Pod Insights Ride with Benito Skinner and Mary Beth Barone Legos + Girl Singers About this episode Benny announces his upcoming travel. All aboard! Mary Beth announces that theater is back. Bravo! We're still in Geneva btw. Benny rides for legos and Mary Beth rides for girl singers. Please stream your favorite girl singers today!
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0:00 Speaker 00 The following podcast is a Dear Media production. The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:18 Speaker 01 Hey, can you come pick me up? Yeah, what's wrong? Nothing. Are you sure? Yeah, no, I just need a ride. Oh, my God. So fun. I just want to have fun. Start your engines. Tighter.
0:30 Benito Skinner? I'm Benito Skinner.
0:31 Mary Beth Barone? I'm Mary Beth Barone.
0:32 Benito Skinner? And this
0:33 Mary Beth Barone? is
0:34 Benito Skinner? Ride.
0:38 Benito Skinner? When you touchin', then it's touchin', never really known to me. You give me fever.
0:46 Benito Skinner? Fever. When you kiss me. Fever when you hold me tight. You give me fever.
0:55 Mary Beth Barone? I can't even, did you say I couldn't even hold the bead going, shh, shh, shh? I lost the bead.
0:59 Benito Skinner? Because I love you.
1:00 Mary Beth Barone? I don't have it today.
1:01 Benito Skinner? You're so loved.
1:02 Mary Beth Barone? I don't have it today, my love.
1:04 Benito Skinner? I'm wearing a fleece, you're in a long sleeve. We're cozy, cozy.
1:07 Mary Beth Barone? It's cozy, cozy. We're by the fire. There's been some confusion on the Reddit about the Geneva Convention. So I guess to clear things up, we are in New York right now at the UN.
1:18 Benito Skinner? Big Apple.
1:19 Mary Beth Barone? And we are putting treaties together. And I'm not really sure what else needs to be explained.
1:24 Benito Skinner? Mm-mm. This is where the Geneva Convention is. Wait, our king
1:27 Mary Beth Barone? It's not in Geneva, honey.
1:29 Benito Skinner? It's not in Geneva. Our king is, randomly, I've been to Geneva. That's a flex. It's not a flex, but it's a flex.
1:38 Benito Skinner? Everyone's so melted, including me.
1:41 Mary Beth Barone? No, someone commenting on the Reddit and saying, I think it's because that's where Anne Hathaway was a princess of, in Princess Tyrese. And someone goes, it's Genovia.
1:49 Benito Skinner? That's Genovia, idiot. Do you know what a young Benito Skinner did in fourth grade?
1:55 Mary Beth Barone? Model UN?
1:56 Benito Skinner? Well, of course, I did do that. But in front of the entire class, I asked my teacher if she could point out Genovia on the map for me. Yeah.
2:05 Mary Beth Barone? That was confusing.
2:06 Benito Skinner? And she couldn't. And I go, I guess those who can't, teach.
2:09 Mary Beth Barone? Interesting.
2:10 Benito Skinner? Bitch.
2:11 Mary Beth Barone? Wow.
2:11 Benito Skinner? Yeah. No, something so funny happened the other day. I've waited to tell you it. And I keep thinking about it.
2:20 Mary Beth Barone? You're not going to tell me why you went to Geneva?
2:22 Benito Skinner? Do I have to? Okay, so.
2:24 Mary Beth Barone? You don't have to.
2:25 Benito Skinner? Because I let straight guys pick trips abroad. And one of them was like, well, that's where the UN is. We have to go. And then we went and I found out they just wanted to like see the red light district there. I kept getting duped. Also, Amsterdam is so beautiful.
2:39 Mary Beth Barone? Skydiving, then Geneva?
2:40 Benito Skinner? And everyone, it's like, they're like, we gotta go to Amsterdam to smoke some dope and see the red light district. So I was like, okay, I really want to go to Spain. And they're like, well, we really want to go to Geneva. I was like, all right, great. I guess, deal. I get it. At the UN?
2:54 Mary Beth Barone? Put her there, sister.
2:54 Benito Skinner? Shake your hand.
2:55 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
2:56 Benito Skinner? The other day, I went to Oh, Mary, Cola Scola. You are a genius. If you are in New York, I think it runs through January. It's the best thing I've ever seen, period. I have nothing more to say.
3:07 Mary Beth Barone? I think we could have never seen this coming. And I want to say that like, it, it's, it's, it just, it's sort of like the butterfly effect. Like, if, if we had to do COVID to get that play, then I'm happy. You know what I mean?
3:20 Benito Skinner? Put her there, sister.
3:21 Mary Beth Barone? Put her there.
3:22 Benito Skinner? Wait, this is so Geneva-coded. You know what it is? It's unfiltered, pure creativity, no notes. I can tell there were no notes in the making of this production. It should start like that.
3:33 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
3:34 Benito Skinner? And it's just, it's pure brilliance.
3:36 Mary Beth Barone? They trusted a creator and a brilliant genius comedian. They trusted a content creator. To make something that was like boundary pushing, edgy and left of center, which is what everybody says that they want. And I do believe audiences want it. And I think it's a testament how many times it's been extended and transferred to Broadway. They don't give enough talented creatives the opportunity to do things like that. So if theater is the way, then honey, I guess we're going to Broadway, kid.
4:03 Benito Skinner? Cause there's no business like show.
4:05 Mary Beth Barone? What we're gonna do, filibust on my back.
4:08 Benito Skinner? God, I forgot. Yeah, I'm doing the twink filibustering on my back. I'm doing the twink who got railed on the Senate floor. You know that, you know my big, my big pitch? Alejandro and Juliet.
4:19 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
4:21 Benito Skinner? It's Romeo and Juliet, but with Lady Gaga's music. I'm a bad kid, Tybalt.
4:26 Mary Beth Barone? Whoa.
4:26 Benito Skinner? Come on.
4:27 Mary Beth Barone? You kind of have this sort of ironed out.
4:29 Benito Skinner? I really do.
4:29 Mary Beth Barone? It's a jukebox musical meets Shakespeare meets Lady Gaga.
4:32 Benito Skinner? Yeah, but there are 50 musicals about Romeo and Juliet right now, I believe. So I think they want more.
4:37 Mary Beth Barone? They want more. It sounds like there's a lot of demand. It's all about supply and demand. So we'll put pen to paper.
4:42 Benito Skinner? Yeah, but I told people that idea when I was in the closet. Fearless.
4:48 Mary Beth Barone? You were breadcrumbing.
