Mark Normand Talks About Growing Up In Louisiana

[@TheoVon]

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[@a.k.4o]

Funny fact. Mark Normand was one of the friends in the background. On the racist phone call to a young Candice Owens. Which started her being in the lime light

[@NEKOUFar]

@@a.k.4o woah good info

[@auroraborealis13579]

AK 4o are you being honest? I’m very gullible.

[@a.k.4o]

@@auroraborealis13579 promise thats the truth. Mark wasn't guilty of any wrong doing . Just his buddy who left the message

[@a.k.4o]

@@auroraborealis13579 heres the podcast where he tells the story. He dosent say her name , but you can Google her story to make the connection kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5THfp1qor9qlZI

[@uriah9559]

theo looks like an accountant for the hells angels

[@dutton1991z]

Lmao woooooooah 😲😲😲

[@papichefitup]

Lol

[@onementality9781]

I was just looking for a comment about his glasses. Lol they aren't working for his advantage

[@pIacebo]

Or chief of marketing ?

[@ouchfps1343]

Underrated comment

[@ybblue2732]

Puberty Wilson and Testosterone Jones

[@RobdaVegasMailman]

I grew up in New Orleans. Spent a part of my youth living and working nights in the French Quarter. It can definitely have an effect. Thankfully, I now live in a nice, normal place like Las Vegas. :)

[@richie8811]

what effect specifically?

[@bigleaguejew3101]

@@richie8811murder capital of the 90’s

[@christianperez7846]

I know Mark has pitched a show about growing up that way. I’d love to see that show!

[@AllGoSpecial]

“Mom they stole my bike” - “ah they need it” haha

[@leaveitorsinkit242]

3:36 This level of understanding and empathy (for the actions of poor black folks in the South) is incredibly admirable.

[@kevinprzy4539]

Yeah true shit, still doesn’t make it right tho

[@ramdbzdude0_0]

I’ve been poorer and have never thought about that.

[@retrojoe8434]

Theyre being pc for the woke crowd.

[@TVindustries5000]

​@@retrojoe8434 "Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you." - Ephesians 4:32 “And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.” Luke 6:31 I understand that you might not like "wokeness"(as big an undefined concept that is) but I feel like kindness and trying to see others perspective should not be something deligated to one political party or resigned to one ideology. i see so many people fall into such a cruel mindset, even the "woke" people you mention. Iv fallen into it myself at times, we all have. Its disturbing to me that people rationalize cruelty so easily these days. I think part of it is that because the structure of society. most of our interactions are done staring at screens, at usernames, icons and words. The dehumanization of our society. it gives people truely warped perspectives to how most people really are in real life

[@Bayoubebe]

It’s admirable until it happens to you and you feel the violation of having your hard earned things and sometimes irreplaceable valuables stolen from you. They get free subsidies and help. Stealing is a choice and a character trait that not all poor people share. This mentality is not okay

[@nichole8609]

This was a great interview, watched it when it came out.

[@clubbedsandwich1128]

The part with the guys making fun of Mark's "white" voice was a lose-lose situation for him. If he had a "black" voice, they'd fuck with him for trying to "sound black".

[@bupkaplan]

not if he came by it honestly

[@shanilemeow2942]

Yeah that's a lot of the crap white people get when you legitimize racism against them. I mean, they were racist against him, that's real you can be racist against white people

[@shawnlacue8071]

These two are hilarious together!

[@Darkhalo314]

So cool to hear these two talk about places that I grew up just minutes from.

[@neiljohnson6815]

Louisiana native here. This guy grew up in New Orleans. These people don't think the rest of Louisiana exists. The rest of Louisiana pretty much thinks the same about New Orleans.

[@djdubuisson83]

New Orleans is almost a completely different state compared to the rest of Louisiana.

[@allenmcdonald1878]

I'm from Monroe and that's so true

[@slydale]

I'm from Slidell. Slidell in the 80s was where the great white flight was wrapping up into, by late 90s and definitely by Katrina, it was an extension of New Orleans East. Everything's always changing.

