November 12, 2024 • 23 mins
Ever found yourself in the middle of a conversation with your kids, feeling like you've accidentally switched to a foreign language channel? That's how we felt when our 11 and 15-year-olds introduced us to the baffling world of Gen Z slang. We put on our best "dad mode" and tried to decode terms like "sigma," "beta," and "sus" with the help of our pint-sized linguists, leading to plenty of laughs and some truly unexpected discoveries. From wild adventures on Urban Dictionary to pondering the enigma of "Skibbity" and "phantom tax," this episode is a delightful romp through the quirky corners of youth culture. And just when you think you've wrapped your head around it all, we take a playful jab at understanding "riz"—the charisma that's got today's kids talking.
As our kids continue to grow, we reflect on the hidden sacrifices and thoughtful gestures that form the backbone of parenting. Sharing personal stories of midnight pickups and coffee-fueled mornings, we highlight how these small acts often go unnoticed until the teenage years roll around and appreciation starts to blossom. We also explore the surprising benefits of teaching financial responsibility and nurturing independence—like how buying their own belongings can turn messy kids into neat freaks. From donating clothes to maintaining a minimalist wardrobe, we chat about the evolving parent-child relationship and how it shapes their understanding of the world. It's a heartfelt mix of humor and insight, with a touch of nostalgia as we celebrate the joys and challenges of parenting.
Josh aka Bearded_Nova
I'm from Australia and am what you would call a father who games. I have 5 kids so not as much time to game as I used to. But I still game and stream when I can. So come join me on Twitch in chat as we chill out.
Business Inquiries: Bearded-n0va@aussiebb.com.au
Josh aka Moorph
I'm a US-based husband and father of two boys. I work full-time and have been a content creator since 2000. I'm a YouTube partner, Twitch and LiveSpace streamer who founded a content creation coaching company called Elev8d Media Group (elev8d.media). I'm a blogger, streamer, podcaster, and video-er(?).
Business Inquiries: josh@elev8d.media
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Turning off normal human male mode.
Switching to dad mode.
Welcome in to dad mode Withyour hosts Bearded, Nova and
Morph.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
So I have an idea.
Fine, if you say no.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I like how it is.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
This is a little bit lighter.
Yeah, my kids are both.
My kids are both Gen Z, 11 and15.
What if you've heard Gen Z?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I don't understand anything.
Our children say Gen L, theskiddy-ma-dink-a-dink-a-do shit
that stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
So what I thought would be funny?
If I give you some terms, tryto tell me done done.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I am 100% down to this because I'm not gonna
understand any of them.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I'm trying to get you like.
It's sad, like I'm right nowthe person looking at TikTok or
Urban Dictionary kids aretalking about and usually, if
you go to Urban, I'm right nowthe person looking at TikTok or
Urban Dictionary.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Kids are talking about it and usually if you go
to Urban Dictionary to look up aword, you know that word's
coming in dirty.
Yes, you're about to learnsomething about the anatomy that
you didn't think was possiblewith the Urban Dictionary, and
you're like, oh well, if I putin a swear word, sure, no,
Anyone listening to this.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Put your name into Urban Dictionary.
And you're like, oh well, if Iput it up in a square word, sure
, no, Anyone listening to this?
Put your name into UrbanDictionary.
I guarantee your name will beback.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
While you're getting this list up, I am going to
bring up our names.
I do remember looking this upages ago and I did think it was
funny, though I do.
Okay, an unknown creature thattakes a humanoid form.
This creature has the similarproperties of that that would
apply to batman, so this isgoing all right.
In fact, it usually wears black, fights crime and has an
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incredible voice.
Okay, some people even thinkthat it may be deaf himself.
This creature usually dwells onthe planet Earth, and only one
can be alive at one time.
Well, we've just fucking brokenthe fourth wall there.
Creatures are not only badassheroes, but they can also use
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immense powers of unimaginabledestruction and can even go as
far as control the space-timecontinuum, letting them skip
across worlds dimensions withease.
This creature slightly onlyonce, and recorded many times
throughout history calls itselfby one thing josh.
That's.
(02:36):
Yeah, you know.
There's another one here thatstarts off.
He is amazing, loyal, hot andcaring.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
There you go yeah, I, you know what I like that one,
I like that one.
That's my favorite.
All right, let me give you a.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I'm not saying it actually.
The next one was an awesomelyhot guy with a huge, and that's
it.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
All right, let's give you the words.
All right.
So I got a bunch.
I don't know how far I'll go.
Sigma, I think, sigma, sigma,these nuts.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Is that what it's used?
Good or cool?
Okay, okay, beta, not coolthere you go, I'm thinking like
yeah, alpha's the cool thing.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Like Alpha's, like the kind of thing, sigma, just I
don't know.
Alpha's like the, I don't know.
It's not the same as Alpha Beta, you're not.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah, kids, these kids obviously haven't been
playing games for that long,because everything's a beta,
every game is a beta Alright, sothis is my favorite one.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I have no clue what this is.
I thought kids were justsinging.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
So Skibbity comes from, like a popular, popular
YouTube series about ahuman-headed toilet that is at
war with other human-headedtoilets.
