The Commercial Break - The Real Corona Xmas Castle! w/ Steve-O

Episode Date: January 2, 2024

Bryan finds himself in the middle of his own "C-19 Lockdown" as the whole house catches the ick. In lieu of a new episode, the most listened to epsiode of TCB Season 4 is revisited. Steve-O joins Tina and Bryan to dicsuss clown school, ass clowns and Mike Tyson on blow! More new epsidoes coming this week. Season 5 starts January 16th 2024.

On this episode of the Commercial Break Oh yeah, cats and kittens, welcome back to the Commercial Break. It's your only co-host coming to you live from the actual COVID Christmas castle. As every single person in this household, including those that are visiting for the holidays, has had or is having about with coronavirus 19 or whatever the fuck we're calling it these days. In any case, my dog won't stop barking, my in-laws won't stop sneezing, and my kids won't stop pouring weird fluids out of every orifice in their body.

Therefore I cannot convince any rational human being to come in and record with me. So no new episode just for today, We'll probably have a new episode tomorrow. So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to give you the most listen to. 40 minutes of the TCBC's and number four. What would that be? I know this just aired a couple of months ago, but if you haven't heard it, it's fucking wild.

Steve tells us about going to clown school. Getting kicked out of the Carnival Crews Clown Posse, or whatever he was a part of, and locking himself in a room with Mike Tyson and doing blow for 5 hours. This is one guy who definitely has more interesting drug stories than I do. But then again, I'm just a blowhard who likes to listen to myself talk. So here's Tina and I, interviewing Steve O, in a wide-ranging conversation with a super-interesting guy. Season number 5 starts just 7 days from now.

More interviews, more games, more goofing off, and of course more Frankie B. We've also got a big announcement coming January 15th, so please do tune in, and I want to thank you, Christian, I want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts, being just as sincere as I possibly can on the commercial break. Everyone out there in the podcast universe who has listened has been really good to us in 2023 and I hope you stick around in 2024. Happy New Year, best to you! Enjoy our conversation with Mr. O. The next episode of the commercial break starts now. Steve, what's going on my friend? I'm hanging tough. I've got my beautiful Wendy Good

Girl. I think that my beautiful Wendy Good girl. I think that kind of disarms your guests a little bit, but I think it's a pet the dog and hang out there for a minute. Yeah, you know, like I disarmed my guests a lot, I think. And that has to do with me bringing the studio to them with the van. I think people just come out of like their home

and then all of a sudden they're on camera and they don't, they don't, it's pretty awesome. They kind of get, it's like interrupted from the normal flow of activity that they walk into some publicist room with a camera and snapshots and all that. I think you give them kind of a homie feel. I was just sharing with Steve that I watched the Bill Burr episode of Wild Ride, which is fantastic. You have to check it out.

His podcast, saying his podcast, but I was watching the Bill Burr episode in instantaneously. Bill's like, he's so relaxed. He's like, oh, let me pet your dog for a few minutes and we'll shoot the shit. I love it. Why the, what was, who told you,

you should go do a podcast and you decided to put it into a van and ride around? podcast and you decided to put it into a van and ride around. Well, being that I tour and doing live comedy and really is kind of an important piece of the puzzle to do a podcast. I recognized that, but I just hated the idea of asking that annoying question of my famous friends. Like, we'd be on my podcast. It was so difficult for me to come around to that. The only way I could is if I made it convenient by bringing, you know, it's a lot easier to ask somebody to be on your podcast if you say I'll bring the studio to you whenever and wherever.

Exactly. Being in. You can roll up to their front door, basically. Let me ask you a question because I've been dying to ask this since I heard you were coming on the show. You lived in Venezuela when you were a kid. Is that correct? It is.

I don't remember it. I moved there when I was two years old, I believe, and lived there. I think for less than two years. I left when I was four, I believe. So I don't remember any of it, but I did definitely speak fluent Spanish in I think for less than two years. I left when I was four, I believe. So I don't remember any of it, but I did definitely speak fluent Spanish in nursery school. Have you kept that up? Have you kept the Spanish up? Oh my gosh. I lost Spanish and Portuguese. My first words were in Portuguese.

