Ep 214: Steve-O

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My name is James Edgaster.

We own a dream restaurant, and we invite a guest in every single week, and we ask them their favourite ever-starter main course dessert, side dish, and drink.

Not in that order.

And this week, our guest is

Steve-O.

Steve-O, of course, you will know from Jackass.

The guy's a cultural icon, James.

He's got his own podcast, Steve-O's Wild Ride.

He's, of course, done Wild Boys on TV as well, the Jackass movies, Jackass TV series.

He's a stand-up comedian, has been a stand-up comedian for over a decade now, touring many countries.

Yes, and eagle-eared listeners of this podcast will know that, of course, I'm a massive fan of Steve-O's work.

But James is absolutely obsessed with Jackass and what the Jackass guys are up to now.

Yes, it's one of my favorite things is to know what the Jackass guys are up to now.

Jackass Forever was

probably now one of my favorite films of all time.

Yes.

Came out last year.

I've watched it a lot, including the extra one where you get all the different footage that didn't make it in the film.

I've watched that too.

And I watched it on the plane on the way to my honeymoon and paused the film as the air hostess came around and there was a dick just filling the whole screen.

Yeah, which is very hard to pause that film and then not be a dick filling the screen.

There's quite a lot of dicks in it.

Yes.

Look, you know.

We're buzzed that we're going to be talking to Stevo.

This is pretty amazing.

And, you know, Benito's a bit scared.

Yes.

Stevo's coming into the office.

Toaster's in the office.

Yeah.

You know, Steve loves animals, but he's done loads of stunts with animals

in jackass.

Yes.

So he might be about toast up his ass.

Put toast up his ass.

That could happen.

Could happen.

That's the risk we're taking today.

Yes.

It's worth it.

I'm willing to take that risk.

And if he shoves toast up his ass, we will not kick him out.

no but if he chooses a secret ingredient which we have deemed to be unacceptable then we will kick him out as is the format of the podcast those are the rules it is and this week the secret ingredients is a line of wasabi which he has had before we saw him in one of the jackass films snort a line of wasabi it made him puke yes it was pretty disgusting yeah and i could only imagine what it felt like yeah so i mean you know we're hoping he doesn't want to do that again we're hoping he doesn't want to do it again but you know, we are choosing something that he might have got a taste for afterwards.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, he went away and thought that was actually great.

He certainly doesn't let things put him off.

So maybe it is part of his dream to do something wild like that again.

Yeah.

So, you know, fingers crossed, he won't pick it.

But if he does.

Rules are rules.

And if anyone can take getting kicked out of the dream restaurant, it's Steve-O.

Steve-O has a new special which is out now.

It is the bucket list special.

I believe it is available on his website, steveo.com.

but we'll see.

We'll see.

We'll ask him all about it.

We'll hear all about the making of the special that's coming out.

Yes, very excited to meet Steve-O, to hear from Steve-O, to get some stories, and to hear what food he likes.

This is the off-menu menu of Steve-O-Seve-O.

Welcome, Steve-O, to the Dream Restaurant.

Yeah, dude.

Welcome, Steve-O, to the Dream Restaurant.

We've been expecting you for some time.

Love it.

Now, candidly,

I was told that

I had to come up with a dream meal.

Yeah.

And I got really excited.

Yeah.

And then I found out you guys aren't even going to cook it for me.

People don't want to hear you eat.

Although people have seen you do a lot worse, to be fair.

We like to make people really hungry coming up with their dream menu and then we just send them back out into the world starving.

I'll tell you right out of the gate that that my favorite food is pickled onion monster munch.

Really?

Yeah.

Is it really, Steve?

Are you pandering to us?

Because it's.

If you think I'm kidding,

why are you taking your belt?

Why are you taking your belly than I thought?

Stevo's just pulled his trousers down

and he has a he has the monster from the pickled onion monster munch tattooed on his leg.

Very vividly.

Is that new?

Large one.

Is that a new tattoo?

Okay, now we might as well peel the curtain back a little bit.

But what does that mean when you say that?

Please, Steve.

Because

this podcast, as people are listening to it right now,

if all goes to plan,

they'll be listening to it substantially in the future.

Yes.

Yeah.

We're in July now, and we're going to hold this off until your special.

Right.

Which leaves a bunch of question marks, which makes this very, very titillating.

Number one: Will my brand new pickled onion monster munch tattoo

be a cause for a massive crippling staph infection

when I jump off the Tower of London Bridge into the filthy River Thames tomorrow.

Tomorrow.

So when did you get the tattoo done?

Yesterday.

And two days after you get it done, you're jumping into the Thames.

It is very bad.

They say don't even get it wet.

They say don't even take a shower.

The Thames is pretty wet.

Have you had staph infections before?

No.

You never have.

Well, Well, no, but

I'm not even really worried about it because I've spent my entire life challenging my immune system.

Yes.

And as such, building it up.

I remember,

you know, people maybe don't know this.

I was born in England and I attended high school.

Your forms go through the age of 16.

High school goes to 18.

But I did all four years of high school in London, England.

I was actually there even before that.

I was in eighth grade attending the American school in London, England.

And this was like a highly privileged school, like almost exclusively for obnoxiously wealthy kids.

My dad was like a wildly successful corporate executive.

And

they had this week called alternatives, I think.

And it was just, they'd send the students on field trips.

And these field trips were like all over the world, like high-level stuff.

So I chose to go to Egypt for a week in eighth grade.

When we got to Egypt, they told us, they said, do not drink the water.

Or they said, even if you order like a Coca-Cola, do not let them put ice cubes in it because that, because you'll get so sick.

And we're like, wow, creepy.

And then we're at this restaurant and

the restaurant was literally on the Nile River, eating out on the patio, on like the bank of the Nile River.

And I watched this Egyptian dude like kneeling by the river.

And I watched him dunk a toothbrush in the Nile River and just sit there brushing his teeth.

And I thought, well, damn, like,

if tap water's bad, then, then what's the Nile?

You know, it's got to be gnarly.

And then my next thought was, but I bet this guy's just used to it, you know, like, and I bet if this guy, who's brushing his teeth in the Nile went back to London where I live and drank tap water, he'd probably get sick.

You know, it's like whatever you're used to.

So I devised at that moment, in that moment, I decided that my goal to be the healthiest person would be to travel the world everywhere and just gulp down tap water,

which I went on to do.

We filmed Wild Boys, this

jackass spin-off TV show.

Oh, Steve, just so you know, you don't have to give us any background.

Anything that you have done.

Nice.

We filmed Wild Boys on every single continent except for Antarctica.