What it means is someone saysit's bad or crap.
What is this show?
It's called Skibbity Toilet.
It's about toilets and humanheads.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
I'm gonna be googling this out.
Yeah, okay, this is the trashthat your kids are okay.
I can't wait for this one yep.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
All right, you wing company action, yeah, mewing.
I haven't heard that one.
You got a guess, though,shaving.
Okay, there's a new one thatMike dropped on me.
(04:32):
Yep, phantom tax.
Phantom tax PhantomF-A-N-T-O-M-E-N-G.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Like people, gotta pay you money for looking at you
or something.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
No, it means feeling, yeah, when he first said it, I
mean, what did you do?
Phantom tax?
Because that made sense in myhead.
Yeah, that kind of made sense.
Yeah, what the hell is phantom?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Well, apparently phantom is a comedy.
Oh, he's got great morals forchildren, teaching them how to
steal Great Good stuff.
Here's a yeah sus, Okay, yeahsus Sus is something that's been
used around in Australia for avery long time.
You know, it's not right a bitoff.
Peculiar, Suspicious, yeah,suspicious, yeah, Suspect, as
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you would say.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
You're getting more sigma.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
No, sus is an Australian word.
For quite a long time We'vebeen using that, since I was a
kid, that one.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I thought this particular episode I'm going to
all my friends, All right,especially Sigma, yeah Aura, is
it like as in the proper auraaround, people like the kids are
getting fucking spiritual, likeyou.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Basically, your aura, your aura is showing off cool
stuff, something if you havenegative aura, it means not cool
.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
So okay, why they can't just say not cool?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
yeah, you suck.
And to that I say sigma, thesenuts, yeah there you go, here's
another one.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, you hear this a lot, at least riz r-i-z yeah
I've heard this one.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
It's like that's like cool, isn't it?
This is cool.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
It's basically a stupid take off of charisma.
Oh, he's got, he's got riz,okay, okay, yeah.
Basically means like well,they'll use it in terms of like
flirting You're good at flirting.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Alright, I've got the Riz.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I'm going to say that to my kids.
It's just funny.
He goes Dad, you have no Riz.
You haven't been on a datesince you met Mom.
I'm like it's because I'mmarried I'm not supposed to go
on dates, dude, yeah, but youhave no Riz.
I'm like I wish I had Riz.
I right, obviously I had riz.
I got your mom, no, exactly.
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And then I'm like I don't needriz anymore.
Good, yeah, I'm retired.
Here's another one that theysay is jenna, but I forgot, wow,
cap.
No, I don't know that one catmeans that you're lying like a
hat.
Oh, really, yeah.
So if you say, hey, I just gota w, that's cap.
Basically, I'm saying that's alittle bit of bullshit.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah, I've never heard that one.
I've never heard Cap.
I was thinking like a hat for asecond.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Well, you would think I would think hat Like yeah,
okay, they came up with Cap Rip,that's the clothes.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Yeah, very good, I got the drip.
Yeah, I needed that one.
Yeah, very good I got the drip.
Yeah, I needed that one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I needed that, I need drip.
All right, delulu, I want tosay delusional, so like crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, yep.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Geez.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Rather than saying delusional, they say Delulu.
So good luck spelling that inschool.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I'm just putting it out here here.
These kids over there soundlike they're all gone Australian
, they're just now.
I've unlocked the code.
Keep going to me.
I think I got these words.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Okay, boston, I'm back to square one.
That's like begging.
No, boston, the real something,okay, no, somebody gives, take
it I would.
The real something you know,somebody gives, take it I would.
Oh, I think they're gonna giveyou I'll give you a four.
Yeah, yeah, give me two more.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Um, there's one is like you just did, like you ate
a piece of cake like it tastesgood.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
No, it means like you just killed that kid.
You're awesome, I'd like thatfor breakfast, that presentation
, you gave eight Pick.
That Okay, okay.
And what I want to?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Oh, bop Bopping, Okay , bop Like great music or
something like that.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, it basically means that this shit's bopping.
They use it with songs A lotlike yeah, the new song by
Olivia, this is bopping.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, I'm thinking bopping yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Those words suck walls.
It's freaking stupid.
Those walls suck.
Those words suck walls.
It's freaking stupid.
Those words suck they do.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Most of them are horrible.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
They all suck, except for sauce I like sauce Riz is
okay, it's short for charisma.
Tallulah is also okay, becauseI know it's delusional.
All the other ones make nosense.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I do not know how they when they came up with that
?
No, no, I don't get any of that.
It's like being a kid.
Sorry, I was thinking aboutkids.
Yeah, the kids as they'vegotten older and they say stupid
shit.
They all say stupid shit.
But the one thing that'soccurred to me about children
and it's similar to you, you'reseeing it as you get older, I
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have a more appreciation to mymom than I did before, I guess
so when the kids were younger.
That's one thing, and I wastalking to damn daniel the other
day.
You know what him saying it.
I even mentioned it to him.
