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Essential Modern English Slang and Internet Culture Guide · SpeakSmart English

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  Speaker 1: So if you hear someone say that their friend, you know,
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  Speaker 1: ate and left no crumbs, but now they are totally.
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  Speaker 2: Cooked, right, you'd probably assume they were talking about food.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly, like a really bizarre, maybe disastrous dinner party or something.
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  Speaker 1: But you would actually be entirely wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, completely off base.
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  Speaker 1: Today we are decoding a language that I mean that
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  Speaker 1: sounds like English, right, it uses English letters, sure, but
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  Speaker 1: it essentially functions as this highly exclusive, ever shifting secret code.
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  Speaker 1: It's a linguistic landscape where doing something perfectly has absolutely
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do with food.
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  Speaker 2: Right, And we're having a glow up actually requires visual evidence.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, to anyone who doesn't live and breed Internet culture
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  Speaker 1: overhearing a conversation between two teenagers right now, well, it
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  Speaker 1: can feel like eavesdropping on a secure military frequency.
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  Speaker 2: It really is a form of encryption, isn't it. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the speed at which slang evolves today is completely impressive
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  Speaker 2: ed in human history, Oh for sure. We are not
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  Speaker 2: just talking about a few new words trickling into the
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  Speaker 2: cultural consciousness over a decade. We are looking at a
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  Speaker 2: hyper accelerated vocabulary that shifts you month by month.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's dizzying, and.
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  Speaker 2: The words we are analyzing today, this specific collection of
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  Speaker 2: twenty one terms. They're not just random noises or fleeting jokes.
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  Speaker 2: They are incredibly sophisticated, heavily nuanced tools for social survival.
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  Speaker 1: And that is exactly why we are pulling this apart.
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  Speaker 1: The mission here is not to just hand you a
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  Speaker 1: flashcard deck so you can memorize dictionary definitions.
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  Speaker 2: No, that wouldn't help much anyway, right.
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  Speaker 1: We need to figure out the mechanisms behind these words,
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  Speaker 1: like why do they work, how do they actually change
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  Speaker 1: the power dynamics in a casual conversation, And.
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  Speaker 2: Most importantly, we need to establish the social guardrails.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, because while it is vital to understand this vocabulary,
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  Speaker 1: deploying it in the wrong context is dangerous, like say,
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  Speaker 1: in an email to your regional manager.
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  Speaker 2: Or during a mortgage application.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, that is a spectacularly bad idea. You
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  Speaker 1: really need to know when to speak the code and
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  Speaker 1: when to simply nod and silently translated in your head.
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  Speaker 2: The situational awareness is paramount here. Slang is intimacy. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it implies an in group understanding, So if you.
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  Speaker 1: Use it at the bank, it's weird.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly when you use it incorrectly or in a sterile
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  Speaker 2: professional environment. You do not sound hip or relatable. You
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  Speaker 2: sound like an anthropologist who stumbled into the wrong tribe.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great way to put it.
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  Speaker 2: You signal that you just do not understand the unspoken
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  Speaker 2: rules of engagement. So exploring the psychological weight of these
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  Speaker 2: words is just as critical as knowing what they literally mean.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So I want to start with something that sounds
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  Speaker 1: almost too simple. Before we get into all the wild
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  Speaker 1: metaphors about aesthetics and dating, we kind of have to
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  Speaker 1: look at the absolute baseline of human communication.
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  Speaker 2: Which is how we agree.
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  Speaker 1: To things right? How do we say yes? The undisputed
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  Speaker 1: champion of this category right now is a tiny three
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  Speaker 1: letter grunt of a word, bet.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Bet.
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  Speaker 1: I have to be honest, I am highly skeptical of
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  Speaker 1: this one. Like, how does a word that basically just
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  Speaker 1: means okay become the most dominant piece of slang out there.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it just a lazy way to avoid saying a
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  Speaker 1: complete sentence?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean it is easy to dismiss it as lazy,
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  Speaker 2: but from a sociolinguistic perspective, bet is actually a masterpiece.
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  Speaker 1: Of efficiency, A masterpiece.
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  Speaker 2: Really truly, it is the absolute favorite, most frequently utilized
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  Speaker 2: term of agreement in recent years, precisely because it strips
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  Speaker 2: away all the unnecessary performative politeness.
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  Speaker 1: The formative politeness, okay, explain that.
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  Speaker 2: So if you text a friend meet me at the
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  Speaker 2: station at six and they reply, yes, that sounds like
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  Speaker 2: a wonderful plan, I will see you.
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  Speaker 1: Then that actually feels strange, doesn't It like way too formal?
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  Speaker 2: It feels overly formal, maybe even a little passive aggressive,
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  Speaker 2: depending on the friend. BET just means okay, sure or agreed,
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  Speaker 2: but it does so while simultaneously confirming that the relationship
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  Speaker 2: is secure enough not to require those formalities.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I see the angle. It is like the modern
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  Speaker 1: equivalent of Roger that over a radio.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very similar.
