"It gave us a whole new life. Now we can do whatever we want, because it's going to be rrated and hopefully orated," he says. "We didn't think e was going to come to see tha. I one's going toCome out with the first movie,. And here we are, over 20 years later, still doing the same silly shit." The pair have made something like half billion dollars and counting.
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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