when you smell the hot buttered popcorn, your olfactory cortex was activated. when you imagined licking that lemon, your sensory cortex, your taste was activated. you may even have started salivating. so, guess what, here's what you just did. you just became the user of your brain. an exercise like this shows you that you can turn on whatever brain region you want. you actually just did this. you even changed the chemistry the wiring of nerve cells, the gene activity in those brain regions as you turn them on. can you imagine that? in these brain regions, things change, wiring change, chemistry change, genes were turning on and off, and you did all of this with just your mind. all through just mindfulness you changed the actual activities in your brain. and this is really one of the keys in terms of your path to a super brain, is to realize that you have the power to change your own brain. so now, how about a practical way to apply this? i'm gonna use the example of sitting down to eat a meal. the next time you sit down to eat, try this. try taking more time to

popcorns. i mean we have a peanut butter lovers popcorn, we have a movie madness popcorn, cherry almond, and we'reays experiment new ones, so it's fun. this is our number one selling popcorn, it's called celebration. what makes it so popular? people just love the salty, sweet taste. isn't is great? we have a blend of chocolates, we have some candy coated pieces, we have a little bit of toffee thrown in. speaking of chocolate, tell me a little bit about your choclate. this is a little special thing that you do here huh? we use a swiss chocolate that is wonderful and i can't tell you the exact name kat but it's really good. for those that are across the country and they want to order, certainly want you to order but you're going to show us a few diy gourmet popcorns and your family friends will enjoy; it'll be something easy and fun and inexpensive. absolutely. we just bought regular popcorn, microwaveable popcorn but if the family likes butter popcorn better they can used that. we have some luscious caramel, some chocolate chips, and some butterfinger chips. now for the caramel do we need those car

on the other burner she sautÉs the popcorn shrimp with butter until they turn pink.e the sausage grilled with onions, manicotti boiled, shrimp with butter and little onion as well. next what are we doing. next mix them together. sausage with the shrimp. smells good already. does it smell good. oh yeah. and then what do we put in next, this is marinating a little bit. marinate together a little bit, let this cook a little bit longer. never seen it made like this before and i'm very excited about it, i must say. crystal adds chopped parsley for color and taste. then its time for the merlot. the most important ingredient. wine, merlot. merlot. now we have last nights, women who wines, left over merlot. to taste actually we don't want it overbearing. not overpowered, a nice little light merlot feel. right were not trying to drink the dish. no because you're going to drink with dish. now its time to combine all the ingredients. two cups of ricotta cheese, a half cup of parmesan sprinkles garlic powder and pepper then mixes in sausage and shrimp. a quarter cup of mozzarell

popcorn. >> that's right. >> tucker: how esoteric, far out does it get. >> crazy flavors like sinfully cinnamon you'll be popping in a moment. there's sweet butterere's a whole range of awesome flavors and we produce this all with an amazing team. we're a franchise company, we're growing very quickly because of the smaezing scheme that we have. and melin, larry and steve, and they are-- >> franchise group. >> tucker: fantastic. >> remarkable. >> tucker: honestly, this is the best national popcorn day i've ever spent and great i spent it with you. >> can we take you through a pop experience? >> indeed. we're going to take it to weather and we're going to eat off camera. rick, i spent a lot of national popcorn days, usually alone in my bedroom. >> in a movie theater. >> tucker: it's an awesome business to be in and working with amazing folks and appreciate you guys having us today. it's a blast. >> rick: i've eat and entire bag, not just for dinner, or the movies. it's a good weekend to go to the movies for a lot of people in the northern plains. here you go. today not so bad. pick your city there, tomorrow, and temps plummet, only to a high of mi