Going Nonverbal + Getting Bangs in Your Thirties

Summary

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"Going Nonverbal + Getting Bangs in Your Thirties"

Ride with Benito Skinner and Mary Beth Barone – October 22, 2025

Main Theme & Purpose

In this candid, laughter-sprinkled episode, Benito and Mary Beth invite listeners into their intimate bestie bubble as they face seismic personal shifts and explore the joys of small reinventions. Benito announces a major breakup, both reflect on coping strategies (like “going nonverbal”), and Mary Beth shares her fresh anxieties and freedom after getting bangs in her 30s. Ultimately, it’s an episode about embracing transitions, letting go (with humor!), and finding connection through the messiness of change.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Benito’s Breakup Announcement

[01:09-03:32]

• Benito shares he and his partner Terry have ended their nine-year relationship.
• Stresses the love and respect that remain, wanting listeners to see the longevity as a sign that love is real (“You should believe in love because I really had it…” – Benito, 01:56).
• Requests privacy and respect: “So I would love a little bit of privacy and respect for both of us. I love Terry, as I said, and his family and everybody. So. Yeah.”—Benito (02:42).
• The duo reassure fans: no drama, no “foul play,” and Terry remains “Grandpa Terry forever” within the Ride universe.

Notable Quote:

“If us breaking up makes you stop believing in love, I think it should be the opposite, because I was with someone so special to me for nine years … we championed each other. We grew up together in so many ways.”
— Benito Skinner [01:36]

2. Navigating Life Changes (& Crying at Airports)

[03:45-06:21]

• Benito reflects on how much their lives have changed since the podcast began: “Have you guys ever cried in every airport in the world?” (04:45)
• Shares a sweet moment breaking down at an airport, and a fan’s brief, supportive encounter (“She just grabbed my arm and said, ‘Love you, Benny.’ And then walked away. It literally makes me want to cry.”—Benito, 06:06)
• The duo riff about breakups being public, comparisons to grief, and audience reactions, with MB comforting Benito.

3. Humor as a Healing Tool

Throughout

• The pair skillfully lace humor through heaviness (“Should we be Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban for Halloween? Out of respect for them and for our nine-year relationship, we're not doing this.”—Benito, 09:30; “Halloween suggestions were almost as unhinged as your merch ideas”—Mary Beth, 10:03).
• Self-deprecating lanes: “Try everything. Some of it's gonna be painful.”—Mary Beth (27:26).
• Lighthearted debates on dating and personality quirks (“Would you rather date someone who smokes or someone who is a runner?” Mary Beth, 11:21).

4. “Going Nonverbal”: Discovery & Embracing Silence

[31:39, 37:37-39:25]

• Benito explains his recent embrace of “going nonverbal”—taking time for silence and offloading social pressure. This marks a new coping and self-care strategy.
• He credits learning it via long workdays and a wise TV co-star (“Wally”), realizing “the power and the gift of going non verbal. And I think everyone deserves to give themselves this gift.”—Benito (33:13).
• Mary Beth highlights the importance of comfortable silence between friends: “Sometimes you can go non verbal even around people, and that can be really powerful.” (43:13)

Notable Quote:

“Give yourself that time. Sometimes I even say after a long day of work, I'll be like, it's a non verbal night for me. I'm just gonna watch something.”
— Benito Skinner [37:48]

5. Mary Beth’s Bangs & Self-Transformation

[18:01-20:45, 43:47-45:06]

• Mary Beth details her journey: former hair obsessions as a kid, and now embracing “perfectly imperfect” bangs in her 30s.
• It’s an act of defiance and fun: “I've made this choice to make my life a little more complicated… I'm embracing it.” (19:46)
• Benito showers her with compliments: “Cutie makes cute— I love them on you. For some reason it really unlocked a Leighton meester-ness for me.” (20:01)
• Both encourage risks and low-stakes experimentation: “Go out there also, I think, take risks.” (44:42)

Notable Quote:

“So what's been really cool about getting bangs in my 30s is like, they don't have to look perfect. Like, I've embraced having bangs in my 30s in this beautiful way. Or it's like sometimes they don't look that good and I'm like, I just don't care.”
— Mary Beth Barone [19:08]

6. Guest Segment: Ruel on Bad Posture

[21:15-22:53]

• Australian artist Ruel sends a voice note riding for “bad posture,” humorously claiming slouching is way comfier and preferring a hunched walk to show-offs with good posture.
• Sparks a riff on posture, memes, and perfectionism in adulthood.

7. Reclaiming Singledom and Self-Discovery

[25:02, 27:08, 28:02-28:21]

• Both discuss how being newly single motivates them to try new things or reclaim past passions, and the pain/freedom that comes with it (“You’re going to do a bunch of stuff that you’ve wanted to do … some of it is gonna be really painful.”—Mary Beth, 27:08).
• Strong thread of “no more character-building experiences please!”

8. The Joy of Friendship & Platonic Love

Throughout

• The bestie dynamic is strong and healing—Mary Beth being there for Benito’s grief, their group chat with Terry, playful affirmations, and mutual support.
• Ending warmth: “I want to thank my friend. Love you. Because I love my friend. I’m sorry to do this.” — Benito (45:16)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On breakups in the public eye:

"Some of you clearly started to know something was going on... if any of you have predictions for the end of the world or the next Covid, I definitely will be paying attention."
— Benito Skinner [02:30]

• On learning from grief and endings:

“How I felt when we came back after your dad passed away... it’s kind of the exact same grief.”—Benito Skinner [05:13]

• Fan encounter:

“She just grabbed my arm and said, ‘Love you, Benny,’ and then walked away. It literally makes me want to cry.”
— Benito Skinner [06:06]

• Bangs philosophy:

“It's fun to have a little, you know, flair.”
— Mary Beth Barone [19:46]

• On friendship:

“And we can. And that's really cool.”
— Mary Beth Barone on group chat with Terry and Benito [07:54]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Benito's breakup: [01:09-03:32]
• Life changes, airports & healing: [03:45-06:21]
• On embracing pain & comedy in change: [11:23-12:19, 27:08-28:21]
• Bangs in your thirties: [18:01-20:45, 43:47-45:06]
• Ruel guest voice note ("bad posture"): [21:15-22:53]
• Going nonverbal: [31:39, 37:37-39:25]
• Supporting each other as friends: [25:02, 43:32, 45:29]

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Tone & Style

• Irreverent, witty, and deeply affectionate for each other and their listeners.
• Candid honesty alongside playful (sometimes absurd) humor—using self-deprecation, cultural references, and personal anecdotes as coping mechanisms.
• Unafraid of both vulnerability and goofiness—proving that taking risks, big or small, is worth celebrating.

