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Banana + Having Wet Nails

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Banana + Having Wet Nails

In this episode of *Ride*, hosts Benito Skinner and Mary Beth Brown engage in playful, candid banter about personal experiences and broader themes. They open with humorous exchanges about texting, fashion, and a shared desire to be more "bad" in their lives, including a confession from Mary Beth about driving drunk as a teenager after one beer, which she now regrets. They discuss plans for trapeze and pottery classes as non-work activities, though they acknowledge their tendency to mix fun with work. The conversation shifts to nostalgia, touching on characters like Curious George, Paddington, and Balto, and they joke about the "bastardization" of bears in media. A lengthy segment celebrates bananas—their flavor, candy versions, and cultural quirks—with one host declaring she "rides" for bananas, while the other prefers them in mixed forms. They also explore the concept of "wet nails" as a metaphor for mindfulness, emphasizing the importance of pausing and appreciating moments rather than rushing to the next task. Throughout, they promote their creative work, including a Netflix special and the show *Overcompensating*, sharing set stories and the joy of collaboration. They advocate for disconnecting from phones and embracing real-world experiences, inspired by a Lorde concert and fan interactions. The episode blends humor, vulnerability, and reflection, reinforcing their friendship and commitment to authenticity.

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the following podcast is a dear media production i'm benito skinner i'm mary beth brown and this is we're starting the episode with you silently texting bye honey that's me bye honey as if that's ever me you know what i mean also it's just like i just sorry not to be like do a line delivery i just facetimed with a mom at smiley cafe okay don't play me delivery of bye honey that's like mean all right ready bye honey yeah i just it's just not it's still not you think i was joking i'm not picturing that for you so you're really gonna wear bombshell dress and not say anything i'm wearing the bombshell dress today it's like i wanted to wear a dress because it's so hot out oh yeah it had nothing to do with amazon mgm casting the bond movie right now it had nothing to do with it you are so fucking political well it's all a big game of chess my god you're strategic remember when you said you told me to write this down because you had said to me i want a day when we don't talk about work and i said maybe june yeah it was april that was april 11th yeah it's june guess what june is over very very soon hasn't happened yet for a while i wanted to take you to trapeze and then i had this nightmare vision of you i catch you and then i actually fling you too far it's very batman and robin wait but you know my goal it's to be flung like that and i just keep spinning until i go to space that's what i'm saying that's and i wouldn't fall back down i would just i would float away it's because of these it's those swans yeah they're not guns they're swans okay i love that yeah i don't know how pita would i was about to say pita they kill me um speaking of pita eat crow oh god i knew you were gonna say eat crow it's very knock it off but eat crow is very heavens to murgatroyd yeah oh yeah these are it's like a blizzard i actually always have a blizzard in one of these that's when that's what they don't know and you know as a kid i wanted to work at dairy queen so that i could do that well you know what's crazy as a kid my dad's cousins owned several dairy queens in ohio and we went to visit them big business big business they they serve fries and burgers and all types of stuff yeah of course you're going to eat a lot of food and you're one northeast only served ice cream oh no we have food on the west whoa and you don't have jack in the box right no whoa so you've never driven your brother when he's drunk not to a jack in the box i've driven them drunk to other stuff like that's so cool it's like let me get in this please let me say please clip me accidentally saying i've driven drunk please yeah wait that's good oh i have driven drunk can i tell you the story please so i was in high school and i was well i wasn't actually drunk i had like one beer but i felt drunk let's just and actually i probably was to be honest i love you you're coming clean about this yeah i want to be more real on here hey sam i'm so sick of being a goody two-shoes all the time i'm in my rebel era like i told you for rosalia they go what do you want to confess and i thought i've got nothing and i have as i've been talking about for weeks i have no vices so i'm ready to just be a little bad sometimes do you know what it's like to be a gay guy back out there and i'm like i'm not going to like i know it's crazy so it's like i guess just give yourself permission as long as you're not hurting anyone to be a little bad i'm driving you are but like this is in the past what a bus so we're gonna be we're gonna be a little bit more human a little more bad and so we're doing trapeze yeah we're doing trapeze over at chelsea piers if you thought we've been being bad this whole time then i guess like welcome to hell yeah