Short term it's probably best that he's not in the movie since he looks pretty rough, but I have to ask- why are you guys rooting for Bam to fail? I'm hoping he has a comeback like Elvis in 68. OP should make a new poll that's less cynical to determine how many kf users want to see him bounce back
I'm not rooting for him to fail, I'm just enjoying the ride because it straight up couldn't happen to a more immature manbaby.
Deep down I want him to go "what the fuck am I doing with my life?", soak in a bath for like 3 days and then start vigerously cutting all bad influences out of his life... but I know he's just going to keep partying until he gets confused for a random homeless guy and shot by a dealer.
To jump on the why bandwagon, he was always a shit skater and he was fucking everywhere. If you go back to his video parts they're usually basic tricks in a skatepark with a bunch of jackass stunts thrown in
Short of hating on rapists & child molesters/people who knowingly get their kicks from hurting others, I've rarely seen people on KF actually root for someone to fail. (I mostly stick to beauty parlor though, so ymmv.) When they do, they end up with a top hat. But anyone who lurks KF long enough knows that "uwu I hope he gets his life together!! We're rooting for u Bam!!" is going to end up with 50 puzzle pieces and rainbows. It isn't that people WANT to see him suffer, it's that they know he won't change.
So what are people doing? Something more realistic, in-between. They're trying to figure out what might have happened, speculating on what's happening now, and- yes- guessing what may happen next. It isn't pretty, but very, VERY few cows who've made it to an active thread KF turn their lives around.
We gawk and speculate, but I don't think "expecting him to OD after turning tricks for fent" is something most *hope* will happen. I know I don't, anyway. But come on, do you really expect Bam of all people to be the exception to the rule?
Short of hating on literal rapists & child molesters and people who actively and knowingly getting their kicks from hurting other people, I have rarely seen people on KF actually honestly root for someone to fail. (I mostly stick to beauty parlor though, so ymmv.) When they do, they end up with a top hat.
But the thing is, anyone who lurks KF long enough knows that "uwu I hope he gets his life together!! We're rooting for u Bam!!" is going to end up with 50 puzzle pieces and rainbows. It isn't that most WANT to see him suffer, it's that they know he won't change.
So what are people doing? It's something more realistic, something in-between. They're trying to figure out what might have happened, speculating on what's happening now, and- yes- guessing what may happen next. It isn't pretty, but very, VERY few cows who've made it to an active thread KF turn their lives around.
We gawk and we speculate, but I don't think "expecting him to OD after turning tricks for fent" is something most *hope* will happen. I know I don't, anyway. But come on, do you really expect Bam of all people to be the exception to the rule?
its like people stopping and watching IRL car crashes when they happen
doesn't mean these onlookers wanted that guy to crash his car and die, they just watch out of curiosity
The best part of seeing Bam grow older is the fact he desperately was afraid of becoming his father, Phil. Despite being fat, Phil raised this shit and tolerated his shit son and overall seemed like a good guy. Maybe Bam should have focused on actually becoming Phil.
The best part of seeing Bam grow older is the fact he desperately was afraid of becoming his father, Phil. Despite being fat, Phil raised this shit and tolerated his shit son and overall seemed like a good guy. Maybe Bam should have focused on actually becoming Phil.
The best part of seeing Bam grow older is the fact he desperately was afraid of becoming his father, Phil. Despite being fat, Phil raised this shit and tolerated his shit son and overall seemed like a good guy. Maybe Bam should have focused on actually becoming Phil.
It shows Bam's really fucked up priorities if he was "afraid of becoming his father." Bam was afraid of becoming a good man with a strong marriage, nice home, family and seems to be well liked and regarded by everyone who knows him? Oh, what a terrible fate. Bam couldn't see that he would be lucky to become a man like his dad. This is why you have a sad, drunken, smelly, mean spirited man child that can't take care of himself today.
Now, in ten years Phoenix being terrified of being Bam is 100% understandable. The irony is I bet Phoenix will adore his grandpa Phil and hope he can be just like him one day.
There will be no comeback ala Elvis for Bam. He has burned so many bridges with his behavior.
He had a very privileged childhood, with a nice home and stable parents but they spoiled the shit out of him and gave in to his every whim. Phil and April did the best they could I guess and he's lucky that instead of bleeding him dry like some celebrity parents, they invested and protected assets for his future. He's on a gravy train with biscuit wheels but instead chooses to live like an old drunk bum. Dick jokes and showing people your ass is no longer funny when you are north of, or close to 40!
