Name: USA vs Canada: Theo and Tom Green Discuss
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'USA vs Canada: Theo and Tom Green Discuss' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-02-20. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'USA vs Canada: Theo and Tom Green Discuss' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-02-20. Transcript available.

You know, as Canadian, you know, like it's like right now in Canada, people are
pretty upset, you know, with, you know, 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, you know, being taken over by the
United States of America, doesn't it?
It's not something that people are super excited about hearing, you know.
So, you know, 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 because, you know, we've got our own country.
It's not that we don't love America.
I love America, but we sort of have 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.
We're different, right?
It's a different thing.
Yeah, it's different.
You're nice to have, you know, people will be, somebody will walk across the
street in Canada and just come tell you they're sorry and then go back across
the street and then nothing even happened.
They're not even.
Yeah, they just came off just to apologize.
Yeah, there's no even, you've never seen them before, you know.
But it's, Canada's the best.
I think Canada gives me hope for humanity a lot of times.
It's good people.
What was, whenever Trump was talking about Canada, what was, can you bring it
up, Nick?
I just, I just want to know what he even was saying.
Like, what were they threatening?
They were threatening to tariff Canadian goods just so our listeners can know
what exactly was even going on.
Yeah.
They're going to put a tariff on every, you know, Canada is the largest trading
partner of the United States.
Nice.
And so much of the goods that come into the United States from Canada are being
brought in by American businesses to, you know, like wood.
You bring wood and lumber in to build houses, right?
So when you put a 25% tariff on lumber, that means everybody that, flannel.
If you're a big flannel company making flannel pajamas, all of a sudden flannel
pajamas are going to be 25% more expensive.
So it's really, it's going to affect, you know, businesses on both sides of the
border, obviously, not just Canada, but also everything will go up in price.
So, you know, and I'm not exactly sure the reason for it, to be honest with you.
He was really saying they weren't helping out with border security.
Yeah.
And that's what, the 30 days probation period, they did put a bunch of people
at the border.
Absolutely.
And I don't think there's a real border security problem between Canada and the
United States, though.
It's, you know, it's, but that's...
It's the hardest country to get into in the world, I think, is Canada.
Yeah, I mean, it's, it's...
Going that way, there isn't, that's for sure.
Yeah, it's, you know, the claim that there's fentanyl coming into the United
States from Canada, I think, is a little bit exaggerated,
because I don't really think that that's actually the case.
Something like, you know, a very small amount is coming in from Canada, so...
Tariffs are a central part of Trump's economic plans.
He promised to introduce import duties against some of America's main trade
partners during his election campaign.
He said, tariffs will boost U.S. manufacturing and protect jobs, as well as
raising tax revenue and growing the economy.
Fentanyl is linked to tens of thousands of overdose deaths.
Taking bold action to hold Mexico, Canada, and China accountable to their
promise of halting illegal immigration and stopping poisonous fentanyl and
other drugs from flowing into our country.
It just seems kind of vague.
Yeah, I think it's sort of like a...
But like, what would you do?
Like, I'm trying to say, say if you bring a bunch of stuff into my country,
right?
Say, if you and I live in different countries, and you bring a bunch of stuff
into my country, or I bring a bunch of stuff into your country,
and then you say, okay, I'm going to tax that more...
I'm going to charge you more to bring that in, if you don't help stop the fentanyl
that's coming in.
I just, I don't know, how would you then do that?
What would you then, on your side, would you say, okay, we'll put more, what,
drug dogs and security along the border?
I think that's what they're, I think that's what he's asking them to do.
You know, and I think we already do have, again, I'm not, I'm not a
representative of the Canadian government,
but I do think that we already do have a lot of, there's only so much you can
do to seal off a border, right?
And I don't think there is that much fentanyl coming in from Canada, really.
I'd never heard that that was a thing before.
Yeah, I think it mostly does come in from the southern border.
That's what I would think.
I wonder if maybe that you guys got grandfathered into some, you know, some
late night Trump rhetoric there.
Who knows?
It feels a little bit like that, but, you know, hopefully, hopefully it'll
resolve itself.
I do think that it's probably going to end up causing a lot of economic
problems on both sides of the border,
and probably they may, may not go for it, but, you know.
It'll be sports exciting for a while, though.
No, it's, it's interesting.
I think, you know, there's a thing that's going on, the hockey games in Canada
now,
where the USA and Canada are playing, and, you know.
Yeah, the four nations, right?
Yeah, and the Canadian fans were booing the anthem, right?
And, you know, sometimes I go like, well, I don't, you know, based on the
reaction on social media,
I sort of feel like maybe not everybody in the U.S. necessarily understands why
that's happening.
You know, they don't know it's about the tariffs, you know.
They're not booing the national anthem.
They're booing this, the fact that these tariffs are being put on, you know,
which is going to, of course, devastate, you know.
The economy on both sides will suffer from that, right?
I'm sitting here, like, talking about it like I know about it, you know.
I should probably know more about it.
But it's like, it's like, you know, I think, I think people are just kind of
like,
why are you guys doing this to us, you know?
So that's, it's kind of a, it's kind of an interesting thing.
But it was a good fight right off the top of the game the other day, you know.
It was pretty cool.
We like a good hockey fight, so that's cool.
And it is nice when countries sometimes don't get along a little bit in sports,
right?
I've always, I've always admired that.
Yeah.
That's why, that's one thing I don't like about the NBA anymore,
that all the players, it just seems like they all know each other.
Nobody's really playing for their squad sometimes.
Okay.
So I like a little bit more of that animosity.
Maybe more fights in the NBA would good, physical fights.
Yeah, look at that.
Oh, definitely.
I believe both those players are American, too.
I'm not sure how quickly your researcher can tell us that.
But even though they, the Canadian team, Canada didn't get the win in this game.
I know that.
Maybe that's not true at all, what I just said.
But, but, but, uh, I don't think Canada got the win in this game, but that's
okay.
Yeah, we lost the game.
Absolutely.
Which is really kind of, uh, I know, but it is nice to see everybody having a
good time
watching a hockey fight for sure.
Yeah, absolutely.
You know, so what's, uh, do you remember the first time you went to Canada?
Yeah, Vancouver.
Yeah.
And was that somewhat recently?
The brothel or a hostel.
It's up to the hostel.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah.
And how many years ago would that have been?
That was probably 15, 18 years ago, 17 years ago.
And it was great, man.
Yeah.
I had a great time.
Were you doing stand-up there or were you?
I hadn't started.
I had just almost started stand-up.
I was doing, I was traveling.
I was left out of there on a school, floating university.
I left out of Vancouver called Semester at Sea.
Yeah, yeah.
And it went around the globe and we left out of Vancouver.
But I went up to Whistler.
I went and caught a ride.
Some guy took me hitchhiking up to Whistler, right?
Drove me up there.
And the dude, the guy who drove me, he was a caretaker for Superman who had
died.
Remember Superman who got in the wheelchair?
Yeah, Christopher Reeves.
Christopher Reeves.
He was his caretaker.
Okay, okay.
This guy, Michael.
And I think I met him.
I was at some shop right around there.
And he was saying he was in the area or something.
He's like, I'm taking the drive up to Whistler.
I was like, can I roll with you?
He's like, yeah.
So he took me up to Whistler, man, brought me back.
We stopped along the way, went on some hikes and stuff.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was amazing.
Yeah.
And I've always enjoyed Canada.
I used to have a dream that I would meet a wife in Toronto.
Yeah.
But I went and did two weeks of comedy up there.
Didn't meet any wives.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, it could still happen for sure.
It could still happen.
Yeah.
Do you find the audiences react differently?
They're great.
Halifax was one of my favorite shows I've ever had in my life.
Yeah, yeah.
Dude, I even made, my little nephew made up this joke.
He said, oh, I told it on stage.
I was like, yeah, I heard one time that there wasn't any more fish up here.
And so they changed the name to No Fish Scotia.
And nobody laughed, right?
Yeah, sure, sure.
That was fucking fun.
No, that's why I'm laughing, because I can imagine the reaction.
Sometimes there's something great when they don't laugh.
Oh, sure.
There's some little thing in there.
It's like, oh, that's pretty good.
Yeah, absolutely.
You know?
Yeah.
But yeah, always had a great love for Canada.
I think it's bizarre that Trump would say something like that.
And it's also like, it just, but what do you expect out of him?
You know?
And what do you expect about the media to spotlight things and make it whatever
it is,
even if it's a seed of something, to grow it into a million plants, you know?
Yeah.
Yeah.