The Bossticks - Josh Peck - Gets Real About Childhood Fame, Addiction, Weight Loss & How To Transform Your Life

Episode Date: September 25, 2024

#756: Join us as we sit down with Josh Peck, an actor, writer, and Co-Host of the Good Guys podcast. Having grown up in the spotlight at a young age, Josh shares candid insights into his life as a child actor in the entertainment industry. In this episode, he discusses his inspiring weight loss journey, the decision to cut out alcohol, and the challenges of navigating fame from a young age. Discover how Josh continues to make an impact in the entertainment world & the valuable lessons he's learned throughout his journey! To connect with Josh Peck click HERE To connect with Lauryn Bosstick click HERE To connect with Michael Bosstick click HERE Read More on The Skinny Confidential HERE To Watch the Show click HERE For Detailed Show Notes visit TSCPODCAST.COM To Call the Him & Her Hotline call: 1-833-SKINNYS (754-6697) This episode is brought to you by The Skinny Confidential Head to the HIM & HER Show ShopMy page HERE to find all of Michael and Lauryn's favorite products mentioned on their latest episodes. Visit istandwithmypack.org to support I Stand With My Pack's (ISWMP) mission by donating or adopting. Every contribution helps! This episode is sponsored by The Farmer's Dog Get 50% off your first box of fresh, healthy food at TheFarmersDog.com/SKINNY. Plus, you get FREE shipping!  This episode is sponsored by Clarins Go to Clarins.com/SKINNY and get Double Serum for 10% off, a free 8-piece welcome gift, plus free shipping on your first order. This episode is sponsored by Pique Head over to piquelife.com/skinny to get up to 15% off and a free cup and frother + free shipping FOR LIFE  when you start on any of my Piqu This episode is sponsored by Philadelphia Cream Cheese Visit creamcheese.com This episode is sponsored by Land Rover Evoque Explore the Range Rover Evoque at LandRoverUSA.com. Produced by Dear Media

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Welcome back to the skinny confidential him and her show. So today we have Josh Peck on the show. I'm sure many of you are familiar with Josh Peck. Josh is an actor, writer, and the co-host of the Good Guys podcast, which happens to be housed with Dear Media. I'm surprised it took us this long to sit down. I personally spent a lot of time laughing at Ben and Josh's clips and their show. It's incredible if you haven't listened to it yet. Check it out.

It's on Dear Media. It's called The Good Guys. We covered a lot of ground with him. Some of the topics include growing up at a young age in the spotlight. Josh gives us the inside scoop of what it was like to get. grow up in the spotlight as a child actor in the entertainment industry. We also talk about his weight loss journey, addiction, cutting out alcohol. We could have talked to Josh for forever. He's really easy to talk to. He's fun. He makes us laugh. And he's just a great guy.

With that, Josh Peck, welcome to Skinny Confidential, him and her show. This is the Skinny Confidential, him and her. I make a mean bowl of beef. So every day when I was, we were talking about this off air, losing 60 pounds, how I did it is, I was, I'm I would make a huge bowl of meat. And I just feel like my bowl of meat could win on your competition. What are we talking? Taco seasonings? Are we cooking it in tallow, ghee?

So I mix it up. So lately my latest has been a big bowl of like venison and liver and organs. And then I'll put... Going dear meat? This is, we're going dear meat. God. This is a weight loss hack. Okay.

And then I put raw cheddar cheese on top with raw, farmers market honey, there's nothing better. And if you want to... It's a hot sauce? No, no, no. That's a different bowl. If you want to do an in-and-out bowl, you use the special sauce from Primal Kitchen. You chop up, like, some like lettuce, tomato, raw onion, perhaps. You could also do like a taco bowl of meat.

Welcome to the show, Josh. This is it. I'm excited because you got, like, I'm on the periphery of that stuff. I can hear the raw dairy. We're going to get along. No, but you're open to it because, listen, I, you know, we just, you know, we just, had Whitney Cummings in here and I was grilling her because she's also in this Conover Hello, Dr. Craig Conover. Love you, Dr. Craig Conover. Yeah, you're in.

Whenever I find anyone who's in the Dr. Craig Conover one, I'm like, oh, you're open. Yeah, because he will lead you down some paths. I'm down to clown. I'm ready to optimize. Let's do it. Let's hack ourselves. You're in the raw club? Yeah, no, I'm not in the raw club. Do you do raw milk? Yeah. So scared. Why? Asteroizing good. Raw milk doesn't hurt your stomach. But doesn't it, Maybe it has like diphtheria? What does it carry?

Potulism? I have been drinking at my entire family for the last two years and I will never go back. It is so good. You got to get it from like a reputable farmer. You want to know where you're getting it from. But Josh, I will say like, you know, the Wall Street Journal did this whole piece. It was kind of, you know, it was like a look what these crazy people are doing. Lorne was featured in the article.

You were? I was like, look, God, we made the wallchick. It was like the thing, you know, of all the things that have happened in our lives. And I was like, you know, what's my dad? gonna be impressed. The Wall Street Journal. I'm like, we ever make the Wall Street? Look, we made it. You know what's good? Raw milk ice cream? Raw milk in your coffee, little protein, little carb, little sugar before a workout. Great weight loss hack. Have you heard about the egg yolk and coffee before? I'm into it. Tell me about it. It's just egg yolk, a little bit of sugar or maple syrup,

and your coffee. It sounds actually pretty good. I mean, it just makes it creamy. They make cocktails with eggs. I'm going to make this on my stories and tag you. These too. That sounds amazing. I bet it's good. I tried it, got a little bit of the egg white in it, kind of gross. But next time, if I, I think you just have to be very careful to just do yoke. Okay, so it's only yoke. It's not the white. But if you have like a gin sour or whiskey sour, they'll shake egg whites into it and you probably not notice that. It just makes it that like kind of like cloud texture. But Josh, what if you added raw milk to the egg? I'm open to the raw milk. It just scares me. And I'm, I'm a city boy. I'm in L.A. So I don't know. Otherwise I'm going to have to like sell my first born to Airwane to. to buy like one pitcher of raw milk for what, $40? It's probably very expensive. It's one of those things that, sorry, Michael, I just don't look at the price.

Before- Some girls buy handbags, shoes. I like my raw milk. I have a feeling now, like when Lauren gets excited about taking people down the rabbit hole. We're going to go down the rabbit hole. But before we go down the rabbit hole, let's go back with you a little bit. I'm sure many of our listeners are aware of you, fans of you. But when you think back, what was your first, like, what age were you when you first, first started getting into this whole wild world of entertainment.

Well, I was nine years old doing stand-up comedy in New York. Wow. So, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I know. Hold on. It should have come with like a membership to therapy. You don't just be nine years old and do stand-up comedy. What comes before that to get you to that place?

