Steve-O's Sister - Steve-O's Wild Ride! Ep #100

hey everybody and welcome to an emotional wild ride with stevo can you believe that we made it to a hundred episodes i'm fighting back to tears just to think about it and this episode really is special i've got my sister she was the first supporter of me in this silly career she knows so much about me and she's gonna serve up the juice for you man and you know what you know who's gonna really serve up a killer deal for you it's harry's what's harry's it's what i use to shave my face and i love it i've just gotta have it man i gotta have it on my tour bus in my little travel toiletry kit at home on my van oh come on dude i don't go anywhere without harry's it's the best shaving products you can get and they've got the best deal for the listeners of the wild ride podcast if you go to harry's dot com slash stevo and your first customer first time then they're gonna hook you up with the starter kit it's got the weighted ergonomic handle the five blade razor the cool travel cover the 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of names that uh we don't like my message oh stephen gilchrist glover well my middle name is gilchrist and uh it's very english of you right it was my grandfather's middle name but at some point i want to say i was like well how old would i have been like seven or eight maybe a tad younger because it was connecticut and and cindy started calling me gilly and like says hey gilly and i don't even know why but i was so upset about that and because i was upset cindy wouldn't hammer it a little harder yeah not the same i had so few levers that you know when i found one not that cindy was particularly mean but that that's probably the the meanest you ever were i'll take that yeah that's pretty good yeah that's great gilly gilly gilly and then later when you were about 12 and i was 15 it became apparent that at some point in the not very distant future you were going to physically get bigger than me and my days of being able to sit on you and beat you up if needed were numbered so i was gonna need the psychological advantage since the physical edge was rapidly evaporating and i think that's probably about the time i started calling you squirt which you didn't mind and it became your tag you spray painted it on the side of the building at the university of miami and put it on your skateboards and you know um and i still call you squirt and to my kids you know sometimes your uncle squirt but um the uh yeah that was that would that replaced gilly they got to see their uncle squirt last night man bravo yeah last night i was mortified well i mean whatever i wasn't mortified but but it was definitely like there was sensitivity to the fact that my sister was watching footage of me ejaculating on camera what about your name i had seen it before shielded cass for two decades but she's 20 and last night she you know both at the premiere and last night she saw rather a lot of her uncle's penis yeah next to cindy when they put the bees on your dick and then like oh no yeah the bucket list sure is a little bit more aggressive than jackass um but yeah so um i maybe would like what what to talk about i mean there's so there's so much um i i want to thank you as i always have for being the earliest supporter of my choice to try to become a professional idiot like uh really cindy was was behind me before anybody else was when was that choice made i made that choice officially in 1993 when i dropped out of the university of miami i was couch surfing for three years and ended up moving in with my sister in albuquerque new mexico and uh she she was behind me what was that what was the choice to become a professional idiot i well i was gonna be i was trying to become a famous stuntman by videotaping idiotic stunts with my home video camera there was no precedent for that cindy was a supporter she let me live in her house and she found out about to tell that a little bit about how you feel about the way i uh tell the story of you taking a dump and is that accurate it is um so in albuquerque i was the city hall reporter and um we had a little bureau downtown separate from the main city hall or sorry the main newspaper office and um there were five of us in this downtown bureau uh and the albuquerque tribune albuquerque journal are the albuquerque yeah the tribune was the enemy that was that was the rival um but uh we had this bathroom and um one of the the reporters there had put like a little table with some flowers in it and you know it was it was pretty cozy because there were just five of us in this office and we had like a lounging chair and a couple of other things and there were some magazines and there was a trivia book in the bathroom and this was before cell phones this would have been 1995 96 96 okay so cell phones weren't really you know a thing you didn't take your phone into the bathroom with you and it actually would have been i moved to albuquerque in 96 but this would have been 97. okay um so you know in the era before cell phones if you were planning on spending more than just a couple of seconds in the bathroom you might pick up whatever was lying around and so i often would read some of the trivia things um just passing time and one of the little items was what is um you know one of the only universities or colleges in the country that doesn't have any tuition um and is statistically harder to get into than harvard or maybe that's something you came up with later but um and it was the ringling brothers barnum bailey clown college in sarasota that had auditions you know throughout the year for each class and then um didn't charge any tuition and i thought reeling brothers barnaba bailey clown college like that could be a way to legitimize all like that could be awesome because at the time you had signed up you'd been in and out of school but i'd encouraged you to um sign up at unm and you took a gymnastics class yeah and that was when and you really wanted the standing back flip and you worked really hard on it and you got it um and uh you'd always done a couple of bar tricks for beer because you know um but you went to the uh we found out that um i did some research i found out that there were auditions coming up and yeah you tell the story better than i do well i remember it was the very same day you took the dump it all started when i you know yeah when my sister was taking a dump and uh i came home from school i was in in the university and i came home there was a note on the kitchen table that said ringling brothers barnum and bailey clown college apparently tuition is free if you can get in and i still saved that note i still have it and um so i i i okay well this is cool and i called up the the phone number and um i think it was just a voicemail that said uh i was getting ready to tell him oh how i'm a rad stuntman it was just a voicemail saying if you want an audition schedule then leave uh your address and so i left the address and didn't think about it too much and then uh when the audition schedule came in the mail i had been i wasn't home i i was on ryan simon eddie's floor barfing all over his carpet like with alcohol poisoning i've seen the footage i think of that yeah the one where i'm at the top of the stairs and so i was very hungover when i came home to find this piece of mail for me with uh you know the audition schedule and i looked down it and it said albuquerque you know for the class of 1998 there's a cut-off line i saw albuquerque saw it's not for the next it's not until next year so whatever and i just was hung over and i just put it back down i went to go smoke pot at my buddy's house and then when i came home i walked in cindy was very stern she says how are you getting to denver by monday she insisted yeah why because you were such a good roommate because i bought because above the line there was an audition for college were you were you before that the type of guy to say that like because i feel like nowadays you would have been like oh the they're not coming to albuquerque for another year so i'm gonna go to denver or i'm gonna figure out how to do it sooner you wouldn't be just like i'll just i'll just wait then like were you that type of guy and is cindy kind of like when you when he said to you i want to be a crazy stunt man were you kind of like well okay you're gonna have to [ __ ] make some [ __ ] happen here like you gotta get some skills or something like was it kind of a you know what i'm saying our dad um in his youth sold encyclopedias or something and um he raised us there were a couple of quirks in how we were raised it might not be everybody's experience and um one of the things that he learned that he passed on to us is that no is a request for further information no just means they obviously didn't understand the first time so you need to rephrase i love it um you know that that was one of the things we learned so um we you know the other thing is it doesn't really matter what you're gonna do but if you're gonna do it rock you know like go balls out do really do it hard um we don't really half-ass anything um you know if you're going to be a sucker who loves animals [ __ ] adopt a bajillion of them you know um whatever it is do it well um because doing anything half-assed is just defensive sure yeah so um so when steve came to you and was like i want to be this famous stunt man like i knew you were supportive about the sort of what was it yeah right if that's what you want okay cool what are we gonna do about it right um how can i help you because that was you know that was always yeah i remember one of the first things when we moved to albuquerque i had just dialed in the standing back flip and i had