The HoneyDew with Ryan Sickler - Steve-O - HoneySteve-O

Episode Date: December 18, 2023

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storytellers. Ladies and gentlemen, I am very excited to have back on the honeydew, Steve-O! Welcome back to the honeydew,ve-o welcome back to the honeydew steve-o yeah dude my dog princess fell in love with you right away when you walked in immediately she loved you she she liked me and then she growled at me she did give you a growl hey she did i took a little bit of a growl and then i got over the hump yeah you did look at her first time we've had a her on the honeydew.

Oh, yeah. Wow. Yeah. She comes in. She was scratching at the door. Well, before we get into whatever we're going to talk about today, please plug, promote. You got the new special out right now. Plug it all, please.

Did they send you a link? They did. We have a link. They just sent it. Oh, you didn't check it out? They sent it last night. Oh, dude. Bastards.

I got it last night dude but I saw your clip with Bert so I'm dying to watch it today um dad it's really really messed up man I've never heard anybody say that about a stand up special

it starts off tell us everything the first thing you see when the show starts is the warning screen. The warning screen says, warning, the following contains seriously effed up S, reckless illegal stunts um graphic violence nudity and full on pornography

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right i'm watching out of my own wrist like my daughter goes to bed then lastly don't attempt anything you're about to see yeah dude at the taping taped it in two show two shows in one night okay and at the first show five people passed out in the audience passed out yeah look i've worked with you so i know what you did back when you first started the improv when you i well right but that was back in the beginning look i i know but you put blood on you and you asked me to light you on fire. And I was like, yeah, I'm not going to do that. I'll hug you, bro. Yeah, I had somebody light me on fire last night. And the secret, if I remember, was it Pantene leave-in conditioner?

That's at least what you did that night. I'm pretty sure. Well, that was, I would put conditioner in my hair so that when I lit all my hair on fire, it wouldn't, like, you know, just the accelerant would burn and not the hair, you know. But now I don't do it every night. Every night. I remember you were squeezing lemons in your eyes and doctors were messaging you saying you will go blind. And I think that's why I'm wearing glasses. Yeah.

It's a tough gig being Steve-O. It's a tough gig being Steve-O. Right. And in the beginning when I started doing stand-up, it was like, you know what? I'm going to promise people I'm going to do crazy stunts. I'm going to try and lure them in, I'm doing stunts on stage, and let him leave thinking, man, his stand-up was okay. And that's why I used to do the full meet and greet,

take photos with the whole audience after. And I kept doing that, but it was just me telling stories and doing stand-up, and I'd just do a couple of tricks at the end of the show. And then when I put together my second hour, I was like, Oh my God, like all the stories I'm telling, like really happened on camera. So that came up with the idea for my second special to be like multimedia where in post-production I edit in footage of the stories happening so you see me telling the telling the story great interstitially like it's illustrated yeah yeah it's illustrated and that that really worked so well man my second special um it was called gnarly

and it's uh it's at steve-o.com streams completely for free at this point that's the other thing i love that you're doing is not putting it on youtube or anywhere you're going right to steveveo.com. Streams completely for free at this point. That's the other thing I love that you're doing is not putting it on YouTube or anywhere. You're going right to steveo.com. I can't. I know. Especially now that it's like multimedia. And like that second hour, I toured it, you know, the whole time without the benefit of the multimedia component, which was important. You know, I didn't lean on the footage.

The show was worthy in its own right of the whole tour. But man, that multimedia component added a lot in post-production. So then when I came to do my third hour, I'm like, man, I got to bring footage on the road. And I'm like, also, I don't want to be living in the past anymore because before it was like an exercise in telling all my craziest stories. I was like, I got to create new crazy stories and bring the footage on the road.

So I'm like, how am I going to do that? How am I going to raise the bar? Jesus Christ, dude, the bar is so high. You set the bar. Like, what do you mean raise it? I wanted to raise the bar. Jesus Christ, dude. The bar is so high. You set the bar. Like, what do you mean raise it? I wanted to raise the bar. Can I just pause you for one second? Do you ever think, now that you say this, do you ever think about a kid that's going to come along inspired by you who's maybe 15 right now that's going to take your shit where even you and your 70s are going to be like, Jesus Christ, dude.

Do you ever think about that um or are you being like nah y'all are never gonna do it you're raising the how old are you 49 you're raising the ball i love it i love fucking love it yeah so what does that mean tell me what that means i was thinking myself i gotta film crazy crazier than ever new stuff and like but what am i going to do? Like, you know, my buddies and I have pretty much done everything. But I only thought that for like a half a second. I was like, yeah, no, I know. There's actually some ideas that have been sitting around for like forever.

