February 6, 2025 • 23 mins
Ever find yourself cringing at the slang you used as a kid or wondering what decade you'd go back to if you could travel through time? We kick off with the ultimate "What If" segment, where we each share our dream decade for a do-over. Whether you're nostalgic for the self-discovery and epic soundtracks of the 90s or you yearn to revisit the chaotic lessons of the 2000s, this episode promises a rollercoaster of laughter and reflection. Get ready to chuckle at the absurdity of the phrases we once thought were cool and ponder how each era has shaped who we've become as people.
Join us on "Brother Sister, Whatever" for a joyous stroll down memory lane, where we unpack the evolution of pop culture and explore how technology has flipped our world upside down. From shared TV nights in the 80s to the solo binge-watching marathons of today, we reminisce about iconic films and music legends like Madonna and Tupac while marveling at the seismic shifts in media consumption—from Blockbuster nights to Netflix binges. As we look back on the good, the bad, and the hilariously awkward moments, we'll also touch on how our kids' slang keeps us on our toes in the 2020s. This is one nostalgic trip you won't want to miss!
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Josh (00:00):
Hey everyone, welcome back to Brother Sister, whatever,
the podcast where we tackle lifegrowing up and all the weird,
wonderful and sometimes cringeystuff in between.
I'm Josh.
Lisa (00:10):
And I'm Lisa.
Today we're talking about atopic that's guaranteed to make
you laugh, cringe and probablysay wait, did we actually say
that?
That's right?
We're talking about slang,specifically how it's evolved
from when we were kids in the80s and 90s to the words our
kids are using today.
Josh (00:29):
But first it's time for our favourite segment, the
weekly.
What if this one's going to getyour imagination going?
What if you woke up tomorrow ina completely different decade,
past or future?
Which one would you choose, andwhy?
Lisa (00:47):
I would go back to the 90s .
Josh (00:49):
Why.
Lisa (00:51):
Because that was my decade .
It just the music.
Josh (00:55):
You were at like your happiest.
Lisa (00:56):
Yeah, like it.
Just you know that golden ageof like you're figuring out who
you are and everything aroundyou just clicks.
Josh (01:08):
You're happy, you've got great friends, you're having fun
, like to me that was the 90s,yeah yeah, that's awesome I
would go back to that decadehands down for me, I think, um,
I think it just automaticallyhas to be the past.
I think, uh, the way, the waythe world's, I don't even want
(01:28):
to look at going to the future.
See, I'm know, I'm, I'mprobably, I have to say, I'm
(01:50):
probably my happiest right now,believe it or not, like in this
era, um, or decade, I guess.
But if I had to, yeah, I,probably, I, probably, I, I miss
my 20s, some, some I miss, someI don't, but I miss the
experiences.
Then, you know, like thecommercials, even though we
(02:13):
hated them, everything is now,now, now.
So for me, even going back inthe 90s, or even even early
2000s, I don't think it was ascuckoo as it is now with the now
, now stuff.
Lisa (02:27):
Absolutely not.
Yeah, we definitely had to waitfor a lot of things.
There was a lot of like, I feel, like our growing up we had
like a lot more imaginationbecause we had to.
Josh (02:38):
Well, yeah, we had to wait for everything.
You know what I?
Lisa (02:40):
mean.
It was like boredom leads toimagination.
There was a lot of boredom.
Josh (02:45):
Yeah, so true.
Lisa (02:46):
Okay, so you would pick your twenties.
Josh (02:50):
Yeah, so I guess that makes me what that's two decades
ago.
Lisa (02:53):
Yeah.
So so 2000s, 2000s, yeah, okay,why specifically that one?
Josh (02:59):
I mean, I'll be honest with you, I I know it's about
the decade, not necessarilyabout my life.
I don't really remember much.
Lisa (03:07):
Yeah.
Josh (03:07):
So that's probably the decade I at least remember Like
Bitcoin.
What the hell is Bitcoin?
Okay, and you know like justLike where really things really
started to like resonate withyou and yeah, Not that I have
any regrets, but to be back inthat decade, I definitely would
have done things a littledifferently.
(03:28):
And how many people would saythat now, right, Like had we
known that this would happen?
Lisa (03:35):
Okay, but here's the thing .
So I picked my decades justpurely out of love for a lot of
the stuff that was going on inthat decade, but I didn't factor
in if I could change things,because I don't think that's
really what you're supposed tobe doing, like.
If you, if you, it was basedpurely on what decade you would
(03:58):
like to go back to, to revisit,not necessarily to change well,
I have that does that changeyour answer at all?
Josh (04:05):
Well, yeah, I would change it drastically.
That's why I had to improvise,because if it would have been no
answer, so it would have been apretty short weekly.
Lisa (04:16):
What if?
So your answer is based on thefact that you can go back and
change it pointfully now, and ifyou can't go back to change
anything, then you don't have ananswer.
Josh (04:25):
Right.
Lisa (04:25):
Okay, so then can I go back.
Josh (04:28):
No, you're not allowed.
No, I'm kidding Go ahead Go.
Lisa (04:31):
So then, if I were to be able to go back and change
something, what decade would Ipick?
I would probably pick believeit or not, and I'm not copying
you my 20s as well, although forme it would be a slightly
(04:53):
different, it'd be late 90s Justbecause I feel like my 20s were
such a blur of random shit andnonsense and what the fucks Like
most 20 year olds.
Yeah that I would love to goback and kind of reorganize
myself a little bit better.
It's funny how but I'll still,I'll stick with my nineties
though.
