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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 Speaker 01 Hey, can you come pick me up? Yeah, what's wrong? Nothing. Are you sure? Yeah, no, I just need a ride. Ride, ride. Oh, my God. So what? I just wanna have fun. Start your engine. Tiger.
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 Mary Beth Barone? Morning. We're gonna do morning again.
0:40 Benito Skinner? Imagine just how like, how moved on everyone will be. I think that's why Ride is so special to me.
0:47 Mary Beth Barone? We're not, we haven't moved on yet.
0:48 Benito Skinner? Come on, you guys are tastemakers. You should be on the pulse. And we go, no.
0:52 Mary Beth Barone? No, we'll never be on the pulse.
0:53 Benito Skinner? No, today, we're talking about Interstellar.
0:56 Mary Beth Barone? Today, we're gonna talk about Interstellar. And how love is the most powerful thing in the universe.
1:00 Benito Skinner? Do you think it is? Whoosh. Do you really think it is?
1:03 Mary Beth Barone? I do, I do.
1:03 Benito Skinner? I do too. I completely do.
1:04 Mary Beth Barone? But it's just really hard right now.
1:06 Benito Skinner? It reminds me of something I would like to talk to you about. I just did it for you and you go, is that a TikTok thing? And I'm so, I'm so proud to report, it's actually not.
1:14 Mary Beth Barone? It's not.
1:14 Benito Skinner? This is from a film so recently, because I'm so excited for Greta Gerwig's Narnia, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
1:23 Mary Beth Barone? The Wardrobe.
1:24 Benito Skinner? Which just, oh my God, fabulous film. Tilda Swinton is like absolutely breathtaking in it. Her costumes are insane. The costume design for that.
1:31 Mary Beth Barone? Never seen it.
1:32 Benito Skinner? Oh, it's shocking. You should watch it.
1:33 Mary Beth Barone? I should.
1:34 Benito Skinner? I will say at times, because of these weird TVs that exist, it does look like it's so green screen. Also, I, I was watching Fleabag. I rewatched Fleabag. Oh my God.
1:43 Mary Beth Barone? Okay, copy me much?
1:45 Benito Skinner? No, I'm like so obsessed with every movie you make. It's like every time I watch it, I'm reminded like just how good it is. The part where she says hi to her sister, her sister's like the guy she loves, and then to the camera, hi Claire, hi Claire, hi Claire. And that's just like, she's just.
2:01 Mary Beth Barone? It's so genius.
2:02 Benito Skinner? I miss her.
2:02 Mary Beth Barone? I, I miss her too.
2:03 Benito Skinner? Phoebe.
2:04 Mary Beth Barone? If you're listening, we miss you, girl.
2:06 Benito Skinner? It's very like when Gotham really needed Batman. It'd be a good time for you to come home now. Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
2:11 Mary Beth Barone? Please.
2:11 Benito Skinner? We need you, girl. Please. So I'm watching Narnia. And this girl, the young girl, I think her name is Lucy in it. Santa pops out of nowhere. He makes this crazy cameo in The Chronicles of Narnia. And is kind of like, okay, miss.
2:25 Mary Beth Barone? It's like when Einstein's in Oppenheimer.
2:27 Benito Skinner? Exactly. I'm like, oh shit. Okay, so now it's the real world. Cause I know, you know, you won't let me talk about him.
2:35 Mary Beth Barone? I won't let you talk about Santa.
2:36 Benito Skinner? No. So the young girl just goes, I thought there wasn't Christmas in Narnia. And I couldn't stop saying it in a way that it's ruining my relationships. But everyone does laugh when I do it, like the people around me. I just can't believe I haven't done it to you yet.
2:51 Mary Beth Barone? You haven't, but I also feel like it's more seasonal. Like this should be, you know, a November, December situation.
2:57 Benito Skinner? No, see, that's just not how it's gonna work for me. It's gonna be when I see Narnia, it's just gonna happen. So this was just kind of immediate and I had to get it out there. So to anyone who wants to try this, just look deadpan in a mirror and go, I thought there wasn't Christmas in Narnia.
3:09 Mary Beth Barone? And then go, morning. Morning.
3:13 Benito Skinner? Car plug. Car plug is now in two episodes of Ratt.
3:17 Mary Beth Barone? Two episodes.
3:17 Benito Skinner? I'm good. That'll be enough. Sorry, you guys. I really don't.
3:20 Mary Beth Barone? You say that now.
3:21 Benito Skinner? I don't think they're gonna fuck with it. I'm scared for my kids.
3:25 Mary Beth Barone? We always think that. Give them a chance to surprise you.
3:28 Benito Skinner? I know. When I'm Gwan is not at the level I thought it'd be.
3:31 Mary Beth Barone? We haven't really talked about politics in a while and I just need, I need to speak on it briefly.
3:36 Benito Skinner? I'm so, please, the floor is yours.
3:37 Mary Beth Barone? Cause we're very, it's like, it's really scary right now than here at the Geneva Convention.
3:41 Benito Skinner? Convention. We love you here in Switzerland. I live here.
3:44 Mary Beth Barone? This is long, by the way. What I'm about to say is long. I wrote it down because I get flustered when I talk about it and then I end up not really saying the things that I wanna say.
3:52 Benito Skinner? I think more people should have full statements, like written statements. We should be able to just do that.
3:57 Mary Beth Barone? Written or spoken.
3:57 Benito Skinner? I had that thought when I was listening to a few, like, you know, like wedding speeches? When someone just kind of goes off the dome, I'm like, I don't know if that's what that's for.
4:04 Mary Beth Barone? No, it's not time for that. You should plan it, have some respect.
4:07 Benito Skinner? Paper even.
4:08 Mary Beth Barone? Paper. I do prefer to paper to phone, but right now I'm reading off my phone.
4:11 Benito Skinner? Hey, no worries.
4:12 Mary Beth Barone? I don't have a printer.
4:13 Benito Skinner? No worries. We'll blur it in post.
4:15 Mary Beth Barone? Studio. Yeah, please do. I'm noticing, I mean, we're all noticing that some establishment Democrats aren't endorsing Zerran M'Amdani for mayor, even though he won the primary by a lot and voters really love him. And now I'm seeing that Kamala has a book coming out about losing the election. So I need to talk about some of these things. It's really bothering me.
4:35 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
4:35 Mary Beth Barone? So I'm just wondering how many Democrats have to lose before the leaders of this party will sort of wake up to what's going on.
4:43 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
4:43 Mary Beth Barone? Because we don't really want centrist candidates. We don't want weak policies. We don't want bullshit. We want progressive candidates.
4:51 Benito Skinner? Change, baby.
4:52 Mary Beth Barone? Change, who are willing to stand up for the working class, fight for the LGBTQ plus community, preserve democracy. It's very basic things that we're asking of our party. And we are slipping into fascism right now and people are scared. So we were told time and time again that 2024 was the most important election of our lifetime, that democracy was on the line, the stakes could not have been higher. The stakes couldn't have been higher.
5:15 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
5:16 Mary Beth Barone? We knew exactly what the Republicans planned to do. They literally published it online. It was called Project 2025. And instead of giving us a progressive candidate with a clear platform, we got fan cams of Kamala at rallies set to Beyonce songs. I don't mind that. I love that as a concept.
5:30 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I love that with other things.
5:32 Mary Beth Barone? It within the world, totally world building.
5:35 Benito Skinner? Yes, of course.
5:35 Mary Beth Barone? But then she's going on interviews talking about how she supports fracking. No, we can't do that again. And people are literally dying as a result.
5:43 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
5:43 Mary Beth Barone? Lives are being lost and they will continue to be lost directly because of Democrats incompetence. So I need to just say that as a baseline. So then we have Donald Trump, who's sending the National Guard into our cities. He's redrawing congressional maps. And I love that Gavin Newsom is doing something, governor of California.
5:59 Benito Skinner? He did do a fan edit that I had to give it to him. Bitches couldn't get on my incline.
