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brandon wenerd

@brandonwenerd.bsky.social
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idiot writer who hasn’t had a real job since 2009 publisher / partner: brobible dot com podcast: The Mostly Occasionally Show live in LA, from PA. music, sports, and cultural weirdness. Enjoys Phish, the Grateful Dead, & the Philadelphia Eagles.

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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Over on my Substack, I wrote about the state of rock n’ roll, which seems far better off than the naysayers think at this moment in time. Thanks for checking it out 🤘🚨👇👇 thewenerdweekly.substack.com/p/please-sto...
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Going to see THEE OSEES tonight for the first time in a couple of years. Stoked for screaming guitars and high pitched mic yelping! 🤘
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Maybe I should start posting on this website again…? Idk! Making stuff on the Internet for a living is confusing these days. But I just wanted to drop in to let y’all know I have a long yap video coming out soon with one of my all time favorite guitar players, the great Derek Trucks!
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thank you so much, Roses! Appreciate you reading it!
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thank you so much!
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Sprout 🌱 (noun/verb) @growbabygrow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Case for putting more of yourself into everything you make #BMFS @brandonwenerd.bsky.social thewenerdweekly.substack.com/p/billy-stri...
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Billy Strings and the Superpower of Wearing Your Heart on Your Sleeve
The case for putting more of yourself into everything you make.
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Unbelievably cool night in Los Angeles seeing Marc Maron and friends do a benefit show for The Divided Sky Foundation, complete with a Trey Anastasio acoustic mini-set.
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
It’s all good! I understand the confusion. I know I could have just set a new email up, but, ugh… the digital housekeeping of making sure everything is porting over was daunting then, and even more so now!
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
(B. After I started applying to jobs with that clunky Gmail, I was worried I wouldn’t get forwarded timely stuff. Plus at that point, I was using it for social media accounts etc. So eventually I just kept the weird string of my initials & numbers assigned to me so I didn’t have to make changes.
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I set up forwarding from my PSU email to my Gmail, and then just kept the format because (A. It logged all my old course m emails with my personal and other professional stuff, and I didn’t want to lose access to that inbox.
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Hi! That’s me! In high school, I had a Hotmail & Yahoo email and it felt deeply unserious. My @psu.edu email felt earned, but the web interface was horrible. So when I set up my Gmail a few months later (bc finally, lots of storage), using the exact address as my psu.edu address felt professional.
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The Pennsylvania State University
Penn State is a Pennsylvania-based, top-ranked public university that educates students worldwide. Learn more about Penn State degree programs and research.
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
A clip from my Warren Haynes interview. I thought the way he articulated the difference between the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers Band was profound. Such a great way of putting it. Here’s the full interview on YT: youtu.be/YCQ6_r9axl4?...
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
My interview w/ the great Warren Haynes is now live on the BroBible Youtube! We talk about his first-ever solo tour, the difference between playing in The Allmans & The Dead, his favorite guitar (that he doesn't tour with), playing w/ Steely Dan, & more. 👇👇 youtu.be/YCQ6_r9axl4
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Had a wonderful afternoon yapping it up with one of my musician heroes, the legendary Warren Haynes! We covered a lot of ground: Allmans, ‘Mule, The Dead, Steely Dan, “Soulshine”, the Tales Of Ordinary Madness remaster that just came out, and his FIRST EVER solo tour! Full chat on YouTube soon.
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
55+ things I did in 2025 ⤵️⤵️ open.substack.com/pub/thewener...
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Talked to Glenn Howerton about one of the greatest bands of all time…. WEEN! We also talked about bringing back the lost art of hanging out with your friends. Video clips on my Instagram, and full conversation on my Substack. Happy holidays y’all! substack.com/@brandonwene... youtu.be/6xUm2oQjcSo
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Glenn Howerton Wants You To Hang Out With Your Friends More
My conversation with Glenn Howerton ('Always Sunny') on screen addiction, the genius of Ween, and the lost art of the hang.
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Wrote about an extremely cool record store day find on my Substack. 👇 thewenerdweekly.substack.com/p/promotiona...
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Gotta tell someone at UNC now that there’s no space between the Bro and Bible in BroBible, amateur hour over there
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Lmao of course they were
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I was bored so I wrote about Phish’s Mike Gordon telling Rick Rubin about Mike Says No. brobible.com/culture/arti...
