Name: Theo and Kevin Von Erich Talk About Faith
Uploaded: 2025-05-02T14:45:01.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo and Kevin Von Erich Talk About Faith' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-05-02. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo and Kevin Von Erich Talk About Faith' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-05-02. Transcript available.

what was one of the most traumatic things that happened to one of your brothers
in their life
while they were alive um was there anything that kind of started changed their
life a little bit
that we didn't really see as much well probably so yeah uh my little brother
mike you know with
the toxic shock syndrome he had we were wrestling in tel aviv and uh we're
gonna do some shows in
lebanon two and so mike's uh wrestling the guy but his shoulder had been uh
dislocated and he popped
it back in the dressing room got back out there in the ring and it popped out
again and it really
popped out bad this time so uh we flew him back to texas to get surgery and
with the incision he got
uh toxic shock syndrome it's a tampon thing ladies get but they had such a huge
incision where the arm
was or the shoulder was that they had shaved gauze in there oh and some of it
got left in i think
that might it didn't get left in but it got septic or something maybe uh but
whatever it was his fever
went up to so high 106 100 i even heard 107 but that it didn't kill him though
in fact the doctor
came down i say team you wouldn't believe it the the hospital was filled with
fans you know they wanted
to offer their kidneys of their liver to mike you know to such love you know
but um the docs told us
that he's just his fever is too high he's not he's not gonna come back and he's
he's not gonna make it
through the night and so rather than go up there and say good night like he
told him to like he told
us too then we had uh my parents were down in this waiting room at the hospital
up here at baylor
and we had uh gary holder was we had a chaplain that would go with our to shows
you know big shows
and he gave a prayer where he talked about he said god you say anything we ask
in jesus name
then you will do it so we're asking you to stand on your word and he slammed
that bible down on the
desk man i wanted to hide my head i thought he went too far you know but it was
just a few seconds
later the door opened up and he said the fever's broken there's hope and we ran
up to see mike
just like that it was and david manning was right there my dad was there my mom
carrie saw it
it was a miracle man it was really a miracle beautiful but i don't want to get
an argument
with people in it but i would love like i told you i'd like my life to have an
experience that people
could benefit from you know if you're somebody that's uh like maybe i was at a
time like life is
overwhelming and you know what it's it's like when you overcome something you're
so much a better man
than you were before it's like when you're pushed to your limit and you have to
adjust or die you get
stronger you get stronger and go and i would just say to anybody that's out
there lost if you want to
feel like you'll never be afraid of man or beast again you will not be afraid
of dying if you know
where you're gonna go when you die and i mean i know where i'm gonna go and i i
have no fear i mean
it's a it's a great life did you uh what did you have a religion instilled in
you when you were
growing up did you have like um no that's the thing we went to church on easter
you know i remember but
uh this is a pretty odd story but um i spent the night with uh this my dad's
real estate partner
was a doctor and i spent the night with him one night and the next day was sunday
and they took me
to church with them and so i went to church and so uh the only reason i went
because if you spent the
night you're gonna sleep with the dog and i love their dog you know oh yeah
dude i've stayed over places
just to be by the animals well uh we go to church and he these men surround me
and ask me if i want
to accept jesus and so uh i knew that song jesus loves me you know and i've
been to wrestling before
and i'd seen people poke the finger and stuff and i knew that was bad you know
when i thought i don't
want to be bad i want to be good you know so so i want to be on that side you
know because i've kind
of seen a little of those words yeah you weren't a good heel yeah no this was
the this was this was
choosing not to be a heel yeah for eternity i mean well that's well you know
now that i understand what
was going on because i was just a little boy you know so i i said the prayer
you know and they asked
me if i could believe jesus died you know i did and i felt something move in my
something weird in my
chest and i thought somebody there were men standing behind me i thought they
did something to me like
but i actually felt something move inside me and i think it was that little bit
of evidence gave me a
lot of courage and i knew god was with me i knew he was and that night i was uh
got on my bed and i
looked on my porch i was just looking at this outside the stars and i'm a
little boy i could have imagined
it but i could have sworn i saw an angel fly across the field with a horn in
his mouth like it was
blowing a horn i didn't hear any sound it looked just like a christmas uh
ornament to a christmas tree
but but in my mind this this was my best day of my life and i belong to god now
and i have never
been afraid of anything since then amen yeah it's it's interesting i think
people get have sometimes
people get scared to share like their testimonies or moments that they've had
