October 7, 2025 • 10 mins
It's that time of the week again. Russell & Barra dissect all things Dad. This week Italian brain rot is on the table and Barra had a useful listener tip to share.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Dad Chat with Russell and Barren.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
This is a very important dad chat this morning, well
slightly confusing one.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Yeah, I'm confused. I mean, I'm not a super dad
or anything, but I am really confused and curious about
what's going on because I caught my son talking the
other day and I got my daughter to explain some
of it. So this isn't really dad advice. This is
just diving into something mysterious.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
This is helping out other parents.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
If you and if you can help me, I'd love
to hear from you by text, do or by call,
because I'd love to know exactly what's going on. So
I was basically minding my own business and probably trying
to find my reading glasses which are on the top
of my head or something like that, you know. I
overhear my son say something to his friend on the phone.
He goes six seven, bro six seven. I'm thinking six seven,
(00:51):
What the hell is six seven? Is it a secret code?
Is it the new iPhone or something?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
So suddenly, but now suddenly everything six to seven six seven,
six seven, And I sort of try to drill down
on it.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Have you heard any of your kids say?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, they say it, and I've worked out what it means.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Apparently it's driving the teacher's mad too. The teachers at
school are getting into it a little bit, but now
they're saying this and not actually saying to the class.
No one's allowed to say six seven anymore. I believe
some of the big colleges to use six seven.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
So now counting to ten will be one, two, three, four, five, eight,
nine and ten.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So what's your understanding as to what six seven is?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Okay? So yeah, the kids would say it over the
dinner table and sort of, you know, almost wink at
each other as if to say, Mom and Dad don't
know what we're talking about. Means nothing, don't mean anything. Yeah,
it's nonsensical.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I thought I thought it might have been the new
version of mid. You know that's mid. It's average, well
at six seven, you know, it's like six seven.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I've done some minor research. I'm not really delving into
spending too much time. I'm not doing a research paper
on it, that's for sure. But from what I can,
you know, surmises doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I was in the makeup room with Sam Jolly in
our weather presenter and also our makeup artist mel and
her kids are right into it too, and striving a mad.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
And she reckon. She said to his sons, who were
super smart, she said to them.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
What is this six seven? You know that's that's not
going to help you get ahead? You know, you end
up on the dole or something.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
And the kids went, the kids is the kids? And
so on it. They went, what you want us to
talk about? Gaza? Do you just put her in?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
We're just we're just we're just lighting it up. I
mean that there's this whole new lingo that's that's going
on at the moment. I mean, if obviously you would
have heard another nonsense skibbity skibbity skibbitty.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
What about bomber bomba, bombadiero, crocodillo. Have you heard about that?
Onembini Gazini.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I might have heard it said properly.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
But Ballerina Cappuccina about Italian brain rot.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, I know about brain rot. I know, well, I know,
not not necessarily the Italian brain rot, but I know
brain rot, which is like mental fatigue from normal TikTok
scrolling through death, scroll scrolling.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
This one, this Italian brain rot, this is the new thing.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
It's a social media fever dream basically, so there's these
AI generated mutant animals like talking sharks with four legs
and fighter jet crocodiles, and they're yeah, yelling absolute gibberish
in over the top Italian accents.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
It's a shark with nikes on.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
It wasn't technology supposed to enhance and forward the human race,
because it doesn't feel like that's happening.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
This Bombadiro crocodillo, he's a beauty's a He's a crocodile
fused with a bomber plane.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Right, and he yells out.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Mom me, I got to war and all the kids
are doing it all the time. Of your kids doing
this out there in listener land, please tell us what
the hell is going on?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Because I've got I've got no idea and how to
how to capture it and how to get what I've done.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I've adopted a way of watching it with them and
laughing and asking questions and being curious and trying to
create some Italian brain rot myself.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Which but you've got to have time limits.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
You've got to check in regularly see that it's not
getting out of control.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
But I need to be informed.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Seriously, this is not just a This is a plea
from a dad who's so confusing that.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
No idea what skibbity toilet is?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Do you know what skivvity toilet is? Have you caught
your kid doing Italian brain rock?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Know when? Yeah, I've heard the brain right, but I
haven't heard that that is.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
The next level, next level version. It is incredible. Bum
bum being ay a war goose. That sounds like Mario
has joined the mill. Literally like Mario cut's massive. It's like
he's joined them.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Bar all right, help out bart Okay, boomer, you've got
something on the serious side to tackle this morning.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, it's not six seven six seven means nothing.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Peoples, me mad.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
It's unbelievable, And like I'm not painting myself as a
super expert in this space. I've sort of got through
without My kids are still alive and stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
And are no parents who are even parenting experts ARETI experts.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
UNI and stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I did a bit of five fo so I've sort of,
you know, I've kept them on track a bit. But
the weird thing with teenagers. You know you've got teen
one teenager.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I've got two now, yeah, once just turned thirteen.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Just trying to get them to do some work around
the house or just chores or just pick up their towels.
