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Josh Peck

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“I almost don't want to because it almost like she loves her flowers. But yeah, I got to give it to my mom. It all starts and ends with my mom. And we have a deeply imperfect relationship because we're too deeply imperfect people. But at its core, she did more than I could have ever imagined and especially being a father and seeing how challenging it can be with all the help in the world and she did it all by herself. And I just give her all the credit in the world so much of why I'm here today is because of her. So thanks, mom. I hope you don't watch this. But thank you. I love you.”
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“apples ruined the barrel, right? So it's like I have to be careful with those thoughts and those feelings because they can ruin everything. So what I would say is when I take the action to get out of self When I become in service to others, when I do some reading, when I listen to a great podcast like this about people who are seekers who are trying to better themselves, if you take the action something will change. If you sit and you try to wrestle it in my experience, it'll never work.”
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“I'm reasonably articulate and I've, you know, I've prided myself on having what I thought was like a good mind. I gotta be able to think my way out of this thing. Like I have to be able to impress my will on this thing and wrestle it to death. Like I just can't believe it. And it's the duality of these things because didn't I get myself this far? Didn't me taking my life and my will into my hands didn't get all this success and notoriety and blah blah blah. And it's like, well, there was a part of it that that, but maybe you got that in spite of it. You know, maybe the truth is, is that these things, they need to be governed, they need to be throttled because inevitably they'll pervert. They will ruin, you know, that I just learned this. They say a couple bad apples. But the next part of that is a couple bad.”
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“I would just say, and my friend John, aka Wheels His motto was action is the magic word and you cannot think your way into right acting. You have to act your way into right thinking. And I always felt like really”
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“As I say, I rarely wake up in the morning in the mood for a salad. I usually want French toast. I wake up in the morning most times. It's usually not the morning. I am a morning person. It's usually at four a.m. at night or 2 a.m. or five in the afternoon when I'm overtired and I had too much sugar when my mom starts going, just remember, it's all going to be bad. You know that, right? But I have tools. You know, I have ways in which of dealing with that. To get out of those thoughts, to break that bad cycle. So it's just the voices are never gone, but the volumes turned down”
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“I'm in a wonderful place my life. You know, is a reflection of How do I say it? My life is that of a good man's. Now I say that not in some big self congratulatory way, but I just did the things that I was told to do by people whose life I want it. You know, I surrounded myself with the people who weren't telling me the things I wanted to hear, but their life looked attractive. And it wasn't because they had a nice car or they had an impressive job. Those things don't hurt, but it was because they seemed deeply decent that they had a good spiritual life and that they were good partners, they were good fathers, there were good sons. That was attractive to me. So I implemented that into my life on a regular basis, and the byproduct of that was a really good life that I'm completely overpaid to have today. And I still, it just as much.”
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“itself to be worth it and it gives you a deeper understanding. And then once you guys get really perfect, you throw a kid in the mix. And that little jerk makes you go even deeper and work even harder and become even more selfless, hopefully and less self centered, and again new truths are revealed and new ways of living are revealed. So yeah.”
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“That's why you have to have a kid because in my experience, and I say it in the book, we all work on ourselves and especially with incredible podcasts like this. And we're in the age of optimization and self-realization, and everyone's listening to a dozen podcasts at a time and wants to be their best version of themselves. And that's great. We can't be Faber eggs, right? Like we can't be these perfect pristine things, and then we get jostled around a bit by life and we shatter. And so to me, I think there's only so much work you can do on your own. And then it has to be like applied into life. And then you put some skin in the game and you get in a relationship and that forces you to go deeper. And you're like, I don't want to. And they're like, well, you better, otherwise this thing's not going to work, but you meet someone of value and you do the work and it reveals.”
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“Go to bed, man. I'm like, I don't know, not in my experience. Like, you can go to bed. You can be mad for a couple days. Usually it doesn't last that long. No one wants to be that pissed that long. But it's like, but when we work this out, I'll be here because I'm not going anywhere because my siblings never went anywhere. My mom and dad never went anywhere. We stick around through the good and the bad. And that was a revelation for me.”
