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0:00 Speaker 00 The following podcast is a Dear Media production. The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:19 Mary Beth Barone? Hey, can you come pick me up? Yeah, what's wrong? Nothing. Are you sure? Yeah, no, I just need a ride. Ride, ride. Oh, my God. So what? I just wanna have fun. Start your engines. Tighter.
0:30 Benito Skinner? I'm Benito Skinner.
0:31 Mary Beth Barone? I'm Mary Beth Brown.
0:33 Benito Skinner? And this.
0:33 Mary Beth Barone? Is.
0:34 Benito Skinner? Ride.
0:38 Benito Skinner? Skinny dipping with your heart, summer isn't over yet. I feel such a soul connection with Zara Larson. I just.
0:49 Mary Beth Barone? Girl singers, they're still killing it to this day.
0:52 Benito Skinner? Girl singers.
0:54 Mary Beth Barone? Me or her?
0:55 Benito Skinner? Me or her. No, me or her.
0:56 Mary Beth Barone? Me or her.
0:57 Benito Skinner? Dude, she is just, I just wanna be her for one day. I know I'd get up to all kinds of crazy things.
1:04 Mary Beth Barone? I wonder who she dates.
1:06 Benito Skinner? I hope he's treating her right. I, oh my God, so in my like huge moment with these, my new pop girl is Olivia Dean and she counts as pop, right?
1:14 Mary Beth Barone? I think so.
1:14 Benito Skinner? She's multiple.
1:15 Mary Beth Barone? Jazz pop.
1:15 Benito Skinner? Jazz pop. Oh yeah, she's jazz pop. Olivia Dean, last night I stayed up eating pistachios. Oral fixation, watching videos of her kind of do all those bullshit video things that everyone does.
1:28 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, like what would you have for a snack? Things like that?
1:31 Benito Skinner? I literally, I watched her, I think it was a 20 minute video of her deciding between a US snack or a UK snack. It's like midway through, I thought, this is better than most movies.
1:42 Mary Beth Barone? No, for sure.
1:42 Benito Skinner? I was so locked in, in a way you can't even, so I've been watching so much of her and Zara, but Olivia Dean had such a you moment. They go, what are the three things that you need in a man like your non-negotiables? And she goes, oh, I have a lot more than three.
1:56 Mary Beth Barone? Whoa.
1:56 Benito Skinner? And I thought, wow.
1:58 Mary Beth Barone? Wow, she's seen my list.
1:59 Benito Skinner? You listening over there? Oh, yeah. Our producer, what's your name? We just go into these random places. I don't even know you, stranger. Hi, Paul.
2:08 Mary Beth Barone? That's Paul.
2:09 Benito Skinner? I love Fiddler on the Roof.
2:10 Mary Beth Barone? Paul had to watch me have a complete meltdown over one of the ads.
2:13 Benito Skinner? Oh, good.
2:14 Mary Beth Barone? I won't say which one.
2:15 Benito Skinner? Sometimes it is like, I don't know if we're like.
2:18 Mary Beth Barone? Well, it's so intimate to like do an ad read in front of somebody.
2:21 Benito Skinner? Off the bat?
2:22 Mary Beth Barone? Off the bat.
2:23 Benito Skinner? Instead, you have to go, we should strip naked in front of them consensually? And just let them see us laid bare? And then we start the pod. What's your take on that, Paul?
2:33 Mary Beth Barone? He's not not on board. You can turn up the volume a tiny bit in headphones, just a little bit.
2:38 Benito Skinner? Oh, you want to hear that?
2:39 Mary Beth Barone? So, something I would like to declare on the podcast.
2:42 Benito Skinner? I do declare.
2:43 Mary Beth Barone? I do declare.
2:44 Benito Skinner? Oh, there's been a here now, Morta, and it's in the truck.
2:48 Mary Beth Barone? Dead man walking.
2:49 Benito Skinner? So you're, oh, dead man walking. It's a knives out mystery. I love it.
2:53 Mary Beth Barone? It's at, at the end of the day, it's a knives out mystery.
2:55 Benito Skinner? I loved watching it. I watched it with my sister and her hubby in their house. And my sister has this massive dog. He's so gorgeous, name's Clark. He laid on me and I ate Skinny Pop and I had a margarita and I watched Josh O'Connor. Absolutely body and American accent.
3:12 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, oh, my God.
3:13 Benito Skinner? Fantastic actor.
3:14 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, he did a great job.
3:15 Benito Skinner? He was so good in it. For a second, I thought, is he not British? I was like, wow, he's really.
3:20 Mary Beth Barone? He had you questioning everything.
3:21 Benito Skinner? Well, I said, can someone tell his face?
3:23 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, no.
3:25 Benito Skinner? Not in a bad way.
3:26 Mary Beth Barone? No, he's so British looking.
3:27 Benito Skinner? You know what I mean?
3:28 Mary Beth Barone? He's so British looking. I just think, can someone tell his face? It has an under.
3:32 Benito Skinner? Could it be more than it's me? Of course.
3:35 Mary Beth Barone? I know, but because it's you, it's obviously.
3:37 Benito Skinner? You know that I'm just like, there's just no way that guy isn't British.
3:40 Mary Beth Barone? No, of course.
3:40 Benito Skinner? I'm just like, there's something.
3:42 Mary Beth Barone? He's British. And his bones, his bones are British.
3:44 Benito Skinner? Like, if I found out you weren't from Connecticut, I'd be like, can someone tell her face?
3:47 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, someone tell her face.
3:48 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
3:49 Mary Beth Barone? What I would like to tell people with our beautiful community that we have. So I think we need a scale for like things being, quote, bad for you. Because someone like literally stopped me in the middle of the street and was like, oat milk is bad for you. And I'm like, okay, smoking is bad for you.
4:07 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
4:07 Mary Beth Barone? Cigarettes are bad for you, vaping is bad for you.
4:09 Benito Skinner? Tanning beds are, I guess, bad for you.
4:12 Mary Beth Barone? But I need to know, like, how bad? Like, is oat milk going to kill me?
4:16 Benito Skinner? How bad?
4:17 Mary Beth Barone? How bad?
4:18 Benito Skinner? Wait, how bad?
4:19 Mary Beth Barone? How bad?
4:19 Benito Skinner? No, oat milk is like maybe going to give you like a little bit bad skin. And I think it potentially does something with like histamine.
4:26 Mary Beth Barone? Everything's bad for you.
4:27 Benito Skinner? We just love to beat off to these new products. Do you remember when avocado dropped?
4:31 Mary Beth Barone? Mmm.
4:32 Benito Skinner? When avocado toast dropped.
4:33 Mary Beth Barone? Remember when hummus dropped?
