Pod Insights Joe Marler Will See You Now Big John: How Family Brought Me Back from 350K Debt About this episode Big John arrives at Dr Joe Marler's office still coming to terms with a life that changed overnight.
From a viral Chinese takeaway order to being stopped in the street, he reflects on how quickly fame found him and the ways it has changed his life. But while John may see it as a bit of fun, Joe sets out to show him something bigger: the impact he’s having on thousands of people who follow him.
As the pair unpack where it all began, John shares the story behind “bosh,” how it’s taken on a life of its own around the world, and opens up about the tougher times in his life - including the financial struggles that tested him and his family.
The session ends with a powerful reminder of just how much he matters, as Joe reveals the true impact John has on people’s lives… in the most fitting way possible: through a Chinese takeaway.
Featuring Joe Marler (@joemarler17) and Jake Bhardwaj (@jakebhardwajtv)
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1:25 Speaker 03 I'm as patriotic Englishman as anyone, but I don't believe in people bullying people. And not with my flag, because my flag is to defend people, not to scare people. We all fuck up in life, but it's how you deal with fucking up in life that makes who you are. And if you think you're not going to fuck up in life, you're not being truthful to yourself.
1:41 Speaker 04 French bosch.
1:42 Speaker 03 Le bosch.
1:43 Speaker 04 Spanish bosch.
1:43 Speaker 03 El bosch.
1:44 Speaker 04 German bosch.
1:45 Speaker 03 Z bosch.
1:45 Speaker 04 Irish bosch.
1:46 Speaker 03 O bosch.
1:48 Speaker 05 I think tonight's the night. Why don't you put the kids to bed early and I can show you just how much I love you?
1:54 Speaker 04 Whoa!
1:55 Speaker 03 Yeah, now he's gone for it.
1:56 Speaker 05 Typing. Oh, fuck. Mine says...
2:01 Speaker 04 Really? Is that genuine?
2:05 Speaker 05 Hello, welcome to my office. This is Joe Marler with See You Now with me, Dr Joe Marler. This is the show where I meet Britain's best loved faces and peel beneath their skin like it's an emotional onion. With me, as always, is my trusty research assistant, Jake.
2:24 Speaker 04 Love that.
2:25 Speaker 05 Wakey, wakey, Jakey, snakey.
2:27 Speaker 04 That is a weird phrase.
2:29 Speaker 05 Why?
2:30 Speaker 04 Wakey, wakey, Jakey, snakey?
2:31 Speaker 05 Yeah, it's like a new way of saying...
2:33 Speaker 04 Sounds like you're trying to summon me into some sort of state.
2:36 Speaker 05 What's your... Yeah, I was. I was... It was not the way of going, "Good morning, Jakey."
2:40 Speaker 04 Oh, fine. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
2:42 Speaker 05 But rather than saying "good morning," I thought I'd be a bit more, you know...
2:44 Speaker 04 Wakey, wakey, Jakey, snakey, yeah.
2:46 Speaker 05 How are you?
2:46 Speaker 04 I'm very good. Um, do you have nicknames? Do you have nicknames?
2:50 Speaker 05 No.
2:51 Speaker 04 I've got Jakey Wakey a lot. You've got nothing.
2:53 Speaker 05 Have you got a nickname for me?
2:54 Speaker 04 Uh, uh, Boss Man?
2:57 Speaker 05 I'm... My nickname is Boss Man?
2:59 Speaker 04 Boss Man, yeah, yeah, yeah.
3:00 Speaker 05 I like that.
3:01 Speaker 04 It's what... It's what you use, um, you sort of use that at, like, takeaways as well, the guy who runs a takeaway. What is your favourite takeaway? I don't even know. What do you get? What do you eat?
3:09 Speaker 05 Um... I like a chicken kebab.
3:14 Speaker 04 Okay, what, Doner?
3:15 Speaker 05 Not a chicken Doner.
3:16 Speaker 04 Oh.
3:17 Speaker 05 I like... I do like a chicken Doner, but I go for a chicken sheesh.
3:21 Speaker 04 Yeah.
3:21 Speaker 05 With burger sauce.
3:22 Speaker 04 Oh, my god.
3:23 Speaker 05 And all the salad.
3:24 Speaker 04 Yeah.
3:25 Speaker 05 Um, especially the onions. Fuck, I love the onions, though.
3:28 Speaker 04 Oh, you had a little onion metaphor at the top as well. Onions on your mind?
3:32 Speaker 05 It's there. It's like, red bears, red bears, I like onions.
3:34 Speaker 04 Yeah.
3:35 Speaker 05 Um, I'll have cheesy chips.
3:37 Speaker 04 Oh, my god.
3:38 Speaker 05 I'll get a cheesy chip wrap. Um, I'll have an extra salad, maybe a quarter pounder with cheese. Sometimes if I'm feeling peckish, I'll... Peckish... Sometimes if I'm feeling peckish...
3:50 Speaker 05 Oh, my mouth's getting all...
3:52 Speaker 04 Yeah, yeah, yeah, salivating.
3:53 Speaker 05 Um, I'll order half a pounder with cheese as well. What's your go-to takeaway, please?
3:58 Speaker 04 From the kebab? Uh, I mean, I'm good with...
3:59 Speaker 05 No, not kebab, your favourite takeaway.
4:01 Speaker 04 Um...
4:04 Speaker 04 Gosh, do you know what, I can't, I, I, probably, probably something similar to the kebab shop. I have a soft spot for doner, and I know that's terrible, but you get a good doner. I remember the first time that I ever tried doner meat with burger sauce. It was like something had been locked in me. I've never been able to go back from it. Um, I do, I can't find any good Indians. I was at an Indian takeaway, well, an Indian restaurant yesterday. It was my grandad's 95th birthday. My grandad's 95th birthday, everybody.
4:28 Speaker 05 He's 95.
4:29 Speaker 04 95, 95.
4:32 Speaker 05 What did you eat at this Indian restaurant?
4:33 Speaker 04 Oh my gosh, if you get to, if you go to a good, a good Indian restaurant, and you get a Tandoori mixed grill and it comes out on the sizzling, the sizzling plate.
4:43 Speaker 05 You hear it, yeah.
4:44 Speaker 04 And you can hear it.
4:45 Speaker 05 Comes on the trolley.
4:45 Speaker 04 The sizzling onions, it all comes back to onions, Joe. Oh my gosh, but we've started to allude as to who we might have on the show.
4:53 Speaker 05 Some might say we've started to, uh, food.
4:56 Speaker 04 Yeah, I wouldn't say it.
4:57 Speaker 05 Right.
5:00 Speaker 04 There's certain people that capture the imagination of the great British public and the sky's the limit. And it's happened, I mean, it feels like it's happened fast. I think actually he'd say he's been, you know, it's been happening for four or five years. It's not often we can introduce a guest with one single word. That word is? Bash.
5:20 Speaker 05 Should we do it again so we're in time?
5:21 Speaker 04 That word is? Bash. It is, three, two, one. Big John! Now, I, I love Big John. I know people that know Big John and they all love the fact that they know Big John. It's a very exciting thing to be in his presence and I think we're gonna have a very.
5:38 Speaker 05 I've met him briefly before.
5:39 Speaker 04 Oh, yeah?
5:39 Speaker 05 On the side of a rugby pitch. He'd come to a Quins game with Johnny.
5:43 Speaker 04 Yeah.
5:44 Speaker 05 Uh, I've played paddle with Johnny before.
5:46 Speaker 04 Oh, wow, you're in, you're part of the family?
5:48 Speaker 05 Uh, no, well, they've invited me around for Chinese. They have invited me around for Chinese. I haven't been yet. I've got to muster up the courage.
5:56 Speaker 04 What's stopping you?
5:57 Speaker 05 Uh, just timing really, um, scheduling.
6:00 Speaker 04 Sure, not as fun of an answer as I thought it would be.
6:05 Speaker 05 How do you think he's getting on with Janet?
6:07 Speaker 04 I don't know, cause I know that, I know that Janet loves Chinese food.
6:12 Speaker 05 Hmm.
6:12 Speaker 04 So I don't know whether they're in there sort of like putting an early order in and something's, and, and, and sort of banqueting. I have no idea.
6:18 Speaker 05 Let's get the bash father in, shall we?
6:20 Speaker 04 The bosh father, nice.
6:21 Speaker 05 The bash father. Janet, please may you send in the one, the only Big John. Thank you.
6:34 Speaker 05 Big John everybody!
6:37 Speaker 04 Oh, oh, oh!
6:38 Speaker 05 Nah, fuck off.
6:39 Speaker 03 Pleasure to meet you, sir.
6:40 Speaker 04 Fuck off, yeah, that's it. Oh, that's nice.
6:42 Speaker 03 That's a hug and a hug, that is, isn't it?
6:44 Speaker 04 Oh, you smell gorgeous.
6:45 Speaker 03 I always smell gorgeous.
6:46 Speaker 04 Oh, yeah, good, yeah.
6:47 Speaker 03 Thank you, thank you for having me on.
6:48 Speaker 04 This is Jake.
6:49 Speaker 03 Jake, how are you, sir?
6:50 Speaker 04 I'm so, honestly, I've been so excited to meet you. Uh, I'm very, very, very, very much taking porters today.
6:55 Speaker 03 Calm down, mate.
6:56 Speaker 04 I can't, I'm not gonna, I'm not... Do you know what, I thought to myself, should I play it cool and be like, "Yeah, John, you alright?" Fuck it, you're only here once, I'm gonna be gushing.
7:03 Speaker 03 It's a pleasure to meet you, sir.
7:04 Speaker 05 Janet was looking after you outside, wasn't she?
7:06 Speaker 03 Yeah, Janet was very friendly.
7:07 Speaker 05 Why'd you say it like that?
7:08 Speaker 03 Well, I think she thought I was a good-looking bloke.
7:11 Speaker 05 Understandable, but you said it, did she come on to you?
7:14 Speaker 03 Not come on to me as such, but she gave me her number, her Instagram and her Twitter, so, uh...
7:18 Speaker 05 It sounds a lot like coming on to someone.
7:20 Speaker 04 Sounds like a lot, yeah.
7:20 Speaker 03 Well, for me, that is, that is coming on, but her false teeth put me off.
7:25 Speaker 04 Her false teeth. You're lucky she had them in today, usually she turns up to work without bothering.
7:30 Speaker 05 Bless her heart.
7:31 Speaker 03 She's a lovely lady.
7:32 Speaker 05 Yeah, we need to have a word with her a bit later, I see.
7:34 Speaker 04 Yeah, I mean, three forms of communication is a bit much, isn't it? Number, Instagram, all of it.
7:38 Speaker 05 It is much, it is much. Shall we begin our session?
7:42 Speaker 03 Dr. Joe Marler.
7:43 Speaker 05 How are you feeling about it?
7:44 Speaker 03 Yeah, a bit, bit excited, apprehensive.
7:47 Speaker 05 Yeah.
7:47 Speaker 03 Happy, all in one, all in one go, so...
7:50 Speaker 05 Quite the concoction there.
7:51 Speaker 03 Quite a concoction, there's no negativity coming from me today.
7:54 Speaker 05 Great.
7:54 Speaker 03 All good.
7:55 Speaker 05 Uh, the first thing we get every guest to do is the intake questionnaire. Full name?
8:01 Speaker 03 John William George Fisher.
8:05 Speaker 05 Fuck off.
8:06 Speaker 03 Why, is it similar to yours?
8:09 Speaker 05 Your middle name's a William George?
8:10 Speaker 03 William George.
8:11 Speaker 05 My name is Joseph William George.
8:16 Speaker 03 Is it really? There you go, a William George. See, see?
8:21 Speaker 05 Wow, what a start, I don't know where to go from there. Star sign?
8:25 Speaker 03 Libra.
8:25 Speaker 05 Libra? I thi- I think you're our first Libra.
8:29 Speaker 03 Libra.
8:29 Speaker 05 What is a Libra?
8:30 Speaker 03 Scales, you're very balanced.
8:33 Speaker 05 Do you think that reflects your character?
8:35 Speaker 03 Yeah, I think I'm quite, um, diplomatic, you know, I, I pride myself on the fact that I can have photos with Glasgow Rangers fans on that arm and Celtic fans on that arm, both at the same time.
8:46 Speaker 05 Yeah.
8:47 Speaker 03 So I think that's a good thing.
8:49 Speaker 05 Occupation?
8:51 Speaker 03 I hate the word. We've just done, uh, the thing on the Fury Fight with Netflix and it was going, "All the influencers on the bus", hate that, hate TikToker, hate YouTuber.
9:01 Speaker 03 Don't even really like content creator, I'm a fat bastard. That's my occupation.
9:06 Speaker 05 Standard Chinese order.
9:08 Speaker 03 Shredded chicken charme, special fried rice, egg fried rice, sweet and sour chicken balls, sweet and sour pork balls, sweet and sour pork on gong style, sweet and sour chicken on gong style, shredded chili beef, beef and black bean, roast pork Chinese style, roast chicken Chinese style, salt and chili chicken, salt and chili king prawn, kung fu prawn, crispy ham and duck, barbecue pork spare ribs, chips, pork crackers, curry sauce and a pancake roll. Bush.
9:28 Speaker 05 It's the fourth round of applause for the day.
9:30 Speaker 03 With that, pal.
9:31 Speaker 05 So that's your standard Chinese order?
9:33 Speaker 03 Yes.
9:34 Speaker 05 Standard Indian?
9:35 Speaker 04 Don't call me that, mate. Watch yourself.
9:38 Speaker 05 Mate, you can't say that. You can't do that to me.
9:42 Speaker 04 It's involuntary, involuntary, I'm so sorry.
9:44 Speaker 05 You fucking do it to me all the time. That is horse shit from you. Do you have a standard Indian order?
9:48 Speaker 03 No, I like a chicken tikka paffia, a little bit of sauce on it. Uh, but lately because I've been cutting back, I've been having tandoori king prawn or tandoori mixed grill, or I would go for a king prawn madras.
10:00 Speaker 05 What are you most proud of?
10:03 Speaker 03 Uh, my children. Most proud of like that I'm a father, married. Proud of my wife, she's a wonderful woman. She's a great, great mum. We're thirty years this year, so to be married for so long.
10:14 Speaker 05 What is that one?
10:15 Speaker 03 Fuck those.
10:16 Speaker 05 Hang on. Jake?
10:18 Speaker 03 What is thirty years?
10:18 Speaker 05 Let's get him ready for this, he cannot fuck up thirty years.
10:22 Speaker 03 Thirty years.
10:22 Speaker 04 It is the Pearl anniversary.
10:25 Speaker 05 Hang on, there's two.
10:25 Speaker 03 No, no, no, no, no.
10:26 Speaker 05 There's a modern one.
10:27 Speaker 03 Pearl, we could get the Pearl Dragon Chinese. That's all right. Got it sorted. There's plenty of them about.
10:34 Speaker 05 Talk us through the different types of boshes.
10:38 Speaker 03 I never meant to say bosh. I said it, I said it once in a video, because I was known for eating Chinese on, online, whatever you want to call it. I was known for ordering Chinese, and then one video I just went, bosh. Didn't think nothing of it. And then next video I did me Chinese and then I didn't say bosh, I must have had thousands, why are you not saying bosh? Why are you not saying bosh? So I started saying it just because of that. And then I brought in the, the bosh. You bosh, yeah, I'll bosh. And that just spread it around the different countries.
11:07 Speaker 05 So how many we got? We got?
11:08 Speaker 03 Well, name, name me a country and I'll see whether it's got a bosh.
11:14 Speaker 05 French bosch.
11:15 Speaker 03 Le bosch.
11:15 Speaker 05 Spanish bosch.
11:16 Speaker 03 El bosch.
11:17 Speaker 05 German bosch.
11:17 Speaker 03 Z bosch.
11:18 Speaker 05 Irish bosch.
11:19 Speaker 03 O bosch.
11:21 Speaker 05 Scottish bosch.
11:22 Speaker 03 Muk bosch.
11:24 Speaker 05 Is there a Welsh bosch?
11:26 Speaker 03 Boio bosch.
11:27 Speaker 05 Yeah. Portuguese bosch.
11:30 Speaker 03 Superboc bosch.
11:31 Speaker 05 Oh brilliant.
11:32 Speaker 03 The South African one is boc bosch, they like that. And Australia is g'day bosch. New Zealand is cher bosch.
11:39 Speaker 05 American bosch actually.
11:40 Speaker 03 Ye bosch.
11:44 Speaker 05 What's the best thing about being famous?
11:47 Speaker 03 See, I don't see myself as being famous.
11:49 Speaker 05 I know, I know you don't. You've said that, I get it.
11:52 Speaker 03 Alright then, the best thing about having this is me sitting here talking to you now. Because if I didn't have that little bit of notoriety or following, I wouldn't be sitting here doing this. So it's the people you can get meat out of it.
12:04 Speaker 05 Love that.
12:04 Speaker 03 It's the people, it's the opportunities it throws up.
12:07 Speaker 05 Well, that's a nice segue into the final question.
12:10 Speaker 03 Right.
12:10 Speaker 05 Celeb crush.
12:13 Speaker 03 When I was growing up, it was probably Kim Wilde. Or the lady off Mannequin who was in...
12:19 Speaker 05 The Mannequin?
12:20 Speaker 03 The Mannequin, the film, King Cattrall.
12:22 Speaker 05 Oh, from Sex and the City?
12:23 Speaker 03 Yeah, and Sharon Stone in King Solomon's Mines. And that was when I was younger. You know, when you're a young man, when you're impressionable.
12:30 Speaker 05 Got a new celeb crush now then, or?
12:31 Speaker 03 You.
12:39 Speaker 05 Look, John, you are known for loving your Chinese.
12:42 Speaker 03 Yes.
12:43 Speaker 05 Well established, but you're also so much more than that. I know that.
12:48 Speaker 03 Yeah.
12:48 Speaker 05 We need to let more people know that. You're a family man. The way you briefly spoke about it, about being what you're most proud of.
12:56 Speaker 03 Yeah.
12:57 Speaker 05 I could see it in your face, like it light up.
12:59 Speaker 03 Nothing matters other than family.
13:01 Speaker 05 I've also noticed that there is a reluctance to accept the influence, I know you don't like that word. I didn't use influence, sir.
13:13 Speaker 03 Oh, yeah, yeah.
13:14 Speaker 05 But the influence that you are having.
13:16 Speaker 03 Yeah.
13:16 Speaker 05 And can continue to have. But I need you to realise how big a role model you actually are.
13:22 Speaker 03 Yeah, so it's hard to accept that, it's hard to hear that because you don't see yourself as that. But, you know, it's nice of you to say it, thank you very much.
13:30 Speaker 05 Well, that's good, but unfortunately it doesn't end there. We're going to dig into the session and...
13:34 Speaker 03 That's fine.
13:34 Speaker 05 Are you up for that?
