Oh, hey everybody. It's me, Dave. Now, as you know, most of maximum funds support comes directly from you.

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Takes no time at all. Thanks. Well, hello. I'm Dave Holmes and 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 from flying off the planet.

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 another person who's not in your quarantine pod is possibly lethal.

It's definitely more frowned upon than trying to remember the last two Matrix movies while

watching the trailer for the new Matrix movie. 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 great comebacks they've been keeping in a notebook or a notes app since last

March to earn the coveted troubled waters title, Pundit Emeritus.

That title automatically gives a person's opinion on, say, Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac on the red carpet.

More weight than a civilians.

By the way, that was better than most pornography.

You are listening to Troubled Waters. Let's meet. Let's meet our contestants.

Our first contestant is a comedy producer.

You may know him from John Fenmore's souvenir program.

He's also worked on Inside the Comedian.

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