4:34 Benito Skinner? Don't even, I just got chills. Do you remember when kale dropped?
4:37 Mary Beth Barone? Stop.
4:38 Benito Skinner? Girl, kale had an incredible publicist.
4:41 Mary Beth Barone? Kale had an amazing run. It's over, but.
4:44 Benito Skinner? I know. Now, because Martha Stewart said it makes her bloat and fart and get gassy.
4:48 Mary Beth Barone? I think a lot of people amplified.
4:52 Benito Skinner? If these walls could talk.
4:54 Mary Beth Barone? Could talk, they would say kale makes me bloat.
4:57 Benito Skinner? Doesn't for me. I don't know. Maybe I don't notice, but.
4:59 Mary Beth Barone? It does. I'm just kidding.
5:01 Benito Skinner? Oh, it does. Oh, thank you. Here's the thing.
5:06 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
5:07 Benito Skinner? I agree with what you're saying because it's also like, it's just fear. It's a culture of fear. So everyone like finds a new thing that's apparently terrible for you. So it's like, take a probiotic. And then people are like, God, don't. And then now it's like, you need to like consume more fiber. And then they're like, you'll overconsume it.
5:23 Mary Beth Barone? And then he'll shit out your butt.
5:24 Benito Skinner? Shit your fucking brains out.
5:25 Mary Beth Barone? You'll shit your rectum out.
5:27 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I don't know. Or like, is alcohol, it's like, and then there was that one, there was some study that all wine drinkers just love a few years ago about how one glass of wine a day, like prevents you from having Alzheimer's or something.
5:39 Mary Beth Barone? How many people are just doing one glass? Riddle me that.
5:42 Benito Skinner? Y'all aren't acting like you're having one glass.
5:43 Mary Beth Barone? No, that's just big glass, I guess.
5:46 Benito Skinner? Whoa, big glass, I guess. Someone tell his face.
5:51 Mary Beth Barone? Someone should tell his face.
5:52 Benito Skinner? I want it on record, I guess, now after saying that, that I think Josh O'Connor is extremely handsome.
5:56 Mary Beth Barone? It's that sort of a, a, objective, I feel like. It's not subjective.
6:00 Benito Skinner? Yeah, agreed.
6:01 Mary Beth Barone? Speaking of fear mongering and we're.
6:03 Benito Skinner? Agreed, amplified.
6:04 Mary Beth Barone? Amplified. This gets into what we ride for. We were in Puerto Rico on Saturday morning and we went to Cafe Regina, which I know I'm pronouncing it correctly, but.
6:12 Benito Skinner? Regina.
6:12 Mary Beth Barone? Regina.
6:13 Benito Skinner? It's nasty, but it's Regina.
6:15 Mary Beth Barone? This was before we were supposed to fly out, which was on Sunday, but after the Venezuela, the head of Venezuela, the guy in charge had been abducted by the American government, which just want to say, we don't condone in any way.
6:25 Benito Skinner? No, I wasn't laughing at that. I'm laughing about what you're about to say.
6:28 Mary Beth Barone? So this woman comes up and asks if she can pet Pinky, which of course, because Pinky is for Pinky's family style. She's for everyone.
6:34 Benito Skinner? She's family style, but I, I was kind of by the end of the day, like at the airport, I'm like, let's hide the dog.
6:39 Mary Beth Barone? No.
6:41 Benito Skinner? Put the dog in the bag.
6:42 Mary Beth Barone? She's popular.
6:43 Benito Skinner? She is.
6:43 Mary Beth Barone? Popular.
6:47 Benito Skinner? I just got chills from that. I'm gonna be popular. That was incredible. I've never heard you like enunciate like such.
6:55 Mary Beth Barone? Thanks. So this woman, she's standing really close to me and she's like, you know, we're never gonna get out of here, right?
7:01 Benito Skinner? Yeah, these people.
7:02 Mary Beth Barone? Flight's out on Friday. You know, they brought the guy here last night.
7:06 Benito Skinner? He's here.
7:06 Mary Beth Barone? That's why we can't get out.
7:07 Benito Skinner? Shut my place. I told you, I don't trust anyone who has some kind of contraption on their arm. That's not a cast or something. You know what I mean? It was like, it was, she bought it herself. I just didn't trust it. She had some kind of like sling on.
7:23 Mary Beth Barone? It was like a brace.
7:23 Benito Skinner? It was like a brace, but it was one of those.
7:25 Mary Beth Barone? It was made with metal, yeah.
7:27 Benito Skinner? Yeah, they have those like, you know what I mean? It just, I was like, something about that. She had really scary eyes and it was so like person you meet in Whole Foods at the start of COVID.
7:37 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
7:37 Benito Skinner? Who's like, hey, you know, and they've already shaved their head. Like she was just like.
7:43 Mary Beth Barone? The hair is not clean.
7:44 Benito Skinner? No, a hundred percent.
7:45 Mary Beth Barone? You can never get the hair clean.
7:46 Benito Skinner? Did you hear about long COVID? I'm like, yeah, I'm sorry. I'm trying to get my fucking coffee. I'm not doing this right now.
7:53 Mary Beth Barone? She's like, the earliest flight out is Friday.
7:55 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
7:55 Mary Beth Barone? Good luck.
7:56 Benito Skinner? Hope you got your hotel for the week. We'll be sleeping on the fucking beach, [BLEEP]. I'm like, who is this woman? Pinky?
8:02 Mary Beth Barone? Pinky, Pinky, come here. Pinky, come here, girl.
8:05 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
8:06 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. So that was just a personality type I haven't encountered in a while. She was very much like, get the canned soup, get the water bottles.
8:12 Benito Skinner? That, buy out all the toilet paper. Do you remember that? God.
8:17 Mary Beth Barone? What did they think was gonna happen? They were gonna stop producing it?
8:21 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I think they had seen like a quiet place and like all their like grocery stores and bodegas and that.
8:25 Mary Beth Barone? I have to say, if a quiet place is what happens, toilet paper ain't gonna save us.
8:30 Benito Skinner? No. Oh my God, I can't believe if it was all about being quiet, I would be like almost laughing all the time.
8:37 Mary Beth Barone? And what about when you have to toot?
8:39 Benito Skinner? Oh, girl, I'd go. That's how I commit suicide.
8:44 Mary Beth Barone? You rip that. You go out in the middle of an empty field and you rip ass.
8:51 Benito Skinner? Don't.
8:52 Mary Beth Barone? That's what John Krasinski should have done.
8:54 Benito Skinner? Standing on the train tracks.
8:55 Mary Beth Barone? I love all of those movies.
8:57 Benito Skinner? Do you understand? I think they're the best movies ever.
