Pinky + Coke Zero

The following podcast is a Dear Media production. I'm Benito Skinner. I'm Mary Beth Barone. And this is RIDE! Have you noticed Mary Beth Barone's flat chest? Nobody realized this is the reason Benito Skinner chose Mary Beth Barone over Terrence O'Connor. First, Mary Beth Barone's flat chest may symbolize a kind of neutralized attraction in Benito's eyes. This feature makes him feel like he's still interacting with masculine traits. For Benito, Mary Beth's flat chest provides a sense of security and continuity. Second, Mary Beth Barone appears in Benito's videos, and their interactions have gone beyond ordinary friendship. From sitting side by side to exchanging glances, these details hint at a boyfriend-like intimacy. This public display of closeness may be Benito's way of signaling to the outside world that his emotional focus has already shifted. Finally, Benito's choice was not accidental. Mary Beth allowed Benito to quickly find a replacement after the breakup, avoiding an emotional crisis. I like that they posed that question after fully explaining every aspect of it. Neutralized attraction. Let's talk about the pros of neutralized attraction. What I love is that they do know that I'm nothing if not consistent. Totally. It's world building, no matter what. Keep the status in your friend group because you, I guess, are dating a girl that is sort of, somewhat, a boy. And so in that way, we're sort of, we're coming full circle. And that is that women that have flat chests are somewhat boys. Gay guys are somewhat girls. And women that have flat chests, any of y'all could date Benito. I just got to him first. Shit, dude. Yeah, seeing things like that the day after, like one of my least favorite days on earth. Yeah, this simulation is simulating. No, seriously. I'm like, why am I catching strays? Well, I knew you would. And here's the thing. I. There are many, many, by the way, not just the one, about my flat chest being the reason that we're together. I know. I can't stress enough. They're right. And I can't believe we got got like this. Called out so fast. Like, didn't even give us a day to just sort of like have some peace. It's just immediately we're dating and it's because of my flat chest. Do you know how that gets made? This is what I. Here's what I'm trying to find out. Here's what I'm thinking about doing. Because also, you know that there were ones that did my net worth, but then the guy on the other side was not Terry. So it was like another guy and they, like, show our net worths and how over the years, mine would grow and the other person's wouldn't. And who's the other person? No, I swear to God, I don't know who the person was. How much would you pay to hire a private investigator to trace this video back to whoever put in the code into AI to make it? Like, I would pay thousands if anyone has the fucking skill set. Do I even want to know? No, because it's sort of like unknown number, which I haven't watched, but I know the twist. Have you heard about this documentary on Netflix? No. This girl's getting like relentlessly cyber bullied by an unknown number. Isn't it her mom? And it turns out to be her mom. So it's like. That's so us coded. Who is it? It comes back to me. You find out after all this time, I'm the wizard. You are. Girl, I'm the wizard of Oz, love. Yeah. So that's been interesting. I mean, it's been a crazy year and a lot of messages of support. AI said, give us. They said, hold my beer. How long? Nina Drama made that. Yeah. No, that actually makes sense. She's mad I got to you first because she has such big bobbies. She said, what's her thing? She says, they're not fresh. Why no one goes to bathroom to touch their bird after they watch Mary Beth Burroughs stories. Not one person touched their bird after looking at young boy known as Mary Beth Burroughs. Well, it's neutralized attraction. Well, of course. Yeah. Well, that's I kind of like a neutralized attraction. You wouldn't want it to be to one way or another. I don't want to be like, no, I don't want to be attracted. You don't want to be a horned dog. Neutralized. I'm kind of thinking that AI spilled because you're kind of batty. I'm giving bad. Wait, but the second I walked in here, you did compliment. Let me like, I'd like fresh out the gate. I'm trying to win you over. Well, you did it. When's it going to happen? With your gender neutrality. So editing a text message in iMessage, I found out years into the feature being available. You can see it. You can tap and see what the original message said. That's between me and God. What's the point of having an edit feature if they could see what I wrote before? They used to do that on Facebook, too. It's like, OK, snitch. But literally, what's the point? I might as well just like do the like correction in a star. I think it's so you can't gaslight people. I really do. It's like. I never said that. Go back in the messages and you've edited every single one. Who would do such a thing? I can think of so many people who would. The list is so long. People are cruel then. And it's affecting me because I deserve to be able to do a little typo correction and not have it be like blasted to the world. People are cruel. 