Riff 76 - Doomsday Clock, Black Pepper, and Hibernation as A Life Strategy [The Comedian Next Door]

Fight Laugh Feast USA · Feb 5, 2026 · 1h 4m

We covered a lot of ground in this conversation, which is another way of saying we wandered bravely from topic to topic with the confidence of people who believe curiosity is a form of planning. It started with musical dreams, which immediately ran into taxes, because nothing crushes artistic ambition faster than discovering the government would also like a solo. From there we examined the mysterious phenomenon of celebrity wealth, which turns out to be mostly an illusion created by sunglasses, confidence, and someone else paying for lunch. Naturally this led us to government conspiracies…