HOLIDAY SLEIGHRIDE: Christmas Lights + Bodegas

The following podcast is a Dear Media production. I'm Benito Skinner. I'm Mary Beth Brown. And this is Ride. Not this episode, obviously. Are we recording? Because we're already starting the episode. I'm not cutting this. We don't have to say we're not wearing makeup. They could figure it out. Yeah. I think all the clues are there. Do I have berries in my teeth? No. I was maybe going to ride for smoothies, but it's our holiday sleigh ride. It's the sleigh ride. Clap. I love your nail color. Linkin Park After Dark? So this is gel, so I don't know what they even. Oh, could I do headphones? Oh. Do you want to or no? I don't ever want to because they make our heads look huge. Oh, God. I love. So bone dysmorphia can happen in pod. Yeah. That's all I want to say. It can happen in pod and out of pod. Sex is the greatest aphrodisiac. Can someone tell us? We're trying to figure out. Have I already said this? We don't. There's no way of knowing except if we listened to ourselves on the podcast, which we're simply not going to do. But if anyone's listened to that episode recently, did we say that sex is. Did, like, our favorite aphrodisiac is sex? Just to be clear, when Duddy's slurping down three oysters at once, mind you, she looks at the guy, mouth full of oysters, and goes, I don't care. Wait, you know what I was thinking? I think Duddy has a Christmas album. Oh, 100%. She's never made music before, but. Can I say something? She has a good voice. I don't know. I really can't stay. But she dated a producer for a while, and he was like, we should just get in the studio and do something. Oh, my God. She totally was. She dated the guy that was in the studio with Zara Larson. He, like, did sessions with Zara Larson, and she's married to him. Yeah, but she dates outside the marriage as well. Well, yeah, she has to get her kills. Should we talk about her Tartan holiday date, lady? I wish you would. Your cousin was wearing a fabulous Tartan skirt. What? And it just. I see. I forgot about this. It's crazy, because for me as an artist, I'll see something, and it just will, like. It'll just click for me. By the way, I have no zingers today. I have not added to. Hey. Because it's the holidays. You haven't even warmed up. It's the holidays. No, I have no zingers. You were so funny last night. Obviously, we watched Heated Rivalry, because our king, Robbie GK, Riley from Overcompensating, fucking bottoms in it. Gay for pay. Robbie, we're so proud of you, sweetie. Grace had no idea. I didn't know. that that's what Robbie was doing. Speaking of smoothies. After his little nursing shifts at the old folks' home. You said the funniest thing to me last night. You go. The smoothie place is called Strawberry. I. It is. It took me a bit. In New York, in the heart of New York City. It took me a bit. Obviously, we had a tintillating time watching. We have one note, and this isn't like. We're not critics, really, but just like, take a shot or smoke a cig every time it tells you six months later. Yeah, or any time jump. Even one day. They did a one-day time jump. Oh, my favorite was. Narratively. They had said two weeks three times, and then. And they said two weeks. But I know for a fact that's like some kind of weird note that someone was like, when's all this happening? Yeah. Because it's books. It's a book series, right? You say so. You don't even care about gay culture. I never heard of it before. It's not been. It's not come across my desk, but I'm glad it has now. I know. I don't. I don't read the kind of like sexy, sweet books, but maybe I. Maybe I will. Maybe you should. We're going on vacation, so maybe I'll read them on the beach. Whoa. On the fly. The books we read on vacation. So, you saw my. I almost said my niece, but no, it was my cousin. First cousin. Yeah, and she had this long tartan skirt on, and I thought. So, she was twirling in it, and it really like kind of flew up, and I thought, well, daddy'd wear that pantyless. But as a dress. As a dress. A tube dress, of course. So, it'd be a tube dress that's belted at the top. She'd do spins, and she would be at a pub, and she would do the knife off the top of the Guinness in front of everyone, and go, look at this, and then do that, and then she'd lick the knife, eye contact with one person in the crowd. She'd lick the knife, read down. Yo, of course. But she knows exactly how much pressure to put on it. Yes, and just a little blood comes out from the tip of her tongue. She tastes it and goes, pennies, and then looks someone in the eye, and they're obsessed. They're like completely locked in. I mean, mesmerized. Yeah, she eats a shepherd's pie that night, too. I was going to say, too. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, she orders one, and she goes, please may I have another? I'm still hungry. She does what no one's ever done in the history of man, which is order more food in the middle. When people say that. We can always order more food. I'm like, no, we can't. We're not going to do that. No, we just put in the order. We just waited, and we sat. So, wait, we're going to restart this whole process? That's insane. It's nice when the waiter lets you have that little fantasy, because sometimes the waiter goes. And isn't it just that? Isn't it just a fantasy? Sometimes the waiter goes, well, we need to put it all in at once for a chef. And I go, can we just have this moment where I say maybe we'll get more? Where I ask you, did we get enough food? And you say, I think so. And then I say, well, we'll always order more if we're hungry. Yeah. Let's just accept that that's never going to happen. Of course. Let's not fight it. No. Come on. This holiday season, promise not to do that, you guys. Promise. Promise. Also, I'm wearing a Gen Z headscarf. So, my nanny, not my nanny, Pinky's nanny, Sasha, she wears this headscarf like this. And then I had a backup dog sitter, because Sasha wasn't available. And she was also wearing one like