Notting Hill + Having Regrets

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Notting Hill + Having Regrets"

Ride with Benito Skinner and Mary Beth Barone
Dear Media | November 26, 2025

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Episode Overview

In this episode, besties and comedians Benito Skinner and Mary Beth Barone reunite in London to deliver their signature playful, irreverent commentary about life, pop culture, and existential moments. From riffing about dream alter-egos and wild hypothetical dates to a loving deep-dive on the classic rom-com Notting Hill and an honest conversation about living with (and learning from) regrets, this episode is a hilarious and heartfelt exploration of self-embracement, nostalgia, and refusing platitudes. Expect witty banter, personal anecdotes, and plenty of quotable gems.

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Key Topics & Discussion Highlights

1. London Vibes and Glam Realities

[00:46–02:51]

• Benito and Mary Beth record from London, fresh from the GQ Men of the Year party and battling hangovers.
• The joys and woes of constant glam for events, and how good it feels to go makeup-free.
• Trend: Prolonged enjoyment of beverages (Benito’s six-hour iced coffee habit surprises the Brits).
• Quote:

  "I'm nursing it ‘cause I don’t want it to end. Once it’s gone, honey, it’s gone." – Mary Beth [02:40]

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2. The “Deddy” Dream-Date Bit

[05:35–09:59]

• Mary Beth invents an outlandish alter ego “Deddy,” imagining what she'd do if she could embody a wildly unrestrained woman for a day.
  • Includes showing up to a date in a corset, pasties (X’s, hearts, or shamrocks), Uggs, and demanding Disney trips and tiramisu.
  • The bit evolves into Deddy being a political assassin with a gun, enormous areolas, bruised "ketchup" lips (from fillers), and mercurial accents.
  • Quote:

    "I show up at the dinner in a corset with pasties on, crotchless panties, and Ugg boots to my thigh." – Mary Beth [06:10]
    "First you forgot what I ordered for dinner. Dog talking. Strawberry banana smoothie. Then I take two shots and oysters." – Mary Beth [06:38]

  • Benito and Jamie (the producer) can barely keep it together.

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3. GQ Party Recap and Creative Flow

[04:21 & 09:43]

• Both recount how hungover and depleted they felt after the GQ party, but also how inspired they are creatively.
• Benito claims to feel in full “flow state,” riffing with ease.
• Quote:

  "I've never been more... I'm in creative flow." – Mary Beth [09:45]
  "You're in flow state, yeah." – Benito [09:49]

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4. "Notting Hill" – The Ultimate Rom-Com

[20:12–33:15]

• Mary Beth dubs Notting Hill "the best romcom of all time," sparking a loving, detail-rich discussion.
  • Family histories with Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts.
  • Reflections on Hugh Grant's tabloid scandals and Jude Law/Sienna Miller drama.
• Summary of the film’s plot, charm, chemistry, and why its magic is rare in today's rom-com landscape.
• The cast’s authenticity, sharp script, and large ensemble praised.
• Wistful longing for genuine, big-budget, character-driven rom-coms vs today's overproduced, algorithm-driven films.
• Line readings and references to iconic moments, like:
  • Quote:

    "I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy..." – Mary Beth [31:12] "If they don’t end up together... I would have burnt this city to the ground." – Benito [27:34]

• Discussion expands to Love, Actually, The Holiday, and Serendipity as other favorites.

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5. On Regrets and Rejecting Platitudes

[36:54–41:29]

• Mary Beth rides for “having regrets”—challenging the cliché of “no regrets.”
  • Admits everyone has done things they wish they hadn’t, and that’s normal.
  • Expresses frustration with unsolicited advice and platitudes, especially about being single and building a fulfilling solo life.
  • Quote:

    "I hear people say all the time, like, ‘I have no regrets.’ And I'm like, that literally cannot be true. We've all done stuff that we wish we didn't do." – Mary Beth [36:57]

  • Benito echoes the sentiment, critiquing the social pressure for hot takes and constant advice.
• Both discuss how some regrets teach them valuable lessons, and sometimes, with time, things once regretted no longer feel that way.
  • Quote:

    "I think to have them is fine and to understand that you don't need to feel terrible about them, but that you learn from them… is kind of beautiful." – Benito [44:32]

• Refer back to Lucille Ball:

  "I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things I haven't." – Mary Beth [40:43]

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6. The State of Modern Rom-Coms

[27:21–29:47]

• The duo laments the decline in thoughtful supporting characters and the rise of clichéd, offensively shallow gay roles.
• Quote:

  "The gay guys I've auditioned for in these movies are... monkeys. I messaged back and I'm like, 'Oh, I forgot to tell you, I'm not an animal.'" – Benito [28:18]

• Describes the overused “busy for love” trope and how algorithm-casting trumps chemistry.

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7. Merch, Show Production, and Upcoming Projects

[42:17–44:44]

• Show off their new merch, tease improvements and upcoming limited editions.
• Hint at future collaborations and charitable efforts tied to inside jokes (“Come On Kerplunk” and butt plug tail).

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Memorable Moments & Quotes

• Deddy’s Daydream: Mary Beth’s fully-formed fantasy date skit becomes a running gag. [05:35–12:06]
• On Notting Hill's Cultural Impact:

  "This movie is just a perfect movie in every way... Julia and Hugh, you're literally like, I believe that these two people. And if they don’t end up together... I would have burnt this city to the ground." – Benito [23:53, 27:34]

• On Regret:

  "I completely agree. And I think... everyone kind of forcing the ‘having no regrets’ thing, I'm like, 'Oh, well, now I feel bad.' Like, I do have a few also." – Benito [37:32]

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Key Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment Summary | |-----------|-------------------------------------------------------| | 00:46 | London check-in and event glamour talk | | 02:29 | Cultural habits: slow coffee and British reactions | | 05:35 | Mary Beth's “Deddy” fantasy date bit | | 09:43 | Post-GQ hangover and creative “flow state” | | 20:12 | Notting Hill love letter and analysis | | 27:21 | Modern rom-com critique and issues with representation| | 36:54 | Regrets: embracing them and challenging platitudes | | 41:43 | Favorite products and life simplifying | | 42:17 | Merch drop and show tease | | 44:32 | Closing thoughts: Regrets as learning |

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Takeaways

• The magic of Notting Hill is in genuine characters, heartfelt scripts, and unmatched chemistry—qualities missing from modern rom-coms.
• Regrets are not only normal, but vital to growth; enforced positivity or constant advice often isn’t helpful.
• Mary Beth and Benito’s humor is rooted in honesty and the willingness to parody their own experiences.
• The duo’s chemistry and knack for callback jokes (Deddy, “Beautiful, fly, hot and sexy,” “Come On Kerplunk”) keep the show light but thoughtful.

