657: Josh Peck | Happy People Are Annoying
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2022
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Josh Peck (@ItsJoshPeck) is an actor (currently appearing as Drew on How I Met Your Father), comedian, YouTuber, and author of Happy People Are Annoying.
What We Discuss with Josh Peck:- Why Josh considers it a blessing he grew up before social media dominated the landscape of adolescence.
- How Josh went from wild child to grounded, friendly father (instead of becoming some kind of "drunk Hollywood jerkface") without knowing his own father until later in life.
- What Josh did to overcome the food addiction that once had him tipping the scales at 297 -- when he was just a kid.
- How Josh became a standup comedian at the tender age of 11, and what he did to relate to his significantly older audience.
- How ego can turn someone into an imposter -- and how this is different from the common phenomenon of imposter syndrome.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:02.7 | The problem with, I shouldn't say the problem, but the reality is that when you become a |
| 0:06.4 | public person, your ego is such almost no one leaves on their own accord, right? |
| 0:10.6 | Like, whenever you see someone who had a really big moment, you're like, |
| 0:13.7 | why'd she be making these like, be movies last 20 years or it seems to always be on some |
| 0:18.0 | reality show? And I'm like, because they weren't willing to go to Dallas and be a real estate agent, |
| 0:22.2 | because they didn't want to be the guy from that thing. They didn't want to be like, |
| 0:25.2 | hear that whisper and like, why is he showing a pre-fat condo? Like, wasn't he on Netflix a few |
| 0:29.9 | years ago? Like, most people's ego cannot take that. I, on the other hand, love Dallas, |
| 0:35.1 | and I love, I love someone home. |
| 0:41.9 | Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. On the Jordan Harbinger Show, we decode the stories, |
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| 1:37.1 | grown up actor and friend of mine, Josh Peck. Depending on how old you are, you might remember him |
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