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Brianna
Hey, BFF listeners.
Josh Peck
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Brianna
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Dave Portnoy
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Brianna
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Dave Portnoy
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Brianna
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Brianna
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Dave Portnoy
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Brianna
Yep.
Dave Portnoy
Okay. It's kind of weird like this.
Brianna
What do you mean?
Dave Portnoy
I don't know.
Brianna
We're just in chairs.
Dave Portnoy
I know, but I feel like you should be over there.
Brianna
Oh, like across from you.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah. Are you exhausted?
Brianna
Yeah, dude, I just took a red eye.
Dave Portnoy
Oh, you did?
Brianna
Yeah, I just got here.
Dave Portnoy
Like, when did you get in?
Brianna
I got in at 8 in the morning.
Dave Portnoy
Oh, wow. You can tell.
Brianna
Yeah, yeah, yeah. One of my eyes is like completely bloodshot. I don't know if you guys can see.
Dave Portnoy
Completely bloodshot. I thought you hit a dinger before you got here. As a dinger.
Brianna
What's it called when you smoke like a home run? What is up everyone? Welcome back to the BFF's podcast. Make sure you guys tap that bell. Subscribe and like the video.
Josh Peck
Yes.
Brianna
I guess I kind of took it all.
Dave Portnoy
I did. Let's get into that.
Brianna
Let's go.
Dave Portnoy
Did you see the. All the monuments when you were driving in this morning?
Brianna
No, I was asleep in the car. Yeah.
Dave Portnoy
Okay.
Brianna
Yeah.
Dave Portnoy
All right.
Brianna
35 minutes.
Dave Portnoy
I have to wear shorts because my. So I was went to Florida before this and I left my suitcase open because I was like, I'm gonna need my suitcase to be open. And I accidentally shut my do where the kitty litter box was in my room because I had a party. So I kept it in my room, but I locked my cat out. My cat decided to pee in my suitcase. But of course I didn't know this yet and I zipped up my suitcase and I went to Florida and all of my Washington D.C. clothes have cat pee on them.
Brianna
Wait, who?
Dave Portnoy
What?
Brianna
Who asked?
Dave Portnoy
Okay. Wow. All right. You know what? It stinks though. Jay.
Brianna
No. Yeah, I'M sure. So now you're gonna wear shorts when we go and interview a senator? Or are you gonna smell like cat piss?
Dave Portnoy
I don't know which is better.
Brianna
Not the cat piss.
Dave Portnoy
I could go to. I know that's really bad. Also, can't wear this. I could just go to the mall.
Brianna
Yeah, it seems like, you know, the.
Dave Portnoy
Choice, the probable choice.
Brianna
Yeah, yeah, that's the one you should go with.
Dave Portnoy
You want to go to the mall with me after this?
Brianna
Not today. No. I'm gonna need some one.
Dave Portnoy
Go to the mall with me.
Brianna
I'm gonna need to nap.
Dave Portnoy
All right. No, you have to stay awake. We only have four days in D.C. we have to get everything worth of our time.
Brianna
What's that song by Robin Cherbotsky? Let's all go to the mall today. How does it go?
Josh Peck
Let's go.
Dave Portnoy
Oh, exactly. Let's go to the mall.
Brianna
Oh, my God. I was ridiculously close. It was the exact same lyrics.
Dave Portnoy
So you want to go to the mall today?
Brianna
No, no, no. I was just quoting a fellow Canadian.
Dave Portnoy
Got me excited for no reason, but that's fine. Are you nervous to interview these senators?
Brianna
Nervous isn't really the word I would use. I would say. I. I'm just. I want the videos to come out. Well, I don't want to come all the way out here and then we don't even get good footage.
Dave Portnoy
I know. Should we explain to our viewers what we're doing?
Brianna
Yeah, guys. So we're. We're in Washington D.C. to talk to some people about the Tick Tock ban, but we're talking about people that are for and against it now. I really wanted to come down here and talk to, like, everybody that is against the band and be able to, in, like a Daily show type of way, go and do these, like, funny interview questions that aren't necessarily like, gotcha. Questions are definitely, you know, like playing with more like Gen Z versus kind of, you know, the older generation. And that, like, disconnect is more of where we wanted to go with it. But everyone pretty much that is against the Tick Tock band said no to having us interview.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah. Because they know that we would get up all and they grow.
Brianna
Yeah. We'd be like, what's up?
Dave Portnoy
Why do you hate TikTok? Why do you hate us? This economy needs TikTok.
Brianna
Yeah. Why are you old? Why can't you control your farts?
Dave Portnoy
Do you even know what demure means? So it is gonna be. It is gonna be a little weird.
Brianna
Yeah. But I think it'll be.
Dave Portnoy
It I think it'll be fun. I just can't believe it's us two coming to Washington to do this. It's funny.
Brianna
Yes.
Dave Portnoy
I'm gonna smell like cat piss.
Brianna
World's World Government Summit, and then, you know, Washington, D.C. u.S. For president. Yeah. 2032. Is that the next one?
Dave Portnoy
No, I can't count.
Brianna
30.
Dave Portnoy
Isn't it 20.
Brianna
What year is it?
Dave Portnoy
2025. So it'd be 2028. 2028.
Brianna
We could. No, but. No, no, but I was right. It was 2025, but I was right originally. I was right originally when I said 32. Because we're gonna have to wait until 2032 to run.
Dave Portnoy
Why?
Brianna
Because we're gonna be old enough.
Dave Portnoy
I think they changed it.
Brianna
No, no, no, no, no. They did not change that.
Dave Portnoy
They're gonna. Once we step in that house tomorrow.
Brianna
They'Re gonna change it tomorrow.
Dave Portnoy
They will.
Brianna
Gonna pass a new bill. It's exciting.
Dave Portnoy
I think we have two presidents, me and you. That's a cool rule. If they could have. We could have two presidents.
Brianna
Right, Right. I don't know if that really makes a lot of sense.
Dave Portnoy
Why? Because two minds are better than one.
Brianna
Not always. Have you ever heard the phrase too many cooks in the kitchen?
Dave Portnoy
Yes, but this isn't a chef show.
Brianna
Right. I'm pretty sure that term is, like, a broad thing, though.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah. It applies to a lot of metaphor. One would say.
Brianna
Yeah, maybe.
Dave Portnoy
I think so. Yeah.
Brianna
Is that what that is? Is that a metaphor?
Dave Portnoy
I don't know. I just hit a singer. What's it called?
Brianna
A Binger.
Dave Portnoy
A binger.
Brianna
A bigger. A banger.
Dave Portnoy
Josh. If I. If you were to come in here and you were like, bri, hit a. A zinger with me. Why can't I remember it?
Brianna
A banger.
Dave Portnoy
A binger. Brianna. Binger. If you were like, brianna, come hit a banger with me. You would see the life leave my eyes. You'd be horrified of me. I am so scary when I smoke weed.
Brianna
Then why do you do it?
Dave Portnoy
I don't.
Brianna
Oh, okay.
Dave Portnoy
I'm just saying, if I had to smoke a binger right now, it would be.
Brianna
Are you somebody that gets, like, a lot of anxiety?
Dave Portnoy
Anxiety? I think that people are whispering behind my back. No one's back there. I would think someone's behind the curtain, and I would think, you hate me. And I would think I'm breathing too loud.
Brianna
Right. Little schizophrenic.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah, that's how I feel. A little paranoid when I smoke weed.
Brianna
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It happens. It happens.
Dave Portnoy
I'll crack a beer, though.
Brianna
Yeah, we can do that.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah, no. No beers in Washington. We have to be on our best A game.
Brianna
Well, I'm probably gonna have, like, a beer or two while I'm here.
Dave Portnoy
Okay. That's fun. I'll have a beer with you.
Brianna
All right, cool. I'm glad we got that out of the way.
Dave Portnoy
Me, too. Just wanted you to be the one to say it so I don't look like the alcoholic.
Brianna
Well.
Dave Portnoy
Well, my voice is gone.
Brianna
Yeah. Probably from drinking. So we're right back where we started.
Dave Portnoy
Yep. It's a fun weekend, though.
Brianna
What did you get up to?
Dave Portnoy
I went to Delray with a couple of my friends and. Have you ever been to Delray Beach?
Brianna
Yeah, I think, like, once.
Dave Portnoy
Hidden gem. Beautiful. Awesome. I'm actually going to buy a condo there. It's going to be my first property purchase, sort of. God. Looked into it. My mom's going to go in on it with me. She wants to. She's like, I have so much money saved. I'm like, let's do it, Mom. Let's have fun.
