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0:18 Speaker 00 The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:34 Speaker 02 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, I just want to have fun. Start your engines. Hi, Jeff.
0:45 Benito Skinner? I'm Benito Skinner.
0:46 Mary Beth Barone? I'm Mary Beth Brown.
0:48 Benito Skinner? And this?
0:48 Mary Beth Barone? Is?
0:49 Benito Skinner? Ride.
0:53 Mary Beth Barone? Morning.
0:56 Mary Beth Barone? Morning.
0:57 Benito Skinner? So, I can't even... I do think I'm pretty early to this.
1:01 Mary Beth Barone? You think that? And then on my page today, it was all fan cams of her.
1:05 Benito Skinner? Damn it!
1:06 Mary Beth Barone? Saying, "Morning." Morning. It says, "Sauvignon crème, chaise année."
1:13 Mary Beth Barone? Thank you. Morning. So, do you want to explain it a little bit?
1:17 Benito Skinner? Yeah, can you bring up the name of the girl? Because I actually really want to make sure the credit is given where it's due.
1:22 Mary Beth Barone? Here's... and here's...
1:23 Benito Skinner? Boom.
1:23 Mary Beth Barone? Sorry, I was just watching our TikTok. Oh, I found it. Her name is Nina.
1:27 Benito Skinner? It is what it does.
1:27 Mary Beth Barone? So, it's at Nina Humphrey with two As. And she's basically taking Snapchat filters and making them into characters. I will play this if you want.
1:37 Benito Skinner? So, turn your life and make it art.
1:40 Mary Beth Barone? Turn your life?
1:41 Benito Skinner? I just... turn your life and make it art.
1:44 Mary Beth Barone? What should I say? "Nigh." "Nigh."
1:51 Benito Skinner? Morning.
1:53 Mary Beth Barone? The thing with these Snapchat filters is there's no remnant of what the person's actual face looks like. It's like you are just a different person.
2:00 Benito Skinner? I thought, like, in the options that she's super greedy, like, I will say this is gonna be hard to monetize. Can I just say, this is gonna be tricky?
2:06 Mary Beth Barone? Well, she's doing, she's doing a bunch of the filters and doing them as characters.
2:10 Benito Skinner? I saw, which, she's so talented. I mean, I'm like completely-
2:12 Mary Beth Barone? So she'll, she'll probably come out as a right-wing influencer in the next two to three weeks.
2:16 Benito Skinner? Soon.
2:16 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
2:17 Benito Skinner? Remember when Plain Lady, remember when Plain Lady lit down all the gig, guys? Also, I've been working this morning, like, I, I did a, I did a brand activation.
2:27 Benito Skinner? And so I'm like, my words are gonna be caught in my low back and probably my butt. So you just have to go with it today. And to that, I say, "Morning."
2:34 Mary Beth Barone? Morning.
2:36 Benito Skinner? Oh, my God. Today, I was working with Kitty Jane Hughes.
2:39 Mary Beth Barone? Morning.
2:40 Benito Skinner? I would not stop making her say-
2:42 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
2:42 Benito Skinner? "Morning."
2:43 Mary Beth Barone? I'm sure she loved that.
2:44 Benito Skinner? Well, she had a British accent. She's, I mean, she is British, so it was really, you know, she gets happen to it easily.
2:48 Mary Beth Barone? I like identifying people as having a British accent instead of identifying them as British.
2:52 Benito Skinner? Oh, yeah, so she has a British accent.
2:54 Mary Beth Barone? So she has a British accent.
2:56 Benito Skinner? Wait, that's so true. Like, that's how my brain just did it. This morning, I was like, well, she has a British accent.
3:00 Mary Beth Barone? I like that.
3:00 Benito Skinner? That's such an actor of me. Do you understand?
3:02 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
3:03 Benito Skinner? Because I'm like, looking at like, these specific things I can latch on to.
3:06 Mary Beth Barone? So I have bangs. This is my bang reveal on the podcast. I posted on TikTok, like, oh, this is your sign to get bangs, because I was feeling toxic that day.
3:13 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
3:13 Mary Beth Barone? And someone commented, "Are the bangs in the room with us?"
3:16 Benito Skinner? Oh, wow.
3:17 Mary Beth Barone? Wow.
3:18 Benito Skinner? Oh, shit, you really got her.
3:19 Mary Beth Barone? Um, I bet you're fun at parties.
3:21 Benito Skinner? Yeah. And to that, you just said, "My dad died."
3:24 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. Wait, no, say more things.
3:27 Benito Skinner? Yeah, no, this I got to hear.
3:28 Mary Beth Barone? Please.
3:28 Benito Skinner? Remember when that guy was mad at you because you didn't go to a, a stand-up comedy set?
3:33 Mary Beth Barone? It wasn't stand-up. For the record, it was a staged reading of a reality show from the early 2000s. It wasn't even like, I was gonna freestyle on the beat.
3:41 Benito Skinner? And say that.
3:42 Mary Beth Barone? And he was so furious with me. He sent me the longest DM and wanted a $10 Venmo for the White Claw that he bought.
3:47 Benito Skinner? And you said, "Morning." I'm actually going through a lot right now.
3:50 Mary Beth Barone? I said, "Hmm." Hmm.
3:53 Benito Skinner? I love that you're wearing this shirt.
3:55 Mary Beth Barone? The shirt that you bought me.
3:56 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
3:56 Mary Beth Barone? Cause you know me so well.
3:57 Benito Skinner? Where do I get this shirt? I was at a Boise thrift store and they had a Hilary Duff tour 2005. And it really took my breath away because I went AM buying it for Mary Beth. But it was the first concert I went to.
4:08 Mary Beth Barone? Wow.
4:08 Benito Skinner? It was that concert.
4:09 Mary Beth Barone? You know, I saw her on tour as well.
4:10 Benito Skinner? Most wanted.
4:11 Mary Beth Barone? I believe it was wherever your New Jersey football team plays. Wherever New Jersey football team plays.
4:16 Benito Skinner? God, you don't. Oh, I got this one.
4:19 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, me, me, me. I know.
4:20 Benito Skinner? So this thing has happened. There's been a shift in my life and I'm so happy. But it's, there's something really incredible about being at a Hudson News in Chicago and having someone come up behind you. I would say just close enough where I can feel your breath.
4:34 Mary Beth Barone? Feel the breath, yeah.
4:34 Benito Skinner? And have them say, this chick woke up in my house. Like, it gave me goosebumps in the best way. Thank you. I, I'm so.
4:40 Mary Beth Barone? Here's what's hard about it. First of all, I love how excited everyone is.
4:43 Benito Skinner? You changed my life, Mary Beth. I mean, you like, you're the one who pointed this one out.
4:47 Mary Beth Barone? I'm always pushing you.
4:48 Benito Skinner? Yeah, exactly.
4:48 Mary Beth Barone? I'm always pushing, I'm a pusher, Katie. So the problem, the problem with making this into merch, which we asked for merch ideas from you guys and wow, were they completely insane. Anklits was a suggestion.
5:02 Benito Skinner? Period.
5:02 Mary Beth Barone? Just anklets.
5:03 Benito Skinner? Not even a period.
5:04 Mary Beth Barone? And juicy tracksuits. I go, now how are we gonna do that?
5:08 Benito Skinner? Definitely.
5:08 Mary Beth Barone? Do we look like Pam and Jella?