where they've just felt like
something stronger than them took care of them yeah you know yeah i remember a
feeling one time where
i was just broken down man i was really banged up about a relationship and just
not sure what i
wanted to do with my life i'd moved back in with my step parents and man i
remember one time i was just
well just on my knees bawling and i felt something come around my heart man i
can't even explain it
just like this just this warm thing just i mean i'd never felt where my heart
was i mean i'd put my
hand on it hoping for the best when i was pledging allegiance he's knocking on
the door you know but
i mean you're a little boy you're beautiful and you're all alone suffering like
that god that was god
theo yeah he came to you you know we got one lifetime to learn it you know that
there is such a thing
i mean let me tell you there is a double and people want to say there's no such
thing but there is boy
i could tell you a really weird story but it's 100 true yeah i mean your life's
full of craziest
stories ever listen to this one okay so i'm going to wrestle but uh uh big
daddy king kong bundy and
the uh sport and the will rogers coliseum in fort worth so on the way to the
ring carrie said kev
come here i said what care he said i was dead on the phone mike's just been a
terrible car wreck he's
he's dying now dad said don't try to get there fast because he'll be dead
before we get there anyway
and i said what it's sort of i ran to the ring i said ring the bell they ring
the bell i grabbed
bundy's leg school board in one two three ran to the back carrying a hauled out
to the hospital
stealing my russian stuff and uh so we get there and there's cops everywhere
and they're standing by
the doors and i run right into my bust open and i and there's this black lady
out there and she said
my baby my baby and uh when i crash those doors open there's a little black kid
laying there dead
and blood and stuff so i go out the other door open the door and there's mike
hey kev he was fine
just fine and so i i i'm like i'm numb you know and so i knew my parents were
on their way down here and
so i i go outside and i see them walking down the ramp and i said he's okay and
my dad just fell down
my mom or they fell down well so i'm gonna get my car to come home and abilene
is west but denton is north
well for some reason i went west and i'm almost to abilene eastland just i was
so out of it just
driving by the time i got home i was sleep uh so sleepy his son had already
come up him been waiting
for me and so uh i was gonna take my bulldog down to the lake and wash him i'd
cast your soap you know
okay for the environment and all so i'm watching my dog and oh i'm sorry i'm so
i i may miss concussions
but before that i said god thank you for giving me my brother back let me fight
the devil i said satan
i wanna i'll fight you i'll fight you and uh and said let me fight him god it
was stupid a stupid boy
and so i go to the lake i'm washing my dog and theo i swear this happened so my
dog everything's real
still and and i'm feeling weird a little bit and i look and i see there's a
bush here and some more
bushes here and a hill here and i see these little black things taking position
against me and advancing
on me i felt like i could smell blood i could smoke death and i said get in the
car pam and i
put my back to the car and i was like this and uh and i would see him going
from trees they're getting
these positions and i was i was ready and next thing i know i'm out i'm having
a seizure in my car
and and yeah and so pam screaming and crying and these fishermen have run up to
help and i must
have hit one or kicked one or something but a girl ran up and said i know his
parents uh i'll get them
and an ambulance came and all that but i know it's because i'm a man and i
challenged the devil and
we have jesus in us that fights the devil we don't have anything to do with the
devil
and so that was that was my lesson that i learned but i know that happened and
it's just in me like
written on my heart and with a nail you know look it's a testimony man yeah i
thank you for sharing that
yeah i think sometimes we don't think that the devil is real and that's it that
is the devil's
way to trick us i believe that you know if you don't think that evil is real
then it's how quick
you don't know how close it is to you either you know you don't know how
intertwined it could be in
your own veins if you don't even believe it's real that's a pretty masterful
trick and we think with a
man's mind and they have the devil is an angel's mind you know i mean he's way
smarter than we are
the devil's the devil is a thug you know that is the truth man thank you for
sharing that i've had
friends share some really uh some strong testimonials some moments where they
just felt that you know i
mean there has been moments in my life where yeah i just felt you just get that
feeling so nausea you
ever get overcome with that feeling you're just so thankful that god has been
with you yeah man because
you thought you did it yourself and you realize you didn't that god was there
with you man when that
when i've had that feeling come over me god i mean it just it'll you just you
almost feel like you
thaw out some you know like you thought and then we get to a position where we
where something bad
comes along we're oh god don't let this happen you know and and he saves us
again and like
oh well i forgot the other times oh yeah you know and and you know i'll forget
you know and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and
and and and and and and and