4:49 Benito Skinner? Well, of course. So there's a new era. Terry and I are staying at a hotel right now and there are these doorways. And I don't know, I was just walking out of bed. I sleep naked, so I was walking out of bed naked. And I walked past the doorway and I was kind of doing like a sexy walk for him, kind of making him laugh. And then I did all four limbs stuck like Spider-Man.
5:09 Mary Beth Barone? In the doorway?
5:10 Benito Skinner? Giving X. Like, it's like, just thinking of like a sexy lady.
5:14 Mary Beth Barone? So cheeky.
5:15 Benito Skinner? And then she goes like that.
5:16 Mary Beth Barone? Well, that sounds like a new TikTok trend.
5:18 Benito Skinner? It was so.
5:18 Mary Beth Barone? Maybe you're the one to start it.
5:20 Benito Skinner? I haven't seen him laugh like that in years.
5:22 Mary Beth Barone? It's goofy meets sexy.
5:24 Benito Skinner? Which, that intersection is us.
5:26 Mary Beth Barone? It's the perfect combination of sexy and cute. Remember from Crazy Stupid Love? But I think we need photos. You don't have to be naked. Maybe you could put on like a boxer, a boxer brief and some heels. Because I would love to see how the feet are sticking.
5:38 Benito Skinner? Well, that's my thing. You kind of need a little sweat. You need a little clamminess on the limbs, you guys.
5:43 Mary Beth Barone? For friction.
5:43 Benito Skinner? I say, don't try this at home unless you feel really confident.
5:46 Mary Beth Barone? Please don't injure yourself doing this.
5:48 Benito Skinner? Unless you feel really confident. That's how I feel today.
5:50 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. No, I get that. That's a huge era. And Terry actually brought it up at dinner the other night, which I thought was cool because he doesn't always announce the eras.
5:57 Benito Skinner? I had my birthday.
5:58 Mary Beth Barone? You had your birthday. You had.
6:00 Benito Skinner? You were at my dinner.
6:01 Mary Beth Barone? You're making a TV show. It's like a whole thing.
6:02 Benito Skinner? He posted such horny pics of me.
6:05 Mary Beth Barone? Well, what did I, what did I do? I texted you and I said, what's a photo you would never post, but you want the world to see? And you delivered.
6:12 Benito Skinner? I sent you the sluttiest things Terry and I had.
6:14 Mary Beth Barone? Yes.
6:14 Benito Skinner? Well, not the sluttiest.
6:15 Mary Beth Barone? Not the sluttiest.
6:16 Benito Skinner? Our final post on Ride the Pod in 10 years will be the real manicure pic. Manicure pic. Manicure.
6:21 Mary Beth Barone? And if our Instagram gets taken down, then so be it.
6:25 Benito Skinner? I don't care.
6:25 Mary Beth Barone? I don't care.
6:26 Benito Skinner? Silence me, Elon Musk.
6:27 Mary Beth Barone? Hey, out with the.
6:31 Benito Skinner? Sorry.
6:31 Mary Beth Barone? That's you getting shot and surviving.
6:33 Benito Skinner? I, I've said this.
6:35 Mary Beth Barone? So the era that we haven't, I don't know how to address this era because we can't really fully tell the story, but I don't need to see it. That could be such powerful prose for the baronies. But how do we like present this story?
6:48 Benito Skinner? So all we're gonna say is one time we were in front of somebody and they had the opportunity to be nice to someone else who was trying to show them something that was sweet and was about them. And they just said, I don't need to see it.
6:59 Mary Beth Barone? I don't need to see it.
7:00 Benito Skinner? And me and Mary Beth, it's one of those things where you immediately are like, I have to get my best friend alone because we have to talk about this. And not five minutes later, we were at a cafe and we looked at each other and went, I don't need to see it. It's, it's actually, and you can use it every day, all day.
7:16 Mary Beth Barone? You would be surprised the number of real world applications for I don't need to see it.
7:20 Benito Skinner? I said it to Terry last night.
7:22 Mary Beth Barone? You said it also two days ago. I didn't even remember the context, but you said, I don't need, you said it at the panel.
7:27 Benito Skinner? Oh, I did.
7:28 Mary Beth Barone? You said, I don't need to see it.
7:29 Benito Skinner? I don't need to see it.
7:29 Mary Beth Barone? I don't need to see it.
7:30 Benito Skinner? Wait, and then Terry was showing me, there was someone that I had, I had no idea who they were. And I was, I heard they were like a right wing, like crazy person. I don't know. I was like, what? And the whole table was like, Benny, how do you not know about this?
7:42 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, [BLEEP].
7:43 Benito Skinner? Oh, yeah, I didn't know who that was. And I was like, I don't need to see it.
7:46 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, no, I was happy to.
7:48 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
7:48 Mary Beth Barone? I also don't really know who that is. I just know she has a podcast. So I don't need to see it. And maybe one day, I think we could get permission from the artist to share.
7:57 Benito Skinner? I don't think so. Well, just to be clear, it's not Charlie.
8:00 Mary Beth Barone? No, no, obviously, no, no, it's not.
8:01 Benito Skinner? She would love it.
8:01 Mary Beth Barone? No, we would tell that. We would have her on, we'd have her send in as a voice note.
8:04 Benito Skinner? Yeah, also she'd be like, I was being a bitch. Like, she would just laugh.
8:07 Mary Beth Barone? Sorry, I was being a bitch.
8:08 Benito Skinner? She would be happy to see it, but it was, I do think about it all the time.
8:13 Mary Beth Barone? It took my breath away and I, it was sort of the same moment where you said Alexander Petrovsky died of COVID where I was like, but I couldn't outright laugh at the person because it was sad. It was like watching a car crash.
8:26 Benito Skinner? And then you can't spell nagging without Gaga.
8:28 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
8:28 Benito Skinner? Someone commented on TikTok, how do you spell nagging in America?
8:32 Mary Beth Barone? However, the fuck we want, it's a free fucking country.
8:35 Benito Skinner? There are two As in my nagging, trust. Fucker.
8:42 Mary Beth Barone? You're so into guns these days.
8:44 Benito Skinner? Well, someone has to be. I missed them in Canada.
8:47 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, we all did. We all missed them. This episode isn't coming out for a while because you have big plans. We had to bank some episodes because you've got a big trip coming up.
8:56 Benito Skinner? Can I just say one thing?
8:57 Mary Beth Barone? Please.
8:58 Benito Skinner? Ah, the ball.
8:59 Mary Beth Barone? Choo choo.
9:00 Benito Skinner? Where's your ticket?
9:04 Benito Skinner? Polar Express is so, it's such a demonic watch. But I watched it the day before the show got greenlit. So I have to watch it again this year.
