FYI you can write Times, but mostly you'll write . I guess that example was about explaining the lispy concept "everything is an expression". It's right there at the top of the screenshot, he actually went from explaining and + to saying they are actual functions like anything else.
carlob meant to write a single * there, which became italics instead. Point is that Times is the actual 'FullForm' for multiplication, the and * is syntax sugar for it.
http://www.wolfram.com/language/elementary-introduction/02-i...