Tom Green is a comedian, actor, writer and filmmaker. He’s known for the legendary “Tom Green Show” as well as his many movies like “Road Trip” and “Freddy Got Fingered”. His new stand-up special “I Got a Mule!” is out now on Prime Video. Tom Green joins Theo to talk about leaving Hollywood for the country, why he was so focused on making the wildest content possible when he was young, and how Canada and the U.S. can come back together once and for all. Tom Green: https://www.instagram.com/tomgreen/ ------------------------------------------------ Tour Dates! https://theovon.com/tour New Merch: https://www.theovonstore.com ------------------------------------------------- Sponsored By: Celsius: Go to the Celsius Amazon store to check out all of their flavors. #CELSIUSBrandPartner #CELSIUSLiveFit https://amzn.to/3HbAtPJ Moonpay: Looking to get into crypto? Head over to https://Moonpay.com/ Theo to sign up. Factor: Go to http://factormeals.com/factorpodcast and use code FACTORPODCAST to get 50% off your first box plus free shipping. Morgan and Morgan: Visit https://forthepeople.com/THEO to see if you might have a case. Morgan and Morgan. America's Largest Injury Law Firm. ------------------------------------------------- Music: “Shine” by Bishop Gunn Bishop Gunn - Shine ------------------------------------------------ Submit your funny videos, TikToks, questions and topics you'd like to hear on the podcast to: [email protected] Hit the Hotline: 985-664-9503 Video Hotline for Theo Upload here: https://www.theovon.com/fan-upload Send mail to: This Past Weekend 1906 Glen Echo Rd PO Box #159359 Nashville, TN 37215 ------------------------------------------------ Find Theo: Website: https://theovon.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/theovon Facebook: https://facebook.com/theovon Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thispastweekend Twitter: https://twitter.com/theovon YouTube: https://youtube.com/theovon Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheoVonClips Shorts Channel: https://bit.ly/3ClUj8z ------------------------------------------------ Producer: Zach https://www.instagram.com/zachdpowers Producer: Nick https://www.instagram.com/realnickdavis/ Producer: Cam https://www.instagram.com/cam__george/ Producer: Colin https://instagram.com/colin_reiner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: Who is Tom Green and what are his recent projects?
It fell out. At the inauguration, he lost a tooth. Yeah, I chipped my tooth, and I walked up to him. I was like, man, I chipped my tooth, and he's like, oh, yeah, and he showed me this, and he freaking lost one. Him and his wife were looking for it on the ground.
Oh, okay. But it had been knocked out previously in a hockey game of some sort.
Yeah, something like that.
You didn't get punched out at the inauguration?
No. I think he could have been shocked by something he saw. Maybe that took it out. But yeah, he was just missing a grill piece at the inauguration. It was just pretty bizarre. Man, that's cool. Dude, that's amazing. So these are the types of things you're spending time doing up there. You really document it really beautifully. And a lot of that doesn't even have a lot of audio with it.
It's really just seeing. I've noticed this in some of your videos. It's just kind of seeing what's going on.
Yeah, yeah. I kind of like to just kind of do these sort of ambient sort of things to kind of just kind of bring you into a certain place. It's sort of like I like photography. This is just doing it with video and being there. Yeah. But after I posted that video, Amanda, my fiance, she saw it and she sent me a message on Instagram. This is how we met.
And it was a video of a Zamboni, a do-it-yourself Zamboni, which is what a Zamboni is what you use to clean off the ice in a hockey rink, right? And so it was this homemade one. And we started, I just started talking to her because I thought it was a funny thing to send. And we
It turns out we went to the same elementary school and, uh, yeah, it was just sort of, uh, it was, it was, it was just went, went from there. So cool. Congratulations. Yeah. Thanks man.
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Chapter 2: Why did Tom Green leave Hollywood for the countryside?
