IT'S A HITCHHIKE

Summary

Ride with Benito Skinner and Mary Beth Barone

Episode: IT'S A HITCHHIKE
Release Date: March 26, 2025
Host/Authors: Benito Skinner & Mary Beth Barone

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1. Celebrating Heritage Month Finale

Timestamp: [12:00 – 13:17]

In the finale of their Heritage Month celebration, Benito and Mary Beth decide to keep the episode intimate by featuring only themselves, avoiding random guest appearances. Mary Beth shares feedback from listeners who prefer consistency over unexpected guests, emphasizing their commitment to maintaining a familiar and trustworthy environment for their audience.

Notable Quote:

Mary Beth Barone [13:01]: "We didn't want to just get a guest that felt random because we... don't get guests that feel random. So we're not gonna do that."

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2. An Unforgettable Evening with Lady Gaga

Timestamp: [21:20 – 26:38]

Benito recounts his experience moderating a press conference for Lady Gaga in New York. He describes Gaga as a phenomenal artist and a genuine person who deeply appreciates her fans. Mary Beth echoes his sentiments, highlighting Gaga's unwavering support for the LGBTQ+ community and her ability to create a loving and inclusive atmosphere.

Notable Quotes:

Benito Skinner [22:27]: "I just got to be with my... my girly pop, and I got to meet Gaga at this Mayhem press event."

Mary Beth Barone [25:17]: "She has never turned her back on the queer community. And she was writing for the LGBTQ+ before it was chic."

The hosts express admiration for Gaga's authenticity and the strong community she fosters, drawing parallels to the supportive environment they aim to create with their podcast.

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3. Defining Ride's Core Values

Timestamp: [14:03 – 14:22]

Benito and Mary Beth outline the core values that guide their podcast and personal lives. They emphasize the importance of passion, love, science, and an open-minded approach to the unknown.

Core Values:

1. Do What You Love: Pursue your passions as long as they don’t harm others.
2. Love is the Most Powerful Force: Emphasizing love as a central theme in life and interactions.
3. Believe in Science and Vaccines: Trusting scientific advancements and public health measures.
4. Believe in Ghosts: Embracing the mysteries of the universe and remaining open to the unexplained.

Notable Quote:

Mary Beth Barone [14:10]: "We believe in science, vaccines, and then shortly thereafter, we believe in ghosts."

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4. Listener Engagement: The Hitchhike Segment

Timestamp: [21:34 – 52:30]

The episode features the "Hitchhike" segment where listeners submit voice notes expressing what they "ride for." Benito and Mary Beth engage with these submissions, providing humorous and heartfelt responses.

Highlights:

• Songs That Break Hearts: Various listeners share their favorite emotional songs that elicit strong feelings. The hosts discuss the power of music in evoking emotions and personal memories.

  Notable Quotes:

  Stephanie [30:37]: "Cashmere Pulaski day by Sufjan Stevens. No matter, Sufjan did a lot for the songs that break your heart."

  Benito Skinner [31:13]: "Skeletons. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Kills me. Absolutely wrecks me."

• Creative Expressions and Humorous Interactions: Listeners suggest quirky and amusing reasons to "ride for," such as "Tiny Little Tops" and "Dinner Drunk," which Benito and Mary Beth respond to with witty banter and laughter.

  Notable Quotes:

  Benito Skinner [42:50]: "I love that we targeted like two rancid at Kitson. I'm like, really?"

  Mary Beth Barone [45:11]: "Put that on a T-shirt."

• Personal Anecdotes and Community Stories: The hosts share personal stories about handling awkward social situations, emphasizing the importance of community support and shared experiences.

  Notable Quotes:

  Mary Beth Barone [38:19]: "I had to go to a dentist in Hollywood and... found them on Zocdoc and thank God I had that option."

  Benito Skinner [47:37]: "He gets embodied. It's crazy. And I just kind of say bye and, and he found his way back home, but I was kind of like, he's missing."

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5. Addressing Personal Challenges and Growth

Timestamp: [10:35 – 12:10]

Benito opens up about his struggle with rosacea, a condition he initially mistook for dermatitis. After a diagnosis, he shares his journey towards simpler skincare routines and the impact of using effective products like the De La Cruz sulfur mask.

Notable Quotes:

Benito Skinner [10:41]: "I did get into see a dermatologist, and I had, I believe it's called rosacea."

Mary Beth Barone [11:55]: "It's fabulous."

Benito and Mary Beth discuss the importance of self-care and the positive changes they've made in their routines to address personal health challenges.

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6. Upcoming Season and Future Plans

Timestamp: [49:30 – 51:17]

As the episode wraps up, Benito and Mary Beth hint at exciting plans for the next season, including more listener interactions and new segments. They express enthusiasm about continuing to engage with their community and explore diverse topics.

Notable Quotes:

Mary Beth Barone [49:16]: "We have so many more to get through. And you said all you need to say and you ate that."

Benito Skinner [50:03]: "We're gonna open season three with it. I go, I don't know why this person's famous."

They also touch on the humorous and candid aspects of their friendship, promising more relatable and entertaining content for their audience.

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7. Closing Remarks and Final Thoughts

Timestamp: [52:30 – 53:04]

In their final moments, Benito and Mary Beth reflect on the episode's highlights and the strong connection with their listeners. They encourage continued engagement and express gratitude for the support received.

Notable Quotes:

Benito Skinner [52:47]: "Thanks so much for hopping in the car. I'mma let you make me do. Plug your ears, Amelia."

Mary Beth Barone [53:04]: "Please note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services."

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Key Takeaways:

• Community and Inclusivity: The hosts emphasize creating a supportive and inclusive environment, drawing inspiration from influential figures like Lady Gaga.
• Personal Growth: Both Benito and Mary Beth share personal challenges and growth, highlighting the importance of self-care and authenticity.
• Listener Engagement: The "Hitchhike" segment showcases the strong bond between the hosts and their audience, fostering a sense of community.
• Humor and Relatability: Through their witty banter and candid discussions, Benito and Mary Beth make the podcast relatable and entertaining.
• Future Excitement: They hint at exciting plans for the next season, promising more engaging content and listener interactions.

This episode of "Ride with Benito Skinner and Mary Beth Barone" successfully blends personal stories, listener engagement, and mutual support, reinforcing the podcast's commitment to being a space for meaningful and entertaining conversations.

Transcript

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[Mary Beth Barone]

Hey, can you come pick me up? Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

What's wrong?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Nothing.

[Benito Skinner]

Are you sure?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah, no, I just need a ride, ride, ride. I just want to have fun.

[Benito Skinner]

Start your engine.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Take it.

[Benito Skinner]

I'm Benito Skinner.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I'm Mary Beth Barone and this is Ride Ride.

[Benito Skinner]

Emilia.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I'm going to start eating into the mic again.

