Big Swings + Secret Trip

Where to start with big swings… well, maybe the beginning? And Mary Beth takes a trip with friends who aren’t Benny. It’s gonna be a bumpy ride… Please note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode. Sponsors: Try Tinder Group Hangouts. Bring your friends, pick a plan, meet new people.⁠ Download Tinder today. To learn more about starting OCD therapy with NOCD, go to ⁠nocd.com⁠ and book a free call with their team. Thanks to Article for sponsoring this podcast! Article is offering our listeners $50 off your first purchase of $100 or more. To claim, visit ⁠ARTICLE. COM/RIDE⁠ and the discount will be automatically applied at checkout. Produced by Dear Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 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.

• 0:13Benito Skinner?

  Aren't we recording? Dad, say hey.

• 0:17Speaker 03

  Hello, everybody.

• 0:18Benito Skinner?

  Dad, what do you, what do you ride for?

• 0:21Speaker 03

  Uh, I ride for no post appointments surveys.

• 0:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally. Oh, my God. I'm so sick of that crap. It's like, I had a fine time. I don't need to rate it out of 10.

• 0:32Benito Skinner?

  Look at her. You just, I'm gonna get my daddy in this spot.

• 0:36Mary Beth Barone?

  No, for real, y'all. You don't need feedback on everything.

• 0:39Benito Skinner?

  Do you know what else he told me to talk about on Ride? That's like actually so insane.

• 0:44Mary Beth Barone?

  What?

• 0:45Benito Skinner?

  In Idaho, on the ballot right now, you can vote for the state gun. So my dad's gonna write in squirt.

• 0:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, squirt. Or nerf. Squirt or nerf.

• 0:54Benito Skinner?

  Nerf too. Yeah. Dad, you look great. Look at this man.

• 0:57Speaker 03

  When I leave any appointment, I think, well, it's my wife calling. No, it's a text. How was your appointment? I go, I just left.

• 1:03Mary Beth Barone?

  First of all, let me sit, first of all, let me sit with it for a sec.

• 1:06Benito Skinner?

  I wanna figure it out. Can I sit, let me sit in the parking lot of a Sonic Drive-In for a second, eat a couple tater tots, and I'll let you know.

• 1:12Mary Beth Barone?

  I'll let you know.

• 1:13Benito Skinner?

  Let me mull this over.

• 1:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Hey, the cavity filling hasn't settled yet. I'll let you know.

• 1:18Benito Skinner?

  Me? This was me every week as a kid. I drank so much Tang that I just.

• 1:24Speaker 03

  The guy that sprays for spiders, I get one immediately. Like, how was it? I go, well, I haven't seen a spider since he left, but it's only been five minutes.

• 1:31Benito Skinner?

  Give me, give me at least 30.

• 1:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Wait, you're splitting bars today.

• 1:35Benito Skinner?

  I'm gonna get my, my daddy needs a Subway take. Kareem?

• 1:40Speaker 03

  Did you get a re-dye?

• 1:41Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I did it today.

• 1:42Speaker 03

  Oh, wow.

• 1:44Benito Skinner?

  I did a fresh mom. I shaved the mustache, got a re-dye.

• 1:47Speaker 03

  Yeah, I like it, yeah.

• 1:48Benito Skinner?

  We did shorter. I wanted like diehard. My parents' live reaction to the hair.

• 1:52Mary Beth Barone?

  This is huge for the pod.

• 1:53Benito Skinner?

  You're getting it. They loved it.

• 1:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, I got nails today, so.

• 1:56Benito Skinner?

  Check out the nails.

• 1:58Mary Beth Barone?

  And I got little, I got gems on, not to flip you off, but I did get gems on the middle fingies. Yeah.

• 2:04Benito Skinner?

  Yep.

• 2:06Benito Skinner?

  My mom in the back.

• 2:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Hey, miss y'all.

• 2:09Benito Skinner?

  That's my bitch.

• 2:14Benito Skinner?

  He says ma, your mom. I will say.

• 2:17Mary Beth Barone?

  That's our mom.

• 2:18Benito Skinner?

  One of my favorite jokes in season two is a character to Mary Beth goes, just seeing Benny and Benny's mom, and you go, also my mom.

• 2:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Also my mom.

• 2:28Benito Skinner?

  All right. We love you.

• 2:29Speaker 03

  Love you too.

• 2:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Bye, y'all.

• 2:31Benito Skinner?

  We'll talk to your, um, your managers and agents and just get this signed off. We'll send you the audio.

• 2:35Mary Beth Barone?

  We need clearances.

• 2:36Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 2:38Speaker 03

  I'll just do DocuSign. Love you, bud.

• 2:39Benito Skinner?

  Perfect. Bye. Not my dad knowing DocuSign.

• 2:41Mary Beth Barone?

  He's gonna get a survey about his experience with DocuSign.

• 2:44Benito Skinner?

  My dad's gonna be so happy he got to talk about that.

• 2:46Mary Beth Barone?

  That's some shit that I really can't stand.

• 2:48Benito Skinner?

  I love that you, cause he said this to me and I was like, I think I know what you mean, but there's texts that are from like random state senators that I can't vote for.

• 2:57Mary Beth Barone?

  I had, I reply stop every time now. Cause I need to be free from the shackles.

• 3:01Benito Skinner?

  It's crazy. And also, I think a lot of them say David, so he put my number somewhere. I don't know where.

• 3:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, your dad had stolen valor because your sister's husband, David, texted me after my dad died, and I thought that it was your dad.

• 3:14Benito Skinner?

  I know. And you texted him and talk about texting a parent, some shit like that. They're like, oh, I have fucking dementia. He was so like, when I said, that was so sweet you texted Mary Beth, he was like,

• 3:27Benito Skinner?

  okay, did I maybe call?

• 3:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Did I call?

• 3:30Benito Skinner?

  She said text.

• 3:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, that it was your, it was your brother-in-law.

• 3:34Benito Skinner?

  I'll put you in a home tonight.

• 3:35Mary Beth Barone?

  B I L. You go, remember?

• 3:39Benito Skinner?

  I can't wait for you to put me in a home.

• 3:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, we're.

• 3:42Benito Skinner?

  I'm gonna leave towels all over it.

• 3:45Mary Beth Barone?

  What did I say? When you ca, you said I have to use your shower for a couple of days and I said, okay, we're gonna work on not leaving the bathroom like the rainforest.

• 3:51Benito Skinner?

  Yes, the Rainforest Cafe.

• 3:55Benito Skinner?

  Rain, rain stick. I want a rain stick. I'll send you my address if you have one.

• 4:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Marshall. Marshall, your interior designer. Let's get a rain stick.

• 4:06Benito Skinner?

  I love the relationship between me and this lovely man that of course Jake Sammis, Security.

• 4:14Benito Skinner?

  I met through him. And I've been doing my, not the people's security.

• 4:23Benito Skinner?

  That's gonna stick with me for a couple of days.

• 4:25Mary Beth Barone?

  I didn't come up with that.

• 4:26Benito Skinner?

  But I've been having so much fun. It's kind of like me and my assigned bestie in class doing a group project together, i.e. finding things for my apartment in playful. I've, I have a new friend. In New York, I'm just making all these new friends. I love it.

• 4:40Mary Beth Barone?

  That's just the power of New York.

• 4:41Benito Skinner?

  Can I talk about one man today? One, one Chad Senzel.

• 4:46Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, right.

• 4:47Benito Skinner?

  That's Miss Chad Senzel.

• 4:48Mary Beth Barone?

  You're in the sauna with?

• 4:49Benito Skinner?

  No, cause I, we haven't seen him since.

• 4:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Cause you're not in hotels anymore.

• 4:53Benito Skinner?

  It's not looking good. I'm out of the hotels.

• 4:57Benito Skinner?

  See, that's a burp.

• 4:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, oh, okay. We have a lot to, this is not me rushing you. It's actually exciting. We have a lot to get through. I did wanna say, we had a generational run of episodes. Camila Cabello, Nut Butter, it gets more to brass tacks. It's like, it's definitely funny, but it's like, whenever we talk about female singers, we get so serious with it, cause it's not a fucking joke.

• 5:17Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, but I'm pissed because I didn't bring up Baby Pink.

• 5:21Mary Beth Barone?

  And I didn't bring up, um, Mark Ronson's album, The Late Night Feelings, which Camila Cabello features on.

• 5:26Benito Skinner?

  Jacamo's first and the shoes are Versace.

• 5:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 5:29Benito Skinner?

  Let's go get calamari. Getting, I have to like, I'll play it at some point. This verse that she has on, I think it's the Magic City Deluxe. That's why you're not gonna see it.

• 5:39Mary Beth Barone?

  You're not gonna see it on there.

• 5:40Benito Skinner?

  We weren't talking about Magic City Deluxe.

• 5:41Mary Beth Barone?

  I know, I'm sorry. That's on me. Let's talk about Chad Senzel.

• 5:44Benito Skinner?

  But there are some things we get serious about. I thought potatoes, I kind of like got a little intense.

• 5:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Right. But that there's, and for good reason.

• 5:51Benito Skinner?

  Of course. Um, so Chad Senzel, it's a vintage store in New York. It's amazing. But he had this sweater and I was [BLEEP] with it. It was kind of a putrid green color. And you know, I love pushing limits with color. It's like, if you hate it, let's see what we can do here. A mustard. I know all you guys are writing off a mustard, although a light beige is tough. That's just gonna be hard on, I think it's beautiful on you, but on me, it just is like, like that color on you is great, but on me, we lose me, especially with my fresh.

• 6:19Mary Beth Barone?

