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For the fifth episode of WKNC’s Brain Trust, Lucas talks with a native of Reidsville, NC, Joey Perkins, about the regional differences seen in the US and the challenges associated with being an out-of-state student in a completely different region of the US.
A WKNC podcast that focuses on having introspective and thought-provoking discussions with guests from across NC State. Hosted by Lucas Marsh.
(Host) Lucas 0:13
Good time of day everyone and welcome to the fifth episode of WKNC is brain trust. I'm your host, Lucas Marsh, not really hitting it with the jokes, but we're getting there. And I'm very excited to be tackling today's episode with a very special guest who we have not had on the show yet. But before we introduce our guest, I'll introduce a little bit about myself. I'm a member of the freshman class of 2026, here at NC State, I'm from Long Island, New York. And again, I'm very excited to be tackling today's episode. Today's episode is not going to be as long of an episode as previous episodes, it's mainly just going to be some quick thoughts, some, some food for thought, if you will, and just just some things to talk about things to think about. So with that being said, guest, please introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about yourself. Who are you?
(Guest) Joey 1:08
My name is Joey Perkins. I'm a freshman as well at NC State. I am an industrial engineer and economics major. I'm from regional North Carolina, which is something we're going to be talking about today. And it's part of our topic. So I'm really excited to just get into it.
(Host) Lucas 1:25
Excellent, Joey, thank you for being here. So just like you said, we're going to be talking about you know, Reidsville, North Carolina, I was gonna be talking about my hometown, Massapequa Park. And then we're going to be talking about you're gonna be talking about regional differences, and what it's like to be an out of state student, and Joey's here to obviously provide the perspective of the opposing region to where I'm from. And as an in state student, he's gonna, we're just gonna talk about it. And we're gonna see how it goes. So Joey, I hope you brought your floaties because it's time to dive into the deep end. I'm kidding. We're gonna stay in shallow waters today. But to get us started, just tell us a little bit about Reidsville, North Carolina, like what sorts of things like make it Reidsville kind of things, make it your home.
(Guest) Joey 2:16
I'd like to say the regional is the same as most other small towns, but it is unique in its own certain ways. Um, I can say to maybe to give you a gauge of like, how many things we have or don't have. The very first Starbucks in our county just opened up today, like this morning. So it pretty big time for us. All.
(Host) Lucas 2:42
Congratulations on getting a Starbucks.
(Guest) Joey 2:45
Yeah, it's a big thing. That's I honestly, it's the first big chain to come to Reidsville in a while. So I think we're getting a cookout pretty soon. Really exciting things that have in, you know, in the little metropolis that we've got going on. The population of Reidsville I think is around 20 or 30,000. The counties not much bigger than maybe 60. Could be about 100,000 people in reads from North Carolina. I really don't have the current number. If you want to look that up.
(Host) Lucas 3:18
We're pulling it up. Let's check population of Reedsville North Carolina, but what it says it's 15,000 people
(Guest) Joey 3:30
Oh, shoot, we lost some people with you. What happened to maybe look up Rockingham County, because you can't really reasonable is actually I think, rather, like technically small, I don't actually live in Reidsville
(Host) Lucas 3:48
Oh, yeah. And a Rockingham County is at 91,000
(Guest) Joey 3:50
Rockingham County is 91,000. So there's like a couple different towns in Rockingham County, but Reidsville. Pretty sure as the biggest of the couple that are there.
(Host) Lucas 4:00
Nice. Nice. So, um, other than getting a few new restaurant chains, which is pretty big, again, congrats. What else would you say? kind of defines the culture of like, Reedsville?
(Guest) Joey 4:13
Oh, I'd say. It's kind of like a little quiet town. You know, you really don't see many people out on the roads after like, nine. You know, it's just, I like to make the joke. They're probably more cows than people. But that's not true. Exactly. But um, you know, it's just a fun little. Yeah, we're just a small town, you know, it. It's, it's kind of in the middle north, north middle of the state. So, you know, we're like a in between zone for like two larger cities in Virginia and then south into Greensboro. So, just a place for people to lay like I at the end of the day, like people live there and we got to school like it's just there's not much to do and that area. Okay.
