Pod Insights Ride with Benito Skinner and Mary Beth Barone TOTALED: Carrying Things + Lines Outside Stores About this episode We are fatigued and fed up this week! Benny and Mary Beth die for carrying things and lines outside stores.
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0:00 Speaker 00 The following podcast is a Dear Media production. The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:19 Speaker 01 Hey, can you come pick me up? Yeah, what's wrong? Nothing. Are you sure? Yeah, no, I just need a ride. Oh, my God. So what? I just wanna have fun. Start your engine. Tiger.
0:30 Benito Skinner? I'm Benito Skinner.
0:31 Mary Beth Barone? I'm Mary Beth Brown.
0:33 Benito Skinner? And this?
0:33 Mary Beth Barone? Is?
0:34 Benito Skinner? Ride.
0:38 Benito Skinner? M.
0:38 Mary Beth Barone? M.
0:40 Benito Skinner? Flip it around. Wicked witch.
0:46 Benito Skinner? Got it out of our system, feel better.
0:48 Mary Beth Barone? That will not be the last time. If you think you got it out of your system, I didn't get it out of my system.
0:54 Benito Skinner? Madame Morrible. Flip it around. Wicked witch. That is so coming out.
1:03 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
1:04 Benito Skinner? Do you get it?
1:06 Mary Beth Barone? It's an allegory.
1:06 Benito Skinner? Like, y'all really thought I was Madame Morrible, huh?
1:09 Mary Beth Barone? But I'm wicked.
1:10 Benito Skinner? Wicked witch.
1:11 Mary Beth Barone? So you had the pleasure of introducing me to this, which hadn't come up on my algorithm at all.
1:16 Benito Skinner? Literally, like, to get to share this with a friend. Also, we just came in here with the worst attitude. Our producer, she like, doesn't even know what to do right now. She's like, totally.
1:25 Mary Beth Barone? She left.
1:26 Benito Skinner? She left. She left. She goes, I can't, I've never seen this.
1:29 Mary Beth Barone? She said, just let me know when you're done.
1:30 Benito Skinner? Sometimes when it's in the afternoon, the whole day has, has beat us up.
1:34 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, my God. Today was like, 15. You had sort of one big annoying thing, it sounds like.
1:38 Benito Skinner? I got mollywopped the past hour.
1:40 Mary Beth Barone? I, I, I had my day started, I mean, I had 15 annoying things. We don't have to get into all of them.
1:45 Benito Skinner? Please, we can't, actually.
1:47 Mary Beth Barone? We actually can't, because it's just not fun to listen to.
1:48 Benito Skinner? Mm-mm.
1:49 Mary Beth Barone? Let's just say I was at my apartment. I did a brand activation.
1:53 Benito Skinner? I did a brand activation.
1:55 Mary Beth Barone? For Milk, the dairy beverage. And they were generously sending a car to pick me up. And I, I knew the confirmation was done. I got the text and everything. Then I get a call from a New York number. I answer it. And they said that they're at the airport. They asked if my flight had landed. I was like, no.
2:09 Benito Skinner? You go in a lot. A lot of ways, yeah.
2:11 Mary Beth Barone? What, like, like a week ago, yeah. When I came back from London.
2:14 Benito Skinner? It has before.
2:15 Mary Beth Barone? It landed, and I don't know who that person was picking up. My driver was ultimately on time.
2:20 Benito Skinner? Picked up somebody.
2:21 Mary Beth Barone? Somebody, I'm sure. I mean, they had a job to do, but my driver was at my place. So it was just like, it just then I had to, you know what I mean?
2:27 Benito Skinner? Why am I picturing some girl at JFK and she has a bag and they go, Mary Beth? And she goes, yeah.
2:36 Mary Beth Barone? You know what? Yeah.
2:38 Benito Skinner? Mm. Flip it around.
2:42 Mary Beth Barone? Okay, so you introduced this to me. Everyone in my family completely mesmerized by this bit.
2:47 Benito Skinner? Well, of course, it's like, I didn't bring food to Thanksgiving. I brought Madame Morrible. To get to show, when you said that you hadn't seen it, I thought, I've never had a moment happen like this where I'm more excited. Moments like this. Some people wait a lifetime. For that one special kiss. But to get to show you this.
3:09 Mary Beth Barone? For anyone else that's like me that it hadn't come up for them, this is Michelle Yeoh on the Wicked Press Tour. Her character's name is Madame Morrible, and then if you flip it around, she does M M with her fingers, flip it around.
3:17 Benito Skinner? She's like, she's the real wicked witch.
3:19 Mary Beth Barone? Mary Elizabeth, flip it around, wicked witch. My sister asked for the reference, and my cousin and I individually pulled it up on our phones and started playing it at the exact same time. And it sounded like we were in Madison Square Garden.
3:33 Benito Skinner? MSG.
3:34 Mary Beth Barone? We were, she was headlining MSG with this bit. Imagine headlining MSG with one bit. That's what it felt like.
3:40 Benito Skinner? That's so. And she could at this point. I mean, it's taken the world by storm.
3:44 Mary Beth Barone? Let's talk about Wicked quickly and usually, obviously, and we have to put it out every time we talk about something topical. We usually don't.
3:49 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
3:50 Mary Beth Barone? My big thing.
3:51 Benito Skinner? Shocking for us, but as we said, anything can happen, including the end of the world.
3:54 Mary Beth Barone? Including this episode, which is a totaled episode, which I don't think we've done one this season.
3:58 Benito Skinner? No, and I'm happy to do it.
4:00 Mary Beth Barone? I think it's the right day.
4:01 Benito Skinner? I think it's just every now and then you need a little holiday. It's, hey, we're Scrooge.
4:05 Mary Beth Barone? It's the Grinch.
4:05 Benito Skinner? Scrooge McDuck.
4:06 Mary Beth Barone? But I actually, okay, and this, I think, is me just going past that.
4:11 Benito Skinner? Well, and then you go, Duck, when you do this, like, grumpy, like, Cindy Lou Who bullshit, it kills me.
4:17 Mary Beth Barone? So this year, I'm really getting into the holiday spirit, and I think it is this sort of reaction to fascism where I go, I need a distraction, I need to pour myself into something. And this year, it's the Christmas spirit.
4:28 Benito Skinner? The mall.
4:28 Mary Beth Barone? The mall. So it's been, oh, the mall, that just reminded me. When I was little, my cousin, her school was under construction, and they moved all the students to the mall. She told me she got to go to school at the mall. For half the year, the school's under construction. Just imagine that's like, how is that not like the thought of a Mary Kay and Ashley movie?
4:48 Benito Skinner? Every person in that class now works in fashion.
4:51 Mary Beth Barone? Merchandising, 100%.
4:52 Benito Skinner? They all went to Parsons.
4:53 Mary Beth Barone? Well, they walked by Express every day and they thought, we have to be fashion merchandisers.
4:57 Benito Skinner? I can't stress enough that I wouldn't have learned a damn thing. But I would have learned everything I needed to.
5:02 Mary Beth Barone? Totally. Well, it sounds like the lie of a child to be like, I'm going to school at the mall, but this really happened.
5:08 Benito Skinner? God, I forgot. I forgot lie of a child. You know, I remember this lie I told at one point and it like could have ruined like a lot of people's lives.
5:16 Mary Beth Barone? Say more.
5:17 Benito Skinner? As a kid, I just remember my dad would dress up as Santa and at TCBY, the country's best yogurt. I was with my older sister and we were getting froyo and the woman was super sweet to me and she's like, do you know her? And it's like, sorry, but like, no.
5:32 Mary Beth Barone? In many ways, yes.
5:33 Benito Skinner? In many ways, yes, but like, I don't know her. But I was like, yeah, she's like, she's friends with Santa. I could have like ruined my dad's life. I was like, it was so.
5:44 Mary Beth Barone? Because of the levels.
5:45 Benito Skinner? Yeah, the levels that were there. She was like, oh, he's just like a kid lying. But I've been thinking about it and I'm like, that was crazy.
5:51 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, but you, you couldn't have known at the time, the complexities.
