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Joe Rogan Experience #1847 - Theo Von

Theo Von is a stand-up comic and podcaster. He is the host of "This Past Weekend with Theo Von" and one of the hosts of "The King and the Sting and the Wing." www.theovon.com

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  1. 0:002:36

    Lighting up: first cigar, smelling salts, and Theo’s hair transplant reveal

    1. JR

      (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

    2. NA

      The Joe Rogan Experience. (energetic music) Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. How many times have you smoked a cigar?

    3. TV

      I don't know if I've smoked one before.

    4. JR

      (laughs)

    5. TV

      Can we open that again one more time? Sorry about ...

    6. JR

      How ... Just, just pull it down. Yeah, lift, flip the top.

    7. TV

      Oh, okay, yeah.

    8. JR

      There you go. And then pull that do- ... There you go.

    9. TV

      Yeah. (cigarette hisses) (lighter clicks)

    10. JR

      How would you not know whether or not you've smoked a cigar.

    11. TV

      Well, I used to work at this business company, I worked at this insurance company. I did paperwor- ... Uh, not paperwork, but I, like, mailed papers for them. And, um, like, mailings, I guess. I guess that's paperwork.

    12. JR

      Yeah.

    13. TV

      And the man had a lot of nice cigars in there.

    14. JR

      And you may or may not have smoked one?

    15. TV

      I feel like he tried to teach me one time. Oh, I feel my heart shuttin'. (laughs)

    16. JR

      (laughs)

    17. TV

      Is that always like it is?

    18. JR

      I ... Don't ... No. No, your heart doesn't shut. (laughs)

    19. TV

      Oh, shit, fuck it. (laughs)

    20. JR

      I think it's the smelling salts. We just tried a new batch of the smelling salts.

    21. TV

      Oh, yeah.

    22. JR

      Last time I did smelling salts, first time was with you, right?

    23. TV

      Mm-hmm.

    24. JR

      And we just got a new batch and it was way stronger 'cause we did one with Red Band and it was old.

    25. TV

      Yeah.

    26. JR

      It was the old ones, and they get weak after a while. But that one was a freshie. Like, we pulled the tab off the top and took a hit of it, and (sniffs) whoo, it just burned all my nostril hairs off.

    27. TV

      Oh, man. It felt like somebody was fucking playing Legend of Zelda in my lungs, bro.

    28. JR

      (laughs)

    29. TV

      This shit was fucking really ... It goes al- ... It goes ... It doesn't even hit your lungs. I feel like it goes through, just into everything else almo- ... It, like ... (sniffs)

    30. JR

      It does a lot.

  2. 2:368:12

    Bags, purses, and relationship chaos: masculinity, cheating stories, and youthful misadventures

    1. TV

      I was just saying. I just had a crazy ... I had a, like, a trainer the other day and it was a gay trainer, right? And he had a purse with him the whole time and it just, um ...

    2. JR

      What's the difference between a purse and a large shoulder bag?

    3. TV

      Okay. This one, I would say, had bejewels on it, you know?

    4. JR

      Mm, bejeweled. (laughs)

    5. TV

      So it had, yeah. You know, it looked like somebody had, uh ... It looked like something you'd find in Egypt, you know, if you were digging.

    6. JR

      (laughs) It was bedazzled.

    7. TV

      If you were digging in a men's locker room-

    8. JR

      (laughs)

    9. TV

      ... it looked like something you'd find in Egypt, baby. (laughs) You know what I'm talking about, baby?

    10. JR

      The purse thing is funny, right? Because it's, like, purely a woman's accoutrement and it, it al- ... It has always been that way. But, like, why? Like, backpacks, guys can wear backpacks.

    11. TV

      Yeah.

    12. JR

      Guys can have gym bags. Guys can have all kinds of bags-

    13. TV

      Yeah.

    14. JR

      ... but not a purse. But meanwhile, guys generally carry more shit than women do, right? I guess not ... Women carry makeup and stuff.

    15. TV

      And guys have their nuts too, which is a, like, a ... In a little bag, kind of.

    16. JR

      (laughs) Good point.

    17. TV

      You know what I'm saying?

    18. JR

      Good point.

    19. TV

      So it's almost like your dick has, like, a little purse. But, um ...

    20. JR

      (laughs)

    21. TV

      Or, like, a hand or something.

