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0:00 Speaker 00 The following podcast is a Dear Media production. The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:19 Speaker 01 Hey, can you come pick me up? Yeah, what's wrong? Nothing. Are you sure? Yeah, no, I just need a ride. Ride, ride. Oh, my God. So what? I just want to have fun. Start your engine. I guess.
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.
0:39 Benito Skinner? You said too late to start, got your heart in a headlock. I don't believe any of it. You said too late to start with. Boom. Oh. Boom. Oh. Headlock being back on the charts means the damn world to a guy like me.
0:58 Mary Beth Barone? Needless to say, Imogen Heep has joined TikTok.
1:01 Benito Skinner? Well, of course.
1:02 Mary Beth Barone? So we have her there.
1:03 Benito Skinner? Terry O'Connor is running. No, he's not, but he should.
1:06 Mary Beth Barone? I love that woman so much. What an artist, a true artist. When I was in Edinburgh doing the fringe, I was just at a random restaurant, like it's had like 16 seats in the whole place. Guess who walks in?
1:16 Benito Skinner? Imogen Heep.
1:17 Mary Beth Barone? Imogen Heep.
1:18 Benito Skinner? Seen the world, done it all. Why did I say that to you and Terry recently? I've seen the world, done it all. Had my cake now.
1:25 Mary Beth Barone? I don't even remember that. It was just one of many things. Your new era is Monica Barbado.
1:31 Benito Skinner? You guys.
1:31 Mary Beth Barone? But that's not even her name, and I got her name wrong, and it's Marne.
1:34 Benito Skinner? What is it?
1:34 Mary Beth Barone? It's Mernica.
1:35 Benito Skinner? Mernica.
1:35 Mary Beth Barone? It's Monica Barbado.
1:38 Benito Skinner? Oh, you said Barbaredo during the Oscars last night, and boy.
1:42 Mary Beth Barone? You really clung on to that one.
1:43 Benito Skinner? It was my foot on a point. I was literally doing the Tate McRae, which is where you take your ankle and you put it to your ear. It's the new move in pop, and I love it. I could not stop saying this.
1:55 Mary Beth Barone? Monica Barbaredo.
1:57 Benito Skinner? And the Academy Award goes to Monica Barbaredo and Luca Guadagnino's queer.
2:05 Mary Beth Barone? So I do want to announce that I have been released from the detainment center.
2:09 Benito Skinner? Well, I got visitation rights.
2:11 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, and I'm out on good behavior right now, but they said at any moment they could come get me again.
2:15 Benito Skinner? There was a true crime thing that happened. It was Bailey Sarian, who I still ride for to this day. She was saying this one person I remember got like a day off, like they got to go out of jail for a day and then they killed someone. I'm not, I'm sorry, I'm not laughing.
2:28 Mary Beth Barone? Was it one of the pardoned people from January 6? One of them hit someone with their car and got a DUI and killed them. Like both of those things happened, same incident, you know what I mean?
2:38 Benito Skinner? Welcome to Ride Heritage.
2:39 Mary Beth Barone? Welcome to Ride Heritage.
2:40 Benito Skinner? Jesus.
2:41 Mary Beth Barone? That actually, I have, so I have a few like little things to just note right now.
2:44 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
2:45 Mary Beth Barone? First of all, I'm hosting a protest at the Tesla showroom in Stanford on March 16th.
2:51 Benito Skinner? Which really ties into.
2:52 Mary Beth Barone? Which ties into what we're gonna talk about later. So if you're in the Fairfield County area, it's only actually a really quick train ride from New York and I'm just excited to see all the girls there with their signs and their verbal anger. Cause obviously it's a peaceful protest.
3:03 Benito Skinner? They're calling it the prettiest rally in the world.
3:06 Mary Beth Barone? In the world. So the other thing is there's obviously a huge mayoral election in New York this year and the primaries are on June 24th. And it's ranked choice voting, which I'm gonna make a video about, cause you know, my whole new thing, politics for hot people. But I'm endorsing candidate Zoran Mamdani. I think he's fabulous. He's a progressive. He's a socialist. He wants to decrease the cost of living for New Yorkers. And so just like, if you haven't heard of him, look him up. I'm gonna be posting about him a lot in the coming weeks and months, just cause we have two really scary people running this year. And I don't want either of them to even like get ranked in the ranked choice voting. So just to flag that that's someone that I ride for.
3:44 Mary Beth Barone? And a lot of us want to activate politically, but the federal landscape is really scary. So local politics are so important this year and next year in the midterm. So just to say that.
3:53 Benito Skinner? I loved what Patty Harrison posted about like how protests can make you feel. But Patty Harrison, I'm a genius comedian. She's so brilliant and we love her so much. But she posted about just going to protests and things actually like made her feel a lot better and I think like more in control of the situation. I just thought it was, it was brilliant and actually really like, it was to this. It's like going to things like that, I think make you feel less powerless. That's really all I'm gonna say on that because it's like, how do you cover this stuff? Like Terry with his cultural digest, I was talking to him and I was like, you're doing a good job of not bringing it up too much. Cause it's like, we saw it. Don't cover that. I don't want, I don't need to see it.
4:27 Mary Beth Barone? The thing that happened in the Oval Office?
4:29 Benito Skinner? I can't call it that anymore. That's not what it is.
4:32 Mary Beth Barone? It's a circus.
4:33 Benito Skinner? The amount of evil it would take to like, comment on that man's outfit.
4:37 Mary Beth Barone? Every day I wake up and I think like, what fresh hell is gonna be
4:40 Benito Skinner? Well, do you guys
4:41 Mary Beth Barone? show up at my doorstep today?
4:42 Benito Skinner? Do you guys really want my low back to hurt this much? I have joy to bring.
4:46 Mary Beth Barone? I know. We have joy to bring and create.
4:48 Benito Skinner? You saw something really big this week.
4:51 Mary Beth Barone? I did.
4:52 Benito Skinner? And you talk about it, but not give any, any plot points away or else me and my video will come for you.
4:58 Mary Beth Barone? I'm gonna be, well, I'll be back in the detention center.
5:01 Benito Skinner? Why do you think you were there in the first place?
5:03 Mary Beth Barone? Cause I broke an NDA.
5:04 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
5:04 Mary Beth Barone? I had the distinct pleasure and honor and joy of watching overcompensating. Oh my God.
5:11 Benito Skinner? We turned her in. She's done.
5:12 Mary Beth Barone? I literally watched it and I just said, I don't even know what to say. I was completely speechless. It's just so incredible to watch it come to life. And having been in the writer's room and just seeing the whole process, just like every step of the way, you have handled it with such grace and care and love for the project, the characters, the world. And I just think it's gonna like blow people's minds.
5:33 Benito Skinner? It was funny, watching it with the last three episodes with you, I did realize how many Easter eggs we have for our babies in it.
5:39 Mary Beth Barone? I just got chills.
5:40 Benito Skinner? It's for baronies first, I would say.
5:43 Mary Beth Barone? Even ones that I had forgotten we put in there.
5:45 Benito Skinner? I know.
5:46 Mary Beth Barone? There's so many.
5:47 Benito Skinner? Like, I'll just say it right now, figs.
