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What Now? with Trevor Noah

If I Ruled the World: Petty is Power

What Now? with Trevor Noah

Spotify Studios

News, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The gang’s back with another If I Ruled the World. Christiana’s advocating for subsidized (and mandatory) world travel, Trevor’s looking to nix required friendliness, and Josh thinks the world should be a little more petty. Everyone’s in top form. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So if you go just to a resort and or you're like me and you're just in your air

0:06.1

B&B all day ordering Uber eats you're not really soaking up like the local place.

0:11.4

Okay, okay so we're agreeing yeah because that's what I was wondering is like sometimes I feel like people travel but they don't actually go anywhere and and I've seen this you know like you'll you'll go to different parts of the world and you'll find yourself in a

0:24.3

hotel somewhere and that hotel for all intents and purposes may as well be America

0:29.1

or England you know what I mean it's like this, this is your country, with your language, with your TV channels,

0:35.8

with your foods, with your...

0:37.7

And then all people want to do is sort of like gone like a safari into the local environment. See the people, don't really like be in the place, and then come back and be like I had a great time in

0:48.6

Costa Rica, I had a wonderful time, it reminded me a lot of Peru and it was also very similar to the Middle East.

0:58.4

It was great out there and it's like, no, you went to the same hotel everywhere in the world.

1:07.2

You're listening to what now?

1:08.6

The podcast where I chat to interesting people

1:10.8

about the conversations taking over our world. And today on the

1:14.5

podcast we're literally taking over the world with one of my favorite classic

1:19.4

thought experiments if I ruled the world.

1:24.6

By now you know the rules.

1:26.0

If you were in charge and you could change one thing about the way the world works, what

1:30.0

would you change?

1:31.0

And then after you make your case, we vote. Does your change go into effect or do we veto it?

1:38.0

Well, joining me today, writer, journalist and professional hater, Christiana Embagwa Medina, and writer, comedian and human

1:45.9

chill pill, Josh Johnson.

1:48.6

Let's get into it.

1:50.4

Is everyone on?

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