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The Midnight Miracle

Do You Know the History of Cereal?! (Replay)

The Midnight Miracle

Dave Chappelle, Talib Kweli, yasiin bey

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.68.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Short, sweet, and crunchy: a TMM amuse bouche. Listen again.

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"Are y’all n****s about to ruin corn flakes for me?”—Dave Chappelle


Featuring, in order of appearance: Questlove, Jon Hamm


Featuring music for SALT by Ryland Blackinton


Recorded in Ohio, Summer 2020. Originally published in 2021.


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


Produced by Noah Gersh and Jamie Schefman for SALT

Production Manager: Liz LeMay

Recording Engineer: Federico Lopez

Recording Engineer: Adrián Bruque for NPND

Assistant Editors: Danny Carissimi and Noah Kowalski 

Senior Sound Designer: Russell Topal

Transcription Supervisor: Sam Beasley

Mixer: Jordan Galvan


Podcast Artwork: Rachel Eck

Still Photography: Mathieu Bitton


The Midnight Miracle is a Luminary Original Podcast in partnership with Pilot Boy Productions and SALT.


Special thanks to Paul Adongo, Cipriano Beredo, Elaine Chappelle, Ivy Davy, Rikki Hughes, Kyle Ranson-Walsh, Sina Sadighi, Mark Silverstein, and Carla Sims.


Photography made available courtesy of Pilot Boy Productions, Inc. Copyright © 2021 by Pilot Boy Productions, Inc., all rights reserved.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is good my good people is your girl Madam Joyce and my podcast Cocktails and takeaways is currently sponsored by NHS blood and transplant there is currently a real need in the UK for people of black heritage to give blood

0:14.4

regularly to help treat black patients with sickle cell. Sickle cell can affect

0:19.5

anyone but is more common in people of black heritage and is the fastest growing

0:24.7

inherited blood disorder in the UK. The NHS needs 250 blood donations a day to

0:31.2

help people affected by Sickle Cell.

0:33.0

The good news is that giving blood is quick and easy.

0:36.0

It takes just one hour to save up to three lives.

0:40.0

It's in our blood to help fight sickle cell book now at blood.co. UK Do y'all all know the history of Kellogg's?

0:56.0

Dog, yes.

0:58.0

I just learned.

0:59.0

Yes, so why don't you break it down for the peace?

1:01.0

Check this shit out.

1:02.0

And wait a minute, wait a minute.

1:04.0

Are y'all niggas about to ruin cornflakes?

1:06.0

Yes, me.

1:08.0

So check this.

1:09.0

Yes, we are.

1:10.0

The story I was told was that Kellogg created cornflakes to basically keep America from masterbating.

1:16.5

That's correct.

1:17.3

I'm out.

1:18.3

He felt that the elements in beef and chicken and pork were causing Americans to act in certain ways.

1:26.8

So he wanted to create sustainable food from vegetables so that they wouldn't masturbate so

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