Name: Johnny Knoxville Praises Steve-O’s 17-Year Sobriety Journey | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend
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You've referenced Hunter S. Thompson a couple of times.

Past simple

Someone I had the honor of getting to interview, I think, twice.

And your interest early on in writing, do you know what I mean?

Those are things that I feel very connected to.

And Hunter S. Thompson was someone who put his entire himself and his body and his sanity.

And it's fascinating to me that in a way, you are in that vein.

You're saying, okay, here's my body and I'm gonna put all of it into what I do and it's gonna go through this grinder, but

We're in a bar with my cousin and he hands me the book.

And it was, you know, I'm 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.

Those are time in your life, I think I had just moved out to LA at 22, and

I'm just only reading, you know, Fear and Loathing books.

it takes you over in a way that, you know, at my age now, I don't know that it would.

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 mean, Steve O, he was off the rails, just doing the worst drugs you can get your hands on.

Those of 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.

We put him away in 2008, so 17 years or something.

So, I mean, people ask me, well, would you say something about if bravery?

Like he has to face that dragon every morning.

And he does, and he's doing great and I'm really proud of him.

It is the most impressive thing I see people do is, you know, and

it's just amazing that you can give yourself another chapter like that where it's like, Steve O.

It takes you four seconds to stand in front of a bull.

But he has to do something like this every.

When you're with all those guys and you guys together are together, do you ever have the thing of guys.

I don't want to make too much noise tonight or I got to get to bed.

I wouldn't even know how to go about trying to quiet them down, you know, it's just.

I think everyone becomes worse in those situations if someone tries to.

When the cameras are off, especially early on, it was way worse than when the cameras are on.

It's like you're talking about gremlins or don't get them wet, know.

Yeah, don't get them wet with whiskey because they're very excitable.

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