November 11, 2024 • 33 mins
Welcome back FDH fans to a wickedly radical and bodacious episode of Fat, Dumb, and Happy! In this episode we will take you on a totally awesome journey through the ages as we discuss slang from then to now. Dave, Jon, and Ben are joined with an extra special guest expert - Dave's 15 year old daughter, Makenna! She teaches these old fuddy duddies what the young whipper snappers are saying these days.
As always, we start with a food related to the theme - what will the guys pick for this episode?? Then we go through the decades starting with pre-80s. See how many words you recognize from pre-80's, 90's, 2000's, 2010's, and today!
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Whatever really happened to dudes calling each other best friends?
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Dave and John grew up in the 80s in New Jersey and they did everything together.
They were the quintessential best friends until they became teenagers and Dave moved away.
Fast forward to today and these two 40-somethings reconnected and decided to not only be besties again,
but to put on a podcast and share their reunion with anyone who will listen.
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Welcome to Fat, Dumb and Happy.
Alright, welcome back FDH fans to a wickedly radical and bodacious episode of Fat, Dumb and Happy.
In this episode we will take you on a totally awesome journey through the ages as we discuss slang from then to now.
I've got my tubular bro host John with me tonight. What's up?
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What's up?
And rocking four additional years of slinging slang is our in-house special guest expert Ben.
What's up, home slice?
I'm chilling.
Yes, just chillaxing over there.
Chilling like a villain.
Chilling like a villain, yes.
Alright, so fans of the show know we really are fat, dumb and happy, but we are also kind of old.
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So we have an extra special guest expert to teach us some of the slang of the day.
My daughter McKenna.
What's up, McKenna?
Nothing really.
Just my soda.
Just your soda's popping.
Happy to be here.
Awesome, yes, so glad to have you.
So yeah, McKenna is my daughter and she is 15, so she's fairly familiar with all the slang of the day.
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And she's going to teach us oldies on this episode what the young whippersnappers are saying these days.
Good time for sure.
Alright, John for the food portion of this episode.
Alright, so this has to probably be one of the hardest ones I could find some kind of correlation to.
Yes.
You guys know we love to, you know, theme it up and eat something related to our topic, but how do you do it for words?
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You know, it was weird.
I'm going to start with Dave. Dave, what are you eating and how the heck did you relate it to words?
Yeah, you're right, John.
This was a super hard episode to come up with the food about the topic because it's like most of the slang, you know, something cool or something dumb or whatever else.
And I had to dig back into the like pre 80s, man.
I had to go back to the old school when they talked about hot dog being like an exclamation, like, yeah, hot dogs.
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I got myself a hot diggity dog right here and not about slang, but just a little extra special thing here.
I have what a burger spicy ketchup on it.
So that's money.
Yep.
For those that don't have the pleasure of getting spicy ketchup and what a burger, man, it is so good.
Yep.
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This and now it's good stuff for sure.
It is for reals.
I got to try it.
He's all right.
You are hot diggity dog in it.
Okay, let's move on to Ben.
What do you got?
I got cheese like the big cheese, like cheesy, like and this is Monterey Jack.
You know, it's got the little spice in it.
So spicy, you know, it's hot, you know, all that kind of stuff.
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So I don't know.
I just thought I could get a few different phrases out of it.
All right.
All right.
That's fair. That's fair.
Now I'm very curious to see in today's day and age, McKenna, what the heck did you find that you could eat with a slang for today?
Right.
So a little backstory, me and my sister were just watching TikTok and came across this animation and they're talking about Happy Meals and apple slices.
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But instead of saying it like that, they call it Sigma Meals and Skibbidi Slicers.
Skibbidi Slicers.
So I have the Skibbidi Slicers right here and my Sigma Meal.
Your Sigma Meal.
Okay.
Okay.
I'm going to pretend I understood all that.
Exactly.
We'll explain those words later.
But I mean, you can kind of think about like, hey, it's a Happy Meal.
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So Sigma Meal, that must be something probably positive, but that's just a little teaser.
My dumb head thinks of Six Sigma.
Yeah, Six Sigma.
The corporate world.
No, you got to get out.
I know.
All right.
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I'm just going to put that out there.
I do need to mention two things.
One, the pizza guy was just a hot and ready pepperoni.
Okay.
I brought it home.
Like one.
And I got the crazy bread, which is like raw.
Like it's not even cooked.
So like just doughy and disgusting.
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I don't like to waste food, but I had one and threw the rest away.
Oh, man.
They're gross.
They are so disgusting.
And then two, my marinara spilled on the floor outside of my apartment.
So that was not awesome either.
But I had like one slice of pizza and I got rid of the rest.
It was terrible pizza.
I don't know how you guys promoted that back in the day.
I know.
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I know.
And I feel bad because I know you had some sentimentality to it when we did the
episode.
But and you know, financially it was great, but bro.
Yeah.
No.
No.
No bueno.
No bueno.
Yeah.
Well, I will say this.
I have noticed a difference and this is true really with all fast food, where
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you get it sometimes matters.
I don't know.
You sometimes you'll hit a particular restaurant and you can just tell like
these people didn't put any effort into this, man.
Like somebody is about to get fired.
I think, you know, and then you go to another one and it's amazing, you
know, so I don't know.
I agree with that for sure.
Especially you're getting crazy dough instead of crazy bread.
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Yeah.
No, it was probably a bad sign.
It was like if you were to take silly putty and just kind of swinging
around. Yeah.
So and but Ben, I 100% agree with you.
There are like, you know, I said in that episode, I said McDonald's foods
pretty bland, but I still go every now and again, but I will only go to
certain ones.
Yeah.
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But that exactly.
Yeah.
I mean, you think like a lot of fast food is just as often run by like
teenagers that some of them are really invested in doing their best and
some of them are not so much, you know, there's even a Chick-fil-A.
I won't go to.
It's crazy.
Yeah.
I mean, kind of tell them about our Chipotle that they built real close
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by.
Oh man.
It was bad.
Oh, I'm already sorry to hear this story.
Yeah.
It's terrible.
Oh, the food has been bad.
They were like out of like everything, everything like standard stuff,
rice, chicken.
Like it was so bad.
And for a long time they had like two and a half stars or worse.
It was like, finally they're coming around, I guess, to be a little bit
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better apparently, but we'll see.
McKenna, are you saying it's bad as like it's good, you know, like that
kind of slang or you're saying what kind of slag are you using right now?
Yeah, it's terrible.
Let's see.
What's a good slang for terrible on this one?
It's skibbity.
Skibbity.
That Chipotle is skibbity, Ben.
It does not slap.
