Kevin Hart: Black Culture Vs. Comedy Culture, and Spencer Pratt’s Mayoral Bid

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Van and Rachel are back from the holiday break to react to Kevin Hart's response to problematic jokes at his roast, updates in the fight against redistricting, and Spencer Pratt’s appeal to L.A. voters. Plus Jaxson Dart’s MAGA moves, and Ray J gets KO'd. (0:00) Intro (15:54) Kevin Hart responds to roast critics (41:20) Iran conflict update (56:40) The redistricting battle (1:12:37) White wine spritzers (1:21:13) Spencer Pratt on homelessness (1:38:31) Jaxson Dart, Abdul Carter, and MAGA (1:49:03) Ray J’s knockout 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, yo, thought warriors.
0:10.2	What is up?
0:10.8	High Learning is on his Zy Van Lathen, Jr.
0:12.5	And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay.
0:14.6	Okay, so I have a couple of things to say.
0:16.6	First of all, we're back.
0:17.9	We were off Monday.
0:19.8	Did you have a good holiday weekend? Went to Disneyland. Did you really? For work or for fun? I went there for fun. It was crazy. Good for you. Disneyland. Shout out to Disneyland. Let me tell you all what happened to me. Did you go like Midnight Boys? No, no, no. Me me calica uh and alexis white me rachel me calica i was like it was like alex
0:40.8	so let me tell you what happened so we're going to indiana jones right indiana jones
0:49.3	nice ride line you know what i'm saying we in in Disneyland right you got a whole
0:57.5	wind road Star Wars Rise of the Resistance
1:00.0	played the shooting game my whole Disneyland vibe you know how I get down
1:04.2	anybody I've heard people say before
1:07.2	that you know
1:09.4	I heard Scott Jennings say one time he hates Disney adults.
1:14.0	He's such a party pooper.
1:15.9	He's a party pooper.
1:17.1	By the way, he's a party pooper.
1:18.8	The reality is some of us don't mind being around children and that are having a good
1:25.7	time, like out in the open.
1:27.1	I know the people that he covers for, like, to hang around kids on islands
1:30.8	when nobody's around, allegedly.
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