Pod Insights Ride with Benito Skinner and Mary Beth Barone Juicy Tracksuits + Fragrances About this episode We're back you guys!! And tech issues be damned, we are persisting. We'll cover everything from Benny and Terry's budding case of cinephilia (cinefilia? no way to know), the tragedy that struck LA and the amazing Baronie response to it that made us so grateful, as well as Delta One. Benny is riding for fragrances and Mary Beth is riding for Juicy tracksuits. Did someone say couture?!
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0:00 Speaker 00 The following podcast is a Dear Media production. The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:19 Speaker 01 Hey, can you come pick me up? Yeah, what's wrong? Nothing. Are you sure? Yeah, no, I just need a ride. Ride, ride. Oh, my God. So why, I just wanna have fun. Start your engine. I guess.
0:30 Benito Skinner? I'm Benito Skinner.
0:31 Mary Beth Barone? I'm Mary Beth Brown.
0:32 Benito Skinner? And this
0:33 Mary Beth Barone? is
0:34 Benito Skinner? Ride.
0:38 Benito Skinner? They make a mess, then go home and get clean. You know what I mean?
0:43 Mary Beth Barone? Yes, I do. Pure heroin.
0:45 Benito Skinner? We're dancing in this world alone.
0:46 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
0:47 Benito Skinner? I know how we're gonna start, and you're not ready.
0:50 Mary Beth Barone? I thought we already started, so let's dive in.
0:52 Benito Skinner? Period. So I was just driving to the Pacific Design Center, which is where we are when we record this. Don't bomb us. I looked to my right at a stop sign. Maybe it was a stoplight, who's to know? And
1:06 Mary Beth Barone? Well, there's a difference, and it's important because one of them I ride for and one I don't.
1:10 Benito Skinner? Exactly. I see the carcass of a Marcel von Berlin story that once was. I thought, can this year get any fucking worse?
1:20 Mary Beth Barone? 2025, you need to chill.
1:23 Benito Skinner? Girl, relax, and you better treat overcompensating nice. You're scaring me, dude.
1:28 Mary Beth Barone? So it was the bones? It was the bones of a Marcel von Berlin?
1:31 Benito Skinner? It was literally the bones. When I tell you this building was painted hot orange, I, I thought, well, flair won. My jaw dropped. I'm gonna get a photo on the way back. I think it was officially a light. I'll say the light turned green, so I had to continue on with my day. So I couldn't get a photo, but a gape. I'll just say that.
1:52 Mary Beth Barone? The tone of this year so far, and thank you for bearing with us last week with our best of episode, which I listened to and honestly, I loved from start to finish, just revisiting some of the classics. My personal favorite part was a dermatitis supercut. And I just think this year is gonna be about sort of going with the flow. We might do a couple Zoom episodes this year. We might do, we're just gonna keep pulling rabbits out of our hat. Until we get to the finish line.
2:21 Benito Skinner? I think it's fun. Can I just say two words?
2:24 Mary Beth Barone? What?
2:24 Benito Skinner? Mixed media.
2:26 Mary Beth Barone? Mixed media.
2:27 Benito Skinner? Jackson, speaking of mixed media, your Zoom is kind of like slow. Is the, is the feed a little, you're just lagging a little bit?
2:34 Mary Beth Barone? Okay, I have, I don't have lag, but I know how annoying that is.
2:37 Benito Skinner? It is still there.
2:39 Mary Beth Barone? Should we just do audio?
2:40 Benito Skinner? Yeah, let's just do audio. Mary Beth, are you there?
2:43 Mary Beth Barone? I'm here. Papa, can you hear me?
2:46 Benito Skinner? You know what's cool about this? It's very like sensorial.
2:50 Mary Beth Barone? It is. It's sort of like how the listeners hear us. So we actually can't see each other. I'm at Gotham Podcast in New York, Gotham City, the original Gotham.
3:00 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
3:01 Mary Beth Barone? Benny's in Los Angeles.
3:03 Benito Skinner? And I might just turn you up a little bit in my headphones. And then I think we really have found a perfect sweet spot here.
3:09 Mary Beth Barone? I can't believe that anybody listens to the podcast on one, 1X. You know what I mean?
3:14 Benito Skinner? I agree.
3:15 Mary Beth Barone? I have to go on 1.7 or else I like can't stand it.
3:18 Benito Skinner? No, I know. It's funny. Sometimes when we start talking, I forget that that's what your voice sounds like. And this is what I sound like because I listen to us on 1.75 speed to edit.
3:29 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, you gotta, we have places to be. So I guess, where do we want to start? Because a lot has happened since we last sat down.
3:36 Benito Skinner? Okay, so first off, can I just say one thing? Because a man has to talk before a woman. That's in the Bible. I just want to say thank you to all the Baronies who reached out to check on me and Terry. We were so safe. But also who supported our fellow Baronies, neighbors, families, friends with our Hut Hut Army of Love fundraiser. We're so lucky to have this community. What I saw yesterday was like, look, yes, people need things right now, but they're also going to need it next week and the week after. So set your alarms if you can't donate now. Or also if like, you want to set an alarm for next week to like fill up a box and ship it to places, we can keep posting ways to help because it's just absolutely devastating and horrifying and truly apocalyptic. And so, thank you
4:21 Benito Skinner? so much to all the Baronies. I love this little life with my daughters, Aviv. I'll say that much.
4:27 Mary Beth Barone? We're very grateful that. We can call upon you guys and that you will support in any way you can. And we will keep posting ways that you can help either locally in L.A. Or if you are in another city like me, for example. I'm like, I feel so useless here. Like, I wish I could be there, like, actually physically helping. But there are so many ways to get involved. And truly, what is so shocking and like hard to really like internalize is that people lost everything. So like every single thing that they own is gone and they're starting over. And so, yeah, just the things that they will realize they need in the coming weeks, months and years. It's just like, it's really staggering. So.
5:05 Benito Skinner? Well, obviously, I ride for Heidi Montag's Superficial. That record was incredible. Fashion, don't even get me started. It's incredible. She and Spencer lost everything in the fire and her song's been like going viral. And I'm like.
5:18 Mary Beth Barone? I think it was number one on, on like.
5:19 Benito Skinner? It was number one on iTunes, which feels so like, to me, number one on iTunes is The Hills.