5:49 Mary Beth Barone? And I'll say it right now, Dr. Broners.
5:51 Benito Skinner? Oh my God, literally, there are so many.
5:54 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
5:54 Benito Skinner? Okay, someone will have to make like, I don't know, an Excel spreadsheet, I assume.
5:58 Mary Beth Barone? Exactly with timestamps.
5:59 Benito Skinner? I'm just glad you could see how much you shine. I love us as siblings. I really love us as siblings.
6:04 Mary Beth Barone? My big takeaway, one of my big takeaways.
6:06 Benito Skinner? Oh, this was huge.
6:07 Mary Beth Barone? Other than that, you're a genius, obviously, which was number one. Number two, I was watching on screen and I kept being like, we, we look so much alike.
6:15 Benito Skinner? Well, you know, the first time I met your mom, she went, oh my God.
6:19 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
6:19 Benito Skinner? She was like, you are one of my kids.
6:21 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
6:22 Benito Skinner? And then my dad has this game, which actually just ends up making two of my siblings feel bad about themselves, but where we're all at a table and he goes, pick which ones aren't my kids. He did that to you in Seattle, right?
6:31 Mary Beth Barone? I think so.
6:32 Benito Skinner? And every time they don't pick Jake, my brother Jake, who has like really dark hair and is like, he has more pale toned skin, is like, he does. Does look like us, but I guess not in the way that you look like us.
6:42 Mary Beth Barone? But not as much as I look like you.
6:43 Benito Skinner? And you next to my sister Laura, next to my sister Katie, it is like.
6:46 Mary Beth Barone? It just makes sense.
6:47 Benito Skinner? Well, duh. I knew we would translate as siblings, but it is kind of like, that's my sister.
6:52 Mary Beth Barone? It's what I do.
6:53 Benito Skinner? She do.
6:53 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
6:54 Benito Skinner? And boy, does she do it up big.
6:56 Mary Beth Barone? I mean, here's another thing I'll say.
6:58 Benito Skinner? I just had so much gratitude for getting lunch to you, lunch with you.
7:01 Mary Beth Barone? Lunch to you.
7:02 Benito Skinner? Lunch to you.
7:03 Mary Beth Barone? At Monica Barberito.
7:05 Benito Skinner? Monica Barbarito.
7:07 Mary Beth Barone? Barbarito.
7:08 Benito Skinner? You guys all know what that means to me, to hear something like that. And Terry's out of town right now, so Mary Beth's here to babysit me. I swear to God.
7:16 Mary Beth Barone? I said that to JR.
7:17 Benito Skinner? I swear to God, you guys all talk amongst each other, like, because the house is never totally empty. Like, my sister will come into you, like, I swear to God.
7:26 Mary Beth Barone? We have a schedule, shared Google Calendar.
7:28 Benito Skinner? I know that Terry does. He's running something, because even my, my friend Matt, who, yes, is my agent, but he's my friend first. He texted me and goes, I know you're home alone, like, just checking in. I was like, oh, how do you guys know this?
7:44 Mary Beth Barone? There's a group chat.
7:45 Benito Skinner? Good.
7:46 Mary Beth Barone? It's a whole thing.
7:46 Benito Skinner? You gotta come check on your boy.
7:48 Mary Beth Barone? You guys are gonna love overcompensating. It's truly a show, just for like, for the people. We're creating joy for the people that we want to create joy for with this show.
7:58 Benito Skinner? Yeah, I mean, my greatest hope with the whole show is that you will watch it with your bestie in bed on a laptop. We'll also actually surround sound in a movie theater, but actually.
8:08 Mary Beth Barone? But when, when not able to, a laptop.
8:10 Benito Skinner? A laptop or like a Roku TV, and you just rip through it and just like, it brings you so much joy and you see real, sweet, complicated human beings reflected back at you and, and your experience in college. But it just, yeah, I'm super proud of it. It's exactly what I wanted to make. And we did it. And we did it with like flair, chair, and everything above.
8:32 Mary Beth Barone? Everything.
8:33 Benito Skinner? And God, I love everyone who's in it. And like, the cast is so amazing. I feel really lucky. And if you're listening and you liked My Girl Abroad, or you liked the Horoscope videos, thank you for being here.
8:43 Mary Beth Barone? And you're gonna love this show. And thank you for being a friend.
8:46 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
8:46 Mary Beth Barone? Happy ride Heritage Month.
8:47 Benito Skinner? And enough with the positivity.
8:49 Mary Beth Barone? So Heritage Month last year, you know, it was the first time we ever did it. We came up with some fun things to do. We raised money for our trans organization. We decided to do a limited edition merch and if you donated money, you were entered to win a Tiffany bracelet. We wanted to be sensitive to the times that we're in, which are that I feel like the cost of living is going up. We didn't necessarily want people to like have to spend money on things. So instead, we're gonna do a little bit more of like a cerebral celebration of Ride Heritage Month. With special episodes. I don't even think we're gonna have a guest. I think we're just keeping it, we're keeping it pared back and stripped down.
9:24 Benito Skinner? We couldn't book my boyfriend.
9:26 Mary Beth Barone? We couldn't book Terry because unfortunately he's traveling.
9:28 Benito Skinner? Three people in a room.
9:29 Mary Beth Barone? I know, it's really hard.
9:30 Benito Skinner? I couldn't do it.
9:31 Mary Beth Barone? No, it's really hard.
9:31 Benito Skinner? It's just crazy.
9:32 Mary Beth Barone? And then obviously, the ultimate celebration of Ride Heritage Month is overcompensating.
9:37 Benito Skinner? And we have something special coming for that.
9:38 Mary Beth Barone? And we have something really special coming for that. And then I would say like, this season's gonna end and then you're gonna be really happy with what happens next. Is all I'm gonna say.
9:47 Benito Skinner? Absolutely. Hey, absolutely.
9:48 Mary Beth Barone? Absolutely.
9:49 Benito Skinner? Hey, absolutely. Monica Barbaredo. Sorry, it hit me. Sometimes I gotta get those out.
9:54 Mary Beth Barone? I can feel when the spirit compels you.
9:55 Benito Skinner? It's just, it's in my chest. Like, I feel her in my chest.
9:58 Mary Beth Barone? Monica Barbaredo.
9:59 Benito Skinner? Oh, and we decided today, because Mavis is staying in my house, she's staying in my house. Our rides during this are like so deeply for baronies. Like this, they're as heritage. The ones we're picking are on the list and we're like, that's only if we really wanna hit the kids who have been here since the beginning. So that's what we're doing for Heritage. But you're right. And also, we already have the bedazzled tea out.
10:22 Mary Beth Barone? It's forever in the collection.
10:24 Benito Skinner? And thank you so much for everyone who donated to the families who needed you and needed us.
10:28 Mary Beth Barone? After the fires.
10:29 Benito Skinner? After the fires.
10:30 Mary Beth Barone? So we just wanna be sensitive and just say like, here's, here's some free joy and we don't need you to spend money on anything.
10:36 Benito Skinner? But really special episodes and the hitchhike is coming and we're so excited.