this. And I go, I guess this is what the kids are doing these days. So, now don't you think I look like I work in a kitchen? Well, like, no. Like, I'm frying up. I can't tell. I mean, like, yeah, I guess. I guess, but I can't really. Because of my ribbed tank top and everything. Well, I think everything about you, aside from that, is saying not a woman cooking in the kitchen at a restaurant. But I have to keep my hair out of the food. I would be so curious what I would look like in it. You can try it later. Yeah. I don't know. I know I'm cooking up Duddy Shepard's pie. Well, I guess we can't talk about Jeremy O'Harris being in a Japanese prison, but let's just Google it. Let's just Google it. And Jeremy, free Jeremy O'Harris, please. Let us know what we can do to help. We will come get you, sweetie. Wait, that's, oh my God. New Year's. Yeah. New Year's. We go get him. We go get him. We go, hey. We get off the plane first. We run to the front of the plane. Go get your girl. Go get your girl. And it's us getting Jeremy O'Harris out of prison. I just got chills. All jokes aside, we're so worried about him. I know. I'm like, are they taking okay care of him? Like, what's happening? Like, take care of our girl. I need someone who knows everything about 9-11, everything about the recent stuff in Saudi Arabia. And I only say stuff because I know it's really bad. I don't know every specific. I know they, like, killed a journalist, maybe more, probably more. But there's people going to the Saudi Arabia Film Festival. And I'm just like, is that chill? Because with the comedy festival, it felt like it was very not chill. And I was very much on that side of it, not being chill. And now I'm just like, well, what? They're doing a film festival. I would say everything is confusing and everything is embarrassing. So you just kind of have to find that. And so you find that duality. But yeah, oh my God. It's like my greatest fear. Every time they go through my bag, I'm like, when they do that bomb thing. The, like, you know, test. I'm like, what if someone just rubbed bomb powder on me? What? When they do a little thing on your hand. Don't I look like someone who would want to rub bomb powder on? Right before I. Yeah, that's what scares me in those snitch ass dogs. I looked at one of the dogs and went. I did one time accidentally cart drogas from the UK to America. Luckily, I didn't. It didn't get. I'm lucky. Can you say this on pod? Not my lucky stars. I wonder if you can say this. It happened. It could be lying. The world. It's exactly comedy. What are they going to do? All you need to do is look at the camera and I go parody law that I have been latching. Oh my God. Parody law got me through a lot. Eight years of my career. I've been latched, latched, locking my door recently because I used to just let it, you know, it locks on its own, but I've been latching it because I thought if the government somehow finds my stand up, which is widely available, they might just bust the door down. And my biggest concern. I got people out. Yeah. Especially if they have big machine guns and stuff. Yeah. But my big concern. If I got detained was like pinkies in the crate. So, or she's maybe not in the crate. I'll go get her. They won't come for me. Yeah. I don't think they would either. Well, they just, if they were going to, they would have after the white house video. Oh, absolutely. Oh, Biden's trusted messengers. I forgot to tell you a wedding I was at and a woman showed me texts back and forth. Here's my thing. Like every now and then I'll look in my DMS and people will be like, come to my wedding and I can't stress enough. Like I'll come if someone promises I'll have a good time at a wedding, but it remains to be seen. I was at this wedding and this woman showed me texts and she thought it was so funny. She was like, I sent this bid to a friend of mine who was like a Republican and this is what they sent back. And they're like, I can't believe they let that animal in the white house. And she was like laughing. And I was like, this is so. Not funny. I was just like, this is insane. I think people don't ever think about what they do. That is the big message of right this year. There's a lot of themes and that's the big message. And I would also say. Bumbling is also a huge message. Oh, for sure. This podcast is brought to you by Squarespace and it's been a while. Squarespace is the all-in-one website platform for entrepreneurs to stand out and succeed online. 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I think about them reading whatever the original creative was, because there was something else that they then had to tweak. Exactly. And so if this is what I'm seeing, I can't even imagine what it was before. And I'm trying to be, and as we've always tried to be really thoughtful about the products we're advertising for on the podcast, I will say I've definitely had to say no to some bigger brand deals this year for ethical reasons. It's really hard sometimes, but we're trying to be thoughtful always. And of course, if we misstep, and this isn't even in reference to anything, I'm just foreseeing like, you know, we have to sell our business. Well, of course. It's a prostitution in a lot of ways. So yeah, just thanks for liking the posts and even commenting sometimes if you feel so compelled. We should make a Duddy account so we can do like Shein, Target. Oh my, Shein, Target, AI. Yeah, AI. What else? If they knew some of the brand deals, I said no to this year. I really want to own property. Season six. God, it's like, can't we just let a woman own property? But we can't. We can't. It's crazy. New York has this thing where it's like, you write a letter to the board. Oh, yeah. And I'm like, I got to see this board. In my head, I'm Samantha Jones. Of course. I'm the whore they saw on the internet. Oh, yeah. And they go, you're letting strange men into the building. No, literally. And it's you. There's a flat chested young boy who comes all the