A Case for Compassion

What Now? with Trevor Noah

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News, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week on the podcast… Amazon’s Wizard of Oz moment. Plus, Trevor invents a new dating app, why Josh has the perfect name for big corporations, and Christiana announces she’s raising the first Nigerian president of the United States. But the big idea Trevor, Christiana, and Josh get into: masculinity, violence, and why young people, especially young men, are harming others out of a genuine sense of alienation. And Josh makes a case for compassion (let the record stand, he’s no incel!).

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0:00.0	We need to give you an African name Josh.
0:04.0	Yeah, we need to find something for you.
0:07.0	I want to call you, I'm, we call you like Manta.
0:10.0	Manger would be a good South African name for you.
0:12.0	What does that mean?
0:13.2	It means strength.
0:14.7	I would give that to you Josh.
0:16.7	You know?
0:18.7	Why are you laughing at yourself Josh?
0:21.2	It's just...
0:25.0	A strength. Okay, so basically I was doing my meet and greet last night at the club after the show.
0:31.0	Yeah.
0:32.0	And there was a big man, big, big man, tall man, right?
0:35.3	And he was so excited, and he was like,
0:37.3	I've been watching you on Facebook,
0:39.4	and I'm so proud of you, and he grabbed my hand. And his his hand was so big and he was so strong that I we both heard my
0:46.7	knuckle pop and he shook my hand and then he was all like oh I'm sorry, I'm like, no, I'm good, and I'm literally trying to adjust my hand.
0:57.0	Oh, man, that is funny.
0:58.5	And so for you the next day to be like, straight.
1:01.5	I find that a lot of the African names that people have been
1:05.0	given have actually proved true in some way shape or form and so I feel like if we
1:10.9	give you Mandla then then you'll'll you know how do you say money muscles
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