The Michael Knowles Show - August 21, 2021


Michael Knowles Tries to Guess Gen-Z Terms ｜ Try to Guess!


Episode Stats

Length

12 minutes

Words per Minute

167.01613

Word Count

2,071

Sentence Count

219

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

14


Summary

Zoomers are a new generation with a new vocabulary, and they re confused about how to use some of the words they know. This week, we re talking about the slang of the generation just below mine, the Zoomers.


Transcript

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00:00:37.580 I care a lot about language.
00:00:39.260 I think language is the main way that the left has upended our culture.
00:00:43.580 I think we've got to be very careful.
00:00:45.020 Do we call a man a he or a she or a this or a that?
00:00:48.260 So I want to focus in on a subset of language right now that is bringing up a lot of confusion.
00:00:53.260 That would be Zoomer lingo.
00:00:55.080 Lingo, so lingo of the generation just below mine, Gen Z, the Zoomers.
00:01:01.500 My producers have compiled a list of Zoomer terms.
00:01:05.940 They want to see if I can define those terms, if I know what they are, if I know how to use them in a sentence.
00:01:12.440 Let's analyze some Zoomer speech.
00:01:15.280 First word.
00:01:23.840 Yeet.
00:01:24.920 Hey, Tara, you want some?
00:01:29.340 I've heard this word.
00:01:30.600 I've heard yeet.
00:01:32.060 I imagine that yeet is just a sort of primal cry,
00:01:36.400 like the scream of some, you know, pre-civilized savage.
00:01:45.960 Yeet!
00:01:47.600 Yeet!
00:01:48.500 But I, so I don't, like, I think it has the same meaning.
00:01:51.820 It's like, ugh, or like, boo, you know, or something like that.
00:01:54.640 I think it is an expression of irrational will and desire.
00:02:00.320 Am I right?
00:02:03.140 Oh, yeah, kid.
00:02:04.360 Nice.
00:02:05.020 Yeet is an exclamation of excitement, approval, surprise, or all-around energy,
00:02:09.560 often as issued when doing a dance move or throwing something.
00:02:12.460 Amazing.
00:02:12.960 All right, we're off to a good start here.
00:02:14.220 This is great.
00:02:14.720 Simp.
00:02:15.320 Oh, a simp is a pathetic guy who's just trying to get a woman to like him
00:02:20.960 by being, like, really weak and, like, a big wuss.
00:02:24.920 Simp!
00:02:26.580 Simp!
00:02:28.080 Simp!
00:02:28.700 When instead what he should do is be a big Chad,
00:02:31.820 like a cool Chad confident guy
00:02:33.760 who just doesn't try to suck up to the woman all the time
00:02:37.080 and then paradoxically or counterintuitively, perhaps,
00:02:39.800 that actually will get the woman to like him.
00:02:41.460 Yes, simp is a slang insult for men who are seen as too attentive
00:02:45.100 and submissive to women,
00:02:46.040 especially out of a failed hope of winning some entitled sexual attraction
00:02:49.040 or activity from them.
00:02:50.920 Nice.
00:02:51.400 Man, this is, I'm such a zoomer.
00:02:53.160 I'm so hip to the jive.
00:02:54.700 Oh, Stordis, I speak jive.
00:02:57.540 Steez.
00:02:59.000 Steez.
00:02:59.420 I've never even heard this one.
00:03:00.980 Steez.
00:03:04.920 Steez.
00:03:06.100 Like, st...
00:03:07.420 Like, uh...
00:03:09.420 I don't know.
00:03:09.900 It's a unique personal style
00:03:12.380 pulled off with ease.
00:03:14.580 For example, you see in this steez?
00:03:17.820 I'm going to start using that.
00:03:19.260 Yo, you see in this steez right now?
00:03:21.120 No cap.
00:03:22.260 No cap.
00:03:23.220 Is it like, you know, back when I was a youth,
00:03:26.160 you'd like bust a cap.
00:03:27.600 That would be something that we would often do
00:03:29.280 roaming the streets at night.
00:03:31.040 Good gracious!
