Oh my God, hi. You startled me. I'm Dave Holmes and welcome to Troubled Waters, the show that

treats popular culture as the most important kind of culture to celebrate it, analyze it, eviscerate it.

Troubled Waters pits a pair of entertainers against one another in a pop culture battle to the ego

death. To win this battle, each guest will be called upon to use their smarts, their rhetorical skills, their pithy comebacks that they've thought of just a second too late, to earn the coveted troubled waters title, Pundit Emeritus, which will automatically give their opinion on which of the works of the late James Earl Jones is the most important, more weight than a civilians.

Yeah, let's sit with weight than a civilians. Hmm.

Yeah, let's sit with that for a moment.

Rest in power.

James Earl Jones.

You're listening to Troubled Waters.

Music Let us meet our guests.

Our first contestant is a writer and her short 387 won top prize.

In the scriptation showcase, it's our old friend and recent L.A. transplant, Megan Sass.

Hi! Thanks for having me.

We just found out that we are neighbors. We're not going to say where.

But how are you liking it so far?

I'm very glad I moved.

Yeah, it's nice, right?

I think the trick is to leave New York when you are completely sick of it and feel like you have to get the hell out.

And then you won't miss it.

And then you won't miss it. And you will have space that is extra that you don't know what to do with.

I can't believe it. I am paying more, but I am getting so much more. And I feel like I can never go back.

My first apartment in L.A. when my friends from New York would come to visit my favorite feature that I kept showing everyone,

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