Tom Green - Steve-O's Wild Ride! Ep #48

hey everybody and welcome to a truly special wild ride with stevo this week we've got a legend man there's no other way to put it a legend of so many things and a personal hero of mine from way back in the day and dude we're both van lifers man so let's dive into it let's look let's not leave it in the hallway as they say i learned i learned that saying from you okay here here's how we do it yeah ladies and gentlemen tom green i'm not sure if you've met my co-host scott yeah we've met we've met at the airport you're like look it's tg yeah dude i was like what's up tg what's up man how are you good to see you good to see you yeah good to see you too up at the front of the van we got the gorgeous paul briskey hey tom how are you wow that's cool so you guys are all in the van right now that's right that's amazing are you are you uh in some uh amazing place right now i'm i'm not in my van right now i'm i'm in my house but you've been here to my house before this is not the ban yeah many times we're just parked outside of my house dude so much of this okay darn pandemic you know we had such big plans for the van we're gonna we're gonna drive it to all these magnificent places we're gonna bring it to make podcasting convenient for huge stars we've got the mobile studio and for the most part it just sits at the house and and we're talking to a computer screen in here oh really so like the reason i got my band was because of the pandemic because i needed to kind of get out of the house right but but i've been i've not really been going to talk to anybody i've just been going and sitting all by myself in the middle of the desert i know i've been uh i've been enjoying your youtube channel um yeah thanks man thank you it's been kind of like all right fairly we're not the best yeah i've been kind of like just sort of on a little photo photography videography kind of journey you know right it's been it's been very peaceful and relaxing and uh how long have you been back at home at your house uh just i've been home for a couple of days but then i i kind of go back and forth like i go go out for a couple of weeks and then i come back and uh you know take a shower yeah yeah i know i just saw in your your most recent youtube video you were talking about it sounded like bathing and showering exclusively in lakes and rivers uh yeah well it's gotten too cold for that now that's the problem so now it's just no bathing whatsoever but it's fine you know i'm by myself i don't mind the way i smell you know i smell all right to myself i wouldn't want to be with anyone and like smell like the way i smell but like when i'm by myself i don't mind you know yeah gotta say you look great dude i haven't had a haircut in a year you know i think i might have to go back to the old school uh you know skater look right i mean dude yeah i think you look great you just texted me a photo of you and tony hawk and you called it skinny tom which made me think that you got fat or something but you're not feeling it off i think i did get fat but then i lost some weight again during the pandemic so i'm i think i've i'm almost skinny tom again yeah yeah dude and that did so much to talk about like the the history that that we have there's so many things that did he get bored of being called the the father of podcasting remember remember how much how much crazy [ __ ] we did up here in this in this room back in the day when we were streaming back in like 2003 oh my god do i remember yeah let's hear about it to come up here every time you came up that's when we really got to know each other when i started the the webo vision up here and uh you would come up and you'd always come bring some crazy stunt or something i remember you know you brought a microwave up and we were burning a bunch of [ __ ] in the microwave there was probably some other stuff that i don't need to bring up but you know it was a lot of fun was had up here that's for sure there was a lot of skateboarding in your living room there was a lot of consumption of alcohol and me with my with my whippets there was a lot of us rapping together you rapping really well and me rapping terribly and uh there's just a lot of crazy times man it was and you've always been such a such a good friend to me you know like supportive and and uh you know caring when things were bad and you know like forgiving when uh like when i didn't deserve forgiveness you know you've always been a really great guy tom man yeah man well you too you too i mean you know i think like you know when when we were younger that was quite a while ago now that was probably how many years ago was that 2003 he quit math almost 20 years ago right you know i mean i was drinking a lot then too you know and uh and so we come up here you come up here we do the show we i remember one show went five hours drinking and uh you know i uh you know i've cut back quite a bit on the on the booze myself steve oh i i haven't entirely quit but uh i'm glad to see you're doing so good and you're so healthy now and everything it's it's actually inspiring i'm thinking maybe i have to take a page out of the stevo uh book to health and happiness and uh give it up entirely oh well you know thank you for the kind words i think that it's uh you know if it's if it's not uh screwing up your life then then you know who cares man you know i i think in general you're you're a a pretty happy guy you know i think of you as a guy who's not like too caught up in all the the rat race and the stress of life i wish that i i have my ups and downs for sure you know i i think i got a pretty good balance going on but uh you know i mean i definitely had had had low moments in in in life and and where i've definitely been down and uh i think i've i think i've learned actually a lot in the last 10 years or so that like you know booze you know whether i haven't entirely quit drinking but i have cut back to sort of a more sensible amount of drinking and um and i know that when i don't drink at all i am much happier which is very counterintuitive because i always used to think oh you know you drink and it makes you get crazy and it makes you have fun but but then the next day you feel like [ __ ] and then you compound that with getting older and that that is even more amplified i really found when i started doing stand-up again like you know that was really where it really kicked in and i realized wow this booze isn't really helping me out too much because you know you'd be hungover the next day and you're