Small Towns Podcast
Small Towns Podcast
E18: Spilling the Tea... or is it simply "T" IDK...
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Jason and Dave do their best to stay current on the slang of the day… We call a few experts in the middle of the podcast to get their take. Apparently “Bussin, Fleak and No Cap” are reserved for those 18 years old and younger…. If you ask us, that seems a bit Sus…
Welcome, millions, perhaps billions, of faithful podcast listeners. We are your hosts, Jason Kimber and Dave Simmons. We'll bring you along with us as we share life stories from our experiences living in small towns. Or in Jason's case, an unincorporated community. That's true. Along with genius suggestions for solving the world's problems and a whole lot of laughs. This is the Small Towns Podcast. Hey guys, welcome back to the uh podcast. Uh Jason Kimber here with my good friend and solid co-host Dave Simmons. Good to be here. Always good to be here. It's like uh longtime listener, first time caller. Um I say that every time and it makes me laugh every time I say it. You know, Dave, it is interesting. We have done a couple of these podcasts in the past that have almost felt a little bit like a PSA or a public service announcement. Well, we try to help people. We do our best.
SPEAKER_01I try my best every day. And if we can do it to the greater world, this is the World Wide Web. And it is for the greater good. And we know we're stretching into different countries. You've got people in Brazil listening. And we're global, we've got a global audience. A global audience. I know I got some Canadian friends listening. Okay. I've even got some likes from people in Bulgaria. Now I don't know that they're understanding this.
SPEAKER_00I hear you. I hear you. But listen, that's neither here nor there. No. I mean, if we can uh whatever we have to offer.
SPEAKER_01Well, and today is a really, especially for our international audience that maybe English isn't the first language that they speak, we're gonna help them understand some of the lingo that the kids are using nowadays. At least we're gonna try.
SPEAKER_00We're gonna do our best, and I like where we're going with this because I have two girls, 11 and 8-year-old. They are doing their best to keep me on top of what the kids are saying these days. Yes. The slang. Did you did you ever, I mean, without getting uh too crazy here, but there was a great show on TV a while ago. One of my heroes, Phil Dunfey, was in the show on a lot of the family.
SPEAKER_01The fact that Phil Dunfey is one of your heroes says a lot about you. It does. It does listen, unabashedly so. Yeah, you I'm a fan. You should have been a cheerleader at one point and enjoyed trampolining. I just remember. Can you make a trampolining a verb like that? I think you can. I think you just did.
SPEAKER_00One of the trampolining. As I'll state my senior year in trampolining. But there was an episode there where Phil was all like, I'm a cool dad, I'm a texting dad. LOL, laugh out loud. And then he said WTF, why the face? You know. No, that's not it. And it is interesting that, and you and I have talked about this. I don't know if it's geographical, but it is interesting with the advantage you mentioned earlier of the world wide web, the world has become even smaller, and so we're learning all these slang words that are said in Brazil, they're said in Canada, they're said in Australia, said in the great United States of America. And so obviously, our job as dads and also as influential podcasters. Yeah. Which of course we are, is to try and ensure that everybody understands what we're saying. So I like to learn these terminologies and some of these phrases, and the only way to really learn them is to apply them and to use them. That's what I was gonna ask you. Are you willing to put them into practice? Oh, absolutely.
SPEAKER_01Me too, but you know what? It seems like the kids don't really care for it when I put them into practice.
SPEAKER_00Oh, they hate it. Why can they use it and I can't? I I don't understand it because they're going through the effort of teaching me these words, and then the only way that you can learn is that's kind of the old the time-tested model is like you know, you learn something, you hear about it, you learn it, and then you try to put it into practice to really kind of solidify it in the old brain bank, if you want to.
SPEAKER_01Well, we both have learned a new language, right?