100%. What if I thought of a better way to say it, but it's a crush and I'm like, fuck, I could edit it. But like, what's the point? Because then he's going to know I then overthought it. And then it's like. We're here with Jackson today. Thank God. So I finally feel safe. Jackson, I love your mullet, sis. Thank you. I've been trying to grow it out. It's so cutie. God, your voice. Sometimes I forget. We had another Australian feature on the pod. Rule, of course. Are you a huge rule guy? Yeah, I love rule. I've actually met him once. He's so tall. He's so fabulous. I asked if he could fight under your video and he said no, which I loved. I love. See, that's that kind of. You know what? I believe that. So here's my thing. Self-aware queen. I've been hanging out with a couple straight guys lately. And what I'm finding is I am completely, finally out of pocket. I found the people. I'm out of pocket with. I say whatever I think. Do you want to talk about it? Well, a little bit because I was. Kai. Kai. This is a really good moment, actually. So this week it has been revealed and we're calling it a reveal. I am doing a stand up special on Netflix. Netflix.com, the website and the app. And Kai Newman is directing. So if you're wondering why Kai's been really in the fold lately, why Kai's been in the ether, that's why. Well, that's why. That's why I dated you to stay within my, what is it? Social circles. My social circles. Yeah. We'll keep your status within your social circles. Of course. And any drama productions. Any drama producing. Any drama productions has arrived at the premiere of Mary Beth Bruin's Netflix special directed by Kai Newman. Me and my team were happy to join and be producers on this one. It's a, I think it's the best hour of standup I have seen ever. I'm not kidding. It's literally like I've seen it now probably six times. Yeah. I saw it just for laughs. And it's going to change a bit too. And having said that. That's what's cool. I have a galaxy brain. The first time I was ever referred to as having a galaxy brain was under a clip where I was talking on this podcast about microwaves. So that has really stuck. As your producer, she's going to come for residuals. No, for sure. And I'm happy to give her 10, 20, give her a 20. Yeah. I'll give her the 20. Hey, the producer's got this one. You should come to the taping if you live in New York or if you live elsewhere. It is going to be, drum roll please. Jackson, do a drum roll, sweetie. It's March 19th, 2026 in New York City. So. Tickets are available through my website and I just can't wait. I'm really proud of it and I can't wait to have it available to like so many new people. It's fabulous. It's fabulous. If I had to say one goddamn fucking word, it's fabulous. And I love your outfit for it. And I love every joke and every crevice. I love every atom of you. Every little ridge in my brain. So let's talk about Kai quickly. Let's talk about Kai. Well, this man has got me. He's got me totally weak at the knees. He's got me laughing at dinners. And it's so funny. So I was talking to our friend Pat Regan, who's a writer on Overcompensating Genius. I assume everyone listening to this has heard Seat Treatment. Yeah, he's just like, he is the funniest person alive. And so I was talking to him and we were like, okay, yeah, maybe we'll go to this like event. It was kind of like a gay guy night of sorts. And I was like, we should do this costume velvet goldmine. We'll wear some boas and it'll be fun. And if anything, we'll mine some stuff for the show. And then Kai texts me straight, man. And he's like, we going to panic tonight? I was like, what? And so then he knows stuff. So then I had a chaperone. Yeah. And that not cutting that. And you shouldn't. So Kai comes with us. He's dressed as Tinkerbell. And I spend the night laughing, shooting the shit with Kai. I mean, he's just he's he's just one of those guys. But here's the thing. He makes me laugh. He is definitely a part of the straight guy community that talks about my fitness and my fitness goals a lot. Which I love talking about your body talks about my body a lot. I'll say it. But he's a generational talent. And he's so funny. It's just built different. We got this. You know what I mean? We got this. He's built different. The other night. I'm not kidding. We have crazy. I know. And I love to watch that unfold right before my eyes because I did meet you guys at panic panic room on Saturday. I went out with straight guys without you, which was obviously really scary. Well, you know what? I told you. But I said dinner at six and one too many straight guys. You've lost me. But I'm going to get a spray tan. Sweet. But. Kai did compliment my skin. It's just those little moments where I go. You're just different. You're not like the other girls. You know what he said to me? He goes, you're what a man should look like. I said, Kai. Hi. I got little chills down my back. Oh, my God. And yeah. Yeah. I just I could, you know, I could go on. I can imagine all the people in his DMs. We're only making it worse. Let's just say sometimes you have to make sense of your life. And you think maybe everything I've done up to this point is so that I could meet Kai Newman. You get that? That completely. completely agree all the roads that led me to kai newman i'll hey i'll drive down him again i would do it a thousand times you're gonna dump me for kai yeah so here's the thing kai is gonna be my plus one to some events coming up i wonder say that much and me too girl hey i'll fight you for it i'm so girl with your little tat here's my thing by the way i met the apps i mean i don't even know what to say but i met my kids the emergency intercom kids to not mention that we finally met drew and enya drew and enya i want to hold them i want to kiss them i did in so many ways drew was in a clown costume that had a slit down the back and i thought so that's my good fucking sis yeah and if you come for him you come for me you come for my family they were just delicious and i want to hold them and they're so cute but i am kind of like i you know in a way that if i saw them with jackson i'd be like hey what the fuck's going on here i know so i do want to also just say like kai ain't ours no but we will take him as he is whenever we get him totally and we have respect for the space absolutely and it's like you have to just pay respects to those that were there first it's like every hey can i just say greta teitelman introduced me to jr mendoza i thank her every day of my life you do you text her every single day you have a script that runs and sometimes i know that other people are going to go and they're gonna they're gonna go to daddy and he's gonna get more and more booked yeah and that's what you do you text her every single day you have a script that runs and sometimes i know you want to see people succeed so i guess i would just have to say like thank you for letting us have as much time as you're willing to