Kamala’s “I Told You So” and a Student's Self-Defense Claim in a Track Meet Stabbing

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Van and Rachel react to a recent tweet of Van’s (:18) before discussing Kamala Harris’s recent “I told you so” comments (24:23) and a stabbing at a Texas track meet that left one student dead and another claiming self-defense (49:47). Then, a message to rappers regarding tariffs (1:17:09) and a celebration of Duke’s NCAA tournament loss (1:26:04). 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 lawyers.
0:04.9	Her learning is on.
0:06.0	It is I Van Lansing, Jr.
0:07.5	And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay.
0:09.6	Rachel, I want to read you a tweet.
0:11.5	And you tell me whether or not this tweet is too far now.
0:14.5	Too far?
0:15.6	Too far, yes.
0:16.9	Okay.
0:17.6	So there is a video of Sierra that has gone viral, and it's Sierra.
0:24.0	She's bouncing around.
0:25.3	She looks so, you know, fun and fancy free.
0:29.3	But here's the thing.
0:34.7	Sierra has got the baby benefit body.
0:39.9	Okay?
0:40.8	It happens.
0:42.2	I'm from the South.
0:44.3	And so I've seen slim thick turn into God damn so many times after you have a baby.
0:54.5	You know, my daddy, God rest of of soul, used to look at a woman and go, yeah, that's a
1:01.9	beautiful woman, but she's a baby away from being a bad motherfucker.
1:05.1	Because you could tell, because the baby gives you this womanliness and this, and, you know,
1:09.9	it happens all the time.
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