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“Luckily I was in a state of doing the work. I was willing to be, I was not doing that specific work, but in general because I was in a recovery program, because my mom had put good people around me, and because I had done therapy since I was a kid, I knew I was self-aware enough to know, like, oh, there's certainly work to be done here. But it wasn't until I had a woman like my wife in my life who taught me a better way. Who came from a family that doesn't leave? And she reiterated that. So when we get in these fights and I would look at her and be like, so I guess we should call it. Like, this was great, right? She'd be like, what? Like, no, like, I'm not going anywhere. And neither you. And we can be mad at each other. We can be mad. We can go to bed mad. I love that when people go, you know.”
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“Until this point in relationships, if anything went south, I just would go, this is a preview of more bad to come, this isn't natural growing pains, this isn't natural discourse or just like the natural arguments that you get in and then you get through them and you become closer, I would just go. This was great. I'll be fine without ya. Thanks. And I would just go leaving people in my wake to feel like what the hell happened.”
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“You're interviewing for a job once or twice a year, and if you're an out of work actor, you're interviewing for a job four times, five times a month, sometimes more during pilot season, right? So you really have to calcify. Yeah, like you have to become callous to rejection. It's like if you ever talk to a doctor about death, they have a very interesting bent on it because they can't be overly emotional about it because it's a part of their job.”
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“Well, I think it was with the dad stuff, it was about in relationships up until my wife, I had this, like, I would call it like the Tony Montana approach to life, which was like, if anything went wrong, if there was any sort of adversity or any kind of, I mean, at this point, right, like I've dealt with the dad stuff and then I've been in showbiz till, you know, since I was 10, right? Which is the ultimate rejection, right? You're going on a job interview at best, even if you're on a TV show.”
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“Yeah. I can accept that I think that everyone is bad at relationships. And I think just like I believe that even if you have a perfect parental structure, we will self-parent. There's always going to be gaps in our rearing. There's always going to be. Spots that were missed as a result of your. And it's incumbent on you to fill in those gaps. That's growing up, right?”
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“A big brother since I was eight years old and things that I learned from him and then eventually my father in law who I really look up to and all the great men in my life and all these assets, these tools that I had learned, you know, when I had my son Max, I was like, okay, here's my opportunity now to implement that and see everything that I've collected, what I can give him. And it just felt perfect. It felt like God's way of having a laugh and be like, you knew this was going to happen, right?”
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“Man school, you know, especially in sobriety, I had to learn, and I don't mean to make it this blanketed definition for me what it meant to be a man and the qualities that I had to sort of accrue, the things that no matter how great my mom was, couldn't give me because she was just limited by what one person can do. The things that I learned from my big brother Dan, I've had a big brother in the state, we have the big brother foundation.”
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“Had all those inherent qualities, but those things that felt like presentationally macho or dude-esque, I was just like, oh, I don't have that. And so, yeah, I wanted to have a girl. And then when my son was born, my wife and I didn't find out the sex. And so, you know, at nine month and nine months and a couple days when the doctor was like, what is it, Josh? And I got to announce to the room, like, it's a boy. I was like, oh, of course, because it was required for me, you know, my life turned into.”
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“Terrified Because I just didn't have any work life experiences. I just didn't know. Look, I'm a formerly chubby musical theater kid from New York. Like, I don't, I never thought anything that was masculine. I never thought I had the prerequisites for that. That was like inherently dudish. I've always been like a guy. Like I love boxing. Like I've always broke down. I've always, you know”
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“I don't see how it couldn't be. But what I've also learned in being sober this long and hearing a lot of other people's experiences that my story, my feelings are not rare. But they're not a monolith. They're not singular. I've heard plenty of stories of people who had like pretty idyllic upbringings and they just happened to suffer from this thing where they do too much and this particular mental bend that makes them look at life or makes them seek out a way of numbing their feelings. So what I know now is that certainly I think you're right. It was part of my story, but it's not the only way.”
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“The resentment, I think, at its highest is showcased in me being 100 pounds overweight. My struggles after that. I think that was certainly, it was all that resentment and anger and frustration and unexplored feelings presenting itself. As whatever that was, as those addictions, right? They were in the manifestation of a deeper issue. They were a symptom of a deeper issue.”
