26b. Slang Through the Ages (Part 2 of 2)

In part 2 of this 2-part episode, the guys and Makenna continue their conversation about slang from 2000's, 2010's, and today! See what words you used to use or are keeping alive today. They go on to talk about other English-speaking countries and their fun slang! Finally, Ben shares his thoughts on the psychology behind slang. It's a great time!

Episode Transcript

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Hey, welcome back. We hope you enjoy listening to part two of this episode.

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So I cannot do you know what a first world problem is? People use that phrase.
Nope, nope. You ever heard of like a third world country,
a country that's really poor and doesn't have a lot of development and stuff that's called
third world country. So like a first world problem is like a problem that's like, man,
that's not really a problem. Like you have so many like good things going on. How could

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that be a problem? You know, like, oh man, my ice machine on my fridge broke. And so
now my water's like not cold enough. Like that's a first world problem, right? Something
like that is pretty funny. It's one of those things that definitely didn't show up until
around then. Like I didn't, that wasn't something we joked around about back in the day. But

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nowadays when like people are showing their life on social media, then whenever they complain,
they got to sometimes recognize that, hey, I know this is just the first world problem.
I know this is like not that big of a deal, but and then they have to vent, you know what
I mean? People vent online so much nowadays. Yeah. It's especially pronounced, I guess,

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when a celebrity that has tons of money complains about it. It's like, oh, that's so such a
first world problem. Like don't even, you know, can't believe my Amazon delivery took
two days. Yeah, exactly. That's like, I like salty when somebody salty about something.
Yeah. I like that one. This don't be sour too. Oh, is that one? Yeah. Sweet. Sweet.

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Yeah. Sweet's been around for a while. For sure. That's a good one. Wait, there's none
on savory. No, I'm going savory. Oh, we need to bring it. That needs to be a new slang
we should use. Huh? Oh man, so savory. I like the throw in shade. I like that one too. Yeah.
Throw in shade, bro. Yeah. It's funny because like you'll be on social media or whatever

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and people will be like list out there, you know, what went wrong with them. And then
somebody gets it when somebody replies just with the like, yeah, like that's, but that's
their only replies is, Ooh, like that's bad. Yeah. It's just saying, Oh my gosh, man, that's
awful. That's so terrible. That happened to you. I think, Ooh, like hurts even more than

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to say it all that. Come on, man. I will tell you though, one that I got sick of super quick
was yo, that's lit. Really? Lit. I hate that one. Yeah. It's a thought too much or what?
Yeah. Just too much, man. And everything became lit. I like derp or derpy. I think that's

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pretty funny where, like it even sounds like what it means, you know, like, Oh man, it's
so derpy. Yeah. I like the one. I do like it. Although it never applies to me. Nobody
in my life has ever one said it to me, but you know, like, dang, look at that drip. People
close when they're like dressed real nice. Yeah. One of the people I hate, look, this

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happens a lot because I watch a lot of sports. Y'all know that, but like, for some reason,
I think it's a thing, you know, they got to show basketball players coming into the stadium
every day or coming into the arena every day and what they're wearing and like they're
dripping. It's like some of the most ugly clothing you've ever seen in your life. It's like ridiculous.
Yeah. That's funny. Yeah. There are press conferences and stuff like that stuff. They're

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wearing. It's crazy. So I don't know, Ben and John, if you guys ever saw this or caught
this on anything social media, but the one they would go, sheesh. And I heard that like
a vine or something. Yeah. My daughter's like a McKenna is sinking in her chair. It's so
cringy to her. She's like, the back of the day, it was kind of funny and it was fun.

