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Skulls & Shopping Carts

A tribute to the Jackass crew that explores how a band of daredevils turned pain into entertainment, friendship into tragedy, and stupidity into cultural phenomenon.

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What This Book Covers

  1. This One's for the Broken Bones
  2. Chapter One - The Birth of Stupidity
  3. Chapter Two - The MTV Takeover
  4. Chapter Three - Pain for Pay: Why They Kept Doing It
  5. Chapter Four - Bam’s Empire and Fall
  6. Chapter Five - The Steve-O Miracle
  7. Chapter Six - The Knoxville Effect
  8. Chapter Seven - The Other Guys
  9. Chapter Eight - The Dunn Tragedy
  10. Chapter Nine - Behind the Bruises
  11. Chapter Ten - Jackass Forever – One Last Ride
  12. Chapter Eleven - The Culture They Created
  13. Chapter Twelve - We Owe Them One Last Laugh: Legacy and Lunacy

Excerpt

THIS ONE'S FOR THE BROKEN BONES THEY DIDN’T DO it for clout. They didn’t do it for art. They did it because they were idiots with shopping carts and a camcorder. And somehow, that made them legends. In an era where everything was starting to get filtered, polished, and safe—these guys lit themselves on fire, stapled their nuts to their thighs, and smiled at the camera. Because somebody had to. This isn’t just a tribute to pain. It’s a tribute to a family built on absurdity, to the guys who turned broken bones into laughter, and to a generation that found meaning in meaningless stunts. It’s about Johnny, Bam, Steve-O, Dunn, Wee Man, Pontius, Dave, Preston— and the rest of the crew that...

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