Pod Insights Ride with Benito Skinner and Mary Beth Barone Déjà vu + This Thing I Can't Describe About this episode HAPPY NEW YEAR, BARONIES. We recorded this in December 2025 so if we didn't mention something that happened super recently, that's actually why. Love you!
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0:00 Speaker 00 The following podcast is a Dear Media production. The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:19 Mary Beth Barone? Hey, can you come pick me up? Yeah, what's wrong? Nothing. Are you sure? Yeah, no, I just need a ride. Oh, my God. So what? I just wanna have fun. Start your engine. I care.
0:30 Benito Skinner? I'm Benito Skinner.
0:31 Mary Beth Barone? I'm Mary Beth Brown.
0:33 Benito Skinner? And this?
0:33 Mary Beth Barone? Is?
0:34 Benito Skinner? Ride.
0:38 Benito Skinner? Mmm, two macro bars down the old pipe. You know we're ready to let her rip. So it's the new year.
0:46 Mary Beth Barone? 2026.
0:47 Benito Skinner? But we're recording this in 2024, actually.
0:51 Mary Beth Barone? They say time travel doesn't exist. Explain this.
0:53 Benito Skinner? Then explain my wife.
0:55 Mary Beth Barone? Mm-hmm.
0:55 Benito Skinner? Time traveler's wife joke.
0:57 Mary Beth Barone? Whoa.
0:57 Benito Skinner? Ate it up, ate it up.
0:59 Mary Beth Barone? Eric Bana.
1:00 Benito Skinner? So for me, oh, Eric Bana.
1:02 Mary Beth Barone? She's a kid in some parts. That's what I can't get on board with.
1:04 Benito Skinner? There's a lot of those movies. Can I raise you 17 again?
1:08 Mary Beth Barone? Which is really good.
1:09 Benito Skinner? There's always this conceit in all those things. It's Jamie Lee Curtis and, uh, what's this? Uh?
1:14 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, in, in Chad Michael Murray.
1:16 Benito Skinner? Chad Michael Murray.
1:17 Mary Beth Barone? Of course.
1:17 Benito Skinner? I haven't seen Freakier Friday yet.
1:19 Mary Beth Barone? Me neither.
1:20 Benito Skinner? I was guaranteed plane and I'm not seeing it on Missione for Delta One.
1:24 Mary Beth Barone? It's on Delta.
1:25 Benito Skinner? Is it?
1:25 Mary Beth Barone? Or maybe it was on Virgin when we just flew Virgin.
1:27 Benito Skinner? Speaking of, I, I just hope everyone's doing good, by the way.
1:32 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, I'm having a full meal right now. I have Fruit Leather. I have a Go Macro Bar.
1:36 Benito Skinner? Yeah, girl.
1:36 Mary Beth Barone? And I have water and I'm just gonna be like-
1:38 Benito Skinner? And two Barretts.
1:39 Mary Beth Barone? I'm alive.
1:40 Benito Skinner? No.
1:40 Mary Beth Barone? I remembered what I wanted to say about having a face, by the way, so.
1:43 Benito Skinner? I knew it wasn't me.
1:44 Mary Beth Barone? It wasn't you, but it, yeah, just do your thing and I'll do my thing.
1:48 Benito Skinner? Well, I watched Jurassic World. I cried on a flight and watched Jurassic World. What have you fuckers done lately? I really loved Jurassic World. I had so much fun. Jonathan Bailey wore those, the glasses, the glasses that launched a thousand articles. And Scarlett Johansson was kinda just in it, like, not giving a fuck. I had a really nice time.
2:07 Mary Beth Barone? I love her new vibe. She'll speak on anything, it seems. And I mean this as a total compliment.
2:11 Benito Skinner? And, and we totally took it as such.
2:14 Mary Beth Barone? She's like, yeah, I worked with Whitney Allen. And then she said some other stuff that I don't remember.
2:18 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
2:18 Mary Beth Barone? But it was cool.
2:19 Benito Skinner? She's just kinda like, that was-
2:20 Mary Beth Barone? She's not dodging the question.
2:22 Benito Skinner? Yeah. There was one interview, I think, I believe this is true and I'm, you know, I kind of don't need to fact check because I kind of am like almost 100% confident that it is. Jennifer Lopez had an interview for a magazine and she kind of like shaded Cameron Diaz in it. But this was during the 90s and people would just kind of like let her up.
2:42 Mary Beth Barone? I would love to know what she said, just for the historical accuracy of it, but we'll never know.
2:45 Benito Skinner? But what's fun is like you get to leave the pod with homework in a way.
2:50 Mary Beth Barone? You get to leave the pod with an idea and there's nothing more powerful than an idea. And I learned that from the movie V for Vendetta.
2:55 Benito Skinner? Oh, see, I learned that from Inception.
2:58 Mary Beth Barone? Well.
2:58 Benito Skinner? What you're seeing isn't real. She's in fact, it's mine, mine. Oh my God. Whoa, I haven't neared right now. You guys, I'm not shaming just because I'm like literally so tired.
3:12 Mary Beth Barone? But I just have to say it was crazy that Leo DiCaprio didn't tell anyone else on the mission that like his ex-wife was kind of haunting his dreams.
3:18 Benito Skinner? Yeah, he's kind of like, so y'all might meet someone, okay? I would see, I would have woken up and be like, you did not say your wife was a total stunner. Okay, you didn't say shit about your wife being marrying.
3:28 Mary Beth Barone? She has an Oscar.
3:29 Benito Skinner? Like, are you serious?
3:30 Mary Beth Barone? The fuck?
3:31 Benito Skinner? Have you seen the video of her? It's like a meme where it's like when my crush calls and it's her and she's just talking to someone. And then she picks up the phone and she's like with a cigarette and she like puts her hand to her face.
3:41 Mary Beth Barone? She's French.
3:42 Benito Skinner? I love her.
3:43 Mary Beth Barone? Awesome.
3:44 Benito Skinner? She's got that what? That je ne sais quoi. Did you know?
3:47 Mary Beth Barone? It's our French episode.
3:49 Benito Skinner? I know, no one's ready for, well, they already know my.
3:52 Mary Beth Barone? Well, they don't know mine and neither do you. Having a face.
3:55 Benito Skinner? What did I say? There's got to be a French word for it.
3:58 Mary Beth Barone? I'm writing for this thing that I can't describe, but like succinctly, that's why I can't put in the title.
4:02 Benito Skinner? Everyone will know what you mean, though.
4:04 Mary Beth Barone? Well, you'll see. You'll see when I describe it, but having a face. I really want to commit to having one for my whole life and not putting something manmade on there. I want it to be like how it was designed by capital H I M.
4:21 Benito Skinner? I agree. I think.
4:22 Mary Beth Barone? But people aren't gonna be used to it.
4:24 Benito Skinner? No, I agree. I think there is gonna be like a neck lift at some point and I'll be happy to tell you about it.
4:30 Mary Beth Barone? I'm saying, no.
4:31 Benito Skinner? Also, people keep talking about bleph. They do this bleph thing. Is that, is the bleph the eyelid? See, I'm, I'm fine to let that droop. I think it's gonna be smoldering, but for me, it's gonna be.
4:42 Mary Beth Barone? I just wanna see where it goes without intervention. I do get botox, but I'm just saying like, I would like to keep most of my features. I do like them.
4:50 Benito Skinner? I would like to keep my features. You know, Duddy's only had lip filler.
4:54 Mary Beth Barone? Of course.
4:55 Benito Skinner? That's it though.
4:55 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
4:56 Benito Skinner? Yeah. She goes two full syringes.
4:58 Mary Beth Barone? Well, you know my plan, which is we're gonna write a sleep story. We're gonna do one episode, maybe in season three, but it might have to wait. Where we write a 40 minute sleep story about a day in the life of Duddy.
5:08 Benito Skinner? Oh my God. It's gonna be, I'll turn in overcompensating. Eight scripts, done, and then this is my.
5:14 Mary Beth Barone? Victory lap.
5:14 Benito Skinner? Yeah. Stream of consciousness. I can't imagine all the things she'd get up to at a mall during Christmas, or just at a Christmas party even.
5:22 Mary Beth Barone? Oh my God, a Christmas party, a fertile ground.
5:24 Benito Skinner? Oh my God. I mean, her going, I always knew I was a hot toddy to every person she talks to.
5:31 Mary Beth Barone? I was about to do something important.
