December 3, 2025 • 7 mins
“How many of the top 10 trending topics on YouTube in 2025 have you even heard of?” That’s the challenge Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray throw down in this hilarious and eye-opening episode of The Ben and Skin Show.The crew dives into the ultimate pop culture gut check, revealing just how out of touch—or surprisingly hip—they really are. From Squid Game and Roblox to the mysterious Brain Rot, the bizarrely named La Boo Boo, and the highly anticipated Nintendo Switch 2, this segment is packed with laughs, confusion, and unexpected revelations.This episode is a perfect mix of cultural commentary and comedic chaos—ideal for anyone who wants to laugh while checking their own trendiness score.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This Friday at the Pluckers and Addison. We'll do our
show live PM at Pluckers and Addison, and we'd love
to see you hang out with you, give you a
big hug and maybe squeeze your butt. Just don't know
how it's going to go. Can't promise anything, but right
now it's step for this.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Can I ask you a question? Can we hijack another
fifteen minutes of your day or so? What is the
ideal camping season? How are you feeling about your team
these days? You're in your truck right now, aren't you?
Are you doing anything this weekend? How does the vinyl
of the seat feel against your scrout? What we're prototypes?
Do you like little kids? What's the most important thing
(00:33):
I should know about you? Do you achieve greatness? What
were your parents' life? What are you looking forward to?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Where there more poisey guys on the Cowboys than other teams?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Are you a bigger Cowboy fan or a never fan?
Did I cause you grief? Okay, so I have a
question for you guys. Shoot before I pose it, though,
I would like for you to have a pen and
paper ready. All right, game, I'm going to ask you
a question in a second this question, also, you're going
to be thinking about yourself and your showmates, because I
(01:04):
have the top ten trending topics on YouTube from the
year twenty twenty five. So I want you to write down, first,
how many of the top ten trending topics on YouTube
and twenty twenty five have you heard of? How many
of ten? Oh, we're guess we've heard of? Yeah, okay,
all right now in the other column, I want you
(01:25):
to think about the two other people. So Ben you
would write down, for Christina and skin a combined out
of twenty how many do you think they've heard of? Gotcha,
and we'll add up these numbers. Skin you would do
Ben and Christina. Christina you would do Ben and Scan.
How many of these trending topics have you heard of? Soay,
just check them off, one at a time if you've
(01:45):
heard of them. Okay, because these are the top ten
trending topics on YouTube and the year twenty twenty five.
Squid game in fact, say check you if you have
check check check roadblocks check. No.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I heard of it, but I don't know what it is,
but you've heard of it. I have heard of it.
I've heard my kids talking about it.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I would say, check it if you've heard of it?
All right, No, you've not heard of robots? No, dang,
So what is that for their column? For me? Just
one of two? Yeah, well we'll get her totals in
at it later. K pop demon Hunters? Check heard of it? No,
I've heard of k pop but that's it. You haven't
heard the demon hunter aspect of K pop? No? Okay,
(02:33):
brain rot I'm an example of it, but I don't
know it. So you've heard of it? Wha?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I know those two words, but if they're a thing,
heard of that thing? Well, there's two words together, which
makes it a compound word. I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
If that's a thing, I haven't heard of that thing.
You've never heard of brain rot.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I've heard of brain and rot just used sure. I mean,
I can understand the implication, but that's what I'm saying.
If this is some thing that exists out there, there's
trending right.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
No? So yeah, so none of you have heard of
brain No. I don't really know what it is.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I guess I don't understand the context, Like, why would
people be searching brain rot? There must be something going
on with it. That I'm unaware of.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Oh they're searching, well, they're searching brain.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Rot, right for brain rot, like brain brain rots existed
for decades.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Why this year is what number searched for?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Okay, Charlie Kirk, Yes, yes, sorry, Charlie Kirk love boo
boo check. Yes, thank thankfully because of that meeting we
were in the only reason I agree.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
But then after that meeting, I saw it everywhere. It
was crazy because they brought it up meeting nod of us.
We need to have more more meetings where they're telling
us what's what's trendy? Yeah, Nintendo switched to check? Yes, No,
you never heard the Nintendo swim. I mean I know
the Nintendo Switch. I wasn't aware that there's a new
one out and that's trending. Basis plays it all the time.
(03:57):
I feel like that's a half check for Ben because
he has heard of the into switch half check half
polish cookie run kingdom No what no? But I want
to go there? Yeah, I mean neither. Okay. Next is
this is number nine here blue lock no no nope,
which is not a blue waffle or a blue flame?
(04:19):
Thank you? And then number ten cats eye no no.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
No, and after those last ones, I want to give
myself brain rot because I've actually like heard brain rot.
