#257: Trevor Noah

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome the host of The Daily Show, host of On Second Thought: The Trevor Noah Podcast, available on Luminary, as well as the author of Born A Crime, now available in paperback, Trevor Noah, to the Upper West Side! Trevor talks growing up in Johannesburg, South Africa, getting his mouth washed out with soap by nuns at his Catholic school, his mother's conversion to Judaism and his subsequent Bar Mitzvah, his waning interest in playing sports due to competition, DJing twelve hour street parties and the insane way that cops put an end to his business. We discuss his job as a taxi driver on the Johannesburg streets, when he first touched a comedy stage, how his material would shine a light on the shifting culture dynamics in newly democratic South Africa, the scene of his most ridiculous comedy set, how he went where the work was, whether in Australia, Germany, England or the United States, and how his point of view was or was not accepted. Trevor talks about the feeling he got wearing a pair of Timbs on the Brooklyn streets when he first moved to New York, how he'd hustle from gig to gig around the city, which comedians looked out for him, his fan bases in Boston, Chicago and throughout Texas, and how he performs in a theater vs. a stadium vs. to a television camera. We get into his thoughts on blood relatives, providing extra content beyond his TV show, how strange it can be at celebrity galas, the most memorable pair of shoes he received from his mother as a kid, his problem with the industrial revolution's effect on human schedules, and much, much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Jeff.
0:01.0	Hey Eric.
0:02.0	How are you?
0:03.0	I'm pretty good.
0:04.0	How are you? Doing well, thank you. This weekend we went to Denver. We wanted to see our friends Chromeo in concert at the legendary music venue, Red Rocks. So we had it figured out perfectly. We were going to leave New York on a 5 o'clock flight. We were going to land just in time to make the half hour drive from Denver down to Red Rocks and just get there as Cromio was taking the stage,
0:23.1	it was going to be perfect. make the half hour drive from Denver down to Red Rocks and just get there as Chromio was
0:22.4	taken the stage. It was going to be perfect. But fate intervened because as we are 20 minutes
0:29.7	away from landing, the pilot comes on and says, hey, you guys in 31B and 31C, we're going to be taking a surprise trip to Colorado Springs.
0:43.7	The Denver airport is closed.
0:45.5	By the way, you know, surprises can be like nice.
0:48.1	This was not a nice surprise.
0:49.5	This was...
0:50.2	Well, it was definitely like, it was a surprise.
0:52.3	We didn't know whether it was nice or not.
0:53.6	We didn't know, like, what did you know about Colorado Springs beforehand? Because I knew. I knew. There was a minor league baseball team there. That everybody says it is the best place to live in the United States. That's not a joke. Everybody says that. I've never said that. All of the official charts say that it is the best place to live.
1:12.8	No, seriously.
1:13.4	If you look it up, you will see that everybody says that Colorado Springs is the best place in the United States to live.
1:18.6	Okay.
1:18.9	I'm going to tell you that the pilot did not say, hey, we're going to land and you're going to live there.
1:25.5	That is true.
1:26.4	He said you're going to land and then figure out your plans after that. So we thought, okay, maybe it's not that far from Red Rocks. Maybe it's not that far from Denver. It turns out it is an hour and a half drive to Red Rocks. And we had an hour and a half exactly until Cromio hit the stage at Red Rocks. And we had our luggage with us. So we couldn't stop at the Denver hotel that we had already booked to drop our stuff off. We had to go straight there and drop our luggage off somewhere. We could have thrown it in the bushes. We could have thrown it off a cliff. Or we could rent a car. So we were like, cool. Let's go downstairs to Enterprise, to Hertz, to Budget, to
2:02.6	Avis, whoever. Right. And let's get a car. And they were sold out. Absolutely sold out.
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