The Little Dum Dum Club with Tommy & Karl - Episode 32 - Steve-O (Jackass, Wildboyz)
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Hey everyone, welcome aboard to another edition of the Little Dumb Dumb Club.
My name is Tommy Dasolo, I'm one of your co-hosts, and normally sitting opposite me would be
my co-host Carl Chandler, but he's...
But the douchebag's an hour late.
He's an hour late, yes, thank you.
He's been making me sit around picking my ass, and now I'm thoroughly grumpy, and let's
talk about this goddamn show.
All right, let's get straight into it.
Yes, we're up early.
We're doing this at a different time.
This is the least organized that the show has ever been, and it's a bit embarrassing
because we have a very special guest here today.
You may know him from the Jackass Movies and TV show.
He's in the country currently doing a goddamn show, I believe it was.
Yeah.
He just referred to it as.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Steve-O.
Yay!
Thanks for joining us, man.
I'm sorry about this lack of organization that we've got going on in here.
I mean, it is what it is.
Yeah, man, I'm in town, dude.
It's great.
Yeah.
I haven't been in Australia for seven years.
And a lot's changed in those seven years.
Some things have changed a lot, some things not so much.
Has radio become more disorganized in the time that you've been gone?
I don't know.
To be honest, I can't remember a damn thing from back then, man.
So when was the last time you were here?
Seven years ago.
Seven years ago, right.
Wow, that's a,
that's a long time.
Um,
so your life has changed kind of quite dramatically over that,
over that time,
I guess you're cause you're the big thing about you now is that you're,
you're completely sober.
Yeah.
I've been clean and sober for over three years now.
Right.
So last time you were here was a bit more of a bit more partying,
bit more,
a real shit show.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Last time I was here,
I promoted my shows
by saying that I would be drunk and on drugs
or your money back.
And that was like, that really sold tickets, you know.
It's pretty wild.
Because all I really did was get on stage
and consume a lot of alcohol
and kick some people in the nuts
and ramble a lot and do some crazy stunts.
Yeah, and is there a bit of a car crash mentality in that?
Like people kind of want to see what's going to happen?
Yeah, I guess so.
I don't think it was nearly as good as a show.
I've been working out in comedy clubs for almost five years now,
and I've really put a lot more work and thought into this latest incarnation.
Yeah, so what can people expect?
Because, you know, for people that maybe aren't familiar with your work, of which I can't imagine there's too many people,
but, you know, the jackass, the TV shows and Wild Boys and stuff that you've done,
you know, you're sort of well known for things like stapling your balls to things,
getting tattoos of yourself on your back,
setting yourself on fire.
So what can people expect seeing you in sort of a theater setting?
Well, like I said, the last time it was drunken rambling and crazy stunts,
and this time around it's stand-up comedy and crazy stunts.
And I've been doing these comedy clubs.
I've been on this tour for seven straight months as a headliner.
And it's really been crazy.
It's been great, man.
But like I said, it was comedy clubs.
So now here in Australia, it's like back in big theaters again.
And I know that I was particularly sensitive to it coming over here, thinking like, man, you know, it's not a comedy club environment.
You know, people are probably going to be expecting more, more like, you know, jackass
stuff.
Yeah.
And so mindful of that, I came prepared to do a lot more stunts, you know, a lot bigger,
a lot crazier stunts.
Yeah.
So you do a joke and then the punchline is you do a backflip and set yourself.
Yeah.
I mean, like the way, the way it'll work is I'm going to do stand-up comedy for the first bit.
And, you know, that entails, you know, I call it the entirely too much information tour
because I'm just a shameless bastard.
I'll tell you every last detail of the most horrifying groupie stories and all that.
And there's a lot of
uh like behind the scenes stuff about jackass so i'll give you an example just like uh um this one
time i was hooking up with this girl this was years ago and as soon as she got my wiener out
she felt like she needed to tell me something serious right so so she looked at me and she's
she's holding my wiener she looks at me she says, I was in a bad car accident.
And I was like, you know, finding it really awkward.
And so I said, oh, I'm sorry, you know.
