IUDs + Jewelry

Summary

Ride with Benito Skinner and Mary Beth Barone

Episode: IUDs + Jewelry

Release Date: September 24, 2025
Hosts: Benito Skinner & Mary Beth Barone

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Episode Overview

In this engaging, witty episode, Benito and Mary Beth return for another candid conversation, volleying between comedic banter and sincere reflections. The main themes this week are personal adornment—specifically jewelry—and reproductive autonomy, centered on IUDs (intrauterine devices). The besties riff on the power and stories of jewelry, how personal style evolves, and dig deep into their feelings about bodily autonomy and women’s safety. Per usual, their trademark humor, vulnerability, and cultural commentary are on full display.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Escape Rooms, Party Games, and La Dolce Vita (00:40–07:13)

• Escape Room Opinions:

  • Both hosts detest the idea of escape rooms. Mary Beth quips, "Women are actively trying to not be in an escape room. So I don't need to go in there." (01:36)
  • Benito reflects, “I just know that immediately I'd have to fart. Sorry. And then immediately I would be completely worthless.” (01:47)
  • They agree some pursuits reveal incompatible worldviews, likening it to relationship dealbreakers.

• New Party Game by Mary Beth:

  • She pitches a game in which friends each write a "dating profile" for someone in the group. Mass affirmations and funny jabs ensue, culminating with:
    • "He is the best person I know. He is so funny. He's so sexy." – MB about Benito (04:35)
    • Benito’s playful roast/praise: “[Mary Beth] is this stunning, iconic, dry, sharp, deeply brilliant…lately she's been giving Leighton Meester.” (05:00)
  • The conversation is both heartfelt and hilarious, highlighting friendship dynamics.

Reflections on Relationships & Being a Woman (07:13–10:45)

• Queer Relationships & Gendered Dating:

  • Benito shares gratitude for his queer relationship, noting how it “just makes sense” compared to some expectations in straight dating—“Damn, you guys really have to see some crazy things in theaters.” (07:49)
  • Discussion on “splitting meals” as an adorable but not couple-exclusive thing.

• Romantic Comedy Moments:

  • Both reminisce about feeling like they’re “in a movie”—Mary Beth while walking around Williamsburg and Benito after laughing at himself alone. (09:29)
  • “Do you ever have this feeling…we're being filmed?” – Benito (09:59)
  • “That’s just New York.” – Mary Beth (10:42)

Movie Time: Julia Roberts and the Ocean's Franchise (10:51–14:01)

• Delightfully nerdy dissection of Julia Roberts’ meta-cameo in Ocean's Twelve, and how movies break reality when referencing real-life stars.
• “It disrupts the time continuum in a way…they did invent the multiverse, certainly.” – Benito (11:59)
• Praise for Ocean’s 8 as a reliably fun watch: “I watch Ocean's 8 on planes all the time. There's no part in Ocean's 8 where something goes wrong.” – Benito (13:45)

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Album of the Year: Lorde’s Return & Lyric Dissection (17:02–21:02)

• The duo gush over Lorde’s latest album, painting it as both “transparent and opaque” (17:34), and “bones and all…a classic” – Benito (17:16).
• Mary Beth and Benito share favorite tracks and connect lyrics to personal experiences, blending reverence and wit:
  • “Maybe I finally know who I want to be: a grown woman in a baby tee.” – Mary Beth (18:03)
• They agree the album is “so raw, and it's raw fucking. And it's just incredible.” – Benito (21:02)
• Lorde’s “grown woman in a baby tee” and references to “clear blue” and IUD imagery lead directly into this episode’s themes.

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Main Topics: Jewelry & IUDs

Jewelry: Symbols, Personal Histories, and Culture (22:04–32:43)

• Why They Ride for Jewelry

  • Benito: “I don’t wear a ton of jewelry…but I point it out all the time. And I love looking at people’s jewelry.” (21:59)
  • Finds personal freedom in both wearing and not wearing jewelry.

• Women, Men, and Earrings:

  • “Women with their earrings—it's a window into the soul.” – Mary Beth (22:44)
  • Benito: “A man with a hoop. Huge for the culture.” (22:51)

• Mixing Metals, Stacking, and Sentimentality:

  • “I do mix silver and gold. I think that's fine. It's just a personal choice. If you mix it, just commit.” – Mary Beth (23:54)
  • Both discuss sentimental pieces (family necklaces, pins, rings) and the stories they carry.

• Jewelry Mishaps and Anecdotes:

  • Mary Beth’s story of leaving a necklace at a hookup’s apartment, which led to a comedy of errors with the guy’s brother and his fiancée. (27:35–28:57)
  • High school bangle culture, J.Crew statement necklaces, and jewelry as a social marker.

• Personal Growth:

  • Benito on overcoming internalized judgment: “For so long, I was like, I don’t wear jewelry…It feels gay. Well, it’s fucking gay. But…just try it. The water’s warm.” (26:23)

• Final Jewelry Thoughts:

  • “I love jewelry. It’s expression, the details, and it’s beautiful…I like the beauty in it.” – Mary Beth (43:24)
  • Benito: “I love when someone has one earring on and the other's not. Maybe it's not even there. Fuck it.” (43:30)
  • Mary Beth contemplates getting her nipple re-pierced, illustrating jewelry as an evolving personal statement.

IUDs: Inner Jewelry, Safety, and Bodily Autonomy (36:22–42:55)

• Personal IUD Testimony:

  • Mary Beth has a low-dose hormonal IUD: “We fight like sisters…but I do love my IUD.” (36:52)
  • She acknowledges not every IUD experience is ideal, but emphasizes their practical importance, especially now: “As our rights are being stripped away…get the IUD now if you want to.” (37:03)

• How IUDs Work (Or Don’t):

  • The science is still mysterious: “IUDs are so cool because it's science that's more theoretical than anything. We don't know how they work so much…” – Mary Beth (37:03)
  • “Whatever it’s doing to the sperm, it’s mostly working because they’re so effective.” (37:03)

• Cultural & Political Context:

  • The discussion references current threats to reproductive rights.
  • “Bodily autonomy…as our rights are being taken away…just do it.” – Mary Beth (37:43)

• Womanhood & Suffering:

  • Mary Beth laments, “Women are put on this earth to love and to experience joy, and all we get to do is suffer.” (38:14)
  • Benito affirms: “And we force you to make music, i.e. Lorde…Laureate’s IUD is visible on the cover of [Solar Power].” (38:21)
  • Mary Beth gets serious about recent threats to her safety and the resilience and love that women persistently give. (39:33–42:04)

