Trevor Noah CALLS OUT Neal Brennan for his racist antiques 😂
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- Trevor Noah and Neal Brennan discuss the racial and economic implications of items people buy. From the Blocks podcast with Neal Brennan.
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New Blocks w/ Trevor Noah tomorrow. Check out other episodes until then.
Make me
jk I will
Can’t wait! What time?
I knew it!
Love all these podcast episodes Neal
This vid after watching the whole podcast is way better in context than a standalone vid. Great click bait title. A bit dirty; but great.
Poor people cosplay as rich people and rich people cosplay as poor people.
Carpetbagger vernacular.
I saw a pair of jeans for $700.00 (yes, seven hundred!!!) that had holes, rips, tears and were deliberately dyed to look dirty.
Lot of labour went into making it look that way whereas in the real thing it was a lot of laboring 😅
This!!!!
One of the most American things is is for the oppressor pretending he or she are amongst the oppressed!! You can’t be both !!
So refreshing to see Trevor and Neal discuss sensitive topics without malice or anger. Their friendship allows them the comfort of familiarity and trust. If only more of us could engage in this type of dialogue… think how much we could learn from one another.👍
2:09 Chimamanda Adichie touched on this in Americanah: “Third Worlders are forward-looking, we like things to be new, because our best is still ahead, while in the West their best is already past and so they have to make a fetish of that past.”
Not sure about the "best is still ahead" part.
As a white person, I hav never understood pre-holed pants. it has always driven me insane.
I never bought into that fad. Paying good money to look like you raided someone's Goodwill leftovers.
"Oh im getting off the grid, i just bought a tiny house on a whim"
Some of us white people aren’t rich, but i would rather buy a 100 vintage dresser that is way higher quality than what a hundred bucks can buy new.
It’s not about being rich. If your entire life you were forced to pick up and use old dressers outside from what people threw away and dreamt of having a new one, you will not likely pick a vintage when you can afford a modern brand new one because the vintage is something you will now be sick of. It’s the same with any example. If you grow up in really hot parts of the world with little to no electricity, a safari or camping will be the last place you want to go on a holiday. It will take some time before you have a taste for those things again.
@@Etunu I appreciate that, but by not rich I mean I grew up working class, and I’m barely lower middle class but not really because of student loans. it only takes one garbage ikea dresser that tips over with a stiff breeze to realize new doesn’t necessarily mean quality. I grew up in a house with exclusively thrifted or hand me down furniture, and I I think I’ve bought three pieces of new furniture in my life. One was a three hundred dollar recliner that wouldn’t stay reclined. Sold it. Bookshelves for like 150 that didnt have the holes drilled, returned it. And an ikea bed frame for like 550 and it’s just ok. I think I’m going to save up for a high quality sofa that’s made in the USA, but it’s going to be like 5k. In the meantime I’m thrifting because I’m not going to drop 2k on an ikea sofa that is going to crap out and detracts from my ability to buy the sofa that will last.
I worked for a very fancy housewares brand, and i learned that a lot of housewares is total garbage designed for landfills. I also learned that having the high quality version of the tool saves you a lot of money in the long run. My $80 blender never worked right from day one. My vitamix bought on sale for 300 works and is going to last decades. I’m not going to buy an instapot because it’s a sub par version of three different small appliances. Instead I’m going to thrift the high quality versions of those three appliances or go without. I will go buy brand new high quality cookie sheets, but I just got a vintage Les cruiset pot for fifty bucks on eBay. I just refuse to hand over hard earned money to greedy companies for garbage. If I have to get garbage I’ll try to at least buy it second hand.
@@Etunubut like I think it’s different if you grew up poor and are now wealthy. Trevor can afford to buy new high quality stuff. I would go bankrupt trying to do that. So if the new stuff in my price point is ikea, then buying new stuff only keeps me poorer and living with terrible stuff.
@@criticaloptimist I agree with you. I meant that if you can afford it. If you can’t then there is no choice. I meant that for people who can afford it they will never go back to anything that resembles what they were forced to have especially if they were traumatized by the experience. When the trauma is healed then they get to actually enjoy those things without the trauma.
@@Etunu I love vintage items, but I'm an eclectic person and my decor style matches my personality; quirky, wierd and diverse. I mix old and new. Always have, always will, even if I had millions.
Living on a boat is exotic unless you lost your home…
Only if it’s urban. Otherwise, it’s camping.
I feel like owning a boat with living quarters is pretty rarely a product of unfortunate circumstances.
@@davidshovlin2783 No, but it seems like a divorce has driven people to live on boats because their home was sold in the division of assets. That’s the unfortunate circumstance I’ve read about.
