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November 24, 2025 14 mins

Katie is confused at the kids lingo these days so wants to see if Rach understands!

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Apoda Production. Welcome back to another episode about I a
Bad Mum podcast. I'm on the next level. You know

(00:29):
how you talk about ages and stages. Yes, and I
have got a driver, which is holly wonderful. It's got
her license, and so off they go to school, and
I'm finding that they're actually not as excited as I
thought they were. They're a little bit like they're enjoying
the freedom. They'll say, give us a list and we'll

(00:51):
go to the shop and that kind of stuff. And
then I had a moment the other day where Holly
was racing around trying to get out of the house
for work, and she had a meltdown over something and
she turned to me and I just want you to
drop me. And I was like, okay, I'll drop you.
In that moment, I realized that she's now got all

(01:15):
of this independence.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, maybe she's still a kid, Like I know she's seventeen,
but I look at her sometimes and I'm like, it's
still a little girl. Yeah, yeah, You've got all of
this independence, all this adult stuff that's happening. And she
in the car then said I just I just want
to do to drop me today, And I was like, okay.
Even Amelia said to me, she went, I do love

(01:38):
having a car, and I love the fact that we
can just go and do our own things. She said,
I do miss being in the car with you though.
Oh cute. I was like, oh, okay, that's really nice.
And then I had a lovely chat with Jay and
I was like, this whole car situation is benefiting us
the most. Having to do that, he's got to drop
so much backups.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
I don't actually remember ever thinking that she's so funny.
Maybe I was just waiting for the dependence.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah. I think we were older though, and I don't
mean older in age, I mean older in we grew
up a lot quicker, yeah, than our kids do now.
And I was having a conversation with someone about this
and she said, we're allowing them to be kids longer.
So when we look at the type of things we
were doing, and I think about how many different buses
I was trying to navigate and all of that stuff.

(02:28):
Walking to meet someone, you didn't have a mobile phone.
You just said meet either at six o'clock and that's
where you were that. Yeah, I kind of like that though. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
I also think the more that we keep doing things
for them, they'll never grow up. So then you're at
that double edged sword kind of via where you're like,
damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, because like if you do, just keep doing it.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
It's like, I think about these poor moms that have
boys and only boys, and I think about the boys
that then stay at home longer, have had everything done
for them longer, and then I will expect to find
a partner that does it all for them. Yeah, they

(03:09):
look for a wife that's going to be like the
mum was. Yeah, And I just look at that and
I go, you know, I feel for.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Them because it's going to be hard.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Because I've got a couple of friends who have got
just all boys, and one in particular that always sticks out,
which she always goes, No, But I need to remember
that these boys are going to be husbands one day,
and so I need to raise them in order to
be a good husband as well, not be like looking
to the wife just to be you know, fulfillm what

(03:39):
I did for them kind of thing. She's already for
thinking that, and I go, I'd lie that more more,
I'd way.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
More, because that's not something I've ever thought about. Yeah, well,
she knows.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
I want to raise them to be strong men that
want to lead, you know, for the right wife.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Laiter down the track.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
She's like, I'm not talking right now, but she said,
if I do everything for them and I don't raise
good young men, that will be useless for a wife,
because I'd just be looking for them to, you know,
the wife to be able to do everything that I
did for them up to when they move out of home,
which majority we know is like twenty five or thirty. Now.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah, I guess I've never really thought about it because
I haven't got boys, but that makes so much sense. Yeah,
because you would want to encourage them to help cook,
and that she does. She's she's so good with them.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
I admire that part especially, and it probably gives me
a little bit more from my side of things of going.
Like I was chatting with someone the other day. It
was client, and I sort of was saying, like life
changes when you move out of home, Like I moved
out of home as soon as I could. I wanted
to be independent very early, and like you said, yeah,

(04:49):
we sort of grew up a bit earlier, like we
had more responsibility. Is what I think you're going down
the track of because yeah, you know, give or take,
we sort of look at you know, I always complained
about how Grace is twelve and she's asking me questions
that maybe I didn't think of until I was fifteen. Yeah,
so when we say that they're not growing up like
they're growing up so we were allowing to be kids longer,
we're just actually doing fucking probably way too much for

