December 4, 2025 • 10 mins
Longtime guest Moaba returns for the “Ask an African” segment, using sharp insight and humor to address modern dilemmas through cultural lenses.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is the day. He will show you a twenty
twenty five edition in case you're going to be in Cleveland,
Ohio or be there this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Cleaveland
Improv too. Friday two, Saturday, one Sunday. Then December eighth,
I will be at the City Winery and the Philadelphia
with Don Lemon, and then on the shelf, i'd be
at this City Winery in Chicago for two shows seven
(00:22):
and ten thirty and then we're going to round the
week out with the Charlotte Improv to Friday, two, Saturday
and one Sunday twelfth to the fifteenth. So come check
me out. If you take a notion Diddy is mad
at fifteen.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I think they it should have ceased and desist. I
feel like against the documentary.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I haven't watched it two episodes. I gotta check it out.
I gotta see it.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I got to see it.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Well, if did he hang get victed, this documentary would
have got him that way.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah. I see the internet as peppered with AI images
of him in jail.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I saw a lot them. I'm just leave him alone
with service.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Right catch do his tign if only he were a
if he had had bitcoin, or if he were uh
honduring drug lord. He had already been parted, already parted
by no Republican. Yeah, just say that, yeap. Eric Adams boy,
He quickly went down and kissed Orry's super fast let
(01:22):
me tell you something, and.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Then dropped out the race. He was like, wait a second,
I'm just gonna lay low.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
You see, San Francisco's is going to sue ultra processed
food companies.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
For California's is not playing.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You saw where Gavin Newsom was like, no more Skittles,
this red dye one, two, three, four, five, all that stuff?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
No more? Yeah, Like I think it's skittles.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
It's a couple of candies that have all of these
different colors in Californias are absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah not here plus you on, yeah Skittles, I mean, but.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Come on, ultra processed food, I mean Campbell everything is
ultra process See, every lunchable, everything, just about everything you need.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Have you ever had a pizza that had hot sounds
on it? You know, I was gonna, I was gonna
bless you guys with the five, but Jazmin insisted on
messing it up, so sorry, sorry, on the next.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Give it up.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
No, no jazz ruins everything, so now we never hear
nothing if so, have you ever had a pizza with
like with great ingredients. I ain't talking about like Papa
John's with this. I'm talking about great like with homemade,
like with yes, yes, and great pepperoni and great. Yeah
you could tell the difference, Yes you can. Sorry, yes,
(02:42):
we know from this as alone. I mean you could tell,
you could tell, And I'm like, this is so amazing.
I didn't even know what pizza was too. Who's the
best piece of is it Chicago? New York? I like
New York. I don't like the deep dish stuff depends
on where it's from. I would have to say, what
would you say, Kenny the New York PI? New York
(03:03):
pizza for sure? I think I like Chica.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I don't like it. It's like eating a pie for real.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
I don't like it.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I don't like it that pizza, New York pizza. The
crust is just right.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Not all not all of them. They make some bad pizza. Well,
you got to go to the right spot. If you
know around New York, you know where to go. I
go down on Bleaker Street. And you go the trolley's
get a raise? Nah, I like, I'm telling you Bleaker
Street right there on the corner the street it's called
Bleaker Street. Yes, okay, just why you get mad.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Exactly? Pizza Jesus? Yes, I thought you got it too
busy to be mad in Thanksgiving? But now pizza, it's
flu season. I don't want to do this one. Let's
let's any got his flu shot today?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Did?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Of course?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Yeah? Beget it.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
What does Kinny always look like he's cold?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Because he is. He's eighty two, So that's it.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yeah, that's not the temperature. So Moibers joins us again
from Sierra Leone, which is recently put on the countries,
that it's not.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
He's supposed to be here and look at her.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
That sounded that that little sound. So can you tell
us about how is it they celebrate Christmas? Sarah Leon you.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Got put up trees?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
No, yes, you got Christmas trees? Yes, two trees. It's
sad to have that, not the tree with the big
thorns at the bottom of him. Like, what is what
tree is?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
It's sometimes a white man in Leone. It depends. I
wish I have my blowdoors right now.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Here's a better question.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Will never make it past customs an to hefty?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Is he round? Is he a big dude?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Over there? They have famine? They have famine. Know this
Santa has flies.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It's too hot for rain.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
It's mountain nervous Santa.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
It is hot.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Oh wow? Do you guys hang stockings over there?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Yes? With people in them?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
What is it? What is the traditional? What's the tribe's name?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
I'm not in a tribe.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah, you're not in a tribe.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
No, you have to be.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
You have to be a part of a community. It's
early on you said, you guys have your own language
and everything. What tribe is it?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
My family?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Listen?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Is minday midday?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Let's google that looking women and a lot of women,
a lot of women.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
When Christmas?
