- What's some of your local phrases?
- Local phrases like.
Raise hell, praise Dale.
You know what I mean?
- That sounded very racist.
- It's not, no!
(laughing)
(slow music)
- [Director] Hello.
- What's up y'all, I'm Sebastian.
- [Director] What are you doing here today, Sebastian?
- I have no fucking idea!
- What am I doing here today?
- [Sebastian] Ooh!
(laughs)
- [Director] You're gonna see if you can
guess people's accent.
They're all from the U.S.
- Ooh, all right.
I don't know them all, but I'll try.
- [Director] What are the different
well known accents around the country?
- Boston, "Get in the car."
I need some chocolate in the car.
(laughs) I'm gonna be so bad at this.
- And then I think of New York,
which is like, (unclear).
You know, that kind of accent.
- [Director] Do you have an accent?
- I don't think so.
I know when I used to live in the south,
they said I sounded really proper.
Hey, y'all.
- Hello.
- Hi.
Boston nation, go Red Socks, yeah.
Okay, so first things first.
Tell me your favorite food.
- I like a good grinder.
- A good who?
- Grinder. - Grinder?
Now what's that?
- It's a sandwich, a hoagie.
- Okay.
- So, where you're from is it rainy
or sunny most of the season?
- It's got four seasons.
- Ooh, got four.
So we're on the east coast now.
- I think I got this guy.
- [Director] What'd you got for me?
- Boston.
- Why do you think Boston?
- The hat.
- Well, really digging deep there, huh?
(laughter)
- That four sounded, like, Boston-y
or like the Baltimore-y vibe.
- [Director] Go for some "R" ending words.
- Say "Nigga."
Psych, I'm playing.
(laughter)
- Okay, say, "Put away the water."
- Put away the water?
- Oh, he's from Rhode Island.
- Why do you think Rhode Island?
- Well, 'cause my Dad is from Rhode Island
and you have a thicker version of my Dad's voice.
Am I right?
- No.
- Oh, where are you from?
- Maine.
- That's awesome.
I forgot Maine was a state.
- Most people usually do.
(laughter)
- I'm really sorry about that.
- Teach me how to speak the way of your people.
(laughter)
- If you're tryin' to give somebody directions in Maine,
and it's hard to do, you say,
"You can't get there from here."
- You can't get there from here.
How's that?
(laughter)
- I mean, you butchered it.
- You can't get there from here.
- That's pretty good.
- Hi, Sebastian.
- Jackson, nice to meet ya.
- My last name's Jackson.
- Oh really?
Might be kin.
- Maybe, where are you from?
Psych!
(laughter)
- Okay, what's your favorite thing to do on the weekends?
- Paragliding is pretty fun.
Maybe watch people run after their dogs on the beach
while there's sea lions and everything running 'round.
- I feel like it's a little southern,
but it doesn't sound gritty
as some of the southern accents.
- No, I'm PG right now, you're good.
- Oh okay, okay.
Do you want to give us a glimpse at PG-13?
- Fuck you mean PG-13?
(laughs)
- What's R?
- You 'bout to get the brakes beat off you.
- Oh okay, I'll stop.
We'll just stop there then.
- Okay cool.
(laughs)
- How do you talk to your mom?
Are you close to your mom?
- Not really, she's away from here.
- Where is she at?
- In the Bayou city.
- By me?
- A bayou is--
(laughing)
No, not "by you."
(laughter)
- A bayou is a real, real big ditch.
It's kinda like the swamp but not necessarily the swamp.
- I think he might be from Louisiana.
- I think West Virginia is what I'm gonna go with.
- I'm gonna say Texas.
- You got it.
- Is it right?
- It is.
- Ah, see.
- What part of Texas are you from?
- Houston, the Bayou City.
I gave it to you but you,
didn't know what the Bayou City was.
- I know what Bayou was.
(overlapping speech)
- Big fucking ditch with snakes and shit in it.
- Ah, okay
- Would you need me to teach you of sex and
swag or something.
- Ah, give me some swag, yeah.
- Mama what they do?
- What they do baby?
- Is this like wiping your ass with silk paper you
gotta let flow just like...
(laughs)(poses)
- Oh, that helps a lot.
That helps a lot.
- "How to do Ma?"
- (attempts the accent) How to do?
- Like you just woke up butt naked on satin sheets.
- Oh, Uh.
(laughs)
- Yeah!
- "How you doing Mama?"
- All right you working on it, you working on it.
- Alright
(chuckles)
- Keep the faith, keep the faith.
- Alright, Yeah.
