- I think I got this guy, Boston?
- Why do you think Boston?
- You kind of remind me of Peter Griffin,
from a voice perspective.
- You sound like a fucking cartoon character.
- But it's good.
(suspense music)
- [Interviewer] How smart are you?
- Hecka smart.
- [Interviewer] Hecka?
- Hecka smart. - How's your geography?
- Ooh, not good.
Born in Kenya, we didn't really talk about U.S. geography.
- Today, everybody coming in has a U.S accent.
- Aha.
- [Interviewer] You have to guess
what part of the country that accent is from.
- Ooh, woo, it's gonna be tough.
- [Interviewer] Can you name some classic U.S. accents?
- We got the California,
what's up, cuz, what it do, cuz?
Boston, get in the car.
I need some chocolate, in the car.
I'm gonna do so bad at this. (chuckles)
- [Interviewer] What else you got?
We got the Texas, get off my property.
(interviewer laughs)
Just cut all this out. (laughs)
(everyone laughs)
- [Ashley] Hello.
- How's it going?
- [Ashley] Good.
- I'll have you come up first.
- Alright.
Hey Abdul, my name's Alfred.
- Alfred, Abdul.
- Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you too.
What do you think of Ben Affleck?
(everyone laughs)
- Really went for the jugular on that one, okay.
You know, not my favorite "Batman".
(Abdul laughs)
- I think I got this guy, Boston?
- Why do you think Boston?
- Just, you gave me Boston vibes.
You kinda remind me of Peter Griffin,
from a voice perspective.
Well, that's just a good swift kick in the sack.
- No. (laughs)
- You sound like a fucking cartoon character.
- But it's good, that's good.
Am I right?
- You are wrong.
- Oh, shit.
- You are close.
- I'm close?
- You're close, but you are wrong.
- Rhode Island?
- That's where my parents are from,
I'm from up North in Maine.
- Maine, aah, is that different?
(everyone laughs)
Teach me how to speak the way of your people.
- If you're trying to give somebody directions in Maine,
- Um hmm.
- and it's hard to do.
- Hard to do. - You would say,
"You can't get there from here."
- You can't get there from here.
- (interviewer) Yeah.
- That's pretty good.
- Alright, well, thank you. - Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you, too.
What's up, Abdul.
- Arthur, nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you too.
Are you close to your mom?
- Uh, not really, she's away from here.
- Where's she at?
- In a bayou city.
- Bayou city.
- A bayou city,
a bayou's a-- - Is that by me?
- No not by you.
(everyone laughs)
Lemme run that down
- Oh, okay. - for you real quick.
A bayou is a real, real big ditch.
- Um hmm. - Sometimes you find
gators and moccasins, it's kinda like the swamp,
but not necessarily a swamp. - Okay, New Mexico.
- Wrong Mexico.
- Florida?
- Nah.
- Georgia?
- Hmm um.
- Ooh, Carolina?
- Haa ah, ain't no geechy here baby,
ain't no fishing fishing grids, (indistinct)
- That's just my guess, I don't know shit about the South,
I usually, my people avoid that.
- Stay away from the South. (laughs)
That's why I'm not living there man,
you did a good one on that one, that's good on ya.
I'm from Texas man.
- From Texas? Fuck.
(Arthur laughs) Fuck!
What part of Texas are you from?
- Houston, the bayou city.
- Aah. - I gave it to you,
but you didn't know what a bayou city was.
- I know what bayou was.
- Alright. - I thought you were saying
like, next to me. - A big fucking ditch
with snakes and shit in it.
- Okay.
- Keep the faith man,
keep the faith. - Alright, yeah.
Tell me a little bit about yourself.
What's your favorite food?
- (laughs) My favorite food won't tell you anything
about where I'm from, but what's popular where I'm from
is things like sausages, kielbasa, bratwurst.
- Aa, okay, okay, okay, Chicago.
- It's yes.
- Yes?
- So the key to the Chicago accent,
is to hit the A real hard.
- The A, okay.
- So say Apple Snapple.
- Apple Snapple.
- Not too much.
- Okay. - Don't go nuts with it,
but it's not apple, it's apple.
- Apple.
- If you get the A, everything else falls into place.
- Alright. it's nice to meet you.
- Good to meet you.
- Yeah, I'll see you around.
Hi. - Hello.
- Hi, Abdul.
- I'm Susan,
- Susan, nice to meet you.
Tell me what it's like growing up in your hometown.
- Well, I liked it, but some people thought it was boring.
- What's a phrase that you heard growing up,
where you're from?
