E564 Tom Green
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1 hour and 54 minutes
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204.9581
Summary
Comedian and filmmaker Tom Green talks about his return to Los Angeles after four years in his van. He talks about what it's like to be back in Los Angeles, what it s like to move back to Canada after a long break, and what he's looking forward to in the next few months.
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I'll be in Chicago, Illinois on April 24th at the Wintrust Arena.
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Fort Wayne, Indiana on April 26th at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum.
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And Miami, Florida on May 10th at the Kaseya Center.
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We also have tickets remaining in East Lansing, Victoria, BC in the Canada, College Station, Belton, Texas, Oxford, Mississippi, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Nashville, Tennessee, Winnipeg in the Canada, and Calgary in the Canada.
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He's a visual entrepreneur who really laid the blueprint for podcasting and prank shows and all types of genres.
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He's had one of the most unique and legendary careers in comedy, from the Tom Green show on MTV to as many movies like Freddy Got Fingered, Road Trip.
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He just dropped three new projects on Prime Video, a comedy special, a documentary, and a scripted show.
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We're excited to welcome Canada's son, Mr. Tom Green.
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Tom Green, it's your first day back in L.A. in four years, did you say?
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It was kind of a somewhat spontaneous decision.
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And all of a sudden, you know, I've been touring and I'll just remember, everybody stopped touring, right?
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I'm trying to remember if it was just me that stopped or did everyone stop?
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So about the first six months or so of that, I was kind of, what am I going to do?
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And then I just kind of realized I, well, I got this, I was telling you about my van.
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I got this van and I started going out into the desert and making videos and stuff.
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And I loved being out in the desert so much and just waking up in the morning with a cup of coffee and just looking at the sun coming up over the mountains and just the peacefulness of that.
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That was like the first day of the trip, I think, four years ago.
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And so then, you know, I just decided to sell my house.
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I sold my house and went back to Canada and bought a farm near where my parents live.
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And just, I can't believe four years went by, but yesterday was the first day back in Los Angeles in the van.
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So I've been touring with my fiancee who you just met.
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And we came back in the van and just drove into town yesterday.
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And it's pretty weird because it's like, it feels like I, nothing's really, it kind of makes you think about time.
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Time is weird, you know, because I went away for four years and then you come back and I drove past my house that I lived in for almost 20 years.
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And now I'm staying in a hotel right down across from where the house is.
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I can actually see the house from the hotel room.
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I sort of did that on purpose because I thought it would be weird.
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And, you know, I'm going to this, I went to Arts Deli.
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You know, I lived sort of in the Studio City area here.
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And I went to Arts Deli and got my same pastrami sandwich and my chicken noodle soup.
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And I've been going to some of the same restaurants, just been here for a day.
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It feels like I actually, I'm driving here, you know, today I was sort of almost forgot that I didn't live here anymore.
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I kept thinking, oh, I'll go back to my house after.
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But on the flip side, in the last four years, I've got a farm, which I've now really settled into.
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I've got these incredible animals, which are now I'm really bonded with, this mule and this donkey and two horses and chickens.
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And it's just like this, it's sort of been an incredible, incredible journey the last four years.
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Was it something that you always wanted to have?
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I guess every human kind of maybe feels something like that.
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No, it's weird because I never really imagined having a mule, you know, like and riding a mule every day.
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You know, I grew up in the suburbs of Ottawa, Canada.
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And a mule is kind of like the El Camino of horses in a way.
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It's not me saying, hey, I'm going to get a horse.
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I sort of thought initially I thought it would be kind of funny.
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And then the mule I happened to find, Fanny, is her name.
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And so it's just become this sort of amazing change.
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But yeah, I, you know, I, initially I hadn't, I didn't really thought of necessarily getting
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a farm with a mule and all this stuff, but I wanted to get a place that was kind of in
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And then the, the, the farm happened to have these old barns on it.
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And I thought it'd be kind of cool to get a mule in those barns.
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So I, I, I now am very much loving life up there.
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I get up in the morning and I have Sadler up and ride off into the wilderness.
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So does it, and that's never something that you wanted.
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That was never like a thing of your whole life.
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I, you know, I have my dog, Charlie, and I've always enjoyed being outdoors, but I mean,
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it just, it just kind of, I don't know, every once in a while, you know, you know,
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sometimes when an idea pops into your head and then you just go with it and then all
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And this is like that, except it sort of occurred to me afterwards, you know, as, as
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I was doing, I was realizing, you know, I'm going to have this mule for the rest of my
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You know, like they live to be, donkeys live to be up to 40, 50 years old.
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But, uh, yeah, so it's, so, but it's, you know, it's, it's, um, I think maybe I was
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looking for something that would kind of ground me and, you know, give me that home base that
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I needed, you know, this is the first, this is the first time I've ever lived somewhere
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where I know I'm going to be there for the rest of my life.
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You know, I'm planting trees and I'm thinking, oh, in 20 years, I'm going to, that tree is
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going to be, and these trees are going to be bigger.
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And I'm kind of sort of plotting out things that way.
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I can totally relate with that and what you're saying about LA.
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LA just feels like this kind of, it's almost like LA doesn't have a memory in it.
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It feels like, um, I don't know, other places, I think, especially if it's a place that's
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a little more grounded, it feels maybe more meaningful for some reason.
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I wasn't, I wasn't leaving LA cause I didn't, you know, like LA or anything.
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It was just, it was more, I wanted to be close to my parents and they're still doing good.
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And, but, um, but yeah, it's, uh, it is a, it is a unique place for sure.
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People come here from all over the world to pursue their dreams.
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And, and, uh, there's sort of a energy there that's exciting.
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But, you know, when you, as I got a little older, you know, I left when I was 50 and,
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uh, you know, uh, not married, no kids, COVID happened.
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I was like, Oh, maybe I should sell it now as opposed to, you know, five years ago, I
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So there was a moment in time, maybe I'll sell this place, you know, that I've been living
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in for 20 years, waiting for the right moment to, to feel like it was time to go.
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I kind of felt like I, uh, I wanted to be back where I grew up, you know?
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I mean, you're not, you're not from here either.
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So, you know, it's, there's something, there's something, there's something very, um, sort
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of, uh, I guess deep that you feel when you're home, you know, I know, I'm sure when, where
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But yeah, it gives you, yeah, there's a sense of like, yeah, that you've been out of
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your soil for a long time, you know, that you've kind of.
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Like when you go back to Louisiana, you must feel like, Oh, now I'm at home, right?
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Oh, there's definitely a ton of nostalgia that I love.
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You know, um, I think it makes sense that a part of you wants to kind of go back where
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you came into the world at, or be there, you know, to be, see people that care about me.
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Wonder if you've gotten enough of the, like the adventure out of your system in some ways,
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you can still have the adventure, but just have it from there, you know?
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And I think also the part, like you're saying about, this is the first time you'd ever
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I've always felt like my life was very, um, transient.
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I've never been the type of guy to get like a lot of furniture or artwork or anything.
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I'm always just like, I don't know how long I'm going to be here.
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And it's always, and here I am in my forties and it's still, I still kind of operate like
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But at a certain point, it's like, yeah, you want something that's a little bit more
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Um, and if you found a fiance, I'm sure that kind of helped a little bit.
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At least you get to be a host and a tour guide.
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Showing around my, uh, my old hometown, my, my new old hometown.
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It's, uh, so like, cause when I got this van, I, uh, I kind of got pretty good at it.
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Like going to really remote places in the American Southwest, particularly like in New Mexico,
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I did camp in Zion, but like there's, there's, there's this other kind of land called BLM land.
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It's Bureau of Land Management land that is basically all of the desert and land that
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It's managed by the Bureau of Land Management and they, they'll cut roads into the desert
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and they'll put sort of campsite areas with fire pits and stuff.
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They kind of keep it somewhat, um, organized so that people don't go driving all around
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It's called, uh, dirt, D Y R T. It's like, it's basically an app that gives you all the
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different locations of these sort of really obscure places that are not even in national
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And so it kind of like, you find stuff that is just unbelievable.
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Like, um, you know, I, I sort of can't stop talking about it to, to people that don't
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know about it, but like, I mean, you may know about Chaco Canyon, but I'd never heard
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And in fact, if you go to my last, uh, YouTube video on, uh, my YouTube channel, that's just
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Um, and you can scroll down to like the second video, go to the second video.
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So this is like Native American ruins that are, uh, essentially like built in the year
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It's like, you know, and it's like this, it's a city, you know, it's like a city in
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Um, and it's just out there in the middle of Northern New Mexico.
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And we're just going around making these videos and, but you'll see, like, look at this
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So it's like, you know, everyone always talks about Machu Picchu in Peru and they talk about
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all these incredible things in, you know, ancient, you know, uh, you know, places, but
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like the fact that you can just drive out of Albuquerque, you know, drive north of Albuquerque.
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And so we just were out there camping for four nights and, uh, exploring and hiking off into
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Do you get good rest when you're out on the road?
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It's cooking on the campfire and, and it's just been, uh, fun.
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Yeah, I got, I got sort of lots of different cameras and stuff and I, uh, I like to kind of,
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So it's, there's something about shooting out in the desert that's just so beautiful because
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you have these long horizons and, you know, big open spaces.
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But, and there's an energy there that is just something that's hard to put your finger
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But it just, you know, I, I always kind of sort of, I never really kind of, um, really maybe
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didn't even believe in that when I was younger, when people would talk about the energy and,
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But, you know, I, I feel this energy out there.
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That's just of the people that live there that built that place.
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It's, it's, it's, and, and other places like it.
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So it's kind of fun to go seek those places out, you know?
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You're like, I never have a period when I'm in Sedona or whatever.
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And you're like, well, that's, what are we talking?
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I'm saying like, but there's some great, you've met a lot of women that have said that.
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I mean, I just think you meet a lot of women who are, uh, you know, specific thing
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for a lot of people to have said, but yeah, a lot of women are keeping crystals in the
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wrong places probably, you know, but yeah, you meet a lot of wild people who are into
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But I think that's probably like, I mean, the natives, it always feels to me like the
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natives are probably so in touch, more in touch with the earth and locked in on like
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That's why they love to be in, in like the Dakotas and in the Black Hills and stuff like
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Um, and so to be able to go to one of those ruins, I bet, I bet there's still a lot of like,
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um, just a lot of prehistoric or like native connection that's just looking for souls to
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Cause I was talking to, uh, basically an archeologist the other day and you said exactly what you
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Like there's this thing called, uh, um, intuitive archeology where they go, cause there's still
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stuff out in the desert that people haven't even found yet.
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Like it's, that's how big it is and how vast it is.
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And he, so they go out into these canyons in Northern Arizona and Utah looking for signs
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And, uh, you know, they're sort of taught to intuitive archeology.
