Sparkling Water + We Don't Know How Planes Fly (Taylor's Version)
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The podcast offers a heartfelt celebration of "Ride Heritage" month, blending personal anecdotes, humor, and cultural commentary to explore what heritage means in modern life. Hosts Benito and Mary delve into emotional memories, including a breakup that became a foundation for growth and a deep bond with a former partner. They highlight the mystery of how planes stay aloft as a metaphor for human curiosity and the limits of knowledge, emphasizing the value of embracing uncertainty. The episode champions small joys—like sparkling water, especially brands like Topo Chico and Liquid Death—as expressions of self-care and individuality. It also critiques societal double standards, such as political scandals and media bias, while promoting empathy and balanced discourse. Through product endorsements for wellness and home living, the hosts encourage mindful habits that support well-being. The tone is warm, humorous, and reflective, emphasizing community, vulnerability, and shared human experiences. Ultimately, the show frames heritage not as a fixed past, but as a living, evolving space of connection, joy, and resilience—where even the most absurd or unexplained things, like the physics of flight, can inspire wonder and belonging.
The following podcast is a deer media production. I'm Benito Skinner. I'm Mary Vephrone. And this is right right When the sack I just need 10 more seconds with these peanuts. No, we're keeping that Well, I'm just such a dick before we start recording and welcome to ride heritage on to everyone And just like that, it's right heritage Are you ready for it? Starting with a Taylor's version We are going to do a Taylor's version by the way you've gotten so many hitchhikes We have to sort of sift through and decide which ones we're going to cover and I want to get to a lot of them because there are so Many and they're all so ride coded like it really just shows that the Baronees totally understand what the show is and what it's about Just how accurate these hitchhikes have been they got it from the top and the girls that get it get it And this pot is just like a perfect example of that. Oh, it is Seenouts are so good for anyone who's allergic. I'm so sorry. Yeah, that would be a really hard way to go through life like that sucks Well, there was someone who I kiss and overcompensating and They were allergic to peanuts and it was like a whole thing and I just remember showing up to set and My assistant Abby I miss you every day by the way my babysitter Abby she ran up to me and she's like Have you eaten peanuts today? She was so stressed and I was like no am I allergic like in that moment I was like wait fuck while your favorite onset snack was of course apples and peanut butter apples to be everyone Who knows me knows that? And she comes up and she's like, Betty and they can she had told everyone she was so good at her job But I couldn't because they would have I assumed gone into my the biggest medical term I know and a full of shock. Yeah, say it with me jackson heritage one two three I know that the shock I'll ask Abby if I can tell the story of our rap party one day It I need to get her consent first of course. I mean you are you are a fucking girls girl, dude You should write for me in the girls girl because you are I You're a gays girl too though, so try and you know what I'm saying, you know what I'm trying to do I'm trying to complete the the triangle and be a guys girl because as I've said I think the divisiveness is not working and we need to bring men into the conversation I talk about that in my new hour. Wasn't that the sound of right heritage? That was open up a bruski What's it called a newner? What do you guys call them in Australia? Scrinna. Scuna They call it breakfast. Someone DM me and said can you have Jackson say peri-or-old dermatitis because it'll be amazing Peri-or-old dermatitis They were right. They were right. Mmm. I feel like I'm on a flight. I'm having a little so it's very Sensorial stop first. I'll stop trying to spoil my ride. I know. Sorry. Stop. I have airplanes. Okay. Oh knock it off So some things to start with today. I wanted to just say whoever first said end of an era I wonder if after they said that they were like holy shit right that down. It's got to be f-scots f-scots f-scots Does this feel straight? You are so we okay. You're like really hard on me this right heritage Literally you make someone your muse and then they shit all over you Heritage is so heritage because What's crazy is that we're doing something that your ex-lever Like it's his term which I love but that's so cool that really shows like a healing for me Like from the Scorpio side of myself to like to do this and also I really do still love the man like so dear Well think about everything. I mean, so sometimes you leave a relationship and you focus on the negatives But sometimes you leave a relationship and you think wow I am able to take so much away from that that whole like era end of an era When I wrote an I broke up it was very end of an era But I feel like I took away so much good and positive and so I learned so much about myself and ultimately we learned the meaning of heritage And so I feel like we can always celebrate the wins of a relationship and that's what we're doing this whole month Also, you know, it's funny. I don't know if we've talked about when you both told me that you were breaking up Have we talked about when we were in the car? They were driving me back From a lake in Canada and I'm literally seated Frenzied with you driving Edwards in the back and I was eating beef jerky. I remember I can smell it I can smell this sadness. I can't even I haven't touched beef jerky since you ruined it for me It was like honestly very emotional for me. It was emotional. It was emotional and it was you know I don't know how it was for you, but for me it was emotional But there were tears there were tears, but I think it's just like I look back on the whole time It's such like a joy. I feel like I couldn't be where I am now without that whole time so I think it was sad though I mean, I said I think we were both as surprised as anyone, but now we have a great friendship We actually spoke today and we're