Minneapolis ICE Shooting, Chris Redd Gets Candid, and the Penis Lawsuit

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Van and Rachel discuss how House Democrats commemorated the five-year anniversary of the J6 riots before reacting to the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. Then, Spencer Pratt is running for mayor of L.A., former NFL player Matt Kalil is suing for talk about his penis size, and comedian Chris Redd gets candid on Instagram. (0:00) Intro (2:59) Van addresses the response to the last episode (15:37) Democrats mark five years since the J6 attack (28:53) ICE shooting in Minneapolis (55:43) Spencer Pratt’s mayoral race (1:04:34) Matt Kalil suing for penis talk (1:19:53) Chris Redd’s emotional post (1:48:01) Zion Williamson’s latest drama Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Producers: Donnie Beacham Jr. and Jade Whaley Social Producer: Bernard Moore Video Supervision: Chris Thomas Van’s ‘Fuck You If You Disagree’ Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/vanlathan?r=5cs2w&utm_medium=ios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, yo, yo, mad-ass niggas.
0:10.7	Hard learning is on.
0:11.6	It is I Van Lathen, Jr.
0:13.4	And it's me, Rachel Lentzing.
0:15.4	Interesting week.
0:18.4	They are pissed off.
0:20.5	They're mad.
0:21.8	Who's mad?
0:22.7	Everybody.
0:25.6	People who listen, people who don't listen.
0:27.8	People who don't listen.
0:29.4	People who don't listen.
0:29.4	Yeah.
0:29.7	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:31.3	I think on Twitter that there's some aggregators um, the clip and then put it out.
0:39.6	And so there are people who don't listen to the podcast who are also upset.
0:42.4	It is.
0:43.5	Which delights me.
0:44.3	On Twitter, on Twitter, we both get it.
0:46.7	No.
0:47.3	I didn't see you getting it.
0:48.1	Oh, yes.
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