6:05 Mary Beth Barone? But it has to be.
6:06 Benito Skinner? He got me, okay?
6:07 Mary Beth Barone? And while he's doing fan cams, he's also trying to stand up to Donald Trump.
6:11 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
6:11 Mary Beth Barone? And make a difference.
6:12 Benito Skinner? Yeah, he gets a handshake from me.
6:13 Mary Beth Barone? Totally agree.
6:14 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
6:14 Mary Beth Barone? If he wants us to take him seriously as a presidential candidate, he needs to. Stop having right wing influencers on his podcast. That's just, again, bare minimum.
6:24 Benito Skinner? To hear on his podcast.
6:25 Mary Beth Barone? Basic principles.
6:26 Benito Skinner? It's tough.
6:27 Mary Beth Barone? I don't think politicians need podcasts. We need you to govern, please.
6:30 Benito Skinner? Please, God.
6:31 Mary Beth Barone? Please govern.
6:32 Benito Skinner? Have you ever thought of integrity and standing for something?
6:34 Mary Beth Barone? No.
6:35 Benito Skinner? Also, can you believe gay marriage is back on the old ticket?
6:37 Mary Beth Barone? I can.
6:38 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
6:38 Mary Beth Barone? I can, because they told us they were gonna do that.
6:40 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
6:41 Mary Beth Barone? Zerron won the primary because he had a clear platform and he spoke directly to what voters care about. And he has answers when he's asked how he's actually gonna deliver on these things that he says he's gonna do. As Tyra Banks once said, "Learn something from this."
6:53 Benito Skinner? I have never in my life yelled at a girl like this.
6:55 Mary Beth Barone? I have never in my life yelled at a girl like this.
6:57 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
6:57 Mary Beth Barone? Okay? Your grandmother had her lights turned off to buy you a swimsuit for this competition. That's what I wanna say to Democrats right now.
7:03 Benito Skinner? No, I know.
7:04 Mary Beth Barone? So stop trying to appeal to Republicans because they're never gonna vote for you.
7:07 Benito Skinner? No, oh my God, no.
7:09 Mary Beth Barone? Nothing a Republican candidate can do is bad enough to lose. We literally have a rapist in the White House.
7:14 Benito Skinner? Yeah, so...
7:15 Mary Beth Barone? We can't do lesser of two evils because that doesn't work. Because the most evil person won. So stop listening to these consultants who are telling you to appeal to the middle because after the last election, it's actually not even about winning Republican votes. It's about, you have to win back your own party. Your own party didn't vote for you. So if you are a Democratic elected official and you wanna take money from corrupt foreign governments, become a stand-up comedian and go perform at the Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival, stop pretending you give a damn about the people that you're supposed to be fighting for. That's what I have to say to our Democratic politicians right now. I'm so frustrated.
7:49 Benito Skinner? Well, I think it's just this idea of, this is what it's always been. Like, this is how we've done it in the past. And it's like, well, is it working? Because clearly there needs to be a change, because that's not working anymore.
7:58 Mary Beth Barone? You didn't win, you lost.
7:59 Benito Skinner? And I understand that that used to work, but you've lost now. Baby girl, it's not working.
8:03 Mary Beth Barone? It's not working.
8:04 Benito Skinner? Change it.
8:04 Mary Beth Barone? And people are dying.
8:05 Benito Skinner? I know. I miss Bernie.
8:07 Mary Beth Barone? I miss Bernie too, and I'm really glad that he and AOC are out touring the country. Getting people excited to stand up to Algerki, but it's like, we also need good candidates. And I'm really excited because there's a guy in Maine who's running against Susan Collins, who I fucking hate.
8:19 Benito Skinner? Oh yeah, he's an oysterman.
8:20 Mary Beth Barone? His name is Graham Plantner, I believe. Plattner, Plantner, I don't know. I don't know where the N is.
8:25 Benito Skinner? And just like that.
8:28 Mary Beth Barone? He has a really great campaign video. I already donated to his campaign. I hate Susan Collins so much. I remember when she confirmed Brett Kavanaugh and I was just like, I'll never forgive you for that. And she's done countless other atrocities too. But I just hope that we can really show, I mean, Zerron is a case study, right? It was the most people that ever voted in a New York mayoral primary in history. And he won votes in groups that people said he would never win because of where he stands on these issues. And so I just have to wonder why these establishment Democrats, what's not clocking to you? What's not clocking to you?
9:01 Benito Skinner? It's just the past. It's living in the past and thinking that those things will still work when it's so clearly that they won't. I mean, it's, I think also it's something that I see so much in like all of, you know, kind of all of these things across the board, which is just a lack of people who are willing to lose based on what they actually believe in and fight for what they actually believe in. And that's where I'm just like, then why are you even doing it?
9:24 Mary Beth Barone? Why? Why are you doing it? Because would you rather take money from like a corrupt super PAC and lose? Or would you rather do a grassroots effort, get a bunch of people excited about what you stand for and win? I'm just, I'm so confused by not being able to pick between those two things. I really don't get it.
9:41 Benito Skinner? It's no integrity. It's so funny for like a progressive party that is feels so.
9:45 Mary Beth Barone? Well, they just failed us. They literally failed. They failed.
9:47 Benito Skinner? My favorite part of your hour is when you do pussy in a denim romper and then the sharp cut.
9:51 Mary Beth Barone? Don't say it. Don't say it. Don't say it.
9:53 Benito Skinner? There's a sharp cut that I let out a laugh at your live show in Montreal.
9:58 Mary Beth Barone? Well, I'm honestly, I'm so fed up and I just.
10:01 Benito Skinner? I love giving you the Senate floor. This is so fun. I'm just vibing by the way.
10:04 Mary Beth Barone? I really want to just speak to more of these candidates and people running for reelection because people are not going to get excited by a centrist, by a moderate. We're just not. And you think you're going to win over Republicans. You're not. If they wanted to, they would. They don't want to. They don't want to. Vote you in, they don't like you.
10:22 Benito Skinner? It's like, the joy would be if someone came in and gave us everything we wanted.
10:26 Mary Beth Barone? Right.
10:27 Benito Skinner? So that's what we need to do.
10:28 Mary Beth Barone? Right.
10:28 Benito Skinner? Because their side has done that for them.
10:30 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
10:30 Benito Skinner? Of like, oh, you want a fascist racist dictator who's a rapist?
10:33 Mary Beth Barone? Here you go.
10:34 Benito Skinner? Here you go.
10:35 Mary Beth Barone? Here's what I think too. If I looked at how hard each party is working and how strategically, you would think the Republicans were the ones fighting to protect people's rights and lives, and that the Democrats were just trying to make rich people richer. Based on how hard they're working, and it's insane to me that these Republicans, just fueled by like evil hatred and greed, are able to organize and rally their people behind them, and take over, take control of our government. We are, it's authoritarianism, it's fascism. And then we have the Democrats on the side just being like, hey, so yeah, we don't think fracking's that big of a deal. And like, people should have guns, maybe just like fewer guns. And then, yeah, I don't know, I guess like trans athletes, like they do kind of pose a threat. They don't, by the way.
11:16 Benito Skinner? No.
11:16 Mary Beth Barone? Look at the science, listen to voters. Also, for what it's worth, there should already be a Democratic candidate who is making a play for president in a very clear way. Get the base excited, start listening to people now, do town halls, do all that bullshit. There should be one person that's so obviously gonna run and be our nominee, and there isn't yet. This is, it makes me crazy. Because this happened when Biden was in office. We should have been vetting someone, grooming someone to run from the day he stepped foot in the White House.
11:44 Benito Skinner? Right fucking now.
11:45 Mary Beth Barone? But it's not happening. So anyway, I'm sorry to have to get serious for a minute, but I think we need to address that they're like, the National Guard being in cities is really scary. People are being ripped from their homes, they are, they are law abiding.
11:58 Benito Skinner? I was still in Los Angeles.
