The first episode of Trevor Noah's new podcast just dropped and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is his first guest. The Spotify podcast 'What Now? with Trevor Noah' will feature all different types of guests, some considerably more famous than others. Noah tells The Hollywood Reporter he's as interested in booking scientists and CEOs as he is politicians, athletes and A-list stars, so long as they're interesting and timely.
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00:00 "If we cannot have conversations about difficult things, if the conversations themselves are
00:07 now the difficult things, then what hope do we have of fixing the difficult things?"
00:12 The first episode of Trevor Noah's new podcast just dropped, and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
00:16 is his first guest.
00:17 "Think about how far that was.
00:19 Think about how far you were from me in South Africa.
00:22 Think about how far I was from you in the United States.
00:25 And yet, in that moment, we were connected."
00:28 The Spotify podcast What Now with Trevor Noah will feature all different types of guests,
00:32 some considerably more famous than others.
00:34 Noah tells The Hollywood Reporter he's as interested in booking scientists and CEOs
00:39 as he is politicians, athletes, and A-list stars, so long as they're interesting and
00:43 timely.
00:44 When Noah does have an A-list star on the show, he insists he won't just be focused
00:47 on their next big project.
00:49 Instead, he sees his new platform as a space where he can speak to his subjects for an
00:52 extended period and really get to know them.
00:55 He tells THR of his podcast guests, "Hopefully you can get a deeper understanding of how
00:59 they see the world, and maybe even talk about how they feel about how the world sees them."
01:04 Noah's interview with Johnson is wide-ranging, covering everything from the actor's troubled
01:08 youth and lifelong struggles with depression, to him trying to process and make sense of
01:24 the blowback to him launching his fund following the Maui fires.
01:36 While speaking with THR, Noah also reflected on his time hosting The Daily Show.
01:40 He said, "The thing I miss most is easily the team and the people I worked with every
01:44 day.
01:45 The thing I miss the least is not having the time to process how I feel about an issue
01:48 and giving it time to develop.
01:50 From the very beginning, I never felt like it's necessary for us to necessarily engage
01:54 immediately on every single topic as it is happening before we know everything."
01:58 For much more from Noah's interview with THR, go to THR.com.
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