Ben

Ben is a member of the Xplodin Crew as well as one of Jack’s close friends. Ben often plays alongside Jack in several of his videos in XplodinApple as well as playing several roles in any of Jack’s skits on Xplodin Film. He is often known to play as the more goofy or funny roles in Jack’s skits.

## Early Life

Ben was born June 4th 1997 and has known Jack since he was 14 years old. He grew up in the same town as him and would frequently hangout together.

## General Information

Ben is described as an adult who cool, calm, and collected; but in recent years has become enthusiastic over time. He is one of Jack's best friends and one of the stars of the Xplodin Apple channel as well as the formerly named Jsullivan1998 (now called Xplodin Film) channel. Ben has played many characters including Mr Met, Mickey, Oscar the grouch, The Grim Reaper of Death and Bimbo Ben to name a few. he plays various roles in silent films like in Dancing with Death. His favorite characters to play are the villains for the most part. Though he will get his time shine someday!

## Bimbo Ben

"Bimbo Ben" has become an inside joke relating to Ben's role in "The Training 2", where Ben took the role of evil Jack's dumb and light headed apprentice. The joke has been used several times throughout the years on several social media platforms as well as in parties, and and even made a cameo on one of Jack’s videos about Castle Crashers.

## Early Youtube Gaming Channel

Ben wanted to get into making Youtube videos and he did with his Alien vs. predator video being the most popular. He would only upload 1 to 2 videos per month as a side hobby. Ben enjoys playing games over filming them, he'd rather play with others in person. The first video made on Xplodin Apple's gaming channel was used with an old turtle beach microphone that we hard wired into Jacks laptop. That is the reason why the first few videos we made, the audio was choppy and bad. Bens favorite game systems are the GameCube and the Xbox 360. The first game Ben ever owned was the Polar Express on Gameboy Advance.

## XplodinApple

While busy most of the time, Ben makes occasional appearances within Jack's gaming videos on his main channel. He joins Jack's streams when he plays Far Cry or Dead by Daylight. Both he and Jack have similiar humor so they bounce off each other when it comes to funny in game shenanigans. Recently Ben has been trying to be in as many videos with Jack as possible. Ben and Jack have been trying to come up with new way to evolve the youtube channel. One of the ways is being a variety streamer and going back to the past like having Ben and Jack NES game plays.

Ben has a Youtube channel called HarlockGFT88. He may change the name to Mr.ReesesPieces TBD. He has not been active for 3 years due to no longer having a game capture card. He has been busy pursuing a career in geology. Currently is still an undergrad in college. In the future he wants to be apart of XplodinFilm and XplodinApples legacy and projects.

## Trivia

- In "Dancing with Death," the Grim Reaper of Death was based off the red devil from the cow and chicken show

- In "Grover the Movie," most scenes were filmed in Ben's house where he has a movie theatre in his basement

- There is a running joke that when ever Jack streams his chat always says "Ben is bad at games"

- One of Bens favorite games to play is Dead By Daylight

- His favorite candy is Reeses, in high school he ate almost 1 pound of Reeses Peanut butter cups

- In most of Jack's films, Ben has the one to provide the props and costumes for many of his films

- Ben was the first person in the Xplodin Crew to obtain an El Gato game capture card.

- According to Ben, he was the first subscriber of Xplodin Apple and was in the room when Jack made the channel

**Crew members**