Pod Insights Ride with Benito Skinner and Mary Beth Barone CARPOOL: SWEETGREEN (unpaid) About this episode Benny and Mary Beth muse on the upcoming election at the time of recording (spoiler alert: IT DID NOT GO OUR WAY!). We get to know Jackson a little better and hey straight guys! Turn the music down. Love ya, kid. This week is a CARPOOL for our favorite fast casual dining establishment: SWEETGREEN (unpaid).
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0:00 Speaker 00 The following podcast is a Dear Media production. The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:18 Speaker 01 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. Tiger.
0:30 Benito Skinner? I'm Benito Skinner.
0:31 Mary Beth Barone? I'm Mary Beth Barone.
0:32 Benito Skinner? And this
0:33 Mary Beth Barone? is
0:34 Benito Skinner? Ride.
0:38 Benito Skinner? You just said something to me and it's crazy because it just makes me think about arrival in a huge, oh, goosebumps. Whoa, whoa.
0:46 Mary Beth Barone? Whoa, we're 30 seconds in.
0:49 Benito Skinner? No, and that's what you do to me, sis. But call me Huntie.
0:52 Mary Beth Barone? Huntie.
0:53 Benito Skinner? Okay, so here's the thing. You just said, this will come out when? Oh, we would know who the president is by then. And that, to me, it's like time is, it's but a dream and but a nightmare, maybe. I don't know.
1:04 Mary Beth Barone? I'm nervous.
1:06 Benito Skinner? I go so cold.
1:07 Mary Beth Barone? No, I know.
1:08 Benito Skinner? Can I just say?
1:09 Mary Beth Barone? I go so cold. Yeah.
1:12 Benito Skinner? Yeah. Sorry, I had oats this morning.
1:15 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, you did.
1:16 Benito Skinner? Go get them, tiger.
1:16 Mary Beth Barone? That's my guy.
1:17 Benito Skinner? Go get them, tiger.
1:18 Mary Beth Barone? Rar.
1:19 Benito Skinner? I love all these LA coffee places.
1:21 Mary Beth Barone? I hope everyone voted and I hope we know.
1:24 Benito Skinner? That's the clip. That's duality.
1:26 Mary Beth Barone? I want to say one thing, which is that I know we joke a lot about what Dear Media does and doesn't clip. And I just want to say to all the Baronies out there, Dear Media tried to clip my breakup. We got sent a Dropbox link of clips from the Halloween episode and there was one titled MB-breakup.mp4.
1:42 Benito Skinner? Jackson, Jackson went, oh, I like this one. Say it, Jackson. I did like that one, but I had to get it cleared. Sorry. Okay, here's the thing, Jackson. We just couldn't, we couldn't Howard Stern drop the, drop it like that.
1:57 Mary Beth Barone? Well, that's season three.
2:00 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
2:00 Mary Beth Barone? If there was a breakup in season three, then that's totally something we could clip.
2:03 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
2:04 Mary Beth Barone? And I understand that we were in Joker makeup, so that makes it inherently more comical. But it was just funny. I got out of a meeting and I had about 18 texts from the group chat. And Benny just goes, no to breakup.
2:15 Benito Skinner? Hey, defend my wife.
2:17 Mary Beth Barone? You protect me.
2:18 Benito Skinner? I don't want to talk about our breakup right now. Okay? It's really sensitive for her. No, it was funny. I mean, I watched the clip five times. Jackson, Jackson wasn't wrong. It was amazing. But yeah, I just think it would have been just a little jarring for the kids.
2:32 Mary Beth Barone? And for maybe Edward, possibly.
2:34 Benito Skinner? Well, oh, God, I forgot. See, that's where my head's at.
2:37 Mary Beth Barone? Jackson, can you say audio jungle?
2:39 Benito Skinner? Audio jungle.
2:39 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. And thank you. Just like palate cleanser. We don't want any negativity in here.
2:45 Benito Skinner? I found out that Jackson has been married for 10 years and I think it's so beautiful. And we're both, we are Scorpios and we're partnered with Scorpios.
2:52 Mary Beth Barone? Whoa.
2:53 Benito Skinner? Which I was just talking to Jackson. I think I said this on Jake Shane's podcast, which, thank you for the messages. I'm sorry I cheated on my wife, but it was with a gay dude, so I don't think that's that big of a deal. Hey.
3:04 Mary Beth Barone? No comment.
3:05 Benito Skinner? Got the shit, dude.
3:06 Mary Beth Barone? Hey, no comment, dude.
3:07 Benito Skinner? But we were talking about how whenever someone finds out that Terry's a Scorpio too, they'll be like, yeah, how's the fucking sex, f**k? And I'm like, I don't know you. We're at lunch.
3:16 Mary Beth Barone? We're at a wedding.
3:17 Benito Skinner? Literally, I'm like, what are you talking about?
3:18 Mary Beth Barone? I just met you.
3:19 Benito Skinner? Oh, yeah, but it's crazy in the bedroom. I'm like, I'm at a store. I met myself on Berlin right now.
3:24 Mary Beth Barone? Isn't it crazy how I would never, it wouldn't even cross my mind to say something like that?
3:28 Benito Skinner? Hey.
3:29 Mary Beth Barone? Different, different. Gemini brain.
3:30 Benito Skinner? I'm different, yeah.
3:31 Mary Beth Barone? It's a Gemini brain. Hmm.
3:33 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
3:34 Mary Beth Barone? Well, I did, how is the sex?
3:37 Benito Skinner? Oh, God.
3:38 Mary Beth Barone? It's pretty fucking good.
3:40 Benito Skinner? Jackson, add me saying bazinga here.
3:43 Mary Beth Barone? Every time you say bazinga, we have to pay CBS $20,000.
3:46 Benito Skinner? Yeah, good.
3:46 Mary Beth Barone? Just so you know.
3:47 Benito Skinner? I want to say debt.
3:48 Mary Beth Barone? That hole, we keep digging it deeper, deeper and deeper. Speaking of debt, we are taking a break for the holidays.
3:55 Benito Skinner? Speaking of debt.
3:56 Mary Beth Barone? And that debt, debt sort of relates to the holidays in any number of ways. So you figure out which one's the most personal to you.
4:01 Benito Skinner? Agreed.
4:02 Mary Beth Barone? We are taking four weeks off from the middle of December to middle of January. It's just so we can keep bringing you really good episodes. We need to rest, reset and live a little.
4:11 Benito Skinner? And can I just say, oh, totally. I have to take Terry on the Orient Express.
4:14 Mary Beth Barone? You do.
4:15 Benito Skinner? But here's the thing, we really thought we would need more breaks and this has just been so fun. This season has flair.
4:22 Mary Beth Barone? It's flair, Ken.
4:24 Benito Skinner? It's chair.
4:25 Mary Beth Barone? We were gonna do 12 weeks on, four weeks off for the whole season. And about 10 weeks in, we were like, what if we just, we just let it rip?
4:33 Benito Skinner? I came in here stressed with Tiger Bomb on.
4:35 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
4:36 Benito Skinner? Which I smell like a track meat.
4:37 Mary Beth Barone? Which I love, yeah.
4:38 Benito Skinner? Yeah. And, and I wasn't sure if I could do it. The second I'm in this fricking article chair, I'm home and I, and I see my girl and it's so fun. So this season, we've been having so much fun. We just, holidays, catch up. I, I just, I find it hard to believe you've heard everything twice and that's the rule.
4:54 Mary Beth Barone? Two times, or it doesn't count.
4:57 Benito Skinner? Two times a lady.
5:00 Mary Beth Barone? Everything is so musical these days.
5:02 Benito Skinner? It's romantic.
5:02 Mary Beth Barone? And romantic. Terry's new era, that's life.
5:06 Benito Skinner? Oh, this is huge.
5:07 Mary Beth Barone? He announced to me a new era. I said, what's going on?
5:10 Benito Skinner? Well, you know, his cultural digest, Terry is like.
5:12 Mary Beth Barone? He's a, he's a cultural commentator.
5:14 Benito Skinner? I'm dating a hot influencer. I feel like an NBA player.
5:16 Mary Beth Barone? He did, he lip synced the BB Trix verse from Club Classics remix. And I was like, wait, I'm turned on right now.
5:24 Benito Skinner? I know, that's the thing. He's turning on a lot of women and gay dudes.
5:28 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, how does that make you feel?
5:30 Benito Skinner? I like it. I like my girl out there. We're showing that the horse girl, we've said this forever. Like everyone who thinks Terry's all meek and shy. Guess you haven't seen the brat.
5:39 Mary Beth Barone? Not the case.
5:39 Benito Skinner? Oh, my love.
5:39 Mary Beth Barone? I love that your online.
5:40 Benito Skinner? He's bombastic.
5:41 Mary Beth Barone? Your online persona is a psychotic realtor in a pregnant belly. And his is just sort of like hot guy in the mirror.
5:49 Benito Skinner? Yeah, hot guy by a pool.
5:50 Mary Beth Barone? Every gay relationship needs both.
5:52 Benito Skinner? You have to have both, but can I just say the range?
5:54 Mary Beth Barone? The range.
5:55 Benito Skinner? You're not gonna get that every day.
5:56 Mary Beth Barone? No.
5:57 Benito Skinner? Jackson, which one of you is hot guy by the pool and who's?
5:59 Mary Beth Barone? Who's wearing a pregnant prosthetic belly?
6:01 Benito Skinner? In Cabo San Lucas. Oh, my God. Well, I've, I don't know, because Andrew's a diesel mechanic, so he's like super. Diesel. Diesel mechanic.
6:09 Mary Beth Barone? Diesel mechanic?
6:09 Benito Skinner? Yeah, and he works in the ocean as well, so like. Holy shit. I'm like the housewife that can't cook. Gays are spectacular.
6:17 Mary Beth Barone? And it's like, I just could have never predicted that he like works with his hands.
6:22 Benito Skinner? No.
6:22 Mary Beth Barone? You know what I mean?
6:23 Benito Skinner? But you knew.
6:23 Mary Beth Barone? And that's not a reflection of you. Jackson is just like, gay guys can have any job.
6:27 Benito Skinner? Oh, so he works with his hands?
6:29 Mary Beth Barone? His hands.
6:29 Benito Skinner? How's the sex?
6:30 Mary Beth Barone? How's the fucking?
6:32 Benito Skinner? How's the homosexual sex?
6:33 Mary Beth Barone? No, I just think it's cool that gay guys can have any job now.
6:37 Benito Skinner? Clip that. And on the topic of gay guys having any job, hey, straight guys, turn the music down. We're in a conversation.
6:46 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
6:46 Benito Skinner? What the fuck? What is going on? I have been to so many dinners, pre-games, I'm like, we're talking, we're in the car. Why are you blasting music? I can't hear you. I, if I'm listening to music on my own, at full blast, in my phone, it's like, hey, you've been fucking going crazy this week.
7:04 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
7:04 Benito Skinner? You drunkard.
7:05 Mary Beth Barone? Turn it down.
7:05 Benito Skinner? And I go, no, I'm not gonna. But I really can't stress enough, straight men just blasting music all day. I'm like, we're in the car, you, you just asked me a question. And now I'm hearing BB tricks scream at me, which I like, but.
7:18 Mary Beth Barone? I think they have to quiet the thoughts so they don't hit any women. You know what I mean? That's just me psychoanalyzing the male psyche.
7:27 Benito Skinner? Yeah, gun to head, that's your first.
7:29 Mary Beth Barone? So they don't hit women. I, I don't know exactly how it works with the math, but that's what I'm thinking.
7:34 Benito Skinner? I think that's a fair assumption.
7:35 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
7:36 Benito Skinner? Yeah, it's, it's to silence the thoughts are, God, these women will fuck me. And they're talking about Troye Sivan.
7:45 Mary Beth Barone? And they wanna fuck him. It's not fair.
7:48 Benito Skinner? Talk to a woman about seeing Troye Sivan on the sweat tour, she'll start sweating.
7:51 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
7:52 Benito Skinner? She'll start panting.
7:53 Mary Beth Barone? He's so, he oozes, he's just sex on a stick.
7:56 Benito Skinner? Hey, sex in every city, every town.
8:00 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
8:00 Benito Skinner? Speaking of sex in every city and every town. Sweet Green, we have to just say, and it's probably gonna say in the title, because it's
8:10 Mary Beth Barone? Carpool.
8:11 Benito Skinner? This is a carpool, and it's been a carpool in the making since I was in college, and I'll tell you why.
8:17 Mary Beth Barone? I can't wait to hear the story of how we met Sweet Green. Each individually, we didn't know each other yet.
8:23 Benito Skinner? The first bowl. Oh, I know so much about it, it will make your frickin' head spin, dude.
8:27 Mary Beth Barone? I do too. I do too.
8:29 Benito Skinner? Have you been to the first one?
8:31 Mary Beth Barone? Let's just say, yeah, and I met the owners.
8:33 Benito Skinner? Oh, my God. You had sex with both of the owners?
