Hi, welcome back to EercrestPodcast.
I'm G-Soo and I'm ChrisFull.
It's kind ofcrazy. We've been doing this like understanding new slang segment on the podcast for just about a year and a halfnow.
We've gone through a good chunk ofwords, but what's truly fascinating is that some of these words have either evolved or maybe even disappeared or are still being used just as much as when we first discussedthem.
So we thought it would be fun to look back on the words that we've talked about and do a kind of awards ceremony slash superlatives for these slangwords.
So we wrote down some superlatives slash awards to handout.
So the first one we wrote down is the fastest todie, aka the one hitwonder.
Oh,okay. So I'm looking at our little list of slang words that we've covered and I feel like one that sticks out to me for this is agebull, which was I just burst outlaughing.
Right. And I feel like because this one started almost as an averse reaction to millennials saying LOL all thetime, it never really had heart and soul in theword.
You know what Imean? It was just like a response to our LOLusage.
Yeah. So I think age bull is definitely a one hitwonder.
No one uses itanymore. And I remember when we discussed thisone, we were like not even sure if it's a real slang word or it was just some decoy to like throw off themillennials.
Exactly. Another one hit wonder is probably understood theassignment.
I don't think I see that one around as muchanymore.
And it's also very fitting for this category because it was originally from asong,right?
True. So it actually is a one hitwonder.
Is there even like a replacement for understood theassignment?
I guess it's just likeeight.
Yeah. I was thinking it waseight, which is way more succinct and way moreemphatic.
So I think eight is a goodsubstitute.
Yeah.Okay. So anothersuperlative, which is kind ofsimilar, is you had to bethere.
So maybe not like a one hitwonder, but it had itsmoment.
But now it's like not asapplicable.
Okay. Thisone, I feel like thegritty.
So the gritty is similar to understood the assignment tied to like a specificdance.
So then I feel like when this word was super popular or at least the dance was superpopular, it was like all I could see everywhere onTikTok,Instagram,Twitter,etc.
And it was sogood. Like you really truly just had to be there in thatera.
That was like the funniest showever.
Oh myGod.Okay. I think I have a word for this one aswell.
Bombastic sideeye.Oh,true.
I guess this one could also feel one hitwonder.
But I think it blew up exponentially for abit.
Similar to thegritty, it was kind of everywhere for abit.
Now it's like not used atall.
And it was a soundbit. So I think that's like partially why it was soviral.
So it's kind of like if you never heard the soundbit, youknow, you had to bethere.
Okay. Now I'm thinking maybe if a word or like a slang word is really tied to like anaudio.
And maybe that's what makes it superpopular, it also causes it stounfall because girl dinner also blewup.
It was like everywhere for maybe like twoweeks, threeweeks.
And then suddenly I feel like I haven't heard that phrase inmonths.
That'strue. It did crash andburn.
You just had to bethere.
Yeah. Dang and girl dinner was a goodone.
I'm sad to say that onego.
I guess that one kind of evolved to like girl math or now it's like a slightly differentformat.
But youknow, it's not really referencedanymore.
Yeah.Okay. What about the category of sogood?
It becameclassic. Like now it's just like a part of our daily vocabulary or we still see it aroundoften.
I think this one has to be the left no crums slasheight.
Ooh. I think left no crumbs is actually not used asmuch.
It's more just like theyate,right?
Yeah. That one I feel like gradually grew more and more inpopularity.
I think eight as we discussedearlier, it has taken over a bunch of these words that aren't really usedanymore.
So we were saying earlier like understood theassignment.
You can replace that witheight.
Another one I'm thinking of is likeslay.
Ohyeah. Totally replaced byeight.
Dude.Okay. That one I actually still can't stopsaying.
I mean like slayrehab. Slayhub.
Okay. Dead ass I think it's also aclassic.
To me this is almost not evenslaying.
It's like a realwork. That's how much I useit.
It's also been around for a long asstime.
That'strue.Yeah. Like we can't we can't truly say it was just GenZ.
I think it's like you know a little bit of millennial inthere.
And I think it's not too affected bytime.
If you were to say slaynow, maybe people would belike, oh that's likeoutdated.
But if you were to say deadass, I think no one would straight up say like that word isoutdated.
Yeah.Yeah. Maybe because it neverhit.