So I spent a lot of time talking to a lot of people about you know, people that I know, people I'm close with about the story of, really, it's the story of the show and takes us through the story of kind of creating the show and then building, you know, before the show with my music and then after the show with building, you know, sort of a web TV studio, right, here in Los Angeles.
And it's sort of a telling of that story. But then I wanted to talk, you know, a bit about some of the, Personal sort of things that I went through. I had cancer when I was on MTV and I talked about that. I made this movie, Freddy Got Fingered, which was not critically completely embraced. Yeah. So, you know, so it's like I wanted to explain myself a bit.
But then, you know, at the same time, there's a lot of people now that like the movie, believe it or not. So I didn't want to completely, you know. And hate the critics now. Yeah, yeah. So it's sort of like it was a very tricky balancing act.
And then on top of that, there's just so much footage and so many weird little funny clips that only I know are the ones that people like or people have or haven't seen. And I kind of wanted to make sense of that all and piece it all together. I don't think anyone else would have been able to find it all. Yeah.
Was there a project that you kind of wanted to do over the years that you didn't really nail or you didn't? That something that didn't happen? Was there something? Because you've just done so much stuff.
I mean, you know, it's interesting because, like, in fact, that's part of what the documentary is about. Because, like, when I got into making the show when I was growing up, all I could even imagine myself doing was I wanted to be a talk show host. You know, I wanted to do basically a show like David Letterman. Right.
have guests on, and then I go out in the street and, you know, be a nutcase, you know, do goofy stuff, right? And I got to do that, you know, a few times over the years. And, you know, when those shows go away, you know, Initially when that happened, that was back in the day of MTV. The first show I stopped when I got sick. So it didn't actually get canceled, the Tom Green show.
But then when I started – I did a nightly show. It kind of – when it kind of got canceled, I was thinking, oh my gosh, this is the worst thing that could ever happen to me that I could ever imagine that I'm not going to be able to do anything. a nightly talk show. This was devastating to me.
And as time marches on and I look at all the things that I've done instead, touring, doing standup or moving back to the farm and everything in between, I kind of realized, man, I'm kind of
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Chapter 3: How did Tom Green adapt to life on a farm?
um you know i don't know that's just my thoughts it's kind of a endless sort of uh you know uh quagmire you can find yourself in once you start talking when you get into politics i agree in this world we're living in now because it's like you know you go on the road you do stand up all around the country and you know everybody's sort of divided in a way. Right.
And then you start to have firmly choosing a side and all of a sudden half the audience doesn't want to have any fun anymore.
Right.
So it's kind of like you got to be fine. We got to make these choices now. Like, okay, well do I, do I want to give my opinion anymore about what's going on in the world? Uh, you know, and then, You have to choose one of the set of opinions that are on this side or the set of opinions that are all evenly and neatly put on this side.
And as soon as you state your opinion about one of these issues that just happens to be on this side, then anybody that doesn't agree with you no longer wants to fuck with you and come to your show or have a good time or have a laugh with you. So it's just such a shitty thing to have to deal with that, right? So how do you kind of like juggle that?
Because as a Canadian, it's like right now in Canada, people are pretty upset with Donald Trump because he's putting these tariffs on Canada, right? And saying they're going to make us a 51st state. Saying they're going to annex Canada. People aren't too happy about the idea of being taken over by the United States of America, doesn't it?
It's not something that people are super excited about hearing. So you kind of go – it's funny because sometimes I think like – well, I think a lot of Americans who don't think about it that much might think like – Oh, Canada is going to be the 51st state. I bet you everyone in Canada must be really excited about being the 51st state of the United States.
But, you know, I'm kind of saying, well, no, it'll probably be the first state in America that nobody in it wants to be America. You know, so so because, you know, we've. we've got our own country. It's not that we don't, don't, don't love America. I love America, but we, you know, we sort of have our, our, our, our entire different culture. You know, you go to Canada all the time, right?
Yeah. I love it. And I'm glad it's Canada.
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