Tom Green | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #564

I want to let you know we've restocked. all your favorites on the merch site. everything is in stock you can show up. theovon. store.com and thank you so much for the. support I have some new tour dates to. tell you about I'll be in Chicago. Illinois on April 24th at the Wind Trust. Arena Fort Wayne Indiana on April 26 at. the Allen County war memorial coliseum. in Miami Florida on May 10th at the casa.

Center we also have tickets remaining in. East Lancing Victoria BC in the Canada. College Station belon Texas Oxford. Mississippi. Tuscaloosa Alabama Nashville Tennessee. Winnipeg in the Canada and Calgary in. the Canada all tickets at theo. comom Ur today's guest is a comedian. he's an actor he's a filmmaker he's an. innovator he's a v he's a he's a visual.

entrepreneur who really laid the. blueprint for uh podcasting and prank. shows in all types of genres 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 he just. dropped three new projects on Prime. video a comedy special a documentary and. a scripted show we'll get into all that. we're excited to welcome Canada's son Mr.

Tom. Green and I will find a song I. [Applause]. sing Tom Green it's your first day back. in LA in four years did you say yeah. yeah feels good actually it's a yeah it. was weird I just moved uh four years ago.

was kind of a somewhat spontaneous. decision you know when Co happened. remember that mm and everything stopped. and all of a sudden you know I've been. touring and all everybody stopped. touring right at the beginning yeah. everything kind of just stopped I trying. to trying to remember if it was it just. me that stopped or did everyone stop. everyone stopped yeah yeah so about the. first six months or so of that I was. kind. of what I'm going to do and then I just. kind of realized I well I got this I was.

telling you about my van I got this van. and I started going out into the desert. and making videos and stuff here outside. of La just outside LA 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 yeah it's out. in the Mojave Desert that was like the. first day of the trip I think four years. ago and so then uh you know I just. decided to sell my house I'd out i' been. at my house for 18 years I sold my house. house and uh went back to Canada and.

bought a farm near where my parents live. and uh just I can't believe four years. went by but yesterday was first day back. in Los Angeles in the van we drove back. down to the van so I've been touring. with my fiance who you just met I have a. fiance now went back to Canada I've got. a fiance from Canada now yeah good. choice and uh and we came back in the. van and uh and just drove into town. yesterday and uh it's pretty weird. because it's like it feels like I. nothing really it kind of makes you.

think about time time is weird you know. cuz 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 and. now I'm staying in a hotel right down. across from where the house is I can. actually see the house from the hotel. room I sort of did that on purpose. because I thought it would be weird and. um and uh you know I'm going to the I. went to Arts Deli you know I lived sort. of in the studio city area here and I. went to Arts Deli and got my my same. past mmy sandwich and my my chicken.

noodle soup and uh and I've been going. to some of the same restaurants just. been here for a day and I'm it doesn't. feel like it's been four years it feels. like I actually I'm driving here you. know today I was I sort of almost forgot. that I didn't didn't live here anymore I. kept thinking oh I'll go back to my. house after all right I don't live here. anymore so that's that's that's a. strange thing but and on the flip side. in the last four years I've got a farm. which I've now really settled into I've. got these incredible animals which are.

now I'm really bonded with this mule and. this donkey and two horses and uh. chickens and it's just like this it's. sort of been an incredible incredible. journey the last four years so yeah it's. been cool was it something that you. always wanted to have you feel like a. farm I guess every human kind of maybe. feels something like that I'm going to. get a little bit of land I'm going to. get some animals was it that or was it. you know it's weird cuz I never really. imagined having a. mule um you know like and riding a mule.

every day I didn't grow up with that you. know I grew up in the suburbs of Ottawa. Canada I'm outside of Ottawa but but um. and a mule's kind of like the El Camino. of horses in a way you know it's very. much the you know what I'm saying it's. not it's not me saying hey I'm going to. get a horse it's like I'm going to get a. mule yeah yeah I sort of thought. initially I thought it would be kind of. funny and then the mule I happened to F. find Fanny uh is her name and she's this. beautiful mule she's this huge animal.

and that's Kia the donkey in the. background and so um and so it's just. become this sort of amazing change but. yeah I um you know I I initially I. hadn't I didn't really thought of. necessarily getting a farm with a mule. and all the stuff but I I wanted to get. a place that was kind of in nature. really was and then the the the farm. happened to have these old barns on it. and I thought it'd be kind of cool to. get a a mule in those barns so I I I now.

I'm very much um loving life up there I. get up in the morning and I saddle her. up and ride off into the Wilderness it's. pretty cool really so does it and that's. never something that you wanted that was. never like a thing of your whole life. like I want to have this thing it just. kind of yeah I mean I I always loved. animals I you know have my dog Charlie. and I've always enjoyed being outdoors. but I mean it just. uh it just kind of. uh I know every once in a while you know. you know sometimes when an idea pops.

into your head and then you just go with. it and then all of a sudden you've done. it m this is like that except it sort of. occurred to me afterwards you know as as. I was doing I was realizing you know I'm. going to have this mule for the rest of. my life you know like they live to be. donkeys live to be up to 40 50 years old. God really he is only three so so it's a. lifelong commitment and uh the donkey. could live after you absolutely she Pro. she probably will but uh yeah so it's so. but it's you know it's it's um I think. maybe I was looking for something that.

would kind of ground me and you know. give me that home base that I needed you. know this the first this is the first. time I've ever lived somewhere where I. know I'm going to be there for the rest. of my life you know I'm planting trees. and I'm I'm think oh in 20 years I'm. going to that tree is going to be and. these trees are going to be bigger and. I'm kind of sort of plotting out things. that way and yeah that's interesting I. can totally relate with that and what. you're saying about la la just feels. like this kind of it's almost like La. doesn't have a memory in it it feels. like um I don't know other places I. think it's especially if it's a place.

that's a little more grounded it feels. maybe more meaningful for some reason I. don't know yeah it's I mean it's weird I. moved here I moved here when I was. 28 I think it was 28 or 29 when I moved. to LA I'm 53. now and uh I mean I I loved it I had a. great time here I wasn't wasn't leaving. La cuz I didn't you know like LA or. anything it was just it was more I. wanted to be close to my parents and. they're still doing good and I wanted to. be close to family and and stuff and but.

um but yeah it's uh it it is a it is a. unique place for sure people come here. from all over the world to pursue their. dreams and and uh there's sort of a. energy there that's exciting but you. know when. you as I got a little older you know I I. left when I was 50 and uh you. know not married no kids Co. happened um wake up I've been at my.

house for 18 years the real estate. market went up I was like oh maybe I. should sell it now as opposed to you. know five years ago I wouldn't have want. to so there was a moment in time maybe. I'll sell this place you know that I've. been living in for 20 years waiting for. the right moment to to feel like it was. time to go and um cuz uh I don't know I. kind of felt like I uh I wanted to be. back where I grew up you know I mean. you're not you're not from here either. so you know it's there's something. there's something.

there's something very um sort of uh I. guess deep that you feel when you're. home you know I know I'm sure now where. you from Tennessee I'm from Louisiana I. live in Tennesse Louis Louisiana but. yeah it gives you yeah there's a sense. of like yeah that you've been out of. your soil for a long time you know that. you've kind of like when you go back to. Louisiana you must feel like ah now I'm. at home right this home oh there's. definitely a ton of nostalgia that I. love you know um I think it makes sense. that a part of you wants to kind of go.

back where you came into the world at or. be there you know to be see people that. care about me yeah see that see people. that I care about wonder if you've. gotten enough of the ad like the. adventure out of your system in some. ways you can still have the adventure. but just have it from there you know and. I think also the part like you're saying. about this was the first time you'd ever. like planted plants you're like I'll see. these I've always felt like my life was. very um transient like I was just. passing by I've never been the type of. guy to get like a lot of furniture or.

artwork or anything I'm always just like. I don't know how long I'm going to be. here and it's always and here I am in my. 40s and it's still like I still kind of. operate like that but at a certain point. it's like yeah you want something that's. a little bit more settling um and if you. found a fiance I'm sure that kind of. helped a little bit yeah absolutely yeah. Amanda's here we're it's her first time. in Los Angeles nice least you get to be. a host and a tour guide that's kind of. nice showing around my uh my old. Hometown my my new old Hometown yeah. yeah and a camper too dude what was that. about yeah so that's that's been pretty.

wild it's uh so like cuz when I got this. van I uh I kind of got pretty good at it. like going to really remote places in. the American southwest particularly like. in New Mexico Utah Zion you go to Zion. yeah I went to Zion I didn't camp in. Zion but like there's there's there's. this other kind of land called BLM land. it's Bureau of Land Management land that. is basically all of the. desert and land that is owned by the US.

government it's managed by the Bureau of. Land Management and they they they'll. cut roads into the desert and they'll. put sort of campsite areas with fire. pits and stuff they kind of keep it. somewhat um organized so that people. don't go driving all around the desert. and trash in the desert they have these. roads and stuff so you can get I got. this app it's called Uh dirt dyrt it's. like it's basically an app that gives. you all the different locations of these. sort of really obscure.

places that are not even in National. Parks or anything du T yeah yeah and so. it kind of like you find stuff that is. just unbelievable like um you know I I. sort of can't stop talking about it to. to people that don't know about it but. like I mean you may know about choco. Canyon but I'd never heard of it before. it was it's this it's it's in New Mexico. and in fact if you go to my last uh. YouTube video on uh my YouTube channel. that's just a video I shot a couple of. days ago um and and you can scroll down.

to like the second video go the second. video this is choco Canyon so this is. like Native American ruins that are uh. essentially like built in the year. 875 it's like wow you know and it's like. the it's a city you know it's like a. city in the desert um and it's just out. there in the middle of Northern New. Mexico this this is Amanda my fiance. Amanda and uh yeah I think so we're just. going around making these videos and but. you'll see like look at this place so.

it's like you know everyone always talks. about Machu Picchu in Peru and they talk. about all these incredible things in you. know ancient you know uh you know places. but like the fact that you can just. drive out of Albuquerque you know Drive. North of. Albuquerque you know wow this is there. yeah this is there and it's really. remote like it's on the Navajo Nation uh. uh land MH and so we just were out there. camping for four nights and uh explor. and Hiking off into this beautiful.

desert and um getting some good rest out. there do you get good rest when you're. out on the road oh yeah absolutely yeah. God that's nice it's nice just it's. quiet that's the tough thing to get man. cooking on the campfire and and it's. just been uh fun and I enjoy photography. you know you you're shooting this really. really well yeah I got sort of lots of. different cameras and stuff and I uh I. like to kind of uh do that so it's. there's something about shooting out in. the desert that's just so beautiful cuz. you have these long Horizons and you.

know big Open Spaces but and there's an. energy there that is just something. that's hard to put your finger on but it. just you know I I always kind of sort of. I never really kind of. um really maybe didn't even believe in. that when I was younger when people. would talk about the energy and sedona's. got this energy but you know I I feel. this energy out there that's just of the. people that live there that built that. place it's it's it's and and other. places like it so it's kind of fun to go. seek those places out you know yeah.

