Well, hello there, folks. I'm Dave Holmes. Welcome to Troubled Waters. The show that treats popular

culture as the most important kind of culture because it is the one that is keeping us hanging on.

Now, in the before times, Troubled Waters would pit two teams of comedians against each other

in a pop culture battle royale. But now, teaming up with another person who is not in your

quarantine pod is possibly lethal, definitely more frowned upon than trying to say you can't be

racist because you took an Afro-Brazilian dance class like Becky on the real world homecoming

just did in episode three. And I'm not kidding. So for now, it's one comic against another. To win this battle, each comic will be

called upon to use their smarts, their rhetorical skills, the great comebacks they've been

saving in a moleskin notebook for the last year, to earn the coveted troubled waters title,

Pundit Emeritus. That title automatically gives a person's opinion on, let's say, which hour of the Snyder cut felt more like three hours, more weight than a civilians.

You are listening to Troubled Waters. Our first contestant is a comic.

She hosts the War Report podcast.

It's Shalewa Sharp.

Hello, Shalea.

Hello.

How are you?

I'm all right.

How are you doing?

You know, I've never been better in my life.

Oh, wow.

That's a lie.

That's a lie.

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