Brandon Novak | Star of MTV's Viva La Bam & Jackass, from addiction & the brink of death to sobriety

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Brandon Novak | Star of MTV's Viva La Bam & Jackass, from addiction & the brink of death to sobriety

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Brandon Novak, former professional skateboarder, Star of MTV's Viva La Bam and Jackass as well as Author of "Dream seller" his autobiography. Despite his crazy antics to stardom, he fell victim to addiction, from being on life support for seven days to his family taking out life insurance policies on him. Hear how he turned his life around by finally becoming sober and being an advocate for those who also want to overcome their disease of addiction.
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@corylanham4416 3 жыл бұрын

I just stumbled across this. How is this not bigger?! Amazing interview, relevant questions, and great guest.

@zhubacca 3 жыл бұрын

I couldn't believe it when I saw their sub count yesterday. top 10 podcasts right now. maybe top 5

@staytunedwithmikeyandchad2965 3 жыл бұрын

He does say the same exact script in every interview. Good on him but I’ve heard him say the same story 10 plus times

@tricktaylor1983 3 жыл бұрын

@@TalksFromTheCrypt how about me?

@MitchManix 3 жыл бұрын

15:25 What Brandon says is so relatable. I wanted to fix things but got so caught up just surviving. Been watching alot of his interviews recently as he puts things into words so well. Really helping. 1 year clean couple weeks ago.

@jsat4202 3 жыл бұрын

You really only need to watch the one he literally regurgitates the same bullshit exaggerations or just straight up lies in every single interview hes done since he got sober.

@garythefish5743 3 жыл бұрын

*So glad to see Novak doing good*

@andrewflaws8697 3 жыл бұрын

Love you guys interview's they are really helping me after only being a month clean from a 20 year cocaine, alcohol and mainly heroin and benzodiazapines addiction and I'm only 34. Lots of love from Shetland Islands Scotland

@Accune 3 жыл бұрын

May God bless your recovery.

@thedude72387 3 жыл бұрын

You guys have become something of a lantern in the fog as of late for me. The message always finds you when you need to hear it the most. Novak, you in particular have a story I relate to more than most. I first heard your testimony about 2 years ago and it has given me hope without which I would have been another statistic. Thank you for your help, even though you have never met me.

@andrewvela6658 3 жыл бұрын

I love this podcast! It makes me feel so much better about being a heroin addict for 10 years myself. Just knowing im not alone and hearing other people's stories makes it that much easier to get and stay sober. God bless yall 🙏

@gearyboy960 3 жыл бұрын

This is gonna get huge I seen the bam and Brandon interview with how much I relate to these guys watching them since 10’years old growing up with addiction seeing them gives me hope.

@anthonysilva5015 3 жыл бұрын

Dude, love your interview skills as well as your heart that goes into the questions. Great interview, great and 100% honesty from Brandon Novak. Amazing, thanks gentlemen.

@KnockinDoorzDown 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Appreciate taking the time to listen and for your support.

@luisrocha5933 2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou guys for your sacred service ! Much love n respect 🙏! Sincerely grateful !

@locks69 3 жыл бұрын

It's great to see Novak sober and doing well. I think the title is a bit incorrect though He wasn't a star of either of those shows I don't even remember seeing him in them?

@nikkigraham7494 3 жыл бұрын

Loving to see the guys all doing so well🖤

@frankwright9774 3 жыл бұрын

thank you for this!

@moiramackenzie4025 3 жыл бұрын

We are the lucky ones to make it out of addiction with our life’s is nothing short of a miracle. Look for the little miracles daily❤️❤️❤️

@omiddoust9061 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome podcast

@B20V-SOL 3 жыл бұрын

I wish Layne staley would have realized when the drugs where just a band-aid and not getting him high yet Layne died the same way novak is still alive.

@addievlogsorgaming5351 3 жыл бұрын

I wish he was still around...he was an insanely talented man. His voice was beautiful...Fortunately he lives on through his music. I had the mad season record in last week...great stuff

@lasenorita4256 2 жыл бұрын

Ty so much 4 that video🙏

@carlosbent5046 Жыл бұрын

Branson Novak,is the goat 🐐 depth and weight word sound power 🗯️☯️

@CJSPENO 3 жыл бұрын

WOW! Fantastic

@benzoadonethc1685 3 жыл бұрын

"My life is lived forward and learned backwards." Great quote and interview

@5280PolotheKid 3 жыл бұрын

What's that mean exactly?

@benzoadonethc1685 3 жыл бұрын

I don't learn anything untill I've lived through it. Sad but true.

@5280PolotheKid 3 жыл бұрын

@@benzoadonethc1685 gotcha! Love it

@jakemitchem7726 3 жыл бұрын

I'm happy he's clean and I'm proud he's clean and that story on shooting bleach omg dude this guy needs to talk more stories cuz it's an eye opener

@empale1 3 жыл бұрын

Quarantine is great when you’re in the right mindset.

@mikkeleblanc 3 жыл бұрын

its a hoax bud!

