Excellent start to 2025: We Can Be Weirdos unexpectedly provides a front page scoop. Sure, we all know that Brian Blessed punched a polar bear in the face. But thanks to my ruthless and aggressive interviewing skills, we now know WHY he punched a polar bear.

We're starting off the year with a slap-up compilation episode! Listen now to hear all the hilarious, titillating outtakes from the UK and European legs of our tour: apple.co/nosuchthingasa…

It’s Tuesday 14th January 2025. It’s also Tuesday 14th January 1969 - day 9 of The Beatles’ Get Back sessions! Here’s Dan Schreiber - Dan Schreiber - discussing what The Beatles were doing today (and also tomorrow) in ‘69 #GetBack25 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i-a…

An Incredible David Lynch Twin Peaks coincidence. #WeCanBeWeirdos with Dan Smith (lead singer/songwriter of Bastille) is out now wherever you get your podcasts.

Thought of the day. From Brian Blessed.

Got some pretty insane toothache at the moment - which seems to be calmed (for one minute a time only) when I hold water in my mouth. Sounds like it must be an exposed nerve. Any suggestions for other home remedies until I manage to see a dentist? (Hopefully Monday, maybe longer)

Aussies, which spelling do you go for…

Yesterday's fun: here I am surrounded by 500 signed copies of A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering, shortly on their way to independent bookshops around the UK. To get yours... just go to your local bookshop! Here's a handy link. Yes, my hand hurts. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-begi…

Tickets on sale now for The Cryptid Factor Live in Edinburgh 2025 tickets.gildedballoon.co.uk/event/14:5881

This week’s We Can Be Weirdos features one of my all time heroes, jon ronson. Here’s a little snippet from the chat. Check out the full ep, wherever you get your pods, to hear what Jon ticked on the Batshit List.

Yes yes yes. PERFECT title. I’ve just read three Nigel Planer books back-to-back, and so I am damn excited for this.

This week on ‘We Can Be Weirdos’ I’m joined by my friend and lover, Andrew Hunter Murray. Listen in to find out if the man who thinks that he is living in a simulation universe, that is being controlled from above by a giant cosmic dweeb, harbours any weirdnesses. Out now.

Just over a week to go until we're at Nerdland! Tickets are still available at nerdlandfestival.be - get yours now 🎟️

"That ear – I mean, Jesus, he’s got to will that to the Smithsonian." "Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a HUNDRED tracks today." — Bob Dylan RIP Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson will be remembered as a visionary genius, but let's not forget he was the world's biggest fan of the 2007 Eddie Murphy film Norbit. RIP

Here are the isolated vocals to the end of God Only Knows. Brian Wilson wrote and produced this at 23 years old

Beautiful clip of Brian Wilson and George Martin discussing ‘God Only Knows’. I love Brian’s enthusiasm when he thinks George is making the song better. ‘I can’t believe this is happening!’

This is Mars! 140 million miles away from us!

UPDATE: my son is now 7 and yesterday admitted to me that whenever I tell him off for something, he whispers to himself: “Dad’s being a real dickface today”

Today would have been my dad’s 74th birthday. This season carries gravity. Father’s Day, his birthday, and the anniversary of his passing all fall within 60 days. For me, grief has no straight path. It revisits, reshapes, and rises when I least expect it. But alongside it