08-15-25 - Steve O - Tempe Improv - In Studio

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Podcast Summary

Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona

Episode: 08-15-25 - Steve-O - Tempe Improv - In Studio
Date: August 15, 2025
Host: John Holmberg with Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, and Dick Toledo
Guest: Steve-O

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Episode Overview

This energetic episode welcomes the infamous stuntman, comedian, and former Jackass star Steve-O as he joins John Holmberg and the HMS crew live in studio. On the eve of his “Crash and Burn” comedy tour at the Tempe Improv, Steve-O reflects on his evolution from daredevil prankster to multimedia stand-up comic—and how his relentless drive for audience approval (and outrageous stunts) traces back to a childhood of constant attention-seeking. Laced with unruly stories, honest admissions, and signature gross-out humor, the conversation blends laughs with candid insights into self-destruction, reinvention, and the art of distraction in troubled times.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Steve-O’s Comedy Evolution and Multimedia Shows

• Comedy Career Longevity:
  • Steve-O admits he never expected stand-up to last this long, having now performed for 15 years.
    • “I definitely cared about not wasting people’s time... it’s been a pretty radical journey.” – Steve-O (02:19)
• Blending Stunts and Stand-Up:
  • He began with classic stand-up but quickly realized integrating on-screen stunt footage would create a unique experience.
    • “I was like, this is the first multimedia stand-up comedy special. This is epic. And it worked super well.” – Steve-O (03:10)
  • After exhausting old material, he forced himself to create and film new, dangerous stunts for his next shows.

2. “Crash and Burn” Tour: Breaking New Personal Boundaries

• Pushing Physical Limits:
  • Steve-O reveals his body is “not okay now,” having severely injured himself filming for this tour.
    • “After this, I’ve broken myself filming.” – Steve-O (04:35)
• Escalation from “The Bucket List” Show:
  • Each tour raises the stakes. Steve-O struggles not to repeat past tricks—resorting to even more extreme ideas, including involving anesthesia and other risky medical feats.
    • “My body’s not okay now... there are moments that were—death was on the table.” – Steve-O (04:33, 08:07)
• Illegal and Uncensored Acts:
  • Steve-O shares that parts of his act are too illicit or dangerous for mainstream platforms like Jackass or Netflix.
    • “I go out of my way to make sure that I’m doing stuff that’s illegal because... I wouldn’t be able to do it for Jackass.” – Steve-O (05:05)

3. Outrageous and Risky Stunts

• Anesthesia and Medical Assistance via Fans:
  • Steve-O recounts recruiting medical professionals (incognito) from his social followers for stunts involving epidurals and general anesthesia.
    • On recruiting: “I’ve had a 100% success rate... asking for my fans to provide something.” – Steve-O (06:18)
  • Medical staff would disguise themselves (as clowns or in hazmat suits) to protect identities while assisting in these stunts.
• Vasectomy Olympics & Sperm Count:
  • Describes getting a vasectomy on camera, then immediately riding bareback on a horse, followed by being “a piñata” and letting kids hit him post-surgery.
  • Discusses surprisingly high sperm count before vasectomy, despite years of self-harm.
    • “I clocked in, I believe, at 51 [million].” – Steve-O (10:36)
• Skydiving Stunt Details:
  • On “skyjacking” (servicing himself while skydiving) and wild video evidence punctuating his set.

4. Childhood, Psychology, and Seeking Approval

• Early Signs of Attention-Seeking:
  • Steve-O shares childhood report cards pointing out his desperate need for peers’ approval—often backfiring.
    • “Steve, like, desperately seeks the approval and praise of his peers, but…the way he goes about it brings about the opposite result.” – Steve-O (17:12)
  • Anecdotes of pulling out teeth for shock value and eating dangerous amounts of salt at school.
  • Frequently alienated peers rather than impressing them, recognizing as an adult that he “tried too hard.”

