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This episode of The Honeydew is brought to you by Coors Pure, Upstart, Liquid IV, and Earthfed. More on that later. Let's get into the do. The Honeydew with Ryan Sickler. Welcome back to The Honeydew, y'all. We're over here doing it in the Nightpan Studios. I'm Ryan Sickler, ryansickler.com, ryansickler on all social media. Make sure you subscribe to that YouTube channel, and make sure you subscribe to the Patreon. If you or someone you know has that story that has got to be heard,

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And if you're new here, hey, we highlight the lowlights over here. I always say these are the stories behind the storytellers. We're laughing in the face of adversity. And today's guest, super excited to have on. First time here on the Honeydew, ladies and gentlemen. Please welcome Steve-O, y'all. Welcome to the Honeydew, Steve-O. Yeah, dude.

All right. All right, so listen. First of all, thank you for doing this. Of course, man. I got to tell you. Well, plug whatever you'd like first, please. I'm easy, man. I'm all things Steve-O on social media. Steve-O.com is my website.

And I've got a bunch of autographed shit for sale at Steve-O.com right now. Posters, books, even some skateboards. But by the time this is out, I bet the skateboards are gone. Whatever, dude. I'm easy. Well, I wanted to tell you. even some skateboards but by the time this is out i bet the skateboards are gone whatever dude i'm easy well i wanted to tell you i saw you what the other night a couple weeks ago yep and that's only the second show i've done in a year and i haven't seen you for a minute which i'll go back and tell them the first time i worked with you um and you came right over to me and i don't even look like i looked back then okay and you were like sickler and over to me and I don't even look like I looked back then.

And you were like Sickler. And I was like, and I'm standing next to Josh out of Myers. You talk to me, you don't talk to him. You walk away. And Josh goes, man,

I just saw him like a couple of weeks ago and he didn't even say anything. And I go, really? I go, man, I don't think I've worked with him in like six or seven years and i don't even look like i looked here remember he's like that just happened i go yeah it just happened he goes that is so crushing and i just laughed so fucking hard your honey dude dude i

loved it oh man but the time i worked with you, I still tell people about this. The Ontario Improv 2011? It was the old Irvine Improv before they made it the big one. Okay. And the first night, they made you stop doing it after this, but the first night you did, I remember you used to slice the fucking lemons and squeeze them in your eyes. And I remember doctors coming over and saying, hey, you're going to go blind if you're doing that on every fucking show.

That's real acid. Like, you're going to go blind. Still to this day, the most amazing fucking bar trick with the rolling over and not. I watched you do it. It must have been a dozen times and not a fucking drop. Not even close close it never was close um you you lit your this is what you said to me you lit your hair on fire and after we got to know each other after a couple shows you're like hey will you set my hair on fire i'm like

fuck no i'm not doing i refuse to do it i'm like i can't i don't know i'm gonna fuck it up you had some friend come up and do it right and then you chewed the lightbulb and do you remember this I wouldn't have been chewing lightbulbs at that point because that's actually really bad for your teeth you did what I did I broke the lightbulb on my head and then you cut yourself

and then I used the glass to cut my tongue and put blood all over yourself and then stood out in front and took pictures with people. Yeah. It's a tough gig. There's blood on you, bro. It's a tough gig for comedy clubs, dude.

I remember the next night, they're like, yeah, you can't do that anymore. You can't do the blood. Oh, shit. I mean, that was the way that I worked't do the bluff. Oh, shit. I mean, that was the way that I worked my way into comedy. I thought, let me promise that it's going to be all

this crazy stunts and lure them in with the stunts and then win them over with the stand-up. That was how I wanted to do it. I don't know how well that worked, but I just stuck at it. I think the meet and greets did help a lot because when people – the more people you can send home with a photo from your show

and then they post it on their social media and let their people know that they had a good time, that's kind of grassroots promotion that helped me out a lot. And as it sort of evolved my comedy i stopped doing all the stunts like in person on stage because that's just you can't forever yeah i remember the guy in his 20s that used to do a flip on stage and i'm like you better you better get something out you better get a new closer bro that shit ain't gonna happen in your 30s and 40s right for sure man um but but then what i started doing was uh putting together comedy that was based on like super huge stunts

and then as with my show i uh tell the story of these like overthe-top stunts, and after the bit, I'll screen the footage. So the footage is exclusive to the tour, and I'm fucking butt naked with a guy strapped on my back, blowing a load everywhere as I fall out of an airplane. Yeah. That's a closer for my new tour. It's called Skyjacking. Spoiler alert. There's a lot to it. All right.

So let's go back to you. Who are you? Talk to me. Because I know – I mean I got to know you a little bit over that weekend about Clown College or was it college, right? Did we really only work one weekend? I think we worked more than two i think it was two we were i think we worked a fair amount and then i would see you and you really stuck with it and you've gotten really good and i'm watching you out there we were on the show together the other night um so where does it all come from tell me about growing up and like the shit you've gone through i mean dude i was like a rich

kid man you know um not like my dad wasn't born rich but my dad like became very successful in business and um i was born in england uh 1974 and then at six months old my family moved to brazil because dad got the job of president of pepsi cola in all of brazil come on yeah the head of all of pepsi here's the president of pepsi cola and brazil um and uh what the fuck did he come from to get pepsi what was his job before that uh before that he was working for Procter & Gamble. All right. So he's big companies right there already. Right.

He was just a hustler, man. He just worked really hard. I don't even know if he was like, hey, he's a smart guy. But it was more just like hustle. Wait, I got to ask you. Were you allowed to have Coke and shit around the house at all? Oh, God, no, dude. You couldn't at all, huh?

No fucking Coke, dude. What about Coke products? Minute Bain shit like coke products that was a big fucking deal too that was like not to be fucked with dude all right somebody once told me and i've been to atlantis and i don't know if it's true or not but somebody told me that in atlanta at the what is it the taco bell pizza hut kfc that's all pepsi that it's coke there and i can't believe, that's all Pepsi. It's Coke there. And I can't believe that that's where they're from. Yeah, I wouldn't buy that. So it was a big deal. You guys couldn't have any Pepsi or Coke products.

Correct. Because Coca-Cola had clothing for a while when we were growing up. Yeah. But yes, my dad, my mom, my dad, they were popping off. They were super successful, especially because if you're making a good living in Brazil, then like you're super rich because like – What did your mom do? Mom, she was a nurse. I think she like just stopped with the nursing school and became kind of a housewife.

But yeah, their shit was popping off and, and they were partying. And so I actually spoke my first words in Portuguese because I was raised by live in maids. No shit. Yeah. That was like my parents. Uh,

well, do you know what it was? What'd they say? I couldn't, I couldn't guess whatsoever, but, um, but yeah,

by the age of three, I spoke three languages. No shit. Okay. Yeah, like English with my parents. Can you still do it? No, I forgot two of them by the age of five. That happened to me with Pinochle.