  My Weekend with Marilyn. Or is it a Week with Marilyn? Which one was it?

• 6:23Benito Skinner?

  It's My Week with Marilyn, which Marilyn was in the right that whole time.

• 6:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Weekend. It's a short film.

• 6:28Benito Skinner?

  Weekend.

• 6:28Mary Beth Barone?

  It's My Weekend with Marilyn.

• 6:29Benito Skinner?

  My Morning with Marilyn.

• 6:31Mary Beth Barone?

  And I think that would be an honor too. I don't need a whole week of your time.

• 6:36Benito Skinner?

  I can't stress enough, I'm actually so fine saying this. I know we would have fucked with each other. I love her down. I would have loved Norma and I would have loved Marilyn and I would have loved to just literally like, she loved gay guys and you can tell like all her teams were like these gay guys that were telling her tricks of the trade. That would have been so fun to kind of be like, how do we make black and white film? Or actually, she wasn't in black and white film.

• 6:59Mary Beth Barone?

  But how do we make it?

• 7:00Benito Skinner?

  How do we make black and white film?

• 7:01Mary Beth Barone?

  I thought about it, I thought about if Princess Diana was still around and if Kurt Cobain was still around, I think Princess Diana's Instagram grid would be kind of like a disaster. It would be a lot of like activism stuff that's just like text on videos, you know?

• 7:14Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. Well, it was what Emma Watson's was.

• 7:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 7:17Benito Skinner?

  Do you remember? I loved her. Her like millennial ass Instagram was so major. I'm a [BLEEP] with her.

• 7:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Like, obviously I wish they were still here, but I think that her Instagram would have been a mess.

• 7:26Benito Skinner?

  Is still here. Right. Continue.

• 7:27Mary Beth Barone?

  And Kurt Cobain, I think he would have resisted getting social media, but he probably would have gotten it eventually.

• 7:31Benito Skinner?

  Well, the band Nirvana as a, as like a, a brand, they would have had one. I mean, Urban Outfitters would have made them.

• 7:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Right. They would have had to sign up and, and then I think Kurt Cobain would have made two TikToks and then said, it's just not for me.

• 7:43Benito Skinner?

  You think Kurt Cobain would have made TikToks?

• 7:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Two. That's it.

• 7:46Benito Skinner?

  Ah, sorry. This is, I don't understand you. This is like the beginning of a huge argument between you and a straight guy, by the way.

• 7:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 7:54Benito Skinner?

  Kurt Cobain would have never done some shit like that.

• 7:56Mary Beth Barone?

  Hammer and I talked about it and he agrees with me.

• 7:58Benito Skinner?

  Come on, forgive me. I did, it was a couple of times. Forgive me. Do you wanna talk about jump scares? When he pops up in a movie, it's like, so I was watching Nocturnal Animals, which a Tom Ford film. I love all of his, I can't wait for his next one. I am [BLEEP] with this film. Trigger Warning Beyond. It really is so disturbing. I.

• 8:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Do you even, I do even think I should?

• 8:22Benito Skinner?

  I think it's unbelievable, but then he pops up out of nowhere and you're just like, I mean, it really was.

• 8:29Benito Skinner?

  I go, what the fu, what was that?

• 8:31Mary Beth Barone?

  What was that?

• 8:32Benito Skinner?

  It's Army Hammer on screen. So Chad Senzel, he had saved a sweater for me. It was in his stories and I was like, I love this sweater. Can you save it for me? And he did. And he waited like a long time, cause I wasn't in New York for a while.

• 8:43Mary Beth Barone?

  For it.

• 8:44Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, and I came in today and I got a couple of things and we had so much fun. He almost fell down the stairs at one point because there's like steep steps and I kind of caught him. Of course it is, but it was actually one where I was worried, cause usually if someone falls, I'm like, that's fucking major. Like you when you saw Tom Francis.

• 9:02Mary Beth Barone?

  It was like I got blown back by a blast or something.

• 9:06Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, you just eating shit. Me, I was like, it's business. We gotta shoot this show.

• 9:10Mary Beth Barone?

  You go, we can't put her in a cast.

• 9:13Benito Skinner?

  He was wheeling you to set. All gracious things are here up.

• 9:17Mary Beth Barone?

  Like when I'm holding a plant, like when they're trying to hide pregnancy.

• 9:20Benito Skinner?

  We had to hide your baby bump the whole season.

• 9:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, I've had birth. I've had birth.

• 9:25Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I've had birth.

• 9:27Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm a proletariat.

• 9:31Benito Skinner?

  Well, you finally said the thing that makes no sense.

• 9:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, this season's been fun.

• 9:36Benito Skinner?

  I'm a proletariat.

• 9:37Mary Beth Barone?

  I hope you all can tell how much fun we're having. We are, this is Ride After Dark. It's six o'clock.

• 9:42Benito Skinner?

  You asked today, you go, we should do it with drinks, but then I was like, logistically, I was like, how do we?

• 9:48Mary Beth Barone?

  We're gonna save that for a later episode.

• 9:49Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, we'll shoot one in New Orleans.

• 9:50Mary Beth Barone?

  But Chad Senzel is okay, or he fell for real?

• 9:53Benito Skinner?

  Chad died. Chad's sad, babe. He cracked his skull open. No, I caught him.

• 9:59Mary Beth Barone?

  But you got the sweater.

• 10:00Benito Skinner?

  Of course, I got the sweater and a pair of gents.

• 10:02Mary Beth Barone?

  You go, oops, sorry.

• 10:04Benito Skinner?

  And then I did the reader.

• 10:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Should I leave a note?

• 10:17Benito Skinner?

  I have a press interview in fifteen.

• 10:22Benito Skinner?

  Thanks, Chad and Daya.

• 10:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Y'all have CCTV in here, right?

• 10:26Benito Skinner?

  You know what's crazy is that you can bring gay speak into straight places and they've never really seen anything. Like I called this guy Greg Yana recently. It was so confusing to him in a way that I was like, nothing is less confusing than Greg Yana. It was a guy at the gym. His name was Greg. And I said, Greg Yana. And he went, what? It was so, he's like, maybe just Greggy.

• 10:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay, he said, let's split the difference.

• 10:52Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 10:52Mary Beth Barone?

  He's not ready to go full, full F slur.

• 10:55Benito Skinner?

  Have a little fun. You guys, I went full blonde. I think I'm gonna bring the mustache back, though. I just had to shave it for Ellen.

• 11:00Mary Beth Barone?

  I have a couple of things to say.

• 11:02Benito Skinner?

  Awesome.

• 11:04Mary Beth Barone?

  First of all, my stomach is making noises. That's something I can't really help.

• 11:07Benito Skinner?

  I'm having a Coke Zero. I love Coke Zero. Let's get it at more restaurants.

• 11:11Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, I wish we had checks still, because it was a cute little way to show your personality.

• 11:15Benito Skinner?

  My mom's had golden retrievers on them. But can I tell you what mine's would be?

• 11:19Mary Beth Barone?

  What? Mine's would be?

• 11:21Benito Skinner?

  What's mine's? I miss Nina by the way.

• 11:24Mary Beth Barone?

  My check is mine's.

• 11:25Benito Skinner?

  Oh, I thought about Nina recently. I don't know what it was for. I mean, Halloween obviously is very her. But I'd have Tweety Bird.

• 11:34Benito Skinner?

  Nothing. I can't even get like a giggle out of that.

• 11:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, no, because it makes sense. I have nothing to add. I'm just now thinking about what mine would be.

• 11:41Benito Skinner?

  My Tweety Bird. Watching my mom balance her checkbook every month, I was like, damn.

• 11:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Mine would be the King Kong that's made of Swarovski crystals that was holding the Eiffel Tower.

• 11:52Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. If anyone wants to know where to see that, it's at Foquettes.

• 11:57Mary Beth Barone?

  Foquettes. Can you play the TikTok and then I'm gonna do show and tell? We have hitchhikes coming next week.

• 12:03Benito Skinner?

  This is audio, so you don't have to see it. So just don't feel like you're missing out anything if you're just listening in your car. This had me laughing in a way that I, I was like, holding my crotch. I was about to piddle.

• 12:15Speaker 03

  I work at a marketing agency called Ride Digital. And one of our emails is very similar to what I would assume people would think the Ride podcast with Mary Beth and Benito Skinner are. Their email would be.

• 12:31Benito Skinner?

  This is Ride One.

• 12:32Speaker 03

  So we did just get some submissions for what people are writing for this week.

• 12:40Speaker 03

  And one of them is eating ass to our work email. So I would love to forward this on to Mary Beth and Benito on behalf of these patrons.

• 12:52Mary Beth Barone?

  And they're patrons.

• 12:53Speaker 03

  I just don't know what email to send it to.

• 12:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, it's this is Ride One.

• 12:56Benito Skinner?

  This is Ride One at Gmail.

• 12:58Speaker 03

  Forward it to the, to the correct people.

• 13:02Benito Skinner?

  Carter Schmidt, you're a hero. Thank you, honey.

• 13:04Mary Beth Barone?

  Thank you for amplifying.

• 13:06Benito Skinner?

  Probably a fun day at work.

• 13:06Mary Beth Barone?

  I mean, how fun is that to like crowd around a computer with your coworkers?

• 13:10Benito Skinner?

  And just going, what is this? And then clicking and it's somebody going, I like to eat butt.

• 13:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, enjoy. So that I say, je suis de la mode.

• 13:19Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my God, we haven't just sweet in a while.

• 13:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay, speaking of I am of the world.

• 13:23Benito Skinner?