5:10 Benito Skinner? You know what? We're actually gonna find a supplier.
5:12 Mary Beth Barone? We're gonna find a supplier.
5:13 Benito Skinner? Imagine you and I are like, we're traveling the world, like throughout.
5:16 Mary Beth Barone? And we're looking at textiles.
5:18 Benito Skinner? We're first touching fabrics.
5:19 Mary Beth Barone? We're feeling the lore and Terry.
5:20 Benito Skinner? We're like, no, I wanna feel, the zipper has to, I, it needs to, I don't like that zipper manufacturer. We get sued.
5:26 Mary Beth Barone? We get sued, we're in jail. We're in a Thai jail. I don't know why it's in Thailand, but we are.
5:29 Benito Skinner? We are.
5:30 Mary Beth Barone? So this chick woke up in my house. It's hard to put that on a T-shirt because it's like, we're talking about this chick, right? But then it's my house.
5:37 Benito Skinner? Thus why I said the arrow. Because it's like, this one over to my left, this chick woke up in my house. It's her.
5:44 Mary Beth Barone? But then you have to buy that for someone to wear for you, that you, comma, the chick.
5:49 Benito Skinner? No, but it's funny, it's whoever you're by, that's just funny that you'll be next to them and have the arrow. It's a play on the arrow tee.
5:54 Mary Beth Barone? I see, okay.
5:55 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
5:55 Mary Beth Barone? No, totally, totally.
5:56 Benito Skinner? That's my big thing.
5:57 Mary Beth Barone? No, you wanna do a play? And one of the suggestions was, do a play on the arrow tee.
6:01 Benito Skinner? Exactly. You know what? I will say I got a huge amount of people who wanted the pin. I think it's actually gonna be a big button. Or at this point, there's so much excitement for it. I think it should be a bucket hat, like a rain bucket hat. And it said, Mary Beth Barone, let me piss on her.
6:15 Mary Beth Barone? No one is gonna wear that.
6:16 Benito Skinner? Sweetie.
6:17 Mary Beth Barone? Do you understand that no one's gonna wear that?
6:19 Benito Skinner? Sweetie, we didn't think Shysten McGwaggen was gonna hit.
6:22 Mary Beth Barone? That's true.
6:22 Benito Skinner? And now what is every woman saying as she orgasms?
6:25 Mary Beth Barone? She's saying Shysten McGwaggen.
6:27 Benito Skinner? So, Kiplunk.
6:32 Benito Skinner? You guys, I, I think.
6:34 Mary Beth Barone? Before, before we get into this.
6:36 Benito Skinner? I think I'm trying to get rid of them. I think I'm trying, I'm trying to prove a point of how far I can take my kids.
6:44 Mary Beth Barone? Can I just say one thing first? Which is that we did record an episode that's never gonna see the light of day. And the only reason I wanna say it right now is because we keep forgetting to talk about it.
6:53 Benito Skinner? I just choked.
6:53 Mary Beth Barone? Benny and I bitched for 45 minutes on Zoom about work. And then we decided to record an episode. It is so bad. It's not funny.
7:02 Benito Skinner? Do you know, I think it's the saddest day of the year for me. When I think about it, it's the saddest I've been all year. And we were about to do it. And then you, I mean, we were just not, it was not okay. And then we do it. And after it, the rest of the day, I kept thinking to myself, ew, I don't know if that would be fun to listen to.
7:18 Mary Beth Barone? Neither of us wanted to say anything because we love each other so much.
7:20 Benito Skinner? Exactly.
7:21 Mary Beth Barone? But we both thought that's not gonna go to air.
7:23 Benito Skinner? Do you know what we each think? And maybe you didn't, hey, I'm not gonna speak for you. But I was like, she said so many funny things. I don't wanna like, but.
7:31 Mary Beth Barone? No, I wasn't thinking that.
7:33 Benito Skinner? No, I was thinking that maybe you thought that I had said a lot of funny things.
7:35 Mary Beth Barone? You did, and you described the dress in and just like that, which I really wanted to have on the record. That was a big part of the episode that I was like, we're never gonna probably talk about that again. But it just, it is crazy to know. It's the first time we've ever left an episode on the cutting room floor. And then before we talk about Kiplunk, I also did wanna say.
7:54 Mary Beth Barone? I just wanted.
7:55 Benito Skinner? Sorry, this chick.
7:56 Mary Beth Barone? Woke up in my house. I just wanted to say that on the issue of disclaimers, because it was mentioned on the Reddit. Here's what I'll say about disclaimers.
8:02 Benito Skinner? Someone did send me that.
8:03 Mary Beth Barone? We hold a mirror up to society. If you don't like what you see, change it. We're reflecting it back at you. And if you want to know why we put disclaimers on every, if you want to know, and we're not cutting that. I just fumbled and I'm hu- human. If you want.
8:17 Benito Skinner? Unusual.
8:17 Mary Beth Barone? Unusual. And I'll, I'll talk about the origin of unusual later, but if you want to know why we do disclaimers on everything, look at the last few posts on the Reddit. One was about the length of the episodes and one was about an ad-free version. People are attacking each other in the comments where it's just like, can you just assume that these questions are coming from a good place? And everybody wants us to succeed and thrive. And if you can't do that, and if you look at these comments, you will see why we put a disclaimer. Because the last thing we want to do is like alienate our audience.
8:44 Benito Skinner? I will say, I'm seeing this in the news right now of Sarah Jessica Parker. Have you seen this? Where there's kind of like this fake news going around of fake news. This is Benny Drama.
8:53 Mary Beth Barone? Hit the fake news. Hit the fake news button.
8:56 Benito Skinner? Oh God, I love that button. Where they're trying to like make it into Sarah Jessica Parker, like feverishly trying to pitch and just like that to all these other networks. Because she hates HBO so much. And I'm just like, I don't know how to tell you this. There is no fucking way that's true. Like, I'm just like, this is insane. And I just think at a certain point, it's like, I think we do this because I think there is a natural tendency. And I do think that because of the world we live in, it's like, everyone must have the worst intentions, be an absolute psychopath. And a nightmare and, you know, and be uneducated and ignorant and hateful. And it's like, I get it. But that's why we do them. Because honestly, not everyone listening to the podcast has heard everything else.
9:37 Mary Beth Barone? That's the other thing.
9:38 Benito Skinner? Things with history or context. It would happen with my videos all the time.
9:41 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
9:42 Benito Skinner? It's literally why I think it's really hard for me to ever think about getting excited about making sketches anymore. Because yeah, there was a time where people thought I worked at the White House. So I, it's just at a certain point, it's like, should I start everything by being like?
9:56 Mary Beth Barone? This is a joke?
9:58 Benito Skinner? And that's why overcompensating felt so good. I just think that there are some media that people are coming to with either history or a knowledge of like, this is creation.
10:08 Mary Beth Barone? When I heard it and just like that was ending, the first thing I thought was, come on, complex.
10:14 Benito Skinner? Come on, Kerplunk! So, I was in a bathroom with a friend and it was divided.
10:23 Mary Beth Barone? It was a male friend. I just wanna be clear.
10:25 Benito Skinner? It was a male friend. It was not Mary Beth. She would never do something like this. But I was in a bathroom with a friend and I was looking in the mirror and they were in a stall and they shit and there was a sound and I couldn't help it. I just like had this moment and I just said,
10:43 Benito Skinner? "I'm gonna wet my pants." Come on, Kerplunk!
