What Happened When Van Lathan Called Out Theo Von

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]I prepared a fiveminute monologue about why I like the Oval Office decor.

[00:00:06]Uh, no. I'm going to bring out my boy Van Lean. What's up? Come on, Van.

[00:00:14]What's up? You all know Van Lean. Stand up. Give him some love.

[00:00:19]See you. How's it going? All right. A lot of famous people out here in LA. A lot of people want to get to a show. You want to invite Doug? You're going to invite Kamla. First call I made was Dan Lean because you know why I was like we're going to do a little Louisiana [ __ ] over here. All right, for people that don't know, G give them a little update on who the hell you are.

[00:00:39]>> Uh I do a podcast. I also have had one too many hennies and cokes.

[00:00:43]>> Great.

[00:00:44]>> So I don't know how unhinged I want to be, but I'm the co-host. Anybody else wants to go >> ringer podcast network. We talk about political stuff and black stuff.

[00:00:52]>> Political stuff and black stuff. So you guys look like >> So we're going to talk about You can check out Higher Learning. We're going to talk about political stuff, black stuff, Louisiana stuff, and little lane Keithin. And then we're going to bring out the rest of the podcasters.

[00:01:03]>> Um, Dan >> and I appreciate that, my man. Look at that. You >> What's the What's the best and worst political movie to rewatch?

[00:01:14]>> Oh, okay. So, the best political movie is one called The American President.

[00:01:19]>> And it it it's this huge scandal. the president starts dating, which seems quaint now, but then it was a huge deal. He's having dates and all of this stuff. So, that's the best one uh to rewatch. The worst one, unfortunately, is one called Distinguished Gentleman with Eddie Murphy, >> which was kind of a miss.

[00:01:43]>> It it you like it.

[00:01:45]>> You like it. I I It's not my cup of tea, but The American President is Oh, and then Dave. You remember Dave?

[00:01:51]>> Dave is sick. Dave Dave is sick.

[00:01:54]>> Yeah.

[00:01:55]>> All right. Um I want to start by getting your take. Um sorry, we're going to bring you down for a second. They bring you down and they bring you back up.

[00:02:00]That's what happens in the live shows.

[00:02:02]You know, it's an emotional roller coaster. All right. You got to feel all the feelings. There's laughter, there's tears, there's anger, there's happiness.

[00:02:08]Um they uh they gutted the Voting Rights Act. And uh it started on our on my adopted home state, your uh your native home state of Louisiana. And uh you know the Clay ruling uh was it's just a [ __ ] disaster for the Deep South. I had Justin Jones on the pod this week.

[00:02:24]We talked about what's happening in Tennessee. But I just kind of want your take on on the implications large.

[00:02:30]>> You know, I feel like like a lot of you guys probably feel is you're absorbing so many body blows right now that everything kind of slides off of you.

[00:02:39]And you knew that this was coming for a while. You could read the tea leaves.

[00:02:42]This assault on voting rights started actually before the MAGA movement started with Shelby versus Holder uh way back in the day. I think it was like 2013. And then I had a conversation that changed my perspective on it. And that conversation was with my grandmother.

[00:02:57]My grandmother is 88 years old. And if you guys have never been to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, um wow.

[00:03:08]>> I'm glad you guys survived. Um, so if you've never if you've never been to Baton Rouge, Louisiana and City Park, I'll give you an example of something real quick. Baton Rouge City Park, there's uh City Park and it's like right off of Highland or like whatever down there and everybody goes down there, hangs out, but there's a part of City Park that's up at the top. And so I when I was a kid, I asked my mother, I was like, "Why why do we go up here to like barbecue and have a good time and go up there?" My mom said, "Uh, well, we're used to going up there cuz that's the only part of City Park that we used to be able to go to." So, up the hill at City Park is where all of the black people used to go. I went to McKinley High. It used to be called um uh the colored high school of Louisiana, right?

[00:03:53]One of the oldest. And my what my grandmother thought, what she believed is over generations, she thought she had defeated that. And she was proud of that, >> right?

[00:04:05]>> Yeah. She was proud of the fact that she had sacrificed and she had marched. She had raised people and she had, you know, uh, been dedicated enough and focused enough to deliver to me a world that at least could recognize that was wrong.