  Bring us some figgy pudding.

• 13:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, David.

• 13:28Mary Beth Barone?

  I did not think, oh, David would go triple platinum.

• 13:31Benito Skinner?

  Do you know I have another, I have a friend who does.

• 13:32Mary Beth Barone?

  Cool shirt lesbian has gone triple platinum.

• 13:33Benito Skinner?

  Whoa, I didn't even realize. I will say one thing about that. Some people were like, he had that ready to go.

• 13:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 13:40Benito Skinner?

  I didn't have that ready to go. We could just go all day.

• 13:43Mary Beth Barone?

  You actually like it. And also you said that when I wear baggy shirts, that's the only times you believe I'm bisexual.

• 13:48Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, of course. And I want that on the record.

• 13:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 13:50Benito Skinner?

  But my thing is, I'm like, we do that shit all the time. We could go forever.

• 13:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Also, I, I burned you first.

• 13:57Benito Skinner?

  A-Lister!

• 14:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Speaking of A-Lister, I got a text from our manager's assistant saying A24 would like to send you a gift. What's the best address? So I sent my apartment address. I thought it would be something to do with overcompensating or maybe hard feelings, like the show that we're working on.

• 14:12Benito Skinner?

  Like literally, like you have multiple projects in the can.

• 14:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, it's pretty cool.

• 14:15Benito Skinner?

  You're like on their big slate.

• 14:17Mary Beth Barone?

  No, it's really cool.

• 14:18Benito Skinner?

  You thought maybe it was the shorts? My favorite tweet of all time, next to the strap.

• 14:22Mary Beth Barone?

  I know you're sucking whatever. I'm gonna pull out of these A24 basketball shorts.

• 14:25Benito Skinner?

  Amen.

• 14:26Mary Beth Barone?

  So I.

• 14:27Benito Skinner?

  I love the way he looks at us.

• 14:28Mary Beth Barone?

  I know. He's just a real one.

• 14:32Benito Skinner?

  I'm back like I'm blushing right now.

• 14:34Mary Beth Barone?

  So I get a package, Christmas come early. It has A24 tape on the package. So I go, what did Santa bring? I could have never expected.

• 14:40Benito Skinner?

  I'm picturing you in your high Stuart Weitzman boots, naked.

• 14:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Yep.

• 14:44Benito Skinner?

  With a knife, butcher's knife. You just corset, but titty's out.

• 14:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 14:50Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 14:50Mary Beth Barone?

  So I opened the box and it was three Brutalist t-shirts, which obviously means the world. So this one is from the 1980 Venice Biennale. The Laszlo Toss, the Presence of.

• 15:01Benito Skinner?

  Of the Presence of the Past.

• 15:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Presence of the Past exhibit.

• 15:04Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, of course. One of his best.

• 15:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Then I had this box and I said, what could this be? So I'm opening this and mind you, I'm getting book, I'm getting built in bookshelves installed.

• 15:12Benito Skinner?

  Might we add the titular.

• 15:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Laszlo Toss.

• 15:15Benito Skinner?

  The titular Van Buren killed himself in. He hung himself in there.

• 15:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Right. But Margaret wanted to keep it alive, keep the memory alive or something. Yeah.

• 15:24Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, of course.

• 15:25Mary Beth Barone?

  So it's this beautiful, and it's hard because I just got my gel extensions today.

• 15:31Benito Skinner?

  And so this is what Kim Petras drove by.

• 15:34Mary Beth Barone?

  This is the building that was Brutalist. So this actually says on it, the Margaret Lee Van Buren Center for Creation and Activity. And this is gonna go on my built-ins and look, so this is show and tell today we're doing. And you can kind of like deconstruct the building.

• 15:47Benito Skinner?

  Whoa, can I actually see?

• 15:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 15:49Benito Skinner?

  Wow, Laszlo.

• 15:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Laszlo snapped with this one.

• 15:53Benito Skinner?

  He really did.

• 15:54Mary Beth Barone?

  He went all the way off. I mean, how cool is that?

• 15:57Benito Skinner?

  It's like the two crosses.

• 15:59Mary Beth Barone?

  I know. And when the sun is over, it's like a whole thing.

• 16:02Benito Skinner?

  Is this true about the, um, here I go, nine 11. No, no, no, you guys don't want to talk about nine 11. You know Mariah Carey?

• 16:09Mary Beth Barone?

  No, because I always want to.

• 16:12Benito Skinner?

  Okay, she has this thing where she kind of at a concert, she was like, no, no, no, you guys want to talk about nine 11?

• 16:18Mary Beth Barone?

  It must be hard.

• 16:19Benito Skinner?

  I know she wasn't talking about us.

• 16:20Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, no.

• 16:20Benito Skinner?

  But in the, um, the Oculus, apparently at the exact time of the sun, when like the towers went down, the towers appear.

• 16:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Whoa.

• 16:29Benito Skinner?

  In the Oculus?

• 16:30Mary Beth Barone?

  I didn't know that.

• 16:30Benito Skinner?

  Is this true?

• 16:31Mary Beth Barone?

  That's thoughtful design.

• 16:34Benito Skinner?

  And so it only once a year, but once a year this happens, or is it consistent?

• 16:40Benito Skinner?

  To me, that's like.

• 16:42Mary Beth Barone?

  That's rooted in the tradition of longevity.

• 16:43Benito Skinner?

  Longevity.

• 16:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Do you get that?

• 16:44Benito Skinner?

  In the stars.

• 16:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 16:46Benito Skinner?

  It's very.

• 16:46Mary Beth Barone?

  It's once per year.

• 16:47Benito Skinner?

  Zero to hero and who the fuck?

• 16:50Mary Beth Barone?

  We gotta look this up. Well, it's like Manhattan Hinge that happens, but once a year.

• 16:57Benito Skinner?

  I could have been every character in Hercules.

• 16:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Have you ever stand something so hard that you get, you start to get, you get the little limited edition merchant trinkets?

• 17:05Benito Skinner?

  The only thing I can relate that to, and of course, if a woman says something, I have to see if I can beat her.

• 17:10Mary Beth Barone?

  You always have to have a better story.

• 17:13Benito Skinner?

  Here we go. So I really wanted the looks, Rosalia Nun sweatshirts. And I did post about it and then they sent me it. So you're not the only one here. Get some stuff.

• 17:29Mary Beth Barone?

  It's so unnerving.

• 17:32Benito Skinner?

  What?

• 17:33Mary Beth Barone?

  You have to bring show and tell next time.

• 17:34Benito Skinner?

  I know. I was trying to, I was looking around my place.

• 17:37Mary Beth Barone?

  There's so much cool stuff in your place you could just grab.

• 17:38Benito Skinner?

  I know. I just wanted it to be a, how could it be as special as, you know, Laszlo?

• 17:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Needless to say, I'm really happy. Brutalist is on Max, but it's leaving soon. So just keep that in mind. I don't know who's gonna nab up the rights, but it's leaving soon.

• 17:51Benito Skinner?

  Get your streams in.

• 17:52Mary Beth Barone?

  I wanted to talk about our new bits that we have. My new bit is, I'll never be cruel first.

• 17:57Benito Skinner?

  I love that.

• 17:58Mary Beth Barone?

  I'll never be cruel first. I'm not saying I'll never be cruel, but it's usually born in reaction to someone else being cruel.

• 18:05Benito Skinner?

  To me, though, your brand is called Cruel and it's a hair thing at Sephora.

• 18:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, and it's Peach the Mag or what did we decide? My fake magazine as well?

• 18:13Benito Skinner?

  Oh, I don't even know.

• 18:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Fruit the Mag or something?

• 18:15Benito Skinner?

  Oh, Fruit the Mag, yeah.

• 18:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Fruit the Mag. And then my brand is called Cruel, but it's spelled different.

• 18:19Benito Skinner?

  Cruel. Yeah, it's like C-R-O-O-L. That brand exists, by the way.

• 18:24Mary Beth Barone?

  But my t-shirts would say, I'll never be cruel on the front. And then on the back it says, first.

• 18:29Benito Skinner?

  I love this.

• 18:29Mary Beth Barone?

  It's just a little something I've been thinking about. Because I feel like it's like, I'm kind of putting people on blast lately, like anonymously, where I'll like tell a story about so and so that I dated or whatever. But it's like, I only feel comfortable sharing that because they were so awful to me and picked apart my entire personality. To the point where I actually, I actually had to look at everyone and go, no, I like stand by how I am. You know when someone's like poking at you and they're like trying to like pick you apart and it actually forces you to double down on everything you believe?

• 18:56Benito Skinner?

  Uh huh. Yeah. When you can find, well, my therapist and I have this, this thing that we talk about a lot, me and Brett. She's like, so this is called the self. We're, we're refining the self. And that can be really nice to get back there. Because also it's hard. Oh, I saw the best TikTok. That was somebody being like, it said, um, but you're not like that. And it goes, I was, I'm different. I've changed in the last 10 minutes. I'm different now.

• 19:19Mary Beth Barone?

  So I've actually.

• 19:20Benito Skinner?

  And I'll be different tomorrow.

• 19:21Mary Beth Barone?

  I've gone on a lot of growth journeys in the last 10 minutes and I'm different.

• 19:23Benito Skinner?

  And I'll be different. They were like, you said that a couple of years ago. No, no, that's something different.

• 19:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Someone, someone did a TikTok and I'm gonna post this and it's like, I can't do this anymore. I mean, I can and I obviously will, but I can't do this anymore.

• 19:35Benito Skinner?

  What was that? Um, oh, he must use a wishing well on me.

