Ween Cast

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 the Playlist Wars Podcast, Fred Moore aka Au...

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-synth band on tour through the galaxy”) and the W...

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 Weenhead, but also just a genuinely nice guy.  ...

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 Can’t Put My Finger On It,” Ween came to...

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 three stand alone shows from early 2002, this one bein...

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 Discovery explosion, those who witnesse...

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: Glenn was back from a brief hiatus, a...

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? Check. Substitute keyboardist on his maiden sho...

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 the pandemic, and it turned out being stuck at hom...

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 boys have got us covered (and got a hot...

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 fall its time to review these gems. All of the storie...

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 running podcast "The Adventures of Danny and Mik...

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 project Amandla, amandlanet.net, but has st...

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 their roots of hard punk rock for...

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 been there, done that, an...

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 guy’s been there, done that, and’s got the stories...

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 into the promotional campain surrou...

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 had so much fun on the call we wanted to...

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 had so much fun on the call we wanted to...

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 just had to see the crew one last time be...

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!

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 back to the venue was a pleasure, and...

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 to prove it!  In this call...

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 has won over this tough crowd with th...

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 been part of the Ween family since th...