Insuphishient: Your Daily Phish Podcast Fix

Matt and Nick return from the great Texas unknown with stories of Austin Night 1. 

Spoiler alert, they liked the show....

A show so sweaty it qualified as a steam room with a  Cities so loose it legally counted as interpretive dance.

The crowd came ready. The band came more than usual. Derek brought a snake and claimed it was his plus one. 

Page didn't play shirtless. 

Nick kept calling it “Night 1: in the bun.” No one stopped him.

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After what felt like a 42 hour gap of dead air and existential dread, your favorite Phish Talk Show returns with a (re)vengeance. We left you hanging with a sample episode that felt like a fever dream in a CVS parking lot, so we’re balancing the scales with a full-force Tuesday drop straight from the glitchy depths of our recording rig.

This one? Oh, this one’s a return to form — Matt’s on fire, Nick’s mildly clothed, and the band i...

Matt and Nick return with a very special giveaway: today’s episode is on the house. Why? Because we accidentally deleted the feed midway through the show. And before the data ends up like your car keys, in the freezer behind the peas, we are giving it away.

But don’t worry. This one’s pure-grade, artisanal, grass-fed Insuphishient.

The boys review recent Phish shows with the kind of emotional restraint you'd expect from two peop...

Matt and Nick are back in the bunker, covered in chalk dust and emotionally rattled from a night that may or may not have happened. Did Phish play SNHU again? Was that real? Is the arena real? Why was the bathroom line 43 minutes long and entirely made up of mannequins?

The boys attempt to recount what happened, but it quickly turns into a meditation on onion rings, late-stage Tweezerism, and a brief tangent about whether or not Fis...

Matt and Nick return from a 48-hour silent retreat in the food court of a Connecticut mall, only to discover a setlist etched into a stone tablet behind an Orange Julius.

Naturally, they treat it as prophecy.

The show? Played backwards. Literally. Encore first. Opener last. Page wore a cape made of setbreak nachos. Fishman only responded to questions by playing cowbell. Trey announced every song title like a game show host. Mike neve...

Matt’s hat brim is too flat. Trey's tone sounds like a sneeze in a velvet glove. Nick might be in sleep mode. Fishman sneezed 37 times, and Matt brought a trombone to a kazoo fight.

Page? Allegedly there. Possibly microwaving a burrito in the green room.

We tried to recap night one at SNHU but accidentally invented a new genre: Ass to Themecore. It's all MoMA, no Movement. The grill was cold. The crowd was hot. The vibe was...

The summer tour has officially begun, and Matt and Nick are absolutely losing structural integrity. We’re talking foaming-at-the-lips-outside-a-Porta-Potty levels of anticipation. SPAC 6/20/04 is the flashback anchor, but everything else is spiraling: the marshmallows, the conspiracy chairs, the questionable use of the phrase “meatstick-orgasm energy.”

Matt invents a new metric called Setlist Elasticity and insists it’s real. Nick t...

Matt and Nick are back and so is the chaos. Today’s episode digs up the dustiest gem in the post-2000 attic: Manchester, NH — 10/26/10, the last and only time they played Manchester. The bust outs are wild. The smells are suspicious. The band plays “Sloth” and the audience politely gasps. 

Somewhere in the background, a guy in a hockey jersey is yelling “IT’S HAPPENING” for the seventh time.

Matt swears “Alumni Blues” was a mistake. ...

Matt and Nick pull into the city with full hearts, empty notes, and a faint whiff of pretzel truck exhaust. It’s Soundcheck Monday, and the week ahead is so packed even Fishman would need a second donut dress to hold it all.

We preview what’s coming (hint: the big stuff), unpack a few listener texts, and accidentally start planning a live show from the Staten Island Ferry. Nick claims he's never technically been to New York. Ma...

