Pod Insights Ride with Benito Skinner and Mary Beth Barone Occupy Wall Street + The OC About this episode It's truly an extended heritage month with some of the most RIDE rides we've had thus far on the show. Mary Beth rides for Occupy Wall Street while Benny rides for his current binge-watch, The OC. Melinda Clarke hive RISE!
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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. Take care.
0:30 Benito Skinner? I'm Benito Skinner.
0:31 Mary Beth Barone? I'm Mary Beth Brown.
0:33 Benito Skinner? And this?
0:33 Mary Beth Barone? Is?
0:34 Benito Skinner? Ride.
0:38 Benito Skinner? California. California. Feeling so amigo. Let me go now. I haven't done that all season, but I am feeling so amigo to be here for the finale of season two is what we do, and we did it, girl. And I just did all of that again because we were recording. I can always do two takes, just don't ask me to do three, kid.
1:05 Mary Beth Barone? No, I would never do something such as that.
1:07 Benito Skinner? I'm wearing loafers. I'm ready to talk.
1:09 Mary Beth Barone? Okay, well, I guess we should just get into it. Are there any housekeeping items you have for me? I'm gonna check my list.
1:15 Benito Skinner? Oh, you want the finale? We're just, we want this one to be 15 minutes, quick and dirty.
1:19 Mary Beth Barone? Well, it's 15 minutes.
1:21 Benito Skinner? Today was a crazy day because the teaser's out and I'm fine to date the pod.
1:27 Mary Beth Barone? Wow, we're dating the pod for the very first time.
1:29 Benito Skinner? For the very first time in podcast history, we are dating the pod. We do record this sometimes before it comes out.
1:37 Mary Beth Barone? We record this sometimes before it comes out.
1:40 Benito Skinner? It's not live, which just is, I think that's a bummer and I'm sorry. Hey, I wish we could do it live every week. Teaser's out. To end on my girl with a headset, and I knew that Barone HQ would eat that up.
1:51 Mary Beth Barone? And put me next to the teacher from Lizzie McGuire movie, of course.
1:57 Benito Skinner? Ungermeyer.
1:57 Mary Beth Barone? In her headset.
1:58 Benito Skinner? Last name Ungermeyer, darling.
2:01 Mary Beth Barone? On that topic of overcompensating, which I sometimes call the OC.
2:04 Benito Skinner? The OC.
2:05 Mary Beth Barone? But then I know I'm gonna confuse people.
2:08 Benito Skinner? Well, sometimes when I try to make the graphics of me, you, Adam Wally, it's OC, but we are siblings, but we end up as Benjamin McKenzie and Misha Barton. But you know what? Let it rock, let it rock.
2:21 Mary Beth Barone? It's just a reference. It's a reference.
2:24 Benito Skinner? It's just a reference visually.
2:25 Mary Beth Barone? We are, we are.
2:26 Benito Skinner? Wally is so summer and Adam is so sad.
2:30 Mary Beth Barone? Do you remember Youth of the Nation from Blue Crush?
2:33 Benito Skinner? Youth of the Nation, we are, we are.
2:36 Mary Beth Barone? That feels like post nine 11 media, even though I'm not sure if it was.
2:39 Benito Skinner? My football highlight reels were post nine 11 media, to be clear.
2:43 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, my God. Oh, my God. You know what? Fuck. You know what I heard the other day and I go, we didn't talk about that on the pod? I'm here without you, baby. But you're still on my lonely mind. I think about you. That was about like going to Afghanistan.
2:57 Benito Skinner? And I dream about you all the time.
3:01 Mary Beth Barone? So that's important.
3:02 Benito Skinner? Wake me up when September runs.
3:08 Mary Beth Barone? So I didn't like Green Day for a while because they hated George Bush.
3:12 Benito Skinner? Hmm.
3:14 Mary Beth Barone? Little did I know, little did I know.
3:16 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
3:18 Mary Beth Barone? One day I would not only be standing the band, I would also be riding for Occupy Wall Street. Now that's a, it's a spoiler, but today for the finale, I'm riding for Occupy Wall Street and you're riding for?
3:29 Benito Skinner? It's a carjack, which I, I love coming up with these. I told Terry, we have a special episode coming after this one. You guys are gonna love it. I, I said, oh yeah, it's called the school bus. And he goes, I think you guys should stop.
3:39 Mary Beth Barone? He's like, I don't think you need to always do that.
3:42 Benito Skinner? He's like, I think we get it. Also, Terry, two minutes in.
3:46 Mary Beth Barone? Two minutes in, kid.
3:47 Benito Skinner? Yes, I'm doing a carjack today and I'm, I'm riding for something that Mary Beth was obsessed, bleep it, with the OC. I've been rewatching it at a pace that is making people worried.
3:57 Mary Beth Barone? One can only describe it as it's clinical.
4:00 Benito Skinner? Of course.
4:01 Mary Beth Barone? It's a clinical level.
4:03 Benito Skinner? If we're doing the A N T M photo shoot, it's gluttony. I'm gluttony.
4:06 Mary Beth Barone? It's gluttony.
4:07 Benito Skinner? It's my friend, I think I said this in the last episode and if not, I'll edit and you know, of course we, we can cut whatever we need to. Like feeling like fucking with you today. I don't know why, but he, yeah, he's been doing one a day. And he's like, how many are you doing? And I'm like, four to five at least.
4:21 Mary Beth Barone? Four to five. It's only five hours. It's not even long.
4:24 Benito Skinner? There was, I had a break, five minutes in between zooms and I almost went to. Watch it and I was like, oh, okay.
4:31 Mary Beth Barone? It's that good.
4:32 Benito Skinner? It's just that good. And can I say what else is just that good? The other OC, overcompensating.
4:38 Mary Beth Barone? Overcompensating. So.
4:39 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
4:40 Mary Beth Barone? Baronies, please send your questions to this is ride one at gmail dot com. Any questions you have about overcompensating, questions you have about the cast, we will answer them for you. But we're not gonna say how or when. We're not gonna say how or when.
4:53 Benito Skinner? We would never. Amazon's at the door.
4:55 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, my God. Wait, they're here.
4:57 Benito Skinner? I'm sorry.
4:58 Mary Beth Barone? I'm back in the bunker. I'm in the detention center.
5:00 Benito Skinner? Well, yes, you posted the trailer two minutes before you were supposed to.
5:04 Mary Beth Barone? They found me. Amazon found me. The government found me. I was in the group text with Pete Hegseth as well about Yemen. And I was like, guys, I want to be, I want to divest from this narrative. Please let me leave this group chat.
5:16 Benito Skinner? I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative. That was Mary Beth in every episode we would read.
5:21 Mary Beth Barone? Pete Hegseth, Pete Hegseth sent that text that's like, are you ready to see, receive information that could potentially hurt you? And I was like, I don't want it. Please, please, please, please don't tell me. But he sent it anyway. And now here I am.
5:33 Benito Skinner? Catch me on a weird day and I'm like, maybe.
5:36 Mary Beth Barone? Maybe, but that day I didn't want to. I had already been going through a lot and so.
5:40 Benito Skinner? Have you seen Adolescence? Sorry, I don't know what made me think of that.
