Oh, hi. I'm Dave Holmes. Welcome to Troubled Waters. The show that treats popular culture is the most important kind of culture because, quite frankly, is the one that bums us out the least.

Now, back in the before times, Troubled Waters would pit two teams of comedians against each other in a pop culture battle royale.

But now teaming up with somebody who is not in your quarantine pod is

it's frowned upon. It's more frowned upon than trying to talk about Bruno. So for now, it is one

comic against another. And to win this battle, each of our comics will be called upon to use

their smarts, their rhetorical skills, the great comebacks they've been saving in a moleskin notebook all throughout isolation to earn the coveted Troubled Waters title, Pundit Emeritus.

That title will automatically give their opinion on, let's say, Che Diaz, more weight than a civilians.

You're listening to Troubled Waters. All right. Let's meet our teams.

Our first contestant is the creator of the alt comedy show Uncabouray.

She is a living legend.

And you can check out her audiobook, so you need to decide.

Right now, it's Beth Lapidus. Hey, Dave! How are you? I'm so well, happy to be here. So

happy to see you. Great to see you. Congratulations on the book. I will toot my own horn and say

that I am a part of it. And I'm honored part of it. You're not only a part of it,

a great part of it. Your story. And let's just say, can we say it involves the Indigo girls and

leave it at that? Yeah, it's a stellar story. Oh, thanks. It's real. Yeah. Yeah, it's all real. The book is

all real. Decisions and stories and heartbreak and love and lost. Yeah. So it's exciting to have it out and I'm excited to have people be hearing it.

Who else do you interview in this book? I interview Bob Odenkirk. I interview Phoebe Bridgers. Scott Frank.

Dana Gould, Merrill Marco, Julia Sweeney, like that.

Legends.

Legends.

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