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Takeaways for Listeners

• Breakups and new beginnings are complicated, but approached with openness, humor, and support, they can be transformative.
• Embracing change—whether through silence, self-care, or a new hairstyle—can destabilize, but also liberate.
• Friendship and mutual support are the real ride-or-die essentials.
• Don’t be afraid of nonverbal “off” moments; trust that you’re worthy of rest, not just constant performance.
• Try new things, take up small risks, and remember: perfect isn’t a requirement at any age.

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Grandpa Terry forever!

Transcript

[Mary Beth Barone]

The following podcast is a Dear Media production. Hey, can you come pick me up? Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

What's wrong?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Nothing.

[Benito Skinner]

Are you sure?

[Ad Read Voice]

Yeah, no, I just need a ride. Ride, ride. I just want to have fun. Start your engines.

[Benito Skinner]

Take care. I'm Benito Skinner.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I'm Mary Beth Barone and this is Ride. Welcome back to Ride the podcast. I'm Mary Beth Barone.

[Benito Skinner]

And I'm Benito Skinner. I'm very nervous so I'm just gonna cut the cameras.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So dead ass, cut the cameras.

[Benito Skinner]

Dead ass, cut the cameras. So we are actually going to cut cameras for this next part because I just would prefer to never see it on camera or see myself saying these things elsewhere. Hopefully someone just goes and animates it. I can only.

[Mary Beth Barone]

AI, come on. AI, come on.

[Benito Skinner]

I know you can do it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

We're all here for you.

[Benito Skinner]

Okay? Thank you. Terry and I are no longer together. Why is my brain going. They're just people swerving off the road.

[Mary Beth Barone]

That's literally what I was just picturing. That's so crazy.

[Benito Skinner]

I'm sorry. If you.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I hope they all pulled over.

[Benito Skinner]

I hope. Yeah, maybe pull over. So I will say that we both just love each other so much and have so much love and respect for each other and we treated each other with love and respect until the end. So I just want to make that really clear. Over the years I've seen comments that say if you break up, I'll stop believing in love or I'll kms. So I would just strongly urge to not do that, please. I think that if us breaking up makes you stop believing in love, I think it should be the opposite because I was with someone so special to me for nine years in a committed relationship with my best friend. We loved and championed each other. We grew up together in so many ways. My whole twenties were with Terry and I feel so unbelievably lucky to have met him and be a part of his family. I love his family. I love the cousins. So I hope that if anything you. You should believe in love because I really had it and I really feel so lucky to have met him and be around his genius. He is always a friend of this, of this pod. Grandpa Terry forever.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Grandpa Terry is eternal.

[Benito Skinner]

Grandpa Terry is eternal. This is about 10 seconds in, I guess, which is a little devastating. I will say that some of you clearly started to know something was going on. So if any of you have predictions for the end of the world or the next Covid, I definitely will be paying attention. And yes, I did make him promise that he will never Date an actor younger than me. That was my run request, and Spit shook on it. So I would love a little bit of privacy and respect for both of us. I love Terry, as I said, and his family and everybody. So. Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And it's amicable, so we're still riding for Terry, of course.

[Benito Skinner]

And, yeah, it's like there's part of.

[Mary Beth Barone]

The ride universe forever and always.

[Benito Skinner]

Here I go. There's no foul play.

[Mary Beth Barone]

No foul play. It's just literally no negativity.

[Benito Skinner]

Two people who want the best for each other. And I'm so excited to root him on. He sent me such a beautiful text recently, and he said that he'll always be rooting for me, and I'm always going to be rooting for him and Grandpa Terry forever. And now I'm. I'm probably gonna just take a second, maybe cry with my best friend, and then we come back. I guess I'll say, come on, Kerplunk.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Or something like that.

[Benito Skinner]

Something like that.

[Ad Read Voice]

Palate cleanser.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah, something like a palate cleanser.

[Benito Skinner]

Sorry to start this off like this. You guys just had to tell the kids. Yeah, yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

We love you, and I'm sorry you're going through it.

[Benito Skinner]

You told the wizard where I live?

[Mary Beth Barone]

I did. I said, I think it's time to move on. It's time to move on.

[Benito Skinner]

Get over me. You got to give.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I said, glenn, please let it go.

[Benito Skinner]

God. Go to this gay guy instead. Okay, we'll. We'll put cameras back.

[Mary Beth Barone]

How do you feel?

[Benito Skinner]

I was very nervous to do that. I feel a little bit like I'm letting the kids down. But I think if. If I've learned anything over the past year, it's like that. This is a beautiful space for. For healing and love and friendship. And I'm. I. I do it with you by my side, so I'm okay. It's so hard to describe that. There's just so much love there, like, in every way. Yeah. I just. Terry is incredible and a genius, and.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I mean, he shot the ride cover all three.

[Benito Skinner]

Come on.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So.

[Benito Skinner]

And we'll probably make him do four.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

Cuz. Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

The journey we've taken the Baronies on. This is what life is. You're listening to a podcast that is hosted by two people in their 30s. It's a huge time for change.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. It's kind of like, whoa, our lives.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Have complet changed since you started this podcast.

[Benito Skinner]

Have you guys ever cried in every airport in the world? I ask. Oh. Oh. So I also have to shout out something that happened. And it kind of.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So I'm struggling with words for this. Like, I. I don't know what to say other than I love you both so dearly and thank you for parting ways on such good terms where it's like, you know, we can really just ride for both of you into the sunset. I just don't know what to say. So that's why I'm not saying more. I don't want the Bronis to be like, why isn't she talking? Like, I, I.

[Benito Skinner]

You know what's so funny? I know exactly what your feeling was because it. How I felt when we came back after your dad passed away. Because I was like, well, and this is super similar. It's kind of the exact same grief.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah, no, it is.

[Benito Skinner]

And so my grief is even worse, I'd say. But no, where it's like, it feels like it's the first time because it's like, on camera and you're on mic and it's like, I've talked to you.

[Mary Beth Barone]

About this a lot, but now it feels real.

[Benito Skinner]

It does feel real, which is, like, why I think I. A little shaky and a little uncomfortable. But, yeah, it's. It's very surreal. I had this, like, really beautiful moment happening where I was in this airport and was, like, really going, we can still have fun. So, yeah, I was at the airport and I was crying in a corner and I, like, had full hoodie and, like, just trying so hard. And this girl came up and I was like, oh, God. Like, this is so. This is gonna be bad. I feel so bad that she's seeing me like this and she just grabbed my arm and said, love you, Benny, and then walked away. It literally makes me want to cry.

[Mary Beth Barone]

That's so sweet. That's a beautiful moment. That's humanity. We need more of that.

[Benito Skinner]

I really needed it. It was really sweet. I'm very excited for both of us and for what lies ahead.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Great big world out there.

[Benito Skinner]

Scary.

[Mary Beth Barone]

We're gonna do it all. So we're both single at the same time.

[Benito Skinner]

I'm telling you. You called up this wizard.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I didn't call him. He showed up at my house. He showed up at my house earlier this year. Yeah, my love.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I had to get him away from me for a bit. I said, I just need a fucking break.

[Benito Skinner]

You didn't know that? He went, woo. Came right up into my house.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I guess it is spooky season. It's weird, the timing of it all, because I announced my breakup with Edward last year on the Halloween Episode.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And that was around the same time.

[Benito Skinner]

When you see what we're being for Halloween, I think you'll know why I maybe did it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

It's so weird, too. It's like you have to tell people. And the strangeness of that, because it's like, how many brunches can you go to where someone, like, puts their hands over their mouth? I'm just like, oh, I can't. I don't know if I can do this anymore. So, yeah, probably pretty soon here I'm like, what are you even supposed to do at a certain point? Story.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You start a podcast three to four years earlier.

[Benito Skinner]

Why do you think we have.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Build an audience.

[Benito Skinner]

Why do you.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And then you announce it there. It's the press release.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I think people are going to be really stunned. I think it's going to be sad. And any children of divorce that listen to the podcast, like, I'm sorry to re. Traumatize.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, yeah. I mean, we've traumatized a few friends, so. So hope they're. They'll be okay. I will say. Yeah. It's funny also, people do this thing where they're like, hey, we're not picking sides. And I'm like, well, I didn't think you were. But now that you say that, there's no sides.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Cause it's like, it ended up.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Like, in a kind way.

[Benito Skinner]

Exactly. I'm like, we're good.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You, me, and Terry are in a group chat. We're keeping each other abreast of the goings on, of course. And so it's like, you know, I texted yesterday just saying, like, can we still talk about this?

[Benito Skinner]

Of course.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And we can. And that's really cool.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So I would say it's. It's reminiscent, if I may, of a little breakup that I went through. Not the most recent one, the one before that.

[Benito Skinner]

I mean, yeah. Like, me and Eddie Obama are still shooting the shit he had. Someone drew him recently, and I just thought, I need that. And he said, I can arrange. Yeah. Got him a J. Crew sweater. I don't know. It's like, that's just kind of my baby. And we're all.

[Mary Beth Barone]

We're just a little dysfunctional little family. And, like, we're little.

[Benito Skinner]

Just a little, you know, that really. That brutal part in Freaky Friday, I don't know why. It's like this line read kind of just gives me tingles. I never saw Freakier Friday, but I need it on planes soon.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I. I sense that it'll be soon. Missoni for Delta Delta 1.

[Benito Skinner]

Delta 1 is Jamie Lee Curtis. Says we just had this little unit, you know when she gives the speech at the end and Lindsay Lohan threw her.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Sure.

[Benito Skinner]

And she just this little unit and it's just.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I think you know what line read I've been thinking about from Lindsay Lohan movie.

[Benito Skinner]

What gorgeous.

[Ad Read Voice]

Six pounds seven ounces.

[Benito Skinner]

This is. Look at her. Chessy.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I've been dressing in chessy core a lot more lately.

[Benito Skinner]

You got that chessy core.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I kind of love Chessy.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. Because Chessy wore a lot of Miu Miu bralettes with an overshirt. You're right. I would say I'm. I love. I mean, Dennis Quaid is definitely a reference North Star for me. Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Not politically.

[Benito Skinner]

It's like what even talk about after you talk about a breakup.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I don't know. I think we shouldn't do anything else for the intro.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I just don't think because like, obviously I have a bunch of amazing things to say.

[Benito Skinner]

Well, I think you should. I mean, I just.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Well, I don't want to.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. I mean. No, I need it. I. I feel like I just did like a stadium tour after you just.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Did a Shakespeare monologue to me. That's what that was like.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I am Biped Intamiter.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. I will say one other thing, Terry. Four minutes in. We did think of. Obviously, out of respect for them and for our nine year relationship, we're not doing this. But we were like, should we be Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban for Halloween?

[Mary Beth Barone]

I didn't even hear that. That's genius.

[Benito Skinner]

And we did. Yeah, we're not gonna do that. Out of respect to both of those beautiful and long relationships. You know, he's Nicole. Come on. Yeah. I would have loved to do Keith's, you know, kind of sideswip moment with the highlights and just the height different. Like it's kind of perfect.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Your guys Halloween suggestions were almost as unhinged as your merch ideas, by the way.

[Benito Skinner]

And what we're actually doing, I mean, they. They came pretty.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Some people did guess it.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, really?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah. I didn't post those though.

[Benito Skinner]

God damn it. Yeah, Only like a couple though, right? I like to be in it, but not totally.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Not like so on the nose that everyone. I guess we could talk about this dress. That is not my usual silhouette. It's a little baggy.

