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A Phat Verbal Twirl
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Enjoy some 90's slang and debates about tell-tale signs of aging
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Introduction and New Format
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two seconds one second left and now we're in it this is it oh my god wait we're recording now yeah we should have been recording earlier it was a nice conversation oh my goodness yeah so hey guys hey hey hey folks hey how's going it's your buddies adam and danny here with uh that's rq and uh yeah we're just we're trying something a little bit different with how we record this show it's going to be a little a little bit of a different kind of setup danny's going to be doing some things differently i'm going to be doing some things differently but still the same guys still you same friends just a little less stressful a little more as danny just put it before i hit the record button lazy fair a lazy fairy yeah so hey if you haven't heard the show before if it's your first time welcome
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What we do here is we take your questions and we try to answer them as if anybody cared to hear our opinions on the questions that you asked on places like Reddit and Quora and anywhere else we decided to pluck a question from, or even from a very own website, funnestellers.org.biz.
Website Domain Challenges
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So here we are, we're going to do it. And this time Danny has chosen the questions. We're going to try to keep a, hopefully a shorter form format moving forward to keep our episodes a little bit more consumable and digestible for maybe your 30 minute car ride to work.
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Um, So without further achoo, I guess we'll just get into it. Yeah, so we're just going to do a question, maybe maybe some fun term to learn, and then maybe wrap up depending on how questions go and discussions goes, right?
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Yeah, and everything is very much you know up in the air in terms of you know the new style of TOQ. ah So if there's anything you like, don't like, if you have any suggestions on things we should do or not do, let us know on the on the website, on funinstallersnetwork.com.
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ah Well, it's dot biz now because they, Oh my God, I'm sorry. You're right. fuck They fucked up our dot com, uh, uh, uh, what do you call it? Domain. And we've been trying for months to get it back and it's like locked up somewhere.
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Oh, so we had to, we just had to make a whole new website with a dot biz because we can't like the domain is locked somewhere and we don't know how
Signs of Aging Discussion
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to get it. So they're just, We're in like a queue of like hundreds of people waiting for them to fucking... No, I mean, honestly, it's like a blessing in disguise because we give them the business. So... That's right. FunSolarsNetwork.biz. Yeah, we're different. Give the business.
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We're bringing biz back. Yeah. All right, so let's just get into it. Daniel, you're the one that chose the questions this time. ah You gave me a brief preview of what they could be about. And so take it away.
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you want say. Mr. Adam. Yes. What... is a clear sign that you're getting older. I mean, there's there's no other context?
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Nope, that's it. Who asked the question? like i I can start. Oh, yes, of course. This question was, see, you could tell I'm new at this. This question was asked by historical trifle 735 on Ask Reddit.
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They want to know what is a clear sign that you are getting older. Did you happen to save the link to see what other people said? ah Yes, I have it right here in front of me. oh Delightful. Well, I'm going try to just bang out a few of the low-hanging fruit. you know like I think maybe they're thinking more like stuff you feel, but you know obviously some people go very early.
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so um Anything. what What are some things I should look out for as I get older, you think? ah You know what? Here's one that I've been noticing is that like you know you make more noises when you stand up and sit down.
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You know? Yep. Like whether your body involuntarily cracks or squeaks or pops or you just go, ah you know, they call my dad grunting. But like everybody does it as they get older.
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Like, you know, every time you stand up, you sit down, your body's just like, ow, that's like that's a little bit tougher to do. I'm just letting you know, guy. It's hard to get up. Mine's my ankles. No shame. Every time I get up.
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my ankles have to crack super loud. It doesn't hurt. I'm not weak angled or anything, but every time they just have to crack super loud. Huh? Why, why your ankle? Like, are you standing up and then getting on your tippy toes every time you get up and sit down?
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Nope. It's like if I'm sitting on the floor, cause I still do that a lot. I sit cross legged on me too. Even at work in my office chair, I'll sit with my legs crossed and, uh,
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I don't know. When I get back up and I put weight on my feet, I can feel the tension. And then if I lean forward just a bit, they both crack real loud every time.
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I can infinitely crack my right toe if I put it like – imagine your foot's flat on the floor and then you flip it. like You go like ballerina style and then you put like your toes – Like you're flexing your, your, your ankles. So that way the front of your foot faces forward and you're not flat foot anymore. I put my toes underneath me and I like, I can just like keep flexing that big toe against the floor and it can crack like indefinitely. Like, I don't know why that is. I can't do it in any other way, but I can crack it indefinitely doing
Relating to Older Characters
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that.
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That's a pretty hot skill. It's fucking crazy. I don't know how I discovered I could do it, but like sometimes when like I want to be annoying, I just keep cracking and people are like, what the fuck is that? What's going on? Mel has one, too, with her wrists, I think. She can like crack it all the time. i don't have anything like that.