Here, here is why I ask that question and why it's so candy to me or uncanny to me. My wife is Venezuelan, born in Venezuela and I chased her around the world and I started to come to the United States with me. Now we have children and so they're learning all about, you know, they're learning Spanish, there's a bilingual household. And I thought that was so fascinating. How did you end up in Venezuela? I'm assuming because your family family your dad took a job there Wasn't he wasn't he like an executive for PepsiCo or something?

He was I was born in England My dad was working for Proctor and Gamble and when not when I was six months old the family moved in Brazil Because dad became the president of Pepsi Cola, Brazil. And I was raised by live in, made. That's why I smoked my first words in Portuguese. And then dad got a promotion to like a larger territory of South and Central America. And that's why we would win Venezuela. It's such a beautiful country.

I wanna go visit, but there's obviously there are some things to be considered now. I think it was a different country. Even I were around the same age. It's a different country, but then it is now. So it's not, it's a little unsafe to travel to Venezuela as a gringo, but I can't wait to go because I just,

I've heard it's beautiful. I've seen so many pictures and the people there are lovely. I'm so lovely, I married one Steve. So, and congratulations on your engagement too. I'm gonna get engaged about a year ago, is that right? It's been more than that. We've been on a real marathon engagement. I don't have you?

Yeah, which is good. It's okay. Long engagements are okay. I think they're totally fine. Like, do it when you're ready. Yeah. Well, I mean, I'm happy to be so sure that I'm with the right woman for me. And the longer we spend engaged, the more sure I am.

Good man. Good man. Steve, how did you get the name Steve? You have to tell this story about your brief, but probably wonderful time at the University of Miami. Yeah, there wasn't much to it. I was always drunk. My friends tended to be always drunk. Keg parties were events where I would make a point of acting out in some ridiculous way. And while I was acting out that inspired my drunk and friends

to scream. And it was just born of drunk people screaming. Steve Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo It doesn't stand for anything, is people going, oh shit, look at that guy just did. Can I ask you, like let me get inside your head a little bit. When do you start, like just recognizing that you have this really strange, like ability to turn off fear and do things that other people clearly have known, and you know, would not in the right mind do. Like what prompts that kind of energy to come out?

When do you start recognizing that this is something that people are paying attention to? And I should kind of travel down this road. Well, there's a kind of funny and kind of sad story from Venezuela. I don't, I think it was my first day of nursery school. I'm actually reasonably sure that it was my very first day of nursery school. My mother was Canadian and she went to pick me up from my first day of nursery school in Venezuela. And the women working at the nursery school,

they said, you know, Esteban, you know, Steve, is tremendous. He's a great kid. He's lovely. No, no, no, no. The mom thought thought that what they were saying that I was tremendous. Tremendous. Great compliment. But as my mom related this to her Spanish-speaking friends, they said, oh, no, no, no, no. Tremendo doesn't mean tremendous or wonderful. Tremendo means like really terrible.

That's the Tremendo means like like really terrible. That's the manestrends like. Yeah, he was always kind of a funny anecdote in the family, but then years later when I was watching the the Blackfish documentary, the Orcas at SeaWorld, they had this lady, I believe, Piki let her out. They had this lady who was describing having witnessed the mangold body of her son who had been torn apart by an orca. She described the same thing. I remember this. She said that seeing her son all torn apart by killer whale was tremendous. Not exactly something you want to be lined up with. Right.

I don't know. I have no idea what the behavior was, which inspired the label of tremendous when I was two years old. but there was something going on there. And I mean, I just kind of always felt it. Like it was always a part of you. Like, hey, I just have this energy and I want to get it out in these in these ways. Yeah, I would say so. There was just always something. I thought I was six years old and jumped off of a full-size refrigerator and landed on a nail

and holy shit. Yeah, like I was like somewhere in my leg, I feel like I was on my shin or something. And I had to get stitches So like so there is like some stuntiness going on Like apparently my first attempt at walking like a somehow knocked out teeth But you would imagine that you walk before you have teeth, but I don't know, like, that's not true. Children have teeth long before they walk, or at least in my experience,

they do. So I think when you're walking, you do have front teeth at least. Then that checks out. I went on a lower board, my first try at walking and knocked that my front teeth. Do you have regular pain sensors? I don't have a regular pain reset there. It just doesn't register, does it? It's not that it doesn't register because if I didn't register pain... It wouldn't be as entertaining. It wouldn't be as entertaining. It wouldn't have the fear. There wouldn't be the trepidation to build the suspense or the reaction to the tale.

