the wire — the call before each show (RSS) ↗
· The Goose Edition · Friday, November 6, 2026 · an almanac, printed as they play
Think you can out-call the AI? Tap the songs you bet Goose plays tonight, 🔒 lock your surest one, 🎲 dare a deep cut for bonus — then watch the morning-after grade. No signup: you get a ticket stub to check tomorrow.
Tonight’s picks are in — the wall’s up. Results post the morning after the show. Got a stub? Check it below.
No show on the board right now. When the next one’s announced, this is where you call it before the AI does.
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The AI’s whole hand, face-up before the show — posted early and held. The only thing that moves before the lock: songs the band just played drop off once last night’s show grades. Then it seals exactly as shown.
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The AI has laid its cards. Your move. Tap in the setlist you’d call, lock it before the show — graded the morning after, same ledger as the AI.
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Not a season or all-time average — early club sets and today’s long-jam two-sets aren’t the same animal, so an all-years number would lie. We take the last 12 shows of the same type (a real two-set night vs a festival / one-set), count the songs in each, and average — rounded to the nearest song. As-of only: it never counts a show that hasn’t happened yet, so it’s the same number we could have posted that morning.
the 12 two-set shows it averaged (songs each, newest first)
Average 14.3 → ~14. The count is a call too — the Reckoning sets what we called next to what they actually played. Song counts only here — never a setlist (those live at El Goose).
You against the AI. Every fan who plays seals a call before doors and rides the same ledger as it — base hit +1, a landed 🔒 Lock +3, a cold 🎲 Bold deep cut +5. Claim your stub to put a name on a card; beat the AI’s line and you’ve out-called it.
No one’s claimed a card yet — the board’s wide open. Call tonight’s setlist up top, save your stub, and the morning after you’re the first name on the people’s ladder.
2026-11-04 — how the panel called it against what they played. Most songs called wins the night — honest as the morning.
The take — The AI swings big, nailing "Animal" and "Yeti," and walks away with the crown, proving it's not just a fan but a formidable force in the jam band prediction game.
See every lab’s full call from this night — the back issue →
★ Last time at Miller High Life Theatre — Feb 8, 2025 · 12 songs. the setlist at El Goose →
Our call for how tonight bookends — the most likely OPENER, ENCORE, and set-CLOSER, weighed by who’s hot AND who tends to fill the role. A separate bet from the setlist; graded Saturday against what actually played.
MEDIA · Atlas Dogs · Royal
The Empress Of Organos · POP · Slow Ready
The Empress Of Organos · Hot Tea · Dripfield
Presence × role-rate, computed as-of tonight — no peeking at the result. The opener & encore call is graded after the show.
Repertoire regulars the band is overdue to dust off — ranked by how many of their OWN typical gaps they’ve blown past, not by raw time cold. Six shows cold means nothing for a rarity and a lot for a song they usually play every three. Smart money, not a long shot.
| song | cold | usual gap | overdue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crosseyed & Painless | 285 | 9.3 | 10.0× |
| Disco Inferno | 285 | 9.8 | 10.0× |
| Escape (The Piña Colada Song) | 181 | 17.0 | 10.0× |
| Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard | 333 | 12.5 | 10.0× |
| Feeling Hot Hot Hot | 470 | 5.7 | 10.0× |
| Also Sprach Zarathustra | 442 | 17.7 | 10.0× |
Cadence counted from El Goose — the “overdue” multiple is shows-cold ÷ the song’s usual interval. Almanac fun, not a wager.
The deep freeze — real regulars that haven’t surfaced in ages. A morning line just for fun (no money, just glory); the longer the wait, the longer the odds. If one of these drops, the room comes unglued.
Nobody’s reaching for the deep freeze tonight — the labs are playing the hits. The long shots below are still lurking.
| song | cold | last seen | the line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crosseyed & Painless | 285 | 2022-12-18 | 428-1 |
| Disco Inferno | 285 | 2022-12-18 | 428-1 |
| Escape (The Piña Colada Song) | 181 | 2024-06-18 | 272-1 |
| Switchin' | 169 | 2024-09-03 | 254-1 |
| The Old Man's Boat | 59 | 2026-04-15 | 88-1 |
| Lead the Way | 49 | 2026-05-07 | 74-1 |
| Doc Brown | 49 | 2026-05-07 | 74-1 |
| Mas Que Nada | 45 | 2026-05-22 | 68-1 |
Counted from El Goose, never reprinted — the line is a bit of almanac fun, not a wager.
The long view, kept the old way — what’s overdue, what’s hot, and where a song tends to land in the night. Counted from El Goose, not reprinted from it.
| The Empress Of Organos | 11 |
| Hot Love & The Lazy Poet | 10 |
| Animal | 8 |
| Big Modern! | 8 |
| Dustin Hoffman | 8 |
tends to start the nightSwitchin' · Jam · Liza Jane
tends to send you homeTurn On Your Love Light · The Empress Of Organos · Sinnerman
Trends are our compilation of El Goose event facts — we link out, never reprint a setlist. browse the source at El Goose →
We don’t ask the AI to be clever on its own — it’s handed the house/crstlbl statistical read first, then asked to make its own call. Same rules, same evidence, same format every time. That’s why we can show you exactly what we ask.
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