9:11 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, one of our Christmas episodes, I'm riding for Uncanny Valley. Because that movie was what introduced me to Uncanny Valley.
9:18 Benito Skinner? I know three people who look like people in that movie.
9:20 Mary Beth Barone? Exactly. But do you want to reveal what you're going to be doing in the next couple of days? Because dreams come true.
9:26 Benito Skinner? Miracles happen.
9:28 Mary Beth Barone? This is what dreams.
9:29 Benito Skinner? Okay, I say with so much love to everyone involved. Kylie and Kendall haven't seen the Lizzie McGuire movie.
9:35 Mary Beth Barone? No.
9:35 Benito Skinner? I would bet my life on it.
9:38 Mary Beth Barone? What did we say two days before Halloween? We said people are dressing as references of things they haven't seen. My reference was Kendall Jenner as Irma Vep. That was my, that was my big throwing it against the wall. And then she was, she was Lizzie McGuire.
9:52 Benito Skinner? I, and the costumes were perfect. I just don't, I'm trying to think of the ages too. It's like that, it's just not, something about all of it, I'm like, my gut, because I do, I am intuitive. Everyone always tells me I'm intuitive.
10:07 Mary Beth Barone? You're somewhat girls.
10:08 Benito Skinner? Well, of course. And I just, do you agree with me? And I don't mean this in, it doesn't come from a place of hate. It just comes from a place of truth.
10:16 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
10:17 Benito Skinner? I think someone has to say it. They haven't seen it. And if they have, then I guess I'm wrong. And if they have, I don't need to see it.
10:25 Mary Beth Barone? I don't need to see it.
10:26 Benito Skinner? That was them to Lizzie McGuire movie.
10:27 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, I don't need to see it.
10:28 Benito Skinner? I don't need to see it.
10:28 Mary Beth Barone? We love the costumes. I don't need to see the movie.
10:30 Benito Skinner? I don't need to see it.
10:31 Mary Beth Barone? Kim's movie theater was closed that day.
10:33 Benito Skinner? Yeah, well, Kim was the alligator.
10:34 Mary Beth Barone? I.
10:35 Benito Skinner? In my perfect world, Kim left the albino alligator on for one week.
10:39 Mary Beth Barone? Can I just say that Noah Beck recently posted, from what looked like Kim Gaze movie theater, saying,
10:44 Benito Skinner? Yeah, he has a whole.
10:45 Mary Beth Barone? He posted a photo of Django Unchained and said, I finally had three hours to watch this movie. Which came out in 2012.
10:52 Benito Skinner? Busy boy?
10:53 Mary Beth Barone? Let's talk about the Venice Simplin.
10:55 Benito Skinner? And all I can say is, busy boy. And what a great watch. Hey, I'm jealous he got to see it for the first time.
11:00 Mary Beth Barone? On the big screen, too.
11:01 Benito Skinner? Can I just say?
11:02 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
11:03 Benito Skinner? I will be on the Venice Simplin Orient Express. I said, I literally can't believe it. I feel like Sophia Nygaard right now.
11:10 Mary Beth Barone? I'm Sophia Nygaard, and this is my latest video. Today Tyler and I will be dating in the decades.
11:16 Benito Skinner? That's one of your best impressions, and it hearkens back to the blonde girl in Gossip Girl. Can you please do her as well?
11:21 Mary Beth Barone? Who? Oh, fuck. Oh, my god. Oh, fuck.
11:24 Benito Skinner? It sounds a little bit like it.
11:26 Mary Beth Barone? What were the character names? I don't remember. I can't remember any of the, I'll prep it for next week. I'll prep it for next week. I can only do women with low voices. But I wanted another Gossip Girl season purely for the Tavi impression that you did.
11:39 Benito Skinner? Oh, I love being her.
11:40 Mary Beth Barone? We're either taking pics of teens.
11:42 Benito Skinner? We're either taking pics of teens, or we're not. Now, give 'em over. I don't need to see it if it's not pics of teens that were blackmailing these teens.
11:58 Benito Skinner? I love it. The straight guy in here is absolutely stone-faced.
12:00 Mary Beth Barone? Can we talk about how they MeTued one of the dads as a storyline?
12:03 Benito Skinner? Oh, I didn't see that.
12:04 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
12:04 Benito Skinner? Charlie's in it.
12:05 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. A lot of things happen in the show. Things are moving faster than the speed of light.
12:09 Benito Skinner? Oh, yeah.
12:10 Mary Beth Barone? Hard to keep up.
12:10 Benito Skinner? Threesomes.
12:11 Mary Beth Barone? Speaking of the speed of light.
12:13 Benito Skinner? I was in a poly relationship in high school. I can't even say it. I'm obsessed.
12:19 Mary Beth Barone? We love you.
12:20 Benito Skinner? Just to be clear, we loved it, and we had the time of our life.
12:23 Mary Beth Barone? Of course.
12:23 Benito Skinner? We always have the time of our life.
12:24 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, I could watch anything with you. But the Venice Simplin, does it break the sound barrier or no?
12:29 Benito Skinner? Yes.
12:29 Mary Beth Barone? Okay, cool.
12:31 Benito Skinner? I just can't believe it's real. I feel so lucky and grateful, truly. I mean, this like, I really can't believe it. It's a dream come true in every single way. It's childlike wonder, and I can't wait to be all aboard. I didn't get the Prada hat in time. None of you sent it to me, which is fine. I understand that birthdays, back orders, but yeah.
12:49 Mary Beth Barone? Well, I look bomb. Can I say one thing? Bon voyage.
12:52 Benito Skinner? It's just, it sucks that you won't be on it with me, because I would have loved to knock on your door, rip that open, turf Hogwarts. I suspect we'll be arriving soon. She gets on your robes.
12:59 Mary Beth Barone? But I got the wrong reference, so I'm doing Samantha and Cait. Terry going across country for the book tour and I have a huge pimple on my face.
13:06 Benito Skinner? Oh my god. Well, that's why I have perioral dermatitis.
13:08 Mary Beth Barone? Of course.
13:09 Benito Skinner? Because art is life and life is art.
13:11 Mary Beth Barone? Is art.
13:12 Benito Skinner? Speaking of which, of things that I don't need to see, the things I do need to see lately are people reviewing Lego sets. So today I will be writing for Legos. I'm sure there's a Lego of, oh, there's probably a Lego of the Venice Simpulan Orient Express.
13:25 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, you should find that.
13:26 Benito Skinner? I should knock on random people's doors who are staying on it and go, there's been a murder. Don't you think?
13:33 Mary Beth Barone? But do it in the, um.
