David Dobrik - Steve-O’s Wild Ride! Ep #9

then, and then in the second one it flies away, you can literally swim in it afterwards, like it touches the The terrain is okay, that's really interesting and I remember this is like that. I have a neighbor like that who lives a couple of doors down and he just hates the fact that there's a YouTuber living down the street, so I remember we did that experiment and the police. I came in about a month later saying this guy basically wants to sue me because when I did the elephant toothpaste experiment, some of the toothpaste fell on his wife while she was in the hot tub and it burned her and I knew that was it.

So we liked looking at the drone footage and not only was there no one in her hot tub, but the hot tub had a cover and even if the foam got to her like she didn't like it. anything with her and that's like a funny story that came out of cases like yes I hate when people like yes try to ruin someone's day for no reason this because he's bored it's just a matter of honesty man likes honesty integrity decency I think those are my three and the guy was being dishonest and malicious so yeah I'm mad too.

I mean, I mean, um, I mean, although sometimes people come up to me and say. I describe my videos like I have a stranger right in front of me and they would say it's like some asshole came across this and I always say no we don't do anything that dangerous as a friend like none of my friends could repeat anything like put B in a limousine. My friends would never have spoken to me again. I would love to do it, but they would never look my way and so, I just feel like it's me. I'm thinking that every time someone compares me to an asshole, they're doing the asshole a disservice.

I get it, I get it, and I'll give you more credit than that. I think the spirit of what you're doing is so similar. I just got angry, it's crazy, you know, and it's crazy, and I think what makes it really work so well and we've been so successful, at least part of it is that you're able to not take yourself too seriously. serious and I think that's like the backbone of what made Jackass work because we weren't like a bunch of macho guys like oh yeah, like trying to look cool, like we were okay with not looking cool, you know, and There is something, there is something really endearing. about that and I think you own it in a big way and you also like epic things on a large scale, you know, and I'm very interested.

I think I was looking at the car wash in a convertible and we did well. I did that idiot thing where I was on the hood of the car like in my cheetah print bikini and they took it through the car wash, but before you do that, go through the car wash and, by the way, going through in a convertible is just classic. I mean, he's way above the idiot, so he's a convertible. I've seen the convertible car wash done like a bunch of times and I knew it originated from one of them, you guys did.

It was on the hood of my The car that was a big Grand Marquis was not a convertible at all, so you put it up like it was huge. I think being on the hood is a lot scarier because when those things come down and go, you put the car into gear like when it's entertainment. The thing is, you know the fact that the cars were filled with soap and water, but the thing was, before we did the car wash, they didn't like whatever, and they did a little research and said, "Maybe people from the car wash said there are chemicals in there that you can't spray on your body, so before we leave, before they took me to the car wash, they like to deactivate a bunch of Jets that had those crazy chemicals in them and I have to know If you pollute my friends the rest of your lives no I don't know I remember we were kind of friends with the car wash lady and she was like yeah do it but she was cool about it so I should know.

About chemicals, the funny thing was that we didn't have a convertible so we looked on Craigslist for a cheap one and instead of buying it we simply told the lady that we are going to take it through a car wash. We will give you 400 dollars and we will give it to you. do we give it back to you and yeah and she was fine so she sat outside the car wash while we took her convertible through the car wash and we gave it back to her afterwards and that was the hottest question. You have to love David Dobrik because when you put it on the spot, he delivers honestly and I'm going to be honest with you now: a while ago I gained weight and posted on all social media platforms photos and videos of how lazy I had become and I I got tired of it, so I'm back to working out, it's going pretty well, I'm already in much better shape and it's much easier when I'm playing songs while I work out and I made a promise to all of you a while ago: If you find me on somewhere anytime over the next year and I don't have my rake with headphones in my pockets or both, I'll record your voice message, saying hello, a thank you video to your little friends or your girlfriend, your boyfriend and me.

I don't mind making that promise because you won't catch me without my razor every day and 25 headphones in my pocket because I love them, they fit my ear perfectly. I can put my sweaty clothes on and off after my workout and it's not like they're falling off, I could even lay my head on the pillow and it's perfectly comfortable while listening and they have buttons to control tracks, pause, skip tracks, all that stuff. and I don't know about other headphones. The wireless ones that have that and are half the price of any other premium wireless earbuds, sound just as good, last six hours, but when you put them back in the case, the case charges them, so they seem to last forever .