trying to be very evolved about it But it just feels easy because I think he is a good person. Well, he's heritage when he saw me through my late 20s early 30s That's such like a pivotal time in a young woman's life. Yeah any young gay men's In the end gay men who's right, who's right and shotguns in the best heat of his car They just broke up and told me and I was like let me out of this And then it is Taylor's version that's Taylor's version. I think wait She hasn't done that one yet. Has she we're still waiting on debut and reputation and I'm a huge repute I'm if I was one Taylor album. It's reputation. I think that album you know I know a lot of people think it's about revenge But it's actually about someone about falling in love when you're at your lowest listen to delicate is all I have to say And if you don't get it then you'll never get it in a getaway car and we didn't get far The first Taylor Swift song I ever heard was our song. Oh my God. I heard Tim McGraw. I think that was my first one And when you hear Tim McGraw, I hope you think of me Edward text me when you eat beef jerky. I hope you think of me He's always taunting me. I will say that when you go to my school guy Yeah, wait. Thank God. Yeah, it's been a great year. Oh my god. He made a TV show and it's coming out I would say the ultimate celebration of ride heritage month and we can't give any information about when the show's coming out Or anything like that no plot details, but the show will come out. It's coming out very very soon I think by now you would have seen first look and then you would have seen daddy and Vanity Fair. I hope I hope I hope so We'll see you out to the news stand. Millie Bobby Brown on the cover. Now that's heritage. The great American news stand. Yes, you have to I also wanted to touch and this feels very heritage to me So I finally figured out my problem with all these shows and movies about Watergate and podcasts even We need to stop talking about Watergate because I know Nixon isn't hell thinking. I'm the reference and it's like I don't think we should do that anymore. I think Nixon's kind of like really. It's not even that big of a deal You know what I mean? He's like what worst it happens every day now you guys need to move on It's like sad and pathetic at this point literally. I think Nixon's like god fucking get over it like leave me alone It's crazy what people used to get in trouble for like not that long ago that once again politicians will say on TV And they will tweet it's crazy the standard that politicians are held to which isn't there is none there's no standard Yes, so none I would say hey Nixon. I'm looking at him down there I'm not saying what you did didn't suck, but I don't think you're the worst Let me just say that it's also so funny to me that when a democratic scandal happens It's like Nancy Pelosi's doing insider trading and then when a Republican scandal happens It's like so he actually raped 19 women he killed three dogs and he is actually currently has a gun pointed at you Yeah, like oh how are they everyone's coming at me like they're just not held to the same standard No, but we are just getting so numb to everything. It's actually crazy Like oh my god, if you watch a video game reason it's just like it's it's slaughterhouse Or like even horror movies lately. I am I find them to be relaxing in a way that I can I it troubles me I completely agree. I watched a whole you know I watched the jambanay Ramsey thing for six hours and I was just stone faced the whole time like I was I was eating Greek yogurt while watching that like that's where we're at as a society. I'm scared I know I'm scared No, I'm really scared and I think just like I'm finding Ways of coping that feel healthy and okay and and can I just say Oh my god, I had a near death experience today. Oh, you went to face Jim again. I close. I want to pull out Yes, do you know I think about that all the time Mary Beth went to face Jim and said I just blew through a red light No, it was actually really really scary and I think because I have a galaxy brain whatever the like neurons or whatever like Trades they put on your face. It made me black out at the wheel and I almost killed Edward and myself. I know sorry I think about it all the time in a getaway call booking it from face Jim and like really like just ripping through a red light. I was so shaken up I had to call my mom. I mean the sign if you died in the last place you would gone with face Jim Near death experience today. I was at Pilates. I was at a session with my guy and He put my legs in the straps that were connected to springs these really long like three foot springs And you're supposed to push your leg straight and then bend them and straighten them and bend them The spring snapped. Oh my god. And it hit my foot and it hurts so much It's weird because I've been thinking about have those springs ever snapped and like if it had hit my face It would have done some serious damage
on that soft skin, it likely had hit my foot, but it hurts. He was like, I, that's literally never happened before in all the years I've been teaching. He was like, this is a brand new string. He was like, you're, you, I think you're too strong and you poke it. They'd never seen strength like that. He had never seen Kegel strength like that in his entire life. So it was actually scary. I said, damn, this cookie strong as hell. And you said, I know that's right. It made me feel alive. Yeah. Oh, I agreed. It woke you up. That's what I was thinking. I used to say it never skydive, but now I'm like, I don't know. Maybe it would be like, you know, if someone forced me to go up there, I would do it, I guess. Well, they just turned off the lights. It's time for bed for you and you know, one of my lights just went off. They said they said speed it up, bitch. They said night time. Hey, they said they said two episodes today. You're pushing it. Yeah. Hi. Sorry. Sorry guys. I'm almost done. Okay. So right heritage should be reflect on the season. A little bit. I feel like it's been a total whirlwind. You know what Terry said to me recently. He goes, I can't believe you managed to do that and make a show. You guys did that. And I'm really proud of us. But you know what? I'm not even proud of us. I'm proud of the Barones because they make it