(Host) Lucas 5:03
Well, thank you for telling us all about Reedsville. Unfortunately, I was not able to confirm the more cows than people statement, because that would require me to actually do some more research right now. And I don't want to do that. We're not a big cow farm area. We're more we're in like the tobacco belt, actually, I think one of the one claims to fame, the reasonable has is in like the early to mid 1900s. We are a big spot for American Tobacco. We have this huge smokestack that says Lucky Strike. And American Tobacco was a big tobacco company that I think it's merged with another larger one now, but it was it was pretty, pretty boom tat we kind of went into a boomtown and sometime in the 1900s, but you know, we obviously haven't stayed so.
Well, I'm glad you guys had that. That little. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, would you say that the coming of two new restaurant chains is an equivalent boom?
(Guest) Joey 6:01
No, I wouldn't say that. But yeah, I mean, it might be you don't know. You know, it's just anything can happen and the small little metropolis that we've got, you know,
(Host) Lucas 6:10
Oh, that's wonderful. Thank you for sharing about your home. It sounds wonderful. I know. I actually have family there. So I'll have to come visit eventually. So
(Guest) Joey 6:20
nice.
(Host) Lucas 6:22
So now to enlighten everybody a little bit about my hometown. It's actually not a town. It's considered like an incorporated village. I'm not really sure what like why it's interesting. But so it's called. It's called Massapequa Park, New York. It's a it's a weird small piece of larger Massapequa, New York, like, like you have all of Massapequa which is like, just slightly bigger than Massapequa Park, but then there's just like a little piece of it. That's mess. We go Massapequa park like I don't know why they made it like that.
(Guest) Joey 6:55
So is Massapequa park are like one of the five boroughs? Sorry.
(Host) Lucas 7:00
No, that's okay. No, it is not one of the five boroughs. I am outside of the area and a county called Nassau County. So I'm actually about and 45 minutes to an hour away from Queens and Kings County. So though that's like the beginning of the boroughs, so nice. No, Massapequa is not a borough, unfortunately, not a borough. But Massapequa Park is, um, I mean, like when I talk about Massapequa Park, it's really difficult to talk about only Massapequa Park, because it's not that we don't have things there. It's that it's just it's a the fact that makes it like what it is. It's just it's part of a man it's part of Massapequa. So it's not really like you can't it's not really it's standard own thing, cannot you can't talk about Mexican pork without then also talking about Massapequa. But just some interesting facts that I felt the need to look up. mass of people parks population is God we think we looked it up accurate to like two years ago now. 17,000 people all packed tightly into two and a quarter square miles and comparatively to reads Vils I think 15,000 people packed not even packed just placed loosely. 15,000 people in 16 and a quarter square mile so that just gives you a nice figure of suburbia that I'm from I'll say that you know in reasonable we have a lot of breathing room you know we don't we yeah, we got breathing room.
(Guest) Joey 8:33
Yeah. How many? square miles did you say Massapequa was, must be?