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If you're in a place that feels like it would be a nice place to have lived, you know, a
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beautiful place, there's a good chance you're, that feeling is correct.
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And then you should sort of listen to that instinct and start looking for signs of ancient
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But it's pretty amazing because you do feel something out there.
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I was, I was talking about this friend the other day too.
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Like you ever go in like an old comedy club that's been, you know, like Zaney's in Nashville
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or downtown Chicago is an old club, you know, and you see all the old pictures from the
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comics from back in the seventies and eighties.
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And, and it's, you know, that club's been there forever and you kind of feel the energy
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of, of, you see a lot of comics that have passed away on the wall and you say, oh my God,
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You know, I can sort of feel that energy of the performance in the room, you know?
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So, you know, that's, that's from 40 years ago or whatever, but now you take it back to
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And this, this place, Chaco Canyon was a whole society is like where they did trading and people
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And so it's a, it's a very peaceful thing that I do enjoy it quite a bit.
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And is that something that you and your fiance have kind of something you've really, is
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that something you guys have found you like doing together?
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I mean, so to go camping, a lot of people would end up getting separated.
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Usually I feel like this is her first time actually really coming to throughout a lot
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So she's, she's from Canada and hasn't been out to the desert before.
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So, but she's, I mean, she's, she's, we're having fun, you know, we're having fun out
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there, but it's, it's, you know, we just have, this is our first trip doing this.
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But, um, no, it wasn't scary because Amanda's amazing, you know?
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So I knew it was, uh, it was the, uh, it was the, the right thing, the, the right, this
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Like, yeah, I would like to get married, you know?
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And I'm just thinking like, man, that day when you're like, all right, I guess I'm gonna
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That sounds crazy when I say that out loud, you know?
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There was a lot of things that happened that, you know, I don't know if you want to talk
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about, you know, I'm talking a lot about energy, but coincidences and synchronicity and things
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I moved back to Canada, uh, and I have a pond on my property and in the winter it freezes
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over and I shoveled the snow off the pond and I was playing hockey on the pond, like
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And I shot a video of that and, uh, put it up on, uh, the social medias.
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You got a fast guy on the draw out there on the, uh, I just literally just said that
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and he instantly found, yeah, we're, we're, so we're drilling a hole in the pond here
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and, and that's, and then we can pump the water out of that back on top of the pond
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and give it a nice smooth, uh, icy, that's my friend, Ryan.
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This is a, it's just a little sort of a, kind of some sort of a ice auger or some sort.
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So that, so you take the hole and then you pump the water out.
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And then we got a pump, we just stick a fire hose down in there and we pump water out of
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We pump it up on top of the, of the, of the ice and just basically flood the ice.
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And then it freezes because at night, and then we get nice, some nice smooth ice out
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Uh, just a day, you know, this just took a day.
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The next morning was completely, uh, completely frozen, but then you get two feet of snow
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and then you got to do it all over again, but, uh, which kind of puts a damper on it.
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It's right now you cut the holes, you're pumping the water out of the pond onto the
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top of the ice, which is on the top of the pond.
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And then it gets, it's cold, you know, it's below zero.
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So then the next morning it was pretty much ready to, uh, now normally you would shovel
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it off first, but we just kind of, we're kind of a little, uh, lazy about that, I guess.
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And, uh, we just flooded it instead, which it ended up working out fine, but, uh, probably
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would have been better if we shoveled it off first, but that seems like that would have
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See, and then, uh, so, yeah, so we were doing this and then I was, I was shooting
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Uh, well, you know, if you have a pond, I mean, that, that was the, those are the barns
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And, um, so, you know, I, we used to do it in my backyard when I was a kid, like we
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When he was on here, he talked about flooding his backyard.
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So I saw him at the inauguration, he lost a tooth.
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I was like, man, I chipped my tooth and he's like, oh yeah.
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And he showed me this and he fricking lost one.
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Him and his wife were looking for it on the ground.
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But it had been knocked out previously in a hockey game of some sort.
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You didn't get punched out at the inauguration.
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I think he could have been shocked by some things he saw and maybe, maybe that took it out.
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But yeah, he was just missing a grill piece at the inauguration.
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So these are the types of things you're spending time doing up there.
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And a lot of that doesn't even have a lot of audio with it.
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It's really just seeing, I've noticed this in some of your videos, it's just kind of
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I kind of like to just kind of do these sort of ambient sort of things to kind of just
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I like, it's sort of like, it's like, I like photography.
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This is just doing it with video and being there.
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But after I posted that video, Amanda, my fiance, she saw it and she sent me a message on Instagram.
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And it was a video of a Zamboni, a do-it-yourself Zamboni, which is what, a Zamboni is what you
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use to clean off the ice in a hockey rink, right?
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And we started, I just started talking to her because I thought it was a funny thing
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And we, turns out we went to the same elementary school and yeah, it was just sort of, it was,
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They were excited for me to come home, believe it or not, you know, because sometimes people wonder,
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you know, cause I used to do a lot of pranks on them.
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You know, but, uh, my parents, uh, we were always very close, even when I was doing my
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show on MTV and, you know, doing pranks on them and, you know, annoying them with the
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video camera, it would sort of laugh afterwards.
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And, and we've, you know, always had a very close relationship there.
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It, you know, it's sort of about me moving home.
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And there's a documentary on prime and then the show called Tom Green Country and, uh,
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sort of, sort of about me settling in at the farm and, uh, and they're hilarious.
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Like there's something about their sense of humor is, is they're kind of razzing me in
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the new show more than, uh, me pulling pranks on them.
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liked to record things or like what you got out of like, you know, as, cause as we get
00:26:57.420
older, we, you kind of start to get a little bit of a, like a overview kind of of ourselves
00:27:02.160
even, you know, in the world, maybe a little bit, a little bit of an idea of what we have
00:27:09.800
Kind of like the reasoning behind some of it, like why you liked capturing things or
00:27:13.960
why you liked, like pulling the wool over people's or, you know.
00:27:17.980
I think there was kind of a, a few layers to that for sure.
00:27:24.240
Um, it's a great question because like, one, one thing was we never really had, you know,
00:27:33.840
you know, a video camera or, uh, you know, you know, when I was, I grew up in the eighties,
00:27:39.480
so we didn't have a video camera or even in a film cam, we didn't even take a lot of photos
00:27:44.360
and, you know, we, we, it was kind of expensive, you know, people that had a video camera, those
00:27:49.140
they had like, you know, a lot of money, they had a video camera.
00:27:51.360
We never had a video camera, you know, and so when all of a sudden they became somewhat
00:27:56.280
attainable, you know, I, I would, I would sort of sign one out at school.
00:28:01.560
Um, and I would, I found that it was kind of a, first of all, I love comedy.
00:28:12.360
I love watching him go out in the street and, you know, do stuff.
00:28:15.100
And I loved, you know, Monty Python and, you know, just SCTV.
00:28:21.380
I was, I was, I was doing standup comedy in Ottawa when I was 16 years old.
00:28:26.420
And like, I was, would go down to watch, you know, Norm Macdonald, you know, when he was
00:28:31.000
in his twenties, you know, and I was just like, it was sort of a, this amazing thing.
00:28:35.700
And I somehow had this sort of feeling that if I could just get a video camera and go film
00:28:41.840
stuff that, you know, maybe I could, uh, you know, make a show or whatever.
00:28:47.980
But there's also a skateboarder, you know, and that was, that was sort of skateboarding
00:29:01.940
I don't even know how you must've had that in advance.
00:29:04.980
Is there some sort of weird algorithm here or something like that?
00:29:07.120
I don't know if they did or not, but yeah, it looks great.
00:29:11.980
It's like, I don't even, they didn't even use the right microphone back then.
00:29:15.120
But, um, but, um, I, um, no, I just, uh, I don't know.
00:29:20.300
I often kind of like think there's something about like, I don't know.
00:29:26.620
I think I've always been really afraid of the concept of like being dead, you know, like
00:29:32.620
being gone and like there being no sort of, uh, you know, recollection of anything that
00:29:42.900
And I always found it interesting to just kind of document things and just record things
00:29:49.080
and that'll be there, you know, in some electronic way floating around there forever.
00:29:53.520
And it sort of feels in a little way, like kind of like sort of a weird kind of immortality
00:29:58.340
Uh, I think that's kind of what fascinates me about these, these ruins in the desert
00:30:03.580
Like these people came and built these things in the year 875 and now I'm walking through
00:30:07.280
it and looking at it and filming it and talking about it with you.
00:30:09.880
And so they're kind of in a way kind of remembered, you know?
00:30:13.040
Um, and then there was also just kind of the blatant, you know, when I was younger, I was
00:30:24.960
Like when I was younger, I really always needed to be kind of like, you know, the center of
00:30:29.960
attention, the class clown, moving around a lot.
00:30:34.940
So to me, it seemed like a really good way of just kind of, uh, you know, documenting
00:30:46.300
You know, I love filming stuff and showing it to people at school.
00:30:50.660
You were one of the first people really to just capture shit and just show it to people
00:30:55.080
kind of, you know, like, kind of like not shit, but I mean, just, you know, no shit
00:31:03.680
We're going to capture shit and show it to you.
00:31:07.920
And I can totally relate to what you said about, um, dude, I used to, when I was, I
00:31:13.820
guess, probably turning around 20 to probably 28, I would make postcards and I would send
00:31:21.960
Like whenever I was traveling somewhere, I would send them, I would make them out to
00:31:26.080
I just wanted my kids to know that I'd been, I needed there to be some record that I like
00:31:32.940
cared about my children, even though they weren't here yet, which is kind of a crazy thing,
00:31:38.580
Like, and I would scrapbook, I would save things.
00:31:41.160
Like I just wanted there to be like some proof that I felt something in the world and that
00:31:48.240
I think I just didn't, I don't know if I just didn't have a lot of that, like, or I needed
00:31:57.400
But yeah, I could just rely, I could definitely relate to that, to wanting to have some, uh,
00:32:05.640
So I, you know, just in case time ever showed up and said, Hey, were you here?
00:32:12.600
Here I was, you know, I could show you my homework kind of, or something, you know?
00:32:18.980
Cause I talk a little bit, my standup special about, about not having kids.
00:32:22.940
And I sometimes think it's kind of a bit of a message to my future children, uh, that,
00:32:28.960
you know, uh, that I'm aware that I haven't had them yet, you know?
00:32:32.940
And, uh, so I totally understand what you're saying about that.
00:32:35.880
It's, uh, yeah, I mean, it's, it's a weird thing, you know, because right.
00:32:42.960
20 years ago, nobody had definitely 30 years ago.
00:32:47.200
Nobody had video cameras really like they do now, but now everybody with their phones,
00:32:52.680
It's so normal now, but I just put this documentary up on prime, which is, it's called, this is
00:33:01.580
It's sort of a play on my old theme song on my show.
00:33:03.740
This is the Tom Green show was this was the song, right?
00:33:06.660
So, um, I, uh, went through like thousands of hours of video.
00:33:14.000
I'm going back looking at, you know, 17 year old me running around doing stuff.
00:33:18.340
And, uh, it was, it was actually kind of a pretty, um, somewhat terrifying experience
00:33:26.900
actually, because it was like this opportunity to kind of tell the story of everything that
00:33:33.240
happened with my show and everything that happened with my experience here in LA.
00:33:37.080
And I, I wanted to kind of, uh, you know, tell the story, right.
00:33:41.340
And I've got so much video and combing through all of it was at times, you know, uh, somewhat
00:33:50.800
kind of like, I would be looking at myself, like I'm looking at a completely different
00:33:54.220
person and I can't even believe, you know, I'm finding things I don't even remember
00:34:00.700
And I'm looking at things that are just so completely bonkers and silly and ridiculous.
00:34:06.260
I'm like, Whoa, I like, sometimes I couldn't look at the TV.
00:34:13.980
It was, I was doing it to myself 20 years, 30 years later.
00:34:17.480
And, uh, no, I wouldn't recommend it to anybody to, to go make a documentary about yourself.
00:34:22.060
Definitely hire somebody to do that and never watch it.
00:34:24.640
But no, it was, it was fun because I wanted to tell the story the right way.
00:34:29.000
But, but, um, it was also kind of very surreal, but, you know,
00:34:33.740
Was it hard to be true to yourself making like, you know, making your own documentary and,
00:34:37.320
and no one should probably make your documentary except for you.
00:34:41.740
It feels like that has so much has documented themselves so much, you know, like, um, and
00:34:48.760
I don't even know if it's, I don't know if it seemed like an egotistical way.
00:34:52.860
I don't think it ever came across like that of your footage.
00:34:54.820
It just came across that you wanted to have control over how of yourself, you wanted to
00:35:02.400
Um, but was it hard to make a documentary and not want to like make yourself the hero
00:35:08.160
Or I don't, I've never made a documentary before.
00:35:10.520
Or was there any of that in it or how do I make this?
00:35:12.900
It's like the first scene of the documentary, I'm sitting with my mother and she actually
00:35:16.520
says, are you really supposed to do it, direct a documentary about yourself?
00:35:19.700
I mean, can't you kind of whitewash that a little bit?
00:35:23.300
So, but, um, honestly the, I wanted to be, uh, you know, I wanted to be, I didn't not
00:35:32.920
want to completely like, you know, put a false story out there.
00:35:36.240
So I think the hardest part was trying to figure out how to not be too self deprecating, you
00:35:43.460
know, because, you know, you think, you know, you know, when you get to my age, uh, you know,
00:35:48.920
you look back and you think, oh my God, I wish I hadn't done that.
00:35:51.460
Or I wish I hadn't done that, or I shouldn't have said that, or shouldn't have done that.
00:35:54.160
And, you know, I have a lot of those things, right?
00:35:55.920
They're constantly rattling around in my head and you start to think like, you know, man,
00:36:01.780
maybe this is a good way for me to go and just like apologize for everything that I perceived
00:36:09.560
And then you have to kind of take a step back and go, well, wait a minute, you know, like
00:36:14.540
So I spent a lot of time talking to a lot of people about, you know, people that I know,
00:36:20.120
people I'm close with about the story of, really, it's the story of the, of the show.
00:36:26.600
And, uh, and takes us through the story of kind of creating the show and then building,
00:36:34.560
And then after the show with building a, you know, a sort of a web TV studio, right?
00:36:42.180
And it's sort of a telling of that story, but then I wanted to talk, you know, a bit
00:36:46.760
about some of the, uh, you know, personal sort of, uh, you know, uh, things that I went
00:36:52.940
I mean, I had cancer when I was on MTV and I talked about that.
00:36:57.320
I had, you know, I made, I made this movie, Freddie Got Fingered, which was, you know,
00:37:06.200
So, you know, so it's like, I wanted, I wanted to explain myself a bit, but then, uh, you
00:37:12.740
know, at the same time, there's a lot of people now that like the movie, believe it or not.
00:37:15.600
So I didn't want to completely, you know, and hate the critics.
00:37:19.240
So it's sort of like, it was a very tricky balancing act.
00:37:24.280
And, uh, and then on, on top of that, there's just so much footage and so many weird little
00:37:28.300
funny clips that only I know are the ones that people like, or people have or haven't
00:37:33.840
And I kind of wanted to make sense of that all and piece it all together.
00:37:36.420
I don't think anyone else would have been able to find it all, you know?
00:37:39.640
So, but, uh, was there a project that you kind of wanted to do over the years that you
00:37:44.500
didn't really nail or you didn't that something that didn't happen?
00:37:51.460
I mean, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's interesting.
00:37:55.540
Cause like, in fact, that's part of what the documentary is about.
00:37:59.580
Cause like when I was, uh, got into making the show when I was growing up, all I could
00:38:07.300
even imagine myself doing was I wanted to be a talk show host.
00:38:11.360
You know, I want to do basically a show like David Letterman, right?
00:38:15.280
And then I go out in the street and, you know, be a nutcase, you know, do goofy stuff.
00:38:19.500
And, uh, I got to do that, you know, a few times over the years and, um, you know, when
00:38:27.040
those shows go away, you know, initially when that happened, you know, that was back in the
00:38:31.760
day of MTV, you know, the first show I stopped when I, when I got sick.
00:38:34.920
So, you know, it didn't actually get canceled, the Tom Green show.
00:38:37.800
But then when I started, I did a nightly show, it kind of, you know, when it kind of got canceled,
00:38:43.360
I was thinking, oh my gosh, you know, this is the worst thing that could ever happen to
00:38:48.120
me that I could ever imagine that I'm not going to be able to do a nightly talk show.
00:38:55.200
You know, like this just was like, this was devastating to me, you know?
00:38:58.420
And as time marches on and I look at all the things that I've done instead, you know,
00:39:05.460
into, you know, touring, doing standup or, or moving back to the farm and, uh, and, and,
00:39:11.560
and everything in between, I kind of realized, man, I'm kind of, kind of glad that actually
00:39:17.280
didn't work out because I, if it, if it, if it, if that, if that show had been a big
00:39:20.760
hit, then I would have been going down to the same studio every night for the last 30
00:39:23.700
years and I wouldn't have gotten to do all these other things, you know?
00:39:25.860
So, so, you know, Freddie got fingered, of course, was a idiotic movie, you know, purposefully
00:39:37.460
I wrote it with my friend, Derek, and we, I directed it.
00:39:41.180
Was it your first time you'd ever directed a movie?
00:39:44.140
It was, but it was, we had a budget, you know, it was 20th Century Fox.
00:39:47.280
We had, you know, cause the show was doing good on MTV.
00:39:49.940
So they, uh, they let me direct it, you know, they let me do that, which was, um, you know,
00:39:55.160
probably a mistake, but no, they, uh, no, it was, uh, you know, we really pushed it to
00:39:59.080
make it like, we were, you know, we were in our twenties, you know?
00:40:01.560
So the, the idea was let's make this the craziest movie ever made.
00:40:05.180
You know, it's literally, we actually believed that we could do something like that, you
00:40:08.200
Um, and, um, and, uh, so it, it gets complicated cause then, you know, how do you define failure?
00:40:15.320
You know, like it's, it, it, it came out Roger Ebert and, uh, it wasn't Siskel.
00:40:33.600
But it was, they, uh, they, uh, you know, trashed it.
00:40:36.160
And, uh, you're kind of thinking at the time, man, this is devastating, you know, uh, Ebert
00:40:39.440
and Roper are trashing my film, you know, but, um, and, and you think, oh, you start
00:40:45.380
to question, you know, what every sort of choice you've made, you know?
00:40:48.900
This guy looks like he also likes canned sardines at the same time.
00:40:51.640
So, and it is, these days who would, nobody even trust the critics anyway.
00:40:55.360
So it's kind of funny now that it's like, yeah.
00:40:58.020
At the time, like it was the end of, you know, the line.
00:41:05.040
It's like my first movie and, and it was every, all this stuff riding on it.
00:41:10.440
And I remember just sitting there like watching this, just thinking, oh my gosh, this is it.
00:41:15.660
But you know, it's, it wasn't, you know, I just kept going, kept doing my thing.
00:41:18.360
And, uh, and you look back at it and go, it's kind of funny now that they, they didn't
00:41:26.060
Cause there's a weird sort of counterintuitiveness to it.
00:41:28.840
Cause we set out to make a movie that those guys would not like.
00:41:32.440
And then when they don't like it, you're upset about it.
00:41:35.240
It's like, I kind of thought that they would sort of see the irony and go, I know we're
00:41:39.160
not supposed to like this, but actually this kid's pretty clever.
00:41:50.520
Plus an additional 10 on, uh, you know, promotion and marketing and stuff.
00:42:00.140
So I think I've heard it made 35 million on DVD.
00:42:13.940
But, you know, Ebert and Roper aren't going to tell you that though.
00:42:21.900
I mean, it was in a way, but in the sense that it, you know, it bombed.
00:42:27.520
But, you know, no, it was, it was, uh, it's funny.
00:42:32.320
There was a long period of time there where I was made to feel like it was a really bad
00:42:36.740
And then in the last like 10 years, it's like, you know, all I hear are people saying
00:42:44.300
You know, someone today showed me they had an x-ray cat tattoo, you know, like it's a
00:42:50.260
So it's like, um, it's, it is a little confusing when you talk about sort of, uh, I mean, your
00:42:55.460
question was how do you handle things like failure and things like that?
00:42:58.520
It's like, you know, it's kind of, uh, the more of those kinds of things you go through,
00:43:04.380
the more you kind of learn to kind of embrace it in a way.
00:43:07.480
It's kind of a, it's almost a good thing, you know?
00:43:10.660
David Spade and I just wrote a movie together, not to name drop or anything, but we did and
00:43:21.900
It's, it's exciting too, but it's also like, yeah, I just one day I'll be like, I, that's
00:43:27.160
I was trying to be creative and we tried our best and I got to try it with, you know, somebody
00:43:41.380
Kind of like a Joe dirt two, three kind of thing or a, yeah, it's like, um, no, it's a
00:43:51.000
I get, my character gets hit by a car when he's young and Spade, uh, rescues me and he
00:43:59.380
and I become friends in and he gets me a job years later.
00:44:01.860
We're working together like at a sewage company and, um, repo man, man kind of thing.
00:44:08.000
Well, you know, you have, the thing is that you're, you're in good hands here cause you're
00:44:15.720
Kind of like, if I had to direct it to, like, I like to like chime in with the director
00:44:19.740
and stuff like that and throw in ideas and stuff like that.
