Name: Theo Von Talks About Independence
Uploaded: 2019-07-03T18:22:22.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Von Talks About Independence' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-07-03. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Von Talks About Independence' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-07-03. Transcript available.

You know, and I think a lot about independence. I think, you know, a lot of
people ask me about like, oh, you know, when are you going to do a Netflix
special? When are you going to do this? When are you going to do a special?
And I think about that, but I think about, you know, I mean, there's been
offers for a special, for a stand-up comedy special, but I think about this.
What if you sell a special to a platform, you know, in a platform that's like
Netflix or Amazon or, you know, Comedy Central, a different place.
If one day they decide they don't like your voice being in the world, which
sounds maybe they wouldn't, people say, well, maybe they wouldn't do that or
they might not.
Well, if one day they do, if you sell them something, then it's theirs. They
own it.
So they could press a button and you're off the docket.
Your voice doesn't even exist anymore.
And when I see sometimes, you know, a lot of times, I mean, they haven't even
put, you know, I feel like some of these places haven't even put somebody from,
you know, like a rural person on television or on, you know, giving them some
opportunities in a long time.
So it makes me think, well, what if they just decide, oh, we don't like this,
this guy's voice anymore.
Then we, they, they can eliminate it if they own it.
So I just think about that.
You know, I think about that.
Well, once I sell something to them, they own it and they could delete it when
they want to and that I don't exist.
You know, so it's, it's just a battle sometimes to think, well, do I just want
to stay independent?
And just this way, I know that no matter what, you know, right or wrong, no
matter what choices I make or decisions I make, even if some of them are okay
and some of them are not okay, someone else doesn't get to say, oh, well, we
didn't like this choice this person made in their life or this thing they did.
And we don't like their voice being out there and we can take them off of our
platform.
And since we own their voice, since we own what they sold us, then, then that's
that they're gone.
And some people, you might say, well, that's kind of crazy to think about, but
I don't know if it is.
I mean, it seems like people's voices can get muted a lot of times these days
if they're owned by someone else.
So I just, you know, I think about independence.
I think about, you know, I mean, America was founded, people wanted to be
independent.
I mean, things, you know, things was going so bad in Britain, some people got
into a boat and left.
And the people in Britain were like, where are you going?
And they're like, we don't know.
I mean, that's crazy.
Things must have been really rocky if you left and didn't even know where you
were going and only had just a couple sandwiches, a couple of, you know, decent
chicks, which you didn't even have something.
You didn't even have a real, you know, amazing batch, you know, a couple of cauldrons
of soup or whatever, gunpowder, that gunpowder chowder, bro.
That's what they were eating back then.
I mean, you needed something you could, you know, you could pop off and then
something you could fill your gullet.
And something that you could, you know, that you could fill your musket.
You need that gunpowder chowder, something that, you know, you needed that
double-edged meal.
You know, that way you could use it to fight, you could use it to feast.
But that's crazy, independence, you know.
So, yeah, people ask about that, about being independent and what I think about
it and about doing a special.
And that's one of the things that kind of holds me up sometimes.
It's just something where I don't want to be owned by someone.
I don't want someone to own me where one day they could say, well, we don't
really want your voice out there.
So, you know, we don't like your kind.
I mean, I feel enough of that when I even got out here to Hollywood.
We don't, you know, oh, you sound this way.
You're not really well, you know.
I just, you know, it's kind of left a sour taste in my mouth.
Oh, you don't have, I don't know, man.
You know, they think everybody where I'm from is just a racist or an idiot.
You know, they think a lot of rural white people or rural people at all are
just ignorant.
You know, and it just, I don't know, man.
I've never really felt super welcome.
And now some of that could be my own fault.
Maybe sometimes I don't want to be welcome.
You know, maybe there's something inside of me that doesn't want to be welcome.
I mean, maybe people could lay out a hundred welcome mats and maybe I wouldn't
notice it.
But I do notice when people's voices get silenced if they're not a certain way.
And I don't think my voice is that.
But who knows in 10 years from now,
if that's what people could, if, you know, somebody at some company is like,
oh, man, this, this guy doesn't think like it the same exact way I think about
everything.
So we got to get, you know, let's take him off the platform and then you're
gone.
So I don't know.
I just think about that kind of stuff sometimes.
You know, you work so hard to create your own voice to just try and stay
independent and just do your own thing.
And then something comes along and, you know, I don't know.
It's like the snail, man.
I mean, you don't even know.
That snail doesn't even know.
He'll trudge his whole life to get 40 feet.
But then his son, you know, his son, he might have a little bit at 39 feet.
He might, you know, slug up with another little bed bug.
And then they got, then they have a baby.
And that baby goes, you know, the next generation, he goes that next 40 feet.
And then the next generation goes the next 40 feet and they just keep going.
You know, sometimes it takes a couple of legs to get somewhere.
It takes a couple of generations to get somewhere.
You know, if you're riding that independence, you got to really, sometimes you
got to ride it out.
So anyway, I'm not saying that I wouldn't do a comedy special with another
group or something like that.
But I really, you know, I have a tough time thinking about being, about my
artwork and stuff being owned by somebody or my stories.
I mean, and maybe I'm overthinking things.
That's fine.
But, you know, I can't help the way that I think, you know, all the times the
way that I think.
This is just, you know, I'm kind of sentenced, kind of stuck here in this.
I mean, some people's brain, it really makes perfect sense.
You got that cucumber, you got them, them tomatoes boy.
But then, damn, boy, I got this, I got this jar of relish up here.
Wow, you know what's crazy is my sister can't even read.
But what does it have to do with us right now?
Hope you enjoyed that video and you can watch another.
And you can watch this one, you can watch this one.
Different options, different choices.
Some guy just brings you one option, not this guy.
Two options.
Watch one.
This one or this one.