5:43 Mary Beth Barone? Avoiding it, actually.
5:44 Benito Skinner? Whoa, I, well, I feel like I got arrested last night. It's an incredible show, but it's just kind of OC or nothing for me right now. And I say that with love to everyone involved. Like, I've tried to watch other things and I know that Adoles- me and Adolescence will have a moment. But I just, it, it made me so panicky that I had to, I had to exit. And for anyone else who's feeling that way, I would say if there's a complete polar opposite of a show, we made it.
6:11 Mary Beth Barone? And there's room for both, which is important.
6:13 Benito Skinner? Well, that's what's so cool about media.
6:15 Mary Beth Barone? I will watch it eventually. I just don't want to watch it right now.
6:18 Benito Skinner? Let's watch it together at Coachella.
6:19 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, perfect. Yeah. Well, I'm not going to see any of the performers.
6:23 Benito Skinner? Of course not.
6:25 Mary Beth Barone? I'm bringing my laptop to stream.
6:26 Benito Skinner? They're like, hey, are you at the, what's it? I literally almost said the Manjaro tent. Leaving LA, I should move.
6:32 Mary Beth Barone? It's the Sahara tent, my love.
6:33 Benito Skinner? Sahara tent. And we're like, we kind of have our own Sahara tents. I didn't know you were so opinionated.
6:40 Mary Beth Barone? On that note, I did want to say that Sweet Greens are sanctuary cities for Baronies. So if you ever feel unsafe or like, you know how there's like sanctuary cities for like certain demographics? Sweet Green is our, is a sanctuary city.
6:52 Benito Skinner? Quasi Moto's mom. What doors do you think she was banging down? That was the Sweet Green love.
6:59 Mary Beth Barone? Oh my god.
7:00 Benito Skinner? Sex, Sherry, sex, Sherry.
7:02 Mary Beth Barone? You bring up this Hunchback of Notre Dame literally every chance you get.
7:05 Benito Skinner? Well, I was saying to Terry, I think there's something beautiful in the animated films that exist now, but they are so starkly different than the absolute batshit ass insane things that we grew up with. I was in the car last night and I'm like, maybe this is the woke mob's fault.
7:23 Mary Beth Barone? No, I think it's that back then, kids needed to be exposed to like trauma and heartbreak because their siblings were dying of polio and the measles. And then it became like, oh, childhood is actually something to be celebrated. People should stay kids as long as they can. And so they started making movies that like were heartfelt and hopeful. But I was thinking about All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 and how I want to talk about that in season three or four. It's definitely not a season two topic because it's really like, that movie is about like, it's about the mob and it's about where dogs go when they die. And it's like, not like, it's like fucking scary.
7:56 Benito Skinner? Oliver and Company, also about the mob.
7:59 Mary Beth Barone? And on that note, Bambi, Dumbo, I mean, they're all just like so sad.
8:02 Benito Skinner? Tarzan, Tarzan, let's say it together. One, two, three, Chosen Family.
8:08 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, for sure.
8:08 Benito Skinner? Tell me that's not about Chosen Family. The Death Count and Tarzan will send a chill down your spine. And there is a full scene in Hunchback, I think I've literally talked about it, I'll talk about it again, where that nasty little priest, I think he's a priest.
8:21 Mary Beth Barone? Don't know the official title.
8:22 Benito Skinner? His song is about like being attracted to Esmeralda. It's very much like your haters are your biggest fans. That was a tough lesson for kids when she didn't end up with Quasi. I don't know what they were trying to teach us with that. In the book, she's, she dies, I found that out. I didn't realize, but in the movie, you know, they don't end it like that. But in the book, I do believe she's burned at the stake. So Disney was kind of like, have you read this fucking crazy ass book? Someone I know that Crime and Punishment was, was pitched during that time.
8:51 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, oh, oh, wait, wait, wait. Hans Zimmer, I just saw a clip of Hans Zimmer talking about scoring The Lion King because his dad died when he was six years old. And he, he decided to work on that movie because his daughter was six years old and he had not worked on a movie that he, his daughter could like, he could share with his daughter. So he watched the movie and he, I have chills, literally. He was like, I watched the movie and it is about like, it is about a child losing his father. And he was like, admittedly with fart jokes, but he was like, when you hear the score, it's like, it is like for my father, like I wrote it for my father.
9:22 Benito Skinner? Oh, I just got chills because I just pictured, oh my god, that moment when fucking Simba. Starts to go up pride rock and he goes,
9:34 Benito Skinner? and it's Simba, remember.
9:38 Mary Beth Barone? Stop.
9:39 Benito Skinner? I used to do that as a kid. I used to do that as a kid all the time.
9:42 Mary Beth Barone? Impression.
9:43 Benito Skinner? Well, yeah, it's in my arsenal. James Earl Jones. I'm literally, what an incredible man. I miss him. I think that that's the best vocal performance. He has the two best vocal performances of all time. Darth Vader and Mufasa.
9:55 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. Wow.
9:57 Benito Skinner? That's impact.
9:58 Mary Beth Barone? One of the greats.
9:59 Benito Skinner? That's impact kitchen.
10:01 Mary Beth Barone? And we said, we're not talking about James Earl Jones until the finale of season two. We had that conversation. We said they're not ready.
10:07 Benito Skinner? It's in the contracts.
10:09 Mary Beth Barone? It's in the contract. I want to redefine the word posthumous to mean like after you've been canceled. So it's like, you can like put something out posthumously, but it's like, like Shane Gillis has had a Netflix special. It was like his posthumous Netflix special. Do you get that?
10:23 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I think that's great. To me, you're now, I feel like you're just trying to get clipped by Dear Media. You're begging for it.
10:30 Mary Beth Barone? I have a separate notes app for things I think Dear Media will clip.
10:33 Benito Skinner? You want them to clip all of this? Let's see if I've got anything. Well, I have all my OC notes. This is the first time I've ever taken notes for the pod. Pod opening. Let's see if there's anything that we forgot. This is fly cleaners caused my breakup.
10:46 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, but that feels season three or four.
10:48 Benito Skinner? Can we keep the line though?
10:50 Mary Beth Barone? Well, of course. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I was dating someone when I was like 24 and 25. And I said to him, like, I just think if I think fly cleaners will lose our stuff. And let's just say like two weeks later, we weren't dating anymore. We lived together, by the way. So we'll talk about that in season three.
11:08 Benito Skinner? I do have a thing here about sometimes dogs smell really bad and your hand smells bad after petting them. And if you have one of those dogs, give it a bath. I don't know why.
11:19 Mary Beth Barone? Dear Media, you know what to do.
11:22 Benito Skinner? Live that sister. Here's my thing. I'm just like, at least give me a warning. Now my hand smells like zutipie. And I will say it as many podcasts as it takes. If the trash bin is full, you can put the dog shit in it. If it is empty, you're a bad person, I fear. You can't do that.
11:42 Mary Beth Barone? I hate the idea of more surveillance, but I do think like sometimes these people need to be like
11:46 Benito Skinner? Talking about surveillance. Let me say, oh my God, adolescence. Well, it's just like, I just was not ready. Adolescence was put on the TV and I did not give my consent in the way. I was not mentally ready for that. So not to give anything away.
