Name: Louis Theroux | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #513
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Louis Theroux | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #513

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today's guest is a documentarian a journalist um an instigator of sorts uh he
has a new documentary
that's trending right now on netflix called tell them you love me uh it's
really fascinating if you
haven't seen it um he's he's always splashing in the dark pools of society uh
and we're grateful
for all his contributions over the years that have kept us entertained and
intrigued and informed as
well today's guest here from the united kingdom is mr louis theroux
i like your voice man i like your voice you do yeah oh thanks man i'd like to
speak like that
well i think well it's interesting coming to london because you see where it
started at
coming to london is very much like going and looking at the roots of
america well yeah and the english language and you you probably know this but
they say shakespeare if he were alive today would speak like kind of like an
appellation
he'd be a i feel like he'd probably be a rapper or something now he'd probably
be a rapper he'd talk
kind of like this yeah he's like where the hose and because words like got we
say got we say gotten
in america or fall and we say autumn those are you know in shakespeare he
talked kind of like
it's it's a lot of fun talking to you theo vaughn because i'm kind of a stand-up
comedian too
oh so he but i make plays yeah but there is different characters on stage
talking and stuff
are you serious william that sounds really i love words yeah it's weird talking
to you
like it feels a little offensive like no i don't think so well like you could
hear everything that's
wrong with what i'm doing but to me it sounded perfect well it's funny because
people will like
joke about a white accent that's kind of country but they don't like they don't
but if you do it about
a black accent it seems like it gets offensive you know yeah but i don't this
is okay this doesn't
i don't use terms like obviously i don't use racial slurs but i don't say white
trash
yeah for example and that sounds like maybe prissy but i don't or i i wouldn't
use the term hillbilly
does that make sense yeah i think i don't feel like i maybe because i came from
a position of
something like a little bit of privilege in life and it feels like um like you're
looking down on
people yeah well i think it's like in the past eight years i would say in the u.s
the like they
made it so the only people they would make fun of anymore were kind of like
poor white people or just
white people kind of so they kind of stuck themselves in this place yes i think
it's one of the reasons
why podcasting has had a rise over the years because it still kept us just
freedom of like
well i'm not i'll just we'll talk about whatever we feel like we'll try to just
be our normal selves
and set and actually be loose and free i used to in the 90s i worked with you
know who michael
moore is the documentary so he was my mentor of a sort like he gave me my first
job on tv
i worked for a show called tv nation in the mid 90s it was on nbc and then it
was on fox
but it felt like because it was a very it was a left-wing kind of politically
engaged but it felt
like the one thing we were okay as we as a collective on the show with making
fun with making
fun of was kind of white southerners yeah so it was like oh well we're going to
channel all that
into just making fun of billy joe and billy bob and yeah and it always i always
slightly felt like
maybe this isn't okay you know what i mean like the last acceptable taboo right
making fun of the
dumb crackers yeah dude these damn dumb they don't know they're drinking
gasoline yeah right making
love donuts around thinking that's fun they're doing donuts in their sister's
vagina that's the scariest
place to do one but during for some reason there was like something in the past
like eight years when
it hit that that it people started to kind of get fed up with it in a way or
they just wanted equality
they just want it will make fun of everybody like don't just you know and i
think some of that came
with like the trump stuff people thought that all trump supporters were just
like complete um he'll
you know he'll be ignorant and i think you see that uh a little bit in some of
the stuff sasha baron
cohen did yeah you ever watch like um borat and bruno and it felt like it felt
mean to me it felt a bit
mean sometimes yeah when he was making fun of that he takes you remember this
one it's cut and it's
weird because sometimes you feel it's funny i feel i don't you know i don't
want to be done because
he's it's funny and it felt a little bit like he was beating up on country folk
yeah you know what i
mean yeah i think i think as long as everybody's getting beaten up on it seems
good yeah and that's
i think where i feel like things are kind of hedging back that way because
there's nowhere else for them
to go right now um man you're london is marvelous bro oh you're welcome i didn't
know i didn't think
i really i was always kind of against the british like come on really yeah we're
polish my father's
from nicaragua but his father was from poland so my parent my father my
grandfather met his wife
in nicaragua doing missionary work a long time ago so you're kind of latin i'm
polish nicaraguan
that's kind of how i feel the most i guess because my father was very like um
you know he would just
talk in spanish and drink small coffees and you know and probably think about
you know dancing with
women that weren't my mother during the lambarda yes the forbidden dance but
you were growing up in
covington and it must have been like um you were quite exotic in those terms
because that's a fairly like
