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May 29, 2024 8 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Let's play a game with Elvis Terran in the morning show.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
As you know it. This is spelling Bee season? Is
it not going on the big one? The script's net
and what script? Scripts? What script's National Spelling Bee? That's
this is what my people thrive. It is, it's it's
uh it event. Why is that? I don't know.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
I have no idea what the spelling in the Indian
community has going on, but I love it this.

Speaker 4 (00:33):
Those Indians know how to spell. Man they dot your people?
Did you did you do you spell?

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Well?

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yeah, I was in the spelling Bees when I was little.
Not I didn't make it all the way to scripts.
You know, I got out on and in the final
rounds of stuff. But I love the spelling Bee. I
still love a spelling Bee.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Do you think it's because of your heritage?

Speaker 3 (00:49):
I didn't before I saw every other little Indian my DNA.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Here we go spell? Can you spell DNA? I don't know?
All right, well, here we go.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
It's now time for the homophonic spelling b You know
homophones there are words that sound the same but they
have different meanings. I'll give you an example, like we
we are going out at night or oh, Look, you're.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
My knight in shining armor.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
Night and night not spell the same, right, So it's
now time for the homophonic spelling b Let me let
me do this with Danielle a little sample.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
I'm not spelled by the way I spell the word whole.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
H O l E.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
No, of course it's not. Where's the buzzer? I'm so sorry,
daniel whole it's w h O l okay.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Gandhi. This is a try out. Uh spell the word
would w O O D. You are Indian?

Speaker 4 (02:02):
That's correct, exciting. Had you spelled would w o U
l D that would have been wrong. All right, Uh,
it's now time for the homophonic spelling bee or is
Nate called it?

Speaker 2 (02:17):
The homophonic spelling.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
Let's go talk to someone who actually has spelling bee
practice and experienced.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Jamie, How you doing, Jamie? What's going on? I'm good?

Speaker 3 (02:30):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (02:31):
You will spelling when I was younger? Are you Indian? No? Unfortunately?
Not okay?

Speaker 4 (02:39):
Well sometimes sometimes non Indians kind of squeak through and Jamie. Alright, well, Jamie,
the hormophonic spelling be Are you familiar with what a
homophone is?

Speaker 2 (02:49):
A homophone told me a little bit. It could be
spelled different ways, right, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
The example you gave earlier was whole is h ol
e or w h o l e right here. And
by the way, do not ask for me to use
it in a sentence, because that would that would be us.
Here we go, right, welcome to the homophonic spelling bee. Now,
your first word, Jamie, is rain.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Rain r a I n oh, no, no, we were
looking for rain as in uh, you know wild royalty
is Oh, okay.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
They're rain right, try this hard.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Well, if you had used it in a sentence, maybe
I would have gotten that one.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
Okay, all right, well I can't I can't use this.
And now here's one I know spell the word share.
I'm going to go with your favorite c h e R.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
That's absolutely I don't know. I didn't know that names
were on the but okay.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
It's hey, it's it's the homophone expelling. It's a surprise
at every turn, all right, uh, Jamie. Her next word
in the homophonic spelling be flower f l o u
R no no f l o w e R. All right, creek.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Uh c r e a K no c r e
e K. But you're just one letter off. Oh, here's
one for you. Your spell the word your y Oh

(04:49):
you a posture r E non you surprise.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
In the room.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
You want to guess? How does spell your you are
why no r E y y O R E.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
I don't understand. You know what we're perplexing here, Jamie.
You have experienced with spelling bees. I don't know what
the problem is.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
We have ever been.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
But wait, hold on, say there is money at stake here,
so let's not give up so quickly as you spell
the word very.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
The E R Y no.

Speaker 4 (05:35):
A R y of course. Okay, we're going to find
one here for you. How about the word need during
the homophonic spelling be Spell the word.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Need O K N E A D no. I said, need,
not need. You're doing well, you're doing.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
You're doing.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
About this one? Spell the word serial.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
S R.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
All right, I'm going to give you when we're think,
I'm going to give you a all or nothing.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
How about that? Spell the word click something else click
maybe or a Q one or the other. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
Let's get that word. How about this one all or nothing?
Spell the word deer.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
I'll use it, I'll use it and I'll use it
in a s Oh, dear, I killed a deer.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Oh boy, so e A R D e E R
you correctly.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
The key is to spell them all. Oh that was great.
That's what I should have been doing in the beginning.
I guess I don't know spell the word dent d yeah,
dent d e n s E no dnse d e
n t s damn. But but you you won fair

(07:34):
and square. What what does she get? She gets five
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(07:54):
I had a brain freeze right there. You're welcome and
fill your freezer with them, some of them.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
I just got married this past weekend, so that's a
great wedding.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Guest.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
Oh, that's wait, hold on, how much?

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Five hundred dollars?

Speaker 1 (08:08):
That's it?

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Awesome? That's awesome.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
Yeah, thank you for listening to us. I have a
great wedding too. Hold on second, Okay, don't know what
hold on, she was awesome. Yeah, you know, I was
having a I was a conversation with my friend Abraham,
who moved to from Mexico to the United States when
he was nineteen years old. This is the reason why
it's impossible to learn English.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, absolutely, because like spell the word two, well t
o t o ot w. No, who can learn that.
It's insane anyway, Well, thanks for playing.

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