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“Valid. That's not valid. That's a part of this imperfect man. So it gave me a little bit of forgiveness for this guy. And it made me realize that he was probably scared and he had probably had this great perfect record with his family and then this blemish occurred and he did the best that he could. So in a weird way, seeing that he was good to them, he made me a little more okay that maybe he wasn't great to me and then of course having a son of my own and being the dad to my two boys now that I wish my dad was for me was sort of like the ultimate amends to eight year old Josh”
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“My friend figured out a way to my friend a buddy of mine basically was looking with me and was like, oh, there was a connection between him and my sister. They had attended a similar workshop or some kind of like education program. He's like, maybe under the guise of that, I could become her friend. And then, you know, I could see if on her profile she has any photos of your dad. I had never seen what he looked like. She accepts it, and I am immediately given this treasure trove of photos of his life. And I'm seeing him at their Barmitzvahs and weddings and These beautiful tribute said his friends and family are making to him after he passed away. And it made me realize that what my dad was for me wasn't the only part of him. You know, it certainly was a real part of him, but he also was this great dad, just not to me. And that's not.”
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“Then I was mourning is in theory sort of the worst part of, it's sort of the other side of love, right? It's that the gift is you get to love in the embrace of someone. And then what comes with that is that eventually if they're not here anymore, you have to mourn them. You have to mourn what was. I was like, there was nothing. And I still have to get the crappy side of this. Doesn't seem fair. It forced me to do something that inevitably led to my men's and my amends that I gave myself, which was I randomly looked up his kids on Facebook.”
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“Whatever version my head was telling me like to keep me warm at night. So when he passed away, I was like, oh, damn, he won, right? Perfect record. He set his mind to something and he stuck to it. He's like, I'm never going to meet that kid. And he did it. And I never got that moment to sort of say like, how dare you? I don't know if it would have been that. Probably wouldn't have been. It probably would have been like, hey, I'm your kid. What's up? Like, do you want to get a coffee? But all of that was sort of taken away from me. So I felt. I felt pissed that I had to mourn this guy that I never knew.”
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“So I, but when I found out that he passed away, it also felt like a little bit of this thing that I'd been carrying around, this emotional grenade that I could, you know, I had the power in the sense that I could show up and he had this whole other family and these grown kids and a wife. And if I wanted to, at will, I could blow that up for him. If in theory he never had told them anything. I was never going to do it. But it was nice to know, right? Like.”
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“Or the way I would portray him to people felt like my weird cosmic consolation prize. Like, I don't get to have him in any way, but I can present him to people in the way in which I choose. Not that I was telling people that my dad was, you know, the first man on the moon or anything like that. It just was like, you know, my mom knew that he was Jewish and that he was Sephardic, which is a type of Jew that tends to be from either the Middle East or from Morocco or French, or it can be South America, Mexican. And so for me, I would just like ping pong where he was from. Sometimes he was from Spain. Sometimes he was from Israel. Sometimes he was from Morocco. Like, I just would kind of present it as I saw fit. And it felt like if I ever met him. Him, well, then I lost even the illusion or this creation of my dad that I wanted to make.”
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“Well, I remember I had always sort of toyed with this idea of meeting him, and yet I think I knew deep down I never would. My creation of him is my head the way that I sold him to my friend?”
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“You know, it's not, you know, your higher power is up to you as long as you know that you're not God. That one's helpful. It just presented some ways in which for me to apply things to my life that help me to get and stay sober. So I think if the efficacy wasn't there, if I didn't see quickly that I started to feel better, then maybe I would have sought a different way. This was a way that happened to work for me.”
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“Well, you know, it's sort of in the name anonymous that there's an anonymity portion to it. So I always want to make sure it said that I'm in no way sort of a representative or ambassador for it in any way. It's just how I have found a way in which to get and stay sober over the last 15 years is through a 12-step program. And it's just a way it's ancient truths repackaged to make sense to a guy like me. It's the best way. It helps to mitigate the worst of my character defects. It's just a sort of for me. An age old way of cleaning up your past and looking at bad patterns and habits in my life and making amends and trying to implement things that through history we have known to work gratitude surrender acceptance if you want self-esteem do esteemable acts restraint of pen and tongue you know just like”
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“Yes, it's totally emotional and Ugly, like the way, like how we're all pitiful in those moments. I don't think you have to be suffer from addiction or it's just like when we realize that our way isn't working anymore and a change needs to occur. And so, yeah, I certainly it's taken 15, 16 years to articulate it correctly. I think it was just a feeling.”
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“And it just confirmed this idea of like, oh, even at your best, even when everything's kind of going right, because it's easy to use when life throws you challenges as a reason to sort of. Cosine your bad behavior. But everything was going right and I still didn't feel like enough, and I knew at that point that I needed to make a change or I might never do it.”