And then she said, get ready to have a really good time.
And she popped out her upper teeth, right, because she had lost them in the car accident.
So she had this like denture plate.
She like pulled it out.
And then she went down on me.
And now I have crippling issues with premature ejaculation.
So it was for a very brief moment that she went down on me.
But at that time, I was blown away.
And I was thinking to myself, dude, this girl is not giving me a hummer.
This is a freaking gummer, man.
And I was so excited.
That's why she said, get ready to have a really good time.
She's got rubber gums all over my dong.
I like the setup of telling you about the car accident
and then saying get ready to have a really good time.
The opposite of a car accident.
Right.
It was amazing.
So I'm sitting there and I just couldn't wait to go running
and tell Knoxville and the Jackass gang.
They were so happy to hear about it that they found me a shark with no teeth
to bite me in our first movie. And that's why there's a scene called the whale shark
gunner.
That's the genesis of it.
Yeah, exactly. That's like a behind the scenes jackass story that you wouldn't hear otherwise.
Yeah, well, thanks for kicking it off. You're almost a better co-host than Carl, who you
noticed halfway through that story walked in and sat down next to you.
Sorry, guys.
I've just been in a car accident.
Steve-O, Carl.
Pleased to meet you.
This is Carl.
We got going.
We've been fine.
We've only been going for a few minutes.
I started out a little bit grumpy, but now I feel fine.
You've warmed up.
You've warmed up terrifically.
Yeah.
So that's just one of the stories.
I imagine a jackass groupie is a very special and unique type of groupie.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know if that's the case.
You know, it's my observation that provided you're on television,
it doesn't really matter what you do on television.
There's going to be chicks that want to hook up with you just because you're kind of famous.
Yeah, just to say.
They don't care if you're covered from head to toe and shit, dude.
They really don't.
They just want to be able to take that photo on Facebook
and have that as their profile pic.
Yeah. They don't care
who you are or what you look like.
It's really something else, man.
You're talking about you sort of in a different
space to the last time you were out here.
You're vegan now.
Yeah, that's right.
I noticed from looking at your Twitter page that you
do something that I find quite interesting.
You will ask for recommendations in a town about where it's good to eat,
and then you'll tell people, you'll say to everyone,
I'm going to be here at 4 p.m., like you'll broadcast that information.
Right, right, right, yeah.
How does that go for you?
It's cool, man.
It's getting a little bit.
I think the first time I did it was when I got to Sydney
to do some advanced press for this tour.
And I picked a vegetarian restaurant called Mother Chews.
And I put it on my Facebook and my Twitter.
And I said, all right, everyone, I'm going to be at Mother Chews at 5 p.m. today.
So everyone come on down and meet me and have some dinner.
I think a lot of people thought, oh, man, this can't be real.
He's full of crap.
He's not going to do that.
It's going to be a prank.
We'll get there. Yeah, it, man, this can't be real. He's full of crap. You know, he's not going to do that. It's going to be a prank. We'll get there and he'll win.
Yeah, it was something like that, whatever they thought.
But I was there right on time.
And like a bunch of people showed up.
And, you know, we took a big group photo.
And then we all had dinner together.
And once I put the photo on my Facebook, and people were like, holy crap, he actually showed up.
And then I went over to New Zealand.
I did it in Auckland.
Yesterday I did it here in Melbourne.
I went to Lentil, if anything.
So yeah, I'm just going to do that in every city I go to. So everybody who's in the area can have a chance to come by and hang out,
get some pictures in a more laid-back setting.
Particularly if they've been in a car accident and have no teeth.
They should come out.
Yeah.
So you can't eat without people looking at you now?
I mean, it's been that way for quite a while.
That's not too big of a deal, you know.
I mean, that's a big sort of putting yourself out there in quite a big way
because not only that you're broadcasting where you're going to be,
so you would invite freaks, but I would think it would be worse.
Like, what if you do that and then no one shows up?
That would be fine too, you know.