taken to pouring alcohol rubbing alcohol on my skin and lighting it and using it in my hand as a fire breathing torch so once i was pouring rubbing alcohol on my skin and lighting it on fire i decided oh man i'm going big i'm gonna pour rubbing alcohol all over my entire body and light my whole body on fire and then do a standing back flip you know i've smeared vaseline all over to try to make it a little bit safer and and i chose for my first time doing this stunt which i pictured being a pretty big one uh when the radio station announced that they're holding a freak of nature contest so i called up the radio station said i'm gonna douse my entire body with rubbing alcohol light off my whole body on fire to a standing backflip and i guess the 90s were a different time in albuquerque because they were like right on you're in you're you know yeah everybody's like yeah like right on you're in done and uh my sister was there holding the wet blanket to wrap around me to put me out wow i think i've also seen footage i'm pretty sure it's you filming cindy comes in wakes you up walks you outside and you just do a backflip in the front yard it's like it felt like this is kind of like a ritual of like wake me up in the morning i'll just do a backflip first thing or something like that backflip in and of itself just to backflip on its own was kind of like whatever and so i was just looking for ways to make it cooler so like light my whole body on fire and i thought what if like i said cindy like come in you know before i'm awake like film me sleeping wake me up and and say okay do a backflip and uh yeah i should do something with that footage i had my teeth all broken and [ __ ] yeah but yeah that was that was my sister nobody else was like you know stoked to help me like and then after clown college two you were like doing a bunch of clown tricks there's like an hour of footage where you're trying to get this one trick right and you're like okay like you hear you just being like so supportive but also just sitting there the whole time filming it is like a task you know yeah and and and because cindy was so instrumental you know so like like without cindy's support i never would have gone to clown college you know i'd who knows you know i mean i probably would have gotten somewhere but cindy uh was was in my corner and uh and and i'm just forever grateful for that yeah i really really genuinely am forever grateful for that i'm just so proud of you like seriously for years we knew there were only three options you were going to be famous incarcerated or dead nothing else was even on the table like there was never going to be a straight job where you wear a tie and sit at a desk that was that was that's not gonna happen um incarceration was a distinct possibility um as we know from all of the mugshots that we've tried to track down over the years yeah here and there um and um you did not protect your life as well as i would have liked um but you know certainly post sobriety i mean i still have that pit in my stomach for worrying about you and that's you know just hasn't gone away um and we have our deal where you don't tell me about the really scary stuff until after you've survived it and i'm grateful um we started that when you were the spokesman for snowshoes and you were gonna get the alligator to chomp your foot wearing the skate shoe the burden of knowing that that was gonna happen it was like a small alligator whatever um that's not a bad idea dude you know with my snow shoes like yeah darn good shoe but um but yeah i mean we've um we've had each other's backs since we were tiny i mean um you know i often joke uh i'm a glover not a fighter but the very first fight i ever got into was defending steve um he was about five i was about eight and this overweight eleven-year-old kid in our neighborhood was smearing snow in his face and i i don't know if you remember this this was in connecticut um it was winter the kid was a bully i'm sure he has a tragic backstory that i was unaware of at the time his name was jeffrey um but uh he was like making fun of you and smearing snow in your face you were five he was like 11. and i gave him a bloody nose nice and he didn't mess with you again um but we moved around a lot and um you know i think i think um when that happens you're always the new kid so you became like the show off in class clown and i just found the smart kids like where are my people um but uh we only had each other as playmates you know it wasn't like eventually you would have your friends and i would have my friends but every couple of years there would be this starting over and it was just us and yeah um we recently had like what for me was a really intense experience um i was sitting down with a writer from gq who was writing a story for uh the gq website on me and i was trying to articulate to him how intense the alcoholism on our mom's side of the family was and and i was like i was getting ready to tell him the stories i understood it but i was like you know let me call up cindy and see so i got cindy on the phone i had her own speaker phone the the reporter has his tape recorder out and i'm like cindy like uh am i right in remembering that our grandma's second husband died in her apartment and like she sat there and drank with the body until she was like out of alcohol and then and then like dealt with the situation cindy said no i do not believe that's the case but what was really just a call about that one quick question turned into like a half an hour uh like of just being on the speakerphone with the and the the reporter wrote about it in the story saying he felt like he was eavesdropping but then he thought like well hold on a second this [ __ ] [ __ ] like yeah he knew i was here yeah yeah yeah like he wrote that really masterfully well too but um i i was saying to cindy that she did everything right when we were kids i did everything wrong that i was just like a a [ __ ] up and like you know and and cindy said cincinnati told the story about when our mom suffered an aneurysm and how and it was just like it it it it kind of shocked my system you know she she described me in a way that tell the story i mean let's just start with you being the [ __ ] up like that is just not at all how i remember it ever um but uh when we were growing up mom and dad used to have a lot of like dinner parties and stuff and um i guess because they were bored or whatever you know where does balling having your kids perform tricks to entertain your guests is apparently like was a thing and so um and and dad being a businessman you know he would give steve a buck to do a hundred push-ups um they were like they were they were i don't know what i wish there was video of that happening because and i would get a buck to either sing don't cry for me argentina from evita or um tomorrow from annie um sometimes if they were all in the backyard where we had a pool you know i'd get a buck for a hundred laps whatever it was i mean this was entertainment you remember this right absolutely yeah um but uh we were certainly like growing up you your athleticism like they dad and mom mom and dad actually went to your little league games they didn't really go to any of my gymnastics not a particularly good athlete didn't matter you were an enthusiastic athlete um and you guys had that bonding like as a family we went to some miami dolphins games and i always brought my nancy drew book and so they'd be like watching the game and mom and dad would place bets with ted toby ferrani i want to put a nickel on whatever it was all by phone back in the day and um there was a code i just remember it was ted toby for ronnie i guess toby referred ted to the bookie ronnie and um you'd put a nickel or a dime like 500 or a thousand on whatever game and and i had learned about the point spread but you guys had that our parents had like like four [ __ ] tvs set up in the living room because they had to be watching all four games because they were betting on all four wow i mean they were gnarly they were better too they absolutely i mean they weren't like games not definitely not gambling addicts but it's kind of made it more fun but yeah i mean but this is how people entertain themselves you know like yeah life was a little different before netflix and chill or you know before internet people still gamble on games i think a good amount did your dad still gamble on i don't think dad maybe he does maybe he does no i don't think so at the football games cindy's reader and nancy drew books and i got the binoculars just looking at the cheerleaders i was you know people there's that joke where people say you know i'm like a football widow or whatever i was a football orphan like my my parents and my brother had this thing that i just kind of wasn't a part of i was long for the ride so um you were you know it was almost like in that show matilda where they're like what's wrong with her you know why can't you get with the program um but it's funny because i was a teacher for 10 years um career 2.0 and i remember saying you know my c students my a students are going to be working for my c students because the a students you know they get told to do something unreasonable or whatever and they just like knuckle down and and you know grind it through and get it done and the c students are like what the [ __ ] is this i'm not doing that my time is way more valuable than this wow i gotta find somebody to do it for me or how can i like half-ass it or cheat or you know game the system or just do the bare minimum so i can get back to what i really want to do um and growing up you know you were the c student and there i was like sweating bullets doing what i was told to be a