5:24 Mary Beth Barone? I guess it's just a testament to like, good things come in time and when you least expect them.
5:29 Benito Skinner? Yeah, that people can band together and that's why, yeah, TikTok goes, I don't know. TikTok has so much, there's so much beauty and I understand like there's the madness too. As The Weeknd once said, the beauty in the madness.
5:40 Mary Beth Barone? Well, by the time this episode comes out, I think we will know one way or another.
5:43 Benito Skinner? The band, the band will be there. I mean, How Hunger Games is kind of everything in a way.
5:48 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. Well, I, I wanted to say that the fires in L.A. are the most American tragedy ever. Because it's like, L.A.'s burning down. Of course, the firefighters that are fighting are prisoners who are being paid $2 a day.
6:00 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
6:01 Mary Beth Barone? Of course, one couple in Los Angeles, billionaires, owns all the water. It's just like, it couldn't be more American to me. And it's just, what have we done with what we had? I don't know what's gonna happen. I don't mean to sound like fatalist. I mean, you're out there, you're living it. It's just like crazy.
6:17 Benito Skinner? Lord's Perfect Places came on on my way here. I think it literally was playing as I looked at the carcass of Marcel von Berlin. And I was like, 2025, really, really strange. Really scary, really strange. I don't know what's going on.
6:30 Mary Beth Barone? Take time to be offline and just like have moments of peace. Cause I feel like things are about to really, shit's about to hit the fan.
6:38 Benito Skinner? So I've been doing something a little cinephilek, can I tell you? That's just been making me feel a little better and maybe it'll make the Bronies feel better, can I tell you?
6:46 Mary Beth Barone? Tell me.
6:47 Benito Skinner? So I do have a letterbox now. I'm not telling you it because I want it to leak later.
6:52 Mary Beth Barone? Ah, can you tell me?
6:53 Benito Skinner? Well, of course. I haven't done like reviews, but I do think it'll be like, I don't know. I kind of feel like I'm Gossip Girl on there right now. So I'm having a lot of fun. But every night, Terry and I are watching a movie we haven't seen. And the other night I realized everyone had talked about it so much. And this isn't Mandela Effect, but it is when you think about it. I thought I had seen Ex Machina, but I hadn't. So then I watched it and dear God, I felt like I was with you, MB.
7:18 Mary Beth Barone? My mouth is a gape.
7:20 Benito Skinner? I know.
7:22 Mary Beth Barone? To be able to watch Ex Machina for the first time.
7:26 Benito Skinner? For the very first time.
7:27 Mary Beth Barone? So much money. It is like, it's a perfect film.
7:31 Benito Skinner? So here's what I have to say about it. Oscar Isaac, you fucker. That's my one thing. That might be my review, but Alicia Vikander, don't even get me started. Like I, she is so season five to me. I can't even, we couldn't even touch her in season three. Four, we could maybe mention a couple of times. Five, we finally get her on. I am so obsessed with this movie and also I think that the way that Oscar Isaac plays a tech bro billionaire is so, it's so geniusly written and geniusly acted. It is so that guy that's like, bro, can't we just talk and be friends? And then he's like, working out a lot and then he's just like.
8:07 Mary Beth Barone? And like an asshole.
8:08 Benito Skinner? And he's a tool. Yeah. God, it's delicious. So we did that. And then we watched Blue Velvet last night, which has our daddy in it as the lead.
8:16 Mary Beth Barone? So I've never seen that. I need to watch.
8:19 Benito Skinner? You have to, wait, our daddy, our daddy's the lead. You have to watch. It's so fun to like, watch him be like, young. Like he's, I mean, he's young at heart always, but it's just so like, that's daddy. It's crazy.
8:32 Mary Beth Barone? I guess like I have been finding a lot of solace in watching movies, but instead of watching ones I've never seen, I'm watching ones I've seen at least 10 times. So in the rotation, Crazy Rich Asians, Hitch, He's Just Not That Into You, Fever Pitch. I've seen twice in the last six months. It's like, I want like comfort from the films, but I also watched a fabulous documentary called The Stroll, which is on Max and it's about trans sex workers in the eighties, nineties and two thousands. And I learned so much about what the Meatpacking District used to look like. And they even mentioned, I believe the Sex and the City subplot when Samantha moves there. So I just thought it was so well done and I learned about some queer heroes that I didn't know about.
9:15 Benito Skinner? Looks like I know what I'm watching tonight. I'm telling you, a new movie every night. It's it's cinephilic, but.
9:22 Mary Beth Barone? It's all we can do. And how does Harry feel about watching so many movies?
9:25 Benito Skinner? I think he doesn't know that it's cinephilic. Yeah, but he's having so much fun and he's only fallen asleep like twice. He was dozing during Ex Mahina and I that to me, I was like, I will pause and we'll finish tomorrow. Like, I need you up. And then he kind of got up. It's just, it's a whole thing.
9:41 Mary Beth Barone? That movie. Well, Elise Eva Kander, when I found out that she was marrying Michael Fassbender, who is the star of my, one of my other favorite movies, Shame, I just couldn't believe it felt like, it felt like Adam Brody leading me stir where it was like, I couldn't have scripted this. Like, these are just two people that I put together through like the power of manifestation.
9:58 Benito Skinner? My brain completely just envisioned Adrian Brody when you said Adam Brody. And it took me a second and I feel like that's also kind of tells you where I'm at mentally. And mentally, I'm still with The Brutalist. I, this is seriously, I am like a little film buff today. But The Brutalist, Mary Beth, oh my God.
10:15 Mary Beth Barone? I can't wait to see it.
10:17 Benito Skinner? My review, that's my Letterboxd review.
10:18 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, my God. Well, you know, I'm just waiting to watch it at home because you know, I need to pause and I need to be able to lay down.
10:25 Benito Skinner? I agree. It could be a mini series if you want it to be. I went to the Vista Theater in LA in Los Feliz. Also, I feel like if you can support as many LA places as possible, do that. That would be fabulous. But I went to the Vista Theater and there was an intermission and I met a barony. And to meet a barony in the intermission of The Brutalist? That's amore.
10:44 Mary Beth Barone? That's how you know, that's how you know that you're in the right place.