11:58 Mary Beth Barone? Oh yeah.
11:59 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
11:59 Mary Beth Barone? They're law abiding, and they have no criminal record, and they're being literally ripped from their families when they show up to court to go through the due process, whatever, do it the right way, bullshit. So, this is crazy. Gay marriage is gonna be ruled upon by the Supreme Court again. I have to say, I think it's probably gonna get repealed, or overturned, or however they say.
12:18 Benito Skinner? I... If that happens, I it's really, it just, all of this feels so, it's dystopian, it's terrifying.
12:27 Mary Beth Barone? Also, painting over the crosswalk that was for the Pulse nightclub victim, I mean.
12:32 Benito Skinner? I talked about Dante's Inferno. I know the ring you'll be in, DeSantis.
12:36 Mary Beth Barone? Ron DeSantis.
12:37 Benito Skinner? I'll see you. And it's the same ring Nancy fucking Reagan's in, that witch.
12:41 Mary Beth Barone? And Mitch McConnell will meet them there. Ted Cruz will meet them there. I know. They'll all be there.
12:46 Benito Skinner? Gotta let it burn. Fire, brimstone, I'm telling you. Because when I die, I know I'm gonna go to hell first to say hi to all of them.
12:54 Mary Beth Barone? Flip them off.
12:54 Benito Skinner? Just to go, if I'm so fucking crazy.
12:57 Mary Beth Barone? Then leave.
12:58 Benito Skinner? Oh, wait, you can't. You're down here forever. Say hi to Judas for me. Also, wait, Judas, I gotta talk to you.
13:04 Mary Beth Barone? Judas, let me tell you something real big. Get over here.
13:07 Benito Skinner? Judas, I need to show you a music video, cuz it's kinda crazy.
13:09 Mary Beth Barone? It's kinda good.
13:10 Benito Skinner? Thank you so much for your address to the nation.
13:13 Mary Beth Barone? Thank you. That's my State of the Union, and I'm gonna make more politics for Hot People videos.
13:18 Benito Skinner? Please do.
13:18 Mary Beth Barone? I have a date on the calendar in September. I'm gonna explain what a governor does. And I will always be posting about candidates that I think are exciting. But when I talk to someone who's more middle of the road, I will, of course, highlight that there is an election happening and that I think you should vote blue. But it's just harder and harder to get excited about people and make people excited when you're on the fence about some of these really important things.
13:39 Benito Skinner? I just wanna also remind people, cuz I think sometimes you can just see a graphic, but painting over the Rainbow Crosswalk at Pulse. So those queer people were just at a nightclub at a place where they felt safe and were slaughtered and were killed. It's such a level of evil, I think, and to have any kind of memorial for those people that the families can come to and feel like their memory lives on. It's such a violent level of evil.
14:06 Mary Beth Barone? An erasure.
14:07 Benito Skinner? An erasure, that it's so, I just cannot believe these people can sleep at night and do something like that. Like, I just, that is so disgusting. And these things are happening everywhere. This is pure evil. Like, this is, you've taken something from these families. And this community that was terrorized and tortured, it was a terrorist act, to be clear. It's just so.
14:33 Mary Beth Barone? It's just, it's beyond Republican versus Democrat now. And I do want to say, because as you know, I was Republican for a long time. George Bush Republicans, to me, were capitalist. And I understand that that's bad. These Republicans are just, they're fascist. And Stephen Miller, if I ever fucking run into you in the street.
14:52 Benito Skinner? You're meeting floor.
14:52 Mary Beth Barone? On sight.
14:53 Benito Skinner? It's on sight.
14:54 Mary Beth Barone? And I'm, because I'm gonna have Benny Drama behind me. He's gonna have that arm vane and it's, bop.
14:58 Benito Skinner? It's meeting floor. You know I'm dying to fight somebody. I'm dying to fight.
15:02 Mary Beth Barone? I know, I know.
15:04 Benito Skinner? Put me in, coach.
15:05 Mary Beth Barone? Also, oh, the Army of Love, we really appreciate the support and how you engage with our content that's also about politics. Sometimes we have to get serious, but we also like to have a lot of fun. When we need to activate the Army of Love, like, we will let you know and we need you all to be ready.
15:20 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
15:21 Mary Beth Barone? So.
15:21 Benito Skinner? They're at Pilates right now.
15:23 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
15:23 Benito Skinner? But they're ready. They're listening right now.
15:25 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. They're ready to activate, so.
15:28 Benito Skinner? They'll know, because they'll hear a sound, a huge alarm will sound. Come on, Perp!
15:32 Mary Beth Barone? Come on, Perp!
15:33 Benito Skinner? Sumayam on a big one.
15:35 Mary Beth Barone? That's the dog whistle for activating the Army of Love.
15:37 Benito Skinner? I, God. I'm so glad you did this. And we know that this is such a, like, safe, private space for people and you get to forget about everything. But sometimes I think we do have to just, because I find myself doing it too, where I read something and I'm like, I need to go on TikTok and watch something that made me so angry and disgusted. And I cannot believe this is the world we live in and this is how we treat people. But I do think at a certain point, we also have to engage and force ourselves to engage. And I think at times, of course, take space when you need to, but, come on, sorry.
16:09 Mary Beth Barone? Sorry.
16:10 Benito Skinner? We gotta go and I'm very proud of you for saying that.
16:11 Mary Beth Barone? I wish we didn't have to talk about this.
16:12 Benito Skinner? Of course.
16:13 Mary Beth Barone? Do you think I want to follow an election happening in Maine?
16:17 Benito Skinner? No, and do you think you want to?
16:18 Mary Beth Barone? Do you think I want to spend my time doing that?
16:19 Benito Skinner? Follow up on your precious podcast, Me Saying Christmas in Narnia with your State of the Union?
16:24 Mary Beth Barone? Like, I don't. I would love to just stick to, hey, stick to comedy.
16:28 Benito Skinner? Hey.
16:28 Mary Beth Barone? I would love to.
16:29 Benito Skinner? Don't quit your day job. You're like, I guess I won't say.
16:32 Mary Beth Barone? Professional comedian.
16:33 Benito Skinner? Do you like my jokes, sir?
16:35 Mary Beth Barone? And I really don't want to run for office. But if I have to, I will.
16:40 Benito Skinner? God. Oh, the fan edits of you. In time, in time.
16:44 Mary Beth Barone? We're just gonna get him on. I don't want to, that's all, that's all I'll say.
16:47 Benito Skinner? And when it goes Justin Bieber, it'll get me, cuz I'll be here.
16:51 Mary Beth Barone? Gotta keep her out for Selena.
16:53 Benito Skinner? Cuz I'll be in the office every day with fake glasses on. How are we in the polls?
16:57 Mary Beth Barone? So, let's get into what we ride for.
16:59 Benito Skinner? So, this week I will be riding for, well, actually, this is our, the big dinner debate.
17:03 Mary Beth Barone? Dinner, restaurant episode.
17:04 Benito Skinner? Which I like cuz I love bringing up politics at a dinner.
17:07 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, yeah. And you know what's funny about our debate episodes is that, as you said, nothing is debated. We just talk about stuff that relates to each other.
17:13 Benito Skinner? We're best friends. Be best friends with someone you agree with everything on.
17:17 Mary Beth Barone? I love it, baby. Seriously. Come on, Kerplunk. So, I'm riding for chill restaurants.
17:24 Benito Skinner? And I'm riding for conversation starters.
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22:05 Benito Skinner? Who cares? Ride! Oh my god, can I go first randomly?
22:10 Mary Beth Barone? Yes, of course.
22:10 Benito Skinner? Is that cool? You gave your address. This is my bigger job.
22:13 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, I can't wait, kid.
22:14 Benito Skinner? Here's the thing. Oh, and I stand by what I said a long time ago. If you don't have a gay friend and you're a woman, you're evil.
22:22 Mary Beth Barone? I don't trust you.