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  Speaker 1: Roger that is purely functional message received, instructions understood.
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  Speaker 2: It is the exact same functional concept, but with a
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  Speaker 2: crucial difference in the social dynamic. Roger that comes from
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  Speaker 2: a military context. Right, It implies hierarchy, obedience, and strict protocol.
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  Speaker 2: BET is entirely horizontal. It is peer to peer. It
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  Speaker 2: says we are on the same page and there is
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  Speaker 2: zero friction here. You are eliminating the anxiety of overpromising
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  Speaker 2: or over explaining.
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  Speaker 1: That makes total sense. It is low stakes confirmation. You
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  Speaker 1: bring the snacks, I will bring the projector bet exactly.
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  Speaker 1: But what happens when the stakes are higher? What happens
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  Speaker 1: when we aren't just agreeing to a simple plan, but
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  Speaker 1: we are actively negotiating the truth. Because there is a whole,
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  Speaker 1: separate vocabulary for calling someone a liar right now, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: and it centers entirely around the word cap and the
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  Speaker 1: phrase no cap.
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  Speaker 2: This is where we see language acting as a direct
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  Speaker 2: policing mechanism. No cap trans lates to honestly, seriously or
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  Speaker 2: I'm not lying.
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  Speaker 1: So you say it to back up your own story, right.
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  Speaker 2: A speaker uses it to preemptively defend their own statement,
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  Speaker 2: like that was the best concert I've ever been to.
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  Speaker 2: No cap. They're anticipating disbelief and shutting it down before
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  Speaker 2: the listener can even respond.
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  Speaker 1: So it functions as an intensifier. But what fascinates me
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  Speaker 1: is the inverse just using the word cap on its
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  Speaker 1: own because historically, calling someone a liar is a massive escalation.
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  Speaker 1: It's a fight starter. If someone tells a story and
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  Speaker 1: you look them in the eye and say you are
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  Speaker 1: a liar. The whole room goes quiet.
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  Speaker 2: It's very aggressive, right.
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  Speaker 1: But CAP doesn't seem to carry that same nuclear weight.
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  Speaker 2: You are picking up on a very important softening of language.
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  Speaker 2: CAP means a lie or a gross exaggeration, but because
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  Speaker 2: it is slang, it is inherently playful.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not a direct attack.
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  Speaker 2: No, when someone tells an unbelievable story and you just
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  Speaker 2: reply CAP, you are challenging their truthfulness. Yes, but you
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  Speaker 2: are doing it within the rules of a game. It
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  Speaker 2: is a verbal red card.
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  Speaker 1: A red card like that, you are.
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  Speaker 2: Blowing the whistle on their exaggeration without necessarily accusing them
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  Speaker 2: of malicious deception.
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  Speaker 1: It is calling out falsehoods, but keeping the vibe intact,
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  Speaker 1: like I ran five miles this morning, Cat exactly, You
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  Speaker 1: aren't calling them a sociopath. You were just saying I.
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  Speaker 2: Know you slept in precisely. Again, look at the sheer
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  Speaker 2: speed of it. One syllable. The Internet rewards speed. You
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  Speaker 2: don't have to formulate a whole argument, you just throw
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  Speaker 2: out the flag.
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  Speaker 1: But absolute truth and absolute lies are extreme ends of
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  Speaker 1: a spectrum. Most of human interaction happens in the murky middle.
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  Speaker 2: We live in the gray areas we do.
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  Speaker 1: We have opinions we aren't totally sure about, or desires
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  Speaker 1: we are a little embarrassed by. And this is where
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  Speaker 1: my personal favorite phrase comes in. Low key. Ah.
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  Speaker 2: Low key is fascinating because it acts as psychological armor.
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  Speaker 2: The literal definition is slightly, secretly, quietly, or in an understated.
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  Speaker 1: Way, So like I low key want to just order
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  Speaker 1: a pizza and sleep yes.
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  Speaker 2: Or low key the smartest person in the room.
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  Speaker 1: I look at low key as conversational bubble rap, bubble rap.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We live in an era where every opinion you voice
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  Speaker 1: can be scrutinized, mocked, or held against you forever. On
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  Speaker 1: the internet. Low key gives you a trapdoor.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great analogy.
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  Speaker 1: If I say I low key love that terrible reality
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  Speaker 1: show and you immediately start making fun of me for it,
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  Speaker 1: I can retreat. I can say, well, I only low
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  Speaker 1: key like it. I know it's garbage. I haven't fully
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  Speaker 1: committed my reputation to the statement.
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  Speaker 2: That is a highly accurate read on the anxiety of
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  Speaker 2: modern communication. We are constantly perceived in digital spaces. The
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  Speaker 2: pinopticon is always watching.
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  Speaker 1: It really is.
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  Speaker 2: Low key allows individuals to express vulnerability or contrarian opinions
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  Speaker 2: without standing naked in the town square. It is a
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  Speaker 2: modifier that softens the impact of your own desires.