(05:10):
them and doing it for too long. Yeah. Yeah, because
my girls should be making dinner.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
I just have to get up on the weekend early
in the lawns, exactly.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
I had the responsibility of one night a week cooking
dinner for everyone in the house. Yeah, and that was
not with my mum helicoptering behind. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, we went through a stage of doing that and
then now it doesn't happen. Am I bad mum for
not understanding their language? This is a fun little episode

(05:51):
because I don't understand gen Z language. I don't know
if you're watching Big Brother at the moment, No, there's
a guy on there that every second word is bro,
bro brah. I don't mind bro Like I use it.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
I don't mind it, but not when you're like if
you just turned me and went hey bro.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, no, no, sorry, I'm not your bro. No, no, bra, no,
that would be weird, like I would say in a
joky way, bro, what are you doing? Like i'd say
it to my kids. In my head, I think it's
just an automatic thing of a male. Does it make sense?

Speaker 2 (06:25):
It doesn't have to be And look, shit, maybe this
is going to send us in the spiral and I'm
not doing the whole day. Then I'm not taking away
from anyone. I'm not being But do you understand what
I mean? Like I know, like one of the girls,
she always goes, hey, sis, how are you? And I'm like,
even that does not flow off my tongue.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
It's funny, isn't it? Like the words we use, Like
I used to be a hun person. Yeah, I used
to hay han like as in hun.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
I haven't done that for years, but I definitely used to.
But now I find it weird when people say that
to me. I'm like, oh, Han, I don't know whether
it's like the.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Difference between bro and bra Brah Yeah yeah, brah brah
what a bra? I'm wearing one? What's wrong? Like I
don't get it? You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah? Well, it's like b are u h bruh h.
It's just really lazy, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
I've got a name, It's call me rage.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Babe is another one. I have moments use babe. Some
people don't use babe.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
My dad and his wife they call each other babe.
And it's sort of like when I'm around because now
obviously I'm a forty year old adult, and when I'm
around them and they call each other babe, it just
kind of gives me the ick because they're older.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Because it's your dad. Both like, yeah, I think you
do my dad, imagine with your dad. And then he's
just like, I don't worry, babe. Yeah what my husband
Jay says, babe?

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, And I don't get the ick from your husband
calling your babe.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
And you call friends and children babe babe. And I
do probably more with the kids than I do friends.
But then do you call sambabe?

Speaker 2 (08:04):
No?

Speaker 1 (08:05):
I used to in the honeymoon stage. Been married so
long ago, now you're no longer. You're a brosier a bra.
Actually I don't.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
I just go hey, hey, dot dot dot because he
knows that the incoming message is going to be something
of instruction.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, So we were in a shop the other day
and Amelia wanted to buy something for a concert that
she had coming up, and she went, mum, we come
with me. I went, absolutely, I'll come with you. I'm
not paying, no, like this is something.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Giving your heads up paying?

Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah. She was like no, no, no, I just want
you to come. And Holly had work, so it was
more of a and it was actually nice because then
I then took Collie the next day and we did
two separate and they actually wanted my opinion, right, Yeah,
I know, this is so crazy. I mean I would
give my opinion. They wouldn't really listen anyway, but I

(08:58):
think they're way too short.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah I'm getting them.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah yeah, No, it was exactly that, way too short.
Yeah I like them. Okay, well I don't even know
why he brought me. And we were in the shop.
Initially we were trying to get an outfit for Holly
as well, and then we worked out it was just
too hard because she's very particular. We were looking at
certain things and we were asking the girl like, alread,

(09:21):
you have this size, and like we're looking for two
of those. I said, oh, because she's a twin and
they're trying to kind of match slightly, kind of same
bit different and she went, oh, yes, slay, and I
was like what I thought about it walking around that
whole shop. I was like, that word wasn't necessary, Like

(09:41):
what does that mean? Slay great? Use great? Yeah great?

