343 - J is NOT a Capricorn Rabbit
Popcorn Culture
J and Ben Carlin
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Ben and J discuss Chinese New Year animals and horoscopes, the OTHER Jonathan Carlin, the concept of boredom, Universe 25 and utopias.
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| 0:00.0 | What? Pop! And everybody, hello, and welcome to popcorn culture. My name is Ben Carlin and I am your host. |
| 0:20.9 | Here. |
| 0:20.9 | Here. |
| 0:21.9 | Me today's my brother Jay, who will be in every episode? |
| 0:24.0 | Hey, hey, hey, hey, everybody. Hope you have a pretty good day. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I bet they are. Yeah, probably. It's the middle of summer. Everybody's just having a good old fashioned time. Jay, do you have a corny joke for us? |
| 0:34.6 | Well, I don't really know if it's like a joke. |
| 0:37.7 | It's more of a concern. |
| 0:38.9 | Like, I've just... |
| 0:39.7 | I'm just, like, terrified of elevators. Why, why are you, tell it terrible? Well, it's not, I mean, I've just been taking steps to avoid them. Nah. Oh, man. Well, I'm so, I'm so proud of you. I hope that you are enjoying all of your sessions at Elevators Anonymous. |
| 1:01.9 | You know it. Dude, one of my favorite things on my watch is that it tells me how many flights of stairs I walked up each day. It has like a stairs goal. |
| 1:09.3 | Oh, that's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know if I |
| 1:11.1 | think it's accurate because I've definitely gone up more than four flights of stairs today, but |
| 1:15.8 | eventually it'll get it right. And it'll be like, hey, congratulations. You did 10 flights of |
| 1:19.9 | stairs today. Bravo. Oh, I know. I always wonder because our, our office is the third floor |
| 1:24.6 | walk up. So you go through what is three stories worth of stairs to get here. Yeah. And I never, but it's also like a straight shot. Yeah. It's not like you're meandering your way up like, you know, and if you, like an apartment complex or anywhere else you've ever just gone upstairs before. You know, so it's like, are you giving me my full three, three stairs? |
| 1:45.0 | Or does this just count as... Two stairs, right? |
| 1:45.6 | Two stairs? Because you just take one set of stairs to get to the second floor and another set of stairs to get to the third floor. Yeah, but they're long stairs. I mean, they're long stairs. I think it's just measuring elevation gain because sometimes I go on a run and it'll be like, whoa, you hit your stairs goal. and it'd be like, because you just changed elevation enough. |
| 2:03.0 | Right. |
| 2:03.1 | Okay. |
| 2:03.4 | Well, that's, that's a fair question. |
| 2:04.8 | So like, whoa, you hit your stairs goal. And it'd be like, because you just changed elevation enough. |
| 2:03.0 | Right. |
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