10:40 Mary Beth Barone? Coming. And today, we're doing something really special, which I feel like maybe people aren't gonna see coming, but they have requested. And before we get into it, I need to tell the story of when I crashed my car the day that I got into Boston College. But today, we're gonna be doing an episode called Totaled, where we die for things.
10:56 Benito Skinner? Benny, look out! I think about that a lot. Oh, my exit. We're gonna die for some shit.
11:01 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
11:02 Benito Skinner? It feels good. Come on, let's be a little nasty.
11:04 Mary Beth Barone? I just think with the current administration that we're in, like, being hateful is unfortunately back. We also balance it with being loving. And on that note, I saw on the Reddit, people were having a discourse about may they experience the loss of a child.
11:16 Benito Skinner? Oh, my god. I didn't mean to, I didn't mean to spark this.
11:20 Mary Beth Barone? People are scared that when I say like jokes we can't tell until season six, they think it's gonna be all really dark. It's not. Some of it's just like name dropy or funny stories or things that like need explanation. They're not all dark jokes. So I don't want people to think that like when we're in season six, we're gonna be like talking about really dark shit.
11:38 Benito Skinner? I want to say that like, that's about as dark as I'll go. And just to be clear, I'm talking about like haters and I don't actually mean a child.
11:45 Mary Beth Barone? Well, because there's no they and there's no child.
11:48 Benito Skinner? Yeah, so just to be clear.
11:50 Mary Beth Barone? It's very abstract.
11:51 Benito Skinner? I, I am, Deliverance Richards is wishing this on someone who said something awful about her. Just to be clear, she doesn't exist.
11:59 Mary Beth Barone? Character who doesn't exist and then.
12:01 Benito Skinner? But yeah, that's as, that's really as dark as we go. The rest are just like, I would say some of the dumbest things you've ever heard in your life.
12:07 Mary Beth Barone? Dumb things and things that we just think like, you're not ready to hear.
12:11 Benito Skinner? Was as dumb. They'll hear about Grandpa Terry.
12:14 Mary Beth Barone? Are you, do you want to get into that right now?
12:16 Benito Skinner? Should we talk about it?
12:17 Mary Beth Barone? I don't even know how you're going to explain it because it's so physical, but I'd love to hear how you're gonna lay this out for people.
12:23 Benito Skinner? Well, sometimes I, so if Terry's family is listening, I would duck out for the next minute. And I can't stress that enough.
12:29 Mary Beth Barone? Or don't, because like.
12:30 Benito Skinner? Or don't. See, all of me.
12:31 Mary Beth Barone? You might love it.
12:32 Benito Skinner? You love me.
12:33 Mary Beth Barone? Loving me means loving all of me.
12:35 Benito Skinner? So Terry looks at TikTok in his bed and he does a lot of work.
12:39 Mary Beth Barone? In his bed and you guys do sleep in separate rooms.
12:41 Benito Skinner? I can't stress enough, I live in his house, honey. And, and now that you're staying with me, it's your house. So he's on his phone and I have to get his attention sometimes. But I've created this thing where this is like. Oh my god, it really just makes you realize like how psychotic I am. I will pretend to be getting fucked by a Terry from the future, the ghost of Terry Jackson itself. Hey, Jackson just walked out.
13:13 Mary Beth Barone? This is my favorite bit of yours.
13:15 Benito Skinner? And I'm like, oh my god, Grandpa Terry, oh my god. And I'll like bang my head against the headboard and I'll really commit.
13:21 Mary Beth Barone? But he doesn't.
13:22 Benito Skinner? Cause you know, physical comedy is my whole thing.
13:23 Mary Beth Barone? He doesn't bat an eye though.
13:25 Benito Skinner? No, and he.
13:26 Mary Beth Barone? It's never worked to get his attention.
13:27 Benito Skinner? He didn't say a word about it and then one day to me and you, cause he knew that you knew about Grandpa Terry. He sends him with the age filter on and goes, Grandpa Terry. And that's when I knew that was my king. But yeah, just pretend, just pretend that the ghost of the person you're with from the future is railing you. Cause he'd rather rail you in that moment than the person who's in the bed with you.
13:48 Mary Beth Barone? Right.
13:50 Benito Skinner? It's kind of the bit.
13:51 Mary Beth Barone? And for that reason, he deserves it. He deserves to be railing you.
13:53 Benito Skinner? Exactly.
13:54 Mary Beth Barone? But I love Grandpa Terry. I say hi to him. Every time I walk in the house, I have to say hi to Grandpa Terry.
13:59 Benito Skinner? Well, of course you acknowledge him first. Acknowledge the work.
14:02 Mary Beth Barone? And that brings me to my other favorite bit of yours, which is whenever you're watching a TV show and the character looks off screen, they're, you say they're looking at a ghost.
14:09 Benito Skinner? Carrie.
14:10 Mary Beth Barone? So you're like, Carrie is seeing so many ghosts right now in this scene.
14:13 Benito Skinner? It's the Sixth Sense. If you watch, it's Sixth Sense in the City, sweetheart. Let me tell you, it is like.
14:18 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, Brony HQ is gonna have a lot of fun making a poster for Sixth Sense in the City.
14:22 Benito Skinner? Oh god, I know.
14:23 Mary Beth Barone? Either Brony HQ, I mean, talk about right heritage.
14:26 Benito Skinner? You have my heart. They found the book with the stickers. It was circle stickers and gold, and gold star stickers. I saw that. You know me to my core. But someone, I realized that all of you know me to my core because there was a post of like a seal that had completely like put up its whole like butt, like its skin all the way up. So it's just like its little head. And somebody commented. At Benny Drama trolling Terry. And I was like,
14:53 Mary Beth Barone? That's Grandpa Terry in a way.
14:55 Benito Skinner? You understand me to a level that I don't even understand myself. Like, that is what I do to get his attention.
15:01 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
15:02 Benito Skinner? Or if, like, I'm really in a bind, I tuck quickly and just run out and do Halsey at Coachella, which have we talked about?
15:08 Mary Beth Barone? Of course. We've talked, we've definitely covered that, but I have video that no one has seen.
15:13 Benito Skinner? That's gonna stay in.
15:15 Mary Beth Barone? That's season six.
15:16 Benito Skinner? The two things we want, Jonathan Bailey just in the boots, dancing to Dancing Through Life, and me tucked with a pregnant belly on.
15:23 Mary Beth Barone? Halsey at Coachella.
15:24 Benito Skinner? Halsey with the Chainsmokers.
15:25 Mary Beth Barone? So baby, come on over. In the backseat of your Rover.
15:29 Benito Skinner? And I know we can. I met one of the Chainsmokers.
15:33 Mary Beth Barone? Which one?
15:34 Benito Skinner? The titular Chainsmokers. Well, don't ask me that, sweetie. But I loved him. He was a doll.
15:39 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, I like their music, I can't lie.
15:41 Benito Skinner? I'm really pissed because Taika hasn't been at any things I've been to. And I've kind of been on the circuit lately because I'm starting to do press. Press is press, I mean, what do you want me to say? But I cannot find Taika to save me. But you know who I saw at Vanity Fair? Sebastian Stan. And a respectful king. He said thank you to a couple of people I saw. I was gonna go say hi, but then, I don't know, he was just so busy.
