Banana + Having Wet Nails

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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.

• 0:14Mary Beth Barone?

  We're, we're starting the episode with you silently texting.

• 0:19Benito Skinner?

  Bye, honey. That's me.

• 0:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Bye, honey.

• 0:22Benito Skinner?

  As if that's ever me. You know what I mean?

• 0:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Also, it's just like.

• 0:27Benito Skinner?

  I just, it's sorry, not to be like.

• 0:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Do a line delivery.

• 0:31Benito Skinner?

  I just FaceTimed with a mom at Smiley Cafe, okay? Don't play me.

• 0:35Mary Beth Barone?

  No, do a line delivery of bye, honey. That's like mean.

• 0:38Benito Skinner?

  All right, ready?

• 0:40Benito Skinner?

  Bye, honey.

• 0:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, I just, it's just not.

• 0:42Benito Skinner?

  It's still not. You would think I was joking.

• 0:44Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm not picturing that for you.

• 0:45Benito Skinner?

  So you're really gonna wear bombshell dress and not say anything?

• 0:48Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm wearing the bombshell dress today. It's like, I wanted to wear a dress because it's so hot out.

• 0:52Benito Skinner?

  Oh, yeah, it had nothing to do with Amazon MGM casting the Bond movie right now? It had nothing to do with that. You are so fucking political.

• 1:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, it's all a big game of chess.

• 1:04Benito Skinner?

  My god, you're strategic.

• 1:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Remember when you said, you told me to write this down because you had said to me, I want a day when we don't talk about work. And I said, maybe June.

• 1:12Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, it was April.

• 1:13Mary Beth Barone?

  That was April 11th.

• 1:15Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 1:15Mary Beth Barone?

  It's June. Guess what? June is over very, very soon. Hasn't happened yet.

• 1:19Benito Skinner?

  For a while, I wanted to take you to Trapeze, and then I had this nightmare vision of you, I catch you, and then I actually fling you too far. It's very Batman and Robin.

• 1:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Wait, but you know my goal?

• 1:30Benito Skinner?

  Hmm.

• 1:30Mary Beth Barone?

  It's to be flung like that, and I just keep spinning until I go to space.

• 1:36Benito Skinner?

  That's what I'm saying. That's what you would.

• 1:37Mary Beth Barone?

  And I wouldn't fall back down. I would just, I would float away.

• 1:40Benito Skinner?

  It's because of these.

• 1:41Mary Beth Barone?

  It's those guns.

• 1:42Benito Skinner?

  The swans.

• 1:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 1:43Benito Skinner?

  They're not guns, they're swans.

• 1:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay, I love that.

• 1:46Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 1:47Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't know how PETA would.

• 1:48Benito Skinner?

  I was about to say PETA.

• 1:52Benito Skinner?

  They kill me.

• 1:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Speaking of PETA, eat crow.

• 1:55Benito Skinner?

  Oh, God. I knew you were gonna say eat crow. It's very knock it off, but eat crow is very heaven's to Murgatroyd.

• 2:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 2:04Benito Skinner?

  Oh, yeah, these are, it's like a blizzard. I actually always have a blizzard in one of these.

• 2:11Mary Beth Barone?

  That's what they don't know when they're watching.

• 2:12Benito Skinner?

  You know, as a kid, I wanted to work at Dairy Queens so that I could do that.

• 2:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, you know what's crazy? As a kid, my dad's cousins owned several Dairy Queens in Ohio, and we went to visit them.

• 2:21Benito Skinner?

  Big business.

• 2:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Big business. They, they served fries and burgers and all types of stuff.

• 2:26Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, of course.

• 2:27Mary Beth Barone?

  The ones in the northeast only served ice cream.

• 2:30Benito Skinner?

  Oh, no, we have food on the west.

• 2:32Mary Beth Barone?

  I was like, whoa.

• 2:33Benito Skinner?

  And you don't have Jack in the Box, right?

• 2:35Mary Beth Barone?

  No.

• 2:36Benito Skinner?

  Whoa, so you've never driven your brother when he's drunk?

• 2:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Not to Jack in the Box.

• 2:41Benito Skinner?

  To a Jack in the Box?

• 2:42Mary Beth Barone?

  I've driven them drunk to other stuff.

• 2:44Benito Skinner?

  Like, that's so cool. It's like, let me get in this Jetta.

• 2:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Please let me say, please clip me accidentally saying I've driven drunk. Please clip that.

• 2:52Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, wait, that's good. Oh, I have driven drunk. Can I tell you the story?

• 2:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Please.

• 2:55Benito Skinner?

  So I was in high school and I was so nervous. Well, I wasn't actually drunk. I had like one beer, but I felt drunk. Let's just, and actually, I probably was, to be honest.

• 3:03Mary Beth Barone?

  I love you. You're coming clean about this.

• 3:05Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I wanna be more real on here.

• 3:08Mary Beth Barone?

  Hey, Sam. I'm so sick of being a goody-two-shoes all the time. I'm in my rebel era, like.

• 3:14Benito Skinner?

  I told you, for Rosalía, they go, what do you wanna confess? And I thought, I've got nothing.

• 3:19Mary Beth Barone?

  And I have, as I've been talking about for weeks, I have no vices. So I'm ready to just be a little bad sometimes.

• 3:24Benito Skinner?

  Do you know what it's like to be a gay guy back out there? And I'm like.

• 3:32Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 3:32Benito Skinner?

  It's crazy.

• 3:33Mary Beth Barone?

  So it's like, I guess just give yourself permission, as long as you're not hurting anyone, to be a little bad. If you're on driving, you are, but like, this is in the past.

• 3:40Benito Skinner?

  What a bust.

• 3:41Mary Beth Barone?

  So we're gonna be, we're gonna be a little bit more human, a little more bad, and.

• 3:44Benito Skinner?

  So we're doing trapeze. Yeah.

• 3:47Mary Beth Barone?

  We're doing trapeze over at Chelsea Piers. If you thought we've been being bad this whole time, then I guess, like, welcome to hell.

• 3:53Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, reputation, girl. The rest will be rep- wait, there is no conversation. Reputation. It was so fun clearing our Instagram. That was so.

• 4:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, people freaking out.

• 4:04Benito Skinner?

  The first podcast in history to do a clear, unless it was canceled.

• 4:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Launching a new era.

• 4:08Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 4:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Sorry, go on about drunk driving.

• 4:11Benito Skinner?

