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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, God. So what? I just wanna have fun. Start your engines. Tighter. I'm Benito Skinner.
0:31 Mary Beth Barone? I'm Mary Beth Barone.
0:33 Speaker 01 And this?
0:33 Mary Beth Barone? Is?
0:34 Speaker 03 Ride.
0:38 Speaker 03 Have you noticed Mary Beth Barone's flat chest? Nobody realized this is the reason Benito Skinner chose Mary Beth Barone over Terrence O'Connor. First, Mary Beth Barone's flat chest may symbolize a kind of neutralized attraction in Benito's eyes. This feature makes him feel like he's still interacting with masculine traits. For Benito, Mary Beth's flat chest provides a sense of security and continuity.
1:00 Mary Beth Barone? Continuity.
1:01 Speaker 03 Avoiding the children having to adjust to female body differences. Second, Mary Beth's appearance in Benito's videos and their interactions have gone beyond ordinary friendship. From sitting side by side to exchanging glances, these details hint at a boyfriend-like intimacy. This public display of closeness may be Benito's way of signaling to the outside world that his emotional focus has already shifted. Finally, Benito's choice was not accident. Mary Beth allowed Benito to quickly find a replacement after the breakup, avoiding an emotional void. More importantly, her presence solidified Benito's image within his social circle, maintaining the narrative consistency of him as the ex-boyfriend. What do you think was the reason Benito Skinner is with Mary Beth Barone?
1:41 Benito Skinner? I like that they posed that question after fully explaining.
1:44 Mary Beth Barone? Every, every aspect of it.
1:46 Benito Skinner? Every detail.
1:46 Mary Beth Barone? Neutralized attraction. Let's talk about the pros of neutralized attraction.
1:49 Benito Skinner? Well, what I love is that they do know that I'm nothing if not consistent.
1:52 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
1:53 Benito Skinner? It's world building, no matter what.
1:54 Mary Beth Barone? And you can keep the status in your friend group because you, I guess, are dating a girl that is sort of somewhat a boy. And so in that way, we're sort of, we're coming full circle. And that is that women that have flat chests are somewhat boys. Gay guys are somewhat girls. And women that have flat chests, any of y'all could date Benito. I just got to him first. Shit, dude.
2:15 Benito Skinner? Yeah, seeing things like that the day after, like one of my least favorite days on earth. Yeah, the simulation is simulating.
2:23 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, I'm like, why am I catching strays?
2:25 Benito Skinner? Well, I knew you would. And here's the thing, I.
2:28 Mary Beth Barone? There are many, many, by the way, not just the one about my flat chest.
2:32 Benito Skinner? Oh, no.
2:33 Mary Beth Barone? Being the reason that we're together.
2:34 Benito Skinner? I know. I can't stress enough, they're right. And I can't believe we got got like this.
2:39 Mary Beth Barone? Called out so fast, like didn't even give us a day to just sort of like have some peace. It's just immediately we're dating and it's because of my flat chest.
2:47 Benito Skinner? Do you know how that gets made? This is what I.
2:50 Mary Beth Barone? Here's what I'm trying to, here's what I'm thinking about doing.
2:53 Benito Skinner? Because also you know that there were ones that did my net worth, but then the guy on the other side was not Terry. So it was like another guy and they would like show our net worth and how over the years mine would grow and the other person's wouldn't.
3:04 Mary Beth Barone? And who's the other person?
3:05 Benito Skinner? No, I swear to God, I don't know who the person was.
3:08 Mary Beth Barone? How much would you pay to hire a private investigator to trace this video back to whoever put in the code into AI to make it? Like, I would pay thousands if anyone has the fucking skill set.
3:20 Benito Skinner? Do I even want to know?
3:21 Mary Beth Barone? No, because.
3:21 Benito Skinner? Do I even want to know the answer?
3:23 Mary Beth Barone? Unknown number, which I haven't watched, but I know the twist. Have you heard about this documentary on Netflix?
3:27 Benito Skinner? No.
3:27 Mary Beth Barone? This girl's getting like relentlessly cyberbullied by an unknown number.
3:30 Benito Skinner? It's her mom.
3:31 Mary Beth Barone? And it turns out to be her mom. So it's like.
3:33 Benito Skinner? That's so us coded.
3:34 Mary Beth Barone? Who is it?
3:36 Mary Beth Barone? It comes back to me.
3:37 Benito Skinner? After all this time, I'm the wizard.
3:39 Mary Beth Barone? You are.
3:40 Benito Skinner? Girl, I'm the wizard of Oz, love.
3:42 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. So that's been interesting. I mean, it's been a crazy year and a lot of messages of support.
3:47 Benito Skinner? AI said, give us.
3:49 Mary Beth Barone? They said, hold my beer.
3:51 Benito Skinner? How long? Nina Drava made that.
3:53 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. No, that actually makes sense. She's mad I got to you first because she is such big bobbies.
3:58 Benito Skinner? She says, what's her does? They're not fresh.
4:01 Mary Beth Barone? Why no one goes to bathroom to touch their bird after they watch Mary Beth Barrow's stories?
4:06 Benito Skinner? Not one person touched their bird after licking its young boy. No one has.
4:10 Mary Beth Barone? Well, it's neutralized attraction.
4:12 Benito Skinner? Well, of course. Yeah. Well, that's I kind of like a neutralized attraction with my partner.
4:17 Mary Beth Barone? To one way or another.
4:19 Benito Skinner? I don't want to be like, no, I don't want to be attracted to you.
4:21 Mary Beth Barone? You don't want to be a horn dog.
4:22 Benito Skinner? Neutralized. I'm kind of thinking that AI spilled because you're kind of a fatty.
4:26 Mary Beth Barone? I'm giving that.
4:27 Benito Skinner? Wait, but the second I walked in here, you did compliment me like I'd like fresh out the gate.
4:31 Mary Beth Barone? Well, I'm trying to win you over.
4:33 Benito Skinner? Well, you did it.
4:34 Mary Beth Barone? When's it gonna happen?
4:35 Benito Skinner? With your gender neutrality.
4:36 Mary Beth Barone? So editing a text message in iMessage, I found out years into the feature being available.
4:41 Benito Skinner? You can see it.
4:41 Mary Beth Barone? You can tap and see what the original message said. That's between me and God. What's the point of having an edit feature if they could see what I wrote before?
4:48 Benito Skinner? They used to do that on Facebook, too. It's like, OK, snitch.
4:52 Mary Beth Barone? What's the, but literally, what's the point? I might as well just like do the like correction and a star.
4:56 Benito Skinner? I think it's so you can't gaslight people. I really do. It's like, I never said that. Go back in the messages and you've edited every single one.
5:03 Mary Beth Barone? Who would do such a thing such as that?
5:05 Benito Skinner? I can think of so many people who would. The list is so long. I.
5:08 Mary Beth Barone? People are cruel then, and it's affecting me because I deserve to be able to do a little typo correction and not have it be like blasted to the world.
5:16 Benito Skinner? People are cruel. 100%.
5:17 Mary Beth Barone? What if I thought of a better way to say it, but it's a crush? And I'm like, fuck, I could edit it. But like, what's the point? Because then he's gonna know I then overthought it. And then it's like.
5:26 Benito Skinner? We're here with Jackson today. Thank God, so I finally feel safe.
5:29 Mary Beth Barone? Thank God we're at Dear Media.
5:30 Benito Skinner? Jackson, I love your mullet, sis. Thank you. I've been trying to grow it out. It's so cutie. God, your voice, sometimes I forget.
5:36 Mary Beth Barone? He missed you. We had another Australian feature on the pod, Rule, of course.
5:40 Benito Skinner? Are you a huge Rule guy? Yeah, I love Rule. I've actually met him once.
5:43 Mary Beth Barone? He's so tall. He's so fabulous.
5:45 Benito Skinner? I asked if he could fight under your video and he said no, which I loved. I love, see, that's that kind of.
5:50 Mary Beth Barone? You know what? I believe that.
5:51 Benito Skinner? So here's my thing.
5:52 Mary Beth Barone? Self-aware queen.
5:53 Benito Skinner? I've been hanging out with a couple of straight guys lately. And what I'm finding is I am completely finally out of pocket. I've found the people I'm out of pocket with. I say whatever I think.
6:03 Mary Beth Barone? Do you want to talk about it?