10:48 Benito Skinner? And he was just watching the movie alone. He said, I'm taking myself on a date tonight. And I said, a date to The Brutalist? I love him. So now he's Terry and I's third.
10:57 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, well, you did drop in a guy's name in our group chat the other day. And I was like, who is that? Did you guys bring a third in? And you were like, it's my lawyer.
11:05 Benito Skinner? That's my lawyer. Ah, I'm so glad I get to reveal in here, I have a lawyer.
11:09 Mary Beth Barone? We need lawyers because people are constantly trying to get us.
11:13 Benito Skinner? They kind of are. Sorry, I have to, I'll have that on record. They kind of are.
11:17 Mary Beth Barone? They kind of, let the record show, they kind of are.
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14:58 Mary Beth Barone? So there's something I want to talk about really quick, and then I want to talk about about something else. So isn't that kind of cool?
15:04 Benito Skinner? And then I just have a bunch of little things to shout at you.
15:06 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
15:07 Benito Skinner? Like, I just have lines I want to say. We don't have to talk about it after if you don't want to.
15:12 Mary Beth Barone? I think that sounds great.
15:13 Benito Skinner? Great, okay, hit me.
15:15 Mary Beth Barone? So I was flying in Delta One with someone, and I was, we were talking about it. And we said, if a mall is an older sister and a cousin is a celebrity, what's Delta One? And he said, it's a celebration of life.
15:31 Mary Beth Barone? And I just thought that was so perfect.
15:33 Benito Skinner? When do we get to drop the name of who the guy is? Is all I'm asking.
15:36 Mary Beth Barone? Not right now, but I do want to clarify one thing because someone on the Reddit thought that I'd said I'd hooked up with my cousin, which just didn't happen. So I think maybe they got confused, but I know people have crushes on their cousins. That's just not my situation.
15:49 Benito Skinner? No.
15:50 Mary Beth Barone? And I've never hooked up with one and let the record show that, if that's okay.
15:54 Benito Skinner? And can I just say one thing, dear media? Clip that.
15:59 Benito Skinner? I actually need that clip just to show what this pod can do. The platform it is, how it stands for us. Okay, Delta One is a celebration of life. And can I tell you how that celebration in the sky is going to get even better next year? They're incorporating Shake Shack into Delta One. If I get to eat a stinky burger and watch The Brutalist on Delta One next year, who's gonna stop me? I've got this.
16:27 Mary Beth Barone? My hands are over my mouth. You can't see.
16:30 Benito Skinner? Well, do you know that if you fly?
16:32 Mary Beth Barone? Because I can see you.
16:33 Benito Skinner? No, I know, and that's cool. Is it kind of weird? I feel like it's very ex-mahina you're watching me.
16:38 Mary Beth Barone? You're looking all over, which I love. Like your eyes are going every, it's like when we watch Sex and the City and Carrie looks off screen and you say, she just saw ghosts.
16:45 Benito Skinner? She does, she sees ghosts. It's the sixth sense is a part of Sex and the City. If you watch it again, watch it again with that lens. I'm telling you, it's a totally different viewing experience. I'm looking at the wall. I sometimes I look at these like hexagons.
16:58 Mary Beth Barone? Shake Shack meets Delta One. Wow.
17:02 Benito Skinner? Shake Shack, Delta One. And can I just stress, we didn't get paid by Graild. This is a few things that were told to me from the Reddit. I did not get paid by Graild, nor has Graild reached out after that episode, which yeah, is kind of hurtful. I don't want that to leak like my letterbox, like which will eventually leak because that's just like a thing, I guess. But I am a warlord on Graild and that's like my private time. No, I was not paid and Delta One is not paying.
17:27 Mary Beth Barone? We've never been paid to ride for anything and we've actually never even talked about a sponsor outside an ad unless it was like, we reference the sponsor and say, oh, and by the way, like we've never not said it was an ad if that makes sense.
17:40 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I know. There's that like thing at the end that like woman's voice that's like, this might have included paid for. And I'm like, she is really out here trying to like make us look bad.
17:49 Mary Beth Barone? Well, I'm like, you don't know my story. Walk a mile in my hokas and then tell me that we may have mentioned something that was paid because we didn't, by the way.
17:56 Benito Skinner? Do you know what I was just thinking of that you say, walk a mile in my hokas? Work by Iggy Azalea came on my shuffle the other day because I just, I'm always like listening to college things to get like stories for overcompensating. And I just thought of when Edward, and this is huge for me. I'm bringing up your ex and like this shows that I love him and that I, I am doing that thing where you said, keep that love and, and the friendship is still there, where he wore Louboutins when he was promoting, uh,
18:22 Mary Beth Barone? My Lady Jane.
18:24 Benito Skinner? And the first comment I saw from Veroni was, walk a mile in his Louboutins. I literally.
18:31 Mary Beth Barone? Well, I had to post the red bottoms.
18:33 Benito Skinner? The way you guys make me laugh. He's got them red bottoms. Fuck.
18:39 Mary Beth Barone? Guys can wear Louboutins.
18:41 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
18:41 Mary Beth Barone? And your media clip that.
18:43 Benito Skinner? Speaking of guys can wear Louboutins, a couple of just things that I, I put in right the pod intro starter thing that I just wanted you to know. And then that was it. You know what I mean? One is, parents can fuck up any outfit with an Apple Watch and they'll turn to you and go, yeah, but your dad got me the really nice band and it's like rubber. They're like, it's a really pretty, the pretty band on this and it's just full like silicone and it's cream. It's a creme color. So it's kind of dirty.
19:11 Mary Beth Barone? It's jumping out. It's jumping out of the outfit.
19:14 Benito Skinner? It's so garish. Apple Watches are so fucking garish. I'm sorry. I just can't stress enough. I don't need to see it. And a lot of the people who wear them are the ones jabbing at all of us for being on our phones too much. I'm like, you're wearing one, sis.
19:30 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, I was in Pilates yesterday and there was a girl, we were doing like splits on the platform. So one foot on the thing that doesn't move, one foot on the thing that moves.
19:38 Benito Skinner? God, you guys are preparing for something that you will never have.
19:42 Mary Beth Barone? That you can't imagine. But I see a girl and her, she looks at her wrist and she's fully reading an email while she's doing it. I'm like, can't we have some peace in this room? Just leave, like, leave your bullshit at the door.