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It does not slap.
Okay.
Yeah.
Now that's sad to hear.
And I'm not going to lie to you.
I'm a huge Chipotle fan, but there are two Chipotles I don't go to.
And right now they got like brisket, at least down here anyway, they got brisket.
This is so off topic, so I'm sorry, but I make them give me a little piece to try first.
Yeah.
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No matter which one I go to up until yesterday, each one, like the brisket was super dry.
And, you know, we're proud of our brisket down here.
And like we have hurricane briskets on standby, you know, just in case.
And so briskets got to be done right.
And like three of them in a row I went to, this just dry brisket was terrible.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, we're super Chipotle fans.
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This one's just was having a rough go at the start for sure.
And it was like, it lasted for months.
Yeah.
A while.
Okay.
So that's all we got for food tonight.
And I'm sorry, I went way off topic there and you haven't talked about Chipotle.
Okay.
Anyway.
All right.
So let's hit our main topic, Ben.
What do we got?
We are talking about slang from the ages, from way back to current stuff.
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Well, let's get to some of these decades here and talk a little bit more detail about them.
Let's start off with the slang from the pre 80s.
So we're not going to go break it down decade by decade before that, because honestly, that's before our time.
We can't really speak to it as much, but we definitely heard some of these things from our parents,
from old movies or something like that.
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So I don't know.
What are some of the ones that stand out to you guys that you remember hearing people say that maybe you heard it in the 80s and you knew it was old?
So just out of the gate, you know, these two have actually stood the test of time because people still say them every day, even if they're being cheesy about it.
See you later, alligator.
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After a while, crocodile.
Yeah.
And then on the same lines and maybe not used exactly the same, but cool beans.
Yeah.
Something that people still say today.
Yeah, they still say cool beans.
Yeah.
Yeah. Cool beans.
Those are kind of some of the ones that just jumped out to me.
What about you, y'all?
Yeah, I agree that that was exactly some of the ones I was thinking of too.
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Another one that I thought of too, because, you know, back to the future I loved is I remember Marty's mom back in the day saying, like, don't be such a square, Calvin or whatever.
And so that's a square was something that really stood out to me being so lame or whatever.
That's what square meant back then.
I thought it was like a nerd or something.
Yeah, like a nerd.
Yeah, that's it.
Yeah, same kind of thing.
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That's today's equivalent, I guess.
Yep.
I like how they used animals a lot, like, you know, cat's pajamas, like, oh, that's so cool.
That's the cat's pajamas.
So like, what's another one?
The cat's meow.
Yeah.
Or bee's knees.
There were some I didn't know, like, it took me a while to figure out what they're even talking about when like, for instance, like, ducky.
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Yeah.
I didn't know really what that meant.
Even from the context, sometimes it was hard for me to tell what they're talking about.
Yeah, ducky. Yep.
For sure.
I guess heebie jeebies.
It seems like I hear that sometimes still.
Yeah, I still hear that once in a while.
Shut your yap.
And Ben, how he picked cheese for his food, like, yeah, that was that was a thing, like, well, he's the big cheese.
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He's the he's the boss, you know, it's pretty funny.
Our dad used the word nerds.
And honestly, I still don't fully understand what that meant.
It was just like he was mad.
He would say, oh, nerds.
Oh, nerds.
I remember that.
You remember that, Don?
I do.
I think in the third listing, I'm not calling you out.
It's just something I remember from my childhood.
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But Lindsey and David Wood, I feel like they always used to say the word nerf, like N-A-R-F.
Like that was their nerds.
That was their nerds.
Yeah, that was their nerds.
It was created to work for them.
That's awesome.
Another thing I thought of is just I know there was stuff that were definitely 70s or 60s, but they weren't like everyone.
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They were like, for instance, jive.
Not like everybody in the 70s talked jive.
That was definitely a thing among some people.
Certain cultures or demographics or whatever, yeah?
Yeah.
I'm sorry. I don't understand.
Cutty say can't hang.
Oh, Sturtis.
I speak jive.
Oh, good.
And so whether it's like people from down south or people from California or whatever, there's a lot of regional stuff from certain demographics or whatever.
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And so you would hear, I don't know, stuff that was like almost like if you heard it, you could tell, okay, this person is from this culture or living from, I don't know, the Bronx or something like that.
You know what I mean?
And you could hear from an old movie and just from a few words, a couple of slang words or something, you automatically got like a guess on where these people might be from or maybe a little bit about them almost even.
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That's true. That's true.
Y'all are crazy.
Yeah.
Ben mentioned the Bronx. So quick story. I got lost at the Bronx Zoo on a field trip once. Okay, keep going.
That's cool. I got pooped on by a bird in the Bronx Zoo. So we got stories there.
They say it's good luck.
All right. So how about sleep in the 80s, you guys? That was our childhood.
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Yeah.
What were some of your favorite things in that decade?
You're right. Growing up, this is how we communicated, man.
Yep.
What were some of y'all's favorites in here?
Man, I used psych so much. I'd always be like, psych. You know, I'd say something that was not true and then I'd go, psych. Have you heard that before?
No.
Yeah.
I was like, no, psych.
It's kind of like just kidding or like gotcha almost. It's like, psych.
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Just playing.
Yep. Yep.
It's weird. The movie Stand By Me. Remember the skin it.
Skin it. Yep. Slip me some skin.
It's like a high five. You would like slide your hand across. Slip me some skin. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Your face right there, McKenna, was like perfect.
I feel it was called exactly. But I've heard people in hallways be like, dab me up. And then they would go like this.
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Okay. Yeah. Dab me up. And then they just grab the fingers.
Oh, man. If you get the right like, pop, especially like in the hallway or something. Quality.
I saw this guy. I used to work with us on the last Saturday. And we went for the good one. And it was two bad ones in a row.
We kept trying. We got there. Yeah. It was awkward as could be.
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I mean like the jarring like the meat and like bone.
No, like at first it was like.
Oh, yeah. Which, yeah. Pound it or high five. What are we going for here?
It was awful.
Yeah. What about any of these words from the 80s, McKenna? Looks familiar or you're like, what in the world does that mean? Or where are you at on any of those?
I'm like, oh, I've definitely seen this from old 80s movies. Yeah. Yeah. But like some days I'm like, what? Is it really that old?
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Yeah. Like whatever. Oh, yeah. Whatever. Yeah. Whatever. Whatever. Yeah. In your face.
Yeah. In your face. No duh. Yep. But ugly. But ugly. Yeah. Yeah.
I blame growing up in the 80s for my overuse of the word like.
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Oh, yeah.
