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We are a podcast all about the rock band Ween!! We talk about all things Ween: we review concerts we've attended from our 25+ years of following the band, we discuss their albums, conduct interviews of fans, musicians and other special guests, and we'll cover basically anything else related to the band! If you love Ween, you'll love our podcast! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/weencastpodcast/support
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Wow, New York City, just like I pictured it.... skyscrapers, and ...everything. Thats right, the big apple, the city so nice... all that jazz. Ween brings the funk and the punk for what we are deeming "The Live In Chicago Tour" of Fall 2003. Just days before the three night stand when Live in Chicago was recorded, the shows of fall 2003 are underwa…
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Welcome to another waltz down memory lane where yet again we return to the auspicious year 2003. 2003 was perhaps Ween’s most awesomely prolific year and the show we’re covering for this episode certainly did nothing but add to the legend. You see, we’re going back to August 8th and the Quebec tour finale at Festival Pier in Philadelphia. What a ti…
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Merry Christmas everyone! Not only are we dropping a regular episode, but also check us out over on Patreon for some exclusive shit that is also dropping extra-hot for the holidays! Time marches on, and we continue working our way through the banner year of 2003. We’d just left off with Ween’s Quebec tour opener in Pittsburgh, PA, at Club Laga, and…
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Do you love cats and music? So do we! Join Sean Faust and Eddie Kamenitzer this Sunday, December 10th 2023 at John and Peters in New Hope, PA for the first ever "Catty Christmas"! Sean and the crew at J&P's are asking for cat food, litter, or toys to benefit the MeWow Cat Cafe in Doylestown, PA. ( https://mewow.cafe/ ) This is one of the coolest sp…
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Oh baby did we get some stories for this years contest!! From old school Ween shows to just a few weeks ago, we tasked the fans to tell us about their favorite show attended and why. We can't thank everyone who submitted their entries enough, as this has our best contest yet! Alas, only one can be crowned the winner and someone has my friends, some…
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Yinz redd up the car cuz’ we’re heading out to the Burgh for one heck of a show. It was the summer of 2003, and Ween descended upon The Steel City for their Quebec tour opener. And what a show it was! Ween had just wrapped up the All Request Live recording a few nights earlier, and they were ready to rock at their first and only show at the estimab…
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Welcome back listeners! Have we got an episode for you! It was the year 2003. Claude was back, Quebec was looming larger on the horizon, but still a few months away, and Ween was ready to rock! We’re taking you back in time, but also back to the Land of the Arch, and we’re not talking about McDonald’s! St. Louis, chicos! Twas the seventh of May, at…
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Head north young men!! Well, not quite that far north... but yes, again!! Ween joins the lineup for the 11th annual Peach Music Festival at Montage Mountain in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and yes, we had to be there. But wait a minute, a Jam band festival? Really? Does this mean the band has finally taken on the moniker of "Jam Band"? The anticipation …
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Happy 4th of July Weencast listeners, and welcome to another episode. To celebrate Independence Day, we go back to 2002 one more time. We revisit 2002 one more time because that year wrapped up with a series of events that would end up playing a significant role with the band as well as the surrounding music scene for years to come. August 7th, 200…
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Happy Summer everyone!! We are kicking off the all new Stunningly Staggering and Stupendous 2023 Weencast Summer Contest! You have until Labor Day to tell us the story of the best live Ween show you have been to and why!! We're sure you can narrow it down to just one story right? You can record yourself on our Spotify for Podcasters page, or simply…
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Welcome back listeners! Join us as we go back to the year 2002 to chat about a truly seminal moment of Ween history, the twin shows at John and Peter’s on October 6th, 2002, that served as a warm-up for the Concerts for Claude that ran the following two nights. Due to Claude’s terrible car accident on August 7th, just two months earlier, Ween decid…
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Once upon a time the demon god boognish predicted that in the Christmas season of 2022 Ween would play their 1,000th show. With a little help from Brownbase, the brown crowd spent the last few months making 1,000th show stickers, pins, shirts, and just about anything else they could think of to celebrate. Shortly after everyone got all of their stu…