8:35 Mary Beth Barone? I had sex with both the founders of Sweet Green. Not at the same time, don't get weird. Well, we're doing it, let's just say, we're doing, we're doing a carpool for Sweet Green.
8:43 Benito Skinner? Sweet Green unpaid.
8:44 Mary Beth Barone? Unpaid. Brackets unpaid. Unpaid will be in the title of the episode.
8:48 Benito Skinner? Yeah, it's, we didn't, this is completely just for the love of the game.
8:52 Mary Beth Barone? Some, some brands and companies do it so well that we don't need to be paid to talk about it.
8:57 Benito Skinner? No.
8:57 Mary Beth Barone? And that's come up a few times on the podcast, but just to say, we love Sweet Green, and we hope that, like, you'll try it. I don't know.
9:06 Benito Skinner? We're acknowledging the work. We hope that it's in your city. If there's sex in the city, there's a Sweet Green.
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10:59 Benito Skinner? Picture this. You're in your closet for sound. It's Terry's birthday and you just got a spray tan. It reeks in here. Okay, actually though, you're going about your day when suddenly a horrifying thought flashes through your mind. Don't lie to me, kid. This happens to me all the time, okay? Maybe it's a fear or something happening to a loved one, a disturbing or sexual image that keeps replaying in your mind, or an urge to do something you don't want to do. Your heart races, your palms sweat, and anxiety washes over you. Oh my God, I'm starting to panic reading this. I love it. You're mortified and you feel fully convinced that it's true. But babies, you know better. It's ego dystonic. Remember that. Look that up. Even though you know that this isn't who you are, but still, the question of, why did I think that? Am I a bad person?
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13:54 Benito Skinner? Get in, bitch. It's a carpool.
13:56 Mary Beth Barone? OK, but I'm driving.
13:58 Benito Skinner? Carpool. I just have to say this one thing about Sweetgreen is that I went to Georgetown, and the first one was in Georgetown. And it was this little hut.
14:07 Mary Beth Barone? It was a hut.
14:07 Benito Skinner? This gorgeous little cabin in the woods. It was so cute on M Street. And whenever I would visit my sister at college, it had just started. So I don't know exactly their established EST vibe, but to me, I think it's 2012-ish. And every time we would visit my sister at Georgetown before I went there, we would go to Sweetgreen. My dad called it insalada. That just wouldn't switch in his brain. He just said, should we go to insalada? So now, sometimes when I say Sweetgreen, my mom says Sweetgreens, and my dad says insalada. So, sounds, not words.
14:44 Mary Beth Barone? Not words.
14:46 Mary Beth Barone? It's intention.
14:46 Benito Skinner? Exactly. But we would go and even then, they had the kale Caesar. Well, they used to, you used to be able to do the wraps. They've changed the menu quite a bit.
14:54 Mary Beth Barone? They tried different things at first. You didn't, they didn't know what was gonna stick.
14:57 Benito Skinner? There was Froyo at one point there inside. So you want to talk to me? I mean, there are easier ways to say you love many drama seven in queer.
15:03 Mary Beth Barone? And you want his business ultimately.
15:05 Benito Skinner? Yeah. So I'll have the Luca Guadagnino's queer with no rice. Thank you.
15:12 Mary Beth Barone? And medium dressing.
15:13 Benito Skinner? And medium dressing. But that's my first instance with it. And during college, it'd be like, every time I was like, oh my God, I'm gonna be healthy today and just have a fabulous, delicious Caesar. Cause to me, having like a diet soda and a big old chicken Caesar. Holy shite dude. It's cool. That's not really my order there now, but you know, I'm not.
15:35 Mary Beth Barone? Case change. You weren't out of the closet at that time.
15:37 Benito Skinner? No.
15:38 Mary Beth Barone? You can't expect to have the same salad order as a closeted gay guy versus an out gay guy.
15:43 Benito Skinner? So many clips today.
15:46 Benito Skinner? So many clips.
15:47 Mary Beth Barone? I'm thinking in clips now. I'm not thinking about the narrative structure. I'm thinking in clips.
15:52 Benito Skinner? Okay, talk to me about your, talk to me in French.
15:54 Mary Beth Barone? Talk to me in French, talk to me in Spanish.
15:56 Benito Skinner? About the first time you went to Sweet Greens.
15:58 Mary Beth Barone? About Sweet Green. So I, as many know, when I dropped out of college, I started working at a young startup called Warby Parker. So I was there when it was really small. And at that time, like all startup founders sort of knew each other. Cause it was like, they were like the young up and comers. And it was like, you know.
16:14 Benito Skinner? Yo pros.
16:15 Mary Beth Barone? Yo pros. And it's like, which companies are gonna be the unicorns? Which ones are gonna kind of have like CEO drama?
16:21 Benito Skinner? Can I say something right now? Glass, yeah.
16:24 Mary Beth Barone? Started as a blog, into the glass.
16:26 Benito Skinner? Oh yeah. Barracuda.
16:28 Mary Beth Barone? Ooh. I'm so glad you're doing that. So we did this thing at Warby Parker called the Warby Parker Class Trip, which is where they took a school bus and they made it like a mobile eyewear showroom. And I was on the class trip and we, we went around the country, but I only did like the Northeast.
16:44 Benito Skinner? This is incredible.
16:45 Mary Beth Barone? They sent, they sent five people in their mid twenties to go around the country. And one of the guys had to drive the bus with all the glasses in it. And we drove like the support car or whatever. So we did like Philly, DC, Boston.
16:57 Benito Skinner? You had big opticals on?
16:58 Mary Beth Barone? Hell yeah. Prescription too. And I don't have a prescription, so we crashed the car a few times. But when we went to DC, we heard whispers of this salad place. Okay. And it was like totally reinventing like the salad to go. And I maybe just salad was around at that time. Obviously Chipotle was like, it was sort of just like capturing this real desire for healthy food. That but you wanted it on the go. You wanted it in the middle of the workday. So I remember it was fun because like every city we were going to like a Sweet Green was popping up in that city. So I remember when we opened the Boston store because after the class trip, we started opening retail stores. And it was like, oh, there's a Sweet Green here like, and the best thing I could hear was like,
17:42 Mary Beth Barone? do you want to get a Sweet Green?
17:44 Benito Skinner? To me, I'm, I'm interested by this Warby Parker trip because I, I think every Warby Parker is in a Sweet Green is in a Warby Parker.
17:50 Mary Beth Barone? And is in a school bus.
17:51 Benito Skinner? Exactly.
17:52 Mary Beth Barone? So that's what's cool about it.
17:53 Benito Skinner? Glacier, oh, barracuda.
17:57 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, it's really scary.