(Host) Lucas 8:37
Massapequa Park is two and a quarter,
(Guest) Joey 8:39
two and a quarter. So there's a pretty big field near my house. And I really think that maybe the entirety of Massapequa park could fit inside that field. You know, that's pretty, pretty interesting to think about, you know,
(Host) Lucas 8:53
honestly, I think we could if you took everybody out and just put them in the field. We're used to being closed kind of close together. Pretty sure that would be okay. They wouldn't be happy about it. But it'd be possible but, you know, the culture the area has a lot of Italian people. Just a whole load of Italian people. I'm Italian myself because like, you know, people from the boroughs, the whole deal. The whole deal of Long Island is they come for all the Italians that came in the city that immigrated to the city in like the 1900s 1800s, that kind of thing. During the waves immigrants that came to the US all the Italians that were there, and a lot of the Jewish people too. They a lot of them stayed and studied a lot of went to the borough's but eventually they get older, they want to have families so they move farther east onto Long Island and they settle in other places like Massapequa or Massapequa park, or I don't know about the other places because I have so many things in my town so many things in my general area, that it's just it's not necessary for me to go other places. It's like, I really don't need to go anywhere like I'm five minutes from three different grocery stores. All my friends are like a bike ride away. Maybe I have to cross a highway to go to my school. But that's still only like five minutes because it's a lighted intersection. So there's like 30,000 gas stations, all within like a mile of each other. There's a 711 every mile. Like, there's so many like, I can't even talk about the rest of the entirety of the rest of Long Island. Other than the fact that it's just close to the city and it's very Republican. Because I don't need to go to these other towns like Lindenhurst, like Farmingdale to all these other towns nearby, like I don't even know about them, because I don't need to go there.
(Guest) Joey 10:40
That's pretty interesting.
(Host) Lucas 10:41
A lot of stuff around my house. I don't go around.
(Guest) Joey 10:45
Yeah, I'll say that maybe that's another difference. A pretty large difference that I think in my entire county, which is, this is pretty less, this is one of them, like rocking and kind of like a hockey. Okay, yeah, it's a pretty large, I guess, county, but it's not like densely populated by any means. I can get around almost anywhere inside the county with relative ease, like not use a map software, like not using navigation. Like, just kind of have it like, ingrained in my mind where to go. And that's, that's pretty interesting. Like, I mean, I think I drive like, I drive like 1015 minutes to the grocery store. My roommate, we good friends from high school. I about 45 minutes drive as his ad drive into another county, actually.
(Host) Lucas 11:34
Oh, really?
(Guest) Joey 11:35
Yeah. To get to his house. That's pretty. So we're just we're just spread out in in our area really spread out,
(Host) Lucas 11:41
like to the grocery store, like there are I pass two grocery stores on the way I shall I pass three grocery stores on the way to the grocery store that I work at. And that takes me maybe five to like seven minutes, maybe I hit a red light somewhere. Takes me like five to seven minutes. But that's only because of traffic. It's only like a few miles from my house. Like it really isn't that far. But it's just because there's a lot of people there. There's a lot of traffic. There's a lot of stoplights. There's a lot of things like that you can't just go in one shot. Unless you're lucky, or you don't obey traffic laws, which people by me like doing. It's very funny. Very dangerous, but it's very funny. Like, do you make full stops at stop signs?
(Guest) Joey 12:23
Oh, yes, yeah, we're pretty traffic conscious. My mom and my sister went up to New York, actually, you know, the New York, New York
(Host) Lucas 12:33
The City?
(Guest) Joey 12:33
The city. and you know, they were they one of the first things I like, called him the second day they were there. They're like, yeah, those lines on the road are kind of like suggestions, throw them up there. And I was like, yep. Interesting,
(Host) Lucas 12:46
solid white line in front of a stoplight. No, you can change your lane if you feel like it. Oh, you forgot, you can turn left. Go ahead. Yeah, another thing so we actually woods, we're gonna expand our talk a little bit more based on regions. Because the culture where I'm from is it's not obviously it's not exactly the same as say like New Jersey or Pennsylvania or something like that. It's not exactly the same. But it is still very similar and is very different to down here. Like the way of life at my house, like the Way of Life Where I'm from, it's very, very fast paced. Very, say what you need to say, move on, get do what you got to do. Just go through life fast. You know, angry, angry, especially when you're driving. I don't know what happened. I don't know what the plague is, but like the Long Island plague, like, I drive here, like I would like just normally drive at home. I feel like I'm a danger to everybody else on the road because of like, they react. Like I'll change a lane and they like their their brakes are on. I'm like I am giving you what I would consider plenty of room. Like a full two car lengths in front of them. They're like, Oh my God.