Josh (05:06):
It's funny, though, how we start thinking about that as we
get older.
Lisa (05:10):
Oh, of course, and I.
Josh (05:11):
I hate regret, so it's really not about regret.
But it's funny how we would youknow we think about those
things compared to like even atleast for me, even in my
thirties, I wasn't thinkingabout you know versus like, I
don't know.
Like 40 did something to me,you know it really did.
It's almost like a part of mybrain opened.
Lisa (05:34):
It's midlife, Josh.
Yeah, I guess you know, butit's like something open or the
medication is just really good.
Josh (05:45):
You know that could also be it right.
Lisa (05:47):
You know the medication is just so good that like it's
opening up pathways in the brain, you know, maybe.
Okay, well, that wasinteresting conversation, all
right.
So today we're going on a timetraveling tour of lingo how
every generation has its ownlanguage, what it says about the
(06:11):
culture of the time and howhilariously out of touch we feel
when we try to keep up.
What do you remember about the80s?
Because you were born in 84, soprobably not that much, very
little.
Josh (06:23):
I literally remember.
I mean, was Park X the 80s?
Lisa (06:28):
Yes, Okay so where we lived school.
I know that you had mentionedin past episodes school Park X,
not really, we went to so manydifferent schools.
You did, yeah, I did yeah, youdid.
Josh (06:41):
I mean, I was in so many different schools, I don't even
remember why I did.
Yeah, you did.
I mean, I was in so manydifferent schools, I don't even
remember why?
Lisa (06:46):
But I remember, I do.
Josh (06:47):
I remember we were like back and forth everywhere, yeah.
Lisa (06:53):
I think they were just trying to find a good fit for
you.
Josh (06:56):
I was one of those kids.
No, you were not one of thosekids.
Lisa (07:00):
The 80s.
Okay, so then, what about popculture?
Then?
Think of it instead of ourchildhood.
Think about pop culture, ortrends.
Josh (07:08):
I remember skaters being huge yep, totally tubular, like
very surfer language yeah, yeah,you know, and like the pop
culture with like movieseveryone was so, you know, like
horror movies and like you hadlike these horror buffs, I feel
like, yeah, you know it stillexists, but it's like not the
(07:29):
same thing.
Lisa (07:30):
Do you think that way because maybe you're just not in
it as much anymore?
Yeah, maybe Like you're notexposed to it as much Like back
then.
We just it was all about thefun growing up, right, like what
else did you have?
Movies, friends, tv shows likeSaturday morning cartoons, all
that stuff.
So we were like in it a lotmore.
Josh (07:51):
That's true.
Lisa (07:52):
You know, yeah.
But I do agree that Now, versuswhen we were growing up, it's a
very different concept.
Like ads, commercials, like youwere saying, is like foreign.
Josh (08:05):
But yeah, to your point.
Remember TGIF?
We would all get together andsit down for this.
Now we can binge it whenever wewant.
For me, it's like Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving makes me thinkabout the past.
Like well, we can't haveThanksgiving every day, right,
(08:26):
you could watch the show everyday and the specialness goes
away.
Yes, versus, like Thanksgivingis Thanksgiving.
So it's like that one supper,that one big meal, and like and
that is what I kind of amreminded of it fades with all
the technology we have now.
You'll have one person in theirroom watching a show.
(08:49):
Then you'll have another personon their iPad watching their
show.
Lisa (08:54):
You'll have someone watching a movie on there.
Don't even get me started onthat nonsense.
Yes, I agree.
Josh (08:59):
Without getting too off topic, I just feel like you know
, even though I don't I was bornin 84.
Lisa (09:04):
Yeah, the 80s were kind of .
Josh (09:06):
Yeah, I guess I'm probably blurring 80s and 90s together,
you know, in some ways, Okay.
Lisa (09:12):
so some of the lingo, the actual things that they said,
like gag me with a spoon.
Do you ever remember that?
No, no, okay.
Josh (09:24):
Bog gag me with a spoon.
Do you ever remember that?
No, no, okay uh bogus rad.
Lisa (09:26):
You know all of those words.
I remember those, even in the90s.
Yeah, well, it kind of liketrickles in and then like yeah,
and then evolved in some way.
1980s for me was all about likeet footloose.
I think those were the only twomovies that we were allowed to
watch, actually, so probably whyI remember them really well.
Music was like Madonna, oh well, I mean.
Oh well, michael Jackson yeah,you know it was.
Josh (09:49):
Tupac.
Lisa (09:51):
Tupac was 90s.
Okay, you're blurring the 80sand 90s.
Josh (09:53):
Oh see, yeah, for sure I'm blurring again.
Lisa (09:55):
So that's.
For me, it was the 80s, let'stake it into the 90s then, tupac
yeah, I'm just like grunge cameout.
I think we had very differentmusical tastes well, yeah, you
were totally alternative totallyalternative yeah.
I was even it's a little bit ofheavy metal and you were rap
rap mixed in with that reggaelike snow, yes, and so on.
Josh (10:21):
You know I remember at least in the 90s.
You know I used to be, but youknow I was so just in awe over
Ross.
Lisa (10:30):
Yeah, you know who was our cousin.
Josh (10:32):
Yeah, who was our cousin A little bit older, like a year
older than me, so seven yearsolder than you, and you know.
Lisa (10:39):
so everything he did or everything he listened to was
like golden it was golden, youknow, so I would hear snow
blasting yeah like the wholestreet would hear it yeah,
because he lived right acrossthe street from us exactly so he
kind of really influenced yourmusical tastes I would probably
say so.