give and we'll give them right back when we're done so that's what we have to say on that can i say my biggest thing of the past week i know what you're gonna say so i love bees i love everything about them i love honey i love what they do i love pollination i think all of it's fantastic let me eat my lunch outside bees have gotten so aggressive in the past couple years so i am honey it's it seems i said i want honey that's bees that's bees talking about benny drama no i know they find me the second i go outside with my big green stinky salad from goop and i'm trying to eat and i'm just like i'm in the writer's room i just want a little air i just want a little sun on my face i know feet in the sand not gonna happen they swarm me it's the lady gaga wale song looking at looking at looking at me look at that look at how they looking at me eyes all sticky like honey on bees wait but it's just for my lunch though the second i'm done with it you can go about your days here's what i'll say about that because i spent the summer i spent a lot of time at my parents house this summer obviously grieving with my family and i spent some time and dear media i spent i was laying by the pool that's where i find my peace is at my parents pool sometimes i bring my laptop out there even though the screen's reflective and i do a little writing the piece was interrupted by these bees and it was like it didn't matter if i they would they were landing on my book they were swarming my coconut la croix god forbid i had any more slow food out there i mean they're landing on me and so there is something you can do that we found out by accident one time at the pool we left a shot glass that had a little bit of fireball in it it was a massacre there were about 50 dead bees in there i'm not saying i would do that and we learned a lot but i'm just saying there's here i'm saying i wouldn't i'm saying i wouldn't i'm saying i wouldn't do it i wouldn't do it i'm just saying it happened accidentally so just know that in my mind and this is what because i am a lover not a fighter and i would never want to we need bees now more than ever i mean that's what i'm being told yeah is that i wouldn't do that just know that i know a way to fix it and i'm not doing it well i'm talking to them it's like you know how people talk to their dogs like pinky and i have talked at length ad nauseum about all kinds of things oh for sure but i i'm telling them i'm like no it's all good like i'm not going to kill you i'm not going to do anything let me finish my caesar rap you know what i say to them i go i see you you are seen you don't have to do this for any hey hey hey you're enough you're enough just as you are also fix your eyesight that's a flower this is human being there's no whatever you're smelling hey no nectar on this guy well you are seen and you are loved now go and i hear you and fly i could ride for events which i never would have ridden for a year ago or two years ago you're ready for events no i'm not but i'm going to talk about something that happens at events so when you're at events you meet peers you meet heroes you meet people from every walk of life oh do you i mean i met hillary duff i know it was explosive she's perfect she's actually like my favorite person and you know who else is rita aura and taika waititi and i am not surprised i held that man like i hold kai newman yeah no it was very kind they are delicious i went to this thing alone and i was so nervous and it was it was folk world i mean it was once again it was folk world i just felt so safe in taika waititi's arms and if you don't clip that i mean you're just like what's even the point at this point i know they're having fun and i felt it in every way like i can't stress enough also body tea can we talk about body tea there's so much body tea i've been around such body tea lately here's the problem and this is not about any of the people that you met at that event because this is about an event that i attended yeah sometimes you talk to someone long enough to realize that you don't align with their politics and it's sort of like hate to bring up the simpsons but if anyone is listening with their straight principal skinner are you kidding i love this when he sort of backs up into the bush and you just think so this is the part of the conversation where i leave because i don't want to know anymore no no no no let me just please don't really hard really tough it happens sometimes in like doctor's offices or like i don't know oh just anywhere it happened to me in the cayman islands i was in the ocean talking to canadians and they were like really scary what's happening with the mayoral election in new york i what is scary about it yeah yeah nothing scary sorry it's actually not scary and what the fuck do you care by the way yeah and can i just say take the photo god damn it and it can happen at you know meeting your boyfriend's family it's not just like i hey relatable alert it's not just at events can be at work can be anywhere i think sometimes we make people feel comfortable to just say whatever oh 100 and then your face to me i'm like i gotta tell this bitch some crazy shit and and fine but let's like let's do a little test of the water first or check my instagram yeah before you start talking politics with me and you also don't have to talk about really any of that with me at an event when you don't know me you know what i mean like you could have just not also that's the thing where it's like are you saying this because you also know it's kind of fucked up or do you just want to have one ally it won't be me by the way i think it's an immediate feeling of i'm aligned with this person on so many things we've talked for seven minutes seven and a half even and then they're gonna just insert in something that they think oh well there's no way this person would disagree with that but you really just don't know and yeah it's tough i don't i don't want to say anymore but i feel like just yeah i tried lightly i mean also it's like i know that i have the correct opinion so if i'm not bringing it up