With what? Pinochle. It's a card game. I love it. I've learned how to play it twice, but I don't play it enough, and I lose that ability. Yeah, but when I was in summer camp, 11 years old, some kids from Portugal, I think they said that I was speaking Portuguese in my sleep. No shit.

Which is pretty crazy because it's in there. Okay, do you ever dream in any of the languages you spoke? No. No, I wouldn't. No shit. Talking Portuguese in your sleep. I mean, I did. I did when I was 11, and I had lost Spanish and Portuguese by the age of five.

All right. I was like two years old, moved from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil to Caracas, Venezuela, because dad got promoted to like Pepsi in Central America. I don't know. It was like he got more of it. So I never even lived in America until I was four. I went to kindergarten in Connecticut. Then I moved when I was six years old to Miami.

Oh, because your dad's working for Pepsi. When we moved to Miami, dad uh wasn't working for pepsi he was working for rj reynolds tobacco he was a fucking big tobacco ceo and uh we lived in miami for well like three years three and a half years and um then this was during the 80s and but you're bouncing around obviously yeah you're not meeting lifelong friends sticking around communities that sort of thing you're being raised by nanny so are you not close with your mom and dad it's not that my mom was just so fucking busy mom was a hardcore alcoholic and dad was perpetually traveling for business. So if there was less than the travel or less than the moving, I should say, and switching schools and all that, I think the crazy part for me was like the inconsistency because dad was not there.

But then when he was there, he was like kind of super strict and like trying to maybe like compensate for not having been there. And that just doesn't work. You can't have like no rules, like heavy rules. Like it can't be on and off like that. And dad traveled more and more and mom got drunker and drunker. And as I grew up, the house got bigger and bigger because here's what was crazy during the 80s was when they really concluded that cigarettes were fucking like cause cancer, super kill you, real bad for you. answer, super kill you, real bad for you. And so in sort of a frantic scramble, the tobacco companies started buying up food companies because they wanted to kind of switch their eggs from one basket to another.

So it was like at the time, the largest corporate merger that had ever taken place was when R.J. Reynolds Tobacco bought Nabisco. merger that had ever taken place uh was when rj reynolds tobacco bought nabisco yeah they're like investing in food so that so this merger it became we we went from like doing well you know dad went from doing well to being like fucking you know like and so that was when i was in fourth grade and um we for some reason in that whole deal, we moved to London, England. And once you were in fourth grade? Fourth grade. So halfway through fourth grade, I moved to London, England.

Damn, you've lived all over the place by the time you're in fourth grade. Yep. All right. And then end of sixth grade, we moved to Canada. So then I'm in fucking Canada. And then- That Pepsi's Mall of America all over. It's all over that place.

And we ended up, then halfway through eighth grade, moved back to London. And I stayed in London for all four years of high school at that point. Oh, you graduated high school in London? I'd graduated high school from the american school in london england and uh this was like a fucking badass school too like um they have sports teams it wasn't that it was like of my senior graduating Graduating class in high school at the American School in London, I believe 80% of the class went on to Ivy League schools.

Damn, 80%. I believe that. I believe that's true. It was some fucking privileged, like the American ambassador to England was in class with me. I fucking sold the guy weed. You know, uh, there's like,

just like a lot of, you know, it was a heavy hitting deal. I was like a loser for going to the university of Miami, which is actually a pretty good school. Yeah. It's a really good school. And I wasn't ever like, you know, I wasn't like a a you know i wasn't like a bad

kid i wasn't like a even particularly a bad student i was like b's and c's you know and then uh beginning of my junior year 11th grade i i just i was like okay i'm ready to fucking become a pothead now like what's up you know, and I started smoking pot and taking acid and drinking. The junior high school? Junior high school, yeah. I was 16. And it was just crazy, dude. My grades just fucking plummeted.

I started getting fucking arrested and fucking hospitalized. All right, wait. What's the first arrest first arrest well in england it was kind of a kind of there was like they we got caught smoking weed one time and like they didn't really arrest us but they you know we were apprehended we were like they took the weed and stuff nothing then another time uh it's actually the night before graduation i got uh thrown and actually locked up in the drunk tank. What did you do to get locked up?

It was like the school. We would go to like fucking pubs in London. And the drinking age was 18. Whether or not you're 18 didn't really matter over there. But it was like the pub was closing. Like last call, everyone finish up your drinks and I've got this pint and I'm like, I don't know if I said I was going to fucking throw the pint glass at the fucking wall, like at the pub itself or I was getting ready to go

do it. Like I pounded it and like, someone's like, dude, don't fucking throw that glass against the brick wall because there's a fucking cop standing right there. And I'm like, and I fucking throw it throw it anyway you know and like smash the glass uh and then so yeah the cop grabbed me i'll never forget this too this is like not a story that i that i've told a whole lot but uh i get locked up in this drunk tank and um this is the night before graduating high school. And they let me out at like 5 in the morning. And like I was still so fucking drunk that I was like a little bit in and out of a blackout still. And I vividly remember there being like a staircase.

Like I was somehow in there upstairs. being like a staircase to like i was in somehow in there upstairs and like as they released me i walked like i stopped halfway down the fucking flight of stairs to to exit the police station and just fucking pissed all over this i've had a fucking sit down and i didn't see that coming i strayed straight and i'm just standing on the fucking stairwell, fucking pissing all over it. And I remember this fucking British Bobby, this British cop's all fucking pissed. He's super pissed. He fucking, like, he fucking comes up to me. I remember him handing me a mop.

He says, yeah, fucking mop it up, you bloody bastard or whatever fucking. And I'm like, oh, shit. And I fucking, like, mop up the piss get back to mopping and I just continue out. I was like – it wasn't like they locked me up again. Yeah, right. It was like I mopped that up. Oh, OK. I mopped it up and then off I went.

I went home. I guess I slept for a couple hours and then there I was graduating high school with all these fucking smart privileged kids yeah i was part of the 20 yeah yeah dude and and and that was kind of what i was like man like i was uh i fucking got started getting fucked up and and started blowing it man let's take a quick break and tell you about our first sponsor core is pure do you ever feel like living a healthy lifestyle is hard like you try so damn hard to keep up with what's considered healthy. All right. Living a healthy lifestyle is important, but it shouldn't stop your enjoyment. That's when you reach for Coors Pure. Since it's all organic

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I think I might have. Yeah, I applied at the very beginning of my senior year and that was like when the wheels fell off. So like I was already into the University of Miami. I was like, all right, whatever. Well, how did you do in Miami? That was when I really fucked up. I wasn't even – I mean – I mean Miami.

My god. Okay. I can't even imagine. Dude, within – and this is so great too there's a couple things I've never really brought a lot of attention to but the very first day that I showed up on campus at the University of Miami

as a freshman was that night was Hurricane Andrew hitting Miami and Hurricane Andrew hitting Miami. And Hurricane Andrew was like the most devastating fucking hurricane, like, you know, maybe until Katrina or something. It was fucking gnarly.

And they had it on the Doppler graphs or whatever, and they're like, okay. I remember them telling us that first day. And I showed it with my dad. I remember them telling us that first day. I showed up with my dad. And they said, this fucking hurricane tonight is going to be huge. So this is your dorm room.