Josh (10:58):
Yeah, he probably doesn't even know this.
If he ever listens to this,he's probably gonna be like no
shit.
Lisa (11:04):
Okay, so that's music.
90s movies.
There was a lot of cultfavorites like Mallrats Chasing
Amy, like Kevin Smith movies.
Unfortunately, though, I was alittle bit older when I watched
those see again cult followingright like they started off, as
like little shit movies thatnobody watched, and then but oh
(11:27):
man, I loved those dogma.
They were so yes uh what amazingmovies yeah clueless was by far
the biggest movie yeah therewas like the whole whatever and
loser and as if and all thatstuff right yeah so I I
definitely grew up on that, didyou?
Josh (11:47):
yeah, a little bit, and like what late 90s we had, like
music wise, like what.
I think that's when thebackstreet boys came out, no, uh
, yeah, it was late 90s like 9697 something like that.
Lisa (11:58):
yeah, back the boy bands were big, although New Kids on
the Block from the 80s into the90s were also.
Josh (12:03):
Oh my God, yes.
Lisa (12:04):
Alanis Morissette, Fiona Apple, all of those like female
singers that really just killedit with their songs.
What about you?
Josh (12:18):
Music wise.
Lisa (12:19):
Yeah, so Snow.
Josh (12:22):
we've already discussed that no, crisscross tupac, we
brought up for sure I mean, Iwas like a huge fan jc was I was
never a big starting, thenright, yeah, yeah but I was
never a big jay-z fan.
Oh, I was a very much.
Oh see, I might be blurring,though, into the 2000s, like
D-Block Dre, method man, red manyeah, like you know, even some
(12:49):
of those movies that they did,red man and stuff Late 90s,
early 2000s, Eminem.
Yeah, yeah, that's it, eminem.
Lisa (12:55):
you know, eminem how can we forget Eminem?
Now I'll be honest with you.
The 2000s in my life it waslike a shit show around that
time.
That was like my early 20s Interms of pop culture and stuff.
It was not my decade.
(13:16):
I'm really finding it hard tofind anything that really stuck
with me in that decade, so I'mgoing rely on you a little bit
more.
Josh (13:25):
Oh boy because you were in your teens.
One of the big ones that Iremember was peace, that's how
we all say goodbye.
So it would always be propswith our fist and it would be
peace.
So that was like a huge thingaround that time okay, I have a
question for you, bro.
Lisa (13:43):
Was always a thing, was it not?
Josh (13:45):
no, no no, no, okay, no I think bro came out like after
jersey shore like we're talkinglike 2010, 10 ish.
Yeah, I think around, you know,we'd say things like what up,
like W-A-D, yeah, what up, youknow, and then when Scream came
(14:06):
out, it was what's up.
Lisa (14:08):
Oh my gosh.
Well, the first Scream came outin the late 90s.
That was also a cult following.
It kind of grew over the years.
Josh (14:17):
Yeah, look how many Screams there are.
Lisa (14:19):
I know.
Josh (14:19):
You know, it's massive.
Lisa (14:21):
So now we're getting into the last decade, 2010s.
Josh (14:25):
Mm-hmm.
Lisa (14:26):
Some of the things that they said Lit Salty.
Josh (14:30):
Mm-hmm.
Lisa (14:31):
Throw shade Okay, this is what I didn't, this one I didn't
know.
On fleek no me either.
No, basic, yeah, okay, theseare all what words that I've
recognized.
It's like all of a sudden mybrain woke up from the my 20s
into my 30s and I'm like oh yeah, okay I'm back movies, anything
that sticks out jurassic parkwhich one like?
Josh (14:54):
the first one like was the first one, 2010 the 90s.
Oh shit, really.
Lisa (15:00):
Oh my God the very first one was from the 90s.
Josh (15:06):
See, this is what happens when you have amnesia.
Lisa (15:07):
You know Everything is just a no.
This is what happens when oneday you wake up and you're in
your 40s and you're like wherethe fuck did my life go?
Jesus, oh my God, Okay, somovies, Jesus.
Oh, my God Okay so movies Okay,maybe not specific movies, but
definitely the awakening ofstreaming.
Oh yeah, hulu's Disney Pluslater on in the decade.
(15:28):
But Netflix was a big one.
Josh (15:30):
Netflix started in 2010, was it Listen.
Lisa (15:33):
Netflix existed.
I mean, that's how we lost ourjob In the 2000s, exactly, but
then wasn't there somethingabout like how Blockbuster could
have bought them?
Josh (15:43):
I remember that and they didn't, and then they went under
.
We were working at Blockbusterwhen we heard that story.
That they could have bought itand they didn't.
Yeah, yeah.
Lisa (15:52):
So like the 2010s was like the death of old school, yeah,
whatever it's true.
Josh (16:03):
And then the introduction to streaming.
We skipped from vhs to cd dvd,I mean oh yeah we completely.
When did that even happen?
Lisa (16:09):
I don't know cassette to cd walkmans.
We used to walk around 90s walkaround with nanos, yeah,
nanopods nanopods.
And then uh, now it's on yourfreaking phone.
You have everything what wasbefore nanopod, the cd player,
no, yes, the c, the cassette,then the cd player, then the
nanopod you sure I'm pretty surethere isn't something in
(16:32):
between cd and nano I don'tthink so remember napster yes uh
, where you would download music, yeah, and then when they came
out with the movie aboutFacebook, Social Network.
I think it was.