time. My boobs have never been smaller. I appreciate all the attention they're getting. I knew they'd have their shining day. A lot of people have notoriety for having big boobs. I might be one of the first to have notoriety for having small bee stings. I was thinking just to put one more thing on my plate. I kind of want to have a small boob summit next year in New York where, you know, we can just gather as a community. Big boob, big tittied, big melon, jugs. All of those would be welcome. But it would be really a celebration. We could have keynote speakers. Oh, well. Penny. Nina Drama in the breastplate. She's an E. She's getting a reduction. I got E's. She can't wait to join the community. Well, Duddy's going to say, I'm getting surgery next week. This is at the Irish pub. And they go, for what? And she goes, breast reduction. My lower back hurts. They're too big. Don't they just get in the way of everything? She dips one in the shepherd's pie. And then she goes, why do I take a shit around here? Yeah. Also, she has, again, her Ugg boots on. They're never not on. Well, the sorry fellas, the Ugg boots stay on during sex. Someone said. Lips flapping. I know. Warm from the Uggs. Okay. Now that we've talked about politics. Yeah. Can we talk about fun stuff? Can we talk about sex as an aphrodisiac? Let's talk about sex as an aphrodisiac. Let's talk about what we ride for. Whoa. I mean, let's get into what we ride for. Wait, there was something, there was something else I wanted to say. Fuck my chungus life. Oh, fuck. Okay. But we have to do it quick. God, fuck. Yeah. And having a face is on here as well. That wasn't me. Are you sure? I feel like that was. My face is the front of shop. Like, I don't. I think you just said, like, I want to just touch on having a face because it's hard. I feel like because of your skin. Because of dermatitis. Your battle with your skin. But you don't have to get into it. I'm in a war right now with dermatitis, but I'm boldly just here letting it rip. I'm doing zero therapy right now and just using a face wash and letting it all dry up. But I think it's in the gut. It all comes back to the gut. So I'm in the gut right now. And I have to, like, limit a lot of the things I'm eating. And I can't stress enough. Like, it's not that hard. It's I thought it would be harder. But like, honestly, in New York City. And I'm spending time with you. You like you've heard about these brands called like Pretz for like years. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. What was the one to be confused? What was the brand that Pinky was like going? She was a billy goat on my body for. Oh, she's obsessed with stepping on my sack. I know. Can I just say she last night, though? OK, this moment happened with Pinker. I have to say something about last night. I found a cashew in my bed. So Benny Drum will not be eating snacks in my bed anymore. You can win back the privilege. But with good behavior. And I know you were so tired and you saw the cashew and went and you ate it. And a little there was a little blood. Exactly. OK, well, I'm sorry, but that's OK. It wasn't a big deal. I just am saying no more food in the bed for right now, baby. So she was like nestled in a little ball and then I wrapped my arms around her and we were just laying there watching gay sex and heated rivalry. And then I took my. Hands off on my back. She looked back at me like she was like, I'm good as fuck. The fuck? Like it was so hard. Wouldn't it be cool if I was dating someone who could just like bring her to meet us after this? Like they would just be able to be helpful and just like, yeah. Oh, my God. Can I say there's been three straight guys this year that have completely electrified me? Like I have besides Kai who I met one in London and then there was a recent one that blew me away. I would love to No. Is it your friend from college, Lucas? Oh, my God. Yeah. Well, okay. So I'm back in New York. I'm finally with my college roommates again. You're reconnecting with, you're touching grass proverbially, I would say. I'm touching grass. They took me to Zootopia 2, which I have to talk about for a sec. Having two straight guys take me to Zootopia 2. And by that, I mean, I bought the tickets. They got me Coke Zero. I'm going to eat fruit leather. Please. I'm just going to do it. The best line in Search Party is John Early. What? As you say, that f*** it with fruit leather. I think about it so often. It's so good. I love fruit leather. Oh, yeah. This is, is this on my, am I allowed to eat this? Of course. It's not in my bed. So, Zootopia 2. Zootopia 2 is- Wait, what were we talking about before that? Oh, the third straight guy you met that blew you away. I need to know who this is. Probably have a girlfriend, but- They all do. I know. I know. Who's the third? Well, Kai doesn't, but most of the good ones do. Yeah, it's Kai. Louis, if you're listening, Louis from London. That was like- L.L. Flippity. Turn around, Wicked Witch. And then, God, who was the last one? Oh. You're getting choked up. It was your cousin's husband. Oh, my God. You met the guy who, when my cousin snapped, he stood up and went to go take care of the kids. And I completely get their relationship. I love them so much. They're so adorable. And I just like, I love talking to him and he's just a doll. But all your brothers, I mean, like, are just kind of dolls. Yeah. Like, I don't- They were raised right. And don't make me pick. Please don't. I would never. But, you know, Vicky has a really- Pam, I know you're not listening. Just kidding, you are. But we haven't spent enough time together, but I know it's like all going to come out in the wash. It's all going to happen. But me and Vicky, but oh, my God. You have so much to say, but I need to read you Pam's text to me the other day. Pam texted me, glad to hear you will come to visit when you have a movie filming here. That means a lot. Love you, sister. Love you, girl. Merry Christmas. Hey, I will come, but I need