Riff 103 - Goodbye Dolly, Important TV Theme Songs, Take Your Dog To Work and Menard's [The Comedian Next Door]

Fight Laugh Feast USA · Aug 27, 2026 · 1h 4m

We go rummaging through the cultural attic, starting with TV theme songs from the ’80s and ’90s—the kind that apparently occupied permanent brain space while more practical information was evicted. That leads us to movies, music, horror franchises, familiar actors, and the peculiar nostalgia that makes an old theme song instantly recognizable decades later. Then somebody famous dies, and the internet demonstrates that grief is also a competitive event. We get into the rush to update Wikipedia, the speed of celebrity death reporting, and the emotional connection people have…