David Oyelowo on ‘Government Cheese,’ Plus Keri Hilson’s Regret

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Van and Rachel give an update on the roller coaster that is the U.S. economy (2:10) and talk Keri Hilson’s recent comments on her 2009 Beyoncé diss (16:05) before welcoming actor and producer David Oyelowo to discuss his new Apple TV+ show, ‘Government Cheese’ (28:32), the types of roles he will and will not play (39:51), and his friendship with Jonathan Majors (1:01:02). Plus, Animal Games makes a comeback (1:11:46), Terrance Howard wants to duel (1:16:44) Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Guest: David Oyelowo 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, yo, yo, thought warriors.
0:04.5	What is up?
0:05.5	How I'm learning is on and Zyvan Lathin Jr.
0:07.5	And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay.
0:08.9	I saw sinners last night.
0:10.3	Okay, and what did you think?
0:11.8	It's fantastic.
0:13.1	Legitimately fantastic.
0:14.8	All I'm going to say, revelatory performance by Michael B. Jordan, Omar Benson, Miller.
0:23.1	Fantastic movie.
0:25.1	Legitimately fantastic.
0:27.5	You'll hear more about the movie for me.
0:30.9	I'm going to be on The Big Picture with...
0:32.7	Oh, is that how you got to see it early?
0:34.4	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
0:35.6	I ran into Omar.
0:37.1	Shout out to Omar.
0:38.3	He's in it?
0:38.7	He's in it.
0:40.3	He's got a nice, big role in it.
0:42.4	He, um, and he invited Kalika and I out to the L.A. premiere.
0:47.3	So we went out there and was out there with the L.A. Black Hollywood pop-up crew watching
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