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Attractive Accents · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: It's been a while since I heard that song. Never
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  Speaker 1: saw the movie, but now that they know how to
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  Speaker 1: watch it, I might go I might get that on this.
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  Speaker 2: I love the advice we got from me.
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  Speaker 1: In exactly one o six point seven Light FM, it's
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  Speaker 1: Jack and Christine. Good morning, thanks for having us on.
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  Speaker 1: So we've got accents. You know, when I first started
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  Speaker 1: doing this, they told me, no accent. You have to
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  Speaker 1: sound like you're from anywhere, right, like the great American accent.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that's gone.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I don't say coffee anymore.
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  Speaker 2: You don't we miss it.
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  Speaker 1: Or acrossed the street.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they made us get rid of all the regional
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  Speaker 2: accents coming into broadcasting back in the day. But now
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  Speaker 2: we welcome them. And a little survey was done asking
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  Speaker 2: what we as Americans consider the most attractive accent in
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  Speaker 2: the country. And congrats to the Southerners they went out.
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  Speaker 2: We consider that the most friendly, authentic, and welcoming accent
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  Speaker 2: in the US.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds a lot. I think living in down South for
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  Speaker 1: a year or so, they do have some things they
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  Speaker 1: do better. I mean they don't have accidents down there
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  Speaker 1: on the road. The crashes crash.
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  Speaker 2: As different accident. Yes, okay, so Louisiana. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to get specific about the southern accents,
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  Speaker 2: deep yeah, I love him here in New Orleans. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so yeah, so Louisiana and Texas, and I know Texas
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  Speaker 2: is a big state, but that they just broke it
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  Speaker 2: down to Texas as second place because even.
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  Speaker 1: Then it's yeah, of course, yeah, depending on the region, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Completely different, but followed very closely. And second is Boston,
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  Speaker 2: New England. And you don't go in to Salem this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm not sure if I agree with that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, same here. I don't want to insult anybody because
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to stay there. I don't want to get
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  Speaker 2: kicked out of the end.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, any region that calls sprinkles Jimmy's, you
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  Speaker 1: can poke fun at them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I guess not when I'm there though, right Jack.
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  Speaker 1: Just remember, if you want sprinkles, ask for Jimmy's Jimmy.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to look at me like, what are you saying?
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  Speaker 2: So apparently we like that, followed by the Midwestern accent.
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  Speaker 1: I like Midwestern, you do like the Philadelphia but when
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  Speaker 1: they say coke, I want to go home?
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  Speaker 2: Interesting and uh and then finally New York City. We're
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  Speaker 2: coming in, we're pulling up the rear.
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  Speaker 1: It's tough.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, New York's accent is a little tough, maybe
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  Speaker 2: two people outside of here. But the one thing that we're.
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  Speaker 1: All a little pussy cats.
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  Speaker 2: The people that research this are saying is that a
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  Speaker 2: lot of us are losing the regional dialects and accents
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  Speaker 2: are kind of going away. So when you hear them,
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  Speaker 2: celebrate them.
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  Speaker 1: All right now, I used to kind of when I
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  Speaker 1: went south, I started picking up that accent a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: It's easy to slide into that because of that sing
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  Speaker 2: song and it's pretty.
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  Speaker 1: It does sound a little bit, yeah, not like French,
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  Speaker 1: but it's c