BOSTON šŗšø: Read What Actually Matters [Episode 8.0]
Show notes and track listing from Episode 8.0.
CORNERSTONE EPISODES
1/29/202620 min read
Boston doesnāt explain itself. It corrects you.
I first learned that lesson as a kid, walking through a sleepy town on a frigid morning while visiting my grandparents. And I kept relearning it laterāevery time I ended up back in Massachusetts.
This episode is about reading whatās enforced, staying in play, what real expertise looks like, and why Boston never bothers to spell it out.
THANK YOU
Sarah, Ken, Charlie, Jeff, Peggy, Karen, Dylan, Alice, Jack, Angela, Kristen, Reub & the lovely folks of the Boston.com, r/bostonma and r/boston communities ā for your thoughts and voices.
And shoutout the artists below for giving some Boston flavor to the episode.
TRACK LIST (in order)
Shipping Off to Boston - Dropkick Murphys
Fair Harvard - Harvard Glee Club
Cool It Now - New Edition
The Dance at the Gym: Mambo - Leonard Bernstein
Sidestep - Crown City Rockers ft. Destani Wolf
Good Vibrations - Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch
New Man Theme - Mr. Lif
Spain (Live in Montreux) - Chick Corea
I'm Different - Ed O.G. & Da Bulldogs
You've Got a Friend - James Taylor
ISIS (ADHD) - Joyner Lucas ft. Logic
Poison - Bell Biv DeVoe
Rock the Party - Benzino
Sofia - Clairo
Word Association - 7L & Esoteric
Dream On - Aerosmith
Face Off - Reks ft. Termanology
Just What I Needed - The Cars
Hangin' Tough - New Kids On The Block
Cheers Theme - Gary Portnoy & Judy Hart Angelo
Every Little Step - Bobby Brown
Sing it, Shitface - Edan
Summer Knightz - The Almighty RSO
Bladerunners - Mike Ladd ft. Company Flow
My Prerogative - Bobby Brown
(Full transcript below photos)

Spencer, Massachusetts. Itās Christmas Eve, late eighties. Iām 8 years old.
Yesterday it was minus-6. When it gets that cold, the air stops becoming something you breathe and starts being something that happens to you. It hits the back of your throat like a dry pill. It turns the lake down the street into a block of grey granite the town skates on.
Iām walking four blocks to Big D supermarket, because compared to yesterday, todayās 20 degrees feels tropical. Itās the only thing open and Iām bored.
Iām halfway there when I see them. Two stray dogs. No collars. Just ribs, matted fur, and breath steaming in the air. They arenāt barking yet. Theyāre just walking.
In Virginia, the dogs I had seen all lived behind fences. Here, theyāre just out. And when those dogsā ears perk up, my little brain short-circuits. I donāt think. I just react.
I run.
I scramble around the corner, sliding on a patch of black ice, and I see three local kids. Theyāre older, maybe twelve. Theyāre just leaning against a brick wall, watching the snow.
Iām looking for an adult. Or at least a stick. But all I get is these three kids, and the biggest one just looks at meāboredā-and yells: ādonāt runā.
I stopped. Instinctively. Like a teacher had caught me talking in class.
And the dogs? They stopped too. They paced for a second, realized the game was over, and trotted back toward the lake.
That kid didnāt give me a tip. He handed me a correction. He was telling me that in this place, if you act like prey, you get treated like prey. If you act like you own the sidewalk, the sidewalk is yours.
***
This is EveryCity Whispers, a show about the quiet messages cities and places send us, and how they shape who we become. Iām Steven. And todayās episode is about Boston, although Iām really talking about Massachusetts.
This entire series so far has been about the cities I chose to live ināTokyo, New York, Sao Paulo and the rest. But I promised that before we wrapped Season One, Iād go back to the roots.
Iāve never lived in Massachusetts, but I inherited it. Itās where my Mom is from. Itās one of the places that shaped my familyās baselineāwhere the surface rule and the real rule are rarely the same thing.
Todayās episode isnāt a travelogue. Itās an autopsy. Weāre talking about the difference between performing the game and playing it for real. Because whether youāre eight years old or forty-eight, the rules that matter are rarely the ones printed on the sign.