13:34 Benito Skinner? I get arrested. They drop me off in Milan.
13:36 Mary Beth Barone? Knives out. I do declare.
13:38 Benito Skinner? I do declare, there's been a murder on this here.
13:43 Mary Beth Barone? That's fucking good, dude.
13:44 Benito Skinner? Sweetie, he showed up, I've never practiced it. That was my first practice. He showed up day one and is it Ran? Rian?
13:51 Mary Beth Barone? Rain.
13:52 Benito Skinner? Rain.
13:52 Mary Beth Barone? Ryan.
13:53 Benito Skinner? Rain.
13:54 Mary Beth Barone? Rain on me.
13:56 Benito Skinner? He showed up and he was like, yeah, I like that.
13:59 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, I think it's good.
14:00 Benito Skinner? And Daniel Craig, when I declare that you might here will be the murder of this here plot.
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14:23 Benito Skinner? Fuck off. Yeah, you can.
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14:43 Benito Skinner? Twenty some odd years.
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18:03 Benito Skinner? Yes.
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18:10 Benito Skinner? That includes beautiful leather jackets, cotton cardigans, soft, delicious denim, and so much more.
18:15 Mary Beth Barone? But how are they able to do that?
18:17 Benito Skinner? Dude.
18:18 Mary Beth Barone? I mean, what about the supply chain? Well, guess what? They're partnering directly with top factories and cutting out the cost of the middleman, which passes the savings on to us. Talk about someone who's had bad press over the years. The middleman? He can't catch a fucking break.
18:29 Benito Skinner? No, he really can't.
18:30 Mary Beth Barone? It's like, nobody wants to work with this guy.
18:33 Benito Skinner? No, literally.
18:34 Mary Beth Barone? Nobody wants to work with this guy. Quince only works with factories that use safe, ethical, and responsible manufacturing practices. Some other brands could take a note from that. And of course, premium fabrics and finishes for that luxury feel in every piece.
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18:56 Mary Beth Barone? Even Christmas.
18:57 Benito Skinner? Even Quice moist. Oh, my God, it's a Quincemas. Do you get that?
19:00 Mary Beth Barone? It's almost the second Satanic holiday of the year.
19:02 Benito Skinner? Exactly. That's Q U I N C E dot com slash ride to get free shipping and 365-day returns.
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19:10 Benito Skinner? Quince.com slash ride.
19:12 Mary Beth Barone? Ride. Wait, where are we going?
19:15 Benito Skinner? Who cares?
19:16 Mary Beth Barone? Ride. Want to go first?
19:19 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I think I have to because I gotta hitch the ride on the Polar Express.
19:23 Mary Beth Barone? We're in a rush.
19:23 Benito Skinner? I wish you were on it to read the Polar Express to me. I did my favorite thing for my birthday, which is you don't have to get presents from anyone else. Go into a store and buy yourself an entire outfit. Tip to taint. I'm telling you right now, it's like the best thing you can do for yourself. You feel like you're in life-size.
19:38 Mary Beth Barone? The second best thing you can do for yourself is ship something to my place. I'll wrap it. Something you bought yourself. I wrapped it and I brought it.
19:46 Benito Skinner? You know, it's the only thing I opened on my birthday.
19:49 Mary Beth Barone? It's more symbolic than anything, but oh, all right. Jacket's coming off.
19:54 Benito Skinner? Jacket's out of the bag and I'm ready to have sex.
19:57 Mary Beth Barone? He's ready to have sex at Melrose Podcast.
19:59 Benito Skinner? I don't look cute today.
20:00 Mary Beth Barone? Neither do I.
20:01 Benito Skinner? God, I look butt.
20:02 Mary Beth Barone? I didn't brush my hair and I burned my forehead with a curling iron, which I haven't done in a while. It was kind of an homage to my teenage self. Do you see that burn mark?
20:09 Benito Skinner? I do.
20:09 Mary Beth Barone? I just put it on my forehead.
20:11 Benito Skinner? I'm thinking of this TikTok where this girl was like, we have to tell our boyfriends how hot these things are.
20:15 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
20:15 Benito Skinner? Where he grabs it like a mic.
20:17 Mary Beth Barone? I've only heard that described to me. Another thing, I don't need to see it.
20:20 Benito Skinner? I don't need to see it.
20:21 Mary Beth Barone? Just the visual in my mind's eye is enough.
20:23 Benito Skinner? This is me meeting him. You're so fucking dumb.
20:26 Mary Beth Barone? You're so dumb.
20:28 Benito Skinner? You're so fucking dumb. So Legos. Here's my thing. I was reading recently that something really good for the body is like gardening and using your hands for something. And I was like, huh, well, I won't do that.
20:40 Mary Beth Barone? No, well, that's outside.
20:42 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I'm just, I'm not gonna do that. And Terry does that. It's like, what are we gonna like share pots? Like, I'm not doing that.
20:47 Mary Beth Barone? I wouldn't want to be involved. I feel like he has a system.
20:50 Benito Skinner? Period. Very much.
20:52 Mary Beth Barone? I don't need to see it.
20:54 Benito Skinner? So, okay, so my, my love affair with Legos started as a young boy. I will say this was obviously before she revealed herself to be a despicable turf. But I used to love the Harry Potter Legos. And they were queer coded to me at the time. They had whimsy.
21:14 Mary Beth Barone? I think they were for a lot of people.
21:15 Benito Skinner? Yeah. And I had to have every single set or else I couldn't sleep at night. So how did your OCD manifest as a child? But something about Legos, it was so peaceful. It was so, I had such control.
21:27 Mary Beth Barone? Well, there's order. It's law and order.
21:29 Benito Skinner? It's law and order. It was crazy to me because other boys would come over and they would like start playing with stuff and mixing it up.
21:34 Mary Beth Barone? No, that's not what they're for.
21:36 Benito Skinner? Stop doing sound effects with your mouth and get out of this room. They're placed there for a reason.
21:41 Mary Beth Barone? They're not for playing.
21:41 Benito Skinner? I would dust them once a week with a little sprayer to make sure there wasn't dust in my castle. But it was, I was so proud of it and I loved it so much. And the peace it brought me, I can't stress enough. It was like. As a kid, going through all kinds of stuff, but I was like, this, this space.
21:57 Mary Beth Barone? Well, it's meditative.
21:58 Benito Skinner? I walked into my room, I go, this must be the place.
22:00 Mary Beth Barone? This must be, and then you had a big neon sign.
22:02 Benito Skinner? Well, a huge neon sign, yeah.