The simple fact with me is that my desire for attention outweighs my desire for comfort. Do you attention, once you start getting that attention, it's kind of addictive, right? It's like, now that I have something that people are giving me attention for, and I find that I'm good at it, and I just go for it now. And does that manifest itself through high school and college, and that's where people are like,

Steve, oh, shit. You know, I wish that that was the case, but it wasn't really working for me when I was young. You know, like I really, like I remember, I remember, I was third grade, like eight years old, we were living in Miami, Florida, and you know, I gathered the kids around in the cafeteria to watch me unscrew a salt shaker and just consume mass quantities of salt from it. And nobody thought that everybody thought it was kind of creepy and you know, nobody really enjoyed that.

He became misunderstood because they were like, oh my God, what is that kid doing? And so maybe the attention at that age is a little bit different, obviously, than it is when you're starring in Jackass 4. Yeah, I mean, it was, it was, it was non-imnecessarily really good. I remembered that when I was, when I or perhaps even my last baby teeth, um, was, uh, Lucy. I think maybe not really loose yet. I knew that if I ripped it out like, uh, too soon, it would, there would be a lot of blood. Yeah.

And, um, you know, I went into class and told this girl I was sitting next to that I could leave whenever I wanted. I didn't have to be in class that day. And you know, she looked at me like I was a weird creep. And then when the class started, I ripped out the teeth super violently and there was all this blood. And I raised my hand to the teeth here and the teeth were sent. Go to the nurse, go to the nurse.

And I got up and sent to the girl I said, they told you so. I'm like, that girl, I was like, so we had this. Yeah, everybody just thought I was a creep. We had this guy on a, you can't even go on. Go ahead.

Well, I'm in there, because I handled that poorly right there. I was just gonna say that there was a particularly, Well, I mean, dude, I handled that poorly right there. I was just going to say that there was a particularly, like, it pierced my heart, and it's sad to say that that's the case. But, I'm going to guess guess 2009, maybe 2010. Okay. I was setting about putting together my first book, which is a memoir called Stevo Professional

Idiot. And my sister being the family historian pulled out like all the files that she had compiled over the years for me to have like, you know, I was kind of resources from my book. And in going through them, I found a report card from sixth grade, which was me when I was 12 years old. And there was a comment from my home-room teacher, Mrs. Iakwessa, which read, Steve, so like some paraphrasing, but it seems basically desperate for the approval and praise of his peers. You know, the affection, the approval, the praise. But everything that he does, you know seeking this approval and praise brings about the opposite results. You know it was a

story and reading that, I mean I was reading that as an adult in my 30s and it was just like oh I did it all yeah I feel the pain of that that real kid you know I feel the pain of that little kid who wanted so desperately to be loved and tried so hard to be loved but the way that I the way that I tried so hard just made everybody feel like I was a creep. That really resonates with me. And that worked out okay for you. Yeah, I mean that characterizes my childhood. I think there's, I believe like an element of alcoholism in there. And like the idea of just constantly feeling uncomfortable in my skin. You know, like my alcoholics very often, restless, and discontent.

And that people can sum it up by just saying, uncomfortable, my own skin. I agree with you. Yeah, man, like, it wasn't comfortable, man. I had very uncomfortable childhood. I know you've been to many therapy sessions just like I have. And my therapist will often say, that's the little boy Brian talking, right? Crying out for attention, crying out for acceptance, crying out for something. And you know what?

Every time she says it to me, it fucking rips my heart out. It really does because I know she's speaking the truth. And so to connect with that, like many, many years later, you read this report card and you see, like this was the little boy Steve looking for attention and the teacher so aptly pointed out, maybe he's not getting the kind of attention he so desperately wants.