13:35 Speaker 03 I'm up for that, yeah.
13:35 Speaker 05 You can say no, of course you can.
13:37 Speaker 03 No, that's why I'm here.
13:40 Speaker 05 As I mentioned, you're a family man to your core.
13:43 Speaker 03 Yeah.
13:43 Speaker 05 So much so that you actually let them put you on TikTok and Instagram.
13:48 Speaker 03 Well, I didn't know. I didn't know I was on it.
13:49 Speaker 05 What do you mean you didn't know?
13:51 Speaker 03 My middle son, Henry.
13:52 Speaker 05 So that's how it started?
13:53 Speaker 03 Yeah.
13:53 Speaker 05 Henry went?
13:54 Speaker 03 I'll tell you exactly how it started, right back to the beginning. My youngest son, William, used to be a, he'd be like doing his, a thing called the fish where he'd pull his arms and legs back. He'd do it in the middle of a shopping centre and Henry would be filming him laughing, he'd be taking a piss. And then William got his first girlfriend and all of a sudden he become sensible William. So they didn't have anyone to film. So then they went on to filming me eating my Chinese, ordering Chinese without me knowing, putting it on TikTok and they got thousands upon thousands of views. And I didn't know I was on there. I'd never been on. I was not even on TikTok.
14:31 Speaker 05 What, what happened when you found out?
14:33 Speaker 03 Well, I was in the caf. I was in Cafe Royal. I remember, I remember it clear as day. I come out the caf, going back to my van because I was working under cheese and someone shouted out, "Big John." And I went, "Who's Big John?" Because I was always Little John, because my dad, God rest his soul.
14:47 Speaker 05 So you weren't always Big John?
14:48 Speaker 03 I was Little John, because my dad was Big John.
14:50 Speaker 05 And he's not with us anymore?
14:50 Speaker 03 No, he passed away in 2012.
14:52 Speaker 05 Yeah.
14:52 Speaker 03 So he was always Big John. So I was always Little John. But Henry and Johnny had been putting me on as Big John.
14:58 Speaker 05 Right.
14:58 Speaker 03 On TikTok.
14:59 Speaker 05 Yeah.
15:00 Speaker 03 And they said, "That Big John." I went, "Who the fuck's Big John?" And he came up to me, I went, "Who are you after, mate?" He went, "You, you're Big John." And I went, he went, "Can I have a photo?" I said, "What do you want a photo for?" He said, "You're on TikTok." I said, "Am I?" So that was the first photo I had. And then I had, then I found out what they was doing. So then I, I played along with it a little bit when they asked to film me. And we had, we had bad news from the bank after Covid that our, our bank account after 30 years was being shut. Had to pay back an overdraft, eighty thousand pound, which we had to keep our business going, which I didn't have. Went out for a meal with Steve Potts and his family for their anniversary. He played 500 games for West Ham, best mate.
15:43 Speaker 03 He said, "Come out for a meal." I said, "Oh, I can't fancy it." But we went because it's their family time. So our family went, his family went. He paid for the meal. We went in a Prospect of Whitby pub afterwards, where my dad used to drink as a young man in Wapping, East London. We went in there, I said, Steve, you've paid for the dinner, I'll pay for all the drinks, even though I didn't have the money. Paid for it all, I spent more on the drinks than he spent on the meal, got pissed. Went home, ordered a Chinese, come in with a box of Chinese, went, oh, it's a fucking Chinese. And it done about three hundred million views worldwide.
16:15 Speaker 05 Fucking hell.
16:16 Speaker 03 So it's just for that one video that made it.
16:18 Speaker 05 Fucking wild.
16:20 Speaker 03 One video, and it's only because I went out and got drunk. So I'm not drinking now, but sometimes getting drunk can do you good as well as bad. So, uh, yeah, it's just a funny, it's just that's how it all started.
16:29 Speaker 05 You mentioned that you weren't big, big John.
16:32 Speaker 03 Yeah.
16:32 Speaker 05 You were little John.
16:33 Speaker 03 Yeah.
16:34 Speaker 05 And your eyes sort of lit up a little bit when you were talking about your dad.
16:37 Speaker 03 Yeah, love, love my dad.
16:38 Speaker 05 Love my dad. Was he a massive, how big an influence was he on you then?
16:42 Speaker 03 Massive, not only on me, on Johnny. Like, he used to take Johnny boxing a lot of the time, because we had three other children, so we used to, he used to help us. He was very, very close to Johnny, very. And we were sitting in a restaurant the other day and we were talking and Johnny just burst into tears. Thinking about it. And it's not a day goes by, we don't as a family talk about my dad. Self-made man, he, he built his, up his own business, he worked really hard all his life. And, uh, yeah, he was a big, big part of my life, good man, very good man.
17:08 Speaker 05 A lot of love for him.
17:09 Speaker 03 A lot of love for him, yeah.
17:10 Speaker 05 And you, would you wanna like,
17:13 Speaker 05 be that role model to your boys as well? Do you wanna have that same effect that he had on you?
17:17 Speaker 03 I don't think you can force being a role model or force, you can just be yourself. And my dad was, at times was hard, you know, but we never went without, and he never, we never went without love. And I think as a parent, people say to me, I get that all the time, oh, what's the recipe for being a good parent? I say, there isn't one. You've got to be yourself, because you've got your own life with your own conditions. So it's not that I want to emulate my dad, but he put good things into me. Johnny's sort of carrying that on, you know, they all, they all are really, you know. But he was, he was a big loss when he, when he went.
17:48 Speaker 05 Uh, you, you spoke about your Chinese order. It's addictive watching you, like, just sitting around eating.
17:53 Speaker 03 It is weird what people find addictive. It is, but I've, I'll be watching stuff as well and think, well, I'm not watching this, but you're watching it, you know?
18:00 Speaker 05 But what I find addictive. Is how close you lot all are. Like, how, how do you manage that? How do you keep your fa- it's so wholesome to be like, oh my god.
18:10 Speaker 03 Be yourself and never hold back. If you've got something to say, say it. Like, we'll be sitting there, we'll be, we had one the other day, it was Easter Sunday, we had a massive row over nothing. Massive row. And then Henry started filming the end of it, and it's still going on a little bit. But it was a massive row, but then you'll be rowing one minute, and the next minute, be like, playing games or having a drink and not, not taking things personal. Don't take what your family says to you personal. That's what I think.