  So drunk driving, I turned the corner to my house after being at this party. That anytime I would go to the party, anytime I would go to the party.

• 4:18Mary Beth Barone?

  The party.

• 4:19Benito Skinner?

  Yes, that's right. I'm at the party. Not going to tell you.

• 4:23Mary Beth Barone?

  And what's mine is mine.

• 4:25Benito Skinner?

  What's mine is mine. Why do you care so much his dick, alright?

• 4:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Hi.

• 4:30Benito Skinner?

  Hi. Um, so I turned the corner to my house and Party in the USA came on on 103 Kiss FM. And I just thought, fuck yeah, we did it. Fooled them all, all you cops, all you bastards. You missed one, by the way.

• 4:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Yup, the streets were a little bit less safe that night.

• 4:51Benito Skinner?

  You missed one. Oh, no, I wouldn't have hit anyone. I wasn't actually drunk, but I really felt it and I was like, my whole life's gonna be ruined because of this.

• 5:00Mary Beth Barone?

  But you had to get home for curfew.

• 5:01Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, and I just was like, I can't tell my parents I've been drinking, cuz my dad worked at the school. He was a history teacher, so then I would go to parties and everyone would be like, does your dad know you're here? And I'd be like, no, I can't stress enough, he doesn't.

• 5:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 5:13Benito Skinner?

  Um, so, I'm not proud. I, all I can say is I'm sorry.

• 5:18Mary Beth Barone?

  I wish you'd have done that as your confession at Rosalia, that you drunk drove in high school, having drank one beer.

• 5:23Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. One Heineken. And that's it.

• 5:27Mary Beth Barone?

  That's a fancy one for a high school party.

• 5:29Benito Skinner?

  Oh, sweetie, I've always been that girl. Me is bitchy gay. Bye, honey. Bye, honey. Well, I told you, it's my favorite thing in the world. It's gay waiter, ready?

• 5:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 5:44Benito Skinner?

  Hi.

• 5:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, it's gay waiter who knows something you don't.

• 5:49Benito Skinner?

  Gay waiter who knows something you don't. Hi.

• 5:54Benito Skinner?

  It's like.

• 5:54Mary Beth Barone?

  I always wanted you to post that.

• 5:56Benito Skinner?

  I know, but then I just, ugh.

• 5:58Mary Beth Barone?

  And you didn't.

• 5:59Benito Skinner?

  Ah, sketches got hard for me. I pissed off someone who I did a sketch of and that message kind of ruined my life for a while. And then, I'm just so scared of, of, um, fans. I think that's the thing, like, they're.

• 6:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Even your own fans, it, it can happen to you.

• 6:15Benito Skinner?

  Girl, the call is coming from?

• 6:17Mary Beth Barone?

  Inside the house.

• 6:19Benito Skinner?

  Um, so, speaking on the things we were gonna do, not work-related as friends, I also thought of us in a pottery class, but then I thought about, I know after 15 minutes, we'd be like.

• 6:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Trying to go.

• 6:32Benito Skinner?

  I go.

• 6:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Trying to go.

• 6:33Benito Skinner?

  We go to the rail.

• 6:34Mary Beth Barone?

  But I would be sitting in your lap. We'd be making one bowl.

• 6:38Benito Skinner?

  I said pottery class, I mean, painting things that have already been made. I'm not making a pot. That's not the art I do.

• 6:43Mary Beth Barone?

  No.

• 6:44Benito Skinner?

  I do makeup.

• 6:45Mary Beth Barone?

  But I want to paint a bowl for my vermicelli.

• 6:48Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. Um, do you have any bowls here that are specific to a vermicelli bowl? I would say. Do you really have to? It's a basin. It's not a ramen bowl, it's a vermicelli bowl.

• 6:59Mary Beth Barone?

  It's a big old bowl.

• 7:01Benito Skinner?

  The tees are tight, the hair is short. The boy.

• 7:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Is mine.

• 7:07Benito Skinner?

  Ruby car. Yeah.

• 7:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Ruby car. You wanted to just touch on that. Curious George has been quiet.

• 7:15Benito Skinner?

  Where is he? I've had this thing, everyone agrees with me. Curious George was such a thing. It was like Jack Johnson in the movie came out and I just saw him everywhere. My nephews don't bring him up, my nieces, it's been so quiet. Where the fuck is Curious George?

• 7:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Can I give my theory?

• 7:33Benito Skinner?

  He's not curious anymore.

• 7:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, first of all, he has no more questions. He's totally done.

• 7:37Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 7:38Mary Beth Barone?

  But also, I think Paddington's success, maybe like, he took a step back to like rebuild.

• 7:42Benito Skinner?

  It's so good to know that there are rivals in every category. And you're so right. Well, you know, Pooh Bear found shot.

• 7:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Pooh Bear, Pooh Bear, but you know what? Pooh Bear exists for those who know where to find him.

• 7:54Benito Skinner?

  Exactly, but he's like, he wants to launch a smear campaign of Paddington.

• 7:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Right. No, I know, I mean, I can't imagine, especially because they're both bears.

• 8:02Benito Skinner?

  Exactly.

• 8:03Mary Beth Barone?

  That's gotta be really stressful.

• 8:04Benito Skinner?

  Mm-hmm. And just like the destruction of the term bear for them also.

• 8:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, the bastardization.

• 8:10Benito Skinner?

  Exactly. Has been like tough to all bears.

• 8:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 8:14Benito Skinner?

  Including Bear in the Big Blue House.

• 8:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, and where the hell has he been, by the way?

• 8:17Benito Skinner?

  Well, I realized recently that I find him attractive.

• 8:20Mary Beth Barone?

  Interesting.

• 8:21Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, it was tough, but I do and I'm just gonna.

• 8:24Mary Beth Barone?

  And that's okay.

• 8:25Benito Skinner?

  As a kid, I just, I think I was like, yeah, he's hot to me. Yeah. Same with Balto.

• 8:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Balto was universally sexy, though.

• 8:33Benito Skinner?

  That's a sexy fucking pup. What do you want me to say?

• 8:36Mary Beth Barone?

  He did like emergency response and stuff?

• 8:38Benito Skinner?

  Well, he got, um, he got amoxicillin, right? For that girl that had pneumonia?

• 8:44Mary Beth Barone?

  You can't string a sentence together, but you remember the plot of Balto?

• 8:47Benito Skinner?

  Shit.

• 8:48Mary Beth Barone?

