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February 4, 2025 79 mins

On this episode of the BobbyCast, Bobby sits down with comedic legend, Tom Green. Tom tells the story of a time he put shaving cream on an MTV executive's face as part of his pitch to get his show on their network, how he pushed the envelope when he hosted Saturday Night Live, his new documentary about his life, and he addresses the legend of MTV forcing him to retire "The Bum Bum Song" from TRL. Plus, so much more!

 

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
And I just for whatever reason, decided, after I do that,
I'm going to lie down on the boardroom table in
front everyone ray shaving cream all over my face and
scream that I want to be on MTV.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
So I did that, and everyone's going, what the hell's
this kid in?

Speaker 1 (00:18):
And that I took the shaving cream and I walked
up to the guy who looked like he was in charge,
and I put some on his face.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
They called the next day and they picked up the
show next day.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yeah, episode four with Tom Green. I have a list
of most influential people that I would eventually like to interview. Okay,
now we've marked off the second one, so maybe three now.
So on my list, I have David Letterman, Mark Grace,
the baseball player, Sting the wrestler, Conan O'Brien, Tom Green,

(00:49):
Steve Martin, Adam Durretz, and Garth Brooks. We've had Adam
on this show before. Yeah, so he's off the list. Garth,
does that count that I've interview him any times? Just
not for this, I think that counts. Okay, So Guard's
off the list, and now Tom Green is off the list,
which was pretty cool because he came over to the
house on a Saturday. He actually DMed me weeks ago

(01:13):
out of nowhere, and I was like, wow, Tom Green
just followed me on Instagram. So he's like, hey man,
I'm gonna be in Nashville, and I was like, cool,
I want to come over. That's not really how it happened,
but we did hook it up and it was super
cool that he drove over his own car. He was
playing a show that night, and we hung out in
the backyard for like twenty minutes after.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
What were your thoughts on it?

Speaker 5 (01:32):
I thought it was awesome, Like I was like right
behind when he was like super famous. I really got
to know him through reruns in his movies. But it
was so cool to kind of finally meet him and
learn his story after watching the documentary.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Documentary is great, I think too. He thought it was
cool we had watched it because it had just come
out the night before and he hasn't been able to
talk about it with anyone because nobody's really been able
to see it.

Speaker 5 (01:53):
Yeah, it was so fresh.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
So Tom Green has a documentary out, He's got a
comedy special out, He's got a war part docuseriies headed
to Amazon Prime Video. Is that out now, yeah, series,
you can check it all out. I watched every episode
of Tom Green Show. I forgot some of the stuff,
like the cancer stuff. I forgot how real that was
until watching it on the documentary.

Speaker 5 (02:15):
That's kind of when I got to know him first.
When that story came out, I was like, Oh, that's crazy.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Well, you wonder too, because Andy Kaufman, you know, he
died of cancer. And Tom Green was very much a
performance artist, not in every way, and I think at
times I think he resents people only see him as that,
but that's what made him famous. And so Andy Coffin
died of cancer, and so when he said I had cancer,
I think a lot of people wondered, is this even real?
It's the bit, but it was. Yeah, it was very real.

(02:41):
Check out the documentary. This is one of my favorite interviews. Again,
so much of a favorite that it made my list.
And also everybody came up on Saturday to work follow him.
Get tickets at Tom Green Tomgreen dot com. Here he
is the great Tom Green. There's the legend of the
Bumbum song having to be retired from trol It's true?
Is it okay? I was gonna ask is it true?

(03:02):
And if so, would you please tell the story?

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, it's uh.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
I think it's the Statute of limitations has passed on
me not being supposed to tell this story.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Because I was not.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Really it was supposed to be kind of a secret
back in the time because it was kind of a
little bit a weird thing happened. So, you know, TRL,
everybody my generation remembers.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
To We watched Carson Day Jesse all the yea, everybody.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Hold a request live right. People call in and they
request their favorite song and then it goes on the
countdown every day.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
So that's all.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
That is how it works, right, It was everyone would
call in and that was really how it worked. They
really did do that. But we went and shot this
bumbum song and put it on the Tom Green Show,
and I went and said call TRL and vote for it,
and and we didn't really inform the producers of TRL

(03:58):
that we were doing that. You know, MTV knew about
it because they knew what was happening, but it sort
of fell through the cracks, or maybe they weren't expecting
it would go to number one.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
I'm sure that was it. It didn't go to number one.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
It did go to number one, like the next day,
so like the show aired and then it was a
you know, I forget what day it aired, but it
was the beginning of the week. The show was number
one on the Monday of that week and got a
call from MTV. Howard, my manager at the time, got
a call from MTV. He said, you know, we need
Tom to go on TRL on Friday and retire the

(04:29):
Bumbump song.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
And what do you mean it might why? You know?

Speaker 1 (04:36):
They was number number one again on Wednesday, and the
call comes again, more frantic, No, he has to go retire. No,
Tom doesn't want to retire. He's got the number one
song until a request live in America. This is why
would you want.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
To retire it?

Speaker 1 (04:47):
He has to retire it, and they weren't telling us why.
And then they call again Thursday, he has to retire.
Here's why. And so the following week I probably wasn't
supposed to say, but it's been twenty five years. I'm
sure everyone can get over it. You know, Carson del
he's done. Fine, he's on the Today's Shown hour. But
you know they had pre taped the next week because

(05:09):
you know, uh, scheduling of whatever it was, so they
just basically sort of replicated the Countdown from the week before.
They had just replicated it. I don't know how often
they pre taped the TRL, but it was obviously real
normally because the bum Bum Song went to number one
just just by accident, you know, but because it was

(05:29):
pre taped the next week, and they really couldn't just
throw that out, they weren't able to tape that week
for some reason. I had to retire the Bumbum Song
on Friday because it was not going to be on
the Countdown the following Monday. It would have made no sense.
So I played ball, you know, I went on, I
retired the.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Retired the song.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
I was on the Countdown for one week, and they
gave me a retirement home plaque, which I have hanging
in my recording studio at home. But yeah, I'm still
kind of a little annoyed at that though, because I
think it would have it would have had a good run.
You know, sometimes things would stay number one for weeks
and weeks and weeks on end, and then you could
really you know, it would have been a really cool thing.

(06:07):
But they took this song and turned it into oh,
it's just a joke. It's not a real song, it's
not with a real record company, so you know, let's
just retire it. But there was that reason for it,
and they were of course my boss, and I was
happy to be there, so I did that. But but
the song, because the song was never released officially released,

(06:30):
it wasn't on a record or anything. It was also
the number one most downloaded song on Napster that year
in nineteen ninety nine because partially probably because it was
you couldn't get it anywhere else. So in some ways
that kind of was where people maybe started using Napster
for the first time. You know, it was really kind
of it was an interesting moment in music history.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
The bum bum song.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
They were obviously speculating what they thought would be the
number one song when they were taping those episodes ahead
of time. What took over as number one that they
thought would have been number one? It was like an
n Sync or a olymp Biscuit.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Or I can't remember exactly what it was. I know,
I think Britney Spears was on the countdown. I think
I think it was ninety eight degrees was on there.
I really don't have the I don't remember the exact
countdown but it was it was for sure some of
those I think lymp Biscuit was for sure was on
the countdown then deservedly shout out Fred Durst, a friend

(07:28):
of mine. I love Fred, lovelymp Biscuit, but no they
you know, I've got to become friends with Fred when
I lived in LA and he's those guys are still
killing it. And from that's from my year on MTV
the Olympiscuit that was there. That was their big big
hits that year and they're still killing it out there
around the world.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
So what does twelve year old Tom listen to music wise?
Music wise, like twelve years old, Yeah, that's when you're twelve.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
That's an age for me when it kind of all
started to come together.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah, well, sugar Hill Gang Rappers Delight I discovered at
around twelve, and that was that was a big one.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
But I might have been might have been thirteen when
I discovered that though.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
So twelve would have been Michael Jackson Thriller. See what
year was was? I?

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah? Was was Michael Jackson Thriller out? Yet in eighty
eighty three?

Speaker 1 (08:28):
I see the Beg's was the first cassette that I had.
My parents gave me a tape deck and the Beg's
Staying Alive. I wish they'd given me a different tape,
but anyways, no, but so I would listen to that
a lot. Twelve years old, I had a few things

(08:51):
that I you know, I it was Michael Jackson.

