Jay-Z Returns to Beef With Drake, Plus Trump’s Failed Concert Series

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Van and Rachel react to Jay-Z’s freestyle at the Roots Picnic, and Donald Trump taking two public L's in the lead-up to his Freedom 250 festival. Plus a check-in on the L.A. mayoral race, and an Atlanta judge and police deputy chief’s noisy sexual encounters get exposed. (0:00) Intro (19:12) Jay-Z freestyle (42:57) Trump cancelling concert (52:27) Removal of Trump’s name from Kennedy Center (1:00:06) Spencer Pratt’s appeal (1:24:47) Courtroom sex affair (1:34:52) The return of Mountain Lion (1:39:30) Give up your section for Lil Baby? Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Producers: Donnie Beacham Jr. and Jade Whaley Social Producer: Bernard Moore Video Supervision: Chris Thomas and Jacob Cornett Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, yo, yo, thought warriors. What is up?
0:10.7	High learning is on. It is I. Van Lathen coming in from Los Angeles, California.
0:15.6	And it is me, Rachel and Lindsay. You got to tell the people where you are.
0:20.2	I know you. Washington, D.C. In Washington, D.C., you're the people where you are. I know you.
0:22.1	Washington, D.C.
0:24.7	In Washington, D.C., you're in our nation's capital.
0:26.0	Do you feel patriotic?
0:27.3	No.
0:28.3	You don't?
0:32.3	Did you go, did you go to the mall?
0:35.3	I came in on the red eye.
0:37.0	So you came in on the red eye. So you came into D.C., but yet you thought that it was okay not to go say hello to Dr. King or Abraham Lincoln.
0:46.2	That's correct.
0:46.9	So you didn't go say hello to them.
0:48.2	You don't care about them.
0:49.3	No, I've said hello.
0:50.4	I've said hello before.
0:51.6	But you didn't feel the need to say hello this time.
0:55.9	No, I think Dr. King will want me to get my rest. No, that's not what he won't want. That's that, that's, that, Van,
1:03.4	now who's, who's, who's being disrespectful now? What? What's disrespectful? That's not
1:09.2	this. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Donnie, Donnie. Donnie. I laughed. It was good. Thank you. That was a good one. One point for Van. One point because you think Donnie doesn't support you. That's one forann. Thank you, Donnie. That was a good one.
1:28.4	You got it.
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