\n\t\tn a recent Tuesday afternoon, Johnny Knoxville<\/a> stood on a concrete retaining wall and surveyed the expansive scene before him. There were smatterings of desert bloom. There were patches of rocky soil and scruffy brush. There were tantalizing pockets of cactuses. But mostly, there was a vertiginous drop-off, the steepest of slopes careening down to six-lane La Brea Avenue, where Los Angeles traffic zoomed by at an unholy clip. It was, in other words, a tempting locale in which to insert a human being into a barrel and roll said barrel down the hill. Or, better yet, a porta-potty! An inflatable sumo-wrestler suit? A human hamster wheel? The possibilities were endless, but\u2014\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cFace me a little more,\u201d instructed a photographer, perhaps interrupting Knoxville\u2019s reverie. \u201cLet the sunlight come on your eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cUh, you had me at \u2018Cum on my eyes!\u2019\u2009\u201d Knoxville replied, turning away from the danger and flashing that slightly unhinged, crocodile grin.<\/p>\n
\n\tIt has been more than 25 years since Philip John Clapp met an unwitting America, showing up in a series of low-fi videos in which the aspiring actor (who had professionally taken the name of the Tennessee town where he grew up) did such things as tase himself, engulf himself in pepper spray, and shoot himself in the chest point-blank with a .38-caliber handgun wearing only the cheapest of bulletproof vests (\u201cI could only afford the cheapest vest they made,\u201d he\u2019s been known to say). Filmed for Big Brother, the skateboarding magazine published by pornographer Larry Flynt, the videos arrived at the exact cultural moment when peak suburban ennui collided with the notion that fame simply required attention rather than talent. The subsequent MTV series Knoxville created with director Jeff Tremaine and producer Spike Jonze \u2014 plus a ragtag cast assembled largely from knuckleheads Knoxville knew from Big Brother \u2014 took its cues from Looney Tunes by way of Evel Knievel, with a smattering of dick jokes and scatological humor thrown in. They lobbed things at one another\u2019s penises. They lit fireworks out of their buttholes. They cooked up vomit omelets. They faced a bull named Mr. Mean. And they found themselves launched, cannon-style (sometimes literally), into international fame and infamy (after only three seasons \u2014 and despite getting MTV\u2019s then-best ratings \u2014 Jackass<\/a> had so provoked the ire of party poopers like Sen. Joseph Lieberman that the show ended).\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n \n\tSince then, the Jackass empire has grown to include four feature-length \u201cdocumentaries,\u201d several scripted films, and more spin-offs than broken teeth (well, actually, who\u2019s counting?). It has become the sort of cultural icon that both reflects and shapes the society around it. And despite shattered bones, grievous concussions, and aging bodies, it has persisted. This summer, the team will release the fifth, and allegedly final, Jackass movie. Now 55, and only a few days away from the start of filming, America\u2019s elder statesman of sadism, our master of mayhem, looked back, with emotion, on Jackass\u2019 quarter century.<\/p>\n \t\tWatch the video interview below\t<\/p>\n \n\tYou\u2019ve got a new Jackass movie coming out this summer. Do you think this is a good idea? \n\tI\u2019ve read that the cast always wants to do a new movie, and you\u2019re the one who says, \u201cNow is the time.\u201d And you never really know when that\u2019s going to happen until it does. \t\tRelated Content<\/p>\n \n\tSo at this point, you\u2019ve written all the stunts for Jackass 5. \n\tHow do you decide who does which stunt? \n\tWhat\u2019s your favorite animal to fuck with? \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSINNA NASSERI<\/p>\n \n\tWhy? \n\tLet\u2019s take stock a little bit, because I know not all of the footage you record ends up being released. Has anyone ever lost a finger in the filming of Jackass? \n\tWhat about a toe? \n\tAn ear? \n\tA testicle? \n\tAnd he\u2019s game? \n\tYou had your eye pop out twice. \n\tYou broke your penis. It happens. \u201cIf you become comfortable with worst-case scenarios, you\u2019re free.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tSo that was a stunt where you were trying to back flip a motorcycle, and the handlebar landed in a very inopportune area [technically, he broke his urethra]. \n\tI want to go back to your eye. How far out did it get? \n\tYou poked it back in? \n\tHow is it today? \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSINNA NASSERI<\/p>\n \n\tIs there a stunt you want to do that you think you\u2019ll never get to do? \n\tI was going to ask when the last time you cried was, but\u2014 \n\tSame. \n\tAnd that makes you emotional. \n\tLet\u2019s get into that need to pull back from the thrill-seeking mindset. You\u2019ve talked about doing therapy and being like, \u201cI\u2019ll talk about anything except this.