But they were never supposed to happen, you know? Like the main example of one of these ideas was skydiving, where for like 20 years, I always said, man, if I ever go skydiving, I'm going to be butt-ass naked. You'd never been skydiving? I had never been skydiving. Until how old? Do I have a gnarly, irrational fear of roller coasters and bungee jumping? None of that's irrational, by the way. But it's counterintuitive

yeah you wouldn't think that steve was afraid of roller coasters and bungee jumping but i totally i can't believe you got by not ever doing that in jackass or anything all those years i mean and and wild boys met like like way way like 20 years ago we were in costa rica they took me to a 200 foot bridge and they had built me these condor man wings so the gag was I'm going to jump off the bridge and try and fly but I was like guys you don't understand like I will not be able to bring myself to jump off that bridge zero chance they're like yeah we'll talk them into it you know and they couldn't talk me into I was like I literally cannot bring myself to I will not do. And we settled on a compromise of having five Costa Rican dudes do the mafia toss,

where they pick me up and throw me off. So you still went, but you made them make you. Yeah, I went, but that way I didn't have to do anything. I wouldn't have been able to jump. They fucking threw you off. Did it work? Did the wings work? Oh, no, the wings did not work.

You fucking threw you up. Did it work? Did the wings work? Oh, no. The wings did not work. But because I have, I mean, and I can point anybody to that footage as like proof. I'm not kidding that I don't like that stuff. I can't. I don't like it.

So whenever skydiving came up, I had this idea as a way of avoiding having to do it. I was like, oh, man, skydiving is not a stunt. Everybody does that. Come on, dude. It's like, if I go skydiving, I'm going to be butt naked and furiously jacking off with another man strapped to my back. Plus, I'm going to time it

so that I'm actually blowing a load as I fall out of the airplane. That's our first promo, right? For real. Does the dude on your back know that you're gonna be doing it? okay alright we ended up like not being able to get a company like or

anybody you know to sign up on it so I went on my social media asking for licensed tandem skydive professionals. We ended up having 20 dudes. So let's go. 20 of them? So I went with the only guy who said please.

Yeah. Were you able to get your dick hard with that level of fear and everything? I had four Cialis pills for breakfast. Okay, all right, all right. Four of them. Jesus Christ. That was my breakfast, dude. And I brought a portable DVD player.

You could have landed on that motherfucker. Yeah. You brought a what? Were you looking at porn? Portable DVD player. And I was backed up for four days. So you made it happen? Well, you got to watch the special.

Watch the special. I mean, dude, that's like, you can't do that for jackass. No, you can't. And you can't flagrantly break the law either, man. I had medical professionals straight stealing drugs from the hospital what do you mean stealing general anesthesia drugs which they administered through an iv in my vein while i'm hauling ass on a bicycle through a field and you know what i can't wait to go you know what an epidural is yeah just had three of them yeah you have four inch needle in your

spine yeah yeah uh-huh i i got that shit they inject the drug into my spinal cavity yank out the needle and i take off see how far i can run no are you fucking kidding me yeah for sure and then once i'm down then they're then the the experiments begin and see how far i can run no are you fucking kidding me yeah for sure and then once i'm down then they're then the the experiments begin to see how if i'm really paralyzed paralyzed well yeah so the thing is apparently were you partially like did they do some shit where you couldn't feel it at all they did dark shit dark shit and you're you're watching your own legs like that well the thing was though like uh like the one thing they told me to watch out for is if i become paralyzed above the waist because

then shit starts shutting down and i i fucking couldn't feel anything my whole chest is numb i'm fucking can't breathe it's the scariest fucking thing i've ever been through at that moment right there what starts going through your head do you you have thoughts like, okay, this bullshit's not worth it. Do you go there at all? Well, I'm like, I'm in a field. You know, like the medical professional is actually dressed up as a clown. But he is a real professional. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I won't reveal where it was. This is the guy I was saving you. He's actually wearing it. Could you imagine driving by, looking in a field, seeing some clown work on Steve? Like, that's Steve-O. Dude, I'm fucking freaking out. I'm like, dude, for me to, like, it was so difficult for me to breathe. I could barely muster enough breath to say i'm having trouble breathing dude i've watched

you do hours and hours and hours of the most fucked up shit you're telling me this was up there was level of scary yeah because i'm like here i'm just my shit my systems are shutting down are you can you couldn't raise your arms or i could raise my arms but i couldn't feel my chest or any indication that i was able to breathe jesus christ and uh for how long about 45 minutes oh my god dude i would have thought i was paralyzed forever for almost an hour for that yeah i wasn't worried about paralyzed forever i was worried about like you know unable to breathe and dead because that you know like um so yeah that one was able to breathe and dead that's a good one to work yeah and like after the bit i'm still laying there on the ground i just start sobbing dude crying like and this weird doctor guy first time he shows

any emotion throughout this whole ordeal he's confused as to why i'm sobbing and he asks me what's happening through my tears i say the bar for my stunts is so fucking high we just raised it dude just tears of joy because i just i just raised the bar. It's so hard to do that. And yeah, man, it's a big deal. And so the way that it works, I filmed all this stuff. I put together a whole hour for it. The show is a journey through the bucket list. And each bit gets paid off with the actual footage

of the forbidden stunt taking place. It's paid off with the actual footage of the forbidden stunt taking place. And the stunts are presented in descending order of the approval and support of my fiance. Hell yeah. In the beginning, she's all about it. But these are all new stunts. Yeah. This is stuff you've never seen before, done before.