8:59 Mary Beth Barone? I was watching a movie. I was watching a movie on a plane and I saw someone in front of me to where I could see through the seat. Watching Quiet Place. I literally turned off the movie I was watching and then turned on Quiet. I just was like, I gotta watch this movie right now.
9:11 Benito Skinner? Hundred percent. That happened to me with, I was just on a flight and someone was watching Crazy Rich Asians and I completely locked in. Whoa, you just got water everywhere, girl. Oh, my God.
9:20 Mary Beth Barone? My favorite flick.
9:21 Benito Skinner? It's the best.
9:22 Mary Beth Barone? John Chu.
9:22 Benito Skinner? It was so fun. John Chu, it was so fun to just watch and, and honestly, like. Oh, did I tell you about the guy next to me who was watching all of overcompensating? But I looked so butt. I, I just don't think.
9:33 Mary Beth Barone? You didn't want to acknowledge that it was you.
9:34 Benito Skinner? Well, no, but I couldn't. And also I, there was no way he was gonna clock that it was me. Let me tell you. I did not look like whoever was on screen.
9:41 Mary Beth Barone? We're off season right now, so.
9:43 Benito Skinner? We're off season.
9:44 Mary Beth Barone? I look so gigantic. And I don't care if that's like problematic to say. I could say how I feel. Do you get that?
9:51 Benito Skinner? Yeah, honey. I, I look tan.
9:54 Mary Beth Barone? A, a, and when people see the video, they're gonna go, maybe it's because you're wearing pants that are seven sizes too big for you. I do what I want.
10:01 Benito Skinner? I like them baggy. That's me to my mom.
10:04 Mary Beth Barone? I got these from Mothfood, so I'm pretty sure these were worn, uh. I actually don't even have a joke.
10:11 Benito Skinner? I know exactly where it was going. We can all think about it and we all like.
10:15 Mary Beth Barone? There's a lot of paint. I think that, I think that, yeah. Whoever wore these pants did a lot of work out in the fields. You know, chopping down corn stalks and whatnot.
10:24 Benito Skinner? I think those were in dime square.
10:25 Mary Beth Barone? No, you think, no, you're right. You're right. A nepo baby painted a painting in these or something.
10:31 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
10:32 Mary Beth Barone? He got a lot of grease on them too.
10:34 Benito Skinner? Yeah. And it was, yeah, it was male painter, straight. He has a studio.
10:39 Mary Beth Barone? And it's huge.
10:40 Benito Skinner? Oh, it's such a big painting.
10:42 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, I meant the studio, but the painting.
10:44 Benito Skinner? But the painting is so big.
10:46 Mary Beth Barone? The painting as well.
10:46 Benito Skinner? It's completely useless.
10:48 Mary Beth Barone? I would like to say something, you know how people write letters like, dear so and so?
10:51 Benito Skinner? Yes.
10:52 Mary Beth Barone? Dear phone.
10:52 Benito Skinner? Dear John.
10:53 Mary Beth Barone? Dear John. Dear phone, no, I cannot sit still for two seconds because I'm taking a photo of a dog and a person and they're both moving and I'm capturing a moment.
11:03 Benito Skinner? No, I'm, I don't work for you. I don't work for you.
11:07 Mary Beth Barone? You're working for me.
11:08 Benito Skinner? For me.
11:09 Mary Beth Barone? Do you see her anywhere?
11:14 Mary Beth Barone? You're working.
11:15 Benito Skinner? For me. Here's my, you are so Dakota Fanning from Uptown Girl. And I'm so Brittany Murphy. I miss her. I love her.
11:23 Mary Beth Barone? Did you see David LaChapelle just did a big post about her?
11:26 Benito Skinner? No, I want to see it. Oh, my God. I love, yeah, wow. She's just, I think, that's such a brilliant movie. Yeah, it's kind of like when cars get all mad about the seatbelts. It's like, okay. Well, I used to have, so when I used to drive in LA, my car would do this thing where in some areas it'd be like, the wifi shut down, like you're not allowed, you better not be using your phone. And I'm just like, I pay for you.
11:48 Mary Beth Barone? What does that mean?
11:49 Benito Skinner? What the fuck?
11:49 Mary Beth Barone? The car can just do that?
11:50 Benito Skinner? That was like telling on me to the police. I don't know. It was just like, federal regulations restrict you from doing that here.
11:57 Mary Beth Barone? Dear Audi, A-Cab, love, Mary Beth and Benny. So, yeah, when the phone tells me to hold still for two seconds, you're not understanding what the, what, what is the purpose of an image? It's a capture a moment that's currently happening. Do you get that, phone?
12:11 Benito Skinner? Things going on.
12:12 Mary Beth Barone? What?
12:13 Benito Skinner? Okay, good.
12:14 Mary Beth Barone? He's leaving.
12:15 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
12:15 Mary Beth Barone? He's like, I'm done with you guys.
12:16 Benito Skinner? Paul's like, I know that we don't align politically.
12:19 Mary Beth Barone? We don't align politically. He loves that the iPhone does that.
12:23 Benito Skinner? Yeah, he's like, my family did that. That's my family pattern.
12:27 Mary Beth Barone? Instagram, no, actually, I can't.
12:30 Benito Skinner? I can't either lately.
12:31 Mary Beth Barone? I can't get into it.
12:32 Benito Skinner? I just think social media, I just need a little, I need some time.
12:36 Mary Beth Barone? Sympathy is a knife and social media is a prison.
12:38 Benito Skinner? It's a knife, Gwen.
12:39 Mary Beth Barone? It's a knife, Gwen.
12:41 Benito Skinner? Gwen, it's a knife, Gwen. Should we get into what we ride for?
12:44 Mary Beth Barone? I think so.
12:45 Benito Skinner? Which is?
12:45 Mary Beth Barone? Carpool. Puerto Rico!
12:50 Benito Skinner? It's like us presenting spring break to like our friend group. Puerto Rico!
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13:03 Benito Skinner? My friend won't stop drinking Señoritas. She's trunked me out of them. I used to have a pack in the fridge.
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13:30 Benito Skinner? At Thanksgiving, I was like, I asked you guys what you're thankful for, and you're all saying Señorita. I mean, come on, it's a little much.
13:38 Mary Beth Barone? You've heard of Impact, yes?
13:39 Benito Skinner? Yes.
13:40 Mary Beth Barone? If you're looking for alcohol alternatives, Señorita is a great option because it's non-alcoholic, plainly put, low calories, so it gives you a chill buzz. Rowin' with the homies.
13:50 Benito Skinner? Agave, right?
13:51 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, I just said that.
13:52 Benito Skinner? God, I love agave. Oh, God, I love agave.
13:56 Mary Beth Barone? It won't ruin tomorrow.
