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Transcript Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.
0:00 Speaker 00 The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:04 Benito Skinner? I'm Benito Skinner.
0:05 Mary Beth Barone? I'm Mary Beth Brown.
0:06 Benito Skinner? And this.
0:07 Mary Beth Barone? Is.
0:08 Benito Skinner? Ride.
0:13 Benito Skinner? My tongue is sacred. I speak upon what I like. Protected, sexy, discerning with my time. Your energy is yours and mine is mine. What's mine is mine. My face is sitting. I don't need no disguises. Don't comment on my body. Do not reply. Your business is yours and mine is mine.
0:38 Benito Skinner? Why do you care so much whose dick I write?
0:42 Benito Skinner? Why?
0:44 Benito Skinner? Let's begin.
0:45 Mary Beth Barone? Do you want to give attribution of that quote?
0:47 Benito Skinner? So that's Ariana Grande, "Yes, and" as Nina Drama. And God, it's good to be back.
0:52 Mary Beth Barone? Wow.
0:52 Benito Skinner? Why do you care so much whose dick I write? And then, why?
0:57 Mary Beth Barone? But.
0:58 Benito Skinner? No, she's like, she, in that moment, she's asking the listener, like.
1:02 Mary Beth Barone? Why?
1:03 Benito Skinner? Why? Like, think about it.
1:04 Mary Beth Barone? I've heard that song so many times and I, I just never clocked that that was what was being said.
1:10 Benito Skinner? Oh, the.
1:11 Mary Beth Barone? Just all of it.
1:12 Benito Skinner? Yeah, the full monologue that she includes.
1:14 Mary Beth Barone? The whole thing, yeah.
1:14 Benito Skinner? Well, it's how I got the part of Benny in "Overcompensating."
1:17 Mary Beth Barone? I know, you perform that as a dramatic monologue.
1:19 Benito Skinner? The first little, oh yeah, we just shot a TV show, so that just happened.
1:23 Mary Beth Barone? 10 seconds in.
1:25 Benito Skinner? God, I mean.
1:27 Mary Beth Barone? We wrapped four days ago on "Overcompensating." We have not done the pod in a while. It's good to be back. We've upped production value slightly.
1:35 Benito Skinner? Check the sign.
1:36 Mary Beth Barone? Thank you, Peely, who did, production designer, I should say, for Galaxy Brain as well. We're keeping her booked and busy, which, by the way, July 28th.
1:45 Benito Skinner? I think this episode should just be plugs.
1:47 Mary Beth Barone? It's just plugs. Well, I do want to plug that I'm hosting a pool party at Bath House in Williamsburg. It will have already been announced by now. It's small capacity, so if you're there, we can't wait to see you. And then I'm hosting a thing called the Galaxy Brain Ball. It's a dance party on July 31st. And maybe there will still be tickets available. Who knows?
2:07 Benito Skinner? Let's just say I'm not going as Benny Drama that night.
2:12 Mary Beth Barone? There's going to be a special guest appearance.
2:15 Benito Skinner? Yes.
2:15 Mary Beth Barone? You never thought you'd see.
2:17 Benito Skinner? But what's better than one?
2:19 Mary Beth Barone? Two.
2:21 Benito Skinner? This is season four, kid. I mean, we've really done a lot of this.
2:25 Mary Beth Barone? We've done a lot. It's season four. New logo, new neon sign, new cover art. Same, Dear Media.
2:33 Benito Skinner? Come on, Dear Media.
2:35 Mary Beth Barone? We can finally speak about this. We are breaking the silence.
2:38 Benito Skinner? I guess we can.
2:39 Mary Beth Barone? We actually can, because nothing we're about to say isn't public information. Obviously, we have some pretty substantial political differences with the people that own this podcast network, and they have never tried to censor us. We have always been able to say what we want to say, and we just want to acknowledge that it might be a little confusing at times. When we started, it was a bit of a different situation.
3:04 Benito Skinner? The crazy thing about a contract is it is a contract, and I always forget that.
3:09 Mary Beth Barone? We have forgotten that a few times.
3:11 Benito Skinner? Oh, it's happened to me like thrice. You know, I almost got sued by it. We'll bleep it.
3:15 Mary Beth Barone? I know. And the thing is, sometimes you can get out of a contract, and that makes you think that you can get out of anyone that you want, but the truth is, you actually really can't.
3:24 Benito Skinner? You can't. And yeah, I mean, like, I think that they've been a great partner as far as this podcast is concerned, like, just on the business side of things. But I think the unfortunate thing is that sometimes you sign a contract and you don't know all affiliations when you do, and those come into the light, which is unfortunate.
3:45 Mary Beth Barone? Everyone we work with directly at Dear Media is lovely, and we love all the girls in. Of course, we love Jackson.
3:52 Benito Skinner? Jackson, a raging Republican.
3:54 Mary Beth Barone? Jackson's a gay Republican.
3:55 Benito Skinner? He said, "Maha, mama."
3:57 Mary Beth Barone? He is, he's actually an Australian refugee. He moved to the States as a gay Republican with refugee status.
4:04 Benito Skinner? Well, and he's coming out with t-shirts that say, "Maha, mama." Isn't that cool?
4:09 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, by Jackson.
4:10 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
4:11 Mary Beth Barone? Which is really cool.
4:12 Benito Skinner? My thing with maha is, it's like, okay, die, I guess.
4:15 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, or like, whatever. Is that the goal?
4:18 Benito Skinner? If you want measles, like, go all the way off, sis.
4:20 Mary Beth Barone? Totally. I wish that they could maybe, like, quarantine themselves just to not endanger... Like, there are people that can't get vaccines because they have pre-existing conditions or things such as that. So then, if, like, maha people don't vaccinate their kids, it puts those kids at risk, and that's why there is a measles outbreak in America.
4:39 Benito Skinner? Didn't you fuckers miss us?
4:41 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
4:41 Benito Skinner? Because I should have did.
4:42 Mary Beth Barone? This is how we're kicking things off.
4:44 Benito Skinner? It's feeling hot. Everything was addressed on the Reddit. And, uh, sorry. The one thing I do have to tell you is that this was brought to my attention that people think that the person who posted wasn't you.
4:54 Mary Beth Barone? Wasn't me, I know.
4:56 Benito Skinner? Can you please share that it was?
4:57 Mary Beth Barone? It was me. I also, I, I messaged directly with the moderator to confirm my identity.
5:01 Benito Skinner? Yes.
5:02 Mary Beth Barone? I haven't had access to Reddit pretty much since March. And I went back on there to post that. And then I am not able to access it anymore.
5:11 Benito Skinner? I'll, I'll share one thing on there that did make me laugh was that someone indicated, this was shared to me by my lovely assistant, Cecilia, who I miss desperately. She's my assistant on set. Cecilia, if you're listening, I hope you are, my darling girl. I miss you every minute of every day. The cashew butter me and that girl went through. I mean, you can't even imagine.
5:30 Mary Beth Barone? I, I can imagine.
5:32 Benito Skinner? The Nutbar that we had.