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They would like guys would like point at their like elbow right there, you know, like their
muscle or whatever almost to be like, she I'm driving McKenna crazy with this. Yeah,
she can't see her. She like literally disappear from the screen from embarrassment. Yeah.
It's so cringe. Yeah. Ah, there it is. There it is. Really. It was hilarious. Yeah, it

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got old fast for me. I was like, that one kid in the back of the class going, yeah.
Yeah, it's kind of like the dab how like annoying that got right. It just like got too old,
too quick. So yeah, I get it. I get it. But it was funny for a minute. Dave, did you ever

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watch fine? Like we were on that app or no? I didn't have the app, but now I've seen,
you know, sure. I mean, mine is just six seconds. That's all you got. Yeah. Back in the day.
It was like tick tock before tick tock was the thing. Yeah. You only got six seconds
instead of a minute or whatever. There's classics on there, man. Yeah, they were funny. Bring
us to reality here, McKenna. What's the words of today? Oh, man. Where do I start? So many

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good words here. Anything in particular that you're like, oh, man, I use this like every
day or like, we're starting to get old, but it's a funny one or anything like that. I
know like five of these. Yeah. Maybe we should go that way. Which ones do you know, John?
All right. Maybe more. I know. This one's more of a sports. You hear kind of a lot.

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Let's go. Yeah, let's go. Yeah. Low key. I like that one. So with let's go McKenna, isn't
that one that you're saying like it's starting to get kind of older? Like it's like it's
a little on the older side, but it's not dying down. People still use it. Yeah. Yeah. I think
it's a fun one. It's like, let's go, man. Like it gets, gets you pumped up and I think
it's kind of cool. Yeah. I like it too. All right. So I think I actually know more than

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five, but low key. I mean, that's kind of all been around, but not said like it is today.
It's funny because the one man you hear this a lot in order that they're on our screen
here with, you know, that low key slaps. Yeah. Low key slap. Yeah. Right next to each other.
This next one, I absolutely hate. Absolutely hate it because I worked for the guy at the

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post office and this every single thing you said, ha ha, bet. Like good or bad. Yeah.
Good or bad. What does that mean? I don't know that one. McKenna. Bet is usually like
an agreement, bro. Yeah. You agree or like, yeah, I approve or like, or like, let's do

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it, you know, right? It's a challenge sometimes. Challenge. Yeah. Right. So no one can stay
up all night doing homework. Yeah, exactly. I'm going to do that. I'm going to show you.
Like, yeah. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Hold my beer kind of thing. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah.
But this guy, every single thing, like even if he is getting criticized for doing his

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job too slow or like, you know, we had, you know, bad things going on at work. Like we're
just getting trashed on or whatever. And he's like, watch, man, I'm going to get a new job.
All right. I bet. Bet. I'm going to finish by two. Bet. Oh my gosh. Every single word
that came out of his mouth. Bet. Was he younger? Was he like in his 20s or something? Of course

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he was. Of course. He was a cool guy, but gosh dang it, man. I must say once I got out
of my little male route, I was glad not to be around him. Gotcha. Gotcha. What do you
think, McKenna, is that something that's like dying off or is it still going strong or what
would you say about it? I think it's still going strong. Yeah. People don't say it like

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often. They still say it. They'll pull it out and they'll just be like, bet. Yeah. I
do that sometimes. McKenna, tell me this one. So like, I think this one came and went pretty
quickly because I don't hear it much anymore, although I'm not around young people at all.
And I feel like most of the time it's referring to food, but Bussin'. Oh yeah. It's kind of

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dying down, but it's definitely food. Yeah, definitely. Food, 100%. Yeah. We will say
that food is Bussin'. Food is Bussin'. Yeah. Grandma's cooking. Bussin'. Bussin'. But
this is extremely good. Excellent. Amazing. And Bussin'. So what is beige flag? I've never
heard of that one. Okay. So there's like the red flag, which is like bad. Yeah. Bad sign

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that somebody's got a red flag or whatever. Yeah. And then the screen flags was like,
definitely like, I understand. So good. And then there's beige flag, which is like, oh,
yeah, it's like quirky almost. Right. But it still draws attention. Yeah. And it's like