Comedic minds (not all) are so fascinating. Looking forward to the podcast.
That was a perspective I had never thought about before.
best example: camping aka recreational poverty
Not really, camping was the only vacation we could afford growing up. It wasn’t like “oh wow look, this is what it’s like to be homeless” it was more about being immersed in nature and not being able to afford air travel & hotels. lol
I would actually like to hear Trevor talk more about this perspective tho. I don’t totally agree with his perspective but I would like to understand it more.
I agree this is a good example.
reaching for the sky with that one. it's about connecting with nature.
Literally lived in a tent at a campsite when my single mom was between jobs. No I don't want to join you on your camping trip, Caleb!
No, definitely about wanting to enjoy and explore the world and nature and not having funds to do anything else
It’s so funny being poor white and choosing older things due to budget and honestly better quality, and people thinking we’re way more high income than we are due to “aesthetics”. We’ve been on government assistance a few times and they would TRY to take one look at us and say we don’t qualify, and I’d be like no look at our actual bank account and bills… so that’s definitely been an interesting perspective, having to constantly prove that your broke when it’s kind of the last thing you want to talk about. Having other broke people try to look at us for help when we’re all in the same boat, and I’ve often tried to help only to be screwed over each time.
It's like that old saying "We're too poor to buy cheap things."
I grew up around the world. Seems like antiques are enjoyed by lower all the way up to upper class. Sure, poor is poor. But middle class in Istanbul still likes their antiques. Middle class in Hong Kong and Paris and Phoenix, all like their antiques.
Exactly!
Because they are aspirational.
Gotta agree with Trevor on his take here. Antiques 😬 Not really a fan. My family was in the low middle class and I grew up with passed down furniture until we could buy a new one. Some we didn’t replace ever because it’s not a priority.
At the moment I live with my husband and kids in a passed down house built in the 1970s and I’m dreaming of someday being able to afford a brand new modern house and throwing all the old furniture away.
My husband has the same perspective but for different reasons. He went to school with 1800s Spanish architecture from elementary to high school and has hated anything that looks “vintage” since then.
Bottomline: what you grew up with has a significant impact on your adult preferences 😁
It's a whole brand, Trevor. Restoration Hardware.
Used to be called "shabby chic"
Japanese likes their antique too. It's called wabisabi. Because appreciating the beauty and imperfection of old used things can give you inner peace.
That shits fire. I put it on sushi
Wabisabi I thought was more about repairing things but leaving a small imperfection, or highlighting the damaged area by highlighting in gold. Like repairing a broken bowl but painting the broken edges before reassembling, and leaving one small chip out entirely.
@@AxeMan808that’s kintsugi
@@AlfiTsinela AHHHH! OK. Thank you.
@@AlfiTsinela whoosh! 😊
I relate to this, because I pretty much had to thrift my clothes when I was younger, and refuse to do it now. Still love antiques though!
As a white guy who grew up poor and shopped at thrift stores, I have the reverse aversion, to people who spend too much money on clothes and think looking nice somehow makes them a better person.
Growing up middle class, I agree. And just to toss out a 2100 year old quote: "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants" -Epictetus. As long as you have food in your stomach, a roof over your head and safety, all you need is family, friends, community and a purpose in life. Probably also a dog. You'll feel the richest man on the planet.
For the first time I cryied listen to Trevor speaking about himself...even if I read his book, this time was hardest for me listening about some stories of his life and listening him speaking about love ❤
Looking forward to the episode! Cheers
Love getting the clip before the episode! Excited for this one. :)
I remember the first time I tried to plan a trip with my white friends for the holidays. They wanted to go to a remote area with no running water and where we'd have to cook outdoors and I legit went, "dude, your idea of a vacation is my experience as a poor person. Fuck camping, let's go to a hotel."
This is a lot more the case regarding class than race. Sure, there is often strong overlap, but this is very true for Eastern Europe and may not be the case with wealthier POC in other parts of the world.
I understand this fully. Here in Nigeria, I once went to visit some old couple in some other neigbourhood close by. When I arrived, I saw the front door had African carved art design, the coffee table was some African carved artwork thing and there were some carved masks hanging around in the living room. In my mind, I was like, I bet there's some white person living here. Because us Nigerians don't to this African shit, right in Africa. The husband was Nigerian. But he had married a white British woman! 😁😁
I grew up poor with ignorant parents, drug and prison stuff. I want nice things now, while my partner likes small cute old things. I wondered about this.
When i saw the title of this video my thoughts instantly jumped to things like "lawn Jockeys" and blackface "mammi" cookie jars (which people still have the audacity to display in my home state). Thankfully this was much less disturbing.
