Theo Von

Von acknowledges he had drifted from his recovery program and has recommitted to it.

“I just gotten away from my program, you know? And so I had to lock back in. And so now it's been good”

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #685 - Joey Diaz (Sep 25, 2026) · Listen from 1:40:15

Von says he tried to get off psychiatric medication he had taken for 23 years, experimenting with plant medicine.

“I tried to get off of my meds and I was trying like different plant medicine stuff”

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #685 - Joey Diaz (Sep 25, 2026) · Listen from 1:36:17

Von says he has 45 to 46 days of sobriety and feels more hopeful.

“I got 45 days right now, 46. I'm just grateful to have a piece of time together where I feel just like a lot more hopeful”

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #684 - Bad Haircut (Sep 19, 2026) · Listen from 40:50

Von says he has personally struggled with pornography and attended recovery meetings for it.

“I've gone to like different recovery, like, you know, meetings for it that my buddy runs”

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #682 - Bishop Robert Barron (Sep 10, 2026) · Listen from 1:19:39

Von said he identifies with addiction and would be unable to stop at a single drink.

“if I come over to your house and you give me a glass of wine, I'm going to fucking get an eight ball”

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #676 - Billy Strings (Aug 20, 2026) · Listen from 1:05:44

Von suggests helping the daughter build neighborhood relationships so she feels part of a group.

“help her relate, work on those relationships in the neighborhood, even if they're relationships that you don't know if you'll have for your whole life”

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #684 - Bad Haircut (Sep 19, 2026) · Listen from 57:14

Von advises Jamie to have an honest conversation with her daughter, saying that is what he lacked from his own parents.

“the thing that I feel like was missing for me would have just been a good conversation from my parents, right?”

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #684 - Bad Haircut (Sep 19, 2026) · Listen from 51:11

Von recalls riding his bike five miles to school alongside his bus to avoid being seen getting off what he considered the poor bus.

“sometimes I'd ride right alongside of the school bus that I was supposed to be on, but I didn't want to be seen getting off that bus”

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #684 - Bad Haircut (Sep 19, 2026) · Listen from 51:57

Von says he can speak more freely than others because he is self-employed and his job is not at risk.

“I can say some stuff that people can't say because my job isn't at risk. I work for myself”

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #684 - Bad Haircut (Sep 19, 2026) · Listen from 36:34

Von says Robert Kraft did not want Macklemore's pro-Palestine messaging at Gillette Stadium, leading to the rapper's removal from the tour.

“decided that he didn't want that sort of communication happening at his venue. And Macklemore was removed from the tour”

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #684 - Bad Haircut (Sep 19, 2026) · Listen from 19:52

Von criticizes restrictions on food entering Gaza and the killing of journalists covering the war.

“They won't let any calories in there while they hunt down children. They killed every reporter who was trying to report on the war”

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #684 - Bad Haircut (Sep 19, 2026) · Listen from 22:14

Von argues that the Israeli government, as distinct from Israeli or Jewish people, has turned Gaza into a technological killing ground.

“but the Israeli government has turned Gaza into like a video game basically for killing people”

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #684 - Bad Haircut (Sep 19, 2026) · Listen from 19:52

Von says his barber cut far more than requested, removing two inches when he asked for half an inch.

“I'd said, like, I'd want a half inch off. And the first thing he does is just rip two inches off of everywhere”

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #684 - Bad Haircut (Sep 19, 2026) · Listen from 0:01

Von says the lack of accountability for the opioid epidemic contributed to public skepticism of science and medicine.

“whenever they had the opioid epidemic and those people didn't get held liable, that was like a big thing”

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #683 - Neil deGrasse Tyson (Sep 16, 2026) · Listen from 53:16

Von says his Road Rules fame without money taught him popularity had little value and prepared him to handle later fame differently.

“one thing was i realized at that time that like there wasn't a like being popular was cool but there wasn't like a ton of value to it”

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #656 - Fahim Anwar (Apr 30, 2026) · Listen from 1:28:18

Von says that after doing meet-and-greets at every show he lost the ability to smile genuinely for photos and had to adopt a different face.

“But I couldn't smile anymore. The muscles in my mouth”

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #651 - Ella Langley (Apr 7, 2026) · Listen from 42:29

Von asserted that humans will not inhabit another planet.

“inhabit another planet. We're not going to”

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #655 - Sal Vulcano (Apr 27, 2026) · Listen from 1:39:47

Von expressed skepticism about the Artemis mission, suggesting it may serve to distract the public from troubling world events.

“i do believe in one they're trying to distract us from a lot of the horrible things that are going on in the world right now”

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #655 - Sal Vulcano (Apr 27, 2026) · Listen from 1:42:09

Von says Busboys was shot in 23 days in Los Angeles during the Palisades fires, including one day with fifty-mile-an-hour winds.

“we shot this bitch in 23 days, dude. There was one day where the winds were like 50 miles an hour”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2478 - Theo Von (Apr 2, 2026) · Listen from 1:09:42

Von says he and his collaborators wrote and self-financed Busboys with no studio attached because streamers found it too edgy.

“There's no studio attached to it. There's nobody”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2478 - Theo Von (Apr 2, 2026) · Listen from 1:02:18

Von describes a morning routine of yoga and a 35-minute workout of six exercises for five rounds that keeps him feeling good all day.

“I wake up and I do my yoga and I do like a 35 minute workout I'll do like six exercises five runs of it in a row”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2478 - Theo Von (Apr 2, 2026) · Listen from 38:57

Von says he has been on antidepressants for twenty years after being prescribed them during a bad relationship and now intends to get off them.

“one of my goals is to get off of antidepressants completely man I want to feel how I'm supposed to feel so I can have thoughts and actions that are that like make me feel connected to the world”

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2478 - Theo Von (Apr 2, 2026) · Listen from 39:09

Von contrasts the energy of college football with professional football, which he says is becoming dominated by gambling.

“pro football is turning into just more gambling and people just trying to like”

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #685 - Joey Diaz (Sep 25, 2026) · Listen from 1:46:49

Von argues that comedians in Austin can progress in four months as much as they would in a year elsewhere.

“Dude, you can go down there and what would take you a year in another city, I think you can do in four months down there”

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #685 - Joey Diaz (Sep 25, 2026) · Listen from 1:32:52

Von attributes his difficulty staying sober to not working the program, lacking a sponsor, and dishonesty with his higher power.

“it's just, I wasn't working a program and I wasn't working with a sponsor. And I wasn't being honest with my higher power”

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #684 - Bad Haircut (Sep 19, 2026) · Listen from 40:50

Von says Israel's government appears to own or control much of US politics, while acknowledging he doesn't know everything.

“Seems to own a lot of our country and a lot of our politics or have control over them”

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #684 - Bad Haircut (Sep 19, 2026) · Listen from 30:26

Von claims that technology companies used in the Gaza war are now involved in American surveillance.

“they've used a lot of crazy technology. Some of those companies are now in bed with American surveillance, right?”

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #684 - Bad Haircut (Sep 19, 2026) · Listen from 29:10

Von argues that social media feeds and consumer distractions desensitize people to suffering, describing it as a test of how much pain people can witness.

“it does feel like we're under this weird test of like, how much pain can we witness?”

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von: #684 - Bad Haircut (Sep 19, 2026) · Listen from 23:23