good girl and steve totally from the get-go you could see first of all he wasn't going to be working a straight job with the suit and tie but also you were not going to be the grunt you know grinding away at somebody else's direction um the whole management potential was there from the get-go um we had uh a um a couple of fruit trees in our backyard in miami and um dad you know at one point i'd ask for a raise in my allowance and dad pointed to the backyard he said see those that's the money tree because it would get inconvenient when when they were dropping fruit and so i used to take steve around with me and we'd knock on the doors and he was younger and cuter so i would make him say you know it's like three lemons for a quarter or you know three avocados for a buck whatever it was at the time i'm sure it was less but um he was younger and cuter but um so first of all i don't think you were always a [ __ ] up um even though you did get in trouble a lot more than i did but you didn't care so it was um you know for me if they said i'm disappointed in you i was like crushed for you you're like all right yeah that's your choice did you though have like like a party phase of your life like did you struggle with drinking or drugs oh yeah for as much as my sister drank yeah she wasn't really a partier but i'll tell you where the party is at these days it's in my socks drawer thanks to stance because why have the boring same old thing 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drinking definitely um but i consider myself 15 years smarter than steve because i got sober for the first time at age 19. um sober before i got legal and steve didn't really you know get the message till he was 34. that's what you were drinking like so much in high school you're like and you quit drinking at 19. like like a closet by myself reclusive like secret drinker pass out at home yeah it was not a bar scene kind of drinking right but um it was definitely a [ __ ] but no back to your point back to your point about like um no i was not i believe that for both of us steve's enough of that for both of us but um when our mom first had our brain hemorrhage or her brain hemorrhage um we got the call i want to say it was like 6 45 on a saturday morning um and it was her ex-husband who she had been reconciling with and the message was she'd had a brain hemorrhage she was in intensive care she might not survive the night get down here stat we were in albuquerque she was in boca raton florida steve had been partying the night before and had crashed where he landed i called all of his bros and had them like hunt him down and then i was in bed with a stripper and there was a knock at the window and it was my buddy ron burns he's like you gotta go i uh meanwhile while his skate buddies were tracking him down i was booking flights um arranging for my little sister in the big brothers big sisters program to watch my dogs because i had two dogs um and uh you know telling work i was gonna be out and we were at the airport by 8 15 um and on a flight but the way it has always worked in a crisis is i get very wrapped up in the doing and researching you know as long as my brain is working or my hands are working i'm okay once we got on the plane the reality of oh my god you know our mom who is 51 might die and and there was like two and a half hours maybe three hours from albuquerque to my to uh west palm beach where there was just nothing to do and that's when i fell apart and steve put his arm around me and he was okay like he totally took over on the plane and he was the the comforting calming you know presence and i was the wreck whose brain was spinning in a million directions with all of the what-ifs and the regrets and the fear and the anxiety and and all of that and then the plane landed and we switched roles again and you know i'm getting us from the airport to the car rental you know and getting us into the the car and calling the hospital and getting the status updates and and stuff like that we got to the hospital and um we had rushed so hard to arrive and then once you arrive and we saw her and she was all hooked up and it was it was horrifying the the most disturbing sight i've ever seen was this expression on mom's face when we first got to her in her hospital bed it uh it haunts me to this day she was almost exactly my age when this happened um we just recently passed the milestone um where she was 51 and four months when she had her brain hemorrhage i am now 51 and five months old wow um and it feels so weird like i am now having more like i've passed the amount of active time that she got like she lived another five years but in a greatly incapacitated way so i'm now kind of older than she was which is is weird and i still don't feel nearly nearly as grown up as mom and dad always seemed right yeah i always heard steve talk about your mommy besides the parties and the the family the dinners and all that what kind of person was she i mean i i don't know too much about her dad was so successful and and like you know this super driven motivated businessman and really like uh like good good at life but he wasn't good at like social people he's emotionally defective like he's just a [ __ ] straight c he's a robot we love our robot but you know like emotionally he's missing a few like lines of programming or code because um he has always needed people to explain you know chalkboard and pointer style but um that diverges from the story right right but but we maintain that mom was way smarter than dad way funnier than dad and way cooler but also you know kind of fragile in her way but definitely smarter cooler more social um but i don't know um when we got back to the um when we got to the hotel or sorry to the hospital and mom was there and she was all hooked up um we were allowed to see her very briefly but icu is there a lot of rules and um the uh we went out to the waiting room and i was just like sitting and waiting not my strong suit we had visited mom a few months earlier and she had bought a computer that was still in the box at her house that had not been plugged in yet and so that first night we negotiated that steve was going to stay and sleep on the floor of the hospital waiting room and i was going to go back to mom's house plug in the computer and start researching everything there was to know you know 10 years of the journal of the american medical association the neurological association the state of the art for you know the googly amy coiling procedures and transcranial doppler radar and and what we needed you know where were the centers of excellence for a brain hemorrhage you know a subarachnoid hemorrhage and and all of that and so i spent all night reading medical journals and reaching out to anybody i knew including our dad who might have you know who played golf with doctors who might have connections and um steve held down the fort and of course you know because we're glovers we've never met a crisis we can't sleep through you know when the going gets tough the tough take naps um it's a it's a family saying like that's not true for the win i didn't realize naps are survival like um we map like champs but steve you know stayed there i could not have left and done all of that research if he hadn't been able to stay and then dave you know we we transferred her we made decisions and even though i was on all of the paperwork as the official decision maker the durable power of attorney and all of that because having only two children she chose the slightly more responsible one the older slightly more responsible one to put down on the list but we had a deal you know we could tune out the entire world her sister was saying pull the plug pull the plug i'm like no no that's just not a decision that that was ever to be made because there was brain activity but we could tune out all the noise as long as we could look at each other and look in the mirror and be okay with whatever we were deciding and we were making big scary decisions well right because she was in boca raton and the boca raton hospital did not have the capability to do the procedure that would have been required to save her they said however to get her to miami where they can do the procedure that could save her she might not survive the ride it was against medical advice there was a very arrogant doctor who was the first one who said that he didn't recommend doing surgery that you just you know let nature take its course or let whatever's going to happen happen and i had asked him about all of these state-of-the-art you know the googly-edy coiling procedure and all of that and if they had a transcranial doppler to monitor the pressure in her brain and he said you know i went to medical school so you wouldn't have to and um he said if you decide to transport her by ambulance to miami to jackson memorial medical center affiliated with the university of miami where they could do you know the top-notch surgeons could do this it's on you if she dies because like the bumping in the car right over there might like do something with yeah the guy the guy was a [ __ ] and like we were we um we looked at each other and we've always kind of said in our family that if there is a chance at like quality of life yeah if if there's like a guarantee of of low quality of life but you'll go for a long time or you can take a risk but it might actually greatly improve things we've always said you know take the risk yeah the ambulance side was a no-brainer it was not a no-brainer at the time i uh but i could not have made that decision that that might have killed her but might have saved her if we hadn't done it together not a no-brainer but it was the decision it's what we knew she