5. Disturbing Early Experiences

• Exposure to Inappropriate Content:
  • As a child, was given VHS tapes of “I Spit On Your Grave” by a creepy handyman in his London apartment building.
  • Recited graphic scene details for show-and-tell as a fourth-grader, alarming teachers and peers.
    • “I watched [I Spit On Your Grave] as an adult and it messed me up way bad.” – Steve-O (23:45)
• Reflecting on Past and Future:
  • Steve-O doesn’t blame his weird childhood for everything but admits he’s always been different.
    • “I was already messed up at that point.” – Steve-O (24:23)

6. Philosophizing and Embracing Professional Distraction

• Role in Society:
  • Steve-O jokes about “distracting” audiences from the world’s problems—calling himself a “professional distraction therapist.”
    • “I’ve devoted my life not to solving problems… but distracting people. I’m a professional distraction therapist.” – Steve-O (25:18)
  • Promises an immersive, worry-free comedy experience at the Tempe Improv this weekend.
• Closing Banter and Affection for Arizona:
  • Steve-O expresses genuine affection for Holmberg and the show: “I love you guys so much. I always tell you, you’re like, top three favorites.” (25:47)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote / Moment | |-----------|--------------|----------------| | 02:19 | Steve-O | “I definitely cared about not wasting people’s time… it’s been a pretty radical journey, man.” | | 03:10 | Steve-O | "This is the first multimedia stand-up comedy special. This is epic. And it worked super well." | | 04:35 | Steve-O | “After this, I’ve broken myself filming.” | | 05:05 | Steve-O | “I go out of my way to make sure that I’m doing stuff that’s illegal… [otherwise] I wouldn’t be able to do it for Jackass.” | | 05:33 | John Holmberg| “I think it’s battery to shave someone’s head against their will.” | | 06:18 | Steve-O | “I’ve had a 100% success rate whenever I’ve gone on my social media asking for my fans to provide something.” | | 07:13 | Steve-O | “The epidural guy was dressed up as a clown. And the general anesthesia guy was in a hazmat suit.” | | 08:07 | Steve-O | “There are moments that were—death was on the table.” | | 09:01 | John Holmberg| “I have a theory that the bigger your elbow skin is, the more scrotum skin you have…” | | 10:36 | Steve-O | “The average man has 20 to 30 million sperm per milliliter… I clocked in, I believe, at 51.” | | 17:12 | Steve-O | “Steve, like, desperately seeks the approval and praise of his peers, but…the way he goes about it brings about the opposite result.” | | 18:23 | Steve-O | “… as the class begins, I just violently rip out this tooth, the blood’s flowing like…” | | 23:45 | Steve-O | “I watched [I Spit On Your Grave] as an adult and it messed me up way bad.” | | 25:18 | Steve-O | “I’ve devoted my life not to solving problems… but distracting people. I’m a professional distraction therapist.” | | 25:47 | Steve-O | “I love you guys so much. I always tell you, you’re like, top three favorites.” |

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [01:41-02:39] – Welcoming Steve-O, comedy career reflection
• [03:10-03:50] – Multimedia in stand-up, evolution of shows
• [04:08-05:05] – Crash and Burn tour, taking risks, illegal stunts
• [06:12-07:13] – Recruiting medical professionals for stunts
• [08:47-10:07] – Vasectomy Olympics & sperm count stories
• [17:12-19:22] – Childhood attention-seeking behavior
• [22:16-24:16] – Early exposure to disturbing films, show-and-tell story
• [25:01-25:36] – Society, “Distraction Therapist” philosophy
• [25:47-26:07] – Steve-O’s affection for Arizona and HMS

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Tone & Atmosphere

• The conversation is spirited, raucous, and often jaw-droppingly graphic—true to both Steve-O and the HMS crew’s established style.
• The jokes are brash, the camaraderie clear, and the willingness to overshare generates both laughter and a sense of behind-the-scenes authenticity.
• Under the outrageous humor runs a thread of self-awareness and open discussion of psychological needs and boundaries, providing depth behind the spectacle.

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Useful for New Listeners

This summary captures the wild humor, candid vulnerability, and creative evolution that define Steve-O today. Whether you’re a longtime Jackass fan, a stand-up comedy devotee, or just in need of a distraction from the seriousness of the world, this episode offers a mix of shocking stories, honest reflection, and relentless enthusiasm that keeps the laughs (and occasional winces) coming.

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Steve-O performs at Tempe Improv through Sunday. For tickets: TempeImprov.com.

Transcript

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[John Holberg]

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[Steve-O]

Oh yeah, we were howling.

[John Holberg]

Yeah. And now it's over. Well, thanks for coming, Steve. Oh, is at the tempe improv. Temp improv.com if you want to go. The Crash and Burn tour is here tonight, tomorrow and Sunday if you want to head on over there. It's good to see you back.

