Senses Working Overtime with David Cross - Steve-O
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This is a head gum podcast. Yes, whatever.
What kind of water?
I leave it to the guest you got.
Count your chair, whatever makes you feel better.
I think that the more looking at each other.
You want that?
I think we're focused for, is that cool?
Yeah, we could adjust the camera so it's cool.
All right.
Does that make sense?
We're going to do it like this.
Whatever you do.
Yeah, this is.
Whatever, yeah.
OK.
These are a gotto mic arms are great.
Oh, thank you so much.
I worked so hard on these.
And everybody was going, you're a fool.
Why are you doing it?
Right.
And it's not the industry it right now and it's not
the industry standard no it's not that's the thing it's not industry standard but I'm like I'm like
hey effort think outside the think outside the envelope you know there's an envelope problems with
the OC ones the OC ones the orange County industry and the top industry standard. These are considerably cheaper, simpler,
and in my view, more effective.
Well, there you go.
You're hired?
Yeah.
And you can do the ad copy for.
Yeah.
They did the client's response of my podcast.
That's crazy.
And yet, I'll tell you, that speaks volumes about your character that you're not petty,
you're not vindictive.
Right.
You know, even though they refused you and they were really rude about it too, they were
not pleasant.
I saw that rejection letter, you stuck it up on the billboard, but yeah, they were,
that's great that you still given thumbs up and you
uh it's right man I back it so um this is new this is brand new yeah I did not have this going oh I
might have told you about it though when I did your podcast perhaps yeah and and we've been we've
been saving your episode to upload together look at this guy this. This guy's. It's helpful. It's helpful when you've got
you know, you know, driving traffic towards each other. Sure, absolutely. Well, let's give a plug
for your podcast. Yeah, we're going. There's no intro. Nope. How about that ladies
And as soon as you walk in the room, I know I've I've recently sworn off saying ladies and gentlemen
I haven't been very effective at it. Why have you sworn it off? What because it's not
Politically correct anymore ladies and gentlemen come on ladies and gentlemen does not sum it up
So I've switched to people of the universe
Pussy thing I mean I don't much mind either way, but people of the universe here we are and
So you so here so so
When you say that that's going not just to people on this planet and this solar system
and this galaxy, it's going beyond the Milky Way.
Do you think, in whatever it takes, how long it takes for that sound to travel, let's
say, about 42 and a half light years years you think people will be going like
hey hang on to stebo just
yeah i think stebo from planet earth is uh... uh...
i want to get back in touch but
i mean he probably said this
i mean
go billion years ago
right but
even though
kneeled to grass thyson
told me that time is in fact a thing, I'm not sure I agree with him.
So, well, I was going to say you need another human being with a accreditation to tell you that time is a thing.
I just, you know, in quantum theory, everything is all... there's just now, there's just one moment of now.
And there's all infinite, every possible outcome, every possible circumstance, all just,
it all exists somehow.
And I submit that light years is not a thing.
Well, but it's a measurement of time, isn't it?
Right, when Neil deGrasse Tyson told me,
is that he was kind of a...
I was kind of with Neil deGrasse Tyson
when we get him on the fucking show.
He said that he would put it to rest by asking me,
if I wanted to meet up tomorrow.
And I said, well, yeah, sure, he says, all right.
Well, then how does that happen?
We need a where and a when, the coordinates.
So Chick-fil-A on corner sunset.
I don't understand.
I'm being serious here, I don't understand how needing a wear and
a wear kind of negates the meeting or what I don't understand.
Right, what it's coordinates that a front of thing is he was like the coordinates of
space and time.
But it just doesn't, it doesn't wait, wait, wait, go back to that example.
Yeah. Because I don't understand the, like, hey, I'm going to blow your mind with the
concept of time. Yeah. And I'm going to prove it to you. Like, it says, how are we going
to meet up if we don't have a time and a place? But you do have a time and a place. You
could if you wanted to. And then you could meet up. Right, but without
If time was not a thing, then we would not ever wait a meet up. Well time is just a word to describe the
passage of what we call time, right? Right. So it's a me and again, I'm not I'm not trying to be funny or anything. I don't understand you.
Okay.
I don't understand what you're saying.
I see, like, what I'm trying to kind of get past
is the problem of, okay, well, if the beginning
was big bang, well, then what bang?
Well, it was before that.
Well, you can always ask, well Well it was before that. You can always ask, well what
was before that? Sure. And there's just no way to resolve that. So at one point I was
under the influence of various substances and I had this deep thought that when they first
invented the sailboat, they were legitimately scared of falling off the end
of the world because they believed that the world was flat.
And the deep thought that I had was that we are
in a similar situation now thinking that time is somehow
flat and that you could fall off either end
because there's a beginning or an end.
But the deep thought is just like the world is round time is round you know it doesn't
have a beginning or an end. I thought that was pretty awesome.
Have you gone back to your high self and had a conversation?
It's been a long time, it's been over.
Well a long time, wait a second buddy.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, you're all over the place. You're sending
mixed messages. Yeah. But it better, but in any case, that
yeah, that, that, that, it's important stuff to think about
man. Yeah, it's interesting. I'm not, you know, again, for
I don't know, I know Neil deGrasse Tyson's, you've seen him on talk shows and things like that.
I haven't really listened to a study.
I'm sure there's a lot that I would find fascinating.