My God. I can't say enough about how much I love these Rakin headphones and if you're purchasing Rake at Comm Slash Stevo you'll get 15% off your entire order. Yes, that's it again, 15% off your entire order if you're shopping. Rake on Comm/Stevo, just try it man, because this stuff is great. Now let's get to the burning question in your videos. What you do in your videos routinely. It's just giving away cars like you're giving away more cars than Oprah III. I don't think he's given it to his entire audience, well I don't think it's just fascinating and it's particularly interesting that you've only put one video on your main channel since the coronavirus lockdown. which is an interesting bit of a counterintuitive decision because with the coronavirus shutdown it seems like everyone has more time to watch YouTube videos.

I think the views have increased and, as you know, people could use the entertainment. I mean, I know. that I've been considerably more active ended, right, yeah, so the reason I do it is because, first of all, I don't go out, I don't see anyone during this quarantine and it's like, and you know, I have like when it started for the first time and I had a backlash for even seeing my friends, who are basically my next door neighbors, which a lot of people don't know, but yeah, it's hard to make those videos without those guys around and on top of me.

The way I see it, Jimmy Fallon has moved his show to his bedroom or his room, and since he could, he can do it because at the end of all this he will recover. to that studio so even if people don't like this version for me Fallon will be able to go back to that high production quality material and people will know the difference like Oh Jimmy is back but I feel like if I start releasing During this quarantine by default, my content will be very diluted because I will be inside my house and people will slowly become more and more disinterested and there will never be a moment where they are like Oh David's back to doing normal things well, so I prefer to quit cold turkey and stop and then when I can make the videos I want to make exactly the way I want to make them, I'll start again.

I just don't. I don't want there to be a moment like this or for the videos of him to still be in his room or for him to come back to you with a microphone. Is this a good break for you to take a break from doing loads or something? I want to come back to this is a little bit of both like III. I have never been happier than when I was. I used to do three a week. It was at most. I did it for about two or three years and it was. So stressed that I was also editing at 6:00 in the morning and then I woke up at 11:00 to shoot the next one and I was doing this for four years and that was the happiest I've ever been. like being so stressed where you just feel like you're being squashed in a box, but doing something you love is so undeniably amazing, it's like our gas vehicle.

I thought there's no better way to describe it than to do so. what you love and being able to do it so consistently and seeing such positive feedback is the best feeling I ever had doing that and then I came back two weeks later and remember it. I remember my friend telling me: I feel very strange reducing your pose and once I did it I felt like it had no purpose anymore, I felt like I wasn't part of humanity and then I went back and like I was a human again. It was really strange, like letting off the accelerator and I needed to do it, but I'm also a little bummed that I did it.

I don't know, wow, I really did that, it's so similar to seeing the incredible pressure from people I like. If someone asked me are you happy? and I say like as a person like me more or less no, you know like no, I'm not happy because if I were happy I would be like I don't know, I would be comfortable I would be happy, I would be like no, as if I had this incorporated like that, like discontent, like If I had a little bit, this ambition, like, I want, like, I want to achieve so many things that it's impossible for me to be happy and something like that.

The closest I get is the satisfaction of being unhappy, but like working, you know, I worked quite a bit, but they added, yeah, and there's something so special about like finishing a project and then, you know, people are watching that while you're on. making the next one like there's something that I feel so good about that I like that there are people consuming this and I'm here working on the next one that people don't know about yet and that people can be excited about, it's like an unbeatable feeling. . and I'm sure you know this very well, and when it comes to digital content, like there's analytics, the way it works is like when people release a movie at the box office, it's like they know an open box office, you find out how did it go and, but we like it, it's crazy.

I want to ask about all the things you give away, but before that, your YouTube philosophy is really fascinating because for all the people, I don't want to name names, but you drive me crazy with your video that's like 20 minutes long and nothing happens. It's as if the title of the video promised something truly scandalous. The thumbnail is equally misleading and then you have to sit there for 20 minutes. to find out that wasn't even true, it was like and contrary to that, all your videos are seemingly randomly four minutes and 20 seconds long and there are more uploaded in your four minutes and 20 seconds, it's almost frustrating that they're just like you.

