"I was like a solid B student and a good kid through the first couple of years of high school. And then in my junior year of high school, that was when I sampled a marijuana cigarette," he says. "It kind of had me, you know, stop doing quite so well in school." He adds: "There's a lot of physics you can glean by trial and error"
How fast is a porta-potty slingshot? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and professional stuntman and comedian, Steve-O, break down the science of Jackass, explosions, and what it takes to survive the laws of physics.
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