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Anyway, warm welcome to the Sister Wives Professor. That is me. I'm Dr. Adam, Professor of Communication, longtime follower of the TLC

series Sister Wives, and at this point I'm a longtime follower of Welcome to Plathville as well.

And that's, of course, what I'm here to talk to you about today is we continue looking at

season three of Welcome to Plathville. Thank you so much for joining me. I always have so much fun doing this with you.

If you missed it, if you're on Patreon or an Apple subscriber to the Faculty Lounge,

I hope you enjoyed my most recent Sister Wives deep dive.

Deep dive number 17, as a matter of fact, called Into the Matrix Part 1,

Cody Robin and Coordinated Management of Meaning Theory. I won't get all into that in detail right now because we're here to talk about Welcome to Plathville. But just in case you missed that and you're interested in it, it is available to you on Patreon or through Apple subscription. If that sounds good to you, it was super fun to do. I don't know, I'm doing good. It's the new year. I'm having fun. I'm happy to be with you. That's all I got to say. Let's get to the episode. Welcome to Blathville, Season 3, episode 4, titled, I'm going to lose my mind. That's kind of relatable. We open up in Hot Lana and the Dirty South, baby, at Select Model Management, and that means Micah is here. He's buzzing into the building.

Greeted Marion at the office with a big hug. Tells the camera that he's at the agency to meet with

his diction coach. He had mentioned this last episode that he's trying to be able to at least,

on cue, lose his southern accent to make him more employable, shall we say, with acting roles.

Micah seems very pleased about this entire thing, seems very happy, says he loves Atlanta.

He explains to us what addiction coach is and how it's to drop his accent, and he meets

Brad, who is the coach in question. Micah reminds us he wants to get into acting, and so he's

got to be able to drop that accent, or maybe even do other accents. That could help too. Micah reminds us he wants to get into acting, and so he's got to be able to drop that

accent, or maybe even do other accents. That could help too. Micah doesn't believe his accent

is all that strong, and as we used to say when I lived in the South, bless your heart. I lived in the

South. My first job as a professor was actually in Georgia, and before that even, I lived in South Carolina. In Greenville, not too far from Greenville, actually over in Taylor's, South Carolina. But I lived there when I was like four to seven years old. So to this day, when I get agitated, I will start to talk a little bit southern. I get kind of a twang coming in there. My students will make fun of me when I do that, when I get really excited while I'm lecturing. So that stuff can be

harder to kick than you might think. Well, Coach Brad himself grew up in Texas, so he definitely

gets it, gets what this process is like, and he smiles when Micah reveals, he's one of nine

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