Here's your bed. Don't even fucking open up your bags. Put them in the closet on the top shelf and fucking close the door. Hopefully, they'll be okay. You know, like pretty much it was just like – and like at a certain time, like whatever, it was going to be like 8 p.m. or some weird thing. They said we're going to evacuate all of the dorm rooms into the hallways because in your dorm room, it's just not fucking going to be safe, period.

So we will all be evacuated into the hallways at such and such a time. We're all just going to have like a – we're all going to be in the hallway. And I was like, man, that sounds like bullshit. Dude, I don't want to – It was your first night? It was my very first night. Like that was what we showed up to. And I was like, dude, that's fucking bullshit, dude.

I'm not into that so i went around uh i went i went around for for that that whole day like you know meeting that meeting people hey what's up and and my first question was hey do you have do you have an apartment you know do you have your own place and uh yeah i met some guys they had an on-campus apartment and uh I said, hey, man, like I know I don't fucking know you or anything. But, dude, I don't want to be in the hallway. Can like – I said, if you guys let me crash in your apartment, dude, I will buy all the fucking beer that you can possibly – and they're like, okay, cool. So I was not in my dorms like when the fucking evacuation orders took hold. I was fucking getting hammered with my new bros.

My new bros from the apartment area. And like as the fucking like 10 o'clock, like 11, midnight, like whatever, and the fucking shit started to fucking really blow around. around like we're fucking drunk off our asses like just cruising around campus like fucking with beers in public and we're like fucking cops are fucking hiding in hallways we don't care we do whatever we want and fucking there's this big lake uh on campus at the university of miami and like i i don't know i'm not to say it was during the hurricane because when the hurricane really hit, trees were flying everywhere. But way after you had to be evacuated and while the fucking – it's more than your average storm and I'm fucking swimming across the lake.

You're swimming off. With one of these guys. with one of these guys with one of these guys and i i got i got in the water with my fucking full full clothes fucking jeans and everything and like i wasn't like i'm not gonna say i was a bad swimmer but i wasn't like in swimming shape coming from england you know like yeah and i'm like we're gators also you're not even thinking of that i wasn't i wasn't tripping about that but uh but i remember like this guy like that i was with like kind of saved me i'm like fucking drunk and like my jeans i'm not swimming so good and like i fucking uh i'd like take off my my jeans like mid-swim and the guy's fucking kind of helping me out fuck but we made it across the lake and uh and then i was so fucking

drunk like when when i i passed out in these dudes apartment like i i woke up and i was like what was it a false alarm to the fucking hurricane ivory and they're like dude you just fucking laid there asleep no you never even woke up we were were freaking out, screaming our heads off, trying to hold on to the walls because this whole building was shaking. You were just sleeping. I never even woke up, not once. That's crazy. That's more detail than I ever told that story. I was super stoked, man.

That was my first day at the university of miami so then the next day fucking powers out for like seriously out like there's not like we're having fucking warm beer fucking parties like they're just like what can we can't start the fucking school like with no power like the whole fucking grids fucking shot like this is like they're like so they just announced like all right we're uh we're just gonna not start for like another two weeks or something so just figure out what you're gonna do and i and i fucked off over to st louis where my sister was at and just chilled with her uh come back when the school is actually up and running and now classes start. Within one week of classes starting, I'm fucking so out of control,

like with the smoking weed and fucking all the alcohol and everything. I come back to my dorm room and there's like some fucking little thing on the door. Alright, we have raided this room. Because the thing was that my roommate was like a really, he was like an architecture student. He was like really fucking studious.

All about like, you know, I think he was paying his own way to be there. You know, like he wasn't fucking around and he couldn't sleep because I'm fucking screaming to fucking party. So nothing against that guy. I mean he did what he had to do. He was like, yo, fucking get this fucking guy out of here. Come in here and I'll show you where all of his fucking little weed bags are.

You know those big ass – It's in this Pepsi can and this Pepsi can. Yeah. Dude, they had those things where you unscrew the can, dude.

I used those like a motherfucker. But, you know those big old hampers, like, it's like a blue canvas.

Oh, sure, yeah, yeah. They had one of those fucking things filled with fucking beer cans and fucking bottles they used that shit to take all my fucking alcohol out of there

and all my weed and everything and so with that raid that's like a laundry you're talking about like a laundry basket a prison laundry basket. I wasn't there when this happened. I wasn't even there when they raided the room.

I was just told that that's what they – where they wheeled out all my shit in that. I don't know how full it was. But as a result of that raid, I got kicked out of that dorm. I was placed on final disciplinary probation within one week of class. One week at the U. Final disciplinary probation. Do one more fuck up and you're out. And so they relocated me because obviously I couldn't be roommates with that guy anymore.

They relocated me to this other dorm, this 12-story fucking – it was called the Towers, like this 12- fucking it was called the towers like this 12 story tower and they put me on a floor with like all juniors and seniors you know like so they thought okay let this fuck up kid let him be in the mix with like older students or maybe like fucking

less partying and crazy and these fucking guys on the floor in the towers, man. I was like, I forget. I was way up towards the top. These guys saw how I was carrying on. They said, look, dude, we will throw you a fucking party. A party.

We're not even really partying. We will throw you a fucking party if you manage to get so much as a 2.0 grade point average, which is like C's. You get straight C's. Maybe and a B in there. We will throw you a fucking party. For real, they're going to throw you a party. They said, the way that you are

conducting yourself, we do not see a chance that you're going to break a 2.0. And I was like, but the thing was, and I learned this about college, is that my attendance was decent. That's the ticket, dude. If you go to class, then you know when to do the minimum amount of work. It's when you stop going to class that you don't even know when to fucking – Right.

You don't even know what they're talking about. You don't even know when to do the minimum amount of work. So yeah, and like I ended up getting – fuck, what did I get? I think I might have gotten – ah, dude, and I know I have my transcript at home. I forget what it was. It wasn't a 2.9, but I don't know. Like it was 2 point something. And all you needed was a 2.0, but I don't know. It was 2 point something. And all you needed was a 2.0?

Yes. These guys. Yeah. Maybe it was a 2.2. I don't fucking know. But I got better than – I know for damn sure I got better than a 2.0. But here's what happened. Right towards the end of that first semester, I met this chick, and she was on the floor below me.

It was like guy's floor and then girl's, every other. Boy, girl, boy, girl floor. And it started out like she was pissed because I was making noise or something. She was in the room directly below mine. She was complaining about all the noise

I was making above and that was how we fucking linked up and this was my chick. So then I got the passable grades but so wait the one guy complains about you and gets you kicked out and the chick complains about you and hooks up with you yeah right and uh this would be the chick that ended up fucking breaking my heart so bad you know like the i came back that second semester and i just lived in her dorm room you know i lived in her dorm room i was so stoked on her i just fucking

like i was life is so good i've got this rad chick i'm fucking in my hair i just like i just stopped going to class man i just stopped going to class and i was just having fun and uh and then that semester i ended up i think with like a a 0.79 i didn't even get a 1.0 dude i was under i i fucking yeah dude it was bad that was my second semester it It was a point something. Not even a 1.0. And this chick, like she partied her fucking ass off too, but she took shit serious. And she was just disgusted with me. And I fucking – my god.