22:22 Benito Skinner? You're evil. I don't trust you and you're definitely a Republican.
22:25 Mary Beth Barone? Susan Collins, I don't think has ever met a gay guy, so.
22:29 Benito Skinner? Well, it's so funny to me. It's crazy to me sometimes when I meet a woman and she's not like charmed by, like she's not excited by the sight of gay, like gay people. I'm like, babe, like, what the fuck?
22:39 Mary Beth Barone? What the fuck?
22:40 Benito Skinner? Wait, babe, what the fuck?
22:41 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
22:42 Benito Skinner? I'm good as fuck, the fuck?
22:43 Mary Beth Barone? I'm good as fuck, the fuck?
22:48 Benito Skinner? So, conversation starters. I was recently on a vacation, vacation privilege. And I was at this dinner with a bunch of people that I have been to so many dinners with. And it doesn't have to be this, but I just, all of a sudden, I was like, I'm gonna do something crazy. Can I say something crazy? Is that from Frozen?
23:07 Mary Beth Barone? I don't know.
23:09 Benito Skinner? I thought there was a kissing.
23:11 Mary Beth Barone? It's very unusual.
23:12 Benito Skinner? Unusual. So I just go, how did everyone lose their virginity? And we went around the table and we all said it.
23:18 Mary Beth Barone? Whoa, I love that.
23:19 Benito Skinner? It was electrifying. And you know what was so interesting in it? That we found, and this is why conversation starters are so fun, and don't be afraid of them. I think people get afraid of them because they're like, well, I know everyone. It's like, no, no. That's when you do it.
23:31 Mary Beth Barone? There's things to learn still.
23:31 Benito Skinner? That's when you do it.
23:32 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
23:33 Benito Skinner? So what I learned is that a lot of queer people can't really place it. Because it's this weird thing, which I have sometimes because I'm like, well, would I count a time with a woman? Or do you want this, but then also that I don't want to really count? So then I'm counting this. And every single queer person at the table did that. It was fascinating. And then we had a discussion about that. And then we all sang, "Sumi, I wanna be one." And then, um.
23:57 Mary Beth Barone? And then you played the kissing game.
23:58 Benito Skinner? And then we played the kissing game, which has rocked.
24:00 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, my God.
24:01 Benito Skinner? By the way, we should just ride for that. Like, you know, that's solely, that's a big episode.
24:05 Mary Beth Barone? I completely agree. And also, as the moderator, you're supposed to provide a photo as well. I just want to make that clear. If you're moderating the game.
24:12 Benito Skinner? Are people not?
24:13 Mary Beth Barone? I don't know. I, I, I just realized when I explained the rules, I didn't mention that.
24:16 Benito Skinner? I don't know if this was on the Reddit or in a comment, but someone said they also added in a bunch of random things.
24:20 Mary Beth Barone? Decoy. I know, which is so funny.
24:22 Benito Skinner? But that, to me, was tricky because I'm like, there is a number.
24:24 Mary Beth Barone? That's expert level. It's expert. But if you know there's decoys in it, you could say decoy for that number.
24:30 Benito Skinner? Whoa, that's where it gets like none of the above.
24:32 Mary Beth Barone? Right. So on the topic of conversation starters, as you know, my big, I love you too.
24:37 Benito Skinner? I'm having this moment again. I had it last night at dinner.
24:39 Mary Beth Barone? It's the lighting in here.
24:40 Benito Skinner? You look like Leighton Meester.
24:41 Mary Beth Barone? Thank you.
24:42 Benito Skinner? I love her. Jesus.
24:43 Mary Beth Barone? My big conversation starter is, of course, asking couples, what's your biggest fight? And actually, Victor Carlessi, who opened for me in Chicago, he's so funny. I'm obsessed with him.
24:52 Benito Skinner? He's genius.
24:52 Mary Beth Barone? He is so goddamn funny. He actually reminded me the other day that he and his boyfriend were the first couple I ever asked that to.
24:59 Benito Skinner? Stop.
24:59 Mary Beth Barone? I said it in the green room because I met his boyfriend, he was telling me how great he was. And I just said, like, what's your guy's biggest fight?
25:05 Benito Skinner? Well, if it's so great, let's hear your biggest fight.
25:07 Mary Beth Barone? Let's hear about it then.
25:07 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
25:08 Mary Beth Barone? So I think conversation starters can be so out of pocket and it's still, even if you don't get to that actual topic, like,
25:14 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
25:15 Mary Beth Barone? you can see how people's minds work. It's like in an interview when someone's like, oh, how would you count up all the traffic lights in Manhattan? Or whatever.
25:22 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
25:22 Mary Beth Barone? It's just like, I just want to see how your brain works.
25:24 Benito Skinner? Like, let's just see this.
25:25 Mary Beth Barone? Let's just see you.
25:26 Benito Skinner? I just want to hear also, I want to know what your experience is about. Like also, by the way, these were all like best friends. So I could ask when everyone lost their virginity, which virginity is a construct.
25:36 Mary Beth Barone? Of course.
25:36 Benito Skinner? Of course. We all said that in unison too. But actually, this question happened after I did kind of, I did something that kind of bombed because it was really boring quickly. Because I said, what was everyone's rosebud thorn? We got to get rid of that one.
25:47 Mary Beth Barone? I don't like.
25:47 Benito Skinner? Because it's like, we were all there today, like, I don't know. Then we're like, I don't know.
25:50 Mary Beth Barone? Over one day, that's crazy.
25:52 Benito Skinner? The dinner I'm at right now, like, it just wasn't it. So then, once I did that, incredible. Then, the next night, Emily, our dearest friend Emily, she asked the table something that I'm like, this is incredible. She said, what is the first lie you remember telling? It was so fun.
26:09 Mary Beth Barone? Whoa, that's a great conversation starter.
26:11 Benito Skinner? I literally just got chills from it because it was just like, oh my God, thinking to that. And then you just realized also, because what's just so fun is like thinking of your friends as kids and they're so themselves. Like, everyone's thing was so themselves.
26:22 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
26:22 Benito Skinner? But it was just delicious. It was tinselating. You know when a dinner's tinselating?
26:28 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
26:29 Benito Skinner? And it's just all of a sudden.
26:30 Mary Beth Barone? Tinselating, and Vicky did point out to me that tinselating isn't a word.
26:33 Benito Skinner? Well, of course not.
26:34 Mary Beth Barone? It's scintillating or titillating, but you've made something totally new and different, which is tinselating.
26:38 Benito Skinner? Youngest child, it sounds not words.
26:40 Mary Beth Barone? It sounds not words.
26:41 Benito Skinner? And you knew exactly what I mean.
26:42 Mary Beth Barone? Totally. It's a combination of both.
26:44 Benito Skinner? And I've decided not to be ashamed of that anymore. I just kind of like, that's just the thing I say.
26:48 Mary Beth Barone? No, it's just fun to point out that it is new. You're an inventor, you're a creator, you're building worlds.
26:53 Benito Skinner? Hey, a creative with integrity.
26:55 Mary Beth Barone? Creative with integrity. I love the idea of conversation starters. I think another good conversation starter that I've been seeing on the Reddit, that anytime someone asks this, it gets a lot of comments. What is the episode of Ride that you send to someone when you want them to get hooked?
27:08 Benito Skinner? Oh, my god.
27:09 Mary Beth Barone? So if you know you're with baronies, it's just asking something like that.
27:12 Benito Skinner? Some people ask me, which is so strange. It's like the work. I couldn't possibly talk about my work in that way.
27:19 Mary Beth Barone? No, totally.
27:22 Benito Skinner? I would say, if I had to, the Ferrero Rocher Mom Secrets.
27:28 Mary Beth Barone? A lot of people say that, but I feel like that's a Love Corn episode, which I'm like, as a starter, that's crazy. As a first episode.
27:37 Benito Skinner? But that is when I feel like we found our kids. They were finally ours. They were finally in our pocket at that point.
