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0:49 Mary Beth Barone? Hey, can you come pick me up? Yeah, what's wrong? Nothing. Are you sure? Yeah, no, I just need a ride. Oh, my God. So why? I just want to have fun. Start your engines. I can.
1:00 Benito Skinner? I'm Benito Skinner.
1:01 Mary Beth Barone? I'm Mary Beth Brown.
1:03 Benito Skinner? And this.
1:03 Mary Beth Barone? Is.
1:04 Benito Skinner? Ride.
1:08 Benito Skinner? You'll never be on the cover of Vogue.
1:11 Mary Beth Barone? Why would someone say that to their wife? Even if you weren't famous, like even if you were just married to like a nurse, why would you ever say you'll never be on the cover of Vogue?
1:19 Benito Skinner? Well, I'm thinking.
1:20 Mary Beth Barone? That wouldn't even occur to me to say that.
1:21 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I have to tell you this every day. Well, do you remember that story where it was like Kim Kardashian's publicist? Like her ex-publicist, I assume, unless she like really stuck with someone who domed her. But she tells the story of like the publicist being like, you need to have realistic goals. You'll never be on the cover of a magazine. And I'm like dying for someone to talk to me like that in a way.
1:43 Mary Beth Barone? I just don't know.
1:44 Benito Skinner? The Scorpio in me would be like, watch me.
1:46 Mary Beth Barone? What are you gaining from it?
1:47 Benito Skinner? Gonna knock out, going for the nap, and it won't stop, so I'm on top now. You know when El Woods buys the laptop?
1:53 Mary Beth Barone? Yes, of course.
1:54 Benito Skinner? I will walk into a store one day and just buy a fresh laptop. And that will be my new era.
1:58 Mary Beth Barone? But in a Playboy bunny costume, too, I hope.
2:01 Benito Skinner? Well, of course.
2:01 Mary Beth Barone? I just don't know what you're gaining from like telling someone that.
2:04 Benito Skinner? He said they were in a, in a fight and he, yeah, he really ethered her, but she got on the cover, so.
2:10 Mary Beth Barone? Here's my other thing.
2:11 Benito Skinner? Yeah, what is it?
2:11 Mary Beth Barone? You never have to tell anyone that that happened.
2:13 Benito Skinner? No, exactly.
2:14 Mary Beth Barone? So my thing would probably be to just never tell anyone.
2:18 Benito Skinner? There was something today that I thought, that I did, that I thought no one would see ever again. And that would be kind of just with me and I could just be embarrassed every night before I go to bed. But what they don't tell you about releasing a TV show is people will look through their camera rolls and find images of you from a time you couldn't even imagine.
2:35 Mary Beth Barone? But wait, this is your ride. Don't jump the gun.
2:37 Benito Skinner? This is all I'm saying. It's just owning your history. So I think in a way, Justin was kind of owning his history and it's not all good. And he did apologize, no? And he was like, yeah.
2:47 Mary Beth Barone? I wanted to talk about a fight that Edward and I once had, which I have gotten permission from him to talk about.
2:52 Benito Skinner? Oh, good. Remind me to talk about the Brits in a second.
2:54 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, yeah. Well, actually, okay, before I get into the fight, I guess we have a bunch of stuff to talk about.
2:58 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
2:59 Mary Beth Barone? Actually.
2:59 Benito Skinner? Yes.
3:00 Mary Beth Barone? There, there was an interaction at your house a few weeks ago where you couldn't remember the name of a restaurant.
3:06 Benito Skinner? I, well, I go, what's that? This, sorry, this is one of those things where I thought about it in duty free recently because all I do is I'm at duty free. I swear to God, it's the only place I am.
3:16 Mary Beth Barone? Are you buying? Are you just browsing?
3:18 Benito Skinner? I'm always browsing and then I let them down because I'm kind of late for my flight sometimes. And then I'm like, oh my God, I can't even buy the fragrance. And then I've like let down everyone there. But I was thinking about it and I started laughing to myself and I think about the people who watched me giggle to myself. Like I wonder how many people have seen me go with my little AirPods in or mouthing Pink Panthers. It's kind of one or the other. I was on my couch and I was trying to find a place to take a friend to breakfast and he has a very specific palate. And I, and I thought, I was like, what's that place in LA that has like the griddle cakes? And it's quiet for, I'm not, five seconds. And then Mary Beth goes, I know you didn't just ask me what restaurant has griddle cakes. What the fuck's a griddle cake?
4:01 Mary Beth Barone? I was in bed. I think it's important for everyone to know that I was still in bed. I wasn't on the couch with you.
4:07 Benito Skinner? Oh, yeah. Oh my God, you were in the other room. I shouted griddle cake at you.
4:10 Mary Beth Barone? You go, what's that restaurant in LA? Which first of all, I'm starting. The eight ball there because I don't know restaurants in LA.
4:16 Benito Skinner? No great way.
4:17 Mary Beth Barone? For you to say griddle cakes. So I'm like, go out, throw a rock and hit someone and ask them before you ask me where the griddle cake restaurant is in LA. You remembered what it was.
4:27 Benito Skinner? I found it. It's for anyone wanting to know the best griddle cake in Los Angeles. In my opinion, is Salt's Cure. It that's what it's a pancake that just like, it's just different. And it's a pancake that very much is there to make trouble and art in a way.
4:43 Mary Beth Barone? Right.
4:43 Benito Skinner? Your fight with Edward.
4:45 Mary Beth Barone? Well, first I want to say this gets me into another topic, which I were just, we're hopping around today, which I love.
4:51 Benito Skinner? Do you want to go to Ben D A first or where do you want to go?
4:54 Mary Beth Barone? Let's do, let's do Ben D A. So right now we're sort of reminiscing on some things that happened before we had started recording the podcast and we wrote them down. We said, we have to talk about that.
5:03 Benito Skinner? Well, you remember we had to do this with season two because Ellen, they tried to cancel me was the day after we stopped recording season one. So we were like.
5:10 Mary Beth Barone? You know, we're always thinking about you guys.
5:12 Benito Skinner? Of course, I know what I have to reveal here.
5:14 Mary Beth Barone? So if I could set the scene quickly.
5:16 Benito Skinner? Of course.
5:17 Mary Beth Barone? So you were auditioning.
5:18 Benito Skinner? If we're talking about scene, welcome to yet another, like you are going to see us in every place on earth. We want every single video episode this year.
5:27 Mary Beth Barone? To be in a different place.
5:29 Benito Skinner? We will show you every podcast studio across America and maybe abroad. I'm serious. We will stop at nothing. And then you, at the end of the season, you guys can pick which one you fuck with the most and we'll go there. I'm serious. I will not stop until we've seen every interior.
5:50 Mary Beth Barone? I'm crying.
5:51 Benito Skinner? Me too. This is such a confusing start, but in a good way.
5:56 Mary Beth Barone? We just, there's so much to say.
5:57 Benito Skinner? So this is Ben D A.
5:58 Mary Beth Barone? Okay.
6:03 Benito Skinner? So there's this spend D A.
6:06 Mary Beth Barone? Okay, so.
6:07 Benito Skinner? Gasly Gara.
6:13 Mary Beth Barone? Can't even say it. Okay, so.
6:16 Benito Skinner? So.
6:17 Mary Beth Barone? So, okay, Ben needed to do, Ben needed to do a self tape.
6:20 Benito Skinner? I read for you for you.
6:21 Mary Beth Barone? He read for you for you, which famously you have to sign NDAs before you audition for you for you.
6:25 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
6:26 Mary Beth Barone? The thing with signing an NDA before an audition that's so funny to me is that you have to read it with someone else. They have to read the other lines. So it's like, at the bare minimum, I'm at least showing one other person.
6:35 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
6:35 Mary Beth Barone? Due to the job description of what we do as actors.
6:38 Benito Skinner? And maybe that's in the fine print, but it is funny. It's like, you will not share this with a fucking soul. 10 seconds later, I'm like, Mary Beth.
6:45 Mary Beth Barone? You hand me the phone with the lines on it.
6:46 Benito Skinner? Yeah, like I texted to you.
