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Interviewer/Host
It's not very frequent that we get to do content in English. We save it for the very most special people. I know this is super odd. Probably for our guest, but it's weird having him here. It's an honor. Please let's give a warm welcome to Bam.
Bam Margera
You know I love Puerto Rico. This is like my fifth time here now. But I gotta say I have a real passion for music. You know, filming sixty five episodes with Viva Labam on MTV and Jackass. Of course I always had a lot of musical input on it. And when I was, I put my Spotify on Shuffle on a band called Lacrimus for Fun Day Gothic Rock. And this song came on and I stopped whatever it is I was doing. ¿And I'm like, who the fuck? ¿Who is the? I'm sorry. K cuss.
Interviewer/Host
Not you can.
Bam Margera
¿Who the is this? I need to know who it is right now. I'm like Amore Alunami. ¿Where are they from more? I don't know. Juntas Puerto Rico. This band is from Puerto Rico. So I contacted him, got a hold of them. We working on a new album. And this was back a couple years back. And we flew right into Aguadilla and started recording some songs. Did a nice little show. And now here we are getting ready to play at the handlebar on sabado seven PM. And Admission is free if you could do a kick flip at the door.
Interviewer/Host
There's a show this Saturday in Handlebar. ¿Where is Handlebar?
Bam Margera
It's right outside of San Juan.
Interviewer/Host
Oh, it's in la Kennedy. Oh, Handlebar. OK, OK, OK. Come over, Free entrance Handlebar. Vengan a pasar la cabrón. Eso es por la Kennedy. Va a estar Amore Adlunam Banda de ROCK CON Featuring Bam Malfucking OK, Bam. I was doing some. Of course I. It's super weird to have you here because I'm known about you since I was probably like fourteen or fifteen years. I'm forty three.
Bam Margera
Yeah.
Interviewer/Host
And I was doing some research and I learned that you helped produce a movie called CKY. Yeah. Like twenty some years ago. So you were basically a kid.
Bam Margera
So when I was sixteen, I wanted to make a skateboard film. That wasn't just skateboarding because I had a lot of really funny friends from high school that, like, were really talented and hilarious and they didn't know how to skate. So I'm like, I'm gonna put this guy in a wheelbarrow and push him off the roof into a pricker bush. And then mix that with professional skate tricks. And then from that, through word of mouth, it sold over a million copies. And then that's when I got contacted by Bite Jones. Jeff Tremaine has to do a pilot for MTV show called Jackass. So we didn't know how that big that would be an overnight instant success. So, yeah. So CKY One followed by CKY Two K. The first season of Jackass was just nothing but them using bits of CKY spliced in with the pilot. So. So, yeah. I didn't really even have to film the first season of Jackass. It was already filmed.
Interviewer/Host
Is the moment when Steve O drank the Gold Fish. Part of that.
Bam Margera
That was part of the pilot. So a pilot is basically putting a thirty minute show together to see if the network wants to buy it. So is what they did for those eight episodes. ¿Which is a season? Eight episodes. They used nothing but my CKY videos. And then the Big Brother Videos that they filmed. So Steve O swallowing the Goldfish was part of the Big Brother Side, which was the West Coast. I'm the East Coast, philly.
Interviewer/Host
Okay.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
So it was in VHS.
Bam Margera
Yeah. Oh, yeah. VHS. Wow.
Interviewer/Host
I remember. I was. I used to bodyboard a lot.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
Yeah.
Interviewer/Host
And I used to purchase movies in VHS and the soundtrack was strictly punk or. Or rock. Rarely like a reggae or hip hop song. Super rare. But the culture of bodyboarding was similar to, like, it was rude and dirty and you were watching the video all of a sudden. A fist fight was there or a guy puking or a guy shitting. And the magazine culture was that as well. Like, it's not only the sport. It's like being punk.
Bam Margera
Yeah, I think the reason why I have such a passion for music is because when you're working on your skateboard video part, it roughly takes a year or two to film these hard tricks. And when you spend five hours landing a trick, that's one second of screen time that you get. When you finally are rewarded after landing a trick that took you so long. So to pile all that up, you roughly get about three. Three minutes of skate tricks which equals one radio song. A rock band song is about three minutes. So you really have to pick an important song. ¿What if you did all these hard skate tricks and then you just throw on? ¿Don't tell my heart, My achieve breaking heart be like, what is this kid? You gotta put something awesome on.
Interviewer/Host
I remember it.
Bam Margera
So you have to really pick your song and that shows your character.
Interviewer/Host
I remember hating Australian surf movies because their music sucked, like. I didn't like it.
Bam Margera
I didn't like it at all. Crazy, man like.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
¿And how do you feel like this movement of Because for me? The first reality show that I ever see was Jackass for me. Yeah. ¿So how do you feel like that reality show scene involved right now?
Bam Margera
I gotta say, whenever you hear the word reality TV, it's pretty much the least thing of reality. Because when you have all these people there to film and they're just going to hit record and wonder what you're going to do that day, you can't do that. You have to map out a plan. Like, so, I mean, the reality of it would be an idea. Would be OK, Bam and his crew fly to Puerto Rico. We find a bunch of skate spots. We dare a bunch of people to do a bunch of stuff. And then we have a rock show at the end. So it's roughly scripted. ¿You can't just fly to forty people and be like, what are we gonna do here? So reality is, it's scripted.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
¿And what you think about the streaming? That actually is a reality show now because they just turn on the camera.
Bam Margera
Yeah.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
¿And whatever has happened? It happened, like The fighter. Son.
Interviewer/Host
The Fighter. ¿What?
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
The son's fighter that happened on. ¿What is his name? Raya. But his name The Fighter. ¿I don't remember?
Interviewer/Host
I don't know. The fighter. The UFC. Exactly. Champion. That his son almost killed the guy in the.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
In the. In a wrestling ring. So. Yeah.
Interviewer/Host
So.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
So that's what. ¿What do you think about the streaming?
Bam Margera
Okay.
Interviewer/Host
Rampage Jackson.
Bam Margera
Rampage Jackson.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
That he's. He's doing right. He's doing right now. He's doing right now. Streaming. ¿So what do you think about that? Because this like, he's a.
Bam Margera
He used to be.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
He's a champion. Yeah. ¿And now, do you see yourself doing that kind of content?
Bam Margera
That's pretty gnarly. But, you know, I did see Bare Knuckle Boxing in Hollywood, Florida. I got invited by Lindsay Lohan's dad, Michael Lohan. And they're like, just. So, you know, you're gonna be sitting in the splatter zone. And my wife's sitting there with Rachel. You could tell who was, you know, dating Tiger Woods. And they're all in there, like Versace dresses. ¿What's the splatter zone? When somebody gets punched in blood, you could cover it up, Like, yes, they're like, oh, God. ¿But, man, it was so entertaining, you know? Just the fact that it's no pads. Because I don't like to wear pads on my skateboard. So when I see these people fight, it's like a real true street fight.
Interviewer/Host
I've gone as well in the Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood, Florida.
Bam Margera
Yeah.
Interviewer/Host
And it is like the sound. The sound. The punch does. When it gets a face in the way. It's super different when a glove.
Member of Amores al Lunam
¿Will you fight?
Bam Margera
See, I would love to jump in the ring especially. See, I'm two years sober now. But when I used to drink, I used to look for the biggest dude out there in the bar to kick my ass. So if I get knocked out, I get my adrenaline flowing like I landed a skate trick or something. Or if I beat you up, then, cool. So, either way, I'm winning. So if I get beat up, yes, I got my wish. And if I beat you up, cool. Either way, I'm gonna win.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
If they give you a million dollars right now.
Bam Margera
¿Who?
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
¿You fight?
Bam Margera
See, I have to have a quarrel with somebody. I can't jump in with my buddy and be like, oh, hell, yeah. No, like, I gotta be Aggro said, ding, ding, ding. I'm gonna fuck you up like a Dc ten. You're guaranteed to go down.
Interviewer/Host
¿Were you a big fighter when you were younger? ¿Like, did you get in trouble for fighting or what's your last fight?