And, but that weird energy, that energy that you had turned into something that really has become who you are. It's the definition of Steve, at least to the outside world. It's the definition of Steve, oh, and you've become a great success. You are a fucking movie star and quite frankly, you're a legend. Tina and I, who's sitting here with me, Tina and I, you know, were in the age group that is squarely watched you grow up on TV. And you're just like, there's something about you, Steve, that is so real and authentic, even when you're doing things that are absolute

insanity to the rest of us. We're all seeing, they're watching, cringing. There's something so authentic about Steve O. And your journey just as from watching you from the first season of Jackass to who you are today on Wild Ride, it's, we've grown up with you. You've grown up, we've grown up, we've all become a little bit more mature. How, when you're doing bucket list,

which is your new special that's out there, and we'll tell people how that's out there and we'll tell people how to get there and we'll send that we'll put a link on the show notes. When you're doing bucket list and you are taking it to the extreme, you clearly are scared of some of these things, like the opening shot, I don't want to give it away because I want people to watch it, but the opening shot, Steve, it looks like you're going to lose your bucket legs. I mean, it's crazy.

When you're doing that stunt, are you like, holy shit, Steve, what the fuck are you doing? Or are you just in some other zone? Like, you know, this is what I do. This is what I wanna do. Well, first off, there were a lot of kind words there. Thank you. Thank you.

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and he drops himself onto a moving RV where the landing is less than spectacular. Funny falls it off. I thought you were going to die, man. I was like, holy shit, there he goes. That's the best stunt. Yeah, like, it wasn't even planned when the bus hit me. Yeah. While I was on the ladder like that, it was very, very scary. And yeah, I loved it, man.

It was the most expensive stunt that I've ever put together. And it really worked. It worked the most expensive stunt that I've ever put together. And it really worked. It worked exactly the way I wanted to work, actually, even the work matter. And my bucket list special is very much like that. You know, from start to finish, it's ambitious. There's the one where I get a shot up with general anesthesia drugs. This is my next question.

This is my next question. Tell this story. How do you convince a fucking doctor? How do you convince a fucking doctor to put general anesthesia in you? How did you do that? You know, I didn't make this as clear in the in the special, but what we really did, I mean, I just, you know, I said we we spoke with a few anesthesiologists. I went on my Instagram story and I put up my story out on Instagram saying, hey, if you're a general anesthesia specialist or maybe a centipera just a professional. Yeah, please reach out to my guy Scott Randolph.

And it's really remarkable how like 100% of the time that I've ever asked for some random help on social media. Even events I need drugs to be stolen from a hospital. I mean, I just heard while riding a bicycle through a field. Or, you know, I didn't, it was a non-social media that the epidural took shape. But yeah, it's always worked. It's always worked. You gotta see this special, it's fucking fantastic. I wanna move back one second, Steve, do you like the world's best health insurance? Or are people just like, you must see the doctor

quite a bit, I would imagine, in your long work. Tell me when's the last time. Go ahead. I'm seeing the doctor more and more, and it's not even, I really don't think it's because of stunts. I think it's just the fact that, you know, I'm 49 years old. Yeah.

I really, like tomorrow I'm going, and tomorrow I'm having surgery on my knee to repair a torn meniscus and it's not from a stunt. It's just wear and tear. Yeah. If anything, I think it happened while riding a bicycle and not generally a student bike ride. Not the one where you're at the sleep, yeah. That's not the one where you're at the sleep, yeah. Then you can't. I got your West from a stunt that I got the collarbone hardware put in and it was from a stunt that I got

the ankle hardware put in and it was from a stunt that I got the skin grafts all over my body. They have not all over my body, all over my arms and my back. Yeah, I mean, you may not have had all the doctors visits because of the stunts but you've probably had quite a few is there like when you go to do a jackass there must be an incredible amount of attention paid to how we're going to ensure the people

that are on this movie and just getting clear and says to do that all those stunts. You know, it was it wasn't until jackass 3d in 2010 that I first asked, hey, what happens if somebody gets like really badly hurt or killed. And the answer was? They said, oh, uh, standard workman's comp laws apply I'm sure there's um Insurance stuff too, but um, but yeah, like what I broke my collarbone on the set of the fourth jackass movie and Yeah, it's like what workman's comp claim

movie. And yeah, it's like what workman's comp claim. That's that's insane. That's insane. Yeah. I would have imagined you guys would have been insuring stuff in seven different ways to Sunday. But maybe I may. Yeah, yeah, of course. Changed to what is the what is the craziest stunt that you have done a part of, you

know, on your own bucket list jackass any of the series any of the television shows what is the craziest on that you did that you just would never do again you're i'm just done with that i would never attempt that again that there are plenty of things that uh... i wouldn't do again uh...

