1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:06,090 --> 00:00:08,426 [country music playing] 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 4 00:00:14,098 --> 00:00:15,265 [crowd cheering] 5 00:00:15,266 --> 00:00:18,977 [emcee] Would you please help me welcome to the stage the one, the only, 6 00:00:18,978 --> 00:00:22,273 - Ottawa's own, Tom Green! - [cheering] 7 00:00:24,817 --> 00:00:26,819 [country music continues] 8 00:00:31,782 --> 00:00:33,534 [cheering intensifies] 9 00:00:34,577 --> 00:00:36,620 [whistling] 10 00:00:53,095 --> 00:00:55,430 [cheering quiets down] 11 00:00:55,431 --> 00:00:57,349 This is what I look like now. 12 00:01:01,145 --> 00:01:03,272 It's been a few years since the Slutmobile. 13 00:01:04,690 --> 00:01:08,443 - What's up, Ottawa? How you doing? - [cheers] 14 00:01:08,444 --> 00:01:12,238 Good to see you. This is Charlie. Give it up for Charlie, everybody. 15 00:01:12,239 --> 00:01:14,200 [cheers] 16 00:01:16,285 --> 00:01:17,953 I'm performing with my dog. 17 00:01:19,121 --> 00:01:20,873 Yeah, things are going real good. 18 00:01:22,041 --> 00:01:25,127 We're on a tour. We're on a world tour. We just did Petawawa. 19 00:01:26,212 --> 00:01:28,922 We're playing in Hamilton, Flint, Michigan. 20 00:01:28,923 --> 00:01:32,468 Lansing, hitting all the hot spots. 21 00:01:32,843 --> 00:01:35,095 It's the No Stone Left Unturned tour. 22 00:01:39,767 --> 00:01:41,726 I'm shooting my comedy special tonight. 23 00:01:41,727 --> 00:01:43,937 - [cheering] - Yeah. 24 00:01:43,938 --> 00:01:46,940 For Amazon Prime, yeah. 25 00:01:46,941 --> 00:01:49,818 I'm trying to come up with a name for it. I'm thinking Tickets Still Available. 26 00:01:49,819 --> 00:01:52,571 I think that might... might be good. 27 00:01:53,405 --> 00:01:55,240 I live a little outside of town here. 28 00:01:55,241 --> 00:01:58,952 So I drove into town today, and I'm staying in an Airbnb tonight 29 00:01:58,953 --> 00:02:00,578 because that's what I do when I'm on the road. 30 00:02:00,579 --> 00:02:02,622 I like to stay in an Airbnb when I tour. 31 00:02:02,623 --> 00:02:05,750 I don't like staying in these fancy hotels. 32 00:02:05,751 --> 00:02:08,587 I like Airbnbs 'cause it's a real person's house, 33 00:02:09,839 --> 00:02:11,465 and their stuff is in there, 34 00:02:12,424 --> 00:02:14,134 and I go through their stuff. 35 00:02:15,219 --> 00:02:16,971 I'm wearing the guy's pants. 36 00:02:21,684 --> 00:02:23,185 I'm on his medication. 37 00:02:25,563 --> 00:02:27,939 I don't even have gout. Right? See... 38 00:02:27,940 --> 00:02:29,400 [forced laugh] Right? 39 00:02:30,359 --> 00:02:33,027 Don't even have gout, huh? Except really... 40 00:02:33,028 --> 00:02:35,238 Look at Charlie. Isn't Charlie good? 41 00:02:35,239 --> 00:02:36,823 - [cheers] - Oh, my God. 42 00:02:36,824 --> 00:02:40,743 You're a good girl, Charlie. You're a good girl. 43 00:02:40,744 --> 00:02:43,289 This guy is calling the Humane Society. 44 00:02:44,164 --> 00:02:46,249 - What's your name, sir? How you doing? - Fred. 45 00:02:46,250 --> 00:02:48,126 Fred? Nice to meet you, Fred. What do you do, Fred? 46 00:02:48,127 --> 00:02:49,252 [Fred] You too. Not much. 47 00:02:49,253 --> 00:02:52,756 Not much? Okay, honest. "Honest Fred," we'll call you. 48 00:02:53,465 --> 00:02:56,719 Well, is there anyone I can talk to that does something? 49 00:02:57,428 --> 00:02:59,930 Only making it harder for me to do crowd work, Fred. 50 00:03:00,931 --> 00:03:04,309 Come on, this is my big night. Give me something. Work with me here. 51 00:03:04,310 --> 00:03:07,478 Ah, fuck it. I'm not gonna do crowd work. [chuckles] 52 00:03:07,479 --> 00:03:08,980 - How about you? What's your name? - Blake. 53 00:03:08,981 --> 00:03:10,815 - Blake. What do you do, Blake? - Pharmaceutical... 54 00:03:10,816 --> 00:03:13,860 Pharmaceutical, drug dealer. There we go. Good to see you. 55 00:03:13,861 --> 00:03:15,946 See, you could have just told the truth. 56 00:03:17,740 --> 00:03:20,158 You look more like a drug dealer than this guy. 57 00:03:20,159 --> 00:03:21,576 Like, clearly, look at you. 58 00:03:21,577 --> 00:03:25,915 [laughs] No, you're nice person. I'm just... That was uncalled for. 59 00:03:27,458 --> 00:03:29,918 Yeah, I've been on the road with Charlie. 60 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:34,047 Charlie, I got Charlie at the beginning of the worldwide global pandemic. 61 00:03:34,048 --> 00:03:36,132 Remember that? 62 00:03:36,133 --> 00:03:39,844 I was living in Los Angeles when the worldwide global pandemic happened, 63 00:03:39,845 --> 00:03:43,848 and I took it seriously. I took it real seriously. 64 00:03:43,849 --> 00:03:44,891 Not everybody did. 65 00:03:44,892 --> 00:03:47,602 I didn't realize when the worldwide global pandemic started, 66 00:03:47,603 --> 00:03:50,439 that people would not take it seriously because it sounded serious. 67 00:03:51,815 --> 00:03:54,860 Like it's a pandemic, it's worldwide, it's global. 68 00:03:56,445 --> 00:03:58,863 So I did all the things they told us to do. 69 00:03:58,864 --> 00:04:02,575 You know, I wore the mask, I wore the rubber gloves, 70 00:04:02,576 --> 00:04:04,535 I ordered my groceries on Instacart. 71 00:04:04,536 --> 00:04:08,081 They'd show up, I'd spray them on the front lawn with Clorox bleach. 72 00:04:08,082 --> 00:04:13,336 I would stream that on my Instagram, so my fans and followers would be safe. 73 00:04:13,337 --> 00:04:16,255 And then I would go read the comments, and they'd say things to me like, 74 00:04:16,256 --> 00:04:20,844 "You stupid Hollywood piece of garbage, go back to Canada, fuck you." 75 00:04:21,512 --> 00:04:22,554 So I did. 76 00:04:23,138 --> 00:04:24,597 [laughing, cheering] 77 00:04:24,598 --> 00:04:26,058 I went back up. 78 00:04:27,017 --> 00:04:30,896 Back to Canada. Came back to Canada, right? 79 00:04:32,773 --> 00:04:35,316 I rescued Charlie. She's a rescue from the Bahamas. 80 00:04:35,317 --> 00:04:40,488 She came to California, and then we moved back to-to the area here in the winter. 81 00:04:40,489 --> 00:04:44,535 And I saw her looking around at the snow-covered fields, 82 00:04:45,619 --> 00:04:48,914 thinking I'd rather be on the beach eating trash. 83 00:04:54,628 --> 00:04:58,047 So I'm a farmer now, you see. I'm a farmer. 84 00:04:58,048 --> 00:04:59,632 - I got a farm. - [cheers] 85 00:04:59,633 --> 00:05:01,718 [in Canadian accent] Oh, yeah, bud. 86 00:05:01,719 --> 00:05:04,262 Oh, yeah, bud, we're getting 'er done out there, eh, bud? 87 00:05:04,263 --> 00:05:07,390 Oh, yeah. Good to be back in the Ottawa Valley, eh? 88 00:05:07,391 --> 00:05:08,766 Oh, yeah, bud. 89 00:05:08,767 --> 00:05:10,644 [normal] I'm farming radishes. 90 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,439 Yeah, I wanted to start out with something easy, so I... 91 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:16,274 I was down at the gardening center the other day. 92 00:05:16,275 --> 00:05:18,818 I said, "Do you got any of that nutrient rich soil?" 93 00:05:18,819 --> 00:05:20,820 They said, "What are you growing?" And I said, "I'm growing radishes." 94 00:05:20,821 --> 00:05:24,074 They said, "You're growing weed." I said, "Yeah, I'm growing weed." 95 00:05:24,783 --> 00:05:27,119 Can't... Can't get away with... 96 00:05:28,454 --> 00:05:30,497 Can't get away with anything around here. 97 00:05:32,791 --> 00:05:36,294 I got six chickens. Loretta, Patsy, Shania, Dolly, June, and Anne. 98 00:05:36,295 --> 00:05:37,795 And I love them. 99 00:05:37,796 --> 00:05:40,173 Love them so much, I guess I should say "loved" them. 100 00:05:40,174 --> 00:05:42,050 Five of them are dead now. 101 00:05:42,051 --> 00:05:46,305 The coyotes got five of them. So, yeah, I'm not a good farmer. 102 00:05:49,183 --> 00:05:50,601 And I cried. 103 00:05:51,185 --> 00:05:56,148 I cried when the coyotes got 'em, real tears, because I really do... 104 00:05:56,857 --> 00:05:58,025 Did... 105 00:05:59,234 --> 00:06:01,111 Did love these chickens, you know? 106 00:06:01,653 --> 00:06:03,362 Good girl, Charlie. 107 00:06:03,363 --> 00:06:05,531 - [crowd] Aw... - Such a good girl. 108 00:06:05,532 --> 00:06:07,784 Settling in? Yes. There you go. 109 00:06:07,785 --> 00:06:11,204 Let's put that nice for the camera. Look at that. There you go. 110 00:06:11,205 --> 00:06:14,749 Very nice. Good job. Give her a hand. Give Charlie a hand. 111 00:06:14,750 --> 00:06:15,708 [applause] 112 00:06:15,709 --> 00:06:18,878 Give Charlie a hand. You're a good girl. 113 00:06:18,879 --> 00:06:22,006 You're a good girl, Charlie. Look at you. You're a good girl. 114 00:06:22,007 --> 00:06:25,635 It's amazing what Benadryl will do for a... 115 00:06:25,636 --> 00:06:26,594 performance. 116 00:06:26,595 --> 00:06:30,306 No! We've been doing this. 117 00:06:30,307 --> 00:06:33,226 We're on the road, we're traveling. We're on the road, we do this. 118 00:06:33,227 --> 00:06:35,812 We've been practicing. Okay? 119 00:06:35,813 --> 00:06:38,774 I'm doing fine. Everything's fine, okay? 120 00:06:39,483 --> 00:06:40,691 Got a mule now. 121 00:06:40,692 --> 00:06:42,318 - [cheers] - I'm doing good. 122 00:06:42,319 --> 00:06:43,903 I've got a mule named Fanny. 123 00:06:43,904 --> 00:06:47,573 And if you follow me on social media, you see me trying to ride her. 124 00:06:47,574 --> 00:06:49,617 Trying, it's not easy. They're smart, mules. 125 00:06:49,618 --> 00:06:52,120 Mules are smart, so she's figured out that I don't know what I'm doing, 126 00:06:52,121 --> 00:06:54,789 and she takes advantage of it, she'll only turn left. 127 00:06:54,790 --> 00:06:57,333 So we just go out for a little spin to the right till we get dizzy. 128 00:06:57,334 --> 00:06:59,544 And then we quit, but it's fun. I love her, she's great. 129 00:06:59,545 --> 00:07:03,005 A mule is half-horse, half-donkey, by the way, I don't know if you know that. 130 00:07:03,006 --> 00:07:05,133 Half-horse, half-donkey. 131 00:07:05,134 --> 00:07:10,263 Like, human beings have to take a horse and a donkey and breed them. 132 00:07:10,264 --> 00:07:13,182 Two completely different species, and then they make a mule. 133 00:07:13,183 --> 00:07:18,938 It's like a weird, perverted Frankenpet, and I wanted one of those. 