please god don't you bring it up no please honey don't please i did want to say one more thing before we get into what we ride for yeah please i can be mean when prompted yes i'm a bitch sometimes and i have very high expectations for the people around me let's move on of course i remember when you told me that you think i meaner yeah i was cancelled actually on the reddit people were saying that i seem low-key mean and i'm like but you're nice well that's oh but you're coming to the reddit to comment and by the way here's what i want to dispel if you ever hear a rumor about me being difficult to work with diva on set rude i had my reasons i would never do that unless it was coaxed out of me that type of performance i know sweetie and i just hit the mic so this is our land this is our land it's like you don't have to spread any rumors about me being mean i can be mean sometimes who among us doesn't have their moments i don't care it's like this wait i'm seeing this perfect speech for season two love me or hate me it's still an obsession love me or hate me that is the question fucking if you love me well thank you and if you hate me well then fuck you who is that by lady sovereign oh lady sovereign i forgot about that that's good for season two as well i stand by the thing i said that you're a baby chihuahua limousine princess i know and i think i i think that's the sometimes when people do that where they're like you're mean or you have mean girl energy i'm like i want to see you at an airport when your flight's canceled because if you're sweet this i gotta see i just think it's funny just now because we have a podcast i can say with no shame that like yeah i'm a woman and i'm sexual and i love you i'm a bitch i'm a love like she said it i'm a mother and i'm a sinner i'm a saint i will not be ashamed or something like that but yeah i have a place where i can literally just say like yeah and guess what if you don't want to listen to the podcast anymore because you think i'm mean sometimes can i say don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out i wouldn't want it any other way totally i wouldn't thank you ice woman wait what is it hello reverend mosey proud of it wait is that ice woman no is it ice woman those ship those kids off to boarding school should we get into what we're writing for i think we should what are you writing for i'm writing for pinky oh god yes it's the pinkerton episode yeah this is huge and i'm writing for oh writing for dot that's it i literally could you imagine that's it you're writing for a sound no i die oh you pass right for deck i'm writing for diet coke and its constituents totally is that the is that a misuse of that word well i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't I don't know what you're talking about, so I'll find out once you start talking. - What is constituents mean? mean constituents are like the people in your district that like vote for you so what do you think it means what do you think it means I've got it yeah I mean like for me like the people you mean the people that drink it no no what's so cool is that I completely am saying that constituents are like coke zero and that's it and then the men's one that they made was the men's one they made it for men so is that coke zero so that it was less feminine than diet coke is that why they made coke zero yeah I thought I had less aspartame that's what I've been telling every person I've met so what you're saying is that you ride for diet coke and it's like off not offspring but it's like let's just say I ride for coke zero period okay just do that but I am going to talk about diet coke which I just chugged I practically butt chugged the thing well it's just it's same person different did you laugh at butt chug Jackson you missed and can I just say I blew right past it so you're riding for diet coke coke zero yeah diet coke and its constituents we're keeping all that but you know that it's kind of I meant like coke zero and diet coke sure this podcast is brought to you by Squarespace ready go Squarespace is the all-in-one 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skates and it's the sparkle of Diet Coke oh what and I'm moving my hips slowly as the TV plays it and I go don't fast forward don't Tebow this I love this my mom was a full addict she would have like for a day of Diet Coke and I remember at the time I was young so I was having like Coke raw or as some people say every day full fat Coke every every day yeah I mean it's why I mean my teeth were just we did pizza night on Fridays and we were allowed to have soda then and that's it so I keep I keep surrounding myself with dark-haired beauties I would say who have the exact same rules yeah I was the youngest in my family it was pretty much just like let her rip like this kid is going to watch real world Boston feel strange for watching real world Boston next real world road Raiders room Raiders and I was going to eat kind of whatever the wanted and definitely take down some soda in a big way like I I still can't go into a movie theater without having now a Coke Zero but at the time a Coke slushy I would have a Coke slushy every time I went to the movies if I had a Coke slushy my heart would stop I can say that with mine just grows bigger that's how we're built different that's how we were made different by God in God's hands I know I can like I can take sugar I really can't I have opened my heart up to soda more lately which is I'll have a Diet Coke I used to take 10 years off from soda as I've talked about in the podcast yeah of course eating disorder mentality making rules for yourself that sort of thing now as I am in recovery I'm trying to allow myself pleasures of life one of them being a Diet Coke at a dinner and sometimes then after that I have to go home because maybe it's little bubbles in my tummy but I am trying to enjoy life more that makes us so happy and we're happy to have you whenever we get you as one of Diet Coke's most recent constituents I would say like I'm just happy to be here thank God are we lucky you look good with one