18:36 Speaker 05 What about, um, how close you are with your wife? She was your childhood sweetheart as well.
18:42 Speaker 03 I was, I was eighteen, she was just about a week before she was seventeen, we met.
18:46 Speaker 05 Yeah.
18:46 Speaker 03 I met in Hollywood's, and we've been together ever since. And there used to be like a, like an eighteen to twenty-five night on a Thursday night. And I used to do bo- my boxing training, then go up there, see my mates, never drunk, but just see your mates for a couple of hours. And we met there one night after seeing each other, walking through Romford a couple of times, because she was from Brentwood, I was from Romford. We see each other a couple of times, and then we met that night. And sometimes I think, why the fuck did I go there? Thirty, thirty-five years later, I'm still fucked. I'm only joking. It was, it was meant to be, yeah.
19:22 Speaker 05 Started so well.
19:23 Speaker 03 Yeah.
19:25 Speaker 03 She'll probably say the same thing.
19:26 Speaker 05 How much love you have for each other.
19:28 Speaker 03 No, listen, there's nothing she wouldn't do for me, there's nothing I wouldn't do for her. And you have, you have your ups and downs, everyone does. Do you know what I mean? And sometimes you think, fuck this, what, what, you know, but you're always there for each other.
19:39 Speaker 05 What's she made of your newfound fame, though? Like, how's she found it all?
19:43 Speaker 03 She's, like, she takes it, listen, we were struggling money-wise, so, so it's helped you, listen, you're not a rich person, but you're now taking that struggle of money away.
19:50 Speaker 05 Yeah.
19:51 Speaker 03 We're earning money, rather than where we're gonna get money from. So, that's a good part of it, but she will not, if I say a certain word, she goes, you've changed, you have, what's the matter with you? Like, if I say socials, what are you saying that for?
20:03 Speaker 05 So she keeps you grounded a bit.
20:04 Speaker 03 Keeps me grounded, well, I'll be at a night.
20:06 Speaker 05 What are you saying that for?
20:07 Speaker 03 Yeah, no, I'll be at a nightclub, you have photos with loads of, loads of young women. I always have photos like that as well. So my hands are up, so no one.
20:14 Speaker 05 See your hands.
20:15 Speaker 03 So no one can say I've done anything, and then one day, because I, I put them on, like, whether I have photos with, they put me on, I'll share it, because people like it, I like to share things. And my wife will get up in the morning, I'll be getting up, she goes, who did you have them photos with last night? And I said, Charlotte, I was just having a meet and greet, she went. I went, I went, "Look, I'm doing it alright." She went, "Your eyes were enjoying it too much."
20:42 Speaker 04 We've got a little experiment. You're both family men. You've both got four kids. You're both managing childhood sweethearts. We wanted to try something where you both text your other halves the same message. See what you come back with. You up for it?
20:53 Speaker 03 I'm up for it.
20:54 Speaker 05 What's the message we're saying?
20:56 Speaker 04 I think tonight's the night. Why don't you put the kids to bed early? So I can show you just how much I love you. What I'm quite excited about with this, though, is that-
21:04 Speaker 03 I can't put, we can't put our kids to bed though.
21:06 Speaker 04 You can't put your kids to bed?
21:07 Speaker 03 Twenty-seven, twenty-five.
21:10 Speaker 03 I'll say when everyone's asleep.
21:13 Speaker 04 When everyone's asleep, when everyone's asleep, lovely.
21:15 Speaker 03 Yeah.
21:15 Speaker 05 Oh, I'm getting really sweaty.
21:17 Speaker 04 Do you know how you feel about this?
21:18 Speaker 05 No, what, oh, I just don't know. It's almost like I'm saying, "Put the kids to bed early." As if like-
21:26 Speaker 04 Well then, why don't you spruce up with some-
21:27 Speaker 05 She always puts the kids down.
21:28 Speaker 04 Spruce up with some emojis then.
21:29 Speaker 05 I'm here with you all the time.
21:30 Speaker 04 I'll show you just how much I love you. Winky face, aubergine. Ooh, that'd be nice.
21:33 Speaker 03 I think tonight's the night, Charlotte. When everyone is asleep, I can come up and show you.
21:38 Speaker 04 Ooh, lovely, yeah.
21:40 Speaker 03 And show you what this weight loss has done to me.
21:42 Speaker 05 To bed early and I can show you, I can show you-
21:48 Speaker 04 Just how much I love you.
21:50 Speaker 05 Just, and I'm gonna do just in capitals. Just, no, is that too much?
21:54 Speaker 04 Yeah, that's exactly, that's perfect. No, that's perfect. It's, it's, it's romantic.
21:58 Speaker 05 Just how much.
22:00 Speaker 03 And I'm gonna put the eyes-
22:01 Speaker 05 Love you, you're doing the eyes?
22:03 Speaker 03 Yeah.
22:03 Speaker 05 What, what, ones?
22:04 Speaker 03 You know, like, looking to the side.
22:06 Speaker 04 You've got to do those to camera, John. Which ones? Yeah.
22:10 Speaker 03 Them ones.
22:11 Speaker 05 I think tonight's the night. Why don't you put the kids to bed early and I can just, I can show you just how much I love you. Aubergine, tongue, water.
22:21 Speaker 04 Whoa.
22:22 Speaker 03 Now, he's gone for it.
22:24 Speaker 04 Aubergine, tongue and water?
22:25 Speaker 05 Online, she's online.
22:26 Speaker 04 She's online?
22:27 Speaker 05 Typing.
22:28 Speaker 03 Oh, look, yours is typing, see mine-
22:30 Speaker 05 Oh, fuck.
22:31 Speaker 04 Oh my gosh.
22:32 Speaker 05 It's a good experiment, mate.
22:34 Speaker 04 I fucking warned you this would happen. I know, I like it. You warned me with a, uh, winky face and a-
22:39 Speaker 03 Well, I'll leave that there, I'll wait till it comes through.
22:41 Speaker 04 Oh, here we go. Bit of suspense for the episode.
22:43 Speaker 05 Mine says, "I'm pretty tired, but thanks."
22:48 Speaker 04 Really? Is that genuine?
22:50 Speaker 05 Not even like engaging it. Or not even like going, oh, well, it's everything. I'm pretty tired, but thanks.
22:57 Speaker 03 It's not filling her with much hope.
22:59 Speaker 05 Fuck, that's cool. What shall I put back to that? I can't leave it at that, cool? No worries.