5:54 Benito Skinner? No, but I just loved, I was obsessed with proximity to Santa. Like, who knew Santa?
5:58 Mary Beth Barone? It's so a friend of Judy.
6:00 Benito Skinner? It was so.
6:01 Mary Beth Barone? But it's a friend of Santa.
6:02 Benito Skinner? And a friend of Dorothy.
6:03 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, that's what I meant.
6:04 Benito Skinner? Madam Morrible.
6:06 Mary Beth Barone? Wicked witch.
6:07 Benito Skinner? I say we're gonna do it once. How's 30 times?
6:10 Mary Beth Barone? Dorothy, that's what it is. It's not a friend of Judy.
6:12 Benito Skinner? Friend of Dorothy.
6:12 Mary Beth Barone? I don't know why I said that. I mean Judy Garland. I know why I said that.
6:15 Benito Skinner? Well, of course.
6:16 Mary Beth Barone? Because I have, I'm just a girl.
6:17 Benito Skinner? You're always interested.
6:18 Mary Beth Barone? Standing in front of a gay guy, asking him to host a podcast with her.
6:21 Benito Skinner? And you're begging for it at this point.
6:23 Mary Beth Barone? I have to.
6:24 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
6:25 Mary Beth Barone? So my big thing with Wicked and if you.
6:27 Benito Skinner? So make me beg for you, because I'll beg for you.
6:30 Mary Beth Barone? My big thing with Wicked is that I think first of all, all you need to do is learn that language and you can do the spells. That's first of all. Second thing is Glinda, just from what I know about her from the movies, is she's not sitting down and learning that language.
6:43 Benito Skinner? Well, no.
6:44 Mary Beth Barone? It might as well be a Rosetta Stone.
6:46 Benito Skinner? She's popular.
6:46 Mary Beth Barone? She ain't cracking it.
6:47 Benito Skinner? Oh, and a clock tick. Everything else I loved, clock tick is not gonna happen. I said every time I heard it, I needed to step out for a cigarette. Just one doobie.
6:57 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
6:58 Benito Skinner? It's a clock tick away, but I am interested in the play. I haven't seen the play. I really want to now. I mean, obviously, it's much shorter than the two films. So I assume that the language feels more like of the Lord of the Rings thing where it's consistent.
7:10 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. Or like, we're- Oh, like changing words.
7:12 Benito Skinner? It's Star Trek. It's Klingon. Yeah.
7:14 Mary Beth Barone? Well, obsessed you related. Yeah.
7:16 Benito Skinner? Well, and bleep that.
7:17 Mary Beth Barone? And bleep that.
7:18 Benito Skinner? And promise me you'll bleep that.
7:21 Mary Beth Barone? I will.
7:21 Benito Skinner? Those definitely make my butthole tight, but I really had so much fun at the theater with you. I got chicken strips and say that. I don't, it was crazy. Cause here's my thing. You, it was a matinee, but we were going at 11:45. And I was like, so we're not eating lunch. Because like I'm corn fed Idaho. I need, I need lunch around noon. So it was crazy to me to not have a protein then. Fortunately, I'm AMC.
7:48 Mary Beth Barone? Of them solved.
7:54 Benito Skinner? It's hard not to just, I mean, obviously, I guess we, we ride for that and that's the carpool, but.
7:59 Mary Beth Barone? Well, and in many ways.
8:00 Benito Skinner? What are some of the things in the notes app? I think I wrote one thing this week, but I'm not sure.
8:04 Mary Beth Barone? Well, I want to talk about my most Republican take. And then I would like for you to talk about when you were a call girl while you were filming over compensating. Or maybe you should go first, actually, because I don't want to, I don't want to leave people hanging on that. Because I've often thought, leaving my building, I want to know what my doormen think I do for work.
8:21 Benito Skinner? And I think maybe you gave me that prompt and I thought back to me at this Airbnb I was staying at in Toronto.
8:27 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, I have a new laugh, by the way. It's a goose honk, just so you know.
8:30 Benito Skinner? New laugh just dropped.
8:30 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, sorry. It's just-
8:31 Benito Skinner? I would love a new laugh.
8:32 Mary Beth Barone? It's just what's happening right now.
8:34 Benito Skinner? Mine, like, I, it's such a witch cackle that I can't, and it's so obvious now. And because of this wretched podcast, people know when I'm really laughing. So they know when it's fake.
8:46 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
8:46 Benito Skinner? It's a bummer. When I'm like, is someone pitching me something I don't like?
8:52 Benito Skinner? Not the writer's room, but just in general. People keep pitching me randoms and I'm like, oh God, stop it. So I'm in this Airbnb in Toronto. I, I just started to notice the hours I was going. So I would leave early in the morning and I would be, you know, I would kind of dress up for set. I thought it'd be cute. It was fun to like have a cute little outfit on when I got there and see what you guys think. Sometimes it would be like Ugg boots, cargo shorts and like a tank top, though. Very like Ryan Atwood meets also Marissa.
9:17 Mary Beth Barone? Yes, absolutely.
9:19 Benito Skinner? So you get that you can kind of the duality there. It's very.
9:23 Benito Skinner? So I go and it's, you know, I'm, I'm fresh faced, like no makeup, hair slicked back or whatever. And then I would come back with a bigger bag, kind of like look a little sloppy, spray tan.
9:36 Mary Beth Barone? Full face of makeup.
9:37 Benito Skinner? Full face of makeup. And it looks like I just gave someone the best night of their life. I gave a Toronto businessman, the businesswoman special.
9:45 Mary Beth Barone? Special, yeah.
9:45 Benito Skinner? And then on the weekends, I would just go shop. So on the weekends, I would come back with all these bags. So I just was like, I think potentially this doorman that's kind of giving me a wink every time I enter. I don't think actor is at the top of his list.
10:00 Mary Beth Barone? No, he's thinking, well, that guy just worked hard for his money.
10:04 Benito Skinner? Well, and every time.
10:05 Mary Beth Barone? And he said, and he randomly one time said to you, sex work is work.
10:08 Benito Skinner? Yeah, that came out of nowhere. When I was showing him the sweater I bought. Do you know that I became such close friends with the doorman and doormen? I would like on the weekends, they would be like, what'd you get? And I would pull it out of the bags and show them. It was fun. Yeah. We had a lot of fun. And next door was this smoothie place that was the strangest dynamic. And I think they also thought I was a sex worker too, which I was like very flattered. It was a mom and her son. And I've never seen such a, I don't know how to describe it. Like it was almost like exactly from a movie, the way that he was pathetic to her and never did anything right.
10:44 Mary Beth Barone? Sure, sure. Yeah.
10:44 Benito Skinner? I don't know.
10:45 Mary Beth Barone? I only got a smoothie there a couple of times.
10:46 Benito Skinner? Oh yeah. And it's bizarre. And she would like, I don't know. It's she like, I think.
10:50 Mary Beth Barone? Well, cause they had like beakers. Do you know what I mean? They were like doing mixology with the smoothies. They had like a scale back there and like many glass bottles. And it's just like, just make the smoothie.
11:01 Benito Skinner? Exactly. I think she was a nutritionist. So it was like a whole, there was like a whole science backed thing. But I'm like, this, you know.
11:07 Mary Beth Barone? It's science backed. It's double blind tested.
11:09 Benito Skinner? Yeah. I'm like, those are still frozen blueberries from whatever the version of Costco is here. Like I don't know how crazy we're getting. Yeah. My life was funny, but I loved it.
11:18 Mary Beth Barone? Of course. And I used to walk in there with you sometimes and it felt good.
11:21 Benito Skinner? Well, they said, they said, oh, good. At least there's a sex worker community.
11:24 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
11:25 Benito Skinner? Where he's safe.
11:25 Mary Beth Barone? A friend he made on the job.
11:26 Benito Skinner? Yeah. And sometimes it would be super late at night and I think they were worried about me.
11:30 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
11:30 Benito Skinner? Cause it'd be like 4am and I'd be getting back and they're like, God, and, and sometimes it was a long day on set. Getting spanked by Adam with a paddle or.
11:38 Mary Beth Barone? Or what have you.
