Oh my God. Hi, I'm Dave Holmes. 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, although we're really putting it to the test lately, aren't we? Back in the before times,

Troubled Waters would pit two teams of comedians against one another in a pop culture battle royale.

But now, and still, teaming up with another person who's not in your, you know, general

quarantine pot is possibly lethal. It's definitely more frowned upon than Jimmy Kimmel,

just lying on the stage during Quinta Brunson's Emmy speech? The fuck was that? 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 scales, maybe the great comebacks that they've been saving

in a special part of their brain to earn the coveted Tr waters title, Pundit Emeritus. That'll

automatically give their opinion on, don't worry, darling, more weight than a civilians. You're listening

to troubled waters. Let's dive, right?

Let's dive, write.

And our first contestant is a comedian whose debut album Dog Show is coming out on October 7th.

It's Hubba Agarwal.

Hello.

Hi.

Thank you for having me.

Thank you for being here.

Congratulations on the upcoming album.

How do you feel uh i'm very

excited uh can't wait for it to come out uh nervous i waited a very long time to put out an album so

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