reputation girl the rest will be rep wait there is no conversation reputation it was so fun clearing our instagram that was so oh people freaking out the first podcast in history to do a clear unless it was canceled launching a new era yeah um sorry go on about drunk driving so drunk driving i turned the corner to my house after being at this party that anytime i would go to the party anytime i would go to the party the party yes that's right i'm at the party not going to tell you what's mine is mine what's mine is mine why do you care so much who's dick all right hi hi um so i turned the corner to my house and party in the usa came on on 103 kiss fm and i just thought yeah we did it i fooled them all all you cops all you bastards yeah i missed one by the way yep the streets were a little bit less safe that night you missed one oh no i wouldn't have hit anyone i wasn't actually drunk but i really felt it and i was like my best friend you're the best friend you're the best friend i'm the best friend my whole life's going to be ruined because of this but you had to get home for curfew yeah and i just was like i can't tell my parents i've been drinking because my dad worked at the school he was a history teacher so then i would go to parties and everyone would be like does your dad know you're here and i'd be like no i can't stress enough he doesn't right um so i'm not proud i all i can say is i'm sorry i wish you had done that as your confession at rosalia that you drunk drove in high school having drank one beer yeah one heineken it that's a fancy one for a high school party oh sweetie i've always been that girl me is gay bye honey bye honey well i told you it's my favorite thing in the world it's gay waiter ready yeah hi well it's gay waiter who knows something you don't gay waiter who knows something you don't hi it's like i always wanted you to post that i know i know but then i just oh and you didn't sketches got hard for me i pissed off someone who i did a sketch of and that message kind of ruined my life for a while and then i'm just so scared of um fans i think that's the thing like they're even your own fans it can happen to you girl the call is coming from inside the house um so speaking on the things we were going to do not work related as friends i also thought of us in a pottery class but then i thought about i know after 15 minutes we'd be like i'm gonna go i'm gonna go i'm gonna go should we go to the real class but i would be sitting in your lap we'd be making one bowl i said pottery class i mean painting things that have already been made i'm not making a pot that's not the art i do no i do makeup but i want to paint a bowl for my vermicelli yeah um do you have any bowls here that are specific to a vermicelli ball i would say do you really have to it's a basin it's not a ramen bowl it's a vermicelli bowl it's a big old bowl the t's are tight the hair is short the boy is mine oh yeah car you wanted to just touch on that curious george has been quiet where is he i've had this thing everyone agrees with me curious george was such a thing it was like jack johnson and the movie came out and i just saw him everywhere nephews don't bring him up my nieces it's been so quiet where the is curious george can i give my theory he's not curious anymore well first of all he has no more questions he's totally done yeah but also i think paddington's success maybe like he took a step back to like rebuild it's so good to know that there are rivals in every category and you're so right well you know pooh bear found shot pooh bear pooh bear but you know what pooh bear exists for those who know where to find him exactly but he's like he wants to launch a smear campaign of paddington right no i know i mean i can't imagine especially because they're both bears exactly that's got to be really stressful and just like the destruction of the term bear for them well the bastardization exactly has been like tough to all bears yeah including bear in the big blue house well and where the hell is he been by the way well i realized recently that i find him attractive interesting yeah it was tough but i do and i'm just gonna and that's okay as a kid i just i think i was like yeah he's hot to me yeah same with balto balto was universally sexy though that's a sexy pup what do you want me to say like he did like emergency response and stuff well he got um he got amoxicillin right for that girl that had pneumonia you can't string a sentence together but you remember the plot of balto you really are that girl i really am isn't there a statue of balto in central park park or was that just in the movie because the movie starts with the grandma and the daughter the grandma who's the one i think he saved maybe whoa if you're wrong just know we'll find out i know and i can't wait for that but um but yeah he was sexy also the villain pup was kind of sexy too it was good animation i have you seen swan princess we watched it together in a hotel in portland are you actually are you serious right now that's what i thought but oh do you actually want to do this or not do you actually want to do this or not do you actually want to do this or not here's my thing that film odette was everything to me that's a really scary villain i know what's his name ball something it's not bartok it's not balthazar but it's something like that it's balthazar's it is seafood tower with that movie watching as an adult i feel like there's like a few scenes missing like maybe they ran out of animation budget like it's so close to being a complete movie it's just not quite there but i still enjoy it i think it's like 75 minutes low-key but not 90. as a kid i was like This is long. 