but i was probably the one that with the burns, the fire angels. That was the big closing stunt, the grand finale of my second comedy special, which was called gnarly. And that one lives just for free streaming like at steveo.com. If you want to watch that, it just starts playing right away. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, you got badly hurt on that one. Burnt, like skimmed up. Yeah, I was like, I'm head laid down at a bed of rocket engine fuel and did snow angels while my buddies lit the fuel.

Who comes up with these ideas? You specifically, or is it like you guys, you and your friends or the production team, you all get together and you brainstorm ideas and then you see if they're even feasible and then what's the process? I mean, the idea is coming different ways and the process certainly varies.

But in that case, the idea was, you know, just blow up my living room with me. It was actually inspired by my relationship with my girl. At the time, it was my girlfriend, who's now my fiance. on say. And I just felt like I felt very strongly that this was a relationship that I was committed to. And to look at my house at the time, it was very much the house that I kind of decorated as a bachelor. And know, my bachelor pad. And I no longer wanted it to feel like my girl was, you know, in my house. I wanted it to feel like it was our house. Our house. Yes, totally. So my way of making that has to, I want to blow up the living room.

I want to like really screw up all the required to paint over everything. And that, you know, and then I want my girl to, you know, kind of lead the charge and decorate, decorating it to make it feel like our house. Tina, this shows a level of maturity. This shows a level of maturity. This shows a level of maturity. It really does self-awareness and maturity. Because I know a lot of guys who refuse to change a damn thing. It's my place, it's my house.

I'm keeping it the way that I want it. But I knew early on that if you want to invite a woman to live with you or your girlfriend or whatever it happens to be, if you want to do that, they have to feel like it's their place too. Not that just a couple dresses are hanging in extra space in your closet. They have to feel like they're part of the game, right? Because I would want that too.

So it's just like a bit of self-awareness. Look at you, Steve. You're all grown up, buddy. Yeah, it was pretty rad. I'm going to blow up the living room. And I didn't really do a whole lot of damage to the living room. It's an all-terrace to yourself. We made a little bit of a mess, but the damage was primarily to myself.

It was just a crazy thing man. It was, you know, and whenever I've gotten hurt doing stunts, you know, thankfully I've recovered from everything for the most part. And the more consequential, the more hurt I got, it's always just made the stunt more notable. It's been more of a notch in my belt so there's nothing really to regret about any of that for me and you know like once something happens like it's happened there's not

really there's got to be a compelling reason to go and do something again. Exactly. It's you adding to the art piece, right? I look at your career and you've just done so many things that are notable in my own head and then talking to people that knew that you were coming on the show. Oh, you got to ask them about this, don't you? You got to ask them about that, don't you? And I think everybody feels the same way it's like holy shit look at this guy's career he's still alive he's still walking and talking and he

has done all this stuff at his own expense for the enjoyment of the people on the other end and probably you got you know you're getting something out of it too obviously but that relationship between the audience and you all of it's on celluloid which is the great thing too what what I see like on youtube and then I see somebody doing similar things for like, you know, 10 views. Now listen, this could be the beginning of another, the next Steve O or it could just be so kid, you know, break in his arm for a couple of views.

But you really have made a pretty storied career out of this. Do you, can you walk into an airport or into a mall or you have target wherever you go shopping, can you walk into one of those places and not be recognized? I'm sure during the pandemic it might have been easier because of the mask, but like if you don't have any mask on you just walk in, do you get recognized enough that it becomes like, oh shit, I gotta go into Target. The mask never helps. Oh really? You have because as soon as I open my mouth. I can recognize over the phone. Oh yeah. I order a pizza. I did not not all the time but it's not infrequent.