6:48 Mary Beth Barone? So I think I said something like, I'm telling Sam Levinson, you broke your NDA.
6:52 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
6:53 Mary Beth Barone? And you were getting ready. You were putting your little makeup on, your blush and your concealer. And you just go.
6:58 Benito Skinner? I didn't have a stitch on for this.
6:59 Mary Beth Barone? You just go.
7:01 Benito Skinner? My name is Ben D A.
7:06 Benito Skinner? It's one of those things that you say, and I know that you guys aren't going to get it on the first time. And maybe not even the second, but you'll start to think. My name is Ben D A. It's very turf Hogwarts. Not Ron, not Hermione. You. And D A. And I was abroad recently. I was in London and very much was giving Ben D A.
7:30 Mary Beth Barone? But basically, we, we started laughing so hard and we were like, let's explain it to Terry and just see if we're, if we're totally off the mark here. And we explained it to Terry and he was crying too. So we just figured that there was a gas leak somewhere in the house.
7:45 Benito Skinner? Well, he had three drinks recently. So, I mean, he was toasted. He was toasted.
7:50 Mary Beth Barone? To the first.
7:51 Benito Skinner? To the first.
7:51 Mary Beth Barone? One of my favorite lines from overcompensating.
7:53 Benito Skinner? Thank you so much. To the first. My favorite lately of yours is after Peter and you were writing awful things about a bunch of students. You go, this is fun and give him a kiss. That felt like so real. You've done that. You know what I mean?
8:06 Mary Beth Barone? Yes.
8:07 Benito Skinner? So, oh, not me getting asked about your relationship status on the Peabody Awards carpet. We'll talk about that. Maybe next episode.
8:14 Mary Beth Barone? We're actually not going to talk about that.
8:15 Benito Skinner? Yeah. My name, that's what I said back to her. My name is Ben D A.
8:23 Benito Skinner? She went.
8:24 Mary Beth Barone? A journalist from Peabody.
8:25 Benito Skinner? Benny Drama's crashing out. I guess this all got to him.
8:32 Mary Beth Barone? My name is.
8:33 Benito Skinner? Is Ben D I. So I'm sorry, you guys, you'll lock in and you'll it'll be Ben D I era. But we call it gas leak era because it's not funny, but yet we're laughing.
8:43 Mary Beth Barone? Well, in the notes talk, it says, it says Ben D I in parentheses, gas leak.
8:49 Benito Skinner? Yeah, it's like.
8:50 Mary Beth Barone? Wait, actually, no, it says gas leak in parentheses, Ben D I.
8:54 Benito Skinner? Yeah, it's sorry. That's the era. It's we've completely lost our fucking minds and have no jokes left.
9:02 Mary Beth Barone? No, so it's just Ben Z I.
9:05 Benito Skinner? So my name, sorry, I'll stop, is Ben D I. But Terry was drunk recently. He had three drinks and I didn't know what he was gonna say. It's very Murph at the end of Interstellar.
9:16 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
9:16 Benito Skinner? When Matthew McConaughey walks in and he was like, my name is Ben D I. And I'm like, that better be your last words to me.
9:26 Mary Beth Barone? Before he dies and then we get to watch Lost and Glee.
9:29 Benito Skinner? Exactly. I thought he was gonna say you're losing me, but.
9:31 Mary Beth Barone? No, he said, my name is Ben D I.
9:32 Benito Skinner? Which some of you have messaged me that you have done that to people that you're with. And I, apparently it is not landing at all. And that couldn't make me happier. They're like, I'm, you're what?
9:43 Mary Beth Barone? You know, a Britishism that I once heard is it went down like a lead balloon. So think about that.
9:49 Benito Skinner? Ninety nine lead balloons. Very Ben D I.
9:53 Mary Beth Barone? I'm gonna giggle today.
9:54 Benito Skinner? Sorry, me too. So.
9:56 Mary Beth Barone? British gay guys.
9:57 Benito Skinner? British gay guys. I have this like huge take. This is my big subway take. I just, I'm obsessed with British gays. So I just had this party for overcompensating. Well, we had this party. I did truly nothing. I just showed up at this place called House Party in London. And I just had the best night. It's just like a bunch of British gays and, and girlies. And it was like pure joy. British gays just have, they have that je ne sais quoi. They have love and there's something about them very bright. I don't know. I just, I had the time of my life with these crazy UK lads. And shout out all the UK lads out there and the girlies I met, but it was really fun to go to the UK. And let me tell you, they speak well on you over there, girl.
10:39 Mary Beth Barone? They frickin' better.
10:41 Benito Skinner? They got Ben D I. They wanted M D A.
10:44 Mary Beth Barone? I'm sure they did want MDA.
10:45 Benito Skinner? Yeah. Oh, and I think they were on MDA.
10:49 Mary Beth Barone? Um, speaking of British lads, I just want to call up my shirt.
10:52 Benito Skinner? Of course.
10:52 Mary Beth Barone? Says we live in a beautiful world. It's Coldplay.
10:54 Benito Skinner? And speaking of American women, I'm in the row. Thank you, Mary, Kate and Ashley. But yeah, shout out British gays. I just, we love doing shows for you over there and I know why. Like, I don't know. It's nothing against American gays. I just think British gays, it feels more like lights.
11:10 Mary Beth Barone? It's communal. It's more community based.
11:12 Benito Skinner? I think it's, it's less like read you down. You know what I mean?
11:15 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. I think people there just want to have fun.
11:18 Benito Skinner? Exactly. And that's all they did.
11:19 Mary Beth Barone? Part of the culture.
11:20 Benito Skinner? And they're like, they're drinking beers and stuff and it's just, that's cool to see.
11:23 Mary Beth Barone? It's really cool.
11:24 Benito Skinner? I wasn't, but it was cool to see.
11:26 Mary Beth Barone? Something that I have found really fun lately to do if you're with a couple is just ask them like, what's your biggest fight?
11:32 Benito Skinner? Yeah, that's definitely a fun thing to do with couples.
11:34 Mary Beth Barone? See how deep they go. Sometimes they'll hit you, they can rattle it off instantly and they go, well, that was our biggest fight. And, and that's cool. And they've, they've agreed upon that being their biggest fight.
11:44 Benito Skinner? Of course.
11:44 Mary Beth Barone? But then sometimes like they have different perceptions of what they think is their biggest fight. And sometimes it's really deep seated stuff.
11:50 Benito Skinner? And that can then lead to the biggest fight of all.
11:52 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, ever. So I just think it's fun to do that. And I wanted to bring up a fight that I had with Edward once. So his housemate was hooking up with someone. And I personally.
12:02 Benito Skinner? Probably met them.
12:03 Mary Beth Barone? You probably met them. You probably met the housemate. And let's be honest, the girl. This was three years ago.
12:08 Benito Skinner? Edward was there.
12:08 Mary Beth Barone? Edward was at the party.
12:09 Benito Skinner? I was at the party. I just want to shout out that as you guys saw, it's love. He's right heritage.
12:14 Mary Beth Barone? Right heritage.
12:15 Benito Skinner? There's nothing but grace there.
12:16 Mary Beth Barone? He's still a friend of the pod.
12:17 Benito Skinner? He's a friend of the podcast first, before anything. And I said that to him.
12:20 Mary Beth Barone? Second, he's my ex boyfriend.
12:22 Benito Skinner? He's the best. We've showered together. So it just, it kind of only makes sense. It was, it's like nothing but love.
12:26 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, it's all love.
12:27 Benito Skinner? It's like, have you ever shared a room with three people on a podcast tour and you have to shower before and he's in there and it's just kind of like, well, it's my lady Jane now, King.
12:34 Mary Beth Barone? Exactly.
12:35 Benito Skinner? Here I am. And like, let's do this.
12:36 Mary Beth Barone? And there's nothing weird about that.
12:38 Benito Skinner? Well, no, it's just UK lads.
12:39 Mary Beth Barone? It's UK lads.
12:40 Benito Skinner? They're just here for a good time. I don't know.
12:43 Mary Beth Barone? And they're comfortable being naked around each other. I will say that.