This phenomenon manifests in no douchier material practice than relic’d guitars.
“Wait-what if I BEAT THE SHIT out of that mint, new $2,000 Strat first and THEN charged you $5,000?”
“F*** YEAH, BRAH! I hit it big with crypto, why not!”
I'd love to see the Jesse Lee Peterson interview. "Are you about to run, Trevor?" 🤣
Hahaha😂
"Shabby chic" it used to be called
I was fully expecting the coin banks from "Bamboozled"
Am I privileged because my family never gets rid of furniture and just keeps handing them down, yes! Do I buy used clothes because I can get better quality brands in my budget that way? Yes. I thought I was just being frugal and living within my budget.
I dont deny that happens, but there are many, many variations. I'm not in the US, and my relatives keep a lot of old time stuff as "decorations"... old stuff they used, in the same house they have been living for, well, more than a hundred years now (the family, not them, although some of them are 90+). The kitchen, for example, has 3 stoves, the original stone fireplace that was the only one at the beginning, the iron stove they use as heating in winter and sometimes to cook something in particular, and a gas one. There are old oil lamps they keep now as ornament, but they used around 1930 or earlier.
But yea, I can be as Trevor says too. The equivalent of buying ripped jeans.
A related phenomenon I really, really hate is the "I went to on a holiday, and it was marvelous, people there are so happy, I really learned a lot about life from them, how to be happy with so little"... So little as what, exactly, being able to pay to travel the world? Do you realize that they live from your money and thus need to make a good impression and are happy to see the next meal coming? Do you really needed to see poverty to realize that happiness comes from the relationships you have with people? Dont you think they will happily trade places if they could and "learn so much" from living out of poverty?
"white people can dress in a certain way"
"Bummy? You mean bummy?" So quick wirh it
Not white. Wealthy. Wealthy people do this.
I find it interesting how so many people in the comments section say "trevor is wrong. My situation is different, I choose to have old things." When the conversation, ultimately isn't a few unique experiences, but the humorous take on valuing old items vs new, and the lack of choice many people have due to living circumstances.
Talking about race makes people tense up and worry their life or persona is being labeled as evil, when, in truth, the conversation was never about a moral verdict of the audience, but a vulnerable documentary of the storyteller's lived experiences and how racism in overt and non-overt ways affected them.
I’ve noticed bed pans & wooden clothes pin are coming back into style.
No. Way. Gross.
Wtf bed pans? Is that the modern version of a "chamber pot"? A pot you relieve yourself in
I prefer antiques. They aren't for looks. They get used.
I prefer free sh!t. 😂🤘
Everyday Use is a great short story on this topic.
Yo, dude. I get this. My Indian family thinks second hand stuff is lowly. You always want to buy new because you are worthy of NEW stuff. WOW.
Oh man oh man!
the old stuff is quality made. it lasts.
lol I have second hand things because it’s cheaper.
2:00 on Display 🫡🫡🫡 3:22 💯💯💯3:50
What the Adam Ray Background is happening?
Solid hardwood if freaking expensive new. If buying lower quality, synthetic material BS gives you peace of mind, our whole economy is here to support you.
I liked it
The nicest house I've ever been to was owned by a black family. I felt too scummy to sit on their beautiful, antique furniture. (but I get what he's saying)
This is fire. Critical thinking and processing nuances is not common practice for most people; many comments disliking what was said on here proves that. Both Neal and Trevor are brilliant- two of my top 10 comedians for sure! Whoever is writing titles on these vids is a click bait genius. The comments on here reveal a lot about how ‘serious’ folks take things and they don’t understand the paradox like these guys do. 0:02 The levels are deep. Thank you Blocks crew.
"Ordinary Use"- Alice Walker
I'm curious... how are people who wish to maintain old things in an effort to avoid consumerism perceived? I guess there is a bit of privelege embedded there, but in my mind, trying to reduce consumption is fundamentally against the privilege Trevor speaks of.
I though you meant that you had some racist antiques... like an SS jacket or a plantation chair...
One person's junk is another person's treasure. I don't agree with Trevor on this one, but I do understand that how you choose to process your environment is instrumental in your perspective.
Cosplaying poverty
trevor noah is such a tool 🤣🤣
Antiques and new things made to look distressed are different.
I buy things that look distressed because im distressed
Seems you're making yourself more distressed. Catch 22
Neal, any black women comedians coming soon?
Omit “comedian” from that request and it’ll be far more realistic to achieve.
@@thedonbishop55Ouch!
@@thedonbishop55Little bit racist to say that don't you think?
@@johnbookout3535you're revealing too much of yourself John, shouldn't have replied to this one
@@itcouldbelupus2842 are you 12, lupus?