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on the negative side, right? It's like, yeah, maybe a little. Like wearing socks with sandals.
Yeah. It's kind of a big, yeah. Socks with sandals. Oh, she just called that entire generation.
Yeah. Not all bad, but still. So let's go back to your food of choice. You got the Sigma

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meal. You know, what is Sigma? What's that all about? Honestly, I don't know. This stuff
is kind of new. Yeah. And it's kind of almost flexible or whatever, right? It can be used
in different ways. Yeah. And a lot of like the young kids in my school are saying it
24 seven. Oh man. Starting to get cringy a little bit. Yeah. I don't say any of this

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usually on a daily basis. Yeah. But they do. Yeah. And that's why I don't. Yeah. Because
it's getting like, it's too young, huh? Yeah. But it means basically like, cool, I guess
it's good. Like something Sigma is really good. I guess it started right from like alpha
male. You know, you hear about alpha male was like aggressive and whatever else. Apparently
Sigma was like a guy that was like cool and popular and stuff, but like didn't follow

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the rules. It was didn't care. You know, didn't need that like attention or whatever. So it
was like Sigma. But now it's become more like anything can be Sigma almost right. And then
be cool. Even a Sigma meal. Yeah. Sigma meal. Yeah. And then the skippity slices was the
apple slices. But that's, that's also one of those words is kind of fluid. It can be

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like a bunch of things, right? You know, skippity is usually just like bad or dumb. Yeah. A
little bit cool. Sometimes it can be cool even right? Yeah. It's like based off of like
a YouTuber named skippity toilet. Skippity toilet. Even that name makes me cringe. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Vibes is definitely a vibing. Like that's, that's something. And we've said

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cringe a few times just talking and that's definitely been something that's, that's been
around for a bit. Yeah. And cringy. Like is it cringe or cringy or either way? Either
way. Yeah. See, I'm learning tonight a little bit. Oh, no cap. No cap, man. No cap. No cap.
What does cap mean? You know what that one is? No. It means lying or? Yeah. Not lying.

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It's not true. Yeah. Cap is a lie. So no cap is like, no, I'm serious. I'm not lying. Yeah.
Right. Yep. Exactly. I'm the best. No cap. Yep. What else? Oh, a big one. I feel like
it's a big one. I hear kind of a lot is Riz, right? Yep. That's a big one. People say Riz
all the time. Even when someone, what, why, why would you need to say that? And it can

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maybe like an adjective, right? Like he's, he's, he's Riz, I guess. It's basically like
for her. Yeah. It's short for charisma. Or something. Swag. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I mean,
you can be a verb. Like he's risen the person right now. Yeah. Right. Yeah. If people say
like go Riz or up or something. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my gosh. There's a dealer, there's a hodl

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dealership right now called Riz bros. Really? Yes. No way. That's crazy. That's crazy. But
yeah. And they'll have, I guess there's like W Riz and L Riz, right? Yeah. Winning Riz
and losing Riz. Yeah. Yeah. And the Rizler, which is like the wizard, but Riz, I didn't

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know how that started. So I'm like, oh, powerful. Powerful Rizler. Yeah. That's the charm and
style. You're the Rizler. That's awesome. That I was getting some bug John. You give
me the, you give me the ick. Yeah. That's another good one. The ick. Yep. Sudden feeling

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of disgust, repugnance. Yeah. Ick. That's so extra bro. Extra. What is extra? It's like
it sounds right? Yeah. More than it's over the top. Unnecessarily over the top. Yeah.
When you say that I think bubblegum. Yeah. Extra gum. Oh bubblegum. Yeah. Makenna just

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got raised not too long ago and an expander and she's not allowed to do gum and Makenna,
her favorite thing next to popcorn was gum. Right? So it's been pretty hard. So she misses
extra. I'm going to add chocolate. Yeah. I'm not going to list all my favorite things.
I think it's kind of fun. I've seen this not recently, I guess a little while back on social

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media and stuff, but like something living rent free in your head, something you think
about a lot, like, oh man, it's just constantly on your mind just living rent free up there.
But like usually it's in a negative way. Like you want to get it out of your head. Like,
yeah. I'll use it in a sentence. The Houston Astros live rent free in the minds of the
New York Yankees fans. Oh, there you go. Nice. You've heard that one? Really? Not as much.

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Okay. They don't say it like day to day. I've seen it. It's not like common, but it's like,
you know, when you're talking about two people like against each other, if that's all they
ever talk about, they did it. They ran free. Yep. Then any others on there that you're
like, what is that? Or that you have heard one. It's kind of funny that I misunderstood
for a bit. There's a word. Okay. That I started seeing online once in a while and it kind

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of threw me off because sometimes it seemed like people would use it in a positive way.
And sometimes they would use it in a negative way. And I'm like, dude, what is this? Is
it just like conservative versus liberal or something like that, that people use it in
a different way or they use it sarcastically or are trying to figure that out? So finally
I realized they were two separate words, based and basic. It's kind of like on point or like

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correct. Or I don't know, maybe I'm, maybe I'm still getting it wrong.
You're along the right lines. But yeah, based versus basic. Yeah. Basic is something completely
different. Basic is totally different. Calling someone basic is like as an insult. Calling
someone base is like praise, you know, right? Right. Right. Right. I couldn't figure that

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out at first. I'm like, why are people like, some people saying it like in a positive way
and some people are solely saying like as an insult and I couldn't figure that out
until I realized it wasn't the same word. Basic. Yeah. Is that still something that
people will say? Don't be basic. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Be creative, you know. Original. Original.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. One that I remember when I first heard it, I was like, what? And it's

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been a while because it's been out for a bit, but goat, like I was like, why that person's
the goat? Like, what is that? Like goats kind of weird animal. Like I was like, I didn't
get it. But then greatest of all time. Like, yeah, it's awesome. Yeah. It took me a little
bit to get to. Yeah. Yeah. So as somebody that watches sports, I hate that. It's just
so overused. And the biggest, where you'll hear it more than anywhere is Michael Jordan

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versus LeBron James. Who's the goat? Yeah. Of course we all know it's Michael Jordan.
So you know, that's the biggest goat conversation there is. But I like that anything can be
a goat. Like, like man, these are some goat pancakes, man. I'm telling you. Yeah, exactly.
It's pancakes out of goat. Yeah. It's awesome. Oh man. This one's funny. People say this

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to like their best friends. Yeah. And when I say best friends, I mean best friends. As
in like, oh, this is like the one true friend that I've had. Or it also works for relationships,
but pookie. Yeah. Yeah. Basically just like a nickname. Like a term of endearment almost,

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right? Yeah. Yeah. Or like a friend or a loved one. Yeah. Well, not like loved ones and family,
but as in like a relationship wise. Yeah. Like a friend or a boyfriend, girlfriend, something
like that. Maybe pookie. It's awesome. Oh, he's missing. That's awesome. Okay. So that's

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kind of, you know, through the ages, that's what we've gotten. We've talked about how
we got there, where these words are coming from. One word that we did miss that got played
out real quick. We can thank Drake for. Yolo. Yeah. That's right. Yolo. You only live once.
And then a bunch of people started doing stupid stuff and dying when they said Yolo. So, you

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know, idiots. All right. So that's what we got going on here. Now I will say, you know,
there are other words that we just are not familiar with here that happen around the
world. And if we get into an accent of your country, just forgive us, man. We're just
trying to have fun. So also if the word is using correctly, you know, five star reviews,

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let us know what you think and how it's really supposed to be used. And we'll address it
later. Okay. So let's start with Australia, mate. Yeah. There's some interesting ones
on there. Blue. Yeah. We always, we've talked about Blue a few times on this podcast, but
yeah, we love it. We're a Bluey family. There's Australian dogs. That cartoon is awesome.

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Yeah. Nice shirt, Ben. Yeah. Ben's got the shirt. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Yes. Ben
representing Australia. Good on you. Good on you. Yeah. I've only seen two movies about
Australia and one was called Australia with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, which I thought
was excellent. But, and then the other was a crocodile Dundee. So that's about my extent

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of knowledge of their language. But Nick, give him your wallet. What for? He's got a
knife. That's a knife. Yeah. What are your, what's some of your favorites on there? Bluey
says it a lot to his kids and stuff even, but mate, you know, they say mate. Oh mate.

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Yeah. My mate. Mate can come across so cool, man. Yeah. Like we don't say, hey friend.
Yeah, exactly. I like that mate just can sound really cool. And then it doesn't even matter
if you're like a friend with that person. And you know, you hear it sometimes in England
or somewhere around there as well. But when they say mate, I love it. Yeah. I love you

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guys. You guys are awesome. I love how it seems like every culture, at least English
speaking cultures have something along the lines of like, you know, not the brightest
bulb, you know, not the, you know, not the sharpest crayon or whatever. Not the sharpest
tool. Yeah. Sharpest tool in the shed. Right. And then Australia has one that is a stubby
short of a six pack. So I guess their stubby is like a, you know, a can of beer or whatever

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drink. So these are stubby short of the six pack. Yeah. Couple sandwiches short of a picnic.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's one they do in England actually too. But ankle
biter. You know, I've heard that. I feel like I've heard that here, right? Maybe. Yeah.
Maybe not as common, but like, you know, those little ankle biters. Yeah. Heaps. Yeah. Heaps.

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It seems like they say that on Blue even too, right? Like a lot. Like that's what heaps
means. I mean, there's a lot. I think it's funny that they'll say, I guess she'll be
right. Like, and that just means like, it'll be okay. But like, she'll be right. Like,
I don't know. It's funny because heaps, you know, that makes me think of cool runnings.
Oh yeah. It was like, hey, Sanka, you are my best friend. We've been through a whole

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heap together and I really, really need you. Sanka, you're right. And you are my best friend.
We've been through a whole lot together. Heap. Heap. Sorry, man. We'll heap together. And
I really, really need you. And I really, really need you. Forget it. But you just said, if

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I said that, all right. All right. All right. All right. Yeah. Nice. What about England?
There's a bunch there. They're kind of fun. Oh yeah, for sure. And I follow a lot of people
on TikTok from England. They're like, they're not obsession by any means, but their fascination

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with our culture and like the food that we eat to where some of them have TikToked their
journey because they came here to the States, to Texas, to try barbecue, things like that.
Pretty awesome to see them do all that. But I like the way they talk, man. Like for reals.
I think even my GPS on my phone is somebody from England. English, like a female voice.

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That's awesome. I just like it, dude. Yeah. The accent's cool. And I like. Yeah, I do
like bloke. Bloke is the mate. Yeah, exactly. The British mate is bloke. Yeah. Yeah. Rubbish.
That's true. Rubbish is a good one. You get that in Harry Potter all the time, right?
Yeah, sure do. Dodgy. I like dodgy. We don't use that here a lot. Yeah. Dodgy is a good

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one for sure. I told you that color. Nick for like stealing something. They got nicked
or whatever. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just interested in reading some of these. Like
I've never heard of. I've never heard of Gormless. Yeah, same. What is that used to describe someone
who's a foolish or lacking intelligence? I've never heard of that. Gormless. According to

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Google. I like to pick up some stuff that I've never heard of and probably use it out
of context in the wrong way. But yeah. Yeah, I didn't know. I've never heard of that. Yep,
same. Nosh used to describe food. Yeah. Is it a good thing or a bad thing? I don't know.
Maybe it's like nom nom nom nom nom nom. That's right. This one just doesn't make sense

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to me though that Her Majesty's Pleasure. Yeah. It's a slang term and look everybody
in England, you could be laughing at us and we'll never know. But that's okay. But like
this is just what we pull off the internet. So Her Majesty's Pleasure is a slang term
for serving time in prison. Yeah. How did those two things correlate? Like I don't even
get it. It's a federal crime or something. I don't know. Royal crime. That's funny. Yeah,

