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Lomax and Lead Belly's
thousand hours of music
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changed the blues,
and it changed rock 'n' roll.
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- You want to take your boots off?
- Yeah. Ouch!
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Nixon thinks he'll get reelected
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if he deports John and Yoko.
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- Ono.
- Oh, yes.
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Sam Cooke is, like, going on tour.
They go to his motel.
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- Motel, hotel.
- Holiday Inn!
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You blacker than I thought, Derek.
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I got my eye on you.
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[laughs]
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[stirring music]
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- I'm gonna put it on.
- What a great character choice.
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- Yeah. Thought so too.
- Giddy-up.
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Giddy-up.
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[laughs]
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Hello.
My name is Preston Flagg.
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I'm gonna do a story
about Lead Belly and Lomax.
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It's about the blues.
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Story begins in the South,
in the 1930s.
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African-Americans are suffering
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from Jim Crow segresa...
segregation.
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And out of that suffering
comes the blues.
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So, we've got white,
Harvard-educated John Lomax,
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and this guy's a folklorist.
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He's like, hey,
I love regional music.
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You know, I love
little cultures that I see.
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I don't want them
to fall wayside.
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So he was going around
with this clunky device
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trying to preserve this music
for the Library of Congress.
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And so he ended up, in 1933,
at Angola Prison,
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and he's recording these chain gangs
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and then all of a sudden
hears this guy:
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♪ In the pines, in the pines ♪
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♪ There's my girl ♪
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And he's like,
Fuck these chain gangs.
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I mean, I respect y'all,
but, hey, I gotta, you know.
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So he goes over there.[laughs]
And he's like, who is this?
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And the prison warden's like,
Huddie Ledbetter.
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We know him as Lead Belly,
the king of the 12-string guitar.
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- Hmm.
- So, Lomax goes,
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Man, you're a musical savant.
You're fuckin' Mozart.
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H-he knows he has a diamond
in the rough here.
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So, a year goes by.
Lead Belly gets out of prison
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and contacted Lomax and was like,
hey, I'm out of prison.
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I need a job.
Can you help me?
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And Lomax is like, oh, my God,
this is a fuckin' musical genius.
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And he's like,
yeah, you're hired.
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Bring your guitar.
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And then Lead Belly was like,
already done.
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Already done.
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And Lead Belly's like,
what am I gonna do?
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And he's like, uh,
you're gonna drive me.
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You're my chauffeur.
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So they set off
on this three-month tour
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all across the South,
and they stopped, you know,
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in South Carolina and say,
hey, we want to record
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your, you know, pocket of music.
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And then Lead Belly
would get out and be like,
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yeah, I'm the driver,
and I'm also the best
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motherfuckin' musician
that you've ever seen
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and the best singer,
so here we go, no pressure.
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And Lead Belly was always...
fuckin' stole the show.
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So, Lomax is like,
Ching, Ching, Ching.
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That's the cash register.
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Hey, let me be your manager.
I get a third, you get a third,
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and my son, Alan Lomax,
gets a third.
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And Lead Belly I think
was happy for the work
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for his time and was like,
yeah, okay, cool.
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So, Lomax would set up these gigs
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at fuckin' Yale and Harvard.
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So he gives a little speech:
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I've been recording
all these things,
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and this is the best
that I've ever seen.
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I want to present to you Lead Belly.
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- Who's Lead Belly?
- Yeah, Lead Belly.
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- Who's Lead Belly?
- Lead Belly is the best guitarist.
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- Prove it.
- The... I'm about to prove it.
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- Less talky, more bluesy.
- Here we go. Lead Belly!
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And then he would perform
in prison clothes,
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and he was kind of upset
about it
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because it painted him
as a dangerous figure.
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And he's like, I'm out of prison,
I'm trying to move on.
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But, uh, he fuckin' kills it.
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And he looks out in the audience,
and he realizes,
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they've never seen
a fuckin' cornfield in their life.