It's true what Trevor is saying about wealthy people's desires being shaped by their upbringing, but I don't see how race ties into it. White people from less well off countries would see wealthy American white people exactly the same way that Trevor does.
He brings up race for two reasons.
1. He’s an African man who is living in the U.S. So generally people of color are a lot more poor than white people.
2. People of color have to present a certain image to get respect. White people can be individuals. So a Black or Latino person has to be well-dressed and surround themselves with nice things to not be discriminated.
I’m Mexican but I can pass as white. My best friend is also Mexican and she’s dark-skinned. Because we often go out, I got to see firsthand that she had to be careful about what she wore to get the automatic respect I got.
@@BbGun-lw5vithanks for the reply. Regarding point 2, I see what you're saying. I hadn't considered it because I personally think it's stupid to judge people that way. But ultimately there are definitely people out there who do... So I agree with you.
antics not antiques 😂😂😂😂
I refuse to spend money on pre-beat-up shite
Trevor Noah and his constant word salad. Neal Brennan came in and effortlessly straightened everything out
He makes sense. Iranian immigrants love to have new things when they make it because they want to get away from what they had before.
I have old Jim Crow signs in my house ....
This from a guy who earned handsomely from the British public (BBC licence payers and tour attendees), and then deliberately ghosted the Queen's passing, and then waged war on British colonialism. His backstory explains his POV, shared by many, but why not boycott British paydays altogether?
It kind of obviously sounds like Society is on his mind 24/7..Who goes into a house and looks at things that they didnt own or see growing up?..Does he ever turns that off?
IF we see black ceramic Panthers all over are we supposed to say a black person lives here?
I like dressing like a slob to mess with people’s perception of me. There’s nothing like wearing a Skull t-shirt at important meetings. Never judge a book by its cover 😜🤣
Trevor's hair is on point! A.R.F. y'all. Never forget
Eh, I'm going to call BS on this too. My mother, was born in Mexico and grew up very poor for many years, still loves to thrift shop and DIY furniture and all sorts of other things that were "connected to her poverty." It's a type of creativity that doesn't just look for the easiest and most obvious aesthetic that you can afford. Like many things, rich people sometimes put it on as a kind of affectation, but that's definitely not the only explanation for it. Trevor seems to be completely unaware of the many variations of people between very rich and very poor.
He comes off so obsessed with race when he's usually talking about class but using "generally white/black people" instead of "generally rich/poor people". Also, he's not funny.
I don’t agree with you, it takes healing to do that. If someone was forced to wear used clothes and had no other choice, when they do have a choice they will not want to wear used clothes for fun because it triggers their traumas. When they are healed and restored they can enjoy everything without the triggers but it takes time and healing from traumas. Your mum may not have been traumatized by those things or she was already healed when she could afford to have the choice to choose what to wear. If you are traumatized by living in a remote cold countryside house with nothing to eat, the last thing you will want to do is camp out in the cold unless you are healed.
What Etunu said. Plus, there are always exceptions.
@@slurmsmackenzie5729 he's African. There is an extremely high and linear correlation between race and class. It might as well be the same thing. As a matter of fact, black people in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia etc. were literally 3rd class citizens, (Indians were 2nd).
So you’re saying poor people should start selling their old stuff to rich people at exorbitant prices 🤔
Same thing as. When rich preppies. But very expensive clothes that. Are already torn and have holes, really faded also. In them. Like bum style. Just preppy??? And that's suppose to be fashion. By the way!!!😂😂😂😂 Never got all that.
Women in the US and around the world know to dress for the way we wish to be treated too. Dressing however the fuck you want is not a white privilege.
Of course people gain an advantage when they’re well-dressed. But a white guy can usually get away with dressing sloppy without being treated like they’re ignorant or they’re a criminal.
I have a boyfriend who dresses like a bum. Nobody bats an eye. His black friend, on the other hand, has to dress up or he gets treated badly.
Of course, dressing nicely always gives people an advantage. But a white man or woman can dress sloppy without being treated like they’re ignorant or they’re a criminal.
My boyfriend and I live in California. He dresses like a bum and no one bats an eye. His black friend, on the other hand, wears a suit in daily life. If he dresses like my boyfriend, he’s dismissed or people show fear. It doesn’t happen with everyone of course, but with enough people that it’s not worth the hassle.
lol, what? That's just decor and aesthetics. They're not thinking that deeply about the product. Antique aesthetic isn't equivalent to growing up poor with "worn" things. What? I get what he's saying but I feel like he's conflating things a bit.