Josh (16:45):
And the freaking Napster guy.
Justin Timberlake was playingthe Napster guy.
Lisa (16:50):
Speaking of Justin Timberlake.
Obviously he was in NSYNC, butI'm talking specifically about
his solo career.
Josh (16:56):
Oh yeah.
Lisa (16:57):
Fun killed it.
Well listen, I'm going to jumpback to the 80s and 90s.
For a second, speaking aboutmovies that we've loved
Jean-Claude Van Damme, oh my God, and I personally loved JCVD.
Now the 2020s.
Some of the things are sus.
That's a big word in our house.
Josh (17:20):
Yes.
Lisa (17:21):
It's giving no.
Josh (17:23):
Giving.
Lisa (17:24):
It's giving.
Okay, it's like a it's givingand then whatever kind of vibe,
I don't know.
Josh (17:30):
My kids say riz all the time.
Yeah, riz my, my son, stop acap, stop a cap I'm like what?
Lisa (17:41):
what are they saying?
Josh (17:42):
slay yeah, that one I understand that says he's gonna
full box me what's that?
I think it's a fortnight termokay yeah you, he's like trying
to wrestle me and he's like, oh,full box you.
And I'm like what?
Oh my gosh.
Lisa (17:59):
But just some of the things that they say.
I can't even Wrapping up the2020s for a second.
How do you feel about today'smusic?
Josh (18:06):
Oh, there's some that are is okay, you know, but I'm not
the biggest fan, but I've neverbeen.
Lisa (18:13):
I've never listened to more piano music in my life than
I have in the last few years.
Josh (18:17):
Let's just put it that way I'm weird with music.
Lisa (18:19):
What's weird about it?
You have a certain.
Josh (18:22):
Yeah, a certain vibe Okay, and you know it's, it's not
weird.
Lisa (18:25):
Do you find that the vibe that you like musically is still
giving now?
No, okay, no no, no, so maybethat's what it is.
So do you find yourselflistening to more old school
things?
Josh (18:37):
Yeah.
Lisa (18:38):
Same.
Josh (18:38):
Yeah, to a degree, for sure.
Lisa (18:40):
Okay.
So here's the thing I readsomewhere at some point in my
life that the music, the movies,like the pulp culture of your
teenage years is what stickswith you throughout your whole
life.
I never fully appreciatedsomething more than that.
I feel it's really true.
(19:00):
I go back to my 90s and I'lllisten to like some old school
stuff and I'll just feel good.
I'll feel energized.
Some of my favorite movies arefrom the 90s.
I don't tend to really re-watchthings very often, but if I do,
I guarantee it's going to besomething from the 90s.
I wonder if you have that atall, Because the things today's
(19:22):
generation aren't reallyresonating or bringing anything
out in you If you find yourselfgoing back to the times that it
did.
Josh (19:30):
Yeah, a little, I guess.
Lisa (19:32):
Have you ever introduced things that you loved from your
childhood or 20s?
Josh (19:37):
Dragon Ball Z.
Lisa (19:38):
Exactly To your kids, right, James?
My husband grew up in the 80swatching cartoons on Saturday
morning and that was like athing that he wanted to bring
back for our boys and so, likeSaturday mornings, they sit and
they watch freaking old schoolcartoons.
You know what I mean.
Now you can find on YouTube orlike whatever streaming services
(20:00):
, right?
Those kinds of things Like whathave you brought back or
wanting to bring back for yourkids.
Josh (20:09):
There's definitely a few movies and things like that, but
traditional wise not much.
To be quite honest with you, no.
No.
Lisa (20:19):
Okay, so you reintroduced them to Dragon Ball Z.
Josh (20:21):
Yeah.
Lisa (20:22):
Have they listened to Snow ?
Josh (20:24):
No, no why not no.
Lisa (20:27):
They might like it.
Josh (20:28):
Maybe, oh, my gosh Start with Runway.
Yeah, actually, now that youmentioned that, it's true, I did
let them listen to a little bitof like the old school rap like
eminem no, like more likemethod man okay vanilla, ice,
stuff like that, and my son waslike it's okay, it's cool, it's
(20:49):
okay, it's all right.
So that that was his response.
Lisa (20:52):
I'm dead.
Josh (20:53):
Yeah.
Lisa (20:55):
I love it.
Josh (20:56):
Yeah, that's hilarious.
And then I proceeded to tellhim stop a cap.
Lisa (21:01):
And yeah, yeah so I love it.
I'm going to quiz you on acouple of current slang.
Josh (21:10):
Bussin' Like what decade.
Lisa (21:12):
No, no, no, Like what does it mean?
Josh (21:14):
Oh okay, like busy, no.
No, no, like, what does it mean?
Lisa (21:16):
Oh okay, like busy, no apparently it's something like
it's really good or delicious,like it's often about food.
Josh (21:21):
It's a classic.
Oh, oh, my gosh, how did I notget that?
Lisa (21:24):
Fire.
Josh (21:26):
It's hot, it's awesome.
Bet yeah, bet, like okay, let'sdo that, that.
Yeah, what about drip?
Oh, that's like cool swag, yeah, yeah, okay, I'm trying to
think of okay, what about?
Uh, ftw, this is a gamingreference.
Do you know what lfg is?
Well, g would have to be gameyou're so not a gamer I'm not a
(21:48):
gamer lfg means looking forgroup and ftw means for the win.
So they all do these short.
Lisa (21:57):
I'm like looking at my paper it's like where's this
Shoot Anyway?
So that's a wrap on our timetraveling.
