Bathroom Break Podcast #15 - Bam Margera: Pro skateboarder / TV star

I know you never see someone taking a [ __ ] while running at full speed come on get rid of some of them Kurds in the [ __ ] box welcome to the bathroom break podcast with me Raab himself welcome to the bathroom break podcast with me your host Rob himself and today I have a very special guest mr. Bam Bam Margera yah mahn good man no it's awesome to have you on you know I get a lot of people like hey get BAM on there get the CKY guys and and obviously that's one of the things I wanted to do and was just hoping for the right time to be able to do it I'm back in Westchester here for the holidays and it was just a perfect fit to say hey let's stop by bam-bams house and and chat with them a little bit it is your first time here isn't it yeah first time at this house for sure yeah yeah I mean I I spent a lot of time at castle BAM and you still have that place though right Yeah right right now it's getting uh Airbnb I didn't think anybody would give a [ __ ] because it's in the middle of nowhere yeah but um there's like a lot of like people from QVC that just want to rent it and like Cubans II don't even know me and like people from Germany who do know me like yeah basically it's it's booked solid with like weddings and [ __ ] like yeah my mom came up with the idea and I didn't think it would be a good one but it it is cuz we're booked four year solid already damn yeah that's crazy and I mean I I just had to I had I had to change the scenery man like yeah I I have so many good memories and bad memories at that house you know like just I mean I'd Slayer play there the first day that I moved in I had a Civil War Reenactment I had a zip line from a treetop casino to a wrestling ring you know like anything you could think of I mean we did but then also there's been a lot of like you know just craziness debauchery yeah you know yeah well I mean it's funny because I felt like that like it's like now that people are air B&B and it's like it was like an abandoned or abandoned amusement park you know I feel like that like it's totally who the hell is gonna go there and then you say QVC I'm like these business professionals like I just want you to check out my ShamWow and then you're steady you stay in it at the at the castle and yeah absolutely it did feel like a closed-down amusement park for a little while yeah like like yeah when when the 40 cast and crew of evil of BAM when that was done like I would just like stare at the property alone and like count ducks and deer in the backyard I'm like what the [ __ ] - yeah like I totally hear you like you're sitting there it kind of like it's like you're there after the party you know like the whole all those years I mean there's actually a party but even filming there I mean it basically was a TV set yeah you know yeah when we when we you were there I mean when we bought the place we were playing baseball in the house knocking out the windows and [ __ ] like yeah yeah like it's a movie set that yeah it was never like a home yeah I mean you tried to live there but it's impossible because everybody's up in your space like you're like you know in your bedroom naked sleeping or whatever and someone's like hey BAM how does a toaster work like and I feel like you know at a point yet you kind of got a you got to leave Narnia you know yeah and once you know the Viva Laband cares left I I would just have the most random [ __ ] people staying there and live in there and like well cuz I mean I get I guess you were probably on the road a lot too so then he's like yo just come home and it's like who the [ __ ] is that yeah totally and and you know I wouldn't hide the keys to my car so like you know when production was living in the hobbit hole as soon as I would leave to go to Germany or something like my Porsche Panamera became his layout er8 became and how do I know this because every time I'd start my car there be a pee Duck CD playing and I certainly didn't put this in like my mom would randomly pull up and there would be like a bikini pool party happening at my house like with yeah yeah dudes he's living the life of some famous rapper just on your diamond in your cars and in your house I love Cleveland but man like he was the most lazy son of a [ __ ] because he was on methadone so yeah use own laptop why did you have to use mine and fall asleep with a cigarette and burn all my buttons on my [ __ ] laptop why does he have to uh here's his better babe why does he have to have a porno non-stop on the TV and the turret where is living and didn't even bother to clean up the [ __ ] stains on the rug I had a white rocket once and I'm like why is there a big massive yellow stain no doubt that that was like years and years of comedies go to a program for that like it's the little things that drive me crazy I was walking down in my bare feet at like 9:00 in the morning in in the kitchen and Cleveland's down there BAM I put on shoes if I were you like why he's like because there's a piece of glass right there and then another one right there I'm like you fat [ __ ] it would have took quicker to just pick them both up me tell me anything yeah exactly that's exactly what I thought is like why not just clean it up that wasn't an option well and that's what I felt like happened over there is that it just became like everybody's thing and like you know and especially if it's not your own you don't take care of it so it's it's Pam's house like he'll get somebody to come in and clean it and do that and it's like yeah but it's you know it's his place and maybe respect that but there was nothing for that everybody it was like I mean it like I hate that the dad term off like flophouse but it became like that where like everybody's just there and I say and you wouldn't even know and they're like hey I'm throwing a party tonight it's like what the [ __ ] yeah like you know you know like and I remember at times like I'll come over and you're like working on editing something like trying to get work done and then there's just people wandering to show up with a six-pack and then all my hard work whatever I was doing would be completely canceled now I'd be