The Ben 10 Podcast That Nobody Asked For

15. Naruto Kids

“This is so far removed from Ben 10.”

A lot of dragging on inconsistencies and lazy story-telling in this one. Please don’t take it personally Ben 10, it all comes from a place of love. Have no fear though, your boys get very far off topic in part two of this episode when they start reminiscing about disappointing movies and arguing about what did and didn’t happen at school. (Fun fact: Nat’s wrong, but won’t realise it till a few weeks after recording)

On top of all that, learn how Joe was “roped into” a fun-filled weekend of podcasting.

Season 3,

Episodes 3 & 4,

A Change of Face & Merry Christmas

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Duration:: 24m
Broadcast on:: 30 Jun 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

Oh, that's cool. That's awesome. Thank you. That's cool. I love the set of tattoos. Welcome back to the Ventium podcast that nobody asked for. I am Nat. I'm Sam. I'm James. I'm Joe. We just watched season three, episode three, a change of face. While in Salem, charm caster tries to switch bodies with Ben, but winds up with Gwen's instead. Solid, solid story. Yeah, it was a fun one for Iki Friday. Yep, that's the word. Charm caster makes a burning joke about Salem, and I think that's just a bit insane. Just says the line where I get the only trick Salem will burn. And I'm like, ah! So you were going to talk about how they were dressed up as pilgrims? Oh, yeah. They're also dressed up as pilgrims, which is like when you go to Salem, you're dressing up as people who burnt their neighbors. Like, I know you're trying to go for the pilgrim angle, but like grandpa max is just insensitive is what we learned. Yeah, no, no point in this thing. I think they put Salem because they're like, oh, witches magic. Charm caster. Yeah, but it's like, yeah, but all the witches got burned horribly into a terrible, terrible witch trials, and it's really up what happened there. And instead did like, nah, funny backdrop to some genetic use. I would like to state for the record. When I was a kid, I didn't think anything of it, and I still didn't think anything of it until you brought it up. Yeah, no. No, I had to, for an English, there was a play, a Salem play. Crucible. The Crucible, yes. Is that the Crucible? I never did that thing with English, but we started it in drama. Yeah, and which is about like the same, because it's my name. Do we just study it? Did we do scenes from it? We just, oh, you did a couple of scenes from it. Yeah. That was one of the, anyway, I had one of the year 10 projects or something. I believe it was the year 10. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, I think that's just a bit, yeah. Yeah, they didn't do, they'd never mention a witch burning. So that's the thing, they just go to Salem, and they don't mention what Salem is known for, which is the witch killing. They just have magic, because this is a kid show, and that's a bit dark. And they would just like, we're going to have an episode about a sorceress, and we're going to set it in Salem, because that's fun. Yeah. So we finally got a, we finally saw a character actually get freaked out. The cat in Sabrina was in the age of witches called Salem. Yeah, I know. I like to say it. Do we have a problem with that? Or, wait, what did you say? No, no, no, no, no. So we're trying to get freaked out. About the, you know, the cafeteria lady that freaked out. Oh, yeah. You know, we've been seeing alien transformations throughout the show, and no one really gets it. Yeah. But finally, we actually had someone act like a normal person for once. They had actually got very distressed when their ladle turned against it. Like even the two dudes who stole the truck, they were like, "Oh, we're being chased by some little girl, and I sculptured." And this is just a normal Tuesday. It's sad. I feel like that's fine. Well, they are in Salem. So maybe that is a normal Tuesday. Maybe just people in America, just the aliens and it's like, you know what, we've been expecting this for a long time. Yeah, yeah, nothing else. Actually, that just reminds me of a great line that happened in last season with Frame, the Kevin episode, which is they're talking about, when they're talking to the speculation about how he's not a bad alien. And he goes, "Let the boys in area 51 figure that one out." I'm like, "What is area 51? Is this cementing for them?" Yeah, I know, but I'm like, "Are they like the men in black?" Like, "Do they torture him?" Yeah, I