Kelly Rohrbach's Instagram + Dante's Inferno

Summary

Ride with Benito Skinner and Mary Beth Barone: Episode Summary Episode Title: Kelly Rohrbach's Instagram + Dante's Inferno
Release Date: March 19, 2025

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Introduction

In this episode of Ride with Benito Skinner and Mary Beth Barone, the hosts delve into a multifaceted discussion that intertwines celebrity culture, classical literature, and the challenges of navigating online negativity. Skipping the initial advertisements and standard introductions, the episode swiftly moves into substantive conversations that offer both humor and insightful commentary.

Handling Online Negativity

[01:05] Mary Beth Barone: The episode kicks off with Mary Beth addressing a concerning comment directed at Benito's podcast, reflecting on the broader issue of online hate. She emphasizes the importance of transparency by saying, “I like that they commented it and they didn't DM it. Because I think it's important for people to see the type of like, stuff that people say to us.”

[02:53] Benito Skinner: Benito expresses his emotional response to negative comments, stating, “Oh, fuck. It's kind of making me want to cry, babe.” This candid moment underscores the personal impact of online criticism on public figures.

[03:45] Mary Beth Barone: Mary Beth advises against giving attention to trolls, asserting, “I'm going to put you at the forefront if you want to come for me like that,” highlighting a proactive approach to handling negativity.

Kelly Rohrbach's Instagram: A Glimpse into Celebrity Privacy

The conversation seamlessly transitions to a deep dive into Kelly Rohrbach's Instagram and her decision to retreat from the public eye.

[15:25] Mary Beth Barone: Mary Beth provides background on Kelly Rohrbach's rise to fame, noting her significant Instagram following and her abrupt cessation of posts in late 2018: “November 25, 2018, is the last time she posted.”

[17:02] Mary Beth Barone: She reminisces about Kelly's Instagram presence, describing it as “like you have gone into a time machine and gone back to the 2010s,” and highlights posts that capture Kelly's vibrant lifestyle and engagement with followers.

[19:47] Benito Skinner: Benito admires Kelly's ability to step away from fame, stating, “She walked away from being a public figure, which is something that I think more of us should think about doing.”

[20:14] Mary Beth Barone: They discuss Kelly's personal decision to marry in 2019 and her subsequent withdrawal from the limelight: “she literally said, I'm, I fell in love. I'm going to be happy and have a life for myself off the Internet, and this is goodbye.”

Dante's Inferno: Exploring Classical Literature in Modern Context

The second major segment of the episode focuses on Dante's Inferno, drawing parallels between the poem's depiction of Hell and contemporary societal issues.

[25:27] Mary Beth Barone: Mary Beth introduces Dante's Inferno, outlining its structure and thematic elements: “Inferno is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century narrative poem, the Divine Comedy. It describes a journey of a fictionalized version of Dante himself through hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil.”

[28:07] Benito Skinner: Benito shares his personal connection to the text, mentioning its impact during his high school years and its enduring relevance: “I remember having to draw this out. And of course, you know, I did it to hell.”

[33:06] Benito Skinner: He draws a parallel between the circles of Hell and current societal struggles: “I think the Inferno is about the strength of the human spirit. I mean, we can endure so much, and we are right now. And I definitely never thought we'd be living through another, like, sort of civil rights era.”

[35:20] Benito Skinner & Mary Beth Barone: The hosts propose a book club to further explore Dante's works, blending their literary discussion with personal reflections and humor: “I think we should start a book club. Let's read Dante's Inferno together. What do you think?”

Personal Banter and Friendship

Throughout the episode, Benito and Mary Beth intersperse their discussions with personal anecdotes and playful exchanges, reinforcing their camaraderie.

[36:27] Mary Beth Barone: Mary Beth shares her positive experience with the group's dynamic: “I loved it. And people aren't abusing the group chat. They're not constantly talking in it. They're saying things when they have something to say.”

[37:43] Benito Skinner: Benito reminisces about a visit to Benihana with their post-production team, blending humor with social commentary: “Watching the coworker catch meat in their mouth, like, you're not going to see. It's the most human thing I've ever seen.”

Concluding Thoughts

As the episode draws to a close, Benito and Mary Beth reflect on the themes discussed, emphasizing resilience and mutual support.

[33:09] Benito Skinner: “Hold your bestie close, Virgil. See, all the lessons I learned.”

[35:59] Mary Beth Barone: She reaffirms their supportive relationship: “Only a couple things make my lower back sweaty. And I think I've really warmed up to group chats.”

[39:23] Benito Skinner: Benito concludes with a heartfelt acknowledgment of Kelly Rohrbach: “We love you, sweetheart.”

Notable Quotes

• Mary Beth Barone [02:53]: “We know this is your burner.”
• Benito Skinner [02:33]: “I just can't believe you say things like that. That's so Dante's Inferno coded.”
• Benito Skinner [33:07]: “We're getting close to nine.”
• Mary Beth Barone [23:01]: “You respect the work.”
• Benito Skinner [35:07]: “I think we should start a book club. Let's read Dante's Inferno together.”

Conclusion

This episode of Ride with Benito Skinner and Mary Beth Barone skillfully blends discussions on celebrity privacy, classical literature, and the personal impacts of online interactions. Through their engaging banter and insightful analysis, Benito and Mary Beth offer listeners a nuanced perspective on balancing public life with personal well-being, all while navigating the complexities of modern media and enduring friendship.

Transcript

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[Benito Skinner]

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?

[Mary Beth Barone]

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

[Benito Skinner]

Start your engine.

[Terri]

Take care.

[Benito Skinner]

I'm Benito Skinner.

[Mary Beth Barone]

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

[Benito Skinner]

Ready Jackson.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Are you going to read it?

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah, I have to read an excerpt from Dante's Inferno. I just know with certainty that the new show isn't going to be funny. Your style of humor won't translate to long form. Enjoy these press opportunities while they last and make the most of them. If anything, they'll make the podcast audience bigger. Question mark, is there still a podcast? Terri, stop making fake accounts.