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Welcome, Weencast listeners, to this year’s contest results show! This is our third annual summer contest, and we got tons of great entries. The contest this year was simple: tell us which Ween album is your favorite and why. It turns out there was quite a bit of dissension when it comes to choosing your favorite Ween album! Some contestants went w…
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New Jersey has a special place in the history of Ween. Hailing from just across the Delaware River, Ween basically got their start in Jersey, in now defunct but once iconic venues such as City Gardens in Trenton, and Court Tavern in New Brunswick. Before they were big, there was Jersey! Given this rich history, it might be surprising to learn that …
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Hey everyone, we want you to tell us your stories! Tell us your favorite Ween album and why, and you can win a beautiful piece of Boognish emblazoned wood art by West Brandywine Woodworks. Drop us a message right here on Anchor, message us on Facebook or email us at weencastpodcast@gmail.com with an audio file. The deadline is September 22nd. Can't…
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New Jersey has a special place in the history of Ween. Hailing from just across the Delaware River, Ween basically got their start in Jersey, in now defunct but once iconic venues such as City Gardens in Trenton, and Court Tavern in New Brunswick. Before they were big, there was Jersey! Given this rich history, it might be surprising to learn that …
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There’s so much more to the Ween world than just Ween, and this episode is the first in a new series about all the various Ween side gigs and solo projects. To kick things off, we’re diving deep into Claude Coleman’s solo project Amandla. Claude got his start in music as a teenager back in the 80’s with a band called Skunk, and has played in a myri…
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Join us as we go back to 2002 once again, this time dropping in on the bucolic scene of Southern Illinois University for an evening at the Shryock Auditorium. Carbondale, Illinois, bitches! Ween had played eight shows in nine days across the South and Midwest, and this was the finale, yet another tour de force from this era! Sometimes the trip can …
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Night #1. Our pandemic wait was finally over as Ween descended upon Philadelphia’s Metropolitan Opera House for a two-night stint. Join us as we relive two of the greatest Ween shows ever to grace this green Earth. It was amazeballs, so listen in for all the highlights of these two great evenings. When Ween comes to Philly, you know it’s going to b…
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Night #2. Our pandemic wait was finally over as Ween descended upon Philadelphia’s Metropolitan Opera House for a two night stint. The first night was truly a night to remember, and we were doubly psyched for what might await us for night #2. Join us as we relive the second night of Ween’s two night stint at the Philly Met. The second night was yet…
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Dearest Listeners, Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas! Happy Solstice and Happy New Year! To celebrate this festive season, we'll be dropping all kinds of content as part of a Christmas Eve gift release! We're talking two full length episodes for our Podcast, covering the recent Philly Met Shows, as well as tons more stuff landing exclusively on Pa…
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Go back to college young man! It was the spring of 2002, and Ween had just embarked on a brief tour of the South and Midwest. After a three hour drive from Asheville, the first stop on the tour, they now found themselves at the quaint and quiet Guilford College in Greensboro, NC. But it didn’t stay quiet for long, once Ween took the stage! April 20…
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Over the summer we announced a fan favorite song contest, and now we're delivering on the results! It was tons of fun listening to all the fan tell stories about their favorite songs, each of which was actually a different song; nine in total. So many great and unique tales! Thank you Helen (Ween Lebowski), Geoffrey, Hot Shot Pony, Mark, Brain of t…
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For this episode, we are thrilled and honored to have as our guest Eli Schwab. If you don’t know Eli, then you should start now. A 21st century renaissance man, Eli keeps busy with his Cosmic Lion Productions. CLP is a platform for his various ventures, from Monkelion (which, as he’ll tell you, “is the world’s only comic about an intergalactic afro…
