In this movie, we reach out to the jackass crew's ringleader, johnny knoxville. He wasn't too crazy about the theoretical stuff, but he did have some idea of what keeps people coming back to see the same dudes getting hit in the nuts over and over again. "You can tell we really love each other and it's a family," says Knoxville.
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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