Kareem Rahma: Content Overload

What Now? with Trevor Noah

SiriusXM & Day Zero Productions

News, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Trevor Noah sits down with comedian and creator Kareem Rahma to talk about the strange reality of subway fame and the unexpected success of his hit series Keep the Meter Running and Subway Takes. From New York survival stories to strong opinions about culture, behavior, and city life, the conversation moves easily between the observational and the personal. Along the way, the two explore modern storytelling in an era of digital deception, and why people still respond to the power of a good story well told.

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0:00.0	The show is really about, like, how to be a better man.
0:06.7	It's about fatherhood.
0:08.3	It's about the American dream.
0:10.7	And it's about immigrants.
0:12.0	It's really just about, it's an American story.
0:15.1	And it's awesome.
0:16.5	It's a fully American story.
0:18.7	I want my nickname to be the Arab patriot.
0:21.8	Could just be the patriot, but okay.
0:24.1	That sounds like a movie with like John Krasinski's shooting people in Saudi Arabia.
0:29.7	This is true.
0:30.4	It's crazy how John Krasinski has now been that guy, right?
0:32.9	It's because he's buff now.
0:33.8	Yeah, but still, I'm just like, it's funny how it, like, one minute, if you left the earth at like the peak of the office. Right. And then you came back now and you'd be like, Jim is shooting people now? That's the guy. It's such a... He might be in a movie called The Patriot. Yeah, maybe he is. Mendela Effect. Yeah, could be.
0:54.9	Could be.
0:55.7	The Arab Patriot.
0:56.9	The Arab Patriot.
0:58.0	Hmm.
0:58.4	I don't really want to be called that.
0:59.6	This is What Now with Trevor Noah. I think it is weird that I walk and eat. I don't think it's weird. I don't see that many people walking and eat.
1:24.6	Nobody walks and eats anymore.
1:25.6	I walk and eat all the time. I did it yesterday with a, like, a breakfast burrito. Nobody walks and eats anymore. Like a full-on, do you do a little burrito? Two-hand burrito or one-hand burrito? One hand, baby. Because if you're two-hand burrito-in-walking. You wouldn't catch me. You'd look like a crazy person. You can't catch me with two hands. Okay.
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