19:54 Benito Skinner? I watched an older man look at his stocks on an Apple Watch and I thought, I can't see this.
19:59 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, there's a lot of things I'd prefer.
20:01 Benito Skinner? I cannot see this. This is so off to me. They're everywhere. They're rampant and it's just something to watch for. And then the other thing I wanted to say to you, and then we have to get into our rides, is that I can shop anywhere and that includes REI. That's it.
20:17 Mary Beth Barone? And the mental picture of that is bringing me joy in this moment.
20:21 Benito Skinner? Terry brought me in an REI and he thought like, oh, I'm safe here. Like, he won't, he won't peruse the racks. He's gonna stay right by me. It's like when you take your kid into a Target, you think they're gonna stay by you. No, they find the kid's aisle and they go crazy. That was me as a kid. I'm not new to this. I'm true to this. And I went straight for an Arc'teryx rack and I found a rain jacket. And then I found, I found like a new vibe for my Stanley cup. I can boost the economy anywhere I am. And I think that that's a gift and I'm excited.
20:50 Mary Beth Barone? I can't wait to see, and I, I just want to also say really quick that Blackstone's purchase of Jersey mics, I believe, has gone through. So get your Jersey mics while you can and we're sending love to all those affected.
21:02 Benito Skinner? 2025, ease up.
21:03 Mary Beth Barone? Chill, dude.
21:05 Benito Skinner? Knock it off.
21:06 Mary Beth Barone? Knock it off. Should we get into what we ride for?
21:09 Benito Skinner? Yes, you have to remind me because I forgot which one I told you.
21:11 Mary Beth Barone? So this week I'm riding for Juicy tracksuits and I believe you are riding for fragrances.
21:17 Benito Skinner? So I will be riding for fragrances, or as I like to say to people who come to my house, fragrance.
21:24 Mary Beth Barone? Fragrance. Wait, where are we going?
21:26 Benito Skinner? Who cares? Ride. So fragrance. In this scary, terrifying world, and the terrifying world, well, he will have been, he is now president. So here we are. Oh, oh, feels different. We need these tiny little beautiful things everywhere. And I think that fragrance is a part of that. So I have a really long history with fragrance. I was a greeter at Abercrombie at one point. Say it loud, say it proud. View the proud, the brave.
21:56 Mary Beth Barone? Say it early, say it often.
21:58 Benito Skinner? Yeah. And, and yes, when I was young, I remember my sister Laura.
22:04 Benito Skinner? An older sister is, wait, what is it? A mall is an older sister? What about when an older sister takes you to the mall? Like, I'm literally, I'm gyrating right now.
22:14 Mary Beth Barone? Well, that's annihilation.
22:16 Benito Skinner? I'm like, I'm like detzy whining in my seat right now. My sister takes me to Abercrombie Kids, and I think I'm like 10 or 11, and I loved the smell of their cologne, Chase. That's what it was called, Chase. And I can still smell it, and she bought it for me. And she was like, don't tell mom and dad, which, I mean, is there anything fucking cooler than that? She was like my teen mom. So she gets me Chase, and I have my first fragrance. And this just made me feel like, being at school and being like, I have a signature scent. Like, there's nothing.
22:51 Mary Beth Barone? In middle school?
22:52 Benito Skinner? In middle school.
22:53 Mary Beth Barone? In fifth grade.
22:54 Benito Skinner? Fifteen other guys have the same signature scent, which is Chase plus Axe Kilo Body Spray plus Rancid BO.
23:01 Mary Beth Barone? Surf and turf and turf.
23:03 Benito Skinner? That kinda, that little vibe, oh my god, it was like, I just, I can feel it. So I just felt like as a way to express myself, feel clean, and feel like I was indulging. So then move on to middle school, and Zac Efron wore Diesel jeans. So I was like, well, yeah, I'm buying those. So I saved up money to buy bootcut flare Diesel jeans. They were so, can I just say one word? And we have to bleep it, but it's just faggot. Like, it's so.
23:33 Mary Beth Barone? Do we have to bleep it?
23:35 Benito Skinner? Actually keep it in that sense, because I'm saying it with all the love in my chest. Oh, god, I was such, I am such a [BLEEP]. And I, I remember being like, I, I got that, and then I was like, well, I have to have Diesel Only The Brave as my new signature scent. And it became my signature scent. So I switched it out for Fierce. Fierce was what I was doing at that time, which was the Abercrombie one that had the guy's body in the bottle. But I, I took off the guy's body in the bottle, because I would need to travel with it. I didn't want to get horny. No, I just didn't want people to see that and be like, you're so gay. But I'm like, no, dude, I'm not gay. That's my cologne, and it's called Fierce.
24:14 Mary Beth Barone? That's not gay.
24:16 Benito Skinner? That's not fucking gay, dude. That's my fierce cologne. Give it back. And so then, so then we get into college and this was during I don't pop Molly, I rock Tom Ford. And yes, I went to Sephora and I purchased the Tom Ford cologne. I have been gay my whole life and this is just, I think it's further proof. I've been gay forever and I've been me. I'm not new to this, Mary Beth.
24:41 Mary Beth Barone? And it's not a choice.
24:43 Benito Skinner? It's not a fucking choice, dude. So my signature scent was Tom Ford in college, which, so then I went into that. And now, I, you know, coming from that, it's like, sometimes I'll go back to it, but right now in being with Terry, he's such a fragrance guy. And we kind of collect them at this point.
25:02 Mary Beth Barone? You do. You have a collection.
25:03 Benito Skinner? We have a collection and when people come, I go, go to the Fragrance bathroom. We have like a little opening under a window and it's just jam packed with so many scents. I do think it will come shattering down at some point and that'll be a tough day, but it'll smell good. Again, not, this is, nothing is sponsored here. I'm just telling you some fragrances and what I think you, maybe you want to know what daddy smells like. So here you go. Sometimes I feel like someone gifts you a fragrance and then that becomes your fragrance, which is such a beautiful thing. Like if you kind of know what someone likes to smell like, I think it can be a beautiful gift. Don't go crazy though. Also, if someone compliments your fragrance, don't get them that fragrance because they might've just liked the smell. They don't want to smell like it. That's kind of my thing with fragrance.
25:44 Mary Beth Barone? I could never buy someone a fragrance. I feel like it's too personal. That's just me. I wouldn't do it.
25:49 Benito Skinner? I agree. Unless you're like, it's your partner and you know, they love this fragrance or love something super similar. That can be kind of beautiful. Like Terry's good at it because he's like, I know the scents Benny likes. Like I like a vanilla. I like an amber. I like a musk. I like a bergamot. I like, like a cherry cola thing. Okay. So.
26:08 Mary Beth Barone? Cherry cola.
26:09 Benito Skinner? Are you ready? Well, okay. So I love vanilla antique, birrito, birrito, burrito, any of it. It could be any, but vanilla antique is like gods. It's amazing. Mixed emotions, birrito. I mean, birrito does great work. There's no doubt about it.
26:23 Mary Beth Barone? And they kind of came out of nowhere to me. Like one day there were just birrito stores everywhere and it was like, birrito was just like, here I am.
26:31 Benito Skinner? And you walk into the store and you think, architecture.
26:33 Mary Beth Barone? Architecture, architecture.
26:35 Benito Skinner? Architecture. It's very crematory. It's very crematory. I would say. If you haven't listened to the pod, that's our kind of like open concept burial ground.
26:46 Mary Beth Barone? Millennial Cemetery, broyo establishment. Indoor, outdoor, mixed media.
26:52 Benito Skinner? Marble. Yeah. So, right now, my scent, though, I've, I've come back to, Margiela has these incredible fragrances. They're called Replica. And the one I love is Jazz Club, which, I mean, how me is that?
27:10 Benito Skinner? Never knew how much I love you. I spray it on the back of my neck, so when I turn my frickin' back on you, you know what I smell like. I do it on my wrist. Don't put, pat them together, though. Someone said not to do that.
27:20 Mary Beth Barone? It crushes the notes. I learned that in Sephora, science of Sephora.
27:23 Benito Skinner? Fuck, it is science.
27:25 Mary Beth Barone? I still do it, though, because it's okay.
27:27 Benito Skinner? Well, totally. Well, sometimes it can feel fun. So then I spray it on my chest, on my chesticles, and it's just delish. I love, the new one is By the Fireplace by Replica that I've been rocking, that I love. I love Shroom Cola by Braindead. Oh, God, you know what? My favorite kind of like, classic one is Savage Dior. That one's delish. If I want to smell like, just like, fucking have a smell, that's a great one. What else? Oh, my God. I'm gonna take a photo of all of them lined up, but then I have a Vacation scent. Are you ready?
27:59 Mary Beth Barone? Whoa.
28:00 Benito Skinner? It's by this brand, J-Scent. I'm gonna take a photo of what the bottle is, but it's so delicious. And I pair that with the ERL Comme des Garçons sunscreen smell. And if you put those together, I wish I could clack my little bottles right now. Ah, I love fragrance! And, yeah, so, those are kind of my faves as of now. I just, I love to smell good.
28:21 Mary Beth Barone? You always smell good, too.
28:22 Benito Skinner? Do I? I hope so. Someone said that to me on set, and I was like, I hope that's true, and I hope that's kind of the, the conversation about me.
28:30 Mary Beth Barone? Well, you know that, that supercut of people saying how good Rihanna smells?
28:33 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
28:34 Mary Beth Barone? I feel like having people say that you bring not only a scent with you, but like an enjoyable one is, I just can't think of like a higher compliment.
28:44 Benito Skinner? No.
28:45 Mary Beth Barone? And so you always smell great. Terry always smells great. I love to visit the Fragrance Guest Bathroom.
28:50 Benito Skinner? Oh, yeah. That bathroom loves you. That bathroom scares you a little bit.
28:53 Mary Beth Barone? My, I have a couple of things. So my history with fragrance is, of course, I was Chanel Chance for a while.
29:00 Benito Skinner? You were not a Chanel Chance girl.
29:02 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, I don't have a long history. I only have like three scents in my history.
29:07 Benito Skinner? That's cool. Well, to start with Chanel Chance, I mean, you started kind of with a mega banger.
29:11 Mary Beth Barone? I started with a banger and I didn't get swayed when all the girls at school were showering in Victor and Rolf Flowerbomb. I said, I'm staying true to who I am and that's Chanel Chance.
29:19 Benito Skinner? I love, well, you're a classic girl. You are a Chanel girl. Absolutely. True and true.
29:23 Mary Beth Barone? And Chanel Mademoiselle was where I went from there.
29:26 Benito Skinner? You did it.
29:27 Mary Beth Barone? The bottle is like a work of art.
29:30 Benito Skinner? You know who the model for that was, if I'm correct?
29:32 Mary Beth Barone? Who?
29:33 Benito Skinner? Mary Ann Cutts.
29:34 Mary Beth Barone? Mary Ann Cutts.
29:35 Benito Skinner? She is. That's myself. You infected my mind.
29:40 Mary Beth Barone? And then my fragrance for the last few years, which I get a lot of compliments on, it's not Le Labo. It's called Maison Louis Marie and it's number four or five. I can post that bottle, but I just absolutely love it. I try not to overdo it. I have found lately that maybe people who don't wear deodorant are trying to overcompensate, overcompensating coming to Amazon Prime Video by dousing them. I had to leave your house one time because someone was there in such a potent fragrance, it gave me a headache. I'm very sensitive to smell. So I would say like use fragrance responsibly. It can actually change someone's entire night.
30:16 Benito Skinner? Totally. Have you ever been near me and thought, too much?
30:21 Mary Beth Barone? Never. And I can say that if there was a Bible in here, I'd put my right hand on it.
30:25 Benito Skinner? Okay, that's good. You know, you have a very pure and clean, I'm smelling very cleanness from you. There's floral, but it's not crazy. And you're not a true vanilla girly, which I, I grew up around vanilla girlies because it was Viva La Juicy all through. Speaking of juicy tracks, it's Viva La Juicy was, that was the hallway. If you had Viva La Juicy in your locker in my high school, might as well be a bullseye.