• Summary of Empowerment:

  • Freedoms offered by modern birth control and reminders of the joy women deserve.
  • “Maybe getting an IUD is part of that…Put on a baby tee. A grown woman in a baby tee.” (40:00–40:03)
  • “For anyone who wants an IUD: fuck yeah, hell yeah.” – Benito (40:50)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Women are actively trying to not be in an escape room. So I don’t need to go in there.” – Mary Beth (01:36)
• “He is my best friend…People clamor for his attention because he is such a good friend and a good person.” – Mary Beth to Benito (04:33)
• “If you break her heart—well, good luck getting through me, motherfucker.” – Benito about Mary Beth (05:21)
• “We could just play the party game at a party and your crush gets to hear all the things that your best friends say about you.” – Mary Beth (05:54)
• “For so long, I was like, I don’t wear jewelry…It feels gay. Well, it’s fucking gay. But…just try it. The water’s warm.” – Benito (26:23)
• “IUDs are so cool because it's science that's more theoretical than anything…and I do have a joke about it in my famed Clusterfest set with the blue eyeshadow but we don’t know how they work so much.” – Mary Beth (37:03)
• “Women…we just are beaten and battered…have not just completely hardened our shell to the world, because it’s like we’re just constantly torn down.” – Mary Beth (38:39)
• “I love when someone has one earring on and the other's not. Maybe it's not even there. Fuck it.” – Benito (43:30)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Escape rooms, party game intro: 00:40–07:13
• Friendship compliments party game: 04:28–05:32
• Ocean’s movie dissection / meta moments: 10:51–14:01
• Lorde album discussion / lyric appreciation: 17:02–21:02
• Jewelry as identity and culture: 22:04–32:43
• Jewelry stories, hookups, misplaced necklaces: 27:35–28:57
• IUDs—personal testimony and larger context: 36:22–42:55
• Empowering women, bodily autonomy, safety: 39:33–42:55

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Episode Tone

The episode dances between irreverent, heartfelt, and sharply insightful. Benito and Mary Beth deliver punchy cultural commentary, self-aware jokes, and gentle affirmations that make you feel—either with laughter or unexpected poignancy.

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Final Notes

This episode of Ride delivers both sparkle and substance: jewelry as memory, identity, and empowerment; IUDs as practical freedom in a fraught political moment; and, as always, a celebration of friendship, humor, and the ways we keep each other safe and seen. As Benito says, “We ball. We ride. East Valhalla.”

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Transcript

[Benito Skinner]

The following podcast is a Dear Media production.

[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?

[Podcast Announcer/Ad Reader]

Yeah, no, I just need a ride.

[Benito Skinner]

Ride, ride.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I just want to have fun. Start your engine. Take it.

[Benito Skinner]

I'm Benito Skinner.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I'm Mary Beth Barone and this is Ry.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, no. What? It's not bad, right?

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's so cute.

[Benito Skinner]

Let me see.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's so cute.

[Benito Skinner]

That's my baby.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Love my baby.

[Benito Skinner]

Literally. Those are your babies. I look so ugly in these.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You never look as bad as you think you do. I just want to say that. But we can address the fact that we're not wearing makeup.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah, I guess we have to, right?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Wait, you have a little piece of dry skin on that one. Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, it's flaking off.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

Yay. Yeah. Oh, my God. How's it now? That's so cool. It's kind of all fine, right?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah. I mean, I'm not trying to deny your reality. We're keeping this. You tricked me. I know.

[Benito Skinner]

You fucking tricked me.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I know.

[Benito Skinner]

God. You know what's crazy? Have we talked about how much escape rooms just, like, aren't our shit? Like, we are not about it. You had the funniest thing. I quoted you to someone yesterday talking about escape rooms, but I'm not sure if you said this, but you were like, women are actively trying to not be in an escape room. So I don't need to go in there.

[Mary Beth Barone]

No. I would never need to pay for that experience. I don't know if I've said that. I'm sure I'm not the first.

[Benito Skinner]

I think you said I'm spending kind of all my days trying to not.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Get kids to not be trapped in a room with. With anyone, really. I just want to have the freedom to leave at any time.

[Benito Skinner]

I just know that immediately I'd have to fart. Sorry. And then immediately I would be completely worthless.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Can I. Can I just say something high as hell, if you like escape rooms.

[Benito Skinner]

By the way, this is Ride the Podcast with Mary Beth Brown and Benito Skinner. We're so happy to have you guys here. Take it away.

[Mary Beth Barone]

If you like escape rooms. We are just diametrically not like we're fundamentally in opposition with each other. We could never be close. There's just a level we'll never reach because that's just so something I would never do.

[Benito Skinner]

But you would do laser tag.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And I have done laser tag and I love laser tag. And I'm sorry.

[Benito Skinner]

And I've been through lazy.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I'm sorry if there are bronies out there who love escape rooms. I completely like. I love that you just like the Icebreakers thing last week. I love that you love it.

[Benito Skinner]

Thank you, sweetie.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But there's just a level we're never gonna get to.

[Benito Skinner]

The amount of letters I've gotten since I did the Icebreakers ice cubes ride. It's like, everyone's like, it's your best. You killed that. Like, it was so, like, engaging and exciting.

[Mary Beth Barone]

We were just like. We couldn't wait to. To see what you said next.

[Benito Skinner]

It was so, like, I was at the edge of my seat. Like, that's why you have a podcast dude, and I don't. Yeah, yeah. There's no judgment. There are some things like that where I'm just like. I just know we'd never be married personally, if you wanted to do this all the time.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And in that sense, I should have known, if you know what I mean. So there's a really fun new party game that I came up with. There's a really fun new party game that I came up with. So you take turns. So let's say there's 10 people at the party. So if we were at a party with eight other people. I'm just doing some quick math here.

[Benito Skinner]

Shit. Okay. Sorry, I never did calculus 2. Wasn't it called calc 2 or whatever?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Probably precalc 1. Cow 2.

[Benito Skinner]

There's calc 2, right?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Bunch of other.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, and then there's like, arithmetic.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah, whatever.

[Benito Skinner]

No, no, no. What's the release? It's like Orgo.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I don't know.

[Benito Skinner]

That's when this got crazy.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I don't even know that word. Me going.