5:33 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
5:34 Benito Skinner? Nutbar, huge shout out to Nutbar. Just absolutely adore you.
5:37 Mary Beth Barone? Nutbar Yorkville.
5:37 Benito Skinner? Someone said that they knew someone who had confirmed that you had a huge, um, part in a big change in my life.
5:46 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, yeah.
5:46 Benito Skinner? And I, I had to laugh.
5:49 Mary Beth Barone? I would like to say, so here's what's, here's what's a bummer about losing the Reddit is that I genuinely enjoyed going on there.
5:55 Benito Skinner? I know. And then it just. The memes were so funny.
5:56 Mary Beth Barone? I know. And the posts of what is Blue More Planet. I mean, I don't have any tattoos, but if I did get one, it might say Blue More Planet.
6:05 Benito Skinner? Of what I've gathered from it, I could say that context clues could be huge and I will ride for it at some point, but I think context clues could lead a lot of people to the truth and to kind of how we feel about certain things.
6:15 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
6:16 Benito Skinner? But other than that, I think have fun on there. It's not for us to see. It's very much kids' sleepover.
6:21 Mary Beth Barone? It's your playground now.
6:22 Benito Skinner? Unless you're coming from my mama.
6:23 Mary Beth Barone? Well, and here's.
6:24 Benito Skinner? They tried to cancel my wife.
6:28 Benito Skinner? Me on there, keep my wife's name.
6:31 Mary Beth Barone? The thing is, I've been predicting this for a really long time.
6:34 Benito Skinner? I know.
6:34 Mary Beth Barone? Now, I will say, props to you guys, very creative to get mad at me for something I, I didn't personally do.
6:40 Benito Skinner? No, totally.
6:41 Mary Beth Barone? But look, I, I understand confusion, disappointment, things like that. I have spoken on it, my explanation, it wouldn't be enough for some people. For those of you that defended me, thank you so much. I don't think posting on there changed anyone's mind who was mad at me, but I think people who were on my side were even more so on my side.
6:57 Benito Skinner? They saw you.
6:58 Mary Beth Barone? And those are the people that, that I want to connect with is the people that see me for who I am. And I'm imperfect.
7:06 Benito Skinner? I wonder, I, I watched this happen with a lot of people, um. On the internet where it's-
7:11 Mary Beth Barone? They're called women, you can say it.
7:12 Benito Skinner? Oh fuck, okay, women, uh, sorry. I'm hard all of a sudden.
7:17 Mary Beth Barone? Mm-hmm.
7:18 Benito Skinner? Because you guys are getting punished the way you should be.
7:20 Mary Beth Barone? Exactly.
7:21 Benito Skinner? No, I think that I, I watch it happen and I think it's something weird. We just, yeah, it's the, it's the classic cycle.
7:29 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, also-
7:29 Benito Skinner? You build them up, you take them down.
7:31 Mary Beth Barone? Take them-
7:31 Benito Skinner? Like Jennifer Lawrence when she talked about pizza too many times on a Hunger Games press tour and then we decided we had to kill her, unfortunately. We've decided to not look like dog shit today. I think it's important to note.
7:42 Mary Beth Barone? It's totally a new era for us. We might later in the season.
7:45 Benito Skinner? Oh.
7:46 Mary Beth Barone? Let's just, I think it's fun to watch last season, like the, how we devolved throughout the season of like, it was winter, we were exhausted, we were in the writers' room, we were working on, I was touring, like, it was crazy.
8:00 Benito Skinner? Final draft, Benny was like a tough, and can I just say, thank you. Thank you for sticking with us.
8:08 Mary Beth Barone? But can I say one thing?
8:09 Benito Skinner? Whoa, holy shit, I look terrible.
8:11 Mary Beth Barone? But you were, can I admit that you were on Accutane and it was not, you should not have been?
8:15 Benito Skinner? No, I was on Accutane and I shouldn't have been. It was like the wrong thing. I was on Doxy for a while, that really helped. Obviously, the one thing we didn't share was a dermatologist and you said, "Can we just cut out the middleman? Let's do it all."
8:27 Mary Beth Barone? Please!
8:28 Benito Skinner? So then I got, I shout out our freaking icon.
8:32 Mary Beth Barone? Brooklyn Dermatology.
8:33 Benito Skinner? Brooklyn Dermatology. She took care of me. So I did Doxy and then now, just because people have asked, because the rosacea has really gone down. Um, it's the saving face face wash with the sulfur in it. It's a triple cream, metronidazole, ivermectin and azelaic acid. And that's really been helping me and just less. Just, oh my god, which sucks. But I said, "What if I wore makeup for 90 days straight on the set of a television series?" But still, my skin-
9:01 Mary Beth Barone? It looks really good.
9:02 Benito Skinner? Hey, thank you so much.
9:04 Mary Beth Barone? It looks really good.
9:04 Benito Skinner? But, um, but yeah, I'm sure we'll look like shit soon and I'm sure the internet will tell us.
9:08 Mary Beth Barone? Give it some time.
9:09 Benito Skinner? The thing that I'm having today, which is just like, it'll send you into psychosis, is sometimes those, when you do- Press line. I'm going to write down. Sorry, let me just take a sec.
9:23 Benito Skinner? When you do a press line at an event, you never know what that lighting is gonna be. And I think that their cameras, they have them set to chode mode.
9:30 Mary Beth Barone? Enhance.
9:31 Benito Skinner? They go, whoa, chode mode.
9:32 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
9:33 Benito Skinner? Because I saw lines on my face I've never seen before on this Hollywood Reporter video. And I unfortunately went to the comments. And yeah, it's definitely, it's crazy what people will say about just a gay guy trying to make it honest.
9:49 Mary Beth Barone? Trying his best.
9:50 Benito Skinner? I want everyone to know, I think this is important to me. I don't think I look 19. And that is, I hope you know that, like, I don't think we're getting away with anything with the show. I just hope that you can enjoy the fever dream, the American Pie greasiness of it all.
10:07 Mary Beth Barone? We've never hidden our age. We've never denied our age.
10:09 Benito Skinner? I am fully 32.
10:10 Mary Beth Barone? I'm 35.
10:11 Benito Skinner? And sexual.
10:12 Mary Beth Barone? It is what it is.
10:13 Benito Skinner? And I want you.
10:15 Mary Beth Barone? I'm working on it and I've come a long way. Completely divorced myself from what people on the internet think of me. It's really hard because I'm a sensitive person and we have a kind, we have kind hearts.
10:24 Benito Skinner? You know what Reese Witherspoon says?
10:25 Mary Beth Barone? What?
10:26 Benito Skinner? It's none of my business.
10:26 Mary Beth Barone? It's none of my business. So I think.
10:28 Benito Skinner? Draper James.
10:29 Mary Beth Barone? I need us, it's the instinct to read comments and stuff. Like, I'm trying to do it less, but it's really hard. And I want to engage with people and I do love a lot of what I see on there. Like, some of it's compliments, but sometimes you have to remove yourself.
10:41 Benito Skinner? The things that they'll say about your personal life. And it's like, oh, my God, I have to be honest. Like, you really don't. And the hardest part is you go, if you only knew. That's all I think in my mind, if you only knew, and you just, you won't, so I gotta just.
10:53 Mary Beth Barone? You won't, you can't, you never will.
10:55 Benito Skinner? And I guess I have to shop online. I got back to my apartment in New York last night and I thought,
11:01 Benito Skinner? I love Fisher.
11:02 Mary Beth Barone? Confessions of a shopaholic.
11:04 Benito Skinner? Wow. It was incredible. There's a whole new closet.
11:07 Mary Beth Barone? I do want to affirm, though, that I do force you to do things. I'm sort of the puppet master, you're the puppet, and whatever I tell you to do, you do. And that's just to speak to that Reddit comment a little bit.
11:17 Benito Skinner? And I agree, and I'm glad we circled back to it.
11:19 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, I just wanted to put that out there, yeah.
11:21 Benito Skinner? That I actually have no autonomy, and I think that that also is important.
11:24 Mary Beth Barone? Mm-hmm.
11:25 Benito Skinner? So.
11:25 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
11:26 Benito Skinner? I don't make decisions.
11:26 Mary Beth Barone? Because you're not a person. You're a gay guy, and that's all you'll ever be.
11:30 Benito Skinner? Exactly. I could be bullied by anyone. What's incredible about that is it's like, I am the creator of a show.
11:36 Mary Beth Barone? Right.
11:36 Benito Skinner? You know what I mean? Like, I have like a, like a job, but that I could.
11:40 Mary Beth Barone? I mean, you run a business, essentially.
11:42 Benito Skinner? I do run a business, and what a business it is. What, hey, and I have gratitude every day.
11:47 Mary Beth Barone? Of course, we do have a lot of gratitude. No, it's incredible.
11:50 Benito Skinner? Fuck, and you're so good in it.
11:52 Mary Beth Barone? Thank you, babe.
11:52 Benito Skinner? I am so ready. There's so much sex and humor and sadness. It's so sad.
11:58 Mary Beth Barone? They're tackling a lot of important topics. And I do want to say too, like, obviously, it's easy to focus on the negative, but we love our girls so much. And like, we're having a blast and we're excited to be back. I will say that much.
12:09 Benito Skinner? We text each other at least three times this morning saying how excited we were. I brought Joe and the Juice to just commemorate the event. I said, "Come on, let's like, let's have a big medieval lunch."
12:21 Mary Beth Barone? One cracker sandwich for me, one cracker sandwich for you.
12:24 Benito Skinner? I'm feeling like Giddy in A Little Manic from Sue Coffees. I'm back in New York City where they've got macadamia milk!
12:31 Mary Beth Barone? Whoa.
12:32 Benito Skinner? I love this fucking crap.
12:34 Mary Beth Barone? Should we...
12:36 Benito Skinner? Milking macadamia nuts? I didn't know it was possible. You can milk the shit out of a macadamia nut? And ooh, baby, do I love it. But they don't have it anywhere but New York. I'm just not finding it at coffee shops outside of New York.
12:49 Mary Beth Barone? Interesting. That's crazy, because they could charge $5 on top of the price of the coffee if they simply had that.
12:54 Benito Skinner? And I'd be there and I'd tip because, oh, wait, wait, wait. There was one other motherfucking thing. I want to clear our names.
13:04 Mary Beth Barone? This is why we cannot read the Reddit.
13:05 Benito Skinner? I know, and we're done.
13:06 Mary Beth Barone? Because we could do a whole episode of just responding to things.
13:08 Benito Skinner? Here's the thing. Someone said that we were rude at Lur restaurant.
13:15 Mary Beth Barone? Or Fish Bar, and that we didn't tip. They said we tipped 10% on a $300 check.
13:19 Benito Skinner? I have never in my life tipped under 20%. And by the way, I tipped 30, so don't even start with me.
13:26 Mary Beth Barone? We get, we do, we try to outtip each other.
13:29 Benito Skinner? Whatever the straight guys we were with tipped is not us, by the way.
13:33 Mary Beth Barone? Well, that's the thing about Reddit is that anyone can say anything. But I do want to say if you ever see someone say that we did not tip well, that person is an unreliable narrator.
13:42 Benito Skinner? Sorry, that's, and they said that I was looking at my phone and said, "Bye, honey," at the end. And I'm like, "Well, yeah, bye, honey. Like, why is that bad?"
13:48 Mary Beth Barone? But also, like, we're all on our phones. I don't know.
13:52 Benito Skinner? I'm like, well, I don't...
13:52 Mary Beth Barone? That's why we can't go there. I've looked at other people talking about, like, you know, public figures. And on so many threads about public figures, it will say, like, "And they're a bad tipper." It's like, but I don't, you can't just say that. That's like very damaging.
14:07 Benito Skinner? I know someone had tweeted that a long time ago that me, and they thought that me and Caroline Polachek look like bad tippers. And I was like, I know me and my girl are, are doing.
14:16 Mary Beth Barone? Caroline's tipping with crystals from.
14:19 Benito Skinner? Of course.
14:20 Mary Beth Barone? From one of Jupiter's moons as well.
14:21 Benito Skinner? I don't know what that is, but she's tipping with moon water.
14:24 Mary Beth Barone? And it's priceless, if only you knew how to sell it.
14:26 Benito Skinner? And you're welcome.
14:27 Mary Beth Barone? And you're welcome.
14:28 Benito Skinner? Yeah. Just because you don't understand the currency doesn't mean that it's not current.
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18:38 Benito Skinner? I saw the best TikTok yesterday. It was this girl and she goes, Oh my god, I need to find it. It was so funny. She was like, I can't believe some of you speak to me the way you speak to me. I've been to Japan.
18:48 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, that was on my For You page today. Do you want to talk about Essence thinking you're AI? I have a long list of stuff to get through, that's why I'm on my phone.
18:56 Benito Skinner? Oh, yes. And she's gonna switch to notepad soon, cuz that'll make it better.
19:01 Mary Beth Barone? It's better aesthetically. People don't want to think about technology when we're sitting here in front of a neon sign with five to six cameras pointed at us, speaking into microphones. They do not want to be reminded of technology.
19:11 Benito Skinner? Hey, knock it off. Let's just be in the moment. Toy Story 5 said, "Fuck tech."
19:17 Mary Beth Barone? Fuck tech, here's a limited edition iPad cover.
19:19 Benito Skinner? I know, and I want it. Okay, so I was on Essence recently, and you know,
19:26 Benito Skinner? when you're on set, I shoot off to the moon. When you're on set, he loves us today.
19:34 Mary Beth Barone? He's having a blast. He's on his phone.
19:36 Benito Skinner? Hey daddy. He's looking at porn.
19:40 Mary Beth Barone? I say, bring it on.
19:41 Benito Skinner? Every producer watches porn when they listen to us. They have to distract themselves from how sexy you are.
19:45 Mary Beth Barone? Exactly.
19:47 Benito Skinner? Oops, I fell in love with you.
19:49 Mary Beth Barone? Oops.
