Drake & Josh EXPOSED: The Untold History & Shocking Controversies of Drake Bell and Josh Peck! part two

joe petty

Dive into the rollercoaster journey of Drake & Josh, the iconic Nickelodeon sitcom that captured hearts in the 2000s! From their hilarious on-screen chemistry as stepbrothers to the dark controversies that rocked their real-life friendship, this video uncovers the complete history of Drake Bell and Josh Peck. We explore their rise to fame on The Amanda Show, the behind-the-scenes drama during Drake & Josh (2004–2007), and the shocking revelations from the 2024 docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV. Learn about Drake Bell’s allegations of sexual abuse by dialogue coach Brian Peck (no relation to Josh), the fallout that strained their friendship, and other legal troubles, including Bell’s 2021 child endangerment charges. We also cover their emotional 2025 reunion on the Good Guys podcast, where they addressed the trauma and rift. Don’t miss this deep dive into the highs, lows, and untold secrets of two Nickelodeon legends!  Like, subscribe, and hit the bell for more celebrity exposés! #DrakeAndJosh #DrakeBell #JoshPeck #Nickelodeon #QuietOnSet #ChildStarControversy #TVShowHistory #90sKids #2000sNostalgia #NickelodeonScandal #DrakeBellAbuse #JoshPeckDrama #TheAmandaShow #HollywoodControversy #ChildActorStruggles #TVShowSecrets #CelebrityFeud #NickelodeonExposed #DrakeAndJoshReunion #PopCulture #BehindTheScenes #TVScandals #CelebrityNews #NostalgiaTV #DrakeBellControversy #JoshPeckResponse

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00:00:00So it's been a year since I made that Drake and Josh video and boy has a lot changed

00:00:06Drake Bell is facing new legal troubles state of Ohio versus Jared Bell

00:00:11Former Nickelodeon star was arrested in Ohio this week on one charge of attempted child endangerment and one charge of disseminating matter

00:00:19harmful to juveniles

00:00:21Jared Drake Bell is a pedophile and that is his legacy the pair had allegedly established a

00:00:26Relationship years prior and in the months leading up to the concert Bell allegedly sent her quote

00:00:32Inappropriate social media messages the claim that he is a pedophile lacks any sort of factual support

00:00:41He's pled to the felony of the fourth degree attempted child endangerment and a misdemeanor

00:00:47Disseminating neither of which require any sexual registration. How close were you with Drake at that point? Very very tight. Very good friends

00:00:55No, are you guys like not friends? Not really? No, what there's like a bad path

00:01:03Obviously

00:01:05Quite frankly, I didn't think I was gonna be doing a follow-up unless I got some questions answered when I went to go see

00:01:11Drake Bell live in concert something tells me that if I saw him now the questions I'd be asking him

00:01:18Would be a lot different a couple months after releasing the video

00:01:22Drake Bell made the news for the most horrible of reasons

00:01:26So we're gonna address that in this video

00:01:29we're also going to address the new stuff that we found out about Josh and

00:01:33Why Drake and Josh are no longer friends a couple months after dropping the video

00:01:39Drake Bell was in the news because an ex-girlfriend accused him of being verbally and physically abusive during their relationship

00:01:46After that another bombshell dropped

00:01:48This one was even more serious a young girl would accuse Drake of being a pedophile and being a groomer now since both of these

00:01:56Accusations are very very serious. I'm not gonna editorialize

00:02:01I'm just gonna lay out the facts as I found them and you can make your own judgment

00:02:06And if what I'm saying disturbs you there are plenty of organizations that you can donate your time or money to

00:02:13To help out victims of these type of situations

00:02:16So let's start with the grooming case that we've all heard about our victim said at age 11

00:02:22She found out that her aunt had a mutual connection to Drake Bell that led to my aunt taking me to meet him for the first

00:02:29Time in 2014 when I was 12. She was a self-described super fan

00:02:35Everyone who knew me as a child knew that he was a hero to me

00:02:39I would have done anything for him who from the age of 12 to 15

00:02:44Would go to meet and greets to see Drake after I met him for the first time

00:02:49He started speaking to me more frequently online

00:02:51She'd also communicate with Drake Bell online where she'd talk about her struggles with boys

00:02:57Seek life advice and talk about her mental health struggles. I confided in him about very personal things about myself

00:03:06Including my struggle with my mental health now when this was all brought up in court

00:03:11Drake Bell's lawyer wanted it on record that

00:03:15Investigators had found that the young girl had already been in therapy for her mental health before ever meeting Drake Bell

00:03:21The victim is not gonna like what I have to say

00:03:23But we are aware that that therapy did not begin with Drake this began before at the age of 13

00:03:30One of their communications was about boy advice

00:03:34He told me that I was beautiful and that boys were stupid Drake Bell attempting to make her feel better called her a

00:03:42Cutie and snapshot at a photo from one of her social media profiles to send back to her

00:03:48He then sent me a photo of myself that he had screencapped from my Instagram

00:03:53Telling me that I was quote such a cutie

00:03:56I took and uploaded that photo online a year earlier when I was 12 years old

00:04:00He saved that photo of me onto his phone

00:04:03I didn't realize how disturbing that was until many years later and at 14 during one of their interactions online

00:04:09Drake would comment how much she's grown

00:04:11He said that I wasn't little anymore and I was quote a woman now when she was 15

00:04:17She sent Drake a message saying that she was going to be at one of his shows

00:04:20He also asked me quote. How old are you now? I

00:04:24Told him 15

00:04:26He then told me to quote hurry up don't smile at me according to the court rulings

00:04:32These were the messages that Drake Bell pleaded guilty to so the acceptance of the responsibility your honor

00:04:39is for chats that occurred between he and the victim the subject matter of those chats were

00:04:46Discussion because they had known each other for years and there were claims that became sexual in nature. He did not plead

00:04:54To sexual misconduct or engaging in sexual relations

00:04:59He pled to endangering attempted endangering children and disseminating matter harmful to juveniles

00:05:07Drake Bell's lawyer even argued that him saying

00:05:10Hurry up, and don't smile at him was the exact opposite of grooming when asked however

00:05:17At what point?

00:05:19Your age excuse me

00:05:22At that point he said can you hurry up which shows a complete

00:05:26intent not to engage

00:05:28With a minor well in the courtroom

00:05:31The accuser said that her and Drake Bell would share pictures on Instagram and snapchat of their naked bodies

00:05:38And he even sent a picture of his genitalia not too long after that his messages to me became blatantly sexual

00:05:45This eventually led to many months of inappropriate messages and photos being exchanged over Instagram and snapchat

00:05:54The photos exchanged included photos of my body

00:05:58And photos of his body and his genitals in the beginning. I was excited I

00:06:04Thought that he really liked me, and I thought that I meant something to him the court also dismissed this claim

00:06:10Saying that in their 18 months of investigation

00:06:13They didn't find a single one of these pictures on any device about sending photos of genitals

00:06:19We went through these claims

00:06:21With the prosecutor's office for a long time approximately 18 months

00:06:26no such

00:06:27Image was presented

00:06:29Either to the state or to the defense the accuser would then bring up multiple times where she had met Drake Bell and things had

00:06:36Turned sexual the reason that these particular incidents did not result any further than oral sex

00:06:42Was because the defendant knew that I was menstruating at the time or received a sexual image aside from Cleveland

00:06:50The only other time that the defendant sexually assaulted me was in October of 2017

00:06:57It happened in Illinois in the middle of the night

00:07:00He digitally penetrated me in the back seat of my aunt's car while she was driving him to a friend's house

00:07:06She went on to say that she reported this incident to the Illinois Police Department

00:07:10Who would only investigate if the Ohio Police Department didn't this portion of my statement?

