A loud diary with wrestling-room honesty.
This Is Brendone moves like a hanging-out recording, with conversations jumping from heat waves and pasta jokes to pro wrestling, livestreaming, Eminem leaks, and dead parents. The draw is the raw momentum: messy, funny, self-aware talk that keeps circling identity without smoothing off the edges.
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This Is Brendone is built around identity in motion. It sounds less like a packaged memoir than a running conversation where the speaker figures things out while already talking. Recent episodes carry the show through July heat, Van & Holden in the Morning, wrestling, livestreaming, All Your Friends Festival, TV habits, YouTube deep dives, Eminem leaks, pasta confusion, and the first Dead Parent Society installment. The range is part of the point. Nothing stays in one lane for long. A joke about school-season dread can turn into a thought about winter. A conversation about OBS can become a riff on what kind of performance belongs on Twitch. A discussion of wrestling can slide into questions of effort, self-preservation, skill, and what a performer leaves behind. The show is blunt, fast, and frequently irreverent. It also has a real appetite for self-examination. The excerpts keep returning to uncertainty: belief without religion, not knowing one’s own thoughts until asked, being seen wrongly, and trying to talk honestly without making the conversation too neat. Van & Holden in the Morning gives the feed a recurring buddy-comedy charge, with names, bits, plugs, chat references, and arguments that feel deliberately loose. Dead Parent Society pulls that looseness toward grief, memory, skepticism, and the awkward comedy people sometimes use around death. This Is Brendone works because it lets those modes sit beside each other. It can be juvenile, sincere, sharp, scattered, and unexpectedly reflective within the same stretch. The show suits listeners who want a personal-journal feed with wrestling-room energy and emotional spillover, not a carefully produced life-advice format. Its roughness is not incidental. That is where the personality lives.
Made for: Suits a listener who likes unfiltered personal-journal podcasts where jokes, wrestling stories, pop-culture tangents, and self-questioning collide. Best for someone comfortable with rough language and emotionally raw detours.
What sets it apart: The show’s identity work happens inside the tangent: pro wrestling, livestreaming, YouTube holes, grief, and festival stories all become ways to test what a person thinks. It feels more like caught momentum than edited reflection.
Hi there, I'm Brendone Caulfield & welcome to my podcast where I'm going to try to figure out just who I am.
Holden Albright loses the pasta plot; you get a wrestling story before anyone identifies the rigatoni.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A hot July mood opens into candid wrestling talk, uncertainty, and self-examination.
July hangs over the episode as something to push against. The main voice is overheated and restless, annoyed that August already points toward September, fall, and winter, while also aware that complaining about heat will look different once snow arrives.
A chaotic morning of streaming talk, Jackbox plans, hats, and baseball setup rides on the friction between Holden Albright and Van Landon.
Week three moves like a loose live-stream tour through hats, OBS, Jackbox, Alpen Fury, and the Savannah Bananas, with baseball sliding in as the next topic.
A rowdy live discussion turns Eminem's leaked songs into a sharp, messy detour.
A birthday-heavy live morning show lets its loose format wander through an action movie, Eminem leaks, and the hosts' familiar arguments about video games.
A loose, live-minded comedy episode that turns pasta confusion and wrestling stories into its best material.
Season 2 opens with Holden Albright and Van Landon in full loose-change mode: coffee in hand, Instagram Live on the brain, Zoom shaping the room, and no real interest in keeping the conversation tidy. That lack of polish is where the episode finds most of its energy.
Pop culture trivia, argued fast and with affection.
Pop culture, personal stakes, and room for a tangent.
A Brazilian journalist spends years reinvestigating unsolved child disappearances in Paraná.
Cris Bartz and Juva Lauer alternate debate and interview episodes on Brazilian social issues.
This Is Brendone’s July 2025 episode opens with Brendan Caulfield complaining about July heat and describing the show as an old school monthly update.
This Is Brendone’s “FULL VHITM Season 2 Episode 3” brings Holden Albright and Van Landon together for conversations about hats, streaming, Canada’s Wonderland, and banana ball.
["Holden Albright says he does not think he likes good media, then uses Eminem leak history, Encore leftovers, Proof, and a Ja Rule/Suge Knight diss track to argue for keeping rough drafts private.", "Van Landon and Holden open the episode with birthday shout-outs for Petey Skills and Rob Arvick, then explain the weekday 6 a.m.
Van Landon says Season 2, Week 1 of Van and Olden in the Morning starts on July 2, 2025 and uses a live-recorded format with Thursday-to-Monday drops at 6 a.m.
Brendan saved an unopened bag of Doritos from his father's truck as a memorial object after his father's death.
Brendan Caulfield says solo podcasts became harder after he lost confidence, and he criticizes much of Ontario indie wrestling in 2025.
Brendan Caulfield introduces “This Is Blank” as a solo format for June 2023, with new Wednesday chats and Friday archive clips.
Brendan Caulfield frames his 30s as “building and preservation” and plans to focus on consistency, fitness, and content creation.
Episode 165 of This Is Brendone sets up "fortnight" accountability challenges, with Jamie Franchuk assigned to stream at least twice on Twitch, Instagram or similar.
Brendone Caulfield rants about wrestling, music, and his own hyper personality in a chaotic solo podcast.
A promotional segment for WWF home videos, followed by a mention of National Titanic Remembrance Day and a Celine Dion song.
Brendone Caulfield announces upcoming wrestling events, a Patreon watch-along, and a promo contest.
A daily podcast covering historical events, birthdays, deaths, and fun facts for February 10th, including a spotlight on poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar.
Host Brendone Caulfield and guests engage in humorous, unstructured conversation about horoscopes and random topics.
Brendone Caulfield introduces his podcast about figuring out who he is, with updates on episode numbering and social media plans.
Brendone interviews childhood friend and race car driver Billy Zardo about their shared past, the racing industry, and life lessons.
Brendone Caulfield shares a preview of his conversation with Anthony Kingdom James, discussing topics like friends, OnlyFans, residential schools, and personal growth.