South Africa Sessions: Staring Down Death Twice in One Week ft. Khaya Dlanga

Why do your shoes always fly off in a car accident? Trevor, Eugene, and Khaya chase that question straight into Eugene’s own wild motorbike crash story, involving a T-bone, a second accident two days later, and somehow living to tell the tale. From there, the conversation takes its usual unexpected turns, from South African taxi stickers and quick funerals to a rumor involving Stevie Wonder and Nelson Mandela. And the guys take a moment to remember Dolly Parton, reflecting on the music, humor, and humanity that made her so beloved.

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

• 0:03Trevor Noah?

  Because me and I was there, Kaya, participating like we all said that Dolly died. So then my mom, she like flips immediately, she goes from like mourning the loss, the whole thing. And then she's like, yo, by the way, she's like, did you see that she planned her whole funeral? And like rehearsed it and I was like, what are you talking about? She's like, yeah, she saw this thing where planned it, rehearsed it, told everyone what it's gonna be, how she's gonna dress, whatever, she's wanna be buried in high heels, whatever. Then I was like, ah, that's cool. Then my mom was like, no, she's like, what control freak? Somersault one. Somersault two.

• 0:34Speaker 01

  Damn.

• 0:35Trevor Noah?

  Land on my head. On my back, pass out. Now I'm on the side of oncoming traffic.

• 0:43Trevor Noah?

  So I can't hear the.

• 0:46Trevor Noah?

  But this guy is telling, you know, that's why I'll never support informal small businesses again.

• 0:52Trevor Noah?

  Now, now imagine if there's a thing here, now I'm this guy. Nah, bro, there's no swag here. Here, I'm gonna stop at red lights. Here.

• 1:05Trevor Noah?

  Every few months, there's those pilots who do like a trick and something and they fly past the people. There was the one, did you see the one where they, um, they did the supersonic boom? You know, when they go like.

• 1:13Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:15Trevor Noah?

  And they did it too close to the people.

• 1:16Speaker 01

  I like that.

• 1:17Trevor Noah?

  Blew kids away, everything. You know, when things go flying, bro. People discovered their fathers were actually bald.

• 1:22Speaker 01

  If I was a kid.

• 1:32Trevor Noah?

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• 4:03Trevor Noah?

  Ah, I'm fine now. Let me take the honors. Let me handle this.

• 4:11Speaker 01

  Wow, amazing.

• 4:13Trevor Noah?

  Yes.

• 4:13Speaker 01

  Amazing.

• 4:14Trevor Noah?

  Yes. Yes.

• 4:17Speaker 01

  Wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait.

• 4:20Trevor Noah?

  If we're gonna clap, yeah.

• 4:22Speaker 01

  Isn't that.

• 4:23Trevor Noah?

  That's the one, you need.

• 4:24Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 4:24Trevor Noah?

  And then if they had clap, I'm like, yeah. I'm doing winning the clap.

• 4:27Speaker 01

  No, we're fine. In fact, any clap is fine.

• 4:30Trevor Noah?

  The one that comes after the first time.

• 4:32Speaker 01

  Yeah, but any clap.

• 4:36Speaker 01

  Education for some of us.

• 4:37Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 4:38Speaker 01

  Any clap is fine, bro.

• 4:39Trevor Noah?

  Oh, I mean, I thought you can only clap one.

• 4:40Speaker 01

  No, no, no, no, no. The clap. Claps once.

• 4:43Trevor Noah?

  Is just to.

• 4:44Speaker 01

  That clap once means something else than to clap in one. Yeah, it's claps once.

• 4:49Trevor Noah?

  That's a good one. I know claps once.

• 4:54Trevor Noah?

  But it's an SA thing, he clap once, nah?

• 4:55Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 4:56Trevor Noah?

  Cause it's like.

• 4:56Speaker 01

  Yo, that's what it is.

• 4:58Trevor Noah?

  Is that only a South African thing?

• 4:59Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 4:59Trevor Noah?

  Yes, cause we like.

• 5:00Speaker 01

  Yo.

• 5:00Trevor Noah?

  Yo. No, man, I'm, I'm pretty certain in America, people clap once. See, I need this in the context here, Tula. It's to be like.

• 5:06Speaker 01

  Okay, do the South African one?

• 5:08Trevor Noah?

  Yo.

• 5:10Speaker 01

  Which is claps once.

• 5:11Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, that's claps once.

• 5:12Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 5:13Trevor Noah?

  When someone has done something preposterous.

• 5:15Speaker 01

  Some, some stuff, yeah, exactly.

• 5:16Trevor Noah?

  No, you're right.

• 5:17Speaker 01

  Definitely right. It's the same, it's the same thing as we.

• 5:21Trevor Noah?

  My man, if you do that in America.

• 5:23Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 5:24Trevor Noah?

  You stop all conversations.

• 5:28Trevor Noah?

  You stop all conversations. I've been in serious conversations with people, delicate conversations and serious ones. And then I make the mistake of doing that. Finish, bro. People just stop. I, I'm sorry, sorry, Trevor, can you? What, what, what just happened there? What, what just, what just happened there? Are you, was that your hand? Are you holding something? What are you doing? That.

• 5:51Speaker 01

  Sam, Sam.

• 5:52Trevor Noah?

  Do you explain? Yeah, but it like derails meetings.

• 5:56Speaker 01

  Ah, then.

• 5:57Trevor Noah?

  I'm not even lying, it completely throws everything off.

• 5:59Speaker 01

  Save it for when you testify in Congress.

• 6:01Trevor Noah?

  Nah.

• 6:01Speaker 01

  That is funny.

• 6:02Trevor Noah?

  That would be dope, actually.

• 6:02Speaker 01

  That'd be amazing.

• 6:03Trevor Noah?

  Sitting in front of the Senate is there.

• 6:05Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 6:05Trevor Noah?

  And Mr. Noah, where did the money go? So, okay, the money came in, nah? Next thing you know, yachty. Then they're like, wait, wait, hold on.

• 6:16Trevor Noah?

  That's.

• 6:16Speaker 01

  That's your partner.

• 6:17Trevor Noah?

  Next thing, debit order. Next thing, car. Next thing, next thing, ah, Senator. Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me not lie to you guys, eh? Ah, Senator.

• 6:27Speaker 01

  International sweeps, bro.

• 6:28Trevor Noah?

  And I thought it was gonna last forever, Senator. Ah, next thing, clava. Next thing, yachty. Next thing, yachty. Ay, Senator, let me tell you something.

• 6:37Trevor Noah?

  I, I, I, I regret that I stole that money only because I regret I didn't steal more.

• 6:46Trevor Noah?

  You know, that's it. Actually, can I ask you a question? Cause you guys keep up with this.

• 6:49Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 6:50Trevor Noah?

  Is the Madlanga Commission? Cause in America, when you testify in front of the Senate, almost nothing happens afterwards. Every time.

• 6:58Speaker 01

  Yeah, I've never really heard something happen.

• 6:59Trevor Noah?

  No, almost nothing happens. When the big banks came and testified after, um, after the, the recession, when they created that, you know, the recession with the default housing, what was it called? Default, did what?

• 7:11Speaker 01

  Mortgage, yeah, mortgage swap.

• 7:12Trevor Noah?

  Credit swap, whatever.

• 7:13Speaker 01

  Yeah, I forgot it's called, but yes.

• 7:15Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, when they did that.

• 7:16Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 7:17Trevor Noah?

  They went and testified and then nothing?

• 7:20Speaker 01

  Too big to fail.

• 7:21Trevor Noah?

  Um, when, um, when the social media giants went to testify.

• 7:25Speaker 01

  Nothing happens to those guys.

• 7:26Trevor Noah?

  Nothing?

• 7:27Speaker 01

  Nothing happens.

• 7:28Trevor Noah?

  You just, you just go there and testify and then.

• 7:30Speaker 01

  I think, I think it's performance of, of accountability without actually the consequences of accountability. And I think that's what they do.

• 7:37Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, but I'm, so now, so I'm asking, do our commissions have teeth?

• 7:41Speaker 01

  Let's say, yeah.

• 7:42Trevor Noah?

  Yes, do they have teeth?

• 7:42Speaker 01

  Yeah, people have been arrested. There's a guy.

• 7:44Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 7:45Speaker 01

  There's one guy, I think has been arrested seven times.

• 7:48Trevor Noah?

  Well, this is now.

• 7:49Speaker 01

  During the commission.

• 7:49Trevor Noah?

  Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait, wait.

• 7:53Speaker 01

  Julius Mkuana.

• 7:54Trevor Noah?

  What do you mean he's been arrested seven times?

• 7:56Speaker 01

  Bail, then.

• 7:58Trevor Noah?

  Another case.

• 7:58Speaker 01

  And then another case, someone else testifies in the commission.

• 8:01Trevor Noah?

  You're lying.

• 8:01Speaker 01

  He is implicated again, bam, arrested again.

• 8:04Trevor Noah?

  They fetch him again.

• 8:04Speaker 01

  They fetch him again.

• 8:06Trevor Noah?

  Put him in a car.

• 8:06Speaker 01

  Puts him in a car again, bah. Like, one, that one again, like, one, two, three, four, five.

• 8:13Trevor Noah?

  Now, we're in number five.

• 8:14Speaker 01

  Number five.

• 8:17Trevor Noah?

  Five different cases. Do they not go at some point, ah, my man, just stay?

• 8:20Speaker 01

  Just stay.

• 8:22Trevor Noah?

  And the cop who comes to arrest him always wears the same uniform. He wears a red jumpsuit.

• 8:27Speaker 01

  Wait, is this televised?

• 8:27Trevor Noah?

  With a hat.

• 8:28Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 8:30Trevor Noah?

  You guys are lying. As shangani as you can get. The cop that arrested me, application. Red jumpsuit with like a, a red hat that like goes here.

• 8:41Speaker 03

  And then he had hit a smoke break, he would step outside with the cameras waiting for him to.

• 8:45Trevor Noah?

  Wait, wait, wait. Okay, so they bring cameras.

• 8:47Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 8:47Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 8:48Trevor Noah?

  The news. With the police.

• 8:49Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 8:49Trevor Noah?

  So the news is told ahead of time, we're gonna arrest this guy. And then they come there and then arrest the person.

• 8:53Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 8:53Trevor Noah?

  Huh.

• 8:54Speaker 01

  And I think this time around, he even had like when he comes out of the van.

• 8:58Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 8:58Speaker 01

  At the back of the van. I think he's got like his canteen as well. And he's just, he's like out here. Cause now he knows, he knows the process.

• 9:05Trevor Noah?

  Wait, so he's got a lunchbox?

• 9:08Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 9:08Speaker 03

  Yeah, like a family meal bag.

• 9:10Speaker 01

  Family meal bag because, and he's smiling because he's used to.

• 9:13Speaker 03

  Rest warm, no belt buckle, no strings.

• 9:17Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 9:18Trevor Noah?

  Wearing slipping shoes.

• 9:19Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 9:20Trevor Noah?

  Dressed already for prison.

• 9:21Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 9:22Trevor Noah?

  Camera, yeah.

• 9:22Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 9:23Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, okay. So arrested seven times, but then does that mean something's gonna happen?

• 9:26Speaker 01

  Well, there are cases that are literally being, uh, going to process through the courts right now.

• 9:31Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, but I'm saying have we, cause the last big one was, it was a Zondo commission, right?

• 9:35Speaker 01

  There was a waste of money.

• 9:37Trevor Noah?

  So nothing happened?

• 9:38Speaker 03

  I don't think it was.

• 9:38Speaker 01

  What, that guy's nothing really happened.

• 9:42Speaker 03

  Madlanga, yeah.

• 9:43Speaker 01

  But no, but we only got.

• 9:44Trevor Noah?

  Oh, so this, so wait, so Madlanga.

• 9:46Speaker 01

  Those are two, those, those are very different.

• 9:47Trevor Noah?

  Wait, so Madlanga is the better call soul of Zondo's breaking bad.

• 9:51Speaker 01

  Hundred percent.

• 9:52Speaker 03

  Yes. So now you must remember that at Zondo, it was state capture. Zondo writes a report, so he.

• 9:58Trevor Noah?

  Wait, wait, wait. Just to refresh my memory. So, okay, the first commission we had in this country.

• 10:02Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 10:02Trevor Noah?

  Was, or the, the big one, the Zondo one, was because the Gupta family, that family from India.

• 10:09Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 10:09Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, but they were part of it.

• 10:10Speaker 03

  Yeah, they're the big ones.

• 10:11Trevor Noah?

  And a group of other people, we had found that the, the president or people around them had sold the country to them essentially.

• 10:18Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 10:18Speaker 03

  Through parasiters.

• 10:19Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So they had like liquidated the country and sold it to these people, essentially. Power utilities, et cetera, et cetera.

• 10:25Speaker 01

  Trains.

• 10:25Trevor Noah?

  Trains, every, that's why like our infrastr- infrastructure was, part of our infrastructure was screwed. Okay? That's what that was for.

• 10:32Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 10:32Trevor Noah?

  And then what happened?

• 10:34Speaker 03

  So after the commission, the commissioner must write a report.

• 10:36Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 10:37Speaker 03

  So now documents are compiled, the report, recommendations for people to be charged, everything happened.

• 10:41Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 10:42Speaker 03

  Then nothing happened. But for that to happen, remember you must have, um, the national prosecuting authority.

• 10:48Trevor Noah?

  Okay.

• 10:48Speaker 03

  They must press charges.

• 10:50Trevor Noah?

  Okay, so the main prosecutor.

• 10:51Speaker 01

  Something did happen.

• 10:52Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 10:52Trevor Noah?

  What happened?

• 10:53Speaker 01

  I, I remember now. They arrested Jacob Gelle Shigasazuma.

• 10:57Speaker 03

  No, but they arrested him for defiance, not for state capture.

• 11:00Speaker 01

  Okay, that, okay, that is, that is also true. That is, yeah, I guess you're right, you're right.

• 11:04Trevor Noah?

  That's similar, you see, that's what I mean, in America as well, you'll, like now, you saw Anthony Fauci.

• 11:09Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 11:10Trevor Noah?

  He's now in more trouble for not testifying than for what he did or didn't do. They're just like, no, we're, we're coming after you for not testifying.

• 11:21Speaker 03

  Yeah, but so, I need to, I wanna, Zondo writes a report.

• 11:24Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 11:24Speaker 03

  Makes recommendations, sends the recommendation to the NPA, said National Prosecuting Authority, Department of Justice, basically. Genanla.

• 11:31Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 11:31Speaker 03

  Prosecute these people.

• 11:32Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 11:32Speaker 03

  Now there, the state prosecutors, that's where they all live. But then it turns out, there, there were, there was no willingness to prosecute in the first place. Enter Mkuwana. Mkuwana's like, no, the police are captured. Not only the police, the judiciary.

• 11:47Trevor Noah?

  Okay, you guys are building the story nicely for me. Is Mkuwana Zee the guy that came out?

• 11:51Speaker 01

  The press conference.

• 11:52Trevor Noah?

  The press conference. Yo, this was one of those gangster things I've ever seen. Cause I just saw a video where this top cop came out. With no, um.

• 12:02Speaker 03

  Warning, nothing.

• 12:03Trevor Noah?

  Warning, no backing. Everyone was chilling.

• 12:06Speaker 01

  Feeling badly.

• 12:07Speaker 03

  That Sunday was the best. Best Sunday of my life.

• 12:11Trevor Noah?

  Dude, and that guy is the one, he just came out and he held the press conference and he said, by himself, he was like, guys, the police are corrupt.

• 12:17Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 12:17Trevor Noah?

  The police, the people the police report to are corrupt. I can't report this to my superiors because they're corrupt.

• 12:23Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 12:23Trevor Noah?

  And the people under me are corrupt and the people to the sides of me are corrupt.

• 12:26Speaker 03

  My wife is corrupt. Then the wife was like, yeah, yeah.

• 12:30Speaker 01

  Yeah, and then it's that the judges are corrupt.

• 12:32Trevor Noah?

  The judges are corrupt.

• 12:33Speaker 01

  Lawyers are corrupt, prosecutors are corrupt.

• 12:35Trevor Noah?

  So this all came from that?

• 12:37Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 12:37Speaker 01

  Came from.

• 12:37Trevor Noah?

  No ways.

• 12:38Speaker 03

  So when they, when they dig deep on, at IDAC, which is supposed to investigate malfeasance in the police.

• 12:43Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 12:43Speaker 03

  And the NPA, they find out these people were in cahoots, not to prosecute people. So those cases, the state capture, they're the ones who are supposed to prosecute them, they didn't. And then Napa cartels were involved now, drugs coming in.

• 12:55Trevor Noah?

  What do you mean cartels? Like what do you, like South African cartels?

• 12:59Speaker 03

  Yeah, like South American drug cartels.

• 13:01Trevor Noah?

  No, man, you guys are lying.

• 13:02Speaker 01

  Okay, well.

• 13:03Speaker 03

  Guys, I've been gone for like a few years, what's happening here, man?

• 13:06Trevor Noah?

  Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

• 13:08Speaker 01

  Can I tell you?

• 13:09Trevor Noah?

  I want you to tell me.

• 13:10Speaker 03

  Look at the NPA, so let me tell you.

• 13:12Speaker 01

  Let me tell you as.

• 13:13Trevor Noah?

  I feel like you guys are at my commission now.

• 13:15Speaker 01

  As.

• 13:16Speaker 03

  What has, what's been happening here, guys?

• 13:18Speaker 01

  Oh, um.

• 13:19Speaker 03

  Wait, what's been happening here?

• 13:20Speaker 01

  I, I, I can, I, I.

• 13:22Trevor Noah?

  And that's how people testify.

• 13:24Speaker 01

  What did they say? Uh, I revoke, I, I, I revoke, what, not, I invoke my right to remain silent.