Bam Margera
I got more in trouble for just being a jackass, you know. I, actually, my mom got a phone call in ninth grade. ¿They're like, why am I coming into school? Because your son has a attempted murder charge. She is flying to the school to wonder what I did. The attempted murder charge was me unscrewing the math teacher's wheels. So when he would sit down on it, he would fall back.
Interviewer/Host
And I would laugh he was in a wheelchair.
Bam Margera
No, it's just a chair with wheels.
Interviewer/Host
Would have been different.
Bam Margera
So when I undid the wheels, they're like, well, he could have sat in the chair And fell back and hit his head and died. ¿And she's like, my mom's like, well, did he fall back and hit his head and die? No. ¿Well, did he even fall back at all? No, But the point is, you can't unscrew the wheel. She's like, I am flying one hundred miles per hour. To the high school of an attempted murder. And it's just him unscrewing a wheel. So I got expelled for that.
Interviewer/Host
¿What's your earliest skateboard memory?
Bam Margera
Well, earliest skateboard memory was probably. I was in little league baseball. And I was a pitcher. And I was really good at it. And my dad wanted me to continue doing that. But I didn't like the uniform or anything. Just being a part of a team. And when I was at the school bus in kindergarten. I see this dude flying down the street with a skateboard with all these scarfs. And he just looked so rad. He just ollie'd his manhole cover. And just kept pushing. I was like, that was the coolest thing ever like. ¿Mom, can I get a skateboard? ¿Mom, can I get a skateboard? Once you got me one, I never put the thing away.
Interviewer/Host
So you were in element. ¿How old were you?
Bam Margera
I was five.
Interviewer/Host
Oh, you were in kindergarten. Yeah.
Bam Margera
So when I was five and I got my first skateboard. I knew right away that I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. And my mom even found a note that said. It said, in fifth grade. Or when I grow up, I'm going to be best friends with Tony Hawk. Drive a red Ferrari and be a professional skateboarder. And when she found that note, later on, I was twenty one. And she's looking out in the driveway with a red Ferrari. That Tony Hawk bought me from being a professional skateboarder.
Interviewer/Host
What a prophecy. ¿And like do you think skateboarding? Okay. Today, this morning, I had a discussion with my suntui wife that I was telling her that surfing is not mainstream, but skateboarding is.
Bam Margera
It's becoming that, you know, Now that it's in the Olympics and X Games, really help. We gotta give a shout out to Monty Santiago from Mayaguas because he's straight from Puerto Rico in the Olympics. One of the best skateboarders ever with his green haired tooth, Jose.
Interviewer/Host
¿Okay, but what? What. ¿What contributed more to making it mainstream? ¿The Olympics or the game? The.
Bam Margera
Oh, that's another thing. Tony Hawk video game. You know, he put me in that first game and we didn't know it would be as big as it was. Because every little kid, grandmom, grandpa, what whoever is playing that thing. Everybody owns a copy. And, you know, that's probably the most popular video game out there. So, yes, you're right. That video game definitely has a lot to do with it.
Interviewer/Host
Just.
Bam Margera
Yeah, I played so much that I was missing flights over it and I had to get rid of it. Okay, okay, okay. But I'm missing my tenth flight over. Like an obligation of. I'm like, this is my tenth flight. I missed. I probably lost about one hundred grand by now. I gotta put this video again. My mom's like, you're gonna miss those. Shut up.
Interviewer/Host
I'm gonna win. ¿Do you get like some sort of report of how many people use you in the game?
Bam Margera
Oh, yeah. I sign a lot of comic cons and horror cons. And they usually come up with the video game and say, all I picked was you in that game. So, yeah, how.
Interviewer/Host
Why. ¿Why do you think that happens?
Bam Margera
Because I like rock stars, and I listen to a lot of rock music. And you gotta look cool in the video game. So a lot of skaters would just show up with a white T shirt on and a pair of jeans and be like, there's me. I'm like, no man. I'm rocking a purple ass coat with the tattoo showing, with a nice chain, with some flare, with some wristbands. Wrist, guard, whatever. So, I looked like Jack Sparrow before. Jack Sparrow. And everybody wanted to pick that real.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
Actually, you were the most swagged out skater out.
Bam Margera
Yeah. If you're in a rock band, you gotta play the part. I mean, what if Arrowsmith showed up and everyone's like, here they are in Puerto Rico. They all come up with, like, Adidas sweatpants on with, like, crocs. Boo. ¿What do you mean Boo? We didn't even start singing yet. Just Boo to the whole thing. ¿Where's your rock gear?
Interviewer/Host
I remember watching or knowing about Slayer playing in your. ¿Do you still live in that house where the reality show was filmed?
Bam Margera
Yeah. So the first day I moved into Castle Bam. The neighbors around me, which there isn't many of them, they all threw me a housewarming party with a nice welcome to the neighborhood cake. And all this stuff I didn't show up.
Interviewer/Host
¿Why?
Bam Margera
Because I had Slayer show up at midnight and I invited every college kid over there instead of. They still hate me to this day. I don't blame them.
Interviewer/Host
Wow.
Bam Margera
Welcome to the neighborhood party. ¿What's this? There's so much traffic. There's rock playing at midnight to the point where there's a jail, a prison, a mile away from my house. And they were shaking the handlebar or the bars, the gray bars in the jail, because they're hearing Slayer live with their own ears. And they were going to bonkers in there. We're.
Interviewer/Host
We're watching some footage.
Bam Margera
I believe that's in my backyard.
Interviewer/Host
And that's still your backyard.
Bam Margera
Yeah.
Interviewer/Host
Are you. Do you still like, do you. ¿How percentage of the year do you sleep there?
Bam Margera
Well, in the summertime, my wife is a mermaid. She has to be near the equator for the whole winter. And if you think Seventy is Meteor, that's cold to her. So it's seventy degrees out. Oh, she was like it first took her to Pennsylvania, September, and it was like, maybe sixty eight degrees. She's like, it's really chilly out. I'm like, oh, my God. Wait till January. I'm sure. So I already started looking up places in Florida. I was like, I know something has to be done here.
Interviewer/Host
So you the whole year. ¿Really? ¿You're moving around during the whole year?
Bam Margera
Yeah. I mean, every weekend I'm in a different state doing a Comic Con, signing or just, you know, whatever. And then every month I'm in Los Angeles for a week to see my eight year old son Phoenix and get some skating done whatever kind of commercial offer I have.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
But.
Bam Margera
But, yeah, and I also forgot to mention since I moved into Perkops and township at Castle Bam. They've. They have twelve new rules there. One of them is no upside down cars in your driveway, No Civil war reenactments, no ziplines to wrestling matches. No naked wrestling matches. No rock concerts. No, you can't fill up your hot tub with cereal and milk. There's just so many whatever I decided to do. They would figure out. ¿What you doing over there? Oh, a naked lesbian lesbian vegan wrestling match. No more vegans, no more lesbians, no more wrestling matches. Whatever I decided to do, they would shut it down and create a new role.
Interviewer/Host
If they made a movie about your life, it would be like, That's that didn't happen.
Bam Margera
Yeah.
Interviewer/Host
¿Did you meet Kim Jong Il?
Bam Margera
You know what I met Kim Jong Il. And I'm in. I'm in a loony bin in like a. Like a mental institution in Florida. And they declared me a schizophrenic in there. ¿And I'm like, by no means am I schizophrenic? And then a year goes by. I'm like, hold up. It all makes sense. Now, if you're in there trying to marry your own sneaker because you're crazy and you're just going because you're nuts. And I'm sitting there saying, Billy Idol cut off the roof of my purple Lamborghini. Then I shipped it to Pyongyang, North Korea, because Kim Jong Il wanted to look at it on the Gumball Rally. It sounds pretty schizo. Looked it up on the Interweb. It's true.
Interviewer/Host
Wow.
Bam Margera
Wow.
Interviewer/Host
So, OK. ¿Is Kim Jong Il The Dad?
Bam Margera
Yeah. Yeah.
Interviewer/Host
¿When was this?
Bam Margera
This was, Oh, man, it has to be at least ten years ago by now. But it was the gumball where we went around the world in eight days. So I shipped the Lamborghini from Philly to London. Drove it to Serbia, Put it on an airplane to Phuket, Thailand. Drove it to Bangkok, Stopped in support of Japan, stopped in Pyongyang, North Korea. Then shipped it to Anchorage, Alaska, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles. Shipped it to Detroit and then drove home. Wow.
