Careercow Brandon "Bam" Margera - From Jackass to Lolcow

Undersideofcwcspillow said:
Why would people think Novak is a douchebag? He got clean and now he's trying to help other people get clean. That's a noble cause to dedicate your life to.
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There’s a number of reasons, I’ll try to give a TLDR here and if I miss anything anyone can feel free to add to this list:

-Staunch Bam supporters say he’s a bad friend because he leeched off Bam and his fame and money for years. The truth is, Bam brought Brandon into the fold when all his old CKY crew started abandoning ship one by one. Dunn actually hated Novak when he was brought in because he saw him for exactly what he was and he tried to warn Bam to no avail. Bam openly admitted in the past that when on tour or traveling in general Novak was his glorified house negro who carried his luggage for him, held his wallet, and drove his car for him. Bam knew he was a junkie at the time so knowingly setting up Novak like that was a recipe for disaster that can only be blamed on Bam himself.
-RE: disasters waiting to happen, Novak eventually wrecked one of Bam’s luxury sports cars on a late night mission to score junk. Every time Bam gets emo about Novak on IG the first thing he brings up is that Novak owes him a car, which I personally think is ridiculous. Sorry Bam, but that loss has to be charged to the game.
-One of his biggest claims when interviewed or speaking publicly is that he was a professional skateboarder at age 14 or so and was also the first skateboarder to be sponsored by Gatorade, which is a gross exaggeration.

Sponsored skater =/= professional skateboarder.

Sponsored skaters hierarchy is as follows:

1. Flow sponsorship is when you’re nothing and someone in the industry notices your talent and is willing to take a chance on fostering your talent This includes given free product, opportunity to film with a company’s official filmers and photographers, and offered free travel to hang out with the rest of the team so they can suss out skaters with obvious red flags in their personalities. Oftentimes these skaters will be offered a chance to leave their hometown and crash on a skaters couch to skate full time to see how they do. These skaters are not usually included in official team rosters.
2. Amateur skateboarders are official team riders who only receive product and money incentive for ads, features in magazines, etc. receive a small amount of base pay a month from a board sponsor and are featured on official team rosters. The lack of direct cash funding you receive from a board sponsor should be offset by finding sponsors for other components of the skateboard (wheels, bearings, trucks, grip tape), clothing, and if you’re Novak apparently you can also get cash from Gatorade. Also, be frugal with your free product and sell it for extra cash or trade for good and services and if you’re good under pressure you can win cash in contests.
3. Pro skaters have their names on a board. In addition To a decent amount of cash per month you also make royalties on anything with your name on. This has gotten muddled in modern times because a lot of rich kid dbags will start their own companies to release their own pro model.

Novak never had a board with his name until recently and it was a joint release with Bam. Back in the day he was somewhere between 1 & 2.

-Novak makes his money by referring people to rehab now, which some say is morally questionable. That’s up for debate but what we can all surely agree on is it’s predatory to tell people you’re handing out your personal phone number because you care when in reality you’re also doing it because you can make money off them
 
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Rogowski said:
There’s a number of reasons, I’ll try to give a TLDR here and if I miss anything anyone can feel free to add to this list:

-Staunch Bam supporters say he’s a bad friend because he leeched off Bam and his fame and money for years. The truth is, Bam brought Brandon into the fold when all his old CKY crew started abandoning ship one by one. Dunn actually hated Novak when he was brought in because he saw him for exactly what he was and he tried to warn Bam to no avail. Bam openly admitted in the past that when on tour or traveling in general Novak was his glorified house negro who carried his luggage for him, held his wallet, and drove his car for him. Bam knew he was a junkie at the time so knowingly setting up Novak like that was a recipe for disaster that can only be blamed on Bam himself.
-RE: disasters waiting to happen, Novak eventually wrecked one of Bam’s luxury sports cars on a late night mission to score junk. Every time Bam gets emo about Novak on IG the first thing he brings up is that Novak owes him a car, which I personally think is ridiculous. Sorry Bam, but that loss has to be charged to the game.
-One of his biggest claims when interviewed or speaking publicly is that he was a professional skateboarder at age 14 or so and was also the first skateboarder to be sponsored by Gatorade, which is a gross exaggeration.

Sponsored skater =/= professional skateboarder.

Sponsored skaters hierarchy is as follows:

1. Flow sponsorship is when you’re nothing and someone in the industry notices your talent and is willing to take a chance on fostering your talent This includes given free product, opportunity to film with a company’s official filmers and photographers, and offered free travel to hang out with the rest of the team so they can suss out skaters with obvious red flags in their personalities. Oftentimes these skaters will be offered a chance to leave their hometown and crash on a skaters couch to skate full time to see how they do. These skaters are not usually included in official team rosters.
2. Amateur skateboarders are official team riders who only receive product and money incentive for ads, features in magazines, etc. And are featured on official team rosters.
3. Pro skaters have their names on a board This has gotten muddled in modern times because a lot of rich kid dbags will start their own companies to release their own pro model.

