Oh my gosh. Hi, it's me Dave Holmes. Welcome to Troubled Waters. The show that treats popular

culture is the most important kind of culture because it is the one that is, well, bumming us out

the least. Ideally. Now, back in the before times, Troubled Waters would pit two teams of

comedians against each other in a pop culture battle royale, but can't do it anymore. Now teaming up

with another person who is not

in your quarantine pod is still possibly lethal. Definitely more frowned upon than trying to, I don't know,

make your connection at Heathrow Airport with less than three hours to spare. So for now,

it's one comic against another. To win this battle, each comic will be called upon to use their smarts, their rhetorical skills,

maybe the great comebacks they have been amassing in a moleskin notebook to earn the coveted

troubled waters title, Punted Emeritus.

That will give their opinion on, let's say, Emily Ratatouille, whatever her name is, the model,

who's just divorcing her husband?

Because he cheated on her?

More weight than a civilians.

You are listening to Troubled Waters. Now listen, this episode is late. We all know it. I was stuck in Heathrow Airport like everybody else.

Traveling is an absolute nightmare right now. Airports are running on skeleton crews. We thought we had three hours to get from our Dublin flight to our Heathrow to LAX flight. We sprinted through Heathrow

Airport. No kidding. Like a, like a full, like a 5K, through Heathrow Airport from one terminal to another.

We were greeted then with yet another three-hour security line and we missed our flight. But at least

I got to hang out at a Crown Royal

Hotel. Crown Royal, not a Crown Royal, that's booze. A Crown Plaza Hotel right outside of Heathrow.

Have a gloriously tense night. So thank you for your patience with this late episode. Let's meet

our contestants. Our first is the host of the podcast by the book

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