Interviewer/Host
You have a photographic memory.
Bam Margera
Yeah, because I do it all. ¿And are we there yet?
Interviewer/Host
¿Like, do you get prepped before meeting him? ¿Like, does someone come and say, bow down or do not fart?
Bam Margera
¿Or you know what? I'm really glad that I went, but I don't think I would ever go back. It was a really crazy experience. So he the Lamborghini show up in the Ferraris, Whatever. They all show up on an airplane. We pulled out in the Tarmac just so he could look at him. Now, we all had to put our cell phones in a locker because he didn't want the people of Pyongyang to see our technology. We all had to hop into a bus that took us to the only fancy hotel there. I guess you could say, you know, which was decorated. Really fifties. And here's the scariest part At six o' clock when the sun goes down, picture a city as big as San Juan. All the lights go out at six o' clock. So there's only dim little generators. It looks like zombie town. It's very weird. And it doesn't matter if you're like a famous singer there or like a farmer who rakes leaves. You all get paid the same amount of money which would not provoke anybody to want to become special. ¿So why would I learn to shred a guitar if I could just rake these leaves and get paid the same amount? ¿Why would I get good at skateboarding if nothing's going to come?
Interviewer/Host
Yeah, the doctor is the dumbass.
Bam Margera
Yeah. So he took us to this big state. First of all, we sat in this big chair.
Interviewer/Host
I think it's this right here.
Bam Margera
Yeah. So a big. Yes. Yes, exactly. There we are. So there's Kim Jong il. I'm probably in there somewhere.
Interviewer/Host
Let me stop you a second. Maybe someone doesn't know Kim Jong il was a dictator of North Korea. Probably the most suppressed country in the world. And his son, he died. And his son, Kim Jong un, is the actual dictator. So he met.
Bam Margera
He met that guy. Yes, he doesn't.
Interviewer/Host
He says he doesn't. But now we won't be able to go.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
The interview movie is inspiring.
Bam Margera
You know what kind of bummed me out, though. Like, this guy is eating like nice lobsters every night with, like, nice caviar and stuff. Meanwhile, you can look out the window. And all these people in Pyongyang are pretty much digging in the dumpster for a peach pit.
Interviewer/Host
Yeah.
Bam Margera
Hunger, like you got. You're not hooking these guys up, but you sure are hooking yourself up every single night. You've never felt what it's like to suffer. They're down there, probably eating rice with no flavoring in it.
Interviewer/Host
¿You know how was like your reception? ¿That? Like, did people come out to the
Bam Margera
airport or I could say that when I was staying in the hotel, I took my skateboard and I skated down the street and I ollied over like a bush. ¿And everybody was just like, who is this guy? With drawings all over his body with on a piece of wood with four wheels on it jumping over. Like they thought I was from the future. They were. They all just stopped. ¿Like, what was that?
Interviewer/Host
¿Imagine seeing Dennis Rodman? Yeah, he's also. He's Kim Jong un's buddy.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
Yeah.
Interviewer/Host
And I bet he's from the future.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
¿There will you go and interview?
Interviewer/Host
No.
Bam Margera
Actually, my wife.
Interviewer/Host
I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
Bam Margera
My wife is a stretch coach, and her. A stretch coach, she's. She stretched my legs back to being able to skate again. You know, the doctor said in twenty thirteen, they were like, dry rotted rubber bands from alcohol abuse. So her prior client before me was Dennis Rodman. So we had a lot in common when we were talking about going to North Korea. Whoa. Yeah. So.
Interviewer/Host
So. Okay.
Bam Margera
Okay.
Interviewer/Host
Let's go back to the stretch coach.
Bam Margera
Yeah.
Interviewer/Host
Why. ¿What happened to your niece?
Bam Margera
So, when you live. When you're on a rock and roll tour, like, a world tour that, like, lasts more than a year, and everybody's waking up to, like, you know, nice hot mint tea poured with whiskey in it, and then adderall, and then, you know, booger sugar, aka any kind of drug known to. Man, my whole diet was pretty much drugs. I can't believe I'm still here to tell the tale, but it took me eight days on life support with a tube down my throat with Covid and pneumonia from just being so dehydrated from, like, alcohol staying up all for four days straight on. No, odd. It was just dehydration. My body just shut down and I went into five seizures at twenty minutes apiece. And what's sad is, if I only would have had one seizure at twenty minutes apiece, I probably would have snapped out of, like, give me a beer. That was weird. It took five. Then I went to the hospital. I couldn't breathe on my own. So I woke up in the hospital. ¿Like, how long I've been here? Like, a couple hours. Like, you've been here for eight days. And the nurse was, like, crying because she didn't think I would come out of the coma that I was in. And that's when I was like. All right, dude. Whatever kind of rock bottom you could claim for a millionaire is kind of rock bottom. Because when you think of the word rock bottom, you think of a guy who's homeless on a tent on the side of the road, digging in a dumpster for a peach bit asking for ten bucks. Well, I have a lot of ten bucks, and I still have a lot of homes and stuff. So to determine rock bottom is just. However, you felt you died. Yeah.
Interviewer/Host
So you died.
Bam Margera
Oh, yeah.
Interviewer/Host
¿How does dying feel?
Bam Margera
It felt like, I need to change my ways now or else. So I did And, you know, luckily, I met my wife, Danny, who is stretch coach and supermodel. And hates alcohol and drugs, so she considers me to have a gay boyfriend. It's called Vodka. So if it touches my lips, I'm cheating, so I can't cheat.
Interviewer/Host
That's kind of the deal.
Bam Margera
I got a gay boyfriend.
Interviewer/Host
Okay. Bye bye. I'm gonna. So she's. She helped you like therapeutically to stretch, and you got your knees back.
Bam Margera
So an hour a day, I lay on the table. She does all the work, and it just hurts. So good. It's very effective. I honestly think that anybody who is of an athlete at all, especially skateboarders, should have a stretch coach. You know, when you're at the Olympics or whatever, they have masseuses in the back, which is cool. Feels good. Does a little bit. But to stretch a leg is what a skateboarder like us needs. Yeah, do you.
Interviewer/Host
I know I can't even touch my. I'm super lousy. And I've always read that. If you practice, you can become like a rubber man.
Bam Margera
Oh, yeah. Stretching and breathing. Keeps you young. It's a fact.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
¿Can you do those kind of exercise like he's?
Bam Margera
Well, that's what I'm saying in the doctor. In twenty thirteen. He said, reach down to touch your toes with your dry rotted rubber band legs. And I did my hamstring popped right here. And I was out for a year which made me drink even more. So you guys.
Interviewer/Host
Well, so the doctor, If it were not for him, maybe you would have better knees.
Bam Margera
Well, he's the one that determined that when a rubber band is dry rotten, it'll never go back to normal. So that's why I drank even more. To the point where I had acute pancreatitis, I didn't care anymore. I really didn't. And luckily that was a fluke because it went away. And then my wife was like, Don't listen to that doctor. He's an idiot. I'm a stretch coach. I stretch you an hour a day, and within a month, you'll notice that your legs will eventually start going back to normal. So you can. If you. If your legs are drive out of rubber bands, then they could go back to normal. They can be fixed. And I'm proof right here. All your.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
¿How many injuries do you have on your bones and broken bones?
Bam Margera
Oh, boy. Here we go. So, sixteen staples in the head, eight broken ribs four broken ribs. Fifteen broken wrists. And then I hyperextended my arm. Which won't go straight anymore because the bone was sticking out. Broken clavicle. Broken tailbone. Which sucks. Four broken feet over here. Every single finger and toes more than once.
Interviewer/Host
¿What's the most painful?
Bam Margera
¿The most painful? Somebody asked me this. And the most painful torture I've ever been through was seventeen hours in the drunk tank in a Vista jail cell. Because they wouldn't give you a blanket. Because they say that you could hang yourself with it. I'm like, I don't want to do that, number one. But if there's no hooks, if you're successful in hanging yourself with an Amish quilt, then you deserve it. ¿I'm fucking cold in here, man, you know what I mean? So to shiver for seventeen hours, what
Interviewer/Host
a torture is torture.
