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This is What Now with Trevor Noah.
We made it Joe.
Oh, we did.
We made it.
Here we are.
What is this?
Eight years of planning, four years of waiting, and then one week of chaos.
Welcome to week one of the 2026 FIFA World Cup hosted by Mexico, the United States and Canada.
You know, even saying it makes it feel as jam-packed as it's been.
More countries hosting than ever before, more games than ever before, more countries participating than ever before.
I don't remember the last time I started watching
a game in the same country as the games are hosted, by the way, at midnight.
Yeah, it's first of all the gestation period.