Reader Tom sent this in. He’s a southerner that hates a bad actor’s fake hillbilly accent and appreciates an entertaining authentic one. I’m not the best ear to pick up on the subtleties, but this would be a helluva character for a movie.
You have to love this Kentuckian.
Empty Lysol bottle.
I NEVER wanna hear another Florida joke.
(well…maybe the ones about gators or New Yorkers…)
Use the name of the town for the series – – “Turkey Creek”.
Yep, that’s eastern KY, alright. I have ancestors/relatives who lived a couple counties over from Floyd Co, and listening to this Kentuckian’s accent and use of certain expressions brings back memories. Like Tom, I can identify a phony Southern/hillbilly accent from a mile away. Word to the wise: Don’t equate such accents with low IQ’s or ignorance.
The reincarnation of “Country Bear Jamboree” at Disneyland.
Is he related to Ken Curtis’s character Festus Haggin on old episodes of Gunsmoke. Festus’s hillbilly accent cracked me up, you had to pay attention to him to understand what he said at times especially when he got Doc Adams so flustered he wouldn’t talk to Festus and walked away wondering what he just heard. He’d do the same thing to Burt Reynolds character Quint Asper on some of the old B&W episodes of Gunsmoke which are hilarious.
Vixen: Excellent Point! Just because the manner of speech is different, any assumptions can be at the expense of your front teeth.
My son in law is from Padukah, Kentucky and doesn’t talk like that. Of course he also has a Masters Degree which is how he met my daughter at Regent University in Virginia Beach. My father in law was originally from Owensborough, Ky. and for the most part he didn’t talk like that except occasionally when a Southern accent slipped out for whatever reason. And we learned the hard way to never get him started to talk about the Civil War, to him the South won and there was no way of convincing him otherwise.
I like him. Ever notice how if you listen closely you can still hear the Scot-Irish in some Southern accents? ‘twhere it comes from.
Grew up 30 miles N or Paducah, I knew some folks in my area that sounded a lot like the guy in the video, but not everyone.
He looks a little like Tom Baker. I like him even more.
🙁 Can’t see it. I keep getting “ Network Error.”
Dammit! You just don’t steal a man’s soap.
From above: “…appreciates an entertaining authentic one.”
Yep. That’s why we have accents here in the south. To “entertain” those not from here and allow them a certain sense of superiority.
Fair enough.
We laugh like hell at the New Yorkers, the Bostonians, the Valley Girls and I dare say we do a shit load better imitating their regional dialects than they ever managed with ours.
North Tennessee sounds different than western Kentucky to me. Nobody from Yonkers will pick up on that. South Carolina coastal is nothing like the North Carolina mountains. But it all gets lumped together as Southern if a TV production lands within five hundred miles.
Slow, stupid, backward, bigoted and Klan like. That’s the South.
If you want to hear the most amazing, sweetest, most adorable Southern accent ever, watch YouTube videos of Hannah Barron noodling catfish. It’s enough to melt a man’s heart.
Grool, are we talking about the Tom Baker of Dr. Who fame or another Tom Baker? Tom Baker’s Dr. Who was always my favorite along with his robot canine companion K-9. But he was British with a very different accent.
Down heuh in The South, just because we may walk slow and talk slow, NEVER mistake us for thinking slow.
Credit the Scots-Irish-English who were forced to go west for land after all the good land on the east coast was taken, and live in isolation as language accents changed in the more populated east.
Gold, Fur. Isn’t this “Justified” country?
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I can’t remember ever hearing someone called a “rogue” in normal conversation.
@Chris Cassone: “Justified” was in Harlan County in SE Kentucky. And it’s one of my favorite shows of all time!
Here’s a (weaker)version of the video for anyone getting blocked access from the other site.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvdfDveEQh4
Didn’t realize that the word house had two syllables.
In any case, when he got to the cheese grater I suspected this was a comedy bit. Auditioning for a reboot of Blue Collar TV?
Some affected speech patterns like uptalk (that rising pitch at the end of a statement to make it sound like a less confrontational question) and vocal fry annoy me to no end, but the true Southern dialects are music to my ears. In this clip we can hear the authentic feature of syllable addition, which makes “hands” become “hayunds” and “house” become “ha-oos.” He’s the real deal. Hope his rogue cousin gets cleaned up.
It was his freaking COUSIN.
If you miss that one sentence, you’d think this was from an epidemic of meth crime. “They must have has a bad batch, or something.”
BS. Dude, it was your cousin. This was an inside job in that he knew you, your home, and your habits.
Hate this kind of crap. What are you hiding by avoiding the fact he’s your cousin?
…. I’m not hearing an accent.
A friend from Padukah, Kentucky, related to me that his boss told him in a reprimand, that if he did that again he would, “slap him naked and hide his clothes.”
Mason Tackett and Antoine Dodson need to join forces:
“Dey climbin’ in yo window, snatchin’ yo people up…”
“Who steeyuls a cheese grayter? He stow muhsoap!”
Ummmmm…… really…. it’s not that heavy of an accent. I was expecting incomprehensible authentic mountain gibberish. Instead…. he sounded sorta’ fine. I really think the accents of a generation ago were much stronger.
Thanks for the new link Mr. Hat. That was cute.
Nothing wrong at all with how the gentleman speaks. WHY did they have sub-titles? I could understand him perfectly. Seems to me to be rather a brave dude to confront a known druggie who was in the middle of robbing your house.
He has a cool sense of humor.
yall need to settle down….this is just a domestic quarrel in our part of the woods………..
he’s gonna bring that soap back, don’t you worry none…bless his heart….
Who steals soap? Heh, that’s a good one.
And definitely an Eastern and not so much a Western Ky accent. Our hills in western Ky are a lot more gently rolling so I guess the hillbilly gene is not as strong around here. ;-p