Speaker 4 (08:58):
I like TV shows we waited to watch that kind
of shaped you and that preteen.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
The reason I'm hesitating, I'm trying to think it was
like eleven or twelve, you know, because I know, I know, well,
shortly after twelve, I got a lot more into music.
But it was always sort of just what was playing
on the radio when I was twelve, What was on
the top ten that night? You know, would be sort
of what was you know, whether it was you know,

(09:24):
the I don't know, you know, survivor or something like that.
You know, Like there's lots of different songs that were
playing on the radio when I was twelve. But I
got to be about fourteen, That's when I really kind
of found myself really liking rap music and things like that.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
So so BC Boys one of my favorites of all time,
like top five albums for sure. It is licensed ill
because it was the first one. Yeah, absolutely, like It's
what introduced me. I'm just a goofy white kid from
Arkansas and they're Jewish rappers from kind of Brooklyn, so
not exactly the same, but they were just different. So
it was kind of like my infatuation with David Letterman.
He was a Midwest guy that looked odd compared to

(10:01):
everybody else. Yeah, and I was odd compared to everybody else.
Kind of gave me a bit of hope. Yeah, But
those guys Letterman with the so loved the Beamsie Boys.
I wonder if that was what it was like for you.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Beastie Boys, David Letterman, Tony Hawk, skateboarding. These were my my,
my things that I loved. I mean, I you know,
I actually we did a cover band of the Beastie
Boys in high school and went up and did I
did Fight for Your Right to Party and No Sleep
for Bill Brooklyn and run dmc raising.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Hell.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
You know this was me rapping on stage and the
first year of high school, I guess, and then uh,
and then David Letterman. I mean, I talk about this
a lot in the documentary.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Because it's it's sort of the precursor to what.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
I was doing on my show, where I was trying
to emulate David Letterman. I was going out with the
video camera and doing stuff on the street, kind of
like what David Letterman did when he went out in
the street. But it's hard to kind of put it
in perspective for people who don't remember what the world
was like back then. You know, it was no so
going to watch television at twelve thirty in the morning

(11:05):
where there was normally a color bars test pattern on
and and you'd because it was on so late at
the time, that was crazy that there was even a
show on after midnight during the week. It kind of
felt like you were discovering something and seeing something that
nobody else knew about. So it felt like going down

(11:25):
this rabbit hole. Like that you can go down on
the internet now and find your own thing. Back then,
you'd find your own thing and in sort of obscure
places like Thrasher Magazine was a skateboard magazine that I'd
you know, go have to find in one little skateboard shop,
and that was the internet.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
To me. That was my glimpse.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
Into the outside world outside of the mainstream television. And
then rap music was also like that, you know, listening
to Boogie Down Productions or run DMC and these groups
coming out of New York City and you're just up
in Ottawa going up and wow, what is this?

Speaker 2 (12:01):
What is this world? This is exciting? You know?

Speaker 3 (12:03):
How close were you guys with organized rhymes actually pursuing that,
like for a decade.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
I mean, we were really really into it for sure
when we were when I was we went down to
New York City when I was, you know, a teenager,
and we recorded a demo and then then we ended
up getting a record deal in Canada on A and
M Records, and we sort of did it for a
couple of years after that, but then you know, the
sort of it stopped it kind of it never was

(12:33):
released in the United States. It was a sort of
a successful in Canada thing. It would play on the radio.
I mean I was just out of high school. And Greg,
who was the other rapper in the group, he was
still in high school. So you know, he's in high
school and we had a song on the number one
on the dance charts in Canada and we.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
Got cool at school. Were you guys cool because you
were on the radio?

Speaker 2 (12:53):
He was cool?

Speaker 4 (12:54):
For sure.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
I might not have been cool. He was definitely cool.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
There was a comedic element to the band, so you know,
we you know, I would always say, well, let's put
laundry baskets on our heads between songs and play industrial
music and do sort of a synchronized dance routine. So
we would do this weird stuff. No, he was very
funny and we'd do this fine stuff.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
But it was cool though.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
It was cool, but he was definitely cooler than I was.
I was kind of more the goofball, but I made
all the beats and stuff and and it was it
was exciting, and it kind of We would go down
to Toronto to go on much music and we'd host
the Rap City Show it was called, and different perform
on different shows live. And that's when I really realized

(13:34):
start seeing television studios and lights and cameras, and I
thought that I want to do this. I want to
I want to do television. And that's that's kind of
when the record sort of fizzled out. After that, I
went back to school and startied broadcasting and started the
Tom Green Show.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
So how accessible was the public access station where you were?

Speaker 1 (13:52):
So it's it's a little different in Canada. So you know,
because sometimes you think of public access and it's a
real kind of you know, gritty, little crappy little station.
But in Canada, so they have the cable delivery company
sort of like the it was called Roger's Cable, so
the company that you buy your cable from. They were

(14:14):
sort of required to create a little community channel and
every every city. So because of that, there was good
equipment there, professional kind of studios, and because I had
already had the rap album and stuff, they kind of.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
Took took us in.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
I was I was at school broadcasting school, so I
had a bunch of kids that knew how to operate
cameras and stuff, and we came in and we pitched
the show and they they kind of let us go
do do four episodes. And then after those four episodes
that it was sort of had a little bit of
a you know, it was weird enough that they let
us keep keep going.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
So did people watch that channel in your town just
in general?

Speaker 1 (14:58):
Like no, not really, no, not really, they had that
was it sort of quickly became the show that was
sort of did.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
There was shows like.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
Mayor's The Mayor had a show Mayor's Hotline. They had
a sports show where they talked about what the Ottawa
Senators were doing. Uh, And they were all sort of
very not very watched shows.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
But but we sort.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
Of built this little following and we'd had a little
studio audience and kids came down and sixty kids in
the audience, and it just sort of started kind of
just kind of slowly catching on, and it then got
picked up by the Community Rogers Community Network, so then
they started running across Canada.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
You were shooting in the same place, they were just
distributing it to the.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Other, to the whole country. And then did you.

Speaker 4 (15:44):
Feel a change there when that happened?

Speaker 3 (15:46):
Could you feel it like you start to be bigger
in Canada?

Speaker 4 (15:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (15:51):
Oh yeah, that was early on because then then then
we did a did a pilot for the CBC, which
is the national network Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and then that
didn't get picked up. But then we went and did
two seasons on this small network called the Comedy Network,
which is owned by CTV, the other big network, and
then we were sort of doing a show that had

(16:14):
a had real a real kind of uh. But it
was happening fast at that point. By that point, it
was maybe over the course of a year and a half,
you know, we were on TV and people were excited
about the show, and then all of a sudden, MTV
picked it up and we were we were kind of
set off in that direction.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
So being that young doing a show weekly, did that
feel like you were in the meat grinder at all,
even before you were getting paid.

Speaker 4 (16:36):
Really, I I was.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
Really excited to be doing it.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
I just couldn't believe that I even had the ability
to do it. So it was my friend Glenn Humplick
and my friend Phil Jeru, and they were, you know,
buddies of mine. And I met Glenn Humplick at college
radio because I've been doing a college radio show at
Ottawa University. I didn't go to Ottawa University, but I
did the radio show there at midnight until two am
I Fridays, And so we were just really I mean,

(17:06):
I wasn't getting paid. I didn't get paid to do
the show for four or five years. It was just
a labor of love. I would go down to the
studio and get in the edit bay and edit all
this stuff. But it was just sort of really kind
of driven by this sort of excitement, by the fact
that we were actually able to do this TV show
and and and you know, I was sort of driven

(17:29):
by the idea that I was going to try to
see if we could actually turn it into a job.
And eventually it did actually happen, unbelievably, but there was
a I was pretty motivated. I do sometimes think that
it's kind of I mean, when watching the documentary, even
while I'm editing it, you know, putting all together. I
sometimes when I watch the final documentary, I still go geez,
I was kind of can't believe I stuck.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
With it so so long because it was.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
A lot of work when I think about it, But
at the time, when you're young, you're kind of just
so excited just to be doing something.

Speaker 4 (18:00):
Who do you hear from?

Speaker 3 (18:01):
Is it somebody an executive at MTV? Do they call
whomever's now managing your representing you? How quick does all
of that happen? And and what's like the board? I
don't know, you walk into a business room, like the
cliche thing. There's all these chairs and they offer you
the big deal you've been waiting for, Like what really happened?

Speaker 1 (18:16):
I've got a pretty hilarious story about that. I don't
I don't know if I'll see if I can paint
the picture properly. So well, First of all, what happened was,
I was the show was now kind of popular in
Canada enough that I got invited on the one talk
show we had in Canada at the time.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
It was called Mike Bullard was the name of the host.
He just passed away, Rest in peace, Mike.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
He was a very funny guy. He kind of gave
me a did me a solid there. He'd have us
on his show and I'd go on and do some
you know, goofy thing that I probably, you know, like
I was talking about earlier, I probably you know, regret doing,
but know it was uh, you know, I would go

(19:02):
on with the bags of milk and we have milk
comes in bags in Canada, which is strange, but anyways,
pop milk bags and milk would fly everywhere and the
microphone would break and all this kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
But his manager.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Was there, who's from Los Angeles also since passed way.
He's in the documentary. His name's Howard Lapidis and he
he uh he represented uh, Jimmy Kimmel, who was not
you know, he was on radio at the time, and
Carson Dally, who was on TRL and UH, Norm McDonald

(19:36):
and UH also Doctor Drew and Adam Carolla who were
doing Loveline on MTV. So Howard was in the MTV
universe and he brought the show there and that's kind
of how we got the initial meeting to do the
pitch of the show. So they saw the few tapes
that he showed them and then they they flew us.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
They flew me down to uh, the Los.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
Angeles and I'm probably twenty seven or twenty eight years old,
and put me up in the Maundry on Okay, which
is the most Los Angeles feeling place to be sort
of modern, you know, Artsy Hotel furthest thing from Ottawa,
and it's right beside the House of Blues, which is

(20:20):
no longer there, but the House of Blues they had
these pitch meetings every year for MTV and they bring
all the producers and writers into come out and you
have a stand in front of the MTV executives, and
the top executive there was Brian Grayden, who I did
not know who anyone was, but he was the one