    22. JR

      A little cum purse.

    23. TV

      Yeah. (laughs)

    24. JR

      (laughs)

    25. TV

      It's where you store jizz. Uh, but what else? Oh, yeah. So I think, yeah, that's interesting. I guess, yeah, I guess maybe since women carry more stuff, I'm not sure. I'm trying ... Let me try this, yeah, the, the same go.

    26. JR

      Is it out?

    27. TV

      I'm not sure.

    28. JR

      I think it's lit, bro. Just take-

    29. TV

      All right, cool.

    30. JR

      ... a, a take a puff. Deep in. There you go. Yeah, that sucker's lit.

  3. 8:1211:37

    From college apartments to landlord nightmares: rent moratoriums and incentives

    1. JR

      Can you imagine being a landlord for a bunch of college kids?

    2. TV

      Never.

    3. JR

      Ugh. Imagine being a landlord today, because so many people, there was rent protection during the pandemic and people are still like, "Nah, not paying."

    4. TV

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      Like, I know a guy who has not collected rent from this one person for three fucking years. And he's like, "I can't get rid of them. I don't know what to do. I'm not making any money. Like, I have to pay the mortgage and I'm not making any money off of rent."

    6. TV

      Right.

    7. JR

      "And I- I can't rent it out to anybody else."

    8. TV

      Ugh.

    9. JR

      "And I can't get rid of them." And the lady has a job. The lady has a job. She goes to work every day and won't pay rent.

    10. TV

      Oh, that's... She shouldn't do that.

    11. JR

      No. But there's like, in Los Angeles, there's rent protection.

    12. TV

      Oh yeah.

    13. JR

      I don't know if that's still in place. Is that still in place? Do you know?

    14. TV

      There's a TV show about bad people that do renting. There's also, um, I saw a... Oh, I had a tenant that stayed in a apartment that I had in New Orleans for two months and just didn't pay any rent. Thankfully it was only two months, but it was just nothing you could do. You know, by the time you have to go like to this... It's just like a- it's-

    15. JR

      Did you own an apartment building?

    16. TV

      Yeah.

    17. JR

      You did?

    18. TV

      Not a building.

    19. JR

      Apartment?

    20. TV

      One apartment.

    21. JR

      Oh really?

    22. TV

      Yeah.

    23. JR

      And you rented it out-

    24. TV

      Yeah.

    25. JR

      ... and they wouldn't pay rent?

    26. TV

      Yeah.

    27. JR

      Okay. Most people, they have shame and like, if you fuck with them and keep... They- they- they want to either get out of there or they just want to pay you and get it over with, but some people are shameless. And this lady that this guy I know is running out to is totally shameless.

    28. TV

      Was she, um... Do you think she was doing like, uh, some type of, like, secret work and she doesn't want, she didn't want like... Do you... Like, what do you think the reason was?

    29. JR

      I think she would like to spend her money on other things.

    30. TV

      Yeah.

  4. 11:3715:14

    Crime fantasies and real violence: robber-on-a-bus story, ‘good crime’ talk, and shooting videos

    1. TV

      Dude, one time I was on this bus, man. I used to go work at this farm in the summer. And so I would take the bus up there to Graham and they had this dude on there, he's sitting on there and, uh, next to me and he's like, "Hey, you want to see something?"

    2. JR

      (laughs)

    3. TV

      And I thought it was gonna be his dick, you know.

    4. JR

      His dick. (laughs)

    5. TV

      Because, you know, it's a freaking Graham bus.

    6. JR

      What if he says-

    7. TV

      And...

    8. JR

      Yeah. You want to see something, it's either a human head-

    9. TV

      (laughs)

    10. JR

      ... or a dick. (laughs) He pulls a head out of a bag.

    11. TV

      (laughs) Either way, you're getting a hit, bro.

    12. JR

      Yeah.

    13. TV

      But, and, and I said no the first couple times, but the trip got longer and I was like, "All right, fuck it." You know? "Yeah, I'll see it." He opened up, he had a bag of jewelry and a gun. He had robbed a, uh, a jewelry store before he got on the bus.

    14. JR

      Jesus Christ.

    15. TV

      And showed it.

    16. JR

      And he wanted you to see it?

    17. TV

      He just wanted, yeah, I think he wanted to kind of take some of the pressure off of him by sharing it with somebody else, you know?