And I'm reasonably sure that Antarctica's probably got pretty clean water anyway.

Right.

Yeah.

And I did.

First thing I would do,

when we like checked into our spot, I'd put down my bags.

You know, after traveling, you want to brush your teeth.

So I'd be brushing my teeth.

I'd think about it.

And I'd

gulp down tap water.

And I never got sick.

I drank toilet water in Peru.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, and you never, you never got the shits, you never had anything?

I'm not going to say never.

Like I had some diarrhea in

Kenya.

I think I've every time I've gone to Kenya, I've gotten some kind of diarrhea.

Now we've just heard a dog barking.

We might hear that a little more.

That is this terribly badly behaved dog, which I picked up in whole.

Yeah.

Darn it.

Not yesterday, the day before yesterday.

So this is like...

The same as the tattoo day?

Same day as the tattoo day.

That's a big day.

I was laying down.

Oh, dude, I was such a big day.

I was laying down on the tattoo table with the dog laying on me.

And this dog is snappy.

Yeah.

I mean, like, it will bite you.

Like, at one point, somebody opened up the door to the tattoo parlor and there was kind of a crowd gathered around outside because I was posting to my Instagram stories.

So I tagged the tattoo parlor, and everybody, there's a crowd outside the tattoo parlor.

Somebody opens up the door, and this

damn dog just bolts out and just goes straight to just attacking

a much smaller dog viciously.

Yeah.

So, okay.

So, yeah, I've named this dog Tazzie.

Yeah.

It looks and acts like a Tasmanian devil.

And it's not okay with kids or cats or dogs.

Yes.

And my job is to find a home for it.

But if I fail, the hoarder lady in Hull will take it back.

Yeah.

She told us she had 92 animals in her house.

Oh my God.

You know, it was just down to just the one dog.

I mean, I kid calling her a hoarder lady.

She's actually a wonderful lady who runs an animal shelter out of her own house.

Yeah.

I just, I love animals.

It's my thing.

Yeah.

No, you're a big animal.

I mean, it's Peru where you got your last dog.

Wendy, yeah, yeah.

We've gotten, we've gotten more dogs since

we picked one up in Hawaii named Lucy, and she's the greatest.

But yeah, we've got more question marks.

Will I get arrested for jumping off the Tower of London Bridge?

It's not that high, but it's not that low.

You've not cleared it.

You've not cleared it without.

Oh, no, God.

You just could have.

Yeah, I've cleared it.

Definitely, definitely not cleared.

Will the current be strong enough to take me out to sea where I might drown?

I don't think so.

A lot of people have been worried about that.

We'll get taken up.

They're like, the current is intense in the Thames.

Yeah, you'll be fine with that.

You won't be drugged out.

I jumped off it 20 years ago.

Right.

And what bridge was that from?

Was it the same bridge?

Tower Bridge.

The same bridge.

So you kind of know.

At the time, that was the highest I'd ever jumped off of so does that mean you've got like a game plan going into this when you know how to jump off of this particular bridge well the only game plan is to bring a professional photographer

because otherwise right oh there's another one and this is all these are all question marks how's it gonna go yeah yeah and and i believe that the universe is smiling on me dudes you know every once in a while you feel like you're just getting a little tap on the shoulder a little wink you know like everything's coming together and there's just no way it's like we call it a god shot yeah right because

as part of my campaign to get killer professional photos i was like dude london you know like i got to get a photo surfing on the roof of a big red london double-decker bus yeah gotta do it you know but how do you do that i have a buddy um in in haul who I flew out to LA because he won this competition.

He is a bus driver, double-decker bus driver in Hull.

Of course, those pussies have blue double-decker buses.

That's not, that's dude.

Yeah, no, that folks is not going to mean anything to anyone around the world.

That's a knockoff.

It's an imposter.

I don't want anything to do with the blue double-decker bus.

It has to be red.

But it was pretty clear, my buddy, the bus driver in Hall,

that it's not just as easy as, yeah, sure, hop on the roof.

You know?

and I've been I've been beating up on him like okay he's like well he says I suppose if you go to like the the bus yard where they park the button dude I don't want to get a photo of a bus parked in a crowded lot lot of you know that's lame it's got to be on the road then I get to London and and I've spent the last few days trying to figure out how to get this shot yeah and it just so happens that in front of the hotel my lady is in she's the production designer for for my special.

And she couldn't come on tour.

She's just working on this insane wall of hundreds of TVs from the 80s that all have to work.

And it just so happens that right outside of the hotel is where the double-decker bus drivers take their breaks.

Literally, you got, you've got like, at all times.

At all times, there's buses that just come up.

And it's not necessarily great for the photo because like there'll be like a bus.

There'll be like three of them.

It's in the road.

It's very London-y.

And they literally come up, they park in front of our hotel.

Then the driver just gets out of the driver's seat and he just goes and hangs out in the back for his like 15-minute break, has a snack, like whatever.

He's just chilling in the back.

So what this bus driver doesn't know is that I'm going to have a crew

like with like a 15-foot extension ladder.

And we don't have the ladder yet.

Again, this is a question mark.

So it's a fascinating conversation.

I think the ladder is the easiest bit.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

But we need to be respectful and not scratch the bus.

So

we

Googled it on the way here to your studio.

A London big red double-decker bus is 14 feet and four inches.

I don't necessarily need the extension ladder to be taller than that.

Right.

I think if we get a 15-foot extension ladder, so this is how many people I need to get this done.

I need

two people to move the ladder in and out and hold it steady.

The ladder can't be in the photo, so they got to get it out and then bring it back.

I need one guy to fly the drone to get the killer drone shot.

I need another guy, professional photographer, to get the killer still image.

I need videographer, probably two of them to get multiple angles.

So that's

five or six.

And then me.

It is amazing, like the sort of things that you do.

They're obviously presented as like completely crazy and you've done it on the on a whim but the amount of work that actually has to go into them to make them happen well and without exception every time i come up with an idea it has to happen immediately

so like my whole crew is completely used to like oh god what's he come up with this time and we're always excited about it it's always like generally like a pretty fun idea but i i super stress out my crew because they never have like advance notice

it's always like 15 foot ladder with rubber feet Yeah, yeah.

And then that's why I brought my executive assistant with me because like he's out there sourcing that ladder.

I told him like renting it would make more sense, but it'd be pretty gangster to buy it.

Yeah, yeah.

We need to buy the ladder.

Yeah, yeah.

Probably be pretty gangster to buy it.

And like, I'm just picturing the bus because I travel on a tour bus all the time.

Yep.

And we have like, you know, crazy assholes climbing up on the roof of our tour bus.

