Oh my God. Hi, I'm Dave Holmes. Welcome to Troubled Waters, the show that treats popular culture

as the most important kind of culture because on Election Day, it's the one that's keeping us

tethered to the earth. Kind of. Now back in the before era, Troubled Waters would pit two

teams of comedians against one another in a pop culture battle

royale often in the same studio, breeding the same air and stuff. Can't do that anymore.

That is more frowned upon than trying to pretend to beat Elon Musk on Twitter without the very

clear and legally verified indication of it being a parody.

So for now, it is one comic against another. To win this battle, each comic

will be called upon to use their smarts, their rhetorical skills, their parody tweets that they're

afraid to post out because, you know, what if you get blocked forever? Which, by the way,

would be my dream. Anyway, to earn the coveted troubled waters title, Pundit Emeritus, which would

automatically give their opinion on which Mastodon server you're going to join and then forget

about. More weight than a civilians. My God, there's a lot to get into. Let's do it. You're listening

to Troubled Waters. Let's meet our players, our first contestant, a troubled waters alumnus, the co-host of a podcast

that I am really enjoying called You Know What I Would Do You Know What I Would Do?

And a dear friend of the whole Troubled Waters family.

And essentially has taken time out of being in a Wes Anderson movie to be here.

It's Mike Castle.

I am so dressed for a Wes Anderson.

Yeah, wow, I appreciate that.

The print behind you. No, yeah, it's all here.

And I have an Infinite Jess poster there as well, so you know I'm hateable. Literal infinite

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