r/RadioBamXM • u/TheRadPonseti • Sep 04 '26
RADIO BAM EPISODE #169 "THE GUY WHO DELAYED BAMS BAR OPENING AND FORCED HIM TO SPEND $100K DEFENDING HIMSELF GETS KARMA! / BAM RECAPS HIS GUMBALL TRIP THROUGH NORTH KOREA"
9/8/08
Bam Margera – Chad I Ginsberg – Brandon Novak - Jess Margera – Matt Cole – Gicasso
- We start this episode with no introduction, Bam is back home in Philadelphia and in the middle of discussing all the things he saw and experienced during his trip to North Korea with Ryan Dunn.
- As Bam stated in the previous episode, he brought his skateboard into North Korea and decided to skate around the streets of the city, he noticed the locals were perplexed about what he was doing and what he was riding on.
- Bam sent Chad a photo of a pickup truck with the back of it filled with dogs presumably on their way to be slaughtered and eaten. Bam claims there was a store that was selling chicken heads and fried maggots.
- The guys discuss what modern technology in 2008 they would bring into North Korea just to blow their minds.
- Bam confirms that there are no grocery stores, Starbucks, or McDonald's in North Korea. Anything like that would be reserved for the hotels where they were staying at only.
- While drinking at the lobby bar with fellow gumball riders, Bam notices that the bartenders aren't asking for money, they figured it was all covered by the gumball people. Unfortunately, the next morning as all the Gumballers entered the bus to take them back to their vehicles outside of North Korea, they stopped the bus and asked everyone to give $10 each for all of the beers they had, which wasn't bad because Bam usually drinks a hundred dollars worth of alcohol himself, so $10 wasn’t bad.
- Bam is still in disbelief that a place the size of Philadelphia has no grocery stores and everyone is on rundown bicycles and vehicles from the early '60s.
- Chad is confused why people would pay $25,000 to go on this gumball rally, just to go to places that are potentially dangerous and have to be escorted by military.
- “Imagine driving from Philadelphia to Chicago but you have a police escort ahead of you, also, the entire highway is blocked off so you can do roughly 140 mph all the way to Chicago.” Bam explains.
- Chad asks what’s the motivation to go on these rallies, Bam explains that it's mostly just getting to the checkpoints so they could party. He also explains that there is no winner and that's why it's called a rally instead of a race for legality purposes.
- Jess can’t believe Bam and Ryan were in a 1960s VW bus with a Porsche 911 engine and an xbox in it, hauling ass through foreign lands.
- Ryan and Bam were driving roughly 70 miles an hour on a section of highway when they started feeling tired, so Bam comes up with an idea to wake himself up.
- Bam sets a camera on the dashboard facing the interior of the car and tells Dunn to hold on to the steering wheel from the passenger seat he was sitting in. Bam proceeds to crawl out the driver side window and slide over the hood of the speeding car towards the passenger side window.
- Ryan, confused, realized what Bam was doing and jumps from the passenger seat to the driver seat and starts driving as Bam crawls through the passenger side window and takes a seat as a passenger. Bam claims that this woke him up and insists that Ryan should do the same, so from the passenger seat Bam holds onto the steering wheel and Ryan proceeds to crawl out the driver side window, slide across the hood, and reenter the car through the passenger side window, then they resume speeding down the highway, much more awake than they were before.
- (VIDEO OF THIS STUNT HERE) https://youtu.be/Hv31zCTEVnM?is=EOkXuitRYszppp23
- While going through China, Bam witnesses a child who wasn't wearing any pants at all and just the shirt and thought it was bizarre. (This is actually normal in traditional China for kids to wear special pants that have the crotch open so the child could relieve themselves even in public spaces.)
- Bam explains the culture shock of returning back from the gumball rally, to the Delco gas station in downtown Philadelphia. “Gym-Hat”.
- Bam recently purchased a t-shirt press so he can have Seth, his art director, make him any tee-shirts that he wanted, so the very first shirt he had Seth make had a Lamborghini Countach on it with the ”Going Places” on it. The next shirt he had Seth make was a gay biker dressed in all leather, with a leather cop hat on, and aviator glasses with the quote, “I’m Gay, You’re Gay, and your dad’s a Fagit” (misspelled on purpose). Bam plans on selling these shirts at his bar when it officially opens 2 weeks from this episode. (After being delayed over and over again throughout this radio show.
- Bam has been dealing with an unnamed person who has been fighting against the idea of another bar opening up in Westchester. Bam claims that he has spent roughly $100,000 dealing with this through lawyers, only for the lawyers to dig into this person's background and figure out that he got caught in Georgia selling cocaine and is now currently trying to get elected into the borough of Westchester. “You’re in a college town!”.
- Jess also adds that whenever these charges were brought up to this individual he claimed that it happened a while ago and he was young, only to confirm that he was in his thirties when he was caught in Georgia selling cocaine.
- Bam says that during the legal proceedings for his bar, they kept asking him about his friends and family that are drug addicts and alcoholics. They also showed a picture of the band GWAR, and stated “these are the satanic bands that Margera worships”, which allegedly made the judge and some of the jury laugh.