kid hey thanks I can't wait to play an old man in something one day where I go you look good kid you know what I mean yeah and that's my last role like the older guy in the holiday yes oh my God please he was like really old in that I love him in that he like melted me I was kind of rooting for them more than I was her and Jack Black at times which is kind of a hot take but hey save it for the holiday episodes would you kid can't wait yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so this was like a part of my childhood or whatever like I just my mom and her Diet Coke it was chic I loved it it was her thing I loved Coke with a straw mask my mom I think would put it she would put it into like a bigger cup with a ton of ice people are so stingy with ice lately I don't know what's going on well it's a it was crisis it's a crisis like especially in Toronto I remember just being like I'll beg like if you want me to beg I'll beg and I have that in Europe sometimes too travel privilege of course goes without saying and New York sometimes is less on the ice LA's like this and I love that and that's dinner for a lot of people here of course of course and lunch but I love it a movie theater it's kind of that choose your own adventure like I want to be in control of the ice I'd say because I know just the right amount totally just the right amount so obviously a huge fan of the Coke brand oh I forgot to say pool privilege when I was talking about my parents house oh good yeah yeah I just want to get that in there of course I mean and thank you and can I just say they would have thank you they would have come for this bitch over here yeah and thank you sorry and thank you thank you really stuck with you well just the line read of and can I just say thank you about come on Kurt Punk yeah favorite of mine I've never seen something more in my life or been yelled at more in my life than that little little phrase so I guess I'll just say one more time thank you okay so we get it all the way up to college and I'm still like practically butt chugging this coke like I guess yeah just get Jackson on that one I cannot we haven't been here in a while see this is kind of like he doesn't know that if someone giggles it's like well I'm locking in I'm saying it five more times this is huge no he won't you just caught on okay so like I'm and I thought I just don't really like the taste of diet coke that was my big thing I don't like the taste of diet coke then in the last few years I'm like oh it's just like a lot of sugar and I just like I don't know I'm like I gotta I gotta be thoughtful of this my grandma had diabetes and like I just I'm like trying to be less sugar obsessed I'm I mean I'm taking it down still in a way that's centric sugar centric whoa my memoir whoa hello so I start drinking diet coke and after probably the 50th one I was like I think I really fuck with the taste and I think I need one right now yeah and if you squeeze a lemon in it the chills down my back when I have that first sip and to get a little caffeine later in the day can I just say electric but then I go to Europa I go to Canada even and diet coke is not as common there as I thought it would be instead it's this crazy little hussy known as coke zero and my god does she have me by the balls it's just a little better it's different it just tastes different like I just know and it's like if you get a crisp coke zero or oh my god god willing you get a coke zero in a glass bottle yeah what it and by the way of course this is unpaid well yeah I didn't even think we were gonna say it and this is not and on the I am going to talk about pepsi just to because fair and balanced pepsi's pepsi pepsi my favorite for those who think yeah I'm gonna talk yeah I'm gonna talk about I'm a pepsi fan I'm in a pepsi family my mom's a pepsi girl die pepsi no fucking way you're a pepsi house we are a pepsi household whoa I mean I someone asked recently do you want pepsi zero and I went that's so cool that they didn't even try to make it sound different no why would they it's just pepsi zero like they're like we did the same fucking thing enjoy it hey we saw it worked we love what you guys did different pepsi is different and I can taste the difference but I like it too and if it's there of course I say bring it bring it so fine yep and hey don't apologize equal opportunist hey of course soda always so I find coke zero the way I would take these down on set as a midday treat one day on set Owen Thiel and I I don't think anyone knows this about overcompensating Owen Thiel we didn't have for that many days just because obviously he was shooting adults he was about to shoot adults and like just you know it was very tricky to make sure that we had Owen as much as we wanted to have Owen which was like we need one even more of him so we shot all the bodega scenes for the entire series in one day and so it's just me and him in that bodega for like 14 hours and then this time hits and it's like 8 p.m and we're about to do I think the last one which oh it's the end of episode six the edge of glory sequence which I love and we're like it's a little flirty and just like and it's just cute and I look at Owen and I go there's a mcdonald's down the block there's a mcdonald's down the block and he looked at me and goes I coke wow I go let me one up you my good sis and you guys said this all without speaking just looking at each other of course yeah and I'm not kidding like I could have and he would have been like yeah that's what I asked for I got us the biggest coke zeros and then it was like everyone around was like I need one so then we I just kept getting everyone these everyone on set had these absolute goblets of coke zero we nailed it I was like I need one of these goblets of coke zero I was like I need one of these goblets of coke zero we nailed the scene it just brought us all together starry ass surprise so what I can also say is like it's a great way to bond with a bestie is to get the biggest coke zero you can I also really recommend them before a night out you miss social chair had thrown