[Benito Skinner]

I love. I watched Goodwill hunting recently, and I was just. I forgot how iconic it is. The whole thing is just like, he's so smart, but we don't really, like, know.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's just kind of like, in a while.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah, he's just so fucking smart. Which I think is an incredible plot to just be like, so.

[Mary Beth Barone]

No, no, no, no. So there's this guy, really fucking smart.

[Benito Skinner]

He's a fucking genius.

[Mary Beth Barone]

He's smart. So it's this new game where we would sit in a circle and everyone would describe. Let's say you went first. Everyone described Benny as if you were trying to set him up on a date with someone. So you're trying to sell him to that person, and you're going to describe Benny, like, in three sentences. And then when you have, like, two minutes or three minutes, whatever, to do it, and then you all go around and you read what you wrote about the person, and it's all, like. It's all love, and you can be a little funny and maybe get jabs in there, but mostly it's just all love. And it's just like, this is the best person I know. He is so funny. He's so sexy.

[Benito Skinner]

Is this you doing it?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, wait. Okay, do it, and then I'll do yours.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Okay.

[Benito Skinner]

So I'm really excited. This is so nice.

[Mary Beth Barone]

This is the best person I know. He is my best friend.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, my God.

[Mary Beth Barone]

He went to Georgetown.

[Benito Skinner]

Of course.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Okay. No, he's really smart.

[Benito Skinner]

No, the kid's smart.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You wouldn't know it smart.

[Benito Skinner]

Wouldn't know it. First three times you're with him, four time, you're like.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You're like. People literally clamor for his attention because he is such a good friend and a good person, and I just think he deserves to be the happiest man in the world.

[Benito Skinner]

That's so sweet. Okay. Mary Beth Brown, she is this stunning, iconic, dry, sharp, deeply brilliant, most brilliant person I know that exists. And I can't believe she exists because I'm so lucky to exist at the same time as her. And she's so pretty. She has Tim Burton eyes. And lately she's been giving Leighton meester. And I love her clothes and her sense of. Of fashion. It's playful, but it's still, like, sharp in, like, 90s New York, but at the same time can be very playful. Very early 2000s. And if you break her heart, well, good luck getting through me, motherfucker.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And then we just end up going on a date.

[Benito Skinner]

And then we kiss.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah. We have sex in front of the other people.

[Benito Skinner]

I mean, I could talk about you for.

[Mary Beth Barone]

No. I mean, my God, it's like.

[Benito Skinner]

I mean, my goodness, it's hard to.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Whittle it down, but isn't that fun to do it?

[Benito Skinner]

Also, I was talking you jewelry. You saw what I was writing for today?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, yeah. I got the jewelry also. Wouldn't it be fun to just do that? Like, okay. God, if I could just write the scene right now.

[Benito Skinner]

Fuck. Write it. Fuck it. Fuck it. This could be the writer's room. I mean, we are starting it soon.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You're at a party and your crush is there, and you play the game, and your crush gets to hear all the things that your best friends say about you. Oh, my God.

[Benito Skinner]

What could be cooler than that? Can you think of one thing that would be cooler than that?

[Mary Beth Barone]

No, no, there's really. There's nothing. There's nothing. So and that can.

[Benito Skinner]

I can think of one thing that would be cooler than that.

[Mary Beth Barone]

What?

[Benito Skinner]

You show up to the thing, and the person's like, carrie Bradshaw's here. Oh, my God, she looks. She looks incredible.

[Mary Beth Barone]

She never comes to this shit.

[Benito Skinner]

Fucking incredible.

[Mary Beth Barone]

The game was inspired because I posted on my Instagram story about my friend Alec, who I posed with doing platonic grilling for his Hinge profile.

[Benito Skinner]

I loved that.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Which was such a cool idea. The same night I met the double vet, by the way. My idea. I'm always innovating.

[Benito Skinner]

One, two, three.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, glory. It's hard to believe all the things I did. And that was after I ran my hour at Union hall in my character. This was all one night. Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

The top I picked out for you.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah, I love that. From Meow. So then I got my friend texting me on the side going, oh, I have some friends I. I think we could set Alec up with. And she described them to me in a little short paragraph, and I was just like, send them this. Like, show them how you talk about them. This is so beautiful.

[Benito Skinner]

That's so nice.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And then I thought to myself, will straight man ever really know me? Will he ever clock my T? And I don't think he will.

[Benito Skinner]

Julia Robertson, George Clooney meme. Well, I don't know what he says because I forget that in the meme, but it's from Ocean's Eleven.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Or 12 or 13, even. We don't know.

[Benito Skinner]

Have I not yelled about Ocean's 12 yet? That's coming right after this. And they've reworded Julia Roberts to say he doesn't clock my T. I know if I was straight, I would have bagged it. Like, I know I would have. It would have been a home run.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Straight guys don't even know what questions to ask. And maybe they never will. But I have a lot to say on this. I might write a whole book about it. I don't know.

[Benito Skinner]

Please, we'd love to read it. But I think for me, what I find is I'm just like. I feel so lucky that I get to be in a queer relationship, because it's like, wow, we share so many of the same interests. Sometimes I'm just like, damn, you guys really have to see some crazy things in theaters. It's just crazy to me. Oh, my God. And you have to. You know sports. Well, sometimes I like the sporting. The splitting meals thing I think is cute.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Sports, bills.

[Benito Skinner]

No, no, no. Like the. Where you. You order two things on the menu so that you can try a Bunch of stuff. I think that's kind of cute.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You can do that with friends, though, too.

[Benito Skinner]

That's a really good point. You can have sex with friends. Fuck it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I mean, I've never done it, but.

[Benito Skinner]

And I haven't either.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And I don't plan to, by the way. There's people you have sex with and then there's your friends. Actually, I've done it once, and it did not go well. I was about to say it didn't go well.

[Benito Skinner]

I knew you were gon.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I know, but it's. That's a whole other thing. And I might write a book about that, too. I'm just, like, sorry. It's like. It's inspiring to me. Like, I'm sorry that that happened. And in an. In another life, I would be.

[Benito Skinner]

I had this moment happen two days ago. I was alone in my house, and I went in the back.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I'm alone in my house. I just rewatched A Star Is Born. I watched the whole thing. For some reason, I didn't pause it. I didn't stop it after snl, and I should have.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, I stop it right before the Grammys, because I can't. I can't watch my king. Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Piss his pants. Piss his literal pants.

