339 - Ben’s Block of Nine
Popcorn Culture
J and Ben Carlin
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Ben and J discuss text based conversations, Ben’s (cringey) rules to life, refereeing soccer, avoiding dreams, practicing confidence, different kinds of lists, and a looooooot of introspection.
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| 0:00.0 | What's Poppet, and everybody, hello and welcome Popcorn culture. |
| 0:18.9 | My name is Ben Carlin, and I am your host. Here me today's brother Jay, who will be in every episode. Here and ready to be here. I understand that maybe you have a corny joke for us today, Ben. Well, I mean, to think of it as a corny joke is maybe maybe the wrong phrasing. But the thing I wanted to let you know, Jay, and here's, |
| 0:44.7 | here's the thing. Yeah. You know, if, if I shenan once, I'm probably going to shenan again. Yeah. Ha ha ha. Hey, oh, oh, I literally, I've been sitting on it for like days. |
| 0:55.8 | And I was, I was like, I'm going to ruin the moment. |
| 0:58.4 | I don't know how to get to it. |
| 1:00.6 | Ben, that is, that's so, that's so diculous that it is diculous again. |
| 1:06.2 | It is ridiculous. |
| 1:08.0 | Oh, I was, like, I feel like I see where you're going. |
| 1:13.4 | Oh, man. |
| 1:14.9 | It's, it's, uh, this entire joke is just whelming. |
| 1:18.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.5 | Nary, I, uh, over or nor under. |
| 1:25.6 | Can I tell you, Ben, that I did not learn that ridiculous was spelled R-I-D until I was like |
| 1:34.1 | 25? |
| 1:35.6 | Well, I, earlier than 25, but there was, there was a, like, I would, I would not even say, like, |
| 1:42.2 | particularly, uh, like, significant significant, like interaction that I had in my |
| 1:48.8 | young world of like dating. But, but there was, there was a last named Joanna. And, um, she was like, |
| 1:56.8 | I, I think she was like the first just very straight shooting person I ever spoke to. |
| 2:02.9 | Right. |
| 2:03.2 | Because the number of grammatical errors and spelling errors and things that I was doing that she was like, she could not tolerate. |
| 2:11.9 | She could not handle it. |
| 2:12.7 | And this was, this was in like the age of like AOL instant messenger where like text based communication wasn't |
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