Like, I don't have much mind, you know,
but when I started doing all the press for this Australian tour,
I was thinking, man, you know, like, what's a good way for me
to get people listening to the radio to jump onto my Facebook and Twitter?
How to gather more followers.
I thought, okay, if I do little updates to say, okay, here's where I'm going to be at a certain time,
then people would probably want to know that.
After each show, I make of uh of taking a photo with
everybody in the audience that wants to you know it takes a while and you know you gotta kind of
you gotta you gotta stick around i mean not not all everybody does in these in these big theaters
you know because it's kind of a kind of a little bit of weight but uh but yeah if you're determined
to get a photo with me and you want like i will not leave the venue like i stick around to the
bitter end you know when you said you got a photo with everyone in the venue,
I thought you meant regardless of whether they wanted it or not.
You were literally walking around and everyone was saying,
my parking's about to run out.
I've got to get back to my car.
We have to do this for posterity.
It's everybody that wants one.
I make sure they get it.
I'm doing everything in my power to make this show as good as I can.
Like I said, man, I'm making uh that I'm doing crazy stunts like I'm teaching everybody how to get drunk
in bars for free for the rest of their life you know like I have a foolproof
method you know like it's probably the loudest the crowd gets like is at that
point in the show like when I complete this this lesson and getting drunk for
free particularly in this country,
especially the nation of drunks and cheapskates.
With all the stunts and everything you've done,
I'm just looking at you.
You look good.
Like you've got a little nick on your nose.
Yeah,
that's for my dog.
I have a little,
uh,
I have,
I have like two rescue dogs at home and,
um,
you know,
like,
uh,
it's,
it sucks cause I had to board them at the vet,
you know,
like normally I'm home, uh, two or three days a week at least while I'm on tour in the States. home and um you know like uh it sucks because i had to board him at the vet you know like
normally i'm home uh two or three days a week at least while i'm on tour in the states but here
this trip you know i'm gone a little longer but anyway when i get home and and my dogs are so
excited to see me and they're oh dad you know what i got and i yeah my little my little dog walter
just slashed the crap out of my nose last time I picked him up at the vet.
But, yeah, it's funny.
Of all the things I do, I'm doing these shows and I'm just kicking my own ass and I'm engulfed in flames and I'm crashing flat on furniture.
Sharks sucking you off.
Yeah.
And my worst injury in a little bit has been picking up my dog from the bed.
Well, because I guess probably one of the things that you're most well-known for
is the stapling of things to yourself.
Every time I was doing something.
Yeah, it's funny.
That's not something I ever even did for Jackass or anything.
That was on my own initiative.
I remember when I first got the call that our pilot had actually been ordered to series for Jackass.
Our director, Jeff Tremaine, he said, dude, it's not a pilot anymore.
So this means that we have a show.
It's going to be on TV.
We've got a whole series.
And what that means is that I need you, he said, to pack up all of your existing video footage that you have.
that I need you, he said, to pack up all of your existing video footage that you have.
Like, all your best footage, your craziest stuff, like, send it in so that we can license it and incorporate it straight into Jackass and MTV.
So I sent in all my existing footage, and when I followed up with a call to find out
what they were going to use, they said, oh, man, bummer, bummer, oh, dude.
Not one clip that you sent in cleared standards and practices.
Not one thing was allowed on television because MTV was particularly uptight about anything involving fire.
So much of my stuff, I'm just constantly on fire.
I always say that was what I determined.
Anything that I can do, it's just cooler if I'm on fire while I always say that was what I determined. Anything that I can do, it's just
cooler if I'm on fire while I'm doing it.
You should have sent in the clip of the dog scratching
your nose. That would have probably cleared it.
And then
they had another rule that was like
if you're going to jump off something, it can only be
of a certain height. You're not allowed
to jump over a certain
height. Is this MTV
guidelines? There are rules?
This was in the beginning, yeah.
In the beginning.
There was an MTV rule that says you can't jump off something
that's 50 feet tall or something like that.
Right, right.
Whereas now, that's a free-for-all over there.
The way, you know, I don't know where the rules are coming from
these days, man.
I really don't.