Bam Margera
And that was the worst pain ever.
Interviewer/Host
¿But have you ever cried because of a broken something?
Bam Margera
Yeah, actually, when I slammed so hard on this. I was on so much medication that was forced to take under paramount orders. I was in a treatment center under eighteen different medications. All the side effects were weight gain, stiff muscles, hair loss, erectile dysfunction and being off balance. And for me to drop in on a three foot mini ramp. I could do that with my eyes closed, switch blindfolded. But for some reason, I was so off bounce. I tried this easy trick went boom. And my bone was sticking out. And my wrist. And I broke my wrist for the fifteenth time. And it was just hurt so bad on such a small ramp that I really had to recontemplate. ¿Like, do I really want to skateboard ever again? As soon as I got off all the medication and realized that, you know, skateboarding is my medication, and that's my therapy. I don't need pills to tell me that. Or a doctor.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
¿You'll break the tailbone, right?
Bam Margera
Oh, man. Breaking your tailbone sucks because. Rest, you can't sit down. I was on a flight from Tampa to Philly. First glance, next to this guy like this. I'm like. I swear. I'm not gay. I got a broken ass tailbone. I just sit like this whole time.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
That was on a show. Right on the show. When you. When you actually broke it.
Bam Margera
Yeah.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
Yeah, Yeah. I remember.
Bam Margera
I went off this wheelbarrow boom. And I landed my tailbone right on the edge of it. And there's so many things MTV can't show because it's too gnarly. But they could certainly show my two inch hose in the February. Cold as a see through X ray. It was
Interviewer/Host
that explains it. Okay.
Bam Margera
Throw her. Not a shower.
Interviewer/Host
Okay. You know, so I thought now that I hear you talking about skateboarding, it sounds like you never stopped. I. How I perceived. It is that you came back to skateboarding, maybe after the stretching.
Bam Margera
Yeah. Oh, yeah. I took. I took ten years off just to get all. Get all Larry to fuck up.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
Ten years.
Bam Margera
You know, when I was looking in the driveway at about thirty years old. And I'm looking at a blue Lamborghini, a purple Lamborghini, a Red Ferrari, a DeLorean, a Silver Porsche Panamera, a Black Audi R Eight, two Range Rovers, two Bentleys, and an eighteen twenty eight fucking Mercedes convertible. And I'm just looking there. I'm just like sipping on a beer. I'm like I have ran out of wishes. Like I've spent my whole life skating and not drinking. Now I'm just gonna party and get asked up as I can. And I sure showed mate. And then. And then I never really knew how I was gonna stop because I was like, it was to the point where like, I had to have a drink to think about how I'm gonna quit drinking. And I had to have a cigarette to think about how I'm gonna quit smoking.
Interviewer/Host
So like.
Bam Margera
I'm like how am I gonna quit. I'm never gonna quit. And it took me to be eight days on life support to quit. And then once I did, I'm really happy. I'm not back there anymore because I really don't miss the fucking hangover.
Interviewer/Host
You know what skateboarding is such a different sport. Because if I. If a person that has never played basketball, gets a basketball for the first time in theory, he can go to the middle of the court and shoot it and just get it in there in theory, a person can back.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
Yeah.
Bam Margera
Yeah.
Interviewer/Host
But kick flipping.
Bam Margera
Yeah.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
Different.
Bam Margera
I could say this if you're not a border impossible. And you even go to a two foot high ramp, this tall, you could really injure yourself just trying to drop in on it.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
You know.
Bam Margera
You know. AND these skaters go forty feet up in the air on those Mega Ramps. It's really crazy.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
Fun fact. The most successful people in the world. I don't know why I have this in my mind. Just pop up. The most successful people in the world. They skateboard sometime. Because that skateboard cursor is about trying. Trying. Failure. It's a failure. It's a failure like sport because you failed like, thirty times only landed one time. And that's it.
Bam Margera
¿I already made it, you know? It's the. It's. It's the war of it all like, it's just to sit there and try throwing your board everywhere being so frustrated to land that trick of just that little reward of. Yes, I did it. It's such a great feeling. And that's why I think every skateboarder is just addicted to skateboarding. Because it's the battle. It's the mental war of I need to land this and people go home so broke off and bloody just to land that trick. And it's just like reward of it.
Interviewer/Host
For example, if you. I don't know how, when. When. When you hadn't broken fifteen times your hand. If you were over stairs and you wanted to do a. I don't know the names. A super complicated trick.
Bam Margera
McMuffin, let's say, Nolly hard flipped.
Interviewer/Host
Yeah. ¿And did you need to make it in order to carry on with your day, or could you just abandon the idea and say like, you know what? ¿Today's not the day?
Bam Margera
No, you can't abandon the idea. That's the thing. Once you get started on trying a trick, you have to keep trying it. The only way that you're not gonna ride away from this trick is if simply you break a bone, or you're just completely too exhausted or a security guard kicks you out. But if you're still capable, it doesn't matter how bloody you are. You're gonna.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
It's.
Bam Margera
You have to just keep trying it. You can't just say, I'll choose another day.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
All his skate videos went viral because all the the fun of your videos was all the.
Bam Margera
All the.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
All the fellows, all the cr.
Bam Margera
Sometimes a crash is better than the make. I prefer to see a gnarly slam rather than, you know, somebody constantly riding away from a trick. You got to put some slams in there.
Interviewer/Host
And I bet that knowing how to properly fall was a super asset in your jackass days.
Bam Margera
Yeah, that's the benefit of being on jackass. Is that, instead of skateboarding, which you could try a trick for an hour and then land it. Jackass is a one take, Jake. One try thing. ¿So all you have to do is learn how to fall right? And jumping downstairs all day. Which is what I did pretty much. Two hours all day. Every day. When I was a kid, I've learned how to fall out of these jackass stunts. So as long as you're brave enough to get up there in a wheelbarrow, get pushed off of two story roof into a pricker bush. ¿Then you know that you got the shot, didn't you? One time. The end.
Interviewer/Host
¿Didn't you? One time. I think this was in. Maybe in Viva Alabam. You had a hot air balloon and you hung from a rope and it.
Bam Margera
That was an accident. ¿You know what? My me and my buddy D Kamala were holding onto this hot air balloon. And it started to go up. And as soon as it was about fifteen feet up in the air, he let go. And then I just shot up like a rocket. And I didn't know what to do. ¿I'm just what am I gonna do? And luckily, like twelve people ran to the rope and started to pull me down. But at this point, I was pretty much like fifty feet up.
Interviewer/Host
So I think I would think, okay, I'm dead.
Bam Margera
Like, right about now. I figured out that, like, okay, there's enough people now that it's starting to come down. If there wasn't all those people there and it was only two, I would have been screwed.
Interviewer/Host
That's like. ¿Did you?
Bam Margera
Yeah.
Interviewer/Host
¿Fear for your life?
Bam Margera
No. I kind it happened so fast. I was pretty casual.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
You know what's crazy he didn't hesitate from that. But he have. When they put some snakes on the. That's your.
Bam Margera
Like, I could say this. The worst idea to ever tell the producer of Jackass that you'll film anything except for snakes, because I'm terrified of snakes. I'll do this. I'll do that. I'll do this. But if you get a snake near me. Oh, no. All that was telling the directors put snakes on them.
Interviewer/Host
That's what I would have done.
Bam Margera
Yeah, I should have said I hate beautiful women around me. If there's even one hundred of them, you're all dead. No, Instead I say snakes. ¿So what do I do? I fall into a pit with a hundred of them to the point where I literally like, I guess you could say it was the closest to a nervous breakdown.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
You actually cry from that.
Bam Margera
Yeah, because I didn't have the strength to pull up from this bar. Because it was just such a weird angle and nobody was there to even help me. Except for, you know, Ryan Dun saw me struggling and crying. Soon as I cried after a minute of hanging there, then he started to help. But I knew that when I'm hanging, I'm thinking, you know what David Weathers was just there. ¿Who's David Weathers? The Snake Handler guy. Double think that this dude is here for me. I better watch my ass because there's gonna be some kind of rouge where I'm gonna fall into a hole. Sure enough. That's what happened.
