Prophets of Rage
Lovett or Leave It
Lovett or Leave It
4.7 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2017
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Chuck D of Public Enemy and Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine join Jon to talk about the soundtrack of the Resistance. Then Jake Fogelnest, Cord Jefferson, and Brittani Nichols break down the latest news on Houston, Mueller's investigation, and Trump's attacks on the media. And activist Rubi Martinez talks about the threat facing undocumented young people as Trump considers rescinding DACA. Other notes: Jon bleeps one Game of Thrones spoiler, so no worries there. And two sites mentioned today: houstonfoodbank.org and defendDACA.com.
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| 0:00.0 | You guys hear me? |
| 0:24.0 | I see a friend of the pod. I see a friend of the pod. Very good. Okay, I see you there. |
| 0:31.0 | Thank you for calling my attention to the fact that you're here. Has everybody doing? |
| 0:38.0 | It was a very exciting show. It is great as always to be at the improv. I have to remind you yet again |
| 0:45.0 | that we'll be at the now here this festival. It's September 8th. Now here this fest.com. |
| 0:50.0 | I want to get right to it. It's a very exciting show. I want to bring up our first two guests. |
| 0:57.0 | One of our first guests said this about Prophets of Rage. He said, we're not a supergroup. |
| 1:04.0 | We're an elite task force of revolutionary musicians determined to confront this mountain of election year bullshit |
| 1:11.0 | and confront it head on with Marshall Stacks blazing. Please welcome two of the members of Prophets of Rage, |
| 1:18.0 | two music legends from Rage against the machine Tom Morello and from public enemy Chuck D. |
| 1:25.0 | Thank you for being here. Thanks for having us. Will all right. Thank you for catching me in the post rehearsal mode. |
| 1:35.0 | I thought it was going to be a great show. I'm going to be a great singer. I'm going to be a great singer. |
| 1:42.0 | Thank you for being here. Thanks for having us. Will all right. |
| 1:49.0 | Thank you for catching me in post rehearsal mode. I thought it was going to be another room. |
| 1:56.0 | No, the smaller room we normally would be there, but you guys are here. |
| 2:02.0 | So the new album comes out on September 15th. You guys form this group. Now you started this during the election year. |
| 2:10.0 | Obviously it didn't work. |
| 2:16.0 | I'd say the jury is still out. There was injustice before the Trump administration. |
| 2:23.0 | There's injustice during and it's likely going to be some afterwards. There is however resistance before the Trump administration. |
| 2:29.0 | There's resistance during and there will be resistance after. |
| 2:33.0 | And we are throwing our hats in the ring to be the soundtrack to that resistance. |
| 2:38.0 | Yeah, and I think that's awesome. Look, you guys started this during the election because I think we all recognize that this was a special election. |
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