22:03 Mary Beth Barone? It's meditative. What I love about Legos is that obviously you can freestyle, but if you get a Lego set, it tells you exactly what to do, exactly what you need to like make art, essentially.
22:13 Benito Skinner? And make trouble, in a lot of ways. And I, oh my god, I had Spider-Man Legos. Of all of this is maybe, you're maybe thinking, this kid might be straight, but no. These were all queer coded to me. And now knowing like Hogwarts and Spider-Man, gay. But it was, it was peace. And so then, I don't know, a couple of years ago or whatever, YouTube like knows me before I know me in a lot of ways. Like it knew I needed to see Sofia Nygaard take an Amtrak across the United States. Like I, it knew I needed to see that, which led me to seeing the Venice Symphony. So like, it's, I can't even, I can't even imagine what this new journey is gonna hold for me. Maybe Legoland, to be honest.
22:51 Mary Beth Barone? Okay, I was gonna go there.
22:52 Benito Skinner? Yeah, you have to have a kid.
22:54 Mary Beth Barone? You have to have, but you have to have a kid.
22:55 Benito Skinner? Right?
22:56 Mary Beth Barone? We could bring my nieces and nephew, perhaps.
22:58 Benito Skinner? Oh my god, my nephews would go absolutely feral.
23:03 Mary Beth Barone? Ape shit.
23:03 Benito Skinner? No, I think my nephew Brooks would just throw up the second he would walk in.
23:06 Mary Beth Barone? It's feats of engineering at Legoland. Like, you couldn't fathom how big these things are.
23:11 Benito Skinner? It's so chic. Is it, is Lego German? Am I wrong in that?
23:15 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, German. Ah, I would say.
23:17 Benito Skinner? Is it Swedish?
23:18 Mary Beth Barone? Here's my thing. I'm gonna guess Swedish or Danish, but I'm gonna look it up. Oh, Denmark. Of course, they're Danish.
23:25 Benito Skinner? So Lego is Danish.
23:26 Mary Beth Barone? That just fucking makes sense.
23:28 Benito Skinner? Right?
23:28 Mary Beth Barone? Right?
23:29 Benito Skinner? Ah, so true engineers, true geniuses. So all of a sudden, I just see this like review of a Lego set pop up and I was like, I guess in the tub, I'm gonna watch this right now.
23:40 Mary Beth Barone? With your one inch of water.
23:41 Benito Skinner? Yeah, well, of course. Hey, LA's in a drought. Sorry.
23:45 Mary Beth Barone? Always perpetual.
23:46 Benito Skinner? Well, of course.
23:46 Mary Beth Barone? It's a perpetual drought.
23:47 Benito Skinner? Even when it's raining.
23:48 Mary Beth Barone? It's a drought.
23:48 Benito Skinner? So I'm, I'm watching this video. I believe his name was Ashen Flash, and he was reviewing this Lego set. I was absolutely mesmerized. It was a new Harry Potter one, and wow, the technology is just unbelievable. You can't even imagine. It just, it's so much more complex. Like, the sets are more beautiful. They have like skin tones. They just, the detail, I was, this Hogwarts castle blew me away. It blew me away. And so I'm watching this and I don't know, just watching like someone build it. And sometimes there's builders on YouTube where they're build it and you hear all the clicks and they speed it up over time. But just, I don't know what it is, something in my brain, it's like, it just relieves anxiety.
24:29 Benito Skinner? Then I found out about this whole community, which is, it's called Lego Ideas and people submit designs. And then whoever gets like, I think 10,000 votes, then Lego decides if they're gonna make the set.
24:39 Mary Beth Barone? Community base.
24:40 Benito Skinner? It's incredible. They just did a Nightmare Before Christmas one that I was trying to get for my nephew because he's obsessed. I couldn't find this fucking set to save my life, so I had to buy it on Mercari. So I think someone in Florida has my credit card information. It's like this whole new era for them, which I think is incredible and like, I love, you know, I hope they're adequately paying the designers, but I just.
24:59 Mary Beth Barone? We have to say that.
25:00 Benito Skinner? I have to, no, but I just like fingers crossed.
25:02 Mary Beth Barone? This to me combines so many things that I feel like building a Lego set correctly satisfies OCD. That's just a theory that I have. Brown noise.
25:10 Benito Skinner? Can you tweet that?
25:11 Mary Beth Barone? And I will tweet that. Dear media clip that. Brown noise with the clicking. It's sort of like crumble cookie vibes because they're like doing reviews, they're opening boxes, it's a reveal.
25:19 Benito Skinner? Oh, you're seeing like a through line for me.
25:20 Mary Beth Barone? I'm seeing everything for you. This is like, this is fabulous.
25:23 Benito Skinner? It's creativity also. They're also my mom for Christmas one year, like just for something for us to do in Idaho. There was a.
25:33 Mary Beth Barone? There's only so many things.
25:34 Benito Skinner? There was a flower arrangement that they have. Now they have like things for adults because adults love Legos, okay? Just deal with it. And they make these like beautiful floral arrangements out of Lego. And then I just got my nephew this cat. It was just, it was just a massive cat that he wanted. They're just kind of for shelves and my nephew's room looks like a museum at this point. It's kind of sick. He has a Lego stitch. Well, he has a stitch and he's in like, he has like an ice cream cone. I was like, this is the coolest shit I've ever fucking seen in my life. It just, oh my God. And I think the creativity it gives to kids, but also yeah, the peace it gives to adults. I don't know, it just, it's, I haven't bought a new set recently. I kind of just get them for my nieces and my niece and nephews. I'm thinking about maybe getting one for this holiday season. Who knows?
26:15 Mary Beth Barone? Lego, you have our attention.
26:16 Benito Skinner? Lego, you have my attention and I just think it's back to that childlike wonder. I'll post some of my favorite creators on, on Ride the Pod. I think it's. My Disney adults thing, it's just an entire world that I'm not a part of. And I think it like, the piece of that is really interesting to me. I think it's beautiful. I think people need that. And yeah, it's not hurting anyone. And in fact, it's actually just like spreading ideas.
26:39 Mary Beth Barone? Creating beauty.
26:39 Benito Skinner? Yeah, but I wish I could be someone who could just raw dog freestyle Lego set, but I don't do stuff like that.
26:44 Mary Beth Barone? No, I don't have the vision. I think it's interesting because like we as comedians, we are part of the comedy world. So I don't really enjoy that much comedy that I see online. What I enjoy on the internet is things that are completely removed from that. So I think it's great that like people can enjoy creators. I'm like, I don't, I can't. So the fact that you found like Legos and crumble cookies and Disney adults and stuff, I don't know. I think it's cool.