10:49 Benito Skinner? Come on, Kerplunk! It's, it's like, we talked about it last night. It's like toxic positivity brain rot to such a degree.
11:01 Mary Beth Barone? No, it's honestly really scary.
11:02 Benito Skinner? Come on, Kerplunk! Yes, Kerplunk! I, I couldn't, we laughed so hard. I heard him laughing in the stall. I'll never tell you who this is. He would kill me. We were laughing so hard. He was just like, if someone did that to me, who wasn't you? I would never speak to them again. But it was like, and it's just, "Come on, Kerplunk!"
11:27 Mary Beth Barone? It's so, I can't, the word, I can't even say what it is. You know what I mean? There's no word in English for it.
11:33 Benito Skinner? When I texted him later, all caps, in the invisible thing and it said, "Come on, Kerplunk." K E R P L U N K.
11:41 Mary Beth Barone? U N K, obviously.
11:41 Benito Skinner? Kerplunk. I just wanna make sure you have it, just in case when you send it to me, but welcome to the Kerplunk era.
11:48 Mary Beth Barone? So.
11:49 Benito Skinner? Morning.
11:49 Mary Beth Barone? Morning! So.
11:51 Benito Skinner? This one's gonna be hard. I know it's not for everybody.
11:54 Mary Beth Barone? Kerplunk falls into gas leak era in a huge way. The gas leak era is more like a tree, I would say.
11:59 Benito Skinner? Brony H Q is gonna make the tree of the gas leak. Well, it's a plume. It's a smoke plume of gas.
12:04 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, it's from, it's a mushroom cloud. And it's infecting all of us in really cool and different ways.
12:11 Benito Skinner? Come on, Kerplunk!
12:12 Mary Beth Barone? I mean, it is objectively funny. I can't say that it's not.
12:16 Benito Skinner? Thank you. So, I will say.
12:17 Mary Beth Barone? I can't say that it's not.
12:19 Benito Skinner? I took Mary Beth to dinner last night. We had a little date night. We got sexy for each other. I'm not kidding. And I kept saying it throughout the night and there were a few times in the conversation where you ignored it.
12:28 Mary Beth Barone? Well, because, you know.
12:30 Benito Skinner? Come on, Kirkplug.
12:31 Mary Beth Barone? There were just times where we were talking about something serious and then you would say, "Come on, Kirkplug."
12:36 Benito Skinner? Yes, Kirkplug. And say that, Kirkplug. Yeah.
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13:14 Mary Beth Barone? Guess what? You want to know the quality is high, is what I would say.
13:16 Benito Skinner? Well, honestly, that chair feels like no one's ever sat in it.
13:19 Mary Beth Barone? It's the weight and feel.
13:20 Benito Skinner? And I have put this dumper in it.
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14:05 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, just to sort of lead people astray.
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14:26 Mary Beth Barone? It seems like everything is connected to your gut microbiome. I mean, am I not always saying that?
14:31 Benito Skinner? Well, I just said that at a party. I walked into a kitchen and people were all looking for cups. And I said, it seems like everything is connected to your gut microbiome. But fact is, we're learning so much about how the gut microbiome is key to our mental health, immunity, and of course, digestion. Can I also say skin?
14:46 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
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16:06 Benito Skinner? ExpressVPN, try to find me, you can't.
16:10 Mary Beth Barone? I love ExpressVPN, as you know. As you know, I'm using it all the time. Morning.
16:17 Benito Skinner? Morning.
16:17 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, I was about to read this.
16:19 Benito Skinner? I'm in the UK, morning.
16:20 Mary Beth Barone? Please select one of the numbered intro sections below that best fits your voice and will resonate with your audience, and don't cut that.
16:25 Benito Skinner? Porn.
16:25 Mary Beth Barone? True or false?
16:26 Benito Skinner? Porn. I know that none of you watch porn.
16:28 Mary Beth Barone? Can you say that in parentheses, it's this tongue-in-cheek?
16:31 Benito Skinner? Look at me.
16:31 Mary Beth Barone? I want to give people a peek behind the curtain. It's like going to Oz, see the wizard.
16:35 Benito Skinner? Oh my god, totally. When Jeff Goldblum comes out of nowhere and goes, "Oh, it's just you, Elphaba."
16:41 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
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17:33 Benito Skinner? Oh, yeah! Do you remember when I used it in Montreal?
17:36 Mary Beth Barone? Yes, to watch In Just Like That. And when I used it to watch Love Island when I was dating a British person.
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17:58 Mary Beth Barone? Well, I would like to say a couple of things first.
18:01 Benito Skinner? Great.
18:02 Mary Beth Barone? One is that, so we've talked about this on the podcast, which is the tweet that I saw that said, "The middle by Zedd and Maren Morris was 9/11 for retail workers." And I am reminded, due to this TikTok trend that we did at dinner, which is using a song from Lemonade. I actually worked at SoulCycle when Lemonade came out, in the studio. So I just want to say that Beyoncé's Lemonade was 9/11 for SoulCycle workers. And I'm not saying I don't like the music. I actually love the music.
18:31 Benito Skinner? It's a fabulous album.
18:32 Mary Beth Barone? It's like one of the true pieces of art, I would say, like, from this generation. But I heard the songs enough that they would appear in my nightmares.
18:42 Benito Skinner? Well, of course.
18:42 Mary Beth Barone? So.
18:43 Benito Skinner? You know what's funny? I recently had to buy Tidal again to watch Lemonade. You can't watch it anywhere.
18:49 Mary Beth Barone? It was on HBO for a while, I thought.
18:50 Benito Skinner? I know, and I couldn't find it on HBO Max.
18:53 Mary Beth Barone? Oh my god.
18:54 Benito Skinner? So I went on HBO Max, but I couldn't find it. So then I had to get title. So now I have title in case anyone wants to use my login.
19:00 Mary Beth Barone? For title?
19:01 Benito Skinner? Yeah, for title. It's kind of like not cheap, but there was something that they did that was like actually like helpful to producers. I think they like paid them adequately, but yeah, it just seemed insane that that was the only place I could find it. But I did watch it again and it's really crazy because it's one of those things where you feel the time period. Like it actually really took me back to 2016, which was helpful for overcompensating.
19:27 Benito Skinner? But that was what was cool, I think.
19:30 Mary Beth Barone? That was the what year is it?
19:31 Benito Skinner? Go back to, yeah. It was a button. I didn't do that. I didn't do that. But to go back in time to see like how every single thing she did in Lemonade became like a full trend. Like the trickle down of that into what women wear to weddings. Do you know what I mean? Like watching that was so, it like kind of blew me away. I don't know. I just.
19:52 Mary Beth Barone? It's the culture to this day.
19:53 Benito Skinner? Oh, how I've missed you, man. Come on.
19:58 Mary Beth Barone? Come on.
20:01 Benito Skinner? Shit.
20:02 Mary Beth Barone? So let's talk about the scene in And Just Like That.
20:05 Benito Skinner? So, and I'm actually glad that we're doing it now and not in, what are we gonna call that? The vault?
20:10 Mary Beth Barone? It's the vault. It's the Disney vault.
20:11 Benito Skinner? It's the Disney vault episode, and this one's never opening. Oh, one day I want to ride for the Disney secrets. Yeah. Take off your clothes.
