Steve-O Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions

Hi, I'm Steve-O

and this is the WIRED Autocomplete Interview.

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Was Steve-O in a band?

You could say, Jackass, was a band,

a band of idiots

[Steve-O laughing]

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Rad.

Now, it's been a while since I Googled myself,

so this could be a complete shock.

Where is Steve from?

I grew up in five different countries

if you can believe it.

I was born in England,

moved to Brazil when I was six months old,

moved to Connecticut when I was four,

to Florida when I was six,

to England when I was nine,

to Canada when I was 12,

back to England when I was 13,

then I really started traveling.

Is Steve-O teeth real?

Well, those ones are really gone.

[Steve-O laughing]

The rest of 'em have fake stuff mounted on.

They're there,

they just have crowns and veneers.

Is Steve-O married?

I'm not married, but I am engaged.

And I wear this ring as a sign of respect.

Because let's face it,

what's wrong with our society

that only women should indicate

that they're taken?

Is the idea that men should just go

and do whatever they want?

No, I'm taken.

Silly me, I missed one.

How is Steve-O?

How is Steve-O?

I think I'm doing pretty well.

My tour's going really well.

My relationship is good.

I'm still clean and sober.

I'm in good health.

Like overall, I'd say things are going great.

Thanks for asking.

Is Steve-O retired?

Nope, I'm not retired.

I have recently decided to retire from doing back flips.

Of course, I am planning a farewell back flip.

I don't wanna swim with sharks anymore.

I think I can safely say I'm retired

from swimming with sharks.

All right, looks like we're done with that one.

[board smashing]

What is Steve-O's real name?

It's Stephen, spell with a ph.

Middle name, Gilchrist.

Last name, Glover.

What college

did Steve-O go to?

Now, not only did I go

to Ringling Brother and Barnum & Bailey Clown College,

I graduated from it.

Making me the only college graduate

on the cast of Jackass.

What is Steve-O's bucket list tour?

It's a multimedia comedy tour

where I screen footage of stunts

I never would've been allowed to do for Jackass,

because a lot of them are flagrantly illegal

and some of it's actually X-rated.

What did Steve-O's dad do?

My dad was a wildly successful corporate businessman.

He was the president of Pepsi Cola in all of Brazil.

He went from Pepsi to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco.

And then after that, he went on to become

the president of Nabisco International.

So if you think about it,

soda, cigarettes, and cookies,

he's going to hell.

[all laughing]

What happened to Steve-O?

Oh, that's sad.

[Steve-O laughing]

What happened to Steve-O?

I mean, where do we begin?

What hasn't happened to Steve-O

Okay, good. So we'll continue.

Did Steve-O open an animal sanctuary?

No, but you can beg your butt I'm gonna.

I was recently in Memphis

and I visited Graceland and I thought,

oh God, I've got to hurry up

and get this animal sanctuary going,

so I can have my own little Steve-O museum

with all the animals.

Oh dude, it's gonna be great.

How did Steve-O and Johnny Knoxville meet?

We were introduced

by a skateboarding magazine called Big Brother,

which was particularly naughty

and filled with all kinds of stuff

that had nothing to do with skateboarding,

like me and Johnny Knoxville.

How hot is Steve-O's hot sauce?

It depends on which one, because I have two.

There's the OG Steve-O's Hot Sauce For Your Butthole,

which is really just delicious, not overly hot.

But then there's the new, unbelievably hot,

Steve-O's Butthole Destroyer Hot Sauce.

The Destroyer's really hot.

I don't know the Scoville

of the Butthole Destroyer Hot Sauce,

but I do know that the three top ingredients

listed are the three hottest peppers on earth,

scorpion, ghost, and Carolina Reaper.

What happened to Steve-O's voice?

See, this is a big one.

I thought maybe I had something going on

with my vocal chords.

So, I went into this voice doctor

and he said that there's actually nothing wrong

with me whatsoever.

I'm just using like the muscles above my vocal chords.

I was like, seriously, doc

you're telling me I just suck at talking.

I've gone back and forth about it.

I hired a vocal coach.

Part of me thinks it's just trademark.

A lot of people have said,

Dude your voice is who you are.

A lot of other people think it's like listening

to a cement grinder.

How is Steve-O still alive?

I wonder that every day

No idea.

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Does Steve-O do meet and greets?

I do.

I toured comedy clubs tirelessly for 11 years.

And after every show in the comedy club,

I did a meet and greet with the entire audience.