17:59 Benito Skinner? Why is that like clicking for me? Do you get that?
18:01 Mary Beth Barone? Dear media clip.
18:05 Benito Skinner? I love you today. I love you every day.
18:07 Mary Beth Barone? Today you mean it.
18:09 Benito Skinner? Today you meet, no, literally, I just love you. The way I talk about you in the car when you're not there. Shit, dude.
18:16 Mary Beth Barone? Instead of listening to ride when we take a few weeks off, just watch the prestige once per week.
18:20 Benito Skinner? I agree.
18:21 Mary Beth Barone? I beg you.
18:21 Benito Skinner? God, it's so good. We have to do that for Halloween one year. Me, you, Terry.
18:25 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
18:26 Benito Skinner? Sorry, I can't say me, you, Edward, so.
18:28 Mary Beth Barone? Things have changed. Life changes.
18:30 Benito Skinner? Dear media knows why.
18:30 Mary Beth Barone? Then they know why and they have a video of it.
18:32 Benito Skinner? One day I think we could all be in a costume again.
18:35 Mary Beth Barone? Totally. So I, and then they opened a Sweet Green right near our office, which was on like Lafayette. And I know that people are like, oh, it's expensive for a salad. Everything in New York is expensive. Everything in every city is expensive. So if I'm going to spend $16 on a salad, which is prepared by people who I know are, at, at least the attitude I'm getting from them is that they are well paid, well taken care of. The staff all seems friendly and to respect each other. I'm going to pay a premium for that.
19:02 Benito Skinner? I agree.
19:03 Mary Beth Barone? So.
19:03 Benito Skinner? And they're telling me they, they still do it, but they tell you where they got the, the greens from in those things and the greens.
19:09 Mary Beth Barone? Fresh ingredients.
19:09 Benito Skinner? Fresh farm to table.
19:10 Mary Beth Barone? Consistency across the country.
19:12 Benito Skinner? Consistency. It always tastes the same, which sometimes like Starbucks doesn't really, they can't say that. But I, that's so funny because people will do that to me on like coffee. And I'm like, you're holding blue bottle. Like you spent $50 on that chai.
19:23 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, yeah, fuck that.
19:23 Benito Skinner? So don't come for me right now.
19:24 Mary Beth Barone? My original order was in the guacamole greens family.
19:27 Benito Skinner? I was about to say, I know your order.
19:29 Mary Beth Barone? And now I have, but you actually don't know my, my new order. I have a new order.
19:33 Benito Skinner? Wait, new era alert.
19:35 Mary Beth Barone? It's notes on the old order, but it's a little bit different.
19:37 Benito Skinner? New drop?
19:37 Mary Beth Barone? Well, I think something that we said on a
19:39 Benito Skinner? After this, we can say Mary Best Way, right? When you walk in and they'll make it.
19:42 Mary Beth Barone? I really hope so too, Ken. Sweetgreen Reach Out.
19:45 Benito Skinner? What would her bowl be?
19:46 Mary Beth Barone? Well, I know it has a burger on it.
19:48 Benito Skinner? Exactly.
19:48 Mary Beth Barone? Our Erawan Smoothie and our Sweetgreen.
19:51 Benito Skinner? It's their first burger bowl.
19:53 Mary Beth Barone? It's pork. It's a pork burger.
19:54 Benito Skinner? I almost ordered a protein style burger in front of Terry with like the lettuce instead of the bun, but I couldn't look him in the eye after it.
20:00 Mary Beth Barone? No, and he wouldn't probably have sex with you for a while.
20:03 Benito Skinner? That's what I thought.
20:04 Mary Beth Barone? So it's not worth it. Something we talked about on a that they cut and we asked them to not cut it, but they cut it anyway, was that people are always like, well, I get like Sweetgreen, it gives me a stomach ache. Like, I don't know. I just don't think, like, I don't like it. It makes my, I'm like, you're ordering the wrong thing. You don't have to order from the menu. You can make your own. B Y O B. Build your own bowl.
20:24 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
20:25 Mary Beth Barone? Don't come to me with that bullshit.
20:26 Benito Skinner? Uh uh.
20:27 Mary Beth Barone? You don't have to have every ingredient in there.
20:29 Benito Skinner? Hey, you can make a hell out of heaven and a heaven out of hell.
20:31 Mary Beth Barone? Hell.
20:32 Benito Skinner? And don't, hey.
20:33 Mary Beth Barone? Ooh.
20:34 Benito Skinner? Barracuda. Jackson, can you go, ooh, barracuda? In an Australian accent? Well, yeah. Yeah, okay. Oh, barracuda. Jackson, you're one for the books.
20:46 Mary Beth Barone? I love it.
20:47 Benito Skinner? I love him. Okay, so here's the, here's the deal. I need to know your order. And also, I, should I do like a little, like, almost like I'm the com app and I take you through it? I want to build the world around people. Cause I can smell it right now.
21:00 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, I'm ready.
21:01 Benito Skinner? You ready?
21:02 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
21:03 Benito Skinner? You grip the door. It's all glass. You can always see everything inside.
21:06 Mary Beth Barone? Mm hmm.
21:06 Benito Skinner? You open. That smell hits you. It's like, it's a little earthy, but also clean. It's a little delicious. You go to where you order. Yeah, exactly. Warm up your hands because you were cold from being outside, but now it's warm in here. Oh, you just met your friend. We just kissed under the Sweetgreen sign. So my lips are a little wet from Carmex. I look up at the freaking menu, even though I know exactly what I want.
21:33 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
21:33 Benito Skinner? I'll either get the kale Caesar, sometimes bread, if I'm, you know, feeling absolutely fucking insane. Or harvest bowl.
21:42 Mary Beth Barone? Oh.
21:43 Benito Skinner? If I want to have something heartier and a little bit more substantial for the day. And they start to make it. I see them pour the wild rice.
21:52 Mary Beth Barone? I'm melting an ice cube on my neck right now.
21:55 Benito Skinner? I know, but you're touching yourself.
21:56 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
21:58 Benito Skinner? Oh, my God. They scoop those fucking gorgeous cherry tomatoes that are cut in the middle. And I love when c's just have tomatoes. If you don't, deal with it. No anchovies. Disgusting. They put it in and then they go down. I love the hot chicken pot. They pour that over it so deliciously.
22:14 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, God.
22:15 Benito Skinner? Then they ask you how much dressing you want, and I don't want it soaked, but I don't want a light dressing. I want to taste it in every bite. Medium. They put them.
22:24 Mary Beth Barone? They sprayed D K on my apple.
22:27 Benito Skinner? Literally.
22:32 Benito Skinner? It's, it's all sensory until that moment when they go, it's so chic.