27:09 Benito Skinner? Well, this happened at dinner when everyone was shocked. I didn't know who that girl was.
27:12 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, the right things are finding you.
27:14 Benito Skinner? The right things are finding me. Something I noticed from all the people I follow, it's like, they just feel like pure and good. And I just love how happy they are. But yeah, I'm hoping that this Christmas, my nephew's, he likes to delegate tasks to people. Once he gets all his toys.
27:28 Mary Beth Barone? Sounds like kind of me coded.
27:29 Benito Skinner? He's definitely, yeah, he's got that Mary Beth sickness. But last year, he just like handed I a set I had gotten him and he was like, build it. I was like, all right, cool. And I had the best day. It's really complicated though. God, they are kind of harder than you'd think. The car ones, I never really engaged in those as a kid.
27:45 Mary Beth Barone? No, well, the wheels and the axle thing.
27:47 Benito Skinner? Well, I can finally answer your question.
27:50 Mary Beth Barone? How do you start building a car?
27:51 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
27:51 Mary Beth Barone? Grab the first Lego.
27:52 Benito Skinner? Grab the first Lego piece. I'm very Nick Caraway. I'm very within and without it, but I, I'm paying attention.
27:59 Mary Beth Barone? And I love that.
28:00 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
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32:42 Mary Beth Barone? I'm paying attention to girl singers.
32:44 Benito Skinner? Me too.
32:45 Mary Beth Barone? Something that I've realized through dating men is that I don't really like their music. I want female singers. I want girl singers.
32:56 Benito Skinner? Can I say one thing? Justin Vernon, if you're listening, just keep swiping. Keep swiping.
33:01 Mary Beth Barone? Also, I would say the 1975 doesn't count.
33:03 Benito Skinner? Oh, yeah. Well, yeah.
33:04 Mary Beth Barone? Because that's somewhat girls to me.
33:06 Benito Skinner? 100%.
33:07 Mary Beth Barone? But I would say on the whole, so there's exceptions, of course. I like Frank Sinatra and Frankie Valli and stuff.
33:12 Benito Skinner? And Frank Ocean.
33:13 Mary Beth Barone? And Frank Ocean. Again, and thank you for bringing that up, somewhat girls.
33:17 Benito Skinner? Totally.
33:18 Mary Beth Barone? When I look through my Spotify, and I don't, I also have been realizing, like, I don't really look for new music that much. Like, if an artist I like puts out new music, I will listen to it.
33:27 Benito Skinner? We're past the age of looking for it.
33:28 Mary Beth Barone? I don't want to look for it. Like, I just want it to fall into my lap. God forbid Spotify send me a push notification when a singer I like releases a new song. I have to hear about it from four gay guys first, and then a week later, I get an email. Thanks, Spotify. Another exception to the rule is obviously Coldplay. But when I look through the things that I want to listen to, and again, somewhat girls. Also, always on the right side of history since day one. When I look at who I want to listen to, I mean, let's just look at people lately. This is at the top of my Spotify. Charli. Sabrina Carpenter.
33:58 Benito Skinner? Of course.
33:59 Mary Beth Barone? Frank Ocean, obviously. Lord. SZA, Japanese House, Camila Cabello, Ariana Grande, Kim Petras, Troye Sivan, somewhat girls.
34:08 Benito Skinner? Addison Rae.
34:09 Mary Beth Barone? Addison Rae. I don't need to hear from male singers. I need to hear from Olivia Rodrigo. Do you get that?
34:13 Benito Skinner? Oh, I need to hear from her right now. She had the, she had the most Mary Beth Barone statement. Can I just say this? Where she said she goes on first dates, and if they say they want to go to space, she doesn't go on a second date with them.
34:23 Mary Beth Barone? What?
34:23 Benito Skinner? Doesn't that sound like you? I don't know. I saw that and I went, whoa.
34:26 Mary Beth Barone? Space isn't for visiting. It's for appreciating.
34:27 Benito Skinner? Exactly. Yeah. See? And I was like, whoa, that's so galaxy brain. That's why you connect with her so much.
34:32 Mary Beth Barone? That is. I do think, like, there's space for male singers. I just don't think crooners.
34:36 Benito Skinner? Wait, clip that.
34:37 Mary Beth Barone? I don't like crooners. I think it's weird. I think, with respect to male singers, generally, when I open my music streaming app, what I'm gonna play, no matter what time of day it is, or what mood I'm in, it's a girl singer. I once told Edward that I was sleeping to Charli XCX on a plane, and he was like, that's sociopathic.
34:57 Benito Skinner? Well, how else are you supposed to sleep?
34:58 Mary Beth Barone? Exactly.
35:00 Benito Skinner? You going, but da da da da da da da da. See? Is it C point two?
35:03 Mary Beth Barone? It's peaceful, duh.
35:05 Benito Skinner? Yeah. Yeah, mine are all, oh, okay, I found two exceptions, the dare.
35:10 Mary Beth Barone? Mmm.
35:11 Benito Skinner? I like the girls, just, uh, you know what I mean? Omar Apollo, but gay.
35:16 Mary Beth Barone? Gay.
35:17 Benito Skinner? I mean, all mine are like gay coded, gay or British, so it's kind of like, doesn't count.
35:21 Mary Beth Barone? Did it even happen?
35:23 Benito Skinner? Exactly. Yeah, yeah.
35:25 Mary Beth Barone? I like rap music. I would say when I'm listening to a male singer, it's usually if I'm in that like mood of like, I want to listen to rap music or whatever. I did Google Lil Wayne presidential endorsement 2024, and I was disappointed to see that he did endorse Donald Trump.
35:38 Benito Skinner? Oh, he did?
35:39 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
35:40 Benito Skinner? Wheezy.
35:41 Mary Beth Barone? Come on. The man who wrote Mrs. Officer is endorsing Donald Trump.
35:45 Benito Skinner? And prom night?
35:47 Mary Beth Barone? And six foot, seven?
35:50 Benito Skinner? Pisses me off.
35:51 Mary Beth Barone? This is disappointing.
35:51 Benito Skinner? Hey, you're pissing me off, dude.
35:52 Mary Beth Barone? You know what? Maybe part of it is too, that with, when you stand a male singer, there's just so much opportunity for them to disappoint you. And when you stand a female singer, that risk reduces to almost zero.
36:04 Benito Skinner? You know what? Maybe we should be nicer to them, because like, they do stay killing everyone. So I'm like, maybe we should be a little bit nicer to straight guys. I've been thinking this lately. I guess it does. I really guess it does.
36:16 Mary Beth Barone? Well, everyone's gonna be mad at me.