13:57 Benito Skinner? Wait, you're talking about me?
14:01 Mary Beth Barone? No, you know what I thought of? That share quote about Dax Shepard. It's you with every guy I've ever dated, basically, except Edward. There must be something I just don't see.
14:09 Benito Skinner? There's gotta be something I don't see. That's kinda me with any girl I meet and her lover.
14:12 Mary Beth Barone? Her lover?
14:13 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
14:14 Mary Beth Barone? So, talk about that with your bestie as you crack open a can of Señorita Margaritas. I love that I can bring Señorita to a party or a hang, and everyone still thinks I'm drinking, so they won't give me the business.
14:25 Benito Skinner? This year, it's like leave people alone, and especially if they have a Señorita in their hands.
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17:46 Benito Skinner? Get in, bitch. It's a carpool.
17:48 Mary Beth Barone? OK, but I'm driving. Carpool.
17:51 Benito Skinner? Puerto Rico.
17:53 Mary Beth Barone? Wow.
17:53 Benito Skinner? You had us.
17:54 Mary Beth Barone? Let me count the ways.
17:55 Benito Skinner? Let me count the ways. Here's the thing. So we were trying to find a place to go. We had been planning a trip together for a long time, but they never tell you about New Year's. You better plan about 12 months in advance. You start planning now, mama.
18:06 Mary Beth Barone? If you want to go somewhere warm, it seems like nobody wants to be in the city they live in for New Year's. It's like even the cold weather places were pretty booked up. Like Paris was on our list as well. And it just felt like you're fucked.
18:18 Benito Skinner? I'm so glad we went somewhere warm, though.
18:20 Mary Beth Barone? Me too.
18:20 Benito Skinner? And Puerto Rico, I don't even know how it fell into our lap, but I was just looking at warm places and I'd always wanted to go there.
18:26 Mary Beth Barone? You Googled warm places.
18:28 Benito Skinner? Well, I just looked up like places that are actually really hot right now.
18:30 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
18:31 Benito Skinner? Because everyone would be like a beach vacation. Then you go there and it's like 7, it's like 60 and raining the whole time. Like, you know, the trip I took, it was like four years ago. I'm not going to say the place. I don't want to ruin tourism there, but it rained the entire time. Because Benny Drama saying that it rains somewhere, the city will shut down.
18:47 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
18:48 Benito Skinner? I mean, they won't have any more tourists.
18:49 Mary Beth Barone? I mean, their economy is in the toilet.
18:51 Benito Skinner? It's in the crap.
18:52 Mary Beth Barone? They've just declared bankruptcy.
18:54 Benito Skinner? But I have this visual of me ziplining. Did I already talk about this?
18:59 Mary Beth Barone? I think you did, but I can't remember now. We've said so much.
19:02 Benito Skinner? It was athletic. I know, we've said so much.
19:04 Mary Beth Barone? I watched our clips last night. I went on TikTok. So I, after my show, I was wired. I was laughing.
19:09 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
19:10 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
19:11 Benito Skinner? I mean, you're fantastic.
19:12 Mary Beth Barone? No, you were killing me.
19:13 Benito Skinner? No.
19:14 Mary Beth Barone? Yes, you were. No, no.
19:16 Benito Skinner? No, you.
19:18 Mary Beth Barone? No, everything. It's your everything.
19:20 Benito Skinner? You're so everything, people meeting me.
19:25 Benito Skinner? So, okay, I ziplined in this place and it was, it was like monsooning. But I don't know, and I kept asking the tour guides, I'm like, is this like fine to do? Like, we can hang it up.
19:35 Mary Beth Barone? It's lightning.
19:36 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I was like, I think we're good. Like, I actually don't really need to do this. But it was like athletic. They're like, go, hooked, go. I'm on there. It's completely, it, it, it, my balls were like a foot from each other. It was like they had strapped me into this thing.
19:53 Mary Beth Barone? Concealed.
19:54 Benito Skinner? And I'm good, don't want them. It was, oh my god, and the rain, and it was just like, no part of it was enjoyable in any way. But yeah, so I had all that in the back of my head, so I was thinking, truly sun.
20:06 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
20:07 Benito Skinner? Would love somewhere relatively close to get to, because I feel like sometimes like the travel of it all, especially during the holidays, kind of can be hellish.
20:14 Mary Beth Barone? You don't want to, and you don't want to eat up two days of the trip with flights.
20:16 Benito Skinner? No. And then Puerto Rico, and I found this company called Dreamers Welcome. They're LGBTQIA owned, and they have a series of hotels, and then they had a house. And so we went to the house, and it was just like truly a dream vacation. I love Puerto Rico so much. I love the people. I love the food. I have so many recommendations for places if people want to go there. I've just been yapping about it all week because everyone has been clocking tan.
20:42 Mary Beth Barone? Everyone's in clocking the tan. And what I would like to say about Puerto Rico, I mean, I have so many things to say. So we were in San Juan. We were in the city, which was about a 25 minute walk from the beach, which is the perfect length of time for me to take Pinky.
20:54 Benito Skinner? You're gonna take Pinky.
20:55 Mary Beth Barone? Pinky, oh my god, Pinky came, because the house was pet friendly, and the backyard was fenced in in a way that felt like so, like, just not that she could like jump over a fence. Like, the walls were really high.
21:06 Benito Skinner? It was big, yeah.
21:07 Mary Beth Barone? Excuse me. So, she was just outside, like, laying in the sun on these little rocks, and just like living her best life. And the way she was so calm, like, allowed me to really, truly relax. You have an eyelash.
21:19 Benito Skinner? All my wishes came true.
21:24 Benito Skinner? Paul.
21:25 Mary Beth Barone? I loved so many aspects. The house was beautifully decorated, thoughtful design, curated, born in reaction to.
21:32 Benito Skinner? Oh, sorry. It was fabulous. Every part of the house was fabulous. There were like hammocks where you wanted them. The plants were gorgeous.
21:37 Mary Beth Barone? A deck for.
21:38 Benito Skinner? The art was like sexy and like very call me by your name. I don't know. It had a Guadagnino-ness to it.
21:44 Mary Beth Barone? It was gay and sexual.
21:45 Benito Skinner? It was gay and sexual. There was a hot tub.
21:47 Mary Beth Barone? Movie room.
21:48 Benito Skinner? Movie room.
21:49 Mary Beth Barone? So beautiful.
21:50 Benito Skinner? Ah, the bathrooms were like such good selfie lighting. I just like, every part of the house was fabulous and I felt very central to where we're going.
21:57 Mary Beth Barone? Me too.
21:57 Benito Skinner? And, oh my God, there's this place Cafe Rahina where we got coffee every morning. And then, uh, was it Hilda? Where we got sandwiches and this little market. Oh my God, you go Cafe Rahina, Rahina, and then you go to Hilda and, oh, I treated Hilda like a grocery store.