His antics of hanging with random chicks and drinking are reminiscent of his late pedo Uncle Don Vito.
Whether because Don Vito or not Bam is pretty clearly a repressed homosexual and he took an irreversible plunge when the love of his life Ryan Dunn wrapped his car around a tree going 140 in a 55 zone. Not saying they ever did anything or were sekritly together etc. but his reaction to Dunn's death which he is still not over and probably never will be is what you see more often when not-platonic love is involved than when it's your very best bro from childhood to today that kicked the bucket.
My scorching hot take is that Bam overplays his hand with Dunn’s death. It’s at a level that is so over the top that it feels like a cop out and an easy excuse to spiral down the toilet that he was mid-spiral down anyway. So it comes off as phony at best, something I imagine is the sentiment from everyone in the Jackass world but they will never call it out because they can come off like an asshole if they say it. So you won’t see a callout but likely a lot of rolled eyes when Bam talks about this guy ten years later.
There will be no comeback ala Elvis for Bam. He has burned so many bridges with his behavior.
He had a very privileged childhood, with a nice home and stable parents but they spoiled the shit out of him and gave in to his every whim. Phil and April did the best they could I guess and he's lucky that instead of bleeding him dry like some celebrity parents, they invested and protected assets for his future. He's on a gravy train with biscuit wheels but instead chooses to live like an old drunk bum. Dick jokes and showing people your ass is no longer funny when you are north of, or close to 40!
His antics of hanging with random chicks and drinking are reminiscent of his late pedo Uncle Don Vito.
Short term it's probably best that he's not in the movie since he looks pretty rough, but I have to ask- why are you guys rooting for Bam to fail? I'm hoping he has a comeback like Elvis in 68. OP should make a new poll that's less cynical to determine how many kf users want to see him bounce back
I don't think anyone wants Bam to fail. It is just that the outlook for him looks grim. Many addicts don't recover, and in Bam's case I don't think he has the mental capabilities to do so. He doesn't know how to be a responsible adult, and he has never evolved past being a degenerate teenager.
Most users want cows to reform and change their ways. Realistically though it rarely if ever happens. If he does reform his ways it would be great. But I don't see it happening anytime soon.
Just catching up on this thread, since Bam Margera is not a name I've heard or seen in several years.
All I gotta say is wow is regards to how terrible Bam looks these days. In these pictures, Phil looks old (because he is old), but his face just looks like the face of a fat guy. Bam's fat face, on the other hand, has the signature drug bloat ... Which is always unsettling to look at.
Short of hating on rapists & child molesters/people who knowingly get their kicks from hurting others, I've rarely seen people on KF actually root for someone to fail.
Deep down I want him to go "what the fuck am I doing with my life?", soak in a bath for like 3 days and then start vigerously cutting all bad influences out of his life
I think this will happen, hopefully before his body is completely destroyed. People will talk about Bam in 6 or 7 years like they talk about steve o now
To clarify: I get that there's plenty of "lol kys" "do a flip, faggot" "I can't wait for this junkie bitch to get thrown out of her squat," etc up & down the farms (I've contributed my share) but it has never seemed to be a bunch of retards pointlessly and angrily wishing for people to OD or whatever. (That's why "a-logging" is a term, after all.) Dude made it sound like we're all just praying to hear that some has-been has had a heart attack or whatever. I'm sure some would be glad, but I'm betting "yeah, figures" would be the dominant response.
There will be no comeback ala Elvis for Bam. He has burned so many bridges with his behavior.
He had a very privileged childhood, with a nice home and stable parents but they spoiled the shit out of him and gave in to his every whim. Phil and April did the best they could I guess and he's lucky that instead of bleeding him dry like some celebrity parents, they invested and protected assets for his future. He's on a gravy train with biscuit wheels but instead chooses to live like an old drunk bum. Dick jokes and showing people your ass is no longer funny when you are north of, or close to 40!
His antics of hanging with random chicks and drinking are reminiscent of his late pedo Uncle Don Vito.
If Bam doesn’t reform or die I fully expect this thread to devolve to “Wat will happen when Ape & Phil dies?”.
