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International Waters

Ep 86: Hey, Mind if I Turn On?

International Waters

Maximum Fun

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

4.7782 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Brandie Posey, Emily Maya Mills, Kayleigh Llewellyn and Tom Allen join Dave Holmes to learn about the secret verse of the Cheers theme song, Toblerone controversies, and childhood animal traumas. Brandie Posey wants to plug Burn This Election and her podcast, Lady to Lady and recommends the List of Demands comedy festival. Emily Maya Mills wants to plug the Disney show Right Now Kapow and the UCB web series Pricks and recommends the FX show Atlanta Kayleigh Llewellyn wants to plug her shows at The Free Association Theatre and recommends One Mississippi and Better Things. Tom Allen wants to plug his upcoming shows and recommends Suzi Ruffell's comedy 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. You can let us know what you think of International Waters and suggest guests through our Facebook group or on Twitter. Written by Riley Silverman and Sarah Morgan, recorded at MaxFunHQ in LA and GuiltFreePost in London, produced by Jennifer Marmor and Christian Dueñas.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there, folks. I'm Dave Holmes. Welcome to International Waters, the transatlantic panel show that pits American and British comedians against each other in a pop culture battle royale. We are taping this on November 15th, 2016. It's been a week. Everything that is small and hateful and petty and fearful and bad about human nature was rewarded with the highest office in the land.

0:26.2

And literally everybody's best case scenario is that maybe our new president will be too easily distracted to cause the actual apocalypse.

0:34.5

Right.

0:34.7

That's the best case scenario.

0:36.5

Here's hope.

0:37.4

Yeah.

0:37.8

I called my parents just for some comfort, you know, in the days after because, you know,

0:41.8

it was like busy trying to write about it, trying to synthesize and whatever.

0:44.7

And I just felt depleted.

0:45.9

And they could tell in my voice, they're just like, God, you really sound, you really sound like this is getting to you and I was like well you know yeah it's kind of an important thing yeah my mother's actual suggestion maybe don't pay attention yeah maybe don't pay attention

1:01.3

so that's really what I'm going to try to do so the world needs some healing we need a little

1:06.6

Christmas right this very minute so what we're going to do is we're going to make this episode

1:09.9

all about the very best things from our respective countries. We're going to

1:12.7

celebrate the good because 48% of our countries are good. UK,

1:16.7

you can relate. 48% voted against Brexit. Forty-eight percent here voted

1:20.5

for Hillary. So let's focus on the 48% of goodness

1:24.6

in our hearts. This is an all-positive episode.

1:27.6

Yes, party.

1:28.8

Of International Waters.

1:29.8

Yeah. playing for the country that says hey, silver lining, at least we got to America to take Nigel Farage off our hands.

2:00.2

Probably end up doing that again later.

2:01.9

She's improviser and comedy writer Kaylee Llewellyn.

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