134 00:07:18,939 --> 00:07:20,773 And I love it out there, and Charlie loves it. 135 00:07:20,774 --> 00:07:23,693 And we run through the fields, and it's good to be back in Canada, eh? 136 00:07:23,694 --> 00:07:26,655 Oh, yeah, and my chickens are dead. 137 00:07:28,282 --> 00:07:30,284 And everything's fine. I'm doing fine. 138 00:07:30,784 --> 00:07:34,078 And I cried. I cried real tears. 139 00:07:34,079 --> 00:07:37,039 And then my neighbors, who are good friends of mine, they're real farmers. 140 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:39,792 You know, they came over, and they saw the feathers everywhere. 141 00:07:39,793 --> 00:07:43,463 And I asked them, I said, "Do farmers cry?" 142 00:07:46,008 --> 00:07:48,551 They said, "Not over their dead chickens." 143 00:07:48,552 --> 00:07:53,098 So my neighbors think I'm a pussy, and things are going good. 144 00:07:54,349 --> 00:07:55,808 I'm doing fine. 145 00:07:55,809 --> 00:07:57,894 That's what I'm doing now in this next chapter of my life, 146 00:07:57,895 --> 00:07:59,146 the final chapter. 147 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:05,360 Come home to Canada to die. 148 00:08:09,031 --> 00:08:11,658 Like a salmon swimming upstream, to die and... 149 00:08:13,118 --> 00:08:15,578 spawn and die in a puddle of my own jizz. 150 00:08:15,579 --> 00:08:18,540 That's all... That's what I want, right? 151 00:08:19,249 --> 00:08:20,708 That's what I'm going to do. 152 00:08:20,709 --> 00:08:23,712 Oh, good to be at the NAC. Okay, let's go. 153 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:26,631 Can't believe I'm at the National Arts Center, man. 154 00:08:26,632 --> 00:08:29,259 If you had told me when I was humping that dead moose, 155 00:08:30,928 --> 00:08:32,261 - that someday... - [cheers and applause] 156 00:08:32,262 --> 00:08:37,308 ...someday, I would be performing here, I wouldn't have believed it. 157 00:08:37,309 --> 00:08:38,977 I wouldn't have believed it. 158 00:08:40,187 --> 00:08:41,979 And last week I was in Hobart, Indiana. 159 00:08:41,980 --> 00:08:44,440 And if you had told me when I was hosting Saturday Night Live, 160 00:08:44,441 --> 00:08:48,277 that in 20 years, I'd be performing at a rock club in Hobart, Indiana, 161 00:08:48,278 --> 00:08:50,364 I wouldn't have believe that either, to be honest with you. 162 00:08:56,954 --> 00:08:58,496 [chuckles] 163 00:08:58,497 --> 00:09:01,874 No, this is a real honor to be here. This is amazing. 164 00:09:01,875 --> 00:09:03,668 - [cheers] - This is incredibly cool, 165 00:09:03,669 --> 00:09:05,879 - and thank you for coming to the show. - [applause] 166 00:09:09,758 --> 00:09:10,759 Yeah. 167 00:09:11,927 --> 00:09:13,928 It's a fucking weird shirt you got on there, dude. 168 00:09:13,929 --> 00:09:15,054 I don't know. [stammers] 169 00:09:15,055 --> 00:09:16,889 I don't wanna mention what the hell it is, but it's fucking weird. 170 00:09:16,890 --> 00:09:19,559 Are you doing that to fuck with me or something like that? 171 00:09:21,144 --> 00:09:24,481 God, the guy's got a nun with laser beams coming out of its eyes. 172 00:09:25,023 --> 00:09:29,485 Just stand up and show everybody the shirt that you chose to wear to the NAC. 173 00:09:29,486 --> 00:09:32,238 - [cheering] - That's what you chose to wear, 174 00:09:32,239 --> 00:09:36,575 to the National Arts Center, for my comedy special taping. 175 00:09:36,576 --> 00:09:38,703 Fitting, actually. Absolutely. 176 00:09:38,704 --> 00:09:41,622 You look like a fan of The Tom Green Show. 177 00:09:41,623 --> 00:09:44,250 You like a good moose hump now and then, huh? 178 00:09:44,251 --> 00:09:46,003 You're a moose humper kind of guy. Yeah. 179 00:09:46,586 --> 00:09:48,629 And if you had told me when I was humping that dead moose, 180 00:09:48,630 --> 00:09:51,465 that someday, I'd be playing here with a guy with a nun on his shirt 181 00:09:51,466 --> 00:09:53,592 with laser beams coming out of its eyes, 182 00:09:53,593 --> 00:09:56,262 I would have believed that actually. 183 00:09:56,263 --> 00:09:59,641 That would have made more sense to me. [laughs] 184 00:10:01,643 --> 00:10:05,271 It's weird, 'cause when I humped that dead moose... [clears throat] 185 00:10:05,272 --> 00:10:08,275 Like, I'm not here to explain myself or anything, but... 186 00:10:14,531 --> 00:10:16,240 Like, you know, when you're performing a show, 187 00:10:16,241 --> 00:10:18,367 when you're making a show on the community channel, right, 188 00:10:18,368 --> 00:10:21,120 and you don't have a big budget for props, etc... 189 00:10:21,121 --> 00:10:22,413 [chuckles] 190 00:10:22,414 --> 00:10:25,291 and then you borrowed some kid's van that you met on the internet... 191 00:10:25,292 --> 00:10:27,461 But anyways, that sounds weird, but anyways, 192 00:10:28,337 --> 00:10:30,379 and you're driving from Winnipeg to Thunder Bay, 193 00:10:30,380 --> 00:10:32,548 and you haven't seen a soul in days, 194 00:10:32,549 --> 00:10:35,009 and you're out there supposed to be filming people on the street, 195 00:10:35,010 --> 00:10:37,928 and you know, you've got limited time, limited budget, 196 00:10:37,929 --> 00:10:40,348 and then 6:00 in the morning, you look out the window, 197 00:10:40,349 --> 00:10:41,891 and there's a dead moose at the side of the road. 198 00:10:41,892 --> 00:10:44,393 I mean, you'd get out, and you hump it. That's what you do. 199 00:10:44,394 --> 00:10:46,187 That's what you do, you hump the moose, 200 00:10:46,188 --> 00:10:48,689 and you put it on the public access station. 201 00:10:48,690 --> 00:10:51,067 And then, see, because this was before the internet, 202 00:10:51,068 --> 00:10:52,985 you see, it was different before the internet. 203 00:10:52,986 --> 00:10:54,696 This is what you had to do. 204 00:10:56,406 --> 00:10:59,033 Look, first of all, people weren't supposed to see that 205 00:10:59,034 --> 00:11:00,577 for the rest of my life. 206 00:11:02,329 --> 00:11:07,124 It was supposed to air once at midnight, on Ottawa public access TV. 207 00:11:07,125 --> 00:11:08,334 That was it. 208 00:11:08,335 --> 00:11:10,211 - Huh? Hmm? - [applause] 209 00:11:10,212 --> 00:11:11,921 That's how it works. 210 00:11:11,922 --> 00:11:15,216 You... you hump the moose. You film it. 211 00:11:15,217 --> 00:11:18,428 You put it on the public access station, like ten people see it. 212 00:11:19,179 --> 00:11:20,554 But then they go tell everybody, "You see, that's the guy 213 00:11:20,555 --> 00:11:23,557 on the public access station, he's humping moose and shit," 214 00:11:23,558 --> 00:11:26,852 and then they tune in the next week, and you're not humping a moose. 215 00:11:26,853 --> 00:11:29,855 You're doing something more sensible, like a spreading shit on a microphone 216 00:11:29,856 --> 00:11:33,067 and sticking it... poo in a microphone, stick it in people's faces, 217 00:11:33,068 --> 00:11:35,820 or painting pornography on the hood of your parent's car, 218 00:11:35,821 --> 00:11:37,655 or something sensible like that. 219 00:11:37,656 --> 00:11:40,032 - Something nice, right? - [cheering] 220 00:11:40,033 --> 00:11:43,494 So anyways, then the show gets picked up by MTV. 221 00:11:43,495 --> 00:11:45,329 I make this song called "The Bum Bum Song." 222 00:11:45,330 --> 00:11:48,958 It goes to number one. Number one song in America, okay? 223 00:11:48,959 --> 00:11:51,919 Knocked Britney Spears off Total Request Live on MTV. 224 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:54,506 She was like, "What the fuck?" You know? 225 00:11:55,173 --> 00:11:58,092 Then Eminem does a parody of "The Bum Bum Song," okay? 226 00:11:58,093 --> 00:12:00,719 My "Bum Bum Song." 227 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:04,056 I still claim ownership over it like I'm proud of it still. 228 00:12:04,057 --> 00:12:05,809 [mockingly] My "Bum Bum Song." 229 00:12:06,977 --> 00:12:09,395 ♪ My bum is on the cheese Bum is on the cheese ♪ 230 00:12:09,396 --> 00:12:11,981 ♪ If I get lucky, I'll get a disease ♪ [fake laughs] 231 00:12:11,982 --> 00:12:13,941 Yeah, two weeks later, I got testicular cancer. 232 00:12:13,942 --> 00:12:14,942 Okay, that's called karma. 233 00:12:14,943 --> 00:12:16,694 That's what that is. 234 00:12:16,695 --> 00:12:18,612 Yeah, that's... Okay. I got lucky. 235 00:12:18,613 --> 00:12:20,991 Okay, hmm... [laughs] 236 00:12:21,992 --> 00:12:24,493 Anyways, the song went number one. That's all I'm saying. 237 00:12:24,494 --> 00:12:26,370 Anyways, I'm fine. I'm fine. I survived cancer. 238 00:12:26,371 --> 00:12:29,206 - I'm a cancer survivor too. - [cheering] 239 00:12:29,207 --> 00:12:30,291 Yeah, yeah. 240 00:12:30,292 --> 00:12:32,751 [applause] 241 00:12:32,752 --> 00:12:35,005 I can still ejaculate, just a little. 242 00:12:36,548 --> 00:12:38,091 No, no, it's pretty good. 243 00:12:40,093 --> 00:12:41,261 [laughs] 244 00:12:45,140 --> 00:12:47,016 Yeah, the song goes number one. "The Bum Bum Song." 245 00:12:47,017 --> 00:12:51,937 I wrote it in 12 seconds on a napkin, and then it goes to number one on MTV. 246 00:12:51,938 --> 00:12:56,192 I got the number one song in America. Then Eminem does a parody... 247 00:12:56,193 --> 00:12:58,319 Not a parody, it's like his next single, 248 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:02,323 Eminem, the GOAT, the biggest rapper in the history of rap, 249 00:13:02,324 --> 00:13:04,408 puts out "Slim Shady." 250 00:13:04,409 --> 00:13:08,412 [vocalizes "The Real Slim Shady"] 251 00:13:08,413 --> 00:13:10,164 [rapping] ♪ I just wanna go on TV and let loose ♪ 252 00:13:10,165 --> 00:13:12,541 ♪ But can't, but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose? ♪ 253 00:13:12,542 --> 00:13:14,460 ♪ My bum is on your lips My bum is on your lips ♪ 254 00:13:14,461 --> 00:13:16,045 - Right? Yeah. - [cheers] 255 00:13:16,046 --> 00:13:20,800 That's like... it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose. 256 00:13:21,801 --> 00:13:24,887 Nobody was never supposed to see that again. 257 00:13:24,888 --> 00:13:28,557 Now, the biggest rapper... That's going to follow a guy, okay? 258 00:13:28,558 --> 00:13:31,227 Be like if The Beatles sang about it or something. 