6:03 Benito Skinner? Well, a little bit because I was. Kai?
6:07 Mary Beth Barone? Kai.
6:08 Benito Skinner? Kai.
6:08 Mary Beth Barone? This is a really good moment, actually.
6:10 Benito Skinner? Yes.
6:10 Mary Beth Barone? So this week, it has been revealed and we're calling it a reveal. I am doing a stand-up special on Netflix. Netflix.com, the website and the app. And Kai Newman is directing. So if you're wondering why Kai's been really in the fold lately, why Kai's been in the ether, that's why.
6:29 Benito Skinner? Well, and that's why I dated you to stay within my, what is it?
6:32 Mary Beth Barone? Social circle.
6:33 Benito Skinner? My social circles.
6:34 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, we'll keep your status within your social circles.
6:36 Benito Skinner? Of course.
6:36 Speaker 05 And, uh, Any Drama Productions.
6:38 Mary Beth Barone? Any Drama producing.
6:40 Speaker 05 Any Drama Productions has arrived at the premiere of Mary Beth.
6:43 Benito Skinner? Netflix special directed by Kai Newman. Me and my team were happy to join and be producers on this one. It's a, I think it's the best hour of stand up I have seen ever. I'm not kidding. It's literally like, I've seen it now probably six times.
6:55 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
6:55 Benito Skinner? I saw it just for laughs.
6:56 Mary Beth Barone? And it's gonna change a bit too. And having said that, it's called Galaxy Brain. The first time I was ever referred to as having a galaxy brain was under a clip where I was talking on this podcast about microwaves. So that has really stuck.
7:08 Benito Skinner? Be careful. As your producer, she's gonna come for residuals.
7:10 Mary Beth Barone? No, for sure. And I'm happy to give her 10, 20, give her 20.
7:14 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I'll give her the 20.
7:15 Mary Beth Barone? And.
7:16 Benito Skinner? Hey, the producer's got this one.
7:17 Mary Beth Barone? You should come to the taping if you live in New York or if you live elsewhere. It is going to be, drumroll please.
7:23 Benito Skinner? Jackson, do a drumroll, sweetie.
7:25 Mary Beth Barone? It's March 19th, 2026 in New York City. So tickets are available through my website and I just can't wait. I'm really proud of it and I can't wait to have it available to like so many new people.
7:36 Benito Skinner? It's fabulous.
7:37 Mary Beth Barone? It's fabulous.
7:38 Benito Skinner? If I had to say one goddamn fucking word, it's fabulous. And I love your outfit for it and I love every joke and every crevice. I love every atom of you.
7:46 Mary Beth Barone? Every little ridge in my brain. So let's talk about Kai quickly.
7:49 Benito Skinner? Let's talk about Kai. Well, this man has got me. He's got me totally weak at the knees. He's got me laughing at dinners and it's so funny. So I was talking to our friend, Pat Regan, who's a writer and overcompensating genius. I assume everyone listening to this has heard of his treatment. Yeah, he's just like, he is the funniest person alive. And so I was talking to him and we were like, okay, yeah, maybe we'll go to this like event. It was kind of like a, it was like a gay guy night of sorts. And I was like, we should do this costume velvet goldmine. We'll wear some boas and it'll be fun. And if anything, we'll mine some stuff for the show. And then Kai texts me, straight man, and he's like, we going to panic tonight? I was like, what? And so then.
8:32 Mary Beth Barone? He knows stuff.
8:33 Benito Skinner? Well, so then I had a chaperone.
8:34 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
8:35 Benito Skinner? And that.
8:37 Mary Beth Barone? Not cutting that.
8:38 Benito Skinner? And you shouldn't. So Kai comes with us. He's dressed as Tinker Bell and I spend the night laughing, shooting the shit with Kai. I mean, he's just, he's, he's just one of those guys. But here's the thing. He makes me laugh. He is definitely a part of the straight guy community that talks about my fitness and my fitness goals a lot, which I love talking about.
9:00 Mary Beth Barone? And your body.
9:01 Benito Skinner? Talks about my body a lot. I'll say it. But he's a generational talent and he's so funny.
9:05 Mary Beth Barone? He's just built different.
9:06 Benito Skinner? We got this.
9:07 Mary Beth Barone? You know what I mean?
9:08 Benito Skinner? We got this, Kev.
9:09 Mary Beth Barone? He's built different.
9:10 Benito Skinner? We have chemistry. I'm not kidding. We have crazy chemistry.
9:12 Mary Beth Barone? I know. And I love to watch that unfold right before my eyes because I did meet you guys at Panic, Panic Room. On Saturday, I went out with straight guys without you, which was obviously really scary.
9:22 Benito Skinner? Well, you know what I told you?
9:23 Mary Beth Barone? What?
9:24 Benito Skinner? I said dinner at six and one too many straight guys, you've lost me. But I'm gonna get a spray tan.
9:28 Mary Beth Barone? They were really sweet, but Kai did compliment my skin. You know what I mean? It's just those little moments where I go, you're just different. You're not like the other girls.
9:37 Benito Skinner? You know what he said to me? He goes, you're what a man should look like. I said, Kai.
9:41 Mary Beth Barone? Hi.
9:42 Benito Skinner? I got little chills down my back.
9:44 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, my God. And yeah, I just, I could, you know, I could go on.
9:48 Benito Skinner? I can imagine all the people in his DMs. We're only making it worse.
9:52 Mary Beth Barone? Let's just say sometimes you have to make sense of your life and you think, maybe everything I've done up to this point is so that I could meet Kai Newman. Do you get that?
9:59 Benito Skinner? Completely agree.
10:00 Mary Beth Barone? Do you understand?
10:01 Benito Skinner? All the roads that led me to Kai Newman. Oh, hey, I'll drive down him again.
10:05 Mary Beth Barone? I would do it a thousand times if you're gonna tell me for Kai.
10:08 Benito Skinner? Yeah. So here's the thing.
10:10 Mary Beth Barone? Kai is gonna be my plus one to some events coming up.
10:12 Benito Skinner? I wonder.
10:13 Mary Beth Barone? I'll say that much.
10:14 Benito Skinner? And me too, girl. Hey.
10:16 Mary Beth Barone? Hey, I'll fight you for it.
10:17 Benito Skinner? Arm wrestle, girl, with your little tat. Here's my thing.
10:20 Mary Beth Barone? Fake, by the way.
10:20 Benito Skinner? I met the apps. I mean, I don't even know what to say, but I met my kids, the emergency intercom kids.
10:27 Mary Beth Barone? To not mention that we finally met Drew and Enya.
10:30 Benito Skinner? Drew and Enya. I want to hold them. I want to kiss them. I did in so many ways. Drew was in a clown costume that had a slit down the back. And I thought, so that's my good fucking sis.
10:41 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
10:42 Benito Skinner? And if you come for him, you come for me, you come for my family. They were. We're just delicious and I want to hold them and they're so cute. But I am kind of like, I, you know, in a way that if I saw them with Jackson, I'd be like, hey, what the fuck's going on here?
10:57 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
10:57 Benito Skinner? So I do want to also just say like, Kai ain't ours.
11:01 Mary Beth Barone? No.
11:01 Benito Skinner? But we will take him as he is whenever we get him.
11:04 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
11:05 Benito Skinner? And we have respect for the space.
11:06 Mary Beth Barone? Absolutely. And it's like, you have to just pay respects to those that were there first.
11:11 Benito Skinner? It's like, hey, can I just say, Greta Titleman introduced me to J R Mendoza. I think her every day of my life.
11:18 Mary Beth Barone? I know you do. You text her every single day. You have a script that runs.
11:21 Benito Skinner? And sometimes I know that other people are gonna go and they're gonna, they're gonna go to daddy and he's gonna get more and more booked.
11:27 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. And that's what you want to see people succeed. So I guess I would just have to say like, thank you for letting us have as much time as you're willing to give.
11:33 Benito Skinner? And we'll give him right back when we're done.
11:37 Mary Beth Barone? So that's what we have to say on that.
11:38 Benito Skinner? Can I say my biggest thing of the past week?
11:40 Mary Beth Barone? I know what you're gonna say.
11:42 Benito Skinner? So I love bees. I love everything about them. I love honey. I love what they do. I love pollination. I think all of it's fantastic. Let me eat my lunch outside.
11:53 Mary Beth Barone? Bees have gotten so aggressive in the past couple of years.
11:55 Benito Skinner? So I am honey, it seems?
11:58 Mary Beth Barone? I said, I want honey. That's bees.
12:00 Benito Skinner? That's bees.
12:01 Mary Beth Barone? That's bees talking about Benny drama.
12:02 Benito Skinner? No, I know. They find me the second I go outside with my big green stinky salad from Goop. And I'm trying to eat and I'm just like, I'm in the writers room. I just want a little air. I just want a little sun on my face.
12:14 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
12:15 Benito Skinner? Feet in the sand.
12:16 Mary Beth Barone? Not gonna happen.
12:17 Benito Skinner? They swarm me. It's the Lady Gaga Wale song. Looking at, looking at, looking at me. Look at that, look at that, they looking at me. Eyes all sticky like honey on bees. Wait, but it's just for my lunch, though. The second I'm done with it, you can go about your days.
12:32 Mary Beth Barone? Here's what I'll say about that because I spent the summer, I spent a lot of time at my parents' house this summer, obviously grieving with my family. And I spent some time at, and Dear Media. I spent, I was laying by the pool. That's where I find my peace is at my parents' pool. Sometimes I bring my laptop out there, even though the screen's reflective and I do a little writing. The peace was interrupted by these bees. And it was like, it didn't matter if I, they were, they were landing on my book. They were swarming my coconut La Croix. God forbid I had any more slow food out there. I mean, they're landing on me. And so there is something you can do that we found out by accident. One time at the pool, we left a shot glass that had a little bit of fireball in it. It was a massacre.
13:15 Mary Beth Barone? There were about 50 dead bees in there. I'm not saying I would do that and we learned a lot, but I'm just saying there's here, I'm saying I wouldn't do it. I'm saying I wouldn't do it.
13:26 Benito Skinner? You're giving them the tools to do it, but you're saying I wouldn't.
13:27 Mary Beth Barone? I'm saying I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't do it. I'm just saying it happened accidentally. So just know that in my mind, and this is what, cause I am a lover, not a fighter and I would never want to, we need bees now more than ever. I mean, that's what I'm being told.
13:38 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
13:39 Mary Beth Barone? Is that I wouldn't do that. Just know that I know a way to fix it and I'm not doing it.
13:43 Benito Skinner? Well, I'm talking to them. It's like, you know how people talk to their dogs? Like Pinky and I have talked at length, ad nauseam about all kinds of things.
13:49 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, for sure.
13:50 Benito Skinner? But I, I'm telling them, I'm like, no, it's all good. Like I'm not going to kill you. I'm not going to do anything. Let me finish my Caesar wrap.
13:57 Mary Beth Barone? You know what I say to them? I go, I see you.
13:59 Benito Skinner? I grabbed.
14:01 Mary Beth Barone? You are seen.
14:02 Benito Skinner? You don't have to do this for any.
14:04 Mary Beth Barone? Hey, hey, hey.
14:05 Benito Skinner? You're enough.
14:06 Mary Beth Barone? You're enough, just as you are.
14:07 Benito Skinner? But also. Fix your eyesight. That's a flower. This is human being. There's no.
14:14 Mary Beth Barone? Whatever you're smelling.
14:15 Benito Skinner? Hey, no nectar on this guy. Well.
14:18 Mary Beth Barone? You are seen and you are loved.
14:20 Benito Skinner? Now go.
14:20 Mary Beth Barone? And I hear you.
14:21 Benito Skinner? And fly.
14:22 Mary Beth Barone? I could ride for events, which I never would have ridden for a year ago or two years ago. No, I'm not, but I'm going to talk about something that happens at events. So when you're at events, you meet peers, you meet heroes, you meet people from every walk of life.
14:34 Benito Skinner? Oh, do you, I mean. I met Hillary Duff. It was explosive. She's perfect. She's actually like my favorite person. And you know who else is Rita Ora and Taika Waititi.
14:42 Mary Beth Barone? And I am not surprised.
14:44 Benito Skinner? I held that man like I held Kai Newman.
14:46 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, no, it was very kind.
14:49 Benito Skinner? They are delicious. I went to this thing alone and I was so nervous and it was.
14:53 Speaker 05 It was folk world.
14:55 Mary Beth Barone? I mean, once again.
14:56 Speaker 05 It was folk world.
14:57 Benito Skinner? I just felt so safe in Taika Waititi's arms. And to me, if you don't clip that, I mean, you're just like, what's even the point at this point?
15:03 Mary Beth Barone? I know they're having fun.
15:05 Benito Skinner? And I felt it in every way. Like, I can't stress enough.
15:08 Mary Beth Barone? Also, body tea. Can we talk about body tea?
15:11 Benito Skinner? There's so much body tea. I've been around such body tea lately.
15:15 Mary Beth Barone? Here's the problem, and this is not about any of the people that you met at that event, because this is about an event that I attended.
15:20 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
15:21 Mary Beth Barone? Sometimes you talk to someone long enough to realize that you don't align with their politics. And it's sort of like, and I hate to bring up The Simpsons, but if anyone is listening with their straight boyfriend.
15:31 Benito Skinner? Principal Skinner, are you kidding? I love The Simpsons.
15:33 Mary Beth Barone? When he sort of backs up into the bush and you just think, so this is the part of the conversation where I leave, because I don't want to know anymore. Up, up, up, up, up. No, no, no, no, no. Let me just, please don't. Really hard, really tough.
15:45 Benito Skinner? It happens sometimes in like doctor's offices or like, I don't know.
15:48 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, just anywhere. It happened to me in the Cayman Islands. I was in the ocean talking to Canadians and they were like, really scary what's happening with the mayoral election in New York. I was like, what is scary about it?
15:57 Benito Skinner? Yeah, yeah, nothing scary about it.
15:58 Mary Beth Barone? Sorry, it's actually not scary. And what the fuck do you care, by the way?
16:01 Benito Skinner? Yeah. And can I just say, take the photo. God damn it.
16:07 Mary Beth Barone? And it can happen at, you know, meeting your boyfriend's family. It's not just like, hey, relatable alert. It's not just at events. Can be at work, can be anywhere. I think sometimes we make people feel comfortable to just say whatever.
16:19 Benito Skinner? Oh, 100.
16:19 Mary Beth Barone? And then.
16:20 Benito Skinner? Your face to me, I'm like, I gotta tell this bitch some crazy shit.
16:23 Mary Beth Barone? And, and fine, but let's like, let's do a little test of the waters first, or check my Instagram.
16:28 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
16:29 Mary Beth Barone? Before you start talking politics with me.
16:31 Benito Skinner? And you also don't have to talk about really any of that with me at an event when you don't know me. You know what I mean? Like, you could have just not also. That's the thing where it's like, are you saying this because you also know it's kind of fucked up? Or do you just want to have one ally? It won't be me, by the way.
16:45 Mary Beth Barone? I think it's an immediate feeling of I'm aligned with this person on so many things. We've talked for seven minutes, seven and a half even. And then they're gonna just insert in something that they think, oh, well, there's no way this person would disagree with that. But you really just don't know. And yeah, it's tough. I don't, I don't want to say anymore, but I feel like just, yeah, tread lightly. I mean, also, it's like, I know that I have the correct opinion. So if I'm not bringing it up, please, God, don't you bring it up.
17:09 Benito Skinner? No, please, honey, don't.
17:11 Mary Beth Barone? Please. I did want to say one more thing before we get into what we ride for.
17:14 Benito Skinner? Yeah, please.
17:15 Mary Beth Barone? I can be mean. When prompted.
17:18 Benito Skinner? Yes.
17:18 Mary Beth Barone? I'm a bitch sometimes, and I have very high expectations for the people around me. Let's move on.
17:23 Benito Skinner? Of course. Remember when you told me that you think I'm meaner?
17:27 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. I was canceled, actually, on the Reddit. People were saying that I seem low key mean, and I'm like, but you're nice?
17:34 Benito Skinner? Well, that's.
17:35 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, but you're coming to the Reddit to comment. And by the way, here's what I want to dispel. If you ever hear a rumor about me being difficult to work with, diva on set, rude? I had my reasons. I would never do that unless it was coaxed out of me, that type of performance.
17:50 Benito Skinner? I know, sweetie.
17:51 Mary Beth Barone? And I just hit the mic.
