What's Pop and everybody? Hello and welcome to Popcorn culture. My name is Ben Carlin, and I am your host here with me. Today's my brother Jay, who will be in every episode. What's up, Ben? Hello and welcome to popcorn culture. My name is Ben Carlin and I am your host.

Here we meet today's my brother Jay,

who will be in every episode. What's up, Ben? How are you? I'm good. I'm doing pretty good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Actually, I'm, uh, I'm still in the process of like getting through like an unwellness. Oh, no. Still. Still. Man, man, I tell you what what. Like it reminds me so much of getting married at Disney back in on January 6th, 2020. Right. Yeah. Good times. Good times. Right. Historically great date for you. Yes. It's been wonderful. Yes. I've really enjoyed every second of it.

Yes.

No, actually, the wedding was pretty amazing.

But the aftermath of getting what we've always kind of looked back on and been like, oh,

it was almost definitely COVID because we were like direly ill.

We were in this international hot spot.

Like, Alice and I both very specifically remember like losing our losing our sense of taste because we, like, went on, like, a little mini moon in St. Augustine, where we were supposed to get, like, this, like, beef Wellington dish from this, like, super fancy restaurant. And we, like, couldn't taste it. Couldn't taste it. Yeah. No one could diagnose it. It wasn't the flu. Right. It was the worst ever.

the worst ever and i mean i remember getting home and going back to the gym with our trainer and just being like man like i am just like tired you know like i'm just i just don't feel like i'm like back to

myself like i don't have like the gusto right yeah and he's like and i remember him like you know kind of

being like yeah you know like you of being like, yeah, you know, like you got married. You had a wedding. Your brain's been working overtime for months. Like, you know, and then you guys got sick and you are traveling and it's Disney. It was like, everything was like easy enough to explain. Right. As like, yeah, that makes sense. It makes sense. Fair enough. Fair enough. Um, but yeah But yeah, this particular ailment, I feel like I have come home from it and it has just been like, like, lingering. Like, you know, it's like I'm, I've got this like aftermath effect where it's just like every night I'm like, you know, it's like 8.45 PM and I'm like, I'm ready to call it. That's about it, man. I am. I am so tired. I have like started. There's almost been like a

guilty pleasure sometimes and going to sleep early. Have you experienced that? I, I think that I might

slowly be starting to like find it. Yeah. Because for the longest time, I would have said that like going to bed early for me was accompanied by massive fomo. Right. And fear of missing out on what? I have, I have no idea. I know what you mean. Probably like being awake, talking to your friends on aim probably, you know? Yeah. Think of all the Diablo too. You could be playing. You could be playing games. you could be watching stuff. You could be like learning more things that make you more capable as a conversationalist

out in the real world. It's like, and especially like if you like wake up and then you know,

you basically wake up, have breakfast, get ready for work, go to work all day, come home,

parent until eight. And then it's 845 and you're like about to go

to bed. Yeah. It's like, I've had 45 minutes today that we're not dedicated to some other

facet of my life that isn't just like my own self. Yeah. And so it's like you need, you need the time

like to be awake. You know, so it's like, and for whatever reason, I feel like time before work, even if I got up like 5A, I feel like would not qualify as like time for me time. Right. Because it would, I mean, not that not that you couldn't, but it would seem like weird to get up at like five in the morning and then just like be like, oh,, it is time to go play some, play some Diablo two or something. Right. Like if I was waking up like,

you know, like hours before I needed to go play video games for two hours, seems so much worse than

just staying up two hours later than I should. Well, because like the hours after you've woken up are

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