[@Ojb_1959]

Yeah ya rite bruh , so true. I grew up in the channel.

[@questnreality1763]

I grew up in West Monroe and this is true

[@juan95441]

Yea Theo I think those glasses aren’t the ones.

[@nightcat87]

6:21

[@Yphrum]

I thought i was the only one Who is paranoid about people being in their house when they’re going to sleep and having to check the closet and set up these booby traps and noisemakers and stuff like if somebody open the door something would fall over and make some noise. Thanks Theo and Mark I thought I was alone in this.

[@LoveOverEgo]

Same, as someone who's pretty relax most the time and never really paranoid, I feel this all the time going to sleep

[@derekodom2639]

You've always been the only one. You're very special and unique

[@Yphrum]

@@derekodom2639 thanks man that’s what my mommy says too :)

[@skurdibbles7913]

Yeah I had a girlfriend who installed door chime lazers in the hallways and doors. It kinda of sucked. I could tell where my dog and her three cats were pretty much at all times. Someone actually broke in and my dog beelined to them and tried to eat them. I could hear them running through the house until my dog pinned him and chewed on his ass for the ten minutes it took the cops. Any time I hear those rings I see my old st Bernard covered in blood being the bestest girl ever.

[@FinalCountDown2.037]

It's probably a little easier to live with if the burglar blows you then the other way around.

[@rumbepack]

both ways suck tho.

[@FinalCountDown2.037]

@@rumbepack I'm not condoning it.

[@FinalCountDown2.037]

@@rumbepack I'm not from Idaho

[@Paulnopanic]

@@rumbepack W

[@nardinit]

Reminds me of a great Patrice O'Neal bit

[@Joshgilly94]

Testosterone Jones could be a hell of a cartoon character

[@biggaut7531]

Theo Von we love ya down here in Lake Charles, LA!!! Let’s get a show at one of the Casinos here!!!!

[@spid3rmike117]

Hope you were able to recover from the hurricanes. Much love from Baton Rouge✌

[@kylepomeroy73]

“ ran down the stares at 6 am all excited expecting the cops to have the robber in a headlock I get down stairs and they are all the food, we got robbed again “he says 😭

[@truerthanyouknow9456]

Two men talking about racism and actually making an effort to empathize. This is cool 😎

[@chancereynolds5528]

New Orleans.. and honestly all of southern Louisiana is just a really weird violent, drunk, crazy, friendly, drugged out, soulful place. I’m born in New Orleans and live on the northshore. Where’s my Louisiana people at?

[@weblyspade3772]

I live around Lafayette and can say the same thing baw 😂

[@Qelai]

Born in New Iberia but live in Gentilly Terrace, NOLA

[@iGoFeed]

Mark looks hella aerodynamic with those earlobes

[@NDMatrix]

If they did a full time pod together I’d faint.

[@elvinfrets4462]

Real Talk gang gang!!

[@Junior0G]

Just sold my "Dream House" I built on 4 lots I bought in Bywater in the 8th ward. After 1 year of having both my vehicles broken into several times, rims taken off one car, all my lawn equipment stolen and all of this was done DURING THE DAY ON CAMERA. I had to sleep with a gun under my pillow and my fiancé had to stay armed inside the house when she was alone and I was at work. I love New Orleans, I grew up have lived here my entire life but fuck this City. As soon as the rest of my properties sell im OUT this shit hole.

[@chancereynolds5528]

Being a Louisiana native will break your heart it’s a hard ass place.

[@macrc2129]

@@chancereynolds5528 St. Louis isn't much better.

[@alec8699]

puberty Wilson lmfao

[@lordbawnchie]

Mark is my life and "culture" #strong

[@Its_LumberJack]

Damn got me all excited I thought it was from a new episode.

[@jzen1455]

What, I had no idea Mark was from Louisiana!

[@dutton1991z]

They ate everything LMFAO

[@EikottXD]

They're called pigs for a reason.

[@dutton1991z]

@@EikottXD your right !!!!!

[@joshuaarcona7579]

Hahaha puberty Wilson? Testosterone Jones? Love it, hilarious

[@jackderaway]

This conversation would have been better if it wasn’t recorded and posted on the internet. You can tell the massively toned it down.

[@martinsanchez4827]

100% agree with you

[@ThumbDr]

“N-word rich”

[@macrc2129]

I don't know how anyone could feel sympathy for someone who caused him this much trauma. So yes, I'm positive Mark is holding back. And I can relate to him BIG time.

[@CitizenSnips69]

I had similar experiences growing up being white, being bullied for my skin color before I really knew what racism was. They were trying to “intigrate” my elementary/middle school by changing the zoning to include a ton of poor Hispanic neighborhoods. So imagine your only exposure of Hispanic culture is these disadvantaged kids from broken homes. Who then proceed to take out their anger/jealousy on you by constantly bullying you for being white and excluding you from their friend groups. From my narrow perspective it made it look like that race had behavioral issues, when it was in fact caused by their socioeconomic background. So the school ended up becoming segregated ironically from their racism. I was too young to understand why they hated me, and it ended up making me subconsciously racist for years because I’d learned to be afraid of Hispanics and associate them with aggressive/violent behavior. Their exposure to racism from whites at such a young age actually perpetuated the cycle. But who could blame them for resenting whites and those with privilege? A lot of them got their hate of whites from their parents. I just wish they would teach their kids that racism is never justified. Even into adulthood I’m having to correct my subconscious avoidance of them, childhood trauma runs deep. I don’t have this issue with other races either, because I’ve never been racist.

[@Earlydoors272]

How come when white people are racist they’re ‘Nazis’ but when hispanic or black people are racist it’s because they’re poor and disadvantaged always? Pretty much anywhere there’s a large number of black kids in a school, they’re going to bully the white kids. Don’t excuse it. I had my bike stolen every summer by a black kid twice my age and twice my size. There’s no excuse they didn’t need the bike they didn’t deserve the bike they just saw me as an easy target and so they stole it. Knock it off with your excuses they’re racist

[@CitizenSnips69]

@@Earlydoors272 Because this is the socioeconomic circumstances we're in. It's not an excuse, it's an explanation. Racism is never justified. But I feel a lot less bad for shitty white kids who are racist because daddy was racist. Kids who have been given everything they need in their life including the education and resources to understand that being racist is wrong. That's the difference buddy. I'm sorry this reality frustrates you so much. Sorry you had your lil bike stolen so much, boo hoo. Imagine being treated poorly every day because of the color of your skin. Not just by young bullies, but by ADULTS and the GOVERNMENT. Wouldn't you start to resent whites too? Key word on your story is every summer, because you could afford to buy another every time since you're so priveledged. You know that kids of every race do this when they're poor, right? The difference is black families are poor at 2x the rate of white families, and wealth inequality is the only factor that directly influences crime rate. The kids who stole it from you likely experiences much worse on a regular basis, and were never able to get a bike in the first place. They also likely don't have the resources to fix their behavioral issues, due to intergenerational poverty. That's the KEY difference. A white kid is more likely to grow up with the resources and education to know better and not be racist. That's why people call them Nazis and demonize them, because they often CHOOSE racism despite being the most wealthy and knowing better. Young black youths are often lashing out at a system that treats them unfairly due to their skin color. The big difference is one is the victim of racism from birth, and the other is usually the perpetrator first. The whites live in a system which naturally favors them, and that will create resentment in the other races. I don't why that's so hard to understand. We literally created these problems in urban cities through racist zoning polity and legislation as whites. Man it's so hard to be the victim of a problem our own race created through hate. Feeling sympathy and understanding why it's an issue for them is just making excuses for them right? I had my phone stolen by the only two black kids in my entire school, but am I bitter or racist now? No. Because it has nothing to do with race and I've had a healthy environment to grow up in, as well as education/therapy resources to learn better. Maybe if you want to stop getting your bike stolen, you should enact law that reverses the negative multigenerational effects OUR racist policy created in the first place. But maybe you don't know why chicago became that way. Maybe you don't understand the effects of redlining or zoning policies which often targeted blacks over all races. Maybe you forgot how recently blacks couldn't even get a job or ride on the bust because of their race. Have whites ever experienced that on a large scale? That's what's causing your issue. Learn history. The difference between whites and blacks is that one has good reason to become racist, and the other really doesn't. In either situation, the behavior needs to be corrected. But unfortunately when an individual is poor, it's hard to do that. All races have these issues, but blacks have it much worse than whites in that regard statistically.