Hell yeah. So in the beginning, she's all about it. In the beginning, like my- Where the beginning like my where does it shift where's it in the beginning like my my buddies are running for their lives and barfing and she's standing strong dude like moving in for a better shot and that's like the one where i'm like that's how i knew she's the one so you know so i knew i had to put a ring on it. And then it's like, all right. So we got engaged like that, which begs the question,

are we going to have kids? Are you? Nah, dude, that's the next stunt, the vasectomy Olympics. And she's all about it. You know,

she's like, no, like talent when I'm dressed up as a pinata, like, like immediately after my vasectomy with kids whacking me in the balls with a stick she's like no hit him in the balls yeah like uh it's heavy dude how long is it how long is the special an hour and five minutes you got an hour and five minutes of new stunts the this level of shit it's uh i mean it's it's it's stand-up meets jackass

you know like yeah i get it i'm just saying it's a lot of content a lot of stunts there's like 10 there's 10 items on the list and it's got a heavy credit bed yeah the credit bed's so much fun and dude the beginning the opening sequence i fucking shot it with Bill Burr. Did you? Hell yeah. And it cost over $150,000 for about a minute and a half of footage. Just the opening sequence? Yeah, couldn't be more fucking stoked on it.

It was a big gamble. I was like, dude, I want to be on a fucking roof and I want a fucking big ass helicopter. And I want the fucking helicopter to drop a rope ladder. I grab it with my bare hands and it flies off and I'm dangling around. I want to get fucking crashed through all kinds of shit. And then I want the helicopter flying over my moving tour bus and I got to let go and land on the roof of the moving tour bus. And, you know, and then and then more shit happens after that too um jesus christ yeah and bill burr just used audience applause to walk on stage yeah jesus christ do you do all that yeah come on dude i

swear to god you'll see it in the opening sequence. And Bill Burr's a helicopter pilot. That's fucking awesome. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, candidly, we shot all the stunts. And then after the fact, I showed it to Bill Burr. And I was like, like hey can we go up

in a helicopter with you and film you for insert shots to cut to you flying the hunt to make you the pilot like he wasn't there for the stunt day but the fact of of him being such a bro like yeah dude fuck yeah I'll do that for you you rent the helicopter I'll fly it and uh it's a big deal for me being you you know, Steve-O from Jackass coming into stand-up. Everyone's looking sideways at me, like, and have Bill Burr sign off. Bill Burr, the dude, yeah. Yeah.

Like, my first stand-up special, the opening was me in the dressing room, like, effectively apologizing for the fact that you were about to watch me do stand-up comedy. Then my second special started with a billboard truck with like the, like the art for my special on the billboard and all the jackass guys reunited to duct tape me to the billboard. I remember that one. Yeah. Hit baseballs at me and then drive me to the theater down the highway,

you know before you perform right then and that that was that was epic because it was like my jackass you know the front my first special nobody signed up you know my second special all the jackass guys got together to symbolically you know give me their blessing and send me off you know and then the third one i got bill burr signing off on me i mean come on it's epic it is epic yeah good for you steve oh i love the way you're doing it well thanks man i really do like the way you're doing it it's scary yeah it's scary as fuck it's scary but i mean literally way more for you you're fucking yeah it's scary but dude like i'm so fucking stoked on this. Sorry for, sorry.

I know it's not good to load up on swears. Please, it's too good for shit. But yeah, dude, I'm really, really hyped on this one, man. It's the best thing I've ever made. Good for you. And if you like put my first special in this, like next to each other, like, man, I'm so stoked on having that turd of a first special as a milestone for how far

i've come since then good for you yeah so everybody at steve-o.com check out my bucket list special and dude let's get into it dude what do we got um well i want to talk to you because i you know look we do this weekly we've talked about who whatever everything so where's little lady oh she's behind you um i want to ask you let's talk about i want i told you i wanted to do like a parallel thing where i ask you about the most and most embarrassing stunt you've done for jackass or entertainment embarrassing in one in what way you tell me like anything that humiliated you or where you where you look back you're like man regret

versus something an actual moment that happened in real life i want to see if real life is stranger than what you guys can create do you understand what i'm saying so you can go either way with that i'll look who it is um to think of uh embarrassing or regrettable moments in jackass clearly um it's not there's a saying it's better to regret the things that you have done than to regret the things that you haven't done. And I really, really hold that dear to my heart because- Give me one of each. Regret the things that I did do. And when it comes to jackass, when it comes to things going bad or getting hurt, the worse the consequences, the better the footage.