30:48 Mary Beth Barone? Well, I think what's good to note as far as like a lot of people's first scent wasn't even a fragrance. It was the Body Shop or Bath and Body Works. I can't remember it. Cucumber melon. And it was like a lotion that was like this green color. And it was very fragrant, but it was kind of a way to like, sort of just, just like dip your toe into the fragrance game. And here's what I would say, like, so many things have fragrances these days. I use Lubriderm because it doesn't have a smell. Like, just try not to layer on too many fragrances, like unintentionally, because that can lead to like a sort of crazy situation.
31:22 Benito Skinner? Be intentional about the layering. Like, you have to know the notes and you like, the more you fall into it, the more it can just be so fun. But, oh my God, I'm like, I can smell the cucumber, the Bath and Body Works thing. It's like when my sisters used to smell like spa water. And it's why I can smell Mr. Cherie because my sister Katie wore it. And I was at a wedding next, and I was sitting at a rehearsal dinner next to this girl and I was like, are you wearing the original Mr. Cherie? Like, I could smell it because they've changed it since. And she was like, oh my God, I bought 10 bottles when it got discontinued. Yes, I am. In that moment, I was a sommelier.
31:56 Mary Beth Barone? Totally. And on that note, I note LOL, I do want to say, fragrances can go bad once they're open. So if you are a little bit more conservative with how much you use and you have a big bottle, I would say buy the smaller bottles because when a fragrance goes bad and you don't know, ooh.
32:14 Benito Skinner? This ride is so us. I'm saying that I have a whole fucking table full of fragrance. I layer five. I have six that I love. I literally like.
32:24 Mary Beth Barone? But you're an inspiration because you do it well.
32:26 Benito Skinner? You're like, I only have three. I don't put too much. Be cautious. I love it. We are, that's my bestie. We are the, you're the frickin' yin to my.
32:37 Mary Beth Barone? It's yin and yang, kid.
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34:51 Benito Skinner? I can't stress enough to all my women and queer people out there, you've been earning points this whole time. You just didn't know it. Straight guys have been getting points for years. We had literally no idea this was happening under our noses.
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36:07 Benito Skinner? Let's get into it. I can't, I have chills already.
36:10 Mary Beth Barone? Juicy tracksuits, growing up in Connecticut, were sort of like the pinnacle of fashion. And at Greenwich Catholic School, people were getting these Juicy tracksuits from a young age. So it sort of felt like the thing that you needed. And there was a store called Wish List in Greenwich, on Greenwich Avenue, which I've talked about. They just had Juicy tracksuits in every color. I would lust after these things. I would pray to God that I could get one one day. And I remember at the time, it was like, obviously, all the, you know, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Brittany, all the girls had Juicy tracksuits. But Jessica Simpson on The Newlyweds, her closet, she had every single color. She had a custom white one with embroidery on the back for her wedding day. It was aspirational.
36:55 Mary Beth Barone? It was glamour. But it was also like, you throw on a pair of Uggs and like... It's comfort.
37:00 Benito Skinner? Let her rip. Tight velour on your thighs.
37:03 Mary Beth Barone? Let her rip. So the first one I ever got was a peach terry cloth number.
37:07 Benito Skinner? Peach? You started with peach?
37:09 Mary Beth Barone? I started with peach and it was my prized possession.
37:12 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
37:13 Mary Beth Barone? Absolute prized possession. Then I went on to a Kelly green terry cloth. Okay. So those were the two that I rocked with for all of high school and college.
37:22 Benito Skinner? Can I say something about the green?
37:23 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
37:24 Benito Skinner? Bottega.
37:25 Mary Beth Barone? Bottega.
37:26 Benito Skinner? Bottega green. Like, let's be real. That was like, they were ahead of their time. Sorry.
37:30 Mary Beth Barone? And guess what? I still have the jacket.
37:32 Benito Skinner? Fuck.
37:33 Mary Beth Barone? To this day.
37:33 Benito Skinner? I think I've seen you wear it.
37:35 Mary Beth Barone? I wear it. I wore it, actually, I wore it to Hawaii. So here's the problem. So as you've said that the Dior fragrance changed, they have reformulated the Juicy tracksuit. It is not what it used to be. They have joggers. They're not a wide leg pant. I find that the stitching is different. The quality is different. I'm going on Poshmark, babe. I'm buying Juicy tracksuits. I have a red velour one. I have a pink terry cloth, the same color that Amy Poehler's character wore in Mean Girls. And then I just bought this gorgeous chocolate brown velour, no hood.
38:09 Benito Skinner? Gorgeous.
38:10 Mary Beth Barone? It's stunning. I'm obsessed. Low rise pant. It's a low rise pant.
38:15 Benito Skinner? You're, you're gonna talk to the baronies right now and not bring up your tube dress that hearkens back to Carrie hiding her, her real bump, that's JP's real bump, in season five, I believe, of Sex and the City?
38:25 Mary Beth Barone? And guess what? I got that on Poshmark.
38:27 Benito Skinner? Oh, God. I love it.
38:28 Mary Beth Barone? It's so fucking comfortable.
38:30 Benito Skinner? You know, you're talking to a man who owns two Juicy tracksuits that say Benny on the ass.
38:35 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, and, and wow, there's a lot of callbacks here because
38:39 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
38:39 Mary Beth Barone? TikTok, the website, the, the social media app TikTok, I posted a TikTok saying, I love the movie Cheaper by the Dozen, but there is a plot hole in it. Because Hilary Duff, in one of the first scenes, when it's like, you know, he's a football coach, she's trying to make ends meet, they have 12 kids, she has a Juicy zip up. I, I was a Hawkeye back then. I was an eagle eye. I wanted to see, I wanted to see Juicy zip ups in the wild. I don't think that she would have had one. I don't think her character would have had one. And they removed it. They removed my video.
39:09 Benito Skinner? No. Wait. Conspiracy.
39:12 Mary Beth Barone? Conspiracy.
39:13 Benito Skinner? Conspiracy, seriously. No, I really, I can't stress enough, it's like truth in media and We all like as actors, we have to remember that. Like it's not about, it's not about the thing you want to wear. It's a, it's about the thing the person would wear. Think about the character, think about the world.
39:30 Mary Beth Barone? When he gets the big time coaching job at the college, she also has a juicy zip up. That makes more sense to me.
39:35 Benito Skinner? I get that.
