June 4, 2025 • 43 mins
This one's a classic!
Eric and prankster/comedian Steve-O (Jackass Forever) talk about the infamous story involving the Wu-Tang Clan at a music festival, including clean backflips, tucking in genitals and rightfully getting dragged by Raekwon on stage. Discussions include drugs and drinking problems on the set of Jackass, his early stages of doing stand-up, Laugh Factory stories, and one that involves catastrophically bombing on stage with a joke about Steve Irwin right after his passing. Plus, talking about being beaten up on stage, which eventually became a group fight among Calgary locals, and being interrogated by Canadian police about the incident years later. Of course, the discussion goes to stapling your balls. Keep setting the bar high!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to another episode of Bombing with
Eric and Andre, the podcast where I talk to comedians, musicians, personalities,
and more about their most o moments in front of
an audience. Today is one of my favorite episodes because
I got to talk to the iconic prankster and comic
Steve O and he did not disappoint. I worked with
him on Jackass Forever and man, this guy has stories
(00:21):
to tell.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I don't think I need to say anymore. You want
to listen to this one, so let's just get into it.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Bombing Balming with Eric Anddre.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Did do you have a fun way that you start?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
No, I kind of like starting without even Oh you
want to bombing and circumstance.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
And we are bad.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Man back from what where were we?
Speaker 5 (00:55):
So?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
How many episodes of this have you done?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I don't know. I think we're like at the halfway,
a little more than half.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
So you're you're on the podcast bandwagon.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I love talking to comedians and musicians and performers about
their worst bomb like hearing the worst stories because everyone
has them, no matter who you could be whatever. Madonna
has bombing stories, you know what I mean? Prince opened
up for the Rolling Stones. Yeah, in the late seventies,
early eighties, and people threw bottles at them, you know
(01:25):
what I mean. So everybody has a great bombing story
and it's like that brings it brings me so much joy,
doesn't feel like work.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
I can can vouch for the veracity of that sentiment
because of how tickled you were by my Wu Tang.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Sty fucking I mean, it's kind of can we repeat
it on you?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Can we get peopled? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, yeah, Because I heard that story from like another comedian,
then I heard it from you. Then I like that
story like I've heard through different I almost brought it up.
I saw Ghost Face in Raekwon at south By Southwest
like five years ago, and I was like so like
it was the first time I ever.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Saw him live and everything.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Well, actually I saw Wu Tang live, but I never
saw just them live, and I almost brought it.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
It was like in the back of my mind.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
I don't think anybody would have been particularly offended to
have brought it up. I know that I on my podcast,
I spoke to method Man about we had method Man.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
One, we had Reza on Nice.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
And I repeatedly requested tabreakan on and he politely differ, do.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
You want to tell me?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
It's one of the stories that at this point I
wonder if everybody doesn't just already know it. But the
year was two thousand and six.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
I believe it was during the summer before Jackass number
two came out.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Jermaine told me this.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
He goes, when Jackass one came out, we didn't really
know if we were ever going to have a jin
and then when Jacksonan was so successful, he goes, watch
Jackass two again.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Everybody wants to die. He goes, they're going so hard.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
You guys are going so hard for two that he
was like everyone was like near death. Every stunt and
prank is something like that. So he's like, for the
energy going into Jackass two, he said, was insane.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Jackass number two was the heyday, man, it was the heyday.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
We were like.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
It wasn't like, oh these guys are like too old,
it's creepy, Like we were still kind of under the
bar for our age, like the substance abuse hadn't really
reared its ugly head and turned on us.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Yet everything just worked. It was like there was a
magic spell cast over that movie.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Yeah, everything just works fantastically. Well, I'm guessing that at
the time of this Wu Tang incident, we had wrapped
filming for Jackass number two, so just morale was really high,
Like confidence was through.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
The roof.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
The U I had but hadn't come out.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Yet, correct, got it correct. I had a relationship with
Method Man because we had him on Wild Boys.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Right, you already burned the little South African hut down
to the ground at that point.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Yeah, we burned the three cabins down to the ground
at the resort in South Africa while filming.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
The pilot for Wild Boys.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
I thought that the Wild Boys would never come out
and that we would just be mired in lawsuits, completely
broke for.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
The rest of our lives and canceled. And none of
that happened.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
So with Method and there was another incident where it
wasn't an incident.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
It was a cool thing.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
I met up with Method Man in I think two
thousand and five, and like he was in town for
the be He Awards and there's something like I wanted
to film with them, like uh, for this project I
was working on. He agreed, He agreed to come have
(05:12):
me over to his hotel. In his hotel room, he
lit up one and threw it across the room and
I caught it in my mouth, but I caught it backwards,
so it burned my lip. And then we were laughing
about how it looked like I had herpes. But when
I showed up at that hotel, Dave Chappelle was outside,
you know, And and I met Dave Chappelle and I said,
(05:35):
I told him, man, I think my life might be
in danger because I went into the g Unit studios
and I took on all their beef and and and
I was hurling insults and threats and like really saying
awful things about scary gangster rapper people. And then I
did did take it even further. And and uh and
(05:56):
Dave Chappelle said, ah, Now, he said, uh uh, you're
you're jackass Man, You're Steve.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
You got diplomatic community.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
And I love that. I've always loved that so much.
I've got diplomatic community. But he's I had a relationship
with with with with method Man and the festival. It
was called Rock the Bells. Wu Tang was headlining it.
Cypress Hill played it.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
There was like there was really like a lot of Loso.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Of Hipnop I showed up.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I'm drinking all day. I'm just beligerant choice vodka Red Bull.
I want to say it was my go to. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
So so I'm like, I'm I'm all excited, you know.
I'm they're gonna have a part, a portion of the
show where they pay respect to old dirty bastard.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And I'm like, he died around that time.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
He died in two thousand and four.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Right, right, so it's fresh, the wounds are fresh, right.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
And I had just I'd been doing backflips for the
longest time. Yeah, yeah, but I had just combined two
of my trademark tricks, one being the standing backflip, the
other being.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Called it it was called a double back, where I would.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Flip aggressively flip my wiener and my ball sack back
and forth violently, and back and forth and back and forth,
and then on the back swing, I would jump up
part my legs and then clamp it so I would
with no hands, I would thrust myself into a mangina
position fully tucked like buffalo bill from silence to the lambs.