Novak never had a board with his name until recently and it was a joint release with Bam. Back in the day he was somewhere between 1 & 2.

-Novak makes his money by referring people to rehab now, which some say is morally questionable. That’s up for debate but what we can all surely agree on is it’s predatory to tell people you’re handing out your personal phone number because you care when in reality you’re also doing it because you can make money off them
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I can only speak on the part of him getting people into rehab, yes it might be on some level predatory, but its a hell of alot better idea than trying to sell them on an MLM. He does have to get a paycheck somehow.
 
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CowPox said:
Think of your parent pissing away all of your inheritance on rehab and sending you from a posh made for lifestyle into poverty all because he wants to be Peter Pan.

What a faggot Bam Margera is.
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Phoenix Wolf having to work for a living would probably mean that he turns out different than his trainwreck dad.
PointOfNoReturnPoint said:
I think boomers were right about that reality t.v wave....shit what else could they be right about.
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Marilyn Manson being a dipshit, increasing labor laws allowing you spend more time with your family and friends being a net positive, Bruce Springsteen's music being kind of awesome.
 
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Undersideofcwcspillow said:
Why would people think Novak is a douchebag? He got clean and now he's trying to help other people get clean. That's a noble cause to dedicate your life to.
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Novak is a slimy cunt who has monetised his addiction. This means he will never be honest if he falls off the wagon, so who knows if he is clean or not at this point.

You think he has stopped being a liar and manipulator because he is sober? Fuck no.
 
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Rogowski said:
There’s a number of reasons, I’ll try to give a TLDR here and if I miss anything anyone can feel free to add to this list:

-Staunch Bam supporters say he’s a bad friend because he leeched off Bam and his fame and money for years. The truth is, Bam brought Brandon into the fold when all his old CKY crew started abandoning ship one by one. Dunn actually hated Novak when he was brought in because he saw him for exactly what he was and he tried to warn Bam to no avail. Bam openly admitted in the past that when on tour or traveling in general Novak was his glorified house negro who carried his luggage for him, held his wallet, and drove his car for him. Bam knew he was a junkie at the time so knowingly setting up Novak like that was a recipe for disaster that can only be blamed on Bam himself.
-RE: disasters waiting to happen, Novak eventually wrecked one of Bam’s luxury sports cars on a late night mission to score junk. Every time Bam gets emo about Novak on IG the first thing he brings up is that Novak owes him a car, which I personally think is ridiculous. Sorry Bam, but that loss has to be charged to the game.
-One of his biggest claims when interviewed or speaking publicly is that he was a professional skateboarder at age 14 or so and was also the first skateboarder to be sponsored by Gatorade, which is a gross exaggeration.

Sponsored skater =/= professional skateboarder.

Sponsored skaters hierarchy is as follows:

1. Flow sponsorship is when you’re nothing and someone in the industry notices your talent and is willing to take a chance on fostering your talent This includes given free product, opportunity to film with a company’s official filmers and photographers, and offered free travel to hang out with the rest of the team so they can suss out skaters with obvious red flags in their personalities. Oftentimes these skaters will be offered a chance to leave their hometown and crash on a skaters couch to skate full time to see how they do. These skaters are not usually included in official team rosters.
2. Amateur skateboarders are official team riders who only receive product and money incentive for ads, features in magazines, etc. And are featured on official team rosters.
3. Pro skaters have their names on a board This has gotten muddled in modern times because a lot of rich kid dbags will start their own companies to release their own pro model.

Novak never had a board with his name until recently and it was a joint release with Bam. Back in the day he was somewhere between 1 & 2.

-Novak makes his money by referring people to rehab now, which some say is morally questionable. That’s up for debate but what we can all surely agree on is it’s predatory to tell people you’re handing out your personal phone number because you care when in reality you’re also doing it because you can make money off them
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I particularly love that podcast he did with Joe Frantz, and that moment when they rail on how Bam replaced CKY (Dunn, Raab, Rake and Dico) with these bottom-feeding “Yes Men” when Novak, of course, draws no attention that he was the original Yes Man.
 
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Fareal said:
@Rogowski OT but holy shit they paroled Gator??? No way Newsom actually lets him go though right?
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Not to veer too off-topic but yes. This is actually the second time he’s made parole and Newsom denied him last time. Only time will tell if Newsom lets it slide but it seems like the prison system is ready to cut him loose.
 
Rogowski said:
There’s a number of reasons, I’ll try to give a TLDR here and if I miss anything anyone can feel free to add to this list:

-Staunch Bam supporters say he’s a bad friend because he leeched off Bam and his fame and money for years. The truth is, Bam brought Brandon into the fold when all his old CKY crew started abandoning ship one by one. Dunn actually hated Novak when he was brought in because he saw him for exactly what he was and he tried to warn Bam to no avail. Bam openly admitted in the past that when on tour or traveling in general Novak was his glorified house negro who carried his luggage for him, held his wallet, and drove his car for him. Bam knew he was a junkie at the time so knowingly setting up Novak like that was a recipe for disaster that can only be blamed on Bam himself.
-RE: disasters waiting to happen, Novak eventually wrecked one of Bam’s luxury sports cars on a late night mission to score junk. Every time Bam gets emo about Novak on IG the first thing he brings up is that Novak owes him a car, which I personally think is ridiculous. Sorry Bam, but that loss has to be charged to the game.
-One of his biggest claims when interviewed or speaking publicly is that he was a professional skateboarder at age 14 or so and was also the first skateboarder to be sponsored by Gatorade, which is a gross exaggeration.