[Benito Skinner]

Not in front of Palsy. Which is so funny you brought this up. Because that's what I did. I went into my bathroom and I literally went, I gotta check her for the lounge. Which she didn't sing in the mall. She sang something else. Someone told me, and I forgot. And then I just started laughing with myself.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And you can do that. You can really, really do that.

[Benito Skinner]

Well, it's always so funny. Cause in those moments. Do you ever have those moments where you kind of, like, laugh or you make yourself laugh about something or. Mine is. I just say it out loud. And just thinking if someone saw that, like, I. Sometimes I'm like, that. That'd be so funny if, like, Mary Beth saw. Just watch that happen.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, I have a really sad one. When I sensed in my bones that I was gonna get dumped, I woke up with Pinky and I just went, it's gonna be you and me again, kid.

[Benito Skinner]

You said it out loud.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I said it out loud. I just knew it in my bones.

[Benito Skinner]

It's hard not to be in a movie. Do you ever have this feeling? Sometimes when I'm walking with someone in New York and we're both looking forward, I'm like, oh, we're being filmed.

[Mary Beth Barone]

This is a movie.

[Benito Skinner]

Sorry.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Pretend it's. Pretend you're an adult. You should know that.

[Benito Skinner]

You're an adult. You should know that. Yes. Sometimes when that happens. Yeah. I'm like, fuck, last night was a fucking movie. I'm dying to have someone say that in season two.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And they will.

[Benito Skinner]

I think I might make Benny say it. I think you should say it was a fudgeing movie. And everyone's like.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Everyone's like, how? In what way?

[Benito Skinner]

Well, everyone being Grace.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I walked around Williamsburg listening to Coldplay, and it did feel like a movie. And then my agent texted me and was like, what was up with your walk last night? And I was like, what do you mean? He's like, you just made it look so, like, whimsical and mystical and magical. And I was like, that's just New York. Yeah, that's New York.

[Benito Skinner]

No, but that's. That's you as well. It's like, that's character and setting. Meeting at this place in the middle.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Meeting the. Why now?

[Benito Skinner]

I wish I could know everything Gaga said before the Mayhem Tour, which I went to, and it's just fabulous. But she starts, and there's two versions of her talking to each other. The lady in red. Of course, I'm not even going to get into the lady in red, but I wish I knew everything she said because I would be reciting that a lot to myself and people, you know, while I'm outside. And Pinky. So Julia Roberts in Ocean's Twelve, the.

[Mary Beth Barone]

One where she plays a person that looks like Julia.

[Benito Skinner]

Don't even fucking.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Well, because I just wanted to know. I don't remember which one that. That's in.

[Benito Skinner]

Don't even fucking say it. Here's my thing. This movie exists. Ocean's Eleven is fabulous. Ocean's Twelve is fabulous in sorts. Ocean's Thirteen, fabulous.

[Mary Beth Barone]

They're all just good work.

[Benito Skinner]

It's good work. And it's. God, I mean, it's. It's just. It's Hunkville. It's Hunk du Jour. And so in the second film, there's a scene where the whole time they're like, she kind of looks like. And they're talking about Julia Roberts. Well, the character that. The character looks like Julia Roberts, who's played by Julia Roberts. It actually, like, it just. It disrupts the time continuum.

[Mary Beth Barone]

They said it couldn't be done.

[Benito Skinner]

It disrupts the time continuum in a way that, like, they did kind of, like, invent the multiverse, certainly. Also something that bothers me is when a movie is referenced in something. This is so weird that I'm remembering this, but the movie Be kind. Rewind. Did you ever see that? Oh, it's an incredible movie. But Sigourney Weaver is in it. But in the movie, they reference a movie.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Alien or something.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah, I think it was alien. And my brain, when I saw her on screen, I was like, oh, are they going to be so excited because they just met her. It's just so.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But I think that what I've chosen to do with that, because you have to make a choice. Everyone has to make a choice at some point when you have to decide what is. What is the reality. It's just that there is a famous person named Sigourney Weaver in that universe, and so they were in that movie. And then the character Sigourney Weaver's playing is just. It's just.

[Benito Skinner]

It's a person. You kind of just have to, like, blur your eyes.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah. Separate the art and the artist. I guess in a lot of ways, when I'm talking about separating the art from the artist, that's what I'm talking about. I'm not separating allegations and things.

[Benito Skinner]

Julia Roberts in Ocean's Twelve. That makes sense to me.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Exactly.

[Benito Skinner]

But this, I don't know why. It's just like, it breaks every wall. I mean, the walls are just bl. And they're about to go out in this podcast studio.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But that's what you earn when you make great movies like that. They say, well, it's Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta Jones. They can do whatever they want.

[Benito Skinner]

And they can. And they did. And I'm just. I'm. I'm finding it hard to sit with it. Also, they had this thing where, like, she should have had, like, more like her accent wasn't right. And I'm like, it's just. You're playing games with me. I'm hearing her voice. She has the laugh. Like, if you had planned this for a while and she spoke not like Julia Roberts this whole time or did something physically different from her. It's just. It was tough. I don't know. What I like is that we're here talking about it, and that's what great film does. And I love that whole. I don't know what to call. It's a trilogy. But then there's, you know, there's prequel coming, and then there's Ocean's 8, which I love. I watch Ocean's 8 on planes all the time. There's no part in Ocean's 8 where something goes wrong.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah. Which is cool.

[Benito Skinner]

There's like, two seconds where it's like, maybe they get caught. It's what I love about it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah, Yeah. I thought everyone did a really good job.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, I think everyone did a really good job.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I really did.

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[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh my God. This is crazy because usually we would be talking about something this recent in a couple of years, but we're going to talk about it. We're going to talk about it. It's time to talk about really good album. It's really good like that.

[Benito Skinner]

So this girl Ella, she came through with something. It's cerebral, it's bones and all. It's see through, it's a classic.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But it's also opaque to me.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah, it's transparent.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's transparent and it's opaque. It's like multitudes.

[Benito Skinner]

This. I had heard clips early. I will be honest. I just want to be totally honest with everyone. But what I I hadn't heard like everything in. In totality. And I just think it's my favorite album of the year. I'm completely shook by it and I can't recommend everyone if you haven't gone to it. It's one of those things where yeah, maybe you're not going to get it the first time you.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I completely agree and that's.

[Benito Skinner]

Isn't that a good thing?

[Mary Beth Barone]

But maybe I finally know who I want to be a grown woman in a baby tea.