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Is it happens where I walked into this place called, speaking of Balthazar or whatever his name is, I think his name was Balzac's. Right. There is a coffee shop in Toronto called Balzac's. It's Balzac's, but I just can't believe. The philosopher, right? Yeah, but. Balzac. Right. So to me, Balzac. And I would go once a day to get my second coffee. And I walk in one day and it says, it's PBL season. And I thought, well, I've never heard of some shit like this. It was pistachio banana latte season. And then I thought, you're right. It did feel different outside. It was that the leaves had changed and it was officially PBL season. I thought, no, you guys kind of spilled. Yeah. Yeah, because I'm like, no, it did. There's a change in the air. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can taste it. And so I said, fuck it. I'm going to put banana syrup in my coffee. Haters be damned, I'm going to do it. Fuck y'all. And I said that to the barista. You did. I said, bye, honey. I was there. I said, bye, honey. It was rare. And then I tasted this banana and I went, fuck, I love banana. And I just thought that. I was like, wow. I forgot how much I love this. And as a kid, I used to love runts, those banana runts. And I liked that they kind of fit into your mouth. And I just. But banana has been with me for so long. I love banana split. I love strawberry banana smoothies. I love a little milkshake when it's vanilla and banana. I love a banana. Recently, I had at Moshy Malone's in LA, I had banana walnut vegan ice cream. Yeah, that was really. Delicioso. That was really good ice cream. But banana is this kind of slept on. But what I love about banana is that an actual banana tastes different than the banana flavor. But it's similar to watermelon, which I think it's amazing that we've made watermelons like fully sour and expensive. Completely different, like. Taste profile or whatever. I love that. Or green apple. Well, no, green apple feels consistent. But watermelon and banana feel just so singular. That's so interesting. But to me, right? Isn't it? And this is why I, again, have a podcast and you fucking lames don't. But I really just adore this taste. It feels nostalgic. It feels diner to me. But banana. And I say banana because I'm not eating bananas. I'm eating a single banana if I'm having it. Right. By the way. And in overcompensating. And it's about time we're honest about that. There is a scene where I try to eat a banana and it's, I think, some of my best work as an actor. I haven't seen it yet. I can't wait for you to see it. It's really, you're really special on the show. We've cut a lot of your stuff, but you're good for sure. No, you're really, really good. Congrats. But I, yeah, I just realized it's one of these flavors that I think goes by the wayside or people have really strong. And I'm here to fight for her and say it's PBL season, like it or leave it. But I'm going to stay. I'm going to stick around a while. You're staying right where you are. And there's this thing that I'm dying to try. I believe it's in Japan. If I'm incorrect, shoot me. But it's, you get an iced coffee at like a 7-Eleven and then you put banana milk in it. And apparently it's like a total knockout. Banana milk. Interesting. And you shake, and you shakarado. And I am like dying to have it. I'm just addicted to it right now. I think I'm pregnant. Well, there's a short film in you. Dying to Japan, having one of those and then leaving. You know what I mean? And it's called? Banana. Yeah. I am, okay, I have to have bananas in a very specific context. I like a banana and peanut butter. I can rarely get down a whole banana. I can rarely get down a whole one, to be honest. Banana with cashew butter? Well, God. Well, God, buy me dinner first. Shit. Well, you know, Duddy just throats it, takes it out and goes, I don't like the texture. I didn't like the texture. Yeah. She hates mushrooms. She hates mushrooms, by the way. It's definitely like, I need water with it, you know, because it's definitely like, the palate's getting a little, you know what I mean? Wow. I do like, I do like banana. I just, if I'm going to eat one, I can cut it in half. It's sort of like a coffee. I only have half a coffee. Have you had the runt, the banana runt? I have had the banana runt. I will say banana flavored candy, not really for me. Okay. But I'm glad it's, so if we had a pack of runts, you could eat all the banana and I would eat the rest. That's so good. The orange is like those, I remember cutting the roof of my mouth. Like my, it was just a scab. Well, I would say most of my childhood, the roof of my mouth was a scab because of so much candy. Yeah, Captain Crunch too. Captain Crunch, Reese's, Puffs are my favorite, it's my favorite cereal. Remember Cookie Crisp? Cookie Crisp. Cookie Crisp. Yeah, of course I do. I like a banana in, in a mix of other things for sure. Now, raw banana, that's, that's desperate times if I just have