Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. So in my family, my
Speaker 1: two younger brothers are um uh so from my mother's
Speaker 1: second marriage, and so I'm still the only person in
Speaker 1: my family looks like this. So my my mom is
Speaker 1: African woman, black pass a woman. My my father Swiss
Speaker 1: from Switzerland, so he was a white man, and so
Speaker 1: I looked like this. And then my mom remarried a
Speaker 1: black man, and so my brothers don't look like me either, right,
Speaker 1: And I remember what was really beautiful was my brothers.
Speaker 1: We always spoke about this stuff. So my parents they
Speaker 1: were like, yeah, different dads, we get how this works.
Speaker 1: So my brother one day I picked him up from school, right,
Speaker 1: he's like he's really young at the time was maybe
Speaker 1: like so, I think it's the ninety maybe ten years old.
Speaker 1: And he gets in the car and he's like just deflated.
Speaker 1: He gets in the passenger's seat and he fastens his
Speaker 1: seat belts, and I'm like, what's going on, Isaac, And
Speaker 1: he's like, hey, Trevor, he's like, kids, man, I can't
Speaker 1: do this. Kids. So I go with kids, tell me more.
Speaker 1: And then he's like, I just I just don't know
Speaker 1: what to do with kids. Trevor. You know, like today
Speaker 1: one of my friends said, are we walking home? Then
Speaker 1: I said, no, my brother is picking me up. Then
Speaker 1: he said, ah, who's your brother? Then I said Trevor.
Speaker 1: Then now when we're walking, he sees you in the cart.
Speaker 1: Then he says, who's that? Then I said my brother.
Speaker 1: Then he says, but how can your brother? How can
Speaker 1: your brother be white? Then I said he's not white.
Speaker 1: He's not white, he's mixed. Then he said, but you're
Speaker 1: not mixed. You don't look the same. How can your
Speaker 1: brother not look the same? Then? So now I'm like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to like go through this. So then
Speaker 1: I'm like, so, so what did you say to And
Speaker 1: he's like, oh, Trevor, Like I'd have to explain it
Speaker 1: the way kids understand, he said. I just said to him,
Speaker 1: I said, realie, you've got to understand like people are
Speaker 1: like chocolates, okay, like like you can have like a
Speaker 1: white chocolate, and you can have a duck chocolate, and
Speaker 1: you can have a mold chocolate. But it's all nestly Okay.
Speaker 1: Any questions good? Okay? Yeah, house, oh house foufie. Wow
Speaker 1: that's deep cut man, You guys just asking me that,
Speaker 1: like just random. You gotta be like, hey, Trevor, so
Speaker 1: I read in your book and the you CAUs just
Speaker 1: be like house Fuffie because in my mind we knew
Speaker 1: who the hell no, because because Fruffie died, so for
Speaker 1: those of them. So I had a I had a
Speaker 1: dog when I was growing up. Like one of the
Speaker 1: dogs we had we um. My mom was working at
Speaker 1: a at a pharmaceutical company and her colleague came came
Speaker 1: to work when I was like, hey, my neighbor's dog
Speaker 1: um impregnated my dogs. And I have all these puppies
Speaker 1: I don't want and they're like this weird mix of
Speaker 1: like a Bulteria and a Maltese poodle. So do you
Speaker 1: want to take them? And then I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: I'll take two. And then my mom brought them home
Speaker 1: and I had never had a dog before, and I
Speaker 1: was like, this is the most amazing thing in the world.
Speaker 1: And so we raised them and it was two beautiful dogs.
Speaker 1: They look completely different, but they were sisters that were
Speaker 1: the best. Fuffie and Panther, and my mom called the
Speaker 1: one panther because she had a pink nose or the
Speaker 1: pink Panther and then uh and Fufi was like the dumbest,
Speaker 1: most beautiful dog ever and Panther was the smartest, ugliest
Speaker 1: dog you've ever scene, and so like like I loved
Speaker 1: Foofie the most because she just like looked really vicious,
Speaker 1: and I used to think that Foufi was really stupid.
