Name: London Call l This Past Weekend Highlight
Uploaded: 2018-03-20T22:44:31.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'London Call l This Past Weekend Highlight' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-03-20. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'London Call l This Past Weekend Highlight' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-03-20. Transcript available.

Alright, Theo, mate. I'm not sure if it's obvious from my tone, but a little
bit uncomfortable leaving this message.
Okay, no worries, brother. You know, that's okay, man. I've been uncomfortable.
I've been uncomfortable, man. So don't feel uncomfortable, please.
Just sort of want someone to talk to about this. And I know the Theo Vaughn
past weekend family. I think there's some people who can give me some useful
feedback.
Yeah, man. We can certainly try it if we can. Onward.
I guess I've run into a bit of a crossroads in my life. Sort of chatting shit.
But, yeah, I've got a bit of a drug problem. And, yeah, I don't know. My
problem is that I keep on justifying everything with, like, self-pity.
And, I don't know. At what point do you stop feeling sorry for yourself? That's,
like, my question. But, yeah, I'm kind of chatting absolute fucking drivel.
But, yeah, man.
No, you're not, man. Onward.
I love the show. Been listening for, like, a year now. Yeah, man. Take it easy.
Thanks for calling, man. I appreciate it. You know, you weren't talking
absolute drivel, you know. I appreciate you calling.
Excuse me, man. Yeah, I appreciate you calling, dude. I could, you know. At
what point? I'm going to hear this one more time, man. I'm going to hear this
one more time.
Yeah, I don't know. My problem is that, um, I keep on justifying everything
with, like, self-pity.
And, I don't know. At what point do you stop feeling sorry for yourself?
That's, like, my question. But, yeah, I'm kind of chatting absolute fuck.
At what point do you stop feeling sorry for yourself?
You know, it's crazy, man. It can become an addiction.
Ended up feeling sorry for yourself can almost become an addiction in itself.
Because when you feel sorry for yourself, um, it's a feel, it's at least a
feeling.
You know, and sometimes after a while, it's, like, the only thing you know how
to feel.
Uh, and it's sad, man. It's an unfortunate situation.
But guess what?
You're not alone, man.
You're going to be okay.
I thought about this earlier, actually.
I listened to this call, and it really hit home for me.
Um, and so I actually wrote down my answers, because I want to be able to, you
know, express myself as clearly as I can.
Uh, first I want to say thank you.
And also, I wanted to read this, actually.
Because this same caller sent an email as well, uh, that explained, he sent a
text message into the hotline that explained his thoughts a little more.
He said, Theo V, the boy, this is me again, hitting, hitting you up from London,
UK.
If my memory serves me correctly, my voice messages I left were pretty incomprehensible.
I'm bombarding you with messages and calls at this point, but I just want to
clear things up.
I can write better than I can talk.
I lived the first 19 years of my life in excessive comfort, the perfect family,
and no worries about anything.
In the last year, everything has collapsed.
My dad was diagnosed with MS, and my mom has suffered a schizophrenic episode
and left my dad.
I know still my life is cushy, but the adjustment from never having faced
anything difficult to a storm of shite raining down on my face has been
difficult.
Consequently, I've justified letting my life completely separate to my family
fall apart, and I've been taking coke, cocaine, more days than I haven't for
months now, and I think it's time to stop.
It seems stupid, but I've listened to your podcast every fucking F-K-I-N.
That's that British version, and I like that.
Every fucking episode for about a year now, and although you don't know me, I
feel like I know you.
Can you offer any advice?
Because I want to take my life back into my hands.
Love you, bro.
Yeah, man, I just appreciate you sharing.
I appreciate you being brave enough to say some of these things, man, because I
can sympathize.
Man, you got me hooked up here.
I've been right there, man.
You know, I've been right there.
So just know that the place, when you feel, when you, that those feelings that
you, you're not alone.
And, um, and I appreciate you calling and sharing about them, and I wrote down
some suggestions.
You know, I wrote down some suggestions, man, because I care, bro.
I care about you, you know?
I've never been a huge fan of the British, but I love you, bro.
Well, I want you to say, I wanted to know that, you know, you made a big step
by realizing you have a problem that you can't handle,
and you've taken a good step by reaching out to anyone.
To anyone, man.
You know, that's the first step, because now this thing isn't just yours
anymore.
You know?
You're taking a step, and I'm grateful for that.
And a lot of people don't take those steps for many years.
