Johnny Knoxville: The Rolling Stone Interview

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🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of The Rolling Stone Interview, Johnny Knoxville – the patron saint of beautiful stupidity – looks back on 25 years of broken bones, bad ideas, and cultural chaos as he gears up for what he insists will be the final chapter of Jackass. In a wide-ranging conversation with Rolling Stone senior writer Alex Morris, he opens up about the darker aftershocks of that legacy: concussions, “catastrophic thinking,” addiction within the cast, and the uneasy realization that aging bodies don’t bounce the way they used to. It’s a raw, unexpectedly tender reckoning with risk, rebellion, fatherhood, and how the guy who made a career out of pain is finally learning his limits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Imagine a magical land called Lexicon Valley.
0:05.0	I'm Bob Garfield.
0:06.0	And I'm Mike Voolo.
0:08.0	It's not a land. It's a podcast.
0:10.0	It's where the living poetry of human language flutters as if from the breath of angels.
0:18.0	Basically, we talk about words, where they come from, the surprising history and origins of English.
0:25.9	But don't think of Lexicon Valley as a podcast.
0:29.3	It's a state of mind.
0:31.3	No, it's a podcast.
0:33.7	Check it out wherever you get yours.
0:38.7	Welcome to the Rolling Stone interview podcast.
0:41.7	I'm Alex Morris, senior writer at Rolling Stone.
0:44.5	We recently sat down with Johnny Knoxville,
0:46.7	co-creator and star of the Jackass franchise.
0:49.5	As he prepares for what he says
0:51.3	will be Jackass's final movie,
0:53.3	he looked back on quarter century
0:55.0	of professional mayhem. You can watch the full conversation on Rolling Stone's YouTube channel
1:00.0	and Spotify video or listen wherever you get your podcasts. Please enjoy. Hi, I'm Alex Morris. I'm a senior
1:07.0	writer at Rolling Stone magazine and this is the Rolling Stone interview with Johnny Knoxville.
1:12.1	Johnny Sucksville.
1:13.3	No.
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