I know you bring David Blaine home and it lasts like thirty seconds and it's like other people letting you know they were better. People would say that these are the golden 20 minutes. There would be like a series of Davids hanging. At the house he was at, I was talking to David Blaine about it. David said: Well, first let me tell you this. I filmed with John Stamos. We went to Warner Brothers and we went in a line. We drove like he was in it. It was like the tour guy was giving a tour to get all these Warner Brothers fans to like him and we filmed for like 3 or 4 hours and I posted the video and I used 15 to 20 seconds from the filming for four hours and John calls . me and he says what was so confused, he says that, he was not angry, but he just said: where is the rest? and I was like, well, that was the best moment, that interaction was like the moment I want to keep.

I want to highlight that moment and realize that that's the best way to do it, but I was also talking to David Blaine about this and he finds digital media very interesting because, like back then, he was. Telling me I could date the special one and I could avoid him for a year or two, like he could get like that's his sting, like he's their baby, they like him for two years, people will be like, oh yeah, David Blaine. You did this, this, but now when you post something you have like four hours and then it's like your hug is occupied by something new and it's so crazy or fast that it's moving to the right, I mean, to that point that used to to be called overexposed if you showed it appeared too often and too many things, it was a bad thing, since we hadn't used the word overexposed, since a term of a celebrity is never overexposed, it's just crazy, how I remember it.

I had no idea when we did this trick the first time. time was dead he jumped off the roof onto the dry ice which way he went it was great, it was fun and you know, I'm not going to beat myself up for being too weak, but then I forget who approached who, but I wanted to do something or when. we decided we were going to film it again at some point hello when we met there he was after the next time we were there we somehow decided okay let's get together make a video and I was like okay buddy I'll buy a hot tub so I bought a jacuzzi like that for $8,000 andI jumped towards my house, but my plan was to feel the heat with dry ice, you know, I like it almost like a, I don't even know why I was thinking that, but like It was like, ah, before we put the dry ice on and they let me doing a test jump just to make sure you know, try it, see what it's like before I can't see the thing and it was like that was going to lead to my worst injuries.

Ever a video like that was like jumping off the roof of my house into that hot tub, that's one of the worst injuries, you probably broke your butt dude, did you ever get an x-ray for that and the thing is, I was like If everything was fine, so let's go. just do it it would change the idea. I did not understand. I thought I'd change the idea so that the purpose of jumping in the hot tub was just to get wet for the slip and slide and I'm trying to Tell him how to film his video like all the fools do this and David David says no I really don't need you to know like Tim what Scott said, what a boss move and I think that's why I think that's why you're doing so well. with your audience because you don't waste their time without trying.

I think people really appreciate it and I try to make it seem like you know your art a lot. You know exactly what you want and what you want in yourself. to fit it into a certain way of doing things, that you don't care what other people say, you know it and you do it, it's like on Vine, I come from Vine, so I knew that everyone's attention span was already secure . everyone was in six seconds, so on YouTube they said, "Okay, that's how fast everything moves," so let's say that Steve, oh, let's say that Steve-o is going to jump off a roof into a fire in a normal video of YouTube and like a normal vlog.

If you set it up and then you went to the hole, you went to Home Depot and you bought the logs for the fire and you bought the ladder, you showed all that, so in my video I thought, Okay, let me show you. I'll introduce Steve-O and say what he's doing, so that's my video, but now with the ticking it's gotten a lot faster and I wouldn't even have time to introduce Steve. -o I would simply show it by making it as if people already cared about the introduction. I think he's getting a lot faster and it's like Oh, peas jumping, that's it, instead of hey, this is Steve, oh, he's going to jump. from that roof and landing that fire, there is no time for that, as if it were straight to the action, it is crazy, like how fast and faster things go because of the attention span of people, who will say: you're on, you're on tick-tock.

