it's a special. I mean, it's only meant out for one day. It's a special and those take time. They really build.

• 7:45Benito Skinner?

  No, they will.

• 7:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Your guys' boyfriends are so cranky. Like, tell them to smile more.

• 7:49Benito Skinner?

  No, I know. They're kind of mad at us and, you know, I just, I am somewhat girls, so there's no threat, bro. Unless you want to threaten. Unless you want to fucking take it there. I'm happy to take it there, by the way.

• 8:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Also, oh my God, have I said that if you see me buying a Liquid Death in a bodega, that's good luck for seven years? If you witness that transaction.

• 8:11Benito Skinner?

  I don't know if you've said it on the pod, but I have heard you say that.

• 8:13Mary Beth Barone?

  I told you that.

• 8:14Benito Skinner?

  And if you see me buying a pistachio filled date, that's bad luck.

• 8:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Bad luck. And that's a rare aesthetic.

• 8:21Benito Skinner?

  Very rare aesthetic, but.

• 8:23Mary Beth Barone?

  I, I, I haven't even seen that.

• 8:24Benito Skinner?

  Oh, have you not?

• 8:25Mary Beth Barone?

  I haven't even seen that.

• 8:26Benito Skinner?

  Just getting up to a cashier, looking to my left and seeing a pistachio filled date. I thought, well, Benny Drama needs to try that. And I had two. I loved it. I was in London, but it could happen here.

• 8:35Mary Beth Barone?

  It could happen here. The bodegas are getting the newest stuff. We actually found a new protein bar just dropped. We, we had them at our hotel in Los Angeles. I don't know what they're called. We're gatekeeping for now. If you guys are good, we'll let you know what it is.

• 8:47Benito Skinner?

  To me, it's like, it's True Bar or something?

• 8:49Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 8:49Benito Skinner?

  Is that what it's called?

• 8:50Mary Beth Barone?

  It's something like that.

• 8:51Benito Skinner?

  But there's a strawberry shortcake one. Oh my goodness. I just, oh, I've, I've housed those. I've gotten like 10 of them.

• 8:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Please try the brush your shoulders off challenge with your boyfriends. Film it. Let's just see how it goes down.

• 9:04Benito Skinner?

  I'm not kidding. If they won't do it, I think they're kind of a dick.

• 9:06Mary Beth Barone?

  You should break up with them.

• 9:07Benito Skinner?

  And they care too much about how they're perceived.

• 9:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 9:10Benito Skinner?

  Like they, they care too much about the mystery. Relationships aren't about that.

• 9:14Mary Beth Barone?

  No.

• 9:14Benito Skinner?

  I want to see you brush your shoulders off because you got to be with this baddie.

• 9:17Mary Beth Barone?

  I also think like you should, you guys should, and this, I don't care if this ruffles feathers.

• 9:24Benito Skinner?

  Oh my God, dude.

• 9:25Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't care.

• 9:28Benito Skinner?

  Totally.

• 9:28Mary Beth Barone?

  You should be able to fart in front of your partner.

• 9:31Benito Skinner?

  What is the problem with that? You should. I, I agree.

• 9:34Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm so over this. I, I'm mad that I even have to bring this up. Even though I want to be talking about farting, I don't.

• 9:39Benito Skinner?

  I know.

• 9:39Mary Beth Barone?

  But I think if your guy, if your guy, yes, the, the engineer has left the building.

• 9:44Benito Skinner?

  He said, uh, what the fuck? Oh, you just punched a wall.

• 9:51Benito Skinner?

  Oh God, he just killed three people at a bodega.

• 9:53Mary Beth Barone?

  The structural integrity of Melrose podcast.

• 9:56Benito Skinner?

  Honey, this paper town is gone.

• 9:58Mary Beth Barone?

  It's gone.

• 9:59Benito Skinner?

  Here's the thing.

• 10:00Mary Beth Barone?

  I think we should be farting freely. Like, obviously, maybe not in like a serious moment, but maybe in a serious moment when you need to just like cut the tension.

• 10:07Benito Skinner?

  I have something gross to add, but I don't know.

• 10:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Pooping with the door open?

• 10:10Benito Skinner?

  Well, no, that's fucking crazy. I think that you can kind of chill. I don't need to.

• 10:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Up to the couple.

• 10:15Benito Skinner?

  But sometimes with a fart, I'm like, that's cool. It came out of your butt. I love your butt.

• 10:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 10:19Benito Skinner?

  That's funny. It can be funny.

• 10:20Mary Beth Barone?

  You would.

• 10:21Benito Skinner?

  You know, he rips a big fart, you go, go on, man.

• 10:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Girls should be ripping farts too.

• 10:32Benito Skinner?

  I'm just picturing a girl boyfriend walks into the room, rips one, rips ass.

• 10:37Mary Beth Barone?

  No, but she has to grab a cigarette from the pack. No, she taps it on the thing, puts it in, lights it.

• 10:45Benito Skinner?

  Go on then.

• 10:47Benito Skinner?

  Brush your shoulders off. And then she ashes in the bed on the gray sheets.

• 10:55Benito Skinner?

  Um, and then she just lights one up like a bassoon.

• 10:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 10:59Benito Skinner?

  Mine have been interesting lately. I had acupuncture though. Yesterday.

• 11:04Mary Beth Barone?

  In and around the booty. I did such good prank. I'm waiting to decide if I'm gonna share it on the pod, but go on.

• 11:08Benito Skinner?

  I know you didn't just say in and around the booty. Amber Rose, finger up the booty ass bitch.

• 11:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, is something? I actually know. Nope.

• 11:16Benito Skinner?

  Good. Just drink. Drink your lychee martini.

• 11:24Benito Skinner?

  Sorry.

• 11:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Also burping, farting, not the same.

• 11:28Benito Skinner?

  Oh, of course not.

• 11:29Mary Beth Barone?

  That debate, can we just put a trust for once?

• 11:31Benito Skinner?

  That's insane. Burping you could do like anywhere.

• 11:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Burping I do in church.

• 11:35Benito Skinner?

  I did on a Zoom recently and I, I said, excuse me, and it felt weird. It's like I didn't need to.

• 11:39Mary Beth Barone?

  No, it's like a sneeze, relax.

• 11:40Benito Skinner?

  I love farting and then going, oh my God, ducks. Like I love blaming it on ducks.

• 11:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Of course, yeah.

• 11:45Benito Skinner?

  That's always fun. Cause mine do have a day of sounds.

• 11:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Duck like quality.

• 11:48Benito Skinner?

  Have I farted on here?

• 11:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Probably not, but you snot rocketed and that's gotta count for something.

• 11:54Benito Skinner?

  Goes to a London club once. Here's the thing. Oh yeah, you good?

• 11:59Mary Beth Barone?