you'll meet a lot of women you're like I. never have a period when I'm in Sedona. or whatever and you're like well that's. what are we talking you know what I'm. saying like but there's some crazy you. met a lot of women that have said that I. mean I just think you meet a lot of. women who are uh you know very specific. thing for a lot of people to have said. but yeah a lot of women are keeping. crystals in the wrong places probably. you know but yeah you meet a lot of wow. people who are into that sort of thing. but I think that's probably like I mean. the natives it always feels to me like. the natives were probably so in touch. more in touch with the Earth locked in. on like the feeling of like the best.

places to be that's why they love to. being in like the dtas and in the Black. Hills and stuff like that um and so to. be able to go to one of those ruins I. bet I bet there's still a lot of like um. just a lot of prehistoric or like native. connection that's just looking for souls. to pass through you know yeah what you. just said is like really interesting. because I was talking to a basically an. archaeologist the other day and you said. exactly what you just said like there's. this thing called a um in intuitive. archa archaeology where they go because.

there's still stuff out in the desert. that people haven't even found yet like. it's just how big it is and how vast it. is and he so they go out into these. canyons in northern Arizona and Utah. looking. for signs of you know ancient. settlements and stuff and uh you know. they're sort of taught to intuitive. archaeology if you're in a place that. feels like it would be a nice place to. have lived you know a beautiful place. yeah there's a good chance your that.

feeling is correct and then you should. sort of listen to that instinct and. start looking for signs of ancient. civilization but it's. pretty amazing. because you do feel something out there. I don't know I was I was talking about. this friend the other day too like you. ever go in like an old comedy club. that's been you know like Zan in. Nashville or downtown Chicago is and old. Club you know and you see all the old.

pictures from the comics from back in. the' 70s and 80s and and it's you know. that club's been there forever and you. kind of feel the energy of of you see a. lot of comics that have passed away on. the wall and you say oh my God Sam. Kennison performed here you know I can. sort of feel that energy of the. performance in the room you know. so you know that's that's from 40 years. ago or whatever but now you take it get. back to the year 875 you're out in the.

desert and this this place choco Canyon. was a whole society like where they did. trading and people came from all over. North America there so it's uh it's a. very peaceful thing it's I I I do enjoy. it quite a bit and is that something. that you and uh your fiance have kind of. something you've really is that. something you guys have found you like. doing together I mean to go camping a. lot of people would end up getting. separated usually I feel like this is. her first time uh actually really coming.

to throughout a lot of the United States. too so she's she's from Canada uh and uh. hasn't been out to the desert before so. um but uh she's I mean she's she's we're. having fun you know we're having fun out. there but it's uh it's um you we just. have this is our first trip doing this. so uh it's been cool was it scary to get. um engaged because you've been married. before M briefly yeah I was briefly. married yeah and then a long time ago. too yeah and you hadn't been married.

since though no no no okay it's first. time uh engaged since um you know know. it was not scary because because that. was Drew very more right 27 in this 20. early 2000s or something yeah yeah. absolutely yeah but um no it wasn't. scary because Amanda is amazing you know. so I knew it was uh it was the uh it was. the the right thing the the right this. was this was the thing to do this had to. be done that feels like the hardest. decision yeah I think that's the thing. like yeah I would like to get married. you know and I'm just thinking like man. and that day when you're like all right.

I guess I'm going to get married today. that sounds crazy when I say that out. loud you know you're a young guy too you. think that there was a lot of things. that happened that you know I don't know. if you want to talk about you know I'm. talking a lot about energy but. coincidences and synchronicity and. things like this I moved back to. Canada uh and I have a pond on my. property and in the winter it freezes. over and I shoveled the snow off the. pond and I was playing hockey on the. pond like skating playing hockey on the.

pond shot a video of. that and uh put it up on uh the social. medias there we go wow that's beautiful. here we are out at the out at the pond. wow you got a fast guy on the draw out. there on the uh I just literally just. said that and he instantly found yeah. we're we're so we're drilling a hole in. the pond here and and that's so then we. can pump the water out of that back on. top of the pond and give it a nice. smooth. uh IC see that's my friend Ryan oh wait.

so what are you using here to do this. this is a it's just a little sort of a. kind of some sort of ice AER or some. sort okay so that so you take the whole. and then youum we pump we stick a fire. hose down in there and we pump water out. of it we Pump It Up On Top of the of the. of the ice and just basically flood the. ice and then it freezes cuz at night and. then we got nice some nice smooth ice. out there how long does that process. take uh just a day you know this just. took a day the next morning was. completely uh completely Frozen but then. you get 2 ft of snow and then you got to.

do it all over again but uh which kind. of puts a damper on it wow this is so. cool so that right there that you're on. is a lake it's a pond it's a pond yeah P. okay so that's a pond there's the dock. so usually it's water yeah yeah right. now you cut the holes you're pumping the. water out of the Y Pond onto the top of. the ice which is on the top of the pond. Y and then it gets it's cold you know. it's below zero so then the next morning. it was pretty much ready to uh now. normally you would shovel it off first. but we just kind of. we're kind of a little uh lazy about.

that I guess and we just flooded it. instead which it ended up working out. fine but uh probably would have been. better if we' shoveled it off first but. that seems like that would have been a. lot of work yeah you don't even do that. but um there you go see and then. uh so yeah so we were doing this and. then I was I was shooting these videos. playing hockey there we go look at you. this is the next day yeah it's like. probably next day yeah so this is a. common practice in Canada uh well you. know if you have a pond I I mean those. are the those are the bar in the. background that's the my house up there.

behind there and um so you know I we. used to do it in my backyard when I was. a kid like we used to flood the backyard. and uh yeah grety talked about that. right when he was on he talked about. flooding his backyard that's cool yeah. that's amazing the great one yeah yeah. so we I saw him at the inauguration he. lost a tooth okay it fell at the. inauguration he lost a tooth yeah I. chipped my tooth and I walked up to him. I was like man I chip my tooth and he's. like oh yeah and he showed me this and. he freaking lost one him and his wife. were looking for it on the the ground oh. okay but it had been knocked out.

previously in a hockey game of some sort. something I think you didn't get punched. out at the inauguration no I think he. could have been shocked by some things. he saw and maybe maybe that took it out. but yeah he was just missing a grill. piece at the inauguration it was just. pretty bizarre man that's cool dude. that's amazing so these are the types of. things you're spending time doing up. there you really document it really. beautifully and a lot of that doesn't. even have a lot of audio with it it's. really just seeing I've noticed this in. some of your videos it's just kind of. seeing what's going on yeah yeah I kind. of like to just kind of do these sort of. ambient sort of uh sort of uh things to.

kind of just kind of bring you into a. certain place I I I like it's sort of. like it's like I like photography this. is just doing it with video and yeah. being being there but after I posted. that video Amanda my fiance she saw it. and she sent me a message on Instagram. this is how we met and it was a video of. a a Zamboni a do-it-yourself Zamboni. which is uh what a Zamboni is what you. use to clean off the ice in a hockey. rink right it was this homemade one and. we started I just started talking to her.

because I thought it was a funny thing. to send and we turns out we went to the. same Elementary School and uh yeah it. was just sort of uh it was it was it was. just went went from there so cool. congratulations yeah thanks man so and. did you meet your parents yet or no oh. yeah absolutely yeah absolutely yeah. were your parents happy to have you back. home what was that like uh yeah no they. are for sure yeah no no hesitation they. were excited for me to come home believe. it or not you know cuz sometimes people. wonder you know cuz he's used to do a. lot of pranks on them do they still talk.

to you you know but uh my parents uh we. were always very close even when I was. doing my show on MTV and you know doing. pranks on them and you know Annoying. them with the video camera they would. sort of laugh afterwards and and we've. you know always had a very close. relationship they're they're actually in. my new show on on Prime you know it's. sort of about me moving home okay shows. about me moving home that's not that I. got a mule that's not that is it that's. my stand-up special okay that's a.

standup special that's on that's on. Prime as well right now huh yeah and. there's a documentary on Prime and then. the show called Tom Green Country and uh. sort of sort of about me settling in at. the farm and uh and they're hilarious I. mean they they they really make the show. like there's something. about their sense of humor is is they're. kind of razing me in the new show more. than uh me pulling pranks on them I. don't do that anymore full circle. they've retired from being pranked from. being a victim yeah yeah yeah absolutely. if you love Bitcoin or you're looking to.

get in a crypto then I've got the right. thing for you introducing. moonay the easiest way to buy or sell. crypto using the payment methods you. already feel comfortable with credit. card debit PayPal and even venmo. crypto's been on a tear recently and if. you're thinking about diving into that. digital Treasure Chest. moonay has got your back back you guys. know that I've been um out on crypto.

over the years in and out and uh one of. the things that's brought me back in has. been moonpay I like the ease of it using. moon pay's app is simpler than a one. string guitar and it's available on. iPhone and Android so you can always. have moonay in your pocket track your. favorite crypto with moon pay's custom. watch list whether it's Bitcoin ethereum. Solana xrp or something more exotic you. might be wondering is moonpay safe well.

there Securities like Fort Knox and. their support team they're like your. personal crypto bodyguards available all. day every day so if you're looking to. get in a crypto there's no better place. than. moonpay head over to. moon.com Theo or you can access them in. any of your favorite crypto wallets. moonay that's where I'll be I'm ready to. opt imiz my nutrition this year that is.

the truth and factor is going to help. Factor has chefmade gourmet meals that. make eating well easy they're dietitian. approved and ready to heat and eat in 2. minutes so you can fuel right and feel. great no matter what life throws at you. factor arrives fresh and fully prepared. perfect for any active busy lifestyle. with 40 options across eight dietary.

preferences on the menu each week it's. easy to pick meals tailored to your. goals choose from preferences like. calorie smart Protein Plus or keto and. one of my favorite recent meals is Smoky. guda chicken m eat smart with Factor get. started at Factor meals.com. sfactor podcast and use code fact. podcast to get 50% off your first box.

plus free shipping that's code Factor. podcast at factor meals.com. slfac. rodcast to get 50% off plus free. shipping on your first. box when you look back on it do you ever. do you ever able to figure out a reason. why you liked to record things or like. what you got out of like you know as cuz. as we get older we you kind start to get. a little bit of a like a overview kind.

of of ourselves even you know and the. world maybe a little bit a little bit of. an idea of what we have been doing in. the world you ever able to figure any of. that out kind of like the reasoning. behind some of it like why you like. capturing things or why you liked like. pulling the wool over people's or you. know yeah I think there was kind of. a a few layers to that for sure that's a. cool question um it's a great question. CU like.

one one thing was we never really had. you know you know a video camera or uh. you know you know when I was I grew up. in the 80s so we didn't have a video. camera or even a film camera we didn't. even take a lot of photos and you know. we we that was kind of expensive you. know people that had a video camera they. had like you know a lot of money they. had a video camera we never had a video. camera you know and so when all of a. sudden they became somewhat attainable. you know I I would I would sort of sign. one out at.

school um and I would I found that it. was kind. of. a first of all I loved comedy so I loved. you know David Letterman I love watching. him go on the street and you know do. stuff and I loved you know Monty Python. and you know. justv and I just loved comedy I was I. was start was doing stand-up comedy in. Ottawa when I was 16 years old and like. I was would go down to watch you know. nor McDonald you know when he was his.