(20:41):
who ultimately signed the show. And so they had told
me they had seen four or five or they had
seen a bunch of our tapes now at this point,
and they had sort of directed me play this one,
this one, this one. Come, you're gonna come out. You're
gonna play these four tapes and then and then talk
a bit about the show. And so there's this thing

(21:02):
I used to do, which again I put it in
the documentary, so I should probably not be embarrassed to
say it, but I used to kind of for a gag,
I would suck milk out of cow's hutters.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
You know, it was it was just a gag. It
was just a gag.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
But and they said, don't don't play that one though,
don't play that one. That's so I just was such
a idiot. I guess that I you know, they literally
told me to make a VHS tape and put this
tape on where you paint your parents' house, the one
where you love the crutches and you're falling down on
the street on the crutches, and the one where you
go in the pharmacy and try to buy condoms. Play

(21:39):
those three, but don't play the cow utter one. And
I was so sort of sure that now we need
a gross out one. You know, you need to have
a balance here. You know, it's very important to me
that we have a balance. So I still put that
one on the tape, and and I came out and
I did my big speech, and it was actually like quite,

(22:00):
it wasn't cut complete idiocy, like it was thought through,
like I did say in the speech.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
You know, in the pitch, you know, you know that
this is shot on home.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
Video cameras and looks raw, and it looks rough, and
because I'm a skateboarder and skateboarders are doing this now,
like this kind of thing, and it'll be relatable. And
so I really did kind of try to explain why
it looked the way it looked. And then I played everything,
and then I played the cow atter thing, and of
course the room was nuts because it was disgusting, right

(22:34):
and funny, it's really funny, you know, dressed as Captain
Kirk or something like that, sporting and I'll call over
my face. But then I had brought a backpack with me,
and in the backpack I had a couple of cans
of shaving cream, and I just for whatever reason, decided
after I do that, I'm, you know, while everyone's freaking
out about the cow atter sucking, I'm going to lie

(22:54):
down on the boardroom table in front of everyone and spray
shaving cream all over my face and scream that I
want to be on MTV.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
So I did that, and everyone's going, what the hell's
this kid?

Speaker 1 (23:03):
And I took the shaving cream and I walked up
to the guy who looked like he was in charge,
and I put some on his face, and then I
just walked out that I was Brian Graydon and then
I walked out of the room and and the guy
who had been kind of coaching me to do the uh,
to do the pitch so, you know, called me and
was laughing. So that you put shaving cream on my
boss's face. But they called the next day and they
picked up the show next day. Yeah, yeah, and they

(23:25):
and I remember going down the elevator with Howard Lapidus
and he said, that was the craziest best pitch.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
I've ever seen. I did ever. I did never pitched
anything before.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
I didn't know what a pitch was, but uh, naivete,
I guess kind of is good sometimes, but uh and
then uh and then they they literally I was moved
to They got me an apartment in New York City
and we moved down to New York. We took all
our tapes and which were hundreds and hundreds of tapes,
and immediately they began sort of working and packaging these tapes,

(23:54):
and they built a studio for us and in Times
Square right beside where they do TRL and that was
I was at the first ten episodes were just old
clips from the from the Canadian show repackaged with the
new studio.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
At what point could you feel kind of the zeit
got your fame be tangible?

Speaker 1 (24:16):
It was so crazy because you know, MTV was it's
different now, right, everybody watched MTV and we didn't have
MTV in Canada either, which was made extra weird because
I was walking into this network. I didn't have that
kind of sort of I wasn't intimidated by it as

(24:37):
much as I think I would have been if I
watched MTV. I wasn't emulating I don't think the culture
of MTV because I didn't grow up watching MPTV. We
grew up watching much music, right, And I mean this
is a little too far into the weeds here, but
you know, they had a promo apartment at MTV, which
was as big as the programming department. I mean there's

(24:58):
only five. You know this because you know you're in
music and you know this, I'm sure, but most people
don't know the detail of this about MTV is the
programming department and the promo department were separate entities and
equally as big, and they would run promos all days
for the day for the shows and things. And so
they started running promos for the show like a month

(25:19):
before the show even came on. And so as soon
as the promo started airing, you know me, you know,
humping a dead moose or whatever, you know, which Eminem
wrapped about and all this stuff. But before you know,
and and just doing the pranks of my parents and
doing all this stuff before the show even aired. It
was instantly couldn't go outside in Manhattan with everybody was

(25:39):
just coming up to me on the streets of Manhattan.
My parents tell the story, it might they tell the
story where they were in New York and you know,
they were getting stopped on the street. You know, it
was it was wild. But and then when the show
premiered a few weeks later, it's it's hard to remember this,
but like at the time, there was only like three
or four other shows on MTV. There was a celebrity

(26:01):
death Match, Road Rules, Real World, and uh Daria was
a cartoon animated show, and that's about it. Really might
have been one other. And they would play the show
like in blocks, so you'd every day the show was
on for they'd played like the Tom Green Show, like
ten ten ten episodes in a row every day for

(26:23):
the first year that we were on the air. So
it was unlike anything I had ever imagined. Really, I
mean it was. It went from complete anonymity in the
US to just sort of.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
You know, it was a hit. It was a hit show.
It was a hit show.

Speaker 4 (26:38):
Was Beavis and butt Head right there too.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
Yeah, they weren't making it anymore, so they'd they were
running reruns of it, but they'd stopped making it. And
uh yeah, Mike Judge was doing movies and stuff and
then and he was he was not working on new
no show. In fact, our head writer was Chris Brown,
who was the head writer of Beaves and butt Head.
He came in and worked with me and the writers
to kind of come up with all our new material.

Speaker 4 (26:57):
Yet, what's the weirdest thing about getting famous?

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (27:02):
Well, a lot of weird stuff about it, but it's
mostly you know, it's mostly pretty exciting, you know. Uh,
Like I said, I don't think I really knew how
to sort of behave, like how to act as far
as you know, you're used to being kind of.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
You know, I was used to being.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
Kind of an underdog kid who didn't have any sort
of access to anything, and always trying to prove yourself
to people.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
Hey, you know I can.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
I'm trying to let people see that you have something
to offer with your comedy or whatever. And then all
of a sudden, the show's big, and you know, you know,
I think the initial like when I was the story
I told about Saurday Night Live, the initial instinct is, oh,
now I have to really go out there and really

(27:50):
show people, you know, how serious I am this. And
I think, you know, the truth is is probably it
would have been better just to have laid back a
little bit at that point, because you know, you already
got the job, you know. But uh, and people are
kind of looking at you a little differently, and there's
people so but I mean, these are things that you know,
I think are learning curves that you deal with and

(28:16):
and uh, kind of first world problems in a way
like I mean to complain about you know, you know,
I I it was mostly just my your dreams coming true, right,
you know, all of a sudden, I'm everything I've ever
wanted is here. You know, I've got my show and
my parents don't have to worry about you know, uh,
you know, giving me money for gas and stuff. And

(28:39):
I'm uh, you know, I'm I'm but it was definitely weird.
I kind of fortunate it sort of happened a little slowly,
but it was it was night and day. Because the
thing is in Canada, the show was big. I was
getting recognized in Canada. I wasn't making any money in Canada.
It wasn't really.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
It was still kind of a strange little thing that
I was doing up in Canada. That was kind of cute.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Well that's cute that kids doing this thing, and they'd
write an article about it. But when when all of
a sudden you're on MTV and and doing movies and
getting commercials and all sorts of things like that, it
did it did become a lot to uh to kind
of process for sure.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
Did it affect your mental health to have to outdo
the last thing constantly? Yeah, Like because they've seen it,
so now I got to get crazier, Like, was that
a struggle mentally?

Speaker 1 (29:29):
I think the thing that was cool about that specifically
definitely some stuff affected my mental health and my emotional
sort of you know, uh life. I think that was
maybe even more to do with a little later, you know,
when I was sick and things like that. I got
cut cancer when the show was on, and that that
got That was where it was started to become too

(29:51):
much to kind of handle. But but you know, we
had sort of this We had different types of bitsuited.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
On the show.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
So there was ones that were the crazy, gross ones,
and then we had ones that were more dead pan interviews,
and so we kind of tried to have different levels
and layers to the show that it wasn't always just
about trying to up the ante, but there was that
feeling like you'd have a bit that would become the

(30:21):
one that everyone was talking about and that would be
last for a while.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
You know, everyone you.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
Paint your parents' house plaid, and people were talking about
it for a few months, and come on, we did
that three months ago. We got to come up with
something crazier than that, so, you know, and there's definitely
ones that I'm glad that I didn't do. I didn't
put this in the documentary actually, but there was there was,
you know, we everyone was encouraging me to replicate this

(30:47):
stunt that somebody had done where they tied a whole
bunch of helium balloons to a lawn chair, and you know,
like the guy died, you know who did it originally,
and they're trying and they were trying to convince, well,
do it over the ocean, you know, and you know
literally was trying to get talked into doing this by
some of my guys that we were writing with and
writers that we're writing with, and I did not I

(31:09):
did not want to do that. So you know, there
was an element for sure of trying to push, push it,
push the envelope every week.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
Yeah, you talked about in the documentary, the the buster
Keaton very famous.

Speaker 4 (31:18):
The front of the house comes down.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
He's standing in the right spot, so right that open
went like legendary. But you doing that stunt yourself, replicating
that and everyone going on, I don't think you should
do this. Insurance said no, but you wanted to do
that one. How nervous were you to actually even though
you're standing on the right spot, but the house was
coming down on top of me. How nervous were you

(31:40):
to pull that one off?

