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This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von

What happened this past weekend. And sometimes what happened on other days.

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Books Mentioned in This Podcast

Dylan goes electric!

Dylan goes electric!

by Elijah Wald

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The film's taken from Elijah Wald's Dylan Goes Electric, a book that came out in 2015! It's a fantastic retelling of events from the early sixties that led up to the fiasco at Newport! After you see the movie, read the book!

Episode: Timothée Chalamet | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #551

Angela's Ashes

Angela's Ashes

by Frank McCourt

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And I read his—and I read the guy, you know, Frank McCourt? I read he has one called 'Tis' that's his second book! Frank McCourt, so Angela's Ashes was his time in Ireland till he was 19, and then at 19 he moved to New York City in like the 50s!

Episode: Matt McCusker | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #544

Confessions

Confessions

by Augustine of Hippo

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I have books I wrote about anger, and one addresses how to deal with angry people. It explains where anger comes from and how to manage it when interacting with others online or in person.

Episode: Anger Professor Dr. Ryan Martin | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #543

The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Um, I just reread 'The Brothers Karamazov' last year because he has such a deep understanding of the human soul—the darkness and the lightness, both. Yeah, of the human soul—um, it’s fascinating.

Episode: Dr. Gabor Maté | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #538

The Body Keeps the Score

The Body Keeps the Score

by Bessel A. Van der Kolk

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But I find that there's a limit to where talking therapy can go, and that is trauma that's stored in the body, which you're not even consciously aware of. Have you heard of that book, 'The Body Keeps the Score'? Yeah, it was written in the '70s, but it's back on the bestseller list, which gives me hope that more people are realizing that, since the pandemic, we have trauma stored in our bodies.

Episode: Dr. Tara Swart | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #532

The Fellowship of the Ring

The Fellowship of the Ring

by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Christina Scull

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I think like I love Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and all that stuff purely because I think being Irish you kind of grow up loving those things. Yeah, definitely, I would hate to be without that.

Episode: Dermot Kennedy | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #528

The Dirt

The Dirt

by Neil Strauss

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And that movie was about the book, The Dirt book. They said it was pretty true to form, a lot of it.

Episode: Tommy Lee | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #522

Barack Obama in his own words

Barack Obama in his own words

by Barack Obama

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There were many tries for peace treaties, but Obama said it best in his book. He said the problem with Israel and Palestine is that one of them is very strong and one side is very weak, and there's nothing that compels me to give you land.

Episode: Bassem Youssef | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #521

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank redemption

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank redemption

by Stephen King

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He’s like, 'Oh look in this baby doll, what's in there? A picture of Andy Dufresne?' I mean, he's got guns and a printer.

Episode: Shane Gillis | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #478

Lord of Flies

Lord of Flies

by William Golding

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It's like I'm just like, I don't know, probably like some Lord of The Fly or whatever!

Episode: NYC Garbage Man | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #467

1984

1984

by George Orwell

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It would be— I think it would bring in, and has already in China, I think it'll bring in a totalitarian tyranny so 100% complete that it would make George Orwell's 1984 look like a picnic.

Episode: Jordan Peterson | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #460

Nancy Drew 40

Nancy Drew 40

by Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson

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What are you–is that Nancy Drew over here?

Episode: Mark Normand | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #454

The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Even if you call them like, 'Hey, listen to me read a little bit of this stuff that I wrote,' and you just read like the first chapter of, like, The Scarlet Letter to them. Yeah, they would love that.

Episode: Adam Devine | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #451

The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

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Yeah, you can adapt, you can adjust! Have you ever read Grapes of Wrath, dude? That book was a half chapter away from them eating a bowl of boiled placenta!

Episode: Duncan Trussell | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #449

Outliers

Outliers

by Malcolm Gladwell

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That's not the name of the book. No that was Outliers my book got Outliers. I always remind somebody to kind of that would probably be that.

Episode: Malcolm Gladwell | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #446

Soul Boom

Soul Boom

by Rainn Wilson

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Anyways, I talk about it in my book because I feel like it's a metaphor for spirituality. In spirituality, we're walking around the crazy chaotic old West that’s aggressive and violent.

Episode: Rainn Wilson | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #442

Soul Boom

Soul Boom

by Rainn Wilson

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That’s what I kind of derived from the beginning of your book. I think I read like 23 pages of it maybe.

Episode: Rainn Wilson | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #442

Soul Boom

Soul Boom

by Rainn Wilson

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I know you talked some about in your book about how some of the things...