• 19:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, my God, he must have used a wishing willow, because what the fuck am I doing right now?

• 19:44Benito Skinner?

  Very us.

• 19:45Mary Beth Barone?

  So let's talk about your new bit, where I'm, when I walk.

• 19:47Benito Skinner?

  So my new bit is, okay, so I love this kind of, um, I don't know how to describe it. It's like, they all went to a masterclass. They haven't, it's not from my academy and we don't offer the class.

• 19:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Not Benny Drama Star Academy.

• 19:59Benito Skinner?

  It's not at the university, but it must be at a, it must be at Oxford. I always love that in Gatsby, it says Oxford.

• 20:07Mary Beth Barone?

  I forgot that.

• 20:08Benito Skinner?

  Isn't that interesting?

• 20:09Mary Beth Barone?

  I was thinking about if Gatsby was like, cuz I, never mind.

• 20:12Benito Skinner?

  You were thinking about West Egg?

• 20:13Mary Beth Barone?

  You're not invested in that, right?

• 20:15Benito Skinner?

  Nah.

• 20:16Mary Beth Barone?

  We'll talk about it later.

• 20:16Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 20:17Mary Beth Barone?

  It was a bit that I thought of, you kinda had to be in my brain for it to be funny.

• 20:20Benito Skinner?

  Okay, wait, so you can hear when I tap the table, right?

• 20:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 20:23Benito Skinner?

  Okay.

• 20:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Sit on your hands, be a good boy and sit on your hands.

• 20:27Benito Skinner?

  I actually will sit on my hand, oh, that's nice. That's nice. Oh yeah, I fucking like that.

• 20:33Mary Beth Barone?

  That'll be good for the sound.

• 20:35Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, yeah, that's good, right?

• 20:36Mary Beth Barone?

  If you wanna just keep doing that.

• 20:37Benito Skinner?

  Is that good, you guys? My bit is you're walking the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.

• 20:42Mary Beth Barone?

  It's their body positive year.

• 20:43Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, of course.

• 20:44Mary Beth Barone?

  Small boobs.

• 20:45Benito Skinner?

  Yes.

• 20:45Mary Beth Barone?

  We're getting a lot of plastic surgery next year. We'll talk about it offline.

• 20:48Benito Skinner?

  Really? Well, I asked if you wanted to go to Korea and you said no the other day.

• 20:51Mary Beth Barone?

  No, I don't want skin stuff. I want surg- major surgical procedures. BBL, fake boobs, elbowplasty.

• 20:59Benito Skinner?

  Oh, you need that. Your elbows are nasty, nasty. We were talking about how they made us very soft.

• 21:04Mary Beth Barone?

  My ears pinned forward.

• 21:05Benito Skinner?

  Hey, baby, can I talk to you cuz your elbows make me soft?

• 21:10Benito Skinner?

  Oh my god.

• 21:11Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh my god.

• 21:13Benito Skinner?

  So, picture this, Mary Beth, you should've walked. I have a lot of like, I have a lot of people I think should've walked.

• 21:18Mary Beth Barone?

  But I don't think I, okay.

• 21:19Benito Skinner?

  You spin around. Angel of my dreams. I'm the guy, front row. All the cameras are obviously on me because you're my, my woman, my wife. And it's me going.

• 21:35Mary Beth Barone?

  And then you-

• 21:36Benito Skinner?

  All my guys are, they're slapping me on the back. And then I drop trousers.

• 21:41Mary Beth Barone?

  You start jerking off.

• 21:42Benito Skinner?

  And I start drooling.

• 21:45Mary Beth Barone?

  And then you go, and that's the aristocrats. That's your aristocrats. You know that joke?

• 21:50Benito Skinner?

  What?

• 21:51Mary Beth Barone?

  It's like that famous joke structure where it's like, I don't know what the intro is, but then you say the nastiest thing you could possibly think of. And then the ending is that's the aristocrats. There's like a documentary about it. It's like a historical comedy thing. But I think you jerking off to me at the VS Fashion Show to completion certainly qualifies.

• 22:07Benito Skinner?

  You know this bit, starting this episode with like, hey, say hi to my mom and dad, everyone. This is range, y'all.

• 22:13Mary Beth Barone?

  We talk about the hard stuff on here.

• 22:15Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 22:16Mary Beth Barone?

  We're saying taint once per episode.

• 22:17Benito Skinner?

  I was watching Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, I couldn't help but think, cuz they, they panned to all the guys in a way that I'm like, okay, yeah, I know they're dating.

• 22:23Mary Beth Barone?

  The boyfriends?

• 22:24Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, I was like, go back to the, I wanna see the girls.

• 22:26Mary Beth Barone?

  Hmm, the habs, the husbands and boyfriends?

• 22:29Benito Skinner?

  Exactly, and them all there in black suits. They're like, I'm fucking king of the world. I've been cheating on this girl for six fucking years.

• 22:38Mary Beth Barone?

  They hit them after.

• 22:39Benito Skinner?

  I tell that girl she's not smart once a week.

• 22:42Mary Beth Barone?

  She always has to have the better story. But I think she looks good up there. She's not curious, though.

• 22:49Mary Beth Barone?

  She's just not, she's just not curious.

• 22:52Benito Skinner?

  I don't need to be curious. Some of you have sent me where you think Curious George is, but no one exactly knows. It's very Amelia Earhart.

• 23:01Mary Beth Barone?

  Imagine telling a bisexual Gemini that she's not curious.

• 23:05Benito Skinner?

  There's nothing you're not curious about.

• 23:06Mary Beth Barone?

  You don't know me at all.

• 23:07Benito Skinner?

  You are curious about everything.

• 23:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Just we do.

• 23:10Benito Skinner?

  Just we tell them that.

• 23:11Mary Beth Barone?

  Hmm. Crumpy.

• 23:14Benito Skinner?

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• 23:59Benito Skinner?

  Do you get this? Are you listening, honeybee? Also, I'm doing these alone cuz Mary Beth's shooting her movie with Joe Owen and Lisa. Article offers fast, affordable shipping across the US and Canada, with options for professional assembly if you prefer a hands-off experience. Hell yeah. They have a 30-day satisfaction guarantee, which obviously we didn't have to use on Mary Beth's cook chair. Actually, Article, I'm gonna send you an email. I want some new stuff. With Article's 30-day satisfaction guarantee, you can shop with confidence, knowing that if you're not completely in love with your new furniture, you can easily return it. This peace of mind ensures you can invest in your home without hesitation. Article is offering our listeners $50 off your first purchase of $100 or more.

• 24:42Benito Skinner?

  That was read in such a different way. That was such a cool read. Alright, keep it. To claim, visit article.com/ride and the discount will be automatically applied at checkout. That's article.com/ride for $50 off your first purchase of $100 or more. NoCD, 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.

• 25:26Benito Skinner?

  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. 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,

• 26:08Benito Skinner?

  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, 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.

• 26:52Benito Skinner?

  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.

• 27:01Mary Beth Barone?

  With Tinder group hangouts.

• 27:03Benito Skinner?

  Oh, come on. Don't choke on your words. It's Tinder.

• 27:06Mary Beth Barone?

  It's Tinder. The group chat can actually go somewhere, cuz you know how the group chat goes. Someone throws out, what's the move tonight? And it turns into 40 messages, three polls, a bunch of reactions, maybe even, what's that, a doodle?

• 27:18Benito Skinner?

  Oh, a doodle.

• 27:19Mary Beth Barone?

  And then zero decisions.

• 27:21Benito Skinner?

  So with group hangouts, you and your friends pick an activity. It can be drinks, mini golf, karaoke, motherfucker, whatever sounds like the fun move for you and your friends. Then you can find another group who are looking for the same vibe. No blind date, no forced pairing, just your people doing something you were already gonna do, except now there's a possibility for new connections, and maybe romance.

• 27:42Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm learning about this feature for the first time as well.

• 27:44Benito Skinner?

  I know, I've known about it for a while.

• 27:45Mary Beth Barone?

  You've been using it quite frequently.

• 27:47Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 27:47Mary Beth Barone?

  With the group chat, there's no pressure on any one person to carry the conversation. You're just planning a night out that happens to include some new faces. Tinder makes that easy to do. Here's what I love about this. Tinder said, in the words of Catherine Hudson, I'm not just one thing.

• 27:59Benito Skinner?

  Exactly. Tinder has always been where connections, wait, should I do that?

• 28:02Mary Beth Barone?

  You missed part of it. Hey, hey, hang on, hang on, hang on.

• 28:05Benito Skinner?

  Easy, Sally. Maybe you all become friends. Maybe two people hit it off. Maybe three people hit it off.

• 28:11Mary Beth Barone?

  Ooh.

• 28:11Benito Skinner?

  Eesh. Either way, I, I wanna tell people to do that more during sex and dates, going, eesh.

• 28:17Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm not sure I could do that, even if I wanted to.

• 28:19Benito Skinner?

  Either way, you had a good night with your friends, which was never in question.

• 28:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Tinder has always been where connections start. Now it's where you bring your friends along for the ride. Oh, yeah.

• 28:28Benito Skinner?

  Come on!

• 28:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Try Tinder Group Hangouts. Bring your friends, pick a plan, meet new people. Download Tinder today.

• 28:34Benito Skinner?

  Of course. I mean, hey, what could go wrong?

• 28:37Mary Beth Barone?

  I mean, it's not the craziest idea. Should we get into what we ride for?

• 28:41Benito Skinner?

  Oh, I forgot what I'm riding for.

• 28:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Big swings.

• 28:43Benito Skinner?

  Ah, big swings.

• 28:45Mary Beth Barone?

  And I'm riding for the secret trip that my friends take. Well, actually, no. I'm riding for the secret trip that my friends and I take.

• 28:52Benito Skinner?

  Got it.

• 28:53Mary Beth Barone?

  I just wanted to make sure everyone knows that I'm also on the trip.

• 28:56Benito Skinner?

  Add the N-die.

• 28:58Mary Beth Barone?

  It's cleaner. I'll go first.

• 29:00Benito Skinner?

  I think so, too.

• 29:01Mary Beth Barone?

  So, I have this-

• 29:02Benito Skinner?

  I think so, too.

• 29:04Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm a pro-.

• 29:06Benito Skinner?

  I'm a pro-.

• 29:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Tariat. I have this group of friends from high school, my high school friends, also known as home friends in some circles.

• 29:12Benito Skinner?

  Of course, I call them the girls.

• 29:14Mary Beth Barone?

  The girls.

• 29:14Benito Skinner?

  Hey, I call them my friends.

• 29:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Your friends. I'm just gonna say it right now. We have Julia, Emily, Lauren, Ari, Jake, Lauren, Oriana, and Rachel.

• 29:24Benito Skinner?

  Lauren.

• 29:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Lauren.

• 29:25Benito Skinner?

  And Ralph.

• 29:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Lauren.

• 29:27Benito Skinner?

  And Lauren B.

• 29:29Mary Beth Barone?

  Lauren.

• 29:31Benito Skinner?

  That's for the fashion files.

• 29:33Mary Beth Barone?

  So this core group of friends, we've now been friends for 20 years. And I guess this was pre pandemic around 2017, 2018. I forget who presented this idea, but I'm sure they're gonna tell me. They started following you on Instagram. That kind of changed everything.

• 29:47Benito Skinner?

  I am.

• 29:48Mary Beth Barone?

  So at some point, someone said that they had heard about this thing from another group of friends, where the group picks a four day weekend to go on a trip.

• 29:57Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 29:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Two people in the group plan the trip and no one else knows where we're going.

• 30:02Benito Skinner?

  So fun.

• 30:03Mary Beth Barone?

  Until three days before. So two people have to keep this under lock and key. They get all the flights together. They do all the itinerary while we're there, accommodations, everything like that. So the first trip we went on was to Mexico City.

• 30:15Benito Skinner?

  Fun.

• 30:16Mary Beth Barone?

  And it was fun because they sent letters for the reveal. So we all got letters in the mail and then we had to open them on like on FaceTime together to find out where we were going and.

• 30:24Benito Skinner?

  You are now a student at Hogwarts School of Technology.

• 30:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Yes, invited. So it was really fun and exciting and it builds buzz. And it's just like this cool thing where you can kind of go on vacation with your friends. It's not surrounding like an event, like a wedding or, or a bachelorette or a birthday or anything like that. Some people live on the West Coast, some on the East Coast. So it's, it's fun to also have to find locations that make sense for everyone travel wise.

• 30:48Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 30:48Mary Beth Barone?

  So we did Mexico City first, which was incredible and I learned so much. Very hard to find Mexican Xanax though. I guess for us, maybe it's not for everyone, but for us it was.

• 30:57Benito Skinner?

  Interesting. I would have totally not thought that.

• 30:59Mary Beth Barone?

  No, yeah, it was confusing. Second time we did it, we went to Sedona. Where there's a lot of alien stuff. We all had our cards read. There was a lot of like vortexes and.

• 31:09Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 31:10Mary Beth Barone?

  It's very, it's like, yeah.

• 31:11Benito Skinner?

  It's like Burning Man, like very Joshua Tree.

• 31:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Exactly. Dry heat.

• 31:18Benito Skinner?

  Yes, capes with an eye, like a glitter eye on them. I'm seeing all of it.

• 31:21Mary Beth Barone?

  And hiking and stuff like that.

• 31:22Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 31:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Third trip we did, I believe was Jersey Shore, which I planned and we went to.

• 31:27Benito Skinner?

  That's one Kate May?

• 31:28Mary Beth Barone?

  I can't remember what it was called, but it was really cute. We rented a big house. Look at you.

• 31:32Benito Skinner?

  Hey.

• 31:32Mary Beth Barone?

  And Pinky was on that one.

• 31:34Benito Skinner?

  Brush your shoulder off challenge?

• 31:35Mary Beth Barone?

  I think so.

• 31:35Benito Skinner?

  Thank you.

• 31:36Mary Beth Barone?

  I got, I got written permission to bring Pinky on the one because the Jersey Shore ones, which I helped plan, I had to leave early to go film overcompensating.

• 31:43Benito Skinner?

  Whoa. Oh, I remember this.

• 31:45Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. Then the last one, it was season one. Last one was Driftwood, Texas. There's one coming up, which I am unfortunately going to miss. But it's such a fun trip and like, what a cool idea. It's like, take the stress out and just put the stress on two people in the group.

• 31:58Benito Skinner?

  They look over and they go, wait, I thought Mary Beth was coming and it's Barry Metzgeron.

• 32:03Mary Beth Barone?

  It's you in the galaxy brain dress.

• 32:04Benito Skinner?

  And I go, hey, guys.

• 32:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 32:07Benito Skinner?

  I do dry delivery all day.

• 32:10Benito Skinner?

  I do your whole bit.

• 32:11Mary Beth Barone?

  Service workers spitting your food.

• 32:12Benito Skinner?

  It was fun for 15 minutes.

• 32:14Mary Beth Barone?

  They go, you can just be you if you want.

• 32:16Benito Skinner?

  It was like tough.

• 32:17Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, yeah. We're kind of like, we missed her, but like you can do your own thing.

• 32:21Benito Skinner?

  Hey, no worries. Um, wait, where is it this year?

• 32:24Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't know yet.

• 32:25Benito Skinner?

  Oh.

• 32:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Cause it's not revealed.

• 32:26Benito Skinner?

  They should tell me. It'd be fun to hold that secret.

• 32:28Mary Beth Barone?

  They won't even tell their spouses.

• 32:30Benito Skinner?

  Okay, I'll text Jake.

• 32:30Mary Beth Barone?

  That's the thing. Text Jake. He doesn't know, but yeah.

• 32:33Benito Skinner?

  Oh, he wouldn't know?

• 32:34Mary Beth Barone?

  He's not planning it.

• 32:35Benito Skinner?

  Which, who's planning it?

• 32:36Mary Beth Barone?

  Ori and Lauren Pryle.

• 32:38Benito Skinner?

  I don't have Ori's number.

• 32:39Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. Well, you should get it.

• 32:40Benito Skinner?

  Do I have Lauren B. Lauren?

• 32:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Maybe.

• 32:42Benito Skinner?

  Lauren Jr.?

• 32:43Mary Beth Barone?

  But it's just fun and it's like I said, it's just nice to sort of get together and just be like regressed to your high school self and just have fun and giggle with the girls. Although the first year we did it, there was a major, major meltdown over a game of salad bowl.

• 32:56Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 32:56Mary Beth Barone?

  When you pick the thing out and it's like three rounds.

• 32:58Benito Skinner?

  It can be fishbowl too. I don't know. It's just depending on the state you're in, I guess.

• 33:02Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't remember what happened, what the beef was, but I think I left the room. I wasn't happy with how some of the people were playing.

• 33:09Benito Skinner?

  Go where you're wanted.

• 33:10Mary Beth Barone?

  Go, go where you're liked.

• 33:12Benito Skinner?

  Go where you're liked, go where you're wanted.

• 33:13Mary Beth Barone?

  I didn't like how people were playing, manipulating the rules.

• 33:15Benito Skinner?

  I tried to play that game, but with my parents and they were on my team and it's like, obviously I'm like, I'm a pop culture savant. You have to split them up. But what my, I knew my mom would get was Bad Bunny because we could act that out. But there were just some.

• 33:29Mary Beth Barone?

  You have to have more than one though, that they're gonna get.

• 33:31Benito Skinner?

  But I think I've said this before where my mom couldn't understand board games because it's like, moms are like, there's so many other things I could be doing right now. Why there's, it's like how you say that no like woman would be a magician.

• 33:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Right, right.

• 33:41Benito Skinner?

  It's like, it's about tricking people. It's like, I don't have fucking time.

• 33:43Mary Beth Barone?

  We have other shit. We gotta cook. We have to clean. We have to get like work and provide for the family. We have to raise the children and get rights and stuff too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

• 33:52Benito Skinner?

  And so, um, we were playing the passcode game. And I think, do you know where you're trying to get like the words or whatever? And then.

• 34:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Catchphrase or something.

• 34:00Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, catchphrase. Um, and oh no, it's, what's it called? It's a, I think it might be called code names.

• 34:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Code name. That, that's the one with the cards.

• 34:08Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, the cards.

• 34:08Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 34:09Benito Skinner?

  Well, one was Paris and you know, you try to get as many as you can with it.

• 34:12Mary Beth Barone?

  But you don't want to get the bomb one.

• 34:13Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. And my mom just goes France. So she got one point.

• 34:16Mary Beth Barone?

  Exactly.

• 34:17Benito Skinner?

  And I go major.

• 34:17Mary Beth Barone?

  Slow and steady. Well, you know, I play Scrabble for speed.

• 34:20Benito Skinner?

  Oh, cool.

• 34:21Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't play for points.

• 34:22Benito Skinner?

  That's cool. I like that.

• 34:23Mary Beth Barone?

  I just want the game to keep moving and let's just try out those tiles. We'll just see what happens.

• 34:27Benito Skinner?

  That's really fun.