22:44 Benito Skinner? And then watching a fucking legend chop that up with tongs.
22:52 Mary Beth Barone? It's Tiffany check. Every.
22:54 Benito Skinner? Look at the fingers. Like there, it is so.
22:59 Benito Skinner? They're, they're fucking stabbing the bottom of the bowl.
23:01 Mary Beth Barone? Mixer.
23:02 Benito Skinner? When I see tongs now, I don't think that they're to grip with. I assume it's to fucking butcher a salad. Then they put, then they look at you, bread. And sometimes it can be sweet. It can be mean. I don't care. I'll take it anyway. Give it to me raw. Give it to me nasty.
23:16 Mary Beth Barone? However, you're feeling.
23:17 Benito Skinner? Exactly. Don't fake it. And I sometimes say yes, if it's for you, I say no.
23:22 Mary Beth Barone? Thank you.
23:23 Benito Skinner? And then they, they pop it away. They put it to the side and you're in, you're out. And yeah, I'm getting probably a couple of spin drifts while I'm at it. And then you go and you've got your big fucking green sack. But that perfect branding, the, uh, the logo, if I'm correct, has always been the same. It's very clean, very delicious, very glacier. Ooh.
23:45 Mary Beth Barone? So here's what I'm doing when I bust into that Williamsburg sweet green.
23:50 Benito Skinner? You say the exact same thing because you're right next to me.
23:52 Mary Beth Barone? I do.
23:52 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
23:53 Mary Beth Barone? We're in there. We're, we're settling in. We're having a chat. I probably have to pee as soon as I get there. So I asked them for the bathroom code, which they so graciously give me.
24:00 Benito Skinner? Always a good bathroom. Spacious, big.
24:02 Mary Beth Barone? On the way to order, I grab a bag of either the Green Goddess Chips, the sweet green burn Green Goddess Chips, which you called, you FaceTimed me the first time you tried.
24:10 Benito Skinner? I got sent that. I don't even know who got my address, how this happened. They showed up on my doorstep. I, maybe it was my intruder. He left them there. It was, I got them and I, I've never done this in my life. I was seeing you for a live show in Denver, or where was I meeting you? Denver?
24:26 Mary Beth Barone? Denver, I think.
24:27 Benito Skinner? I put them in my backpack, traveled them to you because I was like, you gotta try these, girl.
24:33 Mary Beth Barone? You couldn't believe it.
24:34 Benito Skinner? I couldn't believe it. It's the best chip I've ever had.
24:35 Mary Beth Barone? And now they have them all over, nationwide. They also have a regular potato chip flavor. So it just depends what mood I'm in that day, if I'm gonna grab one or the other.
24:43 Benito Skinner? I love watching you eat chips.
24:45 Mary Beth Barone? Hey, thanks.
24:45 Benito Skinner? It's the little things, Jackson.
24:47 Mary Beth Barone? I get to the ordering station, station number one. They ask me what I want. I say, I'm gonna build my own. And we have an acknowledgement there.
24:54 Benito Skinner? They go, great.
24:55 Mary Beth Barone? They think, oh, cool. We have an acknowledgement.
24:58 Benito Skinner? Hey, good for you.
24:59 Mary Beth Barone? Because we know we respect each other. They say, this is a girl that knows what she wants. But here's the thing with my build my own. They're expecting me to be like wishy washy, ask them about like, what does this taste like? Blah, blah, blah. Hell, no. It's military precision. I know exactly what I want.
25:12 Benito Skinner? And you should at this point.
25:13 Mary Beth Barone? You should. It's not rocket science, by the way. You pick the ingredients you like and hopefully they go together.
25:18 Benito Skinner? Although I could never do that. Like, cause I'd be like, I'll have every dressing, I guess.
25:22 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
25:22 Benito Skinner? Like, I would, mine would be so vile. I trust the professionals and the chefs. Ooh, I also had steak recently from there.
25:29 Mary Beth Barone? Well, they have these protein plates now.
25:31 Benito Skinner? I love a protein plate.
25:32 Mary Beth Barone? So I walk in and I say, I'm gonna build my own and it's gonna be a spinach and wild rice base. But lately, I've been actually doing spinach and white rice. And what I say to them is, not that much spinach. So they do one tong full and I go, that's good, that's good, that's good. You don't have to do anymore.
25:47 Benito Skinner? How much do spinach and kale hate each other, do you think?
25:50 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, they don't talk.
25:52 Benito Skinner? Got the same hair.
25:53 Mary Beth Barone? We've got the same hair. They need to work it out in the remix.
25:55 Benito Skinner? I think they're pissed because spinach was the original doll.
25:58 Mary Beth Barone? I know. And then kale came through and shook things up, but it's okay to have some like friendly competition.
26:02 Benito Skinner? Kale really does. Martha Stewart once said, she goes, I don't put kale in anything. It makes me burp and bloat. And I'm like, wait, ever since she said that, I'm like, I do see that.
26:10 Mary Beth Barone? It's kinda, it is true. So that's why I don't really go near it.
26:12 Benito Skinner? But I say, hail Brutus, kale Caesar.
26:17 Benito Skinner? I'll have the it's super take kale season.
26:20 Mary Beth Barone? God, you're really firing on all cylinders today.
26:22 Benito Skinner? I'll kiss you.
26:23 Mary Beth Barone? You really are.
26:23 Benito Skinner? Wait, really?
26:24 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
26:24 Benito Skinner? I don't feel it.
26:25 Mary Beth Barone? I'm loving it.
26:26 Benito Skinner? I'm wearing a fleece zipped up to the top.
26:28 Mary Beth Barone? So sometimes the person working will be like, oh, I'll give you double rice then because you're only doing half the amount of spinach. And if they don't do that, that's also fine because I don't need that much of the base. I'm not in it for the base. I'm in it for the toppings, if that makes sense. So then we move over to the add-ons, which are $0.00. These are the free add-ons. So I'm doing sweet potato and broccoli.
26:47 Benito Skinner? They are, they have such good sweet taters.
26:49 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, my God, they're fabulous.
26:50 Benito Skinner? Jesus.
26:50 Mary Beth Barone? And honestly, for me, that's all I'm doing with that section. Then we're moving on to the premium add-ons. I'm doing double blackened chicken because I need the protein.
26:58 Benito Skinner? Blackened chicken.
26:59 Mary Beth Barone? Roasted chicken, but blackened chicken is like sort of in a kale spinach type of way. Has come in and just like totally.
27:05 Benito Skinner? Blown the roof off.
