Well, deck my halls. Hi there. I am Dave Holmes and welcome to Troubled Waters. The show that treats popular culture is the most important kind of culture because, well, you know, it's brought the golden globes back to us next year. We'll see how that goes. To this end, Troubled Waters pits a pair of entertainers against one another in a pop culture battle to the ego death.

To win this battle, each guest will be called upon to use their smarts, their rhetorical panache,

maybe the great comebacks they've been saving in a special little field notes notebook

to earn the coveted troubled waters title Pundit Emeritus, which will

automatically give their opinion on who is Godzilla's plus one more weight than a

civilians. You are listening to Troubled Waters. Let's get into it.

Let's get into it.

Our first contestant is a comic whose album Boston to Bristol is out by the time you hear this.

It's Sean Carter.

Hello.

Hey, how's it going?

I have never been better.

How is your holiday season?

It's been going great so far. I get to go watch

my three-year-old daughter sing in a chorus for, you know, tonight. So it's going to be great.

Oh, I love it. What are they singing? Do we know? Oh, it's just holiday. Like, you know, so she's been

singing jingle bells around the house all day. And I assume that's in there.

She knows some words to some songs.

I did not know that she knew, but they've been teaching her at daycare.

So I'm really excited.

Oh, I love it.

I love it.

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