[Mary Beth Barone]

We know this is your burner.

[Benito Skinner]

Hey, there are easier ways to say you're Terri. I just can't believe people talk to me like that. That's so Dante's Inferno coded. We'll talk about it later.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But I like and what I said offline was that I like that they commented it and they didn't DM it. Because I think it's important for people to see the type of like, stuff that people say to us.

[Benito Skinner]

I'm just like, Also, we're talking about, like, how you think my comedy will like, translate to long form. What?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Okay, someone is bit.

[Benito Skinner]

It's 11am I. I really sometimes read comments like that. I'm like, I don't think I've ever cared about anything like this.

[Mary Beth Barone]

No, not enough to create a new account with zero followers and then comment that on someone's post.

[Benito Skinner]

I'm just like, what? And like, well, of course there's a podcast.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I'm doing it literally.

[Benito Skinner]

I'm not giving voice to them. Like, I'm not saying the handle, but because it's no, I'm just like, what.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I'm responding to My ops this year. I am. Because the whole, like, thought of, like, don't give them more airtime or don't give them the time of day. I'm like, no, no, no. I'm going to put you at the forefront if you want to come for me like that.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, fuck. It's kind of making me want to cry, babe.

[Mary Beth Barone]

That comment?

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. Why? Oh, my God. I don't know why. Sorry, give me one second. It's just like, God, it's like, people are so mean. Okay, okay. No, we're okay. I'm just like, God, I can't believe you say that to me. Like, if you knew me, I don't think you'd say that. And also, like, you're wrong. It's fabulous. And it translates to long form, actually, like.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Like, beautifully.

[Benito Skinner]

Beautifully than you can even imagine. And I love my podcast. And you know what? I have a really nice time at these press opportunities because press is press, press is press.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And you have a good heart. And people have so much hate in their hearts.

[Benito Skinner]

Know? And I'm just like, my God, I can't believe you say things like that. And then I get, oh, my God, no, I don't want to. I don't want to. I just start to think like, oh, my God, if anyone says stuff like that to my nieces or nephews, I'm going to have to.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I know. What? I can't even think about that.

[Benito Skinner]

I can't think about that, too. Sick to my stomach.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I know.

[Benito Skinner]

Please don't be. Don't be public figures. Promise me one thing.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Need our warning.

[Benito Skinner]

I'll buy you a Chanel bag if.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You promise me to not be a public figure. I know your kids. Anything you want, just not that.

[Benito Skinner]

Choose any bag you can get. A coat, Even a leather coat.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Leather, authentic, vintage.

[Benito Skinner]

Whatever you want. You pick it. Just don't. Okay. Yeah, no, it's fine. We're lucky. And if that's the worst I get. I always said, like, I thought that our jobs are the only jobs that have that, but someone did write Mrs. Skinner is a bitch on a hall in my mom's. The school she was PE teaching in. So that was the first hate tweet.

[Mary Beth Barone]

That's hate. It's hate. It's hate.

[Benito Skinner]

And I'm fine. Sorry.

[Mary Beth Barone]

People have so much access to us, like, to reach us online.

[Benito Skinner]

I didn't mean to.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I was. So you just opened your post and you just saw that I was just.

[Benito Skinner]

I was literally just, like, going to respond to someone who had. Had said something very Sweet. And I was like, in that. And then that alert came up, and I'm like, I wish that there was some AI should kind of figure that out.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Well, there's no justice.

[Benito Skinner]

I have.

[Mary Beth Barone]

There's no justice.

[Benito Skinner]

No, there's no justice.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Did you see Sydney Sweeney's video? After some, like, bikini paparazzi pics went viral of her? She's like, she's in a movie where she's playing a bodybuilder or something. So, like, her body type sort of changed, and people wrote the most hateful things about. When these photos came out, she literally made a reel. That was all the comments and then her training for this movie. And it was like, so faita and so taika. And I just think, like, no, we shouldn't be just, like, letting these people say this shit to us with no, like, recourse. A terf made a video because I have that joke about how there's all TERFs are just hideously ugly and they don't get to comment on, like, femininity or womanhood because they're all so fucking disgusting. And this terf, who's a man, a male terf, made a response video on Twitter and all of his little followers were, like, saying that I made my Twitter private because of the video, which wasn't true. It had. It had been private for deleted Twitter, right? And now it's completely deleted. But I had screenshotted the video because it's truly one of the ugliest people I've ever seen. And I was sitting on it being like, should I post about this or just let it roll off my back? And I said, you know what? Fudge you. I'm posting it. And I did, and I made a TikTok, and it made a lot of people laugh.

[Benito Skinner]

So here's the thing. I think, yeah, it's a little bit more fight to. Now I'm like, maybe we're taking this laying down and I'm done.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Take your ops and turn them into opportunities. That's the. That's Project 2025 intermedia clip that look.

[Benito Skinner]

Right down the barrel at the viewer.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So it's important for people to see, like, what we go through in a day. And by the way, by choice, drinks from Mountain Valley.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah, I do say that every time in the mirror every morning, I go, you did choose this. But I love creating things. It's just like, my God, to say all that to me. Also, you must be familiar with the humor. This means that my short form did work on you.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It was landing.

[Benito Skinner]

I just. It's crazy.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Actually complimenting me in a way so insane. I want to play something. A sound clip from cnn, but it's a minute long, so maybe I won't.

[Benito Skinner]

Totally.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Should I play it?

[Benito Skinner]

What is it?

[Mary Beth Barone]

So it was after the Zelinsky meeting.

[Benito Skinner]

Okay. Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And I just thought to me, like, the library is open.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Are you ready? Of course.

[Jackson]

Guys, ramble on and on about this. Let's just cut to the chase. The president of the United States is a coward who is Vladimir Putin's puppet. The vice President of the United States is a pogue and a coward who is Donald Trump's puppet. And so what we just witnessed was a meeting in the Oval Office between two cowardly puppets and a hero. And whether you voted for these puppets or not, just as an American, as a fellow American, it's just embarrassing that the only hero in the Oval Office, the only decent human being for that matter, is the Ukrainian. I mean, this administration is going to go down as an embarrassment to American history.