someone to pay for it. Down under. First class. Okay, anyway. Wait, we should do press down and on. Australia. It was our second biggest on the- Spotify wrapped. Yeah. And obviously we denounced Spotify and their ice ads. Like, it's insane. Yeah, what the fuck? Yeah, what the actual fuck? I'm f***ed, bleep it. What are we going to do? I don't know. Let's talk about Zootopia, I guess. Everything's demonic. Zootopia 2 is not. It is that woke shit. But it's anti-cop. It's anti-like- Yeah, they're still like- It finds a way to make it feel anti-cop and like anti- I would say it's more anti-government. It's like corrupt mayors and- A little fluff on your beard. You know that they're like obsessed- I know. These particles. I'm not kidding. The jokes per minute in this film- I got to see it. Oh my God. I was like, like belly laughing. Really? It was unbelievable. And Zach Rice- That was like me with a naked gun. Zach Rice. Zach Rice, who's in the room. We love you, Zach. Was it someone he knew? His brother. His brother. I almost said his boyfriend, but he's fully straight. He's a fully straight man. I don't see straight people. Yeah, they're- It has to be his gay husband, Dre. His boyfriend or whatever. Yeah. He's a guy, so he has a husband. Did the animated, the scenes where they- I don't want to ruin something, but they referenced The Shining. I'm not going to say anything else. Okay. But it's like- That's so cool. Oh my God. The like deep cuts in it, the story. I was just completely electrified. Wow. But the fox and the bunny won't kiss. And that's one thing as a kid I would have been like, because I know other kids were like, I'm looking away. I was like, I'm leaning in. They don't kiss? No. So the video I saw of her pregnant was AI? So that was us consuming AI, but it's the one time I think it's okay. Yeah. That's what AI should be used for, in my opinion. Yeah, it's like smudge. Making fan edits. Yeah. Fanfic is great, but- Not like taking jobs. No, but it just, it was crazy to not see it with you, but I know I'll see it a second time with you. Of course. I like to, you know me, I love to watch stuff at home. I'm going to wait till it's out on BOD. You love to watch Robbie GK on screen. Getting plowed. It was major. I loved that episode. I thought he was fantastic. I'm having so much fun. He played gay like really well. I also love how limited I'm watching people play hockey. I really thought going in, I was going to see some games, which almost to the point where I'm like, I might want to watch a game here. A little bit. A little bit on the ice. Maybe two seconds. I want to see a little- Yeah. A little backwards. When people skate backwards. It's all in the hips. We got to go to a ranger game. One of my childhood crushes. Are you ready? Apollo Anton Ono. Of course. Bye. Oh, well, of course. Speed skater, right? Of course. Of course. Oh, I would love you with an Olympian. I know, but they have really bad mental health. Not to say. Oh, here she goes. Oh, here she goes. Oh, here she goes. Isn't it about time we cancel this fucking witch? Isn't it about fucking time? I am totally open to dating someone with poor mental health. Oh. Can I just say, and I have. Oh, yeah. And I will again. I'm just saying. I watched a documentary about Olympians' mental health. Oh, wow. What's it called? I don't remember. Going for the gold or something like that. It's got to be that. Yeah. So anyway, but yes, athletes, but not till after the special. Yeah, because actors have good mental health. Well, totally. Anyone that wants to date me will unfortunately have to wait till after the special's filmed. Yeah. And if you can't wait four months, then I guess you don't want it that bad. Hold tight, you know, stay strong. And I want to see someone really put the work in. I want to see them put on the ritz. And I'm not one of those people that's like cross their arm. It's like, impress me. But it'd be nice if like someone, I don't know, did like a little dance for us. How about lifting a finger? Have you considered? What about, oh my God. I, you know, I know like he was on. I don't want to. I want everyone to just keep speculating about you guys because it's too much for all of us. Edward's like one of the few straight men who has like taken me to dinner. Like he has paid, which I'm like, oh my God. What are you doing with that thing? I know it's. And he's laying down the plastic. He's putting the plastic down. He's tapping it. Which I don't, it doesn't always happen. I'll just be honest. It doesn't always happen. I know. Well, yeah, my therapist asked me like, how do you feel about not dating for a bit? And I was like, as soon as I made that declaration, which I'm telling as many people as possible, so I'll stick to it. Mm-hmm. My nervous system just relaxed a little bit. That is so, it's all about that right now. The year you had, take my hand. Oh my God. I have such a funny story. Oh my God. Well, just hold it for a sec. I know, I know. Because I'd love to just say something. Really, this is from me and the kids. We're so proud of you. That was such a fucking dog shit year. But then also like the show came out and you guys were all so sweet about it. And this community of red is gorgeous. We will be taking kind of a little bit of a break though, because I don't think we can. Well, we're doing the rerun episodes. We're doing a few rerun episodes. And then the season ends in February. Yes, we end in February and we're going to take a little break when we shoot just because that was a lot. And I just want to make sure when we do this that you never have to think we don't want to do it. I will say like, it's funny. Whenever we've been here, if we say that, it's like, in theory, we don't want to work, but this is like heaven. It's so fun. I would do this with you forever. If like, if it was just this and then it, I don't even know. Yeah, you didn't have to be thoughtful about the rest of the machine around it. That'd be fabulous. And AI accounts clipping