I really don't have too much regret. Well, okay. I regret the baby tattoo. hurt like you know the the worst the consequences the better the footage you know like i really don't have too much regret well okay i regret the baby tattoo that wasn't even for jackass but uh you know i got this i got i got this crazy tattoo and it haunts me until this day, man. Like there's a, it's never going to stop. Why'd you get it? I mean, dude, I had, I was just into getting dumb tattoos, man. I would get like the most regrettable tattoo on purpose because like I was a stunt, you know? I had like the, like full on profanity tattooed on my knuckles you know like the the my right hand was the s word my left hand was the f word like uh four letter words on my

knuckles tattooed you know i was just like all right what next you know like i had a big like wiener tattooed like you know like it was like like how do I get more and more aggressive with the most regrettable possible tattoos well let's see this tattoo on your head right now right here yeah I mean that's kind of mellow but that's newish though

isn't that's a new one is that your latest tattoo on your body yeah I think so yeah I'm part of my new hour I'm working on is a crash test on me a bit. Bro, it's there. It looks good. Yeah. That's just like, I got a lot of crashing to do, man.

So the baby tattoo. The baby tattoo. Are you working on getting that removed? I got it covered up. Yeah. Oh, you got it covered up. Yeah. Yeah.

working on getting that removed i gotta cover it up yeah oh you gotta cover it up yeah yeah um yeah that was the that that was the the most regret um but other than that i don't really uh regret anything too too much i regret things that that you know harmed other people you know you never want to like do harm to others but anything that harmed me is all pretty good what about um being embarrassed embarrassed that's some or or wait before we go to embarrass regret is there anyone that you regret that you didn't do oh yeah yeah what was one that you always wanted to do that you didn't get to do that's all of my regrets man we were in india and they had uh this this bed of hot coals that took all day to get set up to make it right and they had a balance beam like uh it was like a plank in the air like kind of like a gymnastics balance beam

over the hot coals and my job was to ride a unicycle on the balance beam. I like the way you say unicycle. Yeah, like, and so. Over the hot coals. Yeah, like obviously I'm going to fall and go into the hot coals, but there's just something about being on that balance beam that I just couldn't commit with both feet to getting on the unicycle. And I just wimped out. I getting on the unicycle and I just

wimped out I didn't do it and and that haunted me forever man it did yeah have you ever gone back and done it that was on the second movie when we were in India and then on the third movie we uh we did a fire swinging fire gauntlet look the farmer's dog is back thanks to you guys and gauntlet. Look, the farmer's dog is back. Thanks to you guys. And princess and I couldn't be happier. Everybody here works, man. Everybody here works. The farmer's dog was founded by two dog lovers who decided to reimagine pet food from the ground up. The farmer's dog makes and delivers fresh, healthy dog food is developed by vets, nutritionally balanced and made from real healthy ingredients to human food safety standards. Not only that, it's also pre-portioned specifically for your dog based on their unique nutritional needs. This makes it easy to help your dog maintain their ideal weight,

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What? I wonder why. Yeah, I'm kind of drawing a blank, so I guess I didn't wimp out that many times. How about you said most embarrassing. You were going there next. Yeah, most embarrassing I mean I'm embarrassed of the fact that back in the wild would I'm embarrassed for the fact that back in the wild boys days I shot at a like Sea World type place we're riding dolphins in captivity.

You know, like the big orca with his fin flopped over. You got on one of those? I didn't get on the orca, but I was riding dolphins around. And we shot with the orca with its fin flopped over. You know, to go on to be like Mr. SeaWorld is a bad place and have that in my past is pretty rough. Talk about that. Like what made you realize realize was it that that made you realize like this shit's crazy i just became more sensitive about animal stuff over the years of course i was impacted by the blackfish

documentary um i don't know at the time like back then in Argentina and filming Wild Boys in like 2004 or 5 or whatever it was didn't even register that it was bad

and so you know I'll plead ignorance but yeah that sucked yeah but at least you're growing as a person

and a man you're not you know but also you guys and a man. You're not, you know. But also, you guys did crazy shit. I remember. Did I not see you guys, like, next to gorillas and shit? Yeah, yeah. Like, as close as we are. Not quite as close as we are.

Pretty close, bro. Pretty damn close. Like, a gorilla could get to you in a second. Oh, yeah. And those were legitimately wild mountain gorillas in Rwanda. That's what I fucking, dude. Yeah, that was heavy, dude. Dude, I remember seeing that thing.

At any moment, it could just rip your fucking head off. Yeah, we're like, dude, these gorillas could kill us. Yes. We better put on the banana suits. Yeah, that's what you did. Then you put on banana suits and ran around. It wasn't enough just to... Yeah, that's what you did. Then you put on banana suits and ran around. It wasn't enough just to... Yeah, that was pretty awesome.

The wild animal stuff definitely was dangerous. Tigers, you ever fucking wild big cats? Big cats, yes, but they were all somewhat controlled environments with captive, you know, captive big cats that were in California. So like when we were in the zebra suit and got mauled by the lion. That's what I'm saying. It's not enough. That happened in California.