Journey through slang Fromgnarly to sus.
It's clear that everygeneration has its own way of
expressing itself.
Josh (22:15):
And while we might not always understand what our kids
are saying, at least we canlaugh about it or, you know,
embarrass them by trying to usetheir slang.
Lisa (22:24):
Which is like a daily thing for me, I think.
So thanks for tuning in toBrother Sister.
Whatever, don't forget tofollow us on Instagram and share
your favorite slang words,whether they're from the 80s,
90s or today.
Bye.
Josh (22:37):
Have a good one.
Hey everyone, welcome back to Brother Sister, whatever,
the podcast where we tackle lifegrowing up and all the weird,
wonderful and sometimes cringeystuff in between.
I'm Josh.
Lisa (00:10):
And I'm Lisa.
Today we're talking about atopic that's guaranteed to make
you laugh, cringe and probablysay wait, did we actually say
that?
That's right?
We're talking about slang,specifically how it's evolved
from when we were kids in the80s and 90s to the words our
kids are using today.
Josh (00:29):
But first it's time for our favourite segment, the
weekly.
What if this one's going to getyour imagination going?
What if you woke up tomorrow ina completely different decade,
past or future?
Which one would you choose, andwhy?
Lisa (00:47):
I would go back to the 90s .
Josh (00:49):
Why.
Lisa (00:51):
Because that was my decade .
It just the music.
Josh (00:55):
You were at like your happiest.
Lisa (00:56):
Yeah, like it.
Just you know that golden ageof like you're figuring out who
you are and everything aroundyou just clicks.
Josh (01:08):
You're happy, you've got great friends, you're having fun
, like to me that was the 90s,yeah yeah, that's awesome I
would go back to that decadehands down for me, I think, um,
I think it just automaticallyhas to be the past.
I think, uh, the way, the waythe world's, I don't even want
(01:28):
to look at going to the future.
See, I'm know, I'm, I'mprobably, I have to say, I'm
(01:50):
probably my happiest right now,believe it or not, like in this
era, um, or decade, I guess.
But if I had to, yeah, I,probably, I, probably, I, I miss
my 20s, some, some I miss, someI don't, but I miss the
experiences.
Then, you know, like thecommercials, even though we
(02:13):
hated them, everything is now,now, now.
So for me, even going back inthe 90s, or even even early
2000s, I don't think it was ascuckoo as it is now with the now
, now stuff.
Lisa (02:27):
Absolutely not.
Yeah, we definitely had to waitfor a lot of things.
There was a lot of like, I feel, like our growing up we had
like a lot more imaginationbecause we had to.
Josh (02:38):
Well, yeah, we had to wait for everything.
You know what I?
Lisa (02:40):
mean.
It was like boredom leads toimagination.
There was a lot of boredom.
Josh (02:45):
Yeah, so true.
Lisa (02:46):
Okay, so you would pick your twenties.
Josh (02:50):
Yeah, so I guess that makes me what that's two decades
ago.
Lisa (02:53):
Yeah.
So so 2000s, 2000s, yeah, okay,why specifically that one?
Josh (02:59):
I mean, I'll be honest with you, I I know it's about
the decade, not necessarilyabout my life.
I don't really remember much.
Lisa (03:07):
Yeah.
Josh (03:07):
So that's probably the decade I at least remember Like
Bitcoin.
What the hell is Bitcoin?
Okay, and you know like justLike where really things really
started to like resonate withyou and yeah, Not that I have
any regrets, but to be back inthat decade, I definitely would
have done things a littledifferently.
(03:28):
And how many people would saythat now, right, Like had we
known that this would happen?
Lisa (03:35):
Okay, but here's the thing .
So I picked my decades justpurely out of love for a lot of
the stuff that was going on inthat decade, but I didn't factor
in if I could change things,because I don't think that's
really what you're supposed tobe doing, like.
If you, if you, it was basedpurely on what decade you would
(03:58):
like to go back to, to revisit,not necessarily to change well,
I have that does that changeyour answer at all?
Josh (04:05):
Well, yeah, I would change it drastically.
That's why I had to improvise,because if it would have been no
answer, so it would have been apretty short weekly.
Lisa (04:16):
What if?
So your answer is based on thefact that you can go back and
change it pointfully now, and ifyou can't go back to change
anything, then you don't have ananswer.
Josh (04:25):
Right.
Lisa (04:25):
Okay, so then can I go back.
Josh (04:28):
No, you're not allowed.
No, I'm kidding Go ahead Go.
Lisa (04:31):
So then, if I were to be able to go back and change
something, what decade would Ipick?
I would probably pick believeit or not, and I'm not copying
you my 20s as well, although forme it would be a slightly
(04:53):
different, it'd be late 90s Justbecause I feel like my 20s were
such a blur of random shit andnonsense and what the fucks Like
most 20 year olds.
Yeah that I would love to goback and kind of reorganize
myself a little bit better.
It's funny how but I'll still,I'll stick with my nineties
though.
Josh (05:06):
It's funny, though, how we start thinking about that as we
get older.
Lisa (05:10):
Oh, of course, and I.
Josh (05:11):
I hate regret, so it's really not about regret.
But it's funny how we would youknow we think about those
things compared to like even atleast for me, even in my
thirties, I wasn't thinkingabout you know versus like, I
don't know.
Like 40 did something to me,you know it really did.
It's almost like a part of mybrain opened.
Lisa (05:34):
It's midlife, Josh.
Yeah, I guess you know, butit's like something open or the
medication is just really good.
