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Chapter 1: What is Tom Green's new special about?
Las Vegas. I'll be at Resorts World Theater March 21st and 22nd. My new special, Lucky, is streaming right now on Netflix. Check it out. Vancouver Island?
Yeah. Fucking gorgeous. And it is amazing that it's all going to be the 51st state soon.
What was up with them booing us at the hockey game?
They're booing about that. Oh. Oh.
Yeah. So not everyone wants to be us. Yeah, yeah.
First of all, I Got a Mule and Tom Green Country, they're awesome. Thanks, man. But the fucking, this is the Tom Green documentary, fucked me up. Yeah, oh yeah? It really did because it brought me back. I have so many questions, but not questions, but just like, There's a point in the documentary where you said you were on screen with Steve Martin and someone else. Martin Short, yeah.
Martin Short, and you were trying to make them laugh, and it wasn't going over great. And you were like, I thought this would be funnier. And I identify with that so much in that those guys like Steve Martin, and they always had these old school chops. And then you came in with a new style of media that was like, and the only thing I can relate that to
is and i this is my big can i because i really think jackass was spawned from your show yeah yeah i really think you were the inspiration for jackass not and i know johnny knoxville came up with it on his own but i think without you we get no jackass yeah but i remember being with bam margera and ryan dunn one time at a and and kids would go do jackass and they didn't know how to do it like they didn't know how to do what they did in the show
in live person. Right, sure, sure. And you were a comedian, but I saw in that moment you were like, the Tom Green thing, it's a hard, you gotta be in, you gotta be in on it.
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Chapter 2: Why do Canadians boo Americans at hockey games?
And how am I supposed to... So I thought I'd go... overly silly, and I just brought a cardboard box out and stuck it on my head and was jumping around. It was actually kind of a fun appearance, but I remember being completely amazed that When I got to the studio, Steve Martin came and knocked on my dressing room door. He came in and introduced himself as he'd been watching the show.
And then he really liked the show. And I was like, wow, that is so cool. You know, that he came out and he'd gotten some tapes. He'd gotten some VHS tapes of the show to watch them. So, yeah, surreal. It was a surreal thing to go through all my footage, you know, and to make the doc. It was definitely... I would not advise it to anybody to make a documentary about yourself.
I mean, your parents are fucking adorable. Yeah, yeah. Your mom, when she goes, isn't it against better interest to have the person the documentary is about directing it? You're like, yeah. You're not supposed to do that, no. Your mom's fucking adorable. But is there a moment where you go... I've had a couple pops. I'm outside. I'm at my place in Canada. But let's be fucking real.
I created all this shit. Well, uh... Because, okay, I'll toot your own horn. Tom Green Show, probably first... First, no one's doing Man on the Street at the time. No one's doing Crazy Man on the Street. No one's doing now what Jack Doherty and all these TikTok kids, hey, it's just a prank, you know, that shit. You created that entire genre.
Joe Rogan has credited you with setting up... You had the very first podcast ever. You created that entire genre. I mean... So many things. You did Dirty Old Man before Johnny Knoxville did Dirty Old Man. You were at the very beginning of so many things that you created. I just wonder how you, like, if you just sit some nights, your ego gets out in front of you and you're like, come on, man.
Is anyone going to just fucking, like, it was nice when Joe gave you props.
Yeah, it was really cool. And thanks, man. I mean, I like, it was, it's timing, you know, I was, I was like, video cameras were new. I mean, we were all kind of there at that time. Video cameras were new and, and, you know, I was a skateboarder. So I kind of. That really spoke to how your style. So skateboard videos. Yeah. Yeah, skate videos. And then I also loved Letterman.
And I'd been doing stand-up. So there was a bit of comedy. There was a comedy skateboard kind of mixture of things going on. And... I don't know. I've been in L.A. for a few days now. I moved home to Canada after being in L.A. for 20 years, four years ago during the pandemic, and have not been back since. So I just got back for the first time yesterday. And...
And I've been doing some podcasts and stuff. And, you know, starting to kind of like, you know, when you go on various podcasts and you see there's all these incredible podcast businesses that people have now like this. And, you know, I was on Tom Segura's last week in Austin and on your mom's house with Christina and Tom.
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Chapter 3: How did Tom Green influence the Jackass show?
Look at that first picture there. She looks majestic in that one.