    18. JR

      Yeah?

    19. TV

      So suddenly ... Yeah, I think he may- he's like, you know, "I've got an accomplice," or something. And then he even said like, "Oh, we should get off at this next stop." And I'm like, "I'm not in this shit."

    20. JR

      (laughs) He's gonna throw the bag at you and call the cops.

    21. TV

      (laughs) Yeah.

    22. JR

      "I found him!" (laughs)

    23. TV

      (laughs) He might've had a good idea. Maybe so.

    24. JR

      Well, that's a lot of people that commit crimes like that. They're kind of not that wired right.

    25. TV

      Yeah.

    26. JR

      You know? They're kind of screwball.

    27. TV

      Would you ever want to do a good crime?

    28. JR

      I would want to do a good crime.

    29. TV

      A fucking bank robbery?

    30. JR

      Like a crazy bank robbery.

  5. 15:1421:23

    Guns, training, and policy realities: mall shooting, red dots, and why ‘ban all guns’ is impractical

    1. NA

      Speaking of that, that shooting that happened at the mall?

    2. JR

      Yes.

    3. NA

      Did you hear about that?

    4. TV

      Oh.

    5. JR

      Yes, the shooting that happened at the mall, uh, h- what's, what's ... This is one of those crazy situations where an armed good guy stopped a bad guy from killing a bunch of people. This guy shows up at the mall. Kills ... Sh- pulls out a gun, kills two people, and within seconds this happens. This guy reaches into his, uh, pushes his girlfriend aside, reaches into his waist, pulls out his gun, and shoots at this guy from 40 yards away.

    6. TV

      No.

    7. JR

      10 shots, hits him eight times.

    8. TV

      Is that pretty far?

    9. JR

      It's pretty far. For a pistol, that's far. That's far. That's like a, that's like a good shot with a arrow.

    10. TV

      Wow.

    11. JR

      Like a bow and arrow is 40 yards is a ... That's a fucking poke. And for you to do this under pressure and to take a life, and he hit him eight times. Uh, he could shoot. That's ... He's a 22-year-old man. And of course, the NRA has jumped all over this and they've said, uh, you know, "Hey, this is one of those examples where a good guy with a gun kills a bad guy." That, right, what you just saw is another one of those examples.

    12. TV

      Yeah.

    13. JR

      It does happen. And the problem is people don't want to admit that that happens 'cause it doesn't fit with their narrative. This is one of the things that always happens when there's a hot topic, whether it's, uh, gun control or what- whatever it is, where y- you have a very specific idea of what you think the problem is and what you think the solution is. And a lot of people think the problem is guns. The solution is take all the guns. And, you know, some people say, "No, the solution is you should be armed and be prepared to take care of things-"

    14. TV

      Mm-hmm.

    15. JR

      "... if something goes wrong, you should be trained and you should be prepared to use your gun." And in this case, that is the correct answer, uh, in this case.

    16. NA

      I think that's the right angle-

    17. TV

      (clears throat)

    18. NA

      ... he had in that video.

    19. TV

      Oh, is that a Jason's Deli?

    20. JR

      Yeah. So-

    21. NA

      Where the shooting was, was right there. The guy who got shot.

    22. JR

      Yeah, so now-

    23. TV

      Wow.

    24. JR

      ... it depends entirely on whether or not this guy has a red dot, um, and how much he's trained. If he has a red dot, it's considerably easier to, to hit what you're aiming at because a red dot, when you pull out a pistol ... Excuse me here. (clears throat) I think that, um, smelly salt's fucked me up.

    25. TV

      Really? I like that.

    26. JR

      Yeah, mine ... Is it fucked you up too, Jamie?

    27. NA

      I didn't s- I didn't go all the way. (scoffs)

    28. JR

      I went all in.

    29. NA

      I still never-

    30. JR

      I went, I took the biggest, deepest whiff.

  6. 21:2332:16

    Zombies, vampires, and childhood fear: debating the best monster movies

    1. TV

      Yeah. (imitates knife stabbing)

    2. JR

      Do you still watch it?

    3. TV

      No. (laughs)

    4. JR

      Yeah.

    5. TV

      No, it's terrible. And then also in The Walking Dead, the arrows don't go through the head, which is crazy.

    6. JR

      Yeah, they just get stuck, huh?

