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Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

Discussing Slavery and Presentism, Plus Breaking Down the SAFE-T Act With Sen. Robert Peters

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.811.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Van and Rachel discuss Bill Maher’s recent comments about slavery and his criticism of “presentism” (14:11), before reacting to the social media conversations around ‘The Woman King’ (47:42). Plus, Charlamagne tha God has a questionable take on the shipping of migrants (1:01:38), then Sen. Robert Peters joins the show to help break down Illinois’ SAFE-T Act (1:11:05). Hosts: Van Lathan Jr. and Rachel Lindsay Guest: Sen. Robert Peters Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Yeah, you thought warriors. What is up? How are learning is on here in studio. It's I,

0:08.0

Van Laten, Jr. And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay. Rachel, how are you know, let me tell you

0:12.4

something that happened guys. We we taped an interview with Illinois State Senator Robert

0:18.3

Peters about the safety act a little while ago. But before we taped it, Donnie popped

0:22.0

on the Mongols. And I mean, Rachel were talking bonding as we do. And Donnie goes,

0:29.1

Rachel, how was your week? Did you leave Donnie? Did you get a chance to tell some West and

0:38.8

the rest of the world? Oh, Donnie, thank you. Such a fucking no Donnie cares. That's what

0:45.1

it is. Donnie heard that I had a stressful week, two weeks, month, really. And he said,

0:51.9

let me check in with her. And he did. And I'm so glad he asked, I had a beautiful weekend.

0:57.4

I feel refreshed brand new almost. But I took some me time for me. I did football. My

1:05.4

team's won. You're team's one of the football. We I went on a day, double day with Brian.

1:10.6

I cook. You know, I'm not, you know, I'm not well, Brian, another couple. You know, I'm

1:15.7

not, I'm not stressed when I cook. What you could very basic Brian wanted to stake. I

1:21.1

made a mistake. Made myself pork chops. You know, I love my pork chops. I some type of

1:25.5

situation. He's man. Make me a really barefoot when you made this day. I'm like, yes,

1:30.9

no, I'm always barefooted. Brian, Brian said, hey, I know that you haven't been feeling

1:38.1

lately, but you know, I'm saying some type of situation. Barefooted. I feel like I

1:43.4

haven't been present. So I wanted to make dinner. We sat around at the table, talked at

1:49.0

great conversation, played rumacube. I don't know what that is. So his mom brought

1:54.2

you. We had we all were together for Christmas. She loves this game, rumacube, introduced

1:59.9

it to my family. We're so into it now. This parents were here last month, got the game

2:05.4

for them. And we sat around and played it too. It's like, it's, it looks like dominoes.

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