In this week's episode of 'Real Talk,' Susan and Kristina take on the daunting task of deciphering the ever-changing slang of today's kids. From navigating linguistic rollercoasters to tackling new words and phrases that pop up daily, they show that staying in the know is not just essential but also a fun challenge. Join them for some laughs and linguistic acrobatics as they take on today’s latest trends.
TRANSCRIPT:
Susan Stone:
Welcome back to Real Talk with Susan Stone and Kristina Supler. We are full-time moms and attorneys bringing our student defense legal practice to life with real candid conversations.
Have a fun podcast today, Supler.
Kristina Supler:
What are we talking about?
Susan Stone:
We are going to talk about decoding teen slang and trends.
Kristina Supler:
Oooo, fun, I like it.
Susan Stone:
Yeah. Before we launch into our podcast today, can I just say it is so flipping cold out.
Kristina Supler:
Oh my gosh. It is freezing out. To our listeners out there, We are in Cleveland where it's a balmy four degrees or one degree, depending upon the device you look at, and it is just frigid.
Susan Stone:
Okay, So hubby last night noted that there are no terms for cold and it's been called an ‘arctic blast’. You ever thought that we were experiencing…
Kristina Supler:
I feel like I've heard like local weather people use different iterations of Arctic blast. Arctic freeze. I don't know.
Susan Stone:
All I know is I was trying to walk the dogs yesterday and it was truly a miserable experience for me and the dogs. They didn't even want to go out and go to the bathroom. It was awful.
Kristina Supler:
Funny, I had the same experience this morning when I took my two dogs out. It was like quick rush, take your business and get back inside. But even inside, Freezing. Freezing, freezing, freezing.
Susan Stone:
Yeah, and didn’t you have… What happened with your uh… was it your, was it your water heater? Your power? What happened this weekend?
Kristina Supler:
So, Cleveland got a big storm over the weekend and yeah, I didn't have power for 24 hours so I was, we were away. It's fortunate that we were away but it was a little nerve racking in terms of, I don't know, bad things happening in the house. Fortunately, my husband informed me that power has no impact on our heating system because we have steam.
I didn't really know. Yes, but yeah, food in the fridge, all those fun issues that Midwesterners deal with, so on and so forth. But here we are today and hopefully we've got something light and funny that can warm things up.
Susan Stone:
Yeah. You know what we did yesterday? I took my youngest and we went and saw Mean Girls.
Kristina Supler:
Oh I read about the like re- uh, relaunch of that movie. I’ve never seen it. Tell me about it.
Susan Stone:
Well, I love the original. And the original was amazing. Rachel McAdams, Lindsay Lohan,
Kristina Supler:
I was gonna say isn’t Lindsay Lohan in it. That's. Yeah, the two comes to mind.
Susan Stone:
Yeah. And that was one of her. And she's in the remake.
Kristina Supler:
How’s she looking these days?
Susan Stone:
She's looking gorgeous.
Kristina Supler:
Really, good! Good.
Susan Stone:
Shout out to you, Lindsay. You are aging fine. But I will say, Tori, my 18 year old, did not like the movie at all.
Kristina Supler:
Really? Why? Now, did she had she seen the original or. No?
Susan Stone:
No, she had. She just thought.
Kristina Supler:
the remake was not hitting her right?
Susan Stone:
No. She thought it was insulting to her intelligence.
Kristina Supler:
Why is that?
Susan Stone:
Well, she felt like it didn't capture the original flavor of bullying.
And she thought bullying is such an important topic that they sort of made fun of it and made light of it and made it seem ridiculous.
Kristina Supler:
So let me ask you, was there any, like redeeming message or takeaway for viewers of the movie? Any lessons to be learned?
Susan Stone:
I mean It was the same lesson be kind, be nice, blah, blah, blah. I'm not trying to put down.
Kristina Supler:
Sure that's and that's a good one, but it's a little basic.
Susan Stone:
But the way it was delivered, that's the word
Kristina Supler:
Basic.
Susan Stone:
It was basic. Yeah. So, you know, I wanted to love it. I want it to because I love the original and I know there's now the musical and, you know I love me a Musical.
Kristina Supler:
You love a Musical.
Susan Stone:
Oh my gosh. I mean, there isn't a musical that I don’t rush and see.
Kristina Supler:
I think it's so funny that we're talking about this because I have to imagine while and I've experienced that, sometimes people think that as lawyers we’re, you know, reading the news and thinking about Supreme Court opinions and all these, you know, intellectual things, and here we are, “Hey, Supler I saw Mean Girls yesterday”.
Susan Stone:
But on to our topic about the way kids talk and how language changes. So I was, I did a little research. Truthfully, I forgot the fun terms I used when I was in high school or were popular in the eighties.
Kristina Supler:
Okay, lay it on me.
Susan Stone:
Okay. Ready?
Kristina Supler:
Ready.
Susan Stone:
Gag me with the spoon. Did you say that?
Kristina Supler:
Never. No. I can honestly say no. I never said Gag me with a spoon.
Susan Stone:
Ready?
Kristina Supler:
Ready.