When your kids get to a littlebit like you're coming into it
now, but your kids are gettingthat older teenager stage, you
(10:01):
realize how much shit you do foryour kids.
And possibly, if your parents,your mom, dad, whoever you had
around as you're growing up, didthings for you in a way that it
was like very selfless bits andpieces, I know you and I talked
about running rampant as kids,you know, as teenagers, half the
time we just, you know, didwhat we wanted and that's very
(10:24):
true.
But at the same time, like youknow, last night I had to pick
up our oldest from work.
She worked till 1 30 at night,wow, and you know she started
like five o'clock in theafternoon, went to 1 30.
I stayed up till 130 and wentand picked her up from work and
then drove her home.
You know, half the time whenshe's working at night it might
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finish at 10, 30, or 11.
That's usually the latest she'sever worked.
Most of the time that's me.
Okay, I'll stay up later andI'll drive up there.
Yeah, sometimes I've got thingsto do.
Other times I do want to go tosleep, but I don't remember
having to do that for my kidswhen they were younger.
Like you know, they're at home.
They're doing things.
Now that they've gotten older,I'm starting to realize there
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must have been times throughoutwhere my mom's had to go and
drive me somewhere or dosomething for me.
Well, she had no plan of doingthat.
That's an inconvenience for her.
She's had to take time out ofher day to do something For me.
She's just done it.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I remember when I I'm not a morning person, I miss
more than she has work.
She drove me to school 50 timesbecause, yeah, I'm like, okay,
(11:44):
cool, thanks, see you later, youknow, but like I'm like that
was a desperate as an adult.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
You realize that's what I'm meaning.
Like at the time you're like,cool, she did it for me,
whatever.
And you still think, great, youknow.
Same with my kids.
If I run them to school, say,I'll run you to school because
you know.
Same with the oldest she does alate shift Sometimes.
I'll go, don't worry aboutgetting up early, I'll drive you
to school.
It might only give her an extra20 minutes or something.
I'm not going that way, I'm not.
I'm driving that way to be nice, to drop off, just to give her
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an extra 20 minutes, three hoursor whatever.
But did parents do a lot ofthings like that that I've never
really noticed until the kidsgotten older, where they're just
a lot of small sacrifices andthey're small, I'm not saying
they're massive, you're notgiving out kidney or a liver or
something you know but you do alot of things and you don't
really get any.
(12:32):
I don't think the childrenactually even understand that
it's more than just.
It's more than just a lift, youknow.
I mean it's more than justmaking lunch or more or cooking
a dinner or something.
Like you, I've started to dawnon it more, the things that
parents do as my kids get olderway more than I ever realized
when they were younger.
And you're changing nappies and, yeah, feeding, doing the
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normal bits and pieces, like Iam with dakota right, yeah,
that's nothing, that's normal.
But then I'm realizing as olderit's a whole different game but
it's a whole new level ofthings you actually do from.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Absolutely, so that 13 goes in five.
Yeah, that's what they do, hestarting to think now my eye
went to McDonald's.
Yeah, oh my god.
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So a week later I'm like, oh,no much to spend.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Like he said that I said to you a while ago, we had
starbucks getting built, youknow, a couple hundred yards,
maybe 300 yards from my frontdoor, and and and 7-eleven later
.
There's a few things I'm likethis is going to be great, and I
was talking to my daughter andone of them and we were speaking
at the job site.
I was pointing out differentthings like that Building's
going to be that, how cool isthat going to be?
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And she's like yeah, starbucks.
I'm like you don't got themoney to buy a Starbucks every
day, though, do you?
Oh no, I'm like well, you know,the other day, when we went to
the mall and you know, mom and Igot a drink and then you guys
came along and I gave you thecard and you guys got a drink,
she goes yeah, I'm like for thefour of us to get a drink from
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Starbucks was $40.
And her face was like what?
I'm like, yeah, that'sexpensive.
And I think they realize thatwhen they start getting their
own money and they start havingto spend their own money on bits
and pieces, how much theirappreciation.
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But money changes a bit.
They're not so demanding.
I mean, some kids are.
I think it's smart to teachyour children to be smart with
money to a degree.
Here's another, here's anotherone.
Yeah, this one, this one'sfucking blowing my mind because
it only happened the other day.
Our oldest has always been aslob mess.
Girls are actually reallyfucking messy.
I think they're just big.
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I look at my wife and she's aclean freak.
I'm used to that.
But the children are extremelymessy, way more messy than even
the son is in his room.
Night and day difference.
He looks like he's a fuckingyou know he owns a cleaning
business compared to them.
And I walked into the doors roombecause I need to close the
door, because I want to turn theair conditioning on and the her
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bed's made.
Her bed has not been made inyears and her bed's like
pristine, made like a hotel andI'm looking at it going.
I said to my wife later on.
I said I went into to mad'sroom and her bed is made like
what's going on there and shegoes.
She brought her own sheets.
I'm like, okay, so apparentlyif they own, you know they
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brought the own thing with theirown money they appreciate it
more.
So now she makes her bed likebecause she's been buying
furniture like, buying bits andpieces for her own room and
cleaning the bed sheets.
