What Now? with Trevor Noah
Trevor currently hosts a Spotify original weekly podcast titled What Now? with Trevor Noah. In this new podcast, listeners get a chance to hear Trevor like never before. Trevor is joined each episode by celebrities, thought leaders, athletes, and friends to chat about the contemporary topics on everyone?s minds. He brings the kinds of conversations that happen behind the scenes to light - full of radical candor, authentic back-and-forths, and honest reactions, with Trevor bringing to bear his classic, effortlessly playful and equally probing style.
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Episodes
The Reality of Fiction with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [VIDEO]
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie joins Trevor and Christiana to discuss her new novel and how she approaches the alchemy of writing fiction. The three also discuss the challenge of exchanging opposing ideas in today?s world, when joke telling may be crossing the line, and why Chimamanda declines to be on social media.
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2025-03-20Link to episode
Christiana Gave Birth (Again)! [VIDEO]
Trevor, Christiana, and Josh cover some big news ? Christiana just gave birth to her third child! It leads them to a discussion of how motherhood is framed by society, its impact on the family and the economy, and how to find and utilize community to help manage its trials and tribulations. But being who they are, the three friends also delve into the exporting of Trump?s politics into the world and whether corruption is desirable or even necessary for countries to succeed.
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2025-03-13Link to episode
Human-Kind or Human Evil with Rutger Bregman [VIDEO]
Historian and author Rutger Bregman joins Trevor and Christiana to debate ethics and the possibility of a better world. Are human beings innately good? Innately selfish? Which is better to move the human race forward? Which sows the seeds of our own demise?
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2025-03-06Link to episode
Meet Khaya Dlanga ? One of My Favorite People [VIDEO]
We?ve got a new type of episode for you. In this premiere ?My Favorite People? ep, Trevor chats with his longtime friend (indeed one of his favorite people), Khaya Dlanga. Khaya?s a South African writer, commentator, and Youtube OG. No topic is off limits, and the two discuss the world around us, how Khaya manages to be the most online person he knows and at the same time one of the most present, and what makes a great politician.
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2025-02-27Link to episode
The Second Coming of Halle Berry [VIDEO]
Halle Berry has found her purpose. She?s chatting with Trevor and Christiana about the jaw-dropping personal experience that led her to her new project: promoting the conversation around women?s longevity and creating tools for those experiencing menopause. We?re learning a lot in this one.
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2025-02-20Link to episode
RIP? D.E.I. with Ruha Benjamin [VIDEO]
Trevor and Christiana speak with professor, sociologist, and MacArthur Fellowship winner Ruha Benjamin about some of the pressing political and social issues of the day. The three discuss whether DEI initiatives are in fact valuable and how the world will look without them, why universities honor people whose voices they?ve previously tried to silence, and how best to navigate a world that was not built for us. Can the three collectively imagine a better world order?
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2025-02-13Link to episode
No One Told Trevor He Was Hosting the Grammys [VIDEO]
Trevor, Grammy Executive Producer Ben Winston, and Trevor?s good friend Sizwe Dhlomo take us deep behind the scenes of music?s biggest night. The trio discusses the decision to hold the event against the backdrop of the L.A. fires, how a series of unrelated missed calls made Ben think Trevor was dropping out, Beyonce?s at long last first album of the year win, and the unique challenges of putting on a live television event with so many music superstars.
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2025-02-06Link to episode
Wringing in the New Year [VIDEO]
Trevor is home in South Africa. He and his good friends Anele Mdoda and Sizwe Dhlomo have a spirited conversation about the big issues that worry them as we hurtle into 2025. They discuss whether the global experiment is failing, revolution as a form of positive societal connection, and how external forces shape us and our children.
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2025-01-30Link to episode
Join or Die with Robert Putnam [VIDEO]
Trevor and Christiana sit down with noted author and political scientist Robert Putnam. They discuss why community is now more essential than ever, both for the survival of democracy and for our very survival as a species. The three also debate whether social media diminishes our social capital, and why more people bowl in America than vote. (Hint: If more people bowled America would be more united).
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2025-01-23Link to episode
If I Ruled the World: The One Where Everyone Tries Crack [VIDEO]
Required drug taking? Assigned partnerships? Getting rid of politicians? Trevor, Christiana, and Josh are back with maybe their wildest ?If I Ruled the World? yet. See which of their inspired ideas will get voted through, and why.
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2025-01-16Link to episode
Is Marques Brownlee the Most Powerful Man in Tech? [VIDEO]
Trevor and Christiana chat with YouTuber Marques Brownlee, professionally known as MKBHD and famous for his incredibly popular videos reviewing technology devices. The trio discusses how to survive and thrive in this era of nichification, fake outrage on the internet and its impact on creators, and whether AI is experiencing a PR nightmare or if in fact it will actually be able to kill us in our sleep.
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2025-01-09Link to episode
The Ozempic Obsession with Jia Tolentino (ARCHIVE EPISODE) [VIDEO]
Happy New Year! To get the year started off right, we?re re-publishing one of our favorite episodes from 2024. Trevor and Christiana chatted with Jia Tolentino in May of last year; 8 months later, and Ozempic is still a hot topic.
Ozempic. It started with a lizard, and then transformed into a drug that, depending on who you ask, is either a miracle or the downfall of society. New Yorker writer and cultural critic Jia Tolentino joins Trevor and Christiana to give context on the media circus surrounding weight loss drugs, and how Ozempic is changing the conversation around fatness in America.
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2025-01-02Link to episode
Why Are All Bosses Idiots? with Simon Sinek [VIDEO]
Trevor, Christiana, and author/inspirational speaker Simon Sinek delve into the paradox of why the smartest and most competent people at a company are often not its leaders. They also dissect whether office gossip is essential oral history or the literal tool of destruction of a company, and how (and why) Milton Friedman ruined value based capitalism.
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2024-12-19Link to episode
UnitedHealthcare Assassin: Italians Are Black Again?
In the wake of the killing of UnitedHealthcare?s CEO, the internet is awash with hot takes on health insurance and hot memes of everyone?s favorite assassin-bae. The facts may still be developing, but that?s not stopping Trevor, Christiana, and Josh from sharing their ?sweeping judgements? on the matter. Is Luigi Mangione guilty? Not guilty? Hot guilty?
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2024-12-12Link to episode
How To Be The Most Healed Guy with Neal Brennan [VIDEO]
Trevor and Christiana sit down with Chappelle's Show co-creator and former Daily Show colleague Neal Brennan. The three friends discuss the importance of familial dysfunction to a life of comedy, whether jokes about racism, sexism, transphobia, and the like help or hurt move the human race forward in today?s climate, and the rise and fall of anger as a way of life. Well, of Neal?s life.
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2024-12-05Link to episode
If You Ruled the World: A Listener Grab Bag [VIDEO]
On Thanksgiving week, we give thanks to our listeners with a bonus episode where Trevor, Christiana, and Josh weigh in on your suggestions for their favorite game, If I Ruled the World. Suffice it to say the trio doesn?t hold back. Enjoy, thank you for being a listener, and Happy Thanksgiving!!
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2024-11-26Link to episode
Love on a Timeline with Esther Perel [VIDEO]
Trevor enlists the help of noted therapist Esther Perel to help design the perfect relationship model. They talk through all the phases?where to find someone, the perfect date, defining the relationship, weathering storms, sex, and even how to end things. Nothing?s off the table!
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2024-11-21Link to episode
Tight Values, Loose Ideas with Malcolm Gladwell [VIDEO]
Malcolm Gladwell sits down with Trevor and Christiana to discuss his new book, and why values should be held tightly but ideas should be held loosely. The trio also delve into the importance of television in shaping culture, and into their respective African roots (yes, Malcolm has African roots).
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2024-11-14Link to episode
Harris v. Trump: The Day After with Tressie McMillan Cottom
Donald Trump will be president again. Trevor, Christiana, and Josh are joined once again by Tressie McMillan Cottom to puzzle through whether Trump won this election, or Harris lost it. Plus, they offer their picks for the best post-election playlist ever.
