The Ben 10 Podcast That Nobody Asked For

18. The Boys Know Best

“I still don’t know how to fold a fitted sheet, but you know, we’ll get there one day.”

This is the one where the fellas decide they know what's best about everything, from dealing with bullies, to how to parent, and then... actually that might be all they talk about in this one

Season 3,

Under Wraps & The Unnaturals

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Duration:: 21m
Broadcast on:: 10 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

And we don't want a podcast about Bento. Welcome back to The Bento in Podcasts. Nobody asked, well, I am next. I'm Sam. I'm James. I'm Joe. I'm Bailey. On the next all new episode of Bento. Rise and shine, sweat. Form living, maybe I'll write for grandpa. Nothing like working up a good sweat, right kids. But Ben and Glenn have had enough of the simple life. Looks like a job for Ben, until they find a mutated alien mummy. What's happening on this freaky farm? Under wraps. Let me just-- under wraps. Well, working on the-- well, working on a farm, the Tennyson's encounter a meteor-powered mummy. You can't even like that. I can edit the-- Pause out. No, no. Carm. It's all good. It's all good. It's all good. Just do it again. Under wraps. Well, working on a farm, the Tennyson's encounter a meteor-powered mummy that can transform living creatures into monsters. I love the mummy. I love the werewolf. I love the season of Ben, Tenn. I like it. It's a lot of fun. It's good. He never got a vampire alien did he? No. Because that would have been like, oh, we're doing a monster verse within this game. He was setting up for dark universal. Yeah. [LAUGHTER] Do you want to do it here before Hollywood could get to it? Yeah. Well, yeah, so the only trick's got a bit more alien DNA. We didn't get to see it transform, but it is now in the watch. That's awesome. It's another Ben and Gwen learning. Yeah. It is learning chores, responsibility. All of the boring. But they totally got away with cheating about them. Absolutely. Yeah, it is. Absolutely. They really did. You think this go to be like some repercussions, or like a Lightning McQueen thing of, oh, you did it too fast, or it's not actually right. You get to go slow and steady to do all the stuff correctly and by hand. But no, no, they just do the jobs quicker and don't have to do it. And I do love just that Max as soon as basically getting back realizes, oh, wait, I hated this. But I'm not going to say anything because I will not fold on this. So that is honestly like a fallacy. A lot of parents and grandparents have always like, I did this as a child. So you must also do this as a child. Did you enjoy it? No. Yeah, it's like, so you also have to suffer through this. But did you learn from it? Yes. So that's why we're doing it. Yeah. So find another way to teach the same lesson. Mm-hmm. Find a different way to teach that lesson. Of responsibility? Although it's like the idea of like, you know, I didn't enjoy this but I learned from it. So you have to learn the same lesson. Listen, as a parent, maybe find a better way to teach the lesson. When I was younger, I actually had to-- we would go back in the day, and then it was Rome the year. Back in the olden days. Back in the olden days. How did you survive the meteor? Oh, oh, I pressed a circle to dodge roll at this. Oh, you had to write the writing. I had to write the writing. I framed that mother. You're a nice work. Yeah, my granddad used to own a farm and when we'd go down to the knee, and me and my sister would go late. We would help him work in a farm. It was very like light work. But it was cool and fun to do, mainly because we were city kids. And it was like, oh my god, something different. There's a sheep over there. What the-- Get your cow farm. You can find cows on it. Like, I enjoy working on a farm because it's just like, you're out. It's not city. It's not city. Yeah. They're horse. It's good. Horse. Horse girls. Horse girls. I'm under the mantra in life that suffering is learning. Yeah, yeah. Unfortunately, so even doing those Sundays is usually my chore day where I have all my list for the bedroom, for the bathroom, the whole works. And it's like, I hate doing this. But at least I have it written down. It's in my task list for the day. This is what I'm doing. I hate doing it, but I'm learning from it. And now I know how to-- I still don't know how to fold a fitted sheet. But we'll get here one day. And you roll them. You don't fold them. You roll them. You're going to have to show me after. But anyway, I'm getting off. Tell me a special episode of the turbanton podcast. It's not how mom did it. I don't know if I ever saw my mom do it. It