Claudine Gay Is Out and Katt Williams Goes In

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay react to the resignation of Harvard University's president, Claudine Gay (7:58). They then discuss the competitive nature of comedy following Katt Williams’s appearance on ‘Club Shay Shay’ (30:28) and Dave Chappelle’s latest Netflix special (45:38). Plus, unpacking the release of the Jeffrey Epstein documents (55:01). 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	Yo y'all y'all y'all about winners, what is up?
0:04.0	Hilarin is on, it is I, Van Laken Jr.
0:07.0	And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay.
0:10.0	Uh, Rachel?
0:14.0	I, I didn't think I would get emotional.
0:17.0	I didn't think I would get emotional.
0:22.0	I just, um, I know know people first off I just want to say thank you for
0:26.3	People who reached out
0:29.4	I'm like still trying to reply to people I just you just never know how great your
0:33.8	circle is until you see all the people that reach out and love you.
0:36.8	Obviously it's the difficult time if you've read the headlines but I and you're probably wondering why I would even
0:46.9	work but to be honest with you I need to distract myself from myself and the best way to do that
0:56.7	is to do something that I love and I love higher learning and so I am going to try my best to get through this podcast, but I'm not going to talk about it.
1:06.4	I will eventually, but now is not the time.
1:11.2	Just trying to take a day fighting.
1:14.0	And this is all in reaction obviously to Texas losing in the college football
1:19.2	playoff.
1:20.5	I knew that that would affect.
1:21.6	And this is why I wanted to come out and learning.
1:25.0	I knew that it would affect you.
1:27.0	I knew that because I was watching it.
1:29.0	Because look, when you're watching your friend's team
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