16:02 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
16:03 Benito Skinner? But he was really working the room.
16:05 Mary Beth Barone? I mean, as a nominee.
16:06 Benito Skinner? But I, you know, my third eye is always open and I can sense dark energy. Didn't get a single bit of it from him.
16:11 Mary Beth Barone? I'm so happy.
16:12 Benito Skinner? Seemed like a total doll.
16:12 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, okay, well, that makes me happy to hear.
16:14 Benito Skinner? Well, I hope this doesn't age poorly. He's, Sebastian Stan, you have 10 days to not get me too'd.
16:19 Mary Beth Barone? Exactly, and please don't.
16:21 Benito Skinner? And please don't disappoint us.
16:23 Mary Beth Barone? Totally. So, I want to talk about when I got into college. Well, I just, again, I'm amplifying, I'm not adding to, because you're so right. Mary Beth Barone, age 17 slash 18. I'm taking an AP US government test, AP US Gov.
16:39 Benito Skinner? She's getting a five.
16:40 Mary Beth Barone? I'm getting it, well, it's just, it was just a test, it wasn't the test.
16:43 Benito Skinner? Oh, God.
16:43 Mary Beth Barone? It was just like a test in AP Gov.
16:45 Benito Skinner? Don't make me nervous.
16:45 Mary Beth Barone? Sorry, so, I'm taking a test, I get a text on my pink flip phone from my dad that says, "You got a big letter from B.C." So I'm in the middle of a test and I'm reading that text and I, I stand up in the middle of the test and I go to the window and I call my dad. And I say, oh, I'm on the phone during a test. My, my teacher, Ms. Berkeley, bless her, we kind of ran train on that class. It was second semester seniors and we're just like, we don't care how a bill turns into a law.
17:11 Benito Skinner? No, sorry sis.
17:12 Mary Beth Barone? We just don't care. I'm so sorry.
17:13 Benito Skinner? I'm just a bill. I've got a call. See you later.
17:17 Mary Beth Barone? Sorry, I'll PRB.
17:18 Benito Skinner? You took out your sidekick? Dad, what?
17:21 Mary Beth Barone? I go to the window and he opens it and he says, I got in. I literally scream, I leave. In the middle of the test, I leave. I, I don't care about this test anymore.
17:29 Benito Skinner? You are? You're dry skinned. You said, come pick me up.
17:33 Mary Beth Barone? I said, I have to go home.
17:34 Benito Skinner? I got into college.
17:35 Mary Beth Barone? So I go out to the senior lot and I get in my mom's Lexus that she let me drive through high school. And I'm in the car, I'm crying, I'm so happy. I think I probably called like one of my siblings or my mom or something. I was freaking out. And so I get in the driver's seat and I'm backing up and I'm like, I'm elated. And then this guy who was in my grade, who was my friend, Pat Green, is like, he is in a car that's like perpendicular to my car and he's pulling, he's pulling through the lot. And I waved to him and he, he, he goes, I can see him through the windshield going, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. And putting his hands over his mouth and it's because I'm backing into a car.
18:09 Benito Skinner? So that's why.
18:10 Mary Beth Barone? So that's why.
18:10 Benito Skinner? You gagged him sis.
18:12 Mary Beth Barone? He waves hi to me and he's, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. And hands over mouth. And I fully crashed into the Audi that was parked behind me. Keep in mind, I have a backup beeper on my car and I have a backup camera. And then a backup camera.
18:25 Benito Skinner? I love when the beep gives up though. It's like, hey, you've hit them.
18:27 Mary Beth Barone? It's like so unfortunate. We did everything we could and we still got in a car accident.
18:31 Benito Skinner? Hey, so you did it.
18:33 Mary Beth Barone? So I literally, I'm like, fucking hell. Like, I just got into college. It's such an exciting day. And my top choice, by the way. And so.
18:41 Benito Skinner? You got into your top choice?
18:42 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
18:42 Benito Skinner? Congratulations.
18:43 Mary Beth Barone? Thank you. I mean, I left after two years, so I guess, whatever, everything happens for a reason. I have to get out of my car and I'm like, fuck. And I really wanted to go home, but I had to wait till final period got let out so I could talk to the girl whose car it was and be like, hey, I hit your car. I didn't do hit and then.
18:57 Benito Skinner? I got into Boston College.
18:58 Mary Beth Barone? But I got, you have to understand that I got into Boston College.
19:01 Benito Skinner? I got into B C, but I hit your Kia.
19:03 Mary Beth Barone? I'm so. Sorry, I, and I, you know, I was fully insured as a driver, so I did end up covering the cost and everything. But I've only been in two accidents, knock on wood. That was the one. Three months later, I'm pulling out of my boyfriend's house. Our friends' Range Rovers parked there, fully back into it.
19:18 Benito Skinner? You're just not seeing it.
19:19 Mary Beth Barone? I don't look behind myself.
19:21 Benito Skinner? Hey, here's the thing.
19:22 Mary Beth Barone? I don't like looking at the past. I want to see the future. I look forward.
19:25 Benito Skinner? Do you understand that we can't move into the future until we acknowledge our past? Do you get that?
19:29 Mary Beth Barone? But I didn't get that then.
19:31 Benito Skinner? Now you get that.
19:31 Mary Beth Barone? But now I do. So I, one of my big regrets is that in high school, I, so I was, I was able to drive my mom's car and she was driving like a beat up old car so that I could have a nice car. And then my parents wanted to buy me like a Honda Civic that would have been like just nice to have for the rest of my like adult life.
19:47 Benito Skinner? Forever.
19:47 Mary Beth Barone? Forever.
19:48 Benito Skinner? They're cockroaches.
19:48 Mary Beth Barone? But I was such a little brat and I was like, no, I want to keep driving the Lexus. And I was just like, I, I fucked up. I was being a little brat and I have regrets. I do have regrets.
19:57 Benito Skinner? You probably didn't get in trouble though, because it's like you got into B C and you're just like, sorry, I was so excited. I did get in a wreck.
20:02 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, and I am sorry. And yes, Hondas did survive the blast.
20:05 Benito Skinner? No.
20:06 Mary Beth Barone? Along with Shenyuan advertisements and cockroaches.
20:09 Benito Skinner? The cockroach of cars. That's what they say at the dealership. Terry has one that he literally like, he does like, it is kind of like a bop it. He slaps the windshield, like farts and then it starts. It's like, yeah, literally like.
20:23 Mary Beth Barone? What's the passcode? This is what, in, in Massachusetts?
20:26 Benito Skinner? Yeah. It's, oh my God, I love that car. And like, none of the audio.
20:31 Mary Beth Barone? They last forever.
20:32 Benito Skinner? The sound system kind of doesn't work, but it's like, and sometimes it is fully grring at us. Like, it's really cool. There's a roar to it.
20:39 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, roar.
20:40 Benito Skinner? Well, speaking of cars I want to wreck.
20:42 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. So should we get into what we die for?
20:45 Benito Skinner? Die, it's time to die.
20:46 Mary Beth Barone? Crazy to say. And we're going to do some mini dies and then we're going to get into what we really die for.
20:49 Benito Skinner? Do you know what's funny that we, there's an invisible string between me and you? Because I got in a wreck on the way to the A C T. Did I ever tell you this?