Is anyone familiar with Daniel Johnston? Daniel was a outsider artist from Texas with severe mental illness that didn't surface until he was living in Austin in the eighties and had started eating acid with the guys from Butthole Surfers. It was nobody's fault really, but after Daniel crossed a certain line with acid he was never the same; in his time in Austin he had become the best new artist in town despite not being a good singer or a good guitar player and being a mediocre piano player at best. Despite this, he managed to play live on MTV during a special they were doing on Austin, TX being the "Live Music Capitol of the World" and played with some of the biggest acts in Texas and the country all while working the counter at McDonalds and not having a phone at all. But as the drugs entered the picture he became obsessed with Satan, Jesus, and comic books. And at the end of his time in Austin, after dominating the music scene of one of the hipster-est places in the world despite being a huge fucking weird nerd his legend ended in a small riverbank near the UT campus while screaming about Jesus. His parents had come for him, and he spent the rest of his life living with them while chain smoking, reading comics, doing his Chris Chan tier art and occasionally still making music. He rarely made live music performances anymore but one particular appearance he made in the nineties was a huge success, people in Austin were hopeful that maybe he was well enough to make a new album but on the flight home (his father was a licensed pilot who had flown them to Austin from their home on the east coast) Daniel convinced himself that he was Casper the Friendly Ghost and to prove it to his dad he took control of the plane and crash landed it into a tree to prove they couldn't die again.
Anyways, I brought this up as this kind of hell is one of the best possible outcomes left for Bam. No prison, no homelessness, no sucking dick for Adderall pills. Just a man who was way past his apex in life who was stuck with a broken brain in their parent's house with just enough intelligence to know they tried so hard and lost it all. And to make matters worse. in the end it didn't even matter. (and for the record, Daniel was not a prick like Bam. If you're interested in more of this, check out this documentary)
Bam had his comeback sewn up and in the bag in 2017 and for whatever reason he alone decided he didn't want it. There’s nothing skateboarders love more than a good redemption story and Bam was on deck to be the next washed up pro to would put out a video part of the same four tricks he still had from his glory days while printing limited reissues of his boards for twice the original price.
I had posted just recently about his Nine Club interview in 2017 but I forgot to mention that he did a smaller follow-up interview in February 2018 that was right after he finished thirty days rehab in LA and compared to his previous podcast appearance he was beginning to unravel and started to lose the humble outlook that had helped him be so likeable during his last appearance. Some highlights:
-right off the bat at 1:15 he talks about getting so hyped off of a video part from a younger skater named David Gonzales that he went to all his social media and told his followers to send him a dollar in the mail, and obviously this means he doxxed him in the process. To no one's surprise, while David collected a couple hundred in the mail he had weirdos and little kids showing up to his house now and Bam gave him a guitar to smooth things over with David. But wait, this wasn't any old normie guitar that you could acquire if you felt the need, he takes his opportunity to brag that it was a special guitar given to him by ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons as thanks for hosting the VH1 Rock Honors back in 2007. As a side note, allow me to take this opportunity to remind you that Bam had it made in the '00's and was getting paid a ton of money to do retarded shit like this:
Choice quote from a guy who very obviously dropped out of school: "Back when it happened, I was sipping on a drink and I'm like 'You know what, I have like 200 point something million followers, if everyone sends him a buck then he'll have two million bucks!"
-at 8:15 while discussing the ins and outs of the rehab he just completed he starts ridiculing a fat girl with an eating disorder (ironic amirite?) who was threatening suicide because the staff had promised her a chocolate bar but never followed through.
-this goes straight into Bam explaining at 10:00 how he got the DUI that sent him to rehab: He attended a surprise Jackass reunion in Hollywood, got shitfaced, and got lost after leaving the bar. While pulled over trying to figure out where he was going, he sees sirens in the rear view mirror and waits for the cop to approach his car. He never does. After waiting "ten long minutes" Bam looks in the rear view one more time to discover there was another car between Bam and the cop and the cop had nothing to do with him until right now after he finished with the other car and noticing a bright-ass purple Lamborghini just sitting on the side of the road late at night.
-this goes right into him telling blackout drunk stories at 11:25, including someone in Australia making fun of him for wearing two hats so he spits in the guys face and he turns out to be a UFC fighter who knocked him out in one punch,
-next he brags about having his Bentley in California and how he made his mom drive it for 4-5 days from Pennsylvania to give it to him.
