On Women and Birthdays , Non-Native English Speakers in Marketing and The Cowboys Loss

The speaker welcomes the audience to a comedy podcast and discusses various topics, including American football, birthdays, and the importance of treating women well. They share personal experiences and offer advice on how to make the most of Mondays and celebrate birthdays. They also mention hosting events and the disappointment of friends not showing up for important occasions. The speaker emphasizes the importance of food in relationships and shares a tip on how to impress women by bringing them food at work. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. Happy Monday, people. Happy Monday, happy new week, new blessings. New week, new blessings. Welcome to Seattle's Top African Comedy Podcast, hosted by yours truly, the hilarious Fresh Prince of Africa, born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya, on this show called The Tip Show. We discuss trending topics related to pop culture, politics, relationships, and more. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the show. Where are you tuned in from? For those who are new to this channel, I'm a non-native English speaker based in Pacific Northwest, so I apologize if you don't catch up when I'm gonna catch them, but catch the soya soup, catch the pepidim, catch the vibes, and I love y'all, the vibes are pure. If you are watching football, let me see, football, for my European people, football, NFL, National Football League, we had two teams battling it out last Sunday. The first team was the Cowboys. It's based in Dallas, Texas. These guys have the most attractive cheerleaders in the fucking planet, in the fucking circle of the American Football League. I think San Francisco's coming up, and Kansas City's trying, but shout out to them Cowboys, bro, Cowboys. They did their thing last weekend. There's a lot of Cowboys flying out in the world, but we all know the Cowboys are never gonna make it to the Super Bowl. I apologize to the Cowboy fans. This is a reality right now. The 49ers came, and they served. I think we should get used to flag football. There's a lot of rigging in American football, but 49ers, you did your thing. We look forward to seeing you in the next qualifying match. Kansas City Chiefs, it will be going down. Shout out to everybody in K-Soup who's listening to me. You guys can check out Fantasy Football as well. If enough bets go against the Cowboys, they're gonna lose, because people say that the NFL is rigged. I don't know about those, the allegations, but hey, I think that America, what it is for White Star, America is a cliquet of football worldwide. We think that the Bengals is gonna get jacked up in Kansas City next week. How many people love American football? Just by a show of hands from wherever you are, where you're tuned in, because a lot of people don't like American football, and I love American football. The Eagles are gonna kick the Giants' ass next week, and that's gonna be hilarious. Ladies and gentlemen, I've never watched a more rigged sport than when Michael Jordan, when he was told he was not 6'6 by Adidas, he got dropped, and he had to start marketing Nike shoes to us, even though he knows, clearly he knew that the team he preferred to play for was Adidas. That's the franchise he wanted to represent. Ladies and gentlemen, it's another Monday. I'm glad to be here. It's a blessing to see a new week. It's a blessing to see a new season. I've been changing my attitude a lot towards Monday, Mondays in general, and it makes my day much better. When I go to work now, I tell everybody happy Monday, and I smile at them. Instead of dragging my feet and being negative about it, we used to hate Mondays. Oh my God, it's Monday, it's after Sunday. I think I've stepped into that age of, in the third floor, we call it third floor, in your 30s, it's the third floor, where we appreciate our good night's sleep on Sundays. We don't do too much. We're not overwhelmed by things. We don't get overly excited by things, because we have already done things. Now, our focal point is responsibilities, family, and our careers. This whole week is already starting to feel so much better. I woke up this morning. I worked out. I had my smoothie. You know, my wife did not argue this morning, so we had a good vibe this morning. Ha ha! Shout out to all my married people worldwide. But I'm having a more positive outlook about Mondays, and I'm thinking, I'm sharing this with you all, my audience. If you have that same positive outlook, it can kickstart your week more positively. Ladies and gentlemen, it's a beautiful week, and I'm excited to share with you that I hosted an event this week. For those who don't know, I do emceeing. I host events. I'm the biggest emcee in the Pacific Northwest, here in Washington. If you have an event, you call your boy, Dubai Dennis Mamba, aka General Mutombo. You can find me on Google, box.com, wedding, gig, salad, all the avenues where they