feel like they're going to kill him. They're like, "Well, obviously not." Well, we already almost saw him get the same dude. Oh, yeah. But those were by the organizations last year for overnight. Yes. In the first time they show up, they're just called the organization. Yeah. Then in season two, they walk in and Ben's like, "Hey, it's Enoch and those forever night guys." It's like, that's not what you called them last time. They take him in for a desectionist's grandmother. And how they were going to seek them was laser off both his arms and his legs and nothing else. Great dissection. Yep. Really teaches you a lot. Maybe it does. I don't think so. What do you know about laser dissection? What are you trying to find out if he has bones in his leg? Nah. Maybe. Did we ever attend a science class where we dissected anything? Yeah, I did. I did not. A rat. A bird's eye. Oh, I went to an open nights for when you go to the school. Oh, yeah, yeah. Because maybe we did them in five years ago. We did an open night in the high school and then we dissected it. You did all the randomizations. We did a hard education. Yeah. Yeah. And I was like, oh. Actually, I didn't want no suggestions for me. If any of that got picked up. None of that got that. We can't have two conversations going on at the same time. It's not going to work. We can't isolate the audio as it's one audio file. So, okay. What were you guys just talking about? I don't know. I did a bunch. That's your uni. I did a heart. I looked at a brain. That's not it. Ah, she's hot. Oh, something. And I did a rat dissection. All that stuff. What was the brain? What human brain? I think it was a human brain. But it was cut up into segments. So, it was just a human brain. It might have been a sheep's brain or something else. But it was a dead brain that had been donated to science. Could've been human, could've been something else. And they had in glass things split up. So, you could see the slice of the brain. It wasn't like we did the dissecting of the brain. We just looked at slides that were preserved. It was very cool. That is cool. But yeah, no. So, I mean, interesting way to dissect Nailion. Maybe the voice in Area 51 maybe had better strategies. Yeah. I will say that it's complete. I love how I know I started it. But we got so far off this episode's topic. Yeah, I'm actually like in all the episodes of it. Yeah. So, this episode, no body swapping for Grandpa Max. No. But he was done dirty and just confused the whole time. Every now and then they have an episode where Grandpa Max just isn't very smart. And I don't like that. You know what? I'm going to defend him here. Because he's cooking. It's so obvious how much he loves it. And how much his grandkids hate it. So, I think the idea of trying to cast the lies and says, "I'm looking into cooking like you." I think he just gets a bit like really excited. Just so I don't care about his cooking genuinely. And I turn to the person. Yeah, exactly. I'm talking about the scene where he's like, "Okay, so Ben and Gwen have squat bodies. Just, they've just swapped with each other. I am so confused." It's like, that's a really simple concept to reckon about. Oh, it's purely just for... You can be in value. It's a catch show. Yeah, it's a catch show. It wasn't funny. Oh, and his swing. Dude was tied up. Well, what's it called again? The top voice. The mask. No, she called it something else. No. Grandpa Max was tied up. He was tied up on the top of the mask. Yes. Especially if she used a different word. But anyway, he was tied up. He managed to get loose. And he did a nice big... She called it something else. Tied up on the... She said the name of what he was doing. Okay. That's what I'm saying. It wasn't much. Okay. I was like a two word combiner. There's also that great bit where Ben and Gwen's body, Charmcaster, is in the bubble, not like 10 feet from him. And instead of running, he like... Oh, of course. I got to do this cool rope thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where I then switch ropes mid-air. Yeah. And then I'll swing down into the bar. Did anybody see that? Because I will not be doing it again. It makes no sense. Hopefully not. It makes no sense as well. Because he cuts the rope, which shoots him up. Yeah. But from shooting up, he then grabbed the other half of the rope. That's just like, you know, going. Which means that that's about that. Yeah, he should be splattered. Instead, he does this big swing and hits Charmcaster when he could just run a job. I'm wondering