Why do you talk this way? Is this like, it's just a gravely voice? I think I, it's one of our intrepid researchers, I heard that you speak with your muscles and not with your vocal cords or something like that. That's what I'm told. Has it always been like that? I don't know. I just suck at talking

uh... you graduated from ringling brothers barnaman baili clown school but you didn't actually go to work for the for the circus is that right i didn't work for the ringling circus i worked for a circus called the Hanifred Family Circus. And I worked as a clown on Royal Caribbean cruise lines. Oh my God, you're kidding me. Now, so you're on these Royal Caribbean cruises. Are you testing some of these ideas that you have for doing crazy stunts or are you just taking it like it's a job I go out I do my clown show and then I call it

today. I mean I filmed I filmed crazy stunts on the cruise ships and the the line between what I did you know in my professional role on the cruise ships versus what I was doing as extracurricular for my aspirations and my video camera. That line got a little bit blurry. Certainly got blurry, but yeah. When you were filming these is this what eventually became like the tapes that you were trying to get into big brother and and you were or were you just was this pre or post or I was already in big brother. Yeah, when I to the cruise ship that the big brother boob video came out. So yeah, that was all happening. But there were certain things like the one of the clowns I worked with while we were in the office typing up our weekly report. One of the clown reports on the record reviews. It's like you're on the job that we had.

It was called interactive performers. You know, the different things that we did, it was kind of an experimental thing. Like we were the first to have this job. So the company wanted uh... a weekly report of what we did okay gotcha and we were typing up our report and uh... the this clown that i worked with just grabbed the stapler off the desk and is whacked himself with it and

sure enough he had a staple in his arm and i thought wow that's like the coolest thing I've ever seen. And we got paid in cash on the cruise ship like every other week. Like every two weeks we got paid and we made like 600 bucks a week. So it was more than a thousand bucks that we got paid every two weeks in cash and it was all $100 bills. Holy shit. The next time we got paid, I, with my friends blessing, I was like, man, do you mind if I take this staple thing?

And I've filmed a bit called the $1,000 man where I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I'd staple 10 $100 bills across my arms in my chest. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, We did it in the same office When you I've had friends who entertained on cruise ship like they were you know when I was a did a piano and the other girl did a guitar Whatever was a like living on a cruise ship. How long did you do that job for? last year for six months I had a six month contract and the other clowns in my there we were a troop of four clowns on this one ship and all three of the other clowns went to the cruise ship brass and said if Steve oh comes back for another contract. We all quit. Probably some of the guests. There's a clown mutiny. They said if Steve comes back, we all quit.

Yes, so it's my boss clown. When I saw my boss clown who wasn't part of my trip, he was like, man, these fucking clowns went behind your back and they made it so you're not coming back for another contract. It's not in the cards, you're not coming back, definitely not. And they don't have the to do you like that. He said, I'm telling you this job is going away. You do not have this job at the end of your contract. So I'm telling you to call up your skateboard buddies and try and drum up another gig. And he said, if I let it be known that he told me that, that he would lose his job. So I had to keep it a secret and I had to work with these fucking clowns for another life.

There was like another two months. There was another two months and we were training for the launch, the maiden voyage of the world's largest cruise ship. There were all these routines, these scripts and stuff that I had to learn with these other clowns, knowing that I would never perform them. And that the other clowns had stabbed you in the back. And they couldn't know that I knew.

Yeah, because it was all hush-hush. Yeah, and I pulled it off. I pulled it off and I reached out to Big Brother and I was like, yo, I got this idea. I'm going to, because I've been walking on stilts on the cruise ships and always terrified. That sounds terribly dangerous. It's like you fall off the edge. Yeah, and we were never like, it wasn't even about falling off the edge of the ship, but it was just falling in general.