[Steve-O]

Yeah, man, it's great to see you guys.

[John Holberg]

And more importantly, good to see you staying healthy and doing right.

[Steve-O]

Yeah, yeah.

[John Holberg]

It's been a while. It's been. Do you ever think this comedy thing was going to go as long as it has?

[Steve-O]

No. I mean, I don't know. I definitely cared about not wasting people's time.

[John Holberg]

Sure. That's very thoughtful of you.

[Steve-O]

Yeah. And it's. It's been. It's been a pretty radical journey, man.

[John Holberg]

Like, it's been like 12 years now.

[Steve-O]

15. 15 years of, like, grinding.

[John Holberg]

Yeah.

[Steve-O]

Stand up started out just me as me and a microphone. Whatever I might do on stage then. Remember when I was in here, I was all burned up.

[John Holberg]

Yes.

[Steve-O]

Yeah. That was because.

[Larry McFeely]

Would you call it the Flame Angel?

[Steve-O]

Yeah. Fire angels.

[John Holberg]

That's right.

[Steve-O]

I had been putting together that hour and I was like, man, all these stories I'm telling happened on videos. So, like, oh, my God, this would be crazy. I'll edit footage into the, you know, into the show. Well, not in, like, into the. In post production.

[John Holberg]

Right.

[Steve-O]

I added footage into the video, you know, so that it illustrated the stories. And I was like, this is the first multimedia stand up comedy special. This is epic. And it worked super well. So I started filming all this new stuff. And then when. When I got done with that hour, put together the next hour, I was like, all right, I'm done living in the past and I want to bring footage on the road.

[John Holberg]

Yeah.

[Steve-O]

So then I put together the. The Bucket List show.

[John Holberg]

Oh, God.

[Steve-O]

And that one that was like, I really felt like I painted myself into a corner.

[John Holberg]

It's like, what am I gonna do next? The bar was way too high.

[Larry McFeely]

Well, we. It was a couple years ago when we did that podcast. It was like.

[Steve-O]

Yeah.

[Larry McFeely]

Came up with the idea. You know what? I think I want to. You said, I want to shoot some hot sauce. I want to inject myself.

[John Holberg]

Yeah.

[Steve-O]

Yeah. Well, yeah. That wasn't even for the dad. Put that on YouTube. Got me in a little trouble.

[John Holberg]

What are you gonna do? Take your chances.

[Steve-O]

Right. But. But yeah, now I've followed up the bucket List with Steve O. Crash and Burn.

[John Holberg]

Yeah. And what's. What are we looking forward to with this? What are you.

[Steve-O]

Like, when I was on my bucket list, Troy, I told everybody about, like, you know, me servicing myself on the way out of the airplane and. Yep.

[John Holberg]

Skyjacking. Yeah, I remember that one.

[Steve-O]

The.

[John Holberg]

Unfortunately, it's. I do remember every aspect of that one.

[Steve-O]

The general Anesthesia while I was riding the bike gave everything away. You know, like. And this one, I'm just gonna say that my body's not okay now.

[John Holberg]

It isn't. You can't do this.

[Steve-O]

You're all like, well, no, no, no. Like, after this, I've broken myself filming for this.

[John Holberg]

Really. So whatever's going to happen is you giving all you. You're like, jesus, you gave it all to us so we didn't have to do these things.

[Steve-O]

Yeah. I'm so stoked on this really show. I had Knoxville in LA attend my last show.

[John Holberg]

Oh, man.

[Steve-O]

And I just filmed the. The grand opening sequence for it.

[John Holberg]

Really?

[Steve-O]

Yeah.

[John Holberg]

So are you. The special on Netflix. What are you going to. Like, where's that?

[Steve-O]

I mean, like, who knows? It's wildly explicit. I go out of my way to make sure that I'm doing stuff that's illegal because that's how I'm able to say that, you know, I wouldn't be able to do it for Jackass. Jackass. You can't, like, actually break the law. And it's just like, with me, it's like, how wildly inappropriate can I get?

[John Holberg]

There wasn't. There were moments of law breaking in. Jackass. I don't think you can follow. I don't think it was like, I think it's battery to shave someone's head against their will.

[Steve-O]

Okay. There might have been.

[John Holberg]

I think that you got your friends to agree to it, but there's definitely illegalities.