if I could visit the hospital and have to pay some bills. Because you know the angle of the stuff must be shot. Once in the first season. Yeah, really. You're going to come back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Grab a mate. He's in a cast and then by the end of the episode, he's not in a cast. You know what? Cast a new work. People would heal a lot faster than we do. They do. They do. I mean, I would love to have... healing to be like that. Absolutely. We need some Wolverine and a fancy amount. Absolutely. Yeah. We need a... I need to be able to do Tybox. We need to not walk away with the bruise. Every time I do. Bruises on the shins for me. Yes. And so terrible. Yeah. On that note, we should probably move on. Okay. Okay. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Sam's dad. We'll do them next time. Episode four. Season three, episode four. Merry Christmas. Well, traveling through Death Valley, the Tennisans come across a winter land and nominally, where Grandpa Max is forced to become Santa Claus and the kids start becoming elves. Christmas in the summer. Christmas in the summer. So unheard of. Not like it happens in parts of the world, but hey. Yeah. Not like a lot of tech viewers. We're, we're Kiwi. We were from New Zealand. So for a summer, summer Christmas is our life. That's, that's completely normal. I do know someone who, about 10 years ago, traveled to America. When they went over there, it was the American summer. Oh, you've told me this. Yeah. And, and they were just like, they were, and people asking them how it was. And they're, oh, it's cool. It's a bit different because it's so warm over here at moment because back home in New Zealand, it's winter at the moment. People went off and responded, they're going, oh, Merry Christmas. Yeah. What do we think of the episode? It was a bit of a flawed one. That's a bit of a weird. I liked how they had the little Naruto-looking kids at the end. That sounds good. I had forgotten that they were in there. That's amazing. Yeah, pretty like, I don't know what odd. Yeah, a bit of a odd one. It's like, how does the magic actually work? How, how was that machine created? It all kind of, oh, the presents got delivered, so then the curse was broken. But, yeah, yeah, yeah. We put the machine itself until we did a story. And then the appearance just kind of showed up. Yeah, yeah. So it was like, were they there? The appearance would turn into elves as well. Maybe, or maybe they were the Nutcrackers. Maybe, then possible. I mean, it looks like it was like a time, wibbly wobbly timing, right? Because when you meet someone from 1932, yeah, they do that. They did that fade in Distinct Flight episode. And it looks like we're, when they're like, okay, we've got a lot of weird ramifications. We're going to clear this all up with the bubble wipe in the background. Do you mean the ticket for Sony? Yeah, yeah, the ticket for Sony. When they just do a bubble wipe in the background, it's like, everything's novel and fine. Don't worry about it. Everything is fine. Do you want an update of Sam's stats? Go on. All right, so who do we have to? Yes, we do. So this is just the season, Greg. You said next podcast. This is the podcast. You cut me off. You rude, rude man. So this is just the stats for season three. There's the season, Greg. So I want people to say, what do you think? Gray matter. Gray matter? You're saying gray matter? I feel most alien to end in two. Oh, either Diamond Head or Cannon Bolt. Diamond Head and Cannon Bolt. I reckon Gray Matter. I reckon Gray Matter. You think Cannon Bolt? Speaking of Cannon Bolt. You got both in a Diamond Head and Cannon Bolt. I currently tied for three. Gray Matter is next at two. But Gray Matter, we only saw in this episode so far. We saw them twice in this episode. What's Cannon Bolt at three? Cannon Bolt's at three. Okay. Diamond Head's at three. Oh. Wow. You really got it. I just want it down. Yeah, he's just turned up. But then we-- Yeah, you're less sleep deprived than the rest of us. Yeah. Then following then, we've got Wild Matter 2, Stick Fly at 2, Accelerate at 2, and Gray Matter 2. And then we've got-- And then a couple of zero. Then we've got Upgrade 1, Heatwave 1, Wild Matter 1. Wow. A mixed bag so far. We haven't gotten any crazy-- We haven't got any-- No forums this season, actually. No forums. He's tried to go forums all the time. He's tried to go forums multiple times. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And we saw Ben 10,000 forums. Yes, but we don't count that. I know. I know. I'm just just keeping our listeners updated. Just stay safe. Play free listening. Let me turn into the dude with forums so I can miss some stuff up. And you just give me all these other things. No. Honestly, this season so far looks like Ben. He's just like, the watch is not really working. Because he'll always be like, this alien hit it. And he's like, ah. Not this. No. Here we go again. Yeah. Here we go again. But you know, the watch kind of gives him what he needs. Probably like deep into subconscious. It's like, OK, how am I going to fix this? Oh, I'll destroy it with forums. And it's like in reality. Actually, Gray Matter is the way to go. Wait, so it's only two Gray Matter transformations of the season. Yeah. And they were both in this episode. Yeah. Wow. I'm actually surprised by that. Oh, I mean, I'm not. Like, what on your episode? What? Three? Yeah, four. Four. Four. Yeah. I guess, yeah. He can go in the future or anything. So that is interesting, though. I think as though that's always like the head care. And you hear it's like, oh, no. The omnitrix is actually able to read the situation and knows what Ben actually needs. In a change of face, how did Diamond Ted help? Genuinely. No. And so when I say that, I don't actually think that the omnitrix is giving him what he needs, subconsciously. But it's kind of like, it always just works out anyway. But that's more of a thing about the character and imagination and the problem solving. Yeah. It makes him think of his videos. Well, Gray Mouthe is just smiling. Gray Mouthe. Gray Mouthe. Do I say Gray Matter? You see Gray Mouthe. You see Gray Mouthe. It's Gray Mouthe. It's Gray Mouthe. Yeah. Oh, god. And it doesn't say Gray Mouthe. I haven't been to Gray Mouthe this much. I don't know why I'm thinking of Gray Mouthe. So a lot of-- It's nice there. I saw the film "Enders Game" there for the first time. And I saw the film "Rogue One" there for the first time. We're Instagram out, isn't it, in the south home? Yeah, it's-- On the west coast. Yeah. I think. "West Pune of Kike," is that on the west coast? I haven't been to the west coast, so-- Are you going to be trying other ones? I remember when I went to see "Enders Game," and I was so excited because I really liked the book. And the day we were going, I read the whole book again, like in the morning before we went. The whole book? Yeah. I remember you trying. Is it a long book? Really? I did get to read that one. Not super long. Me too. Yeah, because I think it's a good book, and I think you guys should have really liked it. I can't remember if we started watching at school, or if you just started showing it to me, but I've seen half of the film. I think we've got shown it. We've got shown half of it. One of the science teachers put it on, and we saw the first half of it. Yeah, because I was trying to think if we went to the cinemas for it, as in like on the school trip. But I think that was "Hunger Games," wasn't it? What was the-- Because we went down a mission-- We walked down a mission vehicle, you know. I believe. Yeah. Was it-- "Hunger Games" the first one? I believe so. I believe we saw "Catching Fire." Right. And "Thore the Dark World." I would not have seen "Thore the Dark World," because that's the only Marvel film I have ever seen. Well, I've seen half of it. I fell asleep and did-- Just did not bother watching it again. Okay. It's a boring film. No, no, it is. It's not the worst one to fall asleep in. I mean, yeah. You know. What did you do "Catching Fire" come out in? I don't actually like "The Hunger Games" film. It would have been a year seven trip. I never had a tension. Seven or eight trip, it was-- Well, because "Thore the Dark World" came out when we were in the era. "Catching Fire" came out in 2013. Okay. That would have been year seven, so that makes sense. Would that have been year seven? Yes. Yeah. Right? You were 13 and year seven. That's when you-- Yeah. No, we always-- The children. Oh, my God. Hang on. You're 12. Wait. You're five to-- Yes. Starting year zero five. What year-- We had year 13 in 2018, 12 and 17, 11 and 16, 10 and 15, 9 and 14, 8 and 13, 7 and 12. So "Catching Fire" came out in 2013. It would have been year seven. Yeah. 2013 was "Catching Fire" I mean, that's the same year still "The Dark World", but did we see two films? Maybe. I think we only saw one. Maybe two groups saw different films. I know I saw both of them with school. I mean, there were different quotes in the year. Maybe you just made two