sipping on beers because people came over with their yeah it's impossible I remember just even like when I was in college and Shippensburg I'm trying to study for a final one time and then all the roommates had a keg party so then 20 minutes later I'm doing a [ __ ] keg stand you know you know and there wasn't there was no chance in hell I was gonna [ __ ] study for the test yeah there's that going on but it's way more interesting and I and I mean relating that to like you know you're actually trying to get work done and and that shit's going on so there's so many countless times of like sipping on a beer watching the Sun come up just pulling an all-nighter again analysis it in so now I'm 39 years old so like when I ever see the Sun about to come up which I hardly ever do now I'm like yeah time to go to bed you know how much you hate this you know how much you hate this time to go to bed yeah Jake's part 7:00 in the morning is not fun anymore remember that well and that's the worst part I think we were talking about a minute ago is like it's like the worst part is is like then when you're like time to go to bed then you just stare at the wall like come on fall asleep come on then it won't happen and then yeah you end up you know trying to find a way yeah wake up and it's bar clock at seven again and you go right back into town it's a vicious cycle yeah exactly well dude I wanted to get a little into obviously how you got out of that like you were like I know that you went and lived in Spain for like a year and a half and we're back you know skating and doing all that and that kind of I think help get you like away from there and then by the time he came back it was like the Amanda abandoned amusement park yeah you know I the terms shut up and skate I wish I would have like listened to that like skate I always had a problem like I would go to a skate park and then kids would want photos or autographs or talk to their buddy on the phone yeah and like I would just get so frustrated if I did it I wouldn't break a sweat if I if I did do it then if I don't do it I'm a [ __ ] right if I do do it I don't break a sweat so I just slowly stopped going to public skate parks and then there would always be like the hometown here over there that if I was trying like a blunt to fakie on a 12 foot quarter pipe then they would come up and do a kickflip blunt to fakie but well he already did something way rather than me father doing a blunt anymore but yeah well I wish I would have just shut up and skated because me not skating for who knows how long a year to [ __ ] maybe even three yeah you know like it was it's not like riding a bike yeah get on it and go like I had to relearn everything yeah I mean that's the crazy thing about skateboarding too but I was also thinking about like dude like in this day of like Tony Hawk pro skater obviously you were on that video game but but in the day of like oh you're just supposed to land every single trick on every single thing I can't imagine trying to learn something new because I mean I grew up with you so I watched how determined and how disciplined you were to go after something and make it happen it could be a whole day before you got the trick that you were trying to get and like and then you land it and you get it you get your video part but like but then you get to a place where you're surrounded by all these kids like why is he not learning it like you know and then there's like there's there's not be like you know opportunity to learn and grow and get better and and and challenges a lot of things that people don't realize like when not as caught he I lead up on to a fire hydrant and spun around on it and that took him maybe three hours maybe four or something like that but like he did in the video they didn't show how many tries it took they just showed the make so like when he had to do a demo they just had a fire hydrant in a parking lot and they're like no on spin ya even Tony Hawk like he did the loop he was the first person to ever do it I'm 13th by the way but but Gillette was doing a razor commercial and they built a loop and like the director was like all right time to do the loop Tony Hawk and action what all right take number two bail I take number three cheese's Christ we're wasting film right now it's like you don't just drop in I do the loop you don't just drop me do a 900 yeah it just doesn't work that way and like these [ __ ] morons think that like Oh Tony Hawk's hears alright drop in and do the loop action you know seventh attempt in this guy I just don't get it I mean he's not landing it I mean I don't know how long we're gonna be here no I mean that's why I flipped out I pick and choose my battles when we're filming with MTV but like when I saw Danny Way skate in my driveway and I could see how frustrated he was trying to land this air off the the bank in into the pit dilash it was just like all right enough of this we're wasting time and felt it's just like that Jim landed I could see nothing I can see how frustrated Danny went like all right hurry up and land it in action like no he's trying so hard to land yeah let if you just shut the [ __ ] up it'll happen yeah I know I mean nothing's worse than that and I could relate to that even with like just doing like bits of you riding a bike off of a roof or whatever it is it's like come on I mean you know Kevin's got to get to lunch he's gonna B's gonna get a meal penalty and you like the [ __ ] out of here you know like any metric yeah well that that's that's why jackass was so [ __ ] great is because you're not meant to landed it's right right Jake thing yeah yeah off a wheelbarrow into a bush off of a roof you ain't having a land [ __ ] [ __ ] you're gonna get it first try ya there for three hours right with a frustrated cameraman and like ya wasting film wasting tape like batteries are dying and like you're trying so hard to land it and like me I've been through some battles dude like ya know I know for real and I mean and and a bunch of him caught on tape and then obviously others that aren't but but yeah and I and I watched that growing up we talked a little bit about mid 90s which was that movie that came out which I want