  No, I'm really sorry, go on.

• 12:00Benito Skinner?

  I went to the invitation last week and this girl was.

• 12:02Mary Beth Barone?

  The invite even.

• 12:03Benito Skinner?

  The invite. Sorry, fuck.

• 12:05Mary Beth Barone?

  You don't support or respect women filmmakers. Bye.

• 12:12Benito Skinner?

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• 12:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 12:27Benito Skinner?

  Understanding the biology of hair, by the way, is that what you were gonna say?

• 12:31Mary Beth Barone?

  I was gonna say that.

• 12:32Benito Skinner?

  Keep going.

• 12:32Mary Beth Barone?

  They use biotech instead of cosmetic chemistry to engineer real and lasting solutions for your hair concerns.

• 12:38Benito Skinner?

  K18's air wash dry shampoo is bestselling non aerosol dry shampoo for all hair types. I'm obsessed with the K18. They have a great, um, kind of like detox shampoo.

• 12:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, the woman that cuts my hair is obsessed with it.

• 12:50Benito Skinner?

  My concern is just like buildup and I think also like using too many products because when you do that every day, you get a lot of scalp buildup and it can be really dry because you do have to wash.

• 13:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, also it's like, does your hair get greasy, oily or limp between wash days? Do you work out and have to put off sweating, hot yoga lifting because of the extra work your hair will need after? Do you hate the gritty starchy buildup that most dry shampoos leave behind? Like all these things, like you can solve it with K18.

• 13:15Benito Skinner?

  K18 is just one of those things you see in Sephora and you're like, whoa, science is here and thank God because yeah, I'm purchasing. And it really is all so unbelievably worth it. And when I see someone's got K18 in their bathroom, like you and me, I'm like, oh. And I steal it. I, I feel my pockets.

• 13:31Mary Beth Barone?

  So I think the science of fresh hair is like so important and they're finally using science to help women. It's like about damn time. You can instantly eliminate odor and reduce oil and sweat even in the summer heat.

• 13:41Benito Skinner?

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• 13:43Mary Beth Barone?

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• 13:48Benito Skinner?

  Shop at Sephora.

• 13:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh my God, go ahead.

• 13:51Benito Skinner?

  We always tell people that. Are you kidding? Or get 10% off your first purchase at k18hair.com with code RIDE. That's code RIDE at k18hair.com.

• 14:03Mary Beth Barone?

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• 14:15Benito Skinner?

  Well, that's kind of like top two.

• 14:17Mary Beth Barone?

  And how to navigate both. But in order to make big, meaningful changes that stick, it often takes a lot of conversation and practice. As you know, we have recommended regular therapy to anyone who listens. And now we're recommending Grow Therapy. Everyone treats summer like it owes you happiness. Long days, pool parties, literally, your best life on a loop. So what does it mean when you feel worse? The summer blues are real. It's why summer is one of the busiest stretches of the year for people starting therapy.

• 14:42Benito Skinner?

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• 15:03Mary Beth Barone?

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• 15:35Benito Skinner?

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• 15:50Mary Beth Barone?

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• 15:54Benito Skinner?

  That's growtherapy.com/ride.

• 15:56Mary Beth Barone?

  Growtherapy.com/ride. Availability and coverage vary by state and insurance plan.

• 16:03Benito Skinner?

  So I went to the invitation.

• 16:05Mary Beth Barone?

  It's called the invite.

• 16:08Benito Skinner?

  God, my brain doesn't work. Um, and this girl had a coffin fit in it. I felt so bad for her.

• 16:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, in the middle of the movie?

• 16:15Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 16:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, you should probably excuse yourself.

• 16:17Benito Skinner?

  I said, go baby. I saw The Odyssey, we'll talk about it, season six.

• 16:20Mary Beth Barone?

  I have it on the notes today.

• 16:22Benito Skinner?

  Oh, really? You wanna talk about it?

• 16:23Mary Beth Barone?

  You had written it in the.

• 16:25Benito Skinner?

  What did I say? I wonder what I was gonna say.

• 16:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Calling a guy, it's an ick the second it happens.

• 16:29Benito Skinner?

  Oh, I love this. I think this is so fun. Um, so if you're on a date with a guy, another challenge, anything he does that you don't really fuck with, just go, that's such an ick for me.

• 16:38Mary Beth Barone?

  That's such an ick for me.

• 16:39Benito Skinner?

  Just call it out in the moment it happens. It's so fucked up.

• 16:41Mary Beth Barone?

  No, I love that.

• 16:42Benito Skinner?

  Oh my God, ick.

• 16:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Ugh. Oh, I just got the ick.

• 16:45Benito Skinner?

  That's such an ick for me?

• 16:46Mary Beth Barone?

  The ick in real time. Save it for the group chat. Just fucking speak on it. Yeah.

• 16:51Benito Skinner?

  So you can, it's kind of like a psychological warfare where you're kind of making them embarrass themselves by brushing their shoulders off, but also.

• 16:58Mary Beth Barone?

  And then you say that gave you the ick.

• 16:59Benito Skinner?

  And then you go, that gave me the ick.

• 17:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh my God, wait, I, you know, when you're in an interview and then you, you accidentally have this like existential moment? I was doing a video with bitches.

• 17:07Benito Skinner?

  Well, that's just of course you're gonna have a dissociative moment.

• 17:10Mary Beth Barone?

  I mean, I saw God in there. They asked me, what's a deal breaker for you? And in that moment I realized I don't have any and that's the problem.

• 17:18Benito Skinner?

  Did you say that?

• 17:18Mary Beth Barone?

  I did.

• 17:19Benito Skinner?

  Oh, well, I had an interview and she goes, what are you scared of? And I go, losing my fucking mind.

• 17:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 17:23Benito Skinner?

  And the face that looked back at me, I thought, oof, that wasn't, she thought I was gonna say sharks.

• 17:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Don't ask questions you don't want the answers to.

• 17:29Benito Skinner?

  Of course I'm scared of sharks seeing these fricking white cakes in the, they're looking at that saying, whoa, dessert.

• 17:35Mary Beth Barone?

  They said, wait, it's giving dessert.

• 17:37Benito Skinner?

  They said, I already ate a dolphin, but that looks pretty fricking good.

• 17:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, so it's just something to think about. I want some deal breakers. Maybe I'll find some this year.

• 17:45Benito Skinner?

  I can find some for you. Yeah.

• 17:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Cool. We'll get into that.

• 17:48Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. Oh, I haven't talked about acupuncture.

• 17:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh yeah, go on.

• 17:51Benito Skinner?

  So in and around the booty, as you were saying. Um, so I went and got acupuncture yesterday. It was incredible. Shout out Cynthia at Aura Studio. Aura is fabulous. I think it's a no-ho. Yeah, it's right across from SoulCycle, the one that we went to for the overcompensating class.