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that's weird. I've heard chuffed before as far as you know, something's good but gutted
on the other side of something that's extremely disappointing or upsetting. Man, I'm gutted.
Yeah. Daft, I've heard that before, right? Yeah, I heard Daft. I like when like older
gentlemen use the word lad. Yeah, that's a good one too. Yeah. Nice. You want another

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one that made no sense. Oh, yeah, because it means something completely different here.
Narked. Yeah. You used to describe someone who is Ben, five years cheese again, cheesed
off or irritated. Narked. You get narked here. You get narked on here. You're serving Her
Majesty's Pleasure. That's right. That's awesome. So yes, man. England, thank you for what you

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contributed. We appreciate you and we love your accent as well. Yeah. All right. So let's
go to our little friendly neighbors to the north. Canada. Canada. That's one of those
classic dad jokes. Like how do you spell Canada? C-A-N-A-D-A. Because they always say A. They
don't always. I say that like, but that's something that's common. Yeah. It's not even

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on here but they call their trunk a boot. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. I don't get it. Yeah. Yeah.
And it's not slang though. That's just, I think that's just. Yeah. Yeah. I guess you're
right. That's not even slang. That's just. They call it. Canada. This is coming from
America. We're a little worried about you up there. I'm just going to say that. The
one I've heard a lot is poser. Yeah. Poser. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. The whole Mackenzie brothers

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back in the day. That's like early eighties, right Ben? With Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas.
They're like supposed to be. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The whole movie Strange Brew where
they say A. Strange Brew. Yeah. That's probably the origination of most of my understanding
of Canadian slang. Yeah. Yeah. Take off. We were doing our movie. Don't wreck our show,

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you poser. And I think we've heard Canuck, right? That's like a slang. Yeah, I've heard
that. Canucks. Oh, is that what that means? Yeah. I thought that was just a hockey team.
Yeah. There's the Canucks. That's, but yeah, they're a Canadian slang for Canadians. I
like that they have a word. You know, we have brown noser. Their word is keener. I guess
if somebody gets a brown noser or someone who is overly solicitous, the steak over the

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top trying to like, you know, kiss up to somebody. A keener. See, that's, I'm kind of surprised
this is a toke. That's a Canadian term for a knitted cap and also a beanie. I thought
that was just kind of world-widely known as like a chef hat. I didn't know that. Haven't
heard that. Yeah, that's the white chef hat they wear. You know, the Remy from Ratatouille.

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Yeah. Yeah. That's a toke. Yeah. I remember that. We actually watched that movie recently.
So yeah, they call it a toke. I didn't realize that. Nice. What the heck is a Timmy's? Oh,
so we have this in Ohio, actually, too. The restaurant bled down into the United States,
but a place called Tim Hortons, they do coffee and donuts and things like that. And so going

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to Timmy's, I guess that's the Canadian slang for going to Tim Hortons. Duncan. Go to Duncan.
Yeah. Going to Duncan. Exactly. But Timmy's for them. Tim's. All right. I like bunny hug.
I never heard of it before, but the term for a sweater or hoodie that originated in Saskatchewan.
Yeah. Kind of a cool phrase. It is kind of cool. I don't need another word for hoodie,

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though, man. Hoodie is the perfect word for a hoodie. Yeah. Like, and you think about it,
you're like, oh, my gosh, I'm going to put my hoodie. It's going to be like cool weather where
it's just nice and perfect hoodie weather. Yeah. I don't need an additional word for it. Hoodie it is.
That's awesome. All right. Thank you, Canada, for your weird words.