Yeah, if you're going to make out with 80 dudes,
you've got to be bisexual.
That's the rule we have on this channel. Right. I don't know how it works, man. I really don't. If you're going to make out with 80 dudes, you've got to be bisexual. That's the rule we have on this channel.
I don't know how it works, man.
But in any case, I knew
right from the get-go, when
nothing that I submitted
was allowed on television, I knew
that I was going to have
I was going to be able to distribute my own
Stevo videos.
They're too hot for TV.
It was for the Steve-O video series that I stapled my balls to my leg.
If you can believe it, MTV wouldn't show that.
And there were a bunch of them, man.
I had Ryan Dunn strangle me unconscious six times in a row one day.
If you go on YouTube and you look up Steve-O chokes,
you'll see Ryan Dunn literally choke me out unconscious,
just drop me to the ground twitching and unconscious
like six times in one afternoon.
That's got to be one of the craziest things ever.
That happens with me and Carl a lot on the show.
It's sort of got nothing to do with the show itself.
It's just behind-the-scenes politics.
Because I was watching a lot of videos of you with the staples and stuff.
It is a rule of this studio.
You're only allowed to choke each other out five times in this studio.
Yeah.
Because I was watching videos of you stapling things to yourself, and this is how my head
works.
I'm like, hey, he's just burning through staples.
How much money must that guy spend on staples per week?
Have you got some kind of sweet hookup?
Have you got them?
Like, staple sponsorship.
Yeah, why don't you get an Officeworks tat on you?
That would be awesome. Sta those aren't that expensive man like my i stapled my balls the other day oh we're gonna like twice in the last week we're gonna see it i think we're gonna see it
oh man i'm seeing steve's balls everyone i can't see on oh man you see how bruised that is oh yeah
this is actually happening for real. We're seeing balls.
It's completely, like, my ball bag is black and blue.
Take our word for it.
Yeah.
But anyway, yeah, so there's that.
Anyway, we just saw his balls.
We just saw some sweet balls.
I was about to say, is that the first testicle we've seen on this show?
Like there would be one that I'd somehow forgotten about.
And just a single one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
A lot of people have just one nut.
Tom Green's only got one nut.
Yeah.
Dave England.
Yeah.
Yeah, man.
So anyway, dude, like it's rad to be back in Australia, man.
Yeah.
And like I said, dude, like I'm all about just bringing everything I can to the table,
man.
And it's just a lot of fun.
Well, I guess me and Tommy are a little bit weird.
Not weird, but I mean, we've spent a lot of time the last couple of days
watching clips of you on YouTube and stuff
and watching your whole rehab series and stuff like that.
So we're a little bit, forgive us if we're a little bit cautious
because we've seen what you're capable of.
So we're a little bit, forgive us if we're a little bit cautious, because we've seen what you're capable of.
And it's like, it's a little bit scary to watch all that sort of stuff and then be in the same room and go, I don't know what's going to happen.
I mean, clearly you're clean and sober and everything now.
But I mean, that is quite a body of work that you build up there.
Yeah, man.
Like, I, you know, I have a book coming out too, man.
Like, it's not going to be out in Australia for a few months, I don't think,
but it comes out next month in the States.
Great.
We only Amazon stuff here.
Anyway, so we can get it.
It's called Professional Idiot, a memoir.
Honestly, the Demise and Rise documentary that you're talking about,
it was certainly shocking. It's like, wow like wow man he's pretty far out there but yeah like as i was working on this book i was
like man like it's just like it was so much worse than that video footage even lets on you like you
really can't even get into like how bad it was man and because for people who haven't seen it i'm not
sure if it if it's aired on mtv here because i don't have a cable but it has it would have okay
well if you haven't seen it it's on youtube in five parts and it's yeah on MTV here, because I don't have a cable. It has, for sure. It would have? Okay, well, if you haven't seen it, it's on YouTube in five parts.
Oh, is it?
I thought MTV was pretty tight about that stuff.
Yeah, well, I think we've just ruined it for you.
It's going to be taken down there.
I don't care.
I personally can't watch it.
I never even watch it.