[Steve-O]

Yeah. I don't know, because I remember. I remember when I lined up the. The epidural race. Yeah, the epidural. And also, we can't do that for Jackass. And I was like, all right, I offered it to you.

[John Holberg]

Yeah.

[Steve-O]

You know, I got the epidural guy.

[John Holberg]

There's a dude who's willing to do it. Like, where do you find. That's what I was like, the general anesthesia.

[Steve-O]

Like, you know what?

[John Holberg]

It was like, Michael Jackson's doctor is in the. In jail. You can't. Where do you find another one?

[Steve-O]

I believe that I've had a. Like, a 100% success rate whenever I've gone on my social media asking for my fans to provide something.

[John Holberg]

General anesthesia is one question away for you.

[Steve-O]

Right. I said. I went on my. My Instagram story and I said, I need a medical professional, preferably.

[John Holberg]

Yeah.

[Steve-O]

They just said an anesthesiologist for. For. For a silly idea that I've got, like, contact my guy. And we.

[John Holberg]

And they call risking their entire.

[Steve-O]

Yeah. Everything big time.

[John Holberg]

Yeah.

[Steve-O]

Big time.

[John Holberg]

I mean, they'd probably say no names, nothing. Obviously. They can't be exposed guys the whole time.

[Steve-O]

Like, Like, I didn't even let my own crew no who it is.

[John Holberg]

So it's almost like you've got like a hood over their heads.

[Steve-O]

Yeah, well, one was dressed up as a clown. Yeah. There was.

[John Holberg]

Putting you at ease.

[Steve-O]

Well, the epidural guy was dressed up as a clown. And the general anesthesia.

[John Holberg]

Yeah.

[Steve-O]

Guy was. Was in a. A hazmat suit.

[John Holberg]

Oh, okay. Protecting their identity.

[Steve-O]

Yeah.

[John Holberg]

And then you do the general anesthesia and you're riding a bike. Your bike.

[Steve-O]

Yeah, the general anesthesia was.

[John Holberg]

That is hilarious.

[Steve-O]

Yeah, I mean, it was. It was tough because you don't want to get intubated. Like, generally, anesthesia will make you stop breathing.

[John Holberg]

Yeah. So somebody's got to keep an eye on it the whole time. That's the. That's an anesthesiologist job.

[Steve-O]

I do sketchy stuff.

[John Holberg]

That was really, really. You've heard this before. That was really dumb. Yeah.

[Steve-O]

I love it.

[Larry McFeely]

That's the goal.

[Steve-O]

And I've got a. A very, very worthy follow up.

[John Holberg]

Yeah.

[Steve-O]

I'm super, super proud.

[John Holberg]

Okay. Is there anything you can tell us that, like one thing. Like, what did you put at risk here that you've never put at risk before? Body part anything?

[Steve-O]

I mean, I just. Like, there are moments that were. Death was on the table.

[John Holberg]

No kidding.

[Steve-O]

You know, like, fully possible. Yeah.

[John Holberg]

Skirting death. And it's available there at the 10pm Proud this weekend, along with just some fun jokes and stories in between you almost dying.

[Steve-O]

Well, yeah. I mean, it's like the video assets, there's like 40 of them. This one's just rapid fire. And so, like, it's actually like the. The. The set. The act is illustrated, punctuated, like all the payoffs, like, all tied in.

[John Holberg]

I can't. I want to see. This is gonna be great. And then so you get. Do you have. You don't have kids?

[Steve-O]

I do not. The last show I had the vasectomy Olympics.

[John Holberg]

Okay, go on. What was that one?

[Steve-O]

That was when I got the vasectomy on camera and immediately went bareback horseback, right? Oh, yeah, yeah.

[John Holberg]

Have a long. Because here, look. I have a theory that the bigger your elbow skin is, the more scrotum skin you have because it's the exact same stuff. So you pull. It's called your Venus. If you have. Pull it down. If you've got. If you don't have a lot of that, you have a high and tight sack. Because I'M down in the water. Look at this. Like, I am deep. So I've got a ton of it. So my vasectomy didn't hurt at all?

[Steve-O]

I don't know that that's going to be a thing like the getting a vasectomy. It's just the same as going to the dentist where, like, they're like, you're gonna feel a little prick right here. But then after that, they've successfully numbed it.

[John Holberg]

Yeah.