***
"I was brought up in Boston my whole life. My mother, my grandmother, my grandfather, my auntsā¦my brother, my sister. They all live in Charlestown. No one can really understand me. Itās pretty funny, and it doesnāt help that I mumble. You know, one of the words she says that she can never understand is āfireā...like if thereās a fire down the street, or holy shit, that ice cream was fire. And I said the word āworshipā...not like a legit warship when you go to war, but when youāre worshipping something."
"I was born in Medford, I was raised in Billerica. My dad used to paint the fireboat in Boston Harbor. I have never really been able to say my āRsā. When I try to use my āRāsā I sound ridiculous. But I am very proud of my Boston accent."
"Iām originally from Southie, but I reside in Quincy now, home of the presidents. It doesnāt sound as good as āIām from South Boston, you got a problem with that?ā"
"Iām from a small town in North Carolina. And I learned quickly that people arenāt against you. They just donāt care about you."
***
Growing up in Virginia, everything feltā¦mixed together. The suburbs just kind of bleed into each other. You can drive for 20 minutes and not really know if youāre still in your town or the next one.
Massachusetts isnāt like that. Here, thereās no unclaimed land. Every inch of the state belongs to a town. Thereās no vague in-between. I learned this as a kid in the simplest way possible: road signs.
But getting there could be an adventure. The drive from Virginia always had one big problem to solveāhow weād get from one side of New York City to the other without losing our minds.
My parents still tell the story of the trip when I was two, and my suitcase wouldnāt fit in the trunk. They strapped it to the roof rack. Somewhere on the Pulaski Skyway, over the Hackensack River, the wind caught it. My baby clothes went sleeping with the fishesāGambino styleāunder the bridge.
When we finally made it up the coast, Iād spend the last 45 minutes of the trip with my face pressed against the glass. It was already dark out, and I was looking for the markers reflecting off the high beams. Small, white, rectangular signs on the side of the road.
They didnāt say āwelcomeā or anything like that. They said, only: NOW ENTERING STURBRIDGE. Or NOW ENTERING BROOKFIELD.
Iād feel this physical jolt of adrenaline every time we hit a new one. Iād climb over my Momās shoulder from the back seat, practically vibrating, because those signs were the final countdown. Once we hit NOW ENTERING SPENCER, the holidays had officially begun. We were there. Grandma and grandpa were waiting.
Itās funny what you latch onto as a kid, but those signs taught me my first Massachusetts lesson: the place doesnāt really do āundefined.ā
In Virginia, if you donāt know the rule, someone will usually explain it to you with a smileālike the rule is flexible and youāre the one who matters. Up here, the rule is the rule. And you find out you didnāt know it, because someone corrects you. Not warmly. Just accurately.
Thatās the part people miss when they talk about Boston like itās just āsmartā or āhistoric.ā The edge isnāt an attitude, itās infrastructure. Itās in the borders. Itās in the winters. Itās in the way the place assumes you should know where you stand.
And if you donāt? Thereās no warm onboarding. You learn the rule by breaking it once.
Thatās what this place rewards: the ability to stop looking for a āwelcomeā sign, read the room, and stay in play.
***
"I want to take a moment here to briefly talk about three reasons why Bostonās the greatest city in the entire world. Number one, we invented that delicious summer beverage iced coffee. Well, Dunkin Donuts invented iced coffee. And you can get it elsewhere now, but to be honest itās not the same."
"I think Boston values routine. And I think that, as someone that grew up in both Tokyo and Boston, I would say that people in Tokyo definitely value routine. And thatās very well known all around the world. But surprisingly Boston has a lot of routine to it, and thatās quite surprising to the people that Iāve talked to from Japan. Because their view of the US, especially the East Coast, is that everything is all over the place, itās chaotic. Which is true. For example, the āTā, the Green Line that I took every single day, doesnāt come on time. It sometimes skips your stop and goes express. But at the same time, the āTā squeaks at the same spot every time, in Boylstonāif you know you knowāit has the same people around the same time zones that are going to work or coming back from work, or if youāre walking down Comm Ave for example, because I was a BU student, the same people are outside of Star Market asking for money, every day. The same people are protesting in front of Planned Parenthood every day, with the same posters. You go to Cafe Nero, thereās the same worker there, smiling, waiting to take your order."
"I moved here away from my parents and friends, and came here completely alone. I learned to drive here. I got my first official job here. I did taxes for the first time here. I got health insurance, for just myelf, because I was no longer able to under my parents. I mean, Boston taught me to grow up and I could never be so much more grateful."