Now she wants to make the bedand make it look really nice
every day, because she's gotpride in it, because she's
brought it.
I'm like you're telling me foryears, if all I needed her to
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make her bed, all I had to dowas make her buy her own sheet.
And it's not like she went andspent.
You know, I said I should buyfrom Timu or fucking Sheen or
some of those places.
No, she bought it from Kmart,which makes it no different,
because the sheets that she hadon there before that we supplied
to her they also came fromKmart.
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So it's not like they've justgone up in quality.
It's the same fucking quality.
It's just one's come with herown money.
Yeah, Any parent, you want yourkids to make a bed.
Make them buy their own sheets.
Apparently, that's all you haveto do to get them to make their
own bed.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
It's basically buy their own linen, but I love how
that goes and gets them she does.
Hopefully it translates to oh,dad bought this thing.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I'm going to gonna take care of you.
I, I think that's what it is,and I said it to that.
She came out of her roomyesterday before I took it to
that long shift and I said, ohyeah, her bed's made.
And that, and you know, her mommade a comment.
I made a comment.
It's like you, do you appreciateit now?
How do you feel when you walkinto your room now after being
away from it and it's all niceand clean, like your bed's made?
Does it feel nicer?
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And she was saying no, but youcould see it on her face with
how she grinned and smiled andsaid no, that she understood
what we'd been saying for years,like hey, if you just get into
the habit of doing that, it willmake yourself feel better in a
way, or you're not going to feelone way or another.
This might make you feel better.
She's actually seeing thethings that we've been saying
for years.
Now she's doing it, she'snoticing it, and when we point
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it out, it's like I don't wantto agree with you because you
guys are right.
But no, it's just, it was nice,it was.
It was actually really nice tosee that change.
So I'm gonna make all the otherchildren buy their own linen
now buy their own clothes theydo.
They do now.
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The only issue is half the timeour kids don't throw our clothes
when they've lost the newclothes and then you're
overloaded as we risk.
We're big on lifeline, goodwill,salvation army, that type of
stuff in in my household, sowe're very much sure if you're
growing out of something andyou're, the clothes are still
good.
We we like to get the kids togo through their clothes every
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so often, take out all thethings that they don't fit, put
it into a nice bag and then Iwill take it to lifeline or the
salvation arm, because I thinkthere's lots of people that
don't.
As long as it's good, if it's aruined piece of cloth,
obviously we're not packing that, but if it's a good something,
that's nothing wrong with itthen we're donating it.
So I had to make them do thatrecently because I realized
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there's been a lot of clothesgoing into their rooms but
nothing coming out.
So I've kind of said, hey,there's a limit to how much you
can actually fit in yourcupboard and your drawers and
that.
So maybe you just need to pullout all those things that are at
the bottom that you're nolonger touching and get rid of.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yeah, we I have like a clothesline with my oldest son
and I don't want.
Yeah, I don't want to.
Yeah, it helps save money.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Yeah, it does, it does, it does.
For me, there's no one thatreally takes anything in mind,
but I don't buy anything either.
I'll spend a whole lot of timenot buying anything for ages,
and then, all of a sudden, Imight buy three shirts in a year
in one go and it's like, wow,look at me stepping up this
world.
I think, yeah, I said a whileago I bought myself two pairs of
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Jordans the other day becausethey were at the Nike outlet
cheap and I was like, oh cool, Ican get two pairs for under
$100.
Yeah, ok, I'm taking them homeand look at me, I've got fancy
shoes.
But, that being said, my AMXsthat I had before buying the
Jordans.
I've had them for like fiveyears and they're still
perfectly fine.
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There's nothing wrong with them.
Like, I don't wear them enoughto wear them out.
So I was like why do I need tobuy myself new things when I've
got something that's perfectlyfine as it is Right?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Yeah, I can't see, I can't have it.
I see something like Star Wars.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
That's yeah.
T-shirts are my thing.
If anything.
I've got too many of it'st-shirts and it's just a lot of
stuff that I'm like.
I don't know how many shirts a40 year old has with super mario
on them, but I buy a lot ofthem.
You know, if you look at myshirts, it's like five really
good shirts for going out, likeyour college shirts, your
button-up shirts.
I got a couple of like them.
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And then it's star wars shirts,gaming shirts, brooklyn-nine
shirts.
They're all just.
You know, we've got a shop herecalled JJ's.
I don't know if it's over there, but they have lots of younger
like.
It's cheap clothing, it's goodprints, they do like lots of
good stuff, but a lot of theirT-shirts now are like anime and
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Dragon Ball Z and a lot ofcartoon prints and that.
And my wife said do you want togo in there?
I'm like no, because you'vetold me a number of times like I
keep buying clothes for notsomeone my age, like I'm just
going to walk out of there withclothes that I do not.
You know you're going todisapprove in a way yep, there
was a I'm gonna everybody.
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I'm gonna everybody uh more ofit, oh yeah I do have a couple
of shirts that are colored thatI like and I wear them, and
every day I obviously wear acolored shirt the you know
majority of work.
