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Troubled Waters

Maximum Fun

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

4.6 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week, Cristen Conger and Emily Rose Jacobson join host Dave Holmes for some songs about the new year, 2022/21 trivia, and try and come up with a better Word of the Year.

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0:00.0	Oh my God, hi.
0:02.0	I'm Dave Holmes.
0:03.0	Welcome to Troubled Waters.
0:04.0	The show that treats popular culture is the most important kind of culture because, well, it's the kind that gay kids can talk to with their parents about during the holidays.
0:13.0	It's the common denominator.
0:14.0	We turn Fox News down.
0:16.0	We turn her classic movies up.
0:18.0	And that's what we do. That's what we do. That's how we survive.
0:23.9	Anyway, that's maybe just me. Okay, back in the before times,
0:27.6	troubled waters would pit two teams of comedians against one another in a pop culture battle royale. But now we can't do that anymore. We can't pack into an airless recording studio
0:32.4	like we're a bunch of teenagers in the 1950s doing a phone booth thing. What was that all about, by the way?
0:37.9	Anyway, that is all possibly lethal.
0:39.4	It is definitely more frowned upon than being a nepo baby, like Phoebe Bridgers.
0:44.5	Yeah, we know you didn't really earn your career.
0:47.0	You just got it because your dad was a carpenter on a studio lot.
0:51.9	New York Magazine, that's a stretch.
0:53.4	Come on, no.
0:53.9	Anyway, for now, it is one iconic comic
0:57.2	against another. And to win this battle, each comic will be called upon to use their smarts,
1:02.5	their rhetorical skills, the great comebacks they have been amassing in that one little piece
1:06.8	of their brain that is just for comebacks to earn the coveted troubled waters title
1:11.2	Pundit Emeritus, that'll give their opinion on just how many more goddamn breaking news
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