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To get you in a proper Steve-O frame of mind for his upcoming appearance on jackassworld live, here are a few more unseen seconds from the life and grumpy times of Sleep-O on the Gumball Rally in 2001. Although Chris Pontius wasn’t able to fully deliver a Lombardi to Steve-O’s forehead in the cramped quarters of the “Jagwire,” I do recall a more successful occasion from 1996 when he came down to stay at the apartment I shared with Jeff Tremaine in Hermosa Beach. It just so happened that our snowboard filming friend Whitey was staying on our floor then, too, and after a good night’s drinking down at the Mermaid (this was back when the Hermosa pier area was respectably shitty, as opposed to the great white asshole haven it has since been renovated into), he’d passed out quite lifelessly only to be later discovered by Tremaine and Pontius. Grabbing Whitey’s very own camera—a Yashica T4—Jeff popped multiple photos of a naked Pontius spooning up against his back and dropping the Lombardi on his forehead. Maybe even an Atlas, too. So can you imagine Whitey’s surprise when he finally got that roll of film back from the lab? Well, we had to, because no one ever had the chance to see the look on his face when he later stumbled upon the shots and, unfortunately, tossed them in the garbage. Talk about no sense of humor.