A Dive Into the Diddy Trial, Meghan Trainor’s New Bass, and Bringing Redheads to the Community

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay start the episode by discussing the TikTok trend of including redheaded Americans in the Black community (07:20). Then, they go through a few “quick hitters,” including the restraining order sought by Halle Bailey (18:52), the backlash about Meghan Trainor’s new look (33:28), and their reactions to the introductions to the federal bill redefining what qualifies as “obscene” (58:14). Then, they bring on Yodit Tewolde to give a look at the details of the Diddy trial (1:12:09) before ending the show with an important message of change from the hosts (1:38:02). Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Guest: Yodit Tewolde Producers: Ashleigh Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, yo, yo, thought warriors.
0:04.5	What is up?
0:06.2	I learned his own is I Van Lacey Jr.
0:08.7	And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay.
0:11.3	Rachel, we're still basking in the glow of the success of our first live show.
0:16.4	It was good.
0:18.3	It was sold out live show.
0:20.5	It wasn't just good. It was fun. It wasn't just good.
0:21.8	It was fun.
0:24.4	Right?
0:24.7	I don't go.
0:27.1	I don't know if I've been to a live podcast show.
0:29.8	I've seen them, but I don't know if I've been.
0:32.6	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:34.0	I don't know if I've ever really been.
0:35.4	No, I haven't been to one.
0:36.8	I think I've just watched it. And I think my
0:39.3	biggest concern was, will it translate? Will it be fun? I just wanted people to have a good time.
0:45.4	People were taking time out of their day, spending their money to come, watch us. And I just wanted
0:52.8	people to walk away and say, it was worth it. And I feel like people to walk away and say it was worth it.
0:55.7	And I feel like they did.
0:57.3	Plus selfishly, we have fun.
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