11:38 Benito Skinner? Getting stabbed in the woods. Always naked. So I was like coming back and, you know, I was walking, walking slow.
11:46 Mary Beth Barone? Welcome out in these lupus hands.
11:47 Benito Skinner? And they said, damn, I know that's right.
11:49 Mary Beth Barone? Shout out to them.
11:50 Benito Skinner? Shout out to them. Whoever they may be.
11:52 Mary Beth Barone? Looking forward to seeing you again soon.
11:53 Benito Skinner? Oh, I know, but I'm not allowed in that building.
11:55 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
11:55 Benito Skinner? I got sued by the guy. Well, he tried to sue me, the owner of the Airbnb, because I did break the ice machine, but I didn't know I did.
12:02 Mary Beth Barone? How'd you break it?
12:03 Benito Skinner? I have no idea. I guess it was leaking. I was too busy making a gay TV show.
12:06 Mary Beth Barone? But I know you didn't open that freezer once.
12:07 Benito Skinner? I didn't open that freezer once, honey.
12:09 Mary Beth Barone? Not a chance.
12:09 Benito Skinner? Oh, I did. I had Sophie Pavitt, uh, face ice things in there.
12:13 Mary Beth Barone? Ice things.
12:14 Benito Skinner? Ice.
12:14 Mary Beth Barone? But that's it.
12:14 Benito Skinner? To put on my face.
12:15 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
12:15 Benito Skinner? But, um, no, yeah, I don't think I'm allowed back there. And probably he couldn't get the tanner out of the tub. I tried, but nothing at Canadian Tire worked.
12:23 Mary Beth Barone? Wow, how quickly you forget.
12:25 Benito Skinner? I changed the shower. Well, sweetie, I'm ready.
12:26 Mary Beth Barone? I know. Don't talk about changing the shower.
12:28 Benito Skinner? When I changed the shower head, and you can't stop thinking about it.
12:32 Mary Beth Barone? You crazy. You with the wrench. When I FaceTime Benny and he answers and he has a wrench.
12:35 Benito Skinner? It's the first time, though, in your eyes, I was like, she understands why someone would want to have sex with me.
12:40 Mary Beth Barone? Of course. Also, I need help with something at my apartment later, but we'll talk about it.
12:44 Benito Skinner? Okay, I hope I can come.
12:46 Mary Beth Barone? Not today.
12:47 Benito Skinner? We're dying to watch heated rivalry together because I want to sweat next to Mary Beth, but.
12:51 Mary Beth Barone? And Pinky.
12:51 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
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13:12 Benito Skinner? Goldbelly can ship you show-stopping meals. Show-stopping.
13:16 Mary Beth Barone? Show, show-stopping.
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13:29 Mary Beth Barone? Don't do that when I just took a sip of kombucha.
13:32 Benito Skinner? Sit right to your door anywhere in the country. And yes, that's the Pie Cake-in. Duddy eats two pie cake in a day.
13:40 Mary Beth Barone? Two pie cake in a day keeps the doctor away.
13:43 Benito Skinner? She finishes it and goes, what's for dessert?
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14:00 Benito Skinner? Issa Bagel, man. Issa. Bagel one.
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14:50 Benito Skinner? Oh, sorry. I'm actually in interlocking right now. I can't access anything.
14:57 Mary Beth Barone? Going online without ExpressVPN is like not closing the door when you use the bathroom, which I actually do quite frequently.
15:02 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
15:02 Mary Beth Barone? But even if you have nothing to hide, maybe you don't want people to see you pee. And why give random creeps a chance to invade your privacy?
15:10 Benito Skinner? Oh, my God. Using the internet without ExpressVPN is like taking a call on a train or bus on the speaker for everyone to hear. Yeah, I've seen some of you guys. I know you did just do that with a Zoom. I heard everything. It's crazy because I like, I had so many things I wanted to say during. Next time, I'll just join. Do you really want the whole train to know about your medical test results? So that was a test to see if you guys were still on the train with us as we did that.
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15:44 Benito Skinner? Fuckers!
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15:52 Benito Skinner? Oh, my God. And here's the thing. It hides your IP address, making it extremely difficult for third parties to track your online activity. You can't see me go from Essence to porn to Mary Beth's website. Good luck.
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16:08 Benito Skinner? So this is something that I've recently just locked into because I think we all just need our data safe. Like, the last thing you want is your password taken. I'm sorry, like, we have enough shit to deal with. Like, I don't want that to happen to my girls. I want all of their computers totally encrypted. Do you get that?
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16:34 Benito Skinner? Expressvpn.com/ridepod. Where in the world is Mary Beth Barone?
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16:41 Benito Skinner? Nevada. Like, I don't think about it, that people listen to these ads. That's what's exciting.
16:49 Mary Beth Barone? It's sort of this place where we get to just have fun.
16:51 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
16:52 Mary Beth Barone? We don't think about being perceived. On that note,
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17:46 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
17:46 Benito Skinner? I would do it to support you.
17:47 Mary Beth Barone? You can buy me on Bilt.
17:50 Mary Beth Barone? It doesn't go towards me. It doesn't go to my account. You purchase me. Personally, I am going to redeem my points for my New Year's trip with Benny Drama 7.
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18:20 Benito Skinner? Oh, I'm built, built tough.
18:23 Mary Beth Barone? So my most Republican take, and now please keep in mind that I used to work at SoulCycle. I've worked both at HQ and in the studio. Among our responsibilities were, you know, giving shoes to people in the right size, checking them in, helping them with lockers, and also wiping down the bikes after class. Obviously wiping down the bikes after class, it's like no big deal, but it, it like makes a huge difference, right, in the cleanliness of the studio.
18:46 Benito Skinner? Well, of course, I can't imagine the bacteria on there.
18:48 Mary Beth Barone? So much, a lot of fluids.
18:49 Benito Skinner? I've been to two classes. I wonder what those things would be without the heat.
18:53 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. Well, it's also like, it's what you make it. Life's what you make it, so let's make it rock.
18:59 Benito Skinner? They were saying crazy things, am I? And then they'd be like, you guys ready for your margarita after this? And I was like, kinda no.
19:05 Mary Beth Barone? Well, no, yeah, it's a lemon.
19:07 Benito Skinner? In this moment, not exactly, yeah.
19:09 Mary Beth Barone? But I've been to some workout classes where it's like $50 for a class. It's not a full hour, it's like 50 minutes. And then it's my job as the patron to wipe down the machinery. So I might be Republican in this, but I think if you're paying $50 for a workout class.
19:28 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
19:28 Mary Beth Barone? I just don't want to. Like, I've just worked out.
19:31 Benito Skinner? I hope this is the one clip we use from this.
19:33 Mary Beth Barone? Well, we don't control what the AI accounts are clipping, by the way.
19:36 Benito Skinner? Oh my God, that's not us. We would never add that many filters, just one or two.
19:41 Mary Beth Barone? Please just include the part where I say that I worked at the studio and I was totally fine with my job description including wiping the bikes down.
19:47 Benito Skinner? You think the robots care?
19:48 Mary Beth Barone? And we're doing a thorough.
19:51 Benito Skinner? Did you watch X Mahina, how she stripped?
19:53 Mary Beth Barone? They don't care, I know.
19:54 Benito Skinner? That sweet man.
19:55 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
19:55 Benito Skinner? Into loving her.
19:56 Mary Beth Barone? And maybe I'm fucked up for it. I just think like, I did a better job than the riders would do. I wanted to make sure it was actually clean and we had, there was a lot of camaraderie. We would blast the music, we would wipe down the 50 something bikes.
20:06 Benito Skinner? Spray it in your mouth.
20:07 Mary Beth Barone? Spray it in our mouths. And then turn them over for the next class. So I just think that if I've just paid that much for a class, I don't want to wipe the machinery down. But that's just me. Maybe there's people doing it and they're totally happy to.
20:18 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
20:18 Mary Beth Barone? I just don't want to.
20:19 Benito Skinner? I hear that. God, I'm gonna be cute again at some point, y'all.