[Benito Skinner]

I just told Mary to stop eating in the mic.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Penny just flipped out. He's. He just threw a table and a TV screen.

[Benito Skinner]

That was not a flip out. No, he was just like, don't do this to me.

[Mary Beth Barone]

He was like, can you stop eating into the microphone?

[Benito Skinner]

Absolutely fair.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But when you hear me eating into the mic, that's the same thing I hear when you sing that. Do you get that?

[Benito Skinner]

And you know what? It's funny. I watched the video of that woman singing Amelia Perez. I have no idea what was going.

[Mary Beth Barone]

On at the Oscars.

[Benito Skinner]

Did they win first? What did they win?

[Mary Beth Barone]

I think they won best song.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, and then she had to.

[Mary Beth Barone]

They tried to start a sing along. From what I understand, she had to.

[Benito Skinner]

Show off the chords. Yeah, the old chords, the old. The old VCs.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I didn't see it, but I don't want to hear it. Certainly. And yet you have been sort of doing it sort of non stop. So I welcome the Make Me Tudo era because that's what that. We just flipped into that when we were in the parking lot.

[Benito Skinner]

Imma let you make me too. That was just a quick little thing I did for Mary Beth this morning. No, I don't know why. Hearing you eat just now. Sometimes I love hearing people eat. Like I watch ASMR videos of it, but I have to electively choose to hear it. I've just been in a lot of editing booths and like people quietly eating chips and I'm just Like, while you edit. Well, yeah, there's like, snacks. I mean, we're kind of like in the. The editing bay all day, so I'm like, of course I want you guys to have your snackies and stuff. Just like, don't get that near me. Yeah, in a way, is kind of how I'm feeling.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And that's fair.

[Benito Skinner]

It's almost like I. Yeah, I triggered.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You in a lot of ways.

[Benito Skinner]

Well, I feel it in my bones, if that makes sense.

[Mary Beth Barone]

No. Yeah. And I think while we're on the topic of eras, you had sort of an explosive introduction to an era last night, which was where you told me to say, different Vogues, different editions of Vogue, and you did the pose that you would do for the Vogue.

[Benito Skinner]

Well, I showed you. I've got that international smile.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Right.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And. And on that note, thanks for bringing that up. So I don't want to bring up the Reddit on every episode, but someone did post being like, I'm a Barone, but dot, dot, dot, Katy Perry frown face, and I'm like, okay. If we quote a song or if we talk about a person, we're not condoning their politics. We're not saying we agree with everything they've ever done. We were singing a song that was very popular.

[Benito Skinner]

Can't stress enough. There's kind of no one except you. Who? I and Terry. Sometimes Terry like women. And I don't really do that bit anymore.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

Whoa.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's on the way of the clog.

[Benito Skinner]

It's gone the way of the clock about it. I'll bring it back right now. Come on. Old school. But, yeah, it's like, even a candidate, like, when I'm voting, I'm like, no, I don't agree with everything they believe in. Like, that would be insane. In fact.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So we can't have a podcast if everything we say is going to be dissected in that way. There are times when we're wrong, and we'll totally own up to that. And that's what's great about the pod, is we can, like, address concerns all the time in real time.

[Benito Skinner]

I know you're sitting at dinner with your grandparents, and I have yet to meet a grandparent who wasn't sketchy as hell. Come on, don't give me that. I know your dad's saying some weird shit at the dinner table and you're still posing with him for the Christmas card, so.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Hey, we're your parents. We're imperfect.

[Benito Skinner]

You don't judge me, I don't judge you.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I don't judge you, and we have a lot to learn. But I don't want to be scared to bring up the song Colors of the Wind that you played me in the car yesterday, because people are going to say that Pocahontas, the movie from Disney, was insensitive, inaccurate, and ultimately, like, sent a bad message. I just want to be able to talk about certain things without having to do a disclaimer again. Certain things go without saying. Give us the benefit of the doubt.

[Benito Skinner]

You know, Tony, Terry for a while was like, it sounds like legal jargon before you talk about something.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And I'm like, we have no choice.

[Benito Skinner]

We have no choice. We have no choice, darling. But here's the thing. I do want to talk about Colors of the Wind. And then I'm going to get into Vogue Singapore. Hey, look at that range, Jackson. So Disney plus was like, do you want to watch Pocahontas? And this was, like, one of my favorite movies as a kid. Of course. Just. I can't even get into the levels of Fuck a Tree. It is. But what I can say is that Colors of the Wind play that shit in the car and have your kids sing it back to you. Oh, my God.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Some really big messages.

[Benito Skinner]

You think you own whatever land you land on. Are you kidding me?

[Mary Beth Barone]

My favorite line is, it is the bobcat grins. You think the only people who are people are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger in their hokas, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.

[Benito Skinner]

How high does the sycamore grow? If you cut it down, you'll never know.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Stop. I have.

[Benito Skinner]

The library is open.

[Mary Beth Barone]

The library is open.

[Benito Skinner]

John Smith.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah. So in.

[Benito Skinner]

That's all I want to say.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I just think that's a great example of. We. We love the song, and the song has a lot of really great messages. We're not saying that the movie is a perfect film.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. As a kid, I. I did think it opened my eyes to quite a few things. I mean, if that song is, like, ingrained in my brain, I feel good about that.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And you. You're with a nature girl, a horse girl. So maybe it's because of that.

[Benito Skinner]

And he's. Oh, he showed me all the colors of the wind. Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And I love that.

[Benito Skinner]

Wait, I'm just thinking of the bobcat grins also. There's, like, otters in it, too. It's like Pocahontas. There are easier ways.

[Mary Beth Barone]

There are easier ways.

[Benito Skinner]

Disney. She's a great heroine. Okay, so Vogue Singapore. There was just this thing. I knew that I had hurt you by singing.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Amelia, you offered me an olive branch.

[Benito Skinner]

It's just. It's. It's hard.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Here's what I'll say on that, too.

[Benito Skinner]

You get one bite every time I. Every time I sing it, you get.

[Mary Beth Barone]

One bite into the mic way. We're not saying we liked the movie. I didn't watch it.

[Benito Skinner]

Hey, can I just say. Of course we're not saying we liked that movie.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I say out of respect for the trans community as an ally, I did not watch the film. And if anybody wants to tell me that watching it makes me a better ally, I absolutely will. What I gathered online from the discourse was to not watch it.

[Benito Skinner]

Yes. So I knew I had to make it up to you before we watched we need to Talk about Kevin, and.

[Mary Beth Barone]

We meant to start the episode with that.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, yeah, wait. We need to Talk about Kevin. So.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So, Kevin.

[Benito Skinner]

That film is unbelievable. Tilda Swinton, you are such. Oh, God. And can I just say, we don't agree with anything Ezra Miller does.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Do you see? What a fucking.

[Benito Skinner]

How does this grow if you cut it down?