Well, I don'tknow. I feel like I got the peak of dead asspopularity.
It definitely was an overusedword.
Because I was going to say that's what pushes a word into like cringe territory almost which causes it's downfall is when it's likeoverused.
I feel like dead ass at its peak wasoverused.
But it still somehow cemented itself into like regular vocabularyword.
Agreed. Oh mygod. Speaking of like slay and deadass, you said that you can't stop saying slaystill.
So besidesslay, is there any other ones that it's like I just can't stop using this slayword?
Someone saved me from the wordslay.
Okay,mewing. And in its category like looks maxing andlogging.
I know this is a word that came around morerecently, but I think I still am using this one prettyconstantly.
That'sfair. It kind of toes the line between likecringe.
It's like a very I'm online 24-7 kind of aword, but I feel like if you're self aware aboutit, it's like sofunny.
Yeah, it's definitely one of those people are using it ironically so much that it'sun-ipronic.
I think one that I use a lot is molding isone.
I think that one still continues to befunny.
And I think I also uselock-in.
Oh,true.Yeah. I think as lock-ins veryapplicable.
And I think it's also good for if you're like with a bunch of people and maybe you're playing like party games orsomething, you're like holdup.
Let me lockit. I think even last night we were like hanging out with a bunch of people playing some sort of stupid videogame.
And after a certain point of losing everyone leans forward with like the controller in hand and we're all like okay lockit.
Allright, so I already know what word is going to be in thiscategory, but this next category is called killed bymillennials.
Dude, plays in a lot of thesecategories.
It's hurting my feelings forreal.
Okay, I think also though what could fall into this is like edgeball because that was potentially a trap set for millennialsanyway.
Oh mygod, era and it's giving both I think fall into this category of killed bymillennials.
Ooh, I can totally see that because it's giving is like it's not really usedanymore.
Yeah, well I still useit, but I'msorry.
Unfortunately, I'm a luckyone.
I think Isee. Or I guess what I mean is I don't see it as much on like take talk and stuffnow.
Maybe I hear it more in real lifenow.
Oh, that'strue. So it's like that transition from like like young online people to like in real life people who are similar tomyself.
Imean, I feel like it's giving an era and slay maybe live in this category because it's like the gateway drug ofslaying.
It's way easier to make it's giving joke or like a era joke than to make a looks maxing joke or like a gig a chatjoke.
Yeah, and these were like easier tounderstand.
Yeah, it waslike,oh, we can catch on tothis.
Like this slaying is not getting too crazyyet.
Yeah, and it's like business casual like workprofessional.
Oh, you can make a slay joke atwork, but if you werelike,gui-o-ork, you would not it would not be looked uponwell.
You would get some weirdlooks.
Okay, I have a funny one for thiscategory.
The millennialpause.Oh, so I think this still exists for sure and people still call it outsometimes, but because millennials hated getting called out on it somuch, they like practiced so that way less people do the millennial pause now in theirvideos.
I also wonder because the millennial pause we talked about it maybe last year orso, but the whole like making fun of millennial thing was big during COVID and like a couple years beforethat.
Butnow, JenAlpha, which is the generation after GenZ, are at that age where they're like chronically online posting stuff onTikTok.
They're the ones kind of shaping and formingslaying.
True. So then now I feel like Gen Z doesn't hold thepower.
Oh, Isee. So like Gen Alpha doesn't care about the millennialpause.
Yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah.
They're probably shitting on Gen Znow.
Yeah.Wait, that'strue.
They're probablylike, what the fuck is Gen Zsaying?
I always forget that actually a lot of Gen Z people are graduated fromcollege.
They're like workingnow.
Yeah. They're like not that far fromus.
Gen Alpha is like the kids that are in high school and andstuff,right?
Yeah, I think they're probably like teenagers or something likethat.
They're the ones leading the skimmyty cause of the skimmytyrevolution.
Oh mygod, their slaying is truly edging ongibberish.
Okay, well that brings us to slaying that has evolved beyondcomprehension.
Okay, I think for thisone, my mind goes toGiot.
I was kind of thinking thattoo.
Right? Because this one was first introduced to us with some sort of meaning about like someone'sbutt.
Yeah. And I feel like that's fairlystraightforward.
