Difficult Discussions with Michael Rapaport

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

It’s been a long time coming, but finally Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay welcomed actor and fellow podcaster Michael Rapaport to the pod and it was 100% worth the wait. Van and Rachel confront Rap on his divisive but popular social media presence and his complicated relationship to black culture. Things get heated but it’s all love, no hate. Let the audience decide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo yo yo yo thought warriors
0:04.2	What is up?
0:05.7	High learning is on it is I've been like and it's me Rachel is me. Okay
0:11.6	You want to explain your voice? Okay, talk about your voice. How about why you're up a couple of octaves?
0:16.0	This is my Zen voice. I'm so zined out
0:19.7	I'm very zen right now
0:21.7	I'm you know, 15 to zin. We just had a one hour interview with Michael rap port. Yeah, yeah, finally
0:31.9	Finally got rap on he came early. Yeah, he was here early. He was ready for the shit. I got to be honest with you
0:38.4	Michael rap port was was was ready for the shit. He did not run from anything. He didn't hide from anything
0:45.7	and it got
0:47.7	So
0:49.7	Great I
0:52.2	Went there and I'm gonna tell you something sometimes your job and being a co-host is to just sit back and
0:59.4	Let the conversation flow if you if you want to call it a conversation
1:03.3	It was it was a conversation was a discussion. It was a debate
1:05.5	It was it seemed to be things that needed to be said that maybe Van had been holding in for a while
1:11.0	Same with Michael, but I think the beauty of this in this entire episode is at the end of it
1:16.6	You guys can can have your own takeaway you guys can decide what's up afterwards
1:22.0	Yes, so we are going to actually can
1:25.7	Some of the other topics because the interview went so long and just give you guys that interview for this particular podcast
1:32.2	But I do want to talk about one thing before you get into is that okay to you. Yeah, what do you want to talk?
1:36.5	Yeah, I want to talk about what happened on the Joe button podcast
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