December 3, 2025 • 6 mins
“At what point do TV characters age out of their own story?” That’s the question Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray wrestle with in this hilarious and brutally honest episode of The Ben and Skin Show.The gang kicks things off with jaw-dropping numbers: 59.6 million people streamed the new season of Stranger Things in just one week. But is the magic still there? Ben admits he tried to watch and ended up scrolling through texts, while Skin wonders if the cast’s awkward aging has turned the show into a case of Gary Coleman Syndrome.Packed with laugh-out-loud tangents, sharp pop culture takes, and the kind of off-the-rails humor that makes this show a fan favorite, this episode is a must-listen for anyone who loves TV, movies, and a good dose of chaos.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
So Netflix is up to stuff. Clearly.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
We told you about the new Netflix store opening at
the Gallery of Mall next Thursday. Stranger Things is back
on Thanksgiving with four episodes, and they're gonna have the
final three of the entire series will drop on Christmas Day.
The numbers are insane for the last week, so I'm
just gonna give you guys just a little heads up.
The number two most watched thing on Netflix in America
(00:33):
over the last week was Kevin Hart's new stand up
special with nine million people.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I considered watching that, and then twenty seconds later I
stopped thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah. Same, So nine million is number two.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
How many people you think watch Stranger Things the newest season?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Thirty five million higher? Wow, Oh, let's do it this way.
Who's up next? Been, You're up next?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Fifty million higher, sixty million lower, fifty five hi, fifty
eight million higher, Oh, fifty nine million hire, fifty nine
point five million higher, fifty nine point eight million lower.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Fifty nine point seven million lower.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Fifty nine point six million, fifty nine point six million, peoples.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
God, I'm good at this.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I watched the first one last night. It's an hour
and eleven minutes long. And it's way too long. Uh.
You can clearly see that David Harbor and Millie Bobby
Brown don't like each other.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Oh they're refuting that, Kevin Wow. Chemistry on the screen
is what it is.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
But they got over it right when they were doing
the press for this season.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
They're like, oh, no, we're good, We're best friends now
when it was time to get over it. Yeah, they
overdid it. It's what they did.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I think David Harbor is in bon Jovi now, so
I know this was a big deal to my daughter,
who's about to be fifteen. So I bet all the
young people are way into this and for them it's
been a part of their whole journey, right, Yes, it's
a six year journey.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Is that what it is?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah? Like that, maybe even longer than that.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
But you know, for me watching it, I liked the
production value.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I liked the nostalgia.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
But man, I fell off at some point, just kind
of quit watching it, and I tried to jump back
in and watch it, and I'm like, Okay, it's still
vibe and elements and all this stuff, and then I
just ended up like reading text messages and tweets and stuff,
and I was like oh gosh, I'm not paying attention.
So let's think about this. I does do you know
what year it came out twenty fifteen? It did twelve, Okay,
so it's been going on for a decade. So we
(02:35):
had we talked about I remember when we talked about
it on the fan the first time, because it was
my wife that was like, we were driving back, it's
a stranger things.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Loved it. You guys have me onto it. Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Then Ben befriended David Harbor. We had him on the show,
so that happened all on the fan. So the last
time I watched the show was season two and the
girl who's married to bon Jovi's son was a teenager
and she still had a shaved head. And so I
watched it since. And my kids, to Ben's point, our way,
(03:04):
they've plowed through all the episodes. My son is like
holding up a foam finger, Dude, It's incredible. And I'm
sitting here trying to make the decision do I want
to go back and watch season three? In season four,
then watch this And I'm like, but these kids don't
look like kids anymore, and that's gonna bother the f
out of me.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
That's definitely.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
It's a hard thing to like because now they introduced
in season three and four some younger sisters, and now
they're getting older too.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
It's very strange. It's very hard to like.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Get You just gotta you gotta just take yourself saying
that they're in high school.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Well, you just have to tell yourself that.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
To me, it's kind of like the The Walking Dead.
I'm like, I know what the premise is here, and
it's gonna be the same premise every season, every season,
so I don't really want to I don't care anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
They get in a pickle, eleven gets them out of
the pickle, and then but now underground and the upside
down there's a military base, so things are things you're
heating up. I'm a little bit of a completist like I.
It'll just bothers the crap out of me if I
have an unread email.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
But you know what you're dealing with right now, right
This is a common phenomenon known as Gary Coleman syndrome.
So Gary Coleman was going to remain the same size
no matter what. So when different strokes started and was like, okay,
this is cool. And then three years into it, it's like,
why is Willis five times bigger than Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Then what's his name now? And so it's weird when one.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Guy stayed a little bit Arnold, Arnold stay a little bitty,
and then everybody else grew it. And it worked for
Webster because he didn't have any siblings.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
We know what they're doing for am Euphoria season three,
Euphour on HBO. They would let me guess gay sex. Well,
I'm sure they'll be lie. There's so many dogs in
that show. But they are advancing the story. They're taking
it to real time. They're in college now, switch and
run it back like they're all in high school.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Sydney's he's doing only fans in that right?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Is she?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
I think she's an old That's what I read. Which
that's the number one thing you can tell me to
make me watch the show. That marketing is working, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I think what you could tell a lot about you
for is I feel like Zendaia like doesn't want to
do it, but Sidney Sweeney absolutely does want to do it.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
What about that other little Mexican cheerleader Gal?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
She's not that big of a deal anymore. I mean, really,
it's Jeded Abatil's daughter is a bigger deal. And mod
that her name Modd sounds right.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Jacob Lord, he's the other. He's Frankenstein. Yeah, he's good.
And I didn't know he was British. I saw with him.