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That'd be dangerous for me. don't have anything can just crack all the time. Wow. um Yeah. I don't know. What's another one that you thought of? good so Yeah, so one... Oh, dropped the mic.
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One that I thought of is um re-watching old shows, i connect more with the older characters than the kids than to.
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Like Squidward? ah Yeah, like the obvious one. i when If I were to watch like old SpongeBob episodes instead of you know relating to SpongeBob or Patrick, now i'm like, God, these guys are annoying.
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I'm just like a freaking Squidward now.
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That was a hard one for me to get over. Yeah, I i could see that. Like, i I actually, when I was a kid, not with SpongeBob, but like, I remember thinking with Winnie the Pooh, even though like, personality wise, I probably relate more to Tigger.
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But like, I used to get so angry for Rabbit because like, everybody's so goddamn disrespectful to that that bunny. Like, let me wreck your, let me steal your honey. Let me wreck your garden. Let me just be a total ass swipe to you. And you're just trying to be the reasonable one of the group.
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And so there's a part of me, especially as I get older, that like relates to those characters. They're like, look, it's cool to have fun. I like doing this, but like, we have to think about that. Like, cause while I'm a very optimistic person, i typically try to be also like practical, like,
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I'm not just a believe and we can do it. I'm like, well, you know Let's like believe we can do it with the resources we have, but how do we get the resources to work?
Experiences of Aging and Freedom
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Like I'll keep us motivated, but I need to know like how we're doing this. Like what's the structure we need?
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Cause otherwise I never get anything done. Yeah. I need structured people to help me get through stuff. Cause I don't know how to do that. So like, I need a rabbit to be like, Hey, listen, buddy, I know you're excited, but we, this is how we have to do it. I'm like, fuck yeah. Okay, cool.
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So like a sense of collaboration, I think it's like kind of in a similar vein. I think like when you relate to older characters, like they're also the ones that are trying to get by and like, they also got to work with like the, maybe the out of control of the younger characters to help make shit work.
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And so like, I kind of, I feel you where I kind of relate to that, but more on like the collaborative sense of like, how do we work together to make things work? You know, how do we get through this at the same, like together, as opposed to just like, how am I going to,
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Actually, is a adventure and drag people with me. Speaking of work, and I realized this is happening a little early in my life, but it did still happen and, you know, made me feel old.
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ah But the job I have currently when I first got hired, um my direct supervisor was younger than me. And again, i was like 30 at the time. They were very young for their role.
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But That was another thing that I was like, man, that's something going to have to get used to like more and more as I get older. Yeah, that is hard. That is. Yeah, I could see that. um Let me ask you um in regards to like getting older and stuff like is that something that you find like what would you say is the more fun part about it?
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Like if you know, because most people are just afraid of aging. Like, do you ever find that there's a part where you're like, yeah, this is a part that I like. I actually I don't mind. getting older all that much.
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um You know, again, I'm 35. I'm not exactly, you know, a step away from pushing up daisies, I hope.
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But ah so far, like, the body's stuff is annoying, the cracking, and the every time I try to get up. But the freedom that comes with it and, um you know, like,
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it's hard cause you have to put a lot of the pressure of self-control on yourself because you know, if I want something, who's going to stop me? As long as I have the money, I can just buy the thing. Uh, in fact, I'm actually really hard to get presents for, for like birthdays and Christmas.
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Cause if a new video game comes out, let's say ah just buy the game, you know, ah even if my birthday's the next day, I'll be like, well, this is a present for me. Why shouldn't i Yeah, like, I could wait that day for my birthday, and, you know, maybe somebody will get it for me.
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Or, i could just press this little shiny buy now button.
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Yeah. Yeah. I'm kind of that way too. Cause like, I don't, I've had the opposite effect where I think someone's going to get something for me. And I'm like, you know what? I'm not going to get it for myself. Cause I know they struggle go to buy presents. So maybe they'll get it for me.
00:10:13
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And then it just doesn't happen. And then it's always like, well, I assumed you were going to get it for yourself. And i was like, see, no, I could have had it sooner. but but they um that yeah But it's hard for me to say like, you can buy me whatever you want. Or lately, honestly, but that's another thing with getting older though, i think is like,
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I'm really leaning more into the quality time kind of thing. So like, like if you want to go out to dinner, great. It's not about the dinner though. It's about just hanging out. Like we can just go get like something cheap. I'm really just like, I find it.
00:10:42
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it's I'm more excited by the thoughtful gesture of like ah donation of time. Like lately I don't really want presents that much, although I'll definitely take money. You know, if someone's like, Hey, here's an extra a hundred bucks. of like, fuck sweet. Okay. I'm not going to say no money is what I tell everybody to get me now. I'm like, just,
00:11:00
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It's my, I get to pick my own present. It's perfect. Right. That's really honestly like, that's like very fair. Cause like for me, it's like, i would never ask for money, but if someone's like, I couldn't think of what to get you. So I got you 50 bucks. Sweet. I will use it.