Speaker 2 (31:42):
I was. It was a nail bier for sure.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
I mean, just because you know they tested it.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
It was it was it was. I mean, I was.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
As sure as one can be that the house was
not going to kill me. But I wouldn't have done
it if I thought there was even a I mean,
I guess there's always a chance, but it seemed like
a calculated risk. I was glad when we were finished.
I was glad it was over. It was the whole
house too. It wasn't just the frame of the house. Yeah,
and there was glass in the window to try to

(32:17):
kind of, you know, modernize it.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
A little bit. We can get good breakaway glass and
nineteen ninety nine.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
So yeah, that's super cool to do something that you've
always looked at as legendary, which was why I was
so excited to watch all the Letterman stuff in the
documentary again grew up. That was like, my guy indulged
me a bit, talk about why Letterman was important to
you and how cool it was to go on the
show and then also get to host the show.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
Yeah, and we I found when I was going through
all my tapes, I found that moment where where I
got the call to host Letterman.

Speaker 3 (32:48):
So that was just kind of yeah, you're like with
Glenn outside the car and you're like best manager ever. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's really you could see you get emotional, so you
could see it mattered.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
Yeah, yeah, it was.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
It was a I'd forgotten that tape existed when I
got the call from Letterman to host, which was this
was a little later, that was in two thousand and
three when I was doing a new talk show for MTVS.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
But but.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
You know, in some ways that was more meaningful even
than the first time I got to be a guest
on the show.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
But but I.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
Mean he was you know, everyone has sort of one
hero when they're growing up that they just sort of
would would just sort of you know that you think
the world of and you just sort of consume all
of their material, and and David Letterman was definitely mine.
And and I think it's it's you know, it's definitely

(33:39):
got something to do what I was saying about earlier
about how it was before the Internet and you sort
of felt like you were discovering something, and you could
kind of almost made a part of your identity, you know, like,
I know what this Late Night with David Letterman show is,
and and I'm you know, I'm different than than everybody
else who's watching other shows.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
You know, I'm watching this and and this is my thing.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
That of course, millions of people felt that way, but
it was it was still the the sort of the
underground talk show. And so yeah, so to get that
call from him, I mean, you can watch my first
appearance on the show, and you notice I don't go
out on the show and going crazy and flip you know,
costume and go crazy because I was, you know, I

(34:19):
was out of complete reverence to him.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
You know.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
It's not that I didn't have reverence towards Jay Leno
and the Tight Show and all that stuff, but I
was just that was the very first show I'd.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
Ever been on.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
It was David Letterman, and I was just kind of
couldn't even believe that it was happening.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
So I just I was sort of a it's fun.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
When I watched the footage of it, I'm clearly a
nervous wreck. You know, I'm holding my hand on my
face and just kind of sort of like a It's
one of those things where it feels like you're not
even in your body, you know, you're just like, am
I even here right now? This is really David Letterman
was looking at me talking to me, so but I
know I was incredible. And he was the first person
to call the show when the show went on MTV

(34:59):
and asked us to be on.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
So yeah, and then when you get invited back again,
if it's the second time, then you realize, well, he
must like me, he must not think less of me
after I was on, Like that has to be kind
of a ribbon, right, Yeah, to go on again, because
that means Dave likes you.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Yeah, and when he let me host was the was
just unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Yeah, the fact that he let me take over for.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
The night and and uh yeah, no, it was definitely
those were those the highlight moments of the whole you know,
the whole uh experience of the of the show and
everything was being able to be you know, on on
on Letterman. That was that was all I'd ever imagined
or dreamed.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
Of because things were happening so fast once the show
took off on MTV. Was there anything in the documentary
footage that didn't make it or did make it that
you were able to see to go, oh, maybe I
didn't appreciate or understand or have the time to value.
Just I was watching the clip of you and Steve
Martin Martin Short, Yeah, yeah, that even just owning that

(36:00):
picture like feels like you could look at it now
and go, wow, that is substantial.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
And I can't.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
And I look at it, I got I can't believe
I had you know, you know at the time, I
did have the balls to do it. But uh, but
a few weeks later I only had one. But uh,
like I because I was before I had my testicular
cancer right before.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
Actually, I got invited.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
On the Martin Short's H Martin Short daytime talk show
and Steve Martin was the guest and I was the
second guest.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
So I'm sitting between Steve Martin and Martin Short. Who
are you know two of my heroes?

Speaker 4 (36:36):
Right?

Speaker 2 (36:36):
And if you talk about.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
You know the the most you know amazing silly characters
in comedy and history, it's you know Ed Grimley and
the Jerk. You know these there are two of their
big characters that they did and and that's why, you know,
I ended up. I can't believe I look at that
now and I can't believe I had the the balls
to which I actually did, to put a you know,

(36:59):
a cardboard box on my head and just sort of
completely completely be really silly and try to out silly
myself and then, you know, then get embarrassed about it.
And they were really funny if you watched the whole
we couldn't put the whole clip in, but they were
really really supportive in a way. It was a really
funny thing. I remember right before the show happened. You
gotta keep in mind, I just I'd been living in

(37:21):
the United States for less than a year at this point,
and just this whole thing was just kind of unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
Still.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
I'd been on Letterman, I've been on Oprah a couple
of shows, but the whole thing just made no sense
that I.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
Was going on Aren't Short's Show?

Speaker 1 (37:37):
And you know, Steve Martin came back to the dressing
room before the show and he sort of told me,
watched a bunch of episodes of the show and everything
of my show, so so it was they were it
was hard to believe that that that actually happened.

Speaker 3 (37:53):
Yeah, your music career again, their parallels with Steve Martin,
who did music and comedy but also is a proficient
banjo player, Like.

Speaker 4 (38:03):
He's a real deal musician.

Speaker 3 (38:05):
Oh you think at times him and Edie Burkell were
and still tour and they do serious bluegrass.

Speaker 4 (38:11):
But he's also he's.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
The first comedian to ever play a stadium, right, And
part of that was he'd plays banjo and but it
was comedy, so there would be this blur of you
wouldn't really know musically what Steve Martin was doing because
he was fantastic technically excellent, but also hilarious with it.
When it comes to your music, I feel like you've
done a similar thing. I expected organized rhyme to be

(38:34):
funny at first, like full, but you guys actually rapped, yeah,
like you technically were good rappers and that's why you know,
like you said, you were nominated for a Juno Award,
Did you win the Junior nominated?

Speaker 1 (38:45):
You know, we were just nominated to be you As
is a rapper named Devon and he had a Canadian
rapper and he had a song called keep It Slamming
and it was a big popular hit at the time too,
so and there was Maestrill Fresh Wes I believe was
I don't. I think it was Devon that won that year.
But yeah, there was the big rapper back then was
mice Real Fresh West and he usually won those two.

Speaker 4 (39:03):
So, but how do you feel about the ambiguity with
you and your music career?

Speaker 1 (39:06):
Because you are proficient, it's always after organized rhyme. It
always became something that I just have been doing for fun.
And like I said, when I got when we started
making these documentary the documentary in the show, you know,
I produced these shows too, directed them, but also I'm
producing them with my production company, and so I had
the creative sort of freedom to decide what the soundtrack's

(39:29):
going to be. And and you know, during honestly as
recently as the pandemic, which is getting a little while back,
but you know, when everything shut down and my stand
up tour was canceled, I did sort of at that
time think, well, one of the things I'm going to
do with all this time is I'm going to actually
try to really learn how to play the piano. I've
meant to do it for years, and I start really

(39:50):
start trying to figure out some more chords than the guitar.
But I was really focused on that. I always had
a home studio. But then when I moved back to
cam Canada and I got this farm, it turns out
I ended up being sort of you know, uh somehow
managed to be able to connect with the Tragically Hip

(40:11):
and uh, you know, they're they're just a legendary rock
band from Canada. And and the late Gordownie was there,
sort of very poetic and uh, you know, extremely incredible
frontman of their band, and and uh the band still
owns their studio, the Bathhouse Studio, and uh, and we

(40:32):
were able to record our soundtrack for for the for
the uh for the show there and I I've been
kind of playing with some country musicians who you are
in the area, in the country out near near my farm,
and uh, and I just went in and recorded the
soundtrack initially for the show, and then we just kept going.
We've just been writing and doing songs for the last

(40:53):
three years and uh kind of uh, you know, really
just doing it. I mean, you know, the album really
was just something that you know, really over the last
couple of months, decided, Hey, I think I think maybe
I'll put this out at the same time as the
as the show, and so that's out there now too.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (41:11):
I think the expectation was I'm gonna play the music
and hear the absurdity, and then it felt, oh, this
isn't absurd, and is that absurd that it's not absurd?
And so then I'm like been origamiing myself, and in
my mind I made the parallel like I would do
this with Steve Martin's stuff when he was being making
just making music for the sake of making it. Going Wow,

(41:33):
this feels so different because he's being different, and I
am entertained by not quite understanding like where he is
mentally with his music, because because you're not all your
songs are like hilarious.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
Yeah purposefully. Yeah, No, for sure, they're very serious most
of them. There's a couple funny ones in there, for sure,
But I don't I've never really listened to funny music.
I mean, I did make the bum bum song, so
the bum bum song was as silly as they get.
But but but I don't know, it's something about when
I it could also be.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
My limited amount of chords that I know, so it's
you know.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
All these sort of minor chords.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
There's sad chords, you know. But uh, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (42:17):
I think I just uh, when I sit down to
write music, I always try to write, uh, something that's
coming from the heart. And a lot of times those
emotions aren't funny. They're more introspective and thoughtful, thoughtful emotions,
and those are the words that come to mind. But
and and and you know, writing a soundtrack for the show,
the show was about coming home and returning home to

(42:37):
family and and going back to your roots. So I
wanted to have a nice, sort of real soundtrack to
the show.

