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Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

Feeling Bad for Will Smith and the War on Black Intellectualism

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.711.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay discuss Jada Pinkett Smith’s latest 'Red Table Talk' and why "relationship goals" is a myth (17:05), Kyle Rittenhouse’s victims can’t be called such in the upcoming trial (29:53), and the political right declares war on Black intellectual thought (37:12). Plus, Facebook gets a name change (1:01:34) and it’s Mailbag Time (1:21:06)! Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Producers: Trudy Joseph and Donnie Beacham Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

ya

0:22.9

me

0:26.9

I'm a real man. Hold on. I'm gonna get out. Rachel, I'm gonna exit out of this. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not playing for real man. Quick, quick, for real man.

0:39.9

Like, I'm gonna get off the, I'm gonna get off the Zoom. I'm not playing stop. Stop it.

0:50.9

I'm not playing for real. It's worse with that at all. Yo, yo, yo, thought warriors. What is up? Hopefully I can get my, my bearings to actually do the podcast today.

1:00.9

What's wrong?

1:02.9

You know, you come on the podcast and you share, you share with people about your hopes and dreams and your fears.

1:09.9

And I told you guys several times over.

1:13.9

I'm afraid of Freddie Krueger. And I remain afraid of him. You know what the funny thing is a couple of nights ago, I tried to face fears again. I tried to watch it. It's hard.

1:22.9

Why would you do that to yourself though? Why do that?

1:25.9

Because people keep asking like, that I should not 41. I shouldn't be afraid of Freddie Krueger.

1:31.9

And then I get on the podcast today.

1:34.9

And it's even weird because you know, Rachel, my computer came up and it shut down. And then Rachel's gone when I came back and all of the sudden fucking Freddie Krueger is with the hat and all.

1:46.9

She's still got the, she's still got the sweater on even the sweater. It's triggering me a little bit. Is that your Halloween costume?

1:52.9

No, just this, that was, that was for you. I'm gonna wear it to work tomorrow, but that's off for you.

1:58.9

By the way, they won't see this because I don't know if Trudy and Donnie were recording this on, but I attempted to thug it out.

2:06.9

Like for like the first five or 10 seconds, I was just trying to like look at it, but then I like I couldn't figure out how to disabled your zoom screen.

2:15.9

Just able.

2:17.9

Well, I just to make you go away. So I put my hand up to the computer so I couldn't see it. And Rachel, wow, wow. You guys recording everybody was in on it.

2:29.9

Oh, everybody knew.

2:34.9

Wow.

2:36.9

The whole thing was recording.

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