[@dicksuckley8102]

Damn dude I read this whole thing and I’m white and my wife is Mexican I’m gay

[@JustPolar98]

Props to you for acknowledging something bad that may have been in your mind at one point and not letting it make you a prejudiced person

[@CitizenSnips69]

@@dicksuckley8102 For some reason accusations of homosexuality coming from the person with the name "dick suckley" just don't seem that credible.

[@climbinhawaiian7881]

Mark looks like the product of if john krasinski and fred savage somehow had a child together

[@12oshinko]

I'm from N.O. also (Faubourg-Marigny triangle). It could be really rough, but I've been able to deal with every other city I've lived in.

[@garrettyoung9]

Imagine. Mark and Theo are both so insecure they never make eye contact the whole podcast!!

[@shawnlacue8071]

Mark seems pretty comfortable with it here to me

[@garrettyoung9]

@Andy T it’s important to anyone that isn’t a cuck. Andy T

[@zenalchemist3378]

@Andy T eye contact period. Why you gotta make it all gay

[@joeyh31]

I never knew this about Mark. Great video

[@SC-mh4gz]

If the eyeglass frame was thinner, I can see a young Hank Hill.

[@jeffjohnson1464]

Zack baggans called and wants his glasses back.

[@a.k.4o]

👍🏻🤣

[@DaspitDad]

From the 318 son!

[@brandontrammel4581]

Facts

[@thomasmitchell4128]

Same

[@Bob-dz9kn]

Being racist and hating horrible people who want to assault you are not the same thing.

[@jonathanpopham5483]

the Ignatius Riley reference omfg lmao

[@oswaldomayberry9260]

I’m not racist against black people but I have had a lot of negative encounters with them throughout my life and childhood. It does affect you, impossible for it not to.

[@CoreyMcKinneyJr]

Im sorry.. all jokes aside. I understand.

[@user-bf5vi6yg8n]

This man has explored dark arts Theo maybe even hasn’t

[@erwinvonsellner5110]

@theo, this was great bro.

[@clark9992]

Theo's wearing his dad's glasses. Lookin' good.

[@cojac6SMG]

You can see the difference between being from the city and being from any of the many rural areas or suburbs outside the city.

[@bradynewman6043]

Either one of these gentlemen could have played rapaport in higher learning 🤣

[@thismothafuckasaid7304]

Lots of people had same experience, but media and PC culture pretend like Whites don't experience prejudice in minority neighborhoods

[@uriah9559]

@skittzo 916 either take a joke or dont. nobody cares

[@travismoore8337]

Theo looks like he does inventory for Petsmart in those glasses 🤓

[@whipplefilter]

Got them 80’s shop class glasses on Theo

[@DavidB.Fischer]

"We got robbed again!" XD

[@Moviesrule2011]

Testosterone Jones hahaha

[@briangarrow448]

I didn't meet any blacks until I graduated high school. In my town a mixed marriage was when a Norwegian girl married a Swedish boy.

[@garrettyoung9]

Wtf?

[@briangarrow448]

@@garrettyoung9 I was making the point that I had a totally different childhood. A very vanilla, Wonderbread, middle of Nowhere, Nebraska place without anyone who was any different than anyone else. The type of place that Neonazis dream about moving to.

[@outsidechambaz]

@@briangarrow448 That’s interesting. I am the polar opposite growing up in hawaii we have every ethnicity you can think of living here.