• 18:06Mary Beth Barone?

  That was at 19th Street, but go on.

• 18:14Benito Skinner?

  She always embarrasses me. How do I, how do I continue on? Um, and it's been just kind of crazy ever since, I would say. I just feel very relieved. No, well, I've, I've definitely, you know, I've gone to the shitter multiple times, but I feel like such a release in my whole body. It's been incredible.

• 18:32Mary Beth Barone?

  It can really, it can, it's that girl.

• 18:34Benito Skinner?

  And the inflammation's down and I was a little nervous about something I'm doing later today and it totally relieved it.

• 18:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, good. I think, I think you shouldn't be nervous at all.

• 18:42Benito Skinner?

  I think it's gonna be fun.

• 18:43Mary Beth Barone?

  It's gonna be like groundbreaking.

• 18:45Benito Skinner?

  Some big changes are happening around here.

• 18:47Mary Beth Barone?

  For spring groundbreaking.

• 18:47Benito Skinner?

  It's florals for spring. Us and the devil are proud of two.

• 18:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 18:51Benito Skinner?

  Is she really wearing that? That was gonna be my big line.

• 18:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. I didn't have a line. I just went, ugh.

• 18:57Benito Skinner?

  Exactly.

• 18:58Mary Beth Barone?

  But I would have nailed that.

• 18:59Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I know you would have.

• 19:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Bean stealer.

• 19:02Benito Skinner?

  Next.

• 19:02Mary Beth Barone?

  For people DMing me that Pinky's nails are too long, then come over and cut them. Cause I'm not doing that.

• 19:07Benito Skinner?

  That'd be scary.

• 19:08Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm not fucking doing that.

• 19:09Benito Skinner?

  That's interesting on, on parenting, like getting notes for parenting because I remember one time I had my niece in a story and her seatbelt was just down when I just went to the car to give her like a doll. I think I was giving her like a Moana doll. Moana, Moana? Shoot me.

• 19:25Mary Beth Barone?

  That's, there goes the podcast.

• 19:27Benito Skinner?

  There goes the fucking podcast. And so I went and brought her a doll and the amount of comments I got just from like where her seatbelt was placed. I was like, oh, if I had a kid, I certainly would never post it on the internet. This is like driving me to psychosis.

• 19:40Mary Beth Barone?

  You shouldn't be parenting on a platform with a comment section. That just feels really dangerous to me.

• 19:46Benito Skinner?

  I think, is something wrong with me? I have no opinions to give to strangers.

• 19:50Mary Beth Barone?

  No. Oh my God.

• 19:51Benito Skinner?

  Is something right with me? I have no, I don't care. Unless you're taking rights away from, from innocent civilians.

• 19:57Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 19:58Benito Skinner?

  I really have no, I don't care.

• 20:00Mary Beth Barone?

  I think people need to just like practice, like again, I'm saying, put the phone down, close the app, text a group chat, text your like closest confidants about your thing.

• 20:09Benito Skinner?

  I will say one, my one opinion though, let's, let's stop with the hate of slow walkers. Like some people just can't walk fast.

• 20:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, who's saying, where's this hate?

• 20:16Benito Skinner?

  I just feel like that's such a thing where they're like, oh my God, I'm trying to walk on the sidewalk. Nothing makes me madder than slow walkers. And it's like, well, that person is like, and you know, is aging.

• 20:26Mary Beth Barone?

  They could be differently abled for all they know.

• 20:28Benito Skinner?

  It's just, it's like, I don't know, some of these things that are kind of like.

• 20:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Everyone needs to chill. No, please calm down.

• 20:34Benito Skinner?

  And by the way, bye honey.

• 20:37Mary Beth Barone?

  No, it's, yeah. There's too much discourse, period.

• 20:40Benito Skinner?

  What else Nancy drew?

• 20:41Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm moving. I just wanted to say.

• 20:44Benito Skinner?

  I don't live here anymore.

• 20:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Exactly. Me to brands, sending me PR.

• 20:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Sorry, Lemmy.

• 20:55Benito Skinner?

  You to re flip flops?

• 20:57Mary Beth Barone?

  Lemmy needs to lose my address. I will say this because I don't want anything they sell. I never signed up for your shit.

• 21:03Benito Skinner?

  Oh, you've never had Lemmy bloat? Because I love a Lemmy.

• 21:05Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't do that. Placebo effect is one thing. I ain't going near that stuff. I don't know how you got my address. We never did ads for you on the podcast. We don't know. We don't know where it's coming from. We tried to DM on social. I don't want your stuff. I just want you to know what's happening with your stuff. I'm putting it outside my apartment. I'm taking a picture of it. Jake is putting it on the building group chat and someone's coming to take it for free.

• 21:25Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 21:26Mary Beth Barone?

  That's what's happening.

• 21:26Benito Skinner?

  Someone in your building is deep loaded to hell.

• 21:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Someone in my building is this big.

• 21:31Benito Skinner?

  They said, let me serve.

• 21:33Mary Beth Barone?

  They said, uh. You saw The Odyssey and they switched the big screen to FIFA.

• 21:37Benito Skinner?

  Holy shit. I feel like I've talked a lot about shooting, but hey, I'm back in America and I have to say what I have to say.

• 21:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Hey, when in Rome?

• 21:45Benito Skinner?

  That's right. Do is the Roman. Me and the Odyssey. Come on, boy. Make it home. So I, I'm in London and I go to this theater called the Hackney Picture House. And I go to The Odyssey. And oh my God, so at first I'm in this theater and it's huge. It's massive. And I think, well, this is exactly what Christopher Nolan wanted for me. Shot on all on IMAX cameras. Me around all these straight guys at the gym. It was shot on IMAX cameras and they're all cheering for me.

• 22:20Benito Skinner?

  And then I started doing the jazz standard rendition of something.

• 22:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Of anything.

• 22:23Benito Skinner?

  Of Travis Scott's Astroworld.

• 22:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 22:26Benito Skinner?

  So.

• 22:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Now that I would love to see.

• 22:29Benito Skinner?

  Well, of course, and you might.

• 22:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Later.

• 22:31Benito Skinner?

  So then FIFA is playing on the screen. When I walk into the movie theater.

• 22:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay.

• 22:37Benito Skinner?

  And I went, okay, well, this must just be playing until the commercials start. No, it, it kept going. And then re looked at my ticket and I was like, okay, I'm going to go see. So I go and I, I check with the ticket taker. And he's like, no, we actually switched screens because of the FIFA World Cup game. And I went, okay. The theater I'm about to go to better be the same size, if not bigger.

• 23:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Bigger, it's definitely not.

• 23:03Benito Skinner?

  It was a closet.

• 23:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 23:04Benito Skinner?