[Benito Skinner]

Can you believe he wore little Chanel glasses while he sat down?

[Mary Beth Barone]

And he put them down on his nose bridge a little bit. And he said, reading is fundamental.

[Benito Skinner]

You can feel like. And someone in a basement can make.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You feel like total.

[Benito Skinner]

And your bestie can bring you out of the ashes. Dante's Inferno.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I watched that video. I literally. I screen recorded it because I was so obsessed. I'm so obsessed.

[Benito Skinner]

I saw. I have to post this one TikTok. This woman was like, if you look like a she, I'm gonna say she. If you look like a he, I'm gonna say he. And then this girl clips it and goes, hi, sir. So I gasped. I. I had my sulfur mask on because, you know, sulfur is working.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's the. It's the big new thing.

[Benito Skinner]

It's the big new. I smell like rotten eggs, but, my.

[Mary Beth Barone]

God, your skin is good.

[Benito Skinner]

God. And you know, it's a classic. With the good comes the bad. And it's a less. Another life lesson.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's balance.

[Benito Skinner]

It's balance. It's everything in moderation. It's balance. But, oh, my God, I had my sulfur mask on. I laughed for 20. Hi, sir.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Hi, sir.

[Benito Skinner]

She just read her down. TikTok is. You know what? I've decided. TikTok's a good place.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I agree. And I saw TikTok that someone had said, like, because people are commenting now, especially with the, like, Republican makeup tutorials being like, oh, so. Oh, the party of love and tolerance. And someone was like, I don't owe you shit. We're tolerant and we want to lift up people who've been oppressed. We. We're not ever saying we were going to be nice to you people that we disagree with.

[Benito Skinner]

You're attacking marginalized communities.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Exactly.

[Benito Skinner]

Like, it's absolutely insane. Why would I respect you?

[Mary Beth Barone]

I don't. And by the way, I can say whatever the want you clip that. I can say whatever the fuck I want.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah, I know. And so. And God, I'm tired.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah. So just know that there's people out there that was a rep from Massachusetts who was just like on CNN sort of commenting on the situation. And I was just like, that's fucking sick. That's actually crazy. And I fucking love that. You know who, you should follow everybody right now.

[Benito Skinner]

He logged off and had a steak freight. Sorry.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I saw the whole night after in dc. Yeah, he said, I fucking tore in that interview.

[Benito Skinner]

Honey. Medium rare with ketchup and Ailey on the side.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah, I read them to film.

[Benito Skinner]

He was wearing boots when he did that.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Jasmine Crockett, she's a United States representative and she is from Texas's 30th congressional district. Every single clip I see of her going viral, talking about white man's tears, talking about why can't Republicans admit that Russia invaded Ukraine. Talking. Oh, she was the one that they said, what would you say to Elon Musk right now? She goes, fuck off.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, I do. Oh, my God, I do know her.

[Mary Beth Barone]

She is so totally fabulous.

[Benito Skinner]

And oh my God, that is so Taika, taika button, Taika button, taika button off.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah. She goes, can one of my Republican colleagues admit right now that Russia invaded Ukraine? Silent she goes, I yield my time.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, she has.

[Mary Beth Barone]

She's coming.

[Benito Skinner]

H u t. U h.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So Jasmine Crockett, Chris Murphy from Connecticut, AOC Bernie Sanders, that's my Mount Rushmore of Democrats right now. And Monica and Monica Barbario.

[Benito Skinner]

Not her.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Who, by the way, like, I actually think she's a fabulous actress.

[Benito Skinner]

She is a fabulous actress. And you should play Sisters.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I agree. Top Gun. And then of course, a complete unknown. And you know what? Can I say another thing, Fabulous red carpet style.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, totally. She wore this red dress that fits so gorgeously on her. It was to the sags. Yeah, she's just one of my press opportunities.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Hey, enjoy it while it lasts.

[Benito Skinner]

Hey, I'll try to make the best of it. And you know what? I have been. I've had a really nice time. Welcome.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Welcome back to Rider.

[Benito Skinner]

Welcome back to Ride Heritage. This is just for the kids.

[Mary Beth Barone]

This week's episode is these are as.

[Benito Skinner]

Ride as ride gets.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So this week I am going to be riding for Kelly Rohrbach's Instagram.

[Benito Skinner]

This is so crazy.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And I'm going first.

[Benito Skinner]

I and I will be writing for Dante's Inferno. Welcome to hell.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Welcome to hell. Let's get into it.

[Terri]

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[Mary Beth Barone]

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[Benito Skinner]

Who cares? Ride.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So a few years ago, I don't even know what year it was, that Sports Illustrated swimsuit had launched the career of a gorgeous blonde from Connecticut, I believe from Greenwich. From Greenwich. Who went to Georgetown to play golf.

[Benito Skinner]

With my sister Katie. With your sister, yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Who later went on to star in the movie Baywatch, which is one of my favorite, favorite movies, my favorite blockbuster of the last probably 15 years maybe.

[Benito Skinner]

I can only imagine the bucket they would have sold for that. Speaking of which, I was at my favorite Cinemark North Hollywood, Seeing Companion, which you have to see. I loved it so much.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's available on streaming, by the way. I mean support theaters. But if you can't then stream it.

[Benito Skinner]

There was a Hulk, but he was red, which I think is Harrison Ford's Hulk, holding this huge rock. That was what you would get popcorn in. Terry went to the bathroom. I. I was this close to getting that and going, hey, here's your popcorn, the Rock bowl. Just to see what his face was But I just. I didn't have the energy because I'm seeing fucking shit like that.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You're battling. I'm getting Redding bullies on the Internet, Literally.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, my God.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So Kelly Warbach burst on the scene. Needless to say, she really did.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

She burst on the scene, and she was one of the most famous people in the world for that time. Like, she was everywhere. She was an incredible model and an athlete, ultimately, and an actress.