would have wanted and but i we made it together which is what was okay um and then day's turn you know she survived but there were complications days turned into months how many brain surgeries two two brain surgeries but she was on a ventilator um for four months and then she was weaned off the ventilator and then she was released to my care which is a whole another story but while she was in this nursing home um she went from the icu to the regular hospital to the hospital that specializes in ventilators vencor where to get weaned off of the ventilator and then to a nursing home and then home so there were a few step down phases in the nursing home or maybe it was the ventilator hospital there was this nurse who was really rough changing mom's diaper you know she had a catheter a feeding tube she was in bed they tend to keep patients sedated when they're on the ventilator so they don't fight with it and this woman i wanted to rip her throat out i wanted to stab her eyes i you know i may be a glover not a fighter but i just you know she was manhandling my mom like a sack of potatoes i wanted her fired i wanted to like destroy her i was so emotional and angry and protective and here's my helpless mom and i am in charge you know i am her protector and this woman is just like rolling her over and like like she is some sort of sack of of grain and um steve was with me and and i was ready to just go off and he said oh no since uh-uh because you know what's gonna happen like you're going to rat out this nurse who is probably doesn't give a [ __ ] and she's gonna get really pissed and resentful and the minute we're gone she's gonna take it out on mom let me handle it and this is where steve's like schmoozy you know teachers who were always saying you know like he's like i'll show her a back flip she's gonna love it steve just always kind of charmed his way out of trouble i mean eve frick even in jail like where being as adorable as you are you certainly could have had a negative experience but instead you entertained everybody and became their you know best bro and the most interesting like you've just always had people skills that i might have lacked and um so you charmed that nurse you you talked to her you found out about her family about you know you thanked her damned if you didn't become her like bff and bring we brought her some chocolates or something or brought the whole nursing staff chocolates so that mom would get you know treated really nicely because he he totally you know his diplomacy was so superior to my like grizzly bear protective you know roll reversal mama bear cub kind of thing and um that happened you know a few different times but um between the two of us you know there came a time after mom was released home to my care where i was pretty good at you know hiring the nurse's aides and managing her medication schedule and her appointments and all of the daily care and the feedings and how many calories we're going to go in and and um getting like the wheelchair van and the ramp for the house because there were a couple of little like step up step down situations and steve was just not like good at any of that all of that adulting stuff um but he was um like super supportive um of me for sure and um at some point it was like look we don't both have to be here like this doesn't have to clip both of our wings you know i'm good i'd gotten a job at the newspaper um and we'd moved officially into her house and um there was the cruise ship opportunity out of miami right i was pretty clear that i wasn't going to add any value by just being a loser and eating the food you know you were never a loser though you made her laugh like when you got [ __ ] and [ __ ] tattooed on your knuckles and stuff like the last time she ever laughed i don't think that's necessary and that was at the end okay it was october of 2003 when i got [ __ ] and [ __ ] tattooed on my knuckles and i flew home i flew home and she was in bed with the do not resuscitate order and it was the end did your mom ever see you on tv not not um not no jackass had had been picked up well no no 1998 mom's aneurysm was october 10th of 1998. but she passed away in on november 7th of 2003 and by 2003 cassie had been born you know like a jackpot i'm sure but mom mom was never uh like she was less coherent by the time jackie she was she was it was after her aneurysm yeah that all that happened and before you know i would show my mom yeah before her aneurism i would show her my stunt videos and stuff and she was just like she was never once like concerned like for my safety it wasn't like oh my god like you're going to get hurt but she was just like how is there money in this how was there like that was her only concern it was that she's just like well you know like show me the money you know like where's that like uh like you don't have a pot to piss in like like i'm not impressed by your your stupid [ __ ] vhs tape because you're broke and you're sleeping in my [ __ ] house and you have no money and like you're a slob and you have bad breath ouch no no no no no that's cindy would she have said that or not she wouldn't she totally would say you know don't be a loser don't be you know don't end up she did she saw that tom cruise jerry maguire and that was her thing show me the money but growing up like it was always i was more like dad you were more like mom and in some ways we grew up with different parents like we're only three and a half years apart in age but the break the you know their marriage kind of falling apart happened when you were in high school um after i had already moved out and um and when i was growing up they were super strict and you know there's also sexism involved daughter versus son but um my you know from my grades to my curfews and all of that everything was very like uptight and strict and by the time steve hit high school dad was away a lot and uh you know we discovered later why um and mom would you know like to get into the liquor she would kind of check out while he was gone and then clean up a little when he came back you know before he came back but steve was ready you know able to run buck wild un you know completely unsupervised i was going full pippy longstock i was in london that was england yeah yeah so in in that respect we grew up with different parents but um mom like you smoked weed with mom i did struggle and you drank with mom and i never did either of those things and you used to tell dirty jokes like the one about the cheetos when i when i smoked weed with mom like she was drunk at the time and like i don't remember that fun it was i was just like here she was drunk and i was like here mom here's a joint she's like you know like it wasn't rad like there was nothing cool about that and um you know like because mom was that way she she really cared about how uh we would reflect on her appearances mattered a lot like we always clean up the house before guests came we're going to have company not like friends are coming we're going to have company put on a nice shirt and like yeah elbows off the table right and when when they had company meaning like they're they're like you know showing off for their friends they would have these like dinner parties their friends would come over and it would just be a brag fest it would just be like what like trump oh well you know we just bought this or like we just have this or our kid just got into this university and it was just a [ __ ] just as a kid we were able to realize like this is kind of weird for sure it wasn't just an obnoxious pissing match is that why you don't like the like you don't want to buy a [ __ ] ferrari or something right now you hate flashing it thanks you're not flashy at all i don't like flashiness and and as i grew up you know cindy moved out of the house when i was 12. and then no i did not yeah 15. i was not 15. i was you went to boarding school when i was 16. i was a year i graduated from high school at 17. so it was 16 to 17. seventh grade is when you're 12 and my birthday's in june so like i think it was eighth grade but i was i was i was in because i was a day student at havergill when you were at baby bayview glasgow it doesn't matter but our house got bigger and bigger as we grew up you know dad became more and more successful as we grew up in the house and the house got bigger and i was like embarrassed of the house i might have felt uncomfortable about the way my house got bigger as i grew up but i am not uncomfortable about the way my wiener gets bigger and harder when i use blue chew tablets i said it okay if i'm getting ready to take lux to bone town then about a half an hour beforehand you know it i'm chewing up a bluetooth tablet why because it's delicious it's got the same active ingredient as both viagra and cialis except it only cost a fraction of the price and when we're ready to go to bone town man my blue chew tablets make it count so much fun if you've ever wondered whether or not trying bluetooth tablets is fun i can assure you it is lux loves it so much sometimes she'll leave one out on the table on a plate she'll say honey i made you dinner i'll come upstairs and see a bluetooth tablet and i know it's going down yeah man but maybe you're wondering don't i need a prescription for that well yeah but you don't have to go to the doctor's office for some awkward in-person visit hell no you go to bluetooth.com and you consult with one of their medical providers right there on the site super fast super easy and when you use the promo code stevo get this they'll they will send you an entire month's supply of bluetooth tablets for free all you got to pay is five bucks for shipping so i'm telling you it's a blast it's easy and it's