But sometimes on videos onTikTok, I see like young kids using theterm.
And I'mlike,okay, I thought I knew what thismeant, but now the way you're usingthis, I don't know if I really know what this meansanymore.
Agreed,agreed. It's sometimes I'mlike,wait, did Imisunderstand?
And I think it's also interesting because like Riz was kind of like a slang word that's adjacent toGiot.
If slang word words could have categories like these two would fall on the same category to know what Imean.
Yeah,yeah. But I think Riz has kind of died down abit, but Giot's only gotten more and morepowerful.
So I feel like in away, Giot has like overtakenRiz.
And in some context is almost like interchangeable withit.
And so Imean, I don't even know because as yousaid, this slang word has evolved beyondcomprehension.
Dude, I think Giot and Riz and a couple other slang words that we like mentioned in thisconversation.
Solike, Skibbity forexample, and alsolike, Ohio andlike,Croatia.
Youknow, like all the words that go into those kind of like parody slangsongs.
I feel like live in its ownuniverse.
And the way kids use themnowadays, it truly confoundsme.
I'mlike, are they just trying to be ironic and belike,oh, look at all this crazyslang, like you adults won't ever be able to figure it out orwhatever.
Or does it truly mean something in their likevocabulary?
Because the sentences that they come upwith, I'mlike, what the fuck does thismean?
Dude, I don't know because back in theday,like, our slang made sense tous.
So I have a feeling thatlike, their slang probably makes sense tothem.
Yeah,sadly. I feel like our most complex slang back then waslike,Yolo.
Oh, you know what Imean?
Like, our stuff was sostraight, but it was likeswag.
Yolo.Wait, you're absolutelyright.
Wow.Yeah, I'm trying to think if we ever had any complicatedslang.
Oh mygod. I maybe our most complicated one was ruffle la mal or like rufflecopter.
Yeah.Okay, actually to befair, ruffle copterdoes, that is actually kind ofgibberish.
True,true,true. Only the first half is like realslang, Iguess.
The copter part was totallygibberish.
Oh, but we have likelit, but I guess likehonestly, that's notconfusing.
Once you getit, it'slike,okay, something is like exciting orcool,right?
And it'slike, it's like a word that's universalalmost.
Yeah, it's like a real wordactually.
That's truetoo. But I willadmit, lit might be confusing because of its multipledefinitions.
Oh, there's multipledefinitions?
Yeah, because lit can meanlike, youknow, something's veryexciting.
Like this party'slit,right?
But you could also belike, I'mlit.
And that meanslike, I'mdrunk.
Oh,true. And in like gamingcontext, you could saylike, I'mlit.
And that means you'relike, lowhealth.
You're likedamaged.What?
Did not even know this lastone.
That'strue.Maybe, so that's like cooked because we talked about how cooked and let him cook like all of these things kind of mean slightly differentmeanings.
So I can totally seethat.
Yeah. All I'm saying is I feel like R slaying back in the day isGoogleable.
It'slike, you hear itonce.
You might belike,what?
And then you Google it and you'relike,oh, Isee.
But it'slike,yeah, it'sgood.
But I feel like I've Googled for like 20 minutes out oftime.
And I'mlike, I still don't know what thismeans.
Like we're reading essays on thevideo.
I think another one that's like evolved beyondcomprehension.
Actually, I have two for thisone.
One issigma. But as we discussed when we first discussedit, it was already beyond ourcomprehension.
So not much to add onthere.
But I think look smaxing and muing hasevolved.
Maybe not beyond comprehension straightup, but it's definitelyevolved.
Because when we first discussedmuing, it was literally anact,right?
Like it was like anaction.
But now muing just means like good looking orsomething.
Or like trying to be goodlooking.
Yeah.Yeah. So I'mlike,oh, so the definition legitimately like changed up itthere.
It is no longer the action that it originatedfrom.
It is like a descriptor wordalmost.
And I feel like the tapping of the jaw and like the lining of it blew up even further than when we had first discussedit.
Because in thebeginning, that was kind of just like the chart or like the graphic that came with like the termmuing.
So then sometimes people would pop that into the memeformat.
But now I feel like invideos, like you know how our generation when someone points a camera onus, we like do a peacine orsomething.
I feel like the kidsnowadays, they like tap their jaw and they do the muingsign.