36:18 Benito Skinner? I know. I know. It just sucks.
36:21 Mary Beth Barone? It just sucks. Look, there are a lot of male singers that I find talented and enjoyable to listen to, and I'm not saying that, I'm not trying to take anything away from them. I'm sure tons of men have won Grammys. I'm just saying, when I want to listen to music, if I want it to speak to my soul, it's, it's a female experience that I want reflected back at me.
36:38 Benito Skinner? And, and same. Ever since I was a kid, like, once I was watching the VMAs and it was Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Kesha, and Gaga, and Beyonce, and Rihanna, and that's kind of it for me. I, I just, since then, I haven't really heard any male singers enter the fold.
36:53 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
36:54 Benito Skinner? And I don't plan to. I just, yeah, I listen to hits. I listen to hitmakers, and...
37:00 Mary Beth Barone? I listen to pop, and I, I don't know. I just think, I agree.
37:04 Benito Skinner? It's just not gonna work. And it just, I just personally don't need that. When I'm walking down the street, I need B2B with Tinashe.
37:10 Mary Beth Barone? That's what I listen to on my ear.
37:11 Benito Skinner? You can't imagine what my hips do to that. I'm thinking that. I do need to see it.
37:18 Mary Beth Barone? I might make a playlist of girl singers, because also-
37:21 Benito Skinner? There's a few, yeah.
37:21 Mary Beth Barone? Lauryn Hill, which I've talked about, Banks, talked about at length, obviously Britney Spears, Hailee Steinfeld. Like, I just want girls.
37:30 Benito Skinner? Hayes.
37:30 Mary Beth Barone? Hayes, are you gonna post about it?
37:32 Benito Skinner? Didn't we talk about it?
37:33 Mary Beth Barone? Taylor Swift, how could I forget? Chapel Rowan, Caroline Polachek. I'm just like, how do you even have time to listen to male singers when there's so many good female ones?
37:40 Benito Skinner? I know, it's tough, Kat. You don't have to. And I would just say you don't have to. But yeah, I don't even know what their names are. Except I guess I knew Morgan Wallen. But I truly-
37:49 Mary Beth Barone? I know you had to go way back in your brain.
37:51 Benito Skinner? I would pass him in the street and I'm sure he makes great music, but I'm like, I just don't think it's for me. I don't think I need to see it.
37:59 Mary Beth Barone? Sorry.
38:00 Benito Skinner? Sorry. But yeah, female singers, God, I mean, they've raised me. They taught me what it meant to be a game man. They've taught me what it meant to be a woman and what, how to celebrate that and
38:10 Mary Beth Barone? find what I love about being a woman and, and wear it on my chest. Like, I'm wearing a shared t-shirt right now that says, "Rich man."
38:17 Benito Skinner? What's my shirt say right now?
38:18 Mary Beth Barone? "When I go to the club, I wanna hear those club classics." What now?
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38:31 Benito Skinner? Hey, are male singers better? What do you think now?
38:34 Mary Beth Barone? What I'll do is I'll make a playlist of girl singers and then male singers who I think are girl singer adjacent enough to-
38:42 Benito Skinner? There's 50 Bruno Mars songs.
38:43 Mary Beth Barone? There's a lot of Bruno Mars.
38:45 Benito Skinner? You have 50 Bruno Mars songs.
38:46 Mary Beth Barone? Magic in the air! He kinda snapped with that one. It's not something I would choose to put on.
38:53 Benito Skinner? But such a young-
38:55 Mary Beth Barone? But when my mom puts on Maroon 5 radio on Pandora, which also, Maroon 5, I obviously love Maroon 5.
39:00 Benito Skinner? Oh my, sugar?
39:01 Mary Beth Barone? Sugar!
39:06 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, so maybe, you know what, there's room for everyone at the table. I just think my table is all girls.
39:12 Benito Skinner? Girl dinner. I wanna build a Lego portrait of you. They do that too.
39:16 Mary Beth Barone? No, they don't.
39:17 Benito Skinner? And at JFK, they have, at the JFK airport, they have a Marilyn Monroe. And a huge Statue of Liberty, which I had a Statue of Liberty as a kid because she's queer coded as well.
39:24 Mary Beth Barone? Isn't having a Marilyn Monroe at JFK airport a little insensitive?
39:28 Benito Skinner? I completely agree.
39:28 Mary Beth Barone? Even everything that happened?
39:31 Benito Skinner? Have we said this on the pod, but whoever is running the estates of Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Basquiat hates Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Basquiat. I know that Andy Warhol, everyone would be like, Andy would want to be everywhere. I'm like, I think that, but I don't know if he'd want to be on a swatch.
39:48 Mary Beth Barone? No, I don't think we need a Basquiat blanket at Urban Outfitters.
39:51 Benito Skinner? No.
39:52 Mary Beth Barone? Can't we? Is nothing sacred?
39:53 Benito Skinner? Well, I said this to you before dinner and then you go, and while we're on the topic of that, whoever's running Marilyn Monroe's, yeah.
39:59 Mary Beth Barone? Hates the woman.
40:00 Benito Skinner? Kiss lashes.
40:01 Mary Beth Barone? Lego.
40:02 Benito Skinner? Don't make her a kiss lash.
40:02 Mary Beth Barone? A Lego at JFK airport. I just think.
40:06 Benito Skinner? That, I think she would have walked, she would have been coming from the flight and gone, oh boy, is that me? I just want to be in the Lego store one day in JFK terminal, right next to Shake Shack and across from McDonald's. Oh, boy. Like, don't treat my girl like that. She doesn't want to be there.
40:21 Mary Beth Barone? Movies should cost a thousand dollars and should be harder to make. You don't need to be able to touch Keith Haring in your house. You don't need to be able to have a Keith Haring t-shirt. You just don't need to.
40:29 Benito Skinner? No.
40:30 Mary Beth Barone? I just don't think you need to. I think we should save some things for the museums.
40:34 Benito Skinner? One time I was at, I was at a straight person's house and I went in the bathroom and they had a Keith Haring print in there and it was literally about AIDS. I was like, I just, I'm like, what do I do with this? I, I can't tell you, but that is, why is that in here? You have no idea what that one is about. I think that's what's, it's like, it's on a Uniqlo tee.
40:54 Mary Beth Barone? It's on this pair of socks.
40:56 Benito Skinner? Truly.
40:57 Mary Beth Barone? Our hearts go out to the, the artists we've lost and I, I hope whoever runs our estate at least gets us the Lego set.
41:05 Benito Skinner? I, I think at the airport, I would say whoever has our, our accounts after, and by accounts, I mean, our Instagram, whoever gets right the pod.