free all you got to pay is five bucks for shipping what are you waiting for get over to bluechew.com use the pro promo code stevo watch your wiener get bigger and harder and use it for good yeah dude bluetooth.com now let's get back to the house and um in high school if i was if i overslept or just was running late in the morning and wasn't in time to skateboard to school i would be forced to catch a ride with dad in his chauffeur driven car and dad would be in the back seat of his car with his chauffeur driving him reading his newspaper and i would ride shotgun and then when we pulled the school and i got out i would hug the driver because i didn't want anybody knowing i'd been chauffeur driven to school wow i would just talk to the driver be like yeah you know and i wouldn't even acknowledge i just hug the driver and get out and like uh you know i'd want them to drop me off like a little further down the block and and and i was always looking to be from a pretty young age like i didn't like having kids over to our house because i didn't want people to see mom didn't want kids over um like it was in my parenting life my house is the house that every teenager within about five miles just migrates to and um it's an open door you know we had a fingerprint lock for a long time and they're about 20 different fingers on in the fingerprint lock um and uh you know it's it's totally the house in the neighborhood that all the kids hang out at but when we were growing up partly because of mom's drinking and her you know image sensitivity and what the kids might say to their parents or whatever it was very you know like we didn't have people over and if you asked to have a sleepover it was a big deal because mom would be weighing like oh crap okay i'm gonna have to cook dinner i'm going to have to you know tidy up there's no upside it's all downstairs and so we just knew we kind of knew better than to ask and i think that's really common with adult children of alcoholics when you grow up that way it's fine that you think of it that way because for me i just didn't want to be at home i was like like whose house like whose house can i go to today yeah and it was pretty much always abdullah's house but yeah and but the thing is that you know that's just very much like like mom and dad for better or worse and you know i love my dad you know i love my mom so i'm not talking [ __ ] on anybody but the fact is they thought that because they had money that made them better than people we are the apple did not fall that far for either of us because although we're not materialistic in that way um we did sort of learn that like lines are for losers who can't figure out like a way to avoid waiting in the line we're not like british or canadian where we queue up you know we definitely look for the angles and and things like speed limits or no trespassing signs are because you know some people aren't as smart as we are and need like to be protected from injury those are for the dumb sheep for people who aren't aware of their limits but if you actually have physical prowess or skills and and you are aware of the risks and can do the cost-benefit analysis then go proceed at your own risk like it's a suggestion the rules and the speed limits are a suggestion that are very helpful for people who might not be as smart as we are for sure yeah like he'll give me you know like five things to do and it's like he doesn't give a [ __ ] about the minutia of why or why not this person said i can't he's like is it done yet or is it not like that you know i just i figured out shady scott's just gonna make it happen yeah it doesn't care the progress bottom line is great when are we going and that's that's all dad and and the the social you know the the charming holding court you know telling stories like that's all mom and um you know people think that we're so different um and in some ways we are like i i was a high school teacher for 10 years and i would remember um for 10 years i crushed dreams because there was always a new kid who kind of didn't know and they'd be like dude we got glover for history this is going to be totally rad and then a week later they'd be like wow this is not that right yeah do you do a lot of kids like they do you have to say like yes my brother is stevo let's move on like do you have to kind of make an announcement i'm not a teacher anymore like i'm on my fourth career but um the uh in all those years of teaching people would you know the the kids who didn't really know glover's reputation um would be so stoked like you know jackass history and then whoa yeah um but it's funny there used to be this weird thing they'd do at school at our school it was a private school where they'd come back from christmas break on a thursday the public schools didn't come back until monday and the students had class like thursday and friday after being off for you know almost a month and the edict from the administration was you had to teach something meaningful even though half of the kids were going to be absent you couldn't just you know show a video you had to do something meaningful but there was no point in starting the new chapter because come monday you'd have to re-teach it all and the um i taught juniors and seniors and they'd be like way too cool to show up on that stupid thursday and friday you know and um so there were a couple of years where i brought stephen as a guest lecturer but i didn't tell anybody you know he he taught my economics a couple of sections of my economics class i went in with dad yeah dad and i taught economics so you taught the curriculum like that's you wore dad's murisol golf shirt you know like the um but look the funny thing is that steve came in and um you know this served a couple of purposes first of all i was going to have him do a guest lecture about the economics of hollywood and ha and um second of all you know this was gonna kill time because half the kids were gonna be absent but on monday morning the kids who missed it would be like oh man and you know that would show them to blow off my class there you go and so steve came in to you know a slightly lower census than usual but i had him talk about the economics of hollywood and so here you know he's talking about legitimate you know the mistakes he didn't make with his money um how you know dad had taught him about all these football players who made millions and then blew it and and not how to not be that guy but also he would talk about how he barely made any money the first season of jackass and um the importance of having a good vocabulary and being able to read a contract that would you know sign away rights to importance of having someone read your contract for you but you knew what the words in all media in perpetuity meant right and that that was not something that you particularly wanted to sign so having a good vocabulary comes in handy i mean being able to hire people comes in handy having a good lawyer comes really having vocabulary means that you are less likely to get ripped off and and you can read stuff even if you you know often choose not to at least it'll get read um but you know you were smart enough to get into the university of miami i think you got you know 1250 on your sats i think it was like 11 90. okay but i did smoke pot immediately before the thing is that like you're more like me than most people realized because you are intelligent you're articulate you follow the news you know you you're definitely in those sessions they got to see that like there's this persona but when steve's at home he's not throwing himself off buildings and smashing his ear and stuff it's um that's the oh he's not jacking off out of airplanes on his downtime i don't think um and then you know the uh you would take a selfie with every kid in the class and and that was super cool but you had like a teacher in you like part you you have an ability to communicate and educate and all of that and um and i think that's really cool and um you're also i think um more like me than people realize in that the journalism you my first career for eight years was as a newspaper reporter interviewing people and and being a journalist and look at you like podcast 100 yeah about that you interview people well i bored sit people down so that i can talk at them you don't dominate the conversation nearly as much as you used to i still i still do it a lot every now and then you get real excited it just sucks because the more like excited i am like the more i blow it well especially if you know the like for knoxville like you know him so well you got all these stories you want him to tell and so you're going to just tell it to him but then oftentimes we have someone where you don't know them as well like buying biolic or something and then it's like you know you're just asking real questions and listening you're great dude you're doing totally take credit welcome for your journalism chops i mean hey i don't i don't give myself too much credit for for journalism i um i absolutely am i'm honored and grateful for the kind words about my growth as a podcaster and uh and i'm touched by how big of a deal is when there are news stories like stemming from an episode of the wild ride podcast uh like that's so like you're glowing you're beaming you're so like and and that means the world to me i love it i am so proud of you but you know it's funny because if there is a theme of this episode it's you not realizing or like being way harder on yourself than i think you should be like if i could recalibrate it you thinking you were much more of a [ __ ] up when you were little than i think you ever were you thinking you know like mom was way harsher you didn't hear what she