you're not sharp and you're not like really like feeling positive so it's interesting you know i'm starting to hear a lot of comics and people talking about this where people are like not drinking and i'm thinking geez that just sounds very sort of different than what we sort of grew up hearing about comedians you know people were all always so rock and roll and they were so out there getting you know doing drugs and doing i never did drugs but you know uh and boozing it up but now people are getting so straight edge it's it's kind of a nice thing i think yeah i'll never forget never forget the first time i i watched you stand up tom you invited me to uh the hollywood improv it was uh i'm sure it was 2010 so now uh 11 years ago and i remember like just not being sure what to expect and and and just being so impressed i remember thinking dude he was on stage for like a whole hour and he never like forgot what he was supposed to say or anything you know like it was uh it's really cool man and at that time i had no idea that i would be uh you know sort of following and following your path into stand-up now of course tom's first thing was stand-up like way back before the hidden camera pranks isn't that right yeah sure yeah i mean that's kind of in canada there was a there's a club called yuck yucks in ottawa and uh it's the comedy club up in ottawa and when i was in high school i'd go down there and kind of discovered stand up and and uh loved it and some of the great stand-ups that i still love like like norm mcdonald for instance was from ottawa and he was just starting out there i remember going to watch him you know when i was 15 years old and it was cool because like it was a bar but you could still go if you were a teenager i guess it had its restaurant license or something like that so it felt such like such an adult thing to do like you go to the bar and watch comedy in this dark basement and here's this guy norm mcdonald and jeremy hotz and all these guys that came from ottawa who were at the time in their early 20s and just so crazy like doing such weird stuff sit talking about weird stuff and it was different than anything you'd see on tv you know it was like you know nor mcdonald's you know out there right but in 1988 it was like really really hard to imagine like what you were even seeing you know because everything on tv was so straight you know right so that was really exciting you know and um but it's it's it's interesting you know now doing stand-up now the way you and i have been crossing paths touring the world doing shows together in vegas and right you know it's like it really is i think just sort of uh i'm just so glad that uh that we both kind of are doing this now because it's like it really gives you a lot of control over your life now doesn't it to be able to just go out and do your thing with your audience and uh now travel around in our vans man we really do have very similar lives think of it right i mean you would think that i was just spending my whole life just just copying tom green i mean tom green was uh i mean you were my hero before jackass was even an idea the tom green show on mtv i've said this so many times like i literally sat there and and recorded every episode of the tom green show and was so careful when the commercial break started i would hit pause on my vcr to in real time edit out the commercial breaks and then hit record again when the commercial break was over i had the whole library of the tom green show and i just loved it so much man i remember when we filmed jackass for the first time uh like i shared a room with our line producer who who told me that i was like what other shows have you done he said i worked on the tom green show and all of a sudden i just had this reverence for this this producer that tripper it was it was tripp trip did the tom green show tripp did the tom green chair and i just thought that was so cool man and if you think so there was the you know the the godfather of the of the you know podcasting wow that the podcasting came after but yeah what do you call that what that mean hidden camera you can't say the hidden camera because like candid camera had been around for so long but like that man on the street gag that just weird you know like there's definitely and i've always really looked up to people who can make footage that's that's compelling and that's that's awesome without like doing anything uh you know dangerous or or destructive or you know like or super gross and puke everywhere like well we got pretty gross but yeah painting your parents house plaid or or paying their car the [ __ ] mode yeah yeah you know i mean it's interesting right like because we were both skateboarders and i loved skateboarding as a kid and so you know for me like when i was a kid i would watch like paulo peralta videos you know like i was watching like it was it was future primitive was the first one that i saw that was like where i remember seeing video that didn't look like it was made by you know nbc or something you know it was like stacy peralta's future primitive and they were going you know they were cruising around new york city and jumping off like the back of you know vans and lance mountain would like wipe out like flip around on the ground and [ __ ] and everyone was like on the street real people reacting and i was looking at that going like man like that's like raw real like energy that i've never seen on television before except for maybe maybe a little bit of david letterman was doing stuff like where he'd go in the street but everything else was so controlled so so uh you know kind of uh rehearsed and everything so but you know we kind of grew up at that same time where it's like you know all of a sudden we had we could get a video camera right like we didn't get a video camera before and all of a sudden you could go out and make sort of gorilla gonzo kind of amateur tv which you know maybe it wasn't as perfectly shot or perfectly produced but the fact that it was so raw and nobody ever like when people looked at you when you went up to someone on the street they didn't think that you were from the tv station because you weren't and so they'd kind of react real and it was just the right time you know like we just sort of you know we were both there at that time when all of a sudden like everything changed we started filming stuff no youtube nobody watching had ever seen anything like that before and sometimes i kind of like feel like man like i don't think people today young people today i