19:50 Benito Skinner? So I've been on Essence a lot, and Essence, yesterday, it actually took my breath away. I literally almost said, "It's giving suspicious," but it kinda was. However they described it, they were like, "We have to prove you're not a bot right now, because like, the way you're acting is very bot."
20:05 Mary Beth Barone? The way you're adding to cart.
20:07 Benito Skinner? To look at 500 pages is crass.
20:09 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, and with the speed with which.
20:12 Benito Skinner? So I barely proved that I was human, and in that moment I realized, I can do AI, but they can't do me.
20:18 Mary Beth Barone? AI couldn't do you.
20:19 Benito Skinner? But yeah, so that was me shopping.
20:21 Mary Beth Barone? It's interesting, I didn't get a list of items to approve, seeing as I'm in charge here.
20:25 Benito Skinner? Sweetie, I did not buy anything, I promise, baby.
20:28 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, you were just browsing?
20:30 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
20:30 Mary Beth Barone? So, I think another big takeaway over the break for me was that-
20:35 Benito Skinner? Vermicelli bowls?
20:37 Mary Beth Barone? Wow.
20:39 Mary Beth Barone? Okay, here's an experience not many adults have.
20:42 Benito Skinner? We've entered the vermichelli era.
20:45 Mary Beth Barone? So Benny and I got to Toronto and both immediately got taken out by the flu. I'm talking like, flattened, could only lay down, couldn't go for walks, could barely drink water.
20:56 Benito Skinner? Straight from a bat.
20:57 Mary Beth Barone? It was a bat, a bat somehow reached us. We got the flu. It wasn't covid. But we got to be sick together, which was kind of beautiful. We just like watched TV all day because we physically couldn't do anything else.
21:10 Benito Skinner? Oh, I mean, we watched Taken.
21:15 Benito Skinner? What was the other movie we watched? It was so insane. We watched like such random shit.
21:18 Mary Beth Barone? We watched a lot of stuff.
21:20 Benito Skinner? Like crap.
21:20 Mary Beth Barone? Like it's all a blur to me.
21:22 Benito Skinner? No, I know, but Taken stands out.
21:23 Mary Beth Barone? Taken, well, we're gonna ride for Taken as a carpool.
21:26 Benito Skinner? Oh, my God, the way it taught us about European travel.
21:28 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, my God, and post nine eleven media, my goodness.
21:30 Benito Skinner? Come on.
21:31 Mary Beth Barone? So we were in bed one day and we were trying to figure out what to order. And I think we were like looking at pho. Like you were gonna order pho.
21:39 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I really wanted pho.
21:39 Mary Beth Barone? As you know, I don't eat pho, too splashy. But we, I was perusing the options and I was, I just saw this thing called a vermicelli bowl. And I don't know why it tickled me, but like and I thought about like I'll have one vermicelli bowl for me and
21:56 Benito Skinner? Two vermicelli bowls, please, hold the spice. And then we were just like
22:00 Mary Beth Barone? We don't know what it is or what it means.
22:02 Benito Skinner? Mind you, we got Connie Britton onto this. Where she walked by someone and they were eating something, she goes, oh, a vermicelli bowl.
22:09 Mary Beth Barone? Vermicelli bowl.
22:09 Benito Skinner? And we went, oh, we've brain rotted like America's mom.
22:12 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
22:12 Benito Skinner? And that's wrong, but also right.
22:14 Mary Beth Barone? I think the vocal stem within it that it reminds me of is Giannina Milady Jabeli of Love is Blind, season one. And I just think the concept of vermicelli bowl to have gone thirty five years of life. Maybe I was thirty four at that point and to not have ever heard the term vermicelli bowl.
22:31 Benito Skinner? I'll just say you were thirty four.
22:32 Mary Beth Barone? I was thirty four.
22:33 Benito Skinner? This was the, yeah, this was when you were thirty four.
22:34 Mary Beth Barone? And I had a lot to learn.
22:36 Benito Skinner? Oh, you had so much more to learn, girl. The kids hadn't taught you a big fucking lesson yet. But to me, seeing it written out is one of the most fabulous things. It it evokes the painting of Venus.
22:48 Mary Beth Barone? Totally. Well, a Botticelli even.
22:50 Benito Skinner? It's very Botticelli.
22:52 Mary Beth Barone? What I would love to do is write it, write it in cursive.
22:53 Benito Skinner? Wait, let's open a place called Botticelli's and it's all vermicelli bowls.
22:57 Mary Beth Barone? It's like, um, it's like sweet cream, but it's vermicelli.
23:02 Mary Beth Barone? You can make your own vermicelli bowls. It's fast casual dining for vermicelli bowls.
23:06 Benito Skinner? Safe to say, if you guys come anywhere near vermicelli, we want to know about it. If you're eating vermicelli and not sending to me.
23:14 Mary Beth Barone? How about those vermicelli nates?
23:16 Benito Skinner? Fuck the pork night, it's too hot. I need a vermicelli bowl. I need a vermicelli brekkie. Come on, bitch.
23:22 Mary Beth Barone? Vermicelli's good for any meal.
23:26 Benito Skinner? It's still, it still makes me laugh.
23:30 Benito Skinner? Next.
23:31 Mary Beth Barone? So, should we talk about? Okay, no. I thought a lot over the break about Dolce & Gabbana ultimately.
23:46 Benito Skinner? D and G is nasty.
23:47 Mary Beth Barone? D and G is so, I have been really staunchly like, I can't wear D and G. I just, because of all the things they've done, which like, no one fully remembers, but you can find it out online.
23:59 Benito Skinner? There's so many. I have a few things.
24:02 Mary Beth Barone? There's a list, totally. I would not buy new D and G.
24:05 Benito Skinner? No.
24:06 Mary Beth Barone? I would buy vintage D and G, which I have.
24:09 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I have some as well.
24:10 Mary Beth Barone? And if you see me wearing D and G, it's to celebrate what was, not what currently is.
24:16 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
24:16 Mary Beth Barone? And I just think it's like, I've been so strict about certain things that maybe don't really matter that much. So I'm just like, this is sort of my one cheat where I'm like, I'm gonna wear vintage D and G.
24:27 Benito Skinner? Well, it's like every year when I secretly watch Blue Jasmine and it has nothing to do with anything.
24:32 Mary Beth Barone? For me.
24:33 Benito Skinner? But watching Cate Blanchett and that tour de force performance. And it really is just that.
24:39 Benito Skinner? I completely agree. And also, it's like, it's thrifting. And I've been, oh my god, I have.
24:43 Mary Beth Barone? Hey, good for the planet.
24:46 Benito Skinner? Does that do it?
24:47 Mary Beth Barone? How many gallons of water did I save by buying this D and G top?
24:50 Benito Skinner? Does that do it? Um, yeah, I would never buy new, but some of the old D and G, I used to love those ads where it was all the people like partying and stuff. You know, all the people partying and stuff. I'm not smart.
25:02 Mary Beth Barone? But I'm not either and it's okay.
25:04 Benito Skinner? Good.
25:06 Benito Skinner? Yeah. Hey, no worries. I'm glad you were thinking about it a lot and we feel good about it. Oh, he's watching.