39:36 Mary Beth Barone? Their money situation had changed at that point.
39:39 Benito Skinner? Yeah, they could, they got a mansion.
39:41 Mary Beth Barone? They got a big mansion.
39:42 Benito Skinner? God, that movie. Maybe that movie make me feel really good. I'm gonna watch that tonight. Remember about Cheaper by the Dozen 2? Do you remember the lake town with Carmen Electra?
39:50 Mary Beth Barone? I do. I do, babe.
39:54 Benito Skinner? Fuck, dude. My favorite thing about Cheaper by the Dozen 2, as if in any fucking world, that guy who was in Smallville would ever be ignored going to high school. Cause he was such a like, I mean, obviously for me, that's like one of my gay awakenings. I, I, him and Cheaper by the Dozen. I was like, when he, I think he's shirtless in it. And I remember being like, holy fucking shit. Like me as a kid reeking of chase in the theater.
40:24 Mary Beth Barone? You're just like, wow, this movie is really good.
40:26 Benito Skinner? Hilary Duff and him, I mean, come on, I'm seated, hut, hut. Like my dumper was sat. But here's the thing that I want to ask you. Like, I guess my question is what's different about the quality? For anyone who's listening and then like, is it worth it to them to go to Poshmark? Or should they go to the site?
40:45 Mary Beth Barone? I think personally it's worth it to buy one of the classics. Cause that's archival. The stitching has changed, the quality of the velour has changed. The quality of the terry cloth, I would say is comparable. Cause I also bought a pair of shorts and a white zip up, a cream zip up a few years ago. I was very happy with the quality of the terry cloth. I just think the shapes have changed, like because people don't wear as many like low rise pieces anymore.
41:09 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
41:10 Mary Beth Barone? Like the sweatpants that I just got on Poshmark with this set. They feel, they're just like of the time. And so that was what I wanted. I wanted it to be more true to, to the original.
41:20 Benito Skinner? They're like an inch above the coochie.
41:21 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
41:22 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
41:24 Benito Skinner? It's so funny. My sisters, I remember my sister getting Juicy jeans at one point that were like bootcut and I was like, she's a fashionista, like she's a fashion darling. I just remember this girl in high school who had a lot of Juicy and she really kind of ran shit in a huge way. Also, I kept hearing that she and this guy on the football team were like having sex. It was like so tantalizing to me. Like her whole life, I was just like, this is so cool. Like, I'm really gagged for her. And she was always really sweet to me. I think she read [BLEEP] on me in a way and was like, I fuck with him. I hope she's good. I'm gonna look her up after this. But she just had a ton of Juicy and she wore it well. I won't lie. Like, the way she wove it into a school uniform was kind of shocking
42:09 Benito Skinner? because it would be like a popped collar polo from Abercrombie, like low-rise True Religion khakis that she managed to find.
42:16 Mary Beth Barone? Whoa.
42:17 Benito Skinner? And then a Juicy couture sweatshirt. And now I'm thinking about it and I think culture's dead. We used to have it.
42:25 Mary Beth Barone? I agree. So this is my effort to like, bring it back.
42:29 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
42:29 Mary Beth Barone? And I feel like a fucking boss when I wear my Juicy tracksuit.
42:33 Benito Skinner? When you have the, when you have them on, it's like, nothing can stop you. And sometimes you have a fresh spray tan on with it.
42:38 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, and I'm bulletproof, babe.
42:42 Benito Skinner? Sorry. Us, I don't care. What did we say after, we both got spray tans, went to a cast dinner on the way home, you turned to me and you were in Juicy for that, weren't you?
42:53 Mary Beth Barone? I said, I don't care that we're tan.
42:55 Benito Skinner? I don't care that we're tan. Let them talk.
42:59 Mary Beth Barone? Let them talk.
43:00 Benito Skinner? Fuck. We looked cute.
43:02 Mary Beth Barone? We need to do everything we can to keep culture alive, to keep these touchstones of our youth. And I just think if you, if you find the right Juicy tracksuit that's on resale on one of these websites, eBay has them too, like, you should just jump because you never know when you might need or want one.
43:17 Benito Skinner? I want one of the Baby Tees or something that say like, I want the Viva La Juicy. Like, I love their Revolución vibe they're doing. Like, the very Les Mis meets Juicy. I'm really into that. I think I want one of those. Like, I bet I could squeeze into one.
43:29 Mary Beth Barone? And then Viva La Vida by Coldplay. They're like, they sort of are like-
43:33 Benito Skinner? Same era.
43:33 Mary Beth Barone? Linked to my mind.
43:34 Benito Skinner? Same era to me. Yeah.
43:36 Mary Beth Barone? With gossip girl. Like cite your sources.
43:38 Benito Skinner? I think you've inspired me. I want like a regular one that I can just wear, like a gray hoodie that's juicy. I think I should have that. I hope it'll fit my linebacker shoulders. We'll see.
43:46 Mary Beth Barone? But the, the biggest tragedy in high school was if you would wash your juicy and the J came off the zipper. So there was actually like this whole thing where you should wash it in a mesh bag. I just, I was just so spooked. I was so scared I was gonna lose the J. And then it's like, you know.
44:00 Benito Skinner? If you lose the J, you have to kill yourself.
44:02 Mary Beth Barone? Unfortunately, it's, it's over for that garment, that piece.
44:06 Benito Skinner? Oh God, my OCD, ugh, in high school about like Abercrombie things. One time the velvet piping in the collar of my polo got fucked up. I.
44:17 Mary Beth Barone? My heart breaks because you know I left school one time early because I had dry skin. I've said that before. I just want to remind people that that's who you're hearing from right now.
44:27 Benito Skinner? Totally. I left, I definitely left school one day and I pretended to be sick one day because I had like bad acne that day. And I was just like, they can't see me like this. And I think it's so cool, but I'm also jealous now that like, I don't know if I've said this on here, but now we're putting like stars over our zits. We're like pointing them out. But also it's like, I grew up in, in Shame starring Michael Fassbender.
44:46 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
44:46 Benito Skinner? Like that's, that's my culture is to have shame about any kind of imperfection. So I guess I'm just trying to figure it out and I'm confused but excited, but also I'm like, wow. What is your standup gonna be about?