don't think they can kind of quite grasp how crazy it was when when our [ __ ] came on tv back in the early or 90s because like nobody had seen it before now like you can put stuff like that out now and you can do stuff like that now but they're comparing it to all the stuff they see we're overwhelmed by all this weird video it doesn't have that impact that it had back then i'm so fat there's so much here and i'm so fascinated by it because i think what made it so special was that at that time when you and i started filming our stuff the video camera was still not yet really a household item you know it was like pretty you know not not most households had a video camera and it was skateboarders who were the first to the first to really we had such a leg up in video production skateboarders because our whole culture of skateboarding was about trying to get sponsored so you had to videotape your skateboarding in order to try to get sponsors and there was never another activity that lent itself to making videos like say for example if you were a tennis player then you want to get sponsored then when you win tournaments you know check out my tennis video yeah there was no other thing like there was no other thing like skateboarders that really like first came to the video camera we got so far ahead of everybody else with the video camera and at a time when it wasn't a household item and you're absolutely right plus when our stuff came out on mtv still the average person didn't have a video camera let alone in their pocket and the media wasn't so fragmented to where there was like i mean sure there was there was cable tv and there was network tv but when when our stuff came out there was no such thing as playing videos on the internet i mean it was like weber vision at tom in tom green's living room was like really the first streaming video i think right yeah i got i've got so much footage of us i've got it all on drives and on tapes and stuff like i mean uh don't worry i'll i'll i'll i'll let you see it before i don't i don't i don't mind one bit tom i don't mind one bit and it was it was publicly it was pretty crazy though man like i remember it was it was like you know that was i mean that was kind of exciting because you know when i was doing the web show here in this room right like this that's that's where we were sitting right there you're sitting where the bleachers were yeah i'm right i'm right where the bleachers were at bleachers in my living room and it was just like stevo would bring his friends i'd have my friends and people just sort of sit here and watch and get a little studio audience you know that's great there was like a lot of like big time people in there like we had really great hours and hours in a row with carson daly i remember that fondly dr jews i mean there were some some you had a lot of uh really famous people in there yeah it was it was weird because like you know it felt a little bit like you know when i started my show you know on public access we were kind of doing something that was kind of unique right because the video camera was sort of a you know shooting with i didn't actually have a video camera i had to go pop volunteer at the public access station so they'd lend me their video camera you know nice i didn't have any money i had no money you know i was like so broke i was i worked at dairy queen uh you know i'd make 100 bucks a week i'd spend it all on a new skateboard deck or you know a drum machine or save up for thing i'd never had any money for a video camera video cameras were like 2 dollars or something like that you know so uh yeah but like and then we did the webo vision that was like that was kind of later you know it's it's weird like how that seems like a long time ago now because it doesn't like to me that always feels like you know it was like that was after my show on mtv but it was but it's now a long time ago which is scary because that means like we're really [ __ ] old now is that what that means yeah yeah we're pretty old i remember uh we were together doing stand-up comedy in scotland ah oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah when you turned forward it was your 40th birthday oh [ __ ] yeah that was 10 years ago then yeah almost yeah yeah that was cool the edinburgh festival did you guys have a a lot in con your moms went to the same high school oh that's right that's right that like it's such a small world yeah our moms went to the same high school in barrie ontario is that right yeah my my mom said to say hi i was talking to my mom this morning and she she she knew your mom and uh she knew my mom i know how did you guys find that out dude i'm not even sure but dude did i ever tell you the joke that i was so my mom told me that's how we figured it out yeah my mom called me up one day you know and and uh you know after jackass came out and uh and she said oh you know what's so strange you know stevo from jackass i was friends with his mom isn't that a small world you know that's how my mom talks and uh and so yeah like uh she was like they were friends they were like they were good friends like they knew each other i think your mom was one grade below my mom but they all like hung out and knew each other so that's great man that's cool that's great i'd like one so it's been something when i'm doing stand-up in canada i would say like you know wow like i'm actually canadian and and it's completely true that my my most prized possession is my canadian passport i really think because like is it going to be a time when being having the ability to go over into canada is going to be something really really of value that could be the time right now it might have been six months ago right just about but i would do this when i would say in canada you know like but i'm canadian because my mom was born in canada and then i'd say my mom actually went to high school with tom green's mom yeah yeah i think it was barry north collegiate i think yeah say and then i'd say uh but my mom was a way bigger [ __ ] why would you say that because it's a ridiculous thing of course i'm kidding i think that if it came down to it it would probably be true but i don't know it's not my business [Laughter] that's so funny you know i mean how do you come up with that joke like oh my parents went to school together but like my mom's probably a [ __ ] like why would you like how would you make those kind of things i don't know i mean you just think you think of like i think it's funny because if you imagine tom green's mom and then you imagine steve o's mom okay like stevo's mom would probably have been a bigger [ __ ] but who knows you know i don't know i asked my mom about that for uh for you tom like when jackass first came out did you feel like oh these are my allies this is like a progression of what i'm doing or did it feel like they were sort of taking what you did for the record as inspired by tom green as i was i don't think that i ever tried to copy him but we'll see what he says and speaking of records boy did i set one on my whoop app when i went on that crazy 86.9 bicycle ride down to san clemente yep and what's so cool about the whoop app is that when i kick butt like that it's not just the woop app that knows about it it's my bros too because we're all in a group together and some days you know what i lose some days i win but we're always motivating each other to stay fit and healthy and get rest and it's just awesome man such a cool thing to be a part of and it's time for you to try it so this is how you do it you go to woop.com that's w-h-o-o-p dot com and this is how you're gonna get set up with the most insightful technologically advanced fitness tracking system there is okay so whoop.com you're going to use the promo code stevo and that's going to get you 15 off at checkout and do it because you're going to know more about what's going on with your body than you ever have before and so will you bros so one last time woop.com use the promo code stevo and see if you can burn 4324 calories in a single day because i did and my bros know it yeah dude all right i remember i went to like a screening of it i remember seeing you there i was like no way but that was for the movie not the series oh right right right yeah i know i mean i remember it was i think i was in new york when it first came out and i was kind of like yeah i thought it was amazing like it was definitely different i didn't think it was the same thing because you guys were kind of more like physical more skateboard oriented too like my show like because i was a skateboarder but i always kind of we i was trying to do more like a david letterman type show you know yeah and you guys were definitely doing more of the the physical stunts and stuff which i uh was sometimes kind of i was shocked you know like uh that uh but i don't know like dude i don't know if we really met each other right away i don't think i don't think kind of walking by each other at that screening and i was just sort of you know really thrilled to to see like to be in tom green's presence with something pretty special for me and it's a weird thing because it's like i had only been really living in you know the united states for a few years at that point and i don't i i've real i've learned something about myself over the years which is i i think i had like a lot of social anxiety when i was like younger like i got really nervous meeting people and stuff so i didn't really ever know like what to say like when i was around like you guys or you know you know like when we were talking about tony hawk you know like how you get to skate with tony hawk now and someone just sent me some pictures of me and tony skating back in 1999 and i posted them on my instagram today but it took me back to those years where i was like you know i was just sort of overwhelmed and intimidated by people you know so i was always i think it was sometimes like i was kind of like you know people misunderstood it as like oh is this guy like not want to talk to me but really i was just kind of scared shitless like whenever i would run into somebody that i kind of was amazed by you know and i just sort of sit there in silence you know but um i don't did you find that or were you just not not like not i don't think that it was really a situation where we were introduced or had a big conversation so i i i didn't have any uh you know like i didn't find you standoffish or anything i just found you standing over there ish yeah yeah it wasn't really we didn't really kind of get to know each other probably until we did the web show like five years later you know right yeah yeah did you like um i kind of like worry about you guys a lot like not so much now but like because like like you guys like actually really get hurt like right badly right like like i i never really did the jumping off things or right you know and so i kind of like i'm somewhat amazed that like um that you guys are able to do some of that stuff and not actually permanently get hurt like doesn't johnny knoxville actually really kind of hurt himself pretty badly right uh a number of times and i think that uh it would be good for him to be very careful with his brain from this point forward i think that yeah like concussions and stuff i think he's used up all of his free concussions so when you guys are doing stuff now like you're doing you're doing another movie now right we've been shooting another movie yeah so is it going to be like as physical like are you going to do as much sort of painful stuff that's uh that's that's right tom yeah and so and so like like uh is there any sort of there there must be some i'm gonna kind of interview you now for a second but there must be some like pressure to one up the uh the last big stunt and uh you know some things are kind of maybe not one-uppable right like i mean like are you concerned that maybe you're gonna push it too far you know there is that concern and um like if if uh if there was something you could imagine like not ever wanting to one-up like that in my mind for the particularly for knoxville like one thing where you think oh please don't try to one-up that and then yeah he totally went up to that wow no he won and i have did yeah specifically yeah well just don't don't uh you know don't um you know overdo it be careful yeah right maybe be careful while you're not being careful right i mean we're we're pretty close to uh having gotten away with it so i don't want to say anything more but then there's more there's more to do but but the the majority of it is in the can i probably shouldn't even say that but i did so far so good right and and now i'm going to go back to i want to this isn't even a question it's it's a comment but tom i gotta say i think that you're if not the most certainly one of the most talented people i know you know like with uh well i mean it's a pioneer too and like so much [ __ ] talent with the the rapping and and with the comedy and and inventing planking you invented planking yeah well plankton what do you mean i didn't i didn't call it planking but one of the early bits on my show i would go and i would just lie down on my face until people came and called an ambulance you know and then you know years later everyone was lying down on their face and and i was credited with that but uh but we didn't really call it planking but but yeah you know i mean you know this it's like we we kind of like uh you know what i find interesting about the world today is everybody's kind of doing what we did back when we were younger you know so many people like people are kind of able to go out and kind of create their own thing and do their own thing and and uh that was sort of so much sort of more of an obscure idea back in the day where you could actually just go make your own your own content as they call it content so um i mean it's uh it's it's it's it's sort of weird to think that uh we're still doing this [ __ ] you know right certainly you know i sometimes kind of kind of find it amazing because you know i'm turning 50 this year and uh you know i'm trying to do different things now but it's still kind of all rooted in the same thing you know i'm really enjoying the video i'm doing enjoying doing photography i've got you know my new cameras my drone i'm going out there shooting all these rad shots you know it's your birthday in august what's that it's your birthday in august july 30th yeah it's pretty close pretty close yeah yeah oh yeah yeah um now here's a question that i get really fascinated by and and it's it's it's a question that only applies really to us but if you and i were born 20 years later so that when we first started making videos there was youtube yeah yeah you know like would we have uh we'd both be working at dairy queen right now i mean i i a little bit think you know i think you can only really interpret that question but for me um i think that it would be a problem because there is so much content out there just anybody can just click of a button and put put up a video like it was uh there's a lot more noise to have to rise above in in this day and age and i think also that with the algorithms and and this and that like it's about quantity of footage more than quality of footage you know it's like these these vloggers the most successful youtubers they're successful because they're putting up videos every single day so it's not it's not about like i always shot like just little tiny snippets of something that was like super intense but like i never had a very long video to put out you know like i think i would have suffered i think that i personally benefited a great deal by being born when i was born yeah for sure i mean definitely timing is important for everything and also i think like maybe we'd just be doing something completely different because it's also just about like kind of thinking different you know so like because everyone's doing that now maybe we would have maybe we'd be like into computers or something right you know we'd probably be like you know cryptocurrency guys or something you know i don't know man i'm too much of an intention i'm such an attention [ __ ] i i can't imagine doing anything but seeking attention right right yeah well i think what's interesting like had you guys been born 20 years later would there be a youtube like kind of what what you guys did and what skateboarding did and what bam did like led to that in in a lot of ways so you're saying we sort of ruined everything thank you pretty much i mean you just you changed the game but i mean the amount of work you guys went through to edit a video back then like it's just so different now it takes you know everybody can edit a video on their phone but like you guys were putting in work i mean weren't you like recording vcrs and having two tvs and putting them together and stuff like that yeah when you guys were first filming stuff was it the big like over-the-shoulder camera or had cameras gotten small and like handheld by that time i don't know tom did you use a full-size vhs or were you on the vhsc tip so we had a few different cameras in the early days so we'd go down to the station that i volunteered at and i also i went to broadcasting school so we had high eight cameras we had uh which sucked and uh we had because you know you'd get all the dropouts on the tape you know uh but uh then there was an svhs camera we shot a lot which was pretty good it was the s s that's better than just a straight up vhs like svhs right um and then and then we had you know then minidv came along later and stuff so yeah a few few few big cameras minidv felt like pretty exciting you know because it was digital smaller compact you know uh-huh yeah i remember making the jump from uh high eight to digital at first yeah and then i jumped back now here's a question tom um i remember you coming out with your own beer is that something that people can still buy yeah it's it's it's only in canada there right but yes you can get it it's called the tom green beer you can't buy it online in america and have it shipped to america i i don't think they're allowed to ship it across the border but uh it might it might be available in new york state it was for a while but it's really i might have to go take a trip to canada when they open the border up to drink my beer but uh maybe one of these days i'll get it down in the us but not here yet so yeah now i also remember you being a pro skateboarder for birdhouse yeah yeah i've got i i was tony sort of made me i'd say an honorary member an honorary member of the team you know which was fun went on tour uh remember we went on tour with bam once uh we did a sort of a cross-country demos where we drove around in these lexus cars that they gave us and uh jeremy klein and uh bam and tony and uh the whole team you know brian sumner willie santos um you know bucky lassic was andrew reynolds i don't think he was no he wasn't on birdhouse then this was sort of after i think he left done another thing but uh but that was that was kind of like to me was sort of like sort of a uh a dream a dream come true in a way where i couldn't even really believe that i had like my own you know pro model board you know and it was and jeremy klein you know did all the graphics you know uh actually and uh sean cliver actually drew it yeah so sean cliver jackass uh uh family drew my graphic and then jeremy klein kind of designed it and so it was like a real skate graphic you know like it really was the old school type design graphic so that was pretty sweet you know i mean i i was obviously like kind of like i had a few tricks i like to do i was definitely love skateboarding like i have a love for skateboarding when i was a kid like you know in ottawa you know i wasn't even really like there was a lot of skaters in ottawa that were pretty good i was pretty good but you know i mean i wasn't really like uh like like you know doing the kind of stuff that you're you can do and you know i could do some things i could do like i i like to power slide a lot yeah bonelesses i like to do like i used to i used to be i used to have a nice launch ramp at my house when i was a kid and i i i used to be able to do like 360 errors early grab three strips 60 errors but i never really got it on video which is kind of like something that i'm because we didn't have a video camera and i probably really only landed one super clean like maybe like five times you know and that to me probably is like my biggest regret in my life that opening sequence of freddie got fingered it was a skateboarding sequence we were going through the mall and the opening sequence and it was really well shot it was super super badass man so that was kind of like so for me like the first time i ever saw skateboarding in a real movie was when back to the future came out yeah that was when i started that's why i wanted to put this opening scene i wanted to have skating and freddie got finger because now i got opportunity to make a movie and i wanted the opening scene to be me like me skating somewhere and going somewhere what i loved about back to the future was like like how that shaped my life was weird because you know that was like i was i loved skateboarding and i had a skateboard but i didn't they didn't have like the big boards yet you know they were it was the banana boards right right and then back to the future came out and it was like a different kind of board you know it's like it was when that sort of the 80s start and the fluorescent sort of splatter paint and the big wheels and the in the and and i saw that board i thought what what is that board that is a crazy looking board and then all of a sudden those boards started coming up and and it was like the fact that he would escape to school and getting onto the truck was so cool yeah and he had a backpack on and huey lewis and the news was and so like for some reason like when i was in like the ninth grade i thought like i gotta listen to huey lewis and the news right because like that's like power of love important music you know yeah so i'd like i put on my sony walkman i'd pop in my huey lewis in the news sports cassette and i'd listen to the heart of rock and roll and i'd replicate the the michael j fox skateboarding the school scene every day going to school for my entire high school career and it always felt like the coolest thing because like back then like skateboarding wasn't cool like when i was in high school like i was like one of maybe two guys in my school that actually skateboarded and all the other kids in school were kind of like you know we're trying to be cool now right we're we're we're listening to the eagles and we're wearing like you know penny loafers and we're wearing like you know polo and i'd be showing up with like skulls on my pants and my hair was like you know like crazy down to here that way and and and if i skateboard and people would kind of look at you like why are you on a skateboard man you're in high school you're an adult now what are you an idiot right yes skateboarding wasn't cool when we were kids man yeah yeah so so now let's talk about your rapping because i've always been so impressed by by tg the rapper wow yeah you guys are both rappers we're both rappers we're both skaters we're both podcasters we're both van lifers we're both pranksters mtv yeah man crazy it's it's mtv alumni it really is crazy um yeah i mean todd what was first the the um was it the stand up or the bra with the public access is what i'm looking for the the tv public access was kind of first i'm just going to let charlie outside wants to go for a potty uh the wrapping was kind of before the public access yeah i was like um i was like uh here by the way this is where the this is where the studio used to be this is where we would sit that is exactly um but uh the uh the rapping i was like started doing that in high school when i was like 16. and um yeah it was kind of like it's kind of what actually made me realize that like technology was what was kind of uh the thing that you had to pay attention to because like when rapping came out in the 80s like when rap music became popular in the 80s like it was like drum machines were new you know it was like electronic music was new and i remember saving up all all summer working my my job at dairy queen so i could buy this used yamaha drum machine when i was like 17 or 16 years old and i i basically started making these beats with an atari computer hooked up to this drum machine and we go down my high school and we do these like we play at the christmas concert and my buddy greg who was in the group who called organize rhyme or videos on youtube and we we started like doing these songs and then we started opening up for all the punk bands when they come to come to ottawa you know we hooked up with the promoter and we were the only rap group in ottawa so we'd go down and open for these punk bands these canadian punk bands dude no like we would open for like a lot of local bands that were from ottawa you know and you know i'm trying to think of you know like snfu we never actually opened for them no i i think we might have seen them but it was more like there was this there's what groups were we open for we were open for like these canadian groups and uh i'm trying to think of the name of the the bands we opened for a lot of local stuff and uh you know like they were like local bands like the illegal jazz poets and uh we opened for the bare naked ladies ones not a punk band but uh um boot sauce was this canadian rock band we opened for a bunch of times and uh which is hilarious by the way check that out but um but then we sort of started doing that and we got a record deal and that was kind of like wow you know like we actually got a record deal after doing this for about four years and and uh and it was kind of it was kind of neat you know it's kind of neat that we were able to pull that off how many rappers were there in the group one other one yeah greg greg greg campbell this other guy and nice yeah so yeah like when we were like when we were teenagers we went down to new york city and we recorded a demo we had someone bring us down there to record a demo and i remember thinking at that early age like sort of putting it all together like oh you know like you work hard with like you know you get a drum machine and you you make some songs and then you can maybe try to like get into show business or something like that you know that's paul's catchphrase is make stuff till you make it make [ __ ] till you make it yeah yeah and it all just was that just doing it ourselves kind of thing you know which was kind of it was kind of exciting you know so how about what are you doing look at charlie what are you doing charlie what are you doing this is the best dog by the way it's like i mean i mean i know you got the best dog too but this dog is so funny yeah you're charlie you're crazy she's like a really good dog she's a rescue from look at this look at this thing i like charlie hello charlie she just perked up charlie look at you look at you hello charlie hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi love it man so you're a prolific freestyler too like how legit is freestyling you just come up with something out of nowhere well i don't know i don't know i think i think i think a lot of times freestyling is is defined in different ways like sometimes it's not necessarily always off the top like every word is off the top sometimes it's some people refer to freestyling as total off the top but then sometimes it's just more like wrapping over a beat could be pre-written lyrics and stuff like you know like when i there's that video online where i'm rapping with the exhibit and everyone says i'm freestyling it's not like those were some lyrics that i'd written you know there were lyrics that were in my head memorized right but it was over a different beat and it was kind of throwing it down in the you know in the moment so i i have a hard time really freestyling freestyling where you're totally making it up to be honestly i kind of sometimes question whether or not not that even is a real thing you know i think people have a lot of written verses a lot of lyrics in their heads because uh you know you want to have some sort of payoff you want to have some sort of a punchline right and if you just kind of start going off the top it might just be a bunch of garbage coming out of your mouth you know unless you're i mean i've seen some that are pretty incredible yeah i think my favorite one is juice world who did like four hour long freestyle on radio that's pretty impressive right and i've seen other ones where the audience will make suggestions of what the subject matter should right and then they just put it together and it's like okay well that's looks pretty yeah i've seen a guy on youtube doing that and it is really really impressive yeah yeah yeah so i look back on my rap chapter of my life trying to become a rapper as like arguably the most humiliating just most terrible part of my life but all of these years later all of these years later i can't help but feel compelled to try to redeem myself i i feel like i want to make a rap redemption track yeah yeah yeah yeah well you know that's one of the things that like i'm like still love doing is making beats like i've got a little little drum uh drum machine and set up in my in my van so i'll send you some beats man and uh you know throw some [ __ ] on that and send it back and we'll we'll mix it up and we'll put that [ __ ] out dude i love it and and uh as we we were you know just sort of brainstorming oh what would my rap song be about it's very interesting to me that the one topic that we really settled on would be a rap song about van life right how about that huh that'd be good let's do it that's that'd be great you guys should meet out in the desert and [ __ ] yeah i would love to go on like a little uh little van trip with you i think yeah let's do it for sure man like uh we can make some great youtube yeah i mean i'm basically like uh doing this all the time now like i'm going to start touring with my van and i'm going to stop you know just this whole year has changed my whole perspective on things like i don't really want to uh you know take airplanes as much anymore that's tricky dude that's tricky yeah that's kind of what i want to do but but i mean like uh yeah like let's let's uh what kind of van do you have by the way it's a ram promaster oh okay yeah and so like i'm trying to picture like how you've got it set up right now because yeah we're in the back this is the rear lounge and the the rear lounges it converts into a bed area but above me is a second bed which lowers down from the ceiling whoa okay so it's set up totally differently than the way mine's set up yeah yeah seems like you got like a lot more space the way you're doing it i just i kind of have like my bed and uh you know yeah dude i got a shot i gotta shout out the people who make this it's uh it's been converted by regency rv and oh nice nice yeah that's cool yeah i uh i got mine with this company called boho and they do like really cool [ __ ] too tell me about the bad the battle batter battleborn batteries yeah yeah absolutely yeah i use battleborn batteries and boho these guys went on shark tank and they make fans out of in phoenix and uh and they're really cool and uh yeah it's i mean it's amazing man i love it i love the battery the whole battery thing is like you want to talk about like what is kind of new and exciting about about the van for me it's like it's like what you're doing like the fact that we can go anywhere and right and have power you know remember want to go film stuff and at the end of the day you'd have to go to a hotel and charge your camera batteries and all that stuff up right it's pretty cool you know what you know what else i've been doing in here i've been using this as a tattoo parlor okay i've become a tattoo artist as well oh okay do you have any tattoos i i have no tattoos i have no tattoos no i can't i'll never give somebody their first tattoo man oh yeah yeah i guess they're giving someone their first cigarette i won't do it i thought about maybe getting one you know i thought like maybe like maybe that would but would that maybe constitute like if i got my first tattoo at 50 is that sort of like a midlife crisis yeah it's better than a harley i think it's cool that you don't have any tattoos and uh yeah you know and then tom i just i love you as a friend i i just admire you as an artist i i clearly just follow in your footsteps like like uh what do you call it like uh a [ __ ] like i'm sucking your dick for decades i just love it he's like okay thank you and uh you know and i'm really grateful that we got to do this if you ever if you're ever in the desert and you think you know today for today's you know van life podcast i'd like to zoom somebody in i'd love to do that oh yeah i know for sure let's do that for sure i'd love to go on a mission with you write some lyrics [ __ ] stupid pandemic and then let's go link up and uh do that van life rap song rap song yeah you know like just hitting the road with the bros you got any lyrics yeah do you have a toilet in your van you know i do i do but uh you know i'm going to like i'm sort of like very remote a lot of the time so like i'm out in the middle of the wilderness so i'm also have like just pure camping style of uh bathroom facilities as well like behind the tree kind of thing mine is is two-wheel drive not four-wheel drive and that's my big my one thing about my van i wish it was four-wheel drive yeah i mean i mine's also two-wheel drive you're better off like it's the front wheel drive right so yeah that's pretty good like that's pretty good um i think you know i i uh i got stuck once on my first day out my very first night out i got stuck in the desert the mojave desert but i've kind of learned like just sort of to avoid that soft sand yeah and um yeah i i think you know you're better off with front-wheel drive than with real rear-wheel drive yeah and and uh you know i think it's i think it's it's pretty good the truck's pretty good in the in the in the dirt roads and stuff you know yeah well we'll see how it goes and man i can't wait to link up with you in person tom i just love you as a person yeah thanks man i love you too steve oh thank you man before we let everybody go they if they're not already subscribed to your youtube channel yeah yeah yeah that's very important subscribe to my youtube channel it's uh youtube.com tom green yeah and there's also a podcast to subscribe to which is separate even though there's some overlap yeah so i'm changing my name on my podcast again back to it's called the tom green podcast now so subscribe to that one right okay but uh so the tom green podcast you can subscribe to that anywhere and uh the youtube channel and then all the social media and then of course there's the tom green on instagram yeah on instagram it's tony hawk yeah i'm on all the i'm on all the spots yeah so yeah i enjoy your tweets too sometimes like you've got real uh socially conscious things that when i think about it i think hmm tom's a good guy yeah awesome you know there's so much social media now i would say that right now that the youtube channel is the thing that i'm most passionate about because i just love like the fact that we can make things that are almost cinematic and highly quality now you know yeah and uh you know instagram's cool and uh but i've started you putting less video on instagram and just sort of more putting it all on my youtube channel i kind of find that's the most exciting thing so i've been enjoying it and you've got a great amount of viewership on there dude with regular posting people are following you on your van life adventures and it's a lot of fun to watch thanks stevo thank you man well i'm looking forward to seeing you in person and we'll go uh have to go do some goofy [ __ ] yeah likewise man i say keep growing the hair dude yeah yeah i'd say i said keep it keep it coming yeah yeah i i'm actually enjoying it i uh i feel a little bit less uh a little more relaxed you know yeah i think part of it is just like being out in the desert a lot and this year has been very strange of course for all of us um and and uh i've i've tried to find a way to kind of you know cope and adapt with with the scariness of this year by just um you know doing what i sort of always loved which is just getting out into nature you know and uh and and and chilling out a little bit i think i'm gonna i think for me personally i don't know about how how you feel but like for me personally like i feel like coming out of this thing i feel like it's going to have changed me a lot as a person you know i feel like i'm going to be a little bit more you know less stressed out now i think i yes i i think i was i think i was like taking things a little too seriously before this pandemic and now it's kind of like you realize oh wait like the entire world can end instantly well maybe we should probably just relax a little bit i like that i like that i can't say the same for myself i'm not i'm no less stressed out if anything i'm more stressed out because when the pandemic came i i i found myself adapting i wasn't just on the road touring so when i started with the podcast and i'm doing this and i'm doing that so now there's like i feel like more balls in the air and i'm juggling more activities and i'm like enjoying it a lot but but if anything it's increased the pressure that i put on myself to keep achieving and and you know being productive and uh i could stand to take a breath and relax more like you timing grow your hair out like that dude yeah yeah we got to get the dogs together too i know charlie loves doggies like you know like wendy and charlie tom you know they're they're destined to be very good friends but wendy's a much bigger [ __ ] [Laughter] i'm sure you talked to windy like that hey i love you tom man looking forward to catching up with you man all right stevo love you man awesome congrats on everything and i'll see you soon okay for sure all right see you guys later bye tom so there you have it folks just a great guy and a legend of comedy on top of being a personal hero of mine and i know that if you go over to his youtube channel or his instagram or if you leave a comment to say hey man uh i came here from the stevo podcast and yeah i enjoyed it like tom really that would mean a lot to him i know that so head on over there man and and just let him know you appreciate him because i sure do and that's it for me today thanks so much guys i love you

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Length: 56min 16sec (3376 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 18 2021

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Such a great episode. Tom Green is the fucking man. A legend and a great dude

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Also confirmed in episode - Jackass 4 is close to being wrapped and “almost in the can”

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Both in there RV's

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Two huge parts of my childhood!