SPEAKER_00Yes, we have. You speak Chinese, I speak Bulgarian. It's been a long time, but we both tried. Exactly. My Mandarin is rough, but I do the best that I can.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but when you're learning those languages, you learn new words, and you try in that day that you learn to use that word a couple of times because then it ingrains it into your vocabulary. There's a whole language out there that you and I are learning with these teens. Now, you don't have quite the teens yet.
SPEAKER_00No, I don't, I don't. But it's amazing that how early on there these words are becoming part of the vernacular. Yeah, absolutely. And it's good for you as a father to understand them so you can use them as well. Absolutely. Now, what's some of the slang words that you and I remember using growing up? Well, obviously, and they're still used. People say cool.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but we'd say that a lot. Yeah, oh yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's cool.
SPEAKER_01That's very cool. Um, I still do now that I just said it out loud too. That felt very, very normal. Awesome. Awesome. I use that a lot. I think that might be kind of local. I I mean I'm sure people use it, but I've heard that people, especially like in Utah areas, say awesome almost too much.
SPEAKER_00And sometimes I like to shake it up, but I'll say something like awesome possum. Yeah, that's a very dad thing to do. Which is I'm all on board.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you know, where are my uh where are my sandals with socks when I say that? Exactly. Try not to wear your sandals with your socks. And men out there, if you're doing it, you know what? You gotta stop it. Stop it. Just don't wear socks with your sandals. We'll have a fashion podcast soon enough. Yeah. Uh those are we had a cancel podcast, and that might have to go on there too. That's a good point. Socks with sandals. Just don't.
SPEAKER_00In fact, I'm gonna go as far as saying don't wear sandals if you're a grown man. Yeah, I actually think that's true because for I mean, it's a hard no with socks and sandals, but on the flip side, I don't think any person wants to see my naked toes. No. Kind of gross.
SPEAKER_01Very gross. If you're pool side, if you're water side, all right. Fine. But you know, uh, better be water. Same with your taking shirt, the taking the shirt off idea. Don't do it.
SPEAKER_00You're going to Disneyland, put on some shoes. Yeah. You know, don't be wearing sandals, don't be wearing flip-flops, or as we like to call them growing up, speaking of, thongs. Yeah, don't wear your thongs. Turns out that turned into something else. That turned into something different. It doesn't mean that. I you shouldn't tell people not to wear their thongs. Some people you should. It's the same way though. Again, once you get to a certain age and you start getting some corns and some bunions, I'm not saying that I got those on my toes. Maybe some some is it's like a hammerhead toe or something like that.
SPEAKER_01Some of the shark. But I think there's hammer toes. Hammer toes, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Hammerhead felt very good.
SPEAKER_01You don't want to do that. And so if your second toe is not only longer than your first, but kind of taking the corner and going around the others, like like protecting the others like a mother hen. Exactly. Nobody we don't really care to see that. We don't want to see it.
SPEAKER_00No. Put a sock on it. Just put a sock on it. Put a sock on it. And just a nice shoe.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00Nice tennis shoe. Sure. I wear Adams. I love them. You look great.
SPEAKER_01Thank you. No problem. Yeah, let's let's cover up the feet. Men? Men. No, women, you can you can wear your sandals, that's fine. People paint on those nails sometimes. People out there right now are saying, who are they? To tell us. Well, I don't know.
SPEAKER_00Like, would it kill you to polish those things?
SPEAKER_01Well, they're like, would it kill you to maybe shave those toes?
SPEAKER_00I know that's sick. It's sick. The thing that I love about this podcast is we can go down some tangent rabbit holes and I love it. Um back to vernacular. This is a little bit, I'm gonna say this is more mid to late 90s. You remember sweet? Because sweet.
SPEAKER_01Sweet.
SPEAKER_00I feel like I'm as we say these to each other, I feel like I'm saying them a lot. I say them a lot, and I think our kids are making fun of us because I don't hear my girls saying sweet. No, I don't either.
SPEAKER_01Um I don't hear your girls saying that, but I don't hear my son saying, or my oldest is a daughter, she doesn't say that's sweet. That's sweet. What about the term aight? That's a I hear it all the time. My my kids that's aight.