Brianna
It seems like a very. Just all of a sudden purchase.
Dave Portnoy
It is all of a sudden purchase. But I don't own anything and I'm moving to London in December. So I didn't tell you guys that.
Brianna
You'Re going to move to London, but.
Dave Portnoy
Thinking about it, Jay.
Brianna
Yeah.
Dave Portnoy
I'm missing London a lot. It's awesome there. I just kind of.
Brianna
Why would you move to London?
Dave Portnoy
But why wouldn't you move to London?
Brianna
Because the taxes are they bad. They're the worst in the world.
Dave Portnoy
Not if I have a condo in Florida. Then I could pay Florida taxes if I live there six months out of the year.
Brianna
So you're going to go six months? Florida, six months, London.
Dave Portnoy
Pretty cool. I think that would be awesome. But this weekend was awesome. And I had a blast off. It was spring break, which I didn't know it was spring break.
Brianna
Okay.
Dave Portnoy
I thought I was just going to, like, visit my friends, so it was absolutely crazy. But a lot of BFF fans out there.
Brianna
That's awesome.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah. They were like, dude, we love the new show. We miss Dave, but we love you and Jay.
Brianna
I like to hear that.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah, it was very people. Yeah, they were good people. What'd you get into this past weekend?
Brianna
Not really anything exciting to bring onto the podcast. I don't want to bore the people with my boring weekend.
Dave Portnoy
You've been streaming your ass off.
Brianna
Yeah, but I didn't really even get to stream this weekend, which also stinks. So more streaming coming soon, but I don't really do anything fun. I mean, hanging out with my girlfriend's always good time, but, you know, where is she? She is at home.
Dave Portnoy
Why doesn't she come on things anymore?
Brianna
Well, she was supposed to go to the UK to go to that Netflix show.
Dave Portnoy
Oh, was she going to do it?
Brianna
Yeah, yeah, she was going to do it. And then last second, the whole thing got, like, cancelled or they overcast it or they, like, I. Something weird happened, so then she kind of got.
Dave Portnoy
Good thing I pulled out of it then.
Brianna
Yeah. So, I mean, maybe not a bad thing to have Netflix owe you one, but it's kind of like too bad. She was really stoked. She had to, like, you know, she gets anxious about those things. So she's been battling the anxiety of, like, going and feeling good about it all week long. Finally got through it, and then it's like, super stoked about it. Telling all her friends, calling her mom, and then gets a call 24 hours before the flight. Not even, like, not even 24 hours before the flight gets a call. And they're like, yeah, yeah, we made a mistake. D. What? Yeah, like, plane tickets, already booked, hotel.
Dave Portnoy
Oh, that's crazy. Bummer.
Brianna
Yeah, it was. Too bad, Gabby.
Dave Portnoy
I don't deserve you on the show anyway.
Brianna
Yeah, that's what I said.
Dave Portnoy
Season two would be bigger and better.
Brianna
Yeah.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah. Sorry, Gabs. I wish you were here, though.
Brianna
Yeah, same.
Dave Portnoy
Should we get into our headlines?
Brianna
I think we should.
Dave Portnoy
Okay. You want to start with our big bang?
Brianna
Yeah. Drake Bell going on Josh Peck's podcast. I saw a little clip of this. Like, I saw their trailer.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah.
Brianna
How they're doing? Like, they both came out already.
Dave Portnoy
Just the first part.
Brianna
Just the first part came out. This is big, obviously, because Drake and Josh haven't sat down together since, what, like 20 years? Since they filmed the show.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah. And there was, like, the whole falling out with them where Josh, like, didn't invite him to the wedding, obviously. And then he came on the pod and, like, didn't want to talk about Drake. And then all the stuff came out with Drake about him being, like, sexually abused and stuff. So this is like, whoa. And this is everyone's childhood. Like, I don't know about you, but Drake and Josh was my go to show. Oh.
Brianna
I remember coming home from school, I would go to my friend's house because I wasn't allowed to watch Drake and Josh when I was young because my mom was like, I don't want you to get any ideas, but I'd go to my friend's house after school, watch that at his house for like 30 minutes to get an episode in. Then get back to my house before my parents got home from school. So I'd get like my Drake and Josh fix in on a weekly basis. But love Drake and Josh.
Dave Portnoy
I know, but I. Okay, so there it is. Kind of weird because there was this whole thing before, like, his documentary came out that he was, like, sexually abused. He kind of got into trouble where he was, like, convicted of, like, stuff with a minor. And then all this stuff came out. So I don't know. The comments I've seen are, like, mixed reviews. I think some people are forgetting about that, which is like, whatever. I don't know. I don't know how to really feel it. Like, how do you feel about that? Like, I feel like a lot of people are forgetting about it.
Brianna
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Dave Portnoy
High Noon got a shout out on that.
Brianna
Yeah, they did. They did. That's really nice.
Dave Portnoy
Okay, I feel like we should just read this because there's a lot of things out there.
Brianna
We need to read it.
Dave Portnoy
We need to read it. Let's get.
Brianna
Let's get to read it.
Dave Portnoy
Okay, okay. Okay. Jared Drake Bell, a former star of The Nickelodeon series Drake and Josh was sentenced on Monday to two years of probation after pleading guilty to two charges against him relating to a girl he had met online and who attended one of his concerts in Cleveland in 2017. So he did plead guilty.
Brianna
Okay. If I'm going to be honest, I didn't. I didn't listen at all.
Dave Portnoy
Okay. So he.
Brianna
I completely zoned out.
Dave Portnoy
Okay. All right.
Brianna
I was thinking about sipping my drink really loud to irritate you, but I was like, that. Is that a funny clip? Maybe that's not a funny clip. So I put it back down, and then I realized I didn't listen to anything.
Dave Portnoy
Okay, should we. Should we start over maybe? Just.
Brianna
Just give me this.
Dave Portnoy
He pled guilty to two charges of child endangerment. Okay. So that's just. That is something that happened before everything.
Brianna
How did he endanger the child?
Dave Portnoy
Well, let's look. He was charged with a felony and dis. And harmful to children and a mis. He has a misdemeanor. I don't know. It doesn't say why. And he had 200 hours of community service in California, was ordered no contact with the victim. So he, like, basically took this girl out. She was underage, and her parents didn't know where she was, is what I'm gathering from this.
Brianna
Okay.
Dave Portnoy
Okay. So he went on the podcast and.
Brianna
They didn't talk about it at all?
Dave Portnoy
No, I don't think, like, he's really ever talked about it.
Brianna
Are they alluding to talking about this in the second episode that's going to be dropped, or.
Dave Portnoy
No, it's just the only reason I had brought it up is because when you open up the comment sections, like, the top comment is like, don't forget that he pled guilty.
Brianna
Right, Right.
Dave Portnoy
So, like, I feel like it's worth mentioning, but I do want to talk about the episode a little. So it is the first time that they sat down together for 20 years. And Drake says between the Amanda show, where he met Josh, and filming the pilot of Drake and Josh, the investigation started against his abuser. His abuser worked at the Amanda show. Did you watch the documentary?
Brianna
No.
Dave Portnoy
It was, like, horrific. Like, he was, like, really being.
Brianna
I heard. And that's like, you know, I obviously know everything through, like, clips and everything I saw. I almost was like, I don't know if I can. That's so sad. I don't know if I can sit down and watch that for hours and hours.
Dave Portnoy
And it was. It was so sad because obviously it wasn't just him being abused. Like, there was so many people and, like, all the stories coming forward and, like, this guy was like the. The guy that was abusing was like the, like, safe haven. Like, everyone loved him. He talked to parents and he, like, always was alone with the kids. And they would, like, the parents would leave their children with this man because he was supposed to be, like, the one watching them. And then he was the monster of all of it. So pretty insane. But when they did the pilot, the abuser hadn't been arrested, and the abuser came and visited the set during the pilot. He. Because the investigation was ongoing, Drake had to pretend everything was normal. So Drake was very closed off to Josh. And at the time, Josh just thought he didn't want to be friends, not realizing he was going through the investigation and dealing with the abuse. So I feel like that might be where the, like, divide between them started.
Brianna
Yeah, I mean, it's. It's. I don't know. It's a tough situation when you're going through something like that. Right. Like, especially on the show and you go to court and you see all these people who you work with.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah.