00:11:15
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yeah I'll use it. Like I'm less likely to use a ah cash gift on something I don't need. And I'm more likely to use it for like gas money, groceries, bills. Like, it's just like, for some reason when it's like money, ah money, I'm like, Oh, but Yes, that's responsibility money. Because I know people are like, hey, you got to get yourself something fun with this. Right. Don't don't just spend it on bills. But like.
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You know what's a lot of fun? Having electricity the next month. Right. Or less stress like – I love that shit. The less stress of like, oh, I got balance out. you know like I can ah obviously afford my bills just fine. But like if I have a cushion, like that's better. like That's a peace of mind that I'm receiving because of that. so like But I know that's boring for some people. So I definitely don't – and I know giving gifts – for some people is like very vulnerable or it's a big deal and they enjoy doing it. Well, just like, I think most people like helping in general. Like I think we're innately helping people, but like, so I don't want to take that away from them that they're like, i wanted to give you something.
00:12:13
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So if, if it's not, if it's not time and it's not money, it's like enamel pins. Like I'm just sitting there thinking like, if you go somewhere get me a button, it's like 50 cents, $2. I'm going to be giddy as all hell about this fucking pin. I'm going to add it to my jacket, you know, like,
00:12:29
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So that's another thing getting older. I'm realizing like some things I just don't know if I'm excited about anymore. Like I love video games, but like, I don't really want to buy anymore. Like, you know, I, there's nothing really that I collect aside from pins that like I care that much to get.
00:12:41
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Um, if, you if it's an experience, like, Hey, here's a ticket to a theme park, I gave you a membership to these classes for a few weeks. Like I just, I think that for me, it's about an experience. If I, if I had a choice,
00:12:55
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But if someone's going to ask me right away, like, what do you want for your birthday? Like, yeah, just get me a button or just come hang for a little bit. Like, it's never like i you know, I don't want anybody go out of their way for anything because I truly believe that.
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quality time is a donation of time. And I think that's like a donation that like you can't earn back. So you have to feel like you spent it well. And so like, I think like that's really where I'm at as
Confidence and Carefree Attitudes
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an older person. And like, as I'm, I'm reaching 37 and, I say older person, but older than like, you know, in my twenties, I mean, um, but like I'll be 37 in July and I'm just like, you know what?
00:13:28
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Like, this is kind of where I'm at and like, I'm cool with it. You know, this is great. Yeah. I mean, that's honestly something else I i liked about, um, growing up a bit more is i just stopped caring about like the, the more useless stuff that the petty dramas and stuff. Oh yeah. Um, you know, like all the high school type shit, I just don't care anymore. Or like, it's going to sound bad, but shame i have like in a good way, I have no shame anymore. You know, if I want to act like a goofball and we're in public,
00:14:04
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I'm going to act like a goofball because I don't care what those other people think. I don't care if somebody thinks that I'm being you know dumb. If I'm not hurting myself or being annoying to other people, except for the people I'm with, then I'm going to do it. I don't care about my public image in that way anymore.
00:14:24
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And I think that that was so freeing to kind of, to have that moment of, I don't care. I'm not self-conscious about anything. Like, physically anything about myself anymore because I don't care the people whose opinions I care about hopefully love me, you know, but random person walking down the street. I don't care if you think I'm a little fat or if my nose is big or if my hair looks silly or white, don't care.
00:14:53
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And it was so freeing to hit that, that point.
00:14:58
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Yeah, I agree. like, i was, um, I was just telling my niece, she's 13.
00:15:05
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And I was, I went to my sister's house last night to check on the family. And while I was hanging there, I don't get a whole lot of time with the older nieces. Cause like, you know, they're in teenage years and they want to just hang in the room or whatever.
00:15:16
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But to my second oldest credit, like she came outside and just like, I'm going to paint a rose and like pulled out like a fucking tiny little canvas, painted over an old painting. She didn't like, I was like, I'm going to paint over it and paint a rose. And she did a good job. Like, it was just nice to see a kid who's like, I'm going to paint right now.
00:15:31
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And um so i was just sitting there chilling with her and, I got up to go into the house and as I flung the door open, I did like a little spin, like a little dance pivot into the room. And came I came back out few.
00:15:42
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Yeah. And then I came back out a couple minutes later with a drink. She goes, why do you do that? And I, I don't notice I do anything. So like, this was like three minutes later. like, what the fuck are you talking about? Why do you just like so dance through doors?
00:15:55
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Like, why do you do that? And all I could think of was like, honestly, I don't even like, was like, how often do I do that? i was like, probably a lot if I did it without thinking about it. just But i you did it at least three times that one day we hung out.