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  Speaker 1: Well, wait, let me stop you there. Language usually demands symmetry.
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  Speaker 1: If there is a low key, logically, there has to
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  Speaker 1: be a high key. Technically, yes, I hear people use
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  Speaker 1: it sometimes, but it feels incredibly clunky, like I am
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  Speaker 1: high key exhausted. It doesn't roll off the tongue the
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  Speaker 1: same way.
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  Speaker 2: Your intuition is correct and the usage data backs you
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  Speaker 2: up entirely. High key theoretically means openly, strongly, or intensely,
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  Speaker 2: but it sees a fraction of the use that low
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  Speaker 2: key does. Why is that Because when we want to
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  Speaker 2: express intense, unashamed emotion, we don't need a specialized slang shield.
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  Speaker 2: We just revert to standard intensifiers. We say we're incredibly
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  Speaker 2: excited or furious.
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  Speaker 1: That makes a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 2: Low Key remains dominant because the need for plausible deniability
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  Speaker 2: is a constant daily requirement in modern socializing. We need
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  Speaker 2: to hide much more often than we need to shout.
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  Speaker 1: We only need armor when we're afraid of getting hit.
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  Speaker 1: That makes total sense, Okay, so we have bet for
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  Speaker 1: seamless agreement, cap to police the truth and low key
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  Speaker 1: to protect our opinions. But there is one more word
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  Speaker 1: in this overarching category of evaluating reality, and it might
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  Speaker 1: be the most devastating insult of the decade. Mid oh.
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  Speaker 2: Mid is devastating precisely because of its complete lack of passion.
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  Speaker 2: It is direct clipping of the word middle. It means mediocre, underwhelming, average,
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  Speaker 2: or entirely unremarkable.
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  Speaker 1: You watch a highly anticipated movie with a massive budget,
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  Speaker 1: You walk out of the theater. Your friend asks how
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  Speaker 1: it was, and you're just shrug and say it was
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  Speaker 1: mid brutal. It feels so much worse than calling it terrible.
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  Speaker 1: If you call it terrible, you are admitting that the
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  Speaker 1: movie affected you. It made you angry, It provoked an emotion.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly Mid means it wasn't even worth the calories required
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  Speaker 1: to form an opinion.
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  Speaker 2: It speaks perfectly to the modern attention economy on the Internet.
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  Speaker 2: The worst fate isn't being hated. Being hated actually drives engagement.
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  Speaker 2: Being hated gets you in the algorithm.
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  Speaker 1: That's true. Rage bit is everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: The absolute worst fate is being ignored to be mid
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  Speaker 2: is to fail to register on the emotional spectrum. It
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  Speaker 2: is a declaration of complete apathy. Wow, and because our
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  Speaker 2: culture currently demands hyperbole, everything must either be the greatest
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  Speaker 2: of all time or the absolute worst thing ever created.
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  Speaker 2: Calling something mid is the ultimate dismissal. It denies the
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  Speaker 2: subject any extreme status.
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  Speaker 1: It is a one syllable void. I love it, but
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  Speaker 1: let's leave the realm of evaluating movies and casual plans. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: there is a massive leap and stakes between evaluating a
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  Speaker 1: burger as mid and evaluating another human being. When we
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  Speaker 1: move from casual opinions to actual romantic attraction and interpersonal dynamics,
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  Speaker 1: the language doesn't just change, it gets completely weaponized.
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  Speaker 2: The vocabulary of romance and courtship is always historically volatile,
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  Speaker 2: but what we are seeing now is something entirely distinct.
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  Speaker 2: Internet culture has essentially gamified human connection. Yes, we are
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  Speaker 2: applying the cold, calculated metrics of video games and clinical
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  Speaker 2: psychology to the incredibly messy business of falling in love.
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  Speaker 1: And the absolute poster child for this gamification is a
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  Speaker 1: word that practically broke the Internet over the last two years.
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  Speaker 2: Riz Riz.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I hear this everywhere, and it honestly sounds like
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  Speaker 1: an attribute you would roll dice for in Dungeons and Dragons.
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  Speaker 2: That is exactly how it functions. Riz is an extraction
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  Speaker 2: of the middle syllable of charisma cha rism more.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay, that makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: It refers specifically to romantic charm, the ability to flirt,
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  Speaker 2: and the natural smoothness required to attract someone. But what
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  Speaker 2: makes it fascinating is how it is treated linguistically as
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  Speaker 2: a tangible asset. You don't just act charming, you possess RIZ.
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  Speaker 1: Right. You can have good RIZ, you can lack RIZ.
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  Speaker 1: You can even use it as an active verb, which
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  Speaker 1: is wild to me.
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  Speaker 2: Yes to risk someone.
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  Speaker 1: Up he rizzed up the barista. It implies a deliberate
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  Speaker 1: deployment of a skill, almost like casting a spell. It
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  Speaker 1: takes the mystery out of romance and turns it into
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  Speaker 1: a mirrorble stat. If your rihiz level is high enough,
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  Speaker 1: you unlock the relationship.
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  Speaker 2: It commodifies personality. When we talk about RIZ, we are
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  Speaker 2: moving away from the idea of two souls connecting organically
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  Speaker 2: and moving toward a transactional model of social maneuvering.
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  Speaker 1: It's a skill check.
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  Speaker 2: It is a game of skill, and like any game,
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  Speaker 2: you can fail spectacularly, which brings us to the sudden
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  Speaker 2: catastrophic failure of attraction. Dick.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, this is a heavy hitter, the ick, and we
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  Speaker 1: should clarify the ick isn't a red flag.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's very different.
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  Speaker 1: It is an immoral failing. If someone is secretly a
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  Speaker 1: bank robber, that is a serious issue.
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  Speaker 2: That is not an ick, right, that's just a crime.
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  Speaker 1: The ick is when everything is going perfectly on a date.
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  Speaker 1: The lighting is right, the conversation is flowing, and then
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  Speaker 1: they drop a fork and bend over to pick it
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  Speaker 1: up in a slightly uncoordinated way, and suddenly your brain
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  Speaker 1: just shuts down all romantic potential. It is over.
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  Speaker 2: The clinical precision of how culture describes is remarkable. The
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  Speaker 2: ick is defined as a sudden, intense feeling of visceral
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  Speaker 2: disgust or a total loss of attraction, usually triggered by
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  Speaker 2: something incredibly minor or trivial. What stands out is the
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  Speaker 2: lack of agency. You do not decide to break up
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  Speaker 2: with someone over the ick. You catch the ick. It
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  Speaker 2: is framed as an involuntary biological response, almost like an
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  Speaker 2: immune system reacting to a pathogen.
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  Speaker 1: It is evolutionary psychology hijacked by modern dating standards. It
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  Speaker 1: is the sudden shattering of the romantic illusion. The veil
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  Speaker 1: drops and you just see a clumsy mammal in front of.
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  Speaker 2: You, a clumsy manmal, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And there is no recovery from the ick. Once it hits,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot unach yourself. You are just repulsed.
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  Speaker 2: It highlights the extreme fragility of modern dating. When we
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  Speaker 2: meet people through apps, we are essentially meeting avatars. We
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  Speaker 2: build up a fantasy of who they are based on
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  Speaker 2: six photos and a couple of text prompts.
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  Speaker 1: They seem perfect.
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  Speaker 2: The ick is the moment the physical reality violently crashes
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  Speaker 2: into the digital fantasy. It is the friction of actual
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  Speaker 2: human imperfection.
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  Speaker 1: But the friction is terrifying, which is probably why people
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  Speaker 1: resort to our next word just to survive the process.
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  Speaker 2: Delulu de lulu, which is short for delusional. It is
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  Speaker 2: used overwhelmingly as a humorous self diagnosis to describe unrealistic
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  Speaker 2: confidence or fantasy thinking.
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  Speaker 1: Can you give an example, sure.
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  Speaker 2: Like, I know he hasn't texted back in a week,
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  Speaker 2: but maybe his phone fell in the ocean. I am
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  Speaker 2: staying de lulu.
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  Speaker 1: It's used predominantly by women, which is an interesting demographic
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  Speaker 1: foot no, but the broader application is what gets me.
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  Speaker 1: Why do we have a word that essentially means clinically
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  Speaker 1: disconnected from reality and why are we using it as
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  Speaker 1: a positive mantra?
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  Speaker 2: Like delulu is the salulu?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, delusional is the solution. It sounds like madness.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds like madness until you can textualize it within
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  Speaker 2: the current cultural exhaustion. Think about the landscape. Dating apps
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  Speaker 2: are incredibly frustrating. The housing market is opaque, Career paths
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  Speaker 2: are unstable.
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  Speaker 1: It's rough out there.
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  Speaker 2: The traditional metrics for success seem increasingly out of reach
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  Speaker 2: in a world that feels chronically disappointing, Adopting a slightly
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  Speaker 2: delulu mindset, a radical, entirely irrational optimism, becomes a highly
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  Speaker 2: effective defense mechanism.
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  Speaker 1: It is strategic self deception. You know the odds are terrible,
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  Speaker 1: but staring at the terrible odds is depressing, So you
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  Speaker 1: just choose to believe the fantasy. You put the blinders on,
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  Speaker 1: and by calling yourself de Lulu, you are winking at
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  Speaker 1: the audience. You are saying, I know I am being crazy.
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  Speaker 1: So you can't judge me for being crazy.
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  Speaker 2: It removes the sting of failure. If the impossible fantasy
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  Speaker 2: doesn't come true, your heart doesn't break because you preemptively
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  Speaker 2: acknowledged it was a delusion anyway. It's a brilliant psychological
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  Speaker 2: safety net disguised as a joke.
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  Speaker 1: So we have the magical skill of riz, the biological
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  Speaker 1: rejection of the ick, and the survival mechanism of being
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  Speaker 1: de Lulu. But there is one more structural element to
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  Speaker 1: this gamified romance, and it is the most literal translation
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  Speaker 1: of an evaluation metric, the green flag.