Well, I mean, it's fascinating because it's a document of you kind of in the throes of
your addictions and then getting out of it.
Yeah, it's a downward spiral expose.
And like you said, that's what people really like.
They love a good shit show.
But what's remarkable about it is that you've got cameras around
the whole time that this is going on,
and there's just some crazy footage in there.
That's the thing that shocked me about it,
was just how much of it is documented.
Like there's a point where you're kicked out of your apartment because your neighbor's been making complaints.
And you just trash the joint.
Like you really get stuck in.
Right, right.
Yeah.
And then I wound up getting arrested.
I managed to film my own arrest.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And the bit I like, this shows how into it you are.
The Jackass guys have an intervention with you,
and you try and whip out the camera and film that.
Right.
That was my favourite bit was when Bam Marguerra's parents
were talking about you, and his mum said,
oh, he was in some rare form, like almost admiring,
and saying, he got kicked out of the Jackass people.
That's quite an achievement.
That's right, man.
It was Knoxville who organized the intervention, man.
He called up Dr. Drew and he's like, man, Steve-O's fixing to die the way it seems.
And Dr. Drew's like, you're absolutely right, man.
You have to go and lock him up in a psych ward.
So Knoxville organized a gang like uh gotten brought brought
seven other guys over to my house and the message was clear it was like we are taking it like we
will kick your ass and we will take you against your will but you're going you know and uh i can
see the humor in it now man like you know you got a serious problem when johnny knoxville is
you know it's uh it's something else man because another thing that's in this documentary that's problem when Johnny Knoxville is your interventionist.
It's something else, man.
Because another thing that's in this documentary that's thrilling to watch is you were mentioning earlier about last time you were here, you would get up on stage and kick people in the nuts.
And you incorporate that into your 12 steps of recovery.
You get Knoxville to kick you completely naked in the junk.
With a bare foot.
With a bare foot, yeah.
And it's funny because Knoxville does it and then the camera keeps on him
and he's freaking out about how his foot has touched a boy.
He's like, oh, that feels yucky.
It's like there's a guy over there who's just been thorn belted in the nuts.
Yeah, yeah, it goes to his pained face and it's like, oh, poor Knoxville.
I mean, has there ever been like, you know, because you do some pretty,
you know, it doesn't seem like there's much that you won't take on.
Has there been a point where you've been doing a stunt or whatever
where you've thought this is probably a bit much?
Well, there's one thing where I unequivocally said,
absolutely no way I'm going to do that.
Like, are you guys familiar with the Bret Michaels show, Rock of Love?
Yes.
And the Flavor of Love?
Yep.
So the stunt was going on that show?
No, but the people responsible for both of those shows approached me about doing the exact same format.
Stevo of Love?
Yeah.
I don't know if that's what they want to call it.
Imagine how disgusting Flavor of Stevo sounds.
Take your teeth out and get stuck in.
Who wants to come and eat with me at Flavor of Stevo?
Right.
But yeah, I said, hell no.
There's no way I'm going to let 30 chicks tell the entire world how fast I come.
You'll do it yourself so you have control over it.
Yeah, I mean, I come really fast, man.
You know, but I'll be the one to tell you that.
You know, I don't need chicks on TV to laugh at me for that.
But, yeah, man, it's crazy, dude.
Like, really, man.
I love that I've asked you,
has there been a stunt that was too dangerous
and you've gone, the worst thing that you've
been asked to do is go on a shit TV show.
Like, most people would say,
oh, jumping off a building or setting myself up.
Oh, rock and roll.
There's like less
funny, like serious answers,
you know?
Oh, I appreciate you for...
When they asked me to get duct taped to a mechanical bull, you know, I was like, I was
really not feeling that because at one point you just have to fall off that thing, you
know?
So I said no to being duct taped to a mechanical bull, but that's not nearly as funny.
Yeah.
But that is weird.
I'd like to see that table of standards in your head
that says no duct tape to mechanical bull,
but yes, shot out of a cannon or whatever.
Right, right, right.
Yeah, I'm not a rational creature at all.