27:43 Mary Beth Barone? For that to be someone's first introduction to it is so crazy to me.
27:46 Benito Skinner? Yeah, that's true. I do think the encyclopedias did a nice job. I was really proud of those, actually. I remember when someone at the time was like, "These are so fucking boring." And I was like, I got so mad that day. It was so funny.
27:57 Mary Beth Barone? If you get it, you got it. If you don't, you don't.
27:59 Benito Skinner? I think sometimes people forget that I'm a Scorpio, so I really just like, sometimes I'll read a comment like that. It will make me so sad and sensitive and pissed. And I'll just be like, meh. Like, I don't know. It's just like, nothing hurts worse than that. I was recently at a wedding and someone who was drunk was like, "I didn't like the first three episodes of Overcompensating, but then I really loved it." And I was just like, unfortunately, like, you're my op forever. And I wish that wasn't the case.
28:23 Mary Beth Barone? That's just a crazy way to say that.
28:24 Benito Skinner? Well, it's so funny.
28:25 Mary Beth Barone? Why don't you just say you loved it?
28:27 Benito Skinner? I swear to god, it's like, people do this sometimes where they like have to say, I don't know if it's just because our jobs are kind of weird, you know what I mean? Like, they're not like, they're an yisho.
28:37 Mary Beth Barone? An yisho.
28:38 Benito Skinner? So people are just kind of like, the same rules don't apply. Because I'm like, if I'm thinking of the flip side of that, like, what I could say to you, that, it's just so insane. Like, that's just crazy.
28:48 Mary Beth Barone? There's nothing. There's no equivalent.
28:49 Benito Skinner? But I looked so cute and my skin was clear. I was pretty bulletproof, but she is officially an op, regardless.
28:56 Mary Beth Barone? The enemy of my friend is my enemy. I really hate to have to bring that up.
29:00 Benito Skinner? I'm thinking of some other ones, like, because now they kind of come to me quite a bit. So I've been asked, "What's the craziest thing you did in college?", which is helpful for the show, kind of. I'm kind of like, it's a writer's thing of sorts.
29:11 Mary Beth Barone? You're mining.
29:12 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I'm mining. "First time you knew you were in love to couples?" I think that's really fun, because it's always different.
29:18 Mary Beth Barone? Mmm.
29:19 Benito Skinner? Don't do the who said, I love you first. That actually will be the biggest.
29:23 Mary Beth Barone? I don't want to know that.
29:23 Benito Skinner? You're about to watch the biggest.
29:24 Mary Beth Barone? And in fact, I don't want to know.
29:26 Benito Skinner? And I don't want to know. Actually think that too. Like Rosebud Thorn was good for me because I'm like, oh, wait, I don't really give a fuck. Like, we just did all those things today. Like, I'm actually so curious, like, a few life things you've done that you and I have not talked about. Like, when I found out that you worked at Eleven Madison Park and you found out I was a gelato boy.
29:42 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
29:43 Benito Skinner? Which you know you would have come and gotten this scoop.
29:45 Mary Beth Barone? Asking, what's your, like, least favorite job, I guess?
29:48 Benito Skinner? Oh.
29:49 Mary Beth Barone? Is a cool one.
29:49 Benito Skinner? That's really fun. What's yours?
29:51 Mary Beth Barone? Probably the one that I did for one day, which was to be a waiter.
29:54 Benito Skinner? Hmm. Yeah, I think The Sweet Shop was probably my least favorite. I didn't love editing videos right out of college, but then I would just edit my own videos also, so I guess, I guess it's gotta be.
30:06 Mary Beth Barone? It's a balance.
30:07 Benito Skinner? The, the gelato boy on cam. I was on Candid Cam.
30:11 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
30:12 Benito Skinner? But yeah, I just think like these conversation starters, don't be afraid to do them, even with just like your partner, like, it's something so fun. Also, they electrify parents. Because recently I've been doing it to parents that aren't mine or ones that I don't know well, where I'm like, how did you two get together?
30:26 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, that's really cute.
30:28 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
30:28 Mary Beth Barone? And it can be really inspiring.
30:29 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
30:30 Mary Beth Barone? You never know where inspiration's gonna strike.
30:31 Benito Skinner? And it can rock your world of like, if there's like, they broke up, they got back together, they're like, when they decided. I'm just, I love it. I'm just, I'm, I'm really having fun with it.
30:41 Mary Beth Barone? I love that. I feel like we talk so much for work. It's fun to just be at a dinner and you can kick back and put in your two cents and then you just can listen and engage and amplify.
30:49 Benito Skinner? You know what I could always talk about, though?
30:51 Mary Beth Barone? What?
30:51 Benito Skinner? You. I can always talk about you and I can, I really, it is fun talking about overcompensating.
30:55 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
30:55 Benito Skinner? I will say, if people bring up episodes and stuff, I'm like, oh, my God, I've got, you would die if you knew what was going on.
31:01 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
31:02 Benito Skinner? You would die.
31:03 Mary Beth Barone? I really want to do, I mean, they don't really do this anymore, but it'd be cool to do like a, you know, director's commentary or a writer's, creator's commentary.
31:10 Benito Skinner? I really would like to do that.
31:11 Mary Beth Barone? Teed on like what was going on and. Things inspiration came from. What's real, what's fiction, that sort of thing, I think could be really cool.
31:17 Benito Skinner? I think that'd be fun. It'd be fun to do like a watch.
31:20 Mary Beth Barone? Watch party.
31:21 Benito Skinner? If anyone has an idea of what that looks like, like I love what Katya and Trixie do for Netflix, where they watch something and you see their reactions. A version of that, that's like a director's cut thing could be interesting with stories and stuff. A side hobby that I have is just reading all of your guys' interviews, because I just love hearing what you guys say, like you and Wally and Holmes. I'm just like, it's so fun, because everyone has obviously a different experience, no matter what, so. And that's why conversation starters.
31:45 Mary Beth Barone? We talk about the abuse we suffered on set.
31:47 Benito Skinner? Exactly. When was the moment you knew you loved me? That's my big one at tables. When was the moment you fell for me? And when's the time you were attracted to me?
31:56 Mary Beth Barone? Well, I fell for you when you bent over in that first stand up set. You bent over doing your stand up.
32:01 Benito Skinner? Okay.
32:02 Mary Beth Barone? And then when I was attracted to you.
32:05 Benito Skinner? Into media.
32:07 Mary Beth Barone? Clip that.
32:10 Mary Beth Barone? When, when I shout out different vogue covers and you do the different poses.
32:15 Benito Skinner? To me when I do that? That's incredible.
32:17 Mary Beth Barone? And when you have chest hair, I would say.
32:21 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I got it right now. Okay, so mine for you. I knew I was in love with you. Actually, what's so funny, I knew I was in love with you the day we shot JVN as Jesus. Because when you came over, you already had all this makeup on, like you were ready to go. You were five minutes early.
32:37 Mary Beth Barone? Of course.
32:37 Benito Skinner? You, on the way, were like, do you want a coffee? Like, I'll get you one. Like, it just.
32:40 Mary Beth Barone? Well, I don't even remember doing that.
32:41 Benito Skinner? It was so crazy. And you showed up and you had like a bodysuit, you had three other things. And when I showed you the costume, you're like, yeah, I love it. Let's do it.
32:47 Mary Beth Barone? Perfect.
32:48 Benito Skinner? It was so.
32:49 Mary Beth Barone? Might as well be a bullseye.
32:50 Benito Skinner? And I was just like, okay, I'm a [BLEEP]. I think like true, if I'm thinking of like, though, when I felt like, oh my God, I love this person.
32:57 Mary Beth Barone? Mine was at Cluster Fest when we did our first sleepover.
33:00 Benito Skinner? I was about to say when we watched Big Little Isies at Cluster Fest in the hotel. And when we were running from the diner at like 3 a.m.
33:07 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, we were scared.
33:08 Benito Skinner? We both got omelets. That was really cute.