• 13:30Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, that's, that's what Fauci said.

• 13:32Speaker 03

  You can't invoke that one.

• 13:33Speaker 01

  Why not?

• 13:34Speaker 03

  I need to hear, we don't have the fifth amendment. So in America, you can.

• 13:37Speaker 01

  The thirty fifth in South Africa.

• 13:38Speaker 03

  Thirty fifth.

• 13:38Trevor Noah?

  We have it.

• 13:39Speaker 01

  It's the thirty fifth.

• 13:40Trevor Noah?

  But all say the right to remain silent.

• 13:42Speaker 01

  Yeah, not to incriminate yourself.

• 13:43Speaker 03

  Yeah, that one, you can only invoke the right not to incriminate yourself if there's a criminal case against you.

• 13:49Trevor Noah?

  Okay.

• 13:50Speaker 03

  So you have to say, I'm accused for this thing and I'm being prosecuted, then you can't. But the right to remain silent only works when you are being arrested. So as you're being arrested.

• 14:00Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 14:00Speaker 03

  You can say.

• 14:01Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 14:01Trevor Noah?

  I have the right to remain silent.

• 14:03Speaker 01

  Not to incriminate myself, yes.

• 14:04Speaker 03

  No, the right to remain silent is when you're being arrested. It doesn't stop people from arresting you. It just stops them from questioning you.

• 14:11Trevor Noah?

  Oh, okay.

• 14:13Speaker 03

  Because remember that when you're being arrested, even someone saying to you, ah, Wenakaya, why did you do that?

• 14:17Trevor Noah?

  Okay, got it.

• 14:18Speaker 03

  And then you reply.

• 14:19Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 14:19Speaker 03

  That's already part of your statement.

• 14:20Trevor Noah?

  Yes, that's why, that's why you're not, because it's like, it's, it's against what your counsel might have told you to say or not say.

• 14:26Speaker 03

  So you must just keep quiet.

• 14:27Trevor Noah?

  But it's different if you're in like court now.

• 14:29Speaker 03

  In court, you can say, I invoke the right not to incriminate myself.

• 14:33Speaker 01

  However, even then.

• 14:34Trevor Noah?

  Okay, but now, guys, can we?

• 14:35Speaker 01

  Even then, there's a blanket.

• 14:36Trevor Noah?

  But wait, can we?

• 14:36Speaker 01

  It's got to be something very.

• 14:37Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, but can we talk about this for a second?

• 14:39Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 14:39Trevor Noah?

  Like, okay, here we don't have juries.

• 14:41Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 14:41Trevor Noah?

  I'm not gonna lie. If I was on a jury, yo, let me tell you something, I wish South Africa had juries.

• 14:47Speaker 03

  Me too.

• 14:47Trevor Noah?

  South African juries would be the, would be the most gangster juries in the world.

• 14:52Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 14:52Trevor Noah?

  In the world. Cause if you, have you seen footage of American juries?

• 14:56Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 14:56Trevor Noah?

  They just sit there, sometimes they scribble, sometimes they write. Here in South Africa, we'd have people be like.

• 15:01Speaker 01

  Yo.

• 15:03Speaker 01

  Grab one.

• 15:06Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay. You?

• 15:13Trevor Noah?

  Ha.

• 15:14Speaker 01

  That's very true, that is.

• 15:16Speaker 03

  But we've, we've, we've had the version of that with, um, I call it le- legal Twitter.

• 15:22Speaker 01

  Yeah, I'm listening.

• 15:22Speaker 03

  Ah, when those people that speak on whatever is happening at the commission, it's actually, we have great minds there.

• 15:28Speaker 01

  Oh, that's true.

• 15:28Speaker 03

  I mean, we're all graduated with LLP's cumulade.

• 15:32Speaker 01

  It's so funny.

• 15:32Speaker 03

  Even I'm going to a graduation this afternoon of my own.

• 15:35Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 15:35Speaker 03

  Online, cause, yeah.

• 15:36Speaker 01

  You're so, you're so funny. It's so funny, now I should say this, right? There is, I, I saw a comment on Twitter yesterday, cause you guys remember like, yes, yes, the Springboks are playing, the All Blacks.

• 15:47Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 15:47Speaker 01

  And those planes, you know, and.

• 15:50Trevor Noah?

  My man, okay.

• 15:53Speaker 01

  So, a comment, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

• 15:55Trevor Noah?

  What?

• 15:56Speaker 03

  The planes and then?

• 15:58Trevor Noah?

  No, we'll come back to the planes.

• 16:00Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 16:01Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, I come back.

• 16:02Speaker 03

  Sky news.

• 16:03Speaker 01

  Yeah. Yeah, so, so this comment says, this guy says, okay, uh, today we're all pilots, tomorrow we'll all go back to being lawyers.

• 16:17Speaker 03

  We're good at this thing, Dean.

• 16:18Trevor Noah?

  Okay, but.

• 16:19Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 16:21Trevor Noah?

  I am not a pilot, but you know what I am?

• 16:25Speaker 03

  I'm so relieved, yes.

• 16:26Trevor Noah?

  I am a driver.

• 16:29Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 16:29Trevor Noah?

  And as a driver.

• 16:31Speaker 03

  And a good one at that.

• 16:32Trevor Noah?

  I aim to avoid obstacles.

• 16:33Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 16:35Trevor Noah?

  I'm just saying.

• 16:36Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 16:37Trevor Noah?

  I was unaware that it is safe and normal. To fly through like, eh. No, the proof of what was.

• 16:50Speaker 03

  The green, the green proof plume of smoke.

• 16:53Trevor Noah?

  Like, I, if you, here's my thing, you know the way those planes flew over the stadium?

• 16:58Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 16:59Trevor Noah?

  I, I, I wouldn't have thought, oh, they're high, they're low, they're not, it's because that one flew through.

• 17:03Speaker 03

  The plume, the plume. And then made a turn.

• 17:06Trevor Noah?

  And like a hard turn.

• 17:07Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 17:09Trevor Noah?

  I won't lie, to me, that didn't look like it was the correct height.

• 17:13Speaker 01

  Hmm.

• 17:14Trevor Noah?

  It was the correct height maybe for the stadium, cause it didn't hit the stadium.

• 17:17Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 17:17Trevor Noah?

  But I don't know that anyone would plan, would plan to fly through plumes of pink smoke. That thing looked like the most expensive gender reveal in history. That's what that thing looked like. Did you see that thing? Did you see that thing?

• 17:31Speaker 01

  That's real true, right? I mean, like that, yeah, I, it's so funny, when I was watching the game, like on TV live, and it's like, and, and I was like. And Sasha was just about to kick off and then they told him to wait, because the flyover was, they were still waiting for the plane, right?

• 17:46Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 17:46Speaker 01

  And then I was like, ah, I remember making this comment, I was like, ah, these guys are late, you know, as the plane is, they're coming through. And I saw nothing wrong. I was like, yeah. Cause I'm used to it, right? It happens, but that I've never seen.

• 18:02Trevor Noah?

  Ever seen them fly that low?

• 18:03Speaker 03

  Yeah, you have. Yeah, the flyover is, is very low.

• 18:06Speaker 01

  I, I have, I have actually a picture when like global citizens, but, but then like you're backstage, so you wouldn't have seen this. But one flew and it's like, it feels like it's so close, it's so low.

• 18:17Trevor Noah?

  This is just our thing in South Africa.

• 18:18Speaker 01

  You can just touch it. Like I was there, I was like, I think I can touch this thing.

• 18:21Speaker 03

  I think this might have been actually the smallest flyover, plane wise, cause those were embryos, no?

• 18:28Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, because those were, maybe that's why they could fly so low, because they were embryos, they weren't, um.

• 18:32Speaker 03

  Seven four seven.

• 18:33Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, they weren't seven four seven or seven three seven.

• 18:34Speaker 01

  But, but isn't, is it, is it the first time we were flying too?

• 18:38Speaker 03

  Yeah, because it was small.

• 18:39Speaker 01

  Yes, cause we always fly one.

• 18:41Trevor Noah?

  Small, cause I think it's.

• 18:42Speaker 01

  And I think that's what me.

• 18:43Trevor Noah?

  Cause this is SA, it's Airlink.

• 18:44Speaker 01

  Airlink, yeah.

• 18:45Trevor Noah?

  It's not a, it's, Airlink is like a, a regional carrier. It's not a long haul international carrier. So they were like, we're gonna show you.

• 18:53Speaker 01

  Talking about them.

• 18:54Speaker 03

  But I think the turn is what, I mean, hey, hey, guys.

• 18:57Trevor Noah?

  High risk, high reward. But I think it's the turn that got people talking. If he had gone through the plume.

• 19:02Speaker 01

  It's not the turn, do not, they're saying it's so, so low, they're saying, I don't know what feet are, but in America, they're saying, what is it, like?

• 19:09Trevor Noah?

  They said fifty feet.

• 19:10Speaker 01

  Fifty feet.

• 19:11Trevor Noah?

  They said it was fifty feet.

• 19:11Speaker 01

  Which is like fourteen, which was fourteen meters.

• 19:13Trevor Noah?

  Fourteen meters.

• 19:14Speaker 01

  From like.

• 19:15Speaker 03

  No, from the roof of the stadium.

• 19:16Speaker 01

  From the, yeah.

• 19:17Trevor Noah?

  Because the plane, they have to tell you where the plane, every plane, you know its height.

• 19:20Speaker 01

  The flight plan has to.

• 19:22Speaker 03

  Yeah, but guys, traffic control in Cape Town would have never approved.

• 19:28Speaker 03

  That height, if it wasn't okay.

• 19:30Speaker 01

  Within the legal limit.

• 19:31Speaker 03

  Do you understand what I'm saying? That's in the flight plan.

• 19:33Trevor Noah?

  But that's not what people are arguing. People are saying, did those pilots hit the correct flight height?

• 19:38Speaker 03

  Yeah, but there's no way that they could not.

• 19:41Trevor Noah?

  What do you mean?

• 19:41Speaker 03

  Because they are flying a machine that tells them ten thousand, five thousand.

• 19:45Trevor Noah?

  My man, have you heard of plane crashes?

• 19:47Speaker 03

  Yeah, but there's.

• 19:48Trevor Noah?

  This guy, you're gonna act like.

• 19:49Speaker 03

  But there's no turns there.

• 19:50Trevor Noah?

  Week in and week out, there are professional pilots who fly those like those jet exhibition things. And like every few months, there's a crash.

• 20:01Speaker 03

  Okay, if there was one plane.

• 20:02Trevor Noah?

  Every few months, there's those pilots who do like a trick and something and they fly past the people. There was the one, did you see the one where they um they did a supersonic boom? You know, when they go like.

• 20:10Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 20:11Trevor Noah?

  And they did it too close to the people.

• 20:12Speaker 03

  Yeah, I like that.

• 20:13Trevor Noah?

  Blew kids away, everything. You know when things go flying, bro?

• 20:16Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 20:17Trevor Noah?

  People discovered their fathers were actually bald.

• 20:19Speaker 03

  If I was a kid, if I was.

• 20:22Trevor Noah?

  Wait, wait, I would, I would.

• 20:28Trevor Noah?

  Yo, that shit, a sonic boom is the enemy of a toupee, son. Don't play games.

• 20:35Trevor Noah?

  I want a divorce.

• 20:38Trevor Noah?

  You know there's some bit where you're like, I wish I thought of that one.

• 20:42Speaker 03

  Wait, if it was a seven three seven, seven four seven, man, flying on its own.

• 20:46Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 20:47Speaker 03

  Then that happened, but it went too low, I would believe.

• 20:50Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 20:50Speaker 03

  Two planes going low at the same time.

• 20:52Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 20:52Trevor Noah?

  Smaller ones.

• 20:53Speaker 03

  No, two small.

• 20:54Speaker 01

  It's planned, yeah.

• 20:54Speaker 03

  Yeah, but I'm saying it couldn't have been a mistake.

• 20:56Trevor Noah?

  Oh, you're saying, okay, you're saying because two were at the same height.

• 21:00Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 21:00Trevor Noah?

  Okay, then I'm with you.

• 21:01Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 21:01Trevor Noah?

  Then you, I rest, you actually, thank you.

• 21:03Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 21:04Trevor Noah?

  This commission, I'll write a report. I agree with Eugene. Fantastic argument. Thank, I I'm in with you.

• 21:10Speaker 01

  Right. But also like another thing for me.

• 21:12Trevor Noah?

  Two professional pilots or cabins making the same mistake.

• 21:15Speaker 03

  With co-pilots on board.

• 21:16Trevor Noah?

  No, no, no, no, no.

• 21:17Speaker 03

  There's four people now.

• 21:18Trevor Noah?

  I'm completely in agreement with you now.

• 21:20Speaker 01

  And.

• 21:20Trevor Noah?

  One hundred percent.

• 21:21Speaker 01

  Say this, uh, remember outliers, Malcolm Gladwell?

• 21:25Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 21:26Speaker 01

  So in his book there, he specifically speaks actually about uh, safety protocols and all of that when it comes to airlines.

• 21:33Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 21:33Speaker 01

  Because he was talking about like, South Korea used to have like.

• 21:36Trevor Noah?

  There are a lot of crashes, yeah.

• 21:37Speaker 01

  Number of crashes. And one of the reasons that happened was because the pilots, the co-pilots, because of the hierarchy, you know, hierarchy.

• 21:47Speaker 03

  Yes, yes, yes.

• 21:47Speaker 01

  The co-pilot, you were not allowed to tell your boss or your captain, you're going to kill us now.

• 21:53Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 21:53Speaker 01

  So you have to imply, and they must figure out what you're trying to say. So you can't really tell, John, are you gonna kill us, right? But then, and they found that the countries that had the uh, hierarchy, high rates of hierarchy.

• 22:09Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 22:10Speaker 01

  You were more likely to have uh, crashes than countries that did not. And South Africa.

• 22:15Speaker 03

  Flat structure.

• 22:16Speaker 01

  Yeah, South Africa.

• 22:17Speaker 03

  Podcast.

• 22:17Speaker 01

  South Africa does not, it's not that we don't respect authority, we question authority. And because South Africa questions authority, we have one of the lowest fatalities in the world.

• 22:27Trevor Noah?

  And you know what? Cause here, our co-pilots are like.

• 22:29Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 22:30Trevor Noah?

  Forget our co-pilots.

• 22:30Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 22:31Trevor Noah?

  Here the people in the front row are like, hey, check, check, check, check. Hey, pilot, pilot, pilot, watch, hey, watch, watch, watch, Lapo.

• 22:36Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 22:36Trevor Noah?

  Hey, watch.

• 22:38Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 22:38Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, mountain, mountain.

• 22:40Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 22:40Trevor Noah?

  Okay, sharp.

• 22:41Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 22:41Trevor Noah?

  Actually, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, check, check, check, check, check. Okay, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cumulo nimbas, cumulo nimbas. Okay, you saw it, nah? You saw it, okay, sharp. I'm just making sure.

• 22:53Speaker 01

  Yeah, cause the last.

• 22:54Trevor Noah?

  Have you ever seen, do you remember in taxis, there was literally a sticker that said, there was, cause you remember the.

• 22:59Speaker 01

  That is so fun.

• 22:59Trevor Noah?

  Cause taxi drivers had the stickers, uh, there was the um, tunomi does not mean you must not pay.

• 23:04Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 23:04Trevor Noah?

  Then there was the, when days are dark, friends are few. Then there was the other one.

• 23:08Speaker 01

  I like your perm, I like your perm, but not on my window. Yeah.

• 23:12Trevor Noah?

  And then one of the other ones.

• 23:13Speaker 01

  This taxi can stop anywhere at any time.

• 23:15Trevor Noah?

  Yes, yes, yeah?

• 23:16Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 23:16Trevor Noah?

  You don't remember that one?

• 23:17Speaker 01

  No, that one, that's outside.

• 23:19Trevor Noah?

  This taxi can stop anywhere at any time.

• 23:22Speaker 01

  Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 23:23Trevor Noah?

  But there was one that used to say, it was something to the effect of, just because you are in the front seat, seeing something with me does not mean you are driving this taxi. It was something to that effect.

• 23:35Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true.

• 23:36Trevor Noah?

  Because, because people in the front seat would always be like, cause now you're sitting right next to the taxi driver. And remember taxis in South Africa, they're not like normal cars in that there's no hood.

• 23:48Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just like, yeah.

• 23:50Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, so you, it's like being in the front seat of a roller coaster.

• 23:53Speaker 01

  Yeah, actually, yeah.

• 23:54Trevor Noah?

  You know what I mean? So everything's here, so then everyone next to the taxi driver would be like.

• 23:58Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 24:01Trevor Noah?

  Then taxi drivers are like, nah, bro. Hey, just because you're sitting here doesn't mean you're driving.

• 24:04Speaker 03

  So they'll put that stick on the dashboard, yeah.

• 24:07Speaker 01

  For the passenger in front.

• 24:08Trevor Noah?

  There were lots of them. Remember there was the other one that says, um, my name is not Dunky Driver?

• 24:12Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 24:14Trevor Noah?

  You don't remember these stickers?

• 24:15Speaker 03

  Bro, there were so many of them.

• 24:16Trevor Noah?

  You could have made a killing with. There were so, we could have back in the day, actually.

• 24:19Speaker 01

  Oh, there were so many, and they were amazing.

• 24:22Trevor Noah?

  That was like some of the first comedy I learned actually in my life was the stickers that I saw in taxis. Cause as a child, I used to look at them and be like, yo, if you asked me when I was five or six years old, who's your favorite comedian? I'd say the stickers on taxis.

• 24:35Trevor Noah?

  Best gags I've ever seen in my life. Bro, remember the one?

• 24:38Speaker 03

  Who was coming up with those things?