[Benito Skinner]

Grown woman.

[Mary Beth Barone]

The amount of people that reached out about that and thank you. It's just an honor to be thought of in that way.

[Benito Skinner]

Of course. I mean it's hard to. And for me it's wide hips. Right. 96 skin. Scott, looking forward. Do you get that? A grown woman. Pink galaxy. When she said pink galaxy left undressed, she was talking about my perioral dermatitis.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah. And she'll tell you that. That's on genius.com. it's fun.

[Benito Skinner]

I know, I know. There's not one skip for me. David Electric Clear Blue. Obviously I sang it for you. You loved it. I just think if I had to pick one, if you were gonna, you know, wonder Shapeshifter. Shapeshifter. I think I'm kind of like, oh, so it me. You know what I mean?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Mine's Clear Blue or Grown Woman.

[Benito Skinner]

Clear Blue is your favorite. Yeah, that's. Oh, that says like.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Doesn't that make sense though?

[Benito Skinner]

Those two things are exactly you. Yeah. Cuz I'm Shape Shifter and. Oh, you guys.

[Mary Beth Barone]

David.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, well, David's electric. But like I can't even watch fan edits to it and sometimes it makes me cry, so I can't do it. But Shape Shifter and Current Affairs.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh yeah. Current affairs is so good.

[Benito Skinner]

First time I heard Current Affairs.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Also favorite daughter.

[Benito Skinner]

Don't talk about Favorite Daughter right now. That's next season. But where it goes boom, boom, boom. And there's this little like change in. Oh my God. Jimmy Stack, Big Papa Full goosebumps. Knew when I felt it hit it was only a field trip till it cooled my blood. That's how it tends to start. You're in the light and then you're in the dark. Then someone throws a flare. You're tasting my underwear. I knew we were fucked. Here's the thing.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Stream it.

[Benito Skinner]

Can I say. Can I just say some things to you? Jockstrap, Spit, dirt, grass. Like, it's just. It's that to me, it's like. It's a feeling.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Also, her Rolling Stone interview was really good and very like, insightful into the process and what she's saying with the album. So I really enjoyed that. I read the whole thing.

[Benito Skinner]

She's brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. It's just. It is who it is. And it's so her and Genius and we're so lucky to live at the same time.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I completely agree. What a true artist. And we're thankful that you're sharing your talents with us because sometimes people just. They walk away from public life and they don't need to produce anymore when they've made things that have shaped the culture and the generation already from when she was 16 and I had just moved to New York when Royals came out. And I remember just streaming that whole entire album like the Love Club over and over and over the tennis court.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh my God.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Buzz Cut Season Swinging Party cover. I mean, it's just like it's hit after hitting don't talk about Buzzcut Season. I'm just thankful. I'm thankful that she continues to make music. And we appreciate it.

[Benito Skinner]

We'll always be here streaming the Girl so Confusing remix. I believe Pitchfork called it a watershed moment. And if I'm correct. But I. Yeah, it just. It set the tone. She's. There's an honesty. I mean. Oh, God. Is it Shattered Glass, Girls? Broken Glass. Broken Glass or Shattered Glass?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Broken Glass.

[Benito Skinner]

Broken Glass. That song, too. I just every. I just think the album is so raw, and it's raw fucking. And it's just incredible. And. Yeah, that's really it. But there's something about the album, and obviously it was on both of our minds. Because if you look at the COVID and you look at the back cover, two things are really clear. Clear blue.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Clear blue.

[Benito Skinner]

Say it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Iud, which is what I will be writing for this week. IUDs.

[Benito Skinner]

And I'll be writing for it. Jewelry.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Julie Jury. So we're gonna. We're gonna talk about Jerli, which is just to kick things off. DJ Khaled does an interview. I think it's on the Breakfast Club, but I will check. And he can't say the word jewelry. And he just keeps calling it Jerlie.

[Benito Skinner]

Well, that's very me.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I got so much. Jerry.

[Benito Skinner]

I know that you're not. That's very me. And I'm not gonna judge someone for that. Sometimes it's. And you knew exactly the fuck he was talking about. And so don't. You know, I just think that's what's important.

[Podcast Announcer/Ad Reader]

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[Benito Skinner]

Who cares? Ride. So jewelry. I don't wear a ton of jewelry. I was realizing I ride for it because I find that I point it out all the time. And I love looking at people's jewelry. And I'm like, fuck, kid. You really with this thing. So I. I will say sometimes I'll wear my watch, which I. I love my watch. She's like a total doll. And I'll wear, like, a signet ring every now and then. I have one that has a scorpion on it, but I kind of don't venture beyond that. And sometimes I'll wear a gold chain, but not all the time. It's more like, I don't know, something about it. I just sometimes like to be naked. Clear blue, transparent. Like, I just. I like that. But I love jewelry on other people. And I love the jewelry that people wear.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Well, you know, I mean, women with their earrings.

[Benito Skinner]

Women with their earrings.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's a window into the soul.

[Benito Skinner]

Your Earrings. And also, I love men with earrings. Like, I love a little. A little.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I love men with earrings, too.

[Benito Skinner]

A man with a hoop. Huge for the culture. I like hoop more than stud on men, but it is what it is.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah. I would say that's.

[Benito Skinner]

I just think a hoop is amazing because, I don't know, it's like. It's a little ahoy.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's very ahoy.

[Benito Skinner]

But here's my thing. Everyone's necklace, like, that's just such a cool story. It's cool to hear. I think, like, there's something. Because when I have my necklace on, I'm kind of like, is anyone going to say anything?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Right?

[Benito Skinner]

Like, I've.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And probably they are.

[Benito Skinner]

And they might, because, like, fudge it. It's like, hitting my collarbone just right. Like, also, I think on red carpets or, like, just at a sexy dinner, hell, going to the movies, like, the right jewels can completely make the look. So I'm not saying that I'm like, oh, God. I don't do it because I don't like how it looks. I like how it looks. Just sometimes I don't.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You're very thoughtful of the details. I would say I just love.

[Benito Skinner]

I'm like, oh, I like a really nice little necklace. Or like, I love your necklace today. I know it's your dad's.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

So it's very beautiful.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Right next to the juicy zip. So I have been stacking necklaces lately. That's duality. I've been stacking necklaces. I also. I do mix silver and gold. I think that's fine. It's just a personal choice.

[Benito Skinner]

If you mix it. Just commit.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Just commit.

