Well, no-ho-ho there. I am Dave Holmes. You are listening to a very special episode of Troubled Waters.

We reached our stretch goal during the 2025 Max Fund Drive. We promised to give you the Troubled Waters North Hollywood special, and we are here to deliver.

Did we know what this special was going to be when we said we were going to do it? We did not.

Absolutely not. No. But we reached the goal. I'm not sure I still know what it is. Pardon?

Not kidding. I don't know. I'm not sure I know what it is currently. Yeah. No, I think we're going to,

we're going to discover it as we go, much as the pioneers who settled the streets of North Hollywood

back in the 1800s, which I do know a little bit about because I kind of checked it out on Wikipedia.

I am joined by Troubled Waters head writer Riley Silverman.

Hello.

Hi.

How are you?

I'm good.

How are you?

I've never been better.

We are also joined by producer Christian Duanyasu's going to be making

sure we sound good. And he might throw in a little fun fact. Hello, hello. As we go. I have no fun facts right now. Well, we are standing in front of the North Hollywood. I think it's called the Gateway or something. Yeah. Yeah. So really wacky sign. I just like that sign a lot. It's a fun sign. It's very, it's a little steampunk, but also a little 80s.

There it reminds me of California Science Center. You notice probably by now that this sounds a little different, and that's because we are on the actual streets of North Hollywood. So we're just going to be, we're going to be walking, we're going to be chatting. Walk it about. You might also hear my dog Finn.

I've decided to take him along for the ride and teach him some of his history.

Yeah.

It's good for a dog to know its heritage.

Let's do it.

Exactly.

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