  You really are that girl.

• 8:50Benito Skinner?

  I really am. Isn't there a statue of Balto in Central Park? Or was that just in the movie? Cause the movie starts with the grandma and the daughter, the grandma who's the one I think he saved. Maybe. Whoa.

• 9:03Mary Beth Barone?

  If you're wrong, just know, we'll find out.

• 9:05Benito Skinner?

  I know, and I can't wait for that. But um, but yeah, he was sexy. Also, the villain pup was kinda sexy too.

• 9:12Mary Beth Barone?

  It was good animation. I, have you seen Swan Princess?

• 9:16Benito Skinner?

  We watched it together in a hotel in Portland. Are you actually, are you serious right now?

• 9:21Mary Beth Barone?

  That's what I thought, but Odette to me-

• 9:22Benito Skinner?

  Do you actually wanna do this or not?

• 9:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Do you actually wanna do this or not?

• 9:26Benito Skinner?

  Do you actually wanna do this or not? Here's my thing. That film, Odette was everything to me. That's a really scary villain though.

• 9:36Mary Beth Barone?

  I know, really, really scary.

• 9:38Benito Skinner?

  Is his name Bal something? Bart, Bart, it's not Bartok.

• 9:41Mary Beth Barone?

  It's not Balthazar, but it's something like that.

• 9:43Benito Skinner?

  It's Balthazar's.

• 9:43Mary Beth Barone?

  It is.

• 9:44Benito Skinner?

  Seafood Tower.

• 9:45Mary Beth Barone?

  With that movie watching as an adult, I feel like there's like a few scenes missing. Like maybe they ran out of animation budget. Like it's so close to being a complete movie.

• 9:53Benito Skinner?

  Mm-hmm.

• 9:53Mary Beth Barone?

  But it's just not quite there, but I still enjoy it.

• 9:55Benito Skinner?

  I think it's like seventy-five minutes, Loki.

• 9:57Mary Beth Barone?

  It's not ninety, for sure it's not ninety.

• 9:59Benito Skinner?

  As a kid, I was like, shit, this is long.

• 10:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Also, a lot of people are posting like them doing all the lines to It Takes Two, and I just wanna go on the record as saying that I performed It Takes Two as a one-woman show. June twenty nineteen, it was on the Olsen Twins birthday. I will reprise my role as all the characters one night only, at some point in the future. But I just wanna say if I, if I ever make a video doing that, like, I did it first.

• 10:20Benito Skinner?

  That's so important, and say that.

• 10:22Mary Beth Barone?

  So thank you.

• 10:23Benito Skinner?

  How's my hair? It's still too short.

• 10:24Mary Beth Barone?

  No, I think it's, I think it's still not too short.

• 10:27Benito Skinner?

  Shit, baby.

• 10:27Mary Beth Barone?

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• 12:03Mary Beth Barone?

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• 13:59Benito Skinner?

  So today I'll be riding for banana.

• 14:01Mary Beth Barone?

  And I will be riding for having white nails. I think you should probably go first.

• 14:04Benito Skinner?

  I think so, too.

• 14:05Mary Beth Barone?

  As is customary.

• 14:06Benito Skinner?

  Banana.

• 14:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Banana singular.

• 14:08Benito Skinner?

  So banana.

• 14:10Benito Skinner?

  Here's the thing about me and banana is it happens where I walked into this place called, speaking of Balthazar or whatever his name is, I think his name was Ballsacks.

• 14:20Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 14:20Benito Skinner?

  There is a coffee shop in Toronto called Ballsacks. It's Ballsacks, but I just can't believe. Yeah, but Ballsack.

• 14:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 14:30Benito Skinner?

  So to me Ballsack. And I would go once a day to get my second coffee. And I walk in one day and it says, it's PBL season. And I thought, well, I've never heard of some shit like this. It was pistachio banana latte season. And then I thought, you're right, it did feel different outside.

• 14:49Mary Beth Barone?

  It was the, the leaves had changed and it was officially PBL season.

• 14:53Benito Skinner?

  I thought, no, you guys kind of spilled. Yeah, cuz I'm like, no, it did, there's a change in the air and I can taste it. And so I said, fuck it, I'm gonna put banana syrup in my coffee. Haters be Dan, I'm gonna do it, fuck y'all. And I said that to the priestess.

• 15:10Mary Beth Barone?

  You did.

• 15:11Benito Skinner?

  I said, "Bye, honey."

• 15:11Mary Beth Barone?

  I was there.

• 15:12Benito Skinner?

  I said, "Bye, honey."

• 15:13Mary Beth Barone?

  It was rare.

• 15:14Benito Skinner?

  And then I tasted this banana and I went, "Fuck, I love banana." And I just thought that. I was like, "Wow." I forgot how much I love this. And as a kid, I used to love runts. Those banana runts. And I liked that they kind of fit into your mouth and they just... But banana has been with me for so long. I love banana split. I love strawberry banana smoothies. I love a little milkshake when it's vanilla and banana. I love a banana... Recently, I had at Moshe Malone's in LA. I had banana walnut vegan ice cream.

• 15:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, that was really...

• 15:44Benito Skinner?

  Delicioso.

• 15:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Really good ice cream.

• 15:46Benito Skinner?

  But banana is this kind of slept on, but what I love about banana is that an actual banana tastes different than the banana flavor. But it's similar to watermelon, which I think it's amazing that we've made watermelons like fully sour and a completely different like...

• 16:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Taste profile or whatever?

• 16:01Benito Skinner?

  Taste profile or whatever. I love that. Or green... Well, no, green apple feels consistent. But watermelon and banana feel just so singular.

• 16:11Mary Beth Barone?

  That's so interesting.

• 16:12Benito Skinner?

  But to me, right, isn't it? And this is why I, again, have a podcast and you fucking lames don't. But I, I really just adore this taste. It feels nostalgic. It feels diner to me. But banana, and I say banana because I'm not eating bananas. I'm eating a single banana if I'm having it.

• 16:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 16:31Benito Skinner?

  By the way. And in overcompensating...

• 16:34Mary Beth Barone?

  And it's about time we're honest about that.

• 16:35Benito Skinner?

  There is a scene where I try to eat a banana and it's, it's, I think, some of my best work as an actor.

• 16:40Mary Beth Barone?

  I haven't seen it yet.

• 16:41Benito Skinner?