[Benito Skinner]

And dated Leo.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Maybe dated Leo. I can't remember.

[Benito Skinner]

I believe that she dated Leonardo DiCaprio.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So her Instagram, she. If you didn't know his full name, Leonardo DiCaprio. Yeah. Not any of the other ones that you might have been thinking, of course.

[Benito Skinner]

Leo Woodall, everyone. She dated Leo Woodall. Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So she has 9.6 million Instagram followers. 529 posts, and, boy, is she activating them. So November 25, 2018, is the last time she posted.

[Benito Skinner]

Well, she knew Covid was coming.

[Mary Beth Barone]

She knew Covid was coming, and she said, I have to get out of here.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So what I love about her Instagram is that it's truly like you have gone into a time machine and gone back to the 2010s, the 2010s.

[Benito Skinner]

Jackson, are you looking at it right now?

[Mary Beth Barone]

You have to pull this up because. Okay, can I just tell you some of the posts that are on this Instagram?

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. Captions.

[Mary Beth Barone]

First of all, the filters that are being used are transporting me to another era. There is a post from March 5, 2018. It is a boomerang of her in a red gown after the Vanity Fair Oscar party. And she's just doing a little dance with her arms, a little dance number. And it's the dancing emoji, and it says inspo. So that's one thing.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, we also used to love that dancer emoji. She does not get the love she used to. She was. Oh, my God, she must have. It's been tough. It's been tough for her ever since 2017 ended.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah. There are relics of her impact, of course. There's a post from October 29, 2018, where she is wearing a helicopter headset or, like, a plane headset, and it says, roger that. Clear the Runway. I'm flying this hog today with three emojis. Hashtag, first flying lesson, plane emojis.

[Benito Skinner]

Wait, she said hog. You know that's my favorite word lately.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I know.

[Benito Skinner]

Can you show me it? I need to see it. This I gotta see. Oh, my God.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

Also remember when, like, just one photo was all it took?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah. And remember when you just posted and it didn't have to be like glam, it didn't have to be high res images. It could just be like a picture of you going about your day with a filter on it.

[Benito Skinner]

She had incredible engagement.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's so pure. Everything about it is so pure.

[Benito Skinner]

Look at her at Grand Canyon National Park. Hashtag yacht life. But she's not on a yacht.

[Mary Beth Barone]

No. And, and it's just like everything about it. Here's, here's a boomerang of her in a white, in a white jumpsuit with a purple wig on.

[Benito Skinner]

Show me that that's a birthday party.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And then there's another picture of her in the same outfit and it says night fever. Night fever.

[Benito Skinner]

Like she says night fever and then hashtag night fever.

[Mary Beth Barone]

No, just, it's just simple. It's clean.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Like do you remember this time? It's such like a lost part of our history as a people. And I think we need to be celebrating the fact that it exists somewhere because Valencia, it's national, it's people, It's Kelvin.

[Benito Skinner]

We don't.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So many people.

[Benito Skinner]

Don't bring up Kelvin.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So many people would have archived these pictures and these posts. And I just love first of how many of them. For example, I have 227 posts on Instagram. She has 529. You could be on this for hours and still not have seen it. Every time.

[Benito Skinner]

Her engagement's through the roof.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Her engagement's through the roof. She had to feed these kids a Cosmopolitan cover. And the caption says, chica. What? So surreal to see myself on the COVID of Cosmopolitan. Thank you to everyone who made it possible.

[Benito Skinner]

And she just stopped.

[Mary Beth Barone]

She just stopped. So what I think is cool is that she walked away from being a public figure, which is something that I think more of us should think about doing. More of us should consider.

[Benito Skinner]

She was with the Rock on set.

[Mary Beth Barone]

She was with the rock on set. Alexandra Daddario. Zac Efron. For goodness sake.

[Benito Skinner]

Well, of course, you know, I still haven't seen that movie. This really inspires me. Maybe I need.

[Mary Beth Barone]

We should watch it. So Kelly Warbach. What's important to note is that she sort of went dark. I just want to see what year they got married. So for my records, just because I want to see if the timing matches up because it's important.

[Benito Skinner]

Well, this is Investigative Journal.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's investigative journalism.

[Benito Skinner]

Look at my diva go to work.

[Mary Beth Barone]

They got married 2019. So she literally said, I'm, I fell in love. I'm going to Be happy and have a life for myself off the Internet, and this is goodbye.

[Benito Skinner]

Do they have kids or just married?

[Mary Beth Barone]

I don't think they have any kids that are on record.

[Benito Skinner]

Fabulous.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But if. If they did, we maybe wouldn't know because they live. They're private citizens.

[Benito Skinner]

Wow.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Do you get the power of that? To be at the height of fame and literally walk away to start this.

[Benito Skinner]

Pod the way we did and to talk about this. Hey, I get it. She also probably had such weird stalkers. I mean, if you're an si. Like, it's. It's given stalkerina.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah. And. And Baywatch is a huge, huge movie.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, blockbuster, even.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And so I just think, oh, I.

[Benito Skinner]

Just saw the Bucket. It's a life. Sorry.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I just saw the Bucket.

[Benito Skinner]

I just saw the Bucket. I mean, this is what marketing is now, you understand. I've been thinking about what overcompensating would be a huge dick. It'd be a golden dick.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I was gonna say.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. But Baywatch would be the lifeguard kind of hut. What are those called?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, I know what you're talking about.

[Benito Skinner]

The lifeguard hut.

[Mary Beth Barone]

The lifeguard hut.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. You know what I'm talking about.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So I just think it's really powerful to see someone who just decided to, like, live her life. And the Instagram, to me, I'm not saying it in a making fun of type of way. Like, I genuinely love going on it and remembering when it was. Life was so simple.

[Benito Skinner]

No, I know. And it was just like you would take a photo in app, swipe to the filter, put a little caption in it that said, like, swag. And then post. And. And your 10 family members who followed you were like, they ate that shit right up.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And there was less pressure. It wasn't as much of, like, a. A tool for people. It was more just like a record, like, you know, proof that you exist.