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Yeah. Best of luck to you with Trudeau. After we said all of our weird words, you know.
I know. I know. I know. So Ben, how about like, you know, why do we use slang? Tell us a little
bit about the psychology behind that. What do you think? You know, there's so many reasons. And so I
think it depends, obviously depends on what the word is. And there might be a particular reason

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behind each one. But some of the common things that I've found is sometimes it's just an exercise
in wit. You know, people like make up a word that is similar or has a reference to something else,
kind of like a metaphor. You know, you use a metaphor and then it becomes the word, you know,
like it has a new meaning now to it. Yeah. You know, a lot of slang is an actual real word that

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has a slightly different meaning. But in that context, it makes sense. Oh, yeah. And sometimes
people like to do that, just like make up a new word. And speaking of that, it reminds me, I
remember BYU, I took an American heritage class where they showed this video clip of this guy who
used, I don't know, he did this campaign where he tried to get people to buy pant legs that he put

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on people's heads, like they would wear it like a hat. And so he just made it like he hired people
that were cool and got them to wear them. And then he would sell them and he got it like became this
big thing where people would buy these pant legs that would have different styles that would like
wear them as a hat. And then they interviewed him when he made like a million dollars out of it. And

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he's like, you know, the main thing was I just thought it'd be fun to like see if I get people
to put pants on their head, you know. Like, like you can create the demand by getting cool people
to do it like these influence. This is like influencers before they were influencers,
you know what I mean? Yeah. And go to different communities and get people to start doing it and
they would sell like that's different. That's cool. I want to be different. You know, I want

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to try something like that, you know. And so we get influenced by movies, we get influenced by
the cool friends like you were saying before. And so that's one thing where people want to just try
something different, see if they can pull it off and see if it can catch on. Another thing is that
it's a way of showing that one belongs. Like if you have within your set of friends, you have a

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certain phrase that's sort of like an inside joke, then you connect with that and you connect with
the people that all understand that. And it's also a way in a sense to exclude others in that sense,
too, because sometimes kids will make up a new word that their parents don't know what that means.
You know, we talked about, we talked about the LOL for the grandparents, you know. Oh yeah, that's a

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little. I mean, sometimes people get a little kick out of doing something or saying something in a
way that kind of throws their parents off or throws off the adults or whatever too, you know. Yeah.
Another reason is just to reduce seriousness. Sometimes when we say things in a slangy way,
it kind of helps people know and be like put at ease that you're just just playing around with

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them. You know what I mean? You're just joking, man. And that's a way of showing that. And that
can also create intimacy of saying like, you're part of us when you start using it in that way.
Another thing is sometimes to enrich the language. I think sometimes there's not quite a right word
for it because each word denotes something, but then it can also have a connotation to it as well

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that doesn't quite fit, you know. And so when you think about it, think of a word that it meant
cool, right. But then when you start hearing as younger kids hear it, it makes them think of their
parents. Yeah. And they think of their parents as cool. So suddenly that word that used to be cool
is not really cool anymore. It's like cringy. It makes you feel uncomfortable. So you come up

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with a new word that has the same exact meaning, but it doesn't have those connotations of the
prior generation that wasn't cool, you know. Yeah. Keeping it fresh. Yeah. And so having something
that belongs to your generation kind of also creates a separate meaning to it too. You add
all those connotations to it because you have shared experiences. So those are some of the

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things that I came across, but I don't know if you guys thought about it much or you have any
other ideas about it. No, that's really good, Ben. I appreciate it. And I think you're absolutely
right. I think it's just fun sometimes, you know, it just kind of like casualness, like you said,
and kind of reducing that seriousness, like you said, it makes it more comfortable, more fun.
And I don't know. What do you think, McKenna? Why is slang? Why do you like using slang? I like

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using it because it's like a good different. Yeah. It's original and unique. It's creative. It's yeah.
And it's fun. And it's fun. Yeah. I mean, who wouldn't want to have fun? Yeah, exactly. I got
a question for you guys. You guys ever developed your own within your set of friends or within your
family that are just not like worldwide or anything or not for your generation, but just

