If I Ruled the World: Tressie McMillan Cottom Throws Down

What Now? with Trevor Noah

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🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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For this round of If I Ruled the World, Trevor and Christiana and joined by friend-of-the-show Tressie McMillan Cottom. They’re trying to find ways to connect people and limit societal rot; one quarterly report, character count, and service job at a time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think he's going to run for office in South Africa.
0:06.4	Can I tell you, I told him that the first time I met him?
0:10.0	Trevor, you won't remember this, but I said, so what, you're going to go home and run for office?
0:14.4	No, no, no, no, no.
0:15.1	And you went, what?
0:16.2	He's going to be president of South Africa.
0:18.4	Zelensky used to be a comedian.
0:20.6	I, yes, and look at his life now. Only, okay. going to be a president of South Africa. Zelensky used to be a comedian.
0:23.1	Yes, and look at his life now.
0:25.3	Look at his life now. Maybe not a good example.
0:31.9	This is What Now with Trevor Noah.
0:36.9	Okay. with Trevor Noah.
0:45.3	Well, all right.
0:46.7	You ready to play something if I ruled the world?
0:47.2	I'm ready.
0:48.3	All right, let's do it.
0:51.0	This is one of my favorite games to play with people.
0:55.5	And there are a few people in the world who are more my favorite than Tressie McWillinkerton. I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why. So what I love about
1:00.0	playing the game if I ruled the world is oftentimes we think about the world in a gradual way.
1:06.5	And I think sometimes as people, we get bogged down in what we perceive possibility to be.
1:11.6	Oh yeah.
1:12.6	Right?
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