22:12 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, well, you know, they had bjorn corn at Hilda.
22:14 Benito Skinner? Oh, sweetie, they had everything.
22:16 Mary Beth Barone? They had everything you could ever need.
22:17 Benito Skinner? Themselves on longevity.
22:19 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, so Benny comes to the beach after having grocery shopped. He bought cured meats and Avada chips and on the chips.
22:26 Benito Skinner? I bought Iberco ham.
22:26 Mary Beth Barone? On the chips, it said snacks rooted in the tradition of longevity.
22:31 Benito Skinner? Would I buy any other kind of chip?
22:32 Mary Beth Barone? That sounds straight out of the mouth of Billy Shakespeare.
22:36 Benito Skinner? Yeah, absolutely. That's got, that's got Billy's stank on it.
22:39 Mary Beth Barone? I couldn't stop saying it. Snacks rooted in the tradition of longevity.
22:42 Benito Skinner? Oh, my God. I just thought about our reef flip flops. Reef flip flops, eating a sweet potato chip with your bestie on the beach. And, oh my God, you guys, I had the best view. So the waves were kind of intense in the beach we went to. Mary Beth, they were kicking her ass.
22:55 Mary Beth Barone? I have more to say on that.
22:56 Benito Skinner? They were kicking Mary Beth's ass. I loved it. And the water's warm there.
23:01 Mary Beth Barone? It's warm.
23:01 Benito Skinner? Everyone, oh my God, everyone there is so sweet and beautiful and like, oh my God. Every restaurant, do you remember El Masai?
23:07 Mary Beth Barone? Every meal we had was immaculate.
23:10 Benito Skinner? Reservations by me.
23:11 Mary Beth Barone? Reservation king over here. I love that you planned, you really took it upon yourself to like do all the planning and you kept sending stuff and I was just like, literally whatever you want to do. Like, I'm just along for the ride. I will say about the beach, so we met some locals on the Friday night. We did like a night, crazy night out. We ended up at karaoke.
23:28 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
23:28 Mary Beth Barone? Uh, and it, all the songs sounded like the original song to me because they were all in Espanol.
23:33 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
23:33 Mary Beth Barone? Like, I didn't know them. So it was like all professional singers.
23:35 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I was like, you guys have bars.
23:37 Mary Beth Barone? But they told us that the beach where we were going every single day, they were like, oh, you don't swim in those waters.
23:42 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
23:42 Mary Beth Barone? You don't go to that beach if you want to swim because it's genuinely, the waves are so strong and terrifying. So I would say maybe read up on the beaches. See if you want to take an excursion out of the city. But for me being in San Juan, and I like it too. I like waves. I went to Cayman Islands last summer and I loved the beach because it was very calm. But that's the vacation that I wanted. I wouldn't want rough waves when I'm by myself because then if I, you know, go under.
24:05 Benito Skinner? Oh, don't even say that.
24:05 Mary Beth Barone? Sorry, no one's looking for me.
24:06 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
24:07 Mary Beth Barone? But I loved being at the beach with, with my guys and I feel like it was, it's such like a hidden gem. And maybe I'm just stupid for, for saying it's hidden, but to me, I just never been there.
24:18 Benito Skinner? I know.
24:19 Mary Beth Barone? And I've been to so many beaches and cities and I loved that we had both in San Juan. And I think it's good. The reason that I really wanted to talk about it on the podcast is because I know that our listeners are very conscientious travelers. So obviously there are a lot of areas where the locals don't love tourism so much because people come to their city and their beach and they treat it like a trash can. Like they're disrespectful, they are entitled, they're not being thoughtful.
24:46 Benito Skinner? Those chips based in longevity, home with us.
24:48 Mary Beth Barone? We sure did.
24:49 Benito Skinner? We didn't leave them at the beach.
24:50 Mary Beth Barone? No ma'am.
24:51 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
24:51 Mary Beth Barone? And so I just think it's nice. And when I, when we talked to people that were from there, it seemed like they really love to be able to be so proud of
24:59 Benito Skinner? Share it.
24:59 Mary Beth Barone? Their country and share it. But I just feel like it's just important to get tourists, especially from, you know, the continental United States. If you're going to go there, tip well, eat local.
25:10 Benito Skinner? It's called spreading love.
25:11 Mary Beth Barone? And, and of course, spread love and, and stimulate that economy a little bit. I just think like, yeah, there's, you know, there's people that are like, oh, you're not supposed to go to Hawaii anymore. And now I guess they're like destroying tourists. They're destroying the coral reef in like Australia. So I think they closed it.
25:26 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
25:27 Mary Beth Barone? And it's just like, we, it doesn't have to be that way.
25:29 Benito Skinner? No, just stop like expecting, I, I think the one thing that Americans I think tend to do is arrive somewhere. It's like, I'm on vacation. I do whatever the fuck I want. It's like, no, someone lives here. So like be a human being who cares about other people. Like have, have respect and, and be thoughtful for. You know, queer people traveling, I think sometimes there is the question of like, oh, is this safe for me? Can I do this? And the fact that it was owned by queer people made me feel really safe for us there. And also, like, they gave so many recommendations of, like, gay bars and places that were just, and I just felt like a very, like, inviting, beautiful. I just felt comfortable the whole time being an out-gay man.
26:06 Mary Beth Barone? You thought that the Uber wouldn't pick you up because there was two gay guys, but it was because you were covered in sand?
26:11 Benito Skinner? It's because I was covered in sand. They don't pick you up from the beach. Some of the Ubers were like, we don't want sand in the car. And I was like, totally respect that. I thought it was because I am queer as folks, Benny Drama.
26:20 Mary Beth Barone? No, they said it's a cleanliness issue.
26:22 Benito Skinner? Yeah, they said, absolutely. They said, hey, love overcompensating. Come on.
26:26 Mary Beth Barone? Thing I will say is because it's an island, like, we would go to the restaurant and be like, oh, can we get, like, the salmon? And then a couple of minutes later, the waiter would come back and be like, we don't have that.
26:36 Benito Skinner? So it's not here. But I loved that. Something about that, I'm like, good, it's not just like, we're not overordering everything.
26:41 Mary Beth Barone? No, and guess what? You're gonna look at that menu, you're gonna pick something else. Expect the unexpected.
26:46 Benito Skinner? Socina al fondo was like, one of the best meals I've had.
26:50 Mary Beth Barone? We should make a travel guide because I don't remember the names and I don't say them out of respect to the Spanish language.
26:56 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
26:56 Mary Beth Barone? Because you've heard me try. I thought you did great.