00:16:08
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Yeah. And so, and I, and it kind of, it clipped me because somebody at work recently, like it's kind of hard to explain how like my office is set up to like where the warehouse is. it's very rare to have a warehouse connect to an office, but like,
00:16:22
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there's like this long strip where they carve out like that has like white paint to show you like where it's safe to walk. and they have like a big mesh net that separates you from the majority of the warehouse. So it's safe to get to the offices that I work in.
00:16:34
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And so I'm walking down this like corridor towards where my office is on the right. getting ready to go in there. And like, if once you look further down, you can see the warehouse garage doors and there's like some warehouse workers there, a couple of which I work with pretty regularly.
00:16:47
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And, you know, I give him a wave as I always do. When I see him, I whip the door open. I do a sick little spin and I just go in. I do it almost all the time. And like, uh, Jeff is the name of the guy who comes to visit me the most. He's one of the receivers and he's one of the ones that also swears very openly at work and like people don't like it, but I think it's great.
00:17:09
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He's been there for 18 years and he's like, I'm going to fucking talk. Oh, I want to fucking talk around here. And like two comes in literally seconds after I get my stuff, ah you know, getting ready to start my computer. And it's like, you just fucking do a spin through that door.
00:17:23
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Like he just like burst in. Cause there's two ways to come into the office. And he comes in the back one. Cause then you just fucking do a spin to that door. was like, ah, shit. Did I? He's like, oh, you fucking did. We all saw it.
00:17:35
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And i was like, why are you mad? And he goes, no, I just want to make sure I wasn't seeing crazy shit. Yeah. And i was like, yeah, no, no, it was me. He's like, all right, man, cool. And then he just laughed. So the first time ah my wife and i saw Adam do his little twirl, we went to a mall. a whole bunch of us went to the mall together.
00:18:00
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And I will never forget it. It's clearly ingrained in my skull. I don't remember going down. Yeah, we were going down an escalator. You were ahead of us. And you were at the front of the group.
00:18:12
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Mel and I were at the back of the group and we just see you get off the escalator and then just little twirl as he got off. It sounds like something I do, but I don't remember doing it. Mel and I just looked at each other and we're like, that was the most Adam thing I've ever seen. Yeah.
00:18:30
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But like, I don't remember doing like, that's the thing. Like, I guess what I'm kind of getting at is like, I don't notice I do it a lot of the time because I think I've just gotten to the point where like in, you know, I think once I reached my 30s and I really got into the dance and then got in the nonprofit later, I don't know. There's a weird transition over COVID too.
Poker Night and Preferences
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But like, i think I've just gotten to the point as I got older is like, just like you said, I'm just going to do it because it's fun. But I think sometimes now there's times where i definitely think about if I should do something silly, but sometimes I think I'm just so used to just doing it that I'm like, if I just do this thing and it makes me happy and it's like a quick little burst of joy. And this is what I told my niece. Like, I was like, she says, well, why do you do that? Uncle go Adam? And I was like,
00:19:15
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Because it's fun. She's like, well, it looks silly. And I was like, yeah, that's the point is it's fun. It's silly. Like, I don't, I don't think like, I literally didn't notice I did it. So she said it, but I was like, I'm sure I do it. Cause people have called it out before, but I was like, I don't like think about it. Cause it's just,
00:19:32
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I think I don't know if she took this to heart or not. I doubt it. But I told her, I was like, you have to learn to try to infuse the small things with whimsy when you can. yeah Because like as you get older, things get more stressful and they feel more bleak sometimes. And like you have more responsibilities and just you feel overburdened and depressed all the time. And like, that's not to say that's the experience for everybody, but it's an experience for a lot of people.
00:19:56
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And like, for me, I'm like, that's a thing I can control. How cool do I want to feel when I open a door? Right. I can control that. Nobody can take that away from me. You know? So like, i just started doing it. And then like, now it's so ingrained in my brain that like, I don't even notice like 80% the time that I do it.
00:20:14
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Yeah. And you know what? Doing a six spin as you open the door, fucking rules. Like, looks cool. It's different. It's visually like,
00:20:25
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It's something, you know? It's not just people walking. there for it. I do the same thing with stupid voices all the time. Yeah, oh, same. Even if I'm in public, I'll do stupid voices. That's my, like, verbal twirl.
00:20:39
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Yep. A verbal twirl. I like that. A verbal twirl. A verbal twirl. I think we found that what was the title of the episode. We'll have to use that There A verbal twirl. herbal A verbal twirl. Danny's herbal twirl. Oh, that sounds pretty good, actually.
00:20:59
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I'm actually, I'm drinking an Arnold Palmer right now. Sugar free, I hope. Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Exploration of 90s Slang
00:21:05
Speaker
Dude, yesterday, so my friends and i we just started a poker night.