25:12 Mary Beth Barone? He's doing, he's playing Fortnite or something.
25:15 Benito Skinner? He's always gambling.
25:16 Mary Beth Barone? He's on Polymarket.
25:18 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
25:18 Mary Beth Barone? He's betting on if people are gonna stop listening to the podcast cuz we're wearing vintage D and G.
25:23 Benito Skinner? He goes, they're gonna burn Melrose Podcast Studio to the ground.
25:27 Mary Beth Barone? The only thing that's left.
25:28 Benito Skinner? Imagine we defiled this place?
25:29 Mary Beth Barone? The only thing that's left is that.
25:30 Benito Skinner? It's the new Batcave.
25:32 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, my God. We have so much still to talk about. That's so funny.
25:35 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
25:35 Mary Beth Barone? So at the Rosalía concert, which was one of my big goals for the year, we set intentions. Yours was purses.
25:44 Benito Skinner? And boy, did I fucking nail it.
25:46 Mary Beth Barone? Mine was to see Rosalía live. So you go onstage to do your confession and me and Jake Samus, who's your stylist, who's like a twink, if I may say, complimentary and bestie. We walk out from backstage cuz we had walked in with you. These two gay guys come over to us and they go, are you guys security? I go, I have a lip combo on.
26:07 Mary Beth Barone? No, I'm not security.
26:08 Benito Skinner? It's my favorite. It's maybe one of my favorite Mary Beth isms. I have the website.
26:13 Mary Beth Barone? It's, it's, it's just like you're looking at me and saying, are you guys security?
26:17 Benito Skinner? I have a lip combo on and he has a Life is Good hat on. Ironically, grow up.
26:23 Mary Beth Barone? So, no.
26:24 Benito Skinner? Those same gays go, they came up and said, we've got a mountain of coke if you guys know where the after-party is.
26:32 Mary Beth Barone? Unfortunately, we didn't. We had to go watch the next. Otherwise, I would have loved to sort of take them up on them.
26:39 Benito Skinner? Oh, God. Imagining the night, wherever that night would have taken us, scary. We wouldn't have been here today.
26:44 Mary Beth Barone? We have to say yes to life more. That's a big theme. So we have more stuff to talk about on the pod.
26:48 Benito Skinner? Yes, man. The plot of Yes, Man Sticks with me and also Yes, Day because I think about all the ways that could go wrong.
26:54 Mary Beth Barone? Well, yeah.
26:54 Benito Skinner? What a, what a nightmarish thing when parents, if they would have done that to me as a kid, I would have been like, oh, and to you?
27:01 Mary Beth Barone? I would have bought so many Louis Vuitton bags.
27:04 Benito Skinner? Literally, I go.
27:04 Mary Beth Barone? Me at seven, I'm not kidding. I would have said, we're going to, we're going to what would have been the department store, Bloomingdale's.
27:10 Benito Skinner? Yeah. My name is Punisher.
27:12 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. Get the cart out.
27:14 Benito Skinner? Get the cart out. It's gonna be melting.
27:16 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
27:17 Benito Skinner? You're acting like a bot. That's what it said when I went on Essence. You're acting like a bot, dude.
27:22 Mary Beth Barone? I would like to discuss that we are, we wanted to announce on here, we are trying.
27:28 Benito Skinner? We are trying.
27:29 Mary Beth Barone? We thought it would be such a fun concept at dinners to tell whoever we're eating dinner with that we're trying.
27:33 Benito Skinner? We're trying.
27:34 Mary Beth Barone? We pulled the goalie.
27:35 Benito Skinner? Mm-hmm. We pulled the goalie. The hockey goalie is gone. We are trying consistently. We, I li-
27:44 Mary Beth Barone? Even on days when it wouldn't be possible, we're trying, just in case.
27:47 Benito Skinner? Straight couples telling you at a table that they're raw fucking is like so-
27:53 Mary Beth Barone? On a schedule too.
27:54 Benito Skinner? The fact that that's, it's, oh my god, I added something to our, um, thing last night. It's very knock it off.
28:00 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
28:02 Benito Skinner? Which I just love the concept of, like, knock it off. But these, these things that we allow people to do and say, straight couples have two things they can really say to you at a dinner. It's, do you want mushroom chocolates? And we pulled the goalie.
28:16 Mary Beth Barone? We pulled the goalie.
28:17 Benito Skinner? So, and I'd love hearing both.
28:19 Mary Beth Barone? I think what's really beautiful, my brother and his wife are expecting, I didn't, I didn't hear anything about it until-
28:26 Benito Skinner? Benny Barone?
28:27 Mary Beth Barone? It's little Benny Barone. Oh, and that brings me to a really fun next topic. I didn't hear anything about it till the test was positive. You know what I mean? It's like, I didn't need to know about any, any planning, anything like that.
28:39 Benito Skinner? No, you don't need to know about your brother's [BLEEP].
28:42 Mary Beth Barone? Say that. I asked a straight man if he had any friends to set me up with. This was, this was when I wasn't dating, I, I didn't date until I recorded my special. So this was January, I said, you have three months to think of a person to set me up on a date with, guy or girl. I know you know cool people, let her rip. I see him, like, two months later, so this is a little bit before I was ready to open my heart again, and he goes, so I have someone for you to date. He's about 60 pounds overweight. And I go, okay, no problem.
29:12 Benito Skinner? 60 pounds, like, can be anything by the way.
29:14 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, and I'm like, cool, like, if he has swag, like, you know, I'm fine with that.
29:18 Benito Skinner? You said, how does he?
29:19 Mary Beth Barone? So I go, I said, does he wear it well? And he goes, no, he doesn't take care of himself.
29:28 Benito Skinner? What I'm finding is that like, we all kind of fucking hate you. And we will get to the bottom of it.
29:34 Mary Beth Barone? It's about time that people fucking admit it.
29:36 Benito Skinner? That's all I'm saying. That's why I'm just telling you.
29:38 Mary Beth Barone? This is the barista method too, by the way. For baristas, and I finally found one that I really fuck with. And so she moved coffee shops, so I have a new coffee shop, which has been interesting for my morning routine. But for a barista, if the best part of your day is being mean to me, you're welcome for that. I say this, and if these walls could talk. But it's okay. Like, I really don't mind. But yeah, people fucking hate me. They don't think, they don't think well of me.
30:06 Mary Beth Barone? And it's a guess, some of the people even listening to this right now. What are you, what are you doing?
30:10 Benito Skinner? Sweetie, they're here for me.
30:11 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
30:11 Benito Skinner? Don't be crazy.
30:12 Mary Beth Barone? And, and I'm glad they get half, they get half the episode to enjoy.
30:16 Benito Skinner? They just pull off.
30:16 Mary Beth Barone? And half of things to text their group chat. Can you believe she fucking said that?
30:19 Benito Skinner? Mm-hmm.
30:20 Mary Beth Barone? You're welcome.
30:21 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
30:22 Mary Beth Barone? Give them something to talk about.