Oh,whoa. Also lookssmaxing, which is pretty adjacent to likemuing.
I've seen it evolve because I sent you like a TikTok earliertoday.
And I also saw another likecaption.
Instead oflooks,maxing, it was likeblank,maxing.
One of the captions I saw waslike,oh, we're Guinness Maxing out here inDublin.
And then the one that I sentyou, it was like some animation of someone spraying a cockroach with perfume by accident instead of like roachkiller.
And then the caption was like roachmaxing.
Oh mygod. Thatokay, that one is easy to followactually.
But I love seeing the evolution ofthis.
I think like the double X's in the maxing part just makes it so muchfunnier.
Yeah.Yeah. That's that'strue.
That'skey. Like it was just maxing with with oneX, then it's not the slayingone.
No.Yeah. It doesn't make as muchsense.
Roach maxing with oneX, like what does that evenmean?
Like who'slaughing? Notme.
But twoX's, I'm doubleover.
Yeah. Allright, how about words that are tooniche?
Like maybe we discussed it and like never popped off or it just like stayed veryniche.
Okay, I think I've read thisone.
I'm thinking of the wordshmedium.
And maybe it's because I wasn't in like the right audience for thisword.
But I don't think I've still seen this word out in thewild.
So maybe it was something that I'm not like the intended audience for or it was like a more nicheword.
Actually, Iagree. I think I haven't really seen thiseither.
But I imagine maybe this word still floats around in like people who are really into fitness because just as a refresher forlisteners, this word is supposed to mean like you wear a sizesmaller.
So instead of like if you're normally amedium, you wear a small so that you lookbigger, more buff orwhatever.
Butyeah, I think I generally don't see this word at all in the content that I comeacross.
Okay, the other one that I am thinking of is forfree.
So thisone, I dosee, but I think it's always only about someone's likefeet.
This is veryniche. It's like I only ever see it on IG stories or like TikTok where someone posts a photo and they're like toes are showing in the corner or something and the thing is alwayslike,oh, forfree.
Yeah. But that's only the context that ever usedit.
Yeah, I think that's the most common I see this aswell.
But I have seen like kind of an evolved version ofthis, which is sometimes onTikTok.
If I like come across a really high quality video or maybe it's just like reallyfunny, sometimes the comments arelike, I can't believe TikTok isfree.
Oh, I have seenthat. Or sometimes it'slike, ohshoot, mybad.
I didn't know I was on TikTokpremium.
I lovethat.Yeah, so I feel like that has been the evolved form ofthis.
But even that is like kind ofniche.
It's like only onspecific, forexample, just really high qualityvideos.
That's also just such a funny way of beinglike, I like thisvideo.
Yeah. This is TikTokpremium.
Yeah.Okay, what about the category makes mecringe?
Um,cringe. Goodone.Okay, I do think the gritty makes me cringe ofit, but only because I personally would never be able to do thegritty.
But I'm not cringing when other people are doingit.
I'm just cringing if I'm imagining myself being forced to doit.
I feel likeperiod,period, to make me cringe a littlebit, but it's also just not used as muchanymore.
So then maybe that's the cringeaspect, like the people who still use some of these words that are phasedout, or maybe people who don't keep up with the latestslang.
So then it'slike, that's where the cringe comesfrom.
We're movedon. Youknow, we're on this newshit.
You'relike, you didn't get the latest edition of slangmagazine.
But I'm still sayingslay.
So who am I going todo?Oh,okay.
I think Pookie is also kind of a cringeone.
But I think it's inherently supposed to becringe-worthy.
And because ofthat, it'sfunny.
So I think that one is a littlebit,dude, imagine me saying Pookie tosomeone.
Dude, but that's like the beauty of theword.
You know what Imean? Like you own thecringe.
But that doesn't stop me fromcringing.
Okay,fair,fair.Yeah, Imean, I feel like cringe is sometimes justunexplainable.
Like tome, the word valid is very cringe because I feel like it's kindof, I don'tknow.
We both know you meanlike,okay, or like that's fair orsomething.
Like why do we have to sayvalid?
It seems so unnatural tome, which is what makes itcringe.
But I know it's like a legitimate use of theword.
So you've always had a gripe withvalid.