fun. They make it worthwhile. And I love, I've loved the piece of this and the space of this to come and see my girl, not on the screen on a different screen and that they, you know, I have to thank all the people who locked you up for giving you that, that space to do this still totally. And I think the second half of this season specifically, I feel like when we were making the show, it did get a little stressful at times because we were, we were filming in the week and then recording on the weekends. I hope that didn't show, you know, I hope that didn't come through in that. I really don't think it did. But I will say the second half of this season feels especially fun to me for some reason. I think it's because we have like so much to look forward to. And even though things are really scary right now, like this is like such a joy. This is communal and it's heritage. And we're celebrating our Barones and our babies. May they never experience the loss of a child. I just fuck with y'all so heavy. And like, I just think that this is, this is our happy place. And we need some of that. And I think that's what the show is. And I think that's what overcompensating is, it's just like, it's about your girls and being cozy in a bed with your besties. And maybe even getting Sephora delivered day of ten bucks, ten bucks of Uranus City that does that. I found that out today. So it's kind of just cool. Like we can, we can still find happiness. And I think it's about not giving any of them the airtime, any of those freaks the airtime and just focusing on how to take care of each other. And that's what we're going to do. And that's heritage to me. That's heritage. That's what it means to me at least. I agree. And we're working on our core values. And I can't wait to post them and share them with you all. And when I'm in solitary and I padded cell and I'm ready to give up, I just think about the community I'd be leaving behind. And I think, well, I can't leave yet. There's more work to do. We have more art to create and trouble. This is how we do. I'm your sister. Can someone make that dance move? Do you see what I'm doing? Oh, yeah. I'm Sophia Nighard. And this is my latest video. Tyler and I went to the Singapore airport to see the jewel and see the waterfall. Did I send you that? Do we talk about this? Oh, my God. Miz Nighard took us to the airport in Shanghai. Where is it? Singapore Singapore Singapore. It blew me away. She spent a whole day there. And I can't imagine what we'd get up to in there. You want to talk about our kids? You want to talk about them all. So I'm meeting peanuts. And so I'm going to go first, which is very you coded. So we're doing Taylor's version, but we didn't write for these things at the same time. But these are just two things that we kind of want to re-record. Yes. And so I will be writing for the fact that we don't know how planes fly. And I already am scared. And what are you writing for? I'm writing for sparkling water. Again, again, so excited. It's going to be one less lonely girl. It's going to be a cheap one less lonely girl. I love this bleep. Oh, my God. Just like people declutter their homes in March, it's also a great time to refresh your nutrition and daily habits. Feeling refreshed and ready starts your gut. It starts in your gut, I should say, but it also starts your gut. And the pre probiotics in AG1 helps to support digestion. How does AG1 help you simplify your wellness routine? Well, it's delivering nutrients and like all that shit that I wouldn't be getting otherwise. Exactly. 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It's literally incredible.
She says, "Bodegos are your friend." She was like the mayor of New York. - She basically won the year. - Well, it was hard. - It was so hard. She was the tourism ambassador after releasing the song, "Welcome to New York." And then she was carried around in a trunk the entire time that she was tourism ambassador. So how much business did she drum up? I'm not sure. - She was carried in a trunk, wait, tell me this more. - Whoa, so you didn't eat after? - No, she lived in an apartment in New York and she was getting harassed so much that they had to take her, whenever she would leave her apartment or go in it, they'd put her in a trunk and they'd carry her. - Oh, that's very you when you, like-- - I'm getting taken to school. - It's you going to school. - The trunk is padded and it has a comforter in it. I'd be so sad, I wouldn't care. That's like my padded cell here. - No, that's what I'm saying. That's when you have to do press for overcompensating. That's where we're gonna have to do to get you out of there. - You carrying me out in trunk. I can't believe you missed this. There's photos of her, like the trunk, with Karen. - Let's see her at her show when she did the like, she's in the like, cleaning, what's that called? - Oh, I can't wait to hear this. - She was in like a cleaning. - Almost like where they keep the brooms inside. - Like a cart, yeah, she's in like a cleaning cart. And then fans, it took them like three minutes and they're like, that's tea. - Yeah. - That's misty. - Oh my god, my favorite video right now on the internet is Alabama Barker going through her Christmas presents and she says everything is tea and it's like such a misuse of the word. Terry and I can't stop laughing. I literally think to myself all the time, like, my Christmas presents are tea. It's like, what the fuck does that mean? I love her, by the way, but I just-- - Remember when we played that game like two summers ago where you had to show a picture of someone that you kissed to the group and then everyone had to guess who you were going to say. - So okay, there's this game that we played one summer where everyone sent me a picture of someone that they've made out with. I randomized them. I show each picture to the group and then everyone has to write down who they think kissed that person. - This is a perfect game for Heritage, by the way. - Perfect game for Heritage. And maybe I'll do like a video explaining it or something if you're not following. But anyway, I was the moderator, so I would show all the photos. And basically, so many people had made out with the same people and everyone was kind of like queer, coded, and or just like fully queer or gay. And you had hooked