Puerto Rican Spanish

I feel like the Mexico Spanish is the one you say a lot of cursive words, but it's normal.

When you say it in Puerto Rican, Boricua Spanish is like, you can say that.

Oh, yeah? Yeah, so it depends on the country.

Spanish change.

And that was typically the hard part because you can imagine there's a lot of Arabic owned, a lot of like Yemeni owned bodegas or like Dominican Spanish speaking bodega owners.

And I speak Spanish, but Dominican and Puerto Rican Spanish is a little bit different.

It's a tougher dialect.

Well, now you know Dave.

And so my best friend at the time, really introduced me to Puerto Rican culture.

And because we worked for many years together, she spoke her Puerto Rican Spanish and I adopted her Puerto Rican sayings.

So, so one that I still to this day use that even within my, they're like, you're talking, you're not Puerto Rican, is ay bendito.

Oh, So, so when you hear like, it's like a, you can use it for many different terms, but it's kind of like, I feel sad for you or, oh, or like, like if you want to sigh, he's like, ay, bendito.

And Bad Bunny is so unapologetically Puerto Rican.

Like, his lyrics are very Puerto Rican Spanish.

He draws from his experiences on the island, bringing ancestral music that my grandparents would listen to into his latest album, performed it on the Super Bowl stage.

and he embraced the world with that performance right and the world embraced him more importantly and so that is like kind of like that parallel right where when you create things that are rich in culture it can still appeal to the masses and sometimes is more effective than something that's a little bit more generic

But because of my Puerto Rican heritage, I am technically considered a minority, but I have never allowed that to dictate the purpose or plan that God has for my life.

If you guys don't know what that means, I just said I also speak in Spanish and I speak Puerto Rican Spanish, not perfect Spanish.

So what that means is for those of you that are Puerto Rican, you know exactly what that means.

That means most of my words come out in Spanish, but I might have one or two that comes out in English.

He's also a 2022 inductee in the M&A Advisor Hall of Fame and the creator of the 10 Pillars of Business Value Assessment, a framework that's helped countless business owners understand what actually drives value within a deal.

In his spare time, he enjoys the island life and spent his last four years struggling to learn Puerto Rican Spanish while living in Dorado.

With that, everyone, please meet my guest, Joe Durnford.

Well, thank you, Steve.