5:33 Benito Skinner? What? Yeah, drink that water. That's hot.
5:37 Mary Beth Barone? I went to an event last night. Yep. I said it.
5:40 Benito Skinner? You went to two events this week and then you took me out to dinner like a pimp.
5:43 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. Well, I had full glam. What was I gonna do? Not take you to dinner? I would never not take you to dinner.
5:48 Benito Skinner? Have you ever written your friend a sex scene in your show, showed up at dinner and she pays for the dinner?
5:53 Mary Beth Barone? I was hanging out with Anthony, so I had to, I had to make it right.
5:57 Benito Skinner? Total doll.
5:58 Mary Beth Barone? At this event last night, which was really fun, the past apps were steak char char, tuna, and deviled eggs. Delicious. Wow. Risky business. In a loud event, when you have to talk really close to people. I just felt like, what's going on?
6:15 Benito Skinner? I think it's them playing with us.
6:17 Mary Beth Barone? But it was really delicious, so I kept eating it. But yeah, then I was like, I'm spewing, I'm spewing odors.
6:23 Benito Skinner? I don't even know if I can say it, because I just, I like, oh my god, but the smell of someone at one of those things when they've eaten like truffle fries, I'm sorry. I'd rather be on a cruise ship for two years.
6:35 Mary Beth Barone? No, people's odors lately, it's not even, oh, it's bad breath and it's stinkiness.
6:39 Benito Skinner? It's, it's, it's that stank. And you know what?
6:41 Mary Beth Barone? And my god, the perfume. At least three people last night had the perfume on. I almost, I almost worked up the courage to say, what is that that you're wearing? But I just couldn't do it. I couldn't get the words out.
6:50 Benito Skinner? You really, it's such a, it's a crap shoot if it's, wait, where did crap shoot originate from?
6:55 Mary Beth Barone? It's crap shoot.
6:56 Benito Skinner? Crap shoot?
6:57 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, but crap shoots cool too.
6:59 Benito Skinner? Wait, no, fuck you.
7:00 Mary Beth Barone? I love teaching you.
7:01 Benito Skinner? Crap shoot? Why'd it say crap shoot?
7:03 Mary Beth Barone? Isn't craps where you're like red? Put twenty on red or something. I don't know.
7:09 Benito Skinner? I don't know. I said this so confidently. I was like, I don't know.
7:11 Mary Beth Barone? And we have no way of knowing.
7:12 Benito Skinner? A crap shoot, I think is kind of cool. Well, that's my new restaurant.
7:15 Mary Beth Barone? Crab at a photo shoot. That was what came to me.
7:18 Benito Skinner? Good. There's a French word for that too. I don't even know what I was gonna say.
7:22 Mary Beth Barone? It's a total crap shoot.
7:23 Benito Skinner? Oh, if when you're complimenting someone's perfume, if it really is like that you like it, or it's just like, I simply have to comment on it because it's, it's consumed me.
7:30 Mary Beth Barone? Right.
7:31 Benito Skinner? It's, it's in me at this point.
7:32 Mary Beth Barone? Well, it's in my biome.
7:33 Benito Skinner? Oh, one person was like, I asked them, because I was like, what's that scent? Because I just genuinely was like, the fuck do you have on? Like, I, this I gotta know. And they were like, I make it myself. In my bones, I just thought, I know. No, I know. So I don't know if that's your, if you should leave it to the professionals.
7:51 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, leave it to the men in the lab coats, please.
7:53 Benito Skinner? Leave it to LaLabo, my love.
7:57 Mary Beth Barone? We're gonna do less referencing audience feedback next season, next year, 2026, I guess this year. I think we're too self-referential.
8:04 Benito Skinner? What do you mean by that?
8:05 Mary Beth Barone? We need to let it rip. I'm like, I feel the need to respond to things people say on the pod. We don't have to.
8:10 Benito Skinner? I see, I don't.
8:11 Mary Beth Barone? We can only if we want to.
8:12 Benito Skinner? I don't think I see any of it.
8:13 Mary Beth Barone? Well, I do, and I'm bringing it up. So maybe this is more a note for myself.
8:17 Benito Skinner? I think it might be. I don't know if I'm seeing anything. They're not really noting me, sis. Wait, what are they saying about my, my sister?
8:24 Mary Beth Barone? No, it's just like, oh, I don't like when they do this. They're like, I see a comment that says this and I'm like, I want to like speak to that.
8:29 Benito Skinner? Now let's like, let's see what.
8:30 Mary Beth Barone? But I can't even think of any right now. I just feel like we talk about it a lot, like, oh, I saw this on the Reddit, which we are reading. We didn't stop.
8:36 Benito Skinner? We're back. We didn't stop. We stopped for.
8:37 Mary Beth Barone? But don't stop posting. It's just like, I don't know if we always need to talk about everything that's said. But I bring the energy. I bring that up.
8:44 Benito Skinner? Of course.
8:44 Mary Beth Barone? And I'm bringing it up right now.
8:46 Benito Skinner? Well, I'm glad you are. Let it out. It's a new year. Let's start it fresh.
8:50 Mary Beth Barone? Fresh, clean slate.
8:50 Benito Skinner? Come to a fresh. There was something you were saying and I forgot, but whatever.
8:54 Mary Beth Barone? Was it about deviled eggs by any chance?
8:56 Benito Skinner? My index finger has a, it's as long as a nail has gone. Look, I'm seeing white. That's progress for me.
9:03 Mary Beth Barone? It's a little tip.
9:03 Benito Skinner? So just as a reminder, in the new year, this is why I am here in this seat and you the fuck aren't.
9:11 Mary Beth Barone? And you don't have a podcast.
9:12 Benito Skinner? Duddy has one nail. It's coke nail.
9:14 Mary Beth Barone? Of course, but it's not the pinky. It's her pointer.
9:17 Benito Skinner? Middle.
9:18 Mary Beth Barone? Even better.
9:19 Benito Skinner? Middle and then she always sucks the whole thing.
9:22 Mary Beth Barone? Mm hmm. Puts it all the way back.
9:23 Benito Skinner? And she goes, it's not for coke. It's for catsup.
9:28 Mary Beth Barone? And she sleeps ketchup next to her bed.
9:30 Benito Skinner? Of course. And honey mustard. She's a honey mustard girl, by the way. Honey Dijon.
9:34 Mary Beth Barone? I realize if we don't have kids, then that's less cousins in the world.
9:37 Benito Skinner? Is that so bad?
9:39 Mary Beth Barone? I don't know.
9:40 Benito Skinner? I mean, who knows?
9:41 Mary Beth Barone? In my family, yeah.
9:42 Benito Skinner? You know what's crazy? I think some of the people who don't want kids.
9:46 Mary Beth Barone? Should have them.
9:46 Benito Skinner? They actually would be good parents because they'd be like, you know, thoughtful and stuff. Those, sometimes when people are just like, I want kids, they'll say that so boldly and I think, well, I hope I don't come back in a second life.
9:59 Mary Beth Barone? Right.
9:59 Benito Skinner? I don't want to be your kid.
10:01 Mary Beth Barone? Or I don't want to meet them.
10:02 Benito Skinner? Yeah, well, that too. I don't, yeah, of course, that too. But yeah, sometimes I feel like the, the people that I'm like, oh God, you'd be such a good mom. They're like, ugh, absolutely not.
10:12 Mary Beth Barone? Too stressful.
10:12 Benito Skinner? And I'm like, well, because you're being so thoughtful. I don't know. Yeah. Who knows? I haven't written something off, but I haven't written it on.
10:20 Mary Beth Barone? It on. That's like how I think if you want to be president, you shouldn't be allowed to run. And we should elect presidents by popular demand. And who am I writing in? Jon Stewart.
10:30 Benito Skinner? Perfect.
10:31 Mary Beth Barone? I mean, imagine if we did. He totally didn't want to do it.
10:33 Benito Skinner? I was realizing, it's so funny you bring him up. I realized I had a huge crush on him as a kid from Big Daddy. He had such a sexiness in that.
10:40 Mary Beth Barone? Oh my God, yeah.
10:41 Benito Skinner? He popped in every now and then. And then in the end, he adopts. He adopts the kid, right?
10:45 Mary Beth Barone? His own kid, yeah. It's his kid.
10:47 Benito Skinner? Oh, it's his?
10:48 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. Remember when he's engaged to Leslie Mann? And he's like this one night in Buffalo or whatever.