17:52 Benito Skinner? So this is our land.
17:54 Mary Beth Barone? This is our land. And it's like, you don't have to spread any rumors about me, me, mean. I can be mean sometimes. Who among us doesn't have their moments? I don't care. It's like.
18:03 Benito Skinner? I love this. Wait, I'm seeing this perfect speech for season two.
18:06 Mary Beth Barone? Love me or hate me, it's still an obsession. Love me or hate me, that is the question.
18:10 Benito Skinner? Fuck you.
18:11 Mary Beth Barone? If you love me, well, thank you. And if you hate me, well, then fuck you.
18:14 Benito Skinner? Who is that, by the?
18:14 Mary Beth Barone? Lady Sovereign.
18:15 Benito Skinner? Oh, Lady Sovereign, I forgot about Lady Sovereign. That's good for season two as well. I stand by the thing I said, that you're a baby chihuahua limousine princess.
18:22 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
18:23 Benito Skinner? And I think, I, I think that's the thing. Also, sometimes when people do that, where they're like, you're mean, or you have mean girl energy. I'm like, I want to see you at an airport when your flight's canceled. Because if you're sweet. This I gotta see.
18:36 Mary Beth Barone? I just think it's funny just now because we have a podcast, I can say with no shame that like, yeah, I'm a woman and I'm sexual and I love you.
18:44 Benito Skinner? I'm a bitch.
18:47 Mary Beth Barone? Like she said it.
18:48 Benito Skinner? I'm a mother and I'm a sinner.
18:49 Mary Beth Barone? I'm a saint.
18:51 Benito Skinner? I will not be ashamed.
18:53 Mary Beth Barone? Or something like that. But yeah, like I have, I have a place where I can literally just say like, yeah. And guess what? If you don't want to listen to the podcast anymore because you think I'm mean sometimes.
19:03 Benito Skinner? Can I say?
19:04 Mary Beth Barone? Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.
19:06 Benito Skinner? I wouldn't want it any other way.
19:10 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
19:11 Benito Skinner? I wouldn't.
19:12 Mary Beth Barone? Thank you.
19:12 Benito Skinner? Ice woman.
19:14 Mary Beth Barone? Wait, what is it? Hello Reverend Mosby.
19:17 Benito Skinner? Hello Reverend Mosby.
19:18 Mary Beth Barone? Proud of it babe.
19:20 Benito Skinner? That ice woman.
19:21 Mary Beth Barone? No, is it ice woman?
19:23 Benito Skinner? Those, ship those kids off to boarding school in ten buck two. Should we get into what we're writing for?
19:30 Mary Beth Barone? I think we should.
19:31 Benito Skinner? What are you writing for?
19:32 Mary Beth Barone? I'm writing for Pinky.
19:33 Benito Skinner? Oh God, yes. It's the Pinkerton episode.
19:36 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, this is huge.
19:36 Benito Skinner? And I'm writing for.
19:40 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, writing for.
19:44 Benito Skinner? And that's it. I literally, could you imagine? That's it.
19:47 Mary Beth Barone? You're writing for a sound?
19:48 Benito Skinner? No, I die.
19:49 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, you passed away.
19:50 Benito Skinner? I'm writing for Diet Coke and its constituents.
19:52 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
19:53 Benito Skinner? Is that the, is that a misuse of that word?
19:55 Mary Beth Barone? Well, I don't know what you're talking about, so I'll find out once you start talking.
19:59 Benito Skinner? What does constituents mean?
20:00 Mary Beth Barone? Constituents are like the people in your district that like vote for you. So what do you think it means?
20:07 Mary Beth Barone? What do you think it means?
20:08 Benito Skinner? I've got it. Yeah. I mean, like for me.
20:10 Mary Beth Barone? Like the people, you mean the people that drink it?
20:12 Benito Skinner? No, no. What's so cool is that I completely am saying that constituents are like Coke Zero. And that's it.
20:21 Mary Beth Barone? And then the men's one that they made was the men's one. They made it for men. So is that Coke Zero? So that it was less feminine than Diet Coke?
20:28 Benito Skinner? Is that why they made Coke Zero?
20:30 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
20:30 Benito Skinner? I thought it had less aspartame. That's what I've been telling every person I've met.
20:33 Mary Beth Barone? So what you're saying is that you ride for Diet Coke and it's like off, not offspring, but it's like.
20:40 Benito Skinner? Let's just say I ride for Coke Zero, period.
20:43 Mary Beth Barone? Okay.
20:44 Benito Skinner? Just do that. But I am gonna talk about Diet Coke, which I just chugged. I practically butt-chugged the thing.
20:48 Mary Beth Barone? Well, it's just, it's same person, different con.
20:50 Benito Skinner? Did you laugh at butt-chug, Jackson?
20:52 Mary Beth Barone? I didn't even.
20:53 Benito Skinner? Wow, you missed us.
20:54 Mary Beth Barone? And can I just say, I blew right past it. So you're riding for Diet Coke, Coke Zero?
21:00 Benito Skinner? Yeah, Diet Coke and its constituents. We're keeping all that.
21:02 Mary Beth Barone? Of course.
21:02 Benito Skinner? But you know that it's kind of, I meant like Coke Zero and Diet Coke.
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25:57 Benito Skinner? Who cares? Ride! Can I go first?
25:59 Mary Beth Barone? Absolutely.
26:00 Benito Skinner? So I just took down this sizzling little drink. Ice woman. Here's the thing. I grew up with this ad campaign. Oh, ah, starry eyes, surprise. Summer in the sunrise, dance all night. We're gonna dance all night, dance all night to this DJ. And that girl, in my head, she's in a green tube top.
26:21 Mary Beth Barone? Yep.
26:21 Benito Skinner? And roller skates. And it's the sparkle of Diet Coke. Oh, what? And I'm moving my hips slowly as the TV plays it. And I go, don't fast forward, don't TiVo this. I love this. My mom was a full addict. She would have like for a day of Diet Coke. And I remember at the time, I was young, so I was having like... Coke raw, or as some people say-
26:42 Mary Beth Barone? Every day.
26:43 Benito Skinner? Full fat Coke.
26:44 Mary Beth Barone? Every day.
26:45 Benito Skinner? Every day. Yeah, I mean, it's why, I mean, my teeth were just-
26:49 Mary Beth Barone? We did pizza night on Fridays and we were allowed to have soda then and that's it.
26:52 Benito Skinner? So I keep, I keep surrounding myself with dark haired beauties, I would say, who have the exact same rules.
26:59 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
26:59 Benito Skinner? I was the youngest in my family. It was pretty much just like, let her rip. Like, this kid is gonna watch Real World Boston. Feel strange watching Real World Boston, next, Real World Road Rules.
27:11 Mary Beth Barone? Room Raiders.
27:12 Benito Skinner? Room Raiders. And I was gonna eat kinda whatever the fuck I wanted and definitely take down some soda in a big way. Like, I, I still can't go into a movie theater without having now a Coke Zero, but at the time, a Coke Slushy. I would have a Coke Slushy every time I went to the movies.
27:28 Mary Beth Barone? If I had a Coke Slushy, my heart would stop. I can say that with confidence.
27:31 Benito Skinner? Mine just grows bigger.
27:33 Mary Beth Barone? That's how we're built different. That's how we were made different by God and God's hands.
27:37 Benito Skinner? I know, I can like, I can take sugar.
27:40 Mary Beth Barone? I really can't. I have opened my heart up to soda more lately, which is I'll have a Diet Coke. I used to take 10 years off from soda, as I've talked about on the podcast.
27:48 Benito Skinner? Yeah, of course.
27:49 Mary Beth Barone? Eating disorder mentality, making rules for yourself, that sort of thing. Now, as I am in recovery, I'm trying to allow myself pleasures of life, one of them being a Diet Coke at a dinner. And sometimes then after that, I have to go home, because maybe it's little bubbles in my tummy, but I am trying to enjoy life more.
28:05 Benito Skinner? That makes us so happy and we're happy to have you whenever we get you.
28:08 Mary Beth Barone? As one of Diet Coke's most recent constituents, I would say, like, I'm just happy to be here.
28:13 Benito Skinner? And God, are we lucky. You look good with one kid.
28:17 Mary Beth Barone? Hey, thanks.
28:18 Benito Skinner? I went to play an old man in something one day where I go, you look good, kid. You know what I mean?