  I can't wait for you to see it. It's really, you're really special on the show. We've cut a lot of your stuff, but you're good, for sure. And no, you're really, really good. Congrats. But I, yeah, I just realized it's one of these, these flavors that I think goes by the wayside or people have really strong opinions on, and I'm here to fight for her and say it's PBL season. Like it or leave it, but I'm gonna stay, I'm gonna stick around a while.

• 17:06Mary Beth Barone?

  You're staying right where you are.

• 17:07Benito Skinner?

  And there's this thing that I'm dying to try. I believe it's in Japan. If I'm incorrect, shoot me. But it's, you get an iced coffee at like a 7-Eleven and then you put banana milk in it and apparently it's like a total knockout.

• 17:20Mary Beth Barone?

  Banana milk, interesting.

• 17:21Benito Skinner?

  And you shakuradu. And I am like dying to have it. I'm just addicted to it right now. I think I'm pregnant.

• 17:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, there's a short film in you flying to Japan, having one of those and then leaving. You know what I mean?

• 17:33Benito Skinner?

  And it's called?

• 17:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Banana. I am, okay, I I have to have bananas in a very specific context. I like a banana in peanut butter. I can rarely get down a whole banana. I can rarely get down a whole one, to be honest.

• 17:47Benito Skinner?

  Banana with cashew butter? Well, god.

• 17:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, god. Buy me dinner first. Shit.

• 17:52Benito Skinner?

  Well, you know, Duddy just throats it, takes it out and goes, "I don't like the texture."

• 17:56Mary Beth Barone?

  I didn't like the texture.

• 17:57Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, she hates mushrooms, by the way.

• 17:59Mary Beth Barone?

  It's definitely like, I need water with it, you know, because it's definitely like, the palate's getting a little, you know what I mean?

• 18:05Benito Skinner?

  Wow.

• 18:05Mary Beth Barone?

  I do like, I do like banana. I just, if I'm gonna eat one, I can cut it in half. It's sort of like a coffee. I only have half a coffee.

• 18:12Benito Skinner?

  Have you had the runt? The banana runt?

• 18:14Mary Beth Barone?

  I have had the banana runt. I will say banana flavored candy, not really for me.

• 18:17Benito Skinner?

  Okay.

• 18:17Mary Beth Barone?

  But I'm glad it's, so if we had a pack of runts, you could eat all the banana and I would eat the rest.

• 18:21Benito Skinner?

  That's so good. The oranges, like, those, I remember cutting the roof of my mouth, like, my, it was just a scab. Well, I would say most of my childhood, the roof of my mouth was a scab because of so much candy.

• 18:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Captain Crunch, too.

• 18:31Benito Skinner?

  Captain Crunch, Reese's Puffs are my favorite. It's my favorite cereal.

• 18:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Remember Cookie Crisp?

• 18:35Benito Skinner?

  Cookie Crisp.

• 18:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Cookie Crisp.

• 18:36Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, of course I do.

• 18:37Mary Beth Barone?

  I like a banana in, in a mix of other things, for sure. Now, raw banana, that's, that's desperate times, if I just have a banana raw, but that's when I'm really hungry and I need potassium or whatever.

• 18:47Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, it has potassium and I believe fiber as well. I think they're really good for you. I love the, that everyone has a different way of opening them. I think that's so cool. Have it your way, of course.

• 18:57Mary Beth Barone?

  Isn't there something, there's some trick where, like, this was from a movie where the banana's already sliced on the inside? They open it up and it's already sliced, but they won't, like, reveal their secret or whatever?

• 19:06Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 19:06Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't remember what movie that is.

• 19:07Benito Skinner?

  I know what you're talking about, and it's something, yeah, the way that they're used sometimes, it's like-

• 19:11Mary Beth Barone?

  In media. Bananas, the bastardization of bananas in media.

• 19:14Benito Skinner?

  In media. It's like, it's pissing me off.

• 19:16Mary Beth Barone?

  It's gonna be an overcompensating.

• 19:17Benito Skinner?

  It is very much an overcompensating. They gave me the girthiest banana I've ever seen, but

• 19:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Earth Master.

• 19:22Benito Skinner?

  I had the funniest thing, did I tell you, so, my sister and I used to take this kid to school, in high school, and we picked him up one day, and I had to run to the door to, like, knock and, and have him come out.

• 19:32Mary Beth Barone?

  That's sweet that you knocked. You didn't just honk the horn. It's those Idaho manners.

• 19:36Benito Skinner?

  Bye, honey.

• 19:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Bye, honey.

• 19:39Benito Skinner?

  But yeah, of course I, I gallop up to the door. Um, a friend of ours keeps calling me a raccoon, and I do feel like one.

• 19:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Right. I get that. I really get that.

• 19:48Benito Skinner?

  Because what are you doing today? Dumpster diving? I thought, literally.

• 19:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Wait, that's funny.

• 19:52Benito Skinner?

  And today in the hotel, there were nuts all over the floor, and I thought- Yeah. And I ran up to the door and I knocked, but I look in the window at him in his kitchen. And he's peeled a banana all the way down to the

• 20:04Mary Beth Barone?

  To the

• 20:05Benito Skinner?

  To the bottom, to the stones.

• 20:06Mary Beth Barone?

  To a nub.

• 20:06Benito Skinner?

  And he fully throats it in a way that he almost gags. And I was like, well, now's the perfect time to knock. So I knocked and the look he gave me, I had just seen him naked.

• 20:17Mary Beth Barone?

  Private moment. You saw him vaping essentially.

• 20:19Benito Skinner?

  Exactly. And we made full eye contact, which, oh, I love a banana vape. If, oh, I'm gonna talk about that in a second, cuz I had one on overcompensating.

• 20:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Ooh.

• 20:29Benito Skinner?

  But, um, so that was cool to me too, to watch people's personal experiences with bananas. I think we all have a banana story.

• 20:37Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't think we should be eating them in public.

• 20:39Benito Skinner?

  I always think of the scene in Never Been Kissed where they put condoms on the banana.

• 20:44Mary Beth Barone?

  No bananas in public, please.

• 20:45Benito Skinner?

  No bananas in public.

• 20:46Mary Beth Barone?

  If you open a banana on an airplane too, that's crazy.

• 20:49Benito Skinner?

  Oh, really?

• 20:50Mary Beth Barone?

  The smell.

• 20:50Benito Skinner?

  I don't think I've ever done it.

• 20:51Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't think you've ever done that. That would be insane.

• 20:53Benito Skinner?