27:06 Mary Beth Barone? Blown the roof off. So I'm doing double blackened chicken. It's worth the extra three bucks or whatever. Goat cheese, which I hadn't even considered until recently.
27:14 Benito Skinner? It's well, it's goat cheese is in the harvest fall.
27:17 Mary Beth Barone? It's in a harvest fall, kid, but I had overlooked it.
27:19 Benito Skinner? That's another.
27:21 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
27:21 Benito Skinner? With that dipper, that little.
27:22 Mary Beth Barone? It's an ice cream scooper.
27:24 Benito Skinner? Yeah, exactly.
27:25 Mary Beth Barone? And here's the thing about goat cheese, because it's not from a cow. So it's actually, it is non-dairy. And you can fight me on that if you want, but I'm dairy free. So I can only really have feta and goat. And I'm going for it now.
27:36 Benito Skinner? Those are good ones.
27:36 Mary Beth Barone? Really good ones.
27:37 Benito Skinner? Good ones to have.
27:38 Mary Beth Barone? They're nice and soft.
27:38 Benito Skinner? Sad you can't have cheddar. Cheddar is.
27:40 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
27:41 Benito Skinner? She's supreme. Sharp cheddar, Vermont's sharp cheddar. I miss Vermont. I hope y'all miss me.
27:46 Mary Beth Barone? I know they do at the airport especially.
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32:50 Benito Skinner? Oh, I had a question for you. I was gonna text you. Is there anything P. Diddy didn't do that was awful? I'm actually-
32:56 Mary Beth Barone? So, what we're finding is no.
32:58 Benito Skinner? I'm like, I think in court, they should just be like, so he did everything.
33:01 Mary Beth Barone? So, we're not even gonna read what the charges, cuz it feels like, it feels like you should just assume anything bad, he's done.
33:07 Benito Skinner? Yeah, just top to bottom has done everything.
33:10 Mary Beth Barone? As bad as it gets. Well, here's my thing. For the lawyers prosecuting, please do your due diligence and don't mistrial. I beg you.
33:18 Benito Skinner? No.
33:18 Mary Beth Barone? Just do the thing.
33:19 Benito Skinner? Please don't mistrial.
33:20 Mary Beth Barone? Only the witnesses you're allowed to call, please. You know what? I wanna see the names. I want to see the fucking names.
33:27 Benito Skinner? I go, can I, I thought I was gonna get him with Epstein. I thought fucking Ghislaine was gonna come through. Need, I need a list. And let's just finish this out, because I'm seeing a circle here. So, we could just, come on, lock them all up. Let's get it done. And hey, let's let out some first time offenders.
33:45 Mary Beth Barone? And some-
33:45 Benito Skinner? Let's let out some drug dealers.
33:47 Mary Beth Barone? Low level drugs.
33:47 Benito Skinner? Yeah, drug dealers in quotes.
33:49 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
33:49 Benito Skinner? I'm looking at a fucking MedMen Apple Store.
33:51 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
33:51 Benito Skinner? It's like, let them out. I don't want this.
33:53 Mary Beth Barone? They have merch, MedMen merch now.
33:54 Benito Skinner? Don't.
33:55 Mary Beth Barone? I know. I saw like a Letterman jacket situation yesterday when I drove by.
33:58 Benito Skinner? Oh, Christmas gift sorted for you.
34:00 Mary Beth Barone? Here's my thing. I'm not assuming anyone that went to Diddy's white party was involved in, in the wrongdoing.
34:05 Benito Skinner? No, no.
34:06 Mary Beth Barone? Or, I mean, the crimes, I should say, the wrongdoing. Do you see how like, we like censor ourselves when we talk about things that men do? In the crimes, but I would love to know who was. I just think we need justice now more than ever, honestly. I think if Kamala wins, Diddy will be prosecuted and he'll go to jail. If Trump wins, he will get off scot-free somehow, some way. Do you know what I mean?
34:27 Benito Skinner? I just, it's so, it's all so gross. I don't know. I wanna, I wanna believe, I wanna believe in good.
34:34 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
34:35 Benito Skinner? Ever since your justice episode, I wanna believe in good.
34:37 Mary Beth Barone? I know. And we wanna talk about fun things like Sweetgreen, but it's hard when there's so much other stuff going on.
34:42 Benito Skinner? Well, I just had to say that to you, cuz I was just like, every day I see a new article and I'm like, oh, that's now the newest disgusting thing I've seen? Like, they just, it's not that they get grosser, they're all disgusting, but it's just like, wow. Literally just more.
34:54 Mary Beth Barone? More.
34:54 Benito Skinner? Like, wow.
34:55 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
34:55 Benito Skinner? But wait, there's more.
34:56 Mary Beth Barone? So, I'm getting a medium balsamic. Dressing on the salad, by the way. I mean, how should we segue out of that one?
35:04 Benito Skinner? I just, I, there's no other way to, that's what life is right now. I think that's the hard part. It's like the, the conversations we're having and then we just, we do just have to like go on a walk and listen to music. Like, I don't really know.
35:16 Mary Beth Barone? Go to Sweet Green, kick your feet up, try to relax, try to find peace. Sweet Green for me is a very peaceful place.
35:22 Benito Skinner? Do you know what Terry said to me last night?
35:24 Mary Beth Barone? Why?
35:24 Benito Skinner? Which, oh, I brought him up, didn't I already?
35:26 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, yeah.
35:26 Benito Skinner? Oh, yeah, I brought up our sex. One day I'll ride for sex. I can't decide when. I just don't want like families to listen.
35:32 Mary Beth Barone? Well, it's okay. We don't have to talk about ourselves having sex. We can just talk about it generally.
35:35 Benito Skinner? But I would. I want to really get into it. If I'm gonna ride for it, then let's ride.
35:39 Mary Beth Barone? Let's.
35:39 Benito Skinner? Giddy up cowboy. But last night he turned to me and said, would you want to watch The Wizard of Oz and eat M and M's with me?
35:47 Mary Beth Barone? We need to do things like that.
35:48 Benito Skinner? Sometimes you have to.
35:49 Mary Beth Barone? Find your peaceful little corner of the world for a bit. Put the phone down.
35:53 Benito Skinner? Can I just say what I want for everybody too? I was thinking about this. You just, if you get any censure with someone who doesn't ride for you and doesn't support you, get out. You deserve it. Because Terry just, wow, that man, the way he loves me, it's just so cool. The other day he, we were driving in the car. I just wanted to tell some people some nice things because it's like, I feel like the world's really gross, but like I just, I want this for every person, specifically queer and women. Like, I don't really care that much about.
36:19 Mary Beth Barone? Luca Guadagnino's queer and women.
