Careercow Brandon "Bam" Margera - From Jackass to Lolcow

RE: Andrew Reynolds’s and Duffel

Almost everyone worth looking up to in skateboarding is trash in some shape or form including Duffel and Reynolds.

Never forget the time when Big Brother Skateboarding interviewed Corey Duffel and Chris Nieratko asked him if his girlfriend ever felt like a lesbian (a jab at his his style of dress which was considered scene girl emo at the time) and his articulate response was:

“Well, we were sitting in Wendy’s once, and some nigger comes up to us, like, ‘Hey, lesbians, get down on your knees and give me some blow jobs right now.’ That’s the only time she has ever felt like a lesbian. He was some trashy nigger like [pro skater] Stevie Williams, like gold fronts, like sketchy, and had a pistol in his pocket, so I pretty much had to listen to whatever he said, like you don’t want to talk back to him, so that’s the only time she probably felt like a lesbian.”

This happened in the early 2000s and people still call him a racist, which he vehemently denies. It doesn’t help his case knowing that he’s also a devout Mormon and has been his entire life.

As for Reynolds, he’s a good dude for sure who had his problems with drugs and drink in the past but that’s behind him. He did however have a tendency of saying racist things to black people when he was blackout drunk. Or at least he used to until Gershon Mosley rocked his shit so hard he lost his front teeth.

Gershon’s side said:
I heard about an old incident you had with Andrew Reynolds back in 1998. What exactly happened?
That was just him feeling himself. Basically, something happened [when we were on tour together in] Australia, and I called him out for my perception of what was going on. I’ll just title it greed. At the time he said nothing to me. But then we come back to America and he comes at me at Long Beach Agenda—it was the year that Baker started—he comes at me with the children from that. I was probably stoned, but they looked like a pyramid! It was the littlest up to him in the middle, then it went down to the littlest on the other side.

This dude rolls up on me and tries to get all G like, “Yo, remember when we were in Australia and you said this shit?” I was thinking like, you didn’t even address it when I said shit to your face, and now you’re bringing all these children into it. I went to pat him on the shoulders like, “Dude, it’s not a big deal.” And he threw his arms up like, “What?” So we just walk off. But then the next trade show, people overhear Reynolds talking shit. They’re saying he said, “Fuck Gershon.” I walk in the middle of all of it looking at him, because that’s who the issue was with. I go, “Do you have a problem?” And he said yes, so I hit him.

When I hit him, I was the one that was wrong, because all he did was say words. But most of it comes from my life. I grew up in Compton, the way that things would go down there… If somebody was talking shit and you got to this point where you’re like, it’s established that you were talking shit, either you punch them or you fucking walk away. I didn’t go in there to just find out he was talking shit and punk out. I went in there because I was sick of it. Like, leave it alone or let’s deal with it. So I hit him. And then Jay Strickland saved him. Because if he’d tried to get up and fight me, I would have hurt him. I knocked his teeth out, and his speculation was that it was because he fell into the chairs, but he fell into the chair after stumbling for a bit. I hit him solid in the mouth.

Andrew’s version of the story was that he was super drunk.
Yeah he was! I might have had a buzz on, but I wasn’t drunk. One of the problems I had with the industry is that they egg these children on and don’t try to help them see shit better. The industry is pimping children and there’s no ethics in it. Skateboarding feels super aggressive but these dudes, if they were in the streets and somebody was about to punch them in the mouth, they would run away. All these supposed tough guys are just tough characters that ride skateboards. I don’t like watching that shit. I wasn’t really into Zero. Zero is like militant, like petty. Most of them were limited in their skills. They would only do like 3 tricks and jump down stuff all the time. Most of it was fisheye too so all of the stuff they were jumping down wasn’t as big or long as it looked. You have to remember that the action heroes are less than 2%, and the rest are posers. Most people only have like 4 tricks and they call themselves professional skateboarders.

Andrew’s side said:
Another infamous tale, what is your side of the events surrounding the Gershon Mosley altercation?

Oh yes, of course. I’ll tell you exactly what happened.