  That feels crazy.

• 20:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 20:55Benito Skinner?

  I just keep coming back to banana splits. I love the taste of them. Chocolate banana milkshake? Come on.

• 21:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, banana covered in chocolate, I really fuck with that.

• 21:04Benito Skinner?

  Oh, I love, they have these, um, they're like, uh, I got them in London recently. They're like cut bananas. And they dip them in chocolate and they're like, sold us that. And I

• 21:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, I mean, I could eat those for a long time.

• 21:17Benito Skinner?

  It's my favorite. I have this bit I've been doing, have I done this to you yet?

• 21:20Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't know.

• 21:21Benito Skinner?

  Where I do girl on a date who like doesn't wanna show her date that she's eating. So it's like

• 21:28Mary Beth Barone?

  She holds a napkin up.

• 21:30Benito Skinner?

  Really? How much can she shield her bit?

• 21:34Benito Skinner?

  Girl.

• 21:36Mary Beth Barone?

  I love that.

• 21:37Benito Skinner?

  But yeah, banana. I wanna stick one between my titties.

• 21:40Mary Beth Barone?

  There's some fact about the DNA we share with bananas. I've misquoted it on this podcast in the past. I don't even remember the number I came up with to misquote it, but I know that we share a lot with them.

• 21:49Benito Skinner?

  I know J.K. Rowling could do something huge with one.

• 21:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, yeah. With a, how about with a bunch? With a cluster even.

• 21:58Benito Skinner?

  She's the one time where plural bananas were.

• 22:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Or you, well, employ the plural of banana, which is bananas.

• 22:03Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 22:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, I wonder what she's up to.

• 22:05Benito Skinner?

  That really tickled me, sorry. I still got it.

• 22:08Mary Beth Barone?

  You're picturing it and I love that.

• 22:10Benito Skinner?

  Well, I'm picturing everything, by the way.

• 22:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. No, I'm picturing it all.

• 22:13Benito Skinner?

  I just thought about you falling on set again when you saw Tom. Oh, sorry. I've always had weakened ankles.

• 22:20Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, take my breath away.

• 22:21Benito Skinner?

  You are so mega from Hercules. It's crazy. Should we do that for Halloween?

• 22:26Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm down. Oh, you and you being, you being Hercules would be so fun.

• 22:29Benito Skinner?

  No, I'm Phoebus.

• 22:31Benito Skinner?

  Grow up.

• 22:31Mary Beth Barone?

  No.

• 22:32Benito Skinner?

  I'm Danny DeVito.

• 22:33Mary Beth Barone?

  I, no, Pinky's Phoebus.

• 22:35Benito Skinner?

  Oh. Wait, no, Pinky's Pegasus. Little Pinky Pegasus.

• 22:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay. I miss her.

• 22:42Benito Skinner?

  I think about that horse sleeping sound more than I do

• 22:48Benito Skinner?

  the rallying cry from Hunger Games. Like, it's like

• 22:52Benito Skinner?

  because it's, it's me in a way.

• 22:54Mary Beth Barone?

  It's you in a way.

• 22:56Benito Skinner?

  Okay, so something about me is if you're gonna boink me, it's gonna 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.

• 23:41Benito 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 GlacioTex, 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 GlacioTex really helps me. Not sure you can take Benny Drama's word for it?

• 24:24Benito 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 sitewide. That's BrooklynBedding.com and promo code RIDE for 30% off sitewide. Exclusive with my code. BrooklynBedding.com promo code RIDE.

• 24:45Benito Skinner?

  No C D, let's fucking go. So, okay, relationships are intense. They make us care deeply, feel vulnerable, maybe even freak out a little sometimes. That's human. But some people have relationship concerns that go far beyond standard ones. Like finding another person attractive, then immediately thinking, oh my God, does this mean I don't really love my partner? Or needing constant reassurance that your relationship is right or that you're not making the wrong choice because you never feel sure enough. Or asking yourself the same question hundreds of times a day. Do I really love them? What if I'm wasting their time? And searching for some feeling of certainty that never comes. Many people think these sorts of thoughts and anxieties are just overthinking or commitment issues, but they can actually be signs of relationship OCD.

• 25:28Benito Skinner?

  So many people think OCD is just about cleaning or organizing or making your books the kind of like rainbow pattern, but that stereotype couldn't be more wrong. Real OCD is a serious condition. I have been, hey. Where distressing unwanted thoughts called intrusive thoughts get stuck on repeat and you feel compelled to do certain things. Mental or physical behaviors called compulsions to try to make the anxiety stop. With relationship OCD, compulsions might look like constantly seeking reassurance, replaying memories to see if you feel a spark or comparing your partner to others. But what's given me so much hope is learning that OCD is one of the most treatable mental health conditions when you get the right kind of specialized therapy. OCD needs ERP therapy, exposure and response prevention, which is proven to be the most effective treatment.

• 26:12Benito Skinner?

  And it did help me so much. NoCD is the world's leading OCD treatment provider and all of their licensed therapists specialize in ERP. Therapy with NoCD is 100% virtual, covered by insurance for over 138 million Americans, and includes support between sessions, so you never have to face OCD alone. Well, you never are anyway because you're right here with me in my arms around you if you consent to that. I love you, stinky. To learn more about starting OCD therapy with NoCD, go to nocd.com and book a free call with their team. That's nocd.com. Love you. In overcompensating at one point in a scene, I am vaping and the flavor that they got me was banana and...

• 26:53Mary Beth Barone?

  You're in heaven.

• 26:54Benito Skinner?

  Well, there's apparently before I take, there's a scene of me smoking it with Holmes and Lucas Cage. And we're all just passing it back and forth. And while he's doing like smoke rings with it and it's so cute.

• 27:07Mary Beth Barone?

  I want a blooper reel.

• 27:08Benito Skinner?

  We're gonna try for a blooper reel this time. It's just like it is, our editors have to make the show as well. Shout out our glorious editors, Todd and Christian. I love you so much. But I, there's so many...

• 27:19Mary Beth Barone?

  No excuses.

• 27:19Benito Skinner?

  The one of, "I finally made Mary Beth Barone crack." Miss professional, miss independent, miss possessive, by the way.

• 27:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Miss self-sufficient.

• 27:29Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 27:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Season two, there's a lot of expect the unexpected for sure.

• 27:34Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. And I think Happier Than Ever by Billie Eilish, she spilled on that song. That's all I'm gonna say.

