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

Bus Boys and a personal check-in | This Past Weekend #646 Source-based notes from automatic captions. Memories, estimates, jokes and future plans stay attributed; no independent personal, political, legal or medical verification is implied. 1. 10:25 - Checking the magnet is his description of making space. Theo says he is taking a break from dating to focus on himself and his relationship with a higher power. The image becomes a way to ask what he is drawn toward and whether he wants to change. He describes being hopeful, while admitting that following through can feel frightening. This is his personal reflection, without assigning a diagnosis or prescribing a solution to listeners. 2. 18:15 - Not every silence means indifference. Responding to requests that he cover more issues, Theo explains that he sometimes lacks enough information, feels overloaded, or already has guests arranged for a different conversation. He wants room to learn and to meet responsibilities to people around him. The later political claims remain his opinions and predictions, rather than independently verified conflict reporting or legal analysis here. 3. 30:57 - Probably seven years is the source estimate for his busboy experience. Theo remembers different restaurant jobs and later says that he and David Spade had both worked as busboys in Arizona. He sees their shared desert restaurant experience as common ground for the film. His separate claim to a top-seven ranking south of Phoenix is comic self-promotion, not a documented industry leaderboard. 4. 33:48 - The last tub carries some sympathy. Theo describes knowing how exhausted the dishwasher is when one more load arrives. Sometimes he would swap in so the coworker could take a break, turning the arrangement into the World Washing Federation. It is a wrestling-style joke about shared work, with appreciation for the person doing the hot, messy job. It does not turn the restaurant shift into actual military service. 5. 38:19 - The friendship came before the movie. Theo says he met David Spade through a Comedy Store connection, remembers receiving a Joe Dirt hat, and recalls Spade bringing gasoline when he ran out. He jokes about initially treating Joe Dirt like a documentary and connects its feeling with his own childhood loneliness. The roadside near-miss remains a recollection; he explicitly does not know whether the possible collision would have been fatal. 6. 42:02 - Putting their own money in changed the project. Theo says they had trouble finding the backing they wanted and eventually financed the film themselves. The account is about deciding to act after writing and meetings, without establishing exact ownership percentages or an audited production ledger. He credits friends, cast and crew elsewhere in the episode, so doing it themselves does not mean that only two people made every part of the movie. 7. 43:17 - The first set made the emails tangible. Theo remembers the writing sessions and planning, then arriving to trailers, crew and other actors on the first filming day. That was when the project finally felt real to him. He also describes the editing process as full of choices, and admits there are things he would adjust with what he learned. Pride in finishing sits alongside uncertainty about whether audiences will like it. 8. 44:42 - About three million dollars, or something, is how he puts the budget. That uncertainty stays attached to the number rather than becoming a precise audited cost. Theo calls the experience the most expensive education he has had and says he learned a great deal about how he would work next time. The film premise he gives is two men trying to become waiters, with love stories alongside the restaurant ambition. 9. 49:01 - The first filming day shifted by a week. Theo recalls roughly two days notice because of fires in California. The source is imprecise about the broader date, so no exact production or fire chronology is invented here. He describes the movie as lighthearted and goofy, and hopes a successful release could help them make other projects, including ones in which they would not necessarily star. 10. 50:53 - The rollout is described as an experiment. Theo thinks an initial group of about a hundred theaters could expand if those screenings sell. That is his estimate and a conditional plan, not proof of the eventual screen count or current ticket availability. In the same stretch he acknowledges how much time editing took and how many decisions were involved. His view of critics is comic defiance, not an actual review score. 11. 54:10 - Restaurant calls arrive with different levels of certainty. Jacob, Charlie, Ryan, Jackson, Ethan, an unnamed caller and Jason V contribute memories. Ryan tells a secondhand-oyster story; Ethan says he understood why his lightly used barback position disappeared. Theo explicitly doubts Jackson's pancake-and-assault account, so it is not presented as an established crime. Private relatives and sexual material involving a remembered minor are not expanded into profiles or graphic detail. 12. 1:11:05 - A story changes the ending mood. After Jason V describes a winding work history and says he later became an Army National Guard recruiter, Theo thanks him and says a good story restored some hope. The career remains a caller account, without independently certifying military records. Theo finishes with being good to yourself and asking whether you can get through today instead of trying to answer for an entire lifetime. Navigation and bonus moments (source timestamps; callers and recorded material labeled): 0:00 - Solo opening: St. Patrick's Day 3:09 - Source browser reading about St. Patrick; legend distinguished 7:23 - Albuquerque basketball visit and Frontier meal 8:45 - Bus Boys voicemail callout 10:25 - Dating break and checking the magnet 13:11 - Trevan responds to personal check-in 17:18 - Why some audience-requested subjects go uncovered 20:27 - Political opinions and concerns, not independently verified here 28:22 - El Modelo visit and welcoming staff 29:46 - St. Patrick reading revisited 30:57 - Busboy career recollections 33:48 - Dishwasher tag team 34:46 - Source-announced film and ticket dates 36:06 - Why performing standup mattered 38:19 - David Spade friendship and Joe Dirt hat 40:16 - Writing during the pandemic and gasoline memory 40:54 - Shared Arizona busboy experience 42:02 - Financing the project themselves 43:17 - First day on set 44:42 - Approximate budget and education metaphor 45:43 - Cast mentioned; not current episode guests 47:17 - Movie premise: trying to become waiters 49:01 - Source-reported filming delay 49:57 - Future projects hoped for 50:53 - Contingent theater rollout 52:31 - Audience busboy calls begin 53:24 - Solo episodes and audience connection 54:10 - Jacob voicemail: restaurant memory; sensitive details omitted 57:26 - Charlie voicemail: food and doing the job well 58:33 - Ryan voicemail: secondhand oyster story 1:02:19 - Jackson voicemail: pancake story explicitly doubted 1:04:04 - Ethan Anderson voicemail: barback role eliminated 1:05:47 - Unnamed caller voicemail: unusual lost item 1:06:46 - Theo recalls items left under tables 1:08:22 - Jason V voicemail: winding work history 1:11:19 - Thanks to Jason and story restores hope 1:11:50 - Closing St. Patrick's Day and green-chile callback 1:12:27 - Be good to yourselves and focus on today 1:13:16 - Gang gang and final green-chile callback 1:13:20 - Recorded outro music