41:13 Mary Beth Barone? And our likenesses.
41:14 Benito Skinner? And our likeness, whatever. Go to town.
41:17 Mary Beth Barone? By the way, if they're using profits from Keith Haring's Urban Outfitter collab to pay for underprivileged kids to go to school.
41:24 Benito Skinner? That's amazing.
41:25 Mary Beth Barone? We didn't know, so we're sorry.
41:27 Benito Skinner? Yeah, but I'm just saying.
41:28 Mary Beth Barone? But do you get why I'm saying that?
41:29 Benito Skinner? I'm just saying.
41:29 Mary Beth Barone? Cause you can't say anything anymore.
41:31 Benito Skinner? Of course, I know. And I'm like, yes. If it supports product red, then I support it.
41:37 Mary Beth Barone? Of course.
41:38 Benito Skinner? As someone who had a product red iPod for years, I always chose product red.
41:43 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
41:43 Benito Skinner? Bono told me to, so I did.
41:45 Mary Beth Barone? Can I say one thing? Gap.
41:47 Benito Skinner? Exactly. You know what you are, Mary Beth?
41:50 Mary Beth Barone? Bisexual?
41:51 Benito Skinner? Well, yeah, but you're also my ride or die. Ride or die.
41:56 Mary Beth Barone? I ride for Legos.
41:57 Benito Skinner? Thank you.
41:57 Mary Beth Barone? I'm really glad you brought this up because, as I've mentioned many, many times on the podcast, inner child.
42:03 Benito Skinner? Can I say the brick community is very happy to have you?
42:05 Mary Beth Barone? Thank you. And I
42:06 Benito Skinner? We need more women.
42:08 Mary Beth Barone? Quite frankly, I would love to get a tiny little Lego set that means something to me. Maybe it's like a Spice Girls Lego set or something of that nature. And I would love to have it just like on a shelf in my house. And I just, I think there is so much art within the Lego world.
42:22 Benito Skinner? I'm gonna see what I can do.
42:23 Mary Beth Barone? I'm gonna look up some stuff on eBay. I feel like eBay is probably a good place.
42:26 Benito Skinner? I don't know if they've ever made that, but it would probably be custom. And I know there are lots of sites that where people do custom bricks. So I think there's probably a Spice Girls one. I'll see what I can do.
42:34 Mary Beth Barone? Custom bricks. I like how that sounds.
42:36 Benito Skinner? You like that, Vivi?
42:37 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, I do.
42:38 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I'm slinging custom bricks.
42:40 Mary Beth Barone? My guys, I've got only custom.
42:42 Benito Skinner? I love female singers. I have since I was a kid. My favorite thing about me.
42:46 Mary Beth Barone? Girls singers.
42:47 Benito Skinner? Girls, girl singers. I love female singers. I wish you were one. I think about that every day.
42:53 Mary Beth Barone? If I could sing, I would be a totally different person. I wouldn't be here. And so I'm glad I can't in a lot of ways, but.
42:59 Benito Skinner? There was a woman that was on TikTok where she was singing Defying Gravity. It was so unbelievable. And all the comments were like, if I had her voice, I would be unbearable.
43:06 Mary Beth Barone? The worst person that's ever walked the planet.
43:08 Benito Skinner? But I want to see you on Broadway.
43:11 Mary Beth Barone? I would love to do Broadway and sort of do an okay job, a musical on Broadway, and I do an okay job.
43:16 Benito Skinner? I think that's kind of like what a lot of actors do.
43:18 Mary Beth Barone? And everyone's like, her singing wasn't necessarily like perfect, but she gave it her all.
43:22 Benito Skinner? It was fun for the week.
43:23 Mary Beth Barone? Exactly.
43:24 Benito Skinner? Yeah, you're all, it's only on for a week.
43:25 Mary Beth Barone? It's a for a week. Yeah, it's a short run.
43:27 Benito Skinner? It's a very short run.
43:28 Mary Beth Barone? That's all I need.
43:29 Benito Skinner? But yeah, I love female singers. You keep the world spinning. You keep us gays on our toes. And you feed us in a way that no one else could, especially male singers. I'm sorry. Women are the music industry. They always have been, and they always will be. Period.
43:42 Mary Beth Barone? And thank you so much to the Recording Academy for sponsoring this episode.
43:46 Benito Skinner? To the Grammy According Academy. According. I'm so tired. It's in my bones.
43:52 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
43:53 Benito Skinner? I need a little Lego set and Christmas hot cocoa.
43:55 Mary Beth Barone? But we're done.
43:56 Benito Skinner? What if the whole time I'm on the Orient Express, I'm just building a Lego set in my cabin? I never go anywhere. I don't do anything.
44:02 Mary Beth Barone? That's the content I'd like to see. It's a time lapse video and you finish just as the train's pulling in.
44:06 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
44:07 Mary Beth Barone? Can you tell people where it's going to and from?
44:09 Benito Skinner? It's going from Paris to-
44:11 Mary Beth Barone? Tokyo.
44:12 Benito Skinner? To Tokyo. To the North Pole. No, it's going from Paris to Venice, which I've never been to. And I just watched the new Ripley, which I'm obsessed with. I think it's incredible. Dakota Fanning, like, you're always on notice. For me, I just think you're incredible. Andrew Scott.
44:26 Mary Beth Barone? Andrew Scott.
44:27 Benito Skinner? Andrew Scott, you are a king. And you're also on notice. It was fabulous.
44:33 Mary Beth Barone? We can't get into this now because we don't have time. But at some point, I would like to talk about how Venice existing as a city is one thing in my long list of things that makes me believe we're in a simulation. We'll talk about it another day.
44:45 Benito Skinner? Is it based on The Italian Job starring Charlize Theron?
44:47 Mary Beth Barone? It has, it has notes of The Italian Job. You mean the remake of The Italian Job.
44:51 Benito Skinner? You're such a cinephile.
44:52 Mary Beth Barone? I'm a stickler.
44:53 Benito Skinner? You're such a cinephile.
44:54 Mary Beth Barone? What can I say? Oh, you know what? I know I'm a cinephile because I watched, oh, oh, I made history. I made history when I went to Boston College. I was the only person to ever watch Gaspar Noz's Enter the Void on my laptop on Netflix in Vanderslice 413. That was my dorm room. I made history.
45:13 Benito Skinner? I don't need to see it.
45:13 Mary Beth Barone? I don't need to see it.
45:18 Benito Skinner? Oh, my exit.
45:20 Mary Beth Barone? Benny, babe, eyes on the road. Benny, go!
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