a party at your place for the whole cast and I I love that in your place it's like an extended stay one bedroom apartment but you you turned it out oh I'm so lonely in my mansion that's me I'm so lonely in my mansion I love her riffs delicious but on the way to it I thought oh my god I'm like a little tired and I got a massive coke zero and I came right to yours and I was good for the whole night yeah those are fun nights what I've always I think been a proponent for on this pod what's always been very important to me is giving yourself just a little fucking treat it really do just be the little things and I'm finding that recently it's just nice to go for a walk put in lord and get yourself a diet coke coke zero and maybe a diet pepsi even what addison ray did for them and I think also britney I mean when britney was the pepsi girl huge contract monster contract I mean unbelievable contract like the choreography she had in those pepsi ads like it was insane and that interview where she's like pepsi's pepsi what kind of pepsi I like pepsi's pepsi I knew what she meant totally absolutely it's like when harry styles said well it's a movie that you see at the movies it's like a movie exactly like don't act like you don't know what he's talking about I completely get it come on I remember I cheated on coke during that time because of it I was just so because you were brand loyal well brand loyal to britney I was like whatever she's supporting I have to you know I got to put more cash in her pocket totally and I still think that I do think it's like everything in moderation of course okay so what we want to say is everything in moderation of course of course and I think having these little treats for yourself right now we're living in a time when we need to cope constantly we are in a time when we need to cope constantly we are in a constant state of coping with the world our day-to-day lives interpersonal relationships every aspect it's just coming at us from all directions so yeah I think any way that you have to cope is so important and that can be just as simple as going to the bodega getting a coke for 12 13 14 dollars however much they cost it's very how much does a banana cost michael ten dollars I think prices are going up but it's never going to be too much where you can enjoy an ice cold diet soda and just to anyone watching I'm realizing scab on my lip. I cut my lip. So if you've wondered the whole time, does he have chocolate cake off to the side? Maybe, but it's actually a scab. It's a scab. Yeah. Thank you for saying that about Diet Coke and Coke Zero. To me, you're Diet Coke. To me, I'm Coke Zero. Totally. Yeah. It's that neutralized attraction. It's neutralized attraction. AI spilled with that. Also, we have to shout out Amber Bain of the Japanese House also caught the stray. Yeah. She was the first. She was pointed out first as being flat chested. Because they thought it was me. Two of, can I just say two of the hottest people I know in the world. So happy to share that AI video with both of you. Just as a little segue, Amber Bain, of course, has a song about her dog, Joni Jones. And when I realized it was a song about a dog that just touched me in such a special place in my heart, because I often think about writing songs about Pinky, which is who I'm going to be writing for today. You got to do it. Make a record. 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didn't know that's my big statement of the day they have them in hospitals you hear that jackson what i didn't know is that dogs are calming puppies actually cause stress yes but i found that out very late into the process which was of course six months into having a puppy i reached out to waggy tails rescue when i decided it was time i was ready to get a dog and this is coming from someone who had previously been obsessed with bleep it not having pets yeah that was an obsession of mine well at the time hey is every thing not just a reflection of the time well every day is a winding road i also wrote for changing your mind so i decided it was time for me to get a dog so sick mind games with our listeners have i ever said our listeners try to keep up try to keep up hey i'm trying so i reach out to waggy tails i tell them i'm interested i fill out the application i'm approved and they said we have 40 dogs coming from tijuana to new york city we'll send you photos of all of them once we get them and you can pick the one that you want well you have to send three that you wanted so i'm at the olivia rodrigo concert when the email comes in with the grid of dogs yeah and i see this dog and she is so stinking sassy she was doing like total blue steel to the camera in this photo yeah and it's just said baby four actually no it said on the grid baby four and she's giving this sort of coy little look and she still does and i said that's my dog and i said i didn't know if it was a boy or girl i really wanted a girl dog so i emailed back and i said baby four is my top choice so yeah let me know sort of the deets and if that's the one that i can have and they got back to me and it was a girl and she was three pounds and her name at the time was matilda and these photos just like melted my heart so i it was almost like back to school shopping like you go get all the materials that you need for this little creature that's gonna like totally change your life so the day that she came to new york i went to the east village i got her and i've never smelled anything worse than the smell that was coming out of that van because it had 40 dogs in crates in it so i decided to take her immediately up to midtown where my mom was getting her hair cut quickly let me raise you idaho football locker room yeah so i've never smelled some shit yeah yeah so i brought her up to the hair salon we put her in the sink where they wash hair and we we washed her and her skin you could see through her white fur my mom said i think we should name her pinky and so it's pinky in the brain but also pinky was my nickname when i was little my dad used to call me pinky because i only wanted to