No, dad. No, I'm kidding. It's true. Is that actually true? Yeah, I mean, I had a very weird. I had a single mom. I was an only child. We were sort of like, I always used to say my friends with traditional families were like a corporation

and my mom and I were like a startup. Okay. That's cute. Yeah. I like that. And so it's no surprise to me that my trajectory has been sort of odd and weird and different than most. But I was a funny kid.

My mom was like an unrealized performer. And so as soon as she saw that I had like a small affinity for it, she basically just poured jet fuel on it. And so it began. So how do you get? on the comedy stage. She, like, made some puppeteering

moves behind the scenes? There was a, there's a newspaper for actors called Backstage. Okay. Very popular in New York

and it kind of has all, like, the casting. So if there's, like, a theater caller, you want to be a swing dancer

in the new Hamilton production. Like, here's where the audition is, show up at this time. So they'd also have agents and

manager. So I'm reading it one day at nine years old. And I see Sid Gold, at Gold Star Entertainment, I represent kid comedians. And I went and met him in Times Square.

Shout out Sid Gold. He's still very much with us. Love you, Sid. Adopt me, Sid. And he's like, if you get a comedy act together, I will put you up on stage. What's a joke you're telling at 9? Oh, man, awful, hacky, bullshit. Not good.

Give us an example. I don't remember. I blocked it out. It was all terrible. But it was... What were the themes? Was it like just... I made fun of my mom.

I made fun of kids at school. I did impressions. I did observational. What's the deal with school lunch? No, I don't know. It's just terrible, terrible. But I was sticky, and it kind of was funny, and there was a novelty that I was young. And so I start performing, and now I'm, like, getting snuck into catcherizing stars,

stand-up New York, Gotham, all these famous stand-up clubs, like at 11 o'clock in night because they don't want to lose their liquor. license. So when this starts happening, was it sort of like a tumbleweed where you just got more and more and more and more? Yeah, I went to performing arts high school. I got like representation. It was just sort of like being, being around it through osmosis. I kind of, you know, found a bit of success. How do you contextualize that as such a young person? Like how do you, you know, even now, you know, you start to see young people, but they're, you know, in their 20s or whatever it is. Like when you're that age, how do you even begin to contextualize all of this around you and manage it. Contextualize it in the sense of, I look back at it now as a parent and go, that's nuts. I'm thinking about like if my child in four years or five years starts, like that would seem

insane to me. If I think about it like if you were a 10 year old and you just really wanted to work at Chili's, it would still be ridiculous, right? No, I just want to serve margs and make people happy. I'm like, I'm really into sampler platters. Like you would still be like, bet, Johnny, like when you're 16, you can get a weekend or an afternoon job, but not right now. But again, we had this very, people always, of course, ask me, and I'm sure they ask you guys, like, are your kids going to follow in your footsteps? Would you want them to, you know, become entrepreneurs or become an actor?

And I say, I want them to be happy. But I just don't see them. They didn't have the same set of circumstances. in on where they were in life at the time that I was. Because if I had had a very sort of rock stable home, I don't think I could have moved to California to be on a TV show. How did your mom manage protecting you in the crazy wild industry? Like, how does she even know what to do?

Because now I feel like we've seen a bunch of shit. And social media has exposed a bunch of shit. How does your mom at nine years old know what to do? I don't know. I remember in early on there was sort of like I would go to these castings in New York where you would be like amongst, you know, 150 kids who all look like you and you're there for three or four hours just waiting to go in and spend like five minutes for your audition for some, you know, fruit juice ad or some toy company. And I think there was always this, thankfully there was always this part of her that was like, you want out, we're out. Like, you want to go, let's go. Because she's like, I realize that this sucks.

And so I think she allowed me to sort of drive the ambition side of it. And it gave me a lot of self-confidence and whatnot. I think I was lucky in that sense. But I think I was very lucky in that way, for sure. It's interesting because every person who acted when they were a child, nothing was creepy like it was normal, says that. That their parents said, you can get out whenever you want. want. The ones that have come on here that have had like a bad memory or a bad moment have all

said that their parent was like a stage mom or a stage dad. And even Jeanette McCarthy. Janette McCartney. McCarty. Yeah, she's amazing. Her book is so good. Incredible. It's a good book. Incredible. And she and her her book's called I'm Glad My Mom Died. And in it, the whole book, her mom is so up her ass to do the acting, to push her into singing, to push her. But it sounds like the key that's the common denominator is for the parent to say, if you want to walk away, we can walk away.

I think the key and not just subject to entertainment is having a parent who is healthy in that regard that, like, supports her kid. It's not just an entertainment, right? We've seen crazy football dads who go and, like, punch out a referee with like eight-year-old pee-wee games. They're my favorite TikTok.

TikTok clips. The baseball ones, too, are good. But you're like, what are you doing? Like, you're crushing your kid. Like, you're crushing their spirit. And so we see it in every sense, whether it's music or academics or sports. But, yeah, I mean, I think people like Jeanette was incredibly brave and articing. The way she was able to articulate in her book that it was able to resonate with so many people, I think, was just,

It's such a coup and a testament to her and her talent and ability. And I think, you know, inevitably in the industry, so many more safeguards need to be put in place and have been put in place since we're there, but so much more needs to continue to get safer and stronger and redundancies and safeguards and overlooks so that we know that if we're going to allow young people to be in business, that they are protected at all times.

What was your personal life like when you were doing all this at that age? Like, were you able to go and run around with the other kids or go to school in a normal way? Or was it just, you know, you were on set. And because I imagine that would be, it's normal for you, but very, like, when I look back, I'm like, that would seem very abnormal. It was. I mean, I was lucky in the sense that there wasn't social media. So I literally was going and doing this job during the day that I, you know, I love that. kind of comedy. I always say I grew up where my best friends were like the fresh prince of

Bel Air and Ace Ventura and Billy Madison. I love watching Family Matters and we're all in that same age group of like TGIF and those great sitcoms and there's something there's some quote where you know, comedy is justice because in a drama what I like you're allowed to not like and vice versa. When a joke gets a laugh, it's clear, right? It either was or wasn't funny. And what I loved about sitcoms was that instant, like, oh, the audience loved it. So I really enjoyed getting to do that kind of comedy, but then I would go home at 5 o'clock, and I lived in like a little apartment in the valley, and I had my best friend who, you know, was going to normal high school, and we would like eat, you know, microwave pizza and watch hockey games at his house. So I was sort of living

in these two worlds of painfully normal and then very odd and abnormal. What was your first big break that you had when you were a kid and was it like was it like this eureka moment or was it not that i did this movie called snow day for nicolodeon and i remember they called me and they were like at this time i auditioned at nicolodeon three times a week or something a commercial a tv show something that they had at that time but i booked this movie and it's chevi chase and it's Four months in Canada. And it was like my first proper job. And I just remember being on that set and thinking like, oh, I couldn't.