• 27:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, I love that.

• 27:42Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. It's just something, it's just, it's related to banana somehow.

• 27:46Mary Beth Barone?

  I, I get that. Can I just say I get that?

• 27:48Benito Skinner?

  I know you do.

• 27:50Mary Beth Barone?

  I want to talk about having wet nails as a concept and then I want to talk about it as like an actual like state of being. So having wet nails is this beautiful experience for women and some straight guys.

• 28:01Benito Skinner?

  Oh, when they're like, "I guess I'll get a pedicure." And it's like, "Hey, goblin, get one." If you've got the, hey, can I just say to anyone who's getting the dogs out? I have my dogs out right now. But here's the thing, I got a pedicure not a week ago. Like I, if I'm gonna have the dogs out...

• 28:18Mary Beth Barone?

  You should get one.

• 28:18Benito Skinner?

  We're gonna... We're gonna scrub and I'm gonna giggle when they do it and they're gonna laugh at me.

• 28:24Mary Beth Barone?

  And it's a beautiful experience.

• 28:25Benito Skinner?

  It's communal.

• 28:26Mary Beth Barone?

  I would say you can get out of virtually anything by claiming that you have wet nails. Now, your nails, and this is something I've been actually bad at in the past, which is as soon as I'm done painting them, I'm on to the next thing. Cause you know I'm going, going, going. But I'm really trying to live in the moment more. And I had to paint my nails constantly on the set of overcompensating because Grace has very dark nail polish. And so also when you get gel, you really don't experience the joy and the beauty of having wet nails because they dry underneath the UV lights. So I just think like there's something beautiful. It's like, it's womanhood to me. It's like giving yourself the time to just like sit, to just sit with your actions and your consequences of I just got my nails painted. It's time for me to take a beat. Even texting, you can fuck them up.

• 29:09Benito Skinner?

  I like going like this.

• 29:11Mary Beth Barone?

  And I actually remember being at the nail salon. This was before they used to make you pay in the middle, where they would have you pay after. You'd have to get your card out with wet nails. But then somebody, some genius had this idea that you pay in the middle now.

• 29:23Benito Skinner?

  Wait, that's like, God, women are genius.

• 29:26Mary Beth Barone?

  I know. It's really beautiful.

• 29:27Benito Skinner?

  Y'all really impressed me.

• 29:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 29:29Benito Skinner?

  My favorite is when they put on those little flip flops that they give you for the road.

• 29:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally.

• 29:33Benito Skinner?

  If you wore sneakers in. And then putting those on, I am a little baby boy.

• 29:37Mary Beth Barone?

  That's solidarity with like your sisters. Do you get that? Like, they don't have to do that. They could just send you packing and with the socks on and you know you're taking them off and it's a little crumbly.

• 29:45Benito Skinner?

  Well, I know in that moment that they're girls, girls when they do shit like that.

• 29:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 29:49Benito Skinner?

  That means the world to me. But I love, I used to paint my toenails more, but then every now and then I'd look down and seeing like the color pink on these like goblin toes with hair just felt like strange to me. So I've stopped.

• 30:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, you do full drag with Chester, but I get it.

• 30:03Benito Skinner?

  That's very different. Those are my tatas.

• 30:05Mary Beth Barone?

  So that's actually very different.

• 30:06Benito Skinner?

  That's my racalina.

• 30:08Mary Beth Barone?

  I think we as women just need to sort of enter the state of like mentally just thinking, well, my nails are wet. I can't do anything. I just have to like, I have to exist where I'm at right now. I'm trying so hard to be better about that and not just be always on to the next thing. Yeah, it's like, well, okay, I could start this thing that like I'm putting pressure on myself to do. You know how it's like sometimes you can just like be on a beach in your mind? I just have wet nails in my mind. I'm just like, no, I'm sitting still.

• 30:32Benito Skinner?

  Good things come to those who wait.

• 30:34Mary Beth Barone?

  Who wait.

• 30:35Benito Skinner?

  That's the whole meal when the guy's staring at Duddy's titties. She goes, ah, ah, ah, up here.

• 30:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Up here.

• 30:41Benito Skinner?

  My eyes are right here and she points to her nose. Good things come to those who wait. And then she eats three olives.

• 30:47Mary Beth Barone?

  I know Duddy has a lot of nail art.

• 30:49Benito Skinner?

  Or she eats a lychee from her lychee martini. Well, lychee martini is her fourth drink. Oh, of course, she's doing it and has to go.

• 30:57Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 31:02Benito Skinner?

  I put too many things in my mouth at once at a meal, I've realized recently. Like, I think dumplings are not a two-biter for me.

• 31:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, I've been having this really honest conversation about sushi lately, which is that I want a special roll. Okay, I want the one that has fish on top, fish eggs, and crunchy stuff. Okay, and spicy mayo.

• 31:21Benito Skinner?

  Damn, girl.

• 31:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Here's the problem.

• 31:22Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 31:23Mary Beth Barone?

  It's not really a one-bite situation, and if you try to bite it in half, make it two, it's there's an avalanche comes out of your mouth, so I'm trying to figure out what's the best thing for me to do.

• 31:33Benito Skinner?

  You want to date with Armie Hammer? He's your next one, by the way.

• 31:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, for sure, yeah.

• 31:39Mary Beth Barone?

  I have a whole list of people. Yeah, and it's gonna just get worse and worse.

• 31:43Benito Skinner?

  Me having to follow Armie Hammer. I'm like, God, she's killing me. I'm like, she's killing me. Oh, fuck.

• 31:53Mary Beth Barone?

  No, I did, it crossed my, it's funny you say Armie Hammer. It fully crossed my mind of like, oh, that would be a bad one, you know what I mean?

• 32:00Benito Skinner?

  Well, of course, yeah. We have to know the, like, the worst to get to the, yeah.

• 32:04Mary Beth Barone?

  There's so many worse ones, ultimately.

• 32:06Benito Skinner?

  We just can't introduce the kids to anyone ever, again.

• 32:09Mary Beth Barone?

  And to be clear, I actually didn't.

• 32:13Mary Beth Barone?

  That part.

• 32:16Mary Beth Barone?