[Mary Beth Barone]

You know the game Minesweeper? It's sort of. That's like having a podcast.

[Benito Skinner]

No, it is.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's just. You can't walk without stepping in shit. It's so hard.

[Benito Skinner]

It's like playing lava at the mall and the tiles run out, literally.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So, yeah, think about it, Tilda, we love you. Oh, my God. A movie. I never. I had never seen it, which is so weird because I really like fucked up movies and I. I think I just, like, heard so much about it that I. I don't know, I felt like I'll watch it one day, and then last night was the day that I watched it.

[Benito Skinner]

I just think it's brilliant. I think any movie like that, that shows you a different side and a different story of the human condition in motherhood. The. The biggest trigger warning ever. I would definitely read what it's about before you watch, but. Holy. Yeah, so we were about to watch that and I just thought, I gotta cheer my girl up. So I did this thing kind of inspired by. Is it Coco Rocha, the model? Yeah, I. I can't. Her flare was definitely there because, boy, does she do it with chair.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, my God, You've seen that video. She doesn't give a damn what people think.

[Benito Skinner]

Shapes. New shapes. So I just said Vogue Singapore. And then I just went boom. And I gave you this pose and you immediately knew it was exactly how I'd pose in the pages.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You jumped up and you just. You kicked your legs out a little bit.

[Benito Skinner]

And I turned to you, hands on hips.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

Boom. That's the shot. One, two, three. Boom. Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Then I hit you with Hong Kong and then Australia.

[Benito Skinner]

Australia was so good. It was covering the nuts and jumping up in Canada. Oh, Canada was really good. I grabbed my arm and it's more sensitive. Give me another. I could do this for.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Remember what I threw out last night? France, maybe.

[Benito Skinner]

We never did France. I haven't shown you France. Korea was. I got up on the fireplace and turned back. So it would be kind of an action shot, very in motion. And you know that they would kind of do that thing where it's like almost a little blurry with my movement.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Totally.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. Oh, Spain. It had a flamenco.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Totally. I mean, every country I threw out, you totally nailed the pose. And I was just like, well, when do we get to see it? Cuz I do need to see it.

[Benito Skinner]

And you're going to see it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I need to see it.

[Benito Skinner]

Rans kind of like sends me. I think that would just be portrait me down the barrel at you, the viewer. I'm serious.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I look forward to flipping the pages of did.

[Benito Skinner]

Like, that was Hong Kong. Oh, Hong Kong.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

No, that was Singapore. Hong Kong actually was the kick up.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, that's right. Singapore was you sort of doing like, both your legs are bent.

[Benito Skinner]

I just thought about Vogue China. I went full, like.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, my God. I went elbows forward, elbows leading with elbows and like, down. Really scolding. And I probably have big eyebrows for.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And. And making your back into a C shape.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah, of course. Oof.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Well, it was a powerful exercise.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, wait. And British Vogue.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Mm.

[Benito Skinner]

Full smile.

[Mary Beth Barone]

British Vogue, full smile.

[Benito Skinner]

Smile turned hand on chest.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

Wow.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Wow. I do have the video. I feel like you're not gonna let me post it, but I had a.

[Benito Skinner]

Sulfur mask on and I had no shirt on.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But people want to see that.

[Benito Skinner]

Well, I'm fine with that.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

So here's the thing. Sulfur. Shout out Sophie Pavitt. She was like, I've been trying to get my skin back. I obviously had dermatitis for about 10 years.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You want to tell them what. What happened, though?

[Benito Skinner]

What?

[Mary Beth Barone]

That it wasn't dermatitis.

[Benito Skinner]

So here's the thing, and I. I hate to say this, because healthcare. I know, it's a. And you'll call a dermatologist office and be like, hey, can you get me in? And they're like, yeah, we have an opening. Oh, just kidding. We're totally booked for the next 10 years, I guess you'll have good skin next decade. Nina Drama's running it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

She's the receptionist.

[Benito Skinner]

Hang up. Good luck. Yeah, I did get in to see a dermatologist, and I had, I believe it's called rosacea.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Rosacea.

[Benito Skinner]

And so that kind of. That shook me to my core. The library was open. He was like, boom, boom. This is what it is. Like, this is what you've been doing. This is wrong. But I will say, you guys, it's been doing less. It's been simplifying. And you can't tell by my bathroom, but I'm only using a couple products.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Well, that's why there's so many in there, because they're not getting used.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah, I'm gonna put them all in a box and. Yeah, give them to my loved ones. Hey, here's some used face products. I love you guys.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And I didn't. They didn't work for me, but maybe they'll work for you.

[Benito Skinner]

Sorry I've been so distant. But here's the thing. I have been using this sulfur mask. It's De La Cruz sulfur mask. You can literally get it for like $8. And I use it 10 minutes a night. Are you seeing the results I'm seeing?

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's. I mean, I've never seen your skin like this. Truth be told, it's been a while. It's fabulous.

[Benito Skinner]

I would have loved this a while ago. But you know what? Sometimes you find it and it's working. So I'm gonna go with this for a while. If I change anything, I'll let you know.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Keep us posted.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, and I had something to say that was really. It just. It's one of those things that I heard and I. I thought to myself, I can't believe I haven't said this on Ride or started an episode with this. I don't got a single problem with provocative. Gracie Abrams said that. And maybe that's Ride season two.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I think it's definitely Ride season two.

[Benito Skinner]

Very. I don't got a single problem with provocative.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah, I don't either.

[Benito Skinner]

What I would do.

[Mary Beth Barone]

See, Come see my stand up.

[Benito Skinner]

Clip that.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Come see my stand up. You know what I mean?

[Benito Skinner]

Speaking of songstresses. Amelia.

[Mary Beth Barone]

No, sorry. One thing I want to say so before we get into the Hitchhike. So this is the Hitchhike episode. Welcome to the finale of Ride Heritage Month. We didn't have a guest. We just said, you know what? We're going to keep it paired down. We're going to keep it mom and dad.

[Benito Skinner]

It's family.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's family.

[Benito Skinner]

We have some really fun guests coming next season. That's what we're thinking maybe more of like a kickoff heritage feels like for us. Hey, this one's for us.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

First take was for you. Second take this for us.

[Mary Beth Barone]

We didn't want to just get a guest that felt random because we. We honestly, the big feedback that we got was don't get guests that feel random. So we're not gonna do that.

[Benito Skinner]

Or just don't you dare get guests in that room. But we're like, okay, it just might be fun to have, like a couple.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

But, yeah, we've never. It's never been a guest based pod. Imagine. I have so much respect for people who do a guest every week, the.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Research, and then just like, thinking, like, what if they're a bad guest? And then the people who listen are gonna hate them forever.

[Benito Skinner]

How do you stand that many people? It's like what I was saying about, I got asked on the red carpet at Vanity Fair who I was, who I was excited to meet inside. First thing that came into my mind, estheticians. I'm like, I wonder if there are any estheticians in there. And. Well, who'd you say? Peter Thomas Roth?