00:44:22.700
And, uh, but it's just definitely a big learning curve.
00:44:26.400
So I can't imagine, especially in our budget, it's just a couple million bucks.
00:44:29.700
So if it were really big, that'd be really, I feel like it'd be scary kind of.
00:44:36.000
Things cost more, um, you know, it was, it was at the time was considered a low budget
00:44:42.500
But, uh, but, um, you know, I think, I think that, uh, I don't know, it just seems like
00:44:49.420
the way things get released these days and the ways people embrace weirdness these days,
00:45:06.000
Like, you know, you have this incredible thing going with your show here, so you have your
00:45:11.480
audience built in, so you, you don't really have to worry about the same things that maybe
00:45:16.040
back in the day when you put out something crazy and sort of in a sea of somewhat normal
00:45:21.680
movies coming out every weekend, all getting funneled through this sort of mainstream, you
00:45:31.640
It's very strange, you know, like we had to take the movie and focus group it.
00:45:36.740
And then people would sit there with pads and it was in Phoenix.
00:45:40.480
We went to, we flew down to Phoenix to focus group.
00:45:44.360
For some reason they do them there in Phoenix and, uh, you know, and, and, and like, you
00:45:49.480
know, then, then someone stands up after the movie and asks them what, what they didn't
00:45:55.220
I mean, we're sort of, you're sort of supposed to not like any of these scenes.
00:45:59.200
You're supposed to be, you know, kind of polarizing.
00:46:02.220
So it didn't really kind of work with the focus group system and then you had to make
00:46:08.440
But you're probably, you guys probably are, have a lot more creative control over things.
00:46:13.200
I think we'll just make a trailer and put it out.
00:46:17.320
I'm just, uh, I haven't, part of my brain hasn't even gotten to that thought, that thought
00:46:21.080
yet, you know, but it's, it's definitely feels kind of, yeah, it feels like, just like, well,
00:46:43.640
Um, how did you deal whenever there were tough times?
00:46:46.340
Like, because you had so much of like recording yourself, like setting, you know, like kind
00:46:50.840
of like living under your own recording schedule and stuff like that.
00:46:55.760
Like when you, um, would just have your show from home, right?
00:46:59.060
Was there days where you would just like take off?
00:47:12.840
Any sort of, uh, podcasting yet wasn't really a thing really, right?
00:47:18.660
So, so we built the studio and it would basically just stream to my website.
00:47:27.340
Um, and people would come and watch it on the front page of, of tomgreen.com.
00:47:31.940
Um, and we actually had like a company in San Francisco that made like the, the video playback
00:47:38.420
system, you know, so it was CDN content distribution network.
00:47:42.020
It was basically, so we would upload a video to that.
00:47:44.260
We, there was, we weren't uploading it to YouTube and linking it or there was, there was no YouTube
00:47:49.220
So, so it was kind of just a big sort of science experiment that I was doing with, uh, you know,
00:47:58.980
Um, and, you know, I, I had, uh, I had the sort of goal of trying to sort of make it a
00:48:10.940
show that would become profitable, get advertisers and maybe sell it to television, which we did
00:48:17.320
Um, so, you know, I was kind of, um, pretty driven, I guess.
00:48:23.000
And it's kind of what I noticed now with like podcasting, which is amazing is like, you know,
00:48:28.820
the people that have these incredible businesses that they've got going, these incredible,
00:48:33.740
you know, artistic visions they have for themselves, they're all kind of have that same kind of
00:48:39.020
You know, they get up in the morning, their mind is just like, how are we going to make
00:48:43.900
You know, how are we going to make this awesome today?
00:48:45.440
So it was kind of, it was kind of like that, you know, we were getting up and turning on
00:48:51.480
the studio every night and I'd be inviting up, you know, rappers and Too Short came up
00:48:58.180
and, you know, Jurassic Five and Exhibit and then, you know, you'd wrap up comedian, invite
00:49:03.500
comedians up and like Joe Rogan would come over and, you know, Norm MacDonald, who I became
00:49:08.340
good friends with, you know, would start coming over all the time and, you know, literally
00:49:13.540
like hundreds and hundreds of people would come over and it became this kind of really
00:49:32.000
I mean, we were just enjoying the absurdity of it.
00:49:38.360
It was because I put pressure on myself and I would actually get stressed out about it.
00:49:42.440
And then we would have people that would prank call us.
00:49:45.340
So I had this phone system on the desk and you could just call it and it would ring and
00:49:50.240
And so we had like, you know, people trolling us basically.
00:49:54.400
I remember getting Rick rolled for the first time, you know, and I was like, and it was
00:49:57.420
like, oh, I've kind of felt like, I don't know if I'd ever heard of Rick rolling before
00:50:03.980
And it became kind of like a little bit of a game, you know, like where we were...
00:50:08.100
There was a switch that I'd built with, uh, uh, Bill Schnitzer was his name.
00:50:14.940
And, uh, Victor, a couple of the guys that worked there.
00:50:23.080
And it was like we got a metal box with a switch and we had wires and we soldered them together.
00:50:30.460
And then Bill was able to program the computer so that when, like, I flipped that switch,
00:50:38.100
it would, like, if everything was off, it's the middle of the night in my house.
00:50:46.720
And if I were to get up at one o'clock in the morning by myself and put clown makeup on,
00:50:52.380
which I often did, and, and, and a top hat and walk out into my living room and flick
00:50:57.320
the switch, the switch would turn on the lights, would turn on the cameras, would turn on the
00:51:02.740
This computer would tell this computer to start recording.
00:51:08.220
It would send it to the front page of my website.
00:51:11.840
I just, all I've, all I've done is put on some clown makeup and flipped a switch, right?
00:51:14.960
You don't have to put on the clown makeup, but I did do that often.
00:51:23.940
But, um, and, uh, but, uh, and, uh, then the phone would start ringing and I'd just be
00:51:28.480
I'd have a switcher on the desk so I could switch the cameras and, uh, I would just start
00:51:32.200
taking calls and it was really the only live video on the internet.
00:51:39.060
Like, that's, there was no Instagram live or anything.
00:51:41.280
So it was like, you know, you imagine when I was a kid, I wanted to do, I like prank
00:51:49.640
And, uh, I would call into the radio station and I'd record it.
00:51:53.840
And then I'd call into the radio station and I'd pretend I was like my friend's father.
00:51:58.460
And I'd call and I'd start complaining about my son and I'd use his name and I'd play the
00:52:04.340
And, um, so I loved that, like pranking a radio station.
00:52:10.580
And I kind of started to realize, like, we're the only live show on the internet right now
00:52:19.960
All these people like me around the world could now call in and prank me, you know?
00:52:26.400
And so we kind of got into this little sort of war, basically, you know, which is, which
00:52:35.660
But then also I kind of didn't have to turn the phone on, you know, um, so it was, it was,
00:52:44.040
And, you know, I got to meet a lot of great people, you know, I mean, that's where I really
00:52:48.240
got to hang out with, you know, Joe Rogan for the first time, really.
00:52:52.140
And, uh, and Norm, who I became really close with and, and so many other people.
00:52:59.300
So did Norm, um, did you talk to him much in the later years?
00:53:04.520
Well, at the, at the very end, I did not know that he was sick.
00:53:15.240
And he started at the same comedy club that I started at, at Yuck Yucks in Ottawa.
00:53:19.140
Howard Wagman, who's the, uh, still owns the comedy club in Ottawa.
00:53:24.960
Uh, Yuck Yucks, which is like all across Canada.
00:53:32.840
And, you know, he, you know, he put Norm on the stage for the first time and, uh, you know,
00:53:37.620
tells his story about how Norm got off stage the very first time he did stand up.
00:53:40.940
He was in his twenties and he didn't think he did well.
00:53:45.520
And Howard chased him down Spark Street in Ottawa and stopped and said, you got to come
00:53:50.020
And, you know, he made him come back because he saw, he saw his, uh, his genius.
00:53:56.480
Um, they just had a, they were just talking about him.
00:53:58.600
Uh, I just watched the SNL monologue that he did one time.
00:54:01.760
That was pretty great where he's like, they fired me from the show, but now they want
00:54:07.480
Which is, and how it just didn't even make any, make any sense.
00:54:17.440
Like I find myself sometimes now talking about 2005, like it was like 50 years ago or something
00:54:25.100
Things have changed so much in the last 20 years with social media that it does really
00:54:36.320
And you know, the first time he came up, I just couldn't believe I was going to hang out
00:54:39.940
with them, you know, and hang out with them for two hours on camera, um, sort of in some
00:54:47.640
ways kind of doing a make believe talk show, even though there were people watching, it
00:54:51.320
was kind of like, you know, experimental talk show and he was getting into that.
00:54:57.120
And then the show would end and we'd go, you know, on YouTube and go look at videos.
00:55:03.620
And I was like, I remember it was like, YouTube was so new that it was just the strangest thing.
00:55:09.200
I'd be sitting with Norm MacDonald after doing this for two hours.
00:55:12.000
And we'd sit in there watching, you know, crazy clips that he would find, uh, you know,
00:55:18.380
like baby versus Cobra, you know, with the Cobra's mouth sewed together.
00:55:25.360
I remember watching these videos with Norm and just dying of laughter, you know, in the
00:55:31.340
middle of the night and just thinking, this is, this is cool.
00:55:33.400
Now it's just so normal to look at viral videos and stuff.
00:55:36.020
But back then we thought we were just, have you ever seen this video?
00:55:39.720
This is, I mean, it's a little bit, you kind of, can you play the audio too?
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Because the audio is sort of important for this one.
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These are filled with Chamberson grapes and the winner this Saturday is some music, eating
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international foods, having wine tours and tasting, vineyard tours, seminars, arts and crafts.
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If people's heads are real small, they should not talk a lot.
00:56:32.760
That's the, that's your takeaway for this is her head size as well.
00:56:35.780
It is true though, by the way, I'd never noticed that.
00:56:39.380
When people with small heads talk a lot, it feels like they're, they're cheating the system
00:56:44.700
I just feel like a regular head, you get a regular amount of words, small head, less
00:56:53.220
Or just, or at least just talk in sort of the amount of words that your head should justify,
00:57:00.720
Don't be a crazy little head just doing a bunch.
00:57:04.260
I dated a girl one time for a while with a small head, beautiful girl, great girl, but
00:57:11.920
You wouldn't see her just yammering on like some big head, you know, so I look in.
00:57:18.680
Did you notice right away that she had a particularly small head or was that something that sort of
00:57:23.460
She had big hair, big kind of Italian-ish hair and every now and then I would feel her
00:57:28.960
head and I was like, oh, I feel like there should be a little more head here, you know?
00:57:32.680
So once you got under the, the hair was puffed out, probably purposefully, we probably knew
00:57:45.140
But yeah, cool girl, small head, but knew how to use it, right?