Interviewer/Host
Horrible. I hate snakes as well. Yeah, and you know what thinking about not so much this, but when you caught on camera, that hotter balloon moment that's super scary. Your origin story begins. You producing a movie so you know the value of a moment on camera, so you've known you've had that since you were a teenager. So you had the mind of a producer.
Bam Margera
And another thing is that when somebody comes into your home and knocks over this drink, a lot of people get really bummed. Oh, man, my carpet. Now, my house was a movie set the day I moved in. So as soon as we were in there, we're already playing baseball, knocking out the windows. And we got like this foam machine that had soap bubbles all the way to the roof. And, you know, we would just sling paint around and it never felt like a home. It felt more like a movie set. So for anybody to destroy anything at any time, whether it's a flat screen TV or like to throw a baseball through a window, I just be like, oh, another window. Like, I've never been like you're son of a bitch. It was just a movie set.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
This remind me about the old days of Jake Paul and Logan Paul videos. I think they got inspired from you. Right.
Bam Margera
As a matter of fact, it's funny you said that because somebody just sent me a clip of Jake Paul on a radio station. ¿And they said when you started your YouTube channel, what was your inspiration? He said, Bam Margera from the CKY videos and jackass and all that. So, wow. I figured out when they were telling me this, I'm in Dorado where he lives. ¿And then I'm like, you know what I got to do? The six degrees of Bam Margeri here. ¿So who would know? Somebody that would know him. And I'm like Michael Lohan. Baron, Uncle Boxen, Damien Feldman. You get a hold of him. And then he's like. So I called Michael Lohan. And he's like, yeah, I just called his buddy Nick. He used to be his roommate. And he's calling right now to see if he's in Puerto Rico. So if he is, we're both in the same town. And, you know, I'll probably just drop by and say what up. And maybe see if we can film whatever in the future. But for this visit, it would just to be to meet.
Interviewer/Host
Okay. Your house became like or it was created with a studio house in mind. So I bet it has tall ceilings because of that.
Bam Margera
Yeah.
Interviewer/Host
¿Like does that up? Like the resale value of the house. Or that's even mine.
Bam Margera
It's. It's kind of like this Bob Bernquist has this nice plot of land in Vista, California. And it's got a five million dollars mega ramp launch contraption. Huge ramp to the point where if he wanted to sell that property. He would probably sell it to some rich old lady who wants to put horses there. And this giant eyesore of a ramp is worthless to her. There's no value to it. So for me to have a skate park driveway. And a big giant indoor skate park barn, if I sold the place, I would have to probably pay fifty grand to tear it down. Rather than because they want to put horses in there. Whatever it is, they don't want that skate ramp. Unless you're a skateboarder. So that house is there to stay. And I'm never going to sell it. It's already been determined. I mean, all that everything you're looking at there is escape board worthy. And it would do no good to somebody who doesn't skate. Yeah. So it actually devalues it having used to have a ramp ramps everywhere.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
You used to have a ramp there, like a half pipe.
Bam Margera
It's all in there. That barn that you saw on the side is all filled with ramp.
Interviewer/Host
Oh, this is not where you sleep.
Bam Margera
No, that's where I sleep. But you don't see the photo down below. Is a house. The size of the house that I was living in.
Interviewer/Host
Maybe this.
Bam Margera
Yeah, that's it. Oh, so, yeah, that's a skate park.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
Yeah.
Bam Margera
That's a lot of people there. Yeah.
Interviewer/Host
I bet like I can't. Earlier in the podcast, when you talked about your. Your neighbors hating you, I was like these assholes. Now, when I see all these cars
Bam Margera
I would hate, You are a shitty neighbor. I feel like I should just knock on their door now and be like, you know what I've grown up as you can see. There hasn't been too much mayhem around here for I moved to Florida for the winter. But now that I'm here in the summer, I got a nice wife here who likes peace and quiet. So can we end this feud. And if we do end the feud, neat. If we don't, I don't care anyway.
Interviewer/Host
Bring him a cake or something like. ¿Did you ever like, You know, something that I've always heard about rock stars and crazy artists trashing a hotel room? ¿Did you ever do that?
Bam Margera
Oh, my God. ¿Have I ever done that show in the Tropicana in Las Vegas? It was a. It was one of those, like Ten Grand A night rooms that you have a bowling alley in there and a butler as a bartender. And we had a cake food fight in there. And apparently there was so much cake masked in the rugs and the walls and the carpet that it was a forty thousand dollars food fight because that's
Interviewer/Host
the bill that they that was with Ryan.
Bam Margera
Dirty, though. And then another one in Melbourne, Australia. I figured out that I like to paint on my spare time during this rock tour. So I would buy a bunch of canvases and I would paint in my room. And I didn't know at the time because I was new to doing art that oil paint takes four days to dry. So my drunk ass leaves a white paint trail of footprints from the lobby all the way up to room. Four hundred ten or whatever. And they're like you have an eighteen thousand dollars bill from this carpet of full paint. ¿And I'm like, wasn't me? They're like your footprints. I'm like, oh, shit. ¿So then can I see your shoes, sir? Then it gets even worse. So now every hotel that I get, I have at least ten rooms. Because, you know, you got the bass player, you got the drummer, you got the singer. So everybody, I rent ten rooms wherever I go. So in this case, I noticed from going in the rooms that it's all the same Kmart target piece of painting that is not an original because they're all the same. So I grab the paint and I start painting over the canvas. And I'm just gonna take the thing off the wall and bring it home with me. So they're trying to tell me that I painted over original artwork and I'm like, Lady. Do you know that I have not. Just this room. There's ten other rooms and it's all the same painting. It's a printed target. Fucking Kmart. Walmart Pizza. So don't tell me that it's original. And, you know, she was really heavy. Set portly a Novaxon truck, and he just looks at her goes. You just won eighteen extra thousand dollars. You could pay for liposuction. You fat. So red ears were. Steam was coming out of her ears and her clients because she's the boss there. They're like secretly laughing too. She I never seen murder in somebody's eyes. And she wanted to kill. No back to. Wow.
Interviewer/Host
It's so satisfying to just say something that destroys the inner person.
Bam Margera
So then we got kicked out of that hotel, and we got an airbnb which had the top floor balcony. And there's eight people in this airbnb, and Novak has to take a. And then the bathroom is fully taken. So he pulls his pants down off the balcony and just shits off the building. Not knowing that five stories down is a couple having a nice romantic anniversary candlelit dinner, and they get shit crystals splattered all over them. Is this Novak counting on the. Yeah, it's him. Luckily. He's sober now because he was the biggest hell on earth piece ever.
Interviewer/Host
Well, he shit down a balcony, He
Bam Margera
shit off the balcony. And the wind blew the shit. Romantic dinner on a romantic candle at dinner. Five stories down because we're twenty four up. ¿So who has the better story? They're pounding on the door like I'm gonna kill you. I got on my wife in her wedding dress with her anniversary dinner. Somebody's gonna die.
Interviewer/Host
¿What was this? ¿The guy who got the toy car in his asshole?
Bam Margera
No, that was Ryan Dunn. Oh, that somebody recently at the airport looked me up and down and they go. ¿Ain't you that dude from that movie who got caught shoving that corvette up his ass? I'm like, first of all, I didn't get caught shoving anything up my ass because there was nine cameras there. But no, that wasn't my ass. That was Ryan Dunn's ass.
Interviewer/Host
Nice. You know that that part of the movie is so special to Latinos Because I think the The doctor was a Cuban.
Bam Margera
He was.
Interviewer/Host
And he said something like. And he's riding front of Ryan Dunn. He's like.
Bam Margera
He's like. So you think I got all drunk last night at this frat party and swallowed a little toy car. He's like, no. Somebody put that up your ass. You probably put that up your ass.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
¿How was it? Ryan Dunn hanging out with him. ¿How was his whole vibe?
Bam Margera
It was great. That's why his nickname was random hero. Because whenever nobody was brave enough to do something and we have all the camera equipment out and nobody's like, I ain't stepping to that, I don't feel like getting hurt. He would always be, give me the thing. Let's just get it over with. So he would be the random hero that would get the golden shot for us when nobody was brave enough to. So that's how you earn that name.
Interviewer/Host
¿Who was the best drinking buddy of the crew?
