September 25, 2025 • 8 mins
Ben Stiller is launching a soda brand inspired by his childhood, which leads us down the wormhole of what we used to eat & drink growing up (NONE of it was healthy).
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm gonna head down there.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Yeah, have a go then yeah you do too know
yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
After whin I'll show you don't ruin it. We except
for simple we pursuing it. Toddled out Shaw Shank do
the sewer? Kid, Now what chilling that day? Eagle? Yeah,
we're doing it. Bring your clocking on the dock. Got
a habit for my house? Or go stat is how
it started. Kid Crattic shows that up multiplied like a rabbit.
(00:33):
Tune in so out, crank it up beat the habit I.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Won, hang out with her friend, rocketed on the radio.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
My hole by skin and is talking on the radio.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
It's time to to this spons again. All we go,
katiristin up Ah.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Yes, Hello, Welcome, Happy Thursday, everybody. It's the world famous
Ben and Skin Show. Ben Rogers, Jeff skin Wade, Kevin
k T. Turner and Christina care little baby corn Bread Ray.
All hands on deck, ready to do it to it
on a Thursday. It's gonna be a fun show. I
know because I was in the pre show meeting and
I heard some of the things that were said. A
couple of things I want to mention you guys as
(01:22):
we get this party started, thank you. I think one
of the most likable people on the planet. I like
where this is going is Ben Stiller. I thought I
was in the running. I think he's one of the
nicest people of all time, one of the he's funny,
he's talented, it's everything he does is magically awesome to me.
(01:43):
I just think he's great. And I saw something today
that that kind of surprised me. It's not something I
expected to see from him, but he launched his own
soda brand, all right, sparkling Stiller. It's called Stillers, and
it's He's got like a root beer lemon lime and
(02:08):
then some other one's nostalgic.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Right, that was Dolga.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I was gonna say, without having seen any of the branding,
Stiller's root beer sounds like something from the fifties.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, it looks really cool. I like the logo and everything.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
It looks Cool's been a little more seventies to me.
I guess, you know, he's just involved in so many
different things. But it's he apparently he just wanted to
make a soda that wasn't super unhealthy. Okay, so it's
like limited sugar and good more natural. But I'm pretty
excited about that.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
All right, I'll buy it. I like soda.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
I went long stretches of my adult life without drinking
any soda at all. Did and then but like in
last year or two, suddenly like I think I need
this now. Uh huh, it just all came back.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Zero. But I agree. I mean, growing up, I would
drink Doctor Pepper all the time, and then college just nothing,
and then all of a sudden, coke zero diet coke.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Oh, I bet I drank a six pack of doctor
Pepper a day in my late teens.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
In early times, I mean, we.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Know, joking, like as a family when we were growing up,
you know, if we had a family dinner, we'd sit
down around the dinner table and somebody would pop open,
you know, a two or three liter bottle of Pepsi
or whatever. Yeah, Coca cola or whatever. It was a
constant from the grocery store to come back to that.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Like, that's not six pm caffeine.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
You guys live in a different era, and I'm telling you,
I know it sounds insane, but if your mine Ben's age,
and you grew up in the late seventies early eighties,
there was not a single thing that existed that was unhealthy,
Like you drove around in cars with the windows completely
rolled up and just a cloud of cigarette smoke. Cigarettes
(03:48):
were on airplanes. You drank soda with every meal. Sometimes
you would eat processed desserts before your dinner, Like there
was whatever the age we live in now, where we're
hyper away of health, that was not a thing in
the seventies and eighties at all. And I was thinking
about this the other day. Are there for you guys?
(04:09):
What were the foods you ate as a kid that
you made yourself. I'm talking about after school snacks or
things like that. Whenever it wasn't a meal prepared by
your mom or whatever, it wasn't a full meal. It
was like, I'll give you an example. My go to,
my absolute go to for my whole career, pizza rolls.
(04:29):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, you used the oven y magical
once your approved to use the oven. Yes, a little
toaster oven or a regular oven.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So mine is similar.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
I didn't make anything for myself until mid to late teens,
So leading up to that, I either unwrapped a Twinkie
ding dong or Hostess cupcake.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Then when I was old enough to like you said,
I very much. Remember when we got a microwave. It
was a big deal, like even like we're all sitting
there talking about it. No, you don't understand. You're gonna
get this food really fast. And so we had at
that end of the kitchen, we had a trash compactor,
which was disgusting and we had a wave. But I
(05:10):
did you ever rock those uh Stofers pizza bread.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Yes, oh they're so good.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
And French bread, yeah, the French bread pizza.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
So back then, I ate pork, so I would have
the sausage Stofers pizza bread all the time.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
That was something that I would actually put in the oven.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
God, sorry, no, go I would. This was every day
after high school. Every single day. I would get bread,
sprinkle cheese on there, put Pepperoni's on there, put some garlic, salt,
and put it in the toaster oven and then watch
that seventy show.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Pizza every day. And you weren't stone No, it wasn't stoned.