up with girls previously. So it really threw off the numbers. - I threw off the numbers and it got to the point where it was just like, it got so difficult. That's why I said that. - You and-- - The game was-- - You and maybe what we're doing is wrong. - Like in that moment, I thought to myself, "Maybe Ann Coulter spilled." Maybe Ann Coulter is T. Maybe Candace Owens is T. - Thank you for bringing up Candace Owens because she's from my hometown. - Oh my God. - Wow. - Candace Owens, we don't ride for you. And actually, I was thinking for Heritage Month, we could do maybe a die episode. I wouldn't do Candace Owens, but I do think that she is repugnant, if I could say that. And I think that she shouldn't be on TV. - Isn't she obsessed with the Blake Lively Justin Baldoni thing now? That's like filling her days. - Whatever bitch. - I guess she could be doing worse. I'm like, if that's filling your days like fine. If this will consume you, take it away. - Stay busy. Anyway. - Yeah, so maybe what we're doing is wrong. - Maybe what we're doing is wrong. - And that's my Hermes Burkin I got for Christmas is T. I don't personally know if that's T, but okay, and maybe it is. I don't know, fuck it. I'm not the keeper of T. - So welcome to New York, Taylor's version. There was an article written that I didn't see right away. I, it came across my desk a few months after. - I didn't see it right away. Once I saw it, I couldn't stop thinking about it. It's on the scientificamerican.com before you try to come for me and say, I'm not quoting reputable sources. Scientific American. And I don't know how much longer this website will be up in our current administration. So if you are interested in this article, you should go read it while you can. - No, chances are, like, it's not like a good. Someone recently told me that their boyfriend worked in, it was something with like water, and then the word environment popped up, and I was like, oh, well, he's about to lose his job soon. - His days are numbered. - That sounds like a really useful, important thing. I wouldn't expect that to be around soon. - No. So there's an article on the scientificamerican, and it's titled, "No one can explain why planes stay in the air." And the subtitle says, "Do recent explanations solve the mysteries of aerodynamic lift." So essentially, what millions of people do every day, which is take flight in the air and the steelbirds, we actually don't know exactly how planes stay in the air. And so there are two competing theories from what I understand, but we don't know which it is, and maybe we'll never know. - Is this insane to me? I thought it had to do with aerodynamicism and wind, and the shape of the wing, you know what I mean? It was like similar to how a bird flies. Like we use the exact same physics. I mean, the Wright brothers like T. - The Wright brothers is as T. - T, I'm just like, "Fuck the Wright brothers T." I'm just like, "God damn it." I guess the Wright brothers do just seem like a couple of brothers and not Albert Einstein. - Or Galileo. - But they all probably lived at the same fucking time. - No, they were getting brunches together. That's what's crazy about T. - So basically, this guy named John D. Anderson Junior, curator of aerodynamics at the National Air and Space Museum, and author of several textbooks. Anderson said there is actually no agreement on what generates the aerodynamic force known as lift. There's no simple one-liner answer to this. He told times. - Jesus. - People give different answers, some with religious fervor, but the question we're left with is, why should it be so hard for scientists to explain what keeps birds and airliners up in the air? It's like, I think if Galileo were alive right now, he could probably figure it out. - And it's not to say that our most brilliant minds, I'm sure they're working hard, or maybe they don't care 'cause planes fly. And that's just, we don't maybe need to explain it, but I feel like if Galileo was here, he could solve this. - He could crack this. This would be his, like, Da Vinci code. - This would be his Fission or whatever. This would be his Oppenheimer. - Well, yeah, his Da Vinci code. I have to ride for Dan Brown's trilogy. I don't know what it's called, but I have to ride for that at some point. - You teach me so much 'cause I've never read that. - So this makes me sick, and I obviously, I don't know exactly what's happening within the airline industry. I am so terrified. I am so saddened, horrified. This just scares me beyond belief. And to me, I think you're writing for this 'cause I think you want the answer, right? - I do, and I think it's really big of scientists to just admit the things that we don't know and can't explain. - I wish they hadn't said they didn't know this one though. Can I just say? - Look, it's the facts of life to bring it back to sitcom, The Sons. - Jesus. - It takes a good, you take the bad, you take them both, and there you have the facts of life, we just don't know. - God, so I'm up there, and they think we could plummet at any moment. - No, they know that the physics of it works. They just don't know how or why. I mean, there are theories. It's just like, I don't think that there is, there's not like one theory that the entire scientific community can agree upon from what I understand. - Jesus. - And there's a lot of big words in this article, and I'm not saying I even understand the explanation of how we don't know, but I just think it's interesting that we're still figuring things out, and it's very dare to dream. - Yeah, I would love us to clean it up though, in a huge way. - Well, what's happening in the airline industry right now is terrifying, and as someone that's flying more than ever for tour, I'm just like, I'm scared, I won't lie, and then people telling me, you're much more likely to get in a car accident. I'm like, great, because I'm really anxious than the car too. So thank you for saying that. - Yeah, so both, so good. Okay, well, then yeah, my favorite, some people are like, you're more likely to die on the way to the airport than in the plane, and it's like, thank you. - That's so comforting. - How about you? Do you want me dead? How badly do you want Betty and drama dead? - How many ways have you thought of me dying? - Of me dying, dude. Yeah, that's to