• 34:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, that's a little thing that I've come up with. And so when people start like making TikToks about that, as they've done with the kissing game, kind of trying to like claim it as their own. Just know that like they learned it from me.

• 34:37Benito Skinner?

  Total. Oh, girl. She's got that attitude.

• 34:42Mary Beth Barone?

  So I.

• 34:42Benito Skinner?

  I'm the most famous person alive. But I loved Yahtzee by the way. I just wanted to tell you I love Yahtzee.

• 34:49Mary Beth Barone?

  I highly recommend you attempt to do this with your, with your group of friends, wherever you may be. And it's a lot easier if you're all in one city because you can kind of leave out of the same airport and stuff.

• 34:58Benito Skinner?

  You know what I love about it? It's like you do have to make effort to have experiences as an adult with your friends. You have to make that effort or else it will not happen. So I think that's really beautiful. And to have it be like a planned thing that you can kind of always keep like, maybe something open with. But it's really hard in our industry to do that because on a dime you can book the new Godzilla movie and like have to go do it. That's what you're shooting.

• 35:23Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm going to shoot Godzilla.

• 35:25Benito Skinner?

  Well, Mary Beth's shooting Godzilla with Joe Alwyn. And then what else is she doing?

• 35:28Mary Beth Barone?

  That's the movie.

• 35:29Benito Skinner?

  I'm doing that with her.

• 35:30Mary Beth Barone?

  People keep asking me where it films. It's New York.

• 35:32Benito Skinner?

  It's New York. It's Godzilla.

• 35:33Mary Beth Barone?

  It's Godzilla.

• 35:34Benito Skinner?

  Where else would he be? Come on.

• 35:35Mary Beth Barone?

  I also just want to say it's a travel privilege, first of all. Second of all, my, my friends chose good husbands, so they don't have to stress about the childcare because they leave their kids with the fathers.

• 35:48Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. Which is not just leaving, they're just with a parent.

• 35:51Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 35:52Benito Skinner?

  Yeah. I'm like, oh, cool. They're with their parent. That tracks.

• 35:56Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 35:57Benito Skinner?

  That feels right. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I guess he is that.

• 35:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, yeah.

• 36:00Benito Skinner?

  Oh, yeah. No, for sure.

• 36:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 36:03Benito Skinner?

  Um, well, that's fabulous.

• 36:05Mary Beth Barone?

  It's really fabulous and it's fun. It's like, it's sisterhood and stuff.

• 36:08Benito Skinner?

  But is no one, no one new can join it. It's like just the core sisterhood.

• 36:12Mary Beth Barone?

  You know, my mom and her friends, her group of friends call themselves the Yaya's. They do Yaya weekends once a month.

• 36:17Benito Skinner?

  I, as a kid, there's, I never saw it and I still, I don't know if I have, but I want to.

• 36:21Mary Beth Barone?

  We should watch it.

• 36:22Benito Skinner?

  The Divine Secrets of the Yaya Sisterhood.

• 36:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, no, then a movie.

• 36:25Benito Skinner?

  Well, it's the Divine Secrets of the Yaya Sisterhood.

• 36:27Mary Beth Barone?

  Secrets of the Yaya Sisterhood.

• 36:28Benito Skinner?

  And Mona Lisa's smile. I thought about him a lot.

• 36:31Mary Beth Barone?

  We have, we have discussed a spouse trip where the spouses can come, but.

• 36:35Benito Skinner?

  So me.

• 36:35Mary Beth Barone?

  So you would be my plus one. Yeah. If that's cool.

• 36:38Benito Skinner?

  I would love that.

• 36:39Mary Beth Barone?

  We would have to book the weekend pretty far in advance because someone's pretty busy with press.

• 36:45Benito Skinner?

  If you're gonna talk about yourself, just say it. She's so, she's so up her ass. Whoa. Oh my God. He's so mad at you right now.

• 36:53Mary Beth Barone?

  Let's get, let's talk about, um, big swings.

• 36:55Benito Skinner?

  So big swings. I, I had kind of talked to you about this a little bit where I was so, actually let me think of where to start on a big swing.

• 37:05Mary Beth Barone?

  At the beginning.

• 37:09Benito Skinner?

  Eve took a big swing when she defiled the world with the taste of one apple. She took the biggest swing of all. And the fall of humankind began.

• 37:20Mary Beth Barone?

  Wait, did you know people kind of like fuck with the devil now? Cause he's like punishing people for being bad.

• 37:25Benito Skinner?

  You met me, honey.

• 37:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, I know you did a deal with him.

• 37:29Benito Skinner?

  I know hell exists because where else are the people in LA gonna go?

• 37:32Mary Beth Barone?

  That was your.

• 37:33Benito Skinner?

  Turn your time. We don't even want to stay. It's still alive. The baddest bitch was in LA.

• 37:42Mary Beth Barone?

  Stanford. That's, that's the sound on TikTok going viral. Oh, yeah.

• 37:47Benito Skinner?

  Damn Boise, Idaho.

• 37:49Mary Beth Barone?

  In Boise, Idaho, I'm Princess Diana.

• 37:52Benito Skinner?

  I'm Princess Diana. Check the hair. Me touching down in Boise. Hmm, I don't know. Like, yes, of course. Sure.

• 38:03Mary Beth Barone?

  You're going to see Miss Rocktober?

• 38:05Benito Skinner?

  Oh my God. Wait, whoever wins, congrats. I don't know who won, but we.

• 38:09Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm still trying to get their marquee.

• 38:12Benito Skinner?

  I know. We need your, we need that marquee also. Did you, did you need an email?

• 38:17Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 38:17Benito Skinner?

  Was my dad helping you with that?

• 38:19Mary Beth Barone?

  I was gonna call him, but then I realized I only had your brother in law's number.

• 38:23Benito Skinner?

  Oh, yeah. Well, I can send you my dad's today. He would take care of that in like five minutes. I mean, I'm just picturing my parents entering that strip club and they'd be happy to do it.

• 38:31Mary Beth Barone?

  We say, we have a business opportunity. They have $20,000 cash.

• 38:35Benito Skinner?

  By the way, Torch two, there's two of them. They made a sequel strip club. How cool is that?

• 38:40Mary Beth Barone?

  I want both.

• 38:40Benito Skinner?

  That taught me that sequels can work and they can be just as good as the original. So big swings. Talk about a big swing. It can be sequels. It can be.

• 38:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Starting a podcast.

• 38:49Benito Skinner?

  It can be starting a podcast. It can be making your very first Instagram video reel.

• 38:57Mary Beth Barone?

  It can be, it can be ending a podcast.

• 39:00Benito Skinner?

  It can be quitting said podcast. No, we're never gonna do that.

• 39:04Mary Beth Barone?

  That's like hypothetical.

• 39:05Benito Skinner?

  That's hypothetical.

• 39:06Mary Beth Barone?

  It's about other people.

• 39:07Benito Skinner?

  It's about everything. And to me, it's like, I think I love when someone takes a big swing because sometimes it's not always understood the first time. I think CXOXO is a big swing.

• 39:17Mary Beth Barone?

  Mm hmm.

• 39:18Benito Skinner?

  Because it's very different than what she had done sonically. I think the visuals were very different. It's a big swing. I think Lord doing solar power, a big swing. It's a, it's completely different.

• 39:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Are you coming out of the closet?

• 39:29Benito Skinner?

  Oh my God. I like it up the butt.

• 39:35Benito Skinner?

  Come on. Do we still have a ride out of context?

• 39:37Mary Beth Barone?

  This went literally like, uh, this went from like, this one, this just went platinum. We were so, sort of chugging along, you know? We were on the, we were on the straightened path and then it just went, it went.

• 39:53Benito Skinner?

  So.

• 39:57Benito Skinner?

  The baddest bitches in LA.

• 39:59Mary Beth Barone?

  I want to pick back the character friend that won't affirm you.

• 40:01Benito Skinner?

  No, don't. It like hurts me. It like awakens something to me. Cause I went to school where it was like a bunch of Republicans like you. And they would say things and I'd be like, a woman should have the right to her own body. And they're like, you're a baby killer.

• 40:17Benito Skinner?

  And I said, maybe you're.

• 40:18Mary Beth Barone?

  That's not, that's not your friend that won't affirm you.

• 40:22Benito Skinner?

  That is.

• 40:22Mary Beth Barone?

  No, your friend that won't affirm you is when you're like, when you're trying to.

• 40:26Benito Skinner?

  Isn't that what it is? Oh, no, I think babies, those are babies. Those are human life.

• 40:30Mary Beth Barone?

  That's not, that's not a friend.

• 40:32Benito Skinner?

  I feel, don't you feel like those are.

• 40:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Political differences.

• 40:36Benito Skinner?

  Baby, isn't it all the same?

• 40:41Benito Skinner?

  So, a big swing, solar power.

• 40:43Mary Beth Barone?

  We're a little bit buzzed right now.

• 40:45Benito Skinner?

  Brat, we are. Brat. Big swing.

• 40:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, um, Eddington.

• 40:52Benito Skinner?

  Paddington soup. Wait, isn't he in Peru? That's a big swing. I go, the fuck is that bear doing in Peru?

• 40:58Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, what? He has a passport?

• 41:00Benito Skinner?

  I go, okay, so that bear got a boat. Who gave the bear a yacht?

• 41:05Benito Skinner?

  Who put that bear on a plane? Okay, so that's a big swing. What else? Dolly Parton making a theme park? What a big fucking swing that is.

• 41:13Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 41:14Benito Skinner?

  I just, I think that people get scared. There are rock concerts outside? I love New York!

