Is World War III Happening? And Will Smith Like Pretty Girls, So There’s That

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Summary

With Rachel in Europe, Van’s flying solo to address the evolving conflict in the Middle East with HuffPost’s Akbar Shahid Ahmed. (0:00) Intro (3:14) Father’s Day (23:35) Israel-Iran attacks (28:48) Akbar Shahid Ahmed joins the show (1:03:09) GOP Rep calls for ‘nuking’ Gaza (1:08:04) Minnesota lawmaker shooting (1:21:08) Van hates Caitlin Clark (1:28:56) Stephen A. Smith loves solitaire (1:40:39) Will Smith’s new song (1:53:00) Glaze of the Week (1:59:56) N-----ism Host: Van Lathan Jr. Guest: Akbar Shahid Ahmed Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, yo, yo, thought lawyers.
0:06.0	What is up?
0:07.0	Higher Learning is on.
0:08.0	It is I, Van Lathen, Jr.
0:09.7	Rachel is not here today.
0:12.0	Just to let you guys know from the jump.
0:13.8	There's no Rachel today.
0:14.8	Rachel is in Khan.
0:17.2	Can or con, Donnie?
0:18.5	Is it con?
0:19.6	I think both.
0:20.8	It's either one.
0:21.9	If you're trying to be fancy, it's con.
0:24.9	But then if you're like a layman, it's can.
0:27.5	Can, con, can, con.
0:29.1	So there's the Can Lion Festival over there.
0:32.3	And Rachel is representing Spotify and to a degree higher learning over in France.
0:38.3	I'm seeing a lot of people talk about going to France right now,
0:42.0	and Rachel is over there.
0:43.1	Now, I wasn't aware of what the CanConn Lion thing was,
0:47.0	but I guess it's a big international ad convention that happens in the south of France and everybody goes to it now some years ago
0:57.6	some friends of mine had gone to it and Rachel is there now I have high hopes for Rachel
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