stuff and making you sound good. Again, that's just not us. It's just not us. We would use two filters, not four. At max, not four. Two at max. We look animated in it. Well, I'm not minding it for these past few weeks. Zach's brother does those videos. They're animated, fully animated. Well, I said referencing The Shining. Exactly. I went to a craniosacral massage this week, which was recommended to me by my physical therapist. And it was fabulous. But when we sat down, you know, when you look someone in the eye and you just go, I know I'm going to start crying as soon as they ask me a question. Oh, oh, my ear? It was instantaneous. She said, ask me about my skin. My shoulder, my neck, all that stuff. She's like, and how's your emotional life been? And I was just like, so got dumped. Dad died, fully had an eating disorder this summer. And then now I'm in a TV show, which is obviously a bright spot in the year, but it's just like, my life is different. I just couldn't not cry. So it was really good though. It was really like impactful. And I'm going to go back on Monday and I'll keep you guys posted on my progress. Shakira said it best, try everything. This one is, let's turn the dance floor into a zoo, by the way, which is very us. That's very ride. I'm so down. I can't tell if, I guess in Zootopia, the whole thing is kind of like, there's no cages really. Well, unless it's corruption. Right. But so I guess like zoos are chill. Like the term zoo is kind of good here, in fact. I think it means something different. You know, it's funny in London, it was a zoo, Zootopolis or something. Oh. Yeah, they had like a different one. It's called something different. Yeah. Obviously cutting that. That was, I'm so glad you guys know that now. I'm not cutting that. They put their own spin on stuff. Yeah, the philosophers don't. We actually legally need to get into what we ride. Oh, yeah. Okay. And it's going to be really fast. We had a big intro. I will be riding for those Christmas lights. And I'm going to ride for something that I will explain how it's holiday themed bodegas. 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because i know you want me to i know you want me to yep straight people are obsessed with those huge skeletons in their yard this is so weird that you just said that do you know what i passed one on the way here how it had christmas lights on it where'd they put it in the front like you know someone had a little you know sometimes in brooklyn you can have like there's like a gate and then exactly and then it's a house from like the basement thing yeah and i was gonna take a i decided i was just on my way to something and i couldn't stop that's is there anything sadder than that when you think you're about to make content and then you just your your fingers hurt you're just like actually i can't today no i can't put myself out there i can't even put myself out there to marry beth barone right now i know so do you know what i mean i'm like sex is an aphrodisiac sex is like such an aphrodisiac that's true though are you so horny lately that's something i've sort of had to dial it back because i don't have i don't have an outlet for it cool and i don't want one cool but but short answer yes but can i just yes i don't know what you're gonna say about christmas lights and i'm just excited like and i'm not trying to steer the conversation i'm just genuinely saying i have an excitement i just had to point out these skeletons because like there's something going on it's like they're huge they're just like straight people have been like honey i'm home and i got something so i did a thing if duddy sees one she takes it down by the way a hundred percent and they piss her off now that you say that i'm like should i get one of the flagpole at my parents house and it's just holding on to it i would during halloween yes but when they start adding like you know a leprechaun hat that's when i start getting pissed off it's not it's come on it's not a year-round thing so christmas lights i am sure they are dog shit for the environment so or just like in general they're not it's waste so i just want to say that i've been using electricity but i guess these little things are how we feel better during a fascist regime so here we are but as a kid i loved helping my dad put up christmas lights it was so like i don't know i just put on my little coat and mittens and i'd be like fuck yeah let's go now did you have the icicle ones or were you doing a more classic vibe so it would change year to year my parents love a very classic like warm light rainbow of sorts i mean come on they made me gay dude but it was exposure but like very kind of old world christmasy vibes is kind of the what my parents are doing like every ornament on our tree is blown glass it's those like it's those old i think they're called old world it's like the like true yeah the theme is heavy but my mom also like every year she gets us a new ornament for it and because she's had to do so many and has so many kids and grandkids now like i would say like it's a loose interpretation of what our year was sure oh you know oh it's a meaningful yeah one time she like she hates salmon like she doesn't like eating it but i like salmon so she got me a salmon right and i was like i but i see that totally and that kind of was my 2024 it's just about being my stomach is making crazy did you hear that i don't like that he's kicking i don't like it he's kicking that's our big surprise 2026 our kid so money maker though of course if we're ever businessman if we're ever low-key falling off in finance yeah in finance i just meant i just meant getting the kid brand deals but yeah he also would be one of our greatest mathematical minds brand deals i haven't really done one in a while you know what i mean they call him mr venmo back home oh honey oh yeah i know you guys got and i'm mrs milk i know you got that venmo stash christmas lights i i do think there's something so chemical about