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Phish Bassist Mike Gordon Tells Rick Rubin The Real Origin Story Of 'Mike Says No'
It is one of the deepest, most persistent bits of Phish fan lore, a piece of fan-generated mythology on par with the Secret Language, or the great "Tarp
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Talked to Chris Benchetler, the art-world’s favorite pro skier and the ski-world’s favorite Deadhead, about his latest Dead collab, Mountains of the Moon. For the film, Mickey Hart came to Mammoth, and they built "his huge ice sculpture stage for him to play drums on." brobible.com/culture/arti...
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
here’s a big dumb thing I wrote on my mess of a Substack about turning 40, apropos of absolutely nothing. ok! bye! thewenerdweekly.substack.com/p/my-40th-bi...
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Pretty sure this scene in E2 of HBO's The Chair Company may have been the hardest I've laughed at a TV show all year.
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David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 18/10/2025
Here's the full scoop: www.foiaball.com/p/holiday-bo...
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The Holiday Bowl tried to relocate this year's game to Saudi Arabia
Documents show the Holiday Bowl floated playing in Jeddah.
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
you also have to hedge for the trash talk.
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
there’s a whole younger generation of Philly sports fans experiencing the ole Philly sports doom cycle right now. Just gotta laugh through the tears.
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
That really means a lot, thank you so much for reading.
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Talked to Derek Trucks the other week about rare bourbon, football, and drinking with Buddy Guy before shows. brobible.com/culture/arti...
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Yeah. Definitely think you spotted some kind of bad labeling. Just to be petty about being correct… 😎
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I’m pretty sure those cans are $2.49 and this is just a misprint. I buy the sparkling one often. I love that Mt. Shasta magic water. And I’ve never paid anywhere near that much for it.
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Went on a major deep dive into the music catalog of Chuck Prophet this weekend. Wasn’t really all that familiar with his work and caliber of songwriting, but am now fully convinced he’s the California Mark Knopfler.
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
going through some really old emails for a project, and I found this glorious photo of Bob Weir from the time The Dead played at Penn State in October 2008.
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
how’s it going over here, y’all good?
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I can’t fully explain why, but football season is undoubtedly the best time of year to listen to studio widespread panic albums.
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BroBible @brobible.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The idea that Donnie isn’t real has been floating around the Internet for a while. The gist is that the ill-fated Donnie is just a figment of Walter Sobchak’s imagination... Jeff Bridges spoke on this at a special #BigLebowski screening. via @brandonwenerd.bsky.social -- brobible.com/culture/arti...
picture of Jeff Bridges and Steve Buscemi from The Big Lebowski
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
i wrote about the cocaine hippo problem in colombia and what wildlife biologists are trying to do to trying to fix it. brobible.com/culture/arti...
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Pablo Escobar's Hippos Are Out of Control In Colombia, and Forrest Galante Is Trying to Fix It
Here at BroBible, we’ve been tracking the cocaine hippos saga for a long time. I first wrote about them back in 2009 for AOL News, when there were just 27
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Kraftwek going Type 2 at Coachella is some real cool shit.
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
prosciutto money!
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
heading to Aspen next week for a little skiing. but have two podcast about to drop, with Frankie Muniz and Adam Richman. Also, I made some new YouTube avi art. 2025 is my content slop engagement hack era. Also, I have no clue what platform to post on anymore! youtube.com/@mostlyoccas...
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The culture war is a lost cause—noble, but futile to expect compassion or dialogue in this climate. The best way to fight brain rot is with brain rot (it’s a vibe), alongside clear, actionable strategies for the left to help people build real wealth and regain power—w/o resorting to Pelosism.
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
a neighbor is giving away some books.
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
when you meet the captain at formal night on the cruise
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
the brutalist director out here giving us longwinded dudes that lack brevity a lot of hope
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
beautiful evening in the city of angels
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 03/01/2025
Talking about the very-Aughts origins of icing with @brandonwenerd.bsky.social:
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Taplines: The Ice Age: Bros, Blogs, and Smirnoff Malt Beverages
The late Aughts were an unhinged time for bro culture. “Entourage” was winning Emmys, Spike TV was still a major network, and “icing” was all the rage. The gag, codified as it was on slapdash websites...
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
My 2024 year in review, live music edition: www.brandonwenerd.com/every-concer...
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
The widespread normalization of going out in public in pajamas is weird and must be stopped.
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
my mom got a terrarium for Christmas. it rocks.
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brandon wenerd @brandonwenerd.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
who’s coming over for muskrat in 2025?
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