20:18 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, and when my friend fell in the manhole. Well, not my friend, a friend of someone I dated fell in a manhole at Disney. An uncovered manhole.
20:26 Benito Skinner? Oh, so that'll be the same episode?
20:27 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, because it's a Disney secret in a way.
20:29 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
20:30 Mary Beth Barone? She, she fell down an uncovered manhole and got electrocuted. I maybe have talked about this already.
20:35 Benito Skinner? Haven't heard.
20:35 Mary Beth Barone? And she woke up in Disney jail.
20:37 Benito Skinner? They said, you're not gonna say anything about what happened today, are you? It was Walt.
20:42 Mary Beth Barone? It was Walt. They woke him up from being cryogenically frozen.
20:46 Benito Skinner? He's still alive, dude.
20:46 Mary Beth Barone? He's in a Disney vault.
20:47 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
20:48 Mary Beth Barone? There's no movies in there.
20:49 Benito Skinner? No.
20:49 Mary Beth Barone? He wanted the vault to himself.
20:51 Benito Skinner? Selfish. So that's our big Walt bit. We're gonna tour it. So, And Just Like That. The woman wondered what the fuck she had gotten herself into.
21:05 Mary Beth Barone? At the Geneva Convention, by the way.
21:07 Benito Skinner? I do think the last two episodes are very come on Kerplunk. Like, I do think some of the, like, Gen Z'ers would say, come on Kerplunk.
21:14 Mary Beth Barone? To Epcot?
21:15 Benito Skinner? Yeah, to Epcot, which I'm like, so they really didn't ask you to read for Epcot, huh?
21:20 Mary Beth Barone? I didn't get an audition for Epcot.
21:21 Benito Skinner? God damn it, I didn't either. I didn't get an audition for the gay guy who was voguing at Thanksgiving, and I'm pissed. He was wearing a denim corset. I'm like, well, I would have loved that. I would have eaten that up.
21:30 Mary Beth Barone? I have to imagine we weren't available.
21:32 Benito Skinner? Totally.
21:32 Mary Beth Barone? They didn't avail check and we weren't available.
21:34 Benito Skinner? We're in Toronto.
21:35 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
21:35 Benito Skinner? Toronto. So here's this spectacular moment, and I honestly, like, I could just ride for it, but I, why not just do it in the intro? So this episode, I believe it's 10 out of 12, if I'm correct, but if not, I know you'll figure it out. So we've kind of had this whole season of kind of getting gooned in a way by
21:58 Mary Beth Barone? Well, they won't they?
21:59 Benito Skinner? by Deacon Duncan Reeves.
22:00 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
22:01 Benito Skinner? Is it Reeves?
22:02 Mary Beth Barone? It's Duncan Reeves, yeah.
22:03 Benito Skinner? So it's Duncan Reeves, who has just electrified me in a way. I mean, to me, it's Carrie's hottest. This is her hottest bag.
22:12 Mary Beth Barone? It's hard for me to say because I'm a Justin Theroux, John Slattery type of gal.
22:16 Benito Skinner? Of course.
22:17 Mary Beth Barone? Duncan certainly has a place in the top five.
22:19 Benito Skinner? And me too, can I just say, but Duncan, I just, there's something about, I know you in British accents right now. He, so this man has a British accent.
22:27 Mary Beth Barone? So he has a British accent. We're not sure where he's from, but he has a British accent.
22:30 Benito Skinner? And every day he'd say to Carrie, "Morning."
22:32 Mary Beth Barone? Morning.
22:33 Benito Skinner? "Morning, take your heels off."
22:34 Mary Beth Barone? What is it? Strawberries and cream calzone?
22:37 Benito Skinner? Strawberries and cream calzone. Thank you.
22:40 Mary Beth Barone? Thank you.
22:41 Benito Skinner? I should I say, "No."
22:42 Mary Beth Barone? No.
22:43 Benito Skinner? No. So, so that's him, that's very him. This electrifying scene happens, and I just want to describe it to you if you haven't seen it yet, because like, I think I could paint it a good enough picture. We start this episode and Aiden's gone. He, no longer.
23:00 Mary Beth Barone? Finally.
23:00 Benito Skinner? You, you broke my heart! I want to make that merch, but I think it'd be illegal.
23:04 Mary Beth Barone? I think so too.
23:05 Benito Skinner? You broke my heart, Carrie! Remember when he licked his paw?
23:10 Mary Beth Barone? Stop, stop. We're not talking about that right now.
23:12 Benito Skinner? And played with his kitty?
23:12 Mary Beth Barone? We're not talking about that right now.
23:13 Benito Skinner? So Carrie gets invited to a publishing event, or a book event for Deacon Duncan Reeves' publisher.
23:21 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
23:21 Benito Skinner? And he's like, oh, you know, do you want to come? Like, and she's like, well, yes. Like, I think she really does. And what I love about all this, and I'm just gonna spoil it, I love that Aiden was like, I can tell you wanna fuck this guy. And Carrie's like, we're done. And then she fucked him. Like, that's incredible. That's Carrie Bradshaw, and that's iconic. So that's Sex in the City. And just like that, Aiden was right.
23:42 Mary Beth Barone? You have Sex in the City? We have Sex in the City from the movie, from the finale.
23:47 Benito Skinner? We would have eaten that part. We thought party dinner for you.
23:50 Mary Beth Barone? You said Sex in the City. We have Sex in the City.
23:55 Benito Skinner? Sex in cities. And then at dinner, they had the book there and got wine stains all over it.
23:59 Mary Beth Barone? Well, that actually was one of the most infuriating plotlines ever. I'm like, just call the restaurant. Just tell them you're gonna be late.
24:07 Benito Skinner? No.
24:07 Mary Beth Barone? Anyway.
24:08 Benito Skinner? That scene where it's a bell and it's bad boy. That song playing, I literally, every time that plays, I'm complete, my body is chills. I will say, this isn't at that level, but this did give me goosebumps. I was watching Alone, and I did gasp. So, don't laugh at gay guys. It hurts our feelings.
24:24 Mary Beth Barone? Okay, okay, sorry.
24:25 Benito Skinner? We get excited.
24:26 Mary Beth Barone? Sorry.
24:26 Benito Skinner? This is like the equivalent, what's the thing with, if you ask a straight guy the plot of Dune? This is, or what was your thing? That asking gay guy-
24:33 Mary Beth Barone? A gay guy to explain Wicked to you?
24:35 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
24:35 Mary Beth Barone? You'll never see a gay guy happier than if you ask him, what's the plot of Wicked?
24:39 Benito Skinner? Only, my equivalent is-
24:41 Mary Beth Barone? Not your type of gay. Different type of gay.
24:43 Benito Skinner? Hey, I'm not that kind of gay.
24:45 Mary Beth Barone? You're more, you know, Sex in the City. Because if you have Sex in the City and we-
24:51 Benito Skinner? You have Sex in Cities. All the cities are us, so.
24:55 Mary Beth Barone? You have the sex.
24:57 Benito Skinner? We have the sex. I just love their like, we need two Parisian idiots. It's so hot in here. I'm gonna be a full drip sweat at the end. You guys are gonna like it. I had this idea before I came here, where I thought it'd be so funny if we were topless the whole time, and we did a black bar over you.
25:12 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
25:13 Benito Skinner? Probably would never be able to post on YouTube again.
25:16 Mary Beth Barone? Not monetizable.