But since then, I've graduated to big theaters.

And so now, it's like a thousand people every night

and I just can't meet that many people.

It's a limited meet and greet now.

Does Steve skate?

You bet your gosh, dang, darn butt I do.

I've been skating like crazy lately,

ripping in fact.

To be clear, skateboard.

None of that rollerblading crap.

Does Steve-O speak Spanish?

I spoke my first words in Portuguese.

I spoke fluent Spanish in nursery school.

So, I learned three languages by the age of three

and forgot two of them completely by the age of five,

which might make you think I'm an idiot.

But apparently, when you learn multiple languages

as a toddler, you develop more of your brain.

So, it's sort of a win and a fail.

Does Steve-O still have his back tattoo?

No way, I'm parting with this thing.

Get outta here.

That's the thing about tattoos.

They tend to stick around.

Now, there are tattoos that I did get removed.

I had the words shit and fuck on my knuckles.

I kept it that way for over 10 years.

Very proud of how I just skated through life

without that really negatively impacting my livelihood.

But ultimately, I felt it outlived it usefulness

and I got those profane words removed, lasered off.

But the back tattoo, not going anywhere.

All right.

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Was Steve in the circus?

I was.

After graduating

from Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College,

I did not go

to the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus,

but I did get employed by this circus in a flea market

in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

It was called the Hanneford Family Circus.

And I worked there for six months,

right up until the day

I started shooting the Jackass, series.

Yeah, it's crazy.

I washed my clown makeup off for the last time.

And within a half an hour,

I was barfing up a goldfish into a fishbowl.

And the rest is history so to speak.

Was Steve-O in a band?

You could say Jackass, was a band, a band of idiots.

But when I was a kid I really loved

the band Motley Crue so much.

That when they came to my town

I called every hotel on the yellow pages

asking for a room by the name of their manager.

After hours, I got through

and the manager's brother answered the phone.

He was so impressed by my initiative,

I got on the list for backstage passes

and had my photo taken with Tommy Lee and Nikki Sixx

on October 25th, 1987.

It's amazing.

Was Steve-O on Dancing With The Stars?

I was.

It was fairly traumatic experience for me.

I was just terrible at dancing and it was on live TV,

and I was newly sober.

Still super uncomfortable in my own skin.

I was just afraid ball of nerves

and I lasted six weeks,

which just made my misery prolonged.

All right.

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Steve-O yoga.

Nah.

And here's the sad thing.

I've tried yoga. It's just misery for me.

I can't stand it.

But my body's begging for yoga.

I really should do it.

Now, one thing I do do is meditate.

I actually keep track of it on an app.

As of today, I have maintained an average

of over 40 minutes of meditation every single day

for 956 straight days.

I'm creeping up on three years of meditation practice.

And I have an unshakeable faith

that it causes the universe to conspire in my favor.

Steve-O fire stunt.

Yep, that was a bad one.

I mean, there's been a number of fire stunts

that went pretty bad for me.

But the really bad one ended in skin graft surgery

on 15% of my body, where I had the flesh

of seven different dead people grafted onto me.

One little piece actually became part of me, right there.

Okay, Steve-O cauliflower ear.

That's a good one.

I've been trying for the longest time.

I've had the who's who of the UFC Hall of Hame,

Chuck Liddell, Jon Jones, Ronda Rousey,

the BMF champ, Jorge Masvidal.

Everyone's been trying their butts off

to give me cauliflower ear

and my ears just won't have it.

Steve-O biography book.

My first book was called Professional Idiot: A Memoir.

It was a New York Times bestseller.

Arguably, my proudest work.

But my new book comes out on September 27th.

It's called a A Hard Kick in the Nuts:

What I've Learned from a Lifetime of Terrible Decisions.

In my new book, I get uncomfortably candid

about my experience with sex addiction.

You'd think that giving up drugs and alcohol

would make your life manageable.

But in my case,

I just found other ways to be completely nuts.

And Steve-O yearbook quote.

Wow, that's an interesting one.

My senior quote in the high school year book,

it's harder to go up a hill than down

but the view is far better from the top.

Don't be a slouch. Put in the work.

Do something to be proud of.

How about that?

Coming from a kid that was just hopelessly addicted

to drugs and alcohol in high school.

I think that Googling one's self is a dangerous activity.

But in the grand scheme of things,

I think that I get off pretty easy.

That's it for the WIRED Autocomplete Interview.

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