12:00 Mary Beth Barone? Here's a happy story. My dad got a call a few weeks, maybe a couple of months ago from someone who was like, I'm your cousin. Our, so a pair of sisters married a pair of brothers. So like on both sides, they're cousins. Do you get what I mean?
12:17 Benito Skinner? Yeah, totally.
12:18 Mary Beth Barone? Cousins. And then he came to my parents' house for dinner and he's just like a lovely guy and he knows like a ton about our family history on my dad's side. So it's just crazy that one, like that can happen at any age. You can have a new family member. And also just the idea, what a thrill to have a double cousin, two sisters marrying two brothers.
12:38 Benito Skinner? It's very, the kids are all right, but like a new spin on it.
12:41 Mary Beth Barone? Exactly. It's very, and I think Terry would like it.
12:44 Benito Skinner? Oh, he would love. He asked to watch that movie every single night. And I'm like, really? That's your heart's desire. One of these nights though, I'm gonna say it to surprise my man.
12:53 Mary Beth Barone? I would love to shake Mark Ruffalo's hand and just say like, thank you for everything. Do you get that?
12:59 Benito Skinner? I agree. I know he gives good hugs.
13:01 Mary Beth Barone? Oh my God. You know what?
13:03 Benito Skinner? Of aftershave and pipe tobacco. What is that?
13:06 Mary Beth Barone? Mark Ruffalo?
13:07 Benito Skinner? Cinnamon and pipe tobacco.
13:09 Mary Beth Barone? Cinnamon and pipe tobacco.
13:10 Benito Skinner? I scared the shit out of this woman recently because I hugged her and I went by the fireplace and she went, yeah?
13:17 Mary Beth Barone? What woman? Who are you hugging?
13:18 Benito Skinner? Oh, here I go again. We were doing an edit for the trailer for overcompensating. And this woman who worked with the main editor, I hugged her and I was like by the fireplace. It blew her mind. I think to have a man know anything, she didn't know I was gay yet, I think.
13:35 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, and thank you. Okay. So men's spatial awareness is also in this, in this note. How many times have you seen, okay, picture this.
13:44 Benito Skinner? Straight men. You know, you're talking straight men.
13:46 Mary Beth Barone? Of course. This happened to me and it really, it brought up a lot for me.
13:49 Benito Skinner? Okay.
13:49 Mary Beth Barone? Picture this, you're walking into the Soho house, into Holloway House. And there are two women and one man in a semicircle having a conversation in front of the door.
13:58 Benito Skinner? What's that? I smell? What's that brand? That's Cowshed.
14:02 Mary Beth Barone? It's Cowshed.
14:03 Benito Skinner? Yeah, keep going.
14:04 Mary Beth Barone? You're approaching the door and as you get closer, you notice the man who is blocking the door the most is not moving over even slightly. And in fact, hasn't moved at all. And then you have to watch one of the women he's with, put her hand on his back and physically push him out of the way, of my way, so I can get in the door. I have seen that happen at social functions. I've seen it happen on mass transit. I've seen it happen at airports. What are men not seeing? Is their peripheral vision okay? Because they're not seeing that, like, there is a figure, a human-shaped person, walking towards them and they need to move.
14:38 Benito Skinner? This is same with at airports and stuff and they never know the size of their bag that they're carrying. I'm like, hey, just to, just so you know, your bag is in a ghost.
14:47 Benito Skinner? Hey, sir, I'm not sure if you know this, but your bag is in a ghost. It hit me.
14:50 Mary Beth Barone? So it's, it's a physical tangible thing.
14:53 Benito Skinner? It's a part of you and I would probably like, watch where you move it. Yeah, that, and then I have to say, I've been on a few lunches with straight men recently, where they were speaking so loudly and also their bodies were opened up to the whole restaurant. And I was kind of like, if you want to just do a set, I'm sure you could find a stand-up show. Like, I'm sure you could, you could get a mic. Like, if you really want one, I bet we could find that for you.
15:15 Mary Beth Barone? If you want to put on a show, honey, there's menus all over the city.
15:18 Benito Skinner? Totally. It's like, but I'm trying to eat a quinoa bowl and I want it to be private and intimate. But I'm over it.
15:23 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, maybe this is a difficult conversation that like girlfriends of straight men need to have and mothers, I would say, perhaps.
15:31 Benito Skinner? I would say, start with a compliment. I don't want to set these guys off. Let's start with a compliment, but let's, hey, it's a roller coaster. Build them up before you tear them down.
15:38 Mary Beth Barone? Exactly. And I do want to shout out all the baronies who are on the way, baronies on board, all the pregnant barony moms. And then I read on the Reddit today that someone was referring to their unborn child as fucker Jones, whenever the baby would do something annoying, like kick her or whatever. And I just love that that is, I mean, it's just so beautiful. And we can't wait to watch these children grow up with, with just love in the home.
16:04 Benito Skinner? I'm picturing AirPods, AirPod Maxes on the baby bump and they're listening to our Ferrero Rocher episode. They're turning up.
16:13 Mary Beth Barone? And their moms are whispering to them, I'll never keep a secret from you.
16:18 Benito Skinner? We don't. Wait, Jackson, what was your favorite episode? Me begging for compliments because the world is so scary.
16:24 Speaker 04 No, honestly, I loved the Bond episode.
16:26 Mary Beth Barone? Oh.
16:27 Benito Skinner? Oh.
16:28 Mary Beth Barone? Fascinating.
16:29 Benito Skinner? I love that. That feels very Skuna.
16:33 Speaker 04 Skuna.
16:34 Mary Beth Barone? And thank you for bringing up our parent company, Amazon, who has just gotten the rights from the broccoli family for James Bond.
16:41 Benito Skinner? You're looking at Q and a Bond girl.
16:45 Mary Beth Barone? And M. They're gonna have me play, they're gonna have me in old lady prosthetics to say M.
16:50 Benito Skinner? Oh, very X. I love that.
16:52 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, very X.
16:54 Benito Skinner? Should we get into what we ride for in this big finale day? What was your favorite of the season, actually, before we get into it? Because I'm curious.
17:01 Mary Beth Barone? This is so random, but I really, for some reason, when I was editing Kelly Rohrbach's Instagram, the sensory experience of hearing us describe pictures.
17:10 Benito Skinner? You made me laugh in that.
17:13 Mary Beth Barone? It's cold, babe.
17:14 Benito Skinner? You were so cute.
17:15 Mary Beth Barone? No, it was so funny.
17:17 Benito Skinner? Let us know which ones you guys like. It's always good to. My favorite, I think it was Kelly Rohrbach's. I was laughing. I was pissing myself at you during that. That was, oh my god. There was something else that really made me laugh. Let me, if I just see them, I'll see it.
17:32 Mary Beth Barone? I'm starting a doc of jokes we can't talk about until season six, and we'll bleep this, but you know what I thought of the other day?
17:38 Benito Skinner? What?
17:39 Mary Beth Barone? Best believe I'm still bejeweled. Turn your mouth into a shitter.
17:43 Benito Skinner? Oh, we can do that now. So.
17:45 Mary Beth Barone? No.
