Episode 33: Modern Slang: A Deep Dive into Language Evolution and Cultural Impact

Buckle up for a wild ride through the world of modern slang with your hosts, Michele and Julee! Ever scratched your head over terms like 'Karen', 'Becky', or 'clap back'? We're here to unravel the mystery behind these buzzwords, offering you a fun-filled glimpse into how they've shaped our pop culture landscape. And trust us, this isn't just about words. It's about the cultural implications they carry, the laughs they incite, and the dialogue they provoke. 

Explore with us the world of constantly evolving language, from the era-defining 'Generation X' to the colorful lingo of today, peppered with words like 'high-key', 'low-key', and 'sus'. The conversation gets even juicier when we tackle the 'ghosting' phenomenon, a term that's as intriguing as it is controversial. And don't sweat it if you've ever found yourself puzzled by 'woke', 'Bye, Felicia', 'No Cap', or 'Gucci'; we've got you covered on that front too!

But there's more to our playful banter than just dissecting slang. We dive into the realm of 'basic bitches', a phrase that's sparked as many smiles as it has raised eyebrows. We decipher the meanings behind 'basic bitch', 'blonde bougie btch', and the somewhat tongue-in-cheek 'so far from basic it's not even funny'. So, join us on this linguistic adventure and who knows, you might just stumble upon a few new phrases to pepper your own conversations. Let's get chatting, shall we?

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Transcript

Speaker 1 0:56

Hey everybody, it's Michelle.

Speaker 2 0:58

And this is Julie. Hi Michelle. Hi, jules, how's it going? It's good, good. Hey, we're here on Labor Day weekend, I know, and for our audience, who knows how frustrated probably I can get those damn dogs I cannot keep them busy enough to keep them out of our studio.

Speaker 1 1:17

We've got bones with peanut butter on them. We're doing I don't know all kinds of things. Hopefully that gives us a little bit of that's the occasional tippy tap that you might hear sometimes in the background. That's just a little Harlow.

Speaker 2 1:30

That's a little Harlow. And then the other one that's biting whatever. Well, you know what?

Speaker 1 1:34

So much for that, yeah we got to, but well, labor Day, back to that. If you're going to wear your white pants, you better wear them today, because oh are you following those rules. I don't anymore, but a lot of people do.

Speaker 2 1:45

It's winter white after that. But what did I wear last night? White pants, white pants. Girl, you got that.

Speaker 1 1:50

White pants.

Speaker 2 1:51

I wore a shirt that had white in it.

Speaker 1 1:52

I had I like breaking rules.

Speaker 2 1:54

High heels. Well, it's Labor Day, yeah.

Speaker 1 1:56

I'll probably be wearing white pants next week.

Speaker 2 1:57

So here's the deal. If the weather stay is good, then I might break them out once or twice more, maybe my white shorts, it's not the calendar doesn't rule our life, I know. But you know, what's so funny is it's September and my mind automatically starts shifting. I know, Even if the weather's good, I start shifting to oh gosh, football's starting and then fall.

Speaker 1 2:17

I mean, I woke up today and wanted soup. I was thinking sweatshirts and soup. I don't know why it's just like it's gray. I know you all think Seattle's always like that, but it's not. But today there's a breeze. It's just definitely a shift, Even when the weather's good.

Speaker 2 2:32

You, can feel the shift, so shift happens, so let's shift happen over to our topic, I know right.

Speaker 1 2:38

Yeah, I've been dying to do this one. She has been dying to do this one.

Speaker 2 2:41

So here we are, here we are in our 50s, feeling like it would really be helpful for people who are in our listening audience to have a little of the 411 on the slang out there. 411, fyi means information, 811 means it's an emergency without anybody dying, and of course we all know what 9-1-1 means, right? So anyway, just a little bit on that lingo.

Speaker 1 3:09

So all the dates of the 411. Here we go.

Speaker 2 3:11

And, funny enough, there is some of this language that we actually might use on occasion. Yeah, it's familiar, yeah, it's super familiar, or we've heard people saying it. But also we have kids who are in their 20s and 30s and even into your 40s. I think a lot of this stuff is language that's out there.

Speaker 1 3:31

It's funny. You just said kids and I just thought of another term that isn't in any of these that we're going to be bringing up. But yeah, it's true, you have the kids. What was the other one? Cutty, I had to add. It means cousin. Yeah, you're cutty.

Speaker 3 3:45

You're cutty.

Speaker 1 3:45

Anyways, yeah, like CUDDY, just I don't know how you spell it, like kid-cutty.

Speaker 2 3:49

I don't know, kid-cutty is an artist, but it's like cuz, yeah, cutty, what up?

Speaker 1 3:55

cutty, it's your cousin, yeah, anyways, I laugh sometimes when I hear some people.

Speaker 2 3:59

We shall not name names. But, I'm like what the hell did he just say I'm supposed to know some of these things. But I don't know all of them, so I just have to ask. Luckily, I can ask. My most favorite one, of course, is the phenomenon that has been going on the last couple of years or so, and that is the name of Karen being used to describe middle-aged white women, probably with a inverted bob, carrying their Starbucks, driving their Land Rover and complaining about whatever they want to to the manager.

Speaker 1 4:34

Perceiving as entitled demanding beyond what is normal Right.

Speaker 2 4:39

Yeah, so this actually kind of started out with we saw it during the pandemic, during the whole BLM movement and stuff is when I saw it really come to the forefront, because you'd see these video clips of these white women that I'm just like you're embarrassing me, lady, calling out people who weren't even doing anything wrong, who were trying to go into their own apartment building, but they were being stopped.

Speaker 3 5:02

Just horrible stuff like that.

Speaker 2 5:05

So being called a Karen is not a positive thing, let's just say and there's times when I can say I'm going to bring out my Julie Krause what that means is I'm just like I'm throw down. Do not mess with me, right, right. It's kind of like when the other version of that would be being a Karen, but it's not reasonable.

Speaker 1 5:23

Yeah.

Speaker 2 5:24

Like you're going off on the manager because of something really stupid and frivolous, when you're embarrassing your kids because, you're doing it Yourself, and those around you.

Speaker 1 5:33

Yeah, this is like.

Speaker 2 5:35

I was at a place over on the East side a couple of weeks ago and I actually took a picture. I couldn't believe it. It was hilariously funny a sign that they had behind the counter that said I think it was 35 days since the last Karen incident. They actually changed it. Kind of like you see on the roads when there is an accident they keep tracking how many accidents?

Speaker 1 5:56

Yeah, we've had that at work so many days since for safety, since there's been an incident, yeah, so many days since the last Karen incident.

Speaker 2 6:04

And so a lot of it was a bar and it's kind of like a sports bar in this place, so it's like I'll probably go maybe watch the Hawks games or something, because it looks like it's got a pretty fun vibe there. But I just laughed when, I saw that because some drunk woman came in and said her drink wasn't right or something.

Speaker 1 6:23

So anyway, karen so you'll hear that. Yeah, and if somebody says to you OK, karen, just know that's not a positive thing, right?

Speaker 2 6:31

I feel really bad for people who are actually named Karen. Didn't you tell me one time that you knew someone who had changed?

Speaker 1 6:37

their name. No, I thought you told me that.