me. Oh God, it just, it all makes me so sick. The second I feel terrible, it's on a plane, and like, oh, I swear to God, kids are always laughing during it, and I'm like, do you think this is a fucking game? My show hasn't come out yet. It's not a game. - It's not a fucking game. - Well, I'm definitely more of an anxious fire you can tell from all of this. I mean, even talking about it makes my lower backs wet a little bit, because it's just, it's scaring me right now. - There are so many mysteries of the world, and it's just kind of crazy that we can't really explain it. We can't explain how the universe came to be, I guess, sort of, so it's like, sort of like that. - I can't believe we can put someone to sleep, give them a new heart, and they wake up. How crazy is that, dude? - That is so crazy to think about. - It's not that shit crazy. - That, to me, is unbelievable. And I would wear concealer as a doctor, I thought about it more. - Oh, totally. I fully, I fully back you on that theory. - Now, would I wear bronzer? I don't want them to think that I have a beachy glow. You think I would? - I think you would. 'Cause you want them to feel safe. - Blushy glow. - A little bit. A little bit. - Gloss. - Full of you. - You're in the gallery, babe. (laughing) - Don't make me laugh. - You already got me all nervous for how these planes blend. - Look, I'm not trying to make you nervous. It's just cool to think about. It's cool to know more about it. But what is interesting to me is that for so long, humans were on Earth, and we were trying to figure out ways to make life better, like open-heart surgery, like flying planes, like all the innovation, the internet. And now it feels like we've surpassed that into just making people's lives harder. Alan Cumming said something so profound on the view. He goes, "Why are there politicians taking rights away from people?" What kind of country is that? We should be giving people more rights. - Yeah. - Doesn't make sense. So we've lost the entrepreneurial spirit, the actual entrepreneurial spirit of humanity. For so long, we were making all these crazy innovations and steps forward, and now we're moving backwards. I don't like it. - When the first frozen came out, and we had pitch perfect and frozen, and Miley Cyrus' bangers, I just felt like we were moving in the right direction, in so many ways. - Oh, it was Obama's America. - Oh, Obama's America. I miss you, Kang.
I can't believe people looked on speaking of Nixon and I hope you're listening down there. You're a little f***ed. I think that here's my thing. I can't believe someone looked at the ballot, saw JFK and then circled Nixon. Well, those are people. Those are people that didn't have TV. They only had radio. I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. Didn't you learn that in school? They're first to be- Oh, yeah, because they heard the Boston accent. Everyone who heard the debate on the radio thought that Nixon won the debate and everyone who watched on TV thought JFK won the debate. Oh my god, that is such an APU as history factor. You are so correct. Oh my god, dude. Wait, that's T. So sparkling water, there's so much more to say. The industry has completely blown up since our episode. Well, it's like at me, sis. So it's hard to not circle back on something like this and be able to take my work back and own that work when something like Maison perier ultimate has come out and hits shelves. Obviously, I'm a Topo Chico girl. Topo Chico to the death of me till the day I die. And it might kill you. Oh, and it might because recently, I think it tried to. It went down the wrong pipe in a way I couldn't even believe it was like my collarbone was burping. It hurt so that it was full like it was like I drank hot acid and I laughed with it because I'm like, it's classic Topo sparkling water has really hit the world in a way that I'm just so excited about for anyone who's trying to have a little less soda. And I know there are all these like prebiotic sodas, but Jerry's still out on if those are like that much better. I don't want to have four of those a day, which just be real. So sparkling water is such a great way to get that fix, get that bubble. It's sensorial and you know, that's huge for me. It is my comfort drink. I haven't when I'm in the tub since we talked about it last Terry sister Claire got me a water bottle that turns any water in it to sparkling. How? I can do it on the fucking move. I'm literally a magician of sorts. Like I can literally very Jesus. It's true. Now you see me. It's so now you see me three coated you get it's so now you see that you are so funny. That's like that's so. Sometimes it hits me your genius. Now you see me. It's so. Oh my God. Me you Terry and your new man are kind of the new cast of now you see me now you three me. Well, that's what they're saying. Now you three me. Now you three me. But literally people will be like, Oh no, I'm good. I don't really like still water. And then I press a button on a bottle and I give them sparkling. It's like it's just now we know how Jesus felt. I'll just say that much. He brought sparkling water back into my life because when I was excited, I thought sparkling water was too spicy. That's what I used to say. It tasted spicy to me. That was the only word I knew to describe it. But then you know, there's been a total boom in sparkling water. There's your lacroise. You have your spin drifts. You have your liquid death. Now I wanted to bring up liquid death on the pod, but I wanted to wait for this episode because that is a water brand that has taken the world by storm. I believe it's a billion dollar brand. Yeah. And it looks like an energy drink, but it's water. And so they have sparkling water. Speaking of bodegas are your friends because bodegas are carrying the liquid death economy on their backs and there is an Arnold Palmer and all the names are like kind of like heavy metal vibes. I just think, you know, they they took something simple like water and they just like build an identity. They built an identity. Yeah. They made it. Yeah. And if you don't clip that, I swear to God. Fuck you. I'll show up at your house. That's very liquid death of you. They're kind of like gunslingers. Here's the thing. Only in bodegas, as you said so beautifully, that have wood in them. I'm