  So I think this idea of living in the moment, it's been huge for me, especially, and I will say, this has come up more, because like, when things are going kind of bad, you don't want to live in the moment, right? Because like, you just have to get through it. Since things have started, like, going a little bit better, like, with work stuff, I'm like, oh, okay, I'm filming my Netflix special right now, coming to Netflix July 28th. I just want to remember what this moment feels like. I want to be like, don't go on to the next thing, just sit where you are, sit with it, and Okay, I'm here recording the second episode of the fourth season of Ride the Podcast.

• 32:49Benito Skinner?

  Like what a gift, at Melrose Podcast.

• 32:51Mary Beth Barone?

  At Melrose Podcast.

• 32:52Benito Skinner?

  We gotta stop telling them when they're, they're gonna freak out.

• 32:54Mary Beth Barone?

  At the Geneva Convention.

• 32:55Benito Skinner?

  At the Geneva, we're in Switzerland. I think that's beautiful. I think it's so hard. Well, Zara Larsson once said, "That's the thing with the ambition." And I do think about that a lot because it's always go, go, go. And instead it's like, no, that moment is magical. This moment of having a new color on my nails is magical. And also, it's kind of hard to be patient, wait. But as, as I just said, good things come to those who wait. You just have to like breathe through it. I saw this interesting interview, I wonder where it was, but it was Emma Watson and she said something about like, "It can't always be the reaping." And I thought about that and I thought, "Fuck you, Emma Watson."

• 33:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Bitch.

• 33:36Benito Skinner?

  You fucking bitch.

• 33:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Sometimes it's the sewing.

• 33:39Benito Skinner?

  Um, it's the sewing and you have to just like allow that. But oh my God, it's so hard because I'm in the face too of like, I just want the show done. Like I want to be done, but it's like, how about I have some fun with editing? And we're making music right now and that's really fun to like, get to play with that and see different jokes that work and try and. But yes, sitting in it, I think that's really beautiful. You should be so proud. The special's so good. But um, I didn't make this podcast and yeah, it's me who made it so that you could plug your fucking bullshit. So you could go and make your own money so that you have to leave me.

• 34:13Mary Beth Barone?

  We, I wish that we could, I wish that we could be honest about financials on this podcast. Just like what it looks like.

• 34:20Benito Skinner?

  Oh, totally.

• 34:22Mary Beth Barone?

  In our jobs, where it's going.

• 34:25Benito Skinner?

  Can I say, you're wrong.

• 34:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Incoming, outgoing, all that type of deal. I just wish we could have more financial transparency.

• 34:31Benito Skinner?

  And I wish that it was across the board because there are some people I'm seeing in things and I'm thinking, "I want to see your financials. What did you do?"

• 34:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 34:39Benito Skinner?

  I do think that the story of Rosemary's baby is true because there's a few people where I'm like, I do think you have a deal with the devil.

• 34:45Mary Beth Barone?

  I agree.

• 34:46Benito Skinner?

  And I've just seen darkness in people's eyes recently that has alerted me to it and like, I do think I'm one of God's witnesses here and I'm sniffing some Luciferians out.

• 34:57Mary Beth Barone?

  I know, it's like, we'll never know.

• 34:59Benito Skinner?

  But I just am like, it's all not making sense to me. There's a different deal you've made.

• 35:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, and with the deal, we weren't offered. We never had a chance to even.

• 35:08Benito Skinner?

  I would love to be offered, can I just say? I would give you up in a minute.

• 35:12Mary Beth Barone?

  I know.

• 35:12Benito Skinner?

  What, nine months of pregnancy? You get through it?

• 35:16Mary Beth Barone?

  That's the deal?

• 35:17Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, you get through it. You leave it with a pixie cut. Come on. Cinefile alert. Come on, cinefile.

• 35:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, God.

• 35:24Benito Skinner?

  What, you miss me?

• 35:25Mary Beth Barone?

  The special is for cinefiles.

• 35:26Benito Skinner?

  Maha mama.

• 35:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, and Ma, Mary Beth.

• 35:32Benito Skinner?

  I will be riding for Ma very soon. That's all I'm gonna say. I think Ma is like, it's as special as anything could be to me. But I just, I'm making Mary Beth lip sync to Ma.

• 35:44Mary Beth Barone?

  And that's gonna be explosive when it launches.

• 35:47Benito Skinner?

  Yes.

• 35:47Mary Beth Barone?

  I would say for me, I do ride for bananas and something that just came to me.

• 35:52Benito Skinner?

  No, no, no, no, no.

• 35:53Mary Beth Barone?

  What?

• 35:53Benito Skinner?

  I didn't ride for bananas.

• 35:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, sorry, banana.

• 35:56Benito Skinner?

  Thank you, honey.

• 35:57Mary Beth Barone?

  It's very cool that we share a love of this food with the monkeys.

• 36:02Benito Skinner?

  I am monkey.

• 36:03Mary Beth Barone?

  I know, but it's like, it's cool that it's like, oh, we don't have to really do anything to it. Like, we and the monkeys are enjoying it prepared the same way.

• 36:10Benito Skinner?

  In that moment, I realized I should have been in Planet of the Apes because if they had a gay monkey say, I am monkey. Like, that would have been so good.

• 36:17Mary Beth Barone?

  Either way, they're gonna make those movies for the rest of time, so don't worry.

• 36:21Benito Skinner?

  Those were really good when they were good.

• 36:23Mary Beth Barone?

  The Planet of the Apes focused on the LGBTQ community within the.

• 36:27Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, exactly. Well, it's mutant and proud in so many ways. There is a superhero sometimes I'm fan casted as because of my butt.

• 36:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, cool.

• 36:36Benito Skinner?

  I don't know who it is, so if you know, tell us. I can't imagine anyone who listens to this podcast would know, but hey, surprise me.

• 36:43Mary Beth Barone?

  I think it's great that banana as a flavor is available for those that love it, and that bananas are such a good snack. If you have to have it on the go, but it's something you can just eat quickly. In my case, eat half of quickly. Or maybe put it on some toast with some peanut butter and honey if you're feeling sort of spicy that day.

• 36:59Benito Skinner?

  I love that. I love putting it on a rice cake with, with cashew butter.

• 37:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, that's good shit.

• 37:03Benito Skinner?

  Not almond butter. I've moved on from almond butter. I'm cashew butter lately.

• 37:06Mary Beth Barone?

  I love sunflower butter.

• 37:07Benito Skinner?

  Sunflower butter is so good. I also love pecan butter.

• 37:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Ooh.

• 37:11Benito Skinner?

  It's like, you're not gonna find it, or maybe even pecan butter if you're fucking disgusting, but that is really fabulous. Nut butter episode incoming.

