Folks, hello there. I am Dave Holmes. Welcome to Troubled Waters. The show that treats popular culture

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

Now, back in the before times, Troubled Waters would pit two teams of comedians against one another

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

pod is unethical. It's possibly lethal. It is definitely more frowned upon than changing your

Netflix password so your ex can't use it anymore. So for now, it is one comic against another.

And to win this battle, each comic will be called upon to use their smarts, their rhetorical

skills, the good comebacks, they've been keeping in a notes app all in isolation, to earn

the coveted troubled waters title, Pundit Emeritus. That title automatically gives a person's

opinion on, let's say, the hell's going on in Wanda Vision, more weight than a

civilians.

It's very important.

You're listening to troubled waters. Let's meet our comics.

Our first contestant's short film $16,000 will be screening at Slam Dance this year.

You can also hear her voice on Laser Wolf, airing on Adult Swim, and HBO Max.

It is Troubled Waters' Fave Ellington Wells. Hello, Ellington.

Hi, thanks for having me back. How are you?

Oh, I'm really good. I've been on the East Coast for three months and I just got back to L.A. So has anything happened since I've been gone? I don't think so. Literally nothing. Literally nothing at all. Things have opened and closed and opened and closed and open and closed. Right now, things for the moment are sort of open. But yeah, other than that, no. No good shows,

no movies, no, like no public anythings. You, we determined the last time I saw you was, I guess,

the last one of these that we did in person.

Yeah, it's crazy.

I did a lot of things.

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