“Hey Mo, it’s Dave again.”
Doing a media conference with Mohamed Bamba (actually, Mohamed Karlakwan Damala Bamba) gives one a feeling of enlightenment as well as one of familiarity because of how well he interacts with people he doesn’t know.
Bamba not only paid attention to the questions being asked by the 10-15 journalists in the room, he picked up on names and affiliations.
By the time I was on my fourth question, I simply intro’d with “Hey Mo, it’s Dave again” which elicited a round of chuckles, even from Mo himself.