(Guest) Joey 14:01
It's interesting that you say that, you know, when I like last semester when I first came here, it was kind of an adjustment for me to get used to this traffic as in love more fast paced than my traffic at home. So like this pretty interesting. Like,
(Host) Lucas 14:17
oh, yeah, because like for anybody that doesn't know obviously NC State is very close to Raleigh, Raleigh being the capital of North Carolina. So you know, it's a city it's it's, it's not I would be okay, driving in Raleigh, I would be perfectly fine with it, because that's pretty much what I'm used to. But that's interesting that you bring that up that you have to make that change. And actually I'm gonna ask a question. Sure, because I was gonna save this for a little later. But what do you think you would be able to because obviously, I have had to make the lifestyle change to slow not I don't want to say like slow down a little bit, but you know what I mean, like I've had to adjust my lifestyle a little bit to work here.
(Guest) Joey 15:02
This is slow down. Yeah.
(Host) Lucas 15:03
Right? Would you be able to make this the speed up the pickup, pick up the pace love that, would you be able to go to school in, like on Long Island, you'd be able to go to school in New York City. I mean, you think you'd be able to make that trip,
(Guest) Joey 15:20
I think I'd be able to make the transition, I don't think I would ever willingly or like, be fine with me. Like, I don't think I'd be able to do it. But I wouldn't ever want to like, I think that's it, you showed me a picture of your street before. And
(Host) Lucas 15:35
cookie cutter houses,
(Guest) Joey 15:36
I've never seen that many houses that look almost identical in such a short little area. Like,
(Host) Lucas 15:43
it's how they make the house and maybe because when they're building the the suburbs, they go and they just have they have a design of house. And they just spam it. And they just put it everywhere. And obviously you can make modifications to your house so that you change this, change it up a little bit. Like what my family did is we built an entire second floor, we got a garage kind of changed our driveway a little bit like, you can make little modifications, but you're also very limited, like our house can't be taller than 25 feet or something like that. Like it can't be as crazy big. That is wild. It just cannot be big. Because like you and I are like inground pools, I think at least in mastery Park can't go deeper than like five feet. So we sprung for Semi in-ground. Nice. But um, so the transition I think I think the transition for you leaving
(Guest) Joey 16:38
I think it would be harder than the transition for for life that you've made from speeding going from sped up to slow down. That's like just taking a breath, right like I'd have to like go full sprint with life are like constant though. Like no brain.
(Host) Lucas 16:51
It's like getting on a highway. Like getting on the southern state on Long Island. You have to just step on it so you don't get hit. Couldn't everybody's speeding.
(Guest) Joey 16:57
I don't maybe maybe I say I couldn't drive and in that area, but
(Host) Lucas 17:02
you'd be able to do it. I think you'd be just very nervous the whole time.
(Guest) Joey 17:06
Maybe you might be right. Yeah.
(Host) Lucas 17:08
For anybody. Anybody listening that's interested in checking it out up on Long Island if you're not very aggressive driver. Don't take the Long Island Expressway. Just do me a favor and don't take it. Thank you. so what we've what we've really concluded so far, the transition that people from here would have to make living a lifestyle that I'm used to would be very difficult. Possible definitely possible. I know people who've done that my dad did that. It's it's possible. It's just a little difficult. But for me, it's I'm not gonna say it's so terribly difficult to move down here and go to school here like it's really not terrible. It's just some of the challenges that I have found. It's not really the lifestyle. Like I get up in the morning I go to my classes I you know, eat breakfast or hang out my friends and not my like that part of my life so hasn't changed all that much. It's mainly the people. The people that I meet here, they're there too tone of voice. Their volume, not only their the volume is a lot lower. Yeah, people aren't as loud and the tone of voice is a lot. It seems a lot nicer. It's a little people people talk slower. I don't know why. But just I don't
(Guest) Joey 18:36
I can't tell you why either asked regional differences, though. He noticed just something interesting about it. Yeah, I think it's like, another little another little joke for you. Sometimes my parents told me I'm talking too fast. And, you know, you've heard me speak you know, we're roommates, suitemates, so I don't talk fast ever.