Speaker 6 (42:47):
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Speaker 4 (43:01):
I watched your documentary last night.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
Oh wow, awesome, Oh wow, thank you thanks for watching.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
I was excited. My wife missed you by a few years.
So she wasn't fully familiar with the MTV show. Yeah,
she had seen some of the other like the movie stuff,
but she didn't know like your whole story.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
Yea.

Speaker 4 (43:21):
So always a bit of a risk whenever you recommend.

Speaker 3 (43:24):
Any show to anybody, because like, I believe this show
is going to be so good, and so I was like, oh,
but she finished, and she was like.

Speaker 4 (43:29):
I'm really rooting for Tom oh right, And so we
watched it last night.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
It was it was, it was great, and I had
high expectations and it met all of them.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
Oh thanks Bobby, just a fan. I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
You know, it's a it's kind of been a I mean,
it just came out yesterday, and uh, it's been kind
of a cathartic thing releasing it because it's very personal
and and it's uh, you know, it's it's my whole
life of you know, not just uh, the Tom Green
Show on MTV, but leading back before it, and I've
always kept all my footage and I wanted to want

(44:02):
to tell the story right.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
So it was it was cool putting it together.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
For sure, watching and we'll jump around a little bit
of watching how you did the show at your house?
Like we've done a show at my house for so
many years, but there have been a couple of times
where people have like shown up drunk or like shown
up to the.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
House, Toya and that I'm drunk right now, which.

Speaker 4 (44:21):
Is why I brought it up.

Speaker 3 (44:22):
But it's like, you know, when you're inviting people into
your house, it's a pretty intimate thing and we have.
We have like a ninety nine percent success rating.

Speaker 2 (44:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (44:29):
Yeah, was that ever an issue for you where people
would show up to your house and it's like, oh,
I don't know how this feels.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
Well that was That was when I was doing my webovision. Yeah,
and I built the studio in my living room, and uh, you.

Speaker 4 (44:41):
Don't just say who it was. I just wonder if, well,
it might have been me.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
Actually, I mean it started it was kind of a
bit of a wild and crazy show, and you know,
so I would always have drinks with the guests and
things like that. So so there was times where maybe
we had a few too many, for sure.

Speaker 3 (44:57):
But never somebody showed up with like a like a
big entourage with guns or anything like that. Uh.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
Never guns. No, never guns. That that's one thing we
ever had to deal with. But there's probably a couple
of times where we maybe had a few too many
drinks with I know it was you know, a lot
of people, actually everybody you know, like you know, but
I think I kind of I've stopped doing that. I
stopped drinking while on the show. I've decided that experiment

(45:24):
kind of had its run. Yeah, I do stand up
full time I'm always on the road doing stand up
and even you know, with stand up, I don't even
like to have a beer before I go on stage.
It really kind of affects everything, just the whole rhythm
of everything.

Speaker 4 (45:37):
So that was something.

Speaker 3 (45:39):
That I found out knew about you was your very
early beginnings of performance was going to the amateur night. Yeah,
you would go because again, I felt like I knew
a lot. That's why I liked the documentary because it
showed a lot of things that back then there wasn't
social media in the ability to just dial in on
somebody and find everything right and to see that.

Speaker 4 (45:59):
How long do you think you and every week? Or
did you go every week to the amateur night?

Speaker 2 (46:02):
Yeah? I was.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
This was in the eighties, So I was started when
I was sixteen years old and I started going down
to Yuck. Yucks was the comedy club and still there
and run by Howard Wagman who's still there, and he's
encouraged me to go on stage when I was a kid.
But i'd go down because I was a big fan
of Norm McDonald who's from my hometown. And you know,

(46:24):
that was sort of when I just discovered what stand
up comedy was really and it was just so exciting.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
At the time.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
There was, like you said, no podcasting or internet even
and and you know the podcast the comedians you'd see
would be on the Tonight Show and that was it.
And so to be in a live club at sixteen
years old. They had a restaurant license, but it felt
like you were going to a bar, and it felt
cool to be in a bar at sixteen and then
eventually ended up getting on stage, and you know, it

(46:52):
was Ottawa is a smaller city. It's the capital of Canada,
but it's there wasn't a lot of comedians. Was probably
a dozen comedians in Ottawa at the time doing the
open mic amateur Night, and everybody really encouraged each other,
which was always cool. I always found it. I found
it was very, uh, a good environment to be creative
as in as a young kid. All the other comedians

(47:12):
and people in Ottawa were always very encouraging to each other.
Norm McDonald as well would come in and after his show,
so this was before he was on Saturday Night Live
and all that stuff, and he'd come in and give
people tips on their joke writing and performances and stuff.
So but yeah, I probably, you know, you'd get up
once a week if you were lucky. That was for
a few years there, but I didn't. I didn't pursue

(47:34):
stand up. I stopped doing stand up when I was
about like I did it for about three years, and
then I stopped because I was in a rap group,
we got a record deal.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
I stopped doing stand.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
Up for a few years, and then then the after
the Tom Green Show was on MTV, I got back
into it.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
So the total cliche thing is that when I've been
to Canada, my show, my radio shows on in different
Canadian markets, Ottawa one of them. Now, everybody's so much
nicer there. And that was the cliche I had heard before.
And then we would go even in Toronto, someone would
come up to you on the street and here You're like,
what are you going to take for me? And there

(48:09):
it's like here are you lost? Can I help you?
And that started to actually exist and you're like, wow,
people in camp, is it just so cold all the time.
When you finally get out, you're like, let's just be
nice to everybody. But it feels like even the creative
culture there where comedians are encouraging and.

Speaker 4 (48:24):
Like it's not always. It's not like that in a
lot of places here.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
Yeah, it's I mean, although we just had a great
conversation with everyone at the waffle house just down the road.

Speaker 4 (48:35):
Well, the South, they're nice.

Speaker 3 (48:36):
It's just the creative part of I just feel like
it's such a competition.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
Yeah, States, it is, especially in in.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
The bigger cities.

Speaker 1 (48:46):
But you know, I think you can have good experiences
and bad experiences. And when you're when you're just starting out,
maybe you're not as threatening to other comedians when you're
just sixteen years old and just trying it out. But
you know, I've had you know, I sometimes find too,
like when you're from somewhere else, everybody's like when Americans
come up to Canada, Canadians are really happy to see

(49:08):
Americans and probably want to, you know, show you a
good time in our country, you know. Uh.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
And I find that can be true when we when
we come down here to the South. You know.

Speaker 1 (49:18):
But I got show tonight in Nashville, so I don't
want to say everyone here as an.

Speaker 3 (49:21):
Asshole yet give it the night. So it feels there's
a lot of content. Because I watched the documentary and
then it was like a four. It was like a
four part series that what it is, No, can you
explain what's happening with all the content because you have
special have the documentary, the music, listen to the record.
You kind of walk me through what you listen to
the record.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
Yeah, cool, cool, Well, so it's funny, like, uh so
there's these three projects that are coming out on Amazon
on Prime Video. And the documentary is sort of the
story of the show and the history of the show,
my old show, and how I got to where I
am today having moved back to Canada and got this

(50:01):
farm and this mule Fanny and sort of a new
chapter in my life. And then there's a show called
Tom Green Country and that's a docuseries and that's more
about my life now.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
That's a four part series, so.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
And it's it's really about me settling in on the
farm and getting my mule Fanny. I didn't grow up
with with mules and horses and chickens and things like this.
So it's been a really fun few years there. This
kind of documents the first year on the farm. And
but I've always loved being out in nature and outdoors

(50:34):
and you know, fishing and camping and canoeing, and things
like that.

Speaker 2 (50:37):
So I'm not kind of it's not.

Speaker 1 (50:38):
Not exactly a fish out of water story where I'm
walking around like I don't know how to you know.
It's it's a little bit of that because I was
in Los Angeles for twenty years and now I'm back home.
But but it's a it's a real fun show. It's
it's it's a lot different than my old show, sort
of a you know, I'm really trying to.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
Show the you know, the I guess, just the reality
of what it's.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
Like being in Canada and my family and and being
really honest and and open about uh, you know, the
feeling that I have of returning home after being in
Los Angeles for so long. So so there's there's a
different tone to it. And the music in the show,
the soundtrack of it. We recorded it all at the

(51:27):
Tragically Hips studio. It's an incredible band from Canada and
uh and in the process of recording the soundtrack, I
just started writing some songs and UH and UH really
started working on this, uh this music.

Speaker 3 (51:42):
So so I'm assuming not coincidental that at least two
of the covers I'm a big Beernaga Ladies fan. Yeah, yeah,
so I saw a fad a million dollars.

Speaker 4 (51:49):
It's one of my favorite songs for them.

Speaker 3 (51:50):
And then the other one is Brian Adams Summer sixty
nine both Canadian.

Speaker 4 (51:53):
Yeah, absolutely not coincidence right.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
Now, and Gordon Lightfoot Canadian and uh Tragically hip Head
by a Central also so yeah, there's four covers of
four Canadian uh legendary bands on there, and uh, you know,
we just honestly the album. I just went in and
recorded some of those cover songs just uh just two
weeks ago, not even a week and a half ago,

(52:16):
and we really just kind of posted this just uh
yesterday or today really so came up on Spotify today.
So I'm not sure Brian Adams even knows we covered
the song yet, to be honest with you, but you know,
we put all the writers you don't, yeah, exactly, So
it's all I think. I was kind of surprised, you

(52:38):
know what. It's interesting because I've I've written music sort
of for fun since I was a kid.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
You know.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
When I was a teenager, I was in this rap
group and we were nominated for a Juno Awards, like
a Canadian Grammy Award, and we were just silly trying
to be like the Beastie Boys or something. And I've
always written music, but I've never really cover songs. And
I really really enjoyed doing these cover songs because it
kind of it's a lot it's a lot of pressure

(53:05):
when you put yourself out there when you're writing songs
and you're trying to kind of, you know, say something
that's that's heartfelt and sincere, and then you know, you
sort of can second guess yourself and go, you know,
just any good you know. So, but when you're doing
a cover song, well, I know the song's good. At
least I know the song is good, you know, and
maybe my performance might not be good, but I know
the song is good because these are some of the

(53:26):
best songs ever to come out of Canada.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
So do you feel the same vulnerability, because if you're
writing a song, like you just said, it's the same
thing with telling jokes and doing a special, you're like, okay,
judging me.

Speaker 4 (53:37):
I hope people like what they're judging. Do you feel that.

Speaker 3 (53:39):
With the comedy special the same way you're talking about
with the original songs?

Speaker 4 (53:43):
A little bit?

Speaker 1 (53:43):
But the nice thing about stand up is you know,
you work it out over time, and you know, I've
been on the road, you know, for years now, and
I'm always sort of sort of slipping new jokes and
creating this set that eventually you end up in go film.
So by the time you're filming it, you know, you've
been and performing a lot of these jokes and stories
in front of audiences for you know, sometimes even years,

(54:05):
and you know that they work and you know that
they're they're good, but you still you still get the nerves,
you get the anxiety of oh, I could have I
could flub a word tonight, or I could have a
bad set. So but you know, having done stand up,
the longer I do stand up, the more I kind
of am able to prepare myself for a shoot and
I you know, for filming, and I usually find that

(54:26):
I'm able to kind of pull it out, pull it
out in the in the end. And we only tape
that show once. The stand up special that we did
is called I Got a Mule. There's a lot of
mule themes here, but it's sort of they all go together.
They sort of talk there. Special talks about my life
on the on the farm too, and kind of goes
with the show so, but yeah, we only taped it once.

(54:49):
We only did one show in front of the audience,
and the last time I did a special was back
in twenty twelve. We shot it in Boston, and we
taped it twice, and that's sort of normal to shoot
it twice due to audiences, but I kind of wanted
to just there's a thing that happens when I do
stand up at least where I get this nerves nervous.

(55:11):
I mean, so I'm sort of saying opposite of what
I just said. I do get nervous, but it happens
every night. It's a natural thing where I just sort
of feel it leading up to showtime.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
It's I think it's just playing it through in your head.

Speaker 1 (55:24):
And it's not so much that I'm worried about it
not going well. It's more about I'm worried about remembering
every little detail of some new jokes or some new things.
And sometimes in the on the day you're reshuffling around
what you want to say because you're in a different
city or whatever. So so so that's but that's the
fun of stand up, right then you release, You get

(55:44):
that release, and I find when I did do two
shows in a night, or if you're taping two shows
to make a special. I find that then you sort
of have this feeling of like I've got a safety net,
you know. If the first show isn't perfect, then I'll
du I'll do it in the second show and then
and we'll edit it to other and it's this whole process.
I thought, know, I just want to go out and
do one show and just like no, no, no plan

(56:05):
B and H and I leave it all out there
and that's what we did.

Speaker 3 (56:10):
So I struggle with feeling super secure. So February my
special comes out on CMT February fourth. Never done one before.
Oh wow, okay, never right.

Speaker 4 (56:18):
I hate it now.

Speaker 3 (56:19):
It has an error, but I hate it now because
I'm done with it and I'm like, this is not good.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
Well, it's it's normal to not necessarily want to watch
your stand up special over and over again, like I
have a I sometimes have a hard time watching my
my myself back, you know.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
Because you see every little thing you could do different.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
I'm sure part of the edit and watching the edit
is like every fraction of every second where it's just
like I'm so over me that it's like the promotion
of it even feels weird because I'm like, I don't
even know if I believe in it anymore.

Speaker 1 (56:49):
It's probably a good thing, I think now, because if
you were too into it then that that might come
off as a little unlikable too, you know, Like I mean,
I think I think you can go too far the
other way, you know, where you're just so into looking
at yourself that maybe no one else would want to
want to look at you know, like.

Speaker 4 (57:09):
The house too.

Speaker 3 (57:09):
We have no more mirrors either. We eliminated me totally
from the house.

Speaker 1 (57:13):
People like to see that vulnerability, I think can stand
up because they want to see an authentic performance and
they want to see somebody that's being real. And everybody
feels nervous when they're on stage. So I wouldn't. I
wouldn't worry too much about that. I think that's probably
a normal thing. A lot of people never look at
their specials they go up there.

Speaker 3 (57:30):
I wouldn't if I wasn't a control freak. I think
with the creative part of it, even with like books
and stuff like, I never want to read them back
after I've written them, but I feel like if I don't,
then I'm going to miss something.

Speaker 4 (57:43):
And regret it.

Speaker 3 (57:43):
So I'm like weighing the two shames, which while I
feel more shame if I don't do, which is not
the best place to be. That's what I feel like.
I'm always balancing out the shame of me not being good.

Speaker 2 (57:53):
Yeah, yeah, I know that feeling.

Speaker 3 (57:55):
Was there ever a confidence Was there ever a confidence
issue with you creatively?

Speaker 2 (58:00):
Yeah? Oh sure. Yeah. I think a lot.

Speaker 1 (58:02):
Of of what I do comes from that fear and
challenging myself. And I mean the documentary was an extreme
example of what you're talking about, because I'm going through,
you know, thousands of hours of footage going back thirty years,
and some of it's just like, WHOA, I can't believe

(58:24):
I did that, you know, when I was twenty two
years old, you know, and there's just so much outrageous
behavior that we were doing on the old Tom Green
Show on MTV and before and then you know, you
look at things that happened, and you know, I was
when I was first on MTV, and.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
You know, I had this new kind of show, I.

Speaker 1 (58:49):
Guess you would say, which was just outrageous in a
different way because we were out in the streets shooting
with video cameras and it was different, and I had
this sort of thought in my head that like, I
always have to be completely wild and nuts every time
I go on a show. If I'd go in Conan
O'Brien or Jay Leno or you know, a talk show

(59:09):
of some sort, I would feel like I have to
go just completely, you know, off the rails crazy. And
so going through the footage, I sort of, oh, boy,
I should have just toned it down a little bit,
you know, because because but you know, it's funny when
you're looking at yourself twenty years ago and you're thinking
I could have done this or I could have done that.
And I've had a lot of those those self doubt

(59:32):
and you know, questioning, you know, should I have.

Speaker 2 (59:36):
Done this or that?

Speaker 1 (59:37):
And making this documentary was that terrifying for sure, to
put it all together. But it was also, like I said,
very cathartic because I get to kind of put it out,
the story and kind of kind of explain myself in
a way, you know, this is this is sort of
the story that I kind of want people who maybe
don't know much about me, haven't been following me along
the last fifteen years, coming to my stand up shows

(01:00:01):
maybe sort of remember me from back in the day
on MTV and don't really understand that a lot of
what I was doing was a performance or a character
I was creating. So so this kind of, I think
will be nice to kind of set the record straight
on some of that stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:00:17):
Were you able to when editing the footage be proud
of that kid? I get therapy with a whole up
picture up of me as a kid and go like,
let's talk to this kid.

Speaker 4 (01:00:26):
Were you able to have that moment?

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
I think so.

Speaker 1 (01:00:29):
I think it's sort of almost kind of happened yesterday
when I when we released the doc to the world,
and sort of this I'm sort of going through it
right now, even just just the past two days, people
are seeing the documentary for the first time. I'm getting,
you know, texts and emails and calls from friends from
that I've known my whole life and family and and

(01:00:53):
everybody's really kind of happy that the that the doc
came together the way it did, and that I'm getting
this sort of put this out there, and it's just
sort of big relief for me because it's it's like
it's been a lot of pent up thinking about this
over the last really twenty years, you know, like twenty
years of going oh boy, you know, I really wish,

(01:01:14):
you know, like like when I hosted Saturday Night Live.
I got to host Saturday Night Live. Okay, I'm you know,
twenty eight years old. I guess maybe twenty nine when
I hosted Saturday Night Live, and you know, the show
was doing great, and you know, I want to make

(01:01:35):
it a wild and crazy episode.

Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
And but.