Brianna
On the side of your abuser, sitting in court on his side, all these, like, probably powerful people. If that's like, you know, people casting you, if that's people that are directing, if that's whoever you see all those people that you respect and work with on the other side, you don't even know who you're gonna. You're gonna trust anymore.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah.
Brianna
So it probably just becomes a twisted thing with. With every single person you come into contact with.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah.
Brianna
In the entertainment industry from that point forward.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah. It would make you, like, hate everyone and not trust anyone.
Brianna
Exactly.
Dave Portnoy
And then Josh was probably. Josh was like, damn, Drake just doesn't fuck with me anymore. He doesn't. Like, he had no idea what he was going through, so he was probably like, fudge you. And Drake was like, no, I just can't tell you what I'm going through. I'm excited for part two.
Brianna
Yeah. I might have to give it a watch.
Dave Portnoy
I saw. I saw one clip where he was. He started tearing up. Drake and Drake started tearing up. And he was talking about how there was just magic in the show in their life. And their lines were so good and they were so right. They're like, we can't just. Just recreate. We were magic. Yeah, we're magic, buddy. And they were.
Brianna
No, for sure. I mean that. I feel like that show was like a lot of kids, like, babysitter, in a way. You'd Come home and you just watch Drake and Josh. You know what I mean?
Dave Portnoy
So I wonder how. How much money they make off of that still. We should have asked Josh that, Like.
Brianna
What are the residuals?
Dave Portnoy
Yeah, because it got. I know. It got sold to, I think, Hulu for, like, streaming or is it on Netflix? One of the other. I wonder how much money somewhere gets put in their pocket from that show. Oh, I just looked up residuals for Drake and Josh, and it says on the BFF's podcast, Josh Peck said he makes zero money off of Drake and Josh. So you did ask him. Oh, we did ask him that.
Brianna
Look at us.
Dave Portnoy
Just don't remember.
Brianna
We made it to Google.
Josh Peck
Wow. Boom.
Brianna
Just Googled.
Dave Portnoy
How much money does it make now?
Brianna
We're a site. We're a site. Like, people will, like, go and look stuff up and they'll be citing us.
Dave Portnoy
Citing us. We are on. People always put us in their shows, too, and we talk about them. We were on, like, Summer House. We were on what, the D'Amelio show?
Brianna
Getting credits do.
Dave Portnoy
We're at the White House. What the hell is happening? Look at us. Big moves from the BFFs. Okay, this is kind of random, but have you seen the Lollapalooza lineup? It's way better than Coachella. Ooh, epic.
Brianna
Tyler, the creator does do, like, Coachella.
Dave Portnoy
Every year that he's not doing it this year.
Brianna
Yeah, but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.
Dave Portnoy
No, but Olivia Rodrigo.
Brianna
But it is a cool list. Tyler, the creator, Luke Combs. Olivia, Rodrigo. No, I don't know. The Saturday people. Oh, but Dochi's on that.
Dave Portnoy
Everyone's on it.
Brianna
Sabrina Carpenter is looking at the small names.
Josh Peck
Yeah.
Dave Portnoy
Like, everyone is there. And Chicago is the best. This. We should go and just. Absolutely.
Brianna
Did you say ASAP Rocky? Yeah. You listen to ASAP Rocky.
Dave Portnoy
I know that one song that I love, and I play it every time. When it finally gets warm out, I get in my car, I put it on and put the windows down. What is the song?
Brianna
Yes.
Josh Peck
No, no.
Dave Portnoy
What is it? What is it? It's the best. No, no, no, no, no, no. You know this song. It's the best song ever.
Brianna
I'm. I'm sure I do, but it seems like you.
Dave Portnoy
Sundress.
Brianna
I was going to say. Is it Sundress?
Dave Portnoy
Sundress. I just love him because he's married to the queen of the world.
Brianna
Right? No, I get that, riri. I get that. So.
Dave Portnoy
And he's the pretty.
Brianna
He is. He is a Pretty motherfucker. Yeah.
Dave Portnoy
Should we go to Lollapalooza?
Brianna
Where is Lollapalooza?
Dave Portnoy
Chicago.
Brianna
Cool.
Dave Portnoy
You don't want to go?
Brianna
I think I've been to Lollapalooza before.
Dave Portnoy
I went two years ago and it was the best time of my life.
Brianna
I went. I think the last time Juice World performed, I went to Lollapalooza. I didn't get to see him.
Dave Portnoy
You didn't get to see him? Why you were there?
Brianna
Had to leave.
Dave Portnoy
Why?
Brianna
Just ran into an issue with the people I was with. Not like a physical or an emotional issue necessarily, more like a. More like a time of the month issue. And then we had to leave.
Dave Portnoy
There was blood everywhere.
Brianna
Well, not everywhere. Just in one general area.
Dave Portnoy
Wow, that's.
Brianna
Yeah, it was too bad. It was too bad.
Dave Portnoy
That's really a bummer.
Brianna
It was too bad.
Dave Portnoy
I would have just. I just would have free bled.
Brianna
I. I was more in the vein of like, why not ask one of the million of women's that are in this? Million? Yeah, just like ask one of them. I'm sure they have in the purse, right?
Dave Portnoy
Yeah.
Brianna
And just be like, hey, oh, there would have been.
Dave Portnoy
There would have been.
Brianna
And to me, that's not a weird question to ask, right?
Dave Portnoy
No.
Brianna
Like, women wouldn't be like, you.
Dave Portnoy
No.
Brianna
You're on your period. Like, what?
Dave Portnoy
No, it's like, oh, yes, I got you, girl.
Brianna
Yeah. It's like, ah, camaraderie.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah, yeah. Millions of women's there with millions of women. Well, I'm sorry that you had to leave Lollapalooza due to a bloody issue.
Brianna
Talking about someone who probably ran out of tampons. The astronauts got back after they were in space for nine months longer than they were supposed to be. It was only supposed to be a ten day mission.
Dave Portnoy
It was only supposed to be a ten day mission.
Brianna
Yeah, dude.
Dave Portnoy
They only had two tampons for that.
Brianna
Not even. Maybe if you were on the time of the month.
Dave Portnoy
Oh, my God. I thought like. I thought it was like a month mission. 10 days to 9 months is crazy.
Brianna
So long.
Dave Portnoy
Oh, my gosh.
Brianna
So incredibly long. They returned from space after nine months with many health problems like weight loss, weak muscles because of the lack of gravity, increased risk of cancer, and more. They will now have to go through intensive physical therapy, which is crazy. And they didn't get paid anything extra.
Dave Portnoy
No.
Brianna
No extra money.
Dave Portnoy
That is fucking wild. What? They don't get a settlement. NASA is not going to give them any money. That is so unbelievably fucked. Up.
Brianna
Yeah. They receive a regular 40 hour workweek.
Dave Portnoy
Salaries for nine months.
Brianna
Which is wild to me.
Dave Portnoy
This is what we're going to talk when we go into the big house.
Brianna
To be like, yo, what about these.
Dave Portnoy
What about these astronauts? That is crazy. And they like literally look, sorry, deranged now. Like they look like they were up there for years. Like it is crazy. I still want to know if they've had sex. Remember our big debate?
Brianna
Yeah.
Dave Portnoy
If it was possible to even have sex.
Brianna
Yeah.
Dave Portnoy
I want, I want to about it.
Brianna
Nine months is like a freaky long time.
Dave Portnoy
That's a baby in space. Yeah. With just, just you guys. What do you do have to run out of conversation?
Brianna
Oh, for sure. By day three.
Dave Portnoy
What if they don't really even fudge with each other?
Brianna
And that's the other worst part about this.
Dave Portnoy
They probably. I mean, by the end of it, you have to be so trauma bonded that they're probably going to do dinner with each other once a week for every week for the rest of their.
Brianna
Lives or never see each other again.
Dave Portnoy
It's one or the other.
Brianna
Yeah. Yeah. There's no in between. Gosh, that's really too bad. They look like they like we're just in like some radioactive wave in this photo on the bottom here. Holy cow.
Dave Portnoy
Who would be your worst nightmare to be stuck in space with for nine months? Besides me.
Brianna
Nine months in space? Worst nightmare.
Dave Portnoy
Like one of your friends. Like someone that everyone would know. Just nine months that you would be like. I would go crazy.
Brianna
Ooh. I mean, it might be hard to be in space for nine months with Bryce.
Dave Portnoy
I was going to say maybe Bryce.
