What is poppin' everyone? Hello and welcome to Popcorn Culture. I am your host Ben Carlin.

And I am your co-host. Jonathan Carlin. You're finally leaning into it.

I have been saying co-ops, I'm saying we are co-hosts the whole time. You're finally not fighting it.

Oh no. Ah, what's happened? That's right. I still think you refer to yourself as a co-host and

I'm going to call that a massive win in my book. We're both co-hosts. We're both co-hosts of this

year pop cast. Ben, as ever, do we want to start with a corny joke? Have you got one for us there?

I think I do, although all of my data in front of me has simultaneously crashed all at once. So,

knock, knock. Who's there? Control freak. Control freak. I'm using Control Freakue.

I feel like that was terrible timing. That's like interrupting cow.

Moo. Moo. Yes, excellent. Excellent. All right. Thank you for that corny joke. This is the first

pop cast we are recording post Christmas. It's finally not Christmas. Oh my gosh. And we've finally

seen the rise of Skywalker. We've seen the rise of Skywalker. And we've seen the finale of the

Mandalorian. Yes, we have, which was actually kind of fascinating. But as a quick heads up to everybody,

we will have mild spoilers for the Mandalorian. Mild. Mild. Mild. Mild. Like, I feel like we're not

really about to give away the wagon or anything like that. What's the phrase? Give away the tree.

Give away the windmill. I think it's throw out the baby with the bath water. That is so not what I

was thinking of. Different saying phrase. Okay. Yeah. You know phrases are funny when people have just

like not heard a phrase like that's super common there. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Like, okay. So my

fiancee Alice had never heard until like three months ago the phrase, give it the old college try.

Really? Yes. Like, she is like college graduate who has never heard the phrase, give it the old

college try. Wow. That's really, that's really funny. Is there anything like, are there any phrases

that you have ever been in the receiving end of this for? Yes. Yeah. There was one, someone to

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