brandon wenerd
@brandonwenerd.bsky.social
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.
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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Talked to Derek Trucks the other week about rare bourbon, football, and drinking with Buddy Guy before shows.
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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.
Full chat on YouTube soon.
February 17, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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.
Full chat on YouTube soon.
December 31, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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
Video clips on my Instagram, and full conversation on my Substack. Happy holidays y’all! substack.com/@brandonwene... youtu.be/6xUm2oQjcSo
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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December 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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
Video clips on my Instagram, and full conversation on my Substack. Happy holidays y’all! substack.com/@brandonwene... youtu.be/6xUm2oQjcSo
Wrote about an extremely cool record store day find on my Substack. 👇
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December 2, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Wrote about an extremely cool record store day find on my Substack. 👇
thewenerdweekly.substack.com/p/promotiona...
thewenerdweekly.substack.com/p/promotiona...
I was bored so I wrote about Phish’s Mike Gordon telling Rick Rubin about Mike Says No.
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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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November 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I was bored so I wrote about Phish’s Mike Gordon telling Rick Rubin about Mike Says No.
brobible.com/culture/arti...
brobible.com/culture/arti...
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."
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For the film, Mickey Hart came to Mammoth, and they built "his huge ice sculpture stage for him to play drums on."
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October 31, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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...
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...
here’s a big dumb thing I wrote on my mess of a Substack about turning 40, apropos of absolutely nothing. ok! bye!
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October 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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...
thewenerdweekly.substack.com/p/my-40th-bi...
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.
October 20, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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.
Reposted by brandon wenerd
Here's the full scoop: www.foiaball.com/p/holiday-bo...
October 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Here's the full scoop: www.foiaball.com/p/holiday-bo...
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.
October 10, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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.
Talked to Derek Trucks the other week about rare bourbon, football, and drinking with Buddy Guy before shows.
brobible.com/culture/arti...
brobible.com/culture/arti...
October 8, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Talked to Derek Trucks the other week about rare bourbon, football, and drinking with Buddy Guy before shows.
brobible.com/culture/arti...
brobible.com/culture/arti...
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.
September 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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.
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.
September 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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.
how’s it going over here, y’all good?
September 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
how’s it going over here, y’all good?
I can’t fully explain why, but football season is undoubtedly the best time of year to listen to studio widespread panic albums.
September 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I can’t fully explain why, but football season is undoubtedly the best time of year to listen to studio widespread panic albums.
Reposted by brandon wenerd
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...
April 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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...
i wrote about the cocaine hippo problem in colombia and what wildlife biologists are trying to do to trying to fix it.
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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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April 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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...
brobible.com/culture/arti...
Kraftwek going Type 2 at Coachella is some real cool shit.
April 14, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Kraftwek going Type 2 at Coachella is some real cool shit.
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...
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...
January 23, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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...
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...
a neighbor is giving away some books.
January 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
a neighbor is giving away some books.
when you meet the captain at formal night on the cruise
January 6, 2025 at 5:12 AM
when you meet the captain at formal night on the cruise
the brutalist director out here giving us longwinded dudes that lack brevity a lot of hope
January 6, 2025 at 4:10 AM
the brutalist director out here giving us longwinded dudes that lack brevity a lot of hope
beautiful evening in the city of angels
January 6, 2025 at 1:05 AM
beautiful evening in the city of angels
Reposted by brandon wenerd
Talking about the very-Aughts origins of icing with @brandonwenerd.bsky.social:
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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January 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Talking about the very-Aughts origins of icing with @brandonwenerd.bsky.social: