Jackass star and successful podcaster Steve-O said comedian Bill Maher wouldn’t refrain from smoking marijuana in front of him for an interview.
In an episode of “Steve-O’s Wild Ride!“The podcaster recalled that guest Patrick Bett-David appeared on Maher’s ‘Club Random’ podcast, which spawned several viral clips regarding Maher’s views. climate change And the Governor of California. gavin newsome (D).
Stephen Orr, whose real name is Stephen Gilchrist Glover, told Bette David that he was not very interested in the way Mr. Maher conducted the interview with the entrepreneur.
“Your appearance on Bill Maher’s show…I thought the way he spoke to you was quite insulting,” Glover began.
After revealing that he has been sober for nearly 16 years, Steve-O explained that he had plans to appear on Maher’s podcast as well, but was unable to reach an agreement with the host.
“There’s really nothing I value more than my sobriety. There’s nothing I protect more than my recovery. And when I got contacted by Bill Maher’s podcast that saw you, It was upsetting in a way. They said, ‘The thing about him is that he smokes pot the whole time he’s interviewing people,'” Glover recalled.
“I said, ‘I’m happy to go there, but out of respect for my sobriety, he can’t refrain from smoking weed while I’m gone. ”’ he repeated.
“He said no,” Bette David predicted.
“He said, ‘No, that’s a deal breaker,'” Steve-O admitted. The stuntman compared Maher’s reaction to that of Mike Tyson and rapper B-Real, both of whom have podcasts centered around marijuana smoking.
“These prolific marijuana guys, I’ve been on their show and blowing marijuana smoke in my face wasn’t that important to them,” Steve-O added. . “For Bill Maher, it was a deal-breaker.”
The “Jackass” star also said that from his own experience, he understood how Maher could find even the most “innocuous things” to be offensive.
“When I sat down with him, I thought, ‘I have no idea what’s going to happen,'” Bette David recalled of her interview with Maher. The 45-year-old agreed that Maher had been insulting him throughout the duration of the podcast, which led him to take a different approach and act as Maher’s “therapist.”
“I felt one, two, three, four, five insults,” he said.
The Valuetainment brand owner said Maher’s show bookers loved him and asked him to appear because they felt Maher needed a “challenge.”
Bette David also claims that in addition to Maher serving as the speaker for 90% of the conversation, this episode garnered the most audience comments the “Club Random” podcast has ever received. did.
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