“It was the envy of America—now it embodies everything that’s wrong with it”: so starts a typical news story on Detroit, a sample of which appears in “Detroit Lives,” an episode in Palladium’s “Exploration” series. Hosted hilariously by Johnny Knoxville, “Detroit Lives” is about, as Knoxville puts it himself as we see him drive around Motown in a mighty classic muscle car, an attempt to “see what’s goin’ on other than all the bad stuff you hear in the news.” Monsieur Jackass discovers all this himself, taking the audience on a ride through Detroit’s cool DJ clubs, band rehearsal spaces, artist studios and classic landmarks, all to the tune of the most kickass Motor City rock anthems, “Kick Out The Jams” by the MC5. He discovers, along with the viewer, that D-Town is not, in fact, an “epic poem of failure,” but the new company town for creativity. “This is going to be the story of America,” says an o.g. resident interviewed in “Detroit Lives,” and from the evidence here, we think he just might be right. Inspirational…