Bam Margera
I would have to give it to Andy McCoy because he actually was Jack Sparrow. Before Jack Sparrow, Johnny Depp says, how did. ¿How did you get to this character? And he said, Rolling Stones. Keith Richards and Andy McCoy from Hanoi Rocks. Which was Guns and Roses before Guns and Roses. Okay. So being, you know, everybody knows Keith Richards. They only put that in the magazine article. And when they. When he Really mentioned Andy McCoy which was in my band. Fuck face unstoppable before that. Yeah. He took Izzy Stradlin's girlfriend away and married her from Guns n Roses. But that's Annie McCoy from Finland. True. Fucking pirate. When we're done the tour, he goes buy this eight hundred dollars bottle of perfume. I'm like, all right for your wife. She deserves it. You've been away for a month. He's like my wife. He just opens it up and drinks the whole thing. I'm like, what the fuck. He's like this shit's really heavy with alcohol. Wow. I thought he was buying eight hundred dollars perfume for his wife because he's been away for a month in Australia. He just cracks the whole thing open. ¿You're drinking that eight hundred hell? Yeah. It's really heavy with alcohol.
Interviewer/Host
¿Like, what do you think? I don't know. I asked for. ¿I'm sorry if this is bad, but what do you miss about it? ¿About drinking?
Bam Margera
¿Oh, you know what? This is what I missed because when I first went to rehab against my will, I didn't want to go. And I'm all sitting there like this. And the lady's like, doing her little speech. First of all, we all know that there's nothing good that comes from alcohol. And I raised my hand in the back. Yeah, you in the back. I'm like, tell that to the two Lamborghinis in my driveway. And the threesome I had last night. Yeah. ¿What do you mean? There's nothing good for come from alcohol. The whole CKY video is being out in the bar at two am capturing bar fights on film. ¿You know what I mean? Or just whatever like you need you. We need drunk assholes to do dumb shit. If everybody behaved themselves, it would be a real boring planet.
Interviewer/Host
I believe that. ¿Do you still believe that?
Bam Margera
Hell, yeah. I love it. I just can't be it anymore. So funniest thing is. I was in the Gabor Hood right before I left in Fort Lauderdale. And it was part time letting people out. And this big gay bar bouncer was dead. Serious. He wasn't even joking two things. I like doing kicking ass and sucking dick. And you're about to get one of them. This is the shit we need, man. We need this kind of entertainment. So don't tell me that there's nothing good to come from alcohol. I bet you differ. I just can't do it anymore.
Interviewer/Host
I remember.
Bam Margera
I'm allergic. I wind up in handcuffs. I really do.
Interviewer/Host
When I was a teenager, I was subscribed to a magazine called Pit. Pit magazine. I bet I've always. I never had Big Brother. Big brother was. But I read about it and seen a documentary. And I bet Pete was influenced by the punk style behavior of. Of that big brother. And I remember seeing a picture of a guy with diarrhea shitting like on top of a car like this. And you could see the long, liquidy, shitty system of ecosystem of flowing out of his asshole. And I remember seeing that picture and just being in awe and you know what kids nowadays. Yeah, won't have that. I had to wait every month
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
to
Interviewer/Host
that magazine arrive in my house. And now everything is so accessible that you wouldn't stumble upon a guy shitting diarrhea.
Bam Margera
Well, I could tell you this. ¿Do you remember the comedian George Carlin? Yeah.
Interviewer/Host
I'm a huge.
Bam Margera
He did this bit. He goes. Here's something you never see. A man taking a shit while running at full speed. I just look at RAB himself. I'm like you're doing it. Yeah. We buy eight X laxes. He takes them all and he waits for him to kick in. He's like it's gonna happen now. So he puts on a jock strap. He just starts running. All this shit comes out while he's running. I said it to George Carlo. Like we showed you. Here's something you never see. Well, now you're gonna see it did
Interviewer/Host
he ever write back.
Bam Margera
Oh, he was see. I put him in the movie saying that. And then I show rab doing it.
Interviewer/Host
And, yeah, for sure he saw it
Bam Margera
show to him to clear it. Because you have to get permission first. So he saw it, love. He loved the fact that we proved him wrong.
Interviewer/Host
Oh, wow. ¿And did you get permission for the punk music in the movies, like the skate? Early, Early CKY for example. ¿Or was that like?
Bam Margera
Well, CKY is my brother's band. So I use pretty much their soundtrack to my movie and called it CKY. Which later on, got them signed the Island Def Jam. Which later on, let them tour with Guns and Roses, Metallica, Deftones, AFI. I mean, all the big top notch shit. So it worked out really good for everybody.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
Okay, I've been hearing about your cars and everything. ¿What made you the most money? Squateboarding, the TV shows, your own shows, the CKY movies.
Bam Margera
Well, skateboarding got me pretty much to where I'm at now. So I gotta thank skateboarding for all that. But right, when jackass happened like a light switch, it was bigger than everybody thought. So MTV's trying to print up all this jackass merch to try to sell it. But I already have bam merch with element. I have bam skateboards, bam chain wallets, bam sunglasses, bam hats, bam everything. So I sold twenty thousand skateboards a month for three years straight out, selling Tony Hawk.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
¿How many a piece? Twenty twenty.
Bam Margera
Twenty thousand a month. Three years.
Interviewer/Host
Yeah.
Bam Margera
Like these bam shirts.
Interviewer/Host
I remember those bam rings.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
Fifty dollars a piece, right sold through the roof.
Bam Margera
And from that, you know, somebody like Right Guard deodorant would say, I'll give you a million dollars for one day of work if you say, get extreme, get right guard. And then I did that, and it was probably the most and easiest money I've ever made, you know, breaking your body, jumping down all these rails and stairs on a skateboard. And then you just say, get extreme, right, get right card.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
You get a million bucks, you have to put the order in one.
Interviewer/Host
Yeah, but I remember because I'm pretty in tune with the culture surfing is pretty similar. When I was young, there was critics for selling out that would have been considered selling out.
Bam Margera
That's the thing. A lot of skateboarders would say BAM sold out. You know, you did a red car commercial. I'm like, yep. ¿You know what I did? Sell out. I'm gonna sell out again because they said it was a real success. And they asked me to do it again. So I'm doing it again. You.
Interviewer/Host
I'm crying in my Lamborghini extreme.
Bam Margera
Get right guard.
Interviewer/Host
Big time.
Bam Margera
And I say to any skateboarder, if you get any weird deal, whether it's like Colgate toothpaste or like, you know, anything like that, just go for it. Feed your family. ¿You know what I mean like? Because a lot of skaters they keep it real. ¿And then where do they wind up? Or yeah, because when you. When you're forty years old, the skateboarding industry has no hard feelings letting you go. Because this new kid from Brazil is jumping down thirty stairs. And now you're forty and you're barely jumping down. Ten. So goodbye. Yeah, but I kept it real this whole time. Well, you're an idiot. You should have done a right car commercial like Bam had the opportunity. Wow.
Interviewer/Host
Yeah. That's so true.
Bam Margera
That's the thing. Anybody who's a hater and a skater saying that has not gotten that opportunity. ¿Well, if they asked you you would do it in a nanosecond, what do
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
you think about the new movement of Japanese skaters?
Bam Margera
And, yeah, they're incredible.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
It's.
Bam Margera
It's. It's almost like they watched the Tony or played the Tony Hawk video game, doing these tricks that are pretty much impossible. Proving me that they now are possible because there's all these combos, like three hundred sixty flip nose manual to Nolly, flip to regular, manual to McTwist. And it's like these are just video game tricks that are completely impossible in the real world. But I guess these kids today are doing these gnarly combos. Some of the things that I've seen have blown me away so hard as a professional skateboarder for thirty years. I never thought that I would see some of these tricks even be possible.
Interviewer/Host
At all.
Bam Margera
It's really incredible.
Interviewer/Host
So the sport just keeps evolving. ¿And what is it? ¿Is it the shoes? ¿Is it the skateboard? ¿Is it the food they eat?
