Hey Patty!! | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #646

TL;DR

Theo Von celebrates St. Patrick's Day with personal reflections, promotes his self-funded movie 'Bus Boys' with David Spade, and takes calls from former bus boys.

Key Points

• 1.- Theo shares a childhood memory of a girl named Patty who would dress up and wear lipstick just to take out the garbage, smiling shyly at neighborhood boys calling out to her
• 2.- He looked up St. Patrick on Perplexity: a 5th-century British Christian missionary captured at 16 by Irish raiders, enslaved for 6 years herding animals, then returned to convert Ireland to Christianity
• 3.- Theo visited Albuquerque to watch his friend Diego's sister Abby Pavia play in a New Mexico state basketball tournament at the Pit (University of New Mexico arena); her team won one game but lost the second
• 4.- He ate at Frontier restaurant and El Modello near the Albuquerque airport, describing the city as predominantly Latino, heavily construction-oriented, and almost entirely single-story buildings
• 5.- Theo reveals he is taking a break from dating and interacting with women to focus on himself and his relationship with his 'higher power,' describing himself as a magnet that needs recalibrating
• 6.- He disclosed to his therapist that he struggles to consistently pray and do all self-care tasks, theorizing he fears that doing everything right will force him to change; he also slipped on a pornography/masturbation streak after reaching 4-5 days clean
• 7.- Theo expresses strong criticism of the U.S.-Israel relationship, calling Israeli political leaders a 'satanic regime' obsessed with bloodlust, warning that America's association with attacks on Gaza will have domestic consequences
• 8.- The movie 'Bus Boys,' co-written and self-funded by Theo Von and David Spade, releases April 17th; tickets go on sale March 16th at busboysmov.com with an initial rollout of ~100 theaters
• 9.- Theo and David Spade bonded over both having worked as bus boys in Arizona (Theo at a Sam Fox restaurant in Tucson, Spade in Phoenix), wrote the movie during COVID, were rejected by Hollywood agencies and directors, and funded it themselves on roughly a $3 million budget
• 10.- The cast includes Tim Dylan, Nate Diaz, Chris Aila, Jay Pharaoh, Trevor Wallace, Jimmy Gonzalez, Michelle Ortiz, Lindseay Normington, Thiago Martinez, Steve Little, Sky Brie, and Brent Morren
• 11.- Caller Jacob from Cincinnati, a former high-end restaurant bus boy, recounted a customer's husband asking his age (16) and then backing off, implying the couple wanted him to have sex with the wife because he was a redhead