The Tom Green Farm (2026) s01e10 Episode Script
Traction
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(narrator): Welcome to the
Tom Green Farm.
(scraping)
(soft music)
- Alright. Thanks, Tony,
for sending me your board.
(plastic ripping)
- Wow
- Look at that.
I did what I said I was going
to do,
I shovelled the snow off
the ramp.
- I expect you to be so hardcore
with your skating,
you shovel it off
and you put on gloves
and you get on this ramp.
- Let's see how this looks.
(whooshing)
Well.
You've tuned into another
episode of the Tom Green Farm.
We've got a great episode here
today for you.
Thanks for being here.
Today on the show,
Paul Langlois
from The Tragically Hip.
I'll be interviewing him at
the legendary Bathouse Studio
where The Tragically
Hip
recorded many of their amazing
albums.
Also Deadmau5,
one of the greatest electronic
musicians
and electronic music producers
of all time.
We'll talk about
electronic music,
we'll talk about life
as Deadmau5,
another musical prodigy on
the show today.
- Wow.
- Chantal Kreviazuk
pops by to give me
a piano lesson
and the great Kenny
Hotz from Kenny vs. Spenny,
also going to be
stopping by.
Ahren Belisle has
an amazing story.
He's a disabled comedian,
but he somehow manages
to do stand-up comedy
without having a voice,
he speaks electronically.
He was just
getting started up on stage,
killing it at Yuk Yuk's,
next thing you know, he was down
at America's Got Talent
and then on
Kill Tony Podcast,
and now he's touring
all over the world.
A lot of people on the show
today.
We'll be weaving in
and out.
You could call this the
season finale of the show.
(gasping)
(groaning)
You're watching the
Tom Green Farm.
(rooster croaks)
(theme music)
This is the Tom Green Farm ♪
It's not the Green Tom Farm ♪
This is my favourite farm ♪
(horse neighs)
Because it is my farm ♪
If this was your farm ♪
You'd probably like it more
than I did ♪
That's just because
it was your farm ♪
But it's not your farm ♪
It's the Tom Green Farm ♪
(birds chirping)
(radio static)
(rhythmic music)
Deadmau5, Joel Zimmerman,
a friend of mine,
also lives on a farm.
So you just got a donkey too?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a baby,
though. How old is Kia?
- Kia is four.
- Four.
- And she can kick, so careful.
- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I learned that from Bobby.
- Bobby your donkey?
- Bobby is metal.
I got her like two weeks ago
or something.
- You have a tractor as well.
- We put a field mower on
and just do laps.
The kid who dropped it off
just kind of dropped it off.
It took us probably about 20
minutes to figure out
how to even start the thing.
- Right.
- Got it in gear,
and then going,
but then the brakes are old.
Like, slamming on the brake
while the thing is in gear,
so it's just like
slowly cruising towards
the back
of one of my ATVs,
and it just like smashed
it in.
- Oh, you actually had
an accident.
- Yeah.
(acoustic guitar music)
- These are the first apples off
the tree,
these just came off
the tree.
You've all heard of
the game bobbing for apples,
Aria likes to bob
for apples too.
Here you go, look at this.
Hip-a-dop-a-doo-ahi-ah-hoo ♪
Yee-haw, yee-haw ♪
Got one, Kia?
Got one?
Oh, they're chasing
that one, huh?
Good way to get them to drink
more water too.
Oh, you got one.
Yee-haw ♪
Yip-a-dop-a-do ♪
La-pah-dop-ah-dop-ah-doo ♪
Hip-ah-dop-ah-doo ♪
Boo boo boo ♪
Morning, Dad!
- Hey, Tom, How's it going?
(Tom): You're going
to catch one today.
We had a pretty good time
fishing the other day,
didn't we?
(Richard): We did.
It was nice, lovely day.
(Tom): We were trying to catch
some lake trout.
(Richard): We were.
(Tom): I've never caught
a lake trout.
- I've only caught one.
It was in the early spring,
right close to the shore.
Bang. This thing bit, it
was about a 15-pound lake trout.
(Tom): I know that picture that
you have hanging
on the wall
of the cottage.
- Very proud of that picture.
(Tom): I know you like
that picture.
- Mm-hmm.
(Tom): Lot of people might've
suggested it might be AI.
- I wish the fish had been AI
generated,
it could make it bigger.
- Absolutely.
Oh, think we got one.
We got one, we got one.
Interesting bass,
look how red its eyes are.
- It's been drinking.
- I've got one here.
(Richard): Very good.
Remember that time we went out
at night? Midnight?
(Tom): Yeah.
- And the first,
just barely hit the water,
this five-pound bass just jumped
out and grabbed your Rapala.
- I remember.
(Richard): Yeah.
(Tom): Got one, alright!
- Jeez, that's a nice one.
(Tom): We're going to let him
go now, okay?
- We go back to shore, showed
everybody this great fish
you'd caught.
(Tom): Yeah.
- "Let's go out
and try it again!"
Next cast, same spot, boom.
Another five-pound bass.
- I know.
- I didn't catch a damn thing.
(Tom): Let's see, I've got two.
- Yeah.
(Tom): It's not
a competition, though.
(chuckling)
(soft music)
Paul Langlois. I've gotten to
know Paul,
it's been a lot of fun
getting to know him
and we talked about
the history,
the legacy of The Tragically
Hip.
Cheers, Paul.
(Paul): Cheers.
(Tom): Thanks for having me.
(Paul): Well,
thanks for having me.
(Tom): I love the studio. It's
been
a lot of fun, I've recorded
a few things here
over the last couple years since
I moved home
and recorded the soundtrack
for this show, actually, so.
At the legendary Bathouse
Studio, here in Bath, Ontario.
- Well, we're honoured to have
you, I mean,
so many great artists
and musicians
that have come through
this place.
It's the best decision
we ever made.
- It must be kind of an amazing
thing to spend your life
and career with your friends
from high school
and have the kind
of success you had.
- That was quite amazing.
I wasn't This was my first
band.
Those other guys are all
musicologists,
they all started playing
when they were like 12.
Gord Downie wasn't singing but
he wanted to be
and he started
singing in grade 11, so he's 16.
And I didn't start playing
guitar until I was 19,
after high school,
and we were just
gradually hitting the road, more
and more and more.
And it just became so obvious
that everyone was so committed.
It's almost like a camp.
I remember telling my dad,
he's like, "You got a
backup plan?"
I'm like, "Yeah, I mean I'll
come up with one,
but I'm pretty sure this band's
going to make it, Dad."
- Do you remember the moment
when you knew you'd made it?
- While we were recording, but
more after
we recorded Road Apples.
We did Up to Here and we
knew we had followed it up well
once we came home
with the mix for Road Apples,
which we recorded in
New Orleans.
And it sold 100,000 records
in 10 days,
which was massive
at the time.
And it was just like, okay.
But all it did was make us
more serious.
And you're right,
it was such
an awesome experience to
do it with your friends
and have it go well,
and have Gord, obviously.
- One of the all-time great
frontmen of a rock 'n' roll band
in history, up there with
Mick Jagger kind of thing.
- That's what I think. That's
what everyone thought
when they saw him.
It's just like, you
don't see people like that.
Low-key guy.
- Right.
- But on stage he just couldn't
help it.
He just turned into an
entertainer and a dancer,
that's what he was,
he was a dancer.
- Yeah, yeah. Is it more fun
when you're coming up
and getting started?
Or when the thing explodes
and you're playing arenas,
is that, that's
probably more fun, I guess.
- It's more fun on a tour bus
than it is in a van
and we did a good seven,
eight years in a van,
and we crossed Canada three
times anyway, maybe even four,
before we put a record out.
- Yeah.
- We toured the states early on,
too, in a van.
So I appreciate that
we did that,
but it was way more
fun when we got on the bus
and watching movies, watching
your show back in the day.
- Oh, yeah? Really?
- Oh, yeah, yeah. We loved you,
we loved the show.
I mean, we felt badly
for your parents.
(laughing)
I must say.
But they were so sweet to you.
- I had heard a rumour that you
guys knew of the show
but I wasn't sure
if it was true.
- We did. Oh, yeah.
- It's funny we haven't really
crossed paths over the years,
I did go--
- Well, I know it's funny we
haven't,
I think because you
moved to LA, right?
- Mm-hmm. I was at your show in
LA at the House of Blues.
- The House of Blues,
it ended up to
be very good for us
because there was a whole bunch
of them
and it's kind of like
the biggest clubs
before you move on to
a bigger theatre or something.
- Dan Aykroyd, did he own the
House of Blues
or he was part of it?
- Uh, yeah, he was involved in
the start of it, yeah.
- So that's cool, he's always
been one of your huge
supporters.
- We've expressed our gratitude
many times,
but he got us on
Saturday Night Live.
Which we didn't see coming
at all.
But he was offered to host,
he left the show
for a long time, so this
was '95 I think.
And he insisted to Lorne
Michaels, who is Canadian,
"I'm not going to host
unless my friends can play,
The Tragically Hip." And
he was like, "Tragically what?"
And so he insisted
and we got that opportunity.
I mean, it didn't
amount to a lot,
but at least we did it.
And then we went and
played St. Louis,
we went to a party,
Saturday Night Live party,
left like at three in the
morning, we go to St. Louis,
club called The Other World,
we were kinda like,
"This is exciting, this'll
be good.
Saturday Night Live last night,
so this will be great."
And there was like
15 people there.
- Oh, really? Wow.
- It was just like, "Okay,
this is what it amounts to."
The general impression that
people have is
that we didn't do well in
the states but we actually did,
but we just had to
work on a city at a time,
and there's fifty cities.
- Yeah, yeah.
- For some reason, we weren't
popular in Phoenix,
but we were
popular in Tucson.
We had way more success
and people were
It just didn't happen in the
same way.
There was no national
exposure for The Hip.
(soft music)
(Tom): I'm thinking of making
the Tom Green Show again,
but doing it
animated. I have this idea,
I want to take the old,
crazy pranks
from the Tom Green Show
and animate them
and I thought I'd show
my parents
and see what they think.
Mom, Dad, come here!
I want to show you something.
(Mary Jane and Richard):
What's up?
- Come here, just come behind me
here and watch the TV.
- Okay.
- What's going on?
- So I've been working on this
project I want to show you.
- Oh, okay.
- Check this out.
It's the Tom Green Show,
remember the show we
used to do together?
- How can we forget?
- But animated.
Remember when I painted
the house plaid?
- Oh, yeah.
- Look, watch.
My dad and my mom and their
friends are going
to Algonquin Park on Sunday.
I want to prove to you that
I'm mature enough to live alone.
- Look at you.
- That's me!
- without supervision
for a week?
- You can prove it if all those
plants are alive
when we get back.
