Kanye West Will Return, Druski and the Megachurch, and the Iranian Conflict

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Van and Rachel discuss Teyana Taylor’s comments on Ye, Kai Cenat’s career shift, and Druski’s megachurch skit. Then an update on the conflicts with ICE agents before associate professor Hussein Banai joins to help shed light on the conflict in Iran. (0:00) Intro (15:44) Teyana Taylor and Kanye West (31:17) Kai Cenat’s new path (42:39) Druski’s megachurch skit (1:00:14) J. Cole’s upcoming album (1:02:17) The war with ICE (1:19:00) Hussein “Huss” Banai on the Iranian conflict Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Guest: Hussein “Huss” Banai Producers: Donnie Beacham Jr. and Jade Whaley Social Producer: Bernard Moore Video Supervision: Chris Thomas Vote here for the NAACP Image Awards: www.naacpimageawards.net Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, yo, thought warriors.
0:09.0	What is up?
0:10.0	How I learning is on is I Van Lathen, Jr.
0:13.0	And it's me, Rachel Lynn Lundy.
0:15.0	Can I just start off shouting out my mom who just turned 70?
0:18.0	My mom turned 70.
0:19.0	Oh, pretty hair.
0:20.0	Pretty hair turned 70. Looks good. Feels good. I was able to come down and surprise her in Dallas for her birthday. So that was really, really exciting. Just want to say her birthday to my mom. My mom is turning 70 next month as well. It's the 70th year of the moms. Seventy and fabulous.
0:38.6	What did y'all, what did y'all eat? We, pork. Italian, no, no. Okay. Actually, no pork was had. Okay, what did you eat? Italian. I had, um, shrimp scampy, actually. Okay. Were there meatballs on the table? Because that's pork based. Um, you ate a meatball. My nephew had meatballs.
0:54.4	Pork base, the center of the lunge diet.
0:56.6	I thought they were beef.
0:57.8	I think you. that's pork-based. You ate a meatball. My nephew had meatballs.
1:14.6	Pork-based, the center of the lunchy diet. I thought they were beef. I think you put pork in them, though. I'm pretty sure you put... I think you put pork in the meatball to keep the meatball together. I think there's some pork in the meatball. Am I wrong about this? Donnie. Jayne. Jay says that you mix.
1:14.5	Bread crumbs, but I think there's some pork in the meatball.
1:15.6	Stop. Don't put that on us.
1:16.4	We had Italian.
1:18.3	There was no pork involved.
1:20.5	It was a nice, nice celebration.
1:22.1	Did you guys have cake?
1:23.3	Did you eat cake from mom?
1:25.7	They brought cake at the restaurant. But my mom actually had a surprise birthday party from her siblings on Saturday.
1:29.8	They all came down from Houston to surprise her.
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