00:07:16Explains how he started grooming me when I was 12 years old one such incident that the accuser reported was in December of 2017

00:07:24Where she went to go see Drake Bell in concert at the Odeon that night the defendant took me backstage to be alone with him

00:07:31He started kissing me and the night ended and

00:07:35Him having me perform oral sex on him twice and the very next day

00:07:39She went with her aunt to a hotel room to see Drake Bell

00:07:43He had talked to me about seeing me one last time before we all left Cleveland and went home

00:07:47So we went to his hotel to say goodbye in his hotel room

00:07:51He started kissing me and had me perform oral sex on him again

00:07:56Investigators also looked into both of these incidents detective. She talks about performing oral sex here today on two occasions

00:08:03Stating that there was never that this happened in the back room at the Odeon. We also were able to identify and share

00:08:10Witnesses who indicated they had gone back and forth down the hall into that room throughout the night

00:08:14The door was open there were people in that room at all night at all times

00:08:18And this did not happen with the hotel incident

00:08:22The accuser had forgotten to mention that a friend also went with them that day

00:08:26And that friend was very clear not just in a statement to the defense

00:08:29But also in another recorded statement to the Cleveland Police Detective Antonaccio

00:08:35And that person stated that the victim had never gone into

00:08:41Mr. Bell's room alone period and that was twice stated to us and to the

00:08:48detective in January 2018 the accuser says that a

00:08:53Janet had taken over Drake social media accounts to stop communication between her and Drake Bell

00:08:59I was engaging in an inappropriate conversation with who I thought was the defendant

00:09:05Until I received a message back from the defendants account claiming to be Janet this confused and devastated me

00:09:12The accuser then said that later on

00:09:14Janet swore that she never did any of this. She claimed that she didn't know anything about these crimes

00:09:21She denied speaking with me in January of 2018 and claimed that wasn't her

00:09:25But the court would get Janet to admit on tape that yeah, she did actually contact this girl

00:09:33We had provided a video to the prosecutor's office

00:09:37From miss Bell. She explained why she spoke to the victim the way that she did

00:09:42She explained that she was just trying to appease her and trying to

00:09:47Let her believe that she was just being heard because she had difficulty even talking to her about it

00:09:52So this was not anything that as the victims somehow believes now was genuine by miss Bell

00:09:58This was an attempt just simply to diffuse the situation which in hindsight they clearly judged correctly as a dangerous situation

00:10:06So who is Janet?

00:10:08Well, Janet was Drake Bell's girlfriend at the time and is now his current wife

00:10:15I'm your wife

00:10:17You are my husband and the mother to his child

00:10:21Our accuser would say that Janet knew about the whole thing that Janet is an enabler

00:10:27Janet is just one of the few people who have tried to protect him that Drake Bell purposely seeks out girls like her

00:10:34He was calculating he preyed on me and sexually abused me

00:10:39He is a monster and a danger to children

00:10:42And the only reason that he's upset today is that he was caught if he is truly sorry for anything

00:10:48He is sorry that he has finally been caught even accusing Drake of being too cowardly to show up in person to court

00:10:55He has appeared in court today over zoom instead of appearing in person

00:11:00This doesn't surprise me and shows what a coward he is

00:11:03But this was during that time period where kovat prevented

00:11:08Most people from showing up in person as you can see with the jury who are all appearing virtually in September of 2018

00:11:16The accuser went to confront Drake Bell

00:11:18I chose to confront him about what he had done to me because I wanted to gain my power back

00:11:23I had to suck up all of the fear that I felt in order to confront him

00:11:28Eventually, he tried apologizing to me for quote breaking my heart, but deleted those messages quickly afterward

00:11:36His crimes are not

00:11:38Heartbreaking or whatever other loose to term he uses now the lawyer for Drake Bell says that

00:11:45After these alleged incidents took place

00:11:48The accuser had gone to nine more meet-and-greets post when the incidents had supposedly taken place

00:11:54She went to nine additional concerts that he was that she would message him saying I miss you

00:12:00You know when we talk about the

00:12:02The kind of different reality Drake Bell's lawyer would even argue that his client had been ambushed by these

00:12:09Allegations what was accused here today?

00:12:12What was brought out here today was a far other world from what we the state and the defense

00:12:18had contemplated prior to

00:12:20That he was prepared to come in and plead guilty to the original text messages and all this other stuff had been tacked on

00:12:28Defendant having pled to one count of attempted endangering children

00:12:32Felony of the fourth degree and one count of disseminating matter

00:12:37Harmful to juveniles a misdemeanor in the first degree

00:12:40They wanted to make it clear that many of these accusations they were pleading not guilty on

00:12:45It's difficult because it's hard for me to walk the very fine line in this case

00:12:50Between what he did and what he's being accused of doing that which he accepted responsibility

00:12:55For and that which he would never accept responsibility for a lot of the news that you've been hearing

00:13:00well, most of the news that you've heard recently is in entirely false and wrong and

00:13:06I I feel that you deserve and I owe you an explanation in a statement put out by Drake Bell after the court case

00:13:14Drake would try to set the record straight of what he said actually was transpiring. I didn't get arrested

00:13:21I didn't go to jail. I know that this has moved very quickly for you

00:13:25but for for me, it's been a three-year thorough investigation into

00:13:29Every false claim that that has been made and and it's not me telling you that the claims are false

00:13:34But the state of Ohio has proven the claims to be false

00:13:38If these claims were remotely true, my situation would be very different

00:13:43I would not be here at home with my wife and and my son

00:13:46He had never shared sexual images or committed a sexual act that there were no sexual images

00:13:54Nothing physical between me and this individual. I was not charged with anything physical physical. I was not charged with

00:14:01Disseminating of photographs or images or anything like that. This is strictly over

00:14:08That once he knew of the girl's age all communication had stopped between them

00:14:13I responded to a fan whose age I didn't know

00:14:18Yet when I became aware of their age

00:14:21All conversation and communication stopped but this girl had still continued to show up to his meet-and-greets

00:14:28this individual continued to come to shows and

00:14:30Pay for meet-and-greets and all while I was unaware that this was the same person. I was communicating with online

00:14:37and

00:14:39That's what I played guilty to Drake would then take a shot at all the false reporting that had come from this case

00:14:45How about the New York Times?

00:14:47Reporting that I'm a registered sex offender wrong. Like how about the New York Times? How about the USA Today saying that?

00:14:54California is gonna decide whether or not to register. I wasn't even an accuser or

00:15:01Convicted of a sex crime. I mean it's it the whole thing is

00:15:05Is completely construed misconstrued and like the click bait is the click bait is

00:15:12Stuff ever and and I mean it's wild the stuff that they

00:15:16reported was just

00:15:18incorrect

00:15:19Not a fact. I mean it just was wrong just like dead wrong, but our judge was less sympathetic

00:15:26a grown man does not

00:15:29Engage in inappropriate

00:15:32text messages

00:15:35To a teenager you see for him

00:15:37He believed that Drake Bell was using his power of celebrity to bring in these type of girls

00:15:44That Drake Bell had a young audience who idolized him and Drake was purposely taking advantage of that

00:15:51exacerbated the harm that the fall on you

00:15:55because of all this

00:15:57publicity, but the fact of the matter is

00:16:01Your position and celebrity status

00:16:04Enabled you to nurture this relationship. I went to him for advice and for someone to lean on and he gave me that I

00:16:12Felt protected and loved by him

00:16:15That we shouldn't have any sympathy that Drake Bell's rep was ruined because of this incident

00:16:21Online if you just simply type in his name

00:16:24The initial Google result will come up with

00:16:27twenty three point six million

00:16:30Results that deal with

00:16:32Drake Bell and this very process for which we're standing here today

00:16:36Drake Bell's lawyer would even bring up that this case has already damaged his client

00:16:41So this is something that's going to tag him and follow him around. He's already seen a loss of

00:16:47Employment in this statement video Drake Bell would also apologize to the victim and the fans that he has let down

00:16:54but that being said I

00:16:56I'm not perfect and I

00:16:58Made mistakes. I have taken this matter very very seriously and

00:17:04again, I just want to apologize to her and and

00:17:08anyone else who may have been

00:17:10Affected by my actions. So because of this whole mess, is that why Josh no longer wants to associate with Drake?

00:17:17I have a harem of tween girls to attend to ta-ta not my tween groupies

00:17:22Personally, I don't think so and neither does Drake Bell. We thought that we thought okay

00:17:28maybe he just assumes that the that worse being quiet or that we're not really active or that

00:17:36The internet hates Drake. I honestly honestly, no, I don't think so. I

00:17:42And it would make perfect sense, right?

