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Popcorn Culture

301 - Don’t Teach Fear

Popcorn Culture

J and Ben Carlin

After Shows, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.92.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Ben and J discuss draft day, the band Fun and the nature of fame, learned fear, and Mahjong. 


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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's Poppin everybody? Hello and welcome to Popcorn culture. My name is Ben Carlin and I am your host here. Be today's my brother Jay who will be in every episode.

0:25.0

Man, Ben, you know what today is? What is today? It's Fantasy Football Draft Day. It is fantasy football draft day. Yeah, yeah. It's fantasy football draft day. I know. People are like and we stopped listening.

0:35.6

And just like that. We are out and that is done. So I am doing that. Um, you're right. It's,

0:42.5

it, although I will say the, the football season is something that for what, like from September

0:48.5

through like, really probably, I mean, through, through like the beginning of February. That's when the Super Bowl is. Yeah. Like it's amazing to me how

0:57.5

much it it becomes like a central part of my life. And then the

1:01.7

season ends and it's just gone. It's just gone. It's just gone. Yeah. And like

1:06.6

and I don't I mean I follow like a small handful of things like we're

1:09.9

we're big fans for the Virginia Tech Hokies.

1:11.7

Yeah.

1:11.8

Like, I will, I will periodically check in to see like how, how things are going with the team and all that type of stuff to, you know, to figure out, like, whether or not like they're going to be good.

1:20.1

Like this could be our year.

1:22.3

This could be our year.

1:23.4

We're starting.

1:23.9

We already lost the game.

1:25.3

We already lost a game. We already, it's 0.1, but you know what? Like, there,

1:27.6

there have been plenty of instances

1:28.7

where a team that went on to win,

1:30.0

the national championship,

1:30.9

lost their first game, right? Like that one time. Like that one time. To the hookies. Exactly. Tech beat Ohio State once upon a time. So in your face is, yeah, Probably statistically speaking of Ohio State fans.

1:43.2

But you're right.

1:44.2

Fantasy football is upon us.

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