20:23 Mary Beth Barone? Any drama's burning the candle at both ends.
20:24 Benito Skinner? Look at me with this beard, y'all.
20:26 Mary Beth Barone? Look at him with this beard, y'all.
20:28 Benito Skinner? Look at me with this beard, y'all.
20:33 Mary Beth Barone? So I am hosting a swole Santa contest, which I've announced on my Instagram. It's December 13th in New York City, if you want to come. It's open to everyone to come. And I'm gonna be judging hot guys and I'm gonna find the swolest Santa.
20:43 Benito Skinner? I will be there, to everyone wondering.
20:46 Mary Beth Barone? Are you gonna be in the contest?
20:48 Benito Skinner? God, maybe I should. Good.
20:52 Benito Skinner? That's what I'm gonna start with. Oh my gosh, I want to be Santa on stilts. You know, my big thing is I want to learn how to walk in stilts. Because I just want one day, but I'm not gonna tell you that I've been taking the classes. And then one day, I go, I go, look out your apartment window. And it's me.
21:07 Mary Beth Barone? Me?
21:09 Mary Beth Barone? Oh my god. Wait, you, you in the middle of the courtyard?
21:13 Benito Skinner? On stilts. I want to be on stilts.
21:16 Mary Beth Barone? I keep checking your location in your summer random in like Staten Island.
21:19 Benito Skinner? No, I know, and you're like, what is he doing? And you're like, it's either trapeze or something like it. Oh my god, I tried to get a group of people to do trapeze with me in the summer, do you remember?
21:28 Mary Beth Barone? No, when was this?
21:30 Benito Skinner? Oh. Yeah.
21:32 Mary Beth Barone? Before my time?
21:33 Benito Skinner? Just know that if I text you something like that, the clinical depression has returned. I'm looking for any way out.
21:38 Mary Beth Barone? It's sort of like when you texted me after we'd shot the red cover and said, we have to reshoot the cover. 12 huskies. Okay babe.
21:46 Benito Skinner? Sorry, you're friends with an auteur.
21:49 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, speaking of which.
21:50 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
21:51 Mary Beth Barone? I reached out to the baroni who made the come on kerplunk and like that Gothic stained glass. We're cooking up a little something.
21:58 Benito Skinner? Oh.
21:59 Mary Beth Barone? We're cooking up something.
22:00 Benito Skinner? Wait, I'm loving our hat, I'm loving the merch.
22:02 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, I love the hat too.
22:03 Benito Skinner? I want a straight guy to teach me how to distress it.
22:06 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, well, we'll ask Jeremy Allen White.
22:08 Benito Skinner? So we've, I, you know, I boldly have decided to look like dog shit on this pod for weeks and weeks.
22:15 Mary Beth Barone? I have too, I had glam today because of the milk.
22:17 Benito Skinner? I know, and I hate, and it does.
22:18 Mary Beth Barone? And hey, and I'm sorry.
22:19 Benito Skinner? And it does a body good.
22:22 Mary Beth Barone? And I'm sorry, what were you?
22:26 Benito Skinner? M M.
22:29 Benito Skinner? Wicked West. Does she know? I'm sure she knows, but like maybe not. It must be so, it's probably bliss.
22:36 Mary Beth Barone? I talked to someone who's incredibly famous a few weeks ago, and he just said to me, straight up, I haven't been on social media in five months. He has social media, someone's posting for him. He fully just said, I have not been on social media in five months. I have to hope Michelle Yeoh has not been on social media in five months.
22:53 Benito Skinner? I think she would think it was so funny, but maybe some of the other TikToks about. I mean, I think just Wicked in general, that's such a hard movie to be a part of.
22:59 Mary Beth Barone? You're under a microscope.
23:00 Benito Skinner? Oh my god, that's a true, a true nightmare. And god, you can't even like, if you just wanna watch one thing. I think that's the hardest thing. It's like, even with overcompensating, it was like, oh, I just wanna see the good and then no matter what, you always go to the next one. Why is he wearing so much blush? It's like, cuz I fucking wanted to. And sometimes, actually, that's just rosacea. So actually, you've really triggered me. And I'm really going through it. I should've said that. I know, the, cuz seeing that clip though, I'm like, yeah, no, that's say, I think like spice or something on my cheeks.
23:34 Mary Beth Barone? You came forward with that.
23:35 Benito Skinner? Couldn't look cuter. I loved it. I was, hey, I was happy with it.
23:38 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. Should we get into what we die for? We're doing a totaled episode today.
23:41 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I, okay, so I was gonna die for falsies, false eyelashes. They kinda drive me insane. But I don't want anyone to think that I think they look bad on people. It's just like, they drive me insane. And that's kind of all I'll say on it. So that's like a mini crash, I'd say. I would say, like, maybe a little fender bender. Is I'm just like, they just, they're never like placed right, I guess. Yours are though.
24:04 Mary Beth Barone? And I tell you that.
24:05 Benito Skinner? You're such a psycho.
24:06 Mary Beth Barone? Well, of course, you know me. I wouldn't walk out if it's not glued on properly.
24:09 Benito Skinner? Oh, I know, I was on set.
24:11 Mary Beth Barone? Mateen has been putting them underneath my lashes.
24:13 Benito Skinner? That's delicious.
24:14 Mary Beth Barone? Which is perfect.
24:15 Benito Skinner? A few, like, the individuals.
24:17 Mary Beth Barone? Individuals. It's the strip lashes cuz the glue comes off and it's like, y'all need to be looking out for that. You have to be. It's your job.
24:23 Benito Skinner? In my head, the, oh my god, the individuals take up to six hours cuz they're putting like, what? They have to put a hundred tiny ones in the corner. I mean, I think it's all artistry, but something in me, it's like the OCD. I just wanna peel it off.
24:35 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
24:36 Benito Skinner? Immediately, I just wanna go, whoop.
24:37 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, get a tweezer in there.
24:38 Benito Skinner? Yeah. Maybe I'll put them on. I'll start wearing them every day.
24:41 Mary Beth Barone? So that's a mini die.
24:42 Benito Skinner? Become the thing you fear the most, Batman.
24:44 Mary Beth Barone? I fidget, literally.
24:45 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I don't fly away.
24:46 Mary Beth Barone? I fidget so much. Oh, the ending of Wicked was very similar to, and clip that.
24:50 Benito Skinner? No, that was a movie, sorry.
24:52 Mary Beth Barone? The ending of Wicked.
24:53 Benito Skinner? Fuck, last night was a fucking movie, by the way.
24:54 Mary Beth Barone? It is Dark Knight.
24:55 Benito Skinner? Oh, did I send you that?
24:57 Mary Beth Barone? No.
24:58 Benito Skinner? Oh, okay.
24:59 Mary Beth Barone? I just came up with that.
25:00 Benito Skinner? Oh, it was on threads and it was like, they made the posters the same and I was just like, how have I not sent this to Mary Beth? And then I guess, maybe I didn't have wifi.
25:08 Mary Beth Barone? I guess you're not thinking of me.
25:09 Benito Skinner? Yeah, cuz then, and then someone has to die for good or some, so is Glinda low-key Batman then?
25:14 Mary Beth Barone? Glinda's Two-Face. Which actually kind of makes sense.
25:18 Benito Skinner? Uh huh.
25:18 Mary Beth Barone? She was kind of flip flopping in that one.
25:19 Benito Skinner? I thought Ariana Grande was incredible in that movie.
25:21 Mary Beth Barone? Everyone put in very good acting performances.
25:24 Benito Skinner? A hundred percent. I loved, oh my god, I loved that sex scene with Alpha Bone and she has that big sweater.
25:29 Mary Beth Barone? I know. It made me want to buy a big sweater.
25:31 Benito Skinner? It made me want to do the opposite.
25:33 Mary Beth Barone? To return a big sweater?
25:35 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
25:36 Mary Beth Barone? Interesting. Okay.
25:37 Benito Skinner? Not in a bad way.
25:39 Mary Beth Barone? You didn't want one?
25:40 Benito Skinner? Don't think I need one. I have a really big one and I actually thought like, maybe I should give that to Mary Beth. You know that big blue one I have?