I was on the verge of being blackout drunk. Totally loaded. I was at some video premier in San Diego and was just talking shit and being loud. I think I was rapping, too… I don’t know what all I was doing. But Anthony Mosley was with us, just hanging out and I kept on referring to him by his last name. Mosley this, Mosley that.

I think that Gershon may have thought I was talking about him when I was talking to a completely different person. But he came over and basically stepped to me. Now I don’t start fights but when I used to drink, I would get into it every now and then. I was loaded that night and said something like, “Get the fuck outta my face!” or whatever. He just socked me.

To be honest, I probably deserved it because I was being pretty shitty to him when he came over but my point was that I wasn’t even talking to him at all for him to step to me like that. I was talking to my friend Anthony Mosley. It was all a big misunderstanding.

But yeah, he punched me and I swirled around and whacked my face on a bus bench, cracking me teeth. I remember picking up this metal garbage can lid, trying to whack him with that. I was probably 10-feet away (laughs). In my mind, I was gonna get him but in reality, I was falling all over the place and I couldn’t even really see anybody. It was a mess. My friends end up pulling me off and I woke up the next day bummed. Typical shit that happens when I drink: get in a fight, crack my teeth… that’s why I don’t drink because everytime I did, I’d end up in jail, on drugs, my teeth cracked or something. Every single time. I could never really drink and have a good time. It was always a mess.

But I saw him the next day at the tradeshow. I figured I’d walk up to him and apologize because I was probably out of line. I’m the one with the bloody mouth. So I go up to him and am just like, “Hey, man, I’m sorry about that last night…” But I could see that he was literally beginning to shake and his eyes were getting all red. He was about ready to attack me again!

“Ok, I’m outta here.” (laughs)

I’m getting the hell away from that guy! Dude’s about ready to kill me!

To be fair though there’s tons of stories like these that we’ll never hear of that were successfully suppressed by the industry. Reynolds was especially messy during his junkie years himself.

An anecdote by Knox Godoy about how a he (a literal child at the time) made Andrew Reynolds cry for being a crackhead:

Knox Godoy said:
When you you started riding for Baker were those dudes really partying hard?
Fuck yeah, dude, did you ever see the Baker Tour 2001 footage? That’s the one that I was in. Dude, it was full-force party. Me and Terry are running around expensive hotels dumping water on everybody, breaking shit. I caught Reynolds in Chicago with a $100 sack of crack and I punched him in the mouth and he started crying, and then Trainwreck took the crack and flushed it down the toilet. I made that fool cry a couple of times. I was just a little kid calling him a piece of shit. I was a dickhead when I was little. I wouldn’t stop, I would just lay in, and these fools are adults so they can’t hit me and shut me up. I would just keep running my mouth, putting them down, making them feel low.
In more relevant news, I have always given Johnny Schillereff the benefit of the doubt but “All of Bam’s haters are hypocrites because drag show story time and black music bad” has to be one of the worst takes I’ve seen so far.
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There's a greater overlap between those two demographics than you'd think.
Indeed. I know plenty of people who lost their minds when they went to get their doctorate, including one former friend who posts cracked out videos of the homeless dudes she picks up since she dropped out of her program to do meth
 
Never forget the time when Big Brother Skateboarding interviewed Corey Duffel and Chris Nieratko asked him if his girlfriend ever felt like a lesbian (a jab at his his style of dress which was considered scene girl emo at the time) and his articulate response was:
Ah, Chris Nieratko. He went on to work for Vice and focused on porn, porn reviews and porn interviews. Big Brother enabled and brought out the shittiest sides of people, but they should've known what they were doing and getting into. Granted, people change. Chris was a certified scumbag asshole, but he now owns a skateshop and started a non-profit as well.
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Ah, Chris Nieratko. He went on to work for Vice and focused on porn, porn reviews and porn interviews. Big Brother enabled and brought out the shittiest sides of people, but they should've known what they were doing and getting into. Granted, people change. Chris was a certified scumbag asshole, but he now owns a skateshop and started a non-profit as well.
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Chris is a creep too, anyone in the early years of vice (the best years truly) was a fucking weirdo.

I believe duffel is autist af. Lol doesn’t surprise me with the stories, but he has always been nice and awkward when he’s around lol. No idea how to act human.