259 00:13:31,228 --> 00:13:34,647 ♪ Hey, Jude, just want to let loose ♪ 260 00:13:34,648 --> 00:13:38,150 ♪ Go on TV and hump a dead moose ♪ 261 00:13:38,151 --> 00:13:40,237 [in Beatles accent] Like Tom Green. 262 00:13:41,112 --> 00:13:42,030 [normal] It's not good. 263 00:13:43,323 --> 00:13:44,490 It's not good. 264 00:13:44,491 --> 00:13:46,367 Know what I like about being in the country? 265 00:13:46,368 --> 00:13:49,037 Not just this country, but the country. [laughs] 266 00:13:49,788 --> 00:13:51,830 Like, I just... Hollywood's a weird place. 267 00:13:51,831 --> 00:13:53,499 That's all I'm saying. It's like being around... 268 00:13:53,500 --> 00:13:55,209 I like being around real people. 269 00:13:55,210 --> 00:13:57,420 - You know? Yeah, yeah. - [cheers] 270 00:13:59,297 --> 00:14:00,506 Real humor, too. 271 00:14:00,507 --> 00:14:04,635 [sarcastically] Not this woke humor that they got in Los Angeles, you know? 272 00:14:04,636 --> 00:14:07,972 Everything's all woke down there in Hollywood, right? 273 00:14:07,973 --> 00:14:09,890 Can't say anything anymore, right? 274 00:14:09,891 --> 00:14:12,518 I don't mind being woke. I'm proud to be woke, though. 275 00:14:12,519 --> 00:14:14,478 That's the thing. We're Canadian. We've always been woke. 276 00:14:14,479 --> 00:14:16,231 We had the first Trans Highway. 277 00:14:18,567 --> 00:14:19,901 So... Right? 278 00:14:20,527 --> 00:14:22,236 I remember that came along when I was a kid. 279 00:14:22,237 --> 00:14:24,613 That's awesome, man. Nobody's doing this. 280 00:14:24,614 --> 00:14:28,201 Trans-Canada Highway. Unbelievable. 281 00:14:31,454 --> 00:14:35,333 Yeah, I'm 53 years old. I'm a farmer now. 282 00:14:37,877 --> 00:14:41,005 I don't have any kids. Always thought I would have kids by the time I was 53. 283 00:14:41,006 --> 00:14:43,507 I'd like to have kids. I still might have kids. 284 00:14:43,508 --> 00:14:46,594 I think I'm going to wait till I'm 60 to have kids, just so... 285 00:14:46,595 --> 00:14:48,138 just so I'll know them when they're nice. 286 00:14:49,889 --> 00:14:52,391 They'll go to college, ask for money for college, and I'll die. 287 00:14:52,392 --> 00:14:53,560 Perfect timing. 288 00:14:56,980 --> 00:14:58,398 I'd like to have kids. 289 00:15:00,900 --> 00:15:02,235 [chuckles] 290 00:15:04,821 --> 00:15:07,449 I don't want to die alone. You know? 291 00:15:08,408 --> 00:15:09,659 [crowd] Aw... 292 00:15:11,911 --> 00:15:14,163 No, at least if I have kids, you know, soon, 293 00:15:14,164 --> 00:15:16,415 at least then, when I'm old and dying, 294 00:15:16,416 --> 00:15:19,168 my teenage kids will be there, gathered around my hospital bed, 295 00:15:19,169 --> 00:15:21,296 staring at their phones, I want that for me. 296 00:15:23,381 --> 00:15:25,091 Inconvenienced. 297 00:15:28,053 --> 00:15:29,470 I wanna have some good last words, 298 00:15:29,471 --> 00:15:32,849 some famous last words for my teenage kids, you know. 299 00:15:33,433 --> 00:15:34,391 You always hear about that, you know. 300 00:15:34,392 --> 00:15:37,312 People, when they're on their death bed, they say something incredible. 301 00:15:38,104 --> 00:15:40,106 So, it's a hard thing to time, though. 302 00:15:42,067 --> 00:15:43,734 Because you don't really know what it feels like to die. 303 00:15:43,735 --> 00:15:45,277 Right? You only die once. 304 00:15:45,278 --> 00:15:47,571 And you got to time it perfectly, and you don't know what it feels like. 305 00:15:47,572 --> 00:15:49,782 You're in the hospital bed. You got tubing running in and out of you. 306 00:15:49,783 --> 00:15:51,784 Your kids are there on their Metaverse goggles. 307 00:15:51,785 --> 00:15:53,203 There's lots going on. 308 00:15:53,662 --> 00:15:54,787 You feel a little tingle. 309 00:15:54,788 --> 00:15:56,747 You've got that thing you've been practicing in your head. 310 00:15:56,748 --> 00:15:58,040 You go, "This might be it here." 311 00:15:58,041 --> 00:16:00,209 You knock the Metaverse goggles off your teenage kids, 312 00:16:00,210 --> 00:16:02,170 and they're looking at you, like... 313 00:16:03,463 --> 00:16:08,510 May the sun always shine in your face, so the shadows will be cast behind ye. 314 00:16:15,433 --> 00:16:18,687 And then you don't die. You know, you're like... 315 00:16:21,272 --> 00:16:23,148 How many people have kids? You have kids? 316 00:16:23,149 --> 00:16:25,651 That's the hard part about having kids, right? 317 00:16:25,652 --> 00:16:27,486 Because you gotta, like, you gotta encourage them. 318 00:16:27,487 --> 00:16:30,823 And it's a scary world, and you got to say you can do anything you want, 319 00:16:30,824 --> 00:16:33,492 and then your kid thinks that they can do anything they want. 320 00:16:33,493 --> 00:16:35,661 And you got to watch them for ten years, walking around, 321 00:16:35,662 --> 00:16:38,914 thinking they're going to be an astronaut, and they're not going to be an astronaut. 322 00:16:38,915 --> 00:16:40,666 But they think they're going to be an astronaut. 323 00:16:40,667 --> 00:16:42,084 Then you've gotta take them aside eventually, and say, 324 00:16:42,085 --> 00:16:43,794 "Billy, you're not going to be an astronaut." 325 00:16:43,795 --> 00:16:45,921 And they say, "You said that I could do anything I want!" 326 00:16:45,922 --> 00:16:50,300 And I said, "Yeah, but you got to want to be a manager at RadioShack, okay?" 327 00:16:50,301 --> 00:16:51,635 Let's look at this report card here. 328 00:16:51,636 --> 00:16:54,889 There's 12 astronauts. You're not in the top 12. 329 00:16:56,850 --> 00:17:00,310 Gotta be humble with your dreams and aspirations. 330 00:17:00,311 --> 00:17:02,229 The guy that started RadioShack, he was humble. 331 00:17:02,230 --> 00:17:03,982 He could have called it Radio Castle. 332 00:17:05,775 --> 00:17:07,943 That would have made more sense. Right? 333 00:17:07,944 --> 00:17:10,779 Wanna buy electronics in a shack, huh? 334 00:17:10,780 --> 00:17:13,783 You want to buy electronics in a shack, huh? No. 335 00:17:14,325 --> 00:17:16,535 I'm looking right in your fucking eyes. Give me something that, man. No. 336 00:17:16,536 --> 00:17:19,539 Yeah, looking right at you, man. Looking right at you. 337 00:17:20,790 --> 00:17:23,709 No. Yeah. You don't want to buy electronics in a shack. 338 00:17:23,710 --> 00:17:26,170 Yeah, that's what I was saying, that's all I wanted. Just a little acknowledgment. 339 00:17:26,171 --> 00:17:28,506 You know, I'm a human being, you're not watching television. 340 00:17:31,092 --> 00:17:32,801 - [chuckles] - [cheers] 341 00:17:32,802 --> 00:17:34,887 No, we're having fun. We're having fun, I don't... 342 00:17:34,888 --> 00:17:36,848 I don't wanna comment. I don't wanna... 343 00:17:37,682 --> 00:17:39,433 I want you to have a nice time, too. I'm sorry. 344 00:17:39,434 --> 00:17:41,643 When I say "chicken," you say "sandwich." 345 00:17:41,644 --> 00:17:43,020 - Chicken! - [crowd] Sandwich! 346 00:17:43,021 --> 00:17:45,147 Okay, that resets it. I do that... 347 00:17:45,148 --> 00:17:48,109 No, I've been doing standup a while. That resets things. It's good. 348 00:17:49,611 --> 00:17:52,446 The chicken sandwich reset, I call it. [chuckles] 349 00:17:52,447 --> 00:17:56,367 Charlie! You're doing good. Okay. Charlie's doing good. 350 00:17:58,411 --> 00:18:02,457 I think my mom wants me to have a kid. I think she's done bringing it up, though. 351 00:18:03,166 --> 00:18:05,667 Now, she brings it up in weird, subtle ways. 352 00:18:05,668 --> 00:18:08,712 Every time she comes over the house, and Charlie runs up to her, 353 00:18:08,713 --> 00:18:11,048 she'll look at me, she'll look at Charlie, and she'll say, 354 00:18:11,049 --> 00:18:12,926 "Come to Grandma." 355 00:18:16,930 --> 00:18:19,431 Other day, I'm at the house, and my mom's there, 356 00:18:19,432 --> 00:18:21,558 and she's spitting in an envelope. I say, "What are you doing?" 357 00:18:21,559 --> 00:18:24,395 "Oh, I'm sending our DNA into ancestry.com." 358 00:18:25,772 --> 00:18:29,107 I go, "Why?" "Oh, it'll give us our... our family tree," she says. 359 00:18:29,108 --> 00:18:30,734 I go, "Okay. I don't like that." 360 00:18:30,735 --> 00:18:32,027 She says, "Oh, no, it's cool." 361 00:18:32,028 --> 00:18:34,238 "I mean, you're going to find out who your great grandparents were, 362 00:18:34,239 --> 00:18:36,615 what they did, what your grandparents did, what we did." 363 00:18:36,616 --> 00:18:38,284 "And then it will stop right at you." 364 00:18:42,872 --> 00:18:47,167 I say, "I know what you're doing, Mom, and I don't appreciate it." 365 00:18:47,168 --> 00:18:50,754 Plus, it's an invasion of my privacy. That's my DNA. 366 00:18:50,755 --> 00:18:52,381 I don't want it up in a public database, 367 00:18:52,382 --> 00:18:53,423 She says, "What do you care?" 368 00:18:53,424 --> 00:18:56,760 I say, "I murdered someone in high school and got away with it." 369 00:18:56,761 --> 00:18:58,220 Mom rips up the envelope. 370 00:18:58,221 --> 00:19:01,140 "Okay, I want to send it in then." Mom's got my back. 371 00:19:01,975 --> 00:19:03,560 Thanks, Mom. 372 00:19:04,686 --> 00:19:07,437 But I just think, you know, we're living in this world 373 00:19:07,438 --> 00:19:11,316 where everybody's talking about how our privacy is being stolen from us 374 00:19:11,317 --> 00:19:12,985 in these phones, it's not being stolen from us. 375 00:19:12,986 --> 00:19:14,695 We're giving it away. 376 00:19:14,696 --> 00:19:16,947 Just voluntarily sending our DNA 377 00:19:16,948 --> 00:19:21,285 into a public company to store on the internet. 378 00:19:21,286 --> 00:19:23,745 We're not thinking about the implications of that. 379 00:19:23,746 --> 00:19:26,874 That's an invasion of your privacy. But people just do it. They just do it. 380 00:19:26,875 --> 00:19:30,043 They just send it away, and it is an invasion of your privacy. 381 00:19:30,044 --> 00:19:33,547 And you don't even have to send your DNA in yourself. 382 00:19:33,548 --> 00:19:37,843 Could be a distant relative of yours, someone maybe you've never even met. 383 00:19:37,844 --> 00:19:41,305 They send their DNA in, their DNA is connected to your DNA. 384 00:19:41,306 --> 00:19:43,558 Let's say someday you do have to murder somebody, 385 00:19:44,142 --> 00:19:46,059 and you get away with it. 386 00:19:46,060 --> 00:19:48,103 And now, you got to spend the rest of your life wearing hairnets 387 00:19:48,104 --> 00:19:51,983 and rubber gloves just 'cause Aunt Maggie needed to know she was 3% Pechanga. 