45: Smallville with Moms - Human Shortcomings

Show Notes: June 6, 2025

Voluble: (adjective) talking a lot in a rapid or energetic way.

New Slang (Brainrot Part 2)

• Drip - Cool clothes
• Bussin - What you say when something is cool
• Unc - An old person
• Yeet - Throwing something
• Griddy - A dance football players do when they score a touchdown
• OG - Original
• Cooked - Defeated, unable to continue
• Cooking - Doing something very well
• Pookie - Cutie
• Sus - Suspicious
• Mogging - Getting girls
• Cap - Lie
• Aura - Reputation

Topics we discussed from Smallville Season 3, Episodes 13-16

• How have different friendships ended for you?
• Can you drive a manual transmission?
• Why do we always put the blame on others when it’s our own doing? Or why do we put blame on ourselves when it’s out of our control?
• Why is it human nature to go against someone telling us not to do something for our own good but in our infinite wisdom we know better and we do it anyway?
• What dumb excuses have you heard/made? 
• When have you projected your feelings and what you do onto others?
• What lengths would you go to save someone?
• How many decisions do we make because of fear of outcome?
• Tally board: 
  • Title Said in the Episode: 2
  • “Mom”: 13
  • Bad Guy Opera: 1
  • First Name, Last Name: 23
  • Reverse Bechdel: 1 Passed
• Emmeline’s favorite Superman reference quote: Clark said,  “I always thought of my dad as the man of steel.”
• Kindy’s eye roll moment: Alicia saying that she is glad she finally found someone like her.

Next Episode: We will be watching and discussing topics from Smallville Season 3, Episodes 17-20