Name: Tom Green | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #564
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Tom Green | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #564' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-02-20. Transcript available.

Tom Green | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #564

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today's guest is a
comedian he's an actor he's a filmmaker he's an innovator he's a he's a visual
entrepreneur
who really laid the blueprint for uh podcasting and prank shows and all types
of genres he's had
one of the most unique and legendary careers in comedy from the tom green show
on mtv to as many
movies like freddie got fingered road trip he just dropped three new projects
on prime video
a comedy special a documentary and a scripted show we'll get into all that we're
excited to welcome
canada's son mr tom green
tom green it's your first day back in la in four years yeah yeah yeah feels
good actually it's uh
yeah it was weird i just moved uh four years ago it's kind of a somewhat
spontaneous decision you
know when covet happened remember that and everything stopped and all of a
sudden you know i've been
touring and i'll just remember everybody stopped touring right at the beginning
everything kind of
just stopped i'm trying to trying to remember if it was just me that stopped or
did everyone stop
everyone stopped yeah yeah so about the first six months or so of that i was
kind of i'm gonna do and
then i just kind of realized i well i got this i was telling you about my van i
got this van and i
started going out into the desert and making videos and stuff here outside of
la just outside la and i
loved being out in the desert so much and just waking up in the morning with a
cup of coffee and
just looking at the sun coming up over the mountains and just the peacefulness
of that
yeah it's out in the mojave desert that was like the first day of the trip i
think
four years ago and so then uh you know i just decided to sell my house i doubt
i'd been in my
house for 18 years i sold my house and uh went back to canada and bought a farm
near where my parents
live and uh just i can't believe four years went by but yesterday was first day
back in los angeles
in the van we drove back down in the van so i've been touring with my fiance
who you just met i have
a fiance now went back to canada i've got a fiance from canada now yeah good
choice and uh and we came
back in the van and uh and just drove into town yesterday and uh it's pretty
weird because it's like
it feels like i nothing's really it it kind of makes you think about time time
is weird you know
because i went away for four years and then you come back and i drove past my
house that i lived in
for almost 20 years and now i'm staying in a hotel right down across from where
the house is i can
actually see the house from the hotel room i sort of did that on purpose
because i thought it would
be weird and um and uh you know i'm going to this i went to arts deli you know
i lived sort of in the
studio city area here and i went to arts deli and got my my same pastrami
sandwich and my my chicken
noodle soup and uh and i've been going to some of the same restaurants just
been here for a day and
i'm it doesn't feel like it's been four years it feels like i actually i'm
driving here you know
and today i was i sort of almost forgot that i didn't didn't live here anymore
i kept thinking
oh i'll go back to my house after oh right i don't live here anymore so that's
that's that's a strange
thing but and then on the flip side in the last four years i've got a farm
which i've now really
settled into i've got these incredible animals which are now i'm really bonded
with this mule and
this donkey and two horses and uh chickens and it's just like this it's sort of
been an incredible
incredible journey the last four years so yeah it's been cool was it something
that you always
wanted to have you feel like a farm i guess every human kind of maybe feels
something like that i'm
gonna get a little bit of land i'm gonna get some animals was it that or was it
no it's weird because
i never really imagined having a mule um you know like and riding a mule every
day i didn't grow up with
that you know i grew up in the suburbs of ottawa canada i'm outside of ottawa
but but um and a
mule's kind of like the el camino of horses in a way yeah it's very much the
you know what i'm saying
it's not it's not me saying hey i'm gonna get a horse it's like i'm gonna get a
mule yeah yeah i
sort of thought initially i thought it would be kind of funny and then the mule
i happened to find
fine fanny uh is her name and she's this beautiful mule she's this huge animal
and that's kia the
donkey in the background and so um and so it's just become this sort of amazing
change but yeah i um
you know i initially i hadn't i didn't really thought of necessarily getting a
farm with a mule and all
this stuff but i wanted to get a place that was kind of in nature really was
and then the the the
farm happened to have these old barns on it and i thought it'd be kind of cool
to get a mule in
those barns so i i i now am very much um loving life up there i get up in the
morning and i saddle her
up and ride off into the wilderness it's pretty cool really so does it and that's
never something
that you wanted that was never like a thing of your whole life like i want to
have this thing it just kind
of yeah i mean i love i always loved animals uh you know i have my dog charlie
and i've always enjoyed
being outdoors but i mean it just uh it just kind of uh i know every once in a
while you know you know
sometimes when an idea pops into your head and then you just go with it and
then all of a sudden you've
done it this is like that except it sort of occurred to me afterwards you know