[Benito Skinner]

I mean, to do the Dancing Woman boomerang, like, we have to get boomerangs back.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I agree.

[Benito Skinner]

There is a boomerang in overcompensating.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yes.

[Benito Skinner]

Well, thank God.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Easter egg.

[Benito Skinner]

Easter egg. Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So I just love her Instagram. I visit it a couple times a week just to, like. Yeah. Just remember when things were simp.

[Benito Skinner]

Covid. Future. Nostalgia.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Nostalgia.

[Benito Skinner]

Well, she knew it was coming.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I know.

[Benito Skinner]

She's very intuitive.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So she got married and she hunkered down.

[Benito Skinner]

You know, I've never met her, but I have met her sister, and she's lovely. I mean, there's connections here, but my sister. Yeah. Played golf with her and loved her so much.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Also, I love that there's so much love. More than meets the eye. Sports Illustrated supermodel, actor. And then also, like a golfer who went to Georgetown, your alma mater.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

This. It's. Do you see how ride this is to me?

[Benito Skinner]

It's family.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Do you see how many layers there are to this ride?

[Benito Skinner]

Well, of course. Oh, my God. You know what? It's like a cronut.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's like a cronut.

[Benito Skinner]

Have you seen those?

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's. What's that word? It's. What are those words called when you combine words? A portmanteau. It's a portmanteau of ride culture. Because maybe you didn't listen to the episode Bleep it, where I rode for Baywatch.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Before ride was ride. I rode for Baywatch.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. I don't. Yeah, you did.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I just think it's important to remember and revisit the sacred text, which is a lot of what your ride is about.

[Benito Skinner]

This Kelly is kind of like, God, this bitch loves me.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I respect the decision.

[Benito Skinner]

You respect the work. Well, she has a lot of things that, like, you look up to Sports Illustrated going blonde.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Going blonde.

[Benito Skinner]

Yes.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Being in a movie with the Rock, who's one of my favorite actors.

[Benito Skinner]

Sportsmanship.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Sportsmanship. Friendly competition.

[Benito Skinner]

Of course. Of course. Well, that's golf.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's all there.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, my God. Wow.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And it probably the power of manifestation. I don't know that she manifested all the good things that have happened to her, but I have to believe that somewhere there she has been channeling.

[Benito Skinner]

It's very like she did that.

[Mary Beth Barone]

She did that.

[Benito Skinner]

You know what? And then she left that we could all learn a thing OR2 from Ms.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Rohrbach about creating art and walking away and trouble.

[Benito Skinner]

A little bit of trouble. And then saying, I'm out. Ending with a boomerang. Is that her last post?

[Mary Beth Barone]

I will tell you what her last.

[Benito Skinner]

Post is to end on Vanity Fair Oscars.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh. So the last post is a. It's two photos, and it's a picture of a palm tree in the ocean and a boat in the ocean. And then if you swipe, it's a picture of Polaroids, which is so classic. 2018. Yeah, of course. And it just says, grateful for a week of fun in the sun with my squad. Hashtag Turkey Tribe. Hashtag Bahamas Mamas. And then a bunch of emojis.

[Benito Skinner]

Hashtag Bahamas Mamas.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And her bio. Good vibes only smiley face.

[Benito Skinner]

Well, yeah, I mean, fudge. Don't bring that back about this at the Time. I didn't think we had culture. Do you know what I mean? Like, I was like, oh, I wonder what, like, people. But now I see, like, I know the fashion. It's pitch Perfect. It's frozen. It's Beyonce. That the surprise album drop.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's just crazy to think about, like, the mindset I had at that time. I mean, I just love it.

[Benito Skinner]

Were you a Sephora girl at that time?

[Mary Beth Barone]

This was post. Working at Sephora.

[Benito Skinner]

Okay. We were at Warby.

[Mary Beth Barone]

We were at Warby. We were heavily at Warby.

[Benito Skinner]

We had our reading glasses on.

[Mary Beth Barone]

On. And from there, you know, did a little bit a few other companies on the startup circuit and then decided to pursue my dreams. And in a lot of ways, inspired by Kelly Orbach.

[Benito Skinner]

How fun is it being in the same room?

[Mary Beth Barone]

I know, it's really cool.

[Benito Skinner]

Let's get into Dante's Inferno. So here's the thing. I have not read Dante's Inferno since high school, but I had an amazing AP English teacher. Mrs. Freeman. Love you, girl. Obviously gay. And AP English teacher, like, means the world to me. I am a part of that. Like, I. Unfortunately, that thing could not be more accurate.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I know.

[Benito Skinner]

It's one of those things you see on the Internet and you're like, there is no one single human experience. It's all shared. Just as Kelly Robox Instagram talks.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Well, to go from Kelly Rohrbach's Wikipedia, and the button, the back button says, go back to Dante's Inferno. Like, that's right. Do you get that in my Wikipedia app?

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah, of course.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So that's important.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. So here's the thing. I haven't read it since I was in this AP English class my senior year of high school, but I remember it being, like, one of my favorite things to study. I thought it was so iconic. It's so fighter. Anything about hell coming from, like, a Catholic boy, I'm like, Catholic gay boy. I'm like, this sounds kind of good.

[Mary Beth Barone]

That's kind of cool.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah. So just start us off. But also, like, oh, we're gonna get into, like, Schiaparelli. Like, this is gonna. Dante's Inferno, like, still inspires me to this day.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So also. Okay, here's what I'll say.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah, I want you to give me this. And let's see what it sparks.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Inferno is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th century narrative poem, the Divine Comedy.

[Benito Skinner]

Overcompensating.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Overcompensating.

[Benito Skinner]

The long form.

[Mary Beth Barone]

The Divine Comedy. Divine. The Divine Comedy.

[Benito Skinner]

Long form Comedy.

[Mary Beth Barone]

That really Works followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. The Inferno describes a journey of a fictionalized version of Dante himself. I mean, self referential, like it's loosely autobiographical. Overcompensating.

