What's Poppin, everybody, hello, and welcome to popcorn culture.

My name is Ben Carlinland and I am your host.

Here at me today's my brother Jay, who will be in every episode. You know, it's not surprising that I'm here, Ben. I feel like it's more surprising that you're here. It is surprising that I am here. And to be honest with you, I am, I, like, it is Wednesday. We normally record the pop on on Mondays and it has been like day after day

of feeling like absolute just death. Yeah. It has not been it has not been like the most

delightful past several days of my life. I would say it's been like it seems like you've been

having like just a, uh, a string of unlucky events in a row. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's, that's, that's, that's well said. I mean, like to say it, it's maybe been like one of the worst weeks of my life is, is like, probably not far from the truth. Sure. Uh, in terms of like the bizarre number of things that, that keep happening to me. But yeah, I've been,

I've been sick for about five days now.

And it has been the most typical Ben type of sickness ever, just I think.

Because like if, if there is one test that I cannot pass, it is a strep test.

Yeah.

I cannot get a positive strep test to save my life.

And you want to pass this test?

Well, like, okay, so correct me if I'm wrong, but you grew up as like a like a strep haver.

I did.

I had strep a bunch.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah. Um, a bunch of confirmed cases.

The delightful thing, and not that I would ever wish strep throat on anybody in any capacity,

because it doesn't seem fun. Um, but the one good thing about having strep is that it's a bacterial

infection and therefore treatable with antibiotics.

Right.

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