The guest
Steve-O: Stand-up comedian and Jackass star (Stephen Glover), famous for extreme stunts and self-inflicted pain. Now 18 years sober, touring a multimedia comedy show and building an animal sanctuary in Tennessee.
What this episode covers
Steve-O opens up about a rough stretch: backlash over an absurd sarcastic ICE/immigration joke from his podcast, criticism that he over-promotes merch and sponsors, and a general spiral of reading his own comments. Joe repeatedly counsels him to stop living in his own head and ignore the haters. They swap brutal stories of getting knocked out and choked unconscious across Jackass, WWE, and beyond, then debate the toll of head trauma on athletes. The back half turns philosophical, covering the trans bathroom/sports debate, AI and economic collapse, the comedy business and Kill Tony, and a long riff on reincarnation, genetic memory, near-death experiences, and consciousness as an antenna. It closes warm, with Steve-O's sobriety arc, his dog Marshall, and his new Radical Ranch animal sanctuary.
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Big reveals from this episode
- Post Malone tattooed a 'banana dick' on Steve-O's eyebrow as an experiment to see how long he lasts before lasering it off.
- On cocaine for three days, Steve-O had Ryan Dunn choke him unconscious six times in one day, the last throwing him on his head and breaking a tooth.
- Steve-O was knocked out cold on Monday Night Raw by the Samoan Bulldozer (Umaga), who kept hitting him because he wouldn't stop moving.
- Steve-O reveals the snake on Joe's desk was left by Harland Williams, and Trump got excited about it and named it during his episode.
- Steve-O explains the ICE/immigration 'murderers' clip that drew a 'tsunami of hate' was deliberately absurd sarcasm with Harland Williams.
- Steve-O got within 10 hours of surgery for a publicity-stunt boob job (double-D implants) before the anesthesiologist backed out and he called it off.
- After a hiking epiphany, Steve-O swore off promoting anything that isn't good for people, including gambling sponsors.
- Steve-O launched Radical Ranch, a 501c3 nonprofit animal sanctuary on 44 acres in Tennessee.
Worth remembering
- Steve-O won MrBeast's celebrity Beast Games competition for a million dollars and donated it to Doctors Without Borders.
- Joe pins the UFC's mainstream breakout on the Stephan Bonnar vs. Forrest Griffin fight on the first Ultimate Fighter finale on Spike TV.
- Hulk Hogan came on the podcast about six inches shorter after fusing his spinal discs from years of his elbow-drop finisher.
- Joe argues unsustainable national debt plus emerging superintelligent AI is a 'perfect storm' that will radically change society within years.
- Joe claims roughly 47 biological males are housed in California women's prisons, some sex offenders, by self-identification.
- Roughly 100-150 million people use OnlyFans but only about 4% complete paid transactions; an estimated 14% of US women aged 18-24 have an account.
- University of Virginia's Dr. Jim Tucker studies children whose past-life memories match historical records, like a boy recalling a pilot's plane crash.
- Joe and Steve-O float Duncan Trussell's idea that the brain is an antenna for consciousness, not its generator, which could explain reincarnation.
- Feral and outdoor house cats kill billions of birds and mammals every year in America alone.
- Steve-O is almost 18 years clean and sober; he got sober in 2008 at age 33, never having expected to live past 30.
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