I also truly believe most skaters are at least 40% scum. Shit, thrashers king of the road years back blatantly showed it. At least they aren’t terry kennedy?

What’s the over under of bam dying before the new year?
 
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Chris is a creep too, anyone in the early years of vice (the best years truly) was a fucking weirdo.

I believe duffel is autist af. Lol doesn’t surprise me with the stories, but he has always been nice and awkward when he’s around lol. No idea how to act human.

I also truly believe most skaters are at least 40% scum. Shit, thrashers king of the road years back blatantly showed it. At least they aren’t terry kennedy?

What’s the over under of bam dying before the new year?


I mean, its not exactly a career that lends itself to stability.
 
I swear to fucking God, this thread is hilarious. It's the text/internet manifestation of bam's enablers/interveners battling it out. Calling for his head when he's runs/goes dark (and ultimately withholds that sweet sweet milk- mortal sin), and calling for his immediate release/shifting blame upon being arrested/brought to the light.

Jesse is more than likely a piece of shit, but bam is ions more of a piece of shit. That woman (with her child) that is sucking bam dry, and refusing to let him get help (so that he can continue to provide endless sums to her and probabaly not the child), is an even BIGGER piece of shit.

Either way, I give bam less than a decade before we find him dead in a ditch. There's an expiration date on this delinquency, and his body is already showing the mileage. Everyone can get help, sure, but I firmly believe that has to happen before the drugs change your neural pathways, irreparably. You never see an old man, life long addict get clean...even if so, rarely. Its always someone who beat it young, or JUST STARTED getting addicted going into middle to late age (like steve-o; his shift from spiraling to sobriety was swift and clean...because he knew what he was doing was wrong).

Bam's dedicated himself to leaving this earth the way Ryan did...
 
Everyone can get help, sure, but I firmly believe that has to happen before the drugs change your neural pathways, irreparably. You never see an old man, life long addict get clean...even if so, rarely. Its always someone who beat it young.
That's because staving off drugs in your later life can easily kill you. If the drugs don't kill you outright, not doing them will.
 
That's because staving off drugs in your later life can easily kill you. If the drugs don't kill you outright, not doing them will.
Yes, this is a huge factor. That being said, rehab observation (in conjuction with a local hospital) can usually solve this half of the conundrum.

The second part is that drugs (over time) litterally turn your brain into a warped version of itself. You think different, you react different, and your will to either accept you have a problem, or to get clean, is greatly diminished.

It's why bam hasn't even come close to saying anything remotely similar to "I am the problem". Everyone else is the problem, in his brain.
 
I swear to fucking God, this thread is hilarious. It's the text/internet manifestation of bam's enablers/interveners battling it out. Calling for his head when he's runs/goes dark (and ultimately withholds that sweet sweet milk- mortal sin), and calling for his immediate release/shifting blame upon being arrested/brought to the light.

Jesse is more than likely a piece of shit, but bam is ions more of a piece of shit. That woman (with her child) that is sucking bam dry, and refusing to let him get help (so that he can continue to provide endless sums to her and probabaly not the child), is an even BIGGER piece of shit.

Either way, I give bam less than a decade before we find him dead in a ditch. There's an expiration date on this delinquency, and his body is already showing the mileage. Everyone can get help, sure, but I firmly believe that has to happen before the drugs change your neural pathways, irreparably. You never see an old man, life long addict get clean...even if so, rarely. Its always someone who beat it young, or JUST STARTED getting addicted going into middle to late age (like steve-o; his shift from spiraling to sobriety was swift and clean...because he knew what he was doing was wrong).