a banana raw, but that's when I'm really hungry and I need potassium or whatever. Yeah, it has potassium and I believe fiber as well. I think they're really good for you. I love the, that everyone has a different way of opening them. I think that's so cool. Yes. Have it your way. Of course. Isn't there something, there's some trick where like, this was from a movie where the banana is already sliced on the inside. They open it up and it's already sliced, but they won't like reveal their secret or whatever. Yeah. I don't remember what movie that is. I know what you're talking about and it's something, yeah, the way that they're used sometimes it's like. In media. Yeah. Bananas, the bastardization of bananas in media. Oh my, bananas in media. It's like, it's pissing me off. Well, it's going to be an overcompensating. It is very much an overcompensating. They gave me the girthiest banana I've ever seen, but. Girth master. I had the funniest thing. Did I tell you? So my sister and I used to take this kid to school in high school and we picked him up one day and I had to run to the door to like knock and have him come out. That's sweet that you knocked. You didn't just honk the horn. It's those Idaho manners. Bye, honey. Bye, honey. But yeah, of course I'd gallop up to the door. A friend of ours keeps calling me a raccoon and I do feel like one. Right. I get that. I really get that. Because what are you doing today? Dumpster diving? We thought literally. Wait, that's funny. And today in the hotel, there were. That's all over the floor. And I thought. Yeah. And I ran up to the door and I knock, but I look in the window. at him in his kitchen and he's he's peeled a banana all the way down to the to the bottom to the stone to a nub and he fully throats it in a way that he almost gags and i was like well now is the perfect time to knock so i knocked and the look he gave me i had just seen him naked private moment you saw him vaping essentially exactly and we made full eye contact which oh i love a banana vape if oh i'm going to talk about that in a second because i had one on overcompensating but um so that was cool to me too to watch people's personal experiences with bananas i think we all have a banana story i don't think we should be meeting in public i always think of the scene in never been kissed where they put condoms on the banana no bananas in public please no bananas if you open a banana on an airplane too that's crazy oh really the smell i don't think i've ever done it i don't think you've ever done that that would be insane that feels crazy yeah i just keep coming back to banana splits i love the the taste of them chocolate banana milkshake come on yeah banana covered in chocolate i really fuck with that oh i love they have these um they're like uh i got them in london recently they're like cut bananas and they dip them in chocolate and they're like sold us that and i just yeah i mean i could eat those for a long time it's my favorite i have this bit i've been doing have i done this to you yet i want to show her date that she's eating so it's like she holds the napkin up really how much can she shield her girl i love that but yeah banana i want to stick one between my titties there's some fact about the dna we share with bananas i've misquoted it on this podcast in the past i don't even remember the number i came up with to misquote it but i know that we share a lot with them i know jk rowling could do something huge with one oh yeah how about with a bunch with a cluster even she's the one time where plural bananas were yeah i wonder what she's up to that really tickled me sorry i still got it you're picturing it and i love that well i'm picturing everything by the way yeah no i'm picturing it all i just thought about you falling on set again when you saw tom oh sorry i've always had weakened ankles yeah you are so magra from hercules it's crazy should we do that for halloween i'm down oh you and you being you being hercules be so fun no i'm phoebus grow up no i'm danny devito i know pinkie's phoebus oh wait no pinkie's pegasus little pinky pegasus i miss her i think about that horse sleeping sound more than i do the rallying cry from hunger games like it's like because it's it's me in a way it's you in a way okay so something about me is if you're gonna boink me it's gonna be on a brooklyn bedding mattress okay just deal with that so i've started thinking about my mattress as a part of my recovery routine so since switching to my mattress from brooklyn bedding my spine feels supported my 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partner or needing constant reassurance that your relationship is right or that you're not making the wrong choice because you never feel sure enough or asking yourself the same question hundreds of times a day do i really love them what if i'm wasting their time and searching for some feeling of certainty that never comes many people think these sorts of thoughts and anxieties are just overthinking or commitment issues but they can actually be signs of relationship ocd so many people think ocd is just about cleaning or organizing or making your books the kind of like rainbow pattern but that stereotype couldn't be more wrong real ocd is a serious condition i have it hey where distressing unwanted thoughts called intrusive thoughts get