Dude, I have almost an identical picture of me on a horse like that. Yeah. That's a beautiful picture.
Yeah. And it's just so fun. And it's not been instant. Like, it's been about... Almost, it'll be two years in June that I got her. So it's coming up on two years. And the first six months were complicated. Really? Because mules are extremely smart. Donkeys are incredibly smart. Mules are incredibly smart. So you hear people say stubborn as a mule, right?
It's because they're so smart that they kind of figure out. They don't want to get hurt. So if you are riding a mule, I'm riding a mule, And she senses that I don't know what I'm doing, which I didn't. Still sort of don't, but I didn't, really didn't. They go, oh, this guy doesn't know what he's fucking doing. I'm not going into the woods with this guy, right? Yeah.
So they kind of judge you based on their intelligence, their energy. They're able to figure you out and go, well, I'm not going to go there because this guy is leading me into potentially into danger because he clearly doesn't know what he's doing. I don't trust this person. It's crazy how they can figure that out. Yeah. And they figure it out off of nonverbal...
energy, which has been helpful for me. I think at least it's been interesting. At least I know if it's been helpful, but it's been interesting because you start to realize how much we communicate as animals with each other, with other humans and with mules just through nonverbal communication.
Like we didn't have language when we were, you know, whatever cavemen and stuff, but we all still communicated and everybody figured everything out. Yeah. I have these, you know, everyday in-depth sort of conversations with this animal without speaking, you know, and it's all just kind of energy. So what's that mean, energy? So if I'm, when I'd be riding along Fanny the first few months, right?
And I knew she didn't like ATVs, like the sound of them. So I'd been having problems riding. She would not turn left. She didn't want to go into the woods. She wouldn't turn left. She'd only turn right. So I'd just go and we'd just go around in circles. Turn left. So I had the people that sold her. She's like my fucking daughter, Georgia. God damn it.
The people that sold her came back to give me more training. And I was following them on the ATV. And they were kind of helping me understand what I was doing wrong and how to communicate with this animal. Then they parked their ATV that they were on, you know, 100 yards up. I'm riding up towards the ATV that's turned off. And I...
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Chapter 4: What was the experience of making The Tom Green Documentary?
So, you know, I found like being like crashing into the garbage can when I entered a class and flipping over the desk and, you know, like the first day in the new class, you know, and just being a complete goof was my sort of way of kind of dealing with all of this. And so I always kind of felt a little bit kind of like.
I got to do some, I got to kind of find a way to find something different about, you know, I'm not going to listen to the same music. All the kids at school were listening to the mainstream. Well, this was before them, but, but, but they were, you know, like the Grease soundtrack, you know, everybody would love the Grease soundtrack or, or the Eagles, all great stuff. Right. But,
But I was like, no, no, I'm going to listen to, you know, boogie down productions, you know, and like public enemy. Totally forgot about your hip hop. And I'm going to get a skateboard and I'm going to, you know, I'm going to go to the thrift shop and buy an old army jacket and spray paint on it and just be kind of a bit of a freak.
And I'm not quite punk rock, but more skateboarding and listen to rap music and stuff. And so that was always kind of like a thing that I really kind of like to identify with. And, you know, I realize now like it's like, The internet is such an amazing thing, but it's also kind of taken so much of the sort of effort away from having to find a way to find your individuality.
Back when I was a kid, I wanted to know what was going on outside of the mainstream songs and the mainstream media. way of doing things. And so I'd have to go down and buy Thrasher magazine. And that was like, you'd read articles from California about, you know, skateboard, you know, Tony Hawk at the Del Mar skate ranch, you know, that's what California is like.
And, you know, I, you'd, you'd, you know, you'd listen to, you know, agent orange, you know, and then that's a punk band from California. Yeah. So this was the internet, right? The internet was music and finding weird, uh, sort of ways of getting information.
Yeah.
It wasn't just pick up your phone and follow somebody and all of a sudden it's all right there, you know? So that was kind of... And you were in Canada. I was in Canada, yeah. And so there's, you know, there's like five other kids at my school who were kind of into rap music and skateboarding. And then, you know, there's maybe... 100 kids in the city who were really into skateboarding.
And you felt like you were part of this really unique sort of weird group, right? And that was, I think, all skateboarding in a big way. Skateboarding was a big part of it, you know, because we'd go out at 15 years old, we'd go out at night, no phone, nobody...
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