17:45 Benito Skinner? I ruin every song I sing with Terry, and I have to. It's the first thing I do. Like, I just did. So, debuting, relationships. What's all this talk of relationships? I just have to. I don't know why my brain does that. Gwistle while you gork. Gwada gwada gwada gwada gwada.
18:04 Mary Beth Barone? All my life, I always loved parages.
18:07 Benito Skinner? Oh, I don't think they're ready for parages. Have we talked about parages? I don't think so. 16 parages, driving away.
18:18 Mary Beth Barone? It doesn't make sense.
18:19 Benito Skinner? I would do that. Do you get it? Parages. Do you get the joke, Jackson?
18:24 Speaker 04 No.
18:25 Benito Skinner? Well, there's no-
18:26 Mary Beth Barone? No one does. So, Jackson, do you get it now?
18:30 Speaker 04 I still don't get it.
18:31 Benito Skinner? Is this, is-
18:32 Speaker 04 Am I dumb?
18:34 Mary Beth Barone? I don't get it either.
18:35 Benito Skinner? It's just literally fucking up the lyrics or something. Just making some-
18:38 Mary Beth Barone? So, do be jeweled, do be jeweled.
18:40 Benito Skinner? Best believe I'm still be jeweled. When I walk in the room, I can turn your mouth into my own personal shitter.
18:49 Benito Skinner? It's so dumb.
18:50 Mary Beth Barone? This is why I have to-
18:52 Benito Skinner? Best believe I'm still be cruel.
18:53 Mary Beth Barone? Speaking of si- sitting at a dinner. I'm at, I'm at Ellen E. Oysters. And Benny's pointing his mouth and saying, "I can turn your mouth into a shitter."
19:06 Benito Skinner? I'm just bored.
19:08 Mary Beth Barone? Hey, babe, if you want to do a set, we'll find you a stage.
19:12 Benito Skinner? Fuck it.
19:15 Benito Skinner? At Ellen E., you go, "What's it, what's down the block? Virgil? The Virgil's right down the street, babe." Yeah, that's one. 16 parages and then aqua marine. And then I changed it to aqua poutine.
19:35 Mary Beth Barone? Some of these girls listening are gonna latch on to these and ruin their friends' days.
19:40 Benito Skinner? Ruin their relationships, I would say. Relationships. What's all this talk of these relations? Recently, though, Terry, he's working with a new musician. And we were listening to the song and I immediately did one. And he was like, "Just give me a week with it first." And I respected that.
19:58 Mary Beth Barone? He was like, "Let me come up with the vision and then we'll get into that."
20:01 Benito Skinner? Yeah, then we can get into you. Absolutely, just demolishing-
20:06 Mary Beth Barone? Bastardizing.
20:07 Benito Skinner? Bastardizing.
20:08 Mary Beth Barone? Bastardization.
20:09 Benito Skinner? The bastardization of fabulous pop music.
20:12 Mary Beth Barone? Um, okay, should we get into, oh, you want to say something?
20:15 Benito Skinner? Well, no, I'm just, yeah. Today, for the last ride of season two, I'll be riding for the OC.
20:21 Mary Beth Barone? And I will be riding for a little left-wing populist movement called Occupy Wall Street. Let's get into it.
20:29 Benito Skinner? Uh-oh, smells like cow shed and heritage.
20:33 Mary Beth Barone? Thank you.
20:34 Benito Skinner? Fuck.
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25:28 Benito Skinner? Who cares? Ride! So I have been taking notes while watching the OC. I have a few things I want to talk about. I'm just going to read these off and if anything sparks, let me know. Jackson, you can stop me at any time.
25:41 Mary Beth Barone? Okay, just let me, give me one beat after each thing and I'll say if I want to, if I want to amplify or add to.
25:47 Benito Skinner? Perfect. We're just firm and we move on.
25:52 Benito Skinner? You do the SOS. Ryan's armband.
25:55 Mary Beth Barone? Amplify.
25:56 Benito Skinner? Okay, so. So Ryan Atwood, for those who haven't seen the OC, it's about this boy from Chino who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and his brother gets him in trouble at the beginning. He's in trouble with the law and this lawyer comes who takes him into his house and they adopt him, this lawyer and his very rich wife who live in Newport Beach in the OC. They have a son Seth and he becomes fast friends with Ryan Atwood. Next door is this family friend, Marissa Cooper, the hottest girl in town, who's Luke's girlfriend. And her best friend is Summer, who Seth is in love with. And I think that's kind of it.
26:36 Benito Skinner? It's just like the life and times of these four hotties in high school in, in the OC. In Orange County. So Ryan has an armband that he wears throughout the entirety of the show. It's leather. I would say if I had to shout out a brand, I think Fossil comes to mind, but it's-
26:54 Mary Beth Barone? Would you call it an armband or a bracelet?
26:57 Benito Skinner? So this, this is kind of a big question. It's kind of giving Helen of Troy in a way.
27:04 Mary Beth Barone? He also is a choker. I don't want to, I don't want to breeze past that he is a jewelry guy.
27:09 Benito Skinner? So I know that- Best believe he's still be cruelled.
27:13 Mary Beth Barone? Be cruelled.
27:13 Benito Skinner? So here's the thing. He is a jewelry guy. He also always has like, quite possibly the biggest watch you've ever seen on his other arm. So he's a man of balance, certainly, but this armband, it's leather, it's, it is a part of, I think, every episode that I've seen up to now. I'm on season two-
27:30 Mary Beth Barone? It's Connell's chain. Ryan Atwood's quote unquote armband walked so Connell's chain in Normal People could run.
27:36 Benito Skinner? And his choker.
27:37 Mary Beth Barone? His choker. Yeah.
27:38 Benito Skinner? Ryan's choker. It's really tight, I would say. He also wears these tanks. Like, he's always in a white tank and he's pumped.
27:45 Mary Beth Barone? With a short sleeve button down over it.
27:47 Benito Skinner? Well, of course. And he also kind of like sometimes has like bangs and a bowl cut and kind of a like chic way, but he meant the world to me as a kid. And rewatching the show now, I get why. I just, I love this absolute stud. Next, or do you want to amplify more?
28:00 Mary Beth Barone? No, I love that. I love where we got with that one.
28:03 Benito Skinner? Luke's dad being gay. Can I say something to you?
28:07 Mary Beth Barone? Yes.
28:07 Benito Skinner? Mustang dealership.
28:11 Benito Skinner? I think it's Mustangs. It felt like Mustangs. His dad being gay. He calls Adam Brody's character Seth a queer the whole time in a way that's just like, it's, this is all Luke says for the first like four episodes.
28:24 Mary Beth Barone? Well, he's a water polo player.
28:25 Benito Skinner? Well, of course. Luke's dad being gay, just, I was just watching it and it took my breath away. I don't think I really registered that as a kid. I definitely watched it too young. Very much giving youngest sibling and that I was watching this at like way too young of an age to really like sit with Julie Cooper. But even at like nine, I could really see a lot of myself in Julie Cooper. So-
28:45 Mary Beth Barone? She is just, I mean, Melinda Clark, amazing performance. She really plays it like it's Hamlet, but I don't, okay. One thing about Luke first, so I made a TikTok about this because I rewatched season one of the OC in the pandemic.