\u201d \n\tBut you have recently decided to start talking about it. \u201cThe older you get, the less people want to see your penis. I know that.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tWhat led to that change? \n\tSixteen concussions. \n\tWhen you look at that thrill-seeking part of you, do you have a sense of where it comes from? \n\tWhat are the experiences from your childhood that led you there? Your dad was a funny guy, but he wasn\u2019t a daredevil. \n\tWould you say overall you had a happy childhood? \n\tYour mom was a Southern Baptist Sunday-school teacher? \n\tWhen did you start doing pranks? \n\tLike, with real guns? \n\tSo you come by this honestly. \n\tWere your parents strict at all? \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSINNA NASSERI<\/p>\n \n\tBut Mom was tough. She would get angry and just black out, and there was no fear. Dad was a little more measured, although he got in his share of scraps, too. Before I was born, my mom was uptown driving with my sisters in the back \u2014 they were, like, five and seven \u2014 and there was a big, old-school Seventies gang fight going on with bats and chains, guys in a parking lot just beating the hell out of each other. And my mother drives into the middle of the gang fight in her old silver Cadillac, and she\u2019s like, \u201cHey, you boys! You boys stop that right now! Stop acting ugly!\u201d And all these dudes just stopped and walked away because no one had ever talked to them like that.<\/p>\n \n\tI love that story. \n\tI feel like you have perfectly walked that line, because you misbehave, but by all accounts are also a very nice, polite person. \n\tOne of the reasons Jackass has had such longevity, though, is because it\u2019s not just about doing dumb, dangerous shit. It\u2019s about the camaraderie. \n\tWell, actually, I was going to ask. You\u2019ve got a bit of a mandate going on with that in the other films. \n\tI assume you\u2019ll keep that going in Jackass 5? \n\tGoing back to the early days of Jackass: You were basically casting your friends and people you knew from the skateboarding magazine Big Brother. \u201cIf you have a backup plan, you\u2019re already backing out.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tDid you win any awards in high school? \n\tYou played Danny Zuko in your high school\u2019s production of Grease. You\u2019d never been in a play before that? \n\tSo what made you want to audition? Presumably competition was stiff, right? \n\tHow \u201cfriendly,\u201d Mr. Biggest Flirt? \n\tWere you surprised when you got the part? \n\tA couple of years later you\u2019d move to L.A. to try to be an actor. Was Grease the moment you were like, \u201cOK, I\u2019m going to give this a shot\u201d? \n\tWhy acting in particular, though? Because there are other ways to get out of Knoxville, Tennessee. \n\tSo luckily you came to L.A., and you didn\u2019t get in any trouble at all. \n\tWhat did your parents say? \n\tOnce things did start happening, they happened so fast. The first episode of Jackass aired in October of 2000, and within a matter of weeks, you were on the cover of Rolling Stone. \n\tYou got our writer arrested. \n\tAt what point did you realize, \u201cMy life forever is different now\u201d? \n\tDid you have anxiety about\u2014 \n\tHow did you deal with it? \n\tI\u2019ve read that during the making of the second movie things were kind of going off the rails. \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSINNA NASSERI<\/p>\n \n\tHow did you reel it in? \n\tWhen you started out, could you ever have imagined that you would be still doing it at that age? \n\tHow did it get shut down? \n\tAnd the first policewoman who shows up on the scene, she jumps out but doesn\u2019t put her car in park, and it runs into a telephone pole. I\u2019m like, \u201cOh, now they\u2019re really mad.\u201d So MTV shut us down.<\/p>\n \n\tHow did you get it going again? \n\tWhat are you thinking when you wake up in the morning the day you\u2019re going to do a big stunt? \n\tBecause you want it to be over? \n\tWhat\u2019s the bigger rush \u2014 the adrenaline before or the adrenaline after? \n\tWhat\u2019s it like being inside a cannon? \n\tYou\u2019ve personally done some of the most dangerous stuff that\u2019s ever been in Jackass. \u201cCatastrophic thinking, ruminating \u2014 my mind just fell off a cliff.