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Ween is back, baby, and for this episode we’re covering the Surly Brewing Company show from August 21st. Although we couldn’t be there, our friend Cody made the trip, and we’re just tickled pink that he agreed to join us to discuss the show. Cody has been a fan of our podcast for a few years now, and in that time he’s shown himself to be quite a We…
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Join us as we head down to North Cackalacky for one heckuva rockin’ and a rompin’ tour opener! Way back when, April 19th, 2002, Ween descended upon the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in Asheville, NC, and we (well, at least one of us!) were there to tell the tale! And what a tale it was! From the first note in “Buckingham Green,” to the last note of “I Ca…
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Announcing the 2021 Weencast Megatacular Fan Favorites Summer Contest!! That’s right, we want you to tell us about your favorite Ween song! You (and everyone you know) has from now until Labor Day 2021 (Monday September 6th) to enter this megatacular contest!! Check in with us at anchor.fm/weencastpodcast and hit the "Message" button; leave us a me…
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Join us as we head back to 2002 and to the comfortable and historic confines of Allentown’s The Sterling Hotel. Built back in 1890, this beautiful exemplar of the Romanesque Revival style is on the national registry of historic places: fitting for such a badass show! This show was memorable for a whole host of reasons. First off, it was one of thre…
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Join us as we go back through the years recounting Ween’s seven live albums. Much as every studio album is a different facet of Ween, so too are each of the live albums a different piece of the Ween pie. Paint the Town Brown is a wide ranging double disc collection of songs showcasing Ween’s evolution from a duet with a DAT to a five-piece band; Li…
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Join us as we go back through the years recounting Ween’s seven live albums. Much as every studio album is a different facet of Ween, so too are each of the live albums a different piece of the Ween pie. Paint the Town Brown is a wide ranging double disc collection of songs showcasing Ween’s evolution from a duet with a DAT to a five-piece band; Li…
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This is part two. If you haven't listened to part one yet, we suggest you do so first before you listen to this episode. Join us as we go back to February 27th, 2002, for an extraordinary evening with Ween at The Conduit in Trenton, New Jersey. This is the kind of show that comes around once only in a great while, and like the moon landing or the D…
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Join us as we go back to February 7th, 2002, for an extraordinary evening with Ween at The Conduit in Trenton, New Jersey. This is the kind of show that comes around once only in a great while, and like the moon landing or the Discovery explosion, those who witnessed this night would remember it forever. This was Ween at the height of their powers:…
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Join us as we stroll once again down memory lane, this time popping into Kintnersville for the 2001 summer tour opener. Dubbed The Science Fair, Ween was the headliner for this little festival near the banks of the Delaware. Every Ween show is unique, and this show was no exception. Gener singing “Poopship” on a bullhorn during a power outage? Chec…
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Join us, Weenheads, as we rundown our episodes from 2020! 2020 has been one upside down year for sure, with the pandemic, election anxieties, racial injustice and civil unrest, and so a third of the way through the year, we had no idea what to expect out of the podcast. Well, we both were fortunate to not get laid off or out of work as a result of …
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Ok sailors, its time to dock the carrier and jump into the hot tub for a Spring night at the Norva! Make sure you have a pocket full of balls and give yourself plenty of time to get there, because this show will go on with or without you... or Glenn! Thats right, this the final show of the "no Glenn" tour, but don't worry, because the rest of the b…
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The results are in!! Join Rory and Shane as they listen to the Ween fan stories submitted for the Weencast Podcast Summer Spectacular Ween Fan Story Contest, and of course crown a winner!! Rory and Shane have collected stories sent in all Summer long on any Ween topic that the listeners wanted to talk about, and since the leaves are starting to fal…
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Rory and Shane are so pumped and honored to welcome long time Ween fan Michael C. Maronna to the show! You may have seen Mike in the teen comedy Slackers, the mega Nickelodeon hit Pete and Pete, or I don't know, maybe a little movie you may have seen pop up around Christmas time...Home Alone, maybe you've heard of it? Mike is co-host of the long ru…