Like, like, like, like, you know, it's like a Valley Girl thing almost, you know, sometimes. But I definitely overuse it too much sometimes.
I think it might have been even worse in the 90s when Clueless came out with Alicia Silverstein.
Share two minutes.
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So, okay. Like right now, for example, the Hades need to come to America. But some people are all what about the strain on our resources?
And it's like, whatever.
I remember one time at dinner, my daddy yelling at Liz because she kept saying like, like, it's like, it was so upset like, like, like, like, like that's all she ever said was like, and, and then I said it in a real sentence because I was about to go say, Hey, we should do things like, and I was going to give a list of examples or something like that.
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And she's like, well, he said it. And my dad's like, well, he said it right. He was just talking about her for the like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like.
Yeah, no, it definitely but into the 90s. And as the editor of this podcast, I will say we all use like, so many times.
Yeah, there's no escaping that one.
Yeah.
There's definitely a few from here that totally make me think, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles man like Cowabunga Bodacious, I feel like that tubular, that's what I would say tubular Cowabunga, those were like, totally Ninja Turtles.
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Awesome. Yep, totally awesome. Radical.
Right.
Yes.
Yes.
I feel like rad or radical needs to be in hot pink or hot, you know, like in the old 80s like writing and like, remember that BMX movie Dave?
Yes. Yeah, the BMX movie exactly man.
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What was the one thing it's called airborne it had Seth Green, but it was about a bunch of roller bladers. She was always like, come on bra.
California's like, yeah, let them call you bra bra.
Yeah, it was airborne 1993. Oh 93 okay I'm skipping ahead. No, it's all good man. Yeah, but yeah, chill bra.
I still call you homeboy though. Yep. Homeboy started back then, or at least that's what I remember so.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
Call you homie like when we text. What's up homie.
Yep. Yep.
It seems like some movies are so full of phrases. They just kind of go over the top with them that I feel like so many of our language comes from like three or four movies you know whether it's Ferris Bueller, Bill and Ted's.
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You know, they have a classic, I don't know whether the 80s or 90s sometimes I get mixed up but they definitely have a certain era to them you know.
Yeah. You also got, I think it was the 90s as well but you got like in the 80s, you got some Encino Man vibes.
We're probably sure with the gnarly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, rolling into the 90s and we start talking about that decade honestly but Wayne's World was one that like I feel like had a bunch of slang that we would call out.
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For sure.
A show.
A question, I don't know, do you guys know? I would guess that a lot of the slang that I heard in those movies that I didn't necessarily hear in New Jersey were like California slang, like, they seemed like they were more California dudes you know like, like talking it up in their particular region I guess and so I'm like, yeah we would copy them a little bit but a lot of them we didn't necessarily use on a day to day basis unless we were referencing those movies.
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You know what I mean? I didn't use the word bogus in real life normally you know what I mean? Unless if I used it I was, I was referencing Bill and Ted, you know what I mean? I was making a joke and connecting it to that, but otherwise I wasn't using it.
You know what I mean? Yeah, it makes me think of Stranger Things you know how that's like set in the 80s and Lucas being like,
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You're like totally tubular. Nobody actually says that you know. Well, I do now. It makes you seem really cool.
I like talking with you Mad Max. Yeah you're absolutely right Ben it's like surfer dude or valley girl you know some of those things are totally California slang.
Yeah, it's just crazy though I mean that's a good point because everything's just kind of switched from what it used to be. Now, you're right, a lot of the slang came from movies, people would quote and then it would kind of break down into one thing.
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Now it's more what is said by you know music has a massive influence.
Even influencers on social media have kind of the shift between what it used to be and now where these words are coming from.
Yeah, I mean even in the local level right like in junior high or high school you have maybe a funny kid or a popular kid that starts using the word and that's how it kind of spreads.
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It's kind of like the similar idea but now it's like worldwide on the internet or whatever. So, right? Yep. Yep.
All right, McKenna any words from the 90s on this list here that surprise you or don't make any sense?
Well there's one, all that and a bag of chips.
Oh yes. How did that start? Yeah, that's a good question. We should look up the origin but yeah I totally remember saying that. You remember saying that guys? Yeah. Yes. Oh man.
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And a bag of chips. Yep. That's equivalent to the cat's meow. Yeah, exactly. It's like the cat's meow. It's beyond that. It's almost like everything and the kitchen sink or whatever right like it's like all that and a bag of chips like even more.
So, it's kind of goofy right? He thinks he's all that and a bag of chips. Yep. Anything else on there? Oh shizzle.
Yes. You can thank Snoop Dogg for that. Yeah. Snoop Dogg. That's all 100% him. I mean he's been around, he's still around. He's doing the Olympics now or whatever he did. Yeah.
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Wow. But yeah, that's like for sure. But he would add Izzle to stuff. So you'd be like. Yeah, to everything. Yeah, it's everything. I shared on here already my dad joke about you know why does Snoop Dogg always bring an umbrella with him?
For Drizzle.
Yeah, now you get it. Man, so this is just like straight childhood right here man like forget the 80s. Yes, we all had that but the 90s, I used almost every last one of these. Fat? Absolutely. Yeah, that's fat. That's tight.
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Yep. Yep. Yeah.
It seems like in the 90s there were so many words that were spelled slightly differently to create a new meaning like fat or dog. DAWG. Yes. Yeah.
And I remember people would say, like they'd have to clarify even they would say that's fat like pH fat, you know.
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Yeah, exactly. pH fat. Yeah, exactly. You couldn't just say, I mean some people did just say fat but a lot of times people would say it and then give an explanation like spell it for you like.
I remember that in any other decade, a lot of phrases like we don't know where they come from. And they sometimes do have an alternate meaning that we don't know about. And in fact I've had a time or two where I've tried to use slang and they're like no, don't say that.
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Don't, don't, just don't.
Oh, okay. I don't even know like exactly what it means. I just kind of picked it up from the context of other people. And then I say it like, uh uh, no. Yeah. Any of the things we say and going forward there might be more that we just don't know we just don't know all the meanings, especially
I think when there was a lot of a rap that we're trying to be tough and you know talk and sometimes crude you know in crude ways that, at least for myself I had no idea, I had no idea. Like a decade later and some I probably sure don't still don't know man.
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Yeah, that's true. That's true. So I remember saying I'm out eat you remember saying that and then like, take the next level and like I'm outie 5000.
It's so weird.
It means like I'm leaving you know but then there's the car, the outie 5000 so it's like it just made it even cooler to us I guess back in the day.
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I didn't even see that. Yeah. Yep. Definitely got your clueless vibes in there with the as if and whatever. That was super, the as if.