(07:42):
And then once in the mangina position fully tucked, then
I would do a backflip.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
It was called a double back backflip.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
The reason I was called a double back because you
had both your wiener and your balls in the back right, yeah,
also known as a back burger. So so it was
a big deal too because the first time I ever
did a standing back flip with myself tucked like, there
was a legitimate fear that I might just.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Rip my drunk off. But I got away here that
I pulled it, and I just had this new.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Trick in my back pocket.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
So I'm like, okay, well, this is great. During the
Wu Tang performance.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
I'm gonna get totally naked, flip my balls and wien
are back and forth, catch it in amangiant and this
is gonna be like a great way.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Did you did they have you?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Were they like, Steve, oh, you're gonna come out during
Wu Tang at a specific time or did you just
make this up in your head and you were like,
I'm gonna like just bomb the stage and just it was.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
It wasn't a bomb the stage situation, and they had
people just all over the stage the whole time.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
It was crazy.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
But there was a distinct point in the show where
it was like the tribute to ODB. Part they had
Odb's mom on the stage. It was a sentimental part, yeah,
and and it was it was orchestrated to a point
it was understood that I would be there. So when
it happened, met the man like hands me the microphone
(09:09):
and I go on this drunken diet tribe about how
I was locked up in the Twin Tower jail in
protective custody, and they said I was in Odb's cell
so so I was practically cellmates with od And I'm
going to honor and respect him and and uh and
and I get naked, I do my trick as planned
(09:31):
and and it was arguably the cleanest, Yeah, the most
well executed double back back flip of my life.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
And it was tough to to really execute one perfectly,
because you know, when you're talked like that, you can't
quite you know.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
It's a little bit like trying to do a backflip
with your hands behind your back, you know. But but
I pulled it. I pulled it well. And then they
went into Shimi yaw and it's like everyone's, yeah, everyone's
it's a great vibe.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
And I think it was about halfway through where ray
Kwon finally like it bothering too much.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
And just stopped everything on stage on stage.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Yeah, I'm bumping, I'm bouncing. I just feel like I
just you know, I'm like the best noment ever.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
And then it's like the needle scrap, you know, like whoa,
everything stops.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Raycorn grabs me by my neck, grabs me by my
neck and like just drags me to the front of
the stage by my neck.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
And he's like, in front of all.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
These people, you apologize. Oh the neck you out in
front of you So you got a college house right now.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I did the crowd thing. You guys were doing a
sketch or something.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Pretty evident that that was not a sketch, and it
was I apologized quickly and previously really yeah, and I did.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Even qualified said, I said, I meant in no disrespect.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
I'm here because I love O dB. And he said,
now you're gonna apologize to DB's mom too.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
I'm not good enough.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Now you gotta apologize to miss Cherry. And I apologize
to Miss Cherry. And then I was told that it
would be best if I left. It was that they
made it very clear that I was not safe that.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
You had no diplomatic community.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
He did.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
But one could categorize that whole performance as a bomb.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yes, yeah, I mean in a way though you did
the best double back backflip, that's true, not a bomb.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
That was a great success.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
And I've never, to my knowledge, encountered Ray Kuan ever
since then.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
But he died shortly.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
I think I think it's.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Well understood that, you know, I take no pleasure in
having offended him, or you know, like, I just don't.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Think it's about intention and all the karmic value of
your actions is defined by intent. So I think you
genuinely meant that there's a tribute and you genuinely loved ODB.
I did, but maybe in the eye of the beholder
that is rak one, right, he didn't view it the
same way.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Yeah, And and method Man. Method Man went on.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
So he said, you know, but I didn't really think
consider with like with his mom there, and.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
You know, it's a touchy especially with the mom's Yeah,
it's a hard thing to right.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I mean, in hindsight, yeah, I was wrong.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
It might not be a right versus wrong kind of thing.
It might be like a It was like every country
has its own custom and way a way of grieving.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Yeah, and and and pretty much every country has a
problem with illegal narcotics.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
With a recodre, With a recodre, what's the worst bomb?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
And it can you can include not just stand up,
but jackass live even circus days like early ringings.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Kind of getting into stand up. It was that same summer,
the first time. Yeah, that that that's that same summer
I was asked to perform a stunt at the Laugh Factory,
the world famous laugh Factory on the Sunset Strip in
(13:54):
West Hollywood, and.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
I agreed to show up. But I did show up,
but I didn't give any thought as to what my
stunt in this comedy club would be. I showed up.
I was of course loaded. I was always loaded. And
when I wose days?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Would you get wasted every day or just just a
weekend warrior?
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Oh? God, no every day.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
But Monday, Monday, Tuesday?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Yea, yeah, for sure did it was?
Speaker 5 (14:23):
It was a period when I was not I was
abstaining from cocaine. I got cocaine had presented as an issue,
and I.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Remember what was the issue.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Yeah, The issue was that that I lived my life
awake for two to three days.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
It was like it was like three days.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
On one day off, then three days on one day
off in.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
This like no sleep correct, oh wow, yeah, sustainable.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Well no, I did sustain it for years.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
And uh, you of like creeping only like pretty sleeping
only a couple of nights out of the week.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
It was really gnarly and uh and and whenever something
that that I was really obligated to do would land
at an unfortunate time, when when it was cocaine, when
I was hibernating, so the cocaine schedule came first, and
then everything I had to link into the cocaine schedule.
(15:29):
That that's when I really knew I had a problem,
when it was like, oh, you know, somebody's getting married,
or like there's something that I really really have to
be there, and I would think, man, I hope that
doesn't you know land Yeah, yeah, And.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
And that's really buy.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
The way that I would meet my obligations would just
be to do more more drugs, you know, Like there
was no such thing as like, oh I better you know.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
This week.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
There's no such thing as.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
A truncating a bender, but there was absolutely such a
thing as extending the bender, right, And I was very
professional in that regard.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Yeah, so I.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Wouldn't like I really never didn't show up for professional
obligations or anything really important for that matter. I just
could not speak to what shape I would be and
what it did show up.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
But when we went into filming.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Jackass number two, recognizing that that really was a problem
and that I was showing up, and.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
You know, it started to feel like.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Boogie Knights when when Mark Wahlberg shows up and he's ready,
he's ready, he's ready to and and Jeff Tremaine did
take on that that Burt Reynolds role of like, I'm
not shooting you in this condition, but right now, you know,
like and and and and that that whole Boogi unit's
dynamic of me being on drugs was was problematic. And
(17:10):
going into filming Jackets number two, I pledged that I
for the whole filming of Jackets number two, that I
was not going to do cocaine.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
And I somehow honored that.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Really, I mean, I went, yes, that and that that
was the problem is that, uh, the problem was that
because I didn't have the cocaine, I just got so
much drunker and and and and I started presenting.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
As an angry drunk. No, yeah, like.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
A there was a balance of the cocaine, right.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
The whole balance, the balance went out the window, and
I was and and uh, I would This was when
I was getting into rapping too, So like if I
had like a new rap song, you know, it would
be like, everybody come to my room and listen to
my rap. But if anybody like said anything while I
was trying to play my rap song that I would
(18:08):
just throw a gnarly timber tangent or throw them out,
like like women, I would bring women back to the
hotel room.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
But if they tiptoed out of line, I got out. Yeah,
people could.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Hear me throwing chicks out of my room from uh,
from like.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Far down the hall.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
That was better than the cocaine version of that, seems.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Like right, there was no good version.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Yeah, there was no good version, but I made it
for I believe, over a year without doing any cocaine.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
And and this this.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
First time at the lab Factory was during that period.
So I walked into the comedy club and just kind
of looked around and saw the person performing stand up
on stage.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
I don't know that I'd ever even been to a comedy.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Club before that, and and I thought it just it
struck me that there's no crazier stunt that I could
possibly perform than to get on that stage and try
doing stand up like.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
That just terrible. But that was like nothing could be scarier.
And I was like, oh man, I'm gnarly, man, I'm crazy.
I'm gonna do that.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yeah, man.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
And you know the way that.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
It works at the laugh factor, everybody does like a
ten or fifteen minute.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Said, and I'm like, way down the list.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
So I've shown up and now I'm just sitting around
waiting for my turn. And as I'm waiting, I'm thinking,
I'm like, oh my god, it's just I'm gripped by fear.
I'm like, oh my god, Like if I'm just going
to try and say something to make people laugh, like
what am I going to say?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Like?
Speaker 4 (19:38):
And I came up with a joke, yeah, only one.
And you know, when it was my turn I.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Got on stage, I said, I said, hey, everybody, I
am in the mood for a blowjob?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Does anybody want one? And that was and I got
to laugh. It was it was it was great, man.
And and my overall sense was that when they introduced me.
People knew who it was.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
They were excited to see me, and they were there
to have a good time. They were excited to see me.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
And they were rooting for me. They did. Let everybody
wants to have a good time.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
So like the energy was was was in my favor.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
It was on my side.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Now, that energy will.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Turn very quickly if you don't deliver them entertainment. But
I but I got that first laugh and then I
basically just.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Got I got out of there. Could not have been
on that stage for more than.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Three minutes that the other night, the hell out of there,
you know, excitement, cool, one laugh and gone. And it
was such a favorable experience that I before I left
the building, I scheduled my return and before my return
I actually hounkered down with like a case of whippets
(20:55):
and a huge bottle of vodka, and I wrote out
a set and I wrote out like a ten minute set,
and I had bullet points. I was like, you know, sex,
drugs and rock and roll, and.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
That was my thing.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
And it was like and I framed it as how
are you gonna how to make it in Hollywood?
Speaker 4 (21:18):
You know, like how to make it in the entertainment industry.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
And it was like, well, you gotta do drugs like
you gotta have sex, you know, like, and it was
I had like jokes built into it that that worked
reasonably well. I remember, like when I went to go
perform this ten minutes, I brought a videographer.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
To film it.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
And one of my biggest regrets in life was that,
even at that time, in the shape I was in, like,
I regret the fact that I filmed that ten minute
performance put it on YouTube, and I was like, that's it,
it's done. I put it out there, and and then
(22:04):
I'm retiring that material. Yeah, because like I said, there
were it went reasonably well, and if I were to
have kept working on that material, it would have gone
maybe a little better the next time, Like.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I see, filmed, I just filmed developed.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Before I didn't. I didn't develop it, and.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
You could you could go back and later, well.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Right, I mean it wasn't the time.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
But the problem was that I got a lot of
confidence on that one because I prepared a little bit,
and you know, like I said, oh man, I'm good
at this. So so I planned to go back a
third time. Yeah, and the third time I went back I.
I just felt that I was good at it and
(22:56):
and and uh like I wasn't gonna you tell any jokes.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
But I didn't write any new ones.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
So when I went that third time, I had that
first experience with like really catastrophically bombing.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
There.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
I was on stage and I just I seemed to
There was no video camera this time.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
I believe that Steve Irwin had just passed away.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
I was like, oh, I was trying to like riff
on the passing of Steve Irwin, which wasn't particularly.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Funny, you know. I just I just didn't have anything,
and it didn't go well.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Have you ever bombed so hard that you got booed
or anybody threw something at you?
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Or or I was attacked one time while performing way
back in the.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Day, somebody attacked you.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Yes, I just for no no reason.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
It was it was New Year's Eve when two thousand
and three turned into two thousand and four Calgary, and.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Some guy just gone on stage and just sucker punched
me while I was performing.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
For no reason, none that I'm aware of. Did he
get arrested? Did you fight?
Speaker 5 (24:21):
He got beaten up? But he got beaten up by
a number of people. I think a number of people
descended on him and kind of beat him up, and
Frey as he was, you know, was kind of held down.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Preston Lacy, who was performing on stage with me.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Sort of grated off his forehead with his microphone.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
One of those microphones that's like with the metal.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Mesh and kind of operates like a cheese grater if
you're really take into someone's forehead jigsaw from a soft Yeah.
I remember there was some grading going on with the microphone,
and there's some beating up going on. And as they
carried this guy off the stage, they carried him kind
(25:12):
of by arms and legs sort of, you know, as
they carried him by, I hauled off and kicked him,
you know, like the legs.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
It was. It was a little extra that one.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
That kick was not necessary, and it actually made me
the whole thing, like everybody was wrong, like to a
point of criminal offense. And we were made aware that
the cops were coming and.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
The show was over. We just we ran, We ran
from the state.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yeah, we.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Got we got out of there. We ran away. We
got away. And then in twenty eleven, seven years later.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Now I'm in Calgary again to perform stand but the
comedy club in Calgary, and I'm on the morning news
to promote my comedy club appearances, and the morning news anchor.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Asked me, had I ever been to Calgary? I said, yeah,
I did. We beat up this guy.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
No, we ran from the cops and it was crazy.
And then as I attempted to leave Calgary after that
weekend that it, showed my passport to the customs.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Guy and he said, oh, yeah, this is great. You're
going into this room. Yeah, going into this room. And
I didn't. I didn't put it all together. So I
went into the room and then these police came into
the room and they were like, oh, well, yeah, you've
got this. We found this warrnt on you. You know,
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I drew enough attention to it on the news.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
That I that I was afforded the opportunity to make
it right.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
And lucky for.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Preston Lacey, he too was afforded the opportunity to make
oh again. He was not with me again, but he
was dragged into it no, because it all bubbled their Yeah,
so press, Preston can can rest easy at night knowing that,
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knowing that that.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
We u you provided an opportunity to make things right in.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was great. Preston was profoundly great.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
I'm sure.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Yeah, but but but then that Yeah, I spent like
eleven hours in a in a hold Fuck yeah, I
was in I was in a holding tank. And I remember,
I mean, I got sober in two thousand and eight
and this was twenty eleven.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
I was sober for the three years. I remember as
I sat in.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
That sitting in that holding cell, like they were parading,
you know, different other offenders back and forth, and they.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Were just guys that were just like covered in blood.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
And there's one common denominator. Everybody seemed to be highly intoxic.
I remember sitting in that cell for like eleven hours,
and each person that was paraded past my cell just
made me more grateful than the last for my sobriety.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Yeah, with a recodre, with a recodre, they're looking at.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Me because I have to God, I could talk to you.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
We got to wrap it up already. Yeah, how about that? Well,
time flies, man. I love you, dud, Yeah, I deeply.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Love you, love you too, Yeah, I say I'm in
love with you.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Check this out, Like now my tour like isn't like
all the chaos happening on stage. The bar is so
high now that like that I take care of like
the insand the bar has to keep going higher and higher.
So now it's like legitimately life threatening stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
And I've got I've.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Just taped my my new comedy special for my show
The bucket List, and like it is triple x rated,
like this whole tour, like no kids allowed because that's
illegal because I'm ejaculating on camera. Yeah, not only that, Yeah,
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the skydives Skyjagging is finally going to come.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Out with how could maintain skydiving?
Speaker 4 (30:00):
I brought a DVD player, a portable DVD.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
Play, and I and for breakfast, I ate four erectile
dysfunction tablet.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
So getting a boner was not going.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
And dude, I had to be in consultation with my
recovery community because uh the because of the general anesthesia
stunt where we got a medical professional in disguise to
administer stolen general anesthesia drugs into an ivy in my
arm while I was hauling.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Asus on a fucking bicycle.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Baby, Wait, what do you mean like they knocked you
out while you were biking?
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Yeah, it's a gimme hit me with the general anesthesia
and uh, you know, and I'm gonna ride and then
killed in disguise.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
And that's not even a sketchy as the epidural foot
race here, I'm the foot race. Like the epidural is
a four inch needle in your spinal cavity. They injected
drug into your spine for what to render you paralyzed?
My lord and I met the doctor at one of
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my shows.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Yeah. He was like, dude, I got an anestagian thing
for you. And I was like, that's oh.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Doctor. When I hear that, I'm like, do they have
medical grade night oxide?