Episode: Rainn Wilson | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #442

Soul Boom

Soul Boom

by Rainn Wilson

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I talk about this later on in the book. I talk a lot about how systems are broken.

Episode: Rainn Wilson | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #442

Soul Boom

Soul Boom

by Rainn Wilson

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And I think because things aren't working out so well and we see big problems and people are turning, and this is what 'Soul Boom' is about.

Episode: Rainn Wilson | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #442

Soul Boom

Soul Boom

by Rainn Wilson

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At the end of my book, I have a chapter called 'Seven Pillars for a Spiritual Revolution.'

Episode: Rainn Wilson | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #442

Study Guide

Study Guide

by SuperSummary

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Like they have what is in like the big book of alcoholism, you know what I'm talking about? Yeah, yes, they have the disease of alcoholism.

Episode: John Mulaney | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #440

The Basketball diaries

The Basketball diaries

by Jim Carroll

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I think Michael Landon stays up with the kid who's on opium and sweats it out. It's like Basketball Diaries level. It really is, in the middle of whatever the hell else used to happen on that show, cook and stew or whatever in Walnut Grove.

Episode: John Mulaney | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #440

To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

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You can't just do it; if you call any place, they say you can do it, or you can't—everybody can't call and put up a peach tree for somebody who died like Boo Radley or whoever, because then it would just be all trees.

Episode: Man In Here | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #438

Can't Hurt Me

Can't Hurt Me

by David Goggins

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Sorry, man, I've been watching some David Goggins videos. I think I was trying to bring you back, dude!

Episode: Caleb Pressley | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #436

Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh

by A. A. Milne

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They could have walked off into the sunset, and after that we don't really know. We're missing a few chapters. AAA Milne let us down.

Episode: James Blake | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #424

The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book

by Rudyard Kipling

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Oh yeah, look, I'll tell you this man, The Jungle Book, it ain't a book, it's a damn librarian, son.

Episode: Merry Lloyd Christmas | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #423

Pet Sematary

Pet Sematary

by Stephen King

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It’s like the cat in Pet Sematary that comes back to life; those things are a poor substitute for the original. You can replace these things, but there will always be unintended consequences, whether you're talking about rent control, minimum wage, or Zoom learning for school.

Episode: Mike Rowe | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #416

Sinner's Creed

Sinner's Creed

by Scott Stapp

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It's called 'Sinner's Creed.' Now, it’s a little censored because it was with a Christian publisher.

Episode: Scott Stapp | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #412

Hamlet

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

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I was reading this book about soldiers in World War II, and they were at the point where they knew they were in a situation where they were going to die. There were no ifs, ands, or buts—they knew they were gonna die.

Episode: Rail Baby | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #409

The Polar Express Gift Set

The Polar Express Gift Set

by Chris Van Allsburg

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You'd walk into the general store, and man, when you opened the door to that store, it was frosty in there. You could see the polar express go by in the distance.

Episode: Albuquerque | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #396

Man's Search for Meaning

Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl

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Sorry, this isn't like everybody's just on a Zoom, we're just listening to some book on tape. There's a shaman and he's like kind of leading the charge.

Episode: Return Vibes | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #379

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

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Bah-Humbug is like a famous saying from ‘A Christmas Carol.’ That's like when you stub your toe and you're like, 'Bah-Humbug!' Or if somebody like stole something from you, you'd be like, 'Humbug!'

Episode: Trevor Wallace | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #376

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

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I remember I was really—so I think said that to Robinson Crusoe! I think he said that! Okay, I saw it on the back of a Kid Rock t-shirt, but do you really know?

Episode: Trevor Wallace | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #376

The Body Keeps the Score

The Body Keeps the Score

by Bessel A. Van der Kolk

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Um, but yeah, I started reading a book, it's a famous one called 'The Body Keeps the Score', and it's basically the premise is about how trauma is stored in our bodies.

Episode: Blair Socci | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #375

Through the Looking-Glass

Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll, Lewis Carroll, Lily Mathew, Lewis Lewis Carroll

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And I grew up a fan of KISS in the 70s. And KISS did that in comic books, in Marvel Comics. They made a KISS comic book and all the members of the band put their blood into the ink vat.

Episode: Tony Hawk & Jason Ellis | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #373

Bible

Bible

by Bible

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Oh, look, these days we're in corvette times, we're in the last chapter of the Bible, I feel like. And I don’t know what it is, Ephesians or whatever, you know?

Episode: Swipe Society | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #363