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The Importance of Appropriation
When you're nervous around someone, you start to talk like them. And I've done that since I was a kid. Like, I get very socially anxious, and then you start to mimic people's accents as a way of being like, "We're part of the same tribe, don't kill me" When you were growing up in Oklahoma, did you do that? Did you gravitate towards friends that had the same sensibility and were kind of- Yeah. No, but, like, my best friend is a writer on Barry. He was trying to ingratiate himself with murderers.