The guest
Tom Green: Canadian comedian, actor, and early internet pioneer (The Tom Green Show, Webovision) who now lives on a 150-acre farm in rural Ontario.
What this episode covers
Tom Green reconnects with Joe Rogan after a famously drunken previous appearance, this time sober. He recounts selling his Los Angeles home of 18 years and moving back to a 150-acre Canadian farm with a mule, donkey, and chickens, sharing what he has learned about mule psychology and predators. He describes a severe third-degree burn to both feet from buried bonfire coals in Costa Rica that nearly cost him his foot. Much of the conversation covers Canadian vs. American politics, gun laws, the trucker protests, free-speech concerns, and the toll of Hollywood's culture. Green credits a 2007 appearance on Rogan's early home internet show as the inspiration for the modern podcast model.
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“the freshest best Canadian maple syrup; it's not your manufactured of processed stuff”
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Polaris Side-by-Side
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“I've got this Polaris side by side that I drive around property on it's a noisy ATV four-wheel vehicle thing”— Tom Green
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Coyote America
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“It's Dan Flores yeah he wrote a book called coyote America that's right”— Joe Rogan
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Never Cry Wolf
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“it was based on this Canadian novel Farley Moet novel called Never Never Cry Wolf”— Tom Green
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Battle Born Batteries
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Smith & Wesson 357 Magnum Revolver
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“went down to Guns Plus and picked up a 357 Magnum and a Benelli montro silver shotgun”— Tom Green
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“picked up a 357 Magnum and a Benelli montro silver shotgun and got my hunting license and went quail hunting”— Tom Green
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“now I have lever action I've been collecting Henry rifle I have I have a new Henry 22”— Tom Green
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Savage Model 99 Rifle
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“I got a just got an old Savage 99 you know 1970s 308 it's like the wood you know the old guns with the wood on it”— Tom Green
Big reveals from this episode
- Tom recounts blacking out during his last JRE appearance after drinking whiskey on-air and waking up in his van the next day.
- After 20 years in Los Angeles he sold his house and moved permanently back to rural Canada, vowing never to leave.
- Tom suffered third-degree burns to both feet stepping into buried bonfire coals in Costa Rica, spending two weeks in hospital there.
- He underwent emergency skin grafts the size of a football from his leg, stapled into his foot with 60 staples.
- He spent roughly six months getting bandages changed multiple times a week, fearing amputation from infection.
- Coyotes killed five of his six named chickens while he was away, watching the house from the woods until he left.
- After feeling threatened by armed men near the Mexico border, he bought a 357 Magnum and a shotgun the next day in Burbank.
- Green reveals he is shooting a stand-up special for Amazon Prime, filming a spring tour.
Worth remembering
- Mules are sterile because horses have 64 chromosomes and donkeys 62, leaving the mule with an odd 63.
- George Washington was instrumental in bringing mules to America for farming and harvesting.
- Mules respond to nonverbal cues and body energy, sensing a rider's intent and uncertainty more acutely than horses.
- Donkeys and mules are used as livestock protection animals because they will stomp out coyotes and wolves.
- Per Dan Flores's Coyote America, female coyotes have more pups when populations are pressured, causing them to spread.
- Modern skin-graft technique was invented during World War II using a tool that shaves micro-thin layers of skin.
- Chaco Canyon in New Mexico is a Puebloan stone city built around 875 AD, not rediscovered until the 1950s.
- Macaw feathers found at Chaco Canyon prove trade reached from the Yucatan Peninsula up to the American Southwest.
- In Canada, acquiring a firearm requires a safety course, a test, and RCMP review before a non-restricted license is issued.
- Dogs descended from wolves that approached early human campfires and were fed by generous hunters.
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