SPEAKER_00That's aight.
SPEAKER_01It's aight. So, like a translation would be So for our older listeners, that is alright. That is alright. So, mom, dad, if you hear the kids saying, that's aight, it just is alright.
SPEAKER_00Basically, what it is is it takes so much more effort to pronounce the L and the R. Yeah. Well, you got two words, all right. All right.
SPEAKER_01It's a I heard back in the day, that's real boss. And I like it. I do too. I'm a fan of boss. I like saying boss because I feel like it for two reasons. I just think it works, uh-huh, and secondly, I think it makes me seem like an older dude, like an old man, and to my kids, it's like, dad, and I think it's so funny. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know, buddy, but that is real boss.
SPEAKER_00That's boss. Uh we actually uh the family took a trip down to Salt Lake just last week, actually. Had to just run a few errands, and um my girls were anxious to just visit and talk in the truck. And listen, as a dad, I am all over that. For some reason, we started talking about the new words and new slang. And so uh my oldest Kennedy, she was asking me and kind of quizzing me on some words. Some I was familiar with, and then again I tried to use them in a sentence. But do you have do you have any that you have heard from your your boys or your girls that you love?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And we try to use them, and they're like, no, no.
SPEAKER_00And they're like, Dad, don't, please don't.
SPEAKER_01You can say, like, if you want to say, I'm serious, like, I'm not lying about that. You can say, no cap. Oh, no cap. Yeah, no cap. Or I'm not capping. Yeah, or you can say I'm serious.
SPEAKER_00That's cap.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's cap. Meaning, no, that you're lying. Oh, like a lie. Yeah, no, if you're if you were to say something to me and I didn't believe you, I'd say that's cap. That's cap.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. See, that kind of throws me a little bit, but I like it. I'm gonna try and work in a lot of things. Because not everyone that tunes in or subscribes to this podcast, they may not have the wonderful blessing of having teenager children in our homes that tell us when we're wrong. It's a it's a whole new language. It's teen talk, is what it is. Let me throw one to you. All right. I'm taking notes here with my pen. Um, what if I were to say sus?
SPEAKER_01Oh, I know sus. I learned I learned sus. Seems like I learned another one that same day. That seems a little sus. That seems sus. So if I so for our listeners out there, if we put this into context, um I flew to the moon last night. That's sus. That's sus.
SPEAKER_00Obviously, a little bit short for suspect. Yeah, this is very suspect. Um, my niece uh Olivia, she taught me that for the first time. She'll tell you. Won't you? Yeah, I mean I'm trying to use some of these, like she's lit. She is lit. She's lit, and she's telling some of these things. Lit. Now that can be like legitimate. Is that lit? No, is that hot? I what? I don't know. I don't even know. What just happened? Well, she's happened. If that was lit, can we say that a person is lit? I think so. Yeah, people are lit. Yeah, they're lit. Things are lit. See, for me in high school, if you say that person was lit, typically meant they got lit last night. Like yeah, they're smoking the wacky tobacco. Exactly.
SPEAKER_01And they're like, and then next thing you know, that just wants some Doritos. Yeah, exactly. Like that's and so I think that means something different than it's like. Yeah, I think you can use it for both. Oh, that person was lit last night. Or, yeah, that's pretty lit. It's pretty lit. Maybe it all comes from the same thing, though.
SPEAKER_00It probably does. Like, I don't get it. It kind of blows my mind every once in a while. Another one that Liv taught me was tea. So if I were to say to you, hey Dave, spill the tea.
SPEAKER_01So I learned that one too. Okay. But I never use it. Maybe I need to. You should. I'd like to know the tea.
SPEAKER_00I'd be like, hey, hey you guys, you wanna let's spill the tea? What you got any tea for me? I think that's like gossip, right? Yeah, but what does the tea part stand for? I mean, I think it's actually like T-E-A. I mean, is it like spill the T. That can't be right. No, I think it's trite.