[Steve-O]

So you don't feel any of the right crazy stuff. They. For me, they did the little local injection made my nut sack completely numb and then I couldn't feel anything.

[John Holberg]

And so right after you just hopped on. It was nothing.

[Steve-O]

Well, yeah, but it'll cause some bruises. To the kids party.

[John Holberg]

Oh, you forgot to mention that part.

[Steve-O]

Where I was dressed up like a pinata with little kids whacking me in the nuts with a stick. And we pushed that pretty hard. Yeah, like, we pushed that.

[John Holberg]

So it wouldn't have mattered had you. The vasectomy was like nothing compared to the rest of it.

[Steve-O]

Right, right, right. Yeah. I didn't stop until I was working with like, what looked like an actual plum.

[John Holberg]

Do you think you could have actually had kids with what you've done to those things?

[Steve-O]

Anyway, I knew that question was coming, so. So I was mindful before the vasectomy to do the sperm count, the test, and you. I learned that the Average man has 20 to 30 million sperm per milliliter.

[John Holberg]

Is that real?

[Steve-O]

And I clocked in, I believe, at 51.

[John Holberg]

Not. Oh, you were potent.

[Steve-O]

Yeah. Which means my pull out game was strong. You were lucky. Yeah, Yeah. I just couldn't have gotten a vasectomy and then like, not been able to answer that question. That question needed.

[John Holberg]

Yeah. Because I figured with all the damage you've done, that maybe the swimmers were.

[Steve-O]

It was, you know, I would say if not top three.

[John Holberg]

Yeah.

[Steve-O]

I'd say top five.

[John Holberg]

51 million. That's pretty good.

[Steve-O]

Yeah.

[John Holberg]

Now.

[Steve-O]

Now with that said, they were swimming kind of sideways.

[John Holberg]

No, they weren't.

[Steve-O]

They weren't.

[John Holberg]

Yeah, they weren't making road scholars.

[Steve-O]

They weren't like very athletic. It was chaos.

[John Holberg]

Actually. You could see wheelchairs. There were wheelchairs in the microscope. Yeah, yeah. It was a mosh pit of sperm.

[Steve-O]

Yeah.

[John Holberg]

There was a lot of. A lot of little Stephen Hawking coming out of the urethra. Yeah. Well, I would have liked to have seen the videos of that too, because that's amazing. 51 million. I don't even know what my count was, but it was strong. And then the first time, you have to go back and throw down in a cup and bring it back again.

[Steve-O]

You go back three months later, and I was pleasantly. I was delighted to see not a. Not a. Not a corpse on the battlefield.

[John Holberg]

Yeah, they'd cleaned up nicely. I went back. Where did you have to take your. Your cup after they make it? Because ours is in a safe way.

[Steve-O]

It was all in house.

[John Holberg]

Oh, no. Oh, so you had to go back to. Mine was at a. There's a lab inside the grocery store I didn't even know about. So I had to walk. I think this has to be illegal, but I had to walk in with a cup of my own sperm.

[Steve-O]

That doesn't sound.

[John Holberg]

Into the Safeway. And in the middle, this little room I've never noticed before, and you walk in and there's like a clinic. And I'm like, I think this is yours. And like, cool. We'll call you.

[Steve-O]

Yeah, that doesn't.

[John Holberg]

What the. And I walk out and buy some coke and bread and I'm leaving. Was weird.

[Steve-O]

What was in your actual room?

[John Holberg]

What do you mean?

[Steve-O]

Like library of DVDs.

[John Holberg]

No, no, no. That wasn't for. I didn't have to beat it in there. I had to do it at home. Put it in a cup and walk. It's worse. Try walking in a Safeway with a cup of your own.

[Steve-O]

Yeah, I walked into this creepy little room with like a whole row of DVDs.

[John Holberg]

They made you do it right there.

[Steve-O]

Made me? What do you mean?

[John Holberg]

That's right. You're right. It was a poor choice of words.

[Steve-O]

And. And it was. It was a great environment because my buddies and I, we had a race. I smoked him.

[John Holberg]

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[John Holberg]

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[John Holberg]

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[Steve-O]

Yeah.

[John Holberg]

Inside of a clinic.