25:48 Mary Beth Barone? No, but I want it.
25:49 Benito Skinner? Cool. So I will be dying for lines outside of stores.
25:53 Mary Beth Barone? And I will be dying for carrying things. Wait, where are we going?
25:59 Benito Skinner? Who cares? Ride!
26:01 Mary Beth Barone? And I would love to go first.
26:02 Benito Skinner? Hey, the things Mary Beth carried.
26:05 Mary Beth Barone? Because I don't want to be carrying this. I don't want to be sitting on it. So something about me is I have a lot of body pain. The body keeps score and I've been through a lot.
26:15 Benito Skinner? Kelly, what a dumpster fire year. I'm excited for your 2026.
26:19 Mary Beth Barone? Same. No, seriously, I need this year to end.
26:22 Benito Skinner? Yeah, me too.
26:23 Mary Beth Barone? So I have a lot of shoulder pain, chronic neck pain. My neck hurts right now. It's like a whole thing. I had to change how I sleep. I can't sleep on my stomach anymore. I have to sleep on my back and side because of my neck. That's tough. Just to add on top of everything else this year, I did change my sleep style after 34 years. It's like, give me a fucking break.
26:38 Benito Skinner? No, I can't even imagine.
26:39 Mary Beth Barone? I'm constantly in pain all the time and I have this physical therapist in Midtown who I love and he's really helping me. I despise carrying things. I don't want to do it. I want someone else to do it.
26:52 Benito Skinner? Hmm.
26:52 Mary Beth Barone? I want to have a boyfriend or a stud girlfriend who is going to carry my shit.
26:58 Benito Skinner? Stud girlfriend.
26:59 Mary Beth Barone? Or a stud gay guy.
26:59 Benito Skinner? No stud girlfriend.
27:00 Mary Beth Barone? Stud girlfriend.
27:01 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
27:02 Mary Beth Barone? A stud girlfriend.
27:03 Benito Skinner? Hi, I'm the stud girlfriend.
27:04 Mary Beth Barone? Stands before me.
27:05 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
27:06 Mary Beth Barone? So I just want someone to carry my shit. Like, I just really don't want to. I just don't want to. This is the same reason why I could never rob a house. I ain't carrying this shit out here.
27:15 Benito Skinner? No, exactly.
27:16 Mary Beth Barone? Not a chance.
27:16 Benito Skinner? Well, you pointed out too, stud girlfriend.
27:19 Mary Beth Barone? Bonnie. Best case stud girlfriend Bonnie.
27:21 Benito Skinner? Call me Bonnie.
27:22 Mary Beth Barone? I'll call you Bonnie. I think, I don't know, maybe I sound like a total brat this episode. I'm just like, I don't want to clean sweaty gear.
27:30 Benito Skinner? What did we tell them?
27:31 Mary Beth Barone? Madam Morrible, wicked witch.
27:35 Benito Skinner? I am so madam morrible and you are so wicked witch.
27:38 Mary Beth Barone? Carrying things, yeah, it bums me out. So when I got to this brand activation today, I had to bring all my wardrobe, my laptop, my bag, a bag with shoes and my hair extensions.
27:47 Benito Skinner? Such a tiny girl, so many things.
27:48 Mary Beth Barone? And I got dropped off and then I had to get into one world trade, so I was just carrying all this crap. I don't want it to sound like we're just complaining nonstop. If anything, I just want to empower. We're all about empowerment this season. I think that's been our big theme. Empower you to just have a bitch sesh tonight about something that's pissing you off. Don't post about it maybe on social media, because I feel like sometimes, even this episode, I'm just like worried about how it's going to be perceived, but I just, yeah, I'm a delicate flower and I don't want to carry stuff and I think-
28:15 Benito Skinner? I mean, it sucks. Like, I, sometimes I enjoy it because I'm like, I want to be useful. Like, I was at your house for Thanksgiving. My goodness, how gorgeous was that?
28:23 Mary Beth Barone? It was a really fun event.
28:24 Benito Skinner? Your mom is so, I love all your family, but your mom and I, oh my god. Your mom was wearing this fedora by the end of the night. I believe it was your dad's old hat. And we could not stop going.
28:35 Benito Skinner? Wait, I'm gonna piss my pants. I can't even think.
28:39 Mary Beth Barone? Go on, babe, go on.
28:41 Benito Skinner? When you're walking, there's a scene. And then what was the other one we did? We did the-
28:49 Mary Beth Barone? I'm feeling-
28:50 Benito Skinner? Oh, yeah, yeah. It's a new love. It's a new day. It's a new life for me. And I'm feeling- And your mom takes that up. Good.
29:04 Mary Beth Barone? My mom. My mom. Because we were sharing a bed, so Pinky was in her crate, which was in my dad's office, which is next to my parents' room. So in the morning, my mom would text me, "Your girl is chirping." For when Pinky woke up.
29:17 Benito Skinner? Sorry, that's incredible.
29:18 Mary Beth Barone? "Your girl is chirping." She sent me the exact same text two days in a row. "Your girl is chirping."
29:23 Benito Skinner? She's perfect.
29:24 Mary Beth Barone? Made me laugh so hard.
29:25 Benito Skinner? For having, oh my god, and just like the amount of bags I had in that house. She goes, "Are you moving in?" Promise.
29:30 Mary Beth Barone? Speaking of carrying things.
29:32 Benito Skinner? Carrying things, oh my god, I've been carrying things for weeks.
29:34 Mary Beth Barone? You've been carrying things for a while.
29:35 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I've been like, I'm in between, I'm in between places right now. I'm, it's- I wish.
29:40 Mary Beth Barone? You're a nomad in a lot of ways.
29:41 Benito Skinner? I wish I was at a brand activation, but I'm in between places right now. So, oh God, I've been carrying things nonstop. So I really hear that. But something about on set, I really love carrying things. Like I love my big tote bag and then my other tote bag and then my backpack. I love carrying things because I kept thinking like, I'm not really a cook here, but I would love to, you know, this.
30:01 Mary Beth Barone? Help.
30:01 Benito Skinner? This big old rig I got.
30:02 Mary Beth Barone? Upstairs, downstairs, things like that.
30:04 Benito Skinner? Yeah. So I'm happy. I'm the stud girlfriend. I'm the girlfriend who stepped up.
30:07 Mary Beth Barone? You are. And my other thing is like, cause I'm constantly on the hunt for like the perfect bag. But I had this realization at one point as I was shopping and I just thought there is no such thing as the perfect bag because the perfect bag is a bag that someone else is carrying for me.
30:21 Benito Skinner? So beautiful.
30:22 Mary Beth Barone? Until I get to that point, maybe that'll never happen. I don't know. It's just an aspiration of mine.
30:27 Benito Skinner? So then would the thought be that you get a bag that your guy would love to carry?
30:30 Mary Beth Barone? Maybe.
30:31 Benito Skinner? A little.
30:32 Mary Beth Barone? Well, I want that Dior bag on the real, real.
30:34 Benito Skinner? An Hermes Kelly's?
30:35 Mary Beth Barone? So bad.
30:36 Benito Skinner? Oh, I know. I love that bag for you.
30:38 Mary Beth Barone? I'm eyeing it, but you know how I know it's overpriced? Cause it's still available.
30:41 Benito Skinner? Of course.
30:42 Mary Beth Barone? And I'm not going to be the fool that pays that much.
30:43 Benito Skinner? A Nepo, it's not from a Nepo baby, by the way, it's from a true semillia.
30:47 Mary Beth Barone? Totally. Yeah. And I wonder why they're getting rid of it. We'll never know.
30:51 Benito Skinner? Too many bags. It was so funny. We were at the dinner with Mary Beth and her family. And she was like, I really want this Dior bag. And I was like, okay, let's see if I can guess it. And I got
30:58 Mary Beth Barone? So close.
30:59 Benito Skinner? Disgustingly close to what it was.
31:01 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
31:01 Benito Skinner? It really, that was one of those few times. Your brother was like, real recognize real.
31:06 Mary Beth Barone? He goes, oh, so you know Ball?