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I-I'm not singing this shit
for these guys or whatever.
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I gotta do this
for my fuckin' self.
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[dramatic music]
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- You want to take your boots off?
- Yeah.
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- You want me to help you?
- Yeah.
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Oh, come on. Oh.
Dig!
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Oh, come on.
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♪ My girl! ♪
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[singing indistinctly]
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Ouch!
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- Keep going.
- All right, come on.
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Here I go.
[laughs]
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[laughs]
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- I love that he's laughing.
All right.
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So, after those performances,
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Lead Belly would go
to the black communities
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and play and he'd go,
fuckin' finally.
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I'm playing for people
that understand me.
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I'm gonna play songs
that my granddaddy played,
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and guess what,
I'm just gonna be myself.
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Stomp your... come on!
Come on!
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And let's pick a little bit.
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And let's stomp and let's pick.
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Let's stomp, and let's pick.
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And he'd get drunk all night
and then come back in the day,
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and Lomax would be like,
hey, tonight,
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we have a, um,
story for you to play
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for the Harvard Wayfarers.
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And he'd be like, I don't give
a fuck about them. I'm drunk.
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I'm the only reason
that people are here.
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I want my money.
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And they said no,
and he pulled his knife.
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- Whoa.
- And he said, hey, man,
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dude, you're not fuckin' worth
the breath that I breathe.
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Come on.
Giddy-up.
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Get out of here, guy.
[laughs]
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And Lomax apparently
was very uncomfortable
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with the throat-to-the-knife
situation
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and sent him back on a bus
with $300 in his pocket.
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Get lost. 300 bucks.
See you. Bye.
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And they never talked again, ever.
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Lead Belly and Lomax
only worked with each other
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for six months,
but then, years later,
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their thousand hours of music
was released.
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And it changed music forever.
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It changed R&B,
it changed the blues,
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and it changed rock 'n' roll.
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These recordings really
inspired, uh, everybody.
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And it's funny when I say that,
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but it's real.
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[patriotic music]
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Preston?
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- Pres, you good?
- No, I'm good.
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All right, let's tell
the story, come on.
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We got it.
That was great.
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- We already got it?
- Mm-hmm.
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No, let's do another one.
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Hello. I'm Suzi Barrett, and today,
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we're talking about John Lennon
and Yoko Ono.
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The first dreamers.
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- Ono.
- Oh, yes.
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Okay, our story begins in 1972,
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in the magical land of New York City.
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Greenwich Village.
Ha-cha-cha.
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Everybody hates Vietnam.
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Everybody's making a stink.
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And who's at the center
of that stink?
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
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They are young lovers
creating fuckin' art,
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so John and Yoko have been
here on a tourist visa.
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But suddenly,
Ba-boof!
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You got denied.
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And they're like,
what... what, what, what?
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And their lawyer is like,
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you guys have to get hooked up
with Leon Wilds.
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He is the shit of immigration.
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And Leon Wilds comes
to meet them, and he's like,
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yeah, yeah, yeah,
what do we got here?
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What's your case?
And, you know, they're like,
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we want to stay,
we want to keep
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making the solo projects,
you know, where, like,
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we scream into a telephone
and play a baby backwards,
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and he's like, what?
What are you talking about?
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He's like, oh, well,
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you know, I'm John Lennon
and this is Yoko Ono,
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and he's like, yeah,
what are you talking about?
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- Never heard of 'em.
- Never heard of them.
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He doesn't know any Beatles songs,
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but somehow, he keeps referencing.
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He's like, hey, look, kids.
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You know, I-I don't know
who the Boodles are,
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but, look, I-I want
to hold your hand
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through this case,
you know what I mean?
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I want to... to get you
to the end of this.
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She loves you.
Yeah? Yeah? Yeah?
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- You fuck.
- So, please, please me by letting me
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take your case, you know?
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I-I'll please you.
It's... hmm.
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[laughs]
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- Mm.
- You okay?
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Great. I just dumped liquid
on my Mic by accident.
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- It's okay. It's okay.
- Thank you.
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All right, so, Leon Wilds
uses a secret little trick,
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the Freedom of Information Act.
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Anyone can give a key word
to the clerks of Washington
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and they return any files or papers
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or whatever that have
that word in it.
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So he's like,
a-tippy-tippy-tap, a-Lennon,
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a-doop-a-doop-a-doop, Ono.
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And months and months
and months later,
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he's like, well,
lookee what we have here.
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This letter from Strom Thurmond,
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the fuckin' asshole
South Carolina senator,
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to Nixon's attorney general
John Mitchell,
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being like,
get rid of this Lennon guy!
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He's trying to convince young people
that it's not a good idea
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to send other young people
to die in Vietnam.
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What is up with that?
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So Leon's like, Nixon thinks
he'll get reelected
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if he deports Nixon?
No.
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Nixon thinks he'll get reelected
if he deports Lennon?
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Holy shit.
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So, October 8th, 1975.
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John and Yoko are at the 2nd
Circuit Court of Appeals
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getting kicked out of the country.
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The gavel's just about to go down,
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and the doors to the court room open.
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[makes farting sound]
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And Leon Wilds is like,
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fuckin' Strom Thurmond
and Richard Nixon had it out for them,
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simply because they wanted
to give peace a chance.
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And they agreed.
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They were already here.
They were enjoying their lives.
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And we, the court,
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will not condone
selective deportation.
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So put that
in your fuckin' fart machines,
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you fuckin' fart makers.
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[makes farting sound]
So they win.
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They get to stay.
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- ♪ Back in the USSA! ♪
- Hey!
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So this is an important story
because, oh, my God.
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- Derek.
- Suzi.
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Would you like to travel
into the future?
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- Okay. Oh.
- Here. Hold this.
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- Okay.
- This 1 1/3 lime. And...
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[vocalizing]
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[hisses and whistles futuristically]
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Suddenly, it's 37 years later.
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June 15th, 2012.
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Barack Obama makes
the most amazing speech,
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announcing DACA,
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the Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals,
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saying, uh, anyone who's here
who has been here,
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I don't care how you got here,
you get to stay here.
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We want you here.
We love you here.
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You're here. The end.
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Bye. Barack Obama.
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Meaning, people who are here
in America
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who didn't choose to be here,
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if you're not causing problems,
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you're part of our society already,
you get to stay,
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and these children
are called the Dreamers.
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And the fun little accidental tidbit
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is that Obama is using
John Lennon's case
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- as a precedent.
- As a president.
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Oh, boy. As a president,
he's using it as a precedent.
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- Yeah.
- Yeah.
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[groans]
[Derek laughs]
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Brian, how does your jacket
look on me?
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- No.
- Okay.
259
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But you gotta zip it
all the way up to the top
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'cause that, like, yeah.
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That's what freshness look like.
Hell, yeah.
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- Give me that hat.
- Oh. Oh, God. Yeah?
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And now you know
what appropriation looks like.
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- There you are.
- That's appropriate.
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[laughs]
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You're so white.
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Hey! America.
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I'm Brian Tyree Henry.
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We about to talk about
"A Change Is Gonna Come,"
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sang by motherfuckin' Sam Cooke.
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Get into this shit.
So...
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our story starts in nineteen
sixty-motherfuckin'-three,
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the era of fuckery for black
people in this country.
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We've been dealing
with Jim Crow and shit.
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And at the same time, we still
dominating the music scene.
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We've been giving you,
like, the Supremes,
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we been giving you the Temptations,
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we been giving you,
like, Otis Redding.
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And so one of the people
that was dominating
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the music scene
in the biggest way
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was Sam motherfuckin' Cooke.
