Show Rundown: June 8, 2011
A Future for Anthony Weiner?
Benjy’s Crying Sprain
Ramon & Jesus, Star Jockeys
It’s Better to Be A Horse Than to Ride One
Tim Sabean Banned From Staff Bathroom
Steve-O Did It All — And Lived
Pretty Good at Smoking Pot
Pretty Good at Smoking Pot
Steve-O said he’d had the taste for danger ever since college, remembering the time he’d jumped backward off a second floor balcony to impress a girl.
As blood pooled around his head and authorities rushed to the scene, his friends had the presence of mind to remove the pot from his pockets: “I was just the dead guy face down on the concrete. They were like, ‘If he’s not dead, he’s going to need that weed.'”
Howard noted that Steve-O, at 12, had actually chosen to smoke pot habitually: “You made a conscious decision to be a pothead.”
Steve nodded, saying most of his skateboarder friends had moved away and he needed a new way to connect with people: “I figured I could find a new identity in smoking pot. I was like, ‘Eh, I could be pretty good at that.'”