[Benito Skinner]

I have one. Oh, my God. I have this necklace and it's both. And it's just so cool because my OCD is like, oh, that's fine. I have to find.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's bringing it all together.

[Benito Skinner]

I have one ring that has both. Two that my friend Nora got me shout out Nora. But it's really beautiful. It's like, gold. And then it has this, like, emblem of two male heads. Like two Roman male heads in silver. So I can wear it just with everything. How about with fucking everything? And it looks great. Just one ring.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I like to stack rings, too. I'm usually wearing rings. I'm usually wearing my Tiffany. I also have a tennis bracelet that Majuri sent me, which. Thank you so much. But right now I have Majurli.

[Benito Skinner]

That's what he was saying the whole time.

[Mary Beth Barone]

He was saying Gorjana and he was saying Majirli. So I have this emerald necklace I got at Catbird. That's my birthstone. And then this one that has, like, charms you can, like, build your own. So I have a skull.

[Benito Skinner]

Baddies in Catburg.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Baddies in Catburg and Catburg. Catburg in Williamsburg. I have a skull. I have a emeralds. I have a heart, a diamond, and a shell for my love of the beach, of course. And then I have another one that I need to get a chain for. But my dad had these frat pins from one from med school and one from West Virginia University. And so I put one on a necklace, and I can't wait to wear both of them and just stack them up.

[Benito Skinner]

So beautiful.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But I didn't wear any jewelry. Jewelry to the vacation I just went on by myself because I just felt like I didn't. I wanted the tan lines. Cause I actually think tan lines from jewelry are very sexy.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. Very hot.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But I didn't feel it was worth it to be worried about things falling off in the ocean.

[Benito Skinner]

I agree. It's very. You know, the Kim. The famous Kim Lost earring.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I steal jewelry from my mom all the time. I'll let her know after the fact.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. See, my dad's not a jewelry guy, so I don't really have anything. My grandpa had a few things, but not. They lean a little too. I'll say it. War.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah. War Vibes.

[Benito Skinner]

And then my. My mom, though. My sister's like, oh, my God. My mom's such a gold bangle girl, so I know she'll, like. She'll slap one of those on me pretty soon.

[Mary Beth Barone]

My mom just taught me the appreciation for jewelry and how powerful it can be. Personal space and bringing an outfit together. And she's very generous. She lets me. I wore her diamond studs for my special taping for Thought Provoking because they're just classy, you know, and she has really good taste in jewelry, so I'm lucky. I have sort of like the. I can go into the Vogue closet, which is her dressing room, and if I need a little bling as much.

[Benito Skinner]

I go in there and take my. I show. I take off my pants.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Take off your pants. Which, yes, of course, you're welcome to do that. Just get comfortable. There's a chaise lounge in there.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, I love when Mom's like, that's such. Like, that's for gay guys. You just sit in there and hang out.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You just gossip.

[Benito Skinner]

Finally, we can, like, feel comfortable.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah. Thankful that I was raised to love jewelry, and I will wear it until my dying breath.

[Benito Skinner]

People you know what? Some people are like, I'm not a jewelry person. I think that's why I also write for it. I'm like, don't. Because for so long, I was like, I don't wear jewelry. Really? I don't really like how it feels gay. Well, it's fucking gay. I. Yeah, I don't really wear lady shit as I'm listening to Jewels and Drugs by Lady Gaga. Such. Such a classic. But here's my thing. You can think maybe you're not, but just try it like the water's warm and don't judge yourself and play around. Sometimes I've. You know what? I put a couple strings on. I'm like, this one. I took it too far.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I have done that too.

[Benito Skinner]

Someone's put a choker on me before. And it just. It wasn't. It wasn't giving what it needed to give.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I mean, the Bengal culture. In high school, I was wearing 20 bracelets, and they made a lot of noise.

[Benito Skinner]

You know, my build a Bear Livestrong. Yeah, it was.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I would live strong among them.

[Benito Skinner]

They almost had to cut my hand off.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I had some J. Crew bangles in there. I had my Tiffany bracelet, a bobble from J.

[Benito Skinner]

Crew, a statement necklace, even.

[Mary Beth Barone]

That's a lot. Oh, yes. That happened.

[Benito Skinner]

Getting to choose the statement necklaces like the one Maddie Phillips wears in the pilot of Overcompensating. I still think about that necklace because it makes me laugh. It just. The baubles of 2015 and 2016, like, it's just explosive. It was like Jenna Lyons at J.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Crew. Such a good jewelry story about J. Crew jewelry.

[Benito Skinner]

Stop. Go.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Okay, so I got this necklace when I was in my brother's wedding. He got married in the green building in Brooklyn, which Jessa got married in in Girls. And there have been many, many weddings in that building.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. Fabulous. Hollowed ground.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Hollowed ground. So we got these necklaces, and I wore it one night when I went out, and I ended up going home with someone, but he didn't live in the city, so we were at his brother's apartment. So I took the necklace off. So spent the night, left in the morning. I forgot the necklace in the morning.

[Benito Skinner]

You were in heels naked, and you said, last night. Last night was a fucking.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I said last night I slept with my shoes on.

[Benito Skinner]

Wait, Leave your jewelry at a guy's place? That's so cool.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So then we ran into the brother and his fiance, and I was like, oh, my God, I left my necklace at your house. And she goes, we fought about that necklace so much because he couldn't explain where it came from.

[Benito Skinner]

No.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And she was like, you had a girl here? And he's like, I swear I didn't. I don't know where it came from.

[Benito Skinner]

You had the hook and I put.

[Mary Beth Barone]

My little hook into your mouth. Oh my God, you guys, wait.

[Benito Skinner]

Fuck. That night was a movie.

[Mary Beth Barone]

That night was a movie. But like what a classic mix up and a misunderstanding where it was just like. He just didn't think that the brother had like brought someone back. And then she's like, the necklace is here so you're going to fucking explain where the fuck it came from. And I was just like offhanded, like, oh, I left my necklace at your place. He's like a friend. We're friends with both brothers. I was thinking about how bad that fight must have been and I said.

[Podcast Announcer/Ad Reader]

Was that your biggest fight?

[Benito Skinner]

What was your guys biggest fight? And you go, it was the.

[Mary Beth Barone]

For me, a little interesting. And I did this on the wine glass. I just ran my finger, of course. On top of it.

