Gladiator Circus World (Side B)

The Midnight Miracle

Dave Chappelle, Talib Kweli, yasiin bey

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

"It's a gladiator f**king circus.”—yasiin bey

Hosted by: Talib Kweli, yasiin bey, and Dave Chappelle

Featuring the world premiere of original Black Star music

Featuring, in order of appearance: Questlove, Radio Rahim, Lamorne Morris, and Jon Hamm

Contains audio clips featuring Alex Jones, Donald Trump, and Rush Limbaugh.

Recorded in Ohio, Summer 2020. Originally published May, 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

Script 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0	The main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing. The famous people man who made Look at the end of the time to the dial, look at the
0:34.0	moo-o-o-o-s-a-s-sha-a-sha-a-sha.
0:37.0	Mauna-oasters.
0:38.0	Mauna-o-ocean, mauna-uew, monso-soue, mons-soue, monso-soue, mons o'o-soue,
0:53.0	huge, model soul, model life, black, black, dead. Are you not going to be? Are you not going to be?
0:55.0	Are you not going to be?
0:59.0	We love you, you're very special. They're very special.
1:04.0	What them people?
1:05.0	It's all Milwaukee.
1:09.0	The whole city is Milwaukee.
1:11.0	They're the Milwaukee people.
1:13.0	These people are like the, you know, they're the real drugs of society.
1:17.5	They're so lonely and just looking for something to hurt because their lives are unfulfilled.
1:22.0	What I've noticed is that. I got the time, I got the energy, I got the resources, I got the platform,
1:27.0	I got the unique history of growing up in 5% communities building and destroying on the street.
1:32.0	When I'm not engaging on them, they are attacking
1:35.0	and going after people who are weaker, people who don't have the resources.
1:38.0	And so...
1:39.0	They can just get off of Twitter.
1:41.0	You these people don't have access if they're not on Twitter.
1:44.0	You understand, say you can't attack me in some place that I'm not at.
1:47.0	That's a good place. How are you going to attack me if I'm not there?
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