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Comedian and actor Tom Green, left Los Angeles and is now loving his peaceful life on his farm in Canada. He also discusses the impact of revealing his cancer diagnosis on his MTV talk show 24 years ago.
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00:00please welcome Tom Greene good to be back in Philly this is exciting yeah
00:10absolutely so glad you brought your dog I got my dog here yeah Charlie's with me
00:14yeah I didn't see right there Charlie got a little not spooked but perked up
00:21when we started cheering yeah she's a rescue from the Bahamas she's a she's a
00:28called a pot cake dog she's one of these island dogs you know years of mixed
00:33breed nice she's a good girl yeah I live on a farm now I that's what we heard
00:38yeah I left Los Angeles after 20 years sold my house and moved back to Canada
00:43and got a farm I was hey oh yeah I was watching a lot of your stuff and I I love
00:49so much of this this notion of first off here in Canada what you about an hour
00:53north of New York yeah yeah so so um it looks fantastic it is the antithesis of
01:00what 20 years in LA yeah absolutely yeah it's uh I I never really felt at home in
01:04LA I feel instantly at home here because it's I love being out in nature and I've
01:08got a lot of wilderness and yeah how long was that idea brewing in your head to I
01:14gotta get back to that life or get back to you know probably about the last five
01:18years before I left I was thinking I kind of wanted to leave but then when the when
01:22the kovat happened I accelerate the touring stopped and everything and I had
01:27this time to move and I did it all right now I don't know a lot about your
01:31current personal life you married you have kids or anything like I have a mule
01:34yes okay which are awesome by the way I have a mule and a donkey and some
01:41chickens okay what's your donkey's name the donkey's name is Kia okay and Fanny is the
01:47mule is Kia very affectionate uh yeah very much so yeah yeah I asked because I was recently at a
01:54farm and I couldn't believe how the donkey like wanted to be pet wanted to be in the circle of the
01:58people that were you know there to visit it was pretty cool the mule is great if you go on my
02:03Instagram I can you can see I'll still pull it up if you want to see but uh there she is she's like
02:08uh where is she anyways they do get attached to people because there's tons like a giant animal
02:13right she's a giant like a horse you know yeah yeah I ride around on her on the property I mean
02:19her mother was a Percheron paint mix horse so oh and uh and her uh there's the donkey and her daddy
02:26a mule is a cross between a donkey and a horse there's the classic distinction yeah and I always get it
02:31confused but but um she's great I ride I'm learning all about this now it's um riding around the
02:36property on her and uh out there in the wilderness all day how many acres uh quite a few 150
02:43dude wow sensation so you can get lost out there if you're not careful yeah but you have a pond on
02:48the or lake yeah and a lake and a pond and it backs into a much bigger sort of empty Canadian
02:54wilderness so there's wolves and bear bears and all sorts of so do you have to worry about your
02:59animals uh well yeah a little bit the chickens they got the chickens this year yeah oh did they
03:06I cried as well I cried when my chickens were killed by the coyotes I mean yeah and then my
03:11neighbors are real farmers you know and I think they're kind of laughing at me because I'm crying
03:15about my dead chickens I would cry too I said do farmers cry they said not over their dead chickens
03:20so my neighbors think I'm a wuss no I commend you for crying over your chickens I've heard a number of
03:28people who get chickens and you know obviously if times are tougher just whatever for whatever reason
03:33they end up with chickens that's why I got them yeah but but uh but but they'll get them and then
03:38they realize oh my god they're actually kind of nice and they're really nice and they have
03:42personalities yeah and a lot of times it turns people off of eating chicken per se they'll continue
03:47to eat the eggs but yeah I just got them for eggs they're not really meat right eating well the
03:52coyotes thought differently but yeah they're uh they're for for for eggs and I get a lot of eggs my
03:56cholesterol is through the roof it's uh yeah it's uh no it's a it's a lot of fun but uh yeah they
04:02would it's it's been an interesting experience for sure and I'm getting pretty good at riding this
04:06mule too it's it's interesting it's a real psychological uh sort of you know you really
04:12have to learn the psychology of of of an animal and a mule specifically they're extremely smart you have
04:18to learn to communicate with them sort of non-verbally they sense your energy you know you learn a lot
04:24about yourself you learn a lot about human interaction really through through a mule because
04:29they don't you know you're not speaking verbally right but they really feel your your uh if you
04:34feel nervous about something they sense that if you you know if you're nervous about riding into the
04:39woods they sense that then they don't want to go into the woods you have to express a certain amount
04:43of confidence yeah and uh and you have to sort of fake it till you make it kind of thing because I
