and joining us now from the cinemark 16 theater in corpus christi, texas, please welcome jason groze-ballthe popcorn guy. [ cheers and applause ] jason? >> hello, how you doing? >> jimmy: i'm doing great. how does it feel to be the king of popcorn? >> it feels amazing. i never thought i would get to this point. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i imagine this came as a surprise. how did you find out it was suddenly a viral video? >> honestly, one of my friends told me about it the other day. i didn't even know about it until i started getting, like, discordant calls about it, and it started blowing up out of nowhere. it was honestly surprising. >> jimmy: are people recognizing you at the theater now? >> oh, yeah, people are recognizing me all the time. i get texts from everybody, i get, like, photos from everybody. people record me all the time. it feels amazing. >> jimmy: when did you start doing this magic with popcorn? >> i started about five years ago. i actually learned from a friend of mine, jordan. he did it as a little joke. he kind of dropped it all the time. i started practicing it over an