20:57 Mary Beth Barone? Oh my God.
20:58 Benito Skinner? I saw a raccoon run across the road. I fully stopped on a freeway.
21:01 Mary Beth Barone? Green is the fun, and the fun and the fun on the hood of your car.
21:06 Benito Skinner? Yeah, it's very us because then I went to the ACT. But the difference between us is I, you would have not gone to the test. I went to the test in bomb diggity. It was terrible.
21:17 Mary Beth Barone? How could you not after having a car wreck? You know, that's anxiety inducing.
21:21 Benito Skinner? It was crazy. Yeah, of course. My parents were all like, why'd you still go to the test? And I was just like, I don't know, because of the pressure of society. You guys are talking about these ACT and SAT tests all the fucking time. I thought if I didn't, I'd die.
21:34 Mary Beth Barone? Well, you would go to hell for sure, which isn't Easter egg for next week.
21:37 Benito Skinner? Oh, you guys are, get ready. Next week is as ride as ride gets.
21:42 Mary Beth Barone? Next week is like, there's ride heritage, there's ride, there's ride heritage. And then there's like annihilation.
21:48 Benito Skinner? Exactly.
21:48 Mary Beth Barone? There's like where ride sees itself so clearly in the mirror that we hold up.
21:52 Benito Skinner? Consciousness.
21:53 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, it's consciousness. Do you want to say what you die for as your, the main headliner?
21:57 Benito Skinner? So I die for Teslas.
21:59 Mary Beth Barone? And I die for the wedding industrial complex.
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25:30 Mary Beth Barone? Wait, where are we going?
25:32 Benito Skinner? Who cares?
25:35 Benito Skinner? Die. This is crazy, cuz like, I already know how this ends before it begins. In a way that's so powerful. Jackson, say hell yeah. Hell yeah. And say Monica Barbaredo. Monica Barbaredo.
25:46 Mary Beth Barone? Thank you.
25:47 Benito Skinner? Fuck, I love you. So, should I get into like a mini die really quick?
25:51 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, and my mini die is pretty, it's pretty succinct, so I'll just say it.
25:56 Benito Skinner? Can't wait for this.
25:56 Mary Beth Barone? I really die for straight men who do front-facing camera comedy critiquing straight male behavior. Like, sometimes it's just so on the nose where I'm like, you are that guy. Like, you know the material so well cuz you are that guy. And I don't think straight guys should be in front of the camera.
26:10 Benito Skinner? My only comment on this is, I'm like, yeah. I don't know if you're that good of an actor.
26:16 Mary Beth Barone? No, exactly.
26:17 Benito Skinner? I'm like-
26:17 Mary Beth Barone? There's a reason this is landing.
26:18 Benito Skinner? It's feeling a little too, yeah. Because then, the next post will kinda be about their body. You know what I mean? I'm like, oh-
26:25 Mary Beth Barone? I do know what you mean.
26:26 Benito Skinner? I don't trust you.
26:27 Mary Beth Barone? Mm-mm. No.
26:28 Benito Skinner? My mini die is kind of, I assume, it's very tied to that in a way. It's just moodiness, and I've never seen this from a queer person or a woman. Like, they don't bring that shit to work. And as I said in the card you this morning, people who have periods, I cannot believe you guys are clocking in. God knows I wouldn't. I thought about that on set all the time.
26:49 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, like, some people on set right now, in this moment, have their period and they're still here.
26:55 Benito Skinner? Some had them last night at the party. I'm like, that just breaks my heart.
26:58 Mary Beth Barone? I know.
26:59 Benito Skinner? I'm literally like, you should say it first, you should lead with it.
27:02 Mary Beth Barone? If it's not all quiet on the Western front, you should be leading with that because you just should show people how much you're able to accomplish in spite of what your body is doing, which is revolting against you.
27:11 Benito Skinner? I always find out after the fact, and I'm like, oh my god, you just did, you memorized and you felt this way?
27:16 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, it's crazy.
27:17 Benito Skinner? That's the power of my doll, baby.
27:19 Mary Beth Barone? Thank you for acknowledging that.
27:20 Benito Skinner? Of course, it's just, it really blows me away. But moodiness. I just think moods are for children, my loves, and i-if you're gonna bring that in, you have to- Sit in your car, take a deep breath, don't bring that into work. Don't, don't change the energy of a room.
27:33 Mary Beth Barone? No, that's insane.
27:34 Benito Skinner? Someone who's moody, it just makes me so angry cuz I'm like, you just don't get to do that. You don't get to like, change everyone else's moods just because you feel shitty.
27:41 Mary Beth Barone? On other people.
27:42 Benito Skinner? It's just not fair. I'm like, go figure it out. And I feel like, that's something that, I don't know, the people-pleasing in me, I, you know, sometimes I try to like, I try to fight that, but that- That is one thing I like, that I'm like, I refuse to enter a room and make it worse than before I came in.
27:58 Mary Beth Barone? Exactly. And I can attest that you are not a moody person. And I feel like, you know what? Tap into the people who you can really like, if you need to like go off really quickly and just like, be like, I have to complain about this thing, I have to vent. And then you have to compose yourself and then get back to the task at hand.
28:14 Benito Skinner? Yeah, which is what adults do.
28:15 Mary Beth Barone? It's what adults do. We don't have a tantrum in the middle of the grocery store.
28:18 Benito Skinner? Wally on set of overcompensating was really good for me because she was like, lunchtime is for naps, babe. Go take a nap, go take a rest. You're talking all day.
28:26 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, you're having to be everything to everyone.
28:29 Benito Skinner? Just conserve your, yeah. Also, if you're moody all the time, something's off. So you got to figure that out. Nothing pisses me off more.
28:34 Mary Beth Barone? It's very unbecoming of a lady.
28:36 Benito Skinner? Well, of course, and it's kind of never really a lady.
28:38 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
28:39 Benito Skinner? It's kind of always a straight man doing a front-facing comedy video. I die the most, but you want to talk about something I die for? Teslas. And if you have one, I, it's not judgment-based. I just, when I get an Uber and the Tesla pulls up, I think to myself, wow, someone up there really fucking hates my guts, huh?
29:00 Mary Beth Barone? Well, it's homophobia.
29:01 Benito Skinner? Well, it's homophobia at its core. And the way that it feels to ride in a Tesla, I get nauseous in cars. This is different. This is chemical.
29:11 Mary Beth Barone? Well, it's like you're on a gyroscope. Do you know those things where it like shakes you around?
29:15 Benito Skinner? Totally. It's like, you know how amusement parks now, it's all like 3D and it's just a screen in front of you to make you as sick as possible?
29:21 Mary Beth Barone? Totally.
29:22 Benito Skinner? That's kind of the vibe. And I will be in the back of it. Well, first off, I, you know, I have to play with the lid.
29:28 Mary Beth Barone? Of course.
29:28 Benito Skinner? To get in it, which I just can't.
29:30 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, and do you know how many different handles they have for Teslas now? Because sometimes the different generations of Teslas will be different handles.
29:36 Benito Skinner? I didn't tell you what happened to me recently.
29:38 Mary Beth Barone? What?
