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 “"Doors at Four" becomes a lifestyle. The band clocked out at early, yawn.

Also:

• Nick’s tone is fierce, but alone
• Matt withers into dust mid-episode
• We refuse to fix anything, especially the facts
• Trey might be recovering from New Year’s 2014

It's only night one. The Rubik’s cube is scrambled. The sneeze count is live.
Let’s go. Or let’s nap. Either way… it's Insuphishient.

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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 tries to name every Phish song that starts with the letter M and ends up creating a religion instead. Someone in the crowd might have yelled “Nicole ran out” and we’re fully counting it as canon.

Also:

• Fishman might be the secret CEO of TikTok
• The band better Not play all the new songs tonight so we don’t miss them
• It's going to get sloppy (bring a tarp)

The mics are hot. The vibes are combustible. The summer begins now.
Let’s go.

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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. Nick accuses someone of using Mango Song in a commercial. There’s a reggae section that may or may not have been a FIRE. And a cop walks by the venue then decides to retire.

Also:
— Mike gets assigned the town of Claremont
— Page is hungry
— Fish is Thirsty
— Trey is looking for a good text chain

It’s a show that only happened once, for a reason.
It’s Thursday. It’s New Hampshire. It’s Insuphishient.
Let’s go.

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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. Matt insists Times Square was originally a mistake. The truth is somewhere between a MOMA gift shop and a Krazno aftershow.

Also: a suspicious amount of deli talk, a brief detour into condiment philosophy, and a challenge to guess what Mike Gordon’s middle name should be.

It’s Soundcheck. It’s New York. And it’s going to be a week.

Let’s go.

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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 teasing lullabies.

Reba has no whistle. Antelope has twinkle. Cavern is dark and dirty. Closure is back.

Let’s go.

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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.

Also in this episode:

• Someone keeps texting “only once” like it’s a warning
• Nick tries to trade his shoes for a soundboard
• Matt unpacks a theory about Worcester being an energy vortex
• Nobody’s sure if we’re joking anymore

It’s International Jams.
It’s Worcester.
It’s only once. Four times.
Let’s go.

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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 collapses halfway through. Nick keeps saying “we’re doing numbers” even though they absolutely are not.

Also:

• A half-baked idea for a Phish-themed pasta shape.
• One listener says their cat threw up during the episode and "it felt symbolic."
• Rodger remains the voice of reason. Which should terrify everyone.

Short episode. Big chaos. Huge implications.

It’s Big Money Friday. Let’s go.

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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:

• Someone thinks Mike’s bass is haunted (again).
• A rumor surfaces that Fishman bought a weather balloon.
• We finally hear back from that one guy who tried to crowdsource a tour bus using only BeReal. It went exactly how you think.

The internet has turned inward. The takes are boiling. And we still don’t know who keeps texting the word “Scents.” Just that it’s working.

It’s World Wide Wednesday. Plug in, scroll weird. Let’s go.

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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 Barnstormers (actual name)
• And the legendary mystery of a keyboardist named Derek who may or may not have been too good

Nick tries to suggest Mike’s Song was written by Trey, accidentally triggers a minor musical crisis, and then spirals into a live re-ranking of Mike Gordon originals:

Also in this episode:

• Listener call ins
• lost cat found, collar say HARPUA
• Nick claims Meat is “the sexual language of the mole people”
• Matt confesses he thought Son of a Mule was a Mexican folk song until 2019

And yes — Niagara Falls counts as international barely. We just mist it (get it?).

Happy birthday, Mike.
Thanks for the bass, the chaos, and the sock game.

It’s International Jams. Let’s go.

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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 spends the first six minutes trying to understand how “it’s not butter” but also “tastes like butter” and nearly derails the episode entirely.
Meanwhile, Maya shows up prepared, focused, and instantly outshines them both.

On today’s show:

• Goose vs. Phish? We go there. 
• Maya reveals her dream setlist and it’s terrifyingly good
• Nick accuses a plant of lying
• Matt mispronounces “Anastasio” as “Anaconda-stasio”
• Someone sends a listener text that just says: “I’m scared of Peter’s rig”

This week, the format is loose. The guests are real. The vibes are checked.

It’s Soundcheck. It’s Maya. It’s Monday. Let’s go.

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