Vocabulary Spotlight | 1960s and 70s Slang

In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Jack tests Xochitl's knowledge of 1960s and 70s slang. Transcript: 00:00:01 Jack Welcome to the A to Z English podcast. My name is Jack, and today I'm here with my co-host social. And this is a vocabulary builder episode and I don't know social how useful this vocabulary is going to be for our students. But it's fun and I have some 1960s and 1970s. 00:00:21 Jack Slang and I think. 00:00:25 Jack The closer we get to, you know, the the 2000s, the, the more you're going to know because you know, like giggle water. That was a pretty weird one last week, the 40s and 50s. 00:00:40 Jack I just want to say I just. 00:00:41 Jack Love seeing giggle water? I don't know why it's such. 00:00:43 Jack A hard word, yeah. 00:00:46 Jack So here's some 60 slang uh #1 groovy. 00:00:52 Jack What does groovy mean? 00:00:54 Xochitl It just means cool. Like, wow, that's Ruby, man. It's like, that's cool. That's neat. That's like. 00:01:01 Xochitl Chill, you know, that's cool. 00:01:03 Jack Yep, exactly. Groovy. Cool. Awesome. How about rad? 00:01:11 Xochitl Uh, I mean the same thing. Like awesome, those are bad waves. It's like those are some amazing waves. Yeah. It's basically the same as groovy. 00:01:21 Jack Ah, your new car is groovy. Your new car is. 00:01:24 Jack Rad. Like. That's it. Yeah. 00:01:28 Jack OK. 00:01:28 Xochitl Or it's like. 00:01:28 Xochitl Ohh Brian is a rad dude man. Yeah, he is groovy. Yeah, like. 00:01:34 Jack So so many of. 00:01:35 Jack These are the same, but uh. 00:01:38 Jack What is a hippie? 00:01:40 Xochitl A hippie is a person that. 00:01:44 Xochitl It was kind of a movement in the 60s and 70s, I guess and. 00:01:51 Xochitl Anyone listening to that word will have a visual like the little bandana headband thing, the grounds John Lennon sunglasses or glasses. Yeah, the kind of. 00:02:02 Jack Bell bottom pants. 00:02:04 Xochitl Bell bottom pants and open vest or whatever. 00:02:08 Jack Chest hair. Lots of chest hair. 00:02:10 Xochitl Yeah, yeah, it was just kind of like, you know. 00:02:16 Xochitl Peace, anti war, cultural movement of the 60s and 70s, so it's. 00:02:22 Xochitl Kind of. Basically what? 00:02:23 Jack Right. Or maybe we could say countercultural. 00:02:26 Xochitl Yes, countercultural movement of the 60s and 70s and I guess it arose. 00:02:34 Xochitl Also, in contrast to the Vietnam War. 00:02:40 Jack Right. That was a big part of it was. 00:02:43 Jack Some protesting the war, you know, anti war, love not love and peace. Love not war, that kind of stuff, yeah. 00:02:53 Jack Make Make Love not war. 00:02:55 Jack That's the. That's the expression, yeah. 00:02:57 Xochitl That the hippie slogan. 00:02:59 Jack Right. 00:03:01 Jack Out of sight. 00:03:03 Xochitl Out of sight. 00:03:07 Xochitl Does that mean, like far out? 00:03:09 Jack Yeah, it's same, it's. 00:03:10 Jack Same as groovy out of sight. 00:03:12 Xochitl Yeah, I guess it means super cool that one almost got me because I said to be like out. 00:03:16 Xochitl Of sight. Out. 00:03:17 Xochitl Of mind, which means like if you don't see it, you don't. 00:03:20 Xochitl Think about it. 00:03:21 Xochitl Or whatever and. 00:03:21 Xochitl Then like that, can't be right out of sight. 00:03:23 Xochitl Is far is like far. 00:03:24 Xochitl Out, which is the same as Ruby. 00:03:26 Xochitl Rad. Cool all that. 00:03:28 Jack Groovy red cool out of sight. Yeah, yeah. Bummer. 00:03:32 Xochitl Far out. 00:03:36 Xochitl I we still use that, that's the banner. 00:03:38 발표자 I know. 00:03:39 Xochitl It's like. 00:03:41 Xochitl UM, the winter has been super mild here in Iowa. And then I was telling someone I was talking to someone and I was like, oh, it's been such a mild winter. And like, you know, it's the. So it's snow 10 inches later today. And I was like, that's a bummer. It just it sucks, basically. Oh, my God, that sucks. That's terrible. That's bad news. That's a. 00:04:00 Jack Right. Disappointing or unfortunate s