If this is it, I like this. And what was it like? What was like being on set with Chavez Chase? Being on set with Chavez Chase I can't really speak to. What I can speak to is being in a hotel room with a $100 room service a lot in a day. I was like, this is as lit as one could be. Like this is incredible like and you become a family and acting or I should say movies especially like you are this weird traveling circus of of gypsies of these people that are like you know together making this thing and they're mostly away from their families and they're you know you're you're spending 10 12 14 hours a day with each other so you get really close and then you've no one to hang out with after so you all go out to dinner after and I love that because I was. was an only child. Like I loved having friends. And would your mom travel with you when you were this

age? Sure. So she would. So it wasn't just you out because I'm, you know, a lot of actors just go out and leave the family, but your mom would actually come with you. Yes. What are the micro moments before you were like 16 that you can pinpoint that were just like big moments for you in your career? Oh, I think like obviously, you know, getting a role that brought me out to California to move out in New York when I was 14 and, you know, on the Amanda show with Amanda. De Bines, who's like the greatest ever. I love that show. Arguably one of our most talented performers, I think, ever, I would say.

And getting to be around her and learn from her. I mean, we were, she's a bit older than me. But, you know, it was truly going from like the minor leagues of, you know, school plays and janky stand-up clubs at 10 o'clock at night to working with someone at, of her experience and level. I felt very lucky. And, and yeah, I think that was, I think that was the most. moment because when suddenly you're sort of pushed into this place where you're dealing with people

that are at such a higher level and you can kind of keep up where it's not a totally foreign language, you go like, oh, maybe I can do this. Because you worked with Amanda and you also said earlier you would put all these guardrails in place. I feel like you have a really different perspective. If you could wave a wand right now and you could tweak the industry and things that you would change? What are those things that you would change for kids? I think it's what we talked about before. Just again, having, you know, immense safeguards in place in every way, in redundancies. And having, there's just no world in which people on set shouldn't be completely and utterly protected at all times, no matter what. When you say, like, what do you mean like, like, when it comes to like the

business of their money, when it comes to like just being around adults? Like, I guess what I'm asking is, I don't know what it's like to shoot a TV show. Like, what's the day to day? Do you just mean, like, being around the right teachers? What does that mean? I think it would pertain mostly to, yeah, having great, like, teachers and the people who are on set who are, like, their sole job is to make sure that, like, the kids are having a good experience.

Do they keep you guys on set for a long time? Yeah, I think you work usually, like, you had to do school and then you had to be on set as well. All day. It's a lot of work. We were joking. and I did a commercial recently. And even for 60, you know, 60 seconds, it was like an all-day thing and we're used to doing this.

That's what, yeah. It's just different. It's different. Or like picking up a phone and doing this. You know, it's like. It's normal for you, but it's not like for someone that's never been on set, I don't think people realize how meticulous it takes to get one minute of content. Right.

Yeah. Podcasting is, let's not mess around here. It's the greatest job on it. But again, it's like there's millions. So a testament to you guys that you have found not only a successful pod, but a successful network and able to keep it going. But yeah, I mean, and that's what we found from everyone from Mr. Bees to really successful podcasters and everything in between.

It's like the gatekeepers have become more inconsequential. And we were sort of all brought up in a way where for the last 70, 80 years, like TV and movies and traditional sort of creative ventures. had to be one way. Yeah, and there was a few people that decided who got the shine and who didn't. Yeah. Let me ask you a different question, like kind of on a tangent here. When you start to have success at that early of an age and you're making that kind of money,

that young, how are you able to be responsible or were you not? Do the wheels fall off or do you you're responsible? Like, how do you manage that success and that notoriety that young? Oh, we didn't make a lot of money. So that helped. That helps. And I mean, respectfully. Yeah.

Yeah, we're known, but it was like, again, there's no social media, right? So you're kind of like known to 13-year-olds. So it's very like you can sort of, I found at least for me, I was able to sort of navigate it in a way where I was able to keep some semblance of self. And I was also like heavier and insecure. And in an interesting way, I think that was the silver lining. Like it was sort of my guardian angel because it kept me from ever becoming too impressed with myself. Huh. That's so interesting. If you would have asked me when I was watching Nickelonian

like little girl, all the shows, I would have said you guys are like multi-millionaires. No, not. I mean, I can only speak to myself, but that was not my experience. When you went out with your mom and you're like out to lunch and are there people coming up to you all the time at 16? No, we could just go to Cheesecake Factory like civilians. Avocado Egg Girls. Oh, that's good. What's your Cheesecake Factory order, guys? Um You're like Do they have raw

I know I'm like I'm not A milk cheesecake Factory Raw milk cheesecake Is it my Is it my

That's a cookbook Are you gonna do a cookbook I feel like that's next I should do it In the work Called the bowl of meat The bowl of meat It's one recipe

That would crush in Austin I started the series On TikTok A bowl of meat with me You know what I could do a lot of things With a bowl of meat A bowl of meat up

I know how to handle meat Meat Wouldn't you say Michael She's a good meat handler. My cheesecake order, I don't know what my cheesecake factory order is. Cheesecake factory order is. I don't feel like we go there enough.

Heartbreaking. I know. What's your, do you guys have like a chain restaurant you frequent? Oh, yeah. What's our chain restaurant? We frequent. Let's get down. Let's get into the nitty gritty.

I love Javier's. There's not a chain. Does it work? I like Mr. Chal. I love my. I love Pea Chains. Does the Polo Lounge count? Pia Changs is great.

Come on. A salt pepper calamari with a brown rice. That's delicious. I also love McDonald's. I fuck with McDonald's. Taco Bell. McDonald's, a cheeseburger, just cheese and meat, happy meal. I don't care what anyone says.

I used to work at McDonald's. I love a number one Big Mac meal. I never, like, I don't care. Big Mac meal with a side of 10 nuggets. I can make a Big Mac meat bowl. You can make a Big Mac meatball? Meatball. Meatball.

I believe that. Does that sound good? And totally carnivore for the most part? No, I eat sourdough toast every night. Yeah. Why at night? It's like her guilty pleasure. No, this is actually what it is.

I actually have a whole theory around it that I've never told you. I feel like I've worked so hard during the day and I've put my work in and I've done everything that I need to do like work-wise. And then when I get home and I'm in bed, completely relaxed, my kids are asleep. There is nothing better. than crunching a piece of sourdough. It's like it's a nightcap. There's nothing worse than laying in the crumbs.

I don't give a shit. I don't figure it out. It's my- You lay in the crumbs. She eats there's crumbs everywhere. That's nuts. That's a what are you nuts? In bed.

Yeah, I'm not. Yeah, it's too much. We're not on the couch. Nope. And then she gives it to our four-year-old daughter and they like have a daughter, mohamed bonnie. We have no way. It's called our slumber party and we have toast in bed.

And I come home and there's crumbs everywhere, sourdough crumbs. Sometimes we'll do cinnamon raisin with raw butter and flirty cell salt. Good for you. Same here, but for us it's Cheetos. No, I'm kidding. She's a spicy hot Cheetos.

The red Cheetos. Do you love a Cheeto? Of course I love a Cheeto. I like the spicy hot ones of Flaming and Hot, but the problem is that there's evidence, right? Because these three fingers, they're going to be red for 18 to 36 hours. Yeah, you also don't want to give a hand job after them.

Totally. Oh, my God. It's like if you had, you know. It really disrupts his. Tiger bomb on your hand. Can you imagine? Yeah, Ben Gay. You seen Ben Gay as Lou?

That would be, yeah, that's cruel punishment. I had a buddy that one time made jalapeno poppers for before he took this woman, this girl on a date, and he got all the jalapeno oil everywhere. He finger banger. No. Why do you have to be, like, people knew what he did, but it was a whole problem. Hold on. Okay, well, let's talk a second.

Let's timeline here. Let's get forensic about it. Okay, so he makes a jalapeno poppers around four? 430. No, no, no. Like, he just made him there, like, he had her over at his house and he made the jalapeno poppers, which, by the way, that's a wild dish to select when you're courting a lady. That's something I would do.

I mean, if your turn on is, you know, bubble guts. But he didn't know that you could get the jalapeno oil on your fingers and that the jalapia oil would transfer. And then he didn't wash after. No. Not well enough. And then they got, what, during the frying, they got all jazzed up and began. No, no, I think they ate the meal and then the oil was all over.

There was posts hooking up with a jalapeno poppers? I guess so. That's dangerous. Wild time. Wild times. But I remember telling me the story and the girl was like really freaked out because obviously like she's burning on fire and he was, you know, the whole thing. I need to hear about your weight loss journey.

Okay. What a transition. A hundred pounds that you lost without OZEPIC. That's the new headline. That's the new headline. Does that piss you off? Not really. I wonder if it was available if I would have used.

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I use it every day. Plus free shipping for life when you start on any of my peak favorites. Peeklife.com slash skinny. Why did you decide? Because there has to be some kind of epiphany. And then what tactics and tips did you take to lose 100 pounds? Because it's a lot of weight. I was young, which helped.

I was like 17. So in a weird way, it was like an excessive amount of puppy weight. Why do you think you put on that much weight to begin with at that age? I overdo it. You overdo it? I just overdo it. I think I'm a big overdoer. I think I had some shit that I needed to work out, you know, in my life with dad stuff and life stuff.

And I didn't know at the time that I was probably sort of like numbing that with. And sorry, was your dad ever in your life? No. Never. And did you ever meet him? No, I never met him. And he passed away before I got a chance to. So shout out that perfect record.

Wow. You have to be sorry. Were your parents together when he passed? No, no, no. No. Okay. So just... Can you imagine if my parents were together but I'd never met him?

No, no. What you know? I was saying, like, where's your mom pregnant and then he passed when she's pregnant? Where's dad? He's downstairs. Leave him alone. Like my, no, my thought was like they were together, she was pregnant, he passed before you were born. Oh, sure, no.

He, they kind of had a sort of rendezvous. She was one of his concubines and, yeah. Yeah. It was a random night in New York and they did and she became pregnant at 43. Wow. Wow. Yeah. It doesn't make sense. Well, it does make sense because you're here. I am here. I'm thriving. I am. I'm thriving. I'm very lucky. It all makes sense. Everything's happening for you. That's what I say to myself every morning when I wake up. What other affirmations do you have?

That's my main one. Everything's happening for you. I believe that. So if I miss my plane, everything's happening for me. Love that. It's, it works. It works great. you should try it's so fucking frustrating it's so it's so good it just be like 4 30 in the morning like you have to be at the airport in 30 minutes she's like no I think I'm good and I'm like no and then she misses I'm like she's like ah it's everything's happening for me like no you

I'm like you had to be up like an hour and a half before that sure okay I'm trying to get Josh's weight loss tips everything's happening for us go ahead explain your your tips that how'd you even start what was the first thing you changed it's not it wasn't that special I remember I was

17 I had just, we used to spend a month over the summer, New York, so I would go see all my friends and whatnot. And I just kind of started, I let go of a lot of that anger. And I don't know about the dad stuff and the life stuff and whatever. And just like angry young men, you know what I mean, that angst. And I started walking the city, which was my favorite thing to do. And I would like listen to music. And I just felt like it was possible.

And I did Atkins old school carnivore. Love it. And, you know, and I probably knocked off like 30 or 40 pounds the first month or two. And then over the next like year and a half, I lost the rest of the weight. It's probably super empowering when you see that kind of weight come off that quickly, right? Like you start to like, I can do it. Yeah, it's helpful. And it's, look, I understand why people are fascinated by it.

And I think for me, had I done it sort of more privately or I wasn't in such a public place, I think I probably would think about it be less a part of my story because they would just be like, wow, you were, like, we'd look back at your books and be like, geez, Josh, do you have a thyroid issue? And I'd be like, I had a Snickers issue. But really, I lost weight very publicly. And so understandably, people are very interested in it. So it's, and I'm glad if in some way, me being heavier on TV could, like, empower other kids who didn't fit like the perfect body type or whatever to be like, wow, he's, he's having a good time. And he's not tripping on how we live. looks. Yeah, well, I think people can see it's possible. Yeah. Right. And they don't feel like it's, like a lot of people, in other than anything, right, they just feel like that's for other people, not for me type thing, right? And they see like, oh, somebody. Or I couldn't do that. Yeah, or like, but they see someone who maybe they see themselves in or that they're related or that's relatable to them. They're like, oh, if he or she can do it, then I can too type thing. And, you know, the beautiful thing that has come out of sort of like the last 10 years of really this body positivity

the 180s that there are all these beautiful body types and looks that are embraced and sort of they're just very well, you know, people are getting roles now in ways that didn't happen when I was sort of on TV in that way. So I think that's great. When people slide into your DMs, what's the most... It's all bots. No, I don't believe it. What are people saying? Are they like trying to hook up with you? Are they trying to reminence? Are they trying to ask a question about a hot tip on how to lose weight? What's the common denominator? I don't know.

It's unhinged. I know. That's why I can't wait. Why is it unhinged? I'm very publicly married and happy, like married guys. So I think people are pretty respectful of that. And then it's a lot of bots. There's no butthole.

No. Are you getting butthole? I've got a throbbing, vainy penis multiple times. Wow, Mazel. What's wrong with us? I don't know why so I don't I've never understood like this one my favorite one I even talk about this one on the podcast my favorite one was when I got one of a guy fucking a dildo on a bathtub ledge up and down and that one was unique you know you don't get it's unique yeah got your attention and they're talking about it on the podcast what and was there did he was it just the video or was there a caption there was no caption there was no captioned It was just the guy fucking the dildo off the bathtub. It'd be nice if he put a little thought in the caption.

A little. I could have got a heart. Like if you just wrote, whoops. Yeah. Or like, or wrong person. That's a good one. If you want to do it, you could say, well, Taylor's telling him.