20s you know and I'm just like it was. sort of a this amazing thing and I. somehow had this sort of feeling that if. I could just get a video camera and go. film stuff that you know maybe I could. uh you know make a show or whatever but. was also a skateboarder you know and. that was that was sort of skateboarding. videos were holy [ __ ] look at this this. is amazing how did you find that so fast. yeah there me at 16 years old yuck yucks.

yeah how did you find that so fast I. don't even know how you must have had. that in advance that that is. unbelievable there some sort of weird. algorithm here or something like that I. don't know if they did or not but yeah. it looks great wow yeah it looks so look. at that microphone too it's like I don't. they didn't even use the Right. microphone back then but um but um I um. no I just uh I know I often kind of like. think there's something about. like I don't know I think I've always. been really afraid of the concept of. like being dead you know like being gone.

and like there being no sort. of uh you. know recollection of anything that. you've ever done right yeah and I always. found it interesting to just kind of. document things and just record things. and that'll be there you know in some. electronic way floating around there. forever and sort of feels in a little. way like kind of like sort of a weird. kind of immortality in a way you. know I think that's kind of what.

fascinates me about these these ruins in. the desert too like these people came. and built these things in the year 875. and I'm walking through it and looking. at it and filming it and talking about. it with you and so they're kind of in a. way kind of remembered you know yeah um. and then there was also just kind of the. blatant you. know when I was younger I was a little. quite a bit different than I am now I. think I've calmed down quite a bit like. when I was younger I really always. needed to be kind of like like you know. the center of attention the class clown.

moving around a lot you was was weird as. a kid so to me it seemed like a really. good way of just kind of uh you know. documenting all of this silliness you. know and uh and uh I loved it you know I. loved filming stuff and showing it to. people at school and it was you captured. so much you were one of the first people. really to just capture [ __ ] and just. show it to people kind of in a you know. like kind of like not [ __ ] but I mean. just C no [ __ ] for sure yeah actually.

actual [ __ ] was involved quite a bit you. go yeah we're going to capture [ __ ] and. show it to you like what do you mean. like this is what we mean and I can. totally relate to what you said about um. dude I used to when I was I guess. probably starting around 20 to probably. 28 I would make postcards and I would. send them to my kids that weren't even. born yet like whenever I was traveling. somewhere I would send them I would make. them out to my kids I just wanted my. kids to know that I'd been I needed. there to be some yeah record that I like.

cared about my children even though they. weren't here yet which is kind of a. crazy thing but it made me think about. what you're saying like and I would. scrapbook I would save things like I. just wanted there to be like some proof. that I felt something in the world and. that I existed right I think I just. didn't I don't know if I just didn't. have a lot of that like or I needed an. insane amount of proof and so that's why. I did it but yeah I could just I could. definitely relate to that to wanting to.

have. some uh timeline yeah of so I you know. just in case time ever showed up and. said hey were you here I could be well. yeah yeah yes here I was you know I. could show you my homework kind of or. something you know absolutely yeah I I. can relate to that because I talk a. little bit my standup special about. about not having kids and I I I. sometimes think it's kind of a bit of a. message to my future children. uh that you know uh that I'm aware that.

I haven't had them yet you know and so I. totally understand what you're saying. about that it's uh yeah I mean. it's it's a weird thing you know. because right 20 years ago nobody had. definitely 30 years ago nobody had video. cameras really like they do now but now. everybody with their phones everything. documented it's so normal now but I just. put this document out on Prime which is.

it's called This is the Tom Green. documentary it's sort of a play in my. old theme song of my show this is the. Tom Green Show was this was the song. right yeah so um I uh went through like. thousands of hours of video and I'm. going back looking at you know. 17-year-old me running around doing. stuff and uh it was it was actually kind. of a pretty. um somewhat terrifying experience. actually because it was like this. opportunity to kind of.

tell the story of everything that. happened with my show and everything. that happened with my experience here in. LA and I I wanted to kind of uh you know. tell the story right and I've got so. much video and combing through all of it. was at times you. know uh somewhat kind of like I would be. looking at myself like I'm looking at a. completely different person and I can't. even believe you know I'm finding things. I don't even remember happening and I'm.

looking at things that are just so. completely Bonkers and and silly and. ridiculous I'm like OHA I like sometimes. I couldn't look at the TV I'm like oh. what what was I doing you know that's. how you made us feel yeah exactly was I. was doing it to myself 20 years 30 years. later and uh no I wouldn't recommend it. to anybody to to go make a documentary. about yourself definitely hire somebody. to do that and never watch it but no it. was it was fun because I wanted to tell. the story. the right way but but um it was also.

kind of very surreal but you know was it. hard to be true to yourself making like. you know making your own documentary and. and no one should probably make your. documentary except for you because. you're one of the rare cases it feels. like that has so much has documented. themselves so much you know like um and. I don't even know if it's it I don't. know if it seemed like an egotistic way. I don't think it ever came across like. that of your footage it just came across. that you wanted to have control over how. of yourself you wanted to put yourself.

out there um but was it hard to make a. documentary and not want to like make. yourself the hero or something or I I've. never made a documentary before yeah. yeah was there any of that in it or how. do I make this it's like the first scene. of the documentary I'm sitting with my. mother and she actually says are you. really supposed to do direct a. documentary about yourself I mean can't. you kind of whitewash that a little bit. are you going to do that yeah I'm going. to do that so but um honestly the I. wanted to. be uh you know I wanted to be I didn't.

not want to completely like you know put. a false story out there so I think the. hardest part. was trying to figure out how to not be. too self deprecating you know because. you know you think you know you know. when you get to my age uh you know you. look back and you think oh my God I wish. I hadn't done that or I wish I hadn't. done that or I shouldn't have said that. or shouldn't have done that and you know. I have a lot of those things right. they're constantly rattling around in my. head. and you start to think.

like you know man maybe this is a good. way for me to go and just like apologize. for every thing that I perceived that. I've done wrong in my life right and and. then you have to kind of take a step. back and go well wait a minute you know. like that might just be in my head you. know so I spent a lot of time talking to. a lot of people about you know people. that I know people that I'm close with. about the story of really it's the story. of the of the show and uh and takes us. through the story of kind of creating.

the show and then building you know. before the show with my music and then. after the show with building a you know. a sort of a web TV studio right in my in. here in Los Angeles and it's sort of a. telling of that story but then I wanted. to talk you know a bit about some of the. uh you know personal sort of uh you know. uh things that I went through I I had. cancer when I was on MTV and I talked. about that I had you I made I made this. movie Freddy Got Fingered which was you.

know not critically completely. embraced so you know so it's like I I. wanted I wanted to explain myself a bit. but then uh you know at the same time. there's a lot of people now that like. the movie believe it or not so I didn't. want to completely you know and hate the. critics now yeah yeah so it's sort of. like it was a a very tricky Balancing. Act and uh and then on on top of that. there's just so much footage and so many. weird little funny clips that only I.

know are the ones that people like or. people have or haven't seen and I I kind. of wanted to make sense of that all and. piece it all together I don't think. anyone else would have been able to find. it all you know yeah so but uh was there. a project that you kind of wanted to do. over the years that you didn't really. nail or you. didn't that something that didn't happen. was there something because you've just. done so much stuff I mean you know it's. it's. it's it's it's interesting because like. in in fact that's part of what the. documentary is about because like when I.

was a got into making the show when I. was growing up all I um could even. imagine myself doing was I wanted to be. a talk show host you know I wanted to do. basically a show like David Letterman. right have guests on and then I go out. in the street and you know be a nutcase. you know do goofy stuff right and uh I. got to do that you know a few times over. the years and um you know when those. shows go away you know initially when.

that happened you know that was back in. the day of MTV you know the first show I. stopped when I when I got sick so you. know it didn't actually get canceled the. Tom Green Show but then when I started I. did a nightly show it kind of you know. when it kind of got canceled I was. thinking oh my gosh you know this is the. worst thing that could ever happen to me. that I could ever imagine that I'm not. going to be able to do a nightly talk. show you know like this just was like. this was devastating to me you know and. As Time Marches On and I look at all the.

things that I've done instead you know. into you know touring doing standup or. or moving back to the farm and uh and. and everything in between I kind of. realized man I'm kind of kind of glad. that actually didn't work out because I. if it if it if that if that show had. been a big hit then I would have been. going down to the same Studio every. night for the last 30 years and I. wouldn't have gotten to do all these. other things you know so so you know. Freddy Got Fingered of course was.

a idiotic movie you know purposefully so. yeah did you guys make that yourselves. yeah I I wrote it with my friend Derek. and we I directed it you did was it your. first time you'd ever directed a movie. it was yeah wow it was but it was we had. a budget you know it was 20th Century. Fox we had you know cu the show was. doing good on MTV so they uh they let me. direct it you know they let me do that. which was um you know probably a mistake. but no they uh no it was uh you know we. really pushed it to make it like we you.

know we were our 20s you know so the the. idea was let's make this the craziest. movie ever made you know it's literally. we actually believe that we could do. something like that you know and um and. uh so it it gets complicated because. then you know how do you define failure. you know like. it's it came out Roger eert and uh it. wasn't CIS it was the other guy he had. another guy there second e roer they. sent that guy in yeah even he didn't. like it um but even rer didn't like it I.

mean it wasn't even Cisco it was it was. Roper whoever that guy was but was they. uh they uh you know trashed it and uh. you're kind of thinking at the time man. this is devastating you know Ebert and. rooper are trash in my film you know but. um and and you think oh you start to. question you know what every sort of. choice you've made you know I don't know. this guy looks like he also likes canned. sardines at the same time so and at this. these days who would nobody even trust. the critics anyway so it's kind of funny. now that it's like. yeah at the time like it was the end of.

you know the line if these guys trashed. your movie like my first movie and and. every all this stuff riding on and then. these kind of just destroyed it and I. remember just sitting there like. watching this just thinking oh my gosh. this is it you know this is the end but. you know it's it wasn't you know I just. kept going kept doing my thing and uh. and you look back at it and go it's kind. of funny now that they they didn't like. it you know yeah it's kind of awesome. that they didn't it's weird because. there's a weird sort of. counterintuitiveness to it because we. set out to make a movie that those guys.

would not like and then when they don't. like it you're upset about it yeah it's. like I kind of thought that they would. sort of see the irony and go I know. we're not supposed to like this but. actually this kid's pretty clever you. know no no they didn't say that you. know what was the budget on that movie. do you remember $14 million wow they. spent on that plus an additional 10 on. uh you know promotion and marketing and. stuff yeah and you know what I will say. it made it all back back on DVD remember. DVD remember they used to put DVDs out.

so I think i' I heard it made 35 million. on DVD so it actually was a profitable. profitable movie yeah made 14 million at. the box I'm here defending it out it. made it made it money back it made it. money back no but it did so it did make. its money back but you. know Ebert and roer aren't going to tell. you that though right they're not going. to tell you that well it wasn't the. Titanic you know no no exactly it was I. mean it was in a way. but in the sense that it it it you know. it bombed but you know no it it's no it. was it was uh it's funny it's funny.

though because you did it though there. was a long period of time there where I. was made to feel like it was a really. bad decision and then in the last like. 10 years it's. like you know all I hear are people. saying they love it you know someone. today showed me they had a x-ray Cat. Tattoo you know like a a character in. the movie you know so it's like um it's. it is a little confusing when you talk. about sort of uh I mean your question. was how do you handle things like. failure and things like that it's like.