I wish it did, but my brain doesn't grasp that kind of, I can get a fact at a time or two at a time
But when I I don't make the connections that are needed to make
to go from point A to so you know if
If you know string theory and then that gets us to this thing. I can't not good at that. Right
Do you
Believe in reincarnation?
No, we don't no Do you believe in reincarnation?
No, we don't.
No.
Because as I understand it,
there's like some pretty irrefutable evidence.
Like, for example, there have been little kids
who are like recognizing people in photographs.
You know, like, oh, that's me.
That's my car that I, you know, like, and I mean, I, I, I, well, I don like, oh, that's me. That's my car that I, you know, like, and I mean,
I, I, well, I don't, I don't think that's evidence though.
I mean, there's, there are, like, it would be crazy
in mind blowing, you know, like if my daughter was six,
was like, oh, yeah, that's, that's my car from when I was,
you know, I, you know,
I was a Cuban exile.
Did you not know that father?
I'd be like, when did you start saying father?
That would be the first thing I'd say.
Then I'd go back to, wait a second,
when do you talk about a Cuban exile?
I think I'm gonna, I'm gonna do a deep dive
on this reincarnation thing because I gotta know.
I mean, I was like,
but you think it'll be proven?
Do you think you can prove it a yes or no?
I think that there's a pretty strong argument
that these anecdotal pieces of evidence
are irrefutable. But I don't know, I gotta get
brushed up on it. I'm gonna refute the
shit out of it. Yeah, it's I mean, I
don't, I think it's an interesting
like a lot of stuff that I don't
necessarily believe in. I think it's an
interesting thing to think and I can
see why people think it. I don't know that I wouldn't say that there is evidence for it.
It's circumstantial if it is.
And throughout the years people, you know, swear they've seen ghosts, right?
Sware it.
And I don't believe in ghosts, you know.
I'm afraid of ghosts, but I don't believe in them.
Okay.
Now, there was a psychic situation.
And I've never been like big into believing about psychics,
but my father with my stepmother when saw a psychic.
And the psychic told my father that his first wife, that because her ashes had not been deliberately spread, spread, sprinkled.
That she was somehow trapped.
And then the psychic wouldn't have no way of knowing that his first wife had passed,
let alone that her urn with her ashes had been sitting on the top shelf of my sister's closet for like over a year at
that point just because we hadn't come up with a really great idea for how to spread
our ashes.
And I mean that just felt pretty specific and I'm like my natural inclination is to be
a skeptic, maybe not, but that just felt like pretty strong
evidence that the psychic was onto something there.
Well, they have, and they have for generations and generations, little, they're quite skilled
at picking things up and getting information without your understanding they're doing
so. And that has been proven.
There have been people who debunked.
Sure, that wasn't who deemies all deal.
That was one of those, yeah.
The say-ons, he debunked say-onses.
And then there's James Randy, I believe his name is,
who was a magician, who went went and that became his focus.
Would you look that up, Casey?
I just want to make sure I get the name right.
He passed a couple of years ago, but James Randall, James Randi, and he, and there's a guy
currently, there's a number of people, but a guy named Darren Brown in London who's amazing, a mentalist.
And they can show you the kind of tricks that people use.
And I've been to a bunch of Darren's shows and it's disturbing and fascinating and mind-blowing
how what he can get people to do. You were me, people who would go,
I don't think that's going to work on me. And just by this, I mean, this is a shitty version of it,
but by looking at you in a certain word and repeating synonyms for a certain word,
and repeating synonyms for a certain word,
and pointing or putting my finger, just little things that you would never catch
can get you to do something
that you would otherwise not normally ever do.
Is the long island medium a mentalist?
Have you heard of this person?
No.
Wildly successful individual is selling out huge theaters. What's his or her name? It's
It's a her
So long island, Midway, I've never heard of her long island meeting. She's a psychic. Yeah, right. She's a psychic and it just sells out huge theaters and
Um, check this out with respect to my mom's ashes.
We okay when I was in rehab there was something or rather we were having some little group
thing.
Well an older man who is also a patient in the rehab. I badly offended this guy.
I had some of the cuff remark about how like,
you know, I really was serious about my sobriety.
I never want to snort anything up my nose ever again,
except maybe my mom's ashes, you know.
Like maybe that makes sense.
And this was wildly offensive to this older man.
And when we finally did decide
that we were gonna spread my mom's ashes at sea,
we chartered a boat.
And it was kind of a choppy day,
but we went through with it.
And I opened up the ashes, I was out on the front of the boat.
I think that's the bow. And I threw them, ashes, I was out on the front of the boat, I think that's the bow.
And I threw them right as I threw them, like a gust of wind, like kind of blew them into my face.
And I did.
I did.
I just started laughing. I was like wow, I think my mom wouldn't find that pretty funny.
You did a bump of your mom.
Did you go back to that old guy and go,
hey, guess what, pal?
I did not.
And I'm not somebody who really chooses to be offensive
or hurt people's feelings.
That's not my style of comedy.
Like, you know, even though I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm
kind of having a tug of war with, with my team about whether or not to, uh, release onto
the internet, something that people are likely to find offensive.
Offensive is one thing, but to be hurtful, right, right, right, you know, punching down,
I have a problem with that.
That's my own personal thing.
Like, and there's a lot of it in stand-up and I don't have much respect for it.
And people that I really admire and like and I think are just brilliant comedians or writers.
And when they do that stuff, it's like, man, what are you doing?
It's my own guideline.
And in the past, I've said kind of hurtful things
and I used to be pretty staunchly like,
well, fuck it, I don't care if you can't take a joke.