26:58 Benito Skinner? Thanks.
26:59 Mary Beth Barone? Benito. But we'll make a little list.
27:03 Benito Skinner? I'm on a video set with the flu and I'm gonna do an AG1 ad read. And this is one of those moments where you sit with yourself and you just think, there were so many different decisions, doors opened, doors closed, that led me to this moment to do this ad read. And here I am. And I'm actually wondering to what Mary Beth's ads were like this week. I'm here with Jake Sammis. Say hi, Jake.
27:27 Mary Beth Barone? Hey, guys.
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28:45 Benito Skinner? plus free vitamin D3 plus K2. And AG1, welcome kit with your first AG1 subscription order. That's drinkag1.com/ride. Drinkag1.com/ride. Thank you, AG1. Time for a NoCD ad. Yeah, I'm doing this in front of an audience because I'll talk about OCD in front of fucking anyone. Wait, I'm getting a makeup touch-up lip.
29:13 Benito Skinner? So here's the thing, you guys. I have OCD and I get intrusive thoughts. And sometimes I'll be on a set and I'll see a knife and I'm like, stab my thigh. But here's the thing, I can laugh about it now because I use NoCD and I got a therapist and they taught me that those thoughts are ego dystonic. I don't actually want to stab my leg, just like you don't actually want to kill Benny Drama when you think that, when you hear my voice. You don't, okay? NoCD is a virtual therapy provider for OCD that's here to help anyone struggling with OCD and taboo or shameful thoughts get the treatment and support they need. Are you listening, Jake Samus? You could support a friend like me. Unlike general therapy providers, every NoCD therapist specializes in OCD, so they deeply understand intrusive thoughts.
29:56 Benito Skinner? That means no matter how disturbing, taboo, or shameful you think something is, like killing Benny Drama, your therapy sessions are a safe space to be open about it. Using Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy, or ERP, the most proven OCD treatment Your NOCD therapist can help you take the power away from OCD and distressing thoughts in live face-to-face therapy sessions. NOCD also accepts many major insurance plans and offers always-on support between sessions. To learn more about therapy with NOCD, go to nocd.com and schedule a free 15-minute call with their team. That's nocd.com to learn more and book a free 15-minute call. NOCD, I fucking love you. Oh, speaking of Benito, it was so funny, well, maybe a little sad, but every time
30:41 Benito Skinner? I got Ubers.
30:42 Mary Beth Barone? Sorry, and look how gross I have not shaved my legs.
30:46 Benito Skinner? Doing this all night, all summer. Come on, I'm gonna keep this on for 10 years.
30:51 Mary Beth Barone? I hope so, I'm wearing it to the Golden Globes.
30:53 Benito Skinner? Look at me in my like sweatpants.
30:55 Mary Beth Barone? You're very masked today.
30:57 Benito Skinner? Oh yeah? What are you gonna do about it?
31:01 Mary Beth Barone? Don't threaten me with a good time.
31:03 Benito Skinner? Big. I heard you're big, me the guys. Here's the thing, here's the thing, here's the thing, here's the thing. Yeah, so some Ubers picked me up and they were expecting Benito, obviously Bad Bunny icon, Benito is from Puerto Rico. He is a treasure from Puerto Rico, obviously, what a legend. So they see Benito and they were like, maybe, just maybe, and so I felt bad.
31:29 Mary Beth Barone? Our hearts were fluttering.
31:30 Benito Skinner? They were so sad, they go, no, no, no.
31:36 Mary Beth Barone? You also bought, you bought a microphone and a little mic pack to wear at the house.
31:41 Benito Skinner? I did, I had bits ready for the house and I had snacks waiting for you guys when you got there. I just felt like, I don't know, I felt like I had my own travel show.
31:49 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, and we aren't even talking about New Year's Eve.
31:53 Benito Skinner? Mm-hmm.
31:54 Mary Beth Barone? New Year's Eve, we found this hotel where it was like, truly felt like the apex of the world, where there were just so many different people dressed for different events, but all in one place. Like, some people were wearing straight-up prom dresses. I had on the Reformation Yorkdale dress that I accidentally Mary Lemon wrote in.
32:11 Benito Skinner? I had.
32:12 Mary Beth Barone? You had a button-down.
32:13 Benito Skinner? I had a button-down on and Abercrombie jeans, a trucker hat and reef flip-flops on, which people get so mad about jeans with flip-flops, stay mad, motherfuckers.
32:22 Mary Beth Barone? We're bringing it back.
32:24 Benito Skinner? Yeah, stay mid.
32:24 Mary Beth Barone? We're bringing it all the way back.
32:25 Benito Skinner? I loved my reef flip flops. They're so comfortable. They're like tempered pads for your feet.
32:28 Mary Beth Barone? I walked a mile in them.
32:30 Benito Skinner? Walk a mile in these Louboutins. They don't wear these shits where I'm from.
32:35 Mary Beth Barone? So.
32:36 Benito Skinner? They don't wear these shits where I'm from.
32:38 Mary Beth Barone? So we were at the hotel.
32:40 Benito Skinner? Go through.
32:41 Mary Beth Barone? And not only did.
32:42 Benito Skinner? Baby, give me the attention I so deserve.
32:44 Mary Beth Barone? Not only did a baroni come up to us, and she was the sweetest thing, and your stylist who was there said, I have literally never seen someone come up to you as a fan that wasn't so smoking hot.
32:54 Benito Skinner? So fucking cutie down.
32:55 Mary Beth Barone? And cutie down.
32:56 Benito Skinner? I love our daughters. I just ran into one on the street. She just got fired, which I think is for the best for her. I see so, I see such a good 2026 for her. She works in tech. I, I, there's something better. I don't know. She just.
33:07 Mary Beth Barone? I think so too.
33:08 Benito Skinner? She's so cute. We're both in camo, real tree, but in a fun way.
33:11 Mary Beth Barone? Maybe you'll start a business or something, entrepreneur, and you get a Squarespace website.
33:15 Benito Skinner? You know, I won't, but she will.
33:16 Mary Beth Barone? I know you won't.
33:17 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
33:18 Mary Beth Barone? On the night of New Year's Eve, we found that the hotel was actually on the beach. So we went to the beach. And when it struck midnight, they had fireworks. Baby, you're a firework. You're a firewig. And Jake Samus and I, your stylist, went in the water. I went skinny dipping at midnight on New Year's.
33:35 Benito Skinner? I know.
33:35 Mary Beth Barone? And when I came out of the water, I felt like a newborn baby. And there was an image taken of that moment that I have never received such overwhelming.
33:44 Benito Skinner? Hysteria.
33:45 Mary Beth Barone? Positive feedback about. It's like, the picture went triple platinum.