Okay. Like when we were in the hammock with the meat, you know, hanging from it and the lions, that was in California. Dude. There's one where we had a tiger pounce on us while we were in an inflatable dinghy and he popped the dinghy and that happened in California. Dude. What is the power and pressure of one of those big cats coming down on you feel like? Like when I'm up in the tree for the Nintendo commercial? That was in California, too.

That was, I was resigned to it being, that's it. You know, like I'm dead. Yeah, they climb. And I remember thinking like, man, I was pretty badass about that. I didn't bitch out. I just kind of went limp. So here goes. Wait, what?

I had a really close call with a lion in a tree. And it was on my back. Not in a suit or anything? Just legit on your back? What does that feel like? It felt like my last moments. Did you really think this was it? Yeah, for sure.

I mean, all it has to do is prick your neck. Just accidentally, just one of those things. I said, good kitty, good kitty. Is that where you were from? It's a 200-pound lion. And I'm like, good kitty, good kitty. And I just kind of went limp. And it was no longer interested?

and i just kind of went limp and and uh and it was no longer interested well yeah they uh they brought in some uh some some meat to like hey can't have this meat over here so it cut off me dude what about scariest like one where you in life give me a give me one in real life fuck jackass for a second in a respectful way tell me real life shit if if my fiancee heard this like i'm a bad driver are you really yeah and i haven't complained still right in that spot out there today though pretty nice okay um i just like i have a lot of thoughts happen at once you know you're driving? Just all the time, man. My head is really loud. There's just a lot happening in my head.

And it comes out as bad driving. Yeah. And we just bought this property. I can't believe I'm going to admit this, man. We bought this property. I can't believe I'm going to admit this, man. We bought this property in Tennessee. And when we took possession, when, I'm just going to say this more cleanly. My lady and I bought this property in Tennessee. And it just worked out that the day the previous owners moved out was the first day after my tour.

And I had to connect flights to get home. So I was like, all right, I'll connect in Tennessee. Spent a couple of days there. So I was by myself. And I rented a car. I'm driving around. And there was this point where I'm just driving. And I realized that not only did I blow a stop sign, but I drove into the highway.

What? A 65 mile an hour speed limit. Wait. Highway. Just straight through and on? I mean, it's just like a highway that doesn't have an on-ramp. How fast are you going? I mean, I'm just going like kind of normal, like 30, 40, like I don't know.

But like it is just by chance that there wasn't a car that just straight T-bone was so gnarly. And that chance wasn't so good like going into the next lane of the other direction. Like I'm like, ah. Oh, my God, dude. next lane of the other direction like I'm like oh my god dude like that's the worst bad driving thing and I almost died

like I mean not almost dead I could have died straight up an enemy that's speed limit on that is 65 who knows what they're actually doing and why it's a highway that you can get on without an on-ramp is beyond me all right so here's another question i have you what do you do to calm down you say your mind's always going you're always going you're always wanting to raise the bar. You're always boom, boom, boom. Do you know how to relax? I know I don't.

I know I don't. Do you know how to do that? Do you take naps? What the fuck do you do? Does all your adrenaline put you down? I meditate every day. Twice a day. I keep track of it on an app.

Check it out, dude. I've done, since December 27th, 2019, I've meditated 1,419 days. Hell yeah. Straight? Averaging 41 minutes a day, totaling 976 hours. I broke my streak when I went to Australia, like the time zone. Oh, that doesn't count. I know.

You can't blame yourself for that. My longest streak was 1,199 days. Wow, dude. But still, I'm averaging 41 minutes every averaging 41 minutes what made you start doing that um it's russell brand i mean i i subscribed to the idea that that meditation was helpful and uh russell brand in 2013 he was dude, you know, like you got to meditate. And he hooked up with this meditation teacher. And I kind of dabbled in it, you know.

And then, dude, the meditation teacher was from this David Lynch Foundation. Right. And I'm like, okay, dude, you'm going to the teacher, I'm meditating. And my meditation teacher says, hey, we're trying to stop the school to prison pipeline in Los Angeles. All these kids are going, we're trying to bring meditation into the inner city schools and help these kids. We get behind it. I'm like, hell yeah. This was in 2015 when I was getting ready to tape my first special.

I was like, hell yeah. So I do this big fundraiser thing. I'm like, I'm giving away VIP tickets to somebody no matter where you are in the world to come be at the taping my special. And there's all these different tiers of like prizes that you can win. Certain donations get you certain things. Everything gets you a chance at a bigger thing. And I promoted it like crazy on all platforms.

Promote, promote, promote. And God damn, like I'm looking at it. I'm like, I'm doing all this stuff. The David Lynch Foundation never acknowledged anything that I was doing. Like, they didn't, like, I was like, wow, that's weird. I'm doing all this stuff, tagging them and stuff. They're not sharing it. They're not following me back. They're not sharing it.