Speaker 1: And then one day what happened was um, like at
Speaker 1: our house, somebody was trying to like come into the house,
Speaker 1: like like a family friend, and they were trying to
Speaker 1: open the gates, and then they moved the gate and
Speaker 1: then the gate fell and then Panther ran away because
Speaker 1: she they liked sleep by the gate, and then Panther
Speaker 1: ran but then Foofy didn't and then the gate hit
Speaker 1: her and then like it broke her spine was devastating.
Speaker 1: So then we went to the vet and then like
Speaker 1: the vet was like I can't help her, you know,
Speaker 1: we gotta put it down, put out of a misery.
Speaker 1: And the vet was like, but this was amazing. How
Speaker 1: were you guys, Like how did you guys raise a
Speaker 1: deaf dog? And we were like what And he was
Speaker 1: like like what do you mean a deaf dog? And
Speaker 1: he was like, oh, like afterwards, like I just when
Speaker 1: I was just going through examining her or she still
Speaker 1: like living, I realized that she wasn't born with I
Speaker 1: guess a certain part of the Cockley or something is
Speaker 1: when we're like, wait, this dog was deaf the whole time.
Speaker 1: I'm we just genuinely, I literally just be like Foufie
Speaker 1: set and you listen to me set Frufie, And I
Speaker 1: was like, ye's so dumb, Ye're so dumb. And I
Speaker 1: never knew that the dog. And then we realized what
Speaker 1: used to happen was when we'd call the dogs would
Speaker 1: be like Fufie Panther, and Fufie would never come, but
Speaker 1: Panther would come running sometimes and then she'd like look
Speaker 1: at you and then she'd run back, and then they
Speaker 1: would both come. And I always used to be like,
Speaker 1: Frufie's just dumb. And then I realized Panther was like, oh,
Speaker 1: she didn't hear, and then she'd go back and fetch
Speaker 1: her and then she then both of them would come,
Speaker 1: and then like now I went back and whether like
Speaker 1: that miss you. So that's how Foffie's doing. She's yeah
Speaker 1: in Africa, Like so my mom she would let me
Speaker 1: watch like a sex scene in a movie. She would
Speaker 1: be like, I don't care about that, but if kids
Speaker 1: were playing with food, she would make me turn the
Speaker 1: movie off. So whenever, so that whenever it was like
Speaker 1: I used to watch those high school movi bevis those
Speaker 1: American movies, and then you know, they'd always be a
Speaker 1: food fights in the cafeteria. Then my mom would be like,
Speaker 1: turn it off, turn it off. And then I'll be like,
Speaker 1: what do you mean. She's like, why a they're wasting food.
Speaker 1: Then I was like, it's a movie. She's like, but
Speaker 1: it's real food. It's real food. It's real food. Okay,
Speaker 1: how can you waste food like that? And then I
Speaker 1: was like like, look, it's like my mom was going,
Speaker 1: you know, you like parents would go their children starving.
Speaker 1: My mom was like, we are starving in Africa, We're starving.
Speaker 1: Why are they're wasting food? When is my mom going
Speaker 1: to be on the show. Never. Here's the thing with
Speaker 1: my mom two things. One, she has no interest in
Speaker 1: television or any of these things that I do. She
Speaker 1: just loves the fact that I can pay the rent,
Speaker 1: and she loves me for who I am. She genuinely
Speaker 1: does not care for all of these things, and I'll
Speaker 1: give you an example. This is how, this is how
Speaker 1: not interested in it. My mom is right my mom
Speaker 1: to Two and a half years ago, I met Lionel
Speaker 1: Richie for the first time, and growing up, Lionel Richie
Speaker 1: was the soundtrack to me and my mom's lives, right,
Speaker 1: So like Sunday Morning, she'd be playing Sunday Morning, It's
Speaker 1: of us. We'll be there, We'll be dancing together, play
Speaker 1: all of Lionel Richie song, will be singing them in
Speaker 1: the house together. And then I meet Lionel Richie. So
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is amazing. Lionel Richie. My mom and
Speaker 1: I used to dance to your music when I was
Speaker 1: a kids. We can I take a picture. I want
Speaker 1: to send it to my mom. I don't my mom
Speaker 1: doesn't care about any celebrity. So I'm like, this is
Speaker 1: the one time Mom was gonna be like, wow, you
Speaker 1: met Lionel Richie. So I took the picture and I
Speaker 1: sent it to my mom and then emailed it. I
Speaker 1: was like, Mom, look what do you think? And then
Speaker 1: she replied She's like, wow, are you getting fat? And
Speaker 1: I was like okay, but okay, let's move over that
Speaker 1: first of all, the camera adds twenty pounds. Um, but
Speaker 1: let's talk about the other person in the picture, Lionel Richie.
