19 Facts About Brian Wecht

Brian Wecht has appeared on the Let's Play webseries Game Grumps, all three alongside Dan Avidan.

Brian Wecht retired in 2015, choosing to join Game Grumps while focusing on his musical career.

Brian Wecht is the co-creator of The Story Collider, a science-based story telling podcast recorded in front of a live audience.

Wecht co-hosts the podcast Leighton Night with Brian Wecht and portrays Ninja Brian on his live comedy show titled Ninja Brian's All-Star Variety Luau Spectacular.

Brian Wecht attended Williams College and the University of California, San Diego where he obtained his PhD in particle physics in 2004.

Brian Wecht held research positions at Harvard University, the Center for Theoretical Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the University of Michigan, prior to becoming a faculty member at the Queen Mary University of London.

Brian Wecht retired in 2015 to join Game Grumps and dedicate himself to his music career.

Ultimately, the duo was joined by backing band TWRP in 2015, after which Brian Wecht focused solely on keyboards for studio recordings.

Brian Wecht is occasionally featured in some of their videos, mostly in Grumpcade and Steam Train, but in several non-gameplay videos.

Brian Wecht was the co-writer, composer and puppeteer on their promotional short I Burgie Burgie, and its sequel All Hail Burgie.

Wecht appeared in an episode of Hot Pepper Game Review episode on September 16,2013, "reviewing" the video game Dark under his Ninja Brian persona after eating a "very spicy" chili pepper; the episode is a joke, as Ninja Brian simply stares at the camera in silence for the entire episode, not blinking a single time in almost four minutes.

Brian Wecht appeared in the fourth episode of the second season of Child Genius in 2014, having set questions about string theory for the participants, and reacting to their different answers.

Brian Wecht voiced the character of Quizzmaster Quinn in the video game Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator, a 2017 visual novel video game made by members of Game Grumps.

Brian Wecht appeared in two episodes of Good Game, a webseries starring Avidan and Hanson.

Alongside fellow Game Grumps member Barry Kramer and Rooster Teeth writer Miles Luna, Brian Wecht co-wrote the episode "Grey vs Gray" of Red vs Blue.

In 2019, Brian Wecht appeared in the music video for Canadian rapper Freddie Dredd's song "Cha Cha", playing a cameraman.

Brian Wecht released his first jazz album under the alias "Trey Magnifique" on November 10,2023.

Brian Wecht has a PhD and one of his inspirations for becoming a theoretical physicist was the television series Quantum Leap.

Brian Wecht is strongly pro-vaccine, and is critical of the use of pseudoscience over scientifically-proven treatments for serious illnesses and diseases.