33:10 Mary Beth Barone? Well, it was Gotham City.
33:12 Benito Skinner? Barney's still existed then, as in San Francisco too. So we went to Barney's together and I remember that being fun.
33:17 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, yeah.
33:17 Benito Skinner? And then you had that electric set with your blue eyeshadow.
33:20 Mary Beth Barone? My blue eyeshadow.
33:20 Benito Skinner? I just knew I loved you then. Attracted, well. Have that right now. No, this one night on my birthday a year ago, two years ago, you had that J W Anderson kind of silky black dress on and your hair was like bombshell. So my sisters were at this dinner and everyone there was just like, you are so sexy. Like every single person was like, holy fuck.
33:42 Mary Beth Barone? It was cool. That was another time when my boyfriend lived in a different country. So that was really all for you guys. I had no, I had no one to perform for.
33:49 Benito Skinner? I go all this, all this and she has a parasite?
33:51 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, and I had a parasite. Also, my camera roll is so diabolical right now because if I go back to back to back relationships, if I go back a little bit, it's recent X. If I go back a little too far, then it's the two, it's just so, it's horrible. It's horrible.
34:06 Benito Skinner? I'm so sorry. Mine sometimes will just make me laugh because it will have me and it's like I'm tucked as deliverance, like way sweaty. It's like, I really am reminded that I've lived nine lives pretty consistently. Sometimes though lately it's been doing, because we shot a year ago, it will do Toronto and I'm like, oh my God.
34:24 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, that's really tough. Yeah.
34:26 Benito Skinner? I want to be back.
34:27 Mary Beth Barone? Also, dating two straight guys in a row, when people send me memes unexpectedly, I get PTSD. Because when you date a straight man, you're just getting sent memes literally all day.
34:37 Benito Skinner? It's crazy.
34:37 Mary Beth Barone? Their entire waking hours are spent just finding memes to send to you. To the level where you couldn't possibly have a unique reaction to all of them.
34:43 Benito Skinner? No.
34:44 Mary Beth Barone? So I went on a date with this girl and she's lovely, but then she sent me a meme the next day and I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's slow down.
34:52 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
34:53 Mary Beth Barone? Let's not get too crazy.
34:54 Benito Skinner? This chick didn't wake up in my house yet. Let's chill with the memes.
34:57 Mary Beth Barone? You can send me a meme when we get to that level, but I am so happy not dating anyone right now and not getting memes all day. It's very freeing.
35:05 Benito Skinner? Cause I, we only love, I only love one thing a week. That's kind of my thing. Like morning.
35:10 Mary Beth Barone? Also, I get, my algorithm is so smart. I see so many of the memes that I'm supposed to, just on my own, just organically. So I love when brony send me memes because I can look at them in my message requests and I don't have to respond necessarily. But sometimes I repost them to my story and I say, okay, so that was perfect. You totally nailed it.
35:27 Benito Skinner? Like stuck the landing. This is fabulous. You get me.
35:30 Mary Beth Barone? But some people I would say could send me. You're memes. That's all I'll say before I get into chill restaurants.
35:36 Benito Skinner? Well, this is even I have new straight friends, you know, it's like it's not common for me, but I have been electrified by the sheer amount of videos and memes. And sometimes I have the same thought and kind of, so I would say maybe 80% of them. You thought of me. Interesting.
35:51 Mary Beth Barone? Isn't it crazy when
35:52 Benito Skinner? This made you think of me.
35:53 Mary Beth Barone? When someone thinks they know you and then they prove that they really don't. Cause they send you a meme that is just so off base.
35:58 Benito Skinner? Well, the thing that I get the most on the internet is people being like, you look like me. And I look and I'm like, I really don't think you know what I look like. Like I'm not, no hate to this person. I just don't.
36:08 Mary Beth Barone? You either don't know what I look like or you don't know what you look like. Meanwhile, me on the other hand, anytime someone tags me in something saying like
36:14 Benito Skinner? Twin.
36:14 Mary Beth Barone? Total like bullseye.
36:16 Benito Skinner? Shocking. Young girl did her makeup as you and I literally, I said, that's my sister.
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38:51 Mary Beth Barone? Any crimes, really.
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39:56 Mary Beth Barone? Chill restaurants. I have been going out to a lot of dinners lately all across the globe. And I will say that there are restaurants who are sort of, their brand identity is like you walk in and immediately they tell you, so we do things a little differently.
40:13 Benito Skinner? Mm-hmm.
40:14 Mary Beth Barone? And I'm thinking, blow my mind. Tell me how you've reinvented the form of serving food at a restaurant. I can't wait to fucking hear this.
40:22 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
40:23 Mary Beth Barone? And then they say something like, so this is our menu. You're gonna tell me all the food that you want at the same time. That's just better for chef. And so we're gonna put in all the food that you're gonna order. And then we, so we actually bring the food out when it's ready. And then you'll eat it and then you pay the bill and then that's sort of the end of the experience. And I think, huh, I feel like that's sort of how it always goes.
40:47 Benito Skinner? So this is a restaurant?
40:49 Mary Beth Barone? Restaurant? So I'm just like, okay, so yeah, you, we order, we bring it out and we eat it.
40:54 Benito Skinner? Yeah, no, I've done this a couple of times. I'm feeling good about it.
40:57 Mary Beth Barone? We don't need to make it a whole production, a whole dog and pony show. Also, if I get to a reservation five minutes early and I notice there's 27 empty tables and you won't seat me, let me see if the table's ready. I'm looking at it right now and it's ready and I'm so sorry. And I'm not gonna be a bitch to you. I'm gonna just smile and nod and be like, that's so fine. Cause I know you've probably been on your feet all day and I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt. But I will say, it's just like, I think a chill restaurant where you go in, you don't need any explanation. You get the menu, you order, you have that interaction. To me, that's just like, perfect. I don't, the, the meal, I'm going, the meal is secondary to the conversation, to the company I keep.
41:34 Benito Skinner? To the conversation starters that quote-spoke Benny Drama has brought.
41:36 Mary Beth Barone? Is throwing out to the table.
41:38 Benito Skinner? Of course.
41:38 Mary Beth Barone? So I don't need it to be unique or different. Also, I'm like, to me, small plates are not really a vibe that I, I would love to just order my own thing and that's that. We just do it that way.
41:48 Benito Skinner? Well, here's my thing. I'm like, it's just, no matter what, a shared plate situation, we are, we're all cavemen again. It's just like, I'm fighting. It's fight.
41:57 Mary Beth Barone? It was family style last night. Two people, perfect. When we're doing family style, when it's 12 people, eight people, oh my god, my head is spinning. My head is spinning. And just there's certain people that really can't order. And in that case, just bow out of the process. Bow out of the process. Elect somebody at the table to put the order in for the group. Whatever it is, just please, don't embarrass me. Please, all I ask is don't embarrass me.
42:20 Benito Skinner? I just, there's a few things. Thank you so much for bringing this, by the way. I think we can seat the party early is my only thing. Even if we're waiting for somebody.
42:28 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, you know my whole theory with that.
42:30 Benito Skinner? What?
42:30 Mary Beth Barone? One restaurant in New York sat an eight top with one person.
42:34 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
42:35 Mary Beth Barone? Back in the seventies and the other seven people never came.
42:37 Benito Skinner? Oh, yeah.
42:38 Mary Beth Barone? And it is just.
42:39 Benito Skinner? Done.
42:39 Mary Beth Barone? It's urban legend.
42:40 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
42:41 Mary Beth Barone? And they have just said, so we just can't do it anymore.
42:43 Benito Skinner? No fucking way.
42:44 Mary Beth Barone? Sorry, we don't forget. We'll forgive, but we won't forget.
42:46 Benito Skinner? Our hands are tied.
42:47 Mary Beth Barone? And hashtag never again.
