Hey 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 is the thing that bummed us out the least in the last year and a half.

Now, back in the before times, capitalized B, capitalized T, troubled waters would pit two teams of comedians against each other in a pop culture battle royale.

But now, teaming up with another person who is not in your quarantine pod is possibly lethal,

definitely frowned upon, more frowned upon even than trying to launch your own billionaire ass into space.

So for now, it is one comedian against another.

To win this battle, each comic will be called upon to use their smarts, their rhetorical

skills, the great comebacks they've been saving in their notes app in isolation, to earn

the coveted troubled waters title, Pundit Emeritus.

That title automatically gives a person's opinion on, let's say, just how genderqueer Loki really is more weight than a civilians.

Let's get into it. You're listening to Troubled Waters. Now let's meet our comics.

For the first time in ages, our two teams are in the same room with one another.

This is a real breakthrough.

I'm not with them.

We'll get there.

We'll get there soon.

Let's meet him.

Our first contestant is a comedy writer.

Part of the long-running sketch comedy podcast, Left-handed radio, it's Adam Bozarth.

Hello.

Hello, Dave.

How are you?

It's so great to be here.

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