October 21, 2025 • 5 mins
That question kicks off a wildly entertaining and sharply satirical episode of The Ben and Skin Show, where Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray take aim at the absurdity of modern branding, streaming chaos, and political overreach. Apple TV’s rebrand from “Apple TV+” to just “Apple TV” — and the crew’s hilarious reaction to the unnecessary announcement: “Refreshing new start? You just took the plus off.”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Juicy new news, hot gods, every stay on Top in
the woods, shovel.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Man.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I love it when companies do this. So Apple TV
Plus has rebranded to Apple TV. I don't they took
the plus off, but we have to have a press
release for it to make it official, and they tried
to bury it behind the news that they're going to
be exclusively getting the F one movie on Apple TV
and F one Races and F one Races. Yeah, that
(00:38):
was the yad that So they got all the F
one Races and they're like, you know what, We're gonna
take the plus off Apple TV. HBO just did this
with HBO Max. They're not calling it Max anymore, Like, yeah,
thank you, you don't have to.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And then Apple said it was like a refreshing new start.
I'm like, you've just took the plus off? Why?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Why does what? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I don't feel like these are the kinds of things
that neednnouncements, because I think then what happens is if
the consumer sees it, they're just like, so what, you
guys are dumbasses.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
It's on the long list of things that don't need
an announcement. Hey everyone, I'm on my period. Actually would
that be welcomed? Should we know? I think actually, as
a man, I think we deserve a warner.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I think you guys would announce it if you had it.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I don't know that time.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Well, I just don't know that there needs to be
an announcement because everyone knows or that we're on our
periods already. You know, you're like, oh my god, you
turned into a dragon, but uh, all right, you're breathing fire.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Okay, you don't need to know, right, guys, I'm about
to hit enter on this press release. Gotta go take
a crap. They just don't have to announce everything. So
I thought that.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Everybody was doing plus there for a while. Plus, we
have to get more content channels out there. Let's just
call this one plus.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
It's so dumb what we keep adding stuff to it?
But a dollar sign on there. I guess they also
raise prices a little bit. They all are, okay, So
when y'all watch your streaming platforms, have y'all noticed anything off,
anything a little different, just that it's not right? I mean,
I don't know. For me, I don't purchase the premium,
so I do deal with ads, right, But have y'all
(02:21):
noticed anything volume levels the time that it goes to
break even a little bit off. If you'll notice any
of that, I haven't, or what app are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Oh, it's I mean, yeah, like every time there's an
ad on, the commercials are so much louder. Like just
last week, I got to tell Mike I had to
text them from the other room. Can you turn that
down a little bit? He said, It's the commercial, not
my fault.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
It's unbelievable. It's not even close to the level your
TV is set at, really, because that's the way it
used to be on broadcast as well.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Like the Yeah, the commercials are always cranked louder always.
I guess I never noticed that. And I can't tell
you how many times my wife has complains, like, honey,
it's commercial break, it's gonna go in two minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I've also noticed, like with the sitcom type show which
the network would normally go to break, it'll go through that,
it'll start what would be, you know, the scene coming
back from the break about thirty minutes into it, and
then it'll cut off and go to commercial, And I'm like,
we could have just timed that up with how the
actual show went on. The air well. Governor Gavin Newsom
(03:25):
has stopped his all caps trolling tweets for a while,
and he says he signed a law to limit the
ad volume on streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime.
What because there was a ton of complaints about loud commercials. Now,
I also don't like politician politician speech because they make
(03:46):
a lot of blanket statements about the people of their state.
He says, Californians do not want commercials to be louder
than the programs they were watching. It's so stupid. It
is stupid.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
No one wants commercials to be louder.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Why it is the government need to get involved in that?
Like why aren't there like a ton of things that
are way more important than this, you.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Would think, But you know, it also makes me wonder,
like the long laundry list of things they do that
we don't know about, the little things that they deal
with that probably are somewhat important to some amount of people.
It's not all just wars and you know, like it,
there's little things like that. By July twenty twenty six,
streaming services must comply with volume limits in California.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Okay, why wouldn't I don't know enough about how that
would work, but it seems like they would comply with that.
That sounds like a national thing. That's what experts think
is going to happen.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Though.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Once it happens in California, they're gonna go we got
a problem here, and everyone will do it.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
It's a quality control thing for a business. How is
that any of his concern at all?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Man, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
I don't understand that. And are there people out there? Yes,
that's my hero. Yes, finally somebody willing to get out
on the front lines of volume control its streaming commercials.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
You have my vote forever. I mean, I do think
the left is searching for someone to get behind charisma
at all, and like Bernie doesn't count too old? Is
that really charisma? Larry David can imitate you? Yeah? Is
that constitute charisma?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
All right?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
There's your stuff, there's your stuff, all right?
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Coming up at just over three minutes, we're gonna crank
up the wayback machine.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Where are we going with this?