28:22 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
28:23 Benito Skinner? And that's my last role.
28:24 Mary Beth Barone? Like the older guy in The Holiday.
28:25 Benito Skinner? Yes. Oh, my God, please. He was like, really fucking old in that. I love him in that. He like, melted me. I was kind of rooting for them more than I was her and Jack Black at times, which is kind of a hot take, but-
28:36 Mary Beth Barone? Hey, save it for the holiday episodes. What'd you kid?
28:39 Benito Skinner? Can't wait. Yeah, so this was like a part of my childhood or whatever. Like I just, my mom and her Diet Coke, it was chic. I loved it. It was her thing. I loved Coke.
28:47 Mary Beth Barone? With a straw mask?
28:48 Benito Skinner? My mom, I think, would put it, she would put it into like a bigger cup with a ton of ice.
28:52 Mary Beth Barone? Cool.
28:52 Benito Skinner? People are so stingy with ice lately. I don't know what's going on.
28:55 Mary Beth Barone? Well, it's, it was crisis.
28:56 Benito Skinner? It's a crisis, like especially in Toronto. I remember just being like, I'll beg. Like if you want me to beg, I'll beg. And I have that in Europe sometimes too. Travel privilege, of course. Goes without saying. And New York sometimes is less on the ice. LA is like, here's a full thing of ice. And I love that.
29:11 Mary Beth Barone? And that's dinner for a lot of people here.
29:13 Benito Skinner? Of course, of course. And lunch. But I love at a movie theater, it's kind of that choose your own adventure. Like I want to be in control of the ice, I'd say, because I know just the right amount.
29:23 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
29:24 Benito Skinner? Just the right amount. So obviously a huge fan of the Coke brand.
29:28 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, I forgot to say pool privilege when I was talking about my parents' house.
29:31 Benito Skinner? Oh, good. Yeah, yeah.
29:31 Mary Beth Barone? So I just want to get that in there.
29:32 Benito Skinner? Of course. I mean.
29:34 Mary Beth Barone? And thank you. And can I just say?
29:35 Benito Skinner? They would have.
29:36 Mary Beth Barone? Thank you.
29:36 Benito Skinner? They would have come for this bitch over here for that.
29:38 Mary Beth Barone? My parents have a pool.
29:38 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
29:39 Mary Beth Barone? And thank you.
29:40 Benito Skinner? Thank you. Sorry. And thank you. Thank you really stuck with you.
29:45 Mary Beth Barone? Well, just the line read of, and can I just say, thank you about come on, Kirk punk?
29:52 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
29:52 Mary Beth Barone? It's a favorite of mine.
29:53 Benito Skinner? I've never seen something more in my life or been yelled at more in my life than that little, little phrase. So I guess I'll just say one more time.
30:04 Mary Beth Barone? Thank you.
30:05 Benito Skinner? Okay, so we get it all the way up to college and I'm still like practically butt chugging this Coke. Like I guess.
30:11 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, just get Jackson on that one more.
30:13 Benito Skinner? Jackson, I cannot.
30:15 Mary Beth Barone? We haven't been here in a while.
30:16 Benito Skinner? See, this is kind of like.
30:17 Mary Beth Barone? He's missed us.
30:18 Benito Skinner? He doesn't know that if someone giggles, it's like, well, I'm locking in. I'm saying it five more times. This is huge. No, he won't. You just cut on. Okay, so like I'm, and I thought, I just don't really like the taste of Diet Coke. That was my big thing. I don't like the taste of Diet Coke. Then in the last few years, I'm like, oh, it's just like a lot of sugar. And I just like, I don't know. I'm like, I gotta, I gotta be thoughtful of this. My grandma had diabetes and like, I just, I'm like trying to be less sugar obsessed. I mean, I'm taking it down still in a way.
30:47 Mary Beth Barone? Sugar centric.
30:48 Benito Skinner? Sugar centric. Whoa, my memoir.
30:51 Mary Beth Barone? Whoa.
30:51 Benito Skinner? Hello. So I start drinking Diet Coke. And after probably the 50th one, I was like, I think I really fuck with the taste. And I think I need one right now.
31:04 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
31:04 Benito Skinner? And if you squeeze a lemon in it, the chills down my back when I have that first sip. And to get a little caffeine later in the day.
31:12 Mary Beth Barone? Can I just say?
31:14 Benito Skinner? But then I go to Europa. I go to Canada even. And Diet Coke is not as common there as I thought it would be. Instead, it's this crazy little hussy known as Coke Zero. And my God, does she have me by the balls. It's just a little better.
31:32 Mary Beth Barone? Different.
31:32 Benito Skinner? It's different. It just tastes different. Like I just know. And it's like, if you get a crisp Coke Zero or, oh my God, God willing, you get a Coke Zero in a glass bottle.
31:43 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
31:43 Benito Skinner? What it, and by the way, of course, this is unpaid.
31:46 Mary Beth Barone? Well, yeah, I didn't even think we were gonna say it.
31:48 Benito Skinner? Cool privilege and this is not paid.
31:50 Mary Beth Barone? And on the, I am going to talk about Pepsi just to, cause fair and balanced.
31:53 Benito Skinner? Pepsi's Pepsi.
31:54 Mary Beth Barone? Pepsi.
31:54 Benito Skinner? My favorite.
31:55 Mary Beth Barone? For those who think young.
31:55 Benito Skinner? I'm gonna talk, yeah, I'm gonna talk about Pepsi.
31:57 Mary Beth Barone? Cause I'm a Pepsi fan, I'm in a Pepsi family. My mom's a Pepsi girl, Diet Pepsi.
32:01 Benito Skinner? No fucking way. You're a Pepsi house.
32:04 Mary Beth Barone? We are a Pepsi household.
32:05 Benito Skinner? Whoa. I mean, I, someone asked recently, do you want Pepsi Zero? And I went, that's so cool that they didn't even try to make it sound different.
32:11 Mary Beth Barone? No, why would they?
32:12 Benito Skinner? It's just Pepsi Zero. Like they're like, we did the same fucking thing. Enjoy it.
32:15 Mary Beth Barone? Hey, we saw it worked. We love what you guys did there.
32:17 Benito Skinner? Pepsi is different and I can taste the difference, but I like it too. And if it's there, of course I say, bring it.
32:22 Mary Beth Barone? Bring it.
32:23 Benito Skinner? So fine.
32:23 Mary Beth Barone? Yep.
32:24 Benito Skinner? And hey, don't apologize.
32:25 Mary Beth Barone? Equal opportunist.
32:26 Benito Skinner? Hey, of course.
32:27 Mary Beth Barone? Soda.
32:27 Benito Skinner? Always. So I find Coke Zero. The way I would take these down on set as a midday treat. One day on set, Owen Thiel and I, I don't think anyone knows this about overcompensating. Owen Thiel, we didn't have for that many days, just because obviously he was shooting adults. He was about to shoot adults and like, just, you know, it was very tricky to make sure that we had Owen as much as we wanted to have Owen, which was like, we need one even more of him. So we shot all the bodega scenes for the entire series in one day. And so it's just me and him in that bodega for like 14 hours. And then this time hits and it's like 8:00 PM. And we're about to do, I think, the last one, which, oh, it's the end of episode six,
33:11 Benito Skinner? the Edge of Glory sequence, which I love. And we're like, it's a little flirty and just like, and it's just cute. And I look at Owen and I go, there's a McDonald's down the block. There's McDonald's down the block. And he looked at me and goes, Diet Coke?
33:24 Mary Beth Barone? Wow.
33:24 Benito Skinner? Let me one up you, my good sis.
33:26 Mary Beth Barone? And you guys said this all without speaking, just looking at each other.
33:29 Benito Skinner? Of course.
33:30 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
33:30 Benito Skinner? And I'm not kidding. Like, I could have, and he would have been like, yeah, that's what I asked for. I got us the biggest Coke Zeros. And then it was like, everyone around was like, I need one. So then I just kept getting everyone these, everyone on set had these absolute goblets of Coke Zero. We nailed the scene. It just brought us all together.
33:50 Mary Beth Barone? It's a little boost. It's a little treat.
33:51 Benito Skinner? So what I can also say is like, it's a great way to bond with a bestie is to get the biggest Coke Zero you can. I also really recommend them before a night out. You Miss Social Chair had thrown a party at your place for the whole cast. And I, I love that in your place, it's like an extended stay hotel.
