Brandon Novak Speaks On Jackass Fame, Fall Out With Bam Margera, & Getting Clean | The Connect
The Connect- with Johnny Mitchell
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🗓️ 9 September 2023
⏱️ 98 minutes
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| 0:38.0 | Like, I was expected to die. Today we have on Brandon Novak. He is best known from Viva LaBam with Bam Margera, |
| 0:44.7 | CKY, and the Jackass franchises. This guy has an amazing story. He started off as a professional |
| 0:50.9 | skateboarder on the streets of Baltimore. He became strung out on heroin by the time he was 17 years old. |
| 0:56.9 | Then he met Bam and became one of the stars of those series back in the day. |
| 1:02.6 | He was in some amazing stunts. |
| 1:04.7 | And finally, after 20 years, after all of this crazy stuff, in and out of jail, rehab, |
| 1:10.8 | he finally kicked his heroin habit at the age of 38. |
| 1:14.6 | And now he owns sober living houses and rehab centers on the East Coast. |
| 1:19.0 | He's also written several books and he has a documentary coming out about his time on Viva Labam and Jackass. |
| 1:27.4 | This guy has an amazing life and an inspirational story. |
| 1:30.3 | So without further ado, enjoy Brendan Novak. |
| 1:34.3 | What I know to be true today that I did not see at the time, |
| 1:37.3 | that was the very first moment in a series of events that took place to this outcome. |
| 1:43.3 | It created a change. That's when I see the lights behind me start to flash. And I didn't even think, I just hit it. I was driving like my life depended on. And then I parked the car, popped out, closed the door, and I started running. And he pulls out a burner, shank, it's like six inches. And then he passes it to me. And he goes, here, that's yours. Don't ever |
| 2:00.8 | leave the cell block without this. He was the reason I made it out of that place alive. |
| 2:06.4 | Brandon Novak. Thank you, buddy. Dude, thanks for having me. Yeah, man. I mean, like the West Coast |
| 2:12.0 | version of Baltimore City. Where? Oh, right down here. Yeah. I wasn't expecting what I came into here. But I feel like South Central is way nicer. Like I feel like, does Baltimore still have the corners that we saw on the wire 15, 20 years ago? |
| 2:28.4 | Nothing's changed there. And it's funny that you said that because coming here, I was, I knew where I was at and I kind of see what was going |
| 2:35.9 | on in the neighborhoods, but yet they all had really kept fucking grasses and lawns. Yeah, exactly. |
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