Hey there, folks, I'm Dave Holmes. Welcome to International Waters, the transatlantic panel show that pits U.S. and UK comedians against each other in a pop culture battle royale. Now, listen, I know a lot of our UK listeners are crying into their cheeky vimtoes over the election results. But I'm a glass-half-full kind of guy. Have you ever considered how much great music came out of the last major conservative period in British history.

Margaret Thatcher may not be your favorite person in the whole wide world, but would we have

had the Smiths without her?

Billy Bragg?

Spandout ballet?

No, we would not.

What did Tony Blair leave us musically?

The telitubbies?

The cheeky girls?

Gary Barlow's solo material?

All right, open road is kind of a banger, but still.

Now, the same is true in the United States. Reagan filled our streets with the homeless, but he also

inspired REM and the replacements. Bill Clinton, on the other hand, gave us eight years of peace

and prosperity, and seven, Mary three. So take heart, UK. Unions will be busted. Immigrants will be

antagonized, but right now there's a 15-year-old programming a protest song into garage band, one that will set the world on fire and frighten the old people, which technically means you, but don't worry about it. Just trust the process.

And U.S., believe me when I tell you, if I hear the words Uptown funk you up, I'm all that bass, or featuring Afrojack, one more time I am devoting my life to campaigning for Mike Huckabee.

That's a promise. And this is International Waters. All right now.

All right for the country that spent the last two weeks drunkenly yelling about some girl named Tori.

I don't get it.

It's the host of the amazing Answer Me This Podcast and International Water's Most Returningest Guest of all time, Helen Zaltzman.

Hi, Helen.

That is the proudest achievement in my life, being the most returningist guest here.

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