[Mary Beth Barone]

I said, is Peter Thomas Roth.

[Benito Skinner]

Dennis Growth in there.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Is Dr. Jart here? Because I'd love to just shake their hand because.

[Benito Skinner]

Whoa, I'm getting sweaty thinking about that. Meeting heroes.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Your heroes. So right now, as we record this, we have not finished ride core values, but we will post on the day that this comes out.

[Benito Skinner]

Yes.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Just to give you a hint of what we're thinking. So, number one, do what you love. As long as it's not hurting anyone, obviously.

[Benito Skinner]

That's so good.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Then love is the most powerful thing in the universe. Then we believe in science, vaccines, and then shortly thereafter, we believe in ghosts. So that's just a little bit what we're working on.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. But it's so women and queer people on carpets just absolutely kills me. Straight men get asked, hey, handsome. Hey, stud, you got any farts for us? And then for us, they're like, what do you think of the political landscape right now? And I'm like, just to be clear, I'm at a lip gloss event. But, hey, let's get into it for.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Straight guys, it's like they'll go viral for making eye contact with the interviewer. Like, Andrew Garfield serves up smoldering eye contact with red carpet interviewer. And then it's like, Benny Drama. Benny Drama has misstep. Discussing the repeal of Oberf. The red carpet. What? Wait, that's not what it's for. It's for fun. We're having fun.

[Benito Skinner]

I'm like, time and place. You're hitting me. I just got. I got asked this question that was so deep, and I was like, I can't stress enough that the collar of my shirt is choking me.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's getting tighter and.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. And I'm like, I, I. The. The lights are making me physically sick, and I really want some, like, beef jerky right now or just a Diet Coke. So I don't know if I can answer this in. In the way that I'd like to, because I would like to. If this is my statement on that, I'd love. And have it be, you get one shot. Literally, they're like, what's it like to have a vest on? You know what I mean? They're like, hey, handsome. Did you brush your hair? I do want to say something to the Bronies, though. It's really scary to be posted on places where, you know it's not your hometown.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's an away game.

[Benito Skinner]

It's an away game. And I see the comments sometimes, and I try not to, because obviously, as I read last week, they can sometimes be really scary. Sometimes Terry points them out to me, and they're like, taika. And it's all of you guys. And it really does mean a lot. I don't know. I really appreciate it. It makes me feel less, like, absolutely terrified.

[Mary Beth Barone]

We're so grateful for you. We can't wait to show you overcompensating. I think it's going to be so fun, and you're going to feel like there's some stuff that, you know, little Easter eggs and stuff.

[Benito Skinner]

It literally, I'm playing games with the kids in this one. Absolutely. This video podcast is sponsored or brought to you by Squarespace.

[Mary Beth Barone]

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[Benito Skinner]

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[Benito Skinner]

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[Benito Skinner]

I do think I have to talk about meeting Capital H E R.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Is.

[Benito Skinner]

This too long of an intro? I mean, why not? We're in the car. We're in the car. Hey, they're in the back seat. We just picked them up. They get to hear us talk for a while.

[Mary Beth Barone]

We're Gonna get through the hitchhikes. I mean, they're short voice notes. So basically how the hitchhike will work. We got emails, and they were very explicit instructions on how to submit your hitchhikes. And many of you didn't follow them.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah, to me, I'm like, those are my kids.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Those are my kids. And you know what? Play with form.

[Benito Skinner]

Those are the ones who got the. My sperm. Right. Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So we have a bunch of voice notes. We're going to play the voice note, we're going to respond and say if we ride or not for each individual thing. And then at the end, we'll pick which one we like the most, which one we ride for the hardest, and we would add to the ride sort of lore of it all.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. So here's the deal. I get this call, and it's from my manager, who we share our manager in many ways. I keep it all in the family. Literally. I go to my gym, and who do I see? You. So I get this call, and they're like, lady Gaga is doing a press conference for her fans in New York. Would you want to be the moderator? They want you to moderate it. And I was like, so here's the deal. If Stephanie Germanotta called me to do anything, I'm a be there. Like, you just don't even. Like, of course. That's. That's Mother Monster, and she means the absolute world to me. This is my number one. Like, I already was nervous, but I was like, I have to be there. So I went to New York for the day, and I got to be with my. My girly pop, and I got to meet Gaga at this. This Mayhem press event. Also, the album.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, my God.

[Benito Skinner]

It'll be already out, but it's just like. It's dance pop, electro funk. I just went absolutely feral to it. It's fabulous. But I did get to meet her, and she's perfect. Can I just say, she is so goddamn tiny. And I held her in my arms, and we connected, and she met my wife, which was good. I'm really glad the girls could talk to me and. But I just kind of got to, like, sit down and shoot the shit with. With Ms. Gaga. And my God, do I love this woman even more than I did before, which I didn't think was possible.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Me too. You completely tore. You blew the roof off the place as the moderator.

[Benito Skinner]

Thank you, sweetie.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And I was so, like, moved and touched by Lady Gaga's fans who were there. Her. Her top Spotify listeners were there, and they were asking Questions. And they were such thoughtful questions. And her answers were so.

[Benito Skinner]

She's brilliant thought through.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Like, she was funny. She was witt. She was so charming.

[Benito Skinner]

She looked iconic.

[Mary Beth Barone]

She looked incredible. And I just thought, you know what? I really feel that if we put Baronis in a room and they were asking us questions like that it would have been the same sort of energy room full of love. And we.

[Benito Skinner]

We met some Bronze, we met some Bronies. And I knew that because I was like, there's got the Venn diagram. It's almost a perfect circle. I just had so much fun. My. My fear with those things is I never want to get in the way of fans, because I know if I was in the crowd, I'd be like, you're getting in the way. So I tried to be a little bit more demure.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You were so demure.

[Benito Skinner]

And Christmas, I wanted to be mindful, but I had my little glasses on, and she just made me feel so amazing. Like, that is. She's a true star, but also just like, such a lovely person.

[Mary Beth Barone]

She said something, and when you were. When you guys were chatting and you were like, God, like, I'm such a fan. It is so amazing to meet you. And she's like, it's amazing for me to meet you. Like, my fans are why I do all of it. And I just. Like, I'm getting chills.

[Benito Skinner]

No, I.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But, like, her saying that was just like, oh, my God. Like. Like, I don't know. The community she's created and what she's given to queer people and women is.

[Benito Skinner]

Just, like, it's unbelievable.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's unmatched.