He's laughing so hard because he knows. And then there was another one that I got where a girl cut my face out of every single picture of me and Michael and implemented her face into it. And then I had someone send me all the, pictures that were of me but with my face cut out with her face saying that Michael was cheating on me that was you I mean I feel like you got to get like an interesting there's got to be a couple DMs that you're just like shout out like crazy uh no it's random mostly

it's people asking me to be on their podcast oh it's a lot of podcast requests um that one guy hits me up to me my to he's like you seem to need a jeweler I'm like baby I got two kids and a The last thing I need is a high-end jeweler in Miami, dog. Maybe it's trade, though. I don't know. It's like, yeah, the jeweler hits me up a lot. And yeah, and then like a lot of rando bots. How did you meet your wife?

We met at a Halloween party. What were you dressed as? I was dressed as a waiter and she was dressed as a pink lady from Greece. That's funny. I got to tell you, if a guy approached me and they were dressed like a waiter, I would find that very witty. How does that wear a waiter? I find that. Like, what do you just carry the white jacket?

Okay, like, I was vain. Like a fancy waiter. I actually had gone to a dinner before and I'm like, what could I wear to the dinner that then would make me look? You know, I was working at the restaurant. No, I got up early. But, yeah, we just, I was vain and wanted to look cute and she obviously couldn't do anything but look cute. And it doesn't make sense why I got her phone number. And now 13 years later, we have two kids who are married and we've been together.

And you guys sound like you have a very healthy relationship. What do you think is the key? Her. Oh. Yeah. Hello. Take note. Wow.

That's a good one. Everything's working for me. Well, I wish I could give the same answer. What do you think the key to the relationship is? What did my dad say? I don't speak and I don't hear. That's what he said. Smart man.

That's a smart man. But I hear too much and I speak way too often. I don't know. We'll see what happens. I speak for a living. Are you the stoic one in the relationship? No. Less reactive?

Well, let's practice some self-awareness here, Lauren. Go ahead. I think it depends which day of the week you catch either of us on. Yeah. I'm pretty, I'm stoic in business for sure. Maybe less stoic in my personal life. Like, I have, I look at, like, the business as, like, like, it's hard to rattle me. Like, I know we've gone through COVID and all these different periods of time running a media company.

Like, the whole time, I feel like I'm just like, okay, like, we'll figure it out. Fine. But the kid stuff and the marriage stuff and I can get rattled on that stuff easier. Yeah. The more personal, I guess the stuff that maybe matters more, I get around, you're right? It's fair. That's a good thing to care about. Yeah. Are you the more stoic one?

No, my wife is. Why? I think she comes from a family of athletes. Her dad was like a professional football player. And they're, you know, Irish Catholic beautiful people who are probably a little bit more chill in the emotional department. I've never heard Irish Catholic people describe. is more stoic and chill, but go on. But wouldn't you say?

I mean, you know, and smash down their feelings. But yeah, my wife is pretty common, but she will get a little bit rattled when like, like, I'm great when the kids are sick. Like, I've also just always wanted to be a doctor. See, that stuff rattles me. She's calm during that. You like when the kids are sick. I don't like it, but I'm fine.

You've been practicing. I'm not sneezing on them. Josh Beck loves when his kids are sick headline. It's the worst, but I'm like, I can handle it. I've got like a very, and this is. Not medical advice, okay? So I know they're going to come at me in the comments. But like, do you have those, you know, we all, a lot of people bought them in, in COVID, the O2 meters, the oxygen meters.

Yeah. And, you know, ideally if you're above 95, like, that to me as a parent has bought me so much peace of mind for just those nights where your kid like might be a little croopy or might have like a little bit. I know I'm going to get just filleted in the comments here. This is, I'm just saying that. talking about because for a kid it's scary when those numbers drop. Well, no, yes, exactly. And especially like when they get colds or sinus stuff or whatever and they've got a terrible cough and you're like, should we, should we not go to urgent care? Like those moments where I like see that their numbers are good. And obviously I call the pediatrician. I make sure everything's cool. But it gives me a lot of peace

of mind because I'm like, okay, he's fine. His numbers are good. You need to buy one of those and be checking. You have it? Okay. Mostly for myself. I like to go off my intuition. Michael's a little more numbers like that. He likes to see the logistics the behind the scenes. Kids are just like vomiting violence. She's like everything's happening for me. Not for little towns, but for me. No, that's the stuff that like she's very good.

Like when our kids get her sick and I'm like, oh, she's like, calm down. She's good at that. Oh, yeah. Really? But like I would say in the business. Oh, here it is. This is called a compliment sandwich. Go ahead.

But in the business, listen, in the business stuff, I feel like I'm more. I'm more calm than you. You know what? Whatever you want to think, I'm going to let you think. What do you think? I think that I am more even killed than you. In every situation? Yeah.

Oh my God. I'm not getting that here. Just as the top of this triangle, but I'm willing to learn more. What are you getting? What are you getting? You have a wonderful effervescence energy to you. And I mean, granted, this is the first time we're meeting,

but every interaction I've had with Michael has been pretty stoic. Okay. But I look forward to having more interactions with you. I think if you saw him behind the scenes, he's a little, I don't know, what's the word? Careful. Impatient. But that's okay. That's okay.

He's self-aware about that. Yeah, I mean, I'm, no, I'm very macro-patient, micro-inpatient. True. I'll give him that. I'll give him a compliment. For example, I don't think you can be either about that. I don't think you can be married as long as we've all been married if you're not macropatient

or I don't think you can build a career or a long-term venture if you're not macro-I will say that it works for him because he likes things the way he likes it but I can't sit around and talk about the breeze I guess we've got to get to the point of whatever whatever we're doing here yeah he likes to get to the point he's a get to the point kind of guy

we do this we do these prompts and we go to dinners with groups okay and we go around and like a prompt They're called pot-stering prompts so like you could be there with a new couple and be like what's the best sexual experience you've had prior to your relationship wow do you guys really do prior to your relationship every single vacation we go around a table of 12 we'll find out like we get a big it's like it's fine you'll come sometime and we'll do yeah you gotta come and heaven's skate it sounds like what was the other one what was the club sanctum oh yeah he came on the show he did it was a wild episode is it still going yeah okay

he's got a new one I mean I don't know no yeah he's like oh what's the number again it's crazy um yeah he came on the show recently um but no it's we do these prompts and like one of the prompts are like what are your peeves? I feel like you and you and Ben would have great answer. We could just go. What are your peeves? Well, you have to be respectful. Look, in 90% of situations, I think this is a sign of ADHD. I can predict your answer.

And I'm pretty right. Seven, excuse me, seven out of eight times, like seven to eight out of ten times, I'm right. And I would love to be like, eh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you're saying that when you ask a question, you can predict. what people are going to say. Usually. Or at least because I know my wife so well, there are many times where I could be like,

and then what did she, so what did your friend say that annoyed you, right? But she's got to tell me about the restaurant. You got to just. Yeah, we got to know every detail. You know, she's got to be in Jane. I love you. You know, and you know what?