And every time without fail, we notice it.

You can't have somebody on the roof of the bus and not feel it we're like oh we've had people climb up on the roof of our bus and jump up and just break their ankle sure one guy broke his ankle so bad and i i know what that's like you know like i've i've had my whole ankle shattered and screwed together like it's bad dude

yeah

but uh but yeah so i'm the bus driver's gonna know when i get on the roof like there's just nothing driving but it'll be too late it's not gonna prevent us from getting the photo yeah sure you'll get the photo

off.

And then the video,

I would imagine, would capture the bus driver coming out of the bus a little hot.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

a little, maybe get told off a little bit.

And bus drivers take no shit, by the way.

They are really used to people getting at them, so

they will flip.

Right.

And now

we arrive at,

I'm searching for the word, is it existential, like this dynamic, this, this double life that I live?

Because that's kind of a dick thing to do.

I'm going to piss off a bus driver on purpose.

And at the same time, I'm this like

reformed, clean and sober guy, like living a spiritual life, you know, like before I can even have coffee in the morning, I have to meditate for 20 minutes, do a full yoga, the whole deal.

I can't lie.

I got to do the right thing.

But there are some things that are not okay for Stephen Glover that are perfectly appropriate for Steve Owens.

Yeah.

I also, you know.

And plus the guy, the bus driver, no matter how mad he is, there's a decent chance he's going to get a stepladder out of it.

I mean, also, you know, you got,

we all are just on our own journeys trying to improve.

And, you know, I think when you look at, you know, if these days you might imitate a bus driver a little bit, but you haven't even you've gone to really great lengths not to even scratch the bus right but you know back in the day i remember my friend getting a stevo live dvd of one of your tours and one of the extras was just you on pcp for three days going absolutely ballistic and being the worst person in the world right so like i think it's a pretty good step yeah it's you're moving forward progress in the right direction

and and uh i i'll absolutely be ready to to throw a hefty cash tip at the guy exactly and i'll promise to either pixelate or replace in Photoshop the license plate number.

So we'll make it into like nobody ever needs to know that that was this guy's bus.

Yeah, yeah.

And then we will preserve his anonymity, throw him a big tip, maybe hook him up with an extension ladder, and life goes on off to the tower bridge.

Yeah, yeah,

that's a tip.

Which he'll probably happily drive you to.

That's what you're doing.

You know, the first time.

If that's his route and he finally gets you off the roof of his bus and then he's like, right, I just got to get on with my day.

And then he drives bus and sees you on top of the

guy.

When I first sought to jump off the tower bridge 20 years ago, my idea was that I would pay for one of these sightseeing tours.

You know, the top of the bus is open.

So they can't prevent me from it.

It's easy to get in there.

And I would pick one that just happens to go over the tower bridge.

And then as it drove over the tower bridge, I would jump out of the open top of the decker bus off the bridge but when I went to go scout it out it turned out that that sidewalk's like yeah 30 feet wide I mean there's no way you're gonna make that it's it's red you don't you never think about how wide a sidewalk is until you're trying to jump out of a double decker bus well I think I think we've all been through that

visually that's even funnier though if you would have filmed that

And it's just you jumping off a bus and it's landing on the sidewalk.

Then I'm in surgery with the other jump off the bus asshole.

And here's the most major question.

Sure, let's do that.

Is will I get arrested for the

bus or the London Bridge?

And they can't deport me because I'm British and I have a valid British passport.

They can't arrest me.

I can't picture either of these crimes being so serious that I would be locked up and precluded from doing any shows.

So that's not really a question mark.

But a staph infection with my new tattoo could really put a hamper on my ability to perform.

And I have the biggest show of my life in London.

It's Steve-O's Bucket List special.

And what's extra exciting about this conversation is that it's the very first formal promotion for this special

that I've done yet.

And I don't even know what the messaging is.

I can tell you that I'm positive that this special

will not be on Netflix or HBO

or any other legitimate platform which presents comedy specials because it is actually triple X rated.

Well, our friends are working on it

and they've one of them has told me one of the things that you've got to do.

And that's why I don't have to do it.

It's been done.

That you have decided to do.

Yeah, like

there's no way that obviously that's not going to be on any legit platform.

Like part of this project and this special, in this special, like I actually

blow a load.

I fully,

not only do I, not only do I ejaculate on camera, butt naked with another man strapped to my back, but I do so simultaneously as I fall out of an airplane at 15,000 feet in the air.

Yeah.

Like that's the most ambitious, like absurd, and I mean, it's just challenging, of course.

You try and jack off to completion in a tiny little airplane yeah well i mean i think i would be too i'd be too worried that because as far as i understand it with that

have you you filmed that already that's yeah like that's called skyjacking right that one's called skyjacking yeah yeah uh just to be sure my thing that i'd be most concerned about is that as far as i understand when you ejaculate it's as you jump out the plate yeah which i would be quite worried that when i do that that means i just haven't got my wits about me and i'm going to get everything wrong.

Well, I mean, when you've got the other guy strapped to your back, you don't have to do anything.

He's got your jizz flying up in his face.

The blowback.

Yeah, he definitely caught some,

what do you call it?

Crossfire.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, I think if you're agreeing to do that, you're not going to get it.

I mean, dude,

it wasn't just challenging logistically.

I mean, it was challenging to get the coverage.

Thank God we had the camera in the right spot on the outside of the plane to really get the money shot it's arguably the biggest success of my entire career for how challenging it was because because consider this i'm sorry for laughing steven obviously i agree with you but like i said very funny i i found out that i was already in the airplane that's when i found out that uh i i needed to time the ejaculation within a very precise window of two minutes yeah like that that's counterintuitive to like why like how's that But come to learn that

if we, if, if we fall out of this airplane at any other time, then we miss the drop zone.

Right.

There's a very distinct area that we have to land in.

Yeah.

And we're only over that.

The two minutes is that all you got.

So for that, now that's precision.

I'm doing the most challenging thing, and it has to be precisely and

like never mind finding the company that was okay with doing this under their banner.

Sure.

The individual who was actively strapped to my back.

And now for the biggest challenge of all, to tell a story in such a fashion that it makes a theater full of more than 1,000 people find it permissible not just to watch me jack off to completion, but to watch it joyfully.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, and I did that.

I pulled that off.

That's a feat.

That's the when it comes to the craft of stand-up comedy and storytelling,

I think that's testimony that I have for the last 13 years of persistently performing, I have developed the craft to a point of mastery where in Alabama, thousands of people are watching me jack off and they're okay with that.

Yeah, well,

I think anybody going to one of your shows, I'd be surprised if they weren't.

