Branden Palomo discovered Pearl Jam while in 7th grade, from a cassette of TEN his dad brought home one day. He adopted it as his own, and it became the first music that was actually his, and not his parents. From then, VS was the first CD purchased with his own money, and VITALOGY was the first vinyl record he would own (winning it from a radio call-in contest). A couple years after the music podcast he co-hosted ended when the other party moved to Texas, he decided to get back into the game in 2019 by creating the Pearl Jam track-by-track Better Band Podcast.