He's in that.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
He's in that British movie where that guy gets in
the tub and starts licking the drain.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Now that's Saltburn. Oh yeah he is that. Yeah, absolutely,
there are Oxford guys. Yes, that Frankenstein thing. He's really
good in that, is he. Yeah. It's on Netflix right now.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
It's it's not I don't want to oversell it, but
it's worth maybe watching.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
If you're in a.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Drought, everyone watch. Yeah, I don't know about that. All right,
coming up next just three minute. It's away from the
Today game.
So Netflix is up to stuff. Clearly.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
We told you about the new Netflix store opening at
the Gallery of Mall next Thursday. Stranger Things is back
on Thanksgiving with four episodes, and they're gonna have the
final three of the entire series will drop on Christmas Day.
The numbers are insane for the last week, so I'm
just gonna give you guys just a little heads up.
The number two most watched thing on Netflix in America
(00:33):
over the last week was Kevin Hart's new stand up
special with nine million people.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I considered watching that, and then twenty seconds later I
stopped thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah. Same, So nine million is number two.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
How many people you think watch Stranger Things the newest season?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Thirty five million higher? Wow, Oh, let's do it this way.
Who's up next? Been, You're up next?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Fifty million higher, sixty million lower, fifty five hi, fifty
eight million higher, Oh, fifty nine million hire, fifty nine
point five million higher, fifty nine point eight million lower.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Fifty nine point seven million lower.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Fifty nine point six million, fifty nine point six million, peoples.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
God, I'm good at this.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I watched the first one last night. It's an hour
and eleven minutes long. And it's way too long. Uh.
You can clearly see that David Harbor and Millie Bobby
Brown don't like each other.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Oh they're refuting that, Kevin Wow. Chemistry on the screen
is what it is.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
But they got over it right when they were doing
the press for this season.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
They're like, oh, no, we're good, We're best friends now
when it was time to get over it. Yeah, they
overdid it. It's what they did.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I think David Harbor is in bon Jovi now, so
I know this was a big deal to my daughter,
who's about to be fifteen. So I bet all the
young people are way into this and for them it's
been a part of their whole journey, right, Yes, it's
a six year journey.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Is that what it is?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah? Like that, maybe even longer than that.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
But you know, for me watching it, I liked the
production value.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I liked the nostalgia.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
But man, I fell off at some point, just kind
of quit watching it, and I tried to jump back
in and watch it, and I'm like, Okay, it's still
vibe and elements and all this stuff, and then I
just ended up like reading text messages and tweets and stuff,
and I was like oh gosh, I'm not paying attention.
So let's think about this. I does do you know
what year it came out twenty fifteen? It did twelve, Okay,
so it's been going on for a decade. So we
(02:35):
had we talked about I remember when we talked about
it on the fan the first time, because it was
my wife that was like, we were driving back, it's
a stranger things.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Loved it. You guys have me onto it. Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Then Ben befriended David Harbor. We had him on the show,
so that happened all on the fan. So the last
time I watched the show was season two and the
girl who's married to bon Jovi's son was a teenager
and she still had a shaved head. And so I
watched it since. And my kids, to Ben's point, our way,
(03:04):
they've plowed through all the episodes. My son is like
holding up a foam finger, Dude, It's incredible. And I'm
sitting here trying to make the decision do I want
to go back and watch season three? In season four,
then watch this And I'm like, but these kids don't
look like kids anymore, and that's gonna bother the f
out of me.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
That's definitely.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
It's a hard thing to like because now they introduced
in season three and four some younger sisters, and now
they're getting older too.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
It's very strange. It's very hard to like.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Get You just gotta you gotta just take yourself saying
that they're in high school.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Well, you just have to tell yourself that.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
To me, it's kind of like the The Walking Dead.
I'm like, I know what the premise is here, and
it's gonna be the same premise every season, every season,
so I don't really want to I don't care anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
They get in a pickle, eleven gets them out of
the pickle, and then but now underground and the upside
down there's a military base, so things are things you're
heating up. I'm a little bit of a completist like I.
It'll just bothers the crap out of me if I
have an unread email.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
But you know what you're dealing with right now, right
This is a common phenomenon known as Gary Coleman syndrome.
So Gary Coleman was going to remain the same size
no matter what. So when different strokes started and was like, okay,
this is cool. And then three years into it, it's like,
why is Willis five times bigger than Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Then what's his name now? And so it's weird when one.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Guy stayed a little bit Arnold, Arnold stay a little bitty,
and then everybody else grew it. And it worked for
Webster because he didn't have any siblings.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
We know what they're doing for am Euphoria season three,
Euphour on HBO. They would let me guess gay sex. Well,
I'm sure they'll be lie. There's so many dogs in
that show. But they are advancing the story. They're taking
it to real time. They're in college now, switch and
run it back like they're all in high school.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Sydney's he's doing only fans in that right?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Is she?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
I think she's an old That's what I read. Which
that's the number one thing you can tell me to
make me watch the show. That marketing is working, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I think what you could tell a lot about you
for is I feel like Zendaia like doesn't want to
do it, but Sidney Sweeney absolutely does want to do it.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
What about that other little Mexican cheerleader Gal?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
She's not that big of a deal anymore. I mean, really,
it's Jeded Abatil's daughter is a bigger deal. And mod
that her name Modd sounds right.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Jacob Lord, he's the other. He's Frankenstein. Yeah, he's good.
And I didn't know he was British. I saw with him.
He's in that.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
He's in that British movie where that guy gets in
the tub and starts licking the drain.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Now that's Saltburn. Oh yeah he is that. Yeah, absolutely,
there are Oxford guys. Yes, that Frankenstein thing. He's really
good in that, is he. Yeah. It's on Netflix right now.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
It's it's not I don't want to oversell it, but
it's worth maybe watching.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
If you're in a.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Drought, everyone watch. Yeah, I don't know about that. All right,
coming up next just three minute. It's away from the
Today game.
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