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2024-11-07Link to episode
Harris v. Trump: The Week Before with Tressie McMillan Cottom [VIDEO]
Trevor and Christiana call on Tressie McMillan Cottom to help them make sense of the final week before the US presidential election. Together, they unpack Trump?s rally at Madison Square Garden, why certain groups are planning to vote against their own interests, and how Tucker Carlson?s web browser history may be impacting his politics. Fortunately we can all exhale next week. Or not.
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2024-10-31Link to episode
What?s In An Accent with Lupita Nyong?o [VIDEO]
Lupita Nyong?o joins Trevor and Christiana to discuss her new podcast and its colorful stories of the African diaspora. The three also discuss their multifaceted identities, why Lupita refuses to expect rejection, and get into a debate for the ages?can they crown a ?best? African country.
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2024-10-24Link to episode
For Kids or Anyone Who?s Ever Been a Kid [VIDEO]
With the release of Trevor?s new children?s book ?Into the Uncut Grass?, Trevor sits down with some actual kids, plus Christiana and Josh, to discuss what being a kid is like from their perspective, what adults often get wrong about being a child, and whether it really takes a village to raise them right.
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2024-10-17Link to episode
Have We Missed The Message? with Ta-Nehisi Coates [VIDEO]
Bestselling author Ta-Nehisi Coates joins Trevor and Christiana to discuss his new book about how the stories we tell, and the ones we don?t, shape our realities. They also unpack the jaw-dropping CBS interview that followed the book?s release, and our elusive search as a people to see the humanity in others.
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2024-10-10Link to episode
Making Bureaucracies Sexier with Yuval Noah Harari [VIDEO]
Trevor and Christiana speak with Yuval Noah Harari, whose latest book, Nexus, asks, if humans are so smart, why do we do so many stupid things? The three of them interrogate truth vs. fact, the threats and promises of AI, and how these questions connect to global issues like the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
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2024-10-03Link to episode
Tripping Past Your Ego with Michael Pollan [VIDEO]
Trevor enlists the help of journalist and author Michael Pollan (This is Your Mind on Plants, Omnivore?s Dilemma) as they try to convince Christiana of the positive impacts of therapeutic psychedelics and their current standing in society. Do they succeed? You be the judge.
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2024-09-26Link to episode
Revenge of the Tourists with Rajan Datar
Trevor and Christiana are joined by travel journalist Rajan Datar to tackle the perennial summer question around the world: what?s with all these tourists, anyway? Governments, water gun-toting Spaniards, and 10,000 Elsas weigh in.
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2024-09-19Link to episode
Harris-Trump Debate Debrief with Tressie McMillan Cottom
Trevor, Christiana, Josh, and NY Times columnist (and friend of the show) Tressie McMillan Cottom break down last night?s presidential debate. Together they unpack whether Trump still has his finger on the pulse or has lost his touch, Christiana explains the real reason Trump was befuddled by Kamala, and the group ponders where we go from here.
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2024-09-12Link to episode
The Elon Effect
Elon Musk is officially beefing with the Brazilian government and of course Trevor, Christiana, and Josh have lots to say about it. In the wake of the X ban, they discuss how Elon?s past circumstances color his world view, the phenomena of powerful white men who feel powerless, and whether Elon deserves, dare they say it, some empathy.
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2024-09-05Link to episode
The Trad Wife Paradox with Anne Helen Petersen [VIDEO]
Trevor, Christiana, and noted writer and journalist Anne Helen Petersen discuss the growing #tradwife trend, the ideological conviction that a woman?s sole and highest purpose is to be her spouse?s modest, subservient helpmate, and that anything less is ungodly. Why do more women now seem to be taking on this mantle? Are cleaning, cooking, and total submission truly the path to godliness, or have we fallen so far off the societal cliff that women are simply exhausted?