But yeah, the last ones you mentioned, I've never heard
of my life.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Well, like, I've heard of brain rot, but not why
people would be searching it in twenty twenty five, Like
it's a compound word that exists, but why are people
searching it?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I do not know.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
So if you're asking me if I've ever heard of
brain rot, sure, but not to the point where people.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
You know what it is? Okay, Okay, you don't need
to know why. Okay you know this? Okay, Okay. What
are your numbers here? Uh? Six? Six, seven? Oh? I
hate it? Ben four? Four for Ben Ben. I thought
Ben would be the more more trendy of all three
(05:06):
of you. I agree.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
So wait, Ben had four, I had seven? Would you
have Kra six?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Okay? What did you have down for your other What
did you think the others would have? I had eight
for them? Brote twelve?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Oh I wrote seventeen for you guys you had kids.
I was like, oh, yeah, they've heard their kids say all.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Of these things.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
So Kat's Eye is a member of a K pop group.
Perhaps you've heard of the k pop Demon Hunters. I
think Ben just didn't know their name. You saw K
Pop Demon Hunters on Saturday Night Live. I don't know.
They performed and they were in a sketch with Bow
and Yang and they all came out and it was
like one of the top watch shows on Netflix. Oh yeah.
(05:47):
Blue Lock is a Japanese manga series. Okay, I don't
know what that is. It's a form of anime. Okay.
Cookie Run Kingdom sounds bad as some type of game
that appears to be some type of brain rock, Christina,
Cookie Run Kingdom. The cookies are kings and queens and uh,
(06:08):
I don't really understand it, but it's definitely a role
playing video game. Does it have the captain Queen of
the Push Them Together Club Amanda Sea Freed? Yeah? Uh no,
the rest you guys all knew. Oh, christ didn't know Roadblocks.
Can you guys explain Roadblocks to Christina? I can't explain it. Yeah,
I just have heard my kids talking about it.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
It's like it's a game where you build stuff like Minecraft.
It's like Minecraft, but it's different.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
To make it all come full circle, there's a roadblock
game or experience called Steal a brain Rot. Oh, Wow,
brain rod is nothing more than just you're sitting there
vegging out, Yes, yeah, riding your brain. Yeah. Like what
TikTok does to you is powerwashing brain.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Rot eh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It's necessary when you get stains on the brick. Yeah.
You guys know the boo boo the Nintendo's which two.
Al Right, so you guys knew most of them. Yeah,
it's pretty good. All right. I knew seven just to
stay I'm not ahead of the game here. No, I
knew eight. I knew cats. I was in K pop
Demon Hunters. Yeah, how about that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
All right, there you have it. There's Can I ask
you a question? How did you do at home or
in your car? Be sure to text in let the
general know two one four, seven, eight seven, one oh
five three, Say hey general, here's how I did, and
give the number.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Coming up in just three minutes, it's the Big Finish
Variety's Bad List of the top one hundred comedy movies
of all time.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
That's next.
This Friday at the Pluckers and Addison. We'll do our
show live PM at Pluckers and Addison, and we'd love
to see you hang out with you, give you a
big hug and maybe squeeze your butt. Just don't know
how it's going to go. Can't promise anything, but right
now it's step for this.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Can I ask you a question? Can we hijack another
fifteen minutes of your day or so? What is the
ideal camping season? How are you feeling about your team
these days? You're in your truck right now, aren't you?
Are you doing anything this weekend? How does the vinyl
of the seat feel against your scrout? What we're prototypes?
Do you like little kids? What's the most important thing
(00:33):
I should know about you? Do you achieve greatness? What
were your parents' life? What are you looking forward to?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Where there more poisey guys on the Cowboys than other teams?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Are you a bigger Cowboy fan or a never fan?
Did I cause you grief? Okay, so I have a
question for you guys. Shoot before I pose it, though,
I would like for you to have a pen and
paper ready. All right, game, I'm going to ask you
a question in a second this question, also, you're going
to be thinking about yourself and your showmates, because I
(01:04):
have the top ten trending topics on YouTube from the
year twenty twenty five. So I want you to write down, first,
how many of the top ten trending topics on YouTube
and twenty twenty five have you heard of? How many
of ten? Oh, we're guess we've heard of? Yeah, okay,
all right now in the other column, I want you
(01:25):
to think about the two other people. So Ben you
would write down, for Christina and skin a combined out
of twenty how many do you think they've heard of? Gotcha,
and we'll add up these numbers. Skin you would do
Ben and Christina. Christina you would do Ben and Scan.
How many of these trending topics have you heard of? Soay,
just check them off, one at a time if you've
(01:45):
heard of them. Okay, because these are the top ten
trending topics on YouTube and the year twenty twenty five.
Squid game in fact, say check you if you have
check check check roadblocks check. No.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I heard of it, but I don't know what it is,
but you've heard of it. I have heard of it.
I've heard my kids talking about it.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I would say, check it if you've heard of it?
