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maximumfun.org slash join. Please be a member of the family. Keep us alive. Oh, hi. It's me Dave Holmes, and welcome to Troubled Waters, the show that treats popular

culture as the most important kind of culture, because it is. Now, in the before times,

Troubled Waters would pit two teams of comedians against each other in a pop culture,

battle royale, but now, and for maybe the next month or so,

teaming up with another person who is not in your quarantine pod is possibly lethal.

It's definitely more frowned upon than trying to have an Oscar ceremony in the middle of this

that ended up being just three hours of the La La Land Moonlight thing?

So for now, it's one comic against another.

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

maybe the great comebacks they've been keeping in a notebook all through the last 14 months

to earn the coveted troubled waters title

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