What's poppin' everybody? Hello and welcome to popcorn culture. My name is Ben Karlin and I am your host. Here with me today is my brother J, who will be in every episode.

I will concede that you are the host this episode for one reason and that's because that for this weekend that's coming up in our real time, you are the best man at the wedding we're going to.

I am more like just like the co-best man. You might say. You might say it's so true. You are groomsman as well. I'm fine with co-best man. Of course you are.

That's so fun. Yes, I have to tell you and it makes me feel better to know that this episode won't actually come out until after the wedding has occurred. I have to tell you that I am getting severe anxiety about giving a speech at this wedding.

I'm so surprised to hear that because this is not exactly your first rodeo when it comes to wedding speeches.

I know. I would say I'm batten a thousand on crying and every single one of them. I have a list of things here at the bottom that are sort of wedding cliches of things that I was like, this will be fun because as we're recording it, the wedding hasn't happened yet.

By the time it comes out, it will have happened. We can sound like real buffoons speculating about what's going to happen. We'll have to do in a future episode a review of how things turned out.

The thing is, you as the best man might already just know a lot of these things but here's some things that might happen that we can, who's to say, you submitted this one though.

Yes, I did. I'm glad you started with me. This weekend will someone get stitches?

I think almost certainly. The really cool thing about the way that this wedding is going down is that the house that we're all staying in is also the venue.

The way that Mike and Sammy structured it was so that they put as much of their budget that they had for the venue into renting this exceptionally cool house.

To say that we will probably never stay in a cooler vacation home ever is, I would say it's accurate. It is so cool.

Then what they did was the house can actually hold 50 people.

I keep having trouble even picturing what we're going to do because I feel like I've seen pictures.

Then you guys keep calling it a house but to me it kind of just looks like a really large hotel, maybe a really small hotel or something.

I can't even fathom what we're going to.

Is house the right word? Do you need a house tell?

It's like a house tell.

Not a hostel.

You know that you is a defining letter in this particular description. I think it's 25,000 square feet or something.

My house for example is 1800 square feet. If that gives you a sense of scale as to how many square footages are available.

It's odd because it's almost like they built these common areas that are just strangely gigantic but they still mostly feel more house like than hotel like.

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