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The Midnight Miracle

Dave Chappelle, Talib Kweli, yasiin bey

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

This episode (aka "Napa Act 2") was recorded live in 2022 at the Blue Note Jazz Festival.

“It’s not that I don't love America. I do love America. Does America love me?” —yasiin bey

Dave, Talib, and yasiin don’t know how to feel about America right now. Where do we go from here?

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

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0:00.0	And then.
0:01.0	The The Welcome back. I'm Ted Williams, the guide with the golden pipes and that was California
0:30.7	Dreaming by baby Hewitt. It's 79 degrees at 3.24 PM on this
0:36.0	beautiful Friday and there's an accident down on the St. Helena Highway so
0:40.6	keep that in mind as you move around the valley today good friends because the wine is flowing and the grapes are growing
0:49.0	Soon we'll head back down to the midnight miracle, but remember to keep calling in because we are
0:54.0	giving away sold out tickets to the festival every hour on the hour.
0:59.7	And before we go just want to give a special shout out to lickety lips playing down at shenanigans next Sunday.
1:09.0	So without further ado,
1:17.0	Welcome to the Midnight Miracle. Featuring Talaibwale, Dave Chappelle, And Yassin Bay, aka Most Deaf, aka Pretty Flaca.
1:30.0	Thank you, David.
1:35.0	Yeah. Still in the house keeping guys.
1:39.0	No, you know, listen, I don't mind entertainment value, right?
1:44.4	You know, when Chuck Berry does the duck walk across the stage,
1:48.9	when James Brown does the thing with the cape,
1:52.1	with Michael Jackson with the glove, the glove and on and on and on and I'm not against that but so often
1:58.4	Entertainment in the context that we're talking about now m marks art the same way that opulence
2:04.6	marks elegance or the same way the glamor marks beauty. Well there's two examples
2:10.6	that I can think of that go to exactly what she's talking about. I hang out with
2:14.6	John Merrill lot and one time Bradley Cooper asked me why I hang out with John Mayor
2:19.6	somewhere and I told him I said Bradley because he's the best at something now you might have heard John
2:26.2	Mayor on the radio but you've never sat in this kitchen and heard him just actually play
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