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Yeah, that's like where the level for the stunts are
at the and and uh you know.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
I really spent my time.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
I toured the comedy club circuit for eleven years, like
developing the craft and got it to a place where
I like, I belong on that stage. Now I've got
all of my worlds have converged into this multimedia crazy
than ever live comedy show.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
And I'm so excited for the world to say, amazing
the bucket list.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Any other bombs you saw that didn't involve you, that
you just were like that you just witnessed as an
audience member, and he like, if you saw like Willie
Nelson fall off the stage or something for example, or
you just saw fucking you know, Tom Jones just eat
it on anything like that come up or anything where
like this is the worst stunt. This is the stunt
I regret the most, which I know you have a
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list for somebody like set themselves on fire and fu
fu fucked up.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
I mean I I set myself on fire for you
for the closer angel Yeah. The fire Angels was the
closer of my last comedy special to come out, which
is called Gnarly. Yeah, and Gnarly is just sitting on
my website.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
You hit play and it just plays for free. That's
Stevo dot Com.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
I'd say I can't put my stuff on YouTube because
it's like, uh it's it.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Gets taken down.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Well yeah, I mean I would get serious trouble. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
Like so I've got these like highly explicit like like
too hot for YouTube, too hot for like anything.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Did you get arrested or something?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (33:15):
That that was in in uh Louisiana on my Don't
tries head hometown.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
The bottle of tequila was sitting.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
There on the stage and uh, I was covered in blood.
I was stapling my balls to my leg. At the
point when I stapled my balls to my leg, the
footage reflected me saying.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
This is not uh art. This is strictly to be offensive. Now.
I don't know why I would say that, because it
was definitely art. Okay, zero question that it was art.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
But that qualified the stapling as a felony obscenity by
some standards.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Somebody, somebody, why would you say that?
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Somebody opine that that was felony obscenity.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
And the reason it came to light was because the kids,
like as per usual people climbing on the stage, someone
grabbed the tequila bottle off the stage.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
And when they did that.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
The security, which was these college football players, they just
zipped in and they neutral they got the bottle back,
and I was impressed by the security and I was like, man,
these security guards are good. Who wants to get on
stage and try to run across the stage past the bouncers.
We'll call this one British bulldog who wants to play
some British bulldog. And like this kid jumping up and
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then was just the most noticeable kid.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Like I was like, you you're it, you know, like,
how am I not going to let this kid? He's
so excited. The kid gets on stage and I go one, two,
three go he runs. The kid didn't weigh anything. Those
two huge.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
Football player guys just grabbed him and it was anti climactic.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
So the boun took it upon themselves.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
After grabbing the kid two together, they hoisted him up
above their heads and slammed him on the stage on
his head, and it seemed to recall that the kid
was knocked out, twitching, maybe bleeding from an ear.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
And on the mic, I said that kid's being loaded
into an ambulance. Is that what we came here to see?
Speaker 5 (35:32):
And I continued and then I said, like I want
to play another round of British bulls. It was It
was bad, and somebody in the audience had been recording
it on a video camera.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
This is already oh yeah, yeah, I mean I stay
balls every night.
Speaker 5 (35:50):
But so that the person who record nothing nothing. Uh
we remember we were I was in Louisiana. We went
to Alabama the next night. I remember thinking, oh yeah,
I was pretty somebody like reviewing their video.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
They were like, you know what this feels a little
bit kind of weird, and maybe I'll send this to
the newspaper.
Speaker 5 (36:10):
So they sent their videotape to the newspaper. The newspaper
watch it, and they said, this doesn't feel like as
much of a news.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Story as a crime. So they sent it to.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
The police and then and then within a couple of
weeks they filed charges and a warrant, and it was
it was fascinating because I was charged with two crimes.
One was principal a second degree battery, which was a felony,
but for orchestrating this this battery on this kid, and
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and for the battery charge specifically, they set the bail
at I think one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. But
for the second charge, which was felony obscenity, they set
the bail at one million No, yeah, a.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Million dollar staple.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
So given that my the price associated with my warrant
was one point twelve million dollars when the fugitive warrant,
like because I was back in California by that point,
and when I showed up on the fugitive radar, like
I think, I I was like top ten, you know,
(37:25):
like most want I was like a big priority and
and so they they they came in. They caught me
on an off day.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
I was hybridating. I was hibernating in my roommate.
Speaker 5 (37:41):
He was like, hey, you know, Steve O Man, you
got to get up man, this is important. And there
were these fugitive officers and they brought me into the
Twin Towers where I was told that I was in
ODB self.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Oh no, circle, holy shit? Yeah did you get How
did you get out of that? You go to court?
Speaker 5 (38:01):
And I sat in jail for five days waiting for
a bail reduction hearing because I didn't.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
Have uh.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
The argument was that I you know, I had my
face tattooed in my back yet, even though the second
movie wasn't out yet. But they were just like, this
guy can't really be a flight risk. He can't hide
anywhere particularly well, I forget how much I had to
borrow from my accountant to post the bond, but he
did charge me interest.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
But did you have to go to court?
Speaker 4 (38:38):
Yeah? It ended up I was.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
I posted bond. I was out on bail, still facing
eight years in prison. Like they were like, I forget,
which like I think it was like a five year
maximum for the obscenity and.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
Three for the battery. I don't know what I was,
but combined.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
It worse, I know.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
And so I'm facing eight years in prison.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
I'm out on bail, and I go flying off to
Europe with my don't try the home tour where I
got arrested for international drug smull I got arrested for
international drug smuggling in Sweden while out on bail for
ball stapling.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
How did you did you spend any time in jail?
Speaker 4 (39:28):
I spent another five days in jail in Sweden.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
But how did you get out of all these charges?
Speaker 4 (39:35):
Well?
Speaker 5 (39:35):
Yeah, I mean that the My my criminal record is
largely the through line of my Gnarly comedy special at
Stevo dot com because I was I was still on
probation for my climbing up the crane and blowing up
the fireworks thing and and uh and and for the
opening sequence of My Gnarly Special, I had the jackass
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guys duct tape me into a billboard and hit baseballs
at me and then drive me down the highway to
the theater.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
Which was wildly illegal, and I.
Speaker 5 (40:07):
Was on probation, so so that kind of set the
tone for like the story of criminal stevo of the criminal.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
But yeah, I mean, like, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Did you go to court? Have you been to court before?
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (40:25):
I've been to court plenty of times for felony, cocaine possession, vandalism,
your lawyer, yeah, you do. In any case, if we
were over it before, we're definitely yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
I wanted to ask what the stunt you regret? Is
there one sentence like the stunt you regret the most
of everything?
Speaker 5 (40:47):
But the thing is that, like on a consequence basis,
consequences for me personally have translated very well to film,
So I'm not gonna regret anything based on how much
it hurt.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
No, No, No, that's not what I mean either, Because
people are like people always ask me what do you
do when a prank goes wrong? And I go, that's
all I want a prank to do, Like I want
things to go wrong, not wrong in like the sense
that there was some production failure and and prank didn't
get a reaction. But I can tell when people ask that,
they're like, what happens when people get pissed?
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Though, I'm like, I don't know, great footage, right, what
do you mean?
Speaker 4 (41:26):
Right?
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Yeah, that's what I meant.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
I just meant based off that list you showed me
when you first sat down, if there was one particular one.
Speaker 5 (41:33):
That you were like the basis for me regretting a
stunt is when it was just embarrassing and lame, or
like there's the high on the list of I regret
because I'm such an advocate for animals these days, like
and like very outspoken against Sea World, Like I had
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to admit how ashamed I am that back in the
wild Boys days we went to a very SeaWorld esque
place and I rode captive dolphins. Oh, there's fag of
me riding captive dolphins. Mister Sea World guys out there.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
Captivity. That's tough. There's nothing I regret more than that,
as far as camera are.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
The dolphins like not in a good place.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
In that captive dolphins, captive workers.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
It's pretty bad. It's rough. What about that? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (42:28):
Yeah, Like I wrote ostriches, I'm not particularly proud of that.
Like when you watch me riding the ostriches, like, uh,
it just looks like distress.