10:54 Benito Skinner? I loved the friction between Adam Sandler and Leslie Mann and that I remember that being like a really great dynamic.
10:58 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
10:59 Benito Skinner? And then, oh, that cutie, his cutie girlfriend. With the voice.
11:02 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
11:03 Benito Skinner? She had that sweet voice.
11:05 Mary Beth Barone? I think he called her Tits McGee in that. That might have been the first time I heard of Tits McGee. Cause Leslie Mann.
11:09 Benito Skinner? We all know where we were.
11:10 Mary Beth Barone? When we first heard Tits McGee.
11:11 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
11:11 Mary Beth Barone? What an amazing apartment. What I would give.
11:13 Benito Skinner? Mine has that kind of.
11:15 Mary Beth Barone? It does. Ooh, it really does. If someone said, okay, a cab's gonna run over your foot, but you're gonna be kinda set for like a few years, would you do it? I probably would. You seem fine.
11:25 Benito Skinner? When did you think of that?
11:26 Mary Beth Barone? When I watched Big Daddy. Cause he sues the cab. So he works at a toll booth.
11:30 Benito Skinner? How recently did you see this?
11:31 Mary Beth Barone? I've seen this. I had it on VHS. I've watched it so many times.
11:34 Benito Skinner? Cause we did too, but I'm like, for some reason, we were a Happy Gilmore family, golfers, of course.
11:39 Mary Beth Barone? We did a little rotation, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy.
11:42 Benito Skinner? Ben Stiller as the nursing home doctor is, it's one of those performances that has stuck in my bones. I could recite every line.
11:50 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
11:51 Benito Skinner? Goes, oh, your finger's hurt. Now your back's gonna hurt, cause you just pulled landscaping duty.
11:57 Mary Beth Barone? It's sort of, it's adjacent to Heavy Weights. Did you see Heavy Weights? His performance in that? It's about like a fat camp and he plays like the psycho trainer that gets brought in.
12:05 Benito Skinner? God.
12:05 Mary Beth Barone? That's where lunch has been canceled due to lack of hustle.
12:08 Benito Skinner? Oh, a hundred percent.
12:10 Mary Beth Barone? Paul Feig.
12:10 Benito Skinner? Well, of course, Dodgeball was also.
12:13 Mary Beth Barone? It's very similar.
12:14 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
12:14 Mary Beth Barone? But there's one line reading.
12:16 Benito Skinner? I would watch Dodge.
12:16 Mary Beth Barone? In Heavy Weights, pasta primavera.
12:20 Mary Beth Barone? It's really funny.
12:21 Benito Skinner? I love that you can laugh with yourself. And I do wanna, you know what? If we're, if we're gonna get self-referential, well then, let's do it.
12:26 Mary Beth Barone? Honey.
12:27 Benito Skinner? What, what did someone say? I laughed at my joke of, she's trying to get into your knickers.
12:32 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
12:33 Benito Skinner? Yeah, well.
12:33 Mary Beth Barone? Someone said the way he cracks up laughing at his own joke.
12:36 Benito Skinner? I only crack up at knowing Edwards about to crack up.
12:40 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
12:40 Benito Skinner? Like, I know that that's.
12:41 Mary Beth Barone? It's an energy thing. You're not in the room with us.
12:42 Benito Skinner? I can't stress enough, writing these scripts, I literally am just completely dead in the face. Although sometimes I'll, I'll read you guys' pitches and then I, I'll giggle to myself.
12:51 Mary Beth Barone? A little chuckle. I was gonna say, maybe we should set intentions for the year, but.
12:54 Benito Skinner? I look dead.
12:55 Mary Beth Barone? You don't. And that's another thing we're not gonna do.
12:57 Benito Skinner? No, don't let me.
12:59 Mary Beth Barone? But it's not, it's not necessary.
13:01 Benito Skinner? Let them. Quince, Quince, the magical fruit. The more you eat, the more you toot. Remember when people do that at school? I hated that. I hated that.
13:10 Mary Beth Barone? And yet, here we are.
13:11 Benito Skinner? And yet, it's still, it's ringing in my ears. What are we doing tonight?
13:15 Mary Beth Barone? I don't know yet.
13:16 Benito Skinner? Do you have plans?
13:17 Mary Beth Barone? I kinda do, but we'll talk.
13:18 Benito Skinner? Why do you have plans?
13:20 Mary Beth Barone? Because I got a text from someone who's visiting.
13:22 Benito Skinner? Girl, you told me to come to New York City. I thought you were gonna show me a good time. Wait, I wanna do that. I wanna visit people in cities and go, "I thought you were gonna show me a good time." And it's like a Wednesday.
13:30 Mary Beth Barone? Turning the air with a wardrobe reprieve?
13:32 Benito Skinner? Oh, I wish. I'm fucking stuck in hotels.
13:35 Mary Beth Barone? You can't imagine the amount of packages Benny has had delivered here. It's reaching triple digits.
13:39 Benito Skinner? I have to fart right now, no more.
13:40 Mary Beth Barone? Go in another room.
13:41 Benito Skinner? No. Quince, Quince.
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14:11 Mary Beth Barone? And did you know this year, not only have I gotten some Mongolian cashmere sweaters, but I'm also, I'm gonna buy a long coat.
14:18 Benito Skinner? Oh, yes. Oh my God, I love that for you.
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14:31 Benito Skinner? I have that cashmere polo. It's so freaking cute. I need to go in and get more.
14:35 Mary Beth Barone? Right, and we need to go in and get more.
14:36 Benito Skinner? Yeah, yeah. I want to shop.
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15:04 Benito Skinner? Quince, the magical fruit.
15:07 Mary Beth Barone? Okay, Benny is looking at his own Instagram post.
15:09 Benito Skinner? I just looked at the photo of you in the ocean, in the ocean kicking your ass.
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15:15 Benito Skinner? So Squarespace.
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15:21 Benito Skinner? Wait, can I ask Squarespace something in the ad? Let's see if you're listening, Squarespace, to your own goddamn ads.
15:25 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, yeah, I can't wait to hear this.
15:26 Benito Skinner? I want them to make a total site for me. When you enter the page, it says "total site", and it's just like photos of me, and they just like make it. I don't care what it is. Squarespace, if you have like time of the day.
15:37 Mary Beth Barone? Because you have the domain, you have the New York Skinner.
15:38 Benito Skinner? I have the domain, so I just want you to do whatever you want with it. I've got nothing to sell, only myself.
15:44 Mary Beth Barone? It's just my projects.
15:45 Benito Skinner? I think it should be Mary Beth projects, some things I like, maybe a few music videos. I'd love an Olivia Dean music. No, you know what I want. On the launch page, it plays Olivia Dean, and it's photos of me.
15:55 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, just set to Olivia Dean.
15:57 Benito Skinner? Yeah, but no photos of me before 20... I don't know, 23.
16:02 Mary Beth Barone? 2023.
16:03 Benito Skinner? Yeah, so, okay, so this is where we want to discuss the product.
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16:56 Mary Beth Barone? No, you're not. We're doing the ad, we're in the article ad already.
16:59 Benito Skinner? We're in the article ad?
17:00 Mary Beth Barone? We're in the article ad. Benny just posted.
17:02 Benito Skinner? I was gonna engage with some of you online.
17:03 Mary Beth Barone? Hey, hey, check your shit, I'll talk about article. I don't need you.
17:07 Benito Skinner? Whoa.
17:07 Mary Beth Barone? I don't need you for this ad.
17:09 Benito Skinner? She stays over by the cuck chair?
17:10 Mary Beth Barone? I mean, we've talked about Article time and time again, and how Article makes it effortless to create a stylish, long-lasting home at an unbeatable price.
17:17 Benito Skinner? Here's the thing. Article takes great care in curating its collection, focusing solely on high-quality, meaningful pieces that will stand the test of time.
17:25 Mary Beth Barone? There's no filler.
17:26 Benito Skinner? There's no filler. Kiss me.
17:27 Mary Beth Barone? Every item is chosen for its craftsmanship, design, and lasting value.
17:30 Benito Skinner? Consistently high quality. You got that?
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17:43 Benito Skinner? Even on Christmas.
17:44 Mary Beth Barone? Plus, flight, club, other club.
17:46 Benito Skinner? Other club. That's every work at Article. Mostly, but I've slept in years. I'm helping everyone 24/7. 30-day satisfaction guarantee.
