LeBron and Israel, the “Kevin Durant Files,” and the Beautiful Hellscape of Culver City
Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 148 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Yoel Thought Warriors. |
| 0:08.5 | What is up? |
| 0:10.0 | How Learning is on is Ivan Lathin Jr. |
| 0:11.9 | And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay. |
| 0:13.5 | Rachel, what's up? |
| 0:15.2 | You know, I'm just, I'm coming down. |
| 0:18.1 | I've had a very busy three weeks, |
| 0:21.5 | and I am happy that it's behind me. |
| 0:23.9 | Yes. |
| 0:27.1 | You're using that term very generally. |
| 0:30.0 | I was networking. |
| 0:32.2 | It was funny. |
| 0:33.6 | Do y'all remember, like, back in the day? |
| 0:36.4 | I don't know if I used, if y'all did this, but I used to do this, it was like, I used to tell |
| 0:42.3 | my parents that me and Paulette, my girl at the time that we were going to the library to study |
| 0:48.4 | and this was a way that we could like basically go out on dates and see each other every single |
| 0:53.7 | day because we was in there studying and all that shit like that, studying're going to the library we got to get work done and stuff like that but really that's not why we were doing that we were going to the library so that we can hang out and that's what everyone in baton rogge did goodwill library the new burbank library go there to hang out so all of stuff, you're talking about you going out to these places to network and stuff like that. Yeah, that's exactly what I did. Okay. The amount of content. Now, did I at night party? Absolutely. Saturday, I played a little spades. I was able to get in on the tournament. You don't know how to play, right? I do. You didn't know the tournament. |
| 1:33.2 | It was a space tournament. How many parties did you hit this week? How many different events? |
| 1:52.9 | I did more for Super Bowl, but for All-Star, I went to at least seven. Two a day but they're not parties i went to a women's networking event i went to meta house i went to a boardroom brunch i went to what i was doing i was i was putting together |
| 1:58.8 | this thing on voter id for the show today i can show you mine yeah because I don't sleep yeah because I don't I don't sleep so I sound like this would you like to see mine would you like to see mine thank you very much yeah is that a chart yeah bullet points okay all right um let's go so here's the deal I'll say this uh it I have to say something before we get into the show today. |
| 2:20.6 | I warn people about this and it happened. Okay. I warn people. I warn people that if you saw me and you say, |
| 2:29.6 | boy, you've put some weight on that I was going to start getting in your ass. |
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