What's poppin' everybody? Hello and welcome to episode one of Popcorn Culture. My name is Ben Carlin and I am your host here with me today as my brother J, who will be in every episode.

Pretty sure that just makes us co-hosts. I think it makes you a co-host.

Whatever you say there, other host. Yeah, that was a zinger.

Yeah, you totally got me. You're right. We will figure out the hosting business at some point. I have some ideas about that. Sure. Sure.

Ben, I believe if anyone listened to episode zero, this is episode one, not to be confused with episode zero, which already came out.

Which is the first episode. Yeah, so this is Merry Christmas everyone, by the way. Yeah, no kidding. This is the very first episode coming out on Christmas Day. What a thing. How about that?

Yeah, if everyone's doing good. Ben, did you want to... I feel like last time we talked about opening with a corny joke.

I do have a corny joke. Let me hear it.

Jay, why was the sand wet? I don't know, Ben. Why was the sand wet?

Because the seaweed hit weed. Oh, the seaweed. I was like, wait a second. I thought it was trying to think it was a weed and crying.

And I was like, the seaweed doesn't weed. Is it a word for cry? I would see weed.

Like the seawad or something. It's not the seawad. Oh, man. Oh, I got it.

Okay, so to launch off episode one here, there's sort of a fascinating phenomenon that we get to benefit from.

And that is that we have had episode zero. Yeah. Which means we can kick off my responding to feedback.

This is why I think episode zero is necessary for podcasts. Because a lot of the podcasts I listened to, I feel like a big portion of it is feedback.

And you can't have feedback if you don't have something there. Right, right.

No, I think when it really comes down to it, podcasts, or some general are all lazy inherently.

And therefore they're using the feedback as like inspiration because clearly anything anybody said in response to what you previously said is them adding to a conversation you've already had.

Which just means we can continue that conversation. It's going to be great. So what feedback from our last episode stood out to you? Let me hear it.

Okay, so there was a lot of like different things that sort of people had had reached out to me about that.

I thought we're really interesting. But what has almost become our tagline, at least as far as episode one is concerned, is you said in the in episode zero, we have strong opinions about things that don't matter.

Oh, strong opinions about weak things. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly. And sort of your reasoning for this particular viewpoint on the world is sort of that like you do have strong opinions about things that do matter.

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