Despite being these jocular, sort of puerile dudes, like it hasn't aged all that poorly. You don't have as many cringy moments as you might watching some beloved movie from the nineties. It's crazy how kind of pure and innocent it almost is. I said to my editor when i left, it felt like a bachelor party full of 11 year old where they don't really have a lot of adult ideas the world yet.
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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