was just the problem. Let us know at bentinnobodyaft@gmail.com how you fold-- How do you fold a fitted sheet? Do you fold it? Specific guided-- We would like that tutorial video. That's B-E-N-1-0. Nobody asked at gmail.com. You know what I do like about this episode? Is that it really just cut to the point where they listen to this kid say, I saw our mommy. And it's like, we believe you. Yeah, we want to go see the mommy now. We're going to go see the mommy now. It wasn't this whole-- come on, man. What is it actually? This whole like-- Oh, shit. They're the ones who've seen all this stuff. Yeah, we're seeing some crazy-- Grandpa Max was also kind of like, normally he's like, now kids, you're just trying to get out of chores. And they're like, no, no, no, this-- Weird, coming out of the-- Because it's connected to the werewolf. Yeah, yeah. Oh, OK. Because they have the werewolf. I believe them. Yeah. When a parent or a guardian forget believing small children-- I know. This must be fantastic. I completely forgot how horrifying it was when the mommy turned the security guy. And you see the silhouette of his mouth opening larger than a human's ever should. And it's like, oh, I forgot that happened. They were a lot of grotesque-- Yeah, as a kid. There are a lot of grotesque transformations of Vintan we found out over this journey. Yeah. Yeah. But hey, we have another example of a speedster who stands still. Oh, my god. Yeah, I mean, it's a good show. But he was talking smack when he got hit. He did pause, beating him up to try talk smack. Rewind. See, I thought, you know, standing between two of them charged again, I thought he'd just step out of the way. No, he gets pummeled. He would turn to pummeled here, so I would go away from this. Some might say he flew a little too close to that sun. No, no, I'm not going to go there. The gun on the ground. But yeah, no, I mean, it was a funny episode. I felt a little weird with how I've been dealt with the cows, wrapping them around and barbed wire. And that's just how they are for the rest of the episode. Yeah, it's kind of a little bit of animal cruelty, but it's interesting. I'm just trying to mutate it, but also that's-- They're going to change back into cows, and they're going to have barbed wire on their feet. Isn't that nice? Well, do we hear that stuff rolled up? I'm like, did you cut your hand when doing that, like, or something? Like, I know he's got, like, sharp pauses to accelerate. Do you think it hurts when-- I don't know if this was ever talked about, but do you think it hurts when Ben turns into the AO? We have to start with it. We have to start with it. I think no, it looked like he was in a bit of pain for Ben Wolf, but, like, the transformation happened so quick. The visuals of the stuff going over his body is more for the benefit of the audience. It's a cool, you know, Sailor Moon suit up sequence. It's just because his body changes so much shape. Yeah, forearms and things like that look sore, but he literally sprouts to it. He is always kind of just smiling, in agreement with it. But we did say we saw the almond tricks get pulled off near season two finale, and she's as kind of looking. Like, the skin just stretching. Yeah, I recommend you transform to it, doesn't hurt, but I think it would be very disorientation. Disorientation and discomforting, like, because even if it doesn't hurt, you're feeling that grow out of you and your new links in your brain, so it probably feels very discomferting. I mean, perhaps his first transformation for each hero feels weird or uncomfortable, but he probably gets used to it considering how much he changes in the heroes. Yeah. Was there anything else that kind of stood up to this episode? Was a nice kind of little bottle standalone episode? Yeah. One thing I like is that they point out about Ben being lazy. Gwen does her like, oh my God, Ben, like, routine. And then Max goes, yeah, and you'll... Once a talk, I'm like, okay, that's kind of nice. And then she spins the entire episode, being a little lazy. We got, we got our Gwen reading the spell book, and she casts the spell. It backfires. It backfires. She's going to have a different, it's like, yeah, we're building on this thing where Gwen is doing magic. Yeah. I just feel like, again, there should be another episode where she casts magic. Though we are probably watching these out of order because of new books. If she does any magic in the next episode, we watch. Then the writers have done a good job. No. No, no, no. It was on this, the only episode that was before this one that we've... Yeah, I guess, I think... Are we on track? Have we seen her do magic at any other point in the show? No, we've seen her. Just with child caster. Just with child caster and just with the staff. Okay, so in that case, no. This was the first case of her doing a spell. Yeah, we saw her get the book at the end of that episode. No matter what order we watched, if we watched this, then I'm gonna be all the Netflix order. This was the first time she did a spell. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I just think they needed to set that up a little bit more. I mean, I don't think they needed to. It would have been nice. It would have been nice to you. It casted a spell before, right? As charm casters, didn't she try and cast a spell? Like, is this just an incontation right? She has a magical aura. So it's really just saying the words at the end of that. Oh, I know, like, she was just throwing charm casters to spell, so I don't think she was going to say something at one point. Maybe I'm misremembering it. She was just throwing stuff around. She wasn't casting any spells. She's got the book now, she must have been reading it. Yeah, but it's popped up a few times just in the background. Yeah, yeah. I just think it's like the first time he was casting this spell "it backfire" in a bit. Just like, you kind of want to see one way of successful, then you can get to the jokes of "ha ha!" You're not used to it, you have to spell "backfire" because if it backfires immediately, then it's almost like, "Are we sure we want?" Well, because it doesn't even really backfire because of her, it's more the circumstances of being in her head's message. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it was fun. I mean, it was funny that it failed, and then work still. Yeah, classic thing of monkey paw, like, you get a result, but not in the way you expect it. I liked the music during the farmwork sequence. ♪ Bum bum ba da da da ♪ Bum bum, you know. Yeah. I will say, do we want to do a Sam's stats because that episode had a lot of different transformations. Now, go on. Okay. Oh. You. Oh. Don't take this away from me, that. This is the one piece of joy I have in this hellhole is taking notes of these stats. Hellhole. You need to get something. One piece of joy. Anyway, who do we think's winning? Uh, Cannonball. You think Cannonball's winning? I want to say four arms is up. You want to say four arms? Up great. Up great. We, have we already done this this season? Was it Greyman at the first time? No, that was my guess, but I was wrong. I think Greyman does his forearm. Forearms is winning last time. No, it was too high tide or diamond hit. No, diamond hit was winning last time. It was diamond hit and forearms, right? Winning, 'cause it was tight last time. I'm not reminding you. James, make your guess. We'll go, we'll go forearms. Forearms. And what the barely go with? Oh, forearms. Forearms. It is Cannonball and Diamond hit, both. Damn it. I was done with Diamond. And Accelerate, they all tied for five. Oh, yep. After that, we then have Wild Vine and Upgrade, which are both tied for four. Then we have tied for three. We have forearms, Wild Mutt and Stinkfly. And then tied for two. We have Heat Blast and Grey Matter. And then we've only got one transformation of Ben Wolf so far. And zero for the Mummy. Zero for the Mummy. And no, no, no, Rick Jaws this season so far. And we have not got-- He tried, and he tried, and he failed. He's tried, and it has a hand in your bow. No, but season two was reptal season. So let's see if it happens in the next episode. Yeah. [MUSIC PLAYING] Chializer. It's similar as a chill with a cayon. Oh, cool. OK, Bailey, you've already proved your father than us. You don't need to keep her, like, you've already got-- are you already top? You know, you're good. The Unnatural's. Ben runs across his Little League team as they face off in a playoff against a team of robots. And Juvenile Disguise, targeting the president of the United States. As I just said, whenever I watch this episode, I always think to myself, who made these robots? What's going on? And I always forget that at the very end of the episode, we are shown it's the Forever Nights. Do you watch this episode often? No, but this is one of the seasons I had on TPD when I was little. So when I was watching Ben Chen this season, I watched a lot. The season I've seen more than any other season I've been to. I do, like, you know, not every episode has to do with an alien. Yeah, I know it's not like down to Earth, like, oh, it's just a random criminal or something, but, you know, it's robots and it's something different. Yeah, I also just love the premise of they're like, we're going to imitate the president of the United States and take control of the White House. Like, that's just such a fun-- For at least two more years. Yeah, that's all right. I'm impressed at how down to Earth this president and Ben Chen is. He's like, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to go do a literally game. I'm going to relax with the kids. It doesn't like to do them. Well, so, like, what-- George, tell me you're pushing a brand new primary school kids. Well, no, they're-- I've seen that video. He was at their school when he gave the order for 9/11 to happen. Oh, no. No. Oh, that is not how to win. Are you sure? He gave the order back in his office. The game was after. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He was like, OK, so this was set in the hometown, correct? Because this is-- No, no. So this is-- Oh, it's just their hometown team. So, OK, because that's what I was wondering. So they were in Washington to see this episode then. I assume, like, why would the president be-- I love how you looked at me, like, how it had any clue. Why would the president be visiting a little league team outside of Washington? There are some places that has a-- He's the president of the United States. Yeah. So he can go around the states. But do you think he goes to every single state's little league game? No, this is the state-- Little league states are state-free state. This was the final. This was the champions. So the president goes to the championship game because he likes baseball and he goes for the Little League championship of that one game to, like, cheer the kids on. OK. Yeah. They said it's not knowing about the Little League or how it works. They said that in the episode. They did. But maybe there's more. Anyway. Anything else? Just as I said at the end. I know it's such, like, just a petty thing. But it's like, I despise in shows or movies when it's like The Guardian or the parental figure is like, well, you shouldn't have cheated to get their music player. And it's like, we're talking about-- I just saved the president of the United States from murderous robots versus I counted jelly beans to win a music player, Grandpa Max. And I'm not going to take credit. Yeah. I'm not allowed to take credit. And if it's like, you can't take credit for saving as the alien because you're an alien and we don't want the president knowing, you can at least have been credit for, oh, why you're in uniform. You actually did save the president. This kid's the one that actually saved you. Yeah. Also, just the point of like, Grandpa Max being like, yeah, so what we're going to do is we're going to put up the two kids who bully you that you hate. Yeah. And we're going to give them the credit is like, it's just so bad. Like, maybe even if they did a different kid, it would be understandable if Max is just more like, hey, Ben, we don't want you into limelight. Like, we want to keep your secret eye out to you. Another kid who's being picked on throughout the episode. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The kid from the farm and under wraps, that could cool him and did it. Yeah, that would have been great. But instead, what we got was the two assholes who never learned any lesson who were the most dickish kids. Devious bastards in all of this shit. [LAUGHTER] Cut off from life. Speaking of Cash and JD, this is the second time they've appeared in the whole show. And it's the second time they've been wedgied in the whole show. But also, like, they didn't have names in episode one. Like, they're credited as bully one and bully two. That's true. And to me, they still are. Yeah. I said this while we're watching, but it's like, I love how every single time there's a pair of bullies in Ben 10. There will always be a tall, lanky one, and kind of like a stubby, short one. In every pop culture in general. Yeah, yeah, I know. But in Ben 10, I just noticed it with him. Even while they were in juvie, it was like the tall, lanky one. And then the lanky one that is in charge. Yes. The lanky one who's in charge, and it's the small, stocky one who makes like the little quips in the inside was trying to get under this kitten. They never really show you how to deal with bullies in their shows. No. They don't. Which is-- Well, they show you how to deal with it. Because you need to not like how to really deal with bullies. Which is so we can talk with him. No. [LAUGHTER] What could ever came from? Turn into an alien and give them wedges in front of the president. Yeah, that could be the answer to all the world's problems. I mean, in my experience, ignoring bullies never worked, because that just encouraged them to do more-- Do more. --to get a bigger ring. Exactly. Exactly. Honestly, just like talking chip back, sometimes we did. If you made them laugh, it would leave you alone. I had this one. So