Speaker 2 6:39

Oh, and someone told me. I thought maybe it was you, but they weren't using their first name. I think they might have changed to using their middle name or something, yeah, so the name Karen became really popular in the 60s, which is when we were born, and I don't really know anybody named Karen up close and personal. But that was definitely a popular name back then. So it kind of transitions to the age group. Well, you see, the 40-something, 50-something woman who thinks that she needs to be heard.

Speaker 1 7:11

Entitled and demanding.

Speaker 2 7:12

Yeah, I would say probably the feeling I have when I hear that is the entitlement aspect of things. Like a woman or whomever is very privileged, entitled and used to getting their way Beyond what's normal.

Speaker 1 7:27

Yeah, yeah. So is there a male version to this?

Speaker 2 7:31

Well, there are some male versions. Chad is a very similar one. Chad would be maybe a little bit younger. Kyle, those names are being used thrown around. Honestly, you just don't see it much in guys as you do in women, for whatever reason. It's like if you see a guy behaving that way, it might be like at his kid's soccer game when he's going off on the ref or something.

Speaker 3 7:53

Got it.

Speaker 2 7:53

That would be what I would kind of envision or getting into things that are not his own business, or being really trivial about stuff and creating a big drama.

Speaker 1 8:01

So Karen Chad and all the relatives Karen Chad, and all of their relatives.

Speaker 2 8:07

They go in different generations. They're not being that family. No, and I don't want to be called Karen either. And for all of you women out there named Karen, we're just apologizing in advance for your you know.

Speaker 3 8:19

Don't shoot the messenger, yeah.

Speaker 2 8:21

For your feelings on this topic. And maybe now you're going to go by, karen or something. So anyway, it's definitely a negative term and it's one that kind of applies to us, our age group, our age group, not us personally, not our family here, yeah, our age group. It came out, it's what I understand. It came out around that 2017 mark and I'm sorry but it's a pretty sad Clean up number is so is really associated with the age group of baby boomers, as I mentioned, you know.

Speaker 1 8:49

I did a real. I think you know I did a real once about how I'm. I'm not a boomer. I'm from Gen X generation X and anyways, I go on to talk about all the things why Gen X is like the best, and somebody in the comments they said that they were like okay, karen.

Speaker 2 9:08

But see, that's not. But you're not being argumentative, no, but and that that was just a real.

Speaker 1 9:12

So there was no like conversation, or it's not like I was, but just that you know that direct demanding, you know this is the way of information, yeah, and say there's pretty little blonde lady in her fifties going okay, Karen, yeah, so that's kind of when it came around.

Speaker 2 9:29

But millennials and Gen Z years are the ones that kind of have coined that and really it is directed towards people more in that baby boomer generation and the thought process behind that is that they're looking at boomers as being more closed minded and kind of behind the times, not really wanting to keep up with what's going on in the generations today and being kind of snippy about it.

Speaker 1 9:53

Well, there's a lot to keep up with.

Speaker 2 9:54

Yeah.

Speaker 1 9:54

There wasn't so damn much to keep up with, we wouldn't have to get snippy about all of it, right?

Speaker 2 10:00

I would agree. Okay, karen, so yeah, so unprogressive views on things like gender, sexuality, youth, culture, like really not trying to understand some of those things or feeling like those things are just stupid topics.

Speaker 1 10:14

It's interesting because I feel that our parents went through the same thing with us Probably. Trying to keep up with all the change through the seventies and you can't listen to any of that music.

Speaker 2 10:25

It has the devil in it.

Speaker 1 10:27

All of the things that, so it's a lot of similarities there.

Speaker 2 10:31

I think differences now are that people have so much exposure to so many other things and so this whole Karen thing has been a meme. Yeah, and can you explain a memes for people that might not know what that is?

Speaker 1 10:42

Well, it's just, it's like a humorous take on serious topics, right yeah, and it's usually done with some kind of photo, where there's caption or something, photo video, yeah.

Speaker 2 10:52

So, anyway, lots of Karen memes out there and they're actually kind of funny, yeah, yeah. But when I I truly have seen that and I'm just like, oh, I suppose I've been that way too If it, if I feel really strongly about something or I need to deal with something, it's like I'm not going to apologize for it, but I'm not going to be disrespectful and putting my waggling finger in someone's face either.

Exploring Modern Slang Terms

Speaker 1 11:13

Well, and I just go back to the entitled part, mm-hmm, the entitlement error that can come about when you're maybe having a Karen incident not you, but when someone's having a Karen incident. I think, that's when it's truly a Karen is the entitlement aspect? Yes, but because they?

Speaker 2 11:29

feel like they can, yes, call that out. Yeah, for sure. It's the same time when I see those incidents I think of wow, that's kind of a first world problem.

Speaker 1 11:38

Yeah.

Speaker 2 11:39

And when I think of first world problems, I'm like we're worrying about things that have absolutely no relevance or putting energy into things that are really not that big of a deal in the big scope of things.

Speaker 1 11:50

Yeah.

Speaker 3 11:50

So first world problem.

Speaker 2 11:51

We deal with much less horrible-ness in the US than in other places.

Speaker 1 11:56

I suppose yeah.

Speaker 2 11:57

So have you ever heard of the term, becky I?

Speaker 1 11:59

haven't heard of that term. Okay, becky, so I have. Which is actually? This was a new one for me, which surprised me because it's in a Beyonce song. Yeah, but again, I mean to the left, to the left.

Speaker 2 12:11

I got that one, but everything you own in a box to the left. Yeah, no, becky's like a term. So what I had understood originally was that she had this in her song and this was like when there was this whole thing about Jay-Z being his infidelities and everything. And so she's calling out Becky with a good hair, meaning it's just some white girl, privileged white girl basically, who has her Starbucks and her Uggs and is clueless about racial and social issues and has the pretty hair and is just oblivious to what's going on.

Speaker 1 12:40

I wonder if her name was really Becky.

Speaker 2 12:41

I don't know, I know.

Speaker 1 12:43

I mean why, Becky?

Speaker 2 12:45

But it's not considered a positive thing to say someone's like a Becky Becky with a good hair.

Speaker 1 12:50

That's all I've heard. So now y'all your name's Becky, here we go. Are you Karen's sister?

Speaker 2 12:57

Well, it's, it's a yeah, I probably.

Speaker 1 13:00

I mean again, when you think of the Karen aspect, we're talking about entitlement and being entitled and demanding, and now we're here with Becky, who's clueless about racial and social issues.

Speaker 2 13:12

So yeah, that's where we're saying this Back to privilege, back to privilege A whole other topic, huh which we have obviously lived because we, I feel like we have privilege, but that's a whole other thing.

Speaker 1 13:24

Yeah.

Speaker 2 13:24

Okay, so what's another one? Clap back, clap back, clap back, clap back.

Speaker 1 13:28

Have you heard that in songs? Nothing that comes to the top of mind. Okay, what about For me, jaw rule.

Speaker 2 13:33

Jaw rule.

Speaker 1 13:34

Oh, clap back, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 13:35

It's a song, yeah, that he had. I haven't really heard people using that, but if you hear someone using it, you know what their meaning is. It's like retaliation or they're bowding back criticism. They might be considered kind of a little mouthing off. I suppose because the responses aren't necessarily going to be like mellow responses that would be good for. Good for discussion.

Speaker 3 13:57

It's just more like I'm clapping back.

Speaker 2 13:59

You know I'm going to tell them what's on my mind. Yeah, that's what I get from that one, so clap back, but it's not something that I would ever use, like I've used Karen and I've never used Becky. I just know what it is and then, but I've never used that clap back. That seems like a real young person thing to say Clap back, yeah, yeah. Here's okay. So here's one that I had not heard before, but is something apparently that came really popular with Gen Z recently and it's Chuggy. Have you heard that?

