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Kanye West Calls Out President Bush Over Hurricane Katrina | Pop Culture History Lesson

Ringer Dish

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.31.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Wosny Lambre and Van Lathan look back on Kanye West’s assertion during an NBC telethon in the wake of Hurricane Katrina that President George W. Bush doesn’t care about Black people. Van shares his experience of being in Louisiana at the time and what Kanye’s music and words meant to the people there. Plus, they discuss how Kanye’s public perception has changed throughout his career. Hosts: Wosny Lambre and Van Lathan Associate Producer: Mike Wargon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? Are you tuning in to the Challenge USA on CBS?

0:04.2

Well tune in to me, Tyson Apostle, as I break down each and every episode with my co-host,

0:10.2

Amelia Wedamire. I'm also a contestant on the show, which gives you all the insider scoop.

0:15.2

Amelia, how stoked are you to do this? Tyson, I'm freaking excited. I cannot wait to

0:19.9

sit my butt down every single week to watch the show, then come here and recap it with you on

0:25.2

The Ringer Reality TV Podcast.

0:39.5

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen to a special edition of The Ringer Dish.

0:44.5

It's your pop culture history lesson. I'm Big Waza aka Wazni Lambray and I'm joined

0:50.9

by my esteemed colleague and friend. Mr. Van Latham was going on, man.

0:58.4

What up Waz?

1:01.4

We don't know our relationship. They don't know how far back we go. They don't know how we

1:04.8

drank crown and called the NBA finals together. They don't know us.

1:09.1

They don't know about that, man. They don't know when we was in, you know, we was in them

1:14.4

uninterrupted studios in Hollywood. And Eric Bletsow and Rudy Gaye had the whole

1:20.4

staff in a tizzy. I'd never seen anything like it. You would have thought we was with the Beatles,

1:25.6

boy. The way that staff was in there. But no, shout out to all of my friends over there,

1:30.0

uninterrupted. I was also in awe of Eric Bletsow and Rudy Gaye.

1:35.2

Great guy. But yeah, man, I'm happy we finally get to do this. Obviously we've done a couple

1:40.8

of rewatchables that Bill's pieed together. But I'm really excited to do this history lesson

1:46.6

today because we're talking about Kanye West on NBC's Hurricane Katrina Telephone in 2005.

1:55.6

He gets up there. He's next to Mike Myers. It's like a whole benefit concert.

2:01.9

It's a whole thing that they're doing for Katrina.

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