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The Midnight Miracle

Dave Chappelle, Talib Kweli, yasiin bey

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

This episode (aka "Artist or Merchant: 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	Phron
0:08.0	Bhopr
0:09.0	Bhopr
0:10.0	Bhop
0:11.0	A
0:12.0	A Welcome back. I'm Ted Williams, The Guy with the Golden Pikes, and that was California
0:30.6	Dreaming by Baby Hewitt. It's 79 degrees at 3.24 p.m. on this beautiful Friday, and there's an accident down on the St. Helena Highway,
0:40.4	so 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 giving
0:54.4	away sold-out tickets to the festival every hour on the hour. And before we go, just want to give
1:01.8	a special shout out to lickety lips playing down at shenanigans next Sunday. So without further
1:10.2	ado,
1:14.0	welcome to the Midnight Miracle.
1:17.9	Featuring
1:18.6	Taliban,
1:21.0	Dave Chappelle,
1:23.9	and Yassine Bay,
1:26.0	a.k.a. Most deaf, a. Most Def, aka Pretty Flacco.
1:30.3	Thank you, David.
1:34.3	Yeah.
1:35.3	It's doing the housekeeping guys.
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