Well, hey there, folks.

I'm Dave Holmes.

Welcome to Troubled Waters, the show that treats popular culture as the most important kind

of culture because it is the one keeping you rooted to the earth at this particular moment

in history.

Now, in the before times, we used to all be together.

Troubled Waters would pit two teams of comedians against each other in a pop culture battle

royale. But now that we're all living in bunkers and everyone on the show is recording from them,

we're mixing things up just a little bit to keep things simple and so that Christian, our producer,

can have a life that doesn't involve explaining Mike's setup to newbies. So here's the deal.

We're all in our homes to win this battle.

We have two comics, and each of them will be called upon to use their smarts and their

rhetorical skills, maybe the college degrees are still paying off to earn the title

of Pundit Emeritus.

The Pundit Amaritus title automatically gives a person's opinion on whatever kind of fuckery is going on on J.K. Rowling's Twitter account.

More weight than a civilian's.

So let's meet our contestants. Our first contestant hosts the podcast, Call Your Girlfriend, and her new book, Big Friendship, How We Keep Each Other Close, will be out next month. It's a meeting too so. Hello.

Hi, thanks so much for having me. Thank you so much for being here. Where are you?

I am currently in East Marion, New York. It's a very long island. Nothing to complain about. Great. How are you feeling on the eve of pub day? I feel like okay. A book is just a really big blog post. So, you know, I feel like okay, you know, a book is just a really big blog post.

So, you know, I feel like it has appropriately been feted.

But it's also, you know, it's just work.

But it's exciting.

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