[Benito Skinner]

Hello.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Of Dante himself through hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, hell is depicted as nine concentric circles of torment located within the earth. It is the, quote, realm of those who have rejected spiritual values by yielding to bestial appetites or violence. Being gay.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Or by perverting their human intellectual being gay to fraud being gay or malice against their fellow men.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

End quote. As an allegory, the Divine Comedy represents the journey of the soul toward God with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin.

[Benito Skinner]

How you doing, Jackson? Oh, none. I remember Judas being like really low. He was like, way down there. Like, you really had to go through the rings. But this thing, to me, I mean, it was definitely like Catholic guilt. And it's just like, oh, my God, you guys are all just such fucking sinners. But there was something so, like. I don't know, it just felt so epic to me. It felt like the Da Vinci Code to me also, I believe three beasts approach him. And I was reminded of this because Schiaparelli did a fashion show when Kylie Jenner, you know, the lion head, and Naomi and then another. I think Shalom was the wolf or Naomi was the wolf. He had a fashion show that was based on Dante's Inferno. And that just. I mean, it just.

[Mary Beth Barone]

He's the reference.

[Benito Skinner]

It brought it all rushing back.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I think it's so cool to inspire an idiom. So, you know the seventh circle of hell, when people refer to something, oh my God, like, that's the seventh circle.

[Benito Skinner]

It's Dante on the beat.

[Mary Beth Barone]

That's Dante. And so I think it's really cool to like, create something that's just like. It's so inspiring to so many things that came after it.

[Benito Skinner]

Well, yeah, of course.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah, of course.

[Benito Skinner]

Hey, totally.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And it was written in 1300, which means. Or 1321, I believe, which means he was around at the same time as Albert Einstein and Oppenheimer.

[Benito Skinner]

Yes, And Nixon.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Nixon, of course.

[Benito Skinner]

Can we go through some of the rings and tell me who's on them? Because this is going to bring it all back. I remember one being like, there's like greed. And it kind of reminds me of that America's Next Top Model photo shoot where it's the seven where the girl's.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Friend had just died and then she had to be.

[Benito Skinner]

Well, she channeled it through wrath through the work. That was such a, like, empowering episode to me. When she's screaming in the coffin.

[Mary Beth Barone]

First circle of hell is limbo.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, okay. Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Second circle is lust.

[Benito Skinner]

We're in limbo right now.

[Mary Beth Barone]

We are? Yeah, we really are. Before the show comes out, we're in limbo. Second circle is lust.

[Benito Skinner]

Okay, Jackson.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Third circle, Gluttony.

[Benito Skinner]

Okay.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And Cerberus was there, so that's the Great Worm, if that means anything to you. I mean, where are the worms?

[Benito Skinner]

Where are the worms? See how this. Dante's Inferno is ride. Heritage.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's right. Heritage.

[Benito Skinner]

Okay, keep going.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Circle five is wrath. So that's like the person that commented.

[Benito Skinner]

That on your post and amtm. She channeled that. And we saw that. We saw wrath reflected back at us when she did that.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Sixth circle is hearsay. Which is also the comment that was left on your Instagram. It's some bullshit. So then seventh circle is violence, which we hate. Except if you are fighting Nazis.

[Benito Skinner]

Exactly.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Then we have fraud.

[Benito Skinner]

Fraud is like. So fraud is high or low on there. It's like.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Like, fraud is toward the bottom. Eighth circle.

[Benito Skinner]

Wow, they're really hard on frauders.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah, fraudis. So it says. Here's the thing about this Wikipedia. You can't just, like, pick a quick quote off of it.

[Benito Skinner]

Well, of course.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's like there's like, every sentence is a paragraph. Do you get that?

[Benito Skinner]

Can I see your phone? Because maybe. Maybe I'll see one thing that really. Oh, the image. Oh, my God, the imagery. I remember having to draw this out. And of course, you know, I did it to hell. Gay guys know how to draw, let me tell you. Okay. Limbo. Virgil states that he saw Jesus descend into limbo and take Adam, Abel, Noah, Moses, Abraham, David, Rachel, and others. See, Limbo of the Patriarchs. That's a whole other page. Into his all forgiving arms and transport them to heaven. So it's very much like, bring the homies with you.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Totally.

[Benito Skinner]

Do you understand?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Bring the entourage.

[Benito Skinner]

Bring your bestie with you out of limbo to heaven.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Heaven?

[Benito Skinner]

No, we'd go to Purgatory. For sure. I wonder what the difference is there. I mean, I never read the other ones, but I was more of a Dante's Inferno girl. And I knew that to my heart. My heart. Score. Yeah, but let me see. So it's this castle. Oh, my God. You're gonna die. You're gonna die. Who? He encounters Dante.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Who?

[Benito Skinner]

Dante Next encounters a group of philosophers, including Aristotle.

[Mary Beth Barone]

No.

[Benito Skinner]

With Socrates and Plato at his side.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Dante, Galaxy, brain.

[Benito Skinner]

No.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Literally, the ninth circle is treachery. And this is where he encounters Judas.

[Benito Skinner]

Judas.

[Mary Beth Barone]

This final, deepest level of hell is reserved for traitors, betrayers, and oathbreakers. Its most famous inmate is Judas.

[Benito Skinner]

That is. So when he comes to me, I am Red Day. Ear condom. She said that she wrote that into a major pop song. Ear condom.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

Gaga. I love you, Stephanie. Pause up, pause up. In the next episode, I'm gonna talk about, about meeting when we met lady, and what that, what that did for me.

[Mary Beth Barone]

What did you take away from the works of Dante?

[Benito Skinner]

Here's the thing I think I took away. I, I find darkness really interesting to me. Like, I think I've always been interested in, like, horror. Like, I love horror movies. I. I don't know, there's maybe it's the Scorpio in me. There's something very interesting about this level of punishment. And also what I kind of thought was interesting about it, I'm like, like, finally you've described it because you, you guys are talking so much about hell. Well, let's see the landscape. I want to see the architecture.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah, the architecture. It's like, it's such an abstract thing for most.

