Oh, hello there, folks. I am Dave Holmes. Welcome to Troubled Waters. The show that treats popular culture as the most important kind of culture there is because the rest of the kinds of culture are fucking killing us. In the before times, 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 already in your quarantine pod is possibly

lethal, definitely uncool.

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 snappy

comebacks that they've been stockpiling

in isolation.

To earn the coveted troubled waters title, Pundit Emeritus, the Pundit Amaritas, automatically

gives a person's opinion on, let's say, Cardi B and Megan the Stallions whap, more weight

than a civilians And definitely

More than Ben Shapiro's

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Ben Shapiro's.

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Why you? Why? Why? Let's meet our teams.

Our first contestant is the host of the podcast, Melancholy Teen Universe,

a universe I have lived in

since I was eight years old. It's Emily Duke. Hello, Emily. Hello. Thank you for having me.

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