Johnny Knoxville

Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Neal Brennan

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Mental Health

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Neal Brennan interviews Johnny Knoxville ('Jackass,' 'Pretty Sure I Can Fly' podcast & more) about the things that make him feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how he is persevering despite these blocks. ---------------------------------------------------------- 00:00 Intro 1:21 Big Brother Magazine 2:10 Self-defense equipment test video 3:05 What he thought his life was going to be 5:04 Jeff Tremaine 7:04 Spike Jones 8:08 Pitching Jackass 9:29 Copycat Incidents 14:57 Fame 16:33 Hunter S. Thompson 22:45 Sponsor: Thesis 24:51 Sponsor: Therapy Path 25:45 Jackass Movies 29:35 Anxiety 32:02 Helicopter Parent 33:43 Aging as a Jackass 34:40 Concussion from Bull in Jackass Forever 38:55 Avoiding Confrontation in Personal Relationships 49:32 Self-Worth 54:13 Done with Big Stunts 56:23 Softening in Old Age 59:03 What he makes of life ---------------------------------------------------------- Listen to Johnny Knoxville's podcast 'Pretty Sure I Can Fly': https://wondery.com/shows/pretty-sure-i-can-fly-with-johnny-knoxville-elna-baker/ Follow Neal Brennan: https://www.instagram.com/nealbrennan https://twitter.com/nealbrennan https://www.tiktok.com/@mrnealbrennan Watch Neal Brennan: Crazy Good on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81728557 Watch Neal Brennan: Blocks on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81036234 Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased). Edited by Will Hagle ([email protected]) Sponsor Blocks: https://public.liveread.io/media-kit/blocks Sponsors: https://takethesis.com/ use promo code NEAL to save $60 on your subscription ---------------------------------------------------------- #podcast #comedy #mentalhealth #standup Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi guys it's the blocks podcast my guest today is um you hate to use the word icon you know what I mean
0:10.0	legend is insulting it's just old people shit. It's Johnny Knoxville from
0:14.9	Jackass everybody from we'd like to say all of it but he's from jackass.
0:19.4	I'm Johnny Knoxville. Welcome to Jackass! And he has a podcast,
0:25.0	has a podcast called Pretty Sure I Can Fly.
0:28.0	The premise is about people who kind of broke barriers who weren't sure if they could or not.
0:35.0	Yeah, they achieved something great against all odds.
0:37.5	Everyone's telling them they're crazy and most of the time they went they sacrificed physically a great amount.
0:48.4	Great. Which I'm sure you can relate to. Yes, yes, yes.
0:53.0	An unhealthy amount.
0:54.0	Yes.
0:55.0	Yes.
0:56.0	Okay, so I don't know if people remember or no.
1:01.0	So the show started, Jack had started because it was the magazine or the I guess was it a fan
1:06.9	zine big brother it was a skateboarding magazine owned by Larry Flint and the creator of Jack Asst, Jeff Tremaine was the editor.
1:21.0	Oh great.
1:22.0	And most of the cast either wrote for the magazine or were featured in the magazine.
1:27.0	And there's like two or three people that you know couple came from Westchester
1:35.2	Pennsylvania, Pam and Ryan and Dave England and Aaron came from Portland but
1:40.5	everyone else was in Big Brother. The origin there was like a video component to Big Brother? Yeah they would
1:47.3	Every couple years they would release these videos that had a lot of skating and naughty behavior.
1:55.0	I wasn't a skater, but I had some...
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