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tWhat was the intervention like? \n\tYou seem like you\u2019re getting emotional talking about it now. \n\tWhat\u2019s causing the emotion? \n\tYou\u2019re talking like it\u2019s in the past, but you\u2019re about to start again. \n\tDo you guys have a safe word? \n\tDo you ever feel like you\u2019ve taken it too far? \n\tThere\u2019s been a lot of tragedy with this cast \u2014 addictions, Ryan Dunn dying in a drunk-driving accident. It\u2019s so clear that you all love one another. How do you balance that responsibility to people you really care about, but who you\u2019re also putting into situations that are\u2014 \n\tBut also potentially life-altering. \n\tAnd people can say no.\u00a0 \n\tWhy? How? \n\tLet\u2019s talk about bulls again. The bull tossing you in the last movie \u2014 that\u2019s hard footage to watch. That concussion was really hard to recover from, right? \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSINNA NASSERI<\/p>\n \n\tYou were having delusions, real traumatic brain-injury stuff. \n\tBut then I got on medicine, and it started turning around. I started feeling like myself again. And then, you slowly come out of it. But I can remember exactly how I felt then and everything that was happening in my head. It was frightening.<\/p>\n \n\tIt must have been really hard on your kids, your family. \n\tYou\u2019ve said before that your son kind of has the Jackass gene. \n\tReally? \n\tDid they recognize you? \n\tIs he out driving right now? \n\tIs it a surprise? \n\tYou produced a documentary about a coal-mining clan called The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, and you\u2019ve talked about doing one on David Allan Coe. Is that happening? \n\tYou\u2019re doing a Jackass podcast. You\u2019ve got Fear Factor going on.\u00a0 \n\tBut I really bonded with the cast, because some of them are really terrified of things, and I\u2019m just trying to help them through it a little. I didn\u2019t think I was going to be as big of a help on Fear Factor as I ended up being. I will be of no help to the Jackass guys.<\/p>\n \u201cThese days, it\u2019s tears over silly things all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tSo is everyone raring to go on Jackass 5? \n\tBam was fired during the filming of Jackass Forever for violating a clause in his contract around drug use. What\u2019s going on with him?\u00a0 \n\tWhen you started out, did you feel invincible? \n\tBut fear is a helpful instinct. \n\tYou said in your Rolling Stone cover story that you did not think Jackass would last that long. But you\u2019re 25 years in now. \n\tWhat do you do with yourself when Jackass is over? \n\tIs there anything I haven\u2019t asked you that I should have, Johnny? \n\tI hope everything goes really well with Jackass 5. Or not? What should we hope for? \t\tALEX MORRIS<\/a> is a senior writer at \u00adRolling Stone covering pop culture and politics. She wrote the Paul Mescal<\/a> cover story in October.\t<\/p>\n Production Credits<\/p>\n Photographic assistance: THOMAS PATTON. Video director of photography: GRANT BELL. Camera operator: CONNOR BELL. Audio: GRAY THOMAS-SOWERS. Production Assistant: TONY ASHLEY.
Well, it never was a good idea! It was just fun. You know how you have ideas that are terrible but are fun? This would be that.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll say, the first movie was Jeff and Spike\u2019s idea when I quit the TV show, and there was a lot of going back and forth between MTV and us. But on [movies] three and four, I just got a feeling. I can\u2019t explain it. I\u2019m constantly writing ideas and emailing them to myself, and at some point, I\u2019m like, \u201cI need to shoot these. I have to get it out of my system.\u201d<\/p>\n
We got it about 80 percent figured out. We\u2019ll figure out the rest when we get there. Sometimes we have rainy-day ideas, when we can\u2019t shoot what we were going to shoot. One day it was just, \u201cOK, go get Superglue!\u201d We got a great bit just with me and the guys messing around with Superglue.<\/p>\n
Well, different guys have different specialties. [Chris] Pontius looks great naked. Dave England will get infuriated if anybody else does anything with the poo-poo. That\u2019s his bag. I like blunt-force trauma, bulls. And if you need a little guy, we got Wee Man.<\/p>\n
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Because they hate you. They absolutely hate you, and you\u2019re going to get footage guaranteed. And I don\u2019t have to do anything. All I have to do is stand in one spot and [then] move.<\/p>\n
Not a whole finger, but maybe a tip. I don\u2019t know. There\u2019s been a lot of weird injuries.<\/p>\n
I mean, we\u2019ve broken toes, but I don\u2019t know if they\u2019ve lost them.<\/p>\n
No. No. No losing the ear. No one cares about losing an ear or a toe!<\/p>\n
Well, Dave England only has one. And we do have an idea around that that we\u2019ve been trying to shoot for 15 years, and we\u2019re trying to pull off our white whale for Jackass 5. I don\u2019t want to give it away.<\/p>\n
