What Now Is Back!

What Now is back! Join Trevor each week for conversations with today's most influential, smartest and sometimes funniest thinkers about our changing world. New episodes drop every Thursday starting September 18th.

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 0:00Trevor Noah?

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• 0:35Trevor Noah?

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• 1:20Trevor Noah?

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• 1:22Speaker 01

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• 1:50Speaker 02

  Oh, wait, we're rolling.

• 1:54Speaker 03

  If you had millions of people saying, you know what, you're running for office, you damn well better give me healthcare as a human right. And I want that in the first month of your presidency. You know what, millions of people say, you'll have it. You can throw food at a bear, you gotta throw pussy at a man.

• 2:09Trevor Noah?

  I care about creating technologies that reduce human suffering. What do you think that says about the Democratic Party, though? Nothing good. It says that they're cowards.

• 2:20Speaker 03

  God, please don't say it as like a racist history.

• 2:22Speaker 02

  No. I'm at a FedEx office at seven o'clock in the morning, the morning of my Daily Show audition, printing Confederate flags.

• 2:32Speaker 02

  On two stickers.

• 2:35Speaker 02

  And fitting.

• 2:37Speaker 02

  But this one's too big, I need to print another.

• 2:40Trevor Noah?

  As always, not all men, but a lot. As little old men, ooh, acting like we know more than we do, us? Come on, Hilka, ooh. Can I tell you what's funny? Tell me. Having your legs in the air. Is that you make me, you make me picture my legs in the air. That's what I hate about what you did to me there. That's what good friends are for. That's what you did to me there. Shut up.

• 3:01Speaker 03

  I think you split my brain in fifteen pieces.

• 3:04Trevor Noah?

  It's a brand new season of What Now. New episodes coming out September 18th.

• 3:14Speaker 04

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• 3:26Speaker 01

  Time for a quick break to talk about McDonald's. It's the tangiest time of the year. For a limited time, head to McDonald's and get a McRib sandwich. Make it a meal by adding a medium fries and a soft drink like an ice cold Diet Dr. Pepper. So grab a McRib sandwich and embrace the tang. Save time by ordering ahead on the app at participating McDonald's for a limited time. Dr. Pepper is a registered trademark of Dr. Pepper, 7-Up Inc.