33:49 Benito Skinner? Well, sweetie, it's one of those shots that just sticks with you. It's gonna be a part of my star making course at NYU. I show that and I go, can't be taught. And then the next slide, can't be taught.
33:59 Mary Beth Barone? I am gonna, you know, I wanna do a class at NYU about dating.
34:02 Benito Skinner? Oh, wait. Okay, you do that. You do the Carrie Bradshaw.
34:05 Mary Beth Barone? Yes.
34:05 Benito Skinner? At the second one, only three people show up. And she goes, get up.
34:08 Mary Beth Barone? I go, we're going to the bars.
34:09 Benito Skinner? Come on, let's go to the bars.
34:10 Mary Beth Barone? I take a bunch of 19 year olds to a bar as their teacher. I get them drunk.
34:16 Benito Skinner? You hook up with three of them.
34:17 Mary Beth Barone? I'm like, sir, any of you buy?
34:20 Mary Beth Barone? I'm a predator in this. In this scenario.
34:23 Benito Skinner? Wait, that's incredible. But for my star making course, at the end, we'll all audition for the same part and one of them will book it over me.
34:30 Mary Beth Barone? That's very Pedro Pascal.
34:31 Benito Skinner? Did I tell you?
34:32 Mary Beth Barone? That just reminded me.
34:33 Benito Skinner? Rihanna at Victoria's Secret Fashion Show when she had a better walk than all the angels.
34:36 Mary Beth Barone? Whoa, that just reminded me.
34:37 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
34:38 Mary Beth Barone? Because you know I'm doing red carpet interviews at the Golden Globes.
34:40 Benito Skinner? Oh, my God, I love that you're going to the GG's.
34:42 Mary Beth Barone? I have to send this voice note because there's Pedro Pascal lore that I I don't know if it's like bad to repeat, but I'll say it after it just.
34:48 Benito Skinner? Yeah, the Game of Thrones where he didn't audition because he got like.
34:50 Mary Beth Barone? Well, he was coaching. He was coaching someone for an audition for that part.
34:54 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
34:54 Mary Beth Barone? And he was like, I think I could book this. And then he did it and he got it.
34:58 Benito Skinner? And he was like, he showed up to class the next day and he looked at the guy and went, did you book it?
35:05 Mary Beth Barone? Have you heard that?
35:07 Benito Skinner? Did you book? I I don't think you did because my agent called me this morning and I quit. Bye.
35:15 Mary Beth Barone? He shut the lights off on the way out. Do you want me to? Because this will this will have already happened. So do you want me to read you some of the questions?
35:21 Benito Skinner? Yes, please.
35:22 Mary Beth Barone? I'm going to ask some of the people.
35:23 Benito Skinner? Should I answer?
35:25 Mary Beth Barone? Well, maybe I shouldn't spoil it, but these will already be out.
35:28 Benito Skinner? This is so fun. It'll already be out. Okay, let's see if I have answers.
35:30 Mary Beth Barone? Smash or pass?
35:31 Benito Skinner? Okay.
35:31 Mary Beth Barone? Frankenstein's monster.
35:33 Benito Skinner? Oh, smash.
35:35 Mary Beth Barone? The car from F1.
35:37 Benito Skinner? Ooh, pass.
35:39 Mary Beth Barone? Idris Elba as Buffalo Cop in Zootopia 2.
35:42 Benito Skinner? Oh, smash. And and can I do it again?
35:46 Mary Beth Barone? You'll double whammy it.
35:48 Benito Skinner? Okay, can we fucking do it again?
35:50 Mary Beth Barone? Flying monkey from Wicked 2.
35:51 Benito Skinner? Oh, pass.
35:53 Mary Beth Barone? Really tall and skinny new avatar.
35:55 Benito Skinner? Oh, smash.
35:57 Mary Beth Barone? Aunt Gladys from Weapons.
36:00 Benito Skinner? Not smash, but we would definitely have a good time together. And I think I could easily be her assistant.
36:05 Mary Beth Barone? Jack O'Connell when he's a vampire.
36:07 Benito Skinner? Oh, randomly pass.
36:09 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, I'm a smash on that one.
36:11 Benito Skinner? I know. And you would think I would be, but just something about that. He's so good in it that I really am. I'm kind of too scared to say smash.
36:17 Mary Beth Barone? We'll bleep it.
36:18 Benito Skinner? Oh.
36:20 Benito Skinner? Just us staring at each other.
36:24 Benito Skinner? I can't wait to watch people on the carpet answer that one.
36:27 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
36:28 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
36:29 Mary Beth Barone? I want to ask people what their Sweet Green order is.
36:31 Benito Skinner? Oh, they have this new thing that just launched.
36:34 Mary Beth Barone? Tell me.
36:35 Benito Skinner? I don't know who exactly it was, but it was like function or something. They have like a new menu. I got this like Omega Bowl. I was like, I'll have the Omega Bowl.
36:42 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, my God. There was, what did I text you today? There was Hawkeye at Sweet Green, sitting alone in the corner. I'm in the corner.
36:49 Benito Skinner? Watching you kiss and watching you, watching you kill Caesar. Oh.
36:56 Mary Beth Barone? We have to stop recording.
36:57 Benito Skinner? I don't think we should have a show anymore.
36:59 Mary Beth Barone? I don't either. But, you know, my old self, I would have maybe like sat near him and tried to make eye contact. But I just, I literally went through it. I go, he's prob, he's probably got some annoying political opinion I'd uncover in three to six months. I actually just can't.
37:12 Benito Skinner? Maybe in one month, in fact, actually.
37:14 Mary Beth Barone? Maybe in one day. Yeah, it's fast.
37:16 Benito Skinner? It'd be quick. Oh, I just yawned.
37:18 Mary Beth Barone? Oh.
37:19 Benito Skinner? Right after dark, my darling. A lady never yawns when she's with the one she loves.
37:24 Mary Beth Barone? It is actually, it is actually 6:00 PM. So what I want to say about Puerto Rico, just to summarize.
37:29 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I think you should.
37:31 Mary Beth Barone? Beautiful location for families.
37:32 Benito Skinner? Mm-hmm.
37:33 Mary Beth Barone? Beautiful location for lovers.
37:35 Benito Skinner? Mm.
37:35 Mary Beth Barone? Beautiful location for friends.
37:37 Benito Skinner? Mm-hmm.
37:38 Mary Beth Barone? Not that far on a flight from New York.
37:40 Benito Skinner? Three and a half hours, easy.
37:41 Mary Beth Barone? Incredible food.
37:43 Benito Skinner? Oh, the food, like, I don't know what blew me away more. I think also, you know what I loved? It's the, uh, the accessibility of the beaches. I feel like you go to so many places and they're like, do you have a towel?