to see by the way yeah it's awesome and I felt like it was very true to my life because the main character is a kid who's not very good at skateboarding but he loves it and that was me like I'm around you and I would have a board and I'd want to be there but I wasn't any good at it but I tried and you and mike maldonado and Kari gets we're just on this other level and I'd go down to love park with you and do that play I was afraid to try [ __ ] because you guys are just killing it but what I what I always said is that despite how much better you were or other people worried you guys would always be like to him rabs about to land that kickflip like hell yeah do it and and I and I found that in skateboarding like just how awesome the the culture is and how encouraging it was and and it just it was awesome for me growing up and I feel like I found who I was through that through you through through Mike through Kerry just being like hey even if I wasn't that good at it I'll try it and and and that and then that kind of brings us back to the childhood and like when we met and and I always we always laugh about it cuz it's like yeah you got a bowl cut you know I got bow cut to the [ __ ] bowl cut I don't know why but the thing was a white turtleneck with a pal Peralta shirt and dude I just remember because like I remember being like just like interested in you as soon as I met you because you had a bowl cut now I had a bowl cut too but also that like you would you would draw a lot and you drew like the Tony Hawk like hawk that was on the board and you'd always have like different things of drawings that you did like that and I was like damn like because I always loved Steve Caballero so I had the Caballero board and you had the hawk board and and and I just remember like you draw on that and being like hell yeah and then I you know when I went over to your house I don't know if you had it yet we used to do Steve researchers which was 9 foot which is basically like a East Coast mini it was a vert ramp but it was a small yes gnarly yeah it was an elk a caveman would try and McTwist and and then do and then I remember because then your dad built two ramps in your backyard yeah and and that was so cool because I mean your house became the hangout everybody was there skating and I just remember you like Holly and off the roof of like the fort and into the ramp and and just going for it like that where I'm just trying to drop in on the little guy and eventually I was able to drop in switch and and do that and once I yeah once I actually had a mini ramp in the backyard I was so pumped on it that like I would wake up at 6 a.m. and skate the mini ramp before my bus stopped at 7 a.m. yeah I would put my skateboard in the duffel bag I bring it to school like I even in school I couldn't even concentrate because I was just too busy drawing like half pipes and yeah yeah report like if it was Black History Month like Alfonso Rawls who the hell's on farms are all best black skater ever you know yeah yeah what else is doing you know Michael Jordan and right you know the standard [ __ ] yeah but your but your mind was in that in that spot and I remember that always I mean you know I just remember like the sticker car like the Banana Boat your dad picking us up and and and I and he would actually write me a doctor's note to get out to go to cheapskates yeah you know and I'd be out there hanging out and like I said just messing around barely trying to land like you know like a boardslide or something but I couldn't do it but I wanted every excuse to get out there with you and and and i and just along the way growing up it was like that and obviously you took off to a whole nother level of you know of skateboarding and you're in the mix with with everybody at a very young age obviously you stood out but I just I just remember those times as some of the best times ever dude like getting in that car and going to find a ramp or going to find stuff like just driving around yeah [ __ ] like parking lots and in the back of like grocery stores just to in search for spots yeah that's the coolest thing and I think I learned you know like I would say I was more of like you know a sideline guy but I learned a lot through that of seeing like the creativity that's involved in skateboarding is like you want to get this new spot that you found that the new trick that you're gonna do right there and that's then that super cool and it and it takes creative thought you know to get to that that's why skateboarding is so rad because the possibilities are endless like honestly like you could grind this table you could grind that you could wiley off of a tree onto a rail you could yeah anything you could think of and that's why I like I respect football players for you know getting slammed and [ __ ] and tackled but like skateboarding you could fall in so many different ways you could rack your dick sack on a [ __ ] handrail knock yourself out that even could will you know like you'd fall there's so many different ways you could hurt yourself skateboarding ya know and I think that's what was was really rad like when you mentioned like walling off of a tree into a thing like what was really awesome about your style of skating was that you saw potential in that if you saw a roof on some random building you're like I got a drop in on there and they and that kind of stuff was really cool because it because it is it's it's like an expression of self which is it's an art and it's a sport and it's everything in between that and it's cool to witness that because then you see like okay you know I'm a fan of watching Jeff Rowley like and I love watching him skate but then I love watching you skate because yours is a different style than his you both skate Street but then it's totally different that's why I love the fact that you can wear what you want you can you can decorate your skateboard how you want and you could and if you enter a contest and you lose or don't do so well it's your own ass if you're like the goalie of a soccer team and the ball goes in then it's like you're the fuck-ass who let the ball you know like hockey you know like right it's like this team would want to [ __ ] goalie [ __ ] mr. [ __ ] Punk Oh goalie [ __ ] over there it's like and if you do if you do get the puck and it doesn't go through then you did your job so you're in like a no-win situation yeah and it's just kind of like oh cool they expected you to stop that one works feeling like say you're you know it's it's the it's the final Little League season whatever I'd like you're the fuck-ass who-who was in left field and they hit it right to you and you didn't catch it have you lost a mall because your [ __ ] ass didn't catch yeah yeah such a terrible feeling everybody just doll team looking at you like we did our part [Laughter] yeah so yeah that is a cool thinking about you know skateboarding is irresponsible for you and you alone and and and kind of on that mission for it but but it's cool to watch each other too though because you hype each other up like if you see that you know Andrew Reynolds did something insane like it amps you up to yeah you know 100% like you know you could if there's like a session going on especially on a mini-ramp like if somebody does something gnarly it it gets your adrenaline going to try something even harder and like you'd be surprised what [ __ ] you could land when when the hype and the adrenaline is going yeah damn that's crazy so when you went over to Spain like that was your mission right you're like look okay I can't avoid that at the local skate parks I can't avoid kids coming up and doing that I need to get over somewhere where I can just kind of get back on my board and not be bothered and and especially Spain everything is just marbled there's banks everywhere you barely even have to look for spots because they're just everywhere and they don't kick you out they've consider it an art form if you scratch up the ledges you know like yeah if you go into Philly and like you know I'm not gonna be 38 years old running from a [ __ ] security guard ya ain't gonna happen I'm not gonna run and I'm not gonna deal with it yeah so like I figured Spain would be the best place and my buddy Winkle who films you know he was he was that that's what's rad about Winkle he's down to film anything at all times which motivates me to try something harder but even if I was doing a crooked grind on a Ledge he would break out the camera and film it yeah doesn't matter you know he's just stoked to be filming so yeah but I had to relearn everything man it was I remember I was in Lithuania and I probably haven't skated in two years and I was like just staring at the skate park sipping on a beer crying yeah I think he was just like why don't you just go skate I'm like I'm too embarrassed like I I'm not gonna yeah oh how kind of noseslide some [ __ ] ledge and rack ten times in front of all these kids and people ya know exactly and and like you mentioned earlier dude skateboard he's not like riding a bike yeah it's like it's like if you're not doing it constantly it goes away and and and that's and that's you know kind of a hard thing at this point i have i have a board but i cruise around but i don't try anything you know and and I realize I go when I was younger I could do a couple more tricks but I can't now I just start and I don't even want to really wreck myself because as you get older you're like I don't feel like eating it and that I mean one of the best things about like being retired or not being pro anymore like they still make BAM decks and it's awesome that people still buy I mean they sell out as soon as they make them still yeah that with element but I'm not obligated to do anything anymore like I don't have to worry about a magazine photo I don't have to worry about jumping down X amount of stairs like I just have [ __ ] fun yeah I cruise around if I want to cruise around if I feel like trying to trick I'll try a trick there's no obligation and it's more fun that way like it's not a job anymore that's awesome yeah because I feel like at some point to make that amount of pressure has to really get to you totally I mean a trick a day keep team manager away you know like that way it it takes kind of the fun out of it like yeah definitely oh [ __ ] there's only three hours of daylight left [ __ ] I need to get to Philly and do a [ __ ] trick because I need to get ad [ __ ] sake you know stressful yeah well I wanted to talk you know a little bit about you know filming just random stuff like the CKY videos and and Haggard and all that stuff because you know the kind of the way I remember it is like Phil always had a video camera you know growing up and and you know and he'd be he'd be filming you skateboarding but also like Jess and Hannah and and me and and and even Tim wheeler meat and stuff would shoot these stupid little bits and then it became like oh let's go up to Denny's and change the sign because it's gonna say [ __ ] ass you know or whatever on there and then and then like let's you know let's steal from the buffet at Wendy's or shave you know shave my head and go to Denny's and because yeah now I wanted the senior discount yeah yeah yeah like you know those bits were hilarious and we and I feel like we're just young doing dumb [ __ ] and and obviously mr. Rob's graphic arts just you know lend lent itself to filming during the day at school too and that's what's so crazy about being young and just [ __ ] you know like if you're fifteen or sixteen and you pull up to a Wendy's drive-through and order a soda only to throw it right back at the [ __ ] lady that shit's [ __ ] funny when you're sixteen yeah if I did that in 38 people like what the [ __ ] is wrong with best belongs in a mental institution what the [ __ ] do ya like when do you define or when do you draw the line of when it's funny or not anymore if I kick my dad's ass while he's taking a [ __ ] right now people like what the [ __ ] there's a 40 year old beating up a 65 or what the [ __ ] ya going on like this is wrong when I was 16 it was [ __ ] fun ya know a well it was so funny and I think that that was what yeah it was like you don't have any cares and there's nobody like you know judging or any of that it's just these kids will be kids kind of a mind mentality and at that point it was what was really fun I was talking with