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For Further Listening

• Next episode promised a very unexpected special guest.
• Listener call to share regrets on their Reddit community.

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If you haven’t listened, this episode is an affable ride through nostalgia, personal truth, and the gleeful absurdity of modern life—with plenty of laughs, friendship, and unfiltered cultural critique.

Transcript

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

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What's wrong?

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Nothing.

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Are you sure?

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Yeah. No, I just need a ride. Ride, ride.

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I just want to have fun. Start your engine.

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Take it.

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I'm Benito Skinner.

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I'm Mary Beth Barone.

[B]

And this is Ride. Beautiful. Fly, hot and sexy. Beautiful. They were playing Zara Larson in Joe and the Juice last time I went 20 minutes ago.

[A]

Yeah, we had cracker sandwiches for lunch, went in Rome and dinner.

[B]

And dinner. And just to walk in. And you're, I think, coming. Coming back from COVID I'd say I came here and got the black play.

[A]

I'm obsessed. First of all, I love when people say they had Covid when they didn't take a COVID test.

[B]

Have you ever known your body? Have you ever in your life known your body?

[A]

And they tell people, I had Covid last week. So then everyone they interact with goes, well, I guess I have Covid. So now you're saying you have Covid.

[B]

Sorry, I just fleabagged at the camera.

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Yeah, you broke the fourth wall.

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His neck. But here's the thing. I just think, like, they haven't acknowledged us. They never will.

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Join the juice.

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Yeah, they're playing cat and mouse.

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No, because it's.

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Yeah, but just walking in it. Beautiful. Fly, hot and sexy.

[A]

What's the song Pretty Ugly that you put.

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Have you ever seen a pretty girl get ugly like this? Which is pretty much every time we're on camera for this podcast. I'd say what's.

[A]

Okay, so just to talk a little bit about the current space we're inhabiting, and I mean space in the larger sense. Like, yeah, sweetheart, when you attend events and things like that, you're getting glam a lot. So then when you don't have to have glam, it just feels better to not wear makeup and have just, like, bare skin. But that does definitely have its consequences, like, looking terrible on this podcast.

[B]

I've decided if you want to fudge us, you want to fuck us regardless.

[A]

Well, you and you should, like, you can't just have us with our glam.

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Can you finish the shot? She's been drinking an immunity shot for about 10 minutes. Well, we are teaching the Brits how to drink a drink.

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You can drink.

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Slow time love. Yeah, let it simmer. Nurse it.

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Everyone in this country is baffled by the fact that it takes me six hours to drink an iced coffee.

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It's all people that brought up to me. They're like, you're still with that coffee.

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I'm like, have you heard of coffee?

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Is. Is as good as my day gets.

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I'm nursing it.

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I'm nursing it cuz I don't want it to end.

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Cuz once it's gone, honey, it's gone. You can't get it back.

[B]

It's gone. And then you have your second one and it never hits the same as that first one.

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It doesn't hit the same.

[B]

Oh, the fern does tickle you quite a bit.

[A]

You are understanding. We're in the Great British Library. We're in London. I guess we should say that too.

[B]

London. I love it here. And London's so happy to have you back, baby girl. And I finally get to do a ride that I've been waiting to do for since I was six.

[A]

It's really fun. And a necklace. And a necklace.

[B]

Delaney Jane, she's like, entered her new era. So there's AI and then there's Delaney Jane. She is like. She's adding her own special effects to her videos. The production value has increased tenfold.

[A]

She's killing it.

[B]

She's absolutely eating down. I need to meet her. I need to give her a hug. She's so.

[A]

I'm just trying to think where we could do that.

[B]

Her daughter.

[A]

We have to go to Australia.

[B]

I really want to go to Australia. I really do.

[A]

So far, I have bungee jump. My sister lives there. Like, I ha. I need to go. I need to visit her at some point.

[B]

I think they love us down there.

[A]

A movie will film that. We're in at some point.

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Yeah, definitely.

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They love filming in Australia. We're gonna get there.

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London.

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We'll stop by.

[B]

What about New York City?

[A]

Well, I wouldn't. I would love to film something in New York. Oh, should we talk about gq Men of the Year party? Not all made you think of party. Yes.

[B]

Should we read some of our jokes or. We're actually going to save those for. We have a very special guest.

[A]

Oh, yeah, we have a guest. We have a guest next week.

[B]

It is so not who you think it is.

[A]

Yeah. Can I just say, I think it's going to totally, like, completely save us.

[B]

When you said it to me, I couldn't believe it.

[A]

Yeah, well, it's returning to the sacred text in a way. I know.

[B]

It's on the tv. Or I could just watch you two. Right. No.

[A]

You were being so funny.

[B]

I was the funniest I've ever been yesterday.

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I know.

[B]

So for anyone who wasn't there, I'm.

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Sorry, but it was hardly anyone, so.

[B]

It was just Two people.

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It was two people.

[B]

For some reason. I could have toured it. It was like you were cracking me up.

[A]

You want to talk about your dream day as a woman? You. You went. You riffed last night. You were riffing solo. I didn't have to say anything.

[B]

I was so tired.

[A]

I want to be a woman, for one.