Speaker 1: And then she was like, oh yes, oh that's nice.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh okay, oh wow, okay, that
Speaker 1: that was the thing. She like, she just genuinely. And
Speaker 1: then like four or five days ago, I guess she
Speaker 1: was on the internet, which she doesn't regularly do. She
Speaker 1: goes emails and then she's done, and she was on
Speaker 1: the internet and then my brother like was going through
Speaker 1: pictures of me or something, and then she was like, hey,
Speaker 1: I saw a picture of you and Lionel Richie. When
Speaker 1: did that happen? As like it happened when I sent
Speaker 1: you the picture two and a half years ago. And
Speaker 1: then she was like which picture. It's like, oh the
Speaker 1: picture where you're fats. And then I'm like, ah, how's
Speaker 1: my grandmother doing. Oh she's fantastic. Man years old and
Speaker 1: ten months. Um, yeah, she makes she makes me count
Speaker 1: the years and months as well. Now it's a new thing.
Speaker 1: She's she's did she cook for me? No, she's too old.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, she's she even says to me.
Speaker 1: I was like, what do you do? Go? She's like,
Speaker 1: oh me, She's like, I just enjoy being a life.
Speaker 1: And then all all she does is she we're ready. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all she does is she she chills at home like
Speaker 1: she's got like a like her squad of grannies and
Speaker 1: they all just come and hang out and she it's
Speaker 1: like it's like it's like a weird team of like
Speaker 1: superheroes where they've all got their specialties. And then hers
Speaker 1: is that her memory is bulletproof. So all her friends
Speaker 1: ask her about things they forgotten about in life. But
Speaker 1: I'm like, like, she's got a better memory than me,
Speaker 1: my mom, everybody. She can tell you what your thing happened,
Speaker 1: what month, everything. And so her friends come over and
Speaker 1: they'll be and they'll ask like random questions, will be
Speaker 1: like no Liso, like where where did I meet my husband?
Speaker 1: And then she'd be like, oh you met it? And
Speaker 1: then she like tell stories and it's amazing to watch.
Speaker 1: And so all she does all day she just she
Speaker 1: loves writing. That's what she does. And I asked her
Speaker 1: why and she said she says, to be and know
Speaker 1: how to still read and write. Oh I'm so blessed.
Speaker 1: So that's all she does. Yeah, did I do anything fun?
Speaker 1: While I was on vacation. Actually I did, so I
Speaker 1: went back home to South Africa. UM, went to check
Speaker 1: up on Yeah, it was just fun. I went went
Speaker 1: to check on my like the foundation. UM went to
Speaker 1: catch up with my people. UM. And it's funny because
Speaker 1: every time I go home, people always shout at me
Speaker 1: about going home, which is a weird thing. So like,
Speaker 1: I'll get home. And then at the board of like
Speaker 1: literally customs, the woman was like, she's like, Trevor, when
Speaker 1: are you coming home? And I was like, I'm I'm home.