[00:04:22]And it was tough watching her um, and she's going to be with us for a long time. She's gonna live to 250. But it was it was tough watching her come to terms with the fact that that battle wasn't over. And not only that, but she might have lost it. And that's hard.

[00:04:39]>> Yeah, man. Um >> I dude, I hear And it's one of those things where like >> they they [ __ ] cheated to do it, too.

[00:04:48]You know what I mean? Like it'd be one thing like obviously it'd be bad, right?

[00:04:52]It'd be one thing if they lost the battle because it was like, you know, the people just decided that they didn't want you to have rights anymore and they voted, you know, that way. Like what actually happened was like Trump wins with a minority of the vote and then he wins barely and then a [ __ ] they steal a Supreme Court seat and then they [ __ ] cheat, right? And like what happens is that they they pass uh they rule on K and Jeff Landry, the governor of Louisiana, decides in the middle of an election when people are already [ __ ] voting. 40,000 people have already voted. He goes, "I'm going to cancel the election." Like the election's already started. I'm going to [ __ ] cancel it and we're going to change the rules and we're going to take away one of your seats.

[00:05:32]>> We're going to take away the Baton Rouge seat now. So the Baton Rouge doesn't have any [ __ ] representation anymore, right? Just like they did up in Memphis, >> right? And you know, it's a black city.

[00:05:40]It's 55% black. And the the power base of Louisiana, we're talking about people, and I really don't want to bring things down too much, but you know, the issues of my home state, these issues, capital I issues. We're talking about for me, uh, growing up with people who got throat cancer at 15. We're talking about environmental justice. We're talking about violence. We're talking about mass incarceration. We're talking about people who need representation in order to move their society forward, right? And so, um, and by the way, these are people, you know, them, they're full of life. They love to have a good time.

[00:06:18]Nothing can get them down. They have a smile on their face, but they're struggling right now. They're struggling with a lot of black people in Louisiana with how you can move forward or believe in this because once again, they thought that they had one.

[00:06:31]>> Yeah. And the sickest part about it is that little [ __ ] [ __ ] that took their representation away. Like our governor in Louisiana, this little [ __ ] prick. So what he does is he he signs an executive order. He cancels their votes.

[00:06:45]>> We had the election anyway. I went I went to vote like last just whatever a couple days ago and like the the it's on the ballot. Like the congressional seats on the ballot, but it doesn't count.

[00:06:53]Like they're canceling that vote because they're going to steal the seat.

[00:06:56]>> And right after he does that, >> he goes to [ __ ] Greenland.

[00:07:00]>> Yeah. That little son of a [ __ ] who's been in Greenland all week after he canceled our vote walking around talking his dumbass fake accent >> and like getting the funny part is he's been getting kind of yelled at by the little kids in Greenland.

[00:07:15]>> He you see that you see that video where he asked the kid he was like do you want to do you want would you like to get a picture right >> and the kid goes no >> [ __ ] out of my face. You know, I'm glad you guys are getting to see Landry cuz y'all getting to see bad cinjun. Like, see, the version of Cinjun that y'all get are the cinjuns that we [ __ ] with and we love them, right? Like the water boy and [ __ ] like that. And they're really cool. Like you out hunting and you fishing and you see the game warden, you're like, "Ah [ __ ] this the end of the day." But you see some cool asses, they might come clean the fish for you and cook it right there on the bank and you like, "It's cool." Yeah, >> but when you get a bad casian, that's like deliverance, [ __ ] You don't know how you going to escape the chaffalia basin. And now we got a bad casian, kind of a fake cinjun in control of the state. And so now I want y'all to see how we felt 85, 86, 87 when we saw somebody rolling up. We didn't know who it was.

[00:08:14]>> You know he's coming from Michael. You know he's got a gay brother. You know that?

[00:08:17]>> Oh, okay.

[00:08:18]>> Yeah. Jeff Landry's got a [ __ ] >> What I'm supposed to make of that?

[00:08:21]>> Well, what you're supposed to make of it is that he's a piece of [ __ ] Like, bro's got a bro's got a gay brother.

[00:08:27]Like, he's out there. He's I mean, he's coming at your people harder than my people, but he's coming at us.