- I think my parents will be
super happy when they come home,
see that I've done some work
around the house.
(audience gasps, cheers)
I hope my parents will like
their surprise.
The house looks
better than all the other houses
in the neighbourhood.
(car brakes screech)
(ding)
- You painted the house?
- I did all the lawn too.
- The car is gone.
I'm calling the guy.
- What do you mean?
What are you talking about?
- You have two days
to get that painted back.
- Mom, it looks nice.
(audience laughs)
You like that kind of art stuff.
Probably easier to see yourself
being pranked
when it's animated
than when you're actually having
your house painted plaid.
Thanks, Mom and Dad.
I just wanted you to know that
you're cartoons now, that's all.
- Okay, oh, great.
- Real genius, Tom.
(Mary Jane): That's what I've
been aiming to be all my life,
Tom.
(Tom): Yep. Cartoons now.
(Mary Jane): A cartoon.
(upbeat music)
(Tom): Hey, how are you?
- Morning, Tom, how are you?
(Tom): Morning, good morning.
- Beautiful day.
- Good to see you,
good to see you.
How's it going?
- Good, how you doing?
- This is my son, Justin.
- Justin.
- Yep.
- How are you guys? Alright,
we're going to trim
some hooves today.
- Oh, yeah. We're up for it.
- Fanny!
- Come on, Fanny.
- Here we go.
- I always like to scratch them,
just make friends.
Got myself a new knife tongue.
(Justin): Oh, yeah. It's pretty
good, though, huh?
- Yeah, feet look good.
It's been about five weeks
I think.
(Tom soothes mule)
- Hey, hey.
- Got all the little stones
and dirt and mud.
Heels are worn down more
than her toes.
I want to keep the heels,
clean the heels.
Salvage as much
of that as we can.
A good foot is concave.
When it's concave,
it sheds them newer
and their feet grow better.
- Is this dangerous, what I'm
doing right now?
- Not with Fanny.
- Like she's looking right
at me, she seems to like this.
- Oh, you're bonding.
- Hi there. Hi.
Nice.
(clack)
I'll get Kia next.
Let's go over here.
(Justin): More agreeable
than most.
- She's a good donkey.
- Like why would she just stand
here and let us do this?
- Because she loves you, Tom.
(chuckling)
(Tom): She's being very good.
(clipping)
How many hooves
do you do a week?
(chicken squawking
in background)
- 75-100 horses a week.
- That year-round? Is it in the
winter too?
- Winter, we're reduced maybe 20
by 25%.
I'm at it for 50 years,
so a lot of people know me.
(Tom): Yeah, yeah.
(chickens squawking
in background)
Come on.
Woah.
(grating)
(indistinct)
(Tom): Yeah. Okay. The last one,
Aria, here we go.
Woah. Woah.
- Maybe just stand behind her.
So she can't back up, Justin.
- Ooh, yeah.
How big do you figure
she's going to get?
- I think she's going
to be well over 16 hands.
- Yeah.
- Might be 1300 or 1400 pounds.
- I'm glad I'm wearing
my steel-toed boots.
She just stepped on my foot.
- Me too.
(chuckling)
(rhythmic music)
(engine sputters)
(engine sputters)
(Tom): Nice.
- See you, Tom.
- Hey! There goes Deadmau5
on the tractor.
He's a natural for sure.
(engine sputters out)
(Tom): Thanks for coming
to the farm, Joel.
- Thanks for having me.
- Appreciate it.
The culture of electronic music
started in raves, did it?
- Actually, I think it started
out in nightclubs first.
- Yeah.
- You know, the discos and stuff
like that,
when that kind of phased out,
to be debated
between Chicago and Detroit,
is when they started having
those kind of warehouse things
and called them raves.
And then, you know,
fast forward 20 years
or something, Ticketmaster got a
hold of that,
and now it's like
- Became a massive thing.
- It's a thing.
- You're part of what made it
a massive thing.
- I am a little responsible, yeah.
I played my part, yeah.
- How old were you when you
started making music?
- I was probably like 16, 17.
When I started finishing things
versus just twiddling around
and learning. When I was in
my 17, 18, 19, 20 kind of thing,
I interned at this studio
that was kind of more
of a commercial studio,
so they would have bands
come in,
Shania Twain recorded her demo
with them a long time ago
and all this stuff.
A fellow named Dean Malton runs
a studio operation
in Niagara Falls called
Groundloop Studios
and I was a coffee guy, or like,
"Edit this for me real quick."
Like just dumb shit.
- Literally started in
the mail room.
- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because
I just wanted to get my foot
in a studio, because that
was like my thing, right?
So then after a year
or two of becoming friends
and hanging out and, you know,
that's when I kind of realized,
I don't care what I do in life,
I want to run a studio,
like I want to
have a studio and maintain it.
That's kind of my passion.
I had no visions of,
"I want to make music."
Just want to do what Dean
is doing.
- And then where did
Deadmau5 come from
and the whole
persona around that?
- Oh, the name? Yeah, I found a
dead mouse in my computer.
- Yeah. You found a dead mouse
in your computer?
- Yeah. I was almost really kind
of pushed
into releasing stuff
and they were like,
"What do you want to call
yourself?" I'm like, man,
I don't want to sit here
and think for a day or two
on a cool DJ name or whatever,
I don't give a shit. Just dead
mouse. Fuck it.
It's not going anywhere,
you know what I mean?
No one is going to be going
"Dead mouse! Dead mouse!"
In an arena one day
at the Rogers Centre, you know?
- But then when you made that
elaborate mask
at a certain point you
gotta think,
"Well, this
is pretty fucking cool."
- That's when it started to kind
of tie in.
His name was Warren Keeler,
he was a prop maker out
of Toronto.
And he was like, "I know
this company,
they'll make an acrylic
sphere, nah, nah."
I'm like, "Cool." He gave me a
budget and I was like,
"Yeah, that's great.
Bust it out."
And he did,
and he's like,
"Oh, and I even made their eyes
light up."
And I'm like, "Oh, okay,
that's cool, you know."
I put it on and then my first
show wearing it was in Halifax.
- Nice.
- And everyone was like,
"What the fuck is that?"
- Did you go a fairly long
period of time
before people knew what you
looked like under the mask?
- I did. I'd say a couple years.
What had happened was, I had
this song called Faxing Berlin
a long time ago, who, another
friend of mine, Chris Lake,
who is a big DJ out in Europe,
at the time he was getting music
in the hands of Pete Tong
and stuff like that,
and then Pete Tong
started playing a lot of
my music.
So I kind of like blew up
in England in the UK first,
and then the buzz came back
to Canada
and then it was Deadmau5 this,
Deadmau5 that
in the dance scene in Canada
because them thinking,
"Well, Pete Tong is playing this
stuff, he must be from the UK,
from the Kent scene."
- Were you secretive in the
beginning
about who your real
identity was?
- I tried.
- You kind of have to--
- I put an effort in.
- Like you have to sneak in with
the Deadmau5 head.
- Actually, we have a case.
So the ears come off and then it
just folds into a nice cube.
We just kind of roll it in.
- Sneak in through the back
and nobody would see you put it
on and you'd
(rhythmic music)
(mechanical whirring)
(indistinct chatter)
You got a counter on it, right?
- Yeah. There's a counter on
the baler.
- Okay, so. Last year I think
there was 600-ish.
So I'm going to guess 650.
(man): More.
(Tom): Really?
(man): More.
(Tom): Really? Wow, holy
cow. Okay. 775.
(man): A lot more.
(Tom): Wow, really?
(man): Yeah.
(Tom): Well, we got a lot more
hay this year.
(man): A lot more hay.
(Tom): Like, uh, 825 bales?
(man): Nope. Not quite.
(Tom): 820?
(man): 815.
(Tom): 815, okay.
(woman): Everybody say
chicken sandwich!
(all): Chicken sandwich!
(Tom): Yeah, so that's good.
Well, we got enough hay then,
that's for sure.
- That's a big tarp. You ever
had a tarp that big before?
(man): Yeah.
(Tom): You have, okay.
I've had a few tarps but I've
never had a big tarp like that.
Like a giant tarp. That'd be
considered a giant tarp?
- That's a giant tarp.
- I've never had a giant tarp
of any kind.
(chuckling)
- Started at 2 o'clock
and it's 6:30.
- Let's go have a barbecue.
Thanks.
Thank you. Thank you.
(soft music)
Chantal Kreviazuk is here.
One of the great composers of
Canadian pop culture history
and she's worked with the greats
like Drake and others.
Been nominated for Grammys.
Hop in, Chantal,
Amanda will do some filming.
- How you doing, baby?
(tractor humming)
(Tom): There's Fanny, she's in
the barn right now.
That's the big one, right there,
is Fanny. That's the mule.
(Chantal): Oh, that's the mule.
(Tom): Yeah.
(indistinct chatter)
We got this on Amazon.
(Chantal): Ooh, good. Smart.
Perfect, Tom. It's, uh
(Tom): Better get going.
- Well, no, just because they're
in here with us already.
We're trapping them in.
- Hold it there.
Got it? I invented this.
This is my idea.
- Perfect.
I'm coming back for the mobile
screen and porch.
At least. Nailed it.
She's very pretty.
(Tom): Yeah.
- She's special.
Yeah. Such pretty eyes and such
pretty eyelashes.
Gorgeous, darling. Gorgeous.
(chuckling)
(Tom): Thanks for coming
by the farm.
(Chantal): Are you not going
to be on camera?
- I am on camera.
- Oh, okay, okay, okay.
Tom, I don't even notice
cameras anymore, man.
I'm just, you know.
- You were performing in the
area
and I'm performing at the
same festival tomorrow
doing stand-up comedy.
I've been touring doing stand-up
and I'm trying to incorporate
some music
into my stand-up shows.
They're kind of jangly country
songs I'm playing.
- Great. I just wrote a funny
song just yesterday
that is a country kind
of folk funny song.
- Really?
- Yeah. My husband and I are
friends with these people.
- Okay.
- Named Rob and Allison.
- Okay, yeah.
I don't want to put you on the
spot, you don't have to play
this new one if you
- Oh, I'd like to play it,
it's fun.
I mean, this song will
probably never see the light of
day other than this.
When my husband and I
get in a fight I always
say to him, you know,
"Why can't you just love me
the way Rob loves Allison."
- Oh, I like this, yeah.
- It's called Rob Loves Allison,
yeah. I sent it to them today.
I did a little voice note of it
and I sent it to them.
And I shared it with my husband
after I wrote it
and we had kind of a laugh.
- Did he appreciate that?
- Well, yeah, yeah, no. He does,
he appreciates the charm
and art of it.
But I think it probably is
really insulting to him.
- Yeah, it's sort of a dig,
kind of.