36:21 Benito Skinner? So Luca Guadagnino's queer and women.
36:22 Mary Beth Barone? And women.
36:24 Benito Skinner? Wait, I like that.
36:26 Mary Beth Barone? Clip that.
36:27 Benito Skinner? Clip that. I, he turned to me and was just like, I'm so in love with you. And it was like the sweetest moment of my life. He just, he rides so hard.
36:35 Mary Beth Barone? It gives me chills.
36:36 Benito Skinner? And I showed him, I did show him the pilot of my show and he, he was like, he was crying.
36:40 Mary Beth Barone? Nine years in, eight years in?
36:42 Benito Skinner? Eight.
36:42 Mary Beth Barone? That's pretty powerful.
36:43 Benito Skinner? Eight and a half.
36:44 Mary Beth Barone? The love is there.
36:45 Benito Skinner? And you know what? It happens every year. He says, I think you're the most in love with me when I put on my breastplate and I'm this character I am for Halloween. So we went out for Halloween. You as Cher, I can't get over it. I brought up, I think in last week's episode too, but he puts on this breastplate and hip pads and he's kind of just this girl who's having fun on Halloween. That's the costume. But he has like a whole different personality for the night.
37:06 Mary Beth Barone? It completely changes his entire. What he brings to the party, what he's bringing to the function.
37:11 Benito Skinner? So everything he says is funny.
37:12 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
37:13 Benito Skinner? He, he lost this hat, this kind of very Prada.
37:18 Mary Beth Barone? Very Prada.
37:18 Benito Skinner? Very conductress hat. It flew off of him. He turns to our friend I know and goes, capture this. He jumps over a fence and goes down a hill.
37:27 Mary Beth Barone? On a porch.
37:28 Benito Skinner? On a porch.
37:29 Mary Beth Barone? Uphill.
37:29 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
37:30 Mary Beth Barone? He jumps down in the soletto's.
37:31 Benito Skinner? In heels.
37:32 Mary Beth Barone? And he fetches the, he fetches the hat.
37:34 Benito Skinner? Yeah. Capture this.
37:36 Mary Beth Barone? And the content from that night, I mean, if you want a good laugh, the dump he posted is just flawless, no notes.
37:43 Benito Skinner? Give me.
37:46 Benito Skinner? That's us in Sweetgreen.
37:47 Mary Beth Barone? It's important. So that night out for me was so nice because I really did just like leave the world behind. Like, we were just having fun and I've been, I've been doing more putting my phone down recently, which I've actually now twice missed really important stuff. But it's been worth it. I have no regrets. Like, just put the phone down. It's like, you'll figure it out, whatever happens.
38:06 Benito Skinner? I post your breakup video.
38:07 Mary Beth Barone? You posted the, and I panicked and I ran to you and I said, take that down. No, I, I think it's really important. Like, when I see a Sweetgreen when I walk by, a song plays in my head that I don't even like, but it is so like, it's Home by Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros. I can't listen to that song anymore, but I, when I walk by a Sweetgreen, when I decide I'm gonna just treat myself.
38:31 Benito Skinner? Oh.
38:33 Mary Beth Barone? Pretty good. So I love Sweetgreen. I'm getting a medium balsamic vinaigrette. I'm having it shaken up, you know, mixed. And then no bread for me, obviously. Sometimes I get one of those kombuchas, Pink Lady Apple flavor.
38:44 Benito Skinner? Oh, Pink Lady Apple is so delicious. I love it. I love the pomegranate too. And sometimes there's a holiday flavor. HealthAid, you're on notice.
38:51 Mary Beth Barone? HealthAid, you have our attention. So I love Sweetgreen and I love that it, like, you just know what you're walking into. And I really hope that people who work there, like, understand the joy that they're bringing a dumb bitch like me. When you can mix a salad of my choosing with premium ingredients. Like, I'll pay anything for, oh my, I'm so glad we're talking about this. I was in Sweetgreen in Williamsburg and there was a woman in there and she was like making such a fuss.
39:16 Benito Skinner? Don't do that here.
39:17 Mary Beth Barone? She was like. This manager lied to me last week. I know she lied to me. She's li- she's a liar.
39:23 Benito Skinner? What, what could anyone be lying about at Sweetgreen?
39:25 Mary Beth Barone? I don't know.
39:26 Benito Skinner? I actually need to know.
39:27 Mary Beth Barone? But you know when, you know when someone is being sort of like ramrodded verbally? And you and another person working there acknowledge that that's happening? And you give them empathetic eyes and you're just like, I, I am sorry, but you say it without saying it. That's the level of communication I have with the people that work at Sweetgreen.
39:44 Benito Skinner? Yeah, same.
39:45 Mary Beth Barone? Because we are connected in that way.
39:46 Benito Skinner? Family.
39:47 Mary Beth Barone? Family. And so I really feel for them. I wanted to get involved, but I was just like, I can't right now. But I wanted to be like, can you leave?
39:55 Benito Skinner? You had just gotten a spray tan. Yeah. I'm too sticky. I can't get my hands in this.
39:59 Mary Beth Barone? Here's the thing. Could you leave?
40:00 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
40:01 Mary Beth Barone? You're kind of fucking up the vibe in here.
40:03 Benito Skinner? My thing with so many people is just like, aren't, don't you have other things to, like, there has to be, you have to, like, right now, it took me two seconds. I see this bottle and I could easily shove this up my ass.
40:13 Mary Beth Barone? I was gonna say.
40:14 Benito Skinner? It's not hard. Like you, it takes a second. Like Jackson over there, like, you see, there's a couple of things on that table.
40:19 Mary Beth Barone? Um, hi.
40:20 Benito Skinner? You can just quickly find it.
40:21 Mary Beth Barone? Microphone?
40:21 Benito Skinner? Whoa, microphone. Oh.
40:22 Mary Beth Barone? Straw?
40:23 Benito Skinner? Oh, phone, if you, you know, probably a tricky one. A shoe. You just round it up. Like, it's just, there's so many things you can put up your ass. But, okay, I, I think I have a really fun game.
40:33 Mary Beth Barone? Tell me.
40:33 Benito Skinner? Say, tell me any person, I'll tell you their Sweetgreen order.
40:36 Mary Beth Barone? Whoa, okay.
40:37 Benito Skinner? Right?
40:38 Mary Beth Barone? Marissa Miller.
40:39 Benito Skinner? Oh, my, are you seriously gonna do this? Guacamole green.
40:42 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
40:43 Benito Skinner? Double the onions.
40:44 Mary Beth Barone? Total, and that's crazy.
40:46 Benito Skinner? Light dressing. Next.
