#664 - Crooners Welcome
⏱ 64 min listen · ~3 min read
Peak solo Theo: the crooner bit and rodeo reverence are the comedy, but the live call to a newly five-years-sober listener is the real payoff.
Key takeaways
- 01Theo Von sang with Ella Langley at Stagecoach and decided he is not a singer but a crooner, the guy who comes in at the end and does the baseboards.
- 02Theo Von traces rodeo to 16th-century Mexican vaquero cattle culture, with one of the earliest cowboy contests at Deer Trail, Colorado in 1864.
- 03Theo Von's answer to a caller jealous of his girlfriend's past: holding old history against a partner was his own way of keeping one foot out.
- 04DC Blocks plans a data center beside the Nashville Zoo and an elementary school, and Nashville's Metro Council has passed a temporary moratorium.
Chapters
0:00 · The greasy al pastor bit6:34 · Stagecoach with Ella Langley; the crooner thesis10:24 · Debunking his own death hoax11:52 · Two rodeos: Franklin and Music City15:54 · Bronc riding, barrel racing, riders named like injuries19:48 · Rodeo's 16th-century vaquero origins+8 more
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#654 - Something New
⏱ 69 min listen · ~3 min read
The middle 20 minutes are Theo with no bit running — a genuinely vulnerable, half-formed attempt to describe changing your own story that lands harder than most polished recovery talk.
Key takeaways
- 01Theo Von frames the episode around wanting something new, after the Busboys opening weekend and the last Rat Tour dates in Lexington.
- 02Supercross trucks 26 million pounds of dirt into Nissan Stadium for one event and stores it around town between races.
- 03Von tells Alex, 331 days sober and driving to Los Angeles at 5 a.m., that the city holds one of the best recovery communities in the world.
- 04Theo Von's current prayer is aimed at the resistance itself, asking for help in the part of him that knows, while praying, that he is lying.
Chapters
0:00 · Thank-yous for the Busboys opening weekend2:30 · Lexington shows and the end of the Rat Tour3:52 · Bees on spring break and the itch for something new5:11 · First trip to Supercross at Nissan Stadium10:28 · 26 million pounds of dirt and the storage-rental pitch13:01 · Stepdad's birthday at Mandeville Seafood+9 more
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#646 - Hey Patty!!
⏱ 75 min listen · ~3 min read
The making-of-Busboys story is a genuinely candid account of self-funding a movie after everyone said no, and the busboy voicemails — especially the secondhand oyster — are the show at its funniest.
Key takeaways
- 01Busboys, the movie Theo Von wrote and self-funded with David Spade, opens April 17, with tickets on sale March 16 at busboysmovie.com.
- 02Directors, agencies and studios all passed on Busboys, so Theo Von and David Spade put up the roughly $3 million budget and shot it themselves.
- 03The Busboys cast includes Tim Dillon, Nate Diaz and Jay Pharoah, and the shoot lost its first day to the California fires.
- 04Theo Von and David Spade bonded over both having bussed tables in Arizona and wrote the script together starting during COVID.
Chapters
0:00 · Hey Patty: a St. Patrick's Day origin story2:33 · Looking up who St. Patrick actually was5:09 · Albuquerque: green chilies and one-story houses10:32 · Check-in: a break from dating, a stalled prayer life18:19 · Why he doesn't speak on every cause20:55 · Theo's fear about the US relationship with Israel+9 more
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