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So Sam was known as a soul singer,
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but now he had crossed over
to pop music,
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00:14:02,574 --> 00:14:03,975
so at this point,
Sam Cooke is like,
285
00:14:03,976 --> 00:14:05,909
going on tour, and, like,
he's riding on his bus,
286
00:14:05,944 --> 00:14:07,844
so he has this dude
named J.W. Alexander.
287
00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:09,813
So J.W. Alexander's like, yo.
288
00:14:09,848 --> 00:14:11,848
I don't need you to, like,
lose your mind right now,
289
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but you know
what we going through
290
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right now with the civil rights shit.
291
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There's a white dude out there
that put out this song
292
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that's, like, kind of, like,
changing the world, bro.
293
00:14:19,024 --> 00:14:21,124
So J-Dubs lays this track down.
294
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And it's Bobby Dylan singing
"Blowin' in the Wind."
295
00:14:24,095 --> 00:14:25,795
And Sammy listens
to this shit like, wait.
296
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Stop. Wait. Stop.
297
00:14:27,131 --> 00:14:28,798
Hold up. Nigga, stop.
298
00:14:28,799 --> 00:14:30,533
This song is dope, first of all,
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but this white dude is singing
about everything that me
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as a black man is feeling,
going through this bullshit.
301
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I have to believe
I can do better than that.
302
00:14:39,076 --> 00:14:40,610
So he, like, picks up a ukulele,
303
00:14:40,611 --> 00:14:42,880
'cause he got a ukulele
on his bus for some reason.
304
00:14:42,915 --> 00:14:44,379
- Sam Cooke?
- Sam Cooke has a ukulele.
305
00:14:44,415 --> 00:14:47,751
- Fuckin' Jack Johnson.
- Who the fuck is that?
306
00:14:47,752 --> 00:14:51,054
- I knew you wouldn't get that.
- Do you know anything about Zhané?
307
00:14:51,055 --> 00:14:51,599
JonBenét?
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00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:53,857
- Yeah, I think the brother did it.
- R&B... [groans]
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- [laughs]
- Change is gonna come.
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[laughs]
311
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So he picks up his ukulele
and he's like,
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oh, man,
what is this song gonna be?
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What's this song gonna be?
♪ Ugh! ♪
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♪ Do something that's gonna
talk about real shit ♪
315
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♪ What black struggle is like ♪
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♪ Ha! ♪
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He just wasn't...
it just wasn't...
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he couldn't figure it out.
319
00:15:10,740 --> 00:15:13,908
And so he had a stop
in Shreveport, Louisiana.
320
00:15:13,944 --> 00:15:15,977
So, like, he's driving through
Louisiana in the '60s, man.
321
00:15:16,012 --> 00:15:18,680
He's, like, seeing, like,
colored only, white only.
322
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So he go to this motel,
'cause, you know,
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black people couldn't go
to hotels, just the motels.
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- Motel, hotel.
- Holiday Inn!
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You blacker than I thought, Derek.
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00:15:26,811 --> 00:15:29,565
Like, you actually been...
I got my eye on you.
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- [laughs]
- All right, anyway.
328
00:15:30,927 --> 00:15:32,228
So he's checking in with everyone.
329
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He's got his, like, entourage.
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And he's like, ding, ding, ding,
Sam Cooke is here.
331
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So of course,
this white person's back there
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eating, like,
white potato salad and shit.
333
00:15:41,004 --> 00:15:43,204
And so he's like, yeah?
334
00:15:43,239 --> 00:15:45,506
Sam is like, I'm checking in.
Sam Cooke.
335
00:15:45,541 --> 00:15:48,109
Like, mm, let me check,
let me check,
336
00:15:48,144 --> 00:15:49,277
let me check through the file.
337
00:15:49,278 --> 00:15:51,512
[vocalizing]
Nothing here.
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And he's like, what're you
talking about?
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00:15:52,649 --> 00:15:54,083
I'm Sam Cooke.
You're literally...
340
00:15:54,084 --> 00:15:55,550
like, my song is on the radio
right there.