  I saw it on a regular screen, smaller than a screen. It was one of those like little tiny, like you know how the Angelica has like the small, come on, New York.

• 23:13Mary Beth Barone?

  So are you going to sue?

• 23:15Benito Skinner?

  Well, I just thought if, if they had done that to a straight man in America, shooting.

• 23:20Mary Beth Barone?

  Shooting for sure.

• 23:20Benito Skinner?

  There's kind of just no other way.

• 23:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Casualties.

• 23:22Benito Skinner?

  Casualties. So I just couldn't believe it. Someone with more verve would have fought for a free ticket, but I just couldn't believe they did that. It just felt so disrespectful to Christopher Nolan.

• 23:34Mary Beth Barone?

  How big of a TV do you really need to watch soccer?

• 23:37Benito Skinner?

  That's what, and also the theater was totally empty. Like no one was, they should have done it on the other one. It would, it would have been great. They could have felt like.

• 23:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, there would have been community.

• 23:45Benito Skinner?

  Exactly.

• 23:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Two things I want to say about The Odyssey. One, I agree with Christopher Nolan on just about everything, but he banned Uggs on set, which that's sorry. Okay, there's no such thing as the perfect man.

• 23:54Benito Skinner?

  Well, and my thing is there are easier ways to say you don't want Mary Beth Barone on your set.

• 23:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Right, like I get it.

• 23:59Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 24:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Two, lest we forget that I believe it was season one, we almost like manifested this movie being made because we brought up how Homer told the story of The Odyssey when he took a really long time in the bathroom. He had to explain why he'd been gone for so long.

• 24:11Benito Skinner?

  So Christopher, what's minus, ma? Okay. I can tell you're listening.

• 24:18Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm a [BLEEP]. So people being mad that it's not like truer to the book where I'm like, oh, all of a sudden there's like The Odyssey stands, purists being like, he didn't focus on that enough.

• 24:28Benito Skinner?

  Imagine, imagine caring about that. That's the opinion thing where I'm just like, God, I saw it and it's unbelievable. It's like, it's a feat. The whole thing is a feat.

• 24:39Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm waiting till like, like August.

• 24:41Benito Skinner?

  I'm going again to Metro Private Cinema. Have you been there?

• 24:45Benito Skinner?

  Oh, I'm kind of burning cash at Metro Private Cinema, but you go and they.

• 24:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Thousands of dollars.

• 24:49Benito Skinner?

  They have full meals there. You have a meal during the movie and you have a private screening room for like as many friends as you want to bring.

• 24:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Where is it?

• 24:55Benito Skinner?

  And it's like, as far as pricing, it's not cheap, but it's also not as insane as you would think it would be for what it is. But oh my God, Metro Private Cinema, you gotta check it out. I'm going on Friday. I'm seeing The Odyssey for the second time.

• 25:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Huge endorsement.

• 25:07Benito Skinner?

  And the screen's going to be kind of the same size it was before, but I'm going to be right up close with it, eating lamb.

• 25:13Mary Beth Barone?

  And food.

• 25:13Benito Skinner?

  I'm eating lamb.

• 25:14Mary Beth Barone?

  You're going to have rack of lamb.

• 25:16Benito Skinner?

  I know. Lamb.

• 25:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Lamb.

• 25:18Benito Skinner?

  Okay, I make lamb.

• 25:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Silent of the lamb.

• 25:20Benito Skinner?

  Silent of the lamb.

• 25:21Mary Beth Barone?

  So I wanted to shout out Megan Hatzler, our new social media manager. She's doing such a fabulous job with the clips and with the roundups of all your guys' art that you make out of this podcast.

• 25:31Benito Skinner?

  It's full art. It's seeing art being made like that. It's just so, it's just cool.

• 25:37Mary Beth Barone?

  It's really cool. And we're so, we are actually happy to be back, if you can believe that.

• 25:40Benito Skinner?

  Yes. Should we get into what we ride for?

• 25:42Mary Beth Barone?

  I actually think we should.

• 25:43Benito Skinner?

  We have so much more that, you know, we have two other episodes.

• 25:46Mary Beth Barone?

  This is going to be, yeah, we'll get into this tomorrow.

• 25:48Benito Skinner?

  Cool.

• 25:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Actually, one more thing. Stomach bug with the stomach bug that's making people shit 40 times a day.

• 25:53Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 25:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Make America Healthy Again has been real quiet.

• 25:57Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. Are we healthy yet?

• 26:00Benito Skinner?

  Okay, so something about me is if you're going to boink me, it's going to be on a Brooklyn bedding mattress. Okay, just deal with that. So I've started thinking about my mattress as a part of my recovery routine. So since switching to my mattress from Brooklyn Bedding, my spine feels supported, my body fully relaxes when I sleep and I'm not fighting to get comfortable at night. I fall asleep faster and I wake up feeling genuinely restored. This shift has made a real difference in how I feel every day. And sometimes I wake up and don't want to bitch slap the first person I talk to. Brooklyn Bedding designs and assembles every mattress in their Arizona factory. Zona girls rise. No middlemen, no gimmicks, just top tier quality, honest pricing and real American craftsmanship for a better night's sleep.

• 26:45Benito Skinner?

  Brooklyn Bedding is an all-American success story, just like Mary Beth Barone. A guy named John started it all in Arizona. He learned the trade and trade and built his business from the ground up without a college degree, just like MB. Fast forward to today and it's still family run right here in the USA. Brooklyn Bedding no sleep isn't one size fits all. That's why they offer mattresses for everybody, every sleep style, even in hard to find sizes. Sleep hot, Brooklyn Bedding uses Glacio Tex, which is what I have. These are covers and they're copper infused foams and temperature regulating materials to help keep you cool and comfortable all night long. So daddy sweats and he wakes up in a pool of sweat and sometimes he thinks it's pee, but it's not, it's sweat. So Glacio Tex really helps me. Not sure you can take Benny Drama's word for it?

• 27:28Benito Skinner?

  Well, Brooklyn Bedding has been awarded the best hybrid mattress by Wirecutter. Go to brooklynbedding.com and use my promo code RIDE at checkout to get 30% off site wide. That's brooklynbedding.com and promo code RIDE for 30% off site wide, exclusive with my code. brooklynbedding.com promo code RIDE.

• 27:49Mary Beth Barone?

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• 28:32Mary Beth Barone?

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• 29:15Mary Beth Barone?

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• 29:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Let's get into what we ride for.

• 29:46Benito Skinner?

  Today is a carpool and we will be riding for Taken.

• 29:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Liam Neeson's Taken. I'm riding for the first movie. I'm not riding for the franchise. If you want to ride for the franchise, that's up to you.

• 29:58Benito Skinner?

  No, we're just doing the first movie.

