You're correct in your observations [even if they're SHAMEFUL CALL OUT POSTS] but you're focusing on the wrong source here. I did not pick up the accent because my meteor happened to land in the ocean where Houston used to be.

[He's hesitant here. He doesn't want to cause a thing about his Bro. But it is related, and he has to try to explain it.] It was a way of connecting to family that I could never actually encounter. I was trying to close an impossible distance.

Now, it's a way of bonding with the family I have, which is a different exercise. I just, uh... like it as a way of being closer to you.

[He really, really hopes he didn't mess this one up.]