341
00:15:55,551 --> 00:15:57,819
The... the person behind
the counter's like, pfft.
342
00:15:57,854 --> 00:15:59,854
I don't care, you just look
like a colored boy to me.
343
00:15:59,889 --> 00:16:02,323
So Sam is like, no, this nigga didn't!
344
00:16:02,358 --> 00:16:04,458
So he's like, his entourage
is trying to get him together.
345
00:16:04,494 --> 00:16:05,794
And his wife rolls up.
346
00:16:05,795 --> 00:16:07,561
Sam's amazing wife Barbara.
347
00:16:07,597 --> 00:16:09,998
Like, she's like,
bae, stop, bae.
348
00:16:10,033 --> 00:16:11,333
They don't care that you Sam Cooke.
349
00:16:11,334 --> 00:16:13,134
Look at that fuckin' bland-ass
potato salad he's eating.
350
00:16:13,169 --> 00:16:15,938
[Derek laughs] You black.
We in Louisiana.
351
00:16:15,939 --> 00:16:17,904
They'll kill your ass.
Calm down.
352
00:16:17,940 --> 00:16:19,973
Breathe, bae.
Bae, breathe.
353
00:16:20,009 --> 00:16:21,143
Bae.
354
00:16:21,144 --> 00:16:22,144
He's like, bae, you right.
355
00:16:22,145 --> 00:16:23,345
And she's like, bae, I know.
356
00:16:23,346 --> 00:16:25,614
But at this point, the attendant
already called the cops.
357
00:16:25,615 --> 00:16:27,448
So the cops are already there.
They're like, hey.
358
00:16:27,483 --> 00:16:30,518
We hear that there's Negroes
in here causing trouble,
359
00:16:30,553 --> 00:16:33,287
and the attendant's like,
them, right there.
360
00:16:33,322 --> 00:16:34,822
Like, with the spoon,
with the potato salad.
361
00:16:34,823 --> 00:16:36,158
[laughs]
362
00:16:36,159 --> 00:16:37,459
Right there, there, causing trouble.
363
00:16:37,460 --> 00:16:39,193
Who fucked with you
that had potato salad?
364
00:16:39,228 --> 00:16:41,896
You don't understand!
Bland-ass potato salad is
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00:16:41,897 --> 00:16:43,397
a cause for a riot in my life.
366
00:16:43,432 --> 00:16:46,400
If that shit isn't yellow,
there's no eggs in that bitch,
367
00:16:46,435 --> 00:16:47,636
there ain't no relish, if there ain't
368
00:16:47,637 --> 00:16:49,503
no motherfuckin'...
like, get out of my house.
369
00:16:49,539 --> 00:16:53,191
[both laugh]
370
00:16:53,226 --> 00:16:56,609
Anyway. So, of course, they
put all these dudes in jail,
371
00:16:56,645 --> 00:16:58,745
and so Sam is, like, sitting
there, and he's like,
372
00:16:58,781 --> 00:17:00,613
damn, I still ain't finished
this song, though.
373
00:17:00,649 --> 00:17:04,617
Damn. Even though I'm Sam
Cooke, that don't mean shit.
374
00:17:04,653 --> 00:17:05,820
They'll still throw me in jail,
375
00:17:05,821 --> 00:17:07,521
and they embarrass me
in front of Babs?
376
00:17:07,556 --> 00:17:09,522
Something's gotta change, man.
Something's gotta change.
377
00:17:09,558 --> 00:17:10,792
Boom!
378
00:17:10,793 --> 00:17:14,078
He's like, shit.
A change gonna come.
379
00:17:14,079 --> 00:17:15,662
A change gonna come.
380
00:17:15,698 --> 00:17:17,364
So he starts writing the song in jail.
381
00:17:17,365 --> 00:17:20,067
Like, he was like, damn, man,
I was born in a tent.
382
00:17:20,102 --> 00:17:21,235
I wasn't even in a house.