[Benito Skinner]

Exactly. I'm like, take me through the levels. And Judas being in the last one is so petty of them and petty of Dante. Like, I don't know if that's the worst thing you could possibly do. I mean, I guess Judas, like, actually, maybe it is being a betrayal. Betrayal is like, it hurts the worst. First cut is the deepest. Yeah. Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So, okay. I don't know how the inferno ends.

[Benito Skinner]

Fraud should be in purgatory. Like, you know what I mean?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Fraud can be bad, though.

[Benito Skinner]

That's so true. It depends.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's. I, I don't think it's like credit card fraud if you're defrauding credit card companies. Like, have.

[Benito Skinner]

Dante said it was credit card.

[Mary Beth Barone]

He said, like, it's credit card fraud. That's really bad.

[Benito Skinner]

Everyone on this level, credit card fraud.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But I think fraud to me is like a, like fraud, like representing yourself fraudulently or like not being like, pure of spirit, like showing who you really are.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah, I guess if it's not pure of spirit. Because sometimes I think people like, like they have their identity is they're trying to protect themselves from hurt.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But that's not fraud to me. That's like self preservation. But I like to think that the Inferno is about the strength of human spirit. I mean, we can endure so much, and we are right now. And I definitely never thought we'd be living through Another, like, sort of civil rights era. Like, I sort of was taught in school that that's behind us. But it does feel like right now we are in, like, one of the circles of hell, and we need to see.

[Benito Skinner]

I'd say we're right around five or six.

[Mary Beth Barone]

We need to.

[Benito Skinner]

We're getting close to nine.

[Mary Beth Barone]

All of us together. We're gonna get out.

[Benito Skinner]

Let's get up. And you know what? We might be in limbo for a little bit, but we're gonna keep clawing.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I have no doubt now more than ever that we are gonna get through this and it's gonna be okay. It's just gonna. It sucks that we have to spend so much of our adult life, like, fighting for things that should be a given. But we're here, and we are gonna fight, and we're not going anywhere.

[Benito Skinner]

Hold your bestie close, Virgil. See, all the lessons I learned. They get to level six. Who are all these people? These are homosexuals.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Sorry, Nina.

[Benito Skinner]

Drama guiding.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, yeah, these are the gays. They're gonna get out soon, though.

[Benito Skinner]

I've got plans for them. Oh, these? They're sodomites.

[Mary Beth Barone]

What I like, too, about this work that I never read it, by the.

[Benito Skinner]

Way, you will love it. It's such a beach read for me.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I'm sure. I'm sure I'll fly right through it. It's a page turner.

[Benito Skinner]

It really is, though. Like, I can't. It's just something about it, and it's kind of one of those things. It's like sometimes when you watch a movie, like the Brutalist, which I thought was completely. It all happened and was real tar.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It was your tar.

[Benito Skinner]

100% my tar. I read it and was kind of like, well, this is what hell is at the time. I remember being like, yeah, this all tracks. Like, I get it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I think what's cool is writing a book that has so many other historical figures, so the amount of research that has to go into a book like that, because you have to.

[Benito Skinner]

It's very Midnight in Paris.

[Mary Beth Barone]

See, I was going to say Gia Tolentino's book, the Trick Mirror, but it's very Midnight in Paris, too.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

In order to reference those people and their beliefs and what they would say, if you were fictionalizing them, you have to have a deep knowledge of. Of the text.

[Benito Skinner]

Old Testament and New Testament.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah. It's almost like fan fiction.

[Benito Skinner]

It is. It's very fan.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Dante's Internal is fan fiction. I can't speak. Also, do you hear my stomach? I'm so hungry.

[Benito Skinner]

I know, we're about to go to Zinc.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I'm so hungry.

[Benito Skinner]

We're about to have Lebowl. There is this place in LA called Zinc, and you can get a thing called Le Bowl. So, you know we're about to have that.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah, we're gonna get Le Bowl.

[Benito Skinner]

I'm exhausted. It's exhausted.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's exhausted.

[Benito Skinner]

I'm kind of doing the best I can. And I think, like, you know, you're my Virgil in a lot of ways. And you're like, hey, it could be worse. Look at all these freaks.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah. I have nothing to add.

[Benito Skinner]

This one goes all to. Am I sorry.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I have nothing to add. It's just we're all. We're tired, but we have to keep fighting.

[Benito Skinner]

I think we should start a book club. Let's read Dante's Inferno together. What do you think?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah, let's do it.

[Benito Skinner]

Pick the first book in our book club. You know, the second one will be Green Lights.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Of course. Green light, yes. And the third one will be a picture of Dorian Gray. Portrait of Dorian Gray or whatever.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, please. You get to limbo, and then it's Matthew McConaughey there, waiting to take you through all the levels of hell.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I would love that. I would love that.

[Benito Skinner]

Which one's Elon? In low.

[Mary Beth Barone]

He's in treachery, I guess.

[Benito Skinner]

High numbers. Yeah. There's a lot of frauds. I see lots of frauds in Hollywood.

[Mary Beth Barone]

LA is plastic. That's what we're going to end on.

[Benito Skinner]

You know what you are, Marybeth?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Bisexual.

[Benito Skinner]

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

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, I forgot about ride or die. It just felt so, like, obvious that we both ride for each other.

[Benito Skinner]

Well, I do think that that's kind of what this show is.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah.

[Benito Skinner]

I think as besties, like, real recognize real. And I'm always gonna agree with my girl. Only a couple things make my lower back sweaty. And I think I've really warmed up to group chats. I'm really.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I'm kind of like, you have turned a corner.

[Benito Skinner]

I'm more in limbo.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And can I say one thing? You started a group chat on Saturday.

[Benito Skinner]

What'd you think?

[Mary Beth Barone]

I loved it.

[Benito Skinner]

Well, I had to tell all of you that you were getting the episodes.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I know. It was so cool. And people aren't abusing the group chat. They're not constantly talking in it. They're saying things when they have something to say.