31:07 Benito Skinner? Yeah. And I said, oh, Ball? Yeah.
31:11 Mary Beth Barone? I know Ball.
31:12 Benito Skinner? Madam Mar Ball, motherfucker.
31:14 Mary Beth Barone? I will say another thing I'm doing because carrying things can also be metaphorically. I'm going to see like a cranial something masseuse tomorrow. Or wait, no Wednesday.
31:24 Benito Skinner? Carrying that galaxy brain around. I mean, I can't imagine.
31:26 Mary Beth Barone? Really heavy. It hurts. But I think there's just a lot of like narratives I'm like clinging on to that I need to let go of so I can like free myself.
31:32 Benito Skinner? Oh, totally.
31:33 Mary Beth Barone? Cause I've just been carrying a lot. And obviously this year too, it's like added a bunch more. I need to clean house. I need to get out with the old, in with the new trauma. Come on now.
31:42 Benito Skinner? Come on now, trauma. Can't wait to meet ya. Here's a seat at the dinner table.
31:46 Mary Beth Barone? Welcome to the table.
31:47 Benito Skinner? Meditations that are like, let all your things, let them sit. At the table and I'm like, I think we can tell her she's good.
31:52 Mary Beth Barone? She's done for now.
31:53 Benito Skinner? You're actually not.
31:54 Mary Beth Barone? Like things that happened to me in college where I'm just like, I want to let that go.
31:57 Benito Skinner? Well, you know, make a TV show and you are. So we're getting pretty close.
32:02 Mary Beth Barone? Did you see how my neck hurts? Like I'm having to massage it.
32:05 Benito Skinner? Back. It's the things I carry in this low back. Can someone carry this ass around for me for a couple of days? Holy shit.
32:11 Mary Beth Barone? My AirPods are too heavy. They're giving me neck pain. My AirPods.
32:15 Benito Skinner? The big ones. You have to say this.
32:17 Mary Beth Barone? They're not the big ones. It's the in the near ones.
32:20 Benito Skinner? Oh, sweetie.
32:21 Mary Beth Barone? My physical therapist said that's what's doing it.
32:23 Benito Skinner? Why are you so coralline?
32:24 Mary Beth Barone? I don't know. I'm in so much pain. I think if I had someone to like, hold me and take care of me, it would help at least a little bit. I have to imagine it would help a little bit. Oh, and by the way, I'm not dating right now. Isn't that cool?
32:37 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
32:37 Mary Beth Barone? I'm not dating until after I do my special.
32:40 Benito Skinner? I love that.
32:40 Mary Beth Barone? I just don't want to.
32:41 Benito Skinner? You told that to me and I thought that was, I thought it was totally fabulous.
32:44 Mary Beth Barone? I just don't want to.
32:44 Benito Skinner? As your friend, I was going very, I was doing thumbs down and then you said that and I went.
32:49 Mary Beth Barone? Can I say?
32:50 Benito Skinner? Thumbs up.
32:50 Mary Beth Barone? Wicked witch.
32:51 Benito Skinner? Madam Morrible. In that moment, I thought Madam Morrible, actually.
32:54 Mary Beth Barone? I can't, I don't have the emotional bandwidth, capacity, et cetera.
32:58 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
32:58 Mary Beth Barone? I just need to focus.
33:00 Benito Skinner? I'm so excited. It's gonna be so fabulous. And yeah, why, you don't want to deal with all that bullshit.
33:06 Mary Beth Barone? No, I have enough. I need to make room for the new stuff.
33:09 Benito Skinner? And new year, I mean, the new beginnings. I mean, I can't even get into it. I've been back on the pattern app lately and it's just, I'm like completely electrified.
33:17 Mary Beth Barone? It's so funny because I feel like that came out maybe in pandemic. And it was like, guys, well, download the pattern app instead of going to therapy.
33:25 Benito Skinner? Well.
33:25 Mary Beth Barone? You're doing both.
33:26 Benito Skinner? What if a man did both?
33:27 Mary Beth Barone? Imagine how healed you're about to be.
33:29 Benito Skinner? Oh, speaking of which, so for anyone who's going through a dermatitis journey like yours truly, I can't, I actually don't even look at me. It's, it's a whole thing.
33:37 Mary Beth Barone? I can't comment on it because you look fine.
33:40 Benito Skinner? I love you.
33:40 Mary Beth Barone? I love you. People love the hair, facial hair too.
33:43 Benito Skinner? See myself through your eyes.
33:44 Mary Beth Barone? Me too.
33:45 Benito Skinner? I was working with a specialist and it's kind of like nervous system component. And it's like, just always feeling unsafe. And it's so common to just be like, you're watching the news, you're going on the internet, you're doing all these things make you feel so unsafe. So just being more thoughtful of just maybe carrying a little bit less. I think this is actually really beautiful that you've crashed for this.
34:06 Mary Beth Barone? It's two things.
34:07 Benito Skinner? I'm about to crash.
34:08 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
34:08 Benito Skinner? I hate seeing you carry things because you already carry the weight of the world on your shoulders. Let me take that back.
34:15 Mary Beth Barone? Thank you.
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34:31 Mary Beth Barone? Of course she does.
34:33 Benito Skinner? Yes, and she takes it off in the middle of dinner and goes, "I'm cold."
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35:52 Benito Skinner? Ritualistic, I'm sadistic. Wait, we need to do more spoken word.
35:57 Mary Beth Barone? We do?
35:58 Benito Skinner? Do the little finger touching.
36:01 Mary Beth Barone? I'm tapping my fingers.
36:01 Benito Skinner? A little clap.
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36:11 Benito Skinner? Oh, shit. Anyone, shh. Can anyone here make sure to take care of my biome while I'm gone?
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36:24 Benito Skinner? To support a balanced gut microbiome with daily Okay, so I do take.
36:30 Mary Beth Barone? You take this, you take this stuff.
36:32 Benito Skinner? I really do take this because you know, travel, travel privilege. I've seen the world at this point. I've eaten a Joe and the Juice everywhere and it's just good for, it keeps me feeling good. I would say my, my gut health feels better. It really does.
36:45 Mary Beth Barone? And you've always said that you need your products, especially in this case, we're talking about Ritual, but they contain high quality, clean ingredients.
36:51 Benito Skinner? Of course.
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37:39 Benito Skinner? Maybe it's a fear of something happening to a loved one, so me, a disturbing or sexual image that keeps replaying in your mind, or an urge to do something you don't want to do. Your heart races, your palms sweat, and anxiety washes over you. You're mortified and you feel fully convinced that it's true, even though you know you don't want to kill Benny Drama 7 in cold blood. That's not who you are. But still, the question of, why did I think that? Am I a bad person? What was that? Start to consume you and you feel like you have to do something, anything to make them go away. That sounds familiar and I know during the holidays, it definitely does for a lot of you. Here's the thing about those disturbing unwanted thoughts. They're more common than you think. In fact, almost everyone has them. But for people with obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD, like Benny Drama, they usually cause a lot of distress and feel hard to stop thinking about.
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39:08 Benito Skinner? I'm aware that some stores cannot, like, there's a capacity issue. That's not what I'm talking about. But after the pandemic, a few stores thought, we liked that. Create the illusion of exclusivity. Yes, I made the mistake within this past year of around a straight guy saying like Supreme's like business model. And this man launched into it and I had just brought it up, meaning I knew what it was. It's like, you know, you'll sell this many units, cut it in half. There you go. Supply and demand. Supply and demand. It was explained to me, but I know that that's the illusion of it. Just the line outside Missouri and like, like near Mott Street. I'm just like, and do you understand that the line outside Missouri is also a poem?
39:54 Benito Skinner? Like I just read you. I know. Yeah, that was like beautiful. Yeah. But there's something about it that's just driving me insane. Cause I'm like, you have room in the store, just let people into it. This is insane. And I'm just like literally going in there to get like one thing quickly. Like you're being crazy. Yeah, you sound insane right now. You sound insane right now. You at Missouri? Me with the bouncer. You sound insane. You sound crazy. I'm trying to get a chain bracelet. It's just driving me crazy and it's everywhere. It's rampant. Like if you go anywhere in New York and in LA, oh my God, there's a line. They make lines for everything now. I know.