25:17 Benito Skinner? Lips on YouTube. So Carrie gets invited to this event, and she's like- Okay. And then Charlotte comes over and Carrie's talking to her about it and she's like, you know, she has this insane Vivienne Westwood dress, which now that I've, after the episode, I had to research this. It was actually Vivienne's dress. It's archival and it was worn by Vivienne. It was from her collection. It's like spectacular. People call it the Cinderella dress. It's just like, it's corseted and then it has this kind of like tulle skirt. It like kind of nods to classic Carrie Bradshaw. But it's like, it's just absolutely spectacular, this dress. So then we get to the end of the episode and Carrie's walking out and she's in kind of a business suit. She's like a long pencil skirt, sexy, of course.
26:01 Benito Skinner? She's in that new hairstyle, which is this kind of part.
26:03 Mary Beth Barone? Side part.
26:04 Benito Skinner? Where it's like a little wave and then it gets really big at the end.
26:07 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, I love it.
26:08 Benito Skinner? It's something that randomly, and I say this in a nice way. My big caveat.
26:12 Mary Beth Barone? I can't wait to hear it.
26:13 Benito Skinner? You know, when sometimes they'll pan to the confessionals in the Kardashians and Khloe has like a total hairstyle.
26:19 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
26:20 Benito Skinner? It's kind of that.
26:21 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
26:21 Benito Skinner? And it's fabulous. So it's that. And then Carrie thinks for a second.
26:27 Mary Beth Barone? She stops, interrupts.
26:29 Benito Skinner? Fred again starts to play. She turns. The next scene we get is Deacon Duncan talking to publisher, who we find out later is ex-wife. And Carrie walks in in this fucking dress. She looks unbelievable, like just body.
26:48 Mary Beth Barone? Body.
26:49 Benito Skinner? Everyone there is going, I didn't know her body was so tea.
26:51 Mary Beth Barone? Right.
26:52 Benito Skinner? And so, and everyone says that. Come on, Kirkplum. Three people say, come on Kirkplum.
26:58 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
26:58 Benito Skinner? So Deacon Duncan's talking to his ex. She sees Carrie walk in. Carrie takes off her jacket and she goes, oh my God, Carrie Bradshaw's here. She never comes to things. She looks incredible.
27:11 Mary Beth Barone? She did look incre- I mean, like indescribable.
27:14 Benito Skinner? That day on set, she must've just been laughing, very like Anne Hathaway playing Catwoman. She must've just been like, oh my God.
27:20 Mary Beth Barone? Oh my God.
27:21 Benito Skinner? I can't believe I'm telling you this. What I've had on my day in. Oh my God. She looked, I mean, it's just phenomenal. It's like true Sex and the City. Like it just, when you've got that dress on, it's so your Alia dress. And when you wear that, I know this exact thing is gonna happen.
27:35 Mary Beth Barone? I don't know what I'm gonna wear that to, but I'm excited.
27:37 Benito Skinner? Did you see the tweet I sent you?
27:38 Mary Beth Barone? No.
27:38 Benito Skinner? Where someone goes, imagine fumbling Mary Beth Brown.
27:43 Mary Beth Barone? Amplifying.
27:44 Benito Skinner? I'm gonna, I'm gonna read down those Twitter and say, couldn't be me. So. This happens after this, obviously Duncan is just like, his jaw's on the floor. He can't believe it. He's like-
27:56 Mary Beth Barone? He has no choice but to-
27:57 Benito Skinner? He said, "You got me going crazy, girl, and your body's tea. Wait until you see my body, because I, my body's also tea." They go home. He says this thing that actually like makes my spine like feel, it's like ASMR to me. They go back, because he lives in her basement, by the way. He says, oh, just by the way-
28:14 Mary Beth Barone? He lives in her basement.
28:16 Benito Skinner? He says, every day when he sits, Carrie goes, "Come out, come out." So he goes, "I'm going back down for that. Would you like to join me?" And this whole season, they've been working on, you know, writing the book, the woman of the book. And he's writing about Margaret Thatcher, of course.
28:31 Mary Beth Barone? The other woman of the book.
28:32 Benito Skinner? A biography, of course. Well, she's kind of throughout, she kind of permeates the whole show.
28:37 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
28:38 Benito Skinner? He says to her, and just to be clear, I'm, I'm done writing for the day.
28:44 Mary Beth Barone? Blow my hair back, why don't you?
28:47 Benito Skinner? I was literally like-
28:48 Mary Beth Barone? Well, that's the power of fashion, and it's the power of a dress.
28:50 Benito Skinner? Exactly. It's the power of dress. It's a power of showing up to something chesty.
28:55 Mary Beth Barone? Speaks volumes.
28:56 Benito Skinner? To have chest out. I mean, you know, it's like, you're a lie address. I'd say my equivalent is that tight little black tee you made me buy that one time. And if I whip her out, I'm trying to prove something.
29:03 Mary Beth Barone? Exactly.
29:04 Benito Skinner? And at first she says no, and then she gives him that Carrie Bradshaw razzle.
29:09 Mary Beth Barone? The ride of his life.
29:10 Benito Skinner? And I'm really, totally, she says that.
29:13 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
29:13 Benito Skinner? Do you want the ride of your life?
29:15 Mary Beth Barone? And he says, yes, and I'm done writing for the day. She always sex and sits. Eh, where sex? You have the sex. We have the sex.
29:25 Benito Skinner? Can we be them for Halloween?
29:26 Mary Beth Barone? Yep.
29:27 Benito Skinner? That's exactly what we're doing in Halloween episode.
29:29 Mary Beth Barone? And we carry the book, copy of the book, with a, with a big wine stain on it.
29:32 Benito Skinner? Same. We're the French-
29:35 Mary Beth Barone? We're the French Carrie Bradshaw fans.
29:37 Benito Skinner? Stood up. Carrie stood us up. So they fuck, and then all of a sudden, he's like smoking a joint after, which I think would kind of disappoint me if that happened, but it is what it is. You know what I mean? I'm, I'd be like, oh, okay.
29:49 Mary Beth Barone? The coolest man in the world?
29:50 Benito Skinner? Yeah. Guess we're, I guess we're done for the night.
29:52 Mary Beth Barone? Bye. I'm gonna go upstairs.
29:54 Benito Skinner? Oh my god. It's like, he has this tan and this beard, and it's just like-
29:57 Mary Beth Barone? Chest hair.
29:58 Benito Skinner? And you know, I'm not easy to-
30:00 Mary Beth Barone? Impressed.
30:01 Benito Skinner? Intoxicate.
30:01 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
30:02 Benito Skinner? And I'm not just saying that to be like a pick me. I hate that term, by the way.
30:05 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, God, same. I would say if you have an event coming up and you're not sure if you should wear the dress.
30:09 Benito Skinner? Wear the dress.
30:10 Mary Beth Barone? Whatever your equivalent is of the dress, wear the dress and just see how it pans out for you.
30:14 Benito Skinner? What will you be riding for today?
30:15 Mary Beth Barone? Today, I'm gonna be riding for that arm vein that guys have.
30:19 Benito Skinner? I'll be riding for it. Our producer's laughing. She's loving. She's like, fuck, I love that vein, girl.
30:26 Mary Beth Barone? I'm gonna talk about it at length.
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32:14 Benito Skinner? How'd you sleep last night, you to your dog?