[Steve-O]

Yeah, I remember, like, who's cleaning that super crazy thing from like 2006. I think we were filming the second Jackass movie. We were in Florida and walking out of a Chili's, like the whole cast into our white cargo van. This kid comes running up. I got you guys. He says to Knoxville. He says, you never know, like, when, like you might have like a great opportunity. I just want to run and grab this. And he had his, his black and white 8 by 10 acting headshot.

[John Holberg]

Okay.

[Steve-O]

You just never know what's gonna happen. Like, just, you know, like, want to give this to just in case. And. And I just said, start cracking up, Knoxville. Like, let me get that headshot. And our, our white van pulls up to our hotel. And as we get out, I go somewhat like start time. Made sure that they started timing me. And I go running into the hotel right around the corner of the first, like, hallway. And I just started beating. Yeah, I just, Yeah, I beat myself up and all over the headshot. The headshot. And then I like, came running back into the lobby and like, smashed it onto the window and like, wiped it.

[John Holberg]

All around.

[Steve-O]

So, like it was stuck to the window. And we Were filming for the movie for like, I don't know if it was like 10 days. It was like solid week that that kid's face was stuck to the window, you know, and it's like he said, you never know.

[John Holberg]

You never know.

[Steve-O]

You know, he got a lot of.

[John Holberg]

Exposure you can't get. And that. That's Timothy Chalamet, by the way. That is actually an amazing success story.

[Steve-O]

Like, I was like, I did that in under two minutes.

[John Holberg]

That's. Well, that I'm totally. For what raised you?

[Steve-O]

I don't know.

[John Holberg]

You don't know Your parents were.

[Larry McFeely]

They like, give me that head shot.

[John Holberg]

Yeah. What? Exactly. Because my brain doesn't work. Right. But it's nowher. What's going on with you? Like, what raised you? What. What kind of childhood did Steve O. Have?

[Steve-O]

Yeah, I'm really proud of that.

[John Holberg]

Answering that one Childhood. Do you remember it, your childhood or did you fall out of way too many things?

[Steve-O]

I remember childhood pretty well.

[John Holberg]

Yeah. Was it normal? No. No, it couldn't have been.

[Steve-O]

I was.

[John Holberg]

I don't know. I don't know that about you.

[Steve-O]

I was messed up. And it didn't work for me when I was a kid. It didn't.

[John Holberg]

Being a child.

[Steve-O]

Well, it just like the way that I carried on.

[John Holberg]

Oh, oh, I see.

[Steve-O]

There was a. A report card that I saw as an adult, which, you know, my sister kept all my. My records and stuff and. And I was looking through these Report cards. My 6th grade homeroom teacher wrote, you know, that she said Steve, like, desperately seeks the approval and praise of his peers, but what he does, like, you know, the way he goes about it brings about the opposite result. You know, like, I was. I tried too hard.

[John Holberg]

Yeah, yeah, you gave too much of yourself.

[Steve-O]

Yeah, I tried too hard. Like, I'll give you an example. Fifth grade, I'm 10 years old. It's about time for Spanish class. And I noticed that like, you know, one of my, if not my very last baby tooth is. Is showing signs of. It's.

[John Holberg]

It's done.

[Steve-O]

It's. It's gonna. Coming out, but not wobbly yet. Oh, I feel like this one. This one, you know, showing it's early signs. And I knew that ripping out the tooth prematurely meant like a lot of blood.

[John Holberg]

Yeah.

[Steve-O]

So I walk into my. My Spanish class and. And I shoot. Today I'm gonna sit next to the pretty girl in class, you know, which I wouldn't have done otherwise. And as I sit down in my chair, I tell her, I don't have to be in class. Today, I can leave whenever I want. And she's like, okay. Creepy. You know, like, we're weird. And as the class begins, I just violently rip out this tooth. The blood's flowing like.

[John Holberg]

You're a psychopath.

[Steve-O]

Yeah, the blood flowing like crazy. I raise my hand, and you know, the teacher, I say, you know, I open my mouth to the teacher, she sees all the blood. I'm like, can I go to the infirmary? And the teacher's like, yeah, go, go. So I've got my mouth full of blood, and I stand up, I turn to the girl, I say, told you so. And then I just go parading around, like, waltzing through the aisles, like, enjoying my freedom in the school, gushing blood. Yeah, that's not cool.

[John Holberg]

No, it's not. Getting the girl. The girl is not gonna like that. That's.

[Steve-O]

Yeah.