Franz a little bit about it but just being young and going damn okay well well Bam's always you know he's motivated obviously with skateboarding but he's motivated to film other stuff to add to his part and this and that continued to like you know stretch with with Ryan with with me with with raike with everybody like everybody was willing and ready to go film something and like you didn't have to be like oh sure like I was on such a mission like yeah there was never a moment where I didn't know what I wanted to do like there was always like I want to go to FDR and try this skate trick and then when I'm done that I'm gonna go film DiCamillo do this funny skit and then after that I'm gonna put a spoke through Rabb's [ __ ] BMX bike and ya watch him go fly Dunn's gonna jump off this there was always there was never a time where there wasn't something going on dude and you know what I made me that just made me think of that calendar you had and I think in some ways that was this motivation cuz you were like I want to put in the calendar that I did this today you know what I mean so there was like this motivation factor that you were like dude alright I'm doing that and then it like it makes it happen yeah like I would write every day what I did that day and yeah if you see stars on it that means I [ __ ] yeah I mean there was only out of the whole year of a calendar there was probably only four dates where I wrote like I didn't do [ __ ] [ __ ] today yeah and I think because like if you looked at the calendar and it said that it was motivating to go do something because it made you feel like [ __ ] if you didn't accomplish something and and that's really cool because that's I mean as a kid you don't know but that's you setting goals and doing all the stuff and it's like I mean you might have known it but you know like most kids don't they're like I gotta do homework and you know and it was more like no [ __ ] I'm gonna achieve that you're gonna you know do the you know do the trick at love park then go film this random [ __ ] like you're saying and and ideally I think that that just continued because it's it's contagious when you do that so I knew alright BAM Michelle Mars and was like what are these stars like that means we [ __ ] yeah yeah I got all excited she wanted to add more stars her goals up yeah let's try to get 5 stars today I'm like whoa ok yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah no I yeah and that's awesome because it did but I'm saying like it's it's contagious though while you're doing that and if you have that going on and you're psyched about accomplishing that then it makes me go damn I want to film another bit like I want to be a part of that thing and then Brandon wants to be a part of it and Ryan wants to be a part of it and then it created this collective of everybody wanting to be involved in the next one thing that's happening and and and obviously that that led to what CKY was I mean you could tell the story better than I but you know obviously I saw it as okay BAM has a ton of skateboard footage and he has a sponsor that wants to put together a skate you know video but he's also got a bunch of stupid video with with all of us that he's putting together and and that's where I think your mind just kind of took off for me and I always say this your style of edit was ahead of its time and not to just suck your dick but it but it is like it was ahead of its time because we knew and I remember just you and I being friends knowin like dude I'm not gonna pay attention yeah I've a TD yeah so like hey soon as something gets a little bit boring cut to [ __ ] an [ __ ] taking a [ __ ] right away you know like yeah yeah beautiful music on top of Iceland it's all like nice and beautiful look at that just cups 2d COEs ass [ __ ] yeah and I mean that dude but that keeps you paying attention yeah yeah and like it just worked out perfectly because everybody who makes a movie or whatever they want distribution that's that's the way that you sell copies right well we have mom-and-pop skate shops so like you know that was our distribution it we didn't care if it was in Blockbuster we didn't care if it was in LA video like you want the video go to a [ __ ] skate shop and you'll yeah we'll find it there and and there and there was also something way cooler about that you know I mean like I remember going to like the wall with you and Jess and trying to find like you know new music and [ __ ] but then you go to mad platter it it's like it's cooler at mad platter because it's this underground thing and and I think you know that's what skate with escape shops were was like yo I got something that nobody else has and just through word of mouth it sold over a million copies like we got put not even one ad out like yeah didn't need to just people said dude you got to see this video dude you got to see this video yeah and that's and that's awesome because then obviously that led to the second one and the second one into jackass and yeah and then the third one and fourth one and and and then you know and more kind of kept coming down the way I always felt I always say to people like when they ask about you know though would you filling myself [ __ ] and put it on YouTube you know and I'm like there wasn't a [ __ ] YouTube I did there was a YouTube you know like or any of that it was it was that small distribution through skate shops but but the third and fourth CKY movie I always the way I explain it is like dude some of that [ __ ] wasn't allowed on jackass because MTV wasn't allowing spreadable buttcheeks yeah so you couldn't put the shoe the running full speed [ __ ] on there so it you know the the third one is like outtakes of the [ __ ] that was a little too gnarly for jackass at the time and and dude I gotta admit the Internet the interweb is really [ __ ] hard to deal with it's like a motivation killer like yeah yeah yeah you can't even put anything out without it being posted on YouTube by somebody else and then you could spend all day calling YouTube like some [ __ ] from Milwaukee just put it back up or it will take it down now Boise Idaho you know some [ __ ] from Ottawa Canada just put it on yeah you