They're like, like, I'm. But they asked you. My teacher did. I don't know if, like, with the organization. But the thing was, when you go into the David Lynch like little headquarters, it's just like a celebrity circle jerk in there. You got the walls are plastered with Paul McCartney, Russell Brand, Jerry Seinfeld. Like they just can't have enough celebrities on the wall.

And like I wanted to be in the club, you know. Like they didn't have to put me on the wall, but like can't have enough celebrities on the wall. And, like, I want her to be in the club, you know? Like, they didn't have to put me on the wall, but, like, don't act. And I was just, I just got so, like, just offended, man, you know? I was offended that they were just, like, not even acknowledging all of this effort that I was doing for them. And so I quit. I gave up my spiritual practice out of resentment, okay? And then like years went by, you know, I wasn't really meditating.

And I was like, dude, I'm blowing it. Like my resentment towards this David Lynch, they teach transcendental meditation. I was going to ask if it was TM. It was TM. And I was just like, man, screw those people. You know? Meanwhile, maybe they didn't.

I don't know how they couldn't know when I'm tagging them in everything I posted. But I was just like, screw them. And as the years went by, I thought, I'm kind of blowing it, dude. I think I would benefit from meditating. But it was just, was just that grudge. And then I caught wind or I saw this thing, this guy offering to teach Vedic meditation,

a slightly different thing. And I was like, you know what? I'm going to start over. I'm going to start over with a new thing, new deal. And I went to this new teacher in December of 2019. And I learned hilariously that what's called Vedic meditation is literally the same thing as transcendental meditation. You get a mantra. I've been taught in both things. The process was identical, down to the little ceremony with the flowers,

with the whole thing. There's literally no difference. There's no reason to distinguish. There's nothing that – Is it a marketing thing then? Is that what the – But the best thing about it is that there's there's like a low grade war between the Vedic meditation people

and the TM. They do the same thing. The meditation people are fighting each other, bro. They're like, oh, well, those people and then these people, you know, and like Who swears they're first? I'm not even sure. I would have to guess the Vedic people are first.

But the thing is, it's like dude oh there's beef i'm in there's beef i was like these spiritual people are being spiritual beef and i'm like dude i'm in tm's a joke i do vedic okay and i do it? And I do it every day. Do you? I do it every day. That's great, dude. I do it every day no matter what. And I genuinely, like, I have this genuine belief that because I have a disciplined meditation practice, I believe that the universe conspires in my favor.

I believe that I'm protected. I believe that I have a relationship with the universe. And, you know, I got to tell the truth all the time. I got to do the right thing all the time. And I got to put in my meditation. If I do that, everything's cool. That's how you live your day? Everything's going to be good. That's my faith. How long have you been clean and sober now? 15 years. That's a long time. Is that crazy?

That is crazy. 15 years that's a long time is that crazy that is crazy 15 years and sexually sober meaning like no acting out and faithful faithful but you mean single as well not going crazy you gotta remember back like and you know when i was doing the comedy like i was like oh dude i'm in you know i'm like i'm not i'm not beaten off like i Oh dude, I'm in, you know, I'm like, I'm not, I'm not beating off. Like, I'm not like, I'm, I'm, you know, working on, I went to sex addict rehab in 2013. You did? I did. What was, why, what made you think, or what made you,

I don't know what the, who told you, whatever, you had an addiction. It was, I mean, like I used to, you know, like I said, I used to do the meet and greets after every show. And that was like a glorified audition to figure out like who I was going to hook up with out of the audience. You know, like I was gnarly on the road just trying to hook up with chicks all the time. And as I approached 40, you know, I approached 40 years old and I was like, this isn't it, man. you know i approached 40 years old and i was like this isn't it man you know like this isn't how i'm like this isn't a path to being like happy in life like especially later in life like i really believed if i'm gonna be happy in life i gotta learn how to be in a healthy relationship i gotta

knock it off with the running around and trying to hook up with chicks i tried to quit and i couldn't with the running around and trying to hook up with chicks. I tried to quit and I couldn't, I just couldn't. And like I got into therapy, I did the whole thing. And my mantra was, I'm gonna do the work to become the man that the love of my life deserves. And that was my deal, man, you know? And I had to do a lot of work to be ready to meet what's my girl now. And we've been together for almost seven years.