(Host) Lucas 18:59
No.
(Guest) Joey 18:59
But you know, it's just, I guess it's just you get what you're used to. And if you're not around anything different. You're not like you're just not used to it. And therefore you're you get complacent, I guess and what you're hearing in what's your around, you know?
(Host) Lucas 19:15
Yeah, so, you know, people People talk a little slower. You know, I go saying that their, their tone of voice seems a little nicer. I don't want to say people down here are are nicer. I don't want to just put down a blanket statement like people here are nicer. Because I feel like behind some of that kind of like Southern hospitality, as you say, is not niceness. It's not all meant new. I mean, it's not like obviously people are nice. Like I'm a firm believer in the optimism of humanity. People are just generally nice people. Because people near me and including myself. Like I said, you know Fast lifestyle, it's a little little pieced up a little bit there. But in talking to, you don't really, you know, you don't really dance around what you're trying to say. You just kind of you just say it. Yeah, because there's no point and like, I'm a, I'm a firm believer, there really is no point in lying to people, if I'm talking to somebody, and I don't like them. I'm not gonna look right and look them right in the face and say, you know, I don't like you. Like, you suck, I don't like you, but I'm not going to then I don't know, become their best friend. Just to kind of put on a show, you know, I mean, like, I'm not going to talk to that person. If I don't like them. I'm not going to. I'm gonna just be very obvious about your actions instead. But there's, there's a limitation that you can't just go around and saying, like, I don't like you, I don't like you. I don't like you. You just don't talk to people. But I'm very, I tend to be very, very meaningful. And what I say specifically, because I don't kind of like it saying, like, like you don't beat around the bush, just get to the point. You don't I mean, you just get to the point. I don't feel like I don't feel like people do that here, at least to the same extent that people do.
(Guest) Joey 21:11
I'll agree that we probably have a little bit more. I guess this is less bluntness is that maybe
(Host) Lucas 21:16
that's what I was looking for, word, yeah. Blunt. Yeah. More blunt.
(Guest) Joey 21:19
We're not really blunt. YourSee, I'm probably doing right now? Um, I don't know. I think it's just I can't really explain why I don't really have a great answer for you. I'd say that. I would say that people here or in my hometown or even in Massapequa Park, I'd say that, you know, there's, you know, human decency. So like, I think it's just the delivery method of the human of the human decency. And like, you know, inherent goodness, it's probably just different, like I, there's not a good way or a bad way, or like an invalid. Like, this isn't not a judgmental statement, as much as it is just think it's just something to observe.
(Host) Lucas 22:09
Yeah, yeah. It's just something I've noticed. Like I said, In the beginning, this episode isn't like, we're not breaking down, why people are slow, or why people like me, you're fast, you know, and like, we're not we're not sitting here breaking down why one region is cooler than the other one region is, you know, not as cool as the other because that would be death wish to sit here and do that.
(Guest) Joey 22:31
And I'll say, I'll give I'll give my one weigh-in to that. Sorry, I do have to do this. Um, North Carolina is home to Salisbury, North Carolina, which is home to the grid, the creation of what I would argue is a regional, regional, like uniqueness. Cheerwine. It's the best soda ever. I won't ever
(Host) Lucas 22:51
Cheerwine is one of my favorites. It is one of my favorites.
(Guest) Joey 22:54
I won't ever say like, I think we just need you. We got to you really unique area here. So you know, obviously, I'm from here. So Right.
