Riff 100 - When concert tickets required survival skills and we learned how to socialize with Pickup Sticks [The Comedian Next Door]

Fight Laugh Feast USA · Aug 6, 2026 · 1h 1m

This is our 100th riff session! To celebrate, we're including this sentence announcing our 100th riff session! The conversation starts with an unexpectedly serious debate over the difference between tin whistles, recorders, and the people who insist on using the correct musical terminology, revealing that musicians have an entire vocabulary devoted to preventing anyone from casually calling the wrong instrument a flute. That attention to detail quickly collides with stories about orchestras, concert etiquette, and the realization that some instruments carry far more cultural prestige than…