I'm Stephen Mechaff and this is the Slate culture gapfist new Jackass old tricks edition.

It's Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022.

On today's show, Jackass Forever, yes, it's the aptly titled movie featuring the Mary

Band of MTV pranksters they're led by Johnny Knoxville and they're doing their crazy

proudly stupid Juvenile Violin fill in the blank stunts they've been doing it for

20 years they can't stop why should they debut at the top of the box office it's doing

great business we discuss with Slate's own Sam Adams and then in the coming weeks

we'll be discussing best picture candidates today we're going to do Nightmare Alley from

director Guillermo del Toro an epic and very American tale of love money corruption

starting Bradley Cooper, Rooney Mara, Kate Blanchett it's an amazing cast I could go on

and on and then finally have you heard vibe is the new zeitgeist is New York magazine

on to something there or they just high on the smell of their own BS joining me today

is Julia Turner deputy managing editor the LA Times hey Julia hello hello and of course

Dana Stevens who is the film critic for Slate and the author of the camera man the sucked

out to my book cameraman is Buster Keaton the dawn of cinema and the invention of the

20th century and actually I had one thing to add to my weekly plug for cameraman which is

that I wanted to appeal to the people who for whatever reason are not going to buy it maybe

they can't afford to buy it their book budget is tapped out for the year I get that but if

you want to support my book without buying my book or if you've already bought it and want

to support it some more here are three things that you could do you could order it to your

library and then put yourself on hold for a copy that way the library knows people are interested

and they buy more books you could post it on your social media just go to a bookstore post a

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