12:46 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
12:47 Mary Beth Barone? For better or worse.
12:48 Benito Skinner? Yeah. Oh, God.
12:49 Mary Beth Barone? Scary.
12:50 Benito Skinner? Hey, better. I'll say in this instance, better.
12:52 Mary Beth Barone? Better.
12:52 Benito Skinner? Eddie, Eddie Obama.
12:53 Mary Beth Barone? We love you, Ken.
12:54 Benito Skinner? Have we talked about Eddie Obama?
12:55 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, someone commented Eddie Obama.
12:57 Benito Skinner? Oh, good. So they know.
12:58 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
12:58 Benito Skinner? My favorite thing about Edward, before you get into your big spat, is that on a press tour, he wore Louboutins. Like, he had red bottoms and people commented, walk a mile in these Louboutins. And I couldn't stop thinking about it.
13:11 Mary Beth Barone? Because culture is full circle. Time, they say time is a circle. I think culture is a circle.
13:15 Benito Skinner? Culture's a circle.
13:16 Mary Beth Barone? And it's constantly the snake eating its tail.
13:19 Benito Skinner? Exactly.
13:20 Mary Beth Barone? So his housemate was hooking up with someone who I was convinced was like a scammer. Basically, they were like-
13:25 Benito Skinner? She'll never be on the cover of Vogue.
13:25 Mary Beth Barone? She'll never be on the cover of Vogue. I can say that with, with a lot of confidence. But no shade to her. She just was giving-
13:31 Benito Skinner? So could Justin when he said it.
13:33 Mary Beth Barone? She was giving scammer to me. But the whole thing was like, oh, she's minted. She's minted, which is how British people say that someone's rich. So I was like, I don't think she's minted. And Edward was like, she is. And I was like, she had a fake Fendi bag. Her Fendi bag, instead of having the F and then the F, it had an F and an L. You know, because fake bags just have the wrong letters sometimes.
13:54 Benito Skinner? Yeah. Well, bad fakes.
13:55 Mary Beth Barone? It's bad. Yeah, it was a bad fake. So he was like, sometimes posh people like to buy fake things so that they don't seem rich. And I was just like, maybe that's the case, but like-
14:05 Benito Skinner? None of these UK-
14:05 Mary Beth Barone? That sounds fake to me. That's fake.
14:08 Benito Skinner? None of the UK gays were talking to me about this.
14:09 Mary Beth Barone? I know. It's weird.
14:10 Benito Skinner? They told, this never got, yeah, this never got brought up at the party.
14:14 Mary Beth Barone? We, we really, really fought over whether we thought this girl was actually rich or not. And that was one of our biggest fights. We had many big fights, but that was one of them.
14:21 Benito Skinner? But that has to be the biggest.
14:22 Mary Beth Barone? No, no, there were bigger ones. But it was just like, he just didn't believe me that I thought that if she was actually rich, she would have a real Fendi bag.
14:30 Benito Skinner? This reminds me of kind of an early fight with Terry I had where I would point out plastic surgery to him and he'd be like, no, no. Nope, that's not it. And I'm like- Oh, okay. So you think just someone looks completely different a week later? Like, describe this to me then.
14:43 Mary Beth Barone? Explain the science there.
14:44 Benito Skinner? Yeah, like, that's just not that person's nose anymore. So how do you explain? And he's like, no, that's, it's just, and I'm like, I love where your heart is. I just, I have to be realistic.
14:53 Mary Beth Barone? Like, I'm not judging her for having a fake ID back. I'm just saying, like, to me, the contexts are there that she is not rich.
14:59 Benito Skinner? It's like, if you guys are gonna say she's minted, well, then.
15:01 Mary Beth Barone? Well, then, I wanna, like, look at the data. I'm, oh, I'm so data-driven, you know that about me.
15:05 Benito Skinner? Well, of course.
15:06 Mary Beth Barone? So I'm absorbing everything I'm seeing. I shouldn't get into too many specifics, but that was what happened. And so sometimes when you're with someone, you, you will just fight about stuff like that. And that can be really hard, but ultimately rewarding, because then you break up eventually, and you can talk about it on a podcast.
15:21 Benito Skinner? Hey, and what could be better than that?
15:22 Mary Beth Barone? What could be better than that?
15:23 Benito Skinner? Eddie Obama, we love you. I broke the fourth wall just now.
15:25 Mary Beth Barone? You did.
15:26 Benito Skinner? Very flea bag of me. I'm in my UK era. It is what it is.
15:29 Mary Beth Barone? Should we talk about?
15:30 Benito Skinner? Get into what we ride for?
15:31 Mary Beth Barone? What we ride, yeah. We have a few more things, but we could do that on the next episode.
15:34 Benito Skinner? Yeah, great. I feel like we really hit some good stuff today.
15:37 Mary Beth Barone? We definitely did.
15:38 Benito Skinner? And just to reiterate.
15:40 Mary Beth Barone? I will never be on the cover of Vogue.
15:41 Benito Skinner? My name is Ben D I. So here's, I keep looking at the camera.
15:48 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
15:48 Benito Skinner? I should stop. I'm not.
15:49 Mary Beth Barone? It's weird, because on set, we don't look at the camera either, so I'm wondering where you're getting this bad habit from.
15:54 Benito Skinner? I'm just kind of like, those are our kids, and I just wanna talk to them.
15:56 Mary Beth Barone? They're not in there. They're not in there.
15:58 Benito Skinner? I'll just turn. I just, I guess it's just me getting a lay of the land of yet another podcast studio.
16:03 Mary Beth Barone? What are you riding for? I haven't looked to my left or right the whole time you've been here. I'm just looking at you, kid.
16:07 Benito Skinner? You have no idea what's right here.
16:09 Mary Beth Barone? I don't know what's over there. I don't know what the wallpaper is or anything like that.
16:11 Benito Skinner? You are so Andrew Scott. What was that? Who, who are you looking at?
16:15 Mary Beth Barone? It'll pass.
16:18 Benito Skinner? Don't say it'll pass to me.
16:20 Mary Beth Barone? What are you riding for?
16:21 Benito Skinner? You know you can't say it'll pass to me right now.
16:22 Mary Beth Barone? What are you riding for?
16:23 Benito Skinner? I will be riding for owning your history.
16:26 Mary Beth Barone? And this week, I am riding for bald guys. Let's get into it.
16:32 Mary Beth Barone? So here's the thing, last week when I was doing Crap Eyewear ads by myself.
16:36 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
16:36 Mary Beth Barone? I got so hung up on this pose. So, listen to this.
16:40 Benito Skinner? Yeah, hit me with it.
16:41 Mary Beth Barone? Crap Eyewear is an independent sunglasses brand designed and tested beachside in Los Angeles, California. Sure, we've heard that before.
16:46 Benito Skinner? Of course.
16:46 Mary Beth Barone? Born in reaction to.
16:49 Benito Skinner? There are easier ways. That is so me-coded.
16:54 Mary Beth Barone? We were all born in reaction to something.
16:55 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
16:56 Mary Beth Barone? Born in reaction to an overpriced and overly serious sunglasses market, that that's what Crap was born in reaction to.
17:01 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
17:02 Mary Beth Barone? They're on a mission to create funky, earth-friendly eyewear without the heavy retail markup. I mean, sunglasses are just ridiculously expensive.
17:08 Benito Skinner? You know those really cutie ones I have, like silver ones with the like kind of fire lenses? They're really cutie. I love driving in those, because no one can see that my eyes aren't on the road.
17:16 Mary Beth Barone? No, they're not. I have so many pairs of Crap Eyewear now.
17:20 Benito Skinner? I know. You're like a Crap fiend.
17:22 Mary Beth Barone? I'm a fiend and I just love that I have one for every outfit. And some of them are more like basics like every day. And then I was saying last week that I have these red ones with rhinestones.
17:30 Benito Skinner? Funky. Well, those are the funky ones. So here's the thing.
17:34 Mary Beth Barone? They're handcrafted.
17:35 Benito Skinner? Handcrafted bio-acetate. So, think about that for about 10 seconds.
17:40 Mary Beth Barone? I'm thinking right now about it.