you know it's kind of uh the more of. those kind of things you go through the. more you kind of learn to kind of. embrace it in a way it's kind of it's. almost a good thing you know yeah David. sped and I just wrote a movie together. not to name drop or anything but we did. and we just uh funded ourselves and. stuff and so it's just kind of a scary. time I think so that's why I'm asking. that as well not scary it's it's. exciting too but it's also like yeah I. just one day I'll be like I that's. something I try to do I was trying to be. creative and we tried our best and I got.

to try it with you know somebody who I. love to watch anyway and oh that's cool. so you've written it are you going to go. make the movie we already we have five. days left shooting oh you're shooting. the movie already we shoot we start back. tomorrow kind of like a Joe Dirt two. three kind of thing or uh yeah it's like. a um no it's a good question it's like. two guys one of them gets hit by a. vehicle I get my character gets hit by a. car when he's young and Spade. uh rest excuse me yeah and he he and I. become friends then and he gets me a job.

years later we're working together like. at a sewage company and like a repo man. man kind of thing yeah type of [ __ ] well. you know the thing is that you're you're. in good hands here because you're with a. guy that's done this a lot before he's. done it a lot and like if I had to. direct it too like I like to like chime. in with the director and stuff like that. and throw in ideas and stuff like that. and uh but it's just definitely a big. learning curve it's a lot yeah so I. can't imagine especially in our budget. is just a couple million bucks so if it.

were really big that'd be really I feel. like it'd be scary kind of yeah I mean. back then we were shooting on film oh. things cost more um you know it was it. was at the time was considered a. lowbudget movie right but uh but um you. know I think I think that uh I don't. know it just seems like the way things. get released these days and the way. people Embrace weirdness these days like. I'm assuming it's kind of a a weird.

movie you know yeah it's odd weird yeah. just funny it's just like old school. funny yeah so like a funny movie right. like you know you have this incredible. thing going with your show here so you. have your audience built in so you you. don't really have to worry about the. same things that maybe back in the day. when you put out something crazy and. sort of in a sea of somewhat normal. movies coming out every. weekend all getting funneled through. this sort of mainstream you know Cinema.

you know rele conate yeah it's very. strange you know like we had to take the. movie and focus group it um and then. people would sit there with pads and it. was in Phoenix we went we flew down to. Phoenix to focus group Freddy got they. do a lot of them huh yeah yeah for some. reason they do them there in Phoenix and. you know and and and like you know then. then someone stands up after the movie. and asks them what what they didn't like. about the movie well with you know. Freddy Got Fingered I mean we're sort of. you're sort of supposed to not like any. of these scenes you're supposed to be.

you know kind of polarizing so it didn't. really kind of work with the focus group. system and then you had to make changes. to it and all that kind of stuff but. you're probably you guys probably are. have a lot more creative control over. things I think we'll just make a trailer. and put it out yeah you know I'm. guessing I have no idea I'm just I. haven't part of my brain hasn't even. gotten that thought that thought yet you. know that's exciting but it's it's. definitely feels kind of yeah it feels. like just like well I want you know we. try to do it who knows what'll happen.

you know oh it's gonna be awesome. absolutely you Spade I'm gonna go see. that that's incredible thanks appreciate. it everybody will everybody's going to. love that it's going to be interesting. that's what I'll say um that's what I do. yeah I do believe that it'll be. interesting of course it will um how did. you deal Whenever there were tough times. like because you had so much of like. recording yourself like setting you know. like kind of like living under your own. recording schedule and stuff like that. were there days off like when you um. would just have your show from home. right was there days where you would.

just like take off what was that shoot. schedule like when you were when I was. doing the web show at. home. well I mean it. was so there wasn't really sort of. uh podcasting yet wasn't really a thing. really right so so we built the studio. and it would basically just stream to my. website I mean there was no Instagram. yet YouTube had just started. um and people would come and watch it on.

the front page of of tomg. green.com and we actually had like a. company in San Francisco that made like. the the video playback system you know. so it was CDN content distribution. Network it was basically so we would. upload a video to that we there was we. weren't uploading it to YouTube and. linking it or there was there was no. YouTube really so so it was kind of just. a big sort of science experiment that I. was doing with uh. you know my group of friends um and you.

know I I had uh I had the sort. of goal of trying to sort of make it a. show that would become profitable get. advertisers and maybe sell it to. television which we did a little bit of. that you know so you know I was kind of. um pretty driven I guess and it's kind. of what I notice now with like. podcasting which is is amazing is like. you know the people that have these.

incredible businesses that they've got. going these incredible you know artistic. Visions they have for themselves they're. all kind of have that same kind of Drive. in them you know they get up in the. morning their mind is just like how are. we going to make this better today you. know how are we going to make this. awesome today you know so it was kind of. it was kind of like that you know we. were getting up and turning on the. studio every night and I'd be inviting. up you know rappers and two short came. up and you know Jurassic 5 and exhibit.

and then you know you wrap up comedian. invite comedians up and like Joe Rogan. would come over and you know nor. McDonald who I became good friends with. you know would start coming over all the. time and you know literally like. hundreds and hundreds of people come. over and it became this kind of really. fun thing to do um I wasn't doing. standup at the time I hadn't done. standup in years so I was really just. doing that and. um you know it was it was ridiculous I.

mean we were just enjoying the absurdity. of it and um oh yeah was it so stressful. or were you just I it was because I put. pressure on myself and I would actually. get stressed out about it and then we. would have people that would prank call. us so I had this phone system on the. desk and you could just call it and it. would ring and I'd hit answer and it. would so we had like you know people. trolling us basically I remember getting. Rick Rolled for the first time you you. know like was like oh I kind of felt. like I don't know if I'd ever heard of.

Rick Rolling before I got Rick Rolled. you know and um it's cool and it became. kind of like a little bit of a a game. you know like where we were there was a. switch that I built with u uh bill. snitzer was his name he worked there and. uh Victor a couple of the guys that. worked there and uh we built the switch. under the desk it was like metal and it. was like we got a metal box with a a. switch and we had wires and we soldered. them together and then the wires ran out. to the computer and then bill was able.

to program the computer so that when. like I flipped that switch it would like. if if everything was off it's the middle. of the night in my house it's quiet. night nobody there and if I were to get. up at 1:00 in the morning by myself and. put clown makeup on which I often did. and and and a top hat and walk out into. my living room and flick the switch the. switch would turn on the lights would. turn on the cameras it would turn on the.

computers this computer would tell this. computer to start recording uh the phone. system would turn on it would send it to. the front page of my website just one. switch I haven't done anything just all. I have all I've done is put on some. clown makeup and flip the switch right. you don't have to put on the clown. makeup but I did do that often yeah you. better it was called the French clown of. midnight I speak it FR in French in a. clown makeup um and you wonder why it. didn't work out but um and uh but uh and. uh then the the phone would start. ringing and I'd just be doing the show. I'd have a switcher on the desk so I. could switch the cameras and uh I would.

just start taking. calls and it was really the only live. video on the internet like really like. that's there was no Instagram live or. anything so it was like you you imagine. when I was a kid I wanted to do prank I. like prank calling the radio station i'. like to call into the radio station and. uh I would call into the radio station. and I'd record it and then I'd call into. the radio station and I'd pretend I was. like my friend's father and I'd call in. I'd start complaining about my son and.

I'd use his name and I'd play the tape. back to him it was hilarious to me you. know and um so I loved that like. pranking a radio station and I kind of. started to realized like we're the only. live show on the internet right now with. a phone with no call. screener all. these people like me around the world. could Now call in and prank me you know. and so we kind of got into this little. sort of War basically you know which is.

which. was fun because I would get angry about. it but then also I kind of didn't have. to turn the phone on you know you know. um so it was it was it was really fun. and you know I got to meet a lot of. great people you know I mean that's. where I'm really got to hang out with. you know Joe Rogan for the first time. really and uh and Norm who I became. really close with and then and so many. other people and you it was it was it. was amazing so did Norm um did you talk.

to him much in the later years yeah well. at the at the very end I did not know. that he was sick I didn't know he was. sick so that was that was uh seemed like. he kept that from everybody yeah and. he's from my hometown he's from Ottawa. Canada and he started at the same comedy. club that I started at at yuck yucks in. Ottawa Howard Wagman who's the uh still. owns the comedy club in Ottawa uh yuck. yucks which is like all AC It's Kind. like The Improv of Canada I've heard of. it I've been one of them I think yeah.

yeah so he's you know he's awesome and. you know he you know he put Norm on the. stage for the first time and uh you know. tells this story about how Norm got off. stage the very first time he did stand. up he was in his 20s and he didn't think. he did well and he was walking down the. street I'm never going to do that again. and Howard chased him down Spark Street. in Ottawa on stop and said you got to. come back tomorrow and you know he made. him come back cuz he saw he saw his uh. his genius right yeah nobody was like. him. they just had they were just talking. about him uh I just watched the SNL.

Monologue that he did one time yeah that. was pretty great where he's like they. fired me from the show but now they want. me back you know yeah which just and how. it just didn't even make any make any. sense and you just kind of [ __ ] on the. show yeah um it was weird like cuz. like it's weird like I find myself. sometimes now talking about 2005 like it. was like 50 years ago or something like. that but it really is things have. changed so much in the last 20 years. with social media that it does really.

feel like kind of a different world like. I remember Norm would come up yeah and. you know the first time he came up I. just couldn't believe I was going to. hang out with him you know and hang out. with him for two hours on camera um sort. of in some ways kind of doing a makeb. believe talk show Even though there were. people watching it was kind of like you. know experimental talk show and he. getting into that and then the show. would end and we'd go you know on.