It's actually quite It's like chores to teens are like
garlic to vampires.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It goes from asking them to do something and then
they're like spinning like blowflies on the floor in protest
to then just that whole oh slumping and you know,
just the total disinterest and do six and hoping that
you'll say it's fine, I'll do it myself.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
That's their tactic. If they ignore it long enough, someone
else will do it. But the weird thing is that
you know, I'll do six hours on TikTok, but then
you'll ask him to do seven. You ask him to
do one thing, and that you're attacking their mental health,
you know, like that is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
You've asked me to do that.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
You're brain writing them and.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
They think putting plates in the sink is the same
as washing them.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
You know, I mean I could go on for hours.
You're probably the same, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I think a lot a lot.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
So how do you get teenager to do chores? I'd
love to know because I got a funny email from
this bloke off the back of this segment, this guy
wrote to me, I'm not going to read it out
because where you sort of can't really, but he's basically
his strategy is that when he wants his teenagers are
in the kitchen and with his wife and all that
sort of stuff, and he wants him to do something,
(06:55):
he gets amorous with his wife, right so, kissing her
on the neck and suggesting all sorts of stuff and
talking about marital relations, and the kids are going.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Dad, Dad, for god's sake, Dad's what do I have
to do? Just you stop? Okay, can't clean your room?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Bring out all your towels, put them in the thing,
wash up, no worries, Dad, Just don't bloody start licking
mum's ear again and all this sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
We'll get a room if you clean your room.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
He swears, black and blue. It's the best tactic. And
if you're really desperate, you do it around their friends.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Amorous because you imagine going away later on and the
kid's talking about your dad.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
The embarrassing thing, though, is if your wife pushes you
away and get away from me.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
She's in on it.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
She's in on it. You've got to be on the
same page.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
She knows where it's going, so she plays and goes, h, Dave,
don't Dave. You know, it's just squirming because it is
the cringe factor of seven.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
You've got to get your riz on, you see, mate.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
And I'm not sure how much of that doesn't know
what I mean, how much of that goes on?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
But what is that riz? The ability to seduce or charm?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Is that from riz? Must be from charisma, is it?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I guess?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
So yeah, yeah, see I can work it out. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Oh, actually, yeah, you're right, because I've got my thesis
here in my paper. But research when I said skippity
toilet riz, that's bad, uncool or awkward flirting skills, basically
having toilet charisma. So the toilet toilet.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yeah, So how do you get teenagers to do chores?
That's that's the big question.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
And this this fella I would I wouldn't go to
that extreme. And I'm not sure my wife would buy
into it anyway, even with pre planning, even if she
thought that my daughter Madison was going to clean her
room after three months.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Yeah, that's the other thing.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
You can go into their rooms and say I'll clean
it up, and you take a black light thing in
there and started, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
What, one thing I will do. I will stand in
kids defense on this one. So when you and I
were told to do something, you know we I think
I had a lot more chores than my kids.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Have now, oh really, Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
And surely you did too, of course. But there were
a lot less distractions back then. There were no mobile phones.
There was no I mean, you know it was sometimes
you know, you get up in the morning and Channel
seven hadn't even opened up yet. Well you know, there
was waiting for early birds to come on, so you know,
so there was you know, there weren't the distractions. There
(09:37):
weren't the tablets and the phones and the social media
and all those things that take their attention away.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
And they've got better things to do.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Well, they've got more entertaining things to do.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Maybe that's why rosters we didn't have that. You've got
to have a roster, I reckon for the system for
household chores. Yeah, that's the key, and you've got to
stick to there about to start the roster.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
But this is when they fall on a floor like
a blow fly, so that you will end up going,
oh look, it's all too hard and I'll do it myself.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Yeah, exactly what they four to. They go, you know what, dad,
Dad will get it work. Dad will just go you
know what stuff, and I'll do it myself.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah. There's a lot of that in life, isn't there. Yes,
we just go you know what.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I was doing myself. But it's a it's a bad
trap to fall into. I mean, you must, you must
try not.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
What about those life skills we've got to give our kids.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
All Right, today, I'm going to all right, today, I'm
putting the foot down. That's it. Starting today, I'm putting
the foot down.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I can't wait to hear next week's segment.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Then see how I go. I'll check in with you. Hey,
good chatting dad stuff. We'll do it again next week.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I was a bit success.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
It was a bit success. Was a bit mid. It
was a bit mid. Yeah, it was a bit mid.