34:09 Mary Beth Barone? A one bedroom apartment.
34:11 Benito Skinner? But you, you turned it out.
34:12 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, I'm so lonely in my mansion. That's me. That's me in, in Yorkville.
34:17 Benito Skinner? Right? Yeah, yeah, wait.
34:19 Speaker 05 Babe, I'm so lonely in my mansion.
34:22 Mary Beth Barone? Lonely in my mansion.
34:23 Benito Skinner? I love her riffs. Delicious. But on the way to it, I thought, oh my God, I'm like a little tired. And I got a massive Coke Zero and I came right to yours and I was good for the whole night.
34:32 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, those are fun nights.
34:33 Benito Skinner? What I've always, I think, been a proponent for on this pod, what's always been very important to me is giving yourself just a little fucking treat. It really do just be the little things. And I'm finding that recently. It's just nice to go for a walk, put in Lord and get yourself a Diet Coke, Coke Zero and maybe a Diet Pepsi even. What Addison Rae did for them. And I think also Brittany, I mean, when Brittany was the Pepsi Girl.
34:57 Mary Beth Barone? Huge contract. Monster contract.
35:00 Benito Skinner? I mean, unbelievable contract. Like the choreography she had in those Pepsi ads, like it was insane. And that interview where she's like Pepsi's Pepsi. What kind of Pepsi? I like Pepsi's Pepsi. I knew what she meant.
35:10 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
35:10 Benito Skinner? Absolutely.
35:11 Mary Beth Barone? It's like when Harry Styles said, well, it's a movie that you see at the movies. It's like a movie.
35:15 Benito Skinner? Exactly.
35:16 Mary Beth Barone? Like, don't act like you don't know what he's talking about.
35:17 Benito Skinner? I completely get it.
35:18 Mary Beth Barone? Come on.
35:19 Benito Skinner? I remember, I cheated on Coke during that time because of it. I was just so.
35:24 Mary Beth Barone? Cause you were brand loyal.
35:25 Benito Skinner? Well, brand loyal to Brittany. I was like, whatever she's supporting, I have to, you know, I gotta put more cash in her pocket.
35:30 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
35:31 Benito Skinner? And I still think that.
35:32 Mary Beth Barone? I do think it's like, everything in moderation, of course.
35:35 Benito Skinner? Okay. So what we want to say is everything in moderation, of course.
35:38 Mary Beth Barone? Of course. And I think having these little treats for yourself. Right now, we're living in a time when we need to cope constantly. We are in a constant state of coping with the world, our day to day lives, interpersonal relationships, every aspect, it's just coming at us from all directions. So I think any way that you have to cope is so important. And that can be just as simple as going to the bodega, getting a Coke for 12, 13, $14, however much they cost. It's very, how much does a banana cost, Michael? $10? I think prices are going up, but it's never going to be too much where you can enjoy an ice cold diet soda.
36:13 Benito Skinner? And just to anyone watching, I'm realizing it's a scab on my lip. I cut my lip. So if you've wondered the whole time, does he have chocolate cake off to the side? Maybe, but it's actually a scab.
36:23 Mary Beth Barone? It's a scab.
36:24 Benito Skinner? Yeah. Thank you for saying that about Diet Coke and Coke Zero. To me, you're Diet Coke. To me, I'm Coke Zero.
36:30 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
36:31 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
36:32 Mary Beth Barone? It's that neutralized attraction.
36:34 Benito Skinner? It's neutralized attraction. AI spilled with that. Also, we have to shout out Amber Bain of The Japanese House also caught the stray.
36:42 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, she was the first.
36:43 Benito Skinner? She was pointed out first as being flat chested.
36:47 Mary Beth Barone? Because they thought it was me.
36:48 Benito Skinner? Two of, can I just say two of the hottest people I know in the world? So happy to share that AI video with both of you.
36:54 Mary Beth Barone? Just as a little segue, Amber Bain, of course, has a song about her dog, Joni Jones. And when I realized it was a song about a dog, that just touched me in such a special place in my heart. Because I often think about writing songs about Pinky, which is who I'm going to be writing for today.
37:11 Benito Skinner? You gotta do, make a record.
37:12 Mary Beth Barone? I might make a record. It's just all songs about my dog.
37:15 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
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40:53 Benito Skinner? Of course. They have them in hospitals.
40:54 Mary Beth Barone? They do. What I didn't know.
40:56 Benito Skinner? That's my big statement of the day. They have them in hospitals. You hear that, Jackson?
41:00 Mary Beth Barone? What I didn't know is that dogs are calming. Puppies actually cause stress.
41:07 Benito Skinner? Yes.
41:07 Mary Beth Barone? But I found that out very late into the process, which was, of course, six months into having a puppy. I reached out to Waggy Tail's Rescue when I decided it was time. I was ready to get a dog. And this is coming from someone who had previously been obsessed with bleep it, not having pets.
41:22 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
41:22 Mary Beth Barone? That was an obsession of mine.
41:23 Benito Skinner? Well, at the time, hey, is everything not just a reflection of the time?
41:27 Mary Beth Barone? Well, every day is a winding road. I also rode for changing your mind.
41:29 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
41:30 Mary Beth Barone? So I decided it was time for me to get a dog.
41:32 Benito Skinner? You've been playing sick mind games with our listeners.
41:35 Mary Beth Barone? Hey, hey, can I say?
41:36 Benito Skinner? Have I ever said our listeners?
41:37 Mary Beth Barone? Try to keep up. Try to keep up.
41:39 Benito Skinner? Hey. I'm trying.
41:40 Mary Beth Barone? So I reach out to Waggy Tales. I tell them I'm interested. I fill out the application. I'm approved. And they said, we have 40 dogs coming from Tijuana to New York City. We'll send you photos of all of them once we get them and you can pick the one that you want. Well, you have to send three that you wanted. So I'm at the Olivia Rodrigo concert when the email comes in with the grid of dogs.
42:00 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
42:00 Mary Beth Barone? And I see this dog and she is so stinking sassy. She was doing like total blue steel to the camera in this photo.
42:08 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
42:08 Mary Beth Barone? And it's just said baby four. Actually, no. It said on the grid, baby four. And she's giving this sort of coy little look.
42:14 Benito Skinner? And she still does.
42:15 Mary Beth Barone? And I said, that's my dog.
42:16 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
42:17 Mary Beth Barone? And I said, I didn't know if it was a boy or girl. I really wanted a girl dog. So I emailed back and I said, baby four is my top choice. So yeah, let me know. It's sort of the deets and if that's the one that I can have. And they got back to me and it was a girl and she was three pounds and her name at the time was Matilda. And these photos just like melted my heart. So I went, it was almost like back to school shopping. Like you go get all the materials that you need for this little creature that's gonna like totally change your life. So the day that she came to New York, I went to the East Village. I got her. And I've never smelled anything worse than the smell that was coming out of that van because it had 40 dogs in crates in it. So I decided to take her immediately up to Midtown where my mom was getting her haircut.
42:56 Benito Skinner? Quickly, let me raise you Idaho football locker room.
42:59 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, so I've never smelled some shit like that.
43:02 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
43:02 Mary Beth Barone? So I brought her up to the hair salon. We put her in the sink where they wash hair and we washed her. And her skin, you could see through her white fur. My mom said, I think we should name her Pinky. And so it's Pinky in the brain, but also Pinky was my nickname when I was little. My dad used to call me Pinky because I only wanted to wear pink. So yes, I did name my dog after myself. And that's some legends only shit.
43:24 Benito Skinner? Let me introduce you to my poodle, Drama.
43:27 Mary Beth Barone? Drama. So Pinky, wow, the first few months were really, really hard.
43:33 Benito Skinner? I was there.
43:33 Mary Beth Barone? I mean, the first year was hard.
43:34 Benito Skinner? I was there. It was rare.
43:36 Mary Beth Barone? Crate training, potty training in an apartment building, just dealing with like the chaos of having a puppy. I also had so much paranoia about being a bad dog mom that I would like play with her for too long where she would get so tired. And then that's when they start biting you. She had razor Sharp teeth, but I know what type of parent I would be if I had kids. Cause when she pooped in her crate, I was like, she's just expressing herself creatively.