00:03:32.200 I should bust a cap in your ass.
00:03:34.080 So, I don't know if this cap would refer to that cap.
00:03:37.100 Like, no, or like, no capitalism.
00:03:39.400 Because they are kind of commies, right?
00:03:40.960 A lot of those zoomers are commies.
00:03:42.660 Like, an ancap is an anarcho-capitalist.
00:03:45.640 No cap.
00:03:46.720 Like, there's no top.
00:03:48.180 Like, there's no limit to whatever activity is going on.
00:03:53.080 I'm going to say that.
00:03:53.660 I'm going to say no cap is, like, limitless.
00:03:55.900 The limit does not exist.
00:03:56.920 The expression no cap is slang for no lie or for real,
00:04:02.900 often used to emphasize someone is not exaggerating
00:04:05.840 about something hard to believe.
00:04:07.320 So, I guess I don't get this one right.
00:04:09.920 No s***.
00:04:10.680 Okay, all right, fine.
00:04:11.700 I don't have the producers say that I don't.
00:04:13.340 Stan.
00:04:13.900 Oh, a stan is like a supporter of something
00:04:16.100 or a fan of something
00:04:17.200 or someone that will stand by someone or something else.
00:04:21.280 Yeah, Tim, I wrote you, but you still ain't calling me.
00:04:24.780 Stan is slang for someone who's a very zealous fan,
00:04:26.700 especially if a celebrity or music group.
00:04:28.500 Stan can also be a verb for liking something a great deal.
00:04:32.660 So, right, like, we stan this or that.
00:04:34.660 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's skincare routine has arrived.
00:04:38.340 So, what am I?
00:04:39.900 I'm three and two right now.
00:04:42.380 I've still gotten most of these right.
00:04:43.740 This is good.
00:04:45.500 Pull up.
00:04:47.420 This is a trick question.
00:04:49.300 Is this that?
00:04:49.920 You know, pull ups,
00:04:50.460 that was the only thing I could do in gym class
00:04:52.160 because I was thin.
00:04:53.860 So, it's like, yeah, but I couldn't do, you know,
00:04:55.700 I'd always be picked last
00:04:56.800 for various sorts of athletic endeavors.
00:05:02.000 Pull up.
00:05:03.820 Is it when you lift your body using your arms on a bar?
00:05:09.160 It's an invitation to come over.
00:05:11.320 Pull up like, huh, well, I've never heard that.
00:05:14.260 Maybe it's because I've never been invited to come over.
00:05:16.040 Okay, I'll pull up.
00:05:17.720 Sus.
00:05:18.900 Sus, I imagine, is short for suspect.
00:05:21.440 I have seen this.
00:05:23.040 I think it's an expression of skepticism
00:05:25.540 or, you know, that some sort of endeavor
00:05:28.820 or person is of a dubious nature.
00:05:30.780 Boy, this is worse than a time I was sussed.
00:05:33.660 Giving the impression that something is questionable
00:05:35.200 or dishonest and suspicious.
00:05:36.480 Okay, all right.
00:05:37.320 Still doing pretty well here.
00:05:39.320 I'm feeling pretty safe in my ability
00:05:41.320 to understand the majority of Zoomer lingo.
00:05:43.640 Addy.
00:05:44.880 An addy.
00:05:45.560 Give me your addy.
00:05:49.300 Like a, so I think it refers to an address,
00:05:54.840 but I think it's more a virtual address
00:05:57.000 than a mailing address.
00:05:59.320 I don't think it's like, give me your addy.
00:06:00.520 It's like 523 Smith Street or whatever.
00:06:03.000 I think it's like, give me your profile
00:06:05.480 or your email address.
00:06:06.880 I be like, send me your addy.
00:06:08.780 Hop on the push with a baddy.
00:06:10.520 Get on my face with a baddy.
00:06:12.300 That's a chemical.
00:06:12.960 There it is.
00:06:17.120 Yeah, an address, especially an email address.
00:06:18.520 Okay.
00:06:19.360 Next up, snatched.
00:06:21.520 Is this like a sex thing?
00:06:22.980 I snatched.
00:06:24.260 I assume it's like taken.
