Uh-huh.

And also I got really into DJ-ing.

I like learned how to DJ at the radio station at CMU, the WDUQ ... which is an awesome station.

Shout out to RCT.

Mm-hmm.

It's, it's always been free format.

It's always been a community station, even though it's housed at the university and is, like, a student activity.

It was just very wild.

It's the, it's the motherland

... a Senegalese player named Nico Jackson, uh, made a comment saying that we are killing ourselves for Africa, so now every African is rooting for every African team, minus Morocco and South Africa.

They're not... 'Cause they're not African enough.

Morocco, Morocco is excluded because they were sore losers during the AFCON, African Cup of Nations, and South Africa just 'cause it's South Africa.

Here's Mary, live at The Moth.

Thank you.

Thank you.

My 83-year-old mother still lives in the woods where I grew up.

She does not have the internet, but she's heard of it.

And she will ask me to do very uncomfortable things for her online sometimes, just tasks she gives me.

She'll call me up, and often there's not a hello.

[laughs]

[laughs]

And I wanna do these things for my mom.

It's important for me to help her because she has not had an easy life.

Her health is bad.

Money has always been tight.

And just seeing my mom go from depressed to happy for an hour is a gift.

Plus, my dad had enough nerve to pass away before I had any means to help him out.

[laughs]

Mary?

Oh, sorry.

Can't help myself, it's so fun.

Accordions have some stellar nicknames too, like Button Box, Windjammer, or Stomach Steinway.

Makes you smile, doesn't it? Another nickname, Squeeze Box, came about because in order to make sound, the musician squeezes the accordion's sides to enable its bellows to force air through thin pieces inside called reeds.

Then you use the keys and buttons along each side to turn that air into music.

(French song, Accordsian playing) The accordion is basically a party in a box.

Hmm...