And, like, I haven't done a damn thing. Good. You know? Like, to behave all the time in a way that if my girl had, like, a drone. Yeah. Follow it all the time. Yeah. For sure yeah yeah sure like my location i don't give a shit dude whatever take it on we got our thumbprints our our face recognition and she's welcoming my phone 100 of the time we share locations like see i've been the opposite of

you and but for you know like and i have past relationships too where they don't believe me like there's no way you don't fuck on the road i'm like i'm telling you i've always been scared of a few things one is just having a road baby big time like i would want to be i want to be i always wanted to be a dad and i didn't want to have a kid with i'm living in la and somebody's in fucking whatever omaha or something you know what? The other thing is, and this is what I had Gareth Reynolds we talked about, was I've always been skeptical. I always feel like you're going to take me to your place or you're going to come back to my place, going to drug me, rob me, whatever,

or your boyfriend or husband's going to be there, fuck me up, rob me. So I've just never, never one time, ever. But I can't get – nobody believes it. I'm like, time ever but i can't get nobody believes it i'm like i get why you don't believe it but i'm telling you on the road nah wow that's impressive but i'm just because i'm scared i'm fucking scared i'm like nah i don't there isn't a chick out there that's worth getting fucked up in some marriott you know what i mean i was never worried about getting uh you never thought of that? You're high profile. You never thought

of being jumped and robbed or anything? Getting set up like that? No, but I was just always worried about, like, oh my God, what did I put my wiener into this time? I gotta go get checked out. There's a lot of just stress, man. Stress and

chaos and just time wasted. ways that the amount of time that gets burned up trying to chase chicks around is stupid and now like yeah I'm just now you got the one yeah and like there's a lot of there was a lot of shame involved, too. I was just like, man, using people, exploiting people. There was a lot of shame, a lot of stress, a lot of guilt. So you've been sex clean again how long? Sexually sober coming up on seven years. Okay, so this relationship. Yeah.

Yeah, good for you. But clean, 15? 15 years, no drugs, no booze. What's the last you used and why did you finally say enough? Yeah. Did you have an intervention? It did get a little blurry when I'm riding a bicycle around, like getting shot up with general anesthesia.

But I did that in consultation. And that was actually a revision to the stunt. The stunt started out, the idea was to get shot, like one of my buddies and I line up for a foot race and starts like, on your mark, get set. They shoot tranquilizer darts into our butt cheeks and then we see who's run you know the farthest but the tranquilizer darts have fucking animal tranquilizer in it and like everybody knows that's ketamine oh fuck i didn't think of that and i fucking love ketamine

i can't fucking fuck with that you know so i was like oh and i got close to doing it dude we found we found the guy with the tranquilizer dart gun he's like dude i got a veterinarian doesn't give a fuck you know like the veterinarian's ready to load up the darts with the ketamine like it was on and that fucking dose what would that do to you i mean dude like dude, like, who knows? That's like jumping inside a heroin needle. That kind of dose is going to take down an elephant. Like, who knows, man? But it was ready to go. We had, like, all we had to do was jump on the plane and go do it.

And, like, I wanted to do that bad. Like, I'm an ambitious cat. And I had, like, this is the biggest conflict for me. Like, my two most important things, get the footage you know like raise the bar like my ambition like was just at odds with my recovery like i gotta stay sober to stay alive and i gotta you know like and i was losing my mind dude like losing my mind like i was basically picking footage over sobriety yeah I was ready to go I was like dude it's only one time you know even that one time I feel like yeah even I've never done it I feel like if I got shot

in the ass with that dart I'd be addicted I would be a dick who knows but ultimately like common sense prevailed and I arrived at the conclusion like okay I'm not doing that but I gotta I gotta go down this path. That's what I love about you. It's not like no we're not gonna do that. I gotta change this. Yeah we're gonna do it. I just gotta figure out how.

It's just like the tranquilizer dart foot race is not it. But in sobriety I've had hella surgeries. What do you mean? Oh yeah. I've had all kinds of surgeries endoscopies you name it like i've been knocked out for general anesthesia a bunch of times and i never relapsed okay good because that's fentanyl and shit like that i got fentanyl and a volume the last time i got three epidurals and they were like are you okay and i was like yeah and i did you have that uh

in your own possession after you left the hospital no no just what they gave me to put me out there and i thought about that and i was like wow you're really giving me a responsible obviously legal dose this shit but the last thing i remember is they were tucking a pillow under my stomach she goes you okay i'm like i'm good boom i wake. I'm in another room in a chair. That sounds like, like propofol. He told me, he told me fentanyl and valium. I'm just telling you what he told me. I mean, I woke up and I was like, how did I get here? And they're like, you walked here.

And I was like, wow. I mean, I'm not doubting it, you know, whatever. I've never even filled out a prescription for a painkiller. Like, like when I left the hospital i'll take whatever the doctors want to give me to do the procedure you know okay that's what i want to ask it's not in my possession i'm not taking it if the doctor thinks i need it i'll tell him i'm like i'm a drug addict you know but when you leave what do you do for pain then just over the counter advil tylenol okay in the most horrifying situations, both of them

at once. You do? Does it work? Yeah. Does it really? The most effective pain management there is. You're selling out on this show. I love it. 100%. Tylenol and Advil together? Yeah. Interesting. When I shattered my ankle and had 11 screws to

