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Wild Ride! with Steve-O

Bert McCracken: The Unlikely Godfather of Hardcore Music

Wild Ride! with Steve-O

Steve-O

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

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Bert McCracken is the frontman of The Used, and in this emotional episode we talk about his beef with My Chemical Romance, early years in mormonism, drug abuse, being discovered by John Feldman and so much more!

Give us a call at (615) 802--0257 and tell us why you might be a POS, or any other wild story or question you'd like to share.

Come see me on tour! http://steveo.com

Follow us on social media! @steveo @wildride @skinnyinny @paulbrisske 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody and welcome to an emotional wild ride with Stevo.

0:08.8

We've got Bert McCracken and we put him right on the spot to tell us whether he is proud

0:14.5

or not of the emo brand.

0:17.7

And man, what a great guy at being put on the spot i just blast him with uh hey what's up

0:24.4

with my chemical romance beef and like dude confirmed that he talked more about what happened

0:32.3

with my chemical romance to us on the wild ride podcast than he's ever spoken about it publicly period that's a big

0:40.6

deal and man with humility with grace and more more importantly accountability so that is juicier than can be

0:50.7

and if you want to know how i got it to be so juicy, I just so happened to know somebody

0:58.5

who is intimately involved in all of the inner workings of the used and called up and just got

1:06.5

the intel right before. And I sprang it on Bert like, hey, dude, I just got off the phone with so-and-so and we just put him on blast and he handles it like a champ afterwards like now we're bros we also attended the used sold-out concerts at house of Blues in Anaheim.

1:28.2

Unbelievable performance.

1:30.4

Both of them.

1:31.5

Like, waiting to you see how much my new girlfriend loves the use.

1:35.8

This episode is just such a banger.

1:38.7

Let's get into it.

1:41.4

You kind of fight vaping here?

1:42.6

You do whatever you want, bro. All right. It's my one cringe vice left. I, you know what? I'll be... I'm the same fucking way. Dude, I quit cigarettes like eight years ago, and I'm fucking doomed. I'm doomed. It's tough because they're so good. They're so good. They're made for junior high kids.

2:01.6

Dude, do you care if we keep all this in?

2:04.6

No, dude.

2:05.6

Yeah.

2:06.6

All right, we'll do it like this.

2:09.6

Ladies and gentlemen, people of the universe, I bring to you the founding father of Screamo.

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