On Thanksgiving week, we give thanks to our listeners with a bonus episode where Trevor, Christiana, and Josh weigh in on your suggestions for their favorite game, If I Ruled the World. Suffice it to say the trio doesn’t hold back. Enjoy, thank you for being a listener, and Happy Thanksgiving!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the purpose of this Thanksgiving episode?
You're listening to What Now? with Trevor Noah. So it's Thanksgiving week here in the United States, and guess what? We have a little bonus episode just for you. Perfect to help spark a conversation at your Thanksgiving table. Yeah, and hopefully, hopefully, a conversation that won't lead to someone storming out of the room.
If you've been listening to the show for a while, you know that one of our favorite games is If I Ruled the World. And you probably know how it works. Everyone comes up with one suggestion. If you were in charge of the world, you could do anything, anything you want. What would it be? What would you change? You make your case, and then everyone votes on it.
And if you get enough votes, that change would happen in your hypothetical world. Well, today, it's If I Ruled the World, listener edition. We got a bunch of suggestions for ideas from you, the What Now? listeners, and Christiana Mbakwe-Medina, Josh Johnson, and I. Well, we run through them, and we decide if we would in fact want to live in your world. It's a fun one, so let's get into it.
This is What Now? with Trevor Noah. So before we get into today's If I Ruled the World chats, since it's Thanksgiving week, I've been thinking a lot about the kinds of conversations we have when we gather with friends and loved ones around the table. And a lot of people ask me this question. They'll say, oh, Trevor, what do you do with your family? Like, how do you keep it light?
And look, I don't have a perfect answer for this, but I noticed there was a distinct difference between in how some people started having their Thanksgiving conversations, especially over the past decade, let's say, and how we would gather with family members back in the day in South Africa. And the biggest one was we started all our conversations speaking about
Things that we all experienced, just taking people down memory lane, you know, connecting around like crazy stories, like, you know, grandparents would talk about the grandkids and how much they'd grown and like embarrassing stories from their lives.
And, you know, and then the parents would talk about their first time having a Christmas dinner, because obviously we didn't have Thanksgiving in South Africa, but we had family gatherings and family dinners where everyone came together at a certain time of year.
And what I noticed is if you start conversations with the fond memories that connect people, you spend less time in the politics of now that divides people. And it doesn't mean you can't talk about politics. I'm not saying that. But just remember what you're trying to do. You're trying to connect with other human beings around a table, sharing a meal. It doesn't matter what the holiday is.
That's fundamentally the purpose. And so if that's the purpose, think about the best way to go about that. It's finding a way to connect with another human being's heart. And a lot of the times, our memories are where our heart lives. So, I don't know, try it. Ask your parents about a funny story from when you were young that maybe you've forgotten about.
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Chapter 2: What is the game 'If I Ruled the World'?
Okay.
Let all the pores get on first, right?
And what's the point of the capitalism if you're not treated better? No, no, Josh is saying you are treated better because you get in a lounge for longer.
Yeah.
No, but then you lose the overhead space.
No, you don't because they save it for business class. They're supposed to save it. The only people who lose it are the people in the middle. They're screwed no matter who boards.
And they paid more for their ticket. Yeah, they did actually.
It's crazy. They did actually. Yeah. So you're a no.
Absolutely not. And I want Wi-Fi on a plane.
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Chapter 3: What are the Thanksgiving conversation tips?
All right. Josh? Yes, because it's barely real toilet paper. All right. Well, that's still two no's and one yes. Your If I Ruled the World was voted down. But thank you very much for listening to the podcast. We really appreciate you. Thank you so much. We're going to continue this conversation right after this short break. All right, here's another one.
If I ruled the world, high schools would start no earlier than 9 a.m. That's brilliant. Yeah, it's fine.
Teenagers need sleep.
Yeah.
It's cruel.
That's like part of the problem, actually. There would be more kids in extracurriculars if some of them weren't at like 7 a.m.
Extracurriculars?
Yeah. So like some of the clubs, like for instance, I did Quiz Bowl when I was in high school. You did what? It's like trivia for high school. I was a virgin. You did what? I just want to know what this is. Quiz Bowl is like...
Okay, it's like, imagine Jeopardy, but for everybody, and you go up against other schools, and you do Jeopardy pretty much, but it's not like the structure of picking off the board. It's like, I'm going to ask you one of the most random questions you've ever heard. You might know the answer, you might not, but your school gets points if you do.
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