them it's childlike wonder i fucking love seeing how ugly they can get to like when people just do like dog shit ones god those stupid fucking blow up things those do not count i find those are not under the umbrella of those are disgusting they're garish but if you have a hundred of them i'm down if you only have one it's bullshit totally agree but if you have if you have a community i don't see a fucking stitch of grass honey honey then that's kind of like artful and i like when they're interacting it's indie sleaze oh my god they're literally it's it is full indie sleaze it's like oh they get they make me sick yeah but there's a few houses in idaho where they're very christmas vacation which i do think is one of the best christmas films of all time it stresses me out but see here's the thing it used to as a kid but now since i know everything that's going to happen i remind myself of that and it's almost erp oh cool yeah but it's oh my god when he puts up the lights on the house and they finally work and like oh my god and now my parents because finally i talked to them and i was like i don't want you guys on ladders anymore yeah we have someone and just do like a strip of lights for them so they still have it on their house and when i drive down that freaking road in idaho and i see the lights and then i see a few weird nativity things which you know it is what it is and get to my house it just those christmas lights light up my way exactly to me have you not heard this cold play christmas light song i don't i guess i don't have it committed to memory i thought you were about to dive right in no i don't have it off it'll break your heart it's a perfect christmas song but to me getting in a car you've been cold outside your hands freezing yeah you get a hot cocoa maybe with coconut in it oh yeah i'm dead toasted fucking marshmallow or maybe a little coconut i don't give a fuck i don't care what your is in your hot chocolate that's what's in my right or maybe peppermint from william sonoma but you would have had to make that at home and then take it in to go this i'm more we're out in the world we're getting it from a local a mom and pop shop a mom and pop get that you drive to the a few of the houses throughout boise that have the craziest lights you stay for about two seconds yeah you drive it's a drive it's it's just i love it and it's so it's the simple things there's this thing in idaho that has they light up the botanical gardens and you walk through that and it's so fun it's very me and my dad in museums we are there for five minutes yeah well you've seen it all you need to see well you're freezing yeah so and it's snowing but oh my and every time my mom will just go that's pretty like to add a couple things and she's like cool light it's like a candy cane yeah or like a one time it was a poinsettia whoa what do we say whatever you want i don't care it's not words about just having fun with me poinsettia sounds better too you know poinsettia feels a little but the way this electrified her like that that's cool that's feral joy that's like when they figured out how to do i i don't really fuck with fireworks i think they're a huge waste of money but when they figured out how to do shapes i was like that's cool that they did that yeah like they're innovating i got it charlie caroline christmas exactly let's call that whoa let's do that that's the title of the episode yeah my mom is big into christmas decorations it's like as soon as it's thanksgiving it's christmas season in the house and thank god we have two trees i mean the amount the volume of christmas decorations and it makes the house just feel so full and then when christmas season passes and we take it down the house just feels like you know it's just done a round of glp one it just looks like totally you know you miss the little extra flourishes well of course and they don't look the same let me tell you the same but uses that loses that youthful energy i have christmas lights in my apartment year-round on my on my like ceiling as you know but i've added more christmas lights because they got a tree and then i have the multi-colored ones in the front i know i was in there last night and i thought you were setting the mood for heated rivalry with me and you kind of were yeah i was getting into christmas it's hard though because we're writing right now i kind of never know what season or day it is and just the times and stuff so it was nice to like that's why i have to put up visual indicators like christmas lights yeah and actually the cold weather is helping me i'm like oh yeah it's it's the christmas reminder but i like that christmas lights can be secular like you can put up you know blue ones you can put up icicles you can put up whatever yeah and i think like just the yeah the integrity of the lights i called my mom or my i should say my mom called me yesterday just to be historically accurate she called me and she said that she had bought christmas lights for the tree she put them on and then she realized they were a different brightness than the ones that they already had on there so she had to take them off and put those elsewhere repurpose and then get ones that matched that's an important thing and it's like if you're not thinking if it's like my mom is very aesthetic and so she's thinking about that stuff and that was definitely passed down to me and i'm really grateful for that i forgot about that i forgot about that i forgot about that i forgot about that forgot to mention when houses have there are a few houses in boise that have like concerts that go that play with the lights where it's like yeah that's cool that's fucking nuts really cool that to me i can only watch it for three seconds but i love it yeah if you get seizures maybe don't go there i would definitely not go there don't watch the moment teaser and don't go to that and maybe not we've done some ride things that maybe we're a little bit strobe yeah well i won't do ride or die right