Joe Rogan Experience #2108 - Tom Green

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.

• Tom recounts blacking out during his last JRE appearance after drinking whiskey on-air and waking up in his van the next day.
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• After 20 years in Los Angeles he sold his house and moved permanently back to rural Canada, vowing never to leave.
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• Tom suffered third-degree burns to both feet stepping into buried bonfire coals in Costa Rica, spending two weeks in hospital there.
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• He underwent emergency skin grafts the size of a football from his leg, stapled into his foot with 60 staples.
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• He spent roughly six months getting bandages changed multiple times a week, fearing amputation from infection.
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• Coyotes killed five of his six named chickens while he was away, watching the house from the woods until he left.
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• After feeling threatened by armed men near the Mexico border, he bought a 357 Magnum and a shotgun the next day in Burbank.
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• Green reveals he is shooting a stand-up special for Amazon Prime, filming a spring tour.
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• Mules are sterile because horses have 64 chromosomes and donkeys 62, leaving the mule with an odd 63.
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• George Washington was instrumental in bringing mules to America for farming and harvesting.
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• Mules respond to nonverbal cues and body energy, sensing a rider's intent and uncertainty more acutely than horses.
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• Donkeys and mules are used as livestock protection animals because they will stomp out coyotes and wolves.
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• Per Dan Flores's Coyote America, female coyotes have more pups when populations are pressured, causing them to spread.
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• Modern skin-graft technique was invented during World War II using a tool that shaves micro-thin layers of skin.
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• Chaco Canyon in New Mexico is a Puebloan stone city built around 875 AD, not rediscovered until the 1950s.
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• Macaw feathers found at Chaco Canyon prove trade reached from the Yucatan Peninsula up to the American Southwest.
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• In Canada, acquiring a firearm requires a safety course, a test, and RCMP review before a non-restricted license is issued.
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• Dogs descended from wolves that approached early human campfires and were fed by generous hunters.
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