Insuphishient: Your Daily Phish Podcast Fix

Matt and Nick are back after a week off, and what better way to warm up the mics than with a full-blown Page McConnell birthday celebration episode. Yes, the Chair-"Birthday Boy" of the Boards himself just leveled up, and Insuphishient is here to (barely) hold it together in his honor. Matt opens with a heartfelt tribute that gets derailed by a tangent about yacht rock. Nick insists Page...

Nick and Matt will be back this weekend to celebrate Page’s birthday! But for today here is a classic International Jams. So good we almost had to call it international James!  Matt sends his love.  Nick sent me to voicemail when I called. Ciao  Have you ever played a show in Italy? Probably not... Have you ever been to Italy? Maybe… But our favorite band has, and Nick and Matt are here to take yo...

ARCHIVAL DROP — Insuphishient 2/9/22: The Lost February Session From deep within a mislabeled folder titled “DO NOT EDIT (Nick)” , we proudly present the 2/9/22 episode — forgotten by time, remembered by no one, and somehow still completely intact. Why are we releasing it now? Because Matt was searching for a voice memo of a dream and accidentally opened this episode instead. Nick insisted we burn...

Matt and Nick have unearthed a never-before-heard episode from February 29, 2022 , a date that technically did not exist . And yet... here it is. Fully recorded. Never released. Possibly cursed. Possibly divine. Why are we releasing it now? Because Nick tried to plug in a sandwich press where the recorder should go and accidentally booted up the wrong hard drive. Matt saw the waveform, gasped audi...

No sound check this week. Sorry, Not that we didn’t want too! Nick is at the RMV getting a “Real ID” and Matt had to fill in at PETA, (Pasta Enthusiasts Taking Action). With his help they may get that Torchio.  Now On with the show: We swore this one would never see the light of day. Not because of lawsuits (though those were threatened). Not because of technical issues (though Nick recorded half...

Friday, May 10 — Big Money Friday: Catalog Sale, Fan Fiction, and Lies Matt and Nick are back and Phish is (hypothetically, spiritually, maybe emotionally) selling their entire catalog to the fans . One song at a time. One version per person. You get the rights. The masters. The vibes. And yes, you have to store them in your garage. The buy-in? $10K per track. Fishman’s vacuum solos? Slightly more...

Wednesday, May 8 — This Day in Phish - Tory: The Date Is Correct. Finally. It’s This Day in Phish - Tory and Matt nails it. Like, nails it. May 8. No Tuesday slippage. No accidental recap of a show from last week. Just good, clean calendar work. Give the man a ribbon. Nick, meanwhile, opens the episode with a five-minute rant about Vermont license plates and ends up revealing his Phish tattoo is a...

Wednesday, May 8 — World Wide Wednesday: The Content Abyss Matt and Nick log in and immediately realize something’s wrong. There’s no tour. No setlists. No Trey in a hoodie climbing a venue wall. Just the two of them. Alone. With microphones. And too much time. This week’s main topic? Drums. Specifically: Fishman’s current setup, his rig, and whether he’s hiding a small apartment inside it. Nick i...

Tuesday, May 6 — International Jams: Welcome to Camden, England (We Think) Matt and Nick are in England. Or at least spiritually. Maybe emotionally. They’ve got warm beers, accents that drift mid-sentence, and a Phish show from June 27, 1997 that feels like it was played in a foggy warehouse under a fish and chips sign. Matt tries to read off a venue name no one can pronounce. Nick tries to figure...

Monday, May 5 — Soundcheck: Cinco de May-oh-no Matt and Nick are back and they’ve traded their setlists for salt rims. It’s Cinco de Mayo. There are margaritas on the mixer, guac in a patch cable, and Jimmy Buffett has somehow been playing in the background for over three hours. No one hit play. No one is stopping it either. Here's what's coming this week — assuming we recover: Tuesday :...

Friday, May 3 — Big Money Friday Is Fully Funded Matt and Nick are back, and they brought a big bag of cash. And by cash, we mean songs — high-value, high-rotation, high-C Phish songs. Also, side note: Imagine a world where Phish sells the rights to individual versions of songs from every show as NFTs. Sorry, NPTs — Non-Pliable Tweezerz? You enter a lottery for $1,000, maybe $10,000, and if you wi...

Thursday, May 1 — This Day in Phish - Tory (Sort of) Matt and Nick are back and it’s May 1, so naturally we’re covering a historic date: April 27. Four days ago. Why? Because Phish-Tory isn't about math—it's about feelings, vibes, and accidentally deleting the actual episode we planned to use. It was Hollywood Bowl Night 3, a night people have already started claiming the crowed was “imp...