now please don't so i'm not gonna skip ahead yes but i would love to talk about bodegas so christmas of you and merry christmas the bodegas are your friends the bodegas are your friend if a mall is an older sister bodega is christmas to me because here's the thing with bodegas i have lived in the vicinity of many different bodegas i will say my favorite bodega and all my time here in new york city is the one that i live near currently which i'm not going to say what it is because i don't want people to like triangulate my location they know where we live but totally right yeah but let's just say that the man that works at the bodega i think he owns it his wife is there so i'm not going to say what it is because i don't want people to like triangulate their kid his name is eham oh do you know what he told me last night what did he tell you say hi say hi to your friend for me oh my god i said that's not my friend that's my fucking that's my chick that's just some girl i go to sometimes and then he dapped me up i haven't been there in a couple days and then we knocked foreheads together yeah he's in the hospital right now i bought a cashew nut date so here's the thing with bodegas you just are gonna pass cashew nut date we already talked about you eating them in my bed so you're so spoiled and loved i would imagine that getting the bodega account as a sparkling water company as a protein bar company as a snack company i'm assuming there's one person at the top of bodega enterprises and they go we'll do this brand this year we're gonna do this brand this year we're gonna do this brand this year we're gonna stock all because the bodegas have consistent brands and poppy goes you'll stock us they go what the fuck are you gonna do about it we'll put a full fridge right yeah oh honey we're doing it what are they called what are those ones at the end of the aisle called i don't remember it was the thing in mad men kiosk no it's like a whole thing when advertising no i'm telling you i'm keeping no the gun is up the gun is pointed at me and it goes you will you will get every separate fridge for poppy yeah but i just think that must be really cool if you're if you're an entrepreneur and you're starting a new brand that lands in bodegas do you want to shout out liquid death i mean you are like i'm just gonna shout out of course i'm gonna shout out liquid death i'm gonna shout out quins that does the peanut butter filled gluten-free pretzels it turned it turned pinky into a billy goat but they fly off the shelves so sometimes they don't have stock and the only ones with cheese and i can't eat those obviously they had the cheese of pizza the cheesy pizza they had the cheese appeared so how cool is it to just go into a bodega maybe you discover a new snack brand i mean it all nothing better each other but it's like it can be christmas every day if you live near a bodega the like yes i'm tapping to pay and it's 21 for two cans of water i know they're kind of diva-y which i love like some of them it's fun well it's called the living crisis well of course and that's what i was gonna say well some have just bongs and then others have like a very merry best snacks yeah so it's it's really interesting it's like the one by you is so it's so like the snack outlet like an air one kind of is the vibe like maybe maybe actually it's more of like a whole foods air one love child of sorts totally the one by my hotel right now is is bong coated it's very it's more of like a smoke shop yeah yeah but they still have like the you know schweps and some of the really big brands well the bodegas that are basically empty i'm so curious like what's the financial situation there it's none of my business i'm just watching ozark it's hard not to think that laundering is a part of some of these things i would imagine that it is but i like ones that are stocked up and when everything is sort of in a row like the aisles are pretty like tight and then you can look at it and it just looks like a pic it's picturesque to me when i see all those little all those little products in a perfect line and all the colors i mean it's just beautiful yeah mental illness is incredible yes the things that can make it feel better yes the things that soothe you which is being in a very tightly packed bodega that might smell like soup or it might smell like eggs or it might just be like really aerated mine smells great smells so good and i love going in there there's one right next to this podcast studio that we've popped in we went in as our zootopia characters and there were got a little picture on the security camera but i just love how every bodega it's like a fingerprint you know it's always different there's no two that are the same but then there's some that have the same dna there's things that we share and taylor swift ambassador in new york city she's an ambassador is your friend and it it really is and i love the kitty i love the kitty cat 20 bucks i have the funniest story about wally when i called her after the show and i was like what are you doing and she was like i'm working in a bodega and i was like why she's like i knocked over all these cans and i said like i could work to pay it off and then the guy said okay she is one of a kind she is much like a bodega that's insane but i love that you could call her and you just never know i never know she'll be when i called her to tell her we got season two she was in mexico holding the world's most venomous snake yeah she had just done that and she's like okay i'll stop sorry now that we're doing season two down she put the snake down she said insurance is never gonna it was sucking her neck and she was like oh my god we got it and then ow ow ow yeah so pop in your local bodega i also think even though it's probably a little more expensive to buy stuff there i'm like i like to support this small business like grocery shop in the book yeah trust and all the little christmas things are out like all the like little you know the