wear pink so yes i did name my dog after myself and that's some legends only shit i don't want to let me introduce you to my poodle drama drama yeah so pinky wow the first few months were really really hard i mean the first year was hard i was there it was rare crate training potty training in an apartment building just dealing with like the chaos of having a puppy i also had so much paranoia about being a bad dog mom that i would like play with her for too long where she would get so tired and then that's when they start biting you she had razor sharp teeth but i know what type of parent i would be if i had kids because when she pooped in her crate i was like she's just expressing herself crazy you know and i just would i just know i would always defend my kid she's figuring it out she's just like let her fucking do her process yeah but it was really really tough and it was hard sometimes you know especially when we were on set there was one day in particular i believe where she took a shit in my trailer second yeah mp just kind of like within second trailer but to me i think i realized who i was as a parent because i thought that's so cool it was very letting water dry because i just cleaned it up and you didn't you weren't mad well of course it was very cool oh god oh god of course no but i just remember being like yeah i mean my baby girl's comfortable she's with daddy and like i just took a nap so how could i care about anything right now and and having a dog has changed my life in so many ways there there was a lot that i learned on reddit changed my life yeah i mean she's a wonderful dog with this dog yeah she's so fabulous i know but i went on puppy 101 for a bit and i found out about the puppy blues which is where there's like several points in having a puppy where you think you've like totally ruined your through we had some like moments where we had to really dig in on the training aspect and and setting firm boundaries she's still crate trained and i'm really proud of my girl what i also found out is that every dog has behavioral issues most dogs probably 99 and it's just like a roll of the dice which one your dog is going to have so pinky is resource guarding so sometimes she'll get really feisty if there's like food around and there's another dog so we just avoid that stuff but it's really just like managing your dog i also have a nanny for pinky nanny privilege i have so much anxiety and guilt that i am a working mom a single mom and i would never ever equate mom who works two jobs two jobs i have seven jobs and i would never equate having a dog with having kids i'm like dog mom i don't think that they're equally as hard or anything yeah it's very much a she rescued me situation and i'm really glad i got her like so she was old enough when the election happened that she was just a comfort to me and not stressful yeah because like i've really needed that especially this year with everything that's happened to me i'm so glad you have pinky i also i went to pilates that day yeah and that was for pinky of course you know and that was for all the girls out there yeah that i've had to go through some shit like that and just like show up well you're gonna let down your pilates instructor i love her show up i love her yeah and so pinky's really been there for me and i think like she is just so goddamn the face card is lethal face card is crazy she's brawny like she's got these shoulders on her masculine and feminine and now you know why i'm now you know why i'm completely i mean she's got my jaw on the floor but i do this thing all the time and i'm like i'm gonna do this thing all the time and i'm like i'm gonna do this right behind her oh my god i'm talking about my girl i'm talking about my baby girl me and her lately are connecting in a way that's like she's locked in with me well it's very like i'm not the stepdad i'm the dad who stepped up because she's had two dads already and it's like i know and she goes finally this one's gonna stick yeah because she knows and i've been in i mean i'm doing my rotations but i she oh my god we had this terrible night out got home we've already talked about it she gets on my chest and i just start rubbing right behind like i guess it would be on her shoulders her head her neck curls back she goes she puts on a joker smile it's crazy i have a really good picture of her doing a joker smile that i'll finally post she never talked about it i just worked her shoulders and you put her in your shirt sometimes i love putting her in my shirt well it's skin to skin contact you're supposed to do that as a father totally so why wouldn't i so i did think she was going to be six pounds total she is 16 pounds but she flies with me she is i wouldn't want her smaller can i say i thought it would be cool to and we are so similar we really we we are moody we are demanding we want to be scratched and tickled sexual i'll say sexual she's a very she's a lot of energy in that department yeah she does and having something else to take care of it's what i want both love many drama yeah and we're both huge fans get off the guy of the work she's seen the show a lot and so yeah it was it was hard to tell her when my last relationship failed but i just it's it is what it is it's all a part of her story and i think she gets that and just to think about a little puppy on the streets of tijuana that now is a big city dog and she's just living large and like i spoil her because i love her very immersive she was yeah and we played when i brought her home i played hallelujah by jeff buckley and so very cinematic silent it's never a good time to get a dog probably so just just dive in headfirst there's tons of rescues yeah i just i mean i love her so like such an important presence in my life like i'm just so happy and yes everyone so the overalls i did get them for a six pound dog not a 16 pound dog so we are working on getting a different size it's it is what it is at the airport it's like i'm walking around with like mickey mouse you know like everyone wants to pet her and everyone's so happy she's there i think