It was big man. It really like, huge. A lot came out from that movie.
The movie was called Friends. The booyah that was like in your face.
Yes.
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Remember talk to the hand. Talk to the hand that was so popular dude.
People said all the time to be annoying right. That's still. Yeah, I know that. Yeah.
And that's not even the full phrase.
Yeah, talk to the hand because the face ain't listening.
Yeah, the face don't want to hear it. And that was one of those where there's kind of the opposite of what Ben was talking about earlier about like slang coming from a region and kind of spreading.
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I felt like that like shrank like it got annoying and it became like a certain type of person would say that and you're like that's annoying like you know what I mean.
Yeah, and I see a lot more of that today.
Like it's funny because I was trying to like Ben was talking about I was trying to use some of these phrases before we started the podcast tonight.
And I was like, okay, I'm too old for this.
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Yeah.
Yeah, I'll tell you.
I used I think instead of adding 5000 I was more of a yo I'm a bounce. Yeah, I'm a bounce. Yeah, my bounce.
Peace out.
Peace out. Yeah.
Man, I don't think I ever once in my life said, eat my shorts.
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Yeah, but it was after it was thanks to Bart Bart Simpson. Yep. And then Oh, getting jiggy with getting jiggy. That was all Will Smith.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. It could chill pill. My bad. I said that a lot man. Oh, yeah. My bad. That's true. I still throw it out there.
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Yeah, even abbreviated in text. That's true.
This MB, or what yeah. Nice. I remember saying like my be even to like my be my be like instead of my bad.
So, yeah, yeah, my be. It's crazy. You know, we talked about the movies and these words and I said earlier, you had the as if and whatever.
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I think one of the 90s things to say, not not yeah that's true. That was definitely clueless as well. Yeah.
It was annoying to me after a while. Oh, super annoying. Yes.
It was super cool. No, you're awesome. No.
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So, yeah, it was a guy mean and that got pretty lame pretty quick. I was like Dave you're so good at basketball, not.
How do I not have the bomb on there. I thought I wrote that but yeah you know, bomb.com baby. Oh you did it on there. It's under flat. Oh, is there okay good.
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The not thing reminds me of that hand gesture that people would do and I think this might go back more than like the 80s or maybe even before but where you put your hand up like give me a high five and then like swing it down like, like, not going to happen.
Yeah.
Yeah, I feel like member of the 80s I think it was more like go to a handshake and then you like, do the do the hair.
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Hair.
They still do that. Yeah, nice. So funny.
I wish I had hair, what was that high five too slow. Yeah, too slow download too slow right. Yeah, that's right.
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I feel like I'm more relevant to today man, start getting into the 2000s huh. Yeah, I come in. That's right.
Like great I can finally start participating I know what some of this stuff means.
This is like Ben said earlier to about where I feel like it does start to blend you know which decade was it for sure and you know which ones we have I think a little less examples because we're, you know, we started to lose touch you guys were getting older and less cool, you know, so, but then the 20,000s I feel like peeps became a thing right.
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I was my peeps talking about your people there. Your gang your group your friends whatever. Right. Sick. Oh yeah sick stuck around I feel like it's still sometimes people say yeah, yeah.
Okay, it's not as much sick. Yeah. Yeah. What else McKinney see any on there that you say oh that's still around or no pretty old.
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Oh yeah that's true lol still around. Yeah, who knows how long. Yep.
And it doesn't mean lots of love there's any grandmas out there listening.
I'm sorry dog died.
What's crack a leckon. Let's crack a leckon yeah. I haven't heard that. No, a lot of stuff on here like new. Yes, new was always for me anyway it was like video games.
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You're brand new to a game you were new. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you were awful. Roblox or something. Yeah, that's been very neat.
Yeah. You got served was that's probably early 2000s right because that's I think that's when that came out.
That all you got served I think but we're dance off so it was crazy.
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Nice. So I feel like buff is one of those more recent kinds of words. I think like back in the day what do we what do we say getting jacked or something or like that person is jacked or that person is like, right.
Yeah, right. There we go. But I don't, I don't remember saying buff before.
It does feel like that was a bit earlier. Yeah, I think even today is the jacked or ripped. Oh yeah. What do you think you see comma buff do you think. Yeah, that's a thing McKenna today.
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Yeah, yeah, I'll take your word for it 15 year older. That's right.
I'm not at all popular really. No, you got you know the words though yeah.
Yeah, and you got tons of friends. Do they know it. No.
So how about the next decade huh. Any of those on the list there McKenna that stand out romance romance.
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Yes. Do you guys think that we started blending words a little bit. Do you think that was, I feel like that's when it kind of started happening more and more.
You know like bro romance right bromance like dad by. Yeah, dad about the one for sure. Oh yeah photo vacation. Feel like it more started with like celebrities, like when they started mashing their dumb names together.
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Yep, yeah, Jennifer, Jennifer was better fucking JLo. Yep, yep. Who there was a super popular brand Jelena. Yeah brand Jelena yeah Brad Pitt and Angelina. Yep, exactly.
I feel like that's kind of where kick this off like the bromance and combining words yeah vacation and dad bod. Yep, yep, yep. No, it was pretty 2016 ish for political reasons.
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Gotcha, gotcha. Well that was always a worry that you know it's what they mean by the slang snowflake.
Yeah. So how would you explain that john snowflake, maybe somebody that's easily agitated due to a viewpoint that they do not agree with.
That's how I have to nicely say that. Okay, nice. That explanation sounds a little sus.
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I was so wrong using those words was sus like did this start with among us or no. Yes, I think so right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, this is basically like mafia. Yeah, where it's like suspicious and stuff.
Yeah, among us is that a game or is that a show. The game. Yeah, I'm getting lazy. So they just say so suspicious. The short I think I think a lot of that is our current slang is people are lazy man.
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I think that's where we get a lot of this stuff. Yeah, I think about it. Okay, has been abbreviated three times is okay. Okay. Oh yeah spelling out. Yeah. Okay. We just like, just the letters. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah.
Just one letter.
Like with texting people started doing acronyms a lot to you know like the FOMO stuff like that.
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And then with like TTYL, BRB. Yeah, yeah, I had to look up what TTYL was that in. No, no, was it no TLDR.
It was like fits me perfectly. What is that too long didn't read too long didn't read. Yeah, that's right.
That one was made for me.
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But you don't know what that one is McKenna. I got one that you don't know. Oh my gosh, it's amazing. I think it's older and maybe that's part of it. Plus, it's like, no man, that's new.
We're like TLDR very simply put is just where somebody summarizes a very long poster or something like that on social media.
Take the time to read the whole thing.
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It just gives the basic details just a bit too long didn't read.
Thanks so much for listening to part one of this episode. Stay tuned for more fun in part two.
Whatever really happened to dudes calling each other best friends?
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Dave and John grew up in the 80s in New Jersey and they did everything together.
They were the quintessential best friends until they became teenagers and Dave moved away.
Fast forward to today and these two 40-somethings reconnected and decided to not only be besties again,
but to put on a podcast and share their reunion with anyone who will listen.
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Welcome to Fat, Dumb and Happy.
Alright, welcome back FDH fans to a wickedly radical and bodacious episode of Fat, Dumb and Happy.
In this episode we will take you on a totally awesome journey through the ages as we discuss slang from then to now.
I've got my tubular bro host John with me tonight. What's up?
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What's up?
And rocking four additional years of slinging slang is our in-house special guest expert Ben.
What's up, home slice?
I'm chilling.
Yes, just chillaxing over there.
Chilling like a villain.
Chilling like a villain, yes.
Alright, so fans of the show know we really are fat, dumb and happy, but we are also kind of old.
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So we have an extra special guest expert to teach us some of the slang of the day.
My daughter McKenna.
What's up, McKenna?
Nothing really.
Just my soda.
Just your soda's popping.
Happy to be here.
Awesome, yes, so glad to have you.
So yeah, McKenna is my daughter and she is 15, so she's fairly familiar with all the slang of the day.
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And she's going to teach us oldies on this episode what the young whippersnappers are saying these days.
Good time for sure.
Alright, John for the food portion of this episode.
Alright, so this has to probably be one of the hardest ones I could find some kind of correlation to.
Yes.
You guys know we love to, you know, theme it up and eat something related to our topic, but how do you do it for words?
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You know, it was weird.
I'm going to start with Dave. Dave, what are you eating and how the heck did you relate it to words?
Yeah, you're right, John.
This was a super hard episode to come up with the food about the topic because it's like most of the slang, you know, something cool or something dumb or whatever else.
And I had to dig back into the like pre 80s, man.
I had to go back to the old school when they talked about hot dog being like an exclamation, like, yeah, hot dogs.
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I got myself a hot diggity dog right here and not about slang, but just a little extra special thing here.
I have what a burger spicy ketchup on it.
So that's money.
Yep.
For those that don't have the pleasure of getting spicy ketchup and what a burger, man, it is so good.
Yep.
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This and now it's good stuff for sure.
It is for reals.
I got to try it.
He's all right.
You are hot diggity dog in it.
Okay, let's move on to Ben.
What do you got?
I got cheese like the big cheese, like cheesy, like and this is Monterey Jack.
You know, it's got the little spice in it.
So spicy, you know, it's hot, you know, all that kind of stuff.
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So I don't know.
I just thought I could get a few different phrases out of it.
All right.
All right.
That's fair. That's fair.
Now I'm very curious to see in today's day and age, McKenna, what the heck did you find that you could eat with a slang for today?
Right.
So a little backstory, me and my sister were just watching TikTok and came across this animation and they're talking about Happy Meals and apple slices.
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But instead of saying it like that, they call it Sigma Meals and Skibbidi Slicers.
Skibbidi Slicers.
So I have the Skibbidi Slicers right here and my Sigma Meal.
Your Sigma Meal.
Okay.
Okay.
I'm going to pretend I understood all that.
Exactly.
We'll explain those words later.
But I mean, you can kind of think about like, hey, it's a Happy Meal.
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So Sigma Meal, that must be something probably positive, but that's just a little teaser.
My dumb head thinks of Six Sigma.
Yeah, Six Sigma.
The corporate world.
No, you got to get out.
I know.
All right.
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I'm just going to put that out there.
I do need to mention two things.
One, the pizza guy was just a hot and ready pepperoni.
Okay.
I brought it home.
Like one.
And I got the crazy bread, which is like raw.
Like it's not even cooked.
So like just doughy and disgusting.
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I don't like to waste food, but I had one and threw the rest away.
Oh, man.
They're gross.
They are so disgusting.
And then two, my marinara spilled on the floor outside of my apartment.
So that was not awesome either.
But I had like one slice of pizza and I got rid of the rest.
It was terrible pizza.
I don't know how you guys promoted that back in the day.
I know.
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I know.
And I feel bad because I know you had some sentimentality to it when we did the
episode.
But and you know, financially it was great, but bro.
Yeah.
No.
No.
No bueno.
No bueno.
Yeah.
Well, I will say this.
I have noticed a difference and this is true really with all fast food, where
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you get it sometimes matters.
I don't know.
You sometimes you'll hit a particular restaurant and you can just tell like
these people didn't put any effort into this, man.
Like somebody is about to get fired.
I think, you know, and then you go to another one and it's amazing, you
know, so I don't know.
I agree with that for sure.
Especially you're getting crazy dough instead of crazy bread.
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Yeah.
No, it was probably a bad sign.
It was like if you were to take silly putty and just kind of swinging
around. Yeah.
So and but Ben, I 100% agree with you.
There are like, you know, I said in that episode, I said McDonald's foods
pretty bland, but I still go every now and again, but I will only go to
certain ones.
Yeah.
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But that exactly.
Yeah.
I mean, you think like a lot of fast food is just as often run by like
teenagers that some of them are really invested in doing their best and
some of them are not so much, you know, there's even a Chick-fil-A.
I won't go to.
It's crazy.
Yeah.
I mean, kind of tell them about our Chipotle that they built real close
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by.
Oh man.
It was bad.
Oh, I'm already sorry to hear this story.
Yeah.
It's terrible.
Oh, the food has been bad.
They were like out of like everything, everything like standard stuff,
rice, chicken.
Like it was so bad.
And for a long time they had like two and a half stars or worse.
It was like, finally they're coming around, I guess, to be a little bit
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better apparently, but we'll see.
McKenna, are you saying it's bad as like it's good, you know, like that
kind of slang or you're saying what kind of slag are you using right now?
Yeah, it's terrible.
Let's see.
What's a good slang for terrible on this one?
It's skibbity.
Skibbity.
That Chipotle is skibbity, Ben.
It does not slap.
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It does not slap.
Okay.
Yeah.
Now that's sad to hear.
And I'm not going to lie to you.
I'm a huge Chipotle fan, but there are two Chipotles I don't go to.
And right now they got like brisket, at least down here anyway, they got brisket.
This is so off topic, so I'm sorry, but I make them give me a little piece to try first.
Yeah.
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No matter which one I go to up until yesterday, each one, like the brisket was super dry.
And, you know, we're proud of our brisket down here.
