Name: Theo Von Tried Ketamine Therapy
Uploaded: 2021-11-08T18:04:18.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Von Tried Ketamine Therapy' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-11-08. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Von Tried Ketamine Therapy' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-11-08. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan experience.
Yeah, that's what I realized, that something was going on.
I didn't know what it was. A lot of it was anger, man.
Anger at what?
I don't know.
Nothing? No specific reason?
I tried, I mean, I tried like, um, I've just done a ton of yoga.
I did.
Oh yeah?
Yeah.
Isn't that amazing for like relieving anger?
Oh.
You're so peaceful after you get out of there.
Yoga, meditation, I tried the ketamine.
Oh, you did the nasal spray?
No, I did the shoot 'em up.
Oh, did you really?
Did you do the IV?
Yeah.
You went to a doctor?
Six sessions, yeah.
With a therapist in the room.
Did you trip balls?
Bro, I thought.
Talk to me.
Dude, there was a moment, no joke, where I thought it was a tonsil.
There was a time where I thought it was a tonsil.
A tonsil.
Maybe you are.
Human, bro.
Yeah, totally.
I wouldn't be shocked.
Maybe we're all cells in a tonsil.
Because you know how like an atom, if you think of an atom, most of it is like
empty space.
Right?
Yeah, just like a solar system.
Right.
Maybe that's like the whole universe is like an atom.
Oh, I wouldn't be shocked by that.
And you really are an atom in a tonsil.
But the reveal on that wouldn't be, I need something dark.
I need something more than that.
So when you thought you were a tonsil, tell me what the experience was like.
Okay, so they put you in the thing, you're sitting there in the chair, and then
suddenly
you have your eyes closed.
And you're talking with a therapist the whole time during this place.
Is he talking too much?
No.
Is he like me?
No, I'm glad you talk, because it's hard for me.
The most I've ever talked in my life is a couple times that you have in my
whole life.
All right, back to ketamine.
Yeah.
Okay, so I'm sitting there in the chair, and a man named John, the Sherpa kind
of, you're
in there with a Sherpa.
A Sherpa?
I thought it was like a counselor or something.
I mean, it's a counselor.
He had a whistle around his neck, so that's the only part that made it a little
bit dicey.
God damn it.
But it was sanctioned.
It's in a beautiful facility.
It's a nice facility.
So go in, they put it in you.
I'm sitting in the chair.
He had a whistle?
I think it would like, it might have been a safety piece he had from being a
child or something.
He could have been, I don't know, lifeguard.
I have no idea what his past was like.
But he was a nice guy, but he's a therapist.
So I'm sitting there, and I start dreaming, you know, like a regular dream, you
know?
I start dreaming a little bit.
I'm still talking to him, and then I start talking about being a kid.
You know, I love thinking about being a kid and stuff, and so I start talking
about being
a child, and then I start talking about my dad.
And now, like, the darkness is starting to have, like, kind of shapes in it,
and things
are starting to feel that I'm talking about are starting to feel real.
Like, this feels real.
I'm sitting in here with you, and there's this table here, and this, so I can
feel.
This feels real.
Jamie's right there.
So things like that I'm talking about start to feel.
It has a feeling, not just a vision.
So I started to feel.
I was talking about my dad, and next thing you know, I'm spending time with my
dad.
Like, I'm with my dad.
Whoa.
And I had, you know, and I hadn't gotten to spend time with my dad in 20 years.
So, like, I'm, and I remember, I got to let my dad know that I loved him.
I didn't know if he ever knew, you know?
And it was this crazy thing, dude.
I'm sitting there, and I'm bawling, crying, and, like, I didn't plan on that
when I went in there.
But it felt like I was really with my, like, it felt as real as sitting here
with you.
Wow.
Which for, for somebody being deceased and gone, it was so powerful.
I would think that that would be a hard thing to share with someone you don't
know.
I guess maybe that's where the ketamine really comes in, and I didn't, uh.