It’s World Wide Wednesday and Matt and Nick are back to break down Night 2 at the Hollywood Bowl. Better song selection? Absolutely. Chompers? Everywhere. And the fog? Not the only thing that was thick, if you catch our drift. If you’re wondering what other people thought of the show, you’re in the right place. It’s Night 2. It’s the Bowl. It’s World Wide Wednesday. Let’s go. If you are new always...

Tuesday, April 29 — International Jams Has Gone Off the Grid Matt and Nick are live from somewhere in Cabo. Or near Cabo. Or what someone in Cabo called Cabo. They are definitely international. Definitely in Mexico. Definitely talking about the Hollywood Bowl Night 1 show. First things first: The sound was huge. Huge sound. Big sound. Loud, but not too loud. Loud in the way you hope it will be whe...

So much has happened in the minutes after this episode was recorded and before it "aired." Most notably, a pathetic excuse for an institution in Cleveland, Ohio broke all our hearts. Matt and Nick will get to it, but probably not until Wednesday. It’s going to be a busy week. On with today’s show. Nick and Matt recap the first five shows of this historic West Coast run, getting ready for...

Friday, April 26 — Big Money Friday is circling the lot in a "rented" limo Matt and Nick show up overcaffeinated and underqualified, clutching San Francisco Night 2 like it’s a fragile investment but definitely believe in it. The show was sharp, flashy, messy.  Not San Fran, Insuphishient.... Meanwhile Trey walked off stage like he just paid cash for your soul and didn’t need a receipt....

Thursday, April 24 — This Day in Phish - Tory (Sort of) Matt and Nick are back with a very short episode. Why? Because Nick spilled cold brew on the master file and Matt’s mic was pointed at a plant the whole time. We move on. We know it’s April 24, but we’re talking about the San Francisco show from 4/22 , because linear time is fake and the setlist hit harder two days later. This was one of thos...

It’s Wednesday and the inbox is glowing. World Wide Wednesday rolls in with the Portland show front and center — a night that felt like few others in recent memory. Not sleepy. Not pushed. Just confident. Like the band was already in the pocket before the lights even dropped. Half way through today's show Nick glitches out for a few minutes. Then Matt explains how to eat a burrito "Rapid...

It’s Tuesday and we’ve fled the country. International Jams broadcasts live from a suspicious motel room in Vancouver, where Matt insists the Wi-Fi smells like patchouli and Nick is wearing a shirt he bought from a dog. Tonight we’re diving into Seattle Night 2 , but since we crossed the border, it counts. The show felt big. The sound was tight, the way Page’s shirt was tight (not the fit. The vib...

Nick and Matt are back and you don’t even care that you could be listening to new Phish right now. We break down night one. Codename Snoozy. Took some turns, landed on its feet, kind of. Matt had questions. Nick took a nap. Night two? Untouched. Codename Fire. Tuesday’s problem. We’re not ready. You’re not ready. The week’s schedule is upside down and we’re reading it out loud anyway. It’s Monday....

Matt and Nick show up with a briefcase full of bad ideas and no exit plan. Big Money Friday kicks off with a pitch for a Phish branded Peloton that only works When you are listening to "Sand."  Then it somehow gets worse. Nick wants to license the phrase “vibe rotation” and sell it to Spotify. Matt built a deck for a silent lot auction platform that only accepts crystals as currency. The...

Matt and Nick are back with Phish - Tory , digging into 4/17/23 , Berkeley. A west coast evening with just enough breeze to make your hoodie worth it. The show? It happened. The people? Present. The vibe? Alive. Nick insists the second set was structured like a haiku. Matt says that makes no sense and then accidentally proves it. There’s a brief argument about pine pollen. Someone says “intentiona...

Wednesday, April 16 — World Wide Wednesday continues  Matt and Nick jack into (not onto) the feed and immediately regret it. World Wide Wednesday is bursting at the seams. The takes are loud, the jokes are faster than light (and love), and one listener swears they saw Page at a rest stop eating a banana with a fork. Spring tour is in the air but there’s no ticket panic.  Someone is texting in 4.0...

Mike Check (get it?) It’s Soundcheck Monday , and Matt and Nick are back, ready to kick off the week with some serious momentum, its' probably from the coffee. We’re feeling out the vibes, getting the engines running, and preparing for what’s shaping up to be a wild one. Tomorrow, we’re crossing the border for International Jams — heading to Toronto 8/10/22 , where "Sample in a Jar"...

It’s Tuesday and G.O.B.-1 joins us on the map of Canada. International Jams has touched down in Toronto, 8/10/22, and nothing is behaving. The band opens a groove somewhere around song three and never really comes back. The energy is precise. The transitions are love and light. The crowd might be levitating. Matt declares the setlist is actually a coded message. Nick keeps yelling “they’re doing i...