Speaker 4 (42:37):
It looks like I weigh a little more than their coming.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Yeah, dude, I can't thank you enough. I have your
brain all day.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
That was amazing.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
You're like the ideal guest for this.
Speaker 4 (42:53):
Hey, thank you bro.
Speaker 3 (42:58):
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Hello, and welcome back to another episode of Bombing with
Eric and Andre, the podcast where I talk to comedians, musicians, personalities,
and more about their most o moments in front of
an audience. Today is one of my favorite episodes because
I got to talk to the iconic prankster and comic
Steve O and he did not disappoint. I worked with
him on Jackass Forever and man, this guy has stories
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to tell.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I don't think I need to say anymore. You want
to listen to this one, so let's just get into it.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Bombing Balming with Eric Anddre.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Did do you have a fun way that you start?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
No, I kind of like starting without even Oh you
want to bombing and circumstance.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
And we are bad.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Man back from what where were we?
Speaker 5 (00:55):
So?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
How many episodes of this have you done?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I don't know. I think we're like at the halfway,
a little more than half.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
So you're you're on the podcast bandwagon.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I love talking to comedians and musicians and performers about
their worst bomb like hearing the worst stories because everyone
has them, no matter who you could be whatever. Madonna
has bombing stories, you know what I mean? Prince opened
up for the Rolling Stones. Yeah, in the late seventies,
early eighties, and people threw bottles at them, you know
(01:25):
what I mean. So everybody has a great bombing story
and it's like that brings it brings me so much joy,
doesn't feel like work.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
I can can vouch for the veracity of that sentiment
because of how tickled you were by my Wu Tang.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Sty fucking I mean, it's kind of can we repeat
it on you?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Can we get peopled? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, yeah, Because I heard that story from like another comedian,
then I heard it from you. Then I like that
story like I've heard through different I almost brought it up.
I saw Ghost Face in Raekwon at south By Southwest
like five years ago, and I was like so like
it was the first time I ever.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Saw him live and everything.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Well, actually I saw Wu Tang live, but I never
saw just them live, and I almost brought it.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
It was like in the back of my mind.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
I don't think anybody would have been particularly offended to
have brought it up. I know that I on my podcast,
I spoke to method Man about we had method Man.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
One, we had Reza on Nice.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
And I repeatedly requested tabreakan on and he politely differ, do.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
You want to tell me?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
It's one of the stories that at this point I
wonder if everybody doesn't just already know it. But the
year was two thousand and six.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
I believe it was during the summer before Jackass number
two came out.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Jermaine told me this.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
He goes, when Jackass one came out, we didn't really
know if we were ever going to have a jin
and then when Jacksonan was so successful, he goes, watch
Jackass two again.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Everybody wants to die. He goes, they're going so hard.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
You guys are going so hard for two that he
was like everyone was like near death. Every stunt and
prank is something like that. So he's like, for the
energy going into Jackass two, he said, was insane.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Jackass number two was the heyday, man, it was the heyday.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
We were like.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
It wasn't like, oh these guys are like too old,
it's creepy, Like we were still kind of under the
bar for our age, like the substance abuse hadn't really
reared its ugly head and turned on us.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Yet everything just worked. It was like there was a
magic spell cast over that movie.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Yeah, everything just works fantastically. Well, I'm guessing that at
the time of this Wu Tang incident, we had wrapped
filming for Jackass number two, so just morale was really high,
Like confidence was through.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
The roof.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
The U I had but hadn't come out.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Yet, correct, got it correct. I had a relationship with
Method Man because we had him on Wild Boys.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Right, you already burned the little South African hut down
to the ground at that point.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Yeah, we burned the three cabins down to the ground
at the resort in South Africa while filming.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
The pilot for Wild Boys.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
I thought that the Wild Boys would never come out
and that we would just be mired in lawsuits, completely
broke for.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
The rest of our lives and canceled. And none of
that happened.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
So with Method and there was another incident where it
wasn't an incident.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
It was a cool thing.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
I met up with Method Man in I think two
thousand and five, and like he was in town for
the be He Awards and there's something like I wanted
to film with them, like uh, for this project I
was working on. He agreed, He agreed to come have
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me over to his hotel. In his hotel room, he
lit up one and threw it across the room and
I caught it in my mouth, but I caught it backwards,
so it burned my lip. And then we were laughing
about how it looked like I had herpes. But when
I showed up at that hotel, Dave Chappelle was outside,
you know, And and I met Dave Chappelle and I said,
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I told him, man, I think my life might be
in danger because I went into the g Unit studios
and I took on all their beef and and and
I was hurling insults and threats and like really saying
awful things about scary gangster rapper people. And then I
did did take it even further. And and uh and
(05:56):
Dave Chappelle said, ah, Now, he said, uh uh, you're
you're jackass Man, You're Steve.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
You got diplomatic community.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
And I love that. I've always loved that so much.
I've got diplomatic community. But he's I had a relationship
with with with with method Man and the festival. It
was called Rock the Bells. Wu Tang was headlining it.
Cypress Hill played it.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
There was like there was really like a lot of Loso.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Of Hipnop I showed up.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I'm drinking all day. I'm just beligerant choice vodka Red Bull.
I want to say it was my go to. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
So so I'm like, I'm I'm all excited, you know.
I'm they're gonna have a part, a portion of the
show where they pay respect to old dirty bastard.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And I'm like, he died around that time.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
He died in two thousand and four.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Right, right, so it's fresh, the wounds are fresh, right.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
And I had just I'd been doing backflips for the
longest time. Yeah, yeah, but I had just combined two
of my trademark tricks, one being the standing backflip, the
other being.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Called it it was called a double back, where I would.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Flip aggressively flip my wiener and my ball sack back
and forth violently, and back and forth and back and forth,
and then on the back swing, I would jump up
part my legs and then clamp it so I would
with no hands, I would thrust myself into a mangina
position fully tucked like buffalo bill from silence to the lambs.