We’re nine days out from tour and things are getting deranged. Matt’s got a secret parking spot, Nick’s got a four-state theory for band members, and together they’re deep in your earbuds breaking down August 7, 1993 — the molten, maze-laced Darien Lake show that may or may not include a minor satanic ritual. It’s all there: Stash with Dave’s Energy Guide tease, Gamehenge galore, Fishman on vacuum, Trey with allergies, and Mike tea...

Matt and Nick cross international borders the only way they know how: without leaving Worcester. We’re talking 2/27/03 — a show that makes only once feel like a tradition. Four songs show up that each have exactly one live performance, and somehow none of them are “Destiny Unbound.” You do the math.

Matt says the set was like finding a rare vinyl in your uncle’s basement. Nick says his uncle was the vinyl. Nobody really follows up.

A...

Matt and Nick are back and somehow Elisa is still speaking to them. Big Money Friday hits the feed with a shorter-than-usual episode — not because the takes weren’t hot, but because the entire Thursday episode vanished like your car keys the one time you really needed to be somewhere.

Gone. Lost. Ghosted by the cloud.

But never fear: today's show still brings the heat. Matt tries to explain something with a metaphor that collaps...

The signal is shaky. The mic is hot. And the texts? Out of control.
Matt and Nick are back for another World Wide Wednesday, and today’s episode is what happens when you leave the internet alone for too long.

Listeners are sending in fake song titles, real conspiracy theories, and one photo of Trey edited onto a block of Vermont cheddar. Nick insists it's legit. Matt refuses to blink. The show never recovers.

Also:

• Someon...

It’s International Jams, it’s Mike Gordon’s birthday, and it’s not Cooter’s. Let’s clear that up immediately.

Nick and Matt touch down in the Niagara Falls ’95 show — a rare Tuesday night when the band dropped Mike’s Song → Weekapaug like it owed them money. The show was so fire it blew snow sideways into Canada. Which counts as international.

Meanwhile, Matt goes full Sudbury historian and unearths Mike’s early roots:

• The Barnsto...

Matt and Nick are back, and this time they brought reinforcements. Please welcome Maya, our first official guest of the week, a certified Goosehead, and an all-around jam band Jedi. She knows the difference between a peak and a plateau. She’s not afraid of a synth solo. And she brought snacks.

Nick, upon hearing the name “Maya,” assumes the actual Mayans are joining the show and starts asking about long counts and prophecy.
Matt...

So here we are, the summit of the sound,
The twenty-five that shook both lot and lawn.
Matt wears a cape. Nick levitates mid-pound.
This final block is where the myths are drawn.

They didn’t make the list, but now they reign.
These songs arrive like thunderstorms in June.
Each track’s a wound, a whisper, or a flame.
Some made you cry. Some left the Earth too soon.

Today’s show holds:
– A crowd-wide scream ...

Things have gotten weird on Insuphishient. 

We’re deep into the Top 100 Phish Songs of All Time countdown and the pressure is getting to the hosts.

Matt is now only speaking in Spanish.
Nick has developed a stress-induced lisp.

And yet somehow, we’re still counting down the tracks — #50 through #26, the messy middle where the jams are hot, the opinions are loud, and the show starts to sound like the Grateful Dead just peeked aroun...

World Wide Wednesday: 75–51 (The Buffet Bracket)

Today on Insuphishient, the countdown continues and the stakes are mild.

Matt and Nick are back with Part 2 of the Top 100 Phish Songs of All Time, covering that elusive Jimmy Buffett demographic range — #75 to #51 — where fan favorites rub elbows with songs that were played twice, then once again in a parking lot, and yet still made the list.

Today’s show features:

• Cold takes
• Mike Ju...

Matt and Nick are kicking off a full week of Phish song rankings — the Top 100 of All Time, as voted by listeners, bots, liars, and one guy who mailed in a VHS tape labeled "Best of 2008"

Today we start at the bottom. Songs 100 through 76.
And no, we didn’t make this list. We don’t know who did.
We found it in a Google Doc titled “Wilson is King”.
So we opened it.

Some of these songs are underrated. Some are exa...