Harrison Ford had one message for a group of younger co-stars on May 2: “That’s not what raw-dog means.” The 83-year-old actor made the correction live on SiriusXM’s The Morning Mashup after Christa Miller, Jason Segel and Sherry Cola got into a conversation about the slang phrase.

The exchange started when Cola explained that she sometimes “raw-dogs a flight” by sitting on a plane watching nothing and doing nothing. She added, “I microdose in raw-dogging a flight.” Ford cut in quickly, laughing off the explanation and saying, “That’s not what raw-dog means.”

When asked to spell out what he thought the term actually meant, Ford said his castmates were “a little late” in telling him about the alternate Gen Z usage. He also deadpanned, “I really didn’t, well, why would I run across something that — I’m over this part of anybody’s life.” Then he added, “I have five children,” prompting Miller to reply, “You’re married.”

The moment landed because Ford was not just playing the confused elder statesman for effect. He was doing the same bit he has already been doing on Shrinking, where his character Dr. Paul Rhoades also misuses the term “raw-dogging.” The off-the-cuff radio exchange underscored how far some internet slang has traveled from the language many older listeners still associate with it.

That gap is the joke, and the point. Ford’s knowledge of the term was out of date, and the broadcast made that obvious in real time. But it also showed why the phrase keeps surfacing in conversation: its newer Gen Z meaning has spread into mainstream chatter, even as its original meaning remains very different from the casual airline version Cola described on air.

Ford did not sound embarrassed. He sounded amused, and a little skeptical, which made the exchange work. For a star whose on-screen persona has long depended on bluntness, the mix of confusion and dry pushback fit neatly into the same public image — and into the same role he is already playing in Shrinking.