But if I can't really defend it
and I think about it and I go, if there's no,
it's, I'm not saying anything with this joke, right?
It's just hurtful.
So, okay.
Let me run it by you.
Or the premise for the video for YouTube was,
I'm sorry, I wanna clarify, you have done this
or you were, I have done it.
I have not published it.
Got it, got it.
So, the premise was to go on this platform called Cameo,
where celebrities will record shout out videos.
Yeah.
And, you know, submit requests to various celebrities,
asking them to say and do questionable, if not terrible,
things. And our first offering was to Mark McGrath,
the singer of the sugar rate, where we asked him to pretend that he had Tourette syndrome
and read a message for us.
Wait, does he know what Steve Oh?
This is great. I found this idea. Oh my God. Right. He declined. He declined to do it.
But someone somewhere. But Andy Dick will do it. We took the same request. We sent it to
our new Jackass cast member, Pupies, who's notoriously a little bit low on the IQ spectrum and he did he did it's everywhere laughed not loud like this at this you know
but deep my fiance she feels pretty strongly that this you know like making a joke out of Tourette is Is gonna be hurtful it means
It's kind of like a trouble
Fucking fiance though though. They're the bane
We got me we did a bunch of them. They were really fucking funny and they all got denied by the the celebrity
We requested but then we passed them on to poobies
I think I think maybe
Let's see if this maybe if you but then we passed them on to poobies. He did keep it along. I think maybe,
and see if this, maybe if you
couch it in the idea that
this is offensive, we understand that. And kudos to all these different people
who passed on this and assumed that he wouldn't do it
because it was offensive.
But here's a guy who doesn't give a shit and he did.
Right.
And then maybe it's about not so much about the thing he did, even though you will laugh
at it.
It's about the social experience.
I mean, he's just so lovable and innocent.
I don't see how you could possibly be mad at Proofies.
We sent another request to David Arquette saying that it was from a guy
named Brad or something like that and say, hey, my girlfriend and I got pregnant and
she's really determined to keep the baby, but we're just not in a position to start a family.
So could we get you to make a video? Trying to...
Trying to...
Trying to urge you to...
I love this idea, man.
I would watch this for an hour weekly.
Absolutely.
This is great, Steve O.
You are onto something.
Yeah, thanks.
I love it.
We got the most thoughtful, personal message from David R. Ket typing.
There's different ways celebrities can decline to do a cameo.
And this one was, hey, I just can't do that.
I feel that it's the woman's choice.
And he kind of leaned into us, like I wish he would be a little bit more.
If you think about this a little bit more, you know.
And I'm good for him.
Yeah.
Poopies had no problemi's had no problem.
He even recited the script that we wrote for him. We're just including let's yank this
bottom half the oven. Was he was he serious? Did he approach it in a serious? Not all
that. Yeah. Oh my god. Yeah. Oh, you got a fish.
I want to see these.
Yeah.
I mean, I've been getting some jacks coming up.
You might even have.
Oh my god.
Wow, we've got thumbnails.
Yes.
Well, thumbnails are good of-
No, I know, I know, of course not.
Oh, man, this is a great idea.
How many do you have- are you like banking a bunch of these?
And- If we do read- I'll tell you some other ones we did.
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in the Jackass movie. And we want to make a video of, we want you to make a video to play
at our funeral. And we just want you to make her laugh one last time. So if you can
stop your things, your butt. Say, hey, grandma, tell her, tell grandma how much it means to you
that you made her laugh for this.
Say, hey, check out grandma, check out my man pussy.
And we added on, say, how did Jesus for me?
Yeah.
Does he know that the other celebrities wouldn't do it?
No, no, he has no idea.
Yeah, he's not privy to that.
Okay, so have you thought of, get a bunch of these,
and then get them in a room and go.
Oh, I'm sorry, I've tried to be better
at my conversation, let it get.
At Lindsay Lohan, we asked her to do smack sense,
because we're very impressed by her acting.
So in a British accent, could you please say that Elton John is a talentless diva?
Then in an Irish accent, could you say Conor McGregor is a washed up bitch boy?
And then in a Chinese accent
Can you say Jackie Chan plays ping pong with his ding dong
And my my girl feels really strongly that the the Chinese accent part is
Should be taken out because it'll get me in trouble
It's not gonna get you in trouble. Listen, I'm I'm I'm he's tried so hard. Did you do it? Yeah, yeah, God, yeah, it's just brilliant. I've
By time this goes out it'll this will be over but I'm at the end of this long tour of Inune's its March and one of the
Bits is And one of the bits is, I asked somebody to come up on stage and read a script with me.
And there's two scripts.
The first one is a script about reading the script, which they don't know when they're coming
up.
And it's just me and the other person, they're like, oh, my name is Sean to Vitch and Merillian.
And then I go, and it's all scripted.
And then she's like, look, can we do this,
do this script where your kid talks to the homeschooled kid
from Florida, I gotta take my insulin shot pretty soon.
I'm like, oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know you had diabetes.
Then they say, I don't, I just really love glucose.
Can't get enough of it.
I go, is that a joke?
They're like, yeah, pretty funny, right?
Can I open for you? And then they go on, pretty funny, right? Can I open for you?