383
00:17:21,236 --> 00:17:23,103
Like, I was by a river,
you know what I'm saying?
384
00:17:23,138 --> 00:17:24,572
And that's how it starts.
385
00:17:24,573 --> 00:17:26,339
♪ I was born by the river! ♪
386
00:17:26,374 --> 00:17:29,475
♪ In a little tent!
Oh! ♪
387
00:17:29,511 --> 00:17:31,044
Oh, my God, like, this is the one.
388
00:17:31,045 --> 00:17:34,515
This... this is the shit!
A change is gonna come.
389
00:17:34,516 --> 00:17:38,117
So he gets out of jail
and finishes the song,
390
00:17:38,152 --> 00:17:41,721
and then, on February 7th, 1964,
391
00:17:41,756 --> 00:17:43,923
he goes on the "Tonight Show
With Johnny Carson,"
392
00:17:43,958 --> 00:17:47,861
to debut his masterpiece called
"A Change Is Gonna Come."
393
00:17:47,862 --> 00:17:49,562
These white people,
they're going crazy.
394
00:17:49,564 --> 00:17:51,832
Sam is like, yes.
You, a change gonna come.
395
00:17:51,833 --> 00:17:52,566
You, a change gonna come.
396
00:17:52,567 --> 00:17:54,667
You know a change gonna come.
Sam Cooke.
397
00:17:54,703 --> 00:17:56,603
But then, like, two days later,
398
00:17:56,638 --> 00:17:58,404
the fuckin' Beatles
performed their new single
399
00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:00,672
on Ed Sullivan whatever show.
400
00:18:00,708 --> 00:18:03,375
And so, like, the Beatles
kind of stole the thunder
401
00:18:03,410 --> 00:18:07,147
from Sam, and Sam is like,
fuck! Again, it happened.
402
00:18:07,148 --> 00:18:10,015
Another fuckin' white man
stole my shine.
403
00:18:10,051 --> 00:18:13,152
So, you know, he decides
to, like, go out.
404
00:18:13,187 --> 00:18:16,655
So he meets this chick
named Elisa Boyer.
405
00:18:16,690 --> 00:18:18,091
She had a reputation...
she was like,
406
00:18:18,092 --> 00:18:21,228
I can get any man I want,
'cause, you know, look at this.
407
00:18:21,229 --> 00:18:24,130
I'm fine,
and what I do is Elisa Boyer.
408
00:18:24,165 --> 00:18:26,632
So here we are
at yet another motel,
409
00:18:26,667 --> 00:18:27,868
and they do what they do.
410
00:18:27,869 --> 00:18:29,136
They rolling in the sack,
411
00:18:29,137 --> 00:18:30,804
and she's like, oh, my God,
a change gonna come.
412
00:18:30,805 --> 00:18:32,172
He's like, yeah,
a change gonna come.
413
00:18:32,173 --> 00:18:34,606
A change is gonna come!
And so, fine.
414
00:18:34,607 --> 00:18:36,875
Anyway...
[laughs]
415
00:18:36,910 --> 00:18:39,080
Anyway, oh, Sam, forgive me.
416
00:18:39,115 --> 00:18:41,266
[Derek laughs]
417
00:18:42,747 --> 00:18:45,281
[burps] I'm so sorry,
excuse me. So...
418
00:18:45,282 --> 00:18:49,151
Sam is at a motel.
Like, he's got... he's...
419
00:18:49,186 --> 00:18:50,821
- What was that?
- I don't know.
420
00:18:50,822 --> 00:18:53,889
Hopes. Dreams.
And he... [laughter]
421
00:18:53,924 --> 00:18:56,159
So anyway,
Sam Cooke is in the bathroom,
422
00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:57,860
like, you know, just showering off.
423
00:18:57,862 --> 00:19:00,396
And so Elisa Boyer snatches
all his stuff and runs off.
