Gen X & Gen Z Slang- Episode #764
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Cathy and Todd discuss Gen X slang and intertwine the most popular phrases with clips from the most memorable pop culture moments. They discuss how language changes over time and break down the most popular Gen Z slang, offering suggestions on when to use it (or when not to).
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do do do do do to do. |
| 0:05.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:06.0 | My name's Todd. |
| 0:06.5 | This is Gabi. |
| 0:07.2 | Welcome back to another episode of Zen Parenting Radio. |
| 0:10.0 | This is podcast number 764. |
| 0:13.2 | Why listen to Zen Parenting Radio? |
| 0:15.0 | Because you'll feel outstanding. |
| 0:17.9 | And I always remember our motto, which is that the best predictor of a child's well-being is, in fact, a parent's self-understanding. |
| 0:25.8 | On today's show, slang. |
| 0:28.0 | Slang. |
| 0:28.9 | Slang. |
| 0:30.9 | Full transparency. |
| 0:32.6 | I just got home from picking up our kid at college. |
| 0:35.7 | So Kathy came up with this idea and I'm just |
| 0:39.0 | going to roll with it. Well, I just decided, okay, so there's a few reasons. Todd and I were watching |
| 0:44.6 | a few 80s movies last night, just kind of been passing. We were watching parts of say anything |
| 0:49.6 | and we were watching parts of she's having a baby. And there's just a lot of language in these |
| 0:55.6 | movies that kind of are from our generation, right? Things that they say, whatever. And I also, |
| 1:03.2 | a couple weeks ago, Todd and I did like a quick little discussion about Gen Z slang. So we gave like three or four, maybe more than that, maybe 10 |
| 1:14.8 | words. I don't even remember. But I felt like I wanted to return to that conversation because |
| 1:20.2 | Todd said something to me. He said, did our generation have that much slang? And I'm like, |
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