And then they go on, they go, you know, I would do that joke twice. I go twice. Yeah, once in
Mandarin. And then, look, can we do this script or not? I go, yeah, I want to hear that joke in
Mandarin first, though. And I think, uh, by time this finishes, it'll be 74 shows. And, uh,
it'll be 74 shows and I would say only 10 times as somebody tried to do it or not had a you know awkward moment because they wouldn't even though it's a blaper it's not live,
it's not recorded, it's a theater audience and they wouldn't even try.
It wasn't intended to be said in Mandarin.
It's up to them to interpret what it is.
They were like, can we do the script?
Again, the reading off a script that says, can we do the script?
I say, yeah, yeah, sure, but I want to hear you do that joke in Mandarin first.
And then people
Like like 90% of the time be like I
Go ahead. What is the time like but but but but but to me it sounds like they're declining to do that because they don't speak Mandarin
No, no dude. Believe me. I'm up there with them. They're all like it's like ah
I'll get canceled I'll get in trouble
Like, oh, what if it sound like I can't
I don't know what you just said you said you would do it. Well, I don't know, you know, whatever
I'll tell you the the great Dave Chappelle. I had a chance encounter with him many years ago
2005 or maybe it was 2006 or 2007.
I was excited to meet him.
I said, man, I think I might have got myself in some trouble.
I think my life might genuinely be in danger because I got mixed up with these scary gangster
rapper people known as the G unit.
And I just went into their studio
and just started hurling insults and threats
at all of their rivals.
You know, I really said some terrible things
and threatening and insulting about these murderous, scary
gangster rap people.
And Dave's response was, he said, no, man, you're Steve, you got diplomatic immunity.
And I've carried that close to my heart ever since and now I feel compelled to put Dave's theory to the test.
What is this like was this aired or did you just do it?
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah, it came out on a G unit mixtape.
Oh wow.
Yeah, I was deliberately getting people's names wrong and you know like.
And so they're recording in a studio and you happen to go in there and go, hey, just who are we
beefing with? Right. I want to know. I want to, I want to. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, that was it.
Now I'm going to ask you a question. Okay. And if you don't answer in the, if you don't say the thing that
I'm thinking of, I'm going to cut you off. Okay. And I'm going to, and you'll see why.
Steve, but what is the most, the nastiest thing you've ever eaten or tasted it I should say. That's a real toss up.
Dic time.
I'm going to go with a cup of my buddies sweat, which we collected.
Okay, I'm gonna say it's not. Okay.
Because, oh boy, when was this?
I think this would have been like late 90s, maybe,
early, I'm not sure, but I was shooting something
and Knoxville was shooting something as well, whatever.
And he came to my trailer.
And this is back in the days of VHS tapes, maybe 90s.
And he showed me the whole...
Oh, Jack and Bon water.
No.
Oh, God.
I had Jack really murky bon water.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Both of those things. No, this was a sketch that y'all did when it was the, you know, TV.
Yes, the bomb that never aired. And it was, I think about it occasionally. And it's one of the
purest forms of comedy I've ever seen. It is disgusting. Like, it's two girls in a cup level,
and but it's brilliant.
And it's really, do you want to describe it for the folks?
Because we've never got to see it.
It was something that we were in Miami.
There's rings of dead.
That's another great part about it is like,
you all are deaf, like in some shitty holiday in the hotel room.
Which just makes it even better.
Yeah, and our day of shooting was compromised by rain.
So what are we going to do?
Dave England said, oh, I've got an idea.
I will, I will eat the ingredients of an omelette.
You know, and then I will barf the ingredients into a frying pan
and fry it up and somebody eats it.
And I don't know if that idea had even been submitted.
Oh, it's amazing.
I think it was just one of these things that just happened on the fly.
But there's more to it because
He he he does that you
You eat it and then you vomit. Yeah, and so it's like this ping ponging and everybody's like
Mom, it's like when Lance, you know whenever Lance
Get dry he I had
You know, whenever Lance gets dry he I had
My my my second comedy special was a little bit of a
Multimedia thing and so I had bits that I shot for it one of the bits because my father is
notoriously homophobic really yeah, he yeah
He was disgusted by the idea that I would insert a toy car at my butt. Oh yeah, I remember that one. And I backed out of that stunt. At the
premiere for that movie, my dad went up to the Jackass director. I'm sorry, was
that one or two or? That was for the first one. First one, yeah. At the premiere and
when everybody was leaving the theater, my dad saw the Jackass director, Jeff Traumane,
and he said, hey, Jeff, I just want to clarify,
I was never concerned about Steve's safety
with the toy carp is butt.
I'm just extremely homophobic.
I said it just like that.
Yeah, you just wanted to clarify that.
And he adds like, it's like a, like, yeah, you just wanted to clarify that. And he adds like it's like a, you know, like a, like it's a mulley can't cap remove
or something.
Right, yeah.
You know, so, uh, I can't just got back from the doctors, turns out, I'm, turns out, I'm
homophobic.
I don't know.
There's no medicine or anything.
I don't know, I guess, I guess I'm justophobic. I don't know. There's no medicine or anything. I don't know. I guess I guess I'm just gonna live with it
What do you what is he what do you say to him? What does he say like I mean it? I mean this was this was in another era
You got to understand we're a lot older now
So I mean has he mellowed out on it or yeah, I think yeah, so I think I've I'm beating them down quite a bit over the years
but um so I think I've beaten him down quite a bit over the years.
But so we had, my dad was in town visiting.
And I had this idea to sit my dad down under, you know,
a roof, a fake premise, you know, I was going to sit my dad down
and interview him about
veggie burgers or some kind of vegan food.