[B]

Why? I had Covid. Well, I have Covid. It's the Black Plague. They got all kinds of stuff over here I'm not used to and. Are you laughing? I love our producer, Jamie Cutie.

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We didn't have Jimmy last time cuz we booked two last minute, but we were left to our own devices of clicking the record button. And I just said I got too scared last time we.

[B]

You know, I didn't click that record.

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But I like it's a. You know, I want to include you together. Wicked, mutant and proud.

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Wicked good.

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We were riffing yesterday. We had fun.

[B]

Oh, we were so hungover after gq.

[A]

I've never. It's the worst hangover I've had in years. It was so bad. I really was upset with myself. I was. I was sad.

[B]

I keep taking down cheeseburgers in a way that is. It's seeming clinical. It's clinical, but it's so mean. It's like a cheeseburger.

[A]

Let's talk about Daddy. If you think I forgot one thing you said last night.

[B]

Her name is Deddy, I think. Okay, so I just was like so delirious and I just thought, I want to have a date as a woman and I want to be such a level of out of pocket that like. So I said I would start the day. What would I say? I said I'd meet a guy and be like, take me to dinner, why don't you? Like, the second I meet him, he feels so uncomfortable. He'd say, yes. I show up at the dinner in a corset with pasties on, crotchless panties, and ugg boots to my thigh.

[A]

No. But then he takes you to dinner and the whole night you're saying, I want to have your baby.

[B]

All the time with my finger. I go, I want to have your babies. And then he.

[A]

And then he tries to touch you and you go. And then you go, you have to take me to Disney.

[B]

First you forgot what I ordered for dinner. Dog talking. Strawberry banana smoothie. Then I take two shots and oysters.

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Then you go ride the rides at Magic Kingdom.

[B]

And the whole time I'm going like.

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And then you say, your balls feel.

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I grab his crotch at one point, I say, your Balls feel so good. And then I don't sleep with him. No, no. And then I kill him. I'm crying. I throw him in the river.

[A]

Well, it's a political assassination. Of course it's a political.

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This whole day was spent with the governor.

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I want this for you so bad.

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I know. Come on, Genie. Where you at? It's all I want.

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He gives you one mission.

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You don't.

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You don't. End homelessness during dinner.

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It's not worth putting my fish to my mouth.

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It's Teddy. It's One day is Daddy.

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One day is Teddy. Yeah. And she's so, like. I don't know. I know exactly what she looks like for some reason. Oh. And I would have gotten filler earlier in the day of my lips, so I'd have bruised lips. And anytime someone brings it up, I go, it's ketchup. I love her. It's all I want.

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Now, this is a great idea for a short film.

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Yes.

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Me.

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Yeah.

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Because the twist, that she's a political assassin, I think would really catch people off guard.

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She has a gun, right?

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A couple of guns.

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Thought I was gonna be a woman for a day and wouldn't have a gun. Come on, now.

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You'd have to.

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I have to make it through the day.

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You'd have to.

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Yeah.

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Your balls feel so good.

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Your balls feel so good.

[A]

Jimmy's dying in the corner. His heart's about to stop.

[B]

Well, no, Jimmy's thinking he only I.

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Can meet a woman like such as that.

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He goes, dream date. And he knows that. Yeah.

[A]

Oh, my God. Okay, so the world ain't ready.

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So, girls, if you're listening, just a few little pointers. I think my pasties would be either X's or hearts.

[A]

Well, you know they make shamrocks. Did you know they make shamrock pasties?

[B]

So they're shamrocks. And in the middle of dinner, they'd keep peeling off and I'd keep going, oh, my goodness, my bosoms. And then I have to press them back into my nipples. I have huge areolas, by the way. I know.

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I assumed that.

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Yeah. They don't cover them.

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No.

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Yeah. And then in the middle of dinner, she goes, I have to poop.

[A]

The idea of an areola. I'm sorry, because this might be out there, but.

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Yeah. One that's so big that a pasty couldn't even try.

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An XL pasty is, like, still the outline of it. Like, it doesn't quite cover it.

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Well, it's. In fact, it kind of just makes, like, a. The Like a. Like a symbol.

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Yeah. It's a whole.

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It's a totally new thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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So that's where we're at creatively.

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So kind of like, I've never been more. I'm in creative flow.

[A]

No, you're in flow state.

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I'm in flow state, yeah.

[A]

Wow. I mean, to see that live last night and again today, obviously. I mean, you can see I was, like, actually crying, but thank you. The idea of that. Yeah, yeah.

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I almost just revealed who was listening. We can bleep it, but he was.

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As if they're not gonna figure that out.

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Okay. The other person who was there was.

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Of course, Edward Blumel. It's good to catch up with old friends when you're in town.

[B]

Yes. And he. He missed being in hotel rooms with me doing bits for you. What's something about. I see the two of you in a room and I'm like. I launch into. I'm it. The clown. Yeah, we love that dream role.

[A]

I did extend my stay at the hotel one night and they kind of honey dicked me because they told me how much it was going to be without VAT, service charge, etc. Etc.

[B]

Oh.

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So when I went down this morning to tap that credit card, I was hit with a number that I was simply not expecting. And I just said, you know what? C' est la vie.

[B]

La vida bonita.

[A]

La vida bonita. Carpe diem, of course.

[B]

Well, that one too.

[A]

Okay. Another modernization I want to do. Carpe diem is Latin for seize the day, but I think carpe diem, shoot your shot. You should be DMing more people.

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Oh, sounds like someone's got a new T shirt idea.

[A]

Me putting that on a T shirt.

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I want you to come out with a T shirt brand.

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I sell three units of the carpe DM T shirt.

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You think that's a three unit purchase? That's got. You think that has numbers?

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Bestseller potential.

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Numbers. Jimmy'd buy one.

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Jimmy would bully. Would gift one gratis. He'd buy three.

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I want Jimmy to wear whitey tighties with that on it. On the back it says carpe diem. Some girl taking those off.

[A]

He's married. Fully.

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His wife taking those off. The fuck. See, I can adapt.

