Name: Steve-O on Having UFC Fighters Give Him Cauliflower Ear
Uploaded: 2022-11-17T18:46:03.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Steve-O on Having UFC Fighters Give Him Cauliflower Ear' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-11-17. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Steve-O on Having UFC Fighters Give Him Cauliflower Ear' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-11-17. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience way back when before I got sober I had this tour that
it was called the don't try this at home tour and I would promote every show by
saying I will be drunk and on drugs or your money back and I'm in it and and
and you you watched me what year was this that it started in 2001 and and I
ran that till like 2005 and and and I mean you would just watch me get
completely hammered on stage like pounding tequila and shit when I came out
on stage I would walk out with like a suitcase of Budweiser cans and I'd toss
them out of the crowd and I would take the can I'd start out with one and I
would just bash my head with it until the can exploded and I'd be particularly
proud if the can broke into two separate pieces and after I broke the
one can then I would take out two cans one in each hand and go back and forth
bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah and and break both of them so I would every
show I
would break three beers over my head and I would do that like every night oh my
god
and and and and and that like what what I understand about the CTE phenomenon
is
that you're absolutely right it's not about how hard you get hit it's it's it's
the the accumulation of lots of little hits and that's why football is the
biggest
one did you suffer anything from that the worst part was then that then like
after I got sober I started doing stand-up like initially there there was a
period where I could do it with sparkling water cans and you were doing it
still
yourself in the head I did it for a little while and how many times you think
you've beaten yourself in the head how many shows if you had to count them all
up
right and I mean as far as I can tell I I'm in pretty good shape maybe Tony
Hawk told
me one time he he says that that he found out with regard to CTE that there's a
gene
which which will make you predisposed to Alzheimer's disease APOE4 yeah and if
you
have that gene then you're you're very much at risk for CTE but if you don't
have
that gene you're considerably less at risk and he said that when he found that
out he
went and got the test and and determined that he did not have that gene and and
and and when I
heard that like I kind of chewed on it for a while I ended up like like it was
kind
of kind of nagging at me and I ended up like reaching back out to Tony I said
hey
Tony about that test like what was your what was your plan if you did have the
gene you can't unhate yourself in the head right now he's like oh I didn't have
a
plan like well how can you have a plan after the fact exactly but so I'm like I
don't want to fucking go take that test I don't want to know if I have that
goddamn gene or not well if it's been this many years afterwards you're not
suffering you probably don't have that gene I also went to like and now of
course famously the whole CTE phenomenon you can't find out if you have it
until
you've died and they've like I think they can tell now oh yeah I think there's
a new
way that they can tell before you die but it used to be they had to wait and do
an autopsy on you
right well I went to some like brain specialist kind of guy are you having
problems no I just went because I was interested and dr.
dr. Drew sent me into this guy it was actually when I was and I was trying to
get cauliflower ear I was like as part of part of my multimedia comedy and I
remember telling you to that I was like I'm gonna do a crazy bit and I try to
get
cauliflower ear and I remember you telling me that you were like nope I don't
support
that he said I think the cauliflower ear is something that should be earned you
know like and I remember thinking oh well like I became buddies with Chuck Liddell
and Chuck Liddell and I got together we made the fucking funniest craziest
video
like uh of him trying to get like I I made this helmet that like I designed
this helmet that left my ears sticking out to protect my head from like head
shots a little bit and my ears sticking out and and I got Chuck Liddell fucking
sets up a golf ball on my ear and fucking wax it off the golf ball
no did you get cauliflower ear no then um then we'd spent two days with Chuck
trying to do it and and it just didn't work then I got together with Rhonda Rousey
and and was on the mats with her and she's like hurry and Travis just like roughing
up my ear all day long and and and and uh and they're looking at my ear they're
like dude we got it that's it you know we got it and then it just went away
then I got together with
Then we'd spent two days with Chuck trying to do it, and it just didn't work.
Then I got together with Ronda Rousey and was on the mats with her, and she's
like, hurry and Travis, just like roughing up my ear all day long.
And they're looking at my ear, they're like, dude, we got it, that's it, you
know, we got it.
And then it just went away.
Then I got together with Jorge Masvidal.
He put his BMF belt over my ear, and he's just like punching it against a door.
And he's like, dude, that's it, right there, man, that's cauliflower, we got it.
Still no?
And then I got together with Jon Jones.
Oh my God.
I had like the who's who.
You're such a glutton for punishment.
I had the who's who of the UFC Hall of Fame give their best shot, and everybody
said, dude, we got it.
And then it didn't work.
Dude, Jon Jones blasted my ear into oblivion.
Like, with a, he took what at the time was his current light heavyweight belt.
And like, oh yeah, there we go.
Oh, Jesus Christ.
And he's hammering your ear?
Dude.
Oh my God.
He's so upsettingly overdid it that my ear got, got blasted apart.
And you still didn't get cauliflower.
Oh God, it's so bloody.
Oh my God, dude.
What the fuck?
We're not putting that on.
Did you get that?
You just chipped it off?
You didn't get stitched up?
You just cut that little piece off?
You just chopped it off?
Oh no.
With scissors.
Yeah.
So you have like the Evander Holyfield.
Like when Tyson bit Holyfield's ear?
Right.
Dude, that was an idea that I pitched for Jackass like multiple times.
I was like, do I want like Mike Tyson to bite a chunk of that?
Oh no.
Oh my God.