Should We Stop Saying 'Yay?'
Elvis Duran's After Party
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 950 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Today, Elvis tells us how he's tired of people saying yay without enthusiasm. Froggy gives us some alternatives to use.
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| 1:08.9 | I want to bring something up and I don't want anyone to get mad at me, especially maybe Danielle. |
| 1:09.7 | Okay, what? Can we stop saying the word, yay! Are you crazy? I don't think I can't. I'm serious. Uh-uh, no way. It's getting to the point where I'm using it too, too much. Nope. I actually will end text messages with yay. Or they'll go, hey, I'm going to come over and pick you up at noon so we're going to have a great lunch. I'll go, yay. Yeah. And then a friend of mine the other day said, I'm so sick of everyone around me, just going, yay. That's their response to everything. Can you be more original? I'm like, no. But when a listener calls and they win a contest, that's my first reaction. I'm like, yay! I don't know. I get excited. Listen how you say it, though. A lot of times we say yay and we go, yay. Or, yay, like really quiet. Yay. Yay. She'd be like, yeah! Okay. I had yay to preexisting words. Like Friday Friday, I go, Frye. Okay, that's good. Oh, no, no, no, no. Yeah, I'm going to run you over in my truck. Yeah, run you over. But, you know, this is yay. We use it way too much. It snuck in there. Yay has snuck in there and it is taking up so much space. Froggy, what are you? Yay. No, I like yay, but I'm looking up now. There are other words to use in place of yay and none of them are good. What are they? Whoopee. That sounds sarcastic to me. And that's like a 1960s word. But that's my point, though, Gandhi. My point is a lot of people say yay and it doesn't sound like it's really from a good place. It sounds like whippy or whatever. You want more? You're saying more that instead of banning the word, yay, we should just add way more enthusiasm to it every time we use it. Yeah. Or not use it at all. Because sometimes Danielle will say, she'll go, I'm supposed to say to say something. Daniel and go, yay. That's not a yay. Well, see, like in a text message, if you do yay without an exclamation point, it's kind of like you're being a jerk. If you do yay with an exclamation point, then it seems like you're really happy about it. We've totally effed up the word yay. Well, what about the word yas? |
| 3:08.2 | Please kill that one. Hold on. Froggy has more words. What are they? Yippee. Yippee. |
| 3:13.6 | Hoorah. Hoorah. Hoorah. Well, hold on now. Hurrah. Hurrah. These are all. Ra, ra, is one. |
| 3:22.0 | Three cheers. Hibh. Hi. And then somebody else yells, hooray. No, these are terrible. Yay. I'm telling you sounding better every time. I'm going to start saying three cheers on the air when someone calls in instead of congratulations. Yeah. Three cheers. Okay, what could you say rather than yay? So I usually say, we. I put a w with which bees. What about that's awesome or |
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