stuck on repeat and you feel compelled to do certain things mental or physical behaviors called compulsions to try to make the anxiety stop with relationship ocd compulsions might look like constantly seeking reassurance replaying memories to see if you feel a spark or comparing your partner to others but what's given me so much hope is learning that ocd is one of the most treatable mental health conditions when you get the right kind of specialized therapy ocd needs erp therapy exposure and response prevention which is proven to be the most effective treatment and it did help me so much no cd is the world's leading ocd treatment provider and all of their licensed therapists specialize in erp therapy with no cd is 100 virtual covered by insurance for over 138 million americans and includes support between sessions so you never have to face ocd alone well you never are anyway because you're right here with me in my arms around you if you consent to that i love you stinky to learn more about starting ocd therapy with no cd go to nocd.com and book a free call with their team that's nocd.com love you in overcompensating at one point in the scene i am vaping and the flavor that they got me was banana and you're in heaven well there's apparently before a take there's a scene of me smoking it with holmes and lucas cage and we're all just passing it back and forth and while he's doing like smoke rings with it and it's so cute we're gonna try for a blooper reel this time it's just like it is our editors have to make the show as well shout out our glory centers christian i love you so much but i i there's so many no excuses the one of i finally made mary beth barone crack miss professional miss independent miss possessive by the way yeah season two there's a lot of expect the unexpected for sure yeah and i think happier than ever by billy eilish she spilled on that song that's all i'm gonna say oh i love that yeah it's just something it's just it's related to banana somehow i i get that yeah can i just say i get that i know you do i want to talk about having wet nails as a concept and then i want to talk about it as like an actual like state of being so having wet nails is this beautiful experience for women and some straight guys oh when they're like i guess i'll get a pedicure and it's like hey goblin get one can i just say to anyone who's getting the dogs out i have my dogs out right now but here's the thing i got a pedicure not a week ago like i if i'm gonna have the dogs out you should get one we're gonna we're gonna scrub and i'm gonna giggle when they do it and they're gonna laugh at me and it's a beautiful experience you know i would say you can get out of virtually anything by claiming that you have wet nails now your nails and this is something i've been actually bad at in the past which is as soon as i'm done painting them i'm on to the next thing because you know i'm going going going but i'm really trying to live in the moment more and i had to paint my nails constantly on the set of overcompensating because grace has very dark nail polish and so also when you get gel you really don't experience the joy and the beauty of having wet nails because they dry and underneath the uv lights so i just think like there's something beautiful it's like it's womanhood to me it's like giving yourself the time to just like sit to just sit with your actions and your consequences of i just got my nails painted it's time for me to take a beat even texting you can them up i like going like this and i actually remember being at the nail salon this was before they used to make you pay in the middle where they would have you pay after you'd have to get your card out with wet nails but then somebody some genius had this idea that you pay in the middle now wait that's like god women are genius i know it's really beautiful y'all really impress me yeah my favorite is when they put on those little flip-flops that they give you for the road if you wear sneakers in and then putting those on i am a little baby boy that's solidarity with like your sisters do you get that like they don't have to do that they could just send you packing and with the socks on and you know you're taking them off and it's a little crumbly well i know in that moment that they're girls girls when they do like that yeah that means the world to me but oh i love i used to paint my toenails more but then every now and then i'd look down and seeing like the color pink on these like goblin toes with hair just felt like strange to me so i've stopped yeah you do full drag with chester but i get it that's very different those are my tatas that's actually very different that's my rackalina i think we as women just need to sort of enter the state of like mentally just thinking well my nails are wet i can't do anything i just have to like i have to exist where i'm at right now i'm trying so hard to be better about that and not just be always on the next thing yeah it's like well okay i could start this thing that like i'm putting pressure on myself to do you know how it's like sometimes you can just like be on a beach in your mind i just have wet nails in my mind i'm just like no i'm sitting still good things come to those who wait who wait that's the whole meal when the guy's staring at duddy's titties she goes up here my eyes are right here