Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)
1/29/20261 hr 31 min
Trevor and Eugene go wild with world-class explorer and nature documentarian Bertie Gregory to tackle one of life’s most important questions: are animals assholes? From whale poop and chimp gangs to elephant stepdads and guanaco hunts, Bertie pulls back the curtain on the animal kingdom’s messiest, funniest dramas—before landing on the surprisingly moving truth about climate change and what’s at stake….for them, for our planet, and for us.
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First 90 secondsBertie Gregory· Guest0:00
[upbeat music] ... I- in, uh, in history, there have been these mass extinction events, and we're now in one. The- when the rate of extinction goes up incredibly high, there's sort of this big purge. And I think with, with humans, um, we often talk about wanting to save the world, when actually, in the long term- [chuckles] -well, the planet- World is fine ... It's gonna be just fine.
Trevor Noah· Host0:25
Mm-hmm.
Bertie Gregory· Guest0:25
It's just whether or not we- Yeah ... exist, or whether we exist on a place that's actually, you know, nice to be, we're not just sort of surviving.
Trevor Noah· Host0:33
I, I, I think that's where the groups that do these things have done really well. They have sort of participated in making us think of it as, "Save the world"- Mm-hmm ... which then arrogantly puts us at the center of it again, in, in the wrong way. You know, it's like, like- Yeah ... "Ah, do you want to save the world?" And it's like, "All right, world, if you need me, I'll save you." [laughing] And it's like, "No, no, no. No, no, no, my friend, no."
Bertie Gregory· Guest0:57
Yes.
Trevor Noah· Host0:58
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