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And then once in the mangina position fully tucked, then
I would do a backflip.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
It was called a double back backflip.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
The reason I was called a double back because you
had both your wiener and your balls in the back right, yeah,
also known as a back burger. So so it was
a big deal too because the first time I ever
did a standing back flip with myself tucked like, there
was a legitimate fear that I might just.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Rip my drunk off. But I got away here that
I pulled it, and I just had this new.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Trick in my back pocket.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
So I'm like, okay, well, this is great. During the
Wu Tang performance.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
I'm gonna get totally naked, flip my balls and wien
are back and forth, catch it in amangiant and this
is gonna be like a great way.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Did you did they have you?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Were they like, Steve, oh, you're gonna come out during
Wu Tang at a specific time or did you just
make this up in your head and you were like,
I'm gonna like just bomb the stage and just it was.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
It wasn't a bomb the stage situation, and they had
people just all over the stage the whole time.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
It was crazy.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
But there was a distinct point in the show where
it was like the tribute to ODB. Part they had
Odb's mom on the stage. It was a sentimental part, yeah,
and and it was it was orchestrated to a point
it was understood that I would be there. So when
it happened, met the man like hands me the microphone
(09:09):
and I go on this drunken diet tribe about how
I was locked up in the Twin Tower jail in
protective custody, and they said I was in Odb's cell
so so I was practically cellmates with od And I'm
going to honor and respect him and and uh and
and I get naked, I do my trick as planned
(09:31):
and and it was arguably the cleanest, Yeah, the most
well executed double back back flip of my life.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
And it was tough to to really execute one perfectly,
because you know, when you're talked like that, you can't
quite you know.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
It's a little bit like trying to do a backflip
with your hands behind your back, you know. But but
I pulled it. I pulled it well. And then they
went into Shimi yaw and it's like everyone's, yeah, everyone's
it's a great vibe.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
And I think it was about halfway through where ray
Kwon finally like it bothering too much.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
And just stopped everything on stage on stage.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Yeah, I'm bumping, I'm bouncing. I just feel like I
just you know, I'm like the best noment ever.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
And then it's like the needle scrap, you know, like whoa,
everything stops.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Raycorn grabs me by my neck, grabs me by my
neck and like just drags me to the front of
the stage by my neck.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
And he's like, in front of all.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
These people, you apologize. Oh the neck you out in
front of you So you got a college house right now.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I did the crowd thing. You guys were doing a
sketch or something.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Pretty evident that that was not a sketch, and it
was I apologized quickly and previously really yeah, and I did.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Even qualified said, I said, I meant in no disrespect.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
I'm here because I love O dB. And he said,
now you're gonna apologize to DB's mom too.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
I'm not good enough.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Now you gotta apologize to miss Cherry. And I apologize
to Miss Cherry. And then I was told that it
would be best if I left. It was that they
made it very clear that I was not safe that.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
You had no diplomatic community.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
He did.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
But one could categorize that whole performance as a bomb.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yes, yeah, I mean in a way though you did
the best double back backflip, that's true, not a bomb.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
That was a great success.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
And I've never, to my knowledge, encountered Ray Kuan ever
since then.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
But he died shortly.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
I think I think it's.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Well understood that, you know, I take no pleasure in
having offended him, or you know, like, I just don't.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Think it's about intention and all the karmic value of
your actions is defined by intent. So I think you
genuinely meant that there's a tribute and you genuinely loved ODB.
I did, but maybe in the eye of the beholder
that is rak one, right, he didn't view it the
same way.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Yeah, And and method Man. Method Man went on.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
So he said, you know, but I didn't really think
consider with like with his mom there, and.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
You know, it's a touchy especially with the mom's Yeah,
it's a hard thing to right.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I mean, in hindsight, yeah, I was wrong.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
It might not be a right versus wrong kind of thing.
It might be like a It was like every country
has its own custom and way a way of grieving.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Yeah, and and and pretty much every country has a
problem with illegal narcotics.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
With a recodre, With a recodre, what's the worst bomb?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
And it can you can include not just stand up,
but jackass live even circus days like early ringings.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Kind of getting into stand up. It was that same summer,
the first time. Yeah, that that that's that same summer
I was asked to perform a stunt at the Laugh Factory,
the world famous laugh Factory on the Sunset Strip in
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West Hollywood, and.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
I agreed to show up. But I did show up,
but I didn't give any thought as to what my
stunt in this comedy club would be. I showed up.
I was of course loaded. I was always loaded. And
when I wose days?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Would you get wasted every day or just just a
weekend warrior?
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Oh? God, no every day.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
But Monday, Monday, Tuesday?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Yea, yeah, for sure did it was?
Speaker 5 (14:23):
It was a period when I was not I was
abstaining from cocaine. I got cocaine had presented as an issue,
and I.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Remember what was the issue.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Yeah, The issue was that that I lived my life
awake for two to three days.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
It was like it was like three days.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
On one day off, then three days on one day
off in.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
This like no sleep correct, oh wow, yeah, sustainable.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Well no, I did sustain it for years.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
And uh, you of like creeping only like pretty sleeping
only a couple of nights out of the week.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
It was really gnarly and uh and and whenever something
that that I was really obligated to do would land
at an unfortunate time, when when it was cocaine, when
I was hibernating, so the cocaine schedule came first, and
then everything I had to link into the cocaine schedule.
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That that's when I really knew I had a problem,
when it was like, oh, you know, somebody's getting married,
or like there's something that I really really have to
be there, and I would think, man, I hope that
doesn't you know land Yeah, yeah, And.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
And that's really buy.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
The way that I would meet my obligations would just
be to do more more drugs, you know, Like there
was no such thing as like, oh I better you know.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
This week.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
There's no such thing as.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
A truncating a bender, but there was absolutely such a
thing as extending the bender, right, And I was very
professional in that regard.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Yeah, so I.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Wouldn't like I really never didn't show up for professional
obligations or anything really important for that matter. I just
could not speak to what shape I would be and
what it did show up.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
But when we went into filming.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Jackass number two, recognizing that that really was a problem
and that I was showing up, and.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
You know, it started to feel like.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Boogie Knights when when Mark Wahlberg shows up and he's ready,
he's ready, he's ready to and and Jeff Tremaine did
take on that that Burt Reynolds role of like, I'm
not shooting you in this condition, but right now, you know,
like and and and and that that whole Boogi unit's
dynamic of me being on drugs was was problematic. And
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going into filming Jackets number two, I pledged that I
for the whole filming of Jackets number two, that I
was not going to do cocaine.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
And I somehow honored that.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Really, I mean, I went, yes, that and that that
was the problem is that, uh, the problem was that
because I didn't have the cocaine, I just got so
much drunker and and and and I started presenting.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
As an angry drunk. No, yeah, like.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
A there was a balance of the cocaine, right.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
The whole balance, the balance went out the window, and
I was and and uh, I would This was when
I was getting into rapping too, So like if I
had like a new rap song, you know, it would
be like, everybody come to my room and listen to
my rap. But if anybody like said anything while I
was trying to play my rap song that I would
(18:08):
just throw a gnarly timber tangent or throw them out,
like like women, I would bring women back to the
hotel room.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
But if they tiptoed out of line, I got out. Yeah,
people could.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Hear me throwing chicks out of my room from uh,
from like.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Far down the hall.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
That was better than the cocaine version of that, seems.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Like right, there was no good version.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Yeah, there was no good version, but I made it
for I believe, over a year without doing any cocaine.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
And and this this.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
First time at the lab Factory was during that period.
So I walked into the comedy club and just kind
of looked around and saw the person performing stand up
on stage.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
I don't know that I'd ever even been to a comedy.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Club before that, and and I thought it just it
struck me that there's no crazier stunt that I could
possibly perform than to get on that stage and try
doing stand up like.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
That just terrible. But that was like nothing could be scarier.
And I was like, oh man, I'm gnarly, man, I'm crazy.
I'm gonna do that.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yeah, man.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
And you know the way that.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
It works at the laugh factor, everybody does like a
ten or fifteen minute.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Said, and I'm like, way down the list.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
So I've shown up and now I'm just sitting around
waiting for my turn. And as I'm waiting, I'm thinking,
I'm like, oh my god, it's just I'm gripped by fear.
I'm like, oh my god, Like if I'm just going
to try and say something to make people laugh, like
what am I going to say?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Like?
Speaker 4 (19:38):
And I came up with a joke, yeah, only one.
And you know, when it was my turn I.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Got on stage, I said, I said, hey, everybody, I
am in the mood for a blowjob?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Does anybody want one? And that was and I got
to laugh. It was it was it was great, man.
And and my overall sense was that when they introduced me.
People knew who it was.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
They were excited to see me, and they were there
to have a good time. They were excited to see me.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
And they were rooting for me. They did. Let everybody
wants to have a good time.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
So like the energy was was was in my favor.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
It was on my side.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Now, that energy will.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Turn very quickly if you don't deliver them entertainment. But
I but I got that first laugh and then I
basically just.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Got I got out of there. Could not have been
on that stage for more than.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Three minutes that the other night, the hell out of there,
you know, excitement, cool, one laugh and gone. And it
was such a favorable experience that I before I left
the building, I scheduled my return and before my return
I actually hounkered down with like a case of whippets
(20:55):
and a huge bottle of vodka, and I wrote out
a set and I wrote out like a ten minute set,
and I had bullet points. I was like, you know, sex,
drugs and rock and roll, and.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
That was my thing.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
And it was like and I framed it as how
are you gonna how to make it in Hollywood?