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  Speaker 2: Green flag is the direct counterpart to the older, more
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  Speaker 2: established red flag. It signifies a positive, highly desirable trait
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  Speaker 2: in a person.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so like a good sign.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Like it is a massive green flag. That he
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  Speaker 2: speaks nicely, that is exes or her ability to apologize
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  Speaker 2: is a green flag.
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  Speaker 1: This goes right back to the idea of processing humans
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  Speaker 1: like data points. We're swiping through hundreds of faces and
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  Speaker 1: we need our rapid fire sorting system. We are color
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  Speaker 1: coding human behavior.
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  Speaker 2: We really are.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have time to write a nuanced psychological pile
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  Speaker 1: of every person we meet, so we just throw them
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  Speaker 1: into mental buckets red flag, green flag.
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  Speaker 2: It creates an incredibly efficient shared vocabulary. If you are
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  Speaker 2: debriefing with a friend after a date, you don't need
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  Speaker 2: to recount a ten minute story to prove the person
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  Speaker 2: is emotionally stable.
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  Speaker 1: You just give the summary.
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  Speaker 2: You just say lots of green flags. The terminology does
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  Speaker 2: all the heavy lifting for you. It categorizes the chaos
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  Speaker 2: of human interaction into a manageable checklist.
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  Speaker 1: But I have to throw up a massive warning sign
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: for you. Here this entire vocabulary of gamified evaluation. These
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: are terms of extreme intimacy and casual.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: Judgment, very casual.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: If you walk into a performance review at your corporate
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: job and tell your boss that their micromanagement is giving
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: you the ick, or that their quarterly projections are totally delulu,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: you are going to find yourself unemployed.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: The professional boundary simply cannot accomodate these terms. They inherently
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: strip away respect and formality. Using them in a professional
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: setting signals a total lack of situational awareness. Keep the
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: dating metrics out of the boardroom.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Good advice. Let's shift gears entirely. We have looked at
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: how we evaluate people one on one. Now we need
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: to look at how we perform for the crowd.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: This is a big one.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Because we live in a hyper visual, endlessly documented world.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: You aren't just walking down the street anymore. You are
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: potentially walking across the background of someone's live stream. The
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: language has evolved to reflect this constant public performance and
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: the obsession with status.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: The transition from the interpersonal to the performative is where
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: slang becomes intensely focused on esthetics and dominance. You are
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: communicating your value to an audience that is always judging.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Let's start the concept that feels ancient, almost mystical, but
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: has been entirely repurposed for the digital age. Aura.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Historically, an aura is a spiritual energy field, but in
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: current usage, aura means having an undeniable cool factor, star power,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: or swagger. It is the invisible, impressive weight of someone's presence.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Into the room with so much aura. But it isn't
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: just a static trade anymore. Just like riz, it has
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: been turned into a quantifiable currency. You hear people talk
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: about gaining aura or losing aura points.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, the aura points.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: He tripped on the stairs and lost a thousand Aura points.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: It is the gamification of dignity.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: It is the financialization of social standing. We're acting like
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: high frequency traders, constantly tracking the rise and fall of
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: each other's social stock.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: That sounds exhausting.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Every action you take in public is evaluated by the crowd,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: and your aura adjusts accordingly. It highlights the immense pressure
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: of the modern pinopticon. You are never off the clock.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Your aura is always being calculated.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: And when your aura is absolutely maxed out, when you
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: execute something so flawlessly that the crowd is in awe.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: We arrive at the phrase that baffled us in the
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: very beginning eight or the full phrase eight and left
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: no crumbs.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: This is the pinnacle of performative praise. If someone says
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: her outfit absolutely ate or he ate that vocal performance
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: and left no crumbs, they mean the execution was flawless.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: It's just a total triumph, exactly.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: And again, to be explicitly clear, it has nothing to
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: do with culinary consumption.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: But the metaphor is brilliant when you really break it down.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Think about the imagery. If you sit down to a
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: meal and you eat it so voraciously, so completely that
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: there isn't a single crumb left on the plate, you
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: have conquered the meal.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: You've consumed it entirely.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Yes, so metaphorically, if your outfit eight and left no crumbs,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: you have conquered the concept of fashion for that specific day.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: You executed the look so comprehensively that there is no
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: room left for anyone to critique it. No crumbs of
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: potential were left behind for anyone else to pick up.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: It is a phrase of absolute totality. It leads no
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: oxygen in the room for debate. It is the highest