[Benito Skinner]

Exactly. Well, Terry's in London right now, so group chats with him are kind of.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Dizzying because it's time zones.

[Benito Skinner]

You want to talk about the Inferno? I got to read through all my little Inferno.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Well, you were at Benny Hannes the other night while he and I were talking in the group chat, and then you had a lot to catch up on.

[Benito Skinner]

There's actually a Benihanas in Level 5 Inferno. Yeah, they're chopping it up in there. Yep. I love it there, by the way. You know, but it's Hibachi, right? Yeah, of course. I was so embarrassed. I went there with all of our post production team. I love them all so much. We had so much fun. But one of them goes, did you pick this place because it's like kind of like Benny Drama 7? And I was like, no, I swear to God, no.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But I kind of love that.

[Benito Skinner]

No, I. I was like, please do not say that.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I'm telling everyone you ride for Benny Hanna.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah, because it was. Yeah, it was one of those things where I was like, that's. I'm obsessed. That. That's the lore that's leading you into a night at Benihana.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I haven't thought about Hibachi in a while, but it feels to me like, media clip.

[Benito Skinner]

Please.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It almost feels like, along the lines of arcades and froyo places, like, at some point we won't have Hibachi anymore. And I just think it is, like, such a fun place to have a birthday.

[Benito Skinner]

Watching the co worker catch meat in their mouth, like, you're not going to see. It's the most human thing I've ever seen. It was like one of those things where I watched. And I'm sorry, I'm not gonna name names, but at one point, the girl who was sitting near me, they threw meat at her mouth.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I'm gonna pee. I have to pee so bad. We have to wrap it up.

[Terri]

I'm gonna pee.

[Benito Skinner]

And their tongue reaches the bottom of their chin. She was.

[Mary Beth Barone]

She said, I'm gonna catch that meat.

[Benito Skinner]

She goes, that shrimp is gonna hit the back of my freaking throat. It's gonna touch the. What's that thing called? You.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You little thingy.

[Benito Skinner]

You're the little dangle ear. Yeah, well, I ride for Kelly Robox Instagram. I'm obsessed with. Well, I'm. I really want to make one of those. Like, what are those called? Where you bury it?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, a time capsule.

[Benito Skinner]

I really want to make a time capsule. Are we gonna cut that?

[Mary Beth Barone]

No, we're keeping that.

[Benito Skinner]

God damn it. I'm so hungry and tired. I need a Diet Coke.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Wait, I'm gonna pee in my pants.

[Benito Skinner]

You better piss.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Have cried on the pot. I haven't peed myself on the pod yet, girl.

[Benito Skinner]

I'll finish out. I'll say whatever I need to. I just. I love it. It's a time. It's future nostalgia to me. I love that time. God knows what we were posting at that time. I would have loved to really know you at that time.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I have my archive. We can go through together.

[Benito Skinner]

We met in 20.

[Mary Beth Barone]

We met in 2018, I think.

[Benito Skinner]

Oh. And then she was like, I'm not. She said, anymore.

[Mary Beth Barone]

She goes, jenny and Mary Beth have met. My work is done. She said, I'm out.

[Benito Skinner]

Kelly, we love you, sweetheart.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Come on.

[Benito Skinner]

The podcast. Wait. Were her comeback.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I would love to have her on the pod and just ask her what she's been up to. And I can't clarify this enough. I'm seriously riding for it. And it's not irony. It's not sarcasm. I'm obsessed.

[Benito Skinner]

You have brought this up to me multiple times on trips.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Even on trips in the car. I'm saying.

[Benito Skinner]

But you're like, have you seen this? And I'm like, no. Is she. Did she post? And you're like, she hasn't posted in a long time.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Well, there's something about a piece of media that's not changing. It's the same. It's static. And I say, that's comfort to me. It's not changing.

[Benito Skinner]

Yeah, we don't get that every day. And also that she didn't go. Delete it. It's something about, like, really? Which I love. I love. It's like, this is all of me. Although some people. I. I would delete your old tweets, but there's something about being like, that was me then, this is me now. But you don't get to see me now.

[Mary Beth Barone]

She's saying, I stand by everything I said.

[Benito Skinner]

Now you see me.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Now you three. Me.

[Benito Skinner]

So what about you? Do you ride for.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I ride for Dante's Inferno.

[Benito Skinner]

I agree.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I like.

[Benito Skinner]

What is it? Dante Alegria?

[Mary Beth Barone]

I'm not sure.

[Benito Skinner]

I think it's Dante Barbarito.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's Dante Barbarito. I ride for sort of iconic works of literature and things that have withstood the test of time. You know, that's one of my whole deals.

[Benito Skinner]

I know. I was with you once when you bought Catcher in the Rye. It was very cool.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And you know what? I got it at Great Escape Books in Toronto.

[Benito Skinner]

Lovely.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Hit them up. I just think we need to read more literature and as you said, we can't look forward to the future until we know where we've been, until we.

[Benito Skinner]

Know what's down there. It's very incoming.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Incoming.

[Benito Skinner]

Look down, don't look up.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Stream it on Netflix.

[Benito Skinner]

Whoa.

[Mary Beth Barone]

That was a good movie. I liked it. It was. It was a cultural commentary. If you didn't like that movie, look inward.

[Benito Skinner]

Well, here's my thing. J. Law's bangs. I loved that. It felt like such a choice. In a good way.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And Cate Blanchett's veneers.

[Benito Skinner]

Whoa. Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Fake veneers.

[Benito Skinner]

Meryl Streep's president. Hut. Hut. Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So I guess that's all we have to say. Happy Red Heritage Month. Next week is, of course, the Hitchhiker.

[Benito Skinner]

Like, if there even is a podcast.

[Mary Beth Barone]

If there even is. Is there?

[Benito Skinner]

Oh, my. Exit.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Benny, babe. Eyes on the road. Benny. Go.

[Benito Skinner]

Ride. Ride.

[Ray Porter]

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