joking person. That was wood. Yes. Those bodegas that's very, that's the energy, you know, where you kind of pull the curtain and then they're all the liquid deaths are there. I love liquid death. I think they're fantastic. I'm a topo girl forever. Now there was one that I there's two that I'm not they're not my favorite. Pellegrino and parier. They're probably the most popular, but I would say there's not enough sparkle for me. I like, I like it spicy. I like it nasty. All of a sudden I look on the shelves recently and May sun parier comes out with a couture version. May sun parier ultimate. Wow. It's not as spicy as a topo, but wow, she's a banger. I bought a whole case. I won't even lie. I bought a case the other day. Is it flavor or just water? I think they might have flavor ones, but I've only had pure as of now and they just blew me away. I won't they've come onto the scene and she's the new egg girl. Well, actually, I probably liquid death is the new egg girl, but I'm just saying like may some parier. She is coming. She's like artisanal sweetie and she's so delicious and I'm just excited that there's a new member because sometimes they don't have topo, but parier is kind of everywhere. So I'm fighting in gas stations. May some parier couture ultimate. Well, here's what I don't like. When a drink will present itself as a flavored sparkling water and it is actually a soda. So Pellegrino has a really sneaky thing. Those lemon waters, 25 grams of sugar. If not more sugar. Yeah, they're delicious. If I'm drinking water, let water be water is what I say, please, no frills. Let's just like be water. Make America water again. Wait, make it like kids be kids and let water be water. Are you fucking queer? Well, bitches. You're ruined. This country. I know Republicans don't like sparkling water. Of course not. To learn it. To learn it. To sophisticated. Much like I think a mom's flip flops is a window to the eye of the soul or whatever. I think that the sparkly water brand you carry can tell a lot about you. So you like topo Chico, Benito, don't you dare and I'm a liquid death girl. I'm a liquid death girl in your black parade t-shirt, of course, you don't want to present sophistication. They're doing a Pellegrino or a parier and I'm like, you're not fooling anyone. Yeah, I know they're like, I travel. But I'm like, do you even know how you travel? Do you even know why that plane stays up in the air? I know. And I'm filming you. And by the way, I don't want parier. Do you have mists on the ultimate? Wait, they need to reach out to me for an ad campaign. I would gladly support. Can you do it in the style of sh-duh? Sh-duh. Diamonds are dead. And it's me sizzling in a bath. That's all mists on parier. And then they turn to me and I go, the ultimate. That's it. I'm filming you. I'm filming you. You know what? I mean, I don't know if I've talked about it in the last one, but I do have a soda stream. So I cook now. Oh, I wanted to say on soda streams, I feel like I'm in the mines. I don't need to hear it. Please soda stream before I get there. Not you specifically, but if I'm at someone's house and they soda stream, I'm like, are we vacuuming? What's happening? She did not just say the mines. I'm in the mines, baby. Oh, my God. You know, what's that immediately brings me to that immediately? I just thought to myself, October sky, starting Jake Gyllenhaal and Laura Dern. We're in the mines. You're so correct. It is me kind of getting my hands dirty in a way. And I will say, like, I go through the gas so much because I like it spicy. So it almost feels more wasteful. So if anyone has a trick for that, I just, I have to like do it to death where it's like, but when I take out the gas canister from that, I'm like, this does feel like machinery a gay guy like me shouldn't be able to not have much so much like the Pilates reformer feels to me at times. I like, I'm not supposed to be working with something like that. I feel like soda streams are unique. You should need a license. So I don't need to see not in front of my salad. It is. I used to have ours out on the table. It is now in a cupboard. Terry doesn't like seeing things on the table. Oh, I think it's cute. You put an apron on to do it. It's your, it's, it's yes chef. I love it. I have to. It's like my one thing. I like to ask people, would you like any sparkling water? And then I go cook. Daddy's cooking. Oh, and they're, they're making leaders of Topo Chico now. So that's just a huge for me. That's great. I'm so excited. Putting a glass straw in a big leader and just chugging it and just burping for 25 minutes straight. I would love to. Do you ever talk to about that? I'm not sure if we've gotten into that yet on right. They're shocking. So crazy as burp you've ever experienced. Yeah. It's, that's what it sounds like. There's a demon that lives in my chest. I've been through a lot in my life and people don't really know that. Liquid death, sweetie. It's liquid death. You, wait, you are so this spokeswoman for liquid death and I'm so mason, hey, let's not, or Topo. I mean, Topo, by the way, anyone from Topo listening, like you're still number one. I just want you to know that. But I'm just saying it probably feels good to finally have some competition. I was talking of sparkling water brands, the range, we were like, no one innovates anymore. No one. What happened to the spirit of entrepreneurship, the industrial revolution? I know exactly. I'm like, more businesses, come on. I know you can do it. Please. No, I just, I really think that sparkling water, it's such a healthy art alternative and it's a great way because I'll just be honest. I just, sometimes I don't love the taste of water and one person told me that it's the exact same as drinking water. And then another person told me that it's just, it's not, it's not as good for you as just having water. Guess who I'm going to choose to believe, continue, the former and we can get into rider die. You know what you are, Mary Beth? Bisexual. Oh, yeah. But you're also my rider, die, ride or die. Obviously I ride for sparkling water. To me, it's a luxury. I feel luxurious when I'm drinking it. And you deserve that luxury. Because it's a little something extra, it's a little sparkle. You know, I love diamonds, be it lab-grown or from the mines. And I also.