[Benito Skinner]

Of course. You know what's funny? The. I'm thinking then if like what I've left at yours and if a guy found it and it's like, who's been here?

[Mary Beth Barone]

You're like, what is this shit?

[Benito Skinner]

A football jersey?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Your ivermectin.

[Benito Skinner]

What is this?

[Mary Beth Barone]

My soul curology.

[Benito Skinner]

It says do not. You were never supposed to say ivermectin. You were never supposed to say ivermectin. That is explosive.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Why you didn't ever use it. You had it sent to my house.

[Benito Skinner]

You just clocked my tea.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I don't even know what it is.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, yeah, no, it's like a. It's a dewormer.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You never used it. It was delivered to me.

[Benito Skinner]

I'll just say it, didn't I? It didn't do much for me, but.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I'm him in the medicine cabinet. The. Is this.

[Benito Skinner]

What is this? Who's been here? It's a jock strap with a seven on it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's. It's your Calvin Klein Pride underwear.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, have we talked about this?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah. Oh, you could talk about it again.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, I just. It's funny, during Pride you just. You know, I sometimes get sent and. Thank you. I just appreciate the pr. But I get sent like some of the most unbelievable underwear or like things called underwear. Yeah. One you saw the one that was like. It was see through in the front and then it was. It had the thing and then it was bejeweled like Love is love. Is love is across the waistband. And I'm just like. So let me get this straight. So the vibe is see through flaccid dick back is like two strings bedazzled. And then there was like, almost the start of a thong. I wish I could. I mean, I don't have them anymore.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I told you.

[Benito Skinner]

But it was the start of like a thong. And it was lace. I was just like, this took a.

[Mary Beth Barone]

While to mix materials. Mixed media.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. It's like this looks like upcycled.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Meant to. It went to many factories. It went to many factories. So I got a shipment from Calvin Klein when I did a pride campaign for them a couple years ago. And I thought it was all underwear. So I put on this underwear and I go, wow, they made fully crotchless underwear. No, it was a sports bra. I put my legs in the holes of a sports bra and there was a huge. My whole ass.

[Benito Skinner]

Can I just say you thought, right. Because some gay underwear just kind of is that.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Well, yeah. But I was like, it's interesting to make female crotch. Totally crotch.

[Benito Skinner]

This thread is a bang. I went like that. Take your life. Make it art. But I. Oh, my God. No. You're in the. I'm just picturing fully.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And I've been saying I'm in the mirror going, wow, this is edgy.

[Benito Skinner]

You going, spread lips. Sending to Calvin going, thanks for the underwear, darlings. In my Calvin.

[Mary Beth Barone]

That's what I would say. If you have the Calvin with the classic sort of strap at the bottom and it's a sports bra, try it on as underwear and see. What if it's inspiring you?

[Benito Skinner]

I mean, I'm trying to think so you. The arm straps went through your thighs and then it's. Yeah, it would have just been full.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Full pussy and butt.

[Benito Skinner]

Full box out.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah. Oh, God. I feel like we could talk about this forever.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, no. I go.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Speaking of raw sex.

[Benito Skinner]

See, See, that's why jewelry is so explosive. I don't know. Keep. I want to see your jewels and send me your jewelry collections and let's all call each other out. Let's. Let's really be. Let's hold our friends accountable, put on their jewelry. Have fun. I want to.

[Mary Beth Barone]

With permission.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. And just. And actually, I'm not going to say don't go too far if you want to. I would never. There's this one woman on TikTok. I could never find her. There's just no way. I would never see it again.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Just don't even try.

[Benito Skinner]

She has so many jewels on, and she, like does her makeup with it and the sounds electrifying.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's really beautiful.

[Benito Skinner]

What could be better than that? What could be better than that? I would say an iud.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Iud.

[Benito Skinner]

Jewelry. I mean jewelry. Internal jewelry.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Inner jewelry. Yeah, it's inner jewelry.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And intermedia clip that. I think you.

[Benito Skinner]

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[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh yeah, so I have an IUD right now. I have had one for several years and look, IUDs are not without their complications. Some people get them and it doesn't work for them. They have weird side effects. There's the copper IUD which makes you get much more intense periods. There's a low dose hormonal. I'm guessing there's a higher dose hormonal. I have a low dose hormonal, which is very hard to say. I know. I'm very very sorry.

[Benito Skinner]

Nina Jama went I have two up my butt.

[Mary Beth Barone]

What that does.

[Benito Skinner]

What that does.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So I have one. I do love my iud. We, we fight like sisters.

[Benito Skinner]

And actually this time I mean it. Dear media clip, that IUDs are so.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Cool because it's science that's more theoretical than anything and I do have a joke about it in my famed clusterfest set with the blue eyeshadow, but we don't know how they work so much. Like, and I've said it before, 6.023 times 10 to the 23rd. Yeah, it's more Theoretical. Whatever it's doing in there, whatever it's doing to the sperm, it's mostly working because they're so effective. And I would say just now more than ever, as our rights are being stripped away from us, and this actually brings me to something that I wrote in the doc or I wrote in my notebook that I wanted to bring to the podcast. As our rights are being taken away more and more and we don't have bodily autonomy, I would say get the IUD now if you want to. If. If that's something that is on your list of doing the thing and go, you can book an appointment through zocdocs.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah, of course.

[Mary Beth Barone]

ZOC docs.

[Benito Skinner]

So ZOC docs, ZOC doctors.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I would say just do it, and it. You know, sometimes it goes up in flames and you need to get it taken out, and that's okay.

[Benito Skinner]

Okay. Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But it does work. I think they've extended it. It's more than. It's like five years now. Don't quote me on that.

[Benito Skinner]

You're not. For five years.

[Mary Beth Barone]

For five years. But ask your doctor, because I'm not totally sure. Yeah. It's like a sister. I mean, we know each other well, and so she knows all my mistakes. Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

All sperms. Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So I think women are put on this earth to love and to experience joy, and all we get to do is suffer.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. And we force you to make music, I. E. Lord who. I mean, it's. What a beautiful circle today is. Laureate's IUD is visible on the COVID of Virgin. I mean, that also perfect album cover. It's shocking. And you see all her jewels, and.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It'S very much about the female experience.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But I just think the suffering, it makes me so sad. I mean, people are suffering all over the world, and women, we just are beaten and battered physically, metaphorically, emotionally, spiritually. And it's just like, we have to do so much work on ourselves to continue to be compassionate. We are compassionate by nature. But I just feel like it's. And it's. It's actually impressive that we just as like, a group, have not just completely hardened our shell to the world, because it's like we're just constantly torn down, and it just makes me so sad. And there was an incident that happened to me recently that I don't want to get into the details of, but I felt very unsafe, and I felt physically threatened, and it was traumatizing, and it just made me really sad to think about, like, how much love women put into the world. And then we're only met. We're not only met with, you know, negativity and people trying to strip us of our rights and stuff, but it's definitely, like, a lot.

[Benito Skinner]

I'd say 90, 10.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's just insane that we're not more horrible.

[Benito Skinner]

I know.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Like, we just want to give love. It's so hard. And that's what I love about this podcast, because women deserve to experience joy. And it's just, like, men are allowed to be weird, and men are allowed to be, like, you know, quirky and whatever and just, like, send us memes all day and just skate through life. God, it's so frustrating. I just want women to have fun. And, like, maybe getting an IUD is part of that.

[Benito Skinner]

Put on a baby tee. A grown woman in a baby tea.

[Mary Beth Barone]

In a baby tee.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. I will say it never looks fun, but I love women, so God knows.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And we're happy to have you in our corner.

[Benito Skinner]

Hey, thank you so much. I'll always be there, but. Oh, my God, are we getting. Is this ride or die?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Sure.

[Benito Skinner]

You know what? You are, Mary Beth?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Bisexual.

[Benito Skinner]

Well, yeah, but you're also my ride or die. Ride or die. So, of course I ride for IUDs.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And I ride through the sky.

[Benito Skinner]

I'd get one if I could.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I know you would. I like the science aspect of it. Basically, it wraps up everything that interests me.

[Benito Skinner]

It's very you. We all know how planes fly.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Exactly. It's one tiny little thing that inside you.

[Benito Skinner]

Whatever it is.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah. And so it's science. It's women's issues. It's giving us more freedom. And I would say it's making us safer and not have to do things that we don't want to do, like have kids if we don't want that, for example.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah, of course I ride for this. For anyone who wants an iud. Fuck yeah. Hell, yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It. We ball.

[Benito Skinner]

It. We ball. We ride East Valhalla. Like, that's kind of how I feel with. When I'm, like, with my girls. Yeah, I. God. As far as what you said, I'm just going to amplify and just say that I. So many things. And what I say to you a lot via text is, I wouldn't say being a woman looks fun, per se, but there, of course, is joy there. I'm just like, my God, the way.

[Mary Beth Barone]

We treat women is there's just so much beauty and kindness and softness that gets just decimated met with, like, you know, someone pointing a gun at us or something. So it just makes me Sad. And I think what I really love lately is just being surrounded by my friends and feeling like I'm getting even more invested in their lives because I have the time now and I'm not in a relationship. And I don't know, I just want all women to be happy. And it's just sad because there's just so much I want them to prevent us from doing that. Safety is like. And I'll speak on this more in the future. I'm not totally done with what I have to say on it, but just feeling safe right now is, like, just my number one priority. And I feel safe with you. And you have nothing to prove.

[Benito Skinner]

You are safe. I'm grabbing one of your fingers. Nothing to prove. And I stick my finger in my mouth and bite it and telling head. God, it's that. God, I love being a woman. You know that sound on TikTok, and it's like, it can be really beautiful, but it's also just like, dear God, I mean, you have so many funny jokes in your standup right now about that. I just. I think about all the time and. And I. Yeah, I wish we could raise women up more. It makes me so. Yeah, I'm scared. I think as we enter the writers room for season two, it's always like, I find that those spaces are really beautiful and sad to, you know, talk with. Obviously, you and Wally were both in the overcompensating season one room and are doing too, but, yeah, just sometimes they're talking about college, too. I find that, you know, I just feel so sick. But then it's. There is also something of, like. It is. So what you're saying about just, like, really wanting to be loved and feel.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Safe and give so much love and, like, allow people to, like, make other people feel safe and then. Yet we are never made to feel safe.

[Benito Skinner]

No.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And I'm being hyperbolic. Obviously, we have safe spaces, but escape rooms are not one of them. Of course not. And so to speak on jewelry, just briefly before we go, please, we've been waiting. I mean, I'm a jewelry girl, and a straight man did designate me as that, so that means it really had to jump off the page.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, like, you're just. There were the world divided into two girls.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah, it's a jewelry girl.

[Benito Skinner]

Jewelry girl.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And I love jewelry. It's expression, the details, and it's beautiful. I like the beauty in it. And it's just.

[Benito Skinner]

There's so much beauty in it. You can get really creative with it, too. I love when someone has One earring on and the other's not. Maybe it's not even there. Fuck it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Maybe it's just one.

[Benito Skinner]

Fuck it. We bawl, you do whatever you want.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I've been thinking about getting my nipple re pierced recently, so we'll talk about that offline.

[Benito Skinner]

Amazing. I think you should.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I don't know if I want to do it, though.

[Benito Skinner]

I think you should. I think that's amazing. I have zero piercings, zero tattoos.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I just have ears.

[Benito Skinner]

The world's gonna. You can paint me however you want.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And we will. We're gonna paint a beanie on you illustrated.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, please.

[Podcast Announcer/Ad Reader]

I don't know.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I don't think you need it.

[Benito Skinner]

I don't think I need it, but I. Yeah. I don't know if I. No, just a necklace. Oh, wait. Spend it on it. I'm, like, trying to think of what lyric just came into my head. Maybe it might have been Tupac. Tupac Shakur.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Tupac, we're thinking of you.

[Benito Skinner]

I am always. He's fabulous. I knew all the words to wonder why they call you bitch when I was younger so. Sorry, that doesn't really go into what you were saying earlier.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Being a muse is part of the beauty of life for women.

[Benito Skinner]

A place in the city A chairman.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Do the Broadway standard.

[Benito Skinner]

A place in the city Let me see A chair in the bed I cover up all the mirrors I can't see myself Wait, let me. Sometimes are easier of like. What was that? Let me. Actually, I think a better one would be. So washing him off my chest Keeping it light not.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh.

[Benito Skinner]

Thinking it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Thank you, guys. We love you.

[Benito Skinner]

From stone to stone in a riverbed I guess maybe I finally know you want to be a grown woman In a baby tea A grown woman fade into this Jackson faded out oh, my.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Exit Benny, babe eyes on the road.

[Benito Skinner]

Then you.

[Mary Beth Barone]

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