114: We Had A Conversation (with King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard)

There you go.

So yeah, first and foremost, guys, at the time of this recording, I am deep in Phish live-streaming, as I know many of you are who are listening.

Why are so many of us now live-streaming Phish, like, nightly? Well, simply, Phish gave us an offer we could not refuse.

That's right, live Phish with.

We literally couldn't refuse it.

Why? [laughs] Because it's a great deal [clears throat] and also there's no alternative now.

That's right, Phish said that you could either get live Phish, their regular, for a certain cost, where you get to hear all the shows in their database and stuff, which is not all the shows, but it's a lot of shows.

You can get live Phish with, which I love the play on words, like the curtain with.

And they said, "Hey, for $150 a year," which is the annual amount.

I don't even know what it breaks down to monthly, but it's more expensive.

For $150, w- you can also now live-stream all of the available live-stream Phish shows, which is a lot of them.

Most of them are live-streamed.

So I did the math and I re-- and I thought to myself, "Well, I only probably, if I'm being real, I only probably stream, like, three, four, maybe five at most Phish shows a year.

And I'm paying $30 a pop.

So I'm not even spending $150 right now." So I custied up and spent $150 [laughs] to Phish, even though that means I'm spending more money for Phish.

They were smart.

Immediately, it felt like Phish was paying us all back.

[laughs] Like, they were like, "Thanks for the money, all of you," because so many people did this.

So many people custied up.

And Phish starts a summer tour out here in 2026 that some have started to call Phish Destroys America 2026.

Is it that I'm just streaming more Phish, and I just didn't watch that much Phish in the last few years, and every sh- Phish show feels incredible now that I'm live-streaming it, or is something really special happening? I'm gonna go with the latter because I've seen a lot of Phish, and I, uh, I think I have a pretty good gauge for what I'm seeing.

Phish, as we know it, has thrown out the rule books.

They've thrown out where songs go in a set.

They have tossed out what songs get jammed and what songs don't.

And if I could fault Phish with anything when I compare them to some of my other favorite jam bands, and it, it is that their set list can be a bit predictable in terms of placement, and you're never gonna get, like, a jammed out Bouncing.