Oh my God. I'm Dave Holmes. Welcome to Troubled Waters. The show that treats popular culture

is the most important kind of culture because it might be the one that eases your transition

back to life the best. Now back in the before times, Troubled Waters would pit two teams of

comedians against each other in a pop culture battle royale. But for now, oh my God, we're actually in person again. This is our first in-person

episode back. It is one comic against another. We are sitting across a long table like we're

getting divorced. But it is still an in-person episode in the maximum fun offices.

I am so happy. I feel so normal. Will I have a delayed trauma response in the middle of the

episode? Let's all find out together. To win this battle, each of our comics will be called upon

to use their smarts, their rhetorical skills, maybe the guitar or keyboard that they learned during lockdown or the other language.

We.

To earn the coveted troubled waters title, Pundit Ameri—everybody knows we.

Pundit emeritus.

That title automatically gives a person's opinion on, oh, let's say the end of Conan O'Brien's

tenure is a late night host,

or Paul Rudd's tenure

with the Mac and me prank,

more weight than a civilians.

We are back and you are listening.

And you are listening to Trouble...

And you are listening to Trouple...

See, it's going to be...

It's going to be rocky. It's going to be, it's going to be rocky.

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