I'd be surprised if they go to see Steve O in 2023 and they stand up and go, oh, this is too funny.

I'm going home.

Please, Steve.

Here's my question about skyjacking.

We should ask you questions about food, but I do have questions about you jacking off and jumping out of a plane.

So you know that there's a specific time you've got to jump out and that you've got to ejaculate at that point.

Yeah, there's a green light

on the thing where the green light goes on and that indicates it's okay to jump.

So this is

like, but for you, the green light means it's okay to jizz.

Yeah, exactly.

And the green light's only going to be on for two minutes.

Yeah.

And that's the window.

So when I found this out,

I think maybe this answers your question.

I said, Give me one minute's notice before that light comes on.

Yeah.

Cause,

and what's that for?

Are you going

right?

I've got a, I've got to think about, were you thinking about a certain thing that you made?

A portable DVD player

taped down, queued up to a particularly salacious moment in a film.

Yeah.

When Cameron Diaz walks in in the mask?

no, no, something about Mary, where the guy's got the

watching the Ben Stiller thing.

Yeah, that's all.

That's all the guy strapped to your back was thinking about.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I bet you'll get better.

The reason for all of this,

I've been performing live comedy now for 13 years.

Yeah.

You know, like just grinding and comedy clubs.

And

I started 2010.

And over the course of these 13 years, my comedy has improved and it's become a multimedia experience.

Like at first, it was just me and a microphone.

That was my first comedy special.

My second comedy special was me in a microphone and footage of the stories I told edited in in post-production to illustrate the stories in a multimedia fashion.

But the footage was not with me on tour.

Now for this third show, which is the bucket list, I filmed everything so that the footage could come with me on tour.

and the footage had to be shit that's not allowed on jackass that was my deal I'm gonna set my sites for like forbidden stunts and the forbidden stunts were very clear I had the idea for skyjacking for the last 20 years every time skydiving ever came up in conversation I would never fail to say that my idea of skydiving

and

and then there's like God the things I did for this show like life-threatening flagrantly illegal.

For example, I got a medical professional to administer stolen general anesthesia drugs into an IV in my vein while I was riding a bicycle through a field.

And that, like,

this medical professional in disguise, I mean, it is just so illegal.

They were wearing a hazmat suit with the face all like pulled.

And yeah, you couldn't.

But then we got another medical professional dressed as a clown, which was kind of appropriate.

And he put a four-inch needle into my spine and injected a drug into my spinal cavity, which rendered me paralyzed while I was in a full sprint.

Yeah, and that was before my buddies conducted experiments to determine just how paralyzed I was.

So that one is so nuts.

Actually, after that one, I found myself paralyzed on the ground sobbing because I was just

tears of joy were flowing because it's so hard for me to raise the bar from where it's at.

And like, that was such a profound success that it brought me to tears.

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Well, listen, we always start the dream menu with still or sparkling water.

Now, you've already said that you go around the world drinking every single tap water.

So would there be a certain type of tap water from a certain country that you would want to start your dream meal with?

Because you, more than anyone, by the sound of things, would know what the best tap water in the world is.

How about this?

I'll go for a glass of Thames.

Yeah.

To kick off the meal.

Yeah.

A glass of Thames.

But could we carbonate the Thames?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

We're soda streaming.

Sparkling Thames.

That sounds fantastic.

Sparkling Thames water.

Sparkling Thames water.

Pop and absorb red.

Pop and absorb red, Steve.

Pop and obsorb red.

I'm actually avoiding

flour.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm not just steering clear of it.

Like there's really nothing nutritional about it.

And that's where you get all your pudge from.

And I'm at that age, man.

You know that everyone's just listening to you talking about how it's going on and now you're steering clear of flour.

Yeah, flour and sugar I really, really try to avoid, man.

And then again,

this is the double life I live.

So what would you have that instead, like just before the meal, if we were to bring you out something, is there anything that they sometimes bring out at restaurants for olives or whatever?

If you want to do like some carrots and hummus, that sounds pretty killer.

But the hummus has to be covered with Steve-O's hot sauce for your butthole.

Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm familiar with Steve-O's hot sauce for your butthole.

Yeah, well,

I've watched watched Steve-O's podcast on YouTube, as you know.

I've talked about it on the podcast.

And often at the end, there are adverts for Steve-O's products.

Steve-O's many products.

Yeah.

And you have no idea how many of them contain the phrase for your buttle.

Steve-O's Hot Sauce for Your Butthole is the original.

It wasn't really designed to be like explosively hot.

Like this, because, you know, frankly.

I like hot sauce, but I don't need it to be like so crazy and so.

You want some flavor in there?

Yeah, it's not that hot.

And I'm frankly addicted to it.

And I have a condiment disorder.

So I will go through an entire bottle.

Not necessarily in one sitting, but that's not unheard of.

And then for the people who are just clamoring for even hotter, I have Steve-O's butthole destroyer hot sauce.

And, you know, the butthole destroyer represents one-third of our sales.

Yeah.

Yeah.

My dad's actively working on

a campaign to sell the brand.

Really?

He says, he says, what you've done with this brand, you know, it's like, what were the net sales in 2020 were like 700,000.

And then it went up.

And then like, I forget what 2021, 2022 was well over a million.

My dad says, if you've done this well on your own, then like somebody who's actually a distributor who's got the channels, who's got, you know, like they could look at this and be like, wow, you know, and dad says, if I throw in a commitment for you to make appearances at promotional events to help this buyer get new accounts, you know, a limited number, as well as a commitment to keep selling the hot sauce on tour.

So are you and your dad going to go on Shark Tank, Drug's Dead?

We're not even going on Shark Tank, but we're preparing the proposal for Mark Cuban.

Right.

So you are.

Not necessarily for Mark Cuban to be the buyer,

but for Mark Cuban to point us to, suffice it to say that I can reasonably expect to get a message directly to Mark Cuban, who I can reasonably expect will be amenable to reading it.

And my dad is this business mastermind.

And it's just so crazy that this stunt career, you know, I want to be a crazy famous asshole.

You know, like that really kind of drove my father and I apart and then ultimately brought us closer together than everything.

Dad's on my payroll now.

Just yesterday, he said that he wants a bump in his retainer.

He wants an increase in his monthly fee.

And he's got me by the balls.

I got to pay him.

Let's get into your menu proper.

What would be your dream starter?

I don't think you're going to be shocked when I say pickled onion monster.

That is not, as I understand it, I mean, and all my rules go out the window when it comes to pickled onion monster march.

It's even got a form of dairy in it.

I think there's like some powder that's a derivative of milk.

And I'm so, I'm so violently opposed to the factory farming industry.

And I believe that I'm just contributing to that.

Like, it drives me nuts, man.

I just throw my morals.

out the window when it comes to pickled onion monster march because I love it that much.

But we've got a big problem with this product.

The problem is, from bag to bag, the coding varies.

Some bags are like exquisitely powerful with the flavor.

And then the next bag, and it could be the next bag from the same box.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Which has virtually no flavor.

And it's just like you're eating this Styrofoam.

But are you eating these back-to-back?

Because I reckon you might, the first bag seems really strong, and then you go straight into another bag.

You've just turned out your skin and you're immune to the flavor.

It's not.

It's very, and I can confirm that it's not the case because

my lady made me shake on it that I'm limited to just one bag of monster munch per day.

One bag of pickled onion monster munch per day.

So it's got to be the biggest bag I can possibly find.

Yeah, yeah.

And with this coding problem,

the new giant variation leans towards less flavorful.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Like they're not coding those giant monster munch pieces effectively.

So what my dream starter, and I actually propose this to, I want to get in business with Monster Munch.

Sure.

I really, really do.

You can use Monster Munch butthole destroyer.

Steve has Monster Munch for your butthole.

Monster Munch for your butthole.

Not a bad idea.

We have talked about that on the podcast, actually, before with someone.

We talked about, I think Amy Gledhill, we talked about shoving Monster Munch up your butt.

Oh, really?

Yeah, we talked about different crisps that you could shove

i understand that monster munch has or there's pickled onion flavored just regular crisps now i haven't found them yet it might be yeah yeah sure yeah

yeah i don't know if that's under the monster munch brand name but it but in any case i i i think i can safely say that uh of anybody with like a public profile

i am by far the most outspoken known

fanatic of pickled onion monster munch Munch.

I don't even know that there's a close second.

Well, no, we've seen the tattoo.

I mean, that's it.

Game over.

I don't think that there's even a remotely close second.

So I'm not campaigning to be a spokesperson for Pickled Onion Monster Munch, but I'm sure my dad would include that in the proposal.

But I do feel strongly that whether this actually happens in a very real world

relationship between me and the Walker's company,

Walker's Crisps, the maker.

Whether or not this actually happens in the real world, my dream is for there to be swap out the milk ingredient.

There's all kinds of alternatives to milk.

There's no reason whatsoever to have actual milk from factory farmed dairy cows and double coated.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Double coated.

I think anybody who's a fan of Monster Munch is going to understand what I'm talking about.

From one bag to the next, it's a wildly fluctuating level of flavor.

Which must be gutsing if you've said you're only going to have one bag a day.

And then your bag of the day

is underflavored.

And that has happened on this trip.

Now, this is the first time I've ever limited myself to one bag per day.

The problem is that I have like an addictive person.

I don't know how to moderate.

You know, like I'm, I'm white knuckling and I'm losing my mind with just one bag a day.

The problem is without these guard riddles, like I would be visibly visibly 10 pounds heavier by the time I tape the bucket list special on pure monster munch.

Pure monster munch.

100%.

So your dream starter then will be a massive bag of pickled onion monster munch without the milk.

Yeah, double-coated.

Vegan, double-coated, pickled onion, monster munch.

Beautiful.

And I wonder if I'm even getting that right.

I don't know how this product is produced.

I don't know if it's a coating.

Maybe I'm making the wrong reference.

However, they apply the flavoring to the baked corn,

double it up, man.

Double it up.

And be mindful that even the double-coated bags don't fluctuate.

Find some way to uniformly coat them all equally.

Yeah.

Well, I'll be interested to know why they're not.

Yeah.

I know.

I mean, I don't know.

I got monsters in the factory not doing their job.

I got it.

And here's another wonderful question mark.

By October, have I figured out this proposition?

I made the proposal.

Has it been accepted or rejected?

Yeah, yeah.

You know,

if they reject me, snub me, or ignore me, I'll be kicking myself for how much shine I've given them on your product.

You'll get an email from me.

You can cut all the Monster Bunch stuff.

Because no matter how much they offend me,

I'm still helplessly addicted to their product.

They could do whatever they want.

They could wrong me.

They could harm me.

They could assassinate my character and destroy my livelihood.

And I cannot stop eating pickled onions.

Where do you stand on the other flavors of Monster Munch?

I don't care.

Indifferent.

I know that Flaming Hot is right up there in popularity with Pickled onion.

There was.

I don't know if there is

anything wrong.

Vost beef is the one that makes your hands stink.

You absolutely stink forever.

You can have as many showers as you want.

You still smell of beef pickled on your monster.

I'm very, very singular in my devotion to pickled onion.

Now, we got to move off this topic.

Yeah, yeah, yeah because now you can see your fingers going i'm just more concerned with how much free publicity i've been i haven't even proposed to them i don't even know if i'm gonna have a business arrangement with them i think when we watch yeah when the special comes out and we get to watch it and we watch skyjacking and you're there and we look at the laptop you're watching and actually it's just a pickle on your monster munch advert but you're you're jacking it too yeah there was never a porno I hope you washed your hands before you did skyjacking.

You know what?

I don't believe in washing my hands, man.

Well, even after you've eaten the pickle on your monster munch, you're not going to jack off after that.

Same rule applies as with tap water.

Immunity.

You know, your immune system is a muscle and it needs to be exercised straight up.

You know, if you, if you live in an incubator and shield yourself from germs, you're just a pussy that gets sick all the time.

You know, I have missing teeth.

So

I got a partial denture.

And my guy who sells merch, you know, he collects the cash and he's like, like, really scared of cash.

And so, I just threw my denture in a bag of cash, like the other night, and then pulled it out and put it in my put it back in my mouth.

And he's like,

So, yeah, so I don't, I don't wash my hands, I don't believe in it.

I shook your hand when you arrived here, you dirty bastard, yeah, you filthy motherfucker.

Let's go on to your your dream main course.

Okay, dream main course.

Piccolonia Monster Month.

And people are like,

gonna be expecting me to say something vegan.

Yeah.

Like I've been in the past, like a particularly outspoken and I'll even admit shamefully, like leaning militant on vegan.

Like I do just tremendously care about animals and

I'm violently opposed to factory farming and and all of that and been very outspoken about that and I was loudly vegan for four years

and and then

reintroduced seafood into my diet then I went back to vegan then I reintroduced you know I've been kind of bouncing back and forth and where it's left off now I'm pescatarian so we're gonna have fish

on this.

I believe that eating fish is good for me.

I think a lot of these fake vegan meats, highly processed soy and wheat, which your body just simply does not recognize as food.

