Cubby Can't Pronounce This Word Correctly

And it's driving his wife crazy!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
In New York's Christmas station one oh six point seven

(00:02):
light FM. It is six eight on this hump day,
Cubby Christine, producer Kristin producing in the background, and we're
often running hump Day. I want to settle a debate, Christine.
I doubt my wife is listening right now, but we
had a very heated discussion.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Oh my god, it almost became a fight.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Oh wow, Okay, on how.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
I say, she says, I say it wrong. The word
pen and the word pen. So what's the thing you
write with? How do you say that that's a pen?

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:33):
And then what's the thing you stick on a shirt?

Speaker 3 (00:35):
A pin?

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Is there a difference in pen and pin?

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Penn pin?

Speaker 2 (00:44):
But that's very slight, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Do you think it's a big difference.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yes, I think it's an important difference. So know what
you're talking about unless you know it's in the context
of a.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Cocoa was saying.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
I was making her so frustrated because I was like, Hey,
I love the pens we got at Disney World, mean
the ones you stick on your shirt, and she goes, honey,
it's not pens, it's peans, pe.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Pin pin pin.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
But would you notice in a casual conversation with somebody,
if they're saying it wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah, because I would think you were talking about pens.
I love the Disney pens we have, so like, what
is there Mickey and little princesses on them?

Speaker 1 (01:18):
And yeah those are Disney the ones you're write with. Yeah,
those are pens.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yes? Am I saying that right?

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yes, you've got that down.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Okay, Now the thing on your shirt is a pen.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
It's a pin?

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Did I say it's Is that? Am I saying it
the same way? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Basically, so I have to go more like pean if
I talk about the needle or the little thing pen?

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Hey, what's that pean on your shirt?

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Kind of overthinking it?

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah, like I told.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Coco, no, but you're overdoing it. So pan, no pen.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Pin pen? Were you talking about the pen you're right
with or the pen on your pen? That's the thing
you're write.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Now, pen, I'm holding my pen.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
That's a pen.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
And then pins as in in yes, producer rist is saying,
but as in.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
In yeah, producer Christens holding up a sign with I
N okay, so you walk I walk.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Into a pig pen in you walk in walk in
yes to a pin.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
You put it to the house and pick up your pin.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
That I write with.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
No, if you put on your shirts okay, oh no,
I'm getting.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Heated, all right. So a pen and a pen?

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Text? Well go Actually you really can't. You really can't
text actually this because you have to kind of hear it.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
But wait, okay, can I ask you something?

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Go ahead, Miss karenn Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Miss Karen, who runs the daycare that Miles goes to
I love very much.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Surely can help us through this because she works with kids. Yes,
so she's gonna say, sounded out pen p e n.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Right, that's what I write in P I n to
me the thing you write with pen pin. The thing
you write with pen to me, I say it the
same way as the thing you stick on your shirt pan.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
But you say, what are you what are you doing.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
With pen pin? You're not going to know the difference.
I said it was different, Okay, pen pin, I got
it there.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Don't overdo it, pen pen wins Yes, pen pin no,
doing some crazy southern things.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
That's maybe what it is. I lived, you know, I
grew up in Virginia. I've been here thirty years, but
I've grew up. Maybe the Virginia twang is still in
me anyway.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Just a pen pin, got it.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
They're different letters, pen with an E pin I short eye.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
All Right, I'm gonna think about this all day again.
Coco and I were almost like like raising our voices.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Like I'm so sorry. I don't blame her. Yes, we're
getting text messages penn P so p I n pen
p e n pin.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Pen Okay, I know we got to go to break,
But I'm telling you, there's not that much of a difference.
You guys make it sound like there's a huge difference
between and.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
There's enough of a difference that it's a whole different
word and meaning.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
All Right, I'll leave it at that light. FM