Speaker 1 14:28

No, I haven't heard that either. Okay, chuggy, what is that?

Speaker 2 14:32

So Chuggy kind of describes anything that's considered to be uncool or untrendy, or people who deliberately stick with older trends because that's what their comfort level is. So they're kind of. They're kind of a.

Speaker 1 14:44

Yes, I'm Chuggy.

Speaker 2 14:45

I'm kind of Chuggy too. Yeah, I mean, there's some Old school.

Speaker 1 14:48

Yeah, and that's that term comes to mind when you say older trends and want to stick to them.

Speaker 2 14:53

Yeah, because.

Speaker 1 14:54

I'm definitely old school. I guess I'm Chuggy.

Speaker 2 14:55

Well, or like you see, like you see women's houses that have like every single thing in there is a saying, like they've got a piece of wood on the wall that has a saying or they've got things on the walls that have things like their whole house is filled with sayings Live, love, laugh.

Speaker 1 15:09

Live, love, laugh.

Speaker 2 15:10

Yeah, all that kind of stuff. That's kind of Chuggy because they're just like they haven't moved out of there, out of that stage, right.

Speaker 1 15:16

I guess Right, they're comfortable.

Speaker 2 15:18

I see what you're saying, I guess elderly ladies that connect, collect spoons and tea cups would be Chuggy too, or have swags and wreaths Swag, oh my God. Yeah.

Speaker 1 15:27

Swags and wreaths. Yeah, swags and wreaths. So it's definitely a thing in the 90s.

Speaker 2 15:31

Yeah, yeah, and same with ducks.

Speaker 1 15:33

Yeah, geese yeah.

Speaker 2 15:35

Country.

Speaker 3 15:36

Anyway, definitely Chuggy.

Speaker 1 15:38

Country Chuggy all the things. Yeah, all right.

"Understanding 'Okay Boomer' and Ghosting"

Speaker 2 15:41

Okay. So this one my own children have said to me before and it was really a very derogatory thing, but they said it as a joke, but really they didn't probably mean it as a joke. When we're talking about something and I'm asking them a question or asking for clarification or something, Okay, boomer.

Speaker 3 15:58

Yeah.

Speaker 2 16:00

So just so you know, everybody boomers are considered to be the last year of the boomers is 1964. Right, and then the first year of Gen X is 1965. So when someone says, okay, boomer, they're really referring to you being like, old fashioned, not up with the times, still have AOL email.

Speaker 2 16:21

Yeah, instead of you know Gmail or something like that. They write everything down on little sticky notes instead of using a computer. Just old fashioned in their thinking. Maybe they only have a flip phone, they don't know how to use a smartphone, or just their ideas are kind of antiquated. So when my kids said that to me, I was like, oh hell, no, that's not me. I mean, I definitely have things that are about me, that are from you know how I grew up or what have you, but I don't feel like I'm completely out of the loop on the times.

Speaker 1 16:50

Well, and it sounds like when I'm looking at some of the information on that term, okay boomer, it sounds like it's just a way to end a frustrating conversation with somebody with that mindset like you were explaining.

Speaker 3 17:02

It's sarcastic, though.

Speaker 1 17:03

And oh, I know that's what I mean. It's like they're not hearing what you're saying. The younger person to the boomer. The boomer is not really acknowledging what they're saying, or understanding it or hearing it, and there's a level of frustration.

Speaker 2 17:16

So then they're just like okay, boomer, whatever, yeah, and it's just like kind of like my mom saying you're right, everything you say is right.

Speaker 1 17:23

You're right, okay, that's her way of saying okay, boomer yeah.

Speaker 2 17:27

When I should say, okay, greatest generation, or yeah. Well, a boomer could turn it around and say, okay, Jen Zier.

Speaker 1 17:35

Yeah, I suppose Okay Zier Okay.

Speaker 2 17:37

Zier yeah, but anyway. So yeah, it's really used to kind of talk about people who are of a different generation and think differently and tell them you got to work hard, you know, you got to move up, you got to save your money, you got to all these kinds of things that you would hear from people who are in a different working environment. I mean, I kind of agree with a lot of that stuff.

Speaker 1 17:58

There we go, I'm on the cusp so I'm like all of that both ways, I kind of identify more as a Gen Xer.

Speaker 2 18:06

I would say, just because I'm the very early stages of that, the very last stages of the baby boomer generation, so I don't really identify with the baby boomer stuff very much.

Speaker 1 18:15

Well, yeah, and that Gen X is like you were saying. We use paper, we are analog, we give change. We can give change back without a computer.

Speaker 2 18:25

Thank you, those kinds of things, don't you just want to help the people?

Speaker 1 18:29

I want to help the people at the store.

Speaker 2 18:31

Go, let me show you how to do that.

Speaker 1 18:32

Yeah, just count it back in your head Like they can't figure it out.

Speaker 2 18:35

I know Like if you give them a penny, so you can round it and make it so you don't get a bunch of pennies they struggle. Oh my God, it just makes me feel so bad for these kids going dude, what did you do in school?

Speaker 1 18:46

Yeah, they've made it, so we don't need to use our own computer.

Speaker 2 18:48

We have to rely on technology. Yeah, anyways, very proud of the fact that I can count change back. I guess so have you ever been ghosted?

Speaker 1 18:57

Probably. Yeah, I mean, I don't have a particular thing I've been ghosted by my kids. What about your friends? But probably at times where it has felt that way, I'm sure.

Speaker 2 19:09

That's a term so ghosting. Yeah, it's kind of a term that's come up more in the dating world actually.

Speaker 1 19:13

I was going to say, yeah, it's more referenced in dating.

Speaker 2 19:16

And when you have people who are living behind screens or not really communicating in person, it's just basically a drop off in communication or there's. And with texting you've probably seen this, where it's like kind of a back and forth thing, or where a conversation starts and how it ends, and then who is the one to initiate the next conversation, and there's all these things about texting which I think we're going to get into in another episode we talked about earlier, which I'm texting yeah, it's just basically where someone just stops communicating with you and you don't really know why.

Speaker 3 19:46

Yeah, you don't really know if it's explanation, no explanation.

Speaker 2 19:49

It might, there might not really be one, it kind of is a it's kind of a mind fuck it is, and it's a little bit of an indication on how our society is today. There's just okay here I'm starting to sound like a boomer for a second but there's just common fricking courtesies that you give people not to say that I've never done it, because I'm sure I have. But I really try to make an effort with people, to do a follow-up with them or to say thank you or whatever the case may be, because I just don't play that game or I don't want to play that game and I certainly don't want someone playing it with me.

Speaker 2 20:19

But it's a thing, it's totally a thing. I think with the younger generations it's really not considered as offensive.

Speaker 1 20:25

Like it just happens.

Speaker 2 20:26

It's a thing and it is what it is, I know, but it just, I don't know, makes me think wow, I think maybe I just dodged a bullet by having that person as a friend, or maybe I just dodged a bullet because I'm not going to go out with that person. I think too generationally.

Speaker 1 20:41

It probably has carried over for us to feel the way we do to where they're for whatever reason, seems the need seems to be there for finality, whether it's in a conversation or a relationship or whatever it might be, because that's what we're used to.

