And soo, What's popping everybody? Hello and welcome pop form culture. My name is Ben Carlin and I am your host. Here with me today is my brother Jay who will be in every episode.

Back again. Back again. Back again. In every episode, you know, but it's like I want people to know

that I choose to come back. I know, yeah mean obviously of course you know it's like how

else are we gonna have our weekly debrief if not for the pop exactly exactly we

we certainly can't talk to each other off Mike all day every day day. That's the real secret to the show is that we have

to reserve all conversation all week. So despite the fact that we work like three and a half

feet from each other, it's like, no, no, no, no, we'll wait.

No, I'm just kidding, we don't do that.

We talked to each other all the time.

We sure do, we sure do.

We had a lengthy amount of time

to talk to each other here in the last couple of days

because we took a road trip up to DC. We did indeed yeah for our first

ever NBA game. My first ever. Yeah my first ever as well to see just the

wonderful Washington Wizards just get absolutely destroyed.

Yes, yes, so it was sort of a really fun experience.

So even if you're not into pro sports in any capacity,

I feel like there is something to be appreciated

for the pageantry that is an in-person professional sports game because there's so much money that gets funneled into this

particular industry would you not agree?

Like, you know, it's like you go and it's like it's just very festive there's lots of like

lights and color and music and sounds and people and foods and you know it's just there's so much stuff happening

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