The 'Jackass' Show

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"We don't want anyone else to get hurtwe want to be the only ones getting hurt," he says. "So there is no way we could continue with the show, so i gave an interview to my home town newspaper and said that i quit,. And m t b was not happy, understandably, because i was still under contract." He adds: "The problems with our culture ... go much deeper and broader than simply the question of violence"

The Oscar nominations are out, but the No. 1 movie in America features Johnny Knoxville and his friends hurting each other. He attempts to explain why, and Vox's Alissa Wilkinson picks up his slack.

This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh and Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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