I guess so, buddy, are you in, have you got too much? Snapchat, tick-tock, Instagram stories, Steve, Facebook live, crushed me right, you need to be on tick-tock, it's perfect for you, it's literally, it's Nickelodeon, the cartoon network, Disney, challenge everyone. those combined are like how many eyes kids have, it has over 1.5 billion downloads, it's the most downloaded app in the entire App Store, that's crazy on Twitter, Instagram, like that's the place to be and The algorithm is very good in the application and it is also fun. and it's like I have something for everyone, like my home feed, that's it, it's just funny videos, but then you go to my assistants and it's every video you go through all the cats because she loves watching cats and she takes care of you, It takes care of you completely. and learn everything you like and don't like, so if you spend a week on it, the app will be completely customized for you and you will love it, that's it, give it a try, the guy continued. a walk with today he's like 65 years old he's like a friend, do you tick?

I say no, he says I love him, yeah, David Blaine will send me photo chats and I'll be like the fact that David Blaine is sending me. ticking videos of people dancing that you like. I think, oh my gosh, anyone could love this. I mean, yes. Honestly, I like what you're saying, it holds weight for me. I think and think I remember getting an account, but I just didn't. Not for when this airs so everyone can go to Bebo and take cars, got it? I understood it, but I was like going back to YouTube, yeah, it's really very interesting, we're talking about philosophies of something like that. digital platforms and your point about not making videos because you would be concerned that a watered down version of videos that aren't as good would be somehow disrespectful and undermine the goodwill you have built with your audience. but generally the YouTube philosophy is quantity over quality so it's like you know it's interesting I think there's a lot of integrity and no I'm not going to post anything and then when I come back I'll do it. but almost when you come back you have to like get the ball rolling and you have to prove yourself once again it's like you never did YouTube in the beginning you have to win over these people everywhere again so yeah in A couple of months, when everything resumes, yeah, I'm going to have to put in 140 percent effort and show people that, like, hey, David, it's still fun to watch, you've got a bunch of ideas that you've been sitting on.

I know. he does it, zero friend, no, hey guys, I can't explain this to you, we've never done it, never after finishing a video, it's all our ideas thrown into that video, we're completely out, there's no notepad I have with ideas. all out the window and for three years while I was doing it it happened every day and it was confusing me so much I thought I was out of ideas and then the next day a guy broke into my house. sitting in my living room so I filmed it and then I ran out of ideas again and then the next day my upstairs neighbor in my apartment was throwing beer bottles at people and he threw a beer bottle right at my car and how it was happening, something about like when you're in it, but like the universe aligned itself with you and said yes.

I saw him and he started, yeah. I saw on the news that he had an intruder. I got news of yes, what, yes, that was it. It wasn't even just a guy in my backyard, that's normal, but there was one time I walked into my house and there was a guy using my clothes for my closets sitting on my couch and him on all the furniture in my living room and him. He took off all his clothes and passed out on one of my couches and I remember grabbing a knife and grabbing my camera. I'm going to film it and then I'm going to call the police and it was like it was like this Little Miss thing. he fell in my lap it was the other time, yeah, a white guy, we used a fan, yeah, no, I think he was just crazy.

I live on a cul-de-sac, so when, like when, the crazy people just go out for a walk, my house is the last house, so they're like I have to go in. I'm curious about you. I saw a video clip. I don't know when it was, but you guys were driving the wrong way at LAX and you got pulled over. That bulk? Yeah. Well, that wasn't my idea, you know, it wasn't my idea, but yeah, it was a moment that was literally, that's exactly what I'm describing, like I remembered I was going to the airport and it was like I didn't have enough for this vlog.

I was very stressed. I thought I got a post as soon as I landed in New York and I remember Natalie took the wrong turn at LAX and at the end of the wrong turn. I ran into a police officer and he turned on the lights and they pulled her over and I was like, "It's crazy that this has to happen right now." There is so much going on around you, but at the same time you have to be careful and not get lost in it and film stupid things that will get you in trouble. Did they get in trouble because of the airport or did they die? just get out of here yeah he wasn't going to get out of here and Natalie really made that mistake and she's a horrible driver so it was and it was very evident when I was talking to the police officer she said "I'm so sorry , so yeah, huh, okay, you said you had no ideas and I can relate to that too, but I have big ideas that I plan for the future and when I saw your body with the makeup artist he gave me my boobs and yeah, it broke my heart because one of my biggest things on my to-do list is getting stuff like breast implants, like you know, oh, we didn't do that, that was makeup.