Meanwhile, my jackass buddy, Chris Pontius, was in the bathroom vigorously servicing himself
with a condom. So he ejaculated into the condom and then came out of the bathroom, he tied
it in a knot, came out of the bathroom and interrupted me interviewing my dad on camera
to hand me this condom with like a huge fresh, yeah fresh, huge load. And my and so then I swallowed it. Oh, you know, in front of my dad
just to get an. My dad, I said, dad, I'm not doing this to hurt you. He said, now you're
not going to hurt me. You're going to piss me off. Oh, dude. Yeah. And so then I ended up, dad was still staying in my house the next day.
Record time, it was the very next day.
I pooped it out into, and pulled it out of the toilet, came running up, and said, dad,
check it out.
It's all right, it already came out, it already came out, I'm holding it up.
And I was getting ready to tape that special when I showed Tony Hinchcliff, you know, the
bit.
And I'd maybe mentioned that I had saved this poop-covered condom that had passed through
my system.
And Tony said, dude, you got to swallow it again.
Yeah, we all can, we all know where this is going.
I said, I, you got to swallow it. Yeah, we all can, we all know where this is going. I said, I swallowed it again.
As far as the, like the, the bomb, the bomb
let's try reminding me of that.
So what I'm, what I'm about, Dave, dude.
Yeah, I appreciate it.
You should be around me.
It brought me a lot of joy and laughs.
And I appreciate it.
All you guys are, I remember.
So the first movie, my then girlfriend,
I was living in New York, my then girlfriend,
had the idea like, because we wanted to go see it,
but she's like, let's go to like Jersey City
and see it with that audience,
as it could be wild, which we did,
and it was pretty crazy.
Like a lot of you know.
What makes Jersey city
different um the demographic the demographic is a little little little
little a little Tanner you know I was looking, you know, I guess some people might say inner city.
But it was really fun.
And just people screaming and yelling and like, oh shit, son, what the, you know, and it
was great, a great way to see that movie.
And then the second one, I watched in Lance's house.
Lance Bayes. Oh, I love Lance. Yeah, Lance is great. A mutual friend. And we were on the
road. This would have been two thought. Oh, it came out. We were in 2006. The second one.
Okay. So we were it didn't come out. It hadn't come out yet. We had, we were watching a, must've been touring.
Had it been.
I was pirated.
Yes.
At Lances House and, and Corrin and, and the rest of Slater
Kenny were there.
And we were there with some, I think we're probably doing a
comedy festival.
I'm going to guess or something.
There was, there was a couple of us and the ladies didn't care for it.
Yeah, I did.
They did not.
And it was a much different experience than seeing it in Jersey City.
Yeah.
They could, I was fucking loving it.
And I mean, I love all of them.
But.
Now, I've heard about people barfing in Jackass movie theaters.
But one thing I've never heard about is people fainting,
like losing consciousness.
Yeah.
Never heard about that as a result of Jackass movie,
but on my most recent tour,
which was a multimedia experience, literally,
all over the world, people were passing out cold in the audience. What do you think that what do you attribute that to? There were
multiple culprits because each bit had a video associated with it and the
main culprit was a bit called the vasectomy Olympics.
Now, vasectomies are not that invasive of a surgery.
It's really like kind of an underwhelming.
Have you had one?
Yeah.
The vasectomy Olympics was classic.
Did you do it for the bit?
Yeah, I mean, I wanted to vasectomy anyway.
Right.
But also. Yeah, I mean I wanted to visect me anyway. But hope so. Yeah. Yeah. Then
there's another one where it's an
epidural foot race. We go back to the
visect me. Okay, yeah. How does that? How do
you place? Well, yeah, I mean when
you're the only one in the competition,
you definitely win. Sure, okay.
And you come in first and last place.
But you know, it was an idea that I had for,
for ever since I was a young boy and I heard a joke,
what is the definition of macho?
It's a man who jogs home from his own vasectomy.
And I remember that joke and just thought, oh well, you know,
I got to do way more than jogs. So the idea was I'd get the Visectomy and then go bareback
horseback riding. And various other challenges. And ultimately we dressed up as a pinnion
and hung me up a side down from a tree-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y My balls looked like a plum, like the same color as a plum. The candy come out? No, no, no candy came out, but it just craves a funny bit.
You know, it was a great bit.
And an epidural is of course where you have a four inch needle
in your spine and then jacked a drug
in your spinal cavity to paralyze you.
And, oh, Steve, I did that.
I can see the fate, I can see it.
Yeah, and they said,
if I get in a little queasy, just think it think it. It's a real point of pride for me. I mean, it's
like you never want people to get hurt or, you know, or bad things
that happen. But it's also like a point of pride that I really raised the bar
with this, uh, this new show. And, um, man, I'm I proud of it. It's, it's
such an awesome show with the the
Bessech to me Olympics the sky jacking okay sky jacking this was the thing
that I was afraid to go skydiving I'm sorry I have an irrational fear now
that's fuck that is interesting yeah I don't I don't like bungee jumping I don't
want to be on roller coasters I just roller coaster I don't like bungee down or like bungee jumping. I don't want to be on roller coasters
I just roller coasters. I can't see you will hang upside down after a vasectomy and get
Wack little nuts until a doctor comes and calls it all day long
You will not ride a roller coaster correct and and we're actually gonna film me on a roller coaster in
Less than a week and I'm so bummed about it. I love roller coasters. I'm so bummed about it.
I love rollercoaster.