All right, No, you've not heard of robots? No, dang,
So what is that for their column? For me? Just
one of two? Yeah, well we'll get her totals in
at it later. K pop demon Hunters? Check heard of it? No,
I've heard of k pop but that's it. You haven't
heard the demon hunter aspect of K pop? No? Okay,
(02:33):
brain rot I'm an example of it, but I don't
know it. So you've heard of it? Wha?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I know those two words, but if they're a thing,
heard of that thing? Well, there's two words together, which
makes it a compound word. I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
If that's a thing, I haven't heard of that thing.
You've never heard of brain rot.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I've heard of brain and rot just used sure. I mean,
I can understand the implication, but that's what I'm saying.
If this is some thing that exists out there, there's
trending right.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
No? So yeah, so none of you have heard of
brain No. I don't really know what it is.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I guess I don't understand the context, Like, why would
people be searching brain rot? There must be something going
on with it. That I'm unaware of.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Oh they're searching, well, they're searching brain.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Rot, right for brain rot, like brain brain rots existed
for decades.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Why this year is what number searched for?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Okay, Charlie Kirk, Yes, yes, sorry, Charlie Kirk love boo
boo check. Yes, thank thankfully because of that meeting we
were in the only reason I agree.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
But then after that meeting, I saw it everywhere. It
was crazy because they brought it up meeting nod of us.
We need to have more more meetings where they're telling
us what's what's trendy? Yeah, Nintendo switched to check? Yes, No,
you never heard the Nintendo swim. I mean I know
the Nintendo Switch. I wasn't aware that there's a new
one out and that's trending. Basis plays it all the time.
(03:57):
I feel like that's a half check for Ben because
he has heard of the into switch half check half
polish cookie run kingdom No what no? But I want
to go there? Yeah, I mean neither. Okay. Next is
this is number nine here blue lock no no nope,
which is not a blue waffle or a blue flame?
(04:19):
Thank you? And then number ten cats eye no no.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
No, and after those last ones, I want to give
myself brain rot because I've actually like heard brain rot.
But yeah, the last ones you mentioned, I've never heard
of my life.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Well, like, I've heard of brain rot, but not why
people would be searching it in twenty twenty five, Like
it's a compound word that exists, but why are people
searching it?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I do not know.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
So if you're asking me if I've ever heard of
brain rot, sure, but not to the point where people.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
You know what it is? Okay, Okay, you don't need
to know why. Okay you know this? Okay, Okay. What
are your numbers here? Uh? Six? Six, seven? Oh? I
hate it? Ben four? Four for Ben Ben. I thought
Ben would be the more more trendy of all three
(05:06):
of you. I agree.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
So wait, Ben had four, I had seven? Would you
have Kra six?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Okay? What did you have down for your other What
did you think the others would have? I had eight
for them? Brote twelve?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Oh I wrote seventeen for you guys you had kids.
I was like, oh, yeah, they've heard their kids say all.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Of these things.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
So Kat's Eye is a member of a K pop group.
Perhaps you've heard of the k pop Demon Hunters. I
think Ben just didn't know their name. You saw K
Pop Demon Hunters on Saturday Night Live. I don't know.
They performed and they were in a sketch with Bow
and Yang and they all came out and it was
like one of the top watch shows on Netflix. Oh yeah.
(05:47):
Blue Lock is a Japanese manga series. Okay, I don't
know what that is. It's a form of anime. Okay.
Cookie Run Kingdom sounds bad as some type of game
that appears to be some type of brain rock, Christina,
Cookie Run Kingdom. The cookies are kings and queens and uh,
(06:08):
I don't really understand it, but it's definitely a role
playing video game. Does it have the captain Queen of
the Push Them Together Club Amanda Sea Freed? Yeah? Uh no,
the rest you guys all knew. Oh, christ didn't know Roadblocks.
Can you guys explain Roadblocks to Christina? I can't explain it. Yeah,
I just have heard my kids talking about it.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
It's like it's a game where you build stuff like Minecraft.
It's like Minecraft, but it's different.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
To make it all come full circle, there's a roadblock
game or experience called Steal a brain Rot. Oh, Wow,
brain rod is nothing more than just you're sitting there
vegging out, Yes, yeah, riding your brain. Yeah. Like what
TikTok does to you is powerwashing brain.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Rot eh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It's necessary when you get stains on the brick. Yeah.
You guys know the boo boo the Nintendo's which two.
Al Right, so you guys knew most of them. Yeah,
it's pretty good. All right. I knew seven just to
stay I'm not ahead of the game here. No, I
knew eight. I knew cats. I was in K pop
Demon Hunters. Yeah, how about that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
All right, there you have it. There's Can I ask
you a question? How did you do at home or
in your car? Be sure to text in let the
general know two one four, seven, eight seven, one oh
five three, Say hey general, here's how I did, and
give the number.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Coming up in just three minutes, it's the Big Finish
Variety's Bad List of the top one hundred comedy movies
of all time.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
That's next.
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