It didn't bother you that you didn't know?
And I'm okay with, I shared a lot of, I share a lot of, like, I share a lot of
emotional stuff.
So I think I'm probably more prone to it maybe than some people.
But I would just imagine that, like, if you don't know this man, and you're
sitting down, it's like an intensely personal part of your life.
Well, he became, the therapist became just somebody I would check in.
I would say, John, is everything okay?
Am I okay?
Because I started to feel, then I started to slide down the edge of the
universe for a minute.
What's that like?
It was, it was, it was hard.
It was hard, because you don't have any ropes or anything.
I mean, you're out there just, you're like, you know, hope solo, or you're solo
hope, or whatever that guy is who climbed.
That guy, you had him on.
Free solo, Alex Honnold.
Yeah, you're like that, dude, but there's no, but there's no mountain.
No ropes.
No mountain, but you have, you do have a bag of chalk on your belt, I didn't
notice that.
But I felt like a cryptocurrency, I felt myself, like, going through these
channels.
And then I came back to another moment, I got to spend time with, oh, I got to
see my mom when she was a kid,
which I thought was kind of interesting.
Wow.
And just see that she was like a happy child or something, you know, or just, I
don't know.
So there was moments like that for me that were extremely intense and real.
And otherwise, it was a lot of moments where I was just out of my, I was out of
the chair.
I remember at some point thinking, how am I ever going to get back into that
chair?
Wow.
They'll never get me back in there.
I was just so far out in my head.
How long did it last?
It felt like it lasted for about maybe, maybe 13 minutes, but it was an hour.
Neil Brennan told me about it first.
He was the first guy to tell me about it.
I'll never forget.
We were in the hallway of the comedy store.
You know, Neil's an intense guy.
Yeah.
And he looks at me and he goes, uh, he's like, I was tripping.
He goes, I didn't know what it was going to be because I was fucking tripping.
And it was, uh, for him, it was to deal with depression.
Yeah.
He said it was very effective.
Wow.
So it helped him a lot.
I, I, I, I, I took away from it.
If you had like a, some severe tragedy or something like that, then it would
really help.
For me, it didn't feel like a longterm solution.
It didn't help me with my anger really.
So where do you think your anger is coming from?
I don't know, man.
I don't recognize you as an angry guy.
Like you and I have only had laughs.
Like when you and I have been hanging out, it's always been just like this,
like fun.
Yeah.
I think, I think some of it's maybe responsibility.
Um.
Responsibility makes you angry?
Yeah.
I think sometimes I think maybe, I think I thought that whenever my life got,
like whenever
I got more success in my job or something that I would feel some satisfaction,
something.
Like you feel like you made it.
I thought I would feel like, yes, it's different.
Right.
And I'm feel appreciative.
I feel happy.
And I'm, I'm not saying I'm amazing in my job, but I'm, once I started to have
some success
in my job that I would feel different.
I see what you're saying.
And I just didn't, I don't know.
You're still the same.
Everything's still kind of this.
You're still have all the same things, you know?
Do you ever have imposter syndrome?
I've heard about it.
You don't have that.
I don't know if I do.
The, the idea is that you can't believe that you're successful and you feel
like eventually
the world's going to wake up and go, why the fuck am I paying attention to this
guy?
He's out here talking crazy shit about his cousin getting bit by a gay guy.
Well, it happened on Halloween.
You know?
That's my favorite joke you do.
Well, it happened in Los Angeles, dude.
That joke kills me.
It fucking happened in Los Angeles.
The guy was dressed up like a baby deer and my cousin loved to deer hunt.
That was the crazy part.
So the dude comes out and he, you know, his first instinct is to feed him or
whatever,
you know, sprinkle that piss out there or whatever.
And the fucking dude bit him, man.
That's, you know, that's Newsome.
The guy biting you, is it Newsome's fault?
I mean, I don't know, just show you what's happening.
It might be his fault.
I'm willing to go with you and blame Newsome.
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