- It's a dig and
at the same time--
- Passive aggressive,
maybe passive aggressive.
- Yeah, good Canadian passive
aggressive wife that I am.
- But it's fun, no?
You pick me up ♪
Spin me around ♪
I'd always feel ♪
Like a treasure you'd found ♪
In all the chaos you're
the ground ♪
Why can't you love me the way
Rob loves Allison ♪
- Nice, very nice, and that will
never be released.
- Nah.
- And we'll put it up on
YouTube, maybe, as well.
(chuckling)
(soft music)
How much fun is this. My friend
Kenny Hotz
from Kenny vs. Spenny.
- Hey! Well, I was going
to hug you.
- Hello, Kenny. How are you?
- What kind of dung is that?
- This is a mule, a horse
and donkey,
a nice sort of mixture.
- I thought Spenny's
mom stayed over for a second.
- No.
- How often do you do that?
- I do this every day.
- Every day!
- Every day for about an hour.
- Why don't you just hire
someone to shovel the shit?
- You know, this is a kind of
shit shovel therapy, I call it.
You get into your head and then
you come out here
and you shovel some manure,
and you know,
just kind of a morning routine.
You've got to get up, clean out
the barn, and then I feed them,
and then I do a podcast.
We're going to do the podcast.
- Hopefully not in here.
- No, no. It's up in the loft.
- Oh, good. Is there shit
in there too?
(dramatic music)
These mics are insane, it looks
like Darth Vader's weiner.
- It's professional.
(chuckling)
Yes. Kenny Hotz is here, thank
you, Canadian comedy legend.
What do you think of the farm?
It's fun, I moved to
the country.
- I didn't really think you were
a farm person.
Like you're a city boy
and you lived in the
Hollywood Hills for so long.
- You think of me as an LA guy.
- You were on the cover of
Rolling Stone,
you actually took
over the world.
- I'm not an LA guy.
- Because of your success in the
states,
that was the only reason
we got our show picked up.
We didn't really copy,
but we were like a
reality sitcom.
You know, my friend and I,
we compete
and the loser has
to be humiliated.
- Spenny.
- Yes.
- So what was the first big
prank that you pulled on Spenny?
- Oh, well, I grew up with the
guy,
our dads were best friends
when they were teenagers.
Once we were in a sauna at a
community centre
when we were little kids
and we went into the
sauna room
and he locked me in
the sauna room
and he was against the
door because I wanted to leave
and he wouldn't let me leave,
so I peed on the sauna rocks.
And it went psh,
like the whole place stunk,
but I got him out of the room.
So these were the
types of things
we were kind of doing naturally.
- One of the challenges,
I guess, you put on the show,
who could gain the most weight.
- That was our pilot episode we
did for USA Network.
Who could gain the most weight.
And I think,
I can't even remember,
but I must've gained 20 pounds
in maybe four or five days.
- Were you just eating a lot of
meat and stuff?
- I lived in a wheelchair,
I lived on sticks of butter
and Filet-O-Fish sandwiches.
- That sounds kind of like the
Morgan Spurlock Supersize Me
documentary
where he ate McDonald's,
nothing but McDonald's.
- I feel like, listen,
I believe I started everything
just because it was so long ago.
People think we started YouTube.
Illegally posted the pilot that
we did to BMW films
and it kind of blew up.
- You really did?
- Yeah, we did.
- So, wait,
how did that happen? Why?
- Well, because, I was trying
to sell it.
And I kind of saw
the value in digital media
but this was before
any of it even started.
(soft music)
(Tom): I understand what it's
like to be working with your
friends and have that creative,
sort of, tug-of-war going on and
everybody's egos get involved
and people have their own ideas
of
I mean, I was working with
my friends from high school
on my shows and I was in
a rap group
when I was a kid that we
put out a record.
- It's the only time there
are issues,
when we were having
to create something,
having to make a record.
Those were the marathons.
Going on the road, we
knew the record
and we knew the songs,
all those decisions were
behind us, so on the road,
nothing but happiness, nothing
but, we all know the songs.
And that's why we always had a
producer, except for one record,
but we needed someone else
to break the ties.
And you know what?
Kids, God love them,
but it complicated things a lot.
Then we're adults and it's not
like it was before.
It was Hip all the time.
And then the kids grew up.
'95, 2015, a lot of them
are 20, right?
And so, now you're doing
a little better.
And then Gord goes and dies.
You know.
When we were actually very much
back and getting along so well.
But he got sick and,
you know, we were up here.
It was amazing to watch
how hard he worked.
He was on that bike over
there. We would take a break,
we'd be rehearsing for,
you know, say, two hours.
And then we'd go downstairs
and take a break outside
for 10, 15, 20 minutes
and Gord would ride the bike.
And, you know, he was just
working.
He wanted it so badly.
- When I was on my show on MTV,
I had to stop my show because I
got testicular cancer.
I filmed my whole cancer surgery
and we put it on television.
You know, I was fortunate
enough to have survived cancer
but I understand
how intensely complicated it is
of a decision to have to decide
to do what Gord decided to do
and what you decided to do.
What was going through your mind
when Gord decided
to want to go on that tour?
- I was living with him
at the time,
like helping his brother look
after him.
And I had been living
there since February,
beginning of February,
so, you know,
it was the year of the tour,
But he was going through
radiation, I mean,
it was a tough time,
but he was hanging in there.
- Yeah.
- And we had made a record. But
he was like,
"We made a record, right?"
He was mentally compromised
because radiation was just
it was just firing at him.
30 days of it.
"Yeah, we made a record.
Coming out in June."
"Are we going to tour?"
And I said, "Well, yeah, we had
talked about it."
And he was like,
"Well, aren't we going to?"
And at the time, this is in
March, I was honestly thinking,
there's no chance for you,
he was falling asleep at eight.
And I was like, "I guess, but we
haven't really talked about it
since your surgeries."
And he's like, "Well, I think
we should, don't you?"
And I was like, "Sure."
So I'd have to get on the
phone with the other three guys.
"He wants to tour."
"What? He wants to tour?
Can he sing?" I'm like,
"No, I keep suggesting that
we play Wheat Kings
or something simple
and he doesn't want to,
he just wants to get together
and rehearse, the whole band."
(soft music)
- You know, I'm always touring
around the country
and I would love for you to
come see me at one of my shows,
here's a few
clips from me out in Vancouver
and I really enjoy getting out
and seeing everybody on
the road.
And I'll always be touring,
doing stand-up
and playing music.
Come see me when
I'm in your city.
(announcer): Are you ready for
the man himself?
(crowd cheers)
He's got a new show, it's coming
out this spring,
it's called Tom Green Farm,
please keep it going
for the one and only Tom Green,
ladies and gentlemen!
(crowd cheers)
- I love Vancouver.
I shot Freddie Got Fingered
in Vancouver.
(crowd cheers)
Make a little video there,
yay ah!
Hoping his video is
for a TikTok, yay! Yay.
(crowd laughs)
Headin' home to the country ♪
To a place I've always been ♪
Goodbye California and all
the things I've seen ♪
Going back to Canada
to live my American dream ♪
On 100 acres where the grass
is always green ♪
(crowd cheers)
Thank you, Vancouver! Love
you guys. Goodnight everybody!
A different life ♪
And it's slowly coming down
to the night ♪
And then it's over and I
refuse to fight to the end ♪
You want to switch seats?
(Chantal): Uh, yeah.
(Tom): You sit there because I
want there to be a shot of you
watching.
I got this piano a couple
of years ago.
(playing piano)
- Nice touch.
(Tom): So that's my,
that's pretty much all that
I can play.
I've been playing this.
(plays piano)
And this.
(plays piano)
For the last five years.
(laughing)
- So you're really running
with this.
(Tom): Yeah.
But I can do little variations
on it.
(plays a different piano tune)
- Okay, so what you want to do
is a departure from,
you're trying to depart
from maybe that a bit.
(Tom): Yeah. I learned some new
chords last month.
- Okay. Can I hear
the new chords?
(playing piano)
- Wait, sorry, one second.
- Did I intimidate you
with my skills?
(Tom): Yeah, yeah. Okay, let's
switch back seats again.
(Chantal): The one piece of
advice that I would have is
- Get into another line of work?
(Chantal): No, no, no, no, no.
Never.
We're trying to do what's
in our head and put it here,
and there's a bridge between
here and there, right?
Like there's a distance between
what your skill is
- Absolutely.
- and what you're hearing in
your head.
If you just play with
your ears of now.
Stop with what is driving
you in your mind to get to
and just use your ears more.
One of the things I noticed is
you have a natural rhythm
to you, right? Like you're
doing
(playing piano)
You're in a rhythm. Okay?
I would like, literally tie your
hand behind your back
for a second and just get away
from that tempo even like sit
in some chords, you know?
And just like
(playing prolonged chord)
(Tom): Uh-huh, uh-huh.
- And--
- So, you sort of, just kind of
like, once you know where to
- But see, there you go, you're
in the "once the."
(Tom): Mm-hmm.
- See that forward thinking?
What I'm saying is don't even be
scared that you don't know
because that's how you find
the chords. You could just
(plays softly)
Like there's so much being said
in one little melody.
I don't know why ♪
Maybe if you just hold one
of the notes
with the other at the end,
now you're creating something, right?
There's that extra layer
there instead of:
I don't know-ow why ♪
I ♪
Don't know why ♪
(Tom): Nice, yeah.
- Right?
And then you know as you go
and you play it again.
I don't know why-y ♪
I don't know why-y-y ♪
- Nice.
- Now I've done three different
things with it, right?
- Right.
- I mean, for me, obviously,
because I go like down a dark
thing, I'll be like:
I don't know ♪
(plays somber melody)
I don't know why ♪
I don't know why-y ♪
I just want to cry ♪
In your arms ♪
(vocalizing)
- Woah.
- You know, I go down a whole,
whatever, you know.
And to me, my thing,
is like, dude,
if I hit any fucking note,
I should be able to make
that sound good.
- Yeah.
- So like, any choice I make,
fake it 'till you make it.
(soft music)
(Tom): We went down to our
wedding venue
and we tasted the drinks
and the food.
I like the wine.
- I like the white wine a lot.
- And got ready
for a beautiful wedding.
(woman): I chose a soup because
it's going to be fall and cool.
- Do you like tomato soup?
- With all of our friends
and family.
I can't drink these all night on
our wedding night
or I'll be like passed out
on the floor.
I can't wait for you to see just
a little bit of it.
(man): Mr. and Mrs. Green!
(crowd cheers)
- I'm a lucky guy.
(crowd cheers)
The fact that the entire country
rallied around you
and came out to essentially
say goodbye to Gord,
did you ever anticipate
that it would turn into
what it did with the final show?
Which is coming up
on the ten-year anniversary now,
the final show.