need emcees, you know your boy's over there. I had a birthday of one of a very close friend of mine. His name is Papa. He had a little trouble with the law, but he came out, and the family put together a surprise birthday party. The entire Senegalese and Cameroonian community were up there in the suburbs of Auburn, Washington. Lot of people, man. I never seen that many people since high school in a house party. I think there were like 100, 150 people. It was great. I love birthdays. I'm always positive about birthdays. I had just a little, just a little, little, little, teeny, bitty, bitty, bitty issue with some of the people who came, and this is something I've addressed on this podcast before, and I'm trying to be gentle about it again today. I don't know why people leave their houses to celebrate somebody, to go to church, to go to an event, and you're going to come there and act a party mouth. You're going to act like your breath smells like the back of an earring's plug. You're going to act like your, your deep throating a microphone is fucking with your whole energy. I don't get it. It's like some alien or some ghost is fisting you while you're having a good time with people. I'm there. Papa is there. My friends are there. I'm giving everybody a shout out. Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together, ladies and gentlemen. Say happy, sing happy birthday with me, and these guys are just party mouth, and they're pissed, and they don't want to be there. Ladies and gentlemen, if you have such energy around you, please go and delete those friends. They don't deserve you. It's the only day that people have to set aside their biases, nuances, jealousy, envy for you. Their priorities is that day is for you unless you're sharing the birthday with somebody else, especially women, and I know women, if you're out there and you're a sister, black, white, brown, you know you totally understand what I'm going with this. If there's anything we could learn from women about birthdays, is women take their birthdays very, very, very, entirely, ultimately, to the pivot, pivot, very seriously. If there's one thing women don't play about, besides, of course, their hair appointments, nail appointments, and their food, it's definitely their birthdays. It's a life and death situation for them. I'll tell you my example. My wife's birthday was in October, right? She's a Libra. My wife invited some of her friends to pull up. Some of the people she thought were her friends to pull up and see her birthday and see it through. And you know, for women, they want their friends because they come to visit their friends. We have done this for a lot of our friends. Take them out to eat, you know, do a surprise party. I host it for free. Normally I charge for this stuff. But this year, I felt for my wife. I felt for baby Simba because all the people she used to think were her friends, they let her down. They made excuses. Oh, I couldn't make it. I didn't have a call. I didn't have this. I didn't have that. And even one of her friends who actually showed up to the birthday party, I'm not gonna mention her name because she's still an acquaintance to me, but one of the things that made me upset when she came through was she was a little tipsy already before we even began the thing. So I don't know. Later on, I found out she was going through something which yeah, we understand. But for women, they don't forgive. You know, we didn't end up like celebrating the birthday the way we wanted to. We didn't have the cake. I had a surprise for her that day in a really fancy rooftop Skyline restaurant thing. But my point is 10 over 10, to clarify about my weight about people's birthday, if I was gonna plan something for my wife, something special, and she had friends, for example, I'm never gonna plan something knowing in the full sense, full weight of it, that it's my lady's best friend or close friend's birthday. It's important for her to show up for those people because those people show up for her. It's the same date every year. Every birthday, the same date every year. I don't want unnecessary wahala, no. I don't want unnecessary problems, yo. Saki ma shida mimi, okay? Peace over perplexed nerves. Me, I want peace. Me na penda deni angwa kwame changa muka. And them fried dinner things, okay? Don't play about your woman's food either. Today, I took wifey some chipotle food, right? I don't know if you guys take your girl's food at lunch. Girls love that stuff. I don't know why they love it, but they do. If you're a single man out there, you're trying to tap into some girl's life, trying to make your application, drop your 411 and your 401k and all, you're trying to file for your future residency in this woman's life and heart. You gotta learn how to bring food to your jobs because for some reason, women and food especially work and you drop it there at the door, at the full front, the full stage has been set. It's like a performance, like an opera. She tells her