Dad Chat with Russell and Barren.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
This is a very important dad chat this morning, well
slightly confusing one.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Yeah, I'm confused. I mean, I'm not a super dad
or anything, but I am really confused and curious about
what's going on because I caught my son talking the
other day and I got my daughter to explain some
of it. So this isn't really dad advice. This is
just diving into something mysterious.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
This is helping out other parents.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
If you and if you can help me, I'd love
to hear from you by text, do or by call,
because I'd love to know exactly what's going on. So
I was basically minding my own business and probably trying
to find my reading glasses which are on the top
of my head or something like that, you know. I
overhear my son say something to his friend on the phone.
He goes six seven, bro six seven. I'm thinking six seven,
(00:51):
What the hell is six seven? Is it a secret code?
Is it the new iPhone or something?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
So suddenly, but now suddenly everything six to seven six seven,
six seven, And I sort of try to drill down
on it.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Have you heard any of your kids say?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, they say it, and I've worked out what it means.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Apparently it's driving the teacher's mad too. The teachers at
school are getting into it a little bit, but now
they're saying this and not actually saying to the class.
No one's allowed to say six seven anymore. I believe
some of the big colleges to use six seven.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
So now counting to ten will be one, two, three, four, five, eight,
nine and ten.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So what's your understanding as to what six seven is?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Okay? So yeah, the kids would say it over the
dinner table and sort of, you know, almost wink at
each other as if to say, Mom and Dad don't
know what we're talking about. Means nothing, don't mean anything. Yeah,
it's nonsensical.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I thought I thought it might have been the new
version of mid. You know that's mid. It's average, well
at six seven, you know, it's like six seven.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I've done some minor research. I'm not really delving into
spending too much time. I'm not doing a research paper
on it, that's for sure. But from what I can,
you know, surmises doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I was in the makeup room with Sam Jolly in
our weather presenter and also our makeup artist mel and
her kids are right into it too, and striving a mad.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
And she reckon. She said to his sons, who were
super smart, she said to them.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
What is this six seven? You know that's that's not
going to help you get ahead? You know, you end
up on the dole or something.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
And the kids went, the kids is the kids? And
so on it. They went, what you want us to
talk about? Gaza? Do you just put her in?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
We're just we're just we're just lighting it up. I
mean that there's this whole new lingo that's that's going
on at the moment. I mean, if obviously you would
have heard another nonsense skibbity skibbity skibbitty.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
What about bomber bomba, bombadiero, crocodillo. Have you heard about that?
Onembini Gazini.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I might have heard it said properly.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
But Ballerina Cappuccina about Italian brain rot.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, I know about brain rot. I know, well, I know,
not not necessarily the Italian brain rot, but I know
brain rot, which is like mental fatigue from normal TikTok
scrolling through death, scroll scrolling.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
This one, this Italian brain rot, this is the new thing.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
It's a social media fever dream basically, so there's these
AI generated mutant animals like talking sharks with four legs
and fighter jet crocodiles, and they're yeah, yelling absolute gibberish
in over the top Italian accents.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
It's a shark with nikes on.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
It wasn't technology supposed to enhance and forward the human race,
because it doesn't feel like that's happening.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
This Bombadiro crocodillo, he's a beauty's a He's a crocodile
fused with a bomber plane.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Right, and he yells out.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Mom me, I got to war and all the kids
are doing it all the time. Of your kids doing
this out there in listener land, please tell us what
the hell is going on?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Because I've got I've got no idea and how to
how to capture it and how to get what I've done.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I've adopted a way of watching it with them and
laughing and asking questions and being curious and trying to
create some Italian brain rot myself.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Which but you've got to have time limits.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
You've got to check in regularly see that it's not
getting out of control.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
But I need to be informed.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Seriously, this is not just a This is a plea
from a dad who's so confusing that.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
No idea what skibbity toilet is?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Do you know what skivvity toilet is? Have you caught
your kid doing Italian brain rock?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Know when? Yeah, I've heard the brain right, but I
haven't heard that that is.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
The next level, next level version. It is incredible. Bum
bum being ay a war goose. That sounds like Mario
has joined the mill. Literally like Mario cut's massive. It's like
he's joined them.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Bar all right, help out bart Okay, boomer, you've got
something on the serious side to tackle this morning.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, it's not six seven six seven means nothing.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Peoples, me mad.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
It's unbelievable, And like I'm not painting myself as a
super expert in this space. I've sort of got through
without My kids are still alive and stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
And are no parents who are even parenting experts ARETI experts.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
UNI and stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I did a bit of five fo so I've sort of,
you know, I've kept them on track a bit. But
the weird thing with teenagers. You know you've got teen
one teenager.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I've got two now, yeah, once just turned thirteen.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Just trying to get them to do some work around
the house or just chores or just pick up their towels.
