Well, hey there, folks. I am Dave Holmes. Welcome to Troubled Waters. The show that treats popular culture as the most important kind of culture because it's keeping you alive right now. I know in the before times, Troubled Waters would pit two teams of comedians against each other in a pop culture battle royale. But now we're basically living in an apocalypse preppers paradise. Everyone on the

show is recording from their respective bunkers. So we're mixing things up a bit to keep things simple.

And so that our producer Christian can have a life. It doesn't involve explaining mic setup

in quick time to people. So to win this battle, each comic will be called upon to use their smarts, their rhetorical

skills, maybe the university degrees they're still paying off. Probably not, because they don't live

here, but we have to do that nonsense. To earn the coveted troubled waters title, Pundit Emeritus,

the Punditus title automatically gives a person's opinion on, let's say, whether Carol Baskin absolutely

murder her husband, more weight than a civilians. We'll get into that. You're listening to

troubled waters. Now today we are connected to our comics via Google Hangouts,

and everybody's home studios look pretty cozy.

One of our contestants is in a tent.

We'll address that in a moment.

We're taking advantage of the fact that we are not meeting in studio to say hello to a few friends of ours from across the pond, where it is night time.

Our first contestant is the host of the Beef and Dairy Network podcast here on Maximum Fun. You know him. You love him. He's Ben Partridge.

Hello. Hi. How are you? I'm fine. Given the circumstances, I'm fine.

As you mentioned, I'm in a little tent that I've created out of a slightly smelly duvet in a kind of my girlfriend's wardrobe.

And it's like a little inner sanctum which no one else can come into.

And hopefully it will give you lovely echo-free sound.

What are you, what are you soothing your soul with during this time of quarantine?

Are you binging or what are you doing?

I'm binging chocolate eggs.

I don't know what you guys do over Easter in America, but we've got this thing called the cream egg. I don't know what you guys do

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