Dave Davies

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

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.

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.

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.

Yeah, that I do.

Yeah, that I do.

Yeah, that I do.

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?

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?

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?

So you did sell knockoff stuff on the street. This is a real thing.

So you did sell knockoff stuff on the street. This is a real thing.

So you did sell knockoff stuff on the street. This is a real thing.

That's how it worked. Imagine you develop some kind of skills for reading people and communicating that probably helped in stand-up when you got to that.

That's how it worked. Imagine you develop some kind of skills for reading people and communicating that probably helped in stand-up when you got to that.

That's how it worked. Imagine you develop some kind of skills for reading people and communicating that probably helped in stand-up when you got to that.

And when it's time to close things up and split too, I imagine.

And when it's time to close things up and split too, I imagine.

And when it's time to close things up and split too, I imagine.

You know, we mentioned earlier that your family left Kuwait and ended up in Houston. Tell us a bit more about that. Your family was in Kuwait, had a comfortable life. And then the first Gulf War happened, which was Saddam Hussein invading Kuwait. How much do you remember of that departure?