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The Tom Green Farm Season 1 Episode 10
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00:08Welcome to the Tom Green Farm.
00:22All right, thanks Tony for sending me your board.
00:26Look at that.
00:27I did what I said I was going to do.
00:28I shoveled the snow off the ramp.
00:30I expect you to be so hardcore with your skating that you shovel it off and you put on gloves
00:35and you get on this ramp.
00:36Let's see how this looks.
00:50Well, you've tuned in to another episode of the Tom Green Farm.
00:53We've got a great episode here today for you.
00:55Thanks for being here.
00:56Today on the show, Paul Langlois from The Tragically Hip.
01:00I'll be interviewing him at the legendary Bathhouse studio where The Tragically Hip recorded many
01:05of their amazing albums.
01:08Also, Deadmau5, one of the greatest electronic musicians and electronic music producers of
01:14all time.
01:16Talk about electronic music, talk about life as Deadmau5, another musical prodigy on the show today.
01:22Wow.
01:22Chantelle Krevyazic pops by to give me a piano lesson.
01:27And the great Kenny Hotz from Kenny vs. Spenny, also going to be stopped by.
01:32Aaron Belisle is an amazing story.
01:34He's a disabled comedian, but he somehow manages to do stand-up comedy without having a voice.
01:40He speaks electronically.
01:41He was just getting started up on stage, killing it at Yuck Yucks.
01:44Next thing you know, he was down at America's Got Talent and then on Kill Tony podcast.
01:48And now he's touring all over the world.
01:50A lot of people on the show today, be weaving in and out.
01:54You could call this the season finale of the show.
02:04You're watching the Tom Green Farm.
02:12This is the Tom Green Farm.
02:14It's not the Green Tom Farm.
02:17This is my favorite farm.
02:18Because it is my farm.
02:21If this was your farm, you'd probably like it more than I did.
02:27That's just because it was your farm.
02:29But it's not your farm.
02:30It's the Tom Green Farm.
02:32It's the Tom Green Farm.
02:45Deadmau5.
02:47Joel Zimmerman, a friend of mine, also lives on a farm.
02:50So you just got a donkey too, or?
02:52Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:53Like a baby, though.
02:54Yeah.
02:54How old's Kia?
02:55Kia is four.
02:57He's four.
02:58And she can kick.
02:58So careful what she does.
02:59Oh, yeah, yeah.
03:00I learned that from Bobby.
03:01Is Bobby your donkey?
03:01Bobby is metal.
03:03Got her, like, two weeks ago.
03:05Yeah.
03:05You have a tractor as well.
03:07Yeah.
03:07We put a field mower on it and just do laps.
03:10The kid who dropped it off, like, just kind of dropped it off.
03:14It took us probably, like, about 20 minutes to figure out how to even start the thing.
03:18Right.
03:18Got in gear and then going.
03:20But then the brakes are old.
03:22I'm, like, slamming on the brake while this thing's in gear.
03:25So it's just, like, slowly cruising towards the back of one of my ATVs.
03:29I just, like, smashed it into it.
03:31You actually had an accident.
03:31Yeah.
03:37These are the first apples off the tree.
03:38These just came off the tree.
03:39We've all heard of the game bobbing for apples.
03:41Aria likes to bob for apples, too.
03:44Here you go.
03:44Look at this.
03:46Look at that.
03:51Got one, Kia?
03:53You got one?
03:54Oh, real chasing that one, huh?
03:56Good way to get them to drink more water, too.
04:00Oh, you got one.
04:07Morning, Dad.
04:08Hey, Tom.
04:09How's it going?
04:10I'm going to catch one today.
04:13We had a pretty good time fishing the other day, didn't we?
04:15We did.
04:15It was a nice, lovely day.
04:17We were trying to catch some lake trout.
04:18We were.
04:19I've never caught a lake trout.
04:20I've only caught one.
04:22It was in the early spring.
04:23Right close to the shore.
04:26Bang.
04:27This thing bit.
04:28And it was about a 15-pound lake trout.
04:30I know that picture that you have hanging on the wall of the cottage.
04:33Very proud of that picture.
04:34I know you like that picture.
04:35Mm-hmm.
04:36A lot of people might have suggested it might be AI.
04:39I wish the fish had been AI-generated.
04:42It would make it bigger.
04:43Absolutely.
04:43Oh, I think we got one.
04:45We got one.
04:46We got one.
04:47Interesting bass.
04:48Look how red its eyes are.
04:49They're drinking.
04:51I got one here.
04:52Very good.
04:53Remember that time we went out at night, midnight?
04:56Yeah.
04:57And the first, just barely hit the water, this five-pound bass jumped out and grabbed your
05:03repella.
05:04I remember.
05:04Yeah.
05:05Got one.
05:06All right.
05:07That's a nice one.
05:08I'm going to let him go now, okay?
05:10Wheeled back to shore, showed everybody this great fish he'd caught.
05:14Yeah.
05:15Let's go out and try it again.
05:17Next cast, same spot, boom, another five-pound bass.
05:21I know.
05:22I didn't catch a damn thing.
05:23Let's see.
05:24I've got two.
05:25Yeah.
05:25It's not a competition, though.
05:30Paul Langlois.
05:31I've gotten to know Paul.
05:32It's been a lot of fun getting to know him, and we talk about the history, the legacy
05:36of the Tragically Hip.
05:38Cheers, Paul.
05:39Cheers.
05:40Thanks for having me.
05:42Well, thanks for having me.
05:43I love the studio.
05:44It's been a lot of fun.
05:47I've recorded a few things here over the last couple of years since I moved home, and recorded
05:51the soundtrack for this show, actually, if so.
05:53Wow.
05:54At the legendary Bath House studio here in Bath, Ontario.
05:58Wow.
05:59We're honored to have you.
06:00I mean, so many great artists and musicians that have come through this place that it's
06:07the best decision we ever made.
06:09It must be kind of an amazing thing to spend your life and career with your friends from
06:17high school and have the kind of success you had.
06:19It was quite amazing.
06:21I wasn't just my first band.
06:23Those other guys are all musicologists.