00:21:12
Speaker
Oh. and uh wow you're a popular guy all of a sudden look at you making all these plans and shit oh my god who are you this is the group that we're playing repo with oh so you build on me after you already had a poker night and you're playing i already apologize what the fuck no i'm kidding i'm sorry guys no it's fine it's fine and to your point like i don't even care about the game i just love hanging out with them right i'm like it doesn't even matter um so i don't No poker at all. I went to visit my parents last month and I asked my dad to, you know, help me learn.
00:21:50
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And he showed me a little bit. We played for a couple hours and whatever. We ended up playing last night from. Eight o'clock to one in the morning.
00:22:01
Speaker
Wow. It was great. Like it was super low stakes. It was a dollar buy in. um Just because, again, me and the other guy were learning. The third guy who was running it lived in Vegas for a while, so he knew what he was doing.
00:22:19
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um But yeah, it was a great time. And I forget where I started with this story, but you know what? It was a great time. I brought this story up for a reason.
00:22:31
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And by the time I got there, I forgot where the finish line is. genuinely do not remember why you started telling the story. don't remember why I started the story. But you know what? They're great people, and it was a great time.
00:22:46
Speaker
I remember. No, I remember. I remember. remember. What was it? We ordered food for everybody. And i gotten they mistakenly got me a normal iced tea instead of sugar-free.
00:22:59
Speaker
Dude, I don't know how people drink this. And I know I'm used to sugar-free now and all that. It was so disgustingly sickly sweet. I took one sip. I hate no lemonade for that reason now. Like I just, I cannot enjoy lemonade the way I used to because like, so I realize that lemonade is already bitter because of the lemon, but because there's like 80 grams of sugar in a cup of lemonade, it's just, I'm just overwhelmed by it. Like even just like a sip, it's just like, you can feel it coating the inside of your mouth.
00:23:28
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For context, um this Arnold Palmer I'm drinking came in a giant jug. It's Arizona Arnold Palmer, the diet version. It comes with two grams of carbohydrates, which is sugars.
00:23:43
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Right. This little, like, it was a 20-ounce bottle, let's say, of lemonade, had 70 calories. grams of carbohydrates in it.
00:23:54
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I took one look at it and i was like, if I drink this, I'll just go into diabetic coma. So someone else take it. I'm danger. I'm danger ah Yeah, so...
00:24:06
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So what did we say is a sign of aging? I forget what we all said. ah Relating more to the older characters in shows. Yes. Having ah bosses or like people you have to work with younger than you.
00:24:20
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ah Body creaking was a big one. Yep. Dad grunts. The dad grunts. being Being less shameful of yourself. you know Being less shameful. yeah yeah Doing things that are fun that you don't care people think is weird.
00:24:35
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Grow older. Don't grow up. All right. I'm 35 and farts are still hilarious. Pooping is still funny. Everybody thinks it is. OK. If anybody says otherwise, they're just grow older. Don't grow up.
00:24:48
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Yeah. Speaking of which, I thought maybe um if you don't mind to transition out of the question and into a different conversation, know I've been toying with different. I still don't know.
00:25:05
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I know we're just going to call it randoms Adam random item or something random Adam's random item. And so I don't know why I thought about this, but I thought about 90 slang earlier when we were talking. And I i did a quick ah Google Senpai search and found a short list. And I thought it would be fun really go through some of these and see what you feel has stuck.
00:25:29
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And what you think is like died. And like, just also just to get your reaction. cause there's a few in here that I forgot about that. I'm like, ah damn dude. Like, i hope I just remember what they all mean. I'll be honest.
00:25:41
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Uh, well there, there's a few that I'm kind of chugging around. Cause I don't think some of these are real, but, um, but here's a, like, there's, there's a few, like, My favorite one that i just remembered was talk to the hand.
00:25:52
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Do you remember that? Oh, i do love talk to that. do you ever talk to the hand? Yeah, because God, that was so big when I was a kid. Like oh he a han the head ain't listening. Yeah. ah There was so many like talk to the hand because the face don't understand or something or talk to the hand because the head isn't in.
00:26:12
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Was gag me with a spoon in there? No, that was a little bit earlier. That was like late 80s, early ninety s Yeah. gag me with a spoon as a child born in the 80s you know yeah i might have some 80s slang uh mixed in there you know as i was born in october of 89 uh i am an 80s child right um there's uh So yeah, for those you who don't know or don't remember, talk to the hand was what you'd say when you didn't want to deal with somebody and you didn't want to talk to them anymore. So you'd tell talk to your hand because you to to them anymore.
00:26:48
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So you'd just put your hand to their face be like, talk to the hand. It was like F off. It was essentially just like, get out of here. Talk to the hand. Here's one that I have been trying to make come back, which is the bomb or I never said the bomb. It was more a slang version, but I like to say the bomb.
00:27:07
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But like the bomb was like the big one. It was, oh man, that's the bomb. Yeah, you the bomb. But I never felt cool enough to say the bomb. cause i always felt like that was appropriating like black slang. But like, so i always said the bomb.
00:27:18
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But like the bomb was like where it was at. So like, I think the bomb is still such a fun thing to say. And I get called out all the time for them. Like, Adam, nobody says that anymore. i'm like, I do. I say, I know it's cool. I know they don't, but they should.
00:27:30
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Yeah, the bomb is just like the fucking, that's my shit. That thing was awesome. You know, it was it' yeah it's it's the equivalent to like what fire is now. Like, oh, that song is fire. That that food is fire.
00:27:41
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and song you're like oh dude That song was the bomb. Like, it's so good. Which a bomb is bigger than fire, I think. you know, a bomb causes fire, so really the bomb is like the better one.
00:27:53
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better. Yeah. Let's see. There's a few on here, but I don't want to go through the whole list, but... um Like all that. do You remember all that? Like the TV show? I remember all that. Yeah. You would also be you would also call something like, oh man, she was all that. Or that it was all that.
00:28:07
Speaker
And a bag of chips. Right. All that was just like, wait, like it was everything you wanted to be. It was awesome. It was really cool. but A lot of nineties slang is just coming up with ways to say something's cool. Yeah. Dope. Did you know dope is the came out of the 90s? People still say that. I still say that very often is something's dope.
00:28:26
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um Very much surfer, like ninety surfer guy term. Yeah, bro, that was dope. How about this one? Chillax. Oh, still use chillax. Yeah, chillax. Yeah, I still use chillax all the time.
00:28:40
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um There's like, oh oh, here's one. How about what's the 411? Oh my. Do you remember that? I never really used the 411, but like.
00:28:53
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But you know what it means. If someone yeah walked into the room said, what's the 411? Right? right That's a, oh man, that one's a callback. Yeah. So like. 411 was like what you dial on like your touchtone phone it was like the information deck so like you could call to get phone numbers addresses things like that from places that you didn't know because you couldn't just look it up or at least most people didn't have like google and stuff you know we had xg's back when texting was pressing multiple buttons multiple times yeah i could do that shit with my eyes closed man one hand one hand i learned how to do that a month before i got my first touch phone
00:29:32
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I was like, I finally figured it out. Now I have to start over. Uh huh. Um, crib, crib stuck around, you know, like come back to my crib, check out my crib.
00:29:44
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I don't say it, but like, I know people still do. Um, here's one that I don't think stuck around because people are very self-conscious is fat. P H A T fat. Yeah.
00:29:54
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Yeah. I don't hear it as often if at all anymore. And there was like different interpretation of what it meant. Like sometimes it was just, again, another way to say something was cool.
00:30:05
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But sometimes you would call someone you thought was hot fat because like the the kind of general thing was like it means pretty hot and tempting. It would be kind of the equivalent to calling somebody like thick, dummy thick with two Cs. Yeah, kind of. Yeah. Like, well, well kind of, I guess. But thick and implies they are thick and hot.
00:30:22
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Where this was just, man, she's like pretty hot. It was just an acronym. Pretty hot and tempting. Like they're fat. why and She's so fat. Did you know that? No. Yeah. it's It was like an acronym.
00:30:33
Speaker
I did not know that. Yeah. Well, that was one of the many incarnations of it, but that was one that I learned it when I was a kid was fat means is an acronym for pretty hot and tempting. Oh my God. I remember jerk was junior educated, rich kid.
00:30:48
Speaker
I've heard of that one too, actually. Yeah. Yeah. i heard of that one too. um I'm going to say a fat verbal twirl. Yeah.
00:31:02
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for the episode title so uh yo what's the 411 man that fat verbal twirl oh man like my bad uh was a 90s thing that people started saying oh my people still say that i still say that or my b uh one that doesn't really stick around is uh this ah some of these like were generated from movies like a lot of words are and so like clueless came up with a few so like as if was one that came from like shows like clueless like as f ah you know as if just meant like whatever not really or that's stupid um booyah booyah i think stuck around oh yeah booyah right
00:31:42
Speaker
I don't know if Booyah stuck around. I don't hear Booyah much. I think people still say it. like It's not as common, but like when they want to... like you know It's always when you do something that's like in someone's face, like, Booyah! In your face.
00:31:53
Speaker
It's a very in-your-face. It's a very specific situation in which you use it, but I think most people can't help but say Booyah when they Booyah. Here's one that I don't think people actually said beyond the TV show, but like Eat My Shorts was really popular because of Bart Simpson.
00:32:09
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I never told anybody eat my shorts because like I don't want shorts eaten. um No, I didn't want them to pull through with that one. Fresh. Fresh is one that like I think people like that's very fresh. You look fresh.
00:32:21
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It's a very nice, you know. Yeah, you were fly. Yeah, fly. Oh, yeah. Fly i was one. Yeah, because I just used another one. It meant you were very like ah fashionable, you know. yeah If you look lit, that it was the equivalent of that.
