jackassworld

In short, this hour was about our roots: skateboarding. Forgive me if I get all teary-eyed here, but recounting our stupid past and where it has brought us to today is always a fond trip down memory lane for me. First up was a quick look at Big Brother, a skateboard magazine that came into retarded being way back in 1992. Most everyone involved with the magazine then is still involved with jackass now, like Jeff Tremaine, Rick Kosick, Dimitry Elyashkevich, Wee Man, Chris Pontius, Dave Carnie and myself. Well, Knoxville, too, but he came in a bit later in the game—around 1997, to be precise—as a contributing idiot that wanted to do something kinda silly with a bulletproof vest. But we’ve pretty much been a family ever since then, one that surely rivals those found deep in the backwoods of West Virginia. Anyway, we recapped what few moments we could from the old Big Brother videos (the vast majority of clips are much too naughty or impossible to clear for air), and swapped a few fireside tales. Rolling along a similar thread, we brought in a few pro skaters from Lakai—Rick Howard, Cairo Foster and Mike Carroll—and let them talk about their new video, Fully Flared, before presenting the stunningly dramatic opening sequence. We then moved over to the hallway where the mic was thrust into my hands for some dumb reason, where I somewhat introduced a thing we used to do in the Big Brother office called “Bottle Skating.” Let it be known I had no idea I would be doing this first, but so it goes. I’m just happy I can still type despite my vibrating pinky. Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh… But Rick, Mike and Cairo all gave it a try, while Bam and Wee Man gave it some jackass cred with floor-smacking bails.

(photos by Sean Cliver; New York, NY; 2008)