#595 - Dr. David Linden

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von

Theo Von

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4.8 • 24.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Dr. David Linden, Ph.D., is an author and professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. He has written several popular books on the brain including his latest, “Unique: The New Science of Human Individuality.” Dr. Linden joins Theo to talk about some of the science behind our motivations as human beings, what actually makes a person unique, and how receiving his own terminal cancer diagnosis affected the way he thinks about mortality. Dr. David Linden: https://www.instagram.com/dlinden410/ Dr. Linden’s book “Unique: The New Science of Human Individuality.” https://a.co/d/5lF7uc3 ------------------------------------------------ Tour Dates! https://theovon.com/tour New Merch: https://www.theovonstore.com ------------------------------------------------- Sponsored By: Celsius: Go to the Celsius Amazon store to check out all of their flavors. #CELSIUSBrandPartner #CELSIUSLiveFit https://amzn.to/3HbAtPJ Blue Chew: Get your first month of BlueChew FREE at http://bluechew.com with promo code THEO! Better Help: This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp - go to http://betterhelp.com/theo to get 10% off your first month. Valor Recovery: To learn more about Valor Recovery please visit them at https://valorrecoverycoaching.com or email them at [email protected] ------------------------------------------------- Music: “Shine” by Bishop Gunn Bishop Gunn - Shine ------------------------------------------------ Submit your funny videos, TikToks, questions and topics you'd like to hear on the podcast to: [email protected] Hit the Hotline: 985-664-9503 Video Hotline for Theo Upload here: https://www.theovon.com/fan-upload Send mail to: This Past Weekend 1906 Glen Echo Rd PO Box #159359 Nashville, TN 37215 ------------------------------------------------ Find Theo: Website: https://theovon.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/theovon Facebook: https://facebook.com/theovon Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thispastweekend Twitter: https://twitter.com/theovon YouTube: https://youtube.com/theovon Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheoVonClips Shorts Channel: https://bit.ly/3ClUj8z ------------------------------------------------ Producer: Zach https://www.instagram.com/zachdpowers Producer: Trevyn https://www.instagram.com/trevyn.s/ Producer: Nick https://www.instagram.com/realnickdavis/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	We're getting into the final shows for the return of the rat tour. Gosh, this red is
0:35.3	almost fully returned.
0:44.6	July 9th will be in Philadelphia, Rochester, New York on July 10th.
0:46.3	Then we're in Detroit after that.
0:53.2	Moving on, we're in Los Angeles, Anaheim at the Honda Center and Oceanside, California.
0:57.0	You can get all your tickets at TheovVon.com slash T-O-U-R, and just thank you so much for your support. Today's guest is a neuroscientist.
1:05.3	He's an author and a professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
1:17.1	He's written books about addiction, love, death, and what it means to be human.
1:19.5	I'm really grateful for his time.
1:22.2	Today's guest is David Lyndon. I love on me. And I will find a song.
1:29.3	I'll sing as a song.
1:31.3	Yeah.
1:32.3	David, are you physically comfortable in here? Yeah, sure. Is it too hot or cold for you? No, it's just fine. It is. Yeah. Okay. And I'm happy to see that my actual name is there. It's not just brain researcher or
1:49.8	something generic. No, no, no. We only do that. Sometimes we'll do that if it's, uh, every now and then we
1:56.0	try to get like regular folks out of society in. And sometimes we try to keep that kind of gen a little bit generic.
2:02.9	Well, you know, my wife was teasing me, of course. She said, oh, yeah. Like, so you're going on there
2:08.4	and there's been like President Trump and Bernie Sanders and David Spade. And then some scientists
2:15.8	nobody's ever heard of. Like, you know, like, who doesn't
2:18.6	fit in this picture? And so I had imagined, you know, brain guy. Well, look, we're happy to have
2:28.7	you, man. We're happy to have you. Neuroscientist David Linden, right? That's me. Okay.
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