Yeah, because the ship's moving, yeah. So because I was, you know, like I was kind of a front of my mind, and I thought, man, I gotta do it. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna tip myself over on still. And I was like, but I gotta make it big and rad. So I caught up Jim Tremaine. I was like, I'm gonna have a still costume,

which will be lit on fire. While my still costumes on fire, I'm gonna have a unicycleist ride, a unicycle through my stilts, while a skateboarder jumps off the roof of my house over my head and and through a fireball that I'm blowing out of my mouth. So the photo would be the skateboarder going through the fireball that I'm blowing out of my mouth while the unicycles ride through the foot of the month fire. And then when those two guys ride away, then I'm going to crack open a beer

and pound it while I tip myself over. And then when I hit the ground, I need to be extinguished. And I wanted that to be the cover of Big Brother magazine. Wow. Chameleon liked the idea. And I walked off the cruise ship with like $9,000 in cash, which was like not clever of me to have been stashing all that cash in my cabin, especially not one of those fucking backstabby clouds. Yeah, maybe I put some of it in the bank, I don't know, but there was a bunch of cash that I had.

And I flew myself back and forth to California to do You know to do big stunts to try to get noticed and when I got out to California with the fire stunt That's when I met Knoxville Traumae waited until I was out there and he was like hey dude like now that you're out here. I can tell you This isn't just for the magazine. We're doing this for a pilot. Geez. And yeah, I did that fire stunt for the pilot. It didn't make the cover but the photo was the table of contents, the whole page. Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, we got a cool photo out of that. And then yeah, kind of the rest is history and had those clowns. And you know what, it's like I do owe it to those clowns. For me, I can't provide history. Yeah, the truth is, I gave those clowns every reason to, I was very disrespectful of those clowns every reason to I was very disrespectful of those clowns. I did not think they were fucking rad. I didn't think they had any like skills that I admired. They didn't I didn't think that they're what they're stupid shit that they were trying to come up with was funny or rad. shit that they were trying to come up with was funny or rad. I just didn't think anything that they did was awesome at all. And as such, I had no respect for them. And I behaved very much with dishing. I mean, not disney. It's like I didn't have time for them. I was like, whatever you guys want to do. and I would just have my headphones on practicing my juggling and just my you know

I ignored them and and I was disrespectful and so like They had every reason to To do what they did and thank God they did what they did because If if I kept that job for another contract you wouldn't have been jackass Yeah, there goes the jackass pilot, there goes the whole thing. So Steve named one of those clowns who made a billion dollars at the box office.

That's right. I think everything turned out okay. I don't think jackass made any billion dollars. No, I'm talking about all of it together. You guys, I'm, can you think you've made a billion dollars on all four movies? No. Well, that's a damn shame. You you've made a billion dollars on all four movies? No. Well, that's a damn shame.

You should be. You should have made a failure, don't you? I think, uh, I think we probably cracked a half a billion, but all, all four movies put together, definitely not a billion. Honestly, anything over $10,000 sounds rich to me. That's right. Oh, good. You have to, if you, if you can, please, touch on one thing.

True or not true, you did blow with Mike Tyson. Oh, yeah. You have a bunch of it for hours. Were you not at all intimidated? Do you know him? Do you guys have a previous relationship and then you hung out one night and somebody had some blow? Or?

No, I'm pretty sure it was the first time we ever met and I had a bunch of cocaine and we locked ourselves in a bathroom for probably three hours until we had consumed it all. Wow. And what is the conversation life with Mike Tyson whenever it's hot? Are you guys like really... Listen, I've done quite a bit of blow myself and I know what those conversations can be like you know hours long And we're talking about saving the world and then you wake up in the morning all you want is a beer and to go back to bed But what do you guys talk about do you remember any of it? I mean you know share anything super personal but for sure

I mean, I just I think that the personal but for sure I mean I just I think that the the final thought Mike's parting comment was that everybody's got Steve O'Rong that Steve O'Rong is actually very intelligent wow yeah who is everybody's guy you wrong you're a smart guy wow really to have Mike Tyson say that to you I'd You're a smart guy. Wow, really? To have Mike Tyson say that to you. I'd just be a little nerf. I mean, listen, I don't know Mike Tyson. And he seems like a perfectly lovely guy, you know?