limited edition peppermint bark well there's all of that just got me excited well i don't know if i can after i'm limiting dairy right now i need to find a non-dairy peppermint bark if anyone has non-dairy peppermint bark let me know no yeah there's a there's a company that makes mints that i've noticed are popping up in the bodegas and i just thought to myself well i'm proud like i'm proud of this mint company this little upstart it's probably owned by monsanto but i think it's cool that you know these new brands are making their way into the bodega space that's just the things that i think about when i'm by myself galaxy brain when i'm on the train and those airpods are weighing you down when i have to take my airpods out because they're too heavy i then my mind can only just wander so thank you something yeah favorite christmas present as a kid whoa okay there was this one christmas in eighth grade yeah where i was having a tough year eighth grade's tough it's tough for everyone you're a young teen and especially the social politics of you know being a young woman i got a purple rolling suitcase i got uh i got a pink cashmere sweater from lauren taylor i got a mini ipod that was pink and i and if i'm not mistaken that was the year i got my tiffany bracelet i had a huge christmas spoiled i'm the youngest it was like christmas magic every now and then it's like yeah like you know the youngest comes out and is like well eight let's just say that jesus wasn't the only person that was born that day my capitalistic self was also born that day oh honey i mean it had been a while but i got emboldened that year nag nag olympics yeah one time my mom was like did you get everything you got and i decided literally nina dramaturg i went not everything didn't get the laptop with internet but it was okay next year i got it when i went to college and that was what was appropriate yeah in that time so i love that yeah what is your favorite christmas present ever for you i remember the we being really crazy because it was so hard to get but like my dad waited in line which is really sweet outside marjorie i mean i was like oh my god i'm I mean, game console culture. I have three brothers. We's are gay, by the way. Of course. GameCube and we are gay. They're more queer. Yeah, they're the queerest. Xbox says f*** it and shoots people. PlayStation is like, actually, he might be good at sex. Middle of the road. Yeah, he's kind of nice. GameCube, guys, it's like you're bi or gay. So, but so I was, you know, I was of that, but of that persuasion. But we just, me playing Wii Tennis. I loved it. And I was really good at Wii bowling. The flicker-er-ist. You know what I mean? So the Wii was huge, which is, I don't know if people would expect that from me, but I got Wii and then these Chukka Uggs that year. Whoa. Yeah, and I was rocking Uggs at school. Absolutely. Yeah. As you should. And it was, I kind of got made fun of them, but then everyone kind of thought, fuck, those kind of slacks. Uggs took a minute for people to come around on, but then once they did, it was like, let's, can we just all accept that these are comfortable and we want to wear them and they're warm? People aren't ready for my Uggs for set. They're at your house. They're not ready. You know what you are, Mary Beth? Bisexual? Well, yeah, but you're also my ride or die. Ride or die. Of course I ride for Christmas lights. I love the holiday spirit, especially this year. It's holiday cheer. Get into it. I hope people have a lot of good Christmas memories and not traumatic ones and make new ones. And here's what I'll say about this. I always thought like, I'm going to wait to start my own traditions for when I have a partner and now I'm just going to do it on my own and have this great, big, beautiful life. And if someone wants to be a part of it, me and Benny Drama's life, then welcome. And come on in, come on down because we'd love to, we'd love to have you. Our hearts are open. And I'm so excited to spend New Year's Eve with you. I know. Pinky's my midnight kiss. I know. I, of course, ride for bodegas. It's been so nice to have them again and to be able to walk to them and just like go and see all the snacks and I'm on a gut health journey right now. So I have to be mindful of like dairy and gluten and all those things as I heal my microbiome and my stomach. So it's been really fun too, to kind of tap into your world of these snacks. You're looking at a packaging and you're looking to see all the circle ones. I'm looking to see. I'm looking to see a V. And you're looking to see GF. And then I'm looking, no, none of that. None of that. None of that. Check, check, check. And it's just fabulous. And that's what I brought last night. And I, yeah, I had a few nibbles in your bed and maybe a few fell out of my mouth because my jaw was dropped seeing a man that you had been with on camera be with a man. Yeah, that was shocking. So classic you, girl. I know. That's just the way of our. Womp, womp, womp. Merry Christmas. Have a great holiday season with your families or whoever chosen family by yourself, whatever you choose. Is this coming out right at Christmas? It's the, it's the last episode of the year before we do. Encyclopedia of Ride, which is reruns. Oh, I can't wait for our ins and outs. And don't we love a good rerun, folks? Hey, let's tune in. It might be helpful. We know a lot of you have joined kind of at random times. I'm sure you're just so confused. It's going to be so funny because like so many eras just won't be in there. But this is obviously, you know, it's older. And the video of us, it's going to show you what we used to look like. Free plastic surgery. Oh, I hate that. I know. That just got caught in my throat. It's really scary. We have to go back and edit those. We love you guys so much. Have a great holiday. I love you. Merry Christmas. And fuck our chungus life. Oh, my exit. Benny, babe, eyes on the road. 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