Brian Marshall & The ROCK 108 Morning Show - "Unintended Accent"

Brian Marshall and the Rock 108 Morning Show.

Do you know people that just kind of adopt the accent of somebody that they're around or have you been around people like that before?

No.

I mean, people that grew up in a certain area when they go home, kind of fall back into the accent.

Me when I go to Boston.

Sure.

I don't

think you really have lost.

I mean, there's pieces of it that I think you've kind of forced out.

You don't go, ah, as much anymore.

No.

I don't have the full on accent anymore, but there's still obviously remnants of it.

But when I go back home and I'm around, you know, mess holes all the time like Boston Mike, forget it, forget it.

I fall right back into it.

Hey, he cranks it up sometimes.

I think he's pushing.

Well, the reason he pushes it on purpose, like he uses wicked a lot, I think, for effect.

Which is a big thing in the Northeast there in Boston, right?

You say wicked, it's just part of the vocabulary.

Wicked is, yeah, it's a verb, it's a noun, it's an adjective.

It can fit all kinds of parts of speech.

There's something interesting that a man here in the United States, he developed an uncontrollable Irish accent, and in the first known case of prostate cancer causing what is known as foreign accent syndrome.

What?

The man in his 50s went to a doctor after he noticed the tone and pattern of his speech had changed.

20 months after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, so the man had consistently, before, spoke traditionally.

But now he speaks with an Irish Brogue.

I have some audio and I want you to take a listen, Russ.

How do I love P?

Let me count the waves.

Well, apparently about 1400.

Thank you for all that you do for me.

Another birthday.

Time to take the old guy off.

Raise your right hand, repeat the following.

Being a questionable mind and aging body, do solemnly declare myself an old guy.

I don't know in this case.

Yeah, I don't

either.

It's not full on.

He just happens to be a little singsonging.

Yeah.

And I don't know.

He's not, uh, not harsh enough in it, but.

Maybe we didn't get the best audio clip but according to this he picked us this Irish Brogue accent and foreign accent syndrome after his first known case of prostate cancer, which they're working on right now

You know I'm gonna say something Should I put on the crash helmet be ready for this?

I honestly mean this.

Okay.

There are people who get head injuries

and come out the other side with a real bizarre ability.

Okay.

Math, art, music.

If I could be assured that something like that would happen to me, I would take a bonk on the head.

Wow.

I would to be able to like be like a crazy artist or.

to speak a foreign language fluently.

I would take a knock to the noggin if I knew that I was gonna get one of those cool.

So you have three options.

You're like, okay, I'm gonna be really good at math.

I'm gonna be a good artist or I'm gonna learn a foreign language.

You take the wrong knock and suddenly you're really good at math.

Are you mad about it?

No, I don't care.

I

don't care.

Just the fact that I'll finally be good at something.

The Rock 108 Morning Show with Brian Marshall.