388 00:19:53,151 --> 00:19:54,986 [laughs] 389 00:19:57,864 --> 00:20:02,075 And it's great to be able to spend time with my parents 390 00:20:02,076 --> 00:20:05,037 and my brother and my friends and family here. 391 00:20:05,038 --> 00:20:06,831 - [applause] - I, um... 392 00:20:07,832 --> 00:20:09,125 You know... 393 00:20:10,668 --> 00:20:12,669 I wanted to come home, 394 00:20:12,670 --> 00:20:15,840 come home to Canada and spend some time with them before I die. 395 00:20:17,467 --> 00:20:19,093 [chuckles] 396 00:20:20,803 --> 00:20:22,889 No, no. I want to outlive my parents. 397 00:20:26,726 --> 00:20:28,311 Not for me, for them. 398 00:20:30,730 --> 00:20:32,065 I mean, you know... 399 00:20:33,900 --> 00:20:37,277 They say there's nothing worse than losing a child... 400 00:20:37,278 --> 00:20:39,113 unless the child's rich. 401 00:20:41,699 --> 00:20:43,701 That kind of takes the sting out of it. 402 00:20:52,168 --> 00:20:54,336 Although if they lost me, they wouldn't be losing a child. 403 00:20:54,337 --> 00:20:56,005 They'd be losing some old guy. 404 00:20:56,756 --> 00:20:58,340 So maybe it's no big deal. 405 00:20:58,341 --> 00:21:00,842 But I still got a bit of that Freddy Got Fingered money kicking around. 406 00:21:00,843 --> 00:21:03,137 Oh, yeah, I got a little bit. 407 00:21:04,180 --> 00:21:07,016 So if I were to kick it first, it might not be that bad for 'em. 408 00:21:07,558 --> 00:21:09,394 I'd like to see that for them. 409 00:21:10,603 --> 00:21:14,273 I'd like to see my parents living it up in Vegas, 410 00:21:15,692 --> 00:21:18,695 throwing around that Freddy Got Fingered cash. 411 00:21:19,821 --> 00:21:22,031 Probably get a nice room at Circus Circus. 412 00:21:24,325 --> 00:21:27,160 "Hey, Mary Jane, I'm going to order some room service. 413 00:21:27,161 --> 00:21:31,541 I think I'm going to get us a jumbo shrimp cocktail and a couple of whores." 414 00:21:33,376 --> 00:21:34,752 I want that for them. 415 00:21:35,878 --> 00:21:38,965 Richard and Mary Jane Green, ladies and gentlemen. 416 00:21:40,258 --> 00:21:44,761 Give it up for Richard and Mary Jane Green. 417 00:21:44,762 --> 00:21:47,347 Look at them. Come on. Come on. Look right there, folks. 418 00:21:47,348 --> 00:21:50,308 - [applause and cheers] - Look at them, there they are. 419 00:21:50,309 --> 00:21:51,686 The Slutmobile. 420 00:21:53,062 --> 00:21:55,773 You know them from the Slutmobile. 421 00:21:57,066 --> 00:21:59,068 You know them from the painted house. 422 00:22:00,486 --> 00:22:04,573 You know them from being woken up at 4:00 in the morning 423 00:22:04,574 --> 00:22:08,703 on Rogers Community 22, Cable 22. 424 00:22:10,121 --> 00:22:13,498 Thank you, Mom and Dad. I love you guys. Thank you. Thank you. 425 00:22:13,499 --> 00:22:15,585 - [applause] - Yeah. 426 00:22:19,922 --> 00:22:22,675 Oh. Yeah, they still talk to me. 427 00:22:24,469 --> 00:22:26,428 Remember when you were a kid, you could tell who the other kids were, 428 00:22:26,429 --> 00:22:28,306 who were the children of alcoholics. 429 00:22:31,100 --> 00:22:32,601 Based on the ones who carried their marbles to school 430 00:22:32,602 --> 00:22:34,437 in that purple velvet whiskey bag. 431 00:22:44,739 --> 00:22:46,448 Who was the guy that invented the short bus? 432 00:22:46,449 --> 00:22:48,825 What kind of a sick, twisted mind? 433 00:22:48,826 --> 00:22:51,954 "Hey, kids, you're different. We're gonna make your bus different too." 434 00:22:56,084 --> 00:22:57,794 No... 435 00:23:02,715 --> 00:23:05,635 Struck close to home, that one. Did it? 436 00:23:09,430 --> 00:23:11,640 No, I can't believe I'm 53 years old, man. 437 00:23:11,641 --> 00:23:13,809 I can't believe it, I turned 53 July 30th. 438 00:23:13,810 --> 00:23:15,727 I cannot believe it. Charlie, can you believe it? 439 00:23:15,728 --> 00:23:18,063 I'm 53. There's my dog, Charlie. 440 00:23:18,064 --> 00:23:19,981 And we're traveling the world doing stand-up, 441 00:23:19,982 --> 00:23:23,652 and we're having a good time traveling around the world, doing stand-up. 442 00:23:23,653 --> 00:23:25,904 I did a show in Afghanistan for crying out loud. 443 00:23:25,905 --> 00:23:28,741 Yeah, did a show for the Taliban over there. 444 00:23:29,617 --> 00:23:32,036 Yeah. Yep. No, it was for the troops. Come on. 445 00:23:33,121 --> 00:23:36,415 Taliban don't bring in comedy acts. No sense of humor, those guys. 446 00:23:38,417 --> 00:23:41,211 Went to Australia, did stand up. They got a weird sense of humor there. 447 00:23:41,212 --> 00:23:44,422 Every time I go to Australia, some Australian zookeeper walks up to me, 448 00:23:44,423 --> 00:23:46,925 hands me a koala, I'm holding the koala, he says, 449 00:23:46,926 --> 00:23:50,096 "You know, mate, the koala is the number one carrier of chlamydia." 450 00:23:53,891 --> 00:23:55,976 I like the zoo. Do you like the zoo? 451 00:23:55,977 --> 00:23:59,272 Do you like the...? I like going to the zoo. I like the zoo. 452 00:24:00,773 --> 00:24:04,110 I like zoos, like going to the animal prison. 453 00:24:04,819 --> 00:24:07,154 Every city I'm in, every chance I get, I go to the zoo 454 00:24:07,155 --> 00:24:09,657 to see the animals that I love locked up. 455 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,243 Maybe we'd think differently about the ethics of zoos, 456 00:24:13,244 --> 00:24:15,746 if we opened up the human prisons for tourism. 457 00:24:16,831 --> 00:24:19,291 Charge $45 admission, you walk across the catwalk, 458 00:24:19,292 --> 00:24:20,667 put some coins in the machine, 459 00:24:20,668 --> 00:24:23,796 toss a handful of cigarettes out into the yard. 460 00:24:24,130 --> 00:24:26,339 "Look! Look, look, look, they're smoking. They're smoking them." 461 00:24:26,340 --> 00:24:27,842 "They're smoking them." 462 00:24:36,100 --> 00:24:39,437 I'm here. I'm 53 years old. Can't believe it, and... 463 00:24:40,688 --> 00:24:43,024 You know, I'd rather be 53 than 23. 464 00:24:43,733 --> 00:24:45,150 [woman cheers] 465 00:24:45,151 --> 00:24:48,029 Yeah, one other person agrees with that. 466 00:24:50,823 --> 00:24:53,909 Yeah, no, how many people here under the age of 30? 467 00:24:53,910 --> 00:24:54,993 [cheers] 468 00:24:54,994 --> 00:24:57,412 Well, okay, we got a few people. Okay, there you go. That's good. 469 00:24:57,413 --> 00:24:59,998 That's pretty cool, actually. Yeah. So you never know. 470 00:24:59,999 --> 00:25:03,001 When you do a show in the '90s, you go on the road every night, 471 00:25:03,002 --> 00:25:05,213 it could be like a Smash Mouth reunion gig. 472 00:25:06,464 --> 00:25:08,173 It's like an AARP convention. 473 00:25:08,174 --> 00:25:10,342 But we got some young whippersnappers in here tonight. 474 00:25:10,343 --> 00:25:12,177 Raise your hands if you're under 30. Let me see these... 475 00:25:12,178 --> 00:25:13,929 Look at these young folks there, huh? 476 00:25:13,930 --> 00:25:16,056 Yeah, look at that young whippersnapper right there. 477 00:25:16,057 --> 00:25:19,184 Hi. How are you? Hi. 478 00:25:19,185 --> 00:25:22,355 Hi, young fella. Thanks for coming. Thanks for coming. 479 00:25:23,314 --> 00:25:24,899 I'd rather be 53 than 23. 480 00:25:25,733 --> 00:25:28,903 I'd rather be old than young. I'd rather be me than you. 481 00:25:31,030 --> 00:25:34,450 You said no. The guy said no. No, I'd rather be 53 than 23. 482 00:25:34,867 --> 00:25:37,661 I'd rather be older than you. I don't got to worry about dying young. 483 00:25:37,662 --> 00:25:40,206 You do. Hey? True. 484 00:25:40,831 --> 00:25:42,333 Can't die young when you're old. 485 00:25:44,418 --> 00:25:47,546 Of course, the downside of death at 53, your death is no longer tragic. 486 00:25:49,590 --> 00:25:53,594 No one ever says, "Oh, it's such a shame, he had 12% of his life left ahead of him." 487 00:25:57,848 --> 00:26:01,602 I'd rather be 53 than 23 for sure. For sure I would. 488 00:26:02,061 --> 00:26:06,356 I remember when I was 23, I was stressed and scared about the future. 489 00:26:06,357 --> 00:26:08,900 You know, so much of your life left ahead of you. 490 00:26:08,901 --> 00:26:10,902 You don't know what's going to happen. 491 00:26:10,903 --> 00:26:14,072 Every single move you make could just lead you further 492 00:26:14,073 --> 00:26:16,534 and further down some horrible path. 493 00:26:17,451 --> 00:26:20,120 But then when you get to my age, you know, it's not stressful 494 00:26:20,121 --> 00:26:23,291 looking forward, because there's so much less of my life left to ruin. 495 00:26:24,583 --> 00:26:27,711 I've basically made it. Of course, I'd rather be old than young. 496 00:26:27,712 --> 00:26:29,379 So don't feel bad about getting older. 497 00:26:29,380 --> 00:26:32,882 It gets way better, better as you get older, for sure. 498 00:26:32,883 --> 00:26:37,179 Yeah, got some pretty old folks here. There's a pretty old guy right there. 499 00:26:38,222 --> 00:26:42,183 You're pretty old, huh? You're a pretty old guy, not bad, not bad. 500 00:26:42,184 --> 00:26:44,894 [laughs] You'd rather be old than young? 501 00:26:44,895 --> 00:26:46,146 Think about it, like tonight after the show. 502 00:26:46,147 --> 00:26:48,315 You had a good time, right? You having a good time, right? 503 00:26:48,316 --> 00:26:49,400 Is this your wife? 504 00:26:49,859 --> 00:26:52,152 Yeah, after the show, you're walking out onto Elgin Street there. 505 00:26:52,153 --> 00:26:53,820 Probably laughing, "That show was funny, huh? 506 00:26:53,821 --> 00:26:55,697 [fake laughs] "That was so funny, right?" 507 00:26:55,698 --> 00:26:58,116 Probably saying something like that. "That was fucking hilarious, huh?" 508 00:26:58,117 --> 00:27:00,702 "He's still got it. He's still got it!" 509 00:27:00,703 --> 00:27:03,873 Probably just something like that, right? Yeah, probably, right? Right? 