    7. TV

      'Cause why is it so easy? They just get stuck. It's more probably, it probably just seems more exciting.

    8. JR

      Yeah, I mean, it's just special effects. But also, the arrows have field tips. They're not even using broad heads. They're using, like, target tips.

    9. TV

      Oh, I don't know that much about arrows.

    10. JR

      Yeah, if you look at a arrow, like, in The Walking Dead-

    11. TV

      Mm-hmm.

    12. JR

      ... the tips, they don't have like a big broad head, like a big cutting edge.

    13. TV

      Yeah.

    14. JR

      They have a point, just a little pointy point, and that's enough to kill the zombie. And then you gotta pull the arrow out and ... It's fucking stupid.

    15. TV

      Yeah, I'm trying to think if a zombie was coming at me and I didn't have a weapon what I would use.

    16. JR

      (clears throat)

    17. TV

      I guess I would probably, 'cause, uh, uh, y- they can't bi- I think if they bite you, then you're done.

    18. JR

      That's the whole problem. If they bite you.

    19. TV

      You'd have to probably outrun them or try and get them dizzy. You know?

    20. JR

      (laughs) What do you think would get a zombie dizzy?

    21. TV

      I think a lot of cutbacks probably, a lot of, uh, you know, 180s, 720s, you- you know, spin arounds.

    22. JR

      My favorite person in The Walking Dead was the lady with the samurai sword. She fucked everybody up.

    23. TV

      Yeah, she, they have a new spinoff actually. They're, that-

    24. JR

      Is it just her?

    25. TV

      And I think it's her and someone else. Yeah, she had the dreadlocks.

    26. JR

      Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    27. TV

      Yeah.

    28. JR

      After a while though, like, how many zombies can you watch get killed? Like, enough.

    29. TV

      Yeah, it's almost weird if people are still watching it.

    30. JR

      (laughs) Yeah. If you're, like, a big fan, like, "I-"

  7. 32:1655:06

    Sex in history and living longer: infant mortality, aging tech, and ‘who lives the longest?’

    1. TV

      I wonder if there was a lot of, uh... I wonder if back then it was, if, um, if, like, people were more sexually active back then, you think?

    2. JR

      Um...

    3. TV

      In the past?

    4. JR

      Well, they probably fucked a lot more because they didn't live very long.

    5. TV

      Mm-hmm.

    6. JR

      Right? They probably just fucked whenever they could.

    7. TV

      What a pickup line.

    8. JR

      We're not gonna make it.

    9. TV

      (laughs) Yeah.

    10. JR

      Let's just, let's just have a couple glasses of wine.

    11. TV

      (laughs) Yeah, like, "Hey, babe. The median age around here is 27." (laughs) "We gotta fucking hammer it down."

    12. JR

      But a lot of that was because people died young.

    13. TV

      Yeah.

    14. JR

      Like, they died... There was a lot of, uh, infant mortality. That was a big, big issue. Like, when you look at the actual age that people died back then, some people lived to be a ripe old age. But it was pretty rare.

    15. TV

      And a lot of infants, um... I guess a lot of infants just weren't that powerful? Or what was the deal with it?

    16. JR

      Well, they didn't have medicine.

    17. TV

      Oh.

    18. JR

      So if they got sick, they died.

    19. TV

      Oh, yeah.

    20. JR

      You know, or if, you know, a lot of women died during childbirth-

    21. TV

      Ugh.

    22. JR

      ... 'cause if there was complications. You know, now they save so many more people.

    23. TV

      Do you think we're supposed to be living as long as we are? Or do you think, like, Mother Nature's like, "Oh, fuck, these people are hanging out too long"?

    24. JR

      I don't think there's no supposed to. I think if... Biologically, we're supposed to live to be roughly 100 years.

    25. TV

      Mm-hmm.

    26. JR

      If everything goes great. If everything goes perfectly, you'll, you'll live to be about 100 years. But I think that with modern science and our understanding of genes and hormones and, you know, telemeters and all the, the different anti-aging technologies they're working on right now, we're probably, right now, talking to people that are going to live to be 150 years old.

    27. TV

      Damn.

    28. JR

      Yeah, I think, like, you're, you're seeing people today. Like, if you meet a guy and he's 30 years old today, that guy's probably gonna live to be 150.

    29. TV

      That's crazy.

