Well, hello there. I'm Dave Holmes. Welcome to Troubled Waters. It's okay. It's right.

We get exuberant at the beginning of a year. Don't worry about it.

It's been the first second and I'm like, okay, sorry. Yeah, no, it's okay. We like enthusiasm.

This is Troubled Waters. This is the show that treats popular culture is the most important kind

of culture because, quite frankly, it's the only kind of culture that is keeping me hanging on.

Now, in our current form, Troubled Waters pits two comedians against one another from across cyberspace in a pop culture battle royale to win the Troubled Waters battle.

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

skills, those good comebacks that you've been writing down in a notebook for the whole

lockdown. To earn the coveted title, Pundit Emeritus, that title automatically gives a person's

opinion on, let's say, how I didn't know that Jason Sudecas

and Olivia Wilde broke up. That is my wheelhouse. More weight than a civilians. You're listening

to Troubled Waters. I'm WRI-EWRILLILEEN.

WRILEENDS

WRIEW Now let's meet our teams.

Well, you know, our contestants.

Our comedians.

We don't have teams anymore.

It's just two people.

You can't be teaming up with people outside your quarantine pod.

It's not ethical.

Our first contestant is a comedian.

You can listen to her album.

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