[@SmedleyButler1881]

@@briangarrow448 ah yes because marks childhood of constantly being racially profiled and robbed as well as Theos experience of not knowing his father and having zero parental oversight sounds just great while your own sounds pretty terrible tbh

[@inigomontoya619]

When I see Theo in these glasses. I know hes back on the booger sugar

[@mikebiliamanator2129]

Do you know him personally?

[@inigomontoya619]

@@mikebiliamanator2129 no. Its a joke. I believe him when he says he is clean. Those just look like some studio 51 shades. May the Lord keep him strong

[@jf3130]

Power powder

[@MrMikeymontemayor]

@@mikebiliamanator2129 i know your mom personslly, if you know what I mean

[@EthanFingerboards]

@@inigomontoya619 bruh this may seem stupid but we need more people like you

[@ripnola984]

Less than 10 miles away! Great interview

[@darylfields]

North Louisiana 318 represent

[@paulbryan8174]

This is great but this podcast is like a years old...what's with the new clip?

[@ryanv1279]

Almost like clips come out everyday but a new podcast doesnt.

[@auroraborealis13579]

There are new fans everyday that may not have watched all the backlogged episodes. And clips are great for sharing with people or on social media.

[@herodotus7]

Louisiana is probably the best state. It is what it is.

[@traviswilkinson6272]

The black mall. Had to be the Plaza in the East. Haha

[@narcissenot]

Theo got that Charlie Sheen Wild Thing, thing going. I see ya!

[@ryanhall5827]

Ayeee I love tipitinas. Hope they do well after this COVID stuff

[@SB-yf6tu]

Thought it was Jim from the office in the thumbnail 💔

[@derekkt49]

I was born in New Orleans and my parents moved to Katy, TX when I was in first grade. I remember having a spelling test the first day of school and thinking WTF is this. I was soooo much farther behind the other kids. It sucked, I had to repeat 2nd grade.

[@ryanv1279]

I moved to Colorado from Florida. I had never seen the multiplication symbol written as “*” instead of “x” so i failed like 4 math tests

[@BogusOne]

@@ryanv1279 XDXD Im crying

[@BogusOne]

@@ryanv1279 Wait how long until you found out

[@ryanv1279]

@@BogusOne maybe 2-3 weeks? I was a pretty shy kid when it came to teachers. My computer lab teacher was the one who taught me.

[@MuscleCarsAreSexy]

Do those glasses have built-in cameras?

[@a.k.4o]

He's not Fed smoker

[@owenjohnson7447]

Who sold Theo them glasses 🤓

[@reefoceania5954]

Oh the importance of owning a shotgun...

[@ryanv1279]

I had a methed out neighbor who thought someone was breaking into her house (turned out to be a raccoon) so she shoots a shotgun though a wall and blows her methed out friends foot off at the ankle.

[@bjorncmadsen]

@@ryanv1279 and nothing of value was lost.

[@ryanv1279]

@@bjorncmadsen for real. She was real troubled. She would always ask me if I liked the color of her chihuahua, and then ask what color she would look pretty in. I was like 7 or 8 so i said “green” my favorite color (Assuming she was going to buy a dog dress or somethin). Next morning i go outside to play and see a PAINTED GREEN chihuahua running around. My mom didnt let me near her house after that.

[@onementality9781]

I've been raised in Middle Tennessee and I've never met anyone who just hated black people just because they are black but I have seen people hate the way they was treated so they hated the actions of a character. Besides that racism is only hate in the heart

[@Blackbirdinthedeadofnight]

What? This makes no sense? They hated black people because how black people treat them?

[@onementality9781]

@@Blackbirdinthedeadofnight yay now your catching on and it doesn't matter which end you place the hate on I've seen racist things happen to each and every race. It's called hate in the heart and yes we are treated by the content of our own actions my friend.

