Should We Stop Saying 'Yay?'

Today, Elvis tells us how he's tired of people saying yay without enthusiasm. Froggy gives us some alternatives to use.

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Get your hands together, and we're going to stop and party.
I'm ready to party.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
See Elvis Duran After Party.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
The After Show Podcast. I want to bring something up,
and I don't want anyone to get.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Mad at me, especially maybe Danielle.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Can we stop saying the word yay? Are you crazy?

Speaker 4 (00:30):
I don't think I'm serious.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
It's getting to the point where I'm using it too
too much.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
Nope.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
I actually will end text messages with yay. Or they'll
go hey, I'm gonna come over and pick you up
at noon, so begin to have a great lunch.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
I'll go yay. Yeah. And then a friend of mine
the other day said, I'm so sick of everyone around
me just going yay. That's their response to everything. Could
you be more original?

Speaker 4 (00:54):
I'm like, well, when a listener and they get a
they win a contest, that's my first reaction.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
I'm like, yeah, I don't know, excited.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Listen how you say it?

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Though, a lot of times we say yay and we
go yay or yay like really quiet.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, you should be like yeah, okay, okay, I had
yea the pre existing words like Friday, I go Friday, okay. Yeah,
I'm not going to run you over in my truck. Yeah,
run your rivers. But you know it is yay. We
use it way too much. It's snuck in there. Yay
has snuck in there and is taking up so much space. Froggy,

(01:31):
what about you? Yay? You like yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:33):
But I'm looking up now, and there are other words
to use in place of yay, and.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
None of them okay, good? What are they? Whoop beee?

Speaker 2 (01:40):
That sounds sarcastic to me, and that's like a nineteen sixties.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
But that's my point though, Gandhi.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
My point is a lot of people say yay and
it doesn't sound like it's really from a good place.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
It sounds like you whippy or whatever words you're saying.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
More that instead of banning the word yay, we should
just add way more enthusiasm to it every time we
use it.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, Danielle will say, She'll go, I suppot to say
something yay.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yay.

Speaker 5 (02:07):
We'll see, like in a text message, if you do
yay without an exclamation point, it's kind of like you're
being a jerk. If you do yay with an exclamation point,
then it seems like you're really happy about it.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
We've totally effed up the word ya, Well, what about
the word about as Okay, hold but hold on. Froggy
has more words. What are they?

Speaker 6 (02:24):
Yep, hoh rah yip who rahrah hold on no orrah
hoorrah raw ras one three cheers and then somebody else hooray.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
No, these are terrible.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
Yeah, I'm ya is sounding better.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Every time I'm gonna start saying three cheers on the
air and someone calls in instead of congratulations, yea, three cheers.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Okay, what could you say rather than ya?

Speaker 2 (02:50):
So I say we, I.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
What, that's awesome or that's great.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
There really is no appropriate cinemm ah. Don't think what
Froggy just said sounds good? That's awesome, okay, I love that.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
Or yeah you're speaking, I love that. I'll tell you
something that Lisa hates the word. She hates when people
say I love that for you. She thinks means I
hate that. She thinks that means that that person hates it,
but they like it for you.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
I'm like, that's exactly Sometimes I say it and I
mean it that way. Yeah, yeah, I love that, I
love that for you. But yeah, he gets it done
with one syllable, if you think about it. The others
have more than one syllable. Why do you need to
get it done with one syllable? That's like ratherident saying okay,
you say ky.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Which is horrible. Oh that's horrible.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
I think I think, yeah, he's turning into k no,
turning into it just okay.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
If you're gonna say yeah, let's promise each other, let's
not yeay al most be like really yay yeah wow
god three cheers.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
Cheers the next time somebody when something I'm gonna say, pleacher.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
All right, ay alay, all right, or you know, will
be every once we can work.

Speaker 5 (04:09):
Would you think that hip hip is a generational thing?
Like if I said hip hip to my kids, they
wouldn't know what comes after that.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Good. That's the funny part.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
They look at you're like your mind, Yeah, that's so
six seven dad?

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Ask people that means what that means?

Speaker 2 (04:25):
What does it mean?

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Oh? You never you never understand that, you understand? All right?
What else have we done? Yeah? I think I think
we we We've juiced the A conversations as much as
we could. We're fine. I have a beautiful day or
night or whatever it is. We way stop it ran

(04:48):
after party