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0:00 Speaker 00 The following podcast is a Dear Media production. The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:19 Mary Beth Barone? Hey, can you come pick me up? Yeah, what's wrong? Nothing. Are you sure? Yeah, no, I just need a ride. Oh, my God. So what? I just want to have fun. Start your engine. Take care.
0:30 Benito Skinner? I'm Benito Skinner.
0:31 Mary Beth Barone? I'm Mary Beth Brown.
0:33 Benito Skinner? And this?
0:33 Mary Beth Barone? Is?
0:34 Benito Skinner? Ride.
0:38 Benito Skinner? Do you see me as a clown or do you see me as a sexual being? So that was in the Notes app.
0:43 Mary Beth Barone? I put that in there.
0:44 Benito Skinner? You put that in there. Well, how powerful.
0:46 Mary Beth Barone? I guess it's just like, sometimes you have to ask if someone is speaking to you and you're thinking like, well, do you see me as a clown or do you see me as a sexual being?
0:57 Benito Skinner? That's so powerful.
0:58 Mary Beth Barone? And I might just start asking people.
1:00 Benito Skinner? I would just ask them. Yeah. I know, and it can be really confusing as a comedian, I get that.
1:05 Mary Beth Barone? It's hard.
1:06 Benito Skinner? You're thinking, am I making you laugh or am I making you laugh?
1:08 Mary Beth Barone? Or am I making you hard?
1:10 Benito Skinner? Yeah. Are you hard?
1:11 Mary Beth Barone? I love it here.
1:12 Benito Skinner? And yes, we're back.
1:13 Mary Beth Barone? I love it here.
1:14 Benito Skinner? I love it here. We're back in the library, the British Library.
1:18 Mary Beth Barone? The Great British Library. I feel bad because I feel like my phone is putting like a barrier between me and the listeners. Like when I have it out, like it feels like I'm texting, but.
1:26 Benito Skinner? And they keep saying that.
1:26 Mary Beth Barone? But I'm not. I'm really not. I'm actually just keeping us on track, keeping us honest.
1:31 Benito Skinner? I'm cold, so you must be.
1:33 Mary Beth Barone? I'm freezing.
1:33 Benito Skinner? We're losing you.
1:34 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, no, my pulse.
1:35 Benito Skinner? I thought there wasn't Christmas in Narnia. This is very Narnia in here, I will say.
1:40 Mary Beth Barone? I wanted to call out a moment earlier today, which was when we were at the acne store in London and Running Up That Hill was playing, and I just thought, could life get any better than this?
1:48 Benito Skinner? No, maybe a little.
1:50 Mary Beth Barone? Then I asked the guy who works at acne, do you see me as a clown or do you see me as a sexual being?
1:54 Benito Skinner? And he went, asexua.
1:55 Mary Beth Barone? He said, asexua. Well, immediately when we got there, he was like, so this used to be an art gallery, it's three floors. Like, can I show you the store?
2:03 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
2:04 Mary Beth Barone? And all I could think was, do you want the house tour?
2:08 Benito Skinner? I could take you to the first, second, third floor. He so wanted to show us something.
2:13 Mary Beth Barone? He wanted to give us the house tour. And there was a big pink couch in there.
2:16 Benito Skinner? Well, you said to me, you go, do you want the house tour, us at the acne store? And I was like. My girl has been.
2:23 Mary Beth Barone? And then I said my.
2:24 Benito Skinner? Rotted to the core.
2:25 Mary Beth Barone? My house is on Pretty Girl Avenue.
2:27 Benito Skinner? I love that whole song, can I just say?
2:29 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, it's very you.
2:30 Benito Skinner? I would have loved to do a Deliverance Richards video to that. I'm just too tired.
2:34 Mary Beth Barone? There's, you still can.
2:35 Benito Skinner? I'm just too tired. I can't stress enough.
2:38 Mary Beth Barone? When you're in the Deliverance Richards costume, do you see me as a clown?
2:41 Benito Skinner? Or a sexual being? I will say that really permeated my youth.
2:48 Mary Beth Barone? The question?
2:49 Benito Skinner? The question, cuz I would just be like, well, you wanna be around me all the time?
2:53 Mary Beth Barone? Right. But it's just confusing.
2:56 Benito Skinner? You just want my like charisma. You don't even care.
2:59 Mary Beth Barone? Charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent.
3:01 Benito Skinner? You don't wanna get in this bed.
3:02 Mary Beth Barone? No, well, but I, I feel like they probably did.
3:04 Benito Skinner? Are you gonna stay the night? Doesn't mean we're bound for life. Ah, ah, oh, oh. Are you gonna stay the night?
3:18 Mary Beth Barone? So that's in my definitely list of top songs ever made, best songs ever made.
3:22 Benito Skinner? Agreed. It's a top, yeah. I've been trying to find like the ultimate five and it's nearly impossible. But no matter what, you're gonna find Maren Morris.
3:30 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, and Dion by the Japanese House.
3:32 Benito Skinner? Baby, why don't you just meet me in the middle? Dion was fucking, is that with Bon Iver, Justin?
3:40 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
3:41 Benito Skinner? Oh, God. That's like, what a fabulous song. Everything Japanese House makes. At some point, I should just write for her.
3:47 Mary Beth Barone? I know, we will. That's gonna be a carpool though.
3:50 Benito Skinner? It's gonna be a carpool and it's, maybe we just send it to them. Although I think people would love to listen.
3:54 Mary Beth Barone? Private episode.
3:55 Benito Skinner? Yeah, we should start doing those. Patreon.
3:57 Mary Beth Barone? I'm seeing her live soon and I can't fucking wait.
4:00 Benito Skinner? Who are you seeing her with?
4:01 Mary Beth Barone? My bestie.
4:02 Benito Skinner? With me, love.
4:03 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, my love.
4:03 Benito Skinner? The Lord, Ultrasounds.
4:05 Mary Beth Barone? Woo.
4:06 Benito Skinner? Oh, my God. I don't know if I can take some of those songs live.
4:09 Mary Beth Barone? I'm gonna sob. If you see me crying at the Lord show, no, you didn't. No, you didn't.
4:13 Benito Skinner? No, you didn't. No, no, you didn't. No, you didn't. There is this mashup that exists of Lord liability and the end for party for you. And again, it's just one of those.
4:23 Mary Beth Barone? Dangerous legislation.
4:24 Benito Skinner? The most dangerous of legi- Can I talk about dangerous legislation? There's a few songs lately where I go, dangerous, like Nobody's Son.
4:33 Mary Beth Barone? This is what happened. I was listening to Never Really Over by Katy Perry and I thought to myself. And I text you almost everything, I think.
4:40 Benito Skinner? Of course, and I'm happy and I love it.
4:41 Mary Beth Barone? I said, never really over is a dangerous piece of legislation. So now I think we should, we should deem songs, whether or not they are dangerous legislation.
4:50 Benito Skinner? It seems like we're kind of living in a society.
4:52 Mary Beth Barone? Deon is a dangerous piece of legislation.
4:55 Benito Skinner? Chewing cotton wool. I'm going to be honest, some of the overcompensating soundtrack, a dangerous piece of legislation.
5:02 Mary Beth Barone? So yes, liability and party for you. I saw that and I immediately thought, well.
5:06 Benito Skinner? It's really one of those things.
5:08 Mary Beth Barone? Wrong hands.
5:08 Benito Skinner? Well, it's, oh my God, it's that TikTok that I brought up wakes ago, where that girl was like, I'm so lucky to feel music like this. I'm starting to think I feel it too much. I, I'm overwhelmed. I'm like, am I going to feel so many emotions that I just eventually like I'm numb?
5:23 Mary Beth Barone? You implode?
5:24 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
5:24 Mary Beth Barone? You won't go numb for sure. But when I used to come here, when I was in love with a British man, I used to come here for like a month or two. And then when I would go back to America, I couldn't listen to music. I couldn't, it would make me too sad.
5:35 Benito Skinner? This is me talking to people about you at a brunch you're not at. I mean, she like, she won't even listen to music.
5:40 Mary Beth Barone? She couldn't even listen to music.
5:41 Benito Skinner? The girl couldn't even listen to music. The car, it was silent.
5:43 Mary Beth Barone? No, it was silent. I couldn't, I would cry, I would start crying. Cause I missed him so much.
5:49 Benito Skinner? I will say, when we were shooting first season, I found some of those old playlists and some of those feelings and stuff. And just like, oh my God, and how much.
5:57 Mary Beth Barone? I know it's a lot.
