Oh my God, hi, it's me Dave Holmes.

Welcome to Troubled Waters, the show that treats popular culture as the most important kind of culture to celebrate, analyze, and eviscerated.

Troubled Waters puts a pair of entertainers against one another in a pop culture battle to the ego death.

Now, to win this battle, each guest will be called upon to use their smarts,

their rhetorical skills, the great comebacks they've been saving in a tiny little field notes,

notebook, to earn the coveted Troubled Waters title Punant Emeritus, which will automatically

give their opinion on whether we need to shut up about Raygon more weight than a civilians.

You are listening to troubled waters. Let us meet our guests.

Our first contestant hosts the show secretly incredibly fascinating here on Max Fun.

Always a pleasure to welcome Alex Schmidt. Hello, Alex. Our first contestant hosts the show secretly incredibly fascinating here on Max Fun.

Always a pleasure to welcome Alex Schmidt.

Hello, Alex.

Dave, thank you.

Great to be here.

What's new in your life?

I am doing well.

I've been on an Elton John kick lately.

That's the pop cultural news on my mind. But it started with our arcade got an Elton John

pinball table. And I'm not even a big pinball person. I just had a really good time with it.

Yeah. So what era are we listening to? Like early 70s, Tumbleweed Connection and kind of honky

cat. When he was like the most into the band, like the Robbie Robertson band and trying to do that.

Yeah. I love that. Now you said you're arcade. Do you personally have an arcade? If only. No,

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