Theo Von says he fell out of his program, now 46 days sober

Theo Von counted it out loud on his solo This Past Weekend #684. "I got 45 days right now, 46," he said, which is the kind of correction you only make when you are actually keeping track. He said the reset came after he fell out of his AA program work, stopped his contact with God and stopped working with his sponsor.

That is the part that makes this different from a milestone post, and we noted the day count earlier. Von is not announcing a win, he is naming the three things he quietly let go of first. He said sharing it has been a saving grace for him.

The episode around it

The rest of #684 is Von alone with a microphone and a lot of tabs open. He spends a long stretch on a bad haircut that made him angrier than he expected, saying the guy cut it a way he did not want, that he lost two inches at once, and that he called his buddy Shane about it. Shane is bald, which Von thinks is worth mentioning.

Then there is the camper trip, 3,000 miles through Kentucky, Iowa, Illinois and Michigan with his buddies Bizzle and Zeta in a broken-down rental that kept shedding parts. Von says the thing looked like a bunch of high school kids had put it together, and that they left a third of it somewhere on the interstate.

Gaza and Macklemore

The tone shifts hard into an extended monologue on the Gaza conflict and on Macklemore being removed from the Ed Sheeran tour. Von said Macklemore lost his job because he spoke up, and called what is happening probably the biggest atrocity witnessed in his lifetime. He was careful about who he was aiming at, saying he meant the Israeli government and not the people of Israel or Jewish people, and that the government has turned Gaza into a video game for killing people. On the argument that casualties are Hamas fighters, he pointed at the ages, saying a four month old could not even walk into a Hamas office and sign up.

The calls carry the back half. One listener talks about stealing a stained glass Jesus from a childhood home now owned by Spanish speakers. Jamie, 40, is worried about his daughter starting middle school in poverty. Then Rick from New Jersey calls in with 12 years sober, a cancer diagnosis, a recent baby loss and a new baby on the way, and the two of them end up talking about how you stay sober when everything is too much at once. Von, 46 days in, is on the other end of that one.