He is. It\u2019s just the fucking lawyers.<\/p>\n
Were you trying to get to my one injury by asking [about] all the body parts? My littlest finger?<\/p>\n
It happens.<\/p>\n
It broke its handlebars off in my gooch. And [motocross athlete] Travis Pastrana runs up and goes, \u201cI have never seen that happen.\u201d He\u2019s a little excitable, that young man.<\/p>\n
It didn\u2019t hang, but it was bulging way out, and I\u2019m like, \u201cThat doesn\u2019t seem right.\u201d So I poked it back in, and \u2014<\/p>\n
Yeah. Maybe not the right move.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s all right. I can see.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
[Pauses.] I don\u2019t want to get emotional. I can\u2019t \u2026 [starts to tear up]. Goddamn, I hate when this happens.<\/p>\n
No, it\u2019s all the time these days.<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t mess around with bulls anymore.<\/p>\n
Yeah, it\u2019s terrible. I just want to play with them. I\u2019m trying not to indulge in those thoughts.<\/p>\n
[It\u2019s] how I make my living. Don\u2019t take food out of my children\u2019s mouth.<\/p>\n
Yeah, a little. Yeah.<\/p>\n
Well, after all the concussions, I can\u2019t do [those stunts] anymore.<\/p>\n
I realize it\u2019s not the healthiest thing. So I can look at that now, as opposed to not wanting to.<\/p>\n
All your experiences and your childhood is how you end up how you are.<\/p>\n
He was funny. He was very funny, and he was either on or off. He\u2019d be checked out, but then \u2014 snap \u2014 he\u2019s right back on. He also liked the whiskey a little, so that wasn\u2019t fun.<\/p>\n
It was either moments of extreme happiness, or if dad was on the whiskey, it was \u2026 those times were tough, and you never knew when that was going to happen.<\/p>\n
She did teach Sunday school some. I grew up in the Southern Baptist church, having to go to church and all that. You\u2019re seven, eight, just having to go and sit there and be quiet and listen about burning in hell. It was a lot. I think that\u2019s maybe one of the reasons I hate being told what to do so much.<\/p>\n
Well, my father was always doing pranks on his employees, and sometimes on us growing up. I\u2019d be woken up by water in my face, and then he just starts going into a story or jokes. He just wanted me up. He would make Ex-Lax milkshakes for his employees and stage gunfights. He was hell on wheels.<\/p>\n
Well, he would give them blank guns and tell two guys at the Christmas party, \u201cYou guys get in a fight and start yelling and then take out the guns and start firing at each other.\u201d The blanks.<\/p>\n
Yeah. A lot of crazy characters in my childhood. They all worked for my father. I thought it was normal. I didn\u2019t have any clue.<\/p>\n
OK, that\u2019s a difficult question because my mom insisted I behave, but she only liked men who misbehaved. I got so many mixed signals. I mean, not just my father, for example, but all his friends; she just thought they were the sweetest boys. And they were a wild bunch. Just fights left and right, and [she\u2019d go,] \u201cOh, they\u2019re sweeeeeet!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Yeah, she was tough. But sweet. But tough. She expected me to behave, but liked people who misbehaved.<\/p>\n
Well, I don\u2019t think the fellas would say that!<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t forget male nudity.<\/p>\n
You had me at \u201cman date.\u201d<\/p>\n
It just seems like there\u2019s more penis in each film. Though the older you get, the less people want to see your penis. I\u2019ll tell you that right now. When we were filming Jackass Forever, we were like, \u201cGod, there\u2019s so much cock. We\u2019re, like, halfway through. Let\u2019s go easy on the cock the rest of the movie.\u201d And then two days later, we\u2019d be on set filming something, and we\u2019re like, \u201cEh, it\u2019s funnier if he\u2019s naked.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yeah, Jeff was the editor of Big Brother. He\u2019s now the director of Jackass, and also won Best Eyes in high school, Jeff did. Beautiful blue eyes. I was writing for the magazine, and a lot of the people from Jackass came from there. Pontius was constantly getting hired and fired by Jeff at Big Brother. And they did articles on Wee Man. Rick Kosick was the photographer for Big Brother. He shoots for us now. And it\u2019s how we met Steve-O. And then we kind of teamed up with Ryan Dunn and Bam [Margera], because they were doing [stunt] videos.<\/p>\n
Biggest flirt.<\/p>\n
No, and I can\u2019t sing at all!<\/p>\n
No, no, there was very little competition at South Young High School. My T-birds were all so stoned the whole time. But I was friendly with the teacher. She came on later in the year and sometimes we\u2019d go to bars after school, and we kind of \u2026 it happened that way.<\/p>\n
Uh \u2026 I was friendly.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/RSI-Hub-interstitial.jpg\")
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No, because I was so young and stupid. Not that I\u2019m a genius now. But, actually, some of the people in the play could sing and play instruments. I had no idea that the people I went to school with could do these certain things. And it was a lot of fun and one of my most fond memories, even though I sucked.<\/p>\n
No, no, no. It was before that. I was like 14-ish. My cousin gave me On the Road, and it blew my mind and made me want to get out.<\/p>\n
Well, I knew that I wasn\u2019t cut out to do a repetitive-type gig. I just couldn\u2019t. And I felt like, \u201cI\u2019m going to get in trouble if I stay here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yeaaaaaaaah.<\/p>\n
They were very supportive the whole time, but they thought I\u2019d come out here to get it out of my system and I\u2019d be back. But I couldn\u2019t. And I had no backup plan, because I thought at the time, \u201cIf you have a backup plan, you\u2019re already backing out.\u201d So I\u2019m like, \u201cYeah, I\u2019m just going to be out here until something happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yeah, that was wild. To go from working in a restaurant and two, three months later, you\u2019re on the cover of Rolling Stone? It was a lot for an old cow-puncher like me.<\/p>\n
Erik! Yeah. He liked it!<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t want to sound kiss-ass, but going from waiting tables to being on the cover of Rolling Stone was pretty mind-shaking. And meeting [David] Letterman for the first time.<\/p>\n
Yes, I have anxiety.<\/p>\n
Honestly, back then, I dealt with my anxiety by whiskey and forward motion. By not dealing with it.<\/p>\n
The second movie, that\u2019s when everyone was at their worst. Very naughty. That was a couple of years before we put Steve-O away [in rehab]. A lot of booze, a lot of drugs, a lot of rambunctious behavior.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
I guess I had gotten most of it out of my system \u2014 not all of it, but most. By the time the third [movie] comes around, what am I? Forty?<\/p>\n
We didn\u2019t even think it was going to get on television. And it almost didn\u2019t. It got shut down during the pilot, and we\u2019re like, \u201cWe knew it. They\u2019re not going to air this.\u201d<\/p>\n
We were doing a prank at a hardware store in West Hollywood. And I put on an orange prison outfit and dirtied up my face and was handcuffed and ran in acting like I was an escaped convict, trying to get someone to help me saw my cuffs off. And the cops \u2014 three or four carloads of cops \u2014 showed up. A couple of our crew got arrested.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know. The lawyers dealt with it. They\u2019re like, \u201cOK, you can start filming again.\u201d So we thought, \u201cOK, it might be on the air, but no one\u2019s going to watch.\u201d We were constantly surprised. We didn\u2019t think anyone was going to go to the movie. So we\u2019re very grateful, but always surprised.<\/p>\n
By that time, I just want to be there doing it.<\/p>\n
No, I just want to do it. I have to get it out of my system.<\/p>\n
I would say during \u2014 while getting stomped or while something is exploding on you. You\u2019re a little euphoric afterwards.<\/p>\n
Well, I had to sign the NDA. The only thing [about] getting shot out of a cannon is just the impact if you hit the water wrong or if you don\u2019t hit the net. That\u2019s a problem. That\u2019s a forever problem.<\/p>\n
I got to where I liked it. I loved it. They had to have an intervention with me on the second film. On the weekends, I was just like, \u201cLet\u2019s go do something.\u201d I\u2019m just running into stop signs full speed.<\/p>\n
They said, \u201cHey, we\u2019re going to do some edits tomorrow. Let\u2019s be at the office.\u201d And I walked in, and it was Jeff, Spike, I think Pontius was there, the producers. And they\u2019re like, \u201cWe got to talk.\u201d A lot of the guys cried in Jackass Number Two, but that\u2019s the only time I cried.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m the worst these days. It\u2019s tears over silly things all the time.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know. I love it. It\u2019s a big part of me. When we\u2019re filming, I\u2019m just obsessed.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s going to be fun. Well, for me. Not for the guys. It\u2019s going to be terrible for them [laughs].<\/p>\n
No! Wee Man\u2019s safe word is \u201cJeff! Jeff! Jeff!\u201d He always gets very angry at Jeff, the director. Yeah, there\u2019s no safe words.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know what that is, honestly. I don\u2019t know if Jeff and I know what that is. I ask my wife, Emily, a lot. She\u2019s good at helping me with that.<\/p>\n
