Ho, ho, ho there. I'm Dave Holmes and welcome to Troubled Waters. The show that treats popular culture is the most important kind of culture because, well, usually it's the one that bums you at the least, but I watched the White Lotus finale last night and let me tell you something. I got a little tense. I got a little sad. I got a little emotional. All right, well, let's not dwell. Back in the before times, troubled waters,

we pit two teams of comedians against each other

in a pop culture battle royale.

Ah, teams, remember those?

But now, teaming up with another person

who is not in your quarantine pod

is somehow still at the end of 2022.

Not cool.

It's more frowned upon than trying to play Wham's last Christmas at people who are trying to stop from getting whammy-bootled or whatever the fucking thing is.

What is that?

Whatever.

Anyway.

Now, it is one comedian against another.

We'll come back around to that.

To win this battle, each comic will be called upon to use their smarts, their rhetorical skills, maybe the great comebacks, they have been saving to earn the coveted troubled waters title, Pundit Emeritus, which will automatically

give their opinion on whether the three ghosts who visit Elon Musk this Christmas Eve are

just going to be too exhausted by his personality to try to fix him. More weight than a civilian.

You are listening to Troubled Waters. And it is a beautiful, themed troubled waters as we prepare for Santee Clause to come down the chimney.

Let us meet our players.

Our first contestant is a comic who hosts the podcast, Stinkers.

It's Caroline Cotter.

Hello.

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