I mean, like I went for one of these colonic hydrotherapy where they stick a tube up your butt and flush it out.

Yeah, yeah.

You did this as you jumped out of a plane.

No, I just did this.

I actually just did this over

my own time.

And it's crazy because like you're, it's like you're laid down and with your legs up on these things, the tube goes up your your butt and there's like uh who did it on jackass dressed as santa or something that was knoxville

for the christmas episode of the first season a member of uh the plosive team who are the people who make this podcast has a question about knoxville if i may ask it go for it uh how is he still as handsome as he is after all the stuff that he's done that could have smashed his face up he's been um

very protective of his uh his face uh with the moisturizer with uh yeah he's he's he's shockingly handsome handsome he's the captain so I guess all of you have got you know what might appear to be a death wish just do whatever but you've all got these little things where you will take care of yourself you're you're you're avoiding flour noctrils moisturizing there's like different well yeah you've all got different ways that you are actually practicing self-care amongst all of this I'm full-blown like recovery guy so like you know it's not just avoid flour but like you know clean and so like i'm i'm like with respect to uh 12-step fellowships like,

I try not to go too into them, but I've balls deep in many.

It's like identifying as a sex addict,

as a drug addict, as an alcoholic,

as a compulsive overeater.

How does the sex addict program react to you using the term balls deep?

It's a good question.

And how does it deal with skyjacking?

I don't know if they've ever had to

factor that into their rules before.

Just segueing from that into what fishy wants.

You know what?

I believe pretty strongly as it relates to eating the seafood that death isn't something to be like feared.

I mean, maybe dying if it's like if it's extremely painful.

Like, of course, nobody wants pain and suffering.

But once we're dead, I believe strongly that...

everything's okay.

I think that it's really, really

silly to grieve for for the person who's died.

You know, whenever somebody loses a loved one, I emphatically implore them to grieve selfishly because they miss that person.

Just don't feel sorry for the person because they're okay now.

You know, let's agree on that.

They're okay now.

Some people would say they're just in a void of nothingness.

Other people would say they're in the warm embrace of

our creator.

You know, I'm open to the warm embrace part.

I watch all these near-death experience videos.

oh i i know you do yeah i'm trying to talk about it right i'm sorry to talk about the near-death experience videos you watch so we're all one thing we're all one thing and we go back door stores everything's okay so i don't think that death or being you're about to choose a human being as your main course you're about to eat a dead person no i but i just think as when it comes to fish

A fish that has lived its life swimming in the ocean and its natural habitat, you know, has had the life it was intended to have.

And then sure,

it gets caught and that's a bummer, but it's a pretty quick bummer.

Like it had a great life, it had a quick death.

And then now, like, when I eat it, my body recognizes it as food.

Like, I'm pretty comfortable with that.

You know, I'm pretty comfortable with that with one caveat that the seas are just wildly overfished and the environment is just not, it's not good for the world necessarily to eat fish.

Like the whole ecosystem of the planet is just so challenged and thrown off kilter by overfishing and all the extinctions and everything else.

But

we're getting kind of into the weeds when I get that far.

And I just got a vasectomy so that I don't have it on my conscience to bring a human into this world that is so fast going down the drain.

Sure.

So I eat fish and we're going to go with sea bass.

yeah and i think i think that that's pretty i think that's particularly uh incendiary yeah like uh inflammatory like uh like offensive because i i think that on some level sea bass is endangered i think that's why it costs so damn much

yeah i don't know you'd like a sea bass you'd like some sea bass as your main it's the shortest gap we've had between uh vasectomy and sea bass on the podcast

by the way the bucket list features a bit called the vasectomy olympics now this is what i was about to ask, because I was going to say, if you're Steve-O and you're getting a vasectomy, surely you don't just get a vasectomy and you leave it.

Surely there's some footage to be had there.

Yeah, and it is in all of its glory in the bucket list special.

I mean, fantastically so.

And it is the original culprit for, I'm not going to say Legions, but I've been at this tour for a few years.

And we absolutely average at least one person in the audience completely passing out after the vasectomy Olympics.

We also have people passing out after the spinal tap.

And there's two other videos that have been culprits too, but less frequently.

Right.

So we got four videos that make people literally pass out.

And like, this is a phenomenon that I never anticipated.

I've never heard about people passing out during jackass movies.

But yeah, as soon as I went out on this tour.

Submits that I fast forward.

And what's so crazy on every performance, you know, before the Vasectomy Olympics, I say, as a rule, before I play this video for you, this masterpiece, before I play you this masterpiece, I have to say something for legal reasons, which is that we are all here at our own risk.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's what I say before my comedy gigs.

Nice.

Let people know.

There are exceptions that people don't pass out every show, but we've literally had as many as 11 people pass out in one show.

So the average is absolutely no less than one person per show.

Yeah, yeah.

But there's that rare certain, you know, and who knows, man?

Maybe London's tough dudes.

I don't know.

I'd pass out, I reckon.

Yeah, yeah.

And I was shocked that the Vasectomy Olympics went on to make people pass out

because

it's like a minimally invasive procedure.

Yeah.

Like, you don't have to be totally awake.

Like,

when I watched back the footage in the edit, my main concern was that it was just plain underwhelming

you know it was funny there was great banter with the doctor and then the bareback horseback riding immediately afterwards and like all the other challenges that which immediately preceded

that sounds underwhelming Steven

plus the payoff shot at the end the the two days later shot of the just the plum that my ball bag turned into do you find yourself when you've done something like that so say you've done the vasectomy olympics and then you know that a few days later you want to get the shot of your your balls if during those days you're in the shower and you're look because you're going to be inspecting yourself every day yeah yeah if they're just going back to normal pretty quickly are you disappointed it would have been it would have been heartbreaking yeah

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Uh, your dream side dish.

I'm going to go ahead and have

what do you call it?

The

puree mashed potatoes kind of a deal.

Yeah.

With a lot of Steve-O's hot sauce for your butthole.

I don't know if I've emphasized enough, but I get high on my own supply.

Yeah, that shit is good.

You do.

And it's available on Amazon too, Steve-O's hot sauce for your butthole.

Oh, it's it's and it's available in the UK, on Amazon and the UK.

So you want loads of Steve-O's hot sauce for your butthole in the potato.

Yeah, yeah.

And I want loads of your listeners to to sample Steve-O's hotspot.

It's that good.

Oh, that's coming across.

It's that good.

You've not buried that message.

Hit on over to Amazon.

And if you're, and if you're really brave, try the butthole destroyer because you know how the ingredients list starts with what comprises the largest quantity of, you know, you go the top three ingredients of Steve-O's butthole destroyer are the three hottest peppers on earth.