00:57:51.360
Not somebody that was ambivalent to their head size and is just running around just squawking
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I went to the 40th, and I remember that was, that is just the most surreal thing.
01:00:17.420
If it's anything, I imagine it was, like, just everybody is there, right?
01:00:21.760
Yeah, I'll get to go to the music night, and then I'm buddies with Louis C.K.
01:00:31.560
On Saturday night, which was crazy, because Chris Rock is always, like, my favorite comedian
01:00:35.180
growing up, and so just to even be able to be there, I definitely felt, like, out of
01:00:39.640
place or whatever, but it was also cool, you know, just to, like, you know, kind of fly
01:00:44.780
So did you do really actually feel out of place there?
01:00:49.160
Just, like, it feels, like, kind of fancy, you know?
01:00:52.000
I mean, I could tell right when I saw Chris Rock how I felt.
01:00:55.260
Like, some people, you don't get nervous on them, or you've seen them a couple times, and
01:00:58.400
so there becomes a little bit ambiance, you know?
01:01:04.220
And so, yeah, I think that created some of the nervous energy.
01:01:08.000
Some other people I did know, so it wasn't that bad, but I got introduced to people that
01:01:12.680
I didn't know, and so you're always, like, I don't know, I don't usually say a lot then.
01:01:21.900
See, I get like that, too, and I wish I didn't.
01:01:24.580
This sort of social anxiety when you're in an environment like that, where there's just
01:01:28.680
all these, you know, people that you admire and respect and are around you and everybody,
01:01:33.500
it's kind of, I kind of don't even feel like myself, you know?
01:01:45.180
Well, I think it's because you're a little bit probably, I don't know how I fit in this
01:01:49.980
There's a lot of circles in the world where I get...
01:01:53.080
You just interviewed the president of the United States.
01:01:55.840
I mean, everybody, you've got this incredible show.
01:01:58.100
I mean, I'm sure everybody was super excited to see you there, so you probably don't really
01:02:01.640
have any reason to feel nervous, but you still do, right?
01:02:04.640
Yeah, yeah, I guess, yeah, I just didn't know, I hadn't been in that circle before.
01:02:09.380
It's kind of like, I guess, when you're in a, I don't know, when you're in, just feel
01:02:13.580
like you're in a new water, you're figuring out the temperature, you don't know, you know,
01:02:17.540
you don't want to make a lot of noise at somebody's birthday party.
01:02:23.780
So you just want to kind of, you know, you don't want to overstay your welcome, you know,
01:02:34.780
I'm just happy to be here, happy to be able to see somebody celebrate their birthday, to
01:02:39.780
witness people that I admire from a little bit of a way, you know, from a little closer
01:02:44.400
than I'm usually allowed to get to them, you know, online or on TV, I guess.
01:02:48.120
Um, but the SNL thing was, we went to the music, they had a music show.
01:02:54.860
And that's, that's the part that I got to go to.
01:02:57.720
Uh, just seeing different bands, Jelly Roll performed.
01:03:04.920
And so I knew my buddy was, you know, we were just kind of milling around, running into
01:03:09.240
some people that we knew and meeting some new people, but it was pretty chill.
01:03:11.940
So when you went to the, you went to the inauguration too, right?
01:03:15.220
So like when you go to the inauguration and you've already, now, you know, the president
01:03:20.280
of the United States, cause you'd had this interview with him.
01:03:24.040
Like, do you get to kind of hang out with him at the inauguration or?
01:03:29.100
I was in like the second tier of humans there or something, you know, like there was a first
01:03:34.640
tier and then I was in like this, a second tier of humans that were there.
01:03:39.580
But that's got to be kind of, uh, still interesting nonetheless to be there.
01:03:44.680
Cause I never, you don't even know if like the, the, the process is real.
01:03:48.360
You see it on TV, but it's like, who knows if that shit's real, who knows what's real
01:03:54.420
Just to be in Washington DC is always pretty neat with all the architecture.
01:04:01.780
Like I'll message with his daughter sometimes, Ivanka.
01:04:08.440
She'll just send me a book that she thinks I would like.
01:04:16.560
Um, and so go to dinner with her a lot or no, I only went one time.
01:04:22.160
Was, was her husband, Jared there or was it just you two?
01:04:26.800
I'm not trying to make break any news here, but it sounds interesting.
01:04:34.640
And then there's like a middleman, like who worked with the, I guess, I guess he worked
01:04:39.740
with the Republican party and he got to invite some people.
01:04:43.880
So it was just a motley group of strange people that, uh, went to the inauguration.
01:04:51.900
So when, like when he like came on your show, right, it was right before the election
01:04:57.720
Did he, did he, did they approach you or they call you?
01:05:00.160
Is it, I, his son was a, is a fan of your show, right?
01:05:03.800
He said Barron was a fan of the show and I tried to get to see Barron, but I didn't get
01:05:07.120
So he just got a call one day and Trump wanted to come on the show and.
01:05:10.820
Well, I'd seen, I'd met Trump a couple of times at UFC.
01:05:15.100
UFC, I think is, had everything to do with winning the election probably for, for the Republicans.
01:05:23.100
Because Dana White is just such a, um, facilitator.
01:05:29.340
He kept his sport going while all the other sports were shut down.
01:05:32.640
A lot of them were shut down or, uh, having to practice really intense methods during COVID.
01:05:39.940
Like, um, and so he would, he brought Trump to a lot of his events cause they've been friends
01:05:45.900
And so I'd met him there a couple of times and then I knew his brother died of alcoholism.
01:05:50.060
So I was like, well, let me call him and let me ask Dana if, if Trump would ever talk about
01:05:55.700
I didn't know about it, you know, and just to see what he's like, like, is he just all
01:06:02.060
Cause when you're, you don't get a lot of, you don't hear a lot about his feelings, Trump's
01:06:07.920
And if you do, he doesn't communicate it in a way where it's very emotional to people.
01:06:16.360
So yeah, I called up Dana and he said, we'll make it happen.
01:06:19.680
And then two days later he called back and he said, all good.
01:06:22.620
Somebody from his group is going to reach out to you.
01:06:27.820
And we offered, we would have, we would have loved to add, um, Harris and Walls on.
01:06:32.840
We tried to get Harris on even after the election, but they just didn't want to come.
01:06:40.840
They didn't do, didn't go on a lot of the shows that.
01:06:46.840
I think people are, if something's too much behind the glass these days, people don't
01:06:51.540
I don't even think it's, they don't, that they don't trust the person behind the glass.
01:06:54.360
I think they just don't trust the fucking glass if that makes any sense.
01:07:02.700
I'm kind of out of sorts with the way that they're handling like the Gaza, Palestine
01:07:06.920
Like that shit really, I think is insane to me, you know, but that's just, you know, you
01:07:15.800
It's kind of a endless sort of, uh, you know, uh, quagmire you can find yourself in once
01:07:26.600
In this world we're living in now, because it's like, you know, you go on the road,
01:07:31.340
you do stand up all around the country and, you know, everybody's sort of divided in a
01:07:38.360
And then you start sort of firmly choosing a side and all of a sudden half the audience
01:07:49.240
Like, okay, well, do I, do I want to give my opinion anymore about what's going on in
01:07:55.180
Uh, you know, and then, you know, you have to choose one of the, you know, set of opinions
01:08:01.180
that are on this side or the set of opinions that are all evenly and neatly put on this
01:08:05.920
And as soon as you state your opinion about one of these issues that just happens to be
01:08:10.160
on this side, then anybody that doesn't agree with you no longer, you know, wants to,
01:08:14.760
wants to fuck with you and come to your show or have a good time or have a laugh with
01:08:19.060
So it's just such a shitty thing to have to deal with that.
01:08:21.820
So how do you, how do you kind of like, uh, you know, juggle that, you know, because,
01:08:26.120
you know, as Canadian, you know, like it's like right now in Canada, people are pretty
01:08:29.460
upset, you know, with, uh, you know, with Donald Trump because he's putting these tariffs
01:08:35.200
And saying they're going to make us a 51st state.
01:08:38.300
People aren't too happy about the idea of, uh, you know, being taken over by the United States
01:08:44.260
It's not something that people are super excited about hearing, you know?
01:08:47.220
So, you know, you kind of, you kind of go, it's funny because I, sometimes I think like,
01:08:52.460
well, I think a lot of Americans who aren't, don't think about it that much might think
01:08:56.420
like, oh, Canada is going to be the 51st state.
01:09:00.800
I bet you everyone in Canada must be really excited about being the 51st state of the United
01:09:05.920
But, you know, I'm kind of saying, well, no, it'll probably be the first state in America
01:09:09.140
that nobody in it wants to be America, you know?
01:09:11.700
So, uh, so, cause you know, we've, we've got our own country.
01:09:15.340
It's not that we don't, don't, don't love America.
01:09:17.460
I love America, but we, you know, we sort of have our, our, our, our entire different
01:09:21.400
You know, you go to Canada all the time, right?
01:09:27.440
You're nice to have, you know, people will be, somebody will walk across the street in
01:09:34.360
And then go back across the street and then nothing even happened.
01:09:37.420
And yeah, they just came off just to apologize.
01:09:39.780
There's no even, you've never seen them before, you know?
01:09:47.420
A lot of times it's good people, you know, like, um, I love Canada.
01:09:53.260
I wish, I wish that there was, there's times I've wanted to be, be Canadian even.
01:09:58.000
What's, uh, do you remember the first time you went to Canada?
01:10:09.460
That was probably 50, 18 years ago, 17 years ago.
01:10:19.580
I was left out of there on a school floating university.
01:10:21.880
I left out of Vancouver called Semester at Sea.
01:10:24.600
And it went around the globe and we left out of Vancouver, but I went up to Whistler.
01:10:29.840
Some guy took me hitchhiking up to Whistler, right?
01:10:33.720
And the dude, the guy who drove me, he was a caretaker for Superman who had died.
01:10:49.740
I was at some shop right around there and he was saying he was in the area or something.
01:10:55.820
He's like, I'm taking the drive up to Whistler.
01:10:59.480
So he took me up to Whistler, man, brought me back.
01:11:01.360
We stopped along the way, went on some hikes and stuff.
01:11:06.680
I used to have a dream that I would meet a wife in Toronto.
01:11:10.680
But I went and did two weeks of comedy up there, didn't meet anyone.
01:11:20.560
Halifax was one of my favorite shows I've ever had in my life.
01:11:23.800
Dude, I even made, my little nephew made up this joke.
01:11:31.700
I was like, yeah, I heard one time that there wasn't any more fish up here, and so they changed
01:11:37.800
the name to No Fish Scotia, and nobody laughed, right?
01:11:46.100
No, that's why I'm laughing, because I can imagine the reaction.
