Dave Burd, a 2006 graduate of Cheltenham High School publicly known as rapper/comedian “Lil Dicky”, launched a new show today called “Friends Keep Secrets”.
The weekly multimedia podcast is a collaboration with Kristin Batalucco (Burd’s wife) and Burd’s other best friend and Dave co-star, Benny Blanco. Weekly guests—including names like Ed Sheeran, Gwyneth Paltrow and Paul Rudd—will appear in Burd and Batalucco’s home.
An excerpt from their interview with The Hollywood Reporter:
Let’s start with the genesis of this project. What did you want to do and say with it?
BURD I think we’ve all had independent thoughts as time has gone on about entertainment and what we love doing, and one of those things is just hanging out with each other and joking around. Those are the best times in my life. And the whole origin of me even wanting to be an entertainer started with me just being the guy who was entertaining his friends when we were hanging out on a Friday night. The only reason I had the confidence to even go for [the career that I have now is] because my friend group laughed at my dumb jokes.
BLANCO And for all the Andrew Tates and terrible people in this world, I saw an opening because I love hanging out with my friends, and it just so happens that my two best friends are the funniest people that I know and maybe the funniest people in the world. I was just like, “Why isn’t there something like this that you can have on in the background or in the foreground, instead of some dude talking about taking steroids and being a shitty guy to women?” And we have such an eclectic group of friends, so sometimes the person that we’re talking to is going to be my mother and sometimes it’s going to be Selena Gomez. Or we might be talking to a guy that’s at the forefront of A.I. and then talking to a man who created the fart machine.
Episodes are expected each Tuesday on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.
You can check out the show’s trailer below:
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