[Benito Skinner]

I wanted to do that.

[Ad Read Voice]

So I just want to address that.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It is. It's not my usual silhouette. I know what you're thinking.

[Benito Skinner]

Daddy, Daddy, Daddy got it for you.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You did you said you took me to acne. And you said, anything you want.

[Benito Skinner]

I don't know. I was just feeling good. I need someone to spoil.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, I was in a K hole last week.

[Benito Skinner]

Let's go from that. Yeah, yeah. Right into it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Just briefly. How was it that happened? It was scary.

[Benito Skinner]

You know, I was in a K hole once and I was around a bunch of friends and I. I did this bit where I was doing brand deals for each them. It really killed.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I did. I was. I was not in a kale, but I was on K at a wedding, obviously.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And I was doing this whole dunce.

[Benito Skinner]

Officiating.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah, I was officiating.

[Benito Skinner]

Dunce.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah. And it was also. My stomach's growling. I'm so hungry.

[Benito Skinner]

Me, too.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It killed it. Totally destroyed. I mean, I was just the clown for these people. Big moment last night when I asked Internal monologue. Do you see me as a clown or do you see me as a sexual being? And unfortunately, it was the former. Now that we're both single, I pose this question to you. Would you rather date someone who smokes or someone who is a runner?

[Benito Skinner]

Smokes 100%.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I just think running is so, like, obnoxious.

[Benito Skinner]

You know what I hate? The smell of someone returning from a room.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, my God, me too.

[Benito Skinner]

Can I say that? Yeah, I just think that's a. That's a stench that I don't want to be. I don't want to be enraptured, but Sigs. I'm kind of like.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah, well, also, I think you could convince someone to stop smoking. I don't think you could convince a runner to stop running.

[Benito Skinner]

It's in their blood.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's in their blood.

[Benito Skinner]

Fully. Cigarettes are an addiction. But here's the thing. Yeah, I don't. Yeah, I don't care. I think it's just, like, literate, you know? I guess a lot of my choices in TV and song kind of make sense now.

[Mary Beth Barone]

A lot of the shit you've been posting, you know, A Beautiful Mind.

[Benito Skinner]

Should we just have sex?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Probably. But we have to do it here.

[Benito Skinner]

Looking at each other like, yeah, I.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Will say no, I won't say. Please say I can't. I won't have.

[Benito Skinner]

Haven't I been through enough?

[Mary Beth Barone]

I'm not saying it. No, I don't want to. I don't want to. But, like, welcome to hell.

[Benito Skinner]

I Do. You know what? Lana Del Rey has this line. It's Kintsugi, obviously.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Don't bring her up to me.

[Benito Skinner]

I am. Lana Del Rey has this line where she Says, I don't trust myself with my heart. And I really. And then she goes, but I have to let it break a little more.

[Mary Beth Barone]

What are you writing for this week?

[Benito Skinner]

Going non verbal.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Wow. I'm writing for getting bangs in your 30s. Should we get into it? I'm gonna go first.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

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[Mary Beth Barone]

Wait, where are we going?

[Benito Skinner]

Who cares? RIDE.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So obviously I had bangs in high school. My senior portrait, I have full, full bangs.

[Benito Skinner]

So what kind of bangs are we like Anne Hathaway Devil Wears Prada, or.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Are we in Hathaway Devil Wears Prada?

[Benito Skinner]

Great.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And I might go back to that at some point, but just I'm not ready to do that right now and.

[Benito Skinner]

The show won't allow it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And the show, I'm under contract, very strict. So I have had bangs as a young person. And I will say, as you could probably guess, doing my hair as a teenager, there was nothing more serious or important in the world than doing my hair. I was the type of person who, if there was a bump in the ponytail, I'm telling my mom, we're redoing it. Yeah, she gave me blowouts. I've talked about this before. From when I was 8 years old, maybe even younger. There's videos of me with full blowouts. Just like as a child, a very small person. And I used to straighten my hair every single day in high school.

[Benito Skinner]

I was small. I was really tiny.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I was tiny.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I used to straighten while I was a kid. I would straighten my hair every single night and then, you know, go over it once in the morning, too. So having bangs when you have my personality type, it can become a full time job. It's an obsession. It's a fixation in a lot of ways.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So what's been really cool about getting bangs in my 30s is like, they don't have to look perfect. Like, I've embraced having bangs in my 30s in this beautiful way. Or it's like sometimes they don't look that good and I'm Like, I just don't care. Like, I don't care. This is me.

[Benito Skinner]

Are the bangs in the room with us, by the way?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, I don't know.

[Benito Skinner]

It's funny. They're like face framing.

[Guest Speaker / Real Person]

They kind of.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah, they're curtain bangs.

[Benito Skinner]

They're curtain bangs. Which I love.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I mean, which I had. I had curtain bangs in high school for a lot. A lot of my years and. But I had a side part at the time, so it was like a little different.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. But I chimed in with the. Having people ever heard of.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Of closing the goddamn door?

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But my friend texted me the other day and I just. I want to read the response. Basically they were like, how's having bangs? And I was like, I'm embracing it, as only a person in their 30s could. And like, I've made this choice to make my life a little more complicated. And I. I love it. I'm. I'm embracing it. And it's like, it's fun. It's fun to have a little, you know, flair.

[Benito Skinner]

They're so cute. Can I just say. Can I just off the bat, say cutie makes cute? I love. Yeah, I love them on you. I think for some reason it really unlocked a Leighton meester ness for me. I don't know if Blair ever had that or if she has them now.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

I don't know. It's like, I just think they're so.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Cute and that means the world.

[Benito Skinner]

They're so cutesy. And there's something about a haircut. Can I just say, I had to cut my hair. It was important because it's like, I don't know, it's like Alaska. You know what I mean? She's like, cut your hair, fucker. Yeah, so, yeah, I think there's something very freeing also of being. Of finding the beauty and the imperfections.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Exactly.

[Benito Skinner]

But I don't think, I mean, I think they always look perfectly imperfect.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah, I mean, sometimes they look a little messy or like, you know, they're.

