What's Pop and everybody, hello and welcome to Popcorn culture. My name is Ben

Carlin. I am your host.

Here will be today's my brother Jay, who will be in every episode. Also known as Big Jelly for those who have been around for a while. That's right. That's right. Yeah, yeah. I'll tell you what, Jay, today I got the, I mean, we could just take it nice and easy, you know. I got the snoozyness right up here in my brain skull.

I hear you, man.

We have been. We could just take it nice and easy, you know. I got the snoozyness right up here in my brain skull.

I hear you, man.

We have been for the past two weeks just nonstop on the road,

traveling around the Midwest of the grand United States

and like meeting all sorts of different little kernels, box breakers, through the

Griffin dorks, super carlin friends, just like a myriad of people. We've been doing our through

the Griffin tour, doing different chapters, Harry Potter and the Order of the

Phoenix. Yeah. And it has been a real whirlwind, uh, and I am, I am properly tired. Yes, yes. I mean,

like, you know, it's so funny to think back to the first tour that we did because when we went out,

it was this like grand, big, massive endeavor that we were all like staring down at. tour that we did because when we went out, it was this, like, grand, big,

massive endeavor that we were all, like, staring down at. Like, we didn't know, there were, there were, there were, there were, there to do. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We didn't know how the show would be received. Like, we always sort of joke in, like, one of the anecdotes that we tell from like our first show in Boston was we got out there and like kind of had these nerves about like you know when people

listen to Griffin door the podcast a lot of times the word they used to describe it as like cozy

and while that is a like it means the world to me that when people say that it is also the

kind of thing we were like what does that look like in a room full of people like is is everybody's just going to be like

like like kind of like quietly like drifting off like like like not in a bad way just sort of like

these guys talk about the chapter right yeah yeah just nice and like you know it's not it's not

a smr but it's like you know maybe, maybe it's ASMR adjacent or something. And so, you know, like we got out there and the thing that me and you always tell is that like people started laughing. And then all of a sudden we were like, wait a second. Is it like a funny podcast? Like we didn't, we didn't know that. Is this a comedy show? Right. And it was hilarious because our first ever show was at a comedy club, like a dedicated club. Comedy club, yeah. Which I think was also the only one of those we've ever done a show at. Right. It was called Laugh Boston. Right. Which was really funny. But then, you know, there was things like merch and sort of like, you know, what is it like as far as like lodging various places? like, you know, we were trying to go through and like really be like, okay, well, in this town, it makes sense to do like an Airbnb and we all just stay in like a house together. Here we'll do like a hotel. Like, you know, we were, we were mage podging so many elements of the tour together. Yeah. Like trying to figure out what the whole thing looked like.

And then even as we've gone on, we've like introduced like all sorts of like new

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