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: tier of esthetic praise, functioning on the same frequency as
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: another word with heavily repurpose violent imagery sleigh.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Sleigh is a powerhouse. You slayed that presentation. She is
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: a sleigh queen. It means to do something ex extremely well,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: to look amazing, to completely dominate.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: The etymology of sleigh is deeply important. It originates heavily
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: from ballroom culture and the LGBTQ plus community in the
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: late twentieth century, where it was used to describe a
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: look or a performance that was undeniably fierce, and then
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: it shifted it from there. It crossed over into mainstream
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: internet culture, but it retains that aggressive, triumphant energy.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: You aren't just succeeding, You are vanquishing. You are slaying
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: the dragon of mediocrity. You are standing over the defeated
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: body of everyone who doubted you.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: A bit dramatic, but yes, it is.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Such an empowering, aggressive compliment. But words like eight sleigh
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: and having aura generally require an audience to witness them,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: which brings us to two terms that are completely reliant
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: on our visual photo sharing culture, glow up and flex.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: A glow up is defined as a strong, highly positive
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: transformation in appearance, style or overall confidence over a period
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: of time.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: So his style had a massive glow up after college, or.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: The neighbor who had a real glow up with the
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: new parks.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: It is the modern Cinderella story, but it mandates documentation.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: You cannot have a private secret glow up. A glow
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: up must be.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Perceived pictures or didn't happen exactly.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: It requires the before picture and the after picture. It
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: is the narrative of self improvement packaged for public consumption
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: on social media, and.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Once you have achieved that glow up, you are naturally
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: inclined to engage in our next term, the flex. To
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: flex is to show off, to brag, or to display
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: your money, your skills or your new status.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: You are flexing a muscle, but instead of a bicep,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: it is your new car, or your VP tickets or
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: your flawless skin. Posting that first class boarding pass was
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: such a flex.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: What is truly fascinating about the flex is the delicate,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: almost treacherous social balance it requires. The culture pushes you
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: to achieve the glow up, to build your aura and
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: to slay. But if you boast too explicitly, if your
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: slex is deemed arrogant, unearned, or desperate for attention, the
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: crowd will instantly turn on you.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: It's a tightrope block.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: A successful flex has to feel effortless. If it looks
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: like you're trying to flex, it backfires and you lose
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: our points.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: And the crowd won't just turn on the person flexing,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: They will turn on the audience members who praise that
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: person too much. Such a weird dynamic. This brings us
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: to glazer glazing.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Glazing means praising someone excessively, showering them with overly enthusiastic compliments,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: or acting like an obsessive sick a fan.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Stop glazing the CEO in the.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Comments or the sports announcers were just purely glazing that quarterback.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: It is a derogatory term for over the top fandom.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Let me build an analogy for this, because I think
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: the culinary metaphor works again here, think of a perfectly
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: baked cake.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm with you.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: That is the person who did a good job. Now
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: you add a nice layer of frosting. That is a compliment.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: It highlights the cake, it adds some sweetness, it's great.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: But glazing is when you take a bucket of frosting
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: and just keep pouring it, layer after layer until the
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: cake is completely buried.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Oh that's entirely too much, right.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: It becomes sickeningly sweet. It loses all texture.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: And to take your frosting analogy a step further, when
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: the Internet calls someone out for glazing, the anger isn't
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: actually directed at the cake. The celebrity or the athlete
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: being praised isn't the target.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: So who is the target?
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: The target is the person holding the frosting bucket. The
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: crowd is policing the self respect of the fan.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Yes, it invalidates the compliment because it becomes obvious that
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: you aren't being objective anymore. You are just blindly worshiping
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: glazing strips the dignity from the flatterer.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: It absolutely does.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: It is the Internet's way of saying, you are embarrassing
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: yourself by trying so hard to impress someone who doesn't
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: know you. It demands authenticity, even in admiration.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: It is an incredibly complex web of social rules. You
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: must perform perfectly, but you cannot brag about it directly.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: You must praise greatness, but you cannot cross the line
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: into worship.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: It sounds absolutely exhausting, and honestly, that is the perfect
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: bridge to our final overarching theme. Because constant performance, hyper socializing,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: and navigating this endless mindfield of digital rules takes a
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: massive measurable toll on the human psyche.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: It really does it. Where's people down?