[A]

She goes, who have you been hanging out with?

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So, oh, wait, this is Daddy in the middle of the date. So what's your wife's name? She leans from southern to Nina Drama to. Yeah. Different accent per Oyster.

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Different accent per course. Yeah, yeah. Her having a smoothie after dinner and.

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Then just belching and then for dessert.

[A]

Take me to Disney for dessert.

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It's Disney. But she also goes, I love tiramisu. And they don't have it on the menu, so they have to go somewhere else. Prove to me you love me.

[A]

See, if we lived in a world where women could behave that way, the world would be such a better place.

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No, that's what I mean. Like, it's just this one day.

[A]

We have to hold back so much.

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I know.

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And even still, guys won't date us. Like, we can be the perfect woman.

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And still, you were the perfect woman the other night at gq. Men of the Year. A night all about men. You made it all about women.

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Women's is, my goodness, gross. Yes. I mean, it was fun. I wore the dress in my dreams. I decided I'm gonna wear that dress again to something else because I want to rewear.

[B]

It's your Tiffany Haddish Alexander McQueen dress.

[A]

Exactly. Thank you for saying that.

[B]

It's back.

[A]

Oh, my God. When you rubbed your nose, it's just like. That was so. It's. You went like this.

[B]

You know what?

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If you haven't seen.

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Our friend said it was cutie.

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If you haven't seen the episode of Ride from last week. The way Benny. Someone in the comments goes. The way Benny rubbed his nose like a toddler. And it has the timestamp, so you can just.

[B]

Sorry. I just, like, sometimes it just gets.

[A]

You were doing things. You were doing hand puppets or whatever. Shadow puppets.

[B]

I have SARS. COVID 19.

[A]

All right, let's get into what we ride for.

[B]

Oh. Sometimes I think about you saying, thank you, my friend, about the bat at the Wuhan market. Do you remember?

[A]

I remember. But here's the problem where we're.

[B]

Because if Covid hadn't happened, your friend wouldn't have gotten on.

[A]

Oh, yeah, of course. And she would have still got.

[B]

Still gotten married to someone who cheated.

[A]

That was my cousin.

[B]

Your cousin? Yeah, your cousin.

[A]

That's La Familia.

[B]

Yeah, La Familia. La Familia family runs deep. What did I write for good? Scanlan family strong in a. In a script for overcompensating. Yeah, that made you laugh. It's fun to write drafts and know that Mary Beth will read them. And then I'm going to get a text about something that I've added. I have little winks for my girl today. I will be writing for Not Seeing Hell.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

The film, not the place. But I. The place is great, too. But it's the film.

[A]

Well, the film is Everything. I'm gonna ride for having regrets. Pinky.

[B]

Pinky is attacking my ear right now. She is slobbering down the holes. Sister.

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Who cares? Ride Perfect. I'll go first. Okay. Oh, what about that, Jimmy? Is that. Is that the perfect woman smiling? Gee, I wonder while she's single.

[A]

Yeah, if you can't handle me burping.

[B]

That was very duddy. Duddy would have done that after every oyster. And then she goes, these always managed to make me sick as a dog. Take me to Disney. Stupid. She'd say stupid the whole time.

[A]

The only ones to ride rides on a full stomach.

[B]

Oh, no. And then when they go to Disney.

[A]

Oh, Flash Mountain.

[B]

She does Splash Mountain. She has a first doll there.

[A]

She buys a mini costume as well.

[B]

Well, of course, not to wear to. To buy.

[A]

Just to have.

[B]

Just to have, at least.

[A]

I love this piece. Buy it for me.

[B]

Buy it for me. I want to go to the Bibbidy Boppity Boutique. That's what she says. And every time she meets a princess, she goes, I'm one, too. I love her. She is the one. God, she's me in another dream.

[A]

You would. You would make this character come to life. But I understand why you can't.

[B]

Too tired now. Too tired. So there's this film, Notting Hill clip that.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

British Library clip that. I'm back in London, so I think. I think it's about fucking time. I talked about this film that I think is the best rom com of all time. And I said it. So my mom is a Hugh Grant head. She is addicted to that sour puss.

[A]

Can I just say one thing about my history with Hugh Grant?

[B]

Can you tell me what year it came out?

[A]

I will.

[B]

And then you. You're allowed to go.

[A]

And then I can speak on that.

[B]

Then you're allowed to talk.

[A]

Notting Hill. You know that my family, 1999. It's actually a little later than I even thought.

[B]

Yeah. So I was 6 in the movie theater. My parents really just didn't give a.

[A]

No, Hugh Grant. I always had a sort of negative connotation with. Because he cheated on Elizabeth Hurley with a prostitute, which, like, obviously, I think prostitution, like, let's get it, ladies. You know, I support it as a job. You support Duddy, and I support Duddy as a person, as an individual, and as a singular voice in entertainment. But I felt like to be such a public person, I don't know, maybe you should just Be a little more careful. Go to a hotel if you. I mean, you shouldn't cheat. Yeah, but if you're going to. I think he got caught in the back of a car cheating on Elizabeth Hurley with a prostitute.

[B]

My mom really left that out of any narrative about him. I think she just chose to.

[A]

She wanted to protect him for you guys. And mom.

[B]

Thank you. I had that with Jude Law and Sienna Miller. That really hurt me because they meant the world to me.

[A]

With the nanny.

[B]

I know. You know, Taylor's.

[A]

All this time, if I was a celebrity. Let's just say, if I was a celebrity and I was married with a family, I'm going to hire the gayest gay male nanny money can buy. I can't even imagine hiring a young, hot thing.

[B]

I want him walking in, going, beautiful, fly, hot and sexy. Fresh from a berries.

[A]

I don't care how insane they are. I don't. I don't care. I'm like, I trust you with my children. I'm not bringing another woman into the house. In an ideal world, you wouldn't even need to worry about it. But I think I'll end up with a cheater.

[B]

So that is kind of just a perfect clip. I think I'll end up with the cheater Takes a step. That's my girl. I hope not, because then I've got another op.