as as i was doing i was
realizing you know i'm going to have this mule for the rest of my life you know
like they live to be
donkeys live to be up to 40 50 years old oh my god really he is only three so
so it's a lifelong
commitment and uh the donkey could live after you absolutely she probably she
probably will but uh
yeah so it's so but it's you know it's it's um i think maybe i was looking for
something that would
kind of ground me and you know give me that home base that i needed you know
this is the first this
is the first time i've ever lived somewhere where i know i'm going to be there
for the rest of my
life wow i'm planting trees yeah i'm thinking oh in 20 years i'm gonna that
tree is gonna be in these
trees are gonna be bigger and i'm kind of sort of plotting out things that way
and yeah that's
interesting i can totally relate with that and what you're saying about la la
just feels like this kind
of it's almost like la doesn't have a memory in it it feels like um i don't
know other places i think
especially if it's a place that's a little more grounded it feels maybe more
meaningful for some reason
i don't know yeah it's i mean it's weird i moved here i moved here when i was
28 i think it was 28
or 29 when i moved to la i'm 53 now and uh i mean i i loved it i had a great
time here i wasn't
wasn't leaving la because i didn't you know like la or anything it was just it
was more i wanted to
be close to my parents and they're still doing good and i wanted to be close to
family and stuff and
but um but yeah it's uh it is a it is a unique place for sure people come here
from all over the
world to pursue their dreams and and uh there's sort of a energy there that's
exciting but you know when
you as i got a little older you know i i left when i was 50 and uh you know not
married no kids
covid happened um i wake up i'd been in my house for 18 years the real estate
market went up i was
like oh maybe i should sell it now as opposed to you know five years ago i
wouldn't want to so there
was a moment in time maybe i'll sell this place you know that i've been living
in for 20 years waiting
for the right moment to to feel like it was time to go and um because uh i don't
know i kind of felt
like i uh i wanted to be back where i grew up you know i mean you're not you're
not from here either
so you know it's there's something there's something there's something very um
sort of uh
i guess deep that you feel when you're home you know i know i'm sure you know
where you're from
tennessee i'm from louisiana i live in tennessee louisiana but yeah it gives
you yeah there's a sense of
like yeah that you've been out of your soil for a long time you know that you've
kind of like when
you go back to louisiana you must feel like oh now i'm at home right this home
oh there's definitely
a ton of nostalgia that i love you know um i think it makes sense that a part
of you wants to kind of
go back where you came into the world at or be there you know to be see people
that care about me yeah
see that see people that i care about wonder if you've gotten enough of the
like the adventure out
of your system in some ways you can still have the adventure but just have it
from there you know yeah
and i think also the part like you're saying about this is the first time you'd
ever like planted
plants you're like i'll see these i've always felt like my life was very um
transient like i was just
passing by i've never been the type of guy to get like a lot of furniture or
artwork or anything i'm
always just like i don't know how long i'm going to be here and it's always in
here i'm in my 40s and
it's still like i still kind of operate like that but at a certain point it's
like yeah you want
something that's a little bit more settling um and if you found a fiancee i'm
sure that kind of helped
a little bit yeah absolutely yeah amanda's here we're it's her first time in
los angeles nice you
get to be a host and a tour guide that's kind of nice showing around my uh my
old hometown my
my new old hometown yeah yeah and a camper too dude what was that about yeah so
that's that's been
pretty wild it's uh so like because when i got this van i uh i kind of got
pretty good at it like going
to really remote places in the american southwest particularly like in new mexico
utah zion you go
to zion yeah i went to zion i did camp in zion but like there's there's there's
this other kind
of land it's called blm land it's bureau of land management land that is
basically all of the
desert and land that is owned by the u.s government it's managed by the bureau
of land management
and they they'll cut roads into the desert and they'll put sort of campsite
areas with fire pits
and stuff they kind of keep it somewhat um organized so that people don't go
driving all around the
desert and trash in the desert they have these roads and stuff so you can get i
got this app it's called
dirt d-y-r-t it's like it's basically an app that gives you all the different
locations of these sort of
really obscure places that are not even in national parks or anything d-u-i-r-t
yeah yeah and so it
kind of like you find stuff that is just unbelievable like um you know i sort
of can't stop talking about
it to people that don't know about it but like i mean you may know about chaco
canyon but i'd never
heard of it before it was it's this it's it's in new mexico and in fact if you
go to my last uh youtube
video on uh my youtube channel that's just a video i shot a couple of days ago
um and you can scroll
down to like the second video go to the second video this is chaco canyon so
this is like native
american ruins that are uh essentially like built in the year 875 it's like you
know and it's like this
it's a city you know it's like a city in the desert um and it's just out there
in the middle of northern
new mexico this is this is amanda my fiance