[00:08:32]>> He's coming at us. It's not great.

[00:08:34]>> Yeah. I mean, look, Landry it I I personally wonder and anybody who doubles and triples down on MAGA, my my belief on MAGA is that the dismantling of MAGA has to be intentional. We think that American culture can win, but the denoxification of Germany was this very intentional thing that we had to like re-educate people on what a proper society was. I personally believe that that's what we're going to have to do with MAGA. I don't know if it's going to be possible. We might have to, you know, hold hands and kumbaya. I don't know how. I'm not doing that. Y'all could do it. Um, >> I'll do it, baby.

[00:09:15]>> Yeah. He said, "No, you you like that type of shit."

[00:09:18]>> I do it. I do.

[00:09:19]>> You like You like that type of [ __ ] [ __ ] them. I >> You know, I I go I'm of two minds about it, you know. Like when they're right in my face doing MAGA [ __ ] my view is [ __ ] them, you know. But my other view is I don't know. I go to the LSU tailgate.

[00:09:34]You go to the LSU tailgate. You know, my buddy tailgate's called Tiger Island.

[00:09:38]And um there are a bunch of guys at Tiger Island, man, that like they're nice people. Like they're trying to live their life and they don't [ __ ] know any better, you know? They're not reading the news. They don't know [ __ ] Like they're privileged. They're in their little bubble. Here, here's the thing, though. They are though. They are. They are. They are. They are, man.

[00:09:57]They are. By the way, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. They're [ __ ] dicks that voted for Kla Harris, and they're nice people that voted for Donald Trump. I'm sorry.

[00:10:05]I'm sorry. That's just true.

[00:10:07]>> Habits. Look, watch out. But here's the thing, man. We can win them over right now. Like, isn't this a moment to win them over? Like, isn't this right now the moment to win them over? Cuz they're waking up. They're like, "Wait, I didn't sign up for any of this [ __ ] Shouldn't we be trying to right now?"

[00:10:21]>> Can I They piss, by the way. I love >> I love mad ass white people.

[00:10:31]>> You know, I like white-on-white violence. I watch Braveheart every weekend.

[00:10:36]>> I like that type of [ __ ] Look at y'all.

[00:10:37]Y'all so righteous.

[00:10:40]>> No. So, look, >> every single one of them is bad. They're all going to hell.

[00:10:44]>> I vote for Obama again today. Okay. So, so this is So, I have I have a convers.

[00:10:57]I'm sorry. Okay.

[00:10:58]>> I'm with you.

[00:10:59]>> But, but but I'll tell you something that happened at Equinox, the gym up here, cuz you know.

[00:11:04]>> So, you made a game a Well, tell you cuz you know I made >> You're in the sauna. So, and >> they gave you a long look.

[00:11:13]>> Hey, man. Open to it. Okay. So, look.

[00:11:17]I'm at uh I'm at Equinox and my trainer James, shout out to James. Uh James introduces me to someone and he goes, "Um, Van, you know this guy, right? A guy that is at our lives is from our home state or the my home state, the state you guy by the name of Theo Vaughn."

[00:11:35]>> Okay.

[00:11:37]>> Okay. So, >> see, Theo's a dumbass. we can win him over.

[00:11:41]>> This is a true story. So, James goes, "Hey, Van, Theo Vaughn." Theo goes, "Yeah, what's up with Theo used to do a podcast with a guy that I used to work with and all of this stuff." So, I'm talking to Theo and Theo's from Mandyville. We're the exact same age.

[00:11:54]Um, and you know, hey man, what's a Mandyville? Blah blah blah. We're doing all of this stuff and I start to feel like a [ __ ] ass [ __ ] Okay. Um, you guys can laugh at it, but you can't think it. Okay.

[00:12:07]So, so I start to feel like I'm cucking out. So, after a while of me having pleasures with Theo, it's really happened. I pulled Theo to the side and I'm like, "Hey, man."

[00:12:20]I was really and have been really disappointed in you and some of the stuff that you've done with your podcast. I've been pissed off at you.

[00:12:28]We've been taking some shots at you on high. Had to do it. And Theo goes, "Man, I really didn't know he was going to be like that."

