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Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Van and Rachel close out 2025 with a bang! Thanks for listening and watching this year and keep doing so in the next. See ya’ll in 2026. (0:00) Intro (12:01) Van Lathan: King of Threads (15:59) Auntie or nah? (20:03) ‘Stranger Things’ (32:49) Chappelle backlash (1:00:26) Nigeria strikes (1:08:02) Epstein update (1:21:57) Dr. Umar on Venus and Serena (1:55:13) New Diddy documentary (2:08:00) Russian ‘Bad Girls Club’ (2:14:40) Top moments of 2025 Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Producers: Donnie Beacham Jr. and Jade Whaley Social Producer: Bernard Moore Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, yo, yo, yo, thought warriors.
0:09.4	What is up?
0:10.2	High Learning is on.
0:11.3	It is I Van Lathen, Jr.
0:12.7	And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay.
0:15.3	Rachel, have you ever seen the movie Marie Antoinette?
0:19.0	I have not.
0:20.4	You ever seen? Why do we do this?
0:22.0	So it's not about that because that's a movie that if you guys haven't seen the movie,
0:26.3	it is directed, written and directed by Sophia Coppola.
0:29.2	It is about Marie Antoinette, but not specifically about the French Revolution or, you know,
0:35.5	the beginnings of France as a nation and not as a monarchy.
0:40.3	It was a movie that came out when I was like 25, 26 years old or something like that,
0:46.3	stars Kristen Dunst as Marianne.
0:49.6	Okay.
0:50.3	When it first came out, I just did not understand the movie.
0:53.3	I watched it.
0:53.9	For some reason, I watched it last week, and it broke my heart.
0:58.0	You feel sorry for her?
0:59.3	Yes.
1:00.1	Now, listen, the movie doesn't look at Marie Antoinette through a historical lens.
1:06.5	It looks at her through like she's a celebrity lens.
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