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What Now? with Trevor Noah

Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are A**holes)

What Now? with Trevor Noah

SiriusXM & Day Zero Productions

News, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.64.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Trevor and Eugene go wild with world-class explorer and nature documentarian Bertie Gregory to tackle one of life’s most important questions: are animals a**holes? From whale poop and chimp gangs to elephant stepdads and guanaco hunts, Bertie pulls back the curtain on the animal kingdom’s messiest, funniest dramas—before landing on the surprisingly moving truth about climate change and what’s at stake….for them, for our planet, and for us.

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0:00.0

In history, there have been these mass extinction events, and we're now in one.

0:10.4

When the rate of extinction goes up incredibly high, there's sort of this big purge.

0:15.0

And I think with humans, we often talk about wanting to save the world,

0:20.5

when actually, in the long term, world, the planet,

0:23.6

it's going to be just fine. It's just whether or not we exist or whether we exist on a place

0:29.7

that's actually, you know, nice to be. We're not just sort of surviving. I think that's where

0:34.8

the groups that do these things have done really well.

0:39.5

They have sort of participated in making us think of it as save the world,

0:44.0

which then arrogantly puts us at the center of it again in the wrong way.

0:48.4

You know, it's like, do you want to save the world?

0:51.2

And it's like, all right, world, if you need me, I'll save you.

0:54.9

And it's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, my friend, no.

0:57.9

Yes.

0:58.3

Do you want to be alive?

1:03.6

This is What Now with Trevor Noah.

1:27.0

All right. So now, I can ask you the question. So where are you coming from?

1:28.2

Mexico. All right. What were you doing in Mexico? So I was filming for a new project for Disney Plus, which that one is under NDA. So I won't be allowed to talk about that one. No, that one's a secret. About cartels. You have the most wholesome NDAs of anybody I know, by the way. Like other people who have NDAs is like, yeah, I know the drug cartel, yeah, the settlement, this whole thing. And then with Bertie, it's like, I have an NDA. Oh, why, Bertie? It involves penguins. It involves penguins. Penguin secrets. Yeah, penguins and whales and cheetahs and just cute little animals and I can't tell you their stories.

2:04.6

So, first of all, welcome.

2:06.6

Thank you.

2:07.6

Thank you so much for coming.

2:08.6

Just to give people a bit of context, even Eugene, everyone.

2:12.6

Like, Bertie is one of my favorite explorers in the world.

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