[Benito Skinner]

And she was like, I'm nervous to play the album for my fans. Like, this is a little scary for me. But it's also, like, I'm so excited. Like, I'm buzzing. And I could see how passionate she was about it. Also, she went out and listened to the album, the entire album with the fans. She could have just said hi and then. But.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And you know what? She has never turned her back on the queer community. And she was writing for the LGBTQ plus before. It was like, a chic thing to do.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And I just feel like she's such an artist. I walked away from that event thinking, that's a true artist. I always thought that about her. But, like, sometimes it's just so apparent to you, and I just was, like, totally blown away by it.

[Benito Skinner]

Absolutely. I think one of my favorite things is that she recognized a lot of fans that were there because it was. I think it was like, Spotify did top listeners, and I thought that was so cute. She was like, I know who you are. Yeah. She was like, you. I see you all the time. And she knew their names, and, like, I just. Yeah, I. I really. Oh. There was this one moment where she turned, and she's like, I want you to pick of, like, the people in that moment. I was like, I'm attracted to women. Do you know what I mean? But in a totally respectful way.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

But I was just like, I love this woman more than anyone on earth. And then I turned a little bit to the left, and I saw you front row.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Hey. I was just there smiling. Watching two icons interact, it made me.

[Benito Skinner]

So happy and just so fun. She's such a part of the lore of this pod. And I don't speak German, but I can if you like.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And pause up.

[Benito Skinner]

And pause up. Hey, hey. Paws up. Pause up. I got to say paws up to all her fans, and I got to do pause up with her.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, my God. I've, Like, I've lived a thousand years.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's been a good year.

[Benito Skinner]

It's been a good. It's just, like, I feel like, through this, like, the misery of what's going on, we're gonna find communities, and that room felt like a community of people. It did feel like Ride live in a way.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's local politics in a lot of ways.

[Benito Skinner]

It's. It's just like gathering around art with your besties, I think, is what we have right now.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And going to protest globally, act locally.

[Benito Skinner]

Exactly.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Let's do it. All right.

[Benito Skinner]

Let's pick up our kids.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Jackson, hit it. Wait, where are we going?

[Benito Skinner]

Who cares? Ride. My name is Morgan, and I'll be.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Riding through meeting a dead horse. Because there is just something so nostalgic about just getting together with your girlfriends.

[Benito Skinner]

And bringing up a situation that potentially.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Happened five years ago.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, you're in it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You're back.

[Benito Skinner]

It's live.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's happening in front of you. I'm feeling all these feelings from years.

[Benito Skinner]

Ago, and I want to talk about.

[Mary Beth Barone]

The outcome, what could have happened and what didn't happen, and totally, yeah, I'm gonna go around in circles about it until I feel like I've gotten it off my chest.

[Benito Skinner]

In this moment, we are delighted.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Some drama.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, she's still going.

[Mary Beth Barone]

That happened light years ago. I am the call to bring it to.

[Benito Skinner]

I will beat that horse with you. Yeah, but it's so funny that you say this. And, hey, I'm not calling you out, but I think this is okay for me to say I'll text. But she had to do a presentation, and it was for PETA, and she learned that all these things, all these slang things that we say are actually so offensive. And just like, we're not supposed to say two birds with one stone beating a dead horse. Like, why are we always beating the. Out of animals?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Animals are taking. Ls.

[Benito Skinner]

What the. But here's the thing. Absolutely. Terri and I and this girl across from me, we will start from the top.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Pages and pages of texts about things that happened. So. Because you know what?

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

We never forget we were subtweeted after a show at the bell House in 2019. And I will never forget the person that did it. I'll never forget the tweet verbatim. And I will always bring it up when I feel so inclined.

[Benito Skinner]

Absolutely. If I even get a tickle of it, if the wind blows a certain way, I go, whoa, I just remembered that that person did that. So I don't forget this one person acted insane at a Thanksgiving dinner. And sometimes if I'm literally just sitting across from Terry at a dinner, when you've been with someone for, like, almost nine years, you are just kind of like, all right, let's. Let's take it back to the books, of course. Let's see what we have.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Or if you have friends from high school like me. When me and my girls get together from high school, I mean, we're talking about. We play this game called the West Hill game, where you. Everyone has to say someone that we went to high school with, and you start to run out of people. There's 10 of us, and we just. You start with the ones that are really top of mind. And then you start going to deep cuts.

[Benito Skinner]

Terry, one time to someone's face goes, oh, can we talk about your flop era? And we had the funniest conversation. Was like, getting to rehash it when someone was acting so out of pocket for a while, we were like, oh, God, it's so good. And some of the weird things that have happened at weddings. I could talk about it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, my God. When someone makes a fool of themselves at a wedding, it's fodder for the whole family for decades to come, of course. Decades to come. So we beat a dead horse as a family quite quite frequently, I would say. And his friends and I ride for beating a dead horse whenever they come up with a new word for it. I'll certainly work that into rehashing. I don't know, is it that we're Normalizing violence against horses. Because I'm not. I'm not doing that.

[Benito Skinner]

When I say that I think so. I think they're just kind of like, can we think of anything else? And also pointing out why are all these things about us beating animals? And I. I have to agree. I assume this all came from the pilgrims.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, same freaks. Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

Hey, I saw the witch. Morgan, you're amazing. We're still driving. Get out of the car. Okay, who's next? Hop on.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Hi, my name is Stephanie. I am a longtime listener, first time caller, and I will be writing four songs that break your heart. And that doesn't necessarily mean a bad thing because there can be songs that are just so good that make you cry. Like songs that no matter what you hear or when you hear it, they make you cry. It could be a sobbing. It could just be teary. Just songs that make you emotional. For instance, mine is Cashmere Pulaski day by Sufjan Stevens. No matter. Sufian did a lot for the songs that break youk heart.

[Benito Skinner]

Swinging up Sufian in the backseat right now.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's just an absolutely beautiful song and it makes me cry every time I hear it. And it's just.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. Thank you so much, sweetie. Thank you. Hey, thank you for being in the car. Can I just say wow. And oh, my God, do I love this? Because sometimes you just need to have that nasty cry. You need to get it out.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Dion by the Japanese house. Don't bring up Dion Baden to youo by Mazzy Star.

[Benito Skinner]

Keep going.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And then there's a song called I'm God by Clams Casino which samples Imogen Heap. I mean, what's there to say? Songs that break your heart.

[Benito Skinner]

Hey, don't say it. Cry.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I ride for this till the end of time Because I saw it's self harm that I've been doing since high school is listening to songs that make me cry.

[Benito Skinner]

Skeletons. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Kills me. Absolutely wrecks me. Everything by the Japanese house. I would say I know still gets me in a way that I'm like, yeah. And oh, my God, there's this one remix of Charlie's I need your love. It's a Japanese breakfast remix of I need your love. They slow it down. Oh, my God. It literally my whole body chills. And can I just say, some of the scores of overcompensating.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

The over. I don't know if I've said this, but overcompensating the score is by Alex Summers, who's. He's a genius. He did nickel Boys, he's like so. He's incredible. But it was also produced by George Daniel of the 1975Amber Payne Japanese House and Charlie XCX. And my God, girl, we got some hits.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So you have the Japanese house, you have Japanese breakfast, and then you have Vogue Japan. And those are all things we've talked about today.

[Benito Skinner]

Do you understand that? He's got that international smile.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Shall we move on?

[Benito Skinner]

It's all a circle. Oh, wait. I think there are more songs, though. Oh. Oh, fix you.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, my God. So Era.

[Benito Skinner]

Well, how could you not be?

[Mary Beth Barone]

I mean, a huge Coldplay era.

[Benito Skinner]

And when did it stop?

[Mary Beth Barone]

When. Never did. But when things are really bad, like, like nationally, on a federal level, I just really get back into Coldplay. The Scientists by Coldplay.

[Benito Skinner]

Yellow. And it was all Yellow Linger and.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And the Royal Otis Linger cover, for that matter.

[Benito Skinner]

Jesus Christ. There are so many others. All like Frank Ocean songs really get.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Me in a crazy way.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, God, you didn't. Ivy, I thought that I was dreaming.

[Mary Beth Barone]

When you said you love me. No, stop. Because I will just start.

[Benito Skinner]

Stop him. Nothing. No chance to. Melia. Okay, that kind of.

[Mary Beth Barone]

That was a miscarriage of justice.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Don't do that again.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah, Stephanie, you really tore that. And at the end, we're going to choose one that's like a really standout. You really. You came to play with that?

[Mary Beth Barone]

You're. You've both set the bar pretty high up now.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. Yeah. Okay, let's do this.

[Mary Beth Barone]

My name is Julia and I ride for Tiny Little Tops.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, this is. I wish that was it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

We can stop it there.

[Benito Skinner]

Let's stop it there. You said all you need to say and you ate that. Okay, Julia, Tiny Little Tops.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Could you be speaking to a more to a warmer room about tiny little tops?

[Benito Skinner]

Honey, it's hot in here. Sauna. I. A tiny little top. I just got one at a vintage store. I thought, is this too tight? And then I laughed to myself. I chuckled.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Do you know how many shirts I can bring on a trip with me because they're so small?

[Benito Skinner]

50.

[Mary Beth Barone]

50 plus. I fold them up into little squares.

[Benito Skinner]

Sometimes I see them and I go, dam am.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You say that's a shirt?

[Benito Skinner]

Well, no, I don't. I say, perfect. She's got her handkerchiefs for the week. Anything can be a top for you. And I think the tinier the better. I love you and your little ride. Crappy to do dad today.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You know what's heritage? What's girly heritage is going into your mom's closet and getting a designer Scarf and you fold it into a triangle and you make it a tube top.

[Benito Skinner]

As I said, you can make anything.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Anything can be a shirt. But that's seen you do this, it's hard to know what to pair it with. I would say, well, of course.

[Benito Skinner]

But that's the challenge. That's the style challenge.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Exactly. That's the challenge. Category is make a scarf into a top. Do you know what you say when you say it's something is gay. What's so wearing a skirt as a top.

[Benito Skinner]

So wearing a skirt as a top. The library was so fucking open.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Well, she ended homophobia.

[Benito Skinner]

She really, like I talk about someone.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Who was on the side of the LGBTQ + community before it was chic. She knew people said gay all the time in the early 2000s, and she said, you know what? I'm gonna do a PSA about this. Yeah, brave. Especially as a Disney kid. They were very non controversial.

[Benito Skinner]

You know, my one thing with that is I don't know if I saw a lot of women saying things were gay. I love that we targeted like 2 rancid at Kitson. I'm like, really? I. I don't know if that was. If. Yeah, it's just totally gay. When she says totally gay, I'm like, I just. That seems so girl wearing a skirt as a top.

[Mary Beth Barone]

That's really. That's a really good point.

[Benito Skinner]

Do you know what I mean? I'm like, I. But I guess Hillary like what, she pops in the locker room, the dressing room. You know, when you say so gay, it's kind of like.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But it's kind of like saying something's bad.

[Benito Skinner]

You know what's amazing about that? It's very. What's happening right now, which now liberals are being mean. It's the Regina Georgification of liberals. And she kind of did that. I was fresh off of being at Bush's inauguration. She said, wait, I up.

[Mary Beth Barone]

She said, hang on, hang on, hand.

[Benito Skinner]

You're so funny to me today. I wonder if our kids are laughing in the back.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I hope they are.

[Benito Skinner]

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[Mary Beth Barone]

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[Benito Skinner]

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[Mary Beth Barone]

I love that you read that as if Home Chef knows that struggle. Like Home Chef knows that struggle.

[Benito Skinner]

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[Mary Beth Barone]

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[Benito Skinner]

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[Mary Beth Barone]

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[Mary Beth Barone]

Thank you Home Chef.

[Benito Skinner]

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[Mary Beth Barone]

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[Benito Skinner]

So I remember this.

[Mary Beth Barone]

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And it really is instant. I will say like you get it within the day. It's really fabulous.

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[Benito Skinner]

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[Benito Skinner]

Like, you mean the world.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You go to someone's house and it smells super weird. Leave.

[Benito Skinner]

That's so you at the Margiela store.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And someone's making you uncomfortable.

[Benito Skinner]

You just left. You. I don't like the smell in here.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You go to a restaurant and it's just, like, gross.

[Benito Skinner]

You did that Leave. Yeah. You restaurant.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And I just got up. I said, I'm at the wrong place. Like, I just feel like we waste so much of our time.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Not leaving. Staying places because we feel like it's polite and we have to be polite. When really it's like, just leave. Who cares? Leave. Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

Bye.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I have to go.

[Benito Skinner]

I'm liking it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Okay. What a powerful message to send to the girls. If you are able to extricate yourself from a situation you don't want to be in, you should leave.

[Benito Skinner]

I, I. Unfortunately, I don't know where Irish Exit came from, and God knows it's probably not good. I already have chills. I'm thinking, oh, God.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Well, there it goes. There goes the podcast.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. Oh, damn it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

We're done saying vaccines cause autism. Fine. Yeah. Using the phrase Irish Exit. Not fine.

[Benito Skinner]

Not fine. Good luck. You're done. Bye. Give me the microphone.

[Mary Beth Barone]

The contract has been terminated.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. So I do this at every party, especially if I'm there without Terry. I just don't think you need to say goodbye to 50 people. And it's like, go home and go to bed.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Nourish your soul. Go to bed.

[Benito Skinner]

Eight hours.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I do realize sometimes how probably difficult it is to be friends with me in certain situations, because I will just, like, leave. Like, I'll just be like, I have to leave. Like, I just can't be here. I can't.

[Benito Skinner]

You're a creature of comfort. I do think I push you, though.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You do. But I did leave your birthday party because someone's perfume was too strong. But I also had a parasite, and you told me it was. I did, but you looked like a.