putting in the time early on to make her be a good dog she's not perfect okay when she grows up and hears all this i know it's gonna mean so much to her oh my god i just love her i just love her i just love her no i do too and again i want someone to talk to me how i talk you don't have her here with you right now do you know she's with the she's with the nanny my fabulous god i need her sasha so yeah when i come home with pinky i'm i'm nuzzling in her neck i'm telling her how special she is how much i love her how much she makes my life better i just yeah it would be cool for someone to feel that way about me maybe one day i think so and i feel better i feel like a i'm like i've been through so much trauma yeah and i just need someone that makes me feel safe so i'm not shaking in the corner because that's kind of what it feels like sometimes should we get in a ride or die you know i'm here to hold you i know and i'm so grateful i have a very beautiful skin to skin contact i love putting you in my shirt whenever you need me to and it's because it's so billowy it's crazy how many hotel rooms have we cried together in a lot and pinky's there now which is really cool it's so cool she gets to see that yeah yeah i love holding you though, you're both my little Chihuahua limousine princesses. Yeah. And, and Hey, we're happy. What a gift. you know what you are Mary Beth bisexual oh yeah but you're also my ride or die ride or die I ride and die for Pinky I would do anything for that dog she is my princess she tested me on set but in ways that I didn't know a man like me could be tested in these ways you know when she knocked over that camera I think it was a good lesson and could anything matter less but also it was good for me to be like I do need to get this dog in check of course and sometimes it's just you gotta leave her home yeah and I and can I just say I know for a fucking fact that my bestie bestie Barone is not putting her dog shites in an empty garbage never I I always put back in the home what I have to remind again it's that it goes back into the garage and then the garage smells like shit because the bags you use are not good they're not the ones those green ones are not doing it they're not enough my garage still smells like a Zuki you know what that's not New York never a good time to move but it is what it is I'm really glad that you and Pinky have this bond because it's obviously so important to me like and she just fucking loves you so much like when you come over you see her whole butt her whole back half of her body she's like she does a wiggle butt she knows daddy warbucks has come through to like check on his princess I sent her to a camp for training and I just have to read you what they wrote in her like you know daily summary yeah of course it was so fucking cute can't wait to have her on set she can be on set every day I'll post it she is going to be a full on set dog this time yeah I'll post what her report card said at camp and you have to post at least the close-up of her costume maybe we can edit out where she goes also one time I did get an email from her daycare and the subject was Pinky's behavior so reputation I had a meltdown this was so long ago though reputation yeah Pinky's behavior you walked in flustered what did you do now to embarrass us what what did you do now to embarrass us I ride for diet coke and coke zero and its constituents it's many millions of constituents I love having a little comfort I love giving yourself a little treat you love like bubbly drinks and it's just such like a it's such like a because I'm sparkly it's a cornerstone of your personality it is your effervescence thank you so I just know when I sit down at a table if you're not there yet I'm ordering a flat a tap water for you I'm ordering a flat a tap water for you for me in many ways and then a sparkling water for you I find it so unbelievably hot when someone goes I already ordered you the sparkling water I went and can I say one thing what when you order a diet coke at the table you empower everyone else at that table to also order a diet coke I just say I'm literally both shoes on the fucking seat I don't care it's your media down the barrel these are ran it these are ran it these are ran it one day we'll tell you guys about my Jennifer Hudson impression insects in the city movie but we did cut it we will be doing it in season six it would get cut in somewhere else diet coke pass it on what you do to a table if you order that shit it's like an espresso martini the whole table's a buzz have you heard of the term vibe shift you know vibe shift oh you're fluent in vibe shift yeah shift the vibe at that table don't know that after you have your first cocktail you can have a diet coke after to give you a little caffeine and a boost before you hit your second drink and that's where I am built different I don't abide by these rules sometimes like you know god smash the patriarchy do what you wanted to dinner except don't be awkward and weird you know like don't get so drunk that the dinner is weird yeah if you're weird when you're drunk like stop drinking yeah one drink one water what has daddy always said one you're being so fucking weird yeah I will say people are really strange to single people and I am so sorry because I never really knew well but now I've been new and I'm I am oh my god next week I'm riding for being 25 at heart that's a little that's a little preview for you 22 yeah okay wait to meet you well we hope you all enjoyed our first episode post Halloween the world is different now that we posted those costumes I hope you realize what did I say to you it was like it's media that shouldn't exist but now it does and and we can't go back we can't go back it's like it is yeah welcome we just can't stop we can't stop I have to be here with my bestie even though she's a raging bitch yeah psycho oh god got jackson on that one my love but chug maybe we'll just end with that one two three all three of us oh my exit any babe eyes in the road please note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode