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U.S. States That Are Hard To Spell · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: We're opening our phones right now, believe it or not.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to have a spelling bee, Christine. I
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  Speaker 2: know it's free, random, but I want to talk to
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  Speaker 2: somebody on the phone.
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  Speaker 3: And what time is that?
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  Speaker 4: I know? Kay?
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  Speaker 2: Six fifty one. Okay, spelling bee, no prize involved. But
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  Speaker 2: if you think you're a good speller, call one one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and two two two one oh sixty seven. It's
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  Speaker 2: Cubby and Christine light of Famine speaking of spelling. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: if you have a spelling Bee champion.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I guess you're inspired by the script's National Spelling Bee.
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  Speaker 1: Cubby had it on for a minute.
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  Speaker 3: Fourteen year old Shrey Perik of Sam Bernardino was crowned
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  Speaker 3: the winner last night Washington d C. It was a
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  Speaker 3: tie break where they had a spell off and if
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  Speaker 3: you hear any of this, the words they were able
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  Speaker 3: to spell within ninety seconds was unreal. And we have
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  Speaker 3: a local from Jersey City. We have is Sean Gupta
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  Speaker 3: who came in second place, spelling twenty five words correctly.
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  Speaker 3: He was very very close.
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  Speaker 2: I saw a clip of the like the tiebreaker, and
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  Speaker 2: you're right, it was so fast.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, it's a rapid fire I don't even
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  Speaker 3: know how they heard the words right, But we're we've
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  Speaker 3: got a tier of the states that are the hardest
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  Speaker 3: to spell.
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  Speaker 2: Well, how about we have a listener try to spell them?
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  Speaker 2: Oh sure, Hi Light of FM, you're live on the air.
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  Speaker 1: Who is this.
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  Speaker 4: Hy Good morning. My name's Heather.
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  Speaker 1: Heather. Are you a good speller?
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  Speaker 5: I think so?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Christine is going to give you a few states.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we we will see if you can spell the
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  Speaker 2: state these are.
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  Speaker 3: These are considered the toughest states to spell. Heather, can
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  Speaker 3: you spell Hawaii?
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  Speaker 5: All right?
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  Speaker 4: H A W A I I correct.
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  Speaker 1: Correct, got it? Wow, it's that double line that's important, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Coming in second, okay, Heather, Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 4: Pe n n F y l v A n I.
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  Speaker 3: A beautiful Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Two for two, all.
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  Speaker 3: Right, all right, next one, Connecticut's.
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  Speaker 4: C O N n E the T I C E
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  Speaker 4: T Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Wait, you're doing this off the top of your head,
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  Speaker 3: not writing it down because I have to like write
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  Speaker 3: it and then I can do it or.
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  Speaker 2: Even Yeah, you're amazing, So we have and what's your
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  Speaker 2: name again? I already I was gonna hang up on her,
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  Speaker 2: but she's so good.
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  Speaker 1: Heather, Okay, Heather.
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  Speaker 3: So, Heather, they tied for fourth. So this is a sorry,
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  Speaker 3: a double whammy Georgia and Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: So do Georgia first?
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  Speaker 5: G E O R G I A yeah, all right,
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  Speaker 5: and then Tennessee T E N N E S s E.
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  Speaker 3: What's almost there?
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  Speaker 1: Heather? You got one more to go. I can't believe
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  Speaker 1: you haven't missed one.
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  Speaker 3: Massachusetts?
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  Speaker 4: All right? M A S s A c h u.
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  Speaker 1: Oh god, you're there.
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  Speaker 4: T M A S s A c h U yep
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  Speaker 4: s E T T E s.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, no, there was just that one extra e.
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  Speaker 3: You almost had an M A S S A C
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  Speaker 3: h U s E T T S. That was amazing,
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  Speaker 3: really was.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Are you a teacher?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 3: No, what do you do?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: Got your service representative?
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  Speaker 3: Wow, pens very good. That's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: I wish we had something to give you. But you
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  Speaker 2: know what, how about a shout out? Do you want
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  Speaker 2: a shout out?
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  Speaker 1: Anybody?
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  Speaker 4: My wife, Jeane.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Gean.
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  Speaker 1: Heather loves you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, heathern that's so cool. Thank you for calling and
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  Speaker 3: talking with us. It's nice to meet you.
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  Speaker 1: And making us feel bad. I can spell any of those.
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  Speaker 1: I can spell any of those thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe why I could have.
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  Speaker 3: Spelled that's yeah, and then that's maybe I could, Like
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  Speaker 3: I said, if I can write them out, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I can kind of do it. But Heather was doing it.
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  Speaker 3: She was picturing it in her head.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, everybody spelled Albuquerque.
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  Speaker 3: We're done.
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  Speaker 1: That's a city, not a state. That's a hard one
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  Speaker 1: to spell, Albuquerque. All right, we're coming right back. What
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  Speaker 1: do you have in the news, Christine.
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  Speaker 3: Let's check out the headlines and what are our favorite
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  Speaker 3: plans for a weekend.