32:16 Mary Beth Barone? I've been trying to convince my partner we need a new mattress for years. Then one night, they sunk into the saggy dip of our old mattress and hallelujah, they were convinced, just like on a
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33:17 Mary Beth Barone? Wait, where are we going?
33:18 Benito Skinner? Who cares? Ride!
33:20 Mary Beth Barone? Okay, so I'm gonna go first, cuz I have been wanting to talk about this.
33:25 Benito Skinner? I'm surprised you can even focus right now cuz I made sure it was big today.
33:28 Mary Beth Barone? I know, and thank you. Here's the thing.
33:30 Benito Skinner? Yeah, what's up, sweetie?
33:31 Mary Beth Barone? There's the male gaze. No, sorry. No, there's the male gaze.
33:35 Benito Skinner? Keep this.
33:36 Mary Beth Barone? Okay, so I get confused. It's like fiction, nonfiction, male gaze, female gaze, like what's happening?
33:39 Benito Skinner? On solo.
33:40 Mary Beth Barone? There's the male gaze, obviously, that we're all familiar with. It's like how we see like women in media through the male gaze or whatever. Here's what I would like to propose as a female gaze. That's what happens to me when I see a straight guy in a t-shirt that is actually fitted. And just coming out below the T part of the t-shirt is an arm vein that goes right down the bicep.
34:03 Benito Skinner? You know what? I feel like I don't have it today.
34:05 Mary Beth Barone? I don't know if you have it today. You have four arm veins and I'm not gonna overlook that.
34:09 Benito Skinner? I wish you wouldn't.
34:11 Mary Beth Barone? I'm not gonna overlook it, he said.
34:14 Benito Skinner? Because they can be huge for the culture, too.
34:16 Mary Beth Barone? When I see it, though.
34:17 Benito Skinner? And I will say, you've been known to be very attracted to a gay man as well.
34:21 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
34:21 Benito Skinner? Because those gays have got this.
34:22 Mary Beth Barone? No, it's that guys have, all guys. Well, I actually think it, I think it comes with age. I don't think like guys in their twenties have it. I see it more on like guys who are in their thirties who work out.
34:31 Benito Skinner? Duncan Reeves.
34:32 Mary Beth Barone? Duncan Reeves, basically. So time stands still, it's slow motion, I'm just completely mesmerized by this arm vein. There's nothing hotter on a man, in my opinion. Like, it adds so much to the total package to have this one vein. And all I can say is, congratif-ackulations to any woman who is dating a man that has that one arm vein down the bicep. I want fan cams of your guys.
34:58 Benito Skinner? I was about to say, I can not imagine the photos we're gonna get, and I'm so excited.
35:03 Mary Beth Barone? I want the photos. I was on a walk with [BLEEP], we'll bleep the name, so I don't want any conspiracy theories, but he had the vein, I hadn't seen him in a while, and I just was like, I'm objectifying you.
35:14 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
35:14 Mary Beth Barone? I didn't say that, but.
35:16 Benito Skinner? You should have.
35:16 Mary Beth Barone? I know. I didn't want to make him uncomfortable.
35:19 Benito Skinner? I don't think it would have.
35:20 Mary Beth Barone? But it's just like, to me, I'm just like, okay, so let's go to my place.
35:25 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
35:25 Mary Beth Barone? Let's go there really quick.
35:27 Benito Skinner? Hey, cute jeans, take mine off me.
35:29 Mary Beth Barone? Please.
35:30 Benito Skinner? Sumi, I wanna be aw.
35:32 Mary Beth Barone? Sumi, I wanna be aw.
35:33 Benito Skinner? What I was singing earlier was Audrey, Hobert?
35:36 Mary Beth Barone? Hobert, I think.
35:37 Benito Skinner? I love her album, it's so fun. I'm just having a good time with it. I keep listening. I'll tell you my favorites later, I need a couple more weeks with it.
35:43 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
35:43 Benito Skinner? She has got little bops, and everything she writes, I've thought in my head.
35:47 Mary Beth Barone? Sumi, you thought, Sumi, I wanna be aw?
35:49 Benito Skinner? Well, yeah. Fucking your ex is like, come on, Ig.
35:53 Mary Beth Barone? So I'm in my kissing era right now. I'm just, I just wanna kiss. I don't really wanna do anything else. But you can't get a UTI from kissing, and I might have to put that on a bumper sticker. Just think about it. You can't get a UTI from kissing, that's all I'm gonna say.
36:07 Benito Skinner? You can get herpes.
36:10 Mary Beth Barone? Sumi I wanna be. Oh.
36:12 Benito Skinner? Sumi I wanna, that's our Sumi button. We didn't sing it.
36:14 Mary Beth Barone? No, that was a Sumi button.
36:16 Benito Skinner? So, hey, so it's funny when you said that one vein that guys have, I thought to myself.
36:21 Mary Beth Barone? I know what you thought.
36:21 Benito Skinner? Oh shit dude.
36:23 Mary Beth Barone? I know what you thought.
36:24 Benito Skinner? I got a vein for you, yeah.
36:25 Mary Beth Barone? So that's why I made it, I specified that arm vein. I would say if you have that arm vein, keep up the good work.
36:31 Benito Skinner? I will say, if you want to activate it, just do as many curls as possible, or just do as many pushups as possible if you want to activate that vein, you guys. That's my big tip.
36:39 Mary Beth Barone? And if I'm seeing that out in public, I'm objectifying and I'm sorry, I'm just only human.
36:45 Benito Skinner? You look at them and you go, morning.
36:47 Mary Beth Barone? I go, how'd you like to hear morning?
36:51 Benito Skinner? Do you want this chick to wake up in your house?
36:53 Mary Beth Barone? Mm-hmm.
36:54 Benito Skinner? I can't believe you're coming for my merch with the arrow. I think it's gonna work perfectly.
36:57 Mary Beth Barone? I think that could work. I'm just, we gotta make it cute.
37:00 Benito Skinner? Yeah, there is something so cool about that. It's my big thing. We have to compliment straight guys every now and then, or they'll kill us.
37:05 Mary Beth Barone? That's the thing. That's why I wanted to bring something complimentary. And like you said, gay guys can have it too. And if you're a gay guy who has it, just tell me you're gay. Off the bat, just immediately.
37:14 Benito Skinner? I will soon.
37:15 Mary Beth Barone? So that I, come out to me.
37:16 Benito Skinner? I will soon, sweetie.
37:17 Mary Beth Barone? Come out to me, I'm gonna be supportive. But yeah, I've never actually dated someone, like boyfriend, girlfriend, that had the arm vein. But I've hooked up with some guys that have. And it looks good. I just can't really say it enough.
37:32 Benito Skinner? Fuck.
37:33 Mary Beth Barone? It looks good.
37:33 Benito Skinner? Come on, come on, goodnight.
37:37 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I will say, I'm trying to think of what my equivalent would be.
37:42 Mary Beth Barone? I mean, gay guy.
37:43 Benito Skinner? I do love that vein.
37:44 Mary Beth Barone? Do you notice it on guys?
37:46 Benito Skinner? What is like my thing that I notice? To me, that part that goes from chest into shoulder is kind of shocking to me.
37:55 Mary Beth Barone? Mm-hmm.
37:56 Benito Skinner? I would say, like, that's just gonna like take my breath away, kinda. I sometimes also find back really like shocking to me.
38:05 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
38:05 Benito Skinner? That's just like, whoa.
38:06 Mary Beth Barone? And.