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Or like oh yeah great, I can do that for you,
or let me help you. Yeah, I absolutely know what
you're doing. It's because there's so many words, Katie.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Oh yes, less I find out what it actually means.
What does the word slay mean? What's my sory not
talking to me?

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Okay, what did it say kill person or animal in
a violent way.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Oh, it's meant to be slay as in s l
A Y. No, it's definitely not slay as in Santa.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Slay s l e I g h No.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
But everything that you see it on is s l
A Y Slay the day.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
So say slay the day, like to do something exceptionally well,
be amazing and confident. Okay, So I've said they're trying
to get matching because they're twins. Slay annoyed me. It
annoyed me.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
He's kind of like, I'm acknowledging what you've said, and
I'm acknowledging what yeah cool, I just say yeah cool, yeah, amazing, amazing,
easy as Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Well, there's a couple that are really annoying me at
the moment. My kids don't actually use these, but I
hear them thrown around a lot. Low key, it's an
unnecessary addition to your sentence.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Give it to me a sentence.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
So I'm low key gonna go over the road and
get lunch soon.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
I don't understand.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, I know, we'll local. You don't need to understand.
But they're low key so hot outside today. Why are
you saying that, Yeah, you need to be added into
the sentence. It's unnecessary, Like it's low key unnecessary. I
haven't heard this yet. Is this weird?

Speaker 2 (11:29):
I was saying, I'm big brother because my girls are
definitely not watching it.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
Then yeah, yeah, low key bro. And then the other
one quote unquote what yeah, and I really want to
quote unquote eat my lunch.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
I don't believe that they would do this though, like
we know no quote unquote quote unquote, yeah, their age
group would not be doing this.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
No, No, that's a millennial add on. Yeah quote unquote.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
Ps, you just fucking said six more were then you
need to yeah, you don't need to say low key
in front of something.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
No, it's low key bro quote unquote.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Living in North Queensland in my teenage years, sounded like
you would ask the question with a question at the end,
like everyone would go, I'm confused, so I don't know,
are you asking a question with a question or like?

Speaker 1 (12:23):
And I was like, no, no, no, it's just like slang.
And is it like the use of hay word, but.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
It's use hey, like hey, it's hot outside, isn't it. Hey?

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah. I feel like I do that a little bit.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
I'm going to get a coke.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Okay, it's really hot. Hey, yeah, I definitely do do
it sometimes. The other one that people use often. I
don't know whether this is a certain part of Australia,
but it's like, it's really hot outside. But but but
what I think it must be North Greasian thing do yeah?
But yeah?

Speaker 2 (12:58):
But but if I was writing it, yes, but I
would be waiting.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
For the rest of the sentence of what you trying
to get at? Yeah? But yeah. But and then the
other thing, which we all do is the yho, do
you want dessert? Yeah? Who is it?

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (13:17):
No? Yeah? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Actually you know that used to be always the oh no,
this might go a bit sideways.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
But fuck it.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
I flying back in the day when I was working
for the airline, we would fly into certain countries. I
would get so confused because in certain countries certain body
language which was opposite to ours.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
So I would be like, would you like a glass
of water? And they would be like yeah, and in
my head for me.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yes, and my culture my language, yes, I would like
a glass work and there's.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
Would you like a glass of water? And they'd go no,
I don't.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
I didn't want one, just not did you head it me?

Speaker 1 (13:59):
What is that a nod of acknowledgement. I've acknowledged the
that you have asked me if I want to work?

Speaker 2 (14:07):
And there was so many times where I'd be on
board and you go, oh shit, yeah, okay, yeah, pour
it out and they'd go no, push it away, no,
and You're like, I.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Don't know, yeah, you said yeah, just take the carp water.
Sometimes do you any harm You're in an aircraft, You're.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
Dehydrated as it is, You're having this conversation in my
head with somebody that can't you speak English, and you're like.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
You said yes, bro, bro, you low key said yes,
Brah you low key quote unquote said yes, Brah slave
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