04:49when I at first I don't like I said I didn't know anything about riding a mule and then all of a
04:54sudden I'm realizing if I act like I don't know what I'm doing then she's really gonna sense that
04:59so you have to really kind of be confident ride where look where you want to go and and express
05:03that kind of uh you know alpha sort of uh leader thing did you have like an avatar kind of moment
05:10where you you know that where you connect with the animal and and uh you know the ponytails are
05:14connected and you said okay I think we're seeing each other now we understand each other yeah yeah
05:18there is it's kind of a you're progressively getting a little bit more connected wow and uh
05:23you know it's I mean we ride off into the off into the wilderness together and uh just sort of
05:29I go off for the day on her and uh you know you're going through the woods and weaving through trees
05:33and going up and little hills and everything I think that's fantastic yeah how long have you been
05:38on the uh on the farm here just coming up it'll be coming up on three years this July wow okay yeah
05:43but but going into it did you just kind of dive right in or did you do a little bit of research
05:48how am I going to pull this off how am I going to manage all this or did you just kind of buy it
05:52and go well I I didn't originally have the animals at the beginning so the first year I just I found
05:57this place and uh it was really just more about uh it's it's pretty close to where my parents live and
06:03uh and I like the property and uh uh but then uh it has these 200 year old barns so I uh I thought
06:10it'd be kind of cool to put a put put a mule in there so then that's that started last June I
06:15just got that it's good about the year I've had the animals so you hire somebody along with it like
06:20I would love to be able to purchase a farm but I would so much work well but I don't know how to
06:27do it so I'm like can I purchase a farm and then hire somebody who was tending to the farm to begin
06:32with just depends how often you're going to be there like if you're there every day
06:35and you could pretty much do it yourself it's not that much work looking after a mule
06:40or a horse yeah you just they just eat grass you know they just eat the grass in the field
06:44what province are we in right now Ontario yeah okay yeah and and so you're you're but you're
06:49traveling so I assume periodically not unless the parents come over uh to tend to the farm and take
06:54care of the animals yeah well I have I do have an assistant who helps me with it and then my parents
06:58are actually pop by and stay at the place hired hand yeah I mean honestly you but that's that's
07:03this is a Jack Kerouac kind of yeah I'm gone a lot doing stand-up no I mean I've tried to I'm trying to
07:09spend more time at home now though but I have been on the road for a month we drove here this
07:12time see so every other time I've been here I've flown from Los Angeles up here for the weekend but
07:17now I'm uh I'm driving so I've been on the road for a month we've just done about 40 shows we've
07:22been all through Michigan Ohio uh Indiana Kentucky and uh now we're over here in Pennsylvania I'm gonna
07:28be in Jim Thorpe and Newtown and uh and I'm here you know weeknights this time I'm not here on the
07:34weekend I'm here I was there had a show last night at Helium and one tonight and one tomorrow night
07:39Jim Thorpe's a great little town I think you're gonna love it um every now and then I think about
07:43um going to a place that's away from a city right and um I think one of the things that I would miss
07:48the most is accessibility to an airport because obviously with an airport you can get to a lot
07:52of different places um quickly uh via flight what uh what do you miss the most uh being out in the
07:59wilderness yeah well the airport thing's interesting because I've just sort of changed
08:03the way I tour now I like I said I I there's a first of all being in the northeast there's way many
08:10more more so many more cities right so I don't really have to get on a plane anymore and living
08:15in Los Angeles I'd have to get on a plane every weekend now I just jump in my truck I'll drive to
08:19Buffalo or Syracuse New York or Toronto or Montreal Ottawa and then uh and then this tour we did a
08:26whole month so I've been in uh Detroit uh dude you're clocking many miles Flint Michigan Lansing
08:34uh Hobart Indiana Kentucky Cincinnati Columbus Cleveland um and uh Lexington Louisville
08:43wow and now over here so that's that's been just the last month so you did about a year's worth of
08:47van life right you you right out of LA you you did you and that has become a thing I I was you know
08:54reading some of your stuff and looking at some of the video work and and um you know you're
08:58chronicling so much of it and you discovered something that that I think is um it's great
09:03if you can find out about yourself that you can be by yourself and do it well yeah and that was sort
09:08of a revelation for you right yeah had you suspected you would be good at it or was it completely from
09:13left field uh well you know so that was a whole that was sort of what kicked off my you know
09:19decision to go get this country property right I I went when COVID happened I kind of I was
09:27looking for something to do because I stopped touring and and uh after 20 years I've always
