#2108 - Tom Green

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience. See you, bro.

Tom Green (0:13)

You too, you too. And we're up.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

What the fuck is happening, Tom Green?

Tom Green (0:20)

Yeah, yeah. Great to be here, man.

Joe Rogan (0:21)

My man.

Tom Green (0:22)

Made it back, made it back. Last time I saw you, I don't know, my eyes might have been a little crossed.

Joe Rogan (0:29)

Well, last time I saw you was last night.

Tom Green (0:31)

Right. And the night before that. That's true, that's true.

We'd start with that, then.

Joe Rogan (0:36)

But the last time we saw each other on a podcast. Things went a little westward.

Tom Green (0:45)

So, absolutely. So, you know, the whiskey kept pouring, the whiskey kept pouring, and that was when I had that van. So I still have the van, but at the time I was kinda living in the van, traveling in the van. So I drove here.

Joe Rogan (0:59)

This is like the beginning of COVID where it was like weird to be around each other. We got tested.

Tom Green (1:04)

Yeah, right. We did, got the COVID test. And then I had the van out in the parking lot. And we started drinking the whiskey about midway through the show.

And then the next thing I know, I'm opening my eyes in my van, and it's the next day.

And I'm just like, oh, shit, what happened on the show? So I think maybe the last half hour of the show was such a blur. I don't really quite remember getting the van, but I had a nice sleep in the parking lot. It was amazing. And then I kind of was a little nervous about like, geez, that's a weird feeling when you-

Joe Rogan (1:46)

Don't know what you said.

Tom Green (1:47)

Don't know what you said. And I called my mom.

And everybody seemed, you know, like, it was, people thought it was funny, but I mean, I think she was a little concerned about the drinking, the amount of drinking, but no, that was a great time. But I'm not-

Joe Rogan (2:04)

It was fun.

Tom Green (2:05)

That was a great time.

Joe Rogan (2:06)

It was fun. So we got a little off the rails. You didn't have to go anywhere.

Van was parked.

Tom Green (2:12)

It was awesome. It was awesome.

Joe Rogan (2:13)

What is it like sleeping in parking lots? That's gotta be an odd thing.

Tom Green (2:20)

Well, I rarely did that in the van. It was mostly out in these remote desert parks, like out in Bureau of Land Management land, BLM land in the desert. And I was going around filming.

But there was a couple of times I'd sleep in a truck stop because I was wanting to make a lot of distance. So I'd drive until I kind of couldn't keep my eyes open. Then I'd pull over at a truck stop and sleep between.

Joe Rogan (2:42)

It's a sketchy proposition, right? You don't know who's around.

Tom Green (2:45)

Yeah. Well, in the desert, it's a little more nerve-racking because you're all alone out there. And people can see the van in the distance and it's a pretty nice van.

Joe Rogan (2:54)

And the aliens come too.

Tom Green (2:56)

Uh-huh, yeah. I was hoping for that, but...

Joe Rogan (2:58)

Nothing?

Tom Green (3:00)

No aliens. I had a nice flyover from a US fighter jet in the Trona Pinnacles, in this amazing part of the desert in California.

Oh yeah. And I was the only person there. And I could tell this fighter jet saw me and he just kind of came in right over the thing.

Joe Rogan (3:17)

Oh wow, just to say hi?

Tom Green (3:18)

Yeah, and I didn't get my camera out in time.

Joe Rogan (3:21)

I flew in one of those ones.

Tom Green (3:23)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:23)

With the blue angels.

Tom Green (3:24)

Oh yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:25)

God, it's insane. When you realize what those jets can do.

And I think what they were flying was like an FA-18. See if that's true.

Tom Green (3:35)

Nice, yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:35)

I think that's it. That's what we did.

Tom Green (3:38)

I believe they are actually.

Joe Rogan (3:39)

I think they have even more capable jets now, because this is when, I want to say this is like 2003, two, something like that, way back in the day. I have a plaque that says you flew with the Blue Angels.

Tom Green (3:52)

Pulled major G forces. I've never been in a fighter jet.