Theo Von's drinking answer sends Josh Brolin into laughter

Theo Rogan Shorts' podcast excerpt passes a million views before its first half-day, with a calendar joke drawing attention.

Channel: Theo Rogan Shorts Story of October 14, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 2,065,287 views a day, 16 times a normal first day on this channel (130,842).

Theo Von Had Him Losing It 😂

Josh Brolin asks a straightforward question: "What were you like when you were drunk?" Theo Von answers with a description that immediately has his guest laughing: "When I drank, I was like somebody that was going to get cocaine."

That exchange has brought Theo Rogan Shorts roughly 1.4 million views in eleven hours. This is a clips channel sharing an excerpt from Von's podcast conversation, not a new interview produced by the channel.

Von explains that drinking gave him an excuse to seek cocaine. Brolin responds that drinking could make it feel as though there was no longer a choice. Then Von stretches the idea into a joke about how little justification he needed: even spotting Easter months away on a calendar could become a reason.

The comments are already more than seven times as numerous as on the channel's usual full first day. Viewers keep returning to the calendar line and Brolin's laughter; others recognize the actor through The Goonies and his role as Marvel's Thanos. The contrast is specific to this conversation: a guest asking about Von's past habits gets an explanation, then a wildly unrelated calendar excuse.

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The numbers

The excerpt has already drawn an unusually large audience for the channel's Shorts. Its comment count has also passed the usual full first-day total several times over.

the video's first day

usual first day here

130,842

this video

2,065,287

subscribers

364,000

▲ 11,000 in the last 7 days

total views

1,908,404,220

views per day

16,531,908

typical day: 9,441,793

the video

views

1,365,143

likes

51,105

comments

940

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Pitch Side

391,000

Fear&

387,000

Westen Champlin Podcast

383,000

Side Dish

372,000

Theo Rogan Shorts

364,000

On with Kara Swisher

358,000

As of October 14, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.