was saying you know i would hear what she was saying to her friends and she was so proud of you and um god we're all so proud of you i mean there was a time when if we went to mcdonald's it was just understood that i would pay you know i mean there didn't need to be any conversation or anything and um the fact just what you have done you know there was a time when you would have described yourself as lazy and you work so incredibly hard at the things that you believe in like right now you're touring you've got the book coming out you're doing the podcasts you're you know you just finished doing all of the media for jackass forever your schedule is insane and that is not like the lazy slacker pothead guy who you know maybe rolls out of bed to do a back flip or you know right a kick flip or you know something like i guess i'll do a skate sesh but then i'm gonna need a nap you know like i mean we still nap like champs but you are um well thank you for that and you know one thing for that they really really mean so much that like given how much mom cared about appearances how much she cared about about wealth you know like all of these things um i just think mom would have loved to have been on a red carpet at a one of our jackass movie premieres i think she would have been so [ __ ] funny making fun of me like she would have just been roasting me for all the stuff that i was doing but like she would also be really really uh i just wish that i could have had that experience to share with mom and i also wish that uh we could have gotten sober together like i wonder if if we were in a fellowship of of uh of recovery together if if the the abuse that led to the aneurysm you know you know um if mom and i were sober together and like god i wish i could have had a relationship with her and i was both be sober we did like she did string together one year of sobriety at one point and um she did like you know drop a few pearls of aa wisdom on you but there were five years five years and one month between her aneurysm and when she passed away and i believe that at age 51 when she had the aneurysm she absolutely was not ready um but she made a decision about four months before she passed away and in to the extent that she was able to communicate i don't know if you remember this she said no more hospitals like she was done she had had the um infection with the the methicillin resistant staph uh mrsa infection um she was getting the vancomycin like iv antibiotics that are super intense um but at one point she said no more hospitals and she decided like i think that at the point a few months before she passed away because i was always i was already planning for another 15 years like i we totally didn't expect her to pass away when she did physically she was pretty healthy even though she was disabled i thought she was going to live another 15 years you know we were planning for that um but i think that at the point when she made that decision she knew i was going to be okay like i had left journalism i had was getting my teaching certificate i had decided to become a single mom by choice i had cassie she was almost one and a half at that point you you know between famous incarcerated or dead jackass had been picked up by mtv the first season well the first movie came out in 2002 right so the first movie had happened the the um at that point you were now recognizable to the point where the only place i could take you was costco because any where the old people didn't know you but everywhere else it was pretty rough remember how much we loved going to costco because you could like stroll around look at electronics and besides an employer too it was just not the demographic that you had to worry about but if you lost your computer charger and i took you to the mall all of a sudden these kids would just be like texting each other and stalking us to the food court or the elevator we just couldn't go anywhere but at the point that mom decided she was done like she knew i was gonna be okay i had cass i you know had a new career she knew you were gonna be okay between like famous incarcerated or dead it looked like the needle had landed on famous um and uh you know as far as the things that she would have worried about i think she was like okay you know they're good they're launched they're gonna be all right i don't have to you know stick around um and um she made a decision and within three months that was that you know we got hospice care and um we were both there but um [Music] she didn't was here yeah home hospice but she didn't let go until she knew you were gonna be okay and then we had her ashes sitting on the top shelf in this closet we had never talked about like we knew that as a family we're kind of not that big on cemeteries because you're taking up you know a plot of land that'll never be usable for anything else um it it seems and it's creepy it's just you know the exact reason steve hates ceremonies it's creepy you know it's yeah it's it's counterproductive it's creepy and and and it's like an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind you know burial makes the whole world a cemetery so we knew we were going to have her we knew we were going to have a cremated but we didn't know what to i didn't know what to do with it with these ashes like we didn't have like a vault or anything she didn't have a particular place that she loved we didn't have you know we've moved around so much um growing up that it wasn't like we had a really special place on the globe where you could like put a push pin and that was like our place and so dad like it's like it had been like a number of years the mom's ashes were just in this closet and our dad goes to uh uh some psychic and i don't know where the psychic says hey your ex-wife uh needs to be set free or released or something it's like her ashes like being in the club her solar spirit is stuck it's closure and that was just like kind of good major goose pumps just saying that like that's pretty specific you know like the ashes like to refer to the ashes so in december of 2011 cindy and i finally by then you had started surfing no no no no and when i i i pissed somebody off really badly when i was in rehab in 2008 i like uh it was one there was an older guy and we were in some group and i was like you know i just said for some reason in this career i said i never want to snort anything again in my life except maybe a line of my mom's ashes that's just being like what i don't even know what the [ __ ] and this this old guy was like very offended by that well yeah i never actually meant to snort my mom's ashes but in december of 2011 cindy and i had like paid for like a a charter a charter boat i needed to scatter her at sea yeah and it just so happened that when a gust of wind well yeah it was choppy seas it was windy as hell i got in the back of the on the bed like the bow of the boat and and throw the ashes and the wind [ __ ] blows her ashes into my face and i was like like just happy and and then i just started laughing i was like i just snorted my mom's lashes would have gotten a kick out of that yeah i mean it was sort of like a everybody likes the ocean no matter yeah we are you know it's a place that we find spiritual um and and right steve now surfs on regularly so this was december of 2011. i snorted her ashes like by accident we come back and it was just so choppy and such a nightmare honestly and we got back we drove separately and we also burned her um journals from aaa and and her amends and and inventory and stuff like um just kind of let her all of that stuff go in in a bonfire and this gnarly picture she had of her mom all drunk and remember yeah just um but as we we got back to the dock you know the the um parking lot where we went on this charter boat i i'm sure we were in separate cars and we drove you know back back home as we pulled away the only time in my life that i can ever remember seeing uh two completely distinctly separate rainbows like just so pronounced and and like we drove from scattering our ashes and i was just like looking at these they were huge and they were not saying that one double rainbow you're saying a rainbow here and then over there that's another rainbow like yeah i mean they were so distinctly separate yeah it's amazing and i i like it it was very impactful to me i thought wow like like that's a one rainbow for me and it's one rainbow for cindy and um it and it just so happened that the very next month january of 2012 i uh you know i went on tour to hawaii and like that someone's like dude you want to go surfing i'm like dude the last thing i want to do is go surfing but they just i was like oh all right and i had so much fun i had so i caught the bug and then i caught the big net now so we'd scatter mom in the ocean and then from that point on all i wanted to do was be in the ocean i just fell in love with surfing served all the time and whenever i was in the ocean and saw a rainbow like hey ma big moment yeah yeah that was always like a big thing that's cool but rainbows are my deal lux's thing is is owls owls at for lux and rainbows for me rainbow's in the ocean rainbows in the ocean are big time extra epic yeah hey cindy you referenced a dirty cheeto joke earlier and we never got the joke and i gotta imagine someone's sitting here thinking what's the [ __ ] cheeto joke um you know it's funny because our mom had just like with steve there's like stevo and then there's steve our mom had her like prim and proper you know this is me having company company version and then with her friends you know a couple of sips in she loved a dirty joke and there was something there was one about this i remember the cheater joke i'll tell