23:04 Speaker 04 Yeah, cool, no worries, fair enough.
23:07 Speaker 05 Fair enough. Oi, do you know why she's tired, though?
23:10 Speaker 03 Why? Because of last night.
23:12 Speaker 05 Because of last night, you know what I mean? It wasn't, it wasn't. Uh, clearly not getting any tonight.
23:16 Speaker 03 Hold up. She left me a voice message.
23:21 Speaker 03 What the hell is this? I mean, she's typed it, what the hell is this?
23:25 Speaker 04 It's voice note and typing, what the hell is this?
23:27 Speaker 03 I'll just, I'll say, I just feel fruity.
23:30 Speaker 05 Yeah, good.
23:31 Speaker 03 I just feel fruity.
23:32 Speaker 05 Good. This is good.
23:36 Speaker 03 What the hell is this?
23:36 Speaker 05 It's not a no, though, is it? It's not a tired.
23:38 Speaker 03 She'll never say no, she knows what she's getting. She's not gonna say no.
23:44 Speaker 03 Who don't wanna shag a big fat bloke? You tell me. Janet certainly does.
23:52 Speaker 03 Look, I just feel fruity, she's typing. I just feel fruity, eat an apple then.
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25:28 Speaker 05 What I love about you is your resilience.
25:31 Speaker 03 Yep.
25:32 Speaker 05 You touched on it briefly earlier. The financial troubles that you've had in the past. Talk us through that a little bit more.
25:39 Speaker 03 Well, I owed a lot of money through work, through Covid, through everything. But I spoke to the people I owed money to. Said to them, "Look, I'll pay you back, I just need time." And if people, if you talk to people and you talk things through, rather than run and hide, you can get out of these holes. You can get out of these situations. And we did.
25:57 Speaker 05 Were you up front with your wife about it?
25:58 Speaker 03 She knew we didn't have money. But like, the weight of the debt on my shoulders, I kept to myself. I didn't share that. She knew we didn't, she knew we was in a bit of trouble. But I never let her know the big, big trouble. If you know what I mean. I can remember we'd be driving somewhere and then it just depression would hit you. But I don't stay depressed for long. Because then I'd think, "What's the matter with you? You can go out, you can earn money, you can work, you can do this, you can do that." And I've always been able to talk to people. And that was what I found. People, people message me now, they say, "Look, I'm in money troubles, what do I do?" I said, "Don't run from it. Stand up to it. It's money at the end of the day. If you owe someone money, it's money. It's nothing else. So you can get out of it. You know what I mean?"
26:44 Speaker 05 You mentioned that you, you know, you'd get down and depressed about it, but it wouldn't be for long.
26:48 Speaker 03 No.
26:48 Speaker 05 What was the motivation to keep you going?
26:50 Speaker 03 Family.
26:51 Speaker 05 You didn't want to let them down?
26:52 Speaker 03 No. How can, how can I? You know what I mean? Like, I remember my dad, my dad probably struggled. You know, but he never let us see it. So, and a lot of men today, they do keep their problems in. They do keep them hidden. I'm not saying that's a good thing. But I'm not saying crying around your family is a good thing either. You've got to find that balance of to reach out to people and get help, or to talk to people, but you've got to talk at the right times. And I'd be borrowing money off my kids. Do you know what I mean? "Look, can I just borrow that to pay this bill and then I'll pay you back tomorrow?" Because at the times, they've had more money than me. But... It's.
27:26 Speaker 05 There's that clip of Jonny, isn't there? Was it, was it after the fight?
27:29 Speaker 03 Yeah, after he lost, after he lost to Dave Allen. A lot of things went wrong before that fight. No excuses, he lost. That's boxing, that's ball. But his emotions came out of him.
27:38 Speaker 05 Jake, have you got that clip, have you got that clip of Jonny after his fight? I think we need to have a listen. Have you sent it to me? Here we go, here we go, Jonny boy.
27:51 Speaker 03 I didn't know he had a flute with him.
27:53 Speaker 05 Just wait for the ad.
27:56 Speaker 05 Pissed the tension a bit, not quite the same.
27:59 Speaker 03 We had no money, we had nothing. My dad's, dad's business, he owed 350 grand. We had to work to get it off.
28:07 Speaker 06 Yeah, but you did, Jonny, you did something, you were all right.
28:10 Speaker 03 And that's what, that's what a real fighter is, what I do in there. That's nothing but it's what my dad done. And, uh, yeah. That's where I get my fighting spirit from. Cause my dad's strong, my granddad's strong and I'll be back. And I'll get up every single time. And it's people like Mark, Jimmy Tibbs, Adam, Sonny. I'll be back, I'm upset now, but I'm good.
28:37 Speaker 03 Yeah, he's, he's, it was, it was heartfelt, that was.
28:40 Speaker 05 That's like proper.
28:42 Speaker 03 It come out of him, emotions come out.
28:43 Speaker 05 I know, obviously he's, obviously he's lost the fight and he's upset, but, and it's all heightened.
28:47 Speaker 03 It's all come out, cause you see.
28:48 Speaker 05 But his first go to is to talk about you.
28:51 Speaker 03 Yeah, me, because he knows what we went for.
28:52 Speaker 05 Specifically about you and your dad.
28:54 Speaker 03 No, it was, that's, listen, you don't like talking about this, but he's a special young man. You know, he's my son, but you couldn't ask for a better son than Jonny. He is a, he's a special man.
29:04 Speaker 05 Do you now start considering yourself as a role model? Not just to your kids, but to, to so many other people that you can reach now?
29:14 Speaker 03 I don't, I don't like preaching to people. I don't like people that think they can preach to people. I think people have got to make their own way, but as you've said, like obviously, yeah, if people are looking at me in that respect, then obviously they are. But I don't see myself as that, I really don't.
29:29 Speaker 05 It's wild, mate. I I get why you feel like that.
29:33 Speaker 03 Yeah, I don't because because I'm I'm.
29:34 Speaker 05 You really are.
29:36 Speaker 03 Yeah, but I don't feel like that because it's not up to me to be a role model for people. You know, because a lot of people, as I say, I'm saying it's a lot of people be sitting there when I watch this guy, he's a fat cunt, he's this, he's that. Do you know what I mean? So I obviously I piss a lot of people off as inspire some people as well.
29:50 Speaker 05 What about, uh, you were very vocal in standing up for oppressed communities?
29:57 Speaker 03 Yeah, no, there was the Chinese takeaway in York that got vandalised.
30:00 Speaker 05 And you went, you did you do Newsnight?
30:02 Speaker 03 I went up there. Newsnight asked me on, but I went up there to the Chinese. I was in, I was going to York. And I went, it's about four miles outside of York, went and see the lady because they, listen, I'm as patriotic Englishman as anyone.
30:13 Speaker 05 Yeah.
30:13 Speaker 03 I'll put my flag up, I'll fly it.
30:15 Speaker 05 Yeah.
30:15 Speaker 03 God save the king, God save the queen.
30:17 Speaker 05 Yeah.
30:17 Speaker 03 And if we was getting invaded tomorrow, I'd be the first there to defend the, to defend our shores without a shadow of a doubt. But when you've got people putting flags up and then vandalising shops of someone, a woman had been here twenty eight years. Her daughter's at university studying to be a doctor, true story. We went there, I'll just give a little takeaway, little, little order. Um, put it on the thing and we spoke to the, the young lady. What a lovely young lady. You know, I don't, I don't believe in people bullying people and not with my flag. Do you know what I mean? Because that my flag, the English flag or the Union Jack is for good.
30:52 Speaker 05 Yeah.
30:52 Speaker 03 Is to defend people, not to scare people.
30:54 Speaker 05 And you ended up on Newsnight or you ended up on all different news things?
30:57 Speaker 03 Skeptical on Newsnight because a lot of people said to me, oh, they've got to twist your words. And I've got a lot of hate for doing that. I'm called a housegammon, whatever a housegammon is.
31:04 Speaker 05 A housegammon?
31:05 Speaker 03 Yeah, housegammon. I'm known as the housegammon because.
31:07 Speaker 05 Jay, we need your help here.
31:09 Speaker 04 Bloody hell.
31:09 Speaker 03 They think I'm, they think I'm, let me tell you a little story as well. I was asked to go and meet Keir Starmer.
31:14 Speaker 05 Yeah.
31:14 Speaker 03 I said no.
31:15 Speaker 05 Yeah.
31:16 Speaker 03 I was asked to meet Nigel Farage. I said no, I don't want to get in politics. I don't want, if I don't want to influence people with good stuff, I don't want to try and influence people with politics, because as you said, it's a minefield.
31:26 Speaker 05 Yeah.
31:26 Speaker 03 But because I stuck up for that Chinese takeaway, I, I had death threats, I had hate. I still get it now on Twitter, the worst one. You're the housegammon, you're just told to do by the establishment. And I'm furthest away from the establishment as you could ever think. You know, but it's just because I stood up for that young lady who's trying to earn a living. And a Chinese takeaway, bloody hell. Do you know what I mean?
31:49 Speaker 05 Have we got to the bottom of that house gammon yet?
31:52 Speaker 04 Yeah, I mean even-
31:52 Speaker 05 Do you wanna say it out loud?
31:55 Speaker 04 I don't really know what it means.
31:56 Speaker 03 It's a weird, it's a weird thing.
31:57 Speaker 05 Have you Googled "house gammon"?
31:58 Speaker 04 Yeah, but I've just got a recipe for honey glazed gammon.
32:07 Speaker 05 Right, Big John, let's move on to the final exercise. In a quest to help you truly believe that you're a good role model, I really need to get through to you that you are a good role model and that you're willing to accept it. I've got some messages from your fans that I'd love you to see. You are the don of Chinese takeaways and there is no other way to deliver your fan messages than-
32:34 Speaker 03 Look at this.
32:38 Speaker 05 Fortune cookies.
32:39 Speaker 03 Brilliant.
32:40 Speaker 05 Now, one by one-
32:41 Speaker 03 So you've had these specially made?
32:42 Speaker 05 These have been specially made. There's a lot of effort that's been put into these, John.
32:46 Speaker 03 Let's go. Shall I start?
32:47 Speaker 05 Open them one by one-
32:49 Speaker 03 And read out?
32:50 Speaker 05 And read the messages out, and they're all legit messages from your fans.
32:56 Speaker 03 Can't even open it. "I absolutely love everything about John. He's the perfect example of never giving up." It's a good, it's a nice message.
33:06 Speaker 04 Beautiful.
33:07 Speaker 03 It is good when you get nice messages. It is good.
33:10 Speaker 04 And there was so many to choose from.
33:13 Speaker 03 Bloody hell, it's a long one.
33:14 Speaker 04 Strappy.
33:16 Speaker 03 "You're one of the few shining lights on social media. I admire the sort of life you lead, the sort of values you promote. Your ability to show your softer side is what makes me admire you as a man and what a healthy masculinity looks like. Thank you." That's a great message.
33:32 Speaker 04 That's lovely, huh?
33:32 Speaker 03 That is a great message.
33:33 Speaker 04 Lovely.
33:34 Speaker 03 That is very good. These are very good, you know? I'm very shocked.
33:41 Speaker 04 You're saying shocked about the cookies, not shocked about the messages?
33:44 Speaker 03 No, shocked that you've got these messages. Listen, I know I get some good messages-
33:48 Speaker 04 There's fucking loads, mate.
33:49 Speaker 03 It's shock when you read them out like this, you know?
33:54 Speaker 03 I am struggling at the moment, but I find your positivity and videos so helpful. You make it easier to get up and be a man. You have no idea how much you help people like me. That's a good one. I like, I like messages like that. These are very good.
34:08 Speaker 05 This is a plethora.
34:09 Speaker 03 Last one.
34:10 Speaker 05 Last one. Here we go.
34:12 Speaker 03 In a time where young men need more positive male models, male role models, Big John fits the mould. Truly good bloke. Very kind. And these are from people that don't know you.
34:24 Speaker 05 Yeah.
34:25 Speaker 03 That's, that's what, you know, they don't know me. They don't know who I am. Because what you see online is not always true. You get a lot of fakeness online. So for people to see that and take the time to actually, you know, we always say about haters. People hating taking the time to put a bad message on. But these people, I think actually takes more effort to put a good message on.
34:45 Speaker 05 Yeah.
34:46 Speaker 03 Do you know what I mean? So that's truly remarkable. Thank you.
34:49 Speaker 05 How do those make you feel?
34:50 Speaker 03 They make me feel good. I do get a lot of messages like that and you do realise that you do, yes, you must be affecting some people in a good way, which is good.
35:00 Speaker 05 Affecting a lot of people.
35:01 Speaker 03 Yeah, no, it's, it's very nice to, to actually see it in black and white like that as well.
35:05 Speaker 05 Are you reluctant to really accept being a role model because you're worried you'll fuck it up?
35:13 Speaker 03 No, because everyone fucks up in life. Everyone. No matter who they are, you can make mistakes. In life, it's not about making a mistake. It's about how you rectify it and how you try. So I'm not worried about that. I, I, I just don't feel at ease by being called a role model because you're just a normal bloke. You don't set out for any of this. I didn't set out for anything. Really didn't set out for anything what's happening to me in my life. So it is a wonderful thing when you see that, yeah. So what you're saying is true in a, in a way, but it's hard for me to accept that.
35:45 Speaker 05 Hmm.
35:46 Speaker 03 Because you don't, you're not from that, you know?
35:49 Speaker 05 Not even just a tiny little bit? The only reason I'm pushing so hard for it is that our attempt at trying to make you accept that you're a role model has been the majority of this session.
36:01 Speaker 03 You've made me realise, yes, that perhaps I am to certain people.
36:06 Speaker 05 Yeah.
36:07 Speaker 03 And to some people.
36:08 Speaker 05 Yeah.
36:08 Speaker 03 And I accept that, what you're saying, when you see this and when you see, and when I think of the comments and the messages I get. People must look to you for that little bit of guidance. Um.
36:20 Speaker 05 Did you hear that?
36:21 Speaker 04 Yeah, we've done it.
36:22 Speaker 05 We cracked it. It might not have been like a big one.
36:25 Speaker 04 No. Oh, there's a round of applause coming.
36:26 Speaker 05 But we did, we just, we fucking got there.
36:28 Speaker 03 You have made me realise, yes, that what you, what we do has implications for other people.
36:35 Speaker 05 And you can only be yourself, do you know what I mean?
36:37 Speaker 03 And you've got to fuck up in life. We all fuck up in life, but it's how you deal with fucking up in life that makes who you are.
36:43 Speaker 05 Hmm.
36:44 Speaker 03 Do you know what I mean? And if you think you're not going to fuck up in life, you're not, you're not being truthful to yourself. We all do. Everyone does.
36:50 Speaker 05 Uh, I think, I think we've done it. I think we've managed a little bit in this whole session.
36:55 Speaker 03 It's a bit, um, it's a bit hard for people to tell you a role model because you're not that way.
36:59 Speaker 04 Yeah, but I think to be honest with you, John, the moment, if you were to actually go, yeah, do you know what? Fuck it. I am a massive role model.
37:05 Speaker 03 Well, I'm messy.
37:06 Speaker 04 Everyone would be like, fuck off, mate.
37:08 Speaker 03 Yeah, exactly.
37:08 Speaker 04 Fuck off. The charm and the graciousness and all of that would, would, would go. Because the fact that you're reluctant to it makes you the perfect role model.
37:15 Speaker 05 But not so reluctant that it's then unbeliev-, it's not believable.
37:19 Speaker 04 Do you know what I mean? Basically, you just, you smashed it.
37:26 Speaker 05 John, you've been fantastic.
37:27 Speaker 03 It's been a great experience.
37:28 Speaker 05 You are, of course, the Bosch father.
37:31 Speaker 03 Bosch.
37:32 Speaker 05 But what I've realised doing this with you is there's so much more to you than just that.
37:37 Speaker 03 There is more.
37:37 Speaker 05 That's helped, obviously it's helped.
37:39 Speaker 03 Yeah, that's just one side of me that people see.
37:41 Speaker 05 You're John.
37:42 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah. No, it's been a pleasure. Thank you very much.
37:44 Speaker 05 Now, before, uh, every guest leaves, we obviously.
37:48 Speaker 03 I'm going to keep these. You say, what if I keep these?
37:49 Speaker 05 Yeah, you definitely, definitely keep them.
37:51 Speaker 04 Please do.
37:52 Speaker 05 We let every guest go away with a badge. And what's the badge? Surely it's simple on this one.
37:58 Speaker 04 Well, you taught us about, uh, Le Bosch or what was the German one?
38:02 Speaker 03 Zee Bosch.
38:02 Speaker 04 Zee Bosch.
38:03 Speaker 05 Zee Bosch.
38:03 Speaker 04 So that got us thinking about maybe, you know, we've been through a lot, emotional Bosch, podcast Bosch. But we just thought, let's go with role model Bosch.
38:12 Speaker 05 Role model Bosch, yeah, good.
38:13 Speaker 04 John.
38:14 Speaker 03 You've done me now, haven't you?
38:15 Speaker 04 It's for you.
38:15 Speaker 03 I've got to wear the badge.
38:16 Speaker 05 Good choice.
38:17 Speaker 04 I want you wearing that when you're having Chinese with Joey Essex tonight.
38:19 Speaker 03 I'm going to put that, I'm going to put that, I'm going to put that on tonight.
38:22 Speaker 05 Now, uh, we also usually give our guests a lollipop, but I'm, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna do that to you.
38:28 Speaker 03 No, because I'm not, I'm not on the sugar.
38:30 Speaker 05 WLJ, your weight loss journey.
38:32 Speaker 03 Yeah.
38:33 Speaker 05 So, don't take it.
38:35 Speaker 03 No, I wouldn't say.
38:36 Speaker 05 You're not having a fucking lollipop, alright?
38:37 Speaker 03 I'm not having a lollipop, we'll leave that to Kojak. We'll leave that to Kojak.
38:40 Speaker 05 You've been fucking great, mate.
38:40 Speaker 03 Thank you, Joe, it's been brilliant.
38:42 Speaker 05 Big John Bash! Uh, Janet, Janet will see you now, mate, she'll sort you out.
38:48 Speaker 03 Janet, I'm ready for you now.
38:49 Speaker 05 She's coming for you. Hey! Big John, everybody!
38:52 Speaker 03 I can't stand it. Thank you very much.
38:55 Speaker 05 Big John Bash! Bash! Bash! Big John, if you want to join the doctor's waiting list, then please subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on Instagram at @willseeyounowshow. Remember, unless it's not clear enough already, I'm not a real doctor. If you need any professional help, you'll find a link to great support services on our Instagram. I've been Joe Marler and this has been Joe Marler Will See You Now. I'll see you next time. Ba-bash. Bash. Bash. Bye, Bash. Bye, Bash. Bye, Bash. Ba-bash. Farewell, Bash. Bash.
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