Art as a Nuanced Endeavor (Listen Again)

The Midnight Miracle

Dave Chappelle, Talib Kweli, yasiin bey

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

This episode (aka "Napa Act 1") was recorded live in 2022 at the Blue Note Jazz Festival.

“Art is the perfect place to talk it out–in fact, maybe the last place.” The crew reflects on how nuance and purpose is lost in a culture that favors judgment over debate.

Executive Produced by Talib Kweli, yasiin bey, Dave Chappelle, Noah Gersh, Jamie Schefman, Nick Panama, and Kenzi Wilbur

Produced, Edited, and Composed by Noah Gersh and Jamie Schefman for SALT

Production Manager: Liz LeMay

Production Coordinator: Diana Chammas

Live Engineering by: Mike Brown

Mixed by: Mario Borgatta & Jordan Galvan

Podcast Artwork: Leeann Sheely

Still Photography: Mathieu Bitton

The Midnight Miracle is a Luminary Original Podcast in partnership with Pilot Boy Productions and SALT.Special thanks to Ted Williams, Paul Adongo, Cipriano Beredo, Elaine Chappelle, Ivy Davy, Rikki Hughes, Sina Sadighi, Deborah Mannis-Gardner, Nicolle Johnson, Donna Dragotta, Carla Sims, Pete Amaro, Clint Balcom, Jennifer Branigan, Taylor Dalton, Miles Hodges, Zainab Khan, Christopher Landry, Coral Lee, Jayme Lynes, Mykola Logvynenko, Rishi Malhotra, Mohan Nerkar, Brian Parsons, Lauren Perkins, Kyle Ranson-Walsh, Matt Sacks, Betsy Santoyo, Lisa Schrader, Akhila Shankar, Leeann Sheely, and Mark Silverstein.

Photography made available courtesy of Pilot Boy Productions, Inc.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, little fellow.
0:06.0	What is your name, little buddy?
0:09.0	Amir? And this is your dad?
0:12.0	Well, welcome Amir. We're about to fuck your whole mind up.
0:16.0	President Biden said that the risk of nuclear Armageddon right now is at the high...
0:23.9	It shouldn't be this scary to talk.
0:29.2	And I hope they don't take anything away from me.
0:34.0	Whoever they are.
0:36.7	We got a great show tonight.
0:38.3	Brooklyn's finest, Black Star is in the building!
0:43.3	That was California sold by Marlina Shaw, and boy, it is a beautiful Friday here in Napa County.
1:01.9	It's 79 degrees and sunny, and they don't make them any better than this.
1:06.2	So get out there and enjoy this day, but expect heavy traffic down on Deer Park Road because everyone is in town for the Blue Note Jazz Festival.
1:16.7	And if you're going, you have to check out the Midnight Miracle live this afternoon.
1:21.6	It's going to be their first time doing the show together live in front of an audience.
1:27.0	What a special moment. So for ticket
1:29.6	information, call 5-5-671-1973. Those tickets are out at 5 p.m. so the early bird gets the
1:37.9	worm. And after the miracle, don't forget, Robert Glasper and Dave Chappelle are headlining
1:43.0	the festival and tickets are sold out, but stay tuned because we may have some tickets to win here every hour on the hour.
1:51.4	If you win, it's going to be a miracle, miracle.
1:58.9	Thank you.
2:00.9	All right.
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