[Benito Skinner]

Like, oh, were you just quoting Eternal Sunshine? Because that is a dangerous album of legislation.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Of legislation. Speaking of which.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I'm in my Video Vixen era. I was asked by a 22 year old Australian artist who's 6 foot 5 to play his love interest in a movie, in a music video. And I had to say yes. I had no choice. It's a movie. He is a total doll. And I actually asked him to send me a voice note of what he rides for. And I said, you have to say Audio Jungle at the end I haven't heard this. I don't know how long it's going to be.

[Benito Skinner]

Australian accent.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

Ready?

[Guest Speaker / Real Person]

Hello, ride listeners and hosts. This is real speaking. Hello, Mary Beth and Benny. Thank you so much for featuring me on this episode. I'm very honored. Think of this as almost like an audition to become a real person. I'm going to give you my little micro ride of the day, which is bad posture. I love bad posture. I think it is way more comfy than good posture. I think we were told to have good posture. As if it's like this terrible thing that our back's going to break a moralda. And I might be coming from a place of privilege in terms of youth and not saying you guys wouldn't feel that too. I know you guys are like super young as well. Like hell. Yeah. But yeah, I just feel like I'm not going to feel the effects of it. I only feel uncomfortable when I am giving good posture and walking around with good posture. I love slouching. I love having my neck at like a 90 degree angle at my phone when I'm walking around. Yeah, that's where it wants to be. I think humans have to adapt and this is now what we're adapting to. It's like animation of like, you know.

[Benito Skinner]

Imagine this is 20 minutes.

[Mary Beth Barone]

He said I could cut some, but I don't know how long it is, so I have no idea when it's.

[Benito Skinner]

I love loving it.

[Guest Speaker / Real Person]

I also think people who have good posture walking around, I don't like the look of them. I think they're looking a little bit too, you know, big for their boots. A little like, look at me all goody two shoes in my good posture. I think that is unattractive. Personally.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Shots fired.

[Guest Speaker / Real Person]

So, yeah, that's what I think about good posture, bad posture. I ride for bad posture. Thank you guys for having me. I love both of you. Bye bye. Goodbye ride listeners.

[Benito Skinner]

I guess so.

[Guest Speaker / Real Person]

I'm gonna use a little plug. Yeah, sure.

[Benito Skinner]

Of course.

[Mary Beth Barone]

He was supposed to say, send me audio jungle. I said, you have to say audio jungle at the end.

[Benito Skinner]

Scream at him.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So that is a perfect ride.

[Benito Skinner]

I think that's as good as they get. Because you know what? It's not something I would have ever thought of, but I so get that.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Totally.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I obviously have amazing posture. It's sort of one of my defining features.

[Benito Skinner]

I agree.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But I have back. I have shoulder problems and I know neck problems.

[Benito Skinner]

You when you whip out the strap, the poster strap that care if it's a strap. I Said nut in me.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I said nut in me. So that's the type of memes Benny's been sending me since he became single. It is a tweet that someone tweeted. I don't care if it's a strap nut in me. And I get that. I wake up to that because, you know, time difference. And I'm thinking, I just.

[Benito Skinner]

If I see something that's fucking insane, I have to send it to you because it's like, how am I supposed to see this alone?

[Mary Beth Barone]

No, I. So bad posture. I think it's really powerful. And it sort of goes into the whole idea of ride, which is like, live life out loud. Have fun. Do what you want to do.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Rule is a total doll, but we were gonna start Fake Beef. I was like, oh, we should start Fake Beef before the video comes out. And he goes, yeah, what should it be about? Like, physical characteristics. And I was like, no, I never said that.

[Benito Skinner]

I like the lines on your face.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I like them. Keep them.

[Benito Skinner]

Me too.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Stream Wild guests. It is a song about a breakup. It's actually. And one of the reasons I said yes is it's a very catchy song that I could listen to a thousand times. Boy singers.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

There is some music I don't think boys should be allowed to listen to. I wanted to say that. And also there are some boy singers that have rights. Rule being one of them. R U E L Voice of an angel. He's the only one for right now.

[Benito Skinner]

I want him to pick me up.

[Mary Beth Barone]

He's gonna be in New York next week. Oh, I can't wait for some events for the launch.

[Benito Skinner]

His next video. I'm seeing a kitchen gay cat.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's a gay narrative. How come you are beautiful?

[Benito Skinner]

How come. How come everyone touched their bird after they watched New Real video is my big question.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Media. The video is really fun. We play exes who are in a western together.

[Benito Skinner]

Well, you sent me photos. I loved it. And I. Can I just say Rule, thank you so much. You brought my girl back to la. I got her for a couple days. She stayed with daddy.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I had a mental breakdown, but, yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, and I didn't. Girl.

[Mary Beth Barone]

We went to horses.

[Benito Skinner]

Let's just say season two. I think it's gonna hit you in the balls. I'm very excited. I will say it's been jugular. We're going for the jugular. I'm really going for it in every way in the show. I'm so excited about season two. We're in the writers room right now.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And I'M pitching every day in the room. Grace has a nipple piercing because I don't want to take it out again. Although this time I think I could just take it out for this whatever scene it is. If we show my tits, if I have any sex scenes, if I even have a romantic, if I'm even if I'm even in it. I mean, if I'm even in it. I'm still re auditioning, so I just think, yeah, she should have one.

[Benito Skinner]

Me and Scott King, the showrunner, we were talking about this joke. If we like somehow found a way to tell you that they did need to see you tape again or something and I did finally say she's been through enough and we laughed together.

[Mary Beth Barone]

That's fun. I'm glad we laughed after it and I wasn't there.

[Benito Skinner]

So you were nowhere to be part of the sort of partake the two of us.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But it's just good. I think I'm in my music video like I would love to be in more. Actually. I don't even want to say that.

[Benito Skinner]

No, definitely. This is a platform.

[Mary Beth Barone]

No, I don't want to say that.

[Benito Skinner]

I announced my breakup. You do that. I mean it's. That's why we have to be a.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Video vixen at 34. I think it's really cool.

[Benito Skinner]

It's groundbreaking.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's subversive.

[Benito Skinner]

It's very subversive.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And it's just an honor to be thought of.