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“And it went to the Sundance Film Festival, and I was so proud, and we got a standing ovation, and it just felt like such a confirmation for me as an actor that there was going to be opportunity. And there was more to come for my career, that it wasn't just this sort of anomaly that I did this one show and that that was sort of going to be it. But I remember in that moment all those similar feelings, that mind that had gotten me in trouble so many times before was still yelling at me and all those feelings were flooding in. They weren't there the night we got they weren't there during the 90 seconds of the standing ovation. They weren't there, you know, when I was smiling in front of the camera, but they were there when I got home. They were there when I got in bed. They were there when I was waiting in line for a coffee the next morning or whatever else I was doing. So it was like so short-lit.”
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“Well, again, I had a crude plenty of wreckage, but I remember I had done this movie, The Wackness that I was extremely proud of with my favorite actor Sir Ben Kingsley, you know. And I mean, literally my favorite actor, like getting to, you know, have my rookie season with Michael Jordan.”
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“Sort of barreling down on me, and I realized that I needed to do something. Now, I think people have those moments and they don't do anything, and they lose another four years or five or ten or twenty. But I do think the world and life catastrophe, challenging circumstance, some version of a bottom, whatever you're going through, being fired from something, a health scare has a way of temporarily waking you up and what you do in that moment decides what's going to happen next for you.”
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“With these, you know, with drinking and with other substance, but it was all sort of connected. So it wasn't this four-year run. It was really like, since I was nine or ten years old, it just was, again, validating and reconfirming this idea of like you overdo things. And nothing is going to fill up this hole in the soul, no matter what you try to fill it with. And even like the things that our world tells us is of value, even success isn't going to do it. Even if girls like you, it's not enough. And so I remember at 21 having a moment like that when it all sort of came.”
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“Oh, and I'm sorry, I forgot the point I was trying to make with the Hillary thing, but oh, someone wrote a comment on that clip and that video said, damn, Josh Pett got sober at 21. He really went for it. So to answer your follow-up question, yeah, I mean, I think that I basically was. Substituting what I used food for”
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“They didn't know that part of my history, right? So it was something that was this thing that I was sort of navigating and balancing kind of, how much I would sort of talk about it and reveal and then also sort of this balancing of like the things that I also wanted to keep private.”
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“I just became a cliche quick. I hurt relationships and work. I worried the people that love me. I just started to accrue a lot of wreckage quickly. It's funny I interviewed Hillary Duff on my podcast Good Guys the other day and we made a joke. I was asking her about like She brought up something about like, oh, I love an alcoholic beverage and she kind of looked at me and said, sorry, Josh. And I was like, no, I love an alcoholic beverage too, unfortunately, whenever I drink, it leads to my other favorite beverage Percocet, which is a very popular painkiller in this country. And I remember people sort of Saying, like, they were so sort of, they just didn't know sort of my.”
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“My trauma was real, my challenges were real, and that played a part in it, but I was just so wrapped up in my feelings of feeling less than and uncomfortable and not proverbially not at the cool table that I found myself in a place to numb my feelings because those thoughts were unrelenting.”
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“I probably if I could. Edit my book now, I would be probably less I'd be less revealing. No, I would be. I would be less harder on myself and say, It's self centered. If we're talking about the root of it, I remember when I got sober, people would say, you're self-centered, and I would say, The quarterbacks, the models, the good looking, the self absorbed people to me felt. When you would see that in movies, there was someone who was staring in the mirror and perfecting their hair, and they would say, no, if you spend all your time thinking about how great you are or how shit you are, all you're thinking about is you and you are self-centered. It doesn't matter whether it's great or bad. So I wouldn't, yeah, I would substitute self-hating with self-centered. I was obsessed with self, I”
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“Yeah, drinking and drugs. I think I see something in the book of like, if you've been carrying this invisible bag of stones around your whole life, a weight vest with 50, 100 extra pounds. I mean, I quite literally was. But let's just say it's like emotional weight vest. And eventually you almost forget that it's on. You just know your knees hurt. You know you're exhausted. It's like, why am I so tired? Why do things feel tougher for me than it does for my friends? And then if in an instant that weight vest is lifted off of you and your knees hurt less and you're walking around and you're like, oh. You wouldn't question it. You'd just be like, whatever just took that weight vest off, I'm in. And that's the reaction that I had.”