trips. Maybe. But I feel like we only ever did those kind of trips at the end of the year. That's very lucky that you were school took you to movies. You know, it was wild. I went to the same school and I don't think I ever went to one of those. I don't think we had those in my year. To be fair, we had to walk to the movies and it was a rather long walk. Right? You did. We walked from-- Yeah, we walked from-- Yeah. We walked up the hill. You know-- You don't go up the hill to go to-- Saying we walked up-- Like, we went onto the field, we went up the hill at the back and then like a long and all the way down. Like, we walked down like-- Stuff, I'm pretty sure. It was a big walking group. That is not-- That is not-- You didn't catch buses. Stop, stop. I think you're getting confused-- Yes. With when we did a-- Not a texture player. When we did a jucauvered practice walk down to me. And yeah, and then at the end of it, we came back and we went up and we skipped last period. The teachers were like, "You can just hang out at the top of me." For the last period. No, we didn't catch buses down to the movies. I'm pretty sure we walked down. I'm pretty sure there was no bus down. I'm all for tangents. But this is so-- Not an interesting tangent to talk about. Of our high school mood. So far from being seen. Like, this is all getting cut. It's not-- No, it isn't. It's even in. Yeah, there's nothing. We haven't talked about much else. Well, then let's talk about it. Well, I mean, there's not really-- So we saw accelerant get slippery on the ice. Yeah. And then he figured it out. Hey, I can just ask it. Well, we did it. No, we got bit of a movement. You got bit of a movement. You got bit of a movement. Well, so, yeah. What do you got bit? So one thing I want to-- We'd like to discuss quickly is so the town was founded in 1928 by Mr. Jingle's. That old man was claimed to be Mr. Jingle's. Was that the dude who founded the town? Or was that someone who came along? That was the kid. That was the kid who was in 1932. You mean the old dude with the Naruto kids? Yeah. That was the elf they were. That was the elf friend. That was that kiddle grown up. But then when were those kids? Because how does he have grandkids when he was stuck as a child? It was really wobbly timing, why me? So no, no, no. James, remember. He said that photo of him as a kid was taken a few days ago in 1932. So he wasn't back in 1913? When the magic got turned off at the end, everyone came out of the town when they entered the town, basically. They did the thing. There's some more episodes. They did the thing where there was that ripple effect in the background. And that basically means, hey, listen, continuity wise, factory reset. So the Mr. Jingle's that we met is dead, instead. He did long on-- He was an old man. He died in the middle of the 20th century. OK. OK. You look really happy about that. No. Hey, you know, actually, another thing that I noticed is that even when something dramatic happens, the characters look like they're smiling. Like they're animation. They're just cheerful. I know. But Ben just ruined the Grandpa Max's RV air conditioning. And he's like smiling at him. It's like, huh, thank you for breaking my-- Oh, also more sad Grandpa Max in the subsets. Like we've never spent a Christmas together. And they're like, yeah. Bye. And then we probably never will, because we're in the middle of July. One thing I did, I don't know why, but I just really appreciated the joke. We'd be like, we need a reindeer to get in, so that Ben changed his wand, and then put on-- Yeah, and he goes like, he's European. The most American thing ever. Does it just confirm that the Americans-- And I'm just talking to you, America. Do you guys just think that Europeans look weird? Is that a thing? A bit hairy. A bit hairy. Look like a dog. Anyone from America is listening to this. If anyone from America started listening to it and made it this long, please write it and let us know. That's amazing. Why? Fascinated. And why? Email us in at bentinnobodyast@gmail.com. That's B-E-N-1-0. Nobody asked at gmail.com. Are you going to make that email? I mean, yes. Yes. And he's made an Instagram page for him. You made an Instagram page for him. He made these during the episodes yesterday. In the first episode, he's talking about like, should we make an email and episode six starts? So we have an email. Sit up. There's only so long you can talk about bentin before you result to little big gags. Before we end this podcast episode, I want to tell everyone