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2024-08-29Link to episode
If I Ruled the World: Petty is Power
The gang?s back with another If I Ruled the World. Christiana?s advocating for subsidized (and mandatory) world travel, Trevor?s looking to nix required friendliness, and Josh thinks the world should be a little more petty. Everyone?s in top form.
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2024-08-22Link to episode
Adam Grant Gives Trevor An Intellectual Wedgie [VIDEO]
What do you do when your values are tested? Trevor and organizational psychologist Adam Grant discuss this very timely question, as well the importance of discourse in reducing prejudice, the science of keeping an open mind, and whether Trevor might have missed his true calling.
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2024-08-15Link to episode
Trevor's In Paris, But Not At The Olympics?!
Trevor, Christiana, and Josh talk all things Olympics: the wins, the viral moments, what in the world is 3 on 3 basketball, and how Trevor is in Paris but decided not to attend in person. One thing they can all agree on: this episode, per the GOAT Simone Biles, they aren?t asking ?What Now??
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2024-08-08Link to episode
Control Your Scroll with Jiore Craig
When it comes to disinformation, our first instinct is often to ask is this real or fake? But disinformation expert Jiore Craig says that way of thinking misses a much bigger problem. Trevor, Christiana, and Jiore examine how political powers and corporations use information channels to push their agendas, and how we can start pushing back on the systems enabling lies.
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2024-08-01Link to episode
The Kamala Question with Tressie McMillan Cottom
Sociologist and NYT columnist Tressie McMillan Cottom joins Trevor, Christiana, and Josh as they unpack Biden dropping out, Kamala?s nomination, and where we?re at in this ever evolving (some might say devolving) political landscape.
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2024-07-25Link to episode
The Trump Assassination Attempt: What Now?
Trevor and Christiana are joined by Jody Avirgan, one of What Now??s Executive Producers. In the wake of the July 13th assassination attempt on Donald Trump, they discuss people?s fascination with how the event ?moves the plot forward,? the impact of the media?s need to feed the 24-hour news cycle with ?developing story? updates (both accurate and inaccurate), and whether the greater issue at stake is actually America?s self-image and a failure to learn from historic moments.
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2024-07-18Link to episode
Questlove Isn't Manif*cking Around [VIDEO]
DJ, drummer, author, and Roots frontman Ahmir ?Questlove? Thompson and Trevor discuss ?50 Years of Hip Hop? at the Grammys and his book Hip Hop is History. Questlove also divulges to Trevor the names of all 432 people who get his weekly playlist (no he doesn?t) and reveals all the celebrities who come to his legendary game nights (he doesn?t reveal that either but it?s still a fantastic conversation).
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2024-07-11Link to episode
Doctor Roger Federer Will See You Now [VIDEO]
Roger Federer and Trevor break down how moving on from major chapters in their lives has affected each of them and how Roger's desire to document the moment accidentally turned into the powerful documentary, Federer: Twelve Final Days. The two also discuss the future, their friendship, and their attendance record breaking tennis match for charity in South Africa which, surprisingly, Roger won.
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2024-07-02Link to episode
Trevor Takes On Tokyo
Trevor?s in Japan with his good friends, Anele Mdoda and Khaya Dlanga. Together they dissect cultural taboos, savor otherworldly grapes, and marvel at toilets. All the while trying to find the balance between society and self.
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2024-06-27Link to episode
Welcome To The Julia Louis-Dreyfus Brain Museum [VIDEO]
There?s probably only one actress who can try to strangle, burn, and eat ?Death,? and still manage to make us laugh. And that?s Julia Louis-Dreyfus in her new movie Tuesday. Trevor and Julia dissect their own experiences with grief, explain why all American politicians should be required to take drivers? education, and share their hope for the future of comedy.
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2024-06-20Link to episode
Jessica Alba Is Standing in Her Power [VIDEO]
Actor and entrepreneur Jessica Alba discusses the challenges and the misogyny she faced starting The Honest Company, how she slowly reclaimed her identity, and why ten years later she has stepped away from the company. She and Trevor also debate whether it?s better to be killed with a gun or with a knife (on a movie set, not in real life where both are bad).