- Yeah, it doesn't seem like
anything like that
could happen again.
I mean, a singer gets
diagnosed with brain cancer,
he wants to tour.
And that's kind of like, okay.
And for people
that have cancer,
for them to see a guy
that's doing that
- Might be the most--
- So inspiring.
- Most rock 'n' roll thing ever.
- Yeah. Like it really is.
So it felt that way and on the
last show I was like,
just thinking this
is a total drag,
it's heavy, going to be the last
show, we're in Kingston,
I don't want to go outside.
I was just at the arena,
and Gord shows up
and he's like, "This is going
to be really good."
I'm like, "Really?"
"Oh, yeah.
This is going to be great.
Going to be great."
And then all of a sudden,
I was just kind of like, huh,
okay, that's a great way
to look at it.
That's how I'm
going to look at it.
- I'm kind of curious because it
must be a big adjustment,
probably the understatement of
the century,
to be performing for
33 years together
and just have it stop like that.
- I don't think of it often but
Joanne, she mentions it.
She's like,
"You must miss it, I mean,
don't you miss it?"
And I was like, you know,
all of a sudden
I picture being at The Fillmore
or Maple Leaf Gardens or the ACC
or whatever
and it's kind of like,
yeah I guess I do.
It all went away and
everyone reacted differently.
And that was another
thing Gord was quite sad about,
Gord Downie.
And he wanted us
to get another singer.
And I was like, "We're not going
to do that."
These are just talks with me
and Gord. And Pat, his brother.
"We're not doing that."
But, you know, again, I just
tell myself or anyone else,
it wasn't like a five,
or seven-year run.
It was a 35-year run, so.
(Tom): Sure.
- You know.
So at least there's that.
- Amazing. Thanks, Paul.
- Thank you, Tom.
It's an honour
to speak with you.
- No. Honour is all mine.
Thank you.
My monitor over here on this
one, too. Check, check, check.
Check, check, check,
check, check.
This is the Tom Green Show ♪
(soft music)
It was a real honour to be able
to be performing stand-up comedy
and music in Paul Langlois's
hometown of Kingston.
Home of The Tragically Hip and
have him come out
and surprise the audience
and play with me.
Paul Langlois, thank you.
One of Canada's greatest bands
of all time, The Tragically Hip.
(crowd cheers)
My friend Ahren Belisle,
he's on tour all around
North America now.
Appeared on
America's Got Talent.
Good to see you, Ahren.
- Good to see you too, Tom.
- When I met you, you were
at Yuk Yuk's in Ottawa
doing stand-up comedy, and
then the next thing I know,
we were just about to
start hanging out all the time
and then you hit the
big time,
you went on America's Got Talent
and then all of a sudden
you're touring North America
and now you're living
in Austin
and you're one of
the Kill Tony bros.
- Yeah, that happened
pretty quick.
I'm a Kill Tony
golden ticket winner.
- So you did America's Got
Talent, though,
how did that happen?
- Well, casting originally
messaged me on TikTok
based on a clip I made
in Montréal,
but they were like, "Oh, you're
pretty new,
let's give it a year."
Then they see Kill Tony
and they're like, "Never mind,
we need you now."
- How long were you
doing stand-up for before you
got on Kill Tony?
- Six months.
- Yeah, that's amazing.
- It's blown up a lot in the
last two years.
But yeah, it's turned into like
the biggest platform for new
comedians now I think.
- You quit your job as a senior
software engineer and pursued
stand-up.
- Questionable life choices.
- Yeah, absolutely.
- Comedy is a blue-pill/red-pill
thing. You can't ever go back.
- And how did you have the
confidence to go do that?
- I didn't want to. I was just
heckling comics
at a Portugal open mic
and they said,
"Hey, you're funny, you
should try it."
- That's funny, I started as a
heckler as well, which is
interesting.
- I was actually making mental
health content and I was like,
"Hey, I should try stand-up,
might make me better at making
that."
But then it was fun,
so here I am.
- I mean, is there anybody else
with a disability like yours
who does stand-up?
- There's still not
that many disabled comics as
a whole honestly.
- What do you think it is that
gave you that confidence to go
up and try this?
- For me I think it was
cathartic.
Nobody ever fucking
listened to me.
Conversations passed me by
and I got on stage
and I'm like,
"Oh, people actually listen
to what I have to say?
I can talk about
all this bullshit in my life."
I also thought I could educate
people with comedy.
Like, "Hey, don't talk down
to me,
I'm just a person like you."
It didn't work as
well as I thought it would.
I went on Netflix
literally this week
and I told a joke about
how people come up
to the girl I date and say, "Oh,
are you his sister?"
And I'm sarcastic,
so I'm like, "I hope not.
I got her pregnant."
And someone comes up
after and asks a girl I'm with,
"Hey, are you family?"
Not ironically.
And I'm like, "Were you even
listening?"
- And this is true? Did you
get your girlfriend pregnant?
- No.
- Okay.
(chuckling)
- I use protection.
- Okay.
(laughing)
- Stay in school, kids!
Use condoms.
(twangy banjo music)
(birds chirping)
(harmonica playing)
- Not interested, huh?
Good to see you again.
Thanks so much, Peter,
we're getting some more
amazing fences.
What are these kind
of fences called, again?
- Patent rail fence.
(Tom): It's like basically
fixing the fence.
Since the fence was
falling over
because it was 100 years old.
(Peter): And there was
not much left of it.
Get some more rails over here.
- I can come grab some.
- Yeah, let's go.
(soft music)
- I've got kind of a bad neck.
I do stuff around here, though.
- Okay.
(Tom): Yeah, like I do stuff.
(clanking)
You just sold
your music catalogue.
- Yeah.
- It was widely reported.
Why'd you do that? Because it
was a good deal, probably?
- Yeah, yeah, no. It was a fair
deal.
I saw a lot of conversation
about it and there's
not misinformation, but people
not really understanding
what it means to do that.
You know, one of the
fucking comments
that sticks out from general
ignorance is,
"Oh, you sold it,
why'd you sell out?"
Well, that's what you do.
You protect your property,
your intellectual property
for as long as you can,
and if anyone tries to infringe
on you and stuff,
you go after that.
You protect your right.
Just yesterday I commented on
this post,
I saw this band, and
they're like,
"Hey, we just wanted
everyone to know that"
This big, huge, we're
talking triple-A mega pop star
"stole our music.
And used it here."
And they go,
"And we're really big fans
so we would appreciate it if"
And I was like,
"Lawyer the fuck up.
And get that shit."
If you don't
protect your shit now,
someone else is going
to do it and then when you go,
your whole life's work,
you're ready to liquidate it,
or do what you want with
the publishing,
it's going to be
fucking worthless
because no one is
going to want it
because you've been
walked over. It's like,
"Bro, stand on business."
Because a day will come when
you're in your late 40s
where it's time to move on
and moving on means starting
another chapter
of your franchise and
stuff like that,
and you're going to need
some liquidity to do that.
- Now that you've sold your
catalogue,
are you actively
making new music
and going to put out
new music?
- Yeah, absolutely, yeah.
I'm super excited to get back in
the studio
and just kind of stay
in there more often than
Oh, who is that?
- Charlie's like
This is the only show
where there's a
dog hunting on the set.
- I do have to say this is one
of the coolest sets.
- It's a 100 plus year old barn
and it's kind of technology
meets no technology.
(chuckling)
Well, that's awesome, Joel,
thank you so much for coming out
to the farm and talking to me.
- Yeah, thanks for having me.
- It's amazing.
- It's beautiful out here.
- Alright, thanks, man.
Awesome. Cheers.
(soft music)
You go on tour with Spenny, right?
(Kenny): Yeah, we still tour.
(Tom): What does the live show
consist of?
(Kenny): I make fun of him,
I totally abuse him,
the audience laughs,
the more they laugh at
my horrible, mean, comedy,
the angrier he gets at
the audience,
and then he turns on them.
So my job is to get Spenny
so angry
that he turns on the audience
which makes them hate him
even more.
- Well, this has been great.
I want to--
- Not really.
- I want to go do some more
stuff outside the barn too.
- I'm sure you do.
Have fun.
(scoffing)
Go do that.
- She likes a belly-rub, see?
- I hope that's her belly.
(chickens squawking)
- Fanny's a huge mule and
Alora is sort of a small horse.
- One sec. Shut up!
- Want to see the guinea hens?
- Okay.
Oh, weird.
See you later! You're free!
They look like
they're really soft.
- Yeah. Well, they're very soft.
You want to touch one?
- Not really.
- Why don't you want
to touch one?
- Well, I guess I would touch
one I guess, I'd pat
their heads,
but don't they bite?
- You've touched worse than
that, eh?
- Yeah. Sure have.
- How long did it take you to
learn how to ride her?
Before you
actually felt comfortable.
- Probably about two years.
That's right. That's right,
come on, come on.
Hi!
(chuckling)
Oh yeah, go get him, go get him!
Go get him, go get Kenny!
(Kenny laughs)
Fanny vs. Kenny.
What a night. Cheers.
(chickens squawking)
- Shut up!
(rhythmic music)
(Tom): All right.
- Tom Vert, thanks
for having us, man.
- Thank you, thank you.
It's been a great year here,
up at the farm.
- Tom, open your pocketbook and
get a new damn kitchen.
(laughing)
- Had a lot of amazing guests.
George, thank you.
- Hey, buddy.
- Aw.
- Kurt Vile's here.
Kinda gets the blood going, eh?
(laughing)
- Would you hire me
to work on the farm?
- Absolutely, yeah.
- I can take care of
all your cocks.
(scoffs)
- Cut!
(producers laughing)
(laughing)
- Just ignore him.
(laughing)
- It has been super fun being
welcomed into your homes.
Thank you for watching.
(laughing)
- Tom, you are adding to
Canadian culture
- Hello
- Cheers!
- Thanks for having me.
(snorting)
- That looks like something that
a female member of Kraftwerk
would wear.
- There we go!
(laughing)
- What a beautiful thing!
I actually just got goosebumps.
- If you build it,
we might come.
- How are you? Good to see you.
- Good to see you.
(♪)
- And we will continue
the adventure.
- To our beautiful country!
I love you, Tom. You're a fellow
Canadian,
fellow Ottawan and
you're an anarchist.
(laughter)
- Oh! Ouch, god!
- You had fun?
- Yeah, absolutely.
- I sincerely appreciate
everybody for tuning in
and watching and for the years
of support here.
It started out
back in the 90s, doing
The Tom Green Show
and here we are, in
2020-whatever it is.
Oh my gosh, can you believe it?
Still doing it.
55 years old and a skateboard
ramp. Man!
Thanks for watching,
everybody. See you next time.
You're watching The Tom Green
Farm.
- Wow, you are living the
dream. Truly living the dream.
