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The show worked off the dynamic between Wittels, a devoted Phish fan who had attended 300 of their concerts, and Aukerman, who began the series having a slightly negative but mostly agnostic opinion towards the band, and was curious about their music and fan culture. Early in its run, Wittels recieved some blowback from fellow Phish fans, who claimed the podcast was not a proper introduction to the band, in part because he regularly played Scott snippets of songs as opposed to full jams. In [[https://relix.com/articles/detail/harris/ an article]] he wrote for ''Relix'', he argued that the podcast was intended to be comedic first and foremost, and he also wanted to keep listeners' interest: He observed there's not a lot that's funny about two guys silently listening to a 20 minute Phish song. That ''Relix'' article also doubled a more serious guide from him for those interested in actually getting into the band.

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The show worked off the dynamic between Wittels, a devoted Phish fan who had attended 300 of their concerts, and Aukerman, who began the series having a slightly negative but mostly agnostic opinion towards the band, and was curious about their music and fan culture. Early in its run, Wittels recieved received some blowback from fellow Phish fans, who claimed the podcast was not a proper introduction to the band, in part because he regularly played Scott snippets of songs as opposed to full jams. In [[https://relix.com/articles/detail/harris/ an article]] he wrote for ''Relix'', he argued that the podcast was intended to be comedic first and foremost, and he also wanted to keep listeners' interest: He observed there's not a lot that's funny about two guys silently listening to a 20 minute Phish song. That ''Relix'' article also doubled a more serious guide from him for those interested in actually getting into the band.
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* BizarroEpisode: InvokedTrope. Two episodes are named ''Analyze Fish'', and feature a different set of hosts discussing the movie ''Film/{{Jaws}}''.

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* BizarroEpisode: InvokedTrope. Two episodes are named ''Analyze Fish'', and feature a different set of hosts (Paul F. Thompkins and Harold Kremer) discussing the movie ''Film/{{Jaws}}''.
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* ShortLivedBigImpact: ''Analyze Phish'' only lasted ten episodes before Wittels died, but it directly inspired Phish lyricist Tom Marshall to start his own podcast, ''Under the Scales''. That show wound up being the starting point for Marshall's Osiris Podcast Network, which features several other music podcasts, many of them about Phish or other jam bands.
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The podcast had an infrequent schedule, and Wittels claimed the show would end on the spot if Aukerman decided he actually liked Phish. By the end of its run, Aukerman still hadn't become a fan, but he had grown to understand the appeal of the band. Only 10 episodes of the podcast were made before Wittels [[AuthorExistenceFailure died of a drug overdose]] in 2015.

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The podcast had an infrequent schedule, and Wittels claimed the show would end on the spot if Aukerman decided he actually liked Phish. By the end of its run, Aukerman still hadn't become a fan, but he had grown to understand the appeal of the band. Only 10 episodes of the podcast were made before Wittels [[AuthorExistenceFailure [[DiedDuringProduction died of a drug overdose]] in 2015.
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* CringeComedy: Scott describes Harris as cringing during live calls from Phish fans.

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* CringeComedy: Scott describes Harris as cringing during live calls from Phish fans. And when Harris hears himself on tape. And when Scott asked the band annoying questions backstage.
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** During a show, when Scott asked what song was playing, a random person came up to them and shouted, "It's the Maze, bro! You'll never get out of the Maze!" Harris admitted he would have said the same thing.
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* LineOfSightName: Scott criticizes Phish for this a few times, for example, when Harris said that "Train Song" was named after the band rode a train.

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* LineOfSightName: Scott criticizes Phish for this a few times, for example, when Harris said that "Farmhouse" was written in a farmhouse, and "Train Song" was named after the band rode a train.
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* FreudianExcuse: One of the reasons Scott didn't like Phish is that in college, a Phish-loving hippy slept with his girlfriend.


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* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: Scott imagines a world in which hotel security uses time travel to stop pot-smoking guests.
->'''Harris''': Y'all know that Hitler is still a thing, right? Hitler is still a thing.
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* BizzaroEpisode: InvokedTrope. Two episodes are named ''Analyze Fish'', and feature a different set of hosts discussing the movie ''Film/{{Jaws}}''.

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* BizzaroEpisode: BizarroEpisode: InvokedTrope. Two episodes are named ''Analyze Fish'', and feature a different set of hosts discussing the movie ''Film/{{Jaws}}''.

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