(Host) Lucas 23:03
Like, obviously, I have a bias towards where I'm from. Sure, wine is really cool. But it's the Big Apple dude, like I live an hour away from the city that that means a lot to people like that really means a lot to people, even people I've been to I've been to Germany. And when people ask us, because obviously it's very obvious that we are Americans. When we go to Europe, forget regional differences are talking about complete different ends of the world. Now, it's very obvious that we are Americans in Germany, and they Germans are very, very blunt. So not a very large change of pace there. But we went to there and they're like you're from the mayor from America, right? Like New York. Like they, they it's known. You don't I mean, like that's, that's one of the big things that I like to talk about here. I like bringing up the fact that I'm from New York, because everybody everybody knows that like, Oh, my God, New York City had been there like it was I went to I was in the Honors Program. And when they introduced the program, they said they go on a few like, big cultural experience trips. And when I was sitting in the interest meeting for that, they said, oh, there we go to. We go to I think we got like the Appalachian Mountains. We go. Asheville, North Carolina.
(Guest) Joey 24:18
That's a good Spot.
(Host) Lucas 24:19
Yeah, the city go to Asheville. They go to this, and our big favorite trip to New York City. The room lit up. They're like, Oh my god. Oh my gosh, New York City. New York City is so cool. And I looked at my parents. I was like, have we been there? I looked at him. I was like, Have you guys heard of that place? They're like, No, I don't think so. And for reference, both my parents used to work. Like, I think they used to work in the city, like the majority of their lives. My mom grew up in Queens, which is one of the boroughs. Yeah. Letting you know it's one of the boroughs.
(Guest) Joey 24:49
I'm aware of what New York is
(Host) Lucas 24:52
good. But they completely glossed over the fact that one of their trips goes to Berlin, Germany and a different country, just to point Not the fact that a lot of people go to New York City,
(Guest) Joey 25:02
New York is pretty big. You know, you hear I just went to New York and my tiny like, oh, wow, that's pretty cool. And I like that's that's a big conversation for you. It's just,
(Host) Lucas 25:10
and that's actually interesting because then like, obviously, I went home, we went home for winter break. Yeah. I was working every day in my grocery store. So I can make I can make money and come back here with some money in my pocket. Pay for this stupid textbooks. Physics class textbook. It's so dumb. I'm gonna pull that out. But it's okay. No, I'm not going to that staying because of criticism of WebAssign. Anyway, I would like some of their usual customers would remember me and they're like, Oh, welcome back. Lucas. How are you? And I'm like, Oh, I'm good. You came back from school and like, Oh, we're gonna school obviously, is the next logical question. So I told him, I'm going oh, NC State. And they're like, what's NC State? I'm like, well, like North Carolina State University. They're like, wow, that's really cool. Like they it's a similar reaction. Yeah, you'd I don't want to again, I want I want to be mean, but like, I wouldn't expect it to be like that, like people hear you say, well, you went to NYC that's crazy. Like, yeah.
(Guest) Joey 26:08
Interesting
(Host) Lucas 26:08
people, I tell people, I go here and they're like, wow, like they have a similar reaction. Because a lot of people that live the New York lifestyle, the kind of the magazine in New York, well, we'll expand on like the Northeast region of us that kind of like fast paced lifestyle. A lot of people want to get out of it. Like my family does. We're moving down here. Because my parents, they've had enough. It's time to go. Let somebody else lead a new, like a growing family is a good example of a good type of person to live there. But once like, oh, like you heard like a grandparents retiring to Florida?
(Guest) Joey 26:08
Yeah.
(Host) Lucas 26:10
Like they, they, they want to slow down. You know, they want it. So I tell people I go here. They're like, Wow, good for you, like good for you for getting out. And I'm like, Yeah. And that's not even like a sarcastic Yeah, like, I totally agree with them like this is it's a nice change of pace. Because sustaining that kind of lifestyle for an extended period of time is difficult. Yeah, it can be very straining very exhausting. It's it can get tough.
(Guest) Joey 27:12
I really don't have many, many people that I know that, you know, they moved to New York and they stay there for more than a week or two. You know, this is a little vacation spot. Like yeah, no one I know is like, Yeah, I'm gonna speed up my life and, you know, live with. I don't know how many people are in New York. I think it's like,
(Host) Lucas 27:33
well, I know in the cities like 11 million on Long Island is 8 million
(Guest) Joey 27:36
I don't really want to live among 11 million different people in like, two square miles. I don't I really have no,
(Host) Lucas 27:42
actually you might not be that far off.
