Joe Marler’s Most Unexpected Conversations
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How has the podcast created space for unexpected vulnerability and laughter?
Joe, I want to put this to you. I think something that has happened over the course of these episodes is that you have really been able to just get people to open up. Don't get me wrong, we've had a lot of laughs. I'm thinking about some of them now. But... We have had laughs. But you really have managed to get people to talk about things that I've not seen them talk about before. And in a way that just, I don't know, it just feels so natural. And I've also seen a very vulnerable side to you come out as well. I don't know if you've noticed that.
Yeah, I didn't. When we started working together all that way back when, I had no idea... Well, I didn't really have any idea what I was getting into, but I had no idea that it would go as light and dark as it has done and how our patients, guests, clients, whatever we legally have to call them, would actually do when they come into our office and it was originally I thought back and forth a bit of a bit of crack a bit of thing getting to know them a bit better than other podcasts and other interviews that they've done and then they get in the room and then you actually just sort of we react off of We don't really have too big an agenda on any of it all. We're just like, oh, we just react off of it.
And some of the revelations, I don't really like using that word, but I don't know any other words. As you know, I've got quite a limited number. Like Josh Widdicombe.
Yeah.
Always like, well, he just... opens up so casually about the meds he takes for depression and how normalised that chat became and how comfortable people then end up feeling, oh yeah, come on here, I'll have a laugh, but I'll also... tell you some of my most vulnerable moments of my life.
Jason Fox, hearing some of the things that he's been through. Oh, my God. I just couldn't believe what I was hearing. But also, then his ability to sort of snap into finding the light in it and finding the funny in it.
I love that, the fact that one minute... We're able to open up and talk about the darkest thoughts in our heads. And then the next minute, we're asking him to pluck my nose hairs out of me. And it's completely normal because it should be. It is normal. It should be more normal.
He did love doing that. He bloody loved doing that. It was straight on the tweezers. Yeah, shake it in there. What we've done is we've gone through all the episodes. There was a lot to choose from. But we've, I think, compiled some of the more vulnerable moments of... the podcast, both with you and some of the guests, for everyone at home to sit back and watch.
Great work. Yeah. Just a heads up, there's some big, heavy topics discussed in the upcoming compilation. And if you yourself are struggling, then we've got some great links on our Instagram bio for professional help. So look after yourself and enjoy. Foxy. Let's start at the...
beginning thank you i didn't know i had to do that sorry starts at the beginning beginning yeah uh the riskiest thing that you're probably known for and that was being in the marines in the special forces i think is the uh it's a bit more was more riskier for me so i did a i did 10 years in the marines which was um There was no real action scene by myself. Not through choice, just that's the way the cookie crumble. And because of that, I was getting frustrated, so I decided to put in for my opportunity to do selection, which is the... entry exam to get into the Special Forces. Did you miss it? Even now? I did, I did. Oh, you did? Yeah, I did miss it. I left because of mental health, so it was cut short slightly, which still is a bitter pill.
Was there no services available to you to help out with that, or was it just not... an environment for you to be able to struggle in that and then move forward with it?
There was a psychological department within the medical center on the base that I lived down. I knew something was going wrong and I knew something wasn't quite right because I'd lost my mojo for the job. I was bored of it. Then I was supposed to be getting ready to go on another tour of duty with a thing that I loved, absolutely loved, and it felt like a dark cloud in the distance.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
How has the podcast created space for unexpected vulnerability and laughter?
0:00–12:30
2
How did Jason Fox describe his mental-health crisis and decision to leave the military?
12:30–22:03
3
What triggered Jason Fox’s suicidal moment and what helped him step back?
22:03–28:33
4
Where did Pete Wicks’ ‘never enough’ feeling come from and how did it shape him?
28:33–39:06