Well, hello there. I am Dave Holmes. Welcome to Troubled Waters. The show that treats popular culture is the most important kind of culture because it might be the kind that bums you out the least, although we are really putting it to the test lately. Now, back in the before times, troubled waters would pit two teams of comedians against each other in a pop culture battle royale. But now, still, teaming up with another person who is not in your quarantine pod is possibly

lethal.

It's definitely more frowned upon than throwing your country a birthday party this July 4th when

she has been very naughty.

I'm not doing it.

I'm not taking you to showbiz this year, America. You've been a very bad girl. And you need to think about what you've done. You're not doing it. I'm not taking you to show biz this year, America.

You've been a very bad girl, and you need to think about what you've done.

You're not doing it.

And I'm serious.

We're leaving the country for July 4th.

Uh-uh.

So for now, it's one comic against another.

To win this battle, each of our comics will be called upon to use their smarts, their rhetorical skills, the great comebacks they've been saving in an expensive notebook, to earn the coveted troubled waters title of Pundit Emeritus, which will

automatically give their opinion on, say, Netflix coming up with an advertising tier and thereby

inventing cable more weight than a civilians.

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

The first contestant is a comedian and a writer.

You can catch her play Love All Alllasses at the Connolly Theater in New York City.

It's Lavinia Wright.

Hello.

Hey, Dave.

How are you?

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