"I grew up around the corner from the start of the Boston Marathon, on the shores of Ashland State Park. I have been tortured for years by my family and friends over my Boston accent, and I wouldnāt change a thing. The way I say āBostonā or ālobsterā or ābutterā or āsteamersā or ācarā is just who I am, and Iām proud of it."
***
Iām a grown up now, and Iām back in Boston for work.
And I find outātoo lateāthat part of the job is showing up for a golf tournament. That sounds harmless enough, until you realize what golf actually is: a ritual designed to expose you. Within 15 seconds, everyone can tell whether you belong out there.
And I do not.
I had never played. Not once. I donāt own clubs. I donāt know the etiquette. I donāt even know how to stand without looking like Iām dressing up as a golfer for Halloween.
The funny thing is, Iām not scared of looking bad, or hitting a hazard. Iām afraid of being a hazard. You mess up in an office and the damage is social. Out here, your mistake becomes a projectile. My fear is a slice that crosses into the next fairway and hits someone who didnāt sign up to be part of my learning curve. Someone important, maybe a client. Someone innocent.
So the day I found out Iād have to play, I started cramming. That whole week, Iād run off to the little par-3āat Burke Lakeāafter work. Not to get good, but just to getā¦safe. To go to Boston with some degree of confidence that I can at least get the direction right.
Tournament day comes, and weāre on a shuttle from the hotel downtown out to the course. I donāt remember the name of itāit was somewhere down the coast, near Quincyābut I remember the feeling: me in the back seat, quiet, watching other people talk the way people who play golf talk. Casual. Comfortable. Theyāre actually looking forward to this, while Iām sitting there fidgeting with my sunglasses so much that I bend the frame.
Hole one: I survive.
Not impressively. Not gracefully. But I make contact, I keep moving, nobody gets hurt, and I feel this tiny rush of relief. Maybe I can get through this.
Hole two: I do not.
Weāre on the tee box, and thereās another hole running parallel to usāway too close for my liking. I can see people over there, backs turned, doing their own thing, totally oblivious to whatās about to go down.
I step up like a man who belongs. I take a practice swing like Iāve done this before.
And then I swing for real.
The ball immediately tells the truth.
It peels off the driver and starts bending, hard, toward the wrong fairway. Not drifting. Not āmaybe the wind got itā...a real slice. Confident, committedā¦like it has a destination. For a half second, my spine goes cold. My goal for the day is to avoid detection, and hitting a client with a projectile is definitely not the way to do that.
And thenā
It rips through a small cluster of trees and drops straight down, like the trees stepped in and said, absolutely not.
Thereās a moment after a near-miss where your brain tries to pretend nothing happened. This is not one of those moments.
Iām standing there watching my ball trickle safely into the dirt, and I realize exactly what Iāve been doing: Iāve been trying to hit the proper shot. The shot that looks right and says that I belong here. But I donāt have the proper skill.
So I pivot and do the least glamorous thing possible: I put the driver awayā¦for good. I pull out my 5-ironāthe one club I could actually controlāand I decide: this is my driver now.
Low. Straight. Repeatable.
I look ridiculous. The ball comes off like an infield grounder in baseball. Iām basically playing a different sport. But it stays on our hole. And more importantly, away from other people.
The funny thing is, nobody in my group says anything out loud. No pep talk. No jokes. No ānice adjustmentā...like they are trying to help me save face. Just silence.
Itās not a cruel silence or anything. Just aā¦Boston silence. The kind that isnāt there to comfort you. Itās just there to watch. Okay, show me.
So I do. Low and straight. Over and over. How many more of these damn holes to go? And about halfway through, something shifts.
Not my golf skillāI still suck. But in the whole vibe. Because Iām no longer trying to look like I play golfā¦Iām trying to play golfā¦to stay in play. By the end of 18 holes, Iām not any closer to being a golfer, but Iām no longer a danger, either.
And thatās a weirdly satisfying place to be: not impressive, but solid. Not flashy, but safe. The kind of competence you can repeat.
On the ride back to the city, Iām replaying hole two in my headā-the slice, the tree, the branchesā¦.like a slow-motion warning. And I keep coming back to the same thought:
That decisionāto choose the ugly, controllable shot over the proper, impressive oneāthat was big. Because golf is just golf. But that moveāputting the driver away, even if youāre the only one without a driverāturns out to be a useful thing to know how to do.
Especially in places where the consequences arenāt just a lost ball. Iāve made that same choice in rooms that donāt have fairways.
And Boston has a way of respecting that kind of choice. Not with applause, but with space. With the silent permission to keep playingāif you can keep yourself in play. Because the real test isnāt whether you can hit a shot that looks good. Itās whether you can pick the shot you can live withā¦and take it again and again.
***
"Number two: history. Beautiful architecture, incredible history of the founding fathers, beautiful stories. All that sort of thing, we love it."
āThe locals are inherently competitive and fiercely loyal once you gain our trust. The mob set the loyalty bar high in the 70s. We grew up with the expectation that we were going to one of the 40+ collegesāmost were commuter schools and cheapāthen BU found gold in the international student market, and all the universities followed that model and college was no longer a guarantee for us. Internal competition turned into an invastion of rich kids almost overnight, but we remained rabidly competitive and loyal. Itās in our genes, and our driving. Our sports fans will kill. Itās tough to make friends, but if you do, weāre friends for life."
āIām out in Colorado, Iām teaching middle school. When I say to my students: āare you doing any drawing and art?ā they have no idea what Iām talking about. They donāt understand me."
"A little above my shoulder thereās a picture, of a classic painting from St. Patrickās Day in Southie. And it always reminds me of the good old days, especially when I worked at Dorganās Packie. People would be coming in askingā¦they didnāt know what they wanted. So Iād say just⦠āyou canāt go wrong with a Samās lager, thatās Boston for beer."
***
I must have been on winter break from college for one of our Massachusetts trips. I borrow my Dadās car and head down the Mass Pike into Boston to shop.
There was a practical reason: Massachusetts doesnāt charge sales tax on clothing, and there are a few shoe stores I like in the city. But really, I just wanted a day in Boston. The energy.
It had snowed a few days earlier, and with the cold, the piles werenāt going anywhere. Back Bay is lined with these dirty barricadesāhalf ice, half road gritāstacked along the curb.
"This is ridiculous. Parking is terrible around here. Look at all these empty spaces. I canāt get into any of them!"
Iām circling block after block looking for a spot, and after about 15 minutes I see it: a perfectly cleared chunk of asphalt⦠with a folding chair sitting dead center.
What the hell?
I pull over and stare at it like itās a signābecause it kind of is. In any normal place, your brain says: thatās not a thing. You canāt reserve a public parking spot with patio furniture.
But then you look at the curb. You look at the snowbanks. You look at what it wouldāve taken to clear that rectangle of street. And you realize: someone earned this.
So now Iām sitting in my dadās car having a moral debate with a folding chair. I could be technically correct. I could hop out, move it, slide in, and be down the block before anyone notices. I mean, I only have a few hours in BostonāI need every minute.
Or, I could be wise, and accept the obvious truth: in this city, after a storm, the work is the rule.
So what do I decide on? The dumbest possible compromise: I get out. I move the chair. I park.
I step onto the sidewalk, take maybe five stepsāthen stop. Because my body suddenly realizes something my brain is pretending not to know: this isnāt my car.
And I can already imagine the phone call. āHey Dad, fun Christmas Eve questionāhow mad would you be if your tires got slashed because I moved a chair?ā
So I turn around, get back in, pull out, and put the chair gently back where I found it. Not out of virtue. Out of instinct. I felt the code.
Eventually I find another spotāway further away than I wantedāand start walking.
This is another thing about Boston: it compresses everything. Streets, neighborhoods, historyā¦consequences, too. Ignore a code, and youāll find out quick. The cityās dense, tight, and walkable in a way few big cities are. It feels deliberate, like it wants you to bump into things you didnāt plan for.
Thatās how I ended up outside a place called Bodega. If you donāt know it, it looks like nothing. A beat-up convenience store. A couple of sad snacks. A fridge humming over in the corner. The kind of storefront you walk past without even glancing.
I stand outside for a second, long enough to plan my exit strategy once I learn Iām in the wrong place and buy a $4 bottle of water out of shame. Then I go for it.
Inside, thereās another hidden entrance. And behind that, this clean, curated space that couldnāt be more opposite the front. Precise. Confident. Half clothes, half shoesā¦and a little if you know you know.