It was delicious. I loved it.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Kt Uh yeah, some potato based uh no, Usually a
peanut butter sandwich would probably do the trick.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
No jelly being quick. But you're right on the pizza
rolls or bagel bites. Bagel bites, it's so good.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Yeah, once you got the trust to use the oven
with burning the house down, you know when you're home
an after school and now, yeah, that was the play I.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Just thought out there, and only you would have gone
out back and killed drowne elk and drug it in
and made some jerky.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
No, we're not too far behind the times. We had
a we had a microwave and all that stuff that
that you were excited about.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Okay, I'm glad you said what you just said about
going out and shot something. This is another story I saw.
Three suspects are arrested after a Texas youth baseball coach
was shot during a pregame prayer with his players. According
to local media, basically, what guy's going to be okay,
But basically what happened was three dudes who.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Probably I don't I.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Don't know if they were the fight McMahon's and Gooby,
they were you know, their names that don't their names
that don't sound like maybe they had been here for
a long time so maybe they didn't know the rules.
But they were just three dudes out in a nearby
field shooting guns, practicing with guns.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
They weren't aiming at the baseball game. They just thought, Hey,
there's a wide open area, let's go shoot guns here?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Is that allowed?
Speaker 5 (07:03):
And it reminded me of something I saw the other
day when I was driving home with the tollway. These
are people who have been here for a long time
and are refusing to go shoot somewhere else. Right down
the toll way on my way to my house. There's
now development everywhere, but there are big open fields still,
and there's every year there's people like quail hunting or
something on it. And I'm like, you're there's just guys
(07:24):
in trucks with shotguns, but they're right next to houses
and other I'm like, how how is this happening?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Like what Texas wild bro Like, it's like this is
developed now, Like I get it.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
This one little spot is a tiny field that used
to be surrounded by giant fields everywhere else.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
But that's and maybe shotguns don't go very far or
but tell that to the quail that still needs to
be hunted, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
That's just because we built a sidewalk over here doesn't
mean we don't we still got to get these quail.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Dude, do y'all ever see that? Or is it just
me living way out in the boonies, live in the steaks?
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Dog?
Speaker 5 (07:57):
But dude, I'm telling you there's like a church, there's
a neighborhood. There's an h eb and no, here's you know,
a small area patch of grass that's not developed yet.
Oh look, there's three guys sitting on trucks ready to
shoot stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I'm like, what, I love you?
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Well.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Every July fourth and New Year's Eve have tons of
stories though about people who just fired their gun up
in the air.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, and don't understand gravity. Someone else got hit by
a bullet. No, that thing goes into space.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
No, no, it goes up, must come down. All right,
we're off and running today on a Thursday, coming up
in just over three minutes. We're you gonna take us
in things. Skin is tracking, all right? Do we still
get excited about brand new pizza? I'll ask that question
next
I'm gonna head down there.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Yeah, have a go then yeah you do too know
yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
After whin I'll show you don't ruin it. We except
for simple we pursuing it. Toddled out Shaw Shank do
the sewer? Kid, Now what chilling that day? Eagle? Yeah,
we're doing it. Bring your clocking on the dock. Got
a habit for my house? Or go stat is how
it started. Kid Crattic shows that up multiplied like a rabbit.
(00:33):
Tune in so out, crank it up beat the habit I.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Won, hang out with her friend, rocketed on the radio.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
My hole by skin and is talking on the radio.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
It's time to to this spons again. All we go,
katiristin up Ah.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Yes, Hello, Welcome, Happy Thursday, everybody. It's the world famous
Ben and Skin Show. Ben Rogers, Jeff skin Wade, Kevin
k T. Turner and Christina care little baby corn Bread Ray.
All hands on deck, ready to do it to it
on a Thursday. It's gonna be a fun show. I
know because I was in the pre show meeting and
I heard some of the things that were said. A
couple of things I want to mention you guys as
(01:22):
we get this party started, thank you. I think one
of the most likable people on the planet. I like
where this is going is Ben Stiller. I thought I
was in the running. I think he's one of the
nicest people of all time, one of the he's funny,
he's talented, it's everything he does is magically awesome to me.
(01:43):
I just think he's great. And I saw something today
that that kind of surprised me. It's not something I
expected to see from him, but he launched his own
soda brand, all right, sparkling Stiller. It's called Stillers, and
it's He's got like a root beer lemon lime and
(02:08):
then some other one's nostalgic.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Right, that was Dolga.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I was gonna say, without having seen any of the branding,
Stiller's root beer sounds like something from the fifties.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, it looks really cool. I like the logo and everything.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
It looks Cool's been a little more seventies to me.
