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Speaker 1 (00:18):
Hey everybody, it's time for Josie and Amanda's cut room Floor.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
On the cutting room floor today, I saw a great
thing from nineteen sixty seven, and it was an article
on how to talk to your kid Comma the hippie.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
So you know how these days skibbitty and all of
that they're saying. This is if you're trying to talk
to your Sigma, they your kid. What's what's the generation now?
The babies generation, that's a teenagers, alphines generation Olph to
talk to Alpha, you say skibbity, you say all that stuff.
I remember a few years ago people saying, oh, sick.
If your kids saying sick, it means it's actually good.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yeah, okay, yeah, yep.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
You know that all seems one hundred years ago now,
doesn't it. So have to listen to these words. This
by way of explanation as to how hippies were talking
in nineteen sixty seven, Well, we know all these words,
but these weren't used ironically. This is what the kids
were saying, and here's what parents were told.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
How to use these words. Acid head is an LSD taker.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
So if you get a note from the teacher saying
your kids in acid heads, you know what that means.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
In the nineties, acid wash was a gene, a gene
with a J, not a g.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Remember stone wash, stonewash begat acid wash, and then it went.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Away and then we just washed.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
What about blow your mind? How would you describe what that?

Speaker 2 (01:45):
That was the timithy Leary era.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
But the phrase is saying here when your kid says
a blow your mind, it means an overwhelming revelation.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
It's a mind blade. Yeah, bread, common gold, any bunts,
any bunts money. You don't even speak English. I don't
understand what he was from Huns and burn A nice
little learner.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Well, bread and gold were the ones from ninety sixty
cent bread Man.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
I give about a ship band from the seventies I loved.
Excuse me, I can find a diary outderneath a tree.
If you don't mind that is the worst band of
the world.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Oh, how dare you bringing me down?

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Taking off a high cat was a guy, a chick
or a bird was a girl? Yeah, but he's a
crazy cat.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Cribill pad was a home of home, common apartment.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Well, that's all the gangsters. They're in the crib, chilling
in the crib.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
What about flower power? How would you describe that a hippie,
isn't it? Yeah, it's a carry and give flowers for love.
Freak out, go into another world. That's how they described
freaking out, grass pot Mary Jane Akapulco Gold.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
I'm not familiar with those terms.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Marijuana, Brendan groovy. What does groovy mean? Actually having to
explain to parents what groovy meant? It's not my bag
means my bag for me? Nitty gritty gets down to
the tin tags out of sight, sock it to me,
give it to me straight, straight, R.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
S P E c T. Turn me on. Well, no,
how would you describe that?

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Sorry?

Speaker 3 (03:12):
I thought I was doing it now with my chat.
Certainly you're not excite me. That means wow, okay, I
do that as well. Let me know and I'll get
I'll stop uptight. Fare Well, I'm not uptight. Do you
think I'm uptight? You're a square man, You're the square.
Such a square? What a trip means?

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Experience and where it's at, how things are? But imagine
parents in nineteen sixty seven having to learn that language
to understand their children.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, you know when you were here the kids.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
These days it sounds like you're standing next to a
band saw. It's on eing, you know what I mean.
That's other radio stations. That's what happens when you give
radio shows to footballers. One is that exception that'll get bad.
I know. Maybe people need to work on their adnoids.

(04:04):
That's the fun today. That was joll c a name
of this gun for them. Back tomorrow for some more