SPEAKER_01Really? It's not the letter T that means how about the truth? Does it mean the truth? Because it's gossip. It can't be all true. But we want to spill the tea.
SPEAKER_00Well just give me some just give me some of the tea. Give me some of the tea. After we go through some of these, it might be fun to see if we can get some professionals to really kind of weigh in on this. By professionals, you mean teenagers, right? Yeah, I do. Those professional teenagers. New one that I just learned the other day.
SPEAKER_01Bussin. Yeah, I've heard that. Susie used it the other day, and the kids all shook their heads like, Mom, you can't use that.
SPEAKER_00Say busin'. What does busin mean? It means delicious. Delicious. So typically, and I think typically you use that when you're referring to to food, right? Yeah. Well, I would hope so. I would hope so. I don't know what else.
SPEAKER_01I don't know what else it's gonna be. Like, for instance, tonight, as Jason and I have recorded some of these pods, we like to say lay down the pods. Lay down the pods, yeah. And then eventually, once they they are actually out there for all of you to consume, we're dropping pods. We're dropping pods left and right. Yeah, I mean to me that's very team talk. That seems cool. Right now we're laying the pods. Between laying pods tonight, we went and grabbed ourselves a big juicy steak. Oh, so good. Which was bussing. Oh, busin'.
SPEAKER_00Bussin'. We were we were both, it was lit. It was lit. I I was driving through McDonald's the other day, as you know, I'm a big fan. Yeah, well, big business. It's bussing. And I want to say it was right before that that my girls taught me what busin' meant. And so I said to them, they were both in the backseat, Heather was in the front seat, of course. And I said, I'm gonna use busin' with the lady. Oh, with this lady. With this lady at the counter. And they was like, Dad, no, don't do that.
SPEAKER_01Well, how old do you have any idea how old the lady at the counter would have been? I mean, is it in her vernacular? It should have been, for sure.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Yeah, because I think she's young. I'm gonna guess, you know, high school or maybe just out. So perfect. Perfect. So so she passes me my bag of food, and I'm like, oh, looking forward to this big mech. I sure hope it's bussing. And apparently that was they're like they were like just trying to like crawling under the table. Oh yeah, they're trying to like just kind of disappear into the back seat of the truck. Of course, I rolled down all the windows so that they can see them too. You need to. And the whole trip is lit.
SPEAKER_01It is not sus at all.
SPEAKER_00Not sus at all. Um no cap. No cap. Fleek? I don't understand that word at all. I don't either. In fact, if I were to put two together, fleek and yeet.
SPEAKER_01My boys will say that every once in a while.
SPEAKER_00Give can you give me an example? Like when would they say it? Anytime. Like yeet. Yeah, just like spontaneous. They're just sitting there. Yeet? Yeet? I don't know. I don't know why they say it. Well, so it's interesting. The first thing that I thought was. I thought it was like yep. Yeah, well, what I thought, of course, we know that great one of my favorite comedians, Jeff Foxworthy. He talks about Southern words. And what I heard, yeet, he does a little bit about like, did you eat yet? Like. I don't think that's yeet.
SPEAKER_01I don't think I don't I don't think it's even close, but I in my mind I think it's yeah, it is sus. In my mind, I think it's meaning Yep, and okay, and let's do it, or I don't know. We're gonna have to do some extra research. As we're talking through some of this stuff, I think we're gonna need to do some extra research. You know what? Maybe we should go to the phones. Go to the phones. Let's go to the phones.
SPEAKER_00Let's go to the phone.
SPEAKER_01First time caller, long time listener. It's like, uh, Sylvia in the booth, could you get uh we should go to the phones because I think it could be really an interesting uh kind of a test to see. It'd be awesome if we could call Olivia. See how I just used the living or awesome right there? Yeah. Yeah, but I have no problem with it. And it felt natural. It really did. Oh, you know what else? Dripping. Oh, I'm not familiar with that one. If you dress really nice, you're dripping. Really? Yeah. Well I mean, I don't know if I am right now. You're dripping right now. You look great. Yeah, thanks. You look great. I could do better.
SPEAKER_00To use a term from the 90s. Yeah. Fat P H A T. Yeah. But I never could get on board with that. I think it stands for pretty hot and tempting. Oh, really? I think so.
SPEAKER_01Well then I am fat. Exactly. Yeah, you are dripping. Yeah, I'm dripping. And then oh, what was the other one? That, like if you're wearing a cool looking hat. Okay. That hat slaps. I don't I don't I don't I don't know what it means. I don't know if you it means I can take that hat and I'm gonna slap you with it. Slap you up the side the head with it. But it slaps.
SPEAKER_00But it seems like it's a positive thing. It is. I mean he's slapped oh with a cool hat. I don't know. But it slaps, Jason, so we'll let's use them. Like I've used busin' in a sentence. I've used sus. I've used oh, what about bet? Yeah, bet. Like they'll say, well, it just means like, do you want to bet? But you might say something like, I could throw that football right over top of those mountains. Bet. Bet. Like, like not a chance you could do that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's just bet. Bet. Yeah, no, you couldn't. No, you couldn't. So yeah, bet's kind of a no way.
SPEAKER_00Let's see if we can get our teams. Yeah, let's call a teen. Let's call a teen. I wish I could get Olivia on the phone because again, you mentioned that earlier, but she's different time zones. She's like four hours ahead of us, and it's like probably midnight there.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, she's a she's listening in loud and clear from Brazil. Part of our global audience. Yes. Now, see, it would be interesting to talk to a female teen. I got two male teens, and we could try to call either of them, and we'll give it a shot. In fact, let's try first, let's try the 17-year-old. Okay. Let's get him on the horn. That's kind of another phraseology. That's fun. Yeah. That's fun. But we need to preface this because this this phone call could go one of a few different ways. Now he's not expecting this call right now. Not at all. He will either answer and we will have a very one-way conversation. Okay? And the conversation will be me asking questions and him responding in little more than grunts. Okay? It'll be, huh? Well, how is yeet any more than a grunt? No, most of these aren't. Most of these aren't. So what I'm gonna do is ask him for some advice on my ability to teen talk. We'll see if we can get him on the horn. Now, another way this could go is he will see that I'm calling and just choose not to answer.
SPEAKER_00That's you know, that is one bad thing about uh caller idea the idea these days. Yeah. I mean I love it. I wanna I wanna know.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, uh me too. But if I've always said to my children, if mom or dad calls you, you answer that phone. You answer that phone. And if if you don't, I'm the one paying for the thing, so I might just take it away. Well, let's just see what it get him on the horn, put him on speaker, of course. Yeah, for sure. We're gonna we're gonna get this going here. This is my son Stratford. So here we go here. I'm so excited. Yeah, this is hold your hats, folks. This is this is the first time. And uh see if we we can get him here. That's the third ring that's ominous. See if we can get that's a fourth ring.
SPEAKER_00At least he didn't send you directly to voicemail.
SPEAKER_01I don't even think this kid's ever even set up voicemail. He can't be he can't be bothered by that.
SPEAKER_02Hello?
SPEAKER_01Hey bud, I didn't think you were gonna answer. Where are you?
SPEAKER_02Um we are ironically.
SPEAKER_01What are you doing out there?
SPEAKER_02We were boating.
SPEAKER_01Well, it's dark.
SPEAKER_02I know, I come on my own.
SPEAKER_01What about uh the catfish that are gonna get you?
SPEAKER_02The what?
SPEAKER_01The catfish that are out there, they'll get ya. You didn't get in? Well, that's wise. I don't know, the whole thing seems a little sus to me. Oh, I believe you. I believe you. We went to uh have you eaten yet?
unknownWhat?
