#1463 - Tom Green

Joe Rogan (0:00)

The OG, ladies and gentlemen! You're the OG. We can give each other real knuckles.

Tom Green (0:06)

Don't be scared. I'm not like a paranoid person, but I'll tell you, Joe, you got me to leave my house for the first time in five weeks.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

I'm so happy you left, and I'm so happy you got tested.

Tom Green (0:18)

Yeah, the first time in five weeks that I've left the house, and yeah, I got tested, and everything's great, but I'm not like paranoid or anything like that.

Joe Rogan (0:26)

Spray it down, baby. How bad is all this Lysol for us?

Tom Green (0:30)

This stuff is pretty good.

Joe Rogan (0:31)

This is a real question, right? How bad is all this Lysol?

Tom Green (0:36)

But no, great to be here. Thank you for having me.

I haven't left my house in five weeks. I've been isolating as a responsible citizen, right?

Joe Rogan (0:49)

Yes.

Tom Green (0:50)

And I feel good. I feel, first of all, I'm excited to be here.

Joe Rogan (0:54)

I'm excited to have you here.

Tom Green (0:55)

I posted that I've been going through my computers. I'm at home, I'm going through my computers.

And just killing time. I live alone, okay? I happened to be single at this point in my life. Ladies! There you go, huh?

Right before this happened. And I kind of think to myself sometimes, I think, okay, imagine if I had been in a relationship that hadn't been going well, and this happened, and then you have to make the decision to isolate with somebody. I'm not in that situation. I'm home alone, and I've been talking a lot to my friends on FaceTime, and I've been socializing, and I've been, you know, living life in this world. But alone in my house, I'm going through my computers, started going through old footage, I found that clip from when you came up to my house back in the day, and yeah, I just saw this moment where, I'll jump right into this if that's cool.

Because I saw this moment in the clip where we started talking about my old web show, and you'd come up to my house back in the day, and it was so cool that you came up then. And I remember at the time, your website was like way advanced, right? Like it had all sorts of extra stuff on it that people weren't really doing on the web back then, and you came up, we just started talking about the web.

Joe Rogan (2:13)

That was because of my webmaster, Andrew Blevins. Shout out to Andrew.

He's a wizard at web creating.

Tom Green (2:19)

So I was always really into web stuff. I had my website, I started my website early when I was up in Canada, and I was really thought that was cool, and we started talking about what I was doing, which was kind of crazy, right?

And then you just started talking about, you said, what we got to do is figure out how we're going to make some money off this. And I'm like, yeah. And I'm like, yeah, I know. I'd been trying. I had been trying. I'd been going to advertisers and saying, they were like, what? What do you mean, the Internet?

But it's kind of funny. I saw that clip. I thought, that's hilarious because not to blow too much smoke up your ass, but clearly you figured out how to make money off of it. And it was hilarious. I'm like, that's hilarious and prophetic moment. How can we make money off of it? Now we're here in this beautiful studio.

Joe Rogan (3:08)

It's incredible. There was a few moments that really planted a seed in my head to do something like this online.

Yours was a big one being at your house and seeing how you had servers. You had full cables. Like, folks, this room is not as sophisticated as Tom Green's home was in 2007 That's how crazy it was.

Tom Green (3:29)

There was some weird stuff in there, yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:30)

But you had it set up like you had a whole internet service provider set up at your house. Like you could have run a network in 2007 You had all those.

You had that whole rack with all that equipment. I walked into that room, and it's humming, and I'm like, holy shit, dude.

Tom Green (3:48)

Those are the G-Raid drives. The G-Raid drives, yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:50)

I was like, this is crazy. This is your house. And folks, back then, you had to have these cables that snake through the house. So everything was taped down. I was like, fuck, dude. This is like you literally turned your house into a set.