Oh, well, hello there.

I'm Dave Holmes, and welcome to Troubled Waters.

The show that treats popular culture as the most important kind of culture

because it's probably the one that bums you out the least.

Now, 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 possibly lethal. It's definitely not cool.

So for now, it is one comic against another. We have two comics facing off to win this battle.

Each comic will be called upon to use their smarts, their rhetorical skills, the good

comebacks that they've been amassing and writing down on a notebook for the last year

to earn the coveted troubled waters title, Pundit Emeritus.

That title automatically gives a person's opinion on, well, let's say the fact

that Disney is changing its annual pass program, more weight than a civilians. You are listening

to Troubled Waters. Let's meet our contestants.

Our first contestant is a stand-up comic.

His debut album, Adorable, is out now.

It's Orlando Laba.

Hello.

Hello, buddy.

How are you, Dave?

I have truly never been better.

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