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2024-06-13Link to episode
Jerrod Carmichael Knows He?s Cringe and Likes It
Yes it?s true, Jerrod Carmichael sucks another man?s toes on premium cable TV. In his new reality series Jerrod attempts to free himself ? and others ? of the shame that comes with the messiness of being human. Trevor and Jerrod analyze the show?s funny and poignant moments and why fighting for love is always worth it.
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2024-06-06Link to episode
There?s No I In Trevor Noah [VIDEO]
It?s everyone?s favorite game: If I Ruled the World! Trevor makes a case to ban all social media, Christiana argues that Bill Gates should staff the PTA bake sale, and Ben declares a weekly day of rest for all ? whether you want it or not!
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2024-05-30Link to episode
Why AI Won?t Destroy Us with Microsoft?s Brad Smith [VIDEO]
Trevor puts on a suit (no, he?s not returning to The Daily Show) and heads to Microsoft. This week Brad Smith, Vice Chairman and President of Microsoft talks AI, explains why he doesn?t believe it will be the end of humankind, and what we all have to do to keep it that way.
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2024-05-23Link to episode
The Ozempic Obsession with Jia Tolentino [VIDEO]
Ozempic. It started with a lizard, and then transformed into a drug that, depending on who you ask, is either a miracle or the downfall of society. New Yorker writer and cultural critic Jia Tolentino joins Trevor and Christiana to give context on the media circus surrounding weight loss drugs, and how Ozempic is changing the conversation around fatness in America.
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2024-05-16Link to episode
Gabriel ?Fluffy? Iglesias and the Art of Mentoring [VIDEO]
If it wasn?t for Gabriel ?Fluffy? Iglesias, a trip to Footlocker could have ended Trevor?s career. Iglesias shares about his journey to become the headlining, stadium-filling comedian known to millions as Fluffy. The two pull the curtain back on the 2012 tour that introduced Trevor to stand-up in the United States, and Fluffy explains why mentorship comes naturally, as long as you surround yourself with the comedians who really make you laugh.
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2024-05-09Link to episode
A Friendship Revolution with Rhaina Cohen
Trevor is finally getting married! Just kidding. Rhaina Cohen, author of The Other Significant Others, helps Trevor, Christiana, and Josh envision a society where marriage isn?t the only committed relationship we rely on and makes the case for profound emotional friendships.
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2024-05-02Link to episode
A Case for Compassion
This week on the podcast? Amazon?s Wizard of Oz moment. Plus, Trevor invents a new dating app, why Josh has the perfect name for big corporations, and Christiana announces she?s raising the first Nigerian president of the United States. But the big idea Trevor, Christiana, and Josh get into: masculinity, violence, and why young people, especially young men, are harming others out of a genuine sense of alienation. And Josh makes a case for compassion (let the record stand, he?s no incel!).
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2024-04-25Link to episode
Orlando Bloom?s Life on the Edge [VIDEO]
Trevor chats with actor, adventurer, and producer Orlando Bloom, who takes Trevor behind the scenes of his thrill-seeking new documentary series, To the Edge. Orlando also talks about his early career, discusses why one terrifying fall from a balcony changed his life, and reveals why Katy Perry talks to him about ?the sandcastle of life.?
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2024-04-18Link to episode
Eclipse Week [VIDEO]
With Trevor back from a week in Bhutan where he just may have found inner peace (unless it was just something he ate), this week Trevor, Christiana Mbakwe Medina, and Josh Johnson discuss ROCKS?those on the ground, those in space, and the one who goes by Dwayne Johnson. They also debate whether pushups can cure a gambling addiction and why the sun will always be the greatest scapegoat.
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2024-04-11Link to episode
Some Fun Thought Experiments
To celebrate the season?s halfway mark, Trevor and his friends Josh Johnson and Christiana Mbakwe Medina share some never-before-heard moments from Trevor?s favorite episodes and revisit some of the show?s most fun ?thought experiments? to date. And they all still swear they?re not conspiracy theorists, but you be the judge.
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2024-04-04Link to episode