Well, hello there. I'm Dave Holmes. Welcome to Troubled Waters. The show that treats popular culture is the most important kind of culture because it could potentially be the kind that bums you out the least. Unless it's a friend's reunion. Now, back 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 in your quarantine pot is possibly lethal,

definitely more frowned upon than maybe doing cocaine or the Eurovision Green Room after you won.

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, maybe the great comebacks they've been keeping in a little moleskin notebook over

isolation to earn the coveted troubled waters title, punt it, Emeritus.

That title automatically gives a person's opinion on, let's say, the absolutely chiseled watchboard abs of

Elliot Page, more weight than a civilians. Stakes is high. You're listening to Troubled Waters. Let's meet our comics.

Our first co-hosts Dumb People Town with the Sclar Brothers on Starburn's audio.

We were going to do it live in St. Louis last March.

We were.

But we didn't.

Also, pen pals with Rory Scovel.

It is our old pal.

Daniel Van Kirk.

Hello. Hi. Good to see you. Good to see you.

I know. I miss you. I'm happy to see you. I miss you terribly. Your voice got bass this morning.

Oh, yeah. We're morning talking. We're morning talking today. It's a very mellow affair.

What's happening? How are you?

Well, I'm just, I'm good.

I'm busy.

Okay.

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