Line #10 Podcast/AnalyzePhish


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3	-> Hello everybody. I'm Harris Wittels, and I'll be your tour guide through the cosmos. Sorry.
4	->- Harris's intro
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6	''[[https://www.earwolf.com/show/analyze-phish/ Analyze Phish]]'' is a podcast on the Earwolf network, in which Harris Wittles (''Series/ParksAndRecreation'') attempted to make Scott Aukerman (''Series/ComedyBangBang'') a fan of the band Music/{{Phish}}. They discussed the band, listened to their music, and attended live shows together.
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8	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 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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10	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 [[DiedDuringProduction died of a drug overdose]] in 2015.
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13	!! Analyze Phish provides examples of:
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15	* 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}}''.
16	* BunnyEarsLawyer: Harris's friend Foxy, who attended Phish shows under the influence as much as Harris and likes to stick his finger in people's mouths, is a practicing lawyer.
17	* 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.
18	* EpicFail: One listener wrote in and said that if Harris argued in favor of breathing oxygen, people would suffocate.
19	* FreudianExcuse: One of the reasons Scott didn't like Phish is that in college, a Phish-loving hippy slept with his girlfriend.
20	* GuestHost: One episode is hosted by Tom Sharpling of ''Radio/TheBestShow''.
21	* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: Scott imagines a world in which hotel security uses time travel to stop pot-smoking guests.
22	->'''Harris''': Y'all know that Hitler is still a thing, right? Hitler is still a thing.
23	* InterfaceSpoiler: Harris believes that the listeners will have already read the show notes for each episode, so there's no point in waiting to talk about what will happen, because it's already been spoiled.
24	* 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.
25	* OverlyLongGag: When Harris offers Scott a choice of three songs to listen to, Harris starts the list with "The Line..." which Scott interrupts with "The Witch and The Wardrobe". They repeat this about a dozen times.
26	* SpecialGuest: Phish bassist Mike Gordon appeared in the show's ninth episode. The seventh episode features music journalist Creator/NathanRabin, himself a Phish fan.
27	* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: At a concert, multiple fans independently give Scott identical spiels about how lighting director Chris Kuroda is the "fifth member of Phish".
28	** While Harris and Scott are listening to recordings of themselves at Phish concerts, Harris makes a joke, only to hear that on the tape that he made the same joke at the time of the recording. Later Scott has to bite his tongue to keep from making a joke which, again, it turns out he made on the recording.
29	** 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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