SPEAKER_01Have you have you eaten yet?
SPEAKER_02No. I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, Jason and I just went to Texas Roadhouse, so sorry. It was busting. Hey.
SPEAKER_02Okay, can I hang we need to clean the boat?
SPEAKER_01Were you trying to hang up?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I need to get off the house.
SPEAKER_01Okay, well, well that was fun. Thanks. Goodbye. Now that was interesting. That was. The experiment of the whole thing was very interesting. How he really didn't want to be talking to me. No, no.
SPEAKER_00But he gave me more than I expected. He did give you a lot, more than I expected as well. You maybe were already aware of this, but like I love the fact, like, it's dark. Yeah, yeah, this is what time is it? It's 10 30. 10 30 our time. Yeah, and he he was boating.
SPEAKER_01Well, I mean, look. Sounds like you remember in one of our previous podcasts, I said, just never claim to be wise. Never claim to be smart. He's never claimed to be smart. And see, that's what I've taught him. He's out there. I mean, I don't even know if there's catfish out there. I don't either. I don't even know what there is out there. I just wanted to see if I could carry on a conversation.
SPEAKER_00But I'm telling you, if they were catfish and you were catching one, maybe fried up with a little dill butter, I'm gonna be bussing.
SPEAKER_01No, it wouldn't. I mean, if I understand the word right, it wouldn't. Let's now go to the 15-year-old. Yeah, I like this. Because the 15-year-old, this is gonna get interesting. Yeah, it really is. He I'm gonna flat out ask him about some slang. Okay, good. And see what he says. Okay? I think he'll answer. This is 15-year-old Griffin.
SPEAKER_00And I want to ask him, I want to use him in some sentences.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. There we go.
SPEAKER_00There we go, there we go.
SPEAKER_01Could get it quite on speaker there. So Griffin's 15. Yeah. He uh thinks he's way smarter than he is. He wanted me to buy him a side-by-side for $27,000.
SPEAKER_00I hope you did.
SPEAKER_01Hey bud. Hey, we're trying to work on some uh teen talk slang here. You help us out?
SPEAKER_02No.
SPEAKER_01Why not? Buddy, it's lit. Listen, we're gonna this is this is this is lit. Full cap, buddy. I don't think it's full cap. I don't think it's full cap. So we went to Texas Roadhouse tonight and got a steak and it was bossum.
SPEAKER_02No, don't do that.
SPEAKER_01Why not?
SPEAKER_02I don't want your dad to say that.
SPEAKER_01Why can't a dad say that's busum? That's bossum. How about it slaps? Can I say why?
SPEAKER_02You can't use any of those terms.
SPEAKER_00What about what about if I buddy Jason Kimber here, um longtime friend here. What if I said ye?
SPEAKER_02Only if it's a a good time to say it.
SPEAKER_01Okay, so what's the time to say ye?
SPEAKER_02If you're like throwing something.
SPEAKER_01Okay, so it's just kind of a like like in the eye over type of thing. You can say you're just gonna yeet it. Or like if you're gonna hit a golf ball, you wanna just yeet it out there. Do you have a favorite one? How about like am I dripping?
SPEAKER_02Depends what you're wearing.
SPEAKER_01So it's all about what I'm wearing. Okay.
SPEAKER_02Like if you're wearing new 270s, you can be dripping.
SPEAKER_01I'm wearing them right now.
SPEAKER_00So I'm dripping. You're dripping, buddy. You're dripping.
SPEAKER_02If you got like a weird dad shirt on and you're not dripping, you gotta have some Nike shirt.
SPEAKER_01Some Nike shirt? What it's a Puma. It's a Puma.
SPEAKER_00It's a Puma shirt. What's cooler than a Puma?
SPEAKER_02No, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_00What uh Griff, would you say something like your dad's shoes are fire?
SPEAKER_02Only the 270s.