and she points to her nose come to those who wait and then she eats three olives i know duddy has a lot of nail art or she eats a lychee from her lychee oh yeah well like she's her fourth of course she's doing it yeah yeah I put too many things in my mouth at once at a meal i've realized recently like i think dumplings are not a two-biter for me well i've been having this really honest conversation about sushi lately which is that i want a special role okay i want the one that has fish on top fish eggs and crunchy stuff okay and spicy mayo damn girl here's the problem yeah it's not really a one bite situation and if you try to bite it in half make it two it's there's an avalanche comes out of your mouth so i'm trying to figure out what's the best thing for me you want to date with army hammer here's your next one by the way oh for sure yeah i have a whole list of people yeah yeah and it's gonna just get worse and worse me having to follow army hammer i'm like god she's killing me i'm like she's killing me oh fuck no i did it cross it's funny you say army hammer it fully crossed my mind of like oh that would be a bad one you know what i mean well of course yeah we have to know the like the worst to get to the there's so many worse ones ultimately we just can't introduce the kids to anyone ever again and to be clear i actually didn't that far um so i think this idea of living in the moment it's been huge for me especially and i will say this has come up more because like when things are going kind of bad you don't want to live in the moment right because like you just have to get through it since things have started like going a little bit better like with work stuff i'm like oh okay i'm filming my netflix special right now coming to netflix july 28th i just want to remember what this moment feels like i want to be like don't go on to the next thing just sit where you are sit with it and okay i'm here recording the second episode of the fourth season of ride the podcast you guys like what a gift at melrose podcast melrose podcast we gotta stop telling him they're either gonna at the geneva convention at the genie we're in switzerland i think that's beautiful i think it's so hard well zara larson once said that's the thing with the ambition and i do think about that a lot because it's always go go go and instead it's like no that moment is magical this moment of having a new color on my nails is magical and also it's kind of hard to be patient wait but as as i just said good things come to those away just have to like breathe through it i saw this interesting interview i wonder where it was but it was emma watson and she said something about like it can't always be the reaping and i thought about that and i thought you emma watson you sometimes it's the sewing um it's the sewing and you have to just like allow that but oh my god it's so hard because i'm in the phase two of like i just want the show done like i want to be done but it's like how about i have some fun with editing and we're making music right now and that's really fun to like get to play with that and see different jokes that work and try and yes sitting in it i think that's really beautiful you should be so proud the special is so good but um i didn't make this podcast and yeah it's me who made it so that you could plug your you can go and make your own money so that you have to leave me wait i wish that we could i wish that we could be honest about financials on this podcast just like what it looks like oh oh totally in our jobs where it's going can i say you're wrong incoming out coming all that type of deal i just wish we could have more financial transparency and i wish that it was across the board because there are some people i'm seeing in things that i'm thinking i want to see your financials what did you do right i do think that the story of rosemary's baby is true because there's a few people where i'm like i do think you have a deal with the devil i agree and i've just seen darkness in people's eyes recently that has alerted me to it and like i don't know if i'm just seeing darkness in people's eyes recently that has alerted me to it and like i don't know i don't know if i'm just seeing darkness in people's eyes recently that has alerted me to it and like i do think i'm one of god's witnesses here and i'm i'm sniffing some some luciferians out i know it's like we'll never know but i just am like it's all not making sense to me there's a different deal you've made yeah we and with the deal we weren't offered we never had a chance to even i would love to be offered can i just say i would give you up in a minute i know what nine months of pregnant like pregnancy you get through it that's the deal hey you get through it you leave it with a new one and you're like oh my god i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm so sorry a pixie cut come on cinephile alert come on cinephile oh god what you miss me the special is for mama oh and ma marie beth i will be writing for ma very soon that's all i'm going to say i think ma is like it's as special as anything could be to me but i just i'm making my very bad lip sync to ma and that's going to be explosive when it launches yes i would say for me i do ride for bananas and something that just came to me no no no no no what i didn't ride for bananas oh sorry