09:32been out on the road and doing something I got a little stir crazy so I got this this camper van
09:36there's these guys they're they actually were on shark tank I found them online but uh it's called
09:41boho vans and they're really cool cool guys super energy efficient they take ram pro master vans and
09:47they convert them into a there's a bed and uh solar panels on the roof yeah and uh and uh fridge in
09:53it and everything yeah there's the van there you can see it and so I I I decked it out as a sort of a
09:59video production studio and I took my cameras and my editing stuff and I drove off into uh into the
10:06deserts of New Mexico and Arizona and Utah and I spent about the first year of COVID just going around
10:14making these short videos and with Charlie and uh Charlie's actually named after Travels with
10:20Charlie Charlie John Steinbeck yeah so um yeah I was uh I got I got the dog and the van at the same
10:27time and my dad said oh like Travels with Charlie I said what's that he said the Steinbeck novel I
10:31said I don't read he said I know that's why I'm telling you about this
10:34um did you read it yeah I did read it all right yeah all right it's great if uh if I were to do
10:41this and it is on my list of things to do that's exactly where I would start in this country is is
10:47down in in Arizona Utah New Mexico I absolutely love that area I was just that we have a client um
10:53called uh Southampton Hot Tubs and they're right next to an outfit that does this exact same thing yeah
10:58yeah so you get that van and like all in I mean it's about a hundred right if you get like the the
11:03the ram pro that you were talking about it's like a grand yeah so 50 for the van 51-ish for the van
11:09and then like depending on well the how bougie you want to get it can be anywhere from 30 to 50 to
11:15outfitted but you were stacking it with with uh production equipment though you you you were
11:19conducting your interviews from out in the middle of nowhere I was doing a podcast out there and
11:24love it but I built a recording studio in the van and I'm recording some music out there and
11:28stuff so but I mean the thing that the thing that was most amazing about it uh if anyone ever gets
11:33a chance to to do this is is the desert itself is so full of incredible mysterious and uh and
11:41unbelievable things yeah petroglyphs uh so much so much evidence of and uh of native american ruins uh
11:51you're going to cities that you yeah little cities out in the desert of stone cities that were
11:57there's a place called choco canyon which was one of my favorite spots and in new mexico and uh
12:03if you look that up on my youtube you can see the the um the it's it's sort of like machu picchu
12:10you know it's literally a full stone city in this canyon that was uh only discovered in the 50s
12:16it had been buried they've excavated it all but i watch ancient aliens all the time and they're
12:21always in machu picchu and all of these any of the history channel shows where they find
12:24and you're right there's there's tons of areas and towns like that and and it's just sort of
12:29endless you just you go down this rabbit hole and you start looking it's it's not really talked
12:34about a lot in in this country really all the the stuff that's out there that that you can go see
12:40you know and so you just start driving and go and researching and then every sort of every day
12:45you're finding some incredible petroglyphs that nobody's seen before these you know that literally
12:51nobody talks about you can sort of hardly find anything about online and you're looking at these
12:55and we're not talking about just a few of them it's the whole desert's full of this incredible
12:59stuff so it's really kind of uh exciting actually because you feel a little bit like uh especially
13:05when you're out there by yourself you said being out there by yourself i was all by myself out there
13:08making these films and making music and does it put it i always love stuff like that i love
13:15it first off it's a zen experience and also it puts you i think in the context of the universe
13:22yeah yeah it's it's it's it's it's it is kind of a very calming thing yeah and uh and uh and uh i'd
13:30recommend people go explore the southwestern american u.s if the desert if you can if you're tuning in
13:36it's tom green who's going to be the helium comedy club uh tonight and tomorrow and there's uh two
13:40shows tonight 8 15 and thursday no i'm sorry one show tonight one show tomorrow night
13:458 15 night 8 tomorrow i wanted to ask you with this more removed lifestyle that you're living
13:50what is because i would think that informing uh you know inspiring you for comedy for your for your show
13:56um you know less interaction with people what's informing your comedy now well i mean no there's i
14:04mean there's i have a lot of interaction with people because i'm don't do stand up and i have i have i
14:09have uh you know great neighbors out there and it's just uh local people and it's different different
14:15kind of people i'm not in la anymore and it's uh it's actually a lot more real where i am now i
14:20would imagine you know you're not in the middle of a show business city it's uh people are real
14:26farmers and fishermen and hunters and and uh when i go to the to the grocery store or or somewhere like
14:33that i'm not running into uh celebrities and uh people in the business of of show so so it's kind