Speaker 4 (21:18):
You know, like how to make it in the entertainment industry.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
And it was like, well, you gotta do drugs like
you gotta have sex, you know, like, and it was
I had like jokes built into it that that worked
reasonably well. I remember, like when I went to go
perform this ten minutes, I brought a videographer.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
To film it.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
And one of my biggest regrets in life was that,
even at that time, in the shape I was in, like,
I regret the fact that I filmed that ten minute
performance put it on YouTube, and I was like, that's it,
it's done. I put it out there, and and then
(22:04):
I'm retiring that material. Yeah, because like I said, there
were it went reasonably well, and if I were to
have kept working on that material, it would have gone
maybe a little better the next time, Like.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I see, filmed, I just filmed developed.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Before I didn't. I didn't develop it, and.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
You could you could go back and later, well.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Right, I mean it wasn't the time.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
But the problem was that I got a lot of
confidence on that one because I prepared a little bit,
and you know, like I said, oh man, I'm good
at this. So so I planned to go back a
third time. Yeah, and the third time I went back I.
I just felt that I was good at it and
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and and uh like I wasn't gonna you tell any jokes.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
But I didn't write any new ones.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
So when I went that third time, I had that
first experience with like really catastrophically bombing.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
There.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
I was on stage and I just I seemed to
There was no video camera this time.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
I believe that Steve Irwin had just passed away.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
I was like, oh, I was trying to like riff
on the passing of Steve Irwin, which wasn't particularly.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Funny, you know. I just I just didn't have anything,
and it didn't go well.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Have you ever bombed so hard that you got booed
or anybody threw something at you?
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Or or I was attacked one time while performing way
back in the.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Day, somebody attacked you.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Yes, I just for no no reason.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
It was it was New Year's Eve when two thousand
and three turned into two thousand and four Calgary, and.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Some guy just gone on stage and just sucker punched
me while I was performing.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
For no reason, none that I'm aware of. Did he
get arrested? Did you fight?
Speaker 5 (24:21):
He got beaten up? But he got beaten up by
a number of people. I think a number of people
descended on him and kind of beat him up, and
Frey as he was, you know, was kind of held down.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Preston Lacy, who was performing on stage with me.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Sort of grated off his forehead with his microphone.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
One of those microphones that's like with the metal.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Mesh and kind of operates like a cheese grater if
you're really take into someone's forehead jigsaw from a soft Yeah.
I remember there was some grading going on with the microphone,
and there's some beating up going on. And as they
carried this guy off the stage, they carried him kind
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of by arms and legs sort of, you know, as
they carried him by, I hauled off and kicked him,
you know, like the legs.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
It was. It was a little extra that one.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
That kick was not necessary, and it actually made me
the whole thing, like everybody was wrong, like to a
point of criminal offense. And we were made aware that
the cops were coming and.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
The show was over. We just we ran, We ran
from the state.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yeah, we.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Got we got out of there. We ran away. We
got away. And then in twenty eleven, seven years later.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Now I'm in Calgary again to perform stand but the
comedy club in Calgary, and I'm on the morning news
to promote my comedy club appearances, and the morning news anchor.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Asked me, had I ever been to Calgary? I said, yeah,
I did. We beat up this guy.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
No, we ran from the cops and it was crazy.
And then as I attempted to leave Calgary after that
weekend that it, showed my passport to the customs.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Guy and he said, oh, yeah, this is great. You're
going into this room. Yeah, going into this room. And
I didn't. I didn't put it all together. So I
went into the room and then these police came into
the room and they were like, oh, well, yeah, you've
got this. We found this warrnt on you. You know,
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I drew enough attention to it on the news.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
That I that I was afforded the opportunity to make
it right.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
And lucky for.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Preston Lacey, he too was afforded the opportunity to make
oh again. He was not with me again, but he
was dragged into it no, because it all bubbled their Yeah,
so press, Preston can can rest easy at night knowing that,
(27:30):
knowing that that.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
We u you provided an opportunity to make things right in.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was great. Preston was profoundly great.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
I'm sure.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Yeah, but but but then that Yeah, I spent like
eleven hours in a in a hold Fuck yeah, I
was in I was in a holding tank. And I remember,
I mean, I got sober in two thousand and eight
and this was twenty eleven.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
I was sober for the three years. I remember as
I sat in.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
That sitting in that holding cell, like they were parading,
you know, different other offenders back and forth, and they.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Were just guys that were just like covered in blood.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
And there's one common denominator. Everybody seemed to be highly intoxic.
I remember sitting in that cell for like eleven hours,
and each person that was paraded past my cell just
made me more grateful than the last for my sobriety.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Yeah, with a recodre, with a recodre, they're looking at.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Me because I have to God, I could talk to you.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
We got to wrap it up already. Yeah, how about that? Well,
time flies, man. I love you, dud, Yeah, I deeply.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Love you, love you too, Yeah, I say I'm in
love with you.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Check this out, Like now my tour like isn't like
all the chaos happening on stage. The bar is so
high now that like that I take care of like
the insand the bar has to keep going higher and higher.
So now it's like legitimately life threatening stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
And I've got I've.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Just taped my my new comedy special for my show
The bucket List, and like it is triple x rated,
like this whole tour, like no kids allowed because that's
illegal because I'm ejaculating on camera. Yeah, not only that, Yeah,
(29:54):
the skydives Skyjagging is finally going to come.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Out with how could maintain skydiving?
Speaker 4 (30:00):
I brought a DVD player, a portable DVD.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
Play, and I and for breakfast, I ate four erectile
dysfunction tablet.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
So getting a boner was not going.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
And dude, I had to be in consultation with my
recovery community because uh the because of the general anesthesia
stunt where we got a medical professional in disguise to
administer stolen general anesthesia drugs into an ivy in my
arm while I was hauling.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Asus on a fucking bicycle.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Baby, Wait, what do you mean like they knocked you
out while you were biking?
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Yeah, it's a gimme hit me with the general anesthesia
and uh, you know, and I'm gonna ride and then
killed in disguise.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
And that's not even a sketchy as the epidural foot
race here, I'm the foot race. Like the epidural is
a four inch needle in your spinal cavity. They injected
drug into your spine for what to render you paralyzed?
My lord and I met the doctor at one of
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my shows.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Yeah. He was like, dude, I got an anestagian thing
for you. And I was like, that's oh.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Doctor. When I hear that, I'm like, do they have
medical grade night oxide?
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Yeah, that's like where the level for the stunts are
at the and and uh you know.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
I really spent my time.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
I toured the comedy club circuit for eleven years, like
developing the craft and got it to a place where
I like, I belong on that stage. Now I've got
all of my worlds have converged into this multimedia crazy
than ever live comedy show.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
And I'm so excited for the world to say, amazing
the bucket list.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Any other bombs you saw that didn't involve you, that
you just were like that you just witnessed as an
audience member, and he like, if you saw like Willie
Nelson fall off the stage or something for example, or
you just saw fucking you know, Tom Jones just eat
it on anything like that come up or anything where
like this is the worst stunt. This is the stunt
I regret the most, which I know you have a
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list for somebody like set themselves on fire and fu
fu fucked up.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
I mean I I set myself on fire for you
for the closer angel Yeah. The fire Angels was the
closer of my last comedy special to come out, which
is called Gnarly. Yeah, and Gnarly is just sitting on
my website.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
You hit play and it just plays for free. That's
Stevo dot Com.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
I'd say I can't put my stuff on YouTube because
it's like, uh it's it.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Gets taken down.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Well yeah, I mean I would get serious trouble. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
Like so I've got these like highly explicit like like
too hot for YouTube, too hot for like anything.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Did you get arrested or something?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (33:15):
That that was in in uh Louisiana on my Don't
tries head hometown.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
The bottle of tequila was sitting.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
There on the stage and uh, I was covered in blood.
