Your morning social media scroll may have felt a bit more unpleasant than usual today, thanks to posts featuring Benny Blanco’s grimy-looking feet and a moment where the record producer lets out a fart.
It’s not exactly the kind of content most people want to be greeted with at the start of the day, and the clips have prompted some backlash online.
The footage comes from Blanco’s new podcast, Friends Keep Secrets, where he’s joined by co-hosts Dave Burd and Burd’s wife, Kristin Batalucco.
The show takes an unconventional approach: more than 18 hidden cameras are set up around their Los Angeles home, aiming to give viewers what’s described as an “intimate hang” with the hosts, their friendships, and any guests who drop by.
Because the podcast “isn’t a formal interview show,” the tone is noticeably looser than the typical celebrity chat format — which becomes clear almost immediately.
Just minutes into the first episode, released Tuesday (February 24), Blanco is shown lounging on a couch while the bottoms of his feet appear to be covered with dirt.
Elsewhere in the shared clip, Blanco is seen farting — a moment that one social media user labelled “disgusting.”
“Starting a podcast with a fart? That’s called setting the tone… raw, unfiltered, and slightly hazardous,” one person penned, while a second added: “There’s a difference between funny and gross.”
Meanwhile, a third penned: “That’s a week old dirt under his feet,” and a fourth simply quipped: “I’m gonna throw up.”
The reaction also follows earlier headlines about Blanco’s hygiene habits. In 2024, he told People that he considers himself “really clean,” even though he doesn’t “shower every day.”
“But some people I know shower two, three times a day, but I feel like the oils on your skin don’t have time to rejuvenate and get juicy,” Blanco said.
“I want there to be an aroma as I’m walking by. I want it to smell a little bit like man, a little bit feminine. I definitely lean, I think, a little more feminine in every sense.”
Before the podcast launched, Blanco and his co-hosts spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about what they wanted the project to be — and why they felt there was room for something different.
Blanco said: “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 sh*** guy to women?'”