This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von

@thispastweekendwtheovon · Podcast

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• WNBA Commissioner Engelbert to retire, 2026-10-28
  Plays the Dan Patrick clip on the no-show
  Plays a Dan Patrick clip about Engelbert agreeing to an interview and not showing, with his team waiting almost two hours, then uses it to argue the league needs a spokesperson who answers tough questions. Adds a first-hand account of Engelbert's no-show to the commissioner search story.
• WNBA Commissioner Engelbert to retire, 2026-10-28
  Lists the qualities she wants in a commissioner
  Cunningham confirms Engelbert is on her way out and describes the qualities she wants in the next commissioner, holding up Adam Silver's player relationships as the model. Her own account, with no date pinned down.
• Britney Spears conservatorship, 2026-10-05
  Adds the publishing-rights mafia claim
  Recaps the conservatorship and the June 2021 lithium testimony, then widens into a claim that a Hollywood publishing-rights mafia targets artists who own their catalogs, with Lou Taylor named and Courtney Love cited as a source.
• Dowdle wins Last Soul Ultra, 2026-09-01
  Profiles Egan's record run at the ultra
  Profiles the field at the Last Soul Ultra through Mike Egan, a bilateral amputee and wheelchair user who competed there; reads a Guinness record item on his 152.37 miles in 24 hours and describes Harvey Lewis clearing about 250 rocks from the course for him.
• Dowdle wins Last Soul Ultra, 2026-09-01
  Reads listener hallucination accounts from other races
  Dowdle describes his own race hallucinations - teddy bears in a tree, a middle school of kids high-fiving, trees turning into spiders - and reads listener accounts from UTMB, the North Traverse and a Thames country road. New first-hand detail on the Germany race's nostalgia state.
• Dowdle wins Last Soul Ultra, 2026-09-01
  Details the concrete course and nutrition plan
  Dowdle details race-day logistics: eating something every loop, holding the nutrition plan loosely, and the course itself - an old military base that was 65% concrete, which produced blisters and body fatigue and put one competitor on a helicopter out.
• Dowdle wins Last Soul Ultra, 2026-09-01
  Recaps the travel scramble and race-day logistics
  Dowdle walks through the race-day logistics: the missed Frankfurt connection, the private jet from Amsterdam arranged by race director Kim, and arriving 15 minutes before the start. Also new: the August 14 2 p.m. start, 50-minute loops with five-minute sleeps, and the concrete military-base course.
• Dowdle wins Last Soul Ultra, 2026-09-01
  Walks through the backyard format from inside the race
  Dowdle walks through the backyard format himself - the 4.167-mile loop on the hour, the unknown of when it ends - and adds first-hand detail from inside the race: the hour-60 call to Cody, the crying as release, the tent of friends and wife Lucy.
• Dowdle wins Last Soul Ultra, 2026-09-01
  Introduces Dowdle and explains the backyard format
  Introduces ultramarathoner Mark Dowdle and his win at the Last Soul Ultra in Germany, then has him explain the backyard-ultra format: a 4.167-mile loop every hour until one runner is left.