Name: H3's Ethan Klein | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #244
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H3's Ethan Klein | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #244

All right. I want to let you know before we begin the episode, a couple dates
that are rescheduled.
These are rescheduled dates. February 27th, the Sayersville, New Jersey date
has now been moved and it is February 27th in Red Bank, New Jersey at the Count
Basie or Basie Center for the Arts.
It's going to be the Count Basie Center for the Dark Arts that night. But those
tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. Eastern Standard Time as well.
The next night I will be in Oxon Hill, Maryland at the theater at MGM National
Harbor.
That is a rescheduled date and it is now on February 28th, Oxon Hill, Maryland.
It's back on.
So if you had tickets before, then you will still have tickets. They should be
emailing you.
So you may want to touch base with your email.
Today's guest is a young man. We became buddies on his podcast and I don't even
like saying the word buddies, actually, so I'm not going to say it again.
But I will say that this man is a unique man and he's from the H3 podcast and
he got a new child, him and his wife.
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Ethan Klein.
Oh, my.
Shine that light on me.
I'll sit and tell you my stories.
Shine that light on me.
I'll sit and tell you my stories.
You look lean. Are you even leaning out?
Well, thank you that I've been on a feeding window, which is a funny way of
saying intermediate fasting, intermediate, intermediate fasting.
I know what you're talking about. Fasting sometimes.
Intermittent.
Intermittent. Thank you.
I'm like a, I feel like a farm animal.
I like the feeding window analogy because it's just sounds funny.
Like I just eat out of a trough for eight hours and then go into fasting.
I could see that.
I could see something around your neck full of nuts or beans.
Just a feeding bag around my neck at all times.
Uh, I just, I feed between 10 and six and then, and then I fast.
So it's good for me because my urge is to eat all the time.
And so by putting that restriction on myself, I feel like it cuts down on a lot
of, uh, late night snacking.
Extra meals.
EMs, yeah.
Yeah, extra meals.
EMs make BMs, as my grandma used to say.
You grandma never said that.
She might've.
She, dude, my grandmother didn't let me come visit her for 10 years at one
point in our life.
Why? You had beef with your own grandma?
I didn't. She had beef with me.
I was too young, I think, to have beef.
How does your, how does your own grandma have beef with you?
She had beef with me.
She, um, there was some, we had some discrepancies at the house and then she
said I couldn't come visit.
Tell me what happened. You're being obscure.
Well, no, she said I ate some candies at her house and I didn't, I don't know
if I ate them or not.
You're making this shit up.
No, I'm not.
You, you don't get, you don't get banished from your grandma with candies.
You can use the term disbarred if you want.
Your grandma disbarred you over some Werther's classics?
Yeah, bro, definitely.
Shit, that's cold flooded.
Bro, it was ice cold.
Your family, your background is tough.
That, that was probably one of the rockiest parts.
What kind of candies?
Oh, and here's the thing.
Oh, I don't, oh, it was, I know what it was.
It was chocolate covered cherries.
And here's the thing, she made these good cookies and I didn't get to have
those for a long time, but.
Ten years over some.
That's God's plan, bro, you know?
I guess so.
Well, well, now that I know that, that the show is going, what, what were we
talking about?
Because I was interested if we could go take a step back.
Yeah, what were we talking about?
Oh, we were talking about Beryl Bilber.
Yeah, we were talking about, oh, welcome to the Bilber recovery group.
Yeah, I went into therapy after that episode.
I'm not even.
Did you really?
I'm not even being kidding.
I mean, I was having a depressive episode for a long time.
Right.
And I had these antidepressants next to my bed for a long time.
And you were taking them?
No, I hadn't decided to take them yet.
I was hesitant.
Yeah.
And after that episode with Bilber, I came home and I, that's when I started
taking antidepressants and I went to therapy.
Wow.
It was soul crushing.
And was it soul crushing because you felt like as an interviewer it was soul
crushing or just like as a, on a human level?
Like, do you think, do you know the levels where it felt that it hit you?
Right.
Everything, man.
My, my fans were, I don't know, fans, but audience were very harsh.
As an interviewer, I felt like a failure.
It was just off.
It wasn't, you know, it wasn't, it didn't feel that bad, but it was the
reaction, the audience reaction to it afterwards.
I mean, I knew I had goofed up and that it was not the best interview.
And I was such a big fan of Bilber, obviously.
Yeah.
He's, he's a legend and you just, in your mind, have high hopes that, that you'll
be able to, to get something good out of that.
Yeah.
There's expectations, I feel like.
But the, the, the, there was people making like video essays about how, what a
terrible, you know, interviewer I am.
Oh, really?
That's, that's YouTube style.
That's kind of stuff I'm, I'm somewhat used to, but that just felt, I just, it
felt like a rock bottom for me.
Because I, I was having a hard time with the podcast and interviews in general.
And that for me was just kind of like the culmination of a lot of, a lot of
stress.
Oh, that's interesting.
So it was like, so in hindsight, though, does it almost feel like it was, it
was, it was supposed to happen?
Like it was like, oh, I needed something that kind of made me look at stuff or
just gave me like a moment to reflect?
Well, I definitely needed something to push me because taking antidepressants
going to therapy was like the best choice I ever made for me and my family.
And professionally too, I mean, it's made everything better.
Really?
So, I mean, if it wasn't that, it'd be something else.
But, um.
But that was like a little bit of, somehow it was part of a catalyst.