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“I just knew that when I finally did find those things and I did sigh that bit of relief that I'd been looking for, I think there was even a moment in that first night when I went out with some other kids my age and really tied one off and thought I was having like a proper teenage time. I remember this voice in my head being like, oh, this is it. Like this is what we've been looking for.”
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“Well, it's Sort of the themes that you've mentioned throughout this interview it's cause and effect right like I dealt with the effect but I didn't deal with the cause and unfortunately there were some issues at play there were some unresolved pain and work that needed to be done that I wasn't even aware of but it was all at play under the surface so when I no longer had that thing that was helping to sort of keep those feelings at bay they reared their head and I needed to find something else I didn't know that it was going to be in the form of you know drinking and sort of alcohol's cousins but I uh”
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“And I just started to walk, and up until then I would do these really intense, you know, attempts at keto or These extreme diets on a Monday, and I would fail by Wednesday morning, and then it would be back on again. But this time I said, I'm just going to try to make a small change every day, and I would walk the city for miles, and I would listen to music, and I would dream of what my life could be. And I started eating better, and slowly but surely that summer I lost like forty pounds, and then over the next year I lost another forty, and then over the next year I lost another forty.”
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“I think it was had a therapist that I've gone to since I was 15 and I still see here and there. So my mom kind of knew, I think she saw it in me early on that there was just a lot going on, be it my dad or the weight stuff. And then I think I would just. In the way that change is born, you know, pain is a great motivator. I was sort of sick and tired of being sick and tired. And I knew that I had to let go of something. I don't think I knew exactly what it was, but if I'm looking back at it now, it was like, it was this anger. It was anger at my dad. It was anger at my circumstance. I just remember I was 17 years old. My mom and I would drive back to New York every year for like two months. And we would just go and see family and hang out in the city.”
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“I think it was a number of things I was ready. I think naturally like my body was ready to let go of it. And I just knew that I I felt like because I was so insecure, I had missed out on a lot of my teenage years. It wasn't without lack of opportunity to go out and be a knucklehead and experience life. I just didn't want to do it because I didn't love the body that I was in. So I felt like if I didn't act now, I was going to lose some really important years.”
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“I certainly made a decision that I was ready to do it. I think I just knew that I was going to do it. And also in writing the book, it's When you put pen to paper, And I know you're a writer yourself. It's amazing how these I feel as though we make these everything in our brain is sort of shorthand, right? It's like these picture memories that are connected and sometimes they're connected by these really strong connections and sometimes it's just like short little hits. But when you're forced to actually explain it on a page, it makes you look at it differently. And I was like, wow, I was only heavy from like thirteen to seventeen. Of course they're the years that have been enshrined in television history forever, so it feels much bigger. But had I just been like a normal cade, I would have burned my yearbooks and sworn my family to secrecy, and I'd never bring it up.”
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“More generations would come to the show, and these people grew up. So it wasn't as though it was this moment in time. It was that every year. We were picking up new fans.”
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“It wasn't until much later, funny enough. I think because when we were making it, it was only popular with kids who were sort of younger who I didn't, other than if I was at a mall or at a theme park, I didn't have a huge amount of interaction with. And then I would say that the power of the show to its credit was that it was slightly timeless because it had a very sort of classic through line of any sitcom. It was about a family. And a lot of kids' shows can be more fantastical and have more of a sci-fi bent or something more fantasy or whimsical. This was just like very straight down the line two brothers who are very different trying to get along in an evil little sister. So, because of how much it was rerun”
2023-04-13 · The Diary of a CEO · Josh Peck: The "Drake & Josh" Child Star Opens Up + Shares The Truth Behind His 127lb Weight Loss! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I got really honest and I sort of broke it down because Ryan Holliday, my friend, and sort of advisor on the book, was like, if you don't, he's like, it's gross to talk about money, but if you don't actually give a sort of exact picture of what it was, then people won't understand. And so I sort of talk about that, you know, while doing the show, we made about $100,000 a year for the four years we were making it, which is great money in a lovely middle class lifestyle, but no one would assume that once you stop working, that you never had to work again. So I just wanted to give some clarity to that. To sort of explain the choices that I made after and why I was so passionate about finding more work because I had some people to take care of”
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