38:06 Benito Skinner? Not necessarily a tricep, but just like a back, like a broad back. I'm like, fuck.
38:10 Mary Beth Barone? On women, I would say the equivalent, which is it's a little detail. It's when women are wearing a spaghetti strap, bathing suit, top or dress. And their boobs sit in such a way that there's a space between the strap and their like body. Like it's, it's like raised the strap. It's something I can never achieve because my boobs are so small.
38:30 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
38:30 Mary Beth Barone? But where you can like, when they move, you can see like through the strap.
38:34 Benito Skinner? Oh, now, see, now you've got me. Now I know. It's when you have the, the peck line right there.
38:39 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
38:40 Benito Skinner? This.
38:42 Mary Beth Barone? There is, and it's privilege. It's.
38:45 Benito Skinner? Peck privilege.
38:45 Mary Beth Barone? It's peck privilege. It's that arm vein privilege. It's boob privilege. It's like everyone's got privilege. We can acknowledge it. We could talk about it. We can move on. You know what I mean?
38:54 Benito Skinner? It's like everyone has their own little thing. Yours is this vein. I don't know if I've ever noticed that vein. I'm like, yeah, that's hot. I don't know if that would be like my first. I mean, girl, I know. I've seen them all. Should we talk about me being a matchmaker?
39:06 Mary Beth Barone? I can't wait to get into you being a matchmaker because both of the guys that you've tried to matchmake me with have not texted me.
39:12 Benito Skinner? Make me a match.
39:13 Mary Beth Barone? You're giving my phone number out at weddings.
39:16 Benito Skinner? Give him that snatch. Okay. What I want to talk about is me as a matchmaker. And before we get into things that yes, are in progress. And yet the seeds are there. The, the groundwork is laid in a way.
39:31 Mary Beth Barone? Come on, Kerplunk.
39:33 Benito Skinner? Come on, Kerplunk. That was a good one. Yes, Kerplunk. So.
39:41 Benito Skinner? I, years ago, for our Halloween party that we did for Obsx, bleep it. God, the ride Halloween party would go so hard, but we're just kind of busy, kid. We're just a little busy. I love making you smile. You're doing good.
39:57 Mary Beth Barone? No.
39:58 Benito Skinner? You're doing better.
39:59 Mary Beth Barone? Why would I be? No.
40:01 Benito Skinner? I had fun last night.
40:02 Mary Beth Barone? But I'm here right now, aren't I?
40:04 Benito Skinner? I know. We were making each other laugh last night.
40:06 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, I mean, I laugh. I'm laughing through the pain.
40:09 Benito Skinner? I know, sweetie. Your hour is so good.
40:12 Mary Beth Barone? Thanks, honey.
40:12 Benito Skinner? Everyone who goes to it tells me how amazing it is. And I go, I know. I go, I know.
40:16 Mary Beth Barone? You go, I know.
40:18 Benito Skinner? I know.
40:19 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
40:19 Benito Skinner? So years ago, before this Halloween party, my friend Nikki DeRouze, who is a makeup artist, was doing my makeup for that event we had with Kim Petras, where we did the live pod recording. And I was talking to her about the Halloween party, and I said, my friend Kurt was going. Kurt is the designer for Noon Goons. We're obsessed. We love it here. We believe all this, of course. So I, the way I approach as Alex Hitch, that's who I am.
40:48 Mary Beth Barone? Alex Hitchens.
40:49 Benito Skinner? Alex Hitchens, if you're nasty. Drop the ins. It's cleaner. So I give more of a, if this sounds nice, I don't say that you'll love each other. Who's to say? I could never predict something like that. But I said, this guy's going. I feel like you guys would maybe have a nice time at a drink, and he's not a killer. You obviously aren't. And I've had a lovely time with this person, and I love you both. So if you want to get a drink before, if anything, like, I can't imagine that you'll hate each other. So, and that's, you know, so bar is on the floor in hell. But I am just kind of like, in my head, I kind of see these two people having a lot in common and really enjoying each other, and I like the energies together. That sounds nice to me.
41:32 Benito Skinner? So Nikki and Kurt meet that night. They just had a baby. They just had.
41:39 Benito Skinner? Come on, Kurt Blah! Right when she had the baby. Come on, Kurt Blah!
41:43 Mary Beth Barone? Come on, Kurt Blah!
41:43 Benito Skinner? I'm so Jude. I mean, I'm just like, I'm completely electrified. So.
41:49 Mary Beth Barone? You're Jude?
41:50 Benito Skinner? His name is Jude.
41:51 Mary Beth Barone? Okay.
41:52 Benito Skinner? Which I'm like, that's just, hey Jude, like, that's just, I'm like, completely, yeah, I'm honored. I'm excited. It's like, it's going on the CV.
42:00 Mary Beth Barone? No, it's really fucking amazing.
42:01 Benito Skinner? It's crazy. Like, this is my first. This is my first, you know, venture into this. So now I'm entering it with you. I haven't really done anyone since because it hasn't come to me. I don't, it's, it's only when it feels like a lit, I get a little spark of it.
42:15 Mary Beth Barone? That's not true. You have match made someone. It's one of our friends with one of my agents, if you recall correctly.
42:25 Benito Skinner? It's not my fault if
42:29 Mary Beth Barone? We're cutting that.
42:32 Mary Beth Barone? We're bleeping that.
42:33 Benito Skinner? That's not my fault. I thought vibes were, hey, they had a nice time.
42:36 Mary Beth Barone? They had a nice time.
42:37 Benito Skinner? Exactly.
42:38 Mary Beth Barone? They had a nice time. I just needed to call you in and say like, that's not the only time that that's happened.
42:43 Benito Skinner? Well, that's not exactly true, Ellen. That's what you just did to me.
42:45 Mary Beth Barone? That's not the truth, Ellen.
42:48 Benito Skinner? They really tried to cancel me over that.
42:49 Mary Beth Barone? So here's the thing with matchmaking. It's really, and I think you should, I almost think you should take your perfect record, which is like two and two, if you think about, I don't know how you measure the success of the matchmaking, but quit while you're ahead because setting people up with straight men is such a risk. It's something I've done before. I will never do again because I just, it's too risky. Straight guys are so fucking weird.
43:10 Benito Skinner? I know, they're freaks, but the one I set up, so there was someone I was with recently and I've only met him a couple of times, but I was like, he's really nice and I enjoy him. And you had told me all you wanted to be was held. So I was like, I feel like he'd do a good job.
43:22 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
43:23 Benito Skinner? He has that on.
43:23 Mary Beth Barone? He has the vein and it was just killing me.
43:25 Benito Skinner? I know, God. And he hasn't come through yet, but I'm not writing him off yet. I think he's traveling a lot. So here's my thing. It just
43:33 Mary Beth Barone? If he wanted to, he would, is all I'm gonna say. If he wanted to, he would.
43:36 Benito Skinner? He's just not that into you.
43:37 Mary Beth Barone? No, he's just not that into you.
43:39 Benito Skinner? That's so not true at all. Like, he just, he's really busy. He has a job. He has a job, which is kind of like a, that's great. Like, I'm off to a good start. So then, recently I was at the wedding. And I meet this other guy and he made me laugh twice. I was completely thrown off my axis.
43:54 Mary Beth Barone? That's insane.