5:58 Benito Skinner? And that was, oh, I would listen to them before some of the scenes. And even putting them in later, I was just like, oh my God.
6:04 Mary Beth Barone? It's emotional.
6:05 Benito Skinner? I love music, ugh. Music is power.
6:09 Mary Beth Barone? I knew you were going to say that.
6:11 Benito Skinner? No, oh my God, somebody else, 1975, a dangerous.
6:16 Mary Beth Barone? Dangerous piece of legislation.
6:18 Benito Skinner? Are you for you is dangerous? I will say official is probably one of her most dangerous. I'm not even going to bring it up.
6:23 Mary Beth Barone? If not the most dangerous, don't talk about that right now.
6:25 Benito Skinner? I remember our first day, no chocolate in the bouquet, but the way that you smay.
6:31 Mary Beth Barone? These are the things that can make us official.
6:34 Benito Skinner? That, oh my, I can't even think about it. I literally will like, I will get there. I will well.
6:39 Mary Beth Barone? I added to my lore recently.
6:41 Benito Skinner? What?
6:41 Mary Beth Barone? And can I just say, the memoir keeps getting longer. And you know exactly what I'm talking about.
6:48 Benito Skinner? The book.
6:49 Mary Beth Barone? Speaking of dangerous legislation.
6:51 Benito Skinner? Miranda has trusted you with the book.
6:54 Mary Beth Barone? The book.
6:55 Benito Skinner? That's me.
6:55 Mary Beth Barone? The book. I had to put it on the table with the flowers.
6:58 Benito Skinner? I don't know if I'll ever write a book.
6:59 Mary Beth Barone? I'm for sure gonna write a book. I'm just figuring out if the first one will be a novel, if it'll be more true to myself.
7:05 Benito Skinner? Graphic novel.
7:05 Mary Beth Barone? If it'll be a graphic novel, a thinly veiled memoir that is like a novel. So it's the novelization of my life.
7:12 Benito Skinner? Sorry, just yawned. It's cozy and we're recording at five, which is the middle of the night for us.
7:15 Mary Beth Barone? We never do this. This is nighttime. This is right after dark.
7:17 Benito Skinner? This is so right after dark. Well, we're gonna go outside and it's gonna be gray.
7:21 Mary Beth Barone? Gray. So I wanna tell you about when I bit into a full peppercorn at Just Salad.
7:27 Benito Skinner? I was so hoping you would.
7:28 Mary Beth Barone? This has been in the dock for a while.
7:29 Benito Skinner? I know, and I just, I saw it, and actually, it's one of those ones that's in there, and I thought, did I do that?
7:34 Mary Beth Barone? No, it was me.
7:35 Benito Skinner? It's you.
7:36 Mary Beth Barone? Also, what are you writing for?
7:37 Benito Skinner? You're gonna die. Do you want me to say it right now?
7:39 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, say it.
7:40 Benito Skinner? I'm writing for when my mom made me get a mammogram.
7:42 Mary Beth Barone? Well, it's just Benny's mammogram.
7:44 Benito Skinner? Benny's mammogram.
7:45 Mary Beth Barone? Is what we're calling it.
7:46 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
7:46 Mary Beth Barone? The Benny's mammogram episode.
7:47 Benito Skinner? I just think, yeah, I have a lot to say.
7:49 Mary Beth Barone? I don't have one. Isn't that crazy?
7:51 Benito Skinner? You don't have to, do they?
7:52 Mary Beth Barone? No, I do, though. I do. I guess himbos, maybe. I've been writing for too much street guy stuff lately.
7:58 Benito Skinner? I agree. Keep all this. They're gonna see how the sauce is made.
8:02 Mary Beth Barone? We're not keeping this. Maybe. I'm not sure. Well, you won't let me ride for couples therapy on Showtime, so.
8:08 Benito Skinner? Ride for couples therapy. It's a lot.
8:11 Mary Beth Barone? All right.
8:11 Benito Skinner? It's a lot to watch.
8:13 Mary Beth Barone? Actually, no. I'm gonna ride for thirst traps.
8:17 Benito Skinner? Incredible.
8:18 Mary Beth Barone? So.
8:18 Benito Skinner? What a perfect thing.
8:20 Mary Beth Barone? Okay, when I had an email job, this was back in, in the 2010s.
8:25 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
8:25 Mary Beth Barone? And obviously, you had, you had Chopped, you had Sweet Green, and you had Just Salad. And so I'm choosing Sweet Green every time. Fuck, marry, kill, marrying Sweet Green, I'll have sex with Chopped. And unfortunately, in that time, and things maybe have gotten better, I would kill Just Salad.
8:39 Benito Skinner? Dear media, you have to pay her for that. Like, it's like, of course, clip that, but it's just like, how could you even? Again, I'll say it, like, it's like she does it on purpose. Like, girl, it has to hit your bank account before they post that.
8:53 Mary Beth Barone? So sometimes the line would be so long, because everyone's getting lunch at the same time, that you're forced to, like, go to a salad place that you wouldn't normally go to.
9:00 Benito Skinner? I was so there. It was crazy. I would go, like, I would get bowls anywhere.
9:04 Mary Beth Barone? This is in Soho, mind you.
9:05 Benito Skinner? Sorry, I hate to say this, and like, I don't wanna like ruin anyone's livelihood, but like. Dig or whatever.
9:11 Mary Beth Barone? I like dig.
9:12 Benito Skinner? Be a no for me.
9:13 Mary Beth Barone? So I like dig.
9:14 Benito Skinner? Really?
9:14 Mary Beth Barone? You don't like fresh ingredients.
9:17 Benito Skinner? Oh, I almost forgot. I hate women and I hate fresh ingredients. No, I'm glazed. I'm a glazed chariotee girl.
9:22 Mary Beth Barone? I like glaze too, but I love dig. Dig has a lot of really good options for a girl like me.
9:26 Benito Skinner? Okay.
9:26 Mary Beth Barone? So maybe you don't care about that, but I do.
9:28 Benito Skinner? I just remember, I will say, you know, what would have been like seven years, eight years ago, it wasn't what I wanted, but maybe it's changed.
9:35 Mary Beth Barone? Maybe, maybe it's changed.
9:36 Benito Skinner? Originally it was dig in, so maybe dig.
9:38 Mary Beth Barone? Drop the in is cleaner.
9:40 Benito Skinner? Is it? Drop the in, it's disgusting.
9:42 Mary Beth Barone? It's dig. So I went to.
9:45 Benito Skinner? I just thought of something.
9:47 Mary Beth Barone? I'm just, what is it?
9:48 Benito Skinner? So sorry. I can't believe somebody just told me this. And I can't believe I haven't said it to you yet.
9:54 Mary Beth Barone? What?
9:55 Benito Skinner? Well, it was funny because Alyssa and Amber, we were just talking about, they told me at Charlie's wedding that some guy had said, I don't even know who said it, but he was talking about a girl just taking off her bikini and he just said, dump them. And I literally.
10:09 Mary Beth Barone? What does that mean?
10:11 Benito Skinner? Like, just like dump them, like dump those titties out.
10:13 Mary Beth Barone? Disgusting.
10:14 Benito Skinner? I, I could, I almost wet my pants. I was like, that's the most, every time I think they reach it, porked, like I just.
10:22 Mary Beth Barone? Dump them?
10:23 Benito Skinner? Jugs, dump them.
10:25 Mary Beth Barone? I got to tell a straight guy who's disgusting recently and that was really cool.
10:28 Benito Skinner? Oh, that's so good.
10:29 Mary Beth Barone? We'll probably cut that.
10:30 Benito Skinner? Why would we cut that?
10:30 Mary Beth Barone? Dump them. Dump them.
10:32 Benito Skinner? Dump them. Cause it's like, oh, should I take my top off? It's like, yeah, dump them.
10:36 Mary Beth Barone? Dump them. Yeah.
10:38 Benito Skinner? Come on, girl.
10:38 Mary Beth Barone? The poor girl.
10:39 Benito Skinner? It's like, they're easier ways.
10:41 Mary Beth Barone? Eyes on her.
10:42 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
10:42 Mary Beth Barone? So I went to my third choice of salad. This was back when I was working in the Puck building, by the way. This was like such a cool time for me.
10:50 Benito Skinner? I keep yawning, sorry.
10:52 Mary Beth Barone? It's okay. I don't take it as a reflection of my work.
10:54 Benito Skinner? No, active listening can mean just yawning.
