Tom Green

What year is this?

This was, well, we started in mid-80s.

Yeah, pre-internet.

Yeah, yeah.

This was high school.

Well, that was, you know, friends at school were listening to rap music.

So friends at school were like, hey, you got to check out Public Enemy.

You got to check out Boogie Down Productions.

I'm like, Boogie Down Productions?

Then someone would give you a cassette of, like, the criminal-minded...

Boogie Down Productions Bridges Over album and you're listening to it and they're rapping about Scott LaRock, their DJ who'd been, you know, unfortunately, you know, passed away in bad circumstances.

He was shot and killed.

And then you're listening to this sort of, that was the internet to me, you know, was rap music and skateboarding.

Thrasher magazine was skateboarding.

You'd read stories about skateboarders in California in a magazine.

You'd listen to rap music and hear stories about

You know, people who are not in Ottawa, you know, doing cool shit.

And I was kind of wanting to get up on stage and perform.

I was kind of dabbling with stand-up at Yuck Yucks in the comedy club in Ottawa.

And so... When you say dabbling?