17:41 Benito Skinner? Bio-degradable frames with optical-grade lenses. CR39 lenses with 100% UVA/UVV protection.
17:48 Mary Beth Barone? It is a certified carbon-neutral business and independently owned. So head to crapeyewear.com to shop. That's C-R-A-P-E-Y-E-W-E-A-R.com to shop. Use the code RIDE at checkout for 20% off full-priced items.
18:03 Benito Skinner? Get your sunglasses on.
18:06 Benito Skinner? Hill House invented the viral nap dress. Eat shit, you guys. Yeah, we'll keep that. That's just like mic drop.
18:13 Mary Beth Barone? Hill House home, girlies, they listen to Ride. It even says so in the copy.
18:16 Benito Skinner? Hey, and do the Hill House rock. It's like the 50s twist.
18:21 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
18:22 Benito Skinner? Benny's back on ads. I made Mary Beth do them for a sec. I was, you know, I was doing press.
18:25 Mary Beth Barone? You were in London. My god.
18:27 Benito Skinner? Well, I was in London. I was tired.
18:28 Mary Beth Barone? I hear one more thing about this London trip.
18:29 Benito Skinner? Oh my god, you're like so mad at me, dude. So celebs like Taylor Swift.
18:35 Mary Beth Barone? Okay, we're starting with that one. Baronies on staff at our newest advertiser convinced their bosses to let them advertise with us. So you know this one's going to be for our girls.
18:43 Benito Skinner? Oh my God. Celebs like Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Anne Hathaway, and Kathy Hilton have been spotted in Hill House. Who is she wearing? Well, that's Hill House.
18:54 Mary Beth Barone? Are you wearing the Hill House nap dress?
18:56 Benito Skinner? The Hill House nap dress? Yeah, I'm about to go to sleep, bitch.
19:00 Mary Beth Barone? They make the cutest little dresses and tops for our girls, perfect for spring and summer, and they are truly heirloom pieces. I mean, talk about traditional family values.
19:07 Benito Skinner? Exactly. No, that's so true. But the thing we really love from Hill House Home are their robes and pajamas. Their bath robes and pajamas are so soft, perfect for a getting ready moment. I love wearing a robe while I do a full beat.
19:19 Mary Beth Barone? I know. I walk into a hotel room yesterday. What do I see?
19:22 Benito Skinner? Me in a robe.
19:23 Mary Beth Barone? In your robe.
19:23 Benito Skinner? It's either that or just my panties on.
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19:57 Benito Skinner? Me too. And I love this. Did you know that stillness can actually spark creativity? This is so true. Like when I just go on a walk or I listen to Calm, I'll listen to Calm with a red light therapy mask on. It's like, sorry.
20:08 Mary Beth Barone? I do the sleep stories.
20:09 Benito Skinner? Oh my God, good for you. We should do one.
20:12 Mary Beth Barone? I want to.
20:14 Benito Skinner? We want you to stay up all night.
20:15 Mary Beth Barone? Never sleep.
20:16 Benito Skinner? Yeah, right before they're about to snooze, we go.
20:19 Mary Beth Barone? They tried to cancel me!
20:22 Benito Skinner? You just got canceled. You're canceled.
20:24 Mary Beth Barone? What would you be canceled for? Think about it.
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21:25 Benito Skinner? Who cares? Ride. It's so hard for you not to go first in this instance, but I think you should go first. I have to get this off my chest. So, you know, I've said before, like, you know, I don't regret any of my videos. I think they made me who I am. Go back and scroll. Have a good time. If anything's not funny, you know, I think, I think we found it later. At times you can find your comedic voice and it can take time. And sometimes, you know, the, the sets weren't there, the editing wasn't there yet, but I'm, I'm really proud of.
21:51 Mary Beth Barone? I have reviewed these critiques. I think they were exactly what they needed to be at the time and they got you to where you are now.
21:58 Benito Skinner? Exactly.
21:58 Mary Beth Barone? Also, I've never watched something back that you've made and thought it wasn't funny. That's just me personally.
22:03 Benito Skinner? I did see one this week that someone reposted and I was like, not my best. And then someone posted Annie and I'll just say it. Annie really slaps. I really, I love being her. And there's only like one or two, but those are good ones. But yeah, as I said earlier, you know, when you do something very public, like overcompensating, some people will say very sweet things and it's, we love it and they'll dip through their archive to just kind of shout out the show. I have seen some of the most grotesque images of myself in a way that I are so bone chilling. So I'm, I'm going through my mentions because a lot of it's just like people reacting to the show, which is so, thank you so much. I just did it again. Thank, thank you so much, but thank you. Literally it's like heaven. This is why Mary Beth and I don't sleep lately. I can call you at like 3 a.m. and you're.
22:48 Mary Beth Barone? And I'm awake.
22:49 Benito Skinner? Yeah. And Pinky is ears back. She's like, oh, there he is.
22:54 Mary Beth Barone? She's part of the conversation.
22:55 Benito Skinner? Duh. Well, duh. So this image comes across my desk. I can't, sorry. I'm like already thinking of it. It's making me laugh. So I have been overcompensating my entire life. Clearly, we know this. And I think also, when I first came out or anything, I thought I needed to do like full character costumes, full, just everything. If there was any theme, I was like, I have to be majorly in theme or like, just things like that. It's just like doing so much, which like, I'm, I'm glad that's who I am. Like, I am proud of it.
23:28 Mary Beth Barone? Me too.
23:29 Benito Skinner? To an extent. So Petra Collins, who we love so much, she came out with this book with Alexa Demille. I think it was called, what's it called? Oh, it's Fairy Tales, this book Fairy Tales. So she has a release party for it and Terry and I are going. On the invite, it says like, dress as a fairy. Or something like that, like it wanted you to do that. So I was like, oh yeah, no, for sure. So I, I got like ears and Terry and I wore ears, but then-
23:58 Mary Beth Barone? Like prosthetic, not like from Party City?
24:00 Benito Skinner? No, I got the, I got like Amazon ones.
24:02 Mary Beth Barone? Okay.
24:02 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
24:02 Mary Beth Barone? Cause they look really professionally done.
24:04 Benito Skinner? Hey, thanks.
24:04 Mary Beth Barone? I'm looking for this photo. I am listening. I just really want to find it because I have it in my phone.
24:08 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
24:08 Mary Beth Barone? Cause I think it's going to add to the experience, but there's more to your aesthetic. So don't leave anything out.
24:14 Benito Skinner? Fuck you. That was so, you'll never be on the cover of Vogue.
24:18 Mary Beth Barone? You want to own your history.
24:19 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
24:19 Mary Beth Barone? I'm saying, let's get into it.
24:20 Benito Skinner? And I'm owning it, I'm owning it. Okay, so then I did fake freckles across my cheeks. I did like a Pat McGrath sparkle on my eyes. And then I had this white mascara and I put it on my lashes and in my eyebrows. And this guy, it was very sweet. I posted this week, this image of me. And it brought it all back because at this party, just to be clear, no one, including Petra and Alexa, had ears on or anything of theme of fairy.
24:49 Mary Beth Barone? To do with fairy.
24:50 Benito Skinner? We were the only people there who, and Terry could easily just take off his ears. I have white mascara on.
24:56 Mary Beth Barone? You have white brows.
24:57 Benito Skinner? I am-
24:58 Mary Beth Barone? Your brows were white.
24:59 Benito Skinner? Bitch, I'm Ferngully at this.
25:00 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, you were, it was very Ferngully.
25:02 Benito Skinner? In, literally, young me-
25:04 Mary Beth Barone? It doesn't look like you.
25:05 Benito Skinner? The young me who went to the fricking Tyler, the Creator concert in London would have had to unfortunately end it all because Tyler, the creator, was at this party. And he goes, he comes up to me, he's like, you did the ears, man? And I was like, I- I don't know what to do. I just told Terry, I go, we have to go.
25:25 Mary Beth Barone? But how cool is it to be acknowledged?
25:28 Benito Skinner? Not cool, not like that. But he was really sweet, but I was just like, this is the worst thing that's ever happened to me. But now that I think back to it, I saw that boy, I saw that image and I thought, that's so sweet that I tried so hard and I thought like, I needed to do that. And I remember everyone being kind of nice about it, but just I think back to it and it's just like, it makes me so. I think I got COVID that night too, rightly so. I deserved it.
25:54 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, you were asking for it.
25:57 Mary Beth Barone? Whenever someone tells me they got COVID, I say, well, what were you wearing?
25:59 Benito Skinner? Yeah, exactly. Well, I mean, come on.
26:02 Mary Beth Barone? Come on.
26:03 Benito Skinner? Come on. I mean, be for real.
26:04 Mary Beth Barone? Come on.
26:05 Benito Skinner? Oh, you're really the victim here? But here's the thing, in seeing it, I thought, that's amazing. I didn't reshare it because like, I just, I think enough people.
26:12 Mary Beth Barone? We're gonna put it, we're gonna overlay it on this video.
26:15 Benito Skinner? You're gonna see it.
26:16 Mary Beth Barone? And maybe post.
26:16 Benito Skinner? And I'm so proud of this kid. I think he, he just wanted to be loved and that's just me and to do the most. And in my history, you know, I also someone posted like an old Jenny thing where I was Jenny at a meet and greet at a Mac and I.
26:31 Mary Beth Barone? You said you took a period dump.
26:33 Benito Skinner? I, yeah, I, there are some lines and some videos and, and some outfits I've worn and I, um, I'm proud of them all. I think we're here and how lucky am I for that?
26:43 Mary Beth Barone? We're all so lucky. We got to witness it. And I think the image is, it doesn't look like you at all, which I think is really.
26:50 Benito Skinner? Well, I was a fairy.
26:51 Mary Beth Barone? You're such a chameleon.
26:52 Benito Skinner? Yeah, that's, oh, that's definitely the takeaway.
26:54 Mary Beth Barone? You're such a chameleon.
26:55 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I'm a character actor. Yeah.
26:57 Mary Beth Barone? I think this really also, it's, it's like paralleled to when I at Ride Live, went through my old headshots from when I did the International Model and Talent Association.
27:07 Benito Skinner? Barbizon.
27:07 Mary Beth Barone? Barbizon, Barbizon graduate. Some of the worst images, not only of me, but that have ever been taken in the history of photography and history of modeling and the history of, of humankind. And those photos haunted me for so many years and I knew they were bad when they were happening. So then to be able to like, take the power back and take control of the narrative and be like, no, I'm owning this thing that I did that there is photographic evidence of and it's okay. And it's like, it. Made me the person that I am. It made me walk away from the industry for a decade.
27:35 Benito Skinner? Well, of course.
27:36 Mary Beth Barone? If I hadn't done that, I wouldn't be here right now.
27:39 Benito Skinner? We say, come right back to us.
27:40 Mary Beth Barone? Come as you aren't.
27:41 Benito Skinner? Steam, the steampunk community is waiting. They, they found me in London.
27:46 Mary Beth Barone? And they would, they would like to know when their queen is gonna show up for work.
27:49 Benito Skinner? When will our queen rise? When will our queen acknowledge us?
27:54 Mary Beth Barone? I'm working on it. I have a couple more errors to get through.
27:56 Benito Skinner? I know. But yeah, that's just one of many things that I've done that I was like, I just, I did so much. But in the end, I'm so proud of, of where it got me. And I think we all have to own our history. I think that's what overcompensating is in a huge way.
28:09 Mary Beth Barone? Definitely.
28:09 Benito Skinner? It's like owning all these things we did and just being like, you know what? I know the kid that did that. And I know the hurt kid that did that. And I think it's funny and I think it's beautiful. I think Tyler, the creator saw me that night and he thought, that's sweet. Poor kid.
28:22 Mary Beth Barone? That kid's gonna go on to do great things.
28:24 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
28:25 Mary Beth Barone? I think that's what he thought.
28:25 Benito Skinner? Exactly. That's exactly what he thought.
28:27 Mary Beth Barone? Part of owning my history too, is like reflecting on like mistakes that I've made and being like, I learned so much from those mistakes and they had to happen when they happened in order for me to be the person that I am now. Like things that are embarrassing or like, you know, I don't know. I, I keep a list. Cause I always want to be doing mental self harm.
28:44 Benito Skinner? Well, of course.
28:44 Mary Beth Barone? I'll return to the list of things I've done wrong.
28:47 Benito Skinner? I see this image of me as the fairy right before I fall asleep.
28:49 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
28:50 Benito Skinner? Into a deep slumber that is not, my dreams have been interesting.
28:54 Mary Beth Barone? Hey, mine too.
28:54 Benito Skinner? Daily nightmare.
28:55 Mary Beth Barone? Mine too.
28:56 Benito Skinner? Nightmare or nothing?
28:57 Mary Beth Barone? I saw Bring Her Back with Court.
28:58 Benito Skinner? Oh, God.
28:59 Mary Beth Barone? And he was like, you're gonna have nightmares about this tonight. And I was like, I kinda hope I do.
29:03 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
29:03 Mary Beth Barone? Because what I have been dreaming about is so much worse.
29:06 Benito Skinner? Exactly.
29:07 Mary Beth Barone? So, so much worse.
29:08 Benito Skinner? To kinda shake it up.
29:09 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
29:10 Benito Skinner? Mine are like, oh, yeah. I, I don't even wanna get into that.
29:13 Mary Beth Barone? Let's not get into that. Let's agree to never talk about our dreams on the podcast specifically. We can talk about them in a broad sense. I think specifically talking about dreams. It's just never.
29:23 Benito Skinner? It's like when someone shows you them as a baby and you didn't ask. It's like, yeah, it's really cute.
29:28 Mary Beth Barone? It is cute.
29:29 Benito Skinner? But like, everyone was a cute baby.
29:31 Mary Beth Barone? I'm like, I see it.
29:32 Benito Skinner? No, oh.
29:32 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, I totally see it.
29:34 Benito Skinner? You know what's funny? With mine, sometimes people are like, you don't look.
29:36 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, you've changed a lot.
29:37 Benito Skinner? I've really changed. I've really grown into my bones.
29:40 Mary Beth Barone? If only that kid could see you in fairy ears and white brows.
29:43 Benito Skinner? Oh, girl, he'd be disappointed.
29:45 Mary Beth Barone? He would think, huh, that's interesting.
29:48 Benito Skinner? Bummer. So this doesn't go right.
29:50 Mary Beth Barone? No.
29:50 Benito Skinner? This totally goes off the rails.
29:52 Mary Beth Barone? Things have to, you know.
29:54 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
29:55 Mary Beth Barone? Life is a highway. I think about that all the time.
29:57 Benito Skinner? Of course, Rascal Flatts.
29:58 Mary Beth Barone? Rascal Flatts.
29:59 Benito Skinner? Those fuckers. I wonder what they've been saying lately.
30:02 Mary Beth Barone? I know. I'm scared. I almost made my caption the other day, "Life is a highway," but I thought, I haven't really kept up with their political affiliations.
30:09 Benito Skinner? Which is crazy. I feel like you would be like the first to know that.
30:12 Mary Beth Barone? I know. And maybe they're not making headlines because they've just stayed quiet, but like, speak up bitch challenge.
30:17 Benito Skinner? Mm-hmm.
30:18 Mary Beth Barone? You might be complicit.
30:19 Benito Skinner? You might be complicit. I'm realizing in this moment, we haven't even talked about you being back to Blair.
30:24 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, my God. So I'm in, I have brown hair.
30:27 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
30:28 Mary Beth Barone? I'm back on my bullshit.
30:29 Benito Skinner? Rachel Bilson and you're back.
30:30 Mary Beth Barone? And I'm back. I felt so inspired. I dyed my hair on my birthday. It felt like the right time. I wanted to be blonde for a lot of the press for overcompensating when it came out.
30:43 Benito Skinner? Wait, owning my history, Terry and I make out in the Alaska video.
30:46 Mary Beth Barone? Whoa.
30:47 Benito Skinner? Yeah, isn't that crazy?
30:48 Mary Beth Barone? That's pretty cool.
30:48 Benito Skinner? That was really fun. It was really fun. They were like, we need someone to make out. Maybe some gay guys?
30:53 Mary Beth Barone? Hmm, it's very, "You are beautiful."
30:55 Benito Skinner? Oh, wait. Oh, my God, when we were at Clark Steiner recently and they played that and I got to perform for you a little bit.
31:02 Mary Beth Barone? You got to strut down the catwalk.
31:03 Benito Skinner? Yeah. No CD.
31:06 Mary Beth Barone? This one, I'm gonna kick it over to my co-host Benny Drama.
31:09 Benito Skinner? So for all my OCD heads, we're in this together, kid. So here's the thing. You're going about your day and all of a sudden this like crazy thought comes into your mind and you're like, oh my God, wait, I'm like scared. Is that me? Like, who just thought that? And it's like, yeah, it's you, but it's actually not you. Okay. And so many people get these intrusive thoughts. It's very common, but people with OCD tend to fixate on them. I tend to make them, I would say, consume me in a really unhealthy way. And if that sounds familiar to you, then here's the thing about those disturbing unwanted thoughts. They're more common than you think. OCD latches onto these thoughts and can make you feel like a monster, even though that isn't true. But that's what makes OCD so debilitating. The thoughts can feel so real that seeking help can seem like a huge risk. You don't want to sit with a therapist and be like, I thought about stabbing my thigh
31:54 Benito Skinner? today because you think that they'd like, you know, call the police.
31:56 Mary Beth Barone? They're gonna call someone. Yeah, that breaks my heart.
31:58 Benito Skinner? With NOCD, they're specialized in OCD. So that's not gonna happen. Unlike general therapy providers, every NOCD therapist specializes in OCD. So they deeply understand intrusive thoughts. That means no matter how disturbing, taboo, or shameful you think something is, your therapy sessions are a safe space to be open about it. Wow, I love that. NOCD also accepts many major insurance plans and offers always on support between sessions. To learn more about therapy with NOCD, go to nocd.com and schedule a free 15 minute call with their team. That's nocd.com to learn more and book a free 15 minute call. Thanks, NOCD.
32:32 Mary Beth Barone? Thank you, NOCD.
32:33 Benito Skinner? I really appreciate you and I appreciate what you've done for me and hopefully for our listeners.
32:38 Mary Beth Barone? As I've mentioned before on this podcast, I feel like everyone's bed should be a safe space, a sanctuary in many ways. You need the perfect bed for you. I'm a stomach sleeper. I sleep on my stomach, head to one side, both hands under my pillow.
32:52 Benito Skinner? We're exactly the same.
32:53 Mary Beth Barone? I recently got a mattress from Brooklyn Bedding, which has been around for over 25 years, known for top of the line comfort and quality without the luxury price tag. This website has so many options for different beds. I almost was overwhelmed at like all the customization that you can do.
33:07 Benito Skinner? You're freaking out right now.
33:08 Mary Beth Barone? I know. I'm totally freaking out. I'm totally gagged.
33:11 Benito Skinner? Can we roll around in my Brooklyn bed later?
33:13 Mary Beth Barone? I should only be so lucky.
33:14 Benito Skinner? That's me to you. Hey, hey, I'm sorry. I know you probably have plans and this is my heart is beating so fast.
33:20 Mary Beth Barone? So fast right now.
33:20 Benito Skinner? But can we please roll around in your Brooklyn bed later?
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33:48 Mary Beth Barone? Uh huh.
33:49 Benito Skinner? Or is it glacio tex?
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34:19 Mary Beth Barone? Brooklyn bedding.com promo code ride. So speaking of hair. She did it with hair.
34:25 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
34:26 Mary Beth Barone? Let's talk about the people that are doing it without hair. Today I'm riding for bald guys, so.
34:33 Benito Skinner? And dear media, clip that.
34:36 Mary Beth Barone? Okay, we talk a lot on this podcast about hair. I mean, hell, we do ads for NutriBol.
34:42 Benito Skinner? I mean, hell.
34:43 Mary Beth Barone? I mean, hell, but.
34:45 Benito Skinner? Sorry, it's so Riverdale to say pray tell. You said.
34:47 Mary Beth Barone? Why is that Riverdale?
34:48 Benito Skinner? Cause like, that's how they would speak.
34:49 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, my mom said, used to say pray. I mean, she still does, but like pray tell is so in my vernacular.
34:54 Benito Skinner? Yeah, and it's so in the world of Riverdale. Continue.
34:56 Mary Beth Barone? So there's the people with hair and then there's those that don't have hair.
35:00 Benito Skinner? Mm hmm.
35:00 Mary Beth Barone? Personally, I ride for both of these two types of men. Those that have a full head of hair and decide to shave it and do a buzz cut because it's sexy.
35:10 Benito Skinner? It won't be on me, I don't think.
35:11 Mary Beth Barone? In the vein of Andy DeYoung, that's who I'm thinking about right now.
35:14 Benito Skinner? Definitely. Shout out friendship.
35:15 Mary Beth Barone? Shout out to him. Go see Friendship starring Tim Robinson. And then there's the guys who noticed a little bit of hair thinning and they say, I'm going to actually embrace this and I'm going to shave my whole head and maybe even have a mustache. Not required, but I like, but hey.
35:29 Benito Skinner? But hey.
35:30 Mary Beth Barone? Can I say playing with form?
35:31 Benito Skinner? It's a little whimsy.
35:32 Mary Beth Barone? It's whimsy.
35:33 Benito Skinner? Immediately boom. And if you're gonna shave your head, you have to do it on live. That's my only caveat. You have to do that on live. If I ever have to shave my head for something and I'm hoping it's for a role, we'll see if I ever book another one. But I would just love to be seated. I look straight into the camera. Very similar to me doing Jennifer Hudson's show where I want to walk down naked with heels on.
35:52 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
35:53 Benito Skinner? To the spirit tunnel.
35:53 Mary Beth Barone? Your fuck me pumps.
35:55 Benito Skinner? Do not fuck me pump right now. But yeah, I just want to look down the barrel and you just, you shave it.
36:00 Mary Beth Barone? It's very Natalie Portman.
36:03 Mary Beth Barone? I just think that being bald and embracing a new look and it might be scary. Like, I just think guys like embracing change is so, they can't wear makeup, you know, there's only so many ways you can reinvent your look.
36:14 Benito Skinner? I don't want guys to wear makeup. I just cannot, I just, it's not for them.
36:19 Mary Beth Barone? I think of course there's something to be said for going to Turkey and getting plugs, but.
36:23 Benito Skinner? And dear media, it's like she does it on purpose. I swear to God. Someone said that apparently if you get on the flight back from Turkey, it's like 30 Americans with like bloody scalps.
36:34 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
36:34 Benito Skinner? Which I think is incredible, by the way.
36:36 Mary Beth Barone? We go.
36:37 Benito Skinner? No, I think so.
36:38 Mary Beth Barone? Can I just shout out some bald legends?
36:40 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I wish you would. I'm gonna shout out one too at the end.
36:44 Mary Beth Barone? Ready?
36:44 Benito Skinner? Samuel L. Jackson.
36:47 Mary Beth Barone? Since day one, it feels like.
36:49 Benito Skinner? You know what I've never seen and I actually want to watch tonight?
36:51 Mary Beth Barone? What?
36:52 Benito Skinner? Snakes on a plane.
36:53 Mary Beth Barone? Whoa, I've never seen that either.
36:54 Benito Skinner? Tonight's the night.
36:55 Mary Beth Barone? Maybe we watch tonight. Another star that I love who's embracing being bald.
36:59 Benito Skinner? Jason Statham. Indy Darling.
37:01 Mary Beth Barone? Indy Darling, Jason Statham, husband of Rosie Huntington Whitley or Whitley.
37:06 Benito Skinner? Oh, exactly.
37:06 Mary Beth Barone? It's regional.
37:07 Benito Skinner? Come on, do whatever you want. Who cares?