29:38 Benito Skinner? Oh my God. Terry and I almost didn't get out of this fucking Tesla Uber. We, we, oh my God. So we were in New Orleans and we got a Tesla and it had butterfly doors. How asinine is that? So it drops us off on Bourbon Street. And the butterfly doors came up and two gay guys walk out. Everyone on the street was, they were sick.
30:02 Mary Beth Barone? It's garish.
30:03 Benito Skinner? It was garish. I felt so embarrassed. There was like purple lights coming out of it. I just, I wanted to die in that moment. What they're doing with doors over there, I can't even, and I'm not even going to talk about him.
30:15 Mary Beth Barone? All I want to say-
30:16 Benito Skinner? Lowercase H I M.
30:17 Mary Beth Barone? All I want to say is that Elon Musk was not a founder of Tesla. He was appointed CEO. He had nothing to do with the actual creation of it. If I'm not mistaken, and you can fact check me. And he is the CEO right now. The stock is tanking. By the way, if you have Tesla stock, sell it. Go protest at a Tesla. There is a fascist dictator. All of his worth, a lot of it is tied up in Tesla. And it's plummeting. Sales are plummeting. Oh my God, I saw the most fabulous thing. People are rebranding their Teslas. They are putting Audi logos on it. They're putting Mazda logos on it. They're putting Toyota logos. They do not want to be driving Teslas.
30:52 Benito Skinner? They want to make art and they want to make trouble. That is so Cruella coded.
30:56 Mary Beth Barone? It's very Cruella.
30:57 Benito Skinner? Taking a little like paint chipper and taking off the Tesla.
31:01 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. So what we're doing is working and it is going to impact his wealth directly.
31:07 Benito Skinner? And I hate the screens, just, which feels very tied to what you just said.
31:10 Mary Beth Barone? The moon roof? First of all, there's an iPad in the car. I don't want an iPad. It's distracting.
31:15 Benito Skinner? It's a laptop. It's a 16 inch.
31:17 Mary Beth Barone? The moon roof, Pinky, whenever in an Uber, in a Tesla Uber, she'll look up at the moon roof and think it's another dog. Cause she can see her reflection and she starts barking. Cause she knows there's dark energy in that car.
31:28 Benito Skinner? Consciousness.
31:29 Mary Beth Barone? It's her consciousness.
31:31 Benito Skinner? So these cars suck so much dick and I, I hate them. Like I, I really hate these cars. I hate being in them. I hate hearing about what they do. I hate opening the door of them.
31:42 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. Every, every aspect of the experience is just worse than any other car.
31:46 Benito Skinner? It's awful. And whoever tricked everyone into thinking they're better for the environment, aren't they not?
31:51 Mary Beth Barone? Well, so electric batteries are really, they're impossible to recycle.
31:54 Benito Skinner? Yes.
31:55 Mary Beth Barone? So electric cars, like getting less reliant on gas is a good thing.
31:59 Benito Skinner? Yes.
31:59 Mary Beth Barone? Because it's, the gas will run out. It's a finite resource. But yes, they have not quite figured out how to make these like actual- Sustainable vehicles.
32:08 Benito Skinner? And might I just get into the cyber truck? When I see people walk out of a cyber truck, I'm like, you're about to meet Flor.
32:15 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
32:15 Benito Skinner? I can't stress enough.
32:17 Mary Beth Barone? I never see people coming out of them. I only see them parked like around town and I'm just like, you're disgusting.
32:22 Benito Skinner? Conspiracy theory. Like, I don't know if anyone's actually.
32:24 Mary Beth Barone? They're self-driving.
32:24 Benito Skinner? Well, do you know the conspiracy theory that we predicted?
32:27 Mary Beth Barone? We had, there was a prophecy that was foretold and so a cyber truck did explode with a veteran inside of it. And so, yeah, that's hard. It's hard right now. But that happened.
32:38 Benito Skinner? I know. It's insane.
32:40 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
32:41 Benito Skinner? We live in this strangest, well, I say that, I'm sure that every time felt strange, but this one is really fucking bizarre.
32:47 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah. Well, here's what's weird to me.
32:50 Benito Skinner? Oh, like, this I gotta hear.
32:51 Mary Beth Barone? So in school, I feel like we were taught and told that being a Nazi is like the worst thing a person can be. And I agree with that to this day.
32:59 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
33:00 Mary Beth Barone? I don't understand the reboot. They're rebooting the Nazis. Like, why are we doing that? Because these people that are [BLEEP] with American nationalism and how like we like, you know, swooped in during World War II and like saved Europe. I'm like, do you realize who we were fighting? It's the people you're now emulating.
33:16 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
33:17 Mary Beth Barone? So I don't understand. Your, your whole ethos makes no sense. It's completely contradictory.
33:21 Benito Skinner? It's people who feel small and they're like, these women won't fuck me. Small little men with polio.
33:27 Mary Beth Barone? And measles.
33:29 Benito Skinner? And measles. Disgusting.
33:30 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
33:31 Benito Skinner? Disgusting.
33:32 Mary Beth Barone? So I will say, I feel bad for people that bought Teslas thinking they were doing good.
33:37 Benito Skinner? And I have family who, who have Teslas and I feel so bad because I'm like, and they know and they're like, I'm trying to get rid of this heap of shit.
33:42 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
33:43 Benito Skinner? And you know who did? Cheryl fucking Crow.
33:45 Mary Beth Barone? Crow, and she donated the money to NPR.
33:47 Benito Skinner? God, I wish I could kiss that woman.
33:48 Mary Beth Barone? She has been on the right side of history for so fucking long.
33:51 Benito Skinner? Toilet paper. How many squares?
33:52 Mary Beth Barone? Four, four squares per, four squares per bathroom trip. And that will save the planet. That alone will save the planet.
33:59 Benito Skinner? You're gonna need to wash your hands after that one.
34:01 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
34:01 Benito Skinner? Trust. Can I just say, maybe eight. I love you, sister. Here's my thing. Fuck Teslas, but if you have one, I'm not mad, just to be clear. I just like, I hate.
34:11 Mary Beth Barone? Unless you support the.
34:13 Benito Skinner? Well, of course, then I'm furious and you shouldn't be listening. I want to take a bat to a cyber- me, hey, my linebacker shoulders, a bat and a cyber truck.
34:23 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
34:23 Benito Skinner? Has anything ever sounded hornier to you?
34:26 Mary Beth Barone? I'd watch that, is all I'm saying.
34:27 Benito Skinner? Me, Grandpa Terry, taking a bat to that thing.
34:29 Mary Beth Barone? I'll record it, I'll film. I know, it's really hard because it just feels like a reminder, a constant reminder of what's going on.
34:35 Benito Skinner? And I also just want to say about this about Teslas, it's not a smooth drive.
34:39 Mary Beth Barone? No.
34:40 Benito Skinner? That's my thing too. It's like, it's not even a fucking good car.
34:43 Mary Beth Barone? It's jerky.
34:44 Benito Skinner? It's jerky and that's, oh my god, and if you're with a driver who, who loves the brake, oh my god, you better, you better have your ginger chew ready to go the second you step out of that thing.
34:52 Mary Beth Barone? It's, it's, it's seasickness.