I'm so bummed about it.
Steve, Steve Oak.
It's a weird thing, I don't like it.
At least you know it's irrational.
At least you know it's irrational.
I guess a step in.
People wouldn't be inclined to not believe me
when I say that I'm afraid of these things.
But there was an early episode
or maybe not that early but a long time ago 2003 or 4 we were filming
wild boys are a little of homo erotic nature show in Costa Rica and one of the bids on our
production schedule was to go throw me off of or not not throw me off, just to go bungee jumping. For me to go bungee jumping,
I'd like with like a 200 foot bridge,
and they built me these prop wings,
like condor man wings, for me to try to fly.
That was the bit.
And I told them on the way there,
I said guys that you could not find somebody on,
like the real world or road rules,
or any of those people's
mothers who are going to be more afraid of jumping off a bridge, bunch of
jumping, then I will be, I'm just telling you. And then nobody even, we got there
and I was like, I'm not doing it. I will not do it. And nobody believed you.
Yeah, they realized it. Ultimately, they talked me into, they said, we've got five Costa Rican guys who are willing
to do what's called a mafia toss, where they'll pick you up and throw you.
You don't have to do anything.
And I didn't go for that because I didn't involve me jump.
I would not have been able to jump.
So because I have this irrational fear and you know for like 20 years, whenever
skydiving came up in conversation, I always said, oh man, like my way of getting out
of skydiving was to say, oh man, everybody does that. Come on, skydiving, that's not
stunt. And then I would go on to say, if I ever go skydiving, I'm going to be butt ass naked and furiously
masturbating with another man strapped to my back and all time it so that simultaneously,
as I fall out of the airplane, I'm ejaculating all over the place into the wind.
And when it came time for me to put together this last show, I was like,
I got to film all new stuff crazier than ever. Make this wild multimedia show. I got to
do it. I got to go skyjacking.
I'd introduce the phrase into the lexicon. I gotta go skyjacking. Yep, and I consider skyjacking to be the crown jewel
of my career.
Wow.
I'll tell you why, because it was so challenging,
logistically.
I mean, just a timing of it.
Like how do you-
Not only the timing of it, but like it had to happen
within a precise window of two minutes.
Otherwise, we were gonna to miss the drop.
You were going to miss the drop?
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
I didn't even know that until on the day.
I was like, wow, I got to thread the needle with this one.
And even finding a company that would allow that to happen under their banner, finding the
individual who was willing to be strapped to my back, like logistically, like pulling
off the stunt.
It was literally in, figure. Yeah, pun intended. to my back like logistically like pulling off the stunt.
It was literally in figure.
Yeah, pun intended.
And then beyond that, it really, really,
I believe is testimony to how much work,
how much time, how much effort I've put into developing
the craft of storytelling, joke telling, to make it permissible for more than a thousand people, not only to watch me jack off completion, but to do so joyfully.
Without feigning.
To do so joyfully. And like on a nightly basis, I did that all over the world. In the deep south, you go to Alabama and try and show everybody
a video of you jacking off.
Not easy to ask.
And I did it.
When can we see this?
That's why I'm here, brother.
I'm here to tell everybody you can see it right now.
This whole multimedia special, assuming
that this comes out after November 14th.
It will. There you go. Steve O.com. So you're gonna tour with it or you
did tour with it. You're a tour and then you're gonna put it out there.
I already toured with it. I taped the special in London, England. Oh nice.
My beautiful fiance who just went through hell for this show to come together.
She was the production designer.
She came up with the idea, given that it's a multimedia show,
that on the stage behind me should
be a whole wall of retro TV sets.
And she sourced well over a hundred fully functioning retro tv sets making a wall seven feet tall 24 feet wide
not even including the wings of tv sets and they're all plugged together and simultaneously
like uh so was so was it all one image like did the no not one image did that that that went seven feet high and at seven feet high like a
huge Ellie re wall and and uh so the title card for each bit lived on the TV sets wow that's
cool oh yeah that's very cool oh man I couldn't be more thrilled with it well great we're
we're in London did you at the Hackney Empire oh I just did just did that. Well, not just did it, but I did it a...
I don't know, back in...
I don't know.
It was shortly before I started the tour.
It's a beautiful theater.
Awesome.
Yeah.
Four levels, which makes a thousand people look like way more than a thousand people.
But they're also because they're like right on top of you, which is nice.
Yeah.
I like that theater a lot.
That's a fun...
That's epic.
That was fun, yeah.
Of course, there's no air conditioning in England in general.
And this special is taped in July.
So yeah, I think that might be why eight people passed out at the tape.
I mean, more of them are more than usual.
I had people faint, again, not because of my material,
but on the Sass tour, like, I played, I've had one place, I twice in a row.
I did shows at the auto bar in Baltimore.
And both times somebody right up front fainted. Both times.
I couldn't have planted this guy in the second row.
He was in the second row, the second seat in from the center aisle.
And like, we got a full perfect coverage of it.
He's like kind of frankly trying to get by the guy next to him.
The guy lets him out and he just right onto his face and slides across the center aisle on his face, just face down.
And I was like, whoa, people are going to think that I planted the guy and I showed it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And so he was getting out because he knew he was something was wrong.
Yeah.
And it's crazy how it's like a time,
a little bit of a time delay.
Like the bit that's gonna make the person pass out
will have finished and I'll be into the next bit.
And then they'll, yeah.