Now like my fucking grade point average, the average and together, my Q middle of GPA is not good. And I come back the next. Oh, dude. My family is still in England, right? So we got jobs, me and this chick, my girl, as summer camp counselors in New York State. She lived on Staten Island. So we're like New York. She's fucking – and her family like her – they work so hard.

They work so hard and fucking like tons of jobs, like just crazy work ethic. And to really provide – she's got this nice bedroom with this water bed. We're going to be fucked so we show up and uh we showed up and I showed up to her place and the rule with her parents is

like okay you have a boyfriend that's cute he's not sleeping in your fucking bedroom right we're not rocking it like that you know like and so we've this is the fucking worst this is the fucking worst we fucking uh go out and my birthday is june 13th it's beginning of the summer you know we're getting ready to do this and uh we go and she takes me out for my birthday and i'm i'm alcoholic as fuck already

i'm just gonna i'm already fucking three sheets to the wind but on top of that everyone's like oh it's your birthday cool let me get you a shot you know like and so i'm like fucking went went beyond what was so we come back to her house i'm so fucking hammered like uh we get and i'm not allowed in her room but she brings me into her bed i told you she's got a fucking water bed you know she's got a fucking water bed and and i pass out and i wake up and she's fucking furious and we are fucking in her water bed like swimming in fucking – I've just been laying there just pissing. I've been fucking – I've been just pissing on her. I've been pissing on her.

It's like creating a fucking – like a kiddie pool of piss that we're like fucking swimming in. And she wakes me up and like not even easily and she's like you fucking she i remember her saying like fucking deal with this you know fucking fix this and so i realized oh shit i just fucking pissed all over her in her water bed which i wasn't supposed to be in to begin with and so i'm like all right i don't know she told me like the laundry room's down but she's got this big old duvet on the waterbed, right? And now my job is to go and fucking put that in the fucking – How much of your piss have you cleaned up, brother?

It's not the first time in the middle of the night that I had to fucking – You got a mop? Yeah. Or a jail or anywhere else. Oh, my god. I did it at my great uncle's house. I fucking pissed on the bed. Yeah. I'd it at my great uncle's house. I fucking pissed on the bed. Yeah.

I'd be living years later, but I remember. So I come down. Duvet cover. And this fucking duvet. So I bring the duvet down to their laundry room, right? And this is like the laundry room or the washing machine loads from the top. So you open it up from the top and it flips over but it's got like a mechanism where the machine knows if the door's open or not you know

and it's on this like thing right so i open up the fucking to top the top fucking hatch or whatever and it's open now i heave this fucking piss soaked fucking duvet up on top to fucking load it into the washing machine. But it is so fucking heavy with all this piss that as I fucking heave the fucking thing on it, the top door of the washing machine, which was open, fucking breaks under the weight. machine which was open fucking breaks under the way it break it be bright it literally broke under the weight of the piss soaked duvet so now it's fucking broken and and i can fucking get the piss soaked duvet in there fucking but that machine's not gonna run and so i'm like oh well this fucking fuck you know i don't know, I don't even know, I don't even know, I think we went to some other fucking room or whatever, like,

I don't even know, but the mom gets up in the morning, oh, you know, maybe I'll have some coffee, oh, looks like the washing machine is broken. It's like walking out to your car and the door's ripped off. Yeah, the washing machine is broken, here's It's like walking out to your car and the door is ripped off. Yeah.

The washing machine is broken. Here's a fucking piss-soaked duvet just that I got to deal with now. And like, oh, and that's because this fucking asshole has been fucking my daughter in the bed that we told him not to be in. not to be it and uh and dude and and then like so so the so the so the girl whose bed it was my girlfriend she says you know what dude i'm not going to the fucking summer camp i'm just not i'm not you go you go and you fucking be a summer camp counselor and you fucking be rad. I'm just not – I'm not into it. I'm backing out. I'm really not into it.

So I go to the summer camp and I think I lasted three days. Three days? I got real hammered. I got fucking like – they didn't catch me. How old were the kids you were working with? Like, middle schoolers?

These fucking kids, oh, how old were they? They were, I don't know, maybe like 12 or something. Yeah, that's the best age

when you're that young. Yeah, and like, these fucking kids loved me, dude. They like, they loved me so much

that when I got fired, and they fired me just because they heard I was smoking weed. They didn't even catch me with it. They didn't even find it. They had no proof, dude. They're like, hey, we can't have you smoking weed around the kids. You're gone. And the one activity on that whole summer camp that every fucking kid wanted, like the free alternative hour where you can go anywhere you want.

The entire fucking camp goes to the go-kart tracks. And there's every fucking kid that's at the go-kart tracks. And they can't even get a ride because every fucking kid's there. And on the day that I got fired, like my cabin was assigned to the go-kart so they had no crowd they're fucking riding and they loved me so much they were so fucking bent out of shape they were losing me maybe i lasted a whole week i don't know because i had a relationship with these kids yeah they fucking went on strike they didn't even go to the go-karts yeah they said they're crying fucking no no dude they fucking went on strike they said fuck go-karts

yeah i love it and so then so so then so then i'm like oh oh fuck i got I got fired. So I tell my girl, hey, man, she comes to pick me up. And I'm pretty sure that I'm just going to – I'll get a job while I'm staying at her place. But it wasn't in the cards, dude. She was like, hey, man, you got to go. You got to go. So I went and spent the rest of that summer with my sister in st louis and i was like i come back i come back from my second year

at the university of miami and i'm like that there was no indication that i didn't have a girlfriend you know i probably could have suspected it but i showed up to two fucking really like uh painful things man oh man when i got to my dorm room it said they have like a fucking construction paper on there it says like it says steve glover freshman and i'm like i'm a fucking sophomore man this is my second year and then i realized oh i didn't get i didn't get enough credits like or like i failed too much like 0.7 or whatever like yeah but you never got your party uh well yeah i can't remember if there was a part i wanted to say because you had a two point like just close to nine yeah and then you fucked off off and it kicked you under that two-point.

Oh, it definitely did me under. Yeah. But I think that the party was supposed to happen at the end of the first semester. And I just don't know that it did. I wasn't like – those guys couldn't hang with me anyway. I'm not sure anyway. Right. So I find out I'm still a freshman.

I don't know why that hurts so bad but i find out i'm still a freshman my girl shows up and she's like nah we're not together anymore like we're broken up and i'm just fucking like kind of heartbroken man i had never been heartbroken before and i was like fuck dude and that was where like the stunts initially like i mean i like when i was blown off class like that last semester instead of going to class i was at the pool the university of miami pool with the fucking like the killer diving board wait the actual pool the swim team yeah you're just over there just swimming i'm not swimming bouncing on the diving boards like like getting rad, fucking like skateboarding, you know. I really got into learning how to do flips and stuff on the diving boards.

