Tom Green

Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Neal Brennan

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Mental Health

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Neal Brennan interviews Tom Green (The Tom Green Show, Freddy Got Fingered, This Is The Tom Green Documentary) about the things that make him feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how he is persevering despite these blocks. ---------------------------------------------------------- 00:00 Intro 00:33 Testicular Cancer 3:44 White Rapper 4:59 DIY roots 6:18 Norm Macdonald & Letterman 9:44 Experiencing sudden fame 15:05 Hosting SNL 19:08 Sponsor: Harrys 21:10 Sponsor: BetterHelp 23:13 Early adoption of creative technology 26:45 Negative reaction to fame 30:05 Shell shocked by fame 32:10 Downside of sudden fame 35:45 Relationship with Drew Barrymore 37:07 Anxiety 41:16 Testicular cancer 48:41 Difficulty of public relationship 51:39 Sponsor: RocketMoney 53:10 Moving back to Canada 1:03:29 Positive Thoughts 1:06:30 Procrastination & Indecision 1:15:26 Keeping the Dream Alive 1:17:05 How His Relationship with Himself has changed ---------------------------------------------------------- Follow Neal Brennan: https://www.instagram.com/nealbrennan https://twitter.com/nealbrennan https://www.tiktok.com/@mrnealbrennan Watch Neal Brennan: Crazy Good on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81728557 Watch Neal Brennan: Blocks on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81036234 Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased). Edited by Will Hagle ([email protected]) Sponsors: An exclusive offer for our listeners -- Get a $10 trial set for just $5 at https://www.harrys.com/NEAL This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://www.betterhelp.com/neal and get on your way to being your best self. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster with Rocket Money. Go to https://www.RocketMoney.com/NEAL today. Sponsor Blocks: https://public.liveread.io/media-kit/blocks ---------------------------------------------------------- #podcast #comedy #mentalhealth #standup Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, guys, it's Neil Brennan on the Blacks podcast. My guest today, he's got one tussicle.
0:06.3	So right there. Get right into it. Yeah. Right there. I was host the Tom Green Show. Freddie
0:11.9	got fingered road trip where they confused Austin and Boston. Austin, Massachusetts.
0:18.0	You mean Boston, Massachusetts? That was a big plot twist. Absolutely, yeah. And now he's got a
0:23.7	farm. He's got a, he's got a document on Amazon, which I watch, not knowing he was coming. And it's
0:29.1	very exciting. Tom Green is here. Like Tom Green. Thanks, man. Awesome. Awesome. I do have one testicle. Yeah,
0:35.3	well, I lost my testicle in 19, what, it was 2000. You think I'd remember the year. Yeah, I was doing my show on MTV. We filmed it all. We filmed the whole, the whole ordeal. But I still have the left one, so everything's fine. That must have been so surreal. You must have been like, what? Yeah. Yeah, it was kind of a curveball for sure.
0:59.3	That was one of those, the most recent one in culture was like,
1:03.2	Luca Donchik got traded from Dallas to the Lakers, right?
1:04.2	It was a big sports thing.
1:04.6	Yeah.
1:09.9	But it was that big a plot twist where it was like, what?
1:10.3	Yeah.
1:13.5	Yeah, it wasn't good timing for sure. I mean, it's never good timing to get testicular cancer, but it was particularly bad because the show had just
1:19.1	come on MTV and things were going good for me and then I had to kind of stop it down.
1:24.0	You were cresting. You were you you were crowning you were like ascendant
1:31.5	and and you were also rare in that you were under 30 right yeah 28 yeah and nobody was really
1:39.6	young in show like there was like the pop stars, but, but you seem especially young back then.
1:47.3	Yeah, it was a lot going on. I just moved to basically to the United States from Canada,
1:51.9	but really just moved to Los Angeles. I was in New York for about a year with the show on MTV.
1:56.7	Then I just moved the show out here. And that's, uh,'s through us for a little bit of a loop there.
2:01.6	But, you know, dealt with it.
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