• 30:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Movie.

• 30:00Benito Skinner?

  I think the first movie, It's Clean, drop two and three, It's Cleaner.

• 30:03Mary Beth Barone?

  It's Cleaner.

• 30:04Benito Skinner?

  So I haven't, I think I saw those and I was entertained, but I'm like, the first one felt like a, like zeitgeist cultural moment for me.

• 30:11Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 30:11Benito Skinner?

  And I have so many stories to tell you about this film.

• 30:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, I do want to just shout out post nine 11 media.

• 30:17Benito Skinner?

  Exactly.

• 30:17Mary Beth Barone?

  Obviously.

• 30:18Benito Skinner?

  And we think that's what this is.

• 30:19Mary Beth Barone?

  We were never more at risk as a people, as a society, and I, or I guess as like the human race of just like everywhere you look, there could be somebody that's trying to kill you.

• 30:27Benito Skinner?

  Exactly. Especially if you're a woman.

• 30:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Virgin. Okay.

• 30:33Benito Skinner?

  Virgin, exactly.

• 30:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 30:34Benito Skinner?

  Me being single again, prime real estate.

• 30:39Benito Skinner?

  Sorry, that's fucked up. It actually taught me a lot about sex trafficking.

• 30:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Me too.

• 30:44Benito Skinner?

  And so I actually think it's like an important film because I, I don't know if in Idaho that really had crossed my desk yet when I was in, I think this, I was in middle school when it came out. Because I remember seeing it when a bunch of guys were going to sleep over at my house. I'm going to bleep this, but it was the night. The.

• 31:03Benito Skinner?

  Came out. And so.

• 31:05Mary Beth Barone?

  So that sleepover.

• 31:06Benito Skinner?

  That sleepover was like, it was, everyone was talking about.

• 31:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Infamy.

• 31:09Benito Skinner?

  Oh, it was like, I threw the sleepover of the century, of course. But me and just a couple of the guys went and saw this Liam Neeson vehicle. We went to the theater. Yeah, in Bodo, Boise downtown.

• 31:24Benito Skinner?

  Mom, dad, drop us off in Bodo.

• 31:28Mary Beth Barone?

  One ticket, please, straight to Bodo.

• 31:30Benito Skinner?

  Six tickets for six boys that smell like shit and X kilo. We'll be going to Taken. It was so like, oh my god. This film, so if you haven't seen it.

• 31:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, my god.

• 31:41Benito Skinner?

  Liam Neeson has a daughter who, by the way, there's a total like side story of she wants to be a pop star.

• 31:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, of course.

• 31:48Benito Skinner?

  Which I'm so glad that they were like, in the writers room, the writers were like, the fuck would his daughter want to be?

• 31:53Mary Beth Barone?

  They go, I guess like, she wants to be a singer, singer, yeah, yeah, yeah, singer, write that down.

• 31:57Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, and they're, and then, and they go, and can we put Katie Cassidy in it as something?

• 32:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 32:03Benito Skinner?

  We'll kill her, of course, but spoiler alert, Liam Neeson is separated from his wife, okay?

• 32:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Who, I just want to note, I have seen in three different cities. I have run into this actress in Toronto, Los Angeles, and I'm not kidding you, three days ago, I drove past her, I was in a taxi, and she was on the, on the corner. Like, past lives or something, like, something is pushing us together, and like, we will meet, and I don't know what's gonna happen when that.

• 32:27Benito Skinner?

  Oh, I can't wait.

• 32:28Mary Beth Barone?

  But I just wanted to say that, possibly Taken Four, possibly a reboot of the franchise.

• 32:32Benito Skinner?

  Well, she's, by the way, X-Men, she's mutant and proud.

• 32:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, honey.

• 32:36Benito Skinner?

  What's her name, Jane?

• 32:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Uh, in the movie?

• 32:38Benito Skinner?

  What's her name in X-Men, do you know?

• 32:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, Jean Grey.

• 32:41Benito Skinner?

  Jean Grey, oh my god, I love that you knew that.

• 32:44Mary Beth Barone?

  I watched X-Men recently on a plane back from Paris, where, you know, a lot of bad stuff happened.

• 32:51Benito Skinner?

  It was one of those romantic trips, you know, it's very romanticize your life, but everything goes wrong.

• 32:56Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay, so essentially, we meet these characters.

• 32:59Benito Skinner?

  Well, you're gonna kill this.

• 33:00Mary Beth Barone?

  The world has brought them together, right? So like Liam Neeson, he's divorced, he was obviously a workaholic, and what we gather is that this man is like, security.

• 33:08Benito Skinner?

  CIA.

• 33:09Mary Beth Barone?

  He's CIA, something special ops, MI-15 or whatever.

• 33:11Benito Skinner?

  He has a special set of skills, so there's this special set of skills.

• 33:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Special set of skills.

• 33:16Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 33:16Mary Beth Barone?

  So he has this daughter who he cares about more than anything in the world, even though maybe he wasn't the best dad all the time, and it's like.

• 33:22Benito Skinner?

  Has a weird way of running, that's all I'm gonna say, there's just a moment where she's running in the airport and at her birthday party that I think about a lot for some reason, but I think she's a fabulous actress.

• 33:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally, so essentially, we meet them when, I think she's like, she's a teenager, and she basically presents this idea, like, I want to go to Europe with my rich friend, and we're gonna stay in her cousin's apartment, and it's gonna be totally safe, and the cousins are there, and it's all gonna be good. And we're only going to one city. So they sell Liam Neeson on this, I mean, it's a bill of goods at the end of the day.

• 33:52Benito Skinner?

  By the way, I mean, these, these bitches trick Liam Neeson.

• 33:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Sluts.

• 33:55Benito Skinner?

  These skanks.

• 33:56Mary Beth Barone?

  Teen sluts.

• 33:57Benito Skinner?

  These stanks.

• 33:58Mary Beth Barone?

  This was also, I do want to point out, the Liam Neeson, like, renaissance, this was like the rebirth of his career in this really beautiful way, and he gives amazing interviews, talk about faux pas, I mean, this man on a press tour is like, he is giving. So essentially, the, the daughter gets to Paris, I believe.

• 34:15Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I think I have to take it from here, it might be too much for you.

• 34:18Mary Beth Barone?

  No, and I'm gonna.

• 34:20Benito Skinner?

  So they're, so they're at the airport, by the way, Liam Neeson drops her off, and he finds out she's going to see six U2 concerts throughout Europe.

• 34:29Mary Beth Barone?

  And he finds.

• 34:30Benito Skinner?

  For, hey, so much for one fucking little Parisian trip with your rich friends.

• 34:35Mary Beth Barone?

  But he finds it out because he, he finds a paper map with cities circled, if I'm not mistaken.

