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 is catching heat from both sides. We get into Trey’s haircut, Fis...
Jul 01, 2025•19 min
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 people arguing about water intake. Matt thinks a gallon is too much. Nic...
Jun 29, 2025•5 min
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 Fishman is in a secret ska band with Mike Gordon’s chiropractor. Th...
Jun 27, 2025•18 min
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 never blinked. Not once. Nick brought a slide whistle. Matt brought...
Jun 26, 2025•18 min
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, ya...
Jun 25, 2025•19 min
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 ...
Jun 20, 2025•20 min
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’...
Jun 19, 2025•20 min
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 somewh...
Jun 16, 2025•25 min
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...
Jun 11, 2025•20 min
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’...
Jun 10, 2025•22 min
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 tho...
Jun 06, 2025•16 min
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 boug...
Jun 04, 2025•22 min
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 nam...
Jun 03, 2025•23 min
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 ...
Jun 02, 2025•23 min
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 at song #19 – Nick insisting “YEM” is technically a soup – Matt quoting Forbin mid-emotiona...
May 30, 2025•21 min
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 around the corner and whispered: "Don’t tell me this town ain’t got no...
May 29, 2025•22 min
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 Justice Matt, revealed to be two small men in a trench coat And ...
May 28, 2025•20 min
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 exactly where they belong. Some might start fights. One might summon the wrath of Fish...
May 27, 2025•22 min
Forget about Thursday or hat happened to that show... Matt and Nick return with big plans, blurry spreadsheets, and one very real fake album: Turning the Page — a 12-track collaboration project starring Page McConnell and… well, whoever we can legally pretend said yes. Each track is a genre-bending duet built entirely on rumors, dreams, and vibes. Page x Maxwell — “Laminated Desire” Page x St. Vincent — “Clavicle Tension” Page x Doja Cat — untitled, unreleasable, might already exist in the cloud...
May 23, 2025•21 min
The mics are hot (Stolen), the inbox is overflowing (Swollen), and Matt and Nick are about to learn things about themselves they maybe didn’t want to know(Spolin). It’s World Wide Wednesday, and the internet has turned the lens around(Scrollin). Listener polls. Old posts. Confessions. One anonymous message that says “Nick is just Matt with a hat.” Nobody knows what that means, but everyone agrees. Elsewhere: Someone claims they saw Matt at a gas station arguing with a can of Red Bull. Nick accid...
May 21, 2025•23 min
Matt and Nick have returned to the beach. Not physically — spiritually. Emotionally. Maybe legally? It’s 2/21/19 in Riviera Maya, and International Jams is dripping wet. The night is humid. The grooves are sdank. The moon was high. This wasn’t a concert, it’s a mirage with a setlist. Matt claims he hates Mexico shows in rhythm. Nick keeps saying “I’m pretty sure I was there” but refuses to confirm. Also: Stop texting picks of you in your speedo There was no set 3 To the woman in the front row, N...
May 20, 2025•23 min
Monday, May 19 — Soundcheck: The Week Is Baked-In Matt and Nick are back with a fresh batch of nonsense, mild planning, and full acknowledgment that yes, all the usual shows are happening this week. No guest hosts. No mystery themes. Just your two favorite spiraling co-hosts stumbling into another five-day jam of Phish-related chaos. Here’s the lineup: Tuesday : International Jams heads somewhere that requires a passport and a disclaimer. Also Brazil?? Wednesday : World Wide Wednesday gets weird...
May 19, 2025•26 min
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 invented jazz in 1997. Neither can explain what a clavinet actually does, but both agree Page probably knows ...
May 17, 2025•23 min
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 you on the journey! Dive into an epic show, uncover some Phishy Italian history, and stick around to find...
May 15, 2025•21 min
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 burned it. We didn’t. We just titled it “Taxes.” Inside, you’ll hear: Matt attempting to draft a formal ...
May 14, 2025•24 min
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 audibly, and whispered, "We swore we’d never open that folder." What’s in it? No one really knows. There...
May 13, 2025•24 min
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 of it with a harmonica mic). But because the 2/5/22 episode got… weird. Like, “Is this a podcast or a...
May 12, 2025•24 min
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. Silent jams? Non-refundable. Matt brings a stack of Phish fan fiction he swears was written during...
May 09, 2025•22 min
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 actually a barcode for a discontinued breakfast sandwich. The worst part? It scans. Today we’re going...
May 08, 2025•28 min
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 insists the roto-toms have multiplied. Matt brings out a chart labeled “Hi-Hat Tension vs. Emotional ...
May 07, 2025•22 min
