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International Waters

Tight vs Loose

International Waters

Maximum Fun

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

4.7 • 782 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Flula Borg, Blair Socci, Steph Tolev and Emily Duke join host, Dave Holmes to settle once and for all, does middle school suck? Team Tight Flula Borg and Emily Duke Team Loose Blair Socci and Steph Tolev This week, it's our back to school episode and our contestants share some truly insane school stories, tackle some punny questions, and argue over a childhood prank story sent in by a listener. Flula Borg wants to plug his single "Self Care Sunday" and The Punies podcast. Blair Socci wants to plug her upcoming live shows and the Blair and Greta show and recommends Robby Hoffman and Punkie Johnson. Steph Tolev wants to plug her album I'm Not Well and Deb & Steph on Comedy Central and recommends Dave Ross' new album. Emily Duke wants to plug Garbage People and recommends Chris Gethard Presents. And finally, Dave Holmes is on Twitter @DaveHolmes. Find us on Twitter! We are @TroubledPod. 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 pesky 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. Welcome to Troubled Waters. Listen, the world's fucked up right now.

0:05.0

We're at a time when society is undergoing massive transnational change.

0:08.6

Deep divisions are fracturing our society. So we wanted to make sure we didn't lose side of the little things that separate us.

0:14.9

So this is a show for quibbles and quirks and the quotidian things that we disagree on. Okay?

0:20.1

Every episode, here's how it's going to work.

0:22.1

We'll figure out a bone of contention among our four guests that will split them into teams of two.

0:26.9

Each team will then square off in a pop culture battle royale to determine whose dumb opinion should prevail.

0:32.9

Will this show help heal the ongoing strife that's crippling society, Flula?

0:37.1

Yes, of course. Yes, of course.

0:37.7

Yes, of course it will.

0:38.6

Yes, it will. You're listening to troubled waters.

1:10.4

Okay. Our first contestant. You just heard him. He's a DJ. He hosts the podcast, boom time. It's comedian Flulabor.

1:11.9

Good day to you. How are you?

1:19.5

I'm so great, David. How are you? I've never been better. Is it truly? Yeah. This is not one time in your life.

1:25.1

This is the apex. A handful of times I've been. Okay. So you've, it's top 10%. So you've sometimes been better. I've occasionally been better.

1:28.0

Okay, cool.

1:31.2

But it seems weird to even bring it up because I'm good.

1:31.8

Okay, great.

1:32.3

How about you?

1:32.7

Wonderful.

1:33.8

You're in from Silver Lake.

1:34.4

Yeah, yeah.

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