Sponsored skater =/= professional skateboarder.

Sponsored skaters hierarchy is as follows:

1. Flow sponsorship is when you’re nothing and someone in the industry notices your talent and is willing to take a chance on fostering your talent This includes given free product, opportunity to film with a company’s official filmers and photographers, and offered free travel to hang out with the rest of the team so they can suss out skaters with obvious red flags in their personalities. Oftentimes these skaters will be offered a chance to leave their hometown and crash on a skaters couch to skate full time to see how they do. These skaters are not usually included in official team rosters.
2. Amateur skateboarders are official team riders who only receive product and money incentive for ads, features in magazines, etc. And are featured on official team rosters.
3. Pro skaters have their names on a board This has gotten muddled in modern times because a lot of rich kid dbags will start their own companies to release their own pro model.

Novak never had a board with his name until recently and it was a joint release with Bam. Back in the day he was somewhere between 1 & 2.

-Novak makes his money by referring people to rehab now, which some say is morally questionable. That’s up for debate but what we can all surely agree on is it’s predatory to tell people you’re handing out your personal phone number because you care when in reality you’re also doing it because you can make money off them
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So it seems like it's mostly Bam fans not liking why Novak was brought into the spotlight. I can understand the dislike of the rehab thing.

Also, he was on the Powell Peralta team with Mike V(i can't remember who else. Bucky Lasek right?) and toured. I'd think at the very least that'd put him at 2, not between 1 and 2.
 
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Thanks Bam, turns out I was wrong to declare you a lolcow. You're the hero that saved DNF2001.


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I can't stop laughing at this. Bam could've rode his millions for the rest of his life. But here he is, looking like a double for a Shrek live-action play. I remember really liking his dumb show Viva La Bam when I was a kid, but I'm entirely unsurprised he ended up this way.
 
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Cardenio said:
Surprised no one posted this. Looks like the year of sobriety has gone down the drain. Oh well they say relapses can be an inevitability, just as long as you get back on the wagon... or I guess the skateboard in Bam's case.

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Considering the last TMZ article said they found him at a hotel and the pictures were from a bar with cocktails in front of him, a little deductive reasoning told me he was found at a hotel bar getting smashed without having to be explicitly told.
 
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I think it's significant that Nikki has outright bounced with the kid. We knew there were custody proceedings, but this sounds like she's really going to go through with the divorce and perhaps more meaningfully, go for full custody no contact.

It will never not look bad to a family court judge that someone with a significant addiction problem bounced from rehab and straight to a bar, and then had to be found and brought back. There's relapses, and then there's looking like maybe you really aren't committed to this shit.

Nikki is also in a position to know the details of the fresh new Jackass settlement, which was almost certainly a large chunk of change even by Bam's standards. If you were Nikki's lawyer, you might well be tempted to move fast, now, and try to lock in a settlement whilst Bam still has that money in his hands before he starts blowing it on fuck knows what. Drugs and cars and failed "projects" and hangers-on. You would definitely be tempted to get an interim support order going, if you could. He has more than enough money, even now, to keep Nikki and Phoenix very comfortable, somewhere far away from him.

I hope Phil and April are still able to see their grandchild, though. I don't believe they would ever put him in any danger, and like most folk who grew up watching all Bam's crap, I have a soft spot for them.
 
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Fareal said:
Nikki is also in a position to know the details of the fresh new Jackass settlement, which was almost certainly a large chunk of change even by Bam's standards. If you were Nikki's lawyer, you might well be tempted to move fast, now, and try to lock in a settlement whilst Bam still has that money in his hands before he starts blowing it on fuck knows what. Drugs and cars and failed "projects" and hangers-on. You would definitely be tempted to get an interim support order going, if you could. He has more than enough money, even now, to keep Nikki and Phoenix very comfortable, somewhere far away from him.
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I watch this financial advisor type on youtube who breaks down how the rich go broke (it's mostly athletes and celebrities). The number one reason is child support payments. They will have a kid, a judge will say you have to provide 100k a year or whatever (it's usually a significant amount), and then the shitbag will lose a lot of income. They will still have to pay 100k a year but only make a fraction of their previous income, leading to them having massive overhead and now they have child support.

If Nikki is taking the kid now and trying to get Child Support (which is smart in this case), she will probably be his downfall or at least a major contributor.

That and the fact he will use this as an excuse to get super fucked up. Half the time he seems to like is hunting for reasons to get drunk and this is a big one. Expect to see another breakdown video where is smashed crying about that bitch taking his kid...
 
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