And so then when I'm, you know, my girl breaks up with me and I'm like, I'm like, all right, now I'm going to fucking, instead of going off the diving board, I learned the flips on the diving boards. Now I'm going to do them off buildings, you know. I i'm gonna fucking climb on buildings and fucking do flips into fucking so creepy shallow pools let me ask you this so this chick thinks i'm gonna die yeah i was like i wanted her to be worried about me prior to to doing this yeah the flips on the board at miami you weren't really doing that kind of shit prior to that i'd been making skate videos in high school but nothing like flipping off a building or

nothing like that no so now you're you're taking this to the legit next level now i'm trying to jump off buildings i had like my drunken buddies and i like one of the guys had like like rock climbing ropes and fucking like it's like like, yeah, I'll take you. We'll go rappelling off the building. That's the only time I ever went to the fucking library on campus. The rappelling off of it? Yeah. Yeah.

And my buddies are like, we're all tripping on acid. Fucking tying, we're tripping on acid, trying to tie the ropes to the banister and shit. Like there was a fucking cop car one time we did it cop car was parked at the bottom and we're up on the roof pissing onto the so loud the piss landing on the cop car fuck you're like fuck you so now i'm like rappelling off buildings i'm jumping off buildings i'm like fuck i learned how to get fucking choked out real good you know like what's the first building you jumped off of at the first time it was a three-story apartment

building and i only jumped off like the second floor balcony that's still two stories yeah no it was the second floor balcony so one floor up one floor up yeah like the and then and then but it's only a five foot deep pool and i'm six I'm six feet tall. So I've had to figure out, like, hit the water and curve in. Then I went up to the third-floor balcony. I started jumping off there. And then I figured I'd climb on the roof. Jesus Christ. And I'm jumping off the roof.

All on campus? This happened across the street from campus. Okay. And then, like, dude, within that. And were across the street from campus. Okay. And then like, dude, but then, uh. And were you liking it? You liked that adrenaline? Initially, I was really just trying to fucking concern, you know, I'll make her concerned. Dude, that 12 story tower, right?

Like, dude, this was the 12 story tower and I'm living on the 12th floor when I'm back there, right? So the 12-story tower – and I'm living on the 12th floor when I'm back there. I don't know if I was on the 12th floor. Maybe the whole time I was on the 12th floor. But it's notable because the stairwell was detached from the building itself. So you've got – on every floor, there's a balcony. You open up the door from the – and there's a balcony and know you open up the door from the to like and then there's a balcony and then there's the stairwell right right well dude i have footage from them because my my uh

my granddad and while i was with the chicken and uh with the water bed was when my uh granddad died he was like a step granddad and my my mom's mom who's married him was such a gnarly alcoholic that fucking she just sat there and drank with the body i swear to god she was like out of booze and then she dealt with the situation yeah and she fully and he's gonna get gone anyway yeah for sure yeah straight up my mom's family every single fucking leaf on the tree is just straight fucking hardcore. Dripping with fucking alcohol. Dude, saturated. Saturated, dude.

Sap of alcohol. Every dude. They're all dead. They're all dead. They are. Young, too? My mom, her sister. And it was all from alcohol?

I mean, yeah, pretty much, dude. Man. Yeah, dude. It's gnarly. It's fucking gnarly. her sister like uh and it was all from alcohol i mean yeah pretty much dude man like uh yeah it's gnarly it's fucking gnarly let's take a quick break and tell you about our next sponsor liquid iv when we push our body hard or we're just feeling run down it's extremely important to take care of ourselves with the proper vitamins and nutrients that's why liquid iv created hydration multiplier plus immune support to maintain and strengthen your immune system. I've told you guys I used liquid IV all throughout Corona when I had it. I'm still using it. Even after these vaccinations, I was wiped out, tired. I've been using the immune boost,

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And he had a video camera. And I got it. So now I got that fucking video camera from my dead step granddad and like i'm good and now i'm video too so i'm up one of the first things i filmed and this was fucked up i'm on the balcony of the the that 12th floor balcony and it's got the railing with the fuck you know and i fucking to figure out like okay i'm gonna climb over the railing on the 12th floor. Oh, man. I got an anxiety just listening to this shit.

I'm going to climb up. And I'm going to climb down just and drop onto the 11th floor below. And it was like just creepy. But dude, then I kept doing it. So you went down all the way? No, I just went from 12 to 11. After that, I was going to be empty. way i just went from 12 to 11 after that i was gonna be still right i went from 12 to 11 but then but then i started doing it where i climb over

and my hands are on the rails like toward at the top of the railing right and i just fucking kick my feet off and just sort of loosen my grip on my hands a little bit so my hands slide down the rails jesus, Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. Dude, to this day, that's one of my favorite fucking clips, dude. I just put it in a video on my YouTube channel. I posted it today on my IG, a video of why they call me Steve-O. And I was like, I was doing fucked up shit. And right when I say really dangerous shit, it's me sliding down the 11th floor.

fucked up shit and right when i say really dangerous shit like it's me sliding down the 11th floor but then because the stairwell is uh separated from the building and there there's like for the roof access there's uh like a 13th stairwell right it's 13th in the stairwell so i go up to the top of the 13th and there's like the door to the roof is locked, but there's a window at the top. And so I fucking smash out that window on camera. I smash out that window on camera and I climb out the window and fucking like – I don't even remember it being like a gnarly jump, but I climb out the window and like over the balcony gap onto the roof from out that window. Fuck.

Now I'm on the roof of the 12-story building and come around to the roof access door. On the other, from the roof side, it doesn't lock. So I go out there, I'm on the roof and I open it up and I'm like, yeah, come on in, dudes. Now everybody can come in.

So now we're on the roof. And like, the roof, and I open it up, and I'm like, yeah, come on in, dudes. Now everybody can come in. So now we're on the roof. And I was like, oh, yeah, you guys want to fucking party on the roof? And I just go up and climb out the window I broke, open up the door. Yeah, because you're the only one that's going to do that shit. But I got the key. Yeah, there's no party on the roof without Steve. But here's the – and, dude, like that was already – I'm bringing chicks up there. Like we're just drinking on the roof.

