Birdman Versus Books, Van’s Summer Era, and the Electricity From Ken and Friends

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay react to Birdman’s visit to his hometown to speak to inmates at Orleans Parish Prison and his comments on the inmates’ need for books (33:07). They also talk about the interest (or lack thereof) toward Verzuz's distribution deal with X/Twitter (42:30). Then, they go over the surprising new election polling numbers (54:19) and reactions to our Bible talk from our last episode (1:08:24). Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Producer: Ashleigh Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	YOLAINAND THOLAND THOLYERS
0:07.0	What is that?
0:09.0	Our learning is on, it is I-Van Lathan Jr.
0:12.2	And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay.
0:15.1	Rachel.
0:17.2	I'm on a high.
0:18.9	I am on a high.
0:20.1	You want me to give you a moment while you finish brushing your beard out,
0:27.1	adjusting your hat, fixing your get, you ready, man, you ready to go? The reality is
0:31.8	sometimes you got pop out, show niggles. You know what I mean? You show what you're ready to go? The reality is sometimes you got pop out, show niggles.
0:33.7	You know what I mean? You did not pop out last night. You could have, but you didn't.
0:38.0	Instead, I'd like to take this time to thank Van.
0:41.6	Because I'll be honest with you.
0:44.0	Didn't think you were going to come through.
0:47.0	I didn't think you were kind of come through.
0:49.0	The moment I saw that Kendrick Lamar was going to be performing in LA at the forum on Juneteenth.
0:57.6	I immediately text Van with Kaleika on the group text and said, we got to go. go man you got to get us tickets didn't really ask just
1:06.0	demanded and man's response was okay I'll work on it and And he came through, he got us tickets, we had a great view, we had space,
1:19.6	couldn't have been better, easy, a seamless process, and we had the time of our lives.
1:25.7	So I just want to take this time out to say thank you, Van, for providing us such a magnificent
1:32.2	experience.
1:34.4	Apology, a thank you rating one.
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