00:06:27.000 Like some, like I snatched your lady.
00:06:29.480 Oh, oh, oh.
00:06:31.020 What happened?
00:06:31.800 What happened?
00:06:32.980 In drag slang, snat, drag like a transvestite?
00:06:37.100 Yep.
00:06:37.640 Okay, so in sort of transvestite slang,
00:06:40.120 snatched is fierce or on point.
00:06:43.800 That is to say, excellent,
00:06:45.680 especially when it comes to personal appearance.
00:06:48.040 So I got that one wrong.
00:06:49.180 I guess it is a weird sex thing, like I said.
00:06:50.780 You really snatched my weave?
00:06:52.880 A wig.
00:06:55.300 So this could be, is it like,
00:06:57.540 is it a slur for white people
00:07:01.140 referring to a slur for black people?
00:07:03.040 Because that was one when I was a kid.
00:07:04.620 Or is it just like a fake hair
00:07:07.620 that you put on your head?
00:07:08.460 I'm going to say either of those two things.
00:07:09.820 Either one, I'm right.
00:07:11.440 Wig is a slang term that means amazing.
00:07:14.120 Hmm, okay.
00:07:15.120 Incredible or awesome.
00:07:16.580 It is typically reserved for
00:07:18.080 when someone is surprised by something
00:07:20.260 in a really good way.
00:07:22.100 So like wig, oh, that's wig.
00:07:24.220 Did you just say wig?
00:07:25.040 Yes.
00:07:25.360 I know, wig.
00:07:26.920 I feel that already.
00:07:28.520 Bet?
00:07:29.180 Bet is now a slang term?
00:07:31.080 Like to, well, it obviously isn't to gamble.
00:07:33.960 Because if it were to gamble,
00:07:35.280 it wouldn't be Zoom or slang.
00:07:36.480 That's just what the word means.
00:07:37.900 Like bet, like better?
00:07:39.960 Like you better?
00:07:41.140 I'm going to say it's sort of,
00:07:43.000 in some way, an abbreviation
00:07:44.160 or an allusion to betterment.
00:07:46.780 Bet is, yeah, okay.
00:07:48.440 Bet is a slang term of affirmation,
00:07:50.580 agreement, or approval
00:07:51.640 along the lines of cool or I'm down.
00:07:54.400 It can also suggest doubt.
00:07:56.660 Okay, hold on.
00:07:57.340 So I think I, like I thought
00:07:58.660 I kind of was in the ballpark
00:07:59.800 on the first one,
00:08:00.280 but then it says,
00:08:00.920 it can also suggest doubt or disbelief.
00:08:04.000 Like, yeah, sure.
00:08:05.080 So it expresses affirmation and doubt.
00:08:08.800 And I guess it relates both to betterment,
00:08:10.620 like yes, this is better,
00:08:11.580 this is okay, sure.
00:08:12.580 But also to bet, like you bet, right?
00:08:14.500 Okay, so it just means,
00:08:15.420 it's just one of those words
00:08:16.160 that means everything.
00:08:17.960 Bet, bet.
00:08:18.480 I knew that, slow it down.
00:08:20.020 I'm going to take,
00:08:20.460 I want to take that one as a winner.
00:08:22.700 Fine.
00:08:23.400 Shook.
00:08:24.900 Shook or shooketh.
00:08:26.660 Shook means I'm,
00:08:28.600 I have heard this before.
00:08:30.120 I believe it means I'm,
00:08:32.300 you know, really taken aback.
00:08:34.540 I am, I am befuddled.
00:08:37.000 I am, my beliefs have been shaken.
00:08:39.440 You know, my, my, my,
00:08:41.080 the fundament of my very person
00:08:43.400 has been upset
00:08:44.620 and has been unsettled.
00:08:46.260 That's, that's what I'm going to say.
00:08:48.480 Whew.
00:08:50.080 Shook is the past tense
00:08:51.020 of the form shake.
00:08:51.920 Used a slang term
00:08:52.600 to describe feelings
00:08:53.400 ranging from discapopulation
00:08:54.780 and fear to rage and delation.
00:08:56.760 Kind of like I'm all shaken up.
00:08:57.680 Yeah, great.
00:08:59.360 TFW, that feel when.
00:09:00.700 It's that feel when.
00:09:01.680 You know that Zoomer lingo real good.
00:09:04.600 TFW or that feel when.
00:09:06.400 Yeah, that's right.