17:54 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, guess who's moving into a new place? I see some Article shipments in the queue.
17:59 Benito Skinner? I'd say so. They might let me pick one or two items. Yeah. So with Article's 30-day satisfaction guarantee, you can shop with confidence, unless you're Mary Beth, because she already got her chair, and that's enough for her. Knowing that if you're not completely with your new furniture, you can easily return it.
18:14 Mary Beth Barone? So guess what?
18:15 Benito Skinner? This peace of mind ensures you can invest in your home without hesitation. I give you chills.
18:21 Mary Beth Barone? If you're in the market for a beautiful new sofa, dining table, or bed, head to article.com. Do we want to set intentions for the year?
18:30 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I think so.
18:31 Mary Beth Barone? What do you want to do this year?
18:32 Benito Skinner? Well, I want to make another season of honest, beautiful, sexy.
18:39 Mary Beth Barone? Side, hot, and sexy.
18:41 Benito Skinner? Television. No, I want to be really present when we're shooting everything. I think last time I was at times, but then I would also just be like, oh, my God, I'm so worried and stressed. And I think I just really want to enjoy it. So being more present this year.
18:53 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
18:53 Benito Skinner? And, yeah, and, you know, more gratitude and...
18:58 Mary Beth Barone? More fruit leather.
19:00 Benito Skinner? And I was gonna say more fruit leather. Give me some. I'll chew the other end.
19:04 Mary Beth Barone? I don't care about that. Just now there's less.
19:06 Benito Skinner? I do.
19:08 Mary Beth Barone? I would like to see Rosalía live.
19:10 Benito Skinner? Oh, we could do like...
19:11 Mary Beth Barone? Tangent, tangible, yeah.
19:14 Benito Skinner? Okay.
19:14 Mary Beth Barone? You could have said purses. If that's what you want on the record.
19:18 Benito Skinner? I would say purses. You know, that's like how I'll end my life, right? Like, I'll be saying shit like that on my way out. Purses. I hope... Wait.
19:29 Benito Skinner? Please, I know a baronie will be in the hospital when I pass on. You have to remind me.
19:35 Mary Beth Barone? Well, she'll be a nurse in figs.
19:36 Benito Skinner? I know, my last words.
19:37 Mary Beth Barone? Herses.
19:40 Benito Skinner? Are we even funny anymore? You are.
19:41 Mary Beth Barone? I don't know. No, I don't think I've been funny for a few weeks on this.
19:45 Benito Skinner? Well, I'm sure they'll let us know.
19:46 Mary Beth Barone? They will, but we won't bring it up.
19:48 Benito Skinner? I don't think you thought I was funny.
19:50 Mary Beth Barone? Are you? Don't, don't do that. Don't do that. That's crazy.
19:55 Benito Skinner? Welcome to the new year, you guys.
19:56 Mary Beth Barone? I also would like to be really proud of my performance when I shoot Galaxy Brain.
20:02 Benito Skinner? Of course.
20:02 Mary Beth Barone? My Netflix special.
20:03 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
20:04 Mary Beth Barone? And then I would like to follow the joy this year. Just have a lot of moments of joy and continue prioritizing having fun.
20:11 Benito Skinner? Chase me.
20:11 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, yay.
20:12 Benito Skinner? The joy's right here, love.
20:13 Mary Beth Barone? The joy's, the joy can't, what is it?
20:15 Benito Skinner? Oh.
20:15 Mary Beth Barone? You can't lose the joy because the joy's you.
20:17 Benito Skinner? The joy ain't going anywhere. They can't take the joy with them when you are the joy.
20:21 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, no, I think the magic is straight guys giving me attention, so they can take it away. It's not me.
20:26 Benito Skinner? They could easily strip you of that.
20:28 Mary Beth Barone? I'm not the magic. Can I just say, I'm not the magic.
20:30 Benito Skinner? Hundred percent.
20:31 Mary Beth Barone? It's straight guys giving me attention.
20:33 Benito Skinner? I love that. And thank you for sharing. So today I will be riding for deja vu.
20:40 Mary Beth Barone? Mm-hmm. As I lick my fingers, which I do, and some people don't do that, I do.
20:44 Benito Skinner? I think this, you've been kind of chomping. I think this is gonna be really fun for them.
20:48 Mary Beth Barone? I'm sorry if you don't like that.
20:49 Benito Skinner? No, no, no, I think they're gonna enjoy it regardless, even if they hate it. I think it's cool, it's different.
20:53 Mary Beth Barone? If you, if you love it, you're welcome. If you hate it, that's exposure therapy. And again, all I can say is you're welcome. This week I will be riding for something I can't describe. And if you want, I can go first and I can just finally describe it to you.
21:06 Benito Skinner? Let's, sorry, chomping at the bits.
21:09 Mary Beth Barone? Wait, where are we going?
21:11 Benito Skinner? Who cares? Ride!
21:13 Mary Beth Barone? So, you know I'm observant and perceptive.
21:16 Benito Skinner? Of course, both.
21:17 Mary Beth Barone? I love being a witness to other people. Something that I really enjoy doing when I'm in either an Uber, or this actually happened when I was being driven to overcompensating from where we were living to the set. I like looking at the console and I like seeing what the Uber drivers or what the drivers have saved their significant other as in their phone. So I I get chills thinking about it. It is so stinking cute. It is so stinking cute. One of the drivers went overcompensating. He had his his wife saved as my one and only with the heart emoji.
21:53 Benito Skinner? That's what I have you saved as.
21:55 Mary Beth Barone? I know, and that means the world. And then I was in an Uber the other day and it was just my baby with the heart emoji and a picture of her came up and he did decline the call. And I wanted to be like, you don't have to do that for me. Like you should follow the joy and answer maybe, or I don't know, maybe in a fight. Yeah, and that could be the case, too. But I've seen all kinds of like my better half, one true love. Like, it's just so, it's so like intimate to see something like that.
22:20 Benito Skinner? This is so not what I thought we were gonna get from you.
22:21 Mary Beth Barone? No.
22:22 Benito Skinner? What an incredible way to start the year.
22:23 Mary Beth Barone? I just think it's really sweet and it's like, it's an eye and it's a peek into their, not only like who they are at their rawest, but like, just like what a beautiful thing to like have that partner and be like, I'm gonna save them as something special.
22:34 Benito Skinner? Well, this must be crazy for you because I I feel like you're very formal. What I found is that I I entered phones with whimsy. And I feel like I was not met with the whimsy back. Like my sister, we call her like Kitty sometimes. So she had like Kitty with kitten emojis. And then my other sister, I used to call Lorelie because her name is Laura Elizabeth.
22:55 Mary Beth Barone? Gilmore.
22:56 Benito Skinner? Gilmore.
22:59 Benito Skinner? Cliff that. Wait, I need that. That's such, that was insane. That's like the funniest thing you've ever done, I think. I have to sit with that. Sorry. Laura Elizabeth Gilmore.
23:11 Benito Skinner? God, no wonder I'm totally obsessed with you. And don't bleep it for once.
23:17 Mary Beth Barone? I never, I never thought that would go over so well.
23:20 Benito Skinner? Sometimes it's those ones that stick out to me.
23:22 Mary Beth Barone? Yep.
23:23 Benito Skinner? So I just created this nickname of Lorelei and just like she kind of hated it, but that's what I called her. But I had those on my phone with like a bunch of, I was playing with it and then I put the worst photo I could of the person up like, and then everyone kind of matched me with update contact and it, things got really businesslike.
23:37 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, it got really, really formal.
23:39 Benito Skinner? I'm like, wow, you guys really sterilized this. I would love to put like, it should just say wife. The wife, when you call with Darth Vader.
23:46 Mary Beth Barone? Er.
23:47 Benito Skinner? You know?
23:48 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, I would love that.
23:49 Benito Skinner? Oh my God, I, we should change Mac in our phones to money. So it's like, oh, money calls.
23:53 Mary Beth Barone? Money's calling. That's so money.
23:55 Benito Skinner? Oh, money's calling. Mac is so money.
23:57 Mary Beth Barone? Well, I remember when you first saved my number in your phone, you had Mary Beth as one word and you didn't have any emojis. So I remember specifically seeing, I think we were drunk or maybe at that Halloween party we've gone to a couple of times.
