Hey there, folks. I am Dave Holmes. Welcome to Troubled Waters. The show that treats popular culture is the most important kind of culture because every other kind of culture right now makes you want to die. Now, 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 definitely irresponsible 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 really good

comebacks they've been saving up over the last six months of isolation.

To earn the coveted troubled waters title, Pundit Emeritus, the Punditus title automatically gives a person's opinion on, let's say the president saying that he didn't want to cause panic

two weeks after he said that Joe Biden wanted to hurt God more than civilians.

But let's keep it lighter than that.

Let's keep a pop culture based.

You're listening to her newsletter to get answers to Now let's meet our teams. Our first contestant is a writer and a comic.

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