10:56 Mary Beth Barone? We are jet lagged as fuck as well.
10:58 Benito Skinner? Oh, I even, I totally forgot about jet lag.
11:00 Mary Beth Barone? From the States.
11:01 Benito Skinner? Oh my God. I'm losing outside.
11:04 Mary Beth Barone? I'm losing inside.
11:08 Mary Beth Barone? So I'm at my third choice for salad and I'm doing the line. I'm not as familiar with the premium add-ons. I'm not as familiar with the bases.
11:15 Benito Skinner? Great.
11:15 Mary Beth Barone? It's really, I'm out of my depth here. Okay. So they asked me, would you like salt and pepper? And that's not something they offer, like that they would suggest at Sweetgreen.
11:25 Benito Skinner? I've never seen salt and pepper at Sweetgreen.
11:27 Mary Beth Barone? I think you could ask for it, but it's certainly not offered every time. They were offering it to me like it was the bread.
11:31 Benito Skinner? You'd certainly hold up the line.
11:32 Mary Beth Barone? Certainly.
11:33 Benito Skinner? They were like, do you want it Mike's way?
11:35 Mary Beth Barone? So I say yes. Like an idiot.
11:38 Benito Skinner? Like a total fool.
11:39 Mary Beth Barone? Like a fool.
11:40 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
11:41 Mary Beth Barone? So I get back, I did eat there for some reason, too. I'm really, really painting a picture for you guys.
11:47 Benito Skinner? God, this story is electric. I'm not even kidding.
11:50 Mary Beth Barone? So I'm eating my salad and I, I take two bites, that third bite, full peppercorn. So you feel it, you taste it, you hear it. The taste in my mouth was so overpowering. I don't think I'd ever eaten a full peppercorn before.
12:06 Benito Skinner? Sensory.
12:06 Mary Beth Barone? I wouldn't recommend it.
12:08 Benito Skinner? Yeah, well, they're in that, they're, you know, getting ground for a reason.
12:11 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, and so this was a full one. It was untouched. And I, I had to stop eating completely.
12:16 Benito Skinner? Of course.
12:17 Mary Beth Barone? I have not eaten pepper since.
12:19 Benito Skinner? Oh, really?
12:20 Mary Beth Barone? Like, if, if my food's been peppered, it's not been by my own volition, it's been done to me. I actually have an aversion to pepper now. I may have gone home for the day. It was one of those things, like having dry skin at school, where I was just like, why can't, my day's not gonna recover from this.
12:32 Benito Skinner? I told, oh my God, I told a friend recently, I was just like, they were like, oh, you didn't come to dinner? And I was just like, yeah, I had dermatitis. And she was just like, get it?
12:39 Mary Beth Barone? Fair.
12:40 Benito Skinner? It's so fair.
12:40 Mary Beth Barone? It's just fair.
12:41 Benito Skinner? I was just like, yeah, I just like, couldn't be, I'm sorry.
12:43 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, I also once left a wedding because I had a cigarette, which is so not something I would do. But I don't know what type of cigarette it was. It was the one that makes your breath like really bad, and I had to go home.
12:53 Benito Skinner? Aren't they all cigarettes that?
12:54 Mary Beth Barone? But it was like, you know how they're like, oh, that's menthol, or that's the other thing, or the other third secret thing?
12:58 Benito Skinner? Menthol's illegal, right?
13:00 Mary Beth Barone? I don't know.
13:00 Benito Skinner? Maybe not here.
13:01 Mary Beth Barone? Maybe not.
13:02 Benito Skinner? I used to love the Camel Crushes when I was in college.
13:04 Mary Beth Barone? I mean, you know, we all smoked a time or two.
13:06 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I used to say I loved them. Like, if someone had them, I'd like puff twice and then pop the ball, puff twice and then be like, I think I'm good. Like, I feel like we did it.
13:13 Mary Beth Barone? I don't smoke anymore ever.
13:15 Benito Skinner? And no one saw me as sexual, they saw me as a clown.
13:16 Mary Beth Barone? As a clown. I don't go near cigarettes anymore because it's bad for like cervical cancer or something. I mean, and lung cancer, but apparently it's like, if you've ever had HPV and you smoke cigarettes, it like increases your chances.
13:27 Benito Skinner? HPV was really, I learned a lot about it. There was a time when it was like, it's funny, I felt like I learned about like, don't do meth and HPV and all these things like really young, or don't smoke cigarettes.
13:39 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
13:39 Benito Skinner? Up until like fourth grade, and then all of a sudden, these things, you know, kind of.
13:44 Mary Beth Barone? Present themselves.
13:44 Benito Skinner? Yeah, they were, they were everywhere.
13:46 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
13:46 Benito Skinner? It was a haunted house of sorts.
13:47 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
13:48 Benito Skinner? And no more educational.
13:49 Mary Beth Barone? No more. And honestly, not even mentioning it.
13:51 Benito Skinner? Scare the shit out of a first grader, but then when you're actually being presented with it, it's like.
13:54 Mary Beth Barone? I wasn't getting offered SIGs in first grade. It would have, I would have said no, obviously, but.
13:58 Benito Skinner? I guess we grew up in different places.
14:00 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, I was in Boise.
14:01 Benito Skinner? No, I wasn't either, but yeah, but then, you know, when I was in high school, people were like.
14:04 Mary Beth Barone? What they don't tell you in fourth grade is that you don't want to bite into a full peppercorn. Also, something I didn't learn until recently is, well, maybe a couple of years ago.
14:12 Benito Skinner? All these books, nothing.
14:13 Mary Beth Barone? All these books, nothing in it about that. You can't have honey until you're two or older because you don't have an enzyme that like processes it and you can die. If a baby accidentally eats honey, they can die. I'm like, that should be on every street corner. Like, we should all know that, like, in our bones.
14:28 Benito Skinner? Wait, what? I would so be like, give that baby a little honey.
14:30 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
14:31 Benito Skinner? It's crying.
14:31 Mary Beth Barone? Right, like.
14:33 Benito Skinner? Give it a honeycomb.
14:34 Mary Beth Barone? Exactly.
14:34 Benito Skinner? Wait, that's insane.
14:35 Mary Beth Barone? So that's just some good practical knowledge for our listeners.
14:38 Benito Skinner? Thank you.
14:38 Mary Beth Barone? And I want to shout out the guy who made a TikTok saying that his biggest takeaway from Ride the Pod was to buy T-shirts one size down. I'm just glad that we're out here, just like, it's called impact and it's like, think locally, act globally. And by that matter, think globally and act locally.
14:53 Benito Skinner? And shop locally and.
14:55 Mary Beth Barone? And shop globally.
14:56 Benito Skinner? And go globally, travel privilege.
14:58 Mary Beth Barone? Travel privilege.
14:59 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I've been thinking about it a lot too. I just bought a polo and I had a size on and I thought, fuck it, let's see what the next size down and the woman working there.
15:06 Mary Beth Barone? And what, and which one did you buy?
15:07 Benito Skinner? I bought the smaller one, kid. You're always with me, always. Turf Hogwarts, sorry.
15:14 Mary Beth Barone? I didn't even know the reference, so.
15:16 Benito Skinner? It's like a thing. What does everyone do right now with a Harry Potter tattoo who's like, you know, who doesn't want one? You just have to get it removed or you just vibe out. You're like, it's the Deathly Hallows. It is what it is.
15:26 Mary Beth Barone? I guess it's like, yeah, it's like we live and learn and all that stuff.
15:30 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I think tattoos do like serve that. People have such hot takes on them. I'm like, if you want them, I think they're.
15:35 Mary Beth Barone? Tattoos.
15:36 Benito Skinner? They're great and I think they, they can be so beautiful.
15:38 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, sometimes they're not too, but.
15:40 Benito Skinner? No, of course. The ones that bleed, I do feel sad for the person. I'm like, that one just feels like it's, it didn't want to be there.
15:46 Mary Beth Barone? No, your skin was saying, please stop.
15:48 Benito Skinner? It's very Mariah Carey, Migrate, which I was so happy. Actually, wait, this didn't happen. You went on a date and I got to show the song Migrate to our friend Jake Samas and Emily after the US Open.
16:00 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
16:00 Benito Skinner? They hadn't heard this song that's on E equals MC squared, which I still think is the best album title of all time. Mariah Carey.
16:07 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, oh.
16:08 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
16:09 Mary Beth Barone? Didn't he do one that was similar? We're gonna cut that.