24:08 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
24:08 Mary Beth Barone? Where I remember we were discussing it and I was like, how come everyone else has a million emojis at the end of their name? And then we went in and we added a bunch. But you're right, I do a more formal type thing and I, I want someone, I can only dream of one day saving someone in my phone as something a little different.
24:23 Benito Skinner? I want to do baby love.
24:24 Mary Beth Barone? Baby love, the wife is so classic.
24:26 Benito Skinner? I think the wife is so amazing.
24:28 Mary Beth Barone? It just sucks because I can never, like, my dream would be to do a photo dump of like all the ones that I've seen. I can, I'm not quick enough on the draw with that.
24:36 Benito Skinner? I know.
24:36 Mary Beth Barone? When the phone call, call comes in. So then I'm like, I could just have my camera out the entire time I'm in an Uber just in case, but I'm, I think I can't probably commit to that.
24:44 Benito Skinner? I'll have it out just as all the time and then just, you know, always on the table, it's face up. And I'm like, oh my God, look who's calling. I am like, I'm having this thing, I'm not my mom's screensaver right now. Like, grandkids are tricky and it's awesome. I'm happy they're here, but like, I'm kind of no one's wallpaper. So if I am your wallpaper, please reach out.
25:01 Mary Beth Barone? You're in the rotation with Pinky right now.
25:03 Benito Skinner? Oh, really?
25:04 Mary Beth Barone? You, Brandon and Thomas at Charlie's wedding.
25:06 Benito Skinner? Oh, I was your, oh my God, I was your wallpaper first.
25:08 Mary Beth Barone? I change it every few days.
25:09 Benito Skinner? To be a lock screen, like.
25:10 Mary Beth Barone? It's so cool.
25:11 Benito Skinner? It's just, and I, I can't wait to meet a guy who puts you as his lock screen. And that's just.
25:18 Mary Beth Barone? Your boyfriend, whoever you date next, yeah.
25:21 Benito Skinner? It's me.
25:21 Mary Beth Barone? That's the goal.
25:22 Benito Skinner? No, I'm just like, that will be so.
25:24 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
25:25 Benito Skinner? His phone, if I see that.
25:28 Mary Beth Barone? When I knew that my last boyfriend was gonna dump me, I asked him like, what's your phone background? Cause I was just getting weird vibes. I was like, did you change it? Cause it was me and Pinky. And he was like, no, why would you ask that? And I was like, cause you're being fucking weird. He hadn't changed it, but I know he probably had thought about it.
25:43 Benito Skinner? He's, of course.
25:44 Mary Beth Barone? It's very, it's, it's an indicator of something.
25:47 Benito Skinner? Not that I know how to do the button that gets you to the changing the wallpapers, but every now and then it does it. And the one that it slides to is you with Katy Perry for me, or Charlie crash, and then there's a Lana one. I've had interesting ones. And then I have like a dog that died so long ago and Apple is just like,
26:03 Mary Beth Barone? Tank?
26:04 Benito Skinner? Yeah, Tank. They will not stop showing me Tank.
26:06 Mary Beth Barone? I'm not laughing. It's just, I like that your dog's name was Tank.
26:09 Benito Skinner? He was so, he was such a bozo. I miss him so much. He was so studly and stupid. He was incredible. He was also like a total glutton for food, which I just thought was funny. You know, we shared like a love of snacks. But Apple's just kind of like, remember this fucking dog that died of cancer and broke your heart? Like they refused to let me.
26:30 Mary Beth Barone? You can hide the dog. Sometimes you have to hide people, which I've done, of course.
26:34 Benito Skinner? They do that?
26:35 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, you can hide them. They haven't come up with a way to unhide them. So I was trying to post a photo dump when we had Edward on the podcast and I went to people and I was like, well, how do I unhide? Cause obviously you're going through a breakup, you're gonna hide the person.
26:45 Benito Skinner? Yeah, of course.
26:46 Mary Beth Barone? I, there's no, no even, on the Mac forums, I couldn't figure it out. And you know, I checked. So.
26:52 Benito Skinner? Well, I forgot my password on my laptop. And just in case anyone has ever had this happen, it's kind of the one thing that Apple's like.
27:01 Mary Beth Barone? Our hands are tied.
27:02 Benito Skinner? You have to reset the thing. So I had to go to World Trade. Can I just say love to everyone there? I had the best time at the Apple store. Everyone was a total doll.
27:10 Mary Beth Barone? They genuinely want to help you.
27:11 Benito Skinner? I didn't mind the reset.
27:13 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
27:13 Benito Skinner? Gave me a new wallpaper. I had to re-download Final Draft and all this, oh, this business stuff. We'll talk about it offline.
27:19 Mary Beth Barone? So tough, babe. So tough.
27:21 Benito Skinner? It sucked.
27:22 Mary Beth Barone? So tough. But yeah, I guess, I mean, we were in, we were in high school in the time of like ringtones and ringback tones and things like that. You could really personalize. There was more flair. There was more flair.
27:32 Benito Skinner? I love this because also you know what it is? I think the romantic is coming back in you. And I've waited for it to return. That romantic whimsy.
27:39 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, like up the romance. If you have a, if you have a lover, a significant other, even if it's only been, I mean, what would Duddy do? Duddy would save that guy on her phone the minute they meet.
27:48 Benito Skinner? He's, he'd look over and it says, boy number 36.
27:51 Mary Beth Barone? I'm number 29. I didn't understand that line and I still don't to this day.
27:57 Benito Skinner? There's been 29 other people that they've brought that they're saying that there's like or their dad is.
28:01 Mary Beth Barone? He's dated 20, he's dated 29 other people, 28 other people.
28:04 Benito Skinner? Yeah, they're getting in her head. I love that they're like, oh my God, you know how we'll fuck up this woman? Like, talk her about dad's body count. Like, give her dad's body count.
28:11 Mary Beth Barone? That's the one line where I'm like, that's so, it's so elevated. It's elevated beyond even me at 34. I couldn't figure it out. So all I would say is that next time you're in the car with a driver and if you maybe don't want to be scrolling on your phone, you just keep an eye on that little console, that little screen and you just see if something cute, I don't know. It feels so like warm and fuzzy to me to be like, wow, that person, I don't know the relationship dynamic, but this is a straight man who has saved his partner in his phone as something totally adorable.
28:38 Benito Skinner? Can I say something?
28:39 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
28:40 Benito Skinner? It's like, just it's really beautiful thinking of like the wife seeing that.
28:45 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
28:46 Benito Skinner? It probably means someone else to her. That's.
28:49 Mary Beth Barone? I know. And you're right, there is, we don't have an English word for it. Maybe there's a French word for, for, I don't even know. I still don't totally know how to describe it.
28:57 Benito Skinner? You've described it as.
28:58 Mary Beth Barone? How drivers save, or even just people. It's like how people save their significant others, but the way I've witnessed it so much is, is by being in cars with people.
29:06 Benito Skinner? I wonder if women would feel comfortable doing that with the guy because it's like you never know if he's going to cheat or like ruin your life.
29:12 Mary Beth Barone? I would love to see what people have their significant others saved as. I think it's really sweet and it's very vulnerable. And if you feel comfortable sharing, feel free to post a screenshot and tag Ride the Pod.
29:22 Benito Skinner? Also, baby, sorry, we're recording at midnight, AKA 6:30, but what I'm thinking is also maybe go on your phone and change it.
29:29 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
29:29 Benito Skinner? Have a little whimsy.
29:30 Mary Beth Barone? Something special.
29:31 Benito Skinner? I think at this point it would be annoying for me because I'm just like so, I call you so much that like my brain just couldn't, it would take a while.
29:37 Mary Beth Barone? Well, that's why I still have the photo of you as, you as Courtney on Halloween because I tend to change it now.
29:43 Benito Skinner? I love that photo. That's me at my like perfect form. That's like true, like I'm.
29:48 Mary Beth Barone? I really saw you that night. Yeah.
29:50 Benito Skinner? Oh, I, it's something so, oh, sometimes I get a wig on or some nails. There he is.
29:58 Benito Skinner? Shine on me, kiss me in the dark. Tell me I look beautiful underneath the stars. Head on your chest, that's my favorite bar. Her.
30:09 Mary Beth Barone? Me or her?
30:10 Benito Skinner? Me or her?
30:11 Mary Beth Barone? Me or her?
30:13 Benito Skinner? Girl, it's 10 a.m. on January the 1st.
30:19 Mary Beth Barone? So, Her is the only dating app actually built for Sapphix by Sapphix.
30:24 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
30:25 Mary Beth Barone? And it's perfect for winter restart season. I mean, think about the cold weather, the loneliness, cuffing, coming out of hibernation, trying again, and wiping the slate clean.
30:33 Benito Skinner? I, you know what you should do? You look at someone in a bar and you say, "Hold me." It's not illegal.
30:38 Mary Beth Barone? And then, three months in, you go, "You're losing me."
30:41 Benito Skinner? Well, of course, maybe two. Okay, so, here's the thing.
30:44 Mary Beth Barone? Winter dating, it can be like really tough. I mean, Lord knows, like, I'm taking a huge fucking break because I have to, but I think...
30:51 Benito Skinner? I would say January is like a Sapphix reactivation peak, though.
30:55 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, you've been saying that. You said that the entire time we imported...
30:58 Benito Skinner? Well, it's messy hope season.
30:59 Mary Beth Barone? And pinky.
31:00 Benito Skinner? It's when everyone decides to try again, including you. I think you should put yourself out there. I'm serious. Look at me. Serious.
31:07 Mary Beth Barone? Doing it.
31:08 Benito Skinner? So...
31:09 Mary Beth Barone? I guess what we're saying all in all really is, Her gets it right.
31:13 Benito Skinner? Here's my favorite thing. I love when queer people make things for queer people and straight people don't make it for us, trying to guess what we want. That's why Her is different than other dating apps.
31:23 Mary Beth Barone? And it's not just swiping. It's real queer community, and it's IRL dating and queer community events, vibes, profile prompts, personality forward. There's even red flags and green flags. So, I guess what I'm saying is, download Her and see if it speaks to you, see if it makes you excited to get back into dating. Who knows? Maybe when I'm ready to start dating again, you'll see me on there.
31:45 Benito Skinner? Exactly. Try Her this winter. It's Sapphix restart season. And Her, thank you for letting Benny Drama read this.
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32:17 Benito Skinner? Well, okay, that's the thing. I want to give them a hundred bucks, see what they do with it. But the buzz feels light, social, and smooth, and it's available in five and 10 milligram, a fast onset hemp-derived THC, making me feel like my own little Señorita.
32:31 Mary Beth Barone? It's like a party in your mouth.
32:32 Benito Skinner? I'll be your Señorita.
32:34 Mary Beth Barone? Oh.
32:34 Benito Skinner? I'm about to Señorita.
32:35 Mary Beth Barone? No, I'm about to... Watch me Señorita on you.
32:38 Benito Skinner? Watch me, watch me Señorita on you. Kiss me and the Señorita.
32:42 Mary Beth Barone? It's low calories and real ingredients. It's everything you love about a cocktail, just without the hangover. And I just want to mention one more time that I did get two cases of this shipped to my apartment right before Thanksgiving. I cannot tell you, like, we ran out of it like so fast. I had two cases and it got slurped right up because it was so dang delicious.
32:59 Benito Skinner? I'm starting to think people are like hanging out best for the Señorita of it all.
33:04 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, no, I never even thought of that. I need a sec.
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33:27 Benito Skinner? I just said that.
33:27 Mary Beth Barone? I know, but it's like, it says verbatim, so I get scared.
33:30 Benito Skinner? Oh, I think, I think Señorita feels very relaxed. We're gonna be big investors in them. It's no big deal.
33:35 Mary Beth Barone? Must be 21 plus, please enjoy responsibly. Speaking of French words.
33:39 Benito Skinner? Speaking of French. Let's get you in the sex. The sex? Chiviti. Who did that? To me, it's Uffy, but who? Who is that in Beyonce's song?
33:50 Mary Beth Barone? I don't know. We'll see if the Barones can find that out.
33:55 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
33:55 Mary Beth Barone? I couldn't, I couldn't possibly know.
33:57 Benito Skinner? No one could, but I love that part, when that plays.
34:00 Mary Beth Barone? But I love partition.
34:01 Benito Skinner? Let's get you in this sex. This sex. Chiviti. It's Nina.
34:06 Mary Beth Barone? I would play it if it wouldn't get fucked up on YouTube. We have to sing everything now. We can't play the songs because if we play a song in an episode, they won't let us monetize it.
34:14 Benito Skinner? They love the singing. No one's saying a thing about it.
34:16 Mary Beth Barone? That's one piece of feedback we haven't gotten.
34:19 Benito Skinner? They're loving the singing.
34:20 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. Well, they haven't said they don't like it, so I can only assume they're loving it.
34:24 Benito Skinner? Sometimes they're like, what is that song? And it's like, that's just from the dome.
34:27 Mary Beth Barone? Right. I need a fidget spinner because these clips being here, I'm like, everyone watching is just seeing that I have this problem.
34:33 Benito Skinner? I think they're gonna feel good, but okay.
34:36 Benito Skinner? Speaking of Beyonce, déjà vu. So déjà vu. There's kind of a way to describe it, and fortunately, there's this perfect little combo of words. Or maybe it's one word. Is it one word?
34:49 Mary Beth Barone? I think it's two. I think it's déjà and then.
34:51 Benito Skinner? It's déjà vu. Yeah. Okay, so déjà vu. I assume everyone knows what this is. Like, is it weird if I describe it?
34:57 Mary Beth Barone? I think you should describe it as you, as you think of it.
35:00 Benito Skinner? Okay, so to me, déjà vu is on some, the fuck? I'm good as fuck.
35:05 Mary Beth Barone? It's very interstellar, kinda.
35:06 Benito Skinner? It's so interstellar. It's so like,
35:10 Benito Skinner? I've been here before. So I, I can't remember the first time I experienced it, but I remember specifically this one time I was in fourth grade and I was looking at the board. And school, I remember having déjà vu, because the days really do just, come on.
35:27 Mary Beth Barone? On loop.
35:28 Benito Skinner? The days keep coming and they don't stop coming. But I, I remember being like, holy fuck, that's crazy. And then learning about it later of like, oh, this is like a phenomenon.
35:37 Mary Beth Barone? Right. This is a sensation.
35:39 Benito Skinner? This is a feminine phenomenon.
35:40 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
35:40 Benito Skinner? So déjà vu is this feeling of like, oh my God, this exact thing has happened before and I feel like I'm back at that place. It is the time traveler's wife, which is funny that you brought that up. Because it does feel like that. All of a sudden, you're like, the fuck?
35:54 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
35:55 Benito Skinner? And it's so, like, it gives me goosebumps, the fact that it's like as close as we get to magic. I swear to God. It is so. Like when you really feel it too, I get such a rush from it. I'm like,
36:06 Mary Beth Barone? I like it.
36:07 Benito Skinner? And there's not one time it's happened to me that I didn't need to tell every single fucking person in the vicinity.
36:12 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, you have to say it.
36:13 Benito Skinner? I just got deja vu. I can be, I can be alone in a room and I say it out loud.
36:17 Mary Beth Barone? I got it today.
36:18 Benito Skinner? No.
36:18 Mary Beth Barone? Leaving my apartment. And then we, I shot a sketch yesterday with Kai.
36:23 Benito Skinner? On camera? I get it all the time.
36:25 Mary Beth Barone? Well, our cameraman, Michael, who is totally fabulous, in the middle of us shooting, I mean, we were not in a take, because that would have been funny if he had said it in the middle of the take, he just goes, well, I just got deja vu. It's, so I've heard a theory about what it is, which is that our brain like files memories in order, but sometimes it files them out of order. So it's actually your brain filing the memory you're making right in that moment, like as something that's happened in the past. That's what I've heard, but I don't know if that's based in anything.
36:53 Benito Skinner? Oh, because to me, it's like you're back on like you've, you've tread this path before.
36:58 Mary Beth Barone? No, I, I don't, I think it's sort of inexplicable. And obviously to me, I love this because it's sort of, it really just casts a light on the limits of science. We can't explain what it is. It's, it's a universal experience. I think, actually, I'd be curious if other cultures get it, like ones that, you know, are totally unrelated to Western culture, which I learned that's what we are, right?
37:21 Benito Skinner? I am so glad.
37:22 Mary Beth Barone? And I'm even not totally sure as I'm saying that.
37:24 Benito Skinner? No, yeah, but.
37:24 Mary Beth Barone? I think we are the Western world.
37:26 Benito Skinner? Of course.
37:27 Mary Beth Barone? But I, it's just like, you know, it's like, how do planes fly? We don't know. What is deja vu and what causes it? We don't know.
37:33 Benito Skinner? I'm sure there's been huge studies, I'm sure released and more to release this year, of course.
37:39 Mary Beth Barone? Well, yeah, I'm gonna do one.
37:40 Benito Skinner? Yeah, but I, I can't stress enough, try to get it today. It'll just make you feel a little goosey. And you know what I love about it? There's no, you could never predict when it's gonna hit.
37:51 Mary Beth Barone? No.
37:51 Benito Skinner? But it does all the time on set. Like, that's so funny, you got it on set because with cameras and stuff, during overcompensating, I will say I got it all the time.
37:59 Mary Beth Barone? I got it a couple of times during overcompensating, for sure.
38:01 Benito Skinner? Yeah, because also like all the. The times I was in the dorm room thing, I would just be like, whoa, sorry, guys. The days are blending.
38:08 Mary Beth Barone? Ooh, it's bringing me back.
38:09 Benito Skinner? Anyone else just dizzy right now? But yeah, the deja vu of it all. I just think it's so delicious.
38:15 Mary Beth Barone? And unlike saying, God bless you, I think announcing when you have deja vu is fun. It's fun for everyone in the room.
38:22 Benito Skinner? Well, it's cool because it reminds everybody that like, that could be me. Like, and it probably will be again, but I could never know when. And that's what deja vu is so cool about. It just hits you.
38:30 Mary Beth Barone? And thank God the French sat down and they came up with a fucking term for this.
38:35 Benito Skinner? Déjà vu.
38:35 Mary Beth Barone? Déjà vu. Because there's a lot of things, I guess they don't add to the French language. Like, it's sort of locked in.
38:41 Benito Skinner? Whoa, okay, so they don't add any other words?
38:44 Mary Beth Barone? That's what I think my roommate in college told me.
38:46 Benito Skinner? Okay, whatever this first summit was, they really just kind of got as many as possible. They're like, fuck it.
38:52 Mary Beth Barone? They were writing on a chalkboard.
38:53 Benito Skinner? They're like, you know that feeling? Yeah, that feeling when, and you kind of go like that? And you're like, this must have happened before, and you feel it in your boobs.
39:01 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
39:02 Benito Skinner? They did it all in English first. Well, the whole thing was in English because then they, yeah.
39:05 Mary Beth Barone? And then they translated it all to French. But yeah, they, they don't add words. So it's just cool that this, this was covered in that first sort of round. That first brush stroke.
39:15 Benito Skinner? This was after fork.
39:16 Mary Beth Barone? Including deja vu.
39:17 Benito Skinner? They said spoon, fork.
39:18 Mary Beth Barone? Spoon, knife, fork.
39:20 Benito Skinner? Fork, and then they're like.
39:21 Mary Beth Barone? Déjà vu.
39:21 Benito Skinner? You know, that's feeling when.
39:23 Mary Beth Barone? This is, you have sex? We have sex.
39:27 Benito Skinner? It's deja vu. Oh, my God, I'm thinking about the fucking French [BLEEP] that left a fucking wine on top of her book to make it to fucking.
39:36 Mary Beth Barone? Here's my thing, she couldn't call the restaurant.
39:38 Benito Skinner? I know, you've said it before.
39:40 Mary Beth Barone? Call them and say you're gonna be late.
39:41 Benito Skinner? I know.
39:42 Mary Beth Barone? I wanted to write for Crashing Out today, and I wanted to do an episode where we tear down this whole studio.
39:46 Benito Skinner? But the second you saw your friend.
39:48 Mary Beth Barone? You said not to.
39:48 Benito Skinner? Second you saw your friend, you weren't crashing out anymore because all it takes is conversation.
39:52 Mary Beth Barone? That's not true.
39:53 Benito Skinner? Oh, my God, you know what? I've gotten deja vu in your apartment. I think I'm gonna get it a lot now that I moved to New York.
39:57 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
39:59 Benito Skinner? All the nights are blending together. Oh, yeah.
40:01 Mary Beth Barone? We're going out tomorrow.
40:02 Benito Skinner? We are, and I hope I look fucking cute. Okay, so for any of the.
40:09 Benito Skinner? The dermatitis girlies out there, I'm sending love and I hope by the time this comes out, I will have been on doxycycline for, doxyci- doxycycline? Doxycycline for a month and I hope I'm a totally different person. Yes, I'm going the antibiotic route. I've got nowhere else to go. I've got no one else to turn to. So here I go. Shout out to Mary Beth for linking me with her derm, her MD.
40:34 Mary Beth Barone? Who is pure of heart.
40:35 Benito Skinner? My favorite thing is the derm was like, you're on this other medication. If you took this with it, you would have brain bleeding. I'm telling you right now, I swear to God, I'm true because I know you're friends with Mary Beth and you're really intense. Please do not take these two drugs together. And I was like, yes, ma'am.
40:53 Mary Beth Barone? Okay.
40:54 Benito Skinner? I was like, fine, but for clear skin.
40:56 Mary Beth Barone? Clear skin, anything.
40:58 Benito Skinner? Oh my God. But someone commented because they were like, why are you so red? Did you go like, did you do a chemical peel or go skiing? Someone commented on the, on one of the ride episodes. I was like, no, they DM'd me.
41:07 Mary Beth Barone? I didn't see that.
41:08 Benito Skinner? They DM'd me from, yeah.
41:09 Mary Beth Barone? Cause I would have seen that.
41:10 Benito Skinner? Well, I saw that and I just went, you know what? Maybe it's just some dermatitis. I'm getting used to winters again. Okay. And also, why don't you just fucking kiss me? You fucking idiot.
41:21 Mary Beth Barone? That took a turn I wasn't expecting.
41:23 Benito Skinner? Yeah. Whoa.
41:24 Mary Beth Barone? No.
41:25 Benito Skinner? Kidding. I was gonna pretend to have deja vu. Maybe you can will it a little bit. Try to will it, everyone. I think there's a movie called Deja Vu with Denzel Washington. If there's not, I'm pitching it. But yeah, that's my big.
41:35 Mary Beth Barone? Pitch it right now.
41:36 Benito Skinner? That's my huge spiel. Oh, a man, a man who's lost his entire family.
41:41 Mary Beth Barone? I knew you were gonna say that.
41:42 Benito Skinner? You knew that?
41:43 Mary Beth Barone? I knew it. Go on.
41:45 Benito Skinner? To COVID.
41:47 Mary Beth Barone? Didn't see that coming.
41:48 Benito Skinner? No. A man who's lost his entire family goes back to the place where he lost them and realizes it was him.
41:59 Mary Beth Barone? Who died? Whoa. Interesting. Okay.
42:03 Benito Skinner? It's got a Shutter Island lens.
42:05 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
42:06 Benito Skinner? Whoa. Oh my God. Remember when I, there was a group of people over at my house and I put on Shutter Island? And then I went and took a nap. You can do whatever you want in this life. Free will is remarkable.
42:16 Mary Beth Barone? That was my infamous shower where I screamed.
42:18 Benito Skinner? Oh my God. And I, I literally, I pictured in that moment, like a fire, a fire hydrant blasting you. I was like, oh God, it got her. She got hit.
42:28 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
42:28 Benito Skinner? The water hit her.
42:29 Mary Beth Barone? No, I was just scared by a picture.
42:31 Benito Skinner? I think 2026 is gonna be fabulous, everyone.
42:34 Mary Beth Barone? Have you ever been scared by a picture?
42:38 Benito Skinner? Yeah, of course.
42:40 Mary Beth Barone? The concept.
42:41 Benito Skinner? That was what I heard and I went, oh, we lost her.
42:43 Mary Beth Barone? The concept of that.
42:47 Mary Beth Barone? That's so powerful.
42:48 Benito Skinner? Well, it was, the photo was hung up in a way that it was just like exactly. Yeah, but it was a shaved head, so it wasn't someone that you would, yeah.
42:55 Mary Beth Barone? Frosted.
42:56 Benito Skinner? But yeah, we kind of invite, so after you've locked the door, we kind of invite people to go into that bathroom. And people are showering in it. That's like us as hosts.
43:03 Mary Beth Barone? Gay guys with buzz cuts.
43:06 Benito Skinner? That is a thing.
43:06 Mary Beth Barone? Gay guys with buzz cuts have all access to your guys' bathroom.
