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Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

Michael B. Jordan Is the Sexiest Man Alive and Michael Jordan Drafts LaMelo Ball

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.811.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2020

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay discuss Michael B. Jordan being the fifth Black man named People’s Sexiest Man Alive (6:00), the Verzuz battle between Jeezy and Gucci Mane (19:00), the Ball family’s success in the NBA draft (25:00), and the third wave of COVID-19 (35:00), before answering some mailbag questions (1:01:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Yo yo yo yo, thought warriors! It's higher learning what is up. It is I, Van Lepen.

0:06.4

And it's me, Rachel Lindsay. Rachel!

0:09.6

Van, how are you? I'm well. Good, good, good, good, good, good.

0:14.5

I'm doing well, I'm feeling good. I... I want to just take the time to all the thought

0:20.5

wars that reached out that I love and appreciate you guys. I even talk to you. So some of

0:26.2

you on the phone because I'm... What? You gave out your phone number like that?

0:35.2

I give out my phone number. I don't want to mess up the names. There were two specific

0:39.9

thought warriors. One of them who works in an electrophysiology office down there in

0:46.6

Austin, Texas. And her name is Jen. I think. And we talked. She talked to me

0:56.1

a little bit about kind of some of the stuff that I was going through. Like, actually,

1:00.4

she hit me up and told me she worked in it. Jen Shore is her name. Shout out to Jen Shore.

1:05.1

And we're just talking. You know, people reach out. We're all a big family. The thought

1:09.2

warrior family. Wow. This is why they love you more than me. Why? You must have two phones.

1:13.8

Why? Why? Why you say that? Because you give out your phone number. You're more accessible.

1:19.0

I love the thought warriors, but I don't know if I could give out my cell phone.

1:23.1

Can I ask you a question? What's the big deal about it? Because I don't want people

1:27.9

reaching out to me at all times of the day. Well, they're not going to do that. You don't

1:34.7

know that. You don't know them. Well, I've done it. They haven't done that. They're not

1:38.5

going to just you think this need is just going to hit me up. Here's the other thing.

1:43.0

It's like when I respond to people in DMs, I like to respond to what you said, but I can't

1:47.4

keep the conversation going. And so like then I would feel rude. So it's better

1:53.0

for me to not even just respond and go there because then I'm rude. Then I become rude.

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