Episode 253 - Harland Williams

Breaking Bread with Tom Papa

All Things Comedy

Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Arts, Food

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

This week on Breaking Bread Harland Williams joins us in the studio. We reveal his two biggest claim to fames: starting the John Deere trend and being the king of Canada. He shares about growing up, getting sent to boarding school, and realizing he was on his own in this life. Tom and Harland also share an open dialogue about the current political climate.

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0:00:00 Intro

0:03:00 Resturants, Musso & Franks 3:00

0:07:14 Being mocked as a kid 7:14

0:14:23 Boarding school

0:21:10 Realizing he's on his own

0:25:13 Dating Scene

0:26:00 Catholic School

0:29:10 Meeting Harland when he moved to LA

0:30:15 John Deere trend & Ashton Kutcher

0:35:00 Religion growing up

0:38:08 Canada assimilation

0:50:57 Uncomfortable Moment

0:56:25 Elon Musk

1:05:40 Media & politics

1:18:20 Jan 6th

1:22:13 Bird Flu

1:27:30 International Comedy

1:30:20 Beirut

1:33:32 Bread & Goodbyes

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0:00.0	Today we have the great Harlan Williams. You know Harlan Williams. He's in about every movie, about every other movie ever made. He's so funny. He's a great stand-up comedian. He really is an original. He's coming back on the program for a great conversation. You're really going to love it. He's so funny and interesting.
0:23.0	And I have to say, this conversation took some wild turns.
0:27.5	We actually talked about stuff I was not anticipating talking about with my former Canadian
0:33.4	U.S. citizen.
0:36.6	Is he have dual citizenship?
0:38.2	I think he's got both.
0:41.1	I don't know.
0:41.8	He might be, he's also somehow close to Siam.
0:46.7	It's a very interesting conversation.
0:49.1	He's really, really funny.
0:50.5	I love spending time with him.
0:52.2	And he's a good friend.
0:53.8	And it was really nice to kind of open up
0:55.7	and take it into some new exciting directions. So let's jump right into it. Enjoy my conversation
1:01.6	with Harlan Williams. It's time for breaking bread with Papa. Hey! Don't you know? Hey, it's how we go.
1:10.2	Hey, it's time for breaking bread with Papa.
1:14.0	Hey, don't you know?
1:15.9	Hey, don't you know. It's also a show.
1:17.8	Hey.
1:18.9	We were in a boarding school.
1:20.4	We went out.
1:21.1	We never on the weekends, they let us go into town.
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