37:53 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
37:54 Benito Skinner? Did you buy one of the chairs? I'm like, this is God's earth.
37:58 Mary Beth Barone? So Earth is family style.
37:59 Benito Skinner? So Earth is, Earth is family style. And I walk right onto the beach of a W Hotel. In high heels. Daddy goes, Earth is family style. And you know, Daddy is ass naked, still in her Ugg boots.
38:15 Benito Skinner? At the win Las Vegas. And she goes, "Take me as I am, sire."
38:22 Mary Beth Barone? You know, I want to go to Vegas with you. I think we would genuinely have fun.
38:25 Benito Skinner? We've been to Vegas together.
38:29 Mary Beth Barone? It would be different, I think, if we went and we got sloshed. I got a fucking parasite. I got a parasite from a candy kebab. I won't say where I got the kebab from.
38:40 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
38:40 Mary Beth Barone? But I got a parasite and I couldn't go to Palm Springs weekend. Oh, oh, traveled pretty much.
38:46 Benito Skinner? Oh, my god.
38:47 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, Vegas, Palm Springs, parasite.
38:49 Benito Skinner? Any other desert locations you'd like to go to?
38:52 Mary Beth Barone? I mean, she's just like different now.
38:54 Benito Skinner? I mean, my god, have you listened to the pod? All they do is talk about these places they're staying at. I mean, they really fell off, right?
39:03 Benito Skinner? If you guys are talking shit about us at a dinner, go ahead. We've got nothing, but let me tell you this. If you met us, god, you'd melt.
39:09 Mary Beth Barone? You know what I think is the funniest thing?
39:11 Benito Skinner? You've ever seen and met.
39:12 Mary Beth Barone? I watched Courtney cook yesterday.
39:14 Benito Skinner? How are you doing?
39:15 Mary Beth Barone? I mean, what a stunner.
39:16 Benito Skinner? Isn't she just gorgeous?
39:18 Mary Beth Barone? I watched her eat an onion like that.
39:20 Benito Skinner? I know, in one bite.
39:21 Mary Beth Barone? And I wasn't bad at it.
39:23 Benito Skinner? I showed her to Jake Sammis and he was like, "She's got such star quality." And I was like, "Well, of course, she's part of my class." But she, the way she takes down one bite is so like, it's so me-coded. But, oh, which, we ain't stressing.
39:35 Mary Beth Barone? We ain't stressing.
39:36 Benito Skinner? And she goes, "Fabulous." Or she, and then when she, the way she's like a mayo across all her dishes.
39:42 Mary Beth Barone? It's a girl after my own heart.
39:44 Benito Skinner? No, she is so, Courtney.
39:46 Mary Beth Barone? Courtney, you have our attention.
39:47 Benito Skinner? I'll see you soon. That's all I'm saying.
39:49 Mary Beth Barone? Also, on the Betty Draper of it all, and I did want to say from my photo dump from Puerto Rico, which I do believe had the potential and probably has changed lives. I didn't inhale the cigarette. It was just a prop. If you ever see me take a photo with a cigarette, I'm not actually smoking it. And you could say, "Oh, poser," whatever, whatever. It's, I like the way it looks on my hand, but I don't want to do that.
40:09 Benito Skinner? Yeah. Isn't it your life? La vida bonita. What did I say to you?
40:13 Mary Beth Barone? Smoking is as bad for you as oat milk. So you might as well just kill yourself.
40:17 Benito Skinner? Exactly. Or staring at your phone right before you go to bed. I'm like, "What the fuck else am I supposed to do?" Dr. Oz.
40:24 Mary Beth Barone? Stick something up your butt.
40:25 Benito Skinner? Stick something up my butt?
40:26 Mary Beth Barone? Have my magic beans and don't check your phone before bed.
40:29 Benito Skinner? Fuck her.
40:30 Mary Beth Barone? Are, is everyone not sleeping? Like, I look at my phone right before my eyes close or I'm watching TV. I sleep really, really good.
40:37 Benito Skinner? No, literally, and if I don't one night, I sleep bad. Like if I didn't get that time on the phone and I didn't watch Courtney Cook, I'm sleeping bad. I need to watch Olivia Dean try a frickin', uh, their jammy joggers. What are they called?
40:52 Mary Beth Barone? What are they called? Talky talky or something? You know, those twisted orange things?
40:57 Benito Skinner? Oh, she had, she had something like a quirly wirly. The names of the British ones were sending me to the moon.
41:03 Mary Beth Barone? I was on the subway today and I was looking at Jonathan Anderson's Instagram and I literally, it was literally like Alice when she falls into Wonderland. I like, I lost time. Like, I was just looking and I was, I forgot where I was. I was like, I could have almost like missed my stop. Luckily I came to before I got to Bedford Ave.
41:21 Benito Skinner? That's me with Miss Cook lately. I'm like, whoa, I'm like, I just ate 12 meals. I'm full.
41:26 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. And I guess we don't do ride or die with, uh, with carpools, but if you have an opportunity, go to Puerto Rico early and often. Don't wait, don't wait till you're 34.
41:37 Benito Skinner? No, don't wait until you're 34. I mean, God, you've missed so much.
41:41 Mary Beth Barone? Two of my friends actually went to live there for a month, like when I was still all work from home vibes. Like it wasn't a raging pandemic, but no one was back in office. And I, I remember them having-
41:50 Benito Skinner? It wasn't a raging pandemic, but no one was back from office.
41:53 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. So welcome to the pod.
41:57 Benito Skinner? Keep going.
41:58 Mary Beth Barone? Uh, so they lived there for a month and I was like, what a cool thing to just like relocate briefly. They both bought their dogs.
42:02 Benito Skinner? I would live in the house we stayed at for a month. I really would.
42:04 Mary Beth Barone? We could write a lot of good stuff in there.
42:06 Benito Skinner? Whoa. Well, I already pitched, so, oh my God, I had the best moment of my life. I just turned to Mary Beth and I knew that I had this idea and I was like, I want you to write it. And it just happened and we touched hands and then the next day you pitched me on it. Genius.
42:18 Mary Beth Barone? And it's like really good.
42:19 Benito Skinner? I'm in awe of this, of this crazy girl.
42:21 Mary Beth Barone? I'm just crazy like that.
42:22 Benito Skinner? In this midnight sun. Favorite friend to travel with?
42:27 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
42:28 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
42:29 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
42:30 Benito Skinner? Yeah. Yeah. I guess so.
42:33 Mary Beth Barone? Thank you, guys.
42:35 Benito Skinner? Thanks, you guys. Thank you, Paul. Oh, my exit.
42:39 Mary Beth Barone? Benny, babe, eyes on the road. Benny, go!
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