It was like fun, you know? But here's where it went too far. On the roof of the 12th Street building, there was like another level there. Like there was another level and from that other level came like this huge tall radio tower with guy lines and stuff so while we're up on the roof one night drunk as shit i'm fucking i climb up onto that second level and i start climbing up the radio tower all the way up to the fucking top insane straight to the very top of the radio tower on top of the fucking 12 story building and even though it's got all the guy lines like this fucking thing swaying fucking one way or the other you know and it's like it's like though it's got all the guidelines like this fucking thing swaying

fucking one way or the other you know and it's like it's like night it's dark and shit but someone on the ground is like that's someone climbing up the fucking radio tower on top of the fucking towers like that's not okay so they fucking call the cops and i'm up there like fucking entertaining my fucking my party and and fucking cops just come out onto the fucking roof like from from the uh the roof access door from your door yeah your key yeah well i mean i think you left it open yeah i don't know but i think someone opened it up for them but yeah a bunch of cops come onto the roof and so then they're like all right and so then and i was on final probation so that was it so i was out no you got i got kicked out of the dorms for that in your second year i've said for a million times like i've told them the story a

million times just that i was on final probation got kicked out of the dorms and my grades were so bad i just gave up i up and left so i I fucked up at the University of Miami every way you possibly can pretty much. But I've never really told the story about climbing up the radio tower as much, dude. I'm giving you the gold on Honeydew. Thank you, bro. I appreciate it. And so now – Wait, I got to ask.

You've never – fear of heights or any of that shit? Never? Dude, I'm terrified of roller coasters. Then why – how can you get up on something that's moving like that? Well, just... I don't know, dude. Like, I'm an attention whore. That's my only explanation.

So if you wanted to get a girl's attention, you would go on a roller coaster? I mean, I don't like it. I, you know... Like, on the Wild Boys show, they built me fucking, like, Condor man wings to make bungee jumping funny. They're like, just flap the wings, dude. You can fly.

I'm like, I can't jump off the bridge. There's no fucking way. I was going to say, is there anything you'd said no to? I couldn't do it. I was like, dude, I just can't do it. I was like, maybe because I've been jumping off shit starting with like the little balcony and then the next balcony and then working my way up. I've assessed everything and looking around, like, what can I jump off? And I'm just too close to the problem.

I don't care what you tie to me. I can't look off a 200-foot bridge and jump. It's just I can't get past that in my head. And the same thing with roller coasters. I don't fucking like it, man. Well, they're designed. Yeah. Right.

That's science right there. I know. That's not just jumping off a bridge. Yeah, I don't like it. But there's something about all the shit that I did where I just kind of figured it out and worked my way up. And like it sort of expanded my comfort zone or something, you know. So I kind of like understand these things. But yeah, I got kicked out of the dorms now i'm fucking straight homeless now does that mean out of

the university or just off the property i i that i wasn't i could i could still attend class i just wasn't yeah i could still attend classes but i wasn't allowed in the dorms um and uh and dude i wasn't even fucking trying dude i this kid that was like i'm over it dude and he was fucking bailing out and he had a van he's gonna drive from miami to to northern california to like be rad snowboarder it's like yeah if you get a job on the mountain, you get a free lift pass and you'd live in the employee apartments. And I was like, right on,

dude, I'm fucking rad. Let's go. And so we fucking went, it didn't really work out. And I ended up going to Texas and having the government test drugs on me for cash. What do you,

what kind of drugs, drugs for pigs and cows like the more the more the more tell me about i swear to you the more dangerous the more dangerous the medical study the more they pay you so so if you're gonna if you're gonna test out toothpaste you're making like 20 bucks right i got two grand pal i got two grand and uh How long are you there? Like what are the rules? It was – was it 12 days? It was supposed to be –

12 days. It was supposed to be less. I think it was supposed to be 10 days. But the goal of the study was to give us this drug until somebody's resting heart rate went over 150 beats a minute or something. Something fucked up. And what the drug was, the drug was called ractopamine hydrochloride. And they were giving it to – they wanted to make it legal to give to pigs and cows so that it worked somehow like steroids but like in another way. But to make the cattle have less fat and more muscle.

Okay. So that they could like extensively like kind of create leaner meat to appeal to a more health-conscious consumer. But the FDA hang-up was that if you do that with that cattle, then when people eat that meat, then this drug is going to enter the human body. And by that logic, now we have to test the drug to see like how much the human body can take. So yeah, like – so I was doing that and there was this crazy episode with one of the guys in the study. Yeah, I was going to the study there's only six people allowed in the study because they didn't want to do it to too many people

but one of the other six people was this drug dealer dude from Killeen, Texas and we're like oh we want to invest our money we're going to buy a pound of weed and then fucking make it last and so this guy fucks him I can hook you up we're staying at this guy's place and he takes us

to do the deal but he goes out the back door with all our money oh shit and we fucking found our way back to his place

because we drove you know I mean this guy had met on yeah right we drove yeah we drove

and we found our way back to his and you know this guy fucking it was just a bad scene, dude. It was a bad scene. I ended up coming back to the University of Miami and just being straight homeless. And like this was now the beginning of 1994 and I was still living on campus homeless while the people.

Where would you go? Oh, dude. I would stay like on people's floors and stuff yeah there was one apartment that in the the student apartments but this was like the athletic apartments see i'm at this point i'm starting to get like like more aggressive on my stunts i'm like i've got now i now I'm going to be a fucking rad stuntman. And at the Olympic pool at the University of Miami, and it's an Olympic factory, you've got the fucking, the wall has like Greg Louganis,

the most famous diver of all time. The diving towers are there. And at that time, it was the 95-96 school year. They had the number one, number two, and number three ranked NCAA platform divers. Damn. Living in the same apartment. There's four of them in there's there's number one two and three 10 meter platform divers and a random swimmer like uh living in this apartment and

these guys were the fucking shit you know like they were like rock stars at the school you know my one buddy in particular brian gooley who was number one he had just qualified first place and made first place at nationals the the national junior national he won 10 consecutive junior national titles from like yeah they were like these guys were badass and and they were partying like rock stars and they fucking party with luganus no not at luganus luganus have been there way before yeah these guys ended up with their murals. All three of these guys got their murals next to Louganis. But yeah, dude.

And these guys were fucking partying. And I'm like this crazy fucking Steve-O character who nobody really wanted me sleeping in their place as much. But it was fun to have at parties and kind of thing. And these guys fucking fell in love with me, they fucking let me sleep on their floor the swimmers the divers the divers the most fucking elite divers in the fucking had they they had me sleeping on their floor like a lot of the time and on and on top of that they like took me under their wing and like fucking trained me you know like how to do like real like tight solid clean back flips is that right and she yeah and and uh they had me fuck i was already like walking my hands maniac these guys had me like

pressing up slowly like and perfectly still to a handstand, like holding it still, fucking walking up and down stairs on my hands, like perfect back flips. And I turned that shit around and started lighting myself on fire. I don't want to jump. And doing – Wait, what's the first time you ever lit your cell on fire? Okay. We had one of our buddies at the University of Miami, and he would just like as a gag, he would fucking like blow fireballs like by the pool using a lighter.

Like I said, I've witnessed you fucking light your fucking head on fire. I refuse to help you. This guy would click a lighter, and he would spit isopropyl rubbing alcohol onto the lighter. It would make a big fireball. Well, in like 1996, right after I got out of this fucking 10-day jail sentence, you know, I fucking go and sign up for this radio station event where they're putting on a talent show. And I told them I'm Steveve-o the alcoholic gymnast you know i'm gonna fucking get absolutely fucking whammied before the audience's eyes like shotgunning beer after beer after beer i've got different ways of shotgunning beers but

i'm gonna you know i i wanted to do a whole 12 pack i ended up doing like i don't like the nine beers you know budweiser's and um i was doing like shitty acrobatics and fucking i go and and and i'm gonna do a fireball at one point well here's what happened dude i fucking clicked the lighter and i blew out the flame so i had this like disappointing fucking, this disappointing didn't light. And I was like, I had these people in the audience be like, Steve-O!