• 24:39Speaker 01

  Wait, did you not take taxis?

• 24:40Speaker 03

  No, all the time.

• 24:41Speaker 01

  Remember this thing?

• 24:41Trevor Noah?

  But do you remember?

• 24:42Speaker 03

  I mean, I went and got a taxi, I minded my business.

• 24:45Trevor Noah?

  There was even a sticker for that. Do you remember? There was a, so you had stickers that went in all different places, right? So there were stickers that were specifically for the front passengers.

• 24:54Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 24:55Trevor Noah?

  There were stickers that were for above the door, above the door.

• 24:57Speaker 03

  Overhead, yeah.

• 24:58Trevor Noah?

  Then there were stickers that were at the overhead facing all the passengers. Then there were stickers outside on the back of the taxi for people behind the taxi.

• 25:05Speaker 01

  Behind the taxi.

• 25:06Trevor Noah?

  The stickers that were in the front, those were generally geared towards the front passengers, telling you a few things. So for instance, it was.

• 25:13Speaker 01

  You must count the money.

• 25:14Trevor Noah?

  Yes, you're not driving, you're counting.

• 25:16Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 25:16Trevor Noah?

  Then there was another one which was, oh, it was the one of no fat people allowed.

• 25:20Speaker 01

  Yes, oh, yeah, yeah.

• 25:20Trevor Noah?

  You remember that one?

• 25:21Speaker 01

  Yeah, no fat people, yeah.

• 25:22Trevor Noah?

  You don't remember the sticker?

• 25:23Speaker 01

  They said no, no fat people in the front.

• 25:26Trevor Noah?

  You don't remember that sticker?

• 25:27Speaker 03

  Going too low at the stadium.

• 25:34Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, that's a great way. We're gonna start saying that. My man, you remember it, there was a, so there was a sticker and it had um, it had two fat people.

• 25:43Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 25:44Trevor Noah?

  And the driver like this.

• 25:45Speaker 01

  I remember this so well.

• 25:46Trevor Noah?

  And then the sticker basically was like, yo, bro, no, you must know whether you sit in the front seat or not.

• 25:51Speaker 03

  You must know yourself.

• 25:53Trevor Noah?

  Yes.

• 25:53Speaker 01

  Basically.

• 25:54Trevor Noah?

  To thine old self be true.

• 25:55Speaker 03

  You came, they were like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 25:57Trevor Noah?

  You came out your house knowing your weight.

• 25:59Speaker 01

  Hey, my man.

• 25:59Trevor Noah?

  Don't act surprised here at the front.

• 26:00Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 26:01Trevor Noah?

  So like they, so they had, so those were all the stickers in the front.

• 26:04Speaker 03

  You want about slamming the door as well?

• 26:05Trevor Noah?

  So that, yeah, but slamming the door one that was above the door.

• 26:08Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 26:09Trevor Noah?

  Yes, so it was something to the effect of.

• 26:12Speaker 01

  Those were new taxis.

• 26:13Trevor Noah?

  No, man, what did it say?

• 26:14Speaker 03

  No, cause remember my high age, the doors used to fall out.

• 26:16Speaker 01

  No, I know, I'm joking, I'm just saying that, remember like, cause those Texas guys, the freaking doors fell out all the time.

• 26:21Trevor Noah?

  That's why they said, don't slam it.

• 26:23Speaker 03

  Don't slam it, guys. If you slam it, you're put my.

• 26:25Speaker 01

  But the problem was that like.

• 26:26Trevor Noah?

  The door would fall off if you slammed it.

• 26:27Speaker 01

  But then, there was some, if you didn't slam it, the door couldn't close.

• 26:31Trevor Noah?

  Yes, but no, no, no, no, there's technique, there's technique. So if you slam the door, it falls off, okay?

• 26:37Speaker 01

  Uh huh, yeah.

• 26:38Trevor Noah?

  So what you do with the bad ones is, you're supposed to slide hard from the beginning.

• 26:42Speaker 03

  While pushing.

• 26:43Trevor Noah?

  But at the end, you must push it in.

• 26:44Speaker 01

  Ah, yeah, I remember, I remember this technique, no, I remember.

• 26:48Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, now people would just slam forward, then it would derail and then the door would fall off.

• 26:52Speaker 01

  The hinge.

• 26:53Trevor Noah?

  And then the funniest is, they would just leave.

• 26:55Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 26:56Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 26:56Trevor Noah?

  Those people never stayed around.

• 26:57Speaker 03

  Who, who would?

• 27:00Speaker 03

  And then if you're sitting by the door, it's your job now.

• 27:02Speaker 01

  Yeah, to flip it, yeah.

• 27:03Speaker 03

  And now the shittiest seat.

• 27:04Trevor Noah?

  And now that, remember that rope? Yeah, now there's a rope.

• 27:07Speaker 01

  That rope.

• 27:08Trevor Noah?

  Now the rope is your responsibility, now the taxi driver is telling you to pull the rope so that you can now get the door back on. Now you're lifting a door. Bro, at this point, you're ten years old, what is, what am I doing with my life?

• 27:18Speaker 03

  Shouted over the shoulder.

• 27:20Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 27:26Speaker 01

  We've lived.

• 27:27Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, so there was, so there were those ones. And then there was the stickers on the windows that gave you general etiquette. There was another one about speaking loud.

• 27:36Speaker 01

  I know that, I don't remember.

• 27:38Trevor Noah?

  There was a, there was a sticker.

• 27:39Speaker 01

  There was also a music one.

• 27:41Trevor Noah?

  Yes, yes.

• 27:42Speaker 01

  But you can't request, yeah.

• 27:44Trevor Noah?

  Yes, don't request music.

• 27:45Speaker 01

  Don't request music. Cause there were some people would tell the, tell the taxi driver and say, oh, can you play this song?

• 27:51Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, no.

• 27:51Speaker 01

  It's like, listen, I'm not a DJ, I'm a driver.

• 27:56Trevor Noah?

  There were, there were a lot of them.

• 27:57Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 27:58Trevor Noah?

  Simi, can you look them up and see if you can find any?

• 27:59Speaker 03

  The exit one at the back, no one has ever used that emergency exit.

• 28:03Trevor Noah?

  Okay, but you tell me, cause I used to look at this all the time as a kid. You tell me, who, that thing says kick. My man, look how I'm sitting now.

• 28:13Speaker 03

  And you're sitting.

• 28:13Trevor Noah?

  This is more space than I've ever had in the backseat of a taxi.

• 28:16Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 28:17Trevor Noah?

  Okay?

• 28:17Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 28:18Trevor Noah?

  Now.

• 28:19Speaker 03

  And where your head is, is where the emergency exit is.

• 28:21Speaker 01

  The window starts.

• 28:22Trevor Noah?

  Now you tell me.

• 28:23Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 28:24Trevor Noah?

  In what world, some shit goes down. So now we're in the taxi with the.

• 28:34Speaker 03

  Now I'm there. Ah, we can't get out the front. Hey, go out the backside, hey, put my emergency exit. Kick here.

• 28:45Trevor Noah?

  There's no hammer. There's no, they didn't give you anything.

• 28:49Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 28:49Trevor Noah?

  They said, "Kick here." Guys, not punch, not header, not push. It said, "Kick here." Who? My man, what gently life am I living? That I'm gonna kick this window be- guys, the seat was here.

• 29:05Speaker 03

  Also, yes, now that you say that.

• 29:07Trevor Noah?

  The seat was here, guys.

• 29:08Speaker 03

  This kicking thing. Why is it that when there's a car accident, shoes are everywhere?

• 29:15Trevor Noah?

  This is a good question.

• 29:16Speaker 03

  I was in during a car accident.

• 29:17Trevor Noah?

  Even if you get bumped by a car.

• 29:18Speaker 03

  Yeah, shoes, but socks are on.

• 29:19Trevor Noah?

  Shoes are always like.

• 29:20Speaker 03

  Yeah, shoes, leave the chat first.

• 29:22Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 29:23Speaker 03

  Why?

• 29:24Speaker 01

  I've never noticed.

• 29:24Trevor Noah?

  I think it's because maybe as people, when we're in like a very, very, whenever humans are in a situation. No, whenever humans are in like a very like exciting stressful situation, I think our feet like do things.

• 29:37Speaker 03

  Ah, nah.

• 29:38Trevor Noah?

  I'm telling you.

• 29:39Speaker 03

  Every accident, nigga, there's shoes everywhere.

• 29:41Trevor Noah?

  Yes, yes.

• 29:43Speaker 03

  I've always wanted to use that word.

• 29:44Trevor Noah?

  You used it correctly.

• 29:45Speaker 03

  Swoon everywhere, all sorts, shoes.

• 29:48Trevor Noah?

  You're not wrong.

• 29:48Speaker 03

  Shoes with no socks.

• 29:49Trevor Noah?

  You're not wrong.

• 29:50Speaker 03

  Why?

• 29:52Trevor Noah?

  And I'm saying, and I'm saying it's because, I'm saying it's because like you do like a, there's like a thing that you do.

• 29:59Speaker 01

  Oh, they just, they just don't tie their shoelaces properly.

• 30:02Trevor Noah?

  My man, why are you blaming them now?

• 30:04Speaker 01

  No, it's the shoelaces.

• 30:06Trevor Noah?

  So you think every time people are just running around without tied shoelaces?

• 30:09Speaker 01

  I, I think so. I really think people are not getting their proper shoelaces. It makes no sense.

• 30:14Speaker 03

  Wait, if it was one type of shoe.

• 30:16Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 30:17Speaker 03

  That just flies out.

• 30:18Trevor Noah?

  Eugene is completely correct.

• 30:19Speaker 03

  Pella, there you see flip flops, you see pumps, you see boots.

• 30:23Trevor Noah?

  Eugene, Eugene's not lying.

• 30:25Speaker 03

  Yeah, but, and remember, whenever you're stressed, your toes curl.

• 30:29Speaker 01

  The shoes are either too big?

• 30:32Speaker 03

  No, no, no.

• 30:32Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 30:33Trevor Noah?

  So you're saying accidents expose your shoe game?

• 30:35Speaker 01

  Exactly.

• 30:36Speaker 03

  No, but remember this, whenever you are tense, nah?

• 30:39Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 30:39Speaker 03

  Your toes do that turbo holding on to your shoes mess.

• 30:42Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 30:43Speaker 03

  In an accident, high impact.

• 30:44Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 30:45Speaker 03

  Your, your toes are already doing that automatically. That's your, that's your butt lynch for your feet. Like this thing for your toes.

• 30:52Trevor Noah?

  I'm trying to think.

• 30:53Speaker 03

  Is butt lynch for your, you understand what I'm saying?

• 30:55Trevor Noah?

  But maybe that action pulls the foot out of the shoe.

• 30:59Speaker 03

  No, but if my shoes are too big and I do this, my shoes stay.

• 31:03Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, it's, it's a difficult one. I don't know. I mean, my mom used to tell me that all the time.

• 31:07Speaker 03

  She'd say.

• 31:08Trevor Noah?

  No, she'd say like, that's why you must make sure you wear socks that have no holes and clean underwear. Then she'd like, because if you get bumped by a car, those are the two things that are gonna show.

• 31:16Speaker 03

  Your underwear, nah?

• 31:17Trevor Noah?

  Then I was like, mom, what are you telling me here? Then she said, in an accident, I'm not even joking, she'd say in an accident, in an accident, she'd say, everyone's gonna see your socks. Because your shoes come off. And then she was like, and everyone's gonna see your underwear, because that's another thing. When you get hit by a car, for some reason, your pants always come here. And then your ass is exposed. It's true though. Have you ever been hit by a car?

• 31:40Speaker 01

  No, cheese.

• 31:41Trevor Noah?

  Have you?

• 31:42Speaker 03

  But there's something.

• 31:42Trevor Noah?

  Have you?

• 31:42Speaker 03

  No, no, never.

• 31:43Trevor Noah?

  I've been hit by.

• 31:44Speaker 03

  In a bike accident, yes.

• 31:45Trevor Noah?

  Motorbike?

• 31:46Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 31:47Trevor Noah?

  When was this?

• 31:47Speaker 01

  Well, you're riding.

• 31:48Speaker 03

  Two years ago, a day after my birthday.

• 31:50Trevor Noah?

  You're lying, you didn't tell me?

• 31:52Speaker 01

  Yeah, he was embarrassed.

• 31:55Speaker 03

  When that rough money comes in, my man, there will be signs.

• 32:02Speaker 01

  Road accident fine.

• 32:04Speaker 03

  There will be signs, higher.

• 32:05Trevor Noah?

  Wait, are you being serious?

• 32:08Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 32:08Trevor Noah?

  What, how did that, how did it happen?

• 32:10Speaker 03

  Can we first deal with this one?

• 32:12Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 32:12Trevor Noah?

  Okay, we'll, we'll come back to it.

• 32:14Speaker 01

  I think I was embarrassed.

• 32:15Speaker 03

  No, no, no, it was a, it was a, okay, you wanna know what happened?

• 32:18Trevor Noah?

  No, really?

• 32:18Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 32:19Speaker 03

  So I was riding.

• 32:19Trevor Noah?

  Dude, we've ridden for years, you've never told me that story, or we rode for years, I should say.

• 32:23Speaker 03

  Yeah, because you know, also, you never tell these things because

• 32:30Speaker 03

  all praise to the almighty Allah. If it wasn't for him.

• 32:39Trevor Noah?

  What happened, bro?

• 32:40Speaker 03

  So I rode out, normal day in the afternoon, came out, vvv, cedar, went at the back, behind this place. Yeah.

• 32:50Speaker 03

  See that road where, yeah, yeah, past Heron, yeah, yeah, yeah. Went, meh, meh, so I'm like, oh, it's clear, I can go. So it's two lanes going this way, two lanes going that way, yeah. You know, there's one thing about squatter camps and informal settlements, it's called informal for a reason.

• 33:05Speaker 01

  Okay, I see, okay, yeah.

• 33:09Speaker 03

  For many years I've been just, guys, defending you from informal. There's nothing formal about what that person did.

• 33:15Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 33:16Speaker 03

  Kai, there was no robot, there was no stop sign, there was nothing. Came out of that school, nah, it's a teacher, came out.

• 33:24Trevor Noah?

  Oh, no.

• 33:25Speaker 03

  In a red, in a red Haval SUV.

• 33:27Trevor Noah?

  Oh, no.

• 33:28Speaker 03

  So I've already passed Heron, took the right turn, so I'm like, ah, no, I'm fine here, so I'm like, meh, meh, so I'm like, ah, one twenty. I'm like, but I'm clear, I can see far, as far as I could, because I'm going.

• 33:39Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 33:41Speaker 03

  Tucked in everything, you know, when you tucked in everything. This car comes out of nowhere, goes on the road, on the lane that I'm coming on. No, but came fast and then stopped in the middle.

• 33:54Trevor Noah?

  They always stop in the middle of the road.

• 33:55Speaker 03

  Because she's trying to go the opposite direction. So the car's coming this way, she waited for them.

• 34:00Trevor Noah?

  The other side of the two lane.

• 34:02Speaker 03

  Then, in that situation, Pella, there's only two things you can, there's two things involved.

• 34:06Speaker 01

  There are two things involved.

• 34:09Trevor Noah?

  So wait, so then the car flies out?

• 34:10Speaker 03

  So the car pulls up.

• 34:12Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 34:12Speaker 03

  Then I'm thinking this person's gonna stop, so I'm on this far right lane, right in the middle of, between the two borders.

• 34:17Trevor Noah?

  Oh, my goodness.

• 34:18Speaker 03

  So I swerve to the right, left, thinking that they're obviously gonna, I'm making space. So they slam the brakes because there's a truck coming this way.

• 34:25Trevor Noah?

  Oh, my goodness.

• 34:26Speaker 03

  So then I'm like, chit, chit, chit, chit, chit, chit, because you know, if you, so if you're right, if, if you lock the, the rear brake, the front becomes light.

• 34:33Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 34:34Speaker 03

  So if you, so you must trail brake basically, so you must hit the front.

• 34:37Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, and then.

• 34:38Speaker 03

  So hope, hope, hope, hope, hope, hope, hope, hope, so I'm hoping, hoping, I'm hoping, but everything is happening in slow motion. Angels were there, my grandfather was there. Everyone I knew and loved was there, all singing, I was like, guys, why are you guys singing the same language?

• 34:58Speaker 03

  Smell my breath inside the helmet, I knew it was, but then I knew I was still alive when I could smell my, because I was like, if I'm dead, you know, I can't, I need breath.

• 35:04Trevor Noah?

  Wait, that was the next thing you, you, you like experienced?

• 35:08Speaker 03

  No, nah, I'm lying about that part. Everything was just, no, everything was just in slow motion.

• 35:13Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 35:14Speaker 03

  Because I'm like, chit, chit, chit, chit, chit, chit, chit, chit, chit, chit, chit, chit, chit, chit, chit.

• 35:17Trevor Noah?

  And then.

• 35:17Speaker 03

  Bah! Head on, T-bone the car.

• 35:21Trevor Noah?

  So you T-bone the car?

• 35:22Speaker 03

  T-bone, and I fly over.

• 35:26Speaker 03

  Somersault one, somersault two.

• 35:29Trevor Noah?

  Damn.

• 35:30Speaker 03

  Land on my head, on my back, pass out. Now I'm on the side of oncoming traffic.

• 35:37Trevor Noah?

  Ah.

• 35:38Speaker 03

  So I can't hear the, brrrr, but this guy's telling, you know, that's why I'll never support informal small businesses again.

• 35:50Speaker 01

  No.

• 35:54Speaker 01

  Oh, my God, ah, your beef.

• 35:59Speaker 03

  Then I see that thing, some of us copass, nah, my lust row. They were minding their table, never mind me. I was lying on hot tar. This is the sixteenth of November, two days after my, eh, a day after my birthday, sixteenth of November, I'm lying in a hot tar. These guys were minding their business, so finally I come to inside my helmet, I'm like, oh, what's going on? Then I'm like, why am I looking at the sky? Why, why am I hot here? I get up, bike is T-bone to the car.

• 36:28Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 36:29Speaker 03

  The driver's side.

• 36:30Trevor Noah?

  Oh, the bike is in the car?

• 36:32Speaker 03

  Yeah, it went in, Pella, it went, traba.

• 36:34Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 36:34Speaker 03

  The driver's out came out, she came out on the other side, now she's towering over me as a teacher, you know, she's wearing those teacher skirts, those young ones. She's asking me questions about what was I thinking?

• 36:47Speaker 03

  And then she asks.

• 36:47Speaker 01

  I don't have time to think now.

• 36:49Speaker 03

  Yeah, she asked me, what, what were you thinking? And I'm like, I don't know who you are, I don't know what's going on, and why is my bed so hard? Can't be, an accident had happened.

• 36:58Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 36:58Speaker 03

  So I look around, I'm finally going, okay, let me do check, because I need to know the rules.

• 37:02Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 37:03Speaker 03

  You must first check if your neck is fine, because it can cause more damage. So I try move my feet first, and I'm like, okay, feet can move.

• 37:09Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 37:09Speaker 03

  I'm like, hands can move, then I'm like, okay, I'm gonna try twist my back without turning my neck. Twist my back, twist my back, I'm like, I'm grand, then I, woo, get up.

• 37:18Speaker 01

  Undertaker style.

• 37:19Speaker 03

  Yeah, then where I am versus where the bike is, maybe they're where the tables are, that's where the bike is and the car. So I went all the way opposite direction of oncoming traffic, I get up, then I'm all good again. Where were your shoes?

• 37:44Speaker 01

  Clips one.

• 37:51Trevor Noah?

  Yo, dude, I'm glad you're okay though.

• 37:52Speaker 03

  Yeah, I'm, I'm also glad I'm okay.

• 37:54Speaker 01

  So it's the helmet that obviously helped you as well.

• 37:57Speaker 03

  I think it was God, I think it was the fall.

• 37:58Speaker 01

  Because you hit your, your head first, like, is that?

• 38:01Speaker 03

  Yeah, but hit.

• 38:02Speaker 01

  The helmet, yeah.

• 38:02Speaker 03

  Yeah, quank, and then.

• 38:05Trevor Noah?

  You also wearing jackets?

• 38:07Speaker 03

  Yeah, jacket, anything. But those things are not helped, Pella, the thing is, if you break or fall properly on a bike, you survive.

• 38:13Trevor Noah?

  That's true.

• 38:13Speaker 03

  So mostly with motorbike accidents, people don't get killed by the fall, they get killed by cars running over them after the fall.

• 38:20Trevor Noah?

  They say you don't get killed by the, the accident, you get killed by what happens after the accident, like hitting the wall or hitting another car or hitting something.

• 38:28Speaker 03

  Or cars running over you after you've fallen.

• 38:30Speaker 01

  Oh, my.

• 38:31Speaker 03

  So I survived, I got up, and then two days later, I was going to a shoot, I was in the back of an Uber, relaxing, minding my business, wabba, bah!

• 38:40Speaker 03

  The car was rammed at the back, I flew, I hit the driver's.

• 38:43Trevor Noah?

  No, I don't wanna laugh, but you're like, are you serious? Are you serious? Yo, bro, are you serious?

• 38:50Speaker 03

  Kai, you know how production managers care about the shoot only? I'm like, guys, I'm in an accident, you're like, yeah, so we are figure, mind you.

• 38:57Trevor Noah?

  No, you're lying.

• 38:58Speaker 03

  I'm telling you.

• 38:59Speaker 01

  No.

• 39:00Trevor Noah?

  Oh, my goodness.

• 39:02Speaker 03

  A week later, I was like, no, I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine, ah, then I can feel numbness on my back, numbness on my back, I'm like, no, I'm not fine. Went for a scan, they were like, oh, I've got an acute pinched nerve, what happened here? It was the accident, and then the.

• 39:14Trevor Noah?

  Hit by. They're being rammed from the back.

• 39:19Speaker 01

  Two lines.

• 39:20Trevor Noah?

  In two days. If you, if you were telling this to your American friends, they'd be like, man, Eugene, you were super unlucky. If you tell it to your African friends, they'd be like, somebody was trying to kill you. There is some witchcraft somewhere in their world and somebody was trying to kill you. I hope you prayed, a far as.

• 39:37Speaker 03

  No, I prayed, I, I was like, there's no way you survive something like that, you think everything is normal.

• 39:44Trevor Noah?

  Don't press anything. We've got more What Now after this.

• 39:49Speaker 03

  The reason your life flashes before your eyes, before you die, is because your brain is searching for any um memory that could save you from this moment.

• 39:59Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 40:01Trevor Noah?

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• 40:46Trevor Noah?

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• 41:31Trevor Noah?

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• 42:14Trevor Noah?

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• 43:00Trevor Noah?

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• 43:45Trevor Noah?

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• 44:11Speaker 03

  Which makes me think, when you, when you die, do you know it's happening?

• 44:14Trevor Noah?

  When you die, do you know, what, do you know you're dying or do you know you're dead?

• 44:18Speaker 03

  Let's say, for example, you die in your sleep. You see when people say people died peacefully in their sleep?

• 44:22Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 44:23Speaker 03

  You've slept and you've remembered that you were sleeping. Now, when you wake up, you're like, oh, there was this one time I went to go pee.

• 44:28Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 44:29Speaker 03

  Where, when you die while you're asleep, when do you know as a sleeping person that you're dead?

• 44:35Speaker 01

  You know what? Great person to answer that would have been Jesus.

• 44:39Speaker 03

  John.

• 44:40Trevor Noah?

  Cause he's the only person who came back from the dead.

• 44:41Speaker 01

  He came back.

• 44:44Speaker 03

  You know about that thing? No one ever saw him walking out of there, no?

• 44:47Trevor Noah?

  You're not wrong, mate.

• 44:48Speaker 03

  But no one, no one saw him.

• 44:50Trevor Noah?

  It would have been great if people were just a little more curious about those kinds of things.

• 44:53Speaker 01

  Just tell me, chap.

• 44:54Trevor Noah?

  No, dude, so what um?

• 44:57Trevor Noah?

  No, no, good to have you back. Really good to have you back. That was crazy.

• 45:00Speaker 03

  Yes, because Judas, yo.

• 45:03Trevor Noah?

  I mean, yo. I mean, we knew he was sus, but damn, bruh. Damn, wow, Judas.

• 45:10Speaker 03

  Because look, if, if.

• 45:12Trevor Noah?

  But listen, I have a question. Like, right afterwards, where, where are you? Like, where, where were you for those three days? How does it feel?

• 45:20Speaker 01

  So when he died, like, how did it feel? Like, how, did you know, my friend Eugene wants to know?

• 45:27Speaker 03

  Yeah, because here's how I think.

• 45:28Trevor Noah?

  You know, I heard, I heard something the other day. I don't know where it was. It was really, it was just really fun and fascinating. Might have been in an anime I was watching or something, but they were like, they're like, the reason your life flashes before your eyes, before you die, is because your brain is searching for any um memory that could save you from this moment.

• 45:47Speaker 03

  Oh, you're scrolling through your archives.

• 45:49Trevor Noah?

  Literally, that is your final survival instinct. So just before you die, your body's like, you, you, everything going like, wait, wait, wait. Is there a way to escape this? Is there, is there something I've learned somewhere in my life that can help me escape this? They, it was just a hypothesis and I like it.

• 46:04Speaker 03

  So me, there's two things that happen.

• 46:06Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 46:06Speaker 03

  I go to the bathroom at night and then also my nose gets dry. So I usually put like Vaseline in my nose. That's how I know I'm still alive.

• 46:16Trevor Noah?

  Uh, okay. Uh?

• 46:22Speaker 03

  Kai, the day.

• 46:23Trevor Noah?

  Yo, what?

• 46:24Speaker 03

  The day my nose feels moisturized throughout the night, I don't need to put Vaseline to make sure.

• 46:29Trevor Noah?

  This is your, I didn't drop pee. This is your, this is his, um, what's it called again? Ah, man. This is your inception. Yes, this is your inception. Yes, that's your totem.

• 46:43Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 46:44Trevor Noah?

  Eugene is like, when my nose is not dry.

• 46:47Speaker 03

  Yeah, I'll know.

• 46:48Trevor Noah?

  I'll know, this is not.

• 46:48Speaker 03

  Even on a flight, I'm like, ah, ha, ha. Then I'm like, yes, this is sharp.

• 46:54Speaker 03

  Because the, the day, the day throughout the night, fully moisturized, no dry, you know that dry part of the back of your sinus?

• 47:02Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know exactly which part. You'll know you've moved on.

• 47:05Speaker 03

  Yeah, I'll know. The day, I'm breathing easy, I'm moisturized.

• 47:10Trevor Noah?

  Man, you know what would be so funny to do to Eugene? To prank, to prank him, to prank him. We, we, we find where he's sleeping. We hide humidifiers, extra humidifiers. We make him sleep through the whole night moisturized, then he wakes up the next day being like, ah, I guess I'm dead. And then we just move through the world. Then we see Eugene running naked. They can't see me.

• 47:36Trevor Noah?

  Damn, you just came back from a funeral, didn't you?

• 47:39Speaker 01

  Yes, yes, in Sazal.

• 47:40Trevor Noah?

  How was it? Um, I said it like it was a gig, sorry.

• 47:42Speaker 03

  Hey, yes, now we.

• 47:43Speaker 01

  No, it was fantastic.

• 47:46Trevor Noah?

  I didn't mean it like that. I didn't mean it like that at all.

• 47:50Speaker 03

  You know, black people will say, hey, Simbegi, like, what else could you have done?

• 47:53Trevor Noah?

  But that's what I mean. That's, so it's hard to ask it in English.

• 47:57Speaker 01

  That's true. I know what you mean.

• 47:58Trevor Noah?

  Because how was it? Okay, is the correct, is the correct translation?

• 48:02Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 48:03Trevor Noah?

  But if you say it in vernac, if you say like in Zulu, if you go like Benjan or like.

• 48:06Speaker 03

  Me, Beginja.

• 48:07Trevor Noah?

  Beginja, like you would go, it's more like, how did it unfold? How, how did it turn out to be?

• 48:15Speaker 01

  You know, it's.

• 48:16Trevor Noah?

  As opposed to like, how was it?

• 48:17Speaker 01

  Cause, cause what to say is that usually people will say like, Simbegile, which we have put him or her, the direct translation.

• 48:25Trevor Noah?

  Yes.

• 48:25Speaker 01

  Right? But actually, cause I'd never been to a funeral service like that in my entire life.

• 48:30Trevor Noah?

  Why? What was different?

• 48:32Speaker 01

  Because Eswatin.

• 48:33Trevor Noah?

  There was a DJ.

• 48:36Trevor Noah?

  Come on, if you're ready to see this casket going to the ground, let me hear you make some noise. Bing, bing, bing, bing. If, if, if, if, if, if, if. Go, we know where, if he is, he ain't, if, if, going nowhere, but he is though.

• 48:51Speaker 01

  Dude, dude, dude, um, yeah.

• 48:55Trevor Noah?

  Sorry, so what was the difference?

• 48:58Speaker 01

  So the funeral service is there. You, you have to be buried before sunrise, before the sun rises.

• 49:05Speaker 03

  Or like in Limbo.

• 49:06Speaker 01

  And not only that, so which meant that it's supposed to be like at four in the morning, right? And it's like an hour, right? Like the service, the service, you know, arrived.

• 49:19Trevor Noah?

  Very efficient.

• 49:20Speaker 01

  Very efficient. Uh, only the people spoke was someone read the obituary.

• 49:25Trevor Noah?

  Okay.

• 49:25Speaker 01

  And there was a, a family member who um spoke.

• 49:30Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 49:31Speaker 01

  Um, fundisi, that was it, walked out, went to the graveyard, and an hour, done.

• 49:39Trevor Noah?

  I'm not mad at that.

• 49:40Speaker 01

  I, I, I mean, I was very, I was, and I was thinking, we were having breakfast like at eight, but breakfast mummusho. Yeah, ma, full on like.

• 49:51Trevor Noah?

  You're having day, you're having day for breakfast. You're having daytime food.

• 49:53Speaker 01

  Yeah, we're having daytime food.

• 49:54Trevor Noah?

  Daytime funeral food for breakfast.

• 49:56Speaker 01

  Date, yes, that's what we're having, which was a bit, I was like, oh, this is, this is very amusing.

• 50:00Trevor Noah?

  I was like, cause that's one of those weird situations where you gotta be like, guys, guys, guys, you're killing me here. Wait, sorry, let me rephrase. What I mean is I can't live like this. Sorry, let me rephrase. Guys, what I mean.

• 50:14Speaker 03

  It just.

• 50:15Trevor Noah?

  Check his cut, yeah.

• 50:16Speaker 01

  It's just very interesting. And I remember thinking, I was like, guys, in the eastern Cape, we're already having breakfast. It did not have started, the funeral didn't start it by.

• 50:25Trevor Noah?

  So did you, did you prefer it or did you?

• 50:28Speaker 03

  That's what.

• 50:29Trevor Noah?

  How did you?

• 50:30Speaker 01

  I did not, you know, like, you know, you know, may my friend rest in peace. I didn't appreciate waking up so early.

• 50:39Speaker 03

  I was like.

• 50:39Trevor Noah?

  That's the least you can do for him.

• 50:40Speaker 03

  I was like, hey, this is, it's like we wake up, but they accommodated, I think, people from out of town. They actually made the service at six rather than four o'clock.

• 50:49Trevor Noah?

  Just for that.

• 50:50Speaker 03

  Yeah, just for that. Um, but otherwise, I mean, I, I did appreciate how quickly everything happened because when I think about hours like back in the Eastern Cape or Kizan and they go on forever, like for a long, long time.

• 51:05Trevor Noah?

  So you see, I'm torn on that because I, I think both have their merits. So I think a short and efficient funeral is great if you're not particularly close to the person.

• 51:18Speaker 03

  Ah.

• 51:18Trevor Noah?

  Right. But like I remember from my grandmother's funeral, it was weird because I watched my grandmother's funeral online because it was during Covid. Right? So I couldn't travel for it and then.

• 51:30Speaker 03

  Were the comments open?

• 51:32Trevor Noah?

  They, if they were, it would have been amazing, actually. That would have been amazing because I would have been there in the comments.

• 51:37Speaker 03

  Yeah, when I know you.

• 51:38Trevor Noah?

  R I P G G. Yo, who's that in row three? Yo, my man should also be in a box soon, man. No, I, there actually wasn't. So, but I had to watch it, which was very, it was a very surreal experience.

• 51:50Speaker 03

  Weird.

• 51:50Trevor Noah?

  It, it's the most surreal experience I've ever had because I was watching people I know and my family.

• 51:57Speaker 03

  Mm, mm.

• 51:57Trevor Noah?

  But in a.

• 51:58Speaker 03

  On, in a screen, at, in, at home.

• 52:00Trevor Noah?

  Yes.

• 52:00Speaker 03

  Because you're at home watching.

• 52:02Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, so I'm watching them and I'm like, you know, but what I, what I noticed was, because it was long, it was like four hours maybe.

• 52:08Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 52:09Trevor Noah?

  A four hour service.

• 52:10Speaker 03

  Did you make snacks in between?

• 52:11Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, I took breaks. I, I was, I, I, that was the part that I did enjoy.

• 52:16Speaker 03

  How did you time when to go pee, make a sandwich? When who was talking or what was.

• 52:23Speaker 03

  Because you can come back and bang in there.

• 52:24Trevor Noah?

  No, singing, actually Kai is right. Singing is an easy one because what would happen is, um, people would speak. You know, like my grandmother's friends would come, people, but then in the middle of while they're speaking, the person would start singing.

• 52:35Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 52:36Trevor Noah?

  You know, so that starts a song.

• 52:38Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 52:38Trevor Noah?

  They'd be like, ah, you know, uh, when I met, uh, Francis, we were this old and we lived together and this was our time and the first time she helped me and this is how we knew each other and what, what, what, what, you know what I mean? And then the person would stop and they'd be like, oh, no, do, ah, hi. And then they'd start singing. Then I'd be like, oh, now you can go, because I can go do something and I can hear what's happening in the background.

• 53:00Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 53:01Trevor Noah?

  Great. Some of the songs I like stayed for. No, some of them I've, like the ones that I knew.

• 53:05Speaker 03

  He had hit there.

• 53:05Trevor Noah?

  So the ones that I knew, no, the ones that I knew were my grand's favorite.

• 53:08Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 53:09Trevor Noah?

  That I had known. Then I would sing those, you know what I mean? Masangovulegani, singenee Jerusalem, masangovulegani. Singenee Jerusalem, masangovulegani. Singenee Jerusalem, masangovulegani.

• 53:32Speaker 03

  You stuck around for that one.

• 53:32Trevor Noah?

  Singenee Jerusalem. Then I'm, ah, because that like fully brought my grand back to me. Does that make sense? So those ones where I was like, ah, Gogo would be here because she used to give me that little, um, baby zan.

• 53:44Speaker 03

  It's Pam Pam.

• 53:45Trevor Noah?

  It's Pam Pam. It's Pam Pam, what do you call it?

• 53:46Speaker 03

  Mukamel.

• 53:47Trevor Noah?

  Mukamel.