can spend all day I saw that the other day if some [ __ ] cares just put it up again yeah I did something on Instagram and then I just saw it on YouTube last night it came up in my queue like you might be interested in I'm like wait I did that video but I put it on Instagram and now it's on YouTube some random but that yeah that happens all the time it is it is a that is a motivation killer and and like the amount you get paid is nothing you don't know right right I had a hundred thousand hits alright well we'll mail you your ten dollars pretty soon he hit darling do not always love South Park because they were like I have a hundred million theoretical dollars theoretical know like the touch student when you go to a bar and you put a dollar in yeah play a song yeah most bands pretty much all bands unless you're like Kings of Leon or some [ __ ] you put in a dollar guess what the band gets they get a half of the penny hey hey penny [ __ ] so who gets the other ninety nine and a half cents soon dies yeah that's [ __ ] emails all day though [ __ ] so mad yeah artist gets a ha'penny the one who wrote it the one who first I want to hear this song yeah they created that out of fear 99 other sense goes to suit and ties and [ __ ] yeah yeah that's crazy that is the worst if you think about that too for sure but okay so so so I wanted to go from like the CKY stuff and the Jackass happen and then go into Haggard like basically this is a story that you wrote of you know I mean I don't know what you could talk about we could talk about it but yeah that Peter $40,000 okay so basically it was the story of Ryan's ex-girlfriend that you know like ridiculous stuff but it kind of was a Mel of everybody said her name was Lauren and I had the bright idea to name her in the movie glory ya know connection I'm not I'm not I'm not connecting it did you're 21 years old is it was hilarious and but I mean I always thought because I remember when that was the lawsuit there was an issue it was like what she sued me she just had a kid and you know I figured you know 40 grand could go towards the kid whatever maybe she buy a minivan or something guess what she bought kids who doesn't need some kids to go out and [ __ ] it up some more tits I need tits how you gonna get that kid over to school don't worry about dude I mean yeah it's ridiculous but I always felt like that story was like dude there was a mix of everybody like yo you thought about like oh [ __ ] of an ex-girlfriend of mine an ex-girlfriend of yours next girlfriend and Ryan all that was all kind of put into one and then it became whoa whoa it's all about me it's like well you and even you were so [ __ ] you don't even know what you did yeah you know but but anyway that story goes and defamation of character but wait a minute your character was you cheated on done several numerous time so that is Karin yeah it's not a defamation of character slot if there's any defamation yeah exactly defamation about it yeah well if there's any defamation you did the defaming by sucking the dicks character should be suing yourself but but anyway so you wrote that and and and then what you know obviously at that point you were you know it was I look at it sort of like a de Klerk's moment like you know you had skateboarding going on you had jackass happen and you had all these things but you're like you wanted to make you know an indie film you had you had done some other like 17 sips you had done a but you know I've done other movies of Steve Berra and and those things and and I think you know you always had that mindset of I want to make this movie and and so you wrote it and then you know and then I guess funded it on your own but you got some help but but but funded a lot of it yourself to make it happen yeah well thanks to audios shoes they oh yeah they coughed up fifty grand for me to get started with and that helped tremendously and actually when when we got the money we flew in Tony Hawk to play a cop and when we got the film back on this super 16 millimeter re-film it there was one magazine that was jittery which was completely unusable I couldn't even I could not cut angles I had to just use the one angle and it didn't work and I was just like right hawk yeah I wasn't even about to call Tony Hawk to come back to brief he did that's why he's the [ __ ] man like I was on top of the Westchester parking garage getting ready to jump off of it to kill myself which is stupid because it's only three stories high [Laughter] damn that must have been the worst though to have to make that call and be like yeah you know and and especially like because it wasn't the first time that you've used film it wasn't the first time I mean you've been doing that for all these times and it just happened to be the moment with when you get Tony Hawk out there you know that it's that one but yeah I mean do those so funny and I always think of the one line of hawks that cracks me up every time as you say put the bottle down tomorrow but I'm coming through though you know that I must say do you know why I love [ __ ] film so much is because when you hear that going on it's seriously like $20 $30 $40 $50 so like when you hear that sound going you instantly are motivated to go whatever jackass done it is or whatever skate trick it is you'll try so hard to land it now you have like [ __ ] digital cards that are endless just keep it rolling just you're all it's like well now I can try it all day yeah I'm not even pumped to land it because I have a [ __ ] card that's gonna last for five hours yeah I'm fine fine I'll give it a shot here that film going you're like [ __ ] I got a yeah now because it's already up to $80 oh yeah yeah no I mean that's definitely you don't have that kind of money you'll make it you'll make [ __ ] happen yeah and that became that for the good of the film for the okay but yeah you know it is it is definitely a motivating factor to do it with with with film and and I mean that movie was so fun like I remember you know coming back from ship and that is Bergen that that [ __ ] car and and and just filming bit parts but it was such an awesome part to you know something to be a part of yeah and and just to watch it