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
I think it's what he's mentioned is
Bam Margera
what it is is back in the Eighties, everybody's trying to figure anything out. So when I saw Salmon Agost switch Ollie over a fire hydrant, I'm like he's doing it backwards. He doesn't even skate that way. He skates this way. And he did it that way. That's incredible. So now, when people automatically grow up seeing a switch, three hundred sixty flip, which we never even seen or heard of in the Eighties. Now that we know that it's easy. Well, now that we know that it can possibly. Now it opens up all new doors to, you know, we were the pioneers of it all.
Interviewer/Host
¿What came before the kick flip or the heel flip?
Bam Margera
Kick flip came first. And then he'll flip. Then three hundred sixty flip.
Interviewer/Host
But I remember. Yeah, trying the I could ollie and I couldn't kick flip. And a neighbor of mine could heelflip and it looked so much harder and I tried it, obviously. I tried it a thousand times and I eventually landed it. Yeah, but it's like odd. ¿Like, who thought about just hitting the wood with your heel?
Bam Margera
Yeah.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
Ronnie Mullen.
Bam Margera
And like, back in the Eighties, that
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
was the guy Rodney Muller invented.
Bam Margera
Invented every trick in scapegoat running invited. Well, over one hundred tricks. I don't even know why the Ollie should just be called the Mal.
Interviewer/Host
This guy.
Bam Margera
Yeah, yeah. One hundred percent.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
That's the one.
Bam Margera
But I mean, back then we were just figuring out that you can slide down a handrail with your skateboard. So now that it's twenty, twenty six like. And we've shown how much things are possible now people are doing fifty stair hand rails for lunch.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
Flipping in, flipping out, flipping out.
Interviewer/Host
Okay, let's talk about music because this Saturday here in Puerto Rico, en Puerto Rico en Handelbar, va a haber un espectáculo de rock. There will be a rock showmar. ¿Can someone amore at lunam? ¿Okay, how did you bam? Yeah, tell us the whole story. Get a hold of these guys or learn about this band. And if anyone can just stand in the mic, it will be great.
Bam Margera
So I'm really passionate about my music. And when I heard the song come on my phone, it was forever alone. And I stopped everything I was doing to go find out who this I'm like. I stopped everything. ¿Who's this band, amorem? And I already knew this band has what it takes and. And. And I was so excited to hear this new sound and just. It's pretty much exactly what I was trying to tell somebody what I'm looking for. And I already found it without having to tell somebody. So when it comes to Malcolm Baez as a songwriter, he's exactly what I'm looking for because to take a word like you're my lady. It's just one word, you're my lady. But it's the way he'll teach you how to say it. You're my La. You know, tomorrow's a new day. ¿Tomorrow's a new dawn Tomorrow's a new day It's a new dawn It's stuff that that I need to be taught how to do He's a very excellent
Interviewer/Host
songwriter right there Cantante Can we speaking English?
Bam Margera
So that I think you used to speak it in Spanish How am I supposed to learn in español No hablo o sea en inglés.
Interviewer/Host
Imagínate y cuidado. OK. ¿Cuánto tiempo lleva la banda junto hermano?
Member of Amores al Lunam
Esto. El proyecto empezó 2006.
Interviewer/Host
¿OK, entonces cuando carajo ustedes se enteran de que Van Malgera se enteró de que ustedes existen? ¿Cómo pasa esta locura? Es una locura lo que está pasando aquí.
Member of Amores al Lunam
Eso fue de sorpresa cuando nos descubrió a nosotros.
Interviewer/Host
¿Cuándo fue eso?
Member of Amores al Lunam
Esto No, prácticamente es reciente esto. Dos mil. Dos mil veinticuatro. El hombre me escribió, el manager de ese momento escribió y yo vi el mensaje un DM en Instagram mira esto, le gusta tu música. Un par de cosas que tú crees que Yo pensé que era embuste, cabrón. Yo dije gracias, gracias.
Interviewer/Host
Tremendo embustero.
Member of Amores al Lunam
Escribí gracias así y después lo pensé y me metí a la página y lo veo con un par de gente de Misfit. Diablo, el tipo está conectado, quizás es él. Y le escribí mano, dile a Van que es un honor esto que le gusta mi música y si está puesto para una colaboración que vamos a hacerlo.
Interviewer/Host
OK. Que a la gente que se está enterando ahora de Amores al Lumán que una canción tienen cinco minutos en su día que deberían escuchar de las canciones de amores. Recomiéndale una.
Member of Amores al Lunam
Adelante. Full, full, full. Esto. Salvation and Drug.
Interviewer/Host
¿Estamos de acuerdo, ustedes están de acuerdo?
Bam Margera
Por qué
Member of Amores al Lunam
es romántica, melódica. Esto está pesadita. Pero ahí que se llevaron Linkin Park.
Interviewer/Host
Entonces háblame del espectáculo de este fin de semana y cuál va a ser la participación de Bam Bam va a
Member of Amores al Lunam
cantar con nosotros lo que hemos hecho juntos. Hemos hecho juntos. Tenemos dos discos ya casi, o sea un montón de featuring con él Esto Y tenemos Par de Sol parece allí.
Interviewer/Host
Aquí lo estamos viendo en pantalla. Yo puedo ponerle sonido y no me canta copyright.
Member of Amores al Lunam
Claro, No.
Interviewer/Host
OK. Señoras y señores, aquí lo tiene. Behind the Green Door se llama el tema.
Member of Amores al Lunam
Correcto. Eso es dirigido por Omar.
Bam Margera
Let me touch your skin. With my finger tip I'm coming in. OK, OK.
Interviewer/Host
Parlo ahí cabrón. Qué clase vocal.
Bam Margera
Wow.
Interviewer/Host
Wow. ¿Tú cantas también el tema? OK, voy a darle un poquito fafor. Esto es Malcolm interpretando. Esto es Malcolm interpretando. Adelante, producción.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
Yeah.
Interviewer/Host
Go. Puñeta. Te brinqué, cabrón. Wow, cabrón. Vete para el carajo. Esta banda es boricua. Todos ustedes son boricuas.
Bam Margera
It's music to my ear. You know when I could hear something on repeat over and over and over again Without going bonkers and being like yep, Keep it playing Keep it playing. That means that I know that I love it.
Interviewer/Host
¿And were you always a vocalist?
Bam Margera
No, I more. I always let my brother do the music part of it and I was always doing the skateboarding side of it. But you know, as I got older, and you know, really know, now what I'm looking for to do I.
Interviewer/Host
Cabrón. Esos tipos de puta. Un aplauso. Gracias. Gracias por venir, señores. Amores. Al Lunam. Disponible en todas las plataformas digitales. Voy a poner el enlace aquí. El evento de este sábado es gratis. The event is free for everyone. The kick flip joke what I hope was pushing because I don't know how to kick flip.
Bam Margera
I'll hold your head.
Interviewer/Host
Thank you very much. Let's have a blast. Okay. What similarities if any are in like the. Because we see you. You're a crazy guy, but you. You're an athlete. You were an athlete. Are there any similarities between preparing a show and preparing for. ¿Not not necessarily a contest, but maybe a part of a movie that you're gonna skate in?
Bam Margera
I kind of learned when it comes to a rock show, I to not get nervous.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
You just.
Bam Margera
Gotta. Just be yourself. Go do your thing.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
There's.
Bam Margera
There's been so many different times I would be nervous to go. So I've been. I've done it all in every different way. And I noticed the hardest part about singing. Honestly is when you're not singing. Because when you're up there and you're singing, you're doing something. So whenever you stop and somebody's doing a guitar solo, you gotta figure out some kind of Jagger move or something. You can't just be sitting up there doing nothing. You gotta shake your shit machine. Yeah.
Interviewer/Host
Yeah.
Bam Margera
¿What did I do? I went to the amplifier cracked open a beer because I didn't know what else to do. So when you're singing like this and then it's guitar solo a time I'm like, yeah. Oh, guitar solo is done. All right, let's go back to singing. So the hardest part about being a singer is when you're not singing. What are you gonna do your machine like Jagger your machine got on
Interviewer/Host
cut on bound. Thanks for coming.
Bam Margera
Thank you.
Interviewer/Host
Is it. ¿This is what time? ¿How many times have you been in Puerto Rico before?
Bam Margera
Well, the first time I was here with Big Tony Hawk Demo with a Vert Ramp right in Old City, San Juan. And I jumped off the veramp into this tree. That was really scary. That was a two thousand. So I've been here about a total of six times now, I think, and my wife really likes it here. She's kind of on the DL looking for some property in the middle of the jungle.