friends, my husband is coming with food. That just shoots her self-confidence and love for you in a different level. Free game, bro, free game. Don't play with their food because I swear, if you play with their food, there are a few times my wife has asked me to bring an iced chocolate latte or a cappuccino or a good chipotle and I mixed up the ingredients instead of bringing fried. I made some grilled chicken with some brown rice. I brought some babacoa, for those who don't know, that's a Mexican grilled, slowly grilled beef or lamb or goat, babacoa and they shred it up. Very tasty, if you've been to Chipotle, go check it out, babacoa. And I brought babacoa because I love babacoa. They were out of chicken, I didn't want to wait. My girl wanted to turn violent, ladies and gentlemen. You know what I'm saying? They take food like it's a personal holiday. They take it personally. They don't mess with the food of your girl. This is a true story, ladies and gentlemen. She almost bit my ear off like Mike Tyson. It was no joke, in front of a full, full, full, full, full audience of her co-workers. Ladies and gentlemen, for everybody's birthday out there, it's literally one day dedicated to someone else. Surely you can't be that selfish, can you? You can't be selfish like you don't want to let this man just enjoy himself, huh? Girls will literally end a 10-year friendship over them blocksters, over them dinners, over them nail appointments, okay? Come correct or GTFO, GTFO. Ladies and gentlemen, I don't want to waste a lot of your time today. It's been a beautiful end of the week. Happy birthday to Papa. Happy birthday to a lot of people who came through, showed us love. You know, I appreciate people come and show us love when we're celebrating other people. If you don't celebrate other people, no one comes to celebrate you. This is something very simple that we should start adapting and understanding that we have to show up for people, show up for community, show up for our friends, show up at church. That is time. Time is valuable. It's invaluable for everybody. We are here for a finite amount of time on earth. So let's find ways to celebrate each other. Let's find ways to amplify the vibe around us. I feel more life. Ladies and gentlemen, if you're listening to me from Africa, Mama VP, East Africa, how are you doing? I had a, I made an application to host this big event over the weekend, and unfortunately, I didn't get the sponsors that I wanted. Some of them, this has affected my business a while, for a while now, but I don't sweat it. You know, I'm not a, I'm a non-native English speaker. It's really hard already, as it is, to be in the game in America, in the US, as a non-native English speaker. And I think, for those who can attest to me, this is some real shit. You know, you guys relate to me. If you think marketing is hard, if you think marketing is hard, try doing it as a non-native English speaker. I don't think y'all understand how difficult this is. The words we use, the creators who are non-native speakers, they're people who switch off our content before listening to even two minutes of it because they pick up an accent, a nuance that they don't, they're not familiar with. And while you're creating, we have to create in non-native languages. We have to talk in a language that the people understand us the best. Like, most of my audience comes from Kenya, South Africa, and Nigeria. They understand me in the lingo, in the framework of the dialect I place in their ears. Currently, a lot of people can't even copy other languages. They try, but try to be a guest on an African podcast. I challenge you. Or an Afro-Caribbean. I challenge you because this is career goals to some people. I actually, in my belief, being in the game, the communication game, the public speaking game, I think non-natives who apply themselves have often a clearer messaging than this over, bluffed and amplified English vocabulary words that a lot of podcasters use, a lot of radio hosts use, and half the time, they lose their audience. I realize a while back, I said a while back, sorry to be so black, I realize a while back that probably our message lands better because we, as the non-native speakers, use simple words. Some people have tapped into the ChatGPT. Have you guys tapped into the ChatGPT? Ladies and gentlemen, the ChatGPT is a new app. It's a new registration thing, like kind of how they did the clubhouse when it came out. It's a new app, it's a new AI-led program that helps people write in proper English, providing details and examples. They can fix all our problems, especially in business. Right now, ChatGPT is actually free. Fortunately, at this time, they're overbooked, so you can go online and Google ChatGPT and register through your email, and they'll let you in when it's open again. But this is a really good software. You just dictate what your message is, articulate it well, and then it'll all break it down in a more professional-sounding way, and you'll