Name: Theo and Mark Zuckerberg Talk About Feeling Awkward
Uploaded: 2025-04-29T00:09:26.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo and Mark Zuckerberg Talk About Feeling Awkward' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-04-29. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo and Mark Zuckerberg Talk About Feeling Awkward' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-04-29. Transcript available.

- You, so let me switch topics.
Sorry, sometimes I get a little bit nervous.
Is that all right?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- I mean, there's no way that you're less nervous than me.
- Let me think about how you said that.
- Yeah, let me think about that too.
Did I, more nervous, more nervous.
Yeah, see, I didn't even say it correctly.
- Really?
Oh, but I think that's a trap.
I think that I am, I think I'm more nervous than you.
- You think?
- Yeah, man, I wake up, I am an alarm clock.
That's how I feel all the time.
I feel like-
- What does that mean?
- I just feel like I'm always, you know?
- Ah, ah, ah, ah.
- Why?
- I don't know.
I just think I've always felt like that.
I've always felt like kind of frenetic, you know?
It's like, how do I get things to calm down
more than how do I get things to amp up, you know?
Like I'll even wear earplugs a lot of the day now
and it makes things a lot easier for me to kind of navigate.
- Interesting.
- Yeah, it just makes everything easier to focus on.
It makes it easier if I'm doing sauna, steam bath,
ice bath, working out, any of those things,
it makes it everything.
- You wear earbuds in the-
- I'll wear earplugs.
- Oh, I see.
- Yeah, and I'll wear 'em all night while I say.
It just makes everything a lot easier.
You, um, so like people, a lot of times,
like there's guys who are like kind of, you know,
Elon Musk is probably like a socially awkward guy.
And I would say that, I mean, I think that's-
- It's okay.
- Yeah, yeah.
- We all are.
- Right. We all are, right?
I think we all are.
- Yeah.
- And it's interesting that there's like, probably people have,
I mean, have you ever felt socially awkward over your years?
- No, I'm, I'm, I'm really smooth.
- Okay, okay.
- No, no, no, no, obviously.
Yes. Yeah.
I'm like the most awkward person.
People have been calling me a robot online for 20 years.
It does wonders for my confidence.
- No, your confidence cannot be impaled, I don't think.
That's one thing you have that's probably a sheer North star inside of you.
It's gotta be, you might've become bulletproof.
I think there's times where, yeah, you seem like a guy who probably like,
like watched a video of how to be a guy on YouTube or something, you know?
But I think we all, we all go through, like,
we're all like awkward in different ways.
You know, you put you in certain environments and you're not at all.
But I think it's interesting that there's-
- I haven't found those environments yet, but maybe, you know, it's-
- Dude, even being here today, bro, is nice of you.
- It's nice of you to be here today.
- No, I think the podcasts are awesome.
Cause you're just like, you get to explore something.
- Right, for sure.
But here's my question.
I'm sorry, Mark, I didn't mean to interrupt you.
- No, go for it.
- But I'm not gonna get another chance to.
So my question is, is it interesting that they have kind of people
who have, would probably self-describe as socially awkward at times,
kind of creating technology that socially connects people?
That's the thing that, do you ever kind of find that kind of fascinating?
Cause I've always had a belief that, that, that like, sometimes socially
awkward,
people are almost a mix between human and like, machine, like, like the future
or something.
Does that make any sense to you?
- Yeah. You know, I, it's an interesting question.
I just think that there are a bunch of factors here that you need to peel apart.
Um, I think someone can be socially perceptive and understand kind of what is
going on in social dynamics
and have a lot of empathy and care about other people while still being quite
awkward in how they communicate.
and, um, and so I, I don't think you can build a great kind of social-
- Yeah. I'm trying to build too broad of a bridge.
- No, well, I think it's a fair point, right?
I mean, it's like, all right, a lot of social media is like people creating
great content and, um, and kind of communicating really well.
And those are not my biggest strengths, right?
It's like, I'm, I'm, I don't think I'm the best communicator by a long shot.
I mean, I think I kind of got to where I am because I, I think I kind of
understand what people like, and I have the ability to build it,
but I don't think my strength is like, oh, I can really like communicate about
why what I'm building is awesome.
I generally let to like to make it so that my work speaks for itself.
And I try to explain it so I can kind of explain how I'm thinking about it.
But, but I don't think people primarily like using our stuff because, you know,
they saw me talk about it and they're like, oh yeah, this seems super exciting
now.
Um, but, but I think the ability to kind of communicate in a way that is not
awkward is a different skill, um, than the ability to kind of understand and
have empathy for, for kind of people and, and kind of, and social interactions.
And it's, you know, there's an interesting thing where I actually think
sometimes a lot of the people who can communicate in the smoothest
way sometimes have a lot less empathy and understanding of social dynamics than
the kind of nerdy guy who may not be able to express himself quite as well,
but sort of understands a little bit better what's going on.
Um, and I don't know, the world's complicated and there's like multiple
dimensions to all this stuff and no one's good at all of them.
So you just, you know, try to do the things that you're like hone the things
that you're good at and try to put it to service to, you know, do as good of
work as you can.
Yeah, I think we're in this unique place where I believe it's like one or two
generations think that one, something isn't social and then the younger
generation thinks that it is social.
Yeah.
And so I feel like in some senses, we're at this crossroads kind of of like how
we communicate as humans a little bit.
Yeah.
Um, and this advancement and sometimes those steps are, uh, are kind of tricky
to take.
Thank you.