30:24 Benito Skinner? You're nobody until you're talked about. There was a Gossip Girl tagline, which goes into our wheat pasting. I hope you've seen it around. Where's it gonna be? Soho in Williamsburg?
30:32 Mary Beth Barone? Something like that.
30:33 Benito Skinner? I can't win.
30:33 Mary Beth Barone? It's in New York.
30:34 Benito Skinner? We used all the old taglines from Gossip Girl ads when they said it was like really bad for you.
30:38 Mary Beth Barone? Very bad for you.
30:38 Benito Skinner? Shockingly, what's mind-blowingly inappropriate.
30:41 Mary Beth Barone? Parents' worst nightmare.
30:42 Benito Skinner? Parents' worst nightmare. We are actually the exact opposite, can I just say?
30:46 Mary Beth Barone? No, we're the, we are really good with parents too. Bring us home and we will charm the pants off of them.
30:52 Benito Skinner? Like, I'm bringing candles. I'm bringing the way they candles love.
30:55 Mary Beth Barone? Maybelline has reached out.
30:59 Benito Skinner? This, okay, you've been making me witch cackle today. This isn't my real laugh, by the way.
31:05 Benito Skinner? I, the second you said this to me when we were training together, shout out Don Juan, Don Juan Ray, the Juice Man, as I call him.
31:17 Benito Skinner? You said this out loud and I go, you have to say this on the podcast, cuz that is like, so a lot of people don't respect you, some respect you too much.
31:26 Mary Beth Barone? Too much. They think too highly of me.
31:27 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
31:28 Mary Beth Barone? It smells C brands. Maybelline reached out to ask if I would run the New York City Marathon on behalf of Maybelline and at every stop do like a lip check for a lip product.
31:38 Benito Skinner? You run it with red lips.
31:39 Mary Beth Barone? I run it with a full red lip and high heels on. I walk it.
31:42 Benito Skinner? Black lips.
31:43 Mary Beth Barone? My manager said, how much would it take our manager? How mu- what's the number?
31:48 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
31:48 Mary Beth Barone? I said, 2 million.
31:50 Benito Skinner? Easy.
31:51 Mary Beth Barone? For me to even walk 26.2 miles, it sort of goes against everything I stand for. But I love that Maybelline is coming up with creative ways to get women involved in sports.
32:00 Benito Skinner? Actually, it just hit me. Maybelline wants you dead.
32:03 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
32:03 Benito Skinner? I just realized. They want you to die.
32:08 Benito Skinner? And that's really all there is to say on that.
32:11 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, there's not much more.
32:12 Benito Skinner? I mean, it's just incredible.
32:13 Mary Beth Barone? But thanks for reaching out.
32:14 Benito Skinner? Of all the people, they thought.
32:16 Mary Beth Barone? They thought, maybe should.
32:17 Benito Skinner? Let's get some hokas on this chick and let her rip.
32:19 Mary Beth Barone? And let her, let her die.
32:21 Benito Skinner? Let her drop.
32:22 Mary Beth Barone? Let her die in the fall.
32:24 Benito Skinner? Oh, God, me cheering on the side. Well, you know what I'd do? I'd pick you up and finish it.
32:29 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, yeah.
32:29 Benito Skinner? If you had 50 steps left.
32:30 Mary Beth Barone? There'd be two, two, two foot, two, two footsteps or whatever. What is it?
32:34 Benito Skinner? All of New York cheering for us.
32:38 Benito Skinner? Jones Road, down the Jones Road, driving my car down the Jones Road. Okay, so it's always fun to do an ad read without Mary Beth because I get to listen to her ads after she listens to mine. It's a lot like we've recorded something and they're playing it at the bachelorette party. So I have used the Jones Road Beauty Miracle Bomb for, I think, honestly, years at this point. But it's absolutely fabulous. You can use your fingers. You can dab, dab, dab it on those cheekalinas. You can also put it on your forehead. It's kind of like a bronze blush hybrid. It's not that like cakey makeup look. It feels very fresh, very sexy in the summer. It's like, oh, my God, I was just out in the sun all day. It smells delicious and it doesn't irritate my skin.
33:23 Benito Skinner? And you know, I'm a little rosacea doll, so that can mean the. Frickin world to a guy like me. You can use it as a highlighter, a blush, a lip tint. Oh God, multipurpose. It's the ultimate no fuss multitasker. So you can get that effortless glowy look in under 60 seconds. Just like queer as folk and overcompensating Benny Drama. The best part of Jones Road Beauty, all of their products are actually good for your skin. Every formula is packed with skin-loving ingredients. It nourishes your skin instead of clogging or caking. It looks and feels natural, like you're not wearing makeup at all. And all Jones Road formulas are clean and high performing. New product alert, foundation stick. Okay, so Jones Road actually just launched their foundation stick. That fits perfectly into that still kind of like no makeup makeup look.
34:08 Benito Skinner? But if you want like a little bit more coverage, maybe just on a few delicate spots. It's the foundation stick that you need. It's available in 30 shades to match a wide variety of skin tones. Modern day makeup that's clean, strategic and multifunctional for effortless routines. For a limited time, our listeners are getting a free full-size mascara on their first purchase when they use the code RIDE at checkout. Just head to jonesroadbeauty.com and use code RIDE at checkout. After you purchase, they will ask you where you heard about them. Well, they'll say, I heard about it from a little named Benny Drama. Please support our show and tell them our show sent you.
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35:27 Benito Skinner? Let's just say I'm not going as Benito Skinner, I'm going as um, somebody else, somebody I admire a lot. She can post selfies on there if she wanted, you can buy- Buy her merch, which I heard is crap. Yeah, anything like that. So that's what's really cool about a website. I think one day I'll have my own. Head to, go to, or fucking check out Squarespace.com/ride for a free trial. And when you're ready to, well, I'm laughing by myself. Ah, it's been a long year. And when you're ready to launch, use offer code RIDE to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or Domant. The language here can be in my own words, and what's cool is that I just did that. Squarespace, thank you so much for being with us from the beginning.
36:08 Benito Skinner? We love you down so much, and we all can't wait to launch our own websites or Domants. Moi.
36:16 Mary Beth Barone? Je suis de la monde.
36:18 Benito Skinner? So. All roads have led to je suis de la monde.
36:27 Benito Skinner? It is my new joie de vie, joie de vie found dead.
36:31 Mary Beth Barone? Also, it's not proper grammar. It's not proper French grammar.
36:34 Benito Skinner? I never said it was. This podcast has never been about that.
36:37 Mary Beth Barone? Never, ever, ever.
36:39 Benito Skinner? And also, I just have to say this, just for the sake of everything. I have seen the Kerplunk game. I don't even know what to call it, installation at Costco. I've never been sent something more in my life. I think I'm about to get a serious message, and it's a photo of that. So I have seen it. I love it. Thank you for sending. I think I'm good.
37:00 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
37:01 Benito Skinner? I think I'm good now. I've seen over 200 images. I'll go see it for myself, I think.
37:06 Mary Beth Barone? You should go to Costco.
37:06 Benito Skinner? Why should be sitting on top of it for a meet and greet? But, um, what was I gonna say?