Josh (05:45):
You know that could also be it right.
Lisa (05:47):
You know the medication is just so good that like it's
opening up pathways in the brain, you know, maybe.
Okay, well, that wasinteresting conversation, all
right.
So today we're going on a timetraveling tour of lingo how
every generation has its ownlanguage, what it says about the
(06:11):
culture of the time and howhilariously out of touch we feel
when we try to keep up.
What do you remember about the80s?
Because you were born in 84, soprobably not that much, very
little.
Josh (06:23):
I literally remember.
I mean, was Park X the 80s?
Lisa (06:28):
Yes, Okay so where we lived school.
I know that you had mentionedin past episodes school Park X,
not really, we went to so manydifferent schools.
You did, yeah, I did yeah, youdid.
Josh (06:41):
I mean, I was in so many different schools, I don't even
remember why I did.
Yeah, you did.
I mean, I was in so manydifferent schools, I don't even
remember why?
Lisa (06:46):
But I remember, I do.
Josh (06:47):
I remember we were like back and forth everywhere, yeah.
Lisa (06:53):
I think they were just trying to find a good fit for
you.
Josh (06:56):
I was one of those kids.
No, you were not one of thosekids.
Lisa (07:00):
The 80s.
Okay, so then, what about popculture?
Then?
Think of it instead of ourchildhood.
Think about pop culture, ortrends.
Josh (07:08):
I remember skaters being huge yep, totally tubular, like
very surfer language yeah, yeah,you know, and like the pop
culture with like movieseveryone was so, you know, like
horror movies and like you hadlike these horror buffs, I feel
like, yeah, you know it stillexists, but it's like not the
(07:29):
same thing.
Lisa (07:30):
Do you think that way because maybe you're just not in
it as much anymore?
Yeah, maybe Like you're notexposed to it as much Like back
then.
We just it was all about thefun growing up, right, like what
else did you have?
Movies, friends, tv shows likeSaturday morning cartoons, all
that stuff.
So we were like in it a lotmore.
Josh (07:51):
That's true.
Lisa (07:52):
You know, yeah.
But I do agree that Now, versuswhen we were growing up, it's a
very different concept.
Like ads, commercials, like youwere saying, is like foreign.
Josh (08:05):
But yeah, to your point.
Remember TGIF?
We would all get together andsit down for this.
Now we can binge it whenever wewant.
For me, it's like Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving makes me thinkabout the past.
Like well, we can't haveThanksgiving every day, right,
(08:26):
you could watch the show everyday and the specialness goes
away.
Yes, versus, like Thanksgivingis Thanksgiving.
So it's like that one supper,that one big meal, and like and
that is what I kind of amreminded of it fades with all
the technology we have now.
You'll have one person in theirroom watching a show.
(08:49):
Then you'll have another personon their iPad watching their
show.
Lisa (08:54):
You'll have someone watching a movie on there.
Don't even get me started onthat nonsense.
Yes, I agree.
Josh (08:59):
Without getting too off topic, I just feel like you know
, even though I don't I was bornin 84.
Lisa (09:04):
Yeah, the 80s were kind of .
Josh (09:06):
Yeah, I guess I'm probably blurring 80s and 90s together,
you know, in some ways, Okay.
Lisa (09:12):
so some of the lingo, the actual things that they said,
like gag me with a spoon.
Do you ever remember that?
No, no, okay.
Josh (09:24):
Bog gag me with a spoon.
Do you ever remember that?
No, no, okay uh bogus rad.
Lisa (09:26):
You know all of those words.
I remember those, even in the90s.
Yeah, well, it kind of liketrickles in and then like yeah,
and then evolved in some way.
1980s for me was all about likeet footloose.
I think those were the only twomovies that we were allowed to
watch, actually, so probably whyI remember them really well.
Music was like Madonna, oh well, I mean.
Oh well, michael Jackson yeah,you know it was.
Josh (09:49):
Tupac.
Lisa (09:51):
Tupac was 90s.
Okay, you're blurring the 80sand 90s.
Josh (09:53):
Oh see, yeah, for sure I'm blurring again.
Lisa (09:55):
So that's.
For me, it was the 80s, let'stake it into the 90s then, tupac
yeah, I'm just like grunge cameout.
I think we had very differentmusical tastes well, yeah, you
were totally alternative totallyalternative yeah.
I was even it's a little bit ofheavy metal and you were rap
rap mixed in with that reggaelike snow, yes, and so on.
Josh (10:21):
You know I remember at least in the 90s.
You know I used to be, but youknow I was so just in awe over
Ross.
Lisa (10:30):
Yeah, you know who was our cousin.
Josh (10:32):
Yeah, who was our cousin A little bit older, like a year
older than me, so seven yearsolder than you, and you know.
Lisa (10:39):
so everything he did or everything he listened to was
like golden it was golden, youknow, so I would hear snow
blasting yeah like the wholestreet would hear it yeah,
because he lived right acrossthe street from us exactly so he
kind of really influenced yourmusical tastes I would probably
say so.
Josh (10:58):
Yeah, he probably doesn't even know this.
If he ever listens to this,he's probably gonna be like no
shit.
Lisa (11:04):
Okay, so that's music.
90s movies.
There was a lot of cultfavorites like Mallrats Chasing
Amy, like Kevin Smith movies.
Unfortunately, though, I was alittle bit older when I watched
those see again cult followingright like they started off, as
like little shit movies thatnobody watched, and then but oh
(11:27):
man, I loved those dogma.