34:54 Benito Skinner? Well, if you can, get out of it.
34:55 Mary Beth Barone? Getting in a Tesla, you need your sea legs, because you are gonna get nauseous and you're gonna wanna throw up.
34:59 Benito Skinner? And you know I don't have my sea legs.
35:00 Mary Beth Barone? I know you don't.
35:00 Benito Skinner? I need ramamine from Cabo San Lucas.
35:02 Mary Beth Barone? You're from Landlocked, Idaho.
35:03 Benito Skinner? Well, of course.
35:05 Mary Beth Barone? I hate Tesla so much.
35:07 Benito Skinner? Jackson, you don't drive one, do you?
35:08 Mary Beth Barone? Uh, no, I'm an Audi boy. Thank god.
35:10 Benito Skinner? Audi, so the death of me, me too. I might ride for Audi at some point.
35:13 Mary Beth Barone? Whoa, I would love that. I love them. My dream car when I was 14, Audi TT.
35:17 Benito Skinner? Are you serious?
35:18 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, silver Audi TT.
35:19 Benito Skinner? Mine was a PT Cruiser.
35:21 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, so, so you came out in high school.
35:26 Mary Beth Barone? PT Cruiser, I love that.
35:28 Benito Skinner? I also wanted a Kia Soul for a sec.
35:30 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, and why the hell not?
35:31 Benito Skinner? Well, good marketing works on me.
35:33 Mary Beth Barone? As long as it's not a Tesla.
35:34 Benito Skinner? The hamsters in the car, very, oh yeah.
35:36 Mary Beth Barone? The hamsters in the car.
35:37 Benito Skinner? Barbaredo! I know she doesn't drive a Tesla.
35:40 Mary Beth Barone? Absolutely not, not a chance.
35:43 Benito Skinner? Thank you so much for your love on This Is How We Do.
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41:12 Mary Beth Barone? I will be dying for the wedding industrial complex. So I don't even have that much to say about this because I feel like we've covered it a lot already.
41:19 Benito Skinner? Well, dear, you know, I've said, I have spoken my piece.
41:22 Mary Beth Barone? We have, we've spoken on it. And I just think weddings are a celebration of love. They're a celebration of life and togetherness and joining people in a union. And it's like amazing that we, that we even like are vulnerable enough to allow ourselves to fall in love. When there's like so much risk associated with that. And I just feel like sometimes with weddings, it's like focusing on the wrong things. And it makes the celebration something that the people who have to go to the wedding ultimately resent, which is not fun.
41:53 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
41:54 Mary Beth Barone? And I think it's just like with social media and like, I just think people feel.
41:59 Benito Skinner? Social media ruined weddings.
42:00 Mary Beth Barone? So I do, so social media, that's maybe the thesis of this argument is that social media ruined weddings. Because I think it's more about like, sometimes the photo opportunities or like.
42:09 Benito Skinner? I was your TA just now. We were at a meeting and I was your TA and I go, here's your thesis.
42:13 Mary Beth Barone? It's about posting, it's about photos, it's about content capture. I don't think that's like what weddings really are about for me personally.
42:21 Benito Skinner? I completely agree. I think the more I see all of it, the more I'm like, okay, I do think that the bubble is about to burst. And here's my thing, I think like, obviously do whatever you want with it. Rarely do I have people who tell me, I'm so excited to go to this wedding. And that's where I'm like, I feel like these used to really slap.
42:39 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
42:39 Benito Skinner? Cause it used to be one thing and it would be the ceremony, the reception. And then I'm just watching everybody get so wrapped up in so many things. And honestly, I think it's a lot of people who really just love event planning and they. That they love that like my sister, I think in the process was kind of like, fuck, I really
42:57 Mary Beth Barone? This is like fun.
42:58 Benito Skinner? For this shit.
42:58 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
42:59 Benito Skinner? Which I think that's so fun. I feel like, I mean, I loved my sister's wedding. It really was just like a wedding and a reception and then like a cute little like if you're around to have like a little snacky before you leave, which was very cute. I think that there's so much pressure on it to the point where I'm like, how could the two people getting married have any fucking fun at this?
43:16 Mary Beth Barone? No, there's so much pressure and it's so expensive.
43:20 Benito Skinner? It's so expensive and for guests, it's so expensive and for guests with kids, that's a whole other thing.
43:24 Mary Beth Barone? So it's it's the engagement. This is this is like maximum impact wedding industrial complex. It's the engagement party.
43:31 Benito Skinner? Of course.
43:31 Mary Beth Barone? Bridal shower. Destination bachelorette.
43:34 Benito Skinner? Oh.
43:35 Mary Beth Barone? Welcome dinner.
43:36 Benito Skinner? This is what I said when I said I've seen the world done at all.
43:39 Mary Beth Barone? Wedding and then reception and then the brunch the next day. Like you said, are they even enjoying themselves at the at the function? But I think you can really tell when a wedding is like coming from a good place. Does that make sense?
43:50 Benito Skinner? Agreed. I can tell when it's like, no, and here I go again. The big Vermont wedding. Liv, I know you're listening, love. Liv and Matt's wedding, it was just like Vermont and like she only had two costume changes and that's so fair because she wanted to like dance more in her dress.
44:07 Mary Beth Barone? Of course.
44:07 Benito Skinner? But like she wore her dress for most of the reception and that's kind of my rule. If you're spending most of your reception changing, that to me is sad. I'm like
44:14 Mary Beth Barone? Because you're not with the people.
44:15 Benito Skinner? And you know, you have other events where you can wear like cute little white dresses, but you bought that wedding dress. Like, wear that shit. Like our moms wore that shit.
44:21 Mary Beth Barone? Probably the most expensive thing many of us will ever buy or own.
44:25 Benito Skinner? Absolutely. So I'm like, wear it. I mean, God knows I'll probably change a couple of times, but I'm like, I just don't want that to be the whole thing. It's like, there's his new outfit.
44:33 Mary Beth Barone? Remember the psychotic email sent by a bride to her bridesmaids that went viral?
44:37 Benito Skinner? Oh, yeah, yeah.
44:38 Mary Beth Barone? That girl is from my neighborhood. So just keep that in mind.
44:40 Benito Skinner? Okay. And you were a bridesmaid.
44:42 Mary Beth Barone? And I was a bridesmaid.
44:44 Benito Skinner? Twenty seven dresses. That just hit me like a ton of bricks.
44:47 Mary Beth Barone? I just think be mindful and like ask yourself, check in with yourself on like, what is the motivation for the thing? And and then if it feels true to you and if you're like a totally lavish, over the top person and your wedding reflects that, like wonderful. I think that's amazing. And also I'm really scared that they are going to overturn gay marriage. And so I'm scared about that.
45:09 Benito Skinner? Yeah.
45:10 Mary Beth Barone? And I just think
45:10 Benito Skinner? Oh, is that too political? I'm looking right down the barrel of the camera right now. Dear media, clip this.
45:17 Mary Beth Barone? Here's what I want this die to allow people to do. I'm giving you permission to have the wedding of your dreams. Not what you think you need to plan.
45:26 Benito Skinner? Exactly.