28:56 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
28:57 Mary Beth Barone? He is such a fascinating character because they, the writers literally said, we are going to make Luke whatever we need him to be in this episode. Character consistency be damned. I had whiplash. He's a bad guy, then he's a good guy, then he's beating someone up, then he's accepting his gay dad. Then he's fucking Marissa's mother.
29:15 Benito Skinner? You're leaving out the craziest thing he did of all. He moved to Portland, which we'll get into in a minute.
29:24 Benito Skinner? You want to talk about Occupy? Let me tell you a little town called Portland, Oregon. Yeah, he moves to Portland. Portland is very, it's really present in the show. It's kind of like, it's on the menu.
29:37 Mary Beth Barone? For the West Coast kids, Portland is like the place you could go to like, you know, be who you really are. And I think that's cool.
29:44 Benito Skinner? Yeah. Would you want to keep going on Luke's dad being gay? I think we nailed it. I feel good about it.
29:48 Mary Beth Barone? No, that's, it was, it was boundary pushing and I think it was important. It was important for that to happen.
29:56 Benito Skinner? It immediately broke up the whole family. Well, yeah, but I, I just thought it was cool. Two dudes in suits hooking up at an auto dealership and your son in the end is like, you know what, dad? Like, I'm going to love you and let's move to Portland. Marissa putting her hair behind her ears. I don't know exactly what I meant by this, but you know what I mean by this. We can continue.
30:15 Mary Beth Barone? Hundred percent, yeah.
30:16 Benito Skinner? Summer is bimbo rights.
30:18 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, my God, okay.
30:19 Benito Skinner? Goes to brown.
30:21 Mary Beth Barone? Summer, very similar to Aaron Paul's character in Breaking Bad. Summer was not supposed to be in the show for the whole season, let alone the whole show.
30:28 Benito Skinner? It wasn't until midway through season one that she's even in the iconic, if we're talking about iconic theme song. But she's not in the opening, in the beginning. Tate Donovan has a card and she doesn't. It's kind of.
30:40 Mary Beth Barone? She had to work her way up.
30:41 Benito Skinner? Same with the guy who plays Luke, he has one.
30:43 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, also, um, my friends and I did an OC parody. I think I talked about this on Obsessed, but I'm not sure. We did an OC parody called The FC because we're from Fairfield County. And we still have the tapes. It's two about 10 minute episodes and I obviously play Marissa Cooper. Um, but we changed the theme song. We've been on the run looking for some bagels, driving down I-95. Fairfield County, here we come. So I just want to shout out to all my girls who were in that with me. I was able to costume an entire cast of people with just the clothes that I had at my house. Every character.
31:13 Benito Skinner? Well, that's very overcompensating.
31:15 Mary Beth Barone? Including Dr. Roberts, by the way.
31:18 Benito Skinner? Stop.
31:19 Mary Beth Barone? Jake played Dr. Roberts. He played Johnny. He played, he played a bunch of people.
31:23 Benito Skinner? Fairfield County, here we go.
31:30 Mary Beth Barone? It's pretty good.
31:32 Benito Skinner? Summer is bimbo writes, though, I just think she's an incredible character. And that's called being a star. You show up and they're like, damn, we tried to make you one note. Sorry, you're complex. You contain multitudes. We'll see you in season two. I can't stress enough how many fucking episodes they have per season. It's like 25. It's unbelievable. It's very Gossip Girl.
31:51 Mary Beth Barone? Very Gossip Girl.
31:52 Benito Skinner? Josh Schwartz did both of these is insane to me.
31:55 Mary Beth Barone? Also, I know Summer would have fucked with Ride the Pod.
31:58 Benito Skinner? Oh, she would have fucking loved. And Marissa would have been like, what are you listening to?
32:02 Mary Beth Barone? What even is that?
32:04 Benito Skinner? What is this? She, Misha Barton, if you're listening, sweetheart, I love you so much.
32:09 Mary Beth Barone? Generational talent.
32:11 Benito Skinner? Dear God. And she has, I watch her storylines and I'm like, this is really hard. Like, these are, I, her acting, I'm like, this is a really complicated character. They don't give Marissa one good fucking day on earth. And I'm not gonna talk about it because you know, when I get to season three, I'm not even watching the episode. To be clear.
32:32 Mary Beth Barone? Out of respect.
32:33 Benito Skinner? Out of respect.
32:34 Mary Beth Barone? For all those involved.
32:34 Benito Skinner? For everyone involved, the show ends at graduation. Goodbye. Thank you.
32:38 Mary Beth Barone? I don't know if this is on your list, but I don't want to talk about Oliver Trast.
32:42 Benito Skinner? He's not, and I think I knew that you wouldn't. But can I just say, what an unbelievable storyline. I was watching that on a Delta flight, just buried in my phone. And the fact that I looked up at the end and I met a Barone flight attendant, my darling love.
32:57 Mary Beth Barone? Oh my god.
32:58 Benito Skinner? He was such a doll. And it was just really disorienting to go from living with Oliver Trask for the past three hours on the flight to having to say like, thank you, you know, I'm so glad we landed.
33:09 Mary Beth Barone? The New Year's Eve where Marissa's wearing a cutout black dress with a poof and a ponytail. And when Ryan comes in right at the stroke of midnight, nothing can compare to when you roll the dice and swear.
33:23 Benito Skinner? I love you. Nothing can compare to when you fuck me nice and swear. See, I can take anything and do that.
33:33 Mary Beth Barone? And just make it filth.
33:35 Benito Skinner? Wait, what were you gonna say?
33:36 Mary Beth Barone? No, that was it.
33:37 Benito Skinner? You're so Marissa. Her lacoste polos, I didn't write that in here, but.
33:40 Mary Beth Barone? The lacoste polos, the juicy zip ups, the skirts. I mean, it's all, it's all there.
33:44 Benito Skinner? Can I say something to you? Chanel tote.
33:47 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, and when she became the face of Keds, how many pairs of Keds do you think I had?
33:51 Benito Skinner? Oh, I can't even imagine. I know you had the slip on ones too.
33:54 Mary Beth Barone? I sure did, babe.
33:55 Benito Skinner? Backless. Julie Cooper's streaks, Kirsten Cohen and Julie Cooper, their hair streaks is very Kelly Clarkson breakaway. I think. Is that what I'm thinking of? But the streakage in the hair and there is a five episode stretch in season one where Kirsten, she has a different hairstyle and a different cut in every single scene and every take. And I just think it's like fucking sick. And I think she was trying to find it and she does find it. Also Kelly Rowland, fabulous actress. And oh my god.
34:27 Mary Beth Barone? Kelly Rowland?
34:28 Benito Skinner? No, it's just Kelly Rowland is her name, I believe. The actress who plays Kirsten Cohen.
34:31 Mary Beth Barone? I was thinking of Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child.
34:34 Benito Skinner? Who, what's the name of, oh, Peter Gallagher. He is fucking fabulous.
34:40 Mary Beth Barone? He's so good.
34:40 Benito Skinner? As Sandy Cohen. He's just like one of those guys. Seth being a loser is so 2003. This man couldn't be cuter. It's so Hilary Duff and the guy from Smallville going to that high school in Cheaper by the Dozen.
34:53 Mary Beth Barone? And being, and being like bullied.
