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Pete Davidson welcomed his best friend, Machine Gun Kelly, as a guest on the debut episode of his Netflix video podcast showThe comic said he and MGK “both thought we were going to die pretty young”They reflected on their relationship over the years and how they have supported each other through manic episodes and rehab stays
Pete Davidson and Machine Gun Kelly shared how their bipolar disorder has “synced up” — and reflected on their shared “redemption stories” for the Jan. 30 debut episode of the comic’s Netflix video podcast, The Pete Davidson Show, which he films in his garage.
When MGK (real name: Colson Baker) shared that a friend told him, “I’m proud to see how you’ve grown,” Davidson, 32, replied, “I think we both thought we were going to die pretty young.” He added, “I’m equally impressed by both of us [that we’ve] been able to keep it going.”
Davidson continued, sharing that while they’ve had “troubles while sober,” they’ve been able to manage them, dismissing any problems as “it’s fine.”
Pete Davidson films his new podcast video show from his garage.
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“You know what else?” MGK asked. “I realized through our friendship … our bipolar has synced up because every time I’m having a manic episode, you’re good, and every time you’re having one, I’m good, the “Cliché” singer, 35, said.
“Yeah, it’s really good for our suicide pact,” the Saturday Night Live alum deadpanned.
“It is,” MGK said. “It always goes back and forth.”
“Thank God,” Davidson says, “because we would be dead for sure.”
“Because every time I call, you’re super mellow,” MGK explains. “And every time you call, I’m super mellow. So it just like goes back and forth.”
They riffed on their similarities — from humble upbringings to, particularly, as MGK said, their shared “coming-of-age stories and redemption stories and, like, almost like the phoenix rose from ashes. We come from sh—y circumstances. We come from nothing.”
Pete Davidson and MGK at the Daily Front Row Fashion Media Awards in September 2025.
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They also shared their parallel struggles with addiction and rehab stays: Davidson first sought treatment in July 2023, and then again in July 2024, and has been open about his ongoing struggle with sobriety and mental health; MGK revealed in 2024 he was sober after going to rehab.
“I just thought it was funny that we’re always calling each other from rehab. We never go at the same time,” MGK said.
“We never go at the same time,” The Pickup star reiterated. “But we usually both need it. The other one needs it while the other one is in it, and we’ll take, like so, so many notes.”
MGK is the first guest on ‘The Pete Davidson Show’.
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Davidson shared that it took him “like, nine, ten times to go to rehab and get all the skills,” whereas for MGK, “You’ll go and just get all the skills … and like I’m not saying it’s easy for you, like it’s tough, hard work, but like, you just don’t waste any time.”
MGK replied that for him “my stakes are high” — referencing his two daughters, Casie Colson Baker, 15, whom he shares with his ex Emma Cannon, and Saga, 10 months, whom he shares with ex, actress Megan Fox
That’s when he reminded Davidson, “Now you got high stakes because you have a kid,” daughter Scottie, whom he welcomed in December with his girlfriend Elsie Hewitt.
Towards the end of the podcast, Davidson shared that he and MGK were better at “not being so impulsive,” explaining that sometimes all it takes is calling each other. “We’re getting better at taking a second and then just calling you,” Davidson said. “You’re the one friend I have that gets it, what I’m going through.”