(Guest) Joey 27:43
I have no concept of square footage, land mass of New York or anything. It's just It's just I guess it's a slower little paced region. I guess we're all a little slower paced.
(Host) Lucas 27:56
So New York City, is why doesn't tell me the square footage. That is so silly. Square footage is not big. Not big at all. And there's 8.5 million people there.
(Guest) Joey 28:14
8.5 million people.
(Host) Lucas 28:18
I bet we can find it right here. It's about oh, no, there it is. It's 300 square miles. It's almost it's like a point 5 million people 300 square miles, which isn't so bad. But it's also very, very packed.
(Guest) Joey 28:30
I'm pretty sure the population of my entire state is 2 million more than how many people are in New York. I think we're like around 10 million we could be 11 couldn't really tell you
(Host) Lucas 28:42
10.50
(Guest) Joey 28:43
I was running the money. Yeah. But yeah, so that's just a crazy wild just to think about for me, I don't know. Like, it's a little like, see,
(Host) Lucas 28:53
like that, that transition for you. Like, I would make that transition from cookie cutter houses. I can walk across the street and see like, I can step outside my door and see at least 30 different houses that all look like mine. All people that I know. But still, you know, everybody, that's ridiculous. I can come here, take a deep breath to get nice. Feel the fresh air for once. Get get a little space. But then in situations like our dorms like that the suite situation, that's completely normal for me. I have zero problems with it at all. No problems really? Absolutely none.
(Guest) Joey 29:33
That's interesting.
(Host) Lucas 29:34
Like I'm completely fine with it. In fact, I really like the suite format. It's a good way to start your semester,
(Guest) Joey 29:41
like the suite format I yeah, I do have a problem with the size and stuff. But you know, as as me coming from you know, yeah,
(Host) Lucas 29:48
like the room that like obviously I share a room. anybody listening Who's heard, I think episode one. My roommate Lewis and I, we share that room and My stuff is, like compact to my side of the room, because that's just how I live. Because it's not like I'm used to the small ish room. I'm not I don't normally share a room with somebody in my house, but it's still small. And I'm okay with that. I'm totally fine with because that's how we live because then they step outside and I see the nice, big campus with a lot of people. It's very open. So it's an easy transition for me to make, except for you know, talking to the people is a little weird sometimes.
(Guest) Joey 30:31
Yeah, we kind of get that sometimes. You know,
(Host) Lucas 30:35
I saw you brought out the accent
(Guest) Joey 30:36
I did. I did bring up an accent. I bring it out when I talk to people who have the similar accent as me, but I just thought I'd you know, put it on just
(Host) Lucas 30:44
so they can hear an example
(Guest) Joey 30:45
put it into the podcast. I have a little treat. I don't know.
(Host) Lucas 30:49
Just a little cherry on top. Yeah. And speaking of cherry on top, that's a good stopping point for us. So first of all, I'd like to thank you, Joey for accompanying me on Episode Five, a little food for thought about regional differences in the US and out of state students. Just to think about it, it can be interesting for them to meet new people talking to people and adapt to the certain lifestyle. So thank you for being here. Nothing human. If you'd like what you heard today and you want to subscribe to keep up with future WKNC branches content, you can check us out@wknc.org forward slash podcasts. It's podcasts with an S and we'd also like to thank JT Suk and moving boxes for providing us with excellent intro and outro music for WKNC brain trust where we have the biggest brains and we trust in them. If you want to check them out. They are moving boxes band on Instagram that's all one word moving boxes band lowercase all one word, moving boxes band so check them out. Again big thanks to JD Southwick, and moving boxes they've done amazing work for us here at WKNC and WKNC Brain Trust and with that good day
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