@kevinflatt3884 3 жыл бұрын

Brandon you inspire me

@DropNinety 3 жыл бұрын

he's incapable of carrying a convo w/out going into the same anecdotes and sayings. but hey, if he's sober then all power to him!

@jsat4202 3 жыл бұрын

Now he gets high on dressing up and acting like a recovery guru. He's great at script memorization. He should play himself in Dreamseller(coming 2045) like Eminem did in 8 mile.

@FilthTribeFTP 3 жыл бұрын

Recovering addicts can't help but repeat the same stories over and over. I would know, I am one myself and I have to really make sure I'm not reliving the glory days all the time because I know its obnoxious. But it's just something wired in our brains from the substance abuse.

@jsat4202 3 жыл бұрын

@@FilthTribeFTP I'm 5 years clean from end stage liver failure at 24 alcoholism and I don't operate on a script. But that's probably because I made my own program and didn't let AA/NA consume me. :/ I've often thought about a career in recovery but I don't think anyones trying to hear shit thats not in the pre approved literature.

@robertcarpenter3020 3 жыл бұрын

What do you want him to do, tell someone else’s story? This is his story and he’s good at telling it. One of the greatest pitfalls we recovering addicts face is forgetting our past and the destruction and chaos we came from. The minute I start believing that my life in active addiction wasn’t so bad is the minute I start back down that road of active addiction. I’m thankful that Novak keeps telling his story, someone somewhere needs to hear it.

@jsat4202 3 жыл бұрын

@@robertcarpenter3020 He could switch the shit up from time to time. Him and Bam literally say the same god damn thing verbatim in every interview. If he isn't talking about sobriety they're telling stories they already told on radio bam a decade ago. I'm a fan of Novak and I'm glad he's sober but it's like god damn man. Used to look forward to seeing videos about him, nowadays I just cringe. It'd be one thing if he was lowkey and humble about the shit. He wasn't a jackass cast member. He wasn't the star of Viva La Bam. He's not a #1 selling author.

@mattspencer6154 3 жыл бұрын

Dammit man. My guy is coming right now. And Novac just hit me hard. I have a few klonopins and suboxone. I need to get off H now. The great thing I see is that it’s absolutely possible. It’s just real hard and uncomfortable. My friend just got off and used klonapin and suboxone for a week and got clean. Everyone don’t be discouraged. Also Novak is a product of treatment and 12 steps. A lot of people can do it on their own. A lot can’t. God is with us.

@Lowshyne 3 жыл бұрын

Kratom

@kevinflatt3884 3 жыл бұрын

Keep it going don't give up!!

@ProdbyCeeSick 2 жыл бұрын

Wow so much I wanna say

@rob4643 2 жыл бұрын

What brand is that gold watch?

@jep2060 3 жыл бұрын

This podcast is awesome but please stop interrupting ur guests

@jsat4202 3 жыл бұрын

In this case it's fine because neither of them have any stories to tell they haven't told at every interview in the last decade

@JayChadwickRugby 3 жыл бұрын

RAD!

@usernotfound904 3 жыл бұрын

Omg Novak literally repeats the same bullshit phrases over and over again.

@aphysique 3 жыл бұрын

But we wouldn't be here listening if we didn't like it

@jameswitt8124 3 жыл бұрын

Dude looks like Tony Romo

@TiCail50 3 жыл бұрын

Glad to see that Novak and Jay Baruchel are doing alright these days

@brandontodd1799 Жыл бұрын

I don’t understand why the guy in the iron maiden shirt has to relate to every single thing that somebody says

@jaxcaulfield7071 11 ай бұрын

What if you are genitically disposed but not from parents, what if you can't perceive long term sobriety?

@00loudog 2 ай бұрын

I can't perceive it either they just keep telling me one day at a time I am also genetically disposed my husband is too he's been sober for five years

@oner8610 3 жыл бұрын

Is novak on a maintenance program or did he kick?

@mitchobrien8431 3 жыл бұрын

He kicked

@Schneeef 3 жыл бұрын

He never really says in any interviews. I wish he would address maintenance programs and his opinions on them.

@SkylerSeiben 2 жыл бұрын

I hope to get clean and stop taking Suboxone soon.

@shanekirkpatrick5220 2 жыл бұрын

You can ❤️

@KnockinDoorzDown 2 жыл бұрын

You can do it!

@OUTLAWinTX 2 жыл бұрын

Take one step at a time man. You can do it. I was in the same boat as you, I used subs for like 7 years because I was afraid, I couldn’t remember what it felt like to be 100% sober anymore. But you gotta do it at your pace, if you need a half a sub a day, do that until you taper down slow. Don’t just shock your body because you will most likely panic from withdrawal and go right back to avoid that TERRIBLE feeling that makes you do the crazy things! I’m from EXACTLY where Novak is from. Same area. I’ve seen him at bars years ago. Even after he was on viva la bam. Baltimore is destroyed by opioids now. 20 years ago was the same. It’s terrible. I eventually had to move here to Ft Worth Texas to get away from it. EVERYONE in my life was associated with getting high. It’s tough. 💪🏻💪🏻 be strong, day by day.