Speaker 1 20:56

But circumstances are such now, just like not having to give you know, count back, change in your head, things that don't necessarily aren't a part of this up and coming generation, and it's just easier, I think. How texting is easier, communication is easier than face-to-face communication, so it's just easier to just like drop off Just drop off, yeah, but I mean even seeing people our own age are doing it. Yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 21:20

Like we've got, I mean there's. I can think of a couple circumstances, one with a friend or you know who. I thought was a friend and just bailed, completely ghosted. So I'm not dating that person. But that was and then circles back like they circle back. And so with dating, I think you see it a lot where people will do that and then they circle back within. A couple of weeks and it's like obviously there's something going on there.

Speaker 3 21:40

Taking their attention.

Speaker 2 21:42

No, they've been talking to someone else or they've been doing whatever, and then they circle back. Oh hey, my phone was broken or blah, blah blah.

Speaker 3 21:48

I'm just like oh, I don't think so. That doesn't work for me.

Speaker 2 21:51

Anyway, ghosting is a thing. And try not to get your feelings hurt. If it happens, it has nothing to do with you. It has everything to do with the person who's making the decision to not communicate. That's how I look at rejection with no explanation Exactly. There it is so you can't. I mean, if you really were not careful or weren't secure in yourself, you could really have some issues with that.

Speaker 1 22:14

Yeah, that would be well. Like I said, I think it is a mind fuck.

Speaker 3 22:17

Yeah, it is yeah.

Speaker 1 22:19

And it's not nice.

Speaker 2 22:20

But I don't know that people are doing that because they want to mind fuck somebody else. I don't think that they are. They just don't give a shit about it. That's not.

Speaker 1 22:26

That's the intention of ghosting is not to do that, but that is, that is kind of what happens, yeah.

Speaker 2 22:31

So when you say, here, let's move on to the next one, yeah, when you say, oh my gosh, that guy has such a good vibe. Or oh, that restaurant has just the best vibe. When I say that, what do you mean? What do you think I mean?

Speaker 1 22:43

Good it's a good feeling or like feels good, let's say like a restaurant and stuff.

Slang and Language Evolution

Speaker 2 22:46

It's like, or a car, like you're driving in a car and you're just like such a good vibe because you're just like loving the car or whatever. So when you have a really good vibe with somebody, that means you're just connecting and get along with them. Leveling up it's high key Leveling up.

Speaker 1 23:02

Did you see how I just like threw that in there, like, this is what it is.

Speaker 2 23:05

So when I hear leveling up, that's not even on here, but when I hear leveling up, that's, I think, of the gym, because that's the name of your gym, is it?

Speaker 1 23:13

No, no.

Speaker 2 23:14

Is there a gym though? No, it's my gym's, called Fit Theorem, but when they're at the gym, they're going. Okay, if you're going to level up, you got to do blah, blah, blah, blah, and I'm just like shit. I guess I can't do it this way. I'm going to try to do it this way, or whatever. So leveling up is just taking to the next level. But having a good vibe or having a bad vibe it's like bad jujus, whatever.

Speaker 2 23:33

To me that's a very common word I use a lot. I don't know how other people are with it, but when I've got a good vibe with somebody, it just means I have a good feeling about them, for sure. Get along with them, yeah, so that's definitely something I'm high-key about, vibing.

Speaker 1 23:48

You're vibing, vibing. Whether it's high or low, you're vibing. Okay, so let's talk about high-key and low-key for a second.

Speaker 2 23:54

Yeah, that's where I threw that in there.

Speaker 1 23:55

I know it's like leveling it Like it feels good You're leveling up. It's high-key, I'm just cracking up.

Speaker 2 24:01

I've never heard her say high-key before. I hear okay, zoe, all the time and Andrew I hear them all the time say low-key.

Speaker 1 24:09

Yeah, low-key. It's like I'm just low-key, pissed yeah.

Speaker 2 24:11

Or I'm just low-key happy, or you know, I'm just so.

Speaker 1 24:14

I've heard them say that before, but never heard somebody say high-key, and it's literally just kind of like the opposite of it's, like you're totally I feel like high-key is like it's a lot and when you're low-key it's like it's like low on the down low. You're just like low-key chilling today. Yep, Low-key chilling when you want to keep something chill.

Speaker 2 24:32

You want to keep something you know, kind of just there. It doesn't have to be, but when you're talking about high-key, it just means elevating something that you want to have heard. So if you're saying I'm high-key, stressed right now, that would just mean I'm kind of over the top.

Speaker 3 24:47

Yeah.

Speaker 2 24:47

And we better watch it. Maybe give them a little space kind of a thing. But again, I really haven't heard people using that. But if someone uses it now, you'll know what it means right.

Speaker 1 24:57

Yeah, I think I have used high-key.

Speaker 2 24:59

Well, you just used it today, I know yeah.

Speaker 1 25:02

What about when you're not trusting someone? They're sus Sus.

Speaker 2 25:06

Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 1 25:08

It's like when that intuition is speaking to you and you feel that knot in your gut that's when you pay attention to the sus, when you're tilting your head sideways and giving them a weird eye.

Speaker 2 25:19

that's like they're kind of sus, meaning you don't necessarily believe what they're saying, Can't put your finger on it.

Speaker 1 25:24

You don't know specifically, but definitely.

Speaker 2 25:27

You're not getting the whole story.

Speaker 1 25:29

Suspicious or aka sus Sus.

Speaker 2 25:33

Yeah, which I've definitely heard. Yeah, I have heard that Okay so we've heard this before with well, actually, when we were coming up with names for the podcast, this came up and of course it's because Zoe was probably helping us but tea, oh yeah, Tea. Yeah, when we talk about the tea, she's like give me all the tea. That's happening.

Speaker 1 25:51

It's basically gossip, gossip. Spill the tea, spill the tea. What's going on?

Speaker 2 25:56

I want to hear all the details of what's going on. So if you hear someone saying, hey, give me the tea, it's like give me the 411 or give me the details kind of a thing. That's what tea means. So where did you think that first even came out? Because I had not heard that until the last couple of years.

Speaker 1 26:11

Well, when I looked it up, comes from the 80s and 90s, something called ball culture, which is where LGBTQ people perform in drag competitions to celebrate their queerness.

Speaker 2 26:23

Okay, so that was kind of an early use of the term, and now it's turned into something different. Okay, what's another one? Glow up, glow up. When I was thinking of glowing up, I was thinking of elevate yourself or highlight yourself. Which I mean it can be, it can be right, it's a version of that, but that's not what the intent necessarily has been right. So what would it be the idea?

Speaker 1 26:49

that, as you are growing older, you're only becoming more fabulous.

Speaker 2 26:52

Right.

Speaker 1 26:53

So glow up, not just growing up, but it's like a whole other level. You're fabulous, amazing, and I think too, with those feelings of confidence or fabulousness comes the glow up of having photographic confidence as well.

Speaker 3 27:11

Now.

Speaker 1 27:11

I only say that because I read that about the term in regard to this. So, but it makes sense. So it's like exuding your confidence too.

Speaker 2 27:20

Yeah, Like or you're adulting really well.

Speaker 1 27:23

Yeah.

Speaker 2 27:24

Yeah, so you've kind of gotten it to the next level, like you said.

Speaker 1 27:27

And I think the photographic confidence probably comes from just again. In this day and age there's so much of that that goes on in regard on social media, with life and 50 and fabulous and glow up and it's definitely a term. It's a term.