Susan Stone:
Eat my shorts.
Kristina Supler:
Uh that, that I'm familiar with through one, Bart Simpson. You really said that? You said eat my shorts.
Susan Stone:
I didn't, but others did.
Kristina Supler:
I just. What does is it really mean? Like, like.
Susan Stone:
Do you think it means Bug off? Maybe. I think that's what it means. Eat my shorts.
Kristina Supler:
Okay.
Susan Stone:
And gnarly.
Kristina Supler:
Now, Now. Okay. Who doesn't know? Gnarly. Sure. I think gnarly still kind of with us. The West Coast vibe a bit. I don't know.
Susan Stone:
So, Let's talk about some of the terms. I didn't know that well. Proposed by our fine marketing department.
Kristina Supler:
Let me ask you, though, what's what generation were you? Are you?
Susan Stone:
I am the beginning of Gen X.
Kristina Supler:
Ohhhh.
Susan Stone:
Babies baby
Kristina Supler:
Sure, sure, sure, sure.
Susan Stone:
Madonna spoke. You can't see me Voguing. Voguing, guys.
Kristina Supler:
Best music video ever. Ever! What's interesting about that is I think of myself as a Gen Xer, but actually, I shudder to admit this. I don't want to admit this, but I must. I am technically the beginning of millennials.
Susan Stone:
There is nothing about you that’s a Millennials
Kristina Supler:
I don't identify that way. I really see myself as a Gen Xer like the nineties vibe, but I guess according to the internet, according to Wikipedia or what have you, I'm technically a first year millennial.
Susan Stone:
That's interesting that I’m a Gen Xer. I was a latchkey kid, and for those of you who don't know what that is, my mom went to work and I had a, what was it, a shoestring with a key.
Kristina Supler:
You literally had a key on a shoestring.
Susan Stone:
I literally had a key on a shoestring.
Kristina Supler:
I didn't know that was a real thing.
Susan Stone:
That's why they called it ‘latchkey kids’ Supler. It's a real thing.
Kristina Supler:
Well, I have to confess, I grew up in a house that we never locked. I never had a key.
Susan Stone:
That's a beautiful thing.
Kristina Supler:
It actually is.
Susan Stone:
That’s a beautiful thing .And I was the MTV generation who didn't remember Tabatha Sorenson. So cute. And I was on MTV once.
Kristina Supler:
No.
Susan Stone:
Yeah, I danced.
Kristina Supler:
Tell me more.
Susan Stone:
There's not that much to tell.
Kristina Supler:
On the Grind? Were you on MTV on the Grind?
Susan Stone:
It was one of those shows, you literally waited in line and when they told you to dance, you danced. It's hilarious.
Kristina Supler:
But was it the Grind? Yes or no?
Susan Stone:
I don't think so.
Kristina Supler:
Because I really hope that it was.
Susan Stone:
And my roommate in college had a picture of Ronald Reagan above her bed.
Kristina Supler:
(Laughing) What did she love him?
Susan Stone:
She loved him.
Kristina Supler:
Was she attracted to him?
Susan Stone:
I don’t know Ronny was hot. Ronny was hot.
Kristina Supler:
Sensible citizen. Oh my God. Now that is the funniest thing.
Susan Stone:
Okay, guys Let’s talk about some words and then we can respond to what this generation is "saying. And I am going to mispronounce it, but ’gyat’.
Kristina Supler:
I, I just can't with this one. With this one, I just can't. I am told, so for all of our listeners out there, I've only recently come to learn this, this word, this phrase, and apparently it is a high compliment. It is a major, major compliment to give someone indicating that their derriere is large.
Susan Stone:
Yeah. I asked my daughter, do you know what ‘gyat’ is? She’s just like ass. I'm like, okay.
Kristina Supler:
Yeah. So I guess it rhymes with squat or bought
Susan Stone:
or fiat.
Kristina Supler:
And then it can also be, I guess I'm told, an acronym for something about the backside being thick. I don't know.
Susan Stone:
But I have to be honest, I've never heard it used in my house.
Kristina Supler:
I've never heard it used. I've never seen it. I mean, in our work representing students, we read a lot of text messages and social media posts. I've never even read it in a text, so I personally am very circumspect about this word and its use and popularity. I feel like a journalist or someone Internet writer out there just like made it up or heard one person use it and then said, oh parents, hey, you need to know this word. And it's really not a thing.
Susan Stone:
I don’t even like the way it sounds. But you know, you have a question for you. Why? When we read and we read thousands of text messages in our case, what's the point of Bruh B.R.U.H
Kristina Supler:
I wish I knew. I wish I knew. I've got nothing for you on that. And we see it literally every day and it's constant, It's constant. Like every other thing is ‘bruh’. And then the other question I have for you is ‘lol’, after everything, even after stuff that's not funny, you still put ‘lol bruh’. That you see a lot as well. I don't know. That is more with people, our clients who are a little bit older. It's not like high schoolers, but that I see all the time and I feel like it's just a habit because it's literally like on text where there's not even something funny said.
Susan Stone:
I don't get it, I don't get it. I agree.
Kristina Supler:
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