40:47 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, totally. Um, Charlie.
40:49 Benito Skinner? Charlie, I would say she would kind of randomly go protein heavy. Harvest bowl, no rice, double chicken.
40:54 Mary Beth Barone? Whoa.
40:55 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
40:56 Mary Beth Barone? You rattling these off.
40:57 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
40:57 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, John Cena.
40:59 Benito Skinner? Oh, my god.
40:59 Mary Beth Barone? Before the Oscars, before he's going nude at the Oscars.
41:01 Benito Skinner? Nude at the Oscars. He gets a kale Caesar with chicken, heavy on the dressing.
41:05 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
41:06 Benito Skinner? Two pieces of bread. Then he goes back in line, puts a wig on. He puts a wig on and he, he orders one of the protein plates.
41:13 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
41:14 Benito Skinner? The salmon one.
41:15 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
41:15 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
41:16 Mary Beth Barone? Or, you know what I'm loving these days is the hot honey chicken plate.
41:19 Benito Skinner? Well, that's what-
41:19 Mary Beth Barone? Fabulous plate.
41:20 Benito Skinner? Well, so that's what he gets.
41:21 Mary Beth Barone? It's a fabulous plate.
41:22 Benito Skinner? Hot honey, double the hot.
41:24 Mary Beth Barone? Next would be, oh my god, Greta, Greta Thunberg, who I'm gonna ride for at some point.
41:29 Benito Skinner? Oh, this is, okay, so she puts her hands out?
41:33 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
41:36 Benito Skinner? Okay, so she- Okay, so she puts her hands out and they do sweet potato, chicken, and a little bit of balsamic. She's on her way to a protest and I love her for it.
41:44 Mary Beth Barone? And she just goes.
41:45 Benito Skinner? She takes it right in her hands and then has it. Sorry, that's incredible.
41:49 Mary Beth Barone? Sorry.
41:49 Benito Skinner? She's not doing the bowl. They put rice, because she's been outside. She's been protesting, Miss Girl. The doll.
41:56 Mary Beth Barone? So the first one's she's on her way to a protest. The second one is post protest.
41:59 Benito Skinner? Because she's make your own.
42:00 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
42:01 Benito Skinner? Like, look, if you're gonna fight like that, like, you're not.
42:03 Mary Beth Barone? Individualist.
42:04 Benito Skinner? Exactly, you're independent. So then she puts sweet potatoes, little balsamic, bread, and I'm gonna say chicken, and maybe a little steak. Like, to me, it's like double, although maybe she's no meat.
42:16 Mary Beth Barone? We'll find out.
42:17 Benito Skinner? So it just depends on the day, I guess.
42:19 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
42:19 Benito Skinner? Who next?
42:20 Mary Beth Barone? Finally, the Joker.
42:21 Benito Skinner? Oh, my god.
42:23 Mary Beth Barone? So right before he's gonna blow it up, what's he gonna order? Because I know he's hungry.
42:27 Benito Skinner? Okay, here's the thing with the Joker. He looks at the menu and he notices kale Caesar. And he goes, that's funny.
42:37 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
42:38 Benito Skinner? You wanna know how I got these scars? He says, kale Caesar. Like, there's something funny to him about that. Yeah.
42:45 Mary Beth Barone? Well, he's a great sense of humor.
42:47 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I think so, too. I think he's a kale Caesar. And then, well, when he's in Hollywood, though, he gets the Hollywood Bowl.
42:53 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, he likes a pun.
42:56 Benito Skinner? He loves, that's his thing.
42:57 Mary Beth Barone? Funny little name, a wink, wink.
42:59 Benito Skinner? Well, he thought his life was a tragedy, but it's actually a comedy. So then he gets the kale Caesar.
43:03 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
43:04 Benito Skinner? Yeah. What do you think? Did I do a good job?
43:06 Mary Beth Barone? Ooh.
43:07 Benito Skinner? Barracuda. New era alert, barracuda era.
43:11 Mary Beth Barone? Well, we don't do ride or die for car pools, but.
43:13 Benito Skinner? No, I think, obviously, goes without saying, treat yourself to Sweetgreen today. I would love to do an activation there for you guys. I don't know, we'll figure something out. Meet us under the Sweetgreen sign.
43:22 Mary Beth Barone? One time I went to a Sweetgreen activation because I had a friend that worked at corporate, and S D Heim was there DJing.
43:29 Benito Skinner? Exactly.
43:29 Mary Beth Barone? In a Sweetgreen parking lot.
43:30 Benito Skinner? Oh, this brings up a huge thing. I've been to Sweetgreen festivals. Trust.
43:35 Mary Beth Barone? The, what was it?
43:36 Benito Skinner? Sweetlife. I saw Lana Del Rey and Grimes at Sweetlife.
43:40 Mary Beth Barone? I know Kid Cudi performed there once.
43:42 Benito Skinner? I saw Foster the People.
43:43 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, yeah.
43:43 Speaker 04 All the other kids with pumped up kicks, better run, better run.
43:48 Benito Skinner? They were so much fun. It was at this like amazing kind of like pavilion.
43:52 Mary Beth Barone? Hmm.
43:53 Benito Skinner? And very like Roman, but it was really incredible. I saw Flume there and I remember I turned to the person next to me. Yeah. And I had done like, I think I had done a little Molly or something, but I turned to my friend next to me. I said, he has the best visuals. And I think about it a lot.
44:06 Mary Beth Barone? That was your big statement of the day.
44:08 Benito Skinner? That was, yeah, exactly. It was huge.
44:09 Mary Beth Barone? The Eiffel Tower is big.
44:11 Speaker 04 The Eiffel Tower is big.
44:13 Benito Skinner? Oh, and I saw Kendrick there randomly, I believe.
44:16 Mary Beth Barone? The 20 teens were a crazy time.
44:18 Benito Skinner? Sorry, like music was so good.
44:20 Mary Beth Barone? Anything was possible in the 20 teens. Would you agree with that?
44:21 Benito Skinner? I completely agree.
44:22 Mary Beth Barone? Like, anything could happen in the 20 teens.
44:24 Benito Skinner? I sang Cups last week. And can I sing something to you right now to get us out of this?
44:28 Mary Beth Barone? Yes.
44:29 Benito Skinner? Home. Let me come home. Home is wherever I'm with you. Home. Let me go home. Home is wherever I'm with you. At Sweetgreen. Sweetgreen. Sweetgreen. Oh, my accent.
44:49 Mary Beth Barone? Benny, babe, ice on the road.
44:52 Mary Beth Barone? Benny, go!
44:56 Benito Skinner? Ride, ride, ride.
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