stackyFACTSDelivering the nightly broadcast requires speaking with highly exaggerated inflections and severely prolonged vowel sounds. This unique dialect is heavily trained to project extreme authority and cut through background noise, making completely ordinary traffic updates sound like grave national emergencies.
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