Name: Theo and RFK Jr. Share Lessons They've Learned in Recovery
Uploaded: 2023-10-05T14:00:15.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo and RFK Jr. Share Lessons They've Learned in Recovery' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-10-05. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo and RFK Jr. Share Lessons They've Learned in Recovery' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-10-05. Transcript available.

they're changing the rules so that you know they're rigging the game against
against the
democratic process does that inspire you what does that inspire you a little
bit that that's
what's going on like you know i i have the same program you do yeah just live
one day at a time
yeah keep doing the next right thing yeah and you know trying to maintain kind
of my inner calm
and not um and not you know if god wants me right to win i'm gonna win i just
gotta keep doing the
right thing and not nothing could stop me in that case that's such a great
point man so i i feel like
i mean i go to a meeting every day i'm on the road i'm in a different city
every day and that's the
one thing i always wow and i um been in some good ones recently anywhere
particular that kind of stood
out i went to one in maine that was pretty cool a few months back i got in our
and the guys was like
this in our no i yeah i went to one the other day where uh it was a guy and
that first of all i went
to one in barbados one time where they were they were talking no beer for me
man they were talking
about it was uh like a night set meeting and they were talking about how to
take curses off of people
and i went to one in belfast during the war there which was really interesting
oh wow yeah but i went
to one the other day and they were um it was uh and i went to this it was in
new hampshire and there
was they were um uh and that the people i had been to a couple times and they
and the people in that
meeting recognized me they know i am most of them and it's it's a very
supportive atmosphere for me you
know i don't know whether republicans or democrats but anyway it's very nice it's
a very warm safe kind
of place and um i heard a guy there was a break they took at those meetings up
in new england they
took a five minute cigarette break halfway through the meeting yeah and uh it's
from like the old old days
yeah and they uh this guy was sitting like four or five seats behind me and he
he's you know one of
these old people who talks really loud because he's going deaf yeah and he's uh
you know they compensate
by talking super loud yeah yeah and he was saying uh he was saying rfk jr and
he had three or four of
his cronies around him talking and they were whispering to him you know that's
rfk jr and he said he's the
anti-vaxxer and i you know i was just listen i was like you know i can hear
what you're saying
yeah well some senior citizens are whispering it's a little a little high a
little high on the whisper
and then he when he did speak at that meeting and he spoke about you know how
important it was to get
your jab and stuff and um and i could tell it was directed sort of you know
clearly it was directed toward
me um but i'm you know i feel like peaceful and afterward i went up and you
know talked to him
said hi and and uh and smile but i you know it makes me i my job is to stay
sort of peaceful and serene
and um and not and anything that i've ever done in my life that is enduring
that is important um
has come out of you know that spiritual place and anything that i do that comes
from frenetic activity
is uh you know is just wormwood and bile i know um what was what was one thing
that sobriety we're
both sober so what was one thing that um sobriety kind of adjusted or changed
in your for you in your
life that you didn't expect maybe what was something that came out of it or
being a part of it or around it
well you changed everything in my life because i think before i came in i was
just like a bundle
of appetites you know and that's when you're you're kind of living uh according
to self-will and you
know it's like whether it's you know drugs or alcohol or sex or extreme
behavior or just you know
i was always just filling that empty hole inside of me with with things trying
to fix that by
reaching for things outside of myself and my mind is like a formulation
pharmacy i can turn anything into
a drug and um you know uh and then um and then trying to uh adjust your compass
so that you're you know
you're not living for self-will but you're trying to um do the next right thing
and and you know be of
service to others um and that you know that that is what you know when i i was
a when i i i feel like
i was born an addict i feel like i had just an empty hole inside of me from
when i was a little kid
you don't think so you don't think it was something really that caused it when
you look
i don't think so but you know and you hear in the program all the time like
half the people think
they were born with it and others think that you know trauma you know had
something to do with it
but i you know i also i i there's certain races like the irish that are yeah
what we know yeah
there's other ones too they're the most thirsty yeah yeah the irish yeah i mean
they're good at you
they make it look good i mean for i mean we call it the irish flu yeah because
it it uh
it was it you go into a meeting and you know yeah in any meeting any place in
the country and
half the people in it are you know the sullivan and o'brien and oh yeah a lot
of irish yeah
um was there was there whether it was alcoholism in your family was it popular
in my mother's family
it was back to the neanderthals wow they were all you know and of all my mother's
siblings she was in
the only one that did not get it and wow that's a lot then that's pretty strong
yeah it's just it's
it's good to have a program man i think it adds a lot i think it's definitely
been a saving grace for me
uh for sure just the people i get to meet like last night a guy texted me a new
a new guy i've been
texting in the in the rooms and we're texting and he hit me up yesterday i was
like hey you want to
go to a meeting i wasn't going to go you know so next thing you know i go and
we're like over in
venice and it's 8 p.m we're sitting on a porch at some guy's house you know
listening to a guy talk
about how he was in a gang and his brother uh got killed right next to him you
know and uh and now for
years he was using and then finally he started to get help and gotten in the
program and just but to sit
there and hear a story like that was that real you know that's part of the fun
of going to me right i
mean it just puts something real in your life it's like i left out of there
like sure you know it was
very sad but it was like a real thing it was like i left out of there with like
i don't know it just
people sharing makes you feel more connected you know but you know when you uh
when you got sober did
you realize did you because a lot of i know a lot of comics feel like you know
that the alcohol and
the drugs are part of what makes them funny did you and that they have anxiety
about getting sober
because they think it might hurt yeah i think i had some of that for sure you
know i was in and out
for a long time i had three years sober and then i was in and out and then
finally i just was so
spiritually just empty you know i'd gotten a decent amount of popularity and i
thought that that would
achieve my happiness or it would do something for me and it just didn't do
anything it was like
literally getting to the top of a mountain and or you know a decent ledge on a
mountain and you're like
dang i'm still on a mountain you know that's what it felt like and so i think
that just made me
realize that there was something bigger going on inside of me that i had to get
some help for
um and then just the gifts of it like seeing other people get well like seeing
people's lives turn
around like just it's it's cool i can go to a place every day i can go
somewhere and witness a
miracle almost and that's unbelievable you know people are looking for miracles
and reasons to make
them feel you know and so i think that's one of the reasons i go to is because
there it makes me feel
in there you know like regular life it was always trying to find something to
make me feel
and i could never i couldn't do it there wasn't anything that was doing it
enough but man i go in
there and i see somebody who their life has changed and man it makes me feel
you know and that's really
what i've always been looking for i've just been wanting to feel and that's
probably one of the most
blessings of it and then just getting to meet cool i mean like you know you and
our friends i have so
many most of my friends are sober yeah you know it's kind of crazy it's just
how it kind of works out
and also some of them used to be the biggest derelict so you get to hang out
with the craziest people in
the world you know i mean alcoholics are are generally kind of desperados yeah
oh they're interesting