Wait, did I say something like that on the episode we talked about ittoo?
Yeah. Or one of the episodes it got brought up and you'relike,yeah, I don't love thisone, butwhatever.
Yeah, at least I'mconsistent.
That'strue.Okay, how about slang words that are like stillalive, but barelybreathing?
Okay, lowkey, eyefear.
Even though I know it just cameup, I feel like it's already on its wayout.
Yeah, a littlebit. I still see it around forsure.
But its usage is exponentially lower than when it first popped off for that like week ortwo.
It's another one of those quickrise, but even quickerfall.
And this one hurts a littlebit, but is blank in the room with us rightnow.
I love thisformat, and I think it's sofunny, but I do think it's on its wayout.
Slash outalready,maybe.
Maybe. I still seeit. So I don'tknow,like, if it's just becoming more nichemaybe, or if it is like kind of on its wayout.
Butyeah, it's still so funny when I seeit.
I think Ick is actually kind of stillalive, but barelybreathing.
Ohyeah.Yeah. It had itsmoment, and it was pretty longtoo.
But I thinknowadays, I don'tknow, maybe it's just like the content has moved on from like picking at people'saches.
I did see some like anti-Ick discourse that came out after the wholelike, oh name of everyone's aches kind ofthing.
That was talking about how once you like focus on all these minute things that you don't like aboutsomeone, that becomes the focus of what you'll notice aboutpeople.
So then is it even that helpful orproductive?
Imean, granted it's supposed to be like funny andall, and it is like acknowledged to bepetty, but is itproductive?
Like is it constructive to like focus on people'saches?
I waslike, that'sfair.
Yeah.Valid.No! Butyeah, that makessense.
It's probably tiring to constantly pick out the tinythings.
And I feel like on thatone, people can besavage.
Like the aches that people were saying in thebeginning, I felt like we're veryfair.
Likeoh, treats weight staffrudely, and at the end it waslike, stuff that's very normal aboutpeople.
Oh mygod. I was like uncontrollable aboutpeople.
There was a funny one that waslike, oh mygod, it's an iq when people wear no-showsocks.
I saw one that waslike, it's such an iq when I got orders like of vanilla bean andfrappuccino.
Oh mygod. And then all the comments werelike,okay, like this one I feel a littlemuch.
Yeah. Like let the men enjoy their vanillabean.
Yeah. Let them be their baby girlselves.
Exactly. Do you have any slang words that are like you're scared to use this inperson?
Okay, kindof. But I feel like it's for goodreason.
SoBFFR, BFFOreal, andtweaking.
I think our words that are still very much alive and like inuse.
But to me they just feel like slightlyaggressive.
So it's not words that I feel like super comfortable using inperson.
Yeah. I would say pookieagain.
I think pookie to you is valid tome.
But I love seeingit. I love seeingpookie.
But like me usingit, youknow,questionable.
Ohokay, actually also gotit.
I feel like I'm too old to be using words likethat.
We know the times that you have said it inperson, I've always diedlaughing.
Like that should have sofun.
It's more fun when it comes to someone sounassuming.
Oh mygod, that reminds me of like so I don't say the word bitch alot.
But sometimes when I sayit, you'relike, you're alwayslike, oh mygod, there's still just abitch.
Dude, it hits sogood. I'll have to maintain that power by continuing to use itvery, verylimited.
Yeah, this is like supply and demand 101 righthere.
I can demand is so high because the supply is sofraught.
Everyone is thirsting for me tosave.
Everyone's just waiting in anticipation for me to saypookie.
While doing thegritty.
I think alsothough, muing looksmaxing,magging, I'm like low key scared to say it in case I say itwrong.
Ohactually, that's a really good point because there's such goodwords.
Verypowerful, like potentwords.
But I feel like if you use itwrong, it goes into cringecategory.
Then you have to like use itcorrectly.
Yeah, I feel thatone. Alsosigma, because thisone, as wesaid, beyond ourcomprehension.
So I wouldn't dare useit.
I can't helplike. Allright, last category that we havetoday, what is a word that you wish was still popular anduse?
AKA, this is the I miss youcategory.
Well, I know what yoursis.
It's a four letterword.
Okay, but can I miss it when I use it like 20 times aday?
You will single-handedly bring it back intofashion.