Exploring Slang Terms and Meanings

Speaker 2 27:42

Yeah, okay. So yeah, what about shook? That one has been around for a while, has been around for a while yeah. It was popular in the 90s with hip hop and R&B and stuff and just basically means you're just shaken by something. It could be better or worse. It's like it surprised you Well shook.

Speaker 1 28:01

Well, and back in the day it really shaken up I mean, when you're talking about something like that in event or circumstance and just really shook me up, Mm-hmm. So it's just essentially taking all the other words off and just shortening it to the shook yeah.

Speaker 2 28:18

I'm just so shook.

Speaker 1 28:19

Yeah, I'm just like distraught or upset or whatever so again same as shook up.

Speaker 2 28:25

Here's one that I've seen before salty, like when someone is salty yeah.

Speaker 1 28:29

I like that term. I do too, I've just become familiar with that over the last couple years actually. I think it's been around for a long time.

Speaker 2 28:36

It just makes me think of a cremaginial man, salty.

Speaker 1 28:40

See, I think of a cremaginial woman, really.

Speaker 2 28:42

Yeah, like salty. Someone who's got that spit and vinegar, as Michelle likes to hear. You know they're salty. They don't have a lot of soft edges.

Speaker 1 28:53

Well, and it's typically you can tell when somebody's upset or something like that, and somebody would describe them as being salty about it.

Speaker 2 29:01

Yeah, they're pissed off. Yeah, so, and I do hear that quite often, okay, so here's a really fun one that it's been around quite a bit in the last couple of years. It's called woke.

Speaker 1 29:11

I liked it at first, but I'm tired of it now.

Speaker 2 29:13

I'm really tired of it now.

Speaker 1 29:14

It's like not cool to be woke.

Speaker 2 29:16

No, being woke now is something that well, what I've noticed lately is more of a politically charged yes.

Speaker 1 29:23

Yeah.

Speaker 2 29:24

Like the concern, there's a conservative agenda that speaks about the left wing. Wokeness. Yeah, wokeness, yeah which means it's like really far left. Wokeness like kind of over the top, as opposed to the other direction, which is over the top fundamentalists or over the top conservatism. So that's when you hear people talk about that like on on podcasts or talk radio or you know anywhere, when they say woke. Yeah, woke agendas. They're talking about extreme left agendas now.

Speaker 2 29:54

And it's really bringing to the forefront, like a lot of the stuff that happened during the pandemic with BLM and with all of the racial inequality and just everything that was taking place and where I think it maybe even took more of a turn was when we've got a lot of white people who are speaking about history. Wokeness, wokeness, yeah, because we're not living that same world as an individual who's going through it. So were we like the white messiahs, were we woke Like the way? Have you ever heard that white?

Speaker 3 30:24

messiah. No, oh yeah.

Speaker 2 30:26

I've heard that, whereas, like you know, white people are out there with the banders and the whole bit sticking up for for for their brothers and sisters, but they're, they're white. So, they don't necessarily understand Right, so they're woke, but it's not necessarily.

Speaker 1 30:41

Determined. They're half asleep. Yeah, well, they there's, woke as they can be, without having the experiences to be woke, I suppose right, but I did learn when, when we were doing some research on this stuff, that Erica Badu who I love she had a song back in 2008, which was a long time ago. Master Teacher is the name of the song. It's believed to be. Where that term was first uttered in the mainstream was from that song, so if you haven't heard it, I mean take a listen If you like.

Speaker 2 31:10

Erica Badu she's a badass and but this was something that she was talking about way back in the day.

Speaker 1 31:16

Yeah, and it wasn't about left to no does and political stuff or anything like that. It was just about about life. And you know, and she's, she's talking about all these. You know circumstances and situations in life, and that's. You know, in the background you hear, be woke, just like. You know, don't, don't be so. You know, with a wool pulled over your eyes you got to. You know, pay attention to things and really know what's going on.

Speaker 2 31:41

So it was really more coined that way as an awareness word yeah awareness, but it kind of took not politically just in life, yeah, so it's taken on much different meaning nowadays. I think than it did then, but that was the original intent behind it. Bye, Felicia. Again something I've only heard really younger people say, where they're just wanting to. It's kind of like okay, boomer. It's more like I'm tired of listening to you, so I'm going like bye, felicia. But this comes from. What does this come from?

Speaker 1 32:14

The movie Friday Ice Cube in 95. Yeah, there was a scene or something in there right. Use the term in a scene which yeah, his character in the movie responds to Felicia and it's something that I don't know. She was asking and he was like that was his way of, yeah, ending it was just like his term. Yeah, In the movie by Felicia, like I don't want to hear it. No, you're not. I think it was borrowing a car or something.

Speaker 3 32:41

Yeah.

Speaker 1 32:41

Something like that that really has taken off and been used. It's a very popular term, yeah, by Felicia.

Speaker 2 32:48

I think it's. I don't think it's as much now as it used to be, yeah, but that's definitely something I'm sure, but it's something recognizable, like people know what that is when it's used. Yeah, yeah, they like picture someone putting their hand up going by Felicia and then turning around and walking away, and that's what I think. No cap. So this is something that this is a way of saying that there's a. Okay, michelle, help me here.

Speaker 1 33:14

No cap means go ahead, so then there's no cap, which is essentially going to mean no lie. If you're telling somebody you know oh my gosh, your outfit is amazing. No cap. That means like I'm not even lying but you know, no cap means like there's no no cap to it that's going to shut that down. It's like all the way forever and all the way up.

Speaker 2 33:39

Like yeah, it's not hyperbole, there's nobody exaggerating or anything. Yeah, no cap, yep, and it's. It's a synonym, I guess. So think of it as a synonym for the word seriously like seriously, yeah, seriously, no cap.

Speaker 3 33:52

Yep.

Speaker 2 33:53

Yeah, okay, on fleek, that I have not heard before. You said you had.

Speaker 1 33:57

I'm so surprised You've not heard that no On fleek and I don't know why I've heard it, but it's yeah on fleek, that's just like on point, yes. Like you have got it going on. You're on fleek.

Speaker 2 34:12

Yeah, this means on point, just another way of saying it.

Speaker 1 34:15

And whatever however you put that out to fit together, you know came up with that Definitely on fleek, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 34:22

Can you imagine using some of these terms? I can't imagine saying that. I would just say, oh my God, it is so on point. Look at you.

Speaker 1 34:29

Yeah Well, and it's like kind of like on cap how it's beyond.

Speaker 2 34:32

Yeah.

Speaker 1 34:32

That's how on fleek is is, like you know, beyond respectable. Like that, like you have like on the normal scope of things.

Speaker 2 34:42

Yeah, okay, let's skip the next one, and we'll do that, maybe with our emoji one.

Speaker 2 34:48

Okay, okay. So I've heard, I've heard people say this next one, see, and I haven't, you haven't, yeah, okay. So when something slaps, just like when you say oh my God, that slaps, it's more like oh my gosh, that is so awesome, that is so cool. So that's what I would use. Those are the words I use, not slap, but it's like it's. It's a word used to describe something that's good, something that's impressive, something that's like just over the top Slaps.

Speaker 1 35:18

Slaps, that just totally slaps. That one's not familiar to me, yeah, slaps.

Speaker 2 35:26

Interesting, I don't think we'll be using it. I don't think so. No.