Brianna
Like. But there's like. The thing is, I think it would go back and forth between being deliriously hilarious and then like actually at the verge of opening one of the windows or doors. You know what I'm saying? Like it would float that line every probably 35 minutes.
Dave Portnoy
It would be entertaining though.
Brianna
That's what I mean.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah.
Brianna
So like you wouldn't. If you wanted to have nine months where like, you know, was still somehow going on. Maybe he's a good guy to bring up that.
Dave Portnoy
True. Yeah. H love that. What else do we got? Oh my gosh. Sorority girl from UGA. Viral mug shot. Cuz she's dope. The UGA student was arrested on March 8 for excessive speeding, which was a misdemeanor charge which her lawyer was able to get dropped. She leaned into the viral moment and posted her favorite comments about her mug shot on Tik Tok. I think it's Hilarious. I don't know what all the hype is about. Just took a mug shot and went on with my day. I love all the comments poking fun at me, saying she was on her way to Lululemon or she must have had to pee really bad. She was just speeding because she was late for a birthday party. I mean, this went viral. I feel like it's not.
Brianna
Yeah, it was just like, you know, classic.
Dave Portnoy
Oh, the next one she looks. She got arrested again. She got arrested again. What did she get arrested for? She was taken into custody for obstruction of a law enforcement officer and loitering prowling after she was arrested by campus police around 5:30am so she's kind of crazy.
Brianna
I mean, look at this second mug shot.
Dave Portnoy
It's like this. There's nothing behind her. You think she's just blowed up?
Brianna
Those are like crazy eyes if I've ever seen them.
Dave Portnoy
Her blowout's fantastic, though. I want to know where she gets that done. That is a great blowout. But yeah, she seems kind of insane. Two mug shots is crazy. You know how hard I've been trying to get a mug shot.
Brianna
I mean, she's. She should have made a T shirt. She should have made number one and then like number two or one on.
Dave Portnoy
The front, one on the back.
Brianna
Yeah. You could go double sided.
Dave Portnoy
Double sided. Like a reversible or a reversible shirt. Inside, outside.
Brianna
Right, right, right.
Dave Portnoy
Good for her. I want. I wish you had a mug shot so bad when you got arrested.
Brianna
Yeah, I know.
Dave Portnoy
That would be awesome. I'd wear the shirt.
Brianna
Well, like, I didn't really get arrested.
Dave Portnoy
But you were like, around the people that got arrested, right?
Brianna
Yeah, but what, they just, like, take mug shots of witnesses?
Dave Portnoy
That'd be dope.
Brianna
They don't do that.
Dave Portnoy
No, they don't.
Brianna
I did get. I did get at Stagecoach one year. I did get a ticket for whatever the drinking is.
Dave Portnoy
Underage drinking.
Brianna
Yeah.
Dave Portnoy
Wasn't it. Wasn't it crazy because the guy was, like, undercover and you thought he was just.
Brianna
Oh, my gosh. It was the wildest crazy. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think I've told the story, but I was with. I was with a couple of my buddies and I'm also there, like, with this girl that I've, like, started talking to at the time. And so I'm trying to, you know, like, show her this cool time because it's like my first time talking or like, hanging out with her and I'm like, going to Stagecoach and we have this, like, sick Airbnb. And we're there, and so we're all drinking, and this guy comes and taps on my shoulder, and I turn around and he's like. He's like, hey, how old are you? We're doing ID checks. And I. I'm like, yeah, okay, buddy. Like, I look at him and I look at his guys, and they're all like, they look like a group of dudes. They look like a group of dudes who honestly would go around with people.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah, they were, like, dressed up in, like.
Brianna
Yeah, exactly. And that's the whole idea, right? Like. And so, like, I'm assuming they're like, I don't even know why, but I. I fully thought these guys were just, like, trying to do a joke, like, going around and videoing, like, yeah. I was like, haha. And turned around, and they were like, no, for real. And I turned back around, and the guy just has his badge out. And I was like, oh, damn. He's like, how old are you? I'm like, 23. And I was 20 at the time. So I tried to, like, get away with this for the first, like, two minutes. And then as I'm, like, trying to, like, slyly hand my wallet to my sister, because I'm like, I don't have my wallet on me. I don't have my wallet on me. I try to, like, slightly hand it behind the back. And one of the guys, I was standing on the side, like, sees it. He's like, what are you doing? I'm like, all right. I lied. No, I was just like, I lied. And then they were like, okay, so we can either go like, and you can walk with us, but we need to handcuff you. I was like, what? I was like, I'll just walk with y'all. Like, we don't need to do all this. So then they handcuff me. Then my team's, like, freaking out, so I'm getting handcuffed. And then I, like, look back at the girl, give her a little wink, walk.
Dave Portnoy
Bad boys.
Brianna
I. For, like, the littlest thing ever. And then, like, we're going. The guy's like, hey, by the way, like, you're with Barstool, right? And I was like, yeah, you know me. And he was like, yeah. And I was like, dude, what the. You could have just let me off.
Dave Portnoy
Come on.
Brianna
He was like, oh, don't worry. This will be quick. And I was like, okay, cool. So we go through. Get the thing. Gavin got taken too.
Dave Portnoy
Oh, my God. Cuz.
Brianna
Gavin was also drinking. Gavin got a Photo.
Dave Portnoy
And you did it.
Brianna
And they didn't take a photo of me.
Josh Peck
What the hell?
Dave Portnoy
Maybe they were trying to protect you.
Brianna
Maybe they were trying to be nice. Maybe they're trying to be nice. But I was like, damn, so what.
Dave Portnoy
You just had to pay a fine?
Brianna
Yeah.
Dave Portnoy
And then go back to.
Brianna
You know what was crazy? I, like, the guy was like, there's going to be so many fines that get booked through. Like, this is where Indio, like, Coachella, like, they make so much money. I was gonna say off their tickets.
Dave Portnoy
They probably have, like, a quota to hit those offices.
Brianna
Ridiculous. Like, some people get brought back, like, four times.
Dave Portnoy
Oh, that's bizarre.
Brianna
You have to pay the ticket four different times. Like, but he, like, he was like. When he was bringing me through, he's like, I've already brought that girl in twice today. Like, he was, like, pointing around and telling me this stuff. Like, he was actually kind of. Kind of a cool guy, but he was just doing his job at the end of the day.
Dave Portnoy
And they knew you were underage because they knew you.
Brianna
So they were like, I can't get that. Yeah. But no, they were like, there's, like, a really big chance. Because this was, like, near the end, he was. Of the day, he was like, there's been so many today, yours might not even get processed. Like, there's, like, a good chance it doesn't. And I was like, all right, cool. I don't know whatever happened to it. Obviously, my business managers kind of do.
Dave Portnoy
That, but nice flex.
Brianna
Yeah. That was. That was the story of Stagecoach. Hopefully this year. Well, I guess that can't happen anymore.
Dave Portnoy
You're overage. He's just old and overage, but that's overrated. It's funny when officers are like, people kind of know you guys, because that's like, when we went to Vegas and we tried to get Gabby into the club and they just Googled her.
Brianna
Yeah.
Dave Portnoy
And they were like, you're 20. She was like, oh, yeah, true. She's like. I'm like, no, the website's not always up to date. I'm like, it's not always true.
Brianna
Trying to lie it up. Gabby's already accepted the features. Like, yeah, no, I am 20.
Dave Portnoy
They were like, it says it on Wikipedia. I'm like, wikipedia is never true. People always can write on Wikipedia. Ah, the good old underage days. That's been years since I could get one of those things. Oh, we have an Anita interview in this episode. We do, yeah. Oh, awesome.
Brianna
It's gonna be great.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah. Well, it's a big switch up from what we just talked about.
Brianna
Yeah, very big switch up. But it's a good interview.
Dave Portnoy
It is. She's amazing. Enjoy. Bye.
Brianna
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One buck. Move that bus. Let's get into the interview. What's up, guys? Welcome back to another episode of BFFs. We have a really, really special guest. One of the coolest, biggest pop stars globally. Anita.
Josh Peck
Thank you.
Dave Portnoy
Welcome.
Josh Peck
Thank you for having me here.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah. Thank you for coming. We were talking a little bit before this. You're in for one day, then you're out to Miami, then you're to Brazil, then it's Coachella. Crazy.
Brianna
Yes.
Josh Peck
It's a lot. Right. But then I'm off. It's just vacation.
Dave Portnoy
You're gonna chill.
Josh Peck
Yes.