Scorpion, Ghost, and Carolina Reaper.

One of those is Naja Jaloki or whatever.

I don't know.

That's the ghost pepper, I think.

That ghost, okay.

So you've been on hot ones.

Yeah, twice.

And then they've got like side ones, like Truth or Dad.

Oh, yeah, you've done those things.

So you've done, everyone who's seen hot ones has seen people do Dabomb, and people go nuts for it.

If you can compare...

the butthole destroyer to the bomb butthole destroyer is way gnarlier yeah and the read the reason for that is is that they've got a,

and then I probably shouldn't even say this because

I love them.

Their whole organization,

they've just been very good to me.

But butthole destroyer, they wouldn't want to subject the caliber of talent that they have on

their show

to

that level of destruction to their butthole.

Yeah.

Yeah.

When you went on it, it was what you put hot sauce in your eye.

I did.

Yeah.

Not the destroyer.

I would never pour the destroyer in my eye.

That's the butthole strictly.

Yeah, yeah.

That's the destroyer.

I did put it in my butthole.

Yeah.

Steve-O's eyeball destroyer is coming out.

Well, yeah, I mean, yeah.

And I think that might be why I'm wearing glasses because I've squeezed so much lemon juice and hot sauce in my eyes over the years.

But yeah, the OG basic Steve-O's hot sauce for your butthole, I've poured it in my eyes.

I did on Gordon Ramsey's show.

Did that on hot One.

I think I would like to consider myself retired from pouring hot sauce in my eyeballs.

You've done it enough times.

There comes a time in every man's life where they have to retire from pouring hot sauce in their eyes.

Right.

And you know,

there's zero doubt in my mind.

I would put a substantial bet on this that I have poured more hot sauce in my eyes than any man who's ever lived.

And yet, year after year, I am snubbed by Guinness.

Snubbed.

Do you know how many undeniable world records I've been snubbed

for by Guinness?

Yeah, yeah.

Surely skyjacking's got to be a world record.

One would think.

Yeah.

But you've got to be able to really qualify.

It's got to be demonstrably provable that it's a world record.

Yeah, sure.

So the one I'm most confident in, I would submit that nobody has barfed, vomited

on screen in both

television and film.

I'd like, come on.

Oh, no, Lance Bangs, man.

Lance Bangs is Lord Puking.

Yeah, I mean, he is.

He is.

And

the validity of those vomits, I think, can might come into question.

Sorry, Lance.

I don't know.

I think there's a little bit of gagging going on.

Not necessarily

full-blown puking.

Yeah.

Like, I've full-blown puking.

Nobody can touch me, man.

And

that's so demonstrable.

Come on, Guinness.

Come on.

Like, what's your beef?

What did I ever do to you?

What did I ever do?

And you know what?

Like, one of the bucket list bits

is

a demonstrable, undeniable world record.

I won't even say what it is.

I won't even say what it is.

That's more.

But I'll have you know that I've yet to hear from Guinness.

Yeah.

And you've contacted Guinness.

No.

That's true.

That might be a shortcut.

Your dream drink.

I am a humongous fan of Bloody Mary mix with no alcohol.

Virgin Mary.

Right.

Whenever I order one, because my sobriety is so paramount to me, I say, I would like a virgin Bloody Mary.

No alcohol.

Yeah.

Just the mix.

Like go real double Dutch on that and just

triple redundancy.

Or double redundancy.

Yeah, you don't want any confusion there.

Is there a place where you've got like the best one where you're like, oh, they nailed that Virgin Mary?

Like that was the best one?

I mean, he get enough Stevo's hot sauce for a bottle.

Steve-O, we've had Dan Aykroyd on the podcast in the past.

At the moment, you're doing what was previously known as the Dan Aykroyd crystal sculling with the hot sauce.

Yeah, yeah.

So he was promoting his products.

well his dream meal is a wonderful dream meal like yours is but uh crystal skull went with every course that's good crystal soul vodka which is the thing that we're removing from your bloody mail

and can you believe yes how much of this valuable promotion was diverted to the walker's company

We arrive at your dream dessert, Steve-O.

Now, I haven't been doing dessert, and this kills me because I am a gnarly sugar addict, man.

I'm a gnarly sweet tooth.

And like,

I remember making it from whenever that first Joaquin Phoenix Joker movie came out.

It was like maybe 2019, maybe 2018.

I don't know.

During that Joaquin Phoenix Joker movie, I got a tub, like a bucket of caramel popcorn.

Was this in America?

In America.

Yeah.

So like the,

it was, it was, it was a, a plastic one,

which is pre-packaged.

It wasn't like where they scoop it out of the popcorn machine, but it was you know, it's it's not um wrong to call it a bucket.

It is a bucket of caramel popcorn, and there's this this licorice product in America known as red vines.

And I got a jumbo pack.

I sat there in that Joker movie with just taking a handful of the caramel popcorn, putting it in my mouth, and as I chewed it, inserting a bundle of red vines and

kind of chewing it all up together in concert i found that to be delicious

i mean it was like it was it was i ate the entire tub and the whole jumbo pack of red vines yeah and um i don't even want to know how many grams of sugar that was,

but that represented for me at the time, a rock bottom.

And the next day, I reached out to somebody who I knew in the food program and said, I need help.

And that person became a mentor to me.

And for subsequent weeks, maybe months, every meal that I ate, I photographed and texted a photo.

So that was my accountability in the food program.

And that sort of food sobriety lasted for about, I want to say, 10 months.

I made it almost a year.

And then it was during the pandemic.

Tony Hawk is a personal owner in a restaurant down in San Diego.

And my lady and I were at Tony Hawk's restaurant.

I was on my best behavior.

And then, you know, end of our meal, this, this waiter comes by and says, hey, somebody got an order wrong or something, this extra dessert.

It was this like lava, this chocolate lava cake.

And they just put it on the table.

And I was like, man, like, screw it.

You know, I'm with my girl.

And I had one bite of that thing.

And I ate the whole thing.

And then.

It was just like

the cage door opened that little crack and the whole gorilla came out, man.

And that's how that's how I am.

Like that's, it's, it's, it's just, I went into full-blown relapse mode.

And when I do that,

it's very hard for me to get back on the rails.

Of course, I'm already planning for the second I'm finished filming my bucket list special.

I will eat 24 bags of pickled onion monster munch in a row.

Cool.

You got to celebrate.

Yeah.

And that might send me off the rails.

I don't know.

But where I sit today, I will say that I'm going to just not have dessert.

But then again, we've got a question mark.

Who knows come October where I'm going to be at with my food program?

