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It’s a good day to be a Phish fan (phan?) as the band played the third-longest jam of their career last night at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountainview, California. The song “Soul Planet” would be the vehicle for the record-setting jam. For those who are friends or relatives of fans of Phish, “Soul Planet” is a song not often mentioned. This makes the choice of “Soul Planet” rather surprising because, as friends and relatives of fans of Phish can attest to, fans of Phish love mentioning songs by Phish. Generally speaking, anyone who has ever been forced to listen to Phish by a Phish fan will have been exposed to songs such as “Harry Hood”, “Wilson”, “Stache”, “Run Like an Antelope”, “Wolfman’s Brother”, or (most famously) “Tweezer” and “Tweeprise.” Anyone who has ever played beer pong at a frat house knows the song “Farmhouse,” though most Phish fans will tell you that that song is like, totally whatever man.
The aforementioned “Tweezer” was the vehicle for the longest jam ever of their career. This happened back in 1995, notably when they were still on a lot of drugs. The jam lasted for days, but the acid didn’t, so the crowd fluctuated throughout. The members of Phish, now sober and also old, were only able to manage jamming “Soul Planet” for several hours before they needed to be fed their warm milk and put to bed.
OTHER NEWS AND NOTES
Bishop Sycamore, the “High School” football team that drew national attention this week for being a fake school and fake football team, has fired head coach Roy Johnson. The fallout from the absolute stomping (58-0) that Bishop Sycamore took on ESPN at the hands of IMG academy has been swift, with the Governor of Ohio launching an investigation into the legitimacy of the team. Many might wonder how the team wound up on ESPN, or on a high school football schedule, in the first place. Let’s hope Governor DeWine can get to the bottom of it. In the meantime, the fake football team will start conducting a search for their second fake coach immediately.
Joe Rogan, podcast host and man whose head has muscles, has tested positive for COVID-19. He famously said that young, fit people should not have to worry about getting the COVID vaccine. Well well well, look who’s not so young and fit anymore. Rogan, 54, has taken the controversial drug Ivermectin for treatment. Because, when you’re built like a horse, you might as well use horse meds.
New York City has flooded due to rains related to Hurricane Ida. Captured video shows water at waist height at street level, with subway stations looking like that one scene from the movie Titanic.
The Treasury Department has announced that trust funds are projected to run out of money sooner because of COVID. In related news, the Treasury Department still thinks that Earth will live long enough for trust funds to run out.