37:13 Mary Beth Barone? Je suis de la monde.
37:14 Benito Skinner? Je suis de la monde. Oh, I'm always, that's what I'm always about to say. But it's kind of like, you say je suis de la monde, like, I'm just like of the world, like, I'm just like a child of God.
37:25 Mary Beth Barone? Well, you came up with the vocal stem of je suis de la monde.
37:29 Benito Skinner? Je suis de la monde.
37:31 Mary Beth Barone? I put in Google Translate and it said, I am of the world.
37:34 Benito Skinner? Do you get that? Like, I am but a reflection, like, je suis de la monde.
37:40 Mary Beth Barone? De la monde.
37:41 Benito Skinner? And you can, God. Ah, I get why people miss me. You know what I mean?
37:47 Mary Beth Barone? Totally. There's a withdrawal.
37:48 Benito Skinner? Je suis de la monde. And it's, it can work really like, anytime, like, someone's like, you're leaving already? And you get in the car and you roll down the window and on the way out, you go, je suis de la monde.
38:02 Mary Beth Barone? It's sort of like, inshallah, in a way.
38:04 Benito Skinner? Well, of course, and by By the way, enchilada.
38:06 Mary Beth Barone? And by the way, enchilada. It's just like, I know they don't mean the same thing at all, but just we, it's like, it just can be applicable to a lot of different things.
38:14 Benito Skinner? It's how I would probably start kind of any dinner, any.
38:18 Mary Beth Barone? It's a, it's a grace.
38:19 Benito Skinner? It's a rallying cry.
38:21 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, totally.
38:22 Benito Skinner? It's very, ah, what's the tribute? They go like this? I did the SOS bar thing for go.
38:30 Mary Beth Barone? Who's that?
38:31 Benito Skinner? From Hunger Games. They do like three fingers.
38:33 Mary Beth Barone? I haven't seen it enough. I do want to be clear. I would totally date someone 60 pounds overweight. I just want to say, and I have, and I will again, but it's just like the idea that.
38:42 Benito Skinner? Doesn't take care of himself?
38:43 Mary Beth Barone? Doesn't take care of himself.
38:44 Benito Skinner? That's like, what? Wait, also, you have enough jobs. That sounds like that would be your job.
38:50 Mary Beth Barone? Totally. So yeah, I just want to say that. Please don't take that anecdote for anything more than what it is.
38:55 Benito Skinner? One thing I do want to say is some people really are like, he needs therapy, but I think that for just like everything, therapy is one thing someone needs. Like, there's like a total ecosystem.
39:09 Mary Beth Barone? We need a treatment plan.
39:10 Benito Skinner? We need a treatment plan. Some people are like, God, he just needs therapy. I'm like, an hour talking to someone a week is not gonna do it. It's just not gonna do it in the time that it needs to be done.
39:19 Mary Beth Barone? Right.
39:20 Benito Skinner? I would say.
39:20 Mary Beth Barone? Especially depending on how old you are.
39:22 Benito Skinner? Let's do like a fully formed system. And also, just thinking of that as a one stop shop.
39:28 Mary Beth Barone? I want to talk about.
39:30 Benito Skinner? Glad I said that. What, what am I even doing here, dude? I've got my, I've got my freaking dogs out.
39:35 Mary Beth Barone? I can only amplify.
39:36 Benito Skinner? I know. How's my hair look? I think I went a little too short.
39:39 Mary Beth Barone? No, you didn't. Stop it.
39:40 Benito Skinner? Kiss me.
39:44 Mary Beth Barone? I would like to talk about when I went on a.
39:46 Benito Skinner? Sparkle twins. We've got a sparkle girl.
39:47 Mary Beth Barone? I went on a first date. I went on a first date and I was telling you I'm going on a first date at the Knicks game. And you go, oh, I wish I was in town. I would go. I'm like, the idea of you coming with me on a first date, which is how we should do it, honestly.
40:00 Benito Skinner? I'm like, why the fuck wouldn't I be there? If I was in town?
40:04 Mary Beth Barone? Perfect sense to me.
40:05 Benito Skinner? I could have picked up on things that maybe you couldn't have seen. I, to me, that just makes like, you've come on a lot of mine.
40:12 Mary Beth Barone? You coming on a first date would very much be, is very much, je suis de la monde. I am of the world.
40:17 Benito Skinner? And that's the first thing I would say.
40:19 Mary Beth Barone? Of course.
40:19 Benito Skinner? When this, whoever this guy is, this guy or girl, and they would go, hey, look at. Guy or girl?
40:25 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. You don't, you told me you only believe I'm bi when I'm in my baggy basketball shorts and a baggy t-shirt.
40:30 Benito Skinner? Well, to me, then you're just a lesbian.
40:32 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, cool. I like that.
40:34 Benito Skinner? Which I love. But to me, yeah, that's the first thing I would say to him. And, oh, can we talk about a new thing of Duddy?
40:43 Mary Beth Barone? Which one?
40:45 Benito Skinner? That she falls everywhere she goes and gets, oh, this is my favorite thing.
40:48 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, my god, a new Duddy lore just dropped.
40:50 Benito Skinner? New Duddy lore. The way you all have just like signed on to be Dudys and have been Duddy in your own life. That's what I'm fucking talking about.
40:59 Mary Beth Barone? Wait, wait, wait. Can I set, can I set some context?
41:01 Benito Skinner? Yes, of course. Well, I sip a straw out of this late night cup.
41:04 Mary Beth Barone? I was in the hair and makeup trailer on set. Shout out, Orna and Blake. We absolutely love getting our freaking MUA done every day. And Kristen and Natasha, who were my glam team.
41:19 Benito Skinner? That whole trailer, like, that was home to me. That's safe.
41:22 Mary Beth Barone? The trailers used to walk up like staggered steps to get into.
41:26 Benito Skinner? They're hard to walk up. Period.
41:31 Benito Skinner? Tell him, girl.
41:32 Mary Beth Barone? So I'm walking down and I saw our new cast member, Tom Francis. He was down, a little down the way.
41:38 Benito Skinner? Speaking of which, like, gird your loins, young women. Your daddy has been doing crazy things for TV.
41:46 Mary Beth Barone? I had not laid eyes on the man in person yet, and he's so handsome.
41:49 Benito Skinner? He's like, he's a stunner. Yeah, yeah.
41:54 Mary Beth Barone? I had a refillable plastic cup and straw, and I'm walking down the stairs.
42:01 Mary Beth Barone? I eat shit so hard, my water flies.
42:04 Benito Skinner? It was, sorry, it was such a wipeout that I didn't laugh at first because I was like, fuck, she's like really hurt herself. Like, when it crosses over from being like so funny to like, oh shit, like, we have an injury.
42:17 Mary Beth Barone? I didn't sustain any injuries, but.
42:19 Benito Skinner? And you're brittle.
42:20 Mary Beth Barone? I'm extremely brittle. I mean, we were all surprised that I hadn't broken a bone.
42:24 Benito Skinner? No, I was shocked. I was like, now I have to write in that, like, Grace wears a boot everywhere. Great.