like looking back, definitely in high school, I thought that I had like these bullies. And then it turned out I ended up being like kind of good mates with them. They were just giving me a lot of the time. And one of them in particular, he was new at the school. And he was giving me a lot of-- because I was even more skinny than I am now. And he said he changed his attitude about me. Because one day he took my art book. And then I like immediately got up and got on his face and took it back. And then he was like, yeah, from that day, I was like, no. You put the respect out there. Do you know what's what? I had-- --not. Yeah. Do you know what's why? If they happened at out school, they were swung at you. No, no, no, no. They couldn't swing at me if they weren't. No, good. Because I went to your school. And I did a similar thing where it was it wasn't me, but it was another one where my mates was getting picked on. And I was kind of sitting tired of this guy. And I was also, for that made of mine, we've been fighting recently, which was my fault. So I kind of felt that I was like, you know what? No, I'm going to stand up. So I've gotten this guy's face. And I do respect them. You could be like Bailey and threaten a couple of individuals going, like, hey, if my guy swings, I'm a swing. So there's that. Everyone's bullying experience is different. Oh, sure. But I think me and Nat, we had a bit of an experience where we were bullied quite a bit at school. And those circumstances would not have grown us out of it. Oh, yeah. And it was-- I mean, like, it was bad to worry about. I did want someone up against a wall, though. Yeah, but I mean, and it was deserved. It was deserved. But yeah, I mean, hey, boys are dicks. Girls are dicks sometimes. Sometimes. Hey, kids are dicks. They're dicks now, but you're 25 and they're still cunts. No, yeah, kids are dicks and also cunts. That's how it goes. After this guy used to bully both of us, but after that, he would only bully my mate because he was used to it up to me. And now I've got respect for you. And I'm like, what? That's ridiculous. So I don't-- the way you said that, Joe, this person, who wants to do it, I don't-- like, that's not a-- I get, you know, children, young people, but like, that's not a mindset that I respect. The idea that you have to stand up to solve this. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. For them to respect you, you have to. You know, they shouldn't be bullying in general. People are just crawling. It's how the bully justifies, is it? To themselves, is it? They're basically, basically. They're like, oh, if they really wanted me to stop, they would confront me. It's ridiculous. Yeah. It's not actually how it should work at all. I apologize to the three people who are listening that that got so heated. I just hate that shit on any type of media. It's like, no, we have to be the bigger person. There's no such thing as being the bigger person. Sometimes the low road is the good person. I think the potential to be the bigger person, but in a way that, you know-- You don't just ignore the issue and go, yeah. Well, I accept it. I'll just be bullied. No. There's a ditch. OK. Let me rephrase that. Sometimes you can be the bigger person. It just comes in different forms. Yes. Yes. So like, thank you. Like, Tony, you need to perform. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Thank you. I'm sorry, thank you. Me and your big friends. Me and your big friends. Me and your big friends. Maybe I didn't sleep well. I don't know what I did. You were just so anxious and excited to watch Ben 10 today. I was really looking forward to it. All of you said it out. I was like, OK. Yeah, no. You really did last 10, sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. No, no, it was yesterday. That's the past 10. Yeah. You can't say, I am looking forward to this all of you. When I got up this morning, I was like, OK, let's go. Like, I missed the shoot last night. So all the time we're doing tomorrow. And you said, we'll try to start at night. Because we were like, tried to debate like when we should start. It was like, should we start at 8, 8.30? We can't start at 10, because then we won't go home till 5 AM. So we're going home at 4 AM. Oh. No. No, it won't be as bad as last night. Did I mention how I'm going home at 7 AM? We're not. Was it 8.30 earlier? That's rough, buddy. Yeah. That's it. The more that that time goes on, the more I'm like. On that note, the time is currently 2.39 PM. Yeah. So on to the next one. Yeah. On to the next one. You've been listening to the Ben Tim podcast that nobody asked for, one of the podcasts of all time. 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