42:48 Benito Skinner? Yeah, exactly. And we won't let it happen. So, yeah, that makes sense to me. That's insane. I think if you say you don't want dessert and then when it comes, you take a lot of bites. It's not looking good for you. You're an op, my good sis. You're an op.
43:02 Mary Beth Barone? I mean, yes, you didn't like the first three episodes of overcompensating.
43:04 Benito Skinner? Yeah. Yeah, if you do some shit like that, you've lost my respect in every way. Because you said you didn't want it. And the whole time I'm thinking, I thought you said you didn't want dessert.
43:13 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
43:14 Benito Skinner? And now I'm sitting here with the dessert that I so proudly ordered. I put my heart on the line and I said, I want it. I love this dessert. I'm excited to have it. And you're embarrassed.
43:25 Mary Beth Barone? And yeah.
43:26 Benito Skinner? She doesn't know she never, you never wanted her.
43:29 Mary Beth Barone? And maybe they brought an extra spoon. It should go untouched.
43:32 Benito Skinner? No, that's my second spoon.
43:34 Mary Beth Barone? That's for when I want a new, fresh, clean spoon.
43:37 Benito Skinner? That's when I want that clean metal taste in my mouth. Because the other one got diluted with the gorgeous flavors of the dessert that I proudly ordered.
43:44 Mary Beth Barone? Also, fuck, I, I just want to say one thing, which is that I saw a really funny TikTok the other day that was like, God, I just wish TikTok made people's names more prevalent.
43:53 Benito Skinner? Part of it, they want you to love the app. That's the big thing.
43:56 Mary Beth Barone? She goes, don't invite me to a dinner if you have an eating disorder. Unless, unless it's a binge eating disorder.
44:02 Benito Skinner? Oh, my God.
44:03 Mary Beth Barone? It was really funny.
44:05 Benito Skinner? Oh, my God.
44:05 Mary Beth Barone? I laughed, I had a little laugh. Anyway, go on.
44:07 Benito Skinner? Your article is incredible, by the way.
44:09 Mary Beth Barone? Thank you.
44:09 Benito Skinner? For New York Mag.
44:10 Mary Beth Barone? Thank you so much.
44:10 Benito Skinner? I think if anyone hasn't read that.
44:12 Mary Beth Barone? And I'm sorry, there's a paywall. I didn't, I didn't put it there.
44:15 Benito Skinner? There's a paywall and obviously a trigger warning.
44:17 Mary Beth Barone? I didn't put it there.
44:17 Benito Skinner? It's quite phenomenal.
44:18 Mary Beth Barone? I think Saul that read it.
44:19 Benito Skinner? Quite genius.
44:20 Mary Beth Barone? In the world.
44:21 Benito Skinner? So, oh, my God. This concept is really interesting because it's also, I will say, dinner, yes, aggressive at times. It's breakfast that I find a lot of aggression lately where it's like. Coffee from another place? Leave it outside.
44:34 Mary Beth Barone? Oh my god.
44:35 Benito Skinner? Leave it outside.
44:36 Mary Beth Barone? You know, they tried to ban me from This was so funny. This was actually such a great interaction for me. I ordered a coffee while I was waiting for my table. I ordered a coffee from the, the window. And then when I, I'm choked, I'm getting choked up by this.
44:49 Benito Skinner? Yeah, of course.
44:49 Mary Beth Barone? I went to go then get seated at my table and the woman working there. I can't let you in with outside coffee.
44:54 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
44:55 Mary Beth Barone? I go, oh, it's actually from here. Now take me to my fucking table.
44:59 Benito Skinner? And then you went all on her head.
45:01 Mary Beth Barone? I poured it on her head.
45:01 Benito Skinner? You looked her right in the eye.
45:03 Mary Beth Barone? While we're talking about restaurants, I'm starting a boycott of this venture backed ghost kitchen incubator called Wonder Kitchen.
45:11 Benito Skinner? Oh, was this in our, our deleted episode?
45:13 Mary Beth Barone? Yes, this was.
45:14 Benito Skinner? Oh, this was, so I talked about Carrie Bradshaw.
45:15 Mary Beth Barone? And now I need to talk about Wonder Kitchen.
45:17 Benito Skinner? I also have to shout out Nico. Nico's Wine Shop.
45:20 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, of course, at Nico's Wine Shop.
45:22 Benito Skinner? Nico's Wine Shop is fabulous. I was eating at Dune, which is delicious. And they have, they have an interesting seating arrangement thing, but I'm not mad.
45:29 Mary Beth Barone? They do food the old fashioned, they do restaurants the old fashioned way.
45:30 Benito Skinner? Totally, it's super chill. Is that called Atwater? Am I losing my mind?
45:33 Mary Beth Barone? It's Atwater.
45:34 Benito Skinner? Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, sorry. I don't, me, I live in LA, you don't, and you know that. Atwater, Nico's, oh my god, you're such a darling love. I love my daughter. She brought wine and she goes, I know you hate wine, but here's this one. And it was delicious. I had it at a dinner. Go to Nico's. It's such a, I mean, it's a fabulous place with a fabulous font and a fabulous owner.
45:53 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, I can't wait to go with you.
45:54 Benito Skinner? Benny Dramas, two thumbs, way, way up on Grubhub.
45:57 Mary Beth Barone? So sort of the opposite of a, a woman owned small business that serves wine. Wonder Kitchen, it was started by a venture capitalist who has recently purchased Grubhub as well. So he's just like buying up these.
46:08 Benito Skinner? He's the monopoly man.
46:09 Mary Beth Barone? He's the monopoly man.
46:10 Benito Skinner? I should meet him for Halloween, maybe.
46:11 Mary Beth Barone? Absolutely. So Wonder Kitchen, it is a hub of ghost kitchens, but when you order it online on, on a food delivery app, it doesn't necessarily say it's by Wonder Kitchen. So I ordered a burger from like Baby's Burgers or something and I Googled it to make sure it was real. They had photos of a real restaurant and real burgers. And then when it came to me, it was so clearly that it had been frozen all day and just defrosted by a robot. When you walk into Wonder Kitchen, I believe there's maybe one or two people working in the back, but they don't have anyone in the front. You just order on an iPad. And it is truly food that is prepared that morning in New Jersey, at least the one in Williamsburg. And then it is sent to these various locations and then the food just sits there all day until someone orders it. It's devaluing food in general to me, the experience of eating food. I'm like, it's just slop that arrives and it doesn't taste good. You have to put so much ketchup on it.
46:55 Mary Beth Barone? I will say that some people I know have had okay experiences with the food. If you can order from a locally owned place, a small business, like, please just do that. And like, there's nothing I would love to see more than for Wonder Kitchen to just totally fail because the food is disgusting. It's disgusting and it's not doing restaurants the old fashioned way. It's trying to like AI, like, I don't know. It's just trying to make food like tech and I'm like, I want food to be food.
47:19 Benito Skinner? Well, restaurants old fashioned way also just like want you to have a great time. They're like, come on down. Like, let's just like,
47:24 Mary Beth Barone? It's an experience.
47:25 Benito Skinner? Come on down, let's just shoot the shit, dude.
47:27 Mary Beth Barone? Let's shoot the shit.
47:28 Benito Skinner? That's a big thing. It says that sign.
47:30 Mary Beth Barone? Come on down, let's shoot the shit.
47:31 Benito Skinner? Let's shoot the shit, dude.
47:33 Mary Beth Barone? If the food was cheaper because robots were making it and it wasn't being touched by human hands,
47:37 Benito Skinner? Would make sense.
47:37 Mary Beth Barone? I could sort, it's that's a value product.
47:40 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
47:40 Mary Beth Barone? But it's not. Also, you'll be on there looking at a sushi place and then they'll have mac and cheese and you go, oh, because this is part of Wonder Kitchen. It's all being prepared in the same place. I think it's like tricking people into,
47:49 Benito Skinner? Fusion.
47:50 Mary Beth Barone? It's, but it's not. It's so not. That's what's tough.
47:52 Benito Skinner? Don't be fooled.
