Candace Owens | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #688

This Past Weekend #688 - Candace Owens and Theo move from family privacy to breakup basil, a restaurant misunderstanding and fish passing in the night. These are the lighter personal stories and wordplay from the conversation. 1. Candace describes expecting her fifth child at the time of recording. She jokes that her previous sequence of visiting Theo and then Tim Dillon was good luck, so she plans to repeat the podcast ritual. It returns near the end as a callback, rather than a claim that podcasts cause childbirth. 2. Keeping the children off the feed is a deliberate choice. Candace says an online presence is a big decision to make for somebody else, and she wants to protect that choice. The clip they watch about strangers recognizing a child is explicitly a comedy sketch, not footage of an actual incident involving her family. 3. The barter economy has a very Theo contribution: breakup basil. Candace offers the idea of trading lettuce or tomatoes; Theo remembers basil a woman left him. The discussion eventually reaches oregano-no. The woman he later mentions meeting at a farmers market is described as a friend, not the same person from the breakup story. 4. Candace recalls her sisters wedding over Zoom. The detail turns the broad conversation into a personal memory of a family occasion taking an unusual form. This is her recollection of the ceremony, rather than a new audit of the surrounding rules or dates. 5. Red Sparrow sends them to two different places. Candace means the film; Theo thinks of a restaurant. Candace clarifies that nothing bad happened at the restaurant; Theo apologizes for the mix-up. The joke is the mistaken association, not an accusation about a real business. 6. Fish passing in the night sounds almost right. Theo substitutes fish for ships, gets the correction, and Candace points out that fish can also pass one another. It soon becomes the fishing observation about casting toward the middle from the bank and toward the bank from a boat. 7. An old police-officer photo gets its class-project context. Candace says it came from a satirical video for a college journalism class about campus Adderall. She describes playing a role in that production; it is not a claim that she served as a police officer or evidence that the fictional events happened. 8. Theo invents calves for Christ in the moment. Candace wants to know which pocket of the internet he inhabits and says she wants his algorithm. The phrase belongs to their improvisation here, rather than a newly discovered organization. 9. Theo has a French exception: Annecy. After joking about the French, he calls it his favorite place and recalls a trip with a woman, comparing the town to the movie Chocolat. They explicitly establish that this is not the woman from the basil story. 10. Near the close, Theo raises a question about interviewing somebody he finds concerning: is talking to them the way to ask the difficult questions? Candace favors asking directly. The exchange is about a possible interview and an approach to questioning, not an announced booking or proof of the allegations surrounding that discussion. Conversation timestamps 02:27 - The two-podcast good-luck ritual 05:19 - Keeping children off the public feed 06:52 - The staged privacy sketch 21:46 - Trading vegetables and breakup basil 37:37 - A family wedding over Zoom 52:40 - Red Sparrow: film or restaurant? 58:40 - Fish passing in the night 1:04:09 - The college journalism video 1:19:15 - Theos invented phrase and algorithm 1:24:54 - The Annecy exception 2:12:24 - Whether to ask difficult questions in an interview 2:14:42 - The leggings joke 2:15:33 - The podcast-ritual callback 2:19:57 - Closing thanks Which detour stayed with you: the basil, the fish, or the Red Sparrow mix-up?