(♪)
(♪)
(narrator): Welcome to the
Tom Green Farm.
(scraping)
(soft music)
- Alright. Thanks, Tony,
for sending me your board.
(plastic ripping)
- Wow
- Look at that.
I did what I said I was going
to do,
I shovelled the snow off
the ramp.
- I expect you to be so hardcore
with your skating,
you shovel it off
and you put on gloves
and you get on this ramp.
- Let's see how this looks.
(whooshing)
Well.
You've tuned into another
episode of the Tom Green Farm.
We've got a great episode here
today for you.
Thanks for being here.
Today on the show,
Paul Langlois
from The Tragically Hip.
I'll be interviewing him at
the legendary Bathouse Studio
where The Tragically
Hip
recorded many of their amazing
albums.
Also Deadmau5,
one of the greatest electronic
musicians
and electronic music producers
of all time.
We'll talk about
electronic music,
we'll talk about life
as Deadmau5,
another musical prodigy on
the show today.
- Wow.
- Chantal Kreviazuk
pops by to give me
a piano lesson
and the great Kenny
Hotz from Kenny vs. Spenny,
also going to be
stopping by.
Ahren Belisle has
an amazing story.
He's a disabled comedian,
but he somehow manages
to do stand-up comedy
without having a voice,
he speaks electronically.
He was just
getting started up on stage,
killing it at Yuk Yuk's,
next thing you know, he was down
at America's Got Talent
and then on
Kill Tony Podcast,
and now he's touring
all over the world.
A lot of people on the show
today.
We'll be weaving in
and out.
You could call this the
season finale of the show.
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(groaning)
You're watching the
Tom Green Farm.
(rooster croaks)
(theme music)
This is the Tom Green Farm ♪
It's not the Green Tom Farm ♪
This is my favourite farm ♪
(horse neighs)
Because it is my farm ♪
If this was your farm ♪
You'd probably like it more
than I did ♪
That's just because
it was your farm ♪
But it's not your farm ♪
It's the Tom Green Farm ♪
(birds chirping)
(radio static)
(rhythmic music)
Deadmau5, Joel Zimmerman,
a friend of mine,
also lives on a farm.
So you just got a donkey too?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a baby,
though. How old is Kia?
- Kia is four.
- Four.
- And she can kick, so careful.
- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I learned that from Bobby.
- Bobby your donkey?
- Bobby is metal.
I got her like two weeks ago
or something.
- You have a tractor as well.
- We put a field mower on
and just do laps.
The kid who dropped it off
just kind of dropped it off.
It took us probably about 20
minutes to figure out
how to even start the thing.
- Right.
- Got it in gear,
and then going,
but then the brakes are old.
Like, slamming on the brake
while the thing is in gear,
so it's just like
slowly cruising towards
the back
of one of my ATVs,
and it just like smashed
it in.
- Oh, you actually had
an accident.
- Yeah.
(acoustic guitar music)
- These are the first apples off
the tree,
these just came off
the tree.
You've all heard of
the game bobbing for apples,
Aria likes to bob
for apples too.
Here you go, look at this.
Hip-a-dop-a-doo-ahi-ah-hoo ♪
Yee-haw, yee-haw ♪
Got one, Kia?
Got one?
Oh, they're chasing
that one, huh?
Good way to get them to drink
more water too.
Oh, you got one.
Yee-haw ♪
Yip-a-dop-a-do ♪
La-pah-dop-ah-dop-ah-doo ♪
Hip-ah-dop-ah-doo ♪
Boo boo boo ♪
Morning, Dad!
- Hey, Tom, How's it going?
(Tom): You're going
to catch one today.
We had a pretty good time
fishing the other day,
didn't we?
(Richard): We did.
It was nice, lovely day.
(Tom): We were trying to catch
some lake trout.
(Richard): We were.
(Tom): I've never caught
a lake trout.
- I've only caught one.
It was in the early spring,
right close to the shore.
Bang. This thing bit, it
was about a 15-pound lake trout.
(Tom): I know that picture that
you have hanging
on the wall
of the cottage.
- Very proud of that picture.
(Tom): I know you like
that picture.
- Mm-hmm.
(Tom): Lot of people might've
suggested it might be AI.
- I wish the fish had been AI
generated,
it could make it bigger.
- Absolutely.
Oh, think we got one.
We got one, we got one.
Interesting bass,
look how red its eyes are.
- It's been drinking.
- I've got one here.
(Richard): Very good.
Remember that time we went out
at night? Midnight?
(Tom): Yeah.
- And the first,
just barely hit the water,
this five-pound bass just jumped
out and grabbed your Rapala.
- I remember.
(Richard): Yeah.
(Tom): Got one, alright!
- Jeez, that's a nice one.
(Tom): We're going to let him
go now, okay?
- We go back to shore, showed
everybody this great fish
you'd caught.
(Tom): Yeah.
- "Let's go out
and try it again!"
Next cast, same spot, boom.
Another five-pound bass.
- I know.
- I didn't catch a damn thing.
(Tom): Let's see, I've got two.
- Yeah.
(Tom): It's not
a competition, though.
(chuckling)
(soft music)
Paul Langlois. I've gotten to
know Paul,
it's been a lot of fun
getting to know him
and we talked about
the history,
the legacy of The Tragically
Hip.
Cheers, Paul.
(Paul): Cheers.
(Tom): Thanks for having me.
(Paul): Well,
thanks for having me.
(Tom): I love the studio. It's
been
a lot of fun, I've recorded
a few things here
over the last couple years since
I moved home
and recorded the soundtrack
for this show, actually, so.
At the legendary Bathouse
Studio, here in Bath, Ontario.
- Well, we're honoured to have
you, I mean,
so many great artists
and musicians
that have come through
this place.
It's the best decision
we ever made.
- It must be kind of an amazing
thing to spend your life
and career with your friends
from high school
and have the kind
of success you had.
- That was quite amazing.
I wasn't This was my first
band.
Those other guys are all
musicologists,
they all started playing
when they were like 12.
Gord Downie wasn't singing but
he wanted to be
and he started
singing in grade 11, so he's 16.
And I didn't start playing
guitar until I was 19,
after high school,
and we were just
gradually hitting the road, more
and more and more.
And it just became so obvious
that everyone was so committed.
It's almost like a camp.
I remember telling my dad,
he's like, "You got a
backup plan?"
I'm like, "Yeah, I mean I'll
come up with one,
but I'm pretty sure this band's
going to make it, Dad."
- Do you remember the moment
when you knew you'd made it?
- While we were recording, but
more after
we recorded Road Apples.
We did Up to Here and we
knew we had followed it up well
once we came home
with the mix for Road Apples,
which we recorded in
New Orleans.
And it sold 100,000 records
in 10 days,
which was massive
at the time.
And it was just like, okay.
But all it did was make us
more serious.
And you're right,
it was such
an awesome experience to
do it with your friends
and have it go well,
and have Gord, obviously.
- One of the all-time great
frontmen of a rock 'n' roll band
in history, up there with
Mick Jagger kind of thing.
- That's what I think. That's
what everyone thought
when they saw him.
It's just like, you
don't see people like that.
Low-key guy.
- Right.
- But on stage he just couldn't
help it.
He just turned into an
entertainer and a dancer,
that's what he was,
he was a dancer.
- Yeah, yeah. Is it more fun
when you're coming up
and getting started?
Or when the thing explodes
and you're playing arenas,
is that, that's
probably more fun, I guess.
- It's more fun on a tour bus
than it is in a van
and we did a good seven,
eight years in a van,
and we crossed Canada three
times anyway, maybe even four,
before we put a record out.
- Yeah.
- We toured the states early on,
too, in a van.
So I appreciate that
we did that,
but it was way more
fun when we got on the bus
and watching movies, watching
your show back in the day.
- Oh, yeah? Really?
- Oh, yeah, yeah. We loved you,
we loved the show.
I mean, we felt badly
for your parents.
(laughing)
I must say.
But they were so sweet to you.
- I had heard a rumour that you
guys knew of the show
but I wasn't sure
if it was true.
- We did. Oh, yeah.
- It's funny we haven't really
crossed paths over the years,
I did go--
- Well, I know it's funny we
haven't,
I think because you
moved to LA, right?
- Mm-hmm. I was at your show in
LA at the House of Blues.
- The House of Blues,
it ended up to
be very good for us
because there was a whole bunch
of them
and it's kind of like
the biggest clubs
before you move on to
a bigger theatre or something.
- Dan Aykroyd, did he own the
House of Blues
or he was part of it?
- Uh, yeah, he was involved in
the start of it, yeah.
- So that's cool, he's always
been one of your huge
supporters.
- We've expressed our gratitude
many times,
but he got us on
Saturday Night Live.
Which we didn't see coming
at all.
But he was offered to host,
he left the show
for a long time, so this
was '95 I think.
And he insisted to Lorne
Michaels, who is Canadian,
"I'm not going to host
unless my friends can play,
The Tragically Hip." And
he was like, "Tragically what?"
And so he insisted
and we got that opportunity.
I mean, it didn't
amount to a lot,
but at least we did it.
And then we went and
played St. Louis,
we went to a party,
Saturday Night Live party,
left like at three in the
morning, we go to St. Louis,
club called The Other World,
we were kinda like,
"This is exciting, this'll
be good.
Saturday Night Live last night,
so this will be great."
And there was like
15 people there.
- Oh, really? Wow.
- It was just like, "Okay,
this is what it amounts to."
The general impression that
people have is
that we didn't do well in
the states but we actually did,
but we just had to
work on a city at a time,
and there's fifty cities.
- Yeah, yeah.
- For some reason, we weren't
popular in Phoenix,
but we were
popular in Tucson.
We had way more success
and people were
It just didn't happen in the
same way.
There was no national
exposure for The Hip.
(soft music)
(Tom): I'm thinking of making
the Tom Green Show again,
but doing it
animated. I have this idea,
I want to take the old,
crazy pranks
from the Tom Green Show
and animate them
and I thought I'd show
my parents
and see what they think.
Mom, Dad, come here!
I want to show you something.
(Mary Jane and Richard):
What's up?
- Come here, just come behind me
here and watch the TV.
- Okay.
- What's going on?
- So I've been working on this
project I want to show you.
- Oh, okay.
- Check this out.
It's the Tom Green Show,
remember the show we
used to do together?
- How can we forget?
- But animated.
Remember when I painted
the house plaid?
- Oh, yeah.
- Look, watch.
My dad and my mom and their
friends are going
to Algonquin Park on Sunday.
I want to prove to you that
I'm mature enough to live alone.
- Look at you.
- That's me!
- without supervision
for a week?
- You can prove it if all those
plants are alive
when we get back.
- I think my parents will be
super happy when they come home,
see that I've done some work
around the house.
(audience gasps, cheers)
I hope my parents will like
their surprise.
The house looks
better than all the other houses
in the neighbourhood.
(car brakes screech)
(ding)
- You painted the house?
- I did all the lawn too.
- The car is gone.
I'm calling the guy.
- What do you mean?
What are you talking about?
- You have two days
to get that painted back.
- Mom, it looks nice.
(audience laughs)
You like that kind of art stuff.
Probably easier to see yourself
being pranked
when it's animated
than when you're actually having
your house painted plaid.
Thanks, Mom and Dad.
I just wanted you to know that
you're cartoons now, that's all.
- Okay, oh, great.
- Real genius, Tom.
(Mary Jane): That's what I've
been aiming to be all my life,
Tom.
(Tom): Yep. Cartoons now.
(Mary Jane): A cartoon.
(upbeat music)
(Tom): Hey, how are you?
- Morning, Tom, how are you?
(Tom): Morning, good morning.
- Beautiful day.
- Good to see you,
good to see you.
How's it going?
- Good, how you doing?
- This is my son, Justin.
- Justin.
- Yep.
- How are you guys? Alright,
we're going to trim
some hooves today.
- Oh, yeah. We're up for it.
- Fanny!
- Come on, Fanny.
- Here we go.
- I always like to scratch them,
just make friends.
Got myself a new knife tongue.
(Justin): Oh, yeah. It's pretty
good, though, huh?
- Yeah, feet look good.
It's been about five weeks
I think.
(Tom soothes mule)
- Hey, hey.
- Got all the little stones
and dirt and mud.
Heels are worn down more
than her toes.
I want to keep the heels,
clean the heels.
Salvage as much
of that as we can.
A good foot is concave.
When it's concave,
it sheds them newer
and their feet grow better.
- Is this dangerous, what I'm
doing right now?
- Not with Fanny.
- Like she's looking right
at me, she seems to like this.
- Oh, you're bonding.
- Hi there. Hi.
Nice.
(clack)
I'll get Kia next.
Let's go over here.
(Justin): More agreeable
than most.
- She's a good donkey.
- Like why would she just stand
here and let us do this?
- Because she loves you, Tom.
(chuckling)
(Tom): She's being very good.
(clipping)
How many hooves
do you do a week?
(chicken squawking
in background)
- 75-100 horses a week.
- That year-round? Is it in the
winter too?
- Winter, we're reduced maybe 20
by 25%.
I'm at it for 50 years,
so a lot of people know me.
(Tom): Yeah, yeah.
(chickens squawking
in background)
Come on.
Woah.
(grating)
(indistinct)
(Tom): Yeah. Okay. The last one,
Aria, here we go.
Woah. Woah.
- Maybe just stand behind her.
So she can't back up, Justin.
- Ooh, yeah.
How big do you figure
she's going to get?
- I think she's going
to be well over 16 hands.
- Yeah.
- Might be 1300 or 1400 pounds.
- I'm glad I'm wearing
my steel-toed boots.
She just stepped on my foot.
- Me too.
(chuckling)
(rhythmic music)
(engine sputters)
(engine sputters)
(Tom): Nice.
- See you, Tom.
- Hey! There goes Deadmau5
on the tractor.
He's a natural for sure.
(engine sputters out)
(Tom): Thanks for coming
to the farm, Joel.
- Thanks for having me.
- Appreciate it.
The culture of electronic music
started in raves, did it?
- Actually, I think it started
out in nightclubs first.
- Yeah.
- You know, the discos and stuff
like that,
when that kind of phased out,
to be debated
between Chicago and Detroit,
is when they started having
those kind of warehouse things
and called them raves.
And then, you know,
fast forward 20 years
or something, Ticketmaster got a
hold of that,
and now it's like
- Became a massive thing.
- It's a thing.
- You're part of what made it
a massive thing.
- I am a little responsible, yeah.
I played my part, yeah.
- How old were you when you
started making music?
- I was probably like 16, 17.
When I started finishing things
versus just twiddling around
and learning. When I was in
my 17, 18, 19, 20 kind of thing,
I interned at this studio
that was kind of more
of a commercial studio,
so they would have bands
come in,
Shania Twain recorded her demo
with them a long time ago
and all this stuff.
A fellow named Dean Malton runs
a studio operation
in Niagara Falls called
Groundloop Studios
and I was a coffee guy, or like,
"Edit this for me real quick."
Like just dumb shit.
- Literally started in
the mail room.
- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because
I just wanted to get my foot
in a studio, because that
was like my thing, right?
So then after a year
or two of becoming friends
and hanging out and, you know,
that's when I kind of realized,
I don't care what I do in life,
I want to run a studio,
like I want to
have a studio and maintain it.
That's kind of my passion.
I had no visions of,
"I want to make music."
Just want to do what Dean
is doing.
- And then where did
Deadmau5 come from
and the whole
persona around that?
- Oh, the name? Yeah, I found a
dead mouse in my computer.
- Yeah. You found a dead mouse
in your computer?
- Yeah. I was almost really kind
of pushed
into releasing stuff
and they were like,
"What do you want to call
yourself?" I'm like, man,
I don't want to sit here
and think for a day or two
on a cool DJ name or whatever,
I don't give a shit. Just dead
mouse. Fuck it.
It's not going anywhere,
you know what I mean?
No one is going to be going
"Dead mouse! Dead mouse!"
In an arena one day
at the Rogers Centre, you know?
- But then when you made that
elaborate mask
at a certain point you
gotta think,
"Well, this
is pretty fucking cool."
- That's when it started to kind
of tie in.
His name was Warren Keeler,
he was a prop maker out
of Toronto.
And he was like, "I know
this company,
they'll make an acrylic
sphere, nah, nah."
I'm like, "Cool." He gave me a
budget and I was like,
"Yeah, that's great.
Bust it out."
And he did,
and he's like,
"Oh, and I even made their eyes
light up."
And I'm like, "Oh, okay,
that's cool, you know."
I put it on and then my first
show wearing it was in Halifax.
- Nice.
- And everyone was like,
"What the fuck is that?"
- Did you go a fairly long
period of time
before people knew what you
looked like under the mask?
- I did. I'd say a couple years.
What had happened was, I had
this song called Faxing Berlin
a long time ago, who, another
friend of mine, Chris Lake,
who is a big DJ out in Europe,
at the time he was getting music
in the hands of Pete Tong
and stuff like that,
and then Pete Tong
started playing a lot of
my music.
So I kind of like blew up
in England in the UK first,
and then the buzz came back
to Canada
and then it was Deadmau5 this,
Deadmau5 that
in the dance scene in Canada
because them thinking,
"Well, Pete Tong is playing this
stuff, he must be from the UK,
from the Kent scene."
- Were you secretive in the
beginning
about who your real
identity was?
- I tried.
- You kind of have to--
- I put an effort in.
- Like you have to sneak in with
the Deadmau5 head.
- Actually, we have a case.
So the ears come off and then it
just folds into a nice cube.
We just kind of roll it in.
- Sneak in through the back
and nobody would see you put it
on and you'd
(rhythmic music)
(mechanical whirring)
(indistinct chatter)
You got a counter on it, right?
- Yeah. There's a counter on
the baler.
- Okay, so. Last year I think
there was 600-ish.
So I'm going to guess 650.
(man): More.
(Tom): Really?
(man): More.
(Tom): Really? Wow, holy
cow. Okay. 775.
(man): A lot more.
(Tom): Wow, really?
(man): Yeah.
(Tom): Well, we got a lot more
hay this year.
(man): A lot more hay.
(Tom): Like, uh, 825 bales?
(man): Nope. Not quite.
(Tom): 820?
(man): 815.
(Tom): 815, okay.
(woman): Everybody say
chicken sandwich!
(all): Chicken sandwich!
(Tom): Yeah, so that's good.
Well, we got enough hay then,
that's for sure.
- That's a big tarp. You ever
had a tarp that big before?
(man): Yeah.
(Tom): You have, okay.
I've had a few tarps but I've
never had a big tarp like that.
Like a giant tarp. That'd be
considered a giant tarp?
- That's a giant tarp.
- I've never had a giant tarp
of any kind.
(chuckling)
- Started at 2 o'clock
and it's 6:30.
- Let's go have a barbecue.
Thanks.
Thank you. Thank you.
(soft music)
Chantal Kreviazuk is here.
One of the great composers of
Canadian pop culture history
and she's worked with the greats
like Drake and others.
Been nominated for Grammys.
Hop in, Chantal,
Amanda will do some filming.
- How you doing, baby?
(tractor humming)
(Tom): There's Fanny, she's in
the barn right now.
That's the big one, right there,
is Fanny. That's the mule.
(Chantal): Oh, that's the mule.
(Tom): Yeah.
(indistinct chatter)
We got this on Amazon.
(Chantal): Ooh, good. Smart.
Perfect, Tom. It's, uh
(Tom): Better get going.
- Well, no, just because they're
in here with us already.
We're trapping them in.
- Hold it there.
Got it? I invented this.
This is my idea.
- Perfect.
I'm coming back for the mobile
screen and porch.
At least. Nailed it.
She's very pretty.
(Tom): Yeah.
- She's special.
Yeah. Such pretty eyes and such
pretty eyelashes.
Gorgeous, darling. Gorgeous.
(chuckling)
(Tom): Thanks for coming
by the farm.
(Chantal): Are you not going
to be on camera?
- I am on camera.
- Oh, okay, okay, okay.
Tom, I don't even notice
cameras anymore, man.
I'm just, you know.
- You were performing in the
area
and I'm performing at the
same festival tomorrow
doing stand-up comedy.
I've been touring doing stand-up
and I'm trying to incorporate
some music
into my stand-up shows.
They're kind of jangly country
songs I'm playing.
- Great. I just wrote a funny
song just yesterday
that is a country kind
of folk funny song.
- Really?
- Yeah. My husband and I are
friends with these people.
- Okay.
- Named Rob and Allison.
- Okay, yeah.
I don't want to put you on the
spot, you don't have to play
this new one if you
- Oh, I'd like to play it,
it's fun.
I mean, this song will
probably never see the light of
day other than this.
When my husband and I
get in a fight I always
say to him, you know,
"Why can't you just love me
the way Rob loves Allison."
- Oh, I like this, yeah.
- It's called Rob Loves Allison,
yeah. I sent it to them today.
I did a little voice note of it
and I sent it to them.
And I shared it with my husband
after I wrote it
and we had kind of a laugh.
- Did he appreciate that?
- Well, yeah, yeah, no. He does,
he appreciates the charm
and art of it.
But I think it probably is
really insulting to him.
- Yeah, it's sort of a dig,
kind of.
- It's a dig and
at the same time--
- Passive aggressive,
maybe passive aggressive.
- Yeah, good Canadian passive
aggressive wife that I am.
- But it's fun, no?
You pick me up ♪
Spin me around ♪
I'd always feel ♪
Like a treasure you'd found ♪
In all the chaos you're
the ground ♪
Why can't you love me the way
Rob loves Allison ♪
- Nice, very nice, and that will
never be released.
- Nah.
- And we'll put it up on
YouTube, maybe, as well.
(chuckling)
(soft music)
How much fun is this. My friend
Kenny Hotz
from Kenny vs. Spenny.
- Hey! Well, I was going
to hug you.
- Hello, Kenny. How are you?
- What kind of dung is that?
- This is a mule, a horse
and donkey,
a nice sort of mixture.
- I thought Spenny's
mom stayed over for a second.
- No.
- How often do you do that?
- I do this every day.
- Every day!
- Every day for about an hour.
- Why don't you just hire
someone to shovel the shit?
- You know, this is a kind of
shit shovel therapy, I call it.
You get into your head and then
you come out here
and you shovel some manure,
and you know,
just kind of a morning routine.
You've got to get up, clean out
the barn, and then I feed them,
and then I do a podcast.
We're going to do the podcast.
- Hopefully not in here.
- No, no. It's up in the loft.
- Oh, good. Is there shit
in there too?
(dramatic music)
These mics are insane, it looks
like Darth Vader's weiner.
- It's professional.
(chuckling)
Yes. Kenny Hotz is here, thank
you, Canadian comedy legend.
What do you think of the farm?
It's fun, I moved to
the country.
- I didn't really think you were
a farm person.
Like you're a city boy
and you lived in the
Hollywood Hills for so long.
- You think of me as an LA guy.
- You were on the cover of
Rolling Stone,
you actually took
over the world.
- I'm not an LA guy.
- Because of your success in the
states,
that was the only reason
we got our show picked up.
We didn't really copy,
but we were like a
reality sitcom.
You know, my friend and I,
we compete
and the loser has
to be humiliated.
- Spenny.
- Yes.
- So what was the first big
prank that you pulled on Spenny?
- Oh, well, I grew up with the
guy,
our dads were best friends
when they were teenagers.
Once we were in a sauna at a
community centre
when we were little kids
and we went into the
sauna room
and he locked me in
the sauna room
and he was against the
door because I wanted to leave
and he wouldn't let me leave,
so I peed on the sauna rocks.
And it went psh,
like the whole place stunk,
but I got him out of the room.
So these were the
types of things
we were kind of doing naturally.
- One of the challenges,
I guess, you put on the show,
who could gain the most weight.
- That was our pilot episode we
did for USA Network.
Who could gain the most weight.
And I think,
I can't even remember,
but I must've gained 20 pounds
in maybe four or five days.
- Were you just eating a lot of
meat and stuff?
- I lived in a wheelchair,
I lived on sticks of butter
and Filet-O-Fish sandwiches.
- That sounds kind of like the
Morgan Spurlock Supersize Me
documentary
where he ate McDonald's,
nothing but McDonald's.
- I feel like, listen,
I believe I started everything
just because it was so long ago.
People think we started YouTube.
Illegally posted the pilot that
we did to BMW films
and it kind of blew up.
- You really did?
- Yeah, we did.
- So, wait,
how did that happen? Why?
- Well, because, I was trying
to sell it.
And I kind of saw
the value in digital media
but this was before
any of it even started.
(soft music)
(Tom): I understand what it's
like to be working with your
friends and have that creative,
sort of, tug-of-war going on and
everybody's egos get involved
and people have their own ideas
of
I mean, I was working with
my friends from high school
on my shows and I was in
a rap group
when I was a kid that we
put out a record.
- It's the only time there
are issues,
when we were having
to create something,
having to make a record.
Those were the marathons.
Going on the road, we
knew the record
and we knew the songs,
all those decisions were
behind us, so on the road,
nothing but happiness, nothing
but, we all know the songs.
And that's why we always had a
producer, except for one record,
but we needed someone else
to break the ties.
And you know what?
Kids, God love them,
but it complicated things a lot.
Then we're adults and it's not
like it was before.
It was Hip all the time.
And then the kids grew up.
'95, 2015, a lot of them
are 20, right?
And so, now you're doing
a little better.
And then Gord goes and dies.
You know.
When we were actually very much
back and getting along so well.
But he got sick and,
you know, we were up here.
It was amazing to watch
how hard he worked.
He was on that bike over
there. We would take a break,
we'd be rehearsing for,
you know, say, two hours.
And then we'd go downstairs
and take a break outside
for 10, 15, 20 minutes
and Gord would ride the bike.
And, you know, he was just
working.
He wanted it so badly.
- When I was on my show on MTV,
I had to stop my show because I
got testicular cancer.
I filmed my whole cancer surgery
and we put it on television.
You know, I was fortunate
enough to have survived cancer
but I understand
how intensely complicated it is
of a decision to have to decide
to do what Gord decided to do
and what you decided to do.
What was going through your mind
when Gord decided
to want to go on that tour?
- I was living with him
at the time,
like helping his brother look
after him.
And I had been living
there since February,
beginning of February,
so, you know,
it was the year of the tour,
But he was going through
radiation, I mean,
it was a tough time,
but he was hanging in there.
- Yeah.
- And we had made a record. But
he was like,
"We made a record, right?"
He was mentally compromised
because radiation was just
it was just firing at him.
30 days of it.
"Yeah, we made a record.
Coming out in June."
"Are we going to tour?"
And I said, "Well, yeah, we had
talked about it."
And he was like,
"Well, aren't we going to?"
And at the time, this is in
March, I was honestly thinking,
there's no chance for you,
he was falling asleep at eight.
And I was like, "I guess, but we
haven't really talked about it
since your surgeries."
And he's like, "Well, I think
we should, don't you?"
And I was like, "Sure."
So I'd have to get on the
phone with the other three guys.
"He wants to tour."
"What? He wants to tour?
Can he sing?" I'm like,
"No, I keep suggesting that
we play Wheat Kings
or something simple
and he doesn't want to,
he just wants to get together
and rehearse, the whole band."
(soft music)
- You know, I'm always touring
around the country
and I would love for you to
come see me at one of my shows,
here's a few
clips from me out in Vancouver
and I really enjoy getting out
and seeing everybody on
the road.
And I'll always be touring,
doing stand-up
and playing music.
Come see me when
I'm in your city.
(announcer): Are you ready for
the man himself?
(crowd cheers)
He's got a new show, it's coming
out this spring,
it's called Tom Green Farm,
please keep it going
for the one and only Tom Green,
ladies and gentlemen!
(crowd cheers)
- I love Vancouver.
I shot Freddie Got Fingered
in Vancouver.
(crowd cheers)
Make a little video there,
yay ah!
Hoping his video is
for a TikTok, yay! Yay.
(crowd laughs)
Headin' home to the country ♪
To a place I've always been ♪
Goodbye California and all
the things I've seen ♪
Going back to Canada
to live my American dream ♪
On 100 acres where the grass
is always green ♪
(crowd cheers)
Thank you, Vancouver! Love
you guys. Goodnight everybody!
A different life ♪
And it's slowly coming down
to the night ♪
And then it's over and I
refuse to fight to the end ♪
You want to switch seats?
(Chantal): Uh, yeah.
(Tom): You sit there because I
want there to be a shot of you
watching.
I got this piano a couple
of years ago.
(playing piano)
- Nice touch.
(Tom): So that's my,
that's pretty much all that
I can play.
I've been playing this.
(plays piano)
And this.
(plays piano)
For the last five years.
(laughing)
- So you're really running
with this.
(Tom): Yeah.
But I can do little variations
on it.
(plays a different piano tune)
- Okay, so what you want to do
is a departure from,
you're trying to depart
from maybe that a bit.
(Tom): Yeah. I learned some new
chords last month.
- Okay. Can I hear
the new chords?
(playing piano)
- Wait, sorry, one second.
- Did I intimidate you
with my skills?
(Tom): Yeah, yeah. Okay, let's
switch back seats again.
(Chantal): The one piece of
advice that I would have is
- Get into another line of work?
(Chantal): No, no, no, no, no.
Never.
We're trying to do what's
in our head and put it here,
and there's a bridge between
here and there, right?
Like there's a distance between
what your skill is
- Absolutely.
- and what you're hearing in
your head.
If you just play with
your ears of now.
Stop with what is driving
you in your mind to get to
and just use your ears more.
One of the things I noticed is
you have a natural rhythm
to you, right? Like you're
doing
(playing piano)
You're in a rhythm. Okay?
I would like, literally tie your
hand behind your back
for a second and just get away
from that tempo even like sit
in some chords, you know?
And just like
(playing prolonged chord)
(Tom): Uh-huh, uh-huh.
- And--
- So, you sort of, just kind of
like, once you know where to
- But see, there you go, you're
in the "once the."
(Tom): Mm-hmm.
- See that forward thinking?
What I'm saying is don't even be
scared that you don't know
because that's how you find
the chords. You could just
(plays softly)
Like there's so much being said
in one little melody.
I don't know why ♪
Maybe if you just hold one
of the notes
with the other at the end,
now you're creating something, right?
There's that extra layer
there instead of:
I don't know-ow why ♪
I ♪
Don't know why ♪
(Tom): Nice, yeah.
- Right?
And then you know as you go
and you play it again.
I don't know why-y ♪
I don't know why-y-y ♪
- Nice.
- Now I've done three different
things with it, right?
- Right.
- I mean, for me, obviously,
because I go like down a dark
thing, I'll be like:
I don't know ♪
(plays somber melody)
I don't know why ♪
I don't know why-y ♪
I just want to cry ♪
In your arms ♪
(vocalizing)
- Woah.
- You know, I go down a whole,
whatever, you know.
And to me, my thing,
is like, dude,
if I hit any fucking note,
I should be able to make
that sound good.
- Yeah.
- So like, any choice I make,
fake it 'till you make it.
(soft music)
(Tom): We went down to our
wedding venue
and we tasted the drinks
and the food.
I like the wine.
- I like the white wine a lot.
- And got ready
for a beautiful wedding.
(woman): I chose a soup because
it's going to be fall and cool.
- Do you like tomato soup?
- With all of our friends
and family.
I can't drink these all night on
our wedding night
or I'll be like passed out
on the floor.
I can't wait for you to see just
a little bit of it.
(man): Mr. and Mrs. Green!
(crowd cheers)
- I'm a lucky guy.
(crowd cheers)
The fact that the entire country
rallied around you
and came out to essentially
say goodbye to Gord,
did you ever anticipate
that it would turn into
what it did with the final show?
Which is coming up
on the ten-year anniversary now,
the final show.
- Yeah, it doesn't seem like
anything like that
could happen again.
I mean, a singer gets
diagnosed with brain cancer,
he wants to tour.
And that's kind of like, okay.
And for people
that have cancer,
for them to see a guy
that's doing that
- Might be the most--
- So inspiring.
- Most rock 'n' roll thing ever.
- Yeah. Like it really is.
So it felt that way and on the
last show I was like,
just thinking this
is a total drag,
it's heavy, going to be the last
show, we're in Kingston,
I don't want to go outside.
I was just at the arena,
and Gord shows up
and he's like, "This is going
to be really good."
I'm like, "Really?"
"Oh, yeah.
This is going to be great.
Going to be great."
And then all of a sudden,
I was just kind of like, huh,
okay, that's a great way
to look at it.
That's how I'm
going to look at it.
- I'm kind of curious because it
must be a big adjustment,
probably the understatement of
the century,
to be performing for
33 years together
and just have it stop like that.
- I don't think of it often but
Joanne, she mentions it.
She's like,
"You must miss it, I mean,
don't you miss it?"
And I was like, you know,
all of a sudden
I picture being at The Fillmore
or Maple Leaf Gardens or the ACC
or whatever
and it's kind of like,
yeah I guess I do.
It all went away and
everyone reacted differently.
And that was another
thing Gord was quite sad about,
Gord Downie.
And he wanted us
to get another singer.
And I was like, "We're not going
to do that."
These are just talks with me
and Gord. And Pat, his brother.
"We're not doing that."
But, you know, again, I just
tell myself or anyone else,
it wasn't like a five,
or seven-year run.
It was a 35-year run, so.
(Tom): Sure.
- You know.
So at least there's that.
- Amazing. Thanks, Paul.
- Thank you, Tom.
It's an honour
to speak with you.
- No. Honour is all mine.
Thank you.
My monitor over here on this
one, too. Check, check, check.
Check, check, check,
check, check.
This is the Tom Green Show ♪
(soft music)
It was a real honour to be able
to be performing stand-up comedy
and music in Paul Langlois's
hometown of Kingston.
Home of The Tragically Hip and
have him come out
and surprise the audience
and play with me.
Paul Langlois, thank you.
One of Canada's greatest bands
of all time, The Tragically Hip.
(crowd cheers)
My friend Ahren Belisle,
he's on tour all around
North America now.
Appeared on
America's Got Talent.
Good to see you, Ahren.
- Good to see you too, Tom.
- When I met you, you were
at Yuk Yuk's in Ottawa
doing stand-up comedy, and
then the next thing I know,
we were just about to
start hanging out all the time
and then you hit the
big time,
you went on America's Got Talent
and then all of a sudden
you're touring North America
and now you're living
in Austin
and you're one of
the Kill Tony bros.
- Yeah, that happened
pretty quick.
I'm a Kill Tony
golden ticket winner.
- So you did America's Got
Talent, though,
how did that happen?
- Well, casting originally
messaged me on TikTok
based on a clip I made
in Montréal,
but they were like, "Oh, you're
pretty new,
let's give it a year."
Then they see Kill Tony
and they're like, "Never mind,
we need you now."
- How long were you
doing stand-up for before you
got on Kill Tony?
- Six months.
- Yeah, that's amazing.
- It's blown up a lot in the
last two years.
But yeah, it's turned into like
the biggest platform for new
comedians now I think.
- You quit your job as a senior
software engineer and pursued
stand-up.
- Questionable life choices.
- Yeah, absolutely.
- Comedy is a blue-pill/red-pill
thing. You can't ever go back.
- And how did you have the
confidence to go do that?
- I didn't want to. I was just
heckling comics
at a Portugal open mic
and they said,
"Hey, you're funny, you
should try it."
- That's funny, I started as a
heckler as well, which is
interesting.
- I was actually making mental
health content and I was like,
"Hey, I should try stand-up,
might make me better at making
that."
But then it was fun,
so here I am.
- I mean, is there anybody else
with a disability like yours
who does stand-up?
- There's still not
that many disabled comics as
a whole honestly.
- What do you think it is that
gave you that confidence to go
up and try this?
- For me I think it was
cathartic.
Nobody ever fucking
listened to me.
Conversations passed me by
and I got on stage
and I'm like,
"Oh, people actually listen
to what I have to say?
I can talk about
all this bullshit in my life."
I also thought I could educate
people with comedy.
Like, "Hey, don't talk down
to me,
I'm just a person like you."
It didn't work as
well as I thought it would.
I went on Netflix
literally this week
and I told a joke about
how people come up
to the girl I date and say, "Oh,
are you his sister?"
And I'm sarcastic,
so I'm like, "I hope not.
I got her pregnant."
And someone comes up
after and asks a girl I'm with,
"Hey, are you family?"
Not ironically.
And I'm like, "Were you even
listening?"
- And this is true? Did you
get your girlfriend pregnant?
- No.
- Okay.
(chuckling)
- I use protection.
- Okay.
(laughing)
- Stay in school, kids!
Use condoms.
(twangy banjo music)
(birds chirping)
(harmonica playing)
- Not interested, huh?
Good to see you again.
Thanks so much, Peter,
we're getting some more
amazing fences.
What are these kind
of fences called, again?
- Patent rail fence.
(Tom): It's like basically
fixing the fence.
Since the fence was
falling over
because it was 100 years old.
(Peter): And there was
not much left of it.
Get some more rails over here.
- I can come grab some.
- Yeah, let's go.
(soft music)
- I've got kind of a bad neck.
I do stuff around here, though.
- Okay.
(Tom): Yeah, like I do stuff.
(clanking)
You just sold
your music catalogue.
- Yeah.
- It was widely reported.
Why'd you do that? Because it
was a good deal, probably?
- Yeah, yeah, no. It was a fair
deal.
I saw a lot of conversation
about it and there's
not misinformation, but people
not really understanding
what it means to do that.
You know, one of the
fucking comments
that sticks out from general
ignorance is,
"Oh, you sold it,
why'd you sell out?"
Well, that's what you do.
You protect your property,
your intellectual property
for as long as you can,
and if anyone tries to infringe
on you and stuff,
you go after that.
You protect your right.
Just yesterday I commented on
this post,
I saw this band, and
they're like,
"Hey, we just wanted
everyone to know that"
This big, huge, we're
talking triple-A mega pop star
"stole our music.
And used it here."
And they go,
"And we're really big fans
so we would appreciate it if"
And I was like,
"Lawyer the fuck up.
And get that shit."
If you don't
protect your shit now,
someone else is going
to do it and then when you go,
your whole life's work,
you're ready to liquidate it,
or do what you want with
the publishing,
it's going to be
fucking worthless
because no one is
going to want it
because you've been
walked over. It's like,
"Bro, stand on business."
Because a day will come when
you're in your late 40s
where it's time to move on
and moving on means starting
another chapter
of your franchise and
stuff like that,
and you're going to need
some liquidity to do that.
- Now that you've sold your
catalogue,
are you actively
making new music
and going to put out
new music?
- Yeah, absolutely, yeah.
I'm super excited to get back in
the studio
and just kind of stay
in there more often than
Oh, who is that?
- Charlie's like
This is the only show
where there's a
dog hunting on the set.
- I do have to say this is one
of the coolest sets.
- It's a 100 plus year old barn
and it's kind of technology
meets no technology.
(chuckling)
Well, that's awesome, Joel,
thank you so much for coming out
to the farm and talking to me.
- Yeah, thanks for having me.
- It's amazing.
- It's beautiful out here.
- Alright, thanks, man.
Awesome. Cheers.
(soft music)
You go on tour with Spenny, right?
(Kenny): Yeah, we still tour.
(Tom): What does the live show
consist of?
(Kenny): I make fun of him,
I totally abuse him,
the audience laughs,
the more they laugh at
my horrible, mean, comedy,
the angrier he gets at
the audience,
and then he turns on them.
So my job is to get Spenny
so angry
that he turns on the audience
which makes them hate him
even more.
- Well, this has been great.
I want to--
- Not really.
- I want to go do some more
stuff outside the barn too.
- I'm sure you do.
Have fun.
(scoffing)
Go do that.
- She likes a belly-rub, see?
- I hope that's her belly.
(chickens squawking)
- Fanny's a huge mule and
Alora is sort of a small horse.
- One sec. Shut up!
- Want to see the guinea hens?
- Okay.
Oh, weird.
See you later! You're free!
They look like
they're really soft.
- Yeah. Well, they're very soft.
You want to touch one?
- Not really.
- Why don't you want
to touch one?
- Well, I guess I would touch
one I guess, I'd pat
their heads,
but don't they bite?
- You've touched worse than
that, eh?
- Yeah. Sure have.
- How long did it take you to
learn how to ride her?
Before you
actually felt comfortable.
- Probably about two years.
That's right. That's right,
come on, come on.
Hi!
(chuckling)
Oh yeah, go get him, go get him!
Go get him, go get Kenny!
(Kenny laughs)
Fanny vs. Kenny.
What a night. Cheers.
(chickens squawking)
- Shut up!
(rhythmic music)
(Tom): All right.
- Tom Vert, thanks
for having us, man.
- Thank you, thank you.
It's been a great year here,
up at the farm.
- Tom, open your pocketbook and
get a new damn kitchen.
(laughing)
- Had a lot of amazing guests.
George, thank you.
- Hey, buddy.
- Aw.
- Kurt Vile's here.
Kinda gets the blood going, eh?
(laughing)
- Would you hire me
to work on the farm?
- Absolutely, yeah.
- I can take care of
all your cocks.
(scoffs)
- Cut!
(producers laughing)
(laughing)
- Just ignore him.
(laughing)
- It has been super fun being
welcomed into your homes.
Thank you for watching.
(laughing)
- Tom, you are adding to
Canadian culture
- Hello
- Cheers!
- Thanks for having me.
(snorting)
- That looks like something that
a female member of Kraftwerk
would wear.
- There we go!
(laughing)
- What a beautiful thing!
I actually just got goosebumps.
- If you build it,
we might come.
- How are you? Good to see you.
- Good to see you.
(♪)
- And we will continue
the adventure.
- To our beautiful country!
I love you, Tom. You're a fellow
Canadian,
fellow Ottawan and
you're an anarchist.
(laughter)
- Oh! Ouch, god!
- You had fun?
- Yeah, absolutely.
- I sincerely appreciate
everybody for tuning in
and watching and for the years
of support here.
It started out
back in the 90s, doing
The Tom Green Show
and here we are, in
2020-whatever it is.
Oh my gosh, can you believe it?
Still doing it.
55 years old and a skateboard
ramp. Man!
Thanks for watching,
everybody. See you next time.
You're watching The Tom Green
Farm.
- Wow, you are living the
dream. Truly living the dream.
(♪)
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