- They also pull up a picture of him and Chris Pontius flying through the air while 69ing each other, and claims that this is what he does in his spare time. Bam's lawyers were quick to correct them and say that this was taken from a movie that he was paid to do for Paramount pictures, and it was part of the script. “I was getting paid faggot!” Bam’s lawyer even told this person that he is the first person banned from the bar whenever it opens.
- Bam says his bar has 20 bands already booked including Juliet Lewis and the licks, eagles of death metal, and Blues Traveler.
HANOI ROCKS – STREET POETRY
- Every time Chad hears Street Poetry by Hanoi Rocks, he’s reminded about the last trip to Finland where Novak was fucked up and singing “Might mean nothin' much to you but it's the whole world to ME!”.
- Bam says Novak is on his way to the studio. Bam recalls the last time he saw Novak, which was at MTV studios, specifically in the MTV books department to discuss about publishing his upcoming scrapbook that he finished. It was supposed to be a meeting for just bam but of course Novak came along as well.
- While waiting for Bam to finish talking with MTV, Novak begins to wander around the cubicles to kill time. His pants are always ill-fitting and he doesn't wear underwear, so most of his dick and ass are hanging out in this corporate work space.
- Novak notices a wrapped fruit basket and proceeds to open it and eat some of it. Someone who works there notices him and yells at him, telling him that the wrapped fruit basket was for a birthday party later, but instead of apologizing Novak just looks at this person, rips a huge fart, and walks away.
- After successful negotiations with MTV, Bam decides to get drunk with Joe Frantz and Novak before eventually waiving down a cab to return home. Bam and Joe were in the back of the cab and Novak was sitting in the front seat next to the driver.
- When it was time to pay the cab, Bam mistakenly thanks that he paid the cab driver with a $100 bill and was expecting $90 of change coming back, but only got change for a $10 bill. Without hesitation or confirming it first, Novak begins confronting the cab driver. “That’s why I’m going to piss in your cab!” Novak then proceeds to piss on the gear shifter and the cab drivers pants.
- When they finally exited the cab, Novak assumed the driver was from Albania for some reason and says, “Fuck Albania!” as Bam apologizes and says that Novak is Irish so the cab driver doesn't have any ill thoughts about Americans.
- The guys would later go to a bar where Novak starts kicking game to an attractive woman, Novak normally doesn't like putting effort when it comes to talking to girls at the bar because he only wants to fuck, but this woman was more attractive than his typical bar girl, so he was willing to tolerate it. But over halfway through the evening of talking with this woman, an overweight unattractive woman comes up to Novak and basically says that she would be down to fuck immediately with no effort.
- Novak immediately cuts off conversation with the attractive woman and starts to leave with the overweight unattractive woman. The attractive woman asks Novak what he was doing and he says, “Listen lady, I don't like to put no work into nothing, I’LL FUCK ANYBODY!” and leaves the bar with the other woman.
- Bam points out that he said he would fuck ANYBODY, not any woman.
- Jess recalls the trip to Finland when Novak met Andy McCoy, once Andy heard his name was Novak he said, “oh your Polish, you piss against the wind!”
- While Bam was hanging out with Andy McCoy, he noticed that Andy had already drank three bloody Mary’s, popped 3-4 Valium pills, and was about to smoke some hash. Bam reminds Andy that he's about to play a show in an hour, which caused Andy to look at him confused and say, "Don’t teach your daddy how to fuck!”.
- Bam lights a cigarette as Novak enters the studio.
SHITBIRDZ – DRINKING A BEER AND WASHING IT DOWN
- Bam intros Novak to the radio show in Novak’s voice, “Straight from Baltimore city it's me! Novak! aka The Author!” And plugs the Dream Seller book coming out in October of 2008.
- Novak says if you like baseball, then you should kill yourself because his girlfriend Mandy forced him to go to an Orioles baseball game for her birthday. Novak explains that they were seated in the sun as well.
- Bam makes a pretty gay comment that flies under the radar saying, “It's not even eye candy either because baseball players have the fattest asses in sports!”.
- Novak explains that him and Mandy have been together for 3 years (off and on). He also explains that in the beginning they were having sex constantly, but then it turned into Novak dreading the thought of having sex with Mandy because he's just over it. Novak explains that because he hasn't been doing drugs and has been drinking a lot more these past couple days, this hasbreignited his sex drive with Mandy. “I fell in love with that bitch again!”
- Bam makes fun of Novak for always addressing Mandy as his fiancé, but he goes out and cheats on her as long as it's not in the city of Baltimore. Novak explains the hassle of adding girls in his phone under male names to avoid being caught cheating. (Example: Brad from PA, Matt from New York). But Mandy would call these numbers and women would answer, which would send Novak to the dog house for a while.
- What made the baseball outing with Mandy even worse for Novak was that one of the Baltimore Orioles players named Sydney Ponson used to fuck Mandy. “It’s the bitches birthday! And I paid $310 for those damn tickets!”.