He also has matured and you listen to him sometimes and you're like, wow, Mike Tyson really got his shit to get like, he knows what he's talking about. He's almost like a philosopher in some ways, right? And, but I don't know, just me personally, man stuck in a factor with Mike Tyson doing blow. I'd be like, oh, this doesn't go the wrong way. I don't be also thinks I'm intelligent,

so I don't get hit. Steve, I gotta tell you, and I know I should share it a little bit early around in the conversation, but I see Arla and a team has been a friend of mine for 30 plus years, and we've been big fans since Since you guys came on air and I have to say that I feel like our life path have gone similar directions and It's just such a pleasure to talk to you and know that the authenticity that that we kind of

Felt through the screen is really there. You're a really cool guy and I'm so grateful that you came on the show. Well, thanks man, I appreciate it. I, you know, for you to know about the stilt stunt for Big Brother, that's going deep man. That's, that was a long time ago and it's pretty rad dude. If I'm gonna have Steve Owen, I'm gonna ask questions that I sincerely want answers to not ones that i

already have answers to so uh... and you know we do our homework we don't want to sound like totally it's what we get on here uh... i love it man i love it i appreciate it and uh... yeah man sounds like you checked out my bucket list specials we did and we're gonna encourage our listeners to do so also uh... steve o podcaster my bucket list special. We did. And we're going to encourage our listeners to do. So also Steve Oh

podcaster stunt maker philosopher engaged for a long time guy and doesn't matter because they'll do it when he's ready. And I'd like to consider you a friend of the commercial break now too. Will you come back on sometimes Steve? Sure man. I love it. Where does this live? It's in Atlanta. Oh, it lives on YouTube, but it really where the audience is, is on the podcast, on the audio version. So I'll say, of course we'll send you a link. We'll get in touch with you. And send all the information.

And come back on some time. We love you. Best to you, thanks Steve. Hey man, thank you. Appreciate you guys. No problem. Glad to have you, thanks Steve. Yeah, I did. Let's cut to the chase.

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I am still tripping over that story about Mike Tyson and doing blow for five hours with Mike Tyson. I can't believe he said locked in the bathroom. Locked in the bathroom with Mike Tyson. And listen, I've seen, I'm reiterate this. I've seen lots of recent video. We've all seen Mike Tyson send us his heyday as a crazy and crazy talented boxer.

He would destroy human beings and everybody was afraid of him. But he seems like he's gotten some self-awareness and some perspective on life. He's almost like a philosopher now. Super chill. A philosopher with a really weird voice, but a philosopher nonetheless. Does he raise pigeons? I don't. I think he does.

I think he's a pigeon-raiser. He wouldn't surprise me in the least. It doesn't surprise me either. It's like the most, the biggest example of brute force in our lifetime, Mike Tyson, is like petting pigeons. He did this whole documentary about petting pigeons or something. It was really fascinating. But then when Steve says the clowns voted me off the island, like the clown's savvy in the back. I just lost my shit. And then he said the boss clown. Oh yeah, the boss clown.

I'm just imagining thugs, you know, like yeah. Yeah, and how do you not get higher than on the circus that paid you to train? Outrageous. It's outrageous. Only Steve. But I like, here's what I like about Steve. And I try to convey the message.

I hope I did appropriately. Steve also has some perspective now in his later life. I think now that he's sobered up and he's probably going to more therapy meetings and we'll ever go to in our time of life. He's just got some self-awareness and there's not a bit, not an air of anything about him. He came on, he sat down. Super authentic, so genuine. Yeah, very humble.

Yeah, I liked it a lot. I'm really grateful that Steve decided to come on. I hope we get him back one day. We will get him back. I have a feeling he'll come back. And Chris, he's not here. But if you had told Chrissy and I, at the beginning of this crazy adventure,

or even a month ago, that Steve O. would agree to come on the commercial break, we probably would have laughed you out of the room. Yes. Because this is the most mediocre comedy podcast available. I have a feeling none of Steve's people go west into the show before they agreed to come on. But we're so grateful that he did decide to come on

Yeah, so all the pertinent details are available inside of the show notes. Let me remind you go check out his special If you watch it. Yeah, go watch it. It's not money wasted if you're a fan of anything jackass or stevo You're gonna love this also check out his his podcast, Wild Ride. It's good. And he's got some real big time celebrities that walk in the door. I was watching the Johnny Knoxville one. I was watching the Johnny Knoxville one. You can, yeah, can I hear you?

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