[Benito Skinner]

Bond girl at it. And we Already got our photo and we had a whole dinner together.

[Mary Beth Barone]

We had a dinner.

[Benito Skinner]

You're forgetting that you fully had a full night.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I had a dinner. I ate steak with a parasite. Because I go, I can't sit at this dinner table with Benny's La Familia and not eat anything. So I did. I did do that, but I had to leave because I don't want to have a headache.

[Benito Skinner]

Well, of course.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I just can't, like, if I. I am a huge proponent of leaving, and you're talking honestly, not even going. I'm a huge proponent. I'm just not even going in the first place.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. Can we say this? Don't go. Don't go. Stay home. I'm learning how to do this. So thank you for inspiring me. I'm learning how to just leave. I can't do it. What I found is that sometimes if my. Like, if my body sore, like, my low back sore, and I, like, haven't had my coffee bean. Like, sometimes I just need to leave and, like, take a sec.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You don't have to always be available.

[Benito Skinner]

And I want to be for people, but sometimes it's about leaving. And also, if somebody makes you feel really terrible, you don't have to be there. Get out.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I want to shout someone out in season three who I don't think should be famous. That's all I'm gonna say.

[Benito Skinner]

I can't wait for that.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I cannot fucking wait. We're gonna open season three with it. I go, I don't know why this person's famous. They've never said one funny thing. They're kind of disgusting, and I think we need to move on from them.

[Benito Skinner]

Cool.

[Mary Beth Barone]

No. Shockingly not. Not the one I was thinking of.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. Okay. I can't wait.

[Mary Beth Barone]

All right, let's go to the next one.

[Benito Skinner]

Hi, Ride.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's Emily, and I'm riding for Pit Stains because somebody needs to.

[Benito Skinner]

Thanks. Okay. She has got. Wait.

[Mary Beth Barone]

She has star quality.

[Benito Skinner]

Sorry. Sometimes if a star hits you in a way that you just. It takes your breath away. She just ate that.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I mean, pit stains. Talk about a human experience.

[Benito Skinner]

You know what I should have died for? I don't know if I die as much for this as I do for Teslas, but sweat shaming. I am so sick of people being like, oh, is it really hot in here? It's like, yes, it isn't.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And I think you know that.

[Benito Skinner]

Thank God my body is regulating me, because I know yours isn't regulating you. You should be wondering why you're not sweating.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I Agree.

[Benito Skinner]

I'm burning bright and I'm burning hot. And you know what?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

I got pit stains. And I have this thing where sometimes, like, if Terry, I smell his bo, I'm like, that's hot.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I agree.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah, man.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I think some people's bo. What did I say to you in the gym yesterday? I said my BO has crossed over where it smells like food. Almost like it smells like food. And I think if your BO can be contained, like, if I can only smell your BO when my face is in your armpit, great.

[Benito Skinner]

There's something very, like, my brain almost said prehistoric. But isn't it totally free?

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's pheromones. It's pheromones. It's, like, biological.

[Benito Skinner]

But all my white teas, I love when they have a pit stain. And, like, I don't try to wash it out too much. I'm like, I earned these.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's like, hi, I'm out here living.

[Benito Skinner]

Also showing them to people. Oh, I guess I have the right to bear armpits.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I don't get pit stains because, as you know, I don't sweat. But I have never once shamed someone for them. And I think it's a total human experience.

[Benito Skinner]

You're probably jealous. I'm a little jealous because it's sometimes just cute. Like, you have, like, a little cutie patch of it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

As you puke all over the dear media, I will, and.

[Benito Skinner]

I don't give a. Next. Next. Hi, my name is Tiggy, and I ride for dinner drunk. And now dinner drunk is the concept of, I mean, in the name getting drunk at dinner. But here's why it's amazing. Like, yes, a dance and a night out, like in the club or at a bar and dancing, dancing always. That might be my favorite thing, but. But on the contrary. And potentially in compliment to dinner drunk, when you go somewhere, a nice restaurant or a bar where there's food or somewhere with the intention to sit down for a meal and drink or sit down for a snack and drink, mostly a meal. And you get drunk and you're with a group of people and everyone's having a good time and everyone starts getting drunk and everyone's got food. And there's that. That is the pinnacle, that is a pinnacle of a social evening out with the girls, with the guys, or with your guy. Dinner drunk is everything. Dancing always and forever. But dinner drunk first. Dancing always and forever.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But dinner drunk, but first dinner drunk. So that whole thing, I ride for dinner drunk could be on a T shirt. I just want to say that right now. Put that on a T shirt.

[Benito Skinner]

Can we get that, Tiggy? Can we have you?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Can we just.

[Benito Skinner]

Just quick, quick little signature. And. And that's release material straight to store.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So. Wow. I mean, I'm gonna let you go first on this one.

[Benito Skinner]

I mean, of course. And I haven't done this in a while, and you've just inspired me, Tiggy. I guess that's where we're driving right now. Because to me, there's something I'm hearing also in this. It feels like a long meal, which I love. A long dinner. It's like, let's sit in. No little thing. We're going to after. I want to be here for four hours.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And you know what we're going to do at the center? We're going to beat a dead horse on a couple of topics.

[Benito Skinner]

A coup topics. Oh, my God. I'm gonna get an insanely named cocktail.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yep.

[Benito Skinner]

I'm gonna get the pig in the slut. Drink her down. Sip, sip, sip, and go another. And then actually, there's another mezcal one on there I wanted to try. I'm gonna get that, too. And then I'm gonna get an espresso martini and dun, dun, dun.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And then you go home and you just crawl into bed because you're up. You stand up from the table, and the being drunk hits you. Well, here's what happens. Here's how the night progresses. Here's how the night progresses. You sit down. You get one drink.

[Benito Skinner]

Drink.

[Mary Beth Barone]

The food hasn't arrived yet. You get another drink. So then you're feeling pretty buzzed because you haven't eaten yet. And then it's up to everyone at the table to decide how many drinks you're gonna have, because you can't leave the other person hanging. So you're. You're getting another four, five drinks.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, try getting dinner with an agent, honey.

[Mary Beth Barone]

A lunch can be last a lifetime.

[Benito Skinner]

Lunch. Ever heard of lunch drunk? Oh, my God.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You. You start saying stuff that's a little naughty.

[Benito Skinner]

Of course.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You start releasing your hottest takes. And then when you stand up from this dinner, which costs way more than you thought it was going to when you sat.

[Benito Skinner]

Cocktails are $17 each.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Because the cocktails are $17 each. You stand up and you're drunk. You don't realize how drunk you are till you stand up.

[Benito Skinner]

You're drunkard.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And then you stumble outside. You get in your Uber. You maybe fall asleep a little bit.

[Benito Skinner]

And the fresh air feels kind of good. And you're like, go to bed.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You don't even take your makeup off.