I know, I know, I know but in my mind the thing is like. which justifies doing that. I mean, it's a crazy, super twisted trick. I know that was just makeup, but I thought you know everything that I think is really valuable about it, like all the jokes you can do it where it's like. If you knew that you cut off the head like you guys could have done it without the actual surgery, the right thing for me. I'm just as stubborn as I am. It's funny how to put on prosthetics how to hit how I feel it. real like a real boob job that was definitely an idea that we had and that was one of those ideas that was vetoed by everyone, my group of friends, like you're down, that was one of those ideas where three steps and it's they relax that's not happening, you can't do that.

I have everyone saying, please do it because I'm really curious what it's going to look like. Everyone tells me that, no, no, don't do it, and each of those people is like a reinforcement. I said that's an amazing idea, buddy, I'll schedule the consultation for you, yeah, your mom works for the plastic doctor. I told him, hey, we need to go see a psychiatrist because when you like it, it's like a gender thing. I guess you have to, the guy has to check on you and see if you're okay, he's like my boys, so we've covered this philosophy. that you have from YouTube just reducing the impact, just focus and I just subscribe to that, so A lot man, I think that's so killer and that means a lot and then this overwhelming generosity, I mean the pace that your videos keep, there they are .

Again, each one is 4 minutes and 20 seconds, they're loaded like that, you know. In that little glimpse, you realize something's happening and to that point, you're giving away cars, you see like a glimpse of two cars with tapes and you're like, oh wow, okay, you gave away a couple more cars and it's like in forward. and go ahead, you know, like and the last video that you put up, which won't leave the video that you put up since the corona was closed, you know, or whatever the lockdown is, in that video you start handing out Playstations EA sports like like consoles game and every once in a while you give them frisbees with ribbons of hundred dollar bills and you just throw frisbees at people and then it turns into ten thousand dollar checks that you're shooting at a t-shirt, can I be number one?

How do you make a check out to someone? It's like you log in and say ten thousand dollars and they can type in their own name. Oh, so we had, so I was. I'm on this app called community app. I've heard about it, oh my God, is this another me? I find this really interesting, it's called the community app and it's like you still see a lot of celebrities like hacks for me and then yeah, and then a little over 200,000 people texted. us and they said, I need help with this and you can search for keywords in the text so you can go through all the texts that say help or a car or I need a

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or I need a mortgage, so we looked at all the people. in our area like in a 100 mile radius because we took an RV, so we went all over California and then every town we went through, we had a list of like seven names that needed something, whether it was just to say Hi and Maxbox $10,000 or they need a new car We made a stop there and we already had their name, so we could already write it on the tracks.

You can text them here. The meat is here. Yes, and we would respond to them. It would be like the carrier was here to give you some merchandise, so we didn't want to leave, we didn't want them to know that it was like me showing up with the same money, so we told them that someone is leaving something just to be like that. a big supporter so it was really cool but I remember we did, yeah we gave a lot of people like $10,000 for the mortgage and I remember there were a bunch of people that we didn't even use because like when you give that amount A lot of times people don't even react because they don't know how to react, so I know we cut out a fair amount of reactions where people just couldn't find the words and like no, it didn't read on camera, so It's a really interesting thing to do in the video.

You have the checks wrapped in a t-shirt, then you have the t-shirt and the teacher. can and when you should hit them because of the way it looks totally violent, like you stuck them with something like that, which is funny and then they open it and it's like a check for 10,000 dollars and the lady starts crying, but then she cuts herself off in almost like a montage so you can see like t-shirts flying boom boom boom was each one of those t-shirts like ten thousand dollars yeah oh my gosh then then then okay then we started giving away cars that's right do you know what the final budget was for all that video?

There's something about when you're like in easy land, but there's something about when you're like giving back and you're in that situation where there almost doesn't seem to be a budget where you just go and think, I'll figure it out later, I mean. , and I think that's where we found ourselves like let's just do it, we go to as many houses as we can for at least three days, we're going to go to those houses and we'll deal with the consequences of the price later and then there was the time with The Clumsy Chicken You say, "Oh, no way, man, mention Bumbles,in the world.