37:09 Mary Beth Barone? I love him as an actor and, and to, on that same exact note is Dwayne The Rock Johnson. He's not always bald. He's not bald in the upcoming Safdie Brother movie, which I did see the trailer for before Bring Her Back. But I just love that he embraces being bald and like, I don't know, I just, I, I think there is like, there is this whole other way to explore your masculinity without hair.
37:29 Benito Skinner? Can I say someone's name really quick?
37:31 Mary Beth Barone? Please.
37:31 Benito Skinner? Stanley Tucci.
37:34 Benito Skinner? Stanley Tucci.
37:35 Mary Beth Barone? You know that meme that's like the world if blank?
37:38 Benito Skinner? Mm hmm.
37:39 Mary Beth Barone? And it's like a futuristic whatever.
37:41 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
37:41 Mary Beth Barone? That's the world if Stanley Tucci was gay.
37:43 Benito Skinner? Sorry.
37:45 Benito Skinner? Sorry. There's also a comment that I got that I think about kind of every day is that I just, and this is in line with Tucci. Someone said that I have the exact same smile as Lil Toonchi.
37:55 Mary Beth Barone? Okay.
37:56 Benito Skinner? Lil Wayne. And if you see it, I kind of know exactly what they meant.
38:00 Mary Beth Barone? Wait, that's huge.
38:01 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
38:02 Mary Beth Barone? That might be what originally attracted me to you.
38:06 Benito Skinner? I know, and I see that. I agree.
38:08 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, 100%, 100%.
38:11 Benito Skinner? So you see?
38:11 Mary Beth Barone? I really do.
38:13 Benito Skinner? Someone was like, you have the exact same smile.
38:15 Mary Beth Barone? I don't know about here because he has full grills.
38:17 Benito Skinner? Yeah, but like if I had grills in right now, you could see it.
38:20 Mary Beth Barone? Another bald icon is my dad, of course. He now has grown his hair in, but he was bald for many, many years. That's how I think of him as bald.
38:27 Benito Skinner? I love that.
38:28 Mary Beth Barone? To name some other bald legends, I mean.
38:31 Benito Skinner? My trainer here in New York.
38:33 Mary Beth Barone? Oh.
38:33 Benito Skinner? He's incredible. And you know what you told me this morning? He said that shaving his head was like the greatest like weight off his shoulders. He was like, finally, I just did it. Yeah, and that happened today. So it's so funny you bring up bald guys.
38:44 Mary Beth Barone? Synergy.
38:44 Benito Skinner? But he was just like, I'm doing it. Like, I'm, yeah.
38:47 Mary Beth Barone? I'd be remiss if I didn't mention when I was bald for Halloween several years ago. And I understand, like, not having hair to like play with and touch is like not having hair for that night. I felt so free.
38:59 Benito Skinner? Mm hmm.
39:00 Mary Beth Barone? I just felt free.
39:01 Benito Skinner? When I have hair, I feel free. When I have long hair.
39:03 Mary Beth Barone? You want to do a hair flip?
39:04 Benito Skinner? I have to do a hair flip.
39:05 Mary Beth Barone? You do hair flips without hair, which I think is so cool.
39:08 Benito Skinner? Oh, yeah. Well, it's easy. You were giving some of the, and I really find this to be such a cringe that it's so like that big dick energy. But the vibe you were giving that Halloween was like, this man has the longest penis you've ever seen. That was the vibe you were giving off.
39:24 Mary Beth Barone? Maybe a zoom.
39:27 Benito Skinner? It was fabulous. I really loved you bald. I kind of, I think I did it. Oh, I did kind of like a Curb Your Enthusiasm one. Where it's like, I did it more like on the sides, but it was like the top.
39:36 Mary Beth Barone? That was on them.
39:37 Benito Skinner? You're forgetting the iconic twins from Selling Sunset.
39:44 Benito Skinner? My girls.
39:44 Mary Beth Barone? Who names again? Oppenheimer?
39:47 Benito Skinner? The Oppenheimers. The Oppenheimers. Oppenheimers.
39:51 Mary Beth Barone? It's Oppenheim. It's Oppenheim.
39:54 Benito Skinner? It's Oppenheimers.
39:55 Mary Beth Barone? It's the Oppenheim group, right?
39:56 Benito Skinner? Yeah. Oppenheim group.
39:58 Mary Beth Barone? You can't imagine when a new season of Selling Sunset had come out right around the same time as Oppenheimer. It was like, that was a crazy time for me.
40:05 Benito Skinner? It was so confusing.
40:06 Mary Beth Barone? My head was crazy. My head was all twisted up.
40:09 Benito Skinner? Goes to Kenner G, which we'll talk about next episode.
40:12 Mary Beth Barone? He's trying.
40:13 Benito Skinner? You guys are not ready for my hot takes on Kenner G.
40:15 Mary Beth Barone? Okay, my friend texted me, I just want to say a quick anecdote about bald guys.
40:19 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
40:19 Mary Beth Barone? My friend texted me a picture of this guy that she was maybe starting to talk to and she's like, his hair is thinning a little bit. And I was like, oh, well, maybe he'll shave his head. Like, I love bald guys. And she was like, I don't know if I'm ready to date a bald guy. And I'm just like, that's so close minded and like, it really, it actually really pissed me off.
40:36 Benito Skinner? Yeah, good.
40:37 Mary Beth Barone? I have not talked to her really since.
40:38 Benito Skinner? Well, yeah, you blocked her.
40:39 Mary Beth Barone? I'm just like, that's fucked up.
40:40 Benito Skinner? She go, don't fucking come for my bald kings ever again. And I can, can I just say, like, and I know maybe someone bald is gonna be like, fuck you, like, you have hair. But it does just seem like I've had enough. This is my hair.
40:56 Benito Skinner? And it's like, just fucking shave it. And oh my God, the most iconic, I was so upset. I think it's from Brittany's book, or I think there was an interview that was on TikTok. But she talked about when she shaved her head, it was because it was like, she just thought the hair was like, for the male gaze and it was about sexiness and she's like, I just want to be like, you don't own me and I'm gonna do this and I don't give a fuck. I think it's so major.
41:16 Mary Beth Barone? You know who rocks a shaved head sometimes is Marie Foster.
41:19 Benito Skinner? Oh, yeah.
41:20 Mary Beth Barone? I mean, the perfect, just, it's stunning.
41:23 Benito Skinner? That's bald girls.
41:24 Mary Beth Barone? So bald girls can happen too. And I am, I'm riding for bald guys, but I think bald women really like own the look. And I think sometimes maybe bald guys feel a little, I don't know, self-conscious.
41:34 Benito Skinner? We're trying to be killed less right now.
41:35 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
41:36 Benito Skinner? So I think every now and then we just have to.
41:37 Mary Beth Barone? We strive for guys to do the least.
41:39 Benito Skinner? Bald guys.
41:40 Mary Beth Barone? They can't even grow hair. But I, I do like the look. I like the aesthetic and I think it's cool.
41:46 Benito Skinner? I think so too. And I think it can be sexy and fun and playful and don't hide it. Let it shine, put some oil on it and rub a dub dub. I wonder if you have to like shave it every day. What's the vibe?
41:58 Mary Beth Barone? I think some people are taking a bick to the head every day.
42:03 Mary Beth Barone? What?
42:03 Benito Skinner? A bick to the head. Girl.
42:06 Mary Beth Barone? Well, that's what they're doing.
42:07 Benito Skinner? You got that crass mouth. Now you're kind of making me want to shave this thing.
42:10 Mary Beth Barone? It could be cool. I like, I think if I had to shave my head for a role one day, that would excite me. I think that could be really cool.
42:16 Benito Skinner? You'd have to let me do it, though.
42:17 Mary Beth Barone? Of course, on live.
42:19 Benito Skinner? Yeah, well, on live down in down the, and I, I want just two teardrops falling down, but it's not because I'm sad. I'm crying for who I was.
42:26 Mary Beth Barone? It's a new feeling.
42:27 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
42:27 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
42:28 Benito Skinner? Yeah. If you want us to shave your head, though, hit us up. I would love to shave someone's head.
42:31 Mary Beth Barone? Ride live.