SPEAKER_00Well another one. I have a really good shoe game. You have a lit shoe game. I do. I I drip most of the time. Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_01Small. Yeah, and all my shoes slap. Griff, back, Griff. Pretty lit.
unknownNo.
SPEAKER_01So, Griff, let me ask you this. At what age can a man not use the word busin'?
SPEAKER_02Um, probably if you're over 18.
SPEAKER_01You can't say busin' if you're older, eight older than eighteen.
SPEAKER_02You have to be younger than eighteen to say it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that ship selled for us a while ago, buddy. Barely, though. What about no cap and cappen? Can we say that? Capen?
SPEAKER_02Probably the same age.
SPEAKER_00Oh my gosh. We're getting really weeded out here. What about I really want to say sus because I like the word sus.
SPEAKER_02That was probably a little bit could be a little bit older, maybe like 21.
SPEAKER_00Oh gosh. We're still a ways old. We're still a ways out.
SPEAKER_01What's that sound?
SPEAKER_02Um, I'm I'm currently driving.
SPEAKER_01What you're 15. Oh, we're gonna have to call the Pope.
SPEAKER_00Apparently he's backing a very large rig up.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, what are you driving? Oh, that was you put your seatbelt on. That's what it was.
unknownYep.
SPEAKER_01Griffin, don't drive while you're talking to your dad.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Alright, we'll talk to you later. Thanks, Griff. This has been very helpful. Hey, peace out, Griff.
SPEAKER_00Live. I don't think you could just like for me, I'm just throwing words out there. Me too. Just ye. Well now, um, along these same lines, uh it made me think a little bit about it kind of goes to uh to emojis. This is just a little little tangent that I want to talk about because I just learned this the other day. Again, my niece Liv, Olivia, she said she sent, we've got this family text thread kind of going back and forth. And I said something which I thought was funny. I can't remember what it was. I'm sure it was. I think like to think so, and she responded with three skull and crossbones emojis. And I was just like, oh. Yeah, it's kind of morbid. It's kind of morbid, it's almost like like death, you know. What is this, death day? I was like, I didn't know, and and apparently I think it means it was like she was dying laughing. I have a hard time, it's a hard one to get around.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it really is. You know, I've also heard, which is crazy. Now, I don't know about you, but when I text, full punctuation has got to be correct. We are not animals. No, but apparently there we are, because if you put a period at the end of a sentence, from what I'm understanding and I won't stop. You can't make me. No, no, you won't make me stop, I won't stop either. But apparently that means it's like you're mean about it. And like you're like mad? You're mad about it. Almost like you're yelling at me. Yeah, well, and I can understand all caps. Sure, for sure, all feeling. If you're gonna cap and type in all caps, that means I'm yelling this at you. Yeah. But just to have a period at the end can come off as rude.
SPEAKER_00And I cannot get behind. I won't do it. Because what are they gonna say next? Uh letter of the first of the sentence's capital is like insensitive? I think so.
SPEAKER_01I can't. I I mean, again, if Griff's not gonna let a 21-year-old say busin'.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, he actually shut us down on bussin', no cats, no cat. It seems like we can't say much of it at all. Actually, I we just stick to cool and boss and just the old school stuff.
SPEAKER_01I don't even if we would have said Griff, can I say I he would have said no.
SPEAKER_00No, I think he would have said no too. You know what's a kind of a uh fun little thing? In Australia, there's a term they say for cool, like that's cool. Guess what it is? Grouse. Grouse? As in Grouse Creek. I mean, there we go. Well, so it's cool creek out there. It's cool creek, buddy. Like, man, this is grouse. Really? Yeah. I'm can I use it? Of course you can.
SPEAKER_01I'm not Australian. I have no shrimp on the bobby.
SPEAKER_00But I played one on TV.