And while I was in my 10 day jail sentence, I had been like thinking, man, I'm really getting rad now. You know, I'm getting really fucking rad now. I got like a company giving me clothes, fucking, you know, I'm getting somewhere. I got a career. I'm like, but do I want want to be steve-o like that's the fucking question do i want to be steve-o and i got my hands on some fucking papers and i wrote my jailhouse memoirs in march of 1996

march of 1996 and i wrote uh the first thing i said they call me Steve-O but I'm thinking about switching back to Steve Glover because now I've begun kind of a career and I don't know if I want a nickname when I'm famous but then I'm doing the radio station thing I'm chugging all the beers and the crowd screams Steve-O I'm like there's no fucking way anybody will ever scream

Steve Glover and so that was when I decided I'm going by Steve-o as my deal. But I had them fucking on my side. They were stoked. It was just fucking rad. They're screaming my name. And then I blow the fucking lighter out with the rubbing alcohol.

And it was just fucking, it killed me. But I fucking regret it. I did this show two nights in a row as well. So maybe it was the next night. But I wanted to be like kind of more careful. At some point, I think on the second night, I go and I fucking click the lighter. And now what I did was I lit it but I spit the alcohol all over my hand. So the fireball ignited and i'm like yes sweet not even i'm oblivious i don't even realize but as the fireball lit and then now it's over

i feel oh shit my hand's on fire you know yeah i turned my hand i'm like i'm like oh fuck so i'm like you know i shake my hand out and it comes out and I'm like, whoa. What was notable about it was that my hand didn't really get burned, like maybe a little, but like it was sitting there on fire real good and the rubbing alcohol is like thin, kind of like burns light sort of a deal. Then I thought about it. and put it all together. I was like, dude, I never want to be in a situation where I fucking fail on Blahnem ever again. So I said, what if I start out by pouring,

just deliberately pouring rubbing alcohol? What if I just pour the rubbing alcohol on my hand and then light my hand? And I use that as my torch. I'm not blowing that out. Now I've got a torch and it's my fucking bare hand, which is awesome and reliable. And so I start doing it like that, like off my hand. And now I've got my back flips all fucking super tight so then

I'm thinking like well that shit never blew back in your face or anything when other people were blowing it off my head I burned my face real bad that's why I didn't want to do it but if I remember correctly man you put a conditioner you combed a bunch of conditioner

then what that means is that i was doing it every night you were and i was every you did every night yeah every fucking night it was a pantene conditioner i feel like i would i would do it because i was trying to like not i was trying to not let my hair burn all the way because i need to keep some hair around just so i can keep lighting it. Right. You got chicken fenders to sell out there. Yeah, dude. And so, dude, I forgot my backflips tight.

And I'm like, all right, now I can do killer backflips. What if I light my hand on fire, grab my mouth full, and then as I swing my arms into my backflip i jump and fucking as i tuck i blow a fireball oh my god so i i fucking i straight up invented the simultaneous fire breathing backflip and when i fucking got that then i was pretty fucking reliable dude like i i pulled it you know i pulled it in a big way and um that was before i started lighting my head on fire but uh i ended up moving out to albuquerque my sister's living in albuquerque now or whatever that's one of the that's when i got serious serious about shit now fucking in

albuquerque there's a radio station there they said they got a freak of nature contest and so i call them up and i say all right i'm going to join a freak of nature contest and so i call them up and i say all right i'm going to join your freak of nature contest i said i'm going to doubt i'm going to get stripped down to my underwear and i'm going to douse my entire body with rubbing alcohol and have my buddies with torches fucking ignite my entire fucking body and then i'm going to do a perfect stand i'm going to do a perfect standing i'm gonna do a perfect standing back flip and i'm gonna fucking uh and then my buddies are gonna put me out with the with the blanket and and dude albuquerque is a different place they were like they were like bringing that

yeah and dude i find that it's so crazy that these stories I'm telling you are like, I mean, literally when I was on the way over here, I fucking, check this shit out, dude. What's your name? There I am with the fucking, that's the cold open. Holy shit. Yeah. Your whole body is open. Yeah, holy shit. Yeah. Your whole body is on fire. That's the Albuquerque radio station. Yeah, you can find it on – that was in Albuquerque, yeah.

You can find that on YouTube in a video. I called it Why They Call Me Steve-O, and you can find it on my Instagram. It was about a couple weeks ago I posted it Why They Call Me Steve-O. And you can find it on my Instagram. It was about a couple weeks ago I posted it. All right. So I get wanting the attention from the girls and everything. How much of this is also wanting that from your parents? I wouldn't doubt that. You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to figure out that mom was drunk and dad was absent.

Did it work though? I mean, did you – I mean, I don't know. I don't even know how much I want to assign to the family dynamic. I could have very well just been a fucking alcoholic attention whore no matter what. With talent though. Yeah, who knows? I don't know that

i ever had that much talent but i had like my dad's side of the family my dad like i said he was a hustler dude my dad came from a long line of academics his dad was a zoologist a fucking like decorated like war fucking hero type dude they had nobody on my dad's side of the family has less than a phd you know like they're university professors the theologians clergymen fucking zoologists like honor fucking low low earning and my dad was a little bit of a black sheep for being the first person in the family to go into business like Like, what are you, some kind of greedy capitalist? Like, we're like fucking good people. Well, if he's a black sheep, what the fuck are you then?

Right. Yeah, what do you consider? like uh valor awards or whatever like as a colonel in uh world war ii my mom's dad was dodging the draft and like and and uh and and becoming like really rather wealthy um selling bootleg gasoline because for like during wartime they had rations you know like even if you can afford it we don't care we're at war and so you can only buy it's so much gasoline and so my so my uh mom's dad was like a dodge drafter bootlegger alcoholic gambler and and he became like fucking a millionaire i think doing that but then he gambled away all of his money and blew his brains out when I was one year old.

Oh, fuck. See, I come from fucking... You got both sides of all of this. I do. So I've got my dad's hustle and my mom's fucking deviance and fucking... And my mom, to be fair, she was the one with the sense of humor,

the fucking intelligence. Alcoholics can be some fucking intelligent like charismatic people yeah alcohol doesn't care if you're dumb or smart right kind or just but yeah so i sure it's pretty rad how how like everything worked out for me that like it's just so evident that i'm this fusion of these two, these two, like these two bloodlines, you know? Yeah, man. Yeah.