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like your little clique? Do you have anything like that? Ops. Ops. Yeah. Our family, I guess.
One time I accidentally said, oops, instead of oops, it's become like the new oops is oops.
I know, if it was on a TV show or something, man, I feel like we even tried it when I was growing up,

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when I was at maybe like Columbia, but it was like, well, you substitute every second letter
of a word with the letter B. Yeah. And right now I'm rewatching a show on Netflix. And one of the
episodes was about this guy that used to work for Ringling Brothers. So he was a carny and they
replace every second letter with the letter Z. Man, they were just like, and they understood each

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other perfectly. It was like nuts. That's crazy. That's like a true language. That's how they
communicate. Crazy. That's hilarious. I remember, I think the closest I come to your question, Ben,
is I feel like back in the day, we all thought we knew Pig Latin.
Yeah. Yeah. I think that was probably as close as we got to our own language.

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Yeah. Pig Latin was awesome, man. We still busted out sometimes, but the second letter being B
reminds me of Fat Albert. That one character was always like, oh, but KB. Remember him, Ben?
You know, for myself, our family, my son one time, I don't know how it started. He mentioned
something like was something he craved or something that he really liked and just mentioned as

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pastries. And so now we always use this phrase of like pastries as like something that was
so awesome, you know, something we look forward to, like, yeah, man, pastries.
That's awesome.
I don't know. Just one of those weird things that kind of clicked like you were saying with the oops.
Oops.
The other one was also comes from my son, Ethan. We were talking at the dinner table one time about

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a kid at school said something insulting or whatever. And he's like, and I think he must
have picked it up from a TV show or something, maybe a movie. So you guys catch me if you know
what it's from. But he said something like, if anybody says something like that to me, anybody
says something mean to me, I'll just repeat it back to them and say your face. So it's like,
you know, like you're stupid. And then you just say, well, your face is stupid,

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you know, or whatever it was. And so in our family, we often would start using that phrase,
your face, like we're saying something like you can shove a lot of food in this cooler.
And then someone would say, you know what else you can shove a lot of food into. And everyone
would just be like, your face is like, we know what is coming because it's like again and again,

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this common thing that we say, you know, what else can go into this thing? Your face. Yeah.
That's cool when families grow up with stuff like that, man. It's like, you know, you could be down
there decades later, dude. And you still remember that core memory, you know, with your family. And
my family is my brother's beating up on me. You know, that was kind of the thing, the thing to do,

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you know? Yeah. But no, it's just kind of cool that y'all do that. It is cool. It reminds me,
Ben, too, of our family growing up with the whole eyeball thing. I mean, you could just eyeball and
that was enough. But yeah, we would have that thing where you just tug down on your eyelid.
If somebody's in this crappy situation, like it felt, you know, it sucks to be you kind of thing.
It's like, and you could just say eyeball and we all knew what you were talking about too.

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It's awesome. Well, thanks, Ben. That's really good stuff. I always love it when you bring the
meaning behind things and like why we do what we do. It's always interesting and a really
important and good add to the show for sure. Yes. Thank you for making me less dumb.
Yes. Yeah, this is maybe not be slang, but from a TV show, I know we talked a little bit about that,
but I'll tell myself every now and again, and it's from Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Yeah. He goes,

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noise. Noise. He just, he don't say it's the word nice as you know, noise or toy as toy.
No, it's. Yeah. It is good. I love it. Oh, wait. I know that we didn't say it was L.
I feel like this means like loser. Yeah. Oh, McKenna. That's so nineties right there, man.

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It's coming back though. I guess it's literally came from the movie Clueless. Yeah. Loser.
Loser. Yeah, but no, yeah, that's a good one. Yeah. All right. This is the end now. Thank you all for
listening and thanks John and Dave. Wonderful job and a special thanks for McKenna as our special

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guest expert. And then also remember to rate and subscribe and as always stay fat, dumb and happy.
Bye. Bye guys. Peace. I'm out. See you later alligator. There you go.
I won't be back.