New Interview with Bam
First, I’ll give him some credit: physically, he looks the best I’ve ever seen him in years, and these are probably the most coherent, well-constructed sentences I’ve heard him put together in a long time. The first third of the interview genuinely feels like you’re watching a Bam who’s finally turning a corner.
But about a third of the way in, it slips right back into the same old script: it’s everybody else’s fault, I got kicked off the movie for having one Coors Light across the country, they ruined my life, the real secret to sobriety is I was just bored, and all the other Bam talking points we’ve heard over the last couple of years. At some point, we’re the fools if we keep expecting something different from this guy.
Not to pile on, but he tells a story about Ryan Dunn going over a waterfall in a barrel in Iceland, and I had to look up the clip on YouTube. Watching it through 2026 eyes, it’s still funny in places, but it’s also pretty disturbing how little concern Bam seemed to have for his friend being sealed inside a barrel and sent over a waterfall. Some of that can absolutely be chalked up to dumb teenagers doing dumb teenager things, but there’s also a level of indifference that feels like it carried well into his adulthood.