Yes, I will never like go ofsleigh.
I'msorry. Bury me with thewords.
I kind of likedPOV. I felt like those were always quick to understand and like an easy setup for ajoke.
Although, so I still seePOV, but I feel like it's one of those words that was overtaken by like the corporateworld.
So I feel like every time I see a video with likePOV, it's anad.
It'slike, ohPOV, you forget to clean your house and then it'slike,yeah, all the cleaning supplies orstuff.
I'mlike, what thefuck?
Yeah, I can totally see how that killed theword.
Killed by capitalismsaid.
I also miss Girl Dinner to behonest.
Such an easy one touse. Belike, oh mygod,today,like, I don't feel likecooking.
Let's do GirlDinner. I miss thatone.
I feel like the sound was just veryiconic, but that went tosatisfying.
Dude, I feel like weirdly nostalgic after doing thesesecretives.
Maybe because we see so many of these words online or had seen a lot of this stuffonline, that certain periods oftime, it does kind of feel like blast from the past a littlebit.
Yeah, some of these are just truly like gone and we're looking overthem.
We'relike,wow,like, that was just a yearago.
Yeah,like, bombastic side-eye iscrazy.
Yeah. And that one holds a special place in my heart because I first learned about it through like some random in a game and they saidit, they kept saying it to like me and myduo, like bombastic side-eye and we werelike, what is goingon?
What does thismean? That's like the scariest way to learn slag just like in thewild.
Dude, we literally asked that guytoo.
We'relike, what does itmean?
And he waslike, I don'tknow, it just means bombasticside-eye.
We'relike,oh,okay. Thanks for clearing thatup.
Exactly.Well, hopefully this was as fun for everyoneelse.
So listen to as it was forus, we'll continue to roll out that slang segment of ourpodcast.
So stay tuned for more educational slag segments in thefuture.
But before we wrap up today'sepisode, we also did want to do a little bit of a life update segment aswell.
We kind of think of this as our like crisessegment.
So it'slike, what's the latest crisis that you have been goingthrough?
Dude, I've definitely been going through a crisis andit's, I think it's like the culmination of just likelife.
And then now I'm at a point where I'mlike,way, I can't believe I've been doing life like this for 20 plusyears, almost 30years.
I'm having a procrastinationcrisis.
To describeit, like imagine you're just holding a rope and youknow, like you can hold it with no tension or with a lot oftension.
And I feel like what happens is like days leading up to a due day orsomething, youknow, I'm basically holding thisrope.
Like my hands are so closetogether.
They're like absolutely notension.
And then it's like the day or two days before thedeadline.
And I'mlike, I pulled this rope like as far apart as Ican.
There's just maximumtension.
And I'mlike, oh mygod, I need to like get thisdone.
And I'mlike, I need to regulate thismore.
I think it's not productive or healthy to like be constantly going back and forth into these like twoextremes.
Whoa, do that visual iscrazy.
I'mlike, imagining you with a resistance band orsomething.
Oh mygod,yeah. And I think like one of the interesting things about this problem islike, I'm trying to figure out if it's because I'm too overwhelmed or if I'm toounderwhelmed.
Because you know how it's like if you have some likestress, that's good because that'll get you up and like doingthings.
But if you don't have enoughstress, then that will actually lead to not doingthings.
But then if you have like too muchstress, then you become like overwhelmed and you also can't dothings.
So I'mlike, ohshoot, like am I overwhelmed or am Iunderwhelmed?
Something needs to change so that I can find a more regularpace, Iguess.
God, I like totally feelthat.
I think even with social plans and stufftoo, it's like the weekends where I have back to back to backplans, I'm sooverwhelmed.
I'mlike, I don't know why I ever stacked my weekend likethis.
This isinsane. So then the nextweekend, all like shuffle stuffaround.
So I have at least like one or two freedays.
But then I feel like on those actual freedays, I'm like craving to dosomething.
I'mlike, oh mygod, like maybe I should hit up this person and we'll go out to get lunch orwhatever.
I should have been making more out of thisday.
So I feel like it is like aconstant, do I need more or do I needless?
Yeah, so that's been like kind of my big crisislately.
I think I'm still kind of adjusting and settling down since I movedrecently.
So I'm still kind of finding my like routine and what works and what doesn'twork.