- I also think something we haven't even touched upon yet is the water brand that appears in over-confensating, which we want to take to market. - Oh my God, okay, so-- - Wait, I don't think you should spoil it, but I'm like, I won't use you, but I don't think you should. - Well, okay, here's the thing. I think now they're gonna see it because I don't know if you see it that well in the show. It's something, it's very, there's a lot of easter eggs in the show because I really hope that you wanna watch it multiple times. In my wildest dreams, it becomes like your comfort show that you put on a season whenever you just need to feel good and spend time with your besties. - So what's funny about making a college show is that all the characters are underage. So you can't actually use any brand name alcohol brands in the show. So I had to come up with the names of alcohol brands. - Which are, it's some of your best work. I would be howling on set 'cause I didn't know what they were and then I'd be a poster. And I don't think you should spoil it. I want people to find it. - Okay, 'cause I give one away 'cause it was so funny. I loved it so much. It's just such a gay guy naming something. One is called Moose Knuckle Brewing Co. And I remember you go to me and you go, who's the gay guy who thought of this? - I said, I shouted the F's are you. - You did. Do you have any? - A few times. - Did you take any of the posters? Someone did. - I do have a can of the water. - Oh, that's good. Okay, good. I don't think I have one, which makes me so sad. - I have one and I'm getting it bronzed. - Oh, good. Okay, put it in resin. - The liquid's still in it. Yeah. - Put it in resin. - So I ride for sparkling water and I think whatever little daily treat you can have for yourself, be it a Ferrero Rocher, be it popcorn with nutritional yeast, whatever it is, indulge. - Oh, effort not to mention. I love a flavor in them. I love the, ah-ha, you know that brand. They have them at the, those Coke machines that will make something I wouldn't ever call it Coke or die a Coca-Cola Zero. - Yeah, I know what you mean. - It's kind of the most disgusting version of that thing that they make, but they have a flavor of, and that's really fun at the movies sometimes. Just get a huge one and you chug it and then you just piss at the end. - It's so much. - Yeah. - Justice, last thing I'll say on sparkling water is justice for Coke and at La Croix. And I don't want you to say anything. - Oh, I love it. - I need you to respond. - I like it. - Yeah, it can lean so, but is that so bad? - I don't think so. It's like, if it makes me think about sunscreen being on the beach in my happiest days. - See, I love La Croix. It feels very 80s to me and it's fun. I know that someone told me there's something bad for me in it and I'm just like, maybe you're bad for me. - I think it's like feverish something. It's a hormone they harvest from beaveriness. I don't think it's in La Croix though. I think it's in some of the other ones. - It's in fireball. - We don't know how water becomes sparkling. - So I'm gonna do the first thing I've ever done on the podcast today. I'm gonna ride and die for yours. - Wow, I love that. You're reinventing the form. - Yeah, because I think you can do both in this instance. I die for the fact that we don't know it. I ride for the fact that we're being honest that we don't know it. - Totally. - And I ride for, I ride for the innovation of it, but then I kinda die for the fact that we went right into it and built a whole world around flying and we don't exactly have the answers. Yes, let's just say it's complicated. - It's complicated and I would like to challenge you since you've died for one thing. You've died for one thing that I've done and now you ride and die for this. I need you to put something in front of me that I could go either way upon because all I'm getting her hits, nothing but the hits. And sometimes you have to be vulnerable and you have to just put something out there that you say, this might make my co-host feel scared, uncomfortable and make his lower backs wet. But it's all in the name of discourse. - No, you've always done that for me. You challenge me, but I challenge you too. - In other words, remember when two gay guys made you cry up in the air? - And how did we get up there? No one knows, but how did I start crying? Everyone knows that you made me cry. The flight attendant knew, well, you didn't want to do a merch shoot and we had to talk to each other. - That's not what happened, Ellen. - That is what happened. - That's not the truth, Ellen. - They tried to get so. - No way. - On that note, happy ride heritage month. Thank you to Edward who will always be a part of the podcast family and we will always think of him when it's ride heritage month and when a heritage episode comes out. - I'd love to crack open a liquid death with him right now. That's sweetheart. We love you. - Next time we go to London. - Totally. Yeah, I can't say enough. How fun it is to be another ride heritage month is upon us and how lucky are we to continue doing a pot. I mean, to have a pot not get canceled, we have to be excited. - And cheers to