[John Holberg]

I mean, every guy. And then you find out who the other weirdos are in class. You're like, all right, Steve. Nice. Nobody.

[Larry McFeely]

It'd be amazing to run into her.

[John Holberg]

She tells a story when she first saw Jackass and went, oh, my God.

[Larry McFeely]

I know.

[John Holberg]

That's that serial killer I sat next to in fifth grade that ripped his face apart. To get out of class. I sat in a class with a big fat kid named Chris. And he looks at me one time, my friend Mark Olsen's in front of me, and I'm behind him, and he goes, anytime you want, I can fart. And. And so, of course, you're like, this is hilarious. And it was those desks that fat people didn't fit in, but they still made kids slide in. And he gets in there. And so Olson goes, all right, hit me, Gilbert. Knock it down. And you just see him start pushing. And then you see right up his back, just rooster tails a shot right up his back. Just crap. Just poop. Pure poop. Diarrhea.

[Larry McFeely]

Like a jet boat.

[John Holberg]

Dude doesn't zero reaction, picks the desk up because it's kind of stuck to his fat belly, and walks out of the room, puts her down, comes back, like, two hours later with new, new clothes.

[Steve-O]

Two hours later.

[John Holberg]

Yeah. Cool. Because the school had still going on. And he goes, I myself more like. We know. We saw the whole thing. I laughed for, like, eight hours. But that was not impressive to us. Like, Chris thought it was going to be same as we did not make everybody go, we're going to be good.

[Steve-O]

Friends with Chris in third grade. My, my. Oh, my God, dude. The third grade was like, whatever. I remember, like, being in a little bit of trouble because, like, I Gathered all the kids around in the cafeteria, like, check this out. Like, this is gonna be awesome. And like just opening up, like I opened up a salt shaker and just like poured it. Just consumed like, like super dangerous amounts of sodium. I just, I was like watching this.

[John Holberg]

You ate it?

[Steve-O]

Yeah. Eating salt and like that, that got.

[John Holberg]

A burn your entire mouth out.

[Larry McFeely]

That brought the house down.

[Steve-O]

Stealing ovation, right? But then I hope he asks me to dance that in fourth grade.

[John Holberg]

Jesus. It never ended, right?

[Steve-O]

In fourth grade. My family, like, I was in Florida for third grade. We moved to England. Fourth grade, I went to the super privileged, the American school in London. I'm a new kid like halfway through fourth grade. My parents were trying to find a house for us to move into. And we were living in an apartment. Apartment building temporarily. And in the basement of that apartment building there was this creepy handy man, right. He hung out there like smoking with this, this creepy, this creepy girl. And I was just like down hanging out with them. I'm in, I'm nine years old in fourth grade. And they would, they send me up to my apartment with like VHS tapes of like, just like, like, like, you know, horror movies. Like first she was like the changeling, like omen, you know.

[John Holberg]

Oh, like real horror movies. Yeah, like R rated crazy.

[Steve-O]

But then. Oh no, then they sent me up with the, this, this movie which had been like notably banned. It was called I spit on your grave.

[John Holberg]

I remember this.

[Steve-O]

Yeah. I don't even think you can describe this movie on the radio, like if you google it, because I did like not long, not long ago. Like of the 90 minutes, 30 minutes are devoted to gang.

[John Holberg]

Yeah.

[Steve-O]

R word.

[John Holberg]

Yeah. Not.

[Steve-O]

Yeah, right, right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[John Holberg]

And what it is, I guess that's the other one.

[Steve-O]

The whole plot of the movie is that this, this, this woman is, is ganged up on.

[John Holberg]

Yeah.

[Steve-O]

In the like the worst of essay ways.

[John Holberg]

Yeah.

[Steve-O]

And, and, and, and that's like 30 minutes in the movie. But then the rest of the movie is her. One by one, actually murder.

[Larry McFeely]

Eliminating.

[Steve-O]

Yeah. Eliminating them in the worst of ways.

[John Holberg]

Horrible.

[Steve-O]

So I watched this movie and then I come into school, ninth grade. I'm the new kid in fourth grade and I've got show and tell.

[John Holberg]

Yeah. You brought the movie.

[Steve-O]

I didn't bring the movie. But, but you reviewed it.

[John Holberg]

You did.