So now I pause and go, of course she does, because I yammer about my, I don't want to call bullshit, but I talk about my, like, work and stuff. stuff that I imagine she finds insufferable. So I want to hear it. And then she gets to the little cherry on top. Yeah, I think that that's being married.

That's a really good way to describe it is you have to hear each other's shit all day long. And you do start to know what they're going to say. Yeah. I also know like, I've never told you this. I know like how to react when he tells me a certain like or he gives me a certain mood. Like if he comes in stressed, like I now know how to act. No, you don't. No, you don't.

You stress me more. I'll give you a good one. I know that when we're on a trip with our kids, that if I don't have things organized, the second we get in the room, that he's going to start with his stewing. So what I've started to do, you don't even know this, is the second we arrive, I start to organize everything. Just like in piles, the vitamins are here, the frother's here, your weird, creepy smoothie situations here. Like, and that helps. You're traveling with a frother. Yeah.

Okay. It's amazing. That's like that meme of like, if I won the lottery, I wouldn't tell anyone, but there would be signs. Just you back in the frothair. I got a hack. I Amazon most of the stuff. Because, okay, so for what, you know, we're traveling now with all the kids. And I'm like, we get diapers and all the, you know.

Sure. We got to take a traveling circus with all this. You have a hack that's Amazon? No, no. Wow. That's free. This is a hack for the parents out there. Most places, especially domestically, you can get things like day of or day after.

So I just know where I'm going and I have everything shipped to the hotel instead of carrying it. That's smart. That's Amazon. But to the point, I travel with a little ninja blender. I have it shipped there. So I get there. So I get my protein powder and all my stuff. How do you do that when you have to go on set and you have two kids and a wife?

Do they come with you? Do they stay? What do you do? Like if I'm traveling for work? Yeah. I mean, obviously the dream is to get a long-term job in L.A., but it's nearly impossible. Like I was working on a show for Disney Plus

for nine months over COVID in Vancouver. Were you in a bubble? A bubble town? Kind of. I mean, Vancouver had such low cases. And so basically I remember it was just my older son, Max. So end of August 2020, we get there. It's two weeks of isolation.

So we get a house in North Vancouver. And it was my wife, her cousin, Sam, my son. and me. And it was incredible. It was like beautiful. And we just like stayed in the house. We had a backyard and we just ordered in food. And then it was nine months of work and testing three times a week masks. But they were with me. And it was kind of wonderful. Like we had this amazing experience together. But it's funny because we got home April 2021. And then I got another job in Toronto in June. And I had to go isolate again for two weeks. But now I'm alone. Because there was only like a three-week gig. She's like, you're doing this one yourself. So this time,

it's two weeks just me in an apartment, much less romantic. I was averaging in that apartment and I had a small deck 30,000 steps a day. I was losing my mind. Just pacing around? I would pace and take phone calls and watch TikToks and like, I would just pace and listen to podcasts. You know what, though? If this is a hot tip for all lives, if you want to remind your husband like how great you are and how lucky they are to be in your presence, a little absence is a great way to do it.

Like, what I do is I'll go away for four days and then I'll be like... Yeah, I will. Wow. I did it. I did it for a bachelor party. You freaked out. I go away.

You did that once like eight or nine years ago. Sometimes I'll leave the house and go to the foot spa for like eight hours and leave you at home. I think a little absence, like that's kind of this video game is awesome. I'm like, man, I'm like, what are having to warn? It's amazing.

You go to the foot spot for nine hours? No, I go to the foot spot. You get kneecaps rubs? I get everything roughs. Four hours, one person on each foot, and I get to work for four hours. Oh, and you're on the laptop. Just on my laptop or my phone or just working. So when do drugs and alcohol into your life?

Solid. At what point in your career do you start to kind of experiment with drugs and alcohol? Because we were talking about you've been in recovery. That's a topic that comes up on. this show all the time and we've talked about a lot. But when does that start to happen during your career? Funny enough, right after I lost all the weight, I kind of just... Oh, you're feeling too good.

I think I had a new body but the same mind. And so it needed something to calm it and numb it out. And then... And what was the choice? Well, I'm 17 and I'm supremely stupid. As I said recently on our podcast, Good Guys to Miss Pat. I said, you know, I was on everything but skates. So you name it.

I was, I was having fun. That's funny. It just quickly became, it went from being like sort of 18 and just dumb. And if I was in college, you would just equate it to like just what people do and their knuckleheads at that age to being a problem. And I was lucky enough to get sober at 21 and knock what I've been able to stay sober ever since. How did you know what was the problem? Like what's the, when does it cross the line from where it's fun college to a problem? I think what helped was that I had had years of evidence when I was heavy.

And as I said, I knew I was like, Josh, you overdo it. Like that was the thing, like in all things. And so I had had all this evidence since I was like seven, eight years old. And a lot of that terminal uniqueness, right, of just feeling like different then, that if I passed you in the hallway and I saw you, I was worried about what you thought. and if you didn't see me, then I was disappointed, right? Like, I was just constantly at a state of discomfort. And so I found these ways in which to sort of numb those feelings,

but it had diminishing returns. And so, you know, at 21, I think when I did it through sort of traditional 12-step recovery, but I found these, you know, these rooms, these meetings of people that were like me. It was a watershed moment because I'd walked through my whole life feeling so unique and so different. and you don't get me, and if you had my head on your shoulders, and you would drink too. But then suddenly I'm in this room of people, and they're not a glum lot. They're, like, cool and happy, and they have families and careers, and I'm like, oh, it's possible.

So when you would partake, was it to go, was it to just numb out, or did you go a party? And was it one of those things where, like, you crack one and, like, 15 later, you're like, I'm not done? Yeah, every trite cliche, everything you see. And like I always try to like, I try to talk about it in a general way. Just doesn't make for good clips. Sorry. But like it doesn't because, you know, I know the way people like to run with like the one line from someone's journey in that way.

But again, for me, like, I know that it could even be working out, right? Anything done in excess can become negative. And what do you mean the one? I feel like that's like, is that like media train? What do you mean? Like when you say like the one line clips, like you're saying TikTok will put a one line clip and they'll write a headline on you. No, yeah, sure. Like there's certainly like a lot of, I guess my desire is not to focus on the thing, right?

Because we know that like drugs and alcohol or, you know, some people can handle it. And for some people, it's not a great thing. I always try to focus on the recovery aspect of it in that I had an issue. I overdid it. I think you could substitute it out with everything. people overdue, I could get really into smoking cigarettes. I could get into overly spending. Like, you name it, right? So how do you manage that in other areas if you know you're an overdoer? Well, I think it's like that, right? It's that spiritual sort of journey that is very unique to

everyone. But if you have that hole in the soul, you'll use anything to fill it up. You know what I mean? And so I think it's you realizing, you know, there's that great quote of like there's two, the two most important times in your life is when you're born and when you realize why you're alive. And so for me, that was like that moment of realizing like, this is something that I can't fill with success because I've been lucky enough to have a certain amount of it. Couldn't fill it with, you know, cliche college experiences. I couldn't fill it with food. So it's going to have to come from the inside.

