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Popcorn Culture

339 - Ben’s Block of Nine

Popcorn Culture

J and Ben Carlin

Tv & Film, After Shows, Film Reviews

4.92.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

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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