Dave Portnoy
You have to take a little bit of a chill.
Brianna
Pilla Chill.
Josh Peck
Yeah, yeah, I know. Before Coachella, I have a little bit of chill because it's my birthday. So my birthday week, I do. I do a whole week of celebration.
Dave Portnoy
You're one of the birthday girls.
Josh Peck
Whole week of celebrations, a lot of activities and trips and things.
Dave Portnoy
Okay. What's planned for the birthday?
Josh Peck
So it's so many things. So every birthday, every year, I don't know if you guys know about that. The sun revolution. You notice that? So according to your. The astrology, the place that you spend your birthday is going to tell you the tone of your year. So every year I choose what I want for my year. And according to that, we choose the perfect rising sign for me that year. So every Year we choose where in the world is going to be the perfect rising for what I want in that year. And then I've been to. There was a birthday that I traveled 24 hours. I spent one day in Thailand and I came back more. 24 hours.
Dave Portnoy
One day?
Josh Peck
Yes. Just because I had to be there at 8.9p 9am on my birthday, I had to be in Thailand. Then I left. Then another. Another year I went to Amsterdam. Another year I went to the middle of Costa Rica. Yeah. This year I'm gonna go to an island in Brazil.
Dave Portnoy
You really follow it, like.
Josh Peck
Yes.
Dave Portnoy
Okay. So are you really into astrology? Do you base a lot?
Josh Peck
I know how to read the. The host chart. So this year I'm gonna. I'm gonna do the celebr. So I always do the celebrations before, and then I travel to wherever I need to go. So I'm gonna do ritual, spiritual ritual with my shaman one day, and I will have a Shanti mantra singer doing a concert in my house. Then the other day, I have a crazy party with drinks. So we're going, you know, 0 to 100, like this.
Dave Portnoy
Is that when Larissa comes out and you put Anita away?
Josh Peck
Yeah. Yeah. So I'm gonna do like, oh, shanti, shanti. Then the next day, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And the next day I would do like, you know, when you're almost dad, but you see it was so good the night before. And you want to keep going.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah.
Josh Peck
That's kind of what's gonna be the next day. And then I travel to the place that I have to go.
Dave Portnoy
Oh, my gosh. Wow. We need to get better at birthdays.
Brianna
Yeah. I feel like for my birthday, all I did was golf.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah. I didn't. I don't do anything really.
Josh Peck
Hey, what's your sign?
Brianna
Aquarius.
Josh Peck
What's yours?
Dave Portnoy
Gemini. Oh, wow.
Josh Peck
I mean, they're strong signs.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah. Wait, what? Okay, what do you feel about Geminis and what do you feel? Aquarius.
Josh Peck
I don't like Geminis, but friendship for friendship is cool. I just won't be trying to relate to have a relationship with a Gemini. But it's all good.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah.
Josh Peck
Maybe Geminis don't want to have a relationship with me too. So it's all good. And Aquarius is great. My dad is Aquarius.
Brianna
Nice.
Dave Portnoy
I'm lucky you got off scott free here. Dad's an Aquarius.
Brianna
Aquarius is a great one to be.
Josh Peck
I'm an Aries. What I'm talking about.
Brianna
So what's the. What's the main trait of An Aries.
Josh Peck
Then we're very, like, pre. We know what we want.
Brianna
Okay.
Josh Peck
We say what we want. We're very like, action. Let's go. Very real, very loyal.
Dave Portnoy
You can see a lot of that in your Netflix movie that just came out. It's Larissa behind Anita, which is so incredible. We watched it. We both watched it last night.
Brianna
Yeah.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah.
Josh Peck
Do you like it?
Brianna
Yeah, I thought it was really cool. So what's. Are you. Did a relationship develop with the. The camera guy?
Dave Portnoy
Pedro.
Josh Peck
Pedro. I felt like it was a whole love story about.
Brianna
Like I was watching Pedro's love story.
Josh Peck
Yeah. So there are many ways of watching this movie, and that's what I like about it. You can watch it as a love story, which is cool too. You can watch it as a fan that wants to know me and personally and get to know me better, or you can watch it the way I watch it personally and the way I. It was my purpose on it, which was to understand the self love, self awareness, spirituality. I wanted the young people and teenagers that grew up and they were born already with social media to understand that life is not exactly what we think we are. When we look at our screens or the TV and all. I think with the social media and the television, we look at other people and we think that life is perfect. This person doesn't suffer. This person doesn't struggle. If I'm rich, I'm never gonna have problems again. I'm gonna be happy forever. And I wanted to send the message that that's not true. I was very poor. I thought when I was rich, I was gonna have the biggest happiness in the world. And that's not what happens. When we get a little money, you think you need. Need more money, and then when you get more, you think you need more. And then if you get famous, you think you need to be more famous, and then more and more, and then it becomes just never satisfied with things. And happiness is a choice. So that's the main way that I look at this movie and that I made this movie for. For everyone to relate in that way. I think all of us have Personas that we put out for the people that we want to be likable. And when we go home, we. We are inside of our. Of our house with ourselves. We know that we behave differently. We feel a little different inside than we are putting out normally. And I wanted everyone to see that. We all have that. We all go through this, and we need to make pieces between these both sides of us to. To feel the real happiness Otherwise, we're gonna think the external things are gonna fulfill us.
Brianna
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It seemed like in the. In the doc, there was a little bit of a. You had trouble sometimes, you know, detaching from Anita and just being, like, going between the two of them. Do you feel like you've found a better work life balance now and like.
Josh Peck
Yes.
Brianna
It's more solidified or is there still times you struggle?
Josh Peck
Yes, I think I did a big separation between these two people, that it's actually me. The way I built Anita was because. So I have another series on Netflix that came before years ago, and I. And I talk about how I built this character, how I create my career, and the way I started, like, lining up Anita, it's because I was. I love to sing. I love to be on stage performing, dancing. But when the song was, like. Was finished, I didn't know what to say. So I was like, how do I talk to people? So I would be like, just, next song. Just keep playing.
Dave Portnoy
Don't stop. Just keep playing.
Josh Peck
Keep playing. I don't want to talk to anybody. Because I was just very shy, embarrassed to be communicating to people. So I got an actress teacher, and we started to, like, write those lines that I would be speaking in between the songs. So I knew what to say. But those lines came out of myself based on what I was putting on the songs, which is a person who is fearless, has the courage to say what she thinks and this and that. So it's not that it doesn't exist. It is a part of me that I was too shy to put out to tell people, and I used as a protection. But in reality, it's a piece of me. The problem is that when I started just working too much and just thinking people were liking me just because of that, then I thought that the other side of me, the one that has insecurity, insecurities, and the one that is a little bit shy sometimes, that one was not likable. That one was not good. So I was just being the character the whole time and was not giving time for myself to. To have these other sides, too. And during the documentary, I finished this confusion between two people living inside of me that actually was just me, one person, you know, putting out in different. In different moments of life. And I learned to make pieces between these two differences that I was making between me.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah, you can be so many more than one thing. Like, at a time. You can be so many things. But it's really interesting because most celebrities, I feel they detach their old Selves and just become the ego or the money and the fame. And you kind of talked about how it's easy when you have money. You just want more money and you want to keep going. When did you realize that you wanted to keep, like, who you wore? The girl that grew up in Brazil instead of just, like, throwing her away?
Josh Peck
Yeah, I think we showed that in a doc. When my song goes number one and in the world, and I was like, wow, shocking. But then where is all of it that I was expecting what I was expecting, what I was expecting? I don't know. More than that.
Dave Portnoy
Fireworks.
Josh Peck
That was amazing. So let's enjoy it. And no, instead of enjoying it, I was just stressed about maintaining that status, that level. For other people to not say that I failed, that I went down. Oh, she made. I think here in Brazil, we don't have that much. They are starting a little bit now with that because of their algorithms and things like that. But I felt here a lot of this, like, oh, this person is hot right now. It's popping. It's hot. Oh, this person is dead. You know that they always say this expression. And it was so weird to me here in America, like, oh, the artist is hot. The artist is dead. And I was like, or either I'm hot or dead. I cannot be just. Can I be just alive, living life? No, you're hot or dead. That was so bad to me, so I was just so scared to be dead.
Dave Portnoy
I want to be hot. I want to be hot.
Josh Peck
I have to be hot. And to me, was very like. Like that. Instead of, like, enjoying and having fun with the moment, I was just like, okay, how do I maintain this? Because now everybody's gonna say that I'm not hot anymore.