01:11:50.300
Sometimes there's something great when they don't laugh.
01:12:00.240
I think it's bizarre that Trump would say something like that, and it's also, like,
01:12:05.620
it just, but what do you expect out of him, you know?
01:12:08.920
And what do you expect about the media to spotlight things and make it whatever it is, even if
01:12:13.780
it's a seed of something, to grow it into a million plants, you know?
01:12:20.120
I think, you know, there's a thing that's going on, the hockey games in Canada now, where
01:12:23.380
the USA and Canada are playing, and, you know, they boo.
01:12:26.340
Yeah, and the Canadian fans were booing the anthem, right?
01:12:29.340
And, you know, sometimes I go, like, well, I don't, you know, based on the reaction on
01:12:33.280
social media, I sort of feel like maybe not everybody in the U.S. necessarily understands
01:12:40.880
You know, they don't know it's about the tariffs, you know?
01:12:43.980
They're booing this, the fact that these tariffs are being put on, you know, which is going
01:12:51.200
The economy on both sides will suffer from that, right?
01:12:53.500
I'm sitting here, like, talking about it like I know about it, you know?
01:12:57.460
But it's like, you know, I think people are just kind of like, why are you guys doing
01:13:06.140
But, you know, you want to talk about issues sometimes, and then you go, okay, I've just
01:13:10.740
waded into this sort of hornet's nest, and I'm never going to hear the end of it.
01:13:17.360
What was it, when you're at the inauguration, after the inauguration, where you're like
01:13:21.980
kind of just, are you kind of, who are you hanging out with there?
01:13:35.740
He's the youngest billionaire ever, this Chinese kid.
01:13:48.240
That was probably the neatest thing that happened that weekend.
01:13:59.700
I was just happy to be dining with the Chinese, you know?
01:14:29.560
Yeah, so it was just, that was kind of, those were some of the neat parts of it.
01:14:36.400
Yeah, I think they're having issues, even in America, they're having, I just saw that there's
01:14:39.560
a part of Oregon that wanted to secede from Oregon.
01:14:44.580
They're going to become Canada's 11th province.
01:14:48.460
I would love it if we started trading pieces of our country.
01:14:56.300
You guys can, you know, take, I'm not going to say who you guys can take, but, you know,
01:15:12.240
Yeah, so I grew up in Quebec, so I love Quebec, yeah.
01:15:15.120
Yeah, you must have been up to the Montreal Festival over the years or.
01:15:21.920
Edmonton, we got some of the places we went to, Calgary and Ottawa and Winnipeg.
01:15:27.680
So when you're in Ottawa, maybe if you're rolling past the farm and the tour bus.
01:15:32.600
Come by the farm and we'll go ride some mules or something.
01:15:45.640
Do you think you'll have, now that you're kind of feeling settled out there, do you think,
01:15:50.400
do you start thinking about starting a family or no?
01:15:54.660
So, you know, knock on wood, everything goes well with that.
01:16:13.920
Was it, for a while, did you think that that wasn't going to be a part of your life?
01:16:16.680
I was starting to question whether or not it was going to be part of my life because, you know, I mean, I think you kind of alluded to this earlier.
01:16:27.120
You know, you want to, you know, if you're going to get married, you want to get married to somebody that you, you know, love and actually think that this could, you know, last forever.
01:16:41.220
I was starting to question whether or not that was maybe possible.
01:16:44.320
You know, I wasn't sure if that was possible anymore to find somebody that I thought would last forever with.
01:16:48.520
But, you know, when I met Amanda, she's outside.
01:16:55.260
So, but it's, you know, until you meet that person, you know, it does start to feel kind of like, geez, this is getting a little kind of, you know, uncertain here.
01:17:07.480
Yeah, I think that's how I think about it because I think when you're younger, like you have this feeling of like this young love energy type of thing.
01:17:14.780
And that starts to, it feels, that feels less possible the older we get kind of, you know, it just starts to dissipate or it's like, oh, well, I just, I'm too wise now or I've had too much experience now that I'm never going to have that sort of like whimsical feeling of like, you know, that a 17 year old or a 23 year old would have, you know.
01:17:34.080
So, but it's nice to know that that can kind of sneak up and surprise you, you know.
01:17:39.220
Yeah, I think kind of, I mean, I think being home where I'm from helped, you know, because it's like, I don't know.
01:17:51.060
I mean, if you're not from Los Angeles, then it's kind of a weird place.
01:17:56.980
But if you're not from Los Angeles, you know, it's kind of a weird place.
01:18:00.380
So, you know, you're here probably focused on your career and your work and so many other people are.
01:18:08.860
It's kind of hard to, I think, find, you know, a good, I'm not saying it's impossible, but it seems like it is kind of harder in this environment to find somebody that you can, I mean, I don't know.
01:18:19.920
Are people watching going, are we going to be taking relationship advice from me?
01:18:26.120
No, well, no, it does make me think that I think there's this feeling in L.A. that if you meet somebody, you're going to have to eventually get them to leave here, right?
01:18:34.960
I've always felt that thing, like, well, if I met somebody, would they ever leave here with me?
01:18:42.500
So that I think is a, yeah, I think that's totally common.
01:18:46.740
But you said you don't live here full time now?
01:18:55.080
I mean, what was, whenever Trump was talking about Canada, what was, can you bring it up?
01:18:58.280
Nick, I just want to know what he even was saying.
01:19:01.840
They were threatening to tariff Canadian goods, just so our listeners can know what exactly was even going on.
01:19:13.800
You know, Canada is the largest trading partner of the United States.
01:19:17.820
And so much of the goods that come into the United States from Canada are being brought in by American businesses to, you know, like wood.
01:19:28.340
You bring wood and lumber in to build houses, right?
01:19:30.420
So when you put a 25% tariff on lumber, that means everybody that – flannel.
01:19:34.920
If you're a big flannel company making flannel pajamas, all of a sudden flannel pajamas are going to be 25% more expensive.
01:19:40.980
So it's really – it's going to affect, you know, businesses on both sides of the border, obviously, not just Canada, but also everything will go up in price.
01:19:50.760
So, you know, and I'm not exactly sure the reason for it, to be honest with you.
01:19:57.020
He was really saying they weren't helping out with border security.
01:20:02.560
And that's what – the 30 days probation period, they did put a bunch of people at the border.
01:20:08.480
And I don't think there's a real border security problem between Canada and the United States though.
01:20:17.300
It's the hardest country to get into in the world I think is Canada.
01:20:23.760
Yeah, it's – you know, the claim that there's fentanyl coming into the United States from Canada I think is a little bit exaggerated because I don't really think that that's actually the case.
01:20:35.180
Something like, you know, a very small amount is coming in from Canada.
01:20:40.380
Tariffs are a central part of Trump's economic plans.
01:20:42.540
He promised to introduce import duties against some of America's main trade partners during his election campaign.
01:20:47.680
He said tariffs will boost U.S. manufacturing and protect jobs as well as raising tax revenue and growing the economy.
01:20:52.660
Fentanyl is linked to tens of thousands of overdose deaths, taking bold action to hold Mexico, Canada, and China accountable to their promise of halting illegal immigration and stopping poisonous fentanyl and other drugs from flowing into our country.
01:21:10.660
But like what would you do – like I'm trying to say – say if you bring a bunch of stuff into my country, right?
01:21:16.220
Say if you and I live in different countries and you bring a bunch of stuff into my country or I bring a bunch of stuff into your country and then you say, okay, I'm going to tax that more – I'm going to charge you more to bring that in if you don't help stop the fentanyl that's coming in.
01:21:33.660
Would you say, okay, we'll put more, what, drug dogs and security along the border?
01:21:37.000
I think that's what they're – I think that's what he's asking them to do and I think we already do have – again, I'm not a representative of the Canadian government but I do think that we already do have a lot of – there's only so much you can do to seal off a border, right?
01:21:55.160
And I don't think there is that much fentanyl coming in from Canada really.
01:22:00.160
Yeah, I think it mostly does come in from the southern border.
01:22:03.500
I wonder if maybe that you guys got grandfathered into some late-night Trump rhetoric there.
01:22:09.780
It feels a little bit like that but hopefully it will resolve itself.
01:22:14.240
I do think that it's probably going to end up causing a lot of economic problems on both sides of the border and probably they may not go for it.
01:22:27.680
It was a good fight right off the top of the game the other day.
01:22:33.220
And it is nice when countries sometimes don't get along a little bit in sports, right?
01:22:39.360
That's one thing I don't like about the NBA anymore.
01:22:41.220
All the players, it just seems like they all know each other.
01:22:43.140
Nobody's really playing for their squad sometimes.
01:22:54.900
I'm not sure how quickly your researcher can tell us that.
01:23:13.840
But it is nice to see everybody having a good time watching a hockey fight for sure.
01:23:20.100
What else did I see in the news that I just saw was happening?
01:23:23.840
It was that contraception begins at erection now.
01:23:30.480
Ohio Democratic lawmakers proposed conception begins at erection.
01:23:35.200
So they're trying to put it on the men a little bit more.
01:23:37.700
So what exactly are they going to do about this now?
01:23:40.060
Well, a new bill in Ohio would make it a crime for men to ejaculate without intending to have a baby.
01:23:46.180
That is, that's definitely something that I could see a lot of people probably would be guilty of for sure.
01:23:55.100
I could see that being, I mean, I don't want to get in too much personal detail, but I think I'd probably be locked up for a long time.
01:24:04.960
Oh, we're going to visit Tom this weekend again.
01:24:10.500
Plenty of time to break the law in jail, though.
01:24:15.460
And they put a monitor, like, wraps around your wiener, and it just, like, if it, it just goes off if it gets too hard.
01:24:22.540
Now, I'm assuming this is a parody site, but the world's so crazy right now that I'm actually asking this for real.
01:24:33.500
So this is not The Onion or something like that or Mad Magazine or something?
01:24:37.620
No, this is one of those good radishes that they have out there.
01:24:45.480
I mean, it's a nice rhyme to it, which is also nice.
01:24:48.160
If you're going to penalize someone for an unwanted pregnancy, why not penalize the person who is also responsible for the pregnancy?
01:24:56.300
It's like, then you're going to have a lot more people.
01:25:06.340
Some dudes are just running around, skeeting or whatever they call it, and I don't know what they call it in different countries, but they're not going to have an extra 10K on them.
01:25:14.440
You're going to have, the court system would be filled with every, every kid in the world, every 14-year-old kid.
01:25:22.900
I mean, I'm assuming, yeah, does this, I don't, I don't know how much I want to talk about this in detail with you, to be honest with you.
01:25:28.560
No, look, I'm going to say, you don't get pregnant on your own.
01:25:31.180
Representative Anita Somani, Democrat, Dublin, said.
01:25:35.780
A felony for men to discharge semen without the intent to fertilize.
