It's so surreal to revisit this. It's one of those things that represent such a very specific window of time in my life and in light of recent events (Bam Margera just got booted from Jackass 4 for addiction issues) it also puts the passage of time and aging into perspective.
I'm the same age as Bam Margera. These dudes were peers. Not only were we close in age, but we were close in geography as well. I skateboarded, they skateboarded. We made dumb videos, they made dumb videos. When I watched these videos back then, it was like looking at ourselves in a funhouse mirror. Of course I was jealous. The entire world didn't just seem like it was…