14:40of actually a lot more of a real uh experience and uh and i'm also home around family and and so it's
14:47actually really really nice i think that's kind of funny because if you think about your earlier
14:51career and obviously i mean like you you started so much you said in motion so many things like you
14:56were jackass before jackass and and all of that stuff and impractical jokers yes and your your
15:02parents who you visited a lot of torture on those poor people here you are they still talk to me
15:08they were they were happy that i i came back to canada and they actually were happy that i
15:13live near them now and there's a ton of footage of you of your your mom and everybody loving your
15:17your your lifestyle and it's so they uh clearly don't carry a grudge no no they're they're having
15:24a lot of fun with the farm and uh i mean that's a big part of of of i do talk about you know adapting
15:30to this new lifestyle in in my stand-up and and uh riding it around on a mule that refuses to turn
15:36left and things like this so so it's uh it's it's it's definitely uh actually a real whole new
15:42you know fodder for uh for comedy and i actually have a new television show that we're shooting now
15:47that i'm you know there's it's funny i'm busier than i've been in years actually since moving back
15:52to canada i've restarted my production company in canada i'm directing a new tv show called tom green
15:57country which is coming out this year on amazon prime very nice and uh also a documentary uh that i'm
16:04putting together for amazon prime which is about the sort of history of my career going back to
16:09the tom green show and uh stand-up comedy and everything and it's amazing and then there's
16:13a stand-up special as well and we're shooting actually we're shooting for the stand-up special
16:16tonight at helium ah and i'm filming all of my shows and we're going to create a sort of a one-hour
16:22stand-up special of this set so it's interesting i was thinking about you the other day there's a uh
16:26a documentary out about uh steve martin it's a two-parter oh yeah early career and in his
16:31more current career yeah yeah and you remind me of him in his earlier career at the beginning of
16:36your career because he'd set out to do things that people weren't doing he was like you know
16:41stand-up has this kind of routine uh you know it's punchline set up or set up punchline set up punchline
16:47he went with punchline set no anyway but he decided i'm going to do things that make people maybe feel
16:54a little uncomfortable and the humor will be in that in that they feel uncomfortable about this it once
17:00they get it and can laugh about it and you came along at a time that that was sorely needed as
17:06well it was it just your own because he had made up his mind i'm going to do it this way um but were
17:14you just doing you or did you also have that kind of premeditated i'm gonna make people feel i'm gonna
17:19i'm gonna put people in uncomfortable situations and find the humor in it yeah you know i mean i kind
17:24of uh i was a huge fan of david letterman so there was a lot of influence there you know me watching
17:30him as a kid go out and you know toward the talk show do funny things on the street yeah kind of
17:34disrupt and dismantle the johnny carson show and make it his own and uh you know so that was that was
17:40a big uh a big influence but i was also a skateboarder and i watched a lot of skateboarding
17:45videos and that was a bit more punk rock and a little bit more uh subversive you were doing rap
17:51too weren't you yeah yeah yeah you had all this stuff that came well before yeah so when did the
17:57notion of being this sort of comedian provocateur well i started doing stand-up when i was 16 uh i
18:03think it kind of came from uh just being uh sort of an attention attention seeking goofball class clown
18:10you know moved around a lot my dad was military canadian military so we were always moving around
18:15to different cities and i was a new kid in class and i kind of ended up finding i could make friends
18:19if i would kind of you know trip over a garbage can on my first day and make a big scene and so
18:24right so that that became kind of my personality but uh but you know i um yeah i uh i guess i just i
18:33also just found it really uh interesting time when the video cameras became something that were
18:39accessible to people yeah really portable yeah and you can that's sort of where the kind of man on
18:44the street uh sort of confusing the public came you know you could take your comedy out of a studio
18:50and just be running down the street and doing i reference your stuff all the time i'm thinking
18:54there's one that i i always think about you're you're talking to an older gentleman you tell him
18:58you have a depth perception problem and you just keep sticking the microphone right on his nose yeah
19:04and the guy is just answering the questions and not yeah but concerned at all that this person is
19:10shoving this on my on my face yeah there was a there was a period of time uh where you know it was
19:17before social media before cell phones before everybody had a video camera before everybody had a
19:23social media page where if you walked up to somebody with a camera and a handheld microphone
19:27they kind of almost froze a little bit they sort of got very nervous they felt like we were being
19:32interviewed by the news i'm on television and and people would become almost a little bit uh uh
19:38you know deer in headlights deer in headlights exactly and so so sometimes i would kind of play
19:44with that and you know rub the to start rubbing the microphone on their face and they were so
19:48concentrating on what they wanted to say they didn't know oh should i say stop doing that when
19:53we got an mtv we kind of took it a step further i would uh uh spread some uh dog poo on the microphone
19:58remember clearly and i wouldn't actually rub it in their face but i would uh put it as close to
20:03their nose as possible you know you'd have this sort of piece of actual dog poo on a microphone
20:10right under the nose and then i'd ask them about you know the wimbledon and oh well pete sampras
20:15they'd be talking about pete sampras but their nose would be twitching and so that was always a lot
20:20of fun tom it's it really seems to me like you as a person on the microphone here i didn't even
20:27notice that i was so nervous we keep it clean um you've evolved quite a bit over the years and
20:32changed your perspective and and uh has your comedy changed much i mean like if you come to helium are
20:38people gonna see the tom green that they saw on road trip or is it a very different act yeah no i
20:42mean it's still very uh much uh an outrageous and uh wild and crazy show i'm still a wild and crazy
20:50guy to quote uh steve martin of course but uh but uh you know it's of course it's not a prop driven
20:57show it's a i do bring a guitar with me i play a little music at the end some songs i've been doing
21:02and some but uh it's a i'd say it's a cross between i mean it's 90 new material but sometimes i
21:09dip into some of the older stuff and tell some stories about the older show it's an interesting
21:13mix because you do one of my favorite bits which is about uh and i think it might be from the last
21:18special you did about four years ago perhaps we were talking about um you know how we evolve you
21:23know for neanderthal chromagnum we're hunched over and we're standing erect and standing tall you
21:27actually got up on a stool and and uh you're talking about now we're up and then we get the phones
21:32and we start to hunch over again and it was brilliant it was brilliant great observation
21:37i i i find i i do find i like to talk about what's going on in our world today with social
21:43media and our addiction to it because it seems to be one of the things that uh that everybody's going
21:49through and i and uh and there is just a lot of comedy to be had about just all the changes that
21:54have happened in our in our society just in the last 20 years i don't really get into politics too
21:59much i i touch on it a little bit but uh but i try to kind of keep it somewhat uh uh you know
22:05non-political because uh i want everybody to have a good time you do that too we're very divided in
22:10our society right now i do talk about some some serious subjects like that and then try to make
22:14fun of it you know but uh but yeah these phones they're driving us all nuts and uh i i find that
22:19funny it is one of the serious subjects you did tackle on on your uh mtv show which was uh very
22:25admirable was your testicular cancer probably the first time anybody ever really took it that personal
22:32and for something that was a comedy show you you took a a left turn there and and they took my
22:39right testicle they took your right testicle on the left turn but you probably helped save a lot
22:44of lives to get people out and get checked yeah you know it's you know it was uh it was the intention
22:50to kind of uh you know raise some awareness about uh testicular cancer because it's you know the kind
22:57of thing that young guys get it they watch mtv they were watching my show um when i got cancer i
23:04had no idea that that that was even a possibility so when i felt some sort of pain down there i was
23:09thinking okay well what is this unfortunately i'm a very paranoid person so i went to the doctor right
23:15away but a lot of young guys get embarrassed and they don't go to the doctor right away and that
23:18spreads into into a sort of a place where it's a lot more of a problem so um so you know it was it
23:25was interesting though because i i would say i've probably had i mean definitely hundreds and
23:31hundreds of people over the last 20 years have contacted me online written me letters or come to
23:37my show and said they saw that show guys saw that show and then they went to the doctor and they got
23:42diagnosed with cancer and and i've had it's i mean it's it's an it's an interesting unexpected
23:47and it's kind of a beautiful thing that happens probably at least once a month somebody comes to my
23:52show with their wife almost in tears sometimes in tears wow saying thank you you know that show
23:58saved my life and it's really kind of been like a very heavy but uh nice uh thing to uh to see that
24:04people have uh really kind of uh been directly impacted by that it's almost like i think mtv should
24:10air it again i've i've i've been really asked them to but but i think they should air it again because
24:15it's uh it really is a a good uh a good thing that it does for people and i was surprised to see you
24:21there was at one point you were really scared i mean i i remember seeing that i was like wow okay
24:25this is this is yeah yeah the funny tom green showing that he's that whole special's online you
24:31can watch it's called the cancer special yeah i remember clearly we came up with but uh but uh yeah
24:36it was uh it was an interesting time for sure well listen and i think it's great that you
24:40save some lies and stuff like that but um i think at that time you were a little selfish
24:45because uh i was uh invited out to the road trip press junket okay and uh and you didn't go because
24:51you had cancer oh yeah i really wanted to meet tom green and i didn't get to meet tom green in 2000
24:57i had to wait oh my gosh sorry about that yeah no that's all right i uh i had such a great time at
25:02that road trip and it was a real big bummer obviously yeah you're going through some stuff but i was so
25:06bummed that i wouldn't but now i get to meet you here in philadelphia yeah no that's great
25:10yeah i forgot that is the timing was pretty crazy when i got cancer i mean that's why the tom green
25:15show stopped i know people don't really know that you know it's uh it uh you know was it was it was
25:21you know the one of the number one shows on mtv at the time this was before you know like you said
25:26jackass came along there wasn't a lot of shows at the time there was road rules the real world
25:30celebrity death match and the tom green show and a couple of other shows and uh you know it was a
25:36hit show and uh i would you know i i ended up having to take a year off to go uh take care of
25:42that and then i ended up doing a bunch of movies and it's crazy how you never really went back to
25:46the actual original tom green show so and that was it how you frame it in your mind i know you were on
25:51rogan and you talked about a third degree burns you'd gotten on your feet oh yeah man you do your
25:56research yeah but i mean but you also raised the point which you talked about the testicular cancer
26:01and you also talked about this and you talked about the way you go through that so it was a
26:06serious serious burns you know there's a bonfire out on the beach in costa rica i think it was yeah
26:10yeah and and uh but that was just two years ago yeah how are you doing by the way is everything good
26:14i'm doing pretty good yeah my i mean my foot looks like a pastrami sandwich with toes but other than
26:19that everything's fine it's like freddy krueger's face but no it's it's okay i'm i'm like i'm pretty
26:24much pretty much 99 better well i do have a bit of scarring and stuff it was kind of a bizarre
26:30situation i was walking on the beach in costa rica and there'd been a big bonfire there and
26:35someone they'd buried it with sand and there was still a little bit of a fire left and i walked up
26:39to it to throw a piece of driftwood on it and my sandaled foot went into the sand and i got third
26:44degree burns all over my feet and the coals and was rushed to the hospital i spent 10 days in a costa
26:51rican hospital i had uh three surgeries i had uh skin grafts put on my foot 60 staples in my foot
26:59uh and then i was airlifted by a medevac air ambulance back to sunny brook burn center in
27:06toronto so it was and then basically spent the next year uh going to a doctor the next six months
27:13at least going in every every twice a week to get my bandages changed and just make sure my foot
27:19didn't fall off so we were kind of monitoring it for infection was that a was that a a tangible risk
27:24that you yeah yeah no because from infection yeah so i was probably sent about spent about six months
27:28uh thinking maybe i could lose my foot and it was very uh pretty traumatic terrifying experience but
27:35yeah like i said on uh on the on joe's show you know on rogan uh that uh that uh you know because
27:42kind of uh it was is kind of similar to the cancer experience i find it interesting when you get
27:46hospitalized uh for something serious like that uh you sort of stop and and and uh you sort of
27:56immediately go from you know not a care in the world uh or you're worrying about work or worrying
28:03about you know thinking about you know random things that are stressing you out and all of a sudden
28:09all that stuff is erased and you're just focused on you know survival yeah making sure i don't get my
28:15foot amputated and all those things that you were stressed about are suddenly just in the background
28:20and it's uh it's it's a weird thing but it's become somewhat helpful for me uh going through
28:25those experiences because every time you know this this was a reminder you know when i came out of
28:30this again it reminded me what it was like when i had cancer and you come out and you really sort of
28:34start to take stock of what's important in life and try not to stress about the little things
28:39it's a great lesson sometimes you have to learn it the hard way as you did but
28:42the fact is listen i mean um you're you're absolutely one of the funniest out there
28:47uh and you drove a long distance to be here so people should take advantage of their opportunity
28:52to see you yeah uh tonight helium comedy club 815 there's a show tomorrow night at 8 o'clock as
28:58one you can go to helium comedy.com uh to get those tickets um tom it is great to see you we have
29:03another guest we have to get to so thanks guys yeah have a great show i think we've covered
29:07everything so we hit a lot yeah it's great no it's like this is your life this is great
29:11no i appreciate it thanks so much guys
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