Happy Max Fun Drive to you and to your loved ones.

Now we're going to get into it a little bit later on in the show.

But for right now, this is what you need to know.

Max Fun Drive is the time of year where we celebrate Max Fun members, the family.

And we remind you that this show and all the great Maximum Fun shows exist

because folks like you support it at $5 a month or more.

Yeah, you want to give more? You can. That's how generous we are here. You can find out more and you can join us or you can upgrade your membership at maximum fun.org. Stick around.

Well, hello. Hi, it's me Dave Holmes.

Welcome to Troubled Waters.

I just did that and Finbar walked in.

How about that?

Our show mascot, Finbar, we'll get to him and his enamel pin later.

But you are listening to Troubled Waters, the show that treats popular culture as the most important kind of culture.

Because it's the kind that makes dog movies that star

Mark Wahlberg and a dog.

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, the great comebacks that they've been saving in a special part of their brand that

could probably be better used on something else to earn the coveted troubled waters title,

Pundit Amheritus, which will automatically give their opinion on the fact that Ewan McGregor and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Winstead,

still had to use an onset intimacy coordinator.

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