And, and I got, like, I'm the only one, I think for my mom's whole family that ever got sober, you know, at least like for a long time, I just turned 13. So the only one on your dad's side without a doctorate and the only one on your mom's side that got sober. Good for you, bro. Good for you bro yeah all right well thank you for coming on before before we let you go i want to ask you i mentioned at the top before we recorded advice you would give to your 16 year old self now that we've talked about what you've talked about coming up. I mean, it's interesting, like how I, I'm so active with, uh,

with like my digital presence, you know, like my YouTube, my fucking, and I make all these videos like, uh, for, for a good couple of years now,

I've been cranking out these like super polished, like, uh, sort of story videos that, that really like where I mine through like the footage i've been filming since i was 15 years old you know like it goes back that long wow now i'm 46 camera where you put the vhs in that motherfucker right like uh i mean it wasn't my first video camera that i got from the dead step granddad yeah that The first video camera I got was the one that my dad won in a corporate golf tournament.

And I stole it from his closet. And before you knew it, it was gone. I already edited a skate video and showed it to my dad. My dad was like, fucking badass, dude. Yeah, take it. There you go. So I've got footage going back for like 31 years. And so much of it is just fucked up

drugs and you know like i'm out of control and so i get some criticism for uh and not even criticism but a lot of it's just like you know, as a sober guy, here you are, like, really exploiting, like, all of this dark, like, you know, like, in a way celebrating all of this fucking, you know, really unhealthy, toxic alcoholism and drug addiction, like, in this footage and putting it out there, like, check out how entertaining it is, you know? And like, some people think that that's not rad. And so other people say, Hey, you know, like you're celebrating the survival, right? Me too.

And don't think for one second that, that I have an issue with it. I don't. And there was somebody who loved to comment. Somebody said like, Hey man, you know, like I know that you're really proud of being sober and I wouldn't. And there was somebody who left a comment. Somebody said like, hey, man, I know that you're really proud of being sober. And I wouldn't say proud as much as just grateful. I'm grateful for being sober.

But it's really pretty evident that drugs worked for you. Obviously, your experience got you where you were at. This is what I like to hear, yes. So what would you say? To the kid who left that comment, I said, you know, like – and he said – I said, yeah, I don't – I said drugs worked. When it was working, when it was working for me, drugs and alcohol were great. And then it just got to a point where they turned on me. And it wasn't working anymore.

And thank God, they turned on me so bad, it got so fucking awful that I had to do something about it. And now as a result of that, I'm in this great place. Where the worst thing that could happen, I think, I think the worst thing is if you have like alcoholism kinda where you've got it enough for it to fuck up your life and prevent you

from achieving your goals and fucking up your relationships but it's not so bad that it has to be addressed so it just goes on and on for years and the years turn into decades and then you're fucking old and you're like, shit, what did I do? I blew it. That's why I say all the time I'm grateful that I've got alcoholism so fucking bad

that I don't have to wonder if I got to do all these things that sober people do. Yeah, and because I do all the things that sober people do and I stick with that crowd, I'm able to really be focused and accomplish it so there's a long way of saying that i'd be really fucking careful if i had an opportunity to send a message to a 16 year old me i'd be really fucking careful with the space time continuum because i can't tell the kid not to fuck up because it's going to work real good. You can tell him to wear

like a fucking rubber underwear. Here's what I would say. Is be really fucking diligent about flossing your teeth and taking care of the health of your gums and your teeth. taking care of your the health of your your gums and your teeth because like um i have a genetic predisposition to not the best fucking uh teeth and gums health and on top of that and this is like this isn't just advice to my 16-year-old me. This is advice to the entire fucking world is that some people can get away with not flossing and some people cannot get away with it.

And I fell into the latter category. I could not get away with it. And what that means is that as a result of not flossing and not taking care of my shit, I got bacteria in my mouth. Now, we've all had this experience where you're talking to somebody and there's just a fucking odor coming out of their mouth. And this is not bad breath in the conventional way that we're used to where it's coming from inside. No, this is just fucking dead shit.

No, this is just like fucking dead shit. Like something just died behind your tooth and all the perfectly good breath coming from it is just pushing this bacteria. And like no amount of brushing can do that. I remember when my mom was alive and I was like allowed in her house, she would say like, dude, your fucking breath is disgusting. I'd be like, mom, I just brushed my teeth like five minutes ago. She goes, yeah, your breath is fucking disgusting. Like when you have this bacteria, no amount of brushing is going to make it go away. And I had that for a long time, dude. I had that for a long time and I just didn't understand it.

Now I brush more and it wouldn't do anything. Right. One time I was getting in the van with all the Jackass guys and Wee Man goes, oh, dude, Stevo, your breath. And Knoxville says, saying Stevo has bad breath is like saying Wee Man is short. It's just – you know? it's just how you know and like they we live in uh and we live in this this this culture where for some reason it's not okay to tell somebody that their fucking breath is i i encountered these people you know like and i want to tell them like hey look you gotta this thing i i can smell this thing and I don't want to make you feel bad.

But I'm telling you that like you've got to – like a bacteria. You can't smell it on yourself. But you've got like a bacteria in your mouth. And what I need you to do to understand this is like get some dental floss and just run it like through your teeth and then smell the floss and and if you have the bacteria it's gonna be on that fucking floss you're gonna smell it and you're gonna be like oh my god i used to be so insecure when i had braces because on not just the rubber bands here but they would put them around it and when they would pull that thing off to change them and tighten it and it would just lift it in front of my nose oh my god it would fuck it i'd be like that's a month of food on

that fucking thing yeah it's gnarly so like and i just didn't figure it out it was after i got sober that i figured i went to a dentist and the dentist just had that talk with me he's like hey you know you got this fucking bacteria it's like you know we got to do a deep cleaning to get it out, and then you just got to not fuck around. And I had gum recession really bad. I fucking had like not countless but like numerous gum graft surgeries, and that shit sucked. I had bone graft surgeries from bone loss. I had the years of my fucking it just take care of your teeth and gums take care of your teeth and gums that's all i want to tell that 16 year old kid other than

other than that fucking let it ride let it ride plug everything whatever you want to do man like steve steve.com is where it's at and you know like uh my book dude that's what i saw at steve-o.com is um my book it's called professional idiot and uh i just had to say i think it's the best fucking thing i've ever you know like as a book it's got um five star average rating on amazon which is like pretty un-fucking-heard of yeah it is and And it's just – it's like – in turn, it's hilarious. It's fucking crazy. It's like inspiring. It's just like – my story is fucking intense and I made it that way on purpose.

And here I've got this really fucking juicy-ass book and the copies that I sell from my website, steveo.com, every book, every copy is autographed. Nice. And, dude, I was signing these fucking autographs for years before I realized that even the way I was doing it, Steve O, that the O looks like the head of a dick. And it's just like I'm drawing a dick when I do my fucking signature. And so now I call it a dick-a-graph, and I do it, like, really deliberately. I make my – so, yeah, it's like it says Steve-O clearly, but it's also, like, got a fucking dickhead with the shooting. I love it.

All right. Well, thank you for coming on, man, for real. It's been my pleasure, man. This was a great time. As always, RyanSickler.com on all social media. Ryan Sickler, talk to y'all next week.