And like we have hurricane briskets on standby, you know, just in case.
And so briskets got to be done right.
And like three of them in a row I went to, this just dry brisket was terrible.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, we're super Chipotle fans.
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This one's just was having a rough go at the start for sure.
And it was like, it lasted for months.
Yeah.
A while.
Okay.
So that's all we got for food tonight.
And I'm sorry, I went way off topic there and you haven't talked about Chipotle.
Okay.
Anyway.
All right.
So let's hit our main topic, Ben.
What do we got?
We are talking about slang from the ages, from way back to current stuff.
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Well, let's get to some of these decades here and talk a little bit more detail about them.
Let's start off with the slang from the pre 80s.
So we're not going to go break it down decade by decade before that, because honestly, that's before our time.
We can't really speak to it as much, but we definitely heard some of these things from our parents,
from old movies or something like that.
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So I don't know.
What are some of the ones that stand out to you guys that you remember hearing people say that maybe you heard it in the 80s and you knew it was old?
So just out of the gate, you know, these two have actually stood the test of time because people still say them every day, even if they're being cheesy about it.
See you later, alligator.
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After a while, crocodile.
Yeah.
And then on the same lines and maybe not used exactly the same, but cool beans.
Yeah.
Something that people still say today.
Yeah, they still say cool beans.
Yeah.
Yeah. Cool beans.
Those are kind of some of the ones that just jumped out to me.
What about you, y'all?
Yeah, I agree that that was exactly some of the ones I was thinking of too.
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Another one that I thought of too, because, you know, back to the future I loved is I remember Marty's mom back in the day saying, like, don't be such a square, Calvin or whatever.
And so that's a square was something that really stood out to me being so lame or whatever.
That's what square meant back then.
I thought it was like a nerd or something.
Yeah, like a nerd.
Yeah, that's it.
Yeah, same kind of thing.
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That's today's equivalent, I guess.
Yep.
I like how they used animals a lot, like, you know, cat's pajamas, like, oh, that's so cool.
That's the cat's pajamas.
So like, what's another one?
The cat's meow.
Yeah.
Or bee's knees.
There were some I didn't know, like, it took me a while to figure out what they're even talking about when like, for instance, like, ducky.
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Yeah.
I didn't know really what that meant.
Even from the context, sometimes it was hard for me to tell what they're talking about.
Yeah, ducky. Yep.
For sure.
I guess heebie jeebies.
It seems like I hear that sometimes still.
Yeah, I still hear that once in a while.
Shut your yap.
And Ben, how he picked cheese for his food, like, yeah, that was that was a thing, like, well, he's the big cheese.
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He's the he's the boss, you know, it's pretty funny.
Our dad used the word nerds.
And honestly, I still don't fully understand what that meant.
It was just like he was mad.
He would say, oh, nerds.
Oh, nerds.
I remember that.
You remember that, Don?
I do.
I think in the third listing, I'm not calling you out.
It's just something I remember from my childhood.
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But Lindsey and David Wood, I feel like they always used to say the word nerf, like N-A-R-F.
Like that was their nerds.
That was their nerds.
Yeah, that was their nerds.
It was created to work for them.
That's awesome.
Another thing I thought of is just I know there was stuff that were definitely 70s or 60s, but they weren't like everyone.
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They were like, for instance, jive.
Not like everybody in the 70s talked jive.
That was definitely a thing among some people.
Certain cultures or demographics or whatever, yeah?
Yeah.
I'm sorry. I don't understand.
Cutty say can't hang.
Oh, Sturtis.
I speak jive.
Oh, good.
And so whether it's like people from down south or people from California or whatever, there's a lot of regional stuff from certain demographics or whatever.
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And so you would hear, I don't know, stuff that was like almost like if you heard it, you could tell, okay, this person is from this culture or living from, I don't know, the Bronx or something like that.
You know what I mean?
And you could hear from an old movie and just from a few words, a couple of slang words or something, you automatically got like a guess on where these people might be from or maybe a little bit about them almost even.
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That's true. That's true.
Y'all are crazy.
Yeah.
Ben mentioned the Bronx. So quick story. I got lost at the Bronx Zoo on a field trip once. Okay, keep going.
That's cool. I got pooped on by a bird in the Bronx Zoo. So we got stories there.
They say it's good luck.
All right. So how about sleep in the 80s, you guys? That was our childhood.
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Yeah.
What were some of your favorite things in that decade?
You're right. Growing up, this is how we communicated, man.
Yep.
What were some of y'all's favorites in here?
Man, I used psych so much. I'd always be like, psych. You know, I'd say something that was not true and then I'd go, psych. Have you heard that before?
No.
Yeah.
I was like, no, psych.
It's kind of like just kidding or like gotcha almost. It's like, psych.
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Just playing.
Yep. Yep.
It's weird. The movie Stand By Me. Remember the skin it.
Skin it. Yep. Slip me some skin.
It's like a high five. You would like slide your hand across. Slip me some skin. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Your face right there, McKenna, was like perfect.
I feel it was called exactly. But I've heard people in hallways be like, dab me up. And then they would go like this.
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Okay. Yeah. Dab me up. And then they just grab the fingers.
Oh, man. If you get the right like, pop, especially like in the hallway or something. Quality.
I saw this guy. I used to work with us on the last Saturday. And we went for the good one. And it was two bad ones in a row.
We kept trying. We got there. Yeah. It was awkward as could be.
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I mean like the jarring like the meat and like bone.
No, like at first it was like.
Oh, yeah. Which, yeah. Pound it or high five. What are we going for here?
It was awful.
Yeah. What about any of these words from the 80s, McKenna? Looks familiar or you're like, what in the world does that mean? Or where are you at on any of those?
I'm like, oh, I've definitely seen this from old 80s movies. Yeah. Yeah. But like some days I'm like, what? Is it really that old?
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Yeah. Like whatever. Oh, yeah. Whatever. Yeah. Whatever. Whatever. Yeah. In your face.
Yeah. In your face. No duh. Yep. But ugly. But ugly. Yeah. Yeah.
I blame growing up in the 80s for my overuse of the word like.
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Oh, yeah.
Like, like, like, like, you know, it's like a Valley Girl thing almost, you know, sometimes. But I definitely overuse it too much sometimes.
I think it might have been even worse in the 90s when Clueless came out with Alicia Silverstein.
Share two minutes.
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So, okay. Like right now, for example, the Hades need to come to America. But some people are all what about the strain on our resources?
And it's like, whatever.
