Johnny Knoxville
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I just, I didn't know people lived like that.
And it was, you know, I'm from a small town in Tennessee.
And then I read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas when I was 19.
And I felt like I didn't know anyone could write like this and be so free.
And after that, I was useless.
You know, it's like my path was set, I guess.
And like in actuality, if you're living like that or your friends living like that, it's so fucking exhausting to be around.
I've had some friends who just, I mean, Steve-O, he was off the rails.
just doing the worst drugs.
You can get your hands on PCP, those nitrous canisters.
There would be, it would be a sea of nitrous canisters at his feet.
I mean, he'll tell you it was exhausting, but I mean, now he's like, he's doing great.
He's been sober for well over, we put him away in 2008.
So 17 years or something.