YouTube and go look at videos and I was. like I remember it was like YouTube was. so new that it was just the strangest. thing I'd be sitting with nor McDonald. after doing this for two hours and we. was sitting there watching you. know crazy clips that he would find uh. you know like baby versus Cobra you know. with the cobras mouth sewed together. grape lady falls I remember watching. these videos with norm and just dying of.

laughter you know in the middle of the. night and just thinking this is this is. cool now it's just so normal to look at. viral videos and stuff but back then we. thought we were just have you ever seen. this video I've never seen this oh man. this is I mean it's a little bit you. kind of can you play the audio too is it. possible because the audio is sort of. important for this one. Witham winner Saturday music eating. International Food having wine tours and. tasting vineard. arts and CRA it's a lot of fun a whole.

day I. [Music]. can't so yeah yeah ouch ouch they're. struggling that's I hope and that lady. has the smallest head head as well if. people's heads are real small they. should not talk a lot I love that that's.

the that's your takeaway from this is. her head size as well is it is true. though by the way I've never noticed. that but that lady is a very small head. when people with small heads talk a lot. it feels like they're they're cheating. the system a little bit I just feel like. a regular head you get a regular amount. of words small head less words don't. over don't do too much right or just at. least just talk in sort of the. amount of words that your head should. justify your head size should justify.

yes don't be a crazy little head just. doing a bunch yeah I dated a girl one. time with for a while with a small head. beautiful girl great girl but knew when. to talk when not to talk you wouldn't. see her just yammering on like some big. head you know so I [ __ ] did you. notice right away that she had a. particularly small head or was that. something that sort of dawned on you. later or she had big hair big kind of. Italian hair and uh every now and then I. would feel her head and I was like I.

feel like there should be a little more. head here yeah so once he got under that. hair was puffed out probably. purposefully we probably knew that her. head was small she was it was a was a. mirage yeah hiding it a little bit yeah. and you prob little self conscious of it. yeah could have been but yeah cool girl. SM uh small head but knew how to use it. right yeah not somebody that was. ambivalent to their head size and is. just running around just squawking at. the Moon every chance they get this is. uh pretty wild that Morgan and Morgan.

has just filed a first ofit kind lawsuit. against food industry. behemoths that's the truth the lawsuit. alleges that these companies engineer. their ultr processed food products to be. addictive and Market those products. towards children alleged causing chronic. disease in children the complaint. details the Strategic and calculated. actions that these companies allegedly. took to Target children with addictive.

ultra-processed Foods including internal. memos strategic meetings and the. extensive research they allegedly. conducted to leverage our biology and. neurology to create addictive substances. we've all been hearing for years and. maybe speculating that a lot of ultra. processed foods um could be addictive. and I'm just think it's fascinating to. finally. see uh this possibility coming to light. Morgan and Morgan is committed to. fighting for the people and for the.

families if your child has been. diagnosed with one of these diseases you. may have legal options they've helped. thousands of families seek Justice. against big corporations and they're. ready to fight for you too learn more at. forthepeople.com. Theo that's. fothe. people.com tho. did you um yeah what did I do oh yeah I. just went to the SNL 50th dude I just.

went to that SNL yeah that's amazing. yeah I know that must was that. incredible it was cool you got to host. it I did I know that's amazing I was on. tour I wasn't able to go I would have. loved to have gone to that that must. have been wild I went to the 40th and I. remember that was that is just the most. surreal uh thing I if if it's anything I. I imagine it was like just everybody is. there right yeah I gu to go to the music. night and then um I'm buddies with Louis. CK he took me to uh Chris Rock's.

birthday party oh nice on Saturday night. which was crazy cuz Chris Rock is always. like my favorite comedian growing up and. um so just to even be able to see be. there I definitely felt like out of. place or whatever but it was also cool. you know just to like you know kind of. fly on the wall there so did you do. really actually feel out of place there. yeah 100% And why why do you think that. is just like it feels like kind of fancy. you know I mean I could tell right when. I saw Chris Rock how I felt like some. people you don't get nervous around him. or you've seen him a couple times and so. there becomes a little bit Ambiance you.

know but I just didn't know him and so. yeah I think that created some of the. nervous energy some other people I I did. know so it wasn't that bad but I got. introduced to people that I didn't know. and so you're always like I don't know I. always I I I don't usually say a lot. then I'll kind of just be a listener. yeah you know see I get like that too. and I I I wish I didn't this sort of. social anxiety when you're in an. environment like that where there's just. all these you know people that you.

admire and respect and they around you. and every everybody it's kind of I kind. of don't even feel like myself you know. it's a sort of a very stressful thing. for me yeah so in some ways I was kind. of that's a good word it's stressful. yeah yeah and I don't know why that is. why is that well I think it's cuz you're. a little bit probably I don't know how I. fit in this circle there's a lot of. circles in the world where I get but. you're on top of the world right now you. just interviewed the president of the. United States I mean everybody you've. got this incredible show I mean I'm sure. everybody was super excited to see you.

there so you probably don't really have. any reason to feel nervous but you still. do right yeah yeah I guess yeah I just. didn't know I hadn't been in that circle. before it's kind of like I guess when. you're in a I don't know when you're in. just feel like you're in a new water. you're figuring out the temperature you. don't know you know you don't want to. make a lot of noise at somebody's. birthday party they are seeing friends. that they know it's not a huge group of. people so you just want to kind of. you know you don't want to overstay your. welcome you know kind of type of type of.

energy you know yeah I don't need to. tell a big story let the they all they. know each other I'm just happy to be. here yeah happy to be able to see. somebody celebrate their birthday to. witness people that I admire from a. little bit of a way you know from a. little closer than I'm usually allowed. to get to them you know online or on TV. I guess um but the SNL thing was we went. to the music they had a music show Radio. City and that's that's the part that I. got to go to and that was pretty cool uh. just seeing different bands jelly roll. performed and so I know him nice and so.

there was yeah and I I got to bring a. friend and so I knew my buddy was you. know we were just kind of Milling around. running into some people that we knew. and meeting some new people but it was. pretty chill so when you went to the you. went to the inauguration too right yeah. I went to the inauguration yeah so like. when you go to the. inauguration and you've already now you. know the president of the United States. cuz you had had this interview with him. yeah like you get to kind of hang out. with them at the inauguration or no no I. didn't see any of them I was in like the.

second tier of humans there or something. you know like there was a first tier and. then I was in like this a second tier of. humans that were there you but that's. got to be kind of uh still interesting. nonetheless to be there oh it was. interesting very interesting because I. never you don't even know if like the. the the process is real you see it on TV. but it's like who knows if that shit's. real who knows what's real anymore so to. witness that was pretty cool just to be. in Washington DC is always pretty neat. just with all the. architecture um but I don't know Trump.

like that like I'll message with his. daughter sometimes Ivanka okay so I'm. able to communicate with her and then. what do you guys talk about she'll just. send me a book that she thinks I would. like or we went to dinner one time she's. so smart yeah okay it's mindblowing yeah. yeah yeah um and so you go to dinner. with her a lot or no I only went one. time that's pretty cool was was her. husband Jared there or was it just you. to or he wasn't it was other friends of. hers okay. yeah not trying to make break any news. here but it sounds interesting you know.

not at all I wish there were news to. break dude she's stunning she's awesome. and then there's like a middleman like. who worked with the I guess I I guess he. worked with the Republican party and he. got to invite some people yeah so it was. just a mly group of strange people that. uh went to the inauguration so how did. that work so can I ask you question sir. yeah sure yeah so when like when he like. came on your show right it was right. before the election and he was doing a. lot of podcasts and stuff did he did he. they approach you or they call you is.

his son was a is a fan of your show. right is that what what he said he said. Baron was a fan of the show and I tried. to get to see Baron but I didn't get to. meet him so you just got a call one day. and Trump wanted to come on the show and. well I'd seen I'd met Trump a couple. times at UFC okay yeah yeah UFC I think. is had everything to do with winning the. election probably for for the. Republicans yeah yeah because Dana White. is just such a. um facilitator he just gets things done. he kept his sport going while all the.

other sports were shut down a lot of. them were shut down or uh having to. practice really intense methods during. covid you know he was able to keep his. sport going like um and so he would he. brought Trump to a lot of his events. because they've been friends for a long. time and so I'd met him there a couple. times and then I knew his brother died. of alcoholism so I was like well let me. call him and let me ask Dana if if Trump. would ever talk about his brother I. didn't know about it you know and just. to see what he's like like is he just. all the business guy does he think about.

other things cuz when you're you don't. get a lot of you don't hear a lot about. his feelings Trump's feelings and if you. do he doesn't communicate it in a way. where it's very emotional to people I. don't feel like right so I was just. curious about that so yeah I called up. Dana and he said we'll make it happen. you know and then two days later he. called back and he said all good. somebody from his group's going to reach. out to you so and you went to him right. and we went to him up in New Jersey yeah. and we offer we would have we would have. loved to had um Harris and walls on.

we're still trying to get walls on we. tried to get Harris on even after the. election but they just didn't want to. come yeah and so it was kind of a bummer. you know cuz I think seems like that was. a pretty big mistake to they didn't do. didn't go on a lot of the shows that. yeah I think it would just let them be. more normal I think people are if. something's too much behind the glass. these days people don't trust the glass. I don't even think they don't that they. don't trust the person behind the glass. I think they just don't trust the. [ __ ] glass if that makes any sense. but um yeah no it does yeah so I guess.

that was all kind of interesting I'm. kind of out of sorts with the way that. they're handling like the Gaza Palestine. stuff like that [ __ ] really I think is. insane to me you know but that's just. you know you know I don't know that's. just my thoughts it's kind of a endless. sort of uh you know uh Quagmire you can. find yourself in once you start talking. when you. in this world we're living in now. because it's like you know you go on the.

road you do stand up all around the. country and you. know everybody's sort of divided in a. way right and then you start sort of. firmly choosing aide and all of a sudden. half the audience doesn't want to have. any fun anymore right so it's kind of. like got to we find we got to make these. choices now like okay well do I do I. want to give my opinion anymore about. what's going on in the world uh you know. and then you know you have to choose one. of the you know set of opinions that are.

on this side or the set of opinions that. are all evenly and neatly put on this. side and as soon as you state your. opinion about one of these issues that. just happens to be on this side then. anybody that doesn't agree with you no. longer you know wants to wants to [ __ ]. with you and and and come to your show. or have a good time or have a laugh with. you you know so it's just such a shitty. thing to have to deal with that right. yeah so how do you how do you kind of. like uh you know juggle that you know. you know as Canadian you know like it's. like right now in Canada people are. pretty upset you know with uh you know.

with Donald Trump because he's putting. these tffs on Canada right and saying. they're going to make us a 51st state. they going to Annex Canada people aren't. too happy about the idea of uh you know. being taken over by the United States of. America doesn't it's not something that. people are super excited about hearing. you know so you know you kind of you. kind of go it's funny because I. sometimes I think like well I think a. lot of Americans who aren't don't think. about it that much might think. like Oh Canada is going to be the 51st.

state I bet you everyone in Canada must. be really excited about being the 51st. state of the United States but you know. I'm kind of saying well no it'll. probably be the first state in America. that nobody in it wants to be America. you know so uh so CU you know we've. we've got our own country it's not that. we don't don't don't love America I love. America but we know we sort of have our. our our entire different culture you. know you go to Canada all the time right. I love it and I'm glad it's can. different we're different right it's a. different thing yeah it's different. you're nice to a you know people will be.

somebody will walk across the street in. Canada and just come tell you they're. sorry and then go back across the street. then nothing even happen they're not. even yeah they just came off just to. apologize yeah there's no even you never. seen them before you know um but it's. Canada's the best I think Canada gives. me hope for Humanity a lot of times it's. good people you know like um I love. Canada I wish I I wish that there was. there's times wanted to be be Canadian. even what's uh do you remember the first. time you went to Canada like yeah.

Vancouver yeah and was that I slept. recently brothel or a hostel i s at a. hostel okay yeah yeah and how many years. ago would that have been that was. probably 15 18 years ago 17 years ago. and it was great man had a great time. were stand up there or were you were you. I hadn't started I just almost started. stand up I was doing I was traveling I. was left out of there on a school. floating University left out of. Vancouver called semester at C yeah yeah. and it went around the globe and we left. out of Vancouver but I went up to. Whistler I went and caught a ride some.

guy took me hit tiing up to Whistler. right drove me up there and um the dude. the guy who drove me he was a caretaker. for Superman who had died remember. Superman who got in the wheelchair yeah. yeah Christopher Reeves Christopher. Reeves he was his caretaker okay okay. this guy Michael and um I think I met. him I was at some shop right around. there and uh he was saying he was in the. area or something he's like I'm taking. the drive up to Whistler I was like I. can I roll with you he's like yeah so he. took me up to Whistler man brought me.

back we stopped along the way went on. some hikes and stuff yeah yeah yeah it. was amazing but I've always enjoyed uh. Canada I I used to have a dream that I. would meet a wife in Toronto yeah um but. I went did two weeks of Comedy up there. didn't meet any wise yeah yeah well it. could still happen for sure still happen. yeah you find the audiences react. differently uh they're great Halifax was. one of my favorite shows I've ever had. in my life yeah yeah dude I even made um. my little nephew made up this joke he. said oh oh I told it I told it on stage.