-17 minutes in he discusses doing Fear Factor with his roommate at the time, pro skater Andy Roy. The Fear Factor stuff is pretty standard for how Bam makes his money but I mention this because I think its safe to say that his time spent living with Andy Roy in SF right after rehab at least contributed to the Bam we know today; Andy Roy is infamous pro skater who has been in and out of prison for meth and heroin addiction-related crimes since the nineties, he made it on TMZ back in 2012 by rushing the stage at a DMX (RIP) show and getting handled by his bodyguards [1][2], having the nastiest case of meth mouth for years and years until he got a fresh set of veneers by starting a GoFundMe and Bam helping him get a huge discount by using whatever weight was left in his name and making a promotional video the cosmetic dentist who did the work. Also, this is the guy Bam and Nikki decided would make the perfect godfather for their son Phoenix. (Promotional video Andy & Bam made for the dentist) (Andy's short interview on Nine Club about his new teeth) (Andy's prison stories on Nine Club) (Andy on Nine Club discussing going on Fear Factor with Bam)
He's also a lowkey white supremacist with a middle eastern girlfriend who is a wannabe OnlyFans star and was a favorite interviewee over at Jackass HQ Big Brother Skateboarding Magazine for his extremely candid interviews about being in and out of prison, being an addict and how he earned the prison nickname Snuggle Bandit.
Tell us about your new nickname.
Oh, the Snuggle Bandit! Well check it out. I’m horny, I don’t got no shame in my game, you know? And, uh, when they jump in the shower and they come back to the bed. I’ll be on their bed, and I'll just kick back on their bed and go, “Hey, come on, let’s hang out.” And they’ll lay down, and I’ll corrupt their minds, manipulate them. ’cause I’m a good manipulator. And then I’ll vandalize their bottoms. There’s a variety. There’s bubble butts, some with flat asses–
God, Andy, you’re fucked.
I like girls too though. Don’t get me wrong. But you gotta deal with what you got. And I make fifis for all the Mexicans. You get a towel and a Glad bag, and you roll it up and tie a rubber band or a shoelace or just bed strings from your sheet or whatever, tie it around and its safe sex. I sell them for two bucks a pop. I made like $15 in half an hour.
What’s stopping the other guys from making them themselves? Are they just retarded?
They’re Mexicans, like, they’re real shy and stuff, so they’ll go close the door in their cell, and they’ll use them. The white dudes, they all know about that, and then plus they got me, the Snuggle Bandit.
The Snuggle Bandit.
You know, they play hard to get at first, but the manipulating side of me can get whatever I want.
This fits in with a lot of shit we've already assumed - the closeted gay stuff mixed with using hard drugs that lower your inhibitions and make you horny, all with a proud sexual manipulator nonetheless. It didn't last forever, possibly because Bam thought he found a new Raab/Novak/cock slave in this tattooed addict standing before him but honestly Bam probably can't hang with hardened prison machismo and I would imagine it would scare the shit out of him and Andy could make him do whatever he wanted if it came down to it.
The friendship didn't last, probably because Bam's parents saw Andy for what he was and put their foot down. (Imagine being 40 and your parents still have a say in who you're friends with) After Bam appeared on Andy's podcast in September 2019 they have rarely been seen together since:
After they discuss Fear Factor, they take calls from listeners to see if anyone else can top eating tarantulas on Fear Factor while discussing skateboarding. There isn't anything else of note here other than Bam laughing at Danny Way for getting trolled by Weckingball after he posted a manual on his IG and Weck made a call out video because he scraped his tail, causing Danny to get so pissed he was walking around his house screaming at his phone. Then towards the end Bam tells the story of how he puked on Tony Hawk after getting too wasted on an airplane (why isn't he in the THPS remake guise?????)
It's sad because he had it, he was crossing the finishing line as a retired pro coming back to make retirement money. Chad Muska had done it before him, all of it. The meteoric rise in the nineties to near Beatles-mania public appearances, he made millions as the hottest pro before Jackass existed and sold a fuckton of boards and his signature shoe that included a stash spot specifically to hide your weed and a signature backpack that had built in speakers at a time when Bluetooth wasn't even a real word. His shoe and clothing designs caught the attention of the entertainment industry and he tried to make it as a rap artist, even putting out an album of rap songs he produced and recorded in an LA hotel room featuring Ice-T, Flavor Flav, Prodigy, KRS-One, Biz Markie, Wu-Tang Clan's Raekwon and U-God, Grandmaster Melle Mel and MC Lyte. And to prove how small the world can be, when Bam dropped out of school at 15 he moved to California and lived on Muska's coucn to get his start in skateboarding. His album flopped but he went on to have a small role on Entourage and even dated Paris Hilton for a while and was a part of the Hollywood club scene which led to substance and alcohol abuse issues and one day he just disappeared. He reemerged a few years back and had been humbled by the life he lived and the rock bottom it led him to. Now he judges contests, makes weird art, he still indulges his love for fashion with the now legendary shoe that every rapper from the era it was released had been photographed in, the Skytop by Supra Shoes. He was included in the Tony Hawk remake because he's not a douche any more and was probably paid handsomely for it and he will occasionally screen print a couple hundred reprints of his signature board from the nineties and charge $150-200 each, and will sell out every time within minutes. He now posts on IG, mostly videos of him rediscovering his love of skateboarding and sharing positive messages for everyone who looks up to him.