was [ __ ] fun as hell man yeah all that [ __ ] was fun as hell yeah this it yeah so I know me too and so it okay and then that you know after Haggard you you know that's when we go into the Viva La Bam days and it was like you know it became a much bigger production and you and I have talked about that a lot like where it became like all right well where the hell's Reb he's smoking weed in the car and he's bummed out and then so-and-so already left and you know and it's like hey just wait over there and sit them on ice and then we'll get ready and film something funny it's like we can't because it's really hard to deal with when when cuz it's a big production so like if we need you we need you and we'll pay you to be there but yeah it sucks big time when it's like row but once you show it open 9 a.m. yeah because we're not gonna film you until for three more ug but you're not right how many times have we not needed me and then yeah so everybody but I get it now I get it being a camera guy and you know in in the other side of the equation and going well [ __ ] you know you never know how things are gonna switch and you never know that so then yeah you do you do pay people to sit around and wait but that was the first time I think for any of us vision and a boner-killer yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah total boner killer yeah so yeah yeah it for more hours and we might film yeah and yeah you know like you know that feeling of like when you show up funny and you're just like I'm gonna be [ __ ] hilarious today like this is it and then it's like BAM you're like I lost it but you know but I think what I say is that was the first time that that any of us really had to get to a place where you had it was a big production you had to sit around and wait and do that like jackass was more you know like DiCamillo is a [ __ ] genius but like you know geniuses work in weird ways like yeah when there's a behind the scenes Hollywood guy going be funny and action my friends yeah I want my friends to say hey we're rolling like right not be funny in action and that and exactly and that was what I was kind of getting at is what was lost you know that was what was lost a bit because you're used to Franz being there and you're just comfortable with that then you're just going [ __ ] yeah like this is easy and then and then now it's some new guy like ah you're like you're like who the [ __ ] is this and you know this guy Josh was hired to every time it was time for Dieker to feel dica they need you pod you know yeah if he was being teaching Josh that big fat [ __ ] whale face that was just a [ __ ] big fat [ __ ] dude and I talked about this with Kirk at one point cuz he was like a field producer guy and he would had the thing of coming to get me because like it would got to the point where rap we need you at 9:00 we're not gonna film to 4:30 so I would just wait and then come in but then Kirk would have to come over and he'd be like come on dude I'm like the only way we're going is if you get in here and drink a beer and smoke a bong with me and then and then you got your game and he'd come back like a little high and everyone's like are you [ __ ] high and he's like well you had me go get Robin the only way that I could get rap was if like I got high so it was just funny that that you know that became what it was the only way he was coming but no man I mean despite all that stuff though there was so many good times and so many fun times I remember like going all around Europe on the on the tour buses and stuff because it was funny like when I was young I backpacked around Europe so it was this getaway of going around Europe and then and then I went in like these little crappy little van things with CKY in the beginning of that I went with them and then we go to this big tour bus and travel in style with the show and it's like you're at this nice hotel we're on the CKY thing you're like trying to pour like a bottle water down your pants to clean your dick off you know like and then like there you're like taking this nice bubble bath and you know love it because I'm TV you know they have to do this for safety purposes and rules are rules but like there's a safety guy there and like he had to make his job you know no you couldn't just let everything go so there I am up on a roof getting ready to drop in on it and he's like now BAM before you stop it how do you plan on fall we're seeing shut the [ __ ] up go eat a Boston cream doughnut either gonna land it reach [ __ ] all right I'm gonna tell you or figure out how I'm gonna fall yeah I'm gonna try to land it yeah if I don't I'm glad [ __ ] yeah which way you're gonna eat [ __ ] which way got a favor shut the [ __ ] yeah he's like yeah exactly shut the [ __ ] up Boston Racine because he ate all his Boston cream doughnuts we caught him Boston Racine but it was just funny because he'd be saying all that and then it's and really you knew that he was just like did anybody see me just do my job okay I'm good right I'm fine just get your [ __ ] paycheck but uh and I always remember it it's a bad memory but dude when the Metal Mulisha came yeah the day that they came [ __ ] there's like people were I swear the way I remember it is like people were like juggling chainsaws there's blood spraying from guar deagan's doing a [ __ ] backflip over the stage on some [ __ ] janky-ass dirt ramp and boston Racine's over there eating Boston cream doughnuts just like uh-huh you know like not paying attention to [ __ ] then when Deegan eats it and like [ __ ] like punctures his spleen and it was so windy that day we're in Delaware at Blue Diamond something but I remember Deegan was like BAM it's really windy for this backflip I'm like then don't do it dude just do it air like that's that's good enough for us you Aaron over guar on a motorcycle that's [ __ ] gnarly it's [ __ ] awesome I remember he was like no I want to make this [ __ ] awesome I'm doing yeah yeah flip tried the backflip in the crazy wind and punctured his [ __ ] long and it was bad yeah it was real bad it was real [ __ ] bad and you had to like rethink his career and [ __ ] over that yeah no I know it's crazy and like and of course