00:32:35
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And it's, again, it's also just another new term for cool. Like, 90s was all about just being fucking cool, man.
Slang Evolution and Generational Differences
00:32:42
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Yeah. like Like, you know, to something was da bomb. It was fly. It was, you know, it was fucking dope.
00:32:48
Speaker
You know which one would be so hard to learn now is sick. Sick. Sick meant good and bad. It's true. It's contextual. If you nailed, like, a kickflip for the first time, yo, bro, that was sick.
00:33:04
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Yep. But at the same time, if you broke your arm and failed, it's like, oh, dude, that was sick. Yeah. And like what what I think is really cool about it is like for the most part, like I think a lot of our terms came from like, you know, some of them came from movies, but like a lot of it was also like.
00:33:24
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Skate culture was really taking off. Surf culture was really taking off. Tony Hawk's heyday. Right. So like a lot of these terms kind of started like developing, you know, a reality TV shows really started taking off too. And a lot of people kind of developed that lingo cause they were around the area.
00:33:41
Speaker
So you learned it that way too. Like MTV's cribs, what the fuck was that ah Real world road rules. um You know, all those crazy things going on. Like that was like where a lot of people like learn their shit from.
00:33:53
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um And like, it stuck around longer because you couldn't just like binge it. You couldn't stream it. Right. So like, people had to like bring it into their lexicon because like you know as we got into the smartphone worlds and stuff like that you know like things move so quickly that like some terms that's how you know a term is good is if it sticks around in the modern era because most terms die very quickly where like you know but like fire stuck around you know like unfortunately riz stuck around and then one of the big differences between then and now is that
00:34:24
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ah you weren't made fun of if you didn't know a slang, right? Because it wasn't understated or it wasn't understood that everybody could see it. So if your friend said, oh man, you know, what's the 411? And you're like,
00:34:36
Speaker
it's the information hotline. No, man. That means like, you know, what else he going in what's up? i would Explain it. That was my experience experience too, is it was very much like, no, no, no. It means this now, or this is what it means. Like, oh shit, really?
00:34:50
Speaker
Cause like, it was the same thing with like video game lore. Cause most of the time, at least when I was a kid, you couldn't look it up. So it was like, I heard that if you hit, if you finish that super mario brothers 3 level and world 3 3 when the clock has an odd number on it then you unlock this other secret world you know and like you just learn that shit from like lore of people just doing it and then experimenting with it and then like so shout out to the mew under the truck by the ssn yeah like it's like so much of my time looking for that yeah
00:35:22
Speaker
it's just like it's it's uh Yeah, it was great. It was a great time. It was. And I'm not trying to say that it was like the best
Episode Wrap-Up and Listener Engagement
00:35:28
Speaker
time. Like, I mean, every era has its issues, but I do think it was a very cool time. Like, I do think like, oh, yeah, you know, there's cool stuff happening now. And, you know, even, you know, older Zoomers can also experience those things. But like, you know.
00:35:41
Speaker
I think it was very interesting, like even from a slang perspective, even even if you take out technology and you take out like, you know, because we were on the cusp of a lot of things there too. Like, you know, like a lot of innovation in a very short amount of time. Like we as millennials got to witness a lot of shit, like technologically, tragically.
00:36:00
Speaker
Are you kidding? Like, so. you I was alive when the Nokia brick first came out. Right. Yeah. Nothing was cool as hell. Now look at what we've got. Like to, to look back at my life and just see how fast everything has changed. It's ridiculous.
00:36:20
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Yeah, but it's but even just looking at this little grid of words like there's I'm sure there's a lot more that I'm missing out on, but I'm just looking at just like the quick fire ones that popped up on Google.
00:36:30
Speaker
And like there's only a few in here that like I just don't think people you like Hela is on here, like something's hella cool, hella fun. That one died out. Yeah, people still use it, but it's not as common anymore.
00:36:41
Speaker
I haven't heard hella in a long time. Oh, I hear hella at work all the time. Do you usually when I hear hella? It's when something's scary. They say, dude, that shit's hella scary. Like, like, that's what I usually hear. It is like in like a horror context or like I almost got hit by a car. That was hella scary. Yeah, no, I can't.
00:37:01
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Audi. I forgot about that. one Like, I'm Audi. Or Audi 5000. used to say Audi 5000. I still say Audi 5000. I don't know where the 5000 came from, but I know that was where like that that developed from. I'm Audi.
00:37:14
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um But yeah, there was a car. The Audi 5000. Mm
00:37:20
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But yeah, so like just on this grid alone, there's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight by three. So there's 21 just on here. And there's at least talk to the hand, the bomb, fly, booyah. Oh, bling is on here too. People still say bling.
00:37:36
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People still say bling. Bounce is on here. People still say bounce. Like I'm going to bounce. Get out of here. Even if we skip hella. Oh, there's home skillet. That was a fun one. What's up, home skillet? Yeah, we'll yo so arm skillet ah My bad.
