I’m hip.
I could picture the whole situation just as you described it down to his facial expression.
If that’s a problem, portraying an accent, and it is sometimes, then Mark Twain wasted his whole adult life, but it’s what made “Tom Sawyer” a classic story.
I love our accents. I grew up in an Irish-cop family where they really spoke with “d’s and dem’s” - as well as saying “erl” for “oil” and “terlet” for “toilet.” (The Irish, I believe, have no “th” sound in their language so it became a “d” sound. When they controlled NYC, they controlled the accent.) Most of that is gone now, but the “d” for “th” remains.
It’s so nice to meet a fellow Conservative New Yorker!