00:09:07.340 That feel, man,
00:09:08.120 I'm such a Zoomer.
00:09:09.180 I'm so, I'm so keen.
00:09:11.860 I'm so keen and hip and cool and jive.
00:09:13.940 It's like he's trying to speak to me.
00:09:15.640 I know it.
00:09:16.260 That feel when is an expression
00:09:17.540 that people use
00:09:18.160 to frame their statement
00:09:19.120 and express their emotions.
00:09:21.080 These can range from relatable
00:09:22.240 to not so relatable situations.
00:09:24.100 It places an emphasis
00:09:24.940 on the emotional content
00:09:26.220 of the sentence.
00:09:27.240 Typically, it can be used
00:09:28.060 to highlight awkward,
00:09:28.960 ridiculous, uncomfortable,
00:09:30.180 annoying, or odd things
00:09:31.280 that happen to someone.
00:09:32.680 That feel when you find out
00:09:33.900 Knowles is just a total
00:09:34.920 cool hip jive Zoomer.
00:09:36.480 Okay.
00:09:37.200 That's the next one.
00:09:38.000 Sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk,,-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk-sk».
00:09:54.480 That's what I'm going to say.
00:09:56.160 It's an expression of disapproval.
00:09:58.820 It's an interjection used to convey surprise, happiness, and other intense emotions.
00:10:06.540 It's stereotyped as an overused expression of VSCO girls on social media.
00:10:13.320 What is a VSCO?
00:10:14.100 I need a further Zoomer dictionary to know what a VSCO girl.
00:10:19.880 Maybe I don't want to know.
00:10:20.700 It's a photo editing app, apparently, my producers tell me.
00:10:27.320 Okay, I'm like a BMP boy.
00:10:29.900 You know, bitmap.
00:10:30.680 That's what us millennials are like.
00:10:32.500 So do I get credit for that?
00:10:33.720 Because it says surprise, happiness, or other intense emotions.
00:10:36.560 One of which presumably could be disapproval.
00:10:38.720 Do I get credit?
00:10:39.380 Nope.
00:10:39.720 All right, the judges say no.
00:10:41.240 That's fine.
00:10:42.140 Okay, which of these terms will be here to stay and which term should never be used again?
00:10:48.200 Well, it should not be used again because it's very hard to pronounce in English.
00:10:53.220 So that one's out forever.
00:10:54.960 Which one is going to be around to stay?
00:10:56.360 The thing about slang is that the entire point of slang is to be obscure and not able to be understood by older people.
00:11:06.400 It's specifically in language, in group language.
00:11:09.520 So the whole point is that I shouldn't know Zoomer slang.
00:11:12.320 Actually, the fact that I do means that some of the slang is not very effective to keep out the millennials, such as myself.
00:11:18.340 Which is more likely to be around forever, though?
00:11:21.120 I guess Shook.
00:11:22.700 Shook is probably going to be around for a little longer because it derives from an actual word, like shaken up.
00:11:29.880 Whereas, you know, yeet, I don't think that one's long for this world.
00:11:35.240 Or like simp, simp is, like, but simp is confusing because it's like you're a simpleton, it could be.
00:11:41.480 You know, he's a bit simple or something.
00:11:42.920 So it doesn't, like the, obviously the phenomena that all of these words describe, those are going to be around forever.
00:11:49.300 But in order to subvert, you know, the culture and in order to evade being understood, the lingo is going to change.
00:11:57.740 I think with the exception of Shook.
00:11:59.280 You dig?
00:12:00.180 You dig jive turkeys?
00:12:02.180 Let me know, let me know some of your cool hip lingo in the, you hep cats.
00:12:07.080 How do you do, fellow kids?
00:12:08.520 Hey, man, you know, you put that in the comments and I'll try to get cool and hip to the jive.
00:12:19.300 Hey, man.