34:54 Benito Skinner? Friend. I'm like, I'll be your friend. You can both pummel my ass.
34:58 Mary Beth Barone? Graphic novels. He likes graphic novels.
35:00 Benito Skinner? I mean, he's just a dorkable. Seth is very ribbit girl in this show. He's, he ribbons for about the first 10 episodes, I'd say.
35:09 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, and you know what? When Summer dresses up as Wonder Woman, she should have been that. She should have been DC's Wonder Woman.
35:14 Benito Skinner? She does look like Wonder Woman. I forgot that she did that. There's a lot of choose between us vibes.
35:19 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, there's a lot of love triangles. Yeah, especially in high school. I'm like.
35:24 Benito Skinner? So I actually have a separate note that says, Kiki streaks. Her hair changes in every episode. It's a continuity nightmare. That really is my love letter to editors, and I'm sorry you had to deal with that.
35:33 Mary Beth Barone? This goes out to all my heads of the hair department. Fine battles with the rest of my day.
35:39 Benito Skinner? Kiki Ross backed. Here's the thing. So Julie Cooper Nickel. This woman bodies that role like you can, Melinda Clark. You are a hero to us all. She has so many fabulous fucking line reads in this. Her and Marissa fight in every single scene.
36:01 Mary Beth Barone? She would do anything for her family.
36:03 Benito Skinner? No, I know. That's my thing. I think she's like, she is a true feminist, first off. But I think she is fighter. She is so tyka.
36:14 Mary Beth Barone? She is sleepy way to the top. She is the mother to Willa Holland and Shailene Woodley, who both play the role of Caitlin. And for Willa Holland to then enter the Gossip Girl cinematic universe as Agnes is just like.
36:25 Benito Skinner? Josh Schwartz.
36:26 Mary Beth Barone? You don't know what that meant to me. Like, a lot of the decisions that were made in these shows, like, they don't know what it meant to me.
36:32 Benito Skinner? I think they do now.
36:34 Mary Beth Barone? I hope they do. I hope they're listening. Wait, didn't Mick G work on the OC or no? Am I thinking of Speed?
36:40 Benito Skinner? So funny you say this. Executive produced by Mick G. And I said, you go and jump if Mick G made it. I think it's one of my favorite pilots of all time. Whoever you want me to be, as the first line Ryan says to Marissa, it's very when you and I met.
36:55 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
36:56 Benito Skinner? And it's just one of those shows. It gets soapy, it's drama, it's quirky, it's funny, it's candy.
37:03 Mary Beth Barone? It's so funny. The scripts are so funny.
37:05 Benito Skinner? It's so hardcore, though, at times, in a way that you're just like, like, guns are certainly in the show. If you've seen Gossip Girl, if you're ready to just hunker down for a long. Spring, do it with the OC and do I love the ending? No, but I think these shows, my heart goes out to writers who are writing a thousand episode, I mean 25 a season. It's like, oh, people being like, oh, it kind of has a lull in the middle. I'm like, what else could they do? An alien abduction would be all I could pitch at that table.
37:34 Mary Beth Barone? They did everything.
37:35 Benito Skinner? I literally don't even know, but I will say someone in that room hated Marissa. They hated Misha Burton. They were like, she's gonna have the worst experience of her life again today.
37:45 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
37:45 Benito Skinner? And then Olivia Wilde and her pencil thin eyebrows popped up on my screen and I went, holy fuck. And I forgot about her and Marissa, which I feel like is handled in a very like it's sexualized like lesbians. I would say there's fuckery involved, but I feel like there's a part of it that I hadn't seen that kind of queerness on screen and it certainly wasn't.
38:06 Mary Beth Barone? By visibility.
38:07 Benito Skinner? Yeah, it wasn't in Gossip Girl at all. I just remember like Serena's brother being gay and suicidal. That was all we got out of that.
38:13 Mary Beth Barone? Well, that's the only way.
38:15 Benito Skinner? Well, of course. And thank you, seeing myself reflected in media.
38:20 Mary Beth Barone? The, the by visibility, I mean, what was it? What was the music venue called?
38:24 Benito Skinner? Oh, The Bait Shop.
38:25 Mary Beth Barone? The Bait Shop was just huge.
38:27 Benito Skinner? The Bait Shop, whoever is the booker for The Bait Shop, let's give them a raise.
38:31 Mary Beth Barone? A raise immediately.
38:33 Benito Skinner? Death Cab for Booty?
38:34 Mary Beth Barone? Also, I mean, Spoon, the soundtrack in and of itself.
38:37 Benito Skinner? The Killers perform at The Bait Shop. And my thing is that like, there's all this drama going on. Like, I know that they had to build The Bait Shop on a soundstage, but it was so funny because like, none of them are listening to the concert. They're all like backstabbing each other and like there's fraud and arson and like all kinds of things going on and it's like the killers are performing.
38:56 Mary Beth Barone? Look, you can criticize some of the storylines, you can criticize some of the seasons, whatever you want to do, that's between you and God. But for me, it's just like, it was a golden age of television experience and to be watching it week to week. I mean, I hated when they would take breaks for holidays.
39:11 Benito Skinner? But you remember being at school and you knew a new episode was coming? And you're like, ah, I know the Oliver Tusk storyline is gonna find its way. Oh, I will say one thing about him, he revolutionized a blazer at high school. And Seth has good style.
39:25 Mary Beth Barone? Also, this was when DVR was sort of new on the scene and I wasn't allowed to watch TV on weekdays. So I DVR was huge for me because I needed to still be up to speed on everything, but I couldn't always watch that day. But it was good to just know that a new episode was coming out and it was going to be an hour and it was just going to be like my little escape for the week.
39:44 Benito Skinner? God, it's just, it's making me feel so good. I finished overcompensating. I do this every time I finish something, I need something like this. Like after the ride tour, we did all of Gossip Girl.
39:54 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
39:54 Benito Skinner? And then after this, I'm like.
39:55 Mary Beth Barone? It's just good to decompress.
39:56 Benito Skinner? I just, yeah. And I just like, I don't have to think about what I'm watching every night. It's just like, boom, we're watching the OC and I have never once skipped the intro song. Every time it pops up, I'm like, after the cold open, I'm like, fuck, like run that shit back. I love it. I just want to say Chanel prom dress, but.
40:13 Mary Beth Barone? Oh my God. Yeah. She wears a lot of Chanel in that show.
40:17 Benito Skinner? She has a ton of Chanel. I would say also Chanel Hulketer. It's very Mason Perrier ultimate. That would have been her drink of choice. Also, Misha Barton is always in flats because she's so much taller than the cast, which I love.
40:29 Mary Beth Barone? Model, model behavior.
40:30 Benito Skinner? Model behavior, girl. It is so you coded, if you know what I'm talking about.
40:34 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, please.
40:35 Benito Skinner? Misha Barton, she walks so Grace could run in a lot of ways and I definitely.
40:40 Mary Beth Barone? Misha, you mean the world to me.
