Dawn Staley’s ‘Uncommon Favor,’ Plus Cardi B and Offset Spousal Support

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

Van and Rachel react to racists attempting to claim the sentiment “Black fatigue” (0:00), before legendary basketball player and coach Dawn Staley joins the show to talk about life lessons from her memoir, ‘Uncommon Favor’ (15:15). Then, reactions to Offset’s request for spousal support from Cardi B (46:31), an Atlanta family deals with squatters throwing pool parties (1:01:59), a debate on how many mechanical bull rides are too many for a guy on the first date (1:19:43). Then, a dating preference discussion (1:30:42) Glaze of the Week (1:36:00), and an Angel Reese-Shedeur Sanders comparison (1:42:26). Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Guest: Dawn Staley 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.
0:05.2	What is up?
0:06.7	Highland is on.
0:07.6	It is Ivan Lathen, Jr.
0:09.2	And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay.
0:11.3	Donnie, what were we talking about just before Rachel got here?
0:16.7	Black fatigue.
0:18.0	Black fatigue.
0:19.0	I was asking if you had heard of it.
0:20.7	I've heard people discuss it, but I haven't heard, I haven't done the deep dive on black fatigue yet, Donnie.
0:27.7	Tell us about it.
0:29.4	Well, I'm forgetting where I first heard it, but I'm seeing it pop up more and more online, especially this weekend.
0:35.4	After this video of these black people having fun at a ski resort, which Rachel has talked
0:39.8	about before, that video went viral.
0:42.4	They were listening to music dancing on the slopes.
0:44.9	And people were under the comments talking about black fatigue strikes again.
0:48.9	They took the slopes from us.
0:50.1	And then you just sent me this video of these people doing flips in the hallway at a cruise.
0:57.0	Play this video and play this video and make sure that the ghoul that quote tweeted this and tried to make this out to be something terrible is also on there.
1:11.2	Okay, so look, what I see right here is an incredibly wholesome video of black people having fun.
1:17.6	Right.
1:18.0	They're flipping something my father told me expressly not to do in 1988.
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