- Hi
- How you doing?
(laughs)
- What's your name?
- Phil.
So, we are going on the East Coast again.
Phil is definitely a East Coast white person name.
(laughs)
Just saying.
- What's your favorite food?
- My favorite food won't tell you anything
about where I'm from.
- Mm - But
- But keep talking.
- What's popular where I am from is things like sausages.
Things like sausage.
People like sausage.
- (whispers) Sausage.
- A lot of sausage.
Kielbasa, Bratwurst
- Oh, okay, okay, okay!
Is it windy where you are from?
(laughs)
(laughter muffles speech)
- It gets ugly this of year.
- Okay, Chicago.
- Wisconsin is cheese.
Ohio could be sausage.
- I think he's from New Jersey.
- Why?
- I think Jersey only because they have arose from
Italian demographic.
- [Director] He sounds like he's Italian?
- A little bit.
And he kinda has this like "I don't know"
(mimics the accent) (poses)
(laughs)
I don't know.
- [Director] See if you can mimic his accent.
- That I did just now.
Do you not see that?
(laughs)
Am I right?
- No.
Chicago.
- Oh.
- So the key of the Chicago accent
is on to hit the A real hard.
- Okay.
- So say apple, snapple.
- Apple, Snapple.
- Oh, it kinds here.
- Okay.
- You just gotta.
- Say the A one more time.
- Apple, Snapple.
- (mimics accents) Apple, Snapple.
- Not too much.
- Okay.
Don't go nuts with it.
This Chicago accent it's not around so much anymore.
You gotta dig pretty deep to find
somebody to talks like this on a routine basis.
- [Sebastian] Well, thank you.
Sorry I got it wrong.
- Alright.
- Sebastian
- What's your name?
- Susan.
- Susan, nice to meet you.
Can you just try and sing just your favorite tune.
- ♪ Twinkle, Twinkle little star ♪
♪ How I wonder where you are ♪
- To be honest, I don't know.
Nothing about the sound of your voice is like giving
me like a regional, like a state.
- [Director] Ask her for some phrases local to that area.
- Phrases?
- [Director] Yeah, some sayings or some words.
- Tell me something outrageous.
- Like you are gonna mimic?
- No, No.
I'm gonna tell you an expression of mine in the response.
- Oh, gotcha, gotcha.
My back got blown out last night.
(laughs)
- Well, I'll be cow kicked.
(laughs)
- She'll be cow kicked.
Okay, so we are definitely in the Mid-west somewhere.
Say, "Never have I ever".
- Never have I ever.
- I feel like its very clear.
I'm not picking up on the heavy accent.
Ohio?
- Ohio.
Ah, bitch I knew I had it right!
(laughs)
- Where was Ohio when I needed it?
Is this the typical accent you've find of an Ohioan?
- Well, I don't think I have an accent
and I don't think that people in Ohio do, so.
- Yeah.
- You are kind of corroborating because
you said I don't hear any accent.
- Ohio.
I want to go to Ohio.
I think it would be cute.
- Hi.
- Hello.
- What's your name?
- My name is Ashley.
- Ashley, nice to meet you.
- Very nice to meet you as well.
- Okay, I like the sound of your voice.
- Do an impersonation of somebody with
a really thick accent of where you are from?
- Um.
(heavy accent) Ashley come over here.
- Uh.
- Oh Ashley I love you.
- [Director] Is this helping at all?
- No.
(laughs)
- Wow.
- I can't really pick up anything.
- Give me like a pickup line.
- Well you are beautiful.
I'd like it if you call me your wife.
(laughs)
- Oh
(laughs)
- Okay, no okay.
- We go right to it.
- Okay, so you are definitely from the South.
We already got Texas out of the way.
How do you feel like your Southern accent differs from
other Southern accents?
- I feel like it's more drawn out than others.
Lot of patience behind when people talk at a
normal pace where I'm from.
Don't have so much French in it more British.
- So we are definitely not from Louisiana.
- Are you from Oklahoma?
- No.
- Mm, is that a bad guess?
(laughs)
- [Director] Yes.
(laughs)
- I think Mississippi.
Because Mississippi is cool sounding
and your accent is also cool sounding.
- Oh, thank you.
- Am I correct?
- No, you are not.
- I'm not surprised.
Where are you from?
- Georgia.
- Georgia!
- I wanna learn how to speak like a local Georgian.
- Drink your juice Shelby.
- Drinking juice...
- Drink your juice Shelby.
- Drink your juice, okay.
(laughs)
- The key in the South is the O-I, so tedboal, I'm spoiled,
olive oil.