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: This final category of words moves away from how we
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: evaluate each other and explores how we diagnose ourselves. These
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: are the terms used to describe the mental and psychological
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: states induced by living in a hyper connected, high pressure world.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: This is where the slang stops being merely playful and
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: becomes deeply sociological. These terms act as pressure release valves
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: for the modern condition.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Let's start with the ailment itself. The absolute baseline condition
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: of being two online brain rot.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Brain rot refers to low quality, highly addictive online content,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: or the mentally numbing, exhausting effect of consuming too much
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: of it.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I spent four hours watching meaningless clips. I have total
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: brain rot.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Or the algorithm is just feeding me brain rot.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: It is the vocabulary of doom scrolling. What strikes me
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: is so profound. Here is the brutal honesty. We aren't
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: using euphemisms. We aren't saying, oh, I am mildly distracted,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: or I am seeking digital entertainment.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Now, it's much more graphic to that.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: We are actively acknowledging that the algorithmic sludge we are
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: staring at is devoid of nutritional value, and we are
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: naming it something visceral. We are saying our cognitive faculties
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: are actively decomposing.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: It highlights a tragic collective self awareness. We know the
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: content is damaging, we know it fractures our attention spans,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: yet the compulsion to consume it remains overwhelming.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: It's an addiction.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Recognizing and naming the brain rot is essentially the first
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: step in a cultural twelve step program for digital addiction.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: And what is the prescribed cure for this addiction. The
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Internet has a very specific, almost aggressive remedy, touch grass.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Touch grass is a command given to someone to go outside,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: to disconnect from their screens and to physically reconnect with
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: the real world.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: You've been arguing in a form about a video game
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: for six hours. You need to go touch graph exactly.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: I view touch grass as the modern peer to peer
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: version of a parent grounding a child. When a kid
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: is throwing a tantrum, the parent says, go to your
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: room and cool off. When an adult is throwing a
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: digital tantrum online losing their mind over a minor disagreement,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: the community tells them to touch grass.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Go engage with tactile reality. It is used as an insult, certainly,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: but it carries immense philosophical weight. By telling someone to
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: touch grass, you are directly pointing out that their emotional
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: distress is entirely manufactured by a digital interface.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: It's a reality check.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: You are telling them to physically ground themselves in nature
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: to break the hypnotic spell of the screen. It is
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: an acknowledgment that the Internet is not the real world.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: But sometimes the intervention doesn't happen in time. Sometimes people
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: don't touch grass. The screen time builds up the real
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: world pressure's compound, the brain rot sets in, and the
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: system experiences a catastrophic failure. They do the exact opposite
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: of grounding themselves. They crash out.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: To crash out means to suddenly become it's uncontrollably angry,
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: to overreact emotionally to a severe degree, or to completely
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: lose your composure in a public or dramatic.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Way, like he dropped his coffee and just fully crashed
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: out in the middle of the street, or do.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Not crash out over one bad text message.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: It is a failure of emotional bandwidth. I think of
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: it like a computer server. The CPU is running at
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: ninety nine percent, just trying to handle the baseline stress
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: of life. Then one heiny extra process gets added, a
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: dropped coffee, a rude comment, and the server just crashes.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: The blue screen of death.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: But for a person, the hard drive spins out. You
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: lose the ability to maintain the behavioral standard society expects
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: of you.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: It is the explosive release of built up, unmanaged pressure.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: And what makes it so fascinating linguistically is the contrast
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: with its direct opposite.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: What's the opposite?
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: What happens when you manage that pressure perfectly. What happens
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: when you harness it. You achieve a state of total,
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: unbroken control. Lock in.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Lock in. This is a powerful, almost militaristic Forriis.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Lock In means to enter a state of deep, unbreakable,
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: intense focus. I have my final exams tomorrow. I need
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: to lock in tonight.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: The team is losing at halftime, but they locked in
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: and won the game. Exactly if crashing out is the
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: system failing, locking in is a system running at maximum
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: frictionless efficiency. You are putting the blinders on. You are
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: shutting out the brain rot, ignoring the digital noise, tuning
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: out the drama, and focusing entirely on the objective in
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: front of you.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: You are dialing it in.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: You are turning the heavy steel key and locking the
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: vault door on your attention so nothing can steal it.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: It serves as a modern monitra for productivity in an
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: economy where our attention is constantly being sold to advertisers,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Focusing on a single task is almost an act of rebellion.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: That's a profound way to look at it.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: To achieve anything meaningful, you cannot just casually work on it.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: The distractions are too engineered, too perfect. You have to
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: consciously aggressively decide to lock in.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Okay, we are down to our final two phrases for today,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: and I am going to push back here on behalf
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: of anyone trying to learn this language. Logically, those this
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: should be good because these last two terms sound entirely contradictory.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: They seem almost intentionally designed to confuse a non native speaker.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: I am talking about the state of being cooked versus
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: the plea to let him cook.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: I can absolutely see how that looks like a paradox
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: from the outside. Yeah, they show the exact same root metaphor,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: the culinary process, but they branch off into wildly different
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: psychological directions. Let's break them down individually.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Let's start with the darker of the two, being cooked.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: If you are cooked, it means you are doomed, you
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: are in deep trouble, or you are in a bad,
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: entirely unrecoverable situation.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: I completely forgot to write the report that is due