I I was like yeah I heard one time that. there wasn't any more fish up here and. so they changed the name to no fish. Scotia and nobody laughed right still. was [ __ ] funny no that's why I'm. laughing cuz I can imagine the. reaction sometimes there's something. great when they don't laugh there's some. little thing in there it's like a that's. pretty good yeah absolutely you know but. uh but yeah always had a great love for.

Canada I think it's bizarre that Trump. would say something like that and it's. also like I it just so but what do you. expect out of him you know and what do. you expect about the media to Spotlight. things and make it whatever it is even. if it's a seed of something to grow it. into a million plants you know yeah no. it's uh it's interesting I think uh you. know there's a thing that's going on the. hockey games in Canada now where the USA. and Canada playing and you know yeah the. four nations right yeah the Canadian. fans were booing Anthem right you know.

sometimes I go like well I don't you. know based on the reaction on social. media I sort of feel like maybe not. everybody in the US necessarily. understands why that's happening you. know they don't know it's about the. tariffs you know they're not booing the. national anthem they're booing this the. fact that these tariffs are being put on. you know which is going to of course. devastate you know the economy on both. sides will suffer from that right I'm. sitting here like talking about I know. it I should probably know more about it. but it's like it's like you know I think. I think people are just kind of like why.

are you guys doing this to us you know. so that's it's kind of uh it's kind of. an interesting thing but you know you. want to talk about issues sometimes and. then you go okay I've just waited into. this sort of hornets nest and I'm never. going to hear the end of it so it's uh. it's it is interesting what was it when. you're at the. inauguration after the inauguration. where you're like kind of just you kind. of who are you hanging out with there. like I went who did I meet I met this. kid Alexander Wang we just had a podcast.

episode with him he created this company. called scale AI he's like this AI he's. the youngest billionaire ever this uh. Chinese kid oh my gosh from New Mexico. wow fascinating dude um self-made. billionaire self-made billionaire yeah. so I ended up having lunch with him that. was probably the neest thing that. happened that weekend and you pick up. the tab or I think I paid actually I. didn't know he was a billiona oh my gosh. yeah that's why he's a billionaire he. letting everyone else pick up the tab I. was just happy to be dining with the.

Chinese you know yeah that's amazing and. oh it was great man and um and then who. else something else happened at night oh. I saw Wayne grety lost his tooth wow and. then anything I saw Joe Rogan for a few. minutes I saw Tony hinchcliff from Kill. Tony yeah yeah and then that was kind of. it and then I went home it was too much. like too hard to get around M uh I saw. Lex Freeman that was pretty pretty neat. i' never met him he's a podcaster yeah. I've met him in at the mothership before. oh nice yeah so it was just that was.

kind of those were some of the neat. parts of it yeah you just getting to see. some different folks um yeah I think. they're having issues even in America. they're having I just saw that there's a. part of Oregon that wanted to secede. from Oregon yeah they're going to become. Canada's 11th Province good I would love. it if we started trading pieces of our. trading now that I'm totally for New. York and California come join and take. one of them you guys can uh you know. take I'm not going to say who you guys.

can take but you know cuz we but uh well. I knew you're were talking about dude I. got to be political sakur blue okay. that's all I'll say brother no no just. Quebec actually ja FR I lived in Quebec. a lot in my life yeah so I grew up in. Quebec so I love Quebec yeah yeah you. must have been up to the Montreal. Festival but over the years or yeah we. went there a couple times um I love. Quebec it's fun yeah edmont we got some. other plac we're going to still Calgary. in Ottawa and Winnipeg we're going to go. to this year oh yeah so when you're in. Ottawa maybe if you're rolling past the.

farm and the tour bus oh come by the. farm and uh we'll go ride some mules or. something how far outside of town are. you guys about like an hour or so oh wow. yeah yeah so they'll sort of not too far. you know I'll come pick you up in my. pickup truck we'll go hang out yeah do. you think you'll have uh now that you're. kind of feeling settled out there do you. think do you start thinking about. starting a family or no yeah definitely. you know I'm getting married so might it. you know knock on wood everything goes. well and uh with with that and uh you.

know maybe there'll be some uh we'll see. we'll have to ask my fiance if yeah I. think she would want to do that yeah you. got to include her. yeah yes yes yeah for sure no I think I. think that's possibility for sure you. know was it for a while do you think. that that wasn't going to be a part of. your life I was starting to I was. starting to question whether or not it. was going to be part of my life because. uh you know yeah I mean I think you kind. of alluded to this earlier you know you. know you you want to uh 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 right I was. starting to question whether or not that. was maybe possible you know I wasn't. sure if that was possible anymore to. find somebody that I thought would last. forever with but you know when I met. Amanda she's outside I'm hope I'm. getting some brownie points here but I I. realized this is this is the one you. know wow so but it's uh you know until. you meet that person you does start to. feel kind of like uh jez this is getting.

a little kind of uh you know uncertain. here yeah yeah so but um yeah I think. that's how I think about it cuz I think. when you're younger like you have this. feeling of like this young love energy. type of thing 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 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 um but. it's nice to know that that can kind of. sneak up and surprise you you know yeah. I think kind. of I mean I think uh being home where. I'm from help helped you know because. it's like I don't. know I mean if you're not from Los. Angeles then it's kind of a weird place. if you're from Los Angeles it's normal. but if you're not from Los Angeles you. know it's kind of a weird place so you.

know you're here. probably focused on your career and your. work and so many other people are it's. kind of hard to I think find a uh you. know a good uh I'm not saying it's. impossible but it seems like it is kind. of harder in this environment to find. somebody that uh you can I mean I don't. know do are people watching going are we. going to be taking relationship advice. from from from I don't know I don't know. if that's no well no it does make me. think that I think I think there's this. feeling in La that if you meet somebody.

you're going to have to eventually get. them to leave here right there's I've. always felt that thing like well if I. met somebody would they ever leave here. with me cuz I'm not going to stay here. forever right you know that's that's. exactly what I was trying to say so. that's so that I think is a yeah I think. that's totally common you got to but. you're you're you uh said you you you. don't live here fulltime now I live in. Tennessee I moved during the pandemic. too Nashville or yeah oh cool cool I mov. the pandemic what was whenever Trump was. talking about Canada what was can you. bring it up Nick just I just want to. know what he even was saying like what.

were they threatening they were. threatening to tariff Canadian Goods. just so our listeners can know what. exactly was even going on yeah they're. going to put a tariff on uh every you. know you know Canada is the largest. trading partner of the United States. nice and uh and so so much of the goods. that come into the United States from. Canada are you are are being brought in. by American businesses to you know like. wood you bring wood and Lumber in to. build houses right so when you put a 25%.

tariff on Lumber that means everybody. that flannel if you're a big flannel. company making flannel pajamas all of a. sudden flannel pajamas are going to be. 25% more expensive so it's really it's. going to affect uh you know businesses. on on both sides of the Border obviously. not just Canada but also everything will. go up in price um so you know and uh I'm. not exactly sure the reason for it to be. honest with you I uh he was really. saying they weren't helping out with.

border security yeah and that's what the. 30 days probation period they did put a. bunch of people out the Border. absolutely and it's I don't think. there's a real border security problem. between Canada and the United States. though it's uh you know it's uh but uh. that's it's the hardest country to get. into in the world I think is Canada yeah. I mean it's it's going that way there. isn't that's for sure yeah uh you know. the 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 something. like you know a very small amount is. coming in from Canada so tariffs are a. central part of Trump's economic plans. he promised to introduce import duties. against some America's Main trade. Partners during his election campaign he. said tariffs will boost us manufacturing. and protect jobs as well as raising tax. revenue and growing the economy fent all. is linked to tens of overdo deaths. taking bold action to hold Mexico Canada. and China accountable to their promise.

of halting illegal immigration and. stopping poisonous fit and all and Other. Drugs from flowing in our country it. just seems kind of. vague yeah I think it's sort of like uh. but like what would you do like I'm. trying to see say if you bring a bunch. of stuff into my country right 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 in. 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 fentol. that's coming in mhm I just I don't know.

how would you then do that what would. you then on your side would you say okay. we'll put more what drug dogs and. security along the that's what they're. uh I think that's what he's asking them. to do I you know and and I I think we. already do have a again I'm not I know. I'm not a representative of the Canadian. government but I do I do uh think that. we already do have a lot of there's only. so much you can do to seal off a border. right and I don't think there is that. much fentanyl coming in from Canada. really I never heard that that was a. thing I think it mostly does come in.

from the Souther Southern border so. that's what I would think I wonder if. maybe that you guys got grandfathered. into some TR you know some late night. Trump rhetoric there who knows it feels. a little bit like that but you know. hopefully uh hopefully it'll resolve. itself 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 uh they may uh may. not go for it but Sports exciting for a. while though yeah exactly that's the. side effect it was a good fight right. off the top of the game the other day.

you know it was pretty cool we like a. good hockey fight so that's cool and it. is nice when countries sometimes don't. get along a little bit in sports right. I've always I've always admired that. yeah that's why that's one thing I don't. like about the NBA anymore that all the. players it just seems like they all know. each other nobody's really playing for. their squad sometimes okay so I like a. little bit more that anity more fights. in the NBA what good physical fights. yeah look at that oh definitely I. believe both those players are American. too I'm not sure how quickly your. researcher can tell us that but even. though they the Canadian.

team Canada didn't get the win in this. game I know maybe that's not true at all. what I just said but but uh I think. Canada got the win in this game but. that's okay yeah we lost the game. absolutely which is really kind of uh I. know but it is nice to see everybody. having a good time watching a hockey. fight for sure yeah absolutely you know. so um what else did I see in the news. that I just saw was happening oh yeah it. was that contraception begins at. erection. now so there this a law that they're. pushing Ohio Democratic lawmakers.

propose con conception begins at. erection act so they're trying to put it. on the men a little bit more so what. exactly are they going to do about this. now well a new bill in Ohio would make. it a crime for men to ejaculate without. intending to have a baby oh wow that is. that's definitely something that I could. see a lot of people probably would be. guilty of for sure hey shooter shoot you. know yeah yeah I could see that being I. mean I don't want to get into too much. personal detail but I think I'd probably. be locked up for a long.

timey yeah oh we're going to visit Tom. this weekend again he's Behind Bars yeah. my gosh I thought he was G to get. paroled plenty of time to break the law. in jail though. true and they put a a monitor like wraps. around your weener and it just like if. if it it just goes off if it gets too. hard 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. is this a real article this is a real. article right there yep let's zoom in on.

I'm going to read it a little bit okay. so this is not the onion or something. like that or Mad magazine or something. no this is one of those good radishes. that they have out there conception be. and it Rhymes nicely too conception. begins at erection act I mean that it's. a nice rhyme to it which is also nice if. you're going to penalize someone for an. unwanted pregnancy why not penalize the. person who is also responsible for the. pregnancy now I I can't say I don't. agree with this it's like then you're. going to have a lot more. people $110,000 per.

discharge that's who but here's the. thing some dude is just running around. skiing or whatever they call it and I. don't know what they call in different. countries but they're not going to have. an extra 10K on them you're going to. have the court system would be filled. with every every kid in the world every. 14-year-old kid yeah 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 I'm going to say you don't get. pregnant on your own representative.

Anita soman um Democrat Dublin said a. felony for men to discharge Sean yep. without the intent to. fertilize that. is wow a amazing amazing idea I mean I. actually would love to see that sort of. Applied that law just to see what would. happen I mean it would be interesting to. see what would happen it's genital. communism in a way I guess it's genital. communism is it absolutely yeah.

absolutely she introduced legislation. that would make it a felony to discharge. SE without the intent to fertilize soani. and state representative Tristan Raider. uh joined forces to propose a bill. nickname conception begins a direction. there are some exceptions such as when. protection or contraceptions are used. during sex it also wouldn't apply when. an individual is masturbating oh okay. donating sperm or relief yeah or if the. Intercourse that's taking place between. members of the LGBT plus community and. this doesn't produce overa so gay people.

would be able to just jerk off on each. other and they don't suffer any of the. consequences I. have if a couple of straits get. caught you know this is charging this is. unfair on so many levels well it's just. it's beyond ridiculous what's going on. here Republican activist Austin bigel. laughed it's a mockery of the most basic. biological con deceptions um and now I I. still I'm sort of kind of can't believe.

this is a real article well I think. their purpose in this was saying if you. think it's absurd to regulate men you. think you should think it's equally. absurd to regulate women SOI responded. I'm guessing that there was a um an. original idea that I see I see okay of. course yeah about I understand taking on. Reproductive Rights for women absolutely. so huh I don't know is a good idea I'd. run up a tab I know that they're making. a valid point when you put it that way. absolutely I'd run up a. tab um did you when you hosted SNL what.

was that like for you recall kind of. some of the energy of that night or it. was it was uh a. wild somewhat terrifying experience um. you know I um I had just gone through. some pretty I'd gone through just gone. through surgery like a testicular cancer. yeah yeah and I'd had this lymph node. dissection and I was kind of like. it had affected my sort of uh energy. levels a lot so it was kind of there was. a lot going on in my life when I.

actually got the call to do that show um. and to do Saturday Night Live and um you. know it it was really cool though the. thing that was cool about it was um you. know Lauren. Michaels who's Canadian and I was just. so kind of sort of kind of sort of uh. overwhelmed that I was was asked to do. it right yeah and uh 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 so they gave us a little office. and stuff we went in there we us s. writing skits up and. everything and uh 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 and um you. know in hindsight I kind of wish they. hadn't no like they had just written. them themselves yeah well CU because we. really kind of made some really weird. [ __ ] sketches you know and I think.

maybe it would have been cool if I maybe. I had just gone in and done the stuff. that they had written but like I I was. sort of. definitely you. know Freddy Got Fingered hadn't come out. yet so like I I was still kind of Riding. High on this hit show and we come in and. we okay now let's write some crazy. sketches right and uh I mean the stuff. we wrote was really really. weird you know and um and uh were you. intent on making it weird do you feel I. think we were yeah like how weird can we.

make this it's SNL let's make it ours I. think so I think so and uh you know. sometimes I think there was a misc. misperception maybe among some of the. cast that i' brought my own writers in. which wasn't really the case it was more. like um it was my buddies and I was. they'd come up with me with the show you. know it was kind of like we were you. know when we made the show in Canada. they some of my friends came down with. me. to the states to like this is part of. the team it's not just come on I want. them to be included in in the in the in. the show so we kind of went in and did.

that but I mean it's uh it was an. amazingly exciting experience I mean my. parents were there on stage with me you. know um you know there was it was one of. those things where you kind of can't. believe that you actually that it. actually happened while it was happening. you know and uh I did a lot of sketches. with will frell one one of the like. here's an example of something that I I. wouldn't say I regret this but like uh. but um I kind of regret this um so so.

there was a there was a sketch where I'm. a wizard and I'm holding a pig like an. actual. Pig and uh and it was Molly Shannon and. and will wow and I'm a wizard and I. didn't really have any lines in the. sketch or many lines in the sketch it. was mostly will and Molly were doing. this uh sketch and but I noticed during. rehearsal that if I like if I just kind. of lightly sort of tickled the pig's. belly with with my finger that it would. start to squeal Extremely Loud right.

okay and so I did that once during. rehearsal and then somebody said oh you. better not um you know she'll squeal if. you touch her belly and so I said okay. oh yeah and there's a rehearsal show and. then there's the actual show right and. you know I kind of maybe regret this but. I did note that okay let's get through. the rehearsal show but then live I'm. going to make that pig squeal right. yeah yeah it did kind of uh sorry I Pig.

yeah no but it was It was kind of uh it. kind of threw the the sketch off a. little bit you just fing kept squealing. that I realized that it did kind of. throw the rhythm of the of the comedy. off a little bit but uh how many times. did you squeal it it was just sort of. became sort of a bit of a a bit of a. mess but uh and were were you getting a. squeal every time he touched his belly. or do you have to really no I just had. to kind of just lightly sort of pet her. there and she would just so but it was. amusing to me but I'm not sure if. anybody else enjoyed it that much but.

but uh my sister's like that if you. touch her lunch you know she [ __ ]. gets a little animated if you grab any. of her Takis out of her little dish. right it was like that yeah so so but uh. um you know it was no it was an amazing. experience I was total honored to be. able to do it and you know I mean I I I. you know it was cool I mean the the cast. was Jimmy Fallon Tina Fay will frell uh. Chris Katan Molly Shannon Anna gastre u. d Tracy Morgan and you know.

um you know there. was it's a weird environment like. Saturday Night Live especially when. you're young and you don't really know. like you know we were talking earlier. about like going to you talking about. going to Chris Rock's party and like you. didn't know how to act or whatever cuz. there's all these people here and it's. it's kind of complicated yeah so 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 everyone every week and. and I didn't really know how it worked. really at the time and hindsight I now. realize how it works and I you might. have done things differently 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 so it. kind of created it kind of it's kind of. a weird environment and you know the. more I kind of you. know sort of hear people on podcasts.

who've been on the show talk about the. show it seems like everybody's gone. through that experience who's been on. that show where it's very competitive. and and stressful for people and uh that. made that makes me feel a little bit. better about my experience there because. you know it was It was kind of uh uh you. know a stressful experience you know. because you know everybody's going to be. watching the show it's live and uh you. know I'm uh uh you know you're doing all. this weird stuff that's not necessarily. you know I'm I'm I'm a little bit out of. my element I didn't do sketch comedy.

yeah you know that's scary so it was it. was it was but it was cool it was it. sounds like it's part for the course a. little CU yeah I mean even Adam Sandler. the other night was singing he had a. musical tribute that he did to the 50. years and um he referenced a couple. times about people having sketches that. they wrote that didn't get on the show. so I think that seems like it was just a. weekly occurrence and of course you want. to go in there with a little bit more. comfort zone for yourself 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.

another thing that was weird that. happened on the show. so like so there was a a sketch that I. did let's call it a sketch like I did. with Will frell where we're both dressed. as Eagles and uh this was one of the. ones that my friends and I wrote okay. sort of hard to sort of say that we. wrote it but the sketch was uh you know. uh Jimmy Fallon and and Molly Shannon. are looking at will and I who are eagles. right we wrote this out by the way on.

paper and handed it in and then they. said to do it and then uh will and I uh. decide to fly up into the audience okay. and uh I thought it would be fun to go. in the audience so we fly into the. audience uh 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 um and then. kind of we end up sort of uh CU you know. how baby birds will chew up the food and.

and feed it mother birds will chew up. the food and to make it easier for the. baby to eat so this was the sketch we. did um oh yeah but so oh God so somehow. I kind of maybe probably would have been. better if we just kind of did the. sketches that uh that their writers have. WR oh God. huh and these are both males huh yeah so. what so we're doing this yeah exactly so. we're doing this uh zoo is that at H. that's what I'm talking about that's the.

West Hollywood Aquarium right there. brother I'll tell you that huh yeah so. we're doing this sketch this this skit. and uh so you know 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 another and so so I'm. running down the stairs and I'm running. through the backstage area and just. sitting in the darkness you know know. just backstage Tom Hanks is just sitting. there in front of a monitor watching the. show and I'm in the eagle costume I just.

done that I make eye contact with Tom. Hanks so now I'm like I was already kind. of nervous now like I got Tom Hanks in. the in the dark watching and I'm going. like how did that eagle sketch go you. know and I'm sort of getting ready for. the next sketch not sure how the eagle. sketch went and Tom Hanks is watching so. it kind of throws you a little bit but. then there's a big Afterparty after the. show and Tom Hanks was real nice and he. you know was hanging out talking to my. parents and stuff and so it was pretty.

cool but uh no it was an amazing thing. it's a it's a kind of thing though like. it's kind of like you go gez it would be. nice to be able to do it again someday. because I think like doing it the first. time is is sort of. so I don't know that that would ever. happen but uh you know probably in an. alternate universe I might be able to do. it again someday but but uh you know. like you go okay I sort of understand. how the system of it works now and um. and uh it it would be uh you know. probably you know I probably would not.

have done. that yeah but also it's great that you. did though it's so epic yeah and yeah I. think you're right about that's like a. lot of things in life you're like man I. wish I had gotten a trial run or I had a. little bit of an idea of how the. feelings were or what the energy was. like in that space or that room 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 F you just play. play the room totally wrong you know. 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 yeah yeah but and. you know think that uh you know that. generally you. can at least take those lessons and. apply them to something else oh yeah for. sure yeah did um was Michael Jackson. there whenever you guys played who was. y'all's musical guest uh no it was not. Michael Jackson but that would have been. amazing if it was Michael Jackson no it. was David Gray uh and uh uh but um man. it would have been amazing not no.

nothing against David Gray but you ever. had Michael Jackson David Gray play have. you ever interacted with Michael Jackson. uh in any way or no that would have I. mean that would have been amazing but. yeah he was great and uh I would love to. see uh another weird thing that happened. on the show one thing that was weird. that happened on the show so I was. backstage getting ready for the I don't. even I should tell the story I don't. even know if I should tell the story. maybe it's not let's talk about. something else it's a weird story.

wor um yeah Tom Hanks was there the. other night I I didn't get to see him oh. I got to see Madonna she's little okay. where was that such a little baby carrot. um she was at that SNL thing oh okay. yeah that's cool it was just interesting. so you're chatting with Madonna no no no. no no she's quite quite interesting on. Tik Tok these days she she she's some. pretty uh sort of out there stuff on her. Tik Tok I got to follow her I got to. check her out um when you have these.

um you beat cancer right has it flared. back up what's that been like no it's no. no it's completely gone they have to. take out one of your gonads or not uh. one testicle yeah my my right testicle. and some lymph nodes as well but uh and. what are the lymph nodes like is that. actually in the testicle or are actually. behind your intestines and they have to. like they cut me up here and they had to. remove those and that was just a check. to see if the cancer had spread into. them wow and you know the only way they.