Speaker 1 35:29

Yeah, See, I was thinking. You know what I was thinking without like reading our notes as to what it is. So I was slaps in my mind. I'm thinking when something's really funny. You like slapping, you know, like when you're laughing uncontrollably and you might slap your legs. It's so funny that's probably where it came from. That's what I thought of. I was like slaps if something. I was thinking, is it humorous or is it funny? But no, not at all.

Speaker 2 35:53

No, it's just like you couldn't. You couldn't ask for better.

Speaker 1 35:56

Yeah.

Speaker 2 35:57

You know, like if you have a meal or you're like, oh my gosh, that meal just slapped, it would be like that was the best food ever.

Speaker 3 36:04

Yeah.

Speaker 2 36:05

Again, not something I would necessarily say, but that's what it means If you're around people who talk that way.

Speaker 3 36:11

Yeah.

Speaker 2 36:11

What about slay, slay, girl slay, I know right.

Speaker 1 36:15

Yeah, go get them Something exceptional, like that's interesting, because it was talking about how the dictionary defines it as to kill violently, which actually makes sense when you think of how the term is used, because you might like kill is is uh you killed it. Yeah, you killed it. Yeah, yeah, which means, that was great. Oh my gosh, you killed that, yeah. So to slay means like not only did you kill it, but man, you really killed it, you slayed it.

Speaker 2 36:45

Yeah, you slayed it, yeah. So that one yeah, I've heard that one before and it's used in a positive way a really positive way. Yeah, so this next one I totally have said before it's like where you know, shade basically just means that you're talking shit. It's like you're throwing shade at someone. You're talking shit about them or you're saying something derogatory to them. I was just reading these notes here.

Speaker 1 37:14

Yeah. So it's kind of disrespectful yes, like if you're thrown shade at some or if that term you know can be used.

Speaker 2 37:22

Phrase can be coined in whatever it is you're doing, yeah. So if you say no shade, that means no disrespect, right, yeah, same thing. Oh, okay, yeah, what about bae Bae, yeah, bae.

Speaker 1 37:33

Do you have a bae? I got a bae, you got a bae. Yeah, a bae-boo, yeah, boo.

Speaker 2 37:38

But for anyone else is your bae I did not know that.

Speaker 1 37:42

Oh my gosh. You did not know that I did not know that. That's what that stands for. Yeah.

Speaker 2 37:46

Before anyone else.

Speaker 1 37:48

So, bae, bae, I did not know that, oh yeah.

Speaker 3 37:51

This was just mind blown for me right now my bae yeah.

Speaker 1 37:54

I just thought it was a short way of saying bae, oh no, because it's bae, but without the bae.

Speaker 3 37:59

Oh, maybe that's how it originated or something you know like hey bae.

Speaker 1 38:03

Again another term that has come from, like black culture, but yeah, before anyone else Sweet heart or baby, I mean, that's, it's like, stems from that. So I guess it is that, but like the before, anyone else I never knew.

Speaker 2 38:17

Well, I've heard people. So again, going back to people who are really religious, it's like this term doesn't fly with them. Why? Because before anyone else would mean that that person's before God yeah. Yeah, so I mean, I've heard people not use it for that reason.

Speaker 1 38:31

Really yeah. And then well that's so interesting. Yeah, but it's really just you know, it's just a term that says I mean, I get it from their perspective.

Speaker 3 38:38

You're my boo yeah.

Speaker 2 38:39

Like I haven't heard married people use that term before Right.

Speaker 1 38:42

Bae.

Speaker 3 38:43

Bae yeah, no, I'm more here.

Speaker 2 38:44

like you know, people that are in relationships and stuff they call their person their bae.

Speaker 1 38:49

We use bae a lot and sweetheart Babe, and sweetheart yeah.

Speaker 2 38:55

Well, that's all you're going to tell us about, anyway, yeah, but yeah, before anyone else.

Speaker 1 39:02

Wow, that's something new for me. You learned something new. I actually knew that one, so I feel good about that one. It stood for Okay.

Speaker 2 39:10

So the word snatched whenever I hear that word, I just it does not have a good ring with me, because when I hear snatch, I hear women's vaginal body parts Vagina J, vagina J's. Yeah, snatch, michelle, did you?

Speaker 1 39:24

have it? No, uh-uh, I'm going to tell them that no.

Speaker 3 39:26

Uh-uh.

Speaker 2 39:31

Michelle has a story about the word patch and what it rhymes with Snatch when she was a kid.

Speaker 3 39:39

But she doesn't want to talk about it. I just gave you guys the overview pretty much Pats was her last name.

Speaker 1 39:45

Everybody can just see it. You can use your own imagination on that, yeah.

Speaker 2 39:49

So anyway, now it just means like totally put together, Snatched. Yeah, you know it's like oh, they're snatched, or like a waistline, like I hear at the gym they say a snatched waist. It's like where your waist is kind of curvy. You know where you've got like curves and stuff like that. You've been able to build your waistline and it's kind of snatched. That's where I've heard it before, but I guess I'm genetically snatched?

Basic, Goat, Extra, Gucci

Speaker 1 40:12

Yeah, because I've always had the waistline, but it's that booty man. Well, that's why the way you get, I've always, you can always, I've always had a waistline that curves, I'm curvy. So, like I said, genetically snatched, I like that. Yeah, I'll hold on to that.

Speaker 2 40:30

But then again it goes back to the whole thing about a snatch, and so then I'm just like I don't know if I like that.

Speaker 1 40:35

It totally throws it off for me. That's funny.

Speaker 2 40:38

You'll never hear me really use that word for that very reason. But yeah, I do hear that with people. Just know, when you hear it you're gonna think of Julie and why she thinks it's a woman's crotch. But whatever, and Michelle Patch, and Michelle Patch Anyways yeah, yeah. Have you ever run into a situation, a circumstance that you say is just like so basic? Yeah, yeah, so basic could also mean vanilla Basic.

Speaker 1 41:03

Yeah, I know, like life to it. It's just super drab, dull, boring, basic, expected yeah.

Speaker 2 41:10

Yeah, so like people. When you say someone is just so basic, it means that they maybe have only they don't have any style of their own or they are emulating other people's styles. They don't really have their own thing, they're kind of basic. Or in the dating world. When I say vanilla, I don't mean vanilla like sex wise necessarily. I just mean vanilla like I just think boring, I think boring.

Speaker 3 41:35

Yeah, so plain.

Speaker 1 41:37

Plain and boring.

Speaker 2 41:38

That's kind of what I think of there. Basic, yeah, so that is what that means the goat that would be Jules.

Speaker 1 41:45

Am I the goat? She's the greatest of all time, greatest of all time, and that was Kobe Bryant. I know that's his term.

Speaker 2 41:51

Well, there's goats in every. There's goats in a lot of different professions, for sure, you know there's a Kobe Bryant, for sure. And then there's, like, the ones that are in the music world. I mean, who would the goat be in the music world, do you think?

Speaker 1 42:04

Who would your goat be? I don't know.

Speaker 2 42:06

That would take some time to really, because there's goats that are from you know, back in. You know that kind of started out the music that's there today. There's ones that are have had a big influence on today's like music culture, that could be considered goats, but, like in football, it's so goat when it relates to football. Actually, there is someone that they call the goat and I can't stand him. Who's that? Tom Brady. Tom Brady.

Speaker 1 42:30

Yeah, that is the one.

