449: Theo Von—A Troubled White

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 39.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Comedian, podcaster, and self-described "troubled white" Theo Von joins the party for a candid discussion about the bone he found on his way to the studio, what he was manifesting during the Lion's Portal, and why he loves 'Merica. There's a little wrestling, a little recovery, and lot of talk of a new Mike and Theo Antique Road Show-type show featuring American-made entrepreneurs. It's patriotic, hilarious, and it might just be the start of something strange and great. WARNING: THIS EPISODE IS MARKED EXPLICIT FOR LANGUAGE AND CONTENT.

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0:00.0	Hello friends.
0:05.4	Mike Rowe here.
0:06.4	Chuck Klausmeyer sitting across from me at the Microw Works World Headquarters,
0:10.8	where we are now recording.
0:12.8	It is nice to do this in person, isn't it?
0:14.9	I think this is the best way to do it, honestly.
0:17.0	It's the only sensible way to do it,
0:18.4	especially when your guest is the one and only Theodore Capitani von Kernatowski, the third.
0:26.7	Yes, yes.
0:28.0	Other, a.k.a. Theo Vaughn.
0:30.9	A.k.a. Or A.K. Also known as, I guess it's A.A.K. Also, also known as a troubled white.
0:41.6	Yes, right. Self-described. Self-described. I don't know if you know Theo Vaughn or not.
0:48.1	I suspect some of you probably do. He has the fourth or fifth largest podcast in the world.
0:53.8	Yeah. I met him a couple years ago. No
0:56.1	idea who he was, but I was invited to be on his podcast, and I happen to be in Nashville where he
1:03.2	spends most of his time, and we got along great. And then a year or two later, he invited me back,
1:09.0	and I said, sure. And that was here in Los Angeles.
1:12.2	And that conversation was a ton of fun, but memorable for me anyway, because I really
1:18.6	learned some things about the guy that I didn't know.
1:21.1	First and foremost was he cares an awful lot about this country.
1:25.8	Yeah.
1:26.4	He's determined to do his part to reinvigorate manufacturing. Yes. He cares an awful lot about this country. Yeah. He's determined to do his part to reinvigorate manufacturing.
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