@jsat4202 3 жыл бұрын

Novak what happened to your kid?

@dustyflair 3 жыл бұрын

the 15 mins are over.....

@spookshow6999 3 жыл бұрын

Fuck off

@dustyflair 3 жыл бұрын

@@spookshow6999 your mama

@fuckleberryhinnhandsomehob691 3 жыл бұрын

Nice mustache... lmfao

@Mr.T-BAGGIN-UR-MOM 3 жыл бұрын

I guarantee Novak has kids somewhere... he should go find them.

@AverageJoe1006 3 жыл бұрын

Star ?? Wtf hé was a cameo nothing more

@jsat4202 3 жыл бұрын

And that was only cause Bam could do pretty much fucking anything he wanted to him consequence free cause he was dependant on him lol

@AverageJoe1006 3 жыл бұрын

@@jsat4202 right

@spookshow6999 3 жыл бұрын

Novak is a star. WTF are you talking about? You know who he is don’t you? Fuck off.

@AverageJoe1006 3 жыл бұрын

@@spookshow6999 he is a semi wanna be star with the fking help from bam you moron.

@titsbeerbong4203 3 жыл бұрын

What's going on everybody?

@OUTLAWinTX 2 жыл бұрын

I like Novak. But it’s like a pitch at this point. He repeats the same exact phrases verbatim in every interview. It almost doesn’t seem genuine at times. It seems too scripted. All the sayings he repeats are not him just talking normal and having a conversation. It’s like that Tony Robbins stuff. I had 8 scarves 3 socks and 1 stick of deodorant and my duffel bag was my pillow. Every interview. It’s like it’s scripted. It’s weird.

@alaskayoung3413 2 жыл бұрын

Haha ya it hard bc he does it for a living and it sounds amazing the first time you hear it. But I want something different or deeper from him in other interviews but like you said it’s the same speech… Kind of worries me honestly after knowing how he faked his sobriety with his first book.

@jayrmusic4846 2 жыл бұрын

Hes one man with one story not 6 different people.

@cwatson42785 3 жыл бұрын

"Star of jackass and viva la bam" lol

@spookshow6999 3 жыл бұрын

He was on both.

@OUTLAWinTX 2 жыл бұрын

That annoys me too. I like Novak, but come on. He’s no star. This is the definition of coat tails. That annoys me too. He was on BAMS UNHOLY UNION way more. I would accept that credit more. Everyone knows Big Brother and CKY. Not everyone knows Novak

@cwatson42785 2 жыл бұрын

@@spookshow6999 Yes but he was never in a "starring" role is the point. Shoot he wasn't even a co star!

@cwatson42785 2 жыл бұрын

@@OUTLAWinTX Well said Mark. I completely agree.

@johnsellas4455 3 жыл бұрын

When he talks about all the stuff that he has done in his life oh, and I am talking about all his accomplishments he's completely exaggerating and he is just outright liar he's been doing the same exact interview or probably seven or eight year now time to go away Brandon bye bye

@jsat4202 3 жыл бұрын

Literally. Bam does the same shit. Pretty much every interview with him nowadays is covering shit they talked about on the radio show 10+ yrs ago aside from Bams public spiral last year nothing really significant has happened since Dunn died and he had a kid

@wesleythacker830 3 жыл бұрын

@john Sellas 1st off your opinion is LAME ASF & Novaz don't lie about shit .. His accomplishments on a skate board when he was young, are one of a kind .. His past is about living fast & making big mistake's due from fast fame his skate board granted him at such a young age.. Before those events he was only a kid . then money & fame came & life became a party over time & choice's he made slowly, over time helped him become an addict to many negative things , As i know cause like my self this is how i became an addict , partying , drugs & alcohol before the age of 18. . this is how most people become addicts . . & there story begins from their past .. . . i feel stupid for having to explain this to you & the other fool @jsat 420 cause both of yalls comments are dumb Asf. .

@jsat4202 3 жыл бұрын

@@wesleythacker830 Boy I've been following novak for like 15 years nothing I said is false lol listen to him on radio bam telling all these old stories and every interview hes had in the past 5 yrs repeating verbatim the same script. You're either willfully ignorant or unknowingly fucktarded idc which but figure it out fam

@jsat4202 3 жыл бұрын

@@wesleythacker830 whats his backup plan if banyan decides hes not worth the investment anymore? Wait tables? Or relapse publically and start this whole process over again lol

@wesleythacker830 3 жыл бұрын

@jsat 420. Novac got a handle on his own life & in sobriety the game plan don't change .. Thts y his story don't change, cause thats how he want's to tell it , because that's the sum of his fucked up past ... Anyways you don't sound like u know anything about being an addict, if you did, you prob. Wouldn't be talking down or judging or doubting or whatever the fuck u worried bout Novak for .. who are you to speak on his life ?