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Like what's, what does your, I guess your daily routines look like to quiet that voice and to stay in a good headspace? Yeah, besides recovery, I was just, that's what I was just. just going to ask you, are there other things that you do on a daily basis or on a weekly basis? Yeah, I mean, I do like, I try to like get a sweat in every day, just get those natural sort of endorphins and dopamine and serotonin. And I try to, you know, do selfless acts and not get caught, you know, so I try to do good things and not get caught about it. I, I work, I feel bad because I do put it on social media, but it's only to get attention to this great foundation

I work with called Feed the Streets where we actually like get up, like we open up to, sort of folding tables on Skid Row on Tuesday and Thursday morning, we hand out donuts and coffee and food. And, you know, if I start my day like that on a Tuesday morning at 7 a.m., like there's a good chance I will have a good rest of my day. How are you going to do that with your kids? Because we have kids that are about the same age. Do you bring them along or will you bring them along? What do you think you're going to do to show your kids that? I try to. During the holidays, I go. to the LA mission and we'll hand out food for Easter or Christmas and I brought my son for Easter and you know he's only five years old but I'm trying to sort of instill that in him and

just this idea of like you know I remember when he started to notice that sometimes people would take pictures with me right and I didn't want him to be inconvenienced right because he only knows me as his dad and we're out having a good time at Dave and Busters or whatever and you know I felt bad that he might be interrupted but I also of course wanted to honor the people who were nice enough to come up to me. So I sort of said to him, I said, you know, Dad has a funny job, and sometimes people like to come up and chat or take a picture, and I was like,

and I'm sorry if it takes a few, you know, a minute away or whatnot. I said, but we also get to do like, we all, this is why we get a guide at Disneyland. You know, I try to sort of say like, we also get to do some cool stuff because of Dad's weird job. And he kind of gets it. The prods. Yeah.

Oh, you guys, you guys, you're not going general admission at Disney. You too. You guys are getting the guides. You know I just... You're not going to lie. Disneyland to me like it's got to be a seamless experience because if you... It's a lot of work to just go

and just, it's a lot. The lines, I feel like you have to go. The last guide ate my big pickle. Oh, he's not over this. And I looked over him and where's my pickle? And the guy was just crunching it down. He got too comfortable. You know what? He does it. No, he deserved it. He was great. What is best bite wins? Tell us about this.

situation. It's executive produced by you. It's my new show on Roku. It's a cooking competition show completely based around hors d'oeuvres. And so it's insane that it never got made before. But so here's an example. We have six chefs. They're incredible. Imagine every episode is, so Lauren and Michael want to throw a party and the theme is health optimization. And you say, I want to use all raw dairy and we don't want gluten or whatever it is, whatever your limits are. Maybe you don't like seafood. Maybe you want it to be more a wrestling theme. So then the chefs are tasked with putting together 50 to 75 bites inspired with these

sort of like guides from you guys. And then we have the party and the people at the party decide who wins. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Wait, why can't they do bowl of meats, little bowl of meats? You could put the parameter. We'd have to find some very small rame. I think for it to be a passable thing.

Okay. But I'm down to try. A bowl of meats, raw, raw cheese, raw milk, and bowl of meats. I don't know how many people are showing up to your party. What do you mean? I would come. It's a farty party. Do you know that Paul Saladino came on the podcast and he agreed?

He bring his own coconuts. That was wild. He brought me raw honey. That clip is wild. He does travel. It is, you know, we've had the pleasure of sitting with Paul a few times. And he does travel with the coconuts and the honey. What's so wild about the coconuts?

He had a sack full of coconut. He had a sack full of coconuts. This is his carry-on? I mean, I don't think that's that wild. That's wild? Me neither. No, he's, I mean, he's very interesting. He'd be a good guest for your show.

Yeah, I'd love to have it. I would love to see a great guest episode with Paul Saladino. That would be hilarious. But Paul said that meat essentially does the same thing that Ozempic does, because it keeps you full and it curbs your appetite so you don't overeat. Got it. Just saying. Got it.

I hear that. Like changing. It's just if you increase your protein intake, you're going to be satiated. Okay. Who else you guys into? And who's on the periphery and who's on the outs? What do you mean? You guys, like, I feel like you guys hang out with Aubrey Marcus a lot.

No. But Aubrey's not on the show. Do you know what's something funny? No. Because he's an Austin guy. We hang out with just like our friends that we've had for a while. We don't, we don't hang out with anyone. You know what's so funny.

And maybe you'll relate to this. When you do something like this, it requires a lot of like draining the social. batteries. Would you agree? Like, especially like we're just doing this lot. And, and so when we get a moment, like, we're talking about Texas out there, we get a moment at home, we're just like, we're done. God's kick the feet up. No, there's no hanging out with. Yeah. Love it. Uh-uh. No, we're like, actually kind of boring. Like, you know, and I think people that come on the show are looking for us to be more exciting. But don't you think that's the same with you with Hollywood? Like, if I were to say, oh, are you hanging out with, I mean, you've, you've,

it says on here that's like, Kathy Bates, Diane Keaton. And Tom Hanks, it's like, oh, if I really, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., like, when you leave, are you, like, hanging out in the Hollywood crowd? Or do you just want to go be, like, just be chill? Yeah, dude. I mean, I'm 37, too, and I've got the kids and my wife. And I find that's, I think that's a saving grace for all of us, to be honest, is that, like, I love this. It's so corny, so forgive me. I love between action and cut.

There's nothing I love more. I find it transcendent. Like when you're there and all your preparations there, and this is just a 60 minute action and cut, right? Like, this is the moment. Everything else that surrounds it, I have little to no interest in. You know, we had, are you familiar with Ryan?

You just said it way more eloquently. Are you familiar with Ryan Holiday's work at all? So Ryan, I wrote a book. Ryan Holiday is a good friend, and he was my sort of book coach. That's cool. And your memoir is called Happy People Are Annoying. So we just, we, Ryan's with a friend for a long time and he was recently on the show.

And we were talking about this because he was like, you know, you get these opportunities to go and do the thing. And it takes a long time to do the thing. And then once you get the thing, like you start getting all these like random opportunities where you get invited to maybe some of the showreys or the part of the things. But that means like if you say yes to those, it means you're obviously saying no to something else like no time with your kids or your wife or like no time. And I think like to your point. born and I get so excited about this and meeting the people we get to meet on the show and then excited about time with like the other stuff

there's maybe sometimes that it's interesting but it's less interesting compared to all the stuff that we actually really like to yeah you know what I mean like and it's also it's a lot of smoozing and a lot of this and that you know it's a lot of a big schmoozer but you know I always look through to lenses is it worth being away from my children

totally and if it's a no and it's social I'd rather be marinating with a little bit of sourdough, toast with a little bit of blur to sell salt in my bed. But if Dr. Craig Conover comes into town, we're going to dinner. Yeah. I'm dying. I've never met him in the flesh. Oh, he's the best.