Interviewer/Host
Wow.
Bam Margera
Probably the beach.
Additional Interviewer/Commentator
That would be amazing.
Bam Margera
Yeah.
Interviewer/Host
I mean, like, everybody knows like we had MTV here. Like I grew up with MTV. I grew up. It's super surreal. I bet. I know I've told you a couple of times, but it's super surreal. I bet these guys are like the we have a show with Bama on Saturday. So, thank you.
Bam Margera
You know, my heart is really in it with the morale lunam. Like I really noticed I'm on a lot of road trips and I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I'm constantly listening to music and there's sometimes I'll listen to an album be like, that was pretty good. And then I don't need to hear it again with the more alum. You could just put it on and I'd be like. Yes, this is the.
Interviewer/Host
¿And like, what's what's your top tier since you have even had shows? I think Iggy Pop also performed in your house Slayer. Your brother toured with Guns and Roses. ¿What's like the most amazing live show you've ever seen?
Bam Margera
I'm not kidding. So, to own a nightclub for about eight years outside of Philadelphia, it was capacity of about six hundred people. So it doesn't matter if you're coming up as an artist or coming down as an artist. I'm going to get you whether you're Blues Traveler or Tech Nine or whoever you're, you're going to be coming through my club. So, seeing a lot of stadium shows with Metallica and, you know, Ghost and Iron Maiden and the Raddest Show I've ever seen was sound wise and visual wise. A band called Hardcore Superstar from Sweden that just gave it their all in this tiny rock club. And it was so intimate and awesome, and I remember the sound was so good. And, you know, just give one year at a stadium you have these gaps, even if you're in the front row, there's still a twenty foot gap to the stage, you know. And you're like, Yeah, you know, like this is so nice and jam packed that I remember leaving doing that hardcore superstar was definitely in the top five. Followed by, I would say, Amana Marth. They put on a really good show him, of course. CKY.
Interviewer/Host
¿And that you had a collaboration, right? Like I remember seeing the those shirts with him and bam or so.
Bam Margera
CKY is my brother's band, and it's also called my movies before Jackass. So it is a little confusing. And the Heartigram is him from Finland, but I represented a lot, you know, on Viva Lab. So seeing me on TV all the time, if you don't closely follow the news, then you'll think the Heartigram is my thing, but it's just me representing one of my favorite bands from Finland.
Interviewer/Host
OK, Thanks for coming. We'll be there. Saturday, Corido de Puerto Rico. Nos vemos el sábado. Este sábado en Handlebach. Hasta la próxima. Gracias, amores. Hasta la próxima.
Podcast: Chente Ydrach – Masacote
Host: Chente Ydrach
Guest: Bam Margera
Date: March 6, 2026
In this rare English-language edition of Masacote, Chente Ydrach sits down with skateboarder, stuntman, filmmaker, and TV personality Bam Margera. The episode spans Bam’s wild career: from skateboarding and “Jackass” mayhem to near-death experiences, his foray into music with Puerto Rican gothic rockers Amores al Lunam, and his journey towards sobriety. The podcast is raw, hilarious, introspective, and packed with memorable anecdotes, behind-the-scenes industry insight, and a celebration of skate and music culture.
“I didn't really even have to film the first season of Jackass. It was already filmed.” — Bam [04:45]
The Rock-bottom Story:
Bam tells, in harrowing detail, his recent brush with death due to substance abuse:
“I can’t believe I’m still here to tell the tale, but it took me eight days on life support with a tube down my throat with Covid and pneumonia from just being so dehydrated from like alcohol staying up all for four days straight on. ... I went into five seizures at twenty minutes apiece... Whatever kind of rock bottom you could claim for a millionaire is kind of rock bottom.” [23:03–24:36]
On waking up from the coma: “The nurse was, like, crying because she didn’t think I would come out of the coma that I was in. And that’s when I was like: All right, dude. Whatever kind of rock bottom you could claim for a millionaire is rock bottom.” [24:27]
Sobriety & Marriage: Bam credits his wife (a stretch coach and supermodel) for supporting his transformation: “Luckily, I met my wife Danny, who is stretch coach and supermodel and hates alcohol and drugs, so she considers me to have a gay boyfriend. It’s called Vodka. So if it touches my lips, I’m cheating, so I can’t cheat.” [24:39–25:03]
On Early Skate Memories:
“I was in kindergarten. ... My mom even found a note that said ... I’m going to be best friends with Tony Hawk, drive a red Ferrari, and be a professional skateboarder. And when she found that note, later on, I was twenty-one ... she’s looking out in the driveway with a red Ferrari that Tony Hawk bought me.” [12:07–12:35]
Mainstreaming of Skateboarding: The impact of X Games, Olympics, and especially the Tony Hawk video game.
“That video game definitely has a lot to do with it.” [13:46–14:11]
Injuries List: Bam recounts dozens of broken bones, chronic pain, and his resilience.
“Sixteen staples in the head, eight broken ribs, four broken ribs, fifteen broken wrists... Every single finger and toes more than once.” [27:02]
Most Painful Experience:
“Seventeen hours in the drunk tank ... because they wouldn’t give you a blanket. ... To shiver for seventeen hours—that was the worst pain ever.” [27:26–27:57]
The Failure & Reward Cycle: “It’s the war of it all ... failure, failure, failure—like sport. You failed like thirty times, only landed one time. And that’s it.” [31:39] “It’s mental war of I need to land this ... people go home so broke off and bloody just to land that trick.” [32:03]
Fear in Stunts: Bam admits his only true phobia is snakes, and recalls a traumatic Jackass pit stunt designed by producers to exploit this: “The worst idea to ever tell the producer of Jackass that you’ll film anything except for snakes ... So what do I do? I fall into a pit with a hundred of them to the point where I literally like... closest to a nervous breakdown.” [35:43–36:32]
Hot Air Balloon Incident: Bam gets accidentally lifted 50 feet into the air, saved only by the crowd grabbing the rope.
“I was pretty much like fifty feet up... If there wasn’t all those people there ... I would have been screwed.” [34:50–35:32]
Drunk Antics as Career Fuel:
“First of all, we all know that there’s nothing good that comes from alcohol. And I raised my hand in the back. ... Tell that to the two Lamborghinis in my driveway. And the threesome I had last night. ... We need drunk assholes to do dumb shit. If everybody behaved themselves, it would be a real boring planet.” [48:09–48:48]
On “Selling Out”: Bam reflects unapologetically on lucrative endorsement deals, emphasizing financial security over gatekeeping “purity”:
“A lot of skateboarders would say BAM sold out ... I’m gonna sell out again because they said it was a real success ... If you get any weird deal ... just go for it. Feed your family ... the industry has no hard feelings letting you go ... this new kid from Brazil is jumping down thirty stairs ... and now you’re forty ... goodbye. ... you should have done a Right Guard commercial like Bam had the opportunity.” [53:18–54:15]
On surviving rock bottom:
“To determine rock bottom is just... however you felt you died.” [24:27]
On ‘selling out’:
“I’m gonna sell out again because they said it was a real success. ... I say to any skateboarder, if you get any weird deal … just go for it. Feed your family.” [53:18–54:15]
On fear and stunts:
“The worst idea to ever tell the producer of Jackass that you’ll film anything except for snakes ... Because all that was telling the directors put snakes on them.” [35:43–36:11]
On music and skateboarding:
“You really have to pick an important song ... and that shows your character.” [06:48–06:52]
The conversation is candid, wild, and unfiltered, as befits both the Masacote tradition and Bam’s persona. There is a constant mix of nostalgia, humor, and self-reflection, particularly around Bam’s struggles with addiction, his love-hate relationship with fame, and his enduring passion for music and skating. The hosts match Bam’s energy with quick humor, local color, and an obvious admiration for his legacy.
Special Guests/Cameos:
Amores al Lunam (Puerto Rican gothic rock band), with live reactions and performance.
Listen for:
Endnote:
“Thank you. Let’s have a blast. My heart is really in it with Amore al Lunam… you could just put it on and I’d be like, yes, this is it.” — Bam Margera [67:37]