[Benito Skinner]

If we're shooting shots, I want to be killed by Sabrina. Maybe in a video. I would love to be. What else?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Well, you really wanted to be Sally, right?

[Benito Skinner]

Roll the role model. I want to come out as Sally dressed as Benson Boone, don't you think?

[Mary Beth Barone]

I, I, I.

[Benito Skinner]

Two guns. Sorry, you guys. It's gonna be a little dark for a while. Two guns. I'm just firing them in there.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You in a blue sequined jumpsuit tucked. You have to be tucked?

[Benito Skinner]

Well, of course.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Well, well, of course.

[Benito Skinner]

Goes without saying.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You do a backflip diverse when I.

[Benito Skinner]

Tucked for Halloween one time and I didn't know that you put a sock over your dick before. So then it was just tape on my pubes and I just essentially had to wax at the end of the.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Day on my pubes.

[Ad Read Voice]

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[Benito Skinner]

Laura Virgin? Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Love you.

[Benito Skinner]

I love you too. Will anyone love us?

[Mary Beth Barone]

I'm not sure. But now that you're single, what you're going to do is you're going to do a bunch of stuff that you've wanted to do. Like for me, it's getting bangs. It's getting my nipple repaired. I just got my nails done. It's like you're gonna just try a bunch of stuff, and some of it is gonna be really fucking painful.

[Benito Skinner]

Try everything.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Some of it's gonna be painful.

[Benito Skinner]

You have to compliment everything I do today.

[Ad Read Voice]

It was really good.

[Benito Skinner]

Try everything. Remember when Shakira. I forgot this one out of pocket. Shakira was like, fuck, the Barbie movie that's just raising pussies like that.

[Mary Beth Barone]

She was like, men should be men.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah. That's out of pocket for sure.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. What do I want to try?

[Mary Beth Barone]

You don't have to know right now.

[Benito Skinner]

I found out a lot of things I don't want last night.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Last night was a huge learning. It's a lot of lessons and a lot of, like, character building.

[Benito Skinner]

I really. I don't think we've ever looked cuter, though. It just.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Can I just say. Can I just say to all the people listening to this, I'm done with character building experiences for the year. If you were brought into my life to help, I don't want to learn any lessons. I'm good. I'm so good. I'm so fine. I'm so resilient, and I'm really in my power and, like, I've learned so much this year.

[Benito Skinner]

We have bangs.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I need a break. I really just need a break.

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[Mary Beth Barone]

Sprite the pod.

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[Benito Skinner]

Oh yeah, speaking of non verbal. So this is something that I didn't know existed until I would say recently. Going non verbal. So I as a kid I'm, I was like the one where if my mom was, like, going to the store or something, I'd be like, I'm in the car and I'm just like, chatty, you know, I'm Chatty Cathy, as they call me, you know, all the time. So I love yapping. I love it. I love it when I love it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But I love it. I love it, I love it, I.

[Ad Read Voice]

Love it, I love it, I love it, I love it.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, my God.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, my God. Pop star sang.

[Guest Speaker / Real Person]

Whoa.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, my God.

[Benito Skinner]

In song rule. You can clip that. Okay.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I said audio Jungle yet.

[Guest Speaker / Real Person]

Audio Jungle, I mean, brought to you by Audio Jungle.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, he did. Oh.

[Guest Speaker / Real Person]

He first just asked me to say audio Jungle at the ends. Audio Jungle.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

I will say he loves. I mean, he. He stays on the voice note.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I mean, he's a star.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah, he's a star. That's awesome. He's a star. I.

[Mary Beth Barone]

In the car. You're chatty in the car.

[Benito Skinner]

Chatty. Telling stories of old, stories of new. I love giving compliments. Love me, choose me, pick me. I think if there's not talking, I'm like, this person's sad. I have to help. Or like, I need to fill this space.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

And I do. I. I have felt that it's very, you know, overcompensating. I made a whole TV show about it. It's on prime. If you haven't watched yet. I think at a certain point that's. There's a hatred of me. So for personal. It's personal. You've. You've reached the personal point of the program. So here's the thing. No, I'm serious. I'm freaking dead ass right now. Watch the goddamn show. But I. I think through it almost like during the show, I learned the power and the gift of going non verbal. And I think everyone deserves to give themselves this gift.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You can invoke it at any time.

[Benito Skinner]

And I think it's why I started to love being at airports or on planes, because it is such a quiet time if you're traveling alone. And I'd be like, I'm just blasting Lord Hammer. Obviously, I'm blasting. I'm blasting Virgin. I'm ripping through airports. I'm eating Shake Shack, laughing. I love laughing after every bite, sobbing, and then getting touched. Thank God. But, yeah, I started to, I think, see how much it could fill me. And I love being around people too. I love a concert. I love. Well, I guess concert is kind of also non verbal in a way, but you can, and you can do that. But I really learned it on set. Because, Wally, our darling, our darling doll, our. My darling baby girl, she is so good at it. She can just be like, I need a sec. And I'm just going to go over here and, like, be silent for a bit. I started the shoot and I was going to every single lunch with everyone. And I just. We were doing a lot of scenes. The hours were long, and I was doing, like, rewrites, and I was just kind of like.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I mean, you had 10 different jobs.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. I was like, whoa. Fighting with you about your costumes. Just kidding. You were lovely. But I, I, I would say about.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Here's the thing on that.

[Benito Skinner]

I would say, if I may, you might not wait. I want to remember this. I want to be a straight boyfriend. Because it'd be so easy to, like, treat a woman well.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, my God. It's the easiest thing in the world.

[Benito Skinner]

What I just tell you I love.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You, take care of you.

[Benito Skinner]

No, I'm like, literally, like, oh, you.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Want me take care of that?

[Benito Skinner]

You want to be held?

[Mary Beth Barone]

No, I'm so fucking done.

[Ad Read Voice]

Cut the cameras again.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I'm done.

[Benito Skinner]

It's actually not that complicated. I think everyone's complicating all these things too much. It really is as simple as, like, I'm just totally gagged for you. Well, you know, I saying that, you.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Know my new thing, If a guy, if you're talking to a guy and you go, I just can't tell if you're gagged for me. And just see what they say, because if you're not gagged for me, then I really don't want to have sex with you. Because what's the point?