510 00:27:04,957 --> 00:27:06,082 Probably just something like that. 511 00:27:06,083 --> 00:27:08,209 Having a nice chat, and then, you're not paying attention, 512 00:27:08,210 --> 00:27:12,589 you step out of the Elgin, the OC Transpo bus... [fake groans] 513 00:27:12,590 --> 00:27:16,092 [fake grunts] Like, it's ripped your jaw off. 514 00:27:16,093 --> 00:27:19,013 [slobbering] It's like flapping. [continues grunting] 515 00:27:22,141 --> 00:27:24,768 Your wife's just looking at you, and you're like... 516 00:27:24,769 --> 00:27:26,687 [pained grunts] 517 00:27:28,230 --> 00:27:30,858 Right? Right? You know, something like that. 518 00:27:31,776 --> 00:27:33,902 And your last thoughts are fluttering through your head, 519 00:27:33,903 --> 00:27:34,944 and you'd probably be thinking to yourself, 520 00:27:34,945 --> 00:27:37,364 "Tom was right. I'm glad I'm not 23." 521 00:27:37,365 --> 00:27:39,825 See? See? 522 00:27:40,826 --> 00:27:43,036 Of course, you'd rather be old than young. 523 00:27:43,037 --> 00:27:44,830 [whistles and cheers] 524 00:27:45,915 --> 00:27:48,500 Now take the bus out of the equation. You'd still rather be old than young. 525 00:27:48,501 --> 00:27:50,836 It's the same thing, only you're not dead. 526 00:27:56,342 --> 00:27:58,010 I swear I thought that made sense. 527 00:27:59,762 --> 00:28:01,263 Okay. [chuckles] 528 00:28:05,393 --> 00:28:07,602 Young folks here tonight. This is cool. 529 00:28:07,603 --> 00:28:09,938 - Lots of young folks. [snorts] - [crowd member] Whoo! 530 00:28:09,939 --> 00:28:13,692 It's funny when under 30 is like, "Wow, it's a really young crowd here." 531 00:28:14,610 --> 00:28:15,986 [laughing] Under 30. 532 00:28:17,405 --> 00:28:18,447 It's cool. 533 00:28:20,157 --> 00:28:22,283 Yeah, it must be weird for you. 23 years old, huh? 534 00:28:22,284 --> 00:28:24,077 No, I just made that number up. 535 00:28:24,078 --> 00:28:25,829 - How old are you? - [man] 22. 536 00:28:25,830 --> 00:28:27,915 22, yeah. Okay, good. 537 00:28:30,668 --> 00:28:34,255 It's a magic show, too, yeah. A mentalism act. 538 00:28:35,464 --> 00:28:37,674 Probably got your first cell phone when you were 12. 539 00:28:37,675 --> 00:28:38,842 - [man] Pretty much. - Pretty much, yeah. 540 00:28:38,843 --> 00:28:42,471 There you go. See? Not bad. So you don't know how the world works. 541 00:28:44,014 --> 00:28:45,098 No, I don't want to come... 542 00:28:45,099 --> 00:28:47,684 Just every single human being who ever lived on this planet 543 00:28:47,685 --> 00:28:49,727 since the beginning of time lived their entire life, 544 00:28:49,728 --> 00:28:52,105 their entire adult life, without a cellular telephone. 545 00:28:52,106 --> 00:28:54,649 You'll never live a day as an adult without a cell phone in your pocket. 546 00:28:54,650 --> 00:28:57,277 You reach in there, you got every answer to every question 547 00:28:57,278 --> 00:28:59,946 that you could ever ask, instantly, you don't need to know anything. 548 00:28:59,947 --> 00:29:02,031 You can just type it in. You're the first generation of people 549 00:29:02,032 --> 00:29:03,908 that actually doesn't need to know anything. 550 00:29:03,909 --> 00:29:05,535 You just type it in, right? 551 00:29:05,536 --> 00:29:07,787 I think they got to change the curriculum in schools. 552 00:29:07,788 --> 00:29:09,789 They gotta stop teaching us the answers to stuff, 553 00:29:09,790 --> 00:29:11,000 start teaching us the questions. 554 00:29:12,084 --> 00:29:16,212 Yeah, what do I type in this thing? That's all you need to know. 555 00:29:16,213 --> 00:29:18,381 It wasn't like that back in the day. Oh, yeah. 556 00:29:18,382 --> 00:29:20,175 Every human being in history, they didn't have that. 557 00:29:20,176 --> 00:29:23,261 So they had to think about stuff, like Pythagoras. 558 00:29:23,262 --> 00:29:25,263 He didn't have a cell phone. Winston Churchill? 559 00:29:25,264 --> 00:29:27,307 He didn't have a cell phone. Patrick Swayze? 560 00:29:27,308 --> 00:29:29,935 He didn't have a cell phone. Nobody! 561 00:29:30,853 --> 00:29:33,021 Used to be, we'd go outside. Nobody knew where you fucking... 562 00:29:33,022 --> 00:29:35,023 We wouldn't know where we were, you'd walk around, 563 00:29:35,024 --> 00:29:37,233 you'd be like... you'd look at stuff. 564 00:29:37,234 --> 00:29:39,944 You ever look at stuff? Do you ever go outside and look at stuff? 565 00:29:39,945 --> 00:29:41,738 Like, seriously, though, do you ever look at stuff? 566 00:29:41,739 --> 00:29:43,908 Not your phone, not your phone. 567 00:29:44,450 --> 00:29:46,910 Do you ever wait for the bus? Do you ever wait for the bus? 568 00:29:46,911 --> 00:29:49,162 What do you do when you're waiting for the bus? 569 00:29:49,163 --> 00:29:50,538 What do you do? You look at your phone. 570 00:29:50,539 --> 00:29:52,081 You look at your phone. You go through your TikTok. 571 00:29:52,082 --> 00:29:53,082 You go through your Facebook. 572 00:29:53,083 --> 00:29:54,876 You go through your Instagram, right, when you're at the bus. 573 00:29:54,877 --> 00:29:57,880 You ever look at the ground? We used to look at the ground. 574 00:29:58,631 --> 00:30:00,465 'Cause we didn't have that, right? You pull that aside. 575 00:30:00,466 --> 00:30:02,300 That's the thing below this. It's the ground. 576 00:30:02,301 --> 00:30:04,552 The thing that's holding... It's the ground. 577 00:30:04,553 --> 00:30:05,929 It's called the ground. You ever look at it? 578 00:30:05,930 --> 00:30:07,680 You never look at the ground. We used to look... 579 00:30:07,681 --> 00:30:10,183 We all did. Everybody here knows what I'm talking about. 580 00:30:10,184 --> 00:30:12,519 - [cheers] - Remember that? Yeah, man. 581 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:13,437 Yeah. 582 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:17,358 We used to look at the ground, man. Yeah. 583 00:30:18,359 --> 00:30:19,526 There's rocks on the ground. 584 00:30:19,527 --> 00:30:20,902 You ever look at little rocks on the ground? 585 00:30:20,903 --> 00:30:22,570 You ever pick up a little rock at the ground? 586 00:30:22,571 --> 00:30:24,864 Really look at it? Really look at it. 587 00:30:24,865 --> 00:30:27,408 Pythagoras did. You never did. 588 00:30:27,409 --> 00:30:29,494 Winston Churchill. He looked at rocks. 589 00:30:29,495 --> 00:30:31,871 Come on, you take it after... Remember after the rain? 590 00:30:31,872 --> 00:30:35,166 Remember after the rain, when they were glistening, when the dust washes off? 591 00:30:35,167 --> 00:30:37,211 And the sun hits it, huh? 592 00:30:39,255 --> 00:30:41,631 You're missing out on the whole thing, man. 593 00:30:41,632 --> 00:30:42,924 You got to put that phone down. 594 00:30:42,925 --> 00:30:45,510 When you take it home, you put it in a cardboard box. 595 00:30:45,511 --> 00:30:48,096 You ever have a rock collection, no, huh? 596 00:30:48,097 --> 00:30:52,141 You ever have a soggy box of rocks? Because the box would get soggy, right? 597 00:30:52,142 --> 00:30:55,770 Am I right? Yup, yeah. Everybody knows what I'm talking about. 598 00:30:55,771 --> 00:30:58,731 Everybody had a soggy box of rocks at one point. 599 00:30:58,732 --> 00:30:59,857 Come on, you never... 600 00:30:59,858 --> 00:31:01,317 You're missing out on the whole thing, man. 601 00:31:01,318 --> 00:31:02,819 And then the box, it gets soggy, 602 00:31:02,820 --> 00:31:04,988 and then your dad would make you a crate, huh? 603 00:31:04,989 --> 00:31:06,030 Come on, they know! 604 00:31:06,031 --> 00:31:08,741 Then you have a crate of rocks, and then you go off to college, 605 00:31:08,742 --> 00:31:11,286 and you'd forget about it and get a venereal disease. 606 00:31:11,287 --> 00:31:13,455 And life would take twists and turns. 607 00:31:14,164 --> 00:31:15,582 Then, one day, your old crate, a box... 608 00:31:15,583 --> 00:31:17,083 You remember it all, you threw it out. 609 00:31:17,084 --> 00:31:19,127 And then you'll be riddled with guilt for the rest of your life 610 00:31:19,128 --> 00:31:21,004 because you threw out your box of rocks. 611 00:31:21,005 --> 00:31:22,922 Come on. Everyone knows what I'm talking about. 612 00:31:22,923 --> 00:31:25,425 - [cheers] - Everybody knows. 613 00:31:25,426 --> 00:31:27,510 That's the way the world works. 614 00:31:27,511 --> 00:31:30,930 You don't know how the fucking world works, man. 615 00:31:30,931 --> 00:31:33,725 It was better before, we would get bored, we would look around, 616 00:31:33,726 --> 00:31:36,561 and then you come up with stuff. That's the thing. 617 00:31:36,562 --> 00:31:38,521 You don't get bored anymore. You can't get bored. 618 00:31:38,522 --> 00:31:40,273 Just as soon as you start to get bored, you look at your phone, 619 00:31:40,274 --> 00:31:41,941 you're not bored anymore, but it used to be you didn't have that. 620 00:31:41,942 --> 00:31:44,235 So you'd get bored, and you'd have to figure stuff out. 621 00:31:44,236 --> 00:31:47,113 Start doing stuff that you're not supposed to do, you know. 622 00:31:47,114 --> 00:31:50,533 That's what's fun, doing stuff you're not supposed to do because you're bored. 623 00:31:50,534 --> 00:31:53,661 You ever take Pop Rocks, put them in 7Up, see if your stomach will explode? 624 00:31:53,662 --> 00:31:56,498 Huh? Yeah. See, that's how the world works, man. 625 00:31:57,374 --> 00:32:00,043 You ever rip the arm off a Stretch Armstrong? Come on. 626 00:32:00,044 --> 00:32:03,129 Lick that gelatinous goo that oozes from within. 627 00:32:03,130 --> 00:32:06,424 [licks] See? The DOW Chemical goo. 628 00:32:06,425 --> 00:32:09,887 [licks] That's how the world works, man. 629 00:32:10,929 --> 00:32:12,639 You ever reach your hand in a cereal box, 630 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:17,060 pull out a sticky rubber octopus toy, throw it against the wall... 631 00:32:17,061 --> 00:32:18,311 [cheers] 632 00:32:18,312 --> 00:32:21,898 ...watch it start crawling down the wall, limb over limbs? 633 00:32:21,899 --> 00:32:26,570 1986, and you're looking out, going, "Man, the world's getting fucking crazy, man." 634 00:32:27,738 --> 00:32:29,198 Just the right amount of stick. 635 00:32:31,950 --> 00:32:33,326 Ever take Tylenol PM, crush it up, 636 00:32:33,327 --> 00:32:36,163 put it in bread, feed it to the seagulls, watch them die in the air, huh? 637 00:32:36,747 --> 00:32:39,833 Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. They drop like fucking rocks, man. 638 00:32:41,168 --> 00:32:43,170 They drop like fucking rocks, man! 639 00:32:46,965 --> 00:32:49,133 I never did that. [clears throat] 640 00:32:49,134 --> 00:32:50,551 Never did that. 641 00:32:50,552 --> 00:32:54,807 No, just saying, you're missing out on a lot of fun stuff, that's all. 642 00:32:56,350 --> 00:32:57,642 And we don't know what to think anymore. 