A few minutes later Iām walking out with a pair of denim SB Nikes I didnāt plan to buy, and Iām smiling, because Boston just did it again. A thing that looks like nothing turns out to be something.
I head back toward the car and Iām still thinking about the folding chair. If I had stayed in that spotāif I had stood my ground because I was technically rightāIād have made myself a target. Not because Boston is cruel, either. But because Boston is literal. The person who shoveled that space doesnāt care about my side of the story. They care about the work.
I drove back out of the city that night, past those rectangular signsāNOW ENTERING FRAMINGHAM. NOW ENTERING WORCESTER. NOW ENTERING SPENCER.
When I got back to my grandparents house, I looked at my Dadās carāhalf a ton of salt on it, but no slashed tires. No broken windows. Just a clean exit.
And a city that never once explained itself to me, but quietly watched whether I was paying attention.
***
āAnd so thatās kind of something that I havenāt experienced in other cities. I think that, when I lived in London for example, there are a bunch of different workers, restaurants and at the cafes, the people that you see on the Tube are quite different every day. Same as Tokyo. But I think thereās a lot of familiarity in Boston that you canāt really find anywhere else. Especially in another big city."
āIf you saw a clean, nice car on the north shore in the 80s, in the winter? The guy was connected."
"The right side of the escalator is for standing. The left side is for walking up."
āWe may not be the friendliest or the most outgoing. Sometimes our hair might look a little crazy. But you know, we got heart. We got that heart and soul. And we got honesty."
***
When I think about Massachusetts, my first thought isnāt history or sports, or smart universities.
I think about corrections. Because this place has a way of teaching you without a speech. It doesnāt explain itself. It just shows you what happens.
In Spencer, I learned that in ten seconds. Two dogs. Panic. I ranābecause running felt like the only move I had. And the second I ran, the whole street changed. The dogs lit up. The chase became real.
Then this kidābarely older than me, leaning against a brick wall like heād seen a hundred wintersāsorted me out: āDonāt run.ā
Not advice, not comfort. Just information.
And it worked. The moment I stopped, the whole thing stoppedālike Iād accidentally hit a switch and heād just reached over and turned it back off.
I learned that lesson early here: intent doesnāt matter. Consequences do.
Years later, on that golf course outside Boston, I walked into the same kind of lessonājust dressed up nicer. I didnāt play golf. I tried to look like I played golf. I tried to see if the illusion could substitute for skill, and the ball exposed me instantly.
Thatās one cool thing about golf: it has a fraud detector built in. You canāt charm a ball into going straight. You canāt talk your way out of the wind. Thereās only your swing and the truth.
So I finally did the Massachusetts thing: I stopped trying to look right and started trying to be right. I ditched the driver for the 5-iron. Low, straight. Repeatable.
And then Boston made the same point again, with a folding chair.
Someone cleared that space. Someone did the work. And in that neighborhood, after a storm, the work is the claim. If you pretend you donāt understand that, Boston wonāt debate youā¦it just lets you find out. Instinctively, I learned to stop arguing with what the sign says and ask what actually matters here.
And thatās bigger than Boston. Every part of life has a surface version and a real version. Relationships. Families. Jobs. Situations where the pressure to play the part doesnāt match the quiet sense of whatās right.
The danger isnāt always the dogs. Itās the story you invent when youāre moving so fast that you donāt have to notice whatās true.
Boston has a way of refusing that fantasyāof dragging you out of your head and into the moment. It forces you to stop narrating and start noticing.
And thatās what expertise really is. Not knowing every ruleābut knowing which rule matters, and when the street has its own law.
Beginners follow the posted signs and miss the code. Competent people learn whatās enforced. And expertsāreal onesāknow when to break the surface rule without breaking what itās protecting.
Golf is a game, but itās also a rehearsal for places where things actually get decided. In a lot of settings, you can perform for years. You can hide behind big words and decks with charts that always go up and to the right. You can sound like an expert without ever having to prove it.
But every now and then, you end up in a room where jargon doesnāt work. A real problem hits the table and it doesnāt care about your title or your story.
Thatās your tee box.
And in those moments, the āproperā move may be the driver: it signals youāre a player, but it comes with the risk of shifting the cost to someone else, just so you donāt have to look silly. Iāve been in those rooms, where being āalignedā was basically a slice: nice sound, clean at contact, never mind the fact that itās going to land in someone elseās fairway.