43:55 Benito Skinner? And then I'm like having a nice time with him. I sit by him and then finally I was just like, my good bro, are you single? And he was like, yeah. And then I brought you up and he goes, my celebrity crush. And I went, huh, well, that's funny. Do you want her number? No, I'm kidding. I asked you first.
44:12 Mary Beth Barone? You did. Well, you texted me. I said, ask him who he voted for.
44:15 Benito Skinner? Yeah, and he answered correctly.
44:16 Mary Beth Barone? Trump.
44:17 Benito Skinner? Yeah, he got it right. And then, yeah, and then from there, I kind of like just vibed around. I like, I made sure he said a few more things that were good. And he actually like asked questions, which blew me away. I was like, this is such a great back and forth. We're having a conversation.
44:31 Mary Beth Barone? This is the bar.
44:32 Benito Skinner? So, yeah, well, it's in hell.
44:33 Mary Beth Barone? It's under the table.
44:34 Benito Skinner? So it's in hell.
44:35 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
44:35 Benito Skinner? But we were kind of like, I was like, I fuck with you.
44:38 Mary Beth Barone? I'm saying, I'm saying yes to life. I'm saying yes to life. I am open to all incoming opportunities and I'm taking each one seriously.
44:48 Benito Skinner? This one, he got really nervous about texting you, which I thought was cute. Well, I asked him, I go, do you have a real job? And he goes, well, I'm not an actor or musician. And I said, yeah, that's what I meant.
44:56 Mary Beth Barone? So yeah, do you have a real?
44:57 Benito Skinner? So you have a real job. I go then, check, love it.
45:00 Mary Beth Barone? Okay, so the last time I set anyone up, and I appreciate the hard work you're doing.
45:04 Benito Skinner? Fuck, I feel like I might die for this. I just had that thought.
45:06 Mary Beth Barone? We'll see, I gotta talk through this one first.
45:08 Benito Skinner? I just got nervous.
45:09 Mary Beth Barone? The cops are on their way, can you hear them? They're coming for you.
45:11 Benito Skinner? They're coming for Benny Jammal.
45:12 Mary Beth Barone? And it's not the lesbian from Ride or Die.
45:14 Benito Skinner? I will just say before we get into Ride or Die, it's me as a matchmaker.
45:17 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
45:18 Benito Skinner? It's not what happens.
45:18 Mary Beth Barone? It's not matchmaking in general.
45:20 Benito Skinner? No, it's not matchmaking in general. It's just because I think, let me tell you why I think I'm coming to this differently. I'm not forcing anything. I'm not forcing meeting up. I'm not forcing the dates. I'm giving numbers out, I'm giving vibes out. You let it happen, I'm not controlling fate.
45:34 Mary Beth Barone? No, totally.
45:34 Benito Skinner? Because God knows I would never do that.
45:35 Mary Beth Barone? You're putting people in front of other people.
45:37 Benito Skinner? Exactly, and I go, here's this, you know, like, my intuition's pretty good. I immediately know when someone has bad energy.
45:43 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
45:43 Benito Skinner? I can smell it. You know what I'm so bad at is matching other gay guys with gay guys. I'm like terrible, I'm like, what do you think of this person? They're like, are you fucking serious?
45:52 Mary Beth Barone? Well, gay guys have created a culture where you don't even wanna suggest that two gay guys might be a good match, because then it's like, oh, well, because they're both gay.
45:59 Benito Skinner? Come on, Kerplunk!
46:00 Mary Beth Barone? And then come on, Kerplunk happened.
46:02 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
46:03 Mary Beth Barone? You know what you are, Benny?
46:04 Benito Skinner? Hmm, I [BLEEP].
46:06 Mary Beth Barone? Your words, not mine. Babe, you're my ride or die.
46:09 Benito Skinner? Ride or die.
46:12 Mary Beth Barone? Let's get into Ride or Die. I actually do ride for you being a matchmaker.
46:16 Benito Skinner? Thank you, I got really nervous, I pushed it here.
46:19 Mary Beth Barone? No, I think that you have good instincts. I don't think you would ever put your neck out there for someone who you didn't co-sign, like you didn't believe.
46:26 Benito Skinner? And to be clear, this guy who eventually did get Mary Best's number, I watched him the rest of the night. Like a hawk. I watched how he danced, I watched how he drank, I watched what the fuck he ate. Everything about it, every instance of it, how he was texting, what he had on his phone. I took his phone.
46:44 Mary Beth Barone? You took his phone, you looked in his hidden folder.
46:46 Benito Skinner? I had sex with him, no, I like, he had been vetted by another, it's like, that also is so important. I look at the entire family tree, I found out, I knew where he went to school, I knew where, like, what his friends did, I knew what part of the city he was in. I'm excited, can I just say I'm excited?
47:03 Mary Beth Barone? I'm glad you're, I'm glad you're excited.
47:05 Benito Skinner? All you want to be is held. I think I'm turning a ketchup.
47:08 Mary Beth Barone? I agree.
47:08 Benito Skinner? I ride for that vein. I love when it pops up every now and then. It's not always.
47:12 Mary Beth Barone? I'm gonna look at a picture of it after this.
47:14 Benito Skinner? Yeah, wait, I'm actually really curious if I've ever had it, because I feel like I maybe had it like once or twice.
47:19 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, I think you had it maybe when we were filming overcompensating.
47:21 Benito Skinner? Oh, whoa, you think I lost it?
47:23 Mary Beth Barone? No.
47:24 Benito Skinner? Wow, that's what you just said.
47:27 Mary Beth Barone? Saying words in my mouth.
47:28 Benito Skinner? You just said that, my love.
47:31 Mary Beth Barone? I'm gonna let you look for this.
47:33 Benito Skinner? Yeah. There it is.
47:36 Mary Beth Barone? So there it is.
47:37 Benito Skinner? Okay.
47:38 Mary Beth Barone? And so.
47:39 Benito Skinner? It is on the cover of paper. If you want to see it, it's on the left-hand side. It's on the left-hand side.
47:43 Mary Beth Barone? It's on the left-hand side. Morning.
47:47 Benito Skinner? Morning.
47:48 Mary Beth Barone? Morning.
47:49 Benito Skinner? Remember that day I had spray tan and it dripped on my leg, so it looked like I had.
47:52 Mary Beth Barone? Kripal. I remember.
47:55 Benito Skinner? I just ride for it. You know what I really ride for specifically, like within it? I love those little things. I feel like it's so interesting to hear that. I have a really good ride that I'm doing next week that just came to me because of this.
48:06 Mary Beth Barone? It's not the one that we previously discussed.
48:08 Benito Skinner? No, because I feel like that one's really intense and I want to save that for a day when we're both really sad.
48:12 Mary Beth Barone? Okay, perfect. That's gonna come any day now.
48:15 Benito Skinner? Yeah, it could be tomorrow.
48:16 Mary Beth Barone? Could be tomorrow.
48:17 Benito Skinner? I'm really happy to be here with you.
48:18 Mary Beth Barone? Me too.
48:19 Benito Skinner? We had a date last night. It made me so happy.
48:21 Mary Beth Barone? I love you so much. So cheers to another.
48:23 Benito Skinner? How I've missed you, my love. Cheers.
48:25 Mary Beth Barone? Come on, Kripal.
48:27 Benito Skinner? Morning.
48:31 Benito Skinner? Oh, my exit.
48:33 Mary Beth Barone? Benny, babe, eyes on the road. Benny, go!
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