Speaker 2 42:32

I don't know what it is about, tom Brady, that people like who cares? When you had all these champions. I think he was kind of a cheater, yeah yeah, and he moves around a lot of different places and blah, blah blah, but anyway he's considered the goat and football.

Speaker 1 42:44

Not my goat yeah.

Speaker 2 42:45

At all. I don't really have a football goat.

Speaker 1 42:48

Well, I'd like to think I'm the mom goat, you're the mom goat, sure yeah.

Speaker 2 42:52

See, so it can be used for a lot of different things, but just know it means the greatest of all time, like you're the best. And it doesn't have to be that you're the best, but it has to be that whoever's saying it thinks you're the best. It came from Muhammad. Ali, yeah, when he did his boxing that whole time he was all about being the greatest and telling everybody that he was the greatest. So that makes complete sense and Serena Williams in tennis yeah, and she kind of is the goat in tennis.

Speaker 1 43:16

She is yeah, for sure.

Speaker 2 43:18

So when he was the goat in boxing at the time. They're probably ones that have come up since then. But yeah, he's the one that had coined that originally.

Speaker 1 43:26

And I think Rick's probably the greatest of all time when it comes to romance.

Speaker 3 43:30

Aw.

Speaker 2 43:32

She's trying to score points with you, tate, just throwing it out there. She's going to see him next week. So she's scoring points right now.

Speaker 1 43:39

He is the goat, but yeah definitely.

Speaker 2 43:42

He's a sweet goat. Have you ever met anybody who's extra?

Speaker 1 43:48

Well, actually, I have have you yeah.

Speaker 2 43:54

So that is actually the name for someone that I dated.

Speaker 1 43:59

Extra yeah, but a super sweet guy.

Speaker 2 44:02

Oh yeah, but just over the fricking top and everything that he does and gathers attention.

Speaker 3 44:07

And I guess that would be anybody Like.

Speaker 1 44:09

When you think of extra, it's like, ok, they are so extra, so extra yeah.

Speaker 2 44:15

Like the person that orders their coffee and has like five or six different specifics in order to get their coffee correct.

Speaker 1 44:22

They're very extra A nonfat skinny sugar-free.

Speaker 2 44:27

Little spricy cinnamon, maybe a little bit of foam, but not yeah, 200, like 120 degrees.

Speaker 1 44:33

Yeah, so that extra.

Speaker 2 44:36

We use coffee as an example just because there's a coffee place every 15 feet around here.

Speaker 1 44:40

We're here in Seattle, so it's a coffee thing, but definitely, definitely.

Speaker 2 44:44

And then the extra thing was in the dating. Again, going back to the dating world was just over the top.

Speaker 3 44:50

I don't know how else to describe it.

Speaker 2 44:52

But it kind of worked for him, didn't work for me. It was too much over the top. It was. It's kind of cute because he doesn't really care what everybody else thinks or does. He just does what he wants to do. Yeah.

Speaker 3 45:02

Right.

Speaker 2 45:02

So he's so extra, but he's a good guy.

Speaker 1 45:05

Whenever I hear that, I'm just like extra, extra read, all about it, I think that's like from the 1920s or something that's like, really I just, I'm just saying whenever I see that word, that phrase, for whatever reason.

Speaker 2 45:15

World War II is over. Extra, extra read all about it.

Speaker 1 45:19

Or the gum Extra extra, or there's a TV show, there's extra.

Speaker 2 45:23

Yeah, oh, yeah, oh, that's where you're getting that. She's totally singing the TV song, yeah, and talking about the paper.

Speaker 1 45:29

Yeah, mixing generations here, but yeah, anyways.

Speaker 2 45:32

Have you ever heard anybody say hey, yeah, that's Gucci.

Speaker 1 45:35

I haven't. Oh see, zoe does that. I could see how it could get used, so it totally makes sense to me, but I've never heard anybody use that Really OK.

Slang Terms and Their Meanings

Speaker 2 45:43

So Gucci is a designer, as we know. Yeah, we have some little items from Gucci here and there, but no, it's just a term. That means all good, it's Gucci, that's all good. And I heard and I've first time I ever heard it Anybody use it it was Zoe, so it's used in the way you're feeling about something. Could be anything, but it's just good. It's Gucci. Yeah, it's Gucci.

Speaker 1 46:03

It's all Gucci, instead of saying it's all good, it's Gucci, yeah, ok, yeah.

Speaker 2 46:07

Now she's going to start saying that to me Maybe.

Speaker 1 46:11

Is that I mean better than Gucci?

Speaker 2 46:16

It's Gucci. Oh my god, michelle, is that Gucci with?

Speaker 1 46:20

the Gucci. It's all good Gucci, it's all good, all Gucci. And then there's Buji.

Speaker 2 46:27

Yeah, which you know kind of is a little bit of a derogatory term, buji, because it really connotates someone who's demanding of luxury and fanciness and specialness, and like I'm too bougie to go camping, you know, because I don't like bugs, right, and I'm OK with that.

Speaker 1 46:47

Yeah.

Speaker 2 46:48

But it's like. To be like super bougie is not necessarily a good thing. It's someone who's like. I can just picture it in my head, the face they make, and they look someone up one side and down the other Like they're not good enough to be around them kind of a thing. So that's Booziness, booziness, but I mean there are elements of bouginess that I'm OK with, yeah.

Speaker 1 47:07

Well, even in regard to the things, I'm sure there's women out there that have no problem being bougie. Yeah, yeah. There's a balance, I would strike on A balance of bouginess, a balance of bouginess. A Gucci of couchiness.

Speaker 2 47:20

A bouginess and ratchetness which we'll get into in a second. Ok, so quickly.

Speaker 3 47:27

Fomo fear of missing out.

Speaker 2 47:31

Yeah, that's what FOMO means. Michelle, do you have FOMO? I do not have.

Speaker 3 47:35

FOMO.

Speaker 2 47:36

Ever. No, no, mm-mm. I don't really have any FOMO either, except if, say, macklemore was coming to town and I didn't have tickets.

Speaker 1 47:43

I used to work with somebody who had extreme FOMO, so she could not be on social media because it was just too much for her, because she'd constantly be on there. Trying to keep just like everything, like yep, like I'm going to miss out. Missing out on what's going on with people. What's just like all of it, like to every extreme. She had a fear of missing out.

Speaker 2 48:02

I wonder if that's definitely been coined through the social media epidemic. Probably, because that's really where you're getting a lot of your information. Yeah, but, yeah, fear of missing out. I don't know, as I've gotten older, I don't really fear as much.

Speaker 3 48:14

Yeah that's right. I'm just more like if I get there, I get there.

Speaker 2 48:17

You know, if I don't, I don't, If it's something I really want to do, then I'll make sure I make the time to do it.

Speaker 1 48:22

Because we're not giving as many fucks at this age, which is why Zero.

Speaker 2 48:26

Sometimes I give one or two fucks, but most of the time it's zero, so that would be F-O-M-O-O-F.

Speaker 1 48:32

Fear of missing out on any fucks. Like no fear of missing out on any fucks.

Speaker 2 48:37

Oh, you are in rare form today, girl. Ok, jen Zier, say this instead of saying cool, what is it Fire? That is so fire? Yeah, I heard my 30-year-old say that one time and I looked at him and went is that like something that a 15-year-old says?

Speaker 1 48:53

But apparently not. But if you're encouraging him to continue to go to concerts, you should be encouraging him to continue to say fire. I know.