sound like a native English speaker when you're delivering your message. I live in the US, in the Pacific Northwest. I know a lot of my friends who are French-speaking who live in different provinces of Canada. They have learned English over the years by reading books, watching TV shows, like a lot of us non-native English speakers, and I gotta tell you, it's a huge, quite a learning curve, tough especially at the beginning, but it gets easier over time. Now, culture's important, context is important, and I know some people don't find me hilarious, that's on them, that's not my problem. Culture's important. Sometimes you don't get the jokes because you're not right there where you're supposed to be. You have to be, you have to acquaint yourself with foreign people. Foreign can mean another state, because in the states here, people in Texas talk differently, they speak differently than people in Florida. People in Florida have a different accent, they have a different lingo than people from St. Louis or New Orleans. I speak English regularly. I also watch a lot of TV shows, movies, proverbs, a lot of my books, I consume them through audiobooks. With English subs, or without subs, which is subtitles, you can learn a lot that will help you maneuver in how pretty much you're trying to communicate, so you can have a natural flow when you're trying to talk to people. I try to do this a lot because I am a stand-up comedian, and if I have to deliver some of my jokes to people on stage who are not typically African, I have to learn what words will land to them. But I've got a lot of patience, a lot of grace, you know, from people in Seattle who listen to me, you know, because I believe the beauty of English is in its simplicity compared to other languages. I'm not gonna kill myself to learn Yoruba. I'm not gonna kill myself to learn Mandinga. I'm not gonna kill myself to learn Lingala. You know what I'm saying? I'm gonna try my best, but the whole beauty of the English language is just for us non-native English speakers who live in cheaper countries, thus needing much less revenue for our startups to be profitable, we are able to live with this life hack that we can use simplicity to get our message out there. I appreciate every one of you who has been tapping into me from Finland to Belgium to Egypt. Marketing has really helped me to improve my command of the English language. But if you're an English teacher, you can call me too so you can educate me. Put me on it. Put me on. Put me on. Put this millennium on, all right? Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for tuning in. You do understand I had to bring these topics up. This is an unspoken struggle that is also widespread. Seattle is a tech city. Some of my tech friends, they're French speakers. Like my boy from Cameroon is a French speaker. My boy from Senegal is a French speaker. My boy from Ivory Coast is a French speaker. They do share with me, they're explaining some complex software architectures and abstract concepts can be challenging. Plus, if you think I'm playing, try to discuss features or non-technical details with your clients. Sometimes non-native too. It's difficult. It's difficult with or without a coding background. I will admit, I don't think marketing per se is hard. I think I'm learning what we think marketing is. That's hard. Not aggressive, not pushing your phrase, not pushing your throat. But again, that's the learning curve. You need excellent, you need to be excellent at English to be good at marketing. That was the old stereotype. But now, no, no, no, no. You need to communicate clearly and connect with your customer like you. Ladies and gentlemen, let me put it one more time. You don't need good English to be good at marketing. That's not how Alibaba sold its products or all the other people we ship things from online. No, you need to communicate clearly and connect with your customer who's exactly or almost like you, who understands what you're doing. And with that, ladies and gentlemen, it's a wrap up for our podcast today. It's your host, Eugenio. Fresh piece of Africa, fresh, fresh, fresh to the bone. I'm about to bring you some nice, dope DJ mix. This DJ mix has some soul, some vibe to it, ladies. And it has, it features some of the greats because I love soul music, I love beautiful music. It features music soul child. It features Angie Stone, Erykah Badu, and more. I love soul music and I hope you guys enjoy. Topping, till the next time, please drop your comments. Let me know what you want me to share. I'm about to bring out some really dope guests this week. People are doing a lot for the community. Entrepreneurs who have started their own startups. And I'm just going to keep it as a surprise. I'll see you guys next time, I'll see you. More life, more blessings. Keep doing what you do, keep rocking. And just know, you're here for a short time, not a long time, so make it the best time. Yours truly, Pacific Northwest. Salute, till next time, woo!