Speaker 1: She's like, no, but when are you coming home? And
Speaker 1: I was like, but I'm here right now. You're holding
Speaker 1: my passport. She's like, no, that doesn't count, Trevor. That
Speaker 1: doesn't count, Trevor. We miss you. Then I'm like, but
Speaker 1: it's not like you saw me like i'' like I
Speaker 1: was just running around in the streets every day. It's like, no, Trevor,
Speaker 1: come home. I'm like, I'm home. But then what was
Speaker 1: crazy and amazing was I saw I was in Cape
Speaker 1: Town and then my UM, a friend of mine called
Speaker 1: me and said, Yo, Trevor, what are you doing? And
Speaker 1: I said, I'm waiting. I'm going to go to an
Speaker 1: event later today, and he's like, oh, because the president
Speaker 1: wants to meet you. So it's like the president of
Speaker 1: what No, because I just didn't assume that the president.
Speaker 1: Like I was like, there could be like the president
Speaker 1: of this company, the president of like the students Association.
Speaker 1: I don't know. So I'm like which president and he's
Speaker 1: like the president of the country. And I was like
Speaker 1: like what did I What did I do? Like He's like, no,
Speaker 1: he just he just wants to like he wants you
Speaker 1: to come and say hi. So he wants you to
Speaker 1: come to like the like to to the presidential you know,
Speaker 1: the Presidential homestead in Kate Town and just come and
Speaker 1: say hi. I was like okay, okay. And so then
Speaker 1: I was with my friends and I was like, guys, come,
Speaker 1: we gotta go do this thing. And my friends like,
Speaker 1: all right, let's roll. And then they rolled with me.
Speaker 1: But I didn't tell him what it was. And I
Speaker 1: didn't realize in the moment that I didn't tell him
Speaker 1: what it was. So like my friends like wearing a hoodie.
Speaker 1: Mother friends were like a free T shirt. And then
Speaker 1: we and I'm wearing a suit because I'm going to
Speaker 1: another event. And then we get there and then they're like,
Speaker 1: what are we here to pick ups? And then I
Speaker 1: say to the person that count, I'm like, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: we here to see the president. And then my friends like, dude,
Speaker 1: I'm worry. And I was like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: that I didn't I forgot to tell you where we
Speaker 1: were going. And so then we went in and then
Speaker 1: we met the president and he was just very cool.
Speaker 1: It's like you know, and then my friends like he apologized,
Speaker 1: he like, I'm so sorry, Mr President. I did not
Speaker 1: know I was meeting a president today. That's where I'm
Speaker 1: dressed like this. And then the president was cool. He
Speaker 1: was like no, He's like, I didn't know I was
Speaker 1: meeting you guys. That's why I'm just like this. But
Speaker 1: it was cool. There's nice about it. And then just
Speaker 1: I don't know what the president was like Trevor, He's like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing now? Is that come with me
Speaker 1: to parliament? I want to introduce you. So it like
Speaker 1: takes me, you know, to our congress and it's like
Speaker 1: to parliaments and he's just like, just come with me,
Speaker 1: and so he's like walk with me. And now you're
Speaker 1: like on the presidential power walk and I'm like, just
Speaker 1: what do you do on this walk? And he's like,
Speaker 1: you just act like you're thinking of serious things. And
Speaker 1: and so I'm walking next to him the whole time
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, yes, nuclear war, immigration, unemployment. And
Speaker 1: so we walked together and then we get to Parliament
Speaker 1: and then when we got there, he introduced and it
Speaker 1: was one of the most surreal moments because it's one
Speaker 1: of those things that you you you you take for
Speaker 1: granted because it happens gradually in life. But I genuinely
Speaker 1: just had to breathe, like a few days after and
Speaker 1: be like, yo, you were in Parliament and the president
Speaker 1: of your country was like giving on of applause to
Speaker 1: Trevor nois giving back to the country and we love him.
Speaker 1: And and literally in that moment, I was sitting there
Speaker 1: and I was like, God, damn, where is my history teacher? Now? What? What? What?
