Recorded at the 2011 VASTA Conference in Chicago IL at Roosevelt University, Phil and Eric take the show to their audience. It’s a “show about the show” where we talk about the magic behind the curtain, topic choices, and we take questions from our studio audience. Though we don’t spend much time on the sounds of speech, we do have  a great time taking “calls” from our friends. In the second half we spend quite a lot of time on the subject of GenAm, Standard speech and Neutral speech, whatever they may be...

Topics include: The impetus for the show; the set up for the show; recording, editing, planning; audio sync issues; lo-fi recording strategies; So-Called-General-American (SCGA); Standard accents; separating phonetics, phonology, prescription; “sounds are not good, they are good for...;” our response to a ‘neutral’ accent.