• 37:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Incoming. I look forward to when you get to go to Japan and have one of those coffees.

• 37:24Benito Skinner?

  And I'm gonna have to film it, because you have to film everything now, right?

• 37:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, okay. Thank you for saying that, because I think for me, it's sort of like, it's sort of parallel to the idea of having wet nails. It's just like, some things are just for in person in that moment. Obviously, that's me coming from like filming a Netflix special that is a live performance that we're putting out there, but like, every live performance along the way was for the people in that room. I'm trying to leave my phone at home more. I'm trying to not take so many pictures that I'll never look at again, like, and I do wanna remember moments, of course. I have my digital camera. That feels a little more intentional than like taking the phone out, because it's just so easy. But even at the concert for Rosalia, it was like, I actually didn't really take that many pictures, because I was just like, I just wanna watch it.

• 38:08Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 38:08Mary Beth Barone?

  This is for me right now in person. This is a memory I will have if I'm actually mentally and spiritually in this room.

• 38:15Benito Skinner?

  It's the best show I've ever seen, I will say. And I saw Lorde at the All Things Go Festival, which was lovely. It's run by women. I didn't know that that full festival was, it was, it makes sense, because it was the most beautiful, lovely, inviting environment I've ever been in. Met a lot of Bernies that night. They were very cute. Lorde's set for these festivals is like the best thing I've ever experienced. I also love that she just leaked all the demos for Virgin. I've been ripping through forty-five tracks.

• 38:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Something about that.

• 38:39Benito Skinner?

  Oh, it's a dream. But I agree. I tried to do that on set where I'd be like, we could film something quickly and like kinda do the fun. Social thing, which obviously you have to promote the show and it is fun to do those with you guys.

• 38:49Mary Beth Barone?

  And we did get a lot of that.

• 38:51Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, but then I'm like, put it away. I just wanna, I had so many fun days on set when it was like you or Connie or like just Tom. I mean, Tom and I are in it a lot together. So it just like chatting was really nice. And I think it is this thing where like if I'm, if I'm posting a letter on my phone a lot, it means I'm like probably not feeling great. Like I'm just trying to search for something and I just feel like, oh, it's after kind of also making a show that's like quote unquote about my life. I do think it's nice to have things that feel like private and to not have to worry about like a photo or how you look or anything like that.

• 39:26Mary Beth Barone?

  I know. It's just so stressful. And I saw this article that I didn't read, but someone explained it to me about like how life has gotten way too frictionless, like ordering stuff and not having to go outside and like, you know, not having to interact with people. And I'm actually craving that more. Like, so instead of last night, for example, Donut Plant, it's open till 11:00 PM. I thought maybe they have some gluten free donuts left. I walked there at like 8:30. I smashed the window.

• 39:50Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, you took a bat to the window.

• 39:51Mary Beth Barone?

  I held up one of the employees by their neck.

• 39:54Benito Skinner?

  It's insane. My brain can picture all of this so vividly. You with Pinky in one arm, by the way. Beyonce hitting it with the bat.

• 40:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Um, so I went there and I, instead of getting it delivered, because I could have gotten it delivered, but I decided to walk and experience that outside in the heat. And I'm just more experiences as opposed to like trying to live for the internet. Because, because the internet's not real. It's not real.

• 40:17Benito Skinner?

  It's not.

• 40:17Mary Beth Barone?

  The people that come up to us and, and we meet out in the world, those are real. And they're the most beautiful women and gay men at Obsessed Fest. The meet and greet was, it made the whole trip feel so worth it to me.

• 40:30Benito Skinner?

  It was incredible. That was like, oh my God. Also Jade, I loved your letter, sweetie, if you're listening. It was beautiful and I think you'll be a great writer.

• 40:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Read it to me.

• 40:39Benito Skinner?

  Send me the, DM me your scripts.

• 40:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Read it to me.

• 40:42Benito Skinner?

  I was like, wait, you're talking about these scripts. I want them. Give me, give me the pages.

• 40:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Give me the sacred texts.

• 40:45Benito Skinner?

  But I, um, I totally agree. I love, I love, uh, waiting for, what's it?

• 40:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Having wet nails.

• 40:51Benito Skinner?

  I love having wet nails. I don't have it a lot. Well, the last time I probably had wet nails is when I tried to stop biting, but I loved the taste of the stop biting stuff. It was bitter and chic. It was herbal. So I'm like, oh, nice try.

• 41:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Not gonna work.

• 41:03Benito Skinner?

  Try again. Um, I eat ass. Try again.

• 41:08Mary Beth Barone?

  You do?

• 41:09Benito Skinner?

  What?

• 41:13Benito Skinner?

  Mutant and proud. But of course, I ride for it. I think it's amazing. I love watching my sisters coming home when they used to have nails done and like me driving them sometimes, sitting in the chair next to them. My mom is a gel girl, so they're dry when that bitch hits the frickin' Volvo.

• 41:29Mary Beth Barone?

  I might do gel for press. I haven't decided. They just look so tidy and they don't chip, so we'll see.

• 41:33Benito Skinner?

  I know they're not good for nails.

• 41:34Mary Beth Barone?

  They mess up my nails so bad.

• 41:36Benito Skinner?

  Because sometimes seeing someone get the gels off, their nails are a color of yellow that's, I wouldn't say that's the banana I'm buying in the store.

• 41:42Mary Beth Barone?

  No, honey. Well, I had to take mine off for overcompensating and it, the color was fine, but the texture.

• 41:47Benito Skinner?

  Also, after I just said that, I went, "Lava." Like, I just completely stopped saying a word in the middle. And you can do that.

• 41:53Mary Beth Barone?

  But I, you know, notice I didn't comment. That's another thing.

• 41:56Benito Skinner?

  Hey, you can quit.

• 41:57Mary Beth Barone?

  Let it go by. Um, we hope you enjoy this return, uh, to the clay ride, the podcast, season four.

• 42:04Benito Skinner?

  That is so true. That's what I've, it's so funny you said that. I literally was gonna ride for when Lord said, "Return to the clay." And also when she said, "Leave it all, leave it all on the field." Because those are two things I've been thinking about a lot. I'm back in New York City, baby. And boy, does it feel fucking, fucking fantastic. Je suis de la mode.

• 42:31Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my exit.

• 42:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Benny, babe, eyes on the road.

• 42:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Benny, go!

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