On this episode, Bill sits down with comedian, cultural provocateur and former neighbor Tom Green. The two recall the time Tom’s house burned down, why Tom is touring the country in a camper van, navigating public perception in the age of social media, Tom’s cancer treatment during his MTV fame and how a misdiagnosis almost derailed his health, getting fired on the Celebrity Apprentice, the blurred line between clever and stupid in comedy, his film Freddy Got Fingered, life on his Canadian farm, finding love, his latest documentary project and much more. Go to https://www.RadioactiveMedia.com or text RANDOM at 511511 to save up to 50%, today! Try ZipRecruiter for free at https://www.ziprecruiter.com/random Shop SKIMS Mens at https://www.skims.com/billmaher #skimspartner Follow Club Random on IG: @ClubRandomPodcast Follow Bill on IG: @BillMaher Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: https://bit.ly/ClubRandom Watch Club Random on YouTube: https://bit.ly/ClubRandomYouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What happened to Tom Green's house?
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Well, I don't know what you thought this program was, Mr. Green, but it's a family show. Who's the biggest election counselor than Donald Trump?
You know, he was my old boss. He fired me on The Celebrity Apprentice. I have to hear this story.
Hey, Bill, how are you? Tom. Tom. Listen. Oh, my gosh.
Are we wearing the same shirt?
Mine's better. Good to see you, man. Yours is more like a farmer shirt. Yes, exactly, because I'm a farmer now. I know you are. I am a farmer. Mine's fresh. Listen, I borrowed that Weed Walker from you 24 years ago. I have been meaning to give it back to you.
I actually got it back today. I was wondering about that.
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Chapter 2: How did Tom Green cope with cancer during his career?
Canadian farmer can have a shot of tequila. Can I make you the same drink I have?
Yeah, what are you mixing it with? This is an interesting concoction. First, we, of course, have ice. Would you like to pour your own ice? I don't want to put my hand in.
No problem, no problem. Yeah, okay.
And then would you just mix it with some water?
We will add the... I'm doing a cooking show now. I feel like our future has a cooking show in it. Absolutely. That would be amazing. If it involved tequila, it's always fine.
Cooking with liquor, I'm going to call it. I mean, it's different. Okay, so then we add... This is Jing... And this is because I'm a health nut. I love this stuff. It's a way to make sparkling water into a diet soda without any of the chemicals that are in diet soda. Okay, okay.
Oh, yeah, sure.
But not even the stuff that's in the non-sugar ones, which are still chemical.
It's like a flavored sort of chemical.
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Chapter 3: What was Tom's experience on Celebrity Apprentice?
And so would you deep fry the fish in a fryer?
It would, your arms would be chapped and with a uniform, you know, a short sleeve and your arms would have long sleeves.
Because the grease would come up, you'd be burns on your arms. Yeah, I know that. I used to cook, I got fired because I miscooked a chicken burger at Dairy Queen.
These kids who get offended at microaggressions, not that I'm a Marine, I mean, I'm People have had way harder lives than me for lots of reasons.
That's definitely not the worst thing that could happen is getting a little chicken grease on your arm. It really hurt.
And then you'd have just all these red marks on your arm. Yeah, yeah. No, for sure. I'm not saying it's... At a time of my life when I was, you know, thinking about asking a girl out... It wasn't the greatest thing to approach her with red marks all over my arms.
But you had a few bucks, though.
I didn't. Because you were working. I went from that to selling pot in six months.
That was my last. More lucrative?
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Chapter 4: How did Tom Green transition to farming?
I mean, the last time you saw Chico. Was right before I came over here. So still alive, I would say.
Yeah. I mean, I worry about them like that because, you know, I buried right like maybe 25 feet that way from this building up that hill is my dog graveyard. And there's five graves there. Oh, wow. Yeah. You know, and I personally dug all of them. Because I found it to be a very cathartic experience to dig the grave yourself. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I did one in a howling rainstorm.
It was so therapeutic. Do you... With the tears rolling down my cheeks, mixing with the rain.
Yeah. Well, it's... it is i'd like to thank the academy no no but it's because because you you know you're it is a one of the one of the worst things you have to do right i mean animals are a family right these are family you know i had to put i had two huskies for 15 years i went through that it's a Horrible thing, right? But you have to kind of move on. And they had great lives, I'm sure.
You know, they all live, you know.
You'll appreciate this from apropos to our discussion there about people in the middle and all that shit. But I quoted this lady I read recently. I read a story in the Free Press last year, and she had lived in New York with her husband, exactly what you would think of as like a left-wing liberal couple in Brooklyn. Okay. Not bad people. Again, I would probably agree with them on most issues.
They decide to move up to the country, just like you did, but this is upstate New York.
Sure. The Poconos. Well, that's Pennsylvania. Oh, yeah, right, right. No, sort of what I'm thinking of.
It's closer to where I went to college at Cornell.
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