Name: Kevin Von Erich | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #576
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Kevin Von Erich | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #576' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-04-17. Transcript available.

Kevin Von Erich | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #576

Today's guest is a WWE Hall of Famer.
He's a member of one of the greatest wrestling families of all time, the Von Eriks.
You may have seen their family story told recently in The Iron Claw.
He's an inspiration. He's a motivation. He's pretty funny.
And I just feel honored to be able to spend time with him today.
Today's guest is Kevin Von Eriks.
I'm feeling good. I feel like I could doze off.
It's not a good thing.
Yeah, because you were always the barefoot guy. You were a barefoot guy.
Yeah, I sure was.
I've got these really big toes, you know, and once you stub your toe on the mat
a few times, it gets bigger.
So at first I just took my boots off because it felt comfortable in the ring,
you know, just to move around better.
I felt like I could fly, but with the boots, you know, they fill with sweat,
you know, your socks absorb the sweat and all.
They get heavy. I had some knee surgeries too, you know, but I'll tell you, I
go barefoot all I can.
Yeah, it's good for you. It really is, you know.
Yeah, well, I'm sure. I know you moved out to Kauai, was it, or Hawaii?
Yeah, Kauai.
That's the barefoot capital of America.
I'll bet it is. I'll bet it is.
We all go barefoot out there.
I say I'm always kind of crazy about that, but I just hate for my toes to touch
each other.
You know, I was always like that. I hated shoes when I was a little kid, and I
guess I got old enough to say no, and I just didn't wear them anymore.
Did you ever wear those toe separator things? You know what I'm talking about?
Yeah, yeah. Those are great. You know, I wear them in the river at home, you
know, to walk in the river, but you can walk by a vine, and they'll catch your
toe, you know, and it can drift you, you know.
It's a little hazard for those things.
Did you feel like a caveman kind of?
Yeah, yeah. The good kind of caveman, you know. I feel like, I mean, I'm going
to drag around and pound by the hair, but.
Yeah, no domestic disputes or anything.
Yeah, you know, because, like, you feel the ground. You feel the earth. It's
just something about it.
I didn't know there was anything to it, but Ross tells me, my son Ross tells me,
that it's, there's an energy in the earth that your feet can pick that up, you
know, and I think I've been digging that for a long time.
Without even knowing it was a, it was a thing, you know, but now I'm, I caveman
it all the time out in Kauai. That's the way to live.
Yeah, I bet it's, well, it's called, yeah, right here it says it's grounding.
Grounding, also known as earthing, is a wellness practice that involves direct
contact with the earth's surface, like walking barefoot on grass or sand to
potentially connect with the earth's natural electric charge.
I think it makes sense, because even if you look at a tree or a plant, you don't
see them wearing shoes or nothing.
Like, that would be crazy. If you saw a plant, like, wearing shoes, you'd be
like, oh, that guy's, that plant's out of his mind.
Like, plants, you know what I'm saying? They're connected to the earth, so I
think that makes good sense.
Oh, oh, I see what you mean, yeah.
Probably kept you pretty locked in.
Your family lives, you live on your family's ranch, right? Or you live on a
ranch here?
We bought a ranch. We, we sold it. We had, I lived on my family ranch in Texas.
We sold it about 20 years ago and moved out to Kauai and built a big place, you
know, but we, but I wanted to give my wife that kind of house, you know, so
everything was in, there was in the house was something that I really liked
about room service or some hotel overseas, you know.
I had a bathtub, you could do a cannonball in it, you know, splash it all over
the wall and it had a drain.
You know, it was just, every room had something like that, but it was, it's
real expensive in Kauai and I have a lot of kids, you know, and so they all go
off to their house and no one wants to live in the big house.
And so we happened to trade that to a guy that just happened to have 27 acres,
a waterfall on the land, a big, nice spring and five houses, you know, for my,
for my sons.
And so we traded that house for that 27 acres and that's where we are.
No way. Just an even trade.
Even trade. Yeah.
Dang. You don't see a lot of that anymore.
No, no. I'm glad the guy, I couldn't believe he did it really.
Did you have one of those open back, uh, verandas or something that's called
maybe in Hawaii? What's that back patio?
You know what I'm talking about? Those porches, it's just so perfect.
Yeah. They call it a lanai.
Oh God.
Oh man.
At my daughter's house there, when we stay with her, uh, she's got a bed set up
for me on out there.
And so I sleep in the wind, you know, it's great.
Yeah, dude. You're like that, uh, legend of Zelda character. What's that little
guy's name?
Yeah. You're like Link from Zelda. That guy's always in the wind, man. That guy's
a real nature dog.
It's a care, like a game. It's a character from a video game.
Um, so you're, so the ranch you have now, all your family can all live there.
Yeah. Oh, that's awesome.
Yeah, that is, man. I'm telling you, Theo, that's like,
that's so important to me. You know, I had a lot of brothers and man, I loved
them so much. We're
really close, super close for sure. Well, I mean, I only knew so much, but you
know, I just saw you
guys in the ring and stuff like that. And you know, there's been a lot of
documentaries and smaller
documentaries. There's been the claw movie. So there's been a lot of, um, you
know, references to
you guys for sure. Yeah. Your father was, uh, from Texas and he, he was a
wrestler. So I'm assuming
that's where you guys all kind of got into it. Yeah. Yeah. Just even knew about
it. Yeah. This
is, you know, it's kind of ugly turn. I don't want to bum me out, but my dad
was living up in New York
and we were all living up there and I was a baby, but my brother, Jackie was
like six years old
and he would touched a house trailer that had a short in it and it killed him.
It electrocuted him,
knocked him out and he hit a puddle of frozen water was frozen. He drowned
under the ice, you know, and
broke my dad's heart. My mother, you know, just killed him. You know, I can't
imagine I have sons,
you know, that I tell you, Theo, I lost my brothers and that was hard, but I
could not lose a son.
Wow. Yeah. I couldn't get up. I couldn't stand on my hind legs, you know? Did
they have to go to
therapy and stuff like that when that first happened to your, cause I guess
that was your oldest brother.
Yeah. Did they have therapy back then and stuff like that or what did you? No,
no, there was no,
my dad was like a rock though. You know, he's, I couldn't believe he was, he
just, uh,
he didn't want my mother to suffer so we wouldn't suffer around her, but I'm
sure my mother suffered
so much. And also when she got married, her little brother, David, um, died of
a, uh,
a brain hemorrhage thing, you know, what do you call it? A tumor, a brain tumor.
And so just like a year later, her son dies too, you know, it was just bang,
bang, you know?
I mean, and at those times too, things,
I think there was more probably tragedy at those times, you know, things were,
you know,
you'd have a lot of people had a lot of children, uh, and a lot of them work in
farming and people
would get injured a lot. There was just, um, I think it was a different time
probably when it came
to safety and stuff, you know, and they'd have loose wires. I mean, just things
were just less
regulated, you know? That's right. It was, you know, the kind of stuff we did
as kids, like,
shoot, I can tell you a lot of times I'm lucky to be alive, you know? Oh God,
I've been lit up a couple of times. Damn. I was walking by a damn crab
restaurant and stepped
on an outlet. You did? Just took me down, brother. Yeah. You stepped on an
outlet? Something,
I don't know. Next thing you know, I just thought I was, thought the earth was
just
sucking me into it. How long were you out? I don't know, probably 40 seconds,
maybe.
Wow. Not long enough to give up, I guess. You didn't have like a, uh,
experience beyond
the door or anything. I didn't get anything. I'm like, God's not giving me any
previews or nothing,
you know? That might be a bad son, brother. Yeah, that's true, actually. If you
start seeing the
light, I'm like, nah, nah. Um, so yeah, so your family had that, yeah, so your
parents had to deal
with that so early, man. Yeah, I guess people suffered in silence more back
then, huh? Yeah,
people were tough, you know? They were. Well, I was just gonna say, you know,
you brought up the movie,
and I mean, the movie was like, uh, I heard a lot of people talk about it. It
was like,
The Iron Claw movie? Yeah, yeah, that my dad was really hard on us, when the
fact was, you know,
that we were hard on each other, you know? We answered each other. It was like
a brother thing, really,
and the, you know, to tell the truth, the suicides and all that was not because
Fritz made us wrestle,
or Fritz was a, a big monster or anything like that. That was shame. My
brothers were ashamed with, with Carrie was,
you know, when you're in the public eye, you really feel a lot of pressure. You
really do. You know,
you don't want to let those kids down, and when something happens, you know,
you do feel like you
really let them down, and you, you know, I don't know, Matt, everybody's not
like this. Sometimes you
just can't forgive yourself, and Carrie just couldn't let it go. And yeah,
Carrie is one of your
brothers. I know you had David, Carrie, Jack, Chris, and Mike. And Mike. God,
that's all the
boy names they had at the time. Yeah. Y'all couldn't have had another brother,
because what were you
gonna do? It'd have to be a girl. It would have had to have been a girl by
default, man. Oh, we wanted
a girl so bad. Did y'all? Did your parents? My whole life, I never knew
anything about girls, you know?
Oh, yeah. Y'all had enough beautiful hair in that family so you got an idea of
how to use it. Go figure
that one. Golly, I know what's with that. I never took care of myself. I never
expected to live past
50, you know? Oh, I bet. I was having fun my whole life, you know? Oh, I bet,
but y'all had so much
dang hair. Y'all were very, very, y'all would have been considered trans,
beautiful, tall trans women
these days. Y'all would have been, because you guys were ahead of your time.
Even like all the rock bands
and back then had, remember Poise and all those bands, they had the big hair.
That's the truth.
Y'all had some hairdos. Did, was that something like a pride? Was that almost
like a lion's mane
type of thing amongst the guys in your household? Or what was that like for you
guys? Because you
guys had some great hair. No, you know what? It was just laziness to tell the
truth. I mean,
you know, I cut it, keep it out of my eyes, you know, but then I cut my own
hair, you know,
cause I'm gonna pay the kind of money. Hell yeah, I can tell dude, I cut my own
shit. Yeah, well,
I can't see the back, you know, I don't have a mullet on purpose, you know,
but, but I can cut this up here, you know?
Yeah. Um, so, so your dad, I do want to know a little bit more about him. So
you said that the,
the film, um, kind of portrayed him as being more of a, a stickler, but what
was he like? Was he a
businessman? Was he, um, quiet? I mean, I guess he wasn't quiet cause I could
see like his wrestling
persona, but was his home persona like, well, I guess, what was he like as a
father and what was
he like as a businessman? But let me tell you, my dad was like a mountain of a
man. He was, he was,
he was, he was really a considerate full of love God, but I mean, he was
serious. And when he would,
he wouldn't say anything like, you know, before you go to sleep at night, you
think, oh man,
I wish I had said that. What should I have thought of that? Well, he thought of
it right then.
And he would say it right then. And, uh, at night, you mean,
no, I mean like whenever, whenever he thought of it, it was just right t