01:25:48.360
I mean, I actually would love to see that sort of applied that law just to see what would happen.
01:25:53.560
I mean, it would be interesting to see what would happen.
01:26:02.280
She introduced legislation that would make it a felony to discharge semen without the intent to fertilize.
01:26:06.360
So, Mani and state representative Tristan Rader joined forces to propose a bill nicknamed Conception Begins a Direction.
01:26:12.820
There are some exceptions, such as when protection or contraceptions are used during sex.
01:26:17.580
It also wouldn't apply when an individual is masturbating.
01:26:23.820
Or if the intercourse has taken place between members of the LGBT plus community, and this doesn't produce over.
01:26:29.460
So, gay people would be able to just jerk off on each other, and they don't suffer any of the consequences.
01:26:38.560
If a couple of straights get caught, you know, discharging.
01:26:45.940
Well, it's just, it's beyond ridiculous what's going on here.
01:26:52.080
It's a mockery of the most basic biological conceptions.
01:26:54.800
And now, I still, I'm sort of, kind of can't believe this is a real article.
01:27:01.260
Well, I think their purpose in this was saying, if you think it's absurd to regulate men, that you think, you should think it's equally absurd to regulate women.
01:27:09.540
I'm guessing that there was an original idea that...
01:27:23.480
They're making a valid point when you put it that way, absolutely.
01:27:29.680
Did you, when you hosted SNL, what was that like for?
01:27:32.180
Do you recall kind of some of the energy of that night?
01:27:41.180
You know, I had just gone through some pretty, I'd gone through, just gone through surgery, like a few months.
01:27:50.660
And I'd had this lymph node dissection, and I was kind of like, it had affected my sort of energy levels a lot.
01:27:58.220
So, it was kind of, there was a lot going on in my life when I actually got the call to do that show, and to do Saturday Night Live.
01:28:09.520
The thing that was cool about it was, you know, Lorne Michaels, who's Canadian, and I was just so kind of, sort of, kind of sort of overwhelmed that I was asked to do it, right?
01:28:24.620
And I had a couple of friends who I grew up with who worked on my show with me, and I said, you know, can they come in and, like, kind of work with me and do some, help write some skits and stuff?
01:28:33.920
So, they gave us a little office and that stuff.
01:28:35.860
We were sort of writing skits up and everything.
01:28:39.040
And, you know, they actually kind of ended up giving me a lot of kind of creative freedom on the show to kind of write sketches and stuff.
01:28:49.840
And, you know, in hindsight, I kind of wish they hadn't.
01:28:56.200
Yeah, well, because we really kind of made some really weird fucking sketches, you know?
01:28:59.940
And I think maybe it would have been cool if maybe I had just gone in and done the stuff that they had written.
01:29:03.940
But, like, I was sort of definitely, you know, Freddie Got Fingered hadn't come out yet.
01:29:12.320
So, like, I was still kind of riding high on this hit show, and we come in and we say, okay, now let's write some crazy sketches, right?
01:29:19.100
And, I mean, the stuff we wrote was really, really weird, you know?
01:29:34.520
And, you know, sometimes I think there was a misperception maybe among some of the cast that I brought my own writers in, which wasn't really the case.
01:29:42.340
It was more like – it was my buddies and I was – they'd come up with me with the show.
01:29:48.400
You know, it was kind of like we were – you know, when we made the show in Canada, some of my friends came down with me to the States to –
01:30:01.600
But, I mean, it was an amazingly exciting experience.
01:30:04.960
I mean, my parents were there on stage with me, you know?
01:30:09.380
You know, it was one of those things where you kind of can't believe that you actually – that it actually happened while it was happening.
01:30:17.200
You know, and I did a lot of sketches with Will Ferrell.
01:30:19.520
Well, one of the – like here's an example of something that I – I wouldn't say I regret this, but like – but I kind of regret this.
01:30:28.900
So there was a sketch where I'm a wizard and I'm holding a pig, like an actual pig.
01:30:41.620
And I didn't really have any lines in the sketch or many lines in the sketch.
01:30:45.960
It was mostly Will and Molly were doing this sketch.
01:30:48.940
But I noticed during rehearsal that if I – like if I just kind of lightly sort of tickled the pig's belly with my finger, that it would start to squeal extremely loud, right?
01:31:01.360
And so I did that once during rehearsal and then somebody said, oh, you better not – you know, she'll squeal if you touch her belly.
01:31:10.060
And there's a rehearsal show and then there's the actual show, right?
01:31:13.520
And, you know, I kind of maybe regret this, but I did note that, OK, let's get through the rehearsal show.
01:31:21.660
But then live, I'm going to make that pig squeal, right?
01:31:31.280
No, but it was kind of – it kind of threw the sketch off a little bit.
01:31:36.540
I realized that it did kind of throw the rhythm of the comedy off a little bit, but –
01:31:43.360
It just sort of became sort of a bit of a mess.
01:31:47.760
And were you getting a squeal every time he touched his belly or did you have to really –
01:31:51.800
No, I just had to kind of just lightly sort of pat her there and she would just try –
01:31:56.440
But it was amusing to me, but I'm not sure if anybody else enjoyed it that much.
01:32:03.080
If you touch her lunch, you know, she fucking gets a little animated if you grab any of her takis out of her little dish.
01:32:10.420
So – but, you know, it was an amazing experience.
01:32:16.720
And, you know, I mean, I – you know, it was cool.
01:32:19.700
I mean, the cast was Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan, Molly Shannon, Anna Gasteyer, Tracy Morgan.
01:32:30.180
And, you know, there was – it's a weird environment like Saturday Night Live, especially when you're young and you don't really know.
01:32:42.100
Like, you know, we were talking earlier about like going to – you were talking about going to Chris Rock's party and like you didn't know how to act or whatever because there's all these people here.
01:32:51.180
So you're getting thrust into an environment like that and then it's – even as the host, it sort of felt like kind of a competitive environment because, you know, all the cast members are trying to write sketches and get them on the air.
01:33:05.840
Everyone – every week – and I didn't really know how it worked really at the time.
01:33:09.480
In hindsight, I now realize how it works and I – we might have done things differently.
01:33:13.740
But, you know, when we were trying to put these sketches on the air that we were writing, maybe that was kind of pushing another sketch off and we didn't really – I wasn't really thinking of it like that.
01:33:21.600
So it kind of created – it's kind of a weird environment.
01:33:24.800
And, you know, the more I kind of, you know, sort of hear people on podcasts who have been on the show, talk about the show, it seems like everybody has gone through that experience who has been on that show where it's very competitive and stressful for people.
01:33:39.120
And that makes me feel a little bit better about my experience there because, you know, it was kind of, you know, a stressful experience, you know, because you know everybody is going to be watching the show.
01:33:50.600
It's live and, you know, I'm – you know, you're doing all this weird stuff that's not necessarily – you know, I'm a little bit out of my element.
01:34:05.240
It sounds like it's par for the course a little because, yeah, I mean even Adam Sandler the other night was singing.
01:34:09.200
He had a musical tribute that he did to the 50 years and he referenced a couple times about people having sketches that they wrote that didn't get on the show.
01:34:17.540
So I think that seemed like it was just a weekly occurrence.
01:34:20.640
And, of course, you want to go in there with a little bit more comfort zone for yourself.
01:34:24.760
You know, it's like, yeah, if we can write a couple of them or we can have some manipulation over them, it's probably going to make you feel more comfortable, you know?
01:34:31.040
Another thing that was weird that happened on the show, so like – so there was a sketch that I did – oh, it's called a sketch – like I did with Will Ferrell where we're both dressed as eagles.
01:34:43.920
And this was one of the ones that my friends and I wrote, okay?
01:34:47.200
It's sort of hard to sort of say that we wrote it but the sketch was, you know, Jimmy Fallon and Molly Shannon are looking at Will and I who are eagles, right?
01:34:59.060
We wrote this out, by the way, on paper and handed it in and then they said to do it.
01:35:03.740
And then Will and I decide to fly up into the audience, okay?
01:35:11.180
And I thought it would be fun to go in the audience.
01:35:13.420
So we fly into the audience and then we chew up carrots and then I believe Will chews up a carrot and I believe he sort of spits the carrot into my mouth and then kind of we end up sort of – because you know how baby birds will chew up the food and feed it – mother birds will chew up the food and sort of make it easier for the baby to eat?
01:35:43.020
So somehow I kind of – maybe probably would have been better if we just kind of did the sketches that their writers had written.
01:36:00.600
That's the West Hollywood Aquarium right there, brother.
01:36:09.160
And so when you host the show, you got to run to get ready for the next sketch because you got to shake off your eagle costume and put on another costume, right?
01:36:17.020
Another – and so I'm running down the stairs and I'm running through the backstage area and just sitting in the darkness, just backstage.
01:36:25.220
Tom Hanks is just sitting there in front of a monitor watching the show.
01:36:33.040
So now I'm like – I was already kind of nervous.
01:36:36.640
Now like I got Tom Hanks in the dark watching and I'm going like, how did that eagle sketch go?
01:36:45.080
And I'm sort of getting ready for the next sketch.
01:36:47.720
Not sure how the eagle sketch went and Tom Hanks is watching.
01:36:52.740
But then there's a big after party after the show and Tom Hanks was real nice.
01:36:56.120
And he was hanging out talking to my parents and stuff and so it was pretty cool.
01:37:02.040
It's a kind of thing though like it's kind of like you go, geez, it would be nice to be able to do it again someday.
01:37:07.380
Because I think like doing it the first time is sort of so – I don't know that that would ever happen.
01:37:13.780
But, you know, probably in an alternate universe I might be able to do it again someday.
01:37:18.000
But, you know, like you go, okay, I sort of understand how the system of it works now.
01:37:23.880
And it would be, you know, probably – you know, I probably would not have done that.
01:37:36.340
And yeah, I think you're right about – that's like a lot of things in life.
01:37:39.220
You're like, man, I wish I had gotten a trial run or had a little bit of an idea of how the feelings were or what the energy was like in that space or that room.
01:37:47.400
Or like, man, there's been things you go out on a stage, part of a show or a banquet, some type of thing, and you just play the room totally wrong, you know.
01:37:57.500
That didn't seem like that, but there's definitely times like that in life and you wish – you're like, man, I wish I'd get one more swing at it.
01:38:04.840
And, you know, I think that, you know, that generally you can at least take those lessons and apply them to something else.
01:38:15.160
Did – was Michael Jackson there whenever you guys played?
01:38:19.440
No, it was not Michael Jackson, but that would have been amazing if it was Michael Jackson.
01:38:29.440
Not – no, nothing against David Gray, but –
01:38:34.480
Have you ever interacted with Michael Jackson in any way or –
01:38:38.600
No, that would have – I mean, that would have been amazing.
01:38:48.960
One thing that was weird that happened on the show.
01:38:51.580
So I was backstage getting ready for the – I don't know if I should tell this story.
01:38:57.280
Maybe it's not – let's talk about something else.
01:39:22.900
She does some pretty sort of out there stuff on her TikTok.
01:39:30.180
When you have these – you beat cancer, right?
01:39:38.660
Do they have to take out one of your gonads or not?
01:39:42.000
My right testicle and some lymph nodes as well.
01:39:46.880
Is that actually in the testicle or is that in the body?
01:39:49.320
No, the lymph nodes are actually behind your intestines and they have to like – they cut me up here and they had to remove those.
01:39:55.500
And that was just a check to see if the cancer had spread into them.
01:39:59.200
And the only way they could really check and know for 100 percent sure if it had spread was to take them out and look at them under a microscope and stuff.
01:40:07.120
So then that meant I did not have to have chemo and stuff.
01:40:09.060
But they did take my right testicle, which was – honestly, like when I found out – the show was on MTV at the time.
01:40:16.300
Yeah, I did not keep it like indefinitely, but that is it in a plastic bag right there.
01:40:24.160
I don't remember weighing it exactly, but I know it's quite heavy for sure.
01:40:35.080
But we filmed the whole sort of surgery and for a show on MTV.
01:40:45.340
That's actually the whole show there, the cancer special, which is on YouTube.
01:40:48.340
But it's in my documentary on Prime too where it kind of walks through that whole – that's Glenn Humplick who is my friend and co-host on the show.
01:40:56.100
And here he is sort of after my surgery coming down and playing with my testicle.
01:41:04.180
And then my mom says, I don't know what kind of chicken you're eating.
01:41:07.060
Yeah, so that is my cancer-infected testicle right there.
01:41:18.880
It's going to cost you $10,000 if you drive over to Ohio and do it.
01:41:24.060
Look, why don't you stop in Mishawaka and do it?
01:41:31.620
Which is a benefit to having in Ohio to have testicular cancer.
01:41:36.760
Dude, the tariffs they would rack up, they'd make a million bucks a night in that state.
01:41:47.960
I did not refuse but I just sort of opted out on the prosthetic.
01:41:58.600
But I'd heard – the doctor kind of said a lot of people get them, don't like it.
01:42:03.440
They say it kind of sort of feels weird or whatever.
01:42:07.580
But I mean I don't know how much you want to talk about my ball sack.
01:42:11.000
But I mean it doesn't really seem that much different like down there.
01:42:16.320
Yeah, it all just kind of sort of sort of morphs into kind of like a – because like the – like they don't like – like they don't actually like go through the scrotum to get the testicle.
01:42:32.940
You know, they go in – they cut you like up – sort of up here like on your – like under your pubic hair kind of thing.
01:42:39.660
They go in there and then they kind of go in and they just sort of shuck it out like an oyster from above.
01:42:44.540
So it's sort of not really – like the scrotum is completely intact.
01:42:49.300
You know, like there's not some sort of – you know, sort of scarred scrotum or anything.
01:42:57.720
Yeah, like there's a little scar up here but I'd had a hernia operation before when I was like, you know, younger.
01:43:06.360
So it's like you wouldn't – just a little scar there.
01:43:16.680
A lot of my friends in Canada have had hernias.
01:43:19.240
A lot of your friends in Canada have had hernias, really?
01:43:22.800
That is – I'd be curious to see if there's more in Canada.
01:43:26.080
So that would be certainly an interesting statistic for sure.
01:43:29.440
According to available data, countries in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa tend to have the highest prevalence of hernias,
01:43:35.540
particularly in regions with lower socioeconomic status with countries like India and parts of Tanzania showing significantly higher rates compared to high-income nations.
01:43:44.140
This is largely due to factors like limited access to health care and higher rates of manual labor.
01:43:48.500
I gave myself a hernia on my show live on the public – it was on the public access version of the show years before we were on MTV.
01:43:59.760
And it was kind of a strange episode, probably one of the weirder ones where we said, okay, I'm going to break the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest fingernails.
01:44:14.060
And the Chinese kid on the bikes, remember that, that world record book?
01:44:17.280
They'd have a 15 or 16, a whole – just a starter pack of Asians hanging off a bike.
01:44:23.160
So for whatever reason, this was – this doesn't even sound like it could even possibly make sense to describe it.
01:44:30.560
But the idea was, okay, I'm going to – it was Glenn and myself.
01:44:41.400
And we said, okay, what we're going to do is we're going to try to break the record for longest fingernails.
01:44:47.900
And I set it up all very seriously and then I start drinking milk and then for the entire hour, I just basically drank milk and kind of stared at my fingernails for an hour and didn't do anything, right?
01:45:02.740
Just kind of progressively got a little bit more kind of sort of weird.
01:45:07.920
And then at the – towards the end of the show, I kind of stood up and started thrashing around sort of somewhat violently.
01:45:18.300
And I threw my – I started doing this thrashing and I hit the desk and I flipped the desk over and I felt something pop in my abdomen.
01:45:27.760
And then we went off the air and I went up to the bathroom and my intestine was like pushing out through my abdomen and went to the hospital and I had given myself a hernia.
01:45:42.040
Was that probably the worst accident you ever endeared?
01:45:51.260
I stepped on a fire on the beach in Costa Rica.
01:46:00.460
And I walked up to this bonfire and the edge of the fire had been buried and I – my foot went into it and yeah, I got third degree burns.
01:46:11.420
I thought that was a couple of to-go sandwiches.
01:46:25.720
You just had to lay on the – you just had to lay in bed for a while, huh?
01:46:28.040
For 10 days in a Costa Rican hospital and then I was medevaced on an air ambulance back to Canada actually and spent another week and a half in the hospital there.
01:46:39.960
And yeah, my foot's pretty messed up right now but it's better.
01:46:43.780
Not 100 percent but I've had a few good injuries.
01:47:09.980
That was just – that was maybe coming up from three years ago now.
01:47:13.140
So, yeah, that was maybe the worst injury ever.
01:47:19.400
So, the show that you have now, you have the special that's out.
01:47:32.400
It's – this is the Tom Green documentary and then the stand-up special.
01:47:40.720
It talks about my life on the farm and getting my mule.
01:47:43.140
And then the show, which is – it's a four-episode sort of series of me moving to the farm called Tom Green Country.
01:47:50.100
And I recorded all the music for the show as well.
01:47:52.880
There's a country album that I put out, which is the soundtrack for the show, which is called Home to the Country, which is on Spotify.
01:48:04.120
And that's out on music, wherever you get music now.
01:48:09.260
I'm getting back in the camper van and we're going to start do a little bit more camping and touring around with my fiancee up through the desert.
01:48:17.160
And then we'll be picking up the tour again March 14th in Colorado.
01:48:22.880
And it'll be Colorado Springs, Aspen, upwards to – up through – where are we going?
01:48:30.460
All the dates are on my website, but to Chicago.
01:48:41.800
I think sometime before the – I guess May, maybe.
01:48:45.120
But I'll have to let you know before I'm going to come.
01:48:48.440
Do you think like with a lot of the new stuff you're shooting now or some of the stuff that I see on your YouTube channel, it's a little bit more artistic in some way?
01:48:59.500
Yeah, it's definitely like not something that I expect to really go viral in a lot of ways because it's like very long-form stuff.
01:49:10.460
Yeah, do you notice you – like it almost seems like it's almost like you'd want to shoot like a feature, like a movie.
01:49:17.820
I don't know because sometimes we have things that start to happen and then it becomes something else.
01:49:22.580
But when I'm watching it, I feel like I'm getting into a world.
01:49:31.540
That's cool to know that you watched it because it sort of is sort of –
01:49:35.560
it's not like a mainstream comedy sort of piece that I'm putting on my YouTube channel right now.
01:49:42.020
It's – I want to kind of just capture what it feels like being out in the desert and in these amazing places or being on the farm with the animals.
01:49:49.440
And so I like shooting and capturing images that are sort of calming and beautiful and it is the kind of thing that – it's – the show is not like that.
01:50:05.880
But there is something nice about just kind of putting it on and sitting back and just kind of like – it's like an ASMR type of thing.
01:50:18.060
I mean I think a lot of it started just as me kind of like really trying to experiment with the cameras and just trying to figure out how to make these cameras work and capture the sort of the cinematography the way I want to capture it.
01:50:28.700
And I think that maybe it may evolve into something a little bit more faster paced at some point.
01:50:34.080
But right now it's just a lot of this sort of slice of life stuff that I put up on the YouTube channel and I have a podcast which I do one episode every six months or something like that.
01:50:45.620
I might start doing the podcast again and putting that up to kind of give people something a little bit more familiar to watch.
01:50:53.380
I kind of just enjoy taking people to these places.
01:51:02.800
I mean I find it interesting that like everything is so fast paced now.
01:51:06.600
Like everything is so – people's attention spans are so short now that it's kind of interesting to sort of do something that's kind of not that.
01:51:16.260
And again, it's not – the algorithm doesn't really work in its favor.
01:51:22.560
You have to say something shocking within the first 10 seconds and then put some words on the screen and do all these things that you can do to really capture large audiences.
01:51:30.360
But if you do watch it, you sort of do kind of get sucked into a little secret universe in a way.
01:51:37.760
There's even little messages sometimes I'll put like 45 minutes into a video that will – if you made it that far, then you might say something in the comments and then I'll know that you actually watched 45 minutes.
01:51:51.160
And so there is a lot of people that do get it, which is fun.
01:51:55.780
And it's kind of neat to – it's impossible to capture the energy of what it's like out there in nature by doing something fast paced because so much of what's amazing about it is just the calm stillness of it also.
01:52:12.800
I think people are as desperate for that as they've ever been in some ways.
01:52:15.940
I think things have gotten – we're operating at a speed that we don't even feel comfortable in sometimes or our brains are having to.
01:52:26.000
It feels like some type of an ASMR or some – it feels calming, man.
01:52:31.260
And yeah, I'm just curious because you're always – you've just always been a creator, you know.
01:52:37.020
You're always finding some way to – I don't know if it's in fact – to incite, to get a reaction out of people.
01:52:52.000
It's weird today because there's so much energy online, like so much craziness and pranks and just like – just the insanity that you can see every day on your phone.
01:53:05.320
Like before you get out of bed, you're just like – if you pick up your phone and you get that in your head too early in your day, your whole day can be just kind of –
01:53:19.800
You know, technology was changing at the same time.
01:53:25.700
Tom, thanks so much for all the entertainment over the years.
01:53:27.920
And yeah, man, I just appreciate you spending time with me.
01:53:35.900
I love the show and just appreciate you having me on.
01:53:39.880
Y'all want to come pet that donkey, man, when I get up there.
01:53:58.280
Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this peace of mind I found.