[Steve-O]

Yeah. And I'm like, and I'm like this, you know, and she, she cuts this guy's thing off and, and puts it in the sink and like the whole thing like. Yeah.

[John Holberg]

How did you tell the Other third graders about the gang rape.

[Steve-O]

Yeah, well, I told, like, it was fourth graders.

[John Holberg]

Oh, sorry.

[Steve-O]

Oh, wow, there's.

[John Holberg]

Oh, there it is. Yeah.

[Steve-O]

Yeah, I watched it, like, as an adult, and it messed me up way bad. Like, way.

[John Holberg]

Yeah, I spit on your grave is no joke. Yeah, this is the scene. And the. And the hooting and hollering is what I remember too, is they all get fired up like. Like woodsman animals. And they chase her down and get her.

[Steve-O]

And in my show and tell, I was like, oh, there's this. This. This handyman. He lives in the Button to hang out with him. And he gives me movies and like, my. My parents got a call from that.

[John Holberg]

Day, from the first day in.

[Steve-O]

Yeah, the handyman wasn't there anymore.

[John Holberg]

Man.

[Steve-O]

I. I don't know if that. Like, I think I was already messed up at that point.

[John Holberg]

See, if I had a time machine, people think you go back and you'd kill Hitler or something like that. I go just hang out with you and the handyman to see how did this happen? Knowing what I know now. Steve O's at the Tempe Improv tonight tomorrow, and then and Sunday also. Tempimprov.com. you can go there, grab your tickets, leave us with words of wisdom. You've always done it.

[Steve-O]

I have? I. Yeah. Okay.

[John Holberg]

Something good. Change the world. You're president. What do you move first?

[Steve-O]

I just think, man, like, the world is crumbling around us, man. It feels like the house of cards is finally coming down.

[John Holberg]

You feel a little responsible for that?

[Steve-O]

No. If it wasn't like just the unsustainable debt, like now it's AI like. I mean, I just really feel like things are coming to a head. And I. I've like, devoted my life not to solving problems. Yeah, but Distracting people.

[John Holberg]

Perfect.

[Steve-O]

Distract people from real problems title that I gave myself. I'm very proud of it. I'm a professional distraction therapist. And if you know, at the Tempe Improv, I guarantee you, you're not worried about anything. Anything.

[John Holberg]

You're gonna look at your kids and.

[Steve-O]

Go, thank God you're gonna come and see my problems.

[John Holberg]

Yeah, there it is.

[Larry McFeely]

How's this guy still alive?

[John Holberg]

Distraction therapy live tonight at the 10pm Province.

[Steve-O]

Always good to see you tomorrow and Sunday.

[John Holberg]

Yeah, all weekend long. You can distract us all weekend while we're here. Thank you for coming.

[Steve-O]

I love you guys so much. I always tell you, you're like, top three favorites.

[John Holberg]

Oh, thank you. Not even top. Can you just give us one?

[Steve-O]

I gotta give it to my counter. Because O love my counsel so much.

[John Holberg]

All right.

[Steve-O]

Action. Grinder tattoos.

[John Holberg]

That's hot.

[Larry McFeely]

Yeah.

[John Holberg]

It'S sad that I know that we used to do. We used to try to find them at the Aria pool in the cabanas and stuff. And we're like 12ft and we did like, you know, scavenger hunts for. To find the Grinder guys. Yeah, we'd like one guy would go this way. You'd have to go this way and hope to find a dude on Grinder and like get close to him to where it was. Like you're on him and they're always just sitting in the cabanas, you know, we blew them. I mean, we finished the job. I'm not a tease. Please give me a little respect.

[Larry McFeely]

It's I spit on your grave.

[John Holberg]

Exactly. Yeah. That's how we told each other. Steve O. Thank you. Always a pleasure. Thank you.

[Steve-O]

Man.

[John Holberg]

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[Steve-O]

98K UBT.

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[Comedy Announcer]

HMS Podcast, time again to let you know where to go for some great comedy in the Valley this week. Lots of entertainment coming to town with Vinny Guadagnino of Jersey Shore fame. Coming in Friday and Saturday to stand up live at the Desert Ridge Improv. Up north you have the Sklar Brothers. Thursday, Friday and Saturday and Eastside at the 10pm improv. It's Steve O. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. For the complete lineups and for tickets, go to standuplive.com desertridgeimprov.com and tempeimprov.com It's.

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