banana thank you honey it's very cool that we share a love of this food with the monkeys i am monkey i know but it's like it's cool that it's like oh we don't have to really do anything to it like we and we and the monkeys are enjoying it prepared the same way in that moment i realized i should have been implanted the apes because if they had a gay monkey say i am i am a monkey like that would have been so either way they're going to make those movies for the rest of time so you think those were really good when they were good the the planet of the apes focused on the lgbtq community within the yeah exactly well it's mutant and proud in so many ways there is a a superhero sometimes i'm fan casted as because of my butt oh cool i don't know who it is so if you know tell us i can't imagine anyone who listens to this podcast would know but hey surprise me i think it's great that banana as a flavor is available for those that love it and that bananas are such a good snack if you have to have it on the go but it's something you can just eat quickly in my case eat half of quickly or maybe put it on some toast with some peanut butter and honey if you're feeling sort of spicy that day i love that i love putting it on a rice cake with um with cash oh that's good not almond butter i've moved on from almond butter i'm cashew butter i love sunflower butter sunflower butter is so good i also love pecan butter it's like you're not gonna find it or maybe even pecan butter if you're disgusting but that is really fabulous nut butter episode incoming incoming i look forward to when you get to go to japan and have one of those coffees i'm and i'm gonna have to film it because you have to film everything now right oh okay thank you for saying that because i think for me it's sort of like it's sort of parallel to the idea of having wet nails it's just like some things are just for in person in that moment obviously that's me coming from like filming a netflix special that is a live performance that we're putting out there but like every live performance along the way was for the people in that room i'm trying to leave my phone at home more i'm trying to not take so many pictures that i'll never look at again like and i do want to remember moments of course i have my digital camera that feels a little more intentional than like taking the phone out because it's just so easy but even at the concert for rosalia it was like i actually didn't really take that many pictures because i was just like i just want to watch it yeah this is for me right now in person this is a memory i will have if i'm actually mentally and spiritually in this room it's the best show i've ever seen me i will say and i saw lord at the all things go festival which was lovely it's run by women i didn't know that that full festival was it was it makes sense because it was the most beautiful lovely inviting environment i've ever been in i had a lot of bronies that night they were very cute lord set for these festivals is like the best thing i've ever experienced i also love that she just leaked all the demos for virgin i've been ripping oh it was 45 tracks something about that oh it's a dream but um i agree i tried to do that on set where i'd be like we could film something quickly and like kind of do the fun social thing which obviously you have to promote the show and it is fun to do those with you guys but and we did get a lot of that yeah but then i'm like put it away where it was like i just want to i had so many fun days on set when it was like you or connie or like just tom i mean tom and i are in it a lot together so it just like chatting was really nice and i think it is this thing where like if i'm if i'm posting on her on my phone a lot it means i'm like probably not feeling great like i'm just trying to search for something and i just feel like oh it's after kind of also making a show that's like quote unquote about my life do you think it's nice to have things that feel like private and to not have to worry about like a photo or how you look or anything like that i know it's just so stressful and i saw this article that i didn't read but someone explained it to me about like how life has gotten way too frictionless like ordering stuff and not having to go outside and like you know not having to interact with people and i'm actually craving a lot more of that stuff and actually craving that more like yeah so instead of last night for example donut plant it's open till 11 p.m i thought maybe they have some gluten-free donuts left i walked there at like 30 i smashed the world yeah you took a bat to the window i held up one of the employees by their neck it's insane my brain can picture all of this so vividly you with pinky in one arm by the way beyonce working out the bat um so i went there and i instead of getting it delivered because i could have gotten it delivered but i decided to walk and experience that outside in the heat and i'm just more experiences as opposed to like trying to live for the internet because because the internet's not real it's not real it's not the people that come up to us and and we meet out in the world those are real and they're the most beautiful women and gay men at obsess fest the meet and greet was it made the whole trip feel so worth it it was incredible that was like oh my god also jade i loved