I remember one time at dinner, my daddy yelling at Liz because she kept saying like, like, it's like, it was so upset like, like, like, like, like that's all she ever said was like, and, and then I said it in a real sentence because I was about to go say, Hey, we should do things like, and I was going to give a list of examples or something like that.
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And she's like, well, he said it. And my dad's like, well, he said it right. He was just talking about her for the like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like.
Yeah, no, it definitely but into the 90s. And as the editor of this podcast, I will say we all use like, so many times.
Yeah, there's no escaping that one.
Yeah.
There's definitely a few from here that totally make me think, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles man like Cowabunga Bodacious, I feel like that tubular, that's what I would say tubular Cowabunga, those were like, totally Ninja Turtles.
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Awesome. Yep, totally awesome. Radical.
Right.
Yes.
Yes.
I feel like rad or radical needs to be in hot pink or hot, you know, like in the old 80s like writing and like, remember that BMX movie Dave?
Yes. Yeah, the BMX movie exactly man.
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What was the one thing it's called airborne it had Seth Green, but it was about a bunch of roller bladers. She was always like, come on bra.
California's like, yeah, let them call you bra bra.
Yeah, it was airborne 1993. Oh 93 okay I'm skipping ahead. No, it's all good man. Yeah, but yeah, chill bra.
I still call you homeboy though. Yep. Homeboy started back then, or at least that's what I remember so.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
Call you homie like when we text. What's up homie.
Yep. Yep.
It seems like some movies are so full of phrases. They just kind of go over the top with them that I feel like so many of our language comes from like three or four movies you know whether it's Ferris Bueller, Bill and Ted's.
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You know, they have a classic, I don't know whether the 80s or 90s sometimes I get mixed up but they definitely have a certain era to them you know.
Yeah. You also got, I think it was the 90s as well but you got like in the 80s, you got some Encino Man vibes.
We're probably sure with the gnarly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, rolling into the 90s and we start talking about that decade honestly but Wayne's World was one that like I feel like had a bunch of slang that we would call out.
(18:12):
For sure.
A show.
A question, I don't know, do you guys know? I would guess that a lot of the slang that I heard in those movies that I didn't necessarily hear in New Jersey were like California slang, like, they seemed like they were more California dudes you know like, like talking it up in their particular region I guess and so I'm like, yeah we would copy them a little bit but a lot of them we didn't necessarily use on a day to day basis unless we were referencing those movies.
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You know what I mean? I didn't use the word bogus in real life normally you know what I mean? Unless if I used it I was, I was referencing Bill and Ted, you know what I mean? I was making a joke and connecting it to that, but otherwise I wasn't using it.
You know what I mean? Yeah, it makes me think of Stranger Things you know how that's like set in the 80s and Lucas being like,
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You're like totally tubular. Nobody actually says that you know. Well, I do now. It makes you seem really cool.
I like talking with you Mad Max. Yeah you're absolutely right Ben it's like surfer dude or valley girl you know some of those things are totally California slang.
Yeah, it's just crazy though I mean that's a good point because everything's just kind of switched from what it used to be. Now, you're right, a lot of the slang came from movies, people would quote and then it would kind of break down into one thing.
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Now it's more what is said by you know music has a massive influence.
Even influencers on social media have kind of the shift between what it used to be and now where these words are coming from.
Yeah, I mean even in the local level right like in junior high or high school you have maybe a funny kid or a popular kid that starts using the word and that's how it kind of spreads.
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It's kind of like the similar idea but now it's like worldwide on the internet or whatever. So, right? Yep. Yep.
All right, McKenna any words from the 90s on this list here that surprise you or don't make any sense?
Well there's one, all that and a bag of chips.
Oh yes. How did that start? Yeah, that's a good question. We should look up the origin but yeah I totally remember saying that. You remember saying that guys? Yeah. Yes. Oh man.
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And a bag of chips. Yep. That's equivalent to the cat's meow. Yeah, exactly. It's like the cat's meow. It's beyond that. It's almost like everything and the kitchen sink or whatever right like it's like all that and a bag of chips like even more.
So, it's kind of goofy right? He thinks he's all that and a bag of chips. Yep. Anything else on there? Oh shizzle.
Yes. You can thank Snoop Dogg for that. Yeah. Snoop Dogg. That's all 100% him. I mean he's been around, he's still around. He's doing the Olympics now or whatever he did. Yeah.
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Wow. But yeah, that's like for sure. But he would add Izzle to stuff. So you'd be like. Yeah, to everything. Yeah, it's everything. I shared on here already my dad joke about you know why does Snoop Dogg always bring an umbrella with him?
For Drizzle.
Yeah, now you get it. Man, so this is just like straight childhood right here man like forget the 80s. Yes, we all had that but the 90s, I used almost every last one of these. Fat? Absolutely. Yeah, that's fat. That's tight.
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Yep. Yep. Yeah.
It seems like in the 90s there were so many words that were spelled slightly differently to create a new meaning like fat or dog. DAWG. Yes. Yeah.
And I remember people would say, like they'd have to clarify even they would say that's fat like pH fat, you know.
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Yeah, exactly. pH fat. Yeah, exactly. You couldn't just say, I mean some people did just say fat but a lot of times people would say it and then give an explanation like spell it for you like.
I remember that in any other decade, a lot of phrases like we don't know where they come from. And they sometimes do have an alternate meaning that we don't know about. And in fact I've had a time or two where I've tried to use slang and they're like no, don't say that.
(22:33):
Don't, don't, just don't.
Oh, okay. I don't even know like exactly what it means. I just kind of picked it up from the context of other people. And then I say it like, uh uh, no. Yeah. Any of the things we say and going forward there might be more that we just don't know we just don't know all the meanings, especially
I think when there was a lot of a rap that we're trying to be tough and you know talk and sometimes crude you know in crude ways that, at least for myself I had no idea, I had no idea. Like a decade later and some I probably sure don't still don't know man.
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Yeah, that's true. That's true. So I remember saying I'm out eat you remember saying that and then like, take the next level and like I'm outie 5000.
It's so weird.
It means like I'm leaving you know but then there's the car, the outie 5000 so it's like it just made it even cooler to us I guess back in the day.
(23:31):
I didn't even see that. Yeah. Yep. Definitely got your clueless vibes in there with the as if and whatever. That was super, the as if.
It was big man. It really like, huge. A lot came out from that movie.
The movie was called Friends. The booyah that was like in your face.
Yes.
(23:55):
Remember talk to the hand. Talk to the hand that was so popular dude.
People said all the time to be annoying right. That's still. Yeah, I know that. Yeah.
And that's not even the full phrase.
Yeah, talk to the hand because the face ain't listening.
Yeah, the face don't want to hear it. And that was one of those where there's kind of the opposite of what Ben was talking about earlier about like slang coming from a region and kind of spreading.
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I felt like that like shrank like it got annoying and it became like a certain type of person would say that and you're like that's annoying like you know what I mean.
Yeah, and I see a lot more of that today.
Like it's funny because I was trying to like Ben was talking about I was trying to use some of these phrases before we started the podcast tonight.
And I was like, okay, I'm too old for this.
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Yeah.
Yeah, I'll tell you.
I used I think instead of adding 5000 I was more of a yo I'm a bounce. Yeah, I'm a bounce. Yeah, my bounce.
Peace out.
Peace out. Yeah.
Man, I don't think I ever once in my life said, eat my shorts.
(25:05):
Yeah, but it was after it was thanks to Bart Bart Simpson. Yep. And then Oh, getting jiggy with getting jiggy. That was all Will Smith.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. It could chill pill. My bad. I said that a lot man. Oh, yeah. My bad. That's true. I still throw it out there.
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Yeah, even abbreviated in text. That's true.
This MB, or what yeah. Nice. I remember saying like my be even to like my be my be like instead of my bad.
So, yeah, yeah, my be. It's crazy. You know, we talked about the movies and these words and I said earlier, you had the as if and whatever.
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I think one of the 90s things to say, not not yeah that's true. That was definitely clueless as well. Yeah.
It was annoying to me after a while. Oh, super annoying. Yes.
It was super cool. No, you're awesome. No.
(26:11):
So, yeah, it was a guy mean and that got pretty lame pretty quick. I was like Dave you're so good at basketball, not.
How do I not have the bomb on there. I thought I wrote that but yeah you know, bomb.com baby. Oh you did it on there. It's under flat. Oh, is there okay good.
(26:33):
The not thing reminds me of that hand gesture that people would do and I think this might go back more than like the 80s or maybe even before but where you put your hand up like give me a high five and then like swing it down like, like, not going to happen.
Yeah.
Yeah, I feel like member of the 80s I think it was more like go to a handshake and then you like, do the do the hair.
(26:55):
Hair.
They still do that. Yeah, nice. So funny.
I wish I had hair, what was that high five too slow. Yeah, too slow download too slow right. Yeah, that's right.
(27:21):
I feel like I'm more relevant to today man, start getting into the 2000s huh. Yeah, I come in. That's right.
Like great I can finally start participating I know what some of this stuff means.
This is like Ben said earlier to about where I feel like it does start to blend you know which decade was it for sure and you know which ones we have I think a little less examples because we're, you know, we started to lose touch you guys were getting older and less cool, you know, so, but then the 20,000s I feel like peeps became a thing right.
(27:56):
I was my peeps talking about your people there. Your gang your group your friends whatever. Right. Sick. Oh yeah sick stuck around I feel like it's still sometimes people say yeah, yeah.
Okay, it's not as much sick. Yeah. Yeah. What else McKinney see any on there that you say oh that's still around or no pretty old.
(28:19):
Oh yeah that's true lol still around. Yeah, who knows how long. Yep.
And it doesn't mean lots of love there's any grandmas out there listening.
I'm sorry dog died.
What's crack a leckon. Let's crack a leckon yeah. I haven't heard that. No, a lot of stuff on here like new. Yes, new was always for me anyway it was like video games.
(28:47):
You're brand new to a game you were new. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you were awful. Roblox or something. Yeah, that's been very neat.
Yeah. You got served was that's probably early 2000s right because that's I think that's when that came out.
That all you got served I think but we're dance off so it was crazy.
(29:10):
Nice. So I feel like buff is one of those more recent kinds of words. I think like back in the day what do we what do we say getting jacked or something or like that person is jacked or that person is like, right.
Yeah, right. There we go. But I don't, I don't remember saying buff before.
It does feel like that was a bit earlier. Yeah, I think even today is the jacked or ripped. Oh yeah. What do you think you see comma buff do you think. Yeah, that's a thing McKenna today.
(29:39):
Yeah, yeah, I'll take your word for it 15 year older. That's right.
I'm not at all popular really. No, you got you know the words though yeah.
Yeah, and you got tons of friends. Do they know it. No.
So how about the next decade huh. Any of those on the list there McKenna that stand out romance romance.
(30:08):
Yes. Do you guys think that we started blending words a little bit. Do you think that was, I feel like that's when it kind of started happening more and more.
You know like bro romance right bromance like dad by. Yeah, dad about the one for sure. Oh yeah photo vacation. Feel like it more started with like celebrities, like when they started mashing their dumb names together.
(30:30):
Yep, yeah, Jennifer, Jennifer was better fucking JLo. Yep, yep. Who there was a super popular brand Jelena. Yeah brand Jelena yeah Brad Pitt and Angelina. Yep, exactly.
I feel like that's kind of where kick this off like the bromance and combining words yeah vacation and dad bod. Yep, yep, yep. No, it was pretty 2016 ish for political reasons.
(30:57):
Gotcha, gotcha. Well that was always a worry that you know it's what they mean by the slang snowflake.
Yeah. So how would you explain that john snowflake, maybe somebody that's easily agitated due to a viewpoint that they do not agree with.
That's how I have to nicely say that. Okay, nice. That explanation sounds a little sus.
(31:24):
I was so wrong using those words was sus like did this start with among us or no. Yes, I think so right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, this is basically like mafia. Yeah, where it's like suspicious and stuff.
Yeah, among us is that a game or is that a show. The game. Yeah, I'm getting lazy. So they just say so suspicious. The short I think I think a lot of that is our current slang is people are lazy man.
(31:51):
I think that's where we get a lot of this stuff. Yeah, I think about it. Okay, has been abbreviated three times is okay. Okay. Oh yeah spelling out. Yeah. Okay. We just like, just the letters. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah.
Just one letter.
Like with texting people started doing acronyms a lot to you know like the FOMO stuff like that.
(32:15):
And then with like TTYL, BRB. Yeah, yeah, I had to look up what TTYL was that in. No, no, was it no TLDR.
It was like fits me perfectly. What is that too long didn't read too long didn't read. Yeah, that's right.
That one was made for me.
(32:38):
But you don't know what that one is McKenna. I got one that you don't know. Oh my gosh, it's amazing. I think it's older and maybe that's part of it. Plus, it's like, no man, that's new.
We're like TLDR very simply put is just where somebody summarizes a very long poster or something like that on social media.
Take the time to read the whole thing.
(32:59):
It just gives the basic details just a bit too long didn't read.
Thanks so much for listening to part one of this episode. Stay tuned for more fun in part two.
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