• 53:48Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 53:48Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 53:48Speaker 03

  Pillow.

• 53:49Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 53:49Speaker 03

  But it has a name in this course, doesn't it?

• 53:51Trevor Noah?

  Yes, Pam Pam.

• 53:52Speaker 03

  A lot of people invented that, no?

• 53:53Trevor Noah?

  I like it's Pam Pam because.

• 53:55Speaker 03

  It's Pam bad.

• 53:55Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, but it was the leather, it was a leather pillow.

• 53:59Speaker 03

  Pam Pam is the person who's not supposed to sit at the front in a taxi.

• 54:03Trevor Noah?

  It was, so it was a leather pillow that you had to hit so that everyone could be on beat together.

• 54:09Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 54:09Trevor Noah?

  And it had like a satisfying.

• 54:11Speaker 03

  The church metronome.

• 54:12Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, perfect way to put it. It had a beautiful thumping sound to it. Yeah, like a, like a deep. And as a kid, I used to hit that thing. I would argue that my, my sense of rhythm is because of that.

• 54:24Speaker 03

  Makes sense, actually.

• 54:25Trevor Noah?

  From a young age.

• 54:26Speaker 03

  Hmm, makes sense. Because you had to keep rhythm.

• 54:28Trevor Noah?

  Yo, my friend, my friend, it was like.

• 54:31Speaker 03

  And you can't mess up with that thing.

• 54:32Trevor Noah?

  And not, not only that, not only that, you, you had, you had to know how the song is gonna go. Because remember when, when we're singing these songs, they always start very slow.

• 54:44Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 54:44Trevor Noah?

  Because it has to give everyone time to get into the song.

• 54:46Speaker 03

  Group, yeah.

• 54:47Trevor Noah?

  Then they start getting faster and faster. The BPMs go up. Maybe that's why I became a DJ as well. So the BPMs go up, go up, go up, go up.

• 54:53Speaker 03

  You know, the story's supposed to go, that's why I became a, that's why I became a pastor.

• 54:58Trevor Noah?

  And then, and then you also have to be like at the end because you, you, you, you know what I mean? Because it goes, it goes, ah, so you, when you start, you'll be like, the person starts with no, with no, uh, beat first, right? It'll be like.

• 55:09Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 55:10Trevor Noah?

  Masangovulegani. Singenee Jerusalem. Masangovule. Then like the, the men will come in lower. Wulegani, singenee Jerusalem, masangovulegani. Singenee Jerusalem, oh, masangovule. You see, you've got to keep this.

• 55:37Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 55:38Trevor Noah?

  Singenee Jerusalem, masangovulegani. Singenee Jerusalem, oh, masa. And you go and you'll go.

• 55:47Speaker 03

  And you control the tempo, Pela.

• 55:49Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, but you have to feel what they're doing because I'm a kid, I'm not controlling this. This is the prayer meeting, I'm not controlling this, this is happening, I have to keep this going, but I have to feel the, the.

• 55:57Speaker 03

  Well, you're the only kid there.

• 55:57Trevor Noah?

  No, sometimes they'll be like two, maybe three, but I was the one who was doing this, you know what I mean? So I'm there, I'm doing the beat, I have to keep it going. Jerusalem, oh, ma, masangovulegani, singenee Jerusalem.

• 56:11Speaker 03

  What we don't know is the slowdown symbolizes the ending.

• 56:13Trevor Noah?

  The worst thing you could do is hit.

• 56:15Speaker 03

  Not necessarily the ending, by the way. It could be a.

• 56:18Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, just the lau.

• 56:19Speaker 03

  The lau.

• 56:20Trevor Noah?

  You just, because, because the person might just be like. Sangenee Jerusalem, masangovulegani.

• 56:29Speaker 03

  Yes, and so, and as the rhythm.

• 56:32Trevor Noah?

  Singenee Jerusalem.

• 56:36Trevor Noah?

  Masangovulegani.

• 56:41Trevor Noah?

  Singenee Jerusalem, masangovule.

• 56:46Speaker 03

  Yo, that's how it was. Because you have homework. Hey, my man. Hey, my man, you gotta keep, you don't know.

• 56:52Trevor Noah?

  Yo, as a, I would be there as a kid watching because I.

• 56:56Speaker 03

  People's mouths.

• 56:57Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, because I knew. There's the, the, the person who started, I'm like, I gotta, because the first few times they hit me with that job, obviously I was just beating the thing. Then now my mom was like, first of all, she's like, eh, eh, eh, you know what I mean?

• 57:08Speaker 03

  Who did you take the gig from?

• 57:10Trevor Noah?

  No, from adults.

• 57:11Speaker 03

  So one day you were hanging around, they were like, the time this was Pam Pam lah.

• 57:14Trevor Noah?

  Adults used to do that thing.

• 57:15Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 57:16Trevor Noah?

  And then I took this Pam Pam, which I wasn't supposed to, because remember all the church goodies were like put away, you know? The things people would wear, the.

• 57:24Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 57:24Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, the bells, everything was like.

• 57:26Speaker 03

  Yeah, the Ark of the Covenant, Jesus is shrouded.

• 57:28Trevor Noah?

  All of it, all of it. It was all put away. It was all put away.

• 57:32Speaker 03

  The nails from the crucifixion, everything was, the rock from, everything, the rock of Gibraltar. The donkey that Jesus took to, everything was there. Everything, the present test, yaga merry, everything was at the corner by the room divider.

• 57:47Trevor Noah?

  So we had, everything, everything, it's literally like that. The, the, the, the specific Bible that we read for that, for those.

• 57:53Speaker 03

  That leather, was it that leather one?

• 57:54Trevor Noah?

  The leather one. So all these things were specific.

• 57:57Speaker 03

  The paraphernalia.

• 57:58Trevor Noah?

  So this Pam Pam, you were not allowed to just touch it randomly. My grand would be very lenient to me, so I would. And then I would just walk around the house because I was like, there's nothing, imagine you're a kid, but you're like a three, four year old. You've got a leather pillow that you can hit as hard as you want.

• 58:14Speaker 03

  This is the greatest gift of all time.

• 58:15Trevor Noah?

  The strap behind it.

• 58:15Speaker 03

  With a strap.

• 58:16Trevor Noah?

  You'll never lose it.

• 58:17Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 58:19Trevor Noah?

  So then.

• 58:20Speaker 03

  Outside of church, this is not, this is not during church time.

• 58:22Trevor Noah?

  It's at home. So then my grand said, my mom would always be like, hey, sukanga wena, like, stop being naughty, you know what I mean? Put that thing away. Then my grand said, no, clearly he has a gift. Encourage this gift of his because this bum bum is a very, like, it's a very stressful job to have. Let him, you know what I mean? But then my mom was like, yo, bro, don't, don't mess around at church.

• 58:45Speaker 03

  Wait, wait.

• 58:47Speaker 03

  This feels like the Majaga Commission. Wait, go on, clarification.

• 58:56Speaker 03

  We don't know what you were busy with while Trevor invoked on you, but you dropped everything you were doing.

• 59:05Speaker 03

  But, like in a church, ne?

• 59:08Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 59:10Speaker 03

  Why is it that kids or have the most difficult jobs? They were like in the Catholic church.

• 59:14Trevor Noah?

  Oh, yeah.

• 59:15Speaker 03

  My man, that thing can start fires with robes.

• 59:18Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, that's so true.

• 59:19Speaker 03

  And wooden benches.

• 59:20Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 59:21Speaker 03

  You chose to give, to give that gig to a kid.

• 59:25Speaker 03

  The holding of the wine during the.

• 59:27Trevor Noah?

  Yes, yes, yes. And the lighting of the candles.

• 59:29Speaker 03

  The lighting of the.

• 59:30Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 59:31Speaker 03

  So Ukoko, new Ukuti.

• 59:34Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 59:35Speaker 03

  The innocent, pure souls.

• 59:37Trevor Noah?

  Suffer little children to come unto me, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Amen.

• 59:41Speaker 03

  And forbid them not.

• 59:43Trevor Noah?

  So my grand was like, yo, man, instead of chastising him for doing that thing.

• 59:48Speaker 03

  Right.

• 59:49Trevor Noah?

  Let him do it then. So now every, in fact, that was the reason I now started enjoying Bible service. I was like, cause I was like, yo, man, most of the time I'm sitting there. Cause I have something to do.

• 59:58Speaker 03

  Waiting for them to finish.

• 59:59Trevor Noah?

  Bruh, you're just like, you're like, yo, these prayers don't end.

• 1:00:01Speaker 03

  And they used to come during cartoon time.

• 1:00:03Trevor Noah?

  Hey, my man, I wish it was cartoon time. It wasn't even about cartoon time, because it was at my grand's house in Orlando. We didn't have like a TV in that way. I don't even remember us having a TV. So it was at night.

• 1:00:13Speaker 03

  Oh, it was one of those.

• 1:00:14Trevor Noah?

  It was the evening ones, where everyone, all the other grannies would come over. I know those.

• 1:00:18Speaker 03

  The Thursday ones.

• 1:00:19Trevor Noah?

  And then the ones where, not only that, but remember they would all throw shade at each other in the prayers. Do you remember that one? I read the prayer of. Prayer, guys, guys, that was the most, the most gay, because I remember as a kid being like, because what they would do is they would go, they would, they would pray. They would pray, but they'd be like, oh, my way to Samazulun, oh heavenly father up above, then they'd be like, oh. Oh heavenly father, we thank you for being here with us. You know, they do the introductions, but so my grand would always be like, oh, Kamalam, Mathis, Francis, Noah. And Clalape six, six Orlando Eastern, where they should give the full address every, and even as a kid, I used to be like, ow, he doesn't know where we are. But, but can I tell you, I appreciated the humility, because I asked my grand once.

• 1:00:57Speaker 03

  Not to assume.

• 1:00:58Trevor Noah?

  No, I asked my grand once. I said, God knows everything. Why do you always introduce yourself? And she was like, Trevor, how busy is God? Why do I assume that he knows me?

• 1:01:08Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:01:09Trevor Noah?

  Let me make his job easier. So I was like, damn, it's humility. So she would introduce herself, she'd do, then they'd pray. But then I would notice there'd be some grannies in the prayer circle who would throw shade at each other, because we'd all be praying.

• 1:01:20Speaker 03

  Yeah. Yes.

• 1:01:21Trevor Noah?

  Before the prayers, they'd just talk about life, how are things, what's happening, what, hey.

• 1:01:24Speaker 03

  Catch us.

• 1:01:25Trevor Noah?

  And then they'd be like, hey, that's, hey, you, you Jean, um, tanam you Jean.

• 1:01:29Speaker 03

  Hey.

• 1:01:29Trevor Noah?

  Yes, na le, na le scuta sa, hey. And yes, humble, yes, humble, and this week you, yes, you chase, who, who your mom chase, who chase see, like, wow, wow. Wow, wow, and the Massa Massol, wow, chase, eh, wow, wow, yeah, we, wow, no, na manga, yeah, eh, eh, eh. Hey, we're from a castle, I'm over, oh. And so everyone would tell stories.

• 1:01:50Speaker 03

  Yes, yes.

• 1:01:50Trevor Noah?

  Then the prayer meeting would start. Do the prayers read the scriptures?

• 1:01:54Speaker 03

  So they're donating the trauma.

• 1:01:55Trevor Noah?

  But then now when the praying would happen, there would always be some grannies, what they would do is, they'd be praying, they'd pray normally. Then they would just be like, and, oh, my way to, you know, just heavenly father, can we also just pray for Eugene's mom? You know, for the tough time she's had with her son and not, not all of us can have a perfect son, Lord, and we just want to pray and say.

• 1:02:17Speaker 03

  Ah, ah.

• 1:02:18Trevor Noah?

  You know, we ask you to give her guidance and power, Lord, so that she can try her best, Lord. Try her best and let the rest of us be grateful that we don't have a son like Eugene and.

• 1:02:27Speaker 03

  Ah.

• 1:02:28Trevor Noah?

  Bruh, them, and now, now I'm there like. Cause I wanna see, I wanna see who, I'm like. And I'm like, bruh, you'd hear everything, who's having an affair?

• 1:02:39Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:02:40Trevor Noah?

  Who, uh, stole money from what?

• 1:02:42Speaker 03

  No.

• 1:02:42Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:42Speaker 03

  Through prayer shade.

• 1:02:44Trevor Noah?

  Who stole the stock fell money?

• 1:02:45Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:02:45Trevor Noah?

  Whose kid is failing in school, who can't pay rent, who had an affair, whose uncle or husband is drunk all the time.

• 1:02:52Speaker 03

  Who came home because marriage did not work out.

• 1:02:54Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, exactly, yeah. And they, and they would all, but they would all like throw it on behalf of the other person as if.

• 1:03:01Speaker 03

  As if it's a prayer, yeah.

• 1:03:02Trevor Noah?

  But I was like, ah, this is shade, bruh. And then the song would start, and that's when I would come in and I would nail it. I killed, bruh, I was absolutely phenomenal. My timing, my, without fail, I would never hit this bum bum after the person is done. And I still judge people who do that till this day.

• 1:03:21Trevor Noah?

  Because sometimes people will finish singing.

• 1:03:23Speaker 03

  Uh huh.

• 1:03:24Trevor Noah?

  And then the person will still go.

• 1:03:25Speaker 03

  Boom, bum.

• 1:03:26Trevor Noah?

  There's no, no, you failed. You must watch them, you must study their rhythm, and you have no time, because these are strangers.

• 1:03:32Speaker 03

  Was it looking at the lips or was it knowing?

• 1:03:35Trevor Noah?

  The rhythm. It's also learning. It's like, like in comedy, you, you learn an audience as well, you know? So you learn, yeah, they, they, they, they're sort of finishing the laugh now, now you can carry the. Cause you don't wanna throw in more jokes while they're laughing, they might miss the, you get what I'm saying? It's, it's innate.

• 1:03:52Speaker 03

  Rhythm.

• 1:03:52Trevor Noah?

  It's rhythm.

• 1:03:53Speaker 03

  What happened to the spum bum though?

• 1:03:54Trevor Noah?

  It's still there. Guy looks there.

• 1:03:55Speaker 03

  What about no spate man?

• 1:03:57Trevor Noah?

  At my grandmother's funeral, there was some other guy, very unqualified.

• 1:04:01Trevor Noah?

  Very unqualified.

• 1:04:03Speaker 03

  Well, now Quincy Jones was spum bum, no one will ever be good enough.

• 1:04:06Trevor Noah?

  I'm just gonna say, very unqualified.

• 1:04:11Speaker 03

  Who queens is like, yeah, I can eat, I'll eat, yeah. Wait, so.

• 1:04:16Trevor Noah?

  I think it was like a random person from the church who came with the pasta.

• 1:04:18Speaker 03

  He was hitting the same spum bum.

• 1:04:20Trevor Noah?

  No, no, no.

• 1:04:20Speaker 03

  This spum bum.

• 1:04:21Trevor Noah?

  It was their spum bum.

• 1:04:23Speaker 03

  Or at least.

• 1:04:24Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, no, no, it wasn't my grand's one that I could see. My mom, my grand's one was like, because you had different ones. I, I also used to judge people's bum bums, because sometimes. They'd have like a really, like, my, my grand's one was top, like real leather, proper leather. Proper, uh, brownish red.

• 1:04:39Speaker 03

  Yeah, I know that one.

• 1:04:40Trevor Noah?

  The brownish red one, yeah. Brownish red, and then when she would polish it with something, it would go darker.

• 1:04:45Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 1:04:46Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, so she had that one with a beautiful sleeve.

• 1:04:49Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 1:04:50Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, so you could slip your hand in nicely on this side of it. Hand didn't, you know what I mean? Full hand coverage.

• 1:04:55Speaker 03

  Oh, so it doesn't, the one with that leather strap?

• 1:04:58Trevor Noah?

  No, no, no, no, shit, full hand coverage, full hand coverage.

• 1:05:01Speaker 03

  That is a fancy one.

• 1:05:02Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 1:05:02Speaker 03

  Cause I had your full sleeve.

• 1:05:03Trevor Noah?

  Full sleeve hand coverage, you were in there nicely.

• 1:05:06Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:05:07Trevor Noah?

  All of it was stitched beautifully, had enough of a, a border. So you know, like you could flick, you know the border where the stitching was? Yeah, because the, the cheaper ones, the stitching just goes into the edge of the spum bum.

• 1:05:16Speaker 03

  Ah. Yeah, because it wasn't leather, it was pleather.

• 1:05:18Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, so her one had the full, full border of leather.

• 1:05:22Speaker 03

  Piping, they call it.

• 1:05:23Trevor Noah?

  My man, yeah, the piping.

• 1:05:24Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:05:24Trevor Noah?

  And when you, when you'd hit that thing, it had the most satisfying, and then I would go to like some other people's houses and stuff, they would have like a thinner one.

• 1:05:33Speaker 03

  I hope you didn't do that face at people's houses.

• 1:05:34Trevor Noah?

  I did.

• 1:05:36Speaker 03

  Le na, we're in the lap, I am.

• 1:05:37Trevor Noah?

  No, guys, I was a spum bum snob. If you asked me to do it with like the wrong tool, I'd be like, this is not.

• 1:05:42Speaker 03

  That is so funny.

• 1:05:43Trevor Noah?

  I was like, bruh, no.

• 1:05:44Speaker 03

  You know, it's so funny, it's like, you know how you have like guitar shops and all of that, I feel like you could have opened this.

• 1:05:50Trevor Noah?

  I could have opened this bum bum shop.

• 1:05:51Speaker 03

  Yeah, I could have been that guy. Your brother's a full on snob when it comes to that. Guys, you.

• 1:05:55Trevor Noah?

  Full on snob.

• 1:05:57Speaker 03

  So you'd go and then you'd be like, ah, we're now.

• 1:05:59Trevor Noah?

  My man, they'd ask me to do it like, uh, because sometimes you'd pray at other people's places, and they'd be like, Trevor, do you want a spum bum? And I would have already seen it, and I'm like, nah, bruh.

• 1:06:08Speaker 03

  You'd flat like, ah, no, I can't play this thing.

• 1:06:10Trevor Noah?

  I can't, I can't roll like this. Guys, I'm the Jimi Hendrix of spum bums. Now you're giving me.

• 1:06:15Speaker 03

  You could have been at Kaniki Hall.

• 1:06:17Trevor Noah?

  I could have, I could have been there.

• 1:06:20Speaker 03

  Guys, there's two industries, I think.

• 1:06:21Trevor Noah?

  Square Garden.

• 1:06:22Speaker 03

  We have one that like the oil industry, petrol industry related, and then petroleum jelly, Vaseline, byproduct of that situation. Hear me out.

• 1:06:32Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, okay.

• 1:06:33Speaker 03

  Spum bum.

• 1:06:34Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:34Speaker 03

  The material, the sound, closely linked to the same people that did the upholstery for the taxi seats.

• 1:06:45Trevor Noah?

  It did have a similar sound.

• 1:06:46Speaker 03

  Guys, those seats.

• 1:06:48Trevor Noah?

  Had a similar sound.

• 1:06:48Speaker 03

  That thing, those seats.

• 1:06:50Trevor Noah?

  You're talking about the original seats.

• 1:06:51Speaker 03

  Yeah, the original.

• 1:06:51Trevor Noah?

  The original, the perforated leather.

• 1:06:53Speaker 03

  With the piping.

• 1:06:53Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, yeah, the perforated leather.

• 1:06:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, kumbul.

• 1:06:55Trevor Noah?

  With the sponge, if you. Burn your ass, like an ass has never been burned before, bruh.

• 1:07:02Speaker 03

  The material is the same.

• 1:07:03Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:04Speaker 03

  The material is the same, except for when it went leather.

• 1:07:07Trevor Noah?

  Not looked after though.

• 1:07:09Speaker 03

  No, not the premium, yeah. Premium, there was a total, that's the way it's said, who had that tender somewhere.

• 1:07:14Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:07:15Speaker 03

  But the, the, the cheap ones that you used to scoff at.

• 1:07:18Trevor Noah?

  They were the same, you're all right, actually. It was the same.

• 1:07:21Speaker 03

  Why did you never, yeah, but you, you drove it.

• 1:07:23Trevor Noah?

  My grand's spum bum never cracked.

• 1:07:24Speaker 03

  Why did, why did taxi never have a headrest on the other passenger seats?

• 1:07:27Trevor Noah?

  What, what, what head are you resting?

• 1:07:31Trevor Noah?

  Oh, oh, flip. No, but they, no, they took that out though. It comes with a headrest. They took those out, yeah, they, they used to come with.

• 1:07:39Speaker 03

  Yeah, and then, and if you got, you buy the car and then you got it.

• 1:07:43Trevor Noah?

  No, the way, so how it came is like, we made our own version of it.

• 1:07:47Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 1:07:47Trevor Noah?

  But they came with headrests, and I think they still even do, and then you just take that thing out for like a bunch of reasons. First of all, headrests are not facilitating people passing money through. Easier to pass the money for. Your, your whole job is to do this.

• 1:08:00Speaker 03

  It's not a head continental pillow.

• 1:08:02Trevor Noah?

  Hey, my man.

• 1:08:02Speaker 03

  It's a headrest.

• 1:08:03Trevor Noah?

  Hey, my man, my man.

• 1:08:05Speaker 03

  Yeah, what, they, they pass it?

• 1:08:06Trevor Noah?

  Hey, my man, my man.

• 1:08:07Speaker 03

  Do this, do this, Kai, do this. Hit the back of you, that's all I need.

• 1:08:12Trevor Noah?

  No, bruh.

• 1:08:13Speaker 03

  When I, why is yours covering the whole entire thing?

• 1:08:15Trevor Noah?

  Nah, bruh. Also, like, as a taxi driver, you want to sit like this?

• 1:08:19Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:08:20Trevor Noah?

  Now, headrest here is killing me, because this is the middle seat already. This, I need this room to stake my claim. This is how I roll.

• 1:08:27Speaker 03

  Guys, but we know what headrests are for.

• 1:08:28Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, but look at me.

• 1:08:29Speaker 03

  Yeah, but it doesn't matter, taxi drivers.

• 1:08:31Trevor Noah?

  Look at me.

• 1:08:31Speaker 03

  They're not.

• 1:08:32Trevor Noah?

  See this? This is it. Yeah, boy. Yeah, boy.

• 1:08:35Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:08:36Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, boy. This is it, bruh.

• 1:08:38Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:08:39Trevor Noah?

  Boy. Now, now imagine if there's a thing here, now I'm this guy. Nah, bruh, there's no swag here. Here, I'm gonna stop at red lights. Here, ah, fuck.

• 1:08:58Trevor Noah?

  See what I'm saying?

• 1:08:59Speaker 03

  So the difference between being a responsible citizen and an irresponsible one?

• 1:09:06Speaker 03

  Is the risk of whiplash and an impact.

• 1:09:11Trevor Noah?

  We've got more What Now after this.

• 1:09:15Speaker 03

  Mr. Mandela is like, ah, how are you, Fred? And he's like, Mr. Mandela, I heard the most amazing thing today. Stevie Wonder was doing an interview. Yes. And he said, that song, you know, I just called to say I love you? Yes. He wrote it to you.

• 1:09:30Trevor Noah?

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• 1:10:15Trevor Noah?

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• 1:11:00Trevor Noah?

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• 1:11:41Speaker 03

  Did you find out what the, what the story is behind the shoes?

• 1:11:44Speaker 01

  Yeah, I did.

• 1:11:45Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, what is it?

• 1:11:46Speaker 01

  It's the violence of the impact. It really hurts the human body, so.

• 1:11:53Trevor Noah?

  This guy just said it's the violence of the impact. No. But I said that in the beginning. I did say in the beginning.

• 1:12:01Speaker 03

  But there must be, but guys, remember, there must be something about.

• 1:12:05Trevor Noah?

  No, but okay, but okay, let me, let me elaborate on what I meant.

• 1:12:08Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 1:12:09Trevor Noah?

  Let's go further. The reason I'm saying that is because the, the thing, so the reason.

• 1:12:14Speaker 03

  No, you must read it. Yeah.

• 1:12:16Trevor Noah?

  No, but the reason I'm saying that is because, maybe this is why it makes sense to me. Shoes are one of the only things that you wear that only come onto your body from one side.

• 1:12:28Speaker 03

  Condoms also.

• 1:12:30Trevor Noah?

  Even those would come off in an accident.

• 1:12:34Speaker 01

  That's how baby is named.

• 1:12:35Trevor Noah?

  I'm willing to bet.

• 1:12:38Speaker 03

  By accident.

• 1:12:38Trevor Noah?

  I'm willing to bet. I'm willing to bet. Where's your shirt? Has your head, both arms and your torso holding it down. Your pants have both legs holding it. You get what I'm saying?

• 1:12:49Speaker 03

  Right.

• 1:12:50Trevor Noah?

  So I'm just saying it's a lot harder. Shoes are the only thing where. Think of like a passionate night where two people are, and you're trying to get into it. Shoes come off like that, bro. Everything else is like, ah, here we go.

• 1:13:04Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:13:05Trevor Noah?

  You can kick off your shoes. There's even the phrase, yo, kick off your shoes.

• 1:13:08Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:13:08Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:13:08Trevor Noah?

  You can kick off your shoes.

• 1:13:09Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:13:10Trevor Noah?

  You can't, you can't, there's nothing else you can kick, you can't kick off your pants, you can't, there's nothing.

• 1:13:13Speaker 03

  Cause apparently paramedics, when they reach a scene and they find your toes sticking out, they're like.

• 1:13:17Trevor Noah?

  Wait, really?

• 1:13:18Speaker 01

  What do you mean?

• 1:13:18Speaker 03

  Yeah, cause there's no way is your shoes, if an impact takes off your shoes.

• 1:13:23Trevor Noah?

  Ah, you're not there anymore, man. They use that as a proxy for.

• 1:13:25Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 1:13:27Trevor Noah?

  Read it, read it, read it, read it on your mic.

• 1:13:30Speaker 06

  Shoes come off during severe accidents because extreme physical forces, sudden stopping, and violent body movements overcome the hold of the footwear.

• 1:13:40Trevor Noah?

  So this makes complete sense. You know why? Because if I think about it as well.

• 1:13:44Speaker 03

  Thank you, Semi.

• 1:13:45Trevor Noah?

  And one of the times when I would also lose my shoes the most is if I'll try Spansula dancing. Read all the descriptions there. Violent movements? Say them again.

• 1:13:56Speaker 06

  Extreme physical forces.

• 1:13:57Trevor Noah?

  Wait, wait, I'll show you, I'll show, on each one. Extreme physical forces.

• 1:14:00Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:14:01Trevor Noah?

  Yes.

• 1:14:02Speaker 06

  Sudden stopping.

• 1:14:03Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:14:06Speaker 06

  And violent body movements.

• 1:14:18Trevor Noah?

  You, you laugh, but you know what? To help people who watch this, you must put on a little Spansula video under me while I'm talking and you must show the feet and everything so people can see.

• 1:14:27Speaker 03

  The violent stops.

• 1:14:28Trevor Noah?

  The violent stopping.

• 1:14:29Speaker 01

  Yeah, cause that's sudden.

• 1:14:29Trevor Noah?

  And the sudden movement. And the.

• 1:14:34Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, if, if your shoes are off, it's try time for you. Does, does a funeral, when you're at a funeral, does it make you start thinking about your life? Like, cause you've been to a lot of funerals, I feel like.

• 1:14:46Speaker 01

  Yeah, like, it's so funny, like literally over the last few years. It's like, I never went to funerals.

• 1:14:52Trevor Noah?

  And then?

• 1:14:52Speaker 01

  And then it's just funerals. So, it's so funny for me, it doesn't make me think about my own mortality. I just think about the person who, I'm, I'm like, oh wow, like I can't be with this person anymore.

• 1:15:04Trevor Noah?

  That's beautiful.

• 1:15:05Speaker 01

  But I, maybe I don't think about mortality because I'm like, guys, why? I mean, it's all gonna happen at some point, right? And I kind of, but also partly, I think I've said this before. Partly, maybe, maybe the reason I don't think about it anymore is because I thought I was gonna die young, right? And then, and then now I've gone past that age where I thought I was gonna die. I was like, ah, okay.

• 1:15:32Trevor Noah?

  What limit did you give yourself?

• 1:15:33Speaker 01

  What, I gave myself a limit of forty-one.

• 1:15:38Trevor Noah?

  Really?

• 1:15:38Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:15:39Trevor Noah?

  You thought by forty-one there'll be curtains?

• 1:15:40Speaker 01

  Yes, because my father died young at twenty-six. My grandfather died at forty-one. And I was like, okay, I think that.

• 1:15:46Trevor Noah?

  You had no record of somebody living beyond.

• 1:15:49Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 1:15:49Trevor Noah?

  So in your family, there's no pictures of old people?

• 1:15:52Speaker 01

  No, no, from my, from my dad's side.

• 1:15:54Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, there's no old people.

• 1:15:55Speaker 01

  Yeah, that, yeah, no old people. And so.

• 1:15:58Trevor Noah?

  I actually never thought about that.

• 1:16:00Speaker 03

  Your ancestor looks younger than you currently. And you have Nivea.

• 1:16:04Speaker 01

  Yeah, and it's male figures.

• 1:16:06Speaker 03

  Yeah, that's what I'm saying. When people are like, oh, that's my grandfather, you're like, yeah? Nigga was twenty-six going, damn, bro.

• 1:16:13Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:16:14Speaker 03

  Then people look at you like you've had a hard life.

• 1:16:15Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:16:16Speaker 03

  They're like, no, I've lived twice.

• 1:16:17Speaker 01

  Their age, yeah.

• 1:16:19Speaker 03

  That's crazy.

• 1:16:19Speaker 01

  Which is, which is insane. And then I was like, yeah, I think, but then what I found interesting was that I remember reading like a Bill Clinton autobiography. And Bill Clinton wrote, and I remember like, god damn, I have the same fear. Cause his grandfather died young, his father died young, and he thought I was gonna die young.

• 1:16:35Trevor Noah?

  That's why he lived like it was his last day.

• 1:16:38Speaker 01

  And he did, then the Oval Office.

• 1:16:43Speaker 01

  And Winston Churchill, same thing. He also thought I was gonna die young.

• 1:16:47Speaker 03

  I reserve my rights and not incriminate myself.

• 1:16:51Speaker 01

  Depends what.

• 1:16:52Speaker 03

  Yeah, guys, what, what do you call again? Thirty-fifth amendment. Yeah, numbing guys, I'm fucking up.

• 1:16:59Speaker 03

  I'm fucking up, guys.

• 1:17:01Speaker 01

  But my, my, my, my, my best Bill Clinton quote is when he was being, I think he had to deposition, that, yeah, that's what it was. And, and, and, and then someone asked him a question and Bill Clinton said, it depends on what a definition of the word is, is.

• 1:17:21Trevor Noah?

  I was like, can't start that guy.

• 1:17:24Speaker 01

  And I was like, I've never heard anybody say anything like that.

• 1:17:28Trevor Noah?

  I'll say, that is a person who has had a long life of infidelity. If I think of like how Eugene would think of it, cause I'm like, that's a person who's like, so when you say, when you say were, were you, were you, what word do you mean?

• 1:17:47Trevor Noah?

  When you say were.

• 1:17:48Speaker 01

  Where?

• 1:17:49Trevor Noah?

  When you say who is she, what do you mean by she?

• 1:17:52Speaker 01

  What is the word?

• 1:17:53Trevor Noah?

  You mean who, who is she, is she as a person? Who is she?

• 1:17:57Speaker 03

  To me?

• 1:17:58Trevor Noah?

  To her family? Who is? That's what that sounds like to me. So what's beyond, I mean, you live your whole life thinking forty-five, that's it.

• 1:18:07Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:18:07Trevor Noah?

  Then what's beyond forty-five? I mean, forty-one, what's beyond that?

• 1:18:10Speaker 01

  Beyond.

• 1:18:11Trevor Noah?

  What do you replace that with?

• 1:18:12Speaker 01

  It's like, it's confusion. Because you, I suppose, cause you'd set this limit, I think, for yourself. And so, for example, where I was like, I'm not gonna have kids because I'm gonna die young, right? And then I'm not gonna get married because I'm gonna die young, right? And then now, all of a sudden, those things are like, god damn, I'm not dead. So I have to rethink what I'm gonna do with my life.

• 1:18:38Trevor Noah?

  And every loan you've taken out, if you were sure you were leaving. Kai was a big boss out there. Put it on my loan account.

• 1:18:46Speaker 03

  It says thirty-six months, Kai was like.

• 1:18:48Trevor Noah?

  Put it on. Kai was like, I'm outie. Kai was like, how many months to pay?

• 1:18:53Speaker 01

  I'm gonna be out there.

• 1:18:54Trevor Noah?

  Oh, yeah. Twenty-four month contract.

• 1:18:56Speaker 03

  I got it.

• 1:18:59Speaker 01

  And now age.

• 1:18:59Trevor Noah?

  And now Kai's, they're like, so guys, let me show you a picture of my grandfather. So this is my grandfather.

• 1:19:06Speaker 03

  I know what you're thinking. I know what you're thinking. Nigga was only using sunlight, so.

• 1:19:11Trevor Noah?

  I actually didn't know that. So, so a lot of how you planned or how you were living your life is because you assumed, is that, I mean, not why you're so outgoing and so like gregarious, but damn, Sam, gregarious, he is though.

• 1:19:25Speaker 03

  Semi.

• 1:19:26Speaker 01

  Oh, oh, that's so funny.

• 1:19:30Trevor Noah?

  Before we carry on, cause I want to put gregarious over your head now as you're speaking.

• 1:19:40Trevor Noah?

  Gregarious is an adjective that means fond of company, sociable, or tending to live in groups. Does not, not describe you perfectly?

• 1:19:49Speaker 01

  That does describe me well.

• 1:19:50Trevor Noah?

  Perfectly?

• 1:19:51Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:19:51Speaker 03

  Wow.

• 1:19:51Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah. But, but also.

• 1:19:54Trevor Noah?

  Cause I confuse gregarious and verbose.

• 1:19:56Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:20:00Speaker 01

  Verbal living.

• 1:20:05Trevor Noah?

  The unnecessary use of additional. Words and phrases.

• 1:20:10Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:20:11Trevor Noah?

  What is, what is it this?

• 1:20:12Speaker 01

  Hey.

• 1:20:13Trevor Noah?

  Verbos mean, means using or containing more words than are needed.

• 1:20:18Speaker 03

  Okay, scratch that one, a equal up. Gregorius, yeah.

• 1:20:21Trevor Noah?

  Yeah. No, but it was that like, because you, you, you know more people than anyone I know. May, maybe, maybe Lawrence, maybe, but I still think you know more.

• 1:20:31Speaker 03

  Hmm.

• 1:20:32Trevor Noah?

  I've never been out to lunch, dinner, or in public with Kaya and not had Kaya greeted by somebody.

• 1:20:38Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:20:38Trevor Noah?

  In a very familiar way.

• 1:20:40Speaker 03

  Mm hmm.

• 1:20:41Trevor Noah?

  Like genuinely, I remember once we were with somebody who's not from South Africa and they asked us, someone in our friend group, but they said, they were like, is he, is he like, is he like the mayor or something? What does he do? Like, is he, is he like, is he the mayor?

• 1:20:56Trevor Noah?

  Cause everywhere you go, you don't, you don't sit down at a restaurant. I would say it takes five to 10 minutes for you to sit down when you go to a restaurant. Yeah. I would hate to be his partner. It's terrible.

• 1:21:08Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:21:09Trevor Noah?

  Because you, you get there and then before you sit, oh, table, oh, table, oh, table. You know, like in The Godfather.

• 1:21:16Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's how Kaya is. Damn, Kaya kills babies and everything?

• 1:21:20Trevor Noah?

  Everything, bro.

• 1:21:20Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:21:21Speaker 03

  Send them my prayers and tenders.

• 1:21:24Speaker 01

  No, no, but it's, it's, I don't know. It's like, but then again, it's that, I don't know if it's a personality thing or that's why, but, I mean, that I think that was partly the reason, actually, uh, I think I, I wrote books in the beginning.

• 1:21:39Trevor Noah?

  Because you thought you were leaving.

• 1:21:41Speaker 01

  I'm gonna, I'm gonna be dead, at least I've left something behind.

• 1:21:43Trevor Noah?

  You know what's actually beautiful about this, funny enough, is they say, and it's, I know it's a, it's a platitude.

• 1:21:49Speaker 01

  Hmm.

• 1:21:50Trevor Noah?

  But they always say, live as if you are going to die.

• 1:21:56Trevor Noah?

  And people always like, yeah, well, of course we're gonna, it's like, no, no, no, no. Everyone goes like, oh, you're gonna die, but people don't actually live as if they are going to die. And it's interesting that you now say that because it's like you were living like you were going to die. So you're like, let me write books so that I've left something and I've told my stories and I've like, you know, my family and our histories and our lives. You, you, you know what I mean? It's like this whole vibe.

• 1:22:18Speaker 01

  Hmm.

• 1:22:18Trevor Noah?

  So now what's, what's changed, as Eugene says, now that you've, you've ticked the.

• 1:22:22Speaker 01

  It, like, like I said.

• 1:22:23Trevor Noah?

  Now that the, the odometer, so that it can go further.

• 1:22:26Speaker 01

  It can go further, it's like, ah.

• 1:22:27Trevor Noah?

  It went to nine, nine, nine, nine, then it clicked back. Then you're like, how? Back to zero.

• 1:22:30Speaker 01

  And I was like.

• 1:22:31Trevor Noah?

  The year 2000.

• 1:22:32Speaker 01

  Yeah. Can I tell you, like, it's, you're right, it's been, it's been, it was for maybe a solid four years where I was a bit, where I couldn't find or place myself properly because.

• 1:22:44Trevor Noah?

  Damn.

• 1:22:44Speaker 01

  I was, uh, but I, I didn't figure that out yet. And I think when, when the penny dropped, I was that flip, it's because I thought I was going to die. This is why my life just feels like all over the place and I haven't really defined the, the second stage of my life. Because what I thought was gonna happen hasn't happened. And so how do I plan my life now? Because I need to plan my life. And it's almost like I'm starting from zero. And that's what I, I, that's what's happening now. And I can see that evolution and I think I can, I can feel it in myself and it's, and I feel a little bit different, I think, because of that.

• 1:23:24Trevor Noah?

  Does it bring you relief or does it bring you discomfort?

• 1:23:28Speaker 01

  It's, oh, that is a very good question. I think that actually it gives, it's, it's a, it's a bit of both. And I like the discomfort of wanting to try new things, you know, um, things that, I mean, for example, there, there's a thing that I've always said to myself, which is like, the one thing I know I'll never, ever be able to do is to start a business. Like, I don't think that I have the capacity for it. I don't think I have the, the, the, the, you know, the, the mental aptitude for it. But now I'm actually seriously considering like, you know, doing something like in this sign, you know, a business that I'd love to, you know, to, to be involved in and start in, which is completely different from anything I've ever done in my life, like completely outside.

• 1:24:12Trevor Noah?

  I love that for you. I will say one thing. If there's one thing that will kill you, it's starting a business. I'm just gonna tell you as your friend.

• 1:24:20Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 1:24:24Trevor Noah?

  That man.

• 1:24:25Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:24:27Trevor Noah?

  Death is such an interesting, Eugene and I were, uh, were hanging with my mom yesterday. And it was so funny. She was so annoyed. So my mom was devastated and I mean devastated at the news of Dolly Parton's passing.

• 1:24:42Speaker 01

  Oh, yes.

• 1:24:43Trevor Noah?

  My mom, she sort of lives in a time capsule. There's the life she lived before finding Christ.

• 1:24:52Speaker 01

  Hmm.

• 1:24:52Trevor Noah?

  And then there's her life in Christ.

• 1:24:54Speaker 03

  Hmm.

• 1:24:55Trevor Noah?

  That period is almost like stasis because it's like, the Bible doesn't change, the scripture doesn't change, you know, and she's comfortable in that world. But then there's this world that she still loves and fondly remembers and all of that. So that's when she was listening to secular music and she was like part of the world and all. Those things hold a special place in her heart.

• 1:25:12Speaker 03

  Mm hmm.

• 1:25:13Trevor Noah?

  Bro, let me tell you something. People have died and my mom be like, oh, I heard whoever passed away, oh, I'm, you, I can't believe it, I can't believe it.

• 1:25:20Speaker 01

  Mandela died.

• 1:25:21Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, those vibes, those guys.

• 1:25:23Speaker 03

  This guy, you took it there.

• 1:25:25Trevor Noah?

  Let me tell you something.

• 1:25:26Speaker 03

  Now, when the.

• 1:25:29Speaker 03

  Ah, you shot too high.

• 1:25:32Speaker 03

  You didn't even start here.

• 1:25:35Speaker 03

  You went straight to Tata. Dude, not my satini, nothing.

• 1:25:41Trevor Noah?

  She was shaken, eh?

• 1:25:42Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 1:25:42Trevor Noah?

  Like shaken, shaken.

• 1:25:43Speaker 01

  I can't believe it. I get it. I get it.

• 1:25:46Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, she was shaken and I've tried to break it down to understand why. And I think it's a few reasons because I was talking to her about it and I was like, I think she was shaken for, let me go, I go, I think she was shaken by Dolly Parton's passing. One, because Dolly Parton defined an era of my mom's life.

• 1:26:05Speaker 03

  Right.

• 1:26:05Trevor Noah?

  And you know when an artist defines an era of your life?

• 1:26:08Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 1:26:09Trevor Noah?

  When they die, it sort of makes you feel like that era of your life has died as well.

• 1:26:13Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:26:14Trevor Noah?

  You know?

• 1:26:14Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:26:15Trevor Noah?

  Um, I think her dying also shook my mom a little bit because I guess she saw her as a peer in age in a way. So she's like.

• 1:26:25Speaker 03

  As an icon as well, yeah.

• 1:26:26Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, no, but there's, before that, it's like, just like, this is like the person I'm in line with.

• 1:26:30Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:26:31Trevor Noah?

  Then there's the icon of like, oh my goodness, Dolly Parton.

• 1:26:34Speaker 03

  Right.

• 1:26:35Trevor Noah?

  Because some people seem so larger than life. It's almost like the, the idea of them. Dolly Parton becomes ephemeral as opposed to concrete.

• 1:26:44Speaker 03

  Yes, yes.

• 1:26:45Trevor Noah?

  Dolly Parton is an idea.

• 1:26:47Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:26:47Trevor Noah?

  Dolly Parton, no one's even like, where is she right now? She's, she's Dolly Parton.

• 1:26:50Speaker 01

  That's true, yeah.

• 1:26:50Trevor Noah?

  Then when you go, she's dead, it's like, wait, what do you mean? What do you mean she, I didn't even know she was like alive. I thought she was just.

• 1:26:56Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, a continuing, yeah.

• 1:26:59Trevor Noah?

  Fully shaken.

• 1:27:00Speaker 03

  That's actually a good description.

• 1:27:01Trevor Noah?

  So now I'm on my way to pick up my mom, you know, it's Sunday, we're gonna go get lunch, the usual thing. And now I'm like, oh man, Dolly Parton, and I'm, because I saw the email my mom sent me in the morning. And I was like, oh, let me like play Dolly Parton's greatest hits and, and, because that's my childhood. So now I'm, I'm in the car, oh, having the time of my life, busy there, singing there, enjoying myself, you know? Get to, uh, my mom's place, she gets in the car, she's like, ah, she's like, turn it off, turn it off, huh? She's dead. Then I'm like, what? Yeah, that's why I'm playing the music. She's like, no, no, no, uh, no, no. And I've never genuinely, she's not like that kind of, she's like, no, no, please, no, no, no, no, no, no.

• 1:27:43Trevor Noah?

  No, uh, play, um, um, uh, uh, play, play, I, I, I called to say I love you, please, just, uh, called. Uh, just called. Then I was like, who, um, because the title didn't come to my head immediately. Yeah, then I was like, who? She's like, uh, the, the, the, the, the blind guy, man, the blind guy. And I was like, oh, Stevie Wonder. She's like, yeah, yeah. And I was like, damn, she's like shaken. And then during the day we talked about it. And it's,

• 1:28:14Trevor Noah?

  I know my mom is like one person, but I also started seeing like

• 1:28:19Trevor Noah?

  the impact that Dolly Parton had on people's lives.

• 1:28:25Trevor Noah?

  And people's lives that I don't think anyone could have ever predicted. I can see Dolly Parton, a country superstar, having an impact on many parts of America's lives. I can see Dolly Parton, an American, having an impact on many parts of American lives. You know, regardless of where they live, et cetera, et cetera. Bruh, I, I really hope Dolly Parton knew that in random parts of Africa and I'm sure other parts of the world, there were black people going, you are my person.

• 1:28:57Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's very true.

• 1:28:58Trevor Noah?

  Not just because of your music, not just because of your message, but even in the way she lived after that.

• 1:29:03Speaker 03

  Yeah, she lived her life, yeah.

• 1:29:04Speaker 01

  She lived amazing.

• 1:29:05Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, but, and how she lived it, the, the fights that she fought, the sides of history she chose to be on, the, you, you, you get what I'm saying?

• 1:29:14Speaker 01

  When everything about where she came from.

• 1:29:16Trevor Noah?

  Yes.

• 1:29:16Speaker 01

  Told her to behave in a very particular way.

• 1:29:18Trevor Noah?

  Not being apologetic as well.

• 1:29:19Speaker 01

  And not being apologetic, you're right about it.

• 1:29:21Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 1:29:21Speaker 01

  Sorry, incidentally, when it said that, uh, your mom asked you to play I Just Called to Say I Love You, do you know why that song was written?

• 1:29:29Trevor Noah?

  No.

• 1:29:31Speaker 01

  He wrote, Stevie Wonder wrote that song as to Madiba while he was in prison.

• 1:29:38Trevor Noah?

  That song to Nelson Mandela?

• 1:29:39Speaker 01

  Yes. I just called to say I love you. Yeah.

• 1:29:44Trevor Noah?

  Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

• 1:29:46Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 1:29:46Trevor Noah?

  Stevie Wonder.

• 1:29:47Speaker 01

  Stevie Wonder.

• 1:29:48Trevor Noah?

  Wrote that song.

• 1:29:50Speaker 01

  Dedicated to Madiba.

• 1:29:51Trevor Noah?

  To Nelson Mandela.

• 1:29:52Speaker 01

  Nelson Mandela.

• 1:29:55Trevor Noah?

  What?

• 1:29:55Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 1:29:57Trevor Noah?

  Damn.

• 1:29:58Speaker 01

  Yeah. And, and, and of course, happy birthday to you, MLK.

• 1:30:04Trevor Noah?

  Yo, that's crazy, bro.

• 1:30:06Speaker 01

  Yo, but that's, sorry, we're talking about.

• 1:30:07Trevor Noah?

  You know what I'm thinking now? The comedian part of my brain.

• 1:30:09Speaker 03

  Don't, don't.

• 1:30:10Trevor Noah?

  The comedian part of my brain.

• 1:30:12Speaker 03

  Don't shoot.

• 1:30:12Trevor Noah?

  Just for comedy, just for comedy, not for real life. Okay, so me, put comedy disclaimer.

• 1:30:19Trevor Noah?

  The following is not appropriate for sensitive viewers. Viewer discretion is advised.

• 1:30:23Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:30:24Trevor Noah?

  Just for comedy. I'm picturing now, the song comes out, mega hit all over the world. Nelson Mandela's in Robben Island, he's in prison. The, the, the guard comes through, busy playing it on a mini radio, I just called to say, ah, you know, Mandela's like, ah.

• 1:30:43Speaker 01

  Just check there.

• 1:30:44Trevor Noah?

  He's, he's like, whoa, that song, what an amazing song, who's that?

• 1:30:48Speaker 03

  And the guard is like, uh, Mr. Mandela, that is, uh, the new song from Stevie Wonder. Then Mandela's like, oh, he has got a new song, it's so great, can you, can I hear it again?

• 1:30:57Speaker 01

  Like, I'll let you know when it comes on the radio again, sir. He's like, oh, okay.

• 1:31:01Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, because then you couldn't just play it again. So then he comes back like in the next hour block where they're playing, he's like, oh, Mr. Mandela, here it is, you can listen to it. Then Mandela, he's like, ah, I love this song, I love it. Then every day the God comes back, plays it for Mandela, every day is like, oh, wow, what a song, what a song, I can't believe it, I can't believe it. Oh, wow, wow, wow, what a song. And then the news comes out, someone reports on it. And then the God comes, he's like, Mr. Mandela, Mr. Mandela is like, ah, how are you, bro? Then he's like, Mr. Mandela, I heard the most amazing thing today, Stevie Wonder was doing an interview.

• 1:31:32Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 1:31:33Trevor Noah?

  And he said, that song, you know, I just called to say I love you.

• 1:31:36Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 1:31:37Trevor Noah?

  He wrote it to you.

• 1:31:40Speaker 01

  What do you meant to me?

• 1:31:41Trevor Noah?

  It's like, he wrote that song to you, Mr. Mandela. Then Mandela was like, wow, that's okay.

• 1:32:07Trevor Noah?

  You know that, you know that line from that movie?

• 1:32:09Speaker 01

  That's funny.

• 1:32:11Trevor Noah?

  Every time I try to leave, the game keeps calling me.

• 1:32:25Trevor Noah?

  When I saw that twinkling in his eye.

• 1:32:34Trevor Noah?

  If you guys were like them.

• 1:32:38Trevor Noah?

  I'm sorry, man.

• 1:32:39Speaker 01

  Ah, that is good.

• 1:32:40Trevor Noah?

  But halfway through the story, I had hope.

• 1:32:43Trevor Noah?

  Like, there was time where you warned me over, I was like, ah, he's not gonna do it. Like, I, yes, I looked at him and I was like, yeah, who's up?

• 1:32:51Speaker 01

  Oh, man.

• 1:32:53Trevor Noah?

  That uppercut was unnecessary.

• 1:32:56Speaker 01

  Okay, hey.

• 1:33:00Speaker 01

  Sorry, I'm back, I'm back, I'm back. I'm back.

• 1:33:05Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, man, hey, flying, I'm flying too low to the stadium, guys. Sorry, sorry, sorry, hey, guys. Hey, flying too low to the stadium, guys, sorry, sorry, guys, hey. Sorry, guys, sorry, guys.

• 1:33:17Speaker 01

  That is amazing.

• 1:33:18Trevor Noah?

  Oh, man.

• 1:33:19Speaker 01

  Wait. Do you know, do you know what, who I saw, I, I was, I, what connects me to Dolly Parton?

• 1:33:25Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 1:33:26Speaker 01

  Guys, I don't know about you, but this was my life in Dolly Parton. Manual labour at home. Every Saturday, I'm there cleaning the stoop, red polish, playing Dolly Parton.

• 1:33:39Trevor Noah?

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:33:40Speaker 01

  And then I'm like, my mom wants me to use a brush so to clean the, the primary, primary stove so that it's like

• 1:33:47Trevor Noah?

  Yes.

• 1:33:47Speaker 01

  glistening and I'm taking the, like, newspaper, cleaning the windows and Dolly Parton is blasting in the background. That's my association with Dolly Parton.

• 1:33:58Trevor Noah?

  It's amazing, bro.

• 1:33:58Speaker 01

  Every single

• 1:33:59Trevor Noah?

  It's amazing.

• 1:34:00Speaker 01

  Saturday, we're playing Dolly Parton and that was happening. You guys don't, you, is it just me?

• 1:34:06Trevor Noah?

  No, no, no, so, it's, no, no, no, funny enough for my, maybe just because of age thing or where we were playing it. Dolly Parton was the music my mom played for me, that was her music. My stoop cleaning, sweeping music was all like Boyz II Men, Mariah Carey.

• 1:34:23Speaker 01

  Yeah, them, them too.

• 1:34:24Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, yeah, but what I'm saying is like, Dolly Parton for some reason was never played like around cleaning time. I was always there by the stoop, literally in my head, I was just like, we belong together.

• 1:34:35Trevor Noah?

  Our parents let us sing I'll Make Love To You just presently. Ah, my man, they were like, I'll make love to you. Yeah. Hey, my man.

• 1:34:45Trevor Noah?

  As long as the house is clean.

• 1:34:46Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:34:47Trevor Noah?

  You can sing what you want. Ah, skid, skid, man, ah, skid, yeah, cleaner lapo, from the window to the wall.

• 1:34:59Speaker 01

  That's a perfect, that's a perfect feeling song, actually.

• 1:35:01Trevor Noah?

  So she, but you see, Mina caught already story at the end, when I need you caught her.