[00:12:41]>> So, this is what I'm saying. So, then I asked Theo. So, I'm like, "Okay, so what do I do here? There's two things I could do. I could snip his nuts. All right.

[00:12:52]>> But the other thing I can do is kind of >> welcome him in."

[00:12:55]>> No, [ __ ] that.

[00:12:56]>> Like, just not welcome him. just push on that a little bit. Just be like, "What do you mean?"

[00:13:03]>> Talk to him for a little bit. And he starts telling me stuff and stuff like that. And it's clear that that is somebody who you could probably move, right? You could probably get somebody like that with that type of platform, with that type of reach to come over.

[00:13:19]And if you can do it to that person, then you have to do it. But here's the thing.

[00:13:24]>> Wait a minute. You were booing me for saying the same thing.

[00:13:27]laughing for him.

[00:13:28]>> They they like they they like me. But here's but >> but here's the thing though. This is the last thing I'll say about it.

[00:13:35]>> Everybody has different jobs, right?

[00:13:38]Everybody that's your job.

[00:13:40]>> All right.

[00:13:41]>> Okay. I'm not doing that. My job is to tell Theo, "Yo, I'm going to [ __ ] over you every chance I get." All right.

[00:13:48]>> You go out, use the [ __ ] chin and the nice hair and the, you know, all of that. You go get those people.

[00:13:55]>> Yeah. All right. Everybody has to be okay with the fact that everyone has different jobs. Go ahead. Yeah, you can do it.

[00:14:01]>> All right, last topic. There have been some people that have been pissing me off about about the south should talk in the south.

[00:14:07]>> And uh there's a lot of northern libs, northern progressives right now that are saying, "You know what? You know what we should do to get back in those southern states for Klay? We should tell those 18-year-old black boys that they shouldn't play for LSU or Alabama anymore." See, that's you guys. You're out there. And I'm like, "Fuck you. You guys sacrificed your life for this country. Why are you telling, you know, why are you telling that 18-year-old what he can do? He He's got to go there.

[00:14:34]This is his moment to play in Tiger Stadium, to make money, to have his life. Why does that why does he have to sacrifice for the country? What do you think about that?

[00:14:43]>> Okay, I just want to make sure that you guys know that it was the NAACP that said that. Um, so, um, but look, so this why this why this is what I'll say. Uh, I I understand the sentiment. I understand the sentiment. I understand the sentiment that like if you really want to piss Louisiana off, you can take a chuck out of LSU football.

[00:15:01]>> Here's the problem with it. I think a couple of things. Number one, it is doable. It wouldn't take a whole bunch of players. It take five five stars um in the South, fivestar recruits for people to be like, ah, there's a political contagion here that we need to contend with. But I do think that it is unfair to ask 17, 18, 19 year old kids to bear the brunt of that unless there is a robust economic movement, >> a slush fund, if you will, >> right?

[00:15:30]>> A $1.8 BILLION SLUSH FUND. NOW WE'RE TALKING, RIGHT? NOW WE'RE SAYING THE SAME THING.

[00:15:36]>> That has to be a whole and that has to be a part of the movement, right?

[00:15:40]because like the the culture and the financial benefit of going to LSU and making a whole bunch of NIL money, you just can't put that all on those families and those kids, but as part of a larger strategy, I'm not totally against it.

[00:15:53]>> All right, we're going to bring out the rest of the crew. You got anything else on your mind? You got anything you're hot to trot on you want these, >> you know, kind of Gen X white people to know about?

[00:16:01]>> Nah, I don't know. I'm with them, man. I got the Gen X reality bites you guys want to talk about with No Rider.

[00:16:06]>> Talk about reality bites.

[00:16:07]>> I like that [ __ ] Yeah. What What's Lane Kein going to do? We going We going to go to the playoffs?

[00:16:12]>> What's Lane Kein going to do?

[00:16:13]>> Yeah, we going to go to the playoff.

[00:16:14]>> Oh, he's going to [ __ ] us in the end is what he's going to do.

[00:16:18]>> But we going to ride the ride while we on it.

[00:16:20]>> All right, everybody. We're going to have some fun after this. Are you ready?

[00:16:23]This is your moment to go to the bar.