I do have some really nicecolored shirts that I'm like
this is my adult colored shirtthat I actually wear a lot of
yeah, but that being said, I'vekind'm like this is my adult
color shirt that I actually weara lot of yeah, but that being
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said, I've kind of like foundthis soft ground of t-shirts, so
like I brought some blinker one, a two shirts the other day
cause I saw them cheap, I'm likethat's me, that's my age, I can
wear a blink way to share.
And then people seem like oh,did you go?
Like?
No, I had children, but youknow, that's what it looks like.
It just looks like I just wentto a recent, the recent to it.
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Sorry or like retro stuff, allright I think we can wrap that
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one up there, because it's 25minutes.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
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Y'all be cool.
See you next time.
Turning off normal human male mode.
Switching to dad mode.
Welcome in to dad mode Withyour hosts Bearded, Nova and
Morph.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
So I have an idea.
Fine, if you say no.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I like how it is.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
This is a little bit lighter.
Yeah, my kids are both.
My kids are both Gen Z, 11 and15.
What if you've heard Gen Z?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I don't understand anything.
Our children say Gen L, theskiddy-ma-dink-a-dink-a-do shit
that stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
So what I thought would be funny?
If I give you some terms, tryto tell me done done.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I am 100% down to this because I'm not gonna
understand any of them.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I'm trying to get you like.
It's sad, like I'm right nowthe person looking at TikTok or
Urban Dictionary kids aretalking about and usually, if
you go to Urban, I'm right nowthe person looking at TikTok or
Urban Dictionary.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Kids are talking about it and usually if you go
to Urban Dictionary to look up aword, you know that word's
coming in dirty.
Yes, you're about to learnsomething about the anatomy that
you didn't think was possiblewith the Urban Dictionary, and
you're like, oh well, if I putin a swear word, sure, no,
Anyone listening to this.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Put your name into Urban Dictionary.
And you're like, oh well, if Iput it up in a square word, sure
, no, Anyone listening to this?
Put your name into UrbanDictionary.
I guarantee your name will beback.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
While you're getting this list up, I am going to
bring up our names.
I do remember looking this upages ago and I did think it was
funny, though I do.
Okay, an unknown creature thattakes a humanoid form.
This creature has the similarproperties of that that would
apply to batman, so this isgoing all right.
In fact, it usually wears black, fights crime and has an
(01:54):
incredible voice.
Okay, some people even thinkthat it may be deaf himself.
This creature usually dwells onthe planet Earth, and only one
can be alive at one time.
Well, we've just fucking brokenthe fourth wall there.
Creatures are not only badassheroes, but they can also use
(02:15):
immense powers of unimaginabledestruction and can even go as
far as control the space-timecontinuum, letting them skip
across worlds dimensions withease.
This creature slightly onlyonce, and recorded many times
throughout history calls itselfby one thing josh.
That's.
(02:36):
Yeah, you know.
There's another one here thatstarts off.
He is amazing, loyal, hot andcaring.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
There you go yeah, I, you know what I like that one,
I like that one.
That's my favorite.
All right, let me give you a.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I'm not saying it actually.
The next one was an awesomelyhot guy with a huge, and that's
it.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
All right, let's give you the words.
All right.
So I got a bunch.
I don't know how far I'll go.
Sigma, I think, sigma, sigma,these nuts.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Is that what it's used?
Good or cool?
Okay, okay, beta, not coolthere you go, I'm thinking like
yeah, alpha's the cool thing.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Like Alpha's, like the kind of thing, sigma, just I
don't know.
Alpha's like the, I don't know.
It's not the same as Alpha Beta, you're not.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah, kids, these kids obviously haven't been
playing games for that long,because everything's a beta,
every game is a beta Alright, sothis is my favorite one.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I have no clue what this is.
I thought kids were justsinging.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
So Skibbity comes from, like a popular, popular
YouTube series about ahuman-headed toilet that is at
war with other human-headedtoilets.
What it means is someone saysit's bad or crap.
What is this show?
It's called Skibbity Toilet.
It's about toilets and humanheads.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
I'm gonna be googling this out.
Yeah, okay, this is the trashthat your kids are okay.
I can't wait for this one yep.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
All right, you wing company action, yeah, mewing.
I haven't heard that one.
You got a guess, though,shaving.
Okay, there's a new one thatMike dropped on me.
(04:32):
Yep, phantom tax.
Phantom tax PhantomF-A-N-T-O-M-E-N-G.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Like people, gotta pay you money for looking at you
or something.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
No, it means feeling, yeah, when he first said it, I
mean, what did you do?
Phantom tax?
Because that made sense in myhead.
Yeah, that kind of made sense.
Yeah, what the hell is phantom?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Well, apparently phantom is a comedy.
Oh, he's got great morals forchildren, teaching them how to
steal Great Good stuff.
Here's a yeah sus, Okay, yeahsus Sus is something that's been
used around in Australia for avery long time.
You know, it's not right a bitoff.
Peculiar, Suspicious, yeah,suspicious, yeah, Suspect, as
(05:18):
you would say.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
You're getting more sigma.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
No, sus is an Australian word.