42:32 Benito Skinner? Yeah, ride live. Oh.
42:33 Mary Beth Barone? Next time we tour.
42:34 Benito Skinner? We'll go back on tour if someone lets us shave their head in each city.
42:36 Mary Beth Barone? In every city.
42:37 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
42:38 Mary Beth Barone? Whoa.
42:38 Benito Skinner? Or we won't.
42:39 Mary Beth Barone? Or we won't.
42:40 Benito Skinner? You know what you are, Mary Beth?
42:41 Mary Beth Barone? Bisexual?
42:42 Benito Skinner? Well, yeah, but you're also my ride or die. Ride or die.
42:48 Mary Beth Barone? So I obviously ride for owning your history. I think this is going to come up. This is going to be thematic throughout the season as we remember things that we've done and we can really point to like, that's owning your history. Also, I forgot to say my favorite stating the obvious in the stating the obvious episode, which.
43:02 Benito Skinner? Please.
43:02 Mary Beth Barone? It's raining.
43:05 Mary Beth Barone? Could anything feel better than someone declaring that it's raining?
43:09 Benito Skinner? And say that.
43:10 Mary Beth Barone? And say that.
43:10 Benito Skinner? Thank God you said that.
43:12 Mary Beth Barone? Please.
43:12 Benito Skinner? I got to say that in London.
43:14 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
43:14 Benito Skinner? I'm so London crazy right now.
43:15 Mary Beth Barone? Every day. You're obsessed. My God, what are you wearing? Union Jack underwear?
43:19 Benito Skinner? Oh, my God, like, maybe, dude, like, are you serious? Like, oh, my God. No, it was just fun. I just like, love their vibe over there. I'll just say that.
43:26 Mary Beth Barone? It's fun to pop over sometimes.
43:27 Benito Skinner? I know. They love you there, though. It's like everyone there was like, oh, Mary Beth. And I'm like, she's, you know, and I said she's dying her hair right now. She couldn't come.
43:33 Mary Beth Barone? I mean, I dazzled them for years.
43:35 Benito Skinner? No, I know.
43:36 Mary Beth Barone? But I haven't been back since the.
43:38 Benito Skinner? Well, yeah.
43:39 Mary Beth Barone? And I will go back at some point. People keep asking me when I'm going back. When I'm ready is the answer. Stating the obvious.
43:44 Benito Skinner? Exactly.
43:45 Mary Beth Barone? When I'm ready, I'll be back. So.
43:47 Benito Skinner? And I have nothing to say to that. Brain dead.
43:49 Mary Beth Barone? Owning your, the amplify. Don't add to. Owning your history can be so powerful. I think we need to do it more. It's sort of, yeah, I just, I think people shy away from it and there's like the cringe factor. There's the embarrassment. There's nothing more owning your history than overcompensating.
44:03 Benito Skinner? I don't think so. I think I had to, I had to own that. And let me tell you, so cathartic for me. And to return to it, I think I forgave myself. And I think also, a part of owning your history is learning lessons. I've learned so many lessons. I learned lessons today even.
44:17 Mary Beth Barone? Today, we've learned a lot.
44:18 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
44:18 Mary Beth Barone? We won't say what they are, but.
44:20 Benito Skinner? No, not yet, but soon. Um, season six.
44:23 Mary Beth Barone? Yes.
44:23 Benito Skinner? What was another thing you added to season six recently?
44:25 Mary Beth Barone? Just check real quick. I have, I do have a full list.
44:28 Benito Skinner? We'll bleep it, of course.
44:29 Mary Beth Barone? We have to.
44:30 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
44:30 Mary Beth Barone? Season six jokes. Oh.
44:33 Benito Skinner? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
44:36 Mary Beth Barone? And the [BLEEP] ad.
44:38 Benito Skinner? Oh, yeah. Oh, I think also at some point, actually, in the next episode, remind me to tell you my experience at the Barbie premiere.
44:46 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, yeah.
44:46 Benito Skinner? Because I want people to know that, like.
44:48 Mary Beth Barone? When you talk about Ken energy, obviously.
44:49 Benito Skinner? Well, of course. And it's like, but I still found my Ken energy even through the hate. I, of course, ride for bald guys. I'd be scared to not.
44:58 Mary Beth Barone? Scare media, what's that?
45:03 Benito Skinner? I think it's amazing. I think it's fucking hot. It's sexy. I don't want to rub it. And of course, I'll always ask for permission and consent before I touch your heads. I think everyone needs to know that. Don't just touch some guy's head. Yeah. But I can, I can only hope that one day I'll have two cocktails at something, maybe espresso martinis and Jason Statham's there. And obviously, me and Rosie connect.
45:25 Mary Beth Barone? You're gonna be hitting it off.
45:26 Benito Skinner? It's a meeting of the minds. We've had so much fun. And she goes, you have to be my husband. And I'm like, who's your husband? And I do a whole bit.
45:31 Mary Beth Barone? The beekeeper?
45:33 Benito Skinner? The megalodon himself.
45:34 Mary Beth Barone? He's the beekeeper.
45:35 Benito Skinner? The wrangler of the megalodon.
45:36 Mary Beth Barone? I just added something else to season six. You just reminded me.
45:39 Benito Skinner? Oh, good.
45:39 Mary Beth Barone? So like inspiration, it just happens in the moment. I had to write that down.
45:43 Benito Skinner? Of course, my love.
45:43 Mary Beth Barone? I really think you and Jason Statham will connect in a huge way.
45:46 Benito Skinner? You think so?
45:46 Mary Beth Barone? He's also a great comedic actor. If you haven't seen Spy starring Melissa McCarthy, like, I highly recommend it.
45:50 Benito Skinner? It's a fabulous film. And Sandra Bullock?
45:53 Mary Beth Barone? Sandra Bullock.
45:55 Benito Skinner? It's your media.
45:57 Mary Beth Barone? I don't think she's in that.
45:59 Benito Skinner? Yeah, she is.
46:00 Mary Beth Barone? Is she?
46:01 Benito Skinner? Oh, no, she's in The Heat.
46:02 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
46:02 Benito Skinner? With Melissa. I love that movie, too. I love The Heat. But Spy is with, um, Rose Byrne.
46:07 Mary Beth Barone? You shouldn't mix up Melissa McCarthy's. That's problematic.
46:10 Benito Skinner? She was really.
46:12 Mary Beth Barone? She was prolific.
46:12 Benito Skinner? She's prolific. Like, she's in so many movies.
46:14 Mary Beth Barone? You're right. It is Rose Byrne.
46:16 Benito Skinner? But yes, I, I ride for bald guys. I think it's amazing. Maybe one day I'll, I'll join, I'll join.
46:21 Mary Beth Barone? Just as like a stylistic choice, too. It can be a stylistic choice.
46:24 Benito Skinner? Buzz it.
46:25 Mary Beth Barone? It doesn't have to be necessity.
46:26 Benito Skinner? I think I've got some, like, I've got a lumpy head, though, so I don't know.
46:30 Mary Beth Barone? We'll see. We'll see one day. But I just want to embolden people who are listening to this, who maybe, like, want to experiment with being bald and, like, because maybe their hair is thinning and they just want to try it. It'll grow, like, the hair that you have will grow back.
46:42 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
46:43 Mary Beth Barone? So I say just, like, do it. It's Pride Month.
46:46 Benito Skinner? Pick to the head.
46:47 Mary Beth Barone? Take a pick to the, to the butt.
46:48 Benito Skinner? To the dome.
46:51 Mary Beth Barone? What could be better than that? And that's right.
46:53 Benito Skinner? What could be better than that? The cover of Vogue, but you'll never know. I love you so much. I'm gonna keep saying it so that you get it.
46:59 Mary Beth Barone? I love you.
47:00 Benito Skinner? This is what I do. Yeah.
47:02 Mary Beth Barone? It's what I do.
47:03 Benito Skinner? And I think there's only one way to end this one. Straight to camera? My name is Ben Dye.
47:13 Benito Skinner? Oh, my exit.
47:15 Mary Beth Barone? Benny babe, eyes on the road. Benny, go!
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