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The Midnight Miracle

The Nuanced Endeavor

The Midnight Miracle

Dave Chappelle, Talib Kweli, yasiin bey

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.68.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

[This episode (aka "Napa, Act 1") was recorded live in 2022 at the Blue Note Jazz Festival.]


“Art is the perfect place to talk it out–in fact, maybe the last place.” The crew reflects on how nuance and purpose is lost in a culture that favors judgment over debate.


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


Photography made available courtesy of Pilot Boy Productions, Inc. Copyright © 2022 by Pilot Boy Productions, Inc., all rights reserved.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello little fellow.

0:06.0

fellow.

0:07.0

What is your name, little buddy?

0:10.0

Amir, and this is your dad?

0:12.0

Well, welcome Amir, we're about to fuck you, hold my Amir and this is your dad?

0:12.7

Well, welcome, Amir, we're about to fuck your whole mind up.

0:19.3

President,

0:19.7

Piden said that the risk of nuclear Armageddon right now is at the hot...

0:24.0

It shouldn't be this scary to talk and I hope they don't take anything away from me.

0:35.0

Whoever they are. We got a great show tonight.

0:39.0

Brooklyn's spiders.

0:41.0

Black Star is in the building! That was California sold by Marlina Shaw and boy it is a beautiful Friday here in Napa County.

1:02.0

It's 79 degrees in sunny and they don't make them any better than this

1:06.0

so get out there and enjoy this day but expect heavy traffic down on Deer Park

1:10.8

Road because everyone is in town for the Blue Note Jazz Festival.

1:16.9

And if you're going, you have to check out the midnight miracle live this afternoon.

1:21.8

It's going to be their first time doing the show together live in front of an audience.

1:26.7

What a special moment. So for ticket information call 5, 671 1973. Those tickets are out at 5 p.m. so the early bird gets the worm.

1:39.1

And after the miracle, don't forget Robert Glassper and James Chappelle are

1:42.6

headlining the festival and tickets are sold out but stay tuned

1:46.7

because we may have some tickets to win here every hour on the hour.

1:51.0

If you win it's going to be a miracle.

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