Jonathan Majors, ‘Snow White’ and Box Office Controversy

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Van and Rachel remember the life of George Foreman (19:32) before discussing Jonathan Majors’s latest film, ‘Magazine Dreams’ (29:06), and the controversy surrounding Disney’s ‘Snow White’ (48:01). Then they react to the lawsuits against Marcellus Wiley detailing accounts of rape and sexual assault (1:00:31). Then Van explains why he’ll redo his list of the top five Black cities while addressing income inequality (1:20:56), and is Jayden Daniels’s mom going too far (1:38:36)? Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Producers: Donnie Beacham Jr. and Ashleigh Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, yo, yo, thought warriors.
0:04.3	What is up?
0:05.1	Higher Learning is on.
0:06.5	It is I Van Lathen Jr.
0:08.0	And it's me, Rachel.
0:09.1	I fixed that guy's video.
0:11.5	What guy?
0:12.5	Let them know what you're talking about.
0:13.7	So the guy that you guys saw who is striving for excellence,
0:18.2	Ashton Hall, who's putting the banana pills on his face and stuff like that.
0:21.5	Okay, I didn't see that part.
0:23.2	You didn't see him put the banana pills on his face?
0:24.3	I saw his morning routine.
0:25.8	Well, he put the banana pills on his face.
0:26.9	Oh, I must have missed that.
0:28.1	Oh, it's a whole thing.
0:29.4	So he gets up and he wakes up at like three in the morning.
0:33.2	He goes outside. It looks like he commutes with God. He pushes the ground. Push the ground.
0:38.3	Nika, push the ground.
0:43.2	And then, but at one point, he eats a banana and then he puts the peel on his face.
0:43.8	That's excessive.
0:45.6	There's no.
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