No Snakes (Side B)

The Midnight Miracle

Dave Chappelle, Talib Kweli, yasiin bey

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

“I wish you could know what it means to be me.” —Nina Simone

Featuring, in order of appearance: Mathieu Bitton, Radio Rahim, Mo Amer, Michael Che, Michelle Wolf, Cipha Sounds

Contains audio clips of Shaykh Hamza Yusuf and Nina Simone, and music from Nina Simone, Brittany Howard, and Michael Kiwanuka.

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

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.

Transcript

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0:00.0	The smartest person I ever met my life was my mother's father, George Reed.
0:19.0	I knew some smart people.
0:21.0	It was born in Washington, D.C. in 1911.
0:25.0	And, well, we always speculated that his mother was white.
0:29.0	Because he was born in a white hospital.
0:31.0	How else could that have happened in 1911?
0:34.0	Subsequently, he was adopted.
0:38.0	Legend has it maybe as many as 11 times. He lived with 11 different families growing up, going from one place to another place.
0:47.0	And I remember there was a story he used to tell me when I was growing up.
0:51.0	It came up fairly often, fairly regularly.
0:55.0	Despite a family he lived with that was particularly cruel.
0:58.0	Well, their marquee cruelness was, they were displeased with him, they would lock this
1:06.2	young blind child in their basement.
1:10.0	And they would tell him, there were snakes in there. And he said he would run around and he would scream and holler,
1:15.0	and was terrified of these snakes.
1:18.0	And of course, there were no snakes.
1:22.0	He'd say it over and over.
1:24.0	There were no snakes, David.
1:26.0	There were no snakes.
1:28.0	Later in life, I kind of realized
1:32.0	this was a lesson I was supposed to take with me.
1:34.0	And I remember it every time I'm afraid of something, there's a theory in my mind.
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