- It's, "I'll be cow kicked."
- I'll be cow kicked.
I think you're from Minnesota.
- Ohio.
- Ohio? - So you were in
the right ballpark. - Oh.
- Did you grow up in Kenya?
I didn't think so. - Are you flirting with me
right now?
(everyone laughs)
Cool, we're going straight soon?
(everyone laughs)
It was nice to meet you.
- You too.
- Thank you.
- Hey there. - Hey, how's it going?
- Good, how you doing?
- Good, Abdul.
- I'm Ashley.
- Ashley, nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you as well.
- Uh, where are you from?
(everyone laughs) Almost had him.
Do an impersonation of somebody with a really thick accent,
from where you're from.
- Um, Ashley, come over here.
- Ooh, that sounds, I feel like
I was in trouble. Okay, how about, um.
My name's not even Ashley and I felt like I was in trouble.
- (laughs) Oh Ashley, I love you.
- Are you from Oklahoma?
- No.
- Am I close?
- No, you're not anywhere close.
- Oklahoma ain't really even the South,
you know that, right?
- All my knowledge is based off of NBA teams,
and if you're in the Western conference,
I assume you're on the West side.
- Alright, The Hawks, Falcons are football.
- Ooh, boom, done.
I think he's from Georgia.
I wanna learn how to speak like a local Georgian.
- The key in the South is the O-I, so,
I say tinfole, I'm spoled, olive ole.
Say olive ole.
- Olive ole?
- Olive ole.
- Olive ole. - And say you're spoled.
- I'm spoled?
- You're spoled.
- What am I saying?
- You're spoled. (laughs)
- I'm spoiled?
- You're spoiled.
- Oh, and olive oil?
- Aha. - Aw, shit.
- ( chuckles) There ya go. - Yeah.
What's a, what's a phrase from around your area?
- "Bombai you come my house, we gon grind."
- Ooh, I don't know what that means, but it sounds sexy.
What does it mean?
- So "bombai" is a later.
- Oh. (chuckles)
- So later you're go come to my house and we're gonna grind.
"Grind" is eat.
- Aah, okay.
- You can also say pound.
- Pound?
- "Pound" also means eat.
- Grinding and pounding is eating?
Are we talking about the same kinda eating?
(everyone laughs)
Bombai you come my house, we gon' grind. (kisses)
(everyone laughs)
Is that how you say it?
- (laughs) Sure.
- Okay, my guess is Florida?
- No.
- No, am I close?
(everyone laughs)
Where you from?
- Hawaii
- Oh, shit. - Aah.
- I wanna, I wanna grind and...
What's the other one? - Grind and pound.
- Grind and pound, what am I doing?
- After you grind and pound, you say,
"Ho baby girl like oof."
- Ho baby girl, oof.
- No, ho baby girl like oof, like, "Do you want to oof?"
Like, "Do you like oof?" - Ho baby girl like oof.
Ho baby girl like oof.
Like that?
Does that... (laughs)
- Oh cringe, this so cringe. - Ooh, ooh.
Okay.
- It was yeah, okay, you can work on that.
- I probably won't work on that.
- Yeah, yeah. (chuckles)
- I'll stick with my basic accent.
- Okay, (laughs) thank you.
- No appropriation over here.
Alright, last one.
Hi, how's it going?
- Hey, how we going, Paul. - Abdul.
Sing something for me.
- Sing a little something.
- Yeah.
♪ Once when I was out on Rocky Top ♪
♪ Down in the hills ♪
♪ Ain't no smoggy smoke on Rocky Top ♪
♪ Ain't no telephone bills ♪
That was good, that was good.
- Thank you.
- Does that narrow it down at all?
- No, if you were at the beginning of the line,
I would say yes, but my confidence is shot now,
after fucking all this up, so. - Yeah yeah.
- I wanna say the Southern region.
- Yeah.
- End of sentence. (laughs)
(everyone laughs)
- I'm from Tennessee.
- From Tennessee, is that the South?
- Yeah, it's the South. - Okay, alright. (chuckles)
Nice to meet you.
- [Interviewer] How many do you think you got correct?
- Half, 'cause I got one, but that was heavily guided.
- [Interviewer] Uh, with a show of hands,
who did he guess correctly?
- Okay.
- [Interviewer] How was that?
- Much harder than I thought it would be.
I wasn't expecting to do well, straight from Kenya,
I came to Seattle and I spent most of my time in here, so.
- [Interviewer] Alright, thank you Abdul.
- Alright, thank you, thank you.
(everyone applauds)
This way? - Yeah, you can go that way.