For quite a long time We'vebeen using that, since I was a
kid, that one.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I thought this particular episode I'm going to
all my friends, All right,especially Sigma, yeah Aura, is
it like as in the proper auraaround, people like the kids are
getting fucking spiritual, likeyou.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Basically, your aura, your aura is showing off cool
stuff, something if you havenegative aura, it means not cool
.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
So okay, why they can't just say not cool?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
yeah, you suck.
And to that I say sigma, thesenuts, yeah there you go, here's
another one.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, you hear this a lot, at least riz r-i-z yeah
I've heard this one.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
It's like that's like cool, isn't it?
This is cool.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
It's basically a stupid take off of charisma.
Oh, he's got, he's got riz,okay, okay, yeah.
Basically means like well,they'll use it in terms of like
flirting You're good at flirting.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Alright, I've got the Riz.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I'm going to say that to my kids.
It's just funny.
He goes Dad, you have no Riz.
You haven't been on a datesince you met Mom.
I'm like it's because I'mmarried I'm not supposed to go
on dates, dude, yeah, but youhave no Riz.
I'm like I wish I had Riz.
I right, obviously I had riz.
I got your mom, no, exactly.
(06:48):
And then I'm like I don't needriz anymore.
Good, yeah, I'm retired.
Here's another one that theysay is jenna, but I forgot, wow,
cap.
No, I don't know that one catmeans that you're lying like a
hat.
Oh, really, yeah.
So if you say, hey, I just gota w, that's cap.
Basically, I'm saying that's alittle bit of bullshit.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah, I've never heard that one.
I've never heard Cap.
I was thinking like a hat for asecond.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Well, you would think I would think hat Like yeah,
okay, they came up with Cap Rip,that's the clothes.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Yeah, very good, I got the drip.
Yeah, I needed that one.
Yeah, very good I got the drip.
Yeah, I needed that one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I needed that, I need drip.
All right, delulu, I want tosay delusional, so like crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, yep.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Geez.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Rather than saying delusional, they say Delulu.
So good luck spelling that inschool.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I'm just putting it out here here.
These kids over there soundlike they're all gone Australian
, they're just now.
I've unlocked the code.
Keep going to me.
I think I got these words.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Okay, boston, I'm back to square one.
That's like begging.
No, boston, the real something,okay, no, somebody gives, take
it I would.
The real something you know,somebody gives, take it I would.
Oh, I think they're gonna giveyou I'll give you a four.
Yeah, yeah, give me two more.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Um, there's one is like you just did, like you ate
a piece of cake like it tastesgood.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
No, it means like you just killed that kid.
You're awesome, I'd like thatfor breakfast, that presentation
, you gave eight Pick.
That Okay, okay.
And what I want to?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Oh, bop Bopping, Okay , bop Like great music or
something like that.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, it basically means that this shit's bopping.
They use it with songs A lotlike yeah, the new song by
Olivia, this is bopping.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, I'm thinking bopping yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Those words suck walls.
It's freaking stupid.
Those walls suck.
Those words suck walls.
It's freaking stupid.
Those words suck they do.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Most of them are horrible.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
They all suck, except for sauce I like sauce Riz is
okay, it's short for charisma.
Tallulah is also okay, becauseI know it's delusional.
All the other ones make nosense.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I do not know how they when they came up with that
?
No, no, I don't get any of that.
It's like being a kid.
Sorry, I was thinking aboutkids.
Yeah, the kids as they'vegotten older and they say stupid
shit.
They all say stupid shit.
But the one thing that'soccurred to me about children
and it's similar to you, you'reseeing it as you get older, I
(09:38):
have a more appreciation to mymom than I did before, I guess
so when the kids were younger.
That's one thing, and I wastalking to damn daniel the other
day.
You know what him saying it.
I even mentioned it to him.
When your kids get to a littlebit like you're coming into it
now, but your kids are gettingthat older teenager stage, you
(10:01):
realize how much shit you do foryour kids.
And possibly, if your parents,your mom, dad, whoever you had
around as you're growing up, didthings for you in a way that it
was like very selfless bits andpieces, I know you and I talked
about running rampant as kids,you know, as teenagers, half the
time we just, you know, didwhat we wanted and that's very
(10:24):
true.
But at the same time, like youknow, last night I had to pick
up our oldest from work.
She worked till 1 30 at night,wow, and you know she started
like five o'clock in theafternoon, went to 1 30.
I stayed up till 130 and wentand picked her up from work and
then drove her home.
You know, half the time whenshe's working at night it might
(10:44):
finish at 10, 30, or 11.
That's usually the latest she'sever worked.
Most of the time that's me.
Okay, I'll stay up later andI'll drive up there.
Yeah, sometimes I've got thingsto do.
Other times I do want to go tosleep, but I don't remember
having to do that for my kidswhen they were younger.
Like you know, they're at home.
They're doing things.
Now that they've gotten older,I'm starting to realize there
(11:07):
must have been times throughoutwhere my mom's had to go and
drive me somewhere or dosomething for me.
Well, she had no plan of doingthat.
That's an inconvenience for her.
She's had to take time out ofher day to do something For me.