Dave Portnoy
Oh, my God.
Josh Peck
And I bring this dilemma, this situation to the movie where nowadays I think I should have just had fun. But now it's never late. So now I'm having real fun with whatever I'm doing with my life.
Dave Portnoy
Good for you. You really have fun. Look what you built. Look what you did. And also, like, when you became number one pop star in Brazil, you could have just stopped and you were like, yes. No, I want to go global. I'm gonna make a Spanish hit. I want everyone to hear my songs.
Josh Peck
And now for me, like, I got such a beautiful home in Brazil. It's insane. And I just look at my house, and I'm like, why am I gonna leave the house? I could just stay here forever. Just live here like this forever and never do anything anymore of my life. Because you know, and it's kind of funny because I think people used to congratulation to congratulate us for things that we conquer in career and work. So all the subjects when you meet somebody is how is work? What do you do? How is work going? So what if I say nothing is happening with work, but I'm happy, I'm chilling in my house, I'm playing with my dogs. No one is going to congratulate me for playing with my dog and relaxing in my house. But that's actually a very hard thing to do, you know?
Brianna
Yeah, no, I think it's a little bit of like, people have. People have their values twisted, right? They. They worry about the wrong things. A lot of the times we get driven by like stats or numbers. So it's like, oh, did I get a raise in my job this year or did I, you know, was I able to make more money than my neighbor? Or something like. Like that. But it, it is really about, like, how many, how many good moments with good people can you make in a year?
Dave Portnoy
How many times did you smile today?
Brianna
Yeah.
Josh Peck
Yeah, totally. Because in the end, if we notice many, I don't know, 10, 20 years ago when we were comparing, because we always compare y. That's what the doc is about too. We would compare ourselves and our lifestyle only with the neighbors, only with the people that were related to our reality. But now with social media, we compare ourselves to somebody that was born rich in Saudi Arabia and Dubai, and we are comparing our lives. Like me being born poor in Brazil, in the favelas, I would be comparing myself as someone with somebody that was born rich in the middle, you know?
Brianna
In Beverly Hills.
Josh Peck
Yeah, in Beverly Hills. And like, it's possible to be compared, you know, and that's what we're doing now with social media and that's soul dangerous, because that's not even comparable, you know, And.
Brianna
And you're not comparing yourself to their life. You're comparing yourself to the 1% of their life that they post online.
Josh Peck
So what we're seeing on Instagram, everyone.
Brianna
Only posts their highlight reel. They're not going to post the down moments. Right?
Josh Peck
Of course.
Brianna
Yeah. You compare yourself and you get caught in that. That trap.
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Josh Peck
If you do, like, I don't know if you guys do that. I do a lot of meditations nowadays. And when you meditate, or if you do a guided meditation and. Or a journey or something, and you're asked to think about your happiest memory, you never are going to think about a work memory or getting a check. Always. A family memory is always a memory with friends, with people you love, having a good time, fun. So why, when we are putting, like, the priorities of our lives, we're putting work, we're putting money, if our best memories is not with, like, material things, never the ones that make us feel, like, happy.
Dave Portnoy
And that's all anyone cares about is money and fame. But it's so. It was so cool that you showed the opposites. Were you nervous to open up and kind of break down the wall of Anita to, like, show who you are behind closed doors?
Josh Peck
It was really hard because for years I've been trying to make this movie and I couldn't feel comfortable with nobody. I was like, every time the cameras were there, I would try to be likable. And what happened was that in one meditation, when I was really, like, I was stuck with this movie. I remembered Pedro, that he was my crush when I was a teenager.
Dave Portnoy
He's a cutie.
Josh Peck
And I remembered he became a filmmaker. So I texted him and I said, yo, I need your help. Because he knew me from when I was nothing, so I could not try to fake it. He would be like, who's that?
Dave Portnoy
Yeah, I know you.
Josh Peck
Come on. And that was the reason I invited him, because that was a person that knew me. And after, when we. Our last conversation in the doc was actually interrupt by a person asking for a picture. And that was our last real conversation. We never talked anymore. We talked after about work, but that was it. We never talked about us anymore. That was the last one. So why do you think?
Dave Portnoy
Why do you think that. That you guys left it off at that.
Josh Peck
Well, because I didn't see a reason on keep going on a conversation that I knew it wasn't going to go anywhere.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah.
Josh Peck
But the importance for me was that no script, that conversation was interrupted by somebody asking for a picture. And that, for me, was the perfect scenario of what happens in a celebrity's life or the person that people want a piece. And not even a celebrity or someone that is successful with work. And everybody needs something, and you don't have an actual time for yourself, and you have to be available for others, you know, and it was interesting. But then after that, I wanted to record the scenes at the beach. And I knew I wouldn't feel comfortable to say those things because I knew what I wanted to say to the audience, but I knew I wasn't gonna be comfortable to do that with any person filming me. So I asked my best friend to do that. So she came over with a camera right after carnival, when it was over, and I was about to go on vacations and go off for many days, and she was recording me. And with her, I was comfortable to be myself. So I found out this formula of being comfortable by putting a camera on the hands of somebody that was. I was very intimate.
Brianna
Yeah.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah. And you can trust that they're not trying to set you up in a certain scene or make you look a certain way. And it did. It felt very. I felt like I was almost watching something that I shouldn't be. Like I was in. Like I was.
Josh Peck
Yeah.
Dave Portnoy
I really felt like I was, like, in a room with you. Yes.
Josh Peck
The intention was to make the audience feel like the relationship is with you that is watching me.
Dave Portnoy
Yes. I feel like I learned a whole new side of you, but at the same time, you can so see, like, you are Nita. Like you said, you're the same person. And I feel like now both of your personalities have meshed where you're like you. You're your full self. And it's all out there.
Josh Peck
In the end when I. And I say all those beautiful things at the beach. And then in the very end when I say I think I want to have sex, that is like, okay, I made pieces with myself. You know, I made peace with myself. I don't need to just be one person talking about spirituality and goodbye. The other person that likes to have sex.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah. You know, you can be so many different things.
Josh Peck
We can be both things. So in the end, it's like the. This. You know, when I say I want to have sex, listening To a mantra, to shanti music that shows people, like, okay, I can do both. I can be into myself, and I can like to go crazy and be sexual, you know?
Dave Portnoy
Yeah. And you talked about a little bit in the doc when you went to that pageant when you were younger, and you thought, like, you walked in and everyone. These costumes, like, made. They bought the costumes. You and your family made it together. And your mom was like, we gotta fucking get out of here.
Brianna
We're not winning this one.
Dave Portnoy
We're not winning it.
Josh Peck
And you just like, I'm winning.
Dave Portnoy
You're like, no, I have charisma. I'm gonna win this. So you were kind of. You've just always been that girl, like, from the start. Even if you didn't really believe it, you, like, knew in the back of your head you were gonna be something.
Josh Peck
So I think that when we were kids, when I was a kid and I was having this conversation with my mom the other day, when I was a kid, I was sure of everything. I would. I would sit down and tell my family, oh, so I'm gonna sing here, and I'm gonna do this, and I'm gonna be famous there.
Brianna
I feel like when you're a kid, you don't have, like, that voice that almost gets installed in you.
Josh Peck
Fearless.
Brianna
That's like, oh, maybe you can't do this. Maybe you can't do this as a kid. You just like.
Josh Peck
And when we start growing up, we start listening to other people comparing and the other things that you need in order to get there, like, oh, maybe not. Yeah, but when you're a kid, there's no maybe not.
Dave Portnoy
There's no limits. Yeah, let's go.
Josh Peck
Maybe not. Who said that? Let's go. And I was like, that. And my mom represented the adult and me saying, like, the adults that now. And me says, like, no, but everybody has this and has have that, and. And I'm like, hell, no. They don't have what I have. You know? And it's this story to me every time. I'm like, I need some confidence. I remember this story. It was very important for me to put that story in a documentary because that makes me remember where is my strength, you know?
Brianna
Yeah. Keeps that youth inside you, too.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah, you need it. I mean, I would need that. I would need that inner child to go on stage and perform like you do. But you also talked about when you're walking up on stage, you're like, everyone hates this. No one's gonna want to be here. No one's gonna show up yeah.
Brianna
Yes.
Josh Peck
Sometimes. There was this one time in Brazil, it was like my first big show in Rio. And when I got to the. The place, I was like, I don't think anybody's gonna show up. I was so scared. And, you know, 4,000 people were outside trying to get in. 4,000 people.