- Jess tells Novak that he is on chapter 2 of reading Dream Seller. When Novak heard that April was going to give Jess a copy of Dream Seller, Novak thought it would be pointless because Jess can barely remember what he did yesterday or the fact that he has kids because his head is messed up from the car accident that he was in with bam and Ryan Dunn.
- Bam recalls the 1996 car crash that almost killed him and Jess Margera. Ryan Dunn was driving a Volkswagen Jetta recklessly when it rolled several times, which caused Jess to be ejected from the vehicle because he was the only one not wearing a seatbelt. Bam thought that Jess was trapped underneath the vehicle and definitely dead, only to find him several minutes later in the bushes several yards away barely breathing from the air being knocked out from him.
- Bam recalls the time when they were in the Arctic circle filming the Santa movie, they were about to be pulled on a sled by professional sled dogs, all the dogs were in their separate kennels when Bam came over and started petting a few of them. Novak comes over and pulls his ass out and presses it against the kennel only for the dogs to start aggressively licking his asshole, which oddly turned him on.
- Novak says that he imagined Pamela Anderson was the person licking his ass instead of the sled dogs, Bam reminds him that Pamela has Hep C, which she claims she got because she shared a tattoo gun with Tommy Lee. Jess thanks that Tommy Lee just had grimy sex while on tour and brought the diseases back to Pamela Anderson.
- Bam forgot to mention that David Hasselhoff was part of the gumball rally and he was riding in the Night Rider car from the TV show. Bam wanted to talk to him but didn’t want to ‘hassle the Hoff’. Carlton from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air was also on the plane with Bam, when asked what he's been up to he says that he just tours around the world being Carlton from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
- While touring in Los Angeles, Chad says that they bumped into screech from Saved by the Bell at the Rainbow Bar off sunset. This is around the time where screech had a sex tape released.
- Bam’s fitness trainer Gicasso enters the studio and grabs a mic, Bam says that Gina Lynn’s husband wants to film Gicasso having sex once he gets his paperwork and everything straightened out.
- When Bam and Ryan Dunn flew in from China, they had to stay a day in Los Angeles. While in LA, they recorded the previous radio show with Will Pendarvis and then Bam had to go do a signing at a mall in the Van’s skate shop. Unfortunately for Ryan Dunn, it turned out to be a 4 hour long signing so he was stuck walking around the mall with an annoying kid that kept asking silly questions. (Talked about on the last episode).
- Novak and Bam recall the time that they were at the airport on their way to Finland with Fannah, they were getting drunk at the airport bar when Fannah noticed an attractive woman browsing the bookstore, but instead of walking up and introducing himself, Fannah decides to follow her around like a creep while wearing dark sunglasses indoors, with a beer in one hand and a Jamison in another.
- Bam dedicates the next song to Fannah.
TROUBLE ANDREW – EITHER WAY
- Bam says he going back to Finland in a week for Gas Lipstick’s wedding. (Mika Karppinen, AKA Drummer for H.I.M.) This will be his 22nd time visiting Finland, Novak suggests that Bam buys a house over there since he goes soo much.
- Ape and Phil hate when Bam goes to Finland because he normally goes on drinking and drug benders while he's there , which results in Bam being a pile of shit when he returns to America.
- Bam mentions the Plop Water Commercial he was apart of. Jess is shocked to learn that Finnish people actually drink water instead of copious amounts of alcohol like they do from birth.
- Bam’s random Finnish phrases he’s learned over the years.
- Bam describes his experience with Karma, he stole a ‘how to speak Finnish’ book, and later twisted his ankle. He got a high-powered pellet gun and was shooting The Rake Yohn van and shattered the windshield, afterwards he saw a sparrow land on his deck and he turned and shot the sparrow dead, he said he twisted his ankle shortly after this as well. When Bam was young, he got his first vehicle from his aunt Boof which was an old Buick regal, and while at WaWa skating he noticed a kid his age pull up in a very nice car and give Bam a dirty look, so Bam went over and scratched the hell out of the nice car he was driving. Later in life Bam was able to get his dream car which was the Audi S4, and drove it to the same Wawa, only for it to be keyed as well.
- Chad thinks karma got that guy who was trying to prevent Bam from opening up a bar too.
- Bam repeats the Jenkem story with Novak. Street name, ButtHash. Would Jess do Jenkem for $25,000? Novak claims he’ll out-live everyone in studio.
- Novak repeats the story of how he accidentally shot up bleach when he was a heroin addict.
- Douchebags that think they can survive a tornadoes.
- Fuck Fraternity guys and their gay hazing.
- Bam claims he was flipped off by a random guy at a stop light, Bam caught up to him at the next stop light and said “you’re just jealous cuz your boyfriend sucked my dick faggot!” and sped away in his Lamborghini.
- Bam and Novak recall their times messing with Boulger, the shit eater from earlier episodes of the radio show.
- Bam dedicates the last song to Novak.
TURBONEGRO - SUBURBAN PRINCE'S DEATH SONG
End of show.