She's just done it.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I remember when I I'm not a morning person, I miss
more than she has work.
She drove me to school 50 timesbecause, yeah, I'm like, okay,
(11:44):
cool, thanks, see you later, youknow, but like I'm like that
was a desperate as an adult.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
You realize that's what I'm meaning.
Like at the time you're like,cool, she did it for me,
whatever.
And you still think, great, youknow.
Same with my kids.
If I run them to school, say,I'll run you to school because
you know.
Same with the oldest she does alate shift Sometimes.
I'll go, don't worry aboutgetting up early, I'll drive you
to school.
It might only give her an extra20 minutes or something.
I'm not going that way, I'm not.
I'm driving that way to be nice, to drop off, just to give her
(12:11):
an extra 20 minutes, three hoursor whatever.
But did parents do a lot ofthings like that that I've never
really noticed until the kidsgotten older, where they're just
a lot of small sacrifices andthey're small, I'm not saying
they're massive, you're notgiving out kidney or a liver or
something you know but you do alot of things and you don't
really get any.
(12:32):
I don't think the childrenactually even understand that
it's more than just.
It's more than just a lift, youknow.
I mean it's more than justmaking lunch or more or cooking
a dinner or something.
Like you, I've started to dawnon it more, the things that
parents do as my kids get olderway more than I ever realized
when they were younger.
And you're changing nappies and, yeah, feeding, doing the
(12:55):
normal bits and pieces, like Iam with dakota right, yeah,
that's nothing, that's normal.
But then I'm realizing as olderit's a whole different game but
it's a whole new level ofthings you actually do from.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Absolutely, so that 13 goes in five.
Yeah, that's what they do, hestarting to think now my eye
went to McDonald's.
Yeah, oh my god.
(13:32):
So a week later I'm like, oh,no much to spend.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Like he said that I said to you a while ago, we had
starbucks getting built, youknow, a couple hundred yards,
maybe 300 yards from my frontdoor, and and and 7-eleven later
.
There's a few things I'm likethis is going to be great, and I
was talking to my daughter andone of them and we were speaking
at the job site.
I was pointing out differentthings like that Building's
going to be that, how cool isthat going to be?
(13:57):
And she's like yeah, starbucks.
I'm like you don't got themoney to buy a Starbucks every
day, though, do you?
Oh no, I'm like well, you know,the other day, when we went to
the mall and you know, mom and Igot a drink and then you guys
came along and I gave you thecard and you guys got a drink,
she goes yeah, I'm like for thefour of us to get a drink from
(14:18):
Starbucks was $40.
And her face was like what?
I'm like, yeah, that'sexpensive.
And I think they realize thatwhen they start getting their
own money and they start havingto spend their own money on bits
and pieces, how much theirappreciation.
(14:38):
But money changes a bit.
They're not so demanding.
I mean, some kids are.
I think it's smart to teachyour children to be smart with
money to a degree.
Here's another, here's anotherone.
Yeah, this one, this one'sfucking blowing my mind because
it only happened the other day.
Our oldest has always been aslob mess.
Girls are actually reallyfucking messy.
I think they're just big.
(14:59):
I look at my wife and she's aclean freak.
I'm used to that.
But the children are extremelymessy, way more messy than even
the son is in his room.
Night and day difference.
He looks like he's a fuckingyou know he owns a cleaning
business compared to them.
And I walked into the doors roombecause I need to close the
door, because I want to turn theair conditioning on and the her
(15:23):
bed's made.
Her bed has not been made inyears and her bed's like
pristine, made like a hotel andI'm looking at it going.
I said to my wife later on.
I said I went into to mad'sroom and her bed is made like
what's going on there and shegoes.
She brought her own sheets.
I'm like, okay, so apparentlyif they own, you know they
(15:47):
brought the own thing with theirown money they appreciate it
more.
So now she makes her bed likebecause she's been buying
furniture like, buying bits andpieces for her own room and
cleaning the bed sheets.
Now she wants to make the bedand make it look really nice
every day, because she's gotpride in it, because she's
brought it.
I'm like you're telling me foryears, if all I needed her to
(16:07):
make her bed, all I had to dowas make her buy her own sheet.
And it's not like she went andspent.
You know, I said I should buyfrom Timu or fucking Sheen or
some of those places.
No, she bought it from Kmart,which makes it no different,
because the sheets that she hadon there before that we supplied
to her they also came fromKmart.
(16:27):
So it's not like they've justgone up in quality.
It's the same fucking quality.
It's just one's come with herown money.
Yeah, Any parent, you want yourkids to make a bed.
Make them buy their own sheets.
Apparently, that's all you haveto do to get them to make their
own bed.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
It's basically buy their own linen, but I love how
that goes and gets them she does.
Hopefully it translates to oh,dad bought this thing.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I'm going to gonna take care of you.
I, I think that's what it is,and I said it to that.
She came out of her roomyesterday before I took it to
that long shift and I said, ohyeah, her bed's made.
And that, and you know, her mommade a comment.
I made a comment.
It's like you, do you appreciateit now?
