I'm Gabby Reese and welcome to the show.

My guest today is actor, comedian, child star, and now author Josh Peck,

and we had a great conversation.

I know Josh and he is a really curious and fun and soft human person and he has a new book out called

happy people are annoying and he gets into it. He talks about feeling different and growing up without knowing his father being really overweight as a young kid, never mind on TV, how he lost the weight, but didn't really get to why food became the

outlet and that turned into a drug and alcohol addiction.

So he loses the weight, then he has to contend with an addiction how he

recovered from that that journey is listen not only is it heavy but he makes it

really funny and just where he's at now you know he's a dad and a husband and still looking at things. I mean,

Josh goes back to acting school. He said, you know, listen, I was the most quote successful person in there and the worst actor in the class. The conversation is inspiring how he

lost the weight, how he keeps it off, and just how he also has learned not to run

away. I think a lot of us, when we suffer pain when we're young,

the minute it gets hard or we feel vulnerable, we run away. And he just shares how he lives now,

has helped him, you know, not do that. I love Josh and it's just a really fun

conversation and I hope're switching the order.

Josh Peck, we're switching the order.

You were talking to me, and now I'm excited,

I get to talk to you.

Oh man, what an honor.

And thank you for coming my way.

And congratulations on your new book.

Thank you.

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