What Are You Saying in a Philadelphia Accent?

Rex: I was raised in the, the Western suburbs. And it's a little bit more like Thurston, how the third out there, more locust valley lock jaw than it is South Philly. My father has always not himself pronounced the words that certain words in a Philadelphia accent, but has pretended he couldn't hear my mother when she pronounced those in her natural New Jersey accent until she would pronounce them in a quote unquote Philadelphia accent. He does not have, I do not have nobody in our family has a Philadelphia accent. What they're doing is akin to cultural appropriation. It's a whole different podcast is how to segue from all of that into TV.