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Troubled Waters

Maximum Fun

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

4.6 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This week, our friends Jordan Morris and Meghan Fitzmartin join Dave for Riverdale musicals, New Yorker cartoon captioning, and some good ol fashioned comic book knowledge bidding.

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0:00.0	Oh my God, hi. It's me Dave Holmes. Welcome to Troubled Waters, the show that treats popular culture as the most important kind of culture. To celebrate, analyze, and rip it apart. Troubled Waters, bits of air 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 argument
0:21.7	skills, the great comebacks that they wish they had said back in 1988 on that high school stairway.
0:30.0	Actually, these people were even born in 1988, what the fuck am I talking about? To earn the coveted
0:34.4	troubled waters title, Pundit Emeritus, which will automatically give their opinion on
0:39.2	who in the audience was a little pitchy
0:41.2	during that K-pop Demon Hunter's sing-along screening
0:43.5	more weight than a civilians.
0:46.1	You're listening to troubled
0:47.6	waters.
0:53.6	The Let's meet our guests.
1:15.6	Our first contestant is on a boat.
1:18.1	But that's not what's important right now.
1:20.4	It's all I can think about, but it's not what's important right now.
1:23.1	Our first contestant wrote for Supernatural.
1:26.7	Her new comic Mary Sue from Boom Comics is out October 8th,
1:31.3	straight from the Thames, Megan Fitzmartin. How are you, Megan? Hello, I'm good, thanks. Thank you for having me.
1:39.0	So, boat life, the boat life, talk to us. Yeah, I love it. I love it. It's great. 10 out of 10 boats.
1:45.3	When I wrote Tim Drake Robin, one of the joys of that was to be able to create the Gotham
1:51.6	arena that was incredibly informed by my own time living on boats, just because boats are cool.
1:58.5	Boats are weird. When you're surrounded by water, you can't help but be a little kooky.
2:05.0	And I love that about boats.
2:06.4	I love that.
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