[Benito Skinner]

No, but you do.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But you don't. But hey, sometimes you don't.

[Benito Skinner]

But you too.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I do.

[Benito Skinner]

Promise me one day.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I do. Of course I do.

[Benito Skinner]

Of course. I, I, I told you the night I found out that, you know that big question of if something terrible happened to you, would you do your skincare?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Which was posed by a Brooklyn comedian. And many people have co opted the message. But Stephen, we see you and we, we acknowledge the work.

[Benito Skinner]

We acknowledge the work. And I think about it all the time. And I, I have my answer. Yes.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yes.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

When Terry bolted.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. Speaking of Irish exit, Terry just, it's like once every couple years, somebody gives him some liquor and he completely is a run away.

[Mary Beth Barone]

He goes from dinner drunk to being possessed by an alien being. Yeah. Like it's, he's not recognizable.

[Benito Skinner]

No. He gets get embodied. It's crazy. And I just kind of say bye and, and he found his way back home, but I was kind of like, he's missing.

[Mary Beth Barone]

He found his way back home in the morning, to be fair.

[Benito Skinner]

Well, of course. Yeah. I hope he's. And at this point I'm kind of like, I, I'm Terry. I'm not even going to ask if it's okay to say. It's just like it is him and it's, it's a part of him. I love all of him. And he hasn't done it since. This was like three years ago. Four years ago.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah. But I did get a call. Middle of the night, I just, I just ubered from your place and I get a call and Terry's gone. Terry bolted. He made a run for it.

[Benito Skinner]

Can't find Terry. But I am washing my face right now.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You go, I have a paid ad to record.

[Benito Skinner]

Literally. I was like, target's here in the morning.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Coming over to make jean jackets.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. And I was like, oh, God, I'm putting my toner on. He showed up.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I think you got a present out of it too, if I'm not mistaken.

[Benito Skinner]

No, that was the day he took the microphone for a photo shoot. And we were trying to record up and the kids are in the car. I can tell them stories about their parents. Papa.

[Mary Beth Barone]

He needed it as a prop. But he just didn't know we were recording that day.

[Benito Skinner]

No. And I didn't care because everyone was furious at us.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But when we were doing, we would literally take any reason to not record the podcast.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I would be like, oh, I have a hangnail, so yes, you can. I'm so sorry. Sorry.

[Benito Skinner]

Something Caught in my molars. This just not going to work for me.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Free day. We had a free day. Cuz he did that.

[Benito Skinner]

I know. And then I was like, you have to get me a present. You embarrass me in front of 50 people as a joke in front of podcast. Yeah. Literally. I said, do you know how I just looked in front of park cast young man? But I literally immediately. He did get me a top that I still love. And you know what? It's a tiny little top.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I have a picture of you in it.

[Benito Skinner]

Thank you. It says.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It says, eat me from rehearsals of overcompensating. So we do have to wrap up the episode here. And you know what? I was just thinking, because we have so many more that I pulled, we should just do a part two next week. Another hitchhike. What do you say?

[Benito Skinner]

That sounds fabulous. I don't think that.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I just really think we have more of our. Our of our kids to hear from. And I think that could be so fun.

[Benito Skinner]

I agree. I mean, I'm having the time of my life. And also, like, it's kind of giving me new inspirations of rides because I. As we've said so many times, it is so hard to ride for this many things.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It is. And. And not get yourself in hot water.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Which we've already done. Count it five to six times on this episode alone.

[Benito Skinner]

I literally was so. I was like, damn. I almost wrote down Terry's recently because I was like, I don't know what to ride for anymore. Jackson laughs.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You haven't written for sex yet, and maybe that's a season three sort of situation, but I'm ready to hear it.

[Benito Skinner]

I know. I. I love sex.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I know. And I think people are gonna watch overcompensating and that's really gonna come.

[Benito Skinner]

And you love sex too. Sometimes. Women love sex.

[Mary Beth Barone]

No, not much.

[Benito Skinner]

Not much.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I'm kidding. So here's something that I ride for always and forever, and it's going to be leaving. And I think that that's not gonna surprise anyone.

[Benito Skinner]

I could have literally.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's a Might as well be a bullseye.

[Benito Skinner]

I might as well. The second she said leaving, leaving, I went, oh, come on. I mean, done.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I mean, I could have written it myself.

[Benito Skinner]

Mine, I'm gonna have to ride for sad songs.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Songs that break your heart.

[Benito Skinner]

Songs that break your heart. Oh, yeah, exactly. Which. Don't let Sabrina Carpenter hear that title. I see a new album. Imma let you make me do.

[Mary Beth Barone]

That's something where I go, God, we are giving girls Permission to be weird.

[Benito Skinner]

And God, aren't we? And like, can we just do this? We're in the car. No one can hear us.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Remember when you used to just make we sounds with your friends? Like, yeah, we should be allowed to do that in our 30s or however old we are.

[Benito Skinner]

I could hear that in the work. Like, they. But it sounded like everyone recorded it in a closet in their house. So can we ask. Can you guys record our ads for us?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah, because we're doing it from a submersible.

[Benito Skinner]

I. I just think this is amazing. It's how it got me through college, being in love with a straight man. Sad songs. Sometimes you just need a good cry at. And you know what? I will say I also use them during overcompensating when I was doing sad scenes. It really.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's just evocative.

[Benito Skinner]

It's really evocative. It's like a scent, in a way.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Music is so transportative, evocative. And you have those songs where you go, if. If that comes on anywhere. I'm immediately transported.

[Benito Skinner]

I'm a wreck.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Can I tell you something really cool about a breakup?

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Any song that they loved that you hated, you never have to hear again. Isn't that so cool?

[Benito Skinner]

That's amazing.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's about looking on the bright side.

[Benito Skinner]

That must be cool, too, to be like, oh, I didn't like that one friend. I never have to see them again.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's so freeing. And you can unfollow them. Them in a lot of ways and even block them. So cool.

[Benito Skinner]

My new thing is all my. All my girlfriends always want me to follow their boyfriends, but I think they have to be husbands for me to do that because I have had to unfollow people. And I'm just kind of like, I'm sorry you're not with them anymore. I can't see this. I'm not saying that about Edward. I will follow him for the rest of my life. I love that man.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And.

[Benito Skinner]

And as well, you gave me permission if you ever told me not to. Hey, Edward knows this. I've said this to him. If mama wants me gone, I'm gone. Trust.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And I would tell you.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. Yes.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So thank you so much for all the hitchhikes. We have so many more to get through.

[Benito Skinner]

It's so fun, you guys. You just killed it. And you get us. And hey. And we get you. Thanks so much. Thanks so much for hopping in the car. I'mma let you make me do. Plug your ears, Amelia.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I took the headphones off.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, my exit.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Danny, Babe. Eyes on the road. Please note that this episode may contain.

[Benito Skinner]

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