Yeah, we'llsee.Hopefully, hopefully something will getsolved.
Yeah, Imean, maybe it's like a calibrationthing, youknow, you're like recalibrating your whole life to make sense in this new way oflife.
And especially with like a new environment andeverything.
And I'm sure you had your whole list of twodues, like four moving specificallyto.
Yeah, I can see how it can be a total balancingact.
Yeah, forsure. I think like now that I'm mostlysettled, there's less of the new home things like find a bed ofmattress, like get plates so you can eat and stuff likethat.
Now it's morelike,okay, what days should I be going towork?
What days should I work fromhome?
What days should be the air in day and what days should be like laundryday?
So I think we're gettingthere.
But in themeantime, I'll bestruggling.
Well, I feel you onthat.
I feel like my wholelife, I'm always on some sort of procrastination crisis oranother.
So we shall get through ittogether.
Although I do have this like weird hope formyself, maybe that like maybe once I'm aparent, I'll procrastinateless.
Because it's one thing to procrastinate on your ownthings.
Yeah, but I feel like in shared projects or like responsibilities that I have that might affect myhusband, forexample, I procrastinate a little bitless.
And then with akid, maybe it'll be evenbetter.
Like maybe I don'tknow, more responsibility on yourshoulder.
Yeah, you'relike, ohshoot, if I don't do thisthing, my child might like not beokay.
Yeah,well, I don'tknow.
Maybe it's like also when you're a petowner, like you have to step up and like be like a goodowner.
True. I completelyagree.
When it's justyou, it'slike, ohwell, the only person who will receive these consequences are myselfanyway.
Yeah, I'mlike, it's justme.
I cando.Well, how aboutyou?
What has your latest crisisbeen?
Lately, I've been in this crisis where I think a common theme in my life is I like have these feelings and I like have something tosay.
And then I like don't sayit.
Like I just suppress itinside.
Things likethat, I think are especially more common for me in like customer servicesettings.
Youknow, when you like order boba and the wrong thing comesout, I'mlike, do I really need to return the drink and like get the correct oneback,etc.
So that has been my wholelife.
Butrecently, I'mlike, you knowwhat?
Maybe I just need to go full Karen and enter my Karenera, put my foot down because two weeksago, I was trying to like order these glassesonline, a pair of formyself, an a pair for myhusband.
And we go to this like optometristoffice,right?
I had sent them an email and waslike,Hey, can you guys send over like our prescriptions because like two monthsprior, we had gone in to get our eye tests and we only got a copy of our contact lensprescriptions.
So I waslike,Oh,hey, can you guys email me our glasses prescriptions and then radiosilence.
I waslike,Oh, it'sfine.
Maybe they don't check theirinbox.
So I call them and ask them forit.
And they're she'slike,Oh,okay.
Like I'll send it to you by end ofday.
I'mlike, Oh myGod. Thanks somuch.
Hangup. Nothing comesin.
I wait like a coupledays, maybe likethree, four businessdays.
That's stillnothing,right?
So I callagain. And she'slike,Oh, like Gale's ended by end ofday.
I'mlike,Okay, thanks somuch.
Hangup. Nothing comes inagain.
So I call for the thirdtime.
This is like one email and three phonecalls.
And thistime, I'mlike, youknow, I could just do the same thing that I did every time and pretend that it's my first time calling and belike,Oh, like do you mind shooting over the prescription by email and be likenice.
But I waslike, this is a littlecrazy.
Like you guys should saysomething.
And I waslike,Hey, do you think you can help me get a copy of my prescription because I've called it a couple times and I've emailed aswell, but I've just never been able to get any luck getting my prescription in themail.
And I was justlike,Oh, so sorry aboutthat.
Like, I'll send it over right now in like 20minutes.
So then I finally gotit.
And I waslike,Okay, my new outlook on life is to be a politeKaren.
Youknow,like, I don't have to just pretend like nothing has happened to me and suppress thesefeelings.
Like, I could just politely address the situation and belike,Hey, can you guys just send this tome?
Isay, I feel like I actually needit.
So I am unlocking a new chapter in my life where I actually do say something about thesethings.
Ooh, I likethat. That's probably better for your mentaltoo.