    30. JR

      Well, people live to be 120. There's, that's a rare thing, but there's been some women that have made it to, like, 120.

  8. 55:061:00:02

    Bodies, food, and taboos: Great Depression talk, cannibalism headlines, and unusual foods

    1. TV

      You think you could've survived the Great Depression?

    2. JR

      (exhales) Yeah. I mean, you'd hope so.

    3. TV

      Well-

    4. JR

      People survived. But it's like, it wouldn't have been fun. Hard to get a job, you know, lines for food. People would wait in line at soup kitchens and shit, and ...

    5. TV

      And people also breastfed their own kids.

    6. JR

      They did?

    7. TV

      Or their own-

    8. JR

      Up till how old?

    9. TV

      But even older. Adult children.

    10. JR

      Oh? Really?

    11. TV

      Even, like, in Grapes of Wrath. You remember that book?

    12. JR

      They breastfed their kids in Grapes of Wrath?

    13. TV

      They breastfed the adults at the end.

    14. JR

      Really?

    15. TV

      People couldn't ... They didn't have nothing.

    16. JR

      I don't-

    17. TV

      Yeah, Joe. What do you think they're not gonna eat?

    18. JR

      God, I read that- I read that book in high school. I don't remember.

    19. TV

      People gotta fucking eat, dude.

    20. JR

      Yeah.

    21. TV

      I wonder if you were to ... Say somebody's deceased, right?

    22. JR

      Right.

    23. TV

      Deceased woman. Recently deceased. Half hour ago.

    24. JR

      Okay.

    25. TV

      And they were pregnant, and you're starving.

    26. JR

      Okay.

    27. TV

      Do you think you'd get over there-

    28. JR

      And eat her?

    29. TV

      ... and see if there's any milk in them? No. Just have some milk, dude. Damn, bro.

    30. JR

      If she's deceased, I'd eat her. I wouldn't eat her milk. If I'm starving? Yeah, you'd have to eat ... take chunks of her.

  9. 1:00:021:07:46

    Nature is brutal: eagles, hawks, bears, and the return to primal instincts

    1. JR

      And birds? Birds are some of the meanest fucking animals. Have you seen that video that's going around of the bird-

    2. TV

      No.

    3. JR

      ... that's eating an antelope alive? Have you seen that?

    4. TV

      You think they're mean?

    5. JR

      Oh, they're vicious. They're so horri- they're so fucking horrible.

    6. TV

      Why, do you think 'cause they can't be on the ground as much as other animals, easily?

    7. JR

      I just think they're reptiles. They're flying reptiles.

    8. TV

      Are they more reptile?

    9. JR

      Yeah. I mean, what a bird is, is a dinosaur. They're flying dinosaurs.

    10. NA

      This?

    11. JR

      Yeah. Look at this. This eagle is riding this antelope's back and just ... It's got its claws dug into its back-

    12. TV

      Wow.

    13. JR

      ... so you see all the blood pouring off the back.

    14. TV

      No, it's bleeding.

    15. JR

      And it's just digging into its body, 'cause those claws, the talons that an eagle has, are so powerful.... so it's just riding this thing and then eating out of its ribcage-

    16. TV

      (gasps)

    17. JR

      ... while it's just slowly dying. And that, that antelope can't do a goddamn thing to get away. There's nothing it could do.

    18. TV

      It's like one of those moving buffets that you're at. You ever been to one of those? One of those-

    19. JR

      Oh, God, that's

    20. NA

      Oh.

    21. TV

      ... where the food moves by as you're eating it?

    22. JR

      I got another video. I'll send you this, Jamie. Of this, uh, there's a, a hawk that's eating a crow. It holds the crow down and the th- the crazy thing is it's not much smaller than the crow. Which is, or not much larger, rather, than the crow, which is wild 'cause it's just, it's just chewing this fucking thing apart.

    23. TV

      Oh, I saw a bear climb into a tree yesterday. I put it on my IG story and it was a bear.

    24. NA

      Did you see it?

    25. JR

      Joe, is that it?

    26. TV

      No, no, that's not it. I'm gonna sh- send it to you. Oh, I saved it. Here, hold on a second. I actually have the whole video.

    27. NA

      The, uh, bear?

    28. TV

      Bear climbed up a tree and took a hawk out of its nest and-

    29. NA

      Oh, I think I did see that.

    30. TV

      ... and ate it.

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