#960 - Steve-O

Joe Rogan (0:08)

I'm here with confirmed cosmonaut, Steve-O.

A man who's been to space. A man who knows about the atmosphere.

Steve-O (0:16)

I can't say I've been to space. I went up in a Russian MiG fighter jet to the edge of the Earth's atmosphere.

Joe Rogan (0:23)

How high was that? Do you know?

Steve-O (0:24)

Oh, I fucking forget, shit.

I fucking forget. But it wasn't that much higher than, you know...

Joe Rogan (0:30)

So a normal flight is like what? 30,000 feet. 30,000 and then... Well, it's like... I've heard they go higher, right? They can go up to like 35,000 for a commercial flight?

Steve-O (0:39)

I want to say that it might have been like not much more than 50,000, but I can't back that up. I don't remember. It was shockingly less than you would imagine.

Joe Rogan (0:49)

Oh, that's you.

Steve-O (0:49)

Yeah, there I am.

Joe Rogan (0:50)

You need a video of it? Uh-huh.

Steve-O (0:52)

Yeah, it was for Wild Boys.

Joe Rogan (0:54)

Oh, no shit.

Steve-O (0:54)

Oh, my God.

Joe Rogan (0:55)

Look, it's going straight up.

Steve-O (0:58)

They used a lot of stock footage, but at the same time, on the way down, this motherfucker did twirls and fuck. It was like the gnarliest roller coaster ride ever. And this is me filming myself. Look at that, dude.

Joe Rogan (1:17)

Oh, my God.

Steve-O (1:18)

It's fucking night up there.

Joe Rogan (1:20)

Wow, that's incredible.

Steve-O (1:21)

That shows, for anybody who wants to say that the fucking world is flat, that's fucking proof, motherfuckers.

Joe Rogan (1:28)

Well, you can see the curvature of the earth. Wow, that's nuts.

And so when you were doing this, did you get close to blacking out? Like how was the g-force?

Steve-O (1:36)

No, I didn't get close to blacking out or anything like that. And I thought that it would be one thing. What it was, was I was just fucking claustrophobic, man. It was cramped in a tiny little... I get claustrophobic, dude. I didn't like that.

Joe Rogan (1:51)

Did they tell you how many g-forces you were doing?

Steve-O (1:55)

That's another thing I can't remember. But I feel like there was more g-shit going on when we did the zero-gravity plane, which it just kind of goes along and then it does a big bell curve kind of deal, so you become weightless.

And that one, you could feel yourself really being pulled down with the g's or whatever.

Joe Rogan (2:18)

I did a flight with the FAA-18 with the Blue Angels once.

They took me up and they take you out. You go down to San Diego and then you travel east, like through the desert. It's weird. I don't know which Air Force base is out there, but it's like real close to, I guess close to Arizona or maybe even in Arizona. But we got to seven and a half g's. We were doing these crazy things where you go through these mountain ranges and you're only like a hundred, maybe two hundred feet off the ground, really low to the ground, like turning and twisting and fucking bananas.

Dude.

Steve-O (2:55)

Yeah, dude.

Joe Rogan (2:56)

So they took you up in Wild Boys? What year was this? It was OK? We were cool with the Russians then.

Steve-O (3:01)

Right. That was 2005 Yeah, 2005 That was our last ever Wild Boys trip.

Joe Rogan (3:07)

Oh, yeah?

Steve-O (3:08)

Yeah. And we brought Knoxville with us.

In Knoxville, we had some Russian army dudes, and Knoxville was like, shoot me with the 9mm gun with the rubber bullet while the dog bites me. What?

Yeah, he was going for it. And our director, Jeff Tremaine, was like, hey, if you still have this in you, why don't we not do it for TV? Let's make another movie. And that was why we stopped doing Wild Boys and made Jackass No. 2

Joe Rogan (3:39)

If you still have this in you. You still want to get it beaten out with rubber bullets.

Steve-O (3:44)

We do. A lot of shit happened on that last Wild Boys trip, man.

We had this practice for the censors. It's called standards and practices. They'll give back notes, like, you can't show this. And so we would film what we call red herrings, just blatantly ridiculous shit that's never going to be allowed on TV. But then we'll be like, OK, we'll cut this out. And so then we'll be able to keep some other shit.

So we would always go out of our way to film this fucked up stuff. And in Russia, me and one of the guys from the crew put on these animal suits.