Oh my God! Hi! It's me Dave Holmes. Welcome to Troubled Waters. This is the show that treats popular

culture as the most important kind of culture because, yeah, it's popular and popular things are just better.

Back in the before times, Troubled Waters would pit two teams of comedians against each other and a pop culture

battle royale. We'd all be together in the same studio.

Can you even imagine such a thing now?

That's frowned upon.

That's more frowned upon than Gerard Carmichael's Golden Globes monologue.

Good Lord.

So for now, it is one comic against another.

We're on Zoom.

We're scattered all over the world.

And to win this battle, each comic will be called upon

to use their smarts, their rhetorical skills, the comebacks that they've been saving up in a

notes app, just waiting for the right moment to earn the coveted troubled waters title, Pundit

Emeritus, which will automatically give a person's opinion on Nicholas Cage, just getting his life as Dracula in the Renfield trailer.

More weight than a civilians, and that's important in this day and age.

You're listening to Troubled Waters. Let us meet our contestants.

Let us meet our contestants.

Our first is a comedian and a writer.

Her upcoming album, People Pleaser, will be out on February 9th.

It is Chase O'Donnell.

Welcome, Chase.

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