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Duckings?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
What do you hang them?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Do y'all have any let's the building? Wow?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Places?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Fireplaces, homes? Really? Yes, I'm sure, I'm just wondering.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Wow, y'all better leave him alone.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
What did you say?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
He says?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
The people are believed to have migrated from the Molly Empire. Yeah,
Molly or Dan. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
He possibly as a group of soldiers who move south.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
What do you mean, you could tell you that's hurr.
That's a great listen and you know what, that's how
I know you're black. Look at this?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Rice is your staple crop along with yams.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Come on, so you tell me you can look at
someone and say that, yes you can. I don't think that.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
You'll be You'll be seeing.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Recognition.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
I had a long discussion with someone about this agent.
But they look like you can look at I have
never looked at someone and then like, oh like you no.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
No, no, I could tell, Like I could tell when
the hi, Yeah I can't.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
So you can tell someone and be like they're from
Nigeria or something like that, you.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Just not them. But no, maybe not that I can
tell when they're from I could tell when they're from
East Africa, like Somali you can't tell. That's different, or
every trains orths you could tell.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
You can tell, yeah, but everything else like you can't.
I could tell when they're from Nigeria. To someone from
Ghana or Nigeria, I can't. Yeah, they look like regular
black people to me. Well, but none of it, none
of us look like you.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Look at us, and I'm sorry, look at you look
at us?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Look at you. We love you.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
We look like we're you know, different. But I could
tell you want to expound on this sub Saharan. I
can tell when that I can't. I can tell when
that East Africa. They are beautiful, the beautiful and you
know what, it's gonna be a full flight of them.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
You can.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Let me tell you what I what I think. All right,
enough of that, we've colonized you enough fast enough, Okay,
got a little note from the g D section coming
up in fifteen minutes. Todo he will show that's gonna
do a lady Jim And that's all we got. I
can't do no more. That's it, That's all we got.
(08:35):
Thank you. He can show your twenty twenty five and
this Remember and if you're going to be in Cleveland,
I will be there this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and
then on the eighth I would be in Philadelphia at
City Winery, and the tenth I will be in Chicago
a City Windery with Don Lemon uh for Philly and Chicago.
Then I will be on the twelfth through the fifteenth,
I will be in Charlotte at the Comedy Zone. So
many chances, many many chances. Just je, what did you look?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Do you know the word of the years or the
phrase of twenty twenty five? No, rage bait?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I got beat yeap.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
They say people have used it more than any other quote.
Or I guess the group gas lighting rass lighting. I
think gas lighting was twenty twenty four. Yeah, twenty twenty
five is rage race baiting or rage baiting?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Rage baiting?
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Rage?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Okay, skip my man cheating when you learn today? Jasmine
just told me what the hell rage baiting was, And
now I feel so enriched. You Wow, he's enriched.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Thank you like white bread like.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Like remember that King vitamin had breakfast with the King.
No King Vitamin, you guys didn't have. You had mullet right, porridge,
porridge and porridge?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
All right whatever injected whipped up?
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Oh my goodness got me.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
On the next deal you can we show Kyle Hugly
ak especially okay as the latest record producer and we'll
here's latest project and show Bus Records plus the military
man Jamal Kingsho gonna return to expose racism, hitting it, racism,
hitting our everyday lives. This is the deal youge show.
We will definitely see you on the other side. Call
my favorite show bus operator, pull that string. We got
to go to taut is the deal, huge show see
(10:26):
you on the other side.
It is the day. He will show you a twenty
twenty five edition in case you're going to be in Cleveland,
Ohio or be there this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Cleaveland
Improv too. Friday two, Saturday, one Sunday. Then December eighth,
I will be at the City Winery and the Philadelphia
with Don Lemon, and then on the shelf, i'd be
at this City Winery in Chicago for two shows seven
(00:22):
and ten thirty and then we're going to round the
week out with the Charlotte Improv to Friday, two, Saturday
and one Sunday twelfth to the fifteenth. So come check
me out. If you take a notion Diddy is mad
at fifteen.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I think they it should have ceased and desist. I
feel like against the documentary.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I haven't watched it two episodes. I gotta check it out.
I gotta see it.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I got to see it.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Well, if did he hang get victed, this documentary would
have got him that way.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah. I see the internet as peppered with AI images
of him in jail.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I saw a lot them. I'm just leave him alone
with service.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Right catch do his tign if only he were a
if he had had bitcoin, or if he were uh
honduring drug lord. He had already been parted, already parted
by no Republican. Yeah, just say that, yeap. Eric Adams boy,
He quickly went down and kissed Orry's super fast let
(01:22):
me tell you something, and.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Then dropped out the race. He was like, wait a second,
I'm just gonna lay low.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
You see, San Francisco's is going to sue ultra processed
food companies.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
For California's is not playing.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You saw where Gavin Newsom was like, no more Skittles,
this red dye one, two, three, four, five, all that stuff?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
No more? Yeah, Like I think it's skittles.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
It's a couple of candies that have all of these
different colors in Californias are absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah not here plus you on, yeah Skittles, I mean, but.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Come on, ultra processed food, I mean Campbell everything is
ultra process See, every lunchable, everything, just about everything you need.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Have you ever had a pizza that had hot sounds
on it? You know, I was gonna, I was gonna
bless you guys with the five, but Jazmin insisted on
messing it up, so sorry, sorry, on the next.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Give it up.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
No, no jazz ruins everything, so now we never hear
nothing if so, have you ever had a pizza with
like with great ingredients. I ain't talking about like Papa
John's with this. I'm talking about great like with homemade,
like with yes, yes, and great pepperoni and great. Yeah
you could tell the difference, Yes you can. Sorry, yes,
(02:42):
we know from this as alone. I mean you could tell,
you could tell, And I'm like, this is so amazing.
I didn't even know what pizza was too. Who's the
best piece of is it Chicago? New York? I like
New York. I don't like the deep dish stuff depends
on where it's from. I would have to say, what
would you say, Kenny the New York PI? New York
(03:03):
pizza for sure? I think I like Chica.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I don't like it. It's like eating a pie for real.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
I don't like it.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I don't like it that pizza, New York pizza. The
crust is just right.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Not all not all of them. They make some bad pizza. Well,
you got to go to the right spot. If you
know around New York, you know where to go. I
go down on Bleaker Street. And you go the trolley's
get a raise? Nah, I like, I'm telling you Bleaker
Street right there on the corner the street it's called
Bleaker Street. Yes, okay, just why you get mad.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Exactly? Pizza Jesus? Yes, I thought you got it too
busy to be mad in Thanksgiving? But now pizza, it's
flu season. I don't want to do this one. Let's
let's any got his flu shot today?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Did?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Of course?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Yeah? Beget it.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
What does Kinny always look like he's cold?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Because he is. He's eighty two, So that's it.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yeah, that's not the temperature. So Moibers joins us again
from Sierra Leone, which is recently put on the countries,
that it's not.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
He's supposed to be here and look at her.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
That sounded that that little sound. So can you tell
us about how is it they celebrate Christmas? Sarah Leon you.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Got put up trees?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
No, yes, you got Christmas trees? Yes, two trees. It's
sad to have that, not the tree with the big
thorns at the bottom of him. Like, what is what
tree is?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
It's sometimes a white man in Leone. It depends. I
wish I have my blowdoors right now.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Here's a better question.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Will never make it past customs an to hefty?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Is he round? Is he a big dude?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Over there? They have famine? They have famine. Know this
Santa has flies.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It's too hot for rain.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
It's mountain nervous Santa.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
It is hot.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Oh wow? Do you guys hang stockings over there?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Yes? With people in them?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
What is it? What is the traditional? What's the tribe's name?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
I'm not in a tribe.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah, you're not in a tribe.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
No, you have to be.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
You have to be a part of a community. It's
early on you said, you guys have your own language
and everything. What tribe is it?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
My family?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Listen?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Is minday midday?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Let's google that looking women and a lot of women,
a lot of women.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
When Christmas?
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Duckings?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
What do you hang them?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Do y'all have any let's the building? Wow?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Places?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Fireplaces, homes? Really? Yes, I'm sure, I'm just wondering.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Wow, y'all better leave him alone.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
What did you say?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
He says?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
The people are believed to have migrated from the Molly Empire. Yeah,
Molly or Dan. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
He possibly as a group of soldiers who move south.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
What do you mean, you could tell you that's hurr.
That's a great listen and you know what, that's how
I know you're black. Look at this?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Rice is your staple crop along with yams.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Come on, so you tell me you can look at
someone and say that, yes you can. I don't think that.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
You'll be You'll be seeing.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Recognition.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
I had a long discussion with someone about this agent.
But they look like you can look at I have
never looked at someone and then like, oh like you no.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
No, no, I could tell, Like I could tell when
the hi, Yeah I can't.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
So you can tell someone and be like they're from
Nigeria or something like that, you.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Just not them. But no, maybe not that I can
tell when they're from I could tell when they're from
East Africa, like Somali you can't tell. That's different, or
every trains orths you could tell.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
You can tell, yeah, but everything else like you can't.
I could tell when they're from Nigeria. To someone from
Ghana or Nigeria, I can't. Yeah, they look like regular
black people to me. Well, but none of it, none
of us look like you.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Look at us, and I'm sorry, look at you look
at us?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Look at you. We love you.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
We look like we're you know, different. But I could
tell you want to expound on this sub Saharan. I
can tell when that I can't. I can tell when
that East Africa. They are beautiful, the beautiful and you
know what, it's gonna be a full flight of them.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
You can.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Let me tell you what I what I think. All right,
enough of that, we've colonized you enough fast enough, Okay,
got a little note from the g D section coming
up in fifteen minutes. Todo he will show that's gonna
do a lady Jim And that's all we got. I
can't do no more. That's it, That's all we got.
(08:35):
Thank you. He can show your twenty twenty five and
this Remember and if you're going to be in Cleveland,
I will be there this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and
then on the eighth I would be in Philadelphia at
City Winery, and the tenth I will be in Chicago
a City Windery with Don Lemon uh for Philly and Chicago.
Then I will be on the twelfth through the fifteenth,
I will be in Charlotte at the Comedy Zone. So
many chances, many many chances. Just je, what did you look?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Do you know the word of the years or the
phrase of twenty twenty five? No, rage bait?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I got beat yeap.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
They say people have used it more than any other quote.
Or I guess the group gas lighting rass lighting. I
think gas lighting was twenty twenty four. Yeah, twenty twenty
five is rage race baiting or rage baiting?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Rage baiting?
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Rage?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Okay, skip my man cheating when you learn today? Jasmine
just told me what the hell rage baiting was, And
now I feel so enriched. You Wow, he's enriched.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Thank you like white bread like.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Like remember that King vitamin had breakfast with the King.
No King Vitamin, you guys didn't have. You had mullet right, porridge,
porridge and porridge?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
All right whatever injected whipped up?
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Oh my goodness got me.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
On the next deal you can we show Kyle Hugly
ak especially okay as the latest record producer and we'll
here's latest project and show Bus Records plus the military
man Jamal Kingsho gonna return to expose racism, hitting it, racism,
hitting our everyday lives. This is the deal youge show.
We will definitely see you on the other side. Call
my favorite show bus operator, pull that string. We got
to go to taut is the deal, huge show see
(10:26):
you on the other side.
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