47:53 Mary Beth Barone? Don't be fooled.
47:54 Benito Skinner? I know you get excited when you think fusion, but it's not.
47:56 Mary Beth Barone? Don't be a statistic. It's just all being made in the same disgusting commercial kitchen. So I would say boycott Wonder Kitchen, but I love the experience of a restaurant where they're just, it's everything I've come to know and love about eating out and eating at a restaurant. I of course do miss when they used to take the credit card away, do that whole thing. Some restaurants still do that. Now they're bringing over the tap. You tap it.
48:16 Benito Skinner? I don't mind the tap thing. It's very European.
48:19 Mary Beth Barone? I don't like it. I don't like it.
48:19 Benito Skinner? I kind of like it. It would have been better during the more split phase of my twenties, you know, when you're splitting the bill. It is easier to go around.
48:26 Mary Beth Barone? But then I like when they take the card away because then you know to sort of wrap up the conversation.
48:29 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
48:30 Mary Beth Barone? Now it's like they come over, you tap it and you're just like, okay, bye.
48:32 Benito Skinner? Yeah, there is also an awkwardness. Where they do that and then they turn their head when they do the tip?
48:38 Mary Beth Barone? That is such a specific thing to call out and it's so funny.
48:42 Benito Skinner? Do you know what I mean? Where they go boom.
48:43 Mary Beth Barone? Well, they don't want to go, I don't need to see it.
48:44 Benito Skinner? No, it's the ultimate, I don't need to see it.
48:47 Mary Beth Barone? They go, I'm gonna know what you do.
48:48 Benito Skinner? Well, because they can feel the pressure and I know that they're gonna feel the pressure. So I really, on, you know, 25.
48:55 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, you have to.
48:56 Benito Skinner? Sorry. Hey, I'll come out and say it.
48:57 Mary Beth Barone? You'll come out and say it. I want to shout out Borgo. We had a fabulous meal there last night.
49:02 Benito Skinner? Fabulous meal. Z, we love you, Z.
49:04 Mary Beth Barone? Love you.
49:05 Benito Skinner? Oh, my God. I just got asked what I wrote for this morning, which I get asked a lot what I'm writing for.
49:10 Mary Beth Barone? It's like, hi, listen to the podcast.
49:12 Benito Skinner? I'm like, hi, I'm literally just trying to get coffee right now, geek.
49:15 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, you got asked that? I thought you got asked that in an interview.
49:17 Benito Skinner? Well, that too.
49:18 Mary Beth Barone? Okay.
49:18 Benito Skinner? But yeah, just in general, I'm saying I do get asked what I'm writing for a lot. Or people tell me what they're writing for, which really helps me, but sometimes I'm like, I kind of want to steal that.
49:26 Mary Beth Barone? By the way.
49:26 Benito Skinner? Oh, it's an incre- I hope an incredible one, but I think that is really fun. It's like if you were forced to be on a podcast.
49:33 Mary Beth Barone? Monetize the friendship.
49:35 Benito Skinner? Monetize your friendship. What was I gonna say?
49:38 Mary Beth Barone? You got asked what you write for.
49:39 Benito Skinner? I said, taking your bestie out on a date, like it was so hot to dress up for you.
49:44 Mary Beth Barone? It felt good.
49:45 Benito Skinner? Putting on my cute little dress. Hey, cute jeans, take mine off me.
49:49 Mary Beth Barone? Mm-hmm.
49:49 Benito Skinner? Nothing wrong with that.
49:50 Mary Beth Barone? Hey, cute jeans.
49:51 Benito Skinner? Slapping down the Amex and saying, I got this one, babe. You take a load off. You've had a crazy year. You know what you are, Mary Beth?
49:59 Mary Beth Barone? Bisexual?
50:00 Benito Skinner? Well, yeah, but you're also my ride or die. Ride or die.
50:05 Mary Beth Barone? Okay, I just want to get into ride or die because I love and ride for conversation starters. And you just reminded me that I was at a barbecue with a couple of people that I know very well. And then the rest of the people were complete strangers to me. And this one guy mentions offhandedly that he was in the armed forces. Cause he had a psychotic break when he was 16 and I go, let me guess, Marine Corps. Totally nailed it.
50:29 Benito Skinner? Wow.
50:29 Mary Beth Barone? And then he went into his whole origin story of joining the Marine Corps at 16 and then having to literally go, I think to Afghanistan for four years. And I just kept asking him questions, waiting until he got to the point where he goes, just like, I don't want to talk about it anymore. He lit up like a Christmas tree. He was so happy to just talk about it and share, at least that was my perception of it. And we definitely got into, we went into some, you know, dark corners.
50:51 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
50:52 Mary Beth Barone? But I really enjoyed my conversation with him.
50:55 Benito Skinner? Why am I having this? Oh my god. I'm just picturing you listening and every time he talks about something, you go folklore.
51:09 Mary Beth Barone? So specific.
51:11 Benito Skinner? I don't know why. I think I'm just so tired and it's so hot.
51:15 Mary Beth Barone? And so hot.
51:16 Benito Skinner? Just some bimbo girl. He's telling his horrific war story and you keep going folklore. He's like, but I, have I told you this story of one time? My sister and I were back at, we went, we did go to college together. Hi Katie. And we were in Georgetown and we got back from Thanksgiving break a day early. And so I was with one of my friends and he was notoriously a weed guy. It was his entire personality, which you can, you can still do into adulthood. So we did these bong rips together and we went to the zoo in DC. And it was like the, you know, where they light it up for the holidays. Where you know, like where it's.
51:57 Mary Beth Barone? They light up the zoo for the holidays.
51:58 Benito Skinner? They put a bunch of lights on it. But I'm like, I'm sure the animals fucking love that. Like, great. But we go, my sister, I mean, we did like really, really intense. She's completely silent the entire night. Like didn't say a word at all. The next day to me, he goes, dude, your sister's the fucking best. And I, I'm thinking to myself, you loved my sister. She didn't say a single fucking word. And in that moment, I knew straight men.
52:26 Mary Beth Barone? Does not speak to the culture.
52:27 Benito Skinner? Of course. Loud and clear. I got it.
52:30 Mary Beth Barone? Sometimes the most powerful conversation starter is saying nothing.
52:34 Benito Skinner? He's thinking, I want this chick to wake up in my fucking house. She's, fuck, she doesn't say a beep.
52:40 Mary Beth Barone? Silence.
52:41 Benito Skinner? Folklore. He's like, wait, what, what'd you say?
52:45 Mary Beth Barone? I'm talking about the bridge I built in the Middle East. He literally built a bridge.
52:49 Benito Skinner? Jesus.
52:50 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. Anyway, give people space to tell their stories.
52:54 Benito Skinner? I also, I really ride for chill restaurants because I'm also reminded of a time when you asked for a sauce and they go, the chef prefers if you don't, if you don't. And last night I brought that up to you and you go, well, is he here?
53:05 Mary Beth Barone? Bring him out. I would love to have a word. Talk me through your choice.
53:09 Benito Skinner? Tell him why I can't have aioli right now.
53:10 Mary Beth Barone? Give me aioli. What the fuck? Who's eating here? So you make the food, I eat the food. Give me the sauce.
53:18 Benito Skinner? Come on!
53:21 Benito Skinner? Come on, cripples!
53:22 Mary Beth Barone? He just unplugged his headphone to just not talk too much about what they can't see. So, thank you all for, I guess, another what we would call amazing episode of Ride the Podcast.
53:29 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I don't know if these are heritage or something different. I don't know. It's something interesting. But I hope everyone has a chill dinner tonight, full of conversation zingers and politics. We love you so much.
53:45 Benito Skinner? Folklore.
53:46 Mary Beth Barone? That is so funny. The guy did think I was completely insane.
53:52 Benito Skinner? Oh, my exit.
53:53 Mary Beth Barone? Benny, babe, eyes on the road.
53:56 Mary Beth Barone? Benny, go!
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