screw it together. No pain meds. No pain meds. that was tylenol plus advil like uh and that helped i know that's not gonna take the pain away but it helped for sure it was it was still yeah it was still horrific but yeah that helped that helped a lot that got me through it and so yeah i was like dude like general anesthesia i've done a ton of times i've never relapsed so doing the general general anesthesia bike ride is cool and and i with my like my sober community like you know everybody knew like even in my crew i sober people it's like all right you know very clear on why i'm doing this it's for work it's a it's on camera and uh i'm getting shot up how

hard you get with that one like when you're in surgery they intubate you you know like you like because you completely stop breathing and so like being in a field riding a bicycle and stopping breathing is kind of scary we did hire an ambulance we were ready if we had to and it's so funny like we did this at dave england's house but he didn't know i was like hey can i shoot your house he's like yeah he's got five acres like yeah for sure but he didn't know we were shooting so we get there and there's an ambulance he's like what's that for like like oh yeah we're doing a general anesthesia bike ride. And his, like, whole face goes, like, white because he thinks, like, that he's going to have to do it for some reason.

I'm like, oh, no, no, no, it's just me riding. He goes, oh, okay, cool, you know? Like, once he knew that he was off the hook and there was no pressure for him to do it, like, somehow, like, he was so relieved it didn't even occur to him that it might be problematic that I could die on his property. But everyone was pretty sensitive about the stop and breathing thing. So the game plan was to give it to me bit by bit to just get me to the point where I

was out but not needing to be intubated. but not like needing to be intubated and that was uh with like i like if you look on google the drug is called etomidate i went with that one because it's not a substance of abuse like propofol etomidate you give a man a full-grown man eight milligrams of etomidate he's out for surgery for real yeah and we we we stole a vial of 20 milligrams you only need eight yeah eight eight at once that's enough to put a man out for surgery where they don't feel the pain and everything too everybody's gonna be different sure you know everybody's gonna be different but yeah average like that's what google said so we got so we got about two and a quarter fucking servings of this thing uh yeah so we had uh 20 milligrams they gave me two at once and i'm like not even close give me two more you know i need more like and at this point i'm like i don't give me more you know it's just crazy

and uh fuck man they gave me all 20 milligrams i'm still riding around no yeah you took all 20 you're still pedaling that fucking thing yeah it's because like they get by giving it to me bit by bit like uh i don't know it's like cycling to you know you can it's got to be all at once to get me down and and i don't know that anybody really knew that everybody thought it was going to work but then so that bit with the bike ride isn't even about crashing the bike because i'm unconscious it's about like what a fucking raving asshole lunatic on drugs i became immediately like drug drugs enter my body and i'm fucking you know like in the in the footage you see me get loaded like on drugs loaded acting loaded fucking drugged up temper tantrum freak out and are you do you remember that or you do okay yeah i remember it and i

remember it being the most fucking traumatizing thing because the bit was a failure because i didn't i wasn't knocked out like i i was fucking humiliated by uh the way i behaved and like now my sobriety was in question like dude am i, am I even a sober guy? I just got fucking loaded, you know? So for a while, I was pretty shaky on that one. Like, it fucked me up. And the bit was a failure. But then I'd fucking meet this guy, and he's like, I got you, dog. He says, I got a way you can finish your bit,

and you don't have to worry about your sobriety because it's not even going to affect how it's just going in your spine. We're going to paralyze just your bottom half. And that was the – I was like, dude, my recovery, I don't have to worry about sobriety. Like, let's fucking go. And that was the one where Lux was like, okay, now I'm not showing up. That's where she stopped showing up. Yeah.

where Lux was like, okay, now I'm not showing up. That's where she stopped showing up. Yeah. And now when you did that, you didn't feel that same, like, more, more, more from that? I did not, no, man. Like, it was just my, you know, from the neck down. Yeah.

That one was, yeah. So it's all pretty fucking intense stuff, man. Yeah. Look, first of all, thank you for coming on here and doing this show and telling these stories. Yeah, dude, for sure. But plug and promote the name, where, all of it again. It's Stevo's bucket list. It's at stevo.com. I brought Jeff Tremaine, the director of Jackass, over a long time ago, a couple years ago, to show him a video of a performance with all the multimedia baked in i was like dude

you and me termain we go to netflix and it's from the director of jackass like what was what jackass couldn't show like this crazy like thing i was like i think we can fucking make this happen he watched it he goes buddy you know like he's like dude you've outdone yourself and i'm real proud of you but this isn't going anywhere near netflix pal like this is like from start to finish like like i don't see any even a part of this that could be on netflix so it's like all right you're right you know i'm not censoring and i'm not toning it down and and i'm putting it out myself and so good for you dude for people to support that and and uh and support me and that's a big deal dude

good so you go to steve-o.com and that'll mean the world to me and i promise i promise this will not disappoint anybody somebody might pass out so yeah if you're the kind of person who passes out then set up a camera when i'm warning you yeah thank you very much for doing this brother hell yeah yeah as always ryan sickler on all social media ryan sickler.com we'll talk to y'all next week Thank you.