that's mainly white and a few black people right to be nicaraguan wouldn't that
count for being a bit
like well yeah it even starts with ni you know so immediately you were getting
kind of lumped in
with the brothers and you can pass like you look pretty white to me yeah i feel
weird saying that
just saying that felt uncomfortable like i was sounding like david duke or
something no i used to
share a back fence with david duke did you yeah when he his girlfriend he dated
the hottest chick
that worked at our seafood restaurant duke did they said that was his um people
in you know who were
part of the white nationalist movements that that was his other than his racism
and being a nazi like
his other big failing was that he had an eye for the ladies he was always
having trouble shagging the
wrong person's yeah oh yeah i could see that i think he had a problem with
seafood um but yeah because
there's a lot of yeah and he may be suffering from gout you know yeah he's
pretty old now it could
be just racism built up in his joints but as a neighbor nice guy that's a real
yeah pretty pretty
yeah like we didn't see much you know we'd go to the gym sometimes and
sometimes he and i would lift
weights but seriously yeah but but he's quite a bit older yeah yeah he was
older this was probably 20 years
ago at that point he was you know just a kind of a still a healthy guy at the
gym um but he wasn't
yelling racist things are wearing like a racist shirt or anything no his thing
was he left the clan to
found the naa wp oh yeah you remember that i mean it might be before your time
national association for
the advancement of white people white people yeah his thing was like you know
black people can do it why
can i it's just the same thing civil rats yeah civil rats from my people yeah
all right what are you
hearing when i'm doing that yeah i'm hearing just like you just kind of like
having like a country
accent kind of what do you do an english one all right good day friends keep
going all right oh nice
to see you today miss say i grew up in louisiana because it's hard when you're
mixing so i grew up in
covington louisiana and most of my i met you could just say just talk about
that well i grew up in
covington louisiana sir and i was just a wee fella there with my mom and me
grandmom not too
bad and she died she had typhoid or she had um a black blonde yeah something i
don't know i don't
know how british to get yeah so we hate a lot of like war meals every a lot of
the food here tastes
like a lot of war meals i feel like yes um which war like the second one i'm
not sure i'll have to open
after do you mean like um check a reference so like you'll be delicious if you
were in a war yeah
like it feels like somebody like hurried you into a tent to eat and this is
what the chef had the cook
had um i you know like i'm half american my dad's from boston uh boston massachusetts
and so i feel a
very divided loyalty like and i remember but at the same time because i grew up
mainly in south london
i would come to america to visit my relations many of them lived around boston
or on cape cod we'd holiday
on cape cod very nice yeah how are you that's how they would how are you yeah
that's a different
american accent that's yeah yeah it's wicked and so your american fan base is
going to be like what the
fuck um is he doing uh but my point was that i i when they would have
stereotypes about british
people or english people i would feel slightly offended because if you grow up
in it you don't
notice like oh the ah the food's awful or the you know the idea that english
people will have bad teeth
and i was like no we don't but actually we kind of certainly did then they're a
little better now
but yeah i'm interested in what you see from the outside so the food's not so
good the food is not yet
the food doesn't strike me the way the wind this is one thing i noticed the
women the ladies they seem
to be neater women they seem to have more ambiance about them i think and this
is no disrespect to
america or anything america seems like a lot more kind of social media obsessed
and like um
kind of fake tit kind of obsessed whereas i feel like here some of the women
just seem to have their
own more their own world to them um like you have a girlfriend i don't have a
girlfriend so you you're
out here you know down for whatever i'm not just um you know just smashing any
you know
traipser or whatever people call you or whatever somebody what was the term traipser
somebody
traipsing or buy or whatever okay yeah i'm not out here like touching people or
anything you nearly
said molesting yeah well i i mean i'm not yeah i mean i'm doing everything
legal legal work here yeah
you of course yeah but you're out here thinking like i'm i'm a free i mean i
could meet a woman i
could meet a wife you could meet a yes your future wife yeah i think i'm in the
service i'm more to
the place now where yeah i would like to meet a wife you know so but i just
think that you've been
out going out to clubs and no no i don't go to clubs we went last uh um jimmy
carr took us out the
other night to the chiltern children firehouse and firehouse that's high
rolling it was fancy that's
fancy the drinks are they're expensive but they're very delicious oh and the
lamps even had they didn't
have like the little clicker on the back on the cord they had the actual right
where you pull the yeah
like a little string like a bona fide lamp yeah like that like it was like you
know count for a
lot like a string some that doesn't that seems like a low bar for but like formality
i think the lamps had
strings on them well i think reaching behind the uh the little desk that it's
on it was so fancy that
place they didn't even have switches they had lamps with little strings dangling
off them it's an
offense if i do that we can cut that out if you feel like your fans are going
to be like why