Trevor Noah

Yeah.

I was recruited at Queens College the same month Patty Hearst was abducted by the Symbionese Liberation Army.

Women flirted with me.

My girlfriend had dumped me.

And a few weeks later, I'm a right-wing fascist cult, but I didn't know what it was at all for months.

That's a piece of it, but I'd also say you have to have an ego before you can surrender your ego if you're on a spiritual path.

And a lot of people haven't figured out who they are and to recruit them into something that's totalistic.

is not informed consent from my mental health professional point of view.

So I was not a joiner.

I was raised in a conservative Jewish family in Flushing, Queens, with two older sisters.

And my mom's side was Orthodox.

And my mom was an eighth grade art teacher in Brooklyn.

And my dad took over his father's hardware store in Ozone Park, Queens.

And I played basketball and was writing poetry at Queens College.

A well-rounded gent.

I was reading philosophy.

I was 19, had a ponytail.

I'd skipped eighth grade, extra honors student.

So I was in the last draft lottery of the Vietnam War, which I was opposed, but I got a good number, fortunately.

I hated Nixon.