Speaker 2 48:59

That was actually kind of a hypocritical thing for me to just say just now I'm totally owning that, pointing it out. Pointing it out, I'm owning it. It's OK if he says fire or cray-cray Although cray-cray means crazy but the only people I hear saying cray-cray are middle-aged white women.

Speaker 1 49:15

I know, yeah, absolutely, that is not a terminology that I want to use.

Speaker 2 49:19

So we did this one.

Speaker 1 49:21

Sometimes I just say it like OK, there's an element of crazy there. Yeah, she just uses the whole word.

Speaker 2 49:28

And you know, or crazy eyes. Like, if you see someone and they have those crazy eyes, it's like you need to about face and go the other direction Quickly, Instead of saying cray-cray we just would say that, but that's what that means. We also have a coach at our gym that we call cray, but she's not crazy.

Speaker 1 49:46

She's super nice, Probably well in like a gym aspect. I could see where that could come from.

Speaker 2 49:51

OK, here we go back to not giving a fucks. Then there is AF. It is give me an example.

Speaker 1 49:58

Well, you were talking about crazy AF.

Speaker 2 50:01

Anything AF is as fuck, as fuck. Yeah, it's like that was epic AF. Or that was horrible AF or whatever.

Speaker 1 50:10

That means it Emphasizing, yeah, just like putting an emphasis on whatever it is yeah, like this.

Speaker 2 50:16

Note here my slice of pecan pie is delicious AF, like who says that?

Speaker 1 50:21

Yeah, I don't know who says that About pecan pie. How about?

Speaker 2 50:25

my extra dirty martini with olives is yummy AF. I would say it's on fleek On fleek, so thirsty. Have you ever heard of a thirst trap? No, no, no. So thirst trap is Instagram. Ok, not really in TikTok. Ok, I don't really see it on Facebook, because those are like older people now.

Speaker 2 50:46

They don't have thirst traps, but they're essentially photos that are of women posing scantily clad, making like come get me faces, and guys that are posing with their abs showing. Or remember that one picture that you or no, it was a video you sent me of some guy that was like a I don't know what it was, but I was like this guy is fine AF. You were just sending it to me to look at. I'm like damn, you got to stop sending me those pictures.

Speaker 1 51:12

It was a video.

Speaker 2 51:13

Yeah, it was a video from Instagram yeah, she likes to tease me that way, but anyway, so thirsty just means that you're desperate for someone's approval. These thirst trap pictures are really to get people kind of like, kind of getting their sex hormones going, and so thirsty just means that you.

Speaker 1 51:31

They're probably just people that are trying to get attention.

Speaker 2 51:34

Yep.

Speaker 1 51:35

Like.

Speaker 2 51:35

Make some look like they are thirsty. Yeah, Like they want to have. I don't know.

Speaker 1 51:40

Yeah, thirst trap, thirst trap. Trying to quench somebody else's thirst, yeah, or make them thirsty Right.

Speaker 3 51:46

OK.

Speaker 2 51:46

What about savage?

Speaker 1 51:49

Savage is like when you're doing something and you don't even care.

Speaker 3 51:55

Yeah, she's like a savage Unapologetic.

Speaker 1 51:57

Don't even care.

Speaker 2 51:58

Yep, you should have seen her at work. She was so savage, she had that Microsoft PowerPoint on fleek.

Speaker 1 52:07

Oh my god.

Speaker 2 52:08

Anybody listening to us is going to go.

Speaker 1 52:09

who are these women Right Savage?

Speaker 2 52:11

AF, savage, af, ok, but anyway, I have heard people say that, but it's really more kind of like oh my god, you nailed it Killed it, yeah, killed it so savage, slayed it, slayed it, savage.

Speaker 1 52:23

Yeah, but are you ratchet, oh gosh, while you're doing it, those city girls are the city girls. That's a group, I know. Yes, yes.

Speaker 2 52:33

So the word ratchet really means kind of obnoxious, rude, trashy, kind of the opposite of classy.

Speaker 1 52:43

Would not want to be described as such. No.

Speaker 2 52:46

But I've heard women described as ratchet and it's just. They're kind of I don't know. The terminology makes me think of someone who's kind of I don't know down and dirty low class, kind of a girl or maybe a guy.

Speaker 1 52:57

Yeah, I mean, it makes sense ratchet.

Speaker 2 52:59

There's a song called Ratchet by Megan Thee Stallion.

Speaker 1 53:02

Oh, yeah, it was probably from like two years ago or something. Yeah, yeah, something like that. It's like it's a big twerking song, I think if my mom saw that, she would die on stage.

Speaker 3 53:10

I mean, I see it and I do.

Speaker 2 53:12

And I'm just kind of like OK, girls, I guess you could be on national TV and do all this, and it's fine because it's entertainment for some. That's my old fashioned side coming out.

Speaker 1 53:23

I think We'll just leave it there.

Speaker 2 53:24

Yeah, if something is lit, what would it be?

Speaker 1 53:29

Well, I know lit can be like. I remember walking down the streets and New Orleans with you complaining because it's like 2 in the morning and you were making us walk down the street. I was saying how we're walking down the street and it's not lit.

Speaker 2 53:45

Oh for God's sake, the street's not lit.

Speaker 1 53:47

We're not lit, but just so, even though we had been drinking. It can describe that behavior Like if you've been drinking, you're lit.

Speaker 2 53:54

Yeah, so if you're lit, you could be drunk. It also can be describing a situation where, like, oh my god, that situation was so lit. Yeah, like off the hook Right.

Speaker 1 54:03

It's like a couple of things so fun yeah.

Speaker 2 54:06

So you'll hear and that's definitely something that I hear on the regular just from people and then, of course, there is keeping at 100. Keeping at 100.

Speaker 1 54:15

Yeah.

Speaker 2 54:16

And you see that a lot like on text or you'll see where people are talking, or they'll just say, yeah, I keep at 100. That just means that they're real, they're honest, they're straightforward.

Speaker 1 54:26

They're not full of bullshit 100%, yep, 100%.

Basic Bitch Talk

Speaker 2 54:29

They are someone you can plan on, being honest about what they're talking about. Yeah, so anyway, did you have any others?

Speaker 1 54:39

No, I just think we need to high key, keep going with the podcast, because I know people like for sure know we're slaying it.

Speaker 2 54:50

We're slaying it. There's so many ways we could use these words.

Speaker 1 54:55

I know, yeah, and this little wrap up, but we won't. No, we'll just keep at 100 and just stick to the basics that. Are you a basic bitch? I'm a basic bitch. You are not a basic bitch, a blonde basic bitch Blonde basic bougie bitch.

Speaker 3 55:14

No, you're not.

Speaker 2 55:15

No, I'm not People. She is so far from basic it's not even funny.

Speaker 1 55:19

But hopefully you had as much fun listening to all this as we had coming up with it.

Speaker 2 55:24

So some of it was enlightening for us, some of it wasn't, because but hopefully it's enlightening for you or you got a really good chuckle because you're like I cannot believe that they're talking about that.

Speaker 1 55:34

And if you don't know what a chuckle is, that's a laugh.

Speaker 2 55:36

And if you don't know now, you know.

Speaker 1 55:39

All right with that. We'll sign off here. Check us out on our socials. We're on all of them. Don't even need to tell you what they are, because you already know. That's right, and just know that we'll be there. Tell your friends about us if you like it, and hopefully you'll be seeing us soon. Peace out people. All right, everybody. Bye, bye.