TLDR this should be what Bam's doing. Wholesome dad shit while making a little money on the side and being a good example. The last time we thought Bam was going to be on Nine Club was when Nine Club posted a random photo of Bam in their studio out of nowhere. he was actually there because Muska was recording his episode and Chad tried to talk some sense into Bam but it didn't work. Later that night Bam got arrested at that hotel in LA when he was at the bar harassing a patron telling him his wife paid him a large sum of money to catch him cheating on her at the hotel (Which, if true would mean Bam is the shittiest PI in the world). He was back on TMZ for the umpteenth time and this was the beginning of the Dr. Phil saga which seems now like a million sagas ago.
Sorry guys, I did that thing again where I started with a good point I wanted to make but now I'm in a completely different ballpark for a different sport and I forgot where I parked the car. I guess my point is that its easy to resist change and to fight your hardest to withstand the ravages of aging and the years blowing past us with no regard for anyone's comfort, that's easy. But to change, adapt. and to be able to look in the mirror and not only say you're not doing good enough, but to actually do something about it; people like Phil and Muska, the maturity they've gained and the wisdom they share with the younger people looking up to them whether its's instagram followers or your grandson who is unable to understand what's wrong with his dad, that's something you can appreciate and respect.
Short term it's probably best that he's not in the movie since he looks pretty rough, but I have to ask- why are you guys rooting for Bam to fail? I'm hoping he has a comeback like Elvis in 68. OP should make a new poll that's less cynical to determine how many kf users want to see him bounce back
I added a positive poll option. Anyway as the OP I'd be happy for Bam if he got his habits in check and became a good Dad for his family. 20 years later I still find Jackass with its stunts & pranks to be hilarious and I hope Jackass 4 is a success and leads to more content.
But after witnessing junkies both in real life and through the internet I just think a guy like Bam is beyond help. They say junkies need to hit a "rock bottom" before they actually seek help. Bam has had many rock bottoms and if getting fired from Jackass 4 isn't a wake up call then I don't see what will make Bam decide to clean up his act and live responsibly.
But anyway Bam has become my favorite cow because he's just so immature. Nope it's not his fault that he got fired from a feature film, he's just too much of a "Jackass for Jackass." He can't stop abusing alcohol/drugs because the Dickhouse sobriety rules were just unfair. He's always got an excuse for being a shitty person. He'd rather party around with trashy lowlives & randoms then care for his family. Really is despicable that he blames Phoenix for fucking off to Florida and now Arizona.
Short term it's probably best that he's not in the movie since he looks pretty rough, but I have to ask- why are you guys rooting for Bam to fail? I'm hoping he has a comeback like Elvis in 68. OP should make a new poll that's less cynical to determine how many kf users want to see him bounce back
I'd be lying if I said I didn't get Schadenfreude from watching Bam. I never liked him. My buddy first introduced me to CKY with a disclaimer that was something like "The main guy is a fag, but his friends are cool" back when it came out. I know people who live in the area who had to interact with him regularly and he is every bit the asshole he gets portrayed as. I'm not sitting here rooting for his failure. I'm just watching it happen and laughing. He's a junkie and those stories rarely have happy endings.
He could disappear from the internet to get his life together like Allison Rapp and I'd say "Good for him". The only time I'd think about him would be when someone asked about a cow success story. I don't think about him when I'm not reading the thread as is. When I do read the thread it's to laugh at a spoiled narc manchild who could have had it all if he had shown the barest level of maturity.
i like how lazy m, n and W are. A and 1 are both heartagrams lol. E is an arrow, u and v and basically the same thing, 5 is tally marks, I /sneed /Z and B are all similar, x and h are lazy, p and j are the same thing facing a different direction. writing them so close together makes it hard to decipher, for me at least