643 00:32:57,643 --> 00:32:59,310 We don't know what to believe anymore. That's the problem. 644 00:32:59,311 --> 00:33:02,313 Everything is so divided because of these phones. 645 00:33:02,314 --> 00:33:05,525 Because you don't... You get your information, and it's an algorithm. 646 00:33:05,526 --> 00:33:07,902 And the more you look at a certain type of information, 647 00:33:07,903 --> 00:33:10,279 the more your phone will give you that kind of information. 648 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,657 And then the more you get the kind of information that you like, 649 00:33:12,658 --> 00:33:14,575 the more you think you're really smart. 650 00:33:14,576 --> 00:33:16,035 "Oh, look. Oh, I agree with that." 651 00:33:16,036 --> 00:33:17,495 So it gives you all the stuff you agree with, 652 00:33:17,496 --> 00:33:19,372 and you feel smart, and you want to stay on there. 653 00:33:19,373 --> 00:33:21,124 It makes you feel good because you feel smart. 654 00:33:21,125 --> 00:33:23,084 So you pick up the phone more and more because it makes you feel smart, 655 00:33:23,085 --> 00:33:25,002 because it's giving you stuff that you agree with already, 656 00:33:25,003 --> 00:33:27,755 and you just stay on that app, and you're giving all your money 657 00:33:27,756 --> 00:33:31,342 to these billionaire fat cats, making their money off brainwashing you 658 00:33:31,343 --> 00:33:33,886 into looking at their stuff, making you think that you're smart. 659 00:33:33,887 --> 00:33:36,806 Right? But then your other buddy here, he's on a different algorithm. 660 00:33:36,807 --> 00:33:38,683 He's looking at completely different stuff, right? 661 00:33:38,684 --> 00:33:40,768 I have this friend of mine, I hadn't seen him in years. 662 00:33:40,769 --> 00:33:42,437 We used to agree on everything, 663 00:33:42,438 --> 00:33:46,065 and we just ran into each other on the street recently, 664 00:33:46,066 --> 00:33:49,652 and he's a completely different person. He's on a completely different algorithm. 665 00:33:49,653 --> 00:33:50,738 I tell you. 666 00:33:52,823 --> 00:33:54,824 No, it's weird. I ran into this guy. We used to agree on everything. 667 00:33:54,825 --> 00:33:58,327 We start talking about the Tartarian Empire, okay, 668 00:33:58,328 --> 00:34:01,581 about all these beautiful buildings we see down here, 669 00:34:01,582 --> 00:34:03,374 they weren't built by us, you know? They weren't built by us. 670 00:34:03,375 --> 00:34:07,545 They were built by a hidden civilization that we don't know about. 671 00:34:07,546 --> 00:34:10,715 The mud floods came, and we wouldn't even know about this ancient civilization. 672 00:34:10,716 --> 00:34:12,967 You're nodding your head here. Yeah, Yeah. 673 00:34:12,968 --> 00:34:16,095 The nun with the laser beams guy is nodding his head. Right? Yeah. 674 00:34:16,096 --> 00:34:18,473 We wouldn't know about any of this unless Admiral Larry Bird 675 00:34:18,474 --> 00:34:21,100 had gone to Antarctica and went over the ice wall 676 00:34:21,101 --> 00:34:23,978 and talked to the reptilian overlords from the planet Nibiru. 677 00:34:23,979 --> 00:34:26,439 And we find out about the Tartarian... all this stuff. 678 00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:29,233 Right, I'm talking to my buddy, and he doesn't know about any of this shit. 679 00:34:29,234 --> 00:34:33,489 That's the thing, like... Like the guy's a fucking idiot. 680 00:34:35,324 --> 00:34:38,326 You don't know about the Tartarian Empire, unbelievable. 681 00:34:38,327 --> 00:34:40,578 Doesn't know the melting point of steel, doesn't know Building Seven. 682 00:34:40,579 --> 00:34:42,498 I mean, the guy's a fucking idiot. 683 00:34:46,043 --> 00:34:47,836 [chuckles] 684 00:34:50,130 --> 00:34:52,132 You know what I'm talking about. 685 00:34:53,509 --> 00:34:55,843 Uh, you don't know what to believe anymore. 686 00:34:55,844 --> 00:35:00,849 Yeah. I think the division is worse than the stuff that we are divided about. 687 00:35:01,892 --> 00:35:03,185 Okay. 688 00:35:07,689 --> 00:35:09,148 I do. I think that's the bigger problem. 689 00:35:09,149 --> 00:35:13,945 The division itself is worse than any single issue that we're arguing about. 690 00:35:13,946 --> 00:35:16,031 [cheers and applause] 691 00:35:18,867 --> 00:35:20,701 Thought of an idea, next Thanksgiving dinner, 692 00:35:20,702 --> 00:35:22,203 when you go to Thanksgiving dinner, 693 00:35:22,204 --> 00:35:24,705 and your aunt and uncle start arguing about politics, 694 00:35:24,706 --> 00:35:27,918 just pretend you're a goldfish who doesn't vote. 695 00:35:29,586 --> 00:35:34,258 "Pass the cranberry sauce. I'm a cranberry sauce-eating goldfish." 696 00:35:35,884 --> 00:35:37,802 Don't want to get in an argument about politics of things. 697 00:35:37,803 --> 00:35:39,262 And then they get mad. 698 00:35:39,263 --> 00:35:42,975 "You ruined Thanksgiving with that goldfish shit." 699 00:35:44,518 --> 00:35:46,520 "We wanted to ruin Thanksgiving!" 700 00:35:49,606 --> 00:35:51,065 Yeah. 701 00:35:51,066 --> 00:35:52,901 I'm in a weird algorithm. 702 00:35:55,988 --> 00:35:57,822 We've got to put our phones away and stay off them. 703 00:35:57,823 --> 00:36:00,199 I looked at my phone this morning, the screen time, 704 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,119 60 hours, today. 705 00:36:07,291 --> 00:36:08,708 Brainwashing us. 706 00:36:08,709 --> 00:36:10,543 Don't sleep with your phone beside the bed. 707 00:36:10,544 --> 00:36:12,086 Okay? That's not good. 708 00:36:12,087 --> 00:36:14,755 You know, the last two weeks I wake up in the morning, I still do it. 709 00:36:14,756 --> 00:36:17,968 I can't... I tell you, I wake... I'm on TikTok before I'm out of bed. 710 00:36:18,927 --> 00:36:20,887 I'm on social media before I'm out of bed, just scrolling through. 711 00:36:20,888 --> 00:36:23,764 The last two weeks, I've woken up every morning 712 00:36:23,765 --> 00:36:26,560 to Karen's getting arrested and tased. 713 00:36:28,729 --> 00:36:31,230 [yells] "What did I do?" "Stop resisting." 714 00:36:31,231 --> 00:36:34,150 "What did I do?" "Stop resisting." 715 00:36:34,151 --> 00:36:36,611 "Stop..." "What did I do?" 716 00:36:36,612 --> 00:36:39,990 I love it. I love it. I mean... 717 00:36:41,992 --> 00:36:44,745 There is good sides to every coin. 718 00:36:49,207 --> 00:36:52,001 Yeah. You don't know what to believe anymore. 719 00:36:52,002 --> 00:36:55,338 Negative information spreads faster than positive information, too. 720 00:36:55,339 --> 00:36:58,549 That's the problem. Because it's fun to repeat stuff that's negative, 721 00:36:58,550 --> 00:37:02,553 especially if it's about somebody famous, it's fun to just run and tell everybody. 722 00:37:02,554 --> 00:37:04,513 And the most negative thing that you could hear, 723 00:37:04,514 --> 00:37:07,099 even if it's not true, it's fun to just repeat it. 724 00:37:07,100 --> 00:37:09,019 Yeah. Diddy... 725 00:37:11,188 --> 00:37:12,773 I think he did. 726 00:37:17,194 --> 00:37:19,487 Danny Masterson's not getting out till he's 70. 727 00:37:19,488 --> 00:37:20,446 [man] Yup. 728 00:37:20,447 --> 00:37:22,531 The good news is they'll bring back That '70s Show. 729 00:37:22,532 --> 00:37:23,908 Okay, so... 730 00:37:23,909 --> 00:37:27,411 So stupid, it's just a dumb thing. Just a dumb joke. 731 00:37:27,412 --> 00:37:29,038 It's all right. It's fine. He won't hear it. 732 00:37:29,039 --> 00:37:31,124 [laughs] 733 00:37:33,627 --> 00:37:35,087 Hmm, okay. 734 00:37:37,130 --> 00:37:39,048 Like I said, people like spreading negative information. 735 00:37:39,049 --> 00:37:41,050 It didn't used to be like that. It didn't used to be like that. 736 00:37:41,051 --> 00:37:42,718 I mean, with people, there's always been rumors, 737 00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:44,553 but not like hundreds of rumors a day. 738 00:37:44,554 --> 00:37:47,264 Every day, you read something about someone, and then you tell ten friends 739 00:37:47,265 --> 00:37:48,891 because you want to be the first person to tell your friends 740 00:37:48,892 --> 00:37:50,768 something about someone. 741 00:37:50,769 --> 00:37:53,896 But back in the day, it wasn't like that. There'd be rumors, but... 742 00:37:53,897 --> 00:37:55,815 Like I remember the first rumor I heard, 743 00:37:55,816 --> 00:37:58,317 I remember, right here, growing up as a kid in Ottawa, 744 00:37:58,318 --> 00:38:02,738 came in to school at Robert Hopkins Public School, came into the schoolyard. 745 00:38:02,739 --> 00:38:03,948 All the kids were talking. 746 00:38:03,949 --> 00:38:07,702 There'd been a big concert over the weekend at the Super X, okay? 747 00:38:07,703 --> 00:38:12,081 One of the biggest musicians in the world had just performed in Ottawa, 748 00:38:12,082 --> 00:38:16,252 and they were all talking about it. I'm in grade three, 749 00:38:16,253 --> 00:38:18,629 and I don't want to say this musician's name or anything, 750 00:38:18,630 --> 00:38:21,007 but they're all talking, they're saying last night after the concert, 751 00:38:21,008 --> 00:38:23,135 so and so, he got admitted to the hospital. 752 00:38:24,011 --> 00:38:27,556 They had to pump 18 liters of come out of his stomach. 753 00:38:29,725 --> 00:38:32,143 Just what they said, I don't know. 754 00:38:32,144 --> 00:38:34,061 I mean, does anyone remember this rumor? 755 00:38:34,062 --> 00:38:35,731 Who was it? 756 00:38:36,481 --> 00:38:37,898 - Who? - [crowd] Rod Stewart. 757 00:38:37,899 --> 00:38:40,943 Rod Stewart, okay, I wasn't going to bring it up, but... 758 00:38:40,944 --> 00:38:44,196 I don't want to spread rumors or anything, but yeah. 759 00:38:44,197 --> 00:38:47,033 Rod Stewart. Right, sure. It was Rod Stewart. 760 00:38:47,034 --> 00:38:50,037 I don't want to spread rumors. You said it, Rod Stewart, right? 761 00:38:51,705 --> 00:38:53,330 I mean, I'm in grade three. 762 00:38:53,331 --> 00:38:56,792 I don't know who Rod Stewart is. I don't even know what come is, right? 