how I got ropes into this. And when I say ropes, it's very-- I just asked you. Okay, so we were-- And I must have known a shift that finished later. The net heads off. And he's like, what's your number? I have to call you. And usually when someone says, I have to call you, it's like, mom's saying that someone's passed away. Someone's saying, oh, I missed you. I sent you a message saying, hey, I just realized I don't know. What was that, Sam? Not you. Mine was Sam. Mine had been, but I can look back on it. But you asked for my number. And it's like, oh, yeah, what's it? I want to call you. And it's like, OK, what's up? And you call me. And you're like, how would you feel about doing a bentin marathon on the fourth and the fifth of May? So Saturday and Sunday, just the whole day. And then we finished the episode. And we do a podcast straight after. And I was like, that sounds fantastic. I might not be able to do the Saturday because Saturdays are when I hang out with my girlfriend. But I'll definitely do the Sunday. And then I questioned, what are you supposed to be watching Star Wars with Sam and Ida? Yeah. Well, so it sounds like Nat Garelli says, approach to all of us. Because he also-- He started with Sam. Well, yeah. And then-- so I got a message. So we weren't supposed to originally be doing the Star Wars marathons back to back. There was re-showings and cinemas, so we're going to go to them. But that kind of fell through. So I was playing games and I get a call from Nat. I thought he was just calling to talk about Game of Thrones because I've been going through the book. And I can't pick it up because I'm in a game. And he takes back. I'm like, hey, we'll talk about it later. Are you free tomorrow? And he goes, I need to talk now. It's rather urgent. It won't take long. I swear. And I'm like, shit. OK. This is really serious. I've got to like, I'll pause the game. I'll tell the boys to stop after this one. Oh, wow. Yeah. So Star wasn't happening. But how do you feel about Ben's tears? I will say, unfortunately, I am the catalyst to this of, I seem to, I think, a very innocent text to this man. And the text was pulled up. Let's pull up this innocent text. I thought it was completely innocent. You find it. This reminds me of when my friend told me a story. I must have called him one day and I never caught, I used to maybe never call people. And he like, I have to take this, my friends in trouble. Like, he calls me and must be an emergency. And he's like, bro, what's up? And then I must have said, do you want to go watch Guardians of the Galaxy? And there's a serious meta, though. Very serious, Matt, with Nat. So Sam, would you like to start reading out your messages? And then I'll read out my side. OK. Let's be able to see. There we go. Here we go. Hey, do you know what I would love for us to do? I do not. Big eyes emoji. Exactly. Rewatch Ben 10, Ben 10 Alien Force and Ben 10 Ultimate Alien. I bet you weren't on the entrance. You were the catalyst. It wasn't just, hey, I'd love to rewatch some Ben 10 sometime. It's, hey, I want to rewatch all of Ben 10. You are safe to thrive. Because you are sleek to thrive, then you did it to yourself. So you chose this path for us. Sam said Ben 10 Alien Force and Ben 10 Ultra Matrix. And I responded. It was Ultimate Alien. But sure. Sounds like a weekend laughing, crying emoji. Yeah. Correction sounds like a fantastic weekend. So then there's some others up. But here's what's important. That was sent at 10 o'clock in the morning. An hour late, 10, 5 minutes past 10 on the 17th of April. Yeah. Not even 40 minutes later. Nat has sent me a spreadsheet. A spreadsheet? It's a list. It's a written list on a piece of receipt. It's a very itemized list of how long each of those are. And I remember looking at that going, well, that's a lot. Maybe we'll just finish it. And it was a bit of an underestimation as well. Wasn't it? Yeah, it was. I had the accounts on the podcast time. And we're kind of running over. Oh, we have energy. We have energy. Oh, that coffee goes down. And a coffee goes down. All right. Goodbye. On to the next episode. Yeah. You've been listening to the Benton podcast that nobody asked for. One of the podcasts of all time. If you've got anything you'd like to say to us, anything you'd like to complain about, or if you just need a void to scream into, feel free to email us at Bentonnobodyasked@gmail.com. That's B-E-N-1-0 nobodyasked@gmail.com. Or follow us on Instagram at Bentonnobodyaskedpod. Right on, binheads. [BLANK_AUDIO]