SPEAKER_01Well, uh Griffey also has said some funny things. He's brought home some words, and I don't know who's coming up with them, but speaking of Australian, he came home and was was calling us donks one day. D-O-N-K-S. I'm like, what in the world is a donk? Yeah. But it stuck with our family. Everyone's in the house now is a donk. Is a donk? And it kind of means dumb. I'm assuming it's like a like a term of endearment, though. Well, it it's kind of come that way for us. Okay, good. Just saying, oh come on, you donk. Got a lot of donks in the house. Um, but when you when I looked it up online, I'm like, it's gotta mean something. It says Australian for idiot.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Now I don't know if that's true. I don't know if that I'm not familiar with that as well, because like you're saying like it means dumb, and then it was like, dummy, don't be a dummy, and then I think donk, don't be a donkey. But that doesn't, I mean, that doesn't work.
SPEAKER_01I don't even know.
SPEAKER_00That's like a I think people are making it up.
SPEAKER_01But to our friends down under, if that helps you understand us, uh that's growl. Jason's a dunk. Don't say that. No, no, I won't. Um do we have to you know what Griffe also said one time? Something was stinky, yeah. It didn't smell good, and he goes, Oh, smells like straight cheeks in here.
SPEAKER_00That one cracked me out. Yeah, that's probably you so to use it like, for instance, if you were to get into my truck right now, and I am so sorry, I'm trying to do better at this, but we're in the middle of moving, and and like there might be when you have kids and you let them eat in the car, like you could probably like um compile an entire happy meal from my backseat. Oh, Jason, it's not good. I know, I'm not proud of it. Well, don't be girls. The girls are eating back there, and there's like a doesn't sound like they're eating anything at all. I don't think they are, but but I would get into my truck now and I'd say, Oh man, this truck smells like straight cheeks. Yeah. Is that what I'd say? Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00Oh, well that's lit.
SPEAKER_01It must stem from it's lit. It is lit. It must stem from like bum cheeks. I'd assume so. Yeah, I don't stinky.
SPEAKER_00Because these cheeks, they're not bad at all. It's just they're just pinchable.
SPEAKER_01They are the other cheeks, maybe.
SPEAKER_00So I don't know. It's a little sus. A little sus. And and when we say words like this, our kids probably refer to us as boomer.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, uh, my kids will say boom ski and boomer and boomer. They don't even know how old I am. They think that 45 is super old. Well, but you know what? I look great. You look great. I mean, I'm carrying an extra few. And the the bald spot is ever growing.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but I think it's attractive. I think it is too. I'm I actually hadn't noticed a little bald spot going in, so she bought me this special magical like little juju juice that I rub in there every morning.
SPEAKER_01It'd be more funny if she just bought you a special magical hat.
SPEAKER_00You know what? Just put this on. Yeah, Jason, I love you with a hat. Do you mind sleeping with it? I've never worn a hat before in my life. Yeah. Listen, this is fun. I mean, you know, time's getting away because we we talked about to give maybe a little teaser for a future podcast. You start thinking about um words like this, and then you start thinking about sometimes these lyrics or these words are making it into modern-day lyrics. Yeah. And so I'm notorious for like getting the wrong lyric to begin with, anyways.
SPEAKER_01I I actually prefer it. I enjoy trying to sing the songs when I have no idea what the words are.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I mean that's kind of a fun activity. I wonder how our kids feel about that. They probably don't love it.
SPEAKER_01No, but you know what? I don't care.
SPEAKER_00I I think it's pretty boss. Yeah, it's boss. Um, yeah, we're gonna talk about that. We're gonna talk about that another time. Um I don't know how to really round this one up other than maybe we could just use all these words. Yeah, folks out there, s stay lit.
SPEAKER_01Unless it actually means hi. We don't want to do that. We don't want you to do that. Um, so let's uh keep keep dripping. Keep dripping. I hope, I hope your next meal is bussing. Yeah, and let's say keep bussing and and in the spirit of uh of uh graduation and summertime, stay cool, stay cute, have a great summer. Thanks again, folks, for listening to another episode of the Small Towns Podcast. We're pretty sure we've changed your life for the better. If not, well, we'll try again next time.