[A]

But I'll use it for the art.

[B]

You always use it for the art. And thank you. So Hugh Grant had a very clear name in my house. He was beloved. It was him and Patrick Dempsey. My mom was horny, it seems, for these guys. And we were Julia Roberts household. Runaway Bride was huge for me.

[A]

We love Erin Brockovich in my house. Wedding.

[B]

Yeah. I mean, sorry. I spent so much of my childhood saying, you're never gonna be jello.

[A]

You're never gonna be jello.

[B]

Which is insane. Like, I can't believe I had seen all those. But, oh, my exit is in reference. Huge. I mean, that is Cameron Diaz, but it's the Julia Roberts multiverse.

[A]

Her maid of honor broker, what shattered her hip? Line dancing in Abilene.

[B]

So, yeah. Anyway, so there's this perfect rom com, and they don't exist anymore. I'm sorry. I love that every rom com that comes out, people are like, rom coms are back. And then you watch it and it's kind of the worst thing.

[A]

But I'm gonna save the genre. Do you know that?

[B]

No. And I think we could do it together if you'd only let me.

[A]

That's my plan.

[B]

And there's this one that exists. That is so. It's just a perfect movie in every way. I assume every single person who's listening to this podcast loves has seen it. Come on. But Hugh Grant works in a bookstore. They sell travel books. Yeah. Which I'm kind of like, Hugh Grant makes up to 100 pounds a year.

[A]

A year.

[B]

But hey, doesn't matter. Love his flat with Spike. I will just flag. Incredible ensemble cast. Just like, fab, everyone. I mean, the Brits know how to act. Let's be real.

[A]

I mean, they invented Shakespeare.

[B]

Oh, my God, such a good point. I mean, look where we are.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

They're learned. So Julia Roberts stumbles in, and what's her name?

[A]

Anna Scott.

[B]

Anna Scott comes in, beret on Chanel Beret. Chanel. Two words.

[A]

Chanel Beret.

[B]

Well, of course. She's a movie star. Chanel Beret. Little black sunnies. She walks into this travel bookshop.

[A]

Oh, that's my drag name. Chanel Beret.

[B]

Oh, perfect.

[A]

But it's spelled different. Sorry, I just thought of that.

[B]

Daddy's tipping you. It's with yen. So everything she does, it's a. It's a political statement. Subversive. So Anna Scott walks in, and she's like, I'm looking for a book. And Hugh Grant's like, I got more than that. I'm gagged for you. Anna Scott. Yeah. And she's just a movie star who just, like, wants to be seen. She gets seen by this guy, and then she buys a book, and that's it. And you think, okay, that's it. Yeah. Right. I also have to add, there's this actor who works in the bookshop with him who has some of the best line delivery. And incredible. He's phenomenal. Every single person is firing on all cylinders. So then Hugh Grant goes and gets an orange juice. He runs into Anna Scott again in Notting Hill, and he spills it all over her top, her tiny little white top. And he's like, I live nearby if you want me to dry it off for you. They go back, sparks fly. Okay. Like, come on. She's falling for Hugh Grant. He's adorable. Also, she got paid so much for this because it was a huge hit. Like, this is. This was a huge hit.

[A]

20 million or something.

[B]

Yeah. It was, like, unbelievable. I think it was the most someone had ever been at the time. Yeah. Which it was just incredible. Okay. So, you know, I'm not gonna give too much away, but essentially, these two kind of fall for each other, and it's a will they Won't they, Will they, won't they? From different worlds. She's like a Hollywood movie star. He's runs a bookshop. Every single scene is sweet, thoughtful. The choice is made. There's one where she leaves for a while and he doesn't hear from her. And they do like a season's passing as he goes through a market. Ain't no sunshine when Mary Bear's gone.

[A]

Remember the scene where she has braids at the dinner? So a French braid at the dinner.

[B]

So you're gonna talk about the French braid in the kind of silk top, floral top that she wears when they go to the private park and they hook up. Yeah, she wears that to a friend's dinner.

[A]

Yeah. Because it's just lo fi.

[B]

It's lo fi. And she pulls up and they go, you're Anna Scott. You're Anna Scott. And he just brings her. And it's like, what?

[A]

Yeah, it's just this girl I know.

[B]

Yeah. And, oh, my God. And his sister in it is so fabulous. I love her. I. I got in trouble as a kid because after I saw it, I kept going, oh, holy fuck. Yeah. So my mom was like, that's funny. But you. You gotta cut that. And I'm like, all right, well, I'm just giving you a perfect line. Read, you fucking bitch.

[A]

Sorry.

[B]

Yeah, don't take me to the movies then. It's hard to even know where to start with this, but I'm seeing a lot of, like, the places where they shot it throughout the. You know, this gorgeous city. I think it just makes me miss. Miss those rom coms because they just had. They such big budgets and the scripts were so sharp and the movie stars were phenomenal, and it just felt. You could feel the chemistry, the chemistry of the whole cast. It just didn't feel like. I don't know, everything feels like it's shot on, like, some weird HD camera, and it looks like it feels like it was. Yeah, it's just gone through too many notes or something. I don't know.

[A]

Well, the cast nowadays, too, are all just, like, algorithms spitting out, like, who would people most watch, I guess, instead of focusing on, like, is the story good? Is the script good? Do they have chemistry? Is this something people can, like, latch onto?

[B]

Julia and Hugh, you're literally like, I believe that these two people, like. And if they don't end up together. And I'm not gonna give it away, but I would have burnt this city to the ground.

[A]

Yeah. The blitzkrieg. The blitzkrieg again.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

This movie functions Also as like a wish fulfillment thing because she is a huge celebrity and it's like escapism in a way. I was raised on rom coms in.

[B]

A lot of ways. You were doing Notting Hill. I mean, you were both actors, but.

[A]

Yeah, we did. We did a little Notting Hill from time to time.

[B]

Hey, sweetie. Of course.