Because, yeah, in The Rise and Demise,
you're talking about,
or maybe it's the making of Jackass 3,
which I watched as well,
but you're talking about in the second
movie, if there was a stunt
that it looked like it might not make it
in the film, you just wouldn't do it, because you'd be
like, oh, what's the point if it's not going to make it in the film?
Yeah, I kind of had that attitude.
I was a lot more gung-ho
on this last
one, and a ton
of stuff wound up on the cutting room floor
all the same but but i felt
much better about like just going for it when it went in doubt do the do the shit yeah yeah yeah
um well because here's a weird thing like i don't know well i mean i kind of know what it's down to
but i remember when i was in high school at least every six months a rumor would go around that you
had died like it was this weird thing it It was almost, like, mechanical, where, like,
someone would be like, did you hear Steve O's died?
We're like, no, and we'd get on Google and look it up,
and then it turns out to be bullshit.
And then, sure enough, six months later,
did you hear Steve O's died?
Oh, it's like, why do we keep falling for this?
It was like some, it was almost like, you know,
when Michael Jackson died, how there was the whole thing of,
like, was it Jeff Goldblum had died as well?
And that's, like, a recurring thing.
Who cares about Jeff Goldblum? No, but, like, that's, like, was it Jeff Goldblum had died as well? And that's like a recurring thing. Who cares about Jeff Goldblum?
No, but that's like a recurring hoax that people are always trying
to convince the press that Jeff Goldblum has died.
Yeah, Bobby McFerrin was a big one as well because of his song being
Don't Worry, Be Happy.
And every six months someone would say,
did you hear Bobby McFerrin jumped off a cliff?
Wow, you guys are weird.
I was working with a comic who cracked me up
talking about how everybody knows where they were
when they found out that Michael Jackson died.
And he said, yeah, I was at my father's funeral.
Someone came running into the procession or whatever
and said Michael Jackson died.
All of a sudden, everybody started crying.
My mother was devastated.
Yeah, I can remember how I was the first 86 times that I heard that Steve-O had died.
Well, it's funny.
I mean, because Jackass, in a lot of ways,
it's almost like it was the inspiration for YouTube.
Do you know what I mean?
Like YouTube is just kind of like a round the clock Jackass where everyone's like trying to do it now.
I'll tell you for sure, man.
Like it started out where we were, you know, we were sort of inspiring people to copy us or do, like, similar stuff,
and it was all winding up on YouTube.
And then in a weird, like, full circle kind of roundabout deal,
we wound up looking to YouTube for inspiration for our third movie.
You know?
Yeah, and we really did.
Like, you know how you see, like see the amazing basketball shots and videos on YouTube?
Inspired by that, we did the amazing nut shots.
There's not a jackass segment that we spent more hours.
We threw a fucking basketball out of an airplane onto someone's nuts off a Ferris wheel, you know, like, you know, bouncing, you know, like literally same deal, you know, the same deal.
That's so funny that there's someone at the bottom underneath the plane going, oh, I really hope you kiss me in the nuts.
This is going to be a waste of time.
That's the thing.
Yeah, you're standing there bored for hours and hours and then finally it's going to be a waste of time that's the thing you're standing there bored for hours and hours
and then finally it's going to happen
and once it happens you think
if I wince, if I move
then I've blown the shot
everyone's poured hours into this
so it's a really weird dynamic
I don't want to let down the pilot
it's an extremely weird dynamic
you know
you know you're not going to move
that's kind
of like how it was for me like filming that movie like like in in one sense like i was dreading the
stunts more than ever because i'm you know clear and and sober and and you know present it's
thinking like wow like i really know what i'm getting into this sucks you know and so like i
was dreading it more than ever but at the same same time, I was so much more eager about it
because I really wanted to prove that I still had it in me.
Yeah.
You know, like, I just didn't want to, you know, whatever.
Like, I was just like, man, dude, I'm like, okay, guys,
I'm still gnarly, you know?
Yeah.
And I think the fact that you do have that fear,
like, that makes it more compelling.
Yeah.
Do you know what I mean?
Like, if you're sort of numb to it and you don't give a shit,
it sort of isn't as thrilling to watch. Right. It's like watching, I don't know, like that makes it more compelling. Do you know what I mean? Like if you're sort of numb to it and you don't give a shit, it sort of isn't as thrilling
to watch.
Right.
It's like watching, I don't know, like, yeah, watching someone who doesn't care.
It's not as interesting.
It must be.
I mean, I guess in a way you guys are a part of, an important part of a lot of people's
lives because obviously, I know this sounds weird, but because of what you guys do, it's very
attractive to adolescent boys or whatever.
So you're part of a lot of people's childhood.
Warning at the beginning is really funny.
You're a little kid.
Different people see things different ways.
A little kid reads it and says, warning, if you do any of the stunts you're about to see,
you will be the fucking man.
Yeah, because that's the thing.
I mean,
I imagine that you guys must be the bane of parents and school
principals everywhere trying to tell off kids.
You'll never make it,
but you guys have made,
you know,
an amazing career out of being dickheads essentially.
Yeah.
You know,
I don't know that we're really that dickheads to each other.
Yeah.
You know,
but,
but we're really like,
and I think that's what,
what's,
what's made it work for, for as long as it has, is that
we don't really target anybody but ourselves.
It's hard to get really mad at someone for hurting themselves.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, before we get out of here, let me just run this by you.
This is the best kind of close to jackass thing that I've ever witnessed.
This is in high school, not long after The Matrix had come out.
I had two friends who were convinced that if they stood on opposite benches
and jumped into each other in midair, that they would be able to grab each other
and spin around kind of like bullet time style,
like that they were properly convinced.
They're 17.
They thought, this will happen.
We'll freeze in midair.
We'll spin each other around and then we'll land on opposite sides
to where we started.
And they're all like, what do you reckon?
Is it going to work?
And we're all going, yeah, it's going to work because we just want to see
the car accident, right?
So they've jumped.
They've just headbutted each other in midair, landed,
and then we're just lying there in agony.
What do you reckon?
Could that be a jackass?
Bullet time.
Trying to reenact bullet time.
It sounds like something that we kept doing where two guys,
we had different combinations of guys do it,
but two guys running toward each other,
jumping up in midair and sort of leveling out horizontally.
One guy trying to be like this, you know,
and sort of nut to nut.
Right, yeah.
It's like the jackass formula.
Find something and add nuts to it.
And then set those nuts on fire.
I'm able to, you know,
sort of show you with my hands how it would look.
Yeah, like a pair of scissors sort of butting up against each other in the middle.
Right, right, right.
Basically just run together and jump up and crash your nuts together.
Like, and that was really, like, you know, like you said, man,
we're all sitting around laughing our asses off.
Yeah.
Whereas now you've just got planking.
Have you heard of this thing, planking, that people do?
No, I have no idea what that is.
Where it's like what you do is you go into a public space
and you lie flat down like a plank and get a photo of it.
It sounds really dumb and harmless, but people have died doing it.
Like people have done it on balcony rails and fallen off and then died.
So it's like this really kind of harmless, dumb little stunt
that people have been doing. But it's suddenly gone, like it's suddenly like this really kind of harmless, dumb little stunt that people have been doing
that's suddenly gone, like it's suddenly become this really dangerous thing.
Extreme lying down.
Yeah, that's what it's become.
Yeah.
All right, well, I guess that's it for the show for another week.
We want to thank Steve-O for coming out and joining us.
For sure, man.
Sorry for the delay in getting you in here.
It's all good, man.
It's all good.
You guys are great.
And, you know, like I said, man, it's really...
I'm going to be
bringing it, man.
Yeah.
steveo.com for tour dates
and finding out
where he's having dinner
and photos of nuts.
The book's out soon.
And, yeah,
I guess the Jackass movies
are on DVD.
We don't need to plug them.
Thanks so much for joining us.
Hey, man, thank you guys.
No worries, man.
We'll see you soon.
See you, mate.
Hey, sister.
I know you remember
you left me alone...