Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Dave Davies

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
5284 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Fresh Air
Texan-Palestinian Comic Mo Amer

I wanted to listen to a scene from the series Moe, which, as we said, premieres on Netflix tomorrow. And this will give us a little bit of sense of some of your linguistic ability to fit in.

Fresh Air
Texan-Palestinian Comic Mo Amer

I wanted to listen to a scene from the series Moe, which, as we said, premieres on Netflix tomorrow. And this will give us a little bit of sense of some of your linguistic ability to fit in.

Fresh Air
Texan-Palestinian Comic Mo Amer

The series is about you, a character named Moe, kind of pretty much you in your 20s, I guess, single, living in Houston, dating a Mexican-American woman, which, of course, your Palestinian mom sort of disapproves of. This is a scene where you've just lost a job you had in an electronic shop because the owner โ€“ was concerned about an immigration raid and you didn't have your papers.

Fresh Air
Texan-Palestinian Comic Mo Amer

The series is about you, a character named Moe, kind of pretty much you in your 20s, I guess, single, living in Houston, dating a Mexican-American woman, which, of course, your Palestinian mom sort of disapproves of. This is a scene where you've just lost a job you had in an electronic shop because the owner โ€“ was concerned about an immigration raid and you didn't have your papers.

Fresh Air
Texan-Palestinian Comic Mo Amer

The series is about you, a character named Moe, kind of pretty much you in your 20s, I guess, single, living in Houston, dating a Mexican-American woman, which, of course, your Palestinian mom sort of disapproves of. This is a scene where you've just lost a job you had in an electronic shop because the owner โ€“ was concerned about an immigration raid and you didn't have your papers.

Fresh Air
Texan-Palestinian Comic Mo Amer

So you've returned to an old side hustle of selling knockoff merchandise out of the trunk of your car. And this scene happens in โ€“ you've got your big car backed up to the edge of a strip mall, which you see plenty of in Houston. And there's this heavyset guy, white guy in a cowboy hat walking down the sidewalk. And you engage him and say, hey, he looks like he got orthopedic shoes there.

Fresh Air
Texan-Palestinian Comic Mo Amer

So you've returned to an old side hustle of selling knockoff merchandise out of the trunk of your car. And this scene happens in โ€“ you've got your big car backed up to the edge of a strip mall, which you see plenty of in Houston. And there's this heavyset guy, white guy in a cowboy hat walking down the sidewalk. And you engage him and say, hey, he looks like he got orthopedic shoes there.

Fresh Air
Texan-Palestinian Comic Mo Amer

So you've returned to an old side hustle of selling knockoff merchandise out of the trunk of your car. And this scene happens in โ€“ you've got your big car backed up to the edge of a strip mall, which you see plenty of in Houston. And there's this heavyset guy, white guy in a cowboy hat walking down the sidewalk. And you engage him and say, hey, he looks like he got orthopedic shoes there.

Fresh Air
Texan-Palestinian Comic Mo Amer

Does that hurt your back? And try and sell him a pair of shoes from the trunk. And there are these โ€“ they're imitations of these odd-looking shoes marketed by Kanye West kind of in part made from the foam โ€“ The easy foam runners.

Fresh Air
Texan-Palestinian Comic Mo Amer

Does that hurt your back? And try and sell him a pair of shoes from the trunk. And there are these โ€“ they're imitations of these odd-looking shoes marketed by Kanye West kind of in part made from the foam โ€“ The easy foam runners.

Fresh Air
Texan-Palestinian Comic Mo Amer

Does that hurt your back? And try and sell him a pair of shoes from the trunk. And there are these โ€“ they're imitations of these odd-looking shoes marketed by Kanye West kind of in part made from the foam โ€“ The easy foam runners.

Fresh Air
Texan-Palestinian Comic Mo Amer

Well, here, you open this, and then you pull out a little stool. You've got a little portable store there. So it begins with you engaging this fellow. Let's listen.

Fresh Air
Texan-Palestinian Comic Mo Amer

Well, here, you open this, and then you pull out a little stool. You've got a little portable store there. So it begins with you engaging this fellow. Let's listen.

Fresh Air
Texan-Palestinian Comic Mo Amer

Well, here, you open this, and then you pull out a little stool. You've got a little portable store there. So it begins with you engaging this fellow. Let's listen.

Fresh Air
Texan-Palestinian Comic Mo Amer

Yeah, that I do.

Fresh Air
Texan-Palestinian Comic Mo Amer

Yeah, that I do.

Fresh Air
Texan-Palestinian Comic Mo Amer

Yeah, that I do.

Fresh Air
Texan-Palestinian Comic Mo Amer

And that is Mo Ammer making a sale in the series Mo, which premieres on Netflix tomorrow. You know, we hear you speaking kind of the Texan version of English, which I will say I grew up in South Texas. I recognize that accent. You used that to connect to people, I guess, lots of times growing up, didn't you?

Fresh Air
Texan-Palestinian Comic Mo Amer

And that is Mo Ammer making a sale in the series Mo, which premieres on Netflix tomorrow. You know, we hear you speaking kind of the Texan version of English, which I will say I grew up in South Texas. I recognize that accent. You used that to connect to people, I guess, lots of times growing up, didn't you?

Fresh Air
Texan-Palestinian Comic Mo Amer

And that is Mo Ammer making a sale in the series Mo, which premieres on Netflix tomorrow. You know, we hear you speaking kind of the Texan version of English, which I will say I grew up in South Texas. I recognize that accent. You used that to connect to people, I guess, lots of times growing up, didn't you?