Dave Portnoy
Oh, my gosh.
Josh Peck
And I was. And. And they needed to do a whole, like construction in the city too, for that. For that arena because of how much traffic they did.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah.
Josh Peck
And I was like, this whole time I got there, I was like, nobody's gonna show up. Every day, my life. So the show is sold out, and I'm like, what if nobody comes? And then my brother comes in, he goes, what the is gonna happen with people? They're gonna die on the way here. What is gonna be a better show down the street? You know? And I'm always like, I don't know, is it gonna be good? Are they gonna like it? What if my brother is always like, what's wrong with you?
Dave Portnoy
But if you don't have that self doubt, I feel like you wouldn't push yourself to be the best. If you were just like, oh, I'm the best, then maybe I think we.
Josh Peck
Only work on improvement because of this other side. That maybe I need more. But we need to balance that and know how to not push ourselves to the point that it's not necessary anymore, you know?
Dave Portnoy
Yeah. Because you struggled a little with that. You were kind of overworking yourself and you kind of like, I don't know, drove yourself to the ground where you're like, my body is shutting down. What was it like to get to that point?
Josh Peck
Wow. It was very bad because I wanted to keep working. I wanted to still want. I wanted to want that. That I. That I used to want before. Like this hunger, this, let's go. And I wasn't anymore. I didn't have the strength. I was super. Like, my body was really not healthy, you know, from so much work. And I was obligated to stop. And after that, I spent like five months in the hospital doing treatments, doing stuff to just improve my immune system. I was like, really bad. And I remember that after that I worked so much better when I came back to work. So I should have done that before. Just rest, you know, if you, you know, and see what happens and. And I wouldn't allow me to relax. I think part of it comes from the fact that when you were born very poor and you. You're. For many years, like for 20 something years of my life, I was used to not having anything. Oh, how. How are we gonna do tomorrow? How it's gonna be tomorrow? Where are we gonna be living next month? So that was a big concern. So for you to un. Get used from that, you know, for you to say bye to that, it's a little hard because your body is used to this. This fear, this stress of like, okay, I have to work because I don't know how I'm gonna pay my rent tomorrow.
Dave Portnoy
It's like, fight or.
Brianna
Yeah.
Josh Peck
So you. You're in the survival mode and you just don't stop. But now I can. I could.
Brianna
Yeah.
Josh Peck
And I wasn't. I was just like, one day off. What can I do on this day off? We can do that. That you can do this. We can do this. I would just fulfill my day offs of things to do because I couldn't.
Dave Portnoy
Just sit still, couldn't enjoy it. It's like, if you sit and enjoy, it's like, is it going to all go away?
Brianna
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Josh Peck
Just sit and do nothing. And I think Internet has done us this to us a little bit. I think maybe 10 years ago, we had social media, we had Internet, but we were not so addicted. We were more able to, like, enjoy the present moment, the real life here outside of the screens. And we were not that. We were still cool with just chilling, doing nothing, and not having to post.
Dave Portnoy
Everything all the time.
Josh Peck
Yeah. And I have to just be watching and seeing things or just have a.
Brianna
Constant, like, dopamine rush every. Every, you know, 30.
Josh Peck
Yeah. Stimulation.
Brianna
It's really instant gratification. You post something, you get like. Like, it's like, take a breath.
Dave Portnoy
I know. But then it's weird. Like in our world, in your world, you. It's like the hot or dead thing. You have to be relevant on social media. In your head at least. You think to, like.
Josh Peck
And if you don't keep fitting it, you lose the algorithm, and then you lose the traffic, and then you lose your. And then you start, and I'm gonna lose the traffic, and then I lose the people, and then I lose the money. And then you never. It's crazy. You get.
Dave Portnoy
It's too much.
Josh Peck
It's a lot.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah. Well, it's really cool that you found the balance. It's inspirational. And like, a lot of people don't come back from it. They just get stuck in that world and they lose Larissa.
Josh Peck
So, yeah, I'm glad that we found her.
Dave Portnoy
We have her still. But I know we're running short on time. We do have. Do you remember you Sniffed our friend's butt.
Brianna
Yeah, you did.
Josh Peck
Oh, that's true.
Dave Portnoy
Do you remember that? We have.
Brianna
Did you get him some of the. Is it. Is it poozy? What. Is the brand?
Josh Peck
Yes.
Brianna
Did you get him. Did you get him any of the product?
Josh Peck
I think I did, actually.
Brianna
Yeah.
Dave Portnoy
We need to show the viewers this. Play this video.
Josh Peck
This is a flashback.
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Brianna
Get those for Dave.
Josh Peck
Yeah, it's.
Dave Portnoy
Did you smell it? Smell that?
Brianna
Hold on. I'm not doing it. That's insane.
Josh Peck
He didn't do it himself.
Brianna
That's good enough. You smell it, and he didn't smell it.
Josh Peck
And it's so disgusting to smell someone's butt like that.
Dave Portnoy
And he touched your nose.
Brianna
Yeah, he got it in your nostril.
Josh Peck
Actually, some friends of mine, they say they licked their boyfriend's butthole. And I say that never.
Dave Portnoy
No, like you.
Josh Peck
I.
Dave Portnoy
You wouldn't like a butthole.
Josh Peck
Never.
Brianna
Never, Never.
Josh Peck
And they say, oh, just a little. Never. So disgusting. Oh, my God. Smelling like sweat butt. It was terrible.
Dave Portnoy
Well, we have one silly, fun game on that note for you to play, and then you can get out of here and go to Miami. We play with a lot of our guests.
Brianna
Okay.
Dave Portnoy
It's silly. All right, so we have Caleb Presley, the butt sniffer. Our friend Dave Portnoy. Oh, yeah, he's the but. And then Glenny Balls, who was the other guy in that.
Josh Peck
Oh, my God. I'm friends. I'm friends with Dave. I. I think he's engaged or something, so I. I killed him.
Brianna
Nice. Nice. Did we just learn Dave's engaged?
Dave Portnoy
Let's just go with that rumor, okay?
Brianna
Dave's engaged. Congrats. Dave confirmed.
Josh Peck
I don't know. I don't know if he's engaged.
Brianna
No, no, you confirmed it. You just confirmed it. No, he's engaged.
Dave Portnoy
He's engaged.
Brianna
Yeah. That's incredible. Breaking news, everybody. This is awesome.
Josh Peck
I don't know if I'm saying some shit of his single, I don't know, but no, he's engaged. Okay. So I would. I would fuck Caleb and Because. And Mary Glenny, because I think me and Caleb, as husband and wife, we would fight a lot.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah.
Josh Peck
Why would we just fuck him?
Dave Portnoy
Yeah.
Josh Peck
Just a one night stand.
Brianna
There we go.
Dave Portnoy
And you get along well with Glenny, so. Yeah.
Brianna
Yes.
Dave Portnoy
Who do we got?
Brianna
Josh Timothee, Chalamet, Glen Powell and Tom Holland.
Josh Peck
It's just committed people. I wouldn't do anything with committed people.
Dave Portnoy
Well, this is. This is hypothetical.
Josh Peck
Hypothetical. If everyone is them as actors.
Dave Portnoy
So we'll do Willy Wonka, Twisters and Spider Man.
Josh Peck
There you go.
Brianna
There we go. There we go. You picked Willy Wonka out of all the ways. All right. That's a different character.
Josh Peck
I would definitely. Okay. I would kill Timothy. I would. Glenn, I would marry Tom.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah, that's good. Same. Okay.
Josh Peck
Okay. I would.
Dave Portnoy
Oh, these are some people you've collabed with. So Ty.
Josh Peck
I would marry Snoop Dogg. I would marry Snoop Dogg because living with him is such a fun life. Life with him is soft, easy, amazing. I love him. Oh, what a person to be together every day. Do you smoke?
Dave Portnoy
Do you smoke weed?
Josh Peck
No.
Dave Portnoy
No. But you'd get secondhand high.
Brianna
Yeah. If you just like hung out in his house, you would probably.
Josh Peck
I don't know if I would be.
Dave Portnoy
Able to get a little spacey walking around like that.
Josh Peck
Yeah. I don't guess I would be able to be smelling the weed the whole day. I'm actually very allergic to any type of smoke, but I just love him. So I could. I could.
Dave Portnoy
You could do it.