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. Are you melting?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Are you waiting for me to text you?

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

If not, then, like, let's just cut the shit. Let's just walk away.

[Benito Skinner]

Totally. You want sex with me?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Talk to me.

[Benito Skinner]

Come talk to me. So actually, don't. But actually don't don't come near me. I texted you. What did I say? I said, I can't believe God gave me this delicate heart and this huge butt. HE LAUGHS God's a curve and it's a he.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You know what? God's a pervert.

[Benito Skinner]

Which you said. No, you said, God is a woman because, oh, a man would have given you.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Giving me huge tits. Well, I think God's a perv. Why do teenagers have big boobs? Weirdo. That's so weird.

[Benito Skinner]

Dear media, this one has. It's like she, she wants to take every clip for herself. It's so obvious. What was I saying about non Verbal. Oh, okay. So I would eat with everyone. It was just like it. At a certain point, it just was like, holy. And then the end of the day would happen and I was like, I can't even really function. And Wally was like, sweetie, go take a nap at lunch. You don't have to eat with it. Everyone, it's okay. No one's going to be mad at you. I would love if everyone said that to me five times a day. No one's going to be mad at you.

[Mary Beth Barone]

New Era alert.

[Benito Skinner]

New Era alert. I. I'm. I'm trying to find where I don't need it, cuz I. I've now done the things and I'm like, oh, yeah, they aren't mad. Actually. This is me taking.

[Mary Beth Barone]

They actually didn't give it a second thought.

[Benito Skinner]

In fact, they don't even miss me in the lunchroom. I come back in the lunchroom. I'm back, baby. They silent. Y' all miss me. But wow, I'm really killing for you today.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I'm just. I'm letting you have the floor, darling.

[Benito Skinner]

I don't want it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I keep interrupting.

[Benito Skinner]

I'm like, oh, I hate taking all this. Like, you do announcements on here.

[Ad Read Voice]

I don't.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Someone DM'd me and they go, how do you feel about talking about the state of the world? And Benny's across from me wearing a Prada polo top. And I said, how dare you? I was wearing a Sandy Liang dress. You're not even a comment on that. Was I wearing product so expensive.

[Benito Skinner]

Wait, it was vintage.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And here's what I want to say on the record, and I'm quoting myself here. Yeah, I love clothes and I love stuff. I love people more.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

If you told me I had to give all my designer clothes away and that would like, solve the housing crisis, I would.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah, I would.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And then I'd be like, right now.

[Benito Skinner]

But then I'd bargain a little bit because it's like, you don't mean all of it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Well, a couple things I would do.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. Come on.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I can be a socialist with a Dior bag.

[Benito Skinner]

Here it is again. I'm like, I'm just. But yeah, I. I learned the power of being non verbal. I felt that it gave me more juice.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah, you have to refuel sometimes.

[Benito Skinner]

You have to refuel. Give yourself that time. Sometimes I even say after a long day of work, I'll be like, it's a non verbal night for me. I'm just gonna watch something.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Call Mary Beth.

[Ad Read Voice]

I'm gonna call for an hour.

[Benito Skinner]

That counts as non verbal. Do you understand?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yes. I've never understood something more.

[Benito Skinner]

Okay, finally we're on the same page today. You're so jealous that I had my big announcement. These are usually your.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I wish I had some. Another tragedy to announce on ride.

[Benito Skinner]

Hey, give it time.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Give it a week or two. Hey, I give it a week.

[Benito Skinner]

What's that from?

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's a movie or something.

[Benito Skinner]

It's a movie.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's pretend.

[Benito Skinner]

We kind of only say that now. This podcast, should we cancel it? You guys.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Tell us, do you guys even care anymore?

[Benito Skinner]

Do you like this?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Seriously, do you care? Do we just have to start naming celebrities we have beef with? Is that what the podcast will become like? I will, but I don't. I don't want to, but I will.

[Guest Speaker / Real Person]

Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

Maybe we have to start having guests.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh. Oh, my God. My idea.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Which is to have guests. But it's just people I want to hook up with. It's just people I have crushes on and that.

[Guest Speaker / Real Person]

Wait.

[Benito Skinner]

And then the guest. The guests never know.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Abuse of power.

[Benito Skinner]

Finally.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Finally a woman come to the studio.

[Benito Skinner]

But the. The joy is that all the listeners know. But the guys who are booked never know because they've never heard the podcast. Yeah. They've never listened.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Who should be our first guest?

[Benito Skinner]

Guest?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Our first guest. We've had guests.

[Benito Skinner]

First guest. God, I don't know.

[Mary Beth Barone]

We'll bleep it.

[Benito Skinner]

Who do you want on the bench?

[Mary Beth Barone]

And think about it. I'll check my list of crushes. We'll get my top choice on here.

[Benito Skinner]

Okay.

[Mary Beth Barone]

People are begging to be. Shoot for the people are begging to be guests on here. I'm like, is that what I have to do to get you to see me as a sexual being? Have you on my podcast?

[Benito Skinner]

Isn't that the opposite?

[Mary Beth Barone]

That's what you'd think. But yeah, we should start having guests.

[Benito Skinner]

But all to say non verbal. And this could mean getting in the bath, watching your favorite show, listening to Ride. Honestly, let us yap at ya. I think there is so much power in it. Allow yourself. And can I just say to the people pleasers of the world, People pleasers united.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Not a real thing.

[Benito Skinner]

Ppq.

[Mary Beth Barone]

People pleasers aren't real.

[Benito Skinner]

I think you have an ugly heart and I think you're jealous.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's just funny.

[Benito Skinner]

Some people you wish you were a gay man, but you're not.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Some people who identify as people pleasers are just so not people pleasers that. But who undermines the entire premise?

[Benito Skinner]

I agree. You're not one of us.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You're not.

[Benito Skinner]

So it's like when Kevin Spacey wanted to be gay. Can I finally say that? He smiled at me at an airport.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Finally. Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

So imagine going through a breakup and Kevin Spacey smiles at you at an airport. Do you have anything to say? Please say it.

[Ad Read Voice]

He's speechless.

[Mary Beth Barone]

He's going non verbal.

[Benito Skinner]

I mean, yeah, go non verbal on this one. I was non verbal.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I just thought he shouldn't be allowed to fly. You should be on a no fly. Listen, do you know how many potential.

[Ad Read Voice]

Victims are on that flight?

[Benito Skinner]

This is our last episode. I really think there might be. Yeah, literally, you. You. You wore a mini dress for my breakup. So that. And that happened. I texted Mary Beth. I go, so that just happened.

[Ad Read Voice]

I was. I want to do a grid post.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's just a carousel of Te gotten from gay guys. I anonymize it.

[Benito Skinner]

Except the one for me. You can let her in.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I have to read this text I got from a gay guy the other day. It's going to rock you. This was really cracked me up. I said, are you seeing anyone? He goes, I am, of course in a toxic situationship with a real estate agent who comes from obscene family wealth. He's partnered open on some level, but it's a secret. Have feelings. Ended it, but started it again. Been going on for a year and a half. Are you.

[Benito Skinner]

He had that in his notes app. You know, it's just like copy people.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah, he put a keyboard shortcut. It's been a year and a half.

[Benito Skinner]

Okay. Did I ever tell you about the prank I did of keyboard shortcuts in college?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Tell me right now.

[Benito Skinner]

It was my.

[Mary Beth Barone]

How have you not told me this?

[Benito Skinner]

This is. I'm so excited. This is. This was my best prank of all time. I. In this girl's phone, I just made everything like thanks or hi or goodbye or night. I made all of it like just fucking insane shit. Like such like this is genius. We would do like. This was a friend. So it's, you know, it's not.

[Mary Beth Barone]

She killed herself. But.

[Benito Skinner]

Well, she's long gone. We miss her dearly. But we did like, you know, I'm hernie. Like I. Like I see dead people. Every time she said bye, I just. It was so. And then also every time she said hello, it'd be Avita Zimmer. There was a gayness to everything I did. Of course, because clear coded I am. Remember when I accidentally set you up with a 20 year old bisexual.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, how many times do I have to tell you? We're not talking about Be single soon.

[Benito Skinner]

Right out of context for this, actually, can I request. We don't do it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Have to.

[Ad Read Voice]

I need it more than I've ever needed anything.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Let's get into Ride or Die.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, wait, you're good on that prank. It was so funny.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I love the prank. Don't ever do some shit like that to me. But I think it's fabulous.

[Benito Skinner]

Thanks.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's just annoying. It's not going to cause any harm. So I love that.

[Benito Skinner]

But it is one of those things where, like, it could make you text less. It's like, use your phone less.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Like you're addicted.

[Benito Skinner]

Be in the present.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You have a problem. Hey. Be in the present part of your treatment program.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. You know what?

[Ad Read Voice]

You are, Mary Beth Bisexual.

[Benito Skinner]

Well, yeah. But you're also my ride or die. Ride or die.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So I think going non verbal is so powerful. And I do it, I think comfortable silence. As we've talked about in previous episodes. It's like sometimes you can go non verbal even around people, and that can be really powerful.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Dissociate at the table. Like, when we're in the car, we're listening to music. We're just non verbal. We're just, like, enjoying, like, existing for a little bit. Not thinking about the state of the world and how scary it is right now. Maybe you're just, like, you're just thinking about happy thoughts.

[Benito Skinner]

Thank you, sweetie. I think you've taught me as well. You know, we can just lay and have Pinky lick the inside of my mouth.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And that's so much power. And being quiet, so much power. In fact, your silence is defining. It's defining. Speaks volumes.

[Benito Skinner]

You might be complicit. So for me, getting bangs in your 30s, I think it's the total energy right now. Next time I want to cut them for you. I think I could cut a good bang.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Totally.

[Benito Skinner]

I could bang you up.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Hide the scissors.

[Benito Skinner]

You know, I love those ones that Courtney Cox has in Scream 3. They're, like, up to her temple, so.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I could never do some like that. But I think it's cool that people can. And they do kill.

[Benito Skinner]

I think you'd kill. I think you'd be really good with the Dakota Johnson.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I know. I'm thinking about it.

[Benito Skinner]

Is it annoying, though? Like, do your eyes feel, like, tickled all day?

[Mary Beth Barone]

No.

[Benito Skinner]

They don't feel tickled?

[Mary Beth Barone]

No. If anything, it's nice to be touched.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah, that's. Yeah, that's what I said to the brony who came up and touched my arm. It's just nice to Be touched. I'm sobbing. She's like, fucking freak. She goes, okay, yeah, so I ride for it. How could I not? I'm so proud of you for doing it. When you sent me the first photo, I gasped. It really, like, woke me up.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Well, I had a Burberry event that night.

[Benito Skinner]

I know you did. Ye. Well, of course I could tell you what you were wearing. Like, I know everything that you do and say and have lived and think. Yeah. So. But yeah, what a great example for the. The Bronies, like, go out there also, I think, take risks. Can I just say, yours don't feel like a huge commitment and change. Maybe it's a tiptoe. Let's see how they look before we commit to it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Totally.

[Benito Skinner]

Although I think, like, fuck it, let it rip. Hair grows.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Either or. Either or.

[Benito Skinner]

I say that. But it's also, like, a bad haircut could send me into psychosis. So I don't know, you know, maybe.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You'Re full of shit.

[Benito Skinner]

So this is the last episode. I want to thank all of you for just being sweet, being along for the ride. I want to thank my friend. Love you. Because I love my friend. I'm sorry to. To do this.

[Mary Beth Barone]

My heart breaks when things end, but I think you're both incredible people.

[Benito Skinner]

Thank you, honey.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And I just look forward to watching what you guys do next. Both in and out of sucking and fucking work wise, too.

[Benito Skinner]

Should we say Grandpa Terry forever?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Grand Grandpa Terry forever.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, my.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Exit Benny, babe. Eyes on the road.

[Benito Skinner]

Benny. Go. Ride. Ride.

[Mary Beth Barone]

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