- (mimic accent) Olive oil? I'm spoiled?
- You are spoiled.
- What am I saying?
- You are spoiled.
- Um, what?
(laughs)
- I'm spoiled?
- You are spoiled.
- Oh, and olive oil?
- Aha.
- Oh, shit.
- I feel like I know Black Georgia.
I don't know Caucasian Georgia.
- Okay.
- Cause my black friends from Georgia its more hood, like.
- Mhm.
- [Director] Can I hear the difference between Caucasian
and Black Georgia?
- Yeah.
(laughs)
No.
(laughs)
- Hi.
- Come on down. Hi.
- Nicole
- Abdul.
- Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you, too.
- What's a phrase from around your area?
- Mm, boombyah come my house and we gonna grind.
- I don't know what that means but
its sounds sexy.
- Yeah.
(laughs)
- Bombai is later.
So, later you are gonna come to my house and
we are gonna grind.
Grind is eat.
- Oh, okay.
(laughs)
- Yeah.
You could also say poun.
- Pound?
- Poun also means eat.
- Grinding and Pounding is eating?
- Mhm.
- Are we talking about the same kind of eating?
(laughs)
- Bombai you come to my house we gonna grind.
(group laughs)
- Can you be like mad at me?
Like I'm your best friend and I just broke your earrings.
(clap)
- You Fucker, I'll scrap you so bad
and lock you out right here.
- Whoa.
(laughs)
- Can you say "Fuck you bitch, get out of my face."
- Fuck you bitch, get out of my face.
- Ahh, I'm scared.
(laughs)
That is the Hawaii.
That gives me the Filipino Samoan ties.
One hundred percent.
Period, last answer.
- Its gotta be somewhere in like California.
- No.
- My guess is Florida.
- No.
- No?
- You are from Hawaii?
- Yes!
- Boom, I know my girls.
You know what I mean.
She got the long hair, she almost whopped my ass,
you can't fuck with people from Hawaii because
Samoans will kill you bitch.
- Hello.
- Hi, how you doing?
- Good.
What's you name?
- Sal.
- Soul?
- Sal.
- Sal, S-A-L?
Can you flirt with me?
- Hi there sweetie, how you doing?
- (mimic accent) Sweetie?
- Sweetie.
- You said sweetie though.
- Sweetie.
- That was your instinct to say sweetie though.
- (thick accent) Sweetie.
- Oh, where is that from?
- Sing something for me.
- Sing a little something.
- Yeah.
- ♪ Once when I was out on Rocky Top down ♪
♪ and I ♪
(murmurs)(hums)
(laughs)
♪ Ain't no smoggy smoke on rocky top ♪
♪ Ain't no telephone bills ♪
(group laughs)
- What's some of your local phrases?
- "Raise hell, praise Dale."
You know what I mean?
- That sounds very racist.
- It's not, no.
(group laughs)
You know Dale Earnhardt?
(laughs)
Race car driver, NASCAR.
- So we have NASCAR.
So this is natural Tennessee.
- I'm from Tennessee.
- Ah, bitch I'm killing it, God.
Period.
I knew he was from Tennessee.
I know my country white boys.
- How does Tennessee accent differ
from other Southern states?
- So like, Louisiana some parts are like real slow.
(speaks softly)
- That's what I think of, when I think of the South.
- I would say Tennessee we more like
slur our words together.
- Do you have any black friends?
- Uh, yeah.
I have black friends.
(laughs)
- Well, now you got another one.
(Group Aww)
- Alright with me.
- [Director] how was that?
- Much harder than I thought it would be.
- [Director] With a show of hands,
who did he guess correctly?
- Boom, ba-boom, boom.
See, it's either built up.
You know the energy.
- [Director] Who did Alaina guess correctly?
- Okay, so I did pretty good.
- [Director] What was your favorite accent?
- Chicago.
'cause I feel like it was the most distinct.
- [Director] What was like, the hardest one to understand?
- I didn't hear what most of the shit
this guys was saying.
(laughs)
- [Director] How was that?
- It was hard.
I feel like that I was really keyed
in the sounds of the voices,
but I don't know enough about U.S. dialects
to know exactly where their voices were.
So, I was waiting for those context clues.
(claps)
- [Director] Can I have everybody walk off to the side here?
- Oh
- [Director] Just everybody.
You too.
- I'll tell you later.
- [Director] No, you too.
- Oh, me off?
- [Director] Yeah, yeah.
- Oh, I'm just gonna chill.
Thanks, sorry.