Yeah. When you were sharing yourstory, it was kind of reminding me of thatsaying, fool meonce, shame onyou, fool metwice, shame onme.
I waslike, Oh mygod, you're about to get fooled the secondtime.
Yeah,dude. And I think it waslike, normally this wouldn't stress me out thatmuch, but I had also ordered these like blackout blinds for our bedroom to get better sleep for me and myhusband.
Those blinds also came in like non blackoutversion.
So then I was like trying to get this corrected through customer service with the blinds company who was also beingunresponsive.
And I also had to follow up with them three to four times to even get areplacement.
So I waslike, I need myprescription.
And I mean my blackout blinds and no one wants to give meanything.
And it was like driving mecrazy.
So I think that's what drove me to unlock this new Karen era of mylife.
Actually, I was kind of talking about something related to this with afriend.
And we talked about howlike, it's okay to beinconvenient.
Because then you're like truly expressing your needs versuslike, I guess we're so used to beinglike,Oh, if it's not doing muchtrouble, can you do this orblah,blah,blah, like we're so used to trying to be moreconvenient.
So then I waslike,damn, I guess that'strue.
Like we should express ourselvesmore.
And that's like assertive communication or whatever you want to callit.
Yeah, I feel like that's such a helpful thing to notetoo.
Because I'm very conscious of myidentity, Iguess, as an Asian Americanwoman, especially a Korean Americanwoman.
And I feel like there's all these values that have been instilled in me as a younggirl.
And now that I'molder, I need to unlearn some of thesethings, youknow, where I'm alwayslike,Oh, I should be polite at my ownexpense,basically.
Like politeness is onething, but I feel like it shouldn't come at like a certain level ofself-sacrifice, youknow, I am equally apatient.
I'm equally aclient, a payingcustomer, just as much as other peopleare.
And I don't know why I would have to like forego certain rights in order to be like the most polite angel customer orsomething.
You know what Imean? It's justlike, why am I doing this tomyself?
Like at the verybasic, I should get some level of service orwhatever.
Youknow, I'm just trying to listen to my feelings and not just like shove themdown, prioritize my needs and stuff above all these like social rules that like a web of like social rules that I've entrapped myself in basically is how I feelsometimes.
Yeah, I totally feelthat.
I think I'm similar to that like usually if something's slightlywrong, I'm justlike,okay,well, I guess that'slife.
Just fucking take it and I'll eat the wrong order orwhatever,right?
But thenyeah, like sometimes it does hit the point where you'relike, oh mygod, like maybe I should say something aboutthis.
Okay, actually I have a funny story aboutthis.
Uh-huh. I fucking had a credit card where my name was spelledwrong.
I think I had spelled it wrong in my initial application maybe where it was something like crystal with the A and Lswap.
So it's like crystaluh,crystal.
And I just kept using that card for I think like almost a fullyear.
And then I waslike,okay, actually I should probably get thischange.
I'm full yearscrazy.Yeah, and I waslike, I can't believe I've just been letting myself use this incorrect name for like a fullyear.
But I finally called them and it was actually so easy to changeto.
And I waslike, why didn't I do thissooner?
Like what is wrong withme?
Ohman, I totally feel thatthough.
That is definitely something I woulddo.
Like is this really thatbad?
And then time passes and I'mlike, why did I not get this fixedearlier?
Yeah. But I think what really matters is that you're gonna be a politeKaren.
It's not someone who's I guess like being rude ordisruptive.
I think it's like all well within yourrights.
Yeah,true. I'm unlockinglike, well basically I'm trying to get to my normal like level that everyone else isat.
But tome, that's like the Karenlevel.
So it's my Karenera, but maybe I'm just learning to be normal for the first time in mylife.
I feelthat. I feelthat.
We should all embrace some of our innerKaren.
She deserves lovetoo.Yeah.
Well, this was a funepisode.
I think it was pretty fun to like look through a lot of theslaying.
Where's that we've talked aboutbefore?
And also always fun to catch up on each other'scrises.
I feel like usually the crisis that I'm going through and the one that you're going through is veryrelatable, but it's just like at the moment your crisis and notmine.
And then maybe next time it's like it'll be mycrisis, but notyours.
Verytrue. So for our listeners outthere, if you have any thoughts on favorite slaying words or similar crises asus, feel free to reachout.
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