00:17:44guilty or innocent

00:17:46You just don't really want to be involved with something like that

00:17:49If you have a burgeoning career where anything bad Drake does could affect you

00:17:55But every interview that I saw Josh in

00:17:58He's not really

00:18:00Condemning Drake. He's

00:18:02Disappointed by the events that have transpired in Drake's life

00:18:06It's a bad situation

00:18:09When Drake got into legal trouble people ran to get my opinion

00:18:13They thought I must have a take on this person

00:18:15I'd spent so much time with when in reality it had been years since we talked and even longer since we'd seen each other

00:18:22Which is why alongside everyone else who doesn't know Drake

00:18:25I was upset by the inexplicable events that unfolded in his life, but he never outright says

00:18:32That's why I don't want to have anything to do with Drake

00:18:35Like for example when Josh Peck was on the Burt cast Burt Kreischer is running down Drake Bell

00:18:42Like I don't have a lot of room for your ex

00:18:44Your ex co-star. Sure. I don't have a lot of I

00:18:48Do I don't know what happened with him or didn't have it with him

00:18:51But I don't have a lot of wiggle space in that territory for how I feel about those things

00:18:56yes, and and I understand that I that I

00:19:01Understand that I don't know all the things and that kid that I won't say his name

00:19:04But that kid may be like do you don't know what can happen and I get that I totally get that and Josh is just sort

00:19:11of

00:19:11Yeah

00:19:13Yeah, like yeah

00:19:15Setting it's like it's like certain things

00:19:19They don't get flagged by people if you know, it just doesn't happen that way. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong

00:19:25But like I don't have a problem. So like I bite my tongue about that because I don't know all the things sure

00:19:30Maybe it's out of a sympathy

00:19:32Where they both know that they have some issues that they both need to work out

00:19:36Josh and I've always had like our ups and downs and

00:19:41All the stuff and I don't know why maybe it's just because we were kids and

00:19:46We had our own demons

00:19:47but the problem is even if you want to give Drake the benefit of the doubt his history with women is

00:19:54Awful, you are gonna get one year on the felony for six months on the

00:20:01Misdemeanor though run concurrent by operation of law. I will suspend the imposition of the sentence

00:20:07You will be subject to two years community control sanctions

00:20:11You'll have to register with Cuyahoga County. They will facilitate the transfer of probation to

00:20:19California they will

00:20:21evaluate your

00:20:26Sexual offender

00:20:28Report that was submitted under seal. They will determine whether you have to undergo additional counseling

00:20:34It will also perform 200 hours of

00:20:39Community work service

00:20:41And you were to have no contact with the victim court costs imposed and none of his long-term

00:20:47Relationships seem to have ended very well on

00:20:50Tick-tock his former girlfriend Melissa Lingenfeld stage named Jimmy Oh, no

00:20:55would state that she was in a verbally and physically abusive relationship from the age of

00:21:0116 to 19 and it doesn't help Drake Bell's case when I tell you that

00:21:06Melissa was 16 when she started to live with Drake Bell who was 20 at the time

00:21:12So she was underage when I started dating Drake. I was 16. I was homeschooled. I moved in with him

00:21:19I was singing it wasn't until about a year when the verbal abuse started and when I say verbal abuse

00:21:26Imagine the worst

00:21:28Type of verbal abuse you could ever imagine and that was what I got

00:21:33Melissa would elaborate on future tick tocks and on Instagram that she was kicked choked and slapped

00:21:41It then turned into physical hitting throwing

00:21:46everything

00:21:48At the pinnacle of it. He drug me down the stairs of our house in Los Feliz

00:21:53My face hit every step on the way down

00:21:56I have photos of this she would share journals and photos from their time period together as

00:22:03proof

00:22:05Though when I went to investigate this further

00:22:07It doesn't look like any legal expert was brought in to put official time stamps on these journals and the police report

00:22:15Incident has the name white it out. Melissa would also back the claim that Drake Bell has an affinity for young girls

00:22:23Well, I don't even want to get into the underage girls thing. I

00:22:27Mean I will but I'm scared

00:22:30Showing messages she had received from anonymous users who also

00:22:35Reported being with Drake Bell or having a friend who slept with Drake Bell while they were underage

00:22:41You do have to take in mind that this is the Internet and anyone can send any kind of message

00:22:47But this is just not a good look

00:22:49Kissy face all the time with that. Yeah, you were wearing it. No dirty

00:22:54Even going as far as calling it being on some Bill Cosby

00:22:59One message would say that the reason they can't provide evidence from Drake Bell is that in fits of rage?

00:23:05He would destroy their phone which would eliminate any saved answering machine message and text messages

00:23:12One of these women who reached out to Melissa was Peyton Lane

00:23:17Lopochin who had dated Drake Bell for five years

00:23:20She would back up Melissa's claim about the type of verbal and physical abuse that comes from dating Drake Bell

00:23:28Drake Bell responds to allegations that he verbally and physically abused his ex-girlfriend

00:23:33Drake Bell would admit that yeah

00:23:35Their relationship didn't end on the best of terms and that he had used nasty insults and name-calling at the time

00:23:43But it didn't go any further than that and that Melissa must have felt comfortable enough with him years later

00:23:48To come to him and ask for money which Drake Bell provided to her

00:23:52Melissa would then put up messages that she doesn't need you to believe her that what she's saying is the truth

00:23:59I don't really care if anyone believes me as this is my story in my life and something that I went through

00:24:05Drake Bell would say that this is not true

00:24:08And he's exploring his legal options going forward at the time of this video

00:24:13Melissa's Twitter is gone, but the original post is still up on Instagram

00:24:18Neither side has gone forward with any kind of legal action like the Bill Cosby situation

00:24:24This could pick up steam at any moment earlier

00:24:28I mentioned a Janet and we learned about Janet as soon as the allegations from the young accuser dropped

00:24:34This is Drake and Janet your business partner as your producer your

00:24:39love also we met

00:24:42through a mutual friend when I was working on a

00:24:45Show called splash and now we know that Drake Bell is married

00:24:50when

00:24:52Did you get married? We've been married for three years?

00:24:55Yeah

00:24:55The whole reason that we got married the way we did was because the next two years we were supposed to be touring

00:25:03yeah, and he had been married for quite a while and had a kid and

00:25:07All of a sudden pictures came out of the couple at Disney World, you know

00:25:11Just a normal family which in a way was almost exactly what the accuser said was going to happen

00:25:18Drake Bell was going to make himself look like the family man. How could he do all those rotten things?

00:25:24The guy just makes dad jokes. I always I always like that cuz it's like, you know blame it on your boogies

00:25:33Dad jokes dad and Drake Bell wasn't the only one trying to be a family man

00:25:37Josh Peck went from booze and alcohol to the Disney dad. I'm very happy and

00:25:44Incredibly lucky and now we have a kid and we own a home together

00:25:48So it's gonna be incredibly hard for her to leave me

00:25:50It'll just be so much paperwork

00:25:52Marrying a woman named Paige O'Brien and having a son Max now Paige comes from a famous family

00:25:58Her dad was former quarterback Ken O'Brien

00:26:02My wife comes to like my wife is one of four like her dad was, you know quarterback in the NFL like they're like a

00:26:07Properly, who is she?

00:26:09Her dad's a guy named Ken O'Brien Ken O'Brien. Yeah, I know Ken O'Brien for the Jets. Yeah, O'Brien

00:26:17Yeah, yeah, my father-in-law is a proper quarterback in the NFL for over 10 years

00:26:22Yeah, is he's basically my hero

00:26:25Like I I do feel like God was like, well, you didn't get much of a father

00:26:28But we'll throw you Ken O'Brien Ken O'Brien, and if you want to see something funny on my channel look up old-school NFL posters

00:26:36I'm going to link it for you and you'll see some hilarious

00:26:39Posters that the NFL tried to sell including one of her dad Ken O'Brien

00:26:44So in the history of Drake and Josh part one

00:26:46I had already talked about the wedding controversy and it seemed like it was all wrapped up

00:26:52There was nothing more to go into they were cool and they were going to make the reboot

00:26:57Well, apparently things weren't cool

00:27:00So Josh has been going around the interview circuit saying that tweets about his wedding were happening the same night as the event cut to

00:27:07I'm getting married that night and I see these text messages from him like

00:27:12Cursing me out coming for me. I'm like on the night of my wedding

00:27:18Which

00:27:20Drake showed in timestamps wasn't the case

00:27:25but no, there were no like texts or you know multiple tweets or or they said I went on a

00:27:33What did he say? I want a press tour

00:27:35He's surprised but then he takes to the internet and he starts writing these tweets that immediately like catch fire

00:27:41And so then he like reams in and goes on this press tour about how heartbroken he is

00:27:48It just it took on a life of its own. Yeah, it was not my intention. It wasn't my plan

00:27:54I wasn't trying to

00:27:55You know throw daggers or anything. I was just like

00:27:59Honestly, he was just emotionally impulsive. He went to Twitter like a teenage girl that doesn't have any follower

00:28:08Millions of followers and then she tweets it and then goes

00:28:13Yo, and it's delusional cuz I'm like, bro, it's like we worked at coffee being over 16 like I'm sorry, I'm 31 now

00:28:20I might have lost your number. It was like it ended the world. It was like, oh, we're friends. We're not friends

00:28:24We're friends. It was like she loves me. She loves me not she loves me. She loves me not you know

00:28:28I but I but I pulled the pedal on she loves me not. Yeah, you know and it was a bummer and that was like

00:28:33Drake didn't think his one or two tweets were even going to make the news. I don't think that I'm gonna tweet and

00:28:40It's gonna make trend. Oh, oh, it's gonna try to go over. So I just kind of did it cuz I was

00:28:47Bummed and I and I wanted people to know Josh was going around saying that

00:28:52Drake Bell knew that they weren't close. He was using the Internet's outrage to go on a press tour

00:28:57I'm just gonna explain my over a decade of

00:28:59Now when I say insane I mean it in its most literal sense in that people were in a state of mind which prevents

00:29:07normal perception

00:29:09People can fathom that we'd only seen each other a handful of times since the show ended

00:29:15They insisted that they had just seen us together

00:29:18Wackily trying to escape a treehouse from a hotel room. They insisted that they had just seen each other

00:29:24They insisted that they had just seen us together

00:29:27Wackily trying to escape a treehouse with no doors

00:29:30So it's pretty confusing every time you hear Josh say that they hadn't seen each other in 10 years

00:29:36And so we have like this small wedding and the dirty little secret

00:29:40I guess was like I knew that Drake and I didn't stay in touch for the 10 years since we had made the show

00:29:45But no one needed to know that

00:29:47Like I was happy to just die with that secret that like we made this thing that people really loved

00:29:53But maybe we weren't that close

00:29:54So I didn't invite him in my wedding because I hadn't really talked to him in many many years

00:29:59You know guys we were never that close like then I'm the bear of bad news

00:30:03So I just had to eat it and let him you know, go wild the Twitter mob did not understand. Yeah, and

00:30:09Mostly I was just outraged because I was like my wife's a private person

00:30:13She's not an actor and she's supposed to be in the afterglow of like this very special event

00:30:18And she's being shunned by twelve-year-olds who are like calling her Yoko

00:30:22Why are they laughing about the wedding drama in this clip from?

00:30:262019 which is not ten years ago. Get ready. That's what we're basically on a ruining your child

00:30:35Now it's video and here we go we had some good cooked up for you. Yeah, you'll see this what happens

00:30:40Okay, we hang out we're fine

00:30:42Get out of our comments. Yeah, you remember that clip that I showed of them reuniting at the VMAs

00:30:48You know where it became all good brothers hugged brothers got back together

00:30:52It was actually a really nice moment. Like we left the entire and I was stoked actually because I we exchanged

00:31:01Numbers like we were all like let's grab dinner and we did we all went I know

00:31:06We all did

00:31:09Many times well, I guess there was more to that than met the eye

00:31:15Even even though we got over it. We've hung out since then. Yeah, we pitched a show

00:31:23In 2019, I think he wrote in innocuous need a suite that then caught fire and he leaned in

00:31:31Completely when he saw how outraged people were cuz they're like no you guys were just sharing a room last week

00:31:36Like that was 11 years ago. Josh would say that in a Tony Soprano like way

00:31:42He went up to Drake and forced him to apologize to his wife for all that wedding drama

00:31:48Like and this might be the most Sopranos thing I've ever done. I look at him and I go

00:31:53Go apologize to my wife

00:31:56right now

00:31:57I'm sorry. That's just so funny to me that Josh would ever pretend to be tough

00:32:04We were all smiling laughing

00:32:07Like he did ask you to apologize. Yeah, he did

00:32:10Oh, yeah, and I and I was right like I wanted to you know

00:32:14Exactly, but Janet said that she had saw Josh in the corner of her eye that Josh was approaching him

00:32:20And he had his camera out to vlog the whole thing and he goes, okay

00:32:25And he like made a beeline for my wife and I see him do like this whole

00:32:30Five minute performance of an apology and it was like I was like go apologize to my wife or something bad

00:32:36It's gonna happen Drake Bell said that there was no need for this

00:32:39Then he actually wanted to apologize to Paige and he goes hey, man

00:32:43You don't need to you don't need to say sorry to me

00:32:45But you know, I really need you to say sorry to Paige and I was like, yeah, dude

00:32:50Absolutely. Like I want to say sorry to Paige, you know, I don't care about me. It's whatever

00:32:55I signed up to be a public person. It is what it is. But here's my wife, right? Who's like getting

00:33:00Torn down on the internet and I'm like, she's private and she just got married. Can't you just enjoy this?

00:33:06I said some tardy things. I I but I was bummed dude. Yeah, I don't know. I was bummed

00:33:12I was like man, that sucks. I should have texted you instead of tweeted, you know

00:33:17I should have just texted you and been like, oh, that's a bummer. I would love to been there. Congratulations, you know

00:33:22Where do I send the gift?

00:33:24but instead I you know, I

00:33:27You know, I was a little bit upset and I was irresponsible and I tweeted, you know

00:33:33And you can make your own judgment about the situation

00:33:35But for a guy that you claim

00:33:38You were never close with and that the show was the equivalent of working at a coffee bean

00:33:43So no one to me had to ever know that Drake and I weren't exactly close, right?

00:33:47I don't talk to him anymore at all. I don't your Christmas party the party that I made

00:33:53Treats for everyone. He came to your album release party when you were on splash

00:33:58He came to be on TV to support you. We were friends. Yeah, I understand

00:34:03But today he told everyone that once your show was over you weren't friends. Oh, oh, well, that's not true. Okay

00:34:09Yeah, we've hung out a lot. We you know, and obviously obviously, you know

00:34:14We have had ups and downs and off, you know times where we spend a lot of time together and then times where we don't

00:34:20See each other for a long time

00:34:22But not this whole we didn't see each other and we never we I think what was always

00:34:29We were naturally just kind of like we had a brotherly type thing where it was

00:34:33Either we were closer or we were really not there was another actor on the show Drake Bell whom I got matched up with a lot

00:34:40We were great together an undeniable chemistry

00:34:44He was the perfect straight man to whatever crazy fish I was doing and we started getting to that sweet spot on screen

00:34:51Where we could finish each other's sentences

00:34:53So clickbait news sites have been having a field day with the headline

00:34:57Josh says he and Drake were never friends that their friendship was like one that you'd have with somebody at summer camp

00:35:04They hadn't even seen each other for 12 years

00:35:08He's like when it ended it was like summer camps camp. It's camp people don't people don't understand that. I'm like, dude

00:35:14That's like no, I invited you to all my parties in my house. I came I we hung out together

00:35:20We've gone to dinners together. I mean he we I mean Michael who I wrote the theme song with I mean

00:35:27He wasn't Michaels all the time

00:35:28But according to Josh this was just a front for the public him and Drake weren't close and is that the last communication?

00:35:36pretty much just a

00:35:38Like a straight lie to the fandom to say that you guys haven't talked or hung out. Yeah

00:35:43Yeah, I mean, I mean if we haven't talked and hung out, I mean we pitched it we pitched a show

00:35:47I don't know. You could have confused me. Let's have fun. Let's just live that doesn't look like two strangers

00:35:54That looks like how two friends interact

00:35:59From Josh Peck

00:36:01Then January, excuse me, January 30th of 2019. Okay

00:36:07Do you go up to your old employees kiss them on the head while wrapping them in your arms?

00:36:13But no, he came up with the camera and he's like, hey, what's up? And I was like, oh

00:36:17what's up, you know, and then he like kisses me and then

00:36:20It's like tell the internet to be nice to me or tell Facebook to be nice to me. I'm like

00:36:28Oh my god be nice like it's not like I had no I had no idea that people were gonna be

00:36:34I

00:36:45Had no idea that people would be mad at him for that like I'm like

00:36:50But they but they took sides and I was like, I mean I had I know what's going on

00:36:55And I was like so they got down on you Oh

00:36:58Crushing for a really long time since then people I think have actually you know

00:37:03Yeah, I just don't see it but in Josh's defense him and his wife Paige can invite whoever they want to their wedding

00:37:10I didn't invite you because we never were really friends and people don't know that and it's been 12 years

00:37:15We don't talk. My wife's Irish. She's got big family

00:37:18Yeah

00:37:19It can be as big or as small as they want it to be and they don't have to invite Drake if they don't want

00:37:24To invite Drake. It's their wedding

00:37:26It's not a Drake and Josh event when Josh was asked if he'd be invited to Drake's wedding

00:37:31Josh said no, do you think he would have invited you to his wedding? Oh

00:37:36So so you he was just making publicity to draw attention to it and guess that it is the way you perceive it

00:37:42Basic and he was right. He wasn't invited to Drake's wedding Drake. Did you invite Josh to your wedding?

00:37:49No, because my wedding was like we got our art. We got married like

00:37:55Kind of quick. So I don't know maybe it's like when brothers fight. It's so weird of it to think of you that way

00:38:01It's crazy. It's really like brothers. Yeah, I'm some brother. Yeah, I can't think of you like that

00:38:07Yeah, you don't always like your family member

00:38:09But you do love them. So we were going through a lot, you know, so we've had it but we've had our ups and downs

00:38:15We've had times when we've been we've been friends. We've had times when we want to like kill each other, you know

00:38:20But that's it's being brother. It's like it's we were like brothers. We were together more

00:38:24Honestly, I know Josh and I'm closer to Josh and I am to my own brothers. Josh says they're brotherly

00:38:30Obviously, we love each other and we were able to make such an impact on people. So any chance to do something dope together?

00:38:36It's really exciting for me. Drake says they're brotherly. Yeah, like I don't do you spend so I don't know my brothers

00:38:43Josh yeah that he knows Josh better than he does his own brothers

00:38:47Drake has it so easy if I look like him, I'd be the one getting the girl

00:38:51So is Josh just a chameleon trying to shed his Drake and Josh Association?

00:38:56I very badly wanted to detach from the old image people had of me and in doing so help them forget I ever existed

00:39:03I was gonna make you forget him any positive feeling you had about him had to be erased because I hated that guy

00:39:11so I assumed and I think

00:39:14Mostly mostly because I wanted to erase my origin story. Like I want to be like, can I just

00:39:20Burn the yearbooks and start over that maybe he's just more interested in getting the approval of the general public

00:39:27That when Twitter starts to turn against him for being cruel to Drake. Oh, it's all love

00:39:34but when Drake Bell is a public pariah, I

00:39:37Don't know that guy. I don't know that guy. So maybe it's just more heartbreaking for the fans because Janet says

00:39:45Josh hates Drake and Josh

00:39:49Josh hates Drake and Josh

00:39:51Yeah

00:39:53I find people marry themselves to the first image that they fall in love with you

00:39:58So for me that was as this chubby kid on Drake and Josh

00:40:01I was 15 when it started 19 when it finished

00:40:04It was high school for me and my sentiments towards the show mimic that of a high school experience

00:40:10In the moment there were times when I just wanted it to be over

00:40:13But now I look back on the experience fondly

00:40:17Appreciating all that it gave me which Drake Bell has come to kind of accept

00:40:22I didn't realize that the first hard time

00:40:27discussing it and remembering it and

00:40:29Of course the first time that I that I realized that really was when I read the script

00:40:35I didn't know he hated the show so much

00:40:37But is that true?

00:40:38Josh is saying he's proud of the show that he worked on to then get an offer to do the Amanda show and a year

00:40:46later to have my own show with Drake was

00:40:48was really special and we did a

00:40:52Only actually 60 episodes, I think it just feels longer because yeah, there's no there's no residuals in kids TV

00:41:00So they rewrite

00:41:01He just doesn't necessarily

00:41:03Like the guy his name's attached to Drake and Josh is something I'll be synonymous with forever and I'm proud of it

00:41:10And I want to like the guy that my name is attached to forever

00:41:15But unfortunately, you know, it just sort of worked out the way that it did cuz let's face it. This was a big show

00:41:23But only for kids now

00:41:25I know some of you listening to this book might be interested in the doldrums of what happened on set the

00:41:30Stories the drama which there wasn't much of what it was like to have a hit show on television at 16

00:41:38But for me, it didn't have much of an impact

00:41:41I mean we were a hit show sure, but kids TV shows weren't the star-making factories

00:41:47they are today only in the last five years with social media and

00:41:52Just how memable it is and the fact that kids television doesn't pay residuals. So they read a lot

00:41:57Like I

00:41:59I feel like it's become so much more a part of the lexicon for us for a 16 year old kid

00:42:06yeah, I mean I was getting paid fair, but I

00:42:10Yeah, I mean the no residual thing really is a big deal because the thing that people don't realize you know

00:42:15it's like even though there there's

00:42:18You know, I mean we weren't making what people you know

00:42:21Frankie Muniz or anybody on network TV

00:42:23But we were able to like pay our rent and pay our car insurance and like live in normal life in LA

00:42:30Yeah, but we weren't you know

00:42:33Collecting sports cars and living in mansions and all that. We're making 15 in F. Yeah. Yeah

00:42:40Which obviously I mean you have to people people caveat people think you're millionaires, right? They think like I

00:42:48Mean nine hundred thousand bucks off of you know for season 60 episodes

00:42:53But we made half of that because the tax is an agent manager and so over four years five years

00:42:59It was about a hundred grand a year being a successful kid actor is kind of like doing porn

00:43:05So maybe Josh has always been jealous of Drake, but did you go home and say mom I just really don't like Drake

00:43:10It's just a real a little size. So mean I don't know

00:43:15Sometimes I mean and I'm sure you said the

00:43:17Some version of that annoying Josh Peck can't stand right? Oh, he's eating all the snacks, right seeing Drake as happy

00:43:26successful and enjoying the benefits of being a teen heartthrob because my perception of you at like 13 was like you were

00:43:34Stickman my oh, yeah you

00:43:37Okay, first of all, don't say it like that that even when Josh lost the weight he still couldn't escape his mental issues

00:43:43It took me a really long time to love that kid to realize that without him. There would be no me. I

00:43:51Was scared

00:43:52Powerless and alone and he protected me against an intense and unrelenting existence

00:43:58So does Josh hate Drake and Josh or a love Drake and Josh?

00:44:03No, and I worked at a place called the premiere on Drake and Josh

00:44:05So what are we talking about here Navy Seals the most elite fighting force in the world and Josh from Drake and Josh

00:44:12he certainly busts out the Drake and Josh jokes or

00:44:16References when it helps his vlogs or his TV projects or it makes him come off as funnier

00:44:22We should probably meet the guy from Drake and Josh who's also our half-brother

00:44:25So the last video was flooded with quite a few comments

00:44:28It said that Drake Bell is a has-been that he reminded you guys of BoJack Horseman

00:44:34So is the comparison to BoJack Horseman fair if you look at their careers

00:44:38Josh is on Disney Plus and Drake Bell is voicing talking pigs

00:44:46Feels pretty good and

00:44:49CGI movies alongside Pauly Shore featuring the voices of Drake Bell and Pauly Shore

00:45:01The big trip BoJack just sits around watching his old sitcom and what's Drake Bell doing

00:45:08We're in the metaverse watching Drake and Josh. Well, that's him in the metaverse

00:45:14Watching Drake and Josh. So Drake is just clearly clinging on to his biggest success

00:45:19right him and Josh need to get back together because

00:45:23That's the only thing that will save his career that him and Josh could have been the next comedy duo

00:45:28Do everything the Martin Lewis did we're gonna go and make movies and we're gonna go and do this and that and the other and

00:45:33In his book Josh says that it was a mutual decision between the two of them

00:45:37the people working around me at the time assumed that Drake and I would continue on as this unstoppable force this

00:45:44Comedic team, but there wasn't really a clear path for that once the show was over

00:45:50Both of us keenly aware of the challenge that lay ahead thought better. We split up every man for himself

00:45:55You weren't in on that decision. I never was I mean, I thought we could just do so much cool stuff

00:46:02You know Drake was clearly the loser out of the two

00:46:05He even auditioned for the lead role in grandfathered the sitcom that eventually went to Josh Peck, which is funny

00:46:12I auditioned for by the way, um, so when Josh got it, I was like, oh no way

00:46:17So that's it right Josh is the star nowadays and Drake's just stuck in the past. It's easy to make that assumption

00:46:25I wasn't focusing on my music. I wasn't focusing on acting. I was just going what am I gonna do?

00:46:29You know, I mean I lost my house and that just looks like your typical

00:46:34Downward spiral right? Of course. He was gonna talk about Drake and Josh. That's the biggest thing

00:46:38He's ever gonna be involved with I'm always funny. You know what? I mean? I like I just I

00:46:45You know and so I think that that's why I think that you know

00:46:48There's like this little glimmer in the back of my mind that I'm like, you know

00:46:53Dean and Jerry hated each other for a while to whatever we'll get over it

00:46:55But maybe he talks about Drake and Josh

00:46:59Because of his own personal feelings towards the show that these people were like a family to him and that he also

00:47:06Understands how much attachment that you have to the show that he met people that he idolized and he always

00:47:13Appreciated when he met a hero and that hero turned out to be cool

00:47:16And then but I've also met people who I'm like, you know, they take the time out of their day

00:47:23They're just amazing, you know

00:47:24like so he wanted to be the same for the fans of Drake and Josh when they came up to meet him and and I've

00:47:29met people who I

00:47:31Looked up to my entire life and I you know

00:47:34I play music differently now because this person is shaping up and you meet someone and you're like

00:47:41And maybe he's not the biggest star in the United States

00:47:44But before quarantine hit he had a 300-day tour scheduled between here and Latin America

00:47:51So we had like like 300 shows

00:47:55Scheduled. Yeah

00:47:57In those two years. Yeah

00:47:59International shows all over the world, you know that went from playing. I

00:48:05Don't know how many shows a week, you know four or five shows a week to go to playing like nothing for you know

00:48:10A year so you can't exactly say he was a has-been music right away though, too. No, I was doing music the whole time

00:48:17But I mean, I mean I I just continued yeah, yeah, yeah cuz I'd already been making records I wrote the theme song

00:48:23I did all the music for the show

00:48:24But now that I've mentioned Latin America, let's bring up another controversy that Drake Bell was involved in Drake Campagna

00:48:31I'm Drake Bell, not Drake Campagna

00:48:34I'm Drake Bell, I'm not Drake Campagna

00:48:36There was a viral tik-tok that came out and it was I think some 16 year old girl and she said

00:48:43Drake Bell is going by the name Drake Campagna. Campagna is just Bell in Spanish

00:48:49It was like a joke

00:48:49I put on my Instagram and then everybody like just ran with it

00:48:52It was so funny all the fans in Mexico are like you guys are so late to the game

00:48:56He did this like two years ago. He even joked that he was no longer gonna even tweet in English

00:49:01That you said that you're all the social media is gonna be in Spanish

00:49:06Yeah, right. This is me Redis socialist. Ah, what a solo star in Espanol. No mass English

00:49:13I started touring and playing a lot of shows down there and it just became like a second home

00:49:18you know, they were just really the audiences were amazing and you know,

00:49:22I'd get home and I'd want to make that music and some people saw this name change as a sign that he was going to

00:49:28Escape to Mexico to avoid all his legal trouble in the United States. Although I love and would love to

00:49:35I've never moved to Mexico. I've never been a resident or a citizen of Mexico. I don't have a Mexican passport

00:49:41And he ran away to escape

00:49:45legal accusation or whatever

00:49:47It got picked up by every news or I mean we were getting we were getting number four on Twitter

00:49:53Too many. Everyone was hitting us up e news you

00:49:57Everybody even the BuzzFeed article today. So

00:50:01We've never not lived here and nowadays it seems like all he tweets about is NFTs and you'll see all of

00:50:10The NFTs that we've got for sale and crypto. You guys got a good check out crypto crypto voxels

00:50:17Really staying away from anything

00:50:19controversial now since the release of that last video a lot more has come out about Josh's early life and

00:50:26That's because Josh Peck put out a book. Happy people are annoying

00:50:31Happy people are annoying. Happy people are annoying. Why are happy people annoying?

00:50:40And it's kind of hard not to think that this whole Josh and Drake were never friends thing isn't just some way to sell

00:50:46Some books. It's the book is a bait-and-switch, right?

00:50:49Like you see that cover and you go

00:50:50Oh, I know that that corny guy I grew up with and then I just kind of talk about like the challenges in my life

00:50:56It's like a it's a memoir hiding as a self. No, it's a self-help book hiding as a memoir

00:51:02It doesn't even seem to affect Drake Bell who seems pretty pumped for his friend to have a book on the shelves

00:51:08He's got a book out. He's got which is really cool

00:51:11I mean you go into the Barnes & Noble and it's like right there. It's like right there

00:51:15I really didn't know a lot of this stuff that was in it

00:51:18so it was kind of you know surprising and also like just amazing everything that he's done and overcome and

00:51:25I thought his story was like really incredible. I just told I congratulated him on the book and Craig graduated him on the new movie

00:51:31And this memoir dove into details about Josh's early life that I didn't have available to me when I was researching the first part

00:51:38of this documentary

00:51:39Like did you know that we wouldn't even have had a Drake and Josh TV show if the little Romeo show had taken off?

00:51:47Nickelodeon didn't want to pick us up. No, it got shelved

00:51:49Yeah

00:51:49I got shelved for like a year and Nickelodeon didn't want to pick us up because they were gonna they wanted to pick up a

00:51:54little Romeo's show at the time and

00:51:57So they picked up a little Romeo show and it's cool

00:52:01And we learned more about the hardships that Josh and his mother faced when he was younger

00:52:07You know, we we were so up and down financially and you shared a room in your apartment

00:52:12You lived in you had a one-bedroom and that you shared with your mother. Yes part one

00:52:17I started chronicling how Josh was able to go from a little kid performing stand-up comedy

00:52:24I'm gonna fly you and your mom to LA and you're gonna be on the Amanda show

00:52:28And my mom being like the single mom and me being an only child like if I had a dad in the mix

00:52:33He would have been like what what about algebra? Yeah, what about our life here?

00:52:37And my mom was like we're going like if we hate it

00:52:40We'll come back, but we should do this to being part of the Amanda show growing up

00:52:44There was one television show that was my holy grail

00:52:48It was called all that and it was basically Saturday Night Live for kids

00:52:53All that launched the careers of Kenan Thompson Amanda Bynes and Nick Cannon and I was ready for it to launch mine

00:53:00Except for one small hurdle, which was they wanted nothing to do with me

00:53:05Then I get this shot from the president of Nickelodeon who had met me a year before

00:53:10Nobody actually wanted to put him on any of the Nickelodeon TV shows

00:53:13He had been rejected multiple times six months after the Amanda show

00:53:18We made Drake and Josh and that was kind of the thing that changed my life in part one

00:53:22We tackled a little bit of how Josh grew up never knowing his father

00:53:26Well, the book gave way more details

00:53:30It was shortly after I was born that my father in a crisis of conscience

00:53:34Decided to do the right thing

00:53:36Acknowledge my existence and help financially to oversee my life if only from afar

00:53:42Just kidding. My mom took him to court like his dad being

00:53:4662 with another family when he hooked up with Josh's mom who was 40 ish years old at the time

00:53:52he was getting Medicare and chicks pregnant and

00:53:55Like my mom and him hooked up one time they've been like sort of

00:54:00business acquaintances

00:54:01That his dad never paid child support and even took his mom to court for a paternity test

00:54:07As I showed up I saw the doctor

00:54:10I see the doctor go and make a call and then the nurse comes out to me and says you can go

00:54:15Cuz she's like I assume that the fact that I was there and calling his bluff that the doctor was like she's here

00:54:21she's not afraid and

00:54:23He was like and then he never spoke to her again

00:54:26Until like I was 10 months old and she took him to court and he kind of like and in part one

00:54:32It seemed like Josh's weight loss was just the normal. I didn't like myself. I wanted to feel better

00:54:39I lost the weight. Well, that wasn't a hundred percent the case and the book

00:54:45Really went into his issues with his weight

00:54:47I didn't like the way I looked but how I looked was part of what got me here

00:54:52Like you already knew that the comedy was a way of masking his pain

00:54:56My comedy came as a defense mechanism for growing up overweight

00:55:00But I didn't know he was asthmatic and I was a chubby asthmatic that he almost had to be put on cholesterol

00:55:05medication when he was 12

00:55:08Actually shout out every pediatrician I had who had tried to put a 12 year old on cholesterol medication

00:55:13Before their bar mitzvah that he was wearing a girdle while filming The Amanda Show and Drake and Josh

00:55:19I was wearing Spanx men's a corset on national television at

00:55:25290 pounds in 5 million homes every Sunday night all because of what he called a

00:55:31Pop tart and fruit roll-up habit

00:55:34I was really in the fruit roll-up and gushers and I was I was heavy on the fruit snacks

00:55:40I'm not gonna lie Joe that he was famous

00:55:42But he was fat and that was making him depressed and that's why he struggled to enjoy his time on Drake and Josh

00:55:48It's sort of the silver lining of why I never got too impressed with myself was because like I was famous

00:55:54But I was fat

00:55:55But now he looks back at the kid he was back then and realizes that kid was just trying to do the best he could

00:56:01Dealing with his situation that he's no longer mad at that kid

00:56:05So maybe Miranda Cosgrove is right acting does something to your brain going on a lot of auditions

00:56:12Like starting at a really young age. I think that that

00:56:15Kind of does something a little weird do just because you're always trying to play different characters

00:56:19And you're also at the same time trying to figure out who you are who you're growing up

00:56:22Happy people are annoying really went into some of the mental struggles that Josh had

00:56:27I thought about him a lot throughout my life like pain for a phantom limb

00:56:32Absent fathers have a really cute way of invading your thoughts that he struggled filming scenes that involved talking to a father

00:56:40Oh, and there's always a fun moment of having to deliver lines to an actor playing my father in a TV show or a movie

00:56:47I always secretly worry

00:56:48I'm not doing it right that the words hey dad will come out funny like like a foreign language

00:56:54That must have been really awkward for the guy who played Walter and that he knew that in his own personal life

00:57:00he had enough information to go blow up his own father's real life and show up and

00:57:06Blow up his spot with his kids and all of a sudden he's not like cool country club guy like he's the guy like who?

00:57:11Was a philandering dickhead and well he had lost a weight. He still had the same brain

00:57:16Yeah

00:57:16I I don't think it's sort of any surprise that after I lost a hundred pounds and

00:57:20I imagined that I was at this finish line and that my life could begin that I

00:57:25Quickly realized that I was in the same head, but with a different body

00:57:28I lose all the weight, but now I'm just like the kid actor

00:57:32Who's like probably gonna be a cliche?

00:57:33And he was just thankful that they lived in a time before social media took over everything and then you come back

00:57:39Yeah, I mean when me and when me and Josh were on on Drake and Josh

00:57:42I mean we didn't have there was no YouTube there was no there was no comment section

00:57:46You know so also in part one, and I didn't think too much of it at the time

00:57:51but when Josh is talking to Yvette and Yvette says

00:57:56Man, you were going through a really dark time, and I'm just really glad you came out of it

00:58:00I didn't realize how dark the time really was I

00:58:03Was underweight with gigantic circles around my eyes and translucent skin

00:58:09My body hurt, and I would sometimes break out in a flop sweat for no reason

00:58:13I would shake I would shake a lot

00:58:16Like if I had to hold a cup or write my name it looked like my hand was on a tilt-a-whirl

00:58:22Josh definitely looked different when they were filming Merry Christmas Drake and Josh

00:58:26And that's because he was right in the midst of his addiction issues

00:58:30No

00:58:31I lost weight on while I was doing Drake and Josh like between the third and fourth

00:58:35season and then right around then was when I discovered drugs and alcohol and then I got down to about

00:58:39170 and that was more drugs when people started to worry all of them

00:58:42You know how they like to bring up Drake Bell's problems with drunk driving

00:58:46Josh admits that he had an incident like that as well except he got away with it

00:58:51When we finally stopped at a light the guy behind me got out of his car and started punching my window trying to literally

00:58:58Rip me from my luxury sedan now on Drake and Janet's podcast

00:59:03They make a mention that not everybody showed up completely ready to work and in the best frame of mind

00:59:11Yeah, I mean, you know look I don't want to be I don't want to be that guy

00:59:18I showed up to work at 6 a.m

00:59:20Having not slept since Saturday walked on to set and collapsed in front of a hundred of my co-workers

00:59:26That at the very end of Josh is a hundred and ten pounds of weight loss

00:59:30He had started to mess with drugs and alcohol. I didn't need an ambulance

00:59:35I needed an antidepressant and a Gatorade. I needed a father figure in a year off. I

00:59:42Tried to reassure them. It was simply low blood sugar, but they knew they'd seen me spiraling for months

00:59:48I mean, I didn't know that he was like what he was going through, you know at that time

00:59:53I mean right when he says he he ended that Drake and Josh ended. I mean he I

00:59:59Mean in I mean, it's you know, he was in a dark place and I didn't I didn't know that

01:00:03He had started doing the drugs to impress a girl. The first time I did drugs was because of a girl

01:00:09Now until that point I'd never seen drugs in person. Not really

01:00:13I mean this was cocaine a proper drug the kind they warn you about when a police officer

01:00:19Comes to your elementary school when it was just her me no friends

01:00:23No one around just two star-crossed lovers and a felonies worth of drugs between us

01:00:28I said yes, he was showing up to set and he was jittery all the time

01:00:33I'd had multiple trips to the emergency room because of

01:00:37Anxiety, but mostly because I was afraid I had taken too much of something and thought I might die

01:00:42But in reality, it was during the four years that Josh said he didn't spend a single day sober

01:00:48He wanted to be counterculture like his heroes who were like, no

01:00:53No

01:00:53The party's here like let's make this a party if cocaine helped him get on this wavelength

01:00:58Then it was a wavelength that he didn't want to escape and that's how I spent the next four years

01:01:04Chasing that feeling and ruining everything in the process

01:01:08Drake says that he kind of knew what Josh was going through, but he didn't know how bad it really was

01:01:13I mean we had crazy times and did some you know, all this hot, you know crazy stuff and we had you know

01:01:18There's some things that aren't in the book, you know that that

01:01:23That that have happened and we've been through and everything like that

01:01:26But in his book which he calls almost a self-help book

01:01:30Josh said that he is now 13 years sober as of the writing of his book

01:01:34Sometimes I wonder like what what my my in-laws think of like this guy that my wife bought into like the guy from Drake and

01:01:41Josh the weight loss not Catholic

01:01:45Former drug addict and people who've been following Josh pack know that he became big on a platform known as vine

01:01:51I was the number one person on vine overtaking Harry Styles with 3.5 million followers

01:01:57I wouldn't say number one for long

01:01:59But I would remain one of the top creators and the byproduct was that my Instagram and Twitter grew when vine went down

01:02:06He had to find a new way to keep that momentum going and branched out into

01:02:11podcasting

01:02:12Vlogging and that helped even spark a desire to get better at acting which in his book

01:02:18He says he went back to acting school. So vine

01:02:22YouTube all of it staying on top of the trends

01:02:26Yeah, you know it was never like my plan I when people would give me credit for pivoting in social media

01:02:31I'm like, listen, if I was Leonardo DiCaprio, I wouldn't have been like is there a fire vine I can come?

01:02:36I was finding relevance in ways

01:02:38I'd never had even when I was on TV every week and the best parts were the ancillary effects

01:02:44It was having on my life and now you can find him on Disney Plus

01:02:48Being the low-rent Tom Hanks in the Turner and hooch remake

01:02:52You know, I'm a journeyman actor, which a lot of people think if you have a show like Drake and Josh

01:02:57You'll never face hard times again, but that's not the case

01:03:00So what about that part in the last video where I said that they were working on a reboot?

01:03:10You ladies want to skip the movie and take turns making out

01:03:14Well Hulu had interest along with other streaming platforms Hulu wanted it kind of

01:03:20Josh Peck took it upon himself to write the pilot episode

01:03:25He wanted you to be an actor and he wanted to be writer producer executive producer like oh

01:03:30They were going to call the new show

01:03:33Josh and Drake and it wasn't going to be a iCarly like continuation of the original show

01:03:38It was going to be a new concept. The script was just

01:03:43Not where it needed to be and there was Josh and Josh, you know

01:03:46He he insisted on writing it and I'm gonna editorialize

01:03:50The details that were released about it through the Drake and Janet podcast. It sounded horrible

01:03:56They're right to have rejected it

01:03:58Like hey, aren't you that guy from Drake and Josh?

01:04:01Yeah, and then he goes hug me brother and then Josh gets in the car and goes

01:04:11That was the first thing that I was like, I can't

01:04:13Open our show like that. So it's one of those mean spirited reboots

01:04:19You just said F you to the entire audience Josh fan base. Yeah, and I agree that's totally like

01:04:27Screw you to the fan base

01:04:28You'd make me make me a failed actor in New York like and I'm sleeping on your couch and you're like trying to be an

01:04:34actor too or something like and their critiques are completely valid Josh wrote Drake as a

01:04:41Failed musician and Josh wrote himself as a real estate agent

01:04:45Why is Drake a failed musician and you're taking potshots at him and his career and his fan base?

01:04:52Like he totally parodied my actual life

01:04:55On stage backed by a mariachi band. Josh has Drake stuck in Mexico has him tweet

01:05:02I need money or I need to do a meet-and-greet for money and

01:05:06Only has like three people show up to the mall for the meet-and-greet just which is a direct

01:05:11Well, it's just a direct insult on what I've built

01:05:15What I've worked on and cultivated

01:05:16I just want to know cuz I could you a real estate agent and you were a failed musician like why wasn't he a failed

01:05:22YouTube star Viner and then you could be like, I don't why was it something like closer?

01:05:26I don't know and you kind of wonder why

01:05:29Josh if he was gonna be the producer and the writer wasn't going to make any of the changes that Drake suggested

01:05:35you know, I asked him to change some things in the show and

01:05:38They were just so stickler that they weren't gonna change him and like does he just want a boss Drake around?

01:05:45Is that some sort of revenge did this really need to be the depiction of Mexico?

01:05:50This newly 15 year old Elena is the daughter of the biggest drug kingpin in Mexico

01:05:57Father Enrique the head of the cartel sits in the middle of the party at a table

01:06:02Surrounded by guards and beautiful women while the birthday girl watches the girlfriends in the front row people drink copious amounts of

01:06:10alcohol and ingest other

01:06:12illicit

01:06:13Substances at a 15 year old's birthday party. Yeah like that cuz that's what because that's what they do there, right?

01:06:19Right when I read that I was like, man, I can't we can't do that represent but it gets worse

01:06:24So then they go into a gunfight and then they don't want to pay Drake

01:06:29Which is also another terrible stereotype, yeah

01:06:33And then they don't pay him. He gets stuck in Mexico. Why does Drake have no money?

01:06:38Is it because he was going broke in real life?

01:06:40He hasn't been to all these other countries and yeah the concerts and you know, we you know

01:06:44I I'm just a massive fan of Mexico

01:06:47It's one of my favorite places the Latin culture and especially the Mexican fans

01:06:54are sick of the way

01:06:56Americans portray the movie

01:06:59Just change it to any other country. Not another country. No, no, we want to make it a country that oh, that's

01:07:05Country that doesn't exist. Yeah, I was like make it make some funny made-up country where I land and and that sounds nothing like the Drake

01:07:12And Josh that everybody fell in love with and because of that none of the streaming services had any interest in this show

01:07:20but anyway

01:07:21Maybe that's why nobody

01:07:23Cared, but that like I just know that if there was a good Drake and Josh reboot

01:07:28Yeah that everyone would have been all over it

01:07:30Yeah, and for being the guy everybody thinks is holding on to the past Drake Bell pulled out of the project

01:07:37What is it? Does Josh hate the show that show is so beloved, right?

01:07:41And so with Drake and I like I said

01:07:45What meant the most to me was what this show meant to other people when directly asked at this virtual book signing

01:07:51He doesn't exactly answer the question on whether they do a

01:07:56direct

01:07:57Continuation of the original TV series. Would you do a reboot or movie of Drake and Josh with the original cast?

01:08:04He basically ducks answering that question

01:08:15I'll turn to you know that the 80s Tom Hanks movie. Yes. I'm premium. I'm premium streams low-rent Tom Hanks

01:08:27So, you know I did that and then what I'm saying how I make your father I've been doing that on Hulu

01:08:32And for our friend Edward, I have two episodes of iCarly coming out next month

01:08:35Let's go

01:08:36So I think that's kind of the reboot of the reunion that everyone's open watching it and if given the opportunity if they do another

01:08:40Season, I'd love to do more because it's just um, I'm just my favorite person and little cash Jerry

01:08:45Now at this point, I actually don't think Drake has any animosity towards Josh at least not in public

01:08:51So, what do you think about Josh back? No

01:08:55No, no, no, but his wife Janet definitely has a bone to pick with him. I think it was his time to

01:09:03Get some rice. No to get back at me for

01:09:07Saying for the wedding stuff. I think he that really bummed them out and now he has an opportunity to go out and say hey

01:09:13You know, and he just wasn't expecting me to say anything because I usually don't I can tell that you're bummed

01:09:21Because you have history there

01:09:24But he literally hates you. I know

01:09:30I've always wanted to be nice about it and been like, oh like maybe he's just like a private guy like no he

01:09:37hates like your face your

01:09:40Feet

01:09:42like he

01:09:43Wishes nothing, but it'll will on you. Yeah, and he texted back and he's like, hey, you know what cuz I told him

01:09:50I read his book

01:09:52Oh, yeah, this is before she kind of got upset on Instagram. But um, one thing Josh should write was have a cute kid

01:10:01All these can be tick-tock clips

01:10:03I don't care and even says that Josh associates with scum like David Dobrik

01:10:08Oh, how about him trying to get me to go to the David? Oh my god. Okay, we'll save that for the next episode

01:10:15We'll say that the next episode I remember thinking if this kid calls me the next day I'll do something, you know

01:10:21I'll keep coming now. I didn't know he'd call me every day for the next year and a half though

01:10:25You know from my research. It looks like Josh and David Dobrik haven't done much together in years either

01:10:31It looks like you cleaned your Instagram of David Dobrik or maybe not, but you don't talk about him

01:10:36Is there any anything to that bad blood or that's not really even just true

01:10:42Then no, it's not true at all. Even if they're still friends, you know

01:10:46We're friends and I've been lucky enough to be like working a fair amount lately and I have a kid a three-year-old

01:10:51so I haven't you know been around for

01:10:54Like a year or two, but no, that's not true at all

01:10:57So I wanted to see if any of the cast members had anything to say and it's pretty quiet on most fronts

01:11:03Even Miranda Cosgrove when she was out promoting iCarly season 2 said I

01:11:09Don't follow the wedding drama. I love Josh

01:11:12Oh the best lover my little sister Josh is actually guest starring in the new season of the show

01:11:18Is there any chance we're gonna get a Drake Bell cameo on the show as well?

01:11:22I don't know but um, you know

01:11:24I'm up for anybody who used to be on old series or I try to get as many of my friends, too

01:11:30So is this a brotherly thing? We were just you know, we were kids, right?

01:11:34So we would like obviously there were times where we were closer than not but when inevitably the show ended

01:11:39I mean, we're just totally different kids. Like I say in my book

01:11:43I was like this kid from New York who was in the Beastie Boys and he was a kid from Orange County who was into

01:11:47The Beach Boys. Can I ask you why you keep pulling the pedals?

01:11:52For Josh Peck, I'd love to hear what you guys think in the comments with these new facts

01:11:56You know every every time I get around Josh I'm telling him I'm like dude this is I mean hello

01:12:01It's magic. Like let's go like what we'd like. Let's make our own stuff. And you know when he started doing YouTube

01:12:06I was like, oh cool, you know, maybe this will be an opportunity for us to kind of

01:12:11Do something together people, you know, obviously people are loving seeing him again on you know

01:12:16And his numbers are rising and and and and all this and it just I don't know

01:12:21Maybe you're like Miranda Cosgrove. You're completely burnt out on all this drama

01:12:27Yeah, yeah every time it's like oh, we're cool and then awesome now, we're not cool again. And now we are

01:12:31I don't know. I kind of don't even really keep up with all of it that much and maybe there's still hope

01:12:37Anytime that I can get back together with Josh. It's like it's fun. It's magic dude

01:12:41It's like so rad Drake seems to want to make this still work. I think somewhere in the back of my mind

01:12:48There's teeny. Oh, there's some tiny hope that will be like yo

01:12:54Here's a great

01:12:56Let bygones be bygones and you know, throw our throw our our high school crap out the window

01:13:03There's an undeniable chemistry. I know that anytime we get together. It's it's it's amazing

01:13:09I mean when I did grandfathered, I mean, it wasn't the best material like yeah that that was best for me and him, you know

01:13:17but

01:13:19The second I got on set we hadn't worked together for years and it was like this his wife

01:13:24Janet seems to believe that now there's always been kind of a resentment between each other

01:13:29both of you clearly have resented each other because of the

01:13:34You thought he had a different experience. He thought you had a different, you know, you guys were assuming something

01:13:41About each other instead of communicating. Yeah

01:13:44And it's a bummer because I think that a lot of feelings have been hurt that didn't need to be hurt

01:13:51But you know as they're talking

01:13:54Drake is constantly holding back from saying anything negative about Josh. Okay, man. I mean it is what it is. I don't know

01:14:03What'd you get out of today then? Oh

01:14:06I just got out of today like, you know, she loves me not

01:14:10You know just again. Yeah, I guess

01:14:14His wife even joked that if Josh called tomorrow and said let's let bygones be bygones

01:14:21They'd be friends again

01:14:23100%

01:14:25Absolutely. In fact, they're really not sure how this escalated in the first place. I thought we were there until

01:14:33Until today I thought

01:14:36But since then there's still even been texts between

01:14:39Paige and I about when I had my baby like there was

01:14:43Even though we decided not to do the show like I still thought that things were fine. So maybe there's hope it's fine

01:14:51We don't know guys the people they loved it. Thank you for being here. That was awesome. Oh my god

01:14:56You ruined our childhood. Oh all of these. Yeah, both definitely both. Sorry guys

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