It's like, you know, when you gotta,
when you gotta puke, sometimes you do a shot
and you do it too big and it makes you puke
and you got a good four to seven seconds to try to steer
it somewhere, you know. In this case, it'll be even like a few minutes. He's just sitting with that
imagery. Yeah. I want now I want to clarify something. It's going back to what you said about
irrational fears. It is it's an irrational I think a roller coaster is an irrational fear.
It is not an irrational fear for skydiving or bungee jumping.
I mean, that's a more rational fear to me.
Right, okay.
I think bungee jumping, they've got pretty dialed in at this point.
Yeah, but even at same with skydiving, but it's still more of a reasonable thing to be afraid of.
Yeah.
Yeah, and roller coasters are the worst of it.
Oh my God, do I hate the fact that I'm...
I love roller coasters and I love skydiving a bungee jumping too.
Skydiving's weird the way that
Initially there's that like kind of feeling in your stomach when you begin to fall
But like a moment later you feel like you're laying on a weird match. You don't it's they don't tell you that that it's really loud It's extremely loud when you're free falling really loud and then when that shoot opens and you you know
You you stop it's peaceful, quiet, warm.
It's really like a lovely meditative thing and you're looking down, it's beautiful. But you don't,
they don't really tell you that. It's just, you're the first time you do it. You're just thinking of
the fear and the adrenaline and falling. And I remember remember I've done it a couple times and it's always
really loud
Stringly loud it
It helped me a lot having that masturbation component because like
It's time to go it's time to go. Yeah, I'm ready. Didn't that be ready? It's just okay
This is your first time
experience. Yeah. Any of that. Wow. So a couple questions. One is, would you go again? Would you do it?
Did you find it pleasant enough to do it again? I know what? I'm faced with putting together my next And I've got a whole series of crash test dummy
kind of moments.
And I started with just,
I bought a car, just crashed into a wall
to make sure the airbags weren't.
And then I'm moving on to what I call the crash cube.
It's just kind of a roll cage. And I'm moving on to what I call the crash cube.
It's just kind of a roll cage that's four by four by four with a seat mounted into it.
And I'm gonna do a bunch of different things,
but the first one I'll be, I'm sitting in the cube
and it's kind of a lock off shot.
And then just a car comes just screaming through frame
and just blasts it out of the frame.
And then with the crash cube, I want to be sitting in it and have it just shoved out of an airplane.
And then like after it's been shoved out, give it a beat, and then the skydive, you know, people will dive after it, count stuff to it, and then pull the parachute.
And my fiancee hates that idea, of course.
But, you know, with my little kind of producer hat on,
I imagine, all right, like, I don't have to be in it
for the test.
You know, I should like do it without me in it.
shove it out, dive down, you know, and reset, do it again.
You do that nine times in a row without fail.
I'll get in for the 10th try.
Really, because the 10th try is usually what I think.
I don't know.
I mean, I don't know.
I just think, you know, and that makes sense to me.
I hate it, but, wow. I hate it, but, wow.
I hate it, but but but.
That's fucking balsy.
Yeah, boy, that's extra level.
What if you did the skydiving naked,
but this time you shit,
and you just took a dump while you were,
and see if it would float with you,
because the math, it doesn't matter,
Newton's law, physics and gravity. So that one, the ship would be kind of right here
while you were falling down until you pulled the cord, but maybe the ship can have a little parachute on it as well.
Right, when you already did the number three, going to the number two is a step backwards.
That's true. That is true. I haven't heard it referred to as a number three or four.
That was, uh, I just heard it as pulling a steevo.
That, that, I'm not taking credit for calling it a number three. I heard that, um,
Robert De Niro and Zach Efron had a movie called, uh, Not Bad Grandpa, but like a dirty grandpa. Yeah it was the, the, the, the,
the dinner I played this really
ranchy dirty grandpa and,
and Zach up front and some scene came in
and the grandpa yelled at me,
said, come on, I was in the middle of a number three.
And I remember to think that was really funny.
But yeah, that's just one of my ideas for the next tour.
Wow, they're, well, I wanna, all right, I'll check this out and it's, it's just one of my ideas for the next tour. Wow, well, I want
to, all right, I'll check this out and it's on your website. It is on my website, man.
Yeah, it's a, it's Steve's bucket list. It is, I mean, it's so much fun writing the
warning. You know, this contains like illegal, reckless, lifeening stunts, graphic violence, nudity, and full-on pornography.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
There's also a chance you might pass out so you're watching it at your own risk.
Wouldn't have it any other way.
Yeah.
That's beautiful.
It's a beautiful story.
It's a love story.
It's a love story.
It's a love story.
Yeah.
It really is.
I want to know how you were able to time it. It's a love story. It's a love story. Yeah, it really is.
I want to know how you were able to time it.
I mean, I brought a portable DVD player.
Yeah.
I mean mentally.
Well, yeah, all right.
So you get hard, hard enough to start jerking off.
But to...
I ate for breakfast.
Boy.
For erectile dysfunction pills
So you were you were even after you came you were still aren't
You pulled that cord also
Abstand from ejaculation for four days so I was
Well, that's it's impressive. Yeah, that's a, that's a, I was backed up with the hair trigger.
That's great.
Hopped up on dick pills and watching Pornow for the first time in years.
I, I, I, um, what's your, what's your preference?
For, um, I don't know that I have preferences for porn.
And again, I stopped watching porn because I think it's destructive to a healthy relationship.
Sure.
But, um, I agree.
I was never into girl on girl porn.