45:27 Mary Beth Barone? Not a spectacle. It's the wedding of your dreams and you don't let anyone, you don't let your fiance's mom dictate it. You don't let your grandma dictate it. You, it's your wedding.
45:37 Benito Skinner? It's supposed to be your favorite day.
45:39 Mary Beth Barone? Ever.
45:39 Benito Skinner? Like, I was talking to a friend and she was like, I literally just want to get married in Vegas. And I was like, well, then you should. If that's what you want. There's so much pressure and I think, again, it is because of social media of like,
45:50 Mary Beth Barone? Uncapitalism.
45:51 Benito Skinner? No, I have to do, yeah, and I have to do this whole thing. And like even Terry and I have kind of like, some people have been like, your wedding's gonna be crazy. And I'm like, I just don't think it is. I want Terry to like, to do the flowers.
46:02 Mary Beth Barone? And you're not gonna have a step and repeat with like a vodka brand on it.
46:04 Benito Skinner? No, and I don't want cameras. Like, I really don't. I'm like, I, you know, I grew up with them.
46:12 Speaker 04 I, the cameras are in my face all day. I mean, look at me with this pod. There's three big old cannons looking at me right now.
46:18 Benito Skinner? I watch people absolutely spin out over this and I'm like, please don't. We're giving you permission right now. If you just need two of your girlies to say you don't have to do all that, do exactly what you want to do. Don't feel pressured to, you know, just, oh my God, there's so much.
46:34 Mary Beth Barone? I do think it's funny that because we're in our 30s now, it's like weddings are where people go to like, do hard drugs. And I just think it's funny. It's like, it becomes a music festival in that moment.
46:43 Benito Skinner? I've been to so many weddings where they're like, here's acid spray. And I'm like, whoa, I'm tripping acid at this? No.
46:49 Mary Beth Barone? That's kind of cool. I like it.
46:50 Benito Skinner? No, I know. You're a little nasty girl.
46:51 Mary Beth Barone? Well, cause I'm not doing drugs much anymore, but at a wedding, I'll make an exception usually. It's fun. I'm having fun.
46:56 Benito Skinner? You'll do G at a wedding.
46:57 Mary Beth Barone? I'll do G at a wedding. I don't do G except for at weddings. You know what you are, Benny?
47:02 Benito Skinner? Hmm, a [BLEEP].
47:03 Mary Beth Barone? Your words, not mine. Babe, you're my ride or die.
47:07 Benito Skinner? Ride or die.
47:09 Mary Beth Barone? So to get into ride or die, I think we can both confidently say that we die for Teslas and we die for the wedding industrial complex.
47:15 Benito Skinner? I guess the flip here would have been like, do you ride for it? You know what I mean?
47:18 Mary Beth Barone? Good call. We're subverting the form.
47:19 Benito Skinner? Yeah, so this would be, I, I really... I die for the wedding industrial complex. I think it's created so much anxiety. I guess it maybe has created jobs, but I also feel like they're exploitative at times. I think this is what's beautiful. If you go to a place and it's like a destination and you do all local artisans, that's fabulous. I think that's great. Bringing in like some insane cake, you know what pisses me off? When the cake's not real.
47:44 Mary Beth Barone? That's insane. I've never, I have never heard of that.
47:47 Benito Skinner? Styrofoam.
47:49 Mary Beth Barone? Just for optics, just for the aesthetic?
47:51 Benito Skinner? For the size.
47:52 Mary Beth Barone? That's so weird. It's all smoke and mirrors.
47:55 Benito Skinner? Jackson left again.
47:56 Mary Beth Barone? I know, he's gone. He actually left the building.
47:58 Benito Skinner? He went for his new nut.
47:59 Mary Beth Barone? He didn't just leave the room, he left the building.
48:01 Benito Skinner? It's schooner time.
48:02 Mary Beth Barone? It's schooner time.
48:03 Benito Skinner? It's schooner time.
48:04 Mary Beth Barone? Well, happy ride heritage month.
48:06 Benito Skinner? To Monica Barbaredo.
48:07 Mary Beth Barone? To Monica Barbaredo, to Monica Barbaredo only.
48:10 Benito Skinner? So you're not gonna die for Teslas?
48:12 Mary Beth Barone? Oh, I died for Teslas. I mean, I think I died for Teslas before all this shit started. Like, I just thought that the cars were very like nausea inducing. And I don't like this, the aesthetic. A Cybertruck to me is like, that is an assault on the senses.
48:28 Benito Skinner? You know what I want? It's like, be a car. I don't wanna, I don't wanna ride around in an iPad.
48:32 Mary Beth Barone? Let cars be cars.
48:33 Benito Skinner? Let cars be cars, woke mob.
48:35 Mary Beth Barone? Cars be cars, my god, please.
48:38 Benito Skinner? You know what I mean? It's like one big iPad, it's one big like, uh, TV that's playing a fireplace on it. You know what I mean?
48:44 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah, it's one big, it's one big Yule log. And that's not okay.
48:48 Benito Skinner? Oh, knock it off. You're gonna talk about Yule logs during Heritage?
48:52 Mary Beth Barone? I'm just saying, be what you are.
48:53 Benito Skinner? My darling love.
48:54 Mary Beth Barone? In many ways, both of our dies are be what you are.
48:57 Benito Skinner? What do you think they're gonna think of Grandpa Terry?
48:59 Mary Beth Barone? Here's the thing. If you resisted at first, because a lot of people know this, that I did not understand Faita the Good Faita for a while.
49:07 Benito Skinner? Whoa.
49:08 Mary Beth Barone? You know, you knew that. I was like, I'm not getting this bit.
49:10 Benito Skinner? I love Faita. You know how originally, I don't know if we've talked about this, but originally it was like, I said it in such a specific way.
49:16 Mary Beth Barone? I know. And I didn't get the bit. But then, the more you did it, I think, oh, I totally get this now.
49:21 Benito Skinner? Did I ever say where it came from? Of what made me, it made me think. I just said that every time a queer person or a woman is on a red carpet, they're asked the most intense question possible.
49:30 Mary Beth Barone? Yeah.
49:30 Benito Skinner? And then straight guys are asked like, like.
49:32 Mary Beth Barone? What type of toilet paper do you use?
49:34 Benito Skinner? You like titties? You know, they're like, hey, you gotta piss, man? And we're asked like, what do you think of the political landscape and what's going on right now? Just like. Oh, I'm at a lip gloss event. But yeah, I think it's terrible. And now I'm like, I will fight her.
49:50 Mary Beth Barone? The good fighter.
49:52 Benito Skinner? And we will, and we said that.
49:53 Mary Beth Barone? And we do.
49:54 Benito Skinner? So we're fighting the good fighter because the fight has come to us and we've been training. This is your song. Me at your wedding. And you can tell everybody.
50:05 Mary Beth Barone? This is a song.
50:07 Benito Skinner? I hope you don't mind. I hope you don't mind. Are you actually gonna have me perform at your wedding?
50:12 Mary Beth Barone? Maybe.
50:13 Benito Skinner? That I put down in words. I will want to fly this. That Monica Barbara. Raiders in the world. Oh, my accent.
50:27 Mary Beth Barone? Benny babe, eyes on the road. Benny, go!
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