• 34:39Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, of course, oh, she leaves a paper trail.

• 34:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, she, he would never do that.

• 34:43Benito Skinner?

  These friends that own this apartment in Paris, they, they won't be there, the girls are alone in this fabulous Parisian apartment, might I just add.

• 34:51Mary Beth Barone?

  And they share a cab with a young man.

• 34:53Benito Skinner?

  They land and they immediately get spotted by a sex trafficking, the kind of, I don't know.

• 34:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Bottom feeder, the one that needs to like charm the girls.

• 35:02Benito Skinner?

  And trust, Liam Neeson kills him early on, I'd say in our first act. So they get to this apartment and immediately Liam Neeson's daughter, she's taken, okay?

• 35:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, but she calls him first, she says, like, it's not what I thought it was.

• 35:18Benito Skinner?

  She tells him that she's made it to the apartment, and he was really stressed because he got her a phone to call him, and he was like, call me when you land, call me, and he's tracking all this, I mean, she's a total fool for not like texting him 15 times.

• 35:28Mary Beth Barone?

  She lied to him, and then she was also lied to, so it's like, what a tangled web we weave.

• 35:32Benito Skinner?

  I know, she got really stressed because Katie Cassidy is there, having a grand old time in her Uggs, and she's like jumping on like sofas and stuff, and it's all fun, she then gets taken, and it's truly like a terrifying scene.

• 35:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 35:44Benito Skinner?

  Like, it's, it's kind of, it's beautifully done, might I just add.

• 35:48Mary Beth Barone?

  It's gripping.

• 35:49Benito Skinner?

  She, he has her go under the bed, I learned a lot, I don't know if any of it's like what you're supposed to do, but she like, puts the phone out so that she can hear everything, and he says, describe the men to me as she's getting taken.

• 35:59Mary Beth Barone?

  See, she sees a tattoo.

• 36:01Benito Skinner?

  Then this big moment, I just got chills.

• 36:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 36:03Benito Skinner?

  This big moment, Liam Neeson gets on the phone with the man who's taken her, and he's like, I have a special set of skills.

• 36:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 36:09Benito Skinner?

  And I will find you, and I will kill you.

• 36:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 36:12Benito Skinner?

  And the guy says, good luck.

• 36:17Benito Skinner?

  Sabrina?

• 36:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Madonna?

• 36:20Benito Skinner?

  I've got something I want to talk about, it's very that.

• 36:22Mary Beth Barone?

  It's very that.

• 36:23Benito Skinner?

  And so then Liam Neeson's like, okay, I'm gonna be in Paris, and I'm gonna kill not 200 men to save my daughter.

• 36:30Mary Beth Barone?

  He goes, I'm gonna clock your tea.

• 36:34Benito Skinner?

  He said, you cool if I clock your tea, by the way?

• 36:36Mary Beth Barone?

  The sheer amount of damage, sorry, he is, he is driving cars through construction zones.

• 36:42Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 36:42Mary Beth Barone?

  He is doing high-speed chases on the highway, he's causing people to ultimately jump to their death, that sort of thing.

• 36:49Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 36:49Mary Beth Barone?

  It's.

• 36:50Benito Skinner?

  He's shooting like innocent wives of guilty men in the thigh.

• 36:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Right, but not to kill, not shoot to kill, just shoot to injure.

• 36:58Benito Skinner?

  Flesh wound, honey.

• 36:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, it's a flesh wound, but I, I think what's.

• 37:00Benito Skinner?

  He's not a monster.

• 37:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Impressive, one thing that's impressive about this movie to me is the car chases, those scenes.

• 37:05Benito Skinner?

  Unbelievable.

• 37:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Choreographing them, getting all the cars in the right place, I just can't even fathom it.

• 37:09Benito Skinner?

  We film in a car in season two, oh god, here I go, I'm such a fucking narcissist with this show.

• 37:14Mary Beth Barone?

  You are.

• 37:15Benito Skinner?

  Filming in a car is just, oh my god.

• 37:18Mary Beth Barone?

  It's so hard, so just imagine all that.

• 37:19Benito Skinner?

  So to do that, and then, oh my god, in his fighting sequences, he is incredible, and he is so riveting in this, truly, you are entertained from the second it starts to the second it ends, and this like tale of revenge, and also like, he saves this woman along the way who his daughter was really nice to, and like gave a jacket to, which I like love that sequence.

• 37:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Cassidy found dead.

• 37:40Benito Skinner?

  So Katie Cassidy, ultimately, she had to be punished because she put our sweet, innocent, virginal girl in trouble, so our, our loving Katie Cassidy of Gossip Girl fame, she did meet her demise, but I, I will say, it really did teach me about like European travel.

• 37:56Mary Beth Barone?

  I know, it's really dangerous for women to go.

• 37:59Benito Skinner?

  Exactly, so that aspect of it, and then it was like, after that, I started to see those signs in airports where they were like.

• 38:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Like, if, I love the ones, obviously I have a stand-up joke about how it's like, they say it's up to you to put an end to human trafficking, which is like, me, I don't think I can do that, but I love that they have phone numbers.

• 38:15Benito Skinner?

  Weekly at Hudson News.

• 38:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, I'm wearing a lip combo.

• 38:17Benito Skinner?

  Exactly.

• 38:18Mary Beth Barone?

  But.

• 38:18Benito Skinner?

  And so am I, by the way.

• 38:19Mary Beth Barone?

  I love that they're like, if you're being trafficked, call this number, you think they let them have phones? That, there has to be a better way to, to prevent and protect.

• 38:28Benito Skinner?

  I know.

• 38:29Mary Beth Barone?

  We haven't, we haven't quite landed on it yet, but something else I really like about this movie is that Liam Neeson and the actress playing his daughter are playing father and daughter, I don't know if we're seeing, so I actually did get an audition for a Richard Gere, Diana Silver's vehicle, where they are playing a couple. I got an audition to play Diana Silver's boss, so I am officially too old to play Richard Gere's love interest, which was obviously just good information for me to have, and I decided to, and my team, yeah, we were, we were alerted of this.

• 38:57Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 38:57Mary Beth Barone?

  And I decided not to audition, I said, I just don't think this is a story I want to be part of telling.

• 39:01Benito Skinner?

  I did see photos of that.

• 39:03Mary Beth Barone?

  There's photo and video.

• 39:04Benito Skinner?

  Okay, video, the video didn't land on my desk yet, but.

• 39:07Mary Beth Barone?

  There's a lot of video.

• 39:08Benito Skinner?

  Whoa.

• 39:09Mary Beth Barone?

  It's all happening, I'm seeing all these like older guys dating like 24-year-olds, and I just, yeah, as a 35-year-old, knowing when I was like a 24, I know that these are like sentient women who can make their own choices, it's just a bit, it's a bit odd.

