Oh my God, hi.

It's me Dave Holmes.

Welcome to Troubled Waters, the show that treats popular culture as the most important kind of culture.

To celebrate it, analyze it, eviscerate it, put it through town halls and endless rallies and whatnot as though we haven't already made up our minds about it.

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

Roy Al to the ego death.

To win this battle, each guest will be called upon to use their smarts, their rhetorical

skills, the great comebacks that they've been playing over and over in their head.

They thought of them just a moment too late to earn the coveted troubled waters title

Pundit Emer emeritus which will automatically

give their opinion on whether the substance should have been submitted as a musical and comedy

for the golden globes more weight than a civilians i i'm afraid of even the idea of the movie the

substance honestly like it's i had a nightmare that I saw it. I haven't seen it.

Just the idea of seeing it was enough to give me a nightmare.

I'm screamish.

You're listening to Troubled Waters.

I'm, Let's meet our guests, shall we?

Let's meet our guests, shall we?

Our first contestant is a comedian.

His newest album, Ram Through, is out.

By the time you hear this, it is our friend Alan Strickland, Williams.

Alan, how are you?

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