How do you feel when you walkinto your room now after being
away from it and it's all niceand clean, like your bed's made?
Does it feel nicer?
(17:17):
And she was saying no, but youcould see it on her face with
how she grinned and smiled andsaid no, that she understood
what we'd been saying for years,like hey, if you just get into
the habit of doing that, it willmake yourself feel better in a
way, or you're not going to feelone way or another.
This might make you feel better.
She's actually seeing thethings that we've been saying
for years.
Now she's doing it, she'snoticing it, and when we point
(17:39):
it out, it's like I don't wantto agree with you because you
guys are right.
But no, it's just, it was nice,it was.
It was actually really nice tosee that change.
So I'm gonna make all the otherchildren buy their own linen
now buy their own clothes theydo.
They do now.
(17:59):
The only issue is half the timeour kids don't throw our clothes
when they've lost the newclothes and then you're
overloaded as we risk.
We're big on lifeline, goodwill,salvation army, that type of
stuff in in my household, sowe're very much sure if you're
growing out of something andyou're, the clothes are still
good.
We we like to get the kids togo through their clothes every
(18:21):
so often, take out all thethings that they don't fit, put
it into a nice bag and then Iwill take it to lifeline or the
salvation arm, because I thinkthere's lots of people that
don't.
As long as it's good, if it's aruined piece of cloth,
obviously we're not packing that, but if it's a good something,
that's nothing wrong with itthen we're donating it.
So I had to make them do thatrecently because I realized
(18:41):
there's been a lot of clothesgoing into their rooms but
nothing coming out.
So I've kind of said, hey,there's a limit to how much you
can actually fit in yourcupboard and your drawers and
that.
So maybe you just need to pullout all those things that are at
the bottom that you're nolonger touching and get rid of.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yeah, we I have like a clothesline with my oldest son
and I don't want.
Yeah, I don't want to.
Yeah, it helps save money.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Yeah, it does, it does, it does.
For me, there's no one thatreally takes anything in mind,
but I don't buy anything either.
I'll spend a whole lot of timenot buying anything for ages,
and then, all of a sudden, Imight buy three shirts in a year
in one go and it's like, wow,look at me stepping up this
world.
I think, yeah, I said a whileago I bought myself two pairs of
(19:41):
Jordans the other day becausethey were at the Nike outlet
cheap and I was like, oh cool, Ican get two pairs for under
$100.
Yeah, ok, I'm taking them homeand look at me, I've got fancy
shoes.
But, that being said, my AMXsthat I had before buying the
Jordans.
I've had them for like fiveyears and they're still
perfectly fine.
(20:01):
There's nothing wrong with them.
Like, I don't wear them enoughto wear them out.
So I was like why do I need tobuy myself new things when I've
got something that's perfectlyfine as it is Right?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Yeah, I can't see, I can't have it.
I see something like Star Wars.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
That's yeah.
T-shirts are my thing.
If anything.
I've got too many of it'st-shirts and it's just a lot of
stuff that I'm like.
I don't know how many shirts a40 year old has with super mario
on them, but I buy a lot ofthem.
You know, if you look at myshirts, it's like five really
good shirts for going out, likeyour college shirts, your
button-up shirts.
I got a couple of like them.
(20:47):
And then it's star wars shirts,gaming shirts, brooklyn-nine
shirts.
They're all just.
You know, we've got a shop herecalled JJ's.
I don't know if it's over there, but they have lots of younger
like.
It's cheap clothing, it's goodprints, they do like lots of
good stuff, but a lot of theirT-shirts now are like anime and
(21:10):
Dragon Ball Z and a lot ofcartoon prints and that.
And my wife said do you want togo in there?
I'm like no, because you'vetold me a number of times like I
keep buying clothes for notsomeone my age, like I'm just
going to walk out of there withclothes that I do not.
You know you're going todisapprove in a way yep, there
was a I'm gonna everybody.
(21:34):
I'm gonna everybody uh more ofit, oh yeah I do have a couple
of shirts that are colored thatI like and I wear them, and
every day I obviously wear acolored shirt the you know
majority of work.
I do have some really nicecolored shirts that I'm like
this is my adult colored shirtthat I actually wear a lot of
yeah, but that being said, I'vekind'm like this is my adult
color shirt that I actually weara lot of yeah, but that being
(21:55):
said, I've kind of like foundthis soft ground of t-shirts, so
like I brought some blinker one, a two shirts the other day
cause I saw them cheap, I'm likethat's me, that's my age, I can
wear a blink way to share.
And then people seem like oh,did you go?
Like?
No, I had children, but youknow, that's what it looks like.
It just looks like I just wentto a recent, the recent to it.
(22:16):
Sorry or like retro stuff, allright I think we can wrap that
(22:37):
one up there, because it's 25minutes.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I'm on you've been listening to dad mode.
Our passion is navigating thiswild journey of parenthood and
modern life, from balancingfamily time to managing your
career and still squeezing insome gaming and content creation
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And no matter what the womensay, they will never be able to
(23:03):
pry the controller out of ourcold dead hands.
Anyway, we hope you enjoyed theshow.
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