43:55 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
43:56 Mary Beth Barone? You know, and I just would, I just know I would always defend my kid.
43:59 Benito Skinner? She's figuring it out.
44:00 Mary Beth Barone? She's just like, let her fucking do her process.
44:02 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
44:02 Mary Beth Barone? But it was really, really tough and it was hard sometimes, you know, especially when we were on set.
44:07 Benito Skinner? There was one day in particular, I believe.
44:09 Mary Beth Barone? Where she.
44:10 Benito Skinner? Took a shit in my trailer.
44:11 Mary Beth Barone? And peed.
44:11 Benito Skinner? Yeah, and peed.
44:12 Mary Beth Barone? Peed and pooped in your.
44:13 Benito Skinner? Within seconds.
44:14 Mary Beth Barone? In your trailer.
44:14 Benito Skinner? But to me, I think I realized who I was as a parent, cause I thought, that's so cool.
44:18 Mary Beth Barone? It was very letting water dry, cause I just cleaned it up and you didn't, you weren't mad.
44:22 Benito Skinner? Well, of course not.
44:22 Mary Beth Barone? It was very cool.
44:23 Benito Skinner? The door's open.
44:24 Mary Beth Barone? It was so Megan Draper of you.
44:25 Benito Skinner? Oh, God.
44:26 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, God.
44:26 Benito Skinner? Well, of course. No, but I just remember being like, yeah, I mean, my baby girl's comfortable. She's with daddy and like, I just took a nap. So how could I care about anything right now? And.
44:35 Mary Beth Barone? And having a dog has changed my life in so many ways. There, there was a lot that I learned on Reddit.
44:39 Benito Skinner? Changed my life.
44:40 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, I mean, she's a wonderful dog.
44:42 Benito Skinner? With this dog.
44:43 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
44:43 Benito Skinner? She sees me.
44:44 Mary Beth Barone? I know. But I went on Puppy 101 for a bit and I found out about the Puppy Blues, which is where there's like several points in having a puppy where you think you've like, totally ruined your whole life and made a huge mistake. You just have to push through. We had some like moments where we had to really dig in on the training aspect and, and setting firm boundaries. She's still crate trained and I'm really proud of my girl. What I also found out is that every dog has behavioral issues, most dogs, probably 99%. And it's just like a roll of the dice, which one your dog is gonna have. So Pinky is resource guarding, so sometimes she'll get really feisty if there's like food around and there's another dog. So we just avoid that stuff, but it's really just like managing your dog. I also have a nanny for Pinky, nanny privilege. I have so much separation anxiety and guilt that I am a working mom, a single mom, and I would never, ever equate.
45:29 Benito Skinner? Single mom who works two jobs.
45:32 Mary Beth Barone? Two jobs, but I have seven jobs. And I would never equate having a dog with having kids. I'm like dog mom. I don't think that they're equally as hard or anything.
45:38 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
45:39 Mary Beth Barone? It's very much a she rescued me situation and I'm really glad I got her like, so she was old enough when the election happened that she was just a comfort to me and not stressful.
45:47 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
45:47 Mary Beth Barone? Because like I've really needed that, especially this year with everything that's happened to me.
45:51 Benito Skinner? I'm so glad you have Pinky.
45:52 Mary Beth Barone? I also wanted to say that I did, that after I got dumped, I went to Pilates that day.
45:57 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
45:57 Mary Beth Barone? And that was for Pinky.
45:58 Benito Skinner? Of course.
45:59 Mary Beth Barone? You know, and that was for all the girls out there.
46:01 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
46:02 Mary Beth Barone? That I've had to go through some shit like that and just like show up.
46:04 Benito Skinner? Well, you can let down your Pilates instructor.
46:06 Mary Beth Barone? I love her.
46:07 Benito Skinner? Show up.
46:07 Mary Beth Barone? I love her.
46:08 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
46:08 Mary Beth Barone? And so Pinky's really been there for me and I think like she is just so goddamn cute. The face card is lethal.
46:15 Benito Skinner? Face card is crazy. She's brawny. Like she's got these shoulders on her.
46:18 Mary Beth Barone? She's masculine and feminine.
46:19 Benito Skinner? And now you know why I'm, now you know why I'm completely, I mean, she's got my jaw on the floor. But I do this thing where right behind her, oh my God, I'm talking about my girl. I'm talking about my baby girl. Me and her lately are connecting in a way that's like, she's locked in with me.
46:34 Mary Beth Barone? Well, it's very like, I'm not the stepdad, I'm the dad who stepped up.
46:38 Mary Beth Barone? Cause she's had two dads already and it's like.
46:40 Benito Skinner? I know. And she goes, finally, this one's gonna stick.
46:42 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
46:43 Benito Skinner? Cause she knows, and I've been, I mean, I'm doing my rotations, but I, she, oh my God, we had this terrible night out. Got home, we've already talked about it. She gets on my chest and I just start rubbing right behind, like, I guess it would be on her shoulders. Her head, her neck curls back. She goes.
46:59 Mary Beth Barone? She puts on a Joker smile.
47:00 Benito Skinner? It's crazy. Why so serious?
47:02 Mary Beth Barone? I have a really good picture of her doing a Joker smile that I'll finally post. Cause we never talked about it.
47:06 Benito Skinner? I just worked her shoulders.
47:08 Mary Beth Barone? And you put her in your shirt sometimes.
47:09 Benito Skinner? I love putting her in my shirt. Well, it's skin to skin contact. You're supposed to do that as a father.
47:12 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
47:13 Benito Skinner? So why wouldn't I?
47:14 Mary Beth Barone? So I did think she was gonna be six pounds total. She is 16 pounds, but she flies with me. She is.
47:20 Benito Skinner? I wouldn't want her smaller, can I say?
47:21 Mary Beth Barone? I thought it would be cool to have a dog I could put in a bag, but she had her own ideas about what her life would be. And we are so similar. We really, we are moody. We are demanding. We wanna be scratched and tickled.
47:33 Benito Skinner? Sexual, I'll say.
47:34 Mary Beth Barone? Sexual. She has a very, she has a lot of energy in that department.
47:38 Benito Skinner? Yeah, she does.
47:38 Mary Beth Barone? And having something else to take care of, it's what I want.
47:42 Benito Skinner? Both love Benny Drama. Jesus Christ.
47:44 Mary Beth Barone? And we're both huge fans.
47:45 Benito Skinner? Get off the guy.
47:45 Mary Beth Barone? Of the work. She's seen the show a lot. And so, yeah, it was, it was hard to tell her when my last relationship failed, but I just, it's, it is what it is.
47:55 Benito Skinner? It's all a part of her story and I think she gets that.
47:58 Mary Beth Barone? And just to think about a little puppy on the streets of Tijuana that now is a big city dog and she's just living large. And like, I spoil her because I love her.
48:07 Benito Skinner? Very Marissa Cooper in a way.
48:08 Mary Beth Barone? She was, yeah. And we played, when I brought her home, I played Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley. And so, very cinematic.
48:15 Benito Skinner? Jackson, silent.
48:16 Mary Beth Barone? It's never a good time to get a dog, probably. So just, just dive in headfirst. There's tons of rescues. Yeah, I just, I mean, I love her so much and she is like. Such an important presence in my life. Like, I'm just so happy.
48:29 Benito Skinner? And yes, everyone, so the overalls, I did get them for a six pound dog, not a 16 pound dog. So we are working on getting a different size. It's, it is what it is.
48:39 Mary Beth Barone? Pinky at the airport, it's like I'm walking around with like Mickey Mouse, you know, like everyone wants to pet her and everyone's so happy she's there. I think putting in the time early on to make her be a good dog, she's not perfect.
48:48 Benito Skinner? When she grows up and hears all this, it's gonna mean so much to her.
48:52 Mary Beth Barone? Oh my God, I just love her. I just love her.
48:56 Benito Skinner? No, I do too.
48:56 Mary Beth Barone? And again, I want someone to talk to me, how I talk to Pinky.
48:59 Benito Skinner? You don't have her here with you right now, do you?
49:00 Mary Beth Barone? No, she's with the, she's with the nanny, my fabulous nanny.
49:03 Benito Skinner? God, I need her.
49:04 Mary Beth Barone? Sasha. So yeah, when I come home with Pinky, I'm, I'm nuzzling in her neck. I'm telling her how special she is, how much I love her, how much she makes my life better. I just, yeah, it would be cool for someone to feel that way about me.
