Obama’s Birthday Bash and Dee-1 on Celebrity Responsibility

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay address resurfaced tweets from Nick Bosa’s girlfriend and ask the question “Does age excuse insensitivity?” (3:12) Plus Barack Obama’s partying like it’s 2019 (18:07) and Matt Damon doesn’t use the F-word as of a few months ago (31:48). Then Emmy-nominated rapper Dee-1 joins the show to discuss his recent tweet regarding DaBaby and Lil Nas X and the “responsibility of celebrity expression” (36:30). Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Producers: Trudy Joseph and Donnie Beacham Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, yo, yo, thought warriors.
0:02.8	What is up?
0:04.4	Higher learning is on and is I, Van Lathen Jr.
0:07.6	Wow.
0:08.6	Just kidding.
0:09.6	And it's me, Rachel Linsick.
0:10.6	We gotta do it again now.
0:11.6	Now I'm recording, look, why?
0:12.6	They don't need to pick up your mic.
0:13.6	It's just about a picking up my audio.
0:15.6	Oh, is that true?
0:16.6	Yeah.
0:17.6	Okay, well, whatever.
0:18.6	Look, Rachel, it's Monday.
0:19.6	This is called Controversial Monday.
0:21.6	This is Controversial Monday.
0:28.6	Yeah, it's a lot of controversies out there.
0:32.6	But of course, we have to do the pleasantries.
0:34.6	How was your weekend?
0:35.6	What did you do?
0:36.6	Uh, what was my weekend?
0:37.6	What was my weekend?
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