They were so yes uh what amazingmovies yeah clueless was by far
the biggest movie yeah therewas like the whole whatever and
loser and as if and all thatstuff right yeah so I I
definitely grew up on that, didyou?
Josh (11:47):
yeah, a little bit, and like what late 90s we had, like
music wise, like what.
I think that's when thebackstreet boys came out, no, uh
, yeah, it was late 90s like 9697 something like that.
Lisa (11:58):
yeah, back the boy bands were big, although New Kids on
the Block from the 80s into the90s were also.
Josh (12:03):
Oh my God, yes.
Lisa (12:04):
Alanis Morissette, Fiona Apple, all of those like female
singers that really just killedit with their songs.
What about you?
Josh (12:18):
Music wise.
Lisa (12:19):
Yeah, so Snow.
Josh (12:22):
we've already discussed that no, crisscross tupac, we
brought up for sure I mean, Iwas like a huge fan jc was I was
never a big starting, thenright, yeah, yeah but I was
never a big jay-z fan.
Oh, I was a very much.
Oh see, I might be blurring,though, into the 2000s, like
D-Block Dre, method man, red manyeah, like you know, even some
(12:49):
of those movies that they did,red man and stuff Late 90s,
early 2000s, Eminem.
Yeah, yeah, that's it, eminem.
Lisa (12:55):
you know, eminem how can we forget Eminem?
Now I'll be honest with you.
The 2000s in my life it waslike a shit show around that
time.
That was like my early 20s Interms of pop culture and stuff.
It was not my decade.
(13:16):
I'm really finding it hard tofind anything that really stuck
with me in that decade, so I'mgoing rely on you a little bit
more.
Josh (13:25):
Oh boy because you were in your teens.
One of the big ones that Iremember was peace, that's how
we all say goodbye.
So it would always be propswith our fist and it would be
peace.
So that was like a huge thingaround that time okay, I have a
question for you, bro.
Lisa (13:43):
Was always a thing, was it not?
Josh (13:45):
no, no no, no, okay, no I think bro came out like after
jersey shore like we're talkinglike 2010, 10 ish.
Yeah, I think around, you know,we'd say things like what up,
like W-A-D, yeah, what up, youknow, and then when Scream came
(14:06):
out, it was what's up.
Lisa (14:08):
Oh my gosh.
Well, the first Scream came outin the late 90s.
That was also a cult following.
It kind of grew over the years.
Josh (14:17):
Yeah, look how many Screams there are.
Lisa (14:19):
I know.
Josh (14:19):
You know, it's massive.
Lisa (14:21):
So now we're getting into the last decade, 2010s.
Josh (14:25):
Mm-hmm.
Lisa (14:26):
Some of the things that they said Lit Salty.
Josh (14:30):
Mm-hmm.
Lisa (14:31):
Throw shade Okay, this is what I didn't, this one I didn't
know.
On fleek no me either.
No, basic, yeah, okay, theseare all what words that I've
recognized.
It's like all of a sudden mybrain woke up from the my 20s
into my 30s and I'm like oh yeah, okay I'm back movies, anything
that sticks out jurassic parkwhich one like?
Josh (14:54):
the first one like was the first one, 2010 the 90s.
Oh shit, really.
Lisa (15:00):
Oh my God the very first one was from the 90s.
Josh (15:06):
See, this is what happens when you have amnesia.
Lisa (15:07):
You know Everything is just a no.
This is what happens when oneday you wake up and you're in
your 40s and you're like wherethe fuck did my life go?
Jesus, oh my God, Okay, somovies, Jesus.
Oh, my God Okay so movies Okay,maybe not specific movies, but
definitely the awakening ofstreaming.
Oh yeah, hulu's Disney Pluslater on in the decade.
(15:28):
But Netflix was a big one.
Josh (15:30):
Netflix started in 2010, was it Listen.
Lisa (15:33):
Netflix existed.
I mean, that's how we lost ourjob In the 2000s, exactly, but
then wasn't there somethingabout like how Blockbuster could
have bought them?
Josh (15:43):
I remember that and they didn't, and then they went under
.
We were working at Blockbusterwhen we heard that story.
That they could have bought itand they didn't.
Yeah, yeah.
Lisa (15:52):
So like the 2010s was like the death of old school, yeah,
whatever it's true.
Josh (16:03):
And then the introduction to streaming.
We skipped from vhs to cd dvd,I mean oh yeah we completely.
When did that even happen?
Lisa (16:09):
I don't know cassette to cd walkmans.
We used to walk around 90s walkaround with nanos, yeah,
nanopods nanopods.
And then uh, now it's on yourfreaking phone.
You have everything what wasbefore nanopod, the cd player,
no, yes, the c, the cassette,then the cd player, then the
nanopod you sure I'm pretty surethere isn't something in
(16:32):
between cd and nano I don'tthink so remember napster yes uh
, where you would download music, yeah, and then when they came
out with the movie aboutFacebook, Social Network.
I think it was.
Josh (16:45):
And the freaking Napster guy.
Justin Timberlake was playingthe Napster guy.
Lisa (16:50):
Speaking of Justin Timberlake.
Obviously he was in NSYNC, butI'm talking specifically about
his solo career.
Josh (16:56):
Oh yeah.
Lisa (16:57):
Fun killed it.
Well listen, I'm going to jumpback to the 80s and 90s.
For a second, speaking aboutmovies that we've loved
Jean-Claude Van Damme, oh my God, and I personally loved JCVD.
Now the 2020s.
Some of the things are sus.