He's the best. He's come up here a few times. He's helped me with a bunch of stuff. But I, um, yeah, I've like, I remember because I have a small part in Oppenheimer and we got to go when, when the movie won the Golden Globes, we got to go to this party after the Universal through. And it was like one of those rare moments. And it was like me and some of the smaller parts people, you know, like the scientists and whatnot. And then they all usher usher us into this room for a great photo. And then Robert Johnny Jr. walks in and Mad and Christopher Nolan and

his wife Emma. And it's just fabulous. And it was like, that was one of those rare moments where I was like, I can't believe him here. I'm so glad I came. Because right, because when you have kids, it's like right to the last minute. You're like, I could not go. right it's you're like oh I could not go fuck yeah you know you're like oh and you know that like you won't you'll regret it for

or you'll feel bad for seven minutes no you had to go to that that's worth it and that was a worth it moment a gift and honor to be there I made no sense being there but that's like a monument that's a monument I was like cool but I but I don't need to go to the cocktail party up in a hill somewhere with a bunch of people that I don't really know

like stand you know standing around like how do I behave in here you know it's like that I'm not interested in. I know. Unless there's good gifting. Unless there's something free. I don't think we get invited. I'll say it. I'm just going to say it. Unless it's sanctum. No. Yeah, well, you're going to get somebody free then. By the way, if you guys want Damon on your show, that could be another interesting one. Because Damon came on here. He was a great guest. You guys should have him on. Wow. You know, I think Lauren and I maybe passed our point of being able to participate in

those. At this point, it just seems like it's opening more issues than we can handle. Yeah. But wait, I have to ask you this before you go. Why are happy people annoying? Like, what's the premise of that? It was my book agent thought it'd be a great title. It is a good title. It's a really good title. I, no.

It was her idea, and she was brilliant about it. But I don't know. You know, at first I was unsure about the title. I just liked it, and I felt like it was good for the book. And then now it's even grown on me in the last couple years. It's funny. Yeah, I don't know. I guess it's just because I always had this image of these Finnish people that were all walking around.

and they just seem like they got this manual on life that I never received. It got lost in the mail. And sort of finding my own journey of like how to land in happiness or have some fleeting version of it that comes and goes like the weather has been my kind of life's journey.

And to feel that sometimes, especially those weird... I walk my son to school today and my little guy who's two years old was in the... I call it a carriage, the stroller. And I like... And I just looked at the back of both.

their heads as we're walking and I was like, remember this, remember this, remember this. And those are the moments. Those are the moments. Yeah. That's what you give the party up for to do those moments. Yeah. Special moments. Josh Peck, you're welcome back anytime. Thank you. Truly, I, we talked about all different kinds of things. You can come back anytime and we can let it rip. And I have to give you a compliment, which maybe I might get shit for later, but, you know, we have a lot of great podcasts on Dear Media. I tune into you and Ben's clips all the time. I laugh hysterically. You You guys are so good at what you do. Honored.

Thank you for hosting us. We love being here. It's just great. Let's go eat a meat bowl. I would love a meat bowl. Yeah. We could do like a, we could do a good guys meat bowl. Hmm.

I like it. Let me think about what would be in that. A lot of sausage. Finally chopped. Some kind of sauce. Ouch. Yeah, a little ketchup for some. Ketchup.

No, you cannot put ketchup on the meat. Too much sugar and ketchup? What do you think? Not in primal kitchen. What? Okay, so are you really doing McDonald's and Taco Bell every now and then? I do McDonald's every two months when I come back from a trip and I'm feeling depleted and I just want a little something. I used to work at McDonald's and there's something nostalgic to me about, you know, it used to be a number two was the two cheeseburger meal, but now that I think they've changed it.

But the number one is always the Big Mac, right? Taylor, they didn't have to change that. Always. Yeah, number one still. I'm a single cheeseburger man myself. There's something about a McDonald's Coca-Cola and. and the nuggets on the side, it's like, you can never go wrong. Listen, I love Paul Saladino

and a lot of people that come on the show. I'm going to eat a fucking Big Mac if I want a Big Mac, right? I'm going to live a little bit. Like, you got to, what I think sometimes with these guys and these girls that are so on this crazy health kick, and maybe I get labeled that sometimes which comes to the people that come on the show,

it's like, my whole thing is if you're doing it right most of the time and your body is resilient enough to get rid of the bad stuff in your system, like you have to be able to do that. Like when, you know, I love guys like Huberman, and he's been on the show, when he says, okay, like, how many drinks is too much? And I know this is not for people in recovery. But he's like, okay, two is the max. I'm like, listen, man, if I'm only going to have two, like, I'm not, I just don't want to do it at all. Like, you got to live a little bit. Interesting. I got to have a big Mac. That's my thought on it, too. You take two. Right. I don't have rules around the way I eat.

And there's no rule. People keep asking me. You can't be so scared of a little bit of, you know, comfort food or poor food choices once in a while. I'll give you that rigid. If I can't have a piece of sourdough in my bed at night, what is the point? What about a nice piece of Wonderbread? No.

I don't like a Wonderbread. Of course not. I've never had Wonder Bread ever. Does Wonder Bread sponsor any Dear Media? We love you, Wonder Bread. Wonderbread, I love a deal. The blue and the green and the blue and the yellow and the red thing. Wonderbread.

But because sourdough bread is sort of like acclaimed is like if you're going to eat any bread, it's, what is it, it's already fermented. It's fermented, but it's so good. Good on the bio. You don't think so? I love sourdough. I get us in the farmers market. Ah. Could you imagine all of us in a farmer's market in Austin with our children?

Why don't you come to Austin? Have you been out there? Go, let's get a compound. We'll go to the farmer's market. I was going to say, you know, you were doing, you guys were doing the kind of like the lockdowns and the bubbles and we, because you were guarding

against COVID and we just went to Austin and there was no COVID in Austin. Wow. They just said, wait, so you're already drinking your raw milk and having your raw butter if you're going to the farmer's market. You're halfway, you're like 90% of the way there. Next time you come back, you'll have a glass of raw milk some raw meat.

I'll be on T or T's. Yeah. T or T.T. You know what? I'll step it up. And then a little HCH. Why not? Yeah, a little Ipomerone. Dr. Conover, pimp him out. At Conover Wellness.

We love him. He's a mutual friend of us all. Josh, where can everyone find you, pimp yourself out? Tell us about where to get your book and where to watch your show and where to listen to your podcast. Good guys podcast here at Wonderful Dear Media.

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