424
00:19:00,431 --> 00:19:02,464
And, like, Sam opens
the bathroom door like, naked,
425
00:19:02,499 --> 00:19:03,733
just standing there,
and he's like,
426
00:19:03,734 --> 00:19:06,067
"No, she didn't.
Did she really?"
427
00:19:06,102 --> 00:19:09,872
So Sam throws on a trench coat.
He goes to the lobby.
428
00:19:09,873 --> 00:19:11,139
And, like,
he's running around,
429
00:19:11,140 --> 00:19:12,974
and, like, the hotel manager,
like, she sees this dude
430
00:19:13,009 --> 00:19:15,443
in a trench coat
and he's like, hey,
431
00:19:15,479 --> 00:19:17,912
did you see this... this chick
come in with my stuff?
432
00:19:17,947 --> 00:19:20,215
I'm sitting here in a trench coat.
My balls are out.
433
00:19:20,216 --> 00:19:22,585
And she's like, ah, penis!
Oh, my God!
434
00:19:22,586 --> 00:19:23,753
He's like, no, no,
I'm Sam Cooke.
435
00:19:23,754 --> 00:19:24,887
Like, chill out, I'm Sam Cooke.
436
00:19:24,888 --> 00:19:26,888
And then she just, like,
shoots him. [gunshot]
437
00:19:26,923 --> 00:19:28,723
Like, just, like, shoots him.
438
00:19:28,759 --> 00:19:31,259
And his last words,
his last words, were,
439
00:19:31,294 --> 00:19:33,828
"Lady, you shot me."
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00:19:33,864 --> 00:19:35,197
[tender piano music]
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00:19:35,198 --> 00:19:38,132
And that's it!
He's out!
442
00:19:38,133 --> 00:19:40,100
And the sad part
about the whole thing is,
443
00:19:40,135 --> 00:19:41,835
is that he couldn't even see
the success
444
00:19:41,837 --> 00:19:42,937
of what "Change Is Gonna Come"
has had, because, like,
445
00:19:42,938 --> 00:19:44,606
after he died,
"Change Is Gonna Come,"
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00:19:44,607 --> 00:19:46,240
like, skyrocketed, became, like...
447
00:19:46,241 --> 00:19:48,609
it became the song
of the civil rights movement.
448
00:19:48,644 --> 00:19:51,578
Like, that song was playing,
it gave black people hope,
449
00:19:51,614 --> 00:19:57,317
and it is still relevant.
God damn it!
450
00:19:57,352 --> 00:20:00,186
It just really let you know
the pain that, like,
451
00:20:00,222 --> 00:20:01,355
we have gone through.
452
00:20:01,356 --> 00:20:04,457
Like, damn, being black
in this country is so hard.
453
00:20:04,492 --> 00:20:08,128
It's just so stupid.
Change needs to come.
454
00:20:08,163 --> 00:20:09,930
You know where change
comes, Derek?
455
00:20:09,965 --> 00:20:11,198
I'm getting reparations right now
456
00:20:11,199 --> 00:20:13,499
because I got your white ass
to buy me liquor.
457
00:20:13,535 --> 00:20:15,069
The change has already started, man.
458
00:20:15,070 --> 00:20:17,122
- Like, so, cheers to us.
- Amen.
459
00:20:17,123 --> 00:20:19,640
- Change is gonna come.
- Cheers. Thank you, Sam.
460
00:20:19,674 --> 00:20:21,042
- I love you.
- I love you, Brian.
461
00:20:21,043 --> 00:20:24,010
- I really love you.
- I love you for sentimental reasons.
462
00:20:24,046 --> 00:20:26,948
- Now I'm tingling.
- That was a Sam Cooke song.
463
00:20:26,949 --> 00:20:31,218
Oh, was it? [laughs]
I knew that.
464
00:20:31,219 --> 00:20:33,153
- [laughs]
- Mm.
465
00:20:33,188 --> 00:20:35,273
[laughs]
Oh, fuck.
466
00:20:35,441 --> 00:20:39,643
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