🎙️ BONUS | Potty Mouth Grandkids

SPEAKER_2 (0:05)

Welcome to the pod, everybody.

SPEAKER_3 (0:07)

G'day, mate.

SPEAKER_2 (0:08)

G'day.

SPEAKER_4 (0:09)

G'day.

SPEAKER_5 (0:11)

Say hello to the most Australian you can.

SPEAKER_4 (0:14)

G'day.

SPEAKER_5 (0:15)

G'day, mate. How's it going?

SPEAKER_3 (0:17)

G'day, mate. G'day, mate.

SPEAKER_2 (0:18)

G'day, Cobba.

SPEAKER_3 (0:20)

G'day, mate.

SPEAKER_2 (0:21)

What does Cobba mean?

SPEAKER_5 (0:23)

That's a very good question. Cobba. I'm thinking about a shrew person, a cobbler.

SPEAKER_2 (0:27)

Cobba. G'day, Cobba.

SPEAKER_3 (0:29)

Could be that.

SPEAKER_2 (0:30)

Cobba. Cobba, I mean, yeah.

I think Lockie's looking it up.

SPEAKER_5 (0:34)

I've been doing a bit of family tree, actually, the last few days. It's interesting.

SPEAKER_2 (0:37)

I think it's on.

Oh. Hi, Lachlan.

SPEAKER_4 (0:40)

Hello. Cobba is an old-fashioned Australian in New Zealand slang term, meaning a friend, mate, buddy or close companion.

SPEAKER_5 (0:45)

Where does it come from? Cobba.

SPEAKER_3 (0:47)

Origins.

SPEAKER_5 (0:47)

Origins, please. Did I yell this?

SPEAKER_3 (0:50)

Yeah, just a little bit.

SPEAKER_2 (0:52)

I love how paranoid you are about yelling now.

SPEAKER_5 (0:55)

I know, well, I know what you're saying.

SPEAKER_3 (0:59)

It's a funny gaslighting. Sir, lower your voice.

SPEAKER_5 (1:01)

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_4 (1:04)

So there's a couple of potential etymology roots. So it could stem from the English regional dialects such as suffix verb, cobb, meaning to take a liking to someone. The Yiddish or Hebrew term kava, which means comrade or friend. So that's where it could kind of stem from.

SPEAKER_3 (1:21)

It's definitely English, I think.

SPEAKER_4 (1:22)

Or, yeah, I guess the term first was used in the 1890s.

SPEAKER_3 (1:26)

There you go.

SPEAKER_2 (1:27)

It's not really a term people use these days, is it? You don't hear, you hear mate and legend.

SPEAKER_3 (1:30)

Like kava?

SPEAKER_2 (1:31)

G'day, kava.

SPEAKER_3 (1:33)

Maybe out west.

SPEAKER_2 (1:34)

Yeah. In the outback.

SPEAKER_3 (1:36)

G'day, kava.

SPEAKER_2 (1:37)

Yeah.

SPEAKER_3 (1:39)

Like the term deadly, which we know it as here, is more of an indigenous sort of, you know, deadly, deadly choices and that.

SPEAKER_5 (1:45)

I saw that yesterday.

SPEAKER_3 (1:46)

When I went out bushed though, years ago, deadly has been used by everyone. Oh man, it's fully deadly, eh?

SPEAKER_5 (1:53)

Oh yeah, deadly. Too deadly.

SPEAKER_3 (1:55)

Yeah, too deadly, eh? It's too deadly.

SPEAKER_2 (1:57)

They say that in Ireland, of all places. Deadly is like, yeah, deadly.

SPEAKER_3 (2:00)

Deadly good, eh? Yeah. It's deadly good.

SPEAKER_2 (2:02)

That's the context they use it in.

SPEAKER_5 (2:04)

That reminds me, I was one with the people yesterday. Do you want to know how I got home from work?

SPEAKER_2 (2:08)

Oh, on a train? Do you love trains?

SPEAKER_5 (2:11)

I do love it. I walked, because I saw it, remind me, I saw a deadly choices shirt on someone at the train station. So I walked from here, I rode my bike in.

SPEAKER_3 (2:18)

Oh, this is before you went to the crew bar.

SPEAKER_5 (2:20)

Yeah, I've done a lot of things before then. I didn't go there till, I didn't go there till 4 o'clock in the afternoon, 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

SPEAKER_3 (2:27)

Right.

SPEAKER_5 (2:28)

So I rode my bike in and got a slash tire, flat tire.

SPEAKER_3 (2:31)

Yeah, right, right, right.

SPEAKER_5 (2:32)

And I was like, I just feel like... Left the bike here? Yeah, and I wanted to do some exercise. I thought, oh no, I'll walk to the train station. And it's fun, Brunswick Street, because you walk all through New Farm. I went, walked past Calexico.

I did not even turn my head into that shop, because if you go into that shop...

SPEAKER_3 (2:47)

You spend all of your money.

SPEAKER_2 (2:49)

And you get rolled on a train if you have a Calexico bag. Exactly.

SPEAKER_3 (2:52)

I would roll you if I saw a Calexico.

SPEAKER_5 (2:54)

Yeah, true.

SPEAKER_3 (2:55)

Look at this silly bitch. Catching a train with $8,000 worth of merchandise.

SPEAKER_2 (3:02)

A t-shirt.

SPEAKER_3 (3:03)

I would get one t-shirt.

SPEAKER_1 (3:05)

I'd still roll you for it.

SPEAKER_5 (3:06)

I did buy something expensive that I had to hide in a bag.

Not from Calexico. Then I went to Aesop and bought some really expensive soap. Do you know how much those soap things cost?

SPEAKER_3 (3:15)

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_2 (3:16)

$40 a thing.

SPEAKER_5 (3:17)

More.

SPEAKER_1 (3:18)

More?

SPEAKER_3 (3:19)

Is this like a hand soap?

SPEAKER_5 (3:22)

The brown sort of hand soap that you press in.

SPEAKER_3 (3:24)

Oh, the pump stuff.

SPEAKER_1 (3:25)

That's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_5 (3:26)

It's $55 a bottle.

SPEAKER_3 (3:28)

Yeah, they flog it from the gyms.