• 41:21Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, you know, I called the cops before we knew that cops were bad. Cause someone was playing Linkin Park really loud outside my apartment, out of their car.

• 41:27Benito Skinner?

  That's fine.

• 41:28Mary Beth Barone?

  I feel like they were white.

• 41:29Benito Skinner?

  Well, cause also, yeah, they were. And confirmed. But also, um, you can do like a neighborhood watch number.

• 41:36Mary Beth Barone?

  It's 311, but they were just like, we don't care.

• 41:39Benito Skinner?

  Oh, cool.

• 41:40Mary Beth Barone?

  I was like, but I'm trying to sleep.

• 41:41Benito Skinner?

  You are? Like, it was funny. I just rewatched Us and they had a joke about how you kind of like have to wait.

• 41:46Mary Beth Barone?

  On the cops?

• 41:47Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, for like, to like, yeah, they're like, they'll be here in 25 minutes. It's like, what? Like when the one came to my house. I hope she's good, by the way.

• 41:58Mary Beth Barone?

  We'll talk to her. We'll talk to her. We'll reach out.

• 42:01Benito Skinner?

  I think she could do other things, but I guess it's good to have like a mole. She's our traitor.

• 42:04Mary Beth Barone?

  I'd love a general meeting with her.

• 42:06Benito Skinner?

  Of course.

• 42:06Mary Beth Barone?

  Just to see like what she's thinking.

• 42:08Benito Skinner?

  We still want a mugshot, right?

• 42:09Mary Beth Barone?

  I really am desperately wanting a mugshot.

• 42:11Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 42:11Mary Beth Barone?

  We both want him, I thought.

• 42:13Benito Skinner?

  Hmm, I just, I think I did, but if it's only one picture.

• 42:17Mary Beth Barone?

  You let that dream go.

• 42:18Benito Skinner?

  I want to do selects. So, another, um, I'm just thinking of big swings. Do you have any like to throw, you'd like to throw in here?

• 42:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Big swings, like.

• 42:26Benito Skinner?

  Time jumps, Riverdale.

• 42:28Mary Beth Barone?

  Proposing to somebody.

• 42:30Benito Skinner?

  Take a big swing.

• 42:30Mary Beth Barone?

  Even if you know they're gonna say yes.

• 42:32Benito Skinner?

  Here's my thing to all my straight guys out there. Do it a little bit earlier than she would think.

• 42:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 42:38Benito Skinner?

  That's what I'm saying. Do it like four months too early. Date two. Before you even fuck her.

• 42:47Benito Skinner?

  Right?

• 42:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 42:48Benito Skinner?

  I think that's like, that's a big swing. Um, saying I love you first is a big swing.

• 42:54Mary Beth Barone?

  I have to, I have to tell you about a big swing.

• 42:56Benito Skinner?

  Joe Calderon is a big swing.

• 42:58Mary Beth Barone?

  That one of the bigger swings.

• 42:59Benito Skinner?

  Nicki Minaj pre-Trump doing Roman Holiday at the Grammys, big swing. MIA at the Super Bowl going.

• 43:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Emma, Emma, Emma.

• 43:08Benito Skinner?

  MIA, big swing.

• 43:10Mary Beth Barone?

  So, you remember the, you remember the guy that we met at Little Ruby's?

• 43:15Mary Beth Barone?

  Who I went on, I went to get drinks with?

• 43:17Benito Skinner?

  Yes, yeah, of course.

• 43:18Mary Beth Barone?

  I got the screenshot from someone who shall remain nameless, but they matched with him on a dating app. And I guess they're a comedian as well. So, he goes, the last date I went on was with a comedian. Do you think we'll have better luck? And then she goes, which one? And he goes, will this determine if we go on a date? And she goes, it would determine if we'd have better luck? And he goes, Mary Beth Barone. And she goes, then the answer is no.

• 43:40Benito Skinner?

  Wait, sisterhood. That's the divine secrets of the yaya sisterhood.

• 43:43Mary Beth Barone?

  Sisterhood. It's a big swing.

• 43:45Benito Skinner?

  Um, that's a huge swing. Um, asking someone out on a date, moving to New York. Going to Times Square one day.

• 43:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Buying property.

• 43:53Benito Skinner?

  Buying property.

• 43:55Mary Beth Barone?

  One. You should have one, not multiple.

• 43:58Benito Skinner?

  I like that. I'm fair. I think that's cool. My dad randomly was like, what if we had a vacation house? And I'm like, that's so random. But then he got over it. It was just kind of like he.

• 44:06Mary Beth Barone?

  At a time like this?

• 44:07Benito Skinner?

  I think his chai tea hit and he got bold.

• 44:09Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 44:09Benito Skinner?

  Um, so, he's like, my dad loves his tazo chai.

• 44:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, it's good.

• 44:15Benito Skinner?

  Period. But, um, another big swing, um.

• 44:19Mary Beth Barone?

  Getting a driver's license.

• 44:21Benito Skinner?

  Such a big swing. Starting a business, but only if you're a woman.

• 44:25Mary Beth Barone?

  Necessary and not a t-shirt brand, unless you're doing it a little different.

• 44:29Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, unless it's different and I like the fit and it's actually kind of a cool take on a classic.

• 44:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Being the son of a restaurateur and opening a restaurant yourself.

• 44:36Benito Skinner?

  Oh, that's such a big swing. Cause it's like.

• 44:38Mary Beth Barone?

  Cause it's like, will you measure up to daddy?

• 44:40Benito Skinner?

  Totally. It's like Nepo restaurant.

• 44:41Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, it's a Nepo restaurant.

• 44:43Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, that's cool.

• 44:43Mary Beth Barone?

  I think becoming a doctor is a big swing. Like, how do you know you're gonna want to do that forever?

• 44:47Benito Skinner?

  Making the big choice of like changing up your life.

• 44:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Of a life.

• 44:50Benito Skinner?

  It's like a big swing. Just take it and go. Recently, um, Marshall said to me, what color bathroom? And we just said, royal blue.

• 44:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Blur.

• 45:00Benito Skinner?

  And we did it. It's blue cheese.

• 45:01Mary Beth Barone?

  What's the alternative to a big swing? You're gonna, you're gonna bunt? You're gonna bunt every?

• 45:05Benito Skinner?

  I can't have a white, I have a, well, I don't want a white wall.

• 45:08Mary Beth Barone?

  You can't just bun every.

• 45:10Benito Skinner?

  You can't say bun unless, cause I just think my big fat Greek wedding. Bun.

• 45:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Bun.

• 45:14Benito Skinner?

  A bong cap? Bent.

• 45:17Mary Beth Barone?

  Bun.

• 45:19Benito Skinner?

  There's no like down part of that movie, is what I realized when I watched it. Like the, the.

• 45:24Mary Beth Barone?

  Don't they break up?

• 45:25Benito Skinner?

  It's like very quick.

• 45:26Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm okay with that.

• 45:27Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, what, I, it's really nice. There's another movie that does that and it's Chef.

• 45:31Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm, I don't think I've seen that recently enough.

• 45:33Benito Skinner?

  Jon Favreau's Chef.

• 45:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Chef. I need to see, you can see everything. I have tickets to go.

• 45:39Benito Skinner?

  When are you going? Why aren't you going with me?

• 45:41Mary Beth Barone?

  We'll talk after. It's nothing like that. It's nothing like that. I had to get tickets in advance. A-Lister?

• 45:49Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 45:50Mary Beth Barone?

  You've been gone for a month.

• 45:51Benito Skinner?

  Sorry, baby. LA was calling and I had to pick up.

• 45:55Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm changing your name on my phone to A-Lister.

• 45:57Benito Skinner?

  I am. Um, another big swing.

• 46:00Mary Beth Barone?

  Writing a TV show about yourself.

• 46:03Benito Skinner?

  What else is a big swing?

• 46:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Texting on the pod.

• 46:08Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, and being, being honest. Like, see, it just, I don't know. There's something about it. Obviously, I like when women do it more, cause it just tends to be like for the masses as opposed to self-serving.

• 46:17Mary Beth Barone?

  You know what I just thought about? I think, well, there, I've been thinking about a lot of stuff. I think when women make bad decisions, it affects themselves. And when men make bad decisions, it affects other people. It's just what I've been thinking about.

• 46:28Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 46:30Mary Beth Barone?

  So.

• 46:30Benito Skinner?

  Yeah.

• 46:32Mary Beth Barone?

  I just wanted to put that out there. So, that's that.

• 46:35Benito Skinner?

  Well, you know my thing about straight guys and intrusive thoughts.

• 46:40Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. Do you want to say it?

• 46:41Benito Skinner?

  You can say it.

• 46:42Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't want to. Also, I've stopped asking questions I don't want the answers to.

• 46:46Benito Skinner?

  Whoa, that's a big swing.

• 46:47Mary Beth Barone?

  Changed my life.

• 46:47Benito Skinner?

  That's a big swing.

• 46:48Mary Beth Barone?

  I'm not asking anymore.

• 46:49Benito Skinner?

  Anything that's a shift in how you, wait, you know what's a big swing? Picture, it's 12:30. Let's go to a diner.

• 46:55Mary Beth Barone?

  Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I'm seeing some TikToks of people getting breakfast with friends before work. How cool is that?

• 47:01Benito Skinner?

  That is so cute. A cup of joe with your bestie love.

• 47:04Mary Beth Barone?

  And eggs on a weekday?

• 47:06Benito Skinner?

  You're at Egglet.

• 47:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Child wonder. Oh, and I do think the secret trip is somewhat of a child wonder. It's like, you're going away. It's like your parents plan the vacation, they're surprising you.

• 47:15Benito Skinner?

