Hello there, you frightened me. I'm Dave Holmes, and welcome to Troubled Waters. The show that

treats popular culture is the most important kind of culture because it could potentially be the

kind that bums you out the least. Back in the before times, Troubled Waters would pit two teams of

comedians against one another and a pop culture battle royale. We'd be together in a tiny airless

studio. Can't do that anymore. That's

lethal. That's definitely more frowned upon than trying to eat the meat pies at Angela Lansberry's

Memorial. So for now, it is one comic against another. To win this battle, each comic will be called

upon to use their smarts, their rhetorical skills, the great comebacks,

they have been saving in a moleskin notebook to earn the coveted Troubled Waters title,

Pundit Emeritus, which will automatically give their opinion on who in this Zoom session right

now is most responsible for the box office failure of bros. More weight than a civilians.

We'll get into it. You're listening to Troubled Waters. Let's meet our teams.

Our first contestant is a writer and a founder of crawl space media. It's Tim Pilari.

Hello, Dave. Thank you for having me. Hello, Tim. Yes. Straight out of three rivers.

Yep. I love it. You're a Massachusetts guy. I am. Yep. We do some podcasts. Are the leaves changing?

They are. They're changing and they're absolutely beautiful right now.

It's oranges, reds.

It's wonderful.

Time of year.

I was there last month for my college homecoming and I was so excited for leaves to be changing.

It was September.

They weren't.

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