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Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

A Mini-Episode on Difficult Discussions

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.811.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Van and Rachel discuss the conversation around Shaun King and the release of hostages in the Israel-Hamas conflict (17:42) before talking about a CAA agent’s resignation after a social media post about Israel (32:02). Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Producers: Donnie Beacham Jr. and Ashleigh Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up guys? It's Van. Okay, look, this episode is short and there's a reason why.

0:04.9

We had taped an episode with Kayla Nicole. You guys might know who Kayla Nicole is.

0:11.0

She is a fitness influencer influencer on-air talent someone who I've known for a long time

0:16.6

she's also someone who's been embroiled in the Travis Kelsey Taylor Swift

0:21.8

situation if she was with Travis

0:26.8

Kelsey for a long time most people knew them as a couple and since the Taylor

0:31.2

Swift Travis Kelsey thing has happened,

0:33.1

Kayla Nicole's life has been thrust into the media

0:37.8

in a very specific way.

0:39.4

She recently did a video on her Instagram

0:42.0

called Dear Black Girl, where she talked about some of the things

0:45.9

that were bothering her in some of the ways that she was dealing with stuff and gave encouragement

0:51.2

to other young black girls.

0:52.6

We did about an hour interview with Kaye Blindacoe.

0:55.6

It was wide-ranging, but mostly had to do with her mental state,

1:02.3

the state of her life, the state of her career in the scope

1:06.4

of what's going on with her ex Taylor Swift, how people are responding to her on social media, how people are dealing with her,

1:16.3

how she's being treated, what's in the future for her, some things in the past, we had some fun, I thought it was great fun I thought it was great Rachel thought it was great

1:24.4

Kayla asked us to let her hear the interview before we put it up just to make sure

1:30.2

that she didn't say anything to trample anyone or to represent anyone in a bad way.

1:35.9

We thought that was very responsible, not something that we typically do for people who come on the

1:39.6

show, but I've known Kayla for a long time. She was an intern at T.M. Z. a long time ago when I was first getting started there

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