Speaker 5 (05:28):
KT?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Well, the Cowboys had homecoming the other day. Did y'all
know that? Yeah? They had homecomings. So all the old
cowboys legends came back and it reminded me of an
awesome thing about Roger Staubach.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Wonderful
Juicy new news, hot gods, every stay on Top in
the woods, shovel.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Man.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I love it when companies do this. So Apple TV
Plus has rebranded to Apple TV. I don't they took
the plus off, but we have to have a press
release for it to make it official, and they tried
to bury it behind the news that they're going to
be exclusively getting the F one movie on Apple TV
and F one Races and F one Races. Yeah, that
(00:38):
was the yad that So they got all the F
one Races and they're like, you know what, We're gonna
take the plus off Apple TV. HBO just did this
with HBO Max. They're not calling it Max anymore, Like, yeah,
thank you, you don't have to.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And then Apple said it was like a refreshing new start.
I'm like, you've just took the plus off? Why?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Why does what? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I don't feel like these are the kinds of things
that neednnouncements, because I think then what happens is if
the consumer sees it, they're just like, so what, you
guys are dumbasses.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
It's on the long list of things that don't need
an announcement. Hey everyone, I'm on my period. Actually would
that be welcomed? Should we know? I think actually, as
a man, I think we deserve a warner.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I think you guys would announce it if you had it.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I don't know that time.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Well, I just don't know that there needs to be
an announcement because everyone knows or that we're on our
periods already. You know, you're like, oh my god, you
turned into a dragon, but uh, all right, you're breathing fire.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Okay, you don't need to know, right, guys, I'm about
to hit enter on this press release. Gotta go take
a crap. They just don't have to announce everything. So
I thought that.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Everybody was doing plus there for a while. Plus, we
have to get more content channels out there. Let's just
call this one plus.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
It's so dumb what we keep adding stuff to it?
But a dollar sign on there. I guess they also
raise prices a little bit. They all are, okay, So
when y'all watch your streaming platforms, have y'all noticed anything off,
anything a little different, just that it's not right? I mean,
I don't know. For me, I don't purchase the premium,
so I do deal with ads, right, But have y'all
(02:21):
noticed anything volume levels the time that it goes to
break even a little bit off. If you'll notice any
of that, I haven't, or what app are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Oh, it's I mean, yeah, like every time there's an
ad on, the commercials are so much louder. Like just
last week, I got to tell Mike I had to
text them from the other room. Can you turn that
down a little bit? He said, It's the commercial, not
my fault.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
It's unbelievable. It's not even close to the level your
TV is set at, really, because that's the way it
used to be on broadcast as well.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Like the Yeah, the commercials are always cranked louder always.
I guess I never noticed that. And I can't tell
you how many times my wife has complains, like, honey,
it's commercial break, it's gonna go in two minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I've also noticed, like with the sitcom type show which
the network would normally go to break, it'll go through that,
it'll start what would be, you know, the scene coming
back from the break about thirty minutes into it, and
then it'll cut off and go to commercial, And I'm like,
we could have just timed that up with how the
actual show went on. The air well. Governor Gavin Newsom
(03:25):
has stopped his all caps trolling tweets for a while,
and he says he signed a law to limit the
ad volume on streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime.
What because there was a ton of complaints about loud commercials. Now,
I also don't like politician politician speech because they make
(03:46):
a lot of blanket statements about the people of their state.
He says, Californians do not want commercials to be louder
than the programs they were watching. It's so stupid. It
is stupid.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
No one wants commercials to be louder.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Why it is the government need to get involved in that?
Like why aren't there like a ton of things that
are way more important than this, you.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Would think, But you know, it also makes me wonder,
like the long laundry list of things they do that
we don't know about, the little things that they deal
with that probably are somewhat important to some amount of people.
It's not all just wars and you know, like it,
there's little things like that. By July twenty twenty six,
streaming services must comply with volume limits in California.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Okay, why wouldn't I don't know enough about how that
would work, but it seems like they would comply with that.
That sounds like a national thing. That's what experts think
is going to happen.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Though.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Once it happens in California, they're gonna go we got
a problem here, and everyone will do it.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
It's a quality control thing for a business. How is
that any of his concern at all?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Man, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
I don't understand that. And are there people out there? Yes,
that's my hero. Yes, finally somebody willing to get out
on the front lines of volume control its streaming commercials.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
You have my vote forever. I mean, I do think
the left is searching for someone to get behind charisma
at all, and like Bernie doesn't count too old? Is
that really charisma? Larry David can imitate you? Yeah? Is
that constitute charisma?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
All right?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
There's your stuff, there's your stuff, all right?
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Coming up at just over three minutes, we're gonna crank
up the wayback machine.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Where are we going with this?
Speaker 5 (05:28):
KT?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Well, the Cowboys had homecoming the other day. Did y'all
know that? Yeah? They had homecomings. So all the old
cowboys legends came back and it reminded me of an
awesome thing about Roger Staubach.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Wonderful
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