16:11 Benito Skinner? I don't think we should cut that because there might be. And I'm happy to, hey, happy to shout him out. Get some hits. And now we're flying on a G5, G5, isn't that him? I'm a leaving.
16:22 Mary Beth Barone? Never.
16:23 Benito Skinner? Never come back again. Uh, it's tomorrow.
16:26 Mary Beth Barone? Until November.
16:27 Benito Skinner? Until November. We'll be right back, London.
16:30 Mary Beth Barone? You showed that song to them when I wasn't there.
16:32 Benito Skinner? Mariah Carey has a song with T-Pain called "Migrate."
16:34 Mary Beth Barone? I love T-Pain.
16:36 Benito Skinner? He's the best.
16:39 Benito Skinner? Fuck, me too. That's why we have a podcast and you fuckers don't. Mariah Carey, the song starts, she goes,
16:47 Benito Skinner? like she hits all those insane notes. But the, the song is, "From the car into the club, we migrate. From the party to the after-party, migrate." It's like, it's a total hit. It's so good.
16:59 Mary Beth Barone? My hot take is that I didn't think Glitter was that bad.
17:03 Benito Skinner? I think that all gay guys have that take.
17:05 Mary Beth Barone? Really? I've never ever talked to anyone about it.
17:07 Benito Skinner? It's like the Showgirls world where I'm like, this is a fabulous piece of cam.
17:10 Mary Beth Barone? Like, it wasn't that bad. I just think, cause it's like a woman, people like wanted to pile on.
17:15 Benito Skinner? I mean, we've talked about this.
17:16 Mary Beth Barone? In fact, I enjoyed it. I don't even wanna, no, fuck that.
17:20 Benito Skinner? It's great.
17:20 Mary Beth Barone? Screw the narrative.
17:21 Benito Skinner? Fuck it.
17:22 Mary Beth Barone? Fuck it.
17:22 Benito Skinner? Turn the fucking cameras off. No, I'm serious. Turn the fucking cameras off. People do that with Crossroads too. And it's so funny because.
17:30 Mary Beth Barone? Crossroads is legitimately good.
17:31 Benito Skinner? All the movies we like are like 20%.
17:33 Mary Beth Barone? I take it back.
17:34 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
17:34 Mary Beth Barone? It's not that I didn't think it was that bad. I enjoyed the film.
17:37 Benito Skinner? Yeah. Lizzie McGuire movie has a like 43% on Rotten Tomatoes. And I'm just like, that is a fabulous, fabulous iconic piece.
17:45 Mary Beth Barone? I'm sorry, if you're the critic at the Wall Street Journal, like, yeah, you probably didn't fuck with it.
17:49 Benito Skinner? Yeah, it's not for you.
17:50 Mary Beth Barone? It's not for you. It's so, how about you stop being so pretentious? I'm sure Spice World got terrible reviews, which is a very poignant commentary on female celebrity. I'm sure It Takes Two got totally fucking.
18:02 Benito Skinner? Paned.
18:02 Mary Beth Barone? Paned because it's The Parent Trap without the science.
18:05 Benito Skinner? It debuted at Cannes and got booed.
18:06 Mary Beth Barone? Got booed. No, no standing O.
18:08 Benito Skinner? 35 minutes standing O.
18:10 Mary Beth Barone? It's everything. Okay, so I was in a documentary that I don't know if it's ever gonna come out. But it's about Soul Cycle.
18:15 Benito Skinner? Oh, yeah.
18:16 Mary Beth Barone? I was just thinking before I went in there, but like, anything that women and gay guys really love, it just gets mocked by society. So think about it, pop music. Fashion.
18:25 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
18:25 Mary Beth Barone? Things like SoulCycle.
18:27 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
18:27 Mary Beth Barone? And movies like Glitter Crossroads, Honey, like girly things. It's like society just doesn't take any of it seriously. To the point where it's like even women will hate on it because I guess we feel like we have to to like, you know, receive love or whatever.
18:39 Benito Skinner? I just watched you do it. It was really toxic and disgusting.
18:41 Mary Beth Barone? But do you see how I actually pivoted in the moment?
18:43 Benito Skinner? Of course, that's growth.
18:44 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. And now turn the fucking cameras off.
18:46 Benito Skinner? Now you're learned and turn the fucking cameras off right now because I'm not doing this. Yeah. So today I'll be riding for, as we said, Benny's mammogram, me getting a mammogram.
18:55 Mary Beth Barone? And I will be riding for thirst traps.
18:59 Benito Skinner? Washing machine on. Pinky seated.
19:03 Mary Beth Barone? Pinky sat.
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19:08 Mary Beth Barone? Here we go.
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19:11 Mary Beth Barone? You've probably seen a million ads for hair growth products and thought, sure, that actually works. I did too.
19:19 Benito Skinner? Yeah. Oh, did you? Oh, yeah.
19:22 Mary Beth Barone? Until I found out.
19:24 Benito Skinner? I can't even imagine the tin can it sounds like we're in for these ads. Let it rip.
19:29 Mary Beth Barone? So I've all seen my cans.
19:30 Benito Skinner? Well, I want you too, my love.
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19:49 Mary Beth Barone? Sebastian Stan. And that has to be the population of somewhere.
19:55 Benito Skinner? Exactly. It's 1.1 million and it's Sebastian Stan. By the way.
20:01 Mary Beth Barone? Don't.
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20:45 Mary Beth Barone? So I guess this is the part of the week where I have to talk about my cuck chair.
20:49 Benito Skinner? I'm literally looking at it right now.
20:51 Mary Beth Barone? You're looking at my cuck chair. You could even be sad in it.
20:53 Benito Skinner? Well, here's the thing. I'm thinking about who will be the next person in that chair. Do you understand?
20:57 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
20:58 Benito Skinner? Who's the lucky winner?
20:59 Mary Beth Barone? I don't know yet. We're still, we're still waiting to find out. So here's the thing. My cuck chair is from Article. We all know this.
21:04 Benito Skinner? Yeah, of course.
21:05 Mary Beth Barone? And so it's just cool to be able to talk about how Article offers a curated range of mid-century modern coastal and Scandi-inspired pieces that not only shine on their own, but also pair seamless me, seamless me with nearly any other-
21:19 Benito Skinner? Yeah, seamless me.
21:19 Mary Beth Barone? Article product or anything I've taken from my parents' house, such as a couch, desk, and many other things.
21:25 Benito Skinner? Well, can I say, so this thoughtful design approach makes it incredibly easy to mix and match, helping you create a space that feels both cohesive and stylish and sexual at best.
21:34 Mary Beth Barone? And Article takes great care in curating its collection, focusing solely on high-quality design, meaningful pieces, craftsmanship, and lasting value.
21:42 Benito Skinner? You got it, girl. There's no filler. Every item is chosen for its craftsmanship, design, and lasting value. So here's the thing. You can immediately tell the difference in quality when you receive an Article piece.
21:52 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
21:53 Benito Skinner? The meticulous packaging, the weight and feel of the product.
21:56 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, my God.
21:57 Benito Skinner? The fact that it comes mostly assembled, length of time you've owned the product. You've had this for a while and it literally-
22:04 Mary Beth Barone? Article offers-
22:05 Benito Skinner? It looks like it's barely-
22:06 Mary Beth Barone? Brandon, ow!
22:08 Benito Skinner? Whoa, Pinky just bit her. I have to call 911.
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22:27 Benito Skinner? Who cares? Ride!
22:29 Mary Beth Barone? I guess I could go first.
22:30 Benito Skinner? I'm taking those steps in the mirror in my room. Audrey, you are on notice, Ms. Hobert.
22:36 Mary Beth Barone? Audrey, you have our attention.
22:37 Benito Skinner? Ms. Hobert, I am diving into this album. You know I won't be able to talk about it for two more seasons, but we are watching, we are listening, and we are excited, Miss Girl.
22:46 Mary Beth Barone? We're streaming.
22:46 Benito Skinner? Hey, you've got it.
22:48 Mary Beth Barone? You've got it. X Factor.
22:50 Benito Skinner? You've got that X Factor. You've got that X Factor.
22:53 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
22:53 Benito Skinner? And the London look, and I'm really, I love her lyrics. I love her whole, her whole vibe. I think is just quirky and delicious. And her song Thirst Traps, I played it for you yesterday for the first time and you were just, you loved it.
23:06 Mary Beth Barone? I loved it.
23:07 Benito Skinner? Like, you just fucking loved it.
23:08 Mary Beth Barone? I said, hey, can we play that again? Cause my listening style for songs is like 100 times a day.