40:28 Mary Beth Barone? I'm sure some stores are doing it for loss prevention because they don't want things to get lifted out of the store. However, here's what I will say.
40:35 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
40:35 Mary Beth Barone? Think about it because it's like constantly.
40:37 Benito Skinner? Think about Sephora. Sephora is like, come on down.
40:39 Mary Beth Barone? Because they've figured out that the amount of product that they're losing via theft is offset by the number of people that are in the store spending money. Because that's what it comes down to.
40:50 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
40:50 Mary Beth Barone? It's like, it's a cost benefit analysis in a lot of ways.
40:53 Benito Skinner? I could explain this to any of the people.
40:55 Mary Beth Barone? Any of the people and you go.
40:56 Benito Skinner? The bouncers.
40:57 Mary Beth Barone? Is this line deterring enough customers who would have bought that are not going to buy because they're not going to wait to offset like a ring or two going missing? I don't know the answer to that. Maybe Missouri has figured out that it does make sense. But there's many, many other stores that have things all behind glass. Or the items are not as easy to like put in and it's just like, why are you, okay.
41:17 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
41:18 Mary Beth Barone? We went to a club in London.
41:20 Benito Skinner? Oh my God, speak on.
41:22 Mary Beth Barone? Line of 15 people. We get to the front.
41:25 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
41:26 Mary Beth Barone? The place is empty. Empty.
41:29 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
41:30 Mary Beth Barone? Somehow the people in front of us in line weren't even in there. It was just us.
41:33 Benito Skinner? No, no, well they.
41:34 Mary Beth Barone? There was no one else.
41:35 Benito Skinner? Do you understand that they went out the back door and went right back into line? It was a little caterpillar.
41:40 Mary Beth Barone? It made no sense.
41:40 Benito Skinner? Yeah, we got fucked. It was an amusement park ride.
41:42 Mary Beth Barone? I know. It was totally insane, but I agree. I just, I don't like the optics of it. I don't like that. You know what I'm really bumping up against lately is the optics of exclusivity. The optics of, I can't say it.
41:55 Benito Skinner? Exclusivity. If you have to fake it, it's not exclusive. Come on now. Knock it off.
41:59 Mary Beth Barone? I don't like it. I really don't.
42:01 Benito Skinner? Oh my God, it at outlets, like the Capisson outlets outside Palm Springs. I'm like, let me in.
42:07 Mary Beth Barone? Let me in. No.
42:08 Benito Skinner? Let me in.
42:09 Mary Beth Barone? Stay in line.
42:09 Benito Skinner? Stay in line, but it's like, oh my God, like you have enough like sales associates.
42:14 Mary Beth Barone? All I hear.
42:14 Benito Skinner? All of these things have, they have the, they have the, what's it called? Like little monitors, the little. The be be be be be.
42:21 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, of course.
42:21 Benito Skinner? You know. Oh, yeah, the be be be be be.
42:23 Mary Beth Barone? The, you know, the theft, whatever they call it.
42:25 Benito Skinner? Yeah, theft prevention.
42:26 Mary Beth Barone? The censors. But my other thing is like, everyone keeps talking about how brick and mortar's struggling. Everyone's going online.
42:32 Benito Skinner? Hey, I have a few notes and I think I can get, I can get us back.
42:36 Mary Beth Barone? Cut the shit.
42:38 Benito Skinner? Schools in malls.
42:40 Mary Beth Barone? Schools in malls.
42:41 Benito Skinner? Schools in malls.
42:43 Mary Beth Barone? That's how we revive the art form of malls.
42:44 Benito Skinner? Imagine the popular girl going to Orange Julius every morning.
42:48 Mary Beth Barone? Going into Wet Seal.
42:49 Benito Skinner? Cool.
42:50 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
42:50 Benito Skinner? She's eating Panda Express orange chicken every day for lunch.
42:54 Mary Beth Barone? I just think it's not good for business.
42:57 Benito Skinner? It's not good for business and that's my thing. And it's just, yeah, I think that's the thing too. It just is like elitist. It's annoying and it's like, ah, it's like all these weird power dynamics in it. And it's just like, come on, dude.
43:09 Mary Beth Barone? Dude.
43:10 Benito Skinner? Come on.
43:10 Mary Beth Barone? Well, actually, this feeds into something that I've been bumping up against. And I hate to be so negative, but I'm having like event fatigue and it's not even like attending events. It's more just like how many events? And I think because I engage with posts about events, they're coming up more for me. And I'm just like, it's just a lot of events.
43:26 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
43:27 Mary Beth Barone? Like, it's a lot of events.
43:28 Benito Skinner? Like, let's see if we can like slim it down to like a couple a year, you guys. I know we can do it.
43:32 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, it's just feeling like every store opening in every city, it's like an event.
43:37 Benito Skinner? I know, which I'm like, I'm happy to see stores opening, I guess. That means that like brick and mortar's back.
43:41 Mary Beth Barone? But then they have a line outside because of the event.
43:43 Benito Skinner? Well, of course. More lines for Benny Drama. Stud girlfriend to Mary Beth Barone. So I got on the New York Magazine Culture Addy 50 list. And someone goes, they spelled Mary Beth's name wrong when it was, it said me. And I was like, that's so funny. Kind of dragging me, but I was like, that's incredible. I was like, I love that. I love reading me down.
44:05 Mary Beth Barone? And there will be an event for that.
44:06 Benito Skinner? Of course, I'm going on Wednesday.
44:07 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
44:08 Benito Skinner? God, it's so weird because I'm such a terrible dinner guest lately because we're just like, we're in the thick of writing this big puppy. So I'll literally just be sitting there and like a song will play or something. And I'm like, here it is.
44:19 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
44:20 Benito Skinner? I think I feel distant. I'm sure I'll be such a fun Christmas guest.
44:23 Mary Beth Barone? No, I, yeah, it's end of the year. It's like, there's just, maybe there's a lot of fatigue.
44:28 Benito Skinner? I think there's fatigue everywhere. And oh, God, I can't imagine the lines during the holidays outside Missouri. There was a huge line outside Everlane today too. That, I was like, the fuck? Like, that's a big store.
44:37 Mary Beth Barone? That's a huge store.
44:38 Benito Skinner? So I broke the glass and I said, for everybody.
44:41 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
44:43 Benito Skinner? For everyone.
44:44 Mary Beth Barone? You brought a big log like in Beauty and the Beast.
44:46 Benito Skinner? I didn't need it. I did a big, yeah, bat. I did one bat.
44:49 Mary Beth Barone? You brought a bat.
44:49 Benito Skinner? A supreme baseball bat.
44:51 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, a metal one.
44:52 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
44:53 Mary Beth Barone? It's a lot of fatigue. I'm feeling.
44:55 Benito Skinner? To be ordinary. You know that song?
44:59 Mary Beth Barone? Speaking of fatigue, we are doing two rerun episodes over the holidays. I just want to preface that I would love for you to still listen to them. Like even if you've heard them before, we're doing Encyclopedia of Ride.
45:11 Benito Skinner? Uh huh.
45:11 Mary Beth Barone? Listen again. Would it kill you to listen again?
45:13 Benito Skinner? Hey, come on. We would never not listen to the Encyclopedia of Ride again.
45:16 Mary Beth Barone? It was supposed to be again.
45:18 Benito Skinner? I can't stop thinking about We Would Never Not Come to Dinner because it's like so us in every single way.
45:25 Mary Beth Barone? I also think we've misquoted it too. Like it wasn't that.
45:28 Benito Skinner? No, but I actually think you're so right, but like I'll never check. And I can see it all so vividly. Like we would never not come to dinner.
45:38 Mary Beth Barone? Us at Thanksgiving.
45:39 Benito Skinner? Yeah, me at any event during, oh my God, I played Just Dance. There was so much joy. There were a ton of things to ride for today, but like let's freaking crash and burn.
45:47 Mary Beth Barone? I feel bad. I'm like, are people going to be mad about this? I don't know.