Um, my buddy, Chris Pontius described that.
He said, man, watching lesbian porn, porno is like watching a skateboarding video
with nothing but ramps and nobody riding that.
That's great.
Yeah, yeah, that was good too.
I was never really cared for the enormity of the genitalia on the men.
If I had my wish, it would be that there would be like average size penis categories.
There's gotta be somewhere.
They have everything.
Right, everything.
I mean, because the thing is that like back to Chris Pond is his point.
Well, he's got a big dick, doesn't he?
He does, he does.
But the idea that lesbian, porno,
it lacks that frame of reference.
Right.
You know, like it is like watching ramps
and nobody riding them.
You know, you wanna have that frame of reference
that-
If your head is head on a sexual male,
other way around. So it's not like, you're not a homo want to have that frame of reference that the head of the sexual male. Yeah.
So it's not like you're not a homo for wanting to have, you know, penis in your porn.
You want that as a something to relate to.
Yeah, yeah.
And these enormous penises are just not relatable.
Right.
So I think it makes sense that small weener porn, you know, I want a small weener category.
Yeah.
I'm sure there is yeah I'm sure there is
I'm sure there is yeah Casey look up a
poor peanut small peanut not micro now a small penis average average size
you know what what was going to six inch what kind of girth, Steve,
what do you give me?
Average.
Average girth and then send me the link to my phone.
All right.
Now, Steve, we're going to wrap it up here
and you've been a treat.
Absolutely pleasure.
Well, thanks, man. Likewise.
Well, thank you.
I'm a fan, dude.
I was fun to do your
Brooklyn that that was a that was a I didn't know what to expect at all. Right. I didn't expect you to get so
political and topical right. I was not uh, I mean, I've rolled with it, but you know, I wasn't expecting you very thoughtful person.
Well, I mean, what I've found you to be pretty, pretty, you know, pretty quick to establish
your position, your opinion, your take stand on politics.
And it's, it seemed that you just really throw caution to the wind when it comes to the idea of alienating people
over taking political opinions.
Oh yeah, I don't give a shit about that at all.
Right, so that made me interested to talk about it.
And I went ahead and alienated my audience.
Hey.
You know, I can't tell you how many times I go do,
I've done the, you know, Jim Norton's series show and I've done it, Jim Sam and I've
done it probably four or five times.
I love Jim.
Love those guys.
I have a good time on there, but always when I'm looking at comments, people are like,
that motherfucker is the most unfunny asshole.
I hate that guy.
They'll still have me on because they like me, but they're like, I'll go and do stuff and
people like, fuck that asshole.
Okay. So Steve, I end every show with a question from my daughter.
Okay, good.
She's six. And these are legit questions.
I asked her like, hey, I'm going to be talking to some folks on this podcast and
so
Steve oh the question
For you from Marlow is when you cry. Why do tear drops come out of your eyes?
um
I think
If I were, I don't have a biological reason. I just have a theory as to what purpose they serve, which is to, I think that our creator was aware that we weren't going to be rigorously honest
as a species.
And so, anticipating fake crying tears were built in as a veracity.
Wow. A measure of proof of authenticity. Wow, interesting.
That's an extra layer. And it was something that evolved because actually the deception came
in first. And we evolved to have that layer of proof.
Perfect.
Wow.
So I certainly would never tell her that.
But what about onions when you cry from onions?
I think, raw onions are my kryptonite.
I'm right there with roller coasters,
but I fucking hate that shit.
Is it, is it, you mean cutting raw onions or eating them?
Eating them. Oh, really?
Yeah. Oh,
and you know where you're nice pico de gallo.
But you know, that's a little bit more kind of like,
lost in the mix, you know, but.
Well, who's eating right just onions on their own?
Well, I mean, like when they, when they sneak onto a burger, that big thing, you know, but... Well, who's eating great just onions on their own? Well, I mean, like when they sneak onto a burger,
that big thing, you know.
I see.
So I'm a hypocrite every time I order my impossible
whopper at Burger King.
I say I want the impossible whopper meal
with no onions on the whopper.
But let me switch the fries for onion rings.
Inter, no, that doesn't make you a hypocrite because the onions are raw and then say you like a good onion ring
Yeah, okay, I'm not proud of my my burger king habit
Critical, okay, yeah, I wouldn't worry about that
I'm not hypocritical, but it's it's counter-intuitive you said okay.'ll give you that. You've said so many more offensive things.
I love, like I'll get home.
Honey, honey, whether or not we put out that cameo video,
the damage is done.
That's it.
Yeah, where you go?
No Steve, Steve, I got you this hat.
Just for you.
I got this just for you. This is a nice. I'm guessing on the
I'm guessing on the size
It says Los Angeles. Oh man. I love it dude. I love you know it bothers me that hats so often
Have that adjustable thing on the back like this thing. Yeah. Yeah, I don't want that is it but I'm get I guess on the
Hey, you nailed it. Yeah. Yeah, is there
Is there something like that camera one? I'm missing and I'm missing what's funny about it or is it just like a cool thoughtful gift?
Yeah, it's a cool thoughtful. I love it, dude
It now looks like you like have cancer that you're covering up or something because of the the way the hat is
Yeah, there you go.
I was doing very straight and straight laced.
Okay.
And you can do whatever you want with that hat.
I love it, dude.
Okay.
I've been looking there.
I have a number of hats and they all have that adjustable thing.
I'm like, oh, every time.
Thank you, Steve.
Hey, thank you, bro.
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