it to steve but yeah this guy he goes to the doctor everybody right um and my mom and i mean everybody on my mom's side of the family like like with the exception of our generation you know like from my mom's generation and older like my mom had a brother and a sister the three siblings are all dead and all from like cirrhosis of the liver like like alcohol clearly shortened their lifespans we are seventh generation alcoholics as far as we know um you know it could certainly go back farther and it's on mom's side there's there's mental health like uh this is alcoholism addiction it's depression bipolar and mom um and her sister this was a joke in my first uh thing about how while i was in clown college my my cousin was in mortician school and so that's my mom and her sister and they were having they were just getting hammered arguing over whose son was a bigger loser whether it's me and clown college are hurt you know but that's not the cheeto joke right now i know that but but that was i just it's a time when i remember them laughing because that like they were cracking themselves up like trying to win like they were like arguing each other like debating like no no come on my son's a [ __ ] clown i definitely win yeah but i'm like my son has the hots for dead bodies yeah yeah but but the cheeto joke it wasn't necessarily that great but the guy goes to the doctor he's like doctor like my like i'm freaking out my [ __ ] dick turned orange you know like i'm the [ __ ] like you know like and the doctor like you know runs some she's everything's like look pretty normal you know like there's really nothing wrong with you like um like maybe it's like work-related stress and he says doctor i don't even have a job he says well what do you do he says sit at home and watch porno and eat cheetos now the reason that that the unexpected thing is that coming out of our mom with her hair and her manicures and her gucci purse and her golf shirts and her like meticulously clean house and her mercedes like she was such a boca babe and yet you know these um occasionally she you know would come out with an unexpected profanity or an unexpected um yeah she definitely had like a naughty side to her and um she was a party girl in her 20s and before dad um mom and i used to [ __ ] crack up we would laugh our [ __ ] asses off and in the face of like you know like we we could laugh when [ __ ] was not going good what would she have thought of the bucket list show last night but i think um i am i have the toughest time with the parts where you're getting hurt like i don't like the post vasectomy hanging upside down like i don't like seeing your ear bleeding things things where where you are in pain um i absolutely hate i think she would definitely have laughed about the um the naughtier everything about the the intimacy i i think we all hate the the urine stuff and um mom had a little bit of germaphobia i don't i think that you know having trained as a nurse because when she after she graduated from from high school um her dad thought college was wasted on a girl because you know they're just going to get married and so he wasn't willing to pay for it the only thing that was free was nursing school but with her nurse training it was really hard for us to pretend to be sick um because she was like no go to school yeah you're fine go to school she was drinking and then and then she'd be like hey let's watch tv all day but um the she definitely would be aware of in a an inflatable swimming pool full of urine that had percolated for a while what the load of bacteria and stuff is in there like that would not have been her jam at all um but of course she had been proud of you i mean people cheering your name like your your name on the marquee all of those people standing in line and just like thrilled and you making their day um your people skills your ability to like entertain and hold court and make people laugh definitely didn't come from dad your business sense your ability to hawk the merch did but there is a direct line between your theatricality and showmanship and and warmth and charisma and mom and um of course she'd have been proud like if you you've got to know that in your soul and in your heart because for sure i i do and i just wish that i could have shared i know and part of what has driven you to be so successful and part of what drives you to work so hard is a bit of insecurity and you know that's not the worst thing in the world it moves a lot of people i certainly have my own share of you know trying to get dad's approval and stuff like that but um you are too hard on yourself because she was proud of you already um showed off you know and um she was also very proud about how handsome you are oh yeah wow oh yeah i don't remember that i know she was proud about herself being attractive yeah she was very pretty from the photos yeah she really was um did did you know i should i should admit this maybe that um there's a when i was in canada doing stand-up and all just about every time that i went to canada and did stand-up i would say hey guys you know like uh i'm canadian because my mom was born in canada she actually went to high school with tom green's mom but my mom was a way bigger [ __ ] and like i know i'm just kidding whatever you know i'm just kidding your image conscious mom would not i haven't been stoked on that [ __ ] [ __ ] hated but it was clear that i was making a joke yeah you know clear that i was making a joke and she definitely had bigger tits she did she might have mentioned if you got it flaunt it yeah a couple of times and wasn't mom pretty proud that uh the the first day she um i went on a date with dad that she was like rushing for my previous date or something she was definitely not that stoked on him um but you know she gave him another chance on her what's so great she said no what's so great about mom uh wasn't jumping on the bandwagon of dad's success like that they were she was in debt when she married when they got married like that like dad became successful after they got together like they didn't she was an early adopter i love that i love that um and so tell us about what your new job now um so i was a newspaper reporter for eight years and a high school teacher for ten um i did marketing for six and a half years and i have just started career 4.0 working for the city of lakeland florida in the community and economic development department doing community engagement so um what's the official title community engagement coordinator oh how about that community engagement like what exactly what is that exactly like events and stuff like engaging with the community the uh she bridges the gap from the community to the city yes i like it um [Music] she bridges the gap from the community to the city yes that sweet exactly i mean when you described the the job that you were applying for it sounded perfect for you i have adopted a new hometown one of the things that i'm an anomaly i don't know it probably skipped a generation because neither mom nor dad particularly cared about community stuff like we just upped and moved all the time and you know they were looking out for the immediate family but they never felt any great need to you know make the world a better place certainly that kind of um the idea of non-profit or service or whatever was never really like their jam um but um yeah i'm a foster parent and i have the this invisible sucker tattoo that every pitiful animal in the net you know within a few miles can can detect and they all seem to find me and i've been pretty good at finding them homes uh of the 13 cats i've fostered most recently 11 of them were adopted out one passed away and we kept one but i think one out of 13 ain't bad no that's great i do not i'm not yet officially the crazy cat lady um you're single i've been single for a really long time and maybe it's you know time to think about doing something about that but cassie's left the nest do you have a type that maybe this will audience will it'll reach somebody in lakeland area that can uh since we just recently had mayam bialik the host of jeopardy and steve wozniak i mean i think that we might have been broadening our audience of the wild ride podcast enough to include a few nerds who might oh maybe we have smart people listening now do you have a time you are smart like the people you look for when you get to a new school like where where are the nerds you know where are the smart people nerdy's good there's good i am a sucker for um a guy who can play guitar okay um and sing yeah like anybody who can play guitar and sing that's uh you know yeah there's a fast track on that great um but uh i don't know i mean and you know [ __ ] eating skills oh my god yeah you can just yeah there's a whole bunch of things to get through but i'm just kidding okay i'm it's like when i made the joke about mom it's a joke nice joke gilly yeah he wasn't always cool like i i i don't know i don't know that i'm cooled down but is it nap time there anything that that uh i love you so much i love you so much i love you so much and um i was totally gonna spill the beans on some of the stuff that like people don't know go for it like you're afraid of roller coasters yeah even though i'm pretty candid about that i mean your wuss cred is is pretty strong like when we go to theme parks and stuff you won't go on anything that dylan my younger son who well i mean it was really more like cassie who's now sort of you know in college but but going back 10 years cassie was i don't know i guess 10 years ago cassie was 10. but i remember like cassie being eight eight years old and and like we would go to orlando to you know the universal theme park and and i would wait