You're 19, you're 20, you're doing this stuff now, and you're going to have,
you're going to have a bright future.
You've already, like, you're already aware kind of of a crossroads, it sounds
like.
You know, a lot of drug abusers and alcoholics, you know, you reach a point
where, where, where you don't know what to do.
You don't know what to do.
Your life becomes unmanageable.
Because you're managing it, but it's not, you're not doing it well.
And then it comes to the point where almost it's managing you.
But, but self-pity, you had asked about, it's a feeling that grows on itself.
It's almost like, you know, self, if you stay, like, inside and feel depressed,
and you don't go out in the sun, depression will build.
It's almost like moss on a tree.
It builds on the side away from the sun.
So, self-pity is a feeling that grows on itself.
There's no way out of it by feeling more of it.
If that makes any sense to you, there's no way out of self-pity by feeling more
self-pity.
But there are people and programs that can help change your perception about
what you're going through, slowly but surely.
What you're going through doesn't sound fun, but numbing it with drugs only
makes the reality of it worse to wake up to every day.
You're establishing a cycle that will just get harder to get out of the longer
that you don't face it.
You don't have to worry about helping your family right now.
You know, you can, because you're not going to be able to help them if you can't
help yourself.
So, you've got to get into a better place.
It sounds like it's too much, it sounds like too much pressure if you think I
have to help my family.
I have to get, you know, sober up right now and help my family.
It's too much pressure.
All you have to do right now is, is care about yourself.
And I feel like that's what you're doing.
And I can't tell you if you have a problem.
I can't tell you.
You know, everybody's life is different.
But I can tell you that there are people and programs out there that
can help you live in a much more comfortable place.
And you, I know it's going to sound crazy, you're going to think it's not
possible.
That there's not, and I'm, I,
it is, it is a hundred percent possible.
You know, I mean, I've been there, you know,
I don't know if I've been in the same place as you,
but I've been in a place where I was just doing,
I was doing drugs because the,
I just, it was the only feeling I could,
I needed drugs to have a feeling.
It just made me feel fucked up.
And that was the last feeling I could,
I was just having so much trouble feeling anything else.
And so I was like, oh, hear this.
So at least it makes me feel fucked up.
But not anymore, man.
You know?
Not right now.
Right now,
I'm having a day where I am,
I am getting feelings from other people.
I'm able to sit here and feel what you're feeling.
And I can really feel it, man.
I'm not just sitting here saying I,
I can feel it.
I can feel what you're feeling.
And I wouldn't be able to do that
if I didn't get some help for myself.
So I'll text you as well, man.
I know your number came through the hotline
and I'll text you and hit you up.
And maybe we can jump on the phone too
if there's anything else I can talk about privately.
But I appreciate you hitting the hotline, man.
That's huge.
You know, you just made my birthday.
You know, I hope in some moment today in my life
or this week in my life
that I'm able to be as strong as you were
by being, you know, probably as honest,
you know, just as being as honest
and being as brave to fucking say,
hey, you know, something's going on with me
and it doesn't feel okay.
So, you know, I appreciate that, man.
Thank you very much.
And I got to run to the comedy store, guys.
I got to be there actually in about 20 minutes
and I'm not trying to bail on you.
I'm not trying to bail on anybody.
But it's heading into my birthday.
If you have any thoughts or suggestions
or any feelings or anything that came in to you,
ideas, suggestions for any of these callers
that hit the hotline, please feel free.
Feel free to hit the hotline, 985-664-9503
and share those thoughts and share those feelings.
And we will see if maybe we'll put them in
on the next episode and we can get back.
And that way some of our listeners can give back
to some of the people that called in.
And if not, if you have a different issue
or thought or suggestion or anything you want to talk about,
you got a question for me, hit me up.
Let me know.
It can be about anything.
But you know what?
Find a way to feel something.
Find a way to feel something.
Because that's why I'm here.
You know, that's why I'm here.
You know, I don't want to feel bad anymore.
You know, I want to feel some sensations
and I want them to feel good.
So if you got to get Irish,
you know, if you got to propose to somebody,
if you got to, you know, tell your cousin that you hate,
if you got to just hug him, you know,
whatever you got to do, find somebody.
Find somebody and fucking feel something.
You know, and feel something.
And I love you over there in London, man.
Keep your head up, dude.
You got this.
You know, you started,
right this moment,
you started something.
You started making your life better.
You started making your life better.
I promise you that.