44:59 Mary Beth Barone? We're all just trying to figure it out.
45:02 Benito Skinner? Totally.
45:02 Mary Beth Barone? In season three, maybe season two, if you're lucky, I am going to tell the story of when I got accepted to college and I immediately went to the senior lot and crashed my car. But that's not for today's episode. Today we're going to get into ride or die. You know what you are, Benny?
45:17 Benito Skinner? Hmm, a [BLEEP].
45:18 Mary Beth Barone? Your words, not mine. Babe, you're my ride or die.
45:22 Benito Skinner? Ride or die.
45:23 Mary Beth Barone? I'll kick things off. I ride for fragrance. Fragrance, I think I heard somewhere, and I don't know if this is true, but like smell is the most like evocative of our senses. So like a smell can really transport you. If you get a whiff of your ex best friend's house, like on a random person out in the street, it can fully transport you. The fragrance is. My parents wear the smell of a cigar. It's like transformative.
45:46 Benito Skinner? Tell me right now what your mom wore. I need it.
45:50 Mary Beth Barone? Okay, there's a brand called Borgesi and I remember the exact bottle. And again, it's just like, it's the classics.
45:56 Benito Skinner? It's the classic. Like I can smell my mom wears, just to be clear, like keep her name out your mouth. My mom wears Bombshell by Victoria's Secret. The name on everyone's lips.
46:07 Mary Beth Barone? Mic drop is all I can say.
46:09 Benito Skinner? Sorry.
46:10 Mary Beth Barone? Patty Skinner, you minks.
46:13 Benito Skinner? I know. It's like some ho shit. My oldest sister is Chance Chanel.
46:17 Mary Beth Barone? I want to say too, like my sisters never cared about clothes. I just want to say that. Like I was, I felt like, I felt like so an outsider in my own home.
46:28 Benito Skinner? I bet. That can be scary. Sometimes I would be like, like I saw what, what Kelly Clarkson's hair looked like on the cover of Breakaway. And my sisters didn't have that. And I was like, so are y'all tasteless? Do you guys not have style?
46:41 Mary Beth Barone? I, yeah. Oh, I, I should say they cared about clothes. They didn't care about brands. They didn't care about brands, but they care. Like my sister Pam had a Vogue subscription and that's sort of what hooked me with the whole fashion of it all. But they didn't care about brands. And I was like, I'm a label whore. I've always been a label whore.
46:57 Benito Skinner? Same. I mean, are you kidding?
46:59 Mary Beth Barone? No, I can't even get, I can't get into my Christmas list right now.
47:03 Benito Skinner? I love.
47:04 Mary Beth Barone? I can't get into my Christmas list right now.
47:06 Benito Skinner? The Christmas lists are so major. Oh my God. I had Abercrombie for flip flops. I don't know what's reminding me of this. And it's making me so, like my toes hurt thinking about it. It's like, oh my God. And oh wait, also dad's, dads love polo sport and that smell to me is so, I can smell that.
47:24 Mary Beth Barone? Me too.
47:24 Benito Skinner? And I always think of that line in Parent Trap where they go peppermint and pipe tobacco. Who's that I'm talking about?
47:30 Mary Beth Barone? Exactly what you're talking about.
47:32 Benito Skinner? Fuck. Every experience is shared. Just believe that. But that's what scent can do. Oh, you, can I say one thing? The thing about smelling your ex best friend's house, I can smell this like Fabrizy kind of like thick smell that would be in the house of someone that I didn't fuck with. And I knew when I walked into a house and it had that smell, that they were religious and I wasn't welcome there.
47:54 Mary Beth Barone? And you didn't belong.
47:56 Benito Skinner? Yeah. I ride for Juicy tracksuits, always have, always will. All my starlets wore it when I was growing up and I look to them for confidence. And I, I mean, obviously like Brittany was a huge tracksuit darling and my God, she wore it well. And still does wear, I mean, I think maybe she still does wear them. It was so empowering. It was yoga pants before yoga pants were a thing.
48:18 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
48:19 Benito Skinner? It was athleisure. Talk about doing it with chair. I mean, the way that Juicy couture and to, I'm gonna, if you say couture, like I'm gonna ride for that regardless. So like, I think just the word and the vibe that they were going for. But it being like California couture, I remember that being their thing with the two.
48:37 Mary Beth Barone? Well, Pam and Jawa.
48:39 Benito Skinner? God.
48:39 Mary Beth Barone? The founders, they had a vision.
48:41 Benito Skinner? How us are they?
48:42 Mary Beth Barone? Say what you will, but they had a vision. And I think they know how the brand is gonna end, much like we know how Ride is gonna end.
48:50 Benito Skinner? Every time I see you, when you put your fingers into your Juicy tube dress and pull it up over your, your knockers, that's like, that's my bestie. And I, I love her so much and I love, I juicy, I have these pants that say Benny on the butt and they, I just, I've never felt juicier.
49:09 Mary Beth Barone? Mr. Hollywood, can I just say two words, Mr. Mr. Hollywood.
49:12 Benito Skinner? Mr. Hollywood wears one every year and that J's not going anywhere on that zipper.
49:16 Mary Beth Barone? No way. That is substantial.
49:18 Benito Skinner? Ride, ride forever. What a fun episode.
49:21 Mary Beth Barone? So I did want to say one thing in the final minutes of this recording. I am touring, so I'll see Pittsburgh, Burlington, Atlanta, Austin, Nashville, Portland.
49:32 Benito Skinner? The last great stand up. That's the name of the tour.
49:36 Mary Beth Barone? And I can't wait to see you all. Everyone just be safe out there. I said it last week, text your bestie unprompted that you love them. It's a really powerful message today. And you know, with this new administration, we might not have phones soon, girls and gay guys and non-binary people. So do the communication you can while you can.
49:54 Benito Skinner? Well, it was great to hear you today. As always, I love the sound of your voice, sweetheart. I, it's cool to hear it without 1.75 speeds. So that was kind of a gift to me. Baronies, we love you so much. Wow. We're back. Do you remember Christian Cavallari? The bitch is back. Do you remember that? Go see The Brutalist in cinemas now.
50:16 Benito Skinner? Oh, my exit.
50:17 Mary Beth Barone? Benny, babe, eyes on the road. Benny, go!
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