Speaker 1: If there was one aspect of South African culture that
Speaker 1: I could transplant to America, what would it be? Huh
Speaker 1: what would it be? I think it would be, um,
Speaker 1: maybe our general easer talking about race and our racial past,
Speaker 1: you know, because South African America have very similar histories,
Speaker 1: you know, and that there was, like there were many
Speaker 1: things that were done to people of color that were
Speaker 1: extremely heinous, but we we just maybe because the Truth
Speaker 1: and Reconciliation Commission in our country, we were forced to
Speaker 1: talk about it, and we just talk about it. It's painful,
Speaker 1: but we laugh about it and it's out there, whereas
Speaker 1: in America, I found there's like a lot of tension
Speaker 1: in and around that. A lot of people are just like, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: well come on, we don't how do we have to
Speaker 1: bring that up? And it's like, dude, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: you did slavery. Calm down, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: because that's how a lot of people treated. They're just like,
Speaker 1: I wasn't there. I didn't say you were there. I'm
Speaker 1: just like, slavery happened, yeah, but I swear I wasn't. Dude,
Speaker 1: you thirty seven? Calm down, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And I feel like there could be It helps to
Speaker 1: be able to have conversations about those things, because then
Speaker 1: it helps you understand how you got to where you
Speaker 1: got to. But if you can't have those conversations, then
Speaker 1: you just have to operate in a blind space of like,
Speaker 1: how did this happen? You know why there's so many
Speaker 1: black people living this part of Harlem. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Why do you think? I don't know? Do you get
Speaker 1: what I'm saying? And it actually opens it up? I
Speaker 1: think that would be like the one part And it
Speaker 1: doesn't fix everything. Don't get me wrong, but I do
Speaker 1: think it makes it easier to address issues, to have
Speaker 1: conversations when you can just be like, yeah, man, this
Speaker 1: should happened. You know what I mean? It can just
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, that was that was crazy, that was wild,
Speaker 1: that that happened, That this happened, that you and and
Speaker 1: then and that's the thing. A lot of time people
Speaker 1: think it's about a signing blame, but it's not. It's
Speaker 1: about addressing what happened so that everyone can move forward
Speaker 1: and understand why things need to be fixed or how
Speaker 1: they got there in the first place. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: Like imagine imagine if like your your doctor, like you
Speaker 1: want to talk to your doctor about something that happened
Speaker 1: inside your body, and then you know your your doctors
Speaker 1: skans and then you're like, I think I think I
Speaker 1: might have like a cancer doctors like I wasn't there,
Speaker 1: I wasn't eating with you. You're like no, I just
Speaker 1: need you to help fixing it. Yeah, I wasn't there
Speaker 1: though I wasn't eating. It's like, no, man, just chick out,
Speaker 1: you know, let's talk. That's the one thing I transplant.
Speaker 1: That and chickens that don't like do weights and stuff.
Speaker 1: That's the other part. Like chickens are just like are
Speaker 1: normal because American chickens is just like what what what? What? Like?
Speaker 1: Once I saw them, I was like, I'm sorry, what
Speaker 1: is that the thing I'm eating? Oh? Like, I remember
Speaker 1: when I first saw a chicken wing in America. This
Speaker 1: is the this is the dumbest thing you've ever heard.
Speaker 1: And you're gonna judge me, but I judge you back.
Speaker 1: I remember the first time I had a chicken wing
Speaker 1: in America. Is like I ordered like buffalo wings. Okay,
Speaker 1: And I know this sounds crazy, but the reason I
Speaker 1: was intrigued because I showed on someone else's plate and
Speaker 1: then I was like, what are those? And someone said
Speaker 1: those are buffalo wings? And I was like, oh, is
Speaker 1: this like a part of the buffalo that I don't know?
Speaker 1: And I was like, I want to taste buffalo wings?
Speaker 1: And then I remember eating it and I was like,
Speaker 1: it's sort of like chicken and someone's like, it is chicken,
Speaker 1: and I was like, but it's buffalo, and then they're like, no,
Speaker 1: it's chicken. Then I was like, but what chicken is this?
Speaker 1: I was like, how big is the wing of this chicken? What? What?
Speaker 1: What dinosaur chickens do you guys have here? Because that's
Speaker 1: not the size of any normal chicken anywhere in the world.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I would. I would. That's the one other
Speaker 1: thing I would bring is just like normal animals. Normal,
Speaker 1: that's all. Yeah, I bring normal animals and conversations about race.
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