06:25They all started playing when they were like 12.
06:29Gord Downey wasn't singing, but he wanted to be.
06:32And he started singing in grade 11, so he was 16.
06:36And I didn't start playing guitar until I was 19, after high school.
06:39And we were just gradually hitting the road more and more and more.
06:42And it just became so obvious that everyone was so committed.
06:47But it's almost like I can't lose.
06:50I remember telling my dad, he's like, you got a backup plan?
06:52I'm like, yeah, I mean, I'll come up with one.
06:55But I'm pretty sure this band's going to make it, Dad.
06:57You remember the moment when you knew you'd made it?
07:01While we were recording, but more after we recorded Road Apples.
07:05We did Up to Here.
07:07And we knew we had followed it up well once we came home with the mix for Road Apples,
07:13which we recorded in New Orleans.
07:14And it sold 100,000 records in 10 days, which was massive at the time.
07:23And it was just like, OK.
07:25But all it did was make us more serious.
07:27And you're right.
07:28It was such an awesome experience to do it with your friends and have it go well.
07:34And have Gord, obviously.
07:35One of the all-time great frontmen of a rock and roll band in history up there
07:39with a Mick Jagger kind of thing.
07:41That's what I think.
07:42That's what everyone thought when they saw him.
07:44It's just like you don't see people like that.
07:46Low-key guy.
07:48Right.
07:49But on stage, you just couldn't help it.
07:51He just turned into an entertainer and a dancer.
07:55That's what he was.
07:56He was a dancer.
07:57Yeah, yeah.
07:58Is it more fun when you're coming up and getting started?
08:01Or when the thing explodes and you're playing arenas, that's probably more fun, I guess.
08:06It's more fun on a tour bus than it is in a van.
08:09And we did a good seven, eight years in a van.
08:11And we crossed Canada three times anyway, maybe even four, before we put a record out.
08:17Yeah.
08:18We toured the States early on, too, in a van.
08:20So I appreciate that we did that.
08:22But it was way more fun when we got on the bus and watching movies, watching your show back in
08:28the day.
08:28Oh, yeah?
08:29Really?
08:29Oh, yeah, yeah.
08:30We loved you.
08:31We loved the show.
08:32I mean, we felt badly for your parents.
08:35I must say.
08:37Yeah.
08:37But they were so sweet to you.
08:40I had heard a rumor that you guys knew the show, but I wasn't sure if it was true.
08:44Oh, yeah.
08:44So we finally haven't really crossed paths over the years.
08:47Well, I know it's funny we haven't.
08:49I think because you moved to L.A., right?
08:51Mm-hmm.
08:51I was at your show in L.A. at the House of Blues.
08:54The House of Blues.
08:55It ended up to be very good for us because there's a whole bunch of them.
08:58And it's kind of like the biggest clubs before you maybe move on to a bigger theater or something.
09:05Dan Aykroyd, do you own the House of Blues?
09:06He was involved in the start of it, yeah.
09:10So that's cool.
09:10He's always been one of your huge supporters.
09:12We've expressed our gratitude many times, but he got us on Saturday Night Live, which we didn't see coming at
09:18all.
09:18But he was offered to host.
09:19He left the show for a long time.
09:21So it was in 95, I think.
09:23And he insisted to Lorne Michaels, who's Canadian.
09:26I'm not going to host unless my friends can play.
09:29Yeah.
09:30Tragically hip.
09:30And he's like, tragically what?
09:32And so he insisted and we got that opportunity.
09:35I mean, it didn't amount to a lot, but at least we did it.
09:41And then we went and played St. Louis.
09:43We went to a party, Saturday Night Live party.
09:45Left like at 3 in the morning.
09:47We go to St. Louis.
09:49Club called The Other World.
09:50We're kind of like, this will be good.
09:52Saturday Night Live last night.
09:53So this will be great.
09:54And there was like 15 people there.
09:56Oh, really?
09:57It's just like, okay, this is what it amounts to.
10:00The general impression that people have is that we didn't do well in the States, but we
10:06actually did.
10:07But we just had to work on a city at a time.
10:10And there's 50 cities.
10:12Yeah, yeah.
10:12For some reason, we weren't popular in Phoenix, but we were popular in Tucson.
10:17We had way more success than people were.
10:19It just didn't happen in the same way.
10:22There was no national exposure for the hip.
10:33I'm thinking of making the Tom Green show again, but doing it animated.
10:37I have this idea.
10:38I want to take the old crazy pranks from the Tom Green show and animate them.
10:42And I thought I'd show my parents and see what they think.
10:46Mom, Dad, come here.
10:48I want to show you something.
10:49Oh, what's up?
10:50Just come here.
10:51Just come behind me here and watch the TV.
10:54Okay.
10:54What's going on?
10:55So I've been working on this project I want to show you.
10:58Okay.
10:59Check this out.
11:00Cool.
11:00It's the Tom Green show.
11:03Remember the show we used to do together?
11:04How can we forget?
11:05But animated.
11:07Look, remember when I painted the house plaid?
11:09Oh, yeah.
11:09Look, watch.
11:10My dad and my mom and their friends are going to Algonquin Park on Sunday.
11:15I want to prove to you that I'm mature enough to live alone.
11:17Look at you.
11:18Here, what's up?
11:19Supervision for a week?
11:20You can prove it.
11:21If all those plants are alive, when we get back.
11:24I think my parents will be happy when they come home and see that I've done some work
11:27around the house.
11:30I hope my parents would like their supplies.
11:33The house looked better than all the other houses in the neighborhood.
11:39You've painted the house.
11:41I did all the lawn, too.
11:43The car is gone.
11:44I'm calling the guy.
11:45What do you mean?
11:46What are you talking about?
11:46You have two days to get that painted back.
11:48Mom, it looks nice.
11:50You like that kind of art stuff.
11:52Probably easier to see yourself being pranked when it's animated than when you're actually
11:56having your house painted plaid.
11:58Thanks, Mom and Dad.
11:59I just wanted you to know that you're cartoons now.
12:02That's all.
12:02Oh, great.
12:04We're a genius.
12:05That's what I've been aiming to be all my life, Tom.
12:08You're cartoons now.
12:09A cartoon.
12:11Hey, Dave.
12:12How are you?
12:13Good morning, Mom.
12:13How are you?
12:14Good morning.
12:14Good morning.
12:15Beautiful day.
12:16Good to see you.
12:16Good to see you.
12:16How's it going?
12:17Good.
12:17How are you doing?
12:18Tom, this is my son, Justin.
12:19Justin.
12:20Hello.
12:20How are you guys?
12:21All right.
12:21All right.
12:22We're going to trim some hooves today.
12:24Oh, yeah.
12:25We're up foot.
12:26Fanny.
12:27Come on, Fanny.
12:28There we go.
12:30I always like to scratch them.
12:31Make friends.
12:32I got myself a new knife, Tom.
12:34Oh, yeah.
12:35It's pretty good, though, huh?
12:37Yeah.
12:37Feet look good.
12:38What?
12:38Been about five weeks, I think.
12:40Oh, whoa.
12:42Foot's healthy.
12:43Hey, hey, hey.
12:43Got all the little stones and dirt and mud.
12:46Heels are wore down more than her toes.
12:48So I want to keep the heels, clean the heels, salvage as much of that as we can.
12:54Good foot is concave.
12:56When it's concave, it sheds the manure and her feet grow better.
12:59Is this dangerous, what I'm doing right now?
13:01Not with Fanny.
13:02Look, she's looking right at me, though.
13:03She seems to like this.
13:04Oh, you're bonding.
13:05Hi, there.
13:06Hi.
13:07Nice.
13:10Nice.
13:11Here you go, love.
13:12Okay, I'll get Kia next.
13:13Let's go over here.
13:14You're definitely more agreeable than most.
13:16She's a good donkey.
13:19Like, why would she just stand here and let us do this?
13:21Because she loves you, Tom.
13:23Right.
13:24She's being very good.
13:26So how many hooves do you do a week, then?
13:2975 to 100 horse hooves a week.
13:31Is that year-round or in the winter, too?
13:33Winter, we're reduced maybe 20 by 25%.
13:36I've had it for 50 years, so a lot of people know me.
13:39Yeah, yeah.
13:41Come on.
13:46She used to kick at me, that's right.
13:49Yeah.
13:50Okay, the last one.
13:51Aria.
13:51Here we go.
13:53Whoa.
13:55Whoa, whoa, whoa.
13:56Let me just stand behind her so she can't back up, Justin.
13:59Oh, yay.
14:02Okay.
14:02How big do you figure she's going to get?
14:04I think she's going to be well over 16 hands.
14:07Yeah.
14:07Like 1,300 or 1,400 pounds.
14:10Oh, jeez.
14:10I'm glad I'm wearing my steel-toed boots.
14:12Yeah.
14:13You just stepped on my foot.
14:14Yeah, me too.
14:15Yeah.
14:16Yeah.
14:17Yeah.
14:25Nice.
14:28Nice.
14:30Hey, Tom.
14:31Hey.
14:33There goes Deadmau5 on the tractor.
14:35He's a natural for sure.
14:42Thanks for coming to the farm, Joel.
14:43Yeah, thanks for having me.
14:45Appreciate it.
14:45The culture of electronic music started in raves, did it?
14:48Actually, I think it started out in nightclubs first.
14:50Yeah.
14:51You know, the discos and stuff like that, when that kind of phased out.
14:54To be debated between Chicago and Detroit is when they started having those kind of warehouse
14:59things and called them raves.
15:01And then, you know, fast forward 20 years or something, you know, Ticketmaster got a
15:05hold of that and now it's like...
15:06It became a massive thing.
15:07It's a thing.
15:08You're part of what made it a massive thing.
15:10Yeah, I am a little responsible.
15:12Yeah, I played my part.
15:13Yeah.
15:13How old were you when you started making music?
15:15I was probably like 16, 17.
15:17When I started finishing things versus twiddling around and learning.
15:21And when I was in my 17, 18, 19, 20 kind of thing, I interned at a studio that was
15:28kind
15:28of more of a commercial studio.
15:29So they would have bands come in.
15:32Shania Tawain recorded her demo with them a long time ago and all this stuff.
15:36A fellow named Dean Moulton runs a studio operation in Niagara Falls called Ground Loop Studios.
15:42And I was a coffee guy, you know, like, or edit this for me real quick.
15:46Like, just dumb shit.
15:48Literally started in the mail room.
15:49Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
15:50Because I just wanted to get my foot in the studio because that was like my thing, right?
15:54So then after, you know, a year or two of just, you know, becoming friends and hanging
15:57out and just, you know, that's when I kind of realized, I was like, I don't care what
16:01I do in life, I want to run a studio.
16:04Like, I want to have a studio and maintain it.
16:08And that's like kind of like my passion.
16:09I had no visions of, I want to make music, just want to do what Dean's doing.
16:14And then where did Deadmau5 come from and the whole persona around that?
16:18Oh, the name?
16:19Yeah, I found a Deadmau5 on a computer.
16:21Yeah, you found a Deadmau5 on your computer.
16:23I was almost like really kind of pushed into releasing stuff.
16:28And they're like, well, what do you want to call yourself?
16:29I'm like, man, I don't want to sit here and think for a day or two on a cool DJ
16:34name or
16:34whatever.
16:35Like, I don't give a shit.
16:36Deadmau5.
16:37Yeah.
16:38Yeah.
16:38Fuck it.
16:38It's not going anywhere.
16:39You know what I mean?
16:40No one's going to be going deadmau5, deadmau5 in an arena one day at the Roger Center, you
16:44know?
16:45But then when you made that elaborate mask, at a certain point, you got to think, well, this
16:49is pretty fucking cool.
16:50That's when it started to kind of tie in.
16:53And his name was Warren Keeler.
16:55He was a prop maker out of Toronto.
16:58He's like, oh, I know this company and they'll make an acrylic sphere.
17:01And I'm like, cool.
17:02Yeah.
17:02He gave me a budget.
17:05And I was like, yeah, that's great.
17:06Yeah.
17:06Bust it out.
17:07And he did.
17:08And he's like, oh, and I even made the eyes light up.
17:10And I'm like, oh, OK, that's cool.
17:12Put it on.
17:12And then my first show wearing it was in Halifax.
17:17Nice.
17:18And everyone was like, what the fuck is that?
17:21Did you go a fairly long period of time before people knew what you looked like under the
17:26mask?
17:27I did.
17:28I'd say a couple of years.
17:29What had happened was I had this song called Faxing Berlin a long time ago.
17:34Another friend of mine, Chris Lake, who's a big DJ out in Europe.
17:38At the time, he was getting music in the hands of Pete Tong and stuff like that.
17:43And then Pete Tong started playing a lot of my music.
17:46So I kind of like blew up in England, in the UK first.
17:51And then the buzz came back to Canada.
17:53And then it was Deadmau5 this, Deadmau5 that in the dance scene in Canada.
17:57Because them thinking, well, Pete Tong's playing stuff.
18:00He must be from the UK, from the Kent scene.
18:02Were you secretive in the beginning about who your real identity was?
18:05I tried.
18:06You kind of have to sort of sneak in through the back.
18:07I put an effort in.
18:08Like you have to sneak in with the Deadmau5's head?
18:11No, it's actually, we have a case.
18:12So the ears come off and then it just folds in to a nice cube.
18:15So you just kind of roll it in.
18:17Sneak in through the back and then nobody would see you put it on.
18:32Early.
18:34You got a counter on it, right?
18:36Yeah, let's counter on bail it.
18:37Okay, so last year I think there was 600-ish.
18:42So I'm going to guess 650.
18:47More.
18:48Really?
18:49700?
18:50More.
18:51Really?
18:51Wow, holy cow.
18:53Okay.
18:54775.
18:56More.
18:57Wow, really?
18:58Yep.
18:58Oh, we got a lot more hay this year.
18:59One more hay.
19:00Like, what, like 825 bales?
19:03Not quite.
19:05820?
19:06815.
19:06815, okay.
19:08Everybody say chicken sandwich.
19:11Chicken sandwich.
19:12Yeah, so, oh, that's good.
19:14Well, we got enough hay then, that's for sure.
19:16That's a big tarp.
19:17That's a big tarp.
19:18You ever had a tarp that big before?
19:20Yeah.
19:21You have?
19:21I've had tarps, I've had a few tarps, but I've never had a big tarp like that, like a giant
19:25tarp.
19:27Would that be considered a giant tarp?
19:29It's a giant tarp.
19:30I've never had a giant tarp of any kind.
19:36Started at 2 o'clock and it's 6.30.
19:40Let's go have a barbecue.
19:42Thanks.
19:47Chantal Kraviyazak is here, one of the great composers of Canadian pop culture history,
19:52and she's worked with the greats like Drake and others, been nominated for Grammys.
19:57Hop in, Chantal.
19:58Amanda will do some filming.
19:59You're good too, baby.
20:04There's Fanny.
20:05She's in the barn right now, see?
20:06That's the big one right there, Fanny.
20:08That's the mule.
20:09Oh, that's a mule.
20:09Yeah, yeah, yeah.
20:15I got this on Amazon.
20:17Ooh, good, yeah.
20:19Smart.
20:20Hey, Tom.
20:21It's, uh...
20:22Oh, yeah, we gotta get going.
20:23Well, no, just because they're in here with us already.
20:26We're chopping them in.
20:28Okay, it didn't work.
20:28Okay.
20:28Hold it there.
20:29You kind of got it.
20:30I invented this.
20:31Yeah, no.
20:31This is my idea.
20:32Okay.
20:33I'm coming back to the mobile screen and porch, at least.
20:37Nailed it.
20:39She's...
20:39Okay, okay, okay.
20:40That's so special.
20:41Yeah, you've got such pretty eyes.
20:44Such pretty eyelashes.
20:46Gorgeous, darling.
20:48Gorgeous.
20:49Yeah.
20:50Thanks for coming by the farm, Tom, Tom.
20:51Are you not gonna be on camera?
20:53I am on camera.
20:54Oh, okay, okay, okay.
20:54Tom, I don't even notice cameras anymore, man.
20:57I'm just, you know...
20:58You're performing in the area.
20:59Yeah.
21:00And I'm performing at the same festival tomorrow, doing stand-up comedy.
21:04I've been touring doing stand-up, and I'm trying to incorporate some music into my stand-up shows.
21:08They're kind of jangly country songs I'm playing.
21:10Great.
21:11I just wrote a funny song just yesterday that is a country kind of folk funny song.
21:18Really?
21:18Yeah.
21:18My husband and I are friends with these people.
21:20Okay.
21:21Named Rob and Allison.
21:22Okay, yeah.
21:23I know, I'll put you on the spot.
21:24You don't have to play this new one if you want to...
21:25Oh, I'd like to play.
21:26It's fun.
21:27I mean, this song will probably never see the light of day other than this.
21:30When my husband and I get in a fight, I always say to him, you know,
21:33why can't you just love me the way Rob loves Allison?
21:39Oh, I like this.
21:40Yeah.
21:40It's called Rob Loves Allison.
21:42Rob Loves Allison.
21:43I sent it to them today.
21:44Okay.
21:44I did a little voice note of it, and I sent it to them.
21:46That's fine.
21:47And I shared it with my husband after I wrote it, and we had kind of a laugh.
21:52Did he appreciate that?
21:52Well, yeah.
21:53Yeah.
21:53No.
21:54Yeah.
21:54He does.
21:55He appreciates the charm and art of it.
21:59Yeah.
21:59But I think it probably is really insulting to him.
22:02It was sort of like a little sort of a dig kind of...
22:04It's a dig.
22:05Yeah.
22:05And at the same time, you know...
22:07Like passive-aggressive?
22:08Maybe passive-aggressive?
22:09Yeah.
22:09Good Canadian, passive-aggressive wife that I am.
22:12But it's fun, though.
22:14You'd pick me up.
22:16You'd spin me around.
22:19I'd always feel like a treasure you'd found.
22:24In all the chaos, you're the ground.
22:30Why can't you love me the way wrong?
22:36Loves Allison.
22:38Nice.
22:38Very nice.
22:39And that will never be released?
22:40No.
22:41And we'll put it up on YouTube, maybe, as well.
22:46How much fun is this?
22:47My friend Kenny Hotz from Kenny vs. Spenny.
22:53Hey.
22:54Well, I was going to hug you.
22:55Hello, Kenny.
22:56How are you?
22:57What kind of dung is that?
23:00This is a mule, a horse, and donkey.
23:04A nice sort of mixture.
23:05I thought Spenny's mom stayed over for a second.
23:08No.
23:09How often do you do that?
23:11I do this every day.
23:12Every day?
23:13Every day for about an hour.
23:14Why don't you just hire someone to shovel the shit?
23:18You know, this is a kind of shit shovel therapy, I call it.
23:21You get into your head, and then you come out here, and you shovel some manure, and, you know,
23:25it's just kind of a morning routine.
23:26Just because you got to get up, clean out the barn, and then I feed them, and then I do
23:32a podcast.
23:33We're going to do the podcast.
23:35Hopefully not in here.
23:36No, no, it's up in the loft.
23:37Oh, good.
23:38So it's nice of shit in there, too.
23:55These mics are insane.
23:56This looks like Darth Vader's wiener.
23:59It's professional.
24:01Yes.
24:02Kenny Hotz is here.
24:03You're a Canadian comedy legend.
24:05What do you think of the farm?
24:06It's fun.
24:06I moved to the country.
24:07I didn't really think you were a farm person.
24:09Like, you're a city boy, and you lived in the Hollywood Hills for so long.
24:13You think of me as an L.A. guy.
24:15You were on the cover of Rolling Stone.
24:17You actually took over the world.
24:20I'm not an L.A. guy.
24:22Because of your success in the States, that was the only reason we got our show picked up.
24:28We didn't really copy you, but we were like a reality sitcom.
24:32You know, my friend and I, we compete, and the loser has to be humiliated.
24:36Spenny.
24:37Yes.
24:37So what was the first big prank that you pulled on Spenny?
24:41Oh, well, I, you know, I grew up with the guy.
24:43Our dads were best friends when they were teenagers.
24:45Once we were in a sauna at a community center when we were little kids, and we went into
24:52the sauna room, and he locked me in the sauna room, and it was against the door because
24:58I wanted to leave, and he wouldn't let me leave, so I peed on the sauna rocks.
25:01And he was like, pssh, like the whole place stunk, but I got him out of the room.
25:04So these were types of things that we were kind of doing naturally.
25:08One of the challenges, I guess we would put on you, who could gain the most weight?
25:12That was our, that was our pilot episode we did for USA Network.
25:14Who could gain the most weight?
25:15And I, I think I, I think I, I can't even remember, but I must have gained 20 pounds
25:20in maybe four or five days.
25:22Were you just eating like a lot of meat and stuff?
25:23I lived in a wheelchair.
25:25I lived on sticks of butter and filet of fish sandwiches.
25:28That sounds kind of like the Morgan Spurlock super-sized meat documentary where he ate McDonald's,
25:33nothing but McDonald's.
25:33I feel like, listen, I believe I started everything just because I was so long ago.
25:39People think we use, we, you know, we started YouTube, illegally posted the pilot that we
25:45did to BMW Films, and it kind of blew up.
25:49You really did?
25:49Yeah, we did, yeah.
25:50So wait, how did that happen?
25:51Why?
25:51Well, because I was trying to sell it, and, and I kind of saw the value in digital media,
25:56but this was before any of it even started.
26:01I understand what it's like to be working with your friends and have that creative sort
26:04of tug of war going on, and everybody's egos get involved, and people have their own ideas.
26:10And, you know, I was working with my friends from high school and my shows, and I was in
26:14a rap group when I was a kid that we put out a record.
26:17It's the only time there were issues when we were having to create something, having to
26:22make a record.
26:23Those were the marathons.
26:24Going on the road, we knew the record, and we knew the songs.
26:28All those decisions were behind us.
26:30So on the road, nothing but happiness, nothing but we all know the songs.
26:36And that's why we always had a producer, except for one record, but we, we needed someone
26:43else to break the ties.
26:46And you know what?
26:47Kids, God love them.
26:50But it complicated things a lot.
26:53Then we're adults, and it's not like it was before.
26:56It was hip all the time.
26:58And then the kids grew up.
27:0095, 2015, a lot of them are 20, right?
27:03And so now you're doing a little better.
27:06And then the court goes and dies.
27:08And, you know, when we were actually very much back and getting along so well.
27:17But he got sick, and you know, we were up here.
27:19And it was amazing to watch how hard he worked.
27:22He was on that bike over there.
27:24We would take a break.
27:25We'd be rehearsing for, you know, say two hours.
27:28And then we'd go downstairs and take a break outside for 10, 15, 20 minutes.
27:34And Gord would ride the bike.
27:36And, you know, he was just, just working.
27:40He wanted it so badly.
27:41When I was on my show on MTV, I had to stop my show because I got testicular cancer.
27:46I filmed my whole cancer surgery, and we put it on television.
27:50And, you know, I was fortunate enough to have survived cancer.
27:53But I understand how intensely complicated of a decision it is to decide to do what Gord decided to do
28:03and what you decided to do.
28:04What was going through your mind when Gord decided to want to go on that tour?
28:10I was living with him at the time, like helping his brother look after him.
28:15And we had, I'd been living there since February, beginning of February.
28:20So, you know, it was the year of the tour, 2016.
28:28But he was going through radiation.
28:29I mean, it was a tough time, but he was hanging in there.
28:32Yeah.
28:33And we had made a record.
28:35But he was like, we made a record, right?
28:37Like, he was mentally compromised because radiation was just, it was just, you know, just firing at him.
28:4430 days of it.
28:46Yeah, we made a record coming out in June.
28:49Were we going to tour?
28:51And I said, well, yeah, we had talked about it.
28:56And he was like, well, aren't we going to?
28:58And at the time, this is in March, I was honestly thinking, there's no chance for you.
29:04He was falling asleep at 8.
29:06And I was like, I guess we haven't really talked about it since, you know, your surgeries.
29:11And he's like, well, I think we should, don't you?
29:15And I was like, sure.
29:17So I'd have to get on the phone with the other three guys.
29:20He wants to tour.
29:22What?
29:23He wants to tour.
29:25Can he sing?
29:27I'm like, no, I keep suggesting that we play Wee Kings or something simple.
29:32And he doesn't want to.
29:33He just wants to get together and rehearse the whole band.
29:41You know, I'm always touring around the country.
29:43And I would love for you to come see me at one of my shows.
29:46Here's a few clips from me out in Vancouver.
29:48And I really enjoy getting out and seeing everybody on the road.
29:54And I'll always be touring, doing stand-up and playing music.
29:57Come see me when I'm in your city.
29:59Are you ready for the man himself?
30:02Fuck yeah.
30:03He's got a new show.
30:05It's coming out this spring.
30:07It's called Tom Green Farm.
30:08Please keep it going for the one and only Tom Green, ladies and gentlemen.
30:18I love Vancouver.
30:20A shot Freddie got fingered in Vancouver.
30:24Making a little video there?
30:26Yay, huh?
30:27Making a video for a TikTok?
30:29Yay!
30:30Yay!
30:31Yay!
30:33And home to the country
30:35To a place I've always been
30:37Get by California
30:40And all them things I've seen
30:42Going back to Canada
30:44To live my American dream
30:46A hundred acres
30:48Where the grass is always green
30:55Welcome back, brother.
30:56Welcome back, everybody.
30:57Good night, everybody.
30:58Good night for Charlie.
31:03Good night, everybody.
31:05Good night.
31:05Good night.
31:06Good night.
31:07Good night.
31:08Good night.
31:09Good night.
31:10Good night.
31:11Good night.
31:12Good night.
31:12It's all right.
31:13Okay?
31:17Want to switch seats?
31:18Yeah.
31:19You sit there because then we'll have a shot of you watching.
31:21Okay, sure, sure.
31:21I had gotten this piano a couple years ago.
31:26Nice touch.
31:27So that's my, that's what I can play.
31:29That's pretty much all I can play.
31:30I've been playing this and this
31:34for the last five years.
31:39So you're really running with this.
31:41Yeah.
31:42But I can do little variations on it.
31:46Okay.
31:47So you want it, what you want to do is a departure from,
31:50you're trying to depart from maybe that.
31:52Yeah.
31:53A bit.
31:53I learned some new chords last month.
31:55Okay.
31:55Can I, can I hear the new chords?
32:02Wait, sorry.
32:03One second.
32:03Did I intimidate you with my skills?
32:05Yeah.
32:06Yeah.
32:06Okay.
32:06Well, let's switch back seats again.
32:07The one piece of advice that I would have is
32:10get into another line of work.
32:12No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, never, never.
32:15We're trying to do what's in our head and put it here.
32:21And there's a bridge between here and there, right?
32:25Like there's a distance between what your skill is and what you're hearing in your head.
32:29If you just play with your ears of now, stop with what is like driving you in your mind
32:36to get to and just use your ears more.
32:38One of the things I noticed is you have a, you have a natural rhythm to you, right?
32:41Like you're, you're doing, you're, you're in a rhythm.
32:44Yeah.
32:45Okay.
32:45I would like literally tie your hand behind your back for a second and just get away from
32:50that tempo, even like sit in some chords, you know, just like.
32:57Uh-huh.
32:58Uh-huh.
32:58So you sort of just kind of like, uh, once you know the word, uh.
33:02But, but see, there you go.
33:03You're, you're in the once the.
33:05Mm-hmm.
33:05See that forward thinking?
33:07I'm, what I'm saying is don't even be scared that you don't know because that's how you find
33:11the chords.
33:11You can just.
33:16Like there's so much being said in one little melody.
33:19I don't know why.
33:23Maybe if you just hold one of the notes with the other.
33:27You're at the end.
33:29Mm-hmm.
33:30Now you've, you're creating, you're creating something.
33:32Mm-hmm.
33:33Right?
33:33There's that extra layer there.
33:35Instead of, I don't know why.
33:38What if you, I don't know why.
33:42Nice.
33:43Yeah.
33:43Right?
33:44Mm-hmm.
33:44And then, you know, as you go, uh, and you play it again, you know.
33:50I don't know why.
33:56I don't know why.
34:00Nice.
34:01Now I've done three different things with it, right?
34:02Okay.
34:02Right.
34:03I mean, for me, obviously, because I, I go like, you know, down a dark thing.
34:07I'll be like.
34:08I don't know.
34:16I don't know.
34:23That's cool.
34:45You know, I go down a hole, whatever.
34:47Yeah.
34:47You know, and to me, my thing is like, dude, if I hit any fucking note, I should be able
34:54to make that sound good.
34:56Yeah.
34:57So like, any choice I make, fake it till you make it.
35:06We went down to our wedding venue and we tasted the drinks and the food.
35:10I like the wine.
35:12I like the white wine a lot.
35:14And got ready for a beautiful wedding.
35:16I chose a soup because it's going to be fall and, like, cool, so.
35:20You like tomato soup?
35:22With all of our friends and family.
35:24I can't drink these all night on our wedding night or I'll be, like, passed out on the floor.
35:29Yeah.
35:29I can't wait for you to see just a little bit of it.
35:31Mr. A.
35:32Mr. Green.
35:38I'm a lucky guy.
35:43The fact that the entire country rallied around you and came out to essentially say goodbye
35:51to Gord.
35:52And did you ever anticipate that it would turn into what it did with the final show, which
35:58is coming up on the 10-year anniversary now of the final show?
36:01Yeah.
36:02I mean, it doesn't seem like anything like that could happen again.
36:06I mean, that singer gets diagnosed with brain cancer.
36:10He wants to tour.
36:12And it's kind of like, OK.
36:14And for people that have cancer, for them to see a guy that's doing that might be the most
36:20inspiring, most rock and roll thing ever.
36:23Yeah.
36:24Like, it really is.
36:26So it felt that way.
36:27And on the last show, I was, like, just thinking, this is a total drag.
36:31It's heavy.
36:32It's going to be our last show.
36:34We're in Kingston.
36:35I don't want to go outside.
36:36I was just at the arena.
36:38And Gord shows up.
36:39And he's like, this is going to be really good.
36:43I'm like, really?
36:44Oh, yeah.
36:45This is going to be great.
36:46It's going to be great.
36:47And then all of a sudden, I was just kind of like, oh, OK, that's a great way to look
36:52at it.
36:52That's how I'm going to look at it.
36:54Kind of curious, because it must be a big adjustment, probably the understatement of
37:00the century, to be performing for 33 years together and then just have it stop like that.
37:06I don't think of it often.
37:07But Joanne, she mentions it.
37:11She's like, you must miss it.
37:14I mean, don't you miss it?
37:17And I was like, you know, then I all of a sudden I picture being at the Fillmore or
37:23Maple Leaf Gardens or the ACC or whatever.
37:25And it's kind of like, yeah, I guess I do.
37:29It all went away and everyone reacted differently.
37:33And that was another thing Gord was quite sad about, Gord Downey.
37:37And he wanted us to get another singer.
37:40And I was like, we're not going to do that.
37:43These are just talks with me and Gord and Pat, his brother.
37:47And we're not doing that.
37:48But, you know, again, I just tell myself or anyone else, it's like it wasn't like a five
37:53or seven year run.
37:55It's a 35 year run.
37:57So.
37:57Sure.
37:57You know, so at least there's that.
38:00Amazing.
38:01Thanks, Paul.
38:02Thank you, Tom.
38:03Thanks for it.
38:03It's an honor to speak with you.
38:05No.
38:05Honor's all mine.
38:07Nice.
38:07My monitor over here.
38:08This one too.
38:09Check, check, check.
38:10Check, check, check, check.
38:11This is the Tom Green Show.
38:14It was a real honor to be able to be performing stand-up comedy and music in Paul Langlois' hometown
38:20of Kingston, home of the Tragically Hip, and have him come out and surprise the audience
38:26and play with me.
38:28Paul Langlois, thank you.
38:30One of Canada's greatest bands of all time, the Tragically Hip.
38:38My friend Aaron Belisle, he's on tour all around North America now, appeared on America's
38:44Got Talent.
38:45Good to see you, Aaron.
38:46Good to see you too, Tom.
38:47When I met you, you were at Yuck Yucks in Ottawa doing stand-up comedy.
38:53And then the next thing I know, we were just about to like start hanging out all the time
38:57and then you hit the big time.
38:59You went on America's Got Talent and then all of a sudden you're touring North America
39:06and now you're living in Austin and you're one of the Kill Tony bros.
39:12Yeah, that happened pretty quick.
39:13I'm a Kill Tony golden ticket winner.
39:16So you did America's Got Talent though.
39:18How did that happen?
39:19Well, casting originally messaged me on TikTok based on a clip I made in Montreal, but they
39:24were like, oh, you're pretty new.
39:25Let's give it a year.
39:26Then they see Kill Tony and they're like, nevermind, we need you now.
39:29How long were you doing stand-up for before you got on Kill Tony?
39:34Six months.
39:35Yeah, that's amazing.
39:36It's blown up a lot in the last two years, but yeah, it's turned into like the biggest
39:40platform for new comedians now, I think.
39:42Quit your job as a senior software engineer and pursued stand-up?
39:46Questionable life choices.
39:48Yeah, absolutely.
39:49Comedy is a blue pill, red pill thing.
39:52You can't ever go back.
39:53And how did you have the confidence to go do that?
39:56I didn't want to.
39:57I was just heckling comics at a Portugal open mic and they said, hey, you're funny.
40:01You should try it.
40:02That's funny.
40:03I started as a heckler as well, which is interesting.
40:05I was actually making mental health content and I was like, hey, I should try stand-up.
40:10It might make me better at making that, but then it was fun.
40:12So here's I am.
40:13I mean, is there anybody else with a disability like yours who does stand-up?
40:19There's still not that many disabled comics as a whole, honestly.
40:22What do you think it is that gave you that kind of confidence to go up and try this?
40:27For me, I think it was cathartic.
40:29Nobody ever fucking listened to me.
40:31Conservations passed me by and I got on stage and I'm like, oh, people actually listen to
40:36what I have to say?
40:37I can talk about all this bullshit in my life.
40:39I also thought I could educate people with comedy, like, hey, don't talk down to me.
40:43I'm just a person like you.
40:45It didn't work as well as I thought it would.
40:48I went on Netflix literally this week and I told a joke about how people come up to the
40:52girl I date and say, oh, are you his sister?
40:55And I'm sarcastic.
40:56So I'm like, I hope not.
40:58I got her pregnant.
40:59And someone comes up after and asks a girl I'm with, hey, are you family?
41:03Not ironically.
41:04And I'm like, were you even listening?
41:06And is this true?
41:07Did you get your girlfriend pregnant or?
41:10No.
41:10Okay.
41:12I use protection.
41:13Okay.
41:15Stay in school, kids.
41:17Use condoms.
41:19Use condoms.
41:44Not interested, eh?
41:51Good to see you again.
41:52Thanks so much, Peter.
41:53We're getting some more amazing fences.
41:55What are these kind of fences called again?
41:57Patent rail fence.
41:58So basically you're fixing the fence because the fence was falling over because it was 100
42:02years old.
42:03And there was not much left of it.
42:05Yeah.
42:05Get some more rails up here.
42:07I can come grab some.
42:08Yeah, let's cross.
42:16I got kind of a bad neck.
42:18I do stuff around here, though.
42:21Yeah, like I do stuff.
42:32You just sold your music catalog?
42:34Yeah.
42:34It was widely reported.
42:36Why'd you do that?
42:38Because of the good deal, probably?
42:40Yeah, yeah.
42:40No, it was a fair deal.
42:41There's a lot of, like, I saw a lot of conversation about it.
42:44And then there's like, not like misinformation, but just kind of like people not really understanding
42:48what it means to do that.
42:50But, you know, one of the fucking comments that sticks out from, like, just general ignorance
42:55is like, oh, you sold it.
42:56Well, you sold it.
42:57Oh, well, that's what you do.
43:00You protect your property, your intellectual property for as long as you can.
43:06And if anyone tries to infringe on you and stuff, you know, you go after that and you
43:12protect your rights.
43:13Just yesterday I commented on this post.
43:15I saw this band.
43:16They're like, hey, we just want everyone to know, hey, that this big, huge, like, we're
43:22talking AAA, mega pop star stole our music and he used it here.
43:29And they go, and we're really big fans.
43:30So we'd appreciated it.
43:32And I was like, lawyer the fuck up and get that shit.
43:37If you don't protect your shit now, someone else is going to do it.
43:41And then when you go, when your whole life's work, you're ready to liquidate it or do what
43:45you want with the publishing, it's going to be fucking worthless because no one's going
43:49to want it because you've been walked over.
43:51It's like, bro, stand on business.
43:53Yeah.
43:54Because a day will come when you're, you know, in your late 40s where, you know, it's time
44:00to move on.
44:01And moving on means, you know, starting another chapter of your franchise and stuff like that.
44:05And you're going to need some liquidity to do that.
44:07Now that you've sold your catalog, are you actively making new music and going to put
44:11out new music?
44:12Yeah, absolutely.
44:12Yeah, I'm super excited to get back in the studio and just kind of stay in there more
44:18often than not.
44:19Oh, who's that?
44:21Charlie's like, this is the only show where there's a dog hunting on the set.
44:27I do have to say, this is like one of the coolest sets.
44:32It's a hundred plus year old barn and it's kind of technology meets no technology.
44:39Well, that's awesome, Joel.
44:40Thank you so much for coming out to the farm and talking to me.
44:43Nice for having me.
44:44It's amazing.
44:44It's beautiful out here.
44:45I love it.
44:46All right.
44:46Thanks, man.
44:47Awesome.
44:48Cheers.
44:49Cheers.
44:50Cheers.
44:54Cheers.
44:54Cheers.
44:57Cheers.
44:58Cheers.
45:11You go on tour with Spenny, right?
45:13We still tour.
45:14What's the live show, though, consist of?
45:16I make fun of him.
45:18I totally abuse him.
45:19The audience laughs.
45:21The more they laugh at my horrible, mean comedy, the angrier he gets at the audience.
45:29And then he turns on them.
45:31So my job is to get Spenny so angry that he turns on the audience, which makes them hate
45:37him even more.
45:38Well, this has been great.
45:39I want to go do some more stuff outside the barn, too.
45:43I'm sure you do.
45:44Yeah, I want to...
45:45Have fun.
45:46Go do that.
45:47Look, she likes a belly rub, see?
45:49I hope that's her belly.
45:51Yeah, yeah.
45:53Well, Fanny's a huge mule and Allura's a sort of a small horse.
45:57Shut up!
45:59Want to see the guinea hens?
46:01Okay.
46:02Those are weird.
46:03See you later.
46:05They're free.
46:06They look like they're really soft.
46:08Yeah.
46:08No, they're very soft.
46:09Do you want to touch one?
46:10Not really.
46:11Why don't you want to touch one?
46:13Well, I guess I would touch one.
46:15I guess I'd pat their heads, but don't they bite or anything?
46:17Touch worse than that, huh?
46:19Yeah, sure have.
46:21How long did it take you to learn how to ride her?
46:23Before you actually felt comfortable.
46:24Probably about two years.
46:26That's right.
46:27That's right.
46:28Come on.
46:28Come on.
46:30Hi!
46:33Oh, yeah.
46:34Go get him.
46:34Go get him.
46:35Go get him.
46:36Go get Kenny.
46:37Fanny versus Kenny.
46:39What a night.
46:40Cheers.
46:43Shut up!
46:59All right.
47:01Tom Burton, thanks for having us, man.
47:03It's been a great year here up at the farm.
47:04Tom, open your pocketbook and get a new damn kitchen.
47:09Had a lot of amazing guests.
47:11George, thank you.
47:12Hey, buddy.
47:16Kurt Viles here.
47:17Kind of gets the blood going, huh?
47:20Would you hire me to work on the farm?
47:22Absolutely, yeah.
47:22I can take care of all your cocks.
47:26Cut.
47:29Just ignore him.
47:32It's been super fun being welcomed into your homes.
47:37Came along just in time.
47:40It's the right time now.
47:44Tom, you are adding to Canadian culture.
47:48Hello.
47:49They sail away around the world.
47:52Cheers.
47:52Thanks for having me.
47:54Make our dreams come true.
47:57That looks like something that a female member of Kraftwerk would wear.
48:00There we go.
48:01And every single day.
48:03Thank the Lord for you.
48:06I actually just got goosebumps.
48:07Thank the Lord for you.
48:09If you build it, you might come.
48:20And we will continue the adventure.
48:23To our beautiful country.
48:25I love you, Tom.
48:26You're a fellow Canadian, fellow Ottawa, and you're an anarchist.
48:30Oh, ouchies.
48:32Do you have fun?
48:33Yeah, absolutely.
48:34Sincerely appreciate everybody for tuning in and watching and for the years of support here.
48:40Started out back in the 90s doing the Tom Green show.
48:43And here we are, 2020 whatever it is.
48:47Oh, my gosh.
48:47Can you believe it?
48:49Still doing it.
48:4955 years old on the skateboard ramp.
48:53Man.
48:54Thanks for watching, everybody.
48:56See you next time.
48:57You're watching the Tom Green Farm.
49:06Wow, you are living the dream.
49:09Truly living the dream.
49:14And every single day.
49:17I thank the Lord for you.
49:20I thank the Lord for you.
49:26And every single day.
49:29I thank the Lord for you.
49:32I thank the Lord for you.
49:35Thank the Lord for you.
50:01And I don't need to look any further.
50:09I thank the Lord for you.
50:09I thank the Lord for you.
50:10I thank the Lord for you.
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