the future. - Cheers to the future. This month's going to be crazy. I'm so excited. Also just like the next few months, it's just joy. It's very like Maggie Rogers' feral joy tour. In a lot of ways. Like I'm excited to get into it. And yeah, I hope they let you out during, but if they don't, you know, you'll still. - They're trying to negotiate. - They're brokering a deal. I'm not sure what's happening. I gotta talk. It's my agents brokering the deal. - Of course. - It's all mixed up in contracts, but I'm gonna get out soon. I hope. - If we ever went to prison, would we still have our agents? - I think we would. And congrats to Biden for signing with CAA. I think we should end on that note. - Well, of course. Enter media. One, two, three. - Click that. - Have fun right here. - Have fun. - Bye. I'm coming here. - Oh, my exit. - Any babe, I's in the road. - There you go. (dramatic music) - Rye, rye. - 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.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The podcast celebrates "Ride Heritage" month by highlighting personal, emotional, and nostalgic connections through storytelling, including memories of past relationships and shared experiences.
A central theme is the exploration of uncertainty and mystery—such as why planes stay in the air—emphasizing curiosity, vulnerability, and the value of honest scientific inquiry.
Sparkling water brands like Topo Chico and Liquid Death are celebrated as cultural and personal symbols of joy, self-expression, and the pursuit of simple pleasures.
The hosts critique societal blind spots, including political double standards and the overemphasis on historical controversies like Watergate, while advocating for more balanced and compassionate discourse.
The show fosters community, belonging, and emotional safety through shared rituals, like the "game of kissing pictures" and cozy bonding moments, reinforcing the idea of heritage as emotional continuity.
The hosts promote wellness and daily habits, recommending products like AG1, Home Chef, and Article to support healthier, more enjoyable lifestyles.
A key message emerges about resilience and healing
The podcast embraces humor, absurdity, and playful storytelling to make difficult topics accessible, showing that heritage is not just about history but also about joy, connection, and shared human experience.
Summary:
The podcast offers a heartfelt celebration of "Ride Heritage" month, blending personal anecdotes, humor, and cultural commentary to explore what heritage means in modern life. Hosts Benito and Mary delve into emotional memories, including a breakup that became a foundation for growth and a deep bond with a former partner. They highlight the mystery of how planes stay aloft as a metaphor for human curiosity and the limits of knowledge, emphasizing the value of embracing uncertainty.
The episode champions small joys—like sparkling water, especially brands like Topo Chico and Liquid Death—as expressions of self-care and individuality. It also critiques societal double standards, such as political scandals and media bias, while promoting empathy and balanced discourse. Through product endorsements for wellness and home living, the hosts encourage mindful habits that support well-being.
The tone is warm, humorous, and reflective, emphasizing community, vulnerability, and shared human experiences. Ultimately, the show frames heritage not as a fixed past, but as a living, evolving space of connection, joy, and resilience—where even the most absurd or unexplained things, like the physics of flight, can inspire wonder and belonging.
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Ride Heritage refers to celebrating shared experiences, deep connections, and the joy of being with friends and loved ones. It's about honoring the emotional and personal milestones that create strong, lasting bonds, especially in times of transition or change.
The podcast highlights a scientific article that reveals no definitive explanation exists for how planes generate lift. This mystery is used as a metaphor for embracing uncertainty and curiosity, showing that some of life’s biggest questions may never have a simple answer.
The podcast discusses Topo Chico, Liquid Death, Pellegrino, and La Croix, with a particular emphasis on Liquid Death as a bold, trendy brand that has become a cultural symbol among the hosts.
The phrase 'Now You See Me' is used humorously to represent how certain people or brands become more noticeable or celebrated when they're highlighted—especially in the context of personal choices, like drinking sparkling water or enjoying unique lifestyle experiences.
The hosts weave personal anecdotes—like allergic reactions or near-misses in Pilates—into larger conversations about societal norms, such as political scandals, media bias, and the importance of emotional honesty and community.
The phrase 'ride and die' is a playful, passionate declaration of loyalty and support. The hosts use it to express deep emotional commitment to each other and to values like authenticity, joy, and vulnerability in their personal and shared lives.
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