I was stapling my balls to my leg. At the
point when I stapled my balls to my leg, the
footage reflected me saying.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
This is not uh art. This is strictly to be offensive. Now.
I don't know why I would say that, because it
was definitely art. Okay, zero question that it was art.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
But that qualified the stapling as a felony obscenity by
some standards.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Somebody, somebody, why would you say that?
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Somebody opine that that was felony obscenity.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
And the reason it came to light was because the kids,
like as per usual people climbing on the stage, someone
grabbed the tequila bottle off the stage.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
And when they did that.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
The security, which was these college football players, they just
zipped in and they neutral they got the bottle back,
and I was impressed by the security and I was like, man,
these security guards are good. Who wants to get on
stage and try to run across the stage past the bouncers.
We'll call this one British bulldog who wants to play
some British bulldog. And like this kid jumping up and
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then was just the most noticeable kid.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Like I was like, you you're it, you know, like,
how am I not going to let this kid? He's
so excited. The kid gets on stage and I go one, two,
three go he runs. The kid didn't weigh anything. Those
two huge.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
Football player guys just grabbed him and it was anti climactic.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
So the boun took it upon themselves.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
After grabbing the kid two together, they hoisted him up
above their heads and slammed him on the stage on
his head, and it seemed to recall that the kid
was knocked out, twitching, maybe bleeding from an ear.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
And on the mic, I said that kid's being loaded
into an ambulance. Is that what we came here to see?
Speaker 5 (35:32):
And I continued and then I said, like I want
to play another round of British bulls. It was It
was bad, and somebody in the audience had been recording
it on a video camera.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
This is already oh yeah, yeah, I mean I stay
balls every night.
Speaker 5 (35:50):
But so that the person who record nothing nothing. Uh
we remember we were I was in Louisiana. We went
to Alabama the next night. I remember thinking, oh yeah,
I was pretty somebody like reviewing their video.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
They were like, you know what this feels a little
bit kind of weird, and maybe I'll send this to
the newspaper.
Speaker 5 (36:10):
So they sent their videotape to the newspaper. The newspaper
watch it, and they said, this doesn't feel like as
much of a news.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Story as a crime. So they sent it to.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
The police and then and then within a couple of
weeks they filed charges and a warrant, and it was
it was fascinating because I was charged with two crimes.
One was principal a second degree battery, which was a felony,
but for orchestrating this this battery on this kid, and
(36:44):
and for the battery charge specifically, they set the bail
at I think one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. But
for the second charge, which was felony obscenity, they set
the bail at one million No, yeah, a.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Million dollar staple.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
So given that my the price associated with my warrant
was one point twelve million dollars when the fugitive warrant,
like because I was back in California by that point,
and when I showed up on the fugitive radar, like
I think, I I was like top ten, you know,
(37:25):
like most want I was like a big priority and
and so they they they came in. They caught me
on an off day.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
I was hybridating. I was hibernating in my roommate.
Speaker 5 (37:41):
He was like, hey, you know, Steve O Man, you
got to get up man, this is important. And there
were these fugitive officers and they brought me into the
Twin Towers where I was told that I was in
ODB self.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Oh no, circle, holy shit? Yeah did you get How
did you get out of that? You go to court?
Speaker 5 (38:01):
And I sat in jail for five days waiting for
a bail reduction hearing because I didn't.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
Have uh.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
The argument was that I you know, I had my
face tattooed in my back yet, even though the second
movie wasn't out yet. But they were just like, this
guy can't really be a flight risk. He can't hide
anywhere particularly well, I forget how much I had to
borrow from my accountant to post the bond, but he
did charge me interest.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
But did you have to go to court?
Speaker 4 (38:38):
Yeah? It ended up I was.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
I posted bond. I was out on bail, still facing
eight years in prison. Like they were like, I forget,
which like I think it was like a five year
maximum for the obscenity and.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
Three for the battery. I don't know what I was,
but combined.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
It worse, I know.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
And so I'm facing eight years in prison.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
I'm out on bail, and I go flying off to
Europe with my don't try the home tour where I
got arrested for international drug smull I got arrested for
international drug smuggling in Sweden while out on bail for
ball stapling.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
How did you did you spend any time in jail?
Speaker 4 (39:28):
I spent another five days in jail in Sweden.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
But how did you get out of all these charges?
Speaker 4 (39:35):
Well?
Speaker 5 (39:35):
Yeah, I mean that the My my criminal record is
largely the through line of my Gnarly comedy special at
Stevo dot com because I was I was still on
probation for my climbing up the crane and blowing up
the fireworks thing and and uh and and for the
opening sequence of My Gnarly Special, I had the jackass
(39:58):
guys duct tape me into a billboard and hit baseballs
at me and then drive me down the highway to
the theater.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
Which was wildly illegal, and I.
Speaker 5 (40:07):
Was on probation, so so that kind of set the
tone for like the story of criminal stevo of the criminal.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
But yeah, I mean, like, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Did you go to court? Have you been to court before?
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (40:25):
I've been to court plenty of times for felony, cocaine possession, vandalism,
your lawyer, yeah, you do. In any case, if we
were over it before, we're definitely yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
I wanted to ask what the stunt you regret? Is
there one sentence like the stunt you regret the most
of everything?
Speaker 5 (40:47):
But the thing is that, like on a consequence basis,
consequences for me personally have translated very well to film,
So I'm not gonna regret anything based on how much
it hurt.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
No, No, No, that's not what I mean either, Because
people are like people always ask me what do you
do when a prank goes wrong? And I go, that's
all I want a prank to do, Like I want
things to go wrong, not wrong in like the sense
that there was some production failure and and prank didn't
get a reaction. But I can tell when people ask that,
they're like, what happens when people get pissed?
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Though, I'm like, I don't know, great footage, right, what
do you mean?
Speaker 4 (41:26):
Right?
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Yeah, that's what I meant.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
I just meant based off that list you showed me
when you first sat down, if there was one particular one.
Speaker 5 (41:33):
That you were like the basis for me regretting a
stunt is when it was just embarrassing and lame, or
like there's the high on the list of I regret
because I'm such an advocate for animals these days, like
and like very outspoken against Sea World, Like I had
(41:55):
to admit how ashamed I am that back in the
wild Boys days we went to a very SeaWorld esque
place and I rode captive dolphins. Oh, there's fag of
me riding captive dolphins. Mister Sea World guys out there.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
Captivity. That's tough. There's nothing I regret more than that,
as far as camera are.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
The dolphins like not in a good place.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
In that captive dolphins, captive workers.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
It's pretty bad. It's rough. What about that? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (42:28):
Yeah, Like I wrote ostriches, I'm not particularly proud of that.
Like when you watch me riding the ostriches, like, uh,
it just looks like distress.
Speaker 4 (42:37):
It looks like I weigh a little more than their coming.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Yeah, dude, I can't thank you enough. I have your
brain all day.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
That was amazing.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
You're like the ideal guest for this.
Speaker 4 (42:53):
Hey, thank you bro.
Speaker 3 (42:58):
With the recond.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
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Speaker 2 (43:07):
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