763 00:38:56,793 --> 00:38:59,545 But I ran around telling everybody, "Hey, hear about Rod Stewart?" 764 00:38:59,546 --> 00:39:02,381 "Yeah, the guy that pumped 18 liters of come out of his stomach." 765 00:39:02,382 --> 00:39:03,842 I'm telling everybody. 766 00:39:05,761 --> 00:39:07,636 And that rumor spread worldwide. 767 00:39:07,637 --> 00:39:09,890 I know because I've been telling this story all over the world. 768 00:39:11,641 --> 00:39:15,061 And they yell "Rod Stewart" in Hobart, Indiana, in Philadelphia, 769 00:39:15,062 --> 00:39:17,438 in Singapore, they yell, "Rod Stewart!" 770 00:39:17,439 --> 00:39:20,859 Whenever I mentioned that come stomach pumping story. 771 00:39:24,488 --> 00:39:26,739 Yes. That's what I chose to talk about at the NAC tonight. 772 00:39:26,740 --> 00:39:28,408 Okay. [clears throat] 773 00:39:29,785 --> 00:39:32,746 Oh, but this was before the internet. 774 00:39:33,288 --> 00:39:36,373 And that rumor still spread worldwide. How does that happen? 775 00:39:36,374 --> 00:39:40,544 Word of mouth. People just like to talk. Negative information spreads fast. 776 00:39:40,545 --> 00:39:42,338 I mean, somebody probably had to pick up their phone, 777 00:39:42,339 --> 00:39:45,257 call their Aunt Maggie down in Philadelphia. 778 00:39:45,258 --> 00:39:49,678 "Hey, Aunt Maggie, I got some bad news. You know, it's Tom up here in Ottawa." 779 00:39:49,679 --> 00:39:52,390 "I know you're a big Rod Stewart fan." 780 00:39:53,475 --> 00:39:56,477 "Yeah, last night after the concert, they had to pump 18 liters of jizz 781 00:39:56,478 --> 00:39:59,105 out of his stomach, Aunt Maggie, It sounds unbelievable." 782 00:39:59,106 --> 00:40:01,273 "Liters. That's like gallons, we're metric up here." 783 00:40:01,274 --> 00:40:02,733 "I, uh, yeah, yeah." 784 00:40:02,734 --> 00:40:08,280 "We measure our rock stars' stomach come pumps in liters." 785 00:40:08,281 --> 00:40:11,784 "Aunt Maggie? Aunt Maggie?" 786 00:40:11,785 --> 00:40:13,161 "Aunt Maggie?" 787 00:40:13,662 --> 00:40:15,663 Okay, so... [laughs] 788 00:40:15,664 --> 00:40:17,833 I'm just saying people like spreading rumors, that's all. 789 00:40:19,292 --> 00:40:21,085 Like a few years later, another rumor. 790 00:40:21,086 --> 00:40:22,879 I don't want to bring it up, who it was, but... 791 00:40:24,297 --> 00:40:26,006 A few years later, another rumor comes out 792 00:40:26,007 --> 00:40:27,883 about one of the biggest movie stars in the world. 793 00:40:27,884 --> 00:40:30,636 Okay, I don't want to mention his name, but my friend calls me up. 794 00:40:30,637 --> 00:40:32,555 It's like a couple of years after the Rod Stewart one. 795 00:40:32,556 --> 00:40:35,933 He tells me, "Hey, last night, so-and-so got admitted to the hospital." 796 00:40:35,934 --> 00:40:37,978 "They had to remove a gerbil from his anus." 797 00:40:39,312 --> 00:40:41,939 Yeah. I was like, "What?" Did anyone hear about this? 798 00:40:41,940 --> 00:40:42,898 [crowd] Richard Gere! 799 00:40:42,899 --> 00:40:45,109 Yeah, I'm not saying it, but like, yeah, yeah. 800 00:40:45,110 --> 00:40:49,029 Richard Gere. Yeah, Richard Gere. Yeah, everybody heard it. 801 00:40:49,030 --> 00:40:52,575 I don't wanna spread the rumor, but I mean, everybody already heard it, right? 802 00:40:52,576 --> 00:40:55,077 Richard Gere, apparently had a gerbil removed out of his anus. 803 00:40:55,078 --> 00:40:56,620 It's not true. It's not true. 804 00:40:56,621 --> 00:40:57,830 He didn't have a gerbil removed out of his anus, 805 00:40:57,831 --> 00:40:59,623 but everybody heard it all around the world. 806 00:40:59,624 --> 00:41:02,501 I remember being a kid. I'm like in the grade six or something like that. 807 00:41:02,502 --> 00:41:04,628 "He what?" I'm like, "What? How, how, why?" 808 00:41:04,629 --> 00:41:07,840 I had so many questions. I didn't know about sex. 809 00:41:07,841 --> 00:41:09,550 You know, my buddy said, "It's like a sex thing." 810 00:41:09,551 --> 00:41:12,386 "What?" "Oh, yeah. They stick a toilet tube up there, 811 00:41:12,387 --> 00:41:14,930 and the gerbil goes up, and then you pull it out fast." 812 00:41:14,931 --> 00:41:16,390 "It gets stuck in there. It goes like this..." 813 00:41:16,391 --> 00:41:18,894 "It feels really good." I say... 814 00:41:19,895 --> 00:41:22,022 "I'm going to the pet shop," you know. 815 00:41:22,606 --> 00:41:24,900 "I'm going to Zeller's!" Okay... 816 00:41:25,483 --> 00:41:27,776 Let me tell you, I racked up a few Club Z points there, 817 00:41:27,777 --> 00:41:29,571 I tell you, that's for sure, huh? 818 00:41:31,281 --> 00:41:35,409 A little Club Z point joke in 2024 for the... 819 00:41:35,410 --> 00:41:38,663 There you go. Oh, yeah, hi! Anyways... 820 00:41:39,247 --> 00:41:40,664 I'm just saying. 821 00:41:40,665 --> 00:41:42,583 I'm just saying these phones are messed up. 822 00:41:42,584 --> 00:41:44,084 That's all I'm saying. 823 00:41:44,085 --> 00:41:46,171 These phones are completely messed up. 824 00:41:47,297 --> 00:41:48,672 You know, spreading rumors 825 00:41:48,673 --> 00:41:51,091 about people constantly... hundred times more than it was before. 826 00:41:51,092 --> 00:41:54,094 I mean, and people are willing to believe everything, anything and everything. 827 00:41:54,095 --> 00:41:58,475 People are willing to believe anything, and I think that story is proof of it. 828 00:41:59,059 --> 00:42:01,310 Richard Gere was the biggest movie star in the world. 829 00:42:01,311 --> 00:42:03,938 Everybody loved him, but people believed that. 830 00:42:03,939 --> 00:42:06,816 The most outrageous thing. Imagine being Richard Gere, 831 00:42:08,652 --> 00:42:10,528 things are going pretty good. 832 00:42:11,071 --> 00:42:14,908 Pretty Woman just came out. You're at a deli on Sepulveda, you know. 833 00:42:15,825 --> 00:42:17,827 You're at a deli in Los Angeles. 834 00:42:19,246 --> 00:42:21,623 You overhear somebody say, "What? What? What?" 835 00:42:23,250 --> 00:42:27,087 Surely, that rumor is going to die down. No, it didn't. No. 836 00:42:28,964 --> 00:42:31,967 Had to go on Entertainment Tonight and deny it. 837 00:42:33,093 --> 00:42:34,093 It always makes it worse. 838 00:42:34,094 --> 00:42:36,345 "Hey, Mary, sorry to be here under these circumstances. 839 00:42:36,346 --> 00:42:40,599 I wish I could be here to promote my movie Pretty Woman, 840 00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:43,936 but no, there's this rumor going around 841 00:42:43,937 --> 00:42:46,897 about a gerbil in my anus, and I'd just like to set the record straight. 842 00:42:46,898 --> 00:42:48,649 It's disgusting. I would never do such a thing. 843 00:42:48,650 --> 00:42:52,737 It's a hamster, man. It was a hamster, come on. It was sick. 844 00:42:55,907 --> 00:42:58,118 The same people are willing to believe anything if they believe that. 845 00:42:58,827 --> 00:43:00,119 The biggest movie star in the world, 846 00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,247 and we'll believe the most outrageous thing. 847 00:43:02,914 --> 00:43:04,498 That'd be the modern day equivalent of the Rock 848 00:43:04,499 --> 00:43:06,876 getting accused of having a groundhog up his butt, you know. 849 00:43:08,128 --> 00:43:10,130 Like, I'm adjusting for scale, of course. 850 00:43:10,714 --> 00:43:13,466 I mean, I'm not saying the Rock has a giant asshole, but... 851 00:43:14,134 --> 00:43:15,634 [laughs] 852 00:43:15,635 --> 00:43:18,554 It's got to be bigger than Richard Gere's. That's all... 853 00:43:18,555 --> 00:43:20,472 I can't put this in... 854 00:43:20,473 --> 00:43:22,766 I can't... I can't put this in the special. 855 00:43:22,767 --> 00:43:25,561 This is not... This doesn't make any sense. 856 00:43:25,562 --> 00:43:27,771 When I say, "Chicken," you say, "Sandwich." 857 00:43:27,772 --> 00:43:29,148 - Chicken! - [crowd] Sandwich! 858 00:43:29,149 --> 00:43:31,484 That resets it. We're fine. Everything's fine. 859 00:43:32,027 --> 00:43:34,361 Everything's fine. You down with all OPP? 860 00:43:34,362 --> 00:43:37,240 - [crowd] Yeah, you know me! - Yeah, we're old for sure. 861 00:43:39,993 --> 00:43:41,327 Would you look at that? There's a piano. 862 00:43:41,328 --> 00:43:44,246 Maybe I could do "Daddy, Would You Like Some Sausage?" live. 863 00:43:44,247 --> 00:43:46,666 Hmm... No, really. 864 00:43:48,001 --> 00:43:49,251 Really... 865 00:43:49,252 --> 00:43:52,421 I don't know if I've ever done "Daddy, Would You Like Some Sausage?" live before. 866 00:43:52,422 --> 00:43:55,717 But should I do "Daddy, Would You Like Some Sausage?" live? 867 00:43:56,718 --> 00:43:58,677 Huh? Wow. 868 00:43:58,678 --> 00:44:01,556 Never even... Just thought of that right now. Wow. 869 00:44:03,850 --> 00:44:04,933 Watch that microphone for... 870 00:44:04,934 --> 00:44:07,686 You see, when I made Freddy Got Fingered... 871 00:44:07,687 --> 00:44:10,105 Oh, sorry. You were doing so good. Hi, Charlie. 872 00:44:10,106 --> 00:44:14,069 Hi, Charlie. You want to play the piano? Here, you want to play? 873 00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:16,570 I've been teaching Charlie to play the piano. 874 00:44:16,571 --> 00:44:18,405 Charlie, come here, jump up. 875 00:44:18,406 --> 00:44:20,867 It's all right, it's just a thousand people. 876 00:44:22,285 --> 00:44:23,452 Charlie, come here, play the piano. 877 00:44:23,453 --> 00:44:24,787 Let's play "Daddy Would Like Some Sausage." 878 00:44:24,788 --> 00:44:25,914 Come here. 879 00:44:26,748 --> 00:44:30,501 ♪ Daddy, would you like some...? ♪ Nope, Charlie, come. Come, come. 880 00:44:30,502 --> 00:44:34,129 Jump up, over here. Jump up, yep. There you go. Right there, this way. 881 00:44:34,130 --> 00:44:36,006 It's okay, she's good, jump up. 882 00:44:36,007 --> 00:44:38,133 - Play the piano, play it. - [crowd] Aw! [applause] 883 00:44:38,134 --> 00:44:40,220 Yeah. Yeah. 884 00:44:41,096 --> 00:44:43,556 It's like a low budget Ringling Brothers. 885 00:44:45,308 --> 00:44:48,436 Play the piano, Charlie, play it. Play "Daddy, Would You Like Some Sausage?" 886 00:44:49,145 --> 00:44:50,438 Play it, play it. 887 00:44:51,523 --> 00:44:52,689 Yeah. 888 00:44:52,690 --> 00:44:54,942 [applause and whistles] 889 00:44:54,943 --> 00:44:56,236 Good girl. 890 00:44:57,862 --> 00:44:59,406 Good girl. 891 00:45:00,782 --> 00:45:04,619 Oh, look, there's a top hat. Somebody left a top hat here. 892 00:45:05,161 --> 00:45:06,578 I love the National Arts Center. 893 00:45:06,579 --> 00:45:08,539 You never know when there's a top hat lying around. 894 00:45:08,540 --> 00:45:10,207 [plays piano] 895 00:45:10,208 --> 00:45:11,960 Hi, Charlie. Yeah. 896 00:45:13,378 --> 00:45:15,921 Yeah, I started trying to learn how to play the piano 897 00:45:15,922 --> 00:45:18,007 during the worldwide global pandemic. 898 00:45:18,633 --> 00:45:21,052 I would stream on Instagram. 899 00:45:22,887 --> 00:45:25,597 Often till, like, 3:00 in the morning. 900 00:45:25,598 --> 00:45:29,310 Then sometimes I would fall asleep in a puddle of my own drool on the livestream. 901 00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:33,189 You were there, anyone there? And then... 902 00:45:38,403 --> 00:45:40,571 I didn't play piano before the COVID, and I still don't. 903 00:45:40,572 --> 00:45:45,325 But... I wrote this song about my top hat. 904 00:45:45,326 --> 00:45:47,286 I wrote a song about my top hat. 905 00:45:47,287 --> 00:45:49,372 [continues playing piano] 906 00:45:54,669 --> 00:45:56,129 "Top Hat Song." 907 00:45:58,381 --> 00:46:00,674 This is going to give "Daddy, Would You Like Some Sausage?" 908 00:46:00,675 --> 00:46:02,634 a run for its money, okay? Here we go. 909 00:46:02,635 --> 00:46:05,054 ♪ I'm going to wear my top hat ♪ 910 00:46:06,306 --> 00:46:07,932 ♪ Every single day ♪ 911 00:46:09,350 --> 00:46:13,354 ♪ I'm going to wear my top hat don't care what people say ♪ 912 00:46:15,106 --> 00:46:19,444 ♪ I'm going to wear my top hat shopping in the mall ♪ 913 00:46:20,820 --> 00:46:25,158 ♪ I don't care if it's out of style it makes me feel six feet tall ♪ 914 00:46:25,533 --> 00:46:30,914 ♪ Going to wear my top hat every day like it's 1849 ♪ 915 00:46:32,582 --> 00:46:37,378 ♪ Gonna wear my top hat in the rain the snow and the sunshine ♪ 916 00:46:39,005 --> 00:46:42,007 ♪ Going to wear my top hat in New York City ♪ 917 00:46:42,008 --> 00:46:43,843 ♪ And all around the world ♪ 918 00:46:45,845 --> 00:46:49,933 ♪ Nobody's ever going to take my top hat away ♪ 919 00:46:51,476 --> 00:46:55,104 ♪ Nobody's ever going to take my top hat away ♪ 920 00:46:57,065 --> 00:47:00,527 ♪ Nobody's ever going to take my top hat away ♪ 921 00:47:02,403 --> 00:47:03,530 ♪ No way ♪ 922 00:47:05,073 --> 00:47:06,741 ♪ No way ♪ 923 00:47:11,329 --> 00:47:14,290 ♪ And nobody told you life ain't fair ♪ 924 00:47:16,209 --> 00:47:19,379 ♪ Then one day you got pulled out the chair ♪ 925 00:47:21,965 --> 00:47:24,551 ♪ Funny how it wouldn't matter if you didn't care ♪ 926 00:47:27,303 --> 00:47:30,223 ♪ Funny how it wouldn't matter if you didn't care ♪ 927 00:47:38,773 --> 00:47:40,775 [violin begins playing] 928 00:47:47,657 --> 00:47:49,909 [cheers and applause] 929 00:48:01,337 --> 00:48:05,341 ♪ Gonna wear my top hat every single day ♪ 930 00:48:06,342 --> 00:48:10,597 ♪ Gonna wear my top hat I don't care what people say ♪ 931 00:48:11,764 --> 00:48:15,768 ♪ Gonna wear my top hat shopping in the mall ♪ 932 00:48:17,145 --> 00:48:21,691 ♪ Don't care if it's out of style it makes me feel six feet tall ♪ 933 00:48:24,777 --> 00:48:26,779 [begins solo] 934 00:49:00,521 --> 00:49:04,192 [whistles and applause] 935 00:49:13,409 --> 00:49:16,663 [continues playing solo] 936 00:49:32,929 --> 00:49:37,684 [crowd cheering with applause] 937 00:50:16,931 --> 00:50:20,601 [crowd cheering] 938 00:50:24,814 --> 00:50:26,816 - Is Charlie still here? - [crowd] Yes! 939 00:50:32,321 --> 00:50:35,157 Sorry, I'm losing my mind here. Charlie, where are you? 940 00:50:35,158 --> 00:50:36,199 [cheers and applause] 941 00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,995 That was The Tom Green Show theme song. 942 00:50:43,374 --> 00:50:45,960 I wrote that. I wrote that in my parent's basement. 943 00:50:48,963 --> 00:50:51,631 Oh, there you are, Charlie. There you are. 944 00:50:51,632 --> 00:50:54,259 Yeah. ♪ This is The Tom Green Show 945 00:50:54,260 --> 00:50:56,261 ♪ It's not The Green Tom Show ♪ 946 00:50:56,262 --> 00:50:58,346 ♪ This is my favorite show ♪ 947 00:50:58,347 --> 00:51:00,432 - ♪ Because it is my show ♪ - [clapping in rhythm] 948 00:51:00,433 --> 00:51:06,773 ♪ If this was your show you'd probably like it more than I did ♪ 949 00:51:08,399 --> 00:51:11,277 - Here. [chuckles] - [applause] 950 00:51:19,911 --> 00:51:21,828 Yeah. No, this is great. This is great to be here. 951 00:51:21,829 --> 00:51:26,209 Thanks for letting me play the piano, National Art Center. 952 00:51:27,502 --> 00:51:29,504 I think I broke it. 953 00:51:30,838 --> 00:51:32,548 This is the theme song to... 954 00:51:34,091 --> 00:51:36,052 the new show, Tom Green Country. 955 00:51:38,554 --> 00:51:41,223 ♪ Heading home to the country ♪ 956 00:51:41,224 --> 00:51:44,100 ♪ To a place I've always been ♪ 957 00:51:44,101 --> 00:51:48,188 ♪ Goodbye, California and all them things I've seen ♪ 958 00:51:48,189 --> 00:51:49,648 [clapping in rhythm] 959 00:51:49,649 --> 00:51:53,861 ♪ Going back to Canada to live my American dream ♪ 960 00:51:55,029 --> 00:51:58,865 ♪ On a hundred acres where the grass is always green ♪ 961 00:51:58,866 --> 00:52:01,701 ♪ Got me a mule named Fanny ♪ 962 00:52:01,702 --> 00:52:04,121 ♪ She's a funny gal ♪ 963 00:52:05,081 --> 00:52:07,749 ♪ Knows all your secrets ♪ 964 00:52:07,750 --> 00:52:09,710 ♪ She will never tell ♪ 965 00:52:10,461 --> 00:52:14,673 ♪ Can't live forever so tonight, let's give 'em hell ♪ 966 00:52:14,674 --> 00:52:16,925 ♪ Let's give 'em hell ♪ 967 00:52:16,926 --> 00:52:19,427 ♪ I'll never tell ♪ 968 00:52:19,428 --> 00:52:22,722 ♪ I'll never tell in the morning ♪ 969 00:52:22,723 --> 00:52:25,851 ♪ About last night when we were rolling in the hay ♪ 970 00:52:25,852 --> 00:52:27,435 Faster. 971 00:52:27,436 --> 00:52:29,563 ♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪ 972 00:52:29,564 --> 00:52:33,483 ♪ I'll never tell in the morning about last night ♪ 973 00:52:33,484 --> 00:52:35,570 ♪ When I told you it's okay ♪ 974 00:52:36,904 --> 00:52:39,322 ♪ It's going to be okay ♪ 975 00:52:39,323 --> 00:52:41,158 ♪ Spend the night with me ♪ 976 00:52:43,536 --> 00:52:46,163 ♪ Won't you spend the night with me? ♪ 977 00:52:49,750 --> 00:52:52,377 ♪ Heading home to the country ♪ 978 00:52:52,378 --> 00:52:54,422 ♪ To a place I've always been ♪ 979 00:52:55,631 --> 00:52:59,385 ♪ Goodbye, California and all them things I've seen ♪ 980 00:53:00,511 --> 00:53:05,307 ♪ Going back to Canada to live my American dream ♪ 981 00:53:05,308 --> 00:53:09,311 ♪ On a hundred acres where the grass is always green ♪ 982 00:53:09,312 --> 00:53:10,897 [applause] 983 00:53:11,355 --> 00:53:14,191 Thank you, all right. That was fun. 984 00:53:18,571 --> 00:53:22,867 ♪ Bright lights, fade out ♪ 985 00:53:24,201 --> 00:53:25,828 ♪ Had a blast going up ♪ 986 00:53:26,746 --> 00:53:28,872 ♪ Nearly died coming down ♪ 987 00:53:28,873 --> 00:53:30,291 ♪ Good friends ♪ 988 00:53:31,500 --> 00:53:33,668 ♪ Good times ♪ 989 00:53:33,669 --> 00:53:35,630 ♪ Don't last forever ♪ 990 00:53:36,005 --> 00:53:37,882 ♪ Except in our minds ♪ 991 00:53:38,883 --> 00:53:42,678 ♪ Someday, I will return ♪ 992 00:53:43,679 --> 00:53:45,680 ♪ Flipped everything upside down ♪ 993 00:53:45,681 --> 00:53:47,141 ♪ Just to watch it burn ♪ 994 00:53:48,601 --> 00:53:50,810 ♪ And you know me ♪ 995 00:53:50,811 --> 00:53:52,938 ♪ From back in the day ♪ 996 00:53:52,939 --> 00:53:55,191 ♪ Ain't it funny how everything could change? ♪ 997 00:53:58,110 --> 00:54:01,447 ♪ And I went down to that old covered bridge ♪ 998 00:54:02,114 --> 00:54:05,618 ♪ And jumped into the river how we used to do ♪ 999 00:54:07,536 --> 00:54:08,955 ♪ Got swept away ♪ 1000 00:54:09,956 --> 00:54:11,873 ♪ Never seen you since ♪ 1001 00:54:11,874 --> 00:54:15,586 ♪ I guess I lived my life how I was supposed to do ♪ 1002 00:54:17,129 --> 00:54:19,131 ♪ Hey, you know me ♪ 1003 00:54:19,715 --> 00:54:21,425 ♪ From back in the day ♪ 1004 00:54:22,051 --> 00:54:24,470 ♪ Ain't it funny how everything could change? ♪ 1005 00:54:27,056 --> 00:54:29,349 ♪ And you know me ♪ 1006 00:54:29,350 --> 00:54:31,434 ♪ From back in the day ♪ 1007 00:54:31,435 --> 00:54:34,355 ♪ Ain't it funny how everything could change? ♪ 1008 00:54:36,399 --> 00:54:38,401 [music continues] 1009 00:54:55,334 --> 00:54:58,337 ♪ 500 miles to New Mexico ♪ 1010 00:55:00,006 --> 00:55:03,259 ♪ 500 more, I'm coming home ♪ 1011 00:55:04,927 --> 00:55:08,055 ♪ Took a pit stop down in old Chaco ♪ 1012 00:55:09,098 --> 00:55:11,976 ♪ Pay my respect to the Navajo ♪ 1013 00:55:14,186 --> 00:55:17,898 ♪ Yeah, that's me coming down the old gravel driveway ♪ 1014 00:55:18,566 --> 00:55:21,152 ♪ I can already smell Mom's apple pie ♪ 1015 00:55:23,487 --> 00:55:26,948 ♪ And I know it's been a long time since I went away ♪ 1016 00:55:26,949 --> 00:55:30,870 ♪ Now that you ask, I can't remember why ♪ 1017 00:55:33,247 --> 00:55:35,623 ♪ Bright lights ♪ 1018 00:55:35,624 --> 00:55:37,543 ♪ Fade out ♪ 1019 00:55:38,961 --> 00:55:40,629 ♪ Had a blast going up ♪ 1020 00:55:41,505 --> 00:55:43,174 ♪ Nearly died coming down ♪ 1021 00:55:43,841 --> 00:55:48,053 ♪ Good friends, good times ♪ 1022 00:55:48,054 --> 00:55:50,472 ♪ Don't last forever ♪ 1023 00:55:50,473 --> 00:55:51,932 ♪ Except in our minds ♪ 1024 00:55:53,267 --> 00:55:57,228 ♪ Someday, I will return ♪ 1025 00:55:57,229 --> 00:55:59,731 ♪ Flipped everything upside down ♪ 1026 00:55:59,732 --> 00:56:01,358 ♪ Just to watch it burn ♪ 1027 00:56:02,443 --> 00:56:04,445 ♪ And you know me ♪ 1028 00:56:05,029 --> 00:56:06,821 ♪ From back in the day ♪ 1029 00:56:06,822 --> 00:56:09,950 ♪ Ain't it funny how everything can change? ♪ 1030 00:56:11,035 --> 00:56:14,872 ♪ Still remain the same ♪ 1031 00:56:15,623 --> 00:56:18,208 - Thank you. - [applause] 1032 00:56:18,209 --> 00:56:21,211 Thank you, Ottawa. I love you guys. Goodnight, everybody. 1033 00:56:21,212 --> 00:56:23,297 [cheering and whistling] 1034 00:56:31,388 --> 00:56:33,015 Give it up for Charlie. 1035 00:56:47,613 --> 00:56:50,324 - A one, two, three, four. - [rock music playing]