Bam's dedicated himself to leaving this earth the way Ryan did...
While I'd agree that Bam is most likely going to die in his late 40s to early 50s I wouldn't be surprised to see this thread live well into the 2040s. Here's my my educated guessing:
>Bam is comfortably wealthy. Bam made the greatest decision of his life by putting April and Phil is charge of his finances. Bam definitely has access to American healthcare. Being able to get exams and medication is a major plus for longevity.
>Bam seems to have fairly good genetics for rough living. Phil has been morbidly obese since CKY. He's still alive at 65, sadly judging from instagram Phil relies on mobility scooters nowadays but TMZ never reported on him being hospitalized. Also that fat fuck Don Vito making it to 59 is impressive, Vito was even fatter than Phil and a disgusting alcoholic
>Lots of drug addicts keep on living. There's homeless many using meth and drinking Bud Ice & Mad Dog 20/20. And the only medical care they get is Medicaid & Free Clinics assuming they even take advantage of it. They can keep living well into their 60s sometimes beyond that.
>Bam seems to be in better shape than he looks. Bam claims he does 10 mile hikes with the mysterious Navid The Shaman. I most certainly doubt that but I can't dispute that Bam has lost weight. Also he proved he can still ride a skateboard, not anything pro level but that still requires having balance & coordination.

>With that said Bam was in the ICU in December 2022 with pneumonia and covid. That definitely contradicts me saying Bam is in good health, but still he survived it. Lots of Tweakers hallucinate from lack of sleep and are definitely braindamaged

Lastly it is definitely a tragedy when Bam can't give us milk. Bam could get clean and he'd still be a lolcow. Bam is a lolcow because he's AN ASSHOLE. He said it himself when he was more than happy to break his Dad's heart, way before Phil and April got in on the joke.

Also I always hated this clip. People who tease dogs for laughs are just jerks.
 
I can feel sympathy for him to a degree, but he's had decades to figure his shit out. At the end of the day plenty of other people who were in his shoes fucked up their lives, but they managed to pick up the pieces. For all those opportunities to fuck his life up, he's been given a lot of chances to fix it. He just keeps choosing to ruin it.
Honestly he was not really like this until Ryan Dunn died. I think that did him in, those two were about as best friends as anybody could ever be. I think that just put him into a dark hole that he could never climb back out of. A lot of that is probably tied to his own ego, but again it's hard to blame a rich guy who made himself famous as a kid and rode that success ever since for having an ego and having a hard time admitting they fucked up bad. Age old story. It's harder than people give credit for to live a certain way your entire life and then suddenly it isn't working anymore and you have to totally change, especially considering monetizing that earlier lifestyle made you one of the top 1%.
 
Honestly he was not really like this until Ryan Dunn died. I think that did him in, those two were about as best friends as anybody could ever be. I think that just put him into a dark hole that he could never climb back out of. A lot of that is probably tied to his own ego, but again it's hard to blame a rich guy who made himself famous as a kid and rode that success ever since for having an ego and having a hard time admitting they fucked up bad. Age old story. It's harder than people give credit for to live a certain way your entire life and then suddenly it isn't working anymore and you have to totally change, especially considering monetizing that earlier lifestyle made you one of the top 1%.
enabler mentality. dunn continues to be a scapegoat courtesy of thinking like this.
they were both addicts. at the same time. the one difference between them is dunn cooked himself and his passenger.
not to mention it seems the rest of the jackass crew has allegedly cleaned up. but what has bam done? aside from play victim and keep indulging.

addicts will use whatever they can to justify their vices and antics.

a dead man can't make anyone do anything. this is bam's choice.
 
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Well, I wasn't defending addiction, just pointing out that Dunn's death made it worse in his case. My point wasn't that he was not a drug addict or alcoholic, my point was (meant to be anyway) that he was a drug addict alcoholic who still had some kind of control in his life. Point taken though, it was a hot take I guess.
 
Honestly he was not really like this until Ryan Dunn died. I think that did him in, those two were about as best friends as anybody could ever be. I think that just put him into a dark hole that he could never climb back out of. A lot of that is probably tied to his own ego, but again it's hard to blame a rich guy who made himself famous as a kid and rode that success ever since for having an ego and having a hard time admitting they fucked up bad. Age old story. It's harder than people give credit for to live a certain way your entire life and then suddenly it isn't working anymore and you have to totally change, especially considering monetizing that earlier lifestyle made you one of the top 1%.
Nah man, he had a documented drinking problem well before dunn deep fried himself. Hell, some of the shit he said in interviews while dunn was still alive made it pretty obvious back then.
 
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