So Iāve learned to get comfortable with the 5-iron move: the truth I can repeat. The shot I can take again.
Thatās Boston to me. No comfort, just correction. And exactly as much space as youāve earned. You learn to stop arguing with the surface, and read whatās running the room.
***
āIām proud to be from Boston, Iām proud to have an accent and not pronounce my āRāsā like everyone else does. Iām an iron worker with Local 7, out of Boston. Born in Boston. Met my fiancee in Boston. Just about my whole life is built by Boston."
āAnd so thatās what I really like about Boston. The familiarity and the routine that youāre able to find in a big city that you canāt find in other similar-sized cities."
"Someday this Bostonian may suffer through a Northeaster and say that Iām looking for some warmer weather. But if this girl leaves Boston, youāll never be able to take the Boston out of this girl."
"Mostly to not talk, or ask about the incident."
"I love chocolate frappes. Chocolate ice cream and milk. I put jimmies on my ice cream. I have never parked my car in the Harvard Yard. I frequent the packie."
"Mind your business, and step up when people need help."
***
Hi again, Steven here, a couple of quick things
I want to thank the Boston & Massachusetts artists who added flavor to this episode. As you probably know, every song here is from an artist either from or based out of the state. Iām starting to get a hard time about ārightsā to include the musicāI donāt have a legal team yet to sort this outā-but Iām sticking with it for now because I really like the vibe it adds. But if I ever remove an episode or have to change the music, thatās why. Hopefully that wonāt be a real issue.
More importantly, thanks to the Boston locals and natives who gave me their insights, including my own Motherāshoutout Mom, I love you.
Next up will be Chicagoāwhere my Dad is fromā¦and weāll wrap Season One with my home state of Virginia. Since weāre getting closer to that, I am going to need to rely more and more on you, my early audience.
After Virginia Iām going to start exploring other cities, which means Iāll need to find more stories to tell that arenāt always going to be my own. So, if you want to share how your city has shaped you, or have any interesting friends I should talk to, let me know. The future of this show is really going to be about you.
If you enjoyed this episode, or any other, show some loveā¦ālikeā, follow, comment, or just telling a friend costs you nothing and helps me a lot. Iām really grateful for it.
For the music, all artists & songs ā and the Spotify playlist ā are on the Boston episode page at EveryCity Whispers dot com ā link in the episode description. Iām posting short clips every day to Instagram, TikTok and YouTube ā @ Everycity Whispers for all three. And if you want to reach out for any reason, my email is: steven @ everycitywhispers.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for listening to the Boston episode of EveryCity Whispers. Next up is Chi-town, and until thenā¦remember: you donāt have to move cities to move yourself forward. Cities donāt shout, they whisper. If you stay curious and listen closely, youāll hear them.
***
(āFriar Tuckā scene from āTedā, part 1)
"Of course I know what a frappe is. I worked at Friendlyās in high school, at the Dedham Plaza. Milk, syrup, ice cream. I made a million frappes. I made a million fribbles."
"Where would you park? What do you mean? Like if you had SmartPark, where would you park? I imagine you could park anywhere. The market? Sure. Beach park? Yep. Skate park? Of course!"
"No frappy chitchat here. The only thing Iām gonna talk about tonight is seltzer. Polar Seltzer to be exact. Go to a restaurant, you say āhoney, I want myself a seltzer.ā She says āa seltzer?ā And youāre like *** āI want seltzer.ā"
(āWicked smartā scene from āGood Will Huntingā)
"So, a lot of people from Boston claim to know Marky Mark. But I actually do know Marky Mark. Yeah, he and I used to play a little baseball together, back in the day. So I went up to him, I was like āhey Mark, remember me?ā He was like āyeah, how do I know you?ā I congratulated him on all his success. I mean, what, am I not going to acknowledge that this guyās a movie star and just an incredible actor? I appreciate what he does. But Iām also not a ***, Iām not gonna harass the guy when heās having lunch with his pals."
"People harass me all the time at work, like āwhat are you doing on Tuesday?ā On Tuesday Iām going to the bar, Iām having a beer, because Iām playing darts. They donāt understand what Iām saying, because thatās what happens when you speak a true Boston accent. Iām just saying."
(āFriar Tuckā scene from āTedā, part 2)
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