40:42 Benito Skinner? I felt, I felt my influence of that show in the cliffhangers we do because like that, I love writing cliffhangers and I think the OC taught me that that's like, that's how you end an episode. You can't, no, it can't be good. You gotta give them a little spicy. They gotta, they gotta click next. So yeah, I OC, I love you. And can I say something else to you? The OC makes volume one, you're going to Barnes and Noble, you're getting the CD and you're playing it, you're playing it start to finish. Couple of songs are a little too alt for you, but you, you make it through them and it's just fabulous.
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43:54 Mary Beth Barone? And it's about Dylan's journey through girlhood. And it is a love letter to everyone who stands up for queer joy. Wow, I can't shut up about this book. It's an instant New York Times bestseller and this spring's must-read memoir. This woman has lived a thousand lives. I mean, she writes about doing ayahuasca in the book, just to give you a little preview. No spoilers, though. And I just have to say, I'm so proud of her for writing this book and I just truly enjoyed it so much. So if you're looking for a gift for someone who is a total bookworm, I would say, pick up a copy of Paper Doll and get one for yourself, too, because you're gonna love it. Buy your copy of this spring's must-read memoir, Paper Doll. Available wherever books are sold.
44:39 Mary Beth Barone? We're at a restaurant. We're at a restaurant right now, Dylan. And he ordered the chicken and I got a salad and fries. I got the chicken salad. It's one of those pork nights. To segue here, because I do think that Marissa's dad taught me about embezzling, which would then be huge for us in the early 2000s when the Great Recession happened. The housing bubble burst.
45:02 Benito Skinner? Yeah. As Marissa said to her mom and dad, "My dad's a thief and my mom's a whore."
45:07 Mary Beth Barone? Well, exactly.
45:08 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
45:08 Mary Beth Barone? And for a lot of people, that was the case when the Big Short happened.
45:13 Benito Skinner? Oh, my god.
45:15 Mary Beth Barone? So...
45:15 Benito Skinner? To me, right now, on the screen, you're Margot Robbie in the bathtub with the champagne.
45:20 Mary Beth Barone? In the Big Short.
45:21 Benito Skinner? Describing what all this means. Yeah, describing Occupy. It's just Occupy to me.
45:25 Mary Beth Barone? Okay, it's just Occupy. It's the Occupy movement. So I was still Republican when the Occupy movement happened. So to me, these were just like a bunch of hippies who didn't want to go to work.
45:35 Benito Skinner? To your media.
45:38 Benito Skinner? It's like you do it on purpose.
45:40 Mary Beth Barone? I'm not, I swear.
45:43 Benito Skinner? Get your notes out, tell me about Occupy.
45:46 Mary Beth Barone? Okay, so first of all, it only happened for 59 days. I literally remember it being seven years.
45:52 Benito Skinner? Wait, you're lying. It was longer than the Iraq War.
45:55 Mary Beth Barone? It was 59 days from September 17th to November 15th, 2011.
46:00 Benito Skinner? I, I just don't think that's true.
46:03 Mary Beth Barone? Look, I'm seeing it in my research.
46:05 Benito Skinner? In my head, it was three years.
46:07 Mary Beth Barone? Exactly. And maybe that's just a testament to the impact of it, but basically it was the left-wing populist movement against economic inequality, corporate greed, big finance, and the influence of money in politics. And it began in Zuccotti Park in New York City's financial district. So, what I didn't realize, because I did know that they were like protesting the bailouts that Bush passed, where they like helped banks, you know, get back on their feet, even though they wouldn't help like Americans who had their life savings stolen from them by like Bernie Madoff. So there was a big ruling in 2010, it was the Citizens United versus the FEC, and the US Supreme Court ruled that corporations can give as much money as they want to political candidates.
46:49 Benito Skinner? I'm picturing like all the people listening to this pod drinking like refreshers, hearing you talk about Occupy Wall Street. We are the revolution.
46:59 Mary Beth Barone? We just need to, well, it's because it's called balance.
47:03 Benito Skinner? Of course.
47:05 Mary Beth Barone? One day I'm gonna bring you Kelly Warbox's Instagram, and one day I'm gonna bring you Occupy Wall Street, and one day you'll see that those are connected. These protests gave rise to the wider Occupy movement in the United States and other Western countries. So I do believe that their slogan was, "We are the 99%." And I just think that this was so Taika, it was so Fita, they brought tents, they camped out there for like weeks, and I mean, I guess like 57 days or whatever. But I just think it's so cool that they were taking it to the streets, and that's, I don't know what they actually accomplished, and I refuse to look it up. But I just think it's the only way to cause change, is to like cause a ruckus. And even though some media outlets might paint you as like a whatever hippie and you're lazy,
47:48 Mary Beth Barone? just imagine being at those protests. Like you can just look back and be like, fuck yeah, I did that.
47:53 Benito Skinner? It's the first time America was giving French. Do you know what I mean?
47:57 Mary Beth Barone? I literally do.
47:58 Benito Skinner? It's the first time we acted French, and we've never done it since, but boy, did I love it. I have like such a- I think what's a perfect experience with Occupy Wall Street, personally, my cousin lived in Portland. I can only guess on the same street as Luke's dad.
48:15 Mary Beth Barone? Luke's dad.
48:15 Benito Skinner? And Jackson laughed at that.
48:20 Benito Skinner? You little scuna. And we were there for a wedding and it was during the, I guess, the the week of Occupy Wall Street. But it was during Occupy Portland. I can't stress enough that I, were there any other occupants of Portland? Everywhere was closed. Hotels weren't running.
48:40 Mary Beth Barone? The entire workforce was shut down.
48:43 Benito Skinner? We couldn't go anywhere. My parents were like, obviously, we agree with this, of course, but we are just kind of like, the whole city is not running. There's this park in the middle. There wasn't one frickin blade of grass that wasn't occupied.
48:58 Mary Beth Barone? That wasn't being sat upon.
48:59 Benito Skinner? It was. It was so iconic to me. And I just think about it and I'm like, I had the perfect front row seat of Occupy Wall Street. And I was like, I think I was 16. Were we like, we were in high school, I think, when?
49:11 Mary Beth Barone? No, we were 10.
49:13 Benito Skinner? Really? During Occupy Wall Street?
49:15 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
49:16 Benito Skinner? What year?
49:16 Mary Beth Barone? It was 2011.
49:18 Benito Skinner? Whoa.
49:18 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, wait, fuck. No, I'm sorry. I was 20. What am I saying?
49:22 Benito Skinner? Hey, you.
49:23 Mary Beth Barone? I was born in 2001.
49:25 Benito Skinner? They know our ages. As sad as it is, and they know I'm 5'1" on IMDb.
49:29 Mary Beth Barone? I never said I was smart.
49:31 Benito Skinner? I was like, I remember.
49:32 Mary Beth Barone? Don't put numbers in front of me.
49:33 Benito Skinner? I remember having a football game and then seeing Occupy Wall Street in Portland. And if that doesn't show you the range. I think Portland was excited about it because it was, they were certainly keeping Portland weird. But, and I was happy to be part of it as well. I love this. I think it feels like community. It feels like really sticking it to the man in a huge way. And yeah, I wish we had some of that fight right now.
49:55 Mary Beth Barone? Can I tell you what it is to me? It's, I want to make art and I want to make trouble. We are the 99% originated, like that variation originated from a Tumblr page.
50:03 Benito Skinner? I'm seeing you at the Met Gala with that bedazzled on your chest.