• 39:25Benito Skinner?

  It's hard to see anything that makes being a woman seem fun, but it does seem like you, you all are still finding the joy and finding, you're buying La Boobos, you're going to movies, you're.

• 39:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Wearing lip combos.

• 39:37Benito Skinner?

  You're wearing lip combos, of course, like all of that, you're buying dupes of the lip combos, like that can be fun too.

• 39:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 39:43Benito Skinner?

  Um, to kind of stick it to, yeah, of course, challenge to.

• 39:46Mary Beth Barone?

  We're going to Galaxy Rainbow, it's like, we're trying to have, we're trying to create these spaces where we can have fun, but yeah, it's, it's scary out there. Let's talk about the third act of this movie.

• 39:55Benito Skinner?

  So in the third act, well, at this point, the kill count is well into the triple digits, I mean, Liam Neeson has, he has, I mean, so we watched this, got, we got to watch this over two vermicelli bulls when we had whatever new strain of COVID that we got.

• 40:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Didn't show up on a test.

• 40:10Benito Skinner?

  Toronto, couldn't, I mean, it couldn't, no, they were like, wait, but just stay inside.

• 40:15Mary Beth Barone?

  They said, please don't interact with anyone, but you don't have COVID.

• 40:17Benito Skinner?

  You can go to the Chanel in Yorkville, I guess, that's it.

• 40:20Mary Beth Barone?

  And that's it.

• 40:21Benito Skinner?

  We were watching it, and it was just, it did make me feel a little better, and I just remember like, I don't know, there's something about it that I do think it is a feminist film, is how I'm leaving it.

• 40:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 40:33Benito Skinner?

  Because like, yes, it has, and of course, it's supposed to be like American heroes, and there is kind of a post 9/11 media to it, but there's something about the men that they're talking about, at the end, it's like billionaires?

• 40:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 40:45Benito Skinner?

  And they're at that billionaire guy's house, and he shoots that guy in the elevator, it's my favorite, and when he goes, please don't, and Liam just, pop, pop, pop, and then the elevator opens, and this billionaire, who's definitely been running this ring, oh my god, the whole party, one girl drops a drink.

• 40:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, it's wish fulfillment.

• 41:00Benito Skinner?

  It's definitely wish fulfillment.

• 41:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Not only feminist, it's wish fulfillment.

• 41:02Benito Skinner?

  As a Scorpio watching it, I definitely leave it being like, well, that was amazing.

• 41:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 41:07Benito Skinner?

  How was that for you? No, my god, me to Liam Neeson.

• 41:12Benito Skinner?

  Special Show, Dog.

• 41:15Mary Beth Barone?

  You know what I liked about it as far as being sick was it made me sweat. And I think that helped us get better faster.

• 41:20Benito Skinner?

  It is very, it's a stressful watch.

• 41:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Tense. Even when you know what happens at the end, it's still tense.

• 41:25Benito Skinner?

  It did have, um, like a crazy kind of, you know, a butterfly flaps its wings effect. Where I know that like my sister, a lot of women, they're like, it is kind of a scary film. And I wonder if there's some way to track like a, a decline in European travel. Solo female travelers. Yeah. And I know that we're all being more careful at the airports when we're getting in the cars. And I'm happy for that.

• 41:49Mary Beth Barone?

  No, it's good. I mean.

• 41:50Benito Skinner?

  I'm happy to be alerted of that.

• 41:51Mary Beth Barone?

  It was sort of like exposing this thing that was happening that felt really far fetched. Like this is all fiction, but like now we know that these billionaires like are really like auctioning people off and.

• 42:01Benito Skinner?

  I know. I wonder at that table in Hollywood, they were like, what could we write about? And they're like, well, one of my friends does this thing.

• 42:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 42:07Benito Skinner?

  And they were like, oh yeah, let's write about that.

• 42:09Mary Beth Barone?

  And he goes, well, he's kind of junior level.

• 42:10Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. He's like mid tier, I'd say, but.

• 42:13Mary Beth Barone?

  We don't have to follow him, but what we could do is like create, yeah, so she wants to be a pop star.

• 42:17Benito Skinner?

  Let's pretend it's just in Europe.

• 42:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Right. Oh, no, totally. And it's all European people.

• 42:21Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, of course. Cheaper to shoot there. Taxes. And they all said taxes. Yeah.

• 42:25Mary Beth Barone?

  My only conspiracy theory that I believe, because I came up with it, is that I don't think Jeffrey Epstein was killed or died. I think he's alive.

• 42:32Benito Skinner?

  Uh, ride the pod out of context is gonna go crazy with this one.

• 42:35Mary Beth Barone?

  And you're welcome.

• 42:36Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 42:36Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm just like, so he's gone, right? All those people didn't just stop doing that. So it's like, who's taken over for Jeffrey Epstein is my question. Because it's not like they were just like, okay, so he's gone, so we'll just stop. Like, somebody has to be the new kingpin or whatever. I'm like, we should find that person.

• 42:51Benito Skinner?

  You know what's crazy? All those pages, not one trans person.

• 42:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Wow.

• 42:56Benito Skinner?

  Isn't that crazy?

• 42:56Mary Beth Barone?

  It makes you think.

• 42:57Benito Skinner?

  All those names.

• 42:58Mary Beth Barone?

  All those names.

• 42:59Benito Skinner?

  Not one trans person.

• 43:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Thousands, thousands of names, right?

• 43:03Benito Skinner?

  Right?

• 43:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 43:06Benito Skinner?

  It's interesting.

• 43:06Mary Beth Barone?

  It's just interesting.

• 43:07Benito Skinner?

  I don't know. It's just, yeah.

• 43:09Mary Beth Barone?

  No, it's just interesting. Wait, I just thought of something.

• 43:11Benito Skinner?

  Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah. But here's my thing with all of it. Taken is, it was one of those films that could unite all of us. It could teach us, it could get the incels in seats and maybe they learn a thing or two. Um, it, we can all rally around Liam Neeson, of course, and root for him. Cause my God, do we love him or what? And it just was really, oh, is he problematic?

• 43:40Mary Beth Barone?

  No. He's like, okay, imagine if your dad did a press tour. Like, of course they're gonna say some things that you would be like, oh, don't say that. But I just think he's like such a treasure that we've sort of forgiven him. I'm not saying I agree with everything he's ever said and these, again, all the views expressed on this podcast are mine and mine alone.

• 43:58Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 43:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Except if I'm quoting someone, but I just think, yeah, I think he's fabulous and the movie is a blockbuster.

• 44:05Benito Skinner?

  That's my thing. It's like, it's a movie. It's a movie.

• 44:09Mary Beth Barone?

  It's a movie.

• 44:10Benito Skinner?

