Oh my gosh. Hi. I'm Dave Holmes. Welcome to troubled lives. I mean, I'm not not talking to you.

I was talking more to the listener. Why do you? I'm not going to tell you what to do for your podcast, but I would start over if I were...

That'd be good. No, I'm going to, we're going to keep going forward. We're going to keep going forward.

We want the listener to know everything that happens because, you know, they're picking out who to root for.

So this is good information to get.

I just threw myself under the bus, really.

Listen, I thought you were saying, oh, my God, hide to me because that's the kind of energy I've presented to you so far.

So I'm going to take a sit.

Okay.

Okay.

Do as you like. Do as you like.

Do as you like.

Great.

But anyway, as I was saying, I'm Dave Holmes and welcome to Troubled Waters, the show that

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

the kind that bums us out the least.

Now, back in the before times, Trou troubled waters would pit two teams of comedians against

each other in a pop culture battle royale, but that was when we could be in the same room together,

and we still can't. Now, teaming up with another person who is not in your quarantine pod,

may be lethal. It is definitely more frowned upon than buying HBO Max so you can turn it into a

spirit Halloween. So for now, it is one comic against another.

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

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