Oh, well, hello there. I'm Dave Holmes. Welcome to Troubled Waters, the show that treats popular culture as the most important kind of culture because, well, it used to be the one that bummed us out the least. I don't know. Jury's out on where it stands on that list right now. But anyway, 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 is not in your quarantine pod is still possibly lethal.

Definitely more frowned upon than trying to put Elon Musk on the board of Twitter.

No.

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 comebacks they have been amassing in their notes app for the last two plus years to earn the troubled waters title Pundit Emeritus, which will automatically give their opinion on, let's say, John Oliver blackmailing Congress with

their own data, more weight than a civilians.

You are listening to Troubled Waters. Let us meet our contestants.

Our first contestant is a writer.

He's putting on the LA debut of an intervention.

It's Jeremy Cinder.

Jeremy.

Hey.

How are you?

How's it going?

I'm doing well.

How are you doing?

Never better.

Tell me about an intervention.

Yeah, it is a British play by Mike Bartlett, a British

playwright. It's premiered in London and New York, and this is the West Coast premiere of it.

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