Theo Von Gets Emotional as He Reflects on the Horrors Out of Gaza: ‘Been Making Me Really Sick’

Comedian Theo Von got emotional on his podcast as he pushed himself to talk more about what he described as a “genocide” going on in Gaza.

On his This Past Weekend podcast, Von said seeing the destruction and lives lost in the war between Israel and Hamas has left him “sick.” Von has broken down on his podcast before when discussing the children who are among the thousands that have been killed in Gaza.

“It just feels to be like it’s a genocide that’s happening while we’re alive here,” Von said.

The comedian, a fairly regular guest on Joe Rogan’s podcast, admitted he does not know the basics of the issues over there,” but the images of people killed or injured while caught in the midst of the conflict have been weighing on him.

Von said:

I feel like you see all these photos of people…just children, women, people, body parts, just people, like, putting their kids back together. And I just can’t believe that we’re watching that and that more isn’t said about it. And so I’m not saying anyone else needs to say anything, but I think I’m just that more isn’t set about it by me. So I just want be able to speak up about that, that I think we’re watching probably, like, you know, one of the sickest things that’s ever happened. And I’m sorry, if I kind of haven’t said [enough] about it, I’ve tried to talk about it and learn about it. But I don’t know, maybe I just want to — I just wanted to say something. I don’t even know what to do.

The United States, he argued, is “complicit” in what’s happening through its support of Israel.

“It’s just like been making me really sick and I feel like I just needed to say something that, I think, you don’t have to think that,” Von said. “I’m not asking you to do anything, but I’d just have to say that so I’m not sitting by, you know, there’s that peace inside of me, like, why wouldn’t you — can you say something?”

Watch above via This Past Weekend.