43:09 Benito Skinner? Right now, do you think I could pull off a buzz cut?
43:11 Mary Beth Barone? Hundred percent. I think you could pull off anything.
43:13 Benito Skinner? That's really nice, actually. Like, thank you. That's so sweet. People don't see this side of you. You should show up more. Okay, let's get into ride or die.
43:21 Mary Beth Barone? I don't want them to see it. You know what you are, Benny?
43:24 Benito Skinner? Hmm, a [BLEEP]?
43:26 Mary Beth Barone? Your words, not mine. Babe, you're my ride or die.
43:29 Benito Skinner? Ride or die. I ride for that thing you can't describe because, boy, I'm glad you did it.
43:34 Mary Beth Barone? Thank you. I know it's long-winded.
43:36 Benito Skinner? French constituents.
43:37 Mary Beth Barone? It's long-winded.
43:38 Benito Skinner? And see if they can hit you with a new.
43:40 Mary Beth Barone? With something up.
43:40 Benito Skinner? The first word in a thousand years, ever since Pevila Ravelis.
43:46 Mary Beth Barone? No, they invented the words Lady Marmalade.
43:49 Benito Skinner? Oh my God.
43:50 Mary Beth Barone? And then they stopped. They said, you've done it all.
43:52 Benito Skinner? Did you know I saw Moulin Rouge on Broadway?
43:54 Mary Beth Barone? I did.
43:55 Benito Skinner? They open with it.
43:55 Mary Beth Barone? That's why it's been on my mind.
43:57 Benito Skinner? It was so hard not to just do little twist snaps in my seat.
44:00 Mary Beth Barone? You know what would be interesting is if twins get deja vu for stuff each other's done or something. I would be curious.
44:06 Benito Skinner? You know I wrote for twin telepathy.
44:07 Mary Beth Barone? Exactly. So I wonder if this falls into it.
44:08 Benito Skinner? I told that story of my mom. My mom, it's crazy, like, ah, it's these like little, it's like feelings. That's what I love. I love like a little.
44:16 Mary Beth Barone? Well, I love science, but science has limits. It hasn't explained twin telepathy.
44:20 Benito Skinner? How do you explain the magic of what this is? It's not something you can buy in a store.
44:25 Mary Beth Barone? It's called neutralized attraction.
44:26 Benito Skinner? Neutralized attraction. It's being attracted, but it's neutral.
44:29 Mary Beth Barone? That AI robot or script or code that made that video didn't know how many Instagram comments they were generating.
44:37 Benito Skinner? It probably did. Can I say something? It probably did.
44:40 Mary Beth Barone? Can an AI get deja vu? Then it ain't human, honey. It ain't human.
44:46 Benito Skinner? Unfortunately, AI kind of got me recently. I saw this like, if this one movie had been made dark fantasy and I was like, oh, that's kind of cool.
44:54 Mary Beth Barone? But that's what it kind of should be made for, or that's what it should be used for, I think.
44:57 Benito Skinner? But then it's using fossil fuels, right?
44:59 Mary Beth Barone? It's using a lot of water. We're gonna run out of water soon.
45:02 Benito Skinner? It's using water?
45:03 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, yeah.
45:03 Benito Skinner? Oh, okay.
45:04 Mary Beth Barone? Because they have to cool down the like servers and stuff.
45:06 Benito Skinner? No one had told me that. Let's knock it off.
45:08 Mary Beth Barone? It's so bad. It's so, so bad.
45:10 Benito Skinner? God, why do we keep doing that?
45:12 Mary Beth Barone? I don't know. Oh, my God. Yeah.
45:14 Benito Skinner? I was so thirsty before I took a shower yesterday. Oh, I was gonna write for showering, but sitting down on the ground during, but I just thought people would think I was like really not doing well.
45:23 Mary Beth Barone? Hey, next week, babe.
45:24 Benito Skinner? That's such a good point. I write for the whimsy, the whimsy of you because I think there's the whimsy returning, the romantic girl that I once knew. Only two more months and you'll maybe let someone talk to you.
45:35 Mary Beth Barone? Uh, we'll see. I write for deja vu. I think it's such a powerful feeling and it's, I don't know, like, yeah.
45:42 Benito Skinner? It's more than just a feeling. Seeing is believing. Believing is saying. Sunday is one. That's Sydney Sweeney in The Santa Claus. I'm tired, but excited.
45:53 Mary Beth Barone? Just generally for the new year. I just like, yeah, I think it's cool. We have a word for it. I love the sensation of it. It's never really freaked me out, I guess. I, I don't think I've had it for like really deeply negative experiences. It's just like, it's just like so mundane. If anything, it lets, lets us appreciate the mundane.
46:11 Benito Skinner? I agree. It lets you realize, also it could wake you up of like, if you're getting it too much, maybe you need to change your whole shit up. But here's my thing. It's never, it's not scary. I, I think that's just trauma. That's PTSD, which feels very different. And I know the French thought of something for that.
46:25 Mary Beth Barone? So you're not writing for PTSD?
46:27 Benito Skinner? Of course not. I'm writing for just like, whoa, I've been in this kitchen before, but I haven't. The hell? So, thanks, everyone. Sounds like in 2026, we're even smarter than we were in 2025.
46:40 Mary Beth Barone? I would love to continue to get dumber.
46:41 Benito Skinner? We have so many surprises for 2020.
46:43 Mary Beth Barone? See, this is something I would do, and I'm gonna do it one last time. But I posted, because there's this ad on the subway that says IQ is 50% genetic, and it's an ad for pickyourbaby.com. So I posted that I was gonna go in and choose a gay baby with a medium to low IQ, so that we'd enjoy each other's company. And people go, is this shade to Benny? And I go, no, I'm the one with the low IQ. That's why I would enjoy the person's company.
47:06 Benito Skinner? Oh, so I'm catching strays in this last little thing you needed to hit us with?
47:12 Mary Beth Barone? It's just like, why would you assume that?
47:14 Benito Skinner? I'm Sima Kum loudly. I'm serious. Georgetown, check the frickin' piles, dude. I'm a good student.
47:22 Mary Beth Barone? I would love to, like, go try to get your transcript and we find out that there was no Benito Skinner at Georgetown. But there was a.
47:30 Benito Skinner? I'm looking right at the camera. There was a Duddy, Duddy Skinner.
47:35 Mary Beth Barone? Duddy Gilmore.
47:36 Benito Skinner? Duddy Gilmore. Don't Gilmore me. Laura Elizabeth Gilmore? I couldn't, it was so crazy to like, the layers of that joke? Is it a Gilmore Girls joke? Is it a Happy Gilmore joke?
47:48 Mary Beth Barone? Whoa.
47:48 Benito Skinner? Do you know what I mean?
47:49 Mary Beth Barone? Whoa.
47:50 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
47:51 Mary Beth Barone? Totally. We're gonna hit you with more zingers like that. We only have four more episodes this season. So savor the flavor. Ever heard of that?
47:59 Benito Skinner? Savor the, start this from the top. That's crazy. And then we have to go shoot this frickin' second season. I don't, can I say that? Whatever.
48:07 Mary Beth Barone? I mean, they know we're gonna film it at some point.
48:09 Benito Skinner? It's not Marvel, no one's like, I'm not.
48:10 Mary Beth Barone? We're gonna film it at some point.
48:11 Benito Skinner? It's, we have to make it.
48:12 Mary Beth Barone? We're not saying when.
48:13 Benito Skinner? Yeah. Oh, I'm so excited!
48:16 Mary Beth Barone? We love you guys. Thanks for sticking with us. We hope you had a fabulous new year and holiday season. We hope you're ready to take on the year. There's only 51 weeks left, 51 and a half weeks left.
48:24 Benito Skinner? Come on, we've got this. Hey, sister, so.
48:27 Mary Beth Barone? Sister, so.
48:28 Benito Skinner? Sister, so.
48:32 Mary Beth Barone? They came up with a word for threesomes. That was on, that was important to the French.
48:36 Benito Skinner? That's, oh, work?
48:40 Benito Skinner? It's crazy feeling when you've been somewhere and you've felt it before, and it's all through your bones, and you're saying, threesomes. And then at the end, they went, je ne sais quoi! Love you.
48:52 Benito Skinner? Oh, my exit. Benny, babe, eyes on the road.
48:57 Benito Skinner? Benny, go!
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