I guess, you know, he's just involved in so many
different things. But it's he apparently he just wanted to
make a soda that wasn't super unhealthy. Okay, so it's
like limited sugar and good more natural. But I'm pretty
excited about that.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
All right, I'll buy it. I like soda.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
I went long stretches of my adult life without drinking
any soda at all. Did and then but like in
last year or two, suddenly like I think I need
this now. Uh huh, it just all came back.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Zero. But I agree. I mean, growing up, I would
drink Doctor Pepper all the time, and then college just nothing,
and then all of a sudden, coke zero diet coke.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Oh, I bet I drank a six pack of doctor
Pepper a day in my late teens.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
In early times, I mean, we.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Know, joking, like as a family when we were growing up,
you know, if we had a family dinner, we'd sit
down around the dinner table and somebody would pop open,
you know, a two or three liter bottle of Pepsi
or whatever. Yeah, Coca cola or whatever. It was a
constant from the grocery store to come back to that.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Like, that's not six pm caffeine.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
You guys live in a different era, and I'm telling you,
I know it sounds insane, but if your mine Ben's age,
and you grew up in the late seventies early eighties,
there was not a single thing that existed that was unhealthy,
Like you drove around in cars with the windows completely
rolled up and just a cloud of cigarette smoke. Cigarettes
(03:48):
were on airplanes. You drank soda with every meal. Sometimes
you would eat processed desserts before your dinner, Like there
was whatever the age we live in now, where we're
hyper away of health, that was not a thing in
the seventies and eighties at all. And I was thinking
about this the other day. Are there for you guys?
(04:09):
What were the foods you ate as a kid that
you made yourself. I'm talking about after school snacks or
things like that. Whenever it wasn't a meal prepared by
your mom or whatever, it wasn't a full meal. It
was like, I'll give you an example. My go to,
my absolute go to for my whole career, pizza rolls.
(04:29):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, you used the oven y magical
once your approved to use the oven. Yes, a little
toaster oven or a regular oven.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So mine is similar.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
I didn't make anything for myself until mid to late teens,
So leading up to that, I either unwrapped a Twinkie
ding dong or Hostess cupcake.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Then when I was old enough to like you said,
I very much. Remember when we got a microwave. It
was a big deal, like even like we're all sitting
there talking about it. No, you don't understand. You're gonna
get this food really fast. And so we had at
that end of the kitchen, we had a trash compactor,
which was disgusting and we had a wave. But I
(05:10):
did you ever rock those uh Stofers pizza bread.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Yes, oh they're so good.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
And French bread, yeah, the French bread pizza.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
So back then, I ate pork, so I would have
the sausage Stofers pizza bread all the time.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
That was something that I would actually put in the oven.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
God, sorry, no, go I would. This was every day
after high school. Every single day. I would get bread,
sprinkle cheese on there, put Pepperoni's on there, put some garlic, salt,
and put it in the toaster oven and then watch
that seventy show.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Pizza every day. And you weren't stone No, it wasn't stoned.
It was delicious. I loved it.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Kt Uh yeah, some potato based uh no, Usually a
peanut butter sandwich would probably do the trick.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
No jelly being quick. But you're right on the pizza
rolls or bagel bites. Bagel bites, it's so good.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Yeah, once you got the trust to use the oven
with burning the house down, you know when you're home
an after school and now, yeah, that was the play I.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Just thought out there, and only you would have gone
out back and killed drowne elk and drug it in
and made some jerky.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
No, we're not too far behind the times. We had
a we had a microwave and all that stuff that
that you were excited about.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Okay, I'm glad you said what you just said about
going out and shot something. This is another story I saw.
Three suspects are arrested after a Texas youth baseball coach
was shot during a pregame prayer with his players. According
to local media, basically, what guy's going to be okay,
But basically what happened was three dudes who.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Probably I don't I.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Don't know if they were the fight McMahon's and Gooby,
they were you know, their names that don't their names
that don't sound like maybe they had been here for
a long time so maybe they didn't know the rules.
But they were just three dudes out in a nearby
field shooting guns, practicing with guns.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
They weren't aiming at the baseball game. They just thought, Hey,
there's a wide open area, let's go shoot guns here?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Is that allowed?
Speaker 5 (07:03):
And it reminded me of something I saw the other
day when I was driving home with the tollway. These
are people who have been here for a long time
and are refusing to go shoot somewhere else. Right down
the toll way on my way to my house. There's
now development everywhere, but there are big open fields still,
and there's every year there's people like quail hunting or
something on it. And I'm like, you're there's just guys
(07:24):
in trucks with shotguns, but they're right next to houses
and other I'm like, how how is this happening?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Like what Texas wild bro Like, it's like this is
developed now, Like I get it.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
This one little spot is a tiny field that used
to be surrounded by giant fields everywhere else.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
But that's and maybe shotguns don't go very far or
but tell that to the quail that still needs to
be hunted, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
That's just because we built a sidewalk over here doesn't
mean we don't we still got to get these quail.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Dude, do y'all ever see that? Or is it just
me living way out in the boonies, live in the steaks?
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Dog?
Speaker 5 (07:57):
But dude, I'm telling you there's like a church, there's
a neighborhood. There's an h eb and no, here's you know,
a small area patch of grass that's not developed yet.
Oh look, there's three guys sitting on trucks ready to
shoot stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I'm like, what, I love you?
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Well.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Every July fourth and New Year's Eve have tons of
stories though about people who just fired their gun up
in the air.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, and don't understand gravity. Someone else got hit by
a bullet. No, that thing goes into space.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
No, no, it goes up, must come down. All right,
we're off and running today on a Thursday, coming up
in just over three minutes. We're you gonna take us
in things. Skin is tracking, all right? Do we still
get excited about brand new pizza? I'll ask that question
next
Popular Podcasts
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.