45:50 Benito Skinner? You know what?
45:51 Mary Beth Barone? I just feel bad. I don't want to be negative. I guess we're positive a lot of the time.
45:55 Benito Skinner? I have to be negative about one more thing. So while you're flying, I almost crashed for this, but then it felt too like really specific and maybe the title would have gotten too long.
46:03 Mary Beth Barone? It would have gotten flagged.
46:04 Benito Skinner? But unless you have a connecting flight that better be leaving very soon. When you come from back of the plane or it can be either one seat behind. And you try to cut the person who's in the seats before you to get off the plane.
46:18 Mary Beth Barone? There's a, there's a social contract.
46:19 Benito Skinner? You'll be meeting floor.
46:21 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
46:21 Benito Skinner? You'll be meeting.
46:22 Mary Beth Barone? Person up.
46:23 Benito Skinner? You'll be meeting the runway and it's because Benny Drama broke your knees, love.
46:27 Mary Beth Barone? And you can tell, I feel like when someone has a connecting flight because they're always, they're always conferencing with the flight attendants.
46:32 Benito Skinner? I can always tell. Yeah. And, and that to me, I'm like, go.
46:36 Mary Beth Barone? Go. Get your girl.
46:38 Benito Skinner? I literally almost grabbed him by the shoulder. Go get her. He's like, what? Wait, actually that's a challenge this holiday season. If somebody, if somebody gets to have the pleasure of cutting you on a plane and you think it's for all the right reasons. Grab them by the shoulder, no matter the gender and say, go get her.
46:55 Mary Beth Barone? Go get her.
46:56 Benito Skinner? And wink.
46:56 Mary Beth Barone? Hey, welcome.
46:57 Benito Skinner? Merry Christmas. Like you're the one who allowed them to.
47:00 Mary Beth Barone? Right.
47:01 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
47:01 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
47:02 Benito Skinner? Oh, I was at this gay event in London.
47:05 Mary Beth Barone? An event?
47:06 Benito Skinner? I had to pee so bad and it was the first time in my life where I was like, I wonder if this straight girl. I'm not saying that I just immediately knew she was straight, but I did in every way. She was a straight girl at this kind of gay night. It was like a dance night and I just had to pee so bad and I was just like, can I please cut? And she was like, I got you, girl. And it was just the first time in my life I would have ever really done. Cause I'm like, women spend their whole lives waiting in lines to go to bathrooms. Like, that's just kind of like, I can't imagine how much of your life was wasted. She did in that moment and I think she understood what pride meant. So I'm just shouting her out, wherever you are. Wherever, wherever you are. Is that Kesha?
47:47 Mary Beth Barone? You are throwing out some musical references this episode that I do not know.
47:51 Benito Skinner? To be ordinary. Back in the day, the sanctuary. Out of marble. Out of marble.
47:58 Mary Beth Barone? Wicked witch. You know what you are, Benny?
48:01 Benito Skinner? Hmm, I [BLEEP].
48:03 Mary Beth Barone? Your words, not mine. Babe, you're my ride or die.
48:06 Benito Skinner? Ride or die.
48:08 Mary Beth Barone? So I'd obviously die for lines outside of stores. I mean, if you have a good reason, I guess, fine. But my immediate instinct, if I see that is like, what's going on in there? And actually, don't tell me. And furthermore, I don't need to see it.
48:20 Benito Skinner? Me, every time I'm like, I, it makes me sad, but I go, can get it online. I say that to everyone in line. Get this shit online. Hey, you got this shit online. Hey, hey, you got this shit online. Cause you go in the store and they don't have any stock. So you think you're gonna go in there to try something on? Forget about it. I ride for carrying things. I die for you having to carry things.
48:44 Mary Beth Barone? Thank you.
48:45 Benito Skinner? Do you understand that?
48:45 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
48:46 Benito Skinner? It's like, I, I, I hate seeing you carry a big old thing. You had trash and I was gonna take it, but then you wanted to walk with me.
48:52 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, I wanted to walk you to the elevator.
48:54 Benito Skinner? But I was happy to like get my, get my arm, my forearm workout for you.
48:57 Mary Beth Barone? I think, yeah, it's just living alone too. I'm just like, I am responsible for so much of my own shit.
49:03 Benito Skinner? I know.
49:03 Mary Beth Barone? And I, I know that many people are living that way. I'm not saying it's just me, but it would be nice to.
49:11 Benito Skinner? It's just you in a lot of ways.
49:12 Mary Beth Barone? Share the load sometimes. I'm carrying a lot.
49:14 Benito Skinner? Let's share this load.
49:15 Mary Beth Barone? Share the load.
49:16 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
49:17 Mary Beth Barone? Find someone you can share the load with. So I hope this episode wasn't too much of a bummer and I don't know, maybe send your group chat. You all have an opportunity. Oh, have I told you guys this in my group chat?
49:25 Benito Skinner? Bitching about things is good for people. It's good for everyone. You know, it's like toxic positivity does exist.
49:31 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
49:31 Benito Skinner? And then you gotta be like, this shit pisses me off.
49:33 Mary Beth Barone? We're keeping it real.
49:34 Benito Skinner? And it feels so good, like you, oh God, and everyone's gonna go home and you see friends and family and whoever and you just, sometimes you gotta just bitch. My favorite person to bitch to is a person who's wrapping presents. Get them in a room.
49:45 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, yeah.
49:46 Benito Skinner? Get that bitch in a room.
49:47 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, yeah. Go and go all the way off.
49:49 Benito Skinner? And say.
49:50 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, no. And we did that. We did a little side barring at Thanksgiving too.
49:54 Benito Skinner? My favorite thing in the world to go, to close the door, to take you and Vicky into a room and go, what the?
50:00 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. In my group chat and my friends from high school, my friend Emily said we should start doing a rec of the week, like a recommendation of the week. So every week, everyone has a recommendation and then one week.
50:10 Benito Skinner? Cute.
50:10 Mary Beth Barone? One week, autocorrect changed it to rec of the week as in W R E C K, like car rec of the week.
50:17 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
50:17 Mary Beth Barone? So then sometimes when we have a negative thing, we do a rec of the week.
50:20 Benito Skinner? Oh, I thought it was a compilation video of like car wrecks. Like I love this one.
50:24 Mary Beth Barone? I mean, that would be cool. Maybe no casualties.
50:27 Benito Skinner? Well, of course, always no casualties.
50:30 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, maybe just take some space for a rec of the week this week and.
50:33 Benito Skinner? There really are two people, two types of people in the world. The people who stare at wrecks when they pass them and the people who don't. I, I never do.
50:40 Mary Beth Barone? It's not, I wanna, I'm on my way to a place.
50:43 Benito Skinner? That's so crazy. Also, I'm like, what if I see something that alters like my brain chemistry for the rest of my life?
50:48 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
50:48 Benito Skinner? I don't wanna see that.
50:49 Mary Beth Barone? That's between them and God, whatever happened there.
50:51 Benito Skinner? It's private. I'm like, oh God.
50:53 Mary Beth Barone? It's really private.
50:54 Benito Skinner? It's private and it could be scary.
50:56 Mary Beth Barone? You're holding up traffic. Let's go. Let's go.
50:59 Benito Skinner? Let's go. It's a man.
51:00 Mary Beth Barone? It's a movie and you're an adult. You should know that.
51:03 Benito Skinner? You're an adult.
51:03 Mary Beth Barone? Oh my God, wait. This weekend, someone in my family asked Vicky something and we were quoting "It's a movie." So as the person was walking away, she goes, "You're an adult. You should know that." And then she's like, "Wait, I didn't mean you, though."
51:17 Benito Skinner? Yeah, no, sorry.
51:18 Mary Beth Barone? Sorry, not about you.
51:19 Benito Skinner? Oh, God, sorry. We were doing a really specific Britney Spears meme, word for word.
51:23 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
51:23 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
51:24 Mary Beth Barone? Not a mortal.
51:25 Benito Skinner? Wicked witch! Oh, my exit.
51:30 Mary Beth Barone? Anybody by the road? There you go!
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