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: in five minutes. I am cooked.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Or if the car breaks down here in the desert,
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: we are cooked.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: In this metaphor, you are the meal you have been
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: placed in the oven. The heat has been turned up
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: to maximum, and you are done. There is no escaping
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: the roasting pan. You are scorched.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: It's totally fatalist.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: It is a fatalistic term. But what I notice is
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: that it is almost always used with a sigh and
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: a dark sense of humor.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: It acts as a final pressure release valve when situation
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: is genuinely beyond your control. Panicking doesn't help, Screaming doesn't help.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Acknowledging that you are cooked is an acceptance of defeat.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: It diffuses the panic with morbid humor. The worst has happened,
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: the meal is burnt. There's nothing left to do but
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: laugh at the smoke.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: So being cooked is the tragic end of the line.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: But let him cook or let her cook is entirely different.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: His idea for the project sounds completely unhinged right now,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: But hold on let him cook exactly.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Let him cook is a plea to the community to
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: let a person continue their process without interruption or premature judgment.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: It implies that the person might be building towards something brilliant,
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: even if their current methods look strange, chaotic, or confusing.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: The distinction is absolutely vital. If you are cooked, the
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: process is over. You lost. The oven is off. If
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: someone says let him cook, the process is actively happening
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: and the observer needs to have patience.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Think about the reality of a professional kitchen. If you
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: walk into a kitchen while a complex dish is being prepared,
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: what do you see? Their ingredients scattered everywhere, pots are
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: boiling over, There is flour on the counter, The chef
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: is sweating.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: It looks like pure chaos.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: To an untrained eye, it looks like a disaster. You
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: might be tempted to step in and try to clean
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: it up or stop them, but the soux chef holds
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: you back and says, no, wait, let him cook.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: You do not judge the soup until the chef rings
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: the balances. It is ready. We live in a culture
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: that demands instant gratification and instant judgment. We want to
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: evaluate the final product thirty seconds after someone starts. Let
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: him cook is a demand for patients. It is an
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: acknowledgment that greatness, or even just a decent idea requires
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: a messy, incomprehensible middle phase.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Precisely, the two phrases highlight the incredible elastic flexibility of
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: the English language. A single wrote word based on heat
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: and food preparation could be stretched to cover both absolute
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: doom and immense creative potential simply based on the grammatical context.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Let's take a deep breath and synthesize this massive journey
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: we have just taken. We started with the simple efficient
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: agreement of bet. We policed falsehoods with cap, and we
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: found a safe harbor for our opinions. By keeping things
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: low key, we covered a lot of ground. We navigated
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: the intense gamified metrics of modern dating by tracking riz,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: avoiding the ick, throwing out green flags, and utilizing the
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: survival strategy of being cheerfully dlulu.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: We then moved into the public arena, evaluating the performative
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: pressure to secure a glow up, to build aura, and
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: to flawlessly ate and leave no crumbs, all while walking
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: the social tightrope to avoid glazing those who flex.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: And finally, we explored the heavy psychological toll of this
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: digital era, diagnosing the algorithmic brain rot, recognizing the absolute
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: necessity to occasionally touch grass before we crash out, and
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: learning the difference between locking in being totally cooked and
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: stepping back to just let him cook.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: But the golden rule that weaves through every single one
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  Speaker 2: of these twenty one terms is audience context. Slang is
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  Speaker 2: informal power. It is the vocabulary of the peer group.
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  Speaker 2: It belongs to the Internet, to the group chat, and
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  Speaker 2: to your close friends.
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  Speaker 1: We cannot stress this enough. If you attempt to port
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  Speaker 1: this language into formal, professional or academic settings, it will backfire.
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  Speaker 1: Do not tell your client that their proposal slays Please
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  Speaker 1: don't do not warn your landlord that he is losing
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  Speaker 1: our points. It requires immense situational awareness to know when
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  Speaker 1: the secret code is appropriate and when Standard English is
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  Speaker 1: required for your own survival.
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  Speaker 2: Fluency isn't just a matter of knowing the dictionary definition
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  Speaker 2: of a word. True fluency is understanding the social consequence
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  Speaker 2: of using it, which.
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  Speaker 1: Leads you with one final provocative thought to mullover as
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  Speaker 1: you go about your week. We have spent this entire
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  Speaker 1: time dissecting the absolute bleeding edge of modern slang. We
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  Speaker 1: have treated it with intense academic and psychological weight. Language
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  Speaker 1: is famously, ruthlessly and permanent. Think about the slang from
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  Speaker 1: one hundred years ago, words like apple sauce for a
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  Speaker 1: nonsense or on the make that we wouldn't even recognize
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  Speaker 1: or use today.
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  Speaker 2: It raises the ultimate question of linguistic longevity.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly well, terms like brain, rot and riz proved to
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  Speaker 1: be so undeniably useful, so perfectly tuned to the human condition,
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  Speaker 1: that they eventually shed their informal slang status. Will they
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  Speaker 1: end up formalized in heavy leather bound dictionaries fifty years
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  Speaker 1: from now as perfectly standard serious English, or are they
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  Speaker 1: just fleeting flashes in the pan, destined to fade into
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  Speaker 1: complete obscurity, leaving future historians utterly baffled by what our
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  Speaker 1: points work and why everyone was so desperately worried about
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  Speaker 1: leaving crumbs. Only time and the relentless churn of culture
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  Speaker 1: will tell Thank you so much for staying with us
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  Speaker 1: until the very end. Your curiosity and willingness to untangle
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  Speaker 1: this complex web of language is what makes these explorations
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  Speaker 1: so rewarding to produce. Please make sure it is subscribe
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  Speaker 1: so you never miss out on decoding the world around us,
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  Speaker 1: and we bid you a fond farewell until next time.
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  Speaker 1: Keep listening, keep questioning, and keep exploring.