His mother died by suicide when he was six years old. His father is a journalist at a local TV station, and his brother works in tech. He is currently the co-host of the podcast TrueAnon with Liz Franczak.īelden was born to Jewish parents in San Francisco and grew up in Corte Madera, California. Belden is also widely known by his former Twitter handle, PissPigGranddad. Brace Robert Belden is an American podcaster and union activist who volunteered to serve with the People's Protection Units (YPG), a Kurdish militia, in the Syrian Civil War.