23:13 Benito Skinner? Vodka Cranberry.
23:14 Mary Beth Barone? If I fuck with a song 100 times a day.
23:15 Benito Skinner? It was so crazy.
23:16 Mary Beth Barone? I'm hitting back. I'm restarting it.
23:17 Benito Skinner? It was crazy. Conan Gray, this song, Vodka Cranberry. I listened once. I was at the airport recently.
23:22 Mary Beth Barone? Boy singer. Shout out to a boy singer.
23:24 Benito Skinner? One of the few that we listened to. I listened 100 times. I, it was just the second it was done, I said, I'm back. And I've been listening to the song Silver Moon by Lorde. That's not out. It's on YouTube. And I just listened to her perform it live and I'm just ripping through airports, listening to that.
23:38 Mary Beth Barone? You really, you showed me that.
23:39 Benito Skinner? Every night, the silver moon, it changes. Can you say the same? Do you stay the same?
23:47 Mary Beth Barone? So, to talk about thirst traps quickly. And I'm not gonna say that much, cause I don't even, it's like a very.
23:52 Benito Skinner? Is this directed at me?
23:54 Mary Beth Barone? Huh?
23:55 Benito Skinner? Dude. Like, is this directed at me?
23:59 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
23:59 Benito Skinner? Like, is this a subtweet?
24:01 Mary Beth Barone? Um, yeah, I'm subtweeting you on the pod.
24:02 Benito Skinner? I love, I love the concept of subtweeting through.
24:04 Mary Beth Barone? And in fact, like, that could be a ride.
24:07 Benito Skinner? I think so, but there's something about.
24:08 Mary Beth Barone? I'm gonna ride for Weaponizing Close Friends soon.
24:10 Benito Skinner? We've talked about this.
24:11 Mary Beth Barone? Before the year's end, before E O Y, end of year.
24:14 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
24:15 Mary Beth Barone? I'm gonna ride for Weaponizing Close Friends. But right now, what I wanna talk about is the practice and the art, the skill of thirst traps. So, the internet has brought us like so much bad stuff, right? But I would say that we have to count our blessings.
24:29 Benito Skinner? We have to.
24:29 Mary Beth Barone? Because the internet has brought us good as well. Life is all about balance. So, I would say thirst traps to me are part of the good. And obviously, there's thirst traps you see where you think, that's not really for me, right?
24:42 Benito Skinner? Of course.
24:43 Mary Beth Barone? They're not, not everything's supposed to be for you.
24:44 Benito Skinner? And it's not supposed to be.
24:45 Mary Beth Barone? Much like movies like, you know, Crossroads and Glitter.
24:47 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
24:47 Mary Beth Barone? I'm just making sure we're still recording.
24:49 Benito Skinner? We are. I, I'm looking the whole time.
24:50 Mary Beth Barone? And you're clocking that. So.
24:51 Benito Skinner? You clock, you understand, you're, it's, it's clocking you that I'm standing on business.
24:55 Mary Beth Barone? It's clocking to me.
24:56 Benito Skinner? Do you know I understand completely what he meant?
24:58 Mary Beth Barone? Of course. No, of course. So, I just wanna say on Wikipedia, thirst trap is defined. If I was gonna teach a class, thirst traps 101, this is how I'm starting it.
25:06 Benito Skinner? Be sure.
25:06 Mary Beth Barone? A thirst trap. Ready?
25:10 Benito Skinner? Let's see.
25:10 Mary Beth Barone? Ow. Okay. Are you ready?
25:13 Benito Skinner? Yes. Yes, Miss McCarson.
25:16 Mary Beth Barone? A thirst trap is a type of social media post intended to entice viewers sexually. It refers to a viewer's thirst, a colloquialism, a colloquialism, we're keeping that.
25:26 Benito Skinner? My favorite word.
25:27 Mary Beth Barone? Likening sexual frustration to dehydration, implying desperation, with the afflicted individual being described as thirsty.
25:35 Benito Skinner? Yeah. You know what? I'm realizing I'm thirsty right now.
25:37 Mary Beth Barone? You're thirsty right now.
25:38 Benito Skinner? Should I button up or no?
25:39 Mary Beth Barone? No, you can't button it now. Continuity.
25:41 Benito Skinner? I didn't even think about that.
25:41 Mary Beth Barone? Continuity for when we reorder the podcast.
25:43 Benito Skinner? Oh, you're so right.
25:44 Mary Beth Barone? To the way that we want it. So.
25:46 Benito Skinner? Because we always, we do the end of the beginning and the middle at the top.
25:50 Mary Beth Barone? So there's nothing better.
25:53 Benito Skinner? Oh.
25:53 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, God. But like, Lord, give it.
25:57 Benito Skinner? And the Lord, take it. My love, he just made a fool of you.
26:04 Benito Skinner? Well, you really thought.
26:05 Mary Beth Barone? There's a plan in here.
26:06 Benito Skinner? You really thought that there wouldn't be a fern in this podcast studio? You thought you could get away?
26:11 Mary Beth Barone? I'm gonna pee in my bed.
26:12 Benito Skinner? You thought.
26:12 Mary Beth Barone? I'm gonna pee in my bed. Stop!
26:18 Benito Skinner? That there wouldn't be.
26:19 Mary Beth Barone? Don't get the electric guitar, please.
26:21 Benito Skinner? A guitar.
26:22 Mary Beth Barone? Please.
26:22 Benito Skinner? Do you get that?
26:23 Mary Beth Barone? No, stop.
26:24 Benito Skinner? What's not clogging to you, baby girl?
26:26 Mary Beth Barone? Put it down. That's so dangerous to have in here.
26:30 Mary Beth Barone? Penny just got the guitar, so my head just hit a fern. So, sit down right now and listen. Thirst trap 101 tells us.
26:38 Benito Skinner? What is it?
26:38 Mary Beth Barone? There's no greater feeling.
26:40 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
26:41 Mary Beth Barone? Than when the thirst trap you post attracts the attention you seek.
26:45 Benito Skinner? I have yet to feel a better thing than that.
26:48 Mary Beth Barone? When the thirst trap you post gets the attention you seek and receives that attention, when the person that you've posted that for and/or people.
26:55 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
26:55 Mary Beth Barone? There's no greater high that you can feel on the thirst.
26:59 Benito Skinner? I completely agree because you've put yourself out there, you've felt sexy in the moment and you're like, I, I need it. I want this attention. I want to feel sexy and young and desired. And when it is.
27:13 Benito Skinner? When someone gives you the standing O for that.
27:15 Mary Beth Barone? Bravo.
27:15 Benito Skinner? That, yeah, I agree. My favorite thing is to like respond to that. Like, I love how people respond to the thirst trap. It's like, oh, my God.
27:23 Mary Beth Barone? But hey, I'm not done because there's an other side to the coin.
27:26 Benito Skinner? Cool.
27:26 Mary Beth Barone? There is no worse feeling on planet Earth than when you post a thirst trap for someone and it's silent.
27:36 Benito Skinner? God giveth and he taketh away.
27:41 Mary Beth Barone? So posting thirst traps, it's vulnerable, it's experimental, it's.
27:46 Benito Skinner? Well, yeah, it's experimental.
27:47 Mary Beth Barone? It's always groundbreaking. I mean, anyone posting a thirst trap, like, I'll take a look, you know?
27:52 Benito Skinner? Well, I love seeing my friends do it. Like, I love yours. And I'm like, oh, yeah. It's always fun to think like, I know who that's for and I'm, I hope, I hope he loved it. And I, I always think like, I hope he responded to that.
28:02 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
28:02 Benito Skinner? And I see that in some, I've been added to a few close friends where I'm like, I don't know if I earned my spot here, but.
28:07 Mary Beth Barone? But you're having fun with it.
28:08 Benito Skinner? But, yeah, but I'm like, and like, congrats. Like, that's so.
28:11 Mary Beth Barone? That's a cool thing you're doing.
28:12 Benito Skinner? And I'm like, whoever you've done this for, I don't think, I don't think it's for me, but clown.
28:16 Mary Beth Barone? Could be.
28:17 Benito Skinner? Clown.
28:18 Mary Beth Barone? Clown, not sexual.
28:19 Benito Skinner? Non-sexual. But yeah, I was just like, oh, cool. Like, that's so fun. Good for you.
28:23 Mary Beth Barone? It's just a risk. And it's like, is, you always have to be asking yourself, like, is it, is the risk versus the reward? Like, is the potential payoff worth the potential for it to go completely unnoticed? And maybe there's somebody noticing it that you don't even know yet. But I would say it's just like, it's scary and, you know, it's, it's much like putting yourself out there in a way.
28:40 Benito Skinner? It's, I would say it's like exclusively putting yourself out there. And I was thinking a lot about this because I did Kristin Davis's podcast and we talked about, I'm your wife and I'm sexual.
28:48 Mary Beth Barone? I love you.
28:49 Benito Skinner? And she's so major.
28:49 Mary Beth Barone? Wow. I mean, if that in a thirst trap in a nutshell.
28:52 Benito Skinner? Well, doing it right in front of it, right in front of him, showing him the whole shebang and saying, guess what? Like, ride it, my pony. What's cooler than that? But I think there's something about it. I keep coming back to this thing, I think, within overcompensating of this, of feeling like sex and being sexy for someone is such an interesting concept to me because it's so frequently foolish because the thing that you think is sexy about yourself is so rarely the thing that's someone thinks is sexy about you. Like, I, my thing is like, I love like eyebrows and like teeth sometimes are like hot to me and like, you know what I mean? It's like things like that.
29:31 Mary Beth Barone? Well, I mean, the arm vein. I mean, come on.
29:32 Benito Skinner? Arm vein is explosive.
29:34 Mary Beth Barone? And the space between a bra strap and a, and a breast.
29:38 Benito Skinner? Like a little, the like dip of a butt. I love that. That's so cool.
29:43 Mary Beth Barone? Backs. I think backs are really.
29:45 Benito Skinner? Backs are cool. Sometimes it's like, yeah, also just like seeing someone's hands can be just like, that's so cool.
29:52 Mary Beth Barone? It's tantalizing.
29:53 Benito Skinner? It's tantalizing, but no, it's just interesting because like, I think that there's something where you are a little bit of a clown and you are kind of being, you're, you're making yourself a little bit of a fool in those things, but I think there's something really beautiful and vulnerable about it. But we grew up in media that's like, you know, you do a little striptease for them. You do like your full makeup. You do, you put on this outfit and it's like, none of that is when the person is like electrified. Unless it's you in the J W Anderson dress at.
30:21 Mary Beth Barone? At your birthday. At Sunset Tower.
30:23 Benito Skinner? At Sunset Tower with a.
30:25 Mary Beth Barone? With a parasite.
30:25 Benito Skinner? And a parasite.
30:27 Mary Beth Barone? I had a lot going on that day and it was my bestie's birthday.
30:31 Benito Skinner? But you had no idea how sexy you looked.
30:33 Mary Beth Barone? I know. And we got zero photos, which is a crime, but.
30:36 Benito Skinner? There has to be one somewhere. If anyone was there.
30:38 Mary Beth Barone? We got any photos.
30:39 Benito Skinner? If anyone was there, you gotta let us know.
30:41 Mary Beth Barone? Please let us know. I'm still working on figuring out what the perfume is. No, you're really like showing it off. It's just one of those things in life where, yeah, it's like, it could be, it could be really beautiful or it could break your heart.
30:53 Benito Skinner? It could break your heart, but isn't that so beautiful that you put yourself out there? That's so special. I think in the end it is because it's being human.
31:00 Mary Beth Barone? Like, I think more painting nude, less nude photos. Does that make sense? I just think we should be, men should be painting women more.
31:09 Benito Skinner? I agree.
31:10 Mary Beth Barone? Paint them.
31:10 Benito Skinner? I would love to, yeah, I would love to have a painting of you and I would love to, hey, can I say it? I'd love to be painted.
31:15 Mary Beth Barone? Yes. Wouldn't we all?
31:17 Benito Skinner? Come on, would that be so awful?
31:19 Mary Beth Barone? My Uncle Dick was a painter and we have his paintings all over my house. Like all, everyone in our family has some of Uncle Dick's paintings.
31:26 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
31:27 Mary Beth Barone? He painted my Aunt Jane nude twice. These are just the most fabulous paintings and I am obsessed with them and I, I want them. They're in the bar at my parents' house right now.
31:38 Benito Skinner? Fabulous.
31:39 Mary Beth Barone? And when it's Christmas time, my mom uses magnets to put little Santa hats over the nipples like in Love Actually.
31:46 Benito Skinner? It's perfect.
31:46 Mary Beth Barone? It's festive.
31:47 Benito Skinner? It's beautiful.
31:48 Mary Beth Barone? Thirst trap in a way. So that's what I've seen on thirst traps.
31:50 Benito Skinner? Totally.
31:50 Mary Beth Barone? I think post thirst traps early and often. If you don't put yourself on the line a few times, then like, what are we really even doing here?
31:56 Benito Skinner? You have to put yourself.
31:57 Mary Beth Barone? There's a limit too, where it's like, okay, this person maybe is like going through a hard time.
32:01 Benito Skinner? Exactly. And I think it's easy to tell that.
32:04 Mary Beth Barone? Don't use it as a cry for help.
32:05 Benito Skinner? Don't please.
32:05 Mary Beth Barone? Please just reach out to friends.
32:07 Benito Skinner? Turn off the cameras. Wait, turn off the cameras. No, I completely agree. It's like, it should just be, it should feel fun, but like, when you feel it and you're proud of yourself and you wanna like feel sexy, I think it's so cool to let it rip. It doesn't even have to be for anyone. I can say that too.
32:21 Mary Beth Barone? I mean, the best thirst traps are the ones you post for you.
32:23 Benito Skinner? They're just for you. It's like, no, I just needed this out there.
32:25 Mary Beth Barone? Like, I just wanted to show you guys.
32:26 Benito Skinner? I just needed this apart.
32:27 Mary Beth Barone? Hey, I have something to show you.
32:28 Benito Skinner? This happened.
32:29 Mary Beth Barone? When I did Seth Meyers and I got the T-shirt and I just thought to myself, I want to take a thirst trap in this and post it.
32:35 Benito Skinner? It's so cool when you get a piece like that, where you're like, oh, this is, you know.
32:38 Mary Beth Barone? This is in the, it's in the closet now.
32:39 Benito Skinner? Or when you like, all of a sudden, like you find that, that kind of just delicious alchemy of a mirror and a sunburn and.
32:47 Mary Beth Barone? You can't force it.
32:48 Benito Skinner? You can't.
32:49 Mary Beth Barone? If there's one thing I would say that like, if you're not feeling it a hundred percent,
32:52 Benito Skinner? No.
32:52 Mary Beth Barone? Just like, try again tomorrow.
32:54 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
32:54 Mary Beth Barone? Because there's nothing you're gonna gain from posting one that's undercooked.
32:59 Benito Skinner? Completely agree.
33:00 Mary Beth Barone? And that's what I have to say.
33:01 Benito Skinner? And you'll feel that after. You'll know when it's the right one. But sometimes actually you'll post one and you'll be surprised by the reception.
33:06 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
33:06 Benito Skinner? People will tell you, actually you killed here. And you're like, I didn't know if I did.
33:10 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
33:12 Benito Skinner? So Mary Beth said, I have to do this one alone because it's my quote unquote whole deal. But I don't really think I'm defined by OCD. I think OCD is defined by me. Got it?
33:21 Mary Beth Barone? I don't know. We could take a poll.
33:23 Benito Skinner? So you're going about your day when suddenly a horrifying thought flashes through your mind. Maybe it's a fear of something happening to a loved one, a disturbing or sexual image that keeps replaying in your mind. Mine today was jump in front of the subway. So that's an urge to do something that you don't want to do. I don't want to. Okay? So your heart races, your palms sweat and anxiety washes over you. You're mortified. You feel fully convinced that it's true, even though you know that this isn't who you are. You don't want to do any of these things. But still the question of why did I think that? Why did I want to push queer as folk reboots, funny drama onto the tracks? Well, they start to consume you and you feel like you have to do something, anything to make them go away. Here's the thing about those disturbing unwanted thoughts. They're more common.
33:59 Mary Beth Barone? Tell me, babe.
34:00 Benito Skinner? They're more common than you think.
34:02 Mary Beth Barone? Whatever.
34:02 Benito Skinner? In fact, almost everyone has them. You're gonna be such a good mom. But for people with obsessive compulsive disorder or OCD. Yours truly.
34:10 Mary Beth Barone? I don't watch children.
34:11 Benito Skinner? Me neither. They usually cause a lot of distress and feel hard to stop thinking about. But then I found NoCD. NoCD is a virtual therapy provider for OCD that's here to help anyone struggling with OCD and taboo or shameful thoughts get the treatment and support they need. Unlike general therapy providers, every NoCD therapist specializes in OCD, so they deeply understand intrusive thoughts. That means no matter how disturbing, taboo, or shameful you think something is, like killing Benny Drama, your therapy sessions are a safe space to be open about it. NoCD also accepts many major insurance plans and offers always-on support between sessions. To learn more about therapy with NoCD, go to nocd.com and schedule a free 15-minute call with their team. That's n o c d dot com to learn more and book a free 15-minute call.
34:55 Mary Beth Barone? Here we are once again.
34:57 Benito Skinner? Here we find ourselves in the middle of it all. By now, you've probably heard of Bilt, where you can earn points on your monthly rent payment. But did you know they make it possible for you to get more outside of your home, too?
35:08 Mary Beth Barone? If you're paying rent every month without earning anything in return, let me introduce you to Bilt.
35:13 Benito Skinner? Sorry, I'm kissing her neck.
35:14 Mary Beth Barone? The rewards program designed for renters who want to earn something for their largest monthly expense.
35:19 Benito Skinner? Let me explain. Nobody wants to pay rent, but if you have to, Bilt makes it worth it. Bilt is revolutionizing how millions think about paying. She just scrolled up like she's actually trying to stress me out, my love. Heart attack. Bilt is revolutionizing how millions think about paying rent by rewarding their members with points and exclusive benefits around their neighborhood every single month.
35:41 Mary Beth Barone? By paying rent through Bilt, you earn flexible points that can be redeemed towards hundreds of hotels and airlines if you treat your next lift ride and more. I literally just...
35:48 Benito Skinner? But it doesn't stop there.
35:49 Mary Beth Barone? No, but I was just looking at the SoulCycle schedule and there was a Bilt ride. Bilt is about making your entire neighborhood more rewarding. You can dine out at your favorite local restaurants and earn additional points, get VIP treatment at certain fitness studios, and enjoy exclusive experiences just for Bilt members every goddamn month.
36:04 Benito Skinner? Sorry, I'm making out with Pinky. Bilt is turning a monthly expense into an opportunity to earn rewards and discover the best that your neighborhood has to offer. Your rent is finally working for you.
36:14 Mary Beth Barone? Earn points on rent and around your neighborhood wherever you call home by going to joinbilt.com/ride. That's J O I N B I L T dot com slash ride. Make sure to use our URL so they know that we sent you.
36:25 Benito Skinner? Bilt.
36:27 Benito Skinner? So speaking of there's traps, my mom had me get a mammogram when I was 12.
36:31 Mary Beth Barone? I just want to put that a little closer.
36:33 Benito Skinner? Hey, please. So I believe I was 12, because it would have been six, I might have been a little older, maybe 13. I guess 12, 13. So I'm going to tell you the story and then I'm going to say why I ride for this. Because as I tell it, it might not seem like I'm riding for it.
36:48 Mary Beth Barone? Right. And I think this has been broached on the pod before, but it might have been on our old podcast.
36:54 Benito Skinner? But the only thing I've ever, I mean, this used to be a part of my live show for overcompensating.
36:58 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, that's why I'm, that's why I'm thinking of it.
37:00 Benito Skinner? Yeah, yeah, I used to, like, this was, I told this story during my standup. And this is so funny, because it's one of those things where you tell it, and my mom saw the show, and she's like, I'm so sorry, I totally forgot. But yeah, like, that was, like, she's like, I kind of ate.
37:13 Mary Beth Barone? So that just happened?
37:15 Benito Skinner? She said, listen, if you want to have my name up there, at least put me on the fucking marquee. That's all she said.
37:20 Mary Beth Barone? I've heard, I've actually heard her say that.
37:21 Benito Skinner? That's so Patty. No, okay, so, so I'm 12, 13, and I, I was going through puberty, and my nipples were swelling. And, I mean, it was kind of giving, like, you know, I'll be honest, like, Sacagawea dollar.
37:36 Mary Beth Barone? It was giving a character in the other woman when they put hormones into smoothies.
37:40 Benito Skinner? Yeah, very that. Yeah. Or her, like, the bastard.
37:43 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, the bastard.
37:44 Benito Skinner? It was giving those, like, you know those doctored photos of Nick Jonas where he has, like, massive, like, pepperoni nipples? So, totally.
37:51 Mary Beth Barone? So that's me saying no.
37:52 Benito Skinner? Insert here. But, so, I had, yeah, and I was like, you know, Mom, like, what's going on here, girl? And she was like, okay, well, we're going to the hospital.
38:01 Mary Beth Barone? You went to emergency room?
38:01 Benito Skinner? We went to the ER, yeah. And she was like, you know, like, we have to check for-
38:05 Mary Beth Barone? And that's why the hospitals are so backed up right now, because of people like you guys.
38:09 Benito Skinner? Exactly. Well, I've always said I'm the problem. So we got in the Volvo, and we go to the ER. And I go and I see this doctor, and he was like, look, ma'am, like, I think the only real way to test that would be for your son to get a mammogram. And my mom's like,
38:25 Mary Beth Barone? She said, where do I sign?
38:26 Benito Skinner? She said, oh, Miss Drama, he's gonna be getting a motherfucking mammogram.
38:31 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
38:31 Benito Skinner? Said, hey, so I go and I get my mammogram.
38:35 Mary Beth Barone? From what I've heard about mammograms, it's like they put your nipple in a garage door and then they close it.
38:40 Benito Skinner? They panini pressed my little, my rack.
38:43 Mary Beth Barone? Your areola.
38:44 Benito Skinner? I couldn't, it, it hurt so bad. I had like, you know, even less like flesh than I have now. I mean, now I've kind of got a rack. Like I'd kind of be dropping them on.
38:53 Mary Beth Barone? Dump them.
38:54 Benito Skinner? Well, that's what they say. They go dump them. And I put, I put my titty in there. They just panini pressed it to death. Like fully, like, I mean, I was cooked.
39:03 Mary Beth Barone? Hmm.
39:04 Benito Skinner? And it hurts so bad. I had full bruises on them after. And then after I'm in the waiting room and this woman comes out and she's like, Mrs. Skinner, can I talk to you and your son in my office, please? And I was like, you're fucking kidding me. I'm gay and I have breast cancer.
39:19 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
39:20 Benito Skinner? I'm like, that's.
39:22 Mary Beth Barone? God give it.
39:23 Benito Skinner? I'm like, god damn it. I'm like, wow, the Bible kind of did tell me that I was sick. So.
39:28 Mary Beth Barone? You are.
39:28 Benito Skinner? Yeah. So it's a life of sin.
39:30 Mary Beth Barone? For that reason, but.
39:31 Benito Skinner? Totally. So we go into this, you know, into Nurse Jackie's office and she closes the door. And she was like, okay, so we ran the tests and it like really quite a buildup. And I'm also like, we're in her office, like she's about to tell me that like, I do have breast cancer. I'm like, this is fucking insane. And then she's like, it's nothing. It's like puberty. Boys go through this all the time.
39:54 Mary Beth Barone? Bury the lead, honey. Let's start with that.
39:56 Benito Skinner? Just say that. I go, you could have said that in front of everyone. I would have preferred that.
40:00 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
40:00 Benito Skinner? So on the drive home, I remember my mom, she goes, aren't you glad we got them checked? And I was like, do you mean my Sacagawea dollar nipples? These bobbies?
40:11 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
40:12 Benito Skinner? No, I'm like, in fact, I'm not at all.
40:14 Mary Beth Barone? Why didn't we just like ask a few people?
40:16 Benito Skinner? Yeah, but we did. And it was so, I just, oh my God. And now my mom literally gets a letter for Benita.
40:23 Mary Beth Barone? Benita Skinner.
40:23 Benito Skinner? Yeah. Here's why I ride for it. And I was just thinking about it recently because I just was like, I miss my mom and I was laughing because it's so, go get it checked. And I think as much as maybe. Maybe it was just like good to make sure I was okay. Like my mom needed it.
40:38 Mary Beth Barone? Peace of mind is priceless.
40:39 Benito Skinner? Peace of mind is priceless and I, you know, God forbid something was bad. So like preventative checks, like I of course ride for that. But in the end, like I spent a day with my mom that I think about frequently.
40:51 Mary Beth Barone? You'll never forget.
40:52 Benito Skinner? And I do have a lot of love and compassion for anyone who has to go and get a mammogram. Because holy fucking shit. My question was though, I guess if you have really large breasts, does it not hurt as much or does that hurt?