at the exit of the roller coaster you would babysit dylan while we went on all the thrill rides and you wouldn't ride anything that dylan at age five wouldn't go on if dylan was not with us i would still be waiting at the exit of the roller coaster i'm not getting on it and you have a whole stand-up bit about how adamant you are about not being a parent but you are [ __ ] good with kids and your uncle skills like your uncling i mean it's partly because you are a kid in disguise um but your ability not much of a disguise that's true that's true um but um you know when you think back to like swinging cass around and chill until she would get dizzy and and walk and pass out and like holding her and carrying her like you have this mushy fuzzy like playful uncle but also nurturing uncle um side and and granted your patience you want nothing to do with diapers unless you're putting [ __ ] on a fan and stuff like that like poo flying around on cameras one thing poo in a diaper is a whole different ball game do you ever see the the [ __ ] stamp you saw that like uh when cassie was a baby i took her dirty diaper and just smushed it on my forehead yep i remember that and if you ever find the pregnant cartwheel you know i want to see that uh did that not make it into the tour video the pregnant cartwheel i was nine and a half months pregnant because cass was late okay and googling like how do you induce labor like we had an appointment to induce me a couple of days later about cartwheel to do it um a friend of steve's um had a gymnastics coach who swore that doing a cartwheel would bring on labor at that point i'd gone for walks around to the neighborhood and spicy food and so i did two or three cartwheels at nine and a half months pregnant wow cassie's first stunt and steve filmed it it still took pitocin i think that might live in the don't try this around volume tour or whether it's volume two the tour video um i don't think i've ever seen it but yeah i'm definitely i'm definitely cindy can call me out i'm definitely a [ __ ] like when it comes to roller coasters when it comes to bungee jumping i don't like it i don't want to do it you're smarter than people think you're not nearly as brave as people think got near um which you're not that great an actor i mean i love you and you're really good on camera and your presence and your timing and all of that is fantastic um and and certainly like your ability to to be filmed but you cannot pretend and and like inhabit a character who's very different from yourself and i think i think i stand a chance of that you can go about 10 degrees to the right or to the left of your your own experience but whatever yeah i'm not gonna i'm not gonna say i don't know that you could necessarily like pretend to be somebody very very different from yourself um maybe you could now but the um because certainly at the beginning of jackass maybe less so now your acting chops weren't all that the the reason so many of those clips are funny is because you are legitimately terrified yeah um i mean watching a brave person jump off a cliff yeah is just kind of not that it's not it's not that funny it's not that exciting watching somebody who's scared out of their mind but so desperate for attention that they will do something they absolutely loathe and despise now there you've got some material and the only reason so much of that is funny is because you are scared out of your mind um and so people were like does your brother even feel pain like is how did he get so brave yeah i'm like well i might have dropped him on his head once or twice when he was little but he is a total like his man colds are ridiculous he's a total wuss and um he's not that brave like when you see the face that's because he's actually feeling it he's not pretending for the camera um and you're so much smarter and um and like softer and mushier than people would think well thank you cindy one um and i think i don't know if i have anything else i think uh this was amazing it was long yeah i think we went with one of our longer shows yeah how long did i 20. wow yeah i was like feel free to trim it like to do 50 minutes if it's a really good podcast it's an hour to hour and 10 and this is an hour and 20. i love you so much we didn't even talk about my adrenaline junkie stuff but that's i mean when we were kids you loved roller coasters and i hated them and early in my journalism career you know i wanted to interview the death row inmates and go out and like at one o'clock in the morning and interview the drug dealers and the prostitutes and and stuff like that and um understand like why they did what they did i wanted to interview death you guys could do it together maybe you can get us a contact into somebody on death row and we'll interview him you can help us source that some the guys i interviewed are still there because um you know it's like it's a life sentence they're not going anywhere yeah that'd be interesting but um but yeah like that that sort of fascination with with crazy stuff it certainly like it went away once i had kids right i'm not putting myself in harm's way or taking risks so much anymore but um but that you come by that honestly too um but yeah this this was good yeah i love it i love you thank you so much i would not normally ask people if they want to promote anything but i don't think that you want to promote anything you know what i'll promote one thing okay i mentioned i'm a foster parent um there is a critical shortage of foster homes right now there were recently a bunch of news stories about kids having to sleep in social work offices there is especially a shortage of homes for kids with special needs teens and sibling groups and if anybody has ever like had it in their heart or thought about maybe you know you've got a spare room maybe your kids are leaving the nest or um you you've got an only child and you know maybe a sibling would be good i just you know it's not easy like teenagers aren't easy mine might have crashed the car the other night um but oh my gosh it is so like fulfilling it is so fulfilling it has enriched my life in so many ways i didn't know anything about special needs before my son was born with down syndrome and autism but i um he has made us all such better people um you know our joke is be more like dill he's our little life coach um the world would be a better place if everybody knew how to just be like dill so i would say my plug is take a class like they're online they're usually about three weeks in florida there are uh there's hardly you can't take a class to become a foster parent yes because before anybody will place a child with you you have to be licensed and in order to be licensed you take a class and then there's a home study and one time once you are licensed and do take on foster children they actually give you money to to do that yeah the state covers the care of the kids um a lot of the kids are available for adoption um and uh it's just it is so important and so many of these kids man they didn't do anything to deserve the crap that you know has come their way and um i know that uh you know i'm a parent of five now i got five names on my necklace i hatched two i've acquired three others through my unofficial into that official fostering journey um i'm not done but um it's so important so um yeah maybe we'll throw up a link for just you know find the foster care agency in your area and there's no risk involved really to start by taking the class and then you know exploring find out about it and once people get licensed you can start with respite care where you just do you know a week or two with a kid um who are in transition they have somewhere to go but you're a stop but um it's it's really important you know there are a lot of people fostering pets but there are not as many fostering humans um so that's like the next step the respite is it goes big brother big sister program and then respite and then foster and then maybe adoption but yeah i mean there's um it's not the same step for everybody right um and um you know there you and i both believe occasionally that that there's a greater power that puts people in your path at the right time for the right reason and um you know if you believe that then there's a pretty good chance that the right kid who you're meant to carry the next leg of the journey is gonna cross your path and um you can open yourself up to that possibility so i love it that's my plug it's a great plug and you're a great guest and you're a great sister and i love you so much and i'm so proud of you thank you all right [ __ ] yeah [ __ ] yeah feel free to cut that sucker down no way i wish we did more like these paw hates cutting [ __ ] down yeah dude my people those of you who stick around to the very end i call you the street team because way back in the beginning after every episode i always said uh please post uh a screenshot of something or other and and uh tag the guest and you know let him know and you know let him feel the love and that was sort of my sneaky way of trying to get everybody to promote the podcast and you know a lot of you did and i've always been so grateful for that and i love it so much when i'm on tour and people come up to me and they say street team there's different things people say they say street team they say it's the age of the selfie and the crazy crazy diehards they say i'm your second biggest fan it's just all super fun stuff and i love you guys and thank you so much for sticking around through a hundred episodes let's go

Channel: Steve-O's Wild Ride! - Podcast

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Length: 94min 14sec (5654 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 31 2022