Speaker 1 (01:01:41):
You know, I remember I had two friends of mine
who were friends from high school, actually were writers with
me on The Tom Green Show, but really it was
my friends from high school, and I were, you know,
coming up with crazy stuff to do with video cameras.
And all of a sudden we were on MTV and
I got asked to come on Saturday Night Live. And
I asked them make it. I bring my friends from
the show along.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
Can they do some skits with us?

Speaker 1 (01:02:03):
And so you know, they said yes, Lauren Michael said yes,
and they gave us a little office and and now
I'm there with my two friends and we're writing these
sketches and we're trying to push the envelope, you know,
as far as we can because we're thinking.

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
It's got to be the craziest thing, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
But I sort of think in hindsight sometimes I thought,
oh geez, you know, I I think some of the
writers at the show might have interpreted that as I
brought my own writers and all this stuff, and they
didn't really understand it was just like kind of me
kind of trying to you know, include my friends, you know,
so so.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
Getting emotional, so.

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
It's it's weird. It's a weird thing. I do get
emotional about it because it's like it's weird. You try
to do the right thing, and then it gets misinterpreted
and it's very it's very tough sometimes when when it
kind of you know, it's it's nice to be able
to tell this story in a way where Okay, I've
been driving all day too, so I'm okay, I'm doing fine, Bobby.

Speaker 3 (01:02:58):
It feels like maybe they the other writers or performers
were unfairly territorial, thinking you had other intentions when you
brought your boys with you.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
It's it's it's a very competitive environment Saturday Night Live.
I've found over the last few years, I've seen a
lot of other people, cast members and stuff doing interviews
about their time on the show, and I sort of okay, cool,
it happens to everybody. You know, everybody's young, they're there
to prove themselves. You only get so much time on
the air, and and so then you know, when we

(01:03:28):
came in, we were just you know, kids coming in
and we're trying to sort of do the same thing,
but we're just there for the week. I think it
might have been taken the wrong way by a few people,
but you know, all in all, it was a complete
sort of honor and privilege to have done it. But
I know the thing that's weird about that episode. Somebody
brought it up to me the other day because I've

(01:03:49):
been talking about, you know, the documentary. It's one of
the weirder episodes. And that's saying something because we're talking
about the show that's been done a lot of weird stuff,
you know, but you know, this is maybe just a
little weirder.

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:04:05):
And I'm sort of surprised they gave us as much
leeway as they did. Kind of wish they hadn't actually,
but uh but no, it's it's, it's, it's it's it's
definitely a unique episode and people are starting to discover
it again on you know, all line and stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:04:19):
So the Bobby Cast will be right back. Mm hmm.
This is the Bobby Cast.

Speaker 3 (01:04:34):
What about four more questions and Mike has a couple
before we wrap up.

Speaker 4 (01:04:40):
What would you say was the most fun.

Speaker 3 (01:04:43):
Micro period of all of your the most fun like
what did you do where you're like, man, this is
awesome where you can appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
I've been saying this quite a bit lately because it honestly,
I really am having the most fun I've ever had
right now.

Speaker 2 (01:05:01):
It's uh, I.

Speaker 1 (01:05:03):
Think I just feel like I'm in a place where
I'm you know, able to handle and understand what it
is that I'm doing more. It's I'm not overwhelmed by it.
It's not it's not on MTV and being thrust into
everybody's face, so there's a little bit pressure, less pressure
and honestly getting to know this.

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
This this the.

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
Animals that I have, now this beautiful mule that I
am learning to ride, and it's very peaceful out there.
And I'm also just recently engaged as well, beautiful fiance Amanda,
So so my life's kind of coming together and uh,
in a way that is I'm feeling very settled and

(01:05:41):
moving back to Canada and getting this farm. It's it's
the first time I've ever lived somewhere where I know,
I have no intention to ever leave. I'm not going
to move somewhere else. I'll be living, you know, at
this farm for the rest of my life. And and
it's uh, it's it's very I feel very grounded now
and having a lot of fun with that. And and
Amanda's here with me, and we're on we're on tour

(01:06:03):
right now. I'm doing some doing our comedy tour across
the US and driving. We drove down here from Canada
and we're just having a great time.

Speaker 4 (01:06:12):
And you've driven the whole way.

Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
Yeah, we drove here. Yeah, we drove, well, we drove.

Speaker 1 (01:06:15):
Our first show was in Chattanooga yesterday, so that was
the first show. Yeah, So we just drove down from Canada.
Was we took a couple of days.

Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
It was nice.

Speaker 4 (01:06:22):
Yeah, I can't believe you drove.

Speaker 2 (01:06:23):
That's yes.

Speaker 1 (01:06:24):
Well, we're actually in my camper van that that I
got at the beginning of the pandemic. So we're when
we're when we're on we have some breaks built into
the UH into the UH tour, and then we're gonna
go do some some off off grid camping, maybe head
out to the Grand Canyon and do some photography and
uh we write some more songs.

Speaker 4 (01:06:45):
Have you ever been out there to the Grand Canyon.
You've seen it?

Speaker 3 (01:06:47):
Yeah, yeah, it's one of the things that I am
and I've.

Speaker 4 (01:06:51):
Been able to do some cool stuff and see some
cool stuff, but.

Speaker 3 (01:06:53):
It's like still in awe of like how massive and magnificent, Yeah,
that thing. And mostly I'm just like, I'll google image it.
I'm good, you know, but like, that's a really cool
part of the country in the world that I.

Speaker 4 (01:07:08):
Still I would like to spend more time. There.

Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
Something very mysterious and magical about the American Southwest. And
so much of Hollywood was based on, you know, those
John Ford movies out in Monument Valley and and and
when when the pandemic happened, you know, when I was
sort of isolated there, I got this camper van. It's

(01:07:33):
really cool camp I didn't even know these existed, But
there's these these really cool guys that were on that
show Shark Tank and they started this Company's two friends
that started this company in Phoenix, and they refurbished rampro masters,
right and so it's uh, I've discovered them on the internet.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
It's like Boho Van it's called.

Speaker 1 (01:07:52):
And then they take a rampro master and they put
a fridge in it, and they put solar panels on
the roof and these you know, battery systems in it
so you can So I kind of discovered that at
the beginning of the pandemic, and I would go out
into the desert. I built a recording studio in the van,
and I started exploring the because I was living in
La at the time, so I'd go out for a

(01:08:14):
few weeks out to various places and just kind of
set up camp. And it was unlike anything I'd ever
experienced before with electronics, where you can when we go
shoot videos, you always have to go back to the
hotel and charge your batteries up at the end of
the day. But now, all of a sudden, we have
unlimited battery power and solar power. So so to go
out into the middle of some of these beautiful places

(01:08:36):
and just be creative out there was and be able
to stay and just you know, run a recording studio
off grid was really kind of an incredible eye opening
thing because I went down.

Speaker 2 (01:08:47):
This rabbit hole.

Speaker 1 (01:08:48):
Of all the places that are out in this country
that are not even widely talked about, like Native American
ruins that are just incredible, like incredible. Everyone always talks
about Machu Pichu, you know, and and and you know,
the pyramids and all of these incredible ancient sites, right
and people are so interested in But there's so much
of that kind of thing from the same as old

(01:09:10):
as Macha Picchu in the American Southwest. There's a Chaco
Canyon in New Mexico is a place that's like a
pueblo city that was just only discovered in the nineteen fifties.
It had been buried in this massive stone city like
Machu Picchu right there. And so you know, to start
discovering this and all the different sort of natural phenomenon

(01:09:32):
and just beautiful landscapes and if you like photography, if
you like making being alone in a camper van, it
was really fun exploring that. So I'm taking my fiance
Amanda out there. We're going to go look at some
of our favorite spots and take some pictures. She loves
taking photos too, and and hasn't Amanda's Canadian, so she
hasn't gotten to see a lot of the country. The

(01:09:54):
first took place I took her was the waffle House
and National.

Speaker 3 (01:09:57):
Nothing is more American and southern. To watch out, everybody's
got a gun around here. Ever, it's all of us.
We're all packing right now. So yep, that's really cool.
Two questions. Let talk to me about the dog, Charlie,
big dog guy myself and you come up with a dog,
I love it.

Speaker 4 (01:10:15):
Rescue rescue.

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
Yeah, she's called a potcake dog.

Speaker 1 (01:10:19):
They're from the Bahamas. They call them potcakes, and they
basically the local Bahamanian people like they feed the straight
dogs the burnt rice from the bomb of the pots
they call them Potcakes' generations of you know, dogs had
got off the ships and they've become these sort of
mixed breeds.

Speaker 2 (01:10:37):
They're really sweet dog.

Speaker 1 (01:10:39):
And her name's Charlie because she's named after John Steinbeck's
Travels with Charlie in Search of America. And I got
her right at the beginning of the pandemic where I
got the van. And my dad said, oh, that's like
travels with Charlie, And I said, oh. Steinbeck and he
had a camper van and he drove around America and
he wrote a book about America, and so I did
that with my YouTube channel. Whole first year of traveling

(01:11:02):
in the van is on my YouTube channel. If you
scroll back, you can see all these places. I went
to Chocoal Canyon and many of these other incredible sights
and just made videos. So Charlie's named after Travels with
Charlie and she's coming back to the desert with us.

Speaker 3 (01:11:14):
So final question from me, what bit over your career
have you done that you still think is super funny? Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
Well, probably the Slutmobile.

Speaker 4 (01:11:29):
The car hilarious.