It was, it was a fuse lighter.
Definitely, yeah.
Yeah, it was, it was that.
And I had him on a second time somewhat recently and it went great.
So I'm happy to hear that.
Yeah.
And he reached out.
He said he wanted to do it.
Huh.
I was like, God bless, dude.
Let's go.
This is like fear factor for me.
Round two.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ruined my life the first time.
Let's go.
And, uh.
Yeah, that's interesting.
Yeah, it was a, yeah, when he came in here, it was a strange experience, man.
It was, I don't know.
I just felt like he was a different person not on podcasts than he was on
podcasts.
It's almost like.
But then also, I didn't really know him that great.
And so, maybe I just don't know how people are.
That's true.
I, I, I wonder if he listens to these.
Probably not.
Oh, I mean, I, I doubt he does.
I mean, everybody's busy.
Yeah, he's, he doesn't care what we think about him.
I listen to some of those murder things, you know, where people get murdered.
Some guy went walking into the woods in the Joshua tree and fucking never came
out.
And how do you hear that?
There's a podcast that's called, like, Missing People or something.
Do you feel like that when you talk about Bill Burr, like a missing person?
Oh, dude, I felt like, oh, I felt like it was a couple of minutes where
afterwards I was just kind of wandering around, you know.
But I, I don't know.
I just, you know, I didn't know him that good.
Let me, let me ask you this.
When you guys ended, I mean, it was, it was clearly, you knew it wasn't going
well during, or was it when you started to read the content?
No, I knew that there was something uncomfortable.
I didn't know if, I didn't know.
I thought for a second, like, maybe I was going crazy or I was, like, getting
pranked.
You're getting in your head.
You're, what's going on?
Well, it was just an uncomfortable.
I'm just like, oh, well, he and I, obviously, there's only so much time that we
probably, one of the reasons maybe we don't talk that much is because we.
Do you mind if I take these off?
No, it's fine.
It's because we shouldn't talk that much, you know.
I don't know what I thought.
I just thought, here's a guy who is very, he's exactly what I thought.
When I, if I really would have looked at it, oh, here's a guy who, maybe this
is exactly the way he is on stage.
There's not a way for, there's no real difference, you know.
It's just, he's just rambling, kind of like, if he's unhappy, he's unhappy and,
you know, eternally disgruntled.
Right.
He's kind of, you know, guy who's kind of fighting against his own, probably,
ill wills and shit.
Looks like all of us are in some weird ways, but for him, maybe it's like a,
just a different battle.
And also that he, he likes to, that he's the center of attention a lot, I think.
And so it's, he probably, he might not be able to really notice when, how other
people are feeling or reacting.
That's kind of the vibe that I got at the end.
Right.
So the thing is, like, I feel like most guests, 99% of guests, they're more
gracious, you know.
They won't take the opportunity if they see you, like, are uncomfortable or you're
goofed up or maybe you said, like, when he sees an opening, he will, he, like,
attacks.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
And it's the same way as comedy.
Which is fine.
That's why he's so good at comedy.
But, like, he, he is unlike anyone else I've ever interviewed because the
second time when I interviewed him, I really just, like, talked as little as I
possibly could.
Yeah.
And that was the best.
But you, you obviously have to handle each interview differently, but he was
unlike anyone I had ever interviewed because.
Yeah.
And I don't even really interview.
He was one like, one, like, why?
Finish that sentence.
Sorry.
I stepped on you.
Because he is, because he's not willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.
You know what I mean?
And he will, he will expose any chinks in your armor.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because for him, that's comedy, right?
Right.
For him, that's comedy, yeah.
And he's going to make a funny moment out of it.
Right.
But for me, I'm like, oh, shit, dude.
My fragile ego.
And, yeah, for me, I think I'm used to, I think I'm, I'm good to rip on people
if that's what we're doing.
I think I never knew what we were doing.
Yeah.
I think it's like I brought roller skates to a fucking sword fight.
That's funny.
You know?
Yeah, that's a good analogy.
That's a good analogy.
So I think, because in previous conversations I had with him, it had been more
of a communication
about kind of real stuff that was going on in my career.
Right.
And questions I had, you know, and I was kind of looking up to him, I think,
also in some way for me
as a role model, you know?
And when you get, when you get a certain response from someone you have
expectations on in your own
mind, they, for me, when I get a response to them that they don't, they don't
realize that I see
him that way or it doesn't matter to them or whatever.
And that's fine.
It's his own world I built up in my head.
For some reason that hits harder a little bit, you know, where it like, it's
just a weirder
dent.
But for me also, it's just like, I'm not even a fucking interviewer, dog.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, I don't even know what I'm doing.
We're doing our best.
But I was just happy to sit down with him.
Yeah.
It was fucking, I think maybe we sat down maybe on the wrong day.
Maybe we started, you know, I don't know, but stuff we were talking about off
the podcast,
when I brought it up on the podcast, it was like we'd never spoken off the
podcast.
And that seemed very weird to me.
I had the same reaction to him.
But like, you made this joke about, do you have a, do you have a gun in your
helicopter?
But he, he just, I don't know why he took that so the wrong way.
Oh yeah, I don't know.
Like, that's just a funny, I mean, that's just a funny premise.
Yeah, I think at that point, I, I had also, at some point, I kind of checked
out, I think.
Yeah.
You know, I think I was kind of.
But you, you said to me that you don't want to do guests anymore.
I'm 