I'm not you know not trying to point the blame but but the one day the safety guys should be involved and maybe have like an ambulance on standby there's nothing there and it's like old just gotta wait it to another 20 minutes cuz we're out in the middle of nowhere it's like it's 20 mins he's [ __ ] gonna die yeah I mean it was real real real real you know so I remember that being crazy but but yeah no not that not the [ __ ] on Boston Racine he's probably eating a Boston cream doughnut somewhere right now but I remember like Roger one of the camera guys and me going and just poking holes in all of the Boston cream doughnuts that one morning because I just wanted to like poke the holes cuz he loved him cause he did like as he gets there he looks and he looks at one then the other then the other is like now who would do such a thing like who would ruin a perfectly good Boston cream doughnut I love I think one of the funniest things and it's such a small thing but it's [ __ ] every I laugh so hard every time I think of it decompiler started to notice that every time Kavanaugh everytime lunch would come and if dqo had fries like he wouldn't ask you he would be asking as he's grabbed it already like it's already in his mouth buddy he said if you don't mind me grab one of these fries so he goes to the boardwalk Frey plays and gets a [ __ ] hub of fries yeah yeah a gallon tub of fries he walks to every 40 casting crew member like Kavanaugh behind them trying to grab fries no one's ever gonna eat all these [Laughter] there's somebody fine nobody's ever gonna [ __ ] love that I love that [ __ ] sense of humor operated to like planning that out to know that it's gonna be that you took the energy to go find a gallon tub of Boardwalk fried good man dude [ __ ] there's some fun times man but yeah that show was was was awesome and and a lot of like amazing experiences he's going to Brazil with Bob Burnquist and that stuff was really fun and and you know I it's funny because people last time sued yeah I know that's insane every episode we had 300 grand spent on blowing [ __ ] up and [ __ ] [ __ ] up yeah and that's fun you know and it can actually get challenging to spend the 300 grand on making sure you [ __ ] everything up yeah but dude I remember cuz people you know will ask oh did this happen did that happen and I'm like dunno and some of its a blur because there is so much going on it's hard to remember you know every single specific you know about it but but but dude some of the best times in my life so I appreciate you know being a part of that and it was fun as oh hell yeah boy so so at this point you're you're traveling around a bunch you're back on a board I see the photos on Instagram of skating and doing that and that's [ __ ] rad because I know you know having known you my whole life I know that's like your you know number one love is skateboarding yeah and and obviously everything you know you're he can't define a person by saying oh he's a professional skateboarder it's like yeah he's a professional skateboarder he's a filmmaker he you know he makes music he does you know you an artist in every sense of the word and kind of go in all these different directions I mean we're looking at paintings in here that you know that you did I as we came in in order to get started you had to clear off the paintings that you're that you're doing and and and it's rad because I mean your whole family has been that way you know like your mom is is like that and and her brothers order Pennsylvania yeah exactly and just as a drummer for CKY and I mean it's been so much of a it's been like an incubator of creativity you know to be involved with that and that and that helped me go in my direction and start making the little films that I'm making and being a camera guy and and doing all that and and yeah it's just it's just awesome to be a part into witness but do you have do you have like paintings for sale at all or yeah I do but I actually have like 300 canvases that are all undone they're all half done and it drives me crazy because I feel like my if the paintings aren't done my life is not in order like yeah yeah yeah like you get obsessed on it you're all these unfinished paintings that means that like my [ __ ] brain and thoughts are unfinished yeah yeah yeah they're scattered and yeah no I get that totally yeah but yeah that's awesome I don't know where do you find them like if you want you to Bam Margera art art work calm I got some for sale there but I actually have a whole shitload of new ones that I haven't even posted up yet okay and I you know what I always wondered like is there a place for like the CKY like videos or Haggard or things like that where you could like is it on iTunes or is it I actually don't know I mean a [ __ ] YouTube kind of ruined that [ __ ] you could just type it anything and see it instantly and right I don't know one gets paid for it yeah sucks I love the days when you've made a video you print it and then people buy it yeah yeah yeah what is that like a problem well it's funny that I guess Lars from Metallica had that right way before everybody else and people were like oh your [ __ ] in the mountain he's rich it's like well he is but what about the artists that are struggling you're looking for the struggling artist yeah exactly and and it is tough because you can't find it on YouTube but but there are the people that still want to own a physical copy you know like I'll have people ask me that like dude I want to just get a physical copy of the CKY videos or Haggard or you know or whatever and and I don't know where is there somewhere to buy a physical copy of it that would be a Jesse Margera question okay I was like okay yeah well then we'll have to get Jesse Margera here on the podcast to figure that out what's called that smell get that [ __ ] over here well dude it's been awesome sitting down and chatting with you and it's always good to see you and I love your brother and hell yeah thanks for for doing that yeah yeah all right

Channel: BATHROOM BREAK PODCAST

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Length: 54min 52sec (3292 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 26 2018