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International Waters

The Troubled Waters 2019 Holiday Special

International Waters

Maximum Fun

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

4.7 • 782 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Alison Rosen, Danielle Perez, Joel Stein, and Drennon Davis join host Dave Holmes for the very first Troubled Waters holiday special! This week, our teams argue over holiday party etiquette, tell us about their worst holiday experiences, and pretend to love their terrible Christmas presents. Alison Rosen would like to plug the Childish and Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend live shows at SF Sketchfest and recommends Joel Stein's book, In Defense of Elitism: Why I'm Better Than You and You're Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book. Joel Stein would like to plug his book and recommends the Beetlejuice musical on Broadway Drennon Davis would like to plug The Long Legs series and Bandtastic and recommends American Utopia and Rory Scovel's upcoming documentary. Danielle Perez would like to plug her upcoming tour dates and recommends Madison Shepard's album Goodnight Silverlake Lounge And Finally, Dave Holmes is on Twitter @DaveHolmes Find us on Twitter! We are @TroubledPod and you can also find us on Facebook. Call us on the official Troubled Waters hotline! Our number is 323-300-4984. Our producers will have a new prompt for you to answer and we may just use your call on the show Don't want to pay those international calling fees? Email us a voice memo! troubledwaterspod@gmail.com Written by Riley Silverman and John-Luke Roberts, recorded at MaxFunHQ in LA and produced by Christian Dueñas and Laura Swisher.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there, folks, I'm Dave Holmes.

0:01.2

Welcome to Troubled Waters.

0:02.5

The world is fucking falling apart.

0:04.7

It's a disaster.

0:06.0

So we wanted to make sure we did not lose sight of the silly bullshit that separates us.

0:10.0

So this is a show for the quotidian things that we disagree on.

0:13.7

And this week, it's the Troubled Waters holiday special.

0:16.9

Yay!

0:17.2

Yay!

0:18.5

That's right.

0:19.4

What does that mean?

0:20.2

I don't know.

0:20.8

We'll find out soon.

0:21.6

You're listening to Troubled Waters.

0:23.6

We're listening to Troubled Waters. Our first contestant hosts the podcast Allison Rosen is your new best friend, which I've been on, and Childish, which I haven't.

0:54.8

You need to come on.

0:55.8

Well, I don't have kids.

0:56.7

It's Alison Rosen.

0:57.7

You have a dog.

0:58.3

Hello.

0:58.8

Thank you for having me.

1:00.0

Very excited.

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