  Exactly. It's like you won some like free vacation, but you're paying and, and your friends kind of picked it for you.

• 47:21Mary Beth Barone?

  And you all have different budgets that you can pay.

• 47:23Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, that's such a cool vibe. I love that. It's a common dating and it's thoughtful and it's true friendship. It's making time for. All, all people want is that you give a fuck about them.

• 47:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 47:32Benito Skinner?

  You know what I mean?

• 47:33Mary Beth Barone?

  Reach out.

• 47:33Benito Skinner?

  And that shows that to me. That you care about each other. I think that's really beautiful. I would love everyone to send me their big swings. Email them to [email protected]. But, um, but yeah, just lately I've been like, fuck it. I made some big swings. This year I moved to New York and I'm like.

• 47:50Mary Beth Barone?

  Ambition.

• 47:51Benito Skinner?

  Come on, this is a exactly big swing. And I was like, I'm gonna, you know what? I took a big swing. How about a second one? Swing, badda, badda.

• 47:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Getting a huge jacked body.

• 48:01Benito Skinner?

  Getting big fucking titties. You notice?

• 48:04Mary Beth Barone?

  My BBL is a big swing.

• 48:05Benito Skinner?

  Yeah, it's a big swing.

• 48:06Mary Beth Barone?

  And I'm getting lipos.

• 48:08Benito Skinner?

  Me, me a BS.

• 48:09Mary Beth Barone?

  But not where you think.

• 48:12Mary Beth Barone?

  My lipos not where you think.

• 48:14Benito Skinner?

  I, when they pan back to me, I said, during your comeback, finger and ass.

• 48:20Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah. Where would you, where would you come? Chest?

• 48:25Benito Skinner?

  Chest. I'm a stomach comer.

• 48:28Mary Beth Barone?

  That's awesome. I haven't seen that because we haven't gotten there yet.

• 48:33Benito Skinner?

  Yet. We haven't finished.

• 48:35Mary Beth Barone?

  Hey, it's, it's only 2026.

• 48:37Benito Skinner?

  The night is still young. Me, me auditioning for American Idol. How do we sit quietly and watch the world pass by? And they're like, is that Nikki? And I'm like, I don't support her politics, but yes, is one of my favorite songs.

• 48:54Mary Beth Barone?

  Do we have to do Ride or Die? I feel like it goes without saying.

• 48:57Benito Skinner?

  I think we have to, babe, because it's like this is the format that we set for the pod. So certainly we have to.

• 49:01Mary Beth Barone?

  I've been begging to break format. I've been begging to do an episode where we don't ride for anything. We just do chatting.

• 49:07Benito Skinner?

  We'll do it on the next one.

• 49:08Mary Beth Barone?

  Well, it's hitchhikes, but before years end.

• 49:11Benito Skinner?

  Before years end, it's just gonna be like, let's just talk. What will it be called?

• 49:17Benito Skinner?

  Bus stop.

• 49:18Mary Beth Barone?

  Okay. In a.

• 49:20Benito Skinner?

  Stoplight. We just stop and talk.

• 49:23Mary Beth Barone?

  Over moon, earth quake.

• 49:26Benito Skinner?

  Over moon.

• 49:27Mary Beth Barone?

  The earth is moving.

• 49:29Benito Skinner?

  I'm, okay, I come. And then she walks out. It's my favorite.

• 49:32Mary Beth Barone?

  So, I ride for big swings. I mean, my whole life has been a big swing, really.

• 49:36Benito Skinner?

  A league of their own?

• 49:37Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah, sixth child, third girl. There's already three boys.

• 49:41Benito Skinner?

  Oh, remember Velma on HBO? The cartoon? Velma's kind of a lesbian. That's a big swing. I had fun.

• 49:49Mary Beth Barone?

  Hmm.

• 49:50Benito Skinner?

  My thing is, yeah, totally. And I, um, yeah, there's all kinds. I don't know. I can't, I'm gonna think about more.

• 49:55Mary Beth Barone?

  I think this is gonna be a theme for the rest of the pod.

• 49:58Benito Skinner?

  It's big swings.

• 49:59Mary Beth Barone?

  Yeah.

• 49:59Benito Skinner?

  We, uh, we've ridden for a lot of big swings.

• 50:02Mary Beth Barone?

  Totally. Info pause can be big swings.

• 50:04Benito Skinner?

  When you're feminine is when you're young.

• 50:05Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 50:06Benito Skinner?

  Try pitching that in a room.

• 50:07Mary Beth Barone?

  Try to, try explaining that to an executive.

• 50:10Benito Skinner?

  Pick up your phone, I'm on the request line.

• 50:15Benito Skinner?

  She played that and they were all like, oh.

• 50:17Mary Beth Barone?

  Fuck. It's got some stank on it.

• 50:20Benito Skinner?

  I keep thinking about shit. It smells like turkey in here every time I see someone's hairline.

• 50:24Mary Beth Barone?

  I think he shaved it for fjord.

• 50:26Benito Skinner?

  No, I know. And it's not for turkey. I just.

• 50:28Mary Beth Barone?

  It's just for fun. We're having fun. We're, we're cultural commentators.

• 50:32Benito Skinner?

  In a way. I think we're participants. We, we just like, I'm, I'm in it.

• 50:37Mary Beth Barone?

  The case, then we need to stop naming people on the pod.

• 50:39Benito Skinner?

  But do you know, oh shit, I guess I'm in the hot seat here, right? Yeah, I'm in show.

• 50:46Mary Beth Barone?

  I like talking about it. I just think it's funny.

• 50:49Benito Skinner?

  Has anyone done this move yet where you just tongue out in the middle? You're just talking very normally.

• 50:54Mary Beth Barone?

  This is my new, my new flirting thing. I go.

• 50:59Benito Skinner?

  Fuck.

• 51:04Benito Skinner?

  So a guy takes Duddy to watch the Dodgers, right?

• 51:08Mary Beth Barone?

  And I'm clearing my.

• 51:09Benito Skinner?

  They're watching. He, she asked for three things of peanuts. That's all she asked for. And she goes, I'll be right back. The next time he sees her, she is running across. Second plate.

• 51:22Mary Beth Barone?

  Second plate, second base.

• 51:23Benito Skinner?

  Second base, sprinting across, painted fully blue. That's the last time he sees her.

• 51:31Mary Beth Barone?

  Right.

• 51:33Mary Beth Barone?

  I need the Reddit thread of lore that I will have my assistant find because I'm not looking at it. But I would love that if someone could just put everything we've said about her in one place. Do you ride for the secret trip that my friends and I take?

• 51:44Benito Skinner?

  I'd love to go. I think it shouldn't be so sacred. I think you guys are bullies. I think you're non-inclusive. I think you really, the places you go, you defile. Um, no, I think it's adorable and it's an inspiration because it is so hard as you get older to find the time to have that. If you don't try to make memories as you get older, you won't have them. So. And I had this thing where it's like, it's fun to do things in days that you'll really remember the day. And I think that that is really special. So I.

• 52:12Mary Beth Barone?

  Take more pictures.

• 52:13Benito Skinner?

  Take more pictures.

• 52:14Mary Beth Barone?

  Blue more planet.

• 52:15Benito Skinner?

  Can you please be on your phones more?

• 52:17Mary Beth Barone?

  Please be on your phones more. Also.

• 52:18Benito Skinner?

  That's what I say to my baby.

• 52:20Mary Beth Barone?

  Baby, baby, baby, get your phone out.

• 52:23Benito Skinner?

  Sweetie, don't you want to film this?

• 52:24Mary Beth Barone?

  The way you can reveal it can be really fun. I believe there was a cameo from Frankie Muniz one year. And then the Jersey Shore year, we did a video, a compilation of from the show.

• 52:34Benito Skinner?

  That's awesome.

• 52:38Benito Skinner?

  When I reveal, then I'm taking you guys.

• 52:40Mary Beth Barone?

  To Tahiti.

• 52:42Benito Skinner?

  To Greenland.

• 52:44Mary Beth Barone?

  We're going to Santorini, Greece.

• 52:47Benito Skinner?

  Come with me. We're going to Greece. Michaela Noguera, now she's taking some big swings.

• 52:52Mary Beth Barone?

  Santorini, Greece.

• 52:54Benito Skinner?

  Kim Kardashian. I fucking love her. I love her. I'm like, this is, I'm here. I'm here for it. That's who I watch on TikTok. Someone asked me recently, they go, what's making you laugh lately? And I did three bits that you were doing and two that Owen were doing. And they're like, no, I meant on TV. And I go, what do you mean?

• 53:08Mary Beth Barone?

  I don't, what is that?

• 53:10Benito Skinner?

  Angel of my dreams. Can you do a walk for me?

• 53:17Benito Skinner?

  I'm there. I'm so sick of watching all these other, I'm like talking to my friend and he's like, yo, oh my God, there she is. There's your girl. And I go.

• 53:27Mary Beth Barone?

  I look down because I don't want to trip.

• 53:30Benito Skinner?

  Oh my God. Everyone's like, yeah, me. I'm like, fuck, it's about me, right?

• 53:35Mary Beth Barone?

  But I go, wait a minute.

• 53:41Benito Skinner?

  Angel. And then this is, this is it.

• 53:46Benito Skinner?

  About time you bounced on it, girl.

• 53:48Mary Beth Barone?

  Let's go. Come on, let's go. The.

• 53:50Benito Skinner?

  Come on, let's go.

• 53:58Benito Skinner?

  Oh, my exit.

• 54:00Mary Beth Barone?

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

• 54:19Speaker 04

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