Ep 80: Hard Lions

International Waters

Maximum Fun

Quiz, Trivia, Society & Culture, Pop Culture, Comedy, Improv

4.7 • 782 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Matt Gourley, Zabeth Russell, James Bachman and Nadia Kamil join host, Dave Holmes for questions about the Olympics, celebrity children's books and #CorporateHigh-erarchy. Matt Gourley wants to plug his Pistol Shrimps Radio podcast and recommends the Great British Baking Show. Zabeth Russell wants to plug the Armando Show which she performs in Friday nights and her all-female improv group The Village Bicycle, both at iO West. Zabeth recommends Lindy West's book, Shrill and Chad Johnson's Snapchat: REALCHADJOHNSON. James Bachman recommends the new Luna vinyl boxset and Will Hines' book, How to Be the Greatest Improviser on Earth. Nadia Kamil wants to plug her audio drama, Hiraeth Moon, which is coming soon to Howl.fm. Nadia recommends the book, Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Aichie. And finally, Dave Holmes is on Twitter @DaveHolmes and hosts his live quiz show, The Friday Forty at LA’s Meltdown Theatre on the second Friday of every month. Dave's new book Party of One is out now. Dave would like to recommend Mike Birbiglia's new movie, Don't Think Twice. You can let us know what you think of International Waters and suggest guests through our Facebook group or on Twitter. Written by Sarah Morgan and Riley Silverman. Recorded at GuiltFreePost in London by John Purcell Shackleton and at MaxFunHQ in Los Angeles. Produced by Jennifer Marmor and Colin Anderson.

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0:00.0	Hey there, folks. I'm Dave Holmes. Welcome to International Waters, the transatlantic panel show
0:03.8	that pits American and British comedians against each other in a pop culture battle royale.
0:09.1	It's mid-August. We're in the middle of the Olympics, the time when we can cancel our plans and yell at the TV and ogled guys in Speedos
0:17.0	and momentarily forget we're a country in decline. I love it. You're listening to International Waters. Playing for the country where the weather is currently sunny with light showers of Mary Poppins' is.
0:44.8	From that Mitchell and Webb look and Transformers, Age of Extinction, please welcome back James Bachman.
0:49.7	Hi.
0:50.1	Hello.
0:50.9	How are you?
0:52.0	I think I've got consumption. That's what I've been discussing.
0:54.7	Yeah, you've been complaining online about your coughs for what seems like months.
0:58.5	Have I?
0:58.9	I just mentioned it the other night.
1:00.7	Yeah, it's been more than that.
1:01.9	And it wasn't so much the cough.
1:03.3	It was more the weird noise that my throat makes when I'm trying to sleep.
1:06.0	Oh. which and it's like a sort of you know those like cars little toy cars where you pull them back and they
1:12.8	and then they've sort of that you let them go
1:14.7	it's like a kitten
1:16.5	is pulling one of those on some
1:18.3	grease proof baking parchment
1:20.6	get to a doctor yeah get to a doctor immediately I've been
1:23.8	I've been to doctor and he said shut up wow
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