your letter sweetie if you're listening it was beautiful and i think you'll be a great writer read it to me send me the dm me your scripts read it to me i was like wait you're talking about these scripts i want them give me give me the pages give me the sacred text but i um i totally agree i love i love uh waiting for what's it having wet nails i love having wet nails i don't have it a lot well the last time i probably had wet nails is when i tried to stop biting but i loved the taste of the stop biting stuff it was bitter and chic it was herbal so i'm like oh nice try not gonna work try again um i eat ass try again you do what mutant and proud um but of course i write for it i think it's amazing i love watching my sisters coming home when they used to have nails done and like me driving them sometimes sitting in the chair next to them my mom is a jail girl so they're driving when that bitch hits the freaking Volvo. I might do gel for press. I haven't decided. They just look so tidy and they don't chip. So we'll see. I know they're not good for your nails. They mess up my nails so bad. Because sometimes seeing someone get the gels off, their nails are a color of yellow that's, I wouldn't say that's the banana I'm buying in the store. No, honey. Well, I had to take mine off for overcompensating and the color was fine, but the texture. Also, after I just said that, I went lava. Like I just completely stopped saying a word in the middle. And you can do that. But you notice I didn't comment. That's another thing. Hey, you can quit. Let it go. Bye. We hope you enjoy this return to the clay. Ride the podcast season four. That is so true. That's what I've, it's so funny you said that. I literally was going to ride for her when Lorde said return to the clay. And also when she said leave it all on the field. Because those are two things I've been thinking about a lot. I'm back in New York City, baby. Boy, does it feel fucking, fucking fantastic. Je suis de la monde. Oh, my exit. Benny, babe, eyes on the road. Benny, look out! Ride. Ride.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The hosts discuss personal topics, including driving drunk in high school (one beer), wanting to be more rebellious, and plans for trapeze at Chelsea Piers.
  2. They explore nostalgia for media characters like Curious George, Paddington, Balto, and The Swan Princess, joking about their cultural impact.
  3. A major segment focuses on bananas
  4. They discuss the concept of "wet nails" as a metaphor for living in the moment and appreciating stillness, contrasting with constant productivity.
  5. The hosts promote their projects
  6. They reflect on staying present, reducing phone use, and valuing in-person experiences over documenting everything online.
  7. The episode includes sponsor ads for Nutrafol hair supplements, Nuuly clothing rental, Brooklyn Bedding mattresses, and NOCD therapy for OCD.

Summary:

In this episode of *Ride*, hosts Benito Skinner and Mary Beth Brown engage in playful, candid banter about personal experiences and broader themes. They open with humorous exchanges about texting, fashion, and a shared desire to be more "bad" in their lives, including a confession from Mary Beth about driving drunk as a teenager after one beer, which she now regrets. They discuss plans for trapeze and pottery classes as non-work activities, though they acknowledge their tendency to mix fun with work.

The conversation shifts to nostalgia, touching on characters like Curious George, Paddington, and Balto, and they joke about the "bastardization" of bears in media. A lengthy segment celebrates bananas—their flavor, candy versions, and cultural quirks—with one host declaring she "rides" for bananas, while the other prefers them in mixed forms. They also explore the concept of "wet nails" as a metaphor for mindfulness, emphasizing the importance of pausing and appreciating moments rather than rushing to the next task.

Throughout, they promote their creative work, including a Netflix special and the show *Overcompensating*, sharing set stories and the joy of collaboration. They advocate for disconnecting from phones and embracing real-world experiences, inspired by a Lorde concert and fan interactions. The episode blends humor, vulnerability, and reflection, reinforcing their friendship and commitment to authenticity.

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The podcast is a conversational show hosted by Benito Skinner and Mary Beth Brown, where they discuss personal stories, pop culture, and daily life topics.

The hosts joke about wearing a bombshell dress, which they humorously link to a hypothetical casting for a Bond movie, but it's actually just because of the hot weather.

Having wet nails is described as a state of being where you must pause and live in the moment, since you can't do anything until your nails dry, which the hosts find beautiful and meditative.

They discuss a love for banana-flavored foods and drinks, like banana milk coffee in Japan, and share humorous anecdotes about eating bananas, but note raw bananas are only for desperate times.

Nutrafol is a hair growth supplement brand recommended by dermatologists, with formulas for different needs, and listeners can get $10 off their first month with promo code RIDE.

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