[@onementality9781]

I never said it can't happen but what I said I've never witnessed a black or white man just hate the other for no reason thats all I'm saying. That being said we are judged by the content of our actions

[@Blackbirdinthedeadofnight]

@@onementality9781 you do realise not all black people act the same right? Thinking it is so is racist I’m within itself lol

[@jej7117]

Ear lobes, that's the real struggle

[@riece4]

His highschool cost at least $15,000 a year... del la salle in nola

[@12oshinko]

Hahaha! People have so much assumptions about New Orleans and yet...

[@LeFaisDoDo]

normands a fellow cajun

[@johndelorean2284]

Anyone else notice Theo’s glasses don’t have lenses?

[@nathanchandler2341]

Dang. Is that Mingo fishtail? Love those guys

[@nathanchandler2341]

*fishtrap

[@GK-qc5ry]

Their accents sound so different.

[@ModeratelyAmused]

Mark has lived nearly half his life in New York. Probably learned to drop the accent to get mugged less.

[@woalmann6288]

True blue New Orleans accents are definitely different than the north shore where Theo is from. New Orleans has a sort of New York urban sound to it

[@Live-Life-Freely]

Theo looks like he keeps index cards filled with recipies for road kill.

[@seatnem4727]

Isn’t Theo from Louisiana too?

[@ACoupleStoners]

"was your dad ignatius Reilly?" Where the fuck does he get these references? Lol

[@michaelsanders351]

N-word rich! Lol. Love mark!!

[@Togomei]

I remember people break in my apartment but no one would steal anything because we were so poor on section 8.

[@kirugo]

those glasses make theo look like the lost member of LMFAO

[@truerthanyouknow9456]

Subscribed

[@jthompo1391]

Try growing up in Shreveport 😭⚜️

[@labcoat_0]

i literally cannot relate. guns and machetes exist

[@MidwestKorky]

Get $B on the show!

[@st.patty1416]

I was the only Mexican in a white town, it was awful in that elementary

[@user58541]

shouldn't have come there then? stay in your place. your people are everywhere 😂

[@thecommonsensecapricorn]

damn. idk if things have changed but i lived in a "bad" neighborhood in new orleans a few months ago and my roommates would leave the door unlocked sometimes, we never had shit happen. if you left shit on the porch, itd for sure be gone, but people didnt go inside. luckily it was a duplex and the people next to us were an old couple who were hellllla nosey, always alert and watching out. that helped.

[@NolaJoie]

Things have definitely gotten better in terms of crime since the ‘90s, but you’re insane if you leave your door unlocked in NOLA. You may have gotten lucky, but you’re playing with fire by doing that. Try leaving your car doors unlocked for a week and see what happens.

[@DankSwegSkuxxXhayel]

@@NolaJoie insane to leave a door unlocked anywhere, I grew up and to this point have spent my whole life in the hood, whenever I go to someone's house and they leave a door unlocked it blows my mind I've been robbed a few times, it's not a fun thing

[@bmote48]

LIFE DONT SEE SKIN COLOR.... BUT its ALL about IDENTITY IN 2020 🙄

[@jf3130]

Alarm system but no proper door/window protection? Duh

[@petek852]

Puberty Wilson!

[@jgr7097]

Racism is actually classism.

[@utopiafail]

Theo just created the most political correct term for black kids that must be used from now on: Urban Men

[@a.k.4o]

Thats what the news has been calling them for 15 years

[@femalehero420]

Damn, I didn’t realize how much being the only white kid hurt my feelings….. wasn’t like that but kinda…

[@computerstuff8352]

whatsup with normand's ears/earlobe?

[@thomassjstrand1804]

My two very favorite Americans right now, I sometimes feel like the weirdest mixup between these two wackos lol

[@TheBorwig]

I wish I had a beltgun

[@wulfrache]

Those glasses look like they are for protection not eyesight.

[@3500Linxx]

N word rich 😂😂

[@dboyagod]

Mark Normands stories make him sound like he used to be the janitor at a middle school white power club.

[@amalaugustine3266]

He was a janitor lol

[@DylanHughesPhotoVideo]

Who is this? James Dean!?!?

[@carlgustav3783]

so we got robbed again 💀

[@michaelbarron7400]

Sounds like a typical NOLA upbringing. 😂