I don't think there's any way this is real. MTV just said that on YouTube and I think they played our whole episode, so the guy Pontius gets out of his car, how classic it is, I remember he has a cross hanging from the mirror. It's like I'm not religious, but I like to hang. This mirror thing prevents people from getting into the car. I couldn't be more grateful for you brother and yet I would like to smoke pubes anything to make your videos more entertaining and get me more attention. addicted like anything. I love everything we have. we have done together I am grateful to call you friend and I truly promise that I will not bother you for favors.

You know, this recession, call me when you literally just have to text me once or twice and then I'll see. It's just that I love doing things with you and I mean it, if after this there was a way we could do something like this consistently I would absolutely kill for it, I would love it and like As far as giving away things like gum, I've been saying I want to support something like the food drive, the food drive, man like it breaks my heart that people can't eat right now, man like that, and not only. who can't work, don't have money, can't afford food, and at the same time, grocery prices are skyrocketing, so all of this, like food drives with thousands of cars and miles-long lines, It breaks my heart. that's something I want to pursue to maybe come out of retirement during the pandemic and he's good, he's good, we'll figure it out no, but like, like a first video like that, like you help me with food drives, as if it were you. you have a perfect brand for that because you can be your chaotic self around people who need help, that's how imagine, imagine you know handing a sandwich to someone at the same time you're smoking a pubic hair and they laugh, it's very fun to watch, it's like packing everything together and at the same time I'm helping others, I find it very important, I love doing charity things, but I like when you can see your interaction with the person receiving it because I'm so weird with charities that I don't know where the money goes and I don't know how it's done, that I would rather do it in person and and it inspires a lot more people to see people do it in person, so you can definitely put your own cool spin on giving back and it could be very fun to watch, so yes, I would love to see something like that.

On your part, yeah, why do I think that's something we need to address, man? And yes, thanks again. How many podcasts have you made like other people's one night? No, no, you have your own podcast, right? Oh yeah, I have no idea, I don't know. a lot I think a lot what we do we've done 100 It's probably over 150 150 now it's cool yeah we've been doing them for a while you have to come to our podcast and I would like your Instagram anything we want to see my podcast is the podcast of views, it's the views podcast VI and WS, check out a super super named David Dodds Pankratz from the views podcast and dude, last night I entered his name into Google, it was like he just said

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. like the main YouTube channel 7.2 billion views 7.2 billion, that's it, so I mean, very much in perspective, how many do you have?

My main channel has two hundred and eighty million views. I don't even have like a quarter of a billion. He has 7 points. amazing dude, I'm a big fan, I would be a big fan and I'm so grateful to be a brother, he said thank you for having me and inflating my ego for the last hour, you've really done me justice, no, but I. I really appreciate you and thank you for helping me. The video is really what you are doing. It's admirable, it's impressive, it's great. I am a big fan and thank you brother, man of peace.

Okay, maybe I rode his cock too much, but the kid did. I'm killing it and I really like it and you know what I really like you too for sticking it out until the end of the episode. I want to show you extra appreciation this week for doing that, we always do the street team thing where I ask you that we film it and post it and I'll like everyone I see and please thank the guests for a great episode, but you know what ? For the street team I will show you something new, completely new, here you will grab it.

New t-shirts from Wild Ride and they are available at Stevo Calma and I'm giving the street team a promo code, you know what promo code? Street Team who has two t-shirts all fit into one word, Street Team and he gets 15% off. 15% off entire damn online store at Stevo, chill promo code, street team. I don't know how long I'm going to keep this deal, so you better hurry up and get on with it, but yeah, buddy, I'll be very happy if I see it. posts and people wearing freak out

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t-shirts like I will definitely leave a comment on every single one I see and for some people they said no I didn't comment or like your post that man I got to each and every one of them , the problem is if you don't tag me where it says to tag people then I won't see it just putting in my handle and the title won't work you have to tag me and oh man. if you're using a

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ride, she'll be so excited, I'm so excited, Donny anyway, man, thank you all for sticking it out until the end, I really love you, yeah dude.