That's a big word in our house.
Josh (17:20):
Yes.
Lisa (17:21):
It's giving no.
Josh (17:23):
Giving.
Lisa (17:24):
It's giving.
Okay, it's like a it's givingand then whatever kind of vibe,
I don't know.
Josh (17:30):
My kids say riz all the time.
Yeah, riz my, my son, stop acap, stop a cap I'm like what?
Lisa (17:41):
what are they saying?
Josh (17:42):
slay yeah, that one I understand that says he's gonna
full box me what's that?
I think it's a fortnight termokay yeah you, he's like trying
to wrestle me and he's like, oh,full box you.
And I'm like what?
Oh my gosh.
Lisa (17:59):
But just some of the things that they say.
I can't even Wrapping up the2020s for a second.
How do you feel about today'smusic?
Josh (18:06):
Oh, there's some that are is okay, you know, but I'm not
the biggest fan, but I've neverbeen.
Lisa (18:13):
I've never listened to more piano music in my life than
I have in the last few years.
Josh (18:17):
Let's just put it that way I'm weird with music.
Lisa (18:19):
What's weird about it?
You have a certain.
Josh (18:22):
Yeah, a certain vibe Okay, and you know it's, it's not
weird.
Lisa (18:25):
Do you find that the vibe that you like musically is still
giving now?
No, okay, no no, no, so maybethat's what it is.
So do you find yourselflistening to more old school
things?
Josh (18:37):
Yeah.
Lisa (18:38):
Same.
Josh (18:38):
Yeah, to a degree, for sure.
Lisa (18:40):
Okay.
So here's the thing I readsomewhere at some point in my
life that the music, the movies,like the pulp culture of your
teenage years is what stickswith you throughout your whole
life.
I never fully appreciatedsomething more than that.
I feel it's really true.
(19:00):
I go back to my 90s and I'lllisten to like some old school
stuff and I'll just feel good.
I'll feel energized.
Some of my favorite movies arefrom the 90s.
I don't tend to really re-watchthings very often, but if I do,
I guarantee it's going to besomething from the 90s.
I wonder if you have that atall, Because the things today's
(19:22):
generation aren't reallyresonating or bringing anything
out in you If you find yourselfgoing back to the times that it
did.
Josh (19:30):
Yeah, a little, I guess.
Lisa (19:32):
Have you ever introduced things that you loved from your
childhood or 20s?
Josh (19:37):
Dragon Ball Z.
Lisa (19:38):
Exactly To your kids, right, James?
My husband grew up in the 80swatching cartoons on Saturday
morning and that was like athing that he wanted to bring
back for our boys and so, likeSaturday mornings, they sit and
they watch freaking old schoolcartoons.
You know what I mean.
Now you can find on YouTube orlike whatever streaming services
(20:00):
, right?
Those kinds of things Like whathave you brought back or
wanting to bring back for yourkids.
Josh (20:09):
There's definitely a few movies and things like that, but
traditional wise not much.
To be quite honest with you, no.
No.
Lisa (20:19):
Okay, so you reintroduced them to Dragon Ball Z.
Josh (20:21):
Yeah.
Lisa (20:22):
Have they listened to Snow ?
Josh (20:24):
No, no why not no.
Lisa (20:27):
They might like it.
Josh (20:28):
Maybe, oh, my gosh Start with Runway.
Yeah, actually, now that youmentioned that, it's true, I did
let them listen to a little bitof like the old school rap like
eminem no, like more likemethod man okay vanilla, ice,
stuff like that, and my son waslike it's okay, it's cool, it's
(20:49):
okay, it's all right.
So that that was his response.
Lisa (20:52):
I'm dead.
Josh (20:53):
Yeah.
Lisa (20:55):
I love it.
Josh (20:56):
Yeah, that's hilarious.
And then I proceeded to tellhim stop a cap.
Lisa (21:01):
And yeah, yeah so I love it.
I'm going to quiz you on acouple of current slang.
Josh (21:10):
Bussin' Like what decade.
Lisa (21:12):
No, no, no, Like what does it mean?
Josh (21:14):
Oh okay, like busy, no.
No, no, like, what does it mean?
Lisa (21:16):
Oh okay, like busy, no apparently it's something like
it's really good or delicious,like it's often about food.
Josh (21:21):
It's a classic.
Oh, oh, my gosh, how did I notget that?
Lisa (21:24):
Fire.
Josh (21:26):
It's hot, it's awesome.
Bet yeah, bet, like okay, let'sdo that, that.
Yeah, what about drip?
Oh, that's like cool swag, yeah, yeah, okay, I'm trying to
think of okay, what about?
Uh, ftw, this is a gamingreference.
Do you know what lfg is?
Well, g would have to be gameyou're so not a gamer I'm not a
(21:48):
gamer lfg means looking forgroup and ftw means for the win.
So they all do these short.
Lisa (21:57):
I'm like looking at my paper it's like where's this
Shoot Anyway?
So that's a wrap on our timetraveling.
Journey through slang Fromgnarly to sus.
It's clear that everygeneration has its own way of
expressing itself.
Josh (22:15):
And while we might not always understand what our kids
are saying, at least we canlaugh about it or, you know,
embarrass them by trying to usetheir slang.
Lisa (22:24):
Which is like a daily thing for me, I think.
So thanks for tuning in toBrother Sister.
Whatever, don't forget tofollow us on Instagram and share
your favorite slang words,whether they're from the 80s,
90s or today.
Bye.
Josh (22:37):
Have a good one.
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