JJ spent much of his life in Rhode Island but now lives in Racine, Wisconsin, which has led to some hilarious misunderstandings involving the different dialects of those regions. For one thing, his neighbors in the Midwest made certain assumptions he hadn’t expected when JJ described a problem that forced him to take a dump on the ice. This is part of a complete episode.
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