My wife and I slept in a full size bed for 25 years. It was a cast iron tube style. Trevor would see this as an example of his hypothesis. But, the reason we slept in that small, somewhat uncomfortable bed was because my grandparents had slept in it for 70 years.
Yes, they were poor farmers and I was poor as a child as well. Be careful when you make these assumptions.
I don't think it's a class aspect, I've know plenty of white folks that have been poor their entire life thst like antique and vintage things, it's not class based, it's cultural and sub cultural, I've also known very poor whites who do the opposite. It's not that simple
Trevor is conflating "white" with inherently class privileged, even though white folks, even poor have a certain level of racial privilege, you can discount class aspects as if all white folks are middle class or above.
Some people used to call TN a comedian but you sorta gotta be funny to earn that title. At lest he's given up that presence now and has come clean as a want-to-be yet ineffectual activist.
Trevor's argument about antiques and white people somehow equal privilege made zero sense to me. I'm Latino and I just watched this completely confused, everything isn't nor does it have to be about race.
it is if you're black in the US because those people have been brainwashed every since MLK was killed
Well ur dumb
It's how he made his money, it's called race hustlers.
@@MisterWoes he said don't take it to seriously but u did
@@Gonk You misspelled don't, but don't take me seriously.
Tiresome.
People like different things and how much $$ you have has no effect on that. It's usually because it's not the norm that makes ppl like antiques ppl like to be different and or stand out. Noah just thinks white ppl are better than him
They're not saying it's $$ that has an effect on it at all. You completely missed the point.
@@vicjames3256 you should watch it again
for the algo
New stuff looks like shit, 20 something women today looked like 20 something women when I was 20 something…
Every one of them it seems just wants you in edge because 6% of the country owned their family.
Hard pass….. love the channel tho! ❤🫡
2 weeks in a row hard pass.
Thanks for the engagement, but nobody fucking cares that you don't plan on consuming. Good day. Sounds like someone's "distressed"😂😂😂😂
No one cares that you don't plan on consuming.
Lol not nearly as much as is assumed
Wait, basin sinks are racist? I thought they were practical...
Trevor always speaking real
That’s a good observation and something « privileged » people don’t realize intuitively. Doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy my distressed this or that of course.
Dudes triggered by a copper sink and some antiques 🤣 🤣 🤣
I'm not sure I understood the point he was trying to make
Let me help. "White bad, Black good."
@@johnbookout3535not the point he's making but thanks for playing John.
Can always rely on a white guy to confidently share an opinion on a topic he doesn't understand
Hits the nail on the head and keeps hitting it
Love Neal’s podcast, find Trevor Noah boring. Thankfully he has an accent, otherwise…
"He's so cute, though."
Trevor makes a lot of false assumptions.
About what? He had a different perspective, he's not just flat-out wrong or false
Love you Neal, HARD PASS
What a dumb take
So being poor is something only black people experience?
Damn, all these years with a single mom and two brothers in a single room I thought we were poor and now I learn we only had garbage, cause my privileged mom thought it was fancy.
We weren‘t white trash we were minimalistic antiquarians. Thx Trevor!
Hard pass.
He knows there's like at least 100 million poor white people in North America right? My computer desk cost $130 CAD it's not Art Deco but Amazonian. Prime 2-day Delivery Era. I had a coffee table from Zellers I paid $75 for and it lasted 20+ years (it still exists I think). It's hard making a social point on a rich-person's observation.
I know, right? Poor little Trevor!
Some things just look nice and have character. It's not that deep. Yawn.
For real.
This is going to be the first episode of Blocks I skip.
Just be like me and 'hate watch' it.
😂 thank you for letting us know fragile white boys.
The ones of us that don't have thin skin and aren't experiencing white fragility will enjoy it without you 😂
Hey Trevor, if you grew up rich and black, is that the same? Why can't anyone have tastes that like what they like? does being white really mean that no one else likes Shabby Chic? No One else likes to be unique and not like the rest of the crowd? So are you saying black people only go for new and shiny cuz they never had new and shiny?? WOW, not being accurate and Neal, hey, stop acting like you couldn't shut him down on that b.s. Booo
he is stuck in yesterday and he is not even funny about these who cares observations.
Trevor is a LIAR
In black South African homes we have antiques and it is classic and homely
Yes and we chose it and hold onto it regardless of economic status:
- decor ware
- blankets
- beadwork
As tradition, after funerals, we black South Africans pass on the late’s possessions to living family members
Wow, Trevor Noah brought up race for no reason? I'm absolutely shocked
Race for non white comedians is like gay/trans for white comedians
He's a cardboard cutout poes.
Stunned! Stunned, I tell ya!
This comment is just as shocking