Funny.<\/p>\n
Well, we all \u2026 Was I always the best role model? No. I don\u2019t know if any of us were. As far as being responsible, we all have to be responsible for our own actions and be able to recognize and accept that. You do what you want to do.<\/p>\n
Yeah, but if they say no, they\u2019re going to end up doing it.<\/p>\n
Because if they\u2019re really scared to do it, that\u2019s like, you\u2019re practically raising your hand to do it. Jeff is going to figure out a way. He\u2019s going to take you aside and be your buddy, or he\u2019s going to take you aside and give you a stern talking to, or he\u2019ll come at you, like, five or six different ways.<\/p>\n
Yeah. That took five or six months to recover.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Yeah, yeah. It was catastrophic thinking, ruminating, the whole world was closing in. I have a lot of sympathy for myself then, because your brain\u2019s feeding you terrible information. My mind just turned against me over five or six months. People would tell me, \u201cYour brain is playing tricks on you.\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cNo, no, it\u2019s happening.\u201d But nothing is happening. My mind just fell off a cliff.<\/p>\n
Hard on anyone around me.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s funny and excitable, but cares about his well-being a little more than I did. Which is wonderful. He just passed his driver\u2019s license test! I drove him to it this morning. God, I was more nervous when he was taking the driving part of the exam than I am in front of a bull.<\/p>\n
Yeah, because he wants it so bad, right? I\u2019m the worst driver, but I was helping him this morning.<\/p>\n
They recognized me because I go to that same DMV to get my license. Sometimes they\u2019ll let me dress up as a priest, or last time, I had my shirt off. So I like the people there, and I\u2019m really happy he passed.<\/p>\n
No, he\u2019s in school right now, but he\u2019s going to be driving tonight. My oldest daughter, Madison, she\u2019s a realtor in Austin. Our real last name\u2019s Clapp, so I got a billboard for her in Austin that says \u201cThe Clapp that you want,\u201d and it has her number for real estate. I\u2019m pretty happy about those two things.<\/p>\n
No, she sent me a picture of her standing in front of the billboard as it was going up. So, yeah, I\u2019m really proud of my kids. And Arlo Bear [Knoxville\u2019s third child], she\u2019s really good at painting.<\/p>\n
Well, I don\u2019t know. If you can get the money for us, it might happen. He\u2019s just a wild figure \u2014 and not just [when it comes to] country music. He was incarcerated most of the time from nine years old to [28], gets out, becomes a [member] of the outlaw motorcycle gang, got into polygamy, had nine wives at one time, recorded some very, very naughty songs \u2014 like, offensive. And one of the best things he did is in the Eighties, he\u2019s like, \u201cYou know what? I\u2019m going to become a magician.\u201d And he started doing magic and ventriloquism. I have a great picture of him all in leather with a big belt \u2014 just a big bear of a man \u2014 with his little ventriloquist doll. Like, the scariest ventriloquist you\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m having a lot of fun shooting Fear Factor because it\u2019s a real prick gift I have, and I like sharing it with the Fear Factor contestants.<\/p>\n
They are until they get on the set. Then it\u2019s like, \u201cOh, no. What are we doing?\u201d But by that time, it\u2019s too late [laughs].<\/p>\n
I hear he\u2019s doing a lot better and that makes me happy, because we\u2019ve been through so much together and I love him. I\u2019m happy he\u2019s doing well.<\/p>\n
No, I felt pretty vincible. Didn\u2019t really feel bulletproof, but I didn\u2019t really care. You just have to become comfortable with the worst-case scenarios. It\u2019s not the healthiest thing, but if you become comfortable with the worst-case scenarios, you\u2019re kind of free.<\/p>\n
Yeah. Yeah, it wasn\u2019t that fear was not present. It\u2019s just, you can just kind of metabolize it. Put it away.<\/p>\n
This will be the last one. This is the natural place to end. So it\u2019s going to be absolutely awful.<\/p>\n
Same thing I do day-to-day, be a dad, play with our crazy dog, hang out with my wife, work a little.<\/p>\n
I think there were some things you asked me that you should not have! Naw, I\u2019m just kidding!<\/p>\n
You hope it doesn\u2019t go well at all! Should be a fucking train wreck. That\u2019s what you should hope for. I think we designed it that way.<\/p>\n
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