00:37:50
Speaker
ah People don't really say all that anymore. They don't say eat my shorts. Jiggy's on here, but I don't think anybody's ever actually said Jiggy outside the song. I never said Jiggy. There's one called Buggin. I don't remember Buggin. Like buggin out maybe like, but I don't. I think I think it was buggin out. Yeah. Yeah. go Crazy.
00:38:06
Speaker
Right. I don't think that one's as popular. Chillax. People still say crib. People still say people don't say 411 anymore. Dope. Fresh. ah People don't usually just say Audi. It's kind of like a hit and miss depending on the person.
00:38:17
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Oh, not was on here. Remember when not was the joke. You're like, oh, you got a bug on your shirt. Not no
00:38:25
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like the ways we entertain ourselves.
00:38:30
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Yeah, not was humor was very simple back then. Yeah, this one that that the equivalent to now would be like, just kidding. Like, oh, I killed your dog. Just kidding. Yeah. um Not.
00:38:42
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whatever Oh, psych is on here. Like, ah you know, psych was good. If you tricked somebody. Oh, psych! You like, I'm psyched? It's getting juked. Right, you just get tricked. You know, they lure you in. Oh, psych! I psyched you.
00:38:57
Speaker
Right, so there's... People don't say fat anymore. So let's see, there's one, two, three, four... still use fat sometimes, but I make sure to say pat.
00:39:08
Speaker
Yeah. Yo, you're you pat. Eight, nine, ten, eleven... 12 there's at least 13 14 on here out of the 21 that's listed that we still use or at least i still hear yeah know so like that's pretty fucking cool i wish the bomb like wasn't as extinct as it was because i still say we can try and bring bring back the bomb but like you know the world being as it is now i feel like could be a problem
00:39:38
Speaker
well We're going to bring a fat bomb back to ah vernacular. Okay, well, now you just sound like you want some weed.
00:39:47
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Not. ah so Not. I dare you to get your wife with a couple of not jokes today before you go to bed.
00:39:56
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I'll try. like just come up with couple of one just like, not Honey, have I ever told you that I love you so much? Nah! Oh, you'd be like, you go in there with like a a delicious snack or something? She's like, did you make it for me? like, yeah, it's on the counter, go get it. And she goes, that you go, nah!
00:40:16
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Nah, I mean, to be fair, if I were to do that, I'd walk in with like an Oreo. Hey, honey, I got you this. Nah! Nah, and you'd eat it, yeah. You should do that.
00:40:28
Speaker
Ah. Well, that was a good that was a fun little um side discussion. I love that. was just thinking. Have done a great job sticking to 20 minutes. Yeah.
00:40:39
Speaker
Yeah. but You know what? It's our first try, but we're under an hour, so let's wrap it up here. but ah so Hey, everybody. Thanks for hanging out.
00:40:50
Speaker
Thanks for coming back to the show and listening to it. We promise these episodes will be shorter next time. um We're going to try every day to make it a shorter episode. Yeah, we're we're gonna aiming for around 20 minutes, all right? Keep us honest.
00:41:03
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We only picked one question for that to do that, but then we just get talking. So we're going to be better this time. um and We were like, yeah, we'll just do one question. We'll see how the discussion goes. Maybe we'll have to draw on another one.
00:41:17
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Well, hey, sorry, not sorry, guys. Not. Not. So that's it. I hope that you learned something today about aging, about yourself, about 90s slang.
00:41:31
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00:41:46
Speaker
And yeah, I could say socials, but I just don't check social media. So get on a website and fucking message us, bro. Yeah. Our website is the bomb. Get on there and use it.
00:41:57
Speaker
Yeah, it's fat. It's so fat. and um So, yeah, any final messages you want to give, Danny, before we sign off? Actually, you know what? Why don't you sign off? You started it. You're the question answer this time. are you so You just let me know. You say cut when you're done.
00:42:10
Speaker
Well, then I'm going to throw in my little segment that I had as an idea. I am going to start challenging all y'all um either instead of word of the day or with word of the day. We'll see.
00:42:23
Speaker
Uh, but now I'm going to give you a compliment challenge of the day. And for the very first one, I want you to use the word dapper. I want you to tell somebody that looks nice that they are looking dapper today. Um, and with that, I will sign us off. I've been Danny.
00:42:38
Speaker
This has been Adam and we have been, TOQ. Thank you all very much for listening. And, uh, I'm not. i'm You know what? We're reborn. We're reborn. I'm not bringing it up. I'm not going to say what I said at the end of every other episode because I'm a new man. It's May.
00:42:55
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new year new bay a new year new my new New year. New May.
00:43:04
Speaker
to be May. It's got to be May. Yes, I'm not as good at this as Adam is. So have a good night, everybody. Thank you all very much for listening. We love you. Psych.