50:06 Mary Beth Barone? We are the 99%.
50:08 Benito Skinner? But you're at the Met Gala.
50:10 Mary Beth Barone? And I'm at the Met Gala.
50:11 Benito Skinner? You have a tight ponytail.
50:12 Mary Beth Barone? And it's art, it's art couture. Basically, we are the 99% was quote unquote arguably the most successful slogan since hell, no, we won't go of the Vietnam War era. Now, I will be doing a Taylor's version of Ken Burns' Vietnam War documentary, but that's down the line.
50:28 Benito Skinner? This is very you coded. Don't even get my girl started on Vietnam War. You say Ken Burns around my girl, she's ready to go.
50:35 Mary Beth Barone? I will light it up.
50:37 Benito Skinner? Yeah, they had amazing branding. I remember the signs. Also, like, everyone on the left is an artist, so you know we had murals galore. Like,
50:44 Mary Beth Barone? Hell, yeah.
50:45 Benito Skinner? My girls were turning it out. So, yeah, I mean, it was definitely art. It was make trouble, Corella coded. It was very spray paint your face and it says the future in stencils on it.
50:56 Mary Beth Barone? And you know what it's kind of giving to me is Gotham City.
51:00 Benito Skinner? Well, let me tell you, Portland felt like it.
51:04 Mary Beth Barone? As it so often does.
51:05 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
51:06 Mary Beth Barone? We need more fire. We need more energy. And I do, of course, want to say before people come for me, there was a crime issue in the encampment. I'm not going to get into it too much. I don't know if it was perpetuated by the protesters or by people who would come and like, sort of antagonize the protesters. But I do want to say that I saw that in my research, so I don't want that to go, you know, unsaid and people get mad at me. It's not a perfect movement. I don't think there's ever been a perfect movement, maybe except for Ride, season two.
51:32 Benito Skinner? I'd say so.
51:33 Mary Beth Barone? And it is a movement. It's not a podcast.
51:35 Benito Skinner? If you hadn't brought up, this is how we do, would have been a perfect season.
51:40 Mary Beth Barone? I brought that up.
51:41 Benito Skinner? Yeah, that was you. You made me, you made me do that.
51:43 Mary Beth Barone? I didn't do that.
51:45 Benito Skinner? This is our land. You were definitely the 1% that one day on set. I was occupied in that moment.
51:52 Mary Beth Barone? When you watch the live photo, I am the 99%.
51:55 Benito Skinner? Exactly.
51:57 Mary Beth Barone? And that's important to note. So I just think it's been, wow, such a fabulous season of Ride. I can't wait to come back May 28th. And there's a surprise. Email your questions about overcompensating to this is ride one at Gmail.
52:08 Benito Skinner? Who knows what we'll do with them?
52:09 Mary Beth Barone? I mean, we have no idea. You know what you are, Benny?
52:12 Benito Skinner? Hmm, I [BLEEP].
52:13 Mary Beth Barone? Your words, not mine. Babe, you're my ride or die.
52:17 Benito Skinner? Ride or die.
52:19 Mary Beth Barone? Of course I ride for the OC. I couldn't ride harder for this and I feel like it was formative for me. And just to have female characters who were complex and written well and just wearing couture.
52:31 Benito Skinner? And killed.
52:33 Mary Beth Barone? And ultimately die. It's just like.
52:35 Benito Skinner? That's so fucked up.
52:36 Mary Beth Barone? Like McGivitt and McGivitt take it away.
52:39 Benito Skinner? Do not. Don't make me laugh and love you even more.
52:42 Mary Beth Barone? And your media, clap that.
52:43 Benito Skinner? Clip that. Here's my thing. Occupy, I'm gonna ride till I die for Occupy. It was Viva la Revolucion. It was, it was Viva la Vida. It was Portland. It was Luke's dad. It was everything. And you know what? If my family had to eat continental breakfast at the hotel and it wasn't that good, like that's fine because we were fighting for something bigger. And I think that's the first time I really saw that. So that was really good for a young little football player to see. And it definitely influenced the fight to in us, my love. Occupy, we see you and we stand with you.
53:16 Mary Beth Barone? And I'm sorry for my feelings towards you in the past.
53:20 Benito Skinner? Well, of course. Little did I know there was a Republican girl out there who was gonna see me more than I had even seen myself.
53:26 Mary Beth Barone? And she was, she was nearly ready to leave it all behind.
53:30 Benito Skinner? Well, of course. She just needed, it's the Joker, the push.
53:34 Mary Beth Barone? The push. I just needed to take one more philosophy class at Boston College and then I was out the door.
53:39 Benito Skinner? So, speaking of the Joker, I, as we end season two, who is the immovable force? What is it again?
53:48 Mary Beth Barone? When an. When a immovable, hold on. When an.
53:52 Benito Skinner? When an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? What is it?
53:56 Mary Beth Barone? Okay. It's when an immovable object meets an unstoppable force. So what's the question?
54:03 Benito Skinner? Which one is which of us?
54:05 Mary Beth Barone? Oh.
54:06 Benito Skinner? You are an immovable object.
54:07 Mary Beth Barone? I think I'm an immovable object and you're an unstoppable force. And what happens when they meet? They, they start a podcast.
54:13 Benito Skinner? They start a podcast, my love. We.
54:16 Mary Beth Barone? And they revolutionize television.
54:17 Benito Skinner? Well, of course. We are so excited for you to see Overcompensating. We are so excited to be back. We're gonna be back sooner than we were after season one, trust. And we're just so freaking excited. This. Season. Thank you for bearing with us and Mary Best Detainment and us shooting a television.
54:33 Mary Beth Barone? And it hasn't been easy. They're letting me out to hit the campaign trail. They're letting me out for press because I told them, as I, as I said last week, we're going to the swing states. And so they they're perfectly happy to do that, but they did say I will be coming back. So.
54:48 Benito Skinner? Of course.
54:49 Mary Beth Barone? It's not, I'm not free carte blanche, whatever. It's like, it's temporary. But I'm excited to, between now and when we come back for season three, and of course, we have a little surprise. The show will be out. You can see it and watch it and like, tell us how how you feel about it.
55:02 Benito Skinner? All eight episodes and over 227 territories globally. It's the only number I've ever memorized. Prime video, watch it, stream it, watch it with your best friends. And let's just say if you're having a watch party in LA, you should maybe like DM me the address. Who knows what we'll do with that? We DP all these houses. We throw beer bottles at garage doors.
55:23 Mary Beth Barone? Send drones. We send a pack of drones to them.
55:27 Benito Skinner? We call the cops on everybody. We would be put on hold.
55:30 Mary Beth Barone? Cop from Ride Live.
55:31 Benito Skinner? Oh my God, she should drive us around.
55:34 Mary Beth Barone? Wait, if we really do go to people's places, we will cut this.
55:40 Benito Skinner? Oh my God, believe that.
55:42 Mary Beth Barone? We will.
55:42 Benito Skinner? And can I just say, dear media, one, two, three, clip that. Best believe I'm still a crow.
55:52 Benito Skinner? Oh, my exit.
55:53 Mary Beth Barone? Benny, babe, eyes on the road. Benny, go!
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