What? Pop and everybody, hello and welcome to Popcorn Culture. My name is Ben Carlin and I am your host. You're with me today as my brother Jay, who will be in every episode.

Yeah, yeah, you're the host again. I get it. It's fine. I think there is like two. There are two people over on the Patreon who are currently just pulling levers.

Yeah, Dolan and Emily have this like weird like monopoly on the voting system at the moment or sort of whatever they feel. I think at the moment there is one in each camp.

Oh, okay.

So they're sort of canceling each other out and as long as that's the case, everyone else's votes actually account for what they should account for.

Okay, okay. As a reminder, we do have a tier over on Patreon for patreon.com slash popcorn culture where you can purchase 100 votes to help determine each week's host, hostmanship.

Otherwise, any of the other tiers just give you a single vote towards that same that same discussion and for the longest time, it has been largely irrelevant.

Largely.

Here lately, it's just been pure chaos.

It has been pure chaos over here. I will say though, if you do sign up at the $25 tier, that's the merch tier where you get the cool exclusive merch, which admittedly, we have been a little behind on because like COVID has caused slow down productions basically everywhere.

However, we have wonderful news on that front because the moleskin notebooks, which I think are the most recent item, the most recent item are actually already here and should already be on their way to you.

So you may you might have them already by the time you're listening to this.

If you're a patreon at the exclusive if you're a patron at the exclusive merch tier and and we received extra good news this week,

that the vinyl records at long last have been pressed and are on their way to us.

So those should be getting shipped out next week.

I know and I'm so I'm so excited about this because we announced these for Q4 of 2021, meaning we would have first started talking about them like

circa October 1st, 2021, which means that we are like a mere like three weeks away from it having been a full year since idea conception.

It's like has been there and that we're going to come in just under the water.

The production cycle has been so frustrating because it like everything was all systems go right out of the gate and then we just like train wrecked and it was that was on there.

So thank you everyone for your patience.

The thing is too is that it's like I mean this is happening just all sorts of everywhere like we sort of talked a little bit about how

when we were having the vinyl records produced we ran into this like very unusual problem which was that Adele had purchased one million vinyl records

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