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Rory and Shane are humbled, excited and quite frankly, honored, to welcome “Jimmy Wilson” himself, Claude Coleman Jr., to the show!! Claude is not only the amazing drummer and backbone of Ween, he is also an amazing writer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. Over the past few years he has not only released another amazing record for his own proje…
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Forget about "Gym, Tan, Laundry", this is more like "Sweat, Scream, and Rock!" when Ween hits the Jersey Shore for the start of the 2001 tour at "Tradewinds"! Shane and Rory discuss the mayhem and chaos that was only Ween's third show of the year, and the start of a tour without...Glenn? Unthinkable, yes, but it really did happen. Ween return to th…
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This is part 2. If you haven’t listened to part 1, I suggest you do so before you listen to this one. To some Ween fans, Fred Moore, aka August Forming, needs no introduction. But for those not in the know, let me tell you how it is. Fred’s been taping Ween shows for more than twenty years, with his taping work reaching legendary status. This guy’s…
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To some Ween fans, Fred Moore, aka August Forming, needs no introduction. But for those not in the know, let me tell you how it is. Fred’s been taping Ween shows for more than twenty years, with his taping work reaching legendary status. Not to mention, he’s been to 194 Grateful Dead shows (but who’s counting?) among tons of other rock shows. This …
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On May 2nd 2000 Ween would release their most high fidelity and perhaps their most "accessible" album up to that point "White Pepper". It has taken 20 years, but Rory and Shane have finally recorded a whole podcast about the album! We discuss all of the songs from the record, and our thoughts and feelings about the era it was released. We delve int…
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In the Fall of 2019 Rory and Shane joined Kenny for a phone call to record an episode of "Earfloss, a Music History Podcast" all about who else but...Ween!! Kenny did an amazing job creating his Ween episode, but our phone call wound up being well over 2 hours spanning all parts of the bands career, popularity, fandom, a whole range of brown. We ha…
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In the Fall of 2019 Rory and Shane joined Kenny for a phone call to record an episode of "Earfloss, a Music History Podcast" all about who else but...Ween!! Kenny did an amazing job creating his Ween episode, but our phone call wound up being well over 2 hours spanning all parts of the bands career, popularity, fandom, a whole range of brown. We ha…
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Ok all you groovy Penguins and Pirates out there, get ready because not even Big Ben himself can stop us from hitting up the Steel City for this one!! In this episode Rory and Shane discuss what would be the second and final show at "Metropol" in Pittsburgh PA on July 21st 2000. The US leg of the "White Pepper" tour is coming to a close, and we jus…
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Steeped midway through the year of "White Pepper", Rory and Shane return to the Electric Factory for the second (and what would be final) Ween show for the venue. Join us for our 20th episode spectacular filled with a crazy number of semi interesting circumstances as we discuss May 27th 2000 at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia! --- Support this…
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We are back for another amazing show at "The Met" in Philadelphia! This is the second year in a row (to the day) that Ween has played this beautiful theater in the heart of Philly, and the boys brought their "A-Game" once again! Join Rory and Shane as they recap the performance of the concert on December 14, 2019, at The Met in Philadelphia. Coming…
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Do you need a guitar monster? Better break out the Reverend!! Rory and Shane were granted a real treat by spending some time on the phone with the mystical being himself, "B-ILL" Bill Fowler. The shredding lead guitarist for Sound of Urchin has been an infamous musical figure in the New Hope PA music scene since the early 90's, and has the stories …
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Rory and Shane had an amazing opportunity to spend an evening on the phone with the one and only Chris “Tomato 11” Harfenist! The drummer and front man for the amazing band “Sound of Urchin” has no shortage of words for well… anything! As friends and collaborators of Mickey and Aaron, Urchin has been part of the Ween family since the late 90’s, and…
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Weencast Episode 16: The Tomato 11 Interview, Part 1. Rory and Shane had an amazing opportunity to spend an evening on the phone with the one and only Chris "Tomato 11" Harfenist! The drummer and front man for the amazing band Sound of Urchin has no shortage of words for well... anything! As friends and collaborators of Mickey and Aaron, Urchin has…
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