could really check and know for 100%. sure if it had spread was to take them. out and look at them under a microscope. and stuff so so they had not spread so. then that meant I did not have to have. chemo and stuff but they did take my. right testicle which was uh honestly. like when I found out I the show was on. MTV at the time and and you have it. still yeah I I did not keep it like. indefinitely but that is it in a plastic. bag right there um ounces is it you know. I I don't remember weighing it exactly. but I know it's quite heavy for sure oh. hell yeah [ __ ] give you.

that but uh [ __ ] yeah we don't have no. light testicles that R. here [ __ ] but uh we filmed the whole. uh the whole um sort of uh surgery uh. and for a show on MTV that's actually. the the whole show there the cancer. special which is on YouTube but you see. my documentary on Prime too where it. kind of walks through that hole that's. Glenn humpl who is the my friend and. co-host on the show and here he is sort. of after my surgery coming down and and. playing with my testicle bit Sashimi.

there a little sushimi yeah he that's. what he says it sort of looks like. chicken and and then my mom says I don't. know what kind of chicken you're eating. yeah so that is my cancer infected. testical right there but I you know I. still have the left one it's the middle. one now um I can still ejaculate just a. little no it's pretty good actually heck. yeah dude it's going to cost you 10. grand if you drive over to Ohio and do. it I'll tell you that bro. look long as you stop and miss a walk. only five grand for me uh yeah that's.

true which is a benefit to having in. Ohio to having testicular cancer you can. kind of God brother the tffs they would. rack up they'd make a million bucks a. night in that state that's not a bad. idea not a bad idea for sure um did you. ever wear a prosthetic testicle it was. offered and I uh I refused to do it I. not refused but I just sort of uh opt it. out on the uh on the prosthetic uh did. you ever look had him at least uh I. think I did yeah I think I did this was. you know 20 years ago but uh I I I I'd.

heard the doctor kind of said you know a. lot of people get them don't like it you. say it kind of sort of feels weird or. whatever so I just figured no I don't. need one so yeah you know but uh I mean. I don't know how much you want to talk. about my ball sack but I mean it doesn't. really seem that much different like. down there like I mean oh I could. imagine that to you as you're talking. kind of all just kind of sort of sort of. morphs into kind of like a cuz like the. like the the um like the don't like um. like um they don't actually like go. through the scrotum to get the testicle.

you know that like they don't actually. cut the scrotum oh nuh-uh you know they. go in they cut you like up up sort of up. up here like on your like under your. your pubic hair kind of thing under your. pubes they go in there and then they. kind of go in and they just sort of Shu. it out like an oyster from above yeah so. it's sort of not really like the scrotum. is completely intact you know like. there's not some sort of you know sort. of scarred scrotum or anything like I. don't have a scarred up scrotum yeah. yeah it's totally normal scrotum yeah. good yeah like there's a there's a. little scar up here but I'd had a I'd.

had a hernia operation before when I was. like U you know younger so they just. went through the same thing so it's like. you wouldn't just a little scar there. yeah so a lot of hernas in Canada too. what country has the most hernas you. think yeah that is interesting I have. never thought of it about that but is. there a lot in Canada or that's what. I've a lot of my friends Canada have had. hernas a lot of your friends in Canada. have had have had hernas really yeah I'm. just wondering that is is I I'd be. curious to see if there's more in Canada. that would be certainly an interesting. statistic for sure according to. available data countries in South Asia.

and subsaharan Africa tend have the. highest prevalence of hernas. particularly in regions with lower. socioeconomic status with countries like. India and parts of Tanzania showing. significantly higher rates compared to. high income Nations this is largely due. to factors like limited access to. healthcare and higher rates of manual. labor wow 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 and um 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 record. records for the longest fingernails you. ever seen those B oh yeah we used to see. them all the time kid and the Chinese. kid on the bikes remember that the world. record book yeah they' have a 15 or 16 a. whole just a starter pack of Asians. hanging off a bike exactly ly so for. whatever reason this was this this. doesn't even sound like it could even. possibly make sense to describe it but.

the idea was okay I'm going to it was. gland and myself it's a live show it was. on community cable you know it's not on. a big Network you know so it was sort of. late at night and we said okay what. we're going to do is we're going to try. to break the record for longest. fingernails I had a bunch of milk. calcium and I set it up all very. seriously and then I start drinking milk. and then for the the entire hour I just. basically drank milk and kind of stared. at my fingernails for an hour and didn't.

do anything right just kind of. progressively got a little bit more kind. of sort of weird and then at the towards. the end of the show I kind of stood up. and started thrashing around sort of. somewhat violently I don't know there's. no real logical reason for it it was. like a milk o overdose or something and. I threw my started doing this thrashing. and I hit the desk and I fli the desk. over and and I felt something pop in my. abdomen and then uh we went off the air. and uh I went up to the bathroom and my.

intestine was like pushing out through. my through my abdomen and uh went to the. hospital and I had given myself a hernia. ah so so that's well that's how that. happened was that probably the worst. accident you ever endeared uh no. uh the worst one ever was just two years. ago I stepped on a fire in uh on the. beach in Costa Rica the old fire buried. under sand and uh I walked up to this.

bonfire and the edge of the fire had. been buried and I my foot went into it. and uh yeah I got third degree burns. thought was a couple too sandwiches yeah. no they they they yeah it was it was uh. that was maybe the. worst uh and that was just 3 years ago I. almost lost my foot um so I was you just. had to lay on the you just had to lay in. bed for a while huh for 10 days in a. Costa Rican hospital and then I was.

metac on a air ambulance back to to. Canada actually uh and uh it spent. another week and a half in the hospital. there and uh yeah my foot's pretty. messed up right now but it's it's it's. better it's better not 100% but I've had. a few good injuries that was oh there. they go there they are yeah oh my gosh. you found the unedited version yeah yeah. that that wow look at that yeah it was. and look at that's the top of my foot. too you the bottom of the foot ain't. good either W those are sexy I'll spend.

10 grand on those things. huh look out Ohio geez yeah my God yeah. yeah yeah those are my feet right there. that was just that was maybe coming up. from three years ago now so yeah that. was that was maybe the worst injury ever. so yeah that's um so the show that you. have now you have the special that's out. yeah yeah it all came out uh just in. just a few weeks ago um the 28th or. something when was it yeah yeah on it's.

uh it's all on Amazon Prime on Prime. it's uh this is the Tom Green. documentary and then uh uh the uh. standup special it's called I got a mule. talk about my life on the farm and. getting my mule and uh and then the show. which is uh it's a four episode sort of. series of uh me moving to the farm. called Tom Green Country and I recorded. all the music for the show as well. there's a country album that I put out. which is the sound for the soundtrack. for the show which is called home to the. country which is on Spotify it's called.

what it's called home to the country the. name of the of the album and uh and. that's out on music wherever you get. music now and then I'm on tour I'm. actually on tour 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 fiance up through the. desert and then uh and then we'll be. picking up the tour again March March. 14th in Colorado and it'll be Colorado. Springs Aspen uh upwards to you know up. through where are we going Indianapolis. St Louis uh all the dates are on my.

website but Chicago and so touring and. driving back to Canada and then I'll be. riding my mule all summer so yeah when. are you in Ottawa I'm going to be in. Ottawa I'm not sure actually I think. it's sometime before the I guess may. maybe oh cool cool but I'll have to let. you know before I'm going to come I will. be so cool to come see the farm 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 um artistic in some. way I don't know if if that's a word. yeah yeah it's definitely like not uh.

something that I expect to really go. viral in a lot of ways because it's like. very long form stuff that I just really. like shooting like that I I mean yeah do. you notice you like almost it almost. seems like it's almost like you'd want. to shoot like a feature like a movie I. can't tell you know I don't know cuz you. know sometimes we have things that start. to happen and then it becomes something. you know when I'm watching it I feel. like I'm getting into a I'm getting into. a world that's what it feels like yeah.

that's cool that's cool I me like to. know that you've watched it because it. sort of is sort of it's not like a a. mainstream comedy sort of piece that I'm. putting on my YouTube Channel right now. it's it's you know 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 with. the animals and uh and so you know I. like I like shoot. and and capturing images that are sort. of calming and and beautiful and and it.

is the kind of thing that you know it's. it's you know the show is not like that. the show is there's a lot more going on. but the the there is something nice. about just kind of putting it on and uh. sitting back and just kind of like it's. like an ASMR type of thing yeah that's. what it feels like it's like ASMR for. your eyes kind of yeah yeah so it's uh. it's interesting 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 to figure out. how to make these cameras work and. capture the sort of the cinematography. the way I want to capture it and I think. that maybe you may evolve into something.

a little bit more faster paced at some. point but right now it's just it's just. a lot of this sort of Slice of Life. stuff that I put up on the YouTube. channel and and uh you know I have a. podcast which I do you know one episode. every six months or something like that. I might start doing the podcast again. and putting that up to kind of give. people something a little bit more. familiar to watch but uh right now yeah. that's that's what it is and I I just I. I I kind. of just enjoy taking people to these.

places I mean I find it interesting that. like you know everything's so fast-paced. now like you know 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 and uh again. it's it's not you know the algorithm. doesn't really work in its favor you. know you have to say something shocking. within the first 10 seconds and then you. know put some words on the screen and do. all these things that you can do to. really capture large audiences but but.

if you do watch. it you sort of do kind of get sucked. into a little secret Universe in a way. you know there's even little messages. sometimes I'll put like 45 minutes into. a video that. will you know if you made it that far. you know then you might say something in. the comments and then I'll know that you. actually watched 45 minutes in so there. is a lot of people that do. get it you know which is fun and and and. it's kind of neat to you know 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 of what's amazing. about it is just the calm Stillness of. it also that's that's that's what it is. on the YouTube channel it's a bit. different but I think people are as. desperate for that as they've ever been. in some ways I think things have. gotten we're we're operating at a speed. that we don't even feel comfortable in. sometimes you know our brains are having. to um but yeah that's what it feels like. it feels like some type of an ASMR or. some um it feels calming man that's what.

it feels like and yeah I'm just curious. because you're always you've just always. been a Creator you know you're just. always creating you're always finding. some way. to. to I don't if it's in to incite to get a. reaction out of people yeah right in. some type of way yeah it's cool it's. weird today because there's so. much energy online like so much you know. craziness and pranks and just you know.

like you know just the insanity that you. can see every day on your phone like. before you get out of bed you're just. like you know if you pick up your phone. you you get that in your head too early. in your day your whole day could be kind. of CRA but you started it. well just. crazy but that's okay it's not a. judgment you know technology was. changing at the same time but we're glad. you did man we're glad you did man Tom. thanks so much for all the entertainment. over the years and uh yeah man I just.

appreciate you spending time with me. congratulations on the new engagement. thank you thank you for having me on the. show Theo I mean it's awesome man I I. love the show and just I appreciate you. having me on and and uh y want to come. pet that donkey man when I get up there. absolutely come pet the donkey man you. will I will there okay all right thanks. Tom now I'm just floating on the Bree. and I feel I'm falling like these leaves. I must be. Cornerstone oh but when I reach that.

ground I'll share this piece of my life. found I can feel it in my. bones but.