Speaker 2 (01:11:30):
Can I say that on it?

Speaker 4 (01:11:31):
You can't.

Speaker 2 (01:11:32):
It's funny.

Speaker 1 (01:11:32):
It's funny how the world's changed, you know, Like at
the time we were just saying it openly in Oprah.
I'd say it, you know, and I was like, I
don't know if I would have used that phrasing today,
but but you know, it was my parents nineteen ninety
two Honda Cord where I painted the you know, the
pornographic scene, had an air brushed on their car and
Dad wakes up in the morning, what the hell have
you done to the car? It's you know, it's their reaction,

(01:11:54):
is really what it was. And that was that was
always always the best bits were the ones that had
the best reactions.

Speaker 4 (01:12:01):
Undercutter's Pizza was so funny.

Speaker 1 (01:12:03):
One of the best reactions, and that was because that
was that was one of the I think that may
have been the first, if not one of the very
first videos we shot when we moved to the United States,
and we're in Long Island, and you know, the bit is,
I dress up like a pizza delivery guy. I follow,
we stake out a pizza shop. I follow the pizza
delivery guy. I've got my own pizza, but there's no

(01:12:25):
no toppings on it. I've got a fishing tackle box
with new toppings. And then I follow the pizza guy
up to the delivery and then as when the person
comes out to I start making the same pizza they
ordered and try to sell it to them for cheaper,
undercutting the competition. Undercutter's Pizza.

Speaker 2 (01:12:43):
That's the bit.

Speaker 1 (01:12:44):
But you know, we had no idea that the guy
who I was delivering the pizza too is like working
on his car, you know, and he.

Speaker 2 (01:12:49):
Was like sort of a pretty.

Speaker 1 (01:12:51):
Tough guy, got real Matt Eastern, chasing me with a
hammer and screaming at me. And okay, this is but
you know, it's sort of the reaction was always was
always what was So those are two a couple of
my favorites.

Speaker 3 (01:13:03):
Yeah, I love the bit where you just lay down
and that's all reaction. But you got to have the courage,
the nuts to just lay there and let people slowly
build and then when do you choose just to get up?

Speaker 1 (01:13:17):
Yeah, that was one of the first, one of the
first because that was early on in the show, and
that was one of the first bits that happened.

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
That was really that people started talking about a lot.
And I used to do that in.

Speaker 1 (01:13:28):
School, Like I would just basically lie down on my
face with my hands at my side. Later people called
that planking, but and just to kind of confuse people, right,
it was just sort of a stupid thing I would do.
So then I think that bit was exciting to us
because we had a wireless microphone and it was the

(01:13:49):
first time we had a wireless microphone. So we realized, oh,
I can be across the street. We can do a
sort of the candid camera type of bit. So we
put the camera up on top of a building and
I just went lay down on a public street. It
was a little social experiment. How long till somebody comes
and helps me, you know. And it was a long
time because we had to speed the footageup because I'd
probably line there for twenty minutes before people's came came

(01:14:09):
to help me.

Speaker 2 (01:14:10):
So maybe Canadians aren't that nice. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:14:12):
That's that's so funny. I love people like reactions, Mike.
A couple of questions for Tom.

Speaker 5 (01:14:16):
Yeah, I love the documentary. It kind of reminded me
a lot of how many of your quotes have become
a part of my vocabulary. Like I can't see tubing
without saying tube That's what is the quote that people
reference to you the most? They say, that's my favorite
Tom Green quote?

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
Uh, well, you know, daddy, would you like some sausage?

Speaker 1 (01:14:34):
That's a big one from from Freddy got fingered h
you know, probably tubing, tubing, Tubing is good. I see
the bum bum song gets a lot of references. People
will sing that. There's always a lot of little sort
of melodic things, like people remember the theme song of
the show. This is Tom yeah, people with yeah yeah.

(01:14:58):
So people remember some of those earworms. And there's a
new one that's that's wasn't from the show, but It
was on the show Lol Canada where I sang this
song which is sort of what led to my prime
show where they have a bunch of Canadian comedians and
in a room and I sang this song delicious Cheese sandwiches.
So that's people sing delicious cheese sandwiches to me. You

(01:15:20):
were stuff from road Trip like Unleash the Fury lines,
lines from movies I think are pretty pretty common.

Speaker 5 (01:15:27):
To speaking of road Trip, I didn't realize that you
work with Todd Phillips on a Pepsi commercial and he
went on, you know, direct road Trip directed Hangover Joker.
When you guys did road Trip, did he kind of
just let you do you in those scenes? Or what
direction did he give you?

Speaker 2 (01:15:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:15:43):
Well, I wasn't the mouse when I put the mouse
in my mouth. That wasn't in the script. So and
also the song, the tiny Salmon song that was that
was pretty interesting because there was a guitar on the
set and you know, I know at the time I
could play three chords and now I can play four,

(01:16:04):
so it's pretty good. But he said, you know you
want you want to write a song, So I wrote
that tiny Simon song on my lunch break and then
came back and they filmed it, and then they ended
up putting that in the soundtrack. So he did let
let me have some free reign for sure. And the
late great Canadian director producer Ivan Rightman produced the movie,
so he actually directed a sort of a couple of

(01:16:26):
the tour scenes that I was doing as a It
was the tour guide. Ivan Rightman was out sort of
with me doing that, so so yeah, he kind of
let me kind of go a little bit, for sure.
But I mean the most part, I stuck to the
script other than you know, those two things.

Speaker 3 (01:16:39):
Yeah, it looks like you're rock star touring on your comedy.
I mean, it's all the way until June. And the
difference would be if I'm on the road at all,
I do Thursday, Friday Saturday or Friday Saturday come back.

Speaker 4 (01:16:49):
Yeah, it looks like you're out.

Speaker 2 (01:16:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:16:51):
Yeah, I mean all the way and you guys will
put it up in the notes as well, but all
the way until June.

Speaker 4 (01:16:56):
Yeah, so you guys are just here.

Speaker 2 (01:16:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:16:58):
Well, no, I have a couple of breaks in there,
and there's few breaks in there we're gonna but but yeah,
for the most part, it's pretty pretty intense tour.

Speaker 2 (01:17:05):
But it's good.

Speaker 1 (01:17:05):
It's fun, you know. Like I said, we're traveling in
the in the you know, on the road, not getting
on the airplanes. It's it's just nice. The shows are
close together. We're in Chattanooga last night, in Nashville tonight,
onto Dallas, Tulsa, Oklahoma City. Then will be at Joe
Rogan's Comedy Club, the Comedy Mothership, and then Houston and
we get a little break and then we pick it
up again in Colorado. But yeah, it's uh and it's

(01:17:27):
it's fun because I'm playing a lot of music venues
this time as well. So I have my guitar with me,
So I'm start out the show with with you know
stand up and do you know full stand up.

Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
Set, and then I pull out the guitar. I'll play the.

Speaker 1 (01:17:39):
Tiny Salmon song and and do some fun songs and
then kind of ended off with a few of my
uh more songs from the record.

Speaker 3 (01:17:47):
Yeah, so everybody check out this is the Tom Green documentary.

Speaker 4 (01:17:50):
Loved it. The Amazon Prime specials.

Speaker 3 (01:17:53):
Those are the It's a It's a at your House.

Speaker 4 (01:17:56):
I mean, it's like life now. It's a four part.

Speaker 2 (01:17:58):
Three four part Yeah, Tom Green Country, and then.

Speaker 4 (01:18:00):
That's not out yet because I haven't seen so that
comes out on the thirty first, gotch So it'll be
out when this Yes, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:18:05):
And there's a stand up special two that comes out
in a couple of days, so it's the documentary. Then
there's a stand up special which is called I Got
a Mule, and then the show Tom Green Country comes
out on the thirty first.

Speaker 2 (01:18:15):
They'll all be out by the next.

Speaker 3 (01:18:16):
Week and take it to the toy you get him
at Tomgreen dot com.

Speaker 4 (01:18:20):
Tom.

Speaker 3 (01:18:21):
Thanks and I'm sure I've stolen hundreds of things from
you without even realizing it over the years, like no doubt,
So thank you for all that.

Speaker 1 (01:18:28):
Thank you, Bobby. I mean, it is so cool. I mean,
I you know, I sort of rolled the dice and
hit you up on Instagram and said I'm going to
be in Nashville and I'd love to come on your show,
and you just it was so cool that you got.

Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
Right back to me. Man.

Speaker 1 (01:18:40):
It was such a that's awesome, man. It's just an
honor to be here in your an amazing place, and thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:18:47):
I just gud You're real and not a scam.

Speaker 3 (01:18:49):
I fell for those Nigerian prince things way too many times,
So that's what I thought you might have been.

Speaker 4 (01:18:53):
Yeah, it's real, he's really here.

Speaker 1 (01:18:55):
Yeah, next time I'll send a Nigerian prince just for
thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:18:58):
I'm more comfortable with that. Yeah, give him my account
number and we're just good after that.

Speaker 3 (01:19:02):
Go to Tom Green dot com, get tickets to the tour,
and go to Amazon. The documentary is great and there's
just a lot of Tom Green content.

Speaker 4 (01:19:10):
Love to see it. Tom. Thank you for coming by.

Speaker 6 (01:19:12):
Thanks Bobby, thank you, thanks for listening to a Bobby
cast production.
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