Josh Peck
I could find a way. Then J. Balvin, it's. He's my best friend, but actually Tyga is also a friend. Yeah. I would fuck Tyga. I mean, I don't know. Not bad for him. But he's a friend. He will understand the joke and. And kill Bobby. Come on. He's married with a great friend. I can't say that.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah, well, she doesn't have husband anymore.
Brianna
Oh, that's my girlfriend actually, right there.
Dave Portnoy
She's present.
Brianna
Gabriella Moore. She told me to tell you. She told me to tell you that she loves you. Yeah, she's from Rio.
Dave Portnoy
If I close my eyes, they sound so similar to me and it makes me accent.
Brianna
Yeah, she's from Rio.
Dave Portnoy
That's me, Josh and Gabby.
Josh Peck
So I'm just gonna kill her because I don't want to fuck your girlfriend.
Brianna
Okay.
Josh Peck
Okay.
Brianna
You Could. You could kill me too.
Josh Peck
Okay, so I kill you.
Brianna
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Josh Peck
So I kill you. I fuck your girlfriend. I marry Brielle.
Brianna
Ptsd.
Dave Portnoy
Perfect.
Josh Peck
Okay.
Dave Portnoy
Is that it? Do we have one more? Okay, last one.
Josh Peck
Oh, my God.
Dave Portnoy
Okay, this one's good. This is Pedro. He was behind the camera. We have Peso, Pluma, and Maluma.
Josh Peck
Wow. I killed Pedro. I.
Dave Portnoy
No, I.
Josh Peck
Maluma is married. Guys, I can't stop thinking these people have.
Dave Portnoy
No. Just them on the stage.
Josh Peck
I would fuck with Luma and marry Maluma because life with him is really fun.
Brianna
There we go.
Dave Portnoy
Perfect.
Brianna
That's a great way to do it.
Dave Portnoy
Wow. Well, that's where we're ending it on.
Josh Peck
There's no single man that I could have tried it.
Dave Portnoy
What are we doing?
Brianna
Production team.
Dave Portnoy
That is not on her. That is on us.
Josh Peck
One single man that was single enough for me to try to hit her in the middle of the game is just taking true.
Dave Portnoy
We could have gave her her opportunity.
Brianna
Yeah. Guys, she could have been shooting shots. What are we doing over here?
Josh Peck
Shooting real shots over here. And I'm like, not dang.
Dave Portnoy
That means you just have to come back next year on the podcast.
Brianna
We'll make a better one for you. Yeah, next time it'll be all single people.
Dave Portnoy
Yeah, all single people. And in the meantime, while we're waiting for the next year podcast, make sure to watch the documentary. So great. You get to really see another side of you and just type Anita and.
Josh Peck
See the whole change. Because if you. If you watch the documentary before, you'll be like, wow, that's not the same person as the last documentary. It's a whole. It's a full cycle. So just watch it all.
Brianna
You know, we could have put Noah Centineo up there. I feel like you would get along with Anita. Do you know Noah?
Josh Peck
I'm not sure.
Brianna
Noah Centineo. Do you know.
Josh Peck
I don't know last name.
Brianna
Okay.
Dave Portnoy
He's an actor.
Brianna
He's an actor. We should have put him up there. He would have been. He would have been.
Josh Peck
That's a great idea. Come on. Is that a single person?
Brianna
Yeah.
Josh Peck
Great.
Brianna
There we go.
Josh Peck
We could have done that.
Dave Portnoy
Raya.
Josh Peck
I'm joking.
Brianna
Probably knowing Noah. Yeah. You probably could be on Raya. Yeah. Yeah.
Dave Portnoy
Perfect. Noah hit Anita up.
Brianna
Yeah, Noah, slide in those dms, Noah.
Dave Portnoy
All right. Thank you so much.
Josh Peck
Thank you so much.
Podcast Summary: BFFs with Josh Richards and Brianna Chickenfry
Episode: ANITTA PLAYS SMASH OR PASS - BFFs S2 Ep 12
Release Date: March 27, 2025
In the twelfth episode of the second season of BFFs with Josh Richards and Brianna Chickenfry, the dynamic duo dives deep into their personal lives, shares intriguing headlines, and engages in a heartfelt conversation with special guest Anita. Hosted by Barstool Sports, this episode promises an eclectic mix of humor, candid discussions, and insightful reflections.
The episode kicks off with Josh and Brianna exchanging light-hearted banter. At [00:24], Brianna reflects on the challenges of success and failure, setting the tone for a season filled with ups and downs. A humorous moment unfolds when Dave Portnoy shares his mishap involving his cat peeing in his suitcase ([01:05]-[02:20]), leading to playful teasing about wearing shorts to high-profile interviews. This segment not only provides comic relief but also showcases the hosts' genuine friendship and ability to connect over everyday mishaps.
Notable Quote:
Brianna at [01:19]: “One of my eyes is like completely bloodshot. I don't know if you guys can see.”
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to discussing Drake Bell's recent appearance on Josh Peck's podcast ([09:40]-[17:22]). The hosts delve into the history of Drake and Josh, touching upon their past fallout and the allegations against Drake. This segment is both nostalgic and critical, as Brianna reminisces about watching the show during her childhood ([10:23]-[10:46]), while Josh and Dave express mixed feelings about Drake's revelations.
Notable Quote:
Josh Peck at [14:25]: “I wanted the young people and teenagers that grew up and they were born already with social media to understand that life is not exactly what we think we are.”
Dave introduces Max's latest reality series featuring Jake and Logan Paul ([11:16]-[12:43]). He humorously criticizes the endless antics of the Paul brothers, comparing them to a mix between the Kardashians and High Noon pickle drama. This segment serves as a satirical take on current reality TV trends.
Notable Quote:
Dave Portnoy at [12:33]: “High Noon got a shout out on that.”
Another intriguing topic is the news about astronauts returning from an unexpectedly prolonged space mission ([19:21]-[21:20]). The hosts discuss the physical and mental toll of the nine-month journey, highlighting the lack of additional compensation despite the increased risks and health issues faced by the astronauts.
Notable Quote:
Brianna at [20:37]: “They will now have to go through intensive physical therapy, which is crazy. And they didn't get paid anything extra.”
The episode also covers the viral mugshots of a University of Georgia student ([21:20]-[28:14]). Dave and Brianna analyze the humor and public reaction to the student's repeated arrests, critiquing the sensationalism surrounding such incidents.
Notable Quote:
Dave Portnoy at [24:16]: “She should have made a T-shirt. She should have made number one and then like number two or one on the back.”
The highlight of the episode is an in-depth interview with Anita ([30:28]-[63:07]). Anita discusses her recent documentary, which explores themes of self-love, self-awareness, and the impact of social media on personal happiness. She shares personal struggles with balancing her public persona as "Anita" and her true self, emphasizing the importance of internal peace over external validation.
Notable Quote:
Anita at [36:43]: “Happiness is a choice. So that's the main way that I look at this movie and that I made this movie for.”
Anita elaborates on the pressures of fame, the relentless pursuit of maintaining her status, and the detrimental effects of comparing oneself to others on social media. She highlights the superficial metrics of success, such as followers and likes, versus genuine moments of joy and fulfillment.
Notable Quote:
Anita at [43:48]: “Only posts their highlight reel. They're not going to post the down moments. Right. You compare yourself and you get caught in that trap.”
A significant portion of the conversation revolves around Anita's journey to reconcile her different facets—her public image and her private self. She discusses the importance of meditation, self-reflection, and allowing herself to enjoy life without the constant need for external approval.
Notable Quote:
Anita at [47:05]: “It's so bad to me, so I was just so scared to be dead.”
Towards the end of the episode, the hosts engage in a playful "Smash or Pass" game, joking about hypothetically interacting with celebrities like Snoop Dogg and Maluma. This segment adds a light-hearted conclusion to the episode, reinforcing the hosts' chemistry and ability to balance serious discussions with humor.
Notable Quote:
Dave Portnoy at [59:04]: “That's incredible. Breaking news, everybody. This is awesome.”
ANITTA PLAYS SMASH OR PASS- BFFs S2 Ep 12 offers a blend of personal stories, current events commentary, and a profound interview with Anita that delves into the complexities of fame, self-identity, and the quest for genuine happiness. The episode successfully balances humor with introspection, providing listeners with both entertainment and valuable insights.
Key Takeaways:
For those who haven't listened to the episode, this summary encapsulates the essence of the conversation, providing a comprehensive overview of the topics and themes explored by Josh Richards and Brianna Chickenfry.