Name: Matty Matheson on Growing Up Mormon and Being Excommunicated
Uploaded: 2021-04-28T17:17:28.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Matty Matheson on Growing Up Mormon and Being Excommunicated' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-04-28. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan experience.
- I was brought up, I was brought up Mormon.
- Really?
- So I was brought up Mormon.
- Your family's Mormon?
- Well, my family's Mormon but we're all excommunicated.
- What happened?
- My dad got us all taken out of the thing.
So it was just like, we were like deep.
We were deep and then when we moved provinces,
the church wasn't good here in Ontario.
So in Nova Scotia, big, big fellowship, Mormon world.
You know, then what my dad was like a high deacon
or whatever the fuck it was.
Or like, we always like sat next to like the Bishop's family,
like front row shit.
Cause it's all like the families,
whoever's like up on the stage or whatever,
like the family sit in the front rows and shit.
And so then when we moved to Ontario, I fucking, you know,
like when we were about 12 or 13, right around like that time
when we started all of a sudden doing like drugs and drinking
is when we stopped going to the church.
Because that's maybe a part of it too, right?
Where like, we were like, I never had a Coca-Cola.
I never saw a PG rated movie.
We only watched G rated.
- Really?
- I never saw the Simpsons until I was, you know,
like things like that.
Like we were allowed.
- So once you got excommunicated from the church,
they just.
- Well, we, we took ourselves, my dad,
I don't know if excommunicated is the right word.
- Left the church.
- We, when we left the church,
but because they have so much information on you and your family,
like fucking family tree stuff,
like it takes a long time to actually get your,
like your shit out of there.
- What do you mean?
- Like your, like I think they just have like a lot of information on you
and your families and they do a lot of ancestral stuff, right?
So I think they do like a lot of,
and you, you know, the pen, you gotta give all,
like even like I would get $2 a week for my allowance
and I'd have to give 10% to the church.
So we would all be my brothers,
we would have to take our nickels or whatever, our dimes.
- Really?
- And we'd have to give our 10% to the church.
- Really?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that was training.
Like just think like that training of like giving the church the money
from day one and all that kind of shit.
So it was just like, and then, you know,
my parents are like, they were young and it's crazy.
They were like the, the young,
the young couple that got knocked on.
And my dad was like, come on in, like drink a,
like you want a beer?
- Oh God.
- And all of a sudden my dad was just like,
and it was one of those things where I'm like, why?
You know, we were so like, you, like when I found that out later on,
I was like, you literally just like somebody knocked on the,
you let a missionary in here?
You know, like where it's like so funny.
- How old were you when you were asking him that question?
- Like later, like in my twenties.
- Yeah.
- Like when I had like some balls to like, you know,
dads are so scary.
So I was just like, you know, like when I,
- Why?
- Huh?
- Yeah, just why, you're asking him why.
- Yeah, just like some, like where I was just like,
you know, like he would come visit me in college
and we'd go have like lunch, you know?
My dad would drive up to the city and you know,
having those father son kind of conversations.
Like, Hey, like this was kind of crazy back then.
Or like, why was this?
Or like, you know, like why, why, you know,
why were we never allowed to like sleep over at other kids'
houses or like, you know, like things like little small things
that I don't think are, you know, crazy,
but I think it's definitely like one of those things that like,
you know, never having like Coca, a Coca Cola.
And then all of a sudden I'm like doing acid, you know,
I'm all gas, you know, like, it's just like, I was like,
Oh cool. We're not Mormons anymore.
Let's do some blotter acid.
- Sometimes that's what triggers it, right?
Is the repression.
There's so much repression.
And then all of a sudden they take the reins off you.
- Well, and the idea of heaven, just like at a young age,
I strongly felt like there was no heaven.
And I strongly felt, I didn't believe it from a young age.
Cause I also, and there's three levels of heaven in the Mormon,
in the Mormon or in the book of Mormon, right?
There's like the celestial, the fucking whatever,
and the whatever.
So I was just like, there's three levels of heaven.
- There's like three levels of heaven.
- There's tears.
- There's tears, right?
So the thing that I was, I was a klepto as a kid.
I would like walk into like, you know, a little store
and like grab a little thing.
Like I remember I stole a jackknife once
from like this, like, you know, hardware store.
Like I would just like take things, you know?
A little klepto.
And in my head at a very young age, I was like,
I'm never going to be eternal with my parents.
At a very young age.
I was like, my parents are like, you know,
they did the whole thing with the underwear
and they're married forever and like fucking--
- Underwear is wild.
- I think they had to give it back
or they had to get rid of it.
I don't fucking know. - They had to give it back.
- I don't know, let's FaceTime Steve
and be like, what the fuck?
Did you have to give the underwear back, dad?
- I still don't understand.
Like they have information on you.
Like what, does that make it hard to leave
because they tell you, hey, we know things about you?
- No, I don't think it's like weird,
like that kind of stuff.
I just think it was like, just to get our shit out.
To be like stricken of the books.
- Right, so you don't have to pay them every week.
- Well, you don't have to.
Pence or just like you, or I think it's called Pence.
But I think it's like, once again,
there's probably a lot of Mormons watching this
that are being like, man, he doesn't know shit.
And I don't know shit, okay?
I don't know shit, I just lived it.
But I just think it is, I remember it was just one
of those things where I remember my dad and my sister,
it was crazy 'cause she had a child out of wedlock.
She's gonna love that I say this.
But she had like a child out of wedlock.
And so that was like a thing where I think,
it was like, I don't even know.
I think there was like a thing where she got like a piece of paper
saying she had to go in front of like a tribunal.
- Oh boy.
- And like, you know, explain herself or she was getting,
or maybe she was getting excommunicated.
I still forget, it's kind of fuzzy.
But I think it was like one of those things where,
I remember when the missionaries showed up
and it was almost like they served her like papers
or some shit.
And I remember my older brother almost like beat the shit
out of these missionaries.
Was like, get the fuck out of, you know,
one of those kinds of things.
Like get off our porch, get the fuck out of here.
- Serving you papers, you violated.
- I don't know, religion fucked.
Like that's the thing is like, I don't like a lot of--
- Well that is the wackiest religion.
- It's the wackiest, right?
- Yeah.
- I know, of course I'm a part of it.
- It's like, other than Scientology.
- I was baptized.
- It's the wackiest one.
- It's the wackiest one, right?
- 'Cause they know the guy who made it up
and he was a con man.
- We used to go, we used to go to the hill
where he found the Book of Mormon
and they used to redo the event
and we would visit the jail where he was like murdered.
- How old was he when they killed him?
- In his 20s?
- That's in that wild.
- John Smith, right?
John Smith?
- Joseph.
- Joseph Smith, yeah.
- He invented it when he was 14 years old.
- Let's go.
That's incredible.
That's like now, that's like a TikToker.
You know, everyone just follows Tik Tok, same shit.
- Well, I just can't imagine a 14 year old
that's not full of shit.
- Yeah.
- You know, like a 14 year old
that tells you a story like that
and everybody's like, wow.
- He's like, let's go.
- Really, you've met angels?
- What were they like?
- They were beautiful.
- You have golden tablets?
- I love a golden tablet.
- With the last work of Jesus?
- Ah, Jesus.
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