It's actually quite It's like chores to teens are like
garlic to vampires.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It goes from asking them to do something and then
they're like spinning like blowflies on the floor in protest
to then just that whole oh slumping and you know,
just the total disinterest and do six and hoping that
you'll say it's fine, I'll do it myself.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
That's their tactic. If they ignore it long enough, someone
else will do it. But the weird thing is that
you know, I'll do six hours on TikTok, but then
you'll ask him to do seven. You ask him to
do one thing, and that you're attacking their mental health,
you know, like that is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
You've asked me to do that.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
You're brain writing them and.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
They think putting plates in the sink is the same
as washing them.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
You know, I mean I could go on for hours.
You're probably the same, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I think a lot a lot.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
So how do you get teenager to do chores? I'd
love to know because I got a funny email from
this bloke off the back of this segment, this guy
wrote to me, I'm not going to read it out
because where you sort of can't really, but he's basically
his strategy is that when he wants his teenagers are
in the kitchen and with his wife and all that
sort of stuff, and he wants him to do something,
(06:55):
he gets amorous with his wife, right so, kissing her
on the neck and suggesting all sorts of stuff and
talking about marital relations, and the kids are going.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Dad, Dad, for god's sake, Dad's what do I have
to do? Just you stop? Okay, can't clean your room?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Bring out all your towels, put them in the thing,
wash up, no worries, Dad, Just don't bloody start licking
mum's ear again and all this sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
We'll get a room if you clean your room.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
He swears, black and blue. It's the best tactic. And
if you're really desperate, you do it around their friends.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Amorous because you imagine going away later on and the
kid's talking about your dad.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
The embarrassing thing, though, is if your wife pushes you
away and get away from me.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
She's in on it.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
She's in on it. You've got to be on the
same page.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
She knows where it's going, so she plays and goes, h, Dave,
don't Dave. You know, it's just squirming because it is
the cringe factor of seven.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
You've got to get your riz on, you see, mate.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
And I'm not sure how much of that doesn't know
what I mean, how much of that goes on?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
But what is that riz? The ability to seduce or charm?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Is that from riz? Must be from charisma, is it?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I guess?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
So yeah, yeah, see I can work it out. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Oh, actually, yeah, you're right, because I've got my thesis
here in my paper. But research when I said skippity
toilet riz, that's bad, uncool or awkward flirting skills, basically
having toilet charisma. So the toilet toilet.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yeah, So how do you get teenagers to do chores?
That's that's the big question.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
And this this fella I would I wouldn't go to
that extreme. And I'm not sure my wife would buy
into it anyway, even with pre planning, even if she
thought that my daughter Madison was going to clean her
room after three months.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Yeah, that's the other thing.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
You can go into their rooms and say I'll clean
it up, and you take a black light thing in
there and started, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
What, one thing I will do. I will stand in
kids defense on this one. So when you and I
were told to do something, you know we I think
I had a lot more chores than my kids.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Have now, oh really, Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
And surely you did too, of course. But there were
a lot less distractions back then. There were no mobile phones.
There was no I mean, you know it was sometimes
you know, you get up in the morning and Channel
seven hadn't even opened up yet. Well you know, there
was waiting for early birds to come on, so you know,
so there was you know, there weren't the distractions. There
(09:37):
weren't the tablets and the phones and the social media
and all those things that take their attention away.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
And they've got better things to do.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Well, they've got more entertaining things to do.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Maybe that's why rosters we didn't have that. You've got
to have a roster, I reckon for the system for
household chores. Yeah, that's the key, and you've got to
stick to there about to start the roster.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
But this is when they fall on a floor like
a blow fly, so that you will end up going,
oh look, it's all too hard and I'll do it myself.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Yeah, exactly what they four to. They go, you know what, dad,
Dad will get it work. Dad will just go you
know what stuff, and I'll do it myself.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah. There's a lot of that in life, isn't there. Yes,
we just go you know what.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I was doing myself. But it's a it's a bad
trap to fall into. I mean, you must, you must
try not.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
What about those life skills we've got to give our kids.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
All Right, today, I'm going to all right, today, I'm
putting the foot down. That's it. Starting today, I'm putting
the foot down.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I can't wait to hear next week's segment.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Then see how I go. I'll check in with you. Hey,
good chatting dad stuff. We'll do it again next week.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I was a bit success.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
It was a bit success. Was a bit mid. It
was a bit mid. Yeah, it was a bit mid.
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