I might be in relapse mode.

So hypothetically, if I am in relapse mode, I want every single goddamn dessert on your menu.

Sure.

Well, here's the thing.

Hit me with some because I'll tell you, you know, it is any dessert in the world.

It's literally what we've got.

All right, well, I'll tell you this.

I went into, I forget what it was called, but it was, I was in

maybe Manchester.

And is it Costa?

That's the coffee place.

And God damn, I went into Costa to get a flat white and I looked at their display of desserts and every damn one of them.

I was just like, man, if I didn't care, like every one of them, just like I was shocked at what an unbelievably appealing selection of cakes and pies and just like, dude, I wanted it all anything with salty caramel is going to be a priority yeah yeah yeah salty caramel is great i mean dude i'm pretty bad with sugar i really don't care yeah yeah yeah well i think either no dessert or all the desserts in the world is a good answer yeah yeah yeah

what's great about this stevo is normally when guests come in and pick no dessert or pick something not sweet for dessert james gets really angry because he's a sugar fiend he gets angry with the guests but because you connected it to your recovery journey and addiction he can't say anything i've i have to sit here and go well i have to let him have

which normally i'm going through the roof at this point yeah i mean we could like what's the one that's like uh is it creme brulee where you break through like the the caramel like heart and then you just get into the liquid caramel yeah

well so it's not you think it's a creme brulee you crack the hard caramel and it's just a bowl of caramel yeah

well i mean yeah that sounds good

yeah well i'll i'll read your menu back to you now see how you feel about it you would would like a glass of sparkling Thames water.

Then you want carrots and hummus with Steve-O's hot sauce for your butthole in the hummus.

Starter, pickled onion, monster munch vegan, double-coated.

Main course, sea bass.

Side dish, pureed mashed potatoes with Steve-O's hot sauce for your butthole.

Drink, a Virgin Mary, no alcohol.

Just the mix.

Do you want some sea-offs hot sauce?

Dessert, you would like either no dessert or every dessert in the world.

Correct.

That's fantastic, Steve.

I think that's a good

menu.

Yeah,

I love that menu.

And my little satanic dog was pretty well behaved.

Pretty well behaved.

Anybody in the, are you guys interested in a dog that cannot be around other dogs, cats, or children?

Well, me and James both have cats, and Benito's got a dog, so I think probably not.

Thank you for the offer, though.

Yeah, for sure, man.

Thanks so much for coming to the dream restaurant, Steve.

Thank you, Steve.

A lot of fun, man.

Thank you.

Well, there we are.

We got ackroided.

We got ackroided big time.

But actually,

to be fair to Steve-O,

he had a conversation with us.

He didn't just do his menu.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He did talk to us and he heard the words that we said.

Yes.

And responded to those.

I love that.

I was happy to just sit back and let Steve-O talk.

That was fantastic.

That's all you want.

Yeah.

Just let, you know, he's an entrepreneur.

Yes.

He's a madman.

Yes.

But he's also very mindful.

Yeah.

I mean, you know, the guy has layers.

Yeah.

So,

you know, from one sentence to the next, you don't know what the subject's going to be.

Yeah.

And that's, that's what, that's what you want on a podcast, I guess, every now and again.

I'll be honest, when he took his trousers down within two minutes, I thought we're in for a wild ride here.

I thought I'm going to see, at some point, I'm probably going to see.

up this guy's butthole and out of his mouth

like he he's already pulling his pants down yeah but that tattoo was insane.

It was brilliant.

It's a genuinely good tattoo.

Yeah.

Like, which we hope isn't now absolutely muffled and falling out.

Yeah, as you're hearing this, listener, hopefully you'll be hearing it.

Hopefully, we won't have had to pull the entire episode because...

We're not pulling it.

If he dies, we're going to put it out.

What, you think Steve-O wouldn't want this to be released?

Oh, yeah, Steve-O says, he said to us, and I don't know what's going to make the edit and what isn't.

But at one point, he said that if someone dies, you can mourn how you feel and you feel bad, but don't feel sorry for the person.

Yeah, they're fine.

Yeah, so Steve-O dies.

We're putting this out.

I think more realistically, you can go and see Steve-O's tattoo in a museum because his leg will have to be amputated.

Yeah, yeah.

Yes.

Yeah, yeah.

So he won't have that leg anymore.

Yeah, but you'll be able to see the tat somewhere.

Yeah.

Go and watch his special.

Go and watch all the jackass stuff, the wild boys stuff.

Listen to Steve-O's podcast.

Yeah.

What a guy.

Steve-O's Wild Ride, the podcast is called.

Yes.

He obviously did not say a line of wasabi.

Yeah.

He did say Fizzy Thameswater.

He said Fizzy Thameswater.

You know, there's a lot of stuff.

He told what he said a lot of things to the point where we just had to take it that his main course was just sea bass and we don't know anything else about that.

Yeah, we didn't really have time to delve into the more foodie things that we normally do.

Yeah.

So it was just sea bass, pureed potato, Steve-O's hot sauce.

Yeah, Steve.

Steve-O, fit your butthole, hot sauce.

I mean, check it out on Amazon.

I don't think we need to plug it anymore, do we?

No.

Of all the things in the world,

I think that's fine.

Thank you very much for listening.

We will see you again next week.

Thank you very much.

Bye-bye.

Bye.

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Oh, hi, James.

Have you heard the news?

Oh, yeah, go on.

You and I are modern boys because the off-menu podcast is now on YouTube.

This is embarrassing.

Why is it embarrassing, man?

You love YouTube.

I love watching clips on YouTube.

Sure.

Now people can watch clips of Off Menu on YouTube and full episodes, but it's embarrassing, man.

It's not embarrassing at all.

It's really cool.

We're on YouTube with the great and good.

The coolest people in the world are on YouTube.

Me, you, Logan Paul.

Who's Logan Paul, the dad from Succession?

At Off Menu Podcast.

That's what Benito's calling us now.

And we're on TikTok.

This is embarrassing, man.

It's not embarrassing, man.

We're cool.

We're like Olivia Rodrigo.

And Ed.

People have been asking us, battering us, bothering us, actually.

They want to watch the Stephen Graham supercut from the Stephen Graham episodes.

They can see all of his reactions to us, everything that he did.

Or Benito has bent to their whims.

And he's going to put it on YouTube.

He's going to do it.

Follow us at Off Menu Official on TikTok.

At Off Menu Podcast.

On YouTube, you can watch clips from the podcast.

And on YouTube, you can watch full video episodes.

People have been asking for it, and you're finally getting it.

Full video episodes, so you can see every single nuance on our little faces.