  And I just remember being in Bodo, all my guys with me. I'm still kind of thinking, they think I'm straight, right? And it was just a real, it was a real gift. It was a great boys' night. And getting to finally just come full circle and get to watch it with you. Wearing, at the time, I was wearing Disneyland Paris merch.

• 44:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 44:31Benito Skinner?

  That felt really special and to get to share that film with a friend and.

• 44:37Mary Beth Barone?

  It was beautiful.

• 44:37Benito Skinner?

  I think for anyone, just return to that piece, as long as it doesn't, you know, scar you. Obviously huge trigger warnings with this film, but, um, hey, it's, it's nice to see a happy ending and some, some real fucking carnage and vengeance, which I think can feel just so good in the current climate.

• 44:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Little of that in the world.

• 44:54Benito Skinner?

  Well, you just never experience that.

• 44:56Mary Beth Barone?

  And I just want you to know that if you got taken, I would be on the flight.

• 44:59Benito Skinner?

  I can't stress enough, if you got taken, I would finally get to release this special set of skills that I have because you know, I've been boxing.

• 45:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Mm-hmm.

• 45:09Benito Skinner?

  And given what I'm about to look like after today, big, big thing.

• 45:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Easter egg.

• 45:13Benito Skinner?

  Imagine me, I would still find time to get you and vintage shop in Paris.

• 45:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Here's what I would predict. You would, you would get on the flight.

• 45:21Benito Skinner?

  Premium number one. They have this like, these three seats on Air France that are like just, you have like a room. Oh, they're so beyond.

• 45:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Thing you can put on for like clean oxygen or something.

• 45:31Benito Skinner?

  They have like a Shaka Moose pajamas you wear.

• 45:33Mary Beth Barone?

  They have everything.

• 45:34Benito Skinner?

  Pajamas.

• 45:34Mary Beth Barone?

  But I think you would land, you would get there, you would obviously shower, you would set up the electronics.

• 45:40Benito Skinner?

  The last thing I want is a Rosacea type to break out while I'm trying to find my bestie.

• 45:44Mary Beth Barone?

  But then as soon as you, you're doing this on the towel and your hair, you hear,

• 45:49Mary Beth Barone?

  and you open the door and it's me and I go, they brought me back.

• 45:53Mary Beth Barone?

  We go shopping.

• 45:54Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. Well, it's fall in Dior. Carrie in Dior. When she slides into third base. She slides.

• 46:01Mary Beth Barone?

  You're unbelievable. Oh!

• 46:03Benito Skinner?

  Oh!

• 46:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 46:04Benito Skinner?

  Um, yes, I, I agree. If they would have kept you for like two more hours though, I would have found you.

• 46:11Mary Beth Barone?

  I think so too. It wouldn't be hard.

• 46:12Benito Skinner?

  And I would have left all those places with all my new girls.

• 46:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, yeah. Well, and it's community and it's family.

• 46:18Benito Skinner?

  And on the way out, they would be like, where are you going? I'd shoot them in the leg and go, best believe, we're still bejeweled.

• 46:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Bye.

• 46:24Benito Skinner?

  And then we'd walk out.

• 46:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Wow. I love this movie. I think it's really fun to watch with the family because there's not that much like, there's a lot of violence, which obviously we don't care about in this country, but, um, there's not a lot of sex stuff. So it's like cool to watch like with the parents.

• 46:37Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. And also the violence is.

• 46:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Parents.

• 46:40Benito Skinner?

  I agree. That's such a good point. Um, such a fun one to recommend with your partner's parents. I think, um, yeah, it's just cool to be excited about a kill count in a movie.

• 46:49Mary Beth Barone?

  I wish I, hit my chin on the mic. I wish I could see it again for the first time.

• 46:54Benito Skinner?

  I know, but it felt like that with you because I had kind of waited maybe like eight years or so. It had been a while.

• 46:59Mary Beth Barone?

  And what you don't even know, we haven't even touched on is that Liam Neeson was doing security for a pop star and got her card to like maybe connect his daughter with. And at the end of the movie, she comes to the house. It's like, not only, I mean, God, that's like father of the year. Hello.

• 47:13Benito Skinner?

  No, I know.

• 47:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Not only did I just save you and yeah, obviously the mom was super thankful with her rich new husband. But now I'm gonna bring a pop star over.

• 47:20Benito Skinner?

  I think Jean Grey could have been a little bit more thankful.

• 47:22Mary Beth Barone?

  I think so too. And, and can I just say, fall on the sword a little bit. You knew, she knew that they were traveling and she didn't tell him.

• 47:30Benito Skinner?

  You know what stresses me out is I think about that couple. Well, I guess maybe it's in Taken two and three, but I forget. I did see those in theaters, not with the guys. They had, you know, kind of dropped me from the group at that point.

• 47:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, yeah. I know why.

• 47:41Benito Skinner?

  But I do think, what a nightmare for that woman for the rest of her life. You know, this fictional character, but her being, anything she says, he goes, I'm just thinking of, what is it? Paris?

• 47:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, yeah. Fuck, Paris.

• 47:54Benito Skinner?

  Oh, sorry. I'm just, oh my God. What was, what did you say about Paris?

• 47:58Mary Beth Barone?

  I care. Here's the thing about the actress. I just think her name is something that I couldn't pronounce correctly. So I'm just not trying.

• 48:05Benito Skinner?

  But I love her and I think she's such a star.

• 48:07Mary Beth Barone?

  She's so talented.

• 48:07Benito Skinner?

  She's so talented.

• 48:08Mary Beth Barone?

  The X-Men franchise, God, fuck, it's so good.

• 48:11Benito Skinner?

  It's so good. Well, thank you so much for tuning in today to our carpool. So happy to have you in the car. I probably would bring a couple of brony's with me to find you in Paris.

• 48:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 48:20Benito Skinner?

  We'd rip it around in a PT cruiser.

• 48:21Mary Beth Barone?

  To like, you know, zero in on my location or whatever.

• 48:23Benito Skinner?

  Me and a little Mini Cooper.

• 48:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. Oh, you're, you're, you're leaving, you're doing figure eights.

• 48:28Benito Skinner?

  Where is she? Where is she?

• 48:31Mary Beth Barone?

  But you do this, you have a finger gun?

• 48:33Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, yeah. It's not real. Yeah. No, I carry blades.

• 48:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. Ooh, ninja star.

• 48:39Benito Skinner?

  Ninja stars. And then I have nunchucks.

• 48:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. But you just dance with them?

• 48:43Benito Skinner?

  I just pimp slap these guys. Where, where is she?

• 48:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Come on, special show, Dog. Alright, we love you guys.

• 48:51Benito Skinner?

  Hey, everybody.

• 48:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Special show, Dog.

• 49:01Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my exit.

• 49:02Mary Beth Barone?

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

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