49:18 Mary Beth Barone? Maybe one day.
49:19 Benito Skinner? I think so.
49:20 Mary Beth Barone? And I feel, I feel like a rescue puppy.
49:24 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
49:24 Mary Beth Barone? In dating, I'm like, I've been through so much trauma.
49:27 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
49:27 Mary Beth Barone? And I just need someone that makes me feel safe. So I'm not shaking in the corner. Cause that's kind of what it feels like sometimes. Should we get into ride or die?
49:35 Benito Skinner? You know, I'm here to hold you.
49:36 Mary Beth Barone? I know, and I'm so grateful.
49:37 Benito Skinner? Very much in the same way I hold Pinky.
49:38 Mary Beth Barone? Beautiful, full life.
49:39 Benito Skinner? Skin to skin contact. I love putting you in my shirt whenever you need me to.
49:42 Mary Beth Barone? And it's, cause it's so billowy.
49:44 Benito Skinner? It's crazy. How many hotel rooms have we cried together in?
49:48 Mary Beth Barone? A lot. And Pinky's there now, which is really cool.
49:51 Benito Skinner? It's so cool. She gets to see that.
49:52 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
49:53 Benito Skinner? Yeah. I love holding you though. You're both my little Chihuahua limousine princesses.
49:58 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. And, and hey, we're happy.
49:59 Benito Skinner? What a gift. You know what you are, Mary Beth?
50:02 Mary Beth Barone? Bisexual?
50:03 Benito Skinner? Well, yeah, but you're also my ride or die. Ride or die. I ride and die for Pinky. I would do anything for that dog. She is my princess. She tested me on set, but in ways that I didn't know a man like me could be tested in these ways. You know, when she knocked over that camera, I think it was a good lesson and could anything matter less.
50:24 Mary Beth Barone? But also it was good for me to be like, I do need to get this dog in check.
50:27 Benito Skinner? Of course.
50:28 Mary Beth Barone? And sometimes it's just, you gotta leave her home.
50:30 Benito Skinner? Yeah. And I, and can I just say, I know for a fucking fact that my bestie, bestie Barone is not putting her dog shites in an empty garbage can.
50:39 Mary Beth Barone? Never. I, I always check.
50:40 Benito Skinner? To be put back in the home.
50:42 Mary Beth Barone? I always check.
50:42 Benito Skinner? What I have to remind again, it's that it goes back into the garage and then the garage smells like shit because the bags you use are not good. They're not the ones. Those green ones are not doing it. They're not enough. My garage still smells like zuki.
50:55 Mary Beth Barone? Zuzu.
50:55 Benito Skinner? Fuck you.
50:56 Mary Beth Barone? You know what? That's not gonna be a problem in New York.
51:00 Benito Skinner? Never a good time to move, but it is what it is.
51:02 Mary Beth Barone? I'm really glad that you and Pinky have this bond because it's obviously so important to me.
51:06 Benito Skinner? Of course.
51:06 Mary Beth Barone? And she just fucking loves you so much. Like when you come over, you see her whole butt, her whole back half of her body's bagged. She does a wiggle butt.
51:14 Benito Skinner? She knows daddy Warbucks has come through to like check on his princess.
51:18 Mary Beth Barone? I sent her to a camp for training and I just have to read you what they wrote in her like, you know, daily summary.
51:24 Benito Skinner? Yeah, of course.
51:24 Mary Beth Barone? It was so fucking cute.
51:26 Benito Skinner? Can't wait to have her on set. She can be on set every day.
51:28 Mary Beth Barone? I'll post it. She is gonna be a, a full onset dog this time.
51:31 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
51:31 Mary Beth Barone? I'll post what her report card said at camp.
51:34 Benito Skinner? And you have to post at least the close up of her costume. Maybe we can edit out where she goes.
51:40 Mary Beth Barone? Also, one time I did get an email from her daycare and the subject was Pinky's behavior.
51:45 Benito Skinner? So, reputation.
51:47 Mary Beth Barone? I had a meltdown. This was so long ago though.
51:50 Benito Skinner? Reputation.
51:51 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
51:52 Benito Skinner? Pinky's behavior. You walked in flustered. What did you do now to embarrass us?
51:57 Mary Beth Barone? What?
51:58 Benito Skinner? What did you do now to embarrass us?
52:01 Mary Beth Barone? I ride for Diet Coke and Coke Zero and its constituents. It's many millions of constituents.
52:05 Benito Skinner? Huzzah.
52:06 Mary Beth Barone? Huzzah. I love having a little comfort. I love giving yourself a little treat. You love like bubbly drinks and it's just such like a, it's such like a...
52:14 Benito Skinner? It's because I'm sparkly.
52:15 Mary Beth Barone? It's a cornerstone of your personality. It is. It's your effervescence.
52:18 Benito Skinner? Thank you.
52:18 Mary Beth Barone? So I just know when I sit down at a table, if you're not there yet, I'm ordering a flat, a tap water for me in many ways and then a sparkling water for you.
52:25 Benito Skinner? I find it so unbelievably hot when someone goes, I already ordered you the sparkling water. I went.
52:33 Mary Beth Barone? And can I say one thing?
52:35 Benito Skinner? What?
52:35 Mary Beth Barone? When you order a Diet Coke at the table, you empower everyone else at that table to also order a Diet Coke.
52:42 Benito Skinner? Can I just say, I'm literally both shoes on the fucking seat. I don't care. It's your media.
52:48 Mary Beth Barone? These are Rinnit.
52:50 Benito Skinner? I'm, these are Rinnit. I...
52:53 Mary Beth Barone? One day we'll tell you guys about my Jennifer Hudson impression in Sex and the City movie, but we did cut it. We will be doing it in season six.
53:01 Benito Skinner? It, it would get cut in somewhere else. Diet Coke, pass it on. What you do to a table, if you order that shit, it's like an espresso martini. The whole table's a buzz.
53:12 Mary Beth Barone? Have you heard of the term vibe shift?
53:15 Benito Skinner? You know vibe shift?
53:16 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, you're fluent in vibe shift?
53:18 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
53:18 Mary Beth Barone? Shift the vibe at that table.
53:20 Benito Skinner? People don't know that after you have your first cocktail, you can have a Diet Coke after to give you a little caffeine and a boost before you hit your second drink. And that's where I am built different. I don't abide by these rules. Sometimes like, you know, oh, God.
53:32 Mary Beth Barone? Smash the patriarchy. Do what you wanted at dinner. Except don't be awkward and weird. You know, like, don't get so drunk that the dinner is weird.
53:40 Benito Skinner? Yeah, if you're weird when you're drunk, like.
53:42 Mary Beth Barone? Stop drinking, yeah.
53:44 Benito Skinner? One drink, one water. What has daddy always said?
53:47 Mary Beth Barone? One drink, one water.
53:47 Benito Skinner? You're being so fucking weird.
53:48 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
53:49 Benito Skinner? I will say, people are really strange to single people. And I am so sorry. Because I never really knew. But now I've been knew and I'm, I am, oh my God.
54:04 Mary Beth Barone? Next week, I'm riding for being 25 at heart.
54:07 Benito Skinner? Hey, girl.
54:08 Mary Beth Barone? That's a little preview for you.
54:09 Benito Skinner? 22.
54:10 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
54:11 Benito Skinner? Okay, wait to meet you.
54:12 Mary Beth Barone? Well, we hope you all enjoyed our first episode post Halloween. The world is different now that we posted those costumes. I hope you realize.
54:19 Benito Skinner? What did I say to you? It was like, it's media that shouldn't exist, but now it does and.
54:26 Mary Beth Barone? And we can't go back.
54:27 Benito Skinner? We can't go back. It's like, it is, yeah.
54:31 Mary Beth Barone? Welcome. We just can't stop.
54:32 Benito Skinner? We can't stop. I have to be here with my bestie, even though she's a raging bitch.
54:37 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, psycho, cunt.
54:39 Benito Skinner? Got Jackson on that one, my love. Butt chug. Maybe we'll just end with that. One, two, three, all three of us.
54:45 Mary Beth Barone? Butt chug.
54:48 Benito Skinner? Oh, my exit.
54:50 Mary Beth Barone? Benny, babe, eyes on the road. Benny, go!
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