41:05 Mary Beth Barone? No, I think it may be hurt. I actually don't know. We'd have to do a little blind, a double blind study.
41:10 Benito Skinner? And then can you not get if you have, like if you have implants, can you not get?
41:14 Mary Beth Barone? I don't know how it works.
41:16 Benito Skinner? Cause I assume, cause in my head and my, and drama and D said.
41:19 Mary Beth Barone? It would make them pop.
41:20 Benito Skinner? Well, just it's splashing, come up through your mouth.
41:22 Mary Beth Barone? So and maybe that has happened and we'll look into it. But I would say, how have they not come up? That's what the doctor says when you're about to go get a mammogram or about to put your booby in there, your little bobbies. Do you remember Dan, Nikki or bobbies? When Nicki Minaj posted a photo and her, I guess boobs were looking pretty supple. And someone commented, but there was two typos and it just said, Dan, Nikki, your bobbies. It meant to say, damn Nikki or boobies.
41:50 Benito Skinner? So us, it's so right.
41:51 Mary Beth Barone? It's so right. So I'm surprised they haven't come up with like a new technology that doesn't involve like smushing them like that to, to do the screenings.
41:58 Benito Skinner? Maybe they have. It doesn't sound like they have.
42:00 Mary Beth Barone? And you know, get your pap smears, get your, get your mammograms. I haven't had the pleasure of getting one yet. I think I'm nearing that age where I will have to go in and do that. Colonoscopies are right around the corner.
42:10 Benito Skinner? I assume they were every year for every.
42:13 Mary Beth Barone? No, I think it's like at a certain age. Right now, they just, they just feel.
42:17 Benito Skinner? Oh, they, they feel around for, we couldn't have done that?
42:20 Mary Beth Barone? Well, I think it's like more precise.
42:22 Benito Skinner? They wanted to use the machine on me.
42:23 Mary Beth Barone? They said, we've never had a guy in here before.
42:25 Benito Skinner? They should. They were like, fuck, we gotta get him back there.
42:27 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. They had a good laugh at your expense.
42:30 Benito Skinner? Literally all did. They're like, oh my God, it like barely came. We had barely any tit to squeeze.
42:36 Mary Beth Barone? No, but I think preventative care is really important. I think again, that's something we, I guess we probably do. Too much in America and now they have those body scan things where like you can like, I don't know, pay $15,000 and it'll check like every skin, every cell in your body or whatever. But I think always, it's just peace of mind is priceless. I think go get the thing, have a bonding experience with your kid, with your sibling, with your partner.
42:59 Benito Skinner? Come on, sweetie, get in the car. We're getting x-rays.
43:01 Mary Beth Barone? We're getting a mammogram, we're getting an MRI.
43:03 Benito Skinner? Yes.
43:04 Mary Beth Barone? I've had much imaging done though. I've had bone scans, I've had MRIs.
43:07 Benito Skinner? I would have loved the thing just from, you know, kind of my virgin moment, my cover of virgin moment. I would have loved whatever the scan was.
43:13 Mary Beth Barone? I wonder if they have it still on the, on a little.
43:16 Benito Skinner? Yeah, my big old nips. And you know what? In the end, like for anyone listening, they really, they calm down. I think I grew into them.
43:22 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
43:23 Benito Skinner? I really grew into them.
43:24 Mary Beth Barone? I never have once thought since knowing you that your nipples looked disproportionate.
43:28 Benito Skinner? I used to think I had bigger nipples, but I think they're actually like just kind of pretty normal.
43:33 Mary Beth Barone? Proportional.
43:34 Benito Skinner? Thanks, sweetie.
43:35 Mary Beth Barone? They fit you.
43:35 Benito Skinner? They're always hard. I will say that about mine.
43:38 Mary Beth Barone? Always?
43:39 Benito Skinner? I mean, right now, like.
43:41 Mary Beth Barone? Well, it's freezing in here.
43:42 Benito Skinner? Yeah, but on set, like it's hard to find me with like a really.
43:45 Mary Beth Barone? With, when they're just sort of.
43:47 Benito Skinner? When they're just chill.
43:48 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
43:49 Benito Skinner? Well, you had yours pierced and you said they were always hard?
43:51 Mary Beth Barone? Well, the pierced one just always looked hard because it was like, you know, at attention.
43:55 Benito Skinner? I wonder if they would take that out.
43:58 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, I don't know.
43:59 Benito Skinner? If you had to do a mammogram.
43:59 Mary Beth Barone? I don't know. I'm thinking about the feminine urge to get my nipple pierced again. We'll see.
44:04 Benito Skinner? To your media.
44:05 Mary Beth Barone? Hey, clip that. We'll see what happens. I haven't made a decision one way or another.
44:10 Benito Skinner? We'll talk.
44:11 Mary Beth Barone? We'll talk.
44:12 Benito Skinner? It's a group decision, of course.
44:13 Mary Beth Barone? Of course. I mean, I have to sit with my family and decide.
44:16 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
44:16 Mary Beth Barone? But I, I look forward, well, I guess I'm not really looking forward to the mammogram, but I do like to just know that everything's good, above board. And another thing that Trump's administration is doing is they're cutting funding for cancer research. So, yeah, I guess if you voted for him and you're listening to this podcast.
44:32 Benito Skinner? How we doing?
44:33 Mary Beth Barone? Eat shit and die, I guess.
44:35 Benito Skinner? And you might.
44:36 Mary Beth Barone? And you might. Yeah. So, good luck with everything. We're out here fighting the good fight.
44:41 Benito Skinner? The fight to.
44:42 Mary Beth Barone? I.
44:43 Benito Skinner? Take a button, I guess, just in case.
44:45 Mary Beth Barone? Take a button. Well, yeah.
44:49 Mary Beth Barone? Sure.
44:49 Benito Skinner? God. You know what you are, Mary Beth?
44:52 Mary Beth Barone? Bisexual?
44:53 Benito Skinner? Well, yeah, but you're also my ride or die. Ride or die.
44:58 Mary Beth Barone? I ride for Benny's mammogram. I think it's such a
45:01 Benito Skinner? So I'm so glad I finally have that.
45:03 Mary Beth Barone? Coming of age.
45:04 Benito Skinner? It was really coming of age. I mean, it was, that's why I included it in overcompensating. It was something about
45:08 Mary Beth Barone? The live show.
45:09 Benito Skinner? The live show, yeah, when I was doing it. It's in the world of all of it, even the way Connie's written, I think, in that it does kind of have that.
45:15 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, Connie definitely would have taken you there.
45:18 Benito Skinner? Yeah, it just has that flair. Thank you so much. I love when you ride for it. I have to rewrite for it.
45:22 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, of course.
45:23 Benito Skinner? I have to sell you on it again.
45:24 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, the experience of it all, it's those days that really stick with you from your upbringing that you should just like recall at the drop of a hat.
45:31 Benito Skinner? My mom took me to get chicken selects after. Like, she's, she's good at her job.
45:35 Mary Beth Barone? She balances skills.
45:36 Benito Skinner? Of course.
45:36 Mary Beth Barone? The skills of justice.
45:37 Benito Skinner? Yeah, and she's like, you know.
45:39 Mary Beth Barone? Mother of four.
45:40 Benito Skinner? She said, dump 'em.
45:42 Mary Beth Barone? Dump 'em.
45:43 Benito Skinner? I ride for it. I mean, who, why, I would live in a glass house if I didn't. I love posting a thirst trap. I think they're just fun and it's like, who gives a fuck? We're not here for that long and I am proud of the work and I'm proud of, proud of the rig, so I'm gonna show it off. And I love seeing my friends post them. I'm like, oh, like seeing a friend post a really good one, I'm like, I hope that all your dreams come true. Everything you wanted that to get you, I hope you get.
46:07 Mary Beth Barone? I don't think straight men have totally mastered the art yet. I think that those can be really risky and I understand why you're
46:14 Benito Skinner? But they're a good lesson in not doing too much because then when they do, we go crazy.
46:18 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, I would say like
46:19 Benito Skinner? So it's smart. It's a balance.
46:20 Mary Beth Barone? Moderation. Straight guys, like, I think you could be posting more. Take those risks and just like, yeah, live, laugh, love, because we'd love to see what you're working with.
46:29 Benito Skinner? One, two, three. Dump.
46:32 Mary Beth Barone? Dump.
46:34 Benito Skinner? Oh, my exit.
46:35 Mary Beth Barone? Benny, babe, eyes on the road. Benny, go!
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