• 1:35:06Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:35:06Trevor Noah?

  At the beginning.

• 1:35:07Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:35:07Trevor Noah?

  When she was telling you, and then at the end.

• 1:35:09Speaker 01

  Oh, at the end, man, she was, it was so funny.

• 1:35:11Trevor Noah?

  Because Mina was there, Kaya, participating, like, we all said that Dolly died. So then my mom, she like flips immediately, she goes from like mourning the loss, the whole thing. And then she's like, yo, by the way, she's like, did you see that she planned her whole funeral? And like, rehearsed it and I was like, what are you talking about? She's like, yeah, she saw this thing where planned it, rehearsed it, told everyone what it's gonna be, how she's gonna dress, whatever, she wanna be buried in high heels, whatever. Then I was like, oh, that's cool. Then my mom was like, no, she's like, what, control freak?

• 1:35:39Speaker 01

  Then I'm still going, yeah, that's very sad.

• 1:35:40Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, me and Eugene are both like, oh. Then my mom was like, aye, control freak. She's like, you're gone, why do you care what shoes you're wearing? Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're gone, what are you talking about? Then I was like, mom, that's, you can say, uh, and then the only, the only way I can get her to like, at least see a point of view is I'll go like, okay. In the Bible, how many people made requests before they died about what they would like to happen after they were dead? And then she was like, yeah, yeah, okay. Well, the people that did that. All the time, all the time in the Bible, all the time.

• 1:36:12Speaker 01

  Yeah?

• 1:36:12Trevor Noah?

  All the time. There's so many of them. Once I'm gone, you must do this, you must do, then you must go to where, where and do that, or I want to be buried like this. Um, I mean, like Moses was one, was like bury me on a mountain without my things and my this and my that. King David had his request as well, bury me like this and the thing must do that on my

• 1:36:31Speaker 01

  Oh, what is it, yeah, Peter, so he's, um, uh, bury me like, what is it? When they crucify him, it should be upside down.

• 1:36:40Trevor Noah?

  Yeah. Oh, then there was, um, Tupac said the hoes that I used to know from long ago, kiss me from my head to my toe. That's similar, but not the same.

• 1:36:53Trevor Noah?

  But he said it. But no, it's, it's, it's so, then she was like, okay, yeah, she's like, okay, I get it. So wait.

• 1:37:01Trevor Noah?

  Because she was also mentioning, people are doing final holidays, no? Uti, now people, when they know that they're, they're gonna die.

• 1:37:09Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:37:10Trevor Noah?

  They plan their death, they're gonna get that injection.

• 1:37:12Speaker 01

  It's funny, she was actually talking, my mom was talking about you without realising it.

• 1:37:15Trevor Noah?

  She was talking about you without realising it, she was saying, she's fascinated by people who like pre, like live the last years of their life, but like knowing they're going to die, or either like planning their death.

• 1:37:27Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 1:37:27Trevor Noah?

  Or whatever, you know, but they go, I'm gonna die, so I'm, this is my last big trip.

• 1:37:31Speaker 01

  Vacation.

• 1:37:31Trevor Noah?

  And this is my last, I'm throwing a big party and throwing a this and throwing a that, you know what I mean?

• 1:37:35Speaker 01

  Pay your barber in advance.

• 1:37:36Trevor Noah?

  Yeah. And then, but then we were having a discussion, we're like, maybe it's because we've never had the luxury, but we don't know of any like black people doing that ever.

• 1:37:46Speaker 01

  Yeah, I can't, I can't think of anybody, unless you are state president.

• 1:37:51Trevor Noah?

  But that's what I mean, like, we couldn't think of anyone saying, yeah, we're going to our last family trip because grandpa's going soon.

• 1:37:58Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:37:58Trevor Noah?

  Maybe like going away. Hey, yeah, but when your grandmother stops drinking Tab.

• 1:38:03Speaker 01

  That's funny.

• 1:38:05Trevor Noah?

  That's when you know. Maga shai coke straight.

• 1:38:08Speaker 01

  You're so funny, like, I remember, like, you know, like, in twenty fourteen from the World Cup in Brazil. My grandmother, you know, from my dad's side, you know, she was getting sick and, and she was just being hospitalized and you could see it as like the last few days. And I remember thinking, there's someone who better not die before I go to Brazil for the World Cup.

• 1:38:26Trevor Noah?

  Ah, Kaya.

• 1:38:28Speaker 01

  I swear to God, she hold, she held on.

• 1:38:32Trevor Noah?

  Because she was also there, like, yo, bro, I wanna watch the World Cup.

• 1:38:37Speaker 01

  And then I was like, held, she held on, I'm in Brazil and I'm like, eh, if I get any message from home, does this mean that I have to, you know, cut my ship, my trip short and then to fly, but back home? She hung on for another two weeks and then, you know, I got back, World Cup was over and I was like, well done, grand.

• 1:38:54Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, that's a Coco who loves you. Your grand, I, I'm betting your grandmother would love, would love you so much that she would hold on for you knowing that. Your grand also held on, no? I think she did.

• 1:39:05Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:39:06Trevor Noah?

  I told you that story, I think I did, right?

• 1:39:08Speaker 01

  Remind me?

• 1:39:09Trevor Noah?

  Where I came, I came back to visit one of my trips.

• 1:39:11Speaker 01

  Oh, yes.

• 1:39:12Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, and she was like, Trevor's here, and my mom was like, Trevor's not here, he's in New York, and she was like, nope, Trevor's here. And then I was here, I hadn't told anyone, it was supposed to be a surprise. I went to see her, she was there, and then she said, you came to say goodbye, and I was like, goodbye? Came to say hello, I just walked in the door, I thought it was like dementia or something, which she didn't have, I was just like, no, hello, I can say hello. She's like, oh, I thought I wasn't gonna see you before I leave, then I was like, what are you? But she was like very casual about it, then, and I, and my grand used to joke a lot, so I didn't assume, there wasn't a heaviness around it. But, yeah, and then I left, and then after that week, maybe like a few, maybe a month later, possibly, in her sleep.

• 1:39:47Speaker 01

  I remember that.

• 1:39:48Trevor Noah?

  She was just like, yeah, my nose is moisturized.

• 1:39:53Trevor Noah?

  And she knew.

• 1:40:12Trevor Noah?

  So, Kaya, this is exciting, before we go, what are, what are you gonna do now, new life, new life, new K? I'm excited, bro, I didn't know this, by the way.

• 1:40:18Speaker 01

  I'm gonna tell about it and invest in my business, as I was saying.

• 1:40:23Trevor Noah?

  What are you, but really, what are you, so, tell me some of the things, tell me, tell me some of the things you didn't even allow yourself the luxury of considering, that you now are considering and you're going like, actually, because I was afraid I wasn't gonna be here. I didn't even allow myself the possibility of thinking about it, but now I am, now I'm, what are you entertaining that you didn't because you thought you couldn't before?

• 1:40:45Speaker 01

  Being married.

• 1:40:45Trevor Noah?

  Love it.

• 1:40:46Speaker 01

  Um, I, I know, it's so funny because sometimes I think, I was like, well, I'm a bit older, do I want to have kids? And then I think, I mean, my father died when I was twenty six, you know, he was young and had kids, you know, you could die.

• 1:41:02Trevor Noah?

  Yes, yes. There's no, there's no, yeah.

• 1:41:05Speaker 01

  There's, there's, you know what I'm saying, and then even that. Yeah, so now that, thank you, I, I think so too.

• 1:41:10Trevor Noah?

  The only dad telling his little child about Bill Clinton's autobiography. You know what is, is.

• 1:41:19Trevor Noah?

  You'd be the only dad, no, but you would be. Your kids talking from the bedroom, mom, come fetch your man.

• 1:41:26Trevor Noah?

  Because you love, just like you love learning.

• 1:41:28Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:41:28Trevor Noah?

  You espouse curiosity.

• 1:41:30Speaker 01

  You love people.

• 1:41:30Trevor Noah?

  You, you love people, you, you know what I mean? Yeah, I can see that for you.

• 1:41:34Speaker 01

  Yeah, and then obviously, I'm like, I, I'm gonna take it brave step and just do something I've never done before.

• 1:41:42Trevor Noah?

  I love this. Which is what, Kaya? Return our text messages.

• 1:41:44Speaker 01

  I can't.

• 1:41:46Trevor Noah?

  Reply to our texts, now I get it.

• 1:41:50Trevor Noah?

  Guy was like, hey, guys, I can't respond, I might be dying. Guys, I might be dying. These blue ticks are not what you think. It's the blue ticks of death, boys. I can't respond.

• 1:41:59Speaker 01

  It's so funny.

• 1:42:00Trevor Noah?

  And you know Kai, Time Design, timely death using calendars. Chinese calendar, Gregorian calendar. Then there was that, what was that, the Inca one? Oh, yeah.

• 1:42:11Speaker 01

  But it's so funny, like, you just actually reminded me, like, I don't know. You're calling me, I think, I think you're Ryan. I don't know who else was in the car.

• 1:42:20Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 1:42:20Speaker 01

  I don't know what you're calling me about. And then the conversation ended, whatever. And then you call me like, like thirty seconds later, a minute later. And like, yo, the conversation wasn't done. Like, how are you ending conversations like that?

• 1:42:36Trevor Noah?

  So what Kai, what Kai does is. Ends it comes like a sitcom. He, he, he, you'll be talking.

• 1:42:43Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:42:44Trevor Noah?

  When you get to the end of a point or an idea, he then just automatically assumes that's the end of the conversation and then he stops. Terrible spum spum ticking.

• 1:42:53Speaker 01

  Wait.

• 1:42:54Trevor Noah?

  Terrible, terrible.

• 1:42:57Speaker 01

  He never got it.

• 1:42:58Trevor Noah?

  My friend.

• 1:42:59Speaker 01

  Wait, wait. So you'll be like.

• 1:43:01Trevor Noah?

  Okay, let's, let's do a conversation. I'll show you, let's go.

• 1:43:04Speaker 01

  Sure, sure. Eh, sure, chap.

• 1:43:07Trevor Noah?

  Keep on in love.

• 1:43:08Speaker 01

  Ah, no, I'm great, Eugene, I'm great, my man, how are you?

• 1:43:11Trevor Noah?

  Hey, I'm fine. Did you know that who, Stevie Wonder wrote that song? I just called to say I love you.

• 1:43:16Speaker 01

  Chap, I know, I read that, chap. Ah, yeah, I read it, chap.

• 1:43:19Trevor Noah?

  That's crazy.

• 1:43:20Speaker 01

  Yeah, man, that's wild, chap.

• 1:43:21Trevor Noah?

  That's crazy. Do, do, do.

• 1:43:25Trevor Noah?

  No, man, Kai. I phoned him back immediately.

• 1:43:28Speaker 01

  He did, and I was so confused.

• 1:43:29Trevor Noah?

  I phoned him back immediately and I was like, yo, what happened? Then he's like, what? I said, did you get, did we get cut off? He's like, no, chap, I thought we were done. I was like, my man, my man. No, brother.

• 1:43:40Speaker 01

  Wait.

• 1:43:40Trevor Noah?

  No, brother.

• 1:43:42Speaker 01

  Wait, why, why, why is Kai treating every conversation like it's a Morse code?

• 1:43:48Trevor Noah?

  Bruh.

• 1:43:48Speaker 01

  Do, do, do, do, do, do. Sekpelele.

• 1:43:50Trevor Noah?

  That's how Kai does it.

• 1:43:51Speaker 01

  Wait, how do you determine when it's over, Kai? I, I, I just think it's over. I, I don't have, I don't have, I don't, I don't have like a thing, but I just, there's a moment, ah, I think this conversation is over. And it's so funny because it's something I'd been told before that I end conversations awkwardly. And then for a while, it's okay, I need to be conscious actually of how I end conversations now. Cause I know I've got to wait for that. Okay, bye, bye, bye, bye.

• 1:44:17Trevor Noah?

  Yes.

• 1:44:18Speaker 01

  Okay, bye, bye, eh.

• 1:44:18Trevor Noah?

  And you trust her, dude, come on. On top of all of these things, we trust her.

• 1:44:21Speaker 01

  I know.

• 1:44:22Trevor Noah?

  We've never said goodbye at, like, one time.

• 1:44:24Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, nah, that's true.

• 1:44:26Trevor Noah?

  We said goodbye to my mom how many times yesterday?

• 1:44:28Speaker 01

  That's true.

• 1:44:29Trevor Noah?

  Six, seven times?

• 1:44:30Speaker 01

  Wait, wait, at the house.

• 1:44:31Trevor Noah?

  All over. We said goodbye in the car.

• 1:44:33Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:44:33Trevor Noah?

  Yes. Then we said, then we got out of the car and said goodbye. Then we walked her to the gate, then we said goodbye. Then we walked her in the house, then we said goodbye. And then she said, wait, can you just come with me to do something? Then we went with her. Then we went, we did things, did things, then we came back, then said goodbye in the car again, then said goodbye when we got out the car, then said goodbye at the gate again.

• 1:44:50Speaker 01

  And then, and then said goodbye inside.

• 1:44:52Trevor Noah?

  Yeah.

• 1:44:53Speaker 01

  And then you hooted, bap bap, the final goodbye. Yeah, I know, I know.

• 1:44:56Trevor Noah?

  So, but now here you are.

• 1:44:57Speaker 01

  Yeah, I know, I don't, I don't know why, I don't know, but it's like a thing.

• 1:45:00Trevor Noah?

  But I can see what, where it comes from. You know, black people, when someone has died, they'll ask you, what was the last thing that person said? Yeah, there's always that thing, yeah, I've been kulmanaizolo. We were having a conversation, he was telling me, yeah, no, I should have known, I should have read the sign. So Kai was like, you will never quote me.

• 1:45:17Trevor Noah?

  What was the last thing Kai? Do, do, do, that.

• 1:45:24Trevor Noah?

  Kai was like, you'll never quote me. Damn. Yeah, this is the thing we're gonna work on, man.

• 1:45:28Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:45:29Trevor Noah?

  But this is dope. I'm, I'm glad you actually told, cause you've never told me this.

• 1:45:32Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:45:32Trevor Noah?

  Now that you've told me, I'm excited to be part of like your new life. It's gonna be dope, man. I was, you know, it's been a year since we first.

• 1:45:40Speaker 01

  Exactly, a year.

• 1:45:41Trevor Noah?

  Do you realize?

• 1:45:41Speaker 01

  Santa Maria, you're right.

• 1:45:42Trevor Noah?

  Since the first time we hung out, you guys were the first, like, my favorite people.

• 1:45:46Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:45:46Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, exactly. Literally, it's been a year.

• 1:45:49Speaker 01

  Santa Maria, that's amazing.

• 1:45:50Trevor Noah?

  So another one, man.

• 1:45:51Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:45:52Trevor Noah?

  My man, I'm gonna celebrate your birthdays extra now. You know, I'm being serious.

• 1:45:55Speaker 01

  When is your birthday? April sixteenth.

• 1:45:57Trevor Noah?

  I'm gonna celebrate it extra now.

• 1:45:58Speaker 01

  But he's like, it's so funny, like, you last year, or the last year, you forced me to have my birthday because I was like, ah, I'm just landing from Canada, and Trevor's like, eh, good for you.

• 1:46:12Trevor Noah?

  We're doing this thing.

• 1:46:13Speaker 01

  We're doing this thing, yeah.

• 1:46:14Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, bro, I was like, and I didn't even know this.

• 1:46:16Speaker 01

  Yeah, and I didn't know this, yeah.

• 1:46:17Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, bro, let's do it. This has been dope, man. Thank you, guys. Here's to another year.

• 1:46:22Speaker 01

  Here's to another year.

• 1:46:23Trevor Noah?

  Another year.

• 1:46:23Speaker 01

  Or five.

• 1:46:24Trevor Noah?

  Another year.

• 1:46:25Speaker 01

  Or ten.

• 1:46:26Trevor Noah?

  Ah, let's do one at a time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We don't wanna fly too low, one at a time, guys. One at a time, guys.

• 1:46:34Speaker 01

  One at a time, man.

• 1:46:35Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:46:36Speaker 01

  One try, not three at a time. Yeah, dope, dope, dope.

• 1:46:42Speaker 01

  I just called, yeah?

• 1:46:44Trevor Noah?

  What is it, what is it?

• 1:46:46Speaker 01

  Ah.

• 1:46:46Trevor Noah?

  Wait, tell us.

• 1:46:47Speaker 01

  Stevie Wonder did not write, I just called to say I love you for Nelson Mandela, but he famously dedicated his nineteen eighty-five Academy Award for the song to him.

• 1:46:54Trevor Noah?

  Oh, it's close enough. Okay, okay, okay. No, it's not like a non-story.

• 1:46:59Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:47:00Trevor Noah?

  Okay, okay, okay. But thank you for that clarification, Stevie.

• 1:47:02Speaker 01

  I really thought, okay.

• 1:47:03Trevor Noah?

  No, no, but that's good.

• 1:47:04Speaker 01

  No, but, yeah, if you sing here, bambara in Jepo, I didn't, yeah.

• 1:47:07Trevor Noah?

  Yeah, yeah. At least now, now Mandela will be like, oh, that's better.

• 1:47:12Trevor Noah?

  That's better.

• 1:47:15Speaker 01

  That was so funny.

• 1:47:20Trevor Noah?

  What Now with Trevor Noah is produced by Day Zero Productions in partnership with Sirius XM. The show is executive produced by Trevor Noah, Sanaz Yamin and Jess Hackel. Rebecca Chain is our producer. Our development researcher is Marcia Robiu. Music, mixing and mastering by Hannes Brown. Random other stuff by Ryan Harduth. Thank you so much for listening. Join me next week for another episode of What Now.