Well, that's poppin', everybody. Hello and welcome to Popcorn Culture. My name is Ben Karlin, and I am your host, you're with me today, as my brother Jay, who will be in every episode.

You know, Ben, it occurs to me that possibly in the near future here, almost by default, I might get to host a few episodes of the pop here.

Hold on, hold on, hold on, do tell, do tell.

Well, explain yourself.

It seems to me that you are on the precipice of becoming a father, and that in that scenario, we might have some guest other people on the show,

and if that's the case, it just seems fitting that I would be the host if you weren't here.

Well, well, does it not? I think it would be required to be like, I think, I could allow it as long as the clarification is, I'm the stand-in host this week because the host is away.

Oh, because there is no determination as of yet that I won't be here, but I would like to have a contingency plan in place.

Just in case. Just in case.

Just in case, which I have to tell you though, because I like, as we are getting so close, so as of recording right now, we're halfway through 36 weeks pregnancy,

and it's been really interesting because I have been spending basically every available weekend for probably the last five weekends at least, doing just about nothing other than prepping the house in some capacity for for arrival home.

Literally, I thought this was really funny, but on Sunday, I woke up, went downstairs, vacuumed the entire downstairs, and then used our swiffer, wet jet mop thing that can clean the hardwood floors and all that, did the whole thing, whatever.

And then two hours later, Alice not knowing that I had already done it, did the exact same thing.

I feel like literally went in vacuumed, she was like, where's the wet jet? I'm gonna go ahead and just hit the floors too while I'm at it.

I'm like, I already did it.

Yeah, so she just did it again.

She did it again.

Yeah, that's the stage that we're at in prep.

I feel like we're at this point in time, we are really splitting hairs on final details that we could be doing in addition to just other while keeping Alice happy and healthy for the remaining few weeks and everything.

She does have a yoga ball, which is now her favorite seat in the house.

She's just in a lot of balance.

But I mean, it's odd because everybody kind of refers to this nesting mentality, which makes a lot of sense to me, but I can't believe how much it's affecting me.

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