42:30 Mary Beth Barone? Low bone density. But basically, I was, you know, falling. Why didn't you catch me?
42:37 Benito Skinner? So my thing was is that Duddy on every date. She falls and then looks at the guy and goes, why didn't you catch me? And she has all these scabs all over her knees. She's covered in bruises and scabs. The Ugg boots can't protect her. They're all over and she it's just her thing. And it's how she tests if he's the one. There was this kind of like low key Hallmark movie that I think Patrick Dempsey might have been in. It wasn't Hallmark per se, but it was on TV and it was this story of this woman and she was like there. It was like lucky number seven or something where it was like the guy she was supposed to be with. Their hands would fit.
43:18 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
43:18 Benito Skinner? Did you watch this?
43:19 Mary Beth Barone? I didn't. I don't think I saw that one.
43:20 Benito Skinner? I loved it. My mom and I would watch it all the time, but it was like so that and that's her. She's testing all these guys.
43:26 Mary Beth Barone? She's waiting.
43:26 Benito Skinner? She's waiting for the one that fits.
43:28 Mary Beth Barone? The one that fits.
43:28 Benito Skinner? That is such a thing when you hold hands with someone and it fits.
43:32 Mary Beth Barone? Atonement. You made me write this in here.
43:37 Benito Skinner? So I I participated in something that I knew was what would have been Barbenheimer if it would have been around at the time. And we all live in a post-Barbenheimer world. Deal with it. Chespy De La Mont. God, to have vermicelli and Chespy De La Mont in the same ep like we're coming back.
44:00 Mary Beth Barone? I'm sorry to all your boyfriends.
44:02 Benito Skinner? I'm not.
44:03 Mary Beth Barone? And Benny's not.
44:04 Benito Skinner? They deserve it. Wear it well.
44:06 Mary Beth Barone? Wear it well. I have to apologize.
44:07 Benito Skinner? He doesn't take care of himself.
44:08 Mary Beth Barone? He doesn't take care of himself.
44:11 Benito Skinner? So I'm I'm watching Atonement, but at the same time as Toy Story five is coming out. So I kind of was going back and forth between Atonement and the Toy Story franchise. So I just thought Atonement.
44:22 Mary Beth Barone? Atonement would have been huge.
44:24 Benito Skinner? And I just thinking of the DVD pack at Costco.
44:26 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
44:27 Benito Skinner? Right?
44:28 Mary Beth Barone? Something for mom. Something for mom, something for the kids.
44:31 Benito Skinner? Of course.
44:31 Mary Beth Barone? Atonement.
44:32 Benito Skinner? Atonement.
44:33 Mary Beth Barone? And you can buy, of course, at Costco frozen vermicelli bowls.
44:36 Benito Skinner? Frozen vermicelli bowls, Kirkland. God, we should have a little Kirkland special over there.
44:40 Mary Beth Barone? We should have a.
44:40 Benito Skinner? I love the hot dogs.
44:41 Mary Beth Barone? We should have a bundle.
44:42 Benito Skinner? Duddy hot dog.
44:43 Mary Beth Barone? Duddy hot dog, vermicelli bowl, the game come on Kirkland or whatever.
44:46 Benito Skinner? Someone tagged me that they ordered a Duddy like they I can't.
44:52 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, a Duddy dinner.
44:53 Benito Skinner? They had a.
44:53 Mary Beth Barone? Banana smoothie.
44:54 Benito Skinner? They had a.
44:54 Mary Beth Barone? Oysters.
44:55 Benito Skinner? Strawberry.
44:55 Mary Beth Barone? Rockefeller.
44:56 Benito Skinner? Smoothie. Oysters, Rockefeller and a hot dog.
45:01 Mary Beth Barone? Fuck, wait, we didn't even talk about my birthday dinner. Which was so good.
45:06 Benito Skinner? It was so good.
45:07 Mary Beth Barone? But one thing I'm finding with these restaurants now is like, it's a play. I'm like, okay, but I'm here with my niece, my mom, and my, my gay husband. And I love the play you're putting on with like, all this stuff about the dishes.
45:17 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
45:18 Mary Beth Barone? But I also would love to chat with the people I came to dinner with.
45:21 Benito Skinner? Well, of course. Here's my, what was the, um, what was the thing in New York where you could go to each room? And it was like a play in the room?
45:27 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, oh, oh, my god.
45:28 Benito Skinner? It was something night.
45:30 Mary Beth Barone? Sleep no more, sleep no more.
45:32 Benito Skinner? Sleep no more, sleep no more. Um, it's so that.
45:34 Mary Beth Barone? It's sleep no more.
45:34 Benito Skinner? Where they're like, they had carts and stuff, it was seafood palace.
45:38 Mary Beth Barone? They brought out the uncooked steak to show us before.
45:40 Benito Skinner? Oh, and I love to be like, very inquisitive during that. And I just thought, yes.
45:44 Mary Beth Barone? I go marbled? I'll take it.
45:46 Benito Skinner? This will do for me and these three Baroni women I'm with.
45:50 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
45:50 Benito Skinner? What a gift, your mom, oh my god.
45:52 Mary Beth Barone? She had so much fun.
45:53 Benito Skinner? She went on a trip in Amsterdam and she bought most of her kid's socks. And by most, I mean, not two of her sons, but me. And again, can I just say, Benny Barone.
46:03 Mary Beth Barone? Benny Barone. The last thing I think we'll say before we get into, well, this is a two-part episode.
46:09 Benito Skinner? This is a two-parter because we had too much to say. You tried to cancel mom, so we had to, we really had to talk about a bunch of stuff.
46:16 Mary Beth Barone? We did, but not specifically. Like, we haven't really touched on that specifically. It's very vague and that's how it will stay.
46:23 Benito Skinner? Well, you know what?
46:25 Mary Beth Barone? I have nothing more to say on it.
46:26 Benito Skinner? And, and I have nothing more to say on a few things that have been brought to my desk.
46:31 Mary Beth Barone? And one thing that we haven't even discussed, which we never will, but just know that there's some stuff we have more to say on.
46:37 Benito Skinner? Of course. And that's where context clues could do a lot of work. And I will ride for them at some point, once I gather all the information.
46:45 Mary Beth Barone? Totally, once you gather all the clues.
46:47 Benito Skinner? All I can say is, we love you. Thank you for listening to this podcast. We're so happy to be back.
46:53 Mary Beth Barone? Yes.
46:54 Benito Skinner? And it's gonna be, it's gonna be a good one, it's gonna be a bumpy ride.
46:57 Mary Beth Barone? It's gonna be really bumpy. And what I will be riding for having wet nails.
47:01 Benito Skinner? And I will be riding for banana.
47:03 Mary Beth Barone? And I did want to just close out the first half of this episode by saying, there are a lot of people walking around being unapologetically themselves. Some of you guys need to apologize.
47:13 Benito Skinner? I agree.
47:14 Mary Beth Barone? Because your personality is ass.
47:15 Benito Skinner? Je suis de la mode.
47:25 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, my exit. Benny babe, eyes on the road.
47:30 Mary Beth Barone? Benny, go!
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