[A]

I know. I think back then they wrote these characters as real people with, like, emotional depth. And I think that's what I miss about. That's what I'm missing in romcoms today. It's like the choices people make in romcoms today. I'm just like, no person would ever do that. No person would ever behave that way. No person would ever talk like that. Even the supporting characters.

[B]

So I'm just like, the gay guys I've auditioned for in these movies are. They're monkeys. It's like. Actually, I'm like, they set the.

[A]

They set the gay rights movement back a lot of years.

[B]

I messaged back and I'm like, oh, I forgot to tell you, I'm not an animal. But I know some animal trainers that would have great, great animals.

[A]

And they're union. The actors are union.

[B]

Aren't you gonna. Him like, that's literally the gay guys. And then I have to wear a tight shirt and a butt plug. And I don't buck.

[A]

And you have to wear a butt plug.

[B]

Well, you have to wear a butt.

[A]

Plug with a tail on it. And that's a big comedic reveal when the character turns.

[B]

Yeah, of course.

[A]

That he has a butt plug with a tail sticking out of his pants.

[B]

A fox tail.

[A]

It's a fox tail.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And he goes, oh, this. And then he goes, yas, mama.

[B]

Oh, the parents aren't gagged for you yet. Well, just like, I don't know. Fuck him again. Sorry. I'm at a circuit party. Like, that's literally it. And it's like, okay, yeah, no, I love that. This is a really dynamic character. Every lead in them is always like, I'm just like, so busy.

[A]

Right?

[B]

And that's like the main thing about them. They're just busy. They're busy for love. But the issue is also budget. It's like something about people not going to the movie theater to see them, which I wonder what the shift is there.

[A]

But I don't think you need to have a huge budget to make an amazing rom com.

[B]

I don't think so either, but I feel like this one has it. Because you can feel how. Like, that's what I was saying about the choices like, where they shoot it, where the. Like, the sets. Everything is so, like, grand in this. The movie stars of it all. Oh, my God. There's this scene, let me tell you. Okay, so. And Julia Roberts laugh, but they go to this, like, private park after she, like, slays at this dinner with his friends. It's such a powerful scene. It's really cool. I mean, watching someone slay at a dinner with friends. I mean, come on. And they're like, you know, they're falling for her. They go to this private park. It's locked. They, like, climb up the.

[A]

Because Anna Scott's down for whatever.

[B]

Well, she doesn't give a. She's a movie star, but she's also, like, wearing Gap jeans.

[A]

She's just having fun.

[B]

She doesn't care. And so then she jumps the fence. And then he goes and she gives him. Because she's just like, whatever. Yeah. And then he says, whoopsie daisies. And it's just. It's. It's just. Wow, what a perfect film. I watched it again on a plane recently because I hadn't seen it, probably. Well, I watched it with my mom every week for a while. My mom can see a movie 50 times.

[A]

Oh, there's movies I've seen hundreds of times.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I actually don't think I saw Notting Hill until I was dating a British person. I watched it here in London for the first time. Yeah. It just was one that wasn't on my radar. And then once it was. No, I think I've seen it 10 times.

[B]

Blew you away.

[A]

Blew me away. Guess how much money it made at the box office.

[B]

How much?

[A]

364 million.

[B]

God, that's incredible.

[A]

And that's, like, in 1999, too.

[B]

I remember going to the theater with my family, 6 years old, watching freaking Hugh Grant take Julia Roberts to task.

[A]

Find Notting Hill on streaming wherever.

[B]

Wherever, wherever. I mean, it has, like, one of the most iconic scenes in film history.

[A]

Which one?

[B]

I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy.

[A]

Yeah. Oh, my God. Stop it really harkens him to love. That just gave me chills.

[B]

So cute. She's in a little bl.

[A]

Sweater. What's that meme? That's like, I want to be adored by millions, perceived by none, and loved by one special boy.

[B]

Is that too much to ask?

[A]

It is for some of us.

[B]

I know. I know. Oh, my God.

[A]

Some rom coms.

[B]

I love if you love, love. Actually, this is like you're gonna.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[B]

It feels like they all exist in the same Universe, all those people are still. Yeah.

[A]

Love. Actually, Notting Hill. Serendipity is a really underappreciated one that I'm obsessed with. Oh, my God, the holiday. And we're almost upon the season where I get to watch all of them.

[B]

I have a crazy take on the holiday. I really like Kate Winslet with the old guy.

[A]

Yeah, I know. I agree.

[B]

People don't really know that, but I'm like, that, to me, is chemistry. She's friends with Jack Black, Right.

[A]

But she's dating the older guy. Well, yes.

[B]

Sex with the older guy.

[A]

Yeah. She's getting bent over.

[B]

Well, yeah. She's helping him get his. His legs.

[A]

His groove back.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I got a little exercise we could.

[B]

Do literally in the pool.

[A]

I mean, they're literally in the pool together.

[B]

Yeah. I mean, come on. And she's like. She's such a baddie. Like, I just. Those two have such good chemistry. I want them together.

[A]

Gauze, spray tan.

[B]

Oh, my gosh. Wait. That moment. Sorry. Not to bring up another perfect rom com, but the moment where you think Cameron Diaz is gonna leave, she doesn't. She's in that bar, but there's this moment and then someone passes and she's in the pub and she waves. She's in her little freaking.

[A]

The little moment of confusion when she shows up at the house and he has two daughters.

[B]

Hey, we've all been there.

[A]

W I D O W E R. Yeah.

[B]

Anyway, they love that napkin head thing.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[B]

I'm like. That wouldn't have. Hey, as a kid, that wouldn't have made me laugh. Try again.

[A]

But what if it was Jude Lauder?

[B]

Yeah. I mean, him. And talented Mr. Ripley is a shocking piece.

[A]

It's a shocking.

[B]

It's a shocking piece. And Gwyneth.

[A]

I know.

[B]

Jesus Christ. But yeah, Notting Hill, Julia Roberts, you're on notice. I think you've got it, sis.

[A]

You've got that star power you see a lot. For her, a bright future.

[B]

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[A]

Wait, they wrote a whole script for us?

[B]

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[A]

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[B]

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[A]

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[B]

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[A]

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[A]

Don't cut it. I think everyone knows it's just a little joke. So this week I'm writing for having regrets. And it's not that I ride for doing things in life that I regret. It's more that I just hear people say all the time, like, I have no regrets. And I'm like, that literally cannot be true. We've all done stuff that we wish we didn't do. And I know that like everything that's happened to me and every choice I've made has like gotten me here today to the Great British Library with Jimmy and Benny, drama and just having been introduced to this amazing new character named Duddy. But I think that there's a few things I've done that I could have not done and I would still be right here. Do you know what I mean?

[B]

I completely agree. And I think also, like, I think just knowing that you can have them because everyone kind of forcing the having no regrets thing, I'm like, oh, well, now I feel bad. Like I do have a few also.

[A]

My God, the conversations again to talk about how weird people are towards single women and men too. But just my experience, women, oh, lately.

[B]

It'S the sky for you.

[A]

Can we, can we stop with the platitudes? I need to, I just need to be free of them for a while more.

[B]

Catitudes Less platitudes.

[A]

Because I got in kind of like, a heated discussion with a friend of mine because I was saying, like, I'm getting really comfortable with the idea of just being on my own, and maybe I won't meet the right person for me, and I need to, like, I want to build a lifestyle that I want by myself, which is something I didn't think I would do.

[B]

Anna Scott thought that, too. And then she walked into a travel bookshop.

[A]

While I'm in London, I'm going into every single bookstore that I'm passing by. Oh, I'm asking, does Hugh Grant work here?

[B]

I keep going in with the beret, and they go, we don't have what you want.

[A]

They said, yeah, we don't really. Excuse me. We don't serve your. We don't serve your kind. Here. Oh, you knocked that. You did knock that.

[B]

Oh, my God. I knocked a full smoothie. Shit.

[A]

Hey, we'll get. We'll get to that later. So that's a regret you might have, so.

[B]

I actually fully regret that. Jimmy. I'm so sorry. I actually like that it's there. I'm just. To anyone who saw that, I didn't mean it.

[A]

Maybe I did it. I don't think I did.

[B]

You didn't. There's absolutely no way.

[A]

So, yeah, I just think when I'm presenting something about my life or, like, my approach to being single or whatever it is, it's just like, I don't need you to, like, come back to me with, like, a different opinion unless I'm actively seeking advice. So if I'm just saying, like, yeah, I need to get comfortable being on my own. And if I meet someone great, and that's, like, such a big. That's a bonus. But I don't want people to be like, well, you're. You need to stop dating actors. You're not meeting the right people. Like, it just. It annoys me because I'm like, no, I'm smart. Like, I know that. And I'm totally open to dating a person that's not in the industry. But I just think it's, like. It makes me feel like people don't think I can, like, make good choices. And I'm like, no, I've. I've literally made a lot of good choices. I've made some bad ones, too.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But I'm just like, stop.

[B]

I think it's something of. I don't know if it's, like, strictly millennial, but there's something where people think they. It have to, like, you have to have a take on something. The culture of, like, you need to have. I'm like, I. There are lots of things I just literally have not thought about and I do not care about. So I don't have a take.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And also, I don't think I always need to be giving advice on something, especially when I know nothing about it or the context of who you've been with or what your experiences were. I just think everyone feels like they need to. And I felt that too, in the past, like, month or so, where people are kind of, like, forcing something on me or telling me what I should.

[A]

Be doing right now or what the rules are.

[B]

Your rules. I'm like, I don't want.

[A]

I mean, I feel like in the gay community, it feels like there's a lot of these rules.

[B]

Oh, my God. They're like. Like, oh, you must be freaking going crazy right now. Yeah, you got.

[A]

You need your hoe phase. Well, you better. Well, we don't do it. It's just like, stop.

[B]

Meanwhile, I've got kids in my DM saying, get your ass back to that computer on Final Draft and finish season two. And I'm like, I'm trying.

[A]

You're on your way.

[B]

I'm trying.

[A]

We have to take breaks.

[B]

I'm trying, but your cousin's trying to set me up with this random guy. I don't want to do that.

[A]

No.

[B]

So less advice unless. Unless asked for.

[A]

You know, my eighth grade yearbook quote.

[B]

Was, oh, I can't wait.

[A]

It was Lucille Ball, and she said, I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things I haven't.

[B]

That's beautiful.

[A]

I'm making choices, and sometimes they're wrong. And I can admit when I have it.

[B]

Yeah, it came late. I. You know. Covid.

[A]

Yeah. What is it called? Time release. You had time release? Goosebumps.

[B]

I just think Jimmy laughing is killing me.

[A]

No. I'm so glad he's here.

[B]

So I love him because when Jackson's.

[A]

On with us, he is behind a huge, huge computer screens. We can't even see when he's laughing or anything.

[B]

Well, he's only laughing at me, saying.

[A]

I know, but I just think that idea of, like, yeah, you shouldn't have regrets. It's like, no, I do. I have some recent ones, too. I'm just like, oh, I wish I didn't do that. Sometimes you have to make the same mistake so many times to just learn from it.

[B]

I so hear that. I had a zit on my cheek, and it really wasn't as it. And I've had a scab for two weeks.

[A]

You picked at it.

[B]

Yeah, I really did.

[A]

Your skin looks really good today.

[B]

Thank you so much. I think I have found the culprit. It. But I will say I want to shout out this one company because it really has helped me so much. So it's called Saving Face Company. I just ordered five bottles. So if you even try to sell this out, good luck.

[A]

No, they're all at my apartment waiting for you.

[B]

They're all at your apartment. But Saving Face. Go. It's by this nurse practitioner. She did an incredible job. She has type 2 rosacea and perioral dermatitis. And it's this sulfur face wash and this amazing moisturizer, and they have helped so much. And less. I. Every single thing in my life is, like, do less except write the show. I can't even, like, shop. I know. I, like, can barely shop in London. I know. And, like, that's how Julia, like, found him. She was just mosing around Notting Hill.

[A]

I need to be going into more bookshops.

[B]

I do, too.

[A]

You like my shirt?

[B]

So we are wearing our merch. We're excited. We think it's better quality than the last run. Merch is tricky. We always spend too long on it. I will say, also, we were already in production when Come On Kerplunk happened. So there will be a Come On Kerplunk.

[A]

That's going to be a limited edition.

[B]

That's going to be a limited edition later.

[A]

Later.

[B]

You know, and we're gonna find something fun to do with that one. Yeah, we're gonna have, like, a donation.

[A]

We're gonna invent a new product.

[B]

Yeah, it's. Oh, my God.

[A]

It's gonna be a fundraiser.

[B]

Exactly. What's the butt? Plug Tail?

[A]

It's the butt. That's genius. All right, we actually have to get to work on that.

[B]

Yeah. Come on, Kerplug. See how quick I'm firing right now? It's Duddy. Duddy's brought me back.

[A]

Should we get into Ride or Die?

[B]

Of course.

[A]

You know what you are, Benny? Hmm?

[B]

A f it.

[A]

Your words, not mine, babe. You're my ride or die.

[B]

Ride or die.

[A]

So I ride for Notting Hill. Of course. I think it's a fabulous rom com.

[B]

Hey, can I say something to you?

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Indefinitely.

[A]

Indefinitely.

[B]

That's just a little Easter egg.

[A]

Should we watch it it tonight? I guess, is the only question.

[B]

Yeah. I could watch it any day, and then I'd skip through some of the parts that make me sad. But, oh, my God, such a great, like, scene about press. You know what I'm talking about? It just says, all the writing is so good.

[A]

Well, I feel like back then, the way they did scripts was like, every line is an opportunity. And now it feels like not that so much anymore. Except for, of course, our show that we're in called Overcompensating.

[B]

I really love season two. It's, like, really, like. Like it's pulling up my heartstrings. I will say I'm feeling a lot.

[A]

I'm feeling a lot, too.

[B]

Everything. Should I tell them the slogan for season two or.

[A]

No, no, don't. Don't spoil. You're. This is how I know how much you love this season. You keep wanting to tell everyone, everyone at every dinner.

[B]

I'm like, do you want to know.

[A]

Marketing character to everything? I'm like, let's just wait.

[B]

Did I show you the marketing you. I already showed you what I want to do. It's all up here, my love.

[A]

It's all happening.

[B]

It's. It is all happening. God, I have so many calluses, though.

[A]

Though, from all your lifting.

[B]

I am. Yeah. Beast mode activated. That's, like, one of the lines I say is the, like, gay best friend in a romcom. I actually have to say I thought I was gonna die for having regrets, because I'm like, you know what? Blue. More Planet.

[A]

Totally.

[B]

But I think it's fine. I think to have them is fine and to understand that you don't need to feel terrible about them, but that you learn from them. I think is. Is kind of beautiful and being like, I probably wouldn't do that again, and I have a regret of that. I think mine are always, like, maybe a miscommunication or saying something that I should have said. And. And those I. I feel fine to have regrets in. It's. I've learned to feel less terrified of being honest or saying the thing that I really wanted to. So I'm right there with you, and I just. God, what a great girl. I mean, you're just a total sweetie pie.

[A]

Yeah, I think so.

[B]

Sorry about the smoothie, but.

[A]

No, it's okay.

[B]

It's a part of the carpet now. Jimmy.

[A]

Actually, what's interesting is it's not seeping in, but what I was gonna say that I forgot, and then I just remembered it's not seeping in is that if you wanna embrace this idea of having regret and learning from it, I would say. And I've talked about this before, Jessica Simpson's book One of the things I loved about it was how open she was about like, she took some Ls that were like self inflicted. And I think I. I found that to be so, like, it was just so human, but like also foreign for a celebrity to. Too human for a celebrity to acknowledge their L's. I think I just hadn't seen that as much. It's like they all want to paint this perfect picture, but we are all so flawed. And I just thought it was really refreshing to read that. And sometimes you have to work through those feelings to know, like, how you ultimately want to think about something and categorize it. But I've had things I've regretted. And then later down the line I realized I didn't regret them.

[B]

I regret making Britney videos. Yeah. I wish I had never had. I had no idea what she was going through and I would have never made them. So I feel like that's also something too of like. Like, yeah, I literally am. I wish I never made those videos and I'm glad I took them down, but.

[A]

And sometimes you do stuff that you. Yeah. At first you don't regret, and then down the line you're like, oh, I shouldn't have done that, or I wish I didn't do that.

[B]

When you have context. I wish I never rode for the woman on the plane. I didn't know she would mag on my ass.

[A]

You never could ever predict something like that.

[B]

Of course I regret that. Of course I think about that episode every day in my life.

[A]

So brownies, let us know your biggest regrets on the Reddit. Yeah, if you feel comfortable. We're just curious what you're regretting. These. And one day.

[B]

Yeah, all of them. Go. Having kids.

[A]

Kids having kids. For sure. I will definitely. When I write a memoir, there will be a few chapters on my regrets.

[B]

One being I walked into this bar, our wicked lady. I meant this gay guy.

[A]

Bushwick, New York.

[B]

It proceeded to make a fool of me on tv. Made me wear a wig. How cute is my hat?

[A]

I love it.

[B]

It's got a little leather strap in the back. Jimmy asked for it and I said, jimmy, it's mine.

[A]

Jimmy, you can't have it. I'm sorry.

[B]

Beautiful fly. Hot and sexy.

[A]

We're gonna clean up this smoothie.

[B]

Whoopsie, daisies. Oh, my. Exit.

[A]

Benny, babe, eyes on the road.

[B]

Benny, look out. Ride. Ride. Ride. Ride. Ride. Ride. Ride. Ride. Ride. Ride. Ride.

[A]

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