Oh my guide. Hi. It's me Dave Holmes. Welcome to Troubled Waters. The show that treats popular

culture is the most important kind of culture because it simply is. Is there another kind of

culture that has fellow travelers in it? I don't think so. 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 skills, their improvised pep talks, perhaps, to earn the coveted troubled

waters title pundit emeritus, which will automatically give their opinion on,

all right, how this year is actually going to be the one that's different, more weight than a civilians.

Let's dive in